Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-01

Horace Greeley lectured in Michigan last
week, and is coming to Illinois IN q 10"
Days. . :, N.
southern parts of Asia, hundreds OF deaths
occurring daily.
The Indian massacres in Texas continue |
Every arrival Of the mail from there brings
accounts of new atrocities.
The Banks in New York are nearly glut'
tad with specie They now hold $50, OO0,Ooo
with prospect Of further increase.
A catalogue Of stars has been commenced
At the Observatory in Cambridge. 1t will
require five hundred years to complete it.
Mr. f. White fell dead in church at
po~tland. Me-, while rising to make some
remarks to the congregation on Saturday.
An ice-boat, on Cayuga, IN. ~ Lake,
ran across the ice on New Years day, Mt
the rate of mile in half minute.
Cyrus w. Field, of New York, Of Atlantic
Gable fame, has failed in business. his
creditors won't get Is cents on the dollar.
President Lincoln has been presented with
4 gold-headed rosewood cane valued ut
$3.50, by man from Nevada City, CAL
In a dispute about claim at Weavervillc,
Cal, Dec. 10Th, John Robbins killed two
men and mortally wounded a third. no
was arrested.
An old couple we're suffosa at Column
bia, Penn, by q joint Of the stove-plpe
breaking loose, and filling the room with 3
sulphurious gas
Three men, James Muse, Bernard Cady,
and Thomas Obey, were recently killed py
the caving in of we'll they were digging al
Winona county, MINI.
Commodore Shubrick has arrived a'
Washington. and saws South Carolina can
not hold out much longer unless other States
come to her relief
A piece of land was recently sold in Lon
don at the rate of $l,9o0,0C0 per acre
sufficient to cover it with silver equal to hall
dollar in thickness,
The rumored designs of an attack on tn
BROOKLYN Navy Yard were wholly unfounded
The public mind is nervous and catches us
any absurd rumor.
The Quaker City Insurance Company, u
Philadelphia, has gone under. The cause
of the failure is attributed to heavy losses
during the past year.
There is one good thing in the Georges
secession business. The late traitor Oh 'n'
Treasury Department, Cobb, was cano1
date for delegate and was beaten.
John Morrissey, the gambler and pugilis
is becoming one of the solid men OF New
York. He has just purchased BLOCK Q
brown stone houses for $10O,OOO
Forty thousand weavers, says the las
news from England, are starving, and at In
same time the Queen has been giving
grand dinner on service Of gold plate.
Israel Parshal, of Havana, Saginaw coun
-.x. Mich, raised the past season from forty
two acres of new land, 6,72l bushels OF cor
aars, which is lust about 100 bushels to tn
acre. ~,
A new feature in the late annual cattl
show at Birmingham, England, was q sho'
of dogs of every known breed. Anon
other costly dogs wasa King Charles spanie
priced at $4,000.
At Stowe, VT, there are 1--WE factories
which starch is manufactured from potatoes
Each consumes about 10000 bushels pc
annum. Eight pounds of starchis the vel
of eight bushels.
Bees are said to be so numerous IN Gal
fornia that they are great pest, destroyln
in some places the products OF vineyards
and proving more troublesome than nous
aies to housekeepers, grooers, DC.
DR.. Foster, who pulled down and trample
upon the American flag, at Covington, ny
where he is postmaster, few days since
has been fined $50 for the act. he ougf
to have been smothered in the folds OF Tn
banner that he outraged
The supplies of arms and ammunition TO
the South have been cut off in New YORK
Judge Smalley's charge to the Grand Jur
has opened the eyes fthe people and alarm
ed the Southern agents, who have taken
headlong flight.
Mrs. Cross, of Peoria, had been sweeping
and after taking up the dust had deposlte
the same in CRATE of the stove. Attempt
iIg to, Dir the fire, there was a tremendou
explosions knocking her over and severed
burning her face and eyes.
Rev. Peter Cartwright. the pioneer Meth
odist nreacher," Of Illinois, delivered lee
tire in New York on Monday evening, II
the course of which he said, 'old as l am,
could shoulder my rifle and fight for tn
Union" Mr. Cartwright voted for Douglas
The South Carolina taxpayers have de
liehtful prospect before them. The loan
sd eco, 900, which has just been authorized
hv the Legislature for the purpose OF Great
inc navy, will amount to $40 for ever.
white man. woman and child in the State
One Bob Marshall, bar-keeper, killed {
man in Paducah, Ky, last spring and lied tt
New Orleans, whittier relative OF the muir
dared man followed him end few days
since shot him dead on the street. lie gave
himself up to the authorities, by whom he
was acquitted.
On the 2lst inst, the house OF VIM. Cos
t;can in the town Of Menomonee, Waukesha
county, Wis, about twelve miles from NIL
yankee caught fire ard was entirely con-
sumed, together with four OF MS children
two bovs and two girls, aged from four to
ten years. All Who were IN the mouse hao
q narrow escape from burning up.
Three thieves, who on Sunday last broke
into a silver uan ry. at Camden, \. D., were
so frightened i,y the r",ce of an Unseen par
rot CRYING, 'Yoo lazy devils, | see you =,
John. bring my revolver" thas they ned
through the wrong w'nd :" INTO ns1Sh-
hor's ward. where they were aSaai'ed by 8
dog. The police arrested ore Of theln
Adv;ees from New Mexico state that Hb ut
three week aro Mai Crittenjen, with mis-
command from Fort Union, came across "a
jorce hand of Kiuwa Indians near Simeon
Snrine and battle ersued. Fifty Indians
vera Killed, and amongst them their noto-
r;ons chief Sautauk. They burnt up 100
LODGES and ok al. their ponies, provisions,
&C. None OF Cr.,teuden's command were
even wounded.
The japanese "rolumy, about whom the
American ladies' did noi run mad, although
some newspapers did, is an insignificant, no.
body at home. He is simply the son OF an
interpreter, is furnished place to sleep;
has q per diem allowance of mice to eat and
gets 1851 per month pay: The same arrival
from there that furnishes the above also
brings the important intelligence that kiss
ing is to6ooed in Japan-it is held to DC too
vuIgar-too indelicate for any respectable