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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

FLORENCE RRPUDIArED AT Rock ISLAND
A meeting of citizens of Rock Island, last
Saturday, passedvfesolutions "discourag-
ing" 1--WE use the language of the Davenport
Gazette the circulation of Florence paper.
The Davenport Gazette, with commendable
dsinterestedness, condemns the action of
the meeting because I" it will play right into
the hands of Davenport!' That's just
where Florence ought to 'play." When it
has all "played" into the hands of the Da.
venporrers, they will have delightful time
in getting rid of it, we imagine.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

@ The people Of Cairo, III, have
subscribed two hundred dollars to the
purchase Of gold watch, 10 be presented
to Dominick Devinney, for his gallant
conduc. in rescuing Mrs. Abbott from tho
flames at the burning of tho Illinois Cen,
trail Railroad Depot,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

How TO WHISPER AWAY WARTS
Put your mouth close to the wart, and
tell it in whisper that if it does not
90 away, you will burn it with caustic.
Ii it does not take the hint, be as good
as your word, and you will have great
sore ten times worse than the wart.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05
Major Moan on Marriage.

The late veteran of the press, NJ. M.
Noah, held very racy pen, which
threw off sparkling paragraphs with as
mvch ease "as the lion shakes the dew
drops from his NAME" The following
is one of them:
We like short courtships !; and in
this Adam acted like sensible man
he fell asleep a bachelor, and awoke
to find himself a married man. He
appears to have popped the question
almost Immediately after meeting
Md'lle Eve, and she, without any Airt-
alton or shyness, gave him kiss and
herself. Of that first kiss in this world
we have had, however, our own thoughts;
and sometimes, in poetical mood,
have wished we were the man "what
did it." But the deed is done; the
chance was Adams, and he improved
it. We like the notion Of getting mar
ried in garden. 1t is in good taste.
We like a private wedding. Adams
was private. No envious beaux We're
there no croaking old maids; no
chatting aunts and grumbling grand
mothers. The birds of heaven were
minstrels, and the glad sky flung its
light upon the scene.
One thing about the first wedding
brings queer things to us, in spite Of
its scriptural truth. Adam and his
wife were rather young to be married.
some two or three days old, according
to the sagest speculations Of theologi-
ans-mere babies-larger but not older
without experimentation house
without a pot or a kettle-nothing
but love and Eden.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

Our LANGUAGE. Dictionary Eng
lish is something very different not only
from common colloquial English, but
even from that of ordinary written COM
position. Instead of about 100000
words, there is probably no single au-
thor in the language from whose works,
however voluminous, so many as 49,
900 words could be collected. OF the
10000 words there are certainly many
more than one-half that are employed,
il they are ever employed at all, on the
rarest occasions. We should any of US
be surprised to find, if we counted
them, with how small a number of
words we manage to express all that we
have to say either with our lips or even
with the pen. Our common literary
English probably hardly extend to 49,
600 words, our common spoken Eng
fish hardly to 5000. And the proper
ton Of native or home grown words is
undoubtedly very much higher in both
the 5000 and the 10000 than it is in
the 10000. Perhaps in the 10000
words, or thereabouts, standing the die
tionaries, that are very rarely or never
used, even in writing, between 10000
and $4,000 may be Of French or Latin
extraction. II we assume %, 500 to
be so, that will leave 5000 Teutonic
words in common use and in our lite
rary English, taken at 10000 words,
these non-Roman will thus amount
to about one half. Of that half 4 900
words may be current in our spoken
language, which will therefore be gen.
uine English for four ffths of it's en-
tire extent. 1t will consist of about
1900 Gothic and 200 Roman words.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05
Tice Martins
Walters Martha AZ White LC
JOHN A. MCCORMICK, P. N.


A HIr AT HusRANDs.--'Tis night.
Through yonder open window the per-
fume laden breath of summer is gently
stealing. Who are those two beings sleep
ing SO calmly on yonder couch? The
young wife and her bosom's lord. Hark!
soft and sweet as mothers love breaks
strain upon the sense; il mingles with her
dreams, and angel bands are ministerinr
unto her. She wakes. IT'S but Of earth
but oh! how heavenly! Shall she arouse
her husband. that he, too. may luxuria,e
in the circumcision of harmony! Oh he
is awake, and he will not break the spell
by speaking.
Wife," tah! he is but man and must
have sympathy; he is not satisfied 10 en-.
Joy it in silence.)
Eyes, dearest"
u wish you would throw pitcher Of
water over those fellows; how can body
sleep with such an internal .too,in' a.
that going on?''
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

