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Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
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Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

A CoAEr.-For several evenings pas
a Comet has been seen in the nor,hwes.
par, Of the heavens, near where the one
was seen last fall. II is small but
brilliant. Dubuque Express.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARrUREs OF sTEAMEl
Fu1 Tue WEEK

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Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

THE New HAVEN RIor. Tic cxami alton
in tbi Sc has be n conclud d. The evil
dcnce elected exoner ates he students en-
On sed FIR III being instrument | in the death
Of 0'Neil, but fails to point out the real
pcrpetrator OF the act.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
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Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

RIVER MAIL.-A tri-weekly river mail is
now carried on the j. Mckee, but it deesn t
appear to amount to much. We under
stand that the mail bags are placed on the
boat without an attendant, and unless calls
ed for are carried past their destination, of
course. We have not learned the nature Of
the contract, or, indeed, whether there is
any at all.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
Notwithstanding, lisa.


The WEEKLY JOURNAL will hereafter
be published every Saturday morning.
We make this chasge 10 enable us TO
issue our iri>weehly on Fridays.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
I.o.sea by Wire.

Lawrence n. T., 2Sth uit., the dwelling Of CooT ol.
Tyler in which seven small children peri hed. Their
parents had after seeing the children safely in b. d.
gone to neighbor's house to pass the evening.
Patterson ". j., 9th inst the Star mill and three
dwelling houses s 70 COO
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

ANOTHER CeMET.-A little north of sunset
OF clear evening, may be seen another cor.
ct blazing in the heavens. 1t is about the
proportions and general aspect of the one
visible, last September.
Ii is quite certain that we are at the
threshold of eventful times. Comets are
among the ''signs in the heavens that
since the world was made, have been be-
lieved by men to portend turmoil, reyolu
ton, wars and the downfall of nations.--&.
Louis Inieiigencer.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
S;;p'ri fsasc ofI'nbiic n,trncsioss.
we "nilih'lc t, give the m,j 'rities in each cont,

Hos NtE BtsI Up Men with nm.
"sS'n ing wives never .ail is ih- l,us.
II ds ri sitth Woni"n as Mr., "a. !. n
had' ihilifat.. " IN fni III, mscl, e, i4re
aud iacc vi h The sheriff an certn.r
M. s erin GotGnirii,s. a,i0rurd i III ~s.i
'si'' ma Aa'cf,f Big enough iur ,srset
rXL Ci-e.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

CO About o'clock, on the night Of the
2lst nit.. another accident occurred on the
Hudson River Railroad, causing the death
OF two men, and injuring two Others. 1t
appears that the O'Clock express train from
Albany, when near Tivoii, came in contact
With an immense rock which had slidden
from its place ut the top of the einhankment,
and completely obsructed the track. The
train Was Of the usual length, consisting of
dve passenger cars, none OF which were in
lured*the locomotive. tender, mail and bag
gage cars were badly broken and almost
destroyed.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

The STATE ELEcTIoN.-The Davenport
Gazette (prstty good authority in such mat
ters,) thinks Eads (Dem.) is elected Super
intendent of Public Instruction over Stewart
independent by about one thousand ma :
jority-an' unusually small majority for a
Locofoco candidate in Iowa.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15
More Steamboat Disasters-.-.Twenty
Lives Lost

STEAMER MONROE SUNK TWENTY LIVES
Losr.--The Steamer Monroe, Yazoo river
packet, bound from Yazoo City to New Or
leans, sunk about five miles above Natchez,
on the night of the Goth ult., and between
fifteen and twenty persons, including the
matc, are reported to have been lost. The
boat capsized.
ANoTHER.-The steamer w. B. Clifton,
Capt. Thomas Shearer, bound from Louis
vile to New Orleans, with heavy cargo,
was run into by the Ohio, two miles above
Columbus, on the Mississippi, about one
O'Clock On the morning of the Sd inst, and
sunk Immediately. Two persons were
drowned. 1t is supposed the boat and car
20 will be total loss.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

The late Major IIobbie was employed in
The Post olice Department for the space Of
.swcnty three years.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

INFANTILE lEFLUEscE. "A gentleman who was II,
the habit OF taking 'leste" toe much of the ooh,
bel 1yfu fays that he was cured of the shocking bad
habit by the cool efrontery Of his youngest child =
Returning home one day rather weak in the lower
joints-top- heavy from having brick in his hat'-
as ne staggered into the house, his little three
old, who sat at table in high chair, munching
piece OF bread locked up and calculated in tones of in
fautilesweetness, eight again, old copper nose !"-
The next day he signed the pledge.-Dar. Gag.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

