Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-01-06

:, News IoeunDs
=. Tbs Quincy and Alton pspers IN.
.nophcs the close of navigation.
: Thosi II. .Shseve. ono Of the editors oil
The Louistille Journal, died on the 23d
u'l !. sfter lingering illness.
liss Lucy Stone ID lecturing the PEG.
pie of 81. Louis. They give her full
and psslent hearing, and the leading pa.
perS speak we'll or her.
On tho 2o,h ult., block Of eight
splsedid dwellings on Brooklyn Heights.
called Colorado Row, was burnt down ;
loss si0o. 900.
Three Of the defendants in the Martha
Washington forgery case. have brought
cults sgsinss the Cincinnati Gsxetse and
Connsrcial for libel. The damages are
laid 81 go. 600.
Richard n. Collins, editor Of the
Msysvitls Eagle. Of Msysville, KY,
who recently shot M. Dob, rs in an uf-
frey. has had his examination and seen
honosstly discharged.
The fret blood has been shed at Erie.
Pa, M. Coin. conductor upon one Of
abe trains, having sho. one Of the mob
through the head aud wounded another.
Hxes clearly an sct Of Unstable self.
defence.
la.A,slad named T. Carlin, only ten
xsars old, shot another named Timothy
MaNpigaa~ six years Of age, few da 70
ssqs ~ Rome, N. Y. The boys had
qsarrel. and the mother cf Carlin fur
nished him with pistol and directed
him to shoot.
"A fearful catastrophe befell the Hull
spd Hamburg screw steamer Marshal /.
ssdievery one on board was lost-num.
boring, II is supposed, no fewer than so
esu1h wlthout one being spared to tell
the D: her loss. She sailed from
Stocthol,n on the 4th OF November last.
tor Hull. sndit is supposed that she
sou ndesed shortly after coming in con-
tact Win the bark Woodbridge. The
Marshall was On iron Steamer Of ZOO tons
burthen.
" A7vios occurred in Cincinnati on
christmas night, occasioned by a nun Der
al Iahdel Germans of the "Freeme n, IS
Society. who attempted TO do violence
20 M. Bedini. the nuncio Tor embassa
dof) Of the Pope. A body of 100 men
ssmed with clubs, swords, knives, pis
sols. De, carrying torches and ropes,
Were met and dispersed by the police,
who captured fifty or sixty of them. -
Ihsy said their object was only to burn
the snncio in efisy, though il was feared
she1 intended to murder him and burn
, the cathedral. All was quiet at the las,
seccounls,
s On the 9Th ult.. there was another
great fre in New York which DESTROYED
property 70 the amount eff two or three
millions Of dollars. Along with eth
en. the mammoth clipper, the Great
shePubiic. was burned. Nine stores with
their contents were destroyed. The
Great Republic has been subjec, OF
great interest. on accoun, Of her i'm.
menss size-she was built as an expert
sment, aud had taken on her e. si cargo
Tor Liverpool. Sh. was insured in
New York 10 the amount Of S24 600.
snd in Phiiadelphia tor $4,000 The
shiPaiilg. was. .ignited by sparks which
tell IN showers from the burning houses
.2TgsRlBLE ExrLosIos.-Thc Mexican
papers contain on uccoun: OF a terrible
s1plosinn ~ hich occurred on the road
a,etweea, Vesa Cruz aud 81. CITY OF
Mexico. about six weeks since. liap
PsAExsxhat several HUNDRED barrels Of
quo powder were being conveyed TO the
sspitAl tos the use vi tho troops. These
were occompanird by en- escort. The
wretrhod condition Of the roads so i'm !
paired the barrels as TO cause :hem TO
leak. On descending hill the rope
used ia locking the wheels ignited from
friction and set fire 10 some fifteen or
twenty bsrsels. which exploded with a
Iosce that b fles description. For more
shana hundred yards on each side the
trees wee Ssokea and uprooted. and the
earth rivea as IL by an earthquake A
single SIMULATED Ssdy alone remained GU.
ssf che cshirteen WHO composed the ILL
fatea escosIa For miles around the
essatsy Was allied with dust and smoke,
and she dsksesciG. wAich was some dis
Sxpsce inahs reese. vsas nearly sseE turner
Ne The tasfi6 f sforce of fha "a nlosion