Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

SINKING OF TIE HUNTSVILLE gave . hr;ef
notice last week of the sinking of the steamer
Huntsville, in the Cumberland river She struck n
snag near Palmyra, late Mt night, and sunk almost
instantly At least ten lives were lost by the acct
dent. Eight of these were deck hands. The assist
ant engineer,l Emmett Wallace, and the porter 5
boy Henry jackson, are known to be lost. There
were number of remarkable escapes. The boat is
total loss. Valued at SO 200 and owned by Can't.
A. l.. Davis, of Nashville,
QuIckEsT TRIp.-The steamer Tishomingo, Can't
Reach, made the run from Montrose to Rock Island
yesterday, Gncluding all the ordinary landings ex
eePt two,) in II hours and IA minutes This is inst
40 minutes shorter time than that made by the Ben
Campbell last week. The Tishomingo's time from
Montrose to Muscatine was hours and II minutes
-or little more than II miles per hour. Pretty
fast time against stiff current Daily, 25th,
ACCIDENT AT THE BRlDas.-We learn from the
n. l. Argus that the conewago, Hickman, master,
IN coming through the draw on last Sunday, was
brought in contact with the stone pier on her star
board side, and with the force of the current was
forced against the draw pier, which damaged her
larboard side cons deraby, and with some Difficult g,
she proceeded on her way.
HIaH WArER.-The river was higher ut St. Loui,
last Monday than it has been for five years. From
Friday to Monday evening it rose eight feet. The
cellars of the business houses the levee arc inun.
dated, and great damage has been done to merchsn-
disc. The rist seems to from the Missouri or
its tributaries, the Little Platte, Osage &c., which
are booming high. The St. Louis /" Democrat" saws:
"The rise that has taken place here, without .any
further accession is enough to, and will strike ter
ror to the hearts of the inhabitants If the south
ern country, bordering upon the Mississippi. The
plantations that were lately threatened, and escap
ed inundation, have very little hope to escape much
longer"
The FACT There are q few men or brutes on
the river [remarks the Davenport Gazett.1 to whom
the following should be read every morning and
night and rung in their ears with steam whistle.
1t is from the St. Louis Democrat, and every word
of it is true:
"fhe violence daily committed upon Iaborers a,
the levee is as needless as it is unmanly. Those
acquainted with the subject say, that the best obey
ed officers deal least in curses and blows. In the
m erchant sea service the practice of cudgelling,
once most common, is now deemed unnecessary and
disgraceful 1t is considered the vile resort of nm
officer incapable of managing men. If needless at
sea, the practice is quite unjustiiable on shore,
where the law has the right, and alone has it, to
inlet violence. The officers on our steamers owe
1t to their reputation courageous and honor BILE
men, to discountenance the rufianism too commonly
perpetrated by unworthy individuals of their mum
ber 1t is we'll known with what men the officer
has often to deal, but courage is eelf-controlling
and firm, while osly weakness akin to cowardice
is rascble and vindictive. Force Of character can
usually dispense with force of bludgeons
The river, at this point, after rising for several
days, is again about at stand.
The OHIo-To the mouth of Wabash. the Ohio
was falling last Tuesday, but below this point it
was rising and running over the banks.