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Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
MARRIAGE OF Love AND CONVENIENCE

MARRIAGE OF Love AND CoNvENIENcE.
-"Everywhere but in novels" says a
recent writer. 1.-THE marriage Of conven-
fence has proved an excellent institu-
:ion, while what are called love match
es have been, are, and ever will be pro-
life in misery" We should like to
see the impuden, old foggy who said
that !-if il were only to tell him to
his teeth that he lies Lies like the
telegra ph-lies like a lawyer-lies like
a steamboat runner-lies "like the
prospectus Of new magazine" So
"marriages Of convenience are better
than love matches. are theyl Do you
know tina: love is all that can make
marriage honest or even decent? That
marriage ,oifhout love is a stencil in the
nostrils Of God and menP That love is
heavenly in its origin, divine in its in
fusnce, and glorious in its enjoyment |!
while Inconvenience, which is but a
smooth gloss for lust or avarice-is the
prolific parent OF Inconvenience, heart.
burnings, wranglings, discord and di.
vorce or course you don't But
every man of sense and observation
knows that the mistakes of youth and
romance in their matrimonial alliances
are light and unfrequen: compared with
the coldly planned blunders and eau
tiously concocted disasters OF sagacious
bachelors Of fifty, and weary spinsters
of thirty -ive.-Boston Post.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
Groceries and Provisions.


ME subscriber has just opened new grocer
- store. ION Second street, in The room former
ty occupied by Collins q Darlington, } and pre-
pared to sell at wholesale and retail on az goo.
terms as can be had ia This city, or any olhe
placs on the river above the Rapids. The follow
ing ere some or the articles now on hand:
Rio Laguyra coffee
Brown, clarified, loaf and cru I'd sugar
Molases, syrup, sugar-house
q A, dairy and Kanawha salt
Imperial and Young Hyson teas, first quality
Palm soap. mould and star candles,
tobacco, cigars, pipes, &c.
Lemons, rasins, figs, herrings,
Candies, almonds, English walnuis,
Peanuts, currents, Chocolate, nutmeg
w. r. cheese, wines brandy, DC.
Best indigo, purcushen caps, bar lead
Shot. cap letter and wrapping paper
Cinnamon, cloves, pepper, spice
Ground ginger, mustard in cans
Tubs, best omber, nader, coppcras
Alum, starch. candle wicking
Mackeral, Goldfish ,sardincs
Bed-chords, buckets link wash boards
Rosin, cotton batting-with many other ar.
ces Tor family use.
O Country produce, such as butter, eggs. 20
atoes. fowls, and every thing in the market 70
amiIy use, wanted. J. A. WILSON.
Muscatine. March 25--if
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

observation-disclosures philosopher
has remarked that every animal, when
dressed in human apparel, resembles
mankind very strongly in features
Put frock, bonnet and spec,acles on a
pig, and i: looks like an old woman OF
eighty.
A bull, dressed in an over coat, would
resemble lawyer. Tie few ribbons
around cat, put fan in its paw, and
boarding school miss is represented.
A cockerel in uniform is general to
the life. A hedge. hog looks like mi.
ser. Dress monkey in frock coat
cut off his tail, trim his whiskers, and
you have city dandy. Donkeys re-
semble good many persons.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

On DEATH-The most sensible mo-
tive to abate the passions Is death
The tomb is the bes, course Of morality
Study avarice in the coffin OF mlser
this il the man who accumulated heap
upon heap, riches on riches-see, lew
soyare inches Of earth contains him
Study ambition in the grave OF that en-
,erpris,ng man see his noble designs,
his extensive prospects, his boundIess
e1pedienis. are oil shattered and sunk
in this fatal gulf Of human projects
Approach the tomb Of the proud man.
and there investigate pride see the
mouth that pronounced lofty express
sions, condemned 10 eternal silence /;
the piercing eye that convulsed the
world with fear, covered with mid
night gloom the formidable arm that
disturbed the des,inies humankind with
out motion or life Go TO the tomb OF
this nobleman. and there study equality:
behold his magnificent titles. his royal
ancestors, his Aatiering Inscriptions, his
learned genealogies are all gone. or 60
ing to be lost " it'll himself in the sa me
dust! Study voluptuousness, see his
senses destroyed, his organs broken to
pieces, his bones scattered at the graves
mouth, and the whole temple OF sensual
pleasure subverted from its foundation.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
A WORD TO ERRVERN.

