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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
MUscATlNE, Dec. 81, 1857.

| MuSllallNE, DtC. - I, 1901.
EDITOR JOURNAL Enclosed please
find two extracts, taken from the Da-
vcnnort Democrat, 29th inst. The
Democrat appears to try to use great
efforts in putting aside the smaller in
jury. Sensible men have no particular
objections to them trying to swindle
each other with their ftp and a tit
slips, but | say emphatically, when
they try to or m the larger bogus is
sues, such as Florence and B. & P,
down the community, why then cry
wolves among the sheep-for l know
no other title to give Il community who
have allowed two compact swindlers to
sit upon the throne and say "take it or
be ID"
The Democrat says they are willing
to give to the public two sides of the
shinplaster question. For the Lords
sake, l say, let them show us when
they took any part to try to show its
soundness. For my part I have
never noticed anything in print but
what denounced it in the strongest
terms, except the Iowa City RepubA-
can, and if | am not mistaken as re-
CARDS what the scriptures say, they will
have to answer for their falsehoods
when they stated that Cook & Sargent
had never refused other currency in ex-
change for their dog.
As the scriptures say "forgive your
enemies" we suppose we must do so
unto the Democrat, as it appears in
it's article to haul down its colors and
say "give us good money in exchange
or shut up" But am afraid the citi-
zens Of Davenport are too late to save
the curse and shame that has been put
upon them by the merchants Of Chi
cago.
Now, Mr.. Democrat, own up the
corn and give a funeral notice in your
is-to be l hope) respectable sheet and
invite your neighbors from the surroun-
ding country, and think it will be at
tended by respectable number. And
when making the funeral arrangements
have all the Florence Bankers as pail
bearers, and if possible bury the de-
ceased near the depot Of the NJ. Il M.
R. r., for she, poor thing, has kept
life in it when the owners themselves
declare it had no pulse since the day it
was born. OVER BOARD.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

GoSE UNDER. = Bennett, the confidential
friend and accredited mouth piece of the
Administration, says Of the party, inyiew of
the Douglas detection:
"With the Democratic party, as a nation
al organization the sun, we apprehead, has
gone down The Rubicon has been crossed
by MIR. Douglas-and whatever may be the
solution of the Kansas squ,bble, we may
look for the disruption of the Democracy,
North and South, and the reconstruction of
all parties for the succession upon sectional
platforms and sectional candidates. Kan
sas, as the case now stands, from all the
lights before US, admitted as a free State or
as a slave State, upon any terms, will be
sufficient for the dissolution of the Demo-
cratic party North ard South"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

BRIGHAM YouNG.-This noted Saint
is said TO be one of the proprle'ors OF the
town of Florence, i'll Nebraska Territory,
and has also certain special rights in the
ferry privilege at that place, by which his
followers are 10 be ferriei across the Mis-.
souri, at half the usual rates. The fact Of
his ownership has but recently been ascer
tanned, and has caused no little excitement
among the Nebraska '.Gentiles.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

NEBRAsKA.-The message Of acting
Governor Cunning of Nebraska to the
Legislature Of that Territory recon-
mends an application to Congress for a
grant Of land to assist and encourage
railroad enterprises, especially for a
Pacific Railroad through the route by
the Valley Of the Platte, arguing that
to be the L ost feasible and national
route. The subject Of banking is con-
silered at length, and the Governor
processes his belief in the insecurity OF
the whole system, and suggests, as the
best available remedy Of the evil, a
monthly or at least quarterly, inspec-
ton of the banks by sworn and respon-
sible officers, to know tn tspecie means
are actually held, fairly proportioned
to paper issues the prohibition Of
notes under five or ten dollars and the
appointment Of commissioners to as
sumo the direction Of suspended banks,
On the first day Of their suspehsion.-
To restrict the importation Of foreign
bank bills, it is recommended to require
the endorsement Of such banking hous-
es as may issue them. The Governor
is opposed to the passage Of bankrupt
or relief laws. The United States wag-
on road from the Platte river via the
Omaha reserve. to the Running Water,
(L'eauquicourt, under the direction Of
Col. George Sites, has been construct
ed for a distance Of 103 miles. The
military road to Fort Kearney has been
nearly finished. There have been pre-
empted in the Territory during the year
1857, 402 ,349 acres Of land on war
rants, 339, 1a1 acres; for cash, So, 21o
acres.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02


