Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-08

luRLOny n.y., mas Oeeu TeVoktu.f. AuIS .WAu
done at the request Of Gen. Grant.
There are 4, $50 men in our frontier garri.
sons. The main force of the summer txpe-
dfion IL with Gefefal Sullyl on the Missouri.
This ought to be enough to protect US from
Indiap horse theves.iteT s3T .syc5b -vsY
| In the late Arkansas election the votel re-
quired under tie President Proclamation
was 400: The numbsr cast in that portion
Of the State under immediate Union rule, will
reach nearly $4,000. 'a' '9'7o4
7, Gen. Rosecrans has suppressed the circu.
lat,on, In his Depa, tment. Of the New York
Astropolitan Record, Copperhead Cathoic
paper, As the General IS himself Catholic,
the act is the more s;goifcaHt. .,t. F.
d The so.called Spotted Fever at Long Branch,
Now Jersey, has carried off 37soat OF 90 cases.
1t is believed to be caused, says the Tribune,
by bad food, poisonous rye coffee, and bed.
room air vitiated by kerosene lamp smoke.
Mr.. Shipman, agent Of the sanitary com.
mission at Cairo, ILL.,. hiss received nearly
$l5, 900 for the aid of white refugees from
the South, nearly all Of which has been dis
bursed, besides supplies Of clothing, Over
1000 prisons have been assisted. 'A"4 Z
II il a significant hint Of the straits to
which the rebels are reduced that the Sd,
17ths 2lst, 22d, 26th, 27th, 2Sth and ;slst
Louisiana have been consolidated into one
regiment. This evinces that these organiza-
TORS must have been about played out.
Two mule dealers named Wof ard Peke
were swindled out Of $4,000 by receiving
counterfeit $l00 treasury notes in payment
for their mules, few miles from St. Louis,
on Saturday evening last. The swindler then
sold the mules to third party, receiving
good therefor, and vamosed. 81
The Legislature Of Minnesota having pass.
ed an act for the encouragement Of immigra.
ton, Hon. D. Blakely. Secretary of State,
offers o prize Of 5000 for the best Essay on
heiadsantsges which that State offers to im-
migrants; likewise prize Of $l005 for the
second best Essay on the same subject.
It is stated that General Scott has nearly
completed his autobiography, tracing his per.
sonal history downward from the earliest
period to the latest public acts of his eminent
" useful and honorable life. The work will
create a sensation when published. -. -,
n Private Drury Bishop, company B, 10th
Illinois infantry, in fit Of temporary mental
alteration, leaped from a second story win.
dow in ho Eital No. 10, Nashville, on the
2Sth;ult.. and was dashed to death on the
stone pavement below. Il iar.U 81 .
The cost of the city Government Of New
York, under the rascally rule Of the Copper
heads, is estimated at fifteen millions of dol.
lars annually. That is just two millions
more than the total expenses Of the United
States government forty years ago. 9Ai no
It. Col, Sanderson, recently returned from
the Richmond p isons, AID who was after.
wards place under arrest on charge Of be.
traying plot for his fellow prisoners to es:
teape, has been released. In card published
|atNew York he denie- most emphaticaliy that
there was any just foundation for the charge
against him. o.,-;i ---------.------ s.s stS.
A new style Of shell, invented by Capt
William s. Williams, cf Ohio. has recently
been successfully experimental with at tV'cks
burk, in 2O.pound Parrott gun One shell,
weighing twenty pounds, was by his means
Of explosion, broken into one hundred and
twenty seven pieces, which surpasses any
bOf similar kind now in use. {l92':9II
f. It has been proposed to incorporate a com
panyf to build an eur derground. railroad
under certain streets in the city of New York
The Metropolitan Railway Company appl e
to the Legislature for the privilege. They
desire to tunnel Broadway, and run a line q
railroad from the Bowling Green to the Cen
tral Park. There is at present in London .
tunnel fye miles long. .as0 ytt..n +
Mr.. ALFRED Spates, President of the Ches
apeake and Ohio Canal Company, was rob
bed of package containing 5000 in bank
| mates, in banking house at Baltimore, q few
days ago, white listening to discussion about
q gold coin between some parties in the bank
| He left the package on the counter, turned
| towards the disputants, and when he turned
again to take it up, it had disappeared. 4 .
The Cincinnati Gazstt, says4..'the Centra
liza Division of the Brotherhood Of the Foot
board disguised with the failure of the com
bination of engineers, has given up its charter
i disbanded, and resolved to distribute thu
money in its treasury among the poor OF tn
ttown.- Z Thus ends what at one time seemed
livery, formidable organization Of mechanics
the object Of which was to force employers t
submit to their. terms" F..u 81 dvroi, /
One.of the officers from the LIBBY Pflsof
presented Gen Spinner, United States Treas
lurer, with $5 note, manufactured by ~.
boffleers, in imitation Of greenbacks, 30 vel
executed that even Spinner was at first Dc
ceiyed. It was done with pen. Its manu-
facture was resorted to by the officers to %
4 tain the necessaries Of life. $l70 was ex
chang cd for rebel currency ct the rate & !,
i 500 per cent. -, .{,;,. ..i.,r7,,l sd3
] "A singular law exists in Utah territory
4 granting to criminals under capital lsentence
choice of deaths. Il They may eject 70, b'
hanged. to be shot. or to be beheaded:' lnth'
Eeaseof Jason R. Luce. who was executed or
the 12thult., tor the murder of Samuel Bun
ton, the prisoner declined. at. the time of sen
tence, TO make sny ehoice. 70 the presidiRi
judge had himself to determine ithesmode o
1'exeeution. . He ordered him ia, be shot, sn'
At the hour appointed he Was taken to th
court house yard, and q yolley7 Of Eve shot
was fired st him from the windows Of a base
ment, where the ,executieners were conceale
from vew.- Allthe, shots penetrated Luce
:, breast, apd be fell over, = corpse. prrvkr
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