Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-24

Galsnaens are justly proud Of the fact. s
Several substitutes are advertised in the
Providence papers, offering their services LOT
$25o. - -Tr1 Gi 2.A 9TG ,ssQ:Eg4
Upward of fourteen thousand dollars have
been raised in Baltimore for the wounded
Some six hundred of the rebel prisoners
taken at Gettysburg, and sent to Baltimore,
have already taken the oath Of allegiance.
Spurgeon, the sensation Baptist clergyman
of London, has published, five, hundred SER
msns and baptized three thousand persons.
The paroling Of the prisoners At Vicksburg
vas completed on the 10TH. The number
paroled WIS 81 ,242. The rebels have all left.
Late Richmond papers are full Of advertise
ments of. runaway negroes whose affection
for their masters has induced them to get out
of the way of coming danger asnt 10 r.i-
It is generally believed that Gen.. Sibley's
Indian expedition is . failure, and must re-
turn, owing to the total destruction Of grass
beyond Red River towards Devils Lake.
All the editors in Maine are now married; !;
James s. Lincoln of the Bath Times, when
he surrendered to q fair daughter of Massa-
chusetts, having completed the list.
Thomas Coching,, a 7Pennsyl ylvanian, who
fled from the Keystone State to avoi the
rebels, reports that he had $4,000 in green
backs and 81, 900 in gold stolen from him at
Jersey City. ~ ar -stgroo soslLA 10 t-" [
A SON of Rev Edward Beecher, D. D., Q
student in Bowdoin College. Me-, asking his
fathers consent to join the six months yolun-
teers, received the following reply: go, 20,
go; God bless you; Amen. 90"
The attempted draft riot in Boston, last
week, was promptly put down. Four or five
Of the rioters were shot down and ovor d"z-
IN wounded at the outset, and the thing was
crushed. 5tni 4Isu e4a I'D 30 J.Uams ..'r
In the city of Portland, Me-. ! one.third of
the quota of that city we're drafted on Mon
day, very quietly, and the conscripts are good
humoredly receiving the congratulations Of
their friends. a-"T Log sd .-.5i II 4
The only Chinaman in the Federal army
was killed at Gettysburg. He was called
John Tombey, and was attached to the 1st
Excelsior regiment, having joined 1T when it
vas first raised.
The whole number Of fprisoners now in our
possession, or released to our credit, as in the
case Of Vicksburg, IS 5000. The rebels only
have between twelve and fourteen hundred
yet unexchanged. -1s .r ..'...ie.
The thirty y.day militia who went from New
York for the defense of Pennsylvania are to
be credited and accounted for in the coming
draft on the basis of three years of service
that is, thirty-six men counting as one.
Pittsburg does not mean to be prey to
the invader. Her citizens have erected twenty
seven forts for the protection Of that CITY, and
it will require an army, nearly, to defend so
many. Pittsburg can turn; an army out Of
her population. | ......
large balloon was sent up from Hartford,
Conn.,, on the Fourth. Atthe height of o
mile and a half cat, attached to parachute,
was dropped, and rooster, without any
brake but his wings, both of which came
down in safety. sIsl,, e-., .,....- .
Three of the Newport (R I) clergy are
among the victims to the draft-the Rev.
Messrs, G H. Malcolm, H. E. Robins and
VIM. @. Leveretie. The Rev. Mr.. Ashley, Of
Smithfield, is also among-not the prophets
but the conscripts, v Cd. tE
The enrolment of Cooke county, Illinois,
for the draft shows: Of the first class, in
Chicago 1896; second Glass; S,760; total in
Chicago, 27,756. In the rest of the County,
first class. 3,555, second, 2,17O; total, 5,727.
Aggregate Of both classes in the County, 49,,
At. -,o' Pc. -...-.-.... "a. t... -
The operation of the draft in Providence
has been such, that in one wholesale grocery
establishment there, all the partners and
sale>men have been conscripted, leaving only
a colored porter in the store In that city
the conscripts have fashion of wearing red
ribbon at the button hole. n .-...-
the editor of the Getty ysburg Compiler,
Democratic paper, has been sent to Fort Nc
Henry. 1t appears that Mrs. Buehler, the
wife Of the postmas' 'er, had sccreteda number
of Union soldiers in her house, some of whom
were wounded. Upon the rc-occupation by
the rebels the editor aforesaid disclosed the
fact to one of their officers, and at the same
+'.ne designated points where arms and liquor
.ould be found.
The inhabitants of Getty are severely
censured for their uncourteous and i,liberal
treatment of our soldiers A correspondent
of the N. Y. Times says their charges were
exorbi.ant; hotels, $3.50 per day; milk 10
and Is cents per quart bread 81 90, and even
81 so per loaf; ssoenty cents for bdndogs
for a U0unded soldier. Miss Dix aud her lady
nurses were refused board because the citi-
zens t. whom application was made "didn't
want to be troubled with boarders."
The st. Louis Museum is to be removed to
Chicago. 1t is the largest and finest collec.
tion of beasts, birds, fossils, paintings, &c in
the West, which Edward Wyman has been
about twenty years gathering at cost of
nearly fifty thousand dollars. 1t is now the
property Of an as ,ociation Of gentlemen atd
Chicago. The removal of this long time in
stituuon Of st. Louis to Chicago furnishes
another evidence Of the fact that the latter
city is rapid y absorbing the trade and i'm
portapce of the former.
The Supreme Court of Maine has rendered
. decision on two questions submitted by the
Governor of the State {: "First. Has city or
town any legal right to pledge its credit to
raise money for the purpose of paying the
communication of such of its citizens as NAV be
drafted into the military service ofthe United
States under the act passed at the last Con-
gress Second. Has city or town any legal
right to raise money By taxation to provide
communication for such citizens as may thus be
drafted ?" The Court decided both questions
unanimously in the negative. -. t,I..[
List of Deceased Iowa Soldiers
Who have died in Hospitals at St. Louis No. from
July II TO 15 1868. Fufnished by Thos. W. J. Long,
State Sanitary Agent at At. Louis, Mo.
July IL. Houssl, co K, 2sth Chronic Diarrhes. |
J NJ Rosencrans. co =, 2sth. : g" 1
" IL Abnsr Elger. co A, Sth,
" l8 Jno CarnAhan co /. 8lst, l
IA JnO Mathews, co 25th, i
Ha" Is VIM II Fankle, CO 31st. Typhus Fever. |
~ Tho recent successes of the Union |