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JUST received small lot of the pure
y unadulterated Kentucky Mustard for
sale a. retail in packages of quarter, half
and whole pounds JosHuA BEa1,
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NORN AND OATS--just received for sale
~ by tmay 1St1 S. M. HART& Co.
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ELOUR--100 bbls Ohio snperfne for sale
L by lmay 1Stf1 S. M HART & Co.
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1H BOYES 5ss's and ID. lump forssle
~ by 5. M. HART& Coz
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JESS PORK; so bbls, for sale by,
Iva may lStf. s. M. HART & Co.
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Sugar, a few hhds of Prime sugar,
~ Just suited to the Tradts. for sale byF's
feb-12-d.J ~ s. NJ. HAR'T,f& co..
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Corn and Oats. For sale Bye
~ feb-11. ,THOS. PRENDERGAST.

Schiedam Schnapps.
a MOTHER supply Of VOLTS Aromatic
"A Schiedam Schnapps, just received and
for sale by WV. boGEL, Druggist
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Derfumery.--A large assortment of
L French, English, German and Ameri-
can Perumery, will constantly be kept for
sale at the drug store Of VIM BOGEL,
= feb-13-tf. @s Laayette st
n. B.-Cologne Water of all qualities
will be sold, to suit customers.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-15

individual identity. would do it now but
the limits of this sermon will not admit of
it. / have hitherto conveyed the idea that
"brevity is the soul Of witt and to carry
out the idea practically l am compelled to
condense every thing in these sermons
where fuller argument would be more con-
genial to my feelings.
On these great battle grounds of the
mind there are other petty wars carried on
than those between the kingdom of light
and the kingdom OF darkness. iere virtue
and vice are often arrayed in deadly hostil +.
ity to each other. Virtue is that moral
goodness of the mind which ever prompt Is
and inctes US to do good; vice, on the
contrary, to do evil. Ihe great enemy of wo-
man, (God help her lnever write her name
without emotions Of love and respect for
her above al other sublunary beings, dane
ing in my old heart like fairies in moon
lightly with whom she has to contend in
tears, is man, who ought to be her best
friend. Woman is naturally virtuous--
is naturally the reverse OF her.
Virtue in woman survived the fall in
man 1t fell hrst and never, never recovered.
30 valued by woman is her virtue, nor gold,
nor silver, nor glttering gems, nor honors,
dominons and might, can hold out any in
ducement for her to part with it. Man viii
give his away without its equivalent in re-
turn, and when it is all gone he will give it's
counterfeit.
Oh, woman with all thy faults hitherto
understood and thousand more untold,
love thee because of this innate principle of
virtue am sorry that am compelled to
say that there is a worthless thing for which
some women in their native purity will ex-
aI, = apf hoo 81,
to them. | mean mans prtended love-
This is the only weapon which man can
successfully WELD III the battle between
virtue and vice, where the bone Of conten-
tion is woman's virtue. When he approach
es you with his calefactory pretensions Of
love, love platonie. perhaps, Cover the left,)
and tells you he is gentleman, that he
IS honorable, and prizes woman's virtue
above rubies, that it is all for love he asks
it--tell him that he is a liar, n thief a scoun-
drel, and deserves to be cut of from the
face Of society us an excrescenco, a scab, a
carbuncle, filthy ulcer. This is u truth
which be ore God no man dare deny that
he who would rob a woman, lovely conid-
ing woman, of her virtue, by pretences Of
any kind, has no genuine love for her. The
very moment the object Of his yillainy
is accomplished he will despise her, and
hate her as loathsome thing. When
they come about you with their vulpine
faces and you read this sermon to them,
they will swear and stamp, and derounce
"ta!o' as a Lar, and heap upon him
every epithet tAey can think of; but
never mind their raving, but remember all
he has told you is true and they know it.
My daughters, had intended this for the
lastsermon on this text, but find that to carry
out this design shall be compelled TO
crowd too much matter into it to do the sub
ject ustiee, therefore you may expect, the
Lor willing, the same subject continued
next week. HALO.
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For the Journal.
Reply.


