Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-24
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS. -
-Hazlett and Stevens, the Harpor's Ferry
prisoners, of whose conviction our readers
have already been npprised, have been SEN
fenced to be hanged on the 10th of March.
The Virginia Democratic Convention at
Richmond adjourned on the 18th, after
stormy session and the adoption of a reso-
luton to support the nominee of the
Charleston Convention. The Convention
refused to declare ex- Governor Wise as the
choice of Virginia.
A dispatch from New York of the 9th
says the contract between Com. Vanderbilt
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company is
actually signed. The rates of fare to Cali
fornia arc to be advanced to $3.50, 800 and
$75 on the Atlantic, and $l2O, 800 and $65
on the North Star. The rates of freight are
not to be changed within twelve months.
The official report of the committee on
elections of the Kansas Legislature on the
canvass returns has been received at Wash.
ington, and gives very different complexion
to the result f. ON that announced by tee
graph. The committee state that the can.
vass returns exhibited in the report of the
Governor show great neglect on the part of
tho assessors in many of the Townships, and
in some OF the most populous counties.
They give facts TO show that the population
of Kansas on the lst of July last was about
1000.
Matters begin to look exec ediugly war
like in Mexico. Vera Cruz advices to the
10th inform US that Miramon's army threat
ening that city is 5000 strong, with 50
pieces of artillery. Jaurez's force is 5000
strong, with $50 pieces of heavy artillery.
Active preparations are making for defense.
"A building in which was located the
curled>hair and feather establishment of
Manning, Grover & Co., 40 N. Market st.,
Boston, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss $40, 1000 or $4,000. A portion of the
wall fell outward, instantly killing Charles
Carter and Charles E. Danton, both highly
respectable memi ers Of the fire department.
In ten minutes both bodies were dug from
the ruins, shockin4ly mangled. Several
others We're injured, but not dangerously.
IOWA NEWS.
MAN Suor.-Michael Gill was shot and
instantly killed, near Lyons, on the 18th
inst, by Michael Mulvaney, who is in custo.
dy.
SUIclDE.-H. G Carter, for many years a
citizen of Washington and tor long tim c
considered partially insane, committed sui
eide by taking stIychnine, last Sabbath:
The Anamosa Eureka announces that
Tho Dubuque Western R. R. is almost fin
ished to that place. The contractor is de.
termined to have the cars running into
Anamosa by the first OF March.
Scott county orders are worth only
seventy cents on the dollar, while in the ad
joining counties of Cedar and Muscatne
they are worth ninety and ninety five cents
School orders in Davenport are worth moth
ing. So says the Democrat.
TRUST DEEDS. - A bill has passed the
House putting trust deeds on the same
footing with mortgages, and requiring them
to be foreclosed by suit. This bill, if passed
by the Senate, will drive money lenders tc
adopt course sometimes pursued now; that
is, the borrower will confess judgment on
the court record and waive right to appeal.
CLINTON BaiDGE.-The bridge across one
branch of the Mississippi at Clinton was
completed on Monday last, and hereafter
trains will run over it to Little Rock Island,
seven hundred feet frem the Iowa shore,
whence passengers and freight will be con-
veyed by ferry to Clinton. 1t is the inten-
ton, we believe, of the builders to so con-
struct their ferry boats that freight cars from
the Galena road can be taken across and
landed, without unloading, on the Iowa
and Nebraska track.
AN OUTRAGE PUBLICLY DENoUNoGD.--A
meeting of the law abiding citizens of Clear
Lake Township, Keokuk county, was held
on the 21st ult., for the purpose of denounc-
ing the dongs of lf-constituted regulators
and ynchers, and we find their proceedings
in the Keokuk Democrat of the 10th inst
The outrage which called forth the meeting
was perpetrated upon the wife of Thomas
Tier. The lyuchers went to the house dis
guised, broke into it, took the woman out
of bed, marched her off in her night clothes
through the snow for half mile, and beat
her until what covering she had was stained
with blood, in order to make her confess
that she knew who set fire to neighbours
barn, and left her there to crawl home with
frozen feet in the best way she could, to her
helpless children, and afterwards sent her
and them out of the county. A German
named Nick Strait has since confessed that
he fire to the barn. Thus mobs and
regulators are as apt to injure the innocent
as to punish the guilty.
The EADs' DEFALoATIoN.-Attor Gen
eral Rice has lad before the Legislature a
report in regard to this matter, from which
VIC learn that up to January, 1856, DR.. Eads
came in possession Of 1921, 3l5.45 of the
School Fund, of which he distributed to the
various counties according to law 1902 ,04l.-
SO any loaned to the State $4,000. The
balance (over $l5O,O0O he loaned to ind-
vduals (partizan friends) in sums ranging
from $500 to some $4,000, with the excep.