Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-02-03
MUCH nv LITTLE.

| tFaf MOCH IN LfTILE E
j DOMESTIC.
The North Carolina rice crop this year, i. /. said
/ will reach 100000 bushels. aa-
More suicides occur in New Eng and, than all the
rest OF the United States.
The parIors of the Burnett House, Cincinnati, are
to be reiarnishcd at cost OF over twelve thousand
/ dollars. =
Barlow Hall, lad of fourteen wears. lately killed
Two moose at one shot, at Ellsworth, Ne.-tey sold
FOR twenty dollars. ..s st ~.
Thomas Daley, lad Of Ii years has died in Boston
IN IN consequence OF being hit b, snow ball by OF
few days ago, horse in kent,eky. ran seventy
miles, over rough turnpike, in eight hours-or an
average OF eight miles and fve-egh,ls per hour.
| number Of physicians in New York city, headed
by valentine Mott, are about to petition the legisa-
ture Tor law legalizing dissection.
A hotel IS about to be erected at Washington
which will accommodate over thousand persons. II
VIII be He'd the Metropolis of all Nations.
male slave. Is years old, sid at Clarksburg, Va,
last week or l,502, and another, female Is years
old for 81 ,030.
Inc hlerltes have fixed upon May 10. 1854 as the
date OF the destruction of the world They say there
VIII oe no mistake about it this time.
The Pilgrim Society of Charleston, Sonth Carolina
has subscribed the sum of $500 towards erecting a
monument to the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
It is rumored from Washington, that the Pacific
Railroad, the extension of patents and special mo-
nopolizing legislation generally, will all fail in Con-
greSs.
The physicians of Burngton, j., have deter.
mined to present their bills monthly and thus exen-
ply the truth OF the adage, "shot reckonings make
long friends"
Capt Ericsson publishes note in the New York
Express stating that his caoiic ship Is nearly ready
for trial. and the public will have an opportunity
of judging of her merits.
On the 10th inst, hundred AID fifty sacks dead
letters, in all nine hundred and ortytwo bushels Of
correspondence, were burned by the Post Office De-
partment ut Washington.
The Record, Of the village of Louisiana No, SAYS
citizen of that town encountered two panthers in
American bottom on the illinois shore a few DAYS go
and succeeded in killing one.
large darning needle was found in the heart of a
COW which died at Oxford, Me-, the other day. She
swallowed 1t with apple paring, spice, it is PIE
sumed.
VIM. Hendry was tried in Providence r. l., last
week, for kissing three ladies against their WILL and
hned % and costs on each charge. amounting ia the
aggregate to s3l 81 Dear kissing.
The magnificent Astor Library In New York, con.
tanning su0VO volumes, was thrown open TO the pub
lie ON the I'd inst. The number of books will reach to
l0OOoO, when the entire sum appropriated by Mr..
Astor shall have been expended.
A woman at Plattsburg, No., took hatchet a few
dsls ago and entering place where her husband had
bought liquor and got drunk, split open all the barrels
and kegs and let the fiery element run out She was
accompanied by about 80 men who wanted to see the
fun and ensure fair play.
The Rev. John H. Hanson's hook. which Is intended
to prove that we have Bourbon amongst us,n or
that Louis Nv OF France and the Rev. Eleazer VIII
dnls are enc and the same, has made its appearance
IL IS SAID 10 DC very ingenious and entertaining vol
ume. -4
The hull of the Great Republic has been raised by
means OF building temporary sssEn for her, and en-
closing her IN canvas jackets 70 81 IA leaks. She
Is damaged much less than was SZ}1<fed and her
late commander says she might yet be made into as
fine steamer as floats Her cargo, with the remains
OF rigging old innk &C., was sold at auction.
