Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-12-11


Peter G. Slocum, the wife murderer, was
hung at Freehold, New Jersey, week before
| last. ID 81 4"-s-7 ,a- .7s~. 3d} 81,
The Russian Government is preparing for
war; The Continental journals talk Of, the
increasing almanents of the Gear with alarm
There aretwo theatres in full blast at Nash.
vile, Tenn, and they are nightly filled with
loyal audiences. 4','.I E-.. ~
The Philadelphia Daily Ne,os nominates
'For Presidentin 1854, Abraham Lincoln {;
for Vice-President, Andrew G.. Curtin"
Thirty slaveholders of Tennessee have sent
resolutions up to Washington, expressing
themselves in favor of emancipation in that
State, without compensation. 1-- 'aT'1
Parson Brownlow and other refugees
arrived in Cincinnati on the 9th inst. The
Parsons paper, the Knoxville Whig, will be
printed in Cincinnati for the present.
A New York baker made mammoth loaf,
12 feet long, ndpresented it to the large fam
lily of hungry little folks at the Five Points on
Thanksgiving Day. The loaf contained one
barrel Of -four. t.7 nr If, a1n 90 yae.
Since the first of October the number of
hogs reported at Chicago foot up 526,471,
which is an increase over the receipts for the
same period in 1852, of 165,959. Chicago
seems to be great on the hog.
Gen. Banks has issued an order forbidding
the inscribing, by merchants and others,
their name and business on the national flag.
He says it is an emblem of power and nation
ality, which must not be desecrated.
James Wood, the founder of secret Union
League in Tallapoosa and Coosa Counties,
Alabama, was hung by some rebel cavalry, a
week or two since. His organization is said
to have been wide spread.
A singular coincidence occurred among the
clergy Of Chicago on Thanksgiving day. Two
ministers of the same name, COLLIER, one a
Methodist and the other Unitarian, select
ed the same subject for discourse, and singu-
larly enough made the same conclusions.
Congress will be asked to add to the number
of clerks in the Government employ, as well
authorized. The Quarter1naster Generals
more.
The gold mines in Idaho continue to prove
very profitable, paying from $50 to 800 per
day to a man.. The latest and most profta-
BILE mines discovered are about 70 miles from
Bannock city, on stream called the Stink
water. -.. ..-. .-,..-.
Over two millions of gold have accumulated
IN the Sub Treasury in San Francisco for
customs. This gold has been ordered to be
shipped to Europe. The Government will
draw bills against it, and dispose of these in
New York.
Ohio stands an excellent chance of furnish
ing nearly her whole quota by draft. Only
about 900 volunteers have been mustered
in since the cal! was made, leaving 27,000
men to be furnished on the 5th of January,
if not before. z
Near Natchez, on the 18th ultimo, small
force Of Union troops of African descent,
which was sent out on foraging expedition,
had a brush with party of rebel cavalry,
and the latter got badly whipped. Several
were killed and wounded on both sides. ~ . -
Jacob Lamb, soldier of the Revolution,
died at Indianapolis on the 30th ult , at the
great age of one hundred years and nine
months. He served under Gen. Wayne, aid
was one Of the guards placed over the priso-
ners captured under CORVALLIS at Yorktown,
in 1881.
The 10Th Illinois, cavalry numbering 5s3
officers and men, have re-enllsted, their term
of service havlngjust expired The men were
allowed thirty days furlough to visit their
homes. The citizens of chicago gave the
18th brilliant reception last Saturday.
This regiment has been in service on the Po-
tomac. fI s.ea rl rs
A terrible disease, said to be diptheria, is
desolating the small towns of Clearfeld and
White, in Cambria, county, Pennsylvania,
Since the middle of October over two hun
eight, seven have died and in another, five
out of six members have fallen victims to the
same disease.
A man named J. Hadley, who was moving
his family from Clinton county, Ohio, to Ft.
Madison, Iowa, accidentally fell into the river,
while stepping from steamer at Cairo, on
the night Of Sd, and was drowned. He had
draft for $500, and all the money of the fam
| lily on his person, except 800. The body
could not be found. ....s
Horses have to suffer starvation in war as
well as men. An officer, ARRIVING at Chatta-
nooga, inquired of negro where he could
find Accommodations for his horse. "Don't
know, sab, bout 'commodotions. De fence
rails is all gone, and dar amt nothin' for 'em,
to eat any more, only few barn doors, an
we want dem for the Generals horses" #
The longest stage route in the world is
between Placerville, CAL, and Atchison, Kan,
ria Denver-9,045 miles. 1t carries daily
U. s. Mail. The line is owned by three
companies, being divided into three sections
They employ 200 stages and over $50 horses
and mules. The fare is 101 cents per mile
time Is to 20 days. The time has been
made, however, in less than ten days.
General Butler, while witnessing the re-
view of a number of regiments at Old Point
just after his arrival, was much astonished to
see among the spectators rebel general Off
Ger, and inquired of one of the bystanders
who it was. He was answered General
Fitzhugh Lee" 1t will be remembered that
Fitzhugh made a trip to Fort Lafayette i'm
msdiately after.
An advertisement in the Richmond press
calls on the public to send all dead animals to
the depots of the rebel Government, offering
good prices. A singular editorial in the
Richmond Enquirer makes the same appeal
Whether the animals are wanted for their
hides, or for food, or both, is question sug-
gested by this article and the treatment of
our prisoners in Kicbmand. + -'<
Frederick the Seventh, King of Denmark,
died on the 10th ult, aged So. He was a
weak minded man, had been divorced from