Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-22
News Paragraphs,

boston, recently by the QHuyery OF loui
lectures.
There are now 9,OS4 inmates in the char
table and criminal institutions of New
York City.
Tho great Bergen tunnel, on the Eric |
R1iiroad, is at length completed, and was
formally opened last week.
The maiority in favor of the Union ticket
in Tennessee is about $4,000. Only two Sc
cession candidates are elected
Ex-Secretary Floyd was candidate at the
late Convention election In Virginia. He
was defeated by one thousand majority.
There &c il Philadelphia 1894 persons
named Smith including lI6 Johns. There
are also SAG Browns, including 81 Johns.
Delazon Smith, the recently deceased
Oregon Senator, was born at New Berlin,
Chcnango county, n, Y, Oct. Is, 1916.
Sarah Carlisle died in St. Joseph, Mo,
rec,nIy Iii her one hundred and fifteenth
gear, Her husband was q soldier in the
Revolution.
The snow in the Northern towns of Her
Nmer county. n. Y. is said to he full FIVE
feet deep. sudden thaw would cause
terrible freshet.
New York city has now more than
S4o, 100000 in gold. he Assay Office has
t,oO0 900, which is being turned into coin
at Tie rate OF about 100000 day.
John Harley, aged one hundred years
and nne months, native of Ireland, but q
resident Of Galena for the last fourteen
years, died in that city on the eth inst.
Tho Gaena Adrerti8er says thers were
ls,oo3,5i4 pounds of lead shipped from the
mines OF that locality the past year, which,
at The average price, i cents per pound was
sold fox $l,029 AS. 10.
Daniel ullman, of New York. recently
sent Mr.. Lincoln, by express, IN elegant
bronze medal Of Henry Clay. Only one
hundred and fifty copies of the medal were
m1he. and this was one of them.
2 The oyster dealers of Fairhaven, Conn.
put up annually 252, $50 tin cans, and AS,
So wooden kegs of oysters They sell
l,O9O,0Oo bushels in the shell, and 900 00O
gallons opened, every year.
IL Is not the intention of Ger. Cass TO leave
Washington before the 9TH of March, being
determined to see President Lincoln inaug-
urated. lie says it is the last ceremony OF
the Kind he shall probably ever see.
All documents seeds, &c. which belonged
to the seceding Senators and Representatives
have been. forwarded TO them by express
and mail. They have drawn all of their
salaries Tor the full session.
Col Cri!tenden (so1 Of the Sexator). with
sixty men, routed four or FIVE hundred deg.
red ting Camanches, in New Mexico. last
december 1t is said to have been one OF
the most successful Indian 6gnts on record
A Mr.. John Tyler, who Imagined he had
snake IN his stomach, died at Roscopel
WIS, on tho 9th uit., from starvation.-
lie had attempted to starve the snak3 out
AMI touched no food for twenty-seven days
The National debt Of the United States
amounts to about Il dollar and half for
each 'nhabitant, whiio the sum OF one hun.
drcd an thirty FIVE dollars Zach would be
required IRON the British population if they
should pay theirs
roy years Of age, son Of Mr.. Charles
plke, OF bradford, Mass. while coasting a
lew days since, ran under = team of horses
pas5ing on the road, when one Of the ami
mails stepped on his breast, cru hing and
killing SIN instantly.
man na,Ae --4Eugtus austin, Ger.
msn, committed snioide by s. ooting himself,
a. y UIlle'h, opposite Dubuque, few days
since. lie committed he deed deli berately,
ha'-LS previously paid all hi, debts and
prepares himself for the dreadful act.
A grand army of one thousand mounted
volunteer; trontierslnyn is rendezvousing in
Jack county, Texas, for an expedition of ex-
Termination against the hostile Indian tribes.
They intend TO push on to the headquarters
OF the enemy and root them out of the land
OF the living, ii POSSIBLE
Two BROTHERS, David and William Clark,
were killed. IN Monroe county; Ind, last
week, oy man ~ the name of Hunter
rive mon We" engaged in the affair. but
n9ne were injured but the Clarks. There
mad been trial, where misunderstanding
Occurred, hence the difficulty.
! he dykes in Holland were broken in
various PAGES, January 8th and 9th, sweep
ing away the houses CT thousands of unfor.
tnnatc creatures, who are wandering, cold,
hungry and homeless, upon the dykes. At
nleht, the rush OF the torrents is distinctly
heard at considerable distance and ali
ringing Of bells along the river has been
forbidden
ExPfcsident Tyler is described as bear
ing ms great age with remarkable grace. He
- the same slim, tal-looking, hieh-bred
Virginia gentleman, his striking features
stIii showing high degree Of mental actiy-
ity lie has that characteristic which Ma
poleon !. considered the mark Of intellectual
7uperioriGy-a prominent nose His eve i.
zeen and gentle, and reflects the animal
7Sor which is undiminished by age
Bishops as wali as doctors, disagrec.-
H;9hop " hittinghan, Of Maryland, has
written letter TO Governor Hicks. earnestly
approving the Union stand taken BY the
latter: while Bishop Hutledge, of Florida.
ms sent i've hundred dollars to the treasurer
OF the secesS!onlsts to aid in the disunion
movement in that State. Bishop Rutledge
has never been Union man, as he is one
OF The only two bachelor bishops in the
American church.
heart-r nf!nE Incident occurred in For.
Atkinson, Wis on .ue i2.iIinst Miss ellen
fillmore, IN company with some friends, was
IN the lott CT TIE new steam Touring mill of
Freezer 2 Head, looking at the machinery,
While dang so she playsull7 spoke CT a.
tempting to bcl! tae sraft. and reached
towards II with her neud The shawl hang
ing ABOUT her arm Vas caught, and she was
instantly dTa@n around lha shaft and killed,
Cna arm was tern OF and the whole BODY
terribly bruised
Senator Benjamin, of Louisiana, who
glorleS IN the act Of the seceders stealing
that State, It's custom houses, forts. arsena!s'
anu mint with 500 goo, from the United
States, was obliged to leave Yale College,
wren student there in 1923, on account of
THEFT. Lie was in the habit Of stealing every
thing lie could lay his hands or. whether it
WAS the property Of professors, classmates or
tue oc.!egc The boy makes the man"
We doubt not that al the leaders in the
secession movement would steal as soon as
cat, when they could get a good chance
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Very FELIs-Ir0Us.
Felis sedit by . hole,