Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-05-06
Various Etepslss

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n. P. Willis, in the last Home journal, acknoN l.
cd es Fanny Fern i" to be his sister.
steamer has arrived at Constantinolle from Eng
land with 700 wooden legs. a
At present. there in operation in Boston thirty
six bank.
There ere l,372 editors in Tie United tatcs. Alou'
| 200 are rich men.
| IN !tsoMNLY.--rrndacc buyers from Ohio, ere id
4 the Chicago Market purchasing wheat for Oaio
samption This we regard as raly anomalous.
! Moses H. Grnnel Of New York, has purchased the
watering place establishment at Yellow spings, aud
the hotel Is to be in charge Of sister of Kossath.
Sidney V. Howard, clerk IN the State Dauk o. ir,<
diana, has deeamped with $lioO of the bank money.
The thief is good looking and smart.
The colored men of Connecticut will hold conyen.
ton in New Haven. the 2Ih, to take measures to
memoriazc the Legislature, to be admitted TO the
right of franchise
| A man nanel Cgl's undertook for a wager OF 80
to swim the Ohio river at Cincinnati aud back recent
ly. He accomplished two eats by the operation; won
, $40 and became sober.
Luther .c7eraaoe, .. siaIr, ato United States Com
missioner at the Sandwich Islands is literally being
eaten alive by cancerous affection. His lower lip
and chin are gone aud he disease is getting among
the glands of h. throat.
! RUsstA's CHIEF WEAKsEss.-The Gar is by no
neans flush of money. lie has issued millions of pa
per currency, which is always a sign OF financial
weakness. 1t further appears that his currency
| il already falling into dscredit gold imperias, and
even the silver coinage being at premium of one
per cent.
| DIVING AFTER MONEY Another attempt is to be
made to recover the money belonging to the American
Express company from the wreck of the steamer A.
lantic which was sunk in Lake Erie. Mr.. Green, the
expert diver, whose exploits the lake have render
| ed him well known character throughout the Union
is about making another attempt to get mp the money
1t is decided by the proper officers of the Post Office
Department that letter postage is legally chargeable
on packages having writing other than the simple
address the c,as,de. II payment is refused, the
party sending it cannot be prosecuted for fraud or
the department, attempt to conceal the writing
is necessary to constitute fraud; as in the case O
writing words or signs inside of pa kage OF printed
matter, which is fraud under the law.
A legislative investigation into the discipline of the
/ Ohio Pententary has disclosed the most barbarou'
abuse prisoner who suspected of having sto
len sum of money from deputy warden, wars whip
/ ped until his back was covered with blood; ant
thrown into cold damp cell without bed or bedding
and there left to pass three days in misery. At thu
end of that time he taken out and whipped again
Three several times this treatment repeated t
compel confession. and he told that it would b
persisted in TIL his term expired.
JuDGz RosEvELT, of the Supreme Court Of n York
last week rendered decision respecting the rights
married women, that will no donbt be read with mark
ed attention by husbands and wives throughout thu
State. The Judge maintains the independence OF tn
intact she may dispose of her property. eithe
4 with or without the consent of her husband and al
moneys die must he paid to her in person, Or upon al
order from her. She may sue in person. or her hu'
band may or may not stand as her next friend a
she may select.
~ NAN BEFORE ADAM.-A conglomeIate work, t
use geological phrase, has lately been published i
Philadelphia, entitled, The Types of Mankind,
made up OF contributions from the late DR.. Morton
Agassiz Usher, Mott and Gliddon. This work is del
tined to create something of eommotion in the rel
gios world. The idea Of the unity OF the race OF ma
is totally discarded by the authors, one and all. ID
Usher makes the astounding statement in this wori
that human fossil had been found in New Orleans /
the course Of some excavations in that city, to whic
| pre-Adami'e age is attributed. According to hi
authority the skeleton of man, OF the coni0rmatio
of our native Indians was discovered at depth of
feet lying below sion Of four fossil cypre foi
ess to each of which the age of IA 400 years is gycr
Agassiz is said to have accepted this as fact, an
based upon il his assertion, that man existed upon til
earth at least 100 900 years ago. The theologan mus
either di,proye this statement or be compelled to az
init new exegesis of Holy Wit. -
IapoRrAsr DEclsIeN.--The appeal OF tn
Southern Committee of the Methodist Epis
copnl Church South, recently argued befbr
the Supreme Court OF the United States, !
Washington, " here it was taken from Ohio
has been decided in favor of the Churc
Souta-the decision Of the Ohio Court hay
| NJ been reversed