Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-25

News Paragraphs.
The debt of Virginia now exceeds $780,
100000.
The debt of the city of Philadelphia for
1861 is $5,2l6,545.
The cost of the Crimean war 10 said to
have been $3.50, 100000.
Tobacco is interdicted in oil the educs-
tional institutions Of France.
Eugene L. Sullivan, a prominent poll
tician in California, won $4,000 on Lin
coins election.
Twenty patriots Of the Revolution died
during the past year; eishty.two are all
that are left
The number of children who have died
during the past year of scarlet fever. in the
United States, is estimated at 4S,96l.
John Mckinney, late State Treasurer of
Michigan, is said to be u delau!ter to the
extent of $l34,OO0. He has absconded
Ned Price, the we'll known buffer who
accompanied Heenan on bis sparring tour,
was shot and killed in New Orleans On the
4,h inst.
The Directors of the Southern Bank of
New Orleans offer to place at the disposal of
the State of Louisiana, if needed, q loan of
$4,000.
| Two lectures on the present crisis by
Henry Clay and Theodore Parker, delivered
through Mrs. Hatch, the medium, are ad-
vertised in tho New York papers.
The Golden Star, from Mobile for Liver
pool, with cargo of $3.50 bales Of cotton,
has been lost at sea, the caotain, his wife
and seventeen other persons perishing.
The Knights of the Golden Circles are
said to be an association whose object IN
part is dissolution of the Union. The
Louisville Journal gives this as the char
acter Of the Institution.
DIR. Lincoln was called upon at his house
at Springfield, last week, ny an old farmer OF
Indiana named Jones, for whom, thirty years
ago, he worked as common farm hand al
one dollar per day.
A cave two thousand feet deep has recently
been explored near San Domingo, on tht
Tehuentepec route. 1t has ut some time
. been inhabited, as several broken jars have
been discovered there
A brakeman on the Chicago and Rocl
3 Island Railroad named Church was Instant,
. killed, on the 10th inst, at Oakley Staff on
= twenty miles east of Rock Island, by hein
knocked from the roof of car by the tim
bers Of q bridge.
Five thousand slaves were sent South fron
r Richmond, Va, Over the Petersburg road
It 5000 over the Tennessee read, and 1000 b.
4 other channels du1ing 1860. Valued at on
thousand dollars each, $4,000, 900 bav
+ been received in cash in the State.
Mrs Jane Dale Fauntleroy, only sister {
= Hon. Robert Dale Owen, died at New Hal
mony, Ind, last week She was widow
United States officer This celebrate
al family is now reduced to two brothers, Rol
ert Dale and Richard.
The whipping-post as punishment ft
% thieves is still an institution in Delaware
IN the only State in which it now exists by lay
or 1t maintained foot-hold. for a long tin
e, in North Carolina. but finally gave way
&c the pressure Of public opinion.
a The London Chemical Neus states tn,
~ hundreds of barrels of the clarified fat
lie horses are imported from Ostend to Engar
W and sold in London for genuine butter. Pr
G. and buildings made Of such a savory SUI
. stance must be very tempting to epicures.
1t is reliably stated that considerab
portion of the three thousand troops now
~ duty at Charleston are OF Northern Dirt
8, who have been drafted into the corps again
a. their will, and are consequently far fro
{. Jealous for the success cf the would !
- Republic.
- W. Laddin, W. Johnson, John Barnes ar
- VIM. Phillips, have been arrested for tt
~ recent robbery of the bank of S. s Phel
y Il Co., of Oquawka, Of $4,000, Johns(
~ ~ was clerk in thu hrnlS, and Barnes hot
= keeper in Oquawka, in whose cellar pc
y ton of tie stolen money was found.
" The cid King of Prussia, rendered Graz
le by strong drink and fast living, AMI who HI
or been for some years a miserable wreck,
y. dead. Prince Frederick William, his SO
" already acting sovereign. will now becon
IN King He is tho husband OF he olde
e daughter OF Queen Victoria, and is repr
y scented rs highminded man.