Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-24

Der of carriages which passed Broad
way, N. Y, during twelve hours, found
IA, O60, or about twenty each minute.
MIR. Leclaire, of Davenport. SUBJ
scribed S25 900 TO the M. & NJ r. r.;
Cook s. Sargent $4,000, and others
took stock to the amount of $1,000 to
$4,000.
1.-THE National Intelligencer con.
firms the report of the sale of Mt. Yer.
non for 100000. Washington's re-
mains are never to be removed. It is
bought by Northern and Southern CAPT,
talists.
1.-THE demand for laborers on the
public Improvements Of the west, is so
great that they demand large wages
There is now force Of 2400 men at
work on the Central Ohio Road between
Wheeling and GAINESVILLE.
....On Friday last an engine on The
Michigan Southern Railroad exploded
near HUNTSVILLE, some forty or fifty
miles east OF Chicago. The engineer
was instantly killed. We could not
learn his name, or the probable cause
Of the accident.
-. Much apprehe nsion has long been
ielt in st. Louis, that the action Of the
waters Of the Missouri, where they en-
ter the Mississippi, above the city, will
eventually wear away the Illinois shore
to such an extent as to force a new
channel for the "Great Father of Wa
tiers" and thus leave ST. Louis some
miles GU: in the country.
.'..in recent hail.storm a Macomb,
Mich, hail-stones fell from the size Of
musket-ball to that of hens egg, and
OF all conceivable shapes, as though
they had been broken up in an ice -house.
Men caught IN the storm were so pounded
by chunks of ice as to be confined to
their houses for two or three days, and
hardly pane Of glass was left on the
westerly side Of the houses.
IA child was killed by bear in
Hampshire, England, a short time since.
The boy was playing with the animal
who was till then supposed to be very
docile, but giving away suddenly to his
natural instincts, he seized the boy bv the
throat and shaking him as dog would
a cat, killed him almost instantly, and
before assistance could be Of use to the
! poor victim.
! ...Not long since a Miss Nancy
Sherman died Of starvation, at Plymouth,
Mass. She considered herself medium
for spiritual communica tions, and stated
10 her friends that the "spirits" had
! forbidden her TO use food. She lived
three weeks without eating. The last
weeks passed in fearful alienation
from commissions 10 momentary con-
/ seriousness, with constan. relapses, till
she died at last in most horrible man
ner.
1.-THE Ancient City, published at
St. Augustine, Florida, says that on
Saturday, the 10Th ult.. q son of Mr.
Fitch, of that county, while picking
whortlebe:ries, was struck by large
rattlesnake. Upon being struck he
started to run. but found the snake had
his fangs fastened to his pantaloons leg.
and. in stumbling and scnffiing to get
loose, the snake struck him some six or
seven times. The lad was about four.
teen or fifteen years of age. he surviv-
ed few hours.
....Gen. Scott met with an accident
on the 9Th inst. which is likely to prove
somewhat serious. AS he was passing
down Fifth Avenue, n. Y, about 80
o'clock P. NJ, he stumbled against a
tagging stone that had been raised abov e
the surrounding one, and fell headlong
He was assisted by some gents who
| happened TO be near, and taken home.
When they offered to aid him by the
arm he said, "Don't touch that, | be-
lieve il is broken" His face was also
baby bruised. The night was quite dark,
and the irregu 'arity in the pavement is
not visible.
1.-THE China news is highly impor
tant. The latest reliable accounte are
from Shanghai, April 25th. Nankin
was invested by tbs rebels. On the
10th, the Imperial Commissioners hired
Portuguese fleet to relieve the city by
water, but they were captured BY the
rebels. Aid was then sought from the
French, English and American Consuls,
who agreed to help, and the British
sent the Salamander, Lily and Hermos
steamers; the French sent the steam
frigate Cassandra and the American
Minister, Marshall, undertook to place
the Susquehanna frigate before Nankin;
no account Of the result has yet been
received.
....Spaulding & Rodgers, The pro-
prietors of the Floating Palace, have
Away objected to paying license to
towns and cities where they have exhi.
b.,ed, on the ground that they have a
coasting license from the United States
The corporation Of Baton Rouge. La,
lately attached the Palace for refusing
to pay license, and Spaulding & Rogers
sued for damages in the Uniled States
Court. The result was that the Court
decided their Custom House License did
not exempt them from the municipal
regulations and taxes in the places where
they might see fit TO exhibit. Thai
when landed and connected with the
shore by bridge, the Palace being
within the corporate limits of the town
was as much within its jurisdiction a.
the performance would be if on shore
....A serious riot occurred at Mon.
treai, Canada, on the 10th inst, occa
stoned by the lectures of Father Gavazzi
an anti-Romar, during which about IL
or Is persons were killed and grea
many more wounded. After The Cath