Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-22
Iowa News.

Iowa News.
The Daily Statesman of Tuesday state'
that a party Of soldiers belonging to the Sc
Iowa mobbed the Oskalcosa Times printing
office, on Saturday last No particulars Civ
en-. OF course the Statesman advises Retail
IATloN IN KIND. Is that the remedy pro
vided by statute for violation of lawy
An act for the relief of the families o.
soldiers and mariners has been published and
is now law upon our statute book. This
law requires each county to levy tax Of not
less than 2 mills on the dollar in the years
1864 and 1866, to be collected as other coun.
ty taxes. Assessors in the several wards
and townships, must before the 1st Monday
of June, 1864, and when they are making the
assessment for 1866 take an enumeration by
name Of all the soldiers and mariners having
families, who are in the service, and of the
families Of those who have been in the ser.
vice and are dead or disabled, naming their
company, regiment, battery or battalion and
make accurate returns to the Board Of
Supervisors, designating the name, age, sex
of the several families, and naming such al
he thinks entitled to aid. The Board Of
Supervisors shall have control of said funds
for the purposes named in the act when paid
into the Treasury, and shall distribute the
same as they may deem proper for the re-
lief of families. named, provided ino family
shall receive more than $3.50 in one year.
No money thus raised can be used for any
other purpose The relief thus provided
shall be distributed by the Supervisors from
and after their June meeting 1864. The
word family means only wife, dependent
children under the age Of IL years, brothers
and sisters under the age Of 10 years and
aged and infrm dependent parents,
Richard H. Sylvester, having become
disgusted with the prospects of Democratic
rise in Iowa, has left the State. Good luck to
you Richard. You are not the worst fellow
that ever lived, by long way.
The Register AYERS that Desmoines is an
irrepressible city, and bound to go ahead in
spite of all difficulties, fully demonstrated by
some 20 buildings now in process of con-
struction, on three principal streets. We
began to fear that the hostility of the strong
men of the North, among whom We reckon
Alpha Beta F. Hildreth, and the fair haired
boy Vinton had well nigh prostrated the city
of Desmoines. We are glad to learn "she
still lives"
Under authority CT joint resolution
passed by the Legislature, the Treasurer Of
State sent to W. F. Coolbaugh & Co., bank
ers in Chicago, the gold in our State Treas.
ury, amounting to $22,2 under instruc
tions to sell at the highest market price,
Mr.. Coolbaugh sold the same at premium
Of seventy cents returning to our Treasury
$3s, 103.20 in greenbacks, charging no COM
mission for his services. That's what we
call good operation for Iowa. If we could
have only obtained that sky flying premium
of 80!
Geo. Francis Train, the great 81 want
to be-" the ldolized of Thayer & Wallace
the man who took sundry leaps in and about
this latitude, was booked for lecture in Des
Moinss, on Friday last.
The public spirited citizens of Des
Moines propose to erect free bridge over
the river at that place, a much needed i'm
provement that we hope will succeed. We
did not always feel entirely safe crossing the
toll bridge, Bro. Dixon, especially when sew
eral teams were on with us.
Five hundred men are at work on the NJ.
& NJ. Railroad between Grinnell and the
North Skunk river. We trust the Company
will not be so unmindfll of its own interests
and those of the people of Newton as to give
that town the go by. This policy in Iowa
has made many enemies to railroads.
"A hungry COW, seeing head Of cabbage
in the show-window of grocer in Burling-
ton, smashed the window and helped herself
to the cabbage, much to the amusement of
the byssanders.
The contract to complete the Dubuque
and Sioux City road from Cedar Falls to
Iowa Falls, distance of 40 miles, has been
let.