Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-02-24
MUCH IN LITTLE.

The Gadsden Treaty was sent into the Senate on
the 1lth instant.
The Illinois Celtral Railroad will be the longest
road in the world belonging to one company.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad now sends each
way fully 500 tons of freight per day.
bill has passed the Tennessee Legislature to elect
the judicial officers by the people. aa
There are three States which have no debt. viz.
Vermont Delaware and Florida. Pennsylvania has
the largest s4l ,542,s75.
An advertisement appears in New York paper o.
ferng 81 900 reward for the recovery of daguerreo
type lost Oh the steamer San Francisco.
A meeting was held recently at St. Paul to make
suitable arrangements for opening emigrant route
to the Pacific from Minnesota.
over from the American shore TO Grand Island cir
cumstance not happening before in 80 years.
Murder is bailable offence in Wisconsin, because
according to the laws of that State it IS not capital
offence. @ tEats.7s -
The Governor of Maryland is required to swear on
being inaugurated that he is believer in the Chris
tian religion. --
wo gazelles have been imported from Malta saws
the New York Tribune. They are both males, about
Is inches high.
On FROM RosIN.- There are several large estab.
ilsiments IN osfon, New York and Philadelphia and
other places, engaged in distilng oil from rosin.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Smith of Missouri has received
her pay and bounty land by act of Congress for ten
months service soldier in the Mexican war under
the name of "Ben Newman"
The lawyers in Wayne county, Ia, have pledged
themselves moi to defend any person charged with
aud beHeved TO be guilty OF, retailing sprituous IL
quors, to be drank
Antrentism is on its last legs, so far as the courts
supervision of it extends. recent decision of the
Court OF Appeals declares the validity OF manoria
patents and quarter sale reservations.
A Soon IDEA.-The Senate of Virginia has adopt
ed resolution proposing to award premium to the
officers OF the best conducted railroads in the State
with regard to speed safety and punctual
OF the mails and travel.
- Inc ball given by the proprietors of Metropolitan
Hall, New York, was attended by over two Thousand
persons Capt Creighton of the ship Three Bells, of
glasgow, who SO heroicay rescued the passengers of
the San Francisco was the lion of the evening,
The steamer Charles Belcher burnt receutlv at
New Orleans, was one Of the most splendid boats on
the Western waters. She was built at ST. Louis
about 10 months since. at expense of from SO 600
10 Sioooo and Is said to have been perfect palace
young lady jumped from the suspension bridge
INTO the water "a distance Of about seventyeig feet0
at wheeling on the 18th nlt., and was rescued with
great difficulty. Disappointment in lore it is pre-
samed caused her TO make this attempt to commit su
icide e rs Hsna 81 IN. =
In ls47 there scarcely dozen white Inhabitants
IN the place now known st. Paul in Minnesota ter.
rltory. The village now contains 700 houses and A.
ioO inhabitants. The amount of taxable property in
iooo was s3V4 iJi Inc capltal at present invested
IN business is So25 COO
watch of great intrinsic value. aud still more val
liable as relic was recently stolen from she house of
Thomas p Way, in New York City. 1t was known
as the George Washington watch y and purchased by
benJamln FRANKLIN, while commissioner to London
during the war of the Revelation.
The New York Evening Post says:-"Flane and
smoke still issue from the ruins of Lafarge Hotel In
the centre OF the waste of brick and mortar there
TWO immense coal heaps, containing, together, l1O
toms which heat the bricks above almost TO whiteness
1t is now month since the conflagraton occurred
Ayoung man named Philip Delannie, who was COM
mitted To Jail in Provincetown, N. D. in September
las, eloped few days since with his iaiIors wife
The "iair one carried of about $40 with her and the
twain are supposed to be now on their way to Europe
Love laughs at locksmths.
The great tunnel on the mountain section of IN.
Pennsylvania Railroad has been completed. and tbs
cars will commence running through next month.
This VIII obviae the necessity of passing over the in
cned planes on tbe Portage river, and the distance
bstwoen Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will be accom-
plished in from II to IA hours.