c1F 1t has been supposed that the Presi.
dent would eventually yield to Douglas pc.
sition. But it we may believe the New
York Herald, long and bitter war is tc
ensuc. The Herald is undoubtedly now ir
Mr.. Buchanan's confidence, several OF Ben.
nett's friends having recently received lucra.
tive appointments from the Administration
and Bennett himself, it is said, lately dined
at the White House. The following intima
tions from the Herald may therefore have
some significance. Abiding to Mr. Cal.
houn's bolt in General JackSon's time, as a
warning to Douglas, the Herald says:
cold Hickory was more than match for
all his enemies, without or within the party
camp, and Mr.. Calhoun, from his disastrous
contest with the old giant of the Hermitage,
never rose again. From that day he ceased
to be available to any national party for any
elective Office, and he died with his great
mind reduced to mere calculating machine
upon niggers and South Carolina abstrac-
tons.
These suggestive examples of Burr and
Calhoun indicate to Mr.. Buchanan his mode
of treatment in regard to this latter day mu-
tiny Of Walker and Douglas. 1t must be
grappled with firm and resnlute hand, and
it will be strangled. We are glad too, that
Mr.. Buchanan has shown that he possesses
good deal of the self-posseSsion of Jefftr-
son, and something Of the indomitable reso>
luton and fixedness of purpose which were
the browning points of Old Hickory This
Kansas rupture has gone too far, appre-
bend, for halfway accommodations on eth
er side. One party or the other must go to
the wall-the President or Mr.. Douglas.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

o. A good story is told Of the wretch
ed Wi ing of j. w. Brooks, the great
railroad manager Of Michigan. He had
written letter TO a man on the Central
route, notifying him that he must remove
"a barn, which in some way iucommoded
the road, under penalty of prose cu,ion
The threatened man was unable to read
any part of The letter bu, The signature,
but he took il to be free pass on the road,
and used i, fora couple Of years as snch,
none Of the conductors being able to dis
pue his Interpretation of the document.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

A WEEK.-The seven days Of the
is by far the most permanent division
of time, and the most ancient monu-
ment Of astronomical knowledge it
was used by the Brahmins in india,
with the same denomination used by us,
and was alike found in the calendars Of
the Jews, Egyptians, Arabs and Assy-
rians. 1t has survived the fall of en-
pires, and has existed among all sue
cessive generations a proof Of the
common origin Of mankind. The di-
vision of the year into months is very
old, and almost universal, but not so
ancient or uniform as the seven days,
or week.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

COATS OF ARMs.-Coats of arms
came into vogue in the reign of Rich
ard [, Of England and became heredi-
tary IN families about the year 1892.
They took their rise from the knights
painting their banners with different
figures, to distinguish them in the cru
sades. e.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

Cy The Upton Aduertiser, in an article
entitled "What part of the State shall the
next Senator come from ~ indicates dec
ded preference for Hon. James Thorington
of Davenport, for the Senatorslip. II it was
well posted in regard to the Iowa Land
Grant it would not cite Mr.. rs labors in
that behalf as emitting him to any especial
credit.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

ELopEMENr. "A couple Of wealthy
farmers named May and Mckee were
reig bors near Weston, Mo. They were
about 45 years of age each and each had a
famly May was "A grand father, and had
lived happily with his wife for great
length OF lime. McKee's wife was only 20
Years Of age. A few days since she
left her children and husband, and ran
away with her neighbor My.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
MIR. BUCHANAN 5 domestic RELATION

