Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-23

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Henry r. Schoolcraft, the writer npon
! the Indian tribes of the Northwest,
died few days ago, aged II.
| J. Medill, Esq, editor of the Chicago
marble front buildings in Chicago, for
SEA, 900.
William Battles was hung ut Mays
vile, N. Y, on the I'd, for the murder
of John Mcdonald in Dunkirk, N. ",
last March. ".. 80
Gen. ROsecrans relinquished the COM
mand Of the Missouri Department on the
9Th inst, and his successor, Gen. Dodge,
assumed it.
A man in Worcester, Massachusetts,
has succeeded in raising four pounds OF
pure Java coffee this season. 1t is plump
and Of good flavor. He proposes to try
again
The Nashville Press of the 18th quotes
eggs atone dollar adozen in that market.
One dealer purchased a thousand dozen
at that price. This is eggs-traordinary.
The youngest child of Gen. Sherman
died at South Bend, Ind, few days
lsince.-This is the second death in his
family since the General went into the
field.
Skating fet1s are MI the rage in Chi
| cagO. Old and young, little and big,
men, women and children, swarm on
the skating-parks of that city every
evening, to indulge in this sport. 49,
Twenty three thousand dollars to.
| ward the one hundred thousand dollar
l finn hair 4 mi Eu M
in New York have already been con-
tributed.
The tunnel under the lake at Chicago
| for supply of water goes on well-it
has progressed out 100 feet, nearly a
quarter of a mile, goes ahead 10 feet a
day, will he half mile long next May,
and all done, two miles out, in 1856.
Among the curiosities at the recent
Mechanics Fair in San Fran cisco We're
"a ten-toed OK, three-legged calf, a
| Ihree-legged dog, and the celebrated up
| right game-cock-four of the most extra
ordinary curiosities in the State"
| The bill liz Congress for ship canal
from the Mississippi riverto Lake Mich
| igan has been postponed in the House,
to the 23d of January. The Niagar;
| Falls ship canal bill was disposed of il
the Same way. -
The Senate has passed the House
| measure, which has thus become law,
| 10 put six fast single gun steamers for
| the revenue service on the lakes. 1t cali
not be done too soon. A million della1s.
is appropriated therefor. t'- -
The Secretary Of the Treasury gives
notice of his readiness to redeem in law
| full money, or convert into bonds the Ole
! 80 Treasury Notes still outstanding,
and that the interest will cease on al,
such notes not presented within three
! months from this Gate.
| Three violent shocks of earthquake s
| were felt at Vancouver's Island on the
| 2d of November. An examination OF
Mt. Baker, Washington Territory, a
| volcano, about 400 miles distant, shows
! that it's summit, mile in width, has
collapsed and fallen in. This is thought
| to have some connection with the earth
quake. 7f' "H ,lt-.
Mrs. Eliza w. Farnum, we'll known
as philanthropist and author. died III
New York on Thursday, at the age o.
forty-nine. Her last book, 1.-THE Era OF!
| Woman" to which she devoted abou,
! twenty years Of her life, is thought to
have so exhausted her energies as to
! have materially shortened her life.
Six hundred barrels of whisky are con-
sumed in the city of New York every
day or the average, according to the re-
| port of the Commissioners of Internal
Revenue. Add to this frightful con-
sumption thas OF other liquors, and We
| have satisfactory explanation of the
crime of the metropolis, as well Us of its
huge Democratic majorities. g
Henry Carney, boy ten years old,
living at Gloucester, n. j., was killed
| by ferocious blood hound week before
last. The child was tossed about i'll the
| field some time, spectators surprising it
70 be dead animal, till they discovered
! it was a human being, when they went
to the child's rescue. But they were too
late. -- 5'' tna1 ''e a. .'e. ,,...
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
| pany paid into the State Treasury, on
| the 18th inst, the sum of $2234 ,455-be-
| ing seven per cent, of the gross earnings
of The road for the six months ending or
tho 3ist Of October last. 1t is said this
! com pany has offered to give million
dollars towards the construction Of pub
| lie buildings on condition that the capt.
| tai of Illinois is removed to Decatur.
Gen. Butter has issued an order for
bidding officers borrowing money of en-
| listed inen, He directs that hereafter 1t
| viii: be held cause to recommend for dis
! missal any officer who shall borrow
| money or incur debt to an enlisted man.
After the next payment any, officer who
shall be indebted to an enlisted man,
| and has not paid him, will be recon-
mended Tor dismissal upon complaint OF
his creditor. ~. ,,....' ..,..f: -Hiis
| In accordance with the agreement be-
tween the Federal and Confederate Com
| General z. A. G.. s., q prisoner Of war,
has been paroled to act in the capacity
of Confederate agent 10 supply prisoner
of war He has established his head
quarters in Nav York and is devotiEs
| Ills time and labOrs to make comfortable
the rebel soldiers held by us rs prisoners
of war. Out of a fund furnished 10y the
| Confederate Government, he supplies.
them with clothing, blankets, and pro
visions. .-t.4itI ,-
| A largo number of drafted men il
ClearfieId county, Pa, have refused to
appear, and have fled to the mou ntains
and organized themselves into an armeu
band to resist the officers. AS was no
ticed in our dispatches recently, these
outlaws had fight with the military
in which they suffered u repufse, but
5heir remaining strength was 80 great
That second expedition was dispatched
against them on the 18th inst, and q
|:ight ensued, in which one OF the lead
ing deserters was killed, and nineteen
OF his men captured. One of the sol.
diers was killed. 1t is believed that tie
end Of the troubles is not yet, as other
and larger parties of deserters are in
branching themselves in the mountains.
IL f." ie( H.lli 3ITIl :. ~ / .ll- SH! r.i..
EVERY CHURCH MAY HAVE AN Or
4AN.-It seems marvellous that a thin
strip of metal, an inch and a half long