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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

A REGIMENT IN TWENTY ONE BArTLEs.-The
1st Minnesota regiment was enlisted in time
to participate in the first Bull Run battle,
where its loss exceeded that Of any other reg.
iment. Since then it has followed the for
tunes of the Army Of the Potomac, always
in the old Sedgwick Division Of the Sumner
Corps. Originally 1850 strong, it has had
recruits to the number of GAO, has been in
twenty one battles, has literally fought itseli
down to less than 100 men. Brig. Gen. Cor
man was its first Colonel, Maj. Gen. Dana, the
second, Brig. Gen. Sully the third, and Col
Colville the fourth. In the late battle a
Gettysburg it went in with 220 men and came
out with only 81, including officers The Co.
lionel, Lieutenant Colonel and Major were
wounded. Among the dead are Capts. Bur
CESS, Perram, Muller and Messick.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
The Draft.

We are gratiied to note in the prompt en-
forcement of the draft an evidence that the
Government is determined to push Its recent
advantages to q speedy overthrow Of the re.
bellion. This result cannot be attained more
readily than by overwhelming the enemy with
large force Of fresh troops. With 1000
new men in the field, the military power Of
the rebellion must melt as snow before the
hot summers sun.
The draft has already commenced in some
of the Eastern States. The ratio there is
much larger than it will be in the West, as
all our States have full quotas in the field un-
der first acquisitions and no nine months or
two years men. It is said that in some Of the
wards in Boston one man out Of three will be
required The ratio in Pittsburg ia about one
in five. In Iowa we understand the ratio
will be about one in ten.
The Chicago Journal expresses the opinion
that within the next fortnight the draft will
be enforced in all the loyal States. The num-
Der apportioned to each State, it il believed,
4 i I'll
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

Victory FATAL TO CopPERHEADrsx.-Not
ing hurts the Copperheads like Union vic.
tory in the field. They can stand defeat al
the ballot box with composure, because they
are used to il; and they welcome persecution
and the imprisonment of their seditious lead
ers, because it gives them chance to parade
themselves as defenders of free speech and
the forlorn hope of popular liberty. But q
great victory over the rebels in the field, like
that won at Gettysburg or Vicksburg, over
whelms them with confusion. They stink
back to their holes in alarm and disgust, or
it they venture out among honest and loyal
men, they are very much in earnest to have
it understood that they are entirely willing
the rebels should be beaten.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

The DRAFT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Mar
shall General Fry announces that the amount
to be paid-in accordance with the provisions
of the Enrolment law-by any person who
may be drafted, in order to secure exemption,
is fixed at 5000. The Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue in each district is authorized
by the Secretary of War, and directed by the
Secretary Of the Treasury, to receive such
money, for which he will give duplicate re-
ceipts. One of these must be delivered to
the Board of Enrolment on or before the day
the drafted person is ordered to report for
duty, when he viii be furnished by the Board
with certificate of exemption, stating that
he has been DISCHARGED from the liability of
the draft by the payment of $500.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

w The barracks at Carlisle, which were
destroyed by the rebels, have historic mem.
Org attached to them. They were built in
TIT, chiefly by number of Hessiaus, made
prisoners at Trenton. Major Andre was for
some time held there as prisoner Of war,
and Washington had his headquarters there
in 1874, during the Whiskey Insurrection.-
Nothing but the walls of the old structure
are now left standing. The Dickerson Meth
odist College, founded in 1888, is also one Of
the features Of Carlisle, but with the excep-
ton of few shells from Lees guns, which
fell in the grounds, it was not molested.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
Unconditioaally DO.

The Courier, now that its circulation ex.
tends into 'every county in Iowa." is more
persistent than ever in declaring that the
Abolitionists-that is, the war party Of the
country-mourn and swear over Union victo-
ries because it puts off the final overthrow Of
slavery to an indefinite period. As we have
in another place shown that the "Abs." are
the only people who do any rejoicing over
the splendid victories Of cur troops, we again
put to the Courier questions We have put
many times during the last twelve months
Are you in favor Of . reconstruction Of
the old Union and Of prosecuting this war to
that end, leaving slavery to survive or perish,
as the necessities Of military operations may
require.
Are you in favor of restoring the sup1em.
acy Of the Federal Constitution, as it was and
is, without amendment, by force of arms
when set at defiance and trampled under
foot, whether slavery live or die!
If the Union cannot be restored to its for.
mer glory, or the blessings of our Constitu.
ton preserved to US and our posterity, with.
out first destroying slavery, are you in favor
of that distinction
That our position may not be misunder.
stood, neighbor, in advance we say as We
have always said: The Federal Union-i'
must DO preserved, whether slavery 60 up OF
down; that the blessings of Union and Lib.
erty are above and before all sectional insti-
tutions. We sincerely hope slavery may die
in this terrible struggle and shall most as
suredly help it die, if it stands in the way o.
American peace and prosperity.
How say you, neighbor?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

