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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

TOUCHING FUNERAL DIsCoURsE.-The Rev.
Stephen H. Tying, Rector of St. Georges
Church, New York, preached funeral SER
mon upon the death of his son, the late Rev.
Dudley A. Tying, of the Church of the Cove
nant in Philadelphia, from the following
text:
"For this child l prayed and the Lord
hath given me my petition which asked of
him therefore, also, have lent him unto
the Lord as long as he liveth he shall be
lent to the Lord '-7he lst book Of Samuel,
1st Chapter, 9Th and 2Sth verses
It will be remembered that the Rev. Mr..
Tying was suddenly and seriously injured by
machinery, so that in short time he died.
He it was who preached sermon from his
pulpit denouncing slavery and advocating
the Republican cause, who was denounced
in turn by members of his congregation, and
who, in a newly organized parish, drew a
large and admiring auditory, because of his
faithfulness u pi'-'a his eloquence and
piety. Hisvenerable father, smotherins
emotions OF his heart, delivered discourse
touchingly beautiful, which dissolved hun
dreds into tears, exemplifying, in the mos
sublime manner, the ascendancy of trul,
Christian and resigned spirit, in one wh'
has so long stosd before the world as
faithful minister of Christ.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

Judge Loring, who was removed from
the Office of Probate Judge of Massachusetts,
by Governor Banks, in pursuance of law
of Massachusetts that no federal slave catcher
should hold judicial Office under State au-
thority, has since received an appointment
from the President at Washington City. 1t
is probably all right that the servants Of the
shareholders should be rewarded by the
slaveholders' organ, President Buchanan.
~It is reported that President Buchanan
under charge of his keeper, Senator Toombs,
is to make tour to the Western States this
summer. A meddlesome contemporary in a
neighboring State suggests that these distin-
guished worthless extend their tour to Kansas
and partake of the hospitalities Of the people
who they have assailed by force and fraud,
by libel and bribery.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

4 SNoB.-T Thackery thus daguerreo-
types the animal snob, in speaking Of
English society:
& 4 snob is that man or woman who
is always pretending to be something
better-especlally richer or more fash
1onable-than they are. 1t is one who
thinks his own position contemptible,
and is always yearning and striving to
force himself into one above, without
the education or characteristics which
belong to it !, one vho looks down upon,
despises and overrides his interiors, , o.
even equals of his own standing and
IS ever ready to worship, fawn uPor
and flatter o rich or titled man, not De-
cause he is q good man, a wise man
or christian man, but because N
has the luck to be rich or consequent
tial."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
M Manufacturing in Iowa -. Boots,
shoes and Leather.


The "Printer & Binder" Cedar Rapids,
asks the oft-repeated question Why can
not the people of Iowa manufacture their
own boots, shoes, cotton and woollen goods,
and all other articles made in this country,
as we'll as import them from Massachusetts
or New York And then. goes on to preach
the following good practical sermon from
the text suggested by the interrogatory:
''Let as take the articles of boots and
shoes. First, a large tanner sends to this
region and buys up all the green hides that
can be found. They are worth less here
than at the East, because Of the cost of
transportation. So the first owner of the
hides cannot get so much for them by this
cost of shipment as he could if they were
tanned and made into shoes close by Then
the people of the East who tan the hides and
make up the leather must have bread and
meat to live on, which also are sent from the
West, and which are consequently, by this
same cost of transportation, from 80 to so
per cent. higher than they are with US. Thus,
while they are at work on these hides, in
their raw or dressed state, their expense of
support is higher than if they dwelt here
among US. After they are made up into
boots anu shoes, they are sent back to us, and
we buy them and nay for them at PRICES PRICES 50
that the capitalist makes his per ccntage, the
Eastern laborer his wages, the railroad its
freight, and the multitude of middle men
their profits, and it all comes out of the
Western producer.
sit amounts to the same thing as though
capitalist here should buy up his green lldes
throughout the West, and send them 900
miles east to be converted into shoes, ,and at
the same time send :ne provisions for the
laborers to live on while they were at work
upon THEM in their various stages, and after
the shoes were made, to bring them back here
to be sold. Now, can anything be more
shiftless than such management? Then we
need not sell -four for half or two thirds of
what the shoemakers at the east pay for it,
All the cost comes out of the first producer.
The manufacturers Of course make their
wages at the east, or they Quit the business,
but the cost of the made goods are double to
Western farmers what they would be if the
factories were near home,"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

