Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12
THE NEWS.

j The California overland mail, with date
to the 11th ult., arrived at st. Louis on tn,
I'd. Business in California is more active
but no improvement in prices, The busi
ness portion of Chips Flat, Sierra county
was burned on the 9th. Loss, $4,000. The
town of Rough and Ready, in Nevada county
has been nearly all destroyed. Loss, $75 900
Thirteen persons were k illed and TWEEN.
ty wounded by an accident on the Northern
/ IN. ~ Railroad, on the night of tho ID
inst, near Scha.coke. The down train
due at Albany at 1920, was passing a
bridge spanning the Tomhannock creek,
when it was precipita:ed into the creek
below from height OF from twenty to
twenty-five feet. The water was about six
or eight feet deep. The names of the killed,
as far as known, are as follows: Mrs.
Schuyler, OF Albany; Charles Berthlow,
brakeman, of Albany Mrs. Cooley, wife of
conductor, of Albany; Charles Plimpton,
mail agent, of Vermont; David Russell, ex-
press messenger of Albany; Patrick Connel-
", rakesnan, of Greenhush. The coroner's
jury say the bridge was in a rotton and un.
safe condition, and express the belief that
these who have charge of said road should
te highly censured. as s5 ..a
FoREiaN.-The Cunard steamer Persia
arrived at New York on the Sd, with Liver
pool dates to the 23l ult. The conference
between France and Austria was to assem-
BILE at Zurich in about week. Tho dis
content ia regarl to the terms of peace are
unabated, and the explanations of the Elm
peror Napoleon are not considered re-ass r.
ing. The English foreign policy has been
under debate in the house of Commors.-
MIR. DIsraeh opposed all interference in the
Peace Conference. Lord John Russell
thought that England might with propriety
take part, but no course was determined on.
The Republican Convention at Law.
renee, K. T., on the Sd, nominated Marcus
J. Parrot. as delegate to Congress. A good
nomination! -t-'t s.4s 800
-Advices received ut Washington from
Northern Mexico say it was expected that
within IS days, 5000 American troops will
be organized on the Rio Grande, and prop
erly armed and equipped, for the purpose of
marching on the City Of Mexico, and exter
minating the whole Miramon faction.
Prof. Wise made another balloon ascen.
sion from St. Louis on the 30th ult, intend
ing to land at Lafayette, Ia, re-inflate, and
proceed to the Atlantic seaboard He came
down, however, twenty minutes after ascen
ding, on Ridge Prairie, twenty miles north
east of st. Louis, during a rain storm.
James Mullen was hung on Friday, 2sth
ult. /, in New Orleans, for the murder Of Jas.
Maylone. .,
The inquest held on the bodies of the
killed by the recent Railroad accident in
New York. has been concluded, the jury re.
turning verdict to. the effect that as the
Schaghticoke bridge was known to be unsafe,
the Superintendent and Directors should be
held responsible.
The late elections in the Southern States
have resulted in Opposition gains. In 26
counties of Tennessee the Opposition gain
is 1900. The Opposition have gained one
Congressman, probably three. The returns
from Kentucky indicate the election OF
Moore, in the 9th, and Adams, in the 9th
Districts, to Congress. Both Opposition.
In the State the vote is close and doubtful.
In the first Congressional District of North
Carolina, Mr.. Smith Opposition is elected
by 400 majority over Hon. Henry M. Shaw.