Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-22
THE NEWS.

ea THE NEWS.
Eighty kegs of powder in one of the
new mills in Gorham, Maine, exploded on
the 18th, blowing the building to atoms.
One man was severely injured.
Hon. Rufus Ohoate, the distinguished
N Massachusetts, lawyer. died at Halifax on
the 18th. He was on his way to Europe,
on the Europa, but was landed at Halifax
in consequence of being taken severely i'll.
The Pawnee Indians are committing
depredations in Nebraska. The Omaha Me-
braskian says, $4,000 worth of property
was stolen from the settlers. Gov. Black is
in the field, at the head of ESQ men and 70
dragoons. The Indians number $500.
An express from Denver City arrived at
Leavenworth on the 18th, making the trip in
six days. 1t brought several passengers and
$4,000 in gold dust. Building was vigor-
ously prosecuted at Denver City. The pop
ulation was steadily increasing. creating an
increased demand for provisions. All indi-
cations point to the re-establishment of
confidence as to the permanency and steady
development Of the Kansas gold mines.
Edward II. Hemmenway, President Of
the Peoples Insurance Company, wealthy
and unmarried citizen of Worcester, Mass,
committed suicide on the 18TH The cause
was temporary insanity, caused by i'll health.
The Utah Indians have commenced
numbering the miners at Pixies Peak. w.
B. Kennedy, of Plattsmouth, N. T., and DR..
j.. L. Shank, of Council Bluffs, were lately
shot and scalped by them while prospecting
in the mountains.
FoRE1GN.-The steamer Weser arrived at
Now York on the 10th, with London dates of
the 4th inst. There is very little additional
war news. The Piedmontese troops had sur
rounded Peschiera. Garibaldi is maneuvering
to close the whole valley of the Adize, in order
to isolate Verona, and to cut off the Austrian
communication with the Tyrol Garibaldi is
at Tyran, with 5000 troops The Austrians
have abandoned the line of the Mincio, and
fallen back on Verna, after having burned the
bridges at Monseambana, Valtegio and Soito.
The total loss of the Austrian army at the
battle of Soferino was 26 officers and 5000
privates killed and wounded. About 1000
were missing, most of whom have returned
The AustrianS lost punS
wThe press had good deal of fun at
the expense of Zachary Taylor, because, in
his Presidential message, he said, among other
things: "We are at peace with all the world,
and seek to maintain our cherished relations
with the rest Of maakind." Considering
that Zachary had seen more service in the
field than in the council chambers of the
nation, some allowance should have been
made for the Generals blunder. But what
must we think of such scholar as James
Buchanan perpetrating bull equally as
ridiculous as Zachary's? The President, it
seems, has been on a visit to North Carolina,
and while there he had "talk at the people,"
and, in the concluding portion of his remarks,
Jeems made the following startling announce
ment:
"My lamp of life cannot continue long;
hope l may survive to the end of my Presi-
dental term; but so emphatically do believe
that mankind, as aoell as the people Of the
United States, are interested in the preserva-
ton of this Union, that I hope l may be
gathered to my fathers before should witness
its dissolution"
IGNORING THE SLAVERY QuEs11oS.-The
New York Staats Zeitung, German news
paper, says the proposition made by Demo-
Gratis and two or three Old Line Wings to
ignore the slavery question is preposterous
"The slavery question may indeed be local.
lied in the Territories, but the question
whether it shall thus be localized must be
decided by the whole nation, and every party
which attempts to pass over that subject in
silence will be destroyed in the attempt,
whether it be Northern or Southern
party, or even that party without principles,
which we understand our cotemporary to
mean, the Buchanan Administration and its
followers"
Even if the North were disposed to ignore
the slavery question, the South would not
permit them to do so. In every instance, the
"agitation" complained of has arisen from the
efforts of the propaganda to extend the borders
of slavery, or to acquire some new immunities
for it not sanctioned either by the Constitu-
ton, justice, morality or decency. The people
are weary of these constant encroachments,
and have made up their minds to resist them
in the future, at whatever hazard.
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The DEMOCRATIC PARrY.-The editors of
the Memphis Enquirer, who, as our readers
know, are ex- Democrats as well as ex-Senators
of the United States-Clemens and Borland-
having been rallied somewhat coarsely on
their political associations, make this reply:
"When we belonged to the Democratic
party, it was neither cursed with the heresy
of disunion nor disfgured with the foul slime
of corruption. 1t was party Of principle
true to its pledges, and unaltering in its
attachment to the cardinal doctrines of Jeffer-
son and jackson. The motley thing which
has stolen the name of Democracy bears no
resemblance to the old and sterling organiza-
tion-is entitled to none of our allegiance, and
never was. We worship no temple where
Toombs, Stephens, Benjamin, and the like,
are clothed with tie vestments of the priest
hood, and officate at the altar"
Boris VS. CAss.-John NJ. Bolts has writ
ten another letter on the new Cass doctrine in
relation to citizenship of naturalized citizens,
and their right to the protection of our gov
ernment. The letter is lengthy, but the
import of it may be learned from the following
paragraph: .s.ae-
"The question involved is simple one.
There is no necessity for outside issues,
equivocal explanations, or tortuous, incom-
prehensible circumlOcution on the subject. It