Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-10
News Paragraphs.

Over ten thousand persons have taken the
oath Of allegiance at Memphis within the last
three months.
The amount of Treasury notes now in cir
culation is within fraction of four hundred
millions of dollars.
Gen. Gabriel Rene Paul, who was killed in
the Gettysburg fight, was native of MIS-
souri, and graduated from West Point in 1884.
Attorney General Bates has decided that q
liberated slave has a right to pre- emption,
and the benefits of homestead.
Mrs Lydia Turner, of Central Falls, r. L.,
who is 70 years old and totally blind, has knit
forty pair of stockings for the soldiers, since
the war broke out.
1t is estimated by reliable authority that
before the next Congress assemblies, $50 to
200 national banks will have been organized
in the Northern States.
The question of precedence between the
Major Generals has been settled. They rank
IS follows: Mcclellan, Fremont, Banks, Dix
and Butler.
Six of the Holmes county (Ohio) rioters
have been indicted by the United States Grand
Jury for conspiracy to resist the execution
OF the law, and for assaulting an officer"
During the past year the Government lost
1000 horses by battle and disease. The
average number daily received at the veteri.
nary hospitals at Washington alone was over
1000, of which not more than one half are
returned for duty.
Some days since, one of the rebel prisoners
at indianapolis, and just about to be exchang.
ed, attempted to commit suicide, declaring
that he would sooner die than again enter the
rebel army. Many of the other prisoners
have made similar declarations.
Official documents show that Massachusetts,
has contributed toward the suppression of the
rebellion 10000 soldiers, in addition to the
10000 recruited for the navy within the linn
its of the State. The present excess of the
State over all calls will exceed 1000.
Admiral John A. Dahlgreen, who will sue
coed Admiral Dupont, commanding the squad
ron Of the South Atlantic, is native and citi-
zen of Pennsylvania, and has been thirty years
in service. He invented the celebrated Dahl
green gun, and is now chief of the Ordnance
Bureau.
The soldiers of Ohio, in Rosecran's army
are denouncing the nomination of Vallandig-
ham with the greatest vehemence. A number
Of regiments have already adopted and sent
home resolutions on the subject, which will
by no means add to the comfort Of Vallandig-
hams supporters.
The clcrgymen of Philadelphia, to the num-
Der of over one hundred, rendered their SER
vices to work on the Notifications. Among
the names are those Of Rev. Messrs. Albert
Barnes, Phillips, Brooks, DR.. Brainerd, DR..
Darling, DR.. Newton, DR.. Washburne, and
MIR. Willis.
Gen. Meade, the new leader of the Army
of the Potomac. is the grandson of George
Meade of Philadelphia, an eminent Irish
American merchant, whose firm (Meade and
Fitzsimmons) contributed in 1871 $40, 1000 to
a fund for the relief of the furnishing army of
Gen. Washington.
The Government has patched up treaty
of peace with the Mormons, in order to secure
a safe transmission Of the California revenue
to Washington and preserve our overland
communication from interruption. In con-
sequence Gov. Harding has been removed
and appointed to the consulate of Valparaiso.
Since the war broke out, nearly $50 vessels
have been constructed by the 0. =. govern
ment expressly as men-of-war, and of these
nearly fifty are iron clads. Many of the pur-
chased steamers are now as formidable as
navy built craft. There are, all told, about
$50 vessels now registered on the books of
the Department..
Florida is now the greatest resource of the
rebel army for beef, and since the communi-
cations with Texas were partly stopped by
our operations on the Mississippi, thousands
of head have been weekly gathered and trans
ported to the West and North. If we had
held St. Johns river and Jacksonville, we
could have prevented this in a great measure.
Six months interest on the public debt be-
came due on the 18th ult. 1t amounted to
little less than three and half millions of
dollars, and was payable in gold in the cities
of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Cincinnati and Washington. The Treasury
Department is able to meet all payments of in
tCA GOV DO tJCy OC0Vu0 NuC, WltuOut OlluCuLty
A man named Mat. Downey, while witne S.
ing circus performance in Cochranton, Pa,
a few days ago, was kicked in the breast by
the trick horse Sir Henry, and so severely
wounded that he died the following day. The
horse had been taught to be very civil with
when told that the rider was jeff. Davis. In
M lock
Mr.. S. Coy, we'll known resident of Me.
dina, Ohio, was brutaly murdered in bed, at
his own house on the evening of the LIST inst,
in company with his wife and little child,
after which the house was set on fire. The
latter, however, was quenched before the
flames reached the corpses. 1t is supposed
the triple murder was committed for the pur
rid deed had not been detected at last &C
counts.
The report for the fiscal year ended June
Both, shows our imports of dry goods for
that fiscal year to have been SOL 1868, OBJ
against $39, 165, 720 last fiscal year-the first
effects of the war. With the exception of
1861-62, 1862-63 this is the smallest impor-
tauoh year Ior teh years. SlA'y I'LL ohS Vi
dry goods imports, however, are a pretty
good sum to pay thirty or forty per cent,
duties on, and have doubtless realized over
twenty millions of revenue.
In the Army of the Potomac there is lady
surgeon, Miss Mary Walker, who, in several
battles, has done good service for the wound
ed. Dressed in male habiiments, with the
exception ola girlish straw hat, deckel off
with an ostrich feather, with petite figure
and femme features, the tout ensemble is quite
Her reputation is unsullied, and
she carries herself amid the camp with a
aunty air of dignity, we'll calculated to receive
the sincere respect of the soldier.
H0There are few plain propositions that
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