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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

Mr.. Felt, of the West Union Record,
may perhaps understand the effect OF
his articles against his friends when he
sees them copied with endorsement and
commentator in such papers as the
Keokuk Constitution.
The Little Rock Union of June 23d,
publishes the following deaths of Iowa
soldiers in the Department Of Arkansas
from June 18th to June 18th: Henry
Logan, Levi Martin, VIM. Moffit, 33d
Iowa; Jacob Showalter, Thomas Lewis,
w. S. Balcome, 1st Iowa; G. T. Saw
yer, 9th Iowa cavalry.
The following are a portion of the
promotions issued at the Adjutant Cen
erals office since June Is, 1854:
Oliver P. Scott, Lieutenant Colonel 4sth 200
days Infantry. t-
Lewis Todhunter, Quartermaster 4Sth QOO
i Samuel ,9 I; Pollock, Colonel 9Th Iowa Cavalry,
John Galligan, Major 9Th Iowa Cavalry, vice
Tenbroeck, promoted.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee appointed for the ensuing year
are:
H. M. Hoxie, of Des Moines City,
Chairman; A. L. Harvey, of Harrison
William Hartshorn, of Wayne; J.
Hilshinger, of Jackson; WI. Gilchrist,
of Clayton Thomas J. Stewart, of Du-
buque; John Palmer, ofButler; Jas. L.
Williams, of Marshall; Daniel Lothian,
of Linn; J. A. Young, of Mahaska; A.
H. Burrows, of Clark; and John Walk
enburg, of Lee.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

MR.. VALLANDIGHAM's RETURN
The following is the original order OF
the President in the case of Mr.. Vallan-
digham, and which has been reproduced
by our cotemporaries since the return OF
that gentleman from Canada:
UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH
[Cipher. May %, 1863.
By Telegraph from Washington, $40 p. M
TO. Maj. Gen. Burnside, Commanding
Department Of Ohio:
SIR:-The President directs that, with
out delay, you send G. L.Vallandigham,
under secure guard, to the headquarters
of Gen. Rosecrans, to be put by him be-
yond our military lines, and in case of
his return within our lines he be arrest
ed and kept in close custody for the
term specified in his sentence.
By order of the President.
E. r. S. CANDY,
Brig. Gen. and A. A. G.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
w. B. COMPTON
Co. H, I'd Iowa Infantl
For the Muscatine Journal.
COuDerIleadsi i'm the Army.

There! you needn't gloat your anX-
ious eyes, and grow hilarious with joy
full Civilizations over that heading. Oh
no; don't f1atter yourselves, my copper
head friends that you have many sup
porters or admirers in the Union army.
Far from that! so you had better regain
your equilibrium, betake yourselves to
your holes, resume your usual quietude,
and thus afford me chance to explain.
Presuming that you have "cooled
down" to about $50 degrees, and par
TALLY recovered from the shock to your
rather excitable, nervous system, allow
me to inform your snake-ships, that you
hare few friends of your despised spe-
cies in the army-say about one to a reg
iment quite numerous and influential,
amt they?) and of all the rascally
"good-for-nothing," and impOstors who
ever entered the Union army, only to try
to disgrace it, these fen are the most use
their hard crackers, and you may inva-
riably look for them in the guard-house
for misdemeanOrs while in camp and
sauntering in the rear, on marches, and
in battle. In fact they are perfect fac
smile oftheir northern brethren. But,
fortunately for them, they differ in one
respect, namely: They have either the
good sense or prudence to lay low"
and hold their ever ready and eager
tongues, which fact contrasts strongly
indeed with their Kissing and "oppress-
ed" brethern!
AT elections you may see them sneak
up to the polls, trying to evade observa-
ton, and glancing quickly around, like
thief in the act of robbing somebody,
depOSittheir " straight cOpperhead tick
et," and crawl back to the guard-house.
So guess you had best not depend too
much on the army to carry out your
wicked designs, unless you can induce
Morgan or some other of your chiuahous
friends (?) to hazard another raid into
the north. But then he is SO singular.
Why, the old hero will even take with
out the least sign of conscientious scru-
pies, all his friends horses and other
portable effects, even preferring theirs
to those of the Yankees" and then
laugh at it as good joke!
Isn't he quaint one. But he's so ar
6itr0ry. Why, heexceeds our despot-
ic President" in his imperative de-
mands for military necessities J"
Wouldn't he make an excellent tax
collector in some of our delinqdent COM
...
To make along story short I can as
sure the readers of the Journal that cop
perheads in the army are exceedingly
scarce.
But after the 500, 900 call, which will
be made soon, (God grant it
mayD there will be draft, and then we
shall find whole battalions of copper
heads in the Union army!
f. w. JENKINS,
3rd Iowa Vet. Inf.
U. s. General Hospital, Davenport, Iowa,
July 4th, 1864,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
The Nashville Press learns some of the
particulars of a terrible railroad ac:i-
dent that occurred Wednesday morn
ing, June 29th, about one o'clock, on
the Nashville and Chattanooga Road, a
short distance below Cowan. The pas
senger train, loaded with wounded men,
was run into by a freight train that was
coming up behind it, empty. Thefreight
train was running at twice its proper
rate, and the engineer on the passenger
train was unable to get out of its way.
Three cars of the train containing the
wounded were thrown off the track ,one
being thrown down the bank, turning
over twice, and another car falling on
top of it. The cries, groans, shrieks,
and prayers of the wounded men are
described as heart-rending. One man
was killed outright, another fatally
wounded, and nearly fifty injured more
or less seriously. One poor fellow was
caught under the car, where he remain
ed in agony from three o'clock till day.
break, and his cries and prayers for help
were horrible in the extreme.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
Doinxs OF the Late CONGRESS.

