Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-08
THE NEWS.


u inc a.. THE NEWS. h,a.
- The disagrecing action of the tw
branches Of Congress on the Homestead Bill
y is now under the consideration Of join
committee, consisting of Senator johnson, o
Arkansas, and Harlan, and Representative
Grow, Thomas and Lovejoy. - "
IA tornado at Cattaragus, N. ", on th'
SOth, unroofed six buildings, and dangerously
wounded four persons. Loss, $26, 900. Al
Waverly, four miles from Cattaragus, q mar
named Burrows was killed Almost every
building within reach oftho storm was injured
!, i've have Denver City dates to May oath
Mining operations were fairly commenced in
the Gregory Diggings, and most ofthe gulches
were paying from S. to $50 per day to the
man. Rich discoveries Of boulder diggings,
4 which are said to the most valuable known,
resembling in appearance California quartz,
have been made. The great excitement now
| is at the head waters Of the Arkansas, where
gulches are reported to be yielding from
twenty to one hundred dollars per day to the
man. Thousands are going in that direction
from the Blue. IT,.
The N. Y. Herald has special later ad-
vices from Italy - from Palmero the 16th
and Rome tie 18th Of May. The Palmero
despatch reports an engagements near that
city, between Gsribaldi and the Royalists
The other despatch says that Garibaldi was
completely beaten, leaving large number
killed and wounded.
| "A dispatch from Washington Of the 31st
says the japanese have evidently become
alarmed and suspicious. They do not believe
the story of the accident to the Niagara. by
which their departure will be delayed. They
havs declared their purpose not to leave the
city until they started for home. The fact
of their acceptance Of invitations was ex.
planned to them, when they replied that if
they went, they desired to stop at the Navy
Yard or 60 directly on board the Niagara.
1a--The programme of the movements of
the japanese is as follows: They leave
Washington for Baltimore on the 5th inst,
and the latter city on the 9th, arriving at
Philadelphia on the 7th; leaving there on
the 1ltb, arrive at Niagara on the 18th, and
at Albany on the l4,h. They will arrive at
Boston ou the 18th and leave on the 10th.
They will remain in New York from the
Goth to the 3Oth At Buffalo they will make
trip on Lake Erie. As there is no proba-
bility that the steamship Niagara will be
ready before the 7th Of July, they will
arrive al New York with time to spare, if
no change be made in this programme.
-Gon. Peter Y. Daniel, one Of the Asso-
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court of the
U. S., died at his residence in Richmond,
Va, on the lst. lie was appointed in 1S4l,
by President Ty ler. s... ,.......e gzs.E e...
The report that Garibaldi had been
defeated in Sicily is contradicted BY the last
foreign arrival. The latest rumors say that
Garibaldi had obtained decided victory ct
Mersila, and the insurgents were gaining
strength. .'''' a"-.
b Halt the business portion of St. Joseph,
Mich, was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 30th, involving loss, of $4,000.
Among the property destroyed was the
Eagle Hotel, owned by ]. E. Sutherland,
worth about $4,000 insured for 81, 500.
Edward Bates, of Missouri, is about to
publish a letter addressed to 0. 81. Brown
ing, of Quincy, ILL.,, advising his friends to
do their utmost to secure the election of
lincoln and Uamlin, and expressing the
opinion that they should not waste their
votes upon the Bell and Everett ticket.
One man wa. killed and number
seriously injured by the collision Of two
passenger trains on the Baltimore Central
Railroad, near Painesville station, on Satur.
day last. Both engines and four cars were
totally wrecked. The unfortunate individual
killed was Lee Michner, q farmer, of Chester
county, Pa. lie was sssuding on the plat.
form at the time Of the collision. s4ss-'
In the Methodist General Conference, at
Buffalo, on the 3lst, the exciting question Of
slavery was settled, so tar as this conference
is concerne ], by the adoption Of the major
ity report Of the slavery committee with a
resolution te the effect that the new chapter
upon slavery as adopted is in itself clearly
declarative Of principles and advisory in
practice and not statutory in its nature, and
needs no explanatory clause.