davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
Iowa News.

HoMicIpE.--A negro named Sam. Gould
was killed by another named Sandy Collect
at Keokuk, on the 21st, by stabbing. Tit
coroner's jury acquitted Collect on the ground
of self.defence.
The Keosauqua Republican says thai
Michael Rizer of that place is circulating .
petition to be presented to the Leg slature o.
this State, this winter, asking the passage q
law to prevent the netting Of quails. Au
thority, supposed to be good, informs the
public that quails are deadly enemy o.
Chintz Bugs, and annually destroy them in
large numbers.
Brig. Gen. Roberts, late commander Of
the military district of Iowa, expects soon
to be able to make series of experiments
with his various new projectiles for muskets,
rifles and cannon, on the point Of Rock Island
pointing down the river. The order for these
experiments was issued by the War Depart
ment several weeks ago, but the rifed cannon
to be used in making them have not yet ar.
rived.
Michael Doherty, a baggageman, was
killed few days sidce by a railroad accident
which occurred in Delaware county.
WIN. TAFT, of Polk county, was killed on
the 2lst inst, by being accidehtly thrown out
Of sled on the ice of the Desmoines river.
The largest contributions to the College
at Grinnell, made outside Of that place during
the past year, came from Lyons, Dubuque,
and Nuscatine.
Judge Grant, one Of the Copperhead lea
ders at Davenport, boasts that he "never gave
a dollar, directly or indirectly, to aid in the
prosecution of the war !" Let him have the
full benefit of his infamy!
The house of G. NJ. Mcdaniel, in Oak.
land township, Louisa county, was destroyed
by fire few days since by which he lost all
his household goods and a considerable
amount of wheat and other property.
The First National Bank of Davenport
has received the first issue of notes sent to
the West. and some of them were first paid
out last Thursday. The Bank received $780,
900, all in bills of the denominations of FIVE
dollars.
"A young man named::Castle, while going
to Burlington one day last week, in sled,
fell, striking his head against the bolt in the
tongue, producing fracture and causing his
Heath the next day.
Five hundred and thirteen persons have
) admitted into the Hospital for the insane
= NJ. Pleasant, within the past two and a
half 7,ars. Of these, one hundred and four
have recovered their reason, and have been
restored to their friends. Two hundred and
sixteen still remain in the Hospital. a
AN interesting revival is in progress in
the M. E. Church at Burlington, under the
pastoral superintendent of Rev. E. 81. War
ing. $50 ~ .a.
"A man named johnson, who claims to be
3 discharged soldier, from Princeton, ILL.,, was
to Jail, in default of $500 bail, At
Cedar Rapids, last week, for stealing valua-
BILE pair of horses from Jacob Langham, of
Linn county.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

WHAT HAS BEEN Done TOWARDS CRUSHING
THE REBELL1oN.-In the spring Of 1861, the
rebel Confederacy claimed sovereignty in
fourteen States and several Territories, with
an area Of 1928 square miles and q pop
ulation of l2,s48,O7s. Of this the Govern
ment has taken s67,6 $40 square miles, with
population of 10000 leaving in rebellion
at the commencement of 1864, 354, ia square
miles Of territory, with a population includ-
ing slaves of 4,5s5,504. This includes
Florida, which ought to be counted half and
half, her territory giving no strength and her
population but little aid to the rebellion.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

W Many persons were inclined at the
time to regard the story Of the plot for the
release Of the rebel prisoners on Johnson's
Island, as sensational; but the late report of
the Secretary Of the rebel Navy shows how
real the danger is. Mr.. Mallory says:
During the months of July and August I
sent twenty-seven commissioned officers and
forty trustworthy petty officers to the British
Provinces, with orders to organize an expedi-
ton and co operate with army officers IN an
attempt to release the Confederate prisoners
confined on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
From time to time learned that the arrange
ments made were such as to insure the most
complete success. A large amount of money
had been expended, aud just as our gallant
naval officers were about to set sail on this
expedition, the English authorities gave in
formation to the enemy, and thus prevented
the execution of one of the best planned en-
terprises of the present war. .-...
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. %, 1864.

