Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-08
News Paragraphs.

All the principal rolling mills Of Pittsburg
are in operation and doing heavy business.
The receipts of the United States Coloni-
cation Society last year, from all souces, was
$14.863.
Gen. Scott has received detailed informa-
ton OF plot to sieze the U. S. Arsenal at
st. Louis.
The measles are now prevailing in Elliott
vile, N. Y, to such an extent that all tho
schools there have been closed.
Nearly four hundred thousand dollars fall
into the hands of the secessionis by the
seizure OF the mint at New Orleans.
The number Of beef cattle received in New
York during the year 1860 was 226,7
head, the average price ss.l5 per cwt.
Alabama has passed bill requiring all
the free negroes to leave the State by the
first Of January, 1862, or be sold into slavery.
The japanese claims in New York have
been reduced down still further to the sum of
$57 800. The bills originally amounted to
some $4,000.
The "bearded lady," who was exhibited
In this country by Barnum several years age.
recently died in Moscow, and her corpse vas
placed on exhibition in London.
Preparations are being made to raise the
fremont House in Chicago, cup to the
grade" The cost of raising the Building
and the internal improvement of the Hotel
will be $4,000
The Mormons are actively engaged in
forwarding the Pacific telegraph enterprise.
Brigham Youngh has contracted for construct
ing 400 miles-150 east and $50 west from
Salt Lake City.
Live prairie chickens are being sent to
Europe from Chicago. J. d A. Kerzog have
shipped two dozen to Erankfort-on-t the Main
and also large quantity to the Prince of
Wales.
Charles II. Stillwell advertises in the
Springfield, Texas, papers that he will catch
negroes and aboltionsts, 'the latter free Of
charge for food for his dogs" He has fast
horses and fresh pack, ready and spoiling
for chance
The Niagara, with the Japa,Aese ambassadors
on board, arrived at Y eddie on the 10th of
November, having been one hundred and
thirtty-two days in tho voyage from New
York, including thirty days stoppages at
different ports on the way
The military force of PENNSYLVANIA is
35o, 600 men, OF whom 19, 900 are uniformed
volunteers. The arms of the State are
y, $50 muskets, 4,706 rifles, 2,SO9 cavalry
swords and sabres, 3, l47 pistols, and 50 six
FOUNDER bronze cannon.
The depth of snow in New Hampshire
at the present time is almost unparalleled -
Measurements made of the quantity fallen
show that in all there have been about
seventy inches, and travelling is very much
impeded In Western New York, also,
vast amount ofsnow has fallen.
Mrs. Lincoln returned to Springfield from
her visit to New Y DIRK week before last. ac
cumpanied by her son Robert, ''the Prince
of Rails, and by nephew. Robert has
leave OF temporary absence from Harvard
College, and joined his mother at New York. |
1t his first visit home since his father has
been elected President.
The President has discontinued the work
on all the public buildings now in course of
erection at Charleston, New Orleans and |
other cities of the seeding States, and also !
on all the Southern Notifications and no
money will be ps.id out of the public treasu-
ry to the constructors engaged in the works,
except in pay ment of services heretofore |
rendered.
There is considerable excitement at To-
ledo, Ohio, concerning the suspected murder
under horrible circumstances, of Mr., Owen
King, of that city, who went to Maumee City,
where he collected $500 that was owing to |
him, and went into a small grocery in the
evening, which was burned down next morn
ing, and his charred body found in the ruin.
1t is suspected that two men who kept the
grocery robbed and murdered him in the
night, and set fire to the building to hide their
crime. They have been arrested.
Two young men named Easton and Hooker,
the latter clerk in the Saltwater post office,
and the former sleeping with him in the
office nights, have been arrested for robbing
the Minnesota mails passing through that
office southwark. The evidences of guilt
were found on their persons, and they have
been committed for trial Complaints have
for some time been made of missing money
and letters from Minnesota, and this solves
the mystery.
The secession movement is making north
ern trunk railroads rich. Immense amounts
of cotton are going up by Cincinnati that
would, in peaceable times, have gone by the
Virginia roads if by railroad at all. Strange I
to say, even the most northernly of northern
roads are preferred above the Others The
Michigan Central estimates that it has now
on hand hundred thousand dollars worth of
freight that would not otherwise have come
to it at all. The Grand Trunk Railroad
of Canada has just contracted to it's full ca
pacity for carrying cotton. All of which
goes to show that the South are "going to
starve out the North"