MIR. BUCnANANs domestic REaATIoN.o
Great allowances ought unquestionably
to be made for the ignorance of man who,
at the age of seventy or Whereabouts, ha,
never been father or a husband. But
when Mr.. Buchanan takes upon himself to
assert in a message to Congress that slavery
is the only domestic relation about which
the people of a new State ought to be con-
suited, it is high time that position be taken
against electing old bachelors to the Presi-
dency.-N. Y. POST. r...
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

WHO WILL GO NExr?--The climax of a
funeral sermon is reached when the preach
er comes to that solemn question, "Who
of this assembly will 60 next 2" Is it not
time for the Democratic party to have big
funeral over the mortal remains of its Kan
>as Governors? There is the late Gov.
Rccdcr, tile late Gov. Shannon, the late
Gov. Geary, AMI the late Gov. Walk, r.
What hetacomb of slaughtered Governors!
Not, as of old, offered up by hundred
priests, but by one priest. the high priest of
modera Democracy. Perhaps the funeral
pyre will not be raised until all the victims
have been prepared. In view of such a
postponement, it becomes a serious question
in the Democratic ass mbly, "Who will go
next ?''- Cleveland Herald.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

u Columbus, is tie name proposed for
Territory to be formed, in what is now
known as ''5arson Valley" and sometimes
Gale! tie ''Great Basin.n 1t is a vast re-
gion OF territory lying between California
habited by 600 whites and 100000 1ndi-
ans. The principal town is called Genoa
james NJ. CRIME is now at Washington as
the delegate of ''thc people, in that terri
tory.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

OATHs.--The administration Of the
oath in civil cases is Of high antiquity.
See Exodus xxi, 10. Swearing on
the Gospels was first used in 528. The
oath was first administered in judicial
proceedings in England by the Saxons
in 600. The words, $50 help me God
and all saints,'' concluded an oath till
1850. ...... ....s a....
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
A LAuGH.-How much of character

A LAUGH.-How much of character
lies in laugh. tits n fact the CIPHER
key, oftentimes wherewith we decypher
a man. As a late writer Observes
"You know no man until you have
heard him laugh-till you know how
and when he will laugh. There are
occaassions-there are humors-when a
man with whom you have been familiar
will quite startle you by breaking out
into a laugh which comes manifestly
right from the heart, and yet which he
had never heard before. And in many
heart sweet angel dwells unseen,
until some happy moment awakens it. %
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

An English dentist in New York pro-
poses to teach femhles 'he artaof dentistry.
Il is said that some OF the ehlest dentists
in Europe are females.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

Tue speaker of The q S. House Of
Representatives receives twelve thous-
and dollars Tor each Congress besides his
mileage.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
LIST OF LErrERs

REMAINING + s in the Post Office, at Musca.
hne, Iowa, January LIST, 1858.
Persons calling for advertised letters are
requested to give the date Of the list.
Vn ana after Nov. LIST. the Post Office
VIII De open on Sundays, from 8 to 9 A. M.
sf - GENTS. LIST.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

sWHall's journal Of Health de-
clares it to be barbarism to allow a
child to have bare arms, legs and feet,
even in summer. The circulation
shonld be invited to the extremi ties !;
warmth does that-cold repess it,
Those who have cold hands and feet
are never well.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

n@"What animal has the most brains %
Give itup. ''Tbe hog. HI has hogs head
full of 'em."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

~ Hope-A sentiment exhibited in
dogs tail, when waiting for bone. 's
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
CITY or MUSCATINE
or The Enquircr declares that man

CT The Emquirer declares that many
lneni in this county who left the Democratic
party under the impression that the passage
IT tile Kansas Nebraska B II was Demo-
cratic step for the extension of slavery, are
now satisfied that they were mistaken and
are returning to the party. Without ques.
tioning The EDITORS verac,ty we must insist
an the evidence of his assertion. On the
contrary we know that many who have not
heretofore believed that the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise was an aggression OF
the Slave power are now firmly convicted
hy recent developments that it was So in,
tended; and, furthermore, they are deter
mined, if Buchanan's Kansas policy is car
ried out, (Which now seems more than prob
able, to act hereafter with the Republican
party.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

