Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-02

ferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the
18th instant. ---.
A reading room n Richmond, sup
Ilied with the Northern papers, charges
S. per day for admission.
tits estimated that fifty lives and one
million Of property were destroyed by
the late storms on the lakes.
In London. England. recently, it vas
decided il Court chat marriage Of 8
woman with a deceased husbands half.
brother was not legal, .....
An ;sgenio,Is Pennsylvania has IL
vented :! machine fox coal mining which
weighs but 100 pounds, costs but $500,
and ye5 does the laioE Of twenty men.
Tie electors e President AID Vice
President meet IL the capitals cf their
respective States or the frat Wednesday
OF December next, and cast their votes.
The New York Tribune says it has
made no money the last year, and has
lost thousands of dollars on its weekly
edition. So it revises and raises prices
for 1865.
Negro minstrels IL New York get
from $40 to $50 week, and the best
singers get something handsome besides
by singing at the fashionable churches
on Sunday.
The Davenport Gazette says rockets Of
peculiar blue color have been thrown up
recently of nights from point opposite
the rebel prison at Rock Island. They
are undoubtedly signals othe prisoners,
in the opinion of the Gasette.
The New York Herald gives table of
thirty-siX railroad accidents which oc-
Cured in the United States between the
list of September and the 18th of Novem-
ber, resulting in the death of 122 persons
and the wounding of s55.
1t showed all Tuesday night at Cleve-
land and thereabOuts, and on Wednes-
day there was six inches of snow on the
ground-theh heaviest fall of snow known
in that region, at this early season, for
many years.
There is a general growl in the Boston
papers about the price Of potatoes in
that city. One hundred miles distant
they may be bought at thirty to fifty
cents, but the retailers there keep up the
price to one dollar.
The leading Democrats of New Jersey
do not appear to favor the election Of
General Mcclellan to the United States
Senate. John P. Stockton, of Trenton,
son of Commodore Stockton, is sup
posed to have the inside track.
A batch of bounty.jumpers recently
arrested at Indianapolis have had $27,-
600 taken from them. The money will
be sent to the National Treasury, whence
some of it was drawn in the shape Of
bounties.
l.
$500 pounds recently presented to Mr..
Lincoln by a citizen of Massachusetts
has been given him by the former to the
Sailors Fair at Boston. His name is
Gen. Grant, and he will be ratified off at
S5 q share. al
1t is five months since two men and
u dog started to sail across the Atlantic
III little boat, the Vision, scarcely big
enough for safe river navigation
Nothing has been heard from them
since, and they have probably paid the
penalty of their fool-hardiness by Q
watery grave. .-
A large number Of Southern refugees
are now collected at Chattanooga They
are in destitute condition, and the
Government furnishes them with SUBJ
During the past two weeks,
four thousand rations of bread and meat
per day have been issued to this unfor.
tunate class of people. .l.
An. arrangement has besn entered into
by which the rebel government is per-
mitted to send 1000 bales Of cotton to
New YORK and sell it there, the proceeds
TO be applied TO the purchase of neces-
saries and comforts for rebel prisoners
in our hands The business is 10 be
conducted by rebel officers paroled for
the purpose.
The Executive Committee OF East
Tennessee have called State COnven-
ton, to meet in Nashville on the 18th of
December, to form ticket to be run for
3 Constitutional Convention, the Gov
ernor to designate the day for the cleo
tion by proclamation. Middle and
West Tennessee are called upon to unite
In the movement
The Canada sensation relative to
among the Fenian Brother
hood has apparently ended in smoke
Mcclure, the man in whose house were
found the savage looking pixies, has
Deen tried and acquitted, the Judge, in
the prisoner, stating that
here was no law in Canada to prevent
. man from having pixies in his house if
ne wanted to do so.
There are between one hundred and
wo hundred quartz mills in operation
n Nevada. Three-fourths of them are
lriven by steam and the rest by water.
They are capable of crushing 100 tons of
luartz day, and the average yield of
re is $50 ton. An immense basin of
ait. Ave miles square, was lately dis
overed in Nevada. The deposit is
ourteen feet deep, and yields rock salt