Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-25
GLEANINGS.

The soldiers in and around st. Louis
are to be given Thanksgiving dinner
at the Lindell House. ..,
Advices from the Western plains state
that the snow in Colorado is several feet
deep.
The number of bounty-baited Cana
dams in the Federal service is estimated
at thirty thousand.
Reports of the election of Mcclellan
caused premature display o; rejoicing
in Richmond on Thursday of last week.
This is the official statement of the
presidential vote of the Pennsylvania
fsoldiers: Lincoln Is, sos, Mcclellan ,474.
| There are 5000, 600 native Germans in
the United States, and this years emf
grafton will add 10000 to that number.
The Journal Of Commerce says it has
abandoned politics. 1t never had any
other sort of politics.
Gen. Hooker's headquarters, by order
OF the war department, will be removed
from Cincinnati to Columbus on the lst
OF next month.
Official returns of the vote in New
YORK State show majority for Lincoln
OF & 1866, and for Fenton, for Governor.
of S,197. The number of votes east was
a little over 730, OOO-about 10000 more
! than in 1860.
A Paris letter to the New York Herald
says that Richard Hildreth, the United
States Consul at Trieste, and author of
an eXcellenthistory of the United States,
has become hopelessly insane from soft
ening of the brain.
One thousand dollars were lately lost
from one Of the rooms of the Treasury
Department at Washington, and Secre-
tary Fessenden now shuts out all visit
ors from the rooms where they make,
count Or number notes and bonds.
According to the Commercial Bulletins
list, there are no less than two hundred
and ninety different petroleum compa-
MES, having offices in New York, Phil
adeiphia, Pittsburg and Boston.
Sarah Jane Smith, of Washington
| county, Arkansas, has been sentenced to
be hung on the 18th of the present
month, by military commission at St.
Louis, for cutting government telegraph
wires.
No danger of another draft in New
| York City. The average daily number
OF recruits and substitutes enlisted is 10,
and the prices of substitutes are 1920,
$40, and $3.50 for one, two and three
years.
Wisconsin has done well. Her Union
majority, counting the soldiers vote, is
$4,000; without it 1000 She sends four
UniOnists and one Democrat to Con-
gress, while in each house of the Legis-
lature over twO-thirds of the members
are Union.
Miss Malinda Caryt a resident of Kit
aiming, Pa, died recently in Philadel-
phia, from the effects of chloroform adj
| ministered in the usual manner by q
dentist. The coroner's jury called upon
the Legislature to pass a law inflicting
heavy penalties upon all who persist in
the practice.
John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Ma
F., ton, and q refugee from his country,
now residing in Philadelphia, has re-
ceived intelligence of the death of his
eldest son, James. He was seventeen
months confined in Il rebel prison in
| Texas, and died shortly after his release
| AN IMPORTANT HAUL OF GUERRII-
LAS IN IOWA.-On Saturday evening
| Major Duncan, Provost Marshal Of this
| I9tdtt, letelNeu liiiOIilldLIOIl from tapl.
| Browneli Deputy Provost Marshal of
the 9Th District, to the effect, that on
the 18th instant, Col. George Burton,
| Deputy Provost Marshal for Decatur
county, arrested a gang of nine guerril-
las, and delivered them at Des Moines
on the 18th instant. They deny that
they are guerrilias, but claim that they
are regularly enlisted soldiers in the reb-
| Ell service.
Their names are Joseph J. Weldon,
who is leader of the band, and claims to
be private of Company b, list Missouri
Rebel Cavalry; George NJ. Eye, ID Ser
geant-same company and regiment !;
Fhos. L. Eye, I'd Sergeant in same COM
pany and regiment also privates Calvin
Burge, Enoch Eye, Matthew McCue,
| Franklin Brown, \. NJ. Thompson and
! Geo. Phillips.
| Weldon, the leader of the gang, states
! that he came into Missouri with Cen
eral Prices raid this fall--that upon ar
irving al the Missouri River he and
some others We're detached by General
Shelby and sent out into Northern Mis-
souri, for the purpose OF c0nScripting re-
| cruits, with the promise that in case he
succeeded he should be promoted to a
Captain in the rebel service He states
that he made his way with his party in
! to Northern Missouri, where he found
conscripting rather npopular-indeed
he did not deem it a safe place for him
or his men. So, rather than 90 back to
the main army without a company of
conscripts, they concluded to desert
But they were fearful that if they enter
ed the Union lines their property in Sc
cessna would be conscripted, and if they
| remained in Missouri the State militia
| II how l,fo
to try and slip up through Iowa into Ne
| braska, and spend the winter there, ho-
ping, probably, that peace would be res
| tored before spring.
! They claim treatment as prisoners of
| war, though they object to an exchan age,
preterring rather to take the oath of al
!egiance and remain in the North. The
probability is that this story is princi-
pally CANNON; in fact, Major Duncan
| is provided with abundant proof from
one who has hung Oh their rear some
six weeks, and who has learned their
history well, going to show that they
are no regular Confederate soldiers
but guerrillas-murderers and robbers,
providing through the country here and
there. seeking blood and plnnder.
If the case is fully made out their fate
will be permanent release from further
service by being sent across the dead
line. o-D0uGnpOrt Democrat.
nSs2- The I'ishmon, liberal paper
printed at Dublin, commenting upon
the Florida affair and the thunders of the
London press, hits the nail squarely on
the head in the following paragraph:
=" But what power is this that dares to
stand forward as the champion of Bra
zil? England, that only few days ago
vioiatedsilerself in the most wanton and
audacious manner, the integrity of the
Brazilian flag, outraged Brazilian sub
iects and seized in Brazilian waters Bra
lillian ships. For this outrage England