Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-30
Omnibus.

The Emperor of Russia never appear
0 out of uniform.
The emigration from Ireland to Americs
e in the last six years has been 1,220, 900.
r The price of passage from Chicago t.
st. Louis by the railroad is now SO go.
The cholera, by the latest accounts. i.
spreading over the north of Europe, making
frightful rayages in many quarters.
A singing mouse has been found in Geor.
J gia, which initiates the quail, wild turkey
and canary.
i, 1t is estimated that if the same ratio OF
contributions to the Washington Monument
continues, it will be finished in FIVE years.
The st. Louis Inte!H gencer is advertised
to be sold in October next, under deed OF
trust.
There is not single female convict in
the Virginia Penitentiary, nor in the Ken
tucky Penitentiary.
OF, the Universalist persuasion, there are
one hundred and twenty three ministers and
two hundred and thirteen societies in the
United States. au
The Siamese Twins are again exhibiting
In the eastern cities, where they attract as
much attention as they did twenty years
ago
There is in Louisiana population of
oil ,S39 persons OF these 255, ,4l6 are
whites, 244 7S6 are slaves, 1887 are free
negroes. sl87F aGE
The City Council Of Keokuk have before
them resolution declaring the Holiday
House public nuisance, on account of its
liquor selling. ~ Hg ~ g-es
The amount contributed by different ci-
ties in the United States for the relief Of
the New Orleans sufferers, up to the pres
ent time, exceeds $l50,000. s8.
Steamboats, on the lakes, it is said now
run on temperance principles. They have
no bars on board. On the river boats you
are always running against a bar.
James Webb, of Fairhaven, Mass, drinks
on a. average three gallons of water per
day, and it would be impossible, it seems,
for him to live through night with less
than pail full.
There are nearly three hundred tunnels
in the world, of which France has fifty-six,
England one hundred and twenty eight.
4 Germany ten, and the United States sixty
seven. The longest tunnel is between seven
and eight miles in length
4 Boston, they say, is tho richest city in
the world, in proportion to its population.
IL its taxable property were equally divi-
! ded, every Bostonian would have 81 ,440.
In New York, if division of property
were made, they would only have 1854 each
Considerable interest has been manifested
OF late, in the case of Cornelius Vroman,
a native of Schoharie county, New York,
who, for the last five years, has been buried
in the most profound sleep, with but very
few intervals of consciousness.
The messenger of the Newport Bank,
Rhode Island, was robbed, on the morning
of September I'd, on board the steamboat
Perry, of package containing over S4O,-
900. While his back was turned the thieves
adroitly changed tho package, substituting
a bundle of newspapers of similar dim n
sions. The messenger did not discover the
robbery till he arrived at the bank.
The Patterson, (N. j. Inteligencer gives
a curious incident of the late thunder
storm ga little girl was standing at a
window, before which was a young maple
tree. After a brilliant fash Of lightning,
a complete image of the tree was found i'm
printed ON her body. This is not the first
instance of the kind, but is singular phe-
nomenon." 6 .-s,sa @
A REMARKABLg FANILr.-The Mauray In
telligcncer says, Mr.. John kennedy, who re-
sides some eight miles north Of Columbia,
has eighteen children living--all fully
lerown-seventy-four grand children and
hfty-one great grandchildren all, one
hundred and forty three There has not
been single death in the family since the
year lS06.
John A. Dix, Free Soiler, and the Van
Buren, and Adams candidate for Governor
OF New York-pow Sub-Treasurer under
Gen. Pierce, at New York--has recanted his
| ALL ttaa a1cin opI cbo =
done in letter to Mr.. Garvin, which Is
published in the Georgia Constitutionalist.
He comes square up to the Baltimore Plat
form-Fugitive Slave Law, and all.
AMERICAN WooL.-Recent scientific re-
searches have proved that the United States
can surpass any other part of the world in
the production of wool. The Economist
says: "Spanish sheep yielding naturally
j l,G00 to the inch, carried to England, de-
generated to 900 to the inch, and brought
to the United States, recovered to 1900 to
the inch, or finer than the original. So far
as the soil and climate is concerned, Amer
lean cloth ought to be the best in the world.
The choiera in Copenhagen is worse than
il has been, on its present round, at any
other city. AZ many as thirty thousand Of
it's inhabitants are stated to have fed from
the city,, The frequent passengers in the
streets are the carpenters people carrying
! home the collins. Omnibuses convey full
loads of corpses to the burying- grounds
where hands are insufficient to dig the
graves, and clergy are wanting to read the
burial service. On recent Sunday one
hundred and seventy coflins were lying in
the urch-yard,, exposed to the broiling
sun, and had lain there SINCE the Thursday
previous. 3,
Commander Ingraham, whose conduct at
Smyrna has attracted so much attention, it
is said, entered the navy as a midshipman,
during the war of 1912, when only nine
years of age. His father was volunteer
under Paul Jones his uncle,a tcaptain in
the navy, was lost at sea in the U.s.. ship
Pickering !; and his cousin, q ieptenant,
was killed when twenty years of age. Com.
Ingraham commanded the ill-tated Somers
inthe blockade Of Vera Cruz, and previous
to sailing for the Mediterranean, had charge
of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, His eldest
SON is now midshipman at the Annapolis
Navy School. - 1, -
PRorlr OF CoNcrRr SIN oERs.-The N. Y.
Journal Of Commerce states Madame Som
| tag, who has been one of the most success
] full of her profession, and therefore is not
to be taken as a specimen of the whole, de-
: posted with Count Rossi, previous to May
last, forty-two thousand dollars as her neal
} profits from singing since her arrival in this
L country This was done, notwithstanding