Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

News Paragraphs.
On the Sd of March 100000 Russian
serfs were liberated. The day before they
were all slaves.
Gov. Sam. Houston, of Texas who has
been supposed poor man, is reported to be
worth not less than $l5O,OOO.
Fort Adams, in Newport { R. ~ harbor. il
said to be the largest and most formidable
fortress in the country. It cost about Eve
million dollars. -.
The Lake Superior Miner says the largest
mass of copper yet obtained arrived at On.
tonagon, on january 10th. 1t weighed 49,
600 tbs-six and a-half tons.
The contractors of the overland route for
California, have con eluded to carry pas
sengers for $3.50, and are expecting to do
great business.
The prospects of business at Louisville,
n.y., are 30 discouraging that many Of the
leading merchants of that city have pub
hsned an appeal to their landlords to reduce
the price of rents.
The oyster-dealers of Fairhaven, Conn.
put up annually 25l ,450 tin cans, and 446,-
S32 wooden kegs Of oysters. They sell
100000 bushels in the shell, and 1,00O, 900
gallons opened, every year.
Mr.. Buchanan is not i'll, as was reported.
he wrote to Boston, few DAYS since: 'My
health is excellent, thank Col, and would
be happy in my retirement were it not for
the condition of the country"
Dr.. Hughes, of Lawranceburg, Indiana.
was arrested on requisition in St. LOUIS.
last week, charged with having a wife and
children in Lawrenceburg, and another
wife at Wilmington, Ind.
Caleb Fitzgerald, aged IS years, of Roch.
ester, Fulton county, Indiana, destroyed his
life, last week, by cutting his throat with .
razor. His mind was deranged by pecuni.
airy embarrassments.
Mr.. F. L. Frelinghuysen has been ap.
pointed by the Governor of New JERSEY. At.
torney General of the State, to fill the vacan-
cy occasioned by the resignation of Mr..
Dayton who goes Us Minister to France.
1t is said that %, 900 Germans in western
Texas, with $4,000 from other parts of the
State, will Immediately emigrate, en- znasse.
to Mexico or Central America, to escape the
tyranny of the secessionists
A bill has passed the Senate of Wisconsin.
| and, it is said, will pass the House. making
material notifications in it's Personal Lib.
erty law, so as to make it conform to the
Federal law.
According to the new schedule of taxation
| officially issued, recently, the rate of taxa
ton throughout South Carolina is l74 cents
on every hundred dollars of property, and
an ad Ua'orens tax of $1.26 on every negro.
Mrs. Harriet Hodges has been appointed
postmistress at Norton, Mass, and Miss.
Gardiner at bingham. Miss Gardiner, it
will be remembered, is the daughter of the
late postmaster at bingham, who was
poisoned by his wife.
| Funny things happen in France. NJ. JAG
quet died in Rouen, leaving all his fortune to
. lady in Paris. Singular to relate, the ladv
died about the same hour, leaving N. Jacquet
all her money. The heirs of both are to
contest which was the survivor.
Mr.. Hassaurek, the eloquent German
orator of Cincinnati, thanked the President,
few days since, for having appointed him
to the highest place in his gift = that is, nine
thousand five hundred feet above the ocean,
the altitude of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
Some 10000 tons of old bells have arrived
at West Troy, N. Y, to be recast They
came from Mexico, and bear very ANTIQUE
appearance. One purports to have been cast
ninety seven years since, and the others
range in date from fifty to seventy five years.
| A young gentleman graduated at Yale
College, New Haven, Conn, recently, with
white head and whiskers, who entered
with auburn locks and no beard. The
change took place in one night, on account
of the anxiety incident to a biennial exami.
ton.
| Mr.. Seward, aged 60. is of New York:
Chase, aged 81, is of Ohio; Cameron. aged
81, is of Pennsylvania: Smith, aged 48. is of
Indiana Welles, aged about 60, is of Con.
necticut; Bates, aged 60, is of Missouri, and
Blair, aged about As, is of Maryland. Mr..
lincoln is just So.
Herr Driesbach, at Barnum's Museum.
makes his bears perform some very remark
able antics. One fellow goes through tho
pantomine of being so patriotic that, when
| the keeper asks the question "Would You
rather die than see the Union dissolved ?"
the true-hearted creature falls over, as if
shot instanter.
A fellow calling himself Baptist minis.
ter appeared at Evans Mil Jefferson coun.
ty, N. Y, last week, lie so pleased the
people that they subscribed $500 to make
him their clergyman. This the scamp took,
got awful drunk, swore round oatts in tho
streets, rode about iowa with wild woman,
borrowed $3.50 and decamped.
The papers published on the seaboard
complain Of snowstorms that extended, about
the middle of last month, from Maine to
Georgia. Even the Savannah par ers an
nouce heavy fall of snow there on the Goth.
the same day that Boston was almost buried
in the feecy crystals. The Atlantic coast. on
the morning of the 2lst, was white from
Florida 10 Labrador.
Dr.. Williamson, residing near Napoleon.
vile, La &, was murdered on the 18th ult. bv
two Of his relatives. The Doctor was mar
ried, but having no children, he had reared
and educated the two brothers of his wife.
Henry Il. and Frank G. They became dis.
sipated, he rebuked them and turned Frank
out of his house, and they waylaid and shot
him with revolvers. The young assassins
have been arrested.
The Alabama Convention has adjourned
sine die, after passing IN ordinance provid-
ing that the General Assembly of the State
shall ceds place ten miles squa re for o seat
OF Government of the Confederate States
This movement Is evidently designed as an
inducement for locating the caIital within
the limits of the State, but the difficulty will
arise among the citizens of Alabama as to
the partic liar spot to be selected Huntsville
has repeatedly urged her claims upon the
attention of the Congress of the Confederate
States and seems destined to be q formidable
rival Of Montgomery.
The production of oil from the oil-wells of
Crawford and Venango countless in Penn.
'ylvania, is row so great that the Philadel.
phia North American anticipates that two
Or three million dollars will be realized from
t this year. The transportation now amounts
% five or six hundred barrels daily, and is
'apidly increasing. This traffic, the North
American saws has SUSTAINED ninatv ,nilaa of