HON. JAMES HARLAN.-The Miners Jour-
nal, of Pottsville, Pa, pays the following
merited tribute to Senator Harlan:
Hon. JAMES HARLAN.-Among the men of
the American Senate who have stood firmly
for the right, in bright contrast to such igno-
BILE tools as VIM. Bigler, who misrepresents
this State, is Hon. James Harlan, Of Iowa
In speech delivered by that gentleman,
some weeks since, strong yet courteous, Mr..
Harlan gave concisely history of the Kan
sas difficulty, and proved conclusively, that
the Constitution nowhere recognizes property
in man, but everywhere alludes to the Afri-
can as person. Mr.. Harlan's denunciation
of the Lecompton G Constitution is based upon
a keen appreciation of the Infamous meas
ures resorted to in framing it, and the tyr
annous attempt on the part Of the Admins
tration to thrust it upon the people. We
feel proud of such men as James Harlan and
E. Joy Morris, for while in either branch Of
the National Legislature voices possessing
their strength and eloquence are raised in
defence of Freedom, we need not despair of
s.justice being done, though the Heavens
fall" The country is grateful to these gen.
tlemen and their associates, who successfully
opposed the iniquitous Lecompton business.
Posterity will wear them in its heart of
hearts.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
THE NEWS.

Senator Evans, of South Carolina, dice
suddenly at Washington, on the 9th, ,'of dis.
ease of the heart He was taken i'll or
Thursday evening, while supping with his
colleague, Mr.. Hammond, and died soon
afterwards.
"A dispatch from Washington of the 9TH
says: "The Kansas bill will be officially
dispatched tomorrow to Gov. Denver, with
instructions designed to secure fair vote
on the proposition to be submitted to the
people,"
On Friday night last, the planning and
moulding mill of McGammon Il Plumsted,
on Desplaines, between Randolph and Lake
streets, Chicago, was consumed by fire, to-
gether with several adjoining buildings.
Loss $25, 1000.
CONGRESS. -Mly 7h.-Mr. Clingman, of
North Carolina, hitherto member of the
House, took the place in the Senate left va
cant by the resignation of Mr.. Biggs, called
to the bench of the Supreme Court of that
State. He was appointed by the Governor
to serve through the unexpired portion of
the term. In consequence of the death of
Senator Evans, the Senate Immediately ad-
journed. The Minnesota bill of the Senate
was postponed in the House till Tuesday.
May sM.-The Senate was crowded to ex-
cess. MIR. Hammond pronounced a brief eu-
ogy upon Mr. Evans, narrating the history
of his life and The circumstances attending
his death. He said the arrows of death of
late had entered often among the high places
Of honor within his own State. He offere
The usual resolutions requesting the Senators
to wear Grape on the left arm for so days,
and to attend the funeral of Mr.. Evans
Eulogiums were also pronounced by Messrs.
Benjamin, Hale, and Wilson, when the Sem
ate took a recess until the hour of the fu-
neral, 2 O'Clock. In the House, similar pro.
ceedings Were had.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

TIE MOUNT VERNON SALE.-Ths WASH
lngton correspond mt of the Philadelphia
Inquirer says:
MIR. John Washington has got the butt
end OF the bargain with the ladies purchas
ing Mt. Vernon. In the first place, he gets
$1,000 per acre for the land not intrinsically
worth $40; $lO0 would be an extravagant
price. All the buildings and improvements
on it are not worth $500.
He then retains possession and occupancy
OF the premises till the last dollar Of the
purchase money is paid and receives interest
on the amount unpaid all the while and,
besides the outrageous price of $500, 900,
g.v 10000 more in the shape OF interest.
IT this is not traficking in the sacred dust
OF HE ancestor, then know not what el-e
to call il.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
I'VE BEEN THINKING.

