Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-16
News Paragraphs.

lineage nc 20 In greenbacks.
During the year 1863 there will be two
eclipses Of the sun and two of the moon.
The typhoid fever prevails very extensive
ly in tn. Army of the Potomac
General Duryea. of the New York State
Volunteers, has resigned.
Gen. Halleck has issued an order revoking
the order of Gen. Grant excluding Jews from
the lines in the Southwest.
The Gen. Rains, killed at Murfrcesboro, was
a Tennesseean, and was not the somewhat
more notorious Rains of Missouri.
The Chicago Tribune is printed on paper
which is one quarter sorghum. Two sor-
ghum mills are already running in Illinois.
During the present season 1oS,s7O hogs
have been slaughtered IN the neighborhood
Of Louisville-a large falling off from last year.
Lord Palmerston has been member of the
English House of Commons for fifty.five
years.
The tide Of prosperity in New York i. at
its highest, and thousand dollar dresses are
all the vogue.
Over one thousand wood choppers are call
ed for at Washington, for the purpose of fur
nishing wood to the army.
The pews in Henry Ward Beechcr's church
have just been rented for $4,000. Last
year the gross amount was $4,000.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is now in
operation throughout its entire length from
Baltimore to Wheeling.
The dentists of Boston have determined ia
advance their prices 80 per cent, in conse
quence Of the premium on gold.
At one packing house in Chicago. on Tues.
day last, 2O33 hogs were slaughtered, dressed
and hung up, in ten hours and forty min.
| utes.
The number of disabled soldiers who hay
been discharged from service since the 1sr of
October last to the 1St Of the present
month is $500.
| The Southern papers say that the fight al
Fredericksburg is the tenth pitched battle Lee
has fought within less than six months, anc
that in all he was victorious.
The Treasury Department is aware of thu
existence of well executed counterfeits of tn,
postal currency notes, some having quite re-
Gently reached the Secretary himself
The crop of winter wheat in Ohio has mad,
a very feeble st,rt. owing to the long duration
of the fall drought, which made it impossible,
TO put in wheat in many districts, and retard
ed its termination in others.
The Senate has passed the bill for raisins
10000 soldiers for IL months for the defens,
of Kentucky. The bill subjects the troops tt
be ordered out of the State when the Presidep
deems it necessary.
According to the report Of the Postmaster
General eigh. hundred and twenty-five letter.
were deposited in the various offices of tn,
department during the year 1862, without any
address whatever.
Christmas at New o leans was marked By
unusual rowdyism, eight persons being ar
rested for cheering for jeff Davis, among
them young naval lieutenant from the Eng.
lish man-of-war, Vesuvius.
Of the 2 100000 passengers which have
been carried over the NY. Central railroad
during the past year, only two have lost their
lives in consequence. That is, the ratio of ia.
tally to travellers is one to 100000
A frightful accident occurred in Portugal
on the Eastern railway. A bridge gave way
while train with about two hundred work.
men was crossing. About one hundred Of
the men were killed, and many Others
wounded.
1t is said that shrewd trick has been
played upon the rebel Government, by Undue.
ing it to permit large quantity of cotton to
pass our lines to be Immediately shipped for
Europe, when in fact it is designed for New
England Mills.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest has again won her suit
before the New York Court of Appeals, and
we suppose this cids the matter. Mrs. F. is
divorced from her husband, not only from
bed and board, but from the bond of matr-
mony.
The population of the State of Western
Virginia is said to be about 800, 900, only TO-
OOO of whom are slaves. The old State Of
Virginia contains 1.25O,OOO inhabitants, of
of whom 100000 are slaves and $4,000 free
negroes.
Gen. Sill, killed at NJ urfreesboro, was ma
tive Of Chillcothe, Ohio, and a graduate of
West Point. Col. Lander Stein, of the lO1st
Ohio regiment, also amcng the slain, was
resident of Tiffin. He entered the service in
September last.
The blockading squadron off Charle lesion on
the 23d ult comprised about thirty vessels,
all under steam. Sixteen of them lay off
Charleston, in the very sight of Sumter and
the shore batteries. So complete now is the
blockade it will be very difficult matter for
any craft, large or small, to enter the harbor
day or night.
The Richmond rebels are as hard up for
sugar as fer salt. The Richmond Examiner
OF the I'd states that brown sugar in that CITY
has gone up to 81 90 and 81, 10 per pound at
retail, and molasses to s. 80 and $500 per
gallon. The Examiner imputes the change
to our active aggressive operations in the
South and the Southwest.
Andrew Harvie, formerly prominent
member of the Chicago bar, and said to be a
man of sigral ability and great learning. was
found dead in the streets ofthat city two or
three days since. He had latterly been
grossly Incorporate, which finally resulted in
his sudden death. One more example of the
terrible results, even to the best of men. of in.
dulging in the use Of intoxicating liquors.
Prophecies are again current respecting
the approaching end Of the would. One rev.
srend gentleman, of the Mlllerite persuasion.
predicts universal dissolution IN 1867. g.
Another seer names 18th of August, 1868, as
the closing up of creation, adding, that
worlds convention will assemble at Cincin.
aatl, to "settle up the business of the past
md arrange matters for the future ~
g Wreckers have for some time been at work
,ut unsuccessfnly, in endeavoring to raise
he treasure sunk in the steamer Golden Cato
burned on the Pacific coast last fall. Onlv a
'mall part Of the wreck could be found. The
natives in the vicinity OF the wreck have in
heir possession over 100000 of the lost
reasure, and so abundant were twenty dol
ar peicea before the ctiuo -a..Ll |