Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-05
News Paragraphs.

Anere - conSlueraoie smallpox among the
rebel prisoners at Rock Island. 81.
Major General Rosecrsns was enthusiastic.
cally received at St. Louis on Friday last.
The Post-ofice Department is now self.
sustaining, for the first time in fifteen years.
Brigadier General Shackleford, of Kentucky.
has resigned. He was an able and efficient
officer. .-..f -s .s
Gen. Grant has accepted an invitation to
public dinner to be rendered him by the citi-
zens of st. Louis. ...-,- F.,
The house of Henry Newton, Howick, Can
ada West, was burned on the 7th ult. Four
members of the family persisted in the flames.
The Quartermaster's department finds it
hard to get onions enough to supply the Ar
my of the Potomac '
A lady in England was recently fined EGO,
with ten shillings costs, for giving a certif-
cate of good character to servant girl, who
obtained situation by its means and robbed
her employer. -.,- e.. .,-, +.
Humphrey Ayres, an employee of the Wash
inton Post-office, has been arrested and held
to bail in the sum of 81. 900, for opening .
letter containing a promissory note, Treas
ury warrant and other valuable papers.
The New Jersey Agricultural Society has
awarded premium to Samuel Ryerson for
crop OF timothy hay, amounting to nine tons
and fourteen hundred pounds, from two acres
and 81-100ths of an acre, e.rsg .,-sf g
Hospital flags are henceforth to be made of
yellow bunting, with large green letter n
in the center, and ambulance flags and medi-
cal guidons are to be of yellow bunting, with
a broad green border.
One Of the Davenport Boys was arrested
at Sturgis, Mich, last week, for refusing to
take out license to exhibit spiritual mani
festations in demonstration of the souls i'm
mortality" He was held to bail in the sum
of 5000. d. .a
In the transportation of several hundred
prisoners from Camp Chase to Rock Island,
few days since, some desperate fellows cut
hole in the bottom of the car, through which
ten escaped while the train was running at q
rapid rate.
F. P. Blair has resigned his brigadiership.
He has been placed at the lower end of the
House Committee on Military affairs, instead
of Mr.. Loan, of Mo-, promoted to position
on the Committee en- the Conduct of the
War. .. 49,
In the Confederate Senate on the 18th. a
resolution was passed approving of the action
of the Government with regard to the out
lawry of Gen. Butler, and the determination
of the rebel authorities to hold communica-
ton with him.
There are said to be one hundred new
steamboats, in course of construction intended
for the navigation Of our Western rivers,-
The steamboatmen evidently intend to be
fully prepared to undertake all necessary
transportation either for the Government or
private individuals.
On the 25th ult man about fifty years
old threw himself on the track of the Fort
Wayne & Chicago Railroad, near Dixmont
Station, and was crushed to death. The train
was stopped at once to save him, but he was
determined to die in that way.
A young woman named Susan Mitchell,
who was cleaning loom in the Russell fac
tory at Middletown (South Farms) Connect.
cut, on Thursday, was caught by her hair on
shaft revolving 100 times minute, but was
rescued alive, minus all her hair and part
of her scalp.
Rev. Charles Chiriqui. the famous French
Canadian clergyman and reformer, who with
his French colony at St. Anne, Illinois. some
years ago renounced the Catholic faith and
joined the Presbyterian Church, has been
married to Miss. Euphemie Allard of Kan
kakee county, Ill. The event causes a sen.
sa ion among his friends.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writing from the Army of the Potomac says:
"There has been degree of religious inter-
est manifested by the soldiers Of late that
promises to be the absorbing sensation.
Many of the regiments and brigades are hold
ing protracted meetings in their camps which
are said to be largely attended and very in.
teresting. A very large number have been
hopefully converted, and still larger number
of backsliders have been reclaimed.