Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-21
THE NE VS.

On the 18th, the MASSACHUSETTS Hous'
Of Representatives reelected Henry Wilson
U. S. Senator, giving him 1919 votes, agains
% for Caleb Gushing and II others.
/ --Greenman 4 Co.'s pail factory q,
Cleveland, o., was destroyed by fire on the
| 18th. Loss, 100000. Insured for $40, ,OOC
in New York companies. ..'--..e
Hon. VIM. Salisbury, of Sussex, was on
the 18th elected q. S. Senator for the State
of Delaware BY the Legislature. . IS
james Mcmahon was hanged at Newark,
n. j., on Wednesday last, 18th inst, for
the murder of his sister-in law. He pro-
tested his innocence to the last.
At last accounts from Kansas, Mont
gomery was fortifying himself near the
Missouri line The o. S. troops had been
sent to that region, and volunteers were be-.
ing raised as rapidly as possible. Six hun.
dred muskets passed Jefferson City on the
18th for Kansas. ,yv-r.t %. .l.t I
The weather has been extremely cold on
the Plains, the mercury sinking to q degs.
John MeGuthrie, who left Salt Lake Nov.
eth, reports that men were frozen to death
at nearly every station on the route, and ten
of Major & Russell's men were frozen at one
time.
FoREIeN,-The Niagara arrived at Halifax
on the 18th with one week later news from
Europe The missing steamer, Waser, which
sailed from Bremen for New York on the
5th of December, had put into Queenstown
with her pumps choked and leaking. Napo
lean has again pardoned Montalembert and
the editor OF the Correspondent, and 1874
other prisoners. y false alarm of fire in the
panic and l6 persons were trampled to
death. The Spanish papers denounce MIR
Buchanan's message in tone of offended
pride.
The N Y. Tribune of the 18th denies
emphaticaly the truth of the rumor that Mr..
Greeley contemplates leaving that paper and
connecting himself with another journal.
A dispatch from Washington of the 18th
says the House Committee on Foreign affairs
has agreed TO report bill similar to that
of Senator Slidell. who proposes to place in
the hands of the President $30,O0O,OO0 to
negotiate for the purchase Of Cuba. There
will be minority report
AT the election of officers in joint con-
vention of the Indiana Legislature, on the
14th, all the anti-Lecompton Democratic can
uluaLeS were eieCIcu lllc ADMINISTRATION party
voting with the anti -Lecompton men. Great
rejoicing among the Democrats is the result.
The Washington correspondent of the N.
Y.-Sum says a quarrel is going on among the
Republican members at Washington. Apor-
ton have desire to take up the Douglas
Popular Sovereignty doctrine, abandon direct
opposition to slavery, and invite Douglas men
Ind Southern as well as Northern Americans
to join them. Eli Thayer, of Mass, is one of
the prominent advocates for this plan. He
has a speech on the subject in preparation.
CONGRESS- 14th.-In the Senate, the
Pacific Railroad bill, being the special order,
wa, discussed during the whole day s session.
A motion by Mr.. Mason to recommit the
bill was lost, by 90 against 23, and another
by Mr.. Toombs, t" lay it on the table. was
also lost by 90 to q. Senate adjourned till
Monday.
.an 15th.--The House spent most of the
day in commit tee Of the whole on the bill
to codify the revenue laws, without definite
action. Ply.