Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-28

MUSCA'
sNygDM NOVEMBER a, 1857:
es1ielios os narsarism.
The Democratic press of the country i,
just beginning to discover the iniquity Of
sustaining, by government aid and comfort
the Infamous practices of Mormonism. And
the Democratic Administration seems to be
!, decidedly in earnest in its purposes to re-
strict the despotic domination of the leaders
of Mormonism. In this they seem to be fol-
lowing tardily the counsels of the Republi-
can party, which as early as June, 1856, in
the platform of the National Convention.
s adopted at Philadelphia, declared that Con-
gress ought to prohibit in the Territories
these twin relics of barbarism-slavery and
polygamy.
The Locofocos of that day were pledged to
"Squatter Sovereignty" and insisted on tho
right Of the people of the Territories to reg
ulate their owsiastitutons without the in
reference of Congress. Where is that prin-
ciple nowp What right has the Government
| to interfere with the institutions Of Utah, If
squatter s5yereignty be correct doctrine .
Why should the people be allowed to regu.
late one domestic institution and be depriv-
| ed of the right to control another!
We rather suspect that Northern Locofo-
| cos are getting tired of their squatter sove-
reignty dogma and will soon abandon it en-
tirely, both in its application to polygamy
and slavery.
A CLEK1oA SHYLooK. = The Chicago pa
pers give the particulars of most disgrace
full and unusual transaction by q certain
clergyman, named Enoch F. Burr, of Lyme,
CT. This man came in possession of deed
of trust covering the house and lot Of John
Tear, an Industrious blacksmith of Chicago.
The note coming due in an evil hour, and
Tear being unable to pay it, the clerical Shy
lock demanded one hundred per cent. inter
est to let Il run another year. Finally he
agreed to receive the moderate interest of
.irty. sir pr sent. as his ultimatum, and on
declining thi offer, the property, worth ten
thousand dlars, was sent to the auction
block, andib bid to the creditor for barely
the face of'he note, a little upwards Of three
thousand dollars. Thus worthy, hard
working mechanic, was beggared to satisfy
the inlunnh greed of Christian minister
of the same denomination, and member of
the same Chrittian faith with himself.
BEES Pi q qLIroRN1A.-I 1t may not be
known = everybody, or remembered by
" the res of 4ankind," that there were no
bees in dlifo(nia when first discovered by
the Yanlee fanily, and that several attempts
made to- carry them there at an early day !
were un hcc@ @sful. Of late several persons
have BEN nbre successful, and we suppose,
have mde the business of sending bees to
the Goben State gold producing specula-
ton. ;he steamer of November fifth was
engage, byS. s. Harbeson, of New Castle,
LawrepAe county, Pennsylvania, t0take out
sixty blonies of bees, destined for Sacra-
mento.nd neighborhood. This is the larg-
est shbment ever sent out.
RE5MpTIoN OF SPECIE PAYMENTS BY THE
NEW DIRK BANKS The Times of the 17th |
says Is The banks have not yet come to
deciSn as to the resumption of specie pay
t men = but as. gold continues to flow to this
poinfrom an quaaters, the resumption will
probbly take place within short time
witbut disturbance"
A Dsson for Wives and Husbands.
Ts reading world has been entertained
or dgusted-for there is no accounting for
tast-by the details of the remarkable case
Of Ms. Woodman, who claims to Lave been
vitim to the wiles of Toue, who, at Paris,
at lew Orleans, at Boeton, at New York, at
Ne'port, at Saratoga, held her in such
bohage, through love at first and fear after
wad, as that her heart, body and estate
wee completely at his disposal and subject |
to lis will. Her affidavit sets up strange
tai of love and madness, which taxes the
crdulity Of any one to believe that it ema-
naes from other than crazed brain, and
tb details of her course Of insane love, by
-"what charms,
That conjurations, and what mighty magck,"
tb Devil got such mortgage upon her be-
inh moral and physical, would eclipse in
mgyellousness any of the s.Mysteries of
Pgi,." Her sale to Satan was uncondition-
al and absolute. The late Ha6eas Corpus
cse in New York, in which her lover Fur
nbs) at her own written solicitation, backed
BY the most ardent appeals of passionate
love, attempts her release from the lunatic
ajyium, in which, in charity towards her
crimes, her husband had placed her, initiates |
tie bubble of her strange infatuation to
bursting, and its varied hues dissolve in q
food of penitential tears, and full confess
kon of her faithlessness towards her husband
3 sobbed out upon her knees. That con-
session may be true in whole, it no doubt is
In part: it bears sufficient evidence to CON
denim her of sins which life of regret un.
der the paternal roof to whose shelter her
brother has taken her, will not suffice to
wipe out.
J In treating upon this remarkable case, the
New York Post says:
! The wretched woman whose criminal
weakness has given to her name such shame
lfpl notoriety, has been extricated from the
tolls of her paramour, and is now on her
way to the only sanctuary for such as she
this side the grave-her fathers home.
May she there find that peace which comes
toIsuch as have "sorrowcd to repentance"
Mrs. Woodman's fate is a warning to hus-
bands and wives not to be tempted by busi-
ne,s or other engagements to dwell apart
from each other. 1t was when left alone,
without relatives, in distant country and
beyond the influence Of any public opinion
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