Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-16
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The estimated number Of Indians
within the limits of the United States
Is 100000.
The official vote of Kansas stands
Lincoln, 1892; Mcclellan, 3,7l2. Lin.
coins majority, $50.
The iron-clad monitor Manhattan ID
at New Orleans, the first Of this class OF
boats that has made the passage from
New York to that city.
| There are one hundred and three men
in Boston whose incomes are $25, OOO
per annum. This Is considered small
enough by the "hub " aristocracy.
New Mexico is threatened with fam
Inc. Cause, drought, and the support
of 10000 Navajo Indians. Arizona is
said to fear q similar misfortune.
The postage stamp system has been
adopted In all parts of the world by
ninety different Kingdoms, states, pro-
vinces, colonies, islands and free cities.
Guerrillas are reported to be more nu-
mer0us now on the Kentucky side of
the Ohio and the Louisiana side of the
Mississippi than ut any time during the
war.
Dan Rice, the circus man, Is building
81 500 monument to the memory of
the deceased soldiers of Erie county,
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Volk, the Chicago
sculptor, has the Job, ..,.
The news item that Gen. Mcclellan
has been appointed chief engineer of the
Morris & Essex Railroad with q salary
of $4,000 per annum, has no found
alton In fact.
Gold in Richmond is at premium of
4, 900 per cent, or forty dollars in Confed
crate paper for one dollar in gold. 1t
has gone up l,6OO per cent. since Mr..
Lincoln's reelection. L.
The soldiers of Grants army, in order
to supply themselves with water, have
dug wells, from twenty to thirty feet
deep. The number of wells about Pet
ersburg is said to be at least five hun
bred.
The rebel Post Office Department does
not half pay expenses, and the deficien-
cy for nine months has been o million
and half. They are not a reading and
q writing people down thar"
The oldest member of the United
States House of Representatives is Thad-
deus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, who is
seventy-one years of age, and the young
est is James A. Garfield, of Ohio, who Is
thirty-three.
At Vioksburg, recently, Captain Dee
and Captain Jessup, Illinois officers, got
drunk, and Captain Jessup undertook
to shoot Il cup frcm Captain Dee's head.
The ball passed through Dee's head,
and he lived hslf all hour.
When it is taken into consideration
that the entire vote of Nevada at the
late election was only 5000, the Union
majority OF 5000 looms up into splendid
proportions. The new State did nobly
50 well, it is to bc hoped she will make
as favorable record every year.
Stephen Supor, conductor on the &.
b & Z. X. r., while attempting to pass
from one car to another as the train APP
preached Peoria, on the evening of the
Eth inst, slipped and fell on the track.
Three cars passed over him, cutting Oft
both legs and otherwise crushing his
body, SO that he must have died almost
instantly.
The rebel papers have retracted most
of their accuse lions against Sherman for
destroying public property. They now
confess that his army is under thorough
discipline. The Augusta papers, how
ever, assevt-probably falsely-that Em
Ory College. nS Oxford, 4 seminary be-
longing to the NJ. r. Church, South,
was burned By our troops, with all its
libraries and apparatus.
Central Park, New York, is gathering
together quite a menagerie and muse
UNI. Here is list of recent coutribu
tons: Hoot owl, pair swapping turtles,
American eagle, Green Mountain part
ridge, hawk, two ant bears. eight Span
ish bantams, three rabbits, two curas-
sous and one penelope, two prepared
specimens OF the California hare, fine
specimens Of amethyst.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue.. in his report, recommends a tax OF
} of per cent. Oh sales of merchandise,
etc u tax of or 3 cents per gallon OH
crude petroleum oil a reduction Of the
tax OH refined petroleum from 20 to IA
cents an increased import duty on rail
road iron: and an al pdtOrcnt scale of
duties on cigars, or taxation OF the
whole tobacco product in the leaf.
The United States Supreme Court is
nov composed Of the following Judges,
FIVE Of Wfiem, or just half (marked with
3 star hayc been appointed by Mr.. Lin
coin himself: Chief Justice-*Salm0n
=. Chase, of OHIO; Associate Justices
Nathan Clifford, OF Maine; Samuel Mel
son, of New York Robert G. Grier, Of
Pennsylvania. james NJ. Wayne, Of
Georgia; *pavid Davis, af Illinois !;
John ca,ron, Of Tennessee; *Noah H.
Swayne. Of Ohio; samuel +. Miller, of
Iowa stephen J. Field of California.
The salary of the Chief Justice is Sc, 500,
OF the others 5000 each.