Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
GLEANINGs.

A man has caught this season in nets
thirty thousand pigeons, in the region
of La Crosse, Wis.
A st. Louis paper complains of the
alarming licentiOusnes prevalentamong
military men in that city.
The New York directory for the pres
ent year contains 152, 055 names, an in
crease of ! 900 over last year.
John Morgan surrendered to Gen.
Hobson in Ohio, and Gen. Hobson sur
rendered to John Morgan in Kentucky.
The Constitutional Convention OF
Maryland, by a vote 81 to 81, has declared
slavery forever abolished in that State.
The Magenta and Solferino, the two
French iron clads, cost So, SOC, 900 each.
The English Warrior cost about SIS, 600,
600.
Eight hundred rebel prisoners from
Staunton, Va, arrived at indianapolis
on the 2lst. Two thousand more were
hourly expected.
A Richmonder writes, per intercepted
mail, thath has salary of So, 800, pays
500 per week for board, and 81 900 for a
The Siren, an iron steamer engaged in
blockade running, has been captured by
the U. s. steamer Keystone State. The
cargo of the prize is a valuable one.
The peach crop in New Jersey will be
large. One man, Benjamin Reed OF
Highstown, has 18O,OOO trees, and has
prepared to send 224 900 baskets to mar
ket.
Chicago still goes ahead at $40 gait. 1t
is estimated that the business blocks
and buildings to be erected in that city
the present season will cost over 81, 900,
900.
Gen. Scott has completed the memoirs
of his life and given them out for publ
cation, contracting for their issue early
in July. Sheldon & Co. are the pub
fishers. .
A bill has just passed the Connecticut
Legislature, providing for a fine of $25
upon railroad companies that neglect
to carry certain quantity of good
drinking water in passenger cars.
The Maryland Convention is believed
to stand 81 in favor of, and 81 against
emancipation without compensation
The same subject is being earnestly dis
cussed in the Louisiana Convention.
The Detroit Tribune mentions several
cases in which VaIlandigham assisted
deserters from the Federal army in Can
ada, and discouraged their return. Why
not? He is against the war-our side
of it.
Gov. Morton has issued an appeal to
the people of Indiana, calling upon
them to make systematic efforts on OF
before the 4th of July next to supply
funds and goods for the sick and wound
ed soldiers.
An Atlanta dispatch of the 18th, pub,
lished in the rebel papers, says: "Lieut.
Gen. Polk was struck dead by a cannon
shot to-day, about II o'clock and in
stantly killed. Gems. Johnston, Hardee
and Jackson, were with him when he
fell"
The BARRIERS in Troy, N. Y. have an
association of self-protecting kind
which has resolved to prosecute any
body who shaves or cuts hair on Sun
day hereafter. The penalty under the
law is dollar for each offence.
An extensive system of mail robberies
between Winona and MankatO, Mimi,
has just been discovered. A large num-
Der of letters, &C., were found in the
stables of two stage drivers, who have
been arresed. The robberies began last
March,
~ have ridden" says an army cores
pendent of the n. Y. Tribune, tower
nearly all the roads in the region we
have traversed, between the Rappahan-
mock and the James, and have barely
me to enter. Every seat was furnished
a spittOon.'
The Army of the Potomac suffered ex-
tremely in its late march across the
Peninsula from dust. The ground pull
verified by the tramp of thousands OF
men and horses, and the wheels of ar
tillery wagons, hung in heavy clouds
over the line Of march, which, added to
the heat, caused much suffering.
The river pilots at st. Louis, in con-
sideration of large wages, agreed with
certain owners not to take any boat out
which carried freight for less than an
advanced tariff, recently fixed by them
Gen. ROsecrans broke up this little ar
rangement by ordering that no boat
should leave port as long as the combi-
nation lasted.
The terms of the parole eXacted of the
prisoners taken by Morgan in Kentucky
are not in accordance with the law OF
nations, and similar paroles have been
heretofore repudiated by both the Union
and insurgent authorities. Gen. Bur
bridge has consequently ordered the re.
leased men and officers to active duty
Morgan shaved the heads of some of his
prisoners in retaliation for similar
operation performed on him at Column
bus last summer.
The Adjutant General has determined
that no officer shall give any Informal
ton which can be made the basis of any
claim against the United States forback
pay, pension or other allowances, except
as provided in the regulations of the
Army, Treasury and Pension Bureaus.
Informatiol~ concerning sick and
wounded men, and a statement of the
fact of death will be willingly given,
but no circumstance will be stated which
would be required in establishing claim
against the Government. This rule is
to protect the government and lawful
claims against fraud.
AHH Lynchburg, now an object of in
terest as connected with the movements
of General Hunter, is one of the princi-
pal cities of Virginia, situated on the
south or right bank of the James river,
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