Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-07
CHIP BASKET.
DOMESTIC.

There are two hundred and eleven lawyers in s
Louis county, Mo.
A daily line OF packets will run betweea Lasall
and st. Louis, the ensuing season.
The St. Louis Republican says more hotels al
wanted in that city
Two of the celebrated Black Hawk horses hav
been sold in Montpelier, VT, for 81, 900 apiece.
The yacht America which won such triumphs /
sailing, is advertised 70 be sold in London in April
auction.
The latest news from Utah states that the noun
tain Indians are In starving condition. and are eai
ing their horses.
They have had an unusually cold winter iu Oregon
The Indians say the whites are the cause of it,
Snow has fallen at Portland fourteen inches deep.
Edwin Forrest, the great American Actor, has he
come convert TO the spiritual doctrines and Is IN
constant communication with the mediums.
rich vein Of copper has recently been discovered
in Georgia, which is thirty feet in thickness yielding
pure metal OF about nifty per cent from the ore
loss OF 81 O00,0 900 has recently been sustained ir
Kentucky by the sudden and almost unparalleled rise
in the Licking River.
The body of Mr.. John Jones, who was blown ur
In the Steamer Kate Kearney at st. Louis has never
been found.
S. Bgelow Lawrence, son of Abbot Lawrence, aud
| divorced husband Of the famous Sallie Ward was
married recently at Doylestown, Pa, to Miss Chap
man.
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the
Cnited States, in the case Of the McD,nolugh will
secures to the American Co.onzation Society about
| $50 900 per year. for forty years.
select committee has been appointed in the New
| York Legislature, to consider and report upon the
petition OF ten thousand women tn have the priyis-
ges of the elective franchise extended to their SEX
! Mary Baker, woman 90 years Of age. was run over
ON the Norrstown (Pa) railroad last week and killed
She was going tn Philadelphia. She literally cut
into bits. the largest portion of her body found was
one of her feet.
The Naftma bneifigencer. the most reliable paper
in the world says that the fate Of the Minnesota and
Wisconsin land bills furnish clear indications of the
general failure decreed in Congress against all similar
projects at the present session
Both branches of the Legislature of Georgia pass
bill to aid in the erection of the monument in Phla-
delphla in honor of the sgnsrs Of the Declaration OF
Independence. This makes seven States and Mas.
sachusetts will probably respond ere long.
Cairo is now the most extensive Coal Depot for
steamboats, on the Western waters Steamers from
all directions invariably stop there o. their supplies
! The coal is furnished from the NJ lford Mines IN
Kentucky, foated down in large atboats and sold at
nine or ten cents per bushel.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has recently
made treaties with the chiefs Of the Ottoes Omahas
dc., that accompanied Maj Gatewood to Washington
These treaties supercede those made by Maj G. with
out authority from the Government, and will doub:
less bs ratified by the Senate.
The Legislature of California have passed an act
laying tax of GO cents the hundred dollars upon
all goods or merchandise brought into the State for
sale whether from foreign land or any port OF the
United states. The Supreme Court has affirmed the
tight Of the State to pass such law. It's constitt-
tionaitv will probably be tested in the United State.
Court.
Three societies formed in various parts of New
England, with the object of Planting shadetrees by
the roadside All the avenues leading from Boston
to its beautiful suburban towns will be lined with
them. The last Boston Ornamental Tree Society,"
has resolved that every street in East Boston, this
spring shall be ornamented with thrifty shade trees"
This example is worth imitation here.
IDoL WoIsHrP II NEW Yosx-A gentleman
In New York city, while visiting in Cherry street re-
Gently, went into room where were a little company
OF Chinese Offering sacrifice to an idol Chinaman
was kneeling In front of an idol bnrnng some sweet
smelling substance in little cup floating In water
The gentleman apoogized for the intrusion but they
did not seem troubled by il.
