Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-15
THE NEWS.

day, was the scene of an interesting
conversation with the President, Mr.,
Cocoran, the Attorney General, Secre-
tary of State, and others, on the sub
iect. II is rumored that Mr.. Corco-
rams influence was sufficient to induce
the government to notice the affair,
but it is doing the President injustice
to suppose he would take up individu-
ally the difficulties Of any individual
citizen, however respectable OF wealthy
while the laws are sufficient for the
purpose. The matter has been brought
TO the notice of Mr.. Goddard, Justice
of the Peace, and probably
Senior Muruga will be brought before
him under 6 warrant issued upon the
oath Of Mr.. Corcoran, and held to
keep the peace. 1t is the simple and
proper process in this and in all such
cases Of every lay occurrence.
The British wal steamer Styx, from
Havana on the LIST inst, arrived at
Halifax on Friday. She reports the
yellow fever raging badly there. Her
officers appear to be highly amused
with the American version Of their
proceedings in the Gulf OF Mexico.
II. C.. Gilbert, commercial editor of
the Buffalo Commercial Adperter, and
commercial reporter Of the New York
Associated Press, was instantly killed
on Friday morning by the falling Of a
scaffold at No. Ia Central wharf.
A statement showing the appoint
ments, re-appointments, removals,
transfer, ~causualities, &c, in the army
during the past year, has been issued
by the War Department.
A mar was killed in New York on
Monday oeing run over by two trains
Of the Hudson River Railroad.
The London papers are largely &C.
cupied with the accounts of the
Queens visit to Edinburgh, to be pres
cnt at the inauguration Of the beauti-
full park and noble hall, which the
working classes Of that city have secu-
red for public uses. The Queen made
an impromptu speech to a knot OF
workmcn, who were desired to come
to her, and hear from her own lips
what she thought Of the work. One
of the most remarkable incidents of the
Inauguration was the gathering of
$4,000 Sunday School children, who
sang a hymn to their sovereign, at
which-and no wonder-ther royal lady
was much touched.
The return of the two writs Of habeas
corpus on Capt. dc Riviere and John
Huncke, the proprietor ofthe Napoleon
Hotel, for the custody of Mrs. and Miss
Blount, was brought up on Friday
morning before Judge Ogden, of the
Superior Court, Hudson county, New
Jersey. De Riviere having suddenly
disappeared, he was declared non est,
and the time for the return in his case
was extended.
Two hundred United States soldiers
from Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania,
arrived at st. Louis on Friday. They
were Immediately transferred to the
steamer Silver Heels, bound for Fort
Leavenworth. Their destination is
Utah.
On Monday evening, 9TH inst. James
Milligan, who WAS accessory with a
mob in Gentry county Missouri, for
the killing Of a constable named Tim
mons, was like wise taken out of Jail,
and hung until dead. A guard Of the
citizens had been stationed around the
Jail since the culprit has been impris-
Toned. The county court being in
session on Monday last, and refusing to
make any appropriation to relieve the
guard, q mob was raised and the pris-
toner's forcibly taken from the hands
of the of the civil officers. The pris-
oner knowing his fate, asked to be bap-
tised. This request was granted to
him. The services of q minister we're
procured, and the prisoner taken to a
stream neal by and the ceremony per-
formed. At the water the prisoner
wss met by his father and the meeting
is said to have been an affecting one
DR.. Carter, of Albany, made a speech
at the water trying to prevail on the
crowd to pay the guard until the pris-
toner's trial came N. About two
hundred dollars was raised and a meas
enger dispatched to the court, then in
session, to see If it would raise the bal
ance. The court refused to do this,
the prisoner was taken to the same
tree that Kesler was hung on, and
there executed. A new and dry suit
of clothes had been procured in the
meantime and the prisoner dressed to
meet his doom.
John Lutz, who murdered Richard
OLeary lin rittsburg, in June, 1855,
is to be executed on the lst of October.
Dead bodies from the Pennsylvania,
are frequently picked up yet, on the
the lower Mississippi.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the 4th
inst, three man named John Hickey,
Chas. Rafferty, and John Good.
win, in attempting to cross the rive,
in . skif above the dam, were carried
over and al drowned. All were Irish.
men. Hickey leaves a wife and four
children; the other two were unmar.
ricd.
The Taunton (Aass.) Gazette saw,
there are four sisters in that town
weighing nine hundred and thirty.6yt
poundA The shortest being sbou,
i've feet high, weighs 2se pouSds
An elderly woman named Nrs
NCaEthy and her daughter, and
man named Robert Kelly have bee,
arrested in Detroit on suspicion q
having murdered psddles who va
boarding ct their house, and who b.
given s1ns mesey and jswslsy 1T
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