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

The Great Flood at Denver. a..
The Denver City (Colorado) C4srrif f.,
,0catM has long account of the citv o,
flood which swept through tRas cai,se,
the 10th of last month. Is of Cherr,
by heavy rains at the bf which at Den
and Plum creeks, bot most part of tn,
yer are dry for. . swelled by the dis
year, out Wthe " cisterns of the up
chafSes Irothat We're on this occasion
per ueeup, assumed the magnitude o
orokeivers. A large part of the city
saTinundated by torrents of such pow
Tas to sweep away the most solid struc
lures and the very lots they stood on
Such was the fate of the Meas office
The pecuniary loss is roughly estimated
at a million Of dollars, Wholesome TWEEN.
ty lives were lost.
Messrs. Byers Il Daily, proprietors o.
the Rocky Mountain Neirs, lOsttheir en-
tire all, with the building and the Tot il
stood on. Mr.. b. will be remem bered as
a former citizen of Muscatine county,
He is son of NJ. W. Byers, of Wilton
We sincerely sympathize with him in
his sudden loss of the fruits of several
years honest toll and economy, but
doubt not his indomitable spirit will en-
able him to surmount the misfortune.
mA. The conscription law must be sci
down as failure. The three hundred
dollar clause completely nullifies and
destroys its efficiency. AS it stands, il
is simply an act to take mems pocket
books, instead OF the men themselves
After all the trouble of enrolling, draft.
ing and examining, the whole work is
turned into farce by telling the con.
scripts that if they have a few green.
backs they can commute and stay al
home.
The term of service OF nearly 1OO,00(
men will expire between this time and
October. Measures must be taken to fill
their places. 1t cannot be done unless
the ConscriptiOn Act is amended by re.
pealing the $500 Communication clause and
enacting thatevery a ble-bodied man he
is drafted must 90 in person or find his
own substitute. The Government must
have the means Of raising money by
taxation and men by conscription, if il
is expected to retain the advantages al
ready gained and finally subdue the re.
balliOn.
nG33- The Gen. McKinstry who took
such an active part in the Cleveland
Convention is the same individual who
was equally conspicuous in the Copper.
head Convention at Springfield, ILL.,,
last fall. He was formerly Quarter.
master in the U. S. army, and was at
tached to Fremont's staffin 1851. While
stationed at st. Louis he was arrested
and put in close confinement by order
of Gen. Mcclellan on charges of gross
in his official capacity
Twenty-six of these charges We're prov,
en- in thefamous McKinstry court mar
tial trial They embraced every posi-.
bic ofiense of which dishonest Quarter.
master could be guilty. He was sen.
fenced to be dismissed the service. The
sentence was approved by the President
He seeks to be revenged by entering in
to political combinations to defeat the
Presidents reelection. His personal
influence among the taxpayers he sc
outrageously swindled is not likely to
be very deep or extended.
WHAT THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE
WILL Do.-The supporters of Fremont
have been claiming, Rs by authority,
that the New York Tribune would sup
port him. What ground there was for
this pretense may be inferred from the
quoted from the Tribune OF
Monday:
eve propose to act with the great
body Of our fellow Unionists in the ap-
preaching canvass; but we are in nc
hurry to enter upon that canvass. Let
the country see and feel that we Union
lists seek success for our country's sake
more than for that of our party. Let ii
realize that our hearts are with our gal
liant brethren who are writing our coun-
try's history with steel and fame on the
bloody fields Of Virginia and Georgia.
The triumph of our national arms should
be our first aspiration ; after that, every
thing else in its order. Live the Repub-
licW
The New York Evening Post, which
has also been claimed as friendly tc
Fremont, reviews his letter of accept.
ance in a manner that will, we think
disabuse his supporters of that idea.
Ny A long list of sick. and wounded
soldiers from Sherman's army, sent tc
Nashville on the 4th inst, is published
in the Cincinnati Coh,n,ercial. Wefind
the names OF the following Iowa
soldiers
Elm Ford, f, 9Th Iowa, scalp.
John Fl. Jamison, f, 6th Iowa, left shoulder.
jeremiah Rhodes, F, 9Th Iowa, lest mates
John McKuninn, K, 9Th Iowa, lett hand.
Geo. Hi1ford, r, 9th Iowa, right am.
JAS. A. Davis, A, 9th Iowa, rignt leg.
Sergt. AleS. Irwin, 4; 7Sh Iowa. chronic diarrhae
Sergt. JAS. Shand, H. 9th Iowa, right hand.
Deaths of Iowa soldiers in General
Hospital, Memphis, Tenn, for three
weeks ending June ed, 1854:
Henry II. Romlig, Co. c, eth Reg, May I'D, gun
Jacob Cobel, Co. G, I'd Cav, May 2ed smallpox
w. NJ. Clark, Co. II, Sd Cav, May 2sd, typhoid
fever.
George II: Dunlap, Co. X, aad Reg, May 9th
chronic diarrne.
Milton d. Miller, Go. \, 9th Reg, May 26th
smallpox.
Andrew J. Estabrook, Co. F, 32d Reg, May 18th
chronic diarrhee.
James P. Travis, Co. f. sd Reg, May 29th
phthisis pulmonalis.
VIM. II. Hriffih, Co A, 32d Reg, May 18th, con.
geStive fever.
Corp. John J. Olinger, Go. X, ith Cav, June lst
smallpox.
BROWNLoW ON THE RICHMOND
WHIa.-In speaking of this journal the
writer of the Rebel Tentilator says:
Why the editor of the Richmond or
gan should be angry with Lincoln, we
are at a loss to know. Lincoln's eman-
cipation proclamation liberates half-a-
dozen of that editors children, whose
several mothers are American ladies OF
African descent! Lincoln should be
looked upon by that editor, and thou
sands of other Southern parents, as a
benefactor! He is setting their mixed