Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-26
GJ.EANINGS.

There are about 900 rebel prisoners at
Elmira, n. Y.
ParsOn BrOwnlow advocates the pro-
priety of negro suffrage in the border
States.
! e. S. Bennett, of New Milford, Conn.,,
shot himself dead in New York, because
he was unable to procure substitute.
Philadelphia is paying $500 bounty
for recruits. Ward committees are at
work, and the number of men daily ell
listed is on the increase.
A ration to Lees army is now one
third Of pound of bacon, one pound
of meal or flour, and an occasional ra-
ton of vegetables, but no sugar OR coffee
lately.
Between 20 and so yellow fever cases
have occurred in New York harbor the
! past season, but none Of them have
reached the city nor are likely to. spite
OF the alarm there.
| Horace Greeley is said to have sup
| pressed one OF the letters which tile
President addressed to him, in connec-
ton with his late unfortunate essay in
| diplomacy. There is great anxiety to
see this letter.
The number of rations issued to poor
women and refugees in Louisville on
Saturday and Sunday exceeded 1000
Why does not the Government scatter
them over the Northern country where
there is plenty of labor, in which they
can supply themselves with rations.
We learn from the Sioux City Regis
ter that a large body of Indians is in the
vicinity of TT. Kearney. They are SAID
to be killing and capturing everything
on the road. All of the troops are driv-
en- into the Fort, which is now sur
rounded by Indians.
A singular phenomenon occurred re-
Gently on the line of the Atlantic & Great
Western Railroad near Wooster, Ohio.
All at once the embankment and track
disappeared in the most mysterious
manner. Upon examination it was
found that about a hundred feet of the
road had sunk and was continuing to
sink, while, into the cavity formed,
black mud and heavy streams of water
gushed from below. With the water
there was thrown up number of eye
less fish, still living. The "sink" is one
of great depth, and considerable diff
Guilty will be experienced in filling it.
The treaty which the German powers
have concluded with Denmark strips
from her the Duchies of Schleswig,
HOlstein and Lauenburg, with the is
lands belonging to them, comprising the
whole of the isthmas uniting Denmark
proper with the continent, and contain
ing several excellent forts, and two of
them strong fortresses. Denmark pre-
viously embraced q 300 square miles,
and 2, DOG, 6H inhabitants. Now she is
reduced to IA 1892 square miles and ,4O7,-
747 inhabitants. Denmark was disap-
pointed in the help she expected from
England.
In rebel mail recently captured at
Baltimore, were found about 500 letters,
many ofwhich were addressed to prom
inent officers in the rebel army and
navy. A large portion of them were
from the most aristOcratic families of
that city, and their contents were gen
orally amusing. Some contain photo.
graphs of the parties writing, with
locks of hair and other testimonials of re.
gard and esteem, whilst the sentiments
expressed are quite amusing. Some of
the fair writers state that on the occasion
of the late raid of the "Southern Chiv-
airy" into Maryland they went to the
city markets and laid in q most unusual
supply of the delicacies of the season for
the purpose of entertaining the afore-
said chivalry, but-they didn't come
Others declare that during whole night
they seated themselves at the front in
doors, in the t.Ope of hearing the clatter
of the Confederate cavalry in order that
they might give them a real hOspitable
reception.