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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
IOWA NEWS.

The Rock Island Bridge suit before
Judge Love, of Iowa, has been postponed to
the 18th of August.
SUicIDs.-Mr VIM. D. Mcbride, an old
and respectable citizen of Keosauqua, COM
mitted suicide on Saturday, the Goth ult., by
shooting himself. He was one of the found
ers of that place, in good circumstances, a
surveyor by profession, and lett wife and
one child.
NJ. & M. RAnRoAD.-The Des Moines Git.
izen says that the Council Bluffs journals are
iu5ilant over the fact that orders have been
issued by the NJ. & NJ. Railroad Company to
place 40 miles of the western end of the road
under contract as soon as the county OF Potta-
wattamie issues her bonds to the amount of
$l00, 700. The bonds are to be issued imme.
diately, it is said; and the work is to be COM
menced forthwith.
In the Polk Judicial District J. II. Gray
has been nominated the Republican cand-
date for Judge, Mr.. Millard for District
Attor ley, and Mr.. Mills for Member of Edu-
cational Board.
A mill in process oferection by Nc
Dowell, Bird Il Co., at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
was set fire to by an incendiary and consul
med, on the 18th inst. Loss Sc, 900 or $S,-
900.
DEsMolNEs Cove learn from the Bur-
lington Haukeye that Mr.. Matt N Galley, q
we'll known citizen of that county, was ter
ribly injured few days ago, while moving
with machine. He was thrown from his
seat by the breaking of some part of the
gear, and the mower passed over him, break
ing several of his ribs. and inAicting several
shocking injuries on his head. His jaw was
face badly cut. His physician thinks there
is possibility of his recovery.--A man
named Rogers was kicked to death by horse
at Dodgeville on the 18th inst.
A BRANCH BANK IN IowA.-Several lead
ing citizens of Council Bluffs. anticipating
the adoption of the Banking Laws lately
submitted to a vote Of the people, have
formed an association under the provisions
of the State Bank Act, and taken the ini-
tiatory steps towards the early organization
of a Branch at that point
ENFORCING TIE PRoHlBIroRY LAw.-The
good citizens of Desmoines are endeavoring
to rid their place of intemperance by en-.
forcing the prohibitory liquor law. The
Citizen, says ''the prospect is now that the
contraband liquor traffic in Desmoines will
cease almost entirely.'
ANOTHER WIFE MURDER.-An Irshman
named Thomas O'Brian killed his wife by
beating, kicking and choking her in a sl ock-
ing and brutal manner, on the 14th inst,
in Elk river township, Clinton county. In
temperance was the cause. O'Brian is now
in jail at De Witt.
The Hon. Thos. W. Claggett has an
nounced himself as an Independent candi-
date for the Office of Judge of the First Ju-
dicial District.
HYDRoPHoBIA.-Mr. Leonhardt Wendell
was bitten by a mad dog about nine weeks
since. Yesterday the symptoms of the dis
ease showed themselves in frightful man
ner. There was no hope last evening of his
recovery.-KeokuE Gate City, 18th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

The Republicans are requested to meet in
convention on the 2Sth of August, to nomi.
nate o candidate for the Office of Clerk of
the District Court. We take this early
opportunity to say word to wise men on
this subject. The Republicans have often
injured their own party, and defeated their
own nominees. by their course before NOM
ination. 1t is against repetition of such a
course that we wish to admonish them; and
we speak plainly now, to avoid those evils
which may cause us as party to speak
sorrowfully after the election.
The great fault of the Republicans of this
county for several elections past has been
that they have done their best fighting before
the nominations. They have fought so hard
among themselves over the nominations that
they had no energy left to fight for the cleo
tion. They have sometimes blown off all
their steam in whistling before the trip, and
left none to work the engine on the trip itself.
This is all that has elected single Demo-
cratic officer for the last two years. Repub-
licans have given their opponents every
single Office which they now hold in this
county.
Now, the experience Of the past should
lead us to change our course Of action. Let
the different township meetings select their
delegates from their best men, without COM
mitting them or suffering them to be COM
mitted to any candidate. And let every
refuse to enrol himself on he
side of any man or set of men, and let him
any such proceedings.
The Convention will then meet unembar-
rassed and unbiased, and will be able to use
its cool and better judgment in the selection
of the best man for the office. We need to
nominate staunch and reliable man one
who will commit himself firmly and une-
quivocally to Republican principles and the
candidates. With such action
and such a man-we wish friends and foes
to mark our words-we will elect our ticket
in this county by one hundred majority:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

