Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-03
GLEANINGS.
-haniel Hawthorne was found dead
s bed by his friend ex-President

| ''-' GLEANINGS.h 3tI 'y5f tt'
| Nathaniel Hawthorne was found dead
In his bed by his friend ex-President
| Pierce t,-tr1Ht u. e.l--.li 1855 ... sf'
| The Danish monarchy is now reduced
to two islands OF the sea, frozen up six
months the year. ir 5eaJ .5. ,,r.
Ohio has sent twenty-six regiments of
National Guards to the field under the
hundred day call. I,.,.t...-.f -
The Belleville, Illinois Volks6latt, q
German Copperhead paper, was destroy
ed by soldiers few days since.
Gen. Buell. has been mustered out of
the military service for refusing to ac-
cept q command under Gen. Candy.
Cen: Rosecrans dismissed two officers
from The service, at st. Louis, the other
day, for being found in house of i'll
fame. lsr...t -sl--u - .I-,-,,-,
Jacob M. Wood, ex-Chief of Police of
Troy, n. York, has just been convicted
OF passing counterfeit postal currency,
|and sent to State Prison for three years.
| Cen. Sigel has been appointed by
| Ger Hunter to the command of the
Reserve Division, which will comprise
all Of the troops on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. f.-. ,.
Island Ten has been evacuated, the
guns brought away and the negroes sent
to Helena to work on plantations. The
island is deemed Of no Importance as a
military post, hence its abandonment.
J5nres T. Friely, young guerrilla
lca pt3in, was hung in the State prison
yard in Nashville ON the Goth. He was
perfectly cool on the scaffold, and died
hard, the fall not breaking his neck.
Th9:War Department has determined
Ito Grant furloughs of from thirty to sixty
| days to wounded soldiers who can bear
4 trans pOrtation to their homes This hui
mane. determination will be gratifying
to the brave fellows. ',-,
Gov Hall, of Missouri, has commuteel
the sentence of Catherine Mccoy, who
! was &entenced to be hung on the 2lst
inst, for llillinga little girl. Herpromp mpt
confession and good behavior while in
Jail, seems to have induced this leniency.
| There has been very disastrous food
at Denver City, occasioned by the over
| flow OF q creek which had hitherto been
dry for five years. Property to the
yalue Of 1,000,0 900 was destroyed and q
lnumber Of lives were lost
| Col. John J. Mudd, of the Ind Hi
incis Cavalry, chief Of Cavalry on Gen.
| NcClernand's staff, and one of the most
valuable officers in the cavalry service,
was snot through the head and instantly
X! ,sS!, on Red river, on the 2nd instant.
The President has pardoned Captain
| Black in the Quartermasters Depart
ment at Louisville, recently convicted
by court-martial of extensive frauds in
Ethe purchase Of mixed grain. Black
was sentenced to pay a fine of five
thousand dollars and to be imprisoned
III he penitentiary till paid.
ENtravagance is the rule and economy
the exception in California. Easily
got easily spent y say the miners. The
san Francisco Bulletin says that "there
are mon who were poor and not ashamed
oi lt, within five years, in San Francis
60, Who now tell, without blush, that
they cannot live on $4,000 year
Dupont's Powder Mill, at Whining
ton, Delaware, exploded Oh the 18th,
| and i've men were killed. It is sup
posed that in saving board the saw
lstruck fire in contact with nail, and
communicated it Ito the powder on the
| tiooC, and thence to tub containing 200
ponds. -'''
By am accident on the Cleveland, CO.
lumbus and Cincinnati R. r. near Card
ingtOn, o., on the 21st, VIM. Dewitt, of
| Cleveland, (of the firm of Younglove
Dewitt & Co.. was killed. and several
Others injured. The accident was caused
by broken rail throwing the third pas
senger car off the track. ,..
THE following additional Bishops have
been elected by the Methodist General
Conference at Philadelphia: DR.. d. NJ.
Clark, Editor of the Lddg's Repository.
OF Cincinnati, o.; DR.. c. Thompson,
Editor of the Adoocote and Journal, N.
u, and DR.. G. Kingsley, Editor of the
III. II. AduOcate, Cincinnati, O. ID.
The Keokuk Constitution learns that
there are not less than seventeen thous-
ana tons of freight destined for Idaho
now lying at ST. Louis and various
points along the Missouri, but unable
to proceed on account of lowness of wa
ter. MackinaW or keel boats that have
JUS come down from head waters report
low later all along, and no prospect of
The St. Louis Fair has attached to it
a paw feature, in Plantation Kitchen,
w. will include a gaping fireplace,
L ovens, hominy mortar, broken
c~- etc. A troop of "house SER
wants." in plantation costume, will be
engaged preparing hoe-cake and other
food Of the coarser kind. To copy ma
ture faithfully, the food should have
been left out.
Two brothers, Samuel and Thomas
Ferguson, were hanged at Helena, Ark,
on the Goth instant, for the murder of a
Mr.. Allison and another man. The
crime was committed about three
months ago, and two miles outside of
our lines. After killing them, they
brought their teams and a load of cotton
into Helena and sold it, and got on a
boat and started up the river; but Gen.
Buford started another boat after and
overhauled her, bringing back the pris-
oneTs. In the absence of civil courts
they were tried by military court. The
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