Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-17
TUESDAY, APRIL l3, 1858.


TUESDAY, APRIL l3, 1853.
Another Great Man has Fallen.
Hon. THOMAS HART BENTON breathed hil
last at Washington, on Saturday, the lOtl
inst, at half-past seven O'Clock 4. M. Hi'
disease was internal cancer. His deatf
having been for some time hourly expected
it did not create the shock upon the natior
that was produced when Clay, Webster, and
other of his compatriots, died.
The Chicago Press, after announcing this
sad event, INDUCES in the following:
His name and fame will forever live in
The national memory associated with many
of the most important events in the history
of the country. Almost his last act was to
give the finishing touch to monument to
both that will be more enduring than brass
or marble. OF the grand galaxy of cotem-
porary statesmen in which for so many years
he shone as a peer-W Webster, Clay, Calhoun,
jackson, John Quincy Adams, Silas Wright,
etc.-he has left no survivors save John j
Crittendcn and Martin Van Buren the for
mer yet doing good service in the Senate,
the latter in his retirement quietly going
down the vale Of years, and both soon to
join their distinguished associates.
The age which gave birth to these men
was prolific of great qualities, which seem
to dwarf the statesmen of to day, and in
the highest of his compcers. He did not
possess the honied eloquence Of Clay. the
ponderous logic of Webster, or the meta
physical subtlety of Calhoun, yet in mastery
OF facts, in force Of statement, in tenacity Of
purpose, and we believe in moral integrity,
neither Of them was his superior. His indi-
viduality was of SO peculiarly marked a
character as to have impressed itself with
great distinctness on the national mind. No
man was better known to the masses, and
few have been more generally esteemed than
he: He had his faults, undoubtedly, but we
fully believe he was a true patriot, who
placed his country's welfare above all per-
sonal considerations. After a long life de-
voted to the service of his country, he has
gone down to the grave crowned with we'll
deserved honors-looking the great enemy
in the face with the calmness of a hero and
the resignation of Christian-sensible of
his imperfections, and with his failing breath
bearing testimony to the goodness and hon.
esty of his rivals in the struggles ef years
gone by.
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IOwn...TO the Emigrant.
e Horace Greeley, in an article recently pub
lished in the New York Tribune on the SUBJ
ject of Emigration to Western States, thus
alludes to Iowa:
Iowa is probably not quite SO fertile as
Illinois, but is prairies are smaller, it's
timber better distributed, if not more abun
dant, and its plains more frequently cut by
the ravines Of swiftly running streams. We
consider it more healthful in the average
than Illinois, while its population, mainly
emigrants from New England and New York,
are decidedly intelligent, moral and thrifty.
We have travelled far less in Iowa than in
other estern States, but have seen none,
on the whole, to be preferred to this for o
home. ... z
If Mr.. Greeley had extended his travels
through Iowa as much as through Illinois,
we think he would have made no exception
in favor of Illinois. lowe is not only q
better timbered and watered State, and set
tied by a more intelligent and enterprising
people than Illinois, but it's snil is equally as
rich. The counties bordering on the Miss
issippi, which are the only ones Mr.. Greeley
has seen, it is true are in some places of a
clayey and sandy soil, but such is not the
case of the interior and by far the greater
portion of the State.
The commercial advantages of Iowa will,
at no distant day, be unsurpassed by any
other State in the Union. With two of the
largest navigable rivers on the continent
washing her borders, her natural advantages
for trade and commerce are even now equal
to many Of the older States.
. There is another important consideration
which should weigh IN the mind of the emf
grant while selecting home in the West.
Taxes are not as 5bnrdensome in Iowa as in
Illinois. We have no State debt, or very
Insignificant one at most, while Illinois is
.burthened with an enormous liability that
must for many years to come call for excess
siye taxation. We think the emigrant, when
he considers the relative advantages of Iowa,
must come to the conclusion that no other
State or Territory in the West can offer
better inducements to him.
MORE HoRRoRs IN NEW YoRK.-The young
man, whose remains were found in the Eas,
River, at>the foot Of Beekman street, New
York, was Charles Samuel, and the likeness
found upon him was that of Miss Carter, Of
Brooklyn, to whom he was paying his ad-