Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-11
THE NEWS.

Il HE NE VS.
j st. Joseph papers Of the 2Sth ult and Is
inst. contain nothing in reference to tn
hanging of Doy and son at Platte City, b.
a mob. The story is doubtless an unniti
gated hoax.
The father of Hon. Daniel E. Sickles hal
offered to Mr.. Bagioli, (Mrs. Sickle's faith
er,) any house of his that the latter may Sc
lect, in orde- that Mrs. Sickles may have q
home.
Mrs. Hartung, convicted of poisoning he,
husband, at Albany, N. Y, is sentenced to
be executed on the 22d of April. 1t is un.
derstood that no further attempt will be
made to continue the matter before the
Courts, but her friends will ask Governor
Morgan for Communication of the sentence
to imprisonment.
The California overland mail with dates
to the 18th inst, arrived at St. Louis on the
Sd. 1t brings intelligence of an encounter
a: Dog Cannon, between body of mounted
rifemen and band of Apaches. The troops
withdrew with loss of killed and 6
wounded. Among the latter was Lieut.. La
zille, who received a wound in the lungs,
supposed to be mortal. About dozen In.
dians were killed. The troops numbered %,
and the Indians about 200.
An old political feud has existed between
Thomas S. Low, of Hawesville, KY, and
Cicero Maxwell, of Hartford, KY, Proseout-
ing Attorney Of that District. Low had
threatened to cowhide Maxwell on meeting
him. On Wednesday, the 3D. Maxwell when
addressing the Court at Hawesville, was in
terrupted by Low, who denounced him in
grossly insulting language. Maxwell and
others fred several shots, wounding Low in
the thigh and arm, cutting off his thumb,
and riddling his shirt. A general fire of pis-
tolls ensued from the friends of MAXWELL
John Aldridge, friend Of Low, was killed.
Mr.. Miller was shot through the thigh
Low was committed to Jail for protection
from the mob.
"A dispatch from Washington of the Sd
says: 'The Presidents proclamation is
written for an extra session in July of the
XXXIst Congress, and will be promulgated
tomorrow if no financial legislation sue
ceeds tonight"
CONGRESS 4th.-Both Houses ad-
ourned sine die at noon, after an exciting
session during the previous night and fore
noon. During the last hours of the session,
the President sent to both Houses mes
sage, urging Congress to make provision for
the preservation of public credit. The House
concurred in the amendments of the Senate
to the miscellaneous appropriation bill, in
cluding that to appropriate $4lS, 900 for the
payment of the Florida volunteers, and also
that to extend the operation of the treasury
note law. The House passed new postal
appropriation bill, in which the Senate fail
ed to concur. So the bill raising the rates of
postage, &C., did not become law. The
thanks of the House were given to Speaker
Orr, by l3O against 81, for the manner of
discharging his duties. A resolution passed
the House allowing $4,000 for mileage and
per diem to Bird B. Chapman, who contest
ed the right of Mr.. Furgeson to seat a $
delegate from Nebraska.
The village of Magnolia, eight miles
from Wilmington, Del, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 4th. A warehouse,
store and two or three dwellings were
burned. Loss $4,000.
AT Willard's Hotel, in Washington, on
the evening o. the 4th, murderous assault
with a slung shot, was made by Mr..
McGraw, on F. P. Lander, of Salem, Mass.
Mr.. Lander is Superintendent of the Great
Central Wagon Road, from which position
McGraw was recently removed.
The proceedings of the extraordinary
session of the Senate, on Friday last, as
given by the telegraph, ,were without special
interest. Among the changes made in the
standing committees was putting Senator
Grimes, of Iowa, in the place of Gen. Jones
on the Committee on Pensions.
"A dispatch from Washington of the 5th
saws there is now no doubt that there will
be an extra session Of Congress called by
1.-THE President earlier than the first Monday
lin December next, but whether in advance
|of or directly after the Fall elections for
Representatives, is not yet determined. Not
|onlv the condition of the Post Office De-
partment, but other branches of the public
service absolutely require Legislation before
the usual time of the meeting of Congress.
The Post Office appropriation bill, which
failed to pass, contained an item OF $3,-
loco, 900 for the deficiencies of the present
year, and which was absolutely required to
meet accumulated obligations. With this
the Department could have got along com
|fortably till the 1st Of July. No means can
be made available till the 1st of April, when
the proceeds of the quarter will be paid in.
After the Sd of June more Of the incom ing
revenue can be expended, as the present law
will have ceased to operate. The Land as
we'll as the Ocean service, and consequently
the whole machinery of the Department. Is
thus disastrously affected.
A RACE AMONG THR RAoEs.--IrelanG and
Germany have been rnnning race for
the past ten years in populating Uncle
|Sam's dominions. TIE sigem OF the sea"
turns out to be just about a neck ahead
We have before US the statistics OF 'mm'gra-
|tion for the port Of New York for the ten
years ending the lst of January, 1882 ana
1.-The two principally emigrating national't'es
the Irish and Germans--as foilows:~
Emigrauts from Ireland from ls''an a1s !S49, eeS
to January 1st, 1883, were oto,Z 20
from Germany within the same period, $685.
'655 The wear of the greatest emigration
from Ireland was in 1854, when l63, ,256
|persons arrived; the least was in 1888, when
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