Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-04
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- Senate bmoaratis auous Il W ash
ingtd on the q ult., agfssd tosapport an
idsrde in ~ lales Of lei poslsge to five
cent M
\ pa. Grand Bond, II emil int Astron-
0mef and Director Of the Cambridge
( Mass. Observatory, died on the seth, aged
80 years. vr~, ,rry,-
Tho Adam.' Express was robbed be.
tween Moasgemsry and Atlanta Ca on
Friday, 2Sth Wis of $40 700. mostly in S.
and $40 bills Of Georgia and South Carolina
banks, A reward Of IS 900 is offered for
It's recovery aat IS re Y sasf =. f>eesf
Later advices from Paraguay say Lo-
peg was busily engaged in arming and drill
ing troops, launching steamers, storing mag
azines with munitions of war, and preparing
to bar the waters Of the Paraguay Rivers
with heavy chains. ASA ls- q "a s.s
party from Weston (Mo } have returned
to that place frola Kansas, having captured
several runaway negroes; also, DIR. Day &
Son, charged with aiding their escape. The
latter are now in Jail at Platte City. Sum-
mary punishment having been threatened,
there is some talk of demonstration in their
favor.
The California overland mail Of the
7th ult, with one through passenger. arrived
at st. Louis on the 3lst. News unimport-
ant.
"A dispatch from Washington Of the 1st
says the Senate P. o. Committee have de-
cided to report a bill abolishiDg the frank
ing privilege; and in lieu to furnish each
senator and representative with $3.50 worth
of stamps; also to increase tho rate of post
age to 5 cents. ...s.s. t.....
-Advices from Valparaiso to Dec. 18th
were received at New Orleans on the LIST per
steamer Philadelphia. Great agitation ex-
listed in Chilli. $50 persons, including three
members of Congress, were arrested at San
tiago. The Government had prohibited the
publication of all Opposition periodicals.
Valparaiso and Acoragus had been in state
of siege for ninety days. Seditious proclaim
atoms had been issued and meetings at
tempted, but both had been suppressed. Rev.
olution was still impending. The Peruvian
squadron still blockaded Ecuador.
"A sanguinary revolution is prevailing
in Hayti. The principal ports of the Island
have declared Hayti Republic, and the
general opinion is that things will soon be
settled in General GeAfrard's favor. The
Emperor's forces do not exceed three thous-
and men. At last accounts, but few cellis-
ions had taken place between the Imperial
troops and the insurgents. Solouque had
advanced as far as Moro, and was meditat-
ing march upon St. Mare conflict had
taken place between the two contending
parties, but there was no reliable informa-
ton as to which side was victorious.
We have later news from Mexico-the
usual amount of fighting and rumors of
fighting. Mramon had been opposed to
Robes plan until he was himself elected
President. Since that time he has held his
peace. The Government Palace at Guadal-
ajara was destroyed on the 10th inst. by the
explosion of the magazine. From one to
two hundred persons were killed.
"A dispatch from Baltimore of the 3oth
says the splendid steamer North Carolina, of
the Bay Line, was destroyed by fire early
Saturday morning, off Smiths Point, on the
Chesapeake. The passengers and crew were
saved, with the exception of the Rev. DR..
Curtis, of Limestone Point, S. c., and ser
want named Waters. The boat, which cost
800, 900, is total loss. Insured for $4,000
CONGRESS. Mr.. Grows Homestead Bill
passed the House of Representatives on the
1st, by vote of 12O to rs. The bill provides
that any person who is the head of a family,
or over 81 years of age, and citizen of the
United States, or has filed an intention to
become such, according to the Naturalization
Laws, shall be entitled to enter quarter Sec
ton Of any vacant and unappropriated land,
and hold the same on condition Of its actual
settlement and cultivation.