"MAJoR" CONSTABLE AGAIN.-This accom-
plished swindler, who lectured hereabouts on
India some years since and borrowed .sundry
sums of money which he failed to pay, (af-
forwards threatening to fog US because we
exposed him. has turned up again, and, as
we expected, in me,ited disgrace. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
ansrcial, under date of the 18th inst, thus
sketches the Majors military career in this
country:
At an early stage in the war, an individual
named Constable "a tall, heavy set, red
moustached Englishman-made himself con-
spicuous in Cincinnati, and succeeded in get
ting an appointment from Gen. Fremont, as
Captain of Artillery. Soon afterward, he
was put in charge of the mortar boats of the
Mississippi Flotilla, but did not continue in
that capacity long, being removed for the
good of the naval service. He next turned
up in this department, and brought some sort
of influence to bear upon the Secretary of
War, which resulted in commission as Ma
jor of the LIST Virginia Artillery, and assign.
ment to Gen. Woors staff: On my arrival in
Washington, in December last, I saw the gen.
tleman strutting around Wizards Hotel In
very pompous and cockney Manners large
as life and twice as impudent-the identical
individual who succeeded in drawing the
wool over Gen. Fremont's eyes, and who is
accused, whether justly or unjustly, cannot
say, of having engaged in general borrow
and-never-pay enterprise in Iowa, few years
ago. last saw him yesterday, entering the
Senate gallery with the air of Foreign Mn
lister, and I last heard of him to-day in an
official order from the War Department, as
having been disgracefully dismissed the ser.
vice for extcrting money from prisoners,
while serving on Gen. Wool's staff. Where
he will next turn up, it is difficult to say, but
it is well to put the public on their guard
against him. He is intensely English, and
devilishly impudent, and can be known from
the rest Of mankind by these general quail.
ties. He will not be apt to try his fortunes
in the West again, being pretty we'll "played
OUT in that section. -
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

az A Hilton Head Is. CO. letter of the
10Th inst, says the expedition from that point
is one Of vast magnitude. As many of the
vessels are Of light draught, it is thought by
some that it will 60 up Savannah river; others
expect movement to the rear Of Charleston:
while others, still, believe that Mobile is to be
its destination. A large negro force accom-
panies the expedition. which will be landed
at various localities to gather in slaves.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
O. There is a conflict of authority in Ne,

c. There is conflict of authority in New
York relative to the taxation of United States
stocks held by banks. Congress passed
law, it will be recollected, exempting from
State or local taxation Unitedi States bonds
issued after February 25th, 1852. The banks
in 1868 refused to pay the tax, and were sus-
tanned in their refusal by the courts. Subse-
quently the Legislature passed law assess
ing the capital of the banks. The banks
again contested, and this time the Supreme
Court decided against them. The case was
then carried to the Court of Appeals, where
it is now pending. Meantime, the Receiver
of Taxes has made forcible collection of the
taxes from the banks. The case is an import
ant one, as it involves the question Of power
on the part of State Legislatures to tax stocks
which by act Of Congress are exempt.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

w The Des Moines Register republishes,
with severe but just comments, the disgrace
full article which appeared in last weeks
Courier of this city, urging the Copperhead
party of the North to fly to the use of bayo-
nets and bullets, and initiate the example Of
the Red Republicans Of France in 1s4s, by
otherthrowing the 'despot' Lincoln, If he
should be reelected to the Presidency next
fall. The Courier, it will be remembered,
assumed that the elections were carried by
fraud and intimidation last fall, and that such
is to be the programme at the approaching
Presidential election. Its willful and wicked
lying could do no harm if its readers were all
intelligent, but unfortunately many Of them
read no other paper and implicitly believe all
they read in its polluted columns. If the
North becomes involved in civil strife, such
men as the editor of the Courier will be
responsible for it-and terrible will be their
fate
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

GREENBAcKs AS Coop AS GOLD TO PAY
DEBrs.-The Supreme Court Of Massachu-
sets has decided that, even in case of special
contract for payment Of debt in gold, the
claimant is bound to receive legal-tender
Treasury notes. The Court decided that it
is one Of the attributes of sovereignty to
change the value Of money; and Congress, in
accordance with the right clearly vested in it,
having declared legal-tender Treasury notes
to be money, the courts Of law must conform
to the change, and regard that as dollar
which Congress declares to be so,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

~ The estimated cost of the ship canal
around Niagara Falls is five and half mil
lions. It is proposed to build it from Head
water to Lewiston, distance of eight miles,
with locks 800 feet long, 500 feet wide and
ten feet deep. In addition to this, three and
a half millions will be asked for the enlarge
ment of the locks on the Oswego and Erie
canals, four millions for a canal from the St.
Lawrence river to Albany via Lake Cham
plain, and thirteen millions for charging the
Illinois and Michigan canal so that vessels of
600 tons burden can pass through.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
WV. DUANE WILSON, Sec'y.
ET The South had no more unblushing

The South had no more unblushing
apologist, or more skillful concoctor of figures
than Mr.. ]. F. W. DeBow, of census and re-.
view notoriety. But even he has been COM
PEELED, by the logic of events, to desert the
cause of King Cotton. In a late nun.ber of
his review he announced his belief in the
fallacy Of the cotton theory on which the
South rebelled, and said that slave labor,
however it might have been, is not now
profitable. In return for this, jeff. Dayis has
imprisoned Mr.. DeBow and suppressed his
Review.-Er.
Since Cotton is no longer King, the editor
of the Courier should revise hi lecture on
that subject, which he plagiarized from De-
Bow. He will, however, prefer to keep in
the good graces of jeff, and will continue to
glorify cotton and slavery at the expense of
truth and patriotism.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

W It is officially announced that Gen.
Rosecrans has been assigned to the command
of the Department of Missouri. Gen. Scho-
field has been ordered to report to Gen. Grant,
who will probably assign him to q command
in East Tennessee. 9ei.i 90 q
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
Republican state Convention.