Nh. EDIToR did not intend to tax your
paticnc1 with any more notice of .'Halo's"
IN BON struck tantrums, but he, in his last
sermon, publishes q slander on me that
can't quietly pass without notice lie
says tainted in his congregation Now
was not there | keep no such company
mix in no such crowd-and listen to nc
such sermons. 1t is quite tax on my pa
tience to sit in q rocking chair aud read one
of them. He starts ou5 in his second para
graph Of Sermon VII, with quite common
sense eulogy on woman and closes with
low, slanderous hout at her constancy.
Whore he obtained the decent portion OF
this paragraph, can't guess, unless 1t was
from Uncle Toms Cabin. see he uses 1t
on all state occasions.
knew Cncle Toms Cabin was one of the
mo t successful efforts at book making the
world has ever witnessed-that it made the
STAKEHOLDER squirm and threw the northern
doughtace into ''fts"-but "Halo" has
shown me that it possesses the properties
of cordial: or, perhaps, it was an alio-
pathlc erperiptent he was trying on that wo-
man who tainted, when he rubbed her tenn
pies with a leaf from that work.
The whole scene was in perfect keeping
with the allopathy practice. He s'blows
out the lights and breaks the smelling bot
tles.' In keeping with the ''seience he goes
directly contrary to nature and common
sense.
| am told it was his ''good thing" which
tainted at hearing him say decent word
for w0man, and that she almost recovered
before ho noticed it; for he wears an enor-
nous pair Of goggles, which completely
envelope his eyes, and persists Ia having
bat one light in the house, and that is
small tallow candle which he holds in his
hand TO see to read his manuscript, Che ab-
horS extenpofe preaching--lt is a new fan
gied notion,) for he says the "scienoe"
teaches him the eyes were nos made TO see
with.
With his usual consistency, he reproves
q woman for slanderlng me, and in the
same sentence utters meaner one himself
ana then impiores the vengeance of heaven
ON all slanderers, to which | can heartily
say amen. wonder where he expects to
be when the "fres of hell are heated up ten
thousand times hotter than the furnace of
Nebuchadnezzar" for the punishment of
slanderers?
But, presume, he thinks his soul so
small that he can slip through crack in
the wall. Perhaps he can--I would not
wonder if he could. Woman's rights women
do not faint at the nonsence of fogy, ante
deluvian preachers. We pity you, but we
don't want to convert you. You would be
an injury to us. To tell the truth, would
much rather have neat, genteel and tenn
perate hired man, such as W***, who is
womau's rights man, Kiss me than a SLAM
dering, tobacco smoking, tobacco chewing,
brandy -guzziing, anti-progress man, even
II he was docLor. Rose ABELL.
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Farmers Department.

PoULTRY CHEAPER THAN PoRK.-Build
a good, comfortable hen coop. rs you do
to keep your hogs in. Keep fowls, feed
them; and make a careful estimate of
your fowls and your hogs, toge ther with
the products Of each-you you will find
that fowls are more profitable stock
than hogs. Pork cannot be made at
less than five cents pound with any
breed Of hogs, Each hen, well cared
for, will yield clear profit Of one dol
lar year. To care for them and pro-
duce this resul,-it is necessary to give
them warm place for roost, dry
cellar. if possible, in winter, variety
of grain with little animal food. with
clean water, and lime in some shape for
egg shells. The fowl manure annually
wasted in the United States is worth
at least 1000 900. To save it, place
layer Of loan aud plaster occasional
ly over layers of this manure. Every
Spring mix all .o5e ther, and use it at
the rate Of pint TO hill Of corn, or
cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, mel
ons, peas, onions straw berries, or any
other fruit, vegetable or grain, and you
cannot fail to have an improved crop.
This is American Guano-and is as
good as that brought from the Islands
al heavy cost.
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CURIOUS .aND SCTE yTYFYc.
The Plain Why and Because.

