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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

Col. FoRNEY ON TIE ADMINISTRATION "A
correspondent of the N. Y. Times having
intimated that Col. Forney was about to
surrender to the Administration, he utters
an indignant denial, and adds:.
II has no probability, no possibility, to
rest upon. We have nothing to surrender.
1t would afford us great pleasure to agree
with the general administration on this
Kansas question; but this will never be,
until the Administration is true to itself and
to the pledges upon which itwas elevated to
power. @
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

THE Nav SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Bait imore Sun says Col. Arthur P.
Hayne, the new United States Senator from
s"nthh Carolina, was, during the war of 1912,
an officer of the U. s. Army. As lisuten-
ant he participated in the battle of Sackett's
Harhor, under Gen. Brown as Adjutant
General, he served in the Creek Nation. un-
der Gen. Jackson, with whom he also bore
gallant part in the battle of New Orleans.
He was great favorite with Gen. Jackson.
Col. II. resigned his commission soon after
he war as-t @ F
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29
TUESDAY. MAY %. 1853.

THE RIVER PIRAfEs.- The St. Paul Times
says that the river pirates who have lately
been routed from their hiding places had an
organized line of communication beginning
at St. Paul and extending to Memphis. The
men composing this band are possessed of
more than ordinary courage !; they have
banded together to carry out their plans
fearless of everything; their schemes have
been the result Of long and laborious study,
and regular rules and by-laws have been
drawn up as guide to all their movements.
They have had their President. Secretary
and Treasurer, and at stated times met to-
gether and appointed their committees to
carry out the plans adopted.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

Ng Isaiah Rynders, prince OF bullies,
rowdies, shoulder hitters, ballot-box suffers,
gamblers and R. G. swillers, has been con-
6rmed as Marshal o. the Southern District
of New York. Of such are the special ia
vorites of buchanan, and such are the char
acters he delights to honor.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

aW A murderer having escaped from the
Sheriff Of Webster county, a western ex-
change suggests that detective be sent to
Washington to apprehend him before bu-
ohanan appoints him to Office Hawkeye.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

~ Hon. Samuel R. Curtis, Of this State,
who made an able speech in Congress on the
9th, on the bill granting pensions to soldiers
who served in the last war with Great Bri--
tain and the Indian wars preceding, is rising
fast in public attention. Both his and S.n-
ator Harlan's speeches made during the past
three months have received high encomiu ms
from the press. We feel proud of such lnen.
They are an honor to Iowa. ~
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

SrARTLINa DEvRLoPNENTsl IN WISCONSIN. -
The developments of fraud, bribery and cor
rnption which prevailed in Wisconsin in
connection with the distribution of the land
grant to the railroad companies Of that State,
+ two years since, are perfectly astounding.
The Joint Committee of the Legislature have
given the matter pretty full investigation,
|, and they report that nearly all the members
,sf both branches who voted for the bill of
distribution that passed the Legislature re-
Sceiyed therefor from five thousand to twenty
Hxe thousand dollars apiece in bonds and
stock. The whole amount thus far ascer-
tained to have been paid by way of bribes
to members of the Legislature and prominent
politicians is near six hund red thousand
dollars
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

HEALTH OF Mr.. GIDDENGs. Hon. Joshua
R. Giddings writes to the Ashtabula Sentinel
as follows t @@i s
Z 81 see the papers have noticed the recur-
renee of the sudden indisposition to which
was subjected last year and the year before.
1t is true that was for moment uncon-
scious, but the attack bore no comparison
with that of last year. Indeed, it was SO
slight that my physicians endeavor to en-
courage me with the hope of perfect recov-
cry; hope, however, in which | have not
for year past INDUCED, nor do now enter
tain it." s&5 1s sss-ys l7sel9eE.f.s.f
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

CYThe Burlington Hawkeye says that the
Chicago trains are now reached by hand-cars
and skiffs from East Burlington.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