I've been thinking, darkly thinking,
What weary world is this;
ADD what phant.ms, never shrinking,
We pursue in search Of bliss
Rainbow hopes that lead to sorrow-
Fame and love to be obtained!
Emblens If bright Tomorrow
Ever present, never gained.
Rive been thinking. sadly thinking,
Childhood's morning flies tro sooni
Half its charm is lost in linking
Bri tighter Joys to manheuIs 'noon-
Fancied joys, that turn to anguish
As the water turns to sand,
When approached by souls that langush
Thirsty, in desert land,
I've been thinking, sadly thinking,
Der life thus far mis-spent-
Strength debas.d and talents sinking
In . cause Of mean event
life on slavish lucre wasted,
sacri6ce of SOUL to pelf,
All the Joys Of love untasted-
Egetstic toll for eeIf!
I've been thinking, bravely thinking
There's nobler, higher cause
We should serve through life, unshriking
Till the great final pause:
Manly efforts for improvement,
Tending to the good IF all
Footsteps in the gen 'ral movement
Leading us from selfish thrall.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
IOWA NEWS.

Iowa College is to be removed from
Davenport, as we learn from the Gazette
owing to the difficulties between the city and
the college concerning their grounds. Cir.
culars have been sent to the friends of Col
legiate Education, advising them of the
pending question, and that the permanen,
location of the College will be fixed upon at
the annual meeting, which will occur in July,
in connection with the commencement exer
cises.
OBITUARY.-Ja Jason Bushnell, editor and
proprietor of the Cedar Valley Neaos, pub
lshcd at Bradford, Chickasaw county, died
on the 18th ult., at the ssse of AZ years. He
WIS native of Vermont.
MIR. Wyman, much esteemed citizen Of
st. Charles City, Iowa, was accidentally
drowned at that place, on Tuesday.
AEREsr OF CoUNTEHFE1rERs.--T men,
calling themselves E. Thompson and David
Smith, were arrested at Burlington on FRI
day last, charged with passing counterfeit
money. The former passed $40 counter
felt bill Of the State Bank of Missouri, and
after his arrest attempted to swallow roll
Of the same kind Of bills but was forced to
dsgorge. He was held to bail in $780,
His comrades trial had not yet taken place.
Permissible Dubuque Board of Trade,
as we learn from the Times, sent commit
tee of one to the river towns belo " to make
comparison of the prices of the different
ferries. He reports that he visited every
town between Dubuque and St. Louis, and
that the prices were fifty to one hundred per
cent. lower in all of them than those de-
manded at Dubuque.
LUsUs NATURE.--The Upton Advertiser
describes pig with two bodies and three
ears, but in other respects like the balance
Of the porcine creation, which Or. Carpen.
ter, of that place, intends presenting to the
Medical College at Keokuk.
The Iowa City Reporter reports the dis
covery of gold in that place. The discovery
was made on Wednesday OF last week. Says
the Reporter: cit is the general opinion Of
good Judges that the metal exists in many
portions of this county, but until further
developments are made, we shall be forced
to the unwilling conclusion that it will not
be found in sufficient quantities for profitable
working. The excitement yesterday waxed
really "intense," and it is said that individ
uals to the number of two hundred or less
visited G.la Diggings, with what success we
know not. The last time our gold reporter
was seen, he was up to his waist in red clay
cramming his vest pockets with the precious
"stutf."
GOLD ExclrEMENT.-The gold-fever seems
to have seized some of our citizens. The
talk on the streets yesterday was about the
new mines in Iowa, and we understand tina,
the Clara Hine, which left last evening fol
Des Moines, was crowded with passengers
most of whom are bent on exploring the dig
gins. Are they like the boy who chases the
end of the rainbow to catch the bag of gold!
Gate City, sth.
Mr.. Nickoll's large brick block, on thu
corner Of Brady and Second streets, was sole
at auction last saturday, and was knocked
down to Mr.. Sherman at a price equivalent
to nearly $4,000. 1t is on leased property
l-DdvenD0rt Gazette, 10th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
B8 The following is the profession

B8 The following is the profession
al card Of Mrs Clackers, which, on &C.
count of the purely charitable nature Of
her business, we insert gratis -
The subscriber informs her friends
and the public generally, that she con-
tinues to invent and circulate lies of
every description, on most reasonable
terms, at the shortest notice. Persons
requiring her services are referred to
any of the most respectable families in
the neighborhood in which she 70.
sides. 81
N. B.-Characters ruined OF pieced
Village, house, and tea-table lies. q E
upon any subject, and 1t MOI 2
notice. Hints and insinuatien n
gross, dozen or singly, viii : io1ol
allowance to wholeseaS - fa s &. .s'I Il
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
HIGH LIFE IN NEW YoRK.-The following
TEN from the Tribune recalls the 'sPotpher