~ We do not fully approve of the fol-
lowing communication from an adjoining
county on the Senatorship. 1t Will be seen
that our correspondent disposes in Il sum
mary manner of the merits Of Sundry gen.
tlemen named in connection with the Office,
and is particularly opposed to GOV. Grimes,
who seems to be the most formidable candi
! date. While we have desire to crafty the
wishes of those who think that our public
men should be selected from different local
tiles in the State, we cannot regard the cleo
ion of Grimes to the U. S. Senate as fraught
with such disastrous results to the Republic
. ean party as our correspondent predicts
We believe he will be warmly supported by
amajority of the Republican members of the
Legislature, but if, as our correspondent in
Inmates, another man will be required, we
join, him in giving our hearty endorsement
to our distinguished and worthy fellow citi-
zen, Henry O'Connor. He is our first choice,
hu: owing to the peculiar attitude of the
Senatorial question, we have not thought it
expedientto urge his claims. In justice to
him, we should state that this communica-
tior and our remarks have been made with
cut his knowledge or consent. He is not an
aspirant for the office, though willing to
serve the people in any capacity for which
they may think him lit end worthy.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
Z. B;ssell of Dubuque, who is he?

Bissell Of Dubuque, who is he?
A lawyer Of some celebrity, more distin-
!. anished for love of money than principle.
likes to see his party triumph, only so they
don't call on him to grease the wheels"
Would make very good Senator if there
was nothing to d.. He has the unquestion-
sbls merit Of living in that section Of the
6suts that is entitled to the man.
5 Jaage Smyth, Of Lynn, is man Of mod.
] est protensions, but Of good sound sense, as
hii 4etignatiOn Of the circnit judgeship, and
rsllfs1ent upon his farm would prove. lie
r,sl& ~ apo1 IN osssncil, firm in purpose,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02
The Democracy of Muscatinc.

Louisa County, Dec. 2Sth, 1857.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

/ ~ y
it is asked did not Grimes do more to unite
these elements and give Us a Republican
victory than any man in the State? ] an
swer NO! In my judgment Grimes did
much less than many Others might name,
and it is notorious that while our working
men were engaged at home guarding our
own citadel, and repellng hand to hand the
Il, spcralc aud determined attacks of the en-
envy, Grimes was visiting other sections, and
making speeches in communities less doubt
tul than our own. 1t is said he had mo-
tue in this, but leave that for subsequent
developments to decide but it is not per
haps saying too much to affirm that he Ial
full Us much solicitude for the success of jim
Grimes TO The Sena,orship as for Republi
can principles How ridiculou>ly absurd,
then, is the boast that Grimes holds IL deed
of trust OF the Republican party, and from
the Every doubtluD tenure OF his claim as
s-rt that he is the only man to succeed NJ
Jones. There are -eas ms why his selection
would be unfortunate. He is in the South
| part of the State, and while l would not
make location 4 tess, justice and fair dealing
require that the offices should lie distributed
as far as practicable, equally over the State.
This argument is borrowed from Grimes
himself, for it will be relncmle cred that he
opposed the election If senator Harlan for
the reason that he (Iarlan) lived in the
south part Of the STATE. 1t the argument
was good ten, it is doubly good now, for
The Gnycrnar has since been selected from
the ex RENE South, while the Republican
strength is in the North. Mr.. Grimes may
object to the application of his own logic to
this case, now that he is particularly inter-
ested; but those of US who think more of
the Republican party than the election of
any man can readily see the force of the
argument.
! tell you, it will not do to disregard the
claims Of locality, however lightly the friends
Of Mr.. Grimes may now treat the subject
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-02

