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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY
SIR JAMES CLARKE'S

CELEBRATED FEMALE PILLS.
Prepared from prescription Of Sir James
Clarke, N. d., Physician extraordinary
to the Queen.
This invaluable medicine is unfailing :the
those painful and dangerous diseases to which
consttu ion subject 1t noderaes all
all distractions and speedy may be relied upon
TO MARRIED LADIES
1t peculiarly suited 1t will in time
mo nthly period with regularity.
Eachbotte price One Dollar the stamp
Of Great Britain, to prevent counterfeits
These Pills should not be taken females during the
FIRST THREE MONTHS Of Pregnancy, they to
bring Miscarriage but at other time they safe
In all Of Nervous and Spinal Afestions pain the
Back and Limbs Fatigue slight exertion
abe Heart Mysteries and Whites these pill will affect
when all other failed and although
full remedy, contain iron calomsl antmony er
any thin hur tful to the constitution. &ta
Full directions accompany each pack age.
Sole gent for the United States and Canada,
JOB MOSES (Late 1. X. B..-awin Coz
X chester, N.Y.
N. B-$I 90 and6 postage stamps sed any au-
Agent will insure bottle of pills by return
mail.
nec. lSJ7-SEWly .-.4 sr .
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Good NelIS!
A SURE REMEDY
FIR HARD TUNE ;.
THE undersigned is now making extensive ar.
i rangenen.s for receiving his stock Of
Dry Goods,
Groceries, I'D.
Hardware,
..a - Clothing, r.. $40

CLOuLtUSJ
Boots and Shoes,
And indeed everything sought for in a FARMER
STORE, all of which shall be sold at prices 20
respond with the TINES.
We would also call particular attention to our
Agricultural Implement Department
winch consists Of FARM WAGONS, Of Schutter'i
manu- facture, ackn dyed to be superior % any
ever used in this section of country.
SINNERS Plows.
These Plows we warran to be A No. l, and if the
purchaser is not pie Used with his pillow after fair
trial, be has the privilege OF returning 1t. The
Skinner plaw took The premium over the Moline
pillow at the State Fair at Muscatine last fall and il
ackn owedged by nearly every che who has used
them both, to be far superior 10 the Moline Plow.
Our stock Of Reapers
Will be large this season, and to them we would
call particular attention, our prices are low and
terms easy, and our assortment being large, viii
give the farmer chance to IN IKE his selection I'M
der, tandingly. Our different kinds will consist Of
Mccormick I'm proved, j. c. Seams, Burrows &
Prettyman' IS, Riggs, Reeds, aud Seane, Otis Il
Co.'s. Some of these Machines will be sold on enc
and two years time. with six per cent interest, Civ.
ing every farmer a chance to buy who leeds q ma.
chine. ..r
We have also he Muscatine, Dubu 1ue and Ohio
Thrsshing Machines.
We b ave also the largest stock of Lumber, Latl
and Shingles in our market. Prices and terms tt
suit purchasers.
Always pa id for Produce. Be sure to call on q.
before selling your wheat, as We are generally q
few cen Is higher than our neighbors.
Please call AMI see us whenever VOC come tt
town. J. J. RIDER.
Wilton, May Ia. 1858 -m22
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Swee Potato Plants fur Sale.
TNHE subscriber has now on hand large quantity
ofsweet potatoe plants fol sale, at his residence
miles from Muscatae, on the Iowa City road
Price per hundred, 81 cents, three hundred, $l.00
50 90 per thousand. JAMES CATTf Ii.
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to- LETTHE SICK REJOICE. aas
NOW IS THE TINE TO USE
Herrick's Sugar Coated Pills and Kid
Str Ell gthening Plasters.

These remarkable Family
Medicines have stood the
test of public experience
TWENTY YEARS; have
been used by over three mil
lions of PERSONS, and are
still convulsing the medical
world. with their START
LING CURES.
These Pills are particular
ly adapted to diseases pecu
liar to the Western ana
Southwestern States, and
will be FOUND, on trial, the
most VALUABLE Cathartic
at present KNOWN. For
twenty , ears their use in the
Middle and Eastern States
has been unlimited, a I'd their
succ ,ss in curing disease n
perfect series of triumphs.
Containing no MERCURY
ID tasyy can be used at any time
without regard to employ
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80 n, A new, enlarged, and improved
Calliope, or Steam Organ,
Constructed at reat cost, expressly for Messrs.
sPALDING l. ROGERS, with the capacity IF
TO Brass Bands, and the scftness and harmony of
Pianoforte. laltogetber different affair from the
abortiens heretofore seen,) will announce the ap-
proaoh of tie steamers JAMES RAYMOND and BANJO,
and under the skiliful manipulation of
SIGNOR CARDELLA.
