Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-10-14

Items BY this NIornlng's BrafI.
Judge Elijah Paine. ofsiIe Sapre NJ.
court, died ia New York 81 the 7.h
At Poughkeepsie. N. Y George Lake
has been found guilty Of the murder 0
his vile and two children, aud sentenc-
ed to be hung.
II is confidently stated that Robert
Walker formaiiy accepted the Chiur sc
| mission, drew his outfit Of inc thou
sand dollars, and then resigned his post.
Look out for fraudulent SO and $50
notes purporlng to be of the Rock Is.
land Bank. No bills Of higher demon
ination than 81 are Issued by the bank.
The Indians are troublesome in Utah.
and msnytpersons have been killed. =
The military force of the Territory has
been called out by the Governor heasa
Mr.. Iiulseman, the Aus TRAN Miaister
| had apersonalintervie with Mr.. Marcy
| on The 4th.a tits rnmored that arrange,
| ments hare been made for the release Of
Koszta. and his return TO this country.
An accident occurred on the Rock Isl
| aud Railroad. on the Sd ms tant. by the
breaking OF the forward truck axle Of a
| locomotive in motion by whic the en-
gineer was killed and the fireman NOR
tally wounded. ~. y t..- 4,
Kissano and Findly, the Cincinnati
forgers. have been found guilty at their
late trial at Lebanon, o. Kissane, is
said IN, consequences to have attempted
suicide. s....
! They tell OF a cow on exhibition a
the Ohio State Fair. which ia only 80
inches high, weighing 229 pounds, and
The mother o. three calves, one Of
which was BY her side and giving milk,
though only thirteen months old.
The New York Day Book says the
sewing machines are a failure. Their
sewing rips out and goes to pieces. The
best sewing machine is one bout sew.
enieen years old, tina, wears CATER boots
and has pocket 10 put her wages in.
! Great fear is entertained of famine
in Newfoundlan nd the coming winter
The fishermen have made nothing and
the po;a,oe crop has been destroyed by
the ro.. An early session OF the As
sembly is urged. to maet the crisis. A
severe gale on the coast, abou. the mid,
die OF Septe Der, made dreadful work
Iany fishing vessels and their crews
We're loss.
The Postmaster ut Sterling, Bad Ak coun.
{, ty, Wisconsin, has been arrested on q
charge OF stealing money from letters.
Orders have been issued from Head Quar-
| n Of
the Atlantic seaboard, and for transfer
cnce OF the troops now garrisoning these
posts to the Pacific and Rio Grande.
A great FIRE took place at Buffalo on til
9Th inst. Some four or five acres of ground
were burnt over, containing in all about
one hundred buildings. The damage is es-
timated at not to exceed $4,000
Mr.. f.. \ Hatch who returned recently
from Pcmbina to St. Paul, brought news
that war party Of chippcwas had returned
before he left, with the scalps of sixteen
Sioux which they had captured on the She
ycans. 1t app airs that these two tribes
met on the prairies, where desperate ID
bloody conflict ook place between them, in
which both parties lost many Of their men
Lire stock crosses the plains to Califor
MIA and Oregon every season in immense
numbers; BY the register kept at Fort
Laramie, il appears that during the present
season lO2 i2S head of cattle, 40, l25 sheep
$3.50 horses, and 2,l36 hogs have passed
that post with the emigration. 1t is this
great drain which renders meat dear in oul
eastern markets
Some wag at Terre Hautc has been pok
ing fun at the Post Master, BY sending
Turtles through tn, Post Office, enveopel
in Neshit's patent advertising mediums. A
distributing clerk at Cincinnati was the frs
to discover tn: cheat, and as little snap
ping alive and kicking showed his head
through the envelope, the clerk sent the
package flying to its destination--the first
time he was ever known to do anything
quick in his life. . for turtl in every
mail bag.