Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-03
News Paragraphs.

Com. Stockton will command the New Jer
sey Division sent to the aid Of Pennsylvsnis
The Governor of Illinois has offered Sec
retary Stanton 10000 troops, from that State
to repel invasion, to be enlisted for six months
The penalty for giving icticious name Il
the enrolling officer is fine not exceeding
| $500, or Imprisonment not exceeding TIVE
years, or both fine and Imprisonment
The new fractional currency, which is tt
replace the present Postage Currency, is near
ly ready to be put in circulation. They ar,
to be far superior in design and execution.
The Navy Department reports that sine,
the blockade was established, up to June 1st
no less than S55 vessels have been captured
Or destroyed by our blocka ling feet.
The Lindell House, at St. Louis, to be the
largest and finest in the United States, is to
be opened in September next The lessees
have gone east to purchase the furniture.
The Toronto Leader says it has authority
be commenced at once. Over 81 500, 600
amount required-has been subscribed in
England and America. ... g..
VIM. Cannon and Jas. Melvine were hung
at Highland, in Doniphan county, Kansas, on
Wednesday, June 3rd, by lynchers, after
having been tried by jury of twelve men
and found guilty of horse stealing.
The Holmes county, Ohio, rioters, who
were taken to Cleveland have been admitted
to BAIL Their cases will be brought before
the United States Grand Jury now in session
in Cleveland. ..t ....s-.f ...... I
In discourse in New York last Sunday
week, Archbishop Hughes declared that peace
was at present impossible, for the South
won't have the peace that the North alone
has the ability to give.
The last will and testament of f. P. Chris
ty, the negro singer, is in dispute in the New
York courts, and his body has been exhume1
and portions of his skull handed about in
court to show mental incompetency.
The rebel army is to be uniformed in clothes
of very pale blue color, now manufacturing
in the South. There are number of facto-
ries at Richmond making this cloth. The
principal one was recently burned down.
1t is stated that twenty seven Union men
of Little Rock, Ark, who had been some
time in prison on account of their loyalty,
were recently ordered out by Gen. Hindman,
and shot in the presence Of their wives and
children.
Any widow, or parent or orphan, or broth
er, or sister of any soldier or marine, killed,
or who has died in the service of the United
States, is entitled to ninety.six dollars year
pension, one hundred dollars cash bounty and
all the arrears of pay due him.
In Newburgh, N Y, on Sunday evening
week, a colored man, in Jail on charge of com.
mitting a rape on an Irish servant girl, was
taken out and hung by mob of the girls
countrymen. 1t was not certain, however,
that the negro was guilty.
Gen. Tilghmann of the rebels, asserted
over and again to have been killed in the ad-
vance of Gen. Grant upon Vicksburg, is
brought to life by letter from his wife to his
mother in Philadelphia. She says he is only
wounded, but doing well.
Geo. J. Skepwith, formerly sutler of the
26th Illinois, lately clerk in the Quartermas
ter's department at Memphis, and more late
ly under arrest for disloyalty, has violated his
parole and eloped with rebel female to Cam
ada, leaving his wife and family destitute in
Illinois. sa. --
The hippopotamus connected with Van
Amburg & Co.'s Menagerie jumped off the
propeller S. D. Caldwell, near the mouth OF
Detroit river, last Saturday night. He was
recaptured on Monday about six miles from
Detroit. 1t is said he cost his owners
$4,000.
Hon. VIM. Foster and Hon. Josiah Quincy
of Boston, are still living and enjoying good
health, each aged ninety.t two years. The
former once dined with Washington. An.
other resident of Boston, the Rev. MIR. Cleve-
land, the well known city missionary, is
ninety one years of age, but still active In
| his benevolent vocation.
Holmes county, Ohio, where the rio: against
the enrolment last week occurred, last year
voted on Congress: Walker, Union, 79l
Bliss, Democrat, 1859; Democratic majority,
| l,768 Sullivan county, Indiana, voted
Scott, Union, 7Os; Voorhees,, Democrat,
| 1886; Democratic majority, 1878.
tits fully confirmed that Major General
McClernand has been superseded in the COM
mand of the 18th Army Corps by Gen. Grant
and that Major General Ord, very able
military man, is appointed in his place The
charge against Gen. McClernand, we believe
is dlsobedience of orders. He is now on
his way home, to Illinois.
The soldiers in the rebel army are not only
| allowed to vote for candidates for civic officers
the privilege is offered them of naming their
candidates. The Chattanooga Rebel contains
the resolutions of various Tennessee regi-
ments, who held meetings in camp and ap
| pointed delegates to the State Convention to
nom mate candidate for Governor, &c.
In the cargo of one of the prize steamers
lately captured and brought into New York,
large quantities of toaohaioks have been dis
covered, manufactured by British neutral
traders, and sent to the rebels for arming the
Indians to aid in the prosecution of this &C.
cursed rebellion. Also, large quantities Of
nondescript savage weapon, something be.
tween tomahawk and butchers cleaver,
stamped NV. GlLnN, Wedge Mills, 1862, "evi-
IDENTIFY intended for arming the Indians.
Chambersburg, which the rebels have oc-
cupied, is flourishing town, the capital OF
franklin county, Pa, situated on the Cone
berland Valley and Franklin railroad, forty
five miles southwest Of Harrisburg, and $50
miles west of Philadelphia. 1t is connected
by good turnpike roads with Baltimore,
Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, and by rail
road with Philadelphia, Harrisburg, &c. 1t
is surrounded by highly cultivated and pop
ulous country, forming part Of the great
limestone valley, which extends along the
southeast base of the Blue Mountains.
Population about 1000. s-... ,.............
The report of an invasion of Indiana by a
rebel cavalry force of 900, is canard, origl.
mated by some frightened persons who saw a
force of Union cavalry crossing the Ohio The
rebel cavalry raid first reported, however, was
a reality, as also is the fact that nearly every