The builders Of our State Capitol at Des
Moines are again before the Legislature, ask
ing for relief. They declare themselves COM
pletely bankrupt on account of this specula-
ton, besides being debtors to the School
Fund to tho amount of $4,000 borrowed
from DR.. Eads. They coolly propose to give
the State title to the Capitol building provided
twill cancel their indebtedness to the School
Fund, stating at the same time atthey will
never be able to pay the $4,000 due the
School Fund unless in this way. One Of the
conditions Of the removal of the Capital to
Des Moines, We understand, was that suit
able building should be provided for the State
officers and the General Assembly, free OF
srpense to the State. If this is not so, the
people were deceived by those who labored
for the removal The measure was not popu-
lar with the mass Of the people, because
everybody saw it was premature, but the ex-
ceeding fair promises made by interested
parties at Des Moines in the way of donation
of Capitol grounds and building, aided by a
LITTLE bribery in certain quarters, carried it
through. 1t was a most unfortunate step for
the interests Of the State at large, as well as
for those parties who expected to realize
princely fortunes by the sale Of corner lots at
fabulous prices.
The duty Of the Legislature is plain. If it
is true that the State has no title in the Cap
itol grounds and building, it had best be
secured as soon as possible, and if it can be
had by cancelling debt which cannot be COL
lected by any other means, let it be DONE
The grounds and building are worth perhaps
100000. If they can be secured for s4o,-
600, it is better to purchase them at that
price than to lose them and perhaps $40, 900
besides. But If the Capitol grounds and
buiMing rightfully belong to the State already,
it is folly to give even bad debt for them.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

- The Rev. H. Ward Beecher has writ
ten letter to the Trustees of Plymouth
church, declining to receive the additional
compensation Of $4,000 voted to him at their
annual meeting.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

~Mr. Lincoln, when asked recently if
the emancipation proclamation was finality,
replied: 81 am slow walker, but I never
walk back" asv jrs
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

ARRIVAL OF MORE PRISONERS At Rock Is.
LAND.--On Sunday evening about six o'clock
five hundred rebel prisoners arrived on Rock
Island from Camp Chase, Ohio.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

Iowa CENSUS REruRNs.-From pamphlet
recently published by the State Census Board,
we take the following interesting figures,
showing the population of the State of Iowa,
in the wear 10R2.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

No A letter from Camp Nice lellan, Daven.
port, dated 18th inst, says:
Recruits are coming in very rapidly.
averaging about 100 per day. Tomorrow we
forward some two hundred to their respective
regiments. Thursday we will send three
hundred more.'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

@A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Gazette dominates Gov. Oliver P. Morton, of
Indiana, for the Presidency.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
in the year 1863:

~I If Brigham Young should lose one of
his sixty wives, would he be q widower?-
Not enough 90 to hurt much, We should say.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

O. Gen. Hurlbut, at Memphis, has issued
an order placing the commerce of the Missis-
sippi river under the exclusive control of the
Agents Of the Treasury Department. The
Treasury Department is about to issue new
and important regulations relative to the
trade in cotton. The course adopted in
Louisiana is to be pursued in Arkansas.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

Could stronger proof be given to the false
hood Of that party which says the Govern
ment is widening the breach between the
South and the North? Remember what
Tennessee was, consider what she is, and
give some credit to an Administration which
has effected such mighty transformation.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

The January thaw" is reported to be quite
general throughout the West, from Cincinnati
to Caizo-ffem st. Louis to st. Paul
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

Mag The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, telegraphed the following
statement relative to the corruption in trade
matters on the Mississippi: 5 ~.
A thorough Union man from the South
west, and well-informed a. to the facts, ex.
presses his conviction that speculation in cot
ton is the bane Of the National cause in that
region. Population and duplicity character.
ize the majority Of the operations Of. those
engaged in its purchase or con6scation, and
the Government would be doing good work
by buying up every available pound Of this
staple product.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
G< Does the Administration fail to recon.

c. Does the Administration fail to recon-
| to itself and to the Union? We shall see, by
the following fair estimate of the number Of
men enlisted in Tennessee for the Union
army:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
rrXYeIt is going to be a great deal hard

SIT is going to be great deal harder
reconciling the Copperheads to the suppress
sion Of the rebellion, and the consequent
destruction of the institution of negro slavery,
than the rebels themselves. The nearer this
consummation, devoutly wished for by loyal
people, appears, the more desperate aud ma
lignant, gloomy and ferocious they become
Unless the war is stopped and an effort is
made by Mr.. Lincoln to restore slavery, and
pay for all missing niggers, we fear these
chaps will 60 into "conniptions.'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

