Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-22


The town Of Newport, Fla, was oct on fir
on the 18th inst, and entirely destroyed
Loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
In the grain warehouse of Sturges, Buck
inghams& Co., Chicago, there is about
million and half bushels of grain storet
for shipment
The Bourbons are now family Of esiles
not fewer than fifty five out of seventy-toul
who IRE the direct or collateral descendants
of Louis XIV. being il exile.
The harleston courier threatenst to make
tho Border States the battle fields and for
aging plains OF the army of Davis, because
they. hold ont against secession
Tho wife off. b. King, a New York &C
tor, committed suicide, recently, by means
Of poison, because she found strange pai
Of lady's gloves in her husbands pocket.
They make 200 Balmoral skirts daily a
the Pontoosuc Mills, Pittsfeld, Mass. The
red from the coal-tar, with which they ar,
colored, is said to be stunningly brilliant.
Three members of the Cabinet -Mess,s
Cameron, Welles and Blair-have worked q
the case as printers. These, with Vice-Pres
ident Hsmlin, form an illustrious quartett'
Of typos.
Ripe strawberries were on sale at New
Orleans on the lst inst. At Raleigh, n. g.
on the 9th, the peach trees were in bloom
garden peas in flower, and cabbhge plants
quite large enough to transplant.
Between Jan. 10Th and March 9Th, there
were shipped from Columbus, Ohio, by the
express companies, 403 barrels Of wild pig
cons, each barrel containing 400 pigeons
making total of l6l 200.
Vant,le Mack, the fat boy recently exhib-
tied at Barnum's Museum, in New York
died, in that city, on Wednesday. He wal
seven years old, weighed 240 pounds, anG
died Of excessive fairness.
A new daily evening paper, styled the
Missouri State Journal, has been started in
st. Louis, to take the place-and share the
fate of the defunct Bulletin. Secession
doctrines do not flourish in that latitude.
In the year 1860 the public income Of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland amounted to 1857, 494-about
$350,O0o,O00. That of the United States,
during the same period. was S54, 100000.
1t is ascertained on further investigation
that Illinois will be entitled to fourteen mem.
bers Of Congress, instead of thirteen, as at
first reported. This is gain of five members
the largest gain OF any State in the Union.
The National debt Of the United States
amounts to about dollar and a-half for
each inhabitant, while the sum of one hun
bred and thirty five dollars each would be
required from the British population if they
should pay theirs.
The Rev. James Thurston, of Belmont,
Mass, is engaged part of the time in ectur-
ing on fax cotton. BY this new discovery,
it is stated that New York can compete sue
cessfully in the growth Of cotton with all
the slave States combined.
The Charleston pagers appeal earnestly to
the people of South Carolina to take the
new State loan Of 100000, which is Put in
$50 shares. A large quantity of South
Carolina bonds are offered in ew York, but
there are no takers.
We notice that the ship Moonlight, which
sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong,
on the 10Th of February, was laden in part
with I4o, 900 feet Of lumber, $4,000 TASKS of
quicksilver $i5OO00 in specie, and 400
deceased Chiaamen's remains.
A man in Bridgeport has sold Barnum a
Tom Thumb dog, that weighs but three
ounces 1t is an English terrier, and sold
for 500. Such dog is good for nothing
he isn't big enough to bark for himself, let
alone barking at anybody else.
The benedict of the Cleveland Herald,
writing from Washington in regard to the
Presidents reception. says The ladies
dresses had evidently been often stepped on,
Tor there was great breadth upon the floor,
and very scant patters about the shoulders
The mileage from Oregon is $15,0 900. The
Presidential electors from that State would
not agree to lend one of their number to
bring the electoral VOTE but all three came,
and divided the 5000 between them; one
draws the whole from the Treasury and then
shares it with his companions.
Oryille Gardner (known in "fancy" circles
az awful Gardner'). the converted pugil-
list, Of New York, has become insane, from
too great zeal in his religious and reform
efforts. He has been taken to a quiet place
among the mountains of Pennsylvania, where
it is hoped that he may rest and recover.
A few days ago, Henry Aucker, an old
citizen Of Juniata county, Pa, was brutality
murdered by two rufians who entered the
house for that purpose. The cd man was
70 years of age, and reputed to be wealthy.
He sold one Of his farms sone time ago and
it was supposed he had considerable money
in his possession.
Spelling matches are all the rage in Win
sted, Conn. They had one in Camp Hall,
recently, and collected $45 in ten cent
admissions Nine schools of the town sent
five picked spoilers, the first prize being a
copy of Webster's Unabridged Pictorial
Dictionary. They used up the spelling book,
two or three Biographies. and had to bring
out the classics before some Of the sharpest
spoilers would succumb.
The New Orleans Delta says the
communication between the Red river and
the Mississippi is being gradually cut off.
The former is taking itself off to the Gulf,
by the way of Atchafalaya into Borwic,.'s
Bay. Unless something is done to prevent
the Red river trade from seeding, New
Orleans will lose large amount of valuable
traffic. A company is talked Of to keep the
(. channel open, o work which, it is thought,
will cost $2,o0o,oOo.
In Arizonie, recently, the bodies of four
Americans we're found lanced by the Indians.
The dragons who found the bodies took
immediate revenge by hanging up six Indian
prisoners which they had captured. The
account, which appears in the St. Louis
Republican, says these savages have super
stitious read of meeting death on the gal
lows, and begged Justify for the privilege Of
being shot. They also begged to have citizens
to do the work instead of the military, which
was also denied them.
The National Iatelligencer has the follow
ing notice: "Gen Scott to his correspond
ents, begs to state that, of their innumerabl'
letters, be does not find it practicable (beins
infirm) to read one in thirty. Applications
for autographs and Offices are most burden
some; the former increase with his inability
to use the pen, and of the latter he fas
within his own gilt. but two small places
OoDg we'll 6lled), and he recommends no on
whatever other than an Old soldier, nor 70,
any Office whatever cut Of the army