Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-09
THE NEWS.

Tho Wisconsin Republican State Con
IS delegates, headed BY the gallant Carl
Schurz, to the Chicago Convention. Reso.
lutions were passed instructing tho delegates
tovsts for VIM. H. Seward for President.
- Henry D. Foster, of Wsstmoreland d
| county, was nominated for Governor by
the Democratic Convention of Pennsylvania,
which met at Reading, on the Goth. The
delegates at large to the Charleston Conven-
ton are VIM. Bigler, John L. Dawson,
VIM. Montgomery and Joseph z. Baker.
Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, and George
McKim, of Berks, were chosen electors at
large.
Thirteen laboring men were crushed to
death by the falling of wall of St. Xavier
Church, at Cincinnati, on the 1st. The
church was being torn down for the pur.
pose of giving place to new one. 1t was
the Oldest Catholic church in the city. The
throw q wall 30 feet high, foot thick and
30 feet wide, by undermining it. The recent
rain affected the foundation, and it fell in
unexpectedly. Fifteen men were at work at
the time, one of whom succeeded in escap-
ing. Thirteen were crushed to death, and
the other mortally wounded.
The Missouri Opposition Convention,
at Jefferson City, on the 29th, was composed
of delegates from nearly all the counties in
the State. The President (Hon. Abel Leon.
ardD on taking the Chair, announced the
object of the convention to be tho nomina-
tion of Hon. Edward Bates for President of
the United States. Resolutions were adopt
ed condemning the slavery agitationists and
disunionists of the South, and recommend
ing law granting free homesteads to
actual settlers. A resolution was also
adopted declaring Hon. EDWARD Bates the
choice of the convention for the Presidency.
The action Of the convention in other
matters has not yet reached US.
"A Mr.. Ross, of Helena, Ark, was
burned to death at fire in St. Louis on the
29th. The loss of property by the fire was
SIS, 900 or $4,000.
"A fire in Boston, on the I'd, destroyed
the engine house and repair shop of the Wor-
cester Railroad Company, including six
locomotives. The buildings were entirely
destroyed. Loss $4,000. Insured in
Boston Office.
The Ohio Republican Convention met
at Columbus on the lst, and was largely at
tended. A resolution naming Salmon P.
Chase as the first choice of the Republicans
OF Ohio for the Presidency was passed by
vote OF 361 to 70. The delegates elected
are David K. Cartier, Thomas Speoner, Il.
Q. Broadbeck and Hon. V. B. Horton.
--Fifty-two counterfeiters were arrested
.; Lexington, Mo-, on the 29th ult They
were caught in the act of altering bills on
the Farmers Bank of Rhode Island to
Farmers Bank of Wisconsin, and erasing
other bank notes, including 20s on the
Farmers Bank Of Lexington.
1t is now ascertained beyond a doubt
that there are no survivors of the disaster
to the Hungarian. Only bodies have been
found = one that Of woman, one man,
supposed to be fireman, and ono q child,
supposed to be two years old. The cargo
and materials of the steamer are scatt tering
along the shore from Tasket around Cape
Sable as far as Ragged Island. Considers
Bile goods are drifting ashore at the mouth
OF Shelbourne Harbor. The ships articles
have been found, and it shows that the crew
numbered "a. No passenger list has yet
been found. The only passengers yet known
to have been on board the ill-fated vessel
are VIM. Boultenhouse, of Sackville, and
DR.. Barrett, Of New York A box belonging
to the latter has been found, containing a
number Of letters from his wife and daugh-
ter. The mails are soaked into pulp, but
thew will be sent to Halifax.