II Is not generally known that the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad is progressing with great rapidity as any
between thirty and forty miles, and in very short
time they will be penetrating a considerable portion
OF Kentucky. This road has q strong subscription
list and able Directory. and has recently received
$3.50 900 appropriated to it by the Legislature of Mis-
sissipi. This, with the sum of about $500 900 from
the State Of Tennessee will give it impetus that
viii cause greater progress than ever to be m,ds in
the building of it. 1t runs through eight or nine of
the eastern counties of Mississippi.
OsE HUNDRED MILES OF HEDGx.-Ths Illinois
Csnfral Railroad Company have contracted with
Jas. Sumpter Co., of Montgomery county, Ohio,
for hedging with ossge orange one hundred miles of
the Illinois Central Railway. The contract commen-
ces fifty miles south of Chicago near the Kankakes
River. These two hedges, each one hundred miles
long, will require abont two millions of Usage plants
The ground along the line is to be broken this sum-
me and the planting to be done in the spring of 1855.
The portion to be hedged is through the centre of the
Grand Prairie of Illinois. where groves are freqently
thirty or forty miles apart and the plants of this
hedge will be the only thing in the shape Of tree in
sight upon some parts of the lire. II will have q
very pleasing effect, in breaking the onotony of the
landscape and marking out the line of the road.
The "know- Nothings,' a secret organization. have,
of sudden, become power in the Eastern States
What they are--what they wsnt-whcre they come
from--what they do, no one knows But that thew
make noninatiohs-that they mingle in, and carry
elections is obvious from the history Of things Al
election for municipal officers took place recently in
Salem, Massachusetts,. The Wings there 10 their
utter amazsment beaten by this invisible power
The regular Wing candidate got but 4sl votes and
the Know Nothing candidate received 1.346. All the
Know Nothing candidates were thus elected, after the
most triumphant fashion. In Waitham, Massach,-
sets, like result occurred, but nobody knew how it
was DONE The Know Nothings gave no note of prem
aration. but iscked to the polls--of sudden-of
sudden the deed was done.
The end of the World on the 26th of May next i.
predicted by portion Of the second Adventists who
were disappointed in the worlds not burning up in
lS43. To illustrate their theory and make il tangible
to those who not ready in mental arithmetic thew
have da rams hanging in the rooms where they meet
with the an mails spoken Of Ia the Scriptures, sketche
with awfullookng heads and terrible great horns
and the tenth horn they tell SO much aboat is made
tolap over 1853 and bear 1854 its tip They loos
on the present movement OF the nssian CIs towards
Constantinope about to close the books upon us
In Salem they have become quite zealous. and sever
era persons have been lately added to their numbers
and eight were recently bxptsed when the mercury
was below zero and their clothes oze as soon they
came from the water.
Ten or twelve suits have been commenced in the U.
S. Dis rict Court OF Missouri under the act of Con-
gress regulating the navigation of the western waters
The allegations against the boats are their running
without the required number Of life preservers
registering all their passengers, and many other vo-
ations. The examination in the case Of the Kate
Kearney at St. Louis, has brought to light the fact
that leaks in boilers are often stopped temporarily by
manure and other like substances aud that the HYDRO
ATTIC test of boilers is not reliableths Kate Kearneys
boilers having borne, some months ago. pressure by
this test, OF 100 pounds to the inch, llo being her
working limit by law and yet the exploded boiler had
grain like pot metal and was brittle, ard would
fly to pieces under the blows of q hammer like pot
metal!
The Legislature Of Nova Scotia have passed resol /
tons empow ering the Government of that province to
sxpend 5000 600 year in the construction of rail
roads.
The seizure by the French of New Caledonia and
the neghborng small islands for penal coIonee does
not please the inhabitants Of Austria at all. The
Sidney papers protest loudly against il, and declare
that these islands bekmg to the English having been
discovered BY Captain Cook and formally taken pos
session Of by him
A melancholy accident has thiown quite gloom,
over the American squadron at Japan. Ii appears
that while the Plymouth was lying at the Bonn Is