Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-09
THE NEWS.

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AT Cattaraugus, N. Y, on the 5th, Den.
mis- Sullivan was sentenced to be hung on the
2Oh of August, for the murder Of John
Harmon, at Carlton. They we're both Irish
laborers on the Bradford Coal Railroad.
In Baltimore, on the 5th, a party Of
where Sunday School Celebration was be-
ing held, and shot down boy Is years old,
son of Col. John I. Fanlard. The perpe-
traitors escaped.
Dispatches from Leavenworth, dated
the 1st, by the u S. Express Company to
Bonneville, say that John E., better known
as Jack Henderson, was arrested on that day,
on q bench warrant issued by Judge Good
rich, charged with participation in the cleo
ton fraud at Oxford. He was subsequently
liberated on parole Of honor, to appear be-
fore the Court to answer the charge.
a "A dispatch from Richmond, Va, Of
the 5th, says the remains of President Mon
roe arrived at that place at half past eight
O'Clock of that morning, and were received
by an immense throng on the wharves, in
Guiding the military of Richmond. The re-
mains were taken from the jamestown by
the pall-bearers and placed in an open
hearse, drawn by six white horses, and the
band playing dirge in the meantime. The
procession moved at half past eleven. The
flags of the public buildings were draped in
mourning, minute guns were fired and bells
tOlled, during the entire march. A shower
of rain, had laid the dust and rendered the
heat less oppressive than it otherwise would
have been, ard the streets were thronged
with people. The procession arrived at Holy :
wood Cemetery at l O'Clock.
"A dispatch from Washington of the 7th
says various libraries and institutions of
learning throughout the Union will shortly
be supplied by the Interior Department with
complete sets Of the documents Of the S4th
Congress. The repositories were resigned
by members of Congress in accordance to a
law of the last Congress. John h. Clanst
has been appointed Commissioner; John
Weiss, Survey or, and Hugh Campbell, AS
trono,ner, on the part of the United States,
to run the Texas boundary. They will com
mence operations about the first Of Septem-
ber, at the point where the S2d parallel
crosses the Rio GraDde. Jonathan Banta-
lerne has been appointed Assistant Surgeon
and William H. Dana, Lieut.. in the Navy, in
place of Edward Stockton, dismissed. The
receipts into the Treasury from the 2lst to
the last Of June were $l,08l, 1869; amount
of Deposits, $8,l10,000; drafts drawn but
not paid, $2269, 600; amount subject to draft
mailed, $6,505,000. The Secretary of the
Interior will leave Washington for Mssis
sippi on Friday. Gen. Ward B. Burnett, Of
N. Y, has been rendered the appointment oil
n ~ and NohrooEo
vice General Calhoun, whose term expired
on the Sd of July. Jas. Guthrie, Jr., has
been appointed receiver of public money at
Oregon city Pasquall B. Quellitte at San
Francisco; VIM. A. Street for the district
of New Mexico and Win. Dawson, of La,
register for New Mexico. la.siEy
Three ships arrived at Quarantine in
New York, ON the 9th, from Cuban ports,
each having lost its captain and part of its
crew by yellow fever; the rest of the crews
were down with that disease. The ship
Grotto, of Richmond, Me, arrived on the
5th, from Sagua in charge of the mate, Capt.
Dimly having died at sea. The British ship
Susanna bound from Mantanzas for Gree
with the fever. The Captain died at sea, as
also ufu Two OF CITco VI Tue Cio"' AHe
ship Greenland from Havana arrived on the
5th, in charge of Capt. Varnuln, Capt. Bates,
Whose wife and son died in Havana, having
left her in that port. Capt. Varnum anu
part of his crew are down with thefever.
The steamship City Of Washington ar
rived off Cape Race on the 3D. Her advices
from Liverpool are to the 23d ult., four days
later than furnished by the Ariel. The news
does nov possess any unusual interest. 1t is
rumored that Mr.. Dallas was satisfied with
the arrangements of Englsnd on the Cruiser
question. A large fire occurred at London;
tie loss is several hundred thousand pounds
sterling. Great preparations. were being
made to open the Ocean Telegraph Line
The Queen will inaugurate the event by
sending peace message to President Blu
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