Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-09-05
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lantic telegraph cable is thus stated in dis
patch from Plymouth to the London Tim,
OF the 10th: The U. S. steamships Niagar
and Susquehana, and Her Majesty's sore,
steamship Agamemnon entered the SCUM
this p. NJ, Oh their return from their un
successful attempt to lay the Telegraph ca
BILE. On board the Niagara they report tha
at the time of the severance the wind wa
southerly. There was some sea and the YES
sci was going from three to four knots, tn
cable paying out from five to six and some
times seven knots as the quantity of slacl
thus expended was greater than expected a
at starting, and more than could be afforded
the strain was therefore increased to thre,
thousand pounds and the cable broke. Tht
extra expenditure of slack commenced OF
Monday evening, when a strong breeze ant
I heavy swell prevailed, and powerful cur.
rent was experienced. This current forcei
the cable from the ship at considerable
angle, when the break was applied with in.
creased power. The stern of the Niagara
was down in the trough of sea and the ex.
ira strain created by her rising was the i'm.
mediate cause Of the cables parting. The
general opinion is that the season is too fal
advanced for another effort now. The Nj.
agar" is considered too heavy for the purpose.
1t is stated that the wheels ceased to revoye
when the pressure was applied, on Tuesday
morning.
1t seems that the government troops are
to be retained in Kansas to overawe the
free State voters until after the October elec.
tion. A Washington dispatch of the 2stb
says Gov. Walker uses the Army as a posse
con'itatus, when the civil authorities cannot
make arrests for breaches of the peace. I he
laoo troops in the Territory will remain
there until after the election.
The National Emancipation Conven-
tion at Cleveland adjourned on the 2Sth.-
Prof. X. Silliman was elected President of
the National Compensation Emancipation
Society, Elihu Burritt Corresponding Sec
retary, and Robt. Lindley Murray, Treasur-
er.
The Tiverton Bank of Rhode Island has
been enjoined by the Bank Commissioners
Its circulation is principally in the West.
On Monday the 18th inst, the trial of
OF Gov. Charles Robinson for usurpaton of
oihce, commenced at l.ecompton, K. r., be-
fore Judge Cato. The trial continued three
days and the jury after a cession twelve
hosrs long acquitted the defendant. The
acqulttal was made in the very face of Judge
Iato's charge, he having instructed the jury
that ii 1t was proven that Cow Robinson at
any time assumed the functions of Cover
nor OF Kansas, he should be found guilty.
it was admitted during tie whole course of
the trial that he had assumed those functions.
notwithstanding this he was cleared. Th.
jury stood, at first, ten for conviction and
two for acquittal.
The telegraph reports the failure of
Messrs. Benedict & Co., and Fisher & Co.,
Stockholders of New York-the latter. we
presume, mistake for Fisher, Denny & Co.
Liabilities notstated. The failure of Messrs.
Atwood Il Co., and Jacob Little, of the same
city, is also reported
The National Emancipation Convention
assembled at Cleveland on the 25th. Dele
gates were present from nearly all the free
States, and also from Missouri and Kansas.
Rev. Mark Hopkinson, of Mass, presided.
Plans of emancipation and compensation
were introduced by the business committee.
The two leading ideas are appropriation OF
the public lands and custom revenues be-
yond the necessary expenses Of government,
tor the purpose of compensation. Other
ideas were introduced, and will he debated
by the body.
The Atlantic telegraph is, it seems, a
failure. Bv the arrival of the steamship
America at Halifax on the 26th, with Liver
pool dates to the 18th, we have information
from the expedition that on the morning
of the llth instant when $50 miles west from
the Irish coast the cable broke. The YES
sells were returning to England with the re-
mainder Of the cable, still over 1000 miles
in length, and perhaps sufficient to unite the
two continents. The Directors were san
guine of ultimate success. A conference was
to be held at London on the 10Th inst, for
the purpose of determining whether to go
on again Immediately with the balance of
the cable, or wait until another Summer.
In addition to the list of banks recently
failed, as published in our last, we have the
following: Providence, R. l.; Wexford, R.
l.; Rhode Island Central Bank; Warren Co.
Bank, Pa; Hancock Bank, Me-; Kanawha
Bank, Va; Wooster Bank, Conn.,; Warwick
County Bank, Conn.
IOWA NEWS.
BURLINGTON AND Missouri RIVER RAIL
ROAD. This road is now running to Rome,
on the west side of the Skunk River. The
distance from Burlington is sc miles.