A STRIKING AND GRAPHIC F1auRE-1n a
letter to the New England Society of New
York city, on its recent anniversary, Senator
Sumner, of Massachusetts, in referring to the
MayAower, closes as follows:
1tis not forgotten that another ship crossed
at the same time, buffeting the same sea. It
was Dutch ship with nineteen slaves, which
were landed at jamestown in Virginia, and
became the fatal seed of that Slavery which
has threatened to overshadow the land. Thus
the same ocean, in the same year, bore to the
Western Continent the Pilgrim Fathers, con-
secrated to Human Liberty, and it bore also a
cargo of slaves. In the holds of those two
ships were concealed the germs of the present
direful war, and the simple question now is
between the Mayfower and the slave ship
Who that has not forgotten God can doubt
the result? The Mayhower must surely pre-
vail
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

az The courteous style of official CORES
pondence which Gen. Mcclellan cultivated is
well illustrated by the closing sentences of
one of his letters to Secretary Stanton, dated
Savage Station, June %, 1869: IF I save
this army now, tell you plainly that l owe
no thanks to you, or to any other person in
Washington. You have done your best to
sacrifice this army"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

W The Government has adopted new
system for contracting for the transportation
of men and material, on the Western rivers.
Instead of chartering or Selling boats, it now
awards contracts by the piece and hundred
pounds, to the lowest bidder. This is in &C.
cordance with correct business principles, and
will work to the advantage Of the Government.
Emergencies will, of course arise, when it
may be necessary to impress boats, and pay
for their use by the day, but in the absence
Of such necessity the business can be more
transacted under the new plan.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
NRsRoss WILL FIGHr.-A correspondent
of the Missouri Democrat, writing from
Brunswick. Mo-. savs.

of the Missouri Democrat, writing from
Brunswick, No., says:
'Negro enlistment is progressing finely in
this county. Nearly every able-bodied negro
in the county will enlist Their masters, with
few exceptions, encourage them to do so.
Mr.. John a. Moore, living near Keytesville,
in this county, tried to prevent his. He
called them together. and told them he would
kill the first one that enlisted. One of them
went to Keytesville last Saturday and enlisted.
He came home at night to do the feeding,
when Moore saw him and drew his revolver
and commenced shooting at the negro. The
first shot took effect in the left arm, the Sec
ond in the left side, when the negro drew
pistol and killed Moore on the spot. So. it
appears, that some negroes will fight.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29

~ Speaking Of the "report' of Major.Gen-
eral Mcclellan, about which certain papers in
his interest are making SO much ado, the New
York Tribune says: eve have carefully read
the eight or nine columns that have thus far
come to hahd. The documents are mainly
memoranda and letters addressed by General
Mcclellan at different periods to the Presi.
dent and to the Secretaries Of War, containing
vast plans Of future operations and wearisome
apologies for his protracted inactivity, which
are now of no sort of value or interest to any
body except the personal admirers of their
author-among whom We have not of late
been reckoned. They do not present any
arguments in his behalf which have not been
q hundred times stated more briefly and
intelligibly, and they throw no light upon the
military operations with which he was unhap-
PLY connected. Ifthe rest Of his memoirs
has nothing better to offer, we judge that the
effort to bolster his military reputation with a
view to Presidential possibilities, will be
silently abandoned"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-29
News Paragraphs.

- =
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-30

New YORK, September 29-The Richmond
Examiner Of the Goth says:
Early passed through Port Republic on Sa:ur.
day and stopped at post station known as
Keeystown, about l3 miles from Stanton and 6
from Port Republic.
Longstreet has reported for duty, and comes
back most OPPORTUNITY to rectify affairs In the
valley.
strong effort made last light to put gold
up this morning TO 300, bat the market was weak
and the price varied about per cent up and
down during the morning. This evening the
price was still 300.
The Posts Washington special of the 18th
SAYS:
Gen Hooker left here for Cincinnati this morn
ing.
The reported capture of Stanton by Sheridan
is confirmed
Mayor Gunther has vetoed the resolution of
the Board of Aldermen 10 illuminate the streets
in honor of our victories.
The Commercials Washington special says:
Ii is ascertained that Rousseau has routed
Forests force completely, driving him nine
miles.
Gold closed at 81 9O14
The government feels no apprehensions con-
corning the safety of Gen. Sbermsn's communi-
crtions
Reinforcements are being constantly sent to
Gen Sheridan.
Admiral Farragut, it is said. will soon engage
in very important naval operations.
The Posts Washington says the War Depart
ment has decided that drafted man may FUR
nish substitute after be has been accepted and
in camp