Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
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that the illegitimacy of a son is no bar to ;
mothers claim to pension.
g. II. Minguye, paymaster on the Canad;
Great Western railroad, has absconded will
$50, 900 of the Company's funds.
Gems Grant, Mcpherson, Gilmore and Rose
Grams were all born in Ohio, and are all O
Methodist extraction.
The Charlotte Is. o. Bulletin appeals te
| the people of North Carolina to send food tt
the starving people OF Charleston.
The Navy is suffering for lack Of seamen
The old salts will not enter the service be
cause the grog ratlons are stopped
A court of inquiry has been orde ed, to in.
| vesigate the conduct of Generals McCcok and
Crittenden in the late battles near Chatta
noOga.
The rates of passage by steamer from San
Francisco to New York have been reduce to
1925 for the first cabin, $lO2 for the srcor d
cabin, and $75 for steerage.
William Frame, of Harney, Md, was killed
few days ago by the explosion of a shell
which he was attempting to open with a
chisel.
The President has approved the finding Of
the military commission, sentencing j hn
Nichols a citizen of Missouri, to be hung for
taking up arms as guerrilla.
The railroads of Ohio and Indiana are
literally swarming with troops moving to
important points southwark where they are
needed, and which they will reach in time to
do much good.
The rebels are out in the marshes and
swamps Of Mississippi hunting up conscripts
and Union men with dogs. Ifa man opens
his mouth in favor of the Union, he is hung
upon the spot.
There is class of people who ask you why
you don't come to their house but never say
do. They are nearly related to the gentlsman
who has always note to make up, whenever
you wish to effect small loan from him.
The patriots of the Revolution are fast pass
ing away, and soon the last will be summoned
t., his final resting place. The youngest of
them now is about ninety-four years of age.
On the 1st ofJuly, 1862, there were but sixty
two of them living, since which time over
one-third of the number have since died.
Gen. Cass, who was reported i'll, it was
feared fatally, is recovering, aud is said to be
out of danger. He is now 81 years old,
having been born in 1882. In that year
were also born John G. Calhoun. Thomas Il.
Benton, Daniel Webster and Martin Van
Buren-all dead.
A general order mas been issued taking out
of the hospitals every enlisted man (excs pit
hospital stewards) who are fit for duty 1t is
thought that several thousand will thus be
speedily obtained, as large number are
employed in various ways about the hospitals
who have been fit for active dnty for months
The magnificent steamship Niagara of
5000 tons, and with an enormous battery. is
now ready for sea at Boston, She is specially
designed to look after the rebel steam rams
built by Laird & Co., should the British gov
eminent permit these vessels to leave the
Mersey.
The Kansas cotton crop has been a COM
plete success. The green seed cotton-the
kind raised in Maryland and Kentuck has
never failed during the six years it has been
tried in that State The varieties sent from
Washington and from down the Mississippi
have invariably failed.
Scarlet, it is said, will be the fashionable
color during the coming winter, and even now
an occasional scarlet cloak is seen in the
streets of New York These are called red
riding hoods, and are said to be very band
some indeed The head-dress will consist of
a handsome jockey hat, with scarlet feathers.
A Provost Marshal was shot and slightly
wounded in the head, at Gin .on. Dewitt
county, Ill on Thursday of last week, by the
father Of a deserter the Marshal was about
arresting. Some one else shot soldier at
the same time inflcting mo, tai wound. The
parties were arrested and taken to Springfield.
This is one more specimen of Butternut fruit.
The reward for deserters has been raised,
by the War Department, to $50, and Provost
Marshal Genera Fry has made such arrange
m nts that in future the chances for a soldiers
escape Will be greatly diminished, and when
caught he will be treated with the utmost
vigor. Thirty dollars are to cover all expen-
ses of returning deserter.
Monsieur Fennelon, who married one Of
the Ravel girls, and travelled with the family
for twenty years. was on Wednesday morn
ing playing as leader of the orchestra, at
in New York theatre, and had
~ tiC pdSSdSO III tHO lSiioi al i' iiS"i
the close of Lucia Ci Lammermoor, 81 will
meet you in heaven when he fell back dead
from bursting blood vessel.
A singular incident occurred at the barn of
Grin Smith, of Smith6eld, Mass, few days
since. By the falling of the stable floor,
seven cows and horse were placed in an
unpleasant state of suspension, hanging by
the head to the stalls. Three of the cows
were dead before relief came, and the other
four are in an unpromising condition. The
horse is also badly injured.
The rebels are dev,slng means to convert
the dogs into oil and their skins into leather.
1t is es imated that the oil will be worth
about SIS per gallon. The number of dogs
in the state of Virginia, according to low
estimate, is 100000. Each dog will yield say
one gallon of oil, and the dog oil of Virginia
is therefore seven and half millions; the
skins are estimated at about four millions.
For two or three weeks past a camp Of
wandering Gipsies has been located near AL
bion, N. Y, which has attracted some
curiosity among the people of that vicinity.
They are a portion of the same ncmadic race
that have appeared in Western Euroi e for
centuries past. It is estimated that there are
now about ! 900 Gipsies in this country and
Canada, and their numbers are yearly in
creasing by emigration.
A gentleman of Chickopee, Mass, has on
his farm an apple tree rem rkable both for it's
size and productiveness Its trunk m"as
ures three feet and eleven inches in diameter,
and its top spresds over circle of one hun
dred and eighty feet in circumference, so that
it is doub less the largest apple tree in the
Three years ago seventy bushels
Of apples were gathered from it. 1t will turn
off several barrels Of fruit this year.
GY Some idea of the length Of time re
quired to reinforce Gen. Rosecrans from