Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-17
THE NEWS.

A New York dispatch says tho railroad
difficulty has been settled. Under tho new
arrangement, passenger fare to Chicago goes
up to 1923, and freight on cattle to 70 cents.
Douglas county, Kansas, elected Re-
publicans delegates to the Constitutional
Convention. Bourbon and Likins each l
Republican and Democrat. Atchson and
Riley counties, small Republican majorities.
johnson and Wyandotte, small Democratic
majorities. Lawrence 400 Republican ma
jority.
FROM THE PAcFlo-The steamship Star
Of the West arrived at New York on the
18th, bringing California dates to the Goth
ult. She brings about million ard half
in gold. Geo. 3, Brust, the Treasurer of
Calaveras county had been discovered to be
defaulter to II large amount. Advices
from Victoria state that the gold mines of
Vancouver Were yielding SO largely that
parties were leaving Victoria for that local
ity. Affairs on the Isthmus were quiet.
The dates from Valparaiso were to May LIST.
\ battle was fought on the Goth Of April,
between the government troops, under Gen.
| Vidanni, and the volutionsts under Gen.
Gala. The latter vas defeated and fled,
having lost 1000 killed. The battle ended
the revolution The government had opened
the northern posts and business WAS reviv-
ing. The dates from Lima are to May 18th.
A sli ght revolution had occurred ut Agrippa.
No particulars are given. Guayaquil was
still blockaded, but the blockade was expec-
teed soon to be raised.
| The overland mail, with California dates
| to the 10th, arrived ut St. Louis on the 18th.
The proprietors of the San Francisco Bulle'
tin had been fined $500 each f, r publishing
the confession of Mrs. Sickles. The
amount of god dust shipped from Victoria
for the month ending May 10th, was $ls5,
900. The U. S. sloop of war Decatur ar
rived at San Francisco on the 18th Pas
sengers report about 5000 Texans encamped
near Belknap, for the purpose of extermina-
crnor of Texas had called on the u S. troops
to quel the disturbances, and Major Van
doren had arrived in the vicinity with three
Companies of Dragons on the way from
Fort Washta 70 Belknap. Vandoren en-
countcred a large body of Apache Indians,
killing from 40 to SO and took % prisoners.
special dispatch from Independence to the
Republican says party of soldiers surprised
about eighty lodges of Camanche Indians
near Pawnee Rock, and killed twenty five
men and twenty women.
FoRElGN-Thc steamship Fulton arrived
at New York on the night Of the 18th. Her
advices are mainly anticipated by the North
Briton The dates are to June LIST. The
adviccs from the seat of war are meager and
unmportant The London Neus says that
reports concerning Garibaldis success are
contradictory, but asserts that accounts al
ready received of his achievements are not
overdrawn. There had been severe engage
ment at Palestro, but, after some hard fight
ing, the allies carried the entrenchmcnt at
the point Of the bayonet, taking two pieces
of cannon, many small arms and prisoners.
The Austrian loss was said to have been We
ry great, and that of the allies small.
The steamship Europa arrived at Halifax
on the 14th, with Liverpool dates to the 4th.
She confirms the news by the Fulton, though
giving little in addition The Austrian eff
forts to rctake Palestro are described to have
been very sangunary. At one time the Sar-
dinian troops were outhanked on the right,
when the Zouaves came to the rescue and re-
pulsed the Austrians. The Austrian version
of the battle has not been received. The
Austrians had retrcated from Bobbio, and a
special telegram to the London Daily Ners,
dated Turin, Friday, June Sd, says the Aus
TRANS were in fall retreat across the Ticino
Garibaldi had been driven into the mountains
by the Austrian troops under Gen. Urban,
who retook Varese; but a telegraph dispatch
received via Turin states that Gen. Garibald,
after gathering reinCorcements, returned and
surprised the Austrans, recaptured Varese,
and subsequently re-entercd Como in tri-
umph.