Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-06-10
GleaHingsI
FROM our ExcHAHcrs

Ihe crystal Palace viii not be entiresy nishcd until
August
The other day in New York, child W. killed by
eating the tops of PHOSPHORUS matches
The New York daily papers consume fsremyeigia
acres Of paper every day.
A National Convention of the coored feoplc is to
assemble at Rochester, n. Y, July 9Th.
Cincinnati has 55s gambling places Of a kinds, In
cluding bagatelles billiards, cards. rondo keno &c.
Another effort is about to be made to locate a mill.
tary asylum in the West Rock Island is proposed as
Okitable place. aeti
The law establishing Washington Territory does
notprehbit slavery, and its introduction there depends
on judicial decision
There now in California about 20 0o0 Cinnamon.
The capital invested and owned by the Chinese in the
State is $l,O0o,0OO.
Mr.. King was the fourth yice-President who died
in oiice-Geo Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, and Daniel D..
Thompkins, all died while in the same ossce.
The great suit ofthe heirs of Lafayette against Mad
anne Fontaiba, involving claim for large tract of
land in New Orleans, has been decided in the U. s..
court in favor of the defendants
No icebergs have been seen on the Atlantic, by
ships this season. 1t is considered as evidence that
the winter in the Arctic regions has been severe and
protracted.
Marshal Rufin arrested fifty rondo players in Gin
cinnati, on the 9th ult. Judge Spooner fined them
$50 each burned their table, and sent them to Jail
until the fines were paid.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has passed tcn-hour
law, for the benefit of the working class Laborers
are prohibited from working more than ten hours,
under penalty, whether they desire to do not.
The production of all the copper mines now working
in the world may be estimated at about 10000 tuns
per annum of which the Lake Superior region already
furnishes one-twelfth part Of the whole amount.
The Savannah (Georgia) Ne,cs mentions the arrival
in that place of Mr.. Woodward a deformed man,
who had Travelled all the way from jefferson county,
Florida, in o small but substantial wagon drawn by
two goats.
person confined in Jail at Trenton n j., evidently
with view to escape, undertook to set fire to the
building. lie succeeded in getting up fire, but was
smothered to death by the smoke.
Mr.. Atchisons term of office as Senator from Mis-
souri, expires on the 4th of March, 1885, and conse
quenty he cannot be chosen VicePresident for the full
unexpired term of Mr. King, which ends March 4th,
1857.
Santa Anna has issued decree in regard to the
press He directs papers to be licensed large sum
,
and all articles to be sent to the Government before
publication.
A citizen of St. Louis has invented sewing ma
chine capable of working button hoes and executing
herrngbone and whipstitching, well as plain sew
ing, and it does all very neatly and with wonderful
dispatch. The InteAigenc9 thinks this machine will
take the place Of handsewing in private families.
McClelland, Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the act of February 1885, concerning pensions
to widows Of revolutionary officers married subsequent
to 1900, means that the pension shall be paid only
from the date of the act This decision it is said will
save good deal of money.
Utah would make twenty States Of the size Of New
Hampshire; Nebraska, fifteen; Indian. twenty; North
West, sixty-fve. Total, one hundred and twenty-sx
States Should theseterritories have equal popula
tion to the square mile as New Hampshire, they would
contain population Of about thirty-eight million
souls
Jesse Hutchinson. whose death at Cincinnati, the
telegraph has already announced tine eldest of the
large family ofthat name, which originated at Milford
n. H. He was about forty years of age, and at the
time of his DEATH is said have been on his way
from California, where it is believed he had not been
very Fortunate
F.. Mascher of Philadelphia has obtained patent
for method of taking daguerreotype likenesses
by in simple manner, converting the daguerrotype
case into stereoscope. The Scientific American pre-
diets the entire of this instrument and says
that lkenesses taken by it, stand out solid and life
like more resembling common pictures than stat
ue does an oil painting"
| The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle warns the public
against receiving the notes of the Bank of Atlanta
the charter Of which has been sold by the parties in
Georgia to whom it was granted, to George Smith
Co., of Chicago, ILL.,, who are using it for igitmate
purposes. The Chronicle says yet none OF the bills
of this Bank have made their appearance in Geor
ga, whilst they attempted to be introduced int
circulation in distant States.
It seems more alterations in the machinery of thu
Ericsson are required than at first supposed. She
is now lying at her dock at Williamsburg. In remov
ing her machinery it becomes necessary to take ava!
portion of her deck. She will not be ready for tn
proposed voyage to Europe for several months. Ii
the mean time the public hoping for the success of tn
Captain and his fire ship, will reserve the question
the superiority of hot air over steam.
A contract has recently been made in England 70
building mammoth steamer 600 feet long, and t
draw IS feet of water The idea is to have her draw
~ lhuOu Wdtcr oS W Dc dneCttO waves, Du
to run smooth and easy. The heighth from the bot
tom of the trough of the sea to the top of the wave
the ocean, is computed at 35 feet The harbor at New
port, r. L. is the only port in this country which sue
q vessel could easily enter
A suit has lately been tried in Cleveland involyn
the liability of telegraph companies. merchant ser
order by telegraph to New York. for the purchas,
among other things, of zone handsome Bay Stat
shawl" BY the time the dispatch reached its dest
nation, it had been transferred into zone h,nd,edr-
The hundred shawls were accordingly forwarded an
when received were out ofseason. verdict was rel
dered against the company for slls.
There is Chinese Dramatic Company performn
in New York. The singing and Instrumental music
described as being compound series of tones fro
distressed cats, combined with the screech of an
, pumphande, with the grating of dozen cart whee
r ungreased, tin kettle slapped with poker, and
> circle Of spritrappers in the Internal hub bu
The musical scale includes the grand Shrek snyt
squea howl, snort, ,snuffie drvel, drawl squa grun
groan, and the skillet hurtN gurdy.
/ Hon. n. p. Tamadge, q late distinguished Senat
from the State of New York, has publicly avowed b
belief in the truth and reality of the socaled spr
rappers." Certain letters from his pen, published
the National ntelgencer, sets forth fully his expe
ence and the reasons for the faith that is in him.
processes to have held converse by means of this
system, with the late ]. c. Calhoun and other dist
y guished persons who now in the spirit world.
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