Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1854-04-29

Rhode Island Senate, and ten in the
House
The Cochtuate Bank. Of Boston,
which suspended payment on last Fiji
day week, is confidently expected to re.
sumo business shortly.
Ex-senator John Davis, of Massa.
chusetts, died at Worchester, in that
State, on Wednesday last, after a brief
illness.
A conspiracy to mob the night watch
was detected recently at Galena, and
frustrated. @
The Legislature Of Pennsylvania has
finally passed the bill for the sale Of the
main line of the public works. for ten
millions OF dollars. I, now only awaits
the signature of the Governor to be come
law.
Hx-Gov. Nehemiah R. knight. Of
Rhode Island, is dead.
On Friday last, John Collins, who
murdered his wife las. September. was
executed by hanging at Geneva, Kane
Co., Ill.
A German apothecary committed
suicide in New York. on The 29lh OF
March. and the body was only discove red
last Monday night week, in some bushes
in Seventy eighth street.
Advices from Honduras up to the 2sth
ult., have been received. The cholera
was raging badly.
Five thousand four hundred and mines
ty-one emigrants arrived at New York
on the 20tb.
The Pennsylvania legislature have e.
law question to the people.
Selovef, the bogus ticket vender, has
been convicted on the indictment for
deffauding emigran.s, a: New York.
Two thousand dollars Worth Of Can.
ton Grape shawls were stolen from All
Broadway N. Y on Friday night.
A bill has been introduced In The
House Of Representa- tives providing for
the establishment os State Government
in Oregon.
settled by Germans almost exclusively !.
none Of whom will purchase or employ
slaves.
Mrs. Douglas. who was imprisoned al
Norfolk for reaching colored children,
has been discharged after serving on,
her term.
The N. Y. Tribune has Just been
mulc,ed to the tune Of two hundred and
fifty dollars. for publishing a teleg graz PHI c
dispatch in regard to Captain Thrash
er, which the Court held to - libelous.
Heary N. Dean, Gaguerfeotypist
by profession and aged FL, died in New
York from the effects Of chloroform,
which he was in the habit Of inhaling
for the pleasant sensations it produced
The European War is said to be un-
popular among the merchants OF Rus
STA, and this being known to the gov
eminent decree has been issued for
bidding tbs assemblage Of persons TO
discuss the war question.
1t is understood that the Powha,tan
left Havre with 3l2 passengers. She
had no cargo. One hundred and thirty
bodies have been washed ashore up to
noon on the Goth. The greater majority
Of the bodies were those Of women and
children.
The sudden disappearance of two col.
ored children from Newport, r L., is
causing a good deal Of excitement in
that city. The suspicion prevails tina,
they have been kidna pped, and The May
or offers a conditional reward of SlOU
| FOR their return.
The iarges! pane ofglass thatyet made
its appearance in New York has taken
its place in one OF the windows of ay
lor's celebrated Restaurant establish
ment, on Broadway. Its dimensions
are fifteen feet in height, six feet its
breadth. three quarters of an inch in
thickness thousand dollars It's cost.
Tbs Crystal Palace at New York
was closed on the / 5th inst, and will
70 open on the 4lh day of May prox j,
under more favorable auspices. The
debt Of 800, 900, which was hanging
over and threatening it with discomfit
ture and destruction, has been liquidased
the injunction has been dissolved and
its progress will hereafter be without
embarrassment.
The Davenport Gnzette says not house
can be rented in that city just now for any
price.
1t is said that the President will veto the
Bill granting public lands to the several
States for the support of the INDECENT insane.
Prof. John Wilson, of Ednburg, 50 we'll
known throughous the world az the Christie
pher North Of Blackwood, died on the Sd
instant, at the age of sixty.six.
The Supreme Court of Illinois have deci-
ded in favor of the validity of the charter
for the Brough Railroad, as amended BY the
fllineis Legislature last winter.
On the 3lst ult., Sir John Franklin and
his EXPEDITION were struck off the books of
the British navy, and are given up for dead
There is only one paper in Egypt-a small monthly
sheet in Arabic language at four dollars year. It is
mainly devoted to !" the powers that be- and every
one in the employ Of the Pacha is obliged subscribe
to it.
The paper on which the Philadelphia Ledger is now
priated, is made principally of straw, manufactured
b, Feiuour & Nixeu, Of Manyunk, on siillers' new
process.
The steam engine at Cincinnati cost 3d. 00 weighs
900 lbs aud is equal to six first class hand engines
It requires Is men to work it and consumes two BUSH
els of coal per hour. The annual expense attending
its is s. o00 while in Boston and other cities from
900 to $1,000 required to supply hand engine.
The General Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal