Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-18
THE JOURNAL.

THE JOURNAL.
LOCAL EMF.
ELECTION FOR POST MASTER.
An election will be held at the Court House in the
city of Muscatne Saturday, the I'd day of February
A. D. 1861, commencing at 10 o'clock. A. NJ. and clos
ing at o'clock, P. NJ, for the purpose of selecting
suitable person be recommon ded to l the Office Of
Post Master Of this city.
full attendance of all persons who receive their mai
matter regularly at this delivery and who voted fol
ApYAuAM LINCOLN ut the late Presidential Election is
respectfully requested and that they recommend some
suitable person to fill said office.
BY order of the Republican Township Committee.
w Copies of the DAILY JOURNAL will be
found for sale at the bookstores each morn
ing. The Daily contains the night dis
patches by telegraph-the same as received
by the daily papers in the larger cities. This
puts US to considerable additional expense,
but we hope to be remunerated for it by in
creased patronage.
lay The Board of Supervisors, in session
last week, adjourned to the second Monday
in March
T The lines of ELIZA" are respectfully
declined The sentiments are touching and
beautiful, but lack the rythmetical requisites
of poesy.
W Last Sunday, as will be seen by our
news column, was the coolest day of the
season on the Atlantic seaboard Here the
weather was mild and snow melting.
ca Tho train from Washington, due at
$3.50 P. NJ, Wednesday, was detained till 9
o'clock last night, by snow drift about II
miles this side Of Washington.
Coon FOR Iowa! - The Chicago Tribune
quotes the bills of the Iowa State Bank at
4 per cent. above Illinois currency. This is
deserved compliment to our State banking
system.
MORE SNow.-Another snow of several
inches fell Tuesday night. 1t was melting
quite fast yesterday. This has been re-
markable winter for snow-the ground hav-
ing now been covered for ne2rly two months.
The LIGHT GUARDS BY notice elsewhere,
it will be seen that this company has not
been disbanded, as generally supposed. A
meeting is commanded for this friday eve
ming. We hope the company will receive
many new members on that occasion.
sW- The notes Of the following Illinois
banks are thrown out by the banks in this
city. All others are bankable.
American Exchange Bank,
Corn Exchange Bank,
Bank of Raleigl,
Bank Of the Commonwe alth,
Bank of Aurora,
State Bank Of illinois, at shawneetown,
Southern Bank of Illinois, at GRANVILLE,
GRANVILLE Bank.
Me-. BLANcHARD's MURDERER CoNvIcrRD.-i
We notice by Sacramento paper that VIM.
Williams, one of the murderers of A.
Blanchard, formerly of this place,) has
been convicted of murder in the first degree. |
His sentence had hot been pronounced at
last accounts. The paper adds that the YER
dict was in accordance with the expectations
of the public.
DISTRICT CoURT.-The cases against the
city, for damages by the overfiowing OF Iowa
Avenue from the west branch of Pappoose.
were commenced yesterday. There are ten
of these cases in all. They will likely occu-
Ply several days. The one new in progress
is that of DR.. Waters, who claims damages
to the amount of $24o, on account of the
feed of Sept. 7th and 9Th, 1858, He has
another suit, claiming over 81 900 for mum
dation second time.-Daaly, 18th.
D1sTR1or CoURT.-The jury in the case of
DR., Waters against the city, for $24o dam.
ages, by inundatios, failed to agree, after
being nearly twenty -four hours out, and were
discharged. We understand that they stood
for the city and for the plaintiff
The case of Waters & John, claiming $1,000
damages for the same reason, occupied the
Court, Wednesday. Counsel for PLAINTIFF
Richman and Brannan; for the city OCon-
nor and Lindley, (the latter of Davenport.)
Assessors MEETINa.-Eleven of the tbir-
teen township assessors in Mu.catine county |
met at the Court House on Monday, for the
purpose of classifying and eqnalizing the
assessments. The Board was organized by |
calling VIM. Wright to the Chair and
appointing II. H. Garnes Secretary. The fol-
lowing members were present: W. Wright, |
Wapsinonoc II. II. Garnes, Bloomington
John Conner, Moscow; L. Hopes, Lake +;
S. 3. Clark, Wilton A. Cone, Cedar JON
athan Ady, Fulton; Mr.. Purington, Pike;
The Assessors from Goshen and Orono town
ships were not present. The Assessors will
commence their duties at once. The law
requires that they should make their returns
by the third Monday in May next
OPPOSITION TO THR RAILROAD TAX. "A
subscription paper, on which about $500 has
already been signed, is passing among our
citizens to raise means to contest the legality
of the Railroad tax levied upon the citizens
of this county to pay the interest on railroad
bonds voted number of years since to the
NJ & NJ r. r. Co. The amount of this tax
is 5000 per annum.
If the Railroad Company had performed
it's part of the contract in good faith, we
should be utterly opposed to this move, but
as it has grossly cheated and deceived us we
believe our people are justified in taking