A Dry JOKE ON A Wet SuBJEcT.-Near
the mouth of the Ohio are two rival cities,
which sometimes manage to keep their heads
above water. The editors of both towns
have been telling some queer stories about
the late submerge. The Mound City En-
poriam is responsible for the snbjoined dry
joke on a wet subject:
"The steamer Manchester has been engag,
ed inside the l.vee at Cairo, during consid-
cradle portion of the past week, towing
houses from one point to another, and get
ting drift ent of the town. The report that
she tore part of her bottom off by running
over the top of the Taylor House, is without
foundation"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
Our New Type---Our Editorials.
Our Extracts.

We are happy to-day to be able to presen
our editorials and portion of our papel
In new dress. We have the conceit that it il
with type as with speakers. The most com
mon ideas, uttered by famous orator, will
carry more weight and be more extolled thar
the rarest and most beautiful thoughts
expressed by nobody. So the most sensible
and pithy articles in old type and the home
paper will receive less attention than the
tamest and most pointless leaders of distant
paper, set forth in all the array of new and
imposing type.
Now, we do not purpose objecting to all
this, for the simple reason that it would do nc
good. We merely mean to say that hereafter
to be even with many other journals, we intend
that our articles shall sparkle in all the glories
of new Minion and Bourgeois, if they do not
sparkle with new or even old ideas.
We have another word to our readers. The
extracts for this paper are neuer put in for
the sake of filling up space. They are selected
with great care and trouble, from the most
valuable Of our exchanges, and not one extract
appears in our columns but will abundantly
repay perusal. Especially in the political
department our readers will find important
news thus copied from other journals, to which
they will have access in no other way. We
will hereafter call attention in a short index
to those articles which we especially recon-
mend to the attention of our readers.
On miscellaneous matters, also, of Agricul-
ture, Stock, Horticulture, Science, Arts, I'm
provemcnts, &C., we are almost daily publish
ing some interesting and valuable commune
cation or extract. To our friends in the
country we say, that news of political or
any other character from all parts of the
country will be acceptable. Especially during
the present campaign, when the candidates of
our opponents are so inferior to our own,
unusually SO even for their party, that it
would be cruel and needless severity to say
much about them, we will receive with pleas
ure and publish items of political interest from
any parts of the country.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
Young America.

tits somewhat surprising to see how largely
Young America is represented at the West il
all departments Of business, public and private
Our ministers, mechanics, bankers, mer
chants, judges, lawyers, are mostly youne
men. The same thing is seen in our politics
Especially in the Republican party over the
country are the young men of America moro
largely represented than either of the Other
classes. The bold, generous and defiant stand
which this party has taken against the power
the wealth, the monied interests of different
sections combined, and the aristocratic pre-
tensions of powerful class of men, has
attracted the young, progressive, free and
independent element of the country to its side
Young men who depend on their own hands
and heads for their support-youngm men who
have not yet learned to cringe and bend the
knee for popularity's sake-young men who
have never yet stopped to inquire for the
stronger or the weaker side before they took
their stand-young men who are first in any
danger, anfforemost to attack any meanness
or abuse-such young men are everywhere
found focking to the Republican standard.
They have left in the opposite party old
lifelong office-holders and ofice-seekers,
hangers-on of great mems skirts, timid time
servers, and few upright old men, who,
having grown gray in their party, do not see
how far it has departed from the ancient land
marks, or how they have been left by most of
their old comrades, and with what strange
bed fellows they are now associated.
A few young men, it is true, with old heads,
shrewd and prudent calculators, who few
years since estimated the chances, and dream
ing that the Democratic party had life tenure
in the Offices, concluded to take a life interest
in the Democratic party, are found there now.
But they look strangely out of place, and
decidedly uncomfortable, something like a
young green oak growing on Polar ice field,
or curly headed boy with his grandfather S
spectacles, wig and knee-breeches.
They will not stay there long. The prin-
ciples, the motives, the aims of the old fossil
of party which they have mistakenly sup
ported, are too selfish, too old-fogyish, too
calculating, for them. But the large majority
of the young men of this State and of the
nation are enlisted with all their sympathies
and energies on the Republican side. They
are men who do not believe that the chief end
of man is to be constable or President of
the United States who do not believe that
office-seeking or of6ce-holding is the chief
happiness of an American citizen, and who
can therefore afford to be perfectly independ-
ent and outspoken, regardless of fear or favor
In such young men rests the hope of more
Independent, more honest, less toadying, less
doughface, less ofice-seeking generation than
former ones, and this is the hope Of the
country.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

