Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-09
much sooner than we expect. II is un-
derstood that the rebel land force at
Mobile is quite small

MoD!le Is quite small.
ERIE, PA, Sept. IA terrible acci-
dent occurred on the 2. and Z. Railroad
yesterday morning. An engine left
this city to bring up an extra train, and
when about three miles beyond Union
Station the boiler exploded, tearing the
engine into pieces and demolishing the
track for % rods. The engineer, fire
man, brakeman and stranger named
Parker, Of Chattaqua county, were kill
ed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. John J. Weed,
Of Illinois, has been appointed Assistant
Solicitor OF the Court OF Claims, vice
Mcpherson.
Two regiments composed Of employee
in the Quartermaster's Department at
Alexandria have been organized and
the officers commissioned.
The ReDUJ'icu0 OF today says: We
are authorized and requested to an
nOunce that Notwithstanding all that
has been said on tn subject, that neither
Mr.. Gilmore nor Col. Jaques OH the one
hand or Mr. Greeley on the other have
ever been nor are now authorized to eX
press any desires, views or Opin ons o.
the President OF the United states,
either i'll Canada or Richmond, or the
subject OF negotiation for peace, b@yOnu
what he has plainly and carefully writ
ten over his own signature; that the
mission to Richmond was initiated and
executed by Messrs. Gilmore and Iaques
on their own private account, that they
had no authority whatever to speak, di-
rcctiy Or indirectly, for the President o.
the United States, officially or unoffici-
ally, or for A. Lincoln. unotficiallv OF
privately.
II MI Beniamins report OF the say
ings Of Mr.. Gilmore and Col. Jacques,
while they We're i'll Richmond, is cor
rect, they assumed q responsibility not
given TO them, and made statements
wholly untrue. Indeed, while on the
subject it is proper to statethat the Pres
iGent, after repeated solicitations. con-
scented 70 give Gilmore ana jacques q
pass through eur lines. He did not re-
quest Gen. Grant to epen correspond
ence with Gen. Lee, to give them safe
conduct to Richmond and return, as
Gen. Grant did that on bis own respon-
sibility. President Lincoln's raQuset
was simply that Gen. Grant would pass
them through his military lines and
nothing more.
WASHINGTON, sept. 1.-The official
statement of the public debt Oil tie 30th
of August, shows the amount outstand-
ing to be $178, ,5G5, ,,34, and the interest
in both coin and lawful money 81, 7,4i7,-
l22, or an increase Of the public debt
since August %, of S;J3 ,013 ,0G0, and Of
interest &Sl 90 ,000. The debt bearing
interest in coin isuoW $3.50 ,S99. .492. The
debt bearing snterest in lawful money
is 500, 1917 900. The debt on which in
tcrest has ceased is S357.473. The debt
bearing no Interest is S5tD, III ,257. The
unpaid acquisitions are S78, 795, 600. Ihe
amount in the Treasury is ST., IJ3, ,5iS.-
1t farther appears that since August ID,
the six per cent. bonds under the acts Of
July 18th and August 5Eh, 1851, eXchang-
I'd for 1-30s have increased TO the extent
Of SO, 500, 900, and that the 7-39 three
year notes, under the act OF July 18th,
1861. have reached about the same
amount, and that the six per cent. GER
titicates for indebtedness, under the act
OF March 1st, 1862, have increased near
IL S., $50, u!iH.
-'erg't. L. Coniey, oi the 1JtI, regi-
ment Veteran Reserves, is to DC shot to-
morrow for the violation Of the 23d az
ticic o. war, and for aiding soldiers to
desert
The Secretary of the Treasury has just
issued Il circular specifying the c0lnihis-
sion which Will hereafter be allowed on
all subscriptions and deposits obtained
Oh ami after this date, for The three year
7-3j notes. known rs the l1-lD bends, rs
follows:
In any aggregate Of deposits eEcIu-
sive OF accrued interest. tor either of
said securities, OF not less than ;525, 800
and not amounting 10 $50, 900 after one
per Gems, an aggregate OF o,eoH and
Upwards, Or less than one million, OF
one per cent. on one million, and up
wards ! Of one per cent
Any person is authorized 10 act as
agent for Obtaining subscriptions, but
40 notes Or bonds will be issued except
upon certigcatos i'll the form prescribed
by the Treasurer or Assistant Treasur
i :. tics.4uutcu dispositions. or theprop
IF officers of a National deposit bank,
si,at the Nancy has been deposited to
oht4 credit OF the Treasurer OIthe United
States
Deposits made by sub-agents must be
IN the name OF the principal to entitle
the sums deposited to be included in one
,ccuun1, COMMISSIONS may be allowed
at their sac,.tions, by banks or other
agents Obtaining subscriptions, to sub
suribpTs not exceeding one half on their
OWn commissions.
It understood that the bonds for the
balance OF the six per cent. loan oElSSl,
now offered TIA the public, are ali print
ed and ready for delivery. Persons in
tending TO purchase will therefore do
well to address their proposals to the
T~nasurv Derartment without the inter
vention Of third party.
-r. Lofts, Sept. l.-Late adviccs from
Fort Risluy say the Indian outTages
have Increased dbring the past ten days.
On the 18Th train from @anta Fe 70
WAS attacked at Cameron
Springs. Tea men were killed, al the
stock captured and the train obandOned.
On the 2lst 200 Indians attacked several
trains, including one belonging 10 Gov
ernment, so miles west Of tt. Laramie.
One man was killed and all the stock
Large bands Of Indians are
III the neighborhOoo Of
Ft. Lyon, were outrages daily Occur.-
A party came i'll sight of the fort but
passed by. Major Wyncoop and three
or four others were killed. Several un
protected settlements between Lyon and
the Daze Mountains are now receiving
the attention OF the Indians.
Lieut.. Booth, Of the 10th Kansas, who
was sent with relic. to Sterling, Itepub-
lie and Clay Centre, reports finding no
Indians after scouting 100 miles. He is
now encamped at Clay Center, on Re-
public Fork. The section Of country
traversed by the savages extends from
the Platte to the Arkansas Rivers, 4G0
miles from east to west. Our force Is in
adequate to the task before it and !mme-
dale reinfOrcements are needed. over
2l0 persons have been murdered on the
Platte route and 100 on the Arkansas.
Three thousand dollare worth Of pro-
perty has been captured and destroyed,
besides 5000 horses, 500 mules and 200
oxen. Idaho and Montana are snid to
be swarn1ing with disatiected and dis
loyal men. 1t is estimated that 20,
men of this class have gone there the
past year and half. There are also
very many along the entire mountain
range. Rebel and Mormon agents are