Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-03-18
Vol. iXV----NO 35.
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News Paragraphs. 1870
5d The total national debt on the 1st of March
was $1,519, ,29h h043.35. -a ,r1jfama7 gciTgs
The French and rebel forces in Mexico
number 45 5000, The army Of Juarez num-
bers $4,000. ,.,r f.- -sr ss--.
Eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars
is paid per year by the government for carry
ing the Overland mail to, California.
q Gen Logan writes to hisfriends in Illinois
that he is unwilling to become a candidate
for the office of Governor ofthat State. or
Pretty grave charges are made against
Commodore Wilkes by the Navy Department.
He seems - have been very insubordinate.
The Great National Fair at Chicago, under
the auspices Of the Fenian Brotherhood, is to
open on the 2Sth instant The order has
started paper called the Fenian..9J z,rs-t
"a large number of dry goods houses in
New York have given 81 1000 and upwards to
the New York Sanitary Fair. A. I. Stewart
heads the list with $4,000. ,a7.s7.--,Y
Gen. Rosecfans has issued an order re-
curing all religious assemblsges in his depart
ment to take the oath of allegiance, or be dis
persed by the military. lioaT ,esae.-t .s.i1
Hon. Martin P. Sweet, prominent Repub
lican poli tcian of Illinois died at Freeport on
the 9th ms. He was native OF New York,
and fifty eight years of age. d s-;t ssr.as ..,,.
Post Offices have been re-epened in Ten.
nessee at the following places Memphis,
Nashville, Clarksville, Gallatin, Shelbyvlle,
Murfreesboro, Chattanooga and Knoxville.
The Detroit papers say that tens of thous-
ands of dollars have been made by cowardly
refugees in Canada, who cross the river en-
list in the army, receive their bounty money
and then desert. ] te, 7sL CIV .n95gEiTIGli
Thomas Abrshans, Of the 139th New York,
has been shot, for intentionally letting escape
the man who informed the enemy. Of Gen.
Buffers movement on the peninsula. -r,,
The vote required in Louisiana according
to Mr.. Lincon's proclamation tone tenthN of
the vote at the last election is 5 $50. The
vote cast is about IL ,000-t1ice the vote re-
quired. 1si e'-;ly -l9 1z@1aF - F
The Detroit Tribune says that Vailandig-
ham left Windsor a few days since for the
East, in company with squad Of skedaddlers
and deserters. Where he has gone is
mystery. --......- -..-.g
I Hands are busy at work along the portion
of the Mississippi river included in the De-
partment of General Banks, repairing and
Strengthening the levees above and below
New Orleans. lCagoG e~s .s-.
Mss Emma Webb, the elder of the Webb
sisters, has en- cred the field against Miss
Anna Dickinson. Miss Webb is said to be a
capital speaker, pungent and satirical, and
much sport is expected from this contest of
female wits. e. 4.,af ID. .-z5e-- ---r
Parton's Life of Gen. Butler is elaborately
reviewed in the London spectator. The wri-
ter acknowledges that the book has entirely
changed his opinion of Gen. Butler, and com.
pares him, in versatility and energy to Fred
erick the Great. a s %
Samuel W. Day, who was convicted Of
Journal, was ser fenced at Taunton, last week,
to pay fine of $25 and costs of prosecution.
Another complaint for sending similar no.
tice to the Taunton Gazette was laid on file.
Bad Days work for him. a-
The passenger train leaving indianapolis
for Louisville on the evening of the Sth inst.
was thrown off the track six miles above
Columbus, Ind, about midnight, by the dis
placement of q switch, and the hind car was
intersected by tree standing near the track,
killing four persons and wounding several
others. .-,-. ....,- tr-g iea
Two prominent guerrilla leaders have re-
Gently been killed-both "Confederate' Col
Richardson and Forrest, st,-about whose,
raids aud depredations we have heard so
much in Tennessee and adjoining States.
Richardson was killed in Southern Kentucky,
and Forrest in Northern Mississippi, during
skrmish with Gen. Smiths cavalry.
Previous to April, 1862, there were re-
ported 7S,453 desertions from the army
beng an average of 6,239 per month. In
April, 1862 the Provost Marshal system was
adopted, and since then the average number
Of desertions per month has been 1885,
The total aggregate of desertions since the
war broke out is 127, 1857, about $4,000 of
whom are still at large.
According to the Commissioner of PEN
sions, only taoslue Revolutionary soldiers, re-
ceiving pensions from the Government, are
now living Their ages range from "a to 105
years. These extreme ages warrant the opin-
ion that in very few years the last links
which connect the present with the revolution
will have gone forever. ...--.. -......
James Sheridan, who was lately released
from the Jeffersonville, Ind, Penitentiary,
has been arrested in New Albany for burning
the steamers D. G. Taylor and R f. Lee, at
the Louisville wharf, on the 9Th of February.
1t is thought his arrest may lead to the de-
tecticn of the villains who have been engaged
in boat burning down the river for scme time
past e
. The Baltimore Conference, the most infu-
entail body Of border Methcdists, adopted
series of patriotic resolutions on the Sth inst,
by vote of 48 to 10. The resolutions de-
clare exclusive allegiance to the Government
of the United States to Re matter of relig-
ious duty; forbid the reception into the Con-
ference Of disloyal ministers and candidates,
and express sympathy with the emancipation
movement as tending to relieve the church
of embarrassment. ".
The total area of Schleswig- Holstein and
Lauenburg, the Duchies now in dispute, is
not quite equal to 1900 English miles. Hol-
stein covers 5000, Schleswig 3,4OO and Lau-
enburg 420. The first has a population of
544.41O, the second 400 ,907, the third SO, ,147.
.Holsten has seven fine towns, of which Altoona
is the chief, with As, ,624 inhabitants. Kiel is
the capital, with 17,45l, and takes the lead
in social rank, owing to its famous Uniyers-
ity and fine port.
D. H. Caldwell, quiet and inotfensive
man, was horrible murdered at restaurant
in Memphis, on the evening of the 1st inst.
While seated at table man named Swan
stepped up behind, grasped him by the
hair, pulled back his head, and drove large
knife through his neck, severing the jugular
vein and killing him instantly. Swan has
been arrested What motive he had in COM
mitting the murder is not yet known. Cald-
well was from Arkansas, having formely been
a resident of North Missouri