Coon PLucK-Mr. Lefingwell, the candi-
date for Congress, seems to be great deal
more mulish than he was expected to be. He
was at Dubuque the other day, when Jones
and some of the intiinates of the Administra-
ton took him aside and endeavored either to
remove his objections to Lecompton or to
persuade him to let the topic alone during the
canvass. But Leffingwell was clear grit He
cursed Lecompton, English bill and all, and
in language more emphatic than elegant,
declared that "all h-ll could not force him to
endorse Lccompton." The interview was
unsatisfactory all around. Jones was pale
with rage and disappointment, and left for
home, sour and sore.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
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NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC
TELEGRAPH.
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"A ID II T. ID II " n II !
We are indebted to Mr.. WEBB, operator in
this city, for the important intelligence that
the Atlantic Telegraph is failure for the
present. The cable broke on the 26th ult.,
after 40 miles had been paid out. Previous
to that the expedition had encountered very
severe gales; and the breaking of the wire is
attributed to kink formed in the cable on
board the Agamemnon during the gale. The
Agamemnon Immediately returned to Eng
land and the Niagara to the U. S.
The above is given in dispatch of the
18th, from Boston, at which port it was
brought by the ship Alice Monroe, which fell
in with the Niagara on the 9th in lat. 52.5,
lon. 1915. The Niagara had not been heard
from since that date.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

= Losses By.TnE FLooD AT CARo.-The
whole loss by the food at Cairo, it is said,
will be inside Of $4,000. The Illinois Cen
tral Railroad can make all repairs for 81, 900.
The loss to the citizens, in furniture, buildings
and stock, will not exceed $4,000. The
water rose above low water mark forty-seven
feet, which is two feet higher than ever before
known by those who have lived in that
vicinity since 1870.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

CHICAGO JouRNAL.-This excellent paper
has recently been improved by the use Of new
type. 1t has long been a leading paper in the
North West, having been established in 1874,
and eminently deserves its popularity. To
us it is indispensable being an evening paper
and coming to us regularly by the noon mail
of the following day, with the very latest news
Why are not more copies of the .jou'naltaken
at this place?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

~ Tai. P. Shaffner, man of some note
in telegraphic enterprise, publishes his opin-
ion as to the Atlantic cable, in the WASH
ington Union, which is, that telegraphic
signals cannot be transmitted through more
than a thousand miles of submerged wire,
and that therefore the Atlantic telegraph
must be failure.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23


