Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-04

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Sch Adas's sxtenaye sus House on
Gooch street BOSTON, With ne.s3y all Its
contents. VA dsstroysAby IRE ~ the soth.
Loss, slso, 600 insssknce, $7AQOo.
TIL late Minists Masop's aaisaiDs xsps
brought from France by the iast foreign
arrival, and were inferred with imposing
ceremonies at Richmond Va, on the 3Oth.
n H. Champ, very wealthy farmer of
Bourbon county, Ky, whoxssrsesutlyssn-
fenced to the panitsntiary fOr15 years for
rape, escaped jail from Louisville Saturday
night. Great efforts are being made to re-
cover him. Another criminal esosped with
him. t,.,y, ,.-,.a..,...f. ..e.s.t =.
The steame. Golden Gate. from Boston,
is reported lost. Crew all drowned, except
three, who arrived at Halifax on the 3lst.
"A dispatch from Boston Of the slst
says the schooner Emerald, Of Truro, Capt.
Paine, foundered on Saturday evening last,
of North Chatham Light, and all the crew,
(seven in NUMBER save one, were drowned.
The California overland mail Of the
10th arrived at St., Louis on the 3 lst. News
unimportant. Business il, extremely. dull.
About half of the ,town, of Auburn, Placer
county, was burned on the 9th slt. Loss
$50, 900. Two hundred hostile Indians were
captured at the head waters of the Feather
river, and placed in the MEDICINE Reserva-
ton. ''7''-" T''''3 F" '+..,
/ "A dispatch from Charlestown, Va, Of
the 3lst, gives US ~ nopsis Of the remarks
Of .Aessrs. Griswold and Chiffon, Browns
counsel. They each contend that Brown is
not amenable, to the charge of treason
against the commonwealth Of Virginia from
the fact that he.is not citizen If that State
and has never sworn allegiance to it; that
the charge Of levylng war against the State
is upsubstantiated BY the evidence, as IL
also the charge Of -conspiring with slaves "a
make an insurrection, since no proof had
been shown that the slaves entered into the
conspiracy, and one party cannot conspire
alone. They also argued that the charge Of
murder in the first degree could not be sus'
tanned against the prisoners, as the fou,
men slain BY them were not killed through
deliberate, premsditated malice. The pris
oners were protecting themselves from ar
rest. Guns were fred in all directions, anG
they fred or intendedto fire only on armed
men, and in SO doing killed the men whom
they are charged with numbering srsFsals
Mr.. Hunter closed the argument for th'
prosecution, ut which pointi!our report o.
the trial ends. ~ 's ~ a&sstl IH 1891 10
The usual dis orderly conduct occurred
at the election in Baltimore Wednesday. Tn
rowdies took possession Of the polls 10 mos
Of the wards. A number Of persons wer'
wounded by shots and blows with clubs il
!. the hands Of the rowdies. The police mad
no attempt to stop these proceedings. .
II An excursi on train from Wisconsin fo
Chicago, consisting Of twelve -passenge
: carr, was thrown from the track near Wa
, tertown, on Tuesday morning, killing eigh
5 persons and wounding twenty eight others
The dead are as follows: Mr.. J. Thomas
t U. s. Marshal, Milwaukee; jerome Mason
t telegraph operator, Fond du Lac j. Snow
!, j. Boardman, J. L. Gillett, do John Lund
G. F. Emerson, O. Petersillia, L. Sherwood
Oshkosh; DR.. s. Miner, Watertown. Tn
3 smash up was caused by the engine strikin
r an OK which ran on the track directly ahea
] of the train, too late for the engineer to Civ
:. any warning. Six cars are smashed t
a atoms-engine not seriously injured. Tn
: killed and wounded are all from Oshkosh
r Fcnd du Lac, and Watertown.
-Wendall Phillips of Boston delivered
y lecture in Brooklyn, on the night of the LIST
in which he argued that John Brown wa
the only American who had acted boldly u
; to the true American idea, and caetin,
aside those false fatal wrappings of an effect
ual conservatism, aud refused to regar'
anything as a government, or any statute Al
law, except those which conformed to hi
own sense Of justice and of right. Virgini'
was not State Mr.. Wise was not Gov
ernor the Union was not a nation. Al
these So called governments were organized
piracies and John Brown was to-day tn,
only real and true Government on the sol
: of Virginia, had an infinitely better right te
hang Gov. Wise, than Gov. Wise had to hang
him, He also said IL think you car
make better use Of iron than forging it into
chains. If you must have the metal, put i,
into Sharpe's rifles, it is great deal better
used that way than in letters ; great deal
better than great clumsy statues of a false
great man, for men to kneel down and wor-
ship in State House Yard" Tom Corwin
of Ohio, was present on the platform, and
being called upon for speech, said he was
there merely by accident, and begged to be
allowed to reflect upon what he had heard
before giving his vote upon the matter.
JORGE w. JONES, ALIAS GEORGE w. JONES.
The Bogota Gaceta 0fcial Of the 31st Of
August announces the presentation of the new
IT. s Minister to that Court under the title of