Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-05
e-n. MUSCATINE IOWA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1864


eas NEWS rntaSrAIhs. a'7sAet
A man in Cincinnati lately died while eat.
ing hot pototoe. 7rcl ,stsrnss1 ~aaeDg7
You can get shaved in Richmond for 50
cents to u, and boots blacked for 81 TO 50.
| General Scott is bored TO death with letters
asking for his opinion Of the war, autographs,
etc. 7a.,r .tr'agcl o. -
! A man with conscience has lately return.
ed $3.50 to tho Government, saying that be
took it through misunderstanding.
| No liquor can be vended in the House wing
Of the Capitol at Washington. Speaker Col
fax won't have it, and he is right.
Some p,thologists claim that dptheria has
been occasioned by the introduction and use
Of kerosene oil. -
| The prominent lawyers Of New Yotk are
pocke'ing immense fees nowadays, and are
enjoying yearly incomes Of from go, 600 to
$40, 900. ~. Yselq-f9 ,toJ ~.
Over q thousand rebel prisoners from,
Camp Douglas left Chicago on the 9Th for
Philadelphia, having enlisted in the United
States Navy. saigJ &c oil &
A convention Of forty women, representing
soldiers relief societies, is in session at Wash
ington, more especially for consultation with
Mis- Dix.
female somnambulist was aroused in
Lancaster street, Boston, by the po ice, Thurs
day night. She was walking with large
bedspread over her head -. ~l.
Artemas Ward lectured in California one
night ard received $2.240. Those figures
are cad Of ,c C figures, hut the Caiifornians
my find ttems Ives 10 .red aft.r all.
Thsre are indications that. the rebels are
getting tired Of employing guerri las. A bill
has been Introduced into the rebel Congress
repeating the act au authorizing the ''p artisan
rangers" fe9
The rebels are employing negro troops. An
cflica dispatch from Colonel Mul gan states
that the r. bel i.3eg. into West Virginia, re-
Gently. had three companies Of negro troops
with them. --'t"
The statue Of Freedom, which has been pla.
esd above the dome of the Capitol at Wssh-
ington, le.emhles human figure with the
head Of an eagle. 1t IS not very pretty thing
to lcok at. s4s-,- .-. ID -..
tits understood that Senator Grimes de
clnes to serve with Hale and Bucka.ew on
tine Select Con nl;ttee to inves igste naval
supplies. No Senator is yet appointed in his
plac-.
Mix skins, now worth 81 to 81 cach,
~ere formerly heavy in the marke, at quar-
ter piece. Fsshis has adopted he MIX,
xwh;c:, boo oll Iva Il; HI, 10,
no g'osseI and no warmer than ever.
An Eastern paper states that ''Mss Carrie
Mil wood has los lsttcrs in the Pembroke pa s..
Office IF sh has adver ised for husba -
STE can congratulate herself or getting arxe
mail If the letters do not miss Carrie after
all -H8
The receipts Of grain at Chicago for 1868
were 81, ,379. .9O3 bushels. In 1862 the amount
was 81. .55s, ,999. bushels, being about mil
lion bushels mors than in 1868. Chicago is
the largest grain and pork market in the
world. es>. ..a. -5---r
The wife of the rebel G neral Gustavus w.
Smith, who has been spending some time in
New LONDON, Conn.,, and was once arrested and
released, has been arrested again by or.ser OF
General Dix, and is now well on her way to
Dixie.
Mr. Bra-son. Of st. Joseph. No, who lef;
Salt Lake on the l9'h Of December, by the
overland stage, reports the snow thirty feet
deep in some places on the route. At Fort
Kea'ney the houses are buried in the snow
to the top Of the roof ---
The army of the Potomac ia officially mott
fed by q ci, cular from Provost Msrsh Il Gen.
eral Patrick, that it can be supplied daily, at
brandy Station, with fr. sh oyste's, 1t one
dollar and fifty-6se cents per gallon or one
dollar and 8: venty five cents per bushel for
shell oysters. .i...-
Mr. Rsvbold is the "Peach King" of the
State of Dsla~are. He has nearly one thou.
sand acres in peach orchards, and his net pro.
fits for three years are estimated at $500, 900.
Two ST ambosts are constantly employed in
carrying lis peaches to market when the
crop is matcring.
Further Developments in tho case Of Tread
we'll. the Hud on, Mich banker. wso his run
off With 100000, only make his Vi ilainy ap-
pear the more compete. Merry every
banking house in Chicago has lo>t on his
draft from 81 900 upwards. He has carried
ctf rot less than $4,000 in Chicago funds
alone.
There are at present 1872 s15 soldiers
under arms i'll the eighteen Euroaean States,
contairinga population Of ESQ .495 l95 SO H..
These standin. .:nrmies cost annually 2,321,-
400 545 francs, ar about 844 francs per man
ahe armies COS: 81 per cent Of tie trta! expen
ditures Of the various counties BY which they
a re maintained. ..-
We sometimes hear Of disabled soldiers
going ab' ut the country begging f>r funds to
supply themselves with a.tiicia' limbs. They
do not seem to knew that tie Gov.rnm. Mt
provide each soldier who loses an arm, or a
leg, or an eye, in the service, with another one
free Of expense to the sol 'ier. besides taking
care Of him while tha limb is being fitted -
They are furnished by the Medi.al Director Of
the Department Of the East, Under orders
from the Surgson-GeDeral's office, y. c.
The Medical Directors Office Is at No. 45S
Brocme street, New York -a1
| az S me Of the Copp rhead editors feel
very much hurt because the Legislature re.
fuses to Ply the coprerhesd paper print d at
tho C.pisal for publishing the laws They
are very anxious that the State should contrib
ute 10 the support Of journal which dos ell
it can to comfort and encourage t-ai'ors ard
rebels. According to the ideas of loyal men,
the Legisl 'ture would have been guilty Of an
outrage had they done what these per6d'ous
y-sv H. SA