Mn. VANDEvER's APPOINTMENTS. = The
Express and Herald copies from the Times
the list of Mr.. Vandever's appointments, and
adds:
"The fair way of conducting this canvass
would have been for Mr.. Vandever to have
consulted with Judge Lefingwell as to his
convenience, and then both to have made
such arrangements as would have been mu
tually convenient. As soon as Judge Lef-
fngwell was nominated, he addressed note
to Mr.. Vandever, requesting him to agree to
some amicable arrangement by which they
could canvass the District together. Bat
MIR. Vandever has not yet made any reply"
Mr.. Vandever made his appointments
before the Democrats held their Convention.
He did not know who the Democrat would
nominate, nor was he under any obligation
to wait until they made any nomination. 1t
was not to be expected that he aoouid wait.
The moment he heard of Judge Lefing-
wells denomination, he wrote to him, inclosing
the list of his appointments, and inviting
Judge L. to meet him and discuss the issues
before the people. This fact was known to
the Express and Herald last week. Mr..
Vandever mas again written to the Judge on
the subject; yet the Erpress and Herald says
that Mr.. V. s'has not yet made any reply"
If Judge Lefingwell is unwilling to meet
Mr.. Vandever on the stump, let the fact be
known, but let not the Express and Herald
insinuate that the Republican candidate for
Congress shrinks from a public discussion
with his competitor Dubuque Times.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
R The Democracy Of the Seventh

az The Democracy of the Seventh, Cor
gressional District, indiana, having thrown
their Representative, Hon. John G. Davis,
overheard, because he persistenty refused
to vote for Lecompton in any of the shapes
in which it was presented to Congress, that
gentleman has announced himself as an in
dependent candidate for re- election.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

PERHAPS IT WILL.-The Canadian press
express apprehension that the discovery of
the metallic richnes of the Frazer River coun-
try, up in the North Western British posses
sions. will endanger British supremacy in
that quarter.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

CALnouN's SucoEssoR-Gen. Ward B..
Burnett has signiie his acceptance OF the
Surveyor -Generalship of Kansas and Me-
braska, vice John Candlebox Calhoun, re-
signed. Wepresume some better post awaits
the acceptance of that faithful friend of the
Administration,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

"WE ARE ALL ."--Instead of
receiving cordial support, no Administra-
ton has ever had to withstand so many
assaults from an opposition House as the
present Democratic administration has had
to withstand from Democratic House and
it is remarkable fact that every assault
that has been made upon the Administration
by the present Congress, though seconded, of
course, by the opposition, has been instigated,
directed and stimulated by Democratic mem
bers. We believe it is a fact that no meas
ure of the Democratic party or Administra-
ton has passed the present Congress by q
majority Of Democratic votes and that
every measure that has become a Lato has
become so 6y the EberoHtyc members belong.
iny to ore brunch or other Of the opposition.
Such is the language Of the Washington
Union. 1t is humiliating confession of
the weakness of the Executive with his own
party. 1t shows that the divisions now
extending through the ranks of the Democ-
racy all over the Union had their origin in
the Halls of Congress, and that the they are
not to be healed by the ordinary methods of
prevention and cure. Put the language of
the official organ on record.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

A SUCCESSFUL PAPER. ST. Louis Re
publican entered upon the fifty-first year of
its existence on Monday. From diminutive
weekly sheet, - by IA inches, issued July
10Th, 1903, it has gradually increased to its
present mammoth proportions of 80 by Sc
inches, being the largest paper published in
the West, and with two exceptions, the largest
in the Union. The Republican employs 175
permanent hands, and the aggregate expenses
Of the establishment reach 1000 per week.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23
Iowa a Slave State.

