Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-26

} Schenck reported from the Committee of Con.
ference on the enrolment bill, and moved the
previous question, which was secohded-69
against 29--and the report was agreed TO-.
House adjourned. - ~ sa5sn0gp
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i News Paragraphs.
| Hyacinths are in bloom at Vicksburg, and
the soldiers sport themselves on green turf. u
On Friday, the 18th inst, President Lin
coin attained his fifty fifth year. s.s GO
!. News from Chna says the pirate Alabama
is run to earth, and is now in dock With two
Federal cruisers watching her. -.
The Patent Office has accumulated $4,000
since the 1st of July last, after paying expen-
! Ses. ''@' 0'
The State of New Hampshire has filled her
quota with volunteers, under all the calls, and
rejoices in being out of the draft e L5i..Ey <
The Rodman gun, just cast at the Fort Pitt
Foundry in Pittsburg, is the greatest cannon
in the world, and throws ball weighing
looo pounds. dds 2 = 4 iaz ..5I !. .ssap
Patterson MCGEE, the late coachman of
President Lincoln, charged with setting his
stables on fire, has been released, as there
was nothing to implicate him. 10 ,'~'' q ~
! L. B. Boomer, of Chicago, has received j,
contract amounting to $500, 900 for the con-
struction of all the bridges destroyed by
guerrillas on the Nashville and Decatur Rail-
road. ....
l. The English postal order system will prob
ably be adopted in our country this spring
If so, you will be able to send from 50 to $50
anywhere by mail without the risk of its be-
ang stolen en- route. i9s[ - '. sI sI.9
Tennessee has done nobly for the war since
rescued from secession. The State has al
ready given %, $3.50 men to the Federal service,
of which r. 900 are cavalry and II 900 infant
ry. The colored troops raised number 1850.
The U. S. Senate has passed bill prohibit
ing members of Congress from re ceiving
fee in any case where the U. S. is party
This is aimed at such scandalous cases as
that in which Senator Hale was lately engag
| ed.
Few people comprehend the great amount
of sugar used in the United States. In 1862
there were 432, All tons, or S64, ,S22, GOO
pounds, or nearly 20 pounds to each man,
woman and child, estimating the population
at 30,000,000. -.-..g .. .-.-.,--..,-...-zk
1t is worthy of notice that many of the.
veteran corps return to the army before the
expiration of their furlough. One of this
class gave, as a reason for not remaining the
full time, that he was homeslck and so return
to his home in the army. .bstz
A young man named Alfred Deasen was :
shot at Pyfer's School House, near Ashland,
Ohio, by George W. Longfelt, and killed in
stantly. The murderer was the school teach
er of the district, and is still at large, having
left Immediately on the commission Of the
deed. 's. .e.l. srgs5 sl3 -e
The New York Post calculates the present
humber of males in the Confederacy at 30O,-
600, including those in the army, to which,
adding the border State men $4,000, makes
the total strength of their forces east of the
Mississippi $4,000. The Post considers
this liberal estimate as to numbers. . sE
The cffice Of the Ohio Eagle, the rabidscop-
perhead organ of DR.. Olds at Lancaster, Ohio,
was mobbed recently by a party of ..exaspera-
tedreturned soldiers. Not much damage was
done, only few fonts of type being destroy
ed. The same party compelled Olds to hang
out the stars and stripes from window of
his residence. tco9 ss5 ri G.
The Erie railroad earned in 1868 the trife
of $40, ,444,0O0. This is very nearly double
the earning of 1860. 1t is estimated that for,
1864 the road will earn about fourteen millions.
This is a singularly prosperous showing for
great road which, few years since, was
supposed to be irretrievably bankrupt, and !
it's stock almost worthless. a.. 81, -.
The camels imported for the Government
six years ago, and since kept near the Tejou
reservation on the plains, have increased from
fifteen to thirty seven. They are. now reno
we'd to Benicia, Cal. They caneasilyi travel =
| fifty miles day, but they are not allowed to J
do more than thirty. One of them has car d
RED four bales Of wool or cotton. -
The rebel Congress have passed law,
which has been approved by the rebel Pres
ident, prohibiting, under heavy penalties, the
| expectation of cotton, tobacco, naval and mil
itary stores, molasses, sugar or rice, except
under special permit, and absolutely prohibi-
| ting the importation of fluxuries. Our block
aiding fleets will see to it that these rules are
not violated. g. SD
The Rev. Thomas J. Biggs, D. D., the last
founded the American Bible Society, died in
Cincinnati, ON the 9th inst. He was born in
Philadelphia, in 1887, was at one time Pro-
fessor at Princeton College, N. j., moved to
Cincinnati in 1880, was there Professor in
Lane Theological Seminary. President of
Woodward College, and Pastor of the Fifth
Presbyterian Church, which he at last resign
I'd on account of the infrmities Of age. -..
Leach's perpetual motion machine is
attracting good deal Of attention from scien-
tific men and machinists in New York. 1t
consists of wheel seven inches in diameter,
to which are attached twelve arms at right
angles, and to each arm ball weighing half
an ounce. These arms are all connected by
twenty four cords, two to each arm, and are
so arranged that the falling Of one ball ef- q
fects the other Immediately behind it, and so
on apparently till the machine is worn out. 5i
Women and children in the most forlorn
and destitute condition, some of them almost
naked, are coming into our posts at Care Cir
ardeau and Pilot Knob, Mo. Some of them ;,
are known to be Union refugees some of
them are the wives and children of men who :
have lost their lives in the rebel army. At (
Pilot Knob are more than 1000 living in !,
huts and tents. Some Of the women and
girls, to add to the half rations supplied BY
the Government, engage in choppIng wood 0
at sixty cents . cord. yigrre $50 ~ .yqa
GsoaGE Francis TRAIN.-It is announced
that George Francis Train is now in the city. i