a WORD TO FARMERS:
r HAVE established a FARMERS EX.
/ CHANGE. where | will receive all kinds III
country produce, and give goods in exchange.
want
1000 bushels wheat, 1000 bushelseorn,
1000 do oats, 1000 do po,atoes.
1000 lbs butter, 100 dozen eggs.
Chickens never refused, with the shell oil. and
every hing else in the provision line wanted. for
which will give the highest market price--one.
half cash and the balance in groceries.
JOHN RI GORLEY, I'd street.
Muscatine, April %, 1853.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
VOL: V.
faRIqIrAL.l
The Lock Of Hair.

The Lock Of Hair.
Tell him my heart is with him still,
Though many days have passed
Since in my pride and happiness,
IRaxcd upon him last.
7h4t all the love this bosom knew,
Z when life was young and fair,
An his dear smile upon me shone,
Il still unchanging there.
Go tell him that cherished thee;
When growing faint and weak,
And pressed thee still with thoughts OF levc,
Close to my fevered cheek.
And sremblcd WHEN the thought would come,
Across my breaking heart,
That coon from him and all l loved,
Il was my doom to part.
Go tell him that the rosy bow.r
Has lost its summer bloom.
And she who sat within its shade,
Is Fastening to the tomb.
Oh tell him that send thee back,
A faded gift to him,
To east his kindlipg eye upon,
Long after mine is dim. VIReISIA.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

A SPEAKER at a temperance meeting
used this strong figure :-"LiKe the
tabled animal Of warm countries
which cools his victim with his wings
while he draws from his veins the las
drop Of his blood, alcohol kills the
drunKard while gratifying his appetite
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

PUBLIC ADJUSTMENTS coEDucIvE TO
HEALyH.-The Boston Medical Journal
says that public amusemenis are condu-
Give 10 health and rather blames the
prevalent disposition TO spend the whole
Of our time in getting rich. This, the
Journal says, is too much the case in
New England.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

PLlxY informs us that Rome was 500
years without physicians. Her rulers
forbade the practice OF medicine. and
banished its professo S. IL is stated
the health Of Rome was never better
than during that period.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

L,rE.--The woes Of human life ore
relative. The sailor springs from his
warm couch to climb the icy topmast
at midnight without murmur-while
the rich merchant complains ct the rat
cling cart which disturbs his evenings
repose. In peace we annosnce the
bseakage Of q bone as melancholy
evsnt''-but in war, when we read Of
our neighbo S and thousands Of the enc
my killed, we clap our hands and shout
s.elorious victory"
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
NEW
GROCERY q. PROVISION STORE.

Al JenniS0n' old Stand, on Second street.
VIE subscribers have on hand new and com.
n Pleie stock. consisting in part of
Colfse-Rio and Java w + cheese
Tea--Y II aud Imp Vinegar
Sugar-N o and BeIcher's Nails and glass
Sat-bbl, sack and dairy Curanis, raisins, &c
Wooden and willow wnre Goldfish and mackere
MoIasses--N and II Flour and corn meal
Cigars--ragalia d principe Lead, powder, shot Dc
Tobacco--smoking 4 chew Soap and candles
Candles. nuts, oranges, lemons, spices, crackers
sardincs, hollow-ware bacon, &c &c, and all olhel
articles usually kept in grocery and provision
store, which we offer for sale at wholesale or re-
all, at the lowest prices, for cash or ready pay.
NEIDIG e. SPRINGER,
Muscatine. March ls, ls53-,i
N. ID. Wanted-AIl kinds of marketing, such
as butter, eggs, fowls, cheese, lard, onions, pota
toes, &c. for which the highest price will be given
N. e. s.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

GILMAN Psychologists affirm that Of
twenty deaths Of men between eighteen
and twenty years Of age, ten originate
10 tie wastes OF the constitution in.
duced by smoking.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

So An old proverb says: "Talent
shakes the bush. Tao, catches The bird.
Choose a wife as you would knife
look to her temper.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

