Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-02
News Paragraphs.

II. l.. IL comes Wnen you WnlSLle, Jumps
canoes in perfect time, &c, &c.
The actual pay of the rebel soldery, on ac
count of the depreciation of Confederate cur
rency, is but one dollar per month.
1t is estimated that the value of con6scated
property in Vicksburg will repay all the ex
penses of the siege.
Two petrified men have been found nea,
Castlenaine in Australia. They were in a
sitting posture-veins, mdscles, finger nails
teeth, &C., all perfect. 4
The famous Hudson's Bay Company has
sold out all its vast territory and privilege tc
a new company with much larger capital
called the International Financial Society.
Fast young Phil Herbert, who, when in
Congress from California, killed a hotel wait
er at Washington, has just been chosen to
the Confederate Congress from Texas.
Gen. Sam. Houston died at his residence
in Huntersville, Texas, on the 10th of July.
He was 70 years Of age. So says the Rich
mond Why. -.-...
| Gerrit Smith has contributed $500 in aid
of the widows, orphans and other sufferers
by the murderous raid of Quantrers band at
Lawrence, Kansas.
Gov. Curtin has issued proclamation, an.
nouncing that during the year ending on the
lst of September the State debt of Pennsyl
vania was reduced by payments of 1854, 100.
The fashion writer's think bonnets will be
higher this fall. Forty dollars for "a sweet
thing" will however seem reasonable to every
body but the poor fellow who pays for it.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred Sept.
22d, at New Cumberland. Pa, killing five
persons and wounding six. The saw mill OF
Eberly Lee. in which the explosion took place,
was totally demolished.
Miss Antonia Ford, who betrayed Gen.
Stou shton, of Vermont, into the hands of the
rebels, last spring, in Virginia, has been er-
rested within our lines, and brought to prison
in Washington.
The result of the draft in New York city
is 2,100 soldiers obtained out of 5000 men
drafted. More than 5000 were exempted
and upwards of 600 furnished substitutes
Only 16l commuted by the payment of $500.
The Hayti currency is worth eight cents to
the dollar. That of our Southern rebels is
worth six and quarter cents. So the money
of our rebels is decidedly worse than that of
the Hayti niggers.
A London paper says that Kossuth is now
residing in the environs of Turin. He is in
actual want Of the neccessaries of life; his
wife is in rapid consumption, and he is
soured against the world In ptiable degree.
| Grove L. johnson, dashing young law
yer of Syracuse, n. Y, has been detected in
forgeries to the amount Of $4,000. and fed
| He had spent the money in gambling ant
stock speculations, besides $4,000 belonging
to his young wife; all the money she had.
A new cure for consumption is talked Of
cream diet. Eat as much pure sweet cream
as the stomach will digest (and as you can
get,) and the effect it is said, will be quite as
| apprent as from the use of the best cod-liyer
oil -
Judge Belts, of the United States Court for
the District of Southern New York, announces
| that the Presidents Proclamatlons upercedes
the power of the Court over cases of mill
tary nature, and he (Judge b. declines to in
terfere.
| Hon. Archibald " Wiilams, one of the oldest
and most extensively known lawyers of Hi
nois, died at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 21st. He
was formerly frequent practitioner in the
Courts of Iowa, and almost as well known as
in illinois.
1t is expected that the new National Bank
notes will be ready for delivery by the 10Th
Of October. The IS and los are being printed
by the Continental Engraving Company, and
the zoos and Sos by the American Bank Note
Company.
The rebel authorities issue bills promising
to pay various amounts ''slx months after a
recognition of the independence of the Con-
federate States by the United States" That
is much like the promise little boys are some
times in the habit of making to do thing
next day after never"
| The loss of rebel general officers in the
three days battle in Northern Georgia is uu.
paralleled on either side, in any battle that
has yet taken place since the war commenced.
They lost one Major General and five Briga-
dier Generals, killed, and seven Brigadier
lGenerals wounded-thirteen in all.
| Since the war began the demand for blue
| army cloth, wherewith to clothe the SOL
diers, has been so great as to raise the price
of indigo from 81 so to 1926 per pound, and
the article is growing scarce. Indigo-the
real Bengal ARTICLES the only coloring sub.
| stance yet known to manufacturers which
gives permanent blue.
The Indian troubles threaten to be serious,
notwith, landing our recent victories over
them. A correspondent of The St Paul Peess,
writing from the frontier, states that there
are indications in every direction of the pres
ence Of hostile Indians; that they are bolder,
l dov an1 doeroroeo how .
and that in spite of the punishment inflicted
upon them, we have only "scotched the
snake, not killed it,"
The New Jersey 'fying machine" of which
such glowing accounts have been given, seems
to have been failure, in stead Of brilliant
success. A medical man from Perth Am hoy
started to rise in the world, but didn't like
he style, and came down after going up a
hundred and fifty feet, and then the cords
were cut and the "machine'' went up like an
ordinary balloon, while the designers hopes
and prospects went down. -.-.i -
A Tutt.e Organ ON National Gem
erals.
Brute Butler goes to Pennsylvania to stump
for Curtin. We hope that at every place
where he speaks the ladies' loyal league will
manifest its love for the brave woman warrior
by crowning him with loyal wreath. The
picture will not be complete, however, with
out Mcneil and Schenck. Butler murdered
his one man, Mcneil his tens, while Schenck
keeps the war upon poor handful of cay
By all means let Butler, the brute, Mcneil, the
murderer, and Schenck, the government
Jackal, go together. argus.
Such are the exhibitions oi malignant hate
of Union Generals continually made by the
/ Iowa Tutile ORGANS Having no use for nei-