The WAY THE SOLDIERS SEE ia Vicks
burg letter says: Familiarity with scenes Of
death has tendency to produce the most
complete recklessness in all matters connected
with the future. A common salution is,
"How long before you will want that coffin ~
or. evil you have your headboard done in
ink or neatly carved ?" Practical jokes are
perpetra ed of the gravest and most appalling
character. just after the return Of the White
river expedition. one of the cavalry companies
made detail, and dug two graves, in which
to bury couple of their unfortunate comrades.
After the graves were completed, they return
ed for the bodies. While they were gone,
the members of another military company,
having two men to bury, and discovering the
graves, quietly placed the bodies in them,
had the funeral service read and hurried
away to quarters. Judge Of the surprise OF
the cavalry when they returned, to find their
graves already occupied, and the molds neat
smocthed over. To be buried. means, in their
vernacular, to be "planted." When man
gets sick, the reason he don't die is that he
Is politely waiting tho convenience Of the I'M
dcrtaker. Surgeons call is facetiously termed
''dead call, and cotton. buying and cotton
stealing are placed under the one general head,
"gormandizing."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
IN TuousANp SUBSCRIBERS WANTED

Ten THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS WANTED
The Weekly Muscatine Courier wants ten
thousand subscribers. Poor Copperhead. you
have filled your paper with such foul venom,
that decent people cast it from them with ut
ter contempt and loathiug. You have bitten
yourself until your daily ceased to exist, and
your labored cry for subscribers shows plain
" that your dirty weekly will soon follow
suit. Poor fellow, to your children shall de-
scend the unwelcome heritage of being scorn-
ed by all Patriots, as the offspring Of one,
who. reared in land Of liberty, sought with
all his feeble strength to break down the
priceless boon of Liberty and Constitutional
Government, and on your tomb stone shall be
written, "His name is rendered immortal by
his infamy."-Dubuqus Times.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
UNION STATE TICKET.
Excitement Again.

Wednesday night about o'clock the offcis
confirmation was received in this city Of thu
unconditional surrender Of Port Hudson
Notwithstanding the lateness Of the hour, il
spread with lighming-like rapidly, and ere
long the streets were crowded with an excited
populace eager to exchange congratulation.
over the glorious news. The cannon wal
once more brought into requisition, the bells
Of the city were rung, sky rockets sent up
and general rejoicing had by every body, a
few only, excepted. The Mississippi river il
now free from rebel control to its mouth.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

81 When jeff. Davis visited the south
west last winter he proclaimed Murfreesboro
and Vicksburg the ''vital points, of his CON-
federacy-that they must be held at all haz-
ards. AT Jackson he said that Vicksburg and
Port Hudson must be defended to the last.
'that the Confederacy must stand or fall by
the defense of the river ~ te4
{ II Davis was right, the Confederacy must
be about ''gone up." aiea9a - a=.a'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
The Legitimate Fruits

