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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-17

, r. REGULAR TIN DAY HRaVEPORT
LEAAkr and NAchtoches Paeket-The new. elegant and
and swift running passenger packet steamer
Duke, Samuel Apologize, MASTER - " Cellos, clerk will
positively leave above for Shreveport Grand Bayou Cou
chaa Campe GtRnd Ecore, Nacuiiog Alexandria. Cotle
Norman, Landing GorJns Landing, Tarbns Landing
all intermediate landings Red river Vi, rivers
For freight passage. having surpassed
'feI GEO d uTTE & co q Fr,rt s,ra.,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-17

Leaves On WEDNESDAY. February ~ abP.M.
r. REGULAR RED RIVER AND LAKE
hlsslLf- Bi.teneau PacAetThe light drnught pas
senger packet steamer Bonita, W, II. Daniel,
MASTER o. f. Shields clerk, will Shreveport
Mnden Masco, Month ioggy Bayou, Campte, Ecore
st. Maurice Alexandria Gorto and all intermediate landings
For freight passage apply on ard.
fel2 j. 5. PAGAUD Advertising Agent.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-17

SHERRY-5U or. casks Crown in store and for sale by
~ :. WOLFF
fel0 corner Of Grsvier and New Levee streets
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-17

Leaves WEDNESDAY, I7th inst. MBPM
REGULAR TEN DAY PACKET.
r. FOR CAMDEN. BEACH HILLS
ls4klA1r5 Millers BuH Chhmpagnole Wilmington Moro
sse=za Bay, Pigeon Hills Marie Saline Extra Landing
Alabama Landing, ouaehiR City Trenton, Monroe, Pine
Bluff Castors Landing, Columbia Harsonburg Trinity aud
~ intermediate andingsThe elegant swift passenger steamer
Messenger, q. II. Kirk, MASTER T. j. Beae clerk will
leave above Fer freight passage having unsurpassed
accommodations apply board
The Messenger will Trenton with the steamer
Young Amer taxing freight up The Bayou Bartholomew
As far as Maaces Landing, and will also Marie
Saline with the {. Marshall taking freight ID he
Saline river. - "
fel2 J. s. PAGAUD. Advertising A,e,t
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-17

M The line, last running passenger packet
Fss@=--sA National, r. 10. Montgomery master, u. g.
ChHmpn clerk, will leave above for Shreveport
Bayou Grand Ecore St NRurice Cotle Alexandria 0rous
Landing, and all intermediate landings Red river For
freight or passage apply on board.
pl-The National will ske freight for Kamicha
RowHnd Lauesport Fulton and all landings above the Ram
Tehppng the light Upper Red river packet
WhteAnd Effort.
Il g q AL..-.L L-L---
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-17

, IT, REGULAR BAYOU BARTHOLOMEW
Packet-fhe splendid nirely new raining
KssszsszA passenger packet Red chief, j, c. Shute
MASTER u kouns Jerk will leave positively for
Arkansas Line, kelly Landing Warwcks Landing Planters.
ve Deice Landing, Point Pleasant Mouth Bayou Bartho
Trenton Monroe Columbia Trinity, all
landings on the Black and Ouaohla river. VIII give through
bills for freight for all landings above the line, with privilege
OF reshppug by her keel boat built trade Apply
board, to
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-04-08
VOL. IX-NO. So.


writsn for the Pioneer and Democrat
'Tis night and cold:.-.
A terrible night that has lasted years.
No clouds uplift
Where saw the dawn in times Of old.
No star appears
Der the desOlate waste whereon drift.
Like an Artic ship
With riven sail and shattered mast.
Among the foes,
And the grinding bergs from whose SUBMITS slip
Reverberant avalanches past,
Ny sinking soul to the northwsrd goes.
o, for the open sea!
Beyond the ice and beyond the snow,
And the glaciers glare.
Wherein some island Of peace may be;
And softly flow
The invisible rivers of sunlit air
Lord Of the earth and sky
OF the weary thousands who sail the sen,
And those who walk the land
Scatter the gloom with thy lightning eye,
And strengthen me
Till | in the Blessed IIarbor stand.
81. Pau, April, 1858. +.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

