Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-18


ments, and destroy the railroad from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. General Sher-
man has setfire to Atlanta. completely
destroying that place
General Shermap is marching directly
for Charleston, south Carolina.
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Major General Washburne has been
removed from his command ut Mem
pAis, by General Dana. Cause not
stated.
Belmont's equipage at Newport is
valued ct s33,O 900. The horses cost S25.-
600. 1t consists Of barouche and four
outriders, etc. .e
| General Butter did not supercede
General Dix In the Eastern Depart
ilent. but merely reinforced him till the
election excitement is oyer.
/ General McCieiian's resignation as
Major-GeneiaI in the United States
army was received by the War Depart
ment Oh Tuesday day Of the elec-
| tion.
There is s. boy in Quincy, Mass, two
years Old. that can cali all tile letters Of
! the alphabet, spell thiec or four words.
and do u SUM il arithmetic. lis name
is Frank Adams Tirrel.
! The last report Of lie Commissioner
O. Internal Revenue shows that the i'll
| Cume Of the government from internal
taxes IS about SO, 1900, Geo 9 Month, or
nearly s200, ,090,O0o Il year.
Ihe total vote OF Chicago al the late
election was 27,023, and of Cincinnati
! 25, 80. This Indicates that Chicago has
| q larger population than Cincinnati,
" llcl. the census has never yet shown.
Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, is again
filling up with rebel prisoners Among
the late arrivals are Charles S. Cockey
aid VIVA. Hart, of Baltimore, convicted
| by = military commission Of giving aid
ana comfort to the rebels.
! The cuougo, a small Mexican insect,
promises to take a position in the world,
% position III ladies' hair for ornament.
Il is said to possess wonderful qualities,
beauty Of color and lustre dazzling
even the diamond, and as varying in
| ori:. ut hues.
| 4 wife in San Francisco lately put
petition for divorce in the court on the
ground that her husband was "con-
| founded FOOL The court wouldn't ad-
init the plea, because almost every mar
led man would be liable to the same
mputation. Did you ever?
The head Of a boy, apparently about
Il years of age, was found in an open
cellar in Cincinnati, on the 5th instant.
The head was wrapped up in q copy of
the st. Louis Rel2ubHc0n of Sept. 18th.
No clue has been discovered to the mys-
| terry.
There are said to be in the United
States fifty thousand heather. Idol
gods are worslipped i'll two heather
| temples i'll San Francisco. The Chinese
have large colonies scattered all over
| California;, and the work of their evan
gelization is an inviting one for Chris
tians OF every sect.
| J. w. Fabens, Of Fort Lee. n. j., is
importing camels to use on our north
western plains. particularly in establish
| ing an armed caravan between the Mis-
souri, river and our western gold bearing
| territories. A couple recently arrived
at New York, accompanied by 81 native
Arab keeper.
| J. Y. Cochran was brutally murdered
at his own house, six miles from DE go
| 10, ILL.,, at nine o'clock in the evening of
the 9th inst, by a company OF men
with blackened faces. His son Jasper
was carried away by them and was af-
terwards found hanging to tree. No
clue has been obtained to the perpetYat-
oHs Of the outrage.
General Sheridan and several Iaem-
bels of his staff We're taken violently i'll
at Winchester the other day, and it was
supposed that corrosive sublimate had
been introduced into some cheese, of
which they had all paFtakell freely. AT
one time their case was considered des-
perate, but they are now reported out of
danger.
It now appears that though the Abe
marie was sunk by the torpedo placed
under her by Lieut.. Cushing, she was
not seriously injured and can be raised
and repaired. AS Plymouth is now in
possession of our troops, that work will
be done by Union hands and the form
ioable iron-clad soon be flying the stars
and stripes.
The Canadians are now being treated
to IL plot Of their own 4 c0nspiracv,in
which the Fenian brotherhood is in
VOWED, has been discovered at Toronto,
and number Of arrests have been
made. The Fenians, as is well known,
are league of Irishmcn whose princi-
pal object is to free the Green Isle from
British rule.
At Panesvi]e, Ohio. there is a man,
Valentine Perkins, 81 years old, whose
bones have all become limestone. Cssi-
fcation has been going on since he was
Il years Old, when his knee was badly
injured, and the joint became ossified.
For thirty years he has been blind and
unable to open his jaws. and for forty
years he has laid on his side on bed.
Food is placed in his mouth and nature
gets it into bis stomach. His appetite
is good, and so are bis memory and gen.
eral intelligence.
Mrs. Frances L. Clayton, now in
Maine, enlisted in the army at st. Paul,
Mimi, with her husband, in 1861, and
fought by his side in the battle of Stone
River. She was in eighteen battles;
once prisoner; three times wounded
in hand, hip and knee; and at her hus-
bands death made known her sex to her
General and was discharged. After
that she walked ninety-three miles,
from Lexington to Louisville, bare
headed and bare-footed, tracking her
way in Dlood. 2.''