Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-03-25
Vol, XV~-NO 96.
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o. Gen Sigel assumed command of the De-
partment of West Virginia on Thursday, of
last week sT7f1 & @hS 3cn bio s'FA'ons7IA
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Gerrit Smith won the President St auto
graph copy fNhis freedom proclamation, in
q rattle at the Albany, Fair. 9u p 5sGt aoi5
Gen. Grant declined stopping at the hotel
in Washington to receive visitors, saying,
l"I am here on business II want to finish it
up and be off," 't os7poo io ,I2taq i sAni
| rs Religious reyivals are spreading throughout
New England, and it is mentioned as one of
their marked peculiarities, that thereis is san
absence Of all excitement. l@a sgoizondo
Il Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon
the Eastern and Western geographical ex-
tremesi of our continent t1lhave been sending
pleasant kilograms to each other '1A2" olan =
It's, estimated that during the present
spring, perhaps in the single dmonth Of April,
the aggregate shipments of nursery trees from
Rochester, N. Y, will exceed five millioass
~ Slaves are cheap in Maryland There We're
sold at auction at Frederick, on the '2d inst,
one slave girl, eight years old, for 81, one
woman for SIS, and a woman and child five
years oldfor $25. jns'ais'T DO slh y
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John Mckay, the prize fighter and famous
among sporting men as the second of Heenan
in his fight with Morrisey, and also as trainer
Of Hamill, the champion oarsman, was killed
at Pittsburg on the 18th, by the parting cf
canal ooat line. ,aB o5 LuGgs9T q ScaIT
Sheep are receiving much attention in
Michigan. One breeder has recently soldtwo
hlood..d b,,o orc ecor 6GSO Etf~~a kl.i.kl..
q yearling, for $3.50. His buck lambs sell
readily for from fifty to one hundred dollars
Santa Anna is again in Mexico. He arrived
at Vera Cruz on the 9th ult. His presence
on Mexican soil did not excite any sensation.
and he was forbidden by, the French to- issue
any manifesto, though he is believed to have
given in his adherence 10 the invaders. I'D
- Ths New York milk dealers are reasonable
beings. Their association has actually re-
duced the price of milk, fixing it at 81 cents
a quart, during the FIVE months ending Octo.
Der 1st. When cold weather and high feed
come on again, they will raise the price
John P. Crozier, Esq, of Upland, Pa,
with characteristic iberality, has given ten
thousand dollars to nthe American Baptist
Publication Society ito be permanently invest
ed; the interest of which is to be expended
in furnishing libraries to destitute Sabbath
schools. gov
At Philadelphia, some days since, man
sold some property for 100000, agreeing to
execute good deed fee simple. The deed
stamps cost $3.50, and the question as to
which party should pay for them was tried
before Judge Sherwood, who decided that the
purchaser must pay. -, m
The Spanish prospect of conqueringy St.
Dor1ingois not very encouraging The Min
lister of War admits the loss Of 5000 men in
fighting, and of 5000 sick IN hospital. The
Spanish army on the island numbers 27,0OO
men, but is insufficient for the work, and
more troops are daily expected from Spain.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has announced a decision of Importance to
dairy farmers. Persons who carry on farms
and keep cows-selling milk, butter and
cheese asincident totheir farming operations
are considered as farmers, and exempt from
license for the sale Of their products F
The pair Of great guns which the Govern
ment is having cast-one in New Jersey and
the other in Pennsylvania-are to carry shot
weighing about one thousand pounds each,
which will penetrate the iron armor vessels
as rifle ball will go through a sheet of tin.
The Chattanooga Gazette states that be.
tween the point of Lookout mountain and
Bridgeport, down the valley of the Tennessee,
lies twenty-five miles of dead mules in one
continuous string-the head of the first car
cass lying on the quarter deck" of the one be-
yond him, and SO on throughout the entire
distance. ..s..t. Irs t.. -.- e.a
It appears from official data in possession
of the War Department that since February
25, 1862, the Illinois Central Railroad has
received for transportation of troops and sup
plies, S30s, 900, the Burlington and Missouri
River Road 5 Il 500, and the Mississippi and
Missouri Railroad only $40 making total
of $311 900. .,.. ~. =, .-s,
Lumbering prospects are bright in Wiscon-
sin. The men who come into the towns from
the lumber camps for supplies say that more
logs have been cut and hauled, and more ex-
tensive arrangements made for producing
lumber this winter, than ever before in that
region. More men have been at work, and
better wages have been paid. ort ~
The fetal receipts of Sanitary Fairs, held
since November last, commencing with the
pioneer fair at Chicago, is estimated at over
one million of dollars. The people of New
York are predicting that the Metropolitan
Fair, to open in that city on the 2sth inst,
will produce a million more, while those inter.
ested in the Mississippi Valley Fair, to be
held in st. Louis, are estimating their receipts
in advance at s5oo,ooO. ....
Col. Streight confirms the reports of our
soldiers at Richmond being starved and left
to perish with cold bv Gen. Winder. Not
one-half of the clothes and provisions sent by
US ever gets to them, being stolen by the
rebels He thinks that retaliation is,the only
means which will bring them to terms. Col.
Streight is very ANXIOUS to get command un-
der Gen. Butler, to enable him to operate
against Richmond q ri GsGg.Gd ID
The wife of Gen. Beauregard died at New
Orleans on the I'd, having been for several
years an invalid. Her funeral, on the 4th,
was the largest ever seen in the city, over
5000 persons being in the cortege. Gen.
Banks kindly extended to the family the
steamer Nebraska to convey the remains Q
few miles up the river to her fathers planta-
| tion. AS Gen. Beauregard is still in the rebel
army, he was not, of course, at the funeral.
The Davenport brothers are holding night
ly levees at Wizards Hall, Washington,
where their feats of sleight of hand are re.
garded by crowded audiences with admira-
ton, many believing that a divine agency
unties knots, plays the fiddle, throws a fire.
trumpet about, and INDUCES in other freaks.
A few nights since Senator Mel Dougal, Of CAL
ifornia, and Mr.. Clinton Rice, of New York,
were on the platform as Judges" and the
comments Of the Californian were comical
enough. :. ...,,.. ,....,
fw There is no more striking proof of