Rents in New York are rising beyond all precedent
The rent OF No. >, Astor House, which has been ST.
500 per annum during the last twelve wears will he
raised after the first OF May next to s3 75O and the
stores III tne metropolitan Hotel, which have been
bringing 5000, have been raised to 1000.
QUEER DoCTRlNE.-The Sfs,,bsra of m, Yogv, a
Roman Catholic publication at St. Louis holds the
doctrine that learning to read and write is no proec
ton to the morals and that the education of the Press
ana common Schools, as conducted in the United
States, is as likely to make rogues ard rufans as
the reverse. - =
The Catholics in New York will build new Cathe
dral next summer. The size of the buildny viii be
$50 feet IN depth, TO- in breadth having dome lO4
feet IN diameter In addition to two lofty towers The
height OF the wall will be l02 ieet. This immense
edlhce will he built principally of stone and ron and
will cost when completed about $3.50 600.
A Miss Ellen David, a elarvoyant girl twelve years
Oh age, mas been Creating considerable excitement
at Rockford, H. While in this state she quotes Latin
gives the author book and page and even renders it
into correct Englishbeing thoroughly ignorant of the
language when out of the clarvoyant state. She is
represented as seeing and conyesing with the iuhab
itants oil the spiritual world.
EXTENSION OF A Bounty LAND fcr.-The time for
issuing and locating certain land warrants for military
service in the of 1872 under several acts of Con-
gess, having expired on the 26th OF June last act
has been passed by both Houses granting q further
term of five years for satisfying the same. This will
relieve from suspension many cases now pending in
the Pension Office and render available for sale or To-
cation many warrants already issued.
MISS Lucy SroNE's OPINION OF FAIRLY MARRIAGES.
- Miss Stone at her lecture in Pittsburgh. was partic
uary severe misses OF fifteen, who think they are
not too young to marry. Boy husbands were treated
with sovereign contempt. She would not have mar
riages contracted by males under thirty or females
under twenty-five years Of age. She maintained her
position with apt illustrations and much sound sense
ard argument.
GREAT TELEGRAPH CASE DEcIpED The case of
Morse against Reilly which has been pending since
lS4S. in relation to the magnetic Te!eg raph has been
decided in the Supreme Court of the United States.
1t holds that Morse the irst inventor of the tee
graph. and that O'Reillys Columbia instrument was
an infringement. The Court also held that Morse pat
ented more than he discovered or invented aud there
fore that claim is dsallowed, which virtually makes
valid the House and Balm patents.
FOREIGN
One of the bridges built by the Nicaragua Transit
Company, on the road between Lake iearagua to
San Juan del Sud, is made entirely OF mahogany.
The queen of Spain. il is said has become perfectly
reckless of public opinion, and her conduct rivals that
OF the worst OF her predecessors.
1t is estimlted that the Rothschll brothers are
worth from ten TO fifteen millions sterling or from
$50 600, 900 to s75, COO eco.
The Bcy of Tun, one of the best chess players in
the world, has challenged famous club in Paris to
rubber game for 81 900 sterling. The challenge has
been accepted, and the first game commenced
There is great distress in Ireland account Of the
severity of the weather and the scarcity of provisions
Riots were te red. and the troops under arms
Similar troubles were also feared in France
The ship Three Bells, under command OF the gallsn MT
Capt Creighton which rescued so many Of the pas.
sengers OF the San Francisco, iron vessel owned
hv three brothers, named Bell, in Glasgow, Scotland.
A swors.dsh run his snout into the British ship
ord Ryersdale on her voyage to Valparaiso pierre
INC plank three inc.sss and half in thickness and
leaving seven inches Of the sword on the inside. The
ship was compelled 20 heaye to- AZ: repairs.
The French have taken possession of the group of
Islands called New Caledonia. New Caledonia Is
about niue hGndged miles to the eastward of Austria
liza Ii was discovered by Captain Cook. in l774. II
is go miles long, and ~ miles wide Ths natives are