Lieut. Shaumberg, who attacked Fuller,
at Washington, has been tried. and found
guilty Of an assault with intent to ill.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

There were 1883 wild cats killed in
Kentucky, aud their scaIps paid tor b,
the Commonwealth, ia 1858.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-15

LAND WARRANTS Land Warrants are so
extremely scarce, we are obliged to quot
as follows, and find it difficult to fill orders
promptly, even at these prices:--
Buying. Selling
l60 acre Warrants, 1886 $3.50
80 /" Sc 90 o,
40 &c AGA ara
-Ihompson's Reporter, 8h. J
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
Ornamental PLANTING.

we commend the following extract from J.
W. Proctor's Agricultural Address to those who
nave forgotten to plant single shade troe near
their large and costly farm houses:
"The objects met about the door ward of q
iarmer 8 residence, are as unnlistakabfe indices
OF the character to be found within. as tho az
pressionsof the human countenance, of the emo.
tlons OF the mind. Where the rose, the dahlia,
ana the honeysuckle have crowded out the pig
trough the goose pen, and the sink drain, be
sure Improvement hus there found habitation
and n home. few Towering shrubs in front
a climber or two by the door, a border carefully
arranged ny female hands, with female taste
are iuXurlcs at tho command Of ALL have Of
ten heard an esteemed friend, too soon, alas. re-
moved from these scenes of anxious soliciti,;le
remark, she should prefer cottage with onlv
one small room, bed room and kitchen. sur-
rounded by cultivated grounds and shrubbcry.
with an elm overshadowing the yard, to n spa-
elous mansion without these appendapes.-
what is more out of place than SQUARE three
story house in the..country, with no shade trees
ABOUT ltf Those who have not the benefits of
shade trees about their residence are inscnsible
OF The lnconveniences under which they labor,
both as to comfort and to health. have heard
1t said by one of the most intelligent physicians
whose acquaintance have ever eniovcd TINT
the best preventive of the progress OF cholera.
and other malignant diseases, was the multDli.
cation Of shade. To my certain knowledge the
oest security against the speading of fires in
villages, is the abundance of shade trees in the
way, and in the yards between dwellings,.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
MISCELLANY.
From the Richmond Whig.]
The Richest Man In Virginia.

Gentlemen Il have thought, for some time
would write for your paper something i'll re-
lation to the richest man in Virginia, and the
largest slave holder in the Union, and perhaps
in the world, unless the serfs Of Russia are
considered slaves; and the wish expressed in
your paper a few days ago, to know who it was
SO wealthy in Virginia, induces me to write this
now.
Samuel Hairston, of Pittsylvania, is the gen.
tleman. When was in his section, year or
two ago. he was the owner of betwocn 1000
and 100 slaves, in his own right, having but
little while before taken census. He also has
n prospective right to about 1000 slaves more
which nre now owned by his mother-in-law,
Mrs r. Hairston, he having married her only
child. He now has the management of them
which makes the number of his slaves reach
near three thousand. They increase at the rate
of near one hundred every year; and he has
to purchase large plantation every year to
settle them on. A large number of his planta-
ions are in Henry and Patrick counties, Vir-
ginia He has large estates in North Carolina
His landed property in Stokes alone, is assessed
at $500. 600: His wealtlris differently estimated
at from $3, ,OOO, 900 to $500O,000, and I should
think 1t was nearer the latter. You think he
hos hard lot, but assure you Mr.. Hairston
manages all his matters as easy as most persons
who are compelled to give him a written state
ment of whathas been made and spent on each
plantation, and his negroes are clothed and fed
from his own domestic manufacture; /; and rails
ing his own tobacco crop, which is immensely
large, as 30 much clear gain every year, besides
his increase in negroes, which is fortune OF
itself
And now for his residence. have travelled
| over fifteen States of this Uuion, and have new
er seen anything comparable to his garden, ex-
cept some of those in the Mississippi Delta, and
none of them equal to it. Mrs. Hairston has
been beautefying it for years; and o good old
minister, in preaching near the place, and de-
scribing Paradise, said, "it was as beautiful as
Mrs. Hsirston's" or as friend who had visited
WashiH9ton DIV fhr the first time, remarked,
that. afhe IsSl Slie gfopnds were nearly as hand
some as pafnual Heimton's" He is plain, un-
assuming fsnklsesA and has never made any
noise IN f3sR0ia though he could vie with the
Bruces, ~ 3SDSno1gHs and Astors; and it is
stranpes tkst, ,HkiIS thtf wealth is co-extensive
with fha Union, he isJnot known 100 miles from
/ n hYtss the Usica e5R Astor is only worth
/ about q 406Qi06 sud SAs, estates of the city peo
| BE afe Vi e Uysxss I'd while Mr. Hnirston can
Show the opnty tbst swill bring the cash .,
Mr. HaEstbn =, ts3i within d few mile,
Of where H6IaS & Henry county. He
1 Has several ~ y>nSre pretty we'll TO dc
In tho dwofl Q4S 81 Marshall Hdirstop,
Of Henry, 49, nj q 7G0 negroes: Rob
ert Haifstoh, ~ lives; in Mississippf
A near i, 600, - 3kst0n, who has a1st
q moved to Mi g IL 80 slaves Gsergs
IaAirSton, Of: III Ten most all Of htf
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10

