Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-30
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Sixteen hundred, rebel prisoners, from
Hoods ARMY, arrived ct Camp DOUGLAS,
Chicago, on the I'D. bmo,l
p { The government locomotive and MAJ
chine works located atzfSnshville lis, said
to be one Of the nlostextensive affairs ,oi
the kind in the world. t'.'''
-saOne divisiqn ipf Hheridait's cavalry has
had. engraved upon its regimcntal colors
esllames Of fweiity-three battles, iii
which~it has been engaged since May
last.l st1g NIX -sigas
Everything now looks favorableto an
early peace with the Indians inl upper
Missouri Gen. Sully has gone to Wash
ington to secure authority to treat With
them. la.'d ~.sE@ DO
"a Presidents Island, in the Mississippi
river below, Memphis, Tenn, il, ty on.
der of Gen. Dana, reserved and set apart
for the purposes of the Freedmen's 'iDes
partment. Egf4-s-.s o ..s,s, ~, 80 81
An old man and his wife. in Putnam
county, Indiana, putsa kettle of live
Goals in their bedroom, during the late
cold snap, and were smothered to death.
A letter from Vicksburg says that the
appropriation of Jeff. Davis farm foi
the use of freedmen Will relieve the
Government Of the support of tentt.ous-
and negroes. " "''7 'tt'@t &sgs.
The Canadinn frontier is to be guarded
by 900 provincial militia -detachments
being stationed at Windsor, Sarnia, Nj
nd nt A m, n
Federal artillery is to be stationed at
Plattsburg, N. Y. -'-'i4in
Ten car loads of rebel prisoners cap
tured in the recent battles in Tennessee
arrived at indianapolis on the 2lst.-
About three hundred were sent to John
sons Island and the remaindersto Camp
Douglas. @-i h. ~ -n.,l. 5.gil tr,
Edward Fahnestnck, who killed q
man named Clifford at Lafayette, Ind,
about three weeks since, has been5tried
convicted of murder in the first degree,
and sentenced to be hung. A newitrial
has, however, been applied for. 'f;u ~
TIE following were the gross receipts
at the leading New York theatres last
week; Wallacl's. $500; Winter Gar,
len, $1,000; Museum, $1,000; Olympic,
y y
$500; Old Bowery, $3,65o. dent,
President Lincoln wrote his last mes
sage on sheets of card board, which he
laid upon his knee and wrote upon as he
sat with his feet on. the table and his
chair tilted, after the Yankee style. =
Historians will please make note of it
Miss DIR. Harriet II. Hunt, of Boston
has issued her twelfth annual protest
against taxation without suffrage. The
natural right of woman to be man is q
evident as the right of a hen to crow.=7
There is. no use in arguing the ease h.,
q The number of vessels laid ND in Chi,
cago for the winter is three hundred
and thirty-eight OF these four are
steamers, thirteen propellers, twenty
tugs, thirty-one barques, fourteen brigs
two hundred and twenty-five schooners
and thirty canal boats. n5~ "''t "''
B. II. Brairard, Of Bureau county, Ill,
who had Just returned from idaho, and
was stopping in Quincy, was knocked
down in street of that city on the night
of the Goth, by two men in soldiers
clothes, who robbed him of 81 ,0G0 in
twenty dollar greenbacks and 5000 in
gold nuggets. -.t.. ,.. .,
g The Easton Md. Gazette says that
large numbers of people from the North
ern States, and from Western Maryland,
have been purchasing land in the East
ern Shore counties with view to settle
ment in that section OF the State. Nu-
merous farms have thus changed hands
since the adoption of 1ae new Constitu-
ton. Et. SIN ..eiaf -te-, III
Chief Justice Chase read and admin
istered to himself the oath of his high
office; he being the highest judicial Off
Ger in the land, there was no one quail
fled to perform that ceremony but him
self. He took his seat on the bench,
robed in the black silk gown, and the
court proceeded with its usual business.
Thirteen millions is the profits from
captured blockade-runners during the
last year. Half goes to the government
and half to the captors, and of the latter
half, the snug little sum of So 200, ,0OO
goes to Admirals Lee, Farragut, Dahl
gren, Bailey and Porter; the three for
mer getting the most, as they have been
in the best positions.
Among the Chicago prisoners is a
Canadian named Vaughan, who has
turned States evidence. He claims to
have been intrusted with funds by Ja-
cob Thompson, formerly Buchanan's
Secretary of the Interior, to pay the
cost of burning Chicago, and to pay the
expenses of lot of Col. Jesse's men to
Chicago to vote, and if opportunity Of
fered, to fight.
Some of the elite of New York are
making an effort to reform the custom
of late hours at evening parties, which
they consider injurious to health and
beauty. A new mode of invitation has
been devised to convey a delicate hint oi
the new system. ''Mrs. Smith will be
glad to receive her friends between the
hours of eight and eleven."i
A Rh3de Island paper records the
most contemptible instance of counter.
feiting which can wen be imagined. A
man with talent for such business cuts
out the cyphers on the ten-cent fraction
al currency ana pastes them on the five
cent notes in such manner as to make
them pass for fifties. Several such inge
nious petty forgeries have been found in
circulation. - =
A movement has been set on foot ir
Ohio, originating in Lancaster, his ma
tive city, to raise fund with which tt
buy farm for General Sherman, "as {
substantial and enduring token of theil
appreciation of his genius and hi:
achievements, and as an evidence thai
they desire that his name and fame
should be forever united with his native
State" 4" i.ains
Mrs. Hutchins, the rebel sympathiz
ing lady of Baltimore, who tried to sent
a sword to the notorious Gilmore, s
sort of Maryland John Morgan, and wa:
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
therefor, has been released by the Presi
dent. He probably thought that &
month in the Fitchburg (Mass.) House
of Correction was sufficient punish
ment to insure greater discretion on hel
part in future.
Representative officers from among
the prisoners lately arrived from the
South, are urging upon the President
the imperative necessity of giving the