Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-03
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meetings now held daily in New York an
Brooklyn.
The Washington Star announces thu
Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribun
is among .he late converts by the religio,
revivals.
In Newark, N. j., the union prayer meet
ings are attended to overlooking. Some {
the stores in the chief business streets ar
closed, with notice on the door, "Wiil re
open at the close Of the prayer meeting"
The Delaware Indians in Kansas are veal
| Thy. The General Government owes theI
upwards of million of dollars, and whe
their lands are divided there will DE abou
three hundred acres for every man, woman
and child in the tribe. IL is estimated b.
many that the average worth of these land
will he $40 per acre.
Senator Hammond, who in his recen
| speech s'lgnalzed the laboring classes q
| 4 e North Us s'the mud-sills of society,"" ant
as "A hite slaves," is the son of n man who
IN his younger days, was a worthy and in
dustrious butcher, and afterwards a worke
Il saw mill. degenerate sou of nob
ire'
A remarkable story is told of little girl
| whose parents reside in Orange township
Hancock county, Ohio, having been recent,
visited b, an angel, who talked with her q Il
told her when and where she would die an,
how, and designated the person who w"ul,
preach her tuneral sermon, and the plac,
where it should be delivered All of W ich
it is averred, has actually taken place as til,
messenger declared.
Mahomned Pasha, an Admiral Of the Turk
ish Navy, is on avi>it to this country for til,
purpose of contracting for the building OF ,
mat-ot WI, and also to establish terms O.
greater intimacy between the Mahomnedar
gov rnnent a "ur own. This Turk had 9
thousand dollar IT eat' in New York City
at the expense OF the Corporate n. The pub
lie feast was Il cold collation. of ham anG
sandwiches and wine-two things totally
forbidden by the religion of the guest. No.
body but New York Alderman, would think
of setting pork before Turk. When the
Turk went to Washington his baggage was
ritied of many valuable contepts by some
thieves. He will not have avery exalted
opinion of the American people.
The court martial acquitted Col. Sumner
after fifteen minutes dellberation. The Sec
retary of War dissents from the finding OF
the court, he holding that Summers note to
Harvey was a challengc. The Col. is under
orders for Utah, and will leave Ft. Leaven-
worth with his regiment on May 10Th.
Three thousand persons attend the daily
prayer meetings in Philadelphia. They are
held in Jayne's Hall.
1t is said that the Turkish Ambassador
who has been made such lion of at WASH
ilgton, is harem scarem looking fellow.
A man named Helker has been arrested
at Louisville, Ky, for stealing a sow and
nine pigs. This is going he whole hog
ard pigs too.
Christopher Carson has been appointed,
by the PIesi dent, agent for the Indians in
New Mexico. Ttis is the famous guide KIT
Carson.
Ex-Mayor Wood will shortly bring a
mammoth libel suit against the N Y. Tii
bune. 1t will contain seven hundred and
fifty distinct lbels-principalIy charges of
swindling, tIeving, forging, etc.
The religious movement in Cincinnati is
becoming more general. Eight daily prayer
meetings are now held, all largely attended.
The feeling is general throughout the entire
community.
They have queer names to the streets in
New Orleans. The Pcayuue has an account
of fire con Elysian Fields street, between
Love and GooG Children street-.'
The Attica Oa.) Ledger says all the fruit
buds in that region are in good condition,
except the peach, which seems to be de-
stroyed.
William Williams, now III the Jail at Har-
risburg, Pa, under sentence of death for
the murder of Hendricks, has voluntarily
nade full confession Of his guilt. Hend.
rickS and he were friends-both young men;
While taking walk together on the noun
tianS, Williams says he was Immediately
seized by an impulse to murder and rob his
c,inradr. lie knocked him downs stamped
him t" death, and then robbed him of his
watch and money. He will be hanged on
the 2ist of May.
George Lamb, keeper of one of the prin.
cipal hotels in Mendoza, His, was arrested
in that town on Saturday, the goth inst fo,
The supposed murder of his wife in Decem.
Der. 1t appears that he started tor the South
at that time in company with her, and TWEEN.
ty days after, returned to the house of her
father, in Hancock county, stating that she
had suddenly died in Memphis, Tenn. With
in eight days after his return, he married I
girI living at his hotel IN the capacity of ;
chambe, -tnaid. T is gave rise to suspicious
an ir IN certain facts that have come :,
light, il is lew believed that his wife came
to her untimely end in st. Louis throug!
his instrumentailty, and on these grounds
he was arrested.
The death OF Rev. John NJ. Peck, one o
the Oldest and most widely know clergymeI
in the Mississippi Valley, is announced. ll'
died at his residence in Rock Spring, ILL.,, OF
| the 10Th inst. ...
SPIRITuALIsM GolNG TO SEED.--The mos
extreme case of Spiritualism thatwe have ye
heard of is that of resident of Hume, AL
legheny county, N. Y, by the name of Vic
tor Mix. who, under the directions of tn,
spirits, has sat four weeks on couple dozeI
of eggs, for the purpose of Matching them
A correspondent of New Orleans paper
in a description of the marriage of two slave
on neighboring plantation, remarks tina
the minister, instead of the words s'unti
death do part ye," used the words, unles
ye are unovoidably separately
SOUTHERN VIEWS OF THE NEXT PRESIDENCY
The Charleston Mercury and the Richmon
South some time ago expressed the opinio
that the Republican candidate for the Presi
dency in 1860 would be elected. The Lynch
burgh Virginian of a late date says
| The New York Herald, speeulating upo
the future position of Senator Douglas
thinks he will revenge himself upon the De
mocracy, as Van Buren, did in lS48, by de
feating the Democratic candidate for tn
Presidency at the next election. We thin
it likely the Free Soil candidate for tn
Presidency in 1860 will have but little diff
Guilty in being elected even without the as
sistance Of Mr.. Douglas.
How YEH WAS TAKEN.--The followin
account of the capture of the Viceroy of tn
Son of Heaven, Governor Yeh, at Canton,
rather amusing:
He was climbing over a high wall q
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