Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-11
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The rebel Government of Missouri is nov
located at Little Rock, Arkansas.
The President has given permission fo
colored missionaries to enter our lines ant
minister to their brethren.
The Confederate" debt, (says Robert Tay
lor, Register of the Treasury at Richmond,
is $S40,000,00O! .. ....
Hon Thaddeus Stevens has written lettel
expressing the opinion that the payment o
$500 exempts conscript for three years
The contrary opinion is held by the Wal
Department.
The rebel women, owing to the scarcity q
leather, are wearing shoes made Of squire
skins, and by making virtue of necessity
pronounce them superior in sOftDess and du
rabil!ty to any others.
The potato crop this year in many parts o.
Central Ohio will prove almost failure
Acres have been totally destroyed by bugs
and but few patches can be found that have
not been more or less injured.
The rebels at Lawrence took Gen. Lanes
sword, which was presented to him by his
regiment after their return from the Mexican
war. During the pursuit the General killed
the rebel who had it, and reco overed it.
| There were three slight but distinct shocks
Of an earthquake in ST. Louis on Friday
night, 2S,h ult., accompanied by low, rumb-
ling noise like distant thunder. The waves
passed from east to west. No damage was
done.
On Sunday, the 18th ult., Jacob Hover, Of
two years. He had lived fifty-two years in
one grand children and one hundred and two
great grand children.
Shoe-making is done extensively in Haver-
hill, Mass, by the women. The Banner says
they "work in gangs of six or seven hands
each, the same as most of the young men do
and make the shoe right straight out from
the lasting to the finishing"
Two countries may be said to feed the rest
of the world-the United States and Russia.
And yet we find the Western powers un.
gratefully endeavoring to sap the strength and
| cripple the resources of these two nations,
even at the risk of Starving their own people.
The old pearmain apple tree ON the Wyilys
estate, (now Charter Oak place. at New
Haven, Conn.,, the seeds of which were
brought over in the Mayhower, has a fine
crop of apples upon it now. The tree is over
24O years old.
Living in San Francisco is said to be now
cheaper than any Of the old cities of the
States,-lrom $3.50 to $40 per week Mont
gomery street, in said metropolis of the Pa
cic, is stated to be one brilliant blaze of fash
ion from dawn to dusk. more 'heayy" by far
than even that discernable along Broadway,
New York
Vicksburg was laid out in Il s22 by Neivitt
Wick, and incorporated in 1925. 1t has al.
ways been celebrated for fine fruits and veg
etables, and for its short lived editors Sew
enteen of this unfortunate c'ass have come to
an untimely grave by the duels, street fights,
or suicide, since the establishment of the
Vicksburg Whig, the first newspaper estab-
lshed there.
The Sanitary Commission is receiving calls
from the army and hospitals for fresh sup
plies of onions. They are considered not
only comfort, but necessity in the South
ern climate, and will, alone, prevent scorbutic
diseases. 1t is almost tcO early in the sea-
son to send potatoes, but onions, picked cab
bage, and sauer krout may and ought to be
seat in great abundance.
John L Pichl, German Jew, long resi-
dent in Pittsburg, after committing variety
of petty rascalltes, forged draft for $780,
900 on the Citizens Bank of Baltimore, on
which he drew 5000 in cash, then started
for Europe. Using the telegraph to urge his
wife and family to follow him, led to his ar
rest in Washington, D. G., before he reached
seaport.