ABOUT Hoes. Prices are low everywhere,
and the receipts fall greatly short of the
numbers up to dates last year.
At Cincinnati on the Gath, prices ranged
from IS 50 to S. IS, and purchases were
made only to fill contracts.
At Louisville IS was paid under similar
circumstances.
The receipts at these places as compared
with last year, up to the 9th Of November,
were as follows:
1856. 1857
Cincinnati, 1880 $4,000
Louisville, $4,000 5000
Total, $3.50 44,909
At St. Louis the extreme price paid was
81 so, On the 23d.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05
List OF LETTEnS

- fgeLiST OF LETTBHS
REMAINING in the Post Office, at Musca.
tine, Iowa, December LIST, 1857.
Persons calling for advertised letters are
requested to give the date of the list.
On aud after Nov. LIST. the Post Office
will be open on Sundays, from to 9 A. NJ.
CENTS. LIST,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

ca The St. Louis Democrat, of the Goth
nit, contains q detailed account of the
swindling operations of the nrin Ct French
Il Hadsell, doing large dry goods business
in that city, by which they attempted TO
cheat number of Eastern houses, located
in Philadelphia, New York and Boston, out
of large sum of money, amounting in the
aggregate to about 100000, but more par
ticularly the house of Pierce. brothers &
Flanders, of the latter city, to whom they
were indebted in the sum Of about 100000.
By the prompt and judicious action, howev-
err, of Mr.. Carlos Pierce, the head of the
firm, the game was blocked. Mr.. P. went
to St. Louis, watched operation and final
ly made descent upon the concern, but not
until large share of the goods had disap-
peared. French and Hadsel made their es-
cape, the former to Bunker Hill, Ill.,, and
the latter to New York, where, just about
the time he was going TO sail for Europe,
he w..s captured by the efforts OF NJ. Pierce,
and $4,000 got from him, which together
with about $l2, 900 obtained from French,
who was afterwards captured fully makes
up Messrs, Pierce, Brothers & Flanders loss
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

gProbably one hundred millions of dol
lars have been expended in making war up
on few Indians in the swamps and ever
glades of Florida since the year 1S30-and
the war still goes on. This terrible waste
Of treasure and valuable human life, is all
to please slaye-owners. Negroes run away
from their masters and get into these
swamps, where they live with the Indians,
and Uncle Sam is trying to clean out the In
dams for the benefit of the negro breeders.
If Congress would stop the war and pay for
the runaway negroes it would be saving Of
a million or two a year, at any rate.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05
e. The Davenport Democrat Of the Sd
contains the following:

. (Erom Our "pad'' Correspondent.
..ts. MuscArINk, Dec /, 1857.
MEssRs. EDIr,Es IL find in yesterday
Journal the following paragraph:
The Democrat, which claims that its
~paid" correspondent says Florence Is GOOD
In Muscatine and that he saw the editor OF
the Journal take some Of it "without Il
inurmer," is also sadly in error. Its cores
pondent should be well "paid" for such
lying.
Now in order to refresh the memory OF
the editor Of the Journal, and to show you
that your correspondent is ever on the alert,
In order that he may earn the muniticen'
salary Which, you have kindly bestowed upon
him idont let it out what you do pay me.
for fear some individuals to whom | owe
divers small bills might insist on their pay
uent) append the following affidavit:
AFFIDAVIT.
II. T. Blank, hsying been duly sworn
says: i,
That while sitting in tho store Of 4. ~
Burnett, in the City of Musca inc, the afore-
said editor Of the Journal came into said
s.ore, and while the said editor was stand
ing in said store, person stepped up to the
S1lu cuilcT OuClcu tiC Stlu SuIloi WV
dollar bill on the Bank Of Florence, which
the said editor cheerfully accepted, and
Looked wi exceedingly greedy eyes upon a
roll of the same money which the aforesaid
gentleman had in his possession.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
LIST day Of December, 1857.
l. LEGAL, Notary Pubic.
Now we repeat that the above is a false
hood. We never received " two dollar
bill on the Bank of Florence" nor was such
ill offered to US, while standing in Bur
nett. book store. We defy the individual
who hiss cold himself to g do up' the lying
Of the Democrat in regard to Florence III
Auscatine to produce the man who paid us
the pictured trash as he alleges.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

FR.rps IN M1NNEsorA.-The most disgrace
ful frauds. upon the part Of the g Democra-
ey," are now being developed in Minnesota.
i appears after the fact was rendered Ger
tain thit the Republicans had elected their
Governor, a secret caucus meeting OF the
government officers, of course all Democrats,
was held at st. Paul, where arrangements
were made to overcome the Republicn ma
jority by forged returns. An agent sent
to the frontier districts, brought back suffi-
cient forged'returns to Overcome the Repub-
lican majority. The sham Democracy seem
determined that the majority shall not rule,
even if the vilest frauds must be used to
give the minority the power. How long will
the country bear patiently the national in
fanny of such a party?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-12-05

