Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-01-16
MONDAY, JANUARY IL. 1858.


! MONDAY, JANUARY II, 1858.
General Assembly of Iowa.s
! The seventh regular session of this bod,
convenes at the new capital to day. VIZ
shall probably be enabled by the last of :his
week or tho beginning Of NEXT to lay before
our readers the proceedings of its organiza.
ton, with the vailed ctory message of Gov.
Grimes and the inaugural message of Gov.
Lowe. 7g -2ay %
For Speaker of the House, it is quite
probable that Mr.. james +. Wilson, of JEFF
fersoHa county, member Of the Oonst:tu-
tional Convention and man of ability and
sound Republican principles, will be elected
without opposition. As the new constitu-
ton provides that the Lieutenant Governor
shall be President of the Senate, no one will
be elected to preside permanently over that
body. es3s 81, e.. s. 8. ,.as@sR3 ~
We presume that as soon as the General
Assembly is organized, the vote at the Nc
vember election will be canvassed, when
the exact figures for Governor will be known.
A. acotemporary truly remarks that there
never has been . Legislature in this State,
| which has had such an amount of work to
do as will devolve upon the present one
and there is q probability that the session
will be a long one. The bank question is one
on which there will be q multiplicity of
opinions, and will consume vast amount OF
time to harmonize all the conflicting views
and digest q system that will not contain
fatal objections, either by being too lax or
too stringent. We find there isl general
misapprehension in regard to the time when
a banking law shall take effect many per-
sons supposing that it will be in force, like,
other laws, Immediately after it's passage aad
publication The new Constitution, how
ever, requires the law to 10 submitted to
vote Of the people, not less than three
months after its passage, at general or spe-
cial election, and to 10 approved by a mo-
jority Of the votes cast for and against it,
before it shall in any manner be in force or
effect. Under this provision, banking law
will hardly he in force in six months after
its passage through the Legislature.
|. The Judicial Districts of the State need
remodeling, and The School laws thorough
revision. The c)ds also needs revising
again, and commissioners will probably be
appointed to codify it. AS a large portion
Of local legislation has been prohibited by
the Constitution, laws will have to be pass
ed for cases that need such legislation.
AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGK.-The establish
ment Of an Agricultural College in this State
is an enterprise which is doubtless worthy
of more attention than it is receiving
Some interesting and important facts con-
cernirg the establishment of such college
in Michigan are communicated in our paper
to day by Mr.. Foster, to which we invite
the attention of our readers. We have eeen
a memorial signed by the Michigan Board
of Education and the officers OF the Ag-
ricultural College at Lansing, praying for
the appropriation by the general govern
ment of 100000 acres OF land to the use of
the Agricultural College OF that State
Scme such memorial should be sent up from
Icwa also. Whatever is done tor this en-
terprise should be done now while our State
Legislature and Congress are in session.
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TIE WILD CAT WAR. The Davenport
Democrat still keeps up its war upon Flor
ence and Burrows & Prettyman's shinplas-
ters, and thinks it has accomplished some
thing, because Cook & Sargent last week
sold small quantity of eastern exchange
for Florence at ten per cent Just think of
it, reader! Cook & Sargent, who assured
the public that they would redeem Florence
at par sin gold or other currency," have
now the impudence, after refusing for a long
while to exchange it for anything else Of
value at any rate, whatever, to ask ten per
cent. discount on it for exchange, which may
be had in Muscatine, or in any other town
in the West except Davenport, at three per
cent. They actually discredit their own
money just seven per cent. Why, then,
blame the public through their organ, the
Gazette, because they rcpudiate it altogeth.
er ? ~Fhe Democrat still insists that Flor
ence must be placed on par with Illinois
and Wisconsin currency before it will
ssground the weapons Of its rebellion" 1t
says q" -'
sass One Of the strongest declarations which
the discussion Of the Florence wild cat has
brought forth, is the assertion that the pros
perity of this city is owing entirely to Cook
& Sargent's shinplasters. ls it true ls Da-
venport built on sandy shinplaster foun-
dation Now, admitting that Davenport is
nothing, and Florence everything, why
should not Florence be redeemed in Illinois
currency? Does all this talk about the
blessings of Florence afford any reason for
refusing to place Florence on a par with
rcdeemable funds :? SO .s,.
"We saw that our city is strong; the Ga
zetfe insists that if Florence be made good
in Chicago, our merchants and business will
| all 90 down in one common ruin. These
wildcat are panic makers, and, unless they
are resolved to destroy the reputation OF this
| city abroad, they must stop their croaking
and their fustian about Florence wildcat
lbcing the life-blood of Davenport The
| great want of this city is a redeemable cur
rency-to have Florence re ieened in llli-
nois funds; for that We have labored des-
pite the threateningsof wild caters that
we shall battle till the good end be attain
led.o sa E p se5saG
FLORENCE ELsEwllERE.-A gentleman from
Cedar Rapids informs us that Florence is
too wild cat to be entertained by the busi-
ness men Of that place. They won't touch