Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-17

otIuS, ana went on IN MS char2cterlSti,
way to deduce some moral lessons from
the presence of the annual pest.
The Richmond Euontine, Of the 9,
has nothing of consequence from Lee'
army. The editor makes VI, a tabl,
showing that during the month OF Mo,
81 900 Union soldiers and $4,000 Rebels
have been killed in battle. Joe John
ston is still whipping Sherman, and still
retreating toward Atlanta.
Miss Lizzie MagOwn, of st. Louis, ha:
been awarded, by the Sanitary Fail
lately held i'll that city, handsome sew
ing machine, as reward for her labor
She has made during the past two years
500 cavalry Overcoats, 5000 pairs O.
pants, 800 jackets and 600 blouses.
The number of rebels captured by oul
blockading feet up to the LIST inst, i:
stated to be steamers, 232; schooners
627; sleeps, $50; banks, 20; briggs, 80
ships, Is; yachts and small craft, 1873
Total, 1928. The value of these prizes
is estimated at about seventeen millions
Of dollars. Not bad "takeu for the
!'sailor lads"
REFoRM.-We commend to the attsn
ton of our readers the following earn
nest words which we extract from 6
most admirable address delivered by
Thos. b. Bryan, Esq, on the occasion o.
arecent Dress Reform meeting in Chi
cago:
The terrible penalty are now sufferins
,or our national sins should at least induce so:
Drlety oil life. And yet how iamentabIe is the
fact, that never before in the history of the ma
non has greater impetus, than at the present
tending even beyond the siddy circles of fash.
lonable folly. Of necessity, the people of the
rebel States constitute an exception to this pre-
vailing rage for ostentation. The shop of the
GONE TO THE WARP With us the shops are
multiplying, and 'shoddy' is in full blast
Many man, in his greed for pef, needs to be
reminded that: AS the partridge stitch on eggs
and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches
ana not by right, shall leave them in the mids;
OF mis- days, and at his end shall be fool Alas
that too often the head remains empty when
the pocket becomes full, and the i,tsrUeau en-
deaVorS, by the display of his dollars to atone
for the want of brains. Then ii j. that the wife
and daughter are too apt to become walking ad.
Vertlsements OF sudden nth, and, spreading
sail before the breeze, they float upon the sur
FACE oi society, iss maids OF honor to the Queen
Regent-MONEY
Ask not what you can do. Can you not Il,
least put fuel in the stoves, and bread in the
mouths OF the destitute in your midst? Even
in our highly-faVored city, the mansions OF the
rich overlook the teDemf,its of SnlIalid noyerfy
with their windows stuffed ana their larders
empty. few months hence, tne icy breath OF
winter viii numb the inmates Of those lowly
huts-s0ldicrs widows and soldiers orphans
ana the canker worm OF hunger .naw upon
their vitals. Cannot women, and men too by
JudiciouS retrenchment in hitherto palnpered
luxury, brighten those hearths with Il gladstone
blaze, and resusctate those sinl1n. frames
with needed food?
what! in the midst OF war. of carnage. and
hecatombs of the slain, can loyal women 90
gayly clad, presenting themselves as IL process
sion OF pea-fowls along the avenues of death
or VII III they rather wear The gsrb OF frugaiity
and the cornet of charity"''
s1- One OF the most disgraceful events
of the present month is the loss of the
gunboat Water Witch, one of the fleet
est and strongest of her class. The rcb-
els approached her in scows, about three
O'Clock in the morning, climbed up her
sides without opposition, and took her
into possession without the firing OF a
gun on either side. The officers were
completely surprised. Summary pun
ishment should be inflicted upon them.
The vessel has probably joined the rebel
fleet at Nassau. Only the day before
her capture she had been supplied with
large quantities of subsistence stores.
ssap The Troy Times puts the follow
ing pertinent question, which the oppo-
nents of President Lincoln will do well
to consider:
If Mr.. Lincoln has fallen into errors
and made mistakes-if he has done
some things that he ought not to have,
and left undone some things that he
ought to have dOne-whO that was ever
called upon to do so much has erred so
little ?"
pa" The Chickahominy river, as a
line of defense, is peculiarly well adapt
ed for that purpose. 1t is sluggish
river, divided into half a dozen stream
let's, running into and out of each other
at random. These water courses occupy
a space of about seventy yards in width.
Immense trees grow up out of the water,
and the entire stream is covered with a
a thick woods. It is a remarkable in
stance of a river running through and
watering long strip Of woods. From
each side of the woodland flat surface
extends for about half a mile. This is
nearly always overfiowed, and becomes
an impossible morass. 1t is only when
the water in the river is very low, that
men can safely walk upon the ground
bordering it. On these flat surfaces
there is not a solitary tree. They are
bare, and anything moving upon them
can easily be discerned. From the bor-
ders of these plains, hills, in some cases
two or three hundred feet high, abrupt
ly rise. They are covered with thick
woods, and are so steep that wagons can
not be hauled directly up their face
The few roads go down them diagonally
to the bridges across the swamp and
river. This Chickahominy Valley, one
of the strongest in America, is the outer
defense Of Richmond. From the tops
of the hills on the one side, across the
swamp to the hill-tops on the other side,
the distance varies from mile to mile
and half. The ordinary underground
rlfied Napoleon gun can justabOut throw
q she'll from one hilltop to the other
From the Fredericksburg railroad cross
ing down to New Bridge, distance of
eight miles, the Confederate works are
along the hills on the southern border.
MORMoNs FOR UTAH.-A party of be-
tween seven and eight hundred Nor
mons, bound for Utah, passed through
Chicago last week. They took the cars
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad westward They comprised
every age, sex and condition, though
their. appearance was not particularly
or prepossessing. They were
principally from Denmark and Sweden,
about a fourth of the number being
from England and Scotland.
asa- Hons. John p. Hale, John F. Pot
ter, of Wisconsin, and Preston King, of
New York, are spoken of as likely to
succeed Joshua R. Giddings, as Consul
General at Montreal