Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-02
VOL. XVI---NO. 7.
GLEANINGS.

Inc OIL y. lEdctlOl1al. cuI.
rency in circulation is $24, 700, 900.
The number Of patients in the hospi-
tails about Washington is about 10000.
The population of Washington in 1860
was 6E, 122; it is now estimated at 13O-
you. h9F a5E3 ta
Re-inforcements for Gen. Grant are
going forward rapidly from the Eastern
States. -F 1T -t-.E
White muslin dresses heavily trimmed
with laces are all the rage at Saratoga
now for breakfast dresses.
Millard Fillmore has written letter
in which he says he is not candidate
for the Presidency, but is in favor of
Mcclellan. r
The largest building i'll America is the
Cathedral in Mexico. The edifice is 500
feet long and 400 feet wide, andy will seat
10000 persons.
A copious rain fell in Central New
York a few days ago, insuring the fall
crops. Previous to the rain potatoes
were selling in Syracuse for S3 per BUSH
ell and butter at 60c per pound.
Mrs. Holt, wife of Charles G.. Holt, of
Watertown, Me-, was killed in Craig's
Mills last week by her clothing catching
in belt and drawing her around shaft.
Her body was horribly mangled.
Grasshoppers are doing great mischief
in Western New York. Whole fields
have been laid waste by them. Many
of the farmers are catching the insects
in nets and feeding them to their hogs.
The Ute Indians, Numbering twenty
to 1ipfyy hnr arrnr
clared for the whites i'll the present war.
They live in the Colorado mining dis
tricts.
The village of Fredonia, in New York,
has been lighted by gas obtained from
the earth by means of boring. When
the supply becomes deficient they sink
a new gas well.
Gov. Johnson, having obtained the
requisite authority, is raising twenty
thousand men for the purpose of clean
ing Tennessee of predatory rebel bands
and guerrillas. They are to serve one
year.
Three Confederates are to be hung ia
st. Louis on the 9th Of September, and
three more on the 18th of the same
month. some of these are convicted as
spies and Others as guerrillas.
The Nc,g Engia9ad Farmer, one Of the
best agricultural papers, has been forced
to suspend temporarily. The exceeding
high prices of everything required for
the publication of newspapers is the
cause.
Seven deserters from the Union ranks
were shot at NeWbern, n. c., on the 1lth
inst. Two Of them were from New
York, two from Rhode Island, and three
from, fFonnpctia,Jt npo Of
them had deserted six times.
The Chicago papers report the great
tunnel at that city, reaching out into
the lake, as having already progressed
about three hundred and ten feet from
the shore, and is going steadily forward
at the rate Of nine feet per day.
Tt seems to be a fact that United
States greenback that has been torn or
mutilated will only be received for the
representative value Of the. portion re-
naming. If One-half of Il so note is
gone, it Will be received for bat s.: one
fourth, 81 80, and SO on.
An immense force of contrabands is
employed securing the harvests of the
Government farms near Arlington, un-
der the superintendent Of Col. Green.
Chief Quartermastcr of the Department.
1t is estimated that the net profits from
these farms for the present season will
exceed SoG,0Dp.
The Rev. Col. Jaques was prompted
to undertake his peace mission to Rich
mOnd on becoming convinced that the
Methodists Of the South We're extremely
anxious for peace. Learning that fact,
he concluded that the sentiment was
general among the people of the rebel
States.
All evidence gOesto show that recruit
ing in rebel States to fill Northern Qou-
tas is q failure, and the State agents sent
down to CLEAN contra bands in the wake
OF our armies have come home out of
spirits and without returns in the shape
of recruits. The armies must be filled
from among the people.
jackson Livingston of Marion county,
Mo, was hung last Friday in the jail
yard of st. Louis as spy. he protested
his innocence TO the last. He met his
rs if he was starting on a pleasant jour
ney. He left wife and four children.
She was present at the execution.
a swindler calling himself Mai. +. A.
Merritt, who has been playing the con-
fdence game at Cincinnati and Cleve-
land. has Just been exposed. He is still
at large. He diddled his landlord at
Cincinnati out OF about $1,000 by profess
ing TO own 5000 acres OF mineral lands
in Tennessee. He is the same iDdivid-
ual who professed to have fallen heir to
two or three million dollars by the
death Of an uncle in Maine.
The world is coming to an end in 1865.
Prot. Neumayer, OF Munich, says So
He adds that q comet will run against
the earth and absorb ii, as one drop of
mercury absorbs another. Office seek
ers will be gratilied to learn that the
fusion of earth and comet will not take
place till near the end Of the year, so
that they may have little time left to
profit by the coming Presidential cleo
ton and the consequent division of
spoils.
The Indian war on the Plains. the
final struggle of the red man on this
continent, bids fair to assume formida-
bic proportions. From Fort Kearney
to Denver the red skins have matters all
their own way. The white settlers, the
lonely frOntiersman, have fed, or been
murdered, and nothing remains to mark
white occupation but the far apart mill
tary posts. The overland stage comp
any have Withdrawn their stock, and
matters are at stand still The Indians
are said to number 1000 fighting men.
The defense of the border counties OF
the States north of the Ohio River will
be greatly aided by the fact that owing
to recent rains, tributaries of the Lower
Ohio have risen very rapidly, and that
the Cumberland is again navigable for
good sized-boats. Extraordinary rains
have fallen at Nashville, Evansville,
&C., and many of the small tributaries
are pouring out floods. This will ena-
bic our gunboats and iron-clads to re-
sumo their river guard, and the incur
sion of guerrillas will be dangerous and
imDOSsible.