Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-16
VOL. XvI--ANA%
o d - GLEANENGS.

whilst in TIE enbe6 tAs-eifisone to
Age Of Genera .SS@Me .SS@M;es M;,auntE e2;:
McCternand, Al Hooker, Az. sherfean,
A; Franklin, Al Grant, 52E Man1S5k a
40; Sigel, Al; Slocum, 81 - "a =
During August $50 childreE. ae&ia
| New York city, of whom 200 MereysE
American parentage. During the SANG
time, the deaths of adults amounted TIA
100.
The famous sea lion, owned by p. t.
| Barnum, and valued at twenty thous-
and dollars, which has been on exhibit
| ton for seven years, drew his last breath
! in Cincinnati, few days since.
The order of the War Department re-
quiring all officers who are promoted, to
| re-enlist for three years, has excited
much dissatisfaction. The President
has referred the matter to Gen. Grant.
Quietness continues to prevail in front
Of Petersburg. Strong works are being
erected by the rebels. The Dutch Gap
canal is nearly completed. The Rich
mOnd papers are despondent over the
loss of the Weldon Railroad.
The smallest pony in the world is
owned by John S. Rarey, of Ohio. 1t is
only 20 inches high, and weighs only Il
pounds. Its mother, which was brought
from The Shetland Isles by Rarey, weighs
only - pounds,
Six Swiss immigrants were killed by 4
collision on the Chicago and Burlington
X. R., near Meridian, H., on the night
of the 9Th inst. Many other persons
were injured, some of them Seriously
The accident was occasioned by gross
carelessness.
\ Mrs. Douglass, Of Yorkshire, fifty
years old, and the mother RI seven chill
dren, is performing the feat of walking
a thousand miles in q thousand cousez>
cutive hours, at the Alhan1inar61OS -,
London, for $500. She a41effeady ac-
complished a similar task in Australia.
There is a draft insurance company at
Brooklyn, n. Y, of which Mayor Wood
is president, that for $500 promises the
insured substitute for one year or $500;
1orS30O substitute for two years or $3.50;
for $3.50 substitute for three years or
900.
Fort Morgan originally cost the
United States Government, in its con-
struction and armament, aboutS1 500, 900.
and is capable Of mounting 1872 guns,
and Of garrisoning 700 men for siege op-
luminous defense of it.
The Chicago United States Marine
Hospital was sold last week at auction
to Mr.. James F. Joy for $4,000. The
sale was made by order Of Secretary
Fessenden, in pursuance of an act Of
Congress. A new site will be procured
and a more appropriate building erected
within the year.
John Jackson Nickel, sentenced to
death by a military commission in May
last, for acting as a guerrilla in Ken
lucky, and killing two men, was hanged
at.sInlaHnsqp'es, Hns &, FesIifty=b years OF age,
native of Kentucky and had been in the
rebel service three years.
A gang Of Democrats in Columbia
county, Penn, Joined by q number Of
deserters, recently banded together to
resist the draft, and intrenched them
selves on the side of mountain, with
four pieces of artillery. Gen Couch sent
$50 men againstthem, ahdthey scattered
without firing q shot.
The working women of New York
City, many of whom are making shirts
at six cents apiece, and drawers at five
cents pair, have petitoned the Secreta-
ry of War TO authorize the Quartemaster
General to authorize the increase of the
price OF female labor until il shall ap-
proXimate the price of living.
J. R. Gilmore edmund Kirke,J in a
letter to the New York papers, replies
to 1.-The short, plump, oily little man in
black, in the northwest room of the
United States Custom House, at Rich
mond, who has impeached the truth of
his report of the recent visit of Col.
Jaquess and himself to Mr.. Jeff. Davis.
On the question Of veracity, Mr.. Ben
jamin seems to come out second best.
Gen. Grant is the inventor OF a new
mode Of firing salute. On Saturday
last, on the receipt of the news OF the
capture of Atlanta by Gen Sherman, he
ordered ''salute to be fired with shotted
guns from every battery bearing upon
the enemy" This is ''killing two birds
with one stone.n We hope hereafter
when salutes are to be fired in the army,
that this example Of Gen. Grant viii be
closely followed.
There will be no draft in New York
City or Brooklyn. The credit to the
State for naval enlistments was finally
arranged and approved by the Secretary
of war on Saturday. New York City is
credited with Is, 448 men Brooklyn,
6,046; Buffalo, 1923; other portions of
the State, ,807 previously credited, III;
total 81, 746. The Government notifies
Gen. Townsend thatthe present bounties
to recruits will be continued until fur
ther orders.
Gen. Rosecrans, being. satisfied that
the citizens OF Cooper and Boone couu-
ties, Mo-, have encouraged bushWhack-
ers and other bands of outlaws, and that
Thomas Waterman, the only support OF
a widowed mother and two sisters, was
recently shot on a steamer lying at the
wharf at Boonviile, by a gang of these
villains, has ordered an assessment of
$4,000 on the disloyaI citizens of said
town for the benefit of the mother and
sisters of Waterman.
4 new plan of distributing mail mat
ter is about to be introduced into our
postal system, and the result will be q
decided gain to the public in the time
occupied in transmitting and delivering
the mails. The distributions are to be
done hereafter in the cars by clerks de-
tailed for the purpose, so that the delay
hitherto required for the work will be
obviated, and mail matter can be taken
at later period.
A curious accident from wearing
hoop skirt occurred in Cincinnati, a few
days since. A Mrs. Gregg, in the ab-
sence of her husband, carried a pail Of
water to the horse. When entering the
stall, the horse, in kicking off flies, put
his foot through the skirt of the woman,
when, in her endeavors to get clear Of
the horse, she had her leg broken by
kick, and was otherwise badly injured.
A sister coming to the rescue was also
severely kicked-having her shoulder
blade broken and side bruised.
Gsa- The opposing candidates for the
h Of Ind diana hold O nthor of