Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-23
Omnibus.
for coal at Cincinna /

Auo pFeSoul PItCo AoE Cooa ~ NAuctuuus
isf 20 cents. 5sF aHE 24
State taxes in Ohio amount to fifty cent
on a hundred dollars.
Except in London, there is not dali,
paper issued In all England. s9#a
Eleven millions Of bushels Of corn ar,
annually used for purposes Of distillation il
the United States. .
Yale College has existed one hundred ant
fifty three years, and ssedusated' six thou
sand students. .ts,-..,.f
A meeting of the North Western Fruit
Growers Association, is to be held il
Chicago, on the 4th Of October next.
The consumption Of spirituous liquors in
the United States reaches to 86,O00,0 ,00t
gallons, annually, being six gallons for
eyerysadult. s7 fsss Il ~
5, Ohio is the first State in the Union in the
production of corn and wheat. The amount
grain raised in that State annually is about
sc, ,0O0, 900 of bushels.
Tho Marquis Of Tweesdale, in England,
plows his fields by steam. His example will
probably be followed by many Others, espe-
cially in this country. ss q"
Should the population of the United
States, progress for one century more ts it
has done for the past sixty years, and the
Union continue, the number of its inhabi-
tants would exceed 800, 100000. .etaal
Cotton mattresses arc nov made in New
York. They are said to be superior to the
moss, cur! hair, or husk mattresses. The
cotton felting is prepared by patent pro-
cess.
tits proposed to change the name of the
capital of Illinois, from the very c,mmon
one it now bears, Springfield, to IRini, the
name of an Indian tribe which once inhal,it-
ed the State and from which it received its
name.
Edmund Marcy, son of Secretary Of State,
died on the sloop- of-war Preble, on his
way to the Azoros He was 90 years Of age,
and had been for some time affected with q
pulmonary complaint. aa1
New Grenada has population of 2,24O,-
l6l. ! he different provinces have thirty
five Senator'S and sixty-one Representatives
in the National Congress. Every province
has Senator.
In Wisconsin is an organization, recent
ly formed, principally Of Germans, called a
Free Trade Liquor Society, which has its
rami6cations in all the villages of the State.
Its object is to prevent the election of any
in favor of temperance.
A Mr.. McAlister, in Cleveland, is reported
to have invented machine for the convey
ance Of thought from one person to another,
without the tongue or any volition of the
thinker. The inventor has been engaged
ter years in perfecting his machine, and is
now endeayorng to obtain funds to build
ON larger scale.
An instance recently occurred in Cincin-
natl, in which q lady was a maid,sa wife,
and widow all in one day. Mrs. Connel,
wife of q man who was so cruelty murdered
on Front street. had married her husband
on the morning of the same day on which
the fatal ARRAY occurred. At morn maid,
at noon wife, at evening a widow!
The iron pavements in Boston appear to
work well and give satisfaction. They make
a handsome street, and have one important
advantage over all that have hitherto been
adopted, VIZ : the making less noise from
carriages passing. IL is predicted that they
will be put down in several streets by anoth-
er year. 1t is estimated that they will wear
twenty years.
A block Of limestone has been prepared
by the Mormons of the Salt Lake Valley,
and is now on its way, for the Washington
Monument. 1t is ornamented with bee
hive in the centre, the emblem of industry,
above which is carved with its rays, the
"ail seeing eye,'' and the motto is inscribed,
"Holiness to the Lord" "Deseret."
Black Snake, the celebrated Indian, now
LOG years Of age, is still hale and hearty,
residing at Allegheny Reservation. He was
one of the most active of his tribe In bring
ing about a treaty in behalf of the United
States, with General Washington, at Phila-
delphia, in 1887. A friend of ours saw him
a week or two since walking as vigorously
as a man Of As.
The United States army numbers about
10000 men, and they cost the country last
year 81, ,225, ,246 for pay, subsistence, cloth
ing, &c. That is to say, $500 per man, OF
if we deduct the malitia expenses, $500 pei
man 1t would puzzle any one to tell OF
what service were those men, living use.
lessly in barracks and old forts, eating three
meals per day and turning out occa sionally
| to touch their caps to their officers.
The London Times says: "ln fifty wears
Ireland will be Protestant to a man. Boil
the Roman Catholics Of Ireland and tn,
race identified with that faith are all leav
ing Ireland. Ere long there will be none
left. At the present rate Of emigration
which cannot be less than two hundred thou
sand, chiefly Roman Catholics in year
Cur children will see the Ceits will be a.
absolete in Ireland as the Phenicians il
Cornwell."
Some person who calls himself Scottisl
gentleman of education advertises in the N
Y. Tribune for a negro wife He says h
was educated for the ministry, but owing tt
failure in his family his views in that lin,
met with disappointment, and, "being a tru
abolitionist of the English stripe, and no
having the slightest objection as to color
would feel very desirous to contract matri
mony with any respectable colored lad
who may possess few thousand dollars"
A hippopotamus has arrived at Paris iron
Egypt, after journey Of 5000 miles, an,
has taken up his residence at the Jardin de
Plants. He immediately took bath in tn
basin constructed for the elephant, in whic
he seemed to find great enjoyment. Thirt
goats, which supply him with milk, arrive
with him. He does not, however, liv
exclusively on milk, but eats melon
and some other vegetable production
He is exceedingly tame, much attach
ed to his Keeper, and allows himself t
be handled by strangers. Heis quite young
not having yet finished putting his teett
but has already attained the size of .
ordinary COW.
The Edymoin case which has attracted q
much interest in New York, from its move
, ty, has been decided. II will be remember
} ed that Gov. Seymour, pardoned Edymon
out OF the Penitentiary, on the strength {
forOad lattapa and natitiona And he waa r,