Congress was in session just seven
months. The following are believed to
be the principal measures of the session
which became laws l. Repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law 2. Revision of the
Internal Revenue Law; 8. Revision of
the Enrolment Law, and abolishment
of communications; A. The Four Hundred
Million Loan Bill S. Bill to establish
Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs; 6. Bill
to Encourage Emigration; 7. Bill Tenn
porarily Increasing the Tariff Duties
Fifty per cent; s. Revision OF the Tar
iff; 8. Revision of the Law authorizing
the establishment of National Banks /;
10. Re-establishment of the grade of
Lieutenant General IL. Imposition of
Special War Income Tax of five per
cent on all incomes above $500 per an
mum, additional to the same tax prOvi-
ded for in the amended Internal Rev
enue Law y II. Bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to Sell Gold !;
13. Bill prohibiting Gold Gambling IA.
Bill to repeal the foregoing enactment
Is. Bill authorizing the Enrolment of
Negro Slaves Is. Bill granting to Col
Ored soldiers the same pay, clothing,
ing the Pay of the Army, raising that of
PAhNoOCo i1Oih T1c w %AO PSA A'iOiAoh AO'
The Erection of the Territory of Mon
tana 10. Bill authorizing Postal Com
munication with Brazil 20. Bill to en-
courage the establishment of Telegraph
ic Communication with Russia by way
of Behring's Straits q. The Civiland
Army Appropriation Bills; %. The Bill
Prohibiting Seeding States from Voting
for President and Vice President; %. Bill
Enabling Nebraska, Colorado and
Nevada to form State Governments and
become States of the Union; "a. Bill
Amending the Postal Laws, substituting
salaries for commissions to all postmast-
ers. %"
OF the measures which failed to be-
come laws, the following are perhaps
the most important: Winter Davis
Reconstruction bill, the Joint Resolu-
ton concerning the reassertion of the
Monroe doctrine the proposition to en-
large the New York and Illinois canals;
and the Joint Resolution providing for
an Amendment to the Constitution
abolishing Slavery.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

