Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-24
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| News Paragraphs.
| There are nearly eight thousand rebel pris.
phia.
1t is estimated that our artillery at Vicks-
burg threw against the city $4,000 tons Of
| iron.
Within few months 1925 of the registered
enemies of the Government have been ex-
PEELED from New Orleans.
A number of persons who were confined in
Richmond for refusing to take up arms have
been ordered to be sent North. . ..l-..
While we have been praying for rain Kan.
sas has had superabundance, delaying har-
vesting aud damaging the ripened grain.
Over three thousand cavalry horses have
been purchased for Government, and shipped
from Chicago, within the past ninety days.
The third regiment raised by the Philadel-
phia Union League. since the invasion by
Lees army, left for the seat of war last week.
Some 500 muskets have recently been
wrested from the rebel citizens of Washing
ton county; Missouri, and sent to st. Louis.
A maiden lady in Hatfield, Hampshire
county, Massachusetts, paid an income tax
for last year Of $4,000. Where are all the
bachelors.
Gen. Mcclellan has taken up his summer
residence at Orange, N. Y, in the elegant
MANSION of MIR. Marcy, the uncle of Mrs.
Mcclellan.
On Saturday last locomotive of the Chi.
cago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. exploded
near Monmouth, killing four men. Two of
their names are given as Cartwright and
Moore. saa '.
The Cincinnati CONNER cial states that Hon.
Henry g. Lane, United States Senator of In
diana, is an acting Fourth Corporal in one Of
the Indiana volunteer militia companies pur-
suing Morgan. ~
Mrs. Lincoln is still suffering severely from
the effects of her recent accident in being
thrown from her carriage. The wound upon
the back of the head had healed too suddenly,
and suppuration under the scalp required it
to be opened.
The Governor of Ohio has ordered the dis
banding of the militia forces at Camp Denni.
son, fearing that the crops will suffer. There
is good deal of amusement about Gov Tod's
call for militia. He got more than he knew
what to do with.
The men drafted for the army will not prob
ably be drilled and ready for service before
October, by which time, from present appear
ances, most of the heavy fighting will be over.
We observe that substitutes are offering
themselves at $3.50 through the eastern pa
pers.
The President has given formal notice to the
authorities at Richmond that if they persist
in their declared intention to hang Captains
Sawyer and Flynn, in retaliation for the hang
ing of two spies by general Burnside, our
Government will retaliate by hanging officers
two or three degrees higher in rank.
About 600 cyprians were sent Northward
from Nashville on the 9Th, by the military
authorities. A correspondent hopes the COM
handing officer will also order off all contra
band prostitutes, as they contribute consider
ably more to the generalization OF the army
than any equal number of white women.
Apack ofguerrillas numbering some sixty,
recently went into jackson county, Kansas,
and sacked and burned the village of Shawnee
town. They entered the town in the night,
when the inhabitants were asleep, and the
village being defenseless was at the mercy of
the invaders. Four citizens were killed, and
six wounded.
The New York Commercial Aduertiser
states that the destruction of the list of Thames
will not prevent the draft from proceeding in
the Ninth District, as copies thereof have been
deposited in the Sheriff's Office. As soon as
new lists can be made out, sufficient force
of the Provost Marshal's guard will be as
sembled, and the draft will then proceed.
Gen. Sibley's Indian expedition which was
in danger of being abandoned, will be contin-
ued in spite of the drought. Little Crow, in
imitation of Jeff. Davis, earnestly desires to
be let alone. The settlers in Minnesota are
determined to remove the remotest danger of
an attack in future, and are hunting down the
Indians like foxes.
The General Land Office has received official
news confirming the report of the discovery
and successful working of rich veins of gold
in Oregon. The mines along John Day river
are yielding two hundred to two hundred and
fifty dollars per week. One nugget was taken
out of Humbolt ditch, Cannon City, weighing
$12O. 1t is also ascertained that the silver
region of Washoe, Nevada, extends into South
eastern Oregon.
The Mobile Register gives the prices of but
ter at 81 so and 50 90 per pound at whole.
sale, and 81 25 and 50 so at retail. Bacon
could not be bought for less than 81 80 and
81 90 per pound. Pears were twenty-five
cents apiece, and mean dppes 81 90 per quart.
Small green looking melons were offered at
S. 90 apiece. The Intelligencer, of Atlanta,
gives the following prices: Bacon, 81 20;
lard, 81 90; coffee, So 30 and s. 90; flour,
S45 per barrel corn, So 90 per bushel; salt,
40 to so cents per pound molasses, IS 90
to 81 so per gallon; sugar, 81 so per pound;
whisky, $l8 to $25 per gallon; nails, 81 10