Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-12

Tom Thumb, it is said, has retired Of, 4
fortune of $3.50, 900. - - - 80; s,sa;
2Yhe. value Of the Massachusetts State ish-I
cries last year was 81 $780, 900. oni5eagpl
General Graft registered his name at st.
Louis rs U. :. Grant. Chattanooga. ''''''
"A large number of Sioux Indians perished
by:the cold this winter on the prairiss.z a8T
Washington, since the war; has grown to
be ascity Of one hundred thousand people.
The FIRST National Bank Of New Orleans
was opened for bns.nessparposes op the 18th
ult mo. .zG iRgo.--l ,eaaI : [ .1ai.seJqoN
The Knitting mills at Seneca Falls NY,
row turn out ten thousand pairs Of army
hess day,5 zaa .3sll 4sdnlsvcE nj Go1, ,GlG
aAIrehel spy has been arrested in Chicago.
Some Of the Caicago copperheads are implii
cat with him.
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Fifteen dollars an hour was the price Of the
use Of o hose and sleigh in Washington dur
ing the sltighiEg season. = a. -.
Rev. w. u. Miburn, the noted blind
preacher, has joined the Protestant Episco-
pal Church. He was formerly q Methodist.
Ra;lrosd communication between Nashville
and Chattanooga 10 now complete. Two
trains run through daily time, 10 hours dis.
tance, 15l miles. 2'E z 'a1 ie aiTe4 3o-Ioa +.
In a recent encounter in the Shenandoah
Valley the rebel arttl'erists fired railroad iron
and old horse shors, iastened together with
telegraph wire, at our troops. 2rsTosialiGy
johnson. who was recently convicted Of the
murd.r Of the rttls girl Loranie Rove, at
Rock Island. has been granted ! new trial,
on the ground that one Of the jurymen is an
alien.s f.1rzro a.. ri, tefl 1,,,--,-,a a., :.
Anew method Of separatirg e gold from quartz
by means Of heat has been.I put nsprncficea at
the Colorado mines, ard promises to & reatly
enhance the value Of the minesin that Terri
tory. FaoEg sdj .zat ssbgiTcgE2g ssl,h8 sFs
San Francisco now ranks IS the third com.
mercial port 10 the Union,' New York. being
the first, and Boston the, second. If San
Franci CO keeps growing much longer, how
ever, she will change places with. Boston. s'
William S Mount, the vsscen;c painter Of
American life, has had a trav, ling studio con-
struct d, 50 that he can travel round the
country and sketch nature with all the ad-
van ages ejoyed by The migratory dague.-
veotypers s,,. .s.,.--. rrsrsl .,,.,. ~.i.4,
u Complaint is made Of extortion by suffers
in the Army of the Potomac They charge
eighty cents per pound for randles, forty for
cheese, sixty for bu ter, thirty for saussges
sky cents psr d Zen f,reggs, and6fty cents
, quire for note paper. -77.. u ..-rs-.s
@ Several thousand copiss Of Gen raj McClel.
lan's report have been issued !; $4,000 are
ordered, 1t makes 244 pages, and is not as
extensive as either Generri Grants or General
Pope's reports, notwithstanding what has
been said of its immense bulk. ~ s s 1o-
j w BiSsell who has been for some time
under indictment at Chicago for conspiring to
burn tn. Rock Island Railroad Bridge, has
been discharged on . no'ls prosQui. We
think it extremely, doubtful whether there
ever was such conspiracy. =.
The S cre.ary of the Navy has issued an
order prohibiting presents and gratuities from
the employees to their superiors in his depart
ment, as being often method of extortion
t,i graceful to the receiver. Those who VIC.
late the order are to be summavily dismissed.
An English hair-dresser hiss had tn ceiling
Of his o,n fitted with an iron spindle with
three wheels carrying ,india,rubber bands.
Circular brushes are put thereon. wheel
sets EN- spinning, and tie customers beng
placed underneath, have their patss polished
by machinery. T5A "a! aioa ~ foE- -'sls
Z The returns of the recent Territorial cleo
ton In Id no are a. follows The tital vote
nolei was z 7,9l2, of which Gov. W Wallsce, the
Union cand date. r. ceived 1889, and Judge
Can aady, Copperhead, received 1923, giving
The former cl"ar2 -jority of 866 votes
Idaho has thus placed herself clearly and
decidedly right upon the Union question.
There is now living near Lawrenceburg,
nd IN old hero Of the Revolution Major
Kincsid, who has attained the extraordinary
age Of loS years, having been born in the yesr
1866 He served curing the entire war Of In
dependence. and came to ths Northwest Ter
,itcry. now Ind ana, in the year 1894. where
he has lived ever since He stills retains his
faculties to remarkable degree, being able
10 real common pr MT without giasses. Long
may the old veteran livetto enjoy his ripe cd
age. % s- ~. .t.. ..,ts.. 2 t-ses1 ,.z,, b.
The rebel prisoners sent 10 Richmond by
Grneral Butler say that when he visited the
prisoners at Camp ookout, they INSULT him
with such outcriss as these: "Whst viii you
take for your head :" ''You-lobster.e eyed
son Of ---" '"Pay me the money you rob
bed me ofin New Orleans" ''Wny don t you
light men and not women - ssHhen did,
you fight Your last ba'tle?" "How much are
you worth, YOU burglar? "Oh, bag your head
H"Why didn't you come to see US on the bat
lie fiei,i ~ !,,,a ssssz ot. - az y& ylej 4
There ia great excitement in Michigan over
the scovery Of silver near Lake.Superior.-
The detroit Free Press says speculation has
a ready omr enced. Men who have taken
and at one dollar and tFenty five cents an
acre are selling out At advance Of thousands
Of d. liars uDon the osigin.l cost of their
tracts. One tract has been sold for six thou
sand doll the owner bought it a few weeks
ag, from Government for two hundred dol
ar-. The specimens Of ore contain liberal
Quantities of lead and silver. 1e' iva
A swindlcr who pretended to sell tickets in
a gift enterprise at Chicago under the manage
meat Of the Sanitary Comm ssion has been
arrested bg tie police He conducted his
busln s. altogether through the mails, and
was ca ght in the act of ticking some letters
from his box in the Post Office containing
money from some Of his victims. 1t is sup
pos that he obtained several tn usand dol
ars in This way: The public should under.
stand thqt the Sanitary Commission has no
connection whatever with any gift enterprise.
The amount Of gold and silver produced
throughout the world in 1863 is estimated as
follows: Calisorpla. SO. 900 900; other por-
tiors Of the Unitrd Sta es.$30,O 100000: Brit
ish Gil ,mb:a,. .6, 900, 900; Mexico. S25,COJ,-
800; South America, $4,000, 900; Russia.
$a2. .Oo0 900; Australia, 5000, 900 !; New