Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-12

Gen. Scott and Mr.: Lincoln have, it
said, become very warm friends.
The snow was IL or Is feet deep in Il
streets Of st. John, N. b., on the oath ult
The Great Eastern sails for New Yo
4 May lst. She goes to Liverpool for cargo
The St. Louis Republican says there q
three thousand vacant houses in that cit
The smallpox is prevailing to a consider
BILE extent in St Louis just now, causing, /
usual, much alarm.
Cassius NJ. Clay, Minister to Russia, wi
sail with his family for Liverpool, by til
Persia, on the 24sh inst. 7., .l4,.
The total amount Of specie sent to Ame
lea from England since the end Of Novembe
is about GA, 100000.
Potatoes are arriving at Philadelphia fro1
the West in large quantities, and selling a
IS to 80 cents per -bushel.
A wealthy planter went mad at jackson
Miss, on account of the depreciation of hi
negroes. Last week he cut his throat.
The Secretary of the Navy is ARRANGING
the preliminaries for the construction of tn
seven new war steamers ordered by the lat,
Congress.
| Adyices from Yucatan to the 7th ultimo
state that the Indians in that country arr
being seized and sold into bondage in tn,
Island Of Cuba.
At the recent election in Tennessee, tht
secessionists polled but four votes in all tht
Hermitage district Verify the spirit Of
Old Hickory fingers about that spot.
J. @. Ross, well-known teamster al
Sacramento, CAL, died Of the q nders, on
the 9Th of February, having contracted the
disease by opening mule that died of it.
The Hon. VIM. Allen, representative in
Congress fram the Piqua (Ohio) District,
whole family of four children by that dread
ful scourge, diptheria.
The President has determined to receive
no visitors hereafter on Saturday, but will
devote that day to himself, in accordance
with the practice established by President
Buchenau.
Rev. Mr.. Brauenger, one of the missiona-
riea of the German Lutheran Synod OF
Iowa among the Indians on the head waters
Of the Yel!ows one, has been murdered by
strolling party of savages.
During the tremendous gale in England,
on the 2lst of February, the anemometor at
Lloyd's marked thirty-six pounds pressure
of the wind on the square foot. This is the
heaviest gale recorded for many years.
The Congress of the Confederate States
have made foreign coin a legal tende:' in
payment of debts, and has specified the
quality and rates at which they shall be
current. Of course the coins of the United
States are included.
The bill for the enslavement of the free
negroes in Virginia has been adopted. Its
practical effect will be to iorce into slavery
sixty or seventy Thousand free persons-an
act of baseness without q parallel in
civilized country.
There remains now not one foot OF un-
organized territory in the Republic. The
during the last session Of Con-
gress, Of the three new Terr tories, to-wit
Colorado, Nevada and Daeotah, has wiped
out a l the unorganized territory.
The Republic of Dominica, in the Island
of Hayti, which the Spanish are said to have
taken possession of, comprises about three
tilths Of the island. twas originallya Span
ish colony. 1t has about $4,000 inhabi-
tants, one-tenth Of whom pretend to be
whites.
The MONTGOMERY papers mention terrific
bombshel invented by Ii. L. St james, of
Mobile, for the exclusive use of the Confed-
eracy. 1t is long shell with two compart-
ments, so contriv. that when it hits it will
explode and scatter a destructive fluid, which
water cannot extinguish.
A witness at Hal'owell, Me-, refused to
take an oath or affirm, Us he could only act
from impressional promptings, beings spirit
ualists. The Judge sent him to jail. After
a confinement OF twenty minutes he was
''permitted by the spirits" to compromise
and testify like any other mortal.
A drayman in St. Louis has become
totally blind in consequence of over exertion
and straining in lifting; This is warning
to dumb-bell users. The eye is very sym
pathetic - horses in cities that draw very
heavy loads are known to be victims more
than others of blindness.
The Queen of England's mother, Maria
Louisa Victoria, Duchess of Kent, died of
cancer, March 10th. She was born August
18th, 1856, so that she was in her 10Th year.
The courts of England, Belgium, Prussia,
caxe- Cobourg, and numerous others, will be
placed in mourning by her decease.
A refined looking elegantly dressed wo.
man travelled recently from Washington to
Canada, ria public conveyances. She was
in reality fugitive slave, but passed readi-
ly for white woman. The slave trader,
whose property" she had recently became,
offered 50, 1000 reward, in vain, for his runa-
way chattel:
A notorious horse-thief named Ike
Edwards, killed an Indian near Topeka,
Kansas, recently, for the purpose Of getting
his horse. Edwards was arrested and put in
iail at Topeka A night or two following, a
band Of men entered the Jail and hung him
An Inquest was held, and the jury brought
in verdict Of 'sServed him right"
There is no foundation for the report
th@ the Secretary of the Treasury has sent
any unusual instructions to the officers of
he Customs at St Louis respecting imports
there which came up by way of New Orleans.
No difficulty has occurred at st. Louis about
Customs, goods for that port being passed at
New Orleans without any attempt to levy
duties upon them.
A correspondent of ths n. Y. Times rep
resents the slave trade as unusually brisk on
the west coast Of Africa. The American
bark City of Norfolk has escaped from
Whydah with cargo OF |oo negroes, and
the bark Buckeye left the same port with
$50. The price of slaves on the coast is
from $50 to $50. The King of Dahomey is
still engaged in his slave hunts.
A terrible disaster has just occurred in
Savoy. An avalanche of immense exten,
suddenly fell from the top of mountain
called the Merlier, carrying everything
before it. Fourteen cottages were swepI
away, four hundred head OF cattle perished
and twenty families are reduced to misery
Three persons were buried beneath the
ruins; whes got out one was still alive
though dreadfully injured, and the Other
two were dead.
a singular case recently came before the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts, A commits
sion had been issued to Justice of The
Peace who d ed Immediately after. Anothel
man of the same name obtained possession
IF the commission and was qualified. TIL,
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