Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-02
THE NEWS.

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The N. Y. Tribune's Washington col
respondent of the 21st says the whole, stor
Of troops being ordered to the Rio Grands
: With q direct or ulterior view Of the occupa
ton Of the northern provinces Of Mexico, 4
entirely unfounded. It's regular canart
!, The dwelling and brewery Of Mr.. Josuee
near Winona, MINI, was burned few day
ago. Two Of his chifdren-little girls, age
7 and II years-perished in the flames, AM
the rest of, his family had q narrow escape
Mr.. ,Josue was badly scorched. His loss il
property is about $4,000. ;, ....,,,r -s,ror
I The Omaha Republican announces o.
the authority of persons just from For
Kearney, the death of the celebrated noun
taineer, Kit Carson, at Taos, New Mexico
where he was Indian Agent. II, IL ron HI
Maj. Scoonover, Agent for the Uppe
Missouri Sioux Indians, arrived at st
Joseph, Mo-, on the 2lst. He reports tina
the Sioux have sworn vengeance against al
whites found in their country. The Majol
says that the Yellow Stone riveris navigabl,
for steamers 900 miles above its conhuenc,
with the Missouri, and goods can be landed
within 400 miles of Salt Lake City and very
near several forts in that region. a9a..il
"A fire in Canton, Stark county, O., or
the 26th, destroyed the St. Cloud Hotel, the
post Office, and other buildings. The value
Of the property destroyed is estimated al
$50,OOO. Insurance smalI.o 1.grgr ri
"A Harrisburgh dispatch of the Goth says
the report that Gov. Packer, Of Pennsylvania,
had rendered to Gov. Wise the services Of
10000 men, to guard the line between
Maryland and Virginia, is hoax. No such
tender was made, nor did Gov. Wise make
any such reply as has been stated in a
dispatch. ." '"'''".,@j !. '..-a.
The California overland mail, with dates
to the 4th, arrived at st. Louis on the 10TH
Three thousand passengers had arrived at
San Francisco during the three days previ-
Gus to the departure of the mail, by two
steamers from Panama, and three from
Oregon and British Columbia. The latter
steamers brought over 1000 tons of apples,
from Oregon, worth from 81 to Sc per 100
lbs. The telegraph wires were in operation
165 miles eastward from San Francisco, by
the Butterfeld route, and would probably
reach Visalia (25O miles) by July 1st. The
public administrator was pressing suit in
the Probate Court of San Francisco, to get
control Of the estate Of the late Senator
Broderick, on the ground that he had no
living relatives at the time Of his death. The
application was resisted by Mrs. Lucy
Brown, who claims that Mr.. Broderick was
her second cousin, and she was entitled to
the estate as next Of kin. Judge Terry had
been indicted by the Grand Jury of San
Francisco county, and held under $4,000
bail for the killing of Broderick. Cores
pondence in the Trinity Journal Of the 29th
ult., from Pitt River Valley, mention several
fights between the Indians and company of
volunteers, in which upwards of twenty
Indians were killed, and about the same
number captured. Accounts from the
Washoe Valley gold and silver mines con.
tinued favorable, and new discoveries were
being constantly made.
TERRIBLE SH1PwREoK - Twenty Seuen
Lives Lost!-The steamship Indian, which
left Liverpool on the 9th inst, for Portland,
struck on sea ledge near Sackville, N. B.,
on the 2lst inst, by which accident she was
totallywrecked, having parted amidships, and
sad to relate, 27 lives were lost. She had
eight cabin passengers, thirty steerage pas
sengers, mostly Germans and Hungarians,
and seventy-seven of crew, with cargo Of
800 tons and some specie. Aboat contain
ing thirty three ladies with their husbands,
landed safely, after kn ocking about for nine
hours in the high sea. The cabin passen-
gers were all saved. When the vessel struck,
the engineer opened the valves to prevent
an explosion, and lowered three boats,
when, with sudden crash, the vessel broke
amidships. The steerage passengers rush
ed in and sunk two Of the boats, drowning
the engineers and several of the crew and
passengers, including two women and two
children. One boat under command of
second officer Smith was blown off 30 miles.
The boat under the fourth officer reached
shore. The boat under third officer Big
gar broke adrift leaking, and is supposed to
be lost. ....
FoRE1aN.-By the steamer Circassian,
which arrived at st. Johns, on the night of
the 23d have foreign advices to the 18th
inst. The three treaties had been signed at
Zurich. Austria, it was said, had agreed to
take 1O2, 900, 900 francs from France instead
of the 1O4, 900, 900 demanded. France and
Austria agree to promote the meeting of the
Congress. 1t is stated that no formal prop
osition for Congress has been made to
England. Tuscany, following the example
of other States of Central Italy. has conferr-
ed the Regency upon Prince Carigman but
the King Of Sardinia, under the pressure of
France, refused to grant Carigman permis-
sion to accept the Regency. 1t is reported
that the Sultan of Morocco has empowered
his brother to grant the demands Of Spain.
Mr.. Ward, American Minister to China, has
gone to Japan. 1t was feared that there
would be trouble between Russia and Japan,
owing to the murder Of three Russians by
the Japanese. Breadstufs unchanged and
steady. s297 " l -otse. a'sa'-
HARPER's FERRY IN ENGLAND. - They