ADVICE TO YOU'VE LADIES' know
that if women wish to escape the stig-
ma Of misunderstanding, they must act
or look like marble or clay-cold, ex-
pressionless, bloodless; for every APP
pearance Of feeling, Of joy, sorrow,
friendlessness, antipathy, admiration,
disgust, are alike construed by the
world into the attempt to hook a hus-
band. Never mind! we'll meaning wo-
men have their own consciences to
comfort them, after all. Do not, there
fore, be too much afraid Of showing
yourself as you are, afectionate and
good hearted do not too harshly re.
essssentiments and feelings excellent
h themselves, because you fear that
somS puppy may fancy that you are
letting them come out to fascinate HIM;
do not condemn yourself to live only
BY halves, because if you showed toe
much imitation, some pragmatical thing
IN hreeches might take it into his pate
to- imagine that you designed to dedi-
cate goar life to his inanity. - Jane
Eyre.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

THE DEAD OF 1857.--The neurology
Of the past year contains on unusual
hunter of eminent names. Among
the departed men of science may be
mentioned Hugh Miller, DR.. Kane, DR..
Ure, DR.. Conybeare, and Red6eld, the
mcteorologist. In the list Of authors
and scholars are Bcranger, Douglas
Jerrold, Eugene Sue, DR.. Dick ana MIR.
Glidden. Ofsculptors, there are Thorn
as Crawford and Christian Ranch
Among the statesmen are Gov. Marcy,
Andrew Stevenson, James Hamilton,
Louis McLane, and Ex-Secretary Dob
bin. In the military department are
Sir Henry Lawrence, Generals Noill,
Nicholson, Arson and others in India,
Gen. Cavaignac in France, and Gen.
Guion at Constantinople.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

Al the recent term OF the circuit court
Of Tazcwel, Tenn, fellow was ar
raigned FOR stealing raw hide. He al
legged thai he purchased it Of negro. The
attorney for the commonwealth admitted
his Statement, and he was acquitted but
was Immediately indicted Tor trading
wi'ha negro. Thereupon the accused In
troduced Two witnesses 10 p owe hat be
had stolen he hide, whenhe was, 0! course
discharged; and having already b EN- tried
second lime for the same offence. and
was thus turned bose unpunlshed.
Such is the perfection Of human WIS
dom.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

AZ "A beautiful apparatus is OH ex-
hibiticn in the great hall of the paten'
Office II is the invention of Samuel
Gardner, ir., Of New York and is called
the t'Galvano-elsciric Gas lighter " By
means of it, all lRs gas je's of whole city
may be lighted, enlarged, contracted and
extingnished at will. and in ar instan' by
a single person, in any desired position
The apparatus is also applicable to ether
and more striking uses-to the explosion
Of ordnance 10 any extent and 81 any
distance, to the blowing up of ships,
by the agency of submerged des'ruc'ives,
&c. .-.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

The ODoMETER. This is an instru-
ment for indicating the distance travel
ed by carriages. 1t consists, according
to an improved construction, Of com
bination Of small cog wheels and index
es placed in a box and fastened to some
convenient part Of the vehicle. There
is an elastic connection between the in
strument and one Of the wheels Of the
carriage, arranged in such a manner
that at each revolution Of the wheel, one
Of the cog-wheels Of the apparatus will
be moved, and change Of position be
thus impaired to all the others. The
instrument exhibits to the, eye, and
keeps an accurate account Of the miles
and fractions traversed by the vehicle.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

CoUGIIING IN CnuRcn.-We copy the fol-
lowing from an autobiography which Hugh
Miller formerly published in the Witness:
a simple incident which occurred during
my first morning attendance to DR.. M'Crie's
chapel strongly impressed me with a sense
of his sagacity. There was a great deal Of
coughing in the place, the effect of a recent
change of weather; and the doctor, whose
voice was not a strong one, and who seem.
ed somewhat annoyed by the ruthless inter
ruption<, stopped suddenly short in the mid
pie of his argument, and made dead pause.
When people are taken greatly by surprise,
they cease to cough-a circumstance on
which he had evidently calculated. Every
eye was now turnei towards him, and for a
full moment so dead was the silence that one
might have heard pin drop.
II see, my triends." said the doctor, resu
ming speech, with suppressed slnile-"l
see you can be all quiet enough when ! am
quiet.Ds -a.
There wa. not little genuine strategy in
the rebuke and as coughing lies good deal
more under the influence of the will than
most cougllers suppose, such was its effect
that daring the rest OF the day there was
not 1.-THE of the previous coughing s,l
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

asWATcHEs FOR THE SIcK.-The Gus
tom Of having night watches for the
sick, says an observant writer, as usu-
ally managed, is very injurious. Sick
persons need the most perfect quiet,
and hence absence from all disturbing
causes. The presence Of strangers in
the sick chamber is always unfavorable
to the repose Of the patient, and the
burning Of lights renders anything like
natural rest or sound sleep impossible.
Next to the absurdity Of dosing sick
person with some nauseous drug every
two or three hours is that of preventing
his rest by watches +; and when two per-
sons watch together in sick room,
their conversation or whispering is often
worse for the patient than the disease
itself.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
Norrs ILIUsrRArrNa rHE VALUE OF

