Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-20

establish tobacco ration IN the army.
Women are not permitted to appear .
: public lecturers in France.
' The New England Pin Company of Win
sted. Conn.,, is making pins Of iron insteat
Of brass. ' l2'.'. '1 '1S '''-- l''-f
A babe was born in Britain, Conn.,, las
December, with complete set of teeth a
birth. -tlH- 4 -l..- St3
, The records Of the War Department show
that about 1000 disabled soldiers are dis
charged weekly.
A famine may be said to exist in Ireland
Relief socities were in operation all over the
southern and western counties.
Two hundred and fifty deserters arc now
awaiting trial in the different divisions OIL
Hooker's army. ..l@ -sl 80 .
| They are.no less than eighty-fve languages
spoken in New York city by natives of as
many different nations. "' s'..
The small pox is raging very violently
among the contrabands in Washington, and
scores are dying weekly from its ravages.
Extraordinary gold discoveries in New Zca-
land are reported, exceeding in richness those
Of Australia and California. .... j. a58ty =
Greenbacks have been declared unconstitu-
tional, in California, by Judge Reaner, and
that they are not legal tender. F'''
Rosecrans has been reinforced, since bis
Murfreesboro battle, with twenty regiments
Of infantry, four of cavalry, and six batteries.
The people on the southwestern border of
Missouri are reduced almost to starvation, the
opposing armies having stripped the country
of everything eatable.
Speculations in cotton run high in Men,
phis. Spectators are paying as high as one
dollar pound, being more than it is worth
in New York.
| Gen. Jerry G.. Sullivan. in command at
jackson, Tenn, has prohibited the circula-
ton of the secesh Chicago Times within the
limits of his district. ...5-.... .sss r, -.,4
The "Free South" is the name of neatly
printed and ably edited paper published at
Beaufort, South Carolina. 1t is devoted to
interests of the Federal Government =.
Central Park, New York, has cost seven
and half millions-half for land, half for
'fxns," but tho increase of taxes from the
advance in the value of contiguous real estate
will pay the interest. 1...'..',..-. T..
Nantucket was the only city in Massachu.
setts that lost in population during the decade
between the years 1850 and 1860. The
cities of Augusta and Gardiner, in Maine, both
decreased in population between 1850 and
| 1860.
The wheat crop of Ohio in 1862 was the
best for several years. The product was
nearly as follows: Acres, 1900, 900; crop,
80, 400, 900 bushels; average yield to acre, 16
bushels. Many counties produced 20 bushels
per acre.
The Confederate Adjutant General has de-
cded that men with any portion Of the blood
of the white race are liable to conscription
This decision admits to the rebel army all
the mulattoes and quadroons in the Confed-
eracy. GJ .r.
A cargo of teas and some raw silks have
been imported into New York, from Japan
the first direct importation since the opening
of trade with that Empire. The pheasants
intended for the Central Park died on the
| voyage. gsf
A girl soldier has been discovered in the
camp of the 10th Ohio cavalry at Gle veland
She gave her name as Henrietta Spencer, and
said that her home was in Oberlin, and that
she enlisted to avenge her father and brother
who fell at Murfreesboro.
Thurlow Weed holds in trust $780, 900 in
Japanese gold, sent to this country by the
Tycoon, through R. II. Pruyn, the American
Minister in Japan, for the purchase Of two
war steamers of American construction. Mr..
Weles, Secretary eff the Navy, very properly
declines to have the steamers built in our
yards while we are busy putting down the
rebellion. a..,
The disease known as "spotted fever"
which was so fatal at Plymouth, Indiana, for
some weeks, has appeared at Elkhart, Indi-
ana where it is proving quite fatal Persons
taken with it often live but three hours. The
effect of the disease upon the body is such as
to produce early decay, so much so, in some
cases, as to interfere with the ordinary course
of burial.
Since the issue of the Emancipation Proc
lamation there has been general stampede
from the interior of North Carolina to New
bern; and late expedition to portion of
the State not before visited by our forces
brought back about two hundred contrabands
of all ages, men, women and children, who
abandoned everything to obtain their coveted
liberty. (! .. .--..sf.
Commissioner Holloway's annual report to
Congress shows in 1862 5,os8 applications
for patents, 1881 issues of which, all but SO,
to citizens of the United States; number ex-
tended, %; number expired, 648 excess of
receipts over expenditures, nearly $50, 900.
Nearly 200 more patents were issued this
year than last, and more than any previous
year except 1858, 1859 and 1860.
A new draft exemption bill, introduced in
the Confederate Congress, exempts telegraph
operators, not to exceed four at any one place
except the rebel capital one editor Of every
newspaper and necessary printers; Quakers,
Idrunkards, Nazerines and Mennonists, pro-
vided they pay a Communication of $500; ply
sicians Of five years practice, one apothecary
in each established drug store, and various
other classes. .-,aft@ 1-.t .i a.' d
The late battle at Fort Donelson, although
q brilliant victory, came very near proving
lust the reverse. Tho ammunition of our
troops was giving out, and a dispatch boat
was sent down the river for new supply
1t arrived when the last charge had been put
in the last gun and poured death and des-
Itruction upon the exultant rebels, who in .
very few moments would have surrounded
and captued our forces. 9'1
The reciprocity treaty with Canada is a
great institution. Suppose, for instance, .
Canadian iron founder visits the United
States, and selects one of the most saleable
stoves in market. Taking this home, he pays
a thirty per cent duty as he crosses the line.
TIE stove is handed over to the workmen,
who, in few days, produce hundred or q
thousand fac-similes, using the original US a
pattern. Labor and materials being cheaper
| in Canada than with us, and there being no