Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-19

Miss Dickinson, the new celebrated public
speaker, is engaged to lecture at Peoria, ILL.,,
on the 25th inst. #
The Denver News Of January 9th quotes
butter at one dollar per pound and eggs at
one dollar ard twenty five cents per dozen.
The Legislature Of Kentucky has authorized
the procuring of life-size portrait of Henry
Clay for the Senate Chamber, the cost not to
exceed one thousand dollars. -ssz-asa.a.-.a-za.za
A riot occurred at Seymour, Indiana,
few days ago, between some drunken soldiers,
which resulted in the death of two of the riot.
ers, and the wounding of several others
A "Lincoln Club has lately been formed
IN st. Louis. 1t is composed of those in "a
vor Of the reelection of President Lincoln,
and embraces many prominent citizens of St.
Louis.
A Paris journal computes the population of
the globe at one thousand millions, speaking
three thousand and sixty -four languages, and
having eleven hundred different forms of re-
Lyon.
Bishop Ames is at work in Missouri, reg
ulating the rebel Methodists, and supplying
their pulpits with pastors who will minister
unto them first from the Bible, second from
the Federal Constitution. ..s 8. - s..
Sixty Of the employees in the Gar Works Of
the Galena & Chicago Railroad have struck
for higher wages. They have been receiving
81 ,65 per day. The Superintendent refuses
the demand, and the Works are suspended.
A blue cat fish was caught in the river
near st. Louis, few days since, which was
five feet long, three feet round its body, and
weighed one hundred and eight pounds. 1t
was not exactly whale, but it was undoubt-
eddy "a whaler."
Kate Everhart, ID years old, was shot at
Williamsburg No., on the 4th instant, by
Randolph hidder, schoolmate, who was
playfully swapping caps on pistol, believing
it to be unloaded, when discharge from the
| weapon entered the breast of Miss Eyerhart
and caused instant death. s1rie .fs -t
Green, the Maiden MASS bank murderer,
notwithstanding his confession and restora-
ton Of the money stolen, has plead not guilty
before the examining justice. He, however,
admits having set f;re to the post Office, of
| which he was master, in November last, to
burn up his account books, and thus destroy
the evidence of his defalcations.
Guerrillas are infesting the southern coun.
ties Of Kentucky, shooting the most active
Union men, stealing horses and committing
other depredations. Most of them are pro-
badly lawless villains, who think to escape
the penalties of thelaw by assuming the char
acter of guerrillas. Grant and Owen coun-
ties are especially subject to these rsscalitics.
A Capt. Dacie, an Englishmen, said to have
belonged to the Royal Navy, who had been
residing for year or two near the Montgom-
cry, Va, White Sulphur Springs, has recent.
ly fed to England, after haviag victimized
various parties by the sale of sterling ex-
change, which has turned out spurious, to
the amount, thus far ascertained, of 81 ,2O0,-
600, l,.ss- r.r
Some excitement has been recently created
among wheat buyers along the Mississippi
river, by the announcement that the steam
boat and railroad lines connecting the Missis-
sippi with Lake Michigan, had entered into
combination to increase the rates of trans.
porting wheat from Winona and other river
ports to Milwaukee or Chicago, to 26 cents
per bushels.