Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-22


Fuel ID very scarce and high in Nashville.
There ID but little coal, and wood is 1926
cord.
The New York milkmen have advanced the
retail price of milk to eight cents quart.
Ice has been found floating in the Missis-
sipp, river as far south a. Helena, which is
something unprecedented. Advices from New
Orleans report that it has been colder there
than it has ever before.
Hon. j. d. Cation has resigned his position
as Supreme Court Judge of the Northern Dis
,rict Of Illinois,. Gov Yates has appointed
Corydon Beckwith, of Chicago, to fill the
vacancy. ,
1t is stated at Washington that there now
60, 900 negro troops in the Federal service !;
that as many more Africans are come cted
with the army in non combsttant positions !;
and that the rebels have, so far, lost about
500, 600 slaves. f
One hundred and sixty-four steamboats,
have been. destroyed on the Mississippi and
its tributaries since the commencement Of the
war. Of these one hundred and four were
burned and sixty sunk !; eleven others were
sunk and afterwards raised. s.t ..4ti
Gen. Thomas issued an order, assessing
&, 900 on rebel sympathizers living within
10 miles of the recent murder Of three SOL
diers, near Mulberry, Tenn. The money is
to be divided between the families Of the SOL
diers killed. pr
The Richmond Sentinel Of December 23d
says that oyster dealers of that city had the
- lo.~nn~A 1no1o~
lon for their bivalves, while milk was up to
the same figure. At that rate "a stew" must
be luxury in Dixie. ".
Cora V. L. Hatch, the we'll known spiritual
medium, formerly of Buffalo, where she was
MISS Cora Scott, has obtained from the Judi
cial Court Of New York, q decree divorcing
her matrimonial bonds with B. F. Hatch, and
that hereafter she will take her former name
Of Scott. ~ e.. Is. .s
The custom of employing ladies as clerks in
the public departments at Washington is
meeting with increased favor. 1t is said that,
generally speaking, they write more correctly
than the men, and as they receive much
smaller salaries the gain to the Government is
considerable.
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one hundred and ninty-nine residents Of that
city, who died during 1868, aged more than
fifty years. Of these thirty-seven, were more
than eighty years old-twenty-one females
and sixteen males. CT the whole number
eighty five were females and ono hundred and
fourteen were males. The oldest person on
the list was Mrs Abigail Higgins aged ninety
three years. -
1t is interesting to note the growth Of the
railway interest of the United States. From
1926 to 1929 there were but three miles oil
railway in the country. On the LIST of JAN
uary, 1884, there were 762 miles; in 1874
the number had increased to 4,S11 miles
in 1854 to 1862 miles; and on the LIST Of
January, 1864, the amount of completed rail.
way had grown to SO, $50 miles, with $4,000
more miles in progress.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER.
cial furnishes the names of one hundred and
seventy five steamboats, which have been de-
stroyed on the Mississippi river and its trib'
utaries since the outbreak Of the war. The
list is not complete. but nearly so. OF the
whole number, one hundred and four were
burned and seventy one sunk, of which eleven
were afterwards raised The rebels are said
to have about thirty additional ones up the
Red and Ouachita rivers. Is.