Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-09

'sIf Illinois currency is such mean truck,
how much Eleaner must Florence be when
il Is worth 10 l.2 cents less ON the doliar!-
Wa know this; Cook & Sargent WON'T take
their own money for collections, but will /
take Illinois; the Rail Road Company wcn't
take Florence for back freight, but will take
Illinois wheat is worth SO cents in Flor
ence and 81 lie in Illinois; these few facts
speak louder than all this special pleading.
lodging and pettifogging about Illinois SO
ouritiee. We have much moro to say, but
shall defer further comments for future
time. Our object IL, aud orr determination
- t. have Florence redesmable in Illinois
currency"
~ On Monday last the agent for an
Eastern house called upon firm in Musca-
tine to collect note over due for one thou
sand dollars. They told him that it was
impossible for them to pay it at that time AS
they could get nothing but Florence money,
Z and that they had that amount OF Florence
; then in their safe, perfectly dead capital
which they would willingly give him II he
would accept it The agent preferred East
srn currency The next morning, howev-
er, he called upon the merchants again and
told them that "a lie WAS goirg to Davenport
and could use Florence there he would take
It. After pretended search of his safe the
head Of the firm declared that his partner
had used the money without his knowledge
but that he woad 20 ont and soon drum up
the amount for him. After prolonged alb
ssnce the merchant came hack with just one
hundred dollars, all that he was atle to COL
lect OF Florence money in tho city. Com
nent is unnecessary further than if, accor-
ding to the dispatch, Florence is only worth
so cents on dollar at Muscstine, and her
merchants are unable to pay their debts
with it, then they cannot pay 50 cents on
the dollar, and therefore are IN state OF
bankruptcy.
We take the above from the Davenport
Gazette, for the purpose of calling upon
that paper to give the names Of the parties
or else own up that has told falsehood.
We have on several occasions given instances
occurring in Davenport showing that Flor
ence was not answering all the purposes OF
traffic and trade,' with the names of those
concerned SO that ev ry one might ascertain
the trait, in regard to it. Unless the Ga.
eette can give names to the individuals in
the transaction alleged, we shall take it as
'confirmation strong" of our present lri-
.ate opini Il publicly expressed that the
whole thing was fabricated in the GaSstte
Office or in Cook 81 Sargent's bank.
RE- Our extremely disinterested friend of
tho Muscatine Journal, after publishing We
~ approvinxly the long article of the DEM
ccrIt, of this city, against Floronce money.
ard dcnouncing the Gazette for its &C servil-
ity" to Cook & Sargent. adds, I" But We Of
Muscatine are Indifferent as to what course
the bu-iness men of Davenport will pursue
in regard to this matter" If so, why make
such disturbance about t and ell your pa.
per from day to day with denunclatlons OF
Florence money All, dear friends, the shoe
pinches and you must squirm do. Gdz.
Our neighbours characteristic unfairness
towards those who differ from him in opin-
ion is exhibited in the above. In the Jour
NIL, Immediately after the quotation which
he gives, we stated distinctly ,ohy we copied
the article from the Democrat-'' that the
facts concerning the inconvertibility and
utter uorthlessmess of these shinplasters
might be laid before the people. and that
they be left free to act understandingly."-
The Gazette editor does not attempt to con-
trovert these facts, but seeks to extricate
himself from his embarrassing dilemma by
ignoring them and placing US in false at
titude before his readers. 1t is Shakespeare.
We believe, who characterizes as ''mali.
eious, ignorant and base" he sc who will dis
tort and strain the general purpose of an
author to his particular and private Spleen
!. We do not apply these harsh terms to the
editor of the Gazette, but leave him to pu,
them on if they fit.
ENDORSING DoucLAs.-The Democracy Of
Burlington and Mt. Pleasant have recently
held meetings and passed resolutions cndors-
ing Douglas views on the Lecompton Con-
stitution. Most of the spd 1kers at the Bur
lington meeting acted on the ''good Lord,
good devil" principle = being disposed
while lauding Douglas not only to withhold
censure from Buchanan but actually, incon-
\ sistent as it may seem, to praise him also
= At Mt. Pleasant, however, under the leader
ship of Rev. II. G. Dean, they went the un
divided porker--emphatically endorsing the
; course Of Douglas and expressing decided
hostility to the admission of Kansas as a
State unless her Constitution is duly ratif-
cd by the people. Now letus hear from the
Democracy of Muscatine.
as,,ef
FooLlNc HIS Master Parsons, Clerk Of
tho Legislative Council, writes to Washing
ton that " General Denver has arrived, anu
says thai. IL Buchanan thinks he will pursue
different policy than that Of Walker and
Stanton, he is damnably fooled"
Another prominent man writes that CAL
houn can never set up his Lecompton gov
eminent in the Territory with less, than
twenty thousand Federal troops Mt his back.
UEHAPPY IRELAND NO LoNGER.--0ne Of the
.Dablin papers raises . shout of exultation
over the present condition of Ireland. 1t
Gays that no banks have failed there, no
,asnufscturing establishments have suspen-
ded, throwing thousands out Of employment,
but trade 10 active, the people have abund
anoe Of work, and the necessaries Of life arr
cheap. -
DrsrxucrvE FIRE in CalcAao.-A mother
destructive fire occurred in Chicago on SUM-
DAY night last. which destroyed eleven stores
Sand dwellings and consuming property to