Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-29
TIE NEWS.
SickRcs AcGuiasad!

Mr. Ould concluded his speech on the
81 ,kles case at J o'clock, Tuesday afternoon,
and at o'clock the Jury returned, amid
intense excitement, and gave verdict of
"NOT GUILTY" The applause was deaf
ehing, the audience huzzaing and waving
| their hats
"A dispatch from Washington of the
18th thus refers to the Sckles trial. "The
court roo ON is crowded this morning. Mr..
Brady urged in an eloquent and able man
ner on the instructions of defence, mainly
on the question of insanity. lie endeavored
to show that the Derringer pistol was fred
by Mr.. Key. There is no mortal witness to
gainsay the fact"
Another awful steamboat disaster on
the Lower Mississippi is reported. A brief
telegraphic dispatch announces that the
steamer st. Nicholas, from St. Louis to
New Orleans, exploded on the night Of the
2ith, near Helena, Ark, by which SERENITY
flee lives were lost
FROM THE PAolFIo.-7He City Of Quito
Destroyed By an Earthquake The steam
ship St. Louis, from Aspinwall, with Cali
tornia mails Of the 9Th inst, $50 passengers
and 81 ,723,000 treasure, arrived at New
York on the 25th. The California news
has been anti sipated. An attempt at a rev.
oiuton in San Salvador was speedily put
down. The advices from Nicaragua are
only to 2Sth ult, and merely confirm news
already received. A fearful earthquake
destroyed the city of Quito with over 1000
lives. The loss Of life is computed by some
as high as 5000. The loss of property is
said to amount to So, 100000. A number
of small towns to the northward were also
destroyed, and some damage was occasioned
in Guyaquil. The revolution in Chill had
been nearly quelled in an engagement at
Coquimbo. The government forces were
forced to retire with the loss Of 95 men,
The revolutionists lost nearly double that
number. In Bolivia the opposition had
been beaten in an engagement with the gov
| eminent with a loss of 65 killed, including
many of the leaders Gen. Cortibat, the
x-President, has made his appearance on
| the frontiers, and troops were sent against
him. In Ecuador the blockade at Guaya-
quill continues.
FoREIGN.-The steamship City Of Wash
ington, from Liverpool, with dates to the 18th
inst, arrived at New York on the 25th The
news is somewhat moro pacific, though the
arming of the leading powers goes on as if
the breaking out of hostlities was daily
expected. The Austrian troops in Lombardy
continued to advance and threaten the frontier
of Piedmont. The English ministers have
been pressed in Parliament to give state
ment with regard to European affairs. They
promised to do so on the 18th. Parliament
will probably be dissolved in about week.
Electionearing is actively progressing. The
House of Commons has rejected resolution
in favor of the ballot by three majority.
On the night of the 23d, two coal barges
were swept into the crevasse near Lake
Providence, on the Lower Mississippi, and
their crews, consisting of thirty men, per
shed The barges belonged to }. l.. Ly~ss,
of Louisville, and contained $4,000 bushes
of coal.
The latest news from Utah has warlike
aspect. Much bad feeling exists between the
.rnons and the Mormons, though the former,
Stationed at Provu, .:eir .v...---l.abIe
forbearancc. The danger of collision IS
imminent. Gov. Cumming and Gen. John
ston have quarreled-at least, their views of
official duty lead them in different directions,
and this state of things will hereafter compli
cate affairs in that quarter.
Only sixteen of the passengers and crew
of the steamer st. Nicholas, which exploded
above Memphis, Sunday night, escaped. We
have no information as to the probable cause
of the explosion. The boat was large st.
Louis and New Orleans passenger packet,
and was few months over four years old.
She was owned by Capt. Ambrose Reeder
and Capt Ben. V. CLINE, the latter of whom
was her clerk. She was valued at about
$25, 900, and was, we presume, fully insured.
Among the list of killed, we observe the name
of VIM. Falkner, of McGregor's Landing,
Iowa. The number of lives lost was Is.
FoRE1GN-The steamship Circassian, with |
Liverpool dates to the 1Sth-fve days later
than previous news--passed Cape Race on the
Goth. Her news is exciting. The latest
complexion of continental affairs is warl1c
The Paris letters regard peace as hopeless.
The movements of the French troops assume
the most threatening proportions, and the !
preparations IN every branch continue with
out abatement. The Congress negotiations
are progressing very slowly Austria posi- |
lively refused to take part without previous
and simultaneous disarming. Austria prop
ositions for the Congress are not acceptable
to France, but not being prepared to take the
field Immediately, Napoleon seeks delay.
sY-The Cleveland Herald says that, of
the forty men summoned as jurors to try
Bushnell, thirty were Buchanan Democrats,
and ten Republicans; that the prosecution
and the defense each had the right to strike
out twelve names from the list, and that, in
the list stricken out by the United States
District Attorney, every one of the Repub-
licans were included.
The SCHOOL LAw.-Quite an important
suit came up for a hearing, in the District
Court a day or two since, involving questions
the constitutionality of the School
Law. The following points, among others,
were brought up:
Hugh Newell, sub director for Newton
school district, levied upon certain property,
belonging to Elizabeth Guthrie, to satisfy
School Tax assessed previous to the enacting
Of tie Curative Act. The property was
replevied, and demurrer set up by Mrs.
Guthrie alleeino that the new Schoal am ic