Mr.. Beinhisel she Mormon delegate IN Congress
from Utah. Is probably fifty years Of age very gentle
manly in appearance and demeauor, Intelligent and
eircnmspect. No one would ever single him out as
the representative Of community of people who pro-
less newer religion than the Christian, and who
teach and practice the virtues uf polygamy
Mayor Wester cit, of New York, in his message to
The new city connci says that the annual expenses of
the city now exceed those of tile governments o. the
four largest States in the Union. The mayor inks
1t high time to retrench and reform. The perrient
dent OF the city Is s9,3236oS; funded debt, $780,
900. ur
| TONNAGE DUTIES. Douglas has written
letter 70 the Governor OF Illinois in which he enters
lsto an elaborate review OF the United States Revenue
systeal and ITS inequalities and imperections and
urges Gov Iateson to submit that portion of the Pres
idents Message which ters to River and Harbor i'm.
provements to the Legislature of Illinois for its con.
s.deration.
REvERBERArING HALLs.-The difficulty occasioned
by the rererberation Of sound in the new capitol at
Nashville, has been remedied by spreading u thick
layer OF saw dust the loor covering it with heavy
carpet and curtaining the wind US with heavy cur.
tlins. The Ohio Constitutional Convention remeded
similar defect in College Hall, Cincinnati by cover
| ing the walls with canvass.
The administration papers, all through the west,
| In ta IF
| Minnesota, with maeasanee in Office. Judge r. NJ
Young, OF Illinois, and Mr.. German now Governor OF
Minnesota commissi ners the part of the govern
ment to examine into sundry charges affecting the Of
ticial and personal integrity Of Ramsey have made
! a report exonerating him to the fullest extent.
! An establishment for the manufacture Of oil from
the cotton seed has been started in New Orleans. Ii
asserted that the oil Is OF blad pleasant tiste
possessing all the qualities OF olive OIL that il burns
with great brliancy aud is peculiarly fitted for using
upon machinery on account Of not cumming or dry
ing. II the oil is really valuable the manufacture
will soon become an important one. for the quantity
OF raw material is unbounded.
The daily food of Ham ibal the elephant at Herr
Driesbachs menagere, New York. consists OF four
hundred pounds of hay and three bushels of oats
he washes this enormous quantity OF prOvender down
his throat with fur barrels OF water. Besides his
re uaT meals, he receivas indies cakes and applcs
from the visitors He is the largest elephant living
and about forty years DID, He weighs eleven thousand
pounds, eleven feet in height, and has two tusks
eaci nve leet ana naif long.
Three young men residing In the western part OF
Clark c0utty, No.. went out a few nights since on a
turkey hunt. After rambling about until near day
light without finding any turkies, they separated to
hunt Tor deer In short time thereafter. one OF them
imagining that he saw a deer moving in The brush
Snort distance from him. up with his gun and fired at
the object. On approaching the spot be was sur.
prised TO lind that Instead OF deer he had shat and
killed one Vt his companions and an intimate friend.
In New Orleans, Madames Chauveau aud Moret
have been held to bail in 81 500 EACH for subectng
their slaves to the most cruel aud inhnan treatment
The indictment says that the negroes have on their
bodies the marks OF punishment and torture unwar-
ranted by any law and OF character inllman; that
they have not been provided with sufficient food that
their bodies indicate that injuries inflicted with
most revolving description.
in denying the motion for an attachment against a
witness t. compel him to certain questions ON
| an examination de 6eas before commissioner. de-
cared that the law gives color to the practice which
not unfrequenty appears In Judicial proceedings, OF
besettiDg witness with impertinent inquiries which
are not shown to have any legitimate bearing on the
case Some counseors delight in torturing witness
with useless questions and thus it is that trials
tediously prolonged in our courts.
| A modification Of the Usury laws of New York is
urged by memorial from the chamber of Commerce
They ask that the penalty OF tine and imprisonment
for charging usurious interest. shall be abolished as
well as the loss o the principal of tho loan, leaving
the only penalty the loss OF the interest The memo
rial on the subject argues that the law should not in
terfere between parties making written agreements
/ ior the loaling and borrowing OF money, in which
opinion the memorialists are undoubtedly correct.