Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-17
NO. 3.


Stea mboats are still making their reg
lar trips on the Des Moines river.
v David S. Lee. of Iowa, has been ap1
pointed Consul at Basic.
4 The Roman Catholics are about START
ing daily paper in ST. Louis.
Three cases of cholera occurred in
st. Louis last week, two OF which
proved fatal.
A party ofsix deserters from the U. s.
Amy, were drummed out Of service at
Carlisle. PA. on the 90. ult.
Great destruction is being caused
throughout Ohio in the growing wheat
crop by the fly.
A child was bitten by mad dog in
Chicago on the 26th ult. A man died
few DAYS previous Of hydro phobia.
The village Of ST. Paul, Minnesota,
W hch is only four years old. has 6U4
buildings.
1t is said that the Empress Of China
has become a Christian, and that the
Emreror himself is half converted.
The Crystal Palace will, It is estima-
ted, draw TO New York this year 10O,-
600 visitors, each of whom will spend
| there an average Oh @loo.
Fine oranges and lemons grow and
ripen in the open air at Memphis, Ten.
nessee, the trees having only covering
Of straw in winter.
! The climate Of Australia, according
to the testimony of William Hewitt, is
bad, and the stories Of gold finding
greatly exaggerated.
DR.. Gardiner, who has been for some
time pas, charged with having commit.
ted gross frauds upon the Government,
has been virtually acquitted-,he jury
being unable to agree.
Seven of the crew Of the stea mboat
Winslow, at Cincinnati, while endeav.
oring TO remove log Of wood which
| had got fastened in III, wheel Of the
steamer were. drowned on tle 4th inst
| The coored gentry Of Cincinnati have
established Theatre at "Thespian
Temple +" They announce that "white
persons will not be admitted 10 any part
Of the house except the galleries.
A big tree, for exhibition at the Crys.
tai Palace, was at Rochester a few days
since, on its way eastward. 1t is OF
pine, measures 100 feet in length, aud
is squared at the but to diameter Of
forty-one inches.
The Mayor OF New York City has
been fined SIS for allowing servant
girl in his employ to wash the pavement
in front Of his residence after hours
The Mayor was victim OF one cf the
City Councils regulations.
A hat dealer in New York proposes
TO have every purchasers face daguer-
reotyped. and placed in the crown Of his
hat. This, for those who are aptto lose
or mislay their hats, would be capital
inren ton, and will doubtless be good
speculation for the hat dealer.
All The lands in Missouri heretofore
reserved from sale south Of the Nilsson
ri river, excepting strip fifteen miles
wide on the east side Of the southwest
branch Of the Pacific Railroad, will be
Isuhjcct TO entry again on and after the
18th Of July next.
II BY the new steamboat law, the boz
Hers Of all steam crafts are 10 be put TO
1.-THE test in order 10 ascertain their
4 strength. In testing the boilers of the
steamer Wisconsin, al St. Louis. recent
ly one of the boilers gave way. 1t bore
pressure of $50 pounds. but in trying to
get up to 200 it bursted.
A serious difficulty has grown up be-
tween the people Of Mackinaw, in
Michigan, and the Mormons of Beaver
Island. Ii appears that a course Of
robbery and plumber has been pursued by
this deluded people, and the citizens
4 are determined to bear it no longer
They have held meetings and passed
resolutions denouncing the Mormons,
and threatening them with vengeance If
change in their conduct be not soon
brought about.
The Morris, H.. Yeoman states that
not long since. while some men were
digging in coal bank near the canal,
they exhumed the body of a man in
perfect state Of petrilaction. From the
corduroy cloth in which the legs were
sncased, the corls and seams OF which
are perfectly defined, it is supposed to be
the body Of one of the Irish laborers en-
gagged in the construction Of the canal.
The limbs are nearly perfect, and are
completely transformed to store.
A good many Cinnamon have been
.
about New York streets lately. They
come to New York as sailors in Caliior-
MIA and East India clippers, the cap.
tains Of which report them to be excel
lent seamen-docile. obedient and in
dustrio us. The Home Journal says.
'on Sunday they walk about the town
in jovial squads, dressed in their pecu-
liar manner, with their long tails swing
ing behind them, or coiled snugly away
under their caps. They are full of fun,
aud immensely amused at the different
objecls they encounter in their walks"
An old man named Nelson, died re.
Gently in Deith, and before his death,
I he expressed wish that he should be
hurried in his ordinary clothes. Previ-
Pus. however, to attiring him in his
wearing habiliments, the family with
whom he had been living, having had
1he curiosity to examine them, and were
mot little surprised TO find secreted
in the bands Of his drawers the sum OF
f2O0, in notes, G200 in the bands Of his
trousers, bill for E3O0 within the lining
of his hat. and there were otherwise
found, in odd corners OF his clothes, sums
amounting to fl26-altogether f925
sterling.