Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-08-12


population Of 100000 but now the
number is $4,000. The poorer people
suffer much IRON the severity of the
climate, and from leprous diseases in
duced by the dizziness of their habits.
and the coarse, unwholesome food on
which they subsist.
The Danish Government has been OF
ficlally in formed there are 1900 Danes
on the eve OF pmigrating 10 Utah.
Prodigious efforts are making by the
Mormons throughout the northoi Europe
to direct emigrants TO their State -
Their object is TO attain the required pop
ulauon for the admission Of Utah into
the Uuion.
One day early in the month Of July.
more than a hundred persons were
brought before the Police Court Of
Cincinnati for disorderly conduct
and crime. and in nearly every instance
liquor was the cause Of the difficulty.
Fighting. swearing. fast driving. rowdv-
ism, shooting, dirking, assaults. gam
bling, are all more or less conn .cted
WIN oiihntuS.
The New York Evening Post saws.
that the influx Of strangers to that city
lately. has so increased The population
that the prices Of provisions have ia
ken rise. The beef market particu-
larly has made'a great advance in price
Beef steak is now quoted a, l6 per ID :.
veal lS. and lamb 20 cents.
singular fatal disease has broken
out in Philadelphia. which creates
much excitement. which is said. by the
physicians Of that city, to be yellow
fever. 1t is said to tave been brough
there from CieniIegos. in the West In
dies The whole city is IN alarm: many
have closed up their houses and stores
and fed 10 the country. to avoid, if pos
sibe a contact with the disease.
Rev. Mr.. williams does not give up
the i lea that he is the son of Louis
XVI Of France, notwithstanding the
certificate Of his Indian mother, that he
was her son. aud she was never in
France, nor was Louis in America
He says that evidence is being pre-
pared that will establish the fact of his
being the Dauphin, beyond question or
cavil.
One day last week man attempted
to speak in the streets of Baltimore, on
Romanism. and was suppressed by the
Mayor Indignation meetings Were held
by the citizens on Wednesday and Thurs
day. and the Mayor was strongly Gems
ured. By latest dates, however, the
matter was becoming quieled. though the
course of the Mayor was still strongly
disapproved.
A negro man. belonging to Fl. France
of Heath's Creek, Petlis county. Mis-
souri,. murdered he wife of John Rains.
living in the same neighbohood. on the
18Th inst. The negro attempted to
commit violence on The person Of Mrs.
Rains, aud. being resisted. he bruralv
murdered her with club. The citizens
turned out and caught The negro, aud
burned him alive near Georgetown.
The miserable impostor. calling him.
self Herr Alexander. in playing of the
hocuspocus Of the magic pistol in Cin-
ton Illinois. recently shot young man
named Smith, (who was 10 receive a
fictitious ball in his mouth the pistol
being loaded with balls, he received the
contents in his side. 1t supposed the
young man cannot live. He viii leave
a widowed mother, who was solely de-
pendent on him for livelihood.
The Bridgeport (Conn) Bank has
been deirauded GU OF $500 by a couple
o. sharpers who deposited as collateral
security. bogus lump Of California
gold. The exterior was ingeniously
studded with few dollars worth OF
gold quartz. aud The crevices were nicely
covered with gold lea. so as TO DEFY
detection without breaking up the
lump.
On the list ult horrible murder
was COMM ted at New Orleans on the
person Of young girl. who had been
living in criminal intimacy with a
man named Belew- Bellew was sus
pected as the murderer, both from his
being known to have been in company
with the girl on he night of the murder
and from having some jewelry, recog.
nized TO belong 10 her, in his possession
when arrested. Bellew was committed
for trial. The affair has produced a
great sensation, even in New Orleans.
where the public sense is not unused TO
crime.
1t is now stated that Mr.. Gray. who
committed suicide in New Rochelle.
was the husband Of two wives having
left his first one in California. since
which he m rried a daughter Of s. B
French. OF Fauquier county. Virginia
His frs; wife had recently arrived in
New York, aud has threatened 10 prose
cute him for b,gamy. II is lso stated.
on the authority OF the Washington
News. that in contracting his second
r1arriage. he supposed his former matri
monial obligations were obIiterated BY
the action Of the law. and that he was
a. liberty TO marry again. Distress Of
mind at finding himsslfin such situa
lion undoubtedly drove him to the des-
rerate deed.