Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-03-06
THE NEWS.


at St. Louis, and numbering Ephraim Doane
one of its inmates. DR.. Strader, the land
lord, and Chas. Waldrass, watchman of tn,
Hotel, were also arrested. An examination
was to have been held to- day, Saturday,
when, it is supposed, will be developed one
Of the most atrocious and diaboical acts evcl
committed.
Another Illinois Douglasite has been
decapitated. A dispatch from Washington
of the 2eth says Gen. Tram Nye is appointed
U. S. Marshal for the Northern District OF
Illinois, in place of J.W. Davidson, removed.
| CoNGREss.-The resolution for the expul-
sion of Mr.. Matteson, of N. Y, which oc.
cuped the attention of the House on the
25th, was referred to select committee by
a vote of SO against 81. Matteson's friends
say this reference is satisfactory, because it
gives him an opportunity for trial.
The Senate was not in session yesterday,
(26th.)
In the House. the further consideration Of
Mr.. Hoard's resolution for the appointment
of select Committee of Inquiry as to
whether Executive influence had been ex-
erted for the control of the votes of mem
bers of 'he House, was postponed till Thurs
day. The House went into Com. of the
Whole on TIE Indian appropriation bill.
A letter from Joppa, published in the
N. Y. Tribune Of the Goth, gives an account
of an atrocious deed Five men broke into
the house of Rev. Mr.. Dixon, an American
missionary, killed his son-in, law, Frederick
G. Steinback, violated Steinback's wife, beat
Mrs. Dixon in horrible manner, and at
tempted to murder Mr.. Dixon. The Amer-
ican consul at Jerusalem has taken the mat
ter ia hand.
"A dispatch from Washington of the 25th
says the House Committee on elections has
come to no conclusion respecting the Ohio
case. The defeat of the Army bill in the
Senate is not considered conclusive against
an increase of the army, As it is thought the
bill pending in the House, will, with slight
amendments, be accepted by a majority Of
the Senate.
The building known as the City Mar
ket, at the corner of Broadway and Blocker
streets, N. Y, was partially destroyed by
fire at an early hour Saturday morning.
Three men periShed in the flames Their
names are Hugh O'Brien, John Riley and
Michael Madden.
The examination of Charles Taylor,
charged with murder and arson, in the Pa
citfc Hotel tragedy, at St. Loais, was COM
menced on the Goth. Nothing was elected
to substantiate the charge against him. The
investigation was continued Saturday.
The Moses Taylor, from ASpinwall, with
the California mails of the 5th, and 81, 600
900 in specie, arrived at New York on the
9th. News unimportant.
AT meeting of Democrats in Hartford,
Ct, on the Goth, to appoint delegates to the
State Convention, the Douglasites were de-
feated. The Democrats of Hartford sustain
the Administration.
Horace Greeley was examined before the
tariff investigating committee, at Washing
ton, on the Goth. The purport of his testi-
mony is understood to be, that no man ever
proposed to put any money into his hands to
influence in any way the action of Congress
on the tariff or any other question, and no
one suggested anything of the sort with his
consent or knowledge. He never knew until
the late expose in Boston, nor never heard or
believed, that money was paid Or proposed
by Lawrence, Stone & Co., or any one else,
whether to members or Others, to Influence
the last Congress on the tariff.
The steamer Henry A. Jones, bound
from Cincinnati t" Parkersburg, when near
Augusta Kentucky, Saturday night, took fire
in the pantry and.burned to the waters edge.
The boat was entirely consumed. No lives
lost. One or two persons were badly in
jured. The boat was valued at $l5,00O-
insured in Cincinnati for $4,000.
The Washington correspondents of the
n. Y. Tribune Of lst says: Gen. Shields,
U. S. Senator elect from Minnesota, has ex-
plicitly contradicted the statement that he
has agreed to support Lecompton. lie has
written letter to Col. Richard G. Murfy,
of Minnesota, denouncing the Lecompton
fraud unqualiiedy, and declaring that no
honest man can support it.
The German and French societies of
New York held meeting and fully endorsed
the sentiments of til. recent Leonard street
meeting. Cheers were given for Or<ini and
Pietri, and approval was expressed of their
attempted assassination of Napoleon.
CoNGREss.-March 1st, forenoon session
In the Senate, several memorials from the
Legislature of Iowa, asking for lands for
railroads, were received Mr.. Green called
up the bill for the admission of Kansas.
Gwin and Broder ck objected, as the Pacific
railroad bill had priority in order of busi-
ness.
In the House, Messrs. Seward, Harris, of
Illinois, Grow, Curtis and Bishop were ap-
pointed the specia! committee to consider the
resolution for the expulsion of Mr.. Mattessn.
Mr. Harris was excused from serving at his
own request. Mr.. Sherman, Of Ohio, offered
a resolution, which was adopted, calling for
information as to whether money had been
paid from the Treasury for the year ending
June 3oth, 1857, for the expenses of the Leg
islature or alleged Legislature of Kansas,
and under what act and from what fund
ANOTHER PkorEsT.--A portion Of the
Dem ocratic members of the House of Rep
resentatives of Iowa did not concur with the
views of their brethren who protested against
the Kansas resolutions passed bY the Lesis
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