Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-28

The b ammonia irg OF the bat lie OF, Gcttys-
burg wss hear distance of one hundIed
and twenty tive miles. M
Efforts are being made to establish a corps
Of dental surgeons in the arm, The efforts
will not, it is thought, be successful. aS
1t ,saatact probably not generally known
that each person arresting deserter receives
$40 from the Government.
{ Gen. Sigel has been relieved from his duties
in Pennsylvania, and his staff mustered out
of the service. 7 KS . 20 ssss s-s-s
Melons must be high.priced in Nashville:
The Unson says that if you give dealer .
"greenback," be will give you green melon
back. '','a faaj rs 1921 s'h3i# e7iasF1!lsi a.
B Gen. Scott is spending the, summer, as
usual, at Cozzen's Hotel, West Point. It is
said that be is engaged in preparing mem,
DIR Of his life aud times. 59.ssd % e3f,onlJ
A Nashville letter announces the capture
of Dick McCann. . guerrilla IS notorious in
Tennessee as Morgan was in Kentucky, and
. mean and fsrecious william. e.ti9i Il q l4@t
Mayor Opdyke,. Of New York, refused to
sign the city appropriation, for drafted men
until it is SO modified as to substitute, men,
not money, for the persons drafted.
Col. Stephen A. Miller is the Republican
candidate for Governor of Minnesota. He is
in command Of the 7th regiment from that
State. 81 tr tFs 3 }=5 40 ss1a
Mana Sahib, the leader of the Sepoy revolt,
has at length been captured. II will be re-
membered that he was the instigator Of the
Delhi and Lucknow massacres f7' ger.
Negro regiments are being rapidly organ
ized in Rosecrans' Department. Already
some FIVE or six regiments are well under
way at Nashville, Winchester and Tullahoma.
Gen. Schofie'd has consented that negroes
enlisted in the infantry service in Missouri
may BIO transferred to colored regiment now
being organized in that State. ''fa9' .@-i'
The New York Republican State Conven-
ton will be held at Syracuse on the I'd Of
September, and theu, Democrats will hold
theirs at Albany on the 9th. ear. -.a ,si
Barnum has imported about dozen Win
nebago and Sioux, Indians and squaws from
Minnesota, and placed them on exhibition at
his museum. A'big thing. '-a
al a
steam carriage is on exhibition At Low
ell that will run from thirty to forty miles an
hour on common road 1t will travel slow
or fast, up hill and down, backward and for
ward. 4, g.. s 5- s., 20,
Frederick Douglass has suspended the
monthly paper which he has been publishing
in Rochester, in order to 70 South and assist
Adjutant Gen. Thomas in the organization Of
colored troops. sd. st0 ~ r.
The body of Petit Corbeau, or Little Grow,
the Sioux butcher, recently killed IN Mime
sofa, has been exhumed The skull will be
prepared carefully and presented to the Min
nesota Historical Society. ......E.. ,..
Mrs. Ann Carney claims loss At the hands
of the New York rioters of $4,000 for a de-
ceased husband A woman as modest in her
figure as that ought not to be turned away,
unceremoniously. ~, .-ghe
The number of National Banks established
since June Goth, 1868, is sixty. Ohio stands
first on the list,ln gard to numbers, having
eighteen. Next cones Pennsylvania with
fourteen, Indiana eleven, New York five, etc.
1t seems that Vallandigham has been tell
ing the Canadians that Northern troops were
to invade that territory The rebel sympa
thizers in that Province are beginning to dis
cover that his wcrd is no better then his
loyalty. ~.
The prevailing idea that lightning always
strikes the tallest Of group of objects was
disproved at WooDsocket, Rhode Island, last
week, when a cottage entirely surrounded by
higher buildings aud trees received the whole
of stroke. ,--...,. -....
About ]. 700 of Morgan's raiders have been
removed from Columbus to Chicago, and sew
eral thousand more are to follow. The rib
uns says fully -fourths of the pr isoners
ars anxious to be paroled, or take the oath of
allegiance. .E-, es...,,..,... --,..- sr.r-.q-
h. A Veteran" regiment Of old soldiers IS
being raised in RI ,od4 Island, each recruit for
which is to receive bounty Of $700-$4OO
from the General Government and $500 from
the State. 1t should not take long to fill up
that regiment. a SIS" trsi7 Hg@. 4.a
The Galena (Ill) iAdvertiser settles the
vexed question as to Gen. Grants political
status. While in tie army he never voted,
but after he settled in Galena he declared
himself a democrat, and voted in 1860 for
Stephen A. Douglas for President. T9] MIA
Every division commander in Gen. Sher-
mans corps is now acknowledgements Steele,
Blair and futile. Major and Brigadier Gen.
erals by the score are now taking trips home
ward. This is general play spell for Gen.
Sherman's army from Major Generals down
to privates. 1@Et@5 t3-'a'' s.' f'T2 n+.+
A very rich and extensive gold mining re-
gion has been discovered in the San Francisco
mountains, lyiag east of the Colorado river.
The La Pas and other recently formed min
ing companies on the Colorado have been de-
serted for the new mines. The latter are de-
scribed as new California. aaI US '3.'J
'@ Vegetables and fruits seem to be exceed
ingly plentiful in California. Baskets of plums
and peaches are sold for about two cents
. pound, which will scarcely pay the, cost of
g.thering and sending to market. Every day
large quantities of fruits and vegetables are
thrown away for the want Of buyers. iaef1sd
Several of the Enfeld Shakers were drawn
in the draft in Connecticut; among the num-
Der Eatham Damon, one of the Trustees Of
the Society. The Shakers do not vote, and
are theoretically noA-resis ants, but they are
abundantly able to gay $500, and viii have
to come down with dust if they won't fight
The investigation Of the burning of the
steamer Ruth, now progressing at st. Louis,
has failed thus far to develope single fact to
show any plan to rob the boat during the
fire, The Secretary of the Treasury has or
dered = strict inquiry into the reason of one
Of the paymasters leaving the boat at Cairo
The families of bushwhackers are to be
sent out OF Missouri. . It Is found that as
hong aSo they are suffered to remain The
country cannot get rid of the eut.throats, ias
their families raise provisions for them, con-
ceal them and give them information by which
they are enabled to carry On their nefarious