Coop ExcusE.-The celebrated letter of
the celebrated Foley, a Lecompton Congress-
man from one of the benighted districts of
Indiana, which letter contained more bad
grammar and spelling than would suffice for
the whole House of Representatives, is ex-
cused by its author on the ground that sshe
was not very well when he wrote lt'' That
will do. The excuse is good illu stration
of the original performance.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

OF,
.s7 "Constitution ,Dithout Slarery."
but in fact, Constitution and Slavery,
whichever way they should vote.
MIR. English's plan Of submission is a lit.
tie different, but with the same ruling idea:
They can now vote
Land Grant and a Slags State,'
or, l.s..
"No Land Grant and Slove 2erritory.''
but Slavery at all hazards.
s'Shall you have the buzzard and the
turkey, or have the turkey and you the
buzzard ?"-Akron Beacon.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

CO N. P. Tallmadge, formerly in the
United States Senate, writes to Senator
Shields, of Minnesota, that number Of the
present Senators in Congress are believers
in Spiritualism, and that the political history
of 1860 will be much affected if not con-
trOlIed .hv It. 95 Ef 81 .t.t Il
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

BRIr1sH OUrRAGEs. The following is the
record of British operations in the Gulf
within the last three weeks, and hardly a
day passes now but we have some new out
rage to record:
Ship Tropic Bird, fred into, boarded and
searched.
Bark Clara Windsor, fred into, boarded
and searched.
Bark Glenburn, overhauled at sea.
Bark w. H. Chandler, boarded and
sesrched while lying at anchor in the port
of Sagua Ia GraHde.
Twelve other vessels also boarded and
searched in the harbor of Sagua la Grande.
Brig Robert Wing, fred into, boarded and
-pesrched.
= Schooner wingold, fred into, boarded
spd searched.
schooner Cortez, seized, and now detained
aA36aTpa.
Schooner N. B. Borden, fred into, boarded
schooner Mobile, fred into, boarded and
a&aResaed -
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

How THE LEooMProN CONSTITUTION Is
SUBMITTED TO THE PEoPLE.-John Candle
sox) Calhoun's mode of submitting the
Kansas swindle to a vote, was to permit the
people to say:
ssC0nstiiution acith sSloreru.,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

The MINNESOTA REPREsENTATIvEs.-Mr.
Harris, for the Committe on Elections, re-
ported, Thursday, on the cases of the Mime
sofa Representatives, the report concluding
with resolution that they besworn in. MIR.
sGilmer made minority report, and smart
debate ensued, without bringing the matter
A = conclusion. -
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29
SATURDAY, MAY %, 1858.


- END or THE MORMON ENBRooLlo.-It is
now reduced to certainty that the Mormons
2 have succumbed to the federal authority.
Col. Kane and Mr.. Gilbert, who reached
Lesvenworth on Sunday last, bring the in
/ telligence that Brigham Young has abdicated
ia favor of Gov. Cumming At the latest
dates the latter was thirty miles from Salt
Lake City, accompanied by deputation of
City Mormons, who had been sent out to
meet him. This news is corroborated by
intelligence communicated by Mr.. Gerrish,
. former partner of Mr.. Gilbert at Salt Lake
~ City, to the st. Louis Democrat. The Nor
4 mons evidently mean to abandon Salt Lake
D Valley, and If they will now leave the coun-
, Try altogether, the difficulties with them will
be ct an end. At the time Mr.. Gerrish was
at Salt Lake City, Tin the early part of
April Brigham Young had already sent his
family away to the southwark, and large
number of other families were moving in the
same direction. Their destination is not
given. The majority very likely will scatter
and settle on the Pacific slope, or i f they
cling together, will seek home in Mexico.
The messenger says, "The Mormons had
made no preparation for war, and had planted
no crops in Utah." showing their purpose to
have been to break up in Utah, and either to
scatter or to emigrate into Mexico. Private
letters say that the point Of their destination
is Sonora, in Mexico. Doubtless they have
been preparing Gall of them that meant to
stick together) for this step for some time,
and that, too, with the full knowledge an d
assent of the Mexican Government.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