Why is decanter OF cold water, when
brought into a varm room, spe edilycoy.
cred wiki dew! Because the temper
ature of the decanter is lower Than that
of the air Immediately around it. The
dew may be wiped off egain aud again,
but viii be constantly reproduced till
the tempera lures are equal. Upon this
principle. the most convenient sort Of
hydrometer or instrument for measuring
the quantity Of vapor in the atmos-
phege is constructed.
Why does q draught support fire
Because it flows towards the fire place 10
occupy the vacancy left by the air that
has undergone decomposition and which,
in its turn, becomes decomposed also
Hence supply of caloric is furnished
withoat intcrmission till the whole Of
the ccmbustible is saturated with oxygen.
. Why are the eyes of horses kept
clean! Because, like birds, they have
a kind Of third eyelid, called the hat0,
moistened with a pulpy substances or
mucilage. to hold of the dust on the eye
ball. and wipe it clean; so that the eye
is hardly ever seen with anything on it,
though greatly exposed from its form
snd posture.
WAY IS the camePs tread perfectly
noiseless' Because its feet are as soft
as sponge or leather, being composed
Of an elastic substance, aud covered with
hair; wherefore The large creature moves
along under heavy load, with no grea
ter noise than is made by the deer boun
ding over the grassy turf.
Why have ice houses double walls,
and why do wine coolers consist OF
double vessels? Because air fills the
intervals between the walls or vessels;
or i'll some cases the space is filled with
straw, sawdust or charcoal, all of which
are nome conductors of heat.
Why does the skin OF the frog and
toad resemble bag containing the an
imal! Because il does not adhere to the
subjacent parts, as in other animals, is
attached 20 them only at few points,
and is unconnected elsewhere
Why does a gate in an iron railing
shu, loosely aud easily in cold day,
and stick in warm one? Because. in
the latter, there is greater expansion Of
the gate and railiug than Of the earth on
which they are placed.
Why is the elephant peaceable ami
NAL Because he subsists on vege,a
BILE food, and therefore has not the de.
sire to destroy life, which characterizes
the carnivorous animals.
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VOL. V.---NO. 7.

HINTs FOR EvERYOSE lis that beau
tiful beaver your own, Mr.. Head Gearf
Or does it belong 10 the halter Is it
paid Tor? Or does it stand recorded in
black letters, on the del btor side of the
mechanics ledger? Is that foreign
broadcioth coat yours Have you paid
for it?
Who'll ovc y3I tie N rc 'lr tie set OF your hat,
Or the ruff Of the tie Oh yJur shoe,
Ihe shape OF yoar vest or your boots or cravat
II they know your in DEBT for the new!n
It's quite u comfortable idea 10 run in
ones head that he owes no man any.
thing, save love and good will. This
wearing other peoples hats, boots and
cravais. is beggarly business, aud be-
neaih The dignity Of a man. Ii destroys
his self-respect and trips up his. indie
pendence.
Don't run IN debt-neyer mind, never mind,
III thy clothes are faded and torn
Fix sem up make 'em do it is better by lar
Ihan u have tie heart weary and wornf
Better live in log house and have
the butt ofa Eastwood log for back
stick, maple trees for foresticks and
green tops for kindling wood, than run
in debt for snowy ornaments to cont,
mence house keeping.
Young man, let me beg Of you don't run in debt ,
Ii the chairs and the sofas are Old
They will fit your back better than any new set
Unless they are paid for in goli.'
And the young women, too--heaven
bless them!--how we'll and tidy they
look, from head to foot, in cloth Of
their own manufacture aud garments of
their own making. Real ladies s-gen-
uine lilies of The valley Solomon. in u II
his glory was not arrayed like one Of
these
Don't run in debt, now dear girls take hint
(tl the fashions have changed since last season
Oldnatnre il out in the very same tint,
And old nature, we think has some re1souu
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Who was the Gentleman!