In certain states of the atmosphere, it will be
distinctly audib for ten miles.
par Remember 1T Muscatine, June 23d. ~
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-19

EH DR. CHRISTIE'S ,AGUE BALSAM.-Dr.
B. NJ. Hutchison, prominent physician Of Glove.
land, Ohio, writes June 9Th, 1857:
Messrs. Il. M WOOSTER Co II am gratifcd
to learn you are still enga sod In the distribution
Of " Cbrstie's Agus Balsam }" and it is with IN Ich
pleasure that give my test nony to its superla-
| tive merits. Having heen for one-fourth of cen
fury engaged in combating the ellis which q sh
| is heir to- md had no small experience in the
character and treatment of Fever and Ague, Chill
Fever, DC, Be-, and diseases Of like charat ter Pc
culiar to this and the Western States generally,
and as druggist, have also become acquain ted
with most of the Patent Medicines of the day, and
would uLhesitatingly place your "Balsam amoag
the first of its order, and of the best for which
it is designed. In fact have never kr own it fail
OF fulfilling all that it claimed to do, among the
large list Of customers have furnished with this
| invaluable compound.
For sale in Muscatne by ]. B. Dougherty and by
agents in every principal town.
HERRING's PATENT CHAMPION FIRE
PROOF SAFES-WITH HALLS PATENT POWDER
PROOF LOCKS, tho same that were awarded separate
medals at the World Fair, London, ISL, aAd the
World Fair, New York, 1853, ard are the only
American Safes that we're awarded medals at the
London Warld's Fair.
These Safes form the mcstperfeet security against
Fire aud Burglars of any safe ever offered to the
public, and can only be had Of the subscribers and
their agents; who have on hand and make to orde
| and Vaults, Vault Doors, and Money Boxes,
Chests for Brokers' Jewellers, and Private Families.
for Plate, Diamonds, and Other valuables. And
are also Patentee< (hy purchasc) and nannfactur,
rers of JONES p ATENT FORMULATION BANK
LO> K. S. c. HERRING.
No. 25l Broadway, cor. Murray street. N. Y.
apr27 -d2m] Opposite the City Hall.
lsS> In Ohio and Indiana, where Bakers Pain
Panacea has been long in use, it is as dispensbe
| hnir hrao Land mnot n o
OF doctors bills, it can be estimated by thousands
OF dollars yearly. No family will be without it
after once having tried its wonderful pain curing
qualities.
Who will suffer pain one single hour, when he
can be almost instantly cured by the use of one
twenty-five cent bottle Give it one fair trial, and
if you don't find it to be all it is recommended, go
back to the agent and get your money refunded
For sale in Muscntino by II IL. So ~,d Jonn d.
Dougnorty.
See advertisement.
C1VS See advertisement of DR.. Sanford's
LIVER ISrlGoRAToR in another column Of this pa
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FL At the meeting in the Court House
last night, called to adopt measures for an appro
pirate celebration of the Fourth, large and respec
table number of our citzcns-staid away. The SOD
itary caller of the meeting might have said, in tn,
language of poesy,
| II feel like one who treRds alone
Some sAwDusr hall dcsefted."
So, the determination seems to be that we are t,
have general celebration Of Independence Day il
this city. Cann't our young folks get up an cxcur
sion on the river daily. yesterday.
DRowNED.-A boy about years of age,
member of family residing near the gas works
did not come home from his play usual last
night md upon search being made his body was
found after day light in the water near Wells
Goes stave factory. He had no doubt accidentally
fallen in and drowned. An inquest was held before
Mayor Meason (ex-ofico Justice,) aud verdict re.
turned in accordance with these facts. The boy
name was Case.-Daily, yesterday. FER#
Plc-Nlo.-The different schools of thu
city, preceded by the Light Guards and band Of
music, marched through he principal streets this
morning to the old Fair Grounds. The procession
was quite lengthy and an unusually pretty sight.
The little folks dressed in their best and
cd to be happy they could bc.--Daily, ycster-
day.
"THE SHow.'--The performance given at
fremont Hall, last night, by the amateur Il hio-
plan troupe, rich affair. Our boys have shown
that they can do up things in that line about as
well as those who make a business of it. Mr.. Cook
is ole of Menus favorities, and "brings down the
house" every time Daily, yesterday.
