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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-24

We publish to- day number Of interesting let
tiers which give expression to the general
opinion; and from one of them we are glad
to perceive that in the neighboring "City Of
Churches" public meeting is about to be held
in defence Of civil and religious liberty We
trust that similar meeting will soon be held
in the Empire City, the centre of light and civil
lization to the rest of the Union. The motto
of our State is Excelsior" and though In its
legislation the State is not always true
to the word inscribed on its banner, we ave
firm faith in the progress Of the people o. tbs
great commercial metropolis, and we are co NJ
dent that they will always keep ahead of every
other city in their enlightened principles, a ID
that they will not rest satisfied while one link of
the chain of ecclesiastical despotism rema Ms.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05
The Gold RegiOns---AM UMfavOr-
able Report.
ICOrrespondehce Ot the Jourha'.
OMAHA. July 25ih. 1850

OMAHA, July 25ih, 1859.
Mr.. EDITOR This town is ssas dead as a
door-nail." There is nothing going Oh here
excerpt considerable gossipping about the
mines. They are trying to ct up another
will not succeed. It has been the work OF
this place to give the bright side of the pic
ture. have seen several men fresh from
the mines, having lett there on the LIST and
9th of this month. They report that the
most of the claims have run out, and thous.
ands of the miners were leaving. This don't
sound so we'll, after ALL Who has seen any
Of this much talked-of gold2 1t gold is be-
ing dug there by the ''cart load,' why are
there not some U. S. Mint reports Of it i?
Some of you will be as badly fooled this
time as you were at the first. AS for the
reports that are published in the papers Of
this place, there is but little truth in any
thing they say. Here is an extract from the
Omaha Nebraskian of the 23d, headed, "Off
for the Mines W. N. Byers left this city
with long train for Cherry Greek, on Tues
day morning last. MIR. Byers was accompa-
MED by his family, and expected to take his
train through to the diggings in fourteen
days." Now, the true statement of this Mr..
Byers and family, and those others (six in
all, is that they started with only one team
and that of but one span Of horses
1t is plain to see through this statement.
Don't lay down yoar pen-the worst is not
over yet. When gold is brought back to the
States and the reports come from a reliable
source, then, it is time enough to dry up"
Mr.. Byers had the wool pulled over his eyes
badly in the first discoveries, and, perhaps,
may have overshot the mark again.
Yours, truly, r. L. SUMNER.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

TIE CINCINNATI CRGsUs MISTAKEN FOR A
STREET BEaeAR. Yesterday morning, as
Nicholas Longworth, Esq, was sitting on
the steps of q drinking. house on Third street,
with his hat between his knees, waiting for
q friend, gentleman, a stranger, passed,
and, seeing "Old Nick's' ordinary garb and
-ather troubled countenance, supposed him
"a be ore of the professional mendicants
that often congregate there, and as he went
hv dro,, ned q quarter into the hat. 'Old
n SiokY per. p .,eived the mistake too late to cor
rect It. and srocketed the coin with pecu-
liar smile. Tht. idea of mistaking the Gin
cinnati Crasus-.,ne Of the richest men in
America, worth probably from $5. .oOO, 900
to &c, ,0OO, ,OOO-for a street beggar Is rather
drolI. though not unnatural, as any one, to
look at the old gentleman anu his extremely
shabby dress, would not suppose his availa-
BILE means at the outside exceeded fifty
cents. Cincsnnati Enquirer.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

The OUTRAGE UPON AMERICANS AT PERU
GrA.-The Florence correspondent of the
Newark Aduertiser, writing July Sd, says :
More full and authentic reports of the re-
duction of Perugia, show that 40 persons,
of both sexes, were put to death by the Pa
pal mercenaries, besides those who fell out
side the walls. The government at Rome
makes no corcession; though Mr.. Stock
toms claim in behalf of Mr.. Perkins has
been taken into consideration. Mr.. S. is
now at Ardenza, watering place on the
coast near Leghorn, where he had arranged
to pass the season, with his family, before
this occurrence.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

