Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-22

New YoRk, April 20.
The Australasian from Liverpool, 9th, viu
Queenstown, 10th, arrived this evening.
Efforts to float the City Of New York on
the 7th and 9th were Intellectual.
The captain of the United States steamer
Kearsage, in q letter to Marquis Clarickarde,
defends himself from remarks by the MARQUIS
in Parliament, and denies that he enlisted
men. He says, on the contrary, that the
Kearsage has more than her complement.
Mr.. Gladstone presented favorable bud.
get to Parliament. The expenditures were
more than million sterling under the estl-
mates, and the surplus over two and quar-
ter millions. He proposes . reduction Of
duty on corn from Is per quarter to Sd per
hundred weight.
Mr.. Layard, in reply to inquiries, said En-.
| glish consuls confirmed the accounts of kid
mapping Irishmen in New York and Boston,
and Lord Lyons had made the representation
to the United States government.
The Attorney General inside explanations
as to the commission sent to Egypt to take
evidence as to the Layard rams, and said the
commission was rsturnable the 18th of May,
~hsn the Crown would proceed with the case
with all dispatch.
The bombardment of Duppel WAS vigor.
ously sustained during the 7tb.
The bombardment Of Lundesberge recon.
menced on the 9th with extraordinary vigi.
lance.
The Prussians have completed the second
parallel.
| The conference meets Ut London on the
18th.
All difficulties as to the Mexican crown are
adjusted
MAMMALIAN receives deputation on the
10th to formally accept it. aud sails on the
18th or 18th for Mexico.
1t is asserted that the relations between
France and England are again very friendly.
The following is the latest by telegraph to
Queenstown:
| LONDON, 10th.-Consols after official hours
yesterday were 911@92.
| Mr.. Cardwell, in his speech at Oxford, said
he thought the conference on the Danish
question would be satisfactory, and strongly
urged neutrality in the American war.
The Emperor of Austria has allowed the
formation Of a corps of 5000 volunteers and
800 sailors for the Empire of Mexico.
| The new steamer Matilda, stated to have
been built at Glasgow for the Confederates,
and bound for rebel port with iron, steel,
&C., was totally lost off Fundy Island. Crew
saved.
| PHILADELPHIA, April 20.
| The Adamantine Works of G. H. Grant &
Co., on 23d and Hamilton streets, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire this afternoon. Loss
$1OO, 1000, mostly insured. Eighty men are
thrown out of employment
| WAsH1NGroN, April 20.
! The Senate to- day confirmed the following:
Col. Jasper A. Maltby. of the 45th Illinois,
to be Brigadier General; First Lieut. E. A.
Dana, 9Th Illinois, to be Assistant Adjutant
General; T. A. Osborne, to be United S ates
Marshal of Kansas.
| The military authorities here have received
the following dispatch. dated Cairo, last night:
"Two letters arrived here this afternoon,
both from naval officers, one from Grand
Ecore, half way between Natchitoches and
Shreveport, dated the 10th inst. The other
is from Alexindria, dated the 18th. The bat
tie was near the place first named. Smith
appears to have been wolsted, also the 18th
corps, which came to his assistance Frank
lin took part and the enemy were beaten"
| CAIRO, April 20.
| Information obtained from reliable source
confirms the Chicago Journals Red river let.
ter of the 10th, concerning the battle at
Pleasant Hill on the Sth, that account being
mainly correct Our loss, however, was
greater than therein stated.
The fight wound up in the enemy being
handsomely whipped and driven from the
field with heavy loss.
Hickman, KY, has been burned by guer-
rillss.
The officers of The steamer Anderson saw
about 1000 guerrillas in Henderson, KY, on
the 18th, and passed without landing.
The steamers Forsyth and Graham, from
Memphis, 18th, have $40 bales of cotton for
St. Louis and 200 mules for Cairo.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by the
rebels on the 18th to deccy and capture the
steamer Luminary, IS miles below Memphis.
Part of the rebels engaged at the Fort Pill
low massacre acknowledge 10 killed and so
wounded, but there are evidences of its hav-
ing been much grea: y. Rebel prise ars were
brought from COLUMBUS 70 day to be sent
North.
i MEMPHIS, April Is.
Gen. Sherman has directed Gen. Hurlbut
to report at Cairo. This probably indicates
some change in the 10th army corps. Proba-
bly, Gen Buckland will be again left in com.
msnd Of Memphis and vicinity.
Ger. Hurlbut reviews the enrolled militia
this evening.
Iii thought Forrest is preparing to return
South. Grierson is to watch and harass his
movements.
| They execute people very delicately in Utah
by shooting them privately. A recent case
occurred at Great Salt Lake City, in which
the culprit, murderer, was so dispatched
behind canvas screens, the executioner firing
from q window in the court house, so Is not
to be visible to guests or criminal.
| The essenca of evervthinp Godlike in thia