W Our wharf was visited at about ~
O'Clock last night by he steamer Fanny Harris.
with large pleasure party on board from Rock
Island and Davenport. Two salutes fired from
cannon on board, together with the music Of fine
band and the shouts of persons on the landing as
well MS from the party ON the boat, made quite u
lively time-as We are told, for ut that wtcbns
ho1r we were in the custody of Morpheus.-Daily
yesterday. -.s.iilE
ACCIDENTAL young man named Clark,
while adjusting swing at the picnic, this fore
noon, fell distance of apu~. twenty feet and was
severely though, it is hoped, not danyerspsiy in
jured.-Daily, yesterday.
O. The following cases of local inter est
we find reported in the Hawkeye as having been de-
c'ded in the Supreme Court at Burlington last week:
Muscatine county-Btnnet vs.. Bevard, reversed {;
Arson VS.. Stem, &C., reversed. - 4 4f
CO The Presbyterian Sunday School So
cety will have picnic day at the old Fair
Grounds,
MA-Wc are indebted 10 Mr. David Morgan
for st. Louis Evening News Of the l6h h.
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MESSKS. SPALDlNG & ROGER
IAV1NG made a permanent arrangement with
L i Sig. Dcnnstti's Great Comic Company of
ACTING MONKEYS, DOGS & GOATS,
AZ they appeared at The Italian Opera House in
New York for
Over 100 Cons ecutive Nights,
Before the largest and moss brilliant audienc s, in
lau ghab'e pantommes, Comic Interudss, ii ghl
and slack rope. grand military spectacles, &c.
with magnificent costumes and appointments, to,
sether with the greatest musical novelty eytaut
bong a Gem lete
SAX HORNBAN MADE UP OF
Beautiful Young Ladies.
The two Exhibitions all tor ONE PRICE OF
ADMISSION.
Will Exhibit at Muscatinc
Wednesday, June 23d, 1858,
POSITIVELY FOR ONE DAY ONLY.
E Doors open at 2 and O'clock.
In the elegant Salon board the steamer
JAMES RAYMeND, all under the management of
Col. j. H.. WOOD. .....- -., .E0..
Also Donnetti's World Renowned
- DIORAMIC DISSOLvING VIEWS.
At the sht performance an entire changs of
programme
ADMISSION (. = so cts.
Children under II years of age Is "
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W.T.. J CnafIeSs
And acknowledged as the most reliable and meri-
torious in Negro Minstrelsy, who have p! aged $50
nights to crowded and fashionable audience in St.
Louis. are now engaged with spaldine 4 Rogers,
and Col. J. II. Wood, on tho steamer BANJO, who
hold their levces every afternoon and evening, in
Producing the popular nation al melodies, operate
parodies, DUETS, refrains choruses, instrumental
music, fayorite ballads, northern and southern &C.
centricties, turlesques. dances, igs, breakdowns,
and all the va'io1s humors, indescribable, and
conceits incident to this kind Of amusement.
~ At the night peri rmance an entire chang &c
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See advertisement Of DR.. Sanford's
LIVER INvlGORAToR in another column Of this pa
per,
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On the same day the origina! and well known
BIRCH'S MINSTRELS,
Headed by the II known and ceiebr ated

BILLY BIRCH,
The cell bratcd delineator If Ethiopian characters,
who Is providentially escaped watery gave by
the terrible !isaster to the steamer Central Ameri
ca, assisted by r5r .---.s.F E.-....
4 Mr.. A. j. Tablet, ~E +.
Mr.. &. M. Hill,
Mr.. J. Mairs
1850 Mr.. M D. Edmonds,
Att. Mr. J. T. Boyce,
Mr.. ]. A. Cassidy,
T-wfs- Mr.. J. !. Birch,
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90 The weather las been as delightful
rs could b wished during week past. Yesterday
1t was absolutely hot. The prospect for the crop,
not already drowned cut by the recent wet SEASON
Is dattering. Many farmers are engaged in pillow.
Sng their corn ground, and will not get all their
corn planted for week or ten days yet, if the
favorable weather should continue. If, however,
we have favorable summer and no early fross in
<hc sutsssA, We will have a fair crop yet
m Hon. ELIJAH SRLLs.-Our citizens
I'VE might almost say without respectto partly re-
iocs at the rncrited tribute paid to their esteemed
lsnow-citiaen, Hon. Elijah Sells, by bis nomination
Nthe Republican convention, Thursday, for Sec
Rotary Of State-especialy be seems to have been
the almost unanimous choice. On the first and only
ballot (nformsll Mr.. Sells received 27l votes and
John Edwards, Of Luca. county, IA very good man,
by the-wsy,l received 81. Mr.. Sells was then nom-
inated by reclamation. He has made faithful
officer, and will without doubt be triumphantly re-
elected. Muscatine county-his home for many
.{ars-win give him muck more than the part y
majority.
