Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-16
The Union.
The Ameri-
can People.
News Paragraphs.

There were 2, 178 deaths in Chicago las
year. The year previous there were 1850
One of the prisoners at Sing Sing died a
few days since while undergoing a shower
bath punishment.
1t is estimated that since the first of Au.
gust last. nine thousand persons and firm:
have failed in this country.
Mr.. and Mrs Sylvanus How died recent.
ly at Frankfort, Maine, aged respectively 81
and 90. They had been married IS years.
MOVEMENT TO DIR. KANe.-The Free Ma,
sons of New York propose to erect mon.
ment in honor of DR.. Kane-a snow sneak
of immense height-n the park of the Coop.
er Institute, to be of white marble, of irreg-
ular shape, with four tablyts in the base, an.
propriately inscribed. srz s..
The Siamesc Ambassadors at London are
queer chap. On a recent evening they at
tempted to introduce two women Of nStori-
oisiiy;, oisiy;, bad character to the Qu-sa's Levee in
Windsor Castle. The next night they were
seen at the Lyceum Theatre, accompanied
by a number of the stalest Cyprians in the
Strand, and their conduct in the box was SO
shameless that the audience hissed them.
The Mormons have got bank in Utal
called the Drover's Bank of Salt Lake City
The bills are embellished with healthy
looking taurus, supposed to pcrsonify Brig
ham. Banking is not new business with
them. While yet in Ohio they established
the Bank of Kirkland, and its notes circula.
ted to limited extent.
The 'James Buchanan" is the name of g
slave schooner that has just landed cargo
of slaves on the coast of Cuba. The name
was a delicate compliment. The slaves
should be sent to Kansas. -.-.sr- -s. $500
Rev. Henry Ward Deecler's church in
Brooklyn, Plymcutil Congregational,) was
organized ten and a halt years ago, will
So members. 1t has risen steadily, year by
year, to two, three, four, five, six and sew,
en- hund.ed, and now numbers 875 members
1.130 have been admitted in all. The
house Of worship is more crowded than ev.
er, new iron seats have been provided, ,bu,
hundreds still go away from every service
who find it impossible to get in. s v1..g
Since the war commenced in India, some
fifteen missionaries have been killed, (foul
American Presbyterians,) but none on the
ground Of their being Christian teachers
only as foreigners. Nearly $4,000 wortl
of missionary property has been destroyed
$3.50, 600 Of it belonging to the American
Presbyterian Mission. The population q
Hindoostan is 2Oo,0oO,00O. ~. - 49,. -.
General Taylor's son, Richard Taylor, has
been elected to the Senate Of Louisiana.
The death OF the painter, Agricola,
Rome, aged 69, is announced. lie was
custodian of the Vatican collection.
Lucy Stone refuses to pay her taxes a
Orange, N. Y, on the old revolution ar,
principle Of ''no taxation without represen.
tation," and the collector is about to- lev,
on her goods. ss-# si n a;a -f 2sa
The Tribune says the taxation for tn
city of New York this year. will equal on.
hundred dollars for every voter in the city.
The True Soutlron states, on reliabl
authority, that Mr.. Douglas has sold his cs
tate on Pearl River, in Mississippi.
Official intelligence, which has been re
ceived at Washington, denies that the Utal
Indians have exhibited any symptoms of dis
affection, or that The Indians upon the Dor
ders of California have actively sylnpatlize'
with the Mor:nOns. q Sa.bta i. s9sEl