Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-15
VOL. XII-NO. 81.
News Paragrapils.

The Algiers j'urnals record the death q
?, Shiek, named Ben Moloka, aged 10 years
10 and Of an Arab, named Aissa Mohamme I'd
. aged l13.
white House" has been hired at Mont
I. gonery, Ala, for the use of the President
:; OF the soushern Confederacy, at 5000 6
. year.
). The Rocky Kountain News says 'the gold
, product of this region for the year 1850
: exceeded 81 600, 900, and for 1861 it will
; not be less than five times that amount"
t Francis H., the banished King, and the
Queen of Naples, and three Neapo!itan
Generals, were, at lat accounts, in Rome.
from whence they were expected to leave for
Bavaria in few days.
The Cincinnati Press SAYS that athe Cabi.
net thief, Floyd, fulf led one of the old
prophecies, with slight variation. lie diin't
turn the Government arms into hooks, but
he hooked the Government arms"
The Erie (Pa.) Dapntch says that the
arrival OF men at Browns Hotel, in that city.
who are 10 pursuit Of information in regard
to, or who purpose investing in. the oil
business, number from fifty to seventy Eve
fper day.
JEFF Davis has received a very appropriate
] present. }. II. Bromley, of the Norwich (Ct.)
Bulletin has sent the President of the ..Con-
federates' a pen-holder, made from q rafter
OF the house in which Bcnedic: Arnold WAS
born.
MISS Harriet Lane, the charming and stately
niece OF ex-PresIdent Buchanan, anG WHO
has ior the past four years presided with
great credit over the y hite House. was
married on the 4th inst, to James Carlise.
Esq, the most brilliant lawyer in Washing
ten.
Kit Carson, the famous hunte-, guide and
m unit inerr, is living at Taos, New Mexico,
Indian Agent to the Utah tribe of InGiars.
His sal. amounts to $500 per annum Kit
ia not veal by man !; his property is esti-
mated at about $4,000. lie keeps fifty or
sixty COWS, 500 head of sheep, and several
horses and ponies He married Mexican
woman, with whom he lives quite resisnedly.
A petition was recently presented to the
MInnes ta Legislature from twenty 70 thirty
Sioux lndians, asking the light of citizenship
They stated that they had adopted number
OF cust' ms in vogue among the whites, such
Ms wearing panta .ons, living in houses,
using knives ard forks, and being content
with The pos. ession and control of one wife.
icing wiling to earn their bread .'by the
sweat of their b,ows," total abstinence from
liquors. regular attendance upon
stated preaching" &c.
"A tie two-and-a-balf year o.d daughter
Of Mrs. Me.calf, of St. Louis, la ely fell
through 10 sc plank into n well, VIII n the
mother instantly jumped in and held her
ut arm 5 length above the water for nearly
40 hour, calling in vain for help At last,
taking of her shoes, with the assistance Of
a loose board, the heroic mother managed to
crawl near enough to the top to throw her
child beyond the edge of the well, and then
extricated berselt. The first words the child
p he aft,r the mother had ought it in the
we'll were: Mother, don'tery; we'll get out
yet p
A letter from brother Of Maj Anderson,
% gen lcman in New York city, mentions
he t flowing curious condolences: "lt is q
'ery strsnge o;ncide"ce that my father was
hat Captain Of the Continental line who,
oy mistake o. bis superior, began the battle
# Trentop, where Robert was so long sta
Tuned. And, as Major, he was prisoner
If war in actual jill, fed only on rice W; I,
he small pox for dessert, in the very Charles
;On where his son of the same rank is now
static: ed - the former under Tar'eton, tie
after under Buchanan"
During the reception Of Mr.. Lincoln at
Columbus, Chic, tn, uSands approached him
% excha' &c salutations, and among them an
interesting lady ieadi' G two beautiful C lid
ZEN One after the other, "Iionest Old Abe"
raised the children and pressed upon their
:heeks parental kiss, which was very
proper and very Republican, Bus when the
ady, with bewitching grace, presented her
'wn sweet lips in attitude to be saiuted,
Abraham gallantly waived his hand, and
;aut ously rmarked: "No, madam, non-