Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-21
News PARAGRAPHS.

Gen. Grant has relieved the press of Memphis
from q censor.
1t is safe estimate to say that since the war
began the Southern people have lost at least one
hundred thousand slaves, pecuniary loss Of about
fifteen million dollars.
Under the rebel tax law, farmers are required
to give onetenth Of their productions, and liver
is to the agent of the government, If than
eight miles from the place of production.
1t is all nonsense to talk about the immense
burden of the public debt. The debt is twelve
hundred milloDs and the interest it fifty mil
lions, about two thirds OF the earnings Of the
New Yoik Custom house.
The grounds of the Rock Island Barracks, says
the Usaon are beautifully located, and he encamp.
ment will be the most delightful one of the kind
in the Union. Over one hundred men are now at
work there.
Andre Calloux negro who was captain of
colored company, and was killed IN assault upon
Port Hudson. was buried with great honors ut New
Orleans recently The fun raj procession was
over mile long, and included about all the darkes
| of the city.
The prophetic promise of Gen. Banks made to
his nine months men when organizing bis expedi-
tiou in New York, that they should re urn by an.
other route thsn the ocean, is being fulfilled
| now being on their way home by way OF the Mis-
sissppi River.
A new disease has made its appearance among
| horses, in the Federal camps IN Virginia. The
horses we'll in the morning, refuse aportion of
their oats at midday, at evening cannot swallow at
all, and in q few hours after, they die. Examina
ton goes to show that their trouble is very much
| like the dptheria.
Gov. Gamble, of Missouri, recently met with a
| serious accident While on the cars going from
Washington to Philadelphia, with the elbow of his
right arm slightly projected out of the window, at
| the moment of passing narrow bridge the timbers
ho hrId sfrnc tha nd fractured
| bone above the elbow.
Gen. Banks has issued an order regulating the
charge to be made by steamboats, and other ves-
sells sailing between the ports of New Orleans and
New York, and north to the Department OF Ten
| nessee The charges for a cabin passenger are 25
cents for berth and so cents for meal, and deck
passengers, to eat q: second table, IS cents per
meal.
The Congregational Church of Georgetown,
Mass. has repudiated the action of the Council in
the case of Rev. Charles Beecher, by a vote of ~
to 81. The majority say they called the Council to
their pastor a hereto, and defend as at least not
unorthodox Mr.. BIS peculiar views ON pre.ex-
istence, &C.
The extremely hot weather at the East is az.
gravated by an ice famine. The stocks of ice IN
New York and Philadelphia have been found to
be Tar short of the demand. In the former city,
ice is scarce at cease cents per 100 lbs, and in
philadelphia it can hardly be had at any price,
In Boston. quantities are sold at SOC per cwt. to
fsmilies at 6Oc, retail price cent per Id. In
Washington and Baltimore, the condition of the
ice market is of better than further north.
How do the people of Charleston and Mobile get
along without any ice at all
List of Deceased Iowa Soldiers
Who have died in Hospitals at St. Louis. Mo-. from
August IL, to August Is. 1863 Furnishes by Thos. w.
J. Long, (of Iowa) Office No. 2, Laciode Block, Olive
street, St. Louis, Mo.
Aug. H. Reuben Pitcher Co. H q Typhoid Fever.
81 i" Geo True 80 Chronic Diarrhes H.
.s Thos WEIGH 80 s' t'
-, GeoM Dsnniston C3S 6
Z" Clayton Haynes D 2S and Phthisic
Loren Sisser "a Z"
IA, VIM Il Rsass T 20 Aphonia.