gaa A MODEL LITTER BY MODEL CoNeRE S.
MAN.-James B Foley represents in Congress
the 4th Indiana District, which adjoins Gin
d lcinnati He beat Cumback, Republican, by
l,453 votes in 1856 He acted with the
anti-Lecompton Democrats until Stephens
; invented the English swindle, when he de-
>, serted h colors and went over to the slave
, breeders. Since then he has been writing
letters to his constituents, begging them to
"turn him loase in the Destric," that he
) may have a chance for another electi on. He
says he is sscertin he can carry the Des tric'
IL 'sturned loase" upon it, and that his can
didacy will help the "democrat ticet' at the
.tpoles.p He spects to be s'home by the 10
OF june" to attend the Convention, and
thinks he ought to have ga chance at the
next rase" He says ..'the Admins tration
has all Redy reenstated him in full felership
.-if John L. Robinson will consent, he will
Be Permitted to act with the democrat party
agine" OF the English bill he an nounces
tia: the ssSettlement is on the Great Priuci
, Piles of noninterventions so you see we poor
dsveis nave neid our ground WE'LL"
81 The letter is rich in photography, etymol-
ogy, syntax and originality.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

Rock ISLAND r Il. BRIpGE-A dispatch
from Washington of % ! says the Congress
sional Committee on Commerce have report
ed in favor of removing the railroad bridge
at Rock Island, as an obstruction to the nav
igation of the Mississippi. From a report
OF the committee previously published We
make the following extract
'From the evidence presented before your
committee, they cannot doubt but that the
bridge, as at present constructed, is ma
terial aud dangerous obstruction to the nav
igation of the Mississippi river, but they be-
lieve that the courts have full and ample pow
er to remedy any evil that may exist in that
regard. AT present they are disihclined to
recommend any action by Congress in the
premises; but whether at some future time
it may not be expedieps~to direct the proper
law officers of the government to proceed
against the bridge, this committee will not
now undertake to determine" ....5 -
It-seens, however, that the committee has
re-c5nsidered its former decision, and that
we are likely to have trouble about this mat.
ter. 1t is unfortunate that the bridge was
not at first constructed asst should have been,
That it is great detrment to the free nav
gation of the river, it is folly to deny but
we should besorry to see such gigantic and
useful structure removed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

Henry Ward Beecher says that s'the
Bible Society is sending its Bibles all over
tho world-to Greenland and the Morea, to
Arabia and Egypt but it dares not send
them to our own people. The colporteur
who should leave Bible in slaves abin
tcouM 90 to Heaven from. the losoest limb Of
ne ftvt tvee'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29
The Gold Excitement.

The excitement of the public in regard to
the Iowa gold diggings is spreading over tn e
entire State, and in the greater portion of it
local discoveries serve to increase the ex-
citement.
The Desmoines papers speak somewhat
confidently of the value Of the discoveries in
that vicinity, and in its last issue the Citizen,
OF that place, says:
A few days since, we received letter
from Mr.. Simonds, Of Saylorville, in this
county, containing black sand, with due
admixture Of the glittering ore. The letter
states that the discovery was made some two
miles from Saylorville, on the premises of
Mr.. Hatch. a, Ia. .lasl
One day last week, our citizens were
startled by the rumor that the shining metal
had been hunted down near the float bridge
in this city, on the west side of the river.
In a short time, hundreds of people had
gathered at the interesting spot, and pans
and spades were placed in immediate use to
exc out the precious article 1t was soon
found convncinely true that gold is imbed-
ded in the heart of our city. We saw speci-
mems that were Enthusiastically gold They
stood the chemical tests without changing
countenance, and it is generally believed
that when the river recedes to its ordinary
summer stage, rich deposits of the precious
mineral will be. disclosed by mining. AT
other places in the corporation we learn that
the search for gold has been successful, and
in some instances 'snuggets" of very respect
able size have rewarded the labors of the
io-hunterS. kas l-FF - F
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

