Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-06
IOWA NEWS.

The body OF DR.. Whites son, browne,
On the 18th nit, at Iowa City, has not ye
been found. Pr. W. offers reward of $40
1or thessscovsry Of the body.
HrxEN1AL.-Ths Iowa State Reports
Skes ffact vhicli has come to its knowledg
Of man sixty years of age being united il
matrimouy to lady of thirteen-all o
johnson county. C3rf =
FOUND DsAD.-Joseph stitchlsr, aged q
years, was found dead near the village o
Farley, Dubuque county, on the 2lst ult. :
supposed to have been drunk, in which con
dition he persisted with cold while on hi,
"'"J NUNS .seiloudi.l gdl ., .9pqs-r-H
HIRAM PsIos, was elected Mayor of Dav
export on Saturday last, to FIJI the vacancy
occaaioned by the resignation of Mr.. Cook
Judge Grant was the opposing candidate
having been nominated by the Democrats
Prices majority was 24Sin . vote Of 57l. !
PAINTING Orrios BURNED. The Knox.
vile tMarion county Standard was burn,
out on the night Of the 9th and assh.n l,
10 the second printing Office tina. has beol
burned in Knoxville within five years. The
late ire is supposed to have been caused by
an inceniiary, '.,aF 5a2. 70 r.a7na' -''. q
(, To BE HuNa Daniel Clifford and Edward
Mooney have been sentenced to be hung al
Dubuque on the 9th Of Jan, for the muir.
der and robbery of Charles IWo DDS, ln.
Times says when the sentence Of dssth Wa,
pronounced neither. Of the, doomed men
seemed much concerned aboutit.i blgaa
EDucArloNAL..- According to the official
report Of Hon. 7. II. Benton, Secretary, Of
the Beard of Educationy there are in the
State 800 organized township school districts
1854 sub districts, 240,5ai persons between
the agas Of S cad Al years, 4,24s schools
Il48,s49 pupils. attending school, and 2,6OC
son =" t nou'eS' } s4yalle yiso 50a ,h:ra1sg
According to the report Of VIM Duane
Wilson, Secretary Of the Board Of Directors
Of the State Agricultural College, there
have been s52.595 acres Of spring wheat
sown the past year, which, at the estimated
average of 10 bushels per acre, have
produced 9,525,050 4bushels.@d OF corn
1000, 900 bushels have been raised, esti
mating the yield at only 40 bushels pei
acre. In 1858, the7yield of spring wheat
amounted to but little over. 1900, 900. Of
corn, the same year there were produced
less than $780, 900 bushels. Value Of
hogs sold in 1858. s2,lll,425; this yea
it is estimated at $2,739, ISL. ri
THE SENATE INVESTIGATIONS OF Jon,
BRowN's WAR.-Besides the somewhat apoc
ryphal Richard Rcalf, John Browns Secretary
Of. State, for whom the Doorkeeper Of tn
Senate has been sent to Texas, the Senat
Committee on the Harper's Ferry Affair hav'
also summoned as witnesses Thaddeus Hyatt
Of New York, President of the National Kan
sas Aid Committee several years ago, w. F
NJ. Army, an Agent of that Committee, Gen
| S. G. Pomeroy, former Agent of the Emigran
Aid Company, Martin F. Conway, the presen
Agent of that Company at Lawreece, Kansas
and Representative elect to Congress, DR.
Charles Robinson, Governor elect of the Stat
Of Kansas, Captain j. Montgomery, secont
John Brown in the estimation of the borde
rufians of Missouri, and Augustus Wattles
one ofthe prominent free State men in Kansas
The Committee appears to be preparing t
enact ridiculous farce, At considerable,
expense, for the amusement Of the country
The only apparent reason for summonin
these men is that they know something Q
John Browns affairs in Kansas. Severa
thousand witnesses might be summoned O
that ground. There is not the slightest reaso
to suppose that any of these men had an
knowledge Of the Harper's Ferry affair i
advance of its occurrence. But we presum
none of them will object to visit to Wash
ingtor at the expense of the Treasury. d,
Howe, Of Boston, Mr.. Sanborn, of Concord
and Gerrit Smith, if he Is well enough, vii
also probably be sent for by the Senate Com
mittee; and perhaps these gentlemen coul
add something to the public information o.
the subject. If they cannot, we suspec
nobody living can. .... .
Iowa MATTERS IN CONGRESS. - In tn
Senate, on the 22d ult., ,dr. Harlan asked an
obtained leave to intro duce bill Is. No. 8
to reimburse the State of Iowa for money
expended in the suppr ession of Indian hosti
tiles within the juri sdiction of that State
which was read twice by its title, and referre
to the Committee ON Military Affairs an
Militia He also asked, and, by 'unanimou
consent, obtained leave to introduce join
resolution Is. No. p removing the restriction
upon a certain g antof five sections Of land
the State Of Iowa; which was read twice b
its title, and r eferred to the Committee o
Public Lands. He also asked, and, by unan
imous consent, ootaine ID leave to introduce
bin IS. No. 15) for the relief Of. purchasers G
public lands within tlie timber reserve oppc
site Fort Kearney, an d for the settlers With
the Winnebago agen' ~ reservation, the For
Atkin oon rox,orvstio,e md thu fip,hor ro-or,,