Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-12
tern6on, but the House adjourned with the
matter pending jsi :Sa.We!iof sf8 srs 1pl

| The Supreme Court Judge bill was up IN
! the Senate to-dava on islimetionJ to aconej
! in slight namendment made by; the House
| The motion to concur in the amendmen
want d one more vote to take it Though dnt
the bill went to the judiciary Committse.y9
The billttc scll the gold in the State Treas
ury and pay the Trra urer, for carrying t!
MARKET, vas Up and went to the Judiciary. ;
Committees made a. goodly number os re-
ports and the Senate was busy but nothing
found a final dl-position.1i 81 sgT si als.2 II
In the House several petitions we're Pre-
sented asking for an, increase1of the duties
and compensation Of County Snperintendents
Pie motion % reconsider the vote by which
this supreme Judge b II passed 0wasa lost by
83 yeas to 48 naYs. s,,rt 20 4aIGa ed3 70.
"A bill to repeal the law requiring Clerks d
District Courts to keep an appearance docket
was introduced bv Mr.. Close, and Township
t'ollector bill by Mr.. SIMPSON 7.goi 10 sai5a
Mr. Oliver introduced a resolution for the
appointment of committee Of one from each
Jadi..iH Dist let to j, quire whet cr the eq.,ali
zati n made by the State Board Of Equ:ilizt.
tior is just, ard whether any legislation il
needed in order to secure just equalization
IN future. .4t r...... t;~.z.- ..,,-.., .i =, ,.,s
w- We clip the following account Of hor
rible atrocities committed BY the rebels in
Alabama, from Parson Brownlow's per O.
the 18th ult :
On the Gath of February, 1868, Brig. Gen
Dodge, at his headqusr ers for the Districs d
CORN h, officially announced = .tring. of ths
NEST revolving depredations,e outrages snd
murders perpe etrated by the rebels upon Ala
tama Union families This publication shows
that they have not carried on this war in &C
cor,l nee With the rules that govern civilized
nntions in such cases, and that the ouIraqe'
perpetratsd are disgraceful even to sayages
We z We below a few Of the instances nsmed
by General Dodge Abe Can dy and Mr.
Mitchell were hung for being Union men. and
no other crime was ls d to their ch rye. They
were citizens OF Marion county, Alabama
Mr.. Hallwark and his daughter, Of the SAINT
county, were shot for the same c,Gse:: The
daughter wasAinstantly killed, and the father
morally wounded, and died; in = few days
Peter Lewis and three of his neighs,ors were
hunted down and c.pturtd by one hthdre'
btcodhounds The houses of Messrs Palme-
Welsby, Williams, the three Wight1uans, and
some thirty hers, were burned. The 4wo
men and children were turned oct of doors
and the community otified tha- If they al.
lowed them to 20 into other houses, or fed
clothed or har bored them in any manner. they
would be served in The same wav. Mr.. Pc
.trson, living at the heal Of Boil Monn.air
was shot down'in the rresetce Of his family
and for being Union man. g General Dodge
at tho time Of making this publication, was
feeding ore hundred Of these distressed fami
lies, who, with their women and children
aome gray haired men, and even cripples on
crutehes, were driven out through the woods
ard found their way to the federal camps
suppllcatiog the General for food and shelter
from the chilling blasts OF winter. In most
instances this was done because the parties
were for she Union, and refused to sanction
the foul heresy OF secession In other cases
i. was done because the parties had sons OF
relatives in the Union army. The statements
Of these famil es gning into the Federal camp
the General says, are beyond belief, did he
not have the evidence before him in such q
shape and abundance as to forbid denial oi
the fact. Such is southern chivalry. and such
is the spirit engende-ed BY this worse than
internal rebellion. in the hands of . set of the
mo It corrupt leaders now out Of hell! They
are sweet set Of rascals to charge upon the
Federal troops all sorts Of depredations and
outrages!