Coon REsULTs.-It is stated in the Gin
cinnati Gazette that since the religious revi-
vsl has been in progress, the number of
drinking shops in that city has been mate
rally lessened. Within week, two or three
establishments in the inme diate vicinity of
q church, where union prayer meetings are
holden daily, have been compelled to close
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

OrHER CANplDArBs.-The Linn County
Rsoister su rests that Hon. Wm. Smith, of
Marion, be the candidate of the Republicans
Of this District for Congress. The Maquo-
keta Excelsior warmly urges the claims Of the
Gallant Henry b Connor, Of Muscatine, for
Congressional honors. Mr.. Butler, Of Nus
catine, has also been mentioned,i i'm the Same
connection. We do not believe that Mr..
O,Connor will allow his name to 60 before
the Convention. - Iosoa city Republican.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

e%The Greensburg Repub blicGn, printed
in Gen. Foley's own town-Gen- =. ls the
man whe wishes to be turned sloase" in his
district--makes the following proposition
n PRoposlrloN. Gen. Foley has large
number of letters under his sssign manual, =
addressed to his political friends in this
nIace. Now we propose TO those who deny
the authenticity of the letter puolfsnea IN
Of $40 for anv- one of these letters for pub
lication. Who takes?
$40 RewARp.-Not ot for copy of ssletter
that Gen. Foley didn't write, but Tor one
he did write!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

!. ElrauLAR. From May 1st, 1857, to April
3Oth, 1858, there were So Fridays. On one
OF these ill-omened Fridays, the English bill
was passed in Congress. Who says now
that Friday is not an unlucky day Pc pular
superstition has given it an inauspi cious
nalae, and the National Democracy have
posred additional darkness on the day.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

GTIf the Adm nistration would, instead
of issuing treasury notes and borrowing,
levy additional duties upon imported goods
an iron competing with our own manufac-
lures, it would set the looms and pindles
and forges Of the country at work again,
give employment to idle operatives, and
afford market and enhance the price of the
grains grown by western ia rmers, now SELL
ing at prices that do not pay cost of pro-
duction. The whole country would ut once
feel the bene6tof the change of policy. But
Mr. Buchanan and his advisers are too busy
with plans of slavery extension to know or
care anything about the prosperity Of the
country @ =" tse#t''r
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29
MONDAY, MAY "a, 1853.
our Next Member for Congress.

Our Next Member for Congress-.
1t is pleasant thing to have faithful
friend. The reproof of such one always
falls pleasantly on our ear, when we are
assured of its disintcrestedness and sincerity
The Davenport Gazette, prompted by Pc
culiar affection for us, has taken upon itself
the supervision of our selections from other
papers. With that lively affection and
pleasing candor which are s'amiable weak
nesses" of the Gazette, it criticizes in a
friendly manner an extract in the Journal
OF the 18th inst, taken from the Maquoketa
Excelsior, entitled 'sOur Next Member of
Congress-" The Excelsior in that article
took occasion to oppose the nomination Of
Mr.. Thorington, of Davenport, for Congress,
and suggested the name of Mr.. o. O'Connor for
that post, paying that gentleman some hand
some and well merited encomiums for his
distinguished abilities and great services to
the party. We simply endorsed its praise
of our talented townsman, and intimated
our personal preference for his nomination
for the Office of District Attorney, and the
determination of his numerous friends
throughout the State to reward his services
in, some manner. The Gazette makes the
slight mistake of attributing to us the re-
marks of the Facelsior, and whips the latter
over our back for its declaration of indie
pendence of Davenport, and its intimation
that Jackson county will not submit to be
ruled by Scott county, but will act for itself
in the conventions of June. b.. s.-sr, 4
The Gazette makes another slight mistake
in saying that Mr.. O'Connor has signifed
his wish for any Office. Mr.. O'Connor has
not asked and does not ask himself for any
Office. He is not one of those characters
who urge their own claims for Office upon
the people. He has never been IN Office
seeker, nor has he ever with one Office in
hand greedily grasped for another, like some
others whose claims are now urged for Con-
gress with more zeal than discretion. His
friends are desirous that he should take
some position, and will support him in con-
vention for that Office which general consent
will award him. His name has not, like
those of some others whose names we could
mention, been first proposed at home and
pressed upon the people in number after
number by his county paper, but tho people
this Congressional and judicial
District have spontaneously signifed their
desire to bestow some mark of approval upon
him, and we have merely echoed the popular
wish in mentioning his name. We do not
intend to take any local or sectional contests
INTO the conventions. Mr.. O'Connor richly
deserves his popularity, and to whatever
office nominated, he vii. undoubtedly receive
\ larger majority than any other nominee of
the party. The people are attached to him,
md will manifest their attachment in the
June conventions and the subsequent cleo
lions. In the meanwhile we express our
to the Gazette for its friendly
over our columns, and merely
suggest for its consideration the common
maxim that example is better than preeept.'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-29