The most extensive and disgraceful riot
that has ever set laws at defiance and de-
stroyed the peace and good order Of society,
is, up to the present writing, still making sad
havoc in the great Democratic stronghold of
New York City. For the past eighteen
months Fernando and Ben Wood, Rynders,
McCunn and others have had full sweep and
sway in that city. They have been permit
ted to belch forth their treason, denounce the
Administration, the war and its measures,
with reckless and shameless impunity. For
like offense, in far less degree, Vallandig.
ham was transported beyond the Federal lines.
We have never been able to account for that
administrative blindness that has permitted
Woods, Rynders & Co., whose power for evil
among the FOUNDERS and DULLES and Irish Of
New York are SO universally known, to go
unwhipped an dunhung. But notwithstand-
ing the lying clamor of an opposition, whose
garments are stained with the blood of their
heroic countrymen, shed in defense of the
Union, the Government has tolerated the free
speech of those villains to such an extent
that terrible riots, lawless mobs and blood Of
innocents rise up and cry aloud for ven.
geance on the heads of these guilty sympa
thizers with treason. officers Of the Gov
eminent are violently acknowledgements
Offices and property destroyed-dwellings
consumed by fre-the conservators Of peace
murdered while in the discharge Of thei'
duty, only because the Government has beer
too merciful and lenient towards its enemies
"If laws made by an Abolition party 10 pow
er are obnoxious to you, resist their enforce
ment." Such has been the teachings of {
professed Democracy. Behold its fruits
Copperheads, tories, traitors of Muscatine
you are guilty of giving aid and comfort t.
your political friends in New York. You, too
have declared the Consumption act unconsti
tutional-that it cannot be enforced-that thu
people ought not to submit to its slavery-tha
they should resist the tyrannies of an Ad
ministration when they became too insuffera
bic. Every man has been left by you to judg'
of these tyrannies with his own blind pas
sions. You have stirred up strife and discort
among US. You have studied to make thu
Administration and its measures obnoxious
and hated by the ignorant and unthinking
You have followed after the devices of thu
Seymours, Woods, Vallandighams and Maho
ny's, and the result is to be seen in New York
Are you bent on plunging the North into civi
war! Must no law be enforced unless enact
ed by Democratic majorities? Has it come
to pass that efforts to crush wicked ant
gigantic rebellion is to be resisted? Pause
we beseech you, before blood flows too freely
"Better submit to the ills we have, than fly
to those we know not Of" .z-.-. sd.
Democrats, interpose your strong righ
arms, or civil war must follow. Let our bat
tie cry be as of old, "The Constitution and
the enforcement of the laws" Avoid the
precipice ....
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

joy OF THE PEoPIE.-The people, every
where, were boisterously jubilant on Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week, over the news
OF the surrender of vicksburg From Iowa
to Maine, cannons were fred, fireworks were
exploded, and bonfires blazed. No such gen.
eral outburst Of enthusiasm has BEEN witness.
ed since the war began. III.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
The Rebel Loss in the Gettysburg
Battle.

A Washington correspondent, writing to
tie New York Tribune, on the 10th, says:
Medical Inspector Nollum reports to Sur
con General Hammond that there are now
our hands, at Gettysburg, 10000 rebel
wounded. This number will be increased
rather than diminished, and the former esti-
mate of 1000 is now known to have been the
merest guess work. The rebel losses, during
the three battles Of Gettysburg, are, to say
unoficially, footed up at the Surgeon Gener-
ais office as follows:
Left on the field and in hands, wounded 600
Slightly wounded. taken away by the rebes--- 900
Killed on the field and buried by forces 800
Taken prisoners BY our forces. IL 900
Deserters and straggiers brought in by our caval-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

~ Let it be borne in mind that the Cop
perhead State Convention of Iowa adopted the
Ohio Vallandigham treason propagating plat
form, and nominated an out-and-out peace
Mahony ticket, beating Tuttle, the most pop
ular War man bearing the name Of Demo-
crat in the State, and repudiating the New
York Seymour platform.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

EMANCIPATION IN GU1ANA.-By decree of
the Government of Holland, $4,000 slaves in
Dutch Guiana were made freemen on the LIST
of July. So the world moves on towards
universal liberty. In the Southern States
alone are men in this age seeking to establish
a government with slavery as its cornerstone.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

THE CONVENIENT BouNrY.-It should be
remembered that the Government offers a. .
bounty $402 to all those who have been in
she service nine months or more, and shall
rs-enlist at the present time, or before the
draft.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

Thirty-one rebel flags, captured at Gettys.
burg, have been received at the War Depart
ment. Many of them are torn by bullets and
stained with blood.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

List OF Deceased lowa solillers
Who have died In Hospitals at st. Louis. No., from
July 8to-- 1858. Furnished BY Thos. W. J. Long
State Sanitary Agent st NJ. Louis. Mo. l. '.f
July sth VIM steadnan, 90 A. 2sth, cAron DiassAsa
VIM Goo, 60 3, 22d,
Simon Dyksman, co =, asth
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

tW We are eratified to receive again the
Chambersburg (Pa.) Transcript after sus-
pension of two weeks, on account of the reb-
ell occupation. 1t gives full and highly in
teresting account of the doings of the rebels
in Franklin county, confirming in the main
what has already appeared in the newspapers.
The rebels generally respected private prop
erty, except horses and firearms, but the loss
to citizens of Franklin is estimated at from
$25o,ooo to 100000. The cowardly Cop
perheads who endeavored to gain favor with
the rebels by expressing sympathy with their
cause were generally treated with proud dis
dain, and sneeringy asked to show their
friendship by taking up arms in favor Of the
Confederacy, which they of course declined
doing.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
List of Sick and Wounded Iowa
Soldiers f|..-..

