Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-25

being identified if captured.
A court has been ordered to City Point
to try them.
The severe rain-storm of the past few
days in that part is over.
ST.. LOUIS. Nov. 23.-Paducah dis
patches Of yesterday say that military
affairs in that district are active.
Every rebel move this side of the river
is known, while the country has been
thoroughly secured, and parties bring in
prisoners daily.
the coming of Gen. a. J. Smith mean
something, but what it is not proper to
say. A few days, however, will deyel-
ope the plan of the contemplated cam
paign. ..... .
Both the Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers are in fine boating order, and will
prove valuable auXiliaries to military
operations in Tennessee and Kentucky.
The gunboats Petosa and Pawpaw re-
turned here sunday from recon-
noissance up the Tennessee river
The bodies of f. lsign Neave, OF the
gunboat Undine. and Capt. Allen, OF
the transport Venus, killed when these
vessels were captured by Forrest two
weeks since, We're recovered at Paris.
The gunboAts found the river lined
with rebel pickets from Pine Nluif to
Jacksonville.
rhe rebel Gen. Lyon commanding that
district, has ordered the river 10 be
closed, block adm. it ~ soon "a trans
ports begin running again.
Forrest has pontoous across the river
sar thickasaw.
DesecterS and scouts reported to the
gunhoats that Hoods army Is $1,000
wi > n ri
lie intended to operate in Middle and
East Tennessee, and kentucky, and was
marching on Pulaski, Giles county,
Tenn, and expects ultimately to seize
Cumberland Gap.
His men greatly need clothing, sup
plies of which they hope 10 obtain 10y
plunderiny the towns through which
they pass.
Large numbers of deserters come into
our lines daily, many of them bringing
horses and equipments.
Advices from Fayetteville, Ark, say
that Col. Brooks with 2,5o0 rebels, at
tackled that place ON October 18th, bat
were repulscd with considerable loss. -
From that time till November 81, til,
town was pretty closely invested, when
Gen Pagan, with about 5000 of Price
retreating forces came up anu lombard
ed the place for about five hours, with
two pieces Of artillery, bat were held al
bay until the next day, when Curtis and
Blunt arrived, and he rebels skedaddled
They lost nearly a hundred in killed and
wounded. Our loss was one Killed.
4 missionary who travelled some forty
miles with Price in Arkansas, reports
that the General told him that ne had
lost over 10 400 men, i'll killed, wounded
and assertions, and that his expedition
into Missouri had been most disastrous
From the Springfield Ill, Icur1els
The Revolution in" Egypt
Johnson county, which has just given
1000 majority for the Union ticket il
1850, gave only Jorty votes FOR Lincoln
Mr.. Douglass majority being l,5o-
votes The gain since 1860, therefore, is
votes Inr Lincoln, and S73 for douglas
y Democratic majority of .52 1t now
gives nearly 700 Union nlajority-a gain
OF over 100 in four years. Pope county
gives -52 Cnion majority against LOOT
Democratic majority four years ago
Wayne county in 1860 gave ,025 Demo
cratic majority. It now gives a little
more than 200 for the Copperheads-a
gain o. over 500 votes in four years.
Williamson, in 1850, went Democratic
by majority Of $50, now reduces that
majority to less than SOFA gain OF
f,G50.
These are only specimens, but they
serve to show the revolution which has
been going on in Southern Illinois
within the past four years.
SAVE YOUR OLD NEwSPAPI5RS.-- Pap=i
stock dealers at the East pay eight cents
per pound for old newspapers in good
condition the material can be made
over into white printing paper, and the
greater the supply the less will be the
Increase OF the price of the new sheet
Wilkes Spirit says on this point:
''In Europe, a hotel or houskeeper
never thinks Of destroying an old news
paper, or Of using it for kindling pur-
poses. All over the continent, and in
England, cheap little bundles of sticks,
two or three for penny with the ends
dipped in rosin, supply all the purposes
in the way OF kiuding which could be
performed by five times the value OF
printing paper; while the other uses for
paper are met by an inferior brown ma
1eral, which inflicts no waste upon the
printing stock.
By this means the major part Of the
original stock is preserved for reproduc-
ton, and the price of the article con-
stantiy kept down. By the same thrift
Cy system OF saving oiu e"Spaoeis anu
handing them over to the dealers, who
will be glad to call at private houses for
them, nearly the whole market stock
will be preserved, turned into the mill
and reproduced with the loss certainly
OF not more than ten or fifteen per cent.
Under the present wasteful habits OF
the public, nearly the whole curTenl
edition is now utterly destroyed, while
the demand constantly exists against
the source. ~
.<oW A LOYAL FRESHMAN FoUGH1
AND VorED.--Among ali the many soul.
stirring incidents at the polls on Tues.
day, we have read of none more impress.
sive and glorious than the following, de.
scribed by the Providence Joa.rno. An
instance of devotion like this, on the
part of an adopted citizen of the coun.