Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-05

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Eli Shuts, co /, July "A, face, seriously. II,
| George'Frederick, co l, July II, flesh wound,
John Martin, co I, July Il, in right arm, slight.
Louis Hawk, co I, July II, In right hand,
Respectfully submitted.
| G [Signed1 J. J. WOODS,
Col. Commanding Brigade.
Official copy. ... .rtso.
HENRY Hoover,
Lieut.. and A. A. G.
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| .-..-- GLEANINGS.
The funeral of Gen. Mcpherson took
place at Clyde, o., his former home, on
persons.
A contract for furnishing government
eight thousand tons of hay at Fort
Leavenworth, was let to Henry Still, at
$23 "a per ton. ...
The Richmond Examiner saw a barrel
of flour carried in a hearse, and thought
| it appropriate enough, as the struggle
there for bread is one of life and death.
The exports from New York during
the past week sum up to the enormous
amount ofeight million of dollars-mak-
ing in two weeks about sixteen mil
lions.
A guerrilla named Kesterman was
publicly shot at Paducah, on the 9th, by
| order of a cOurt-martial approved by
Gen. Paine. Several others, taken at
the same time, will be similarly punish
ed within few days.
A Boston merchant who asked stout
darkey on street corner if he wouldn't
like to enlist as his substitute, received
this reply: "Lor, bless you, I've got
eight hundred dollars to home for to buy
white man for myself"
From Charleston we have advices that
Sumter is being heavily bOmbarded.
Our Commander is building row of
boarding houses for rebel officers on Nor
ris Island, exactly in the hottest range
of the rebel guns. 1t was the rebels
who invented that maneuver.
The death of Col. Mulligan, of the
Irish brigade, in the battle of Winches-
ter, Va, is confirmed. He was wounded
on the 26th and died on the 9th, in
rebel hands. His wife was permitted to
go into their lines for his remains, which
are now en- route for Chicago, where he
was formerly prominent lawyer.
Miss Annie E. Jones, better known as
viz plCCty ICuC1 SPy tshu ID XutJOI
JONES'" an intelligent young woman on
ly twenty years old, who has been q
prisoner of State for the last year, was
released by order of Secretary Stanton
from the Barnstable Jail in Massachu-
sets, and left for Boston last week.
The project of constructing tunnels
under Chicago river to be used instead
of the bridges which now span that
OF sc hoR l>o ne
The frequent passage of vessels, requir-
ing the draws of the bridges to be almost
constantly open, causes great incon-
venience and loss to the public
Intelligence of the death of Gen.
Mcpherson was telegraphed to Gen.
Grant on Sunday. The war worn hero,
after finishing the reading of the dis
patch, retired to his tent weeping like
child, and with tears streaming down
his bronZed cheeks, declared that the
he his best friend.
In sharp skirmish between the reb-
els under Dobbin, and force of colored
troops near Helena our men were out
numbered, but made up their margins
by stiff fighting. The rebels fled. There
were no prisoners taken. The colored
troops keep only one list-dedd. They
remember Fort Pillow, even if the Gov
eminent does not.
From a memorandum kept at Fort
Laramie. we learn that 6,l61 wagons,
with over q, 500 animals, and over 10, 900
head of human stock, such as men, wO-
men and children, passed by that route
westerly, from the middle of March to
the 9th ult. The above does not of
course, include the immense emigration
of settlers, freighters, etc., on the stage
route through the Cheyenne Pass, as
also. to Colorado territory nor to New
Mexico, and Arizona.
It seems that some 1000 Kentucky
negro men have run away and enlisted
in other States, 5000 or 1900 enlisted in
that State, and IA 900 or 1900 able
bodied negroes remain unenlisted. Many
owners are, in effect, hiring their slaves
to keep them at home. Some give their
negroes $500 to $3.50 week, besides
board, clothing, etc. Yet whole fami-
lies of negroes are constantly running
off. Their two ruling passions are desire
for freedom and hatred of secesh.
About 600 contrabands, of all ages, but
mostly women and children, followed
Gen. Smiths army in from Mississippi,
arriving at Memphis on the 3d. Country
wagons, drawn by oxen, conveyed the
extremely young and disabled ones,
and the remainder marched the entire
distance. They say that the colored peo-
pie throughout the country have pre-
Father Abraham's General Washburne
shall send an army to cover their retreat
to "Mount Zion," as they term the free
North.
Great excitement has been caused in
the Reserve counties of Ohio by the
murder, on Wednesday, of James Ward,
proprietor of the Falcon Iron Works at
Niles, and one of the wealthiest and
most influential citizens Of Trumbull
county. A soldiers widow had been
living in unblushing concubinage with
man named Robbins. The woman
occupied one Of Mr.. Wards houses, and
he warned her to leave on account of her
mode of life. Robbins got enraged at
this, and meeting Mr.. Wards son,
knocked him down. His father, who
was near, came to the spot and remon-
strated, when Robbins drew pistol
and shot Mr.. Ward through the head,
wounding him MORALLY. The murderer
escaped. Three thousand dollars reward
has been offered for his apprehension.
CANNING FRUIT.-A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman seasonably re-
minds us that many fruits may be pre-
servd with little or no sugar. He says:
Currants, gooseberries, peaches and
pears require no sugar to preserve them.
Raspberries and blackberries do not re-
quire more than four ounces of sugar to
a pound of fruit, and Strawberries but
little more. We have now the different
kinds, nearly as fresh and good as when
first gathered. Put them up the same
as if you used the usual quantity of
sugar; that is, expel the cold air by
heating the fruit after it is placed in the
jars, by setting the jars in cold water,
which heat to boiling. The lars that