"Please, sir. don't push so.
was endeavoring 10 penetrate the
dense crowd that nearly filled the en-
trance, and blocked up the doorway after
one Of our poponlar lecturers, that this
exclamation met my attention. 1t pro
ceeded from little girl, Of not more
than ten years, who, hemmed by the
sall on one side, and the crowd on the
other, was vainly endeayoring TO extri-
cate herself.
The person addressed, paid no atten-
tion to the entreaties of the little one,
but pushed on toward the door.
''Look here, SIR" exclaimed man
whose coarse apparel, sturdy frame. and
toll embrowned hands contrasted strong
ly with the delcately gloyed fingers.
curling locks, and expensive broad
cloth of the former. "Look you here
sir, you're a-jamming that little gals
bonnet all tew smash with them elbows
o'yourn."
Cans help that" gruffly replied the
individual addressed-"l look to mum
ber one
"You take care Of number one, do
you! Wal that's all fair; so do L."
replied the honest countryman aud
with these words, be took the little girl
in his arms, and placing his broad
shoulders against the slight form Of the
latter, he pushed him through the crowd, i,
down the steps, landing him with
rather more haste than dignity, in the
street below
The young gentleman picked himself
up, but rather inundated by the stout
fist of the stranger, and abashed BY the
laughter of the crowd, concluded il
was "about time for him to 60 home"
In polite society, the former would
be courted and admired, and the latter
overlooked and despised, but "who was
the gentleman,"
On a raw. clustering day, few weeks
since, a young girl with small baske t
on her arm, entered one of our stores.
After making few purchases. she turned
to leave, Two gentlemen stood in the
doorway. whose appearance indicated
that they thought themselves "consid-
erable,'' il not more /; whose soft, sleek
coats and delicate hands were apparent.
ly about the same quality as their
brains.
As they made not the slightest move
meat as she approached, the young girl
hesitated a moment, but seeing no other
way. she politely requested them to
stand aside. They lazily moved few
inches. allowing her barely room to pass,
giving her, as she did SO, broad stare,
that brought the color to her cheek, and
the ffe in her eye
In stepping upon the icy paw ement,
her foot slipped, in endeavoring to save
herself. the basket fell. and the wind
scattered its contents in every direction
At this, the two gantlemea burst in
TO loud laugh. and seemed to consider
it vastly amusing.
Let me assist YOU" exclaimed a
pleasant voice. and lad about sixteen,
whose hands showed that they were
accustomed to labor, and whose coarse,
well-patched Goa. indicated that he was
the child OF poverty, sprang forward,
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-15

SINGULAR LAKEs.-rhe Crateur Lakes
in the town of Manilus, Onodaga coun-
ty, New York, are curiosilies. and are
supposed TO be of volcanic origin. They
are, by the inha bilants about there. call
ed the "Green Lakes" One of them is
on the top of hill, and is in the form
OF a ,eacup. The banks are two hun.
dred feet high, and the water four hun
dred feet deep. The water appears Of a
deep green, but when taken up in glass
it is perfectly clear and transparent.
Trees and limbs which fall into The wa
ter soon become encrusted with a bright
green substance, which, on being ex-
posed 10 the air, becomes ha:d. The
timber decays and leaves this incr1sta.
tion in the shape of hollow tubes
Wood saturated with this water and
burned emits strong odor of sulphur.
A farmer, who resides near, once hear I'd
a great rush of water, and looking
round saw the lake rising over the
banks. He was alarmed and fed with
his team; but the water soon receded to
its usual level.
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NIEEvEH was fifteen miles by nine,
and forty round, with walls one hun
dred feet high. aud thick enough for
three chario.s abreast. Babylon was
sixty miles within the walls which were
seventy five feet thick, three hundred
feet high, with one hundred brazen gates
The Temple of Diana was four hundred
feet high, and was two hundred years in
building. The largest of the pyrs Taids
is four hund red and eighty feet high, and
six hundred and sixty-three feet on one
side-its base covers about eleven acres.
The stones are about thirty feet in length,
and the layers are two hundred and
eight. Three hundred and sixty thou
sand men were employed in this erec,
tion. The labyIinth Of Egypt contains
three thousand chambers and twelve
halls. Thebes. in Egypt, presents ruins
twenty-seven miles round. Ii had one
hundred gates. Carthage was twenty
five miles round, and SO was Athens.
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and gathering up the articles, presented
the basket with bow tlat would have
Ssaced drawing ro ON -"JYho was the
gentleman %''
Roys you are all ambitious TO be con-
sidered gentlemen. Tha. is all very
natural, but remember that neither your
own nor your parents position in life,
your tailor, your boot black, or your
barber, can make you one The true
gentleman is the same everywh here
Not only in the social party, or the ball
bat in the noisy mill, the busy shop, the
crow ded ssembly, at home, or on the
street. Never expressing the weak or
rldiculing the untJrtunate. Respe cteul
and attentive to his superiors pleasa nj
and atfable to his equals careful and
tender Of the feelings of those he may
consider beneath him. Nashua Tel.
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CLEARNEss OF THE NORTHERN Seas
Nothing can be more surprising and beau
u'ul than the singular clearness Of the
water Of the northern seas. As we
passed slowly over the surface, the bot
tom, which was generally of white sand,
was clearly visable at the distance OF
twenty or twenty-i five fathoms. During
the VIII ole course of the tour | made,
nothing appeared to me so extraordina.
ry as the immense recesses of the ocean
un'ufHed by the slightest breeze, the
gentle s?lashing of the oars scarcely dis.
turbing ii. Hanging over the gunwale
of The boat with wonder and delight, !
gazed on the slowly moving scene be-
low. Where the bottom was sandy the
different kind of esterin echmi, and the
smallest shells appeared at the greatest
depths conspicuous TO the eye; and
the water seemed, in some measure, to
have magnifying power by enlargiug
the objects like telescope and bringing
them seemingly nearer Now creeping
along, we saw far beneath the rugged
side OF the mountain rising towards our
boat, the base of it was perhaps hidden
some miles in the greatest depths below
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PREcARIoUsNEss or LIrE.-Pope Ad-
riau lost his life by gnat; a distin-
guished Roman counsellor by hair
Anacreon, the famous Greek poet. bs
the seed ofa grape; mushroom deprived
the emperor Charles vi of life, and, as
history tells. changed the destinies OF
Europe; Attila, the "scourge of God
met in bed of luxury the death he
had iiercely brayed in thousand battle
fields.
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To KEEP FlRrs rlGur ON WHEELS

