Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-26
VOL. XVI----NO. 6.
GLEANINGS.
Foreign emigration to this country
exceeds ., 1000 per week. 80 a&3 a.

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F Foreign emigration to this country
exceeds 5000 per week. % z - "a
The Spiritual Convention at Chicago
resolved by q vote of $50 to "A to support
Mr.. Lincoln. @s 86 s5'N 4B5zE
The rebel raid in Illinois is over, and
Gen. Paine is after the raiders with the
100 days. troops. .....-.. .-.-
i The new opera house at Chicago will
cost 5000, and will not be completed
until February, 1855. H"
Six persons were killed by the blowing
up of the Eagle Mills at Lacon, ILL.,, on
the 18th inst. 5.+r
Provost Marshal General Fry decides
that one three years man will not count
for three one yearmen-adecision which
is no doubt correct.
A new spire 554 feet high, is building
on The church of st. Stephen of Vienna,
and will when completed be the high
est in Europe. ,-...,.--
The Supreme Court of California has
affirmed the constitutionality of the law
for the enforcement of contracts for
payment in gold. "t
Capitalists should remember that the
new Government seven thirty per cents.
are exempt from taxation, except where
they enter into bank capital subject to
| taxation.
A hog nine feet in length and weigh
| ing 1852 pounds recently died a natural
death at Palmyra in Wisconsin. No
wonder, for he couldn't wait longer for
| the butcher. i.
| Gerritt Smith has sent $500 to Mr..
| Garrison, that. the Li6eratos. NAV not
be discontinued because of the detection
of some Of its former friends. The lib
orator supports Mr.. Lincoln.
| The steamer Drew, with twenty-five
pounds of steam, made the trip from
| Irvington to New York, twenty-five
miles, in ffty-fve minutes, the quickest
time ever made on that river. -,
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company are repairing their road for the
| tenth time since the commencement of
the rebellion. Rebel raiders have an
especial antipathy to this company.
The Governor of Illinois calls for a
regiment OF men for special State SER
| vice. They viii make part of the
quota of the State under the last call by
| the General Government.
The British Government will recall,
during the coming fall, the whole of the
silver coins now circulating throughout
the United Kingdom, and replace them
with an entirely new coinage.
Cough is putting on the Finishing
touches. on his new lecture, "Fact and
Fiction" He has already received more
applications to deliver it atS150 and 5000
a night than he can comply with.
The great railroad bridge over the
ChattahOoche river, which the rebels de-
stroyed, was rebuilt by Gen. Sherman,
and trains passed over it on the 18th
Cars now run to within three miles of
Atlanta.
|. Peter Conklin, o substitute broker, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary in
Canada for twenty-one years, for en-
gaging men to come to the United States
and enlist in our army. This is not his
first Ofiense.
BY recent decision OF the Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue, every per-
gGs3 engaged Ia ny J4lsiHcsS Whatsoever
producing g thousand dollars year, is
required to pay license of ten dollars.
This includes farmers as well as business
and professional men.
Onthe cars from Albany to Springfield.
few days since, well dressed Irish
woman became a raving maniac, at
tackled the passengers, threw a gold
watch at some Of them, nearly choked
boy, and performed many other frantic
tricks before she could be secured
A regiment OF United States troops,
1000 strong, composed wholly Of re-
cruits from rebel prisoners and refugees,
arrived at New York last week from
Fort Monroe. They are to be used for
guard duty.
Three alleged bushwhackers, named
John L. Linginfelter VIM. Linginfel-
ter and l.. WainscOtt, were executed at
Wllllamstown, Grant county, KY, on
Monday 18th, by order of Maj. Gen. Bur-
bridge, in retaliation for the murder of
two Union citizens of Grant county.
Discussing the strike of the printers
as affecting the weekly press, the New
York Leuder says, MANY of the offices
wilfratit, employ girls, ,and work through
in that way. Others cast lingering
glances towards the Alden typesetting
machine, which is beginning to operate
successfully. Others will shutu shop.n
Notwithstanding the Mormons are
laying by grain for season of famine,
food is now pretty well up to starvation
prices. The Deseret Neacs of July 9th
quotes -four at $15 per 100 pounds
wheat, s. per bushel; corn, 81 so per
bushel; pork, 50cents per pound sugar,
81; butter, 50 cents; whisky, SO per
gallon.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
decided that hundred day soldiers are
entitled to pensions in all respects the
same as the three years men. He says:
"The law under which all pensions
based on service in the present war are
allowed, is unequivocal in its language,
making no distinction between those
engaging for longer or orshorterperiod."
Vanderbilt the capitalist, has five
horses at Saratoga, valued at no less than
Sl7j, 900. He has a span Of mares for
which he has been offered SIT 900. They
have made their mile in 2:23 and 2:24.
Post Boy" another of his horses, he
values at S22, 900, and considers him the
fastest horse in the world. He has made
his halfnlile in harness, with Rocking
ham, in I:10 and Ill.
The Eighth Iowa Infantry were made
the recipients on the Sth inst, at Mem
phis, of a magnificent stand of colors, the
gift OF the citizens Of Memphis. The
flag is a very handsome national fringed
with solid bullion. The colors were
presented as a testimonial of their es-
TEEN and to mark their sense of appre-
citation of the services the officers and
men have rendered since they have been
detailed as Provost Guard of Memphis
The New York dry goods trade is at a
stand-still, and importers are att loss
to know what to do, whether to take
their goods out of bond or reship them
to Europe. The prices of many articles
place them beyond the reach of con-
sumers, and the Presidential contest
will cut down the regular trade of the