B6 The new Enrolment law, which
we publish in full in another column,
passed the House by twelve majority
viz: 65 to SO. Among the nays were the
following Union men: Blair, of West
Virginia, Frank of New York, Perham
of Maine, Patterson and Rollins of New
Hampshire, Rice of Massachusetts, Sco-
field and Stevens of Pennsylvania, Thom-
as and Webster of Maryland. Among
the eight votes against the bill in the
Senate-twenty-seven members voting
for it-were Messrs. Doolittleo of Wiscon-
sin, Harlan of Iowa, and Henderson of
Missouri.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
nr The Chicago and North Western

ng The Chicago and North Western
Railroad Company, the Galena and
Chicago Union Railroad Company, the
Chicago and Fulton Air Line Railroad
Company, the Chicago, Iowa and Ne.
braska Railroad Company, and the Ce-
dar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad
Company, have consolidated, under the
name of the Chicago and North Western
Railroad Company, with William B.
Ogden, of Chicago, as President. The
Iowa road from Clinton to Nevada is
styled the Iowa Division of the Chicago
and North Western Railroad. This
part of the road is finished to Nevada,
Story county, and the grading is pro-
crossing rapidly between Nevada and
BoOnsbOrO.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

THE PRESENT INFLATION.-Bill s. is
good accountant, but like all men,
will sometimes make mistakes, and in
one of his bills figured up that "s times
8 are 49," The debtor was not slow in
discovering the mistake, and demanded
an explanation. Bill examined the ac-
count and saw that he was '.down," !" but
did not like to admit it; so putting on q
bold face, he said
"That is all right"
Chow SOP" was the inquiry.
cts all owing to the imitation of the
cufency," said Bill, "the multiplication
table, like every thing else, has gone
up!'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
HEGen. Mcclellan

H9 Gen. Mcclellan was in Troy, N.
Y, on June 2Sth Gen. Mcclellan made
a little speech, and then Gen. Mcclellan
went down the Hudson on the steamer
Vanderbilt. The General is airing him.
self on his salary for which he does no
service. He accepts gifts from Copper
heads, he hopes to be President but,
he don't resign his position IN the Arnay.
Great is Mcclellan! Men who are not
great may be excused for holding on to
offices in which they are not wanted
rank should resign while "Little Mac, I"
the "Young Napoleon" clings to his
office like leech, hungry for blood
They ought not to shame their superior!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

n@ Says an exchange: "The FIRE.
mont platform declares authoritatively
that slavery is dead" The Copperheads,
while positively endorsing this plat
form, declare that the government is
waging war for the abolition of slavery!
How can that be? How can you abolish
that which is already dead? The Ere
mont wing of the Copperhead party,
and the Copperhead wing of the FIRE.
mont party, find good deal of difficult
ty in reconciling their opposite senti-
ments. The dog which the old mythol-
ogists described as guarding the door OF
hell, had three heads. The Dogberry
Democracy, with its infusion of. Fre-
montism, has more than three heads
each one of which, instead of finding
itself on guard, will discover itself to be-,
in November next, several miles from
the door on the insidet
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

Dey~ The Peace Democracy in the now
free State of Maryland do not flourish
Gen. Benjamin G. Howard and Hon
Henry May, appointed by the late State
Convention delegates to the Chicago
Convention, have both declined. Mr.
May was the Democratic Congressman
who went to Richmond in the spring OF
1861, to satisfy himself upon what terms
the rebels would compromise and re-
main in the Union. The answer was SO
satisfactory that Gen. Logan, who was
advised as to the mission, Immediately
proceeded to Illinois to raise regiment
for the war, and Mr.. May now declines
attending Convention, which, if con-
trolled by Peace Democrats, will either
present conditions which he knows will
not be accepted at Richmond, or resolve
on free surrender to the rebels.-Cin.
Com,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
RECRUITING IN THE REBEL STATES

Agents for several of the Eastern States
are now en- route for the South to recruit
under the late act of Congress. What is
Iowa doing? Shall we stand idle while
Eastern States help fill their quotas by
enlisting men in the rebel States? Let
US take some such action to help fill our
quota against the approaching draft.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
ma The Wickliffites and tho Gutbri
WASHINGTON, July 6, 1864.

n@. The Wickliffites and the Guthrie
ties have each full delegations to the
Chicago Convention from Kentucky
but there is so little difference in their
actual position that we can't see it,
Habit, early education, and sympathy
with the South affects both factions alike
and inclines them to resistance to the
Government, and their fears alone re-
strain both factions from raising the
standard of revolt in defence of their
slave interests,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

n@ The Richmond Examiner saws
that aplot has been discovered near that
city in which 5OOnegroes were involved,
some pretended Union deserters being
the instigators. They had enrolled the
negroes and kept up communication
with Grants lines, furnishing him with
facts as to the movement Of troops, &c.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

