Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-28
THE NEWS.

| sf@-t ~. THE NEWS. F7j S
| Gen. Peter J. Stryksr died at Somervills
N. J., on the morning Of the 10th, at tn
age Of "a years. He held the Office Of Maj
General Of the Sd Division Of the New Jer
sey Militia, and had served several terms
lin the State Legislature. Cen. Stryker Wa
the oldest military officer in commission in
the State. He was . wagon boy in the Rev
olution, under Gen. Wsyne.
| Luther Preston, convicted Of robbing
the mail while acting - Postmaster q
Preston, Fillmore county, Minnesota, was
sentenced, in the U. s. Court, at st. Paul,
on the 18th, to fifteen years at hard labor in
the Penitentiary at Saltwater. He received
his sentence with the utmost indifference.
"A St. Louis dispatch Of the Goth says !:
Two Santa Ee mails due at Independence on
Tuesday last, have not yet arrived. Fears
sre entertained that further difficulties with
the Indians have occurred. The returns
from Nebraska indicate the election Of
Eastbrook, DEM, a. Delegate to Congress.
A special dispatch to the Republican says
that party Of men arrived at St. Joseph,
from Pixies Peak, bringing one hundred
tt tousand dollars in dust. a
The total receipts Of gold from Pixies
Peak at Leavenworth, K. T., tor the fort.
night ending Oct. 22d, was $3.50, 900.
"A man supposed to be Capt. Cook, the
second in command under Gen. Brown in
the late iusurrection, was arrested at Car.
Isle, Pa, on the 22l, but upon examination
he proved not to be Cook, bat is thought to
be one Of his party. He was heavily armed,
aud refused at his hearing to answer any
questions. He was committed to prison for
. further hearing.
The California overland mail with dates
to the S0ih, arrived at st. Louis on the
2lst. J. NJ. Crane, Delegate elect from the
proposed Nevada Territory, died at Gold
Hill, Carson Valley, on the 26th ult. New
silver mines have been disco vered at the
head of Washac Lake. Liberal subscrip-
tions toward the proposed Broderick monu-
ment were coming in from ail parts of the
State.
"A painful calamity occurred at Lake
Ainnetonka, about thirty miles west of St.
Paul, Ainn., on the evening of the 18th inst,
by which six persons cana to their death by
drowning. The circumstances ara these:
Mr. NJ. B. Stone, formerly of the State of
New York, who lived at the north arm OF
the lake, determined to move his family,
consisting OF his wife and two children, one
four and the other three years old, down to
the Minnetonka Mills, distance of about
Eve miles, by water. He employed for that
purpose two citizens of st. Paul named Ma
thaniel Butter6eld and Loring Lovelling
also John Nick ensie, of Hutchinson, andthc
seven persons started on their perilous voy-
age in sailboat. About dark their boat
capsized under pressure of sudden gale,
and Mr.. Stone in attempting to save his wife
ouu CuuuIou peEiSuCu WILL tuctus Ou!'ct-
field and Lovelling held on to The boat until
daylight, but from sheer exhaustion los,
their hold and were drowned. Mckenzie
alone was saved. But,er6eld and Lovelling
were from Vermont, The former leaves a
wife an6 child. .t.
The HARPsR's FERRY OUTBREAK K-The
Chicago Journal contains the following
very sensible paragraph on the recent in
sane instruction in Virginia. We endorse
the sentiments
s'We see our neighbor Of the Times is en-
deavoring to sustain the falling fortunes OF
the Democracy, by seeking 10 turn this af-
fair to political account. When We find
any party upholding it, we will join in its
condemnation. Whenever our neighbor
shall learn Of any political organization ad-
vocating the right to interfere with slaves
or slavery whore they lawfully exist, it will
6nd the Republican party arrayed against
it We shall be as ready to denounce such
organizations as we do now the acts of
those whom the border ruffisn Democracy
have deprived Of their reason, by the de.
vastating Of their homes and numbering.