Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-22


The California papers notice the arrivals of Chinese
at all the different ports Their Influx it is thought
will Ike several fold greater this than it has
er been before.
The carpenters of Cincinnati are on like for So
per day. They have been receiving IL and IL shi,-
lings. There 700 the strike. The painters arc
al,o demanding an advance Of q cents per day.
DR.. Speer Of onviIc, Florida has raised 20 900
lemons from $50 trees. He is said to be the largest
lemon grower in the country.
Samuel Colt has received an order from the British
Government to furnish the Baltic feet with 5,oCo o
bis navy pistols as soon as possible and he snotfed
that the entire British fleet is to be furnished with
them.
- The Delaware papers arc agitatiRg a ptotc ct
for increasing the territorial dimensions of that State
by adding thereto that part of Maryland and Virginia
which lies east Of the Chesapeake Bay, and known as
" the eastern shore"
The st. Louis on a recent trip down TO New Orleans
from St. Louis, took the enormous quantity of 500
tons of freight her manifest being s!l o15 IL. Among
two items noticed upon her manifcse are 800 hogs
and $50 emf grants. She is the largest boat ever
launched upon the Ohio or Mississippi rivers.
BIBLES PRoHIBIrED.-The Archbishop of Mexico
has addressed to all the clergy tircuar in which he
recommends to them the greatest vigilance in prevent
ing the circulation and reading of Protestant Bibles,
which being INTRODUCED from the United States in
Tamaulipas, across the Texas frontier.
The town of Dover, Kentucky, was DESTROYED by
fire, one day last week. and property to the amount of
$50 600 was consumed. Dover is small town on the
Ohio river, about IL miles from Maysve, and has a
nonuatiou Of about ceaou hu,.1rad
place, four large t,bacco warehouses filled with tobac
co, seven stores and five groceries were among the
building destroyed.
The great fire at jacksonville Florida, on the 9Th
instant destroyed the entire business part of the town
seventy buildings being destroyed. An extra, from
the Office Of the Republican. of that place, says.
Every press in the place was destroyed and this ex-
ira was printed with shoe hush, and with ink man
nfactured for the occasion from ampLack and OIL
jacksonville mas but small place, it Is no place at
ALL
monster steam ship is about to lie constructed by
British company, for the English and Calcutta trade.
Her dimensions are to be $50 feet in length, So feet
beam depth of hold So feet. Her carriage capacity
is estimated at 10000 tons. Her motive power is to
be combination of sails, paddle wheels and screw
oasS - 10 DC uFiueu iterhaiiy nto Wateftgnt COM
paftments that in of accident to either section
Of the hull the other sections compartments mayI
not become subjected to the consequence. \
portion Of the monster tree which was feled
awhile since in Sierra Nevada, California arrived in
New York city Jas. week. The sunday Atlas says it
measured, when standing $40 feet in length, with
diameter of 80 feet at five feet from the ground The
trunk Of this huge monarch of the forest was perfectly
solid from the sapwood to the centre and, judging
from the number of concentrc rings its age has been
estimated at 5000 years. OF this vegetable monster.
which the proprietor has named the GIG ANrAL AMER
crs fifty feet of the bark from the lower part of the
trunk, was put in the natural form in San Francisco
for exhibition 1t there formed spacious carpet ROOM
containing piano. with seats for forty persons. 0n
one occasion l40 children were admitted without in
and at another time 50 couples waltzed
within its colossal circumference with the greatest
harmony. Public exhibition viii be made of the ma
jestic tree in New York suitable place
be procured for that purpose.