NOTES ILLUsTRAr1Na THE VALUE OF
CoRREcr PuNcTUArroN. The follow
ing request is said to have been made
at Church :-'sA sailor going to sea,
his wife desires the prayers Of the con-
gregation for his safety" But, by an
unhappy transposition Of the comma,
the note was thus read ga sailor,
going to see his wife, desires the pray
ers Of the congregation for his safety. %
Another example Of the ludicrous
will tend still better to show the value
Of just punctuation:
s'Every lady in this land /,
Hath twenty nails upon each hand;
ss Five and twenty on hands and fees.
And this is true without deceit. /" h
If the present points be removed, and
others inserted as follows, the true
meaning of the passage will appear at
once: ''
ssEvery lady in this land
Hath twenty nails; upon each hand
Five; and twenty on hands and fcet,
And this is true, without deceit
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

4 VRAGHkRr.

"a nssned led. Of thirty odd"
0vsey evening SEQ in their hSle
a "6aksr's dosvu' Of curly heads.
livery moRiug my slumbevs greet
The patter, ratser Of twvnty-s feot.
Thirteen little hears are ways in q tutter,
Till thirtlen little mouths are fll,d With bread
end butter.
xhirteen tongues are busy all day long,
AID thirtcen little hands with doia. something
wrong,
Til faint sn TO de-,
With N cacrgy, too,
- did the eld vsman that lived IN shoe
Ard when my poor husband comes me from he
fired and hungry, and heree ss Turk,
What Do ycu think Of the picture be Hnl
legion Of babies all in 4 bieess--
Johnny q cry .ng,
And Lucy y signing,
Asd worn cat mamma, with her hair al flying;
Strong and angry William, beating lit Nelly;
Charley in the pantry, eating currans j"'iy;
Richard stra.tiag round in papa's Sunday coat
Harry ct the glass, with . razor at his throat;
Robert gets his fingers crushed when Susy shuts the
: daor, =, b., ~.
Ai,iSx,es ,hei. aching With forty pound roarj
E'bhy 1t thc coal he'd hurres to begin,
Throwing in his mite to the universal din.
Alas! my lord and master, b,ing rather weak Of
Begins 10 lose bis patience in the stunning topsey
A.d tl.n the frightened little all Ay to se for
shelter;
AID 80 the AraEs closed, amid general heller
SHELTER.
M give ynu my name. lest you think . myth,
Ypu.. very respectfully, Mrs. John Smith.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

SINGULAR OccuRRENcEs.-A wood
pile belonging TO Mr.. johnson, of Ellis
vile, ILL.,, was discover 10 be on fire few
days ego. The fire was ex'ing'ished.
A sho,l time after, a daughter Of Mr.
Johnson, Four years old, was missing. In
searching for her enc Of her feet was dis
covered, under the wood pile. On brow
ing off the wood, she was found burnt TO
death. Ii is supposed that she was playing
with matches, and the wood fell upon her,
and became ignited from the matches. "
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
.-~s Oe-

"KEEp Your MOUTH SHUT" Newer
allow the action Of respiration to be
carried on through the mouth. The
nasal passages are clearly the medium
through which respiration was by our
Creator designed to be carried on
"God breathed into mans nostrils the
breath of life,'' previous to his becom-
ing living creature. The difference
in the exhaustion of strength by a long
walk with the mouth firmly closed, and
respiration carried on through the nos
trils instead of through the mouth, is
inconceivable to those who have never
tried the experiment. 1t is said that
the habit Of carrying on the work Of
respiration through the mouth is the
origin Of almost all diseases Of the
throat and lungs.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

G. The correspondent Of the New York
Express, 10 speaking of the debate upon the
conduct OF Com. panlding seizing Walker
and his men, says:
One OF Mr.. Sickles' strongest points, in
answer to the objection OF u. s. force g.
ing on foreign territory 10 arrest walke-,
was his reference to Gen. Jackson,s going
into the then Spanish territory It Florida to
arrest three persons, to Of whom, Arbntf>
not aad Ambriter,) he afterwards hung
II Gen. jackson was not "recalled'' or
ssrebuked' = for that ACT, he wanted 10 know
why Com. Paulding should be punished for
tsalswins bic example,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
the disappointed.

