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

@s1RsnDXxsX~ JOURNAL,
SsfsOCAly DEPARTMENT.
sNAlssss ,xslehs eel, suppossdsto b.
ga. wss 81 o&tiS Isiaea and has beef m al
this peics kftks owsr. ~.
sTskF.ssrs~ c.. YisAsr informs = Chat
She trade Of the "Museatine" il constantly ncreas.
ing. 1t is fact that just at this time more thsP
half the wheat received in this market comes non
the opposite side of the river. - -.
srAIL P.oyrrG-A. ,xhsatbuyer .a Mis-
eitv sent two carloads of grain to Chicago, few
DAYS ago, on which he realized = profit Of just Is
cents, not including his own time and trouble!
Salsswsuld have teshe "qsisk" q such ratsgte
nalSaAs busissss ~ 80 S ssS
Eoes-fRAoRpINARY.-M j. W. Sprague
ha. just shipped from this city 70 st. Louis forty
barrels eggs. Abost thirty barrels Of the lot we're
parchasa,as Washington and Ne balance in Ibis
city. This heavy shipment win probably supply
thaprsssht sggsigensy Of the q. Louis markets
q n justice to the law-abiding Quakers
sfsprihe6As. CSdar county ~seontradict the stste-
nsps made by -, which has also been copied y .
Sumbsr q eur sxehsnses. that Edward Coppic, one
Neutrality-suspicious., ID . member Of their
@Tsni.a alton. He w. expelled from the Society
NJ twsysars ago. 81 g
THs Blaossr Ysr.-Ar. Elisha Beatty, OF
Nuscatins Island, left at our Office yesterday
dozen ,potaaess which weighed 10 the aggregate
over Is lbs. or more than quarter of bushel.
single potato which he exhibited to u.s. not included
in the dozen above mentioned, weighed9 lbs. They
are Of varsity which he calls the California po-
tato He informs Us that he raised the past season
between 10 and 50 bushels of the same sort. Mr.
Beatty has the credit thus far Of rasAg the biggest
potatoes of any man in the State. Who can beat
himi
- Two fat-boats are loading at this
place principally with onioua One of them, moored
q The form. landing aed -euasd BY Strsatoa Hal
deman, is now ready to weigh anchor, and contains
sahpusand bushels of this odoriferous esculent,
boidss i've ApndSed hsads Of oahhages and 2 Lot Of
pe1atoes. - sahsr is loading = the assanbeat
lsvee, snd1i ressve cargo Of elevea hundred
Saahels Of SineI IT is owned By lshn Olds. These
parties reside in Scott county, near Fulton station,
and raised the vegetables themselves, which they
have determined to convey to the St. Louis market
in this novel manner. We wish them success.
J. W. SrEAspA, the Sentlemanly produce.
buyer whs, ID coasectiou with Mr.. Kinball, Occur
pies the store room of Mr.. Quinn, few doors
above our Office, has been operating only about
six weeks, but in that time has purchased an
an immense quantity Of wheat, oats, potatoes, on
ions, DC. ! H has paid cad for all his pur-
cbsses and thus distribeesdaa large amount Of the
Assdful" amoag the faruess, Of this yiei.ity. He
M commended himself ~ his libsrality, fair
dealing and premptness to all who have had
business intercourse with him. we-trust he win
continue to b. idsstiasd With the commercial H.
terests Of the city.
A GREAr COUNTRY. - Eddie, Cadle, the
young and adventurous ssens q g. Cadle. Esq, al
this city, writes to his relasvesrom California that
he visited the late State Fair at Sacramento aud
saw three Jumps of gold in case, one worth $41.
900, another &c, 900, and tie third 900; also ON
exhibition peaches weighing lbs, pears weighing
lbs, pumpkins large enough for him to get into,
and the biggest babies aud latest wome that ever
met his eyes anywhere-and largest of them all was
. lady formerly of Muscatine. Were it not for his
statement concerning the hugeness of the women,
we might suppose that California was the veritabe
sbode of'Petsr, the pumpkin-eater. who, accord-s
ing to the popular nursery melody, chad wife aud
couldn't keephs till he put her in pumpkin SHE'LL
,D&Jadging by the namber, Of passengers
% stean6sfS bound dsxn tke river wouid appear
that the northern portion of the country is being
depopulated. It is said BY those who frequent the
boats landing at our levee that the number Of pas
sengers going up the river compared with those
going down il Is one TO twenty. The hard times
and blight Of crops by frost in Wisconsin and Min
nssota are said to BE- the causes of this southern
hegira. We observe that most of the emigrants are
lsborers We fear they will fare but little better
when they reach their destination. The times are
ssfd obs harder inst. Louis and provisions scare
Of generally throughout the South than in this re-
gion The crops failed in Southern Illinois the past
season for the FIRST time for many years, in conse
quence of drought Corn is IS per barrel or 81 per
bushel in Alabama, = may b seen BY an extract
from aTneunbiA psper in another column. How
the thousands Of laborers now ocking to that region
are to get food and clothing God only knows.
TIE CuINlouY QUssrloN.-A large and
intelligent audience assembled last evening at Ire
mont Halt to listen to the discourse of New. DR..
Waters relative 70 his recent visit to the French
colony q q. Anne. The meeting was duly organ
lied by electing suel Foster. Esq, to the Chair;
after which DR.. Waters forward and delivered,
in conversational style, very interesting address
The colony of st. Anne he found to number some |.
900 persons, or 700 families, oil but 80 of which
are identified with the movement Of Father Chini-
guy and have thrown off all allegiance to the
Church and Bishop of Rome These thirty families,
while avoiding all participation in the religious
controversy, are nevertheless kind and courteous
in their business intercourse with the dissenting
brethren The colony has . church and school.
both Of which arc largely attended. There are now
between 600 and 700 persons who partake of the
Lords supper, administered to them in the Protest
ant manner. The have weekly prayer meeting,
attended BY from 800 to 500 persons. At Kankakee
City, where there is asparse intermixture of Can
adam French, the Chiniquy movement is sympa-
thzed with and meetings for instruction and prayer
arc held. The colony has been located at st. Anne
for some seven years, having emigrated from Cam
ada with the view simply of improving their tenn
poral condition. Their rupture with the Church Of
Rome originated in an effort on the part of the
Bishop, at Chicago, to secure the deeds of their
property for and in the name of the Church. This
they stoutly refused and other questions involving
themselves, the oct Of separation from the Mother
Church followed - q necessary consequence. DR.. |
Waters expresses himself . entirely satisfied after
careful investigation that the character of Father
Chiniquy has never been successfully impugned-
that. a. 2 man. he stands above reproach; that he
issngaged in = work Of genuine reform, and that
the necessities of the colony have not been misrep
ressntsdes Nums.oas cases of extreme destitution
presented themselves at the house of Father Chini
guy for relief during the Dr.. brief stay. II is On