dinner in which each Of the twelve men
were allowed four plates of meat, dessert
and pot of excellent wine; each W as be-.
sides presented with suit of clothes cut in
the style of the middle ages, small sum in
money, and pewt goblet bearing a. suitable
inscription. The same ceremony was per-
formed for twelve poor women, who obtain
I'd good dinner and received similar pres
ents.
"A WoNpsRrUL WOMAN. There is a wo
man named Hayes, in New York State, in
& 9 neighborhooil, we believe, Of Skaneatles.
who lived whole year wholly on dried
raspberry juice the next year on small j
quantity of cold water and now for nearly
q year, she has neither ate or drank any
thingl Still more wonderful than that-she
has been known to live as many as SIXTY too
minutes ut time ,,csth0ut breathing p.
Though ii is supposed that she is nourisled
by the atmosphere, her vitality is certainly
extraordinary, and fully equal to that of
toad inbedded in o rock. ss
ADvHkrlsINa.-Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, advertises SO extensively that even
newspapers grow astonished Of his liberali-
ty, sometimes extending to eight pages OF a
newspaper. The Troy Budget, in noticing
the fact, asks: us the man who pays these
enormous amounts for advertizing crazy, or
are the crazy ones confined to the business
men who do not advertise at all 20 If the
| first is crazy, there is great deal of method
! in his madness, for be has obtained a circus
/ lation for his weekly newspaper which far
exceeds any ether in this country.
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-22

ADDISON ON THE TELEGRAPH.

In the 241st number of the Spectator is playful sug
gestion by Addison in regard to absent lovers which,
although written early in the eighteenth century has
found its realization in the middle of the nineteenth
After quoting letter from Ascria complaining of the
regret she felt at the absence of her husband and sg
gcstng various remedies for her relief among which was
one having hour set apart for mutual remembrance
in prayer, he adds the following:
Strada in of his Prolusions gives an account Of
chneriCal correspondence between two friends by the
help of certain loasone, which had such virtue in it
that if it touched two several needless when one of
the needles touched began to move the other
though at great distance, moved at the
time and in the He tells us that
the two friends, being each of them possessed of one
of these needless made kind of dial plate nscribing
il with the four and twenty letters in the same manner
the hours of the day marked upon the ordinary
dial plate They then fixed of the needles on each
Of these In such manner that they could move round
without impeachment MS to touch any one of the four
andtwenty letters. Upon their separating one from
another into distant countries they agreed to withdraw
themselves punctuay into their closets at certain hour
of the day, and to with another by means Of
this their invention. By this means they talked to-
gether whole continent and convened their
thoughts to another in instant over cities or
mountains, seas deserts.
This strange vagary OF ancient writer quoted by
Addison for the amusement of his readers has wonder
fully become fixed truth in the progress of modern sci
cnce. How little did Addison dIr..,n
then suggesting In vein of play Jul huInor should tax
the minds OF Mise to accomplish until the whole
invention should be perfected by which two continents
are bound together and thought is made to pass
between with the rapidy almost of it's motions.
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