Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-21
VOL. XV----NO B.
news Paragraphs.
James B Clay is at Niagara Falls, dying
with the consumption.


James Clay is at Niagara Falls, dying
with the consumption.
Troops continue to be sent down the river
from Vicksburg, but their destination is un-
known h. a - ''A
Indians and half.breeds have been relieved
from draft under the operations of the con-
scriEtion law. r-.g iEHallaT
A deserter from the rebel army reports
that Gen. Bragg has certainly been super
seded by Bishop Polk. r, .-- ....,,-.
The list of names of prisoners paroled at
Vicksburg filled box about three feet long
and two feet in width and depth!
1t is not true that President Lincoln will
visit New England this summer. Mrs. Lin
coin and two sons were at the Glen House,
White Mountains, on the 5th inst.
The mines at Pixies Peak never yielded
better than at present. Large quantities OF
the ore are being shipped to st Louis every
month. ...
The Camden & Amboy Railroad took to
New York, on Saturday morning, August Sth,
4, 800 baskets of peaches; an immense freight,
If is said, for this early season.
Freight and passenger trains are now rum
ming regularly over the entire length of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, between Washing
ton and Wheeling and Baltimore.
In the St. Louis papers of Wednesday,
nineteen steamboats, are advertised for the
Lower Mississippi, including Memphis, Hell
ena, Vicksburg and New Orleans.
Vallandig CHAM leaves Niagara Falls for Que.
bee Immediately. After remaining there for
a few days, he will proceed to Windsor, Can
ada, opposite to Detroit, Michigan.
Twelve of the eighteen negroes who mur-
dered the Bickham family, at Compromise
Landing, Tenn, have been captured, and it
is hoped that the remainder will be captured
also. '
Government is making large purchases of
cavalry horses. Over three thousand have
been shipped from Chicago in the last ninety
in the last sixty days. .ga 'gi-.
The heat is very oppressive to our troops
at Charleston. On board the Monitors it can
hardly be endured. The water on Morris
Island is so very unhealthy that whiskey is
dealt out to the men three times day as a
substitute. .r .
1t is somewhat remarkable that yellow
fever has not troubled New Orleans since the
occupation of that city by our troops Yellow
Jack is not troublesome where neatness pre-
walls. Our boys kept the city clean-that is
the secret of the matter.
The Oldest vessel afoat, the whaling bark
Maria of Bedford, Me-, has just been con-
demned on the Peruvian coast. She was 80
years old. She was the first ship which car
ried the United States flag IN the British
Channel after the great revolution.
The Brazilian Government is carrying out
its professions of neutrality very fairly. 1t
has forbidden the Alabama from entering any
its ports as it frequently violated the regu-
lations imposed on belligerents in neutral
waters.
1t is said that the Rebels have between
500 and 600 Union commissioned officers in
their hands, while our Government has over
a regiment of the same class of prisoners Of
war now on johnson Island, in Sandusky
Harbor, Lake Erie.
Bushwhackers are doing terrible work in
Henry and adjoining counties in Missouri.
No Union mans life is safe if he ventures
mile from home without a military escort.
Several loyal men have been killed recently,
and their property taken by these wretches.
| The dispatch boat Gen. Lyon. which arrived
at Cairo on the 18th from Port Hudson, 7th,
reports the banks of the Mississippi, all the
way up, as deserted. Not a single human
being to be seen, and guerrillas will soon be
numbered among the things that were.
The draft will not be enforced in the Terri
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has been granted in view of the exposed con-
dtion of the frontier to Indian depredations,
the already large proportion of troops
furnished by Nebraska, and the sparse popu-
lation.
The Railroad Convention at Niagara Falls
resulted in the breaking up of the combina-
ton under which fares have been arranged.
The order now is, every line for itself. A re-
duction in fare follows, as matter of course
The rate from Buffalo to Chicago has already
been cut down.
! A panther attacked Mrs. Bowers in Jack
son county, ILL.,, few days since, but was
driven off by her husband. The attack oc-
Cured near De Soto, where a little girl was
killed by wild animal (probably the same)
on the 17th ult. A large body of hunters had
turned out in pursuit of the animal.
| Among the buildings burnt at Lebanon,
Ohio, by Morgan's band of robbers, were the
Circuit and County Clerks offices, with all
the records, deeds, wills and other papers in
the offices. Also, the county Jail the pris-
oners, however, were released before the torch
was applied. .It. r.
A riot took place at Wooster, O., on the
9Th, begun by Vallandighammers insulting
peaceble Unoin men, Stones, clubs and
few revclvers were freely used About 80
persons on both sides were injured, some Sc
riously. The Union men finally drove the
butternuts from the field. ... .-1.- g.
| There are now eighteen regiments and two
batteries of loyal Tennesseeans in the field
| fighting for the Union Most of the regi-
ments are very large-some mastering 800
men for duty Twelve of these regiments
are from East, four from West and two from
Middle Tennessee. .-a.e., -t..-....,
Miss Louise F. Schultz, writing to a
"strong-minded'' newspaper of Boston, under
date of "Westchester county, N. Y, June
26," says that she has got tired OF s. ia saldIe
riding and has determeh q, ride "astride,"
or masculine fashion, henceiortb. Her habit
is blue dress coat, with gilt buttons, buff
vest, cashmere pants and quilted dickey.
A young German in New York, named
Frederick Munter, who had been rejected by
Mrs. Caroline Heisterburgh, a widow %
years Of age and the mother of three children,
in frenzy procured hatahet and meat knife,
and entering her room early in the morning
before she was up, struck her three times on
the head with the hatchet and then cut her
throat from ear to ear. He made no attempt
to escape, but, on the contrary, went to the
police office and confessed the deed He said
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