RAILROAD Observation-Disclosures have
started on survey of the Kansas Central
Railroad. This road extends rom Wyan-
dotte, at the junction Of the Kansas with
the Missouri river, to Fort Riley. The en-
tire distance is one hundred and fifty miles.
This is the first railroad survey west of the
Missouri river, and constitutes another link
in the great Railroad chain, that shall ulti-
mately link the States on the Pacific, to
their elder sisters upon the Atlantic.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

Mr.. KIRKwooD's SPEEcu-NOtwithstan
ing the busy time at present, and the short
notice given, the audience assembled last
Tuesday to hear Mr.. Kirkwood was larger
than was anticipated. Itcould not be expected
that large audience could be obtained in a
place of this size in the midst Of harvest.
Mr.. Kirkwood spoke an hour and half,
and was listened to with the most respectful
attention, and when he concluded the Repub-
licans went away satisfied that they had q
candidate who would be an honor to the State
in the position of Governor, and the Democ-
racy satisfied that they had an opponent that
it would be impossible to beat Columbxs
City Ente,prise.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

TOMATOES IN New FAsHIoN.-As the
tomato season is at hand, the follow
ing method 6f pi eparipg them for the table,
we are assured by one who has made the
experiment, is superior to anything yet
discovered for the preparation of that excel
lent article Take good ripe tomatoes, cut
them in slices, and sprinkle over them finely
pulverized white sugar, then add claret
wine sufficient to cover them. Tomatoes
are sometimes prepared in this way with
diluted vinegar, but the c!aret wine imparts
to them richer and more pleasant flavor,
more nearly resembling the strawberry then
anything else.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05
DOdgc's TcrgiversatiOns.

To show Gen. Dodge's political dishonesty,
and his servlity to the slave power, we have
only to look to the record of his public life,
and compare few notes. On the 14th Of
December, 1853, while Senator in Congress
from Iowa, he introduced bill to organize
the Territory of Nebraska, including what is
now Kansas Territory. The latter clause of
the sixth section of that bill read as follows !:
"AH tile laos passed by the Legislative
Assen,bly and Governor shall be submitted 10
disapproced, shall be null anil Of no effect"
Here Gen. Dodge distinctly aftirms the
Republican doctrine that Congress has power
to- prohibit the introduction of slavery into
the Territories. But in few short months
he discovered that he had strayed from the
Democratic fold, and in May following we
find him voting "aye' on the Kansas
Nebraska bill introduced by Mr.. Douglas,
which declares that Congress has no power
over the Territories. What produced this
great change in Gen. Dodge's mind? The
conviction forces itself upon every candid
man that Dodge sacrificed his ideas of justice
and right to the behests of his party leaders.
Is such a man--who is willing TO be used as
a tool of slavery propagandists observing of
the confidence of Iowa freemen?
The Douglas Democrats of this State now
say Gen. Dodge is an anti-Administration
man. If so, he has quite recently changed
again. He has been in full fellowship with
the Lecomptonites, and comes among us
labelled as orthodox by James Buchanan
himself. Has he not shown his sympathy
with the measures of the Administration by
writing letter ardently coveting the posses
sion of Cuba, and endorsing the Presidents
schemes for acquiring it? In no change of
opinion by Gen. Dodge can it be made to
appear that he acted from honest motives.
Ambition and selfaggrandizcment, with a
servilc devotion to the leaders of his party,
have ruled all his actions With falsified
record, showing him to be weak and vascil-
lating, it is not likely that he will again have
an opportunity to abuse the confidence of the
people Of Iowa.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

CAssIUs NJ. CLAY ON The STUMn-Cassius
NJ. Clay spoke to large audience at Coving-
ton, KY, on the 10Th. He took neither side,
but denounced Bell and Magofin as political
quacks. His speech was straight-out Repub-
lican. He called upon the non7slaveholders
of Kentucky to prepare to share the national
triumph Of the Republicans next fall.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

