Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-29
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III. AuAoTAuSt, III II D TtpOIt VI tue 1liSAto
asyllns Of Pennsylvania, noteG the enor
nous increase offenale patents whose in a n
ity is caused by the loss of relatives in war
The War Department his backed down from
h. position taken not to admit enlisted men
Of The army into the navy. A late order
authorizes such a trarsfer.
Flour is sell NJ at Richmond at $500 per
ariel. So tie women say who arc coming
thence daily. Gen. Winder gives them passes,
nd the Conlederacy Is glad t. get rid Of al
that have to be fed and cannot fight.
TIE rebel -teamer Matilda was wrecked on
he 10Th inst off the S Ditch coast. she had
ON a cargo OF steel. iron and coal for the rebels.
She was built at Glasgow for 100000 and
his was her first and lat trip. d
There is q provision in the new ~Int"rnsl
Revenue bill which exempts from dlstraint
the tool or j rpleme IS Of q trade or profes.
| sion, one COW, arms, and provisions, houss-
/ nold furniture kept for use, and the apparel
necessary for a family. r.3
In St. Louis last. week, the wife of John
nous, taking $4,000 which the !ndustr GUS
husband had deposited 10 the Savings lnstitu
zion to the credit Of his farthlcss wife. 1t IS
supposed they went South.
He ry Folsom Of St. | ouis has donated to
{ Mississippi Valley Fair a sword worth
sl,50O. or $40 more than the great McCl Ian
sw ri, for which they a e voting in the New
York Fair. The Folsom sword IS to be got
IT in the same manner.
Edward r. Jeff'ies was sentenced at Ros
ton last week, to two years hard labor in the
tate Prison. j sttries occupied q high bust.
ess and social posi- ion, and being believed
cry wealthy, purchased goods ext. nsively
N commission. the proceeds Of which ie
squanIered in fast living victim,zing his cred.
Itors 10 q very large amount.
The petition presented to Congress a day
n two since in favor of the entire and imme-
date abolition Of slavery. was brought , by
two stout men in a bushel basket, which the
,uge rall just fl led. 1t was signed by 4l,7l8
fifteen thousand residing in Pennsylvania and
-lght thousand in New York.
The Hannibal (Mo.) C,u,ier says hat a
nan named Tapley, Of Pike Co.. in that St,.e,
has since the war comm ,nced deliberately
.ortured to death no less than three negroes.
:wO of them women, becaus, they sought to
,btain their freedom. One Of the women he
irst fastened to a board by a knife thrust
through her tongue, and then proceeded to
whip her to DEATH"
At the Sc. Louis Museum can be seen the
'urious spectacle of a domestic cat nursing
wo %infanlile foxes. These were caught thirty
niles from the city, on the Pacific railroad.
nd confdcd to a puss just bere.ved of her
babes. She provides for and caresses the
foundlings as lovingly as if they were her
own offspring 5 .
The large and splendid railroad bri1ge
across Ro k river, en- the Chicago and Dix IN
airline railway, between DIXON and Sterling,
was burned on the night OF the Dist. 1t was
. six span bridge, each pan b ling 1875 feet.
tree Of which were destroyed. The fr-
aught from d locomotive. The damage is in
tie neighborhood Of $4,000. Several hun
lred workmen are at work. and in a few days
he bridge will be rebuilt.
Freights are now exceedingly low from
New York to Liverpool. What is carried at
rom cne 10 two pence. Flour three pence.
ieavy goods al from one shilling 10 five per
TON. To Other ports the freights demanded
are higher, but to all much be DIV the ordi-
nars rates. The cause is that there are more
.essels wan ing cargoes than III re is freigh.
% ship. Shippers have their " wav, and
till some vessels are said to sail in ballast.
An extensive forgery has been detected at
Dayton. 0. A year ago last February, a
iawy'r of Dayton, named Ally Hinsran,
foreed a mortgage and fifteen notes for vari.
Jus amounts. and, being a Notary, affixed his
own signature and seal to the p,pess. The
names Of tie mortgagor and witnesses he
imself had written as a lawyer. He n"go
ted the notes, and DIV from Johnson PR
inc $685. oO, and from Winters & sS-nt,
bankers IS 500. Last November several o.
he notes fell due, ard Hsnsmsn rem, wed
hem for another year, at IL per cent. for
he negotiations Of which Perrine promised
sIirsman 4 per cent. The money OBJ aimed
W Hinsman has been squandered at gam
Ding houses.