Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-02-03
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III the country since the passage of the act of Congress
10 suppress the importation of such articles THAT
now alleged To be difficult to procure medicine,
which are not either mixed With some foreign sab
stance, from which portion OF the active prin
cipal has not been subtracted by chemical process
Thus it would that tine effort b suppress the fo
elgn trade has resulted in imarting extraordinary
stimn to tie home masaEacture of thesparioas com
modities. HE rf III s. Fstats.t-E E
II is said that there il class of men IN New Or
leans, mostly keepers of boarding houses or grogger
les who habitnaly entce unwafy sailors into their
dens, ssnpify them with dragged liquors, rob them
aud send them on board their ship in such state Of
prostration that death frequently ensues; that 10
numerous instances the officers of vessels have found
themselves at the Bsze almost literally manned with
the dead The attention of the ctizenslo OF New Or
leans has recently been directed to this growing evil
and much ind nation aud excitement prevails upon
Tue SUBJECT At large meeting Of the business men
OF the city recently held at the Exchange series of
condemnatory resolutions unanimously passed,
aud measures were taken to reform the evil. s.
MARINE.
The following incidents of The late disaster to the
steamship San Francisco given addition TO those
already Published:
Sergeant rown. one of the rescued soldiers from
the wreck of the San Francisco was swept overheard
three times and jumped into the sea the fourth time
to preserve miniature that was taken out OF his
pocket. Hg FE
Mr. Wickham, the storekceper of the San Francis.
co was washed overheard at the time the decks were
iirst cleared. He caaght piece of timber which he
held fast to Tor some time. but finding il insufficient to
buoy him up, he let go and caught hold of barrel
which he held on tn for two hours, and finally was
thrown aboard again by returning wave.
The British brig Chatham was lately wrecked on an
island in the Pacific, hitherto nndi severed The cap
tain gives account of the adventures of himself and
crew thus:
I'VE were distributed among the people of the il.
land, where we spent most wretclIed night expect
Ing 10 be speared every moment The next morning
commenced our naturalization. We were all drawn
together and armed with spears and marched OIL to the
north end of the island, supposed to he there
sacrificed to their gods for they have many; but the
training ended well, and we each taken to our
respective hou.es again. For several days this train.
ing was carried on differing only their modes OF
worship differ, according to which Of the gods they
worship We then found out that we were considered
supreme beings. and that we had nothing to fear a,
long as they thought The natives won ship idols
depal TED spirits OF their race and have god men
on species OF Pagan priestsamong themselves, whom
they worship On particular occasions" ~
FOREIGN.
Rome is now lighted with gas, by an English COM
pany et
A Professor of Chinese is to be added to the Uni
versity of Oxford, England.
Tile missionaries say that the Chinese boys take to
ring it to the study of their own.
Dover Cliffs about to be blasted, and it is calcu-
lated that nearly two hundred thousand tons of chalk
viii be removed. -eE
At Paris, Louis NAPOLEON has just delighted the peo-
pie by erecting statue to Marshal Ney on the ami.
versary OF bis execution thirty-eight years ago.
They are about Introducing the American railroad
car into England II is admitted TO be in almost eve.
ry respect, superior to the in common use on
English railways.
NAviG ALTON or TUE AMAZON PROHIBITED Official
proclamation is made by the Consus OF Brazil and
Peru, that all trade and commerce in the waters OF
the Amazon Is strictly prohibited.
DOING IT UP BRowN.--The Duke of Argyle dresses
in rown clothes. rides in a brown carriage. drawn
by two brown horses and every thing in his house
~ lnvellry - brown. from the paper the walls to
the chair covers and coal scuttIes.
II is said that facts have been lately brought to lgh.
tlat show that the British colony Of Sierra Leone Ia
Atiicah been largely engaged nthe slave trade for
many years back, but the whole arrangements were
conducted secretly that the officers Of government
had no suspicion fit
The Halifax Morning Chronicle gives another mer.
mad story. II says that most extraordinary fish
was recently caught in the salmon net of Mr. AZet
Hamilton, of Dlndoran. in the Donegal Bay. 1t is a
beautiful creature the head, shoulders and waist re-
sembe q woman, the lower part that of a salmon -
The eyes are beautiful and its arms when touched be-
come stil and the whole body appeared sensitive to
tne touCn. Many persons considered il Young mef-
maid and Mr. Hamilton hoped to be able to preserve
il alive.
SPIRIT DRINKING IN SWEDEN In Sweden the peo
pie are last rising to fearful conviction of the self
entaed miseries produced by spirit drinking. The
late alson TO this vice IN the Kings speech, at the
opening of the Diet, TO have been more the re
fex of incipient pubI, opinion than an original con
cepton OF his own Various petitions have been pre-
sented OF late to King Oscar, praying him to take
sch measures a. shall avert the misery which threat
ems the nation ii the production Of spirits he allowed
to continue ia its present extent" The last of these
petitions has Is coo signatures.
Recruits OF the Russian army are obtained in the
following manner The authorities ascertain from the
register kept by the priesthood how many youths
there are in the town, village, from twelve to thirty
years OF age and who ever has five sons must part
with four, the eldest being left at home party oi
soldiers surround the house, school hos in which
the youth or yoaths and then take them away by
man force, at only few minutes notice. leaving them
no time to say farewell to their trieud4 In one par
cular case two youths, 2 and the other a. were
kidnapped in this way from the house OF their grand
mother, aged S., where they were stopping on visit
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