NJ x# eEss ia
From The following paragraph clipt from
the Chicago Times, the home organ Of Doug
las, it will be seen that the ranks of the
+" Freedom Shriekers'' are rapidly filling up.
So it goes; We are gaining new accessions
to the cause upon every fresh outrage perpe-
trated by the slavery propagandists:
Who ARE THE TRUE? In these days,
when dangerous innovations and bold viola
tions of the Democratic platform are urged
by papers that have heretofore held high po-
bic to know who are true to the principles
lowing Democratic papers who are defend
ecutive authority is represented as shielding
ney's Philadelphia Press, Pittsburgh Union,
Detroit Free Press, Ohio Statesman, Toledo
Commercial, Milwaukee News, Dubuque Ex-
press, Davenport Uowa) Dem crat, Buffalo
Courier, New York Journal of Commerce.
"In our own State, SO far as we have seen
any expression of sentiment on this Kansas
question, there is but one sentiment. The
State Register, Galena Courier, Freeport
and emphatic in asserting that the Nebraska
act should be carried out in good faith. In
the northwest there will be but one express
sion of opinion on that point.
PACKING POINT. - The superstition is,
judging from the financial condition Of the
country, that the season will be far advanced
before there will be much operation in the
pork market by spectators, and that in con-
sequence there will be large proportion Of
the pork of Iowa killed and packed on &C.
count of first owners.-Burlington Gazette
The "supposition" of the Gazette may
mature into sober reality so far as thai
part Of the State about Burlington is con-
cerned, but at Muscatino it is quite different
The packers of this city are supplied with al
much ready cash as may be required to buy
all the pork brought to market. We wish
tho farmers and drovers Of Central Iowa tc
understand that we speak advisedly in this
matter. Our pork buyers do not offer Flor
ence or any other worthless and deprecated
issues, but money which is undoubtedly safe
and current all over the country.
! TvYN
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07
sourRERN PAcIEIo RAILRoAn.


The Directors OF the Soathern Pacific Railr1aa
Company, at meeting he'd in New Orleans on
the 26;n Of March, elected George Yagsr,
Pfesdsnt of said Company. ia the place OF Hora-
ito Allen, resigned. Toe Nsa Dreams Picqyllas
thus notices the election;
"The election of Georges Yerger,R President
Of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, watch
took placs yesterday, is tse Inauguration of q pol
Icy WI CD ] g Tres the consuuG lon Of the rad
aud IN that lgnt may be REGARDED as al epoch 10
this age OF progress aud woodruff .schieVem snt.
There could not have been selected in the valley
OF the Mississippi gentleman wac po5sesseS in a
larger degree the qua i6oaliOns BETTING the Lffi;s
which he now holds-nO one 10 whom the sttri-
butes OF integrity, capacity and perseverance are
! more hsrmoniously and eJnspicuously Blended
We eongrstu rne directory on thtir choice, the
| gentleman himself upon tbs eX ended field which
has open-C upon the vastness Of the results Wbica
q no distant lu:ule promises 10 the contemplation
Of TIE enterprise.
1T is not our purpose at this time to speak OF
! this read, either as re- ds lis magnitude, the
blessings which it Proposes tor mankind, the fszsi.
bility OF its instruction or the profits wllea =
Cffe;s as al investment. These are all topics whlUn
| demand separa and well considered not ces.-
Oar design IS merely to Temsrk upon the irsC Of
fetal st-p taken by our northern friends in carry
i1g forward system winch is 10 har nouizs IN
ints est Of every section of she Unoa in al ur'
derts krg when sh Juld b national in its eze5u
ton, rs It will eminenily so IN the bless ug,
wa c } il will secure 70 nericA This arrange
m9ut has been made ss soon as il could be Legally
AMI it evincss upon the part Of the seu.iem n wnC
are now here en- th9 bluness OF tbs company,
oJn6de1ce IN the AGILITY and good faith Of th,
Sou b, which, we irdF, viii b. met in spri
equally frank, and result IN q cOmbinst on 0
strength which will carry forward the work wit
an expedition illustrative f the inVincibiliIy c
organized aud wisely dITeste1 sfJrI."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07

