Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-12
VOL. XVI--NO. 4.
GLEANINGs.

aLEANIxGs.
Gov. Curtin has organized at Harris
burg eighteen regiments of one hundred
daye' men, and Philadelphia has raised
five more regiments.
Lieut.. Frank Brownell, the avenger
of Ellsworth, has been appointed Assis-
tant Provost Marshal of one of the SUBJ
districts of the District of st. Louis.
The distance from Chattanooga to
Atlanta is one hundred and thirty-four
miles; from Atlanta to Macon, where
many of our prisoners are confined, is
one hundred and three miles.
Gen. Butler day or two since arrested
Charles Gallagher, sutler, within his
lines, for selling bottle of liquor to a
soldier, and confiscated four vessel loads
of goods which he had in the river.
A grand grape and wine exhibition is
to be given at Cleveland on the 9th,
28th, 18th and 30th of September. Lib
information address F. r. Elliott of
Cleveland.
Copperhead troubles are rather on the
increase in Southern Illinois. There
are regular encampments of armed men
in Montgomery county. The Union
men are arming also, and several collis-
ions have already occurred
The number of National Banks is now
487. OF these 79 are in Ohio, 81 in Illi-
nois, % in Indiana, 13 in Michigan, 16
in Iowa, IL in Wisconsin, 6 in Missouri,
II in Pennsylvania, 81 in New York, 13
in New Jersey, and in New England.
Rev. DIR. Thompson, late of Buffalo,
but now of the Second Presbyteria
Church in Cincinnati, having recently
married, his congregation rendered him
gift of $1,000. His regular salary is
1000, and there is talk of putting it
permanently at $1,000.
Judge Allison, of Philadelphia, decid-
ed the other day that woman who in
sists upon leaving her husband, while
her husband insists upon her under
standing that he shall not follow her, is
not entitled to an order from the court
compelling her husband to support her.
Army pies are so terribly tough that
the soldiers call them leather pies. A
poor fellow of Grants army, whose arm
had just been amputated, was being car
ried past a stand the other day where an
old woman was selling pies, when he
raised himselfin the ambulance and cal
led out, II say, old lady, are those pies
sewed OF pegged ?''
The third largest bell in America has
just been finished by Messrs. Mensely,
of Troy, N. Y. for Newark, N. J. It
weighs l., 900 pounds. The largest bell
in the States is suspended in the rear of
the City Hall, New York, and weighs
$4,000 pounds. The bell in the .cathe-
dral at Montreal weighs about $4,000 lbs.
The army at Memphis seems to be
under going thorough reorganization.
The cavalry force, which was formerly
consolidated in one division under Gen.
Grierson, has been re-organized into
two divisions, first, commanded by
Brig. Gen. Hatch, and second by Col.
Winslow. Gen. Grierson commands also
a cavalry force. The reorganization of
the infantry force is not yet perfected.
The regions about the Red River of
the North, after having been afflicted
with long drouth, have been visited by
immense numbers of grasshoppers,
which have already eaten up the crops
for a section of twenty-four miles. The
barley falls first, then they strip the
wheat and finally cut them down also,
gnawing through the stalk just below
the ear. The potatoes have hitherto
been spared, but probably will be attack
ed after the grain crops are eaten up.
Unless the plague is stayed a famine is
certain.
A few days ago one of our ordinary
gunboats, belonging to
Admiral Lees fleet, on the James river
was fired at from a rebel shore battery.
One of the shells struck and entered the
magazine, but did not explode Upon
search being made for the rebel missile,
it was discovered that it had passed
through t,oo barrels of poVder, and
lodged in the third, from which it was
removed. At the time this kindly shell
made it's grand entree into the magazine
there were about one hundred souls
officers and men-on board of the gun
boat, every one of whom would un-
doubtedly, have been blown to atoms
had it exploded.
One of the saddest things in New
York life is the great number of young
girls under the age ofsixteen, who throng
the streets, fill the low concert saloons,
and are found in the low dance cellars in
every section of the city. At an early
age they commence their drunken and
dissolute life. The great mass of street.
walkers and dwellers in disreputable
houses are mere children. They can be
seen afternoons, crossing the ferries of
Brooklyn, Staten Island, Jersey City,
Hoboken, and other localities, and re-
turning in the morning regularly after
their night of debauch. Many of these
have fathers who are in the war or at
sea; many of them have brutal parents,
who abandon their children to life of
infamy, and live on their earnings:
many of these girls are depraved beyond
belief and bid defiance to parental rule;
many mothers with more children than
they can support, amid sickness and
poverty, starving daily while making
cloth caps for German Jews at shilling
a dozen, are too thankful to take the
food and even luXuries that their chill
dren can furnish, to inquire too strictly
how their children spend the night, or
gain the money which brings gladness
to their desolate hearthstones. But the
number and audacity of these young
girls is appalling. The worst class
among us, who breed brawls and riots,
commit robberies and burglaries, are
young fellows between sixteen and
twenty, known as sIrish-Americans, born
in this land Of Irish parents; so the
great amount of crime is in the hands
of mere children of both sexes.
The Repulse at Petersburg.--NO Reason
to Despair.
The New York Herald, in the course
Of an article on the unsuccessful assault
at Petersburg, says:
Because an assault has been renulsod