A COOP AEswER.-A lady, the other
day. asked young gentleman Of our &C.
quaintance "Sir, is your wife as pref
ty as you are," He did not care to be
complimen;ed at the expense of his
wife, and SO. by way of gentle reproof,
he blushingly replied-"No. miss. but
she has very pretty manners" No fur.
Their interrogatories were propounded up.
on tina. subject by the lady.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

IHAvE always preferred cheerlulness
to mir,h. The latter consider us an
art, the former as habit of mind
Mirth* is short and transient, cheerful.
ness faed and permanent.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

DEAL gently with those who stray
Draw back BY love and persuasion. A
kiss is worth thousand kicks. A kind
word is more valuable to the lost, ,ha IN
Q mi 10 Of gold.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

DrATH has consigned many man to
fame whom longer life might have con.
signed 10 infamy.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

Better ones house too little one
day than too big all the years after.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
New Boot, Shoe, Hat and Can Store

C&n THE subscriber respectfully -
gives notice 10 the citizens of
Muscatine, and TO all others who's
VISIT this point for the purpose of trading. that he
mas taken the store on Second street, formerly oc.
cupieJ by J. Q Myers & Co., and tina, he has
opened an extensive and vel assorted stock OF
frsi.quaiity
BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS.
have established myself permanently at this
point, and shall therefore aim 10 keep the best and
most reliable ,oorh that can he purchased and shall
at NJ time ask more than a fair Ering preft. Ny
arrangements are such that I shall be in The con.
slant receipt Of fresh and good goods. invite all
to visit my piace Of business and examine nv
stock and prices, as am satisfied that can show
nearly everything that can be called for in my line,
and at lo,o prices. N. NJ. STONE
MAY Is, 1853. Agent.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
CITY Barbcring Saloon.

TNHE undersigned has opened and fitted uP The
largs and convenient room attached Ia the
OsiIvie House. where he is AT all Times ready IN
arcommoda, e his friends who NAV favor him With
= call. lF.hlth1 Y. G.. MOTIFS.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
CRANE & EVANS

- - v -
A RE now receiving very large and w.ll.,s.
n sorted stock of GROCERIES. direc, from
Boston and New York, which they prom ,se 10
sell at ST. Louis prices, adding freigh,age. Their
stock consists 10 part Of
100 pkgs ieas,all klnd.2OO packages mac kerel;
7O,OO0 cigars. assorted; so boxes Goldfish;
$50 kegs nails sssdl SO do herrio,
100 boxes tobacco; Pecan nuts and almonds
81 mats cassia; Eng walnuts, fiji ,erts;
10 bxs pepper, spice Brazil nuts. curr,nts;
5O bxs glass 100 drums figs;
80 bxs pint flsks Citrons, raisins;
10 casks of brandy Prunes, preserve,:
French 81 Amer Manila corlase.
Wines, Malaga, MadeiraSugar, of every shade.
Tcneriile and Musca Coffee;
Brrndy, cherry; ;Molasses ,bbls g. IL bbl
Cherry brandy; Ale;
1000 lbs salaraius; Soap and candles;
100 bbls whiskey, (St,Powder, lead an shot;
Louis pnces) lRosin, pitch, oakum, tar
Indigo; madden 4 allum,Tubs and buc cts;
reach Mnslurd; CASTLE and fancy soap
repper sauce neutrality-suspicious.. ipsf
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

SADDLERY HARDWA RE.
FULL assortment Of Saddlery Hardware, con ist-
a ing Of every style and variety, direct from New
York. which will be sold cheap.
Sept. ISL CHARLES NEALLEY.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

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Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
A Parody.

