Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-12-30
IOWA NEWS.

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1.-THE BRAvEsr OF THE BRAvE.n-
We learn from the Davenport Gazette
THAT Lieut. Samuel Duffin, of that place
was awarded the. - Gold Medal offered
by the War Department. TO the bravest
and best soldier of the 18th Army Corps
during its operations around the city ol
Vicksburg in 1868. Lieut.. Dufiin was q
member of Co. X, 10th Iowa Infantry,
and received mortal wound at the bat
tie OF Kenesaw Mountain, from which
he subsequently died. His family re-
side at Davenport. .g... S '...s' '5'','' .
The Davenport Ga<atte gives fur
ther particulars Of the entertainment
given two supposed escaped rebel .pris-
oners at the house;of r.. NJ. Prettyman,
| in that place. There is no3doubt of the
truth Of the circumstances. Prettyman's g
daughters We're especially attentive to
the supposed rebels, and one of them
actually kissed one of the young men
1t is needless to say that Prettyman
was . Democrat' in good standing in
the late Mcclellan party. spa8 90.
Henry Haupt, of Davenport, who
was lately on trial on the charge of aid
| ing in concealing deserter, has been
put under 81 900 bonds to appear at the
| T.. S. District Court at Des Moines.
The NJ. & NJ. II. r. pays about 81 500
Federal tax per month. '.r -
IMPROVED. The Davenport Gazette
is now printed on new type from Scho-
field Il Co.'S. foundry, at Chicago. 1t
presents handsome appearance. The
Gasette merits it's evident prosperity. q
The people of Davenport are agita-
ting the question of purchasing a steam
engine. n.5s ..5 b ta rt.sslt r.l
The colored people Of Iowa City will
celebrate Emancipation Day on the I'd
proximo. ..&-a aI Q
Gov. Stone telegraphed from Wash
ington on the oath, that he was on the
point of starting for Sherman's army at
Savannah a-.t .es5- ,5io
The Supreme Court adjourned on
Friday last, after q protracted session at
Desmoines. Ninety opinions have been
tried and filed during the term. An
opinion was delivered by Justice Dillon,
in the case of Wasson against Mitchell
and others, holding that that the MEM
bers of the Board of Supervisors are liza
BILE for carelessness and neglect in appro-
wing official bonds. and must be made
to respond in damages to the party in
jured by their careless approval of a
bond not possessing the statutory requi-
sites. -.s7s -r
ELEVEN New REGIMENTS FROM IN
DIANA.@Gov. Norton has issued a call for
volunteers sufficient to fill eleven new
regiments, one for each Congressional
District. The regiments will all rem
devious at indianapolis. 1t is believed
that in this way the quota of the State
under the new call can be filled and a
draft avoided. ..
CURIoUs.-A Dubuque hen has laid
an egg, upon which the words "Peace,
1861" are plainly to be seen. and which
is on exhibition at DIR. Munsell's Drug
store; so says the Herald
-Four hundred sick and wounded
Iowa soldiers have just arrived at lKeo-
kuk as we see by the Gate city. Others
are on the way to that city who will
swell the whole number in hospital
there to 1000. 4.l, ..s s
The SOLDIERS ORPHANS HOME
Applications for admission into this in
stitution must be made to Mrs. G. B.
Darwin, of Burlington, President of the
Executive Board. There are now SO
children in the Home, which is tenn
porarily located at in Pennington, Van
Buren, county. It has good school.
| -Pella, the present terminus of the
Des Moines River Railroad, lis only forty
miles from the capital. The State Reg
ister says the company offer to complete
the road to that city in one year from
this date if the citizens will subscribe
800, 900 to its capital stock. Iturges the
people to accept the offer.
The guerrillas who were in the Jail
of Des MOines were sent few days
since from Davenport to st. Louis fol
trial. They were undoubtedly mem
bers of Anderson's band. 4H sH
WooD CHoPPINa.-There were nine
Ia. I, roo Loads ~ xryooI hoy1od onH 10.
| livered to the families of our brave sol
diers day before yesterday, and twenty.
five more cut. capt. Winslow donated
an acre of timber, and another was pur-
chased with the money raised Thanks
giving day. Many of our best citizens
went to the woods with their axes
About fifty choppers were engaged al
day and twenty-five teamsdid the haul
ling. The ladies (God bless them) pre-
| pared sumptuous dinner and served il
| in the woods. Considering the activity
of our armies at the present time it il
not at all improbable that some of oul
! neighbors and friends may have been
living on the battle field wounded anC
| it may be dying, while the wants O.
their families were thus being provided
for. When this cruel war is over there
will be many happy reunion, ane
those who mourn for loved ones who dt
not return will always be remembered
and their wants administered to by thu
loyal people of the patriotic North
Marion Register, 23d.
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THREE BURGLARS SHoT-ONE KILL
ED AND THE OTHERS FATALLY WOUND
RD.-The Burlington Hawkeye, of th'
22d, gives particulars of the desperate
affair, near that place, in Illinois, tt
which allusion was made in our dis