Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-05-22

The drinking saloons of New Orleans are
closed each evening at nine o'clock.
Brazil now produces for expectation nearly
hall the coffee of tho world /
Strawberries are to be bought at the mar.
kets in Chicago. They sell at only one dol
lar quart.
The work Of confscating rebel property in
the District of Columbia is now progressing
rapidly. ''
From almost every source we notice that
the fruit crop this year promises to be the
most abundant. Mia ..,.
While corn is used for fuel in some regions
of the Northwest the Government. pays, un-
der contract, dollar bushcl for it.
new electric light is exhibiting in Lon
don. a strip of silver foil, pasted on the
ceiling, is said to give light equal to two
thousand candles.
Payments to the army for March and April
are about to begin. The Treasury is about
to be supplied with abundance of money for
that purpose.
On the Goth ult, Alonzo Brown, desper-
ado, murdered his brothers. wife ard two
children, residing five miles east of Toledo,
Ohio, and afterwards killed himself.
Late advices from Grafton, Va, state that
the rebel raid in West Virginia may now be
considered over, as Gen. Kelly has taken such
measures as will effectually deter the rebels
from attacking any important point.
Parties at Sandwich, Mass, have bought
and hired several thousand pine trees, intend
ing to tap them the present season for tur-
pentine. At $25 barrel it is thought the
enterprise may prove renumerative.
Thomas A. Aldrich, of Smithfield, the well
known agriculturalist, has been experiment
new varieties from the bolls. He has on hand
no less than $50 varieties.
Geo. Francis Train, the conceded Blow.
hard and democratic "peace-maker," has
made $50, 900 by his recent lecturing tour
through the West. He has thus far failed
to visit Jeff. Davis upon that proposed peace
errand of his.
The citizens of Cape Girardeau, Mo-, have
raised five hundred dollars to buy a SWORD
sword for COL Livingston, of the LIST Ne
DTdSkd lOE IIlclT Shuaut OtleLlSc "
the town against the rebels.
In the recent engagement at Grand Gull
about nineteen hundred prisoners were taker
from the rebels. May of them were from
Missouri regiments, and some are the identica
Camp Jackson prisoners who were exchanged
and who afterwards went South.
On the 1st of June the excise law, as re
CARDS stamps, goes in full operation. All in
struments requiring stamps are declared nul
and void if not stamped according to Law
This with the panalty for violating the lav
enforced, will cause better demand 70
stamps.
The slaves of John NJ Bolts, who, it i
we'll known, is loyal man, escaped within
our lines recently, and Mr.. Bolts asked tina
they be delivered up. They were unques
tionably free, however, under the President
proclamation, and his request could not
1 complied with.
The rebel soldiers recently arrived in Wash
ington were, apparently, pleased with tn
!, idea of being prisoners in our hands ; an
the explanation is found in the remark som
of them made: "Well. the Yankees can
treat US worse than we have suffered, an
E they WlIL fee0 us BETTER"
There is deplorable state of affairs in tn
e mountain regions of Kentucky. The peopl
i. have been stripped of everything by the ret
D els, and are in danger of starvation. Eve
women and children are tortured by the bru
! tai guerrillss to compel them to disclose tn
f places where their little stores of corn ar
t hidden.
The Minnesota Pioneer says the rolls
the hostile Sioux show that they have abou
5 1000 warriors, who have been at large on tn
plains, concocting plans for further depreda
tons as soon as the season would perm
them to move. In the Southwe stern part c
the State, all the population not driven off
confined within stockades and military lines
Erastus Corning is to retire from the iro
, and hardware store in Albany, on or abou
, the first of July. He commenced fifty year
ago as clerk in Troy, at salary of $40 pe
month. He leaves off now with fortune {
ST, 900, 900, and we'll established reputatio
as one of the most successful business me
in the country. Ill
Two rebel spies were executed at Sandusky
Ohio, on Friday, in accordance with the scr
tence of court-martlal in Burnside's depart
ment Their names were VIM. Corbin an
T. P. McGraw, and both were natives Q
Kentucky. BY order of Gen. Burnside, tn
bodies were delivered to friends from Ken
lucky who were in attendance to receive them
A "Soldier's Rest has been established il
, in New York City. 1t will furnish returnin
soldiers with temporary quarters, and sue
, other assistance and information as they ma
, require, while passing through that city o.
their way to and from the armies in the field
without cost Accommodations for five hun
dred men can be given at once.
) Alta convention of Methodist laymen il
New York last week, resolutions were passe.
! asking for equal representation in the Genera
} Conference for laymen with preachers. Thu
next General Conference meets in Philadel
phia in May, 1864. That body will probably
j by general or nearly unanimous vote, gran
: lay representation in the form now asked.
The King of Abyssnia has declared war OF
the Viceroy of Egypt. In the declaration o
war, the former says: "You do not max,
war like a brave man. You hide yoursel
behind walls. You kill your enemies with
cannon. Come into the open country witt
your army there fight breast to breast; le
courage and valor decide the fate of the battle
1t was thus our ancestors fought"
About o'clock Wednesday morning, 18th
inst, small building connected with ths
Austin Powder works, near Akron, Ohio, ex
ploded, killing Mr.. T. J. Luce, an employee
Of the Company, and severely burning Pat
rick O. Neal, who, in charge Of cart contain.
| ing a quantity of powder. was near the mill