Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-16
THE NEWS.

The Massachusetts Republican Conve en-
ton met at Worcester, on tho 7th, and elected
four Delegates at large to tho Chicsg'
Con nvention. The Delegates are John A
Andrew, Ensign Il. Kellogg, George s. Bout
we'll and Linus B. Oomins. Messrs. Andrew
and Kellogg are said to favor Gov. Seward
Nj. Boutwell, is friend of Gov. Banks, anG
| Mr.. Comins is uncommitced. Oil - &
1T is announced from Wash ington tina
the Harper's Ferry investigating Committee
after a long deliberation, have finally
agreed not to call ex Gov. Wise bef ore
them. The minority Of the committee are
very desirous to have his testimony, ir
order that the contents Of John Browns
papers, captured by him, might be brought
to light, but the majority refused. .....-
AT Syracuse. N. Y, on the morning Of
the 9th, q man named Tinker died i from
taking poison. - He first poisoned his
two children, aged about eight and six years,
and having laid them out, and folded their
hands upon their breasts, he left them in
an unoccupied room where some of his
furniture was stored, and went to his hotel
and took the poison hi nself. On Tuesday
he poisoned horse belonging to DR.. Scar.
les, of Syracuse and it is supposed that be
intended to shoot Dr. Searles as loaded
pistol was found near him. The cause W as
the cstrangement ST his wife and her init
macy with DR.. Searles, under the influence
Of Fsfree love'1 principles. Great excitement
prevails, and DR.. Searles has been locked
up in the penitentiary to protect him from
the indignation of the citizens.
Ten persons were killed by the exple-
sion of the steamer Alfred Thomas, at E as.
ton, Pa, on the 9Th. There were about
forty persons aboard at the time, some of
whom were thrown fifty feet into the air !;
others were blown off inso the water and
slightly injured, and others were dreadfully
mangled. --s-~.-
. Gov. Letcher, of Virginis, has made a
requisition on Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, for
the arrest of Owen Brown, and Francis
Merriam, two Harper's Ferry insurgents,
who are or have been in Ashtabula coanty,
indictments having been found in Jefferson
county, Va. O. S. Marshal John son, on the
5th inst, delivered the papers to Gov.
Dennison, who declines issuing warrants,
in letter dated the 9Th inst, stating that
the reasons for this conclusion have been
communicated to Gov. Letcher.
FOREIGN. 4 Ship Wrecked and 1lS
Lives Lost t!-By the arrival of the Nova
Scotian at St. Johns, on the 9th, from Liv-
erpool, Feb. ED, we learn that the ship Lu-
ma, fir; m Havre for New Orleans, had been
wrecked on the French coast near Cher
bourg. She had SO passengers and % crew
on board. Only two persons were saved,
whose names are given. The vessel proved
q total wreck.
The steamer Odione, from Dublin for
London, came in collision with the schooner
Heroine, on the 18th ult., and sunk in
twenty minutes afterwards. From 40 to so
persons were drowned.
stephens and Hazlett, the doomed
Harper's Ferry ''conspirators," will un-
doubtedly be hanged to-day, (l6th,) the
committee of the Virginia Legislature on
Courts and Justices having reported it mex
pedient to take any action in their behalf.
- The New Jersey Opposition State Con-
vention, at Trenton, on the 9th, was well
The resolutions are strongly
Republican-against the administration of
President Buchanan, against the slave code,
in favor of tariff, and in favor of home
stead bill. Twenty eight delegates were
appointed to Chicago-s Senatorial and 20
District. They were not instructed. To
from the Germans of New
ark, the convention answered that they
were not in favor of he Massachusetts two
year amendment Jas. Il. Sherman, John
J. Blair, Theo. Little, Ephraim Marsh, F.
S. Frelingheuysen and j. Rogers are the
Senatorial delegates