Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-24

sure ana ascertain what he means by
the Democracy, whether it be genuine
or bogus. There can be no such thing
as a true Democrat who does not stand
up for the war;
GLEANlNGe.
DR.. Halls new Attic expedition will
not leave New Yorkeb before the 25th inst.
Mile Marietta RaveI fell fifteen feet
while performing on the tight rope in
Washington, one night last week, with
out seriously injuring her.
Morgan has entirely disappeared from
Kentucky. His defeat by Gen. Bur
bridge used him up completely, and he
made tracks for the mountains.
There are now 1900 patients in the
Washington hospitals. Fifteen hun
dred convalescents have been returned
to the front within the last two weeks.
Bread has risen in Rhichmond to
$3.50 a loaf. Everything eatable and
wearable is on the advance in Dixie
nothing falls back except the rebel
armies.
The Quallers are establishing a college
in Pennsylvania. 1t has been incorpor-
ated by the name Of Swathmore College,
and about $40, 900 have been paid toward
the enterprise.
The total Indebtedness Of the South TO
Northern merchants is estimated at
$500 600, 00D Of which New York holds
$50, $780, 600; Baltimore Sl9, 000, 600 and
Boston $7,000,000.
DE-. Windship's heaviest lift with the
IoY,l. | --y3-it n tl oh Id
ers, by means of u strap over them, 1900
pounds. The Doctor weighs but 143
pounds.
The supply OF straw-oraid having
failed in Massachusetts, the bonnet bust
ness at Ware, which has given employ
ment to one hundred and fifty women
during the past season is suspended.
The Spanish government entirely dis
approves the seizure of the Chincha
Islands, belonging to Peru, by one of its
Admirals; hence there is every prOba-
bility that the difficulty with PGXI will
soon be settled.
According 10 Il correspondent OF the
London Times, the AustrianS have failed
lamentably in their iron clads. It is
represented that the three last built We're
made OF wood which was only half sea-
soned.
The Richmond Faiy OF the 8th advo-
Gates the sending beyond the lines of the
/ 800 or 1000 Irish and German women
in that city whose husbands have gone
over to the Yankees, and many of them
entered the Yankee service
In future the remains of every soldier
dying in the Washington hospitals will
10, t1,c Nv
cort of cavalry, and will be buried with
military honors. A company of the 9Th
Illinois has been detailed to do this duty.
\ few days since dunner called on Il
young gentleman and presented him Il
bill when he was somewhat taken
abacll by the gent taking him aside and
blandly saying: "My dear sir, call next
Thursday, and III tell yon when to call
again"
A draft to fill up the DEFICIENCIES under
the Presidents last call is still quietly
progressing in some of the districts Of
New York, Pennsylvania and other
Eastern States, and is about finished.
AS usual, few men and much money is
the result.
The Rock Island bridge cost some
$3.50, 900 and the draw part which was
totally consumed, is said to have cost
over 500, 900, there being an immense
amount of work upon it. 1t tsexpected
to be completed for use in about a
month.
The income tax section of the new
tax bill, as it passed the Senate, is as
follows five per cent. on incomes from
5000 to S., 900; seven and half per cent. on
incomes from 5000 to $4,000, and ten
per cent. on those above SIS 900, with
two per cent. additional on the income
OF all citizens living abroad.
Among those injured by the explosion
of locomotive on the New York Cen
trail Railroad, on Wednesday, We're Mr..
and Mrs. Landers, of Wittsville, Onei-
da county, who were married that NOR
ming and on their bridal tour. The lady's
spine was injured so as to deprive her
entirely of the use of her lower limbs.
The Tom Thumb troupe was robbed
Of 81 ,297 while exhibiting in Whitehall,
Washington county, n. Y. Their room
was entered in their absence and their
money trunk carried Off One of the
house girls was missed about the same
time, and suspicion fell upon her, but
no clue to her whereabouts was known.
Tbs Wisconsin river, owing to the
absence of rain, is said to be studded
with RATS waiting for rise to enable
them to run out. The Prairie du Chen
Standard Bearer gives its opinion that
there are three hundred RATS within a
space fifty miles above Bridgeport.
Five thousand incapacitated blacks,
mostly old men, women and children
the able-bodied men being in the army
arc now organized in camps on desert
ed plantations in northern Alabama,
under the superintendent of Lieut.. j.
III. Harris, of Illinois. About 1000 acres
are under cultivation-1,0 900 devoted to
cotton, the rest to grain and vegetables.
The colony now pays expenses and is
accommodating a surplus.
Travellers just returned from Europe
declare that the American war creates
far more interest OH the continent, and
especially among Germans, than the
war in Denmark, nearer home. The
news by every steamer is read with the
greatest avidity, and in all the great cit
les it is posted up in the hotels as soon as
it is received. The feelings of the Ger
mans are generally in sympathy with
the North those of the French half and
half