Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-27


England, and took up his abode in
Washington City. Not content with
refusing to receive compensation him
self, he drew up an instrument in wri-
ting, and filed it in the War Depart
ment, STIMULATING that in case of his
death, while here, his family should not
be entitled to one dollar for the service
he may have rendered. Mr.. Whiting is
rich man and can afford to do all he
has magnanimOusly agreed to, but it
must be remembered there are hundreds
of others equally rich and who could
equally well afford it, who would hest
tate for long time before accepting
such u nOn-remunerative berth.
GLEANINGs.
Myerbeer, the great musical composer,
died at Paris short time since.
The yield of gold in Australia and
New Zealand, for the year 1868, was
about $3S, 100000 to $1,000
Old newspapers and other old paper
waste are worth eight cents a pound to
make over Save 'em up.
Twenty-Five thousand of the National
Guard, of Ohio, have already left that
State for the hundred-day service.
1t is generally thought that our poor
fellows in Libby Prison are starved
But there's no doubt that each man of
them gets q bite every minute of the
day.
Ex-Governor Wood, who resides at
Quincy H., has raised regiment of
hundred-day men, and it is now in camp
at that place. His taking the field has
created great enthusiasm thereabOuts
Newmarket, Va, where Gen. Sigel
had a fight, is in the Shenandoah valley,
about eighty miles south of Harper's
Ferry. Strasburg is about thirty miles
north of Newmarket
The records of mortality in New York
for last week, show that 4S3 deaths Oc-
Cured during that period. Of the de-
ceased, l31 We're men, l07 women 1876
boys, 10 girls.
The Spiritualists have had a split.
Their National Convention in New
York has resolved itself into two bodies,
the organizationists and the enemies of
all organizations, the free lovers and the
lover according to law.
The Methodist General Conference at
Philadelphia has adopted, with only
eight dissenting votes, the report of the
changing the discipline ofthe
Church so as to make slaveholding in
with membership.
An effort is now being made to raise,
by voluntary contribution throughout
the country, the sum of one million dol
lars for the Christian Commission.
Committees have been appointed in var
ious cities and towns throughout the
North to receive subscriptions.
The receipts of the American Bible
Society have been $3.50, 57S. go during the
past year, showing gain over the prev
iOus year of S137, $1,000. The American
Tract Society has received the sum of
1851 49, 40, compared with S250;920.06 of
last year, showing q gain of Sl06, 567.34.
Illinois is doing its duty nobly if re-
ports are not exaggerated. \ dispatch
from Springfield, of the 18th, says that
it is believed there that all of thirty
thousand men are already enlisted for
the hundred-day service, and will be
ready for the field during the present
week.
There are now 6,58S rebel prisoners in
the Rock Island, Ill, barracks. Since
the opening of the barracks, 1872 have
died, sos have enlisted in the United
States naval service, and III have been
released by order of the President. The
Of deaths during last week was
only Is, of which were of smallpox.
MaHy remarkable incident of courage
and endurance of woundsd sQen are re-
lated of the recent Virginia battles. \
soldier with his arm amputated, said
~ am very sorry | have lost my arm,
for | want 10 be at them again. He
sang, "Rally Round the Flag, Boys"
and a score in the hospital joined in tho
chorus.
No less than 1865 rifles and mus
kets were shipped at Liverpool for New
York, Philadelphia, Boston and Port
land, besides 81 tons of ordnance stores,
in 1868 also 1877 900 percussion caps,
and q few fowling pieces, swords and
pistols. There is no account of the like
materials dispatched to the Confed-
crates.
Gen. Slocum, commanding the Dis
trict OF Nicksburg, has ordered that,
where the Government lessee of an
plantation is robbed by gNer-
rillas, sufficient property shall be seized
from disioyal citizens in the vicinity to
indemnify the sufferer; and if a lessee
is killed, an assessment of $4,000 shall
be levied upon disloyalists.
Dispatches have been received at Dem
yer City, announcing that on the 4th
inst, at American Rancho, Major
Downing, LIST cavalry, had fight with
hostile Cheyennes, and killed about
twenty-five indians; wounded about
thirty-five or forty more lost one man
killed and one wounded; captured one
hundred head of horses, &c.
The city of Philadelphia is in q state
of great excitement about it's lamp-posts,
there being brisk competition between
different parties to rent them for adver-
Using purposes. One person has offered
the Common Council ten dollars per
post for the exclusive privilege of adorn-
ing them with patent medicine puffs,
concert saloon placards, &C., for twelve
1t is almost too shameful to tell, but it
is fact, that besides about 1,5O0 pri-
Yates who ran away from Grants army
and Struggled themselves among the
wounded who were sent to Washington,
were number of officers. The soldiers
were sent back to the front under guard,
and the officers in irons. 1t is said that
the latter will be stripped of their Shout
der-straps and be put in the ranks as
privates, and serve as such during the
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