RSg@ We perceive in late Louisville Courier a
long letter from Col. Jack Allen, late of Walkers
army a veteran officer and brave man, well known
in that State who lately returned from Nicaragua.
lie states that Walker is petty yrant, without mill
tary ability and that all that has been alleged respec-
ting the fatality THE climate, Walkers neglect his
men the want of order anddiscipline and the drunk
enness prevailing there is true.-Ner York Tribune.
We are requested by Col. Allen tOsay that he never
wrote such letter to the Louisville Courier to any
other paper and that he never expressed such senti
ments either in writing or in conversation. Although
there was a necessity for his return from Nicaragua,
his strong sympathies still in the in which
Walker is embarked.-Lou. Journal
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07

YEARLY FooD OF OEE Man From the army
sni navy diet scales of France ard England,
which, Of course, are based upon the recognized
nee sstiss Of large numbers Of men in active lfeD
it Is Inferred that about two and ore fourth pcunds
avord1pois of dry food, per day are required f T
each il d vidu ! of this, about three fourths are
vegetable, and the rest animal At the close OF an
eliire year the amount is upwards Of eight hun
dred pounds Eaunersting under the title of wa.
ter all the various drinks -eoff5e, tea, alcohol,
wna, &c Its estimated qusntty is about one
tholsa I'd Eve hundred pounds per snnum. That
for the air received by breathing may be taken ct
eoht hundred pounds With these figures before
M-dicaI World We a sb,e TO Bee how the case
stands TIE food, witer and air which q man re-
csves, amount 10 the aggregate, 20 more than
1910 pound 8 = ar-thst is to about a ton and
hslE, or more Than twenty times his weight. This
enormous quantity may well lttrsct our attention
10 the expenditure of material required for sup
porting life A living being is the result, and rep
resentation Of change on q prOdigous scale
Scientific Ame' iodn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07
SHEKIFF'S SALE.

DY virtue Of an execution 10 directed from the oh
- eer court Nashville, lie November term le56
fyor Of G. D BIien, Clerk and Master, W. T. Tiudeil
q d robert TiRdeI. / will.
Tuesday, The FIFTH Day OF MAY, 1857,
EpOse the Court Yard GFtN is city OF Nash
ve, the highest oder for cash. all the right lille ella
and into that w. and Kohtrt 1iHdell
piece, parcel bit OF GT0Hud lying being in
The county Of Davidson, state OF Tennessee, city Of
Nashville the being Lot No., the division o Lots
formerly by John H-de dse'd from ing on Market
street, I'm what is known College LOTS % feet run.
ming bal 100 feet, upon which Lnt there is two story
Brick House. Deed Registered Book a and page 320
ReEist'F p 0aics OF Davidson county.
ALSO, all Inc righ te claim and interest that Robert
nnde has in and TO piece parcel Of Land situated and
being the County and Stale on college
Hill, south Of the corp ration Of Na.Avls, being hal Of
Lot No as desiE sed in The plan Of CRmpbes Lots that
is say Southern half Of said lot, lrontng 20 on
Market street. running back 4? feet sey il being the
same Lot that conveyed 70 Martha P. Hanks By Richard
Hanks. Deed Registered Book no. pages Ii2 and i53
Registers Oics Of Davidson county. sale within legal
bours. J. X. EnHUSDSON, Sheriff,
HV Fl. CAMEBELI, DePuty Sheh1.
April 4, Is57--tjE [apr7-prs fee IS.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07

ITaERIDGEs DEFEEOE The lie /, ,defe1ce #
Etheridge, tie southern black republican me Der
of Congress, is thus nOticel by the Washington
correspondents Of the Boston Pos:
''The speech of NJ Etherids of Tennessee, in
defer c. OF the resolution offered by him in the ear
" part of the session against te slave trade,
though witty in spots, was Glow li3h enough in
others to more tia compensate for its smartness
1t was a farrago of libels on the democracy, and
overrun with maliguity, disguised in the form OF
humor. His time expired before he finished, Whsn
Percy Walker, Gov. Letcher, and others attempt.
ed to reply, bat the black rep blcans nterposed
save Mr. E heridgs from q sG1rching by voting to
rise so E,heridge retired iato the post Office,
and there surrounded by cougeu al crowd of
passengers, pOrterI etc, mounted on q BEECH and
went on for half 81 hour in continuation of his
speeca, which was received BY his mis- ,ellsneous
audience with great applause, aDd suppose, will
be printed with the rest. It waJs fitting couolu-
sion for an exhibition from the start on a similar
scale given in a circus, by Dan Rice and other
distinguish Merry Andrews"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07
MAIL CONTRACT.