Z lhsnxht her mine Thought the world
Shons forth with Joy for me;
did not dream in after years
lts folly should see.
But 50 II proved. I sought her hand
Il really thought I'd get her}---
But oh alas her answer came
''HxR MoFHEa WOULDN'T LET nEx
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

THE INCONSISTENCY OF ScEPTIcIsM.
The old deists used to say that pro-
phecy was 50 obscure, that they could
not understand the beginning or the
end Of it. Modern deists say it is 30
plain that it must have been written
after the events took place. How IN
consistent these philosophical sceptics,
these unthinking free thinkers
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

~ ys.la y .heeptitrl Landscape,
VA ES6t 1fst hrsaks in the east-- d
VAsA the Sun Asst walks on the landscape
lAyins chains Ger its rivess--lssding morn Ger
.sis ias hreast. -&e@
Dat . swses and ~ pure i this.lasdscape. r-s,
Whep che oosan 10 chained and the sky 10 serene.
When the mantle Of night spreads oer the landscape
Ainsasi shias brghtly-rcacesins her seeas.
1A;s world isa beautiful Landscape. a
whes sessaa its delight from Atari
Bat " aad 10 exploring this landscape,
fhcsSs sothiag that sis does not mar. ,s,,.
Merss q stream THAT giidcs dowA thsvagh this
Landscape.
With sapid and trcmnloss tide.
Aud oar eyes SPEAK +" sdisu " 70 the laaAecspe.
A. adown this 1eot river We glide.
New looked Ger this beautiful landssaoS.
II eur shaliops sped hastily oaJ &
Asd oftAa have mourn 4 that this Landscape
Should soun from our vision BE- E"ac.
81 traveller, dote not on this landscape
lts scenes afs all skirted With gloeml
A,uc along, and Ill show thee Landscape
wAsss pleasures etefnaily bloom.
uAnolp sApa.
amotine. January 18th, 1855.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
never Rail ar the World.

Fever rail ut the world
Il is Just ~ We make il;
w SEQ not the flower
II We SOW not the seed;
And ~ for III luck,
Why, it's Just Is We take 10,
Hh. heart thai y ia earnest
No bars can impede.
You question the justice ....r
That governs man's breast, s
And shy that the search
Pnr true friendship is vain
Dat remember, this world,
Though it be not the bsst,
Il the next to the hest
We hall ever attain.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

The PLUMBER OF DELHI.-A private
letter from Delhi, dated Sept. q, says:
''For description of riches Of Delhi
my pen is inadequate. Cashmere shawls
inlaid with gold, bodices covered with
lace, skirts Of dresses, watches, bars of
gold, beds Of silk and down, such as
noblemen's houses in England could
produce, you would see Silks carrying
out Of Delhi the first day, as if they
were almost nothing. A shawl which
in England would fetch 91OO they were
selling for four rupees, and you may
depend our fellows were not much be-
hind them. x X
lit is supposed the rilers will 50 to
England with upwards of 81 900 each,
though General Wilson has issued an
order that the prizes shallbe all put to-
gether and divided. Most Of our men
are worth upwards of 100 rupees"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

REUNION IN HEAVEN. Il am fully
persuaded that 1 shall love my friends
in heaven, and therefore know them !;
and this principally binds me to them
on earth. If 1 thought should never
know them more, nor therefore love
them after death, l should love them
little now, as l do all
other trinsitory things. Baxter.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

RS In the list of patents for the
week ending December 20, we notice
the following invention:
MACHINE FOR BINDING GRAN.-1t
consists Of revolving platform in
combination with rake and apron for
the purpose of gathering the grain and
carrying it to the binding receiver.
There are also grooved arms and a SLOT
ted lever for the purpose of carrying
and crimping the band and COMPRISING
the stalks into proper shape for binding.
The apron is supplied with straps and
pins which are so combined with the
box as to feed the binding clamps with
bands taken from the mass Of the straw
placed in the box, one at time. LODI
ner D. Phillips, Of Chicago, is the in
ventOr.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
,ss rou,socrlAI L,xs AND TEE cRIso- LINE.