Brig. Gen. Samuel A. Rice, formerly
of the 33d Iowa, died at his home in
Oskaloosa, on the afternoon of the 9Th
inst, of wounds received in battle in
Arkansas last April. We have this in.
telligence in a private letter from Post.
master James, of Sigourney.
Gen. Rice was an excellent man and
a brave soldier, whose death will be
deeply lamented. He was brother OF
Col. E. w. Rice, of the 7th Iowa.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

H1 w. NJ. Anderson, an Ohio dele
gate to the copperhead Chicago Conven-
ton, writes letter in favor of West
ern Confederacy. This is Democratic"
devotion to the Union! 1t is on a par
with the Muscatine Courier'ssystematic
efforts to ALLEVIATE the West from the
Eocf
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

HA The Chicago Times manifests its
reasonable proclivities with growing
boldness, and in the following paragraph
comes fully up to the standard of the
Kentucky Copperhead platform:
"The contest long since ceased to be
one that patriots and good men could
conscientiouslys support. 1t isnow about
to be attempted to enforce support; we
are now about to try the experiment of
making men fight for a cause for which
they have no respect, and in whose lead
ers they have no confidence. 1t is now
about to be attempted to force white
people to yield their lives and property
to sustain an aggression having for its
chief, object the elevation of despised
and inferior race.n
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

GooD NOMINATION.-Hon. John A.
kasson was nominated to Congress, by
acclamation, by the Republican Conven-
ton of the Fifth District, held at Win.
terset on the 9th inst. This is an honor
well merited. Mr.. Kasson is one of the
rising men of the country, and we are
pleased to see him appreciated as he de-
serves. s'af 3s sS' s.is lsissf
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

n@- An editorial in the Atlanta Con-
tederdcy complains bitterly of the mis-
management that has permitted Sher-
man to advance so far, and says that if
Forrest were allowed to take hand, he
would make sad havoc with Sherman's
communication. - as4s ss.s.5
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

@ The number of prisoners Of war
whohave died at Rock Island Barracks,
during the week ending July I'd, is Ii
Previous deaths 1,346
Total number Of deaths 1853
No new variola cases.
Whole number sick in hospital 1892
Davenport Gaxstts.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

b3 The Hon. J. L. NJ. Curry, the Sc
cession leader of Alabama, says: s.'Should
Lincoln be reelected, our fond hopes
will be dashed" Curry and the cop
perheads are right. ..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

NOTICE OF UNITED STATES LOAx
WrrHDRAwN.-The Treasury Depart
ment has withdrawn the advertisement
for proposals for $33, ,OOO, ,OOO, and notice is
given to those who have submitted nro-
posals, that the same will be returned.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
Facts for the People.

just now, when the Copperhead press
is teeming with false reasoning to show
that this war was caused by the Repub-
hcan party and that the so-called Demo-
cratic party can aloue save the country,
it is we'll for the people to remember
that
l.. The rebellion was inaugurated un-
der Democratic National Administra-
ton. ...
2. 1t was conceived and matured un-
der Democratic auspices.
,. 1t had its nucleus and headquarters
i'll the Democratic Cabinet Of Buchanan.
4. Its chief instructors and engineers
were leaders of the Democratic party in
Congress and Government departments.
.. Its principal agents abroad were
Democratic Ambassadors and Consuls,
serving the cause of treason under pay.
6. 1t had been in progress for months
before Mr.. Lincoln was inaugurated.
:. Seven States had gone out of the
Union before the Democratic Buchanan
had left the Executive Chair.
s. War had been declared by the in
surgents in firing upon the ''Star of the
West" long before the present Admins
tration came in power.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

n@- Mr.. Fessenden, the new Secretary
of the Treasury, entered Congress in
1882. He is widower, his wife dying
in 1857. Of his four sons, all literally
educated, three entered the army. The
Oungest-Samuel-wa killed in the
battle of Centerville, in August, 1892
Brigadier General Fessenden
has achieved an enviable reputation
on the field of battle; third is a
Colonel on General Hooker's staff. Sec
retary Fessenden, although of an anti
slavery family, has been styled "con-
servstive," rather from the careful judg-
ment which governs his actions, than
from sympathy with the timidity and
insincerity which have been character
lied by that name. He never swerves
from a conviction Of duty, nor hesitates
to assume responsibility.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

