Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
GLEANHNGS,

GLEAN1NGS.
The rebel Congress will meet Novem-
Der Z, the day before orr Presidential
election.
Prince Albert's tomb at Frogmore will
cost half million of collars. In the
cotton districts they still starve.
Nearly all the cotton factories in
WOonsOcket, r. l., are stopped for want
of cotton. There are twenty cotton
mills in the town.
A suspension bridge is being swung
across the Ohio river from Cincinnati to
COvington. 1t will be 400 feet longer
than the one at Niagara, and is to cost
81 900, 009.
They are now building for the through
broad gauge routes from New York to
st. Louis, Il 200 miles,, 150locomotives,
1900 freight ears, and elegant passenger
cars in proportion. e4..
The exports of gold from California
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1864
are as follows To foreign ports, only
two millions; to Atlantic States, eight
cen millions.
Thirteen Of the twenty-five Vermont
raiders have been captured. They all
claim to be soldiers of the Confederate
army from Kentucky. On their per-
sons about 500, 600 in money and bonds
have been found.
The rebels, in the recent exchange Of
naval prisoners, handed over six colored
sailors. 1t il understood by General
Butler that black defenders Of the Union
are hrnceforth to be treated a. prisoners
oi war.
The Northwestern Sanitary Com
mission has sent to the army within the
last two weeks, 2D,0a0 bushels of onions
and 1000 barrels OF pickles. 1t is now
forwarding fIOm two 10 eight carloads
daily. Nj that can u;3sibly be sent are
needed.
The Democrats cannot keep away
from H. Ward Beecher's spirited Sunday
night campaign meetings. A crowd of
them were there, and gave three cheers
at the mention Of NcClellan's name,
last sunday night, which Mr.. Beecher
took very good naturedly.
"A few days ago woman named Ade-
line Love was talking to some acquaint-
ance in the Union Depot at Indanapo-
lis, whena train backed down which ran
over her, cutting off both her arms, and
so crushing her body as to fatally injure
her. She died during the night.
. A man and his wife have been ar
rested at indianapolis, Indiana, who
have been engaged for year past in
passing counterfeit money. The coun-
terfeits were 500 greenbacks and pOstal
currency of different denominations
printed on the plates captured in July
last, and are calculated to deceive on a
superficial examination.
Ten thousand of the French troops
lately in Mexico are on their way home.
Fifty of their officers were at one hotel
in New York, a day or two ago. A
large number of Poles will, it is said,
join Maximilian's army. He will need
to replace his French troops by Poles or
Germans, for the MeXicans are not a
quiet people to rule over.
The yellow fever is raging Oh the
Southern coast. The deaths at Charles
ton recently averaged twenty q day,
while at Newbern 40 persons are re-
ported to have died in twenty four
hours. This is probably an exaggera-
ton; still, the disease is unquestionably
very fatal and prevalent there. The
Union forces, who have been sent out of
the town, have suffered less than might
be expected. AT Wilmington, N. G.,
the fever is likewise prevalent.
Gen. David B. Rirney, almost in the
hour or death, presented an example OF
patriotism which should be reproach
to all the iukewarm and spurto all the
careless, nOminally in the Union ranks.
He'was brought to Philadelphia on cleo
ton day, with the impression OF death
upon his features. Before allowing
himself to be taken to his home, he in
sisted upon being carried to the polls to
vote, as q citizen, for the cause forwhich
he had fought as q soldier.
no More Drafts,
Che New York Ncra(d asserts by au-
ti:ority, that the report of another draft
i, I mere elcctioneering story. 1t says: :
there is not 10 be another draft, either
hc:ore the election or after it; but Of
course the Government will soon want
more men, and we are therefore glad to
learn shat measures are finally to be
taken to establish a sensible, permanent
recruiting system. Men are not scarce
in this country, and the last cali has de-
monstrated that by proper measures and
liberal bounty any number can he had.
1t IS proposed to offer $500 as q perlna-
nent bounty. This sum makes an al
lowancc fer the various expenses OF the
recruit, or even of those who find him
or bring him forward, and still leaves q
margin for tie benefit % the recruit or
his family. It gives a good sum, also
as basis Tor the operations and activity
of that large number of persons who
will thus be induced to lend their ener-
gies to the good cause of filling our ar
mics. Recruiting will thus become a
permanent business in the country, with
notifications in every city and village,
and will, for the first time in the history
of the war, be effective aud productive
of great results.
Not only will this system enable the
army to draw regularly and properly up
on our own population, but it will also
tap for our benefit the immense and dis
contented population Of Europe.
aeA- The Chicago Platform resembles
the pump which an italian nohleman
set, pro bono pa.5tico, in the wall dividing
his villa from the highway. The inge-
NOUS proprietor had placed the handle
on the outer side, and had so contrived
the nose that the most laborious eXer-
tions OF the energetic waytarer yielded
only a very slender return Of water,
while back outlet conducted the gem
erous surplus to the strawberry beds
which lay beyond. So the sum of DEM
ocratic effort ut Chicago, to establish the
patriotic loyalty of the party was very
equivocal expression of sympathy for
our soldiers, and q promise to cherish
them in the day of power mot redeem
able with the right of suffrage, while
the rest of the declaration of sentiments
made every rebel gutter gurgle with joy,
and helped to fatten the fields of the
Confederacy. -Anti-S2apeTy Standard.
ma, Two years of war;" said Henry
Ward Beecher, Oh Sunday night, "and
we have conquered half the rebel terri
tory, hold the keys of the whole, and
have nearly destroyed the military
stranu 9th of the rebellion in the field -