Oft in the Silly night,
When slumber's chain has bound me-
feel the korrid bite
Ut something crawling round me.
The pranks, the sprces, of bugs and aeas.
The numerous bites then taken,
The smart, the pain, oft felt again.
Tell me I'm not forsaken.
Thus in the Silly night,
When slumber's chain has bound ma
feel the horrid bite
Of something crawling round me.
When ! remember all
The hugs and feas together,
I've felt around me crawl
Like aunts in summer weather.
feel like one who's not alone
When thus am surrounded,
Full we'll know, twas pain and woe
When bugs and feas abounded.
Thus in the Silly night,
When slumber's chain has bound me.
/ feel the horrid bite
Of somsthing crawling round me.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

lOVERS to Harpers and Putnam,s Mapa.
U aines, and the Magazines bound in them.
can be had at RTJRNETT,S
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

> A ToucHiNG isciDEsr.-The Peters.
burg Democra, tells story of little
boy Of that city, who, having recently
lost his father, found himself debarred
thereby from attending school as for
merly. and in the fullness of his faith.
he determined to seek the withal,
at that foots,ool to which he had doubt
less been taught TO look for other and
higher blessings. In the simplicity OF
his heart he sat down and gravely wrote
a letter to his Redce thinking per-
hsps, that so formal a mode Of prcferr-
ing his requests would meet with great
CT attention What was the surprise OF
the postmaster, VIM. N. Friend, ESQ.,.
on discovering among the contents OF
his letter box. one morning lately, a
missive directed TO Jesus Chrisl!''-
Opening it, he read the story Of the
boys wants, and with a noble kindness
which we are not selfish enough TO de
prive our readers OF the pleasure or
profit Of hearing he deposited in the en-
velope the amount required and directed
il to the young applicant.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

1000 1aboring Men Wanted
On the "Lyons Iowa Central Railroad" \,
" Upton, Cedar county, Iowa. TO ali who
sta, permanently on the work will he paid in cash
one dollar twelve and half cents per day: tran.
silent hands one dollar per day.
p ADAMS d co.
Upton Iowa, July IL, 1853. l5.6m
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
oo[H]0[RE1[5 A@AD[N]9 "

HAVE just returned from the East, where have
purchased large stock of Boots Shoes, Leather,
Saddery Hardware, Coach Trimmings &C.. Consisting
Of every thing usaly kept in Leather and Finding
store will be sold as cheap be purchased in the
West. r5. Call and examine my stock.-aa
CHARLES NEALLY.
Muscatine. September l6, 1853.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
Stand from UNDER!
Look out for the Locomotive Z!

fEXs1<o,k@@@. MI y 3f--keS6fS
III WISH 10 Inform The good people who max.
u their purchases in Muscaiine, that am sill II,
town. and can be found at the store OF Bren, a
Miller, nexi door 10 the Bank, with Just the bcs
stock of
BOOTS q SHOES, HATS & CAPS,
tina, is now, or thai will be this season, in Musca
line. and am determined that that the entire socI
shall be turned into cash ,oihinfhe ensuing niaefs
days.
| My entire stock is either Of home made mann
fociurc o. purchased d'rec, from the manufacturers
n Philadelphia and Massachusetts can. there.
ore, afford and will sell the best Of goods a, eas
Ten per cent. less
Than those dealers who go 10 Boston md New
York and buy their goods from second hands, :
who, il Is wei known, never keep any thing better
than serond-roe goods, but who always get first.
ate prices.
The Try has gone out TO the country thai,
Boots aud Shoes have risen in price. aud doubtless
yon patronize the old 'fogy" concens-but let
and progressive
BOOT AND SHOE STORE,
and you will find that prices have not risen bur
fallen!
Come on, then, all who arc in search of eoo,
goods al great bargains You can find the bcsi
assortment and The best goods al my store.
N. ID. promise TO sell al less rates than any
regular shoe stere in town--cilher by the case o.
iDsle pair
III Also. large assortment OF Hdrjware aud
Cutlery 10 he sold very cheap.
Sept 23, 1853. N. NJ. STONE Agent.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

LN,OUR-Best article Of Family Flour delivered
i 10 purchasers anywhere in the city without
additional chavge,by ]. A. WILSON.
ID ACON-Hams. sides and shoulders for sale by
ID May 6. J. A. WILSON,
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

lnPuLslvE MEN.-"Siowly and sure.
"" is good motto. Impetuous zeal
sometimes effects good results; but it
Is generally in despite OF impetuosity,
end no. because of it. There is always
safety in calmness and deliberation. A
little forbearance never does harm, blu,
the want Of its exercise sometimes
setards wha, it seeks to promote.
There is, however, a danger of rum
sing forbearance into supine indifer.
euce. Some men must either drive at
locomotive speed or not al all. They
kiadle in moment, and must speak
saA act while the fame last or they can
DO nothing. They bear their zeal
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
Liquors.