Major Merrill, formerly EngineersihS
Chief of the United States, has hed =
fortune of $3.50, 600, 900 left him by an
uncle in Portland, Me-, as reward fpE
his patriotism in declining e. yeEy lucle-
tive offer from the English Goye etnnnents
q few months since. u.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
VVo1i III NUstCtS, III
Necessary to choos

Several Territories have been author
lied to form State constitutions, and up-
on proof of their ratification by the
people, said Territories are to be admit
tea into the Union by proclamation.
Ihelr acceptance of the profered priv
ilege is doubtful. ea#
In reckoning up Mr.. Lincoln's
chances then, the only doubtful States
are Kentucky, IL; New Jersey, 2; Mis-
souri,, II Pennsylvania, 26; and Della
ware, 3; making in the aggregate, So.
241 minus So equals 1873. Necessary to
choice, 12l. Certain for Mr.. Lincoln,
1873. s'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

The NEW SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
URY.-The New York Tribune (money
article) of Saturday, says the appoint
ment of VIM. Pitt Fessendsn to the
Treasury Department gives great satis-
faction in financial circles, and parties
of the widest difference politically unite
in approving the nomination. He is a
thorough business man, Of ample for
tune, and reputation for integrity new
er questioned by his strongest political
opponents. His accession to the Treas
ury Department closes hecontest which
has been carried on between the State
banks, the National system and the
Government, and at an early day the
N<5 B. F. Taylor, the poet editor of
the Chicago Journal, writing from
Washington thus speaks of our wound
ed braves and their ministering angels ::
The thought saddens, as it goes the
heavy rounds of the twenty-one hospi-
tails, where thousands languish, the
stricken heroes from the battles of Vir-
ginia. The leaves of the Linden be-
meath my window, that swing at a
breath, as if the tree were laden with
the green pendulums of little French
clocks all going at once, have run
down +" and there soldiers emblem
of these broad, brazen days, they lie
motionless upon the air. With the
poor, wounded boys, time, indeed stands
still. 1 wish could tell you, in words
befitting, of the sublime patience of
those men; how they treasure their
terrible wounds; no cold Guard" of
the Corsican so priced his cross of the
Legion of Honor. But they crave the
gentle touch of woman. The "weH
done, my men!" of the commanding
General is much, but the cup of cold
water from loving hand is more. /
tell you to-day, as have told you be-
fore, the Government could not carry on
this war without the aid of loyal wOm-
en-. She is not represented in the Cab
met; she has no voice in the Capitol,
but in the thought and heart of the Fed
eral armies she abideth forever.
entire banking and financial resources
of the country will be found acting in
harmony with the Treasury Depart
ment. All his antecedents pledge him
to conservative policy, and the public
will be greatly disappointed if he does
not at once take active steps towards re-
storing the currency to sounder posi-
tion.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
Electoral College,

Electoral College.
Congress has decided that none of the
States which have been formally de-
clared in insurrection shall vote for
President until re-admitted into the Un-
ion. The States thus excluded from
participating in the approaching Presi-
Dental contest are as follows:
Virginia, | Mississippj .r
North Carolina louisiana --t
South Carolina, Florida, ..
Georgia, Arkansas
Alabama, Texas
Tennessee, aEI
Our next President and Vice Presi-
dent are therefore to be chosen by the
following:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

Bold Dash of Rebel Cdual,y IN Sse,-
mans Rear-Constont Fighting in
Front-Our Lines Adrancing-Esco,.r
aging Prospects of Success -Procld-
nation by the Governor Of Georgia,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

A fire engine has been sent from
Philadelphia to City Point for the pur-
pose of forcing water from the James
River to the hospitals located near that
place. In some instances the water has
to be forced a mile.