Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-08
GLEANINGS.

II GLEANINGs.
Emigration to California and Oregon,
from the Eastern States and the British
as it was fifteen years ago.
Guerrilla bands are annoying the nav
igatiOn of the Missouri river. Nearly
every boat passing the vicinity of Lex
ington is now fired upon.
Tom Hyer, the well known pugilist
and athlete of former years, died at his
residence in New York, June 26th, OF
dropsy. He was As years of age.
Gov. Hall of Missouri, who is on the
shady side of so, married Miss Oliver,
daughter of the Secretary of State, and
blooming miss of II, last week.
A member of the 18th Illinois cavalry,
while washing his clothes in the river
near the Marine Hospital, Vicksburg,
was caught by an alligator, ,and instantly
killed.
Gen. Burbridge has decided not to give
up the horses recaptured from Morgan
and now in Government possession to
any but loyal owners. Those who make
claims for horses must establish their
loyalty.
Gen. Sturgis has demanded Court of
Inquiry to investigate the causes of his
defeat at Guntown, Miss. Gen. Sturgis
claims that he will be able to show that
the disaster resulted from no misman-
agement on his part.
Gen. Candy is taking up all the steam
ers at New Orleans, to which point he
has removed his headquarters from
NatcheZ. His troops are embarking for
an important expedition, the destina-
ton whereof is not intimated.
The rebels under Marmaduke and
Price are said to be operating to isolate
Gen. Steele and compel him to evacuate
Arkansas. Communication between
Little Rock and Memphis is entirely
suspended by the rebel blockade.
Ground was broken at st. Paul the
oath, on the Lake Superior & st. Paul
railroad. The grading of the Central
railroad from Faribault to Owattanna
has been put under contract. Mime
sofa is all alive in building railroads,
but she wants more men.
Rebel forces have recently made un-
successful demonstrations against Pine
Bluff and Brownsville, Ark. A force of
800 rebels was attacked on the 26th,
south of Fit. Smith, and all who were
not killed Or wounded were taken pris-
OnerS.
Two men residing in Troy, N. Y.,nar-
rowly escaped death, recently, by poi
son, in consequence of eating eggs with
hroSS OF ret nl
that they were willfully poisoned, but a
medical examination disclosed the right
explanation.
The Gettysburg monument is to be of
white marble, and fifty feet in hight
From the pedestal will spring four but
tresses, supporting an equal number of
statues, representing War, History,
Peace and Plenty. The crowning statue
will be a colossal bronze figure of the
Genius Of Liberty. The entire cost of
the monument will be $4,000.
The rebel Congress has published a
manifesto, containing the usual rehash
of State sovereignty, uncOnquerability
of the South, desire to be let alone, etc.
The intended resignation af the rebel
Secretary of the Treasury, Memminger,
is announced.
Gen. Rosecrans has issued an address
to the people of Missouri, advising them
to form township committees Of public
safety, and to organize companies out of
the enrolled militia, to put down the
guerrillas who now infest the greater
part of the State.
Charles Langebein, who was recently
tried in Cincinnati by court martial,
for defrauding the Government, has
been sentenced to ayear's imprisonment
in the Ohio Penitentiary, and to pay a
fine of $4,000. That's the way to dis
pose of such rascals.
Agents are now travelling over North
Missouri seeking homes for the children
of parents who have been compelled to
leave their homes in the Southwestern
counties of the State on account of the
desolatiOn of the country, produced by
the raids made through that section dur
ing the war.
The House amendment to the Pen
sion Act extends it's provisions to the
wives and children of colored soldiers
The fact of the parties living together
for two years is taken as proof of mar
riage. This act as amended will save
SIcdG W SUuS dllu
ters of Southern planters.
Archbishop Purcell writes to the New
York Tribune that the Pope has author
lied military chaplains of the Union
army to exercise their functions any
where in the Southern Confederacy.
The Archbishop adds the The Freeman
and the Record lie when they assert that
the Pope has written to reprove him for
his loyalty.
A shocking accident occurred on the
29th ult., on the Grand Trunk (Canada)
Railway at Beloit bridge, nineteen miles
from Montreal. A train of eleven cars,
containing 354 German emigrants, was
thrown from the bridge, into ten feet of
water. At last accounts one car had not
been reached, but from the others "a
dead and 40 wounded persons had been
taken out.
The U. S. grand jury for the Illinois
district failed to find indictments against
the Coles county murderers, and they
applied for writ of hdbeds corpus to
obtain their discharge from confinement.
Pending the application orders were sent
by Secretary Stanton directing that they
be forwaded to Fort Delaware, as the
President had suspended the right to the
writ in their cases.
The Chattanooga Gazette says: Brig.
Gen. Paine is settling the bushwhackers
who have been unsettling Middle Ten
nessee so long, he having killed about
twenty-five last week. He had nine
shot on the public square in Lynchburg,
Lincoln county, and several in Fayette-
vile. Among the number that has been
killed was one Massey, who, it is said,
is Brigadier General, G. S. A. He
all the guerrilla opera
tions in Middle Tennessee.