Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-03-27
News Paragraphs.

fis News Paragraphs.
Jeff. Davis has appointed the 9th 0
March as day of fasting and prayer.
The new Senate Of the United States con
tains thirty-two Republican members ant
sixteen opposition.
Gen. Haynau. the Austrian woman whip
per, has committed suicide, the victim o
The Texan refugees who were captured
among our troops at Galveston were tried BY
a courtmartial, and hastily executed. III
The fire for using stamps from old envel
opes, or Of cleaning and using old stamps, il
$50. ID. ty1J l. l. = 5r ok -.r,.
Three tons Of vegetables, fruits, jellies
pickles, hospital and sanitary stores were
forwarded last week, from Madison, Wiscon
sin, for Wisconsin soldiers at Vlcksburg.
General Sigel has Withdrawn his resigna
tion which he had rendered in consequence
of his troubles with Gen. Halleck, at the re-.
quest Of both official and unofficial friends.
The demand for piano-f,rtes is so grea,
that the best makers have advanced thoil
prices $50 to $lO0. Still they have scores
of orders more than they can fill. I'D,
The Massachusetts colored regiment now
numbers 800 men. Meetings in aid of thu
regiment have been recently held in Provi
dence, R l., aud other eastern States. a'
Among many important measures signed
by the President just before adjournment, was
bill for isueing letters Of marque and re.
prisal during the present rebellion. ...-,,
The Committee on the Conduct of the W. ar
under the joint resolution allowing them tc
slt after the 4th of March, will continue ta
king testimony until the 4th of April.
The soldiers in Gen. Grants army are
now, it is said, receiving their pay, and also
full supplies of new clothing. We may fairly
assume that they make no objections.
The paper makers now use straw, hemp,
and corn husks ill very large quantities
This refuse ofagricultural products will hence.
forth be very valuable. Farmers, take no.
tice.
The health of the Army of the Potomac is
remarkably good. There is good reason to be
lieve that there is seventy-fve per cent. less
sickness in its ranks than in those of the
rebels. ,a-
The Polish revolution is agitatirg all Eu-
ropa, and the Great Powers are not unlikely
to have enough to occupy their attention on
the other side of the Atlantic, without med
ding with our own affairs.
An oil refinery has been confscated in Buf.
falo, with all its contents, for an attempt of
the proprietors to evade the tax under the
United States tax law. The value of the
property is about $4,000.
The rebels in Richmond arc offering most
liberal prices for substitutes. One, in the
Dispatch, offers to pay $l,SO0 each for two
substitutes, and another offers $4,000 for an
acceptable substitute over 45 years of age.
Gov. Canon, of Delaware, is fulfilling the
loyal promises of his inaugural address. He
has issued proclamation warning traitors,
and message rebuking the Legislature for
attempting to throw obstacles in the way of
arrests by the Government.
The order Of Gen. Wright prohibiting the
sale of arms, powder, percus sion caps, &C.,
in Cincinnati, was issued on informa-
ton that some of the Copperheads of Indiana
were seeking to obtain large quantities of
those articles from that city.
Colts Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing
Company at Hartford has sixteen hundred
men constantly employed OF the arms for
the Government. At Sharp's rifle factory
about five hundred hands are employed. The
Government takes all the pieces made.
Congress h,sreduced the duty on printing pa
per from 35 to20 per cent. On other kinds of
paper the duty is left untouched. We do not
anticipate much fall in price for some time
The rise resulted more from combination and
speculation than from scarcity Of material
Two months since, at times, the rebels in
Vicksburg were reduced to the point of star
vation-not wholly by a state of seige, but by
an interruption of supplies, and to such an
extent that at one time RATS were selling in
that place at Is cents apiece.
Therebel conscription is carried on through
out Texas with the greatest severity. A par
ty of Germans in the southern part of Travis
county, who resisted this oppression, were
cooly massacred, as an evidence of what
might be the fate of others who resisted the
authorities.
All applicants for passports are now re-
quired by the State Department to file bonds
in the sum of one thousand dollars each,
conditioned that they will respond to the
draft under the conscription law, or will pro-
vide substitutes for the military service of
the United States.
Three thousand pounds of Illinois cotton
sold in Boston, two or three days since, at
Size. This Gotten was raised in Washington
county. The N. Y. Journal Of Commerce,
speaking ofthis lot, pronounces it to be "very
handsome, and equal in quality to the mid
ding uplands from North Carolina and Ten
nessee"
The bark Benefactor arrived at New York
on Sunday, from Yokohama (Bay of Jeddo,)
bringing the first cargo of teas ever imported
into New York from Japan since the opening
Of trade with that country. Hitherto the
teas and silks of Japan have found their way
to the Atlantic States via China, where the
teas have been refined and repacked.
The President of the United States has re-
ceived, by Adams & Co.'S Express package
Of of"greenbacks," amounting to eight hundred
and sirty-eight..dollars, which sum the writer
of an accompanying letter says he obtained
from the Government dishonesty, and which
he therefore returns. The letter is dated
Brooklyn, March 2l, 1868, and signed Can
dido Secure. - -,. t -. +
Secretary Chase advertises for designs for
the new national currency notes of the de-
nominations of S., $40, 500, $50, 800,
$500, and $1,000, to be issued under the late
act Of Congress authorizing anational cur
rency. No designs will be con idered that
h's been used, in whole or in part, upon any
currency, bond, certificate, or other repre-
sentative Of value.
Among the prisoners recently captured,