The new Postmaster General viii be called on soon,
to close the contract to carry the mail from some
point on the Mississippi river to San Francisco, on
the Pacific The mail is to be carried in four horse
coaches, monthly, semi monthIy, or Weekly..a the
Postmaster General may think best. This is pro-
iect of great Importance to the whole people of the
United States The undertaking viii be one Of great
responsibility and attended with no little difficulty
and good deal of danger to the undertaken Of the
service It will not only require men Of nerve, en-
ergy, industry and integrity but Will require great
business capacities and acquaintance with the
proposed route and the habits Of the people and the
dangers of the road from SHOWS, robbers, thieves,
&C. We understand that our townsman James Gle
YER is an applicant for the contract and is in
Washington We do not know any one better quail
fed for this undertaking than Glover. He combines
all the qualifications mentioned above, in addition to
which he is one of the ceyerest fellows in the world,
popular wherever known Has travelled the route
and is perfectly familiar with the trials and difficult
ties Of the service. He has the best Of Pecuniary
backing.
We wish for the sake Of the country, and welfare
of our friend Glover that he may get the contract,
and we believe the people of Tennessee, and are
sure all who know him, would rejoice to see him get
the contract. We think he has good chance for it,
for all the qualities we have attributed to him,
well known to Gov. Brown. Werepeat we wish him
success in this important enterprise.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07
NOTICE.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CON
PETITIONERS AND BAKERS

M9G0LRICK a. BURNS are opening 81 their 80
VI hbi shine Market street Ne. So next door Mr.
Powers Clothing Bore general n Csnfsasa-
cries. which they iu nd selling very reaHuabs and
tTast b. their atteHloa bunsss nduas TIE puba
extend % them abera share Of at-ouzgo AnEhs lead
Tag articles no on band and which they vii b rseuyns,
ths following, VIZ:
Candies Of ever variety; Pine pps an hlo Chssss
Fruits q every kind; Brund1sdr Wines best br'ds5
Fieklesr assoried5 Coriiais, Of ever variety
Flckled Oysters a sardincs; Ale ans Pu-tar.
hhad and salmon Fine Cigar.
viii r7rieiy 81 articles not herein enuissiraied.
in connection On h8r Confactnnery ihsV inras the
tenon Of he public % thsr Bakery, from Waieh daily
supply Of fresh Bread Cakes, and PassTy had PR
ues vii be made up order and earsfuy 10 any pa
Of tn city.
Having permaneiy located here, OF eouFsEHiah b
Patrouized literally % the end. W intend ia on COED
terns, aHd By our demeanor, commend sarseYss ne
Kind notice Of generous public We respectfully invite
County Dealers DO are IN Inns Trade, % give
apiil4-f GsGoLRiCK sURgs.
IF the Heirs OIL fsnt. Roberg Hayes, Capt.
Clement Hail and Lsut James faiam o. me HoVoiI
uonaTy War, WI eau AZ tie ses 81 FeEson coE, MOL
Cedar street, Na-aves rsHnoIl5e 1bgy VII hsaz foo
hing q td5iF adFautaga. lf8lfla-1& w
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07
PURLIC SALE

IN pursuance Of morags me on the 25h day
august, 1882 by JAMES A. DeeIy, President Of Ali
sonia Manufacturing company in the comfy Of Frankn in
the State OF Tennessee by Robert r. Deery, RETRY
OF that company, ana BY William Der, the Treasurer
Of that company (Which mortgage duly authentic
and recorded ding 10 Law aha I, on FRIDAY, HE
EIGHTH OF MAY NEXT, t. tair, between the hours 10
aHd 70 A. NJ hut il then fair between the same hours
OF the fair day Thereafter, proceed sell public aue
ton, the premises for the price that be gotten
all Ih5 premises, stst5 real aud per-sHa franchises ard
property and al right benefit, and guilty redemp ion
which the said Dser by the mortgage aforesaid
the payment OF IN bonds upOrs
IN in uusrtisfed, W. N. CHURCHWELL.
FpFT-dlm. Trustee, dc,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-07
Sion tha Rascal-

WILL give One Hundred Dollars for the apprehension
and delivery OF one JOSEPH ArNIB, WIN broke BAIL
Rmi hvie DeKalb county the 24h Of March. s57
running at larle. Said AtniP cnnfGcd on a
charge Il forgery. He is about 10 inches high bow
legged rather hump shoudyTed Inclined be dark skin
ed her honey, arO1t q years Cd, bla hs is
great brag. Wien be lef be h. boH parts and his
shirt he has the niI'als his nsm in one or his
arms, pick with blue lux, and the d1te l-I3,
RPT7-tWlWf J. l. STR KLANn, JalOr