SOMEWHAT LuDIcRoUs.-Tlie bravery of
the Zouaves is undoubted, but there are
stories in circulation in regard to their
effective exercises which border on the
whimsical. One writer, in speaking of them,
says that the cart of boxing with he feet
is peculiar to France, and in this the Zouave
has been instructed. SO that his first act in
personal recountcr is to parry the weapon
of his opponent, his second to PROSTATE
him by ick in the breast, his third to
stab him to death with the keen bayonet.
All this is the work of q minute" The
same writer remarks that it is not surprising
that two Austrian divisions, numbering
twenty thousand men, admirably posted aud
defended by battery, were completely
overwhelmed in recent battle by three
battalions of Zouaves. Fancy three Zeuave
battalions in the act of prostrating their
opponents by one universal kick9 Probably
these wild sons of Mars wear the heaviest
brogans. 900.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

DocroRs DIsAGREE.-The Richmond En-
quirer, the organ of Gov. Wise, declares that
If the Charleston ConYenion shall not adopt
the doctrine of the power and duty Of Con-
gress to protect slavery in the Territories, the
sConservative Democracy" of Virginia and
of the South will bolt! Douglas declares
that, if the Convention do adopt this doctrine,
he must be counted out! Chief Justice
Taney says slave property in the Territories
must be guarded and protected. Augustus
Caesar Dodge says it may be destroyed
Who can reconcile these trifing discrepancies
in the National Democratic creed Dubuque
Tinses.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

OBSCENE PuBIloATIoNs.-The newspaper
proprietors in San Francisco, California,
were fined one hundred dollars each, for
publishing Mrs. Sickles' confession. Served
them right.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

f~If Buchanan resolves to submit his
name to the Charleston Convention, he will
bring the same kind of recommendation
that : son of Erin once did. paddy, do you
knov how to drive? ?" said traveller to the
..Phseton" of a jaunting car. 'tSure, do /;
vasn't it I that upset your honor in . ditch
two years ago"-Losisoills Journal.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

The following is the letter of Mr.. Buchanan
declining the empty honor of being defeated
for President in 1860. 1t is addressed to
Hon. VIM. McCandless, of Pittsburgh:
BEDFORD SPRINGS, 25th July, 1852
Ny DEAR SR:-I have received your kind
note Of the 10th inst, with leader from the
Post. Whilst appreciate, as it deserves,
the ability and friendship displayed in the
editorial, yet regret that it has been pub
lished. My determination not under any
circumstances to become candidate for re-
election is final and conclusive. My best
judgment and strong inclination unite in favor
of this course. TO cast doubts upon my pre-
determined purpose is calculated to impair my
influence in carrying out important measures,
and to afford pretext for saying hat these
have been dictated by desire to be rc-nomi-
mated.
With kindest regards, remain your friend,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
The Pittsburgh Post, mentioned in Mr..
Buchanan's note, is edited by James p. Barr,
who was an applicant for the Pittsburgh Post
Office, and was unsuccessful. The question
is raised whether it is magnanimity or malig-
nifty in him to thrust Mr.. Buchanans name
before the people, associated with the idea of
giving him second term.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

SERVANTS WAGEs.-Some Of the United
have been lucky in serving short terms and
drawing heavy pay. Hon. Delazon Smith,
of Oregon, served seventeen days. and pock-
eted SIC, 900, of which 81, 900 were for mile
age. Who wouldn't be . servant of the
people?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

SERIOUS CHARGE.-A Washington CORES
pondent Of the Philadelphia Press, and
other papers, are making S1rious charges
against tho Post. Master General, to the ef-
feet that while curtailing and discontinuing
the mail service in the Northern States,
under the pretence of lessening the expen-
ses of the department, scarcely mail route
or post Office has been meddled with at the
South. Considering that in the Northern
States the po>t-ofice is not only selfsustain-
ing but really source of profit, while the
Southern mail service is sustained almost
entirely on drafts upon the treasury, one
would suppose that tie former was deserv-
ing of some show Of favor, instead Of being
the sole victim of all the e,nbarrassaents of
the department.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC CIvILIzER-The
Southern Literary Messenger says:
"No people ever became civilized ercept
upon the basis Of domestic slapery. 1t is the
foundation upon which all improvement has
rested; without it, all mankind would be
savages."
Commentary-virginia a-white population,
So4 500; number of whites who cannot read
and write, 1905! Massachusetts, white
population, 9S5, ,45O; whites who cannot read
and write, 1889! What a triumph of the
great civilizer!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

