Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-27
THE NEWS.


submitted his report The expendi itnres las
year, were upward of $19, 900, 900 0hlA a'''s
The walls of building in Grosveno,
street, Richmond, Va, fell on the night Of
the 18th, burying an Irish girl alive. Her
groans were distinctly heard. .n.iaqma3
lsrt-A fire occurred in the carpenter shop Of
the Michigan Southern Railroad, at Lapsrte.
on, ,the:lSth. Mr.. Conten, an employee, ,awas
burned to death, and Mr.. Shock, also Jan
employee, badly injured. The building was
saved. I'D srge 3a ni zHi8o,t@i 81 hsTo7ilgh
b CoAsREss.-InA the Senate ON the 17th
Gen. Bowman, proprietor of the Oo,'stitu-
tion, was elected Printer Of that body, by a
vote of ~ to 81 for all others. His election
was fercely opposed by Senator Brown Of
Mississippi. b .tjUs !. n; ave- ot s1a.1s,
b. In the House, Mr.. Sickles offered his plan
for electing Speaker, but a vote on 1t
couldnot be reached, owing to the usual
fastious opposition Of the Disunion Democ-
racy.r After, this, McOlernand, Of Illinois,
backed by several men of courage, under
took to play the bully, but with Indifferent
success. mo vote for Speaker. ,,-., .,r
John E. Frey, member of the State
Senate of Massachusetts,, from Worcester
county, is said to be involved n the crime
Of forgery, and resigned his seat on the 18th.
'i--ohristopher P. Hewtell. Teller in the
Market Bank, New York city, com mitted
suicide, on the 18th, by taking strychnine'
lie was twenty-five years old, and had been
mar ried about a year. ,,Is fe,. -gg .,-....
w. D. Ray, editor of the Vicksburgh
Southern Sun, was murdered on the 18th,
by Shippard, his defaulting clerk. He was
shot through the heart. sr 20 .aa.- h,,H
MIR. Elisha Brown, man about sixty
years old, was killed at the station in Prov
idenee, B. l., on the Goth, by the train on
the Hartford Railroad. He was the father
of Fayette Brown, Cashier of the State
Bank in Providence, and resided in Pitts :
ford. IL .sgu s1ass ro s"rs'-- T2laR is.a
The overland mail with California dates
to the 30th ult. has arrived. A fire a. Peck's
Flat, in Sierra County, on the 21st ult.,
destroyed 500, 1000 worth of property. Ac-
counts from Carson Valley represent the
snow from three to five feet deep. Mining
operations were suspended. Two young men
who went from Sacramento, to hunt in the
vicinity of Hunboldt Bay, had been mur-
dered by the Indians. A party of Humboldt
people attacked the Indians, killing fourteen.
"A dispatch from Washington of the
goth furnishes the following interesting gos-
sip: ssRealf, Old Browns Secretary of
State, has arrived, and will testify before.
the Senator's Investigating Committee to-
morrow. 1t is stated that he declares that
the act of Brown was separate from all
political organizations and politicians, and
that he did nothing to implicate any mem
Der of the Republican party. he will testify
to correspondence between John Brown
and Senator Wilson, but he asserts that Mr..
Wilson denounced the proposition of Old
Browns to run slaves out of Slave States,
as an act Of madness. This will probably
induce the Committee to call Wilson as q
witness. Joshua R. Giddings and John
Brown, Jr., A. NJ. and A. Lawrence, and
Mr.. Sanford, of Mass, will be subpenaed
as witnesses. Realf is looked upon as a
most important witness, as he has indicated
that he will make clean breast Of the affair,
and it is understood that he will implicate
prominent persons in New York and New
England" ,.e 4..s .z. @"- ':
"A collision occurred, on the 10th, on
the Hudson River Railroad express train
from Albany, and the Sing Sing train, both
going one way. The rear car of the express
train was smashed. Ten or twelve passen-
gers were more or less injured, and Mrs.
Thos. w. Field, killed. Mrs. Field, late Miss
Anna Tuttle, late principal of one of the
public schools in Brooklyn, was married
yesterday morning at her sisters house, and
had Just started on her bridal tour to the
South. Mr.. JAS. Whorton, who was conveIs s.
ing with Mrs. Field at the moment of the
accident, was thrown over the bank into the
river, falling on the ice. He was but slight
ly injured. Bishop McClosky, of Albany, is
among the seriously injured: Eight of the
injured were left at Tarrytown, and the
remainder taken to New York city. Of
| these latter, Mrs. Thompson, wife of the
publisher Of the Bank Note Reporter, had
both legs broken Mrs. schimer, Of New
York, head badly hurt; B. L. Craine, of
E,,1for, ho11u iv1,,wodT n q
81. CONGRESS. = The Senate, on the 18th, /,
confirmed the nomination of Mr.. Hughes, of
Indiana, to supply the vacancy on the bench
of the Court of Claims. Several Senators
are preparing speeches to be delivered next
week on the slavery question. Some of the
most intimate friends Of Mr. Seward say
that he has no intention of making any
speeches during the present political ex-
citement. n, ,,.,.,,
There were indications on the part of the
Republicans in the House to have night
session, with the intention, if possible, of
bringing the contest for the Speakership to
q, termination, but a sufficient number Of
them were not united for that purpose. The
galleries of the House were crowded to their
utmost capacity by persons Of both, sexes; >,
CONGRESS- vote was had for Speaker
on the 19th..i The debate ELECTED drew out
the fact that the fre-eating D Democracy had
signed d paper, pledging one another to resist
vote on the plurality rule by every parlia
mentary stratagem.aagIa2i a#a yA9HiH9A Il
In the House. on the Goth, Mr.. Hutehins'
plurality resolution was discussed, without
q vote; 'o1i''' 49, -.
The y. S. SUPREME CoURr JUDsEs. I1The
Washington correspondent of the New
York Commercial ,Adaertisera says ~ Seven
Of The Justices of the o. S. Supreme Court
are9in attendance, but one 81 these, Justice
Mclean, is very infirm and aged. The ab!
sentees are the Chief Justice 1cand Justice
Daniel, aud neither of them can be expeetea
tc resume his seat. The present Or next
President will probably have to fiji three
vacancies on the bench aof the Supreme
! Court. The seat. OF the Chief Justice will,
nodoubs, be filed by apPointinent outside