If Mr.. Marcellus Cotton King Of Alabama
should make up his mind to emigrate from
that good old State and seek his fortune in
another and newer land, there is nothing in
the laws of this State, as interpreted and
overruled by the Democratic orators and
newspapers, by the United States Supreme
Court and by President Buchanan, to prevent
him from coming right to Dubuque, with his
two hundred and hfty niggers, and holding
them here as securely as he did on his cotton
plantation in Alabama.
This may seem to be startling assertion,
but a moments investigation will convince
every ore that it is only too true.
The Dred Scott decision established a
principle which, as it was pronounced by the
highest Judicial Tribunal known to us, and
endorsed by our President, may be consid-
cred the law Of the land.
This principle is that slaveholding is a
right guaranteed by the constitution to
every citizen.
All rights guaranteed by the constitution
are inalienable rights. They are life. lib
erty, free speech, free press, exemption from
religious tests, and (according to the bred
Scott decision and the Siiliman letter of
Buchanan) the right to hold slaves.
The last right, if it is guaranteed by the
constitution, as the Democrats say it is, is as
sacred as any of the others. 1t cannot be
taken away. If any State should pass law
destroying the right Of free speech, of free
press, or imposing religious tests, such a
law would be unconstitutional and void,
and would be so declared by the United
States Supreme Court.
Now many of the States have passed laws
declaring that involuntary servitude, except
for crime, shall not exist in their borders.
Iowa is one of these States. Yet if the
doctrine of the Dred Scott decision is true,
and the Supreme Court, Mr.. Buchanan and
the whole Democratic party swear it is true,
this law is unconstitutional and void,
because it takes away from Mr.. Marcellus
Cotton King, citizen of Alabama, the right
to hold slaves right guaranteed to him by
the constitution.
If the Dred Scott decision be good law,
then is Iowa a Slave State.
If Iowa be a Free State, then is the Dred
Scott decision not good law.
One of these propositions is true: Which
of them will our Democratic friends accept ?
Dubuque Times.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-23

Col. Babcock, the Mayor of Lawrence,
gives it as his opinion that the English swim
die will not receive thousand votes in Kan
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-08-06
ST. JOHNS COLLEG f

rUvHE next Academic year of ST. COLLEGE,
Annapolis, Maryland, will begin on WEDNESDAY,
the SIKH of October, le5a The location OF this lnsIitu.
ZION is in all respects admirably adapted 10 academic pur.
poses. Remote from the air and hustle Of a large city ii
invites 10 Study and Literary repose: and yet Its proximi
ty (0 miles By rail road twice n day. TO Washington and
Baltimore cities, makes 1t perfectly accessible from the
gre 1T national thor0ughfhres. 4 large and beautiful build.
ing Just completed. with accommodations for ono hun.
bred and fifty students, rtt1rding greatly Increased facili'
ties for the ceGcntlon al youth A ~DOrmiiory, very com
modiuus and well ventilated. with lsrse study rooms, Mt
tached, will. under the consant supervision of the Pre-
tects, afford 10 young boys that daily ana nightly supcrvi-
sion which is found Indispensable in the education oi
youth. The very central position of Annapolis, whether
considered in reference To toe stat, .. the country gene
rally, and it's perfect heHlthiulncss and exemption irnrn
the cIreaes of heat and cold, poiIt il out as one Of the
most desirable spots for a seat 81 learning. Every posi-
bic facility for exercise is AFFORDED BY large and hrautiiu!
srnunda. A water riRht Of some three. quarters OF e mile
affords means Of swimming, bathing and skating al. with.
in College bounds.
The College Cnmpu. affords tue hncst field for the rcgu.
lar infantry drill and uccR.1nai parade. Nor are lie adj
vantages in II scholastic punt ot view M all lees striking.
With all its chairs filled ytnen IN the prime OF lite. and
ireshuess oil vigor, the Institution IS prepared ~ take ite
place by the side vi the most prominent schools Ia the
land rs au educator Of youth. Its facilities Tor discipline
are much more than u.uily abundant. To the South,
especially. is an Institution situated just "a this 10 most
inviting All that 10 lrQuIrrct 10 the completion Oi IN under
Graduate Course, clOtnin. done excepted, unay be had at
the rae OF $3.50 per aInuin Gentlemen having u son or
ward ut the Naval School, nd members OF Con: rcss from
4 distance, would find i, INST convenient 10 inquire pnr.
ticulnrly into the chnrHctrUi this institution. A puncturl
attendance, on or by tho hsi dav OF the academic year,
(Which begins On ths frst Wednesday in October. ana
-nds the frat Wednesday, III August follow ing is most
earnestly requested, aud vii be most convenient to the
student, as choice Of rooms depends on the time OF his
arrival. For further information, and Tor circularf, apply
to REV.C. Il. NELSON, u. d,
Principal Of 81. Johns College,
al, A a,1tfatOrf Annanplia NJ