H1eH LIFE IN New YoRK.-The following
item from the Tribune recalls the 'sPot'pher
rapers :"
"A grand party was given few nights
since by a wenlthy citizen, at which the Pc
culiar graces of the fashionable young men
of New York shone with unusual spiendor.
In an upper room, where card tables had
been set for old gentlemen, was large bowl
# uepp PUNCH. which "the boys" smelt out
drunk on the punch then invaded the hat It
room and cut up all the mems hats, except
their own. boring holes in some, slashiny
others, sllclng of the brms and punching
out the crowns, until the floor was covered
with ruined castors and finally wound up
their gentemanly behavior by cutting the
cord OF the dumb waiter and letting the
whole of the expensive supper crockery 90
into the kitchen, smashing it into countless
pieces"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

The LEGITIMATE MORMON SUcCEssoR.-The
widow of Joe Smith, the Mormon. still re-
sides at Nauvoo, but she cares nothing for
the Saints, and has married a tavern-kecper,
who thinks all prophets humbugs. Young
Joe. who should by right have been head of
the Mormons, is a stout gawky of %, who
hates Brigham Young, and curses the Salt
Lakers. Nauvoowas once place of 20, 900
inhabitants, but is now place Of ruins.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

AN UNsoUND HICKORY BUSH. - Mr.. Cox,
Of Ohio, who has just joined the Lecomp-
tonites, ''for the sake of the United DemOc-
racy, to which he owed all lie had," is the
same who, a short time since, declared that
''the President might as well attempt to
root out all the hickories from the western
woods as drive the anti Lecomptonites out
of the Democratic party" He has proved
the truth of his remark by rendering him
self unworthy of tho distinction OF being
read out Of the party. lr does not take
much of a gale to upset whole forest of
rotten hickories.-N. Y. Post.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

CTOur army officers have almost as COM
Portable quarters these hard times as other
Federal of6ce-holders Their salaries are re.
ported as follows:
Gen. Scott, $ls.2s2; Gen. Wool, $S,s54
Gen. Persifer F. Smith, $S,1s9; Ahjutant
Gen. Cooper, 5000, Maj. Mcdowell, 81,
020; Col. lotion, S., ,64S; Gen. Harney, S.,
OBJ; Col. May, $3,5lS; and the general av-
erage receipts il, ColonelS, 81 500; Lieut.
Col"nels, 81 900; Majors, $4,000; Captains,
81, 800; Licuterants, $4,000.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
GYThe Massachusetts, Legislature passe

wThe Massachusetts, Legislature passed
law, which went into operation April 27,
providing that sany person who shall offer
to view, or shall set up, set on foot, main
tain or carry on any theatrical exhibition,
public show, concert, or dance hall exhibi-
ton of any description at which Lager Beer
or any other Intoxicating liquors are sold or
exposed for sale.' shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding $500, or by Imprisonment
Gorrectlon not more than
shall have been fully licensed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

A DISABLING AcT.-The Richmond South,
commenting upon the English Kansas act,
puts the case thus:
elf Kansas does not enter the Union now ,
she will have no power to form a new Con-
stitution for several gears to come, without
an act of open rebellion against the United
States. The new bill is disabling act in
this particular"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

TWENTY NEGROES DROWNED. Vicks-
burgh paper, of the Goth alt, contains a note
from Moses Gibson, stating that on the Sun:
day previous twenty negroes belonging to
Judge Puck, in Washington county, Miss,
and two white men, were drowned while en-
deavoring to stop break in the levee. The
bank of the river caved in, carrying them
with it. and all were drowned.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

~HDe conkregashun will pleesh
TO ying to yon tousand and two,th
psalm, = said Dutch parson, as ne
80. mt the morning hymn. "There
are not SO many in the book resP0n.
aad tha chorister. Veil, den, ptoesh
- sing SO many sare Pc"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

II Gov. Walker, Secretary Stanton, Mr..
Parrot, and all the other Free State Kansa.
hen now in Washington, confidently express
Tie opinion that the people Of Kansas will
vote Down the English Proposition by au
overwhelming majority.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

A GIGANTIC CIRCUS. AS an evidence of
the grandeur of Roman undertakings, the
Circus of Maximus-the great Circus OF
Rome--had seats for 100000 persons! If
we have hall in any city that will accom-
moda'e 500 persons. we consider it
worlds marvel. Yet Rome had a building
that would accommodate sixty times 5000.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

