Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-11

begging without license 10 punished S
The Hudson river is now firmly closed BY
ice, from Albany down to Poughkespeae IL
A panther was killed near Kingeton, Cal,
recently, which measured eleven feet four
inches in length.
John II. MARYLAND, . prominent member I,
of the Philadelphia bar, died in that city on
Christmas day. Il
John Brown, Jr., son Of old "Ossawotta-
mie," is about leaving THE country, his
destination being Hayt.
A call has been issued in Pitaburgh for
the reorganization of the Wide Awake clubs,
for what purpose il not specified.
The Sheriff of Otoe county, Nsbraska, I'd
vertises two negroes for sale. This 10 bred
Scottish in the TesxitoTiea
A petriaed fish, over sixteen feet in length
aud distinctly marked, has been taken from
the coal mines Of Big Mound, Kansas.
They have sheet iron sleighs at Galens.
The runners are half round iron, the body |
al sheet-iron, and are manufactured in that
city.
At Randolph, Ala, young man named |
John Smithman shot and killed, with
doubls-barrsled gun, two brothers named
Hill.
The Charleston papers complain that the |
hosting Of the q. 8. nag over Fort Sumpter
is an "insulf' 10 the majesty of South Caro- |
lima
The population Of "New York and its be-
longings" was by the recent census returns
ascertained to be upwards Of q million and
half.
The revenue from customs in South Car
olina ports WAS not sufficient to defrsy the
expenses Of the ports themselves during the
last quarter.
A man in the New York Clipper challen-
ges all the world to q sleeping match: ne
sleeps five days on . stretch, and thinks
he can exceed that time.
Two murderers were sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life, in Boston, recently.
One had caused the death of police ofhcef
and the other had killed his wife.
The Washington papers say there have
never before been 90 few visitors at the Fed
eral capital on the opening of Conhress -
The hotels are not moro than half full.
Banker Burch, of Chicago, who failed to
get divorce from his wife, has since been
sued by her alleged paramount, Stuart, Tor
SANDER, and damages laid at 100000.
The Illinois Central Railroad 10 to be ex.
tended next summer from Dunlieth to La
crosse, taking the routes of tho Mineral
Point and the Viroqua and Muscoda road.
The Marine Corps of the United States
now consists of about 1000 men, of whom
500 are At the navy ysrds of New York, Bos-
ton, Norfolk, Pensacola and Portsmouth.
A lion-tamer in London, England, takes
half dozen of the fierce brutes into cage,
shows them plate full of pieces Of raw
beef, and makes each one take his own
turn.
South Carolina bonds have been hswked
about New York, offered as low as twenty
cents on the dollar, during the past week, but
could find no purchasers. Secession is
death-blow to Credit.
Queen Victoria's thanks to the American
people for their kindness to her son have
been communicated by Lord Lyons to SEQ
Rotary Cass The letter overfows with graf
itsde and courtesy.
III. Fleming, Chief Engineer and Super
intendent of the Mobile and Ohio r. R., has
offered to the Governor of Mississippi the
free use Of the road for the transportation Of
troops, arms, DO.
What free people Of any other color can
do if let alone, appears from the fact that
from the single port of Monrovia Liberia.
the excess of exports over imports for the
year 1859 was $47,5ll,22.
A German physician, named Breitlanch.
living near Pittshurg, shot his wife last
week, and afterwards himself. Both died
almcst Instantly. He seems to have been
actuated by drunken rage.
Hon. Henry NJ. Fuller, American candi-
date for Speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives in the protracted contest which
resulted in the choice of Mr.. Banks, died in
Philadelphia, on the Goth ult., aged 40.
Mr.. Samuel Thorne, of Dutchess county,
N. Y, has recently imported from England
Southdown buck, which cost him $3.50,
but, even at this enormous price, Mr.. Thorne
congratulates himself on the acquisition.
Col. Snyder, of Missouri, who vote let.
ter to the Missonri Republican sometime
since in contradiction of Judge Williams
assertions, has been dismissed from service
BY Gov. Stewart, of Missouri, for telling the
truth.
The family Of Maj. Anderson, commander
of Fort Sumpter, consisting of his wife and
three children and his servant, are stopping
at the Brevoors House in Fifth Avenue,
N. T., where they have spent several win
tiers.
There are twenty mine officers in the army,
and thirty two in the navy, who are South
Carolinians by birth. Com. c. K Stribling,
the Commander of the East India Squadron,
is the only one who ct present holds an i'm
portant station.
The New York Commercial Advertia ?
publishes list of the ocean vessels that
were lost during 1860, ihe list foots up:
steamers II, ships II. barks 50. briggs A.,
schooners 1870. sloops 3, total 3S3. value Of
all the vessels los. $6,237 900.
Five thousand citizens of Baltimore haze
signed letter to Gov. Hicks, Of Maryland.
approyine his refusal to co vene the Legs-
lature of that state The lis: is eaded By
John P. Kennedy. ex-Seeretary Of the Navy,
and embraces the nsmes OF min. -tenhs Of
the business men of ;he city.
A correspondent of the St Louis Repab-
ican SAYS ,ha' the Utah iniians have been
Offering N-,yaio scssps ior sale on the streets
of Santa Fe. Their prize. = vary accord ng
to quality ii .ar.-e one with il. black hair,
about three .ee' ;ui.r, sold for $500, While
others can lie bought FOE 81.
The FREQ negro law, passed at the last
session of the Kentucky legislature, making
it felony, pnnishsi,i. with Imprisonment in
the peuiteut..ry, lar a free negro to enter
the State for the purpose oi residing therein,
went into efsci on the ist u.e One Sec
ton of the statute prohibits free negroes that
have left tie tate from returning again.
A Kansas correspondents of the Worcester
Spy Gays that physicians from the interior
declare their fears Of an epidemic setting in.
among the people, superinduced by the
scanty supplies Of food, aHd the utter absence
for months Of fresh vegetable diet. The
scurvey has already made its appearance
and in the extreme western and southern