APPROPRIATE TRsTIMoSIAL~-A beautiful
silver cup, appropriately inscribed, has been pre-
.entsd by citizens of Newburyport, Mass, to Mr..
Dan. F. Bryant of this city, for his heroic conduct
in rescuinx tho life of their former follow-citzen,
Mr.. John T. Brown. The cup arrived by express
ON Monday last, aud shown to us yesterday by
DrsWakers. At his drug store. Accompanying it
was the following note: I......
"Will Mr.. Bryant please accept the package,with
this, IS a testimonial from the friends of Mr.. J.
T. Brown. Nswburyport, June, 1855"
The following is the inscription on the cup, which
is from the establishment of Ball, Black Co.,
Ny, ..- -.. -..
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COLLISION IN THE CHEsAPEAKEBay

Loss OF BRIG VICTORIA, FROM NASSAU, AND ScnooS-
Err L.. e KELLY, OF CALAIS, ME-ONE MAN Sup
POSED LOST.
On Tuesday night last, 18th instant, at little
before twelve O'Clock, weather dark and rainy,
the British brigantine Victoria, Captain Knowles,
OF Nassau n. T., in charge of pilot, and schoon-
er l.. c. Kelley, Captain Eaton of Calais, Me-,
which sailed hence for Providence Saturday
came into collision about the middle of the Chesa-
peake Bay, Smiths Point Light House bearing n
n. w. The schooner sank in five minutes and the
brig in about ten minutes, both in seven fathoms
water. The Victoria had on board ten passengers,
all of whom, with the exception of W. G. Marriatt
of Nassau, together with the crews of both vessels
amounting to fifteen persons, were saved by the
boats OF the two vessels, and subsequently taken on
board schoonerAdriana, Captain Sergeant, of Port
land, and arrived here this morning
1t is supposed that Mr.. Marriatt, the unfortunate
gentleman who is missing, returned to the briggs
cabin to get something and whilst there went down
with the vessel
The following is list of the passengers and crews
OF both vessels who were rescued and safely landed
in Baltimore by the schooner Adriana Captain Sar-
geant, from Portland, to whom they desire to ten
der their Acknowledgements for his hospitable treat
ment whilst on board his vessel: John +. Cooke of
Nassau, N. r.: j. &. Derry, late master ofbark Wm
Chase, wrecked at Abeco; l.. c. Parrtt, late master
of brig Malaga, wrecked on Bahama Banks; s. p.
Lee, late master of bark Stanley, wrecked on Great
lsaacs; Mr.. and Mrs. c. Flood, of New York; Ed
ward Howard, VIM. Howard and Thomas Lowder
officers OF bark Delhi, wrecked on Bahamas; A. ID.
knowles and u. p. Knowles, late master and mate
OF brig Victoria, and eight composing her crew;
j. Eaton, late master of schooner l.. c. Kelly; w.
ID. McCurdy, mate of do. and crew of three men,
None OF the passengers saved anything.
The brig Victoria had cargo consisting of 40
boxes, 70 hhds, 80 serosns sugar, Is bales sponge
II tierces honey, lot of wrecked materials, and
$4,000 in specie, consigned to +. T. Montell, and
was insured in New Y ork and Philadelphia. Vessel
supposed insured -.al
The schooner l.. C. Kelly, had cargo of $50 tons
of coal, for Providence shipped by Messrs. Dobbin
Il Warfield, which is covered by insurance. The
vessel was 100 tons, built in Calais, 1852, valued at
SIS 600 and uninsured.
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Nessrs. Editors Of the Exchange:
1t would be highly gratifying to many of your
readers if you could obtain and publish the pro-
ceedings of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Meet
ings. A very large number of persons feel deep
interest in all that this great highway to
the West. The taxpaying community generally
are watching with concernment all that relates to
its present or future prospects-and it does appear
to the writer, therefore, that the proceedings of its
meetings might with great propriety be made pub
lie, far at least, the public prints should con-
slider right and proper to spread before their
readers
All other matters that so deeply concern our city
and its numerous interested parties are generally
known through the medium of the press-and.
without intending to impugn the motives of the
Railroad Board, it is respectfully suggested that a
publication of their proceedings would be more
likely to quiet the public mind on that subject than
by keeping them entirely to themselves, trusting
to their being made known through rumor, which
is so frequently false.
A TAXPAYER
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NAVAL.

The United States steamer Water Witch sailed on
Tuesday, from Washington for Boston, via Norfolk
and New York. with full cargo of ammunition,
which she will distribute at those stations.