TThe New York Herald takes d very
just view of the object of English's bill.
We are not certain, however, that the people
Of Kansas will feel cemplimented by SO
frank an avowal as the following, from this
Administration journal
"There is nothing like 'the cohesive power
of public plunder,' after all, in settling a
knotty question of popular sovereignty
The land spoils will settle this question in
Kansas. The people of Kansas want the
lands, and her huRgrv politicians want the
Offices and other public plunder incident to
the organization of a new State, and they
will not cast this offer Of Congress foolishIy
away"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

CIVILIZATIONS OF THE ENEMY.-The Rich
mond South (pro-slavery) exults over the
Conference Kansas bill. 1t says:
"The conference bill presents sturdy
assertion of the validity of the Lecompton
Constitution.
And again:
"The people of Kansas will no more vote
upon the Lecompton Constitution, under the
conference bill, than they voted upon the
adoption of the Lesompton Constitution in
the first instance"
And finally:
eft the conference bill pass, Kansas may
come into the Union a. q slave >sate, On SHE
CANNOT COME IN At ALL. That 10 the ISSUE"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

GRThe New Constitution of Kansas is to
be submitted to vote of the people Of that
territory under proclamation of the Presi-
dent of the Convention, Gen. Conway, on
the third Tuesday in May.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

WESTERN SANGERBUND.-A grand annual
convention of the German Musical Societies
of the Western States will take place in
Pittsburg, in June next. The assemblage
will comprise over 1000 singers:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

OPPOSED TO BANKS. - The Burlington
Gazette comes out against both the banking
laws Of this State. Cause why-so many
banks have ''busted up'' in other States
The same old fogy argument against steam
boats is not yet quite extinct in the minds of
our grandmothers.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
co FEEL WHAT HAVE FELT.

The circumstances which induced the writing o
The following most touching and thrilling lines ar
y follows "A young lady of New York was in tn
habit of writing for the Philadelphia Ledger, on tn
,ubject Of Temperance. Her writing was full o
pashos, and evinced such deep emotion of soul, thai
\ friend Of hers accused her of being a manac on
the subject Of temperance, whereupon she wrote thu
lines, which we have before published
but they will bear reading once every year.
Go feel what have felt
Go bear what have borne
Sink meath blow father dealt
And the cold worlds proud scOrn:
Then suffer On from year to year
Thy sole relief the scorchiEg tear.
Go kneel as [ have knelt,
lmplore, beseech aud pray
Strive the besotted heart to melt,
The downward course to stay;
De dashed with bitter curse aside,
Yours prayers burlesqued, your tears defed
Go weep as have wept
O'er . loved fathers fall
See every promised blessing swept
Youth 8 sweetness turned to gall;
Lfs's fading flowers strewed all the way
That brought me mp to Woman's day.
Gu see what have seen,
Behold the strong man bowed
With gnashing teeth, lips bathed in blood,
And cold and livid brow;
Go catch his withering glance, and see
There mirrored his soui's misery.
Go to thy mothers side,
And her crushed bosom cheer;
Thine own deep anguish hide,
Wipe form her cheek the tittea tear.
Mark her worn form and wthered brow,
The gray that streaks her dark hair now,
With fading frame and trembling limb;
And trace the ruin back to him
Whose piighicd faith in early youth
Promised eternal love and truth,
But who, furesworn, hath yeidedup
That promise to the cursed cup;
And led her down through love and light,
And oil that made her promise bright;
And chained her there, mid want and strife
That lovely thing, drunkard's wife
And stamp'd On childhood's brow so mild
The withering blight, the drunkard's child.
Go hear and feel, and see and know,
All that MI soul hath felt and known;
Then look upon the wine cups glow,
See if IT'S beauty can atone
Think Of its favor you will try,
When all proclaim, tits drink and die
Tell me hate the bowl
Hate is feeble word:
lloxthe--ABH"R-ny very >"ul
With strong disgust is s,irr'i-
When I see, cr h,ar, or tell,
Of the dark bvv rage Of Hell.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15

VoTE ON THE $4,000, 900 LOAN IN MIME
sorA.-The official returns of the election
held in Minnesota, on the 18th ult., to give
a popular decision upon the IS 900, 900 loan
bill, exhibit the following result:
For the Loan, 25,O23
Against it, 6,733