schemes Of wire-pulling and pipe-laylns; in
principle is lost in individual prefcrmcnt,
and an inordinate desire for place.
First of all, our principles are or are NOT
worth preserving. take it for granted that
we all agree that they are. What claims
have men then, upon the people for places
they may fancy they would like to occupy !?
ouly so FIR as their elevation wiU Alliance
principle. You will readily answer. NONE.
Now let me inquire, who are the men in
the Republican party who are spoken OF in
connection with the U. S. Senatorship rs
Mr.. Jones successor? What are their claims
for the station and would the cause of Re-
publicanism be benefited or damaged by
their eleyation9 Upon the principe Of JUS
tice, what section of our Stateis entitled to
place; and in case of a failure Of the Lcgis-
lature to unite upon a man, from that sec
ton, what portion Of the State would fairly
have the next best right to it? have rails
ed these questions as legitimately growing
out Of the matter under consideration, and
shall answer them candidly, without wish
ing to iostle the pins that arc already set, OF
disparage the supposed claims of any man.
But if the truth hits, the fault is with those
who are in the way.
AS to men, they are but the means or ma
cllinery throus h which certain ends are gain
cd, If those ends are needful, and demand
cd BY the public good, the means should
harmonic with the principles Of public JUS
ticc and right.
But first, who are our men? Well, We
have Bissell, Of Dubuque; Judge Smyth, of
Lynn VIM. Penn. Clark, of johnson; Thor
ington, of Scott; O'Connor, Of Muscatine !;
Springer, of Louisa and Grimes, and Fitz
Henry Warren, Of Desmoincs Quite an ar
ray of names truly, and no doubt as many
more could be found who would like to be
sent up for six years; but, not wishing
to complicate the case, let US examine the
claims, merits, and qualifications of those
named.
Bissell Of Dubuque, who is he?
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-31
ANT-SLAVEkY TRACTS.

The Executive Committee of the American Anti.
Slavery Society have issued the following Tracts
for gratuitous distributions:
No. |. The United States Constitution, Examined.
No. 2. White Slavery in the United States.
No. 3. Colonization. By Rev. o. b. rockingham.
No, 4. Does Slavery Christianize the Negro? By
Rev. 7. W. Higginson.
No. 5. The Interstate Slave Trade. BY John G..
No. 6. The RUM Of Jamaica. By Richard
Hildreth.
No. !. Revolution the only Remedy for Slavery.
No. &. To Mothers in the Free States. By Mrs. Z.
L.. Follen.
No. 0. Influence of Slavery upon the White Pop.
~ulation. By a Lady.
No. 10. Slavery and the North. By G. c. bur
leigh.
No. IL. Disunion our Wisdom and our Duty. By
Rev. Charles E.. hodges.
No. IL. Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs. By
Mrs. f.. L. Eollen.
No. l3. The Two Affairs; or, Two Pictures in
One. BY Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe.
No. IA. GLOW can | Help to Abolish Slavery p or,
Counsels to the Newly Converted.
By Maria W. Chapman.
No. Is. What have we, as individuals, to do with
Slavery? By. Susan G. Cabot.
No. l6. Thu American Tract Society and its
Policy of Suppression and Silence.
Being the Unanimous Remonstrance of the
Fourth Congregational Society, Hartford, CT.
No. II. The God of the Bible Against Slavery.
By Rev. Charles Beecher.
All donations for the Tract Fund, or for the cir
culation of any particular Tract of the above Sc.
ries, should be sent to Francis Jackson, Treasurer
of the American Antislavery Society, 81 Corn.
hill. Boston.
Fyty Dollars will stereotype an eight-page trac,
and print flee thousand copies of it.
Application for the above Tracts. for gratuitous
distribution, should be made to SAMUEL MAY, Jr,
q Cornhill, Boston to the Anti-Slavery, Offices
1873 Nassau street New York, and 81 North street
Phil ~adelphia; to JOEL MCMILLAN, Salem. Columbi
ana Co., Ohio or to JACOB WALroS, Jr., Adrian,
Michigan,