Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-29
IOWA NEWS.

Regular trains on the Keokuk & Des-
moines Valley Railroad will commence
running to Oskaloosa on the LIST day of
August. We congratulate the Oskaloo-
slams.
The Marshall Co. Reporter says
one Chatterton was employed by the
Presbyterian Society of Marshalltown
to build them a church and 1900 in
money was advanced to him. He went
to Chicago to purchase material, and
that is the last seen of him. He is prob
ably a swindler.
"A Mrs. Hecker, who resides with
her husband, (if he can be called hus-
band, near the Railroad crossing on
Third street, administered poison to her
self and babe, on Saturday morning last.
The babe died shortly after taking the
poison. The mother is still living, but
doubts are entertained of her recovery.
She was lodged in jail last evening"
Burlington Ha,pkeye, 25th.
Capt. w. E. Taylor, of Wayne coun-
ty, formerly member of the Iowa
Senate, and a pro-slavery Democrat at
the time, is now laboring Zealously for
the election of Lincoln and Johnson.
Another Democratic Senator from the
same District, Mr.. Esteb, is doing the
same thing. How can Copperheads in
dulge hope of success in the midst of
this general backing out from their Sc
H., W
honest men and they couldn't do other
wise.
Congressional Conventions will be
held in Iowa as follows: In the First
District, at Fairfield, August 18th; in
the Second, at Dewitt, on the 1st day of
September; in the Third, at West
Union, on the 14th day of August; in
the Fourth, at Oskaloosa, on the Sd day
of August; in the Sixth, at Fort Dodge,
on the 3lst day of August. The Fifth
has, as our readers know, already held
its convention, Mr.. Kasson having been
re-nOminated.
THE EPIDEMIC IN LOUISA COUNTY
The Wapello Republican says the tlux
epidemic now spread through that town
and adjoining neighborhoods, is one of
the most serious visitations of the kind
that ever fell upon the community.
Twenty deaths have occurred in nine
days-all of children. There appears to
be nothing like contagion in the dis
ease, and the number Of cases is dimin-
fishing. But few grown persons have
been attacked, and in those cases the
disease seems to yield more readily to
medical treatment.
Mr.. Tefl, q prominent citizen of In
dependence, was drowned while bathing
on the 23d inst.
The Dubuque Times quotes lead at
SIS, 90 $3.50 per hundred. 1t says a
lead has just been discovered near Ga
lena which will yield 100000 pounds.
Payment of Troops in Sherman's Army.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
bune writes from Sherman's army:
General Sherman has recently made
orders in relation to the payment OF the
troops of this army, which are very inn
portant and commend themselves by
their good sense. The money is not to
be brought to the field, but instead the
pay rolls of the troops are to be made
out and receipted, and ito Nashville.
The Pay Department there will send the
amount due each man to such place as
he shall designate, or if the soldier
choose, the money can remain on deposit
with the government. Money in the
field, during such a campaign as this, is
of no use to the men. They can use it
only with such suttlers as reach the
front, by buying trash at exorbitant
prices. There is nothing in the country
to buy. With the single exception of
tobacco, there is nothing which a SOL
der needs, with which he is not provid
ed by the Commissary or Quartermas-
ter's Departments. Such sums as he
wishes to send home can be sent cheaper
and safer through the channels provid-
ed by General Sherman than if brought
to the field. Officers and men are put
on the same footing by this order. I'm
der the old rules officers subsisted by
the purchase of supplies from the Com
missariat. Hereafter they will draw one
ration per day from the Commissary,
which will be charged on their pay ac-
count. The sense and wisdom of this
order are characteristic of General Sher-
man.