Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-21
News Paragraphs.
The draft is progressing quietly in the in
terror counties Of Pennsylvania.

The draft IS progressing quietly IN the IN
terror counties Of Pennsylvania.
Lieut.. Col. Bowen who shot Col. Cornyn
at Corinth, is in Memphis in confinement
where he will shortly have a trial.
James Gates at Chelsea was 90 years of age
on the 5th of July, and is the only surviving
revolutionary pensioner in Vermont.
The Chicago yourna, says it is designed tc
transfer 5000 of the rebel prisoners now al
Camp Chase, Ohio, to Camp Douglas, in that
city.
Ratons are still issued daily to upwards OF
1000 Of the old inhabitants of Vicksburg.-
Many have property, but lack the kind Of
money taken 5y our commissary.
John Morrissey, the flash sporting man Of
Saratoga, has purchased from John NJ. Clay
(son of Henry Clay) one of his racing horses,
at the moderate price of $4,000.
The three Government camels, captured in
Arkansas, and taken charge of by Gen. Cur.
tbs, were sold at St. Louis, on Saturday last,
for $3.50, $50 and Sl15 respectively. They
cost $4,000.
Over 5000 acres of woodland in Mary
land and Loudon Heights have been cleared
by the soldiers since the war commenced, in
addition to the ordinary duties of military
life.
The Army Of the Potomac is nearly all en-
camped in pine forests and well sheltered
from the sun. The soldiers are also luxuria-
ting on blackberries, which abound in that
region, and which tend to the general good
health of the army.
There are fears of secession uprising in
California. As is well-known, some of the
counties are largely populated by emigrants
from the South, but this number compared
with the aggregate the citizens seems hardly
great enough to give cause for serious alarm.
Another new State will soon come rap.
ping at the door of the Union, and
demanding admittance On the I'd of Sep
TENDER the people of Nevada Territory will
elect delegates to a Constitutional Conven.
ton, when the machinery for State Gov
eminent will be put in motion.
There is great want of white surgeons for
colored regiments. Surgeons wishing COM
missions in colored regiments can make appli-
cation to Surgeon-General Hammond. Sur
geons thus receiving commissions will receive
the same rank and pay as surgeons of white
regiments.
The Indians on the Upper Missouri are
troublesome, and all the tribes east of the
Rocky Mountains are reported to be hostile.
A sharp fight occurred recently between the
crew and passengers of two grounded steam
ers and the Indians on the banks. The lat
ter were repulsed with considerable loss.
A contractor for the supply of coffee to
the army has been detected in palming off as
roasted and ground coffee. compound con-
sisting mainly of corr, so ingeniously pre-
pared as to easily deceive careful scrutiny.
The fraud was discovered IN the Surgeon
Generals Office, by microscopic observation.
The NY. Times supposes the whole num-
Der of men called for under the draft is 49,
OOO Judging from the results thus far ex-
perienced at least one.third of this whole
number, and probably more, will secure
exemption by payment of $500 each. This
will yield not far frem .fttg millions Of dollars
Quite cotton plantation has been estab-
lshed in Southern Illinois by a party OF
wealthy Cincinnati merchants. The seed
was brought from Tennessee and already
even,thousand acres have been planted. The
land is worked by East Tennessee and Geor-
ga refugees, who are paid $3.50 per day
during the cotton season, and 81 per day for
the culture of the potato.
When Jackson, Miss, was occupied by the
Federal army, Gen. Sherman discovered that
in the roads leading out of the city, Gen.
Johnston had buried torpedoes. Having
some two hundred Confederate prisoners on
hand, Gen. Sherman set them at work digging
up the torpedoes which they had planted
They went at itunwiIlingly, but accomplished
it without any fatal results.
A cargo of one hundred and sixty-fve
mules from Montevideo, the first ever i'm.
norted into this country from that port, J
reached New York on Monday, in the ship
Leonidas. During passage of fifty-seven
DAYS but six of the mules died. The casual
ties of the war have made such havoc among
horses, and so raised their price, that it has
become absolutely necessary to get cheaper
supply of mules to perform the necessary Ia
bors of the country.
The number of deaths in New York city
for the week ending August 10th was go,
which was 248 more than the previous week
and 462 more than the corresponding week
last wear. Eighty-eight deaths were caused
bv sun-stroke, and forty-six more from the
effect of heat. Nearly 600 children were
among the deaths,-295 boys and 289 girls !;
3O6 under one year and 1855 between one and
two years Of age. This is an extraordinary
degree of mortality, even for New York.