man that drove the carriage After you wcr,
4 all gone, tied up the dogs that had been turn
cd out / then went and hid myself behinf
some clothes in your little dressing room, for
knew you always locked your door, when YOU
and Miss Fanny went to bed, for had tried t,
get In. l had been hid but short time whom
you all came back. Miss Fanny ran in the
dressing room where was, to get something,
was nightly scared, for thought she mus,
have seen me, but the poor child was 80 scared
about you, if she saw me, she did not know,
she was in mighty hurry, got what she came
Tor, and ran out again.
Alter oil was quiet, got ignal that tho
Father had come. crcpt to your bed side, and
oegan giving you the chloroform. When /
was giving it to you, Miss Fanny jumped and
said very quick, You shan'tl you slan'tn -
thought she was awake, and so put the chic.
roform to her nose, which quoted her very
soon. then found out she was talking in her
sleep. After giving you enough, as thought,
took you up, started down stairs with YOU.
had not got to the bottom, when saw Miss
Emma come out of her room and 90 into yours.
If she had looked down, she must have seen me
but she looked straight at your door, poor era
tur The dogs were barking nightly all the
while. The Father met me at the gate, took
you from me, and ran ms fast rs he could, and
he out ran me with you to carry.
"Now, have told you all-and bless the yir-
gin, and st. Peter, and all the Saints that
have lived to tell yc Oh if could but get alb
solution, would die in peace! oh that thief
OF O Priest to desert me so |" The Door creature
writhed, and appeared to be in the utmost ae
ony.
Miss Miller, after short pause, said: swell.
but Bridget how did the Priest find out where
I VAST"
Bridget replied, "He told me, that YOU had
left Charleston in disguise, that after he found
that out he went the way he thought you went;
that man somewhere told him, that lust such
person had gone to Georgia, that he went
there, and after he could get no information of
you, he came back, and then he found that q
lady had been staying at that mans house, and
he traced her to this place, butno ona had scen
nffh person she was. So he sent for me-"
Miss Miller said: "But Bridget, why does
That man hunt me down with snch untiring dill
gence-I never harmed lin"
!, Bridget replied, Z" 7 donk know, without it is
for the good of your soul; but honey, ye have
harmed him, for when you struck him with
your scissors, ye put out one of his eyes, but
no one would know it, for he he has n glass eye
which is quite natural"
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
Awful Calamity.

The Macon (Miss.) Beacon of the 10Th inst.
has the following:
"A gentleman of this town, just from Craw-
fordsyille, informs us of the most distressing
misfortune that has bcfallen the family of the
Rev. Peter Crawford. living at the Village of
Charlottesville, in Lowndes county. In the af-
ternoon on Monday last Miss Louisa Crawford
had occasion to go near fire in the yard
Her dress caught fire, when she was instanta-
neously enveioped in flames. Her eldest sister
(Ann) Immediately went to her assistance, when
her clothes also caught, and she was instantly
in blaze from her waist to her head. Lopisa
died about O'clock on Monday night and Ann
was 80 severely burned, there was no hopes OF
her living. Their father and mother had left
home tho morning Of the samo day for Mont
gomcry, Ala.
They were most accomplished young ladies'
and their awful and untimely death produces q
deep and heartfelt sympathy in the neighbor
hood"
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
Strange Superstition.

