Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-01-18

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Mr.. Burch had the supreme happiness to
link about 100000 in the recent contest
with his wife. $780,. 'N
There is but zone Disunion paper in St.
Louis-the Bulletin. That paper advocated
the election of Breckenridge.
Lieut.. Bell, no was the first graduate at
West Point from the State of Iowa, died at
Fort Msnroe, Va, Dec. I'd, 1860.
During the present year nearly 100000
quarts Of milk have been sent from Orange |
county, N. Y, to New York city and Brook
lyn.
The number Of slaves in Maryland is
found to have diminished more than 10, 900
since 1850. The whole number now is |
about $4,000.
The city of Charleston stands twentieth on
tho list in the United States, having popu.
lation of 40,l92, which shows loss Of
2,79I since the census of 1850.
Col. John G. Fremont may be considered
the richest man living. With the recent
Improvements, the monthly products OF his
mines are near 500, 900.
The New York Tribune reports that a
gentleman in that city produced turkey
which weighs forty-two fbs., exclusive of
claws, neck and head"
The Savings Banks of Massachusetts
contain over thirty millions Of dollars on
deposit. This does not look as though the
South had yet staryed out the old Bay State.
Hills grain ware house, ct Atlanta, ILL.,,
was burned recently, with 5000 bushels of
grain, including about 1000 bushels of corn
| for Kansas sufferers. Loss $4,00o-fully
insured.
A soldier, one Of the garrison of Fort
Sumter, writes a letter to his wife, which
| is published in the Rochester IN. w. Demo-
GRAFT He says the men are all eager to fight
and clean the traitors out.
The number of persons killed by disasters
in the past year, not including the Pember-
ton mill, or the Iowa tornado, or the late
shipwrecks on the lakes, were 6S5 adding
these the number is doubled.
An effort is making, by the merchants of
Boston to raise $25 900, to be presented to
Gov. N P. Banks, to induce him to forego
his engagement with the Illinois Central
RAILROAD and continue in politics
Yancey, the Alabama ire-eater, while at
Williams College, showed his veneration by
pitching key of pickles into aprayer meet
ling. lie is now dragging his friends into
the worst pickle that could be prepared for
them.
A little boy two years of age, son Of j. II.
Porter, at Mackinaw, Tazewell county, ILL.,,
was burned to death on the I'd inst, by his
clothes taking FIRE from stove during the
. temporary absence of his mother from the
house..
The famous Psmberton Mills, at Lawrence
rebuilt on the site of that terrible slaughter
will commence running next week, employ
ing about one thousand operatives. The &C
cident occurred one year ago on the 10th Of
this month.
The Eau Clair Free Press says that Ru
fus B. Foster, of Durand, Wis.,, was reading
in bed one night lately, when he got tc
sleep, the lamp tipped over, nhis bed caught
/, fire, and he was burned in such q manner
that he died the next day.
i Mr.. T. P. Lindsay, of New Haven, Conn.,
has invented pistol which weighs less than
Colts "fve-shooter," and yet discharges ter
balls in less time than it requires to senG
} FIVE from the latter. It reports its discharge.
] instantaneously, and two balls may i
, required, be thrown at the same time.
RI The gold product of California for the las
six years amounted to the large sum Of 1925,
S7s, $780, The yearly product decreased from
, S49, 6S2, 524 in 1855, to $50, 499, 400 in 1860
f 1t is quite likely that the production viii
, decrease year by year, as it requires large
capital to carry on mining successfully ant
proftably row.
Amos Burden, Of Alliance county, Ohio
has just been convicted and sentenced to
, seven years Imprisonment in the peniten
iary, for presenting fraudulent land claim
at the pension office. Two men near Iberia
Ohio, have been arrested, and, in defaul
of bail, committed to Jail to await trial TO
/, similar alleged offences.
8 Robert Garry, revolutionary soldier, or
! hundred and two years old, died at Cincin
natl on the 21st ult. The deceased resided
with two step daughters, and passed tn
l winter of his life in the most abject poverty
g wanting even the meanest necessities of life
f At nineteen years he entered the army o
the colonists, and with Washington servet
. through the entire war.
On Monday evening, Dec. 3lst, the wifi
of Capt II. Coolidge, of Niles, Mich, ageG
: about IS, fell into a fireplace, and wa:
3 burned to death. She was the only person
in the house at the time, and it is supposed
that she fell over the edge of the hearth, anG
was instantly smothered by the ashes and
SMOKE as pair of scissors were in he1
hands when found,
: A portion of Father Chiniquy's colony
have applied to Bishop Whitehouse fol
Epispocal supervision, about one hundred Of
them having given in their adhesion to the
church. One young man is also DESTROYS
} of being educated for the ministry. About
FIVE hundred prayer-books have been donat
ed, and the church in Canada has volun.
teered assistance for the erection of church
buildings.
A company of Zouaves lately organized
at Spring feld, ILL.,, intend to do escort duty
to the President elect on the 18th of March,
accompanying him to Washington, and re-
turning by Philadelphia, New York, Alba.
ny, etc. They number over sixty, and are
in perfect state of drill, having already
taken several prizes, and surprised the "a
NOUS Chicago boys in their efficiency
They are commanded by Capt. Cook, a
gentleman who we'll understands the Zouave
practice.
CO By the apportionment under the new
census, Iowa will be entitled to five Represen-
tatives in the House, thus gaining three
Illinois gains five. Minnesota loses ono
These statistics show where the permanent
emigration from the middle States, (Which,
rs in the case of New York aud other States
lose more or less) has gone. Illinois and
Iowa have received by far the greater share
of all not destined beyond the Missouri river
These two great States must, at no distant
time, stand first in the rank of those of the
west and northwest, in the productions of
the soil, and will attract to their rich prai-