St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

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General Summary.
Sheriff McHenry, Of Chicago, has
been tried, convicted and fined for
opening a prisoners letter and reading
The marble statue of Daniel Web
ster has been lost at sea, on its way
from Leghorn to Boston.
A subscription has been opened at
New Orleans for the presentation OF a
sword to Commodore Paulding, by cit
liens who are not fillibustcrly inclined.
Senator 1verson says that Georgia |
is prepared for the dissolution of the
Union, and will make the admission
of Kansas under the Lecomption con
stitution a test. Other States will
join Georgia in the stampede.
The steamer Col. CrOssman burst the
" niger" or small boiler, about a mile
above New Madrid, on the Missouri
side, on the 4th inst, when over thirty
lives were lost. She had 800 tons of
freight, which was all lost.
Death has lately claimed some dis
ting"ished victims. Gen. Havelock,
the hero of India, died at Lucknow,
from excessive anxiety and exposure.
Madam Rachel, the world-rcnowncd
actress, and the famous Austrian Mar
shall Radctsky are also dead.
1t is stated in late dispatches from
Utah that the warriors Of the Canaan
ches and Cheyenncs are gathering to
the assistance Of the Mormons. These
two tribes number about 5000 fight
ing men, and are the most savage and
ferocious of the barbarous hordes that
roam over the western plains.
Gov. Wise's letter has caused great
huttering among the Southern men,
bers of Congress. There are hints of
a deep combination between Wise and
Douglas to break down the admins
tration.
In almost every county in Califor-
MIA steps have been taken to raise vol
untecr companies to fight the Nor
mons. in the event of rcquisition be-
ing made upon that State for troops.
| Col. jenkins, one of the most ultra
and prominent pro-slavcry men in the
Kansas constitutional convention, and
a regular correspondent of the Charles,
ton S. c. Mercury, lately died at lie,
compton of dcluium Eemens.
The Alton Courier gives an account
of the alarming yield of children in
Jersey county. One lady bore twins,
when three of her neighbors event
and did likewise" and a fourth event
one better" and blessed her husband
with triplets. What bunch of ba
bies
DR.. Lord, of Dartmouth College, re
Gently preached in Dracut, Mass, neal
Lowell, and stated that when he prca
chcd in that church forty-five years
ago, he well recollected passing thro
the forest upon the opposite side of the
Merrimac river, moao the city Of Loaeelt
on his way to church.
The number Of mills in Lowell, Mass
is fifty-two, and their capital stock il
Sl3, 5000, 900. The number of femal,
operatives there, ordinarily, is abou
eight thousand, and their wages pc
week, clear Of board, averages tive
dollars. From a blucbcrry swamp i
has become a city of forty Thousand
inhabitants. The first factories start
cd there in 1923.
Quite family wedding took place
at Plattevillc, Wis, on the LIST inst
two brothers and two sisters having
the knot tied all ata sitting The Ex
aminer thus records the event: At tn,
residence of Mr.. VIM. Shepherd, OF
the LIST inst, Mr.. Allen Shepherd t,
Miss Susan Lory; Mr.. Thomas
Shepherd to Miss Rcbecca Watson
Mr.. j. I. Thompson to Miss Agnei
Shepherd and Mr.. William p. Dag
gctt to Miss Elizebcth Shepherd. Thu
ceremonies were performed by james
Anderson"
The geese and pigeons that passe'
Northward "a week or two since il
anticipation of immediate Spring an,
green "yarbs" about Lake Superior
have held council with the muskrat
and decided to decline hereafter all al
tempts at foreshadowing the weather
1t is rumored, that in consequence
, of the defeat, in the Senate, of TIN
Army bill, which proposed to add fiv,
, new regiments to the regular forces
the present standing army will all b
needed to force the Lecompton frau'
down the threats of the people of X al
| sas, if it is admitted as a State.
At recent meeting of the stock
: holders Of the Bay State mills, a
Boston, they resolved to dissolve tin
: corporation and wind up it's affairs
The report of the Investigating Com
mittee, shows that at the time of thei
failure, Messrs. Lawrence, Stone Il Co
owed the company 1927 900, of which
, with the exception of $4,000, n
trace can be discovered. With re
gard to the amount said to have bee
expended in procuring the passage O
the tariff act of 1856, the report say
it was expended without the know
: edge or consent of the company.
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: Queen Victoria invited Sarah Bonet
ia, an African princess, boarding a
Chatham, to the wedding Of the prin
cess and sent her dresses suitable fo