Arrived at st Louis per steamer Continental July eth
1863 Furnished by Thos. W. J. Long, Of Iowa ON CO
No. 2. Laclede Block, Olive Street, st. Louis, Mo.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17
The rwo Dar.gs.

VIcKsBuRol GrrrysnuRc
To whom shall We Grant the Nsad Of
prsises
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

NEW YORK, July II.
The Post says: Bodies Of rioters to-day
visited large manufacturing establishments,
forcing laborers to join them and forbidding
the loading Of ships, &C., &c. Up to this
hour several houses have been sacked, In
Guiding Mayor Opdyke's. CONGREGATIONS are
occurring momentarily, and the mob, which
seems to be divided into separate crowds, are
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

he had been in the business long time, Il
is also said that important communications be
| tween Lee and Ewell were found on his per-
| son. .
Gen. Hancock was wounded in the recent
battle by temporary nail, driven from fence
near by. The nail and small piece of wood
have been extracted, and the patient is con.
valesccnt. Major General Doubleday report
ed seriously wounded at Gettysburg, was
struck by spent piece of shell on the back
of the head, and partially stunned, but con-
tinued on duty. Gen. A. Won Steinwehr, re-
ported killed, was not injured in the least.
A dreadful explosion occurred IN Howelps
mines in Hyde Park, Pc, Of FIRE damp on
Monday morning, 18th. causing the death of
eight boys and seriously woundng three
more, and the killing Of eight m ules and three
horses. The drivers with their mules were
entering through the old drifts when the ex-
plosion took place, throwing the bodies of two
of the boys outside, and portions of the har-
ness and shoes from off the feet of the mules
were thrown over three hundred yards from
the mouth Of the drift. A stream of fame
counts it was impossible to enter it to recov-
er the bodies of the dead. "e
The rebel Gen. EARLY, who demanded
100000 from the town of York, Pa, is said
by a correspondent Of the New York Times
to be native Of that State, born in Carlisle.
His father was poor shoemaker, who lived
in the outskirts of the then village, and
brought his only other son up to his trade.
This one, the General, left home at IN early
age, made his way to Lynchburg, Vs., estab-
lished himself there as dentist, was success
fol, married wealthy girl, and soon became
one of the F. F. VS.. He is familiar with the
Cumberland Valley, and no doubt aided in
perfscting Lees plan Of invasion. He is .
man of no education whatever, but wealth
and bis apostacy were sufficient grounds to
elevate him to the position he now occupies.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17

CAIRO, July IL.
The number of rations issued to prisoners
at Vicksburg is S2,540 This is official. Gen.
Pemberton admits theloss of 5000 men since
the commencement of the siege. This is
quite equal to the Federal loss. .,
Hon. A. G. Brown came to Snyder's Bluff
on the 9th and took the oath of allegiance
He says he never believed in secession and
never was secessionists.
The latest advices from Port Hudson are
very favorable. Banks and Gardner were
said to be parleying about the surrender of
the place, and news of its capitula,ion may
be hourly expected.
Gen. Osterhaus is reported to have occu-
pied Jackson with $500 troops. Sherman is
pursuing Johnston, in the direction of Can
ton, and will force him to fight if possible.
Fir. MoNRoz, July IA.
Fort Powhattan, on James River, was taken
possession of by our feet yesterday. All the
men and guns had been removed.
The gunboat Union, just arrived from
Charleston, bound to New York, reports that
III Of Morris Island was captured except
Fort Wagner. The enemy's loss in killed
md wounded and prisoners, is between 700
md 800. The attack commenced last Friday,
nd the Union left on Monday afternoon, at
which time tho seige of Fort Wagner was
with every prospect Of speedy
apture. Five monitors are engaged.