The Norwich (Conn.) Courier relates
strange and almost Incredible tale of supersti-
tion recently enacted OF Jewett City, in that
vicinity:
"About eight years ago. Horace Ray of Girls
wold, died of consumption. Since that time two
Of his children, grown up people, have died of
the disease, the last one dying some two years
since. Not long ago the same fatal disease
seized upon another son, whereupon it was de-
termined to exhume the bodies of the two broth-
ers already dead and burn them, because the
dead were supposed to feed upon the living:
and so long as the dead bodies in the graves re.
mained in a state of decomposition, either
wholly or in part the neutrality-suspicious. of the
family must continue to furnish the sustenance
for the dead. Acting under the influence of
this strange and blind superstition, the family
and friends of tho deceased proceeded to the
burial ground at Jewett City on the 9Th inst,
dug up the bodies of the deceased brothers. and
burned them on the spot. 1t seemed impossi-
BILE to believe that such dark ignorance and
folly could exist in the middle Of the 10th CEN
tu-y and in a State calling itself enlightened and
christian.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
Shocking Tragedy in VIreinia.

The Petersburg (Virginia) Express has a let
ter from Accomac Court House, giving hor-
rlole account of a murder of a man named Geo.
East, by his step son, who is yet minor. The
letter says:
"Overtaking East he stabbed him repcated-
ly behind, till he fell, when the assassin cot
upon him and literally cut him to pieces-rfp-
ping out the bowels from the breast down-cut-
ting him in the breast laying open his heart An
inch or two, and stabbing and gashing him
IN a number of places. And to cop the climax
after the blood-thirsty monster had left him,
fearing, as he says, that he was not dead, he
returned, propped up the body against the
renee s1a cut the thgEaet 5eR daaF e s ts
town and delivered himself up, saying that he
had been intending to do it for o long time"
lie alledged. in his defence, that his mother
had been i'll treated by the deceased, but it is
thought that they had fallen out about the
property Of Mrs. East The parties were herto-
fore respectable, and in good circumstances. 1t
is also stated that it will be difficult to prevent
the populace from lynclling the prisoner, SO
great is the excitement
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
FOR THE INDEPENDENT pRrss.1
To my Lady-Love.

FOR THE INDEPENDENT PRrss1
To my Lady-Love.
Mong all the bells on heather blown,
Or blooms that DER the woodland wave,
Or birds with golden plumage borne,
Or fish that in the streamlets lave;
There is not one so blithc, so fair,
That filings its glories to the day,
That wheels its fight in ambient air,
Or in the ripping brooklets play.
From brighter CLEANS in Ether's glow,
OF lights whose lustre dots the sky,
No flash can oil their radiance show,
But "skulks" the splendors of her eye.
No note from out the spheres e'er flows
Can touch the rapturcs of her song
Nor in its softest gush disclose
The thrills that to her strains belong.
CLIFFORD
h'sckcrsuilc, Ga, May 81, 1854.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10

A BABY sHow,-A correspondent of the Bur
lipgton Free Pr9s. gives an amusing account on q
The prizes were 500 each to the three largest,
fattest, and handsomest babies in the town Of
March. There were but two babies presented,
one sixteen and the other seventeen months old,
each of whom received prize. After some APP
propriate speeches by the judges, one Of the
lucky mothers made the announcement that
she should have another baby TO showat the
same time and place next year, there was
premium to be given which esttsed rounds o.
applause" go 81
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-06-10
"a most Horrible Murdsr. !.

Ia HOht 14OxIAp40 01uxS93piS ~
Mrs. McBrayer, wife Of jas. McBfayers esq,
of Anderson county, Ky, was murdefed q few
nights ago, according to the Frankfort Yeoman,
under the following circumstances: =
After Mr.. and Mrs McBrayer lrad d.-ret;red to
rest, q man entered their room with an ate, and:
approaching the bed, passed his haHd Over her
face, in order to be sure of the right one which
awoke her. Being satisfed that it was her, he
commenced cutting within axe, first strik8
her breast and arms in many places; he afsm
with several strokes severed one of her iegaS
tirely of. Mn MsBrayer; being awakened by
the noise reached OF bis hand to protect his
wife, and received b: blow cutting his hand fhl
two. The nSarnnt .Asnd thinking be HI
Filled her, colimenesd Striking about AT rafiS
dom over thsbsI with the hellsh Intention ri
kill their young child who was in bod AyisH
them, but. not Hhding it he wet l6dGEs
in nithe, room whore slept thpi other ssad
aimed: q blow at Is head 9tllv Aut 8ha hacE
o,f lis neck He tAenSs lSAslag sshs
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