Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-09


will also present to the individual
who shall contribute the largest sum of
money to this purpose, a certificate I'M
der my hand and the seal of the State,
which will be printed on a parchment
sheet, suitable for framing.
GLEANIEGN.
A salt mountain has been discovered
in Nevada.
\ good many Southern planters are
removing to Brazil and settling there.
Large numbers of miners are return
Ing from Idaho to California. They say
they can't live there.
Besides the United States bounty and
pay California volunteers get $50 bounty
in gold, and S. month in gold from
the State.
The man who receives the money
must pay for the stamp on the receipt.
This is the verdict of the highest tinan-
cal authorities.
sjeau North, postmaster of Clarendon.
n. T., has been sentenced to pay Il fine
OF e, 900 and Ue Imprisoned six months.
for opening letters and appropriating
stamps.
According to the Commercial Bullet
Ss's list, there are no less than two hun
dred and thirty petroleum companies,
having offices lii New York, Philadel-
phis, Pittsburg and Boston.
George ID. Prentice, of the Louisville
J,isrtu, has obtained pass to go to
Richmond, to intercede with jeff. Da-
Wis for the life Of his son, who is in the
rebel army and under sentence of death
for murder.
Hon. ". II. w. Cobb, recently ex-
pellet from the rebel Congress on the
charge of communicating with the ene-
my, was killed IN North Alabama q
few days since, by the accidental dis
charge of a pistol in his possession.
There are upwards OF thirty Major
and Brigadier Generals i'll the United
states Army who profess the Catholic
faith. The more prominent are Cen
erals Meade, Rosecrans, Sheridan, Mea-
CHER, Sickles, Ord and Gilmore.
John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Ma
ton, and 4 refugee from the country,
now residing in Philadelphia, has re-
ceived intelligence of the death of his
eldest son, james. He was seventeen
months confined in Il rebel prison in
Texas, and died shortly after his release.
\ .'4ris correspondent of London
paper says that now red-haired ladies
alone are admired in that city Of fashion,
and that all the ladies are coio.ing their
hair to a doubtful golden" hue. We
give this item 'or the encouragement OF
all " red haired iaSsies.h
Gen. Strel,. has been removed from
the command OF the 18th corps and the
Department OF Arkansas, and ordered
to report to Gen. Candy. He is sue
ceeded by Gen Reynolds. The Depart
mrnt OF the Mississippi has been created,
comprising the state OF Mississippi and
portion OF Tennessee, and Gen. Dana.
has been ass igned to the command.
The New York Herald says Mr.. Geo.
b. Mcclellan has received the appoint
ment of Engineerin-Chief of the Nor
ris 4, Essex Railroad, an important road
in the state where he resides. ! he rev
enue of this office will be to Mr.. Nice.
equal to what he would have received
had he been elected President OF the
United states. His salary will be $50,
900 per annum.
The story of the massacre OF the Wal
ker county Home Guards i'll Georgia 10y
the rebels seems to be we'll established
in fact. One hundred OF the party were
pronounced deserters from the rebel ser.
vice, and in two hOurs' time were put tC
death, nineteen of them being hung and
the rest shot. Most Of them, if not all
were originally forced into the rebel ser
vice, and, escaping from it, entered thai
of the Union. This general massacre j.
one of the most atrOcious acts Of the war
The serious break in the Erie Cana
the other day, was started by Il small
hole made by II muskrat. A hermit
who lived in the path OF the tor. EN-
which poured through the sa,, wa.
swept away, and his body has not sine.
been found. The damage to the proper
~ is estimated at s. 900. 1t is consd
cred fortunate that the accident did no
occur earlier in the height Of the busy
season. The canal will be permanent,
closed on the Sth OF December.
The thieves who, on the Sd of Septem
Der, robbed the Adams Express Olfic- |.
Grafton, Virginia, OF package OF mos
ey said to cOatain Sl2 900, have been ar
rested. They were Arthur Resler, Chas
NJ ere ,iith AMI A. Marks, and were takei
in Detroit, while trying to escape int
Canada They have confessed. 1t seem
they were in the habit OF making III
packages of money, the bulk of which
was worthless stuff. directing it to Graf
ton, or some other point, stealing it, an,
then prosecuting the company for tn
full amount.
DEATH IN ANDERSONvILLE PRISON
Since the establishment of the prison
post at AndersOnville, Georgia, las
spring, twelve thousand Of the Yanke
prisoners held there have died and beel
buried there, and this mortality existe
among q body of prisoners at no tim
exceeding forty thousand. Their grave
are marked with number from one up
and the Fey .stry kept in the prison rep
resents their name, regiment and Stat
in juxtaposition thereto, so there will
be no difficulty IN locating the grave Q
any particular deceased, should the tim
ever arrive when such thing might b
desirable Examiner.
OsAGEORANGE FROM Roof CUTTINGS
James III. Moore, Louisa Co, Iowa, Gu
roots in pieces inches long, and plante
in well prepared soil, 8 inches apart, an
Ii inches deep. In about three week
each piece of root made 2 OF 3shoots. an
through a mole DESTROYED all the plan Is