Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-03-20
News Paragraphs.

The number of hogs killed at Cincinnati
during the past season is reported 1t COS, 900.
Elihu Burdett, "the learned blacksmith"
is lectcring in England with marked success.
Two thousand acres of the rich lands of
Mississippi county, Missouri, will be planted
with cotton this year.
Union Leagues are forming in nearly all
our principal cities, on the simple basis Of IN
conditional loyalty to the Government.
The internal revenue system works en-
couragingly. The average receipts per day
are $277 ,115, or over million and half
per week.
The number of widows pensions applied
for thus far during the present war is Is, 200.
The number of invalid pensions during the
same period is 5000.
Enameled steel shirt collars are among the
recent inventions. 1t is said that when they
get soiled you merely pass sponge over them,
and they are as good as new.
Gen. Butler is strongly urged for Provost
Marshal General under the new CONSUMPTION
law. Ex.Congressman Diven is said to be
urged in opposition by Seward.
Our soldiers are to have pea soup Jacob
Amos, Of Syracuse, N. Y, has just been
awarded the contract for furnishing the Gov
crnment 10000 bushels of split peas at 81, 20
per bushel.
The Jackson, Miss, Crisis, of. tho 25th ult.,
contains the particulars of the plunging of a
train of cars into stream through Chunky
bridge. There were fifty persons in the tram,
(mostly reb:l soldiers,) nearly all of whom
were drowned or killed.
| Gen Elects command consists of the Ma
rine Brigade and ram feet-in all fourteen
steamboats, and five tugboats, or tenders
with, in all, about $500 men. 1t is to be
kept moving up and down the river, and keep
it clear of Guerrllas.
Pensions are paid every 4th Of March and
All Of September. Letters, &C., to the Pen
sion Office, pass through the mails free In
struction and forms governing applicants vii
be furnished on application. Correspondence
should be addressed "Hon. Joseph Il. Barrett
Washington, D. c."
Hon. Stephen Baker, of New York, is til,
only member of the late House of Represent
atives who positively refused to receive thu
third mileage. The aggregate amount on thi
account is probably $4,000.
Indians are reported to be collecting il
large numbers on the Upper Mississippi, pre-
paratory to a raid on the settlements. Thre
thousand troops are to rendezvous at Sioux
City to oppose the threatened invasion.
The Lake Providence, canal enterprise ha
caused great CONSERVATION in rebeldom. Tn
planters are reported to have offered the rebel
large amount of money to evacuate Vicks
burg, in order to prevent the impending dam
age to their property.
A lady who has long resided in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Bull Run battle fell
states, as an actual fact, that the roosters il
that vicinity have abandoned all attempts t
crow since the first conflict. The cause Q
this phenomena, naturalists must explain,
they can.
"Stonewall y Jackson is irregular hypo
condriach. He was for years troubled witt
a delusion that he was about to be crippled
by paralysis of his legs, and as matter Q
precaution would sit for hours every da,
with wet shirt wound about his lions. II
was reputed about half crazy.
Some idea of the reliance placed upon the
Red River country by the rebels may b
formed from the announcement of a correspon
dent of the Mobile Adoertiser, who says tina
the feat of the ram Queen Of the West, il
running by the Vicksburg batteries, wa
followed by rise in the price Of silt to sixt,
dollars barrel.