To KEEP Tires TIGHT ON WHEELs.---
A correspondent. Of the Southern Plan
ter" gives the following method for
keeping tires tight on wheels:--Before
putting on the tires oil the fslloes with
linseed oil. which is done by heating
the oil in trough to boiling heat. and
keeping the wheel, with stick through
the hub, in the oil for an hour. The
wheel Is turned ronnc until every fellos
is kept in the oil an hour.
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FIsHiEG PoLEs,-A correspondent Of
the Prairie Farmer, says that fishing
poles can be raised by ploughing long
deep and straight furrow, and setting out
Usage Orange plants, about one foot
apar. and in straight line. II calcu.
lated for an early market they should
be we'll cultivated, but knife sh ould not
be used on them except on plants in
clined 10 branch out. BY following this
mode. two years will bring supply Of
the poles.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-15

The Rochester American says that an
examination OF the sun, by Professor
Dewey. Of the University, through his
rejecting telescope, disclosed large
number OF spots on the surface. One
OF them was $4,000 miles in dia ter.
Al archipelago of spots were discovered, :,
which, if united, would cover an erea
40, 900 miles long.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-15

History OF THE HEsslAN FLy.-As
the Hessian dy in some seasons is so
destructive TO our wheat crops, we have
thought short history OF it would be
interesting. This fly was brought erom
Germany, in l776, in some straw EN-.
ployed in the debarkation of Howe's
troops, on the west end of Long Island.
Ftom this point it has spread at the rate
Of about thirty miles year. All the
regions east OF the Alleghanies is now
more or less infested with it; and in sew
eral places the cultivation of wheat has
been abandoned in consequence. 1t is
gradually making lis way into every
portion of the States bordering on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and all the
great Lakes. In time it will doubtless
prove greater scourge than were ever
the Britilh or Hessian soldiers, barbar-
Gus and brutal as they sometimes were.
during the Revolutionary War.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-15

4 VALUABLE IsvENTIoN.-Levi S.
Reynolds, Esq, Of Indiana, has obtain.
ed patent for new Touring machine.
called 'Ihe Indiana Bran Duster. -
The millers of Georgetown, d. c., and
those Of Indiana, Ohio, Virginia. and
Maryland. who have it, testify that il
is very simple. durable, and requires but
little power, while it takes--after the
bolts can get no more fiour--lrom one
and quarter to three barrels of good
-four from the oGal of each hundred
barrels. This invention affects the
great wheat interest of the country. and
is of immense value. The value of
this invention will be understood when
we know that 800. 900 barrels Of -four
would be saved in the United States. BID.
lis use. Washing gton Union -
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Be slow to choose friend, and slower
TO change him; courteous 10 all, inti-
mate with few--scorn no man for
his poverty. nor honor any for their
wealth.
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IRoN was discovered by the burning Of
Mount Ida, 1905 years B. G.
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Lorenzo Dow defined death bed or
galiow's-tree repentance to be burning
out the candle of life in the service Of
the devil and blowing the snuff in the
Lords face.
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The velocity Of sound, whether it be
loud or faint. is always the same.