The practice ship Preble, now in hand at the
Gosport Navy Yard, will be ready for sea next
month 10 lt
The sloop-ofwar Saratoga is undergoing repairs
at the yard but will not be ready for sea ser
vice for two or three months. f
The u ). steam frigate Mississippi was at Shang-
hal on the 18th of February, and the Minnesota was
in Canton river.
An American man-of-war name not mentioned)
was at the Cape of Good Hope on the 10Th of Feb
ruary. f-f. t.. .,a. -itp
The United States sloop-ofwar jamestown left
Aspinwall on the I'd April for San JUAN Wash
Star. s-i@ 3E 81 ~ sag
The U. s. steamer Shubrck, Com. Decamp from
Rio Janeiro from San Francisco, was at Montevideo
February 20. She had several cases of fever on
board. Also at Montevideo U. S. frigate st. Law
renee, Com. Lawrence, and the sloop of war Fail
mouth, Capt. Farron, are well.-Boston journal.
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Another Coroner's inquest has just been clt

Another Coroners inquest has just been closed
another stereotyped verdict of ''death by violence
at the hands of some person or persons unknown"
has been rendered over the body of BENJAMIN
Jones; and another mystery has thus been added
to the dark catalogue of unpunished crime We
cite the fact not for the purpose of finding fault
with the verdict of the jury in this particular case
but as further Illustration of the perfect futility
OF all such proceedings and of the general folly
OF ''Crowner's quest law,'' as practised in this
city The delicate and responsible duty of investi-
eating cases OF suspected murder ought never to be
Entrusted to Coroners and the juries whom they
may pick up at random in the Streets The whole
composition OF those juries, the publicity of their
proceedings, and the frequent difficulties and de-
lays interposed at every stage utterly unfit them
for the task of unravelling the hidden mystery of
crime and ferretng out the perpetrators of secret
assassination. In fact we know of but one plan
better adapted to defeat the ends of Justice, and
facilitate the escape of criminals; and that would
be TO leave all such Investigations, particularly if
the deceased were wealthy to his nearest relatives
and heirs-at-law. In this particular case the YER
dict may have been proper enough There may
have been no room for any other conclusion The
doubtful and conflicting character of the testimony
may have left the jury other alternative but to find
the verdict recorded above. Indeed we are not
prepared to say, Judging from the published re-
port of the evidence, that it is perfectly clear that
murder was committed at ALL Certainly the indi-
cation most confidently relied on by the physicians
who gave their opinion ''that the party had been
murdered and then thrown into the water, fails
altogether to warrant any such conclusion. With
all due Difference for the learned Doctors the fact
that con opening the body the lungs were fonnd to
contain air." does not show ''that the death was
not by drowning" The test which they deem so
conclusive amounts to just nothing at all, and for
aught that is proven to the contrary by the mere
TACT OF the flotation of the lungs, the man may
have fallen into the dock and the previous verdict
OF death by accidental drowning may have been
strictly In accordance with the real facts of the
case All the circumstances however, connected
with the sudden and mysterious disappearance of
Jones' and the subsequent discovery of his body at
the foot OF South street wharf were calculated to
awaken suspicion as to the means by which ba mat
his death. The case was one which required care
full and skillful investigation, and our only reore,
is that the laundering proceedings of the coroners
jury should have destroyed almost all possible
chance of ever solving the mystery of his fate,
and resulted only in the lame and impotent con-
cusion' which we have mentioned.
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FATAL BOILER ExPLosIoN.-0n the 18th instant,
one of the boilers in Messrs Shoemaker 4 Medlar 5
Lehigh Colliery, at the Sharp Mountains. Tamaqua,
Pa, exploded with terrific report, blowing the
boiler house to atoms and scattering the materials
in all directions Thomas Foster the fireman, aged
II, was the only person in the boiler house at the
time, and was instantly killed.
A MAIL STOLEN FROM CARs.-Mr o. Shell
man, of the Depot in this city, informs us that
while the West Point up train stopped at Au-
burn, Saturday night to let the down train pass
some very adroit rascal distracted the Atlanta mail,
and it is thought secured considerable booty The
mail bag was afterwards found-emptied.
REPORTED CAPTURE THE FLORIDA INDIANs-A
private letter to the Savannah Georgian informs it
that Mr.. Frank Rea and his wife, with wardrobe
and baggage, &C.. had been taken by the Seminole
Indians while on their way to st. Augustine,
MURDER.-Alonzo F. Ellet, native of Bangor
Me-, and mate of the sloop Martha Rideout, was
murdered on board his vessel, at New Orleans, last
week, by sailor boarding house runner, with whom
he got into an alteration.