Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-25
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GLEANINGS.

| Inc LlVerpOOl c&lE IOi Wcu1iuSu IeO-
els yielded $500 3. ,fg
1TheaDeoaocrot at Bloomington died
with its party. ,.t.-n .f.a,3t .rsa
The Chinese rebellion is again thought
| to be crushed. tits used TO being crushed
! 4 kidnapped girl was lately found OF
| one of the California, steamers. she viii
be sent back to her home in Boston.
Boone county, which claims to be the
| Union banner county of Illinois, gives
Lincoln l ,4S5 majority, out of IA total
vote of 1863. ~. a..itr.e rl.
More apples and cider IN w est Vir-
ginia than they can find barrels for
| Flour barrels sell at 80 cents, and whisky
barrels at $3.50. I"'F 7'.i al
| Egypt will raise about SiO0, G00, 800
worth of cotton this year 1t will bring
her lots of British gold, and will add
greatly to her internal wealth. si .
A Philadelphia woman got her hus-
| bands breakfast the other morning, N
usual, and then went down cellar aud
hung herself. .....
| Secretary Stanton's Illness .s from
Inflammation of the bowels. He has
, not been able to be at the War Depart
ment for the past week. .f
| Some of the Michigan farmers have
been making rosin from their white
pine trees. The rosin is OF All excellent
quality, and they think they can make
it profitable. 3.' 't-f - sf."
| Toronto is excited by information re-
| ceived by the authorities that the Fenian
| Brotherhood in the United States intend
to invade Canada with hostile intent.
! The arrest OF Lieut.. Gov. Jacobs, Vi
Kentucky, is explained 1t appears he
| is one Of the leaders in q conspiracy in
| that State to take ii out OF the Union.
General Mcagler gave selection Of
readings in Nashville last week for the
| benefit of the Protestant Orphan Asy-
lUm. .t....
Within ninety days from this date
Missouri Will be II free State. The ma
jOrity of the delegates elected 10 the
COnstitutianaI Convention are pledged
to immediate emancipation.
MASSACHUSETTS The Union major
ity in the Old Bay State comes fully up to
SO, ,OOO-highest ever given for any party.
The total vote was-Lincoln, ia, 900:
Mcclellan, 1860.
The President is already engaged on
his message. Il: is said he will recon-
mend the immediate and complete abo-
lition of slavery in the United States.
The great trouble with Mcclellan ut
the recent election is the same that
bothered him while commanding the
army of the PotOnlac--a sore want of
men.
In Bavaria the new King is not mere
ly a boy, but a boy who has been reared
in such seclusion that he never, it is
said, had money in his pocket until he
was eighteen years old.
The widow and children of "John
brown have gone overland to CaliiOr-
MIA, taking Il drove of cattle and sheep,
with ii view OF making a home in the
Pacific States.
The Paris ladies appear disposed to
adopt for winter costume, very short
petticoats, very high boots, and plaid
stockings Many SO accoutred may be
seen on the boulevards.
The change: In 1860 Baltimore voted
l ,OS3 for Lincoln, u, 2,604 for Bell, 1856
for Breckenridge, AMI ,503 for douglas.
In 1864 she gave for Lincoln IA, 739 and
42,359.
The opinion prevails that Grant will
make a move of some kind in the course
of Il few days. There is ''pretty well
authenticated rumor' from the Army Of
the Potomac that the rebels are about
evacuating Petersburg.
General Scott, for about the twentieth
time, has been obliged to publish card
in the New York papers asking cores
pondents-especially autograph hunters
to spare him, as he cannot answer
their letters.
The Wisconsin Patriot, at Madison
the central organ of the Democracy of
that State-gave up the ghost on Mon
day, the very same day on which the
State Register at Springfield, the central
organ of the Illinois Democracy, did
the very same thing.
Forty thousand persons in Montreal,
or about one-third of the population, get
their living directly or indirectly from
the manufacture of boots, shoes and
leather. Since the introduction of ma
chinery, the production has increased
rapidly.
Hotel and boarding house keepers at
Richmond have taken advantage of the
assembling of the rebel Congress to put
up the prices of board. The rates at the
hotels have been advanced to forty dol
lars per day, and the boarding house
rates are equally steep in proportion.
The Japanese Ambassadors thus do
the English in book: 1.-The men are
red-taced and fond of eating, and the
low men eat raw meat, Of which Jumps
are exhibited, much to our disgust. -
This is good enough for George Angus
tus Sala, suggests the New York Jour
aalof Commerce.
Marshfield, the home of Daniel Web
ster, gave vote which Mr.. Winthrop,
and other Webster Wings, must be in
terested in hearing OF. 1t was-Lincoln
224, Mcclellan none. Pembroke, Mass.
gave 204 for Lincoln, and Mcclellan
none. Dana, Mass, gave 12S for Lin
coin, and for Mctlellan none.
Navigation has closed on the Upper
Missouri, and all the boats engaged in
the st. Joseph and Omaha line have
slace. Passengers therefore who wish
to go beyond st. Joseph, will have to
stage it through until next spring.
Stephen A. Douglas was reported to
have died insolvent, We are glad to
learn from the Chicago Journal that
such was not the case. On Monday the
executor presented receipts to the coun-
ty court. showing that he had paid
over $500 to Mrs. Douglas and over
$1,000 to the two children, after liquid
ating all demands against the estate.
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"SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL u'-One
of the most gratifying results of the late
vigorous campaign, is the overwhelming
Union gains in the extreme southern
part of the State-the Egypt" of for
mer years, but now ENy2ot no longer
When all the returns are in it will be