A FINE lot of Wines, Brandies and Gin xh;c,, -,
"A offer for medical and mechanical purposes M red
ced prices, for sal by MEDIC & SPRINGER
June 3, lS53--e If VIM
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
"Ae tue utut ucdIs ufeS
which much enforced throws out . hasty spark
And straight 10 cold again.

For practical. effective uses. give Us
your calm, determined actors. Men
who do not jump at conclusions in a
moment, or run before the word but
Who, when the time to act comes,
Stand up to the principles with reso-
Tutsness which nothing can defer. Such
were our Re, oln,isnary fathers-such
are the really useful men Of every age
and nation. Methodist Protestant.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11

NLOUR-Davenport Albion and Etna brands;
n also BENEFITS Superiine--at reduced
prices. and insured TO he good. for sale by
MEDIC & SPRINGER.
Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-11-11
Cash Advances.

C0Sn advances.
M will make liberal cash advances upon pro.
wv duce placed in our hands for shipment to
JAMtSG. GOODRICH. ST. Louis, for sale there
or Shipment East. GREEN d STONE.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-06-07

Professor Wilson, of BlaekwoOd's
Magazine, is past hope of recovery,
from a paralytic attack.
The poet Montgomery is now in his
eighty-frst year. A recent American
traveller, Benjamin Moran, says:
He is hale old man, in the enjoy
ment of a government pension, and is
quietly wearing out the thread Of his
existence in Sheffield. Occasionally
he attends public meetings, and gives
both his time and his money to aid
and relieve The distresses of the poor.
Louis Napoleon, says a Paris letter,
is invariably present at the great re-
ligious solemnities, and has with unde-
viating regularity, accompanied by the
Empress, taken a deep interest in the
due performance of the rites of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-06-07


M0LzUA IN FARvo.-The following
is said to be from an 'Old Fogy,' If
this is Fogyism, then write us down
tFOgy.'
"This seems to be peculiarly the
age Of soft sawder, hasty soup and
sympathy; of unhappy marriages and
unfortunate cerebral organization; Of
female domination and virile subiec-
ton; Of spiritual and spurious mani
festations; of alarmingly frequent in
sanity, suicide, and murder; Of very
costly and costive convictions and ex-
tremely loose and laxative pardons; of
elective and therefore dependant and
incompetent judges; Of indiscriminate
and therefore too often ignorant and
corrupt jurors; of octave speeches,
ground out by those huge talking ma
chimes, the national and state legisla-
ture, pompous palavers, manufactured
expressly for Buncombe and published
at the expense of the treasury, of
course; of black philanthropy and gas
eous platform benevolence; of NANTES.
destiny and palpable nonsense; of ag-
gressive Democracy and progressive
anarchy; and Of isms too numerous,
silly, or Satanic to descan6 upon. A
last age, this, very-the age of asses
special and of associations specially;
associations to bury the dead and to
insure or fleece the living; ditto to re-
move the juveniles from the pcrnicious
influence Of paternal control; ditto, to
promote The neglect of domestic du-
ties and to put down 'woman's natural
oppressor; ditto, of panpatetio viragos,
pragmatlc and pretentious virgins,
dyed III the wool, to extol woman, the
very superior creature, and disparage
man, the exceedingly inferior animal;
ditto TO send mankind, Nebuchadnez-
zer-llhe, 10 grass and vegetables; ditto
to convert old rags into superline
broadcloth, and pine sawdust in;o oak
plank, golr@4caIIy, Of course; ditto of
crafty knaTes and stupid nincoms, to
thump out for the gaping world of
ninnies and noodles q new apocha-
lypse, vastly more silly and less beau
tital than the old; 10 translate, or ra-
ther, to use the classical language Of a
learned cotemporary, to h'aducc into
wretched English, bad grammar, and
worse sense, the sublime language and
revelations of the retired immortals,
to penetrate the realms of Pluto, and
to extort the dread secrets of the pris-
on-house--mere tlifles these, in this
rhosphorescent period of progress,
promise, and prophecy"