Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-01-13
VOL. v.
Iowa Matters.


I'd its regular term at Du buque, on ii,
The ID inst. Judge J. J. Dyer presiding
The Des Moines river land Office 1
Ottumws hiss been closed. owing to tn,
late contract with Mr.. H. O'Rielly.
A house was burned on the Gath uit.
scar Council Bluffs, in which four chill
dren (be.ween 8 and > years old) perish
ed.
Messrs. ]. Frink h Co. have estab
lishsd . line Of four.horse coaches be-.
tween Cedar Rapids end Davenport. te
run tri-weekly for the present, but dai.
" in few mon tbs.
4 Tbs first Friends. or Quaker, NEE tins
fsves convened in Davenport vas held
on last Sunday. There were fifteen
present and some two or three families
ynst representsd.- Ga xeffe. 4
The citizens Polk county, a, public
meeting on the 10th ult., resolved in
favofso g SPaci6c Raiirsad By the Platte
e. Valley and the Sou,h Pass. They re.
solved also in favor Of the speedy or
8 ksni1ation Of Nebraska.
80 The people Of Wspello county, in
their individual capacity, have subscribe
'std upwsfds Of forty Thousand dollars 10
me stock Of the Burlington and Missouri
River Railroad Company.
.ISirouLAR DiscovERr.-!a digging a
well In Cedar county, recently. layers
of poles or brush, none Of which ex-
ceeded siA inches in diameter, were
io0ad ., the depths Of II and then 80,
feet. Fifteen feet above the. first lay
Sfs OF poles was clay. after which fol
lowed strata OF fat rock four inches
layer OF sand six isches, an, Their straits
Of rock. q layer Of fne sand eight feet.
closely compact flint gravel ten inches.
another layers OF pole. intermingled
With black loan. anl finally s,er. The
poles appear to be OF the tamarac spe.
cies, bas the mysterv OF these singular
aepo' lis ba flies calculation.
fRoM SAReEANr's BLvrF.-From the
Hesfe,n Bu lie. we learn that Alex.
AndrIs IN is though, to BIZ recovering.
The Ind ~ movements are sill war
like:
Great numbers OF Soiux a,e arriving
from 81. Prtefs and preparing 10 make
IN ex erm:na ing attack upon the Oma-
hive.
~ man called "uncIe John" from
sChariton, aud tormerly from Illinois,
and connected with Col Aliens SUR
seylng corps, was os, on the prairie on
the 9TH inst. In going from The CAM
TO the Sc element he became los, i'm his
caicnla:io and took wrong direction.
Il Il a.
rube, but no food He was large
y svy.made man, and his horse was
blind in one eye lie uss fiilomed in
xircuitous zigzsg direction three days
when he SEEMED to strike out in nearl,
uai seastcrE direction. He was sbo,t
forty Eve years old. Ills name no,l
kaown.
Iowa L'o OR Law CoNsTIruriosAL.-
THE Supreme Cou { 1t Iy in session q
lowe CiIy. has decided { h OF cases
taken mp FROM Dubuqae. nhich affirm,
the. cons,itutionaiity of the Iowa Lii
qnor Law. Johu Schal fnor. j. Duff
Zagenhuh'er aud CuTren were indicted
In thc Dubuque county Dis,ric, Couu
for selling liquor By the glass. The
eousi below decided against defendants
and fined each one Of The parties in
sums agrerab.y to the statue in such
eases. They appealed TO the. Supreme
Court. 4
r Defence pleaded that the Liquor Law
'was unconstitutional. that the iudict-
u,en,s should run against the houses in
which the liquor was sold, and not
sSsinst the p-rs n who sold il. In the
indictmen,s several different offences
were stated as alleged according t. the
provisions Of the Iowa Liquor Law, il
Was objected by defence tha, the law
relst ng TO indictments provides that ev-
sry indiclmen shall charge bn. one
specified orcnse. and that the liquor
iaM b~ing r@ougnant in ITS provisions
to tiis law. is imprsc,icabIe and could
not be enforced
The court overruled all these obiec-
lions. and sustained the indictments
end the decision Of the cour, below,
sgsins, defendants. "
r RoMANIsM IN Iowa. At Dubuque the
fPspists are bulldog large cathedral,
] snd other fixtures Tor the instruction oil
the rising generation in the ways Of
1.-THE man 81 sin and the Bishop. W o
visited Europe a. year or two since
boastes. Z On his return. that he had
brough, sufficient funds 10 complete The
cathedral. and convert northern Iowa 10
Catholicism. |, is attempted also io|
make Davenport, seventy-fye miles
south Of Dubuque. a stronghold Of he
fatal error here too cathedral is in
progress Of erection. and school is in ep-/
erAties, for training children to the wor..
ship Of the Virgin. Mary aud the saints;
aud. here, too is an heirless half breed
French and Indian, worth some $780,.
600. who will probably make holy moth
o. Chp@cLy hisrhsis. Catholic ChuvchesI
and schools are es.a bIished also "a Mus
eatine. Burlington. Fort Madison, aud
Keokuk, surrounded by large ioreign|
population. At Iowa City, and other
points in the Interior, they have in
tresehed themselves. aud are prepared
to- do battle for the great system OF
falsehood. Funds are brought from
Europe and nunneries ere erected, and
'-Sistssr ut Visitation" are employed TO
instrpc, young ladies in the mysteries
es5ke ,.holy fsith;" sad. to secure the
coniidsnse and votes Of the people Of
foreign Birth aud extraction. Protestan.