Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-01

love liberty, justice, truth ana rlgnt, ano nate
despotism, slavery and rebellion, take eour-
age, and renew their efforts in providing for
our brave soldiers now in the field, and the
day is not far distant when our country will
indeed be the land for the oppressed and the
home of the free. L. q. w.
News Paragraph. ma.
Strawberries have been offered in New
York at one dollar dozen. .s.-og u,
Fast-day in New Hampshire and Massachu-
sets is appointed for Thursday, April 9TH.
The receipts of internal revenue from the
State of Iowa, for the year 1868, amounted
to 1886, 1888. .~.e ,Tel r'' ~
The late Rev. Thomas Starr King was
buried beneath the pulpit Of his church At
San francisco. # vasc
The bills enabling Colorado, Nevada and
Nebraska Territories to become States have
been signed by the President. =, IS
The active preachers of the Methodist Church
IN the United States number six thousand; the
superannuated eight hundred and twenty
four. co.. -.
W.D. Griswold, Esq., the newly elected
President of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
Is to receive the comfortable salary of 49,.
O00a year. 9).| fa-''- '.-
Thad. Stevens, Of Pennsylvania, is the
poorest writer in Congress. Corporeally
Oongressmen Baldwin, Of the Worcester dis
trict, is the biggest man, and "Sunset" Cox
of Ohio, the smallest
The President has dishonorably dismissed
the service Col. Wolford, for violation Of
the fifth article of war by his reasonable
speech at Lexington. This punishment is 9
light one for the offenso. s...t .-,
ACatholic Priest, Rev. John Thomas Neahs
was killed . few days SINCE at Nashville
Tenn, by accidentally falling from the viz
dow of . dwelling attached to the Cathedral
where he oficiated. ~ ~ 40 - 90 '
The Wholesale grocers of Chicago have re
solved to adopt the strict cash system in sell
ing goods. For the receipt Of goods, exami
nation Of bills and covering payments, fifteen
days are considered as cash.
A delegation of Chippewa Chiefs is on the
way to Washington to settle some points in Z
treaty. It comes from the Red River region
and numbers twenty, ipsluding miscegena
ZIONIST (half-breed) interpreter: :"
Seamen are very scarce at present. A Bos.
ton firm recently obtained at some considera'
BILE expense crew for one Of their ships
from distant city, but before night they had
all obliged in the arpy.
DR.. Franklin Bache, great grandson Of
DR.. Franklin, one of the authors Of Wood 4
Bache's Dispensatory and prominent physi
clan and medical professor of Philadelphia
died in that city on Saturday at the age Of r.
The rebel prisoners at Camp Chase have
been sent to Fort Delaware. Five. hundred
Of those at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, were
also sent to the same place on Saturday.
There are still over $500 prisoners at Camp
Norton. ,eaa as T ~
Vigilance committees are already AZ worn
in the Idaho gold region, trying, banishing
and hanging rascals who are given to theft
and murder. Idaho is therefore repeating
the early history Of California. both in regard
to gold and lynch law.
The first Western link of the Great Central
Pacific Railway has been finished IN Ca!ifor.
mia. It vas opened February 9Th, with inn
posing ceremonies, to San Jose, fifty miles 10
length. Il forms the first section on the Pa
cific slope of the great contemplated railway
across the continent, and cost two millions Of
dollars. SanF.A. Is.
The people Of Louisiana have paid 81 900,
900 in revenue taxes under the United States
excise laws. In nine months $685., 900 was
paid to the former collector, and the present
collector has received $4,000 in three
months. During the year $50 900 in revenue
stamps have been sold. That portion of the
State that is within our lines seems, therefore,
to be doing something for the Union.
Louisiana seems to have more Governors
than she knows what to do with. A rebel
Governor is still ruling in the outer parishes.
Gov. Riddle, whose authority Emerson Ether
idge recognized, Is at New Orleans, but finds
nothing to do. Gov. Hahn has. now been
inaugurated, and Gov. Shcpley, the military
governor, 1t seems has not yet given up bis
position, and it is said there is some hitch in
the way Of his doing it. rs 49,
Capt. Spoke, in his Journal, mentions
the Wakidi, and African tribe of stark-naked
people, who live up in trees-have small stools
fixed on behind, always ready for sitting
wear their hair hanging low down the back,
all covered with cowfie shells-suspend beads
from wire attached to their ears and their
lower lips-apd strong iron collars and
bracelets. This people are so fierce in war
that no other tribe can stand against them,
though they only fight with short spears.
Hagas o.. n