Some Joker Undoubtedly wanting rib)
Hss lately delivered humorous equib,
BY asking il wits will tho difference define
Tween the old equinrctial and new crinu-line.
A no one this circslav riddle can solve,
o. begrudsing, perhaps, the time 'twould involve
Tho su.hor responds, 70 the general m nth:
0as sneir:les the heaven, the other the earth.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

g1TIt is better to love person you
cannot marry than to marry person
YOU cannot love. This is short text
for a long sermon which human expert
ence will tontinue to preach until the
asst SYLLABLE of recorded time.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

TAKE DUE REST AND REc.EArIoN.-l
heard good husband al hi b, Ok say, that
to omit study some time Of the year, made
as much for he incr ease Of lea. ni,g as 10
lie; lie land be fallow for sons time ma
keith Tor the better increase of corn. Ii
the land be ploughed every year, the corn
cometh up thin; so those which never
leave porting on their books have often
times as thin invention as other poor
men.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
ea- &C Pigs can see wind" says an

s@- " Pigs can see wind" says an
cid proverb. The uneasiness display
red~by.pigs prior to atmospheric chang
.es is well known. This is attributable
to the extreme nervous excitability Of
the skin and mucous membrane, which
makes this animal feel any sudden
change in the atmosphere more acute
8 than the majority Of our domestic
snimaas. !
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
auE VALUE OF BEAUTY.


= Fanny Fern thus discourses on the
subject Of beauty:
$ Mamma, am / pretty 2"
"No my dear; but beauty is of no
consequence. !"
Now, what an unmitigated fb and
every day of that child's life she will be
finding it out. Why not tell the truth
THAT beauty is Of consequence, as is
every thing that God has made. Why
not tell her that the eye is irresistibly
fascinated by it +; that a handsome child
is always more noticed by . stranger
than plain one !; just as when one
walks in a garden, q beautiful flower
invites admiration above its fellows /;
but like that, if, upon examination, it
be found scentless, if it pierces with
sharpness the hand that would caress it
the gazer plucks it but to throw it
aside, or passes it for one Of less pre-
tension, whose sweetness will endure
long after its pale hues shall have IA
ded away. It is right for people to be
pleasing, and it is not only right, but
. duty, for everybody to look as beau
tifM as they can. Veil your child all
this but tell her thatfor the higher or
der of beauty, something besides the
body must be decorated. Tell her tina
the soul must be washed of bad pas
sions-the cobwebs must be brushed
away-the dust of sclfshncss wiped of,
and its chambers aired Of the foul at
mosphere Of uneharitablcness. Tell how
resplendent the soul can make the bo'
dy-how, like light within crystal
vase, it makes fair what else were dark
and dim Of human sight. Tell her how
before it men bear down; hushing the
hot breath Of worldliness, as before
Gods own presence. Tell her to tread
the sssth With tho triumphant step Of
orae w}o Il heir to ell heaven ~ second
10 Ho6e. Oh, Ihave seen such Z, Lot
ty-yet lowfJ. No earthly artist could
trace their heenty, OF sculptor mould
,fheir NinmetFJ, To hear the rustic d
tir epsnents wakto feel tho sweep O
~ aagslss wing.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

CO Since Doug as, Toombs & Co. have
backed up fillibuSter Walker, lie has raised
his demands against the Government from
$240, 600 to the round sum of one million.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23

w a short time ago man became so
completely ''wrapt in thought" that he was
tied up, labelled, and sent off on the first
train of ideas.' -- ..-. s. .E..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-23
Muscatine MUSIC Depository
READ AND LEARN a..

rTvHE Nav York Evening Mirror says, tia
L Hainas Brothers iron frame Piano Fortes ars
The cheapest, frst-class Pianos IN nsarhet,
and the New York Musical Review says "they are
the hes! inst uments at the lowest pssible price.
They can be supplied at the manu- facturers' New
York prices, and each instrument war; nted as
fully as if purchased of Mr.. Haines, personally
at the Muscatine Music Depository 1876 I'd ST, by
JOSEPH SYKES,
Agent for HaiNes Brothers, N. B. Prince Co.
and Mason & Hamlin's Melodeons at eastern prices,
Violns, Guitars, Accordeons, Flutes &c, the best
of Strings, and every article u: ua'. keptin Mu-
sc Store. Also. tuning done by the year or other.
wise- I35 I'd St., opposite Uuion Block.
may1S ....-s-