The Northern Democratic organs dread
the slave trade issue, and deny that anybody
intends to reopen it. We submit that
Stephens, Yancy, and others. of the South,
are the best authority on this point.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

The FALL ELECTIONS IN THE SoUTH.-On
1st of August, Alabama votes for Governor,
State officers, and seven Congressmen.-
Kentucky votes for Governor, State officers
and ten congressman Texas votes for
Governor, State officers and two Congress.
men. On the 4th of August, Tennessee
votes for Governor, State officers, and ten
congressman. On the 18th Of August,
North Carolina will chose eight Congress
men. On the Sd of October, Georgia and
Mississippi choose State officers, and thir-
teen congressman. Maryland will vote for
six Congressman on the I'd of November,
and the elections for the year will close
with Louisiana, which will vote for Cover
nor and 10 r Congressman on the 7th of
November.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

ca Mr.. l. NJ. Ashley has an able letter in
the National Era in favor of holding the
approaching Republican National Convention
in some Western city, and also in favor of
choosing the Delegates by Conventions of
Congressional Districts, and not by State
Conventions.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

eE Another Free State paper has been
established in Missouri-the Republican. at
Kansas City. The cause of Republicanism is
gaining in that State.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

SYSTEMATIC BALLooNlNa-New and Novel
Experiment -Mr. Charles E. Wise left Lam
caster on the 2lst for St. Louis, with the
balloon ''Jupiter," in which he and his faith.
er propose making series of experimental
ascensions from Western cities. Prof. Wise
will follow in few days to join his SON.
The programme as we understand it, is
something like this:-They will ascend from
St. Louis into the eastern current, and make
Cincinnati, anchoring the balloon over night
re-inflate in the morning, and then come !,
east to another point; or taking the north
eastern current, they will take Indianapolis
and Columbus, &c. If successful in this,
Prof. Wise will demonstrate another impor-
tant point in aerial navigation; namely, the
ability of the aerial engineer to strike given
points, anchor, and resume biz VOYAGE again
as it may be desired. 1t also3 is desired to
make certain scientific observations. which
will be of value in future explorations of the
upper regions. .....
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

PIKE's PEAK.-On the same day that one
Garrison sends word from Pixies Peak to
Mr.. Smoot, that from 5000 to 5000 claims
are bcing prodtably worked, that about 10,-
600 men are at work, and that from 3O,-
600 to 10000 worth of gold has been raised
two young men from Ludlow, Mass, write
back to their friends. who publish the let
ter in the Springfield Republican, that there
isn't gold enough there for each mans three
cents, and soie,nnly add 1--WE have been
fooled once, but are not going to be again.
Comment would be superAuoas.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

$l4 PER DAY.-According to statement
in the Gate city, Gen. Dodge has received
from the public treasury, since he has been a
citizen of Iowa, $105,200, which is at the
rate of nearly $l4 per day, from The time he
came to the country with a commission in his
pocket from Van Buren, in 1888.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05
Homestead Bill -: Dodge ;sald
Cuba.

| 1t will be recollected that during the last
Congress an effort was made to pass an act
giving to each settler l60 acres of land. 1t
will also be recollected by those conversant
with the proceedings that the defeat of the
measure was owing to a Democratic Senate
being arrayed against it almost to man, SEN
ator Jones, of Iowa, not being an exception.
In the House, where the bill passed, out of
| l2O votes in favor of it, but bare 81 Democrats
were found voting for it, and some of them
are now out of the party. The States that
are most thoroughly Democratic voted almost
unanimously against it-thirteen of them that
went for Buchanan giving only two votes for
it. The Republican vote, with solitary
exception, was given for the bill. In view of
these facts, how perfectly ridiculous does it
appear in the Iowa Democracy to resolve, in
State Convention, that the party is in favor
of Homestead Bill!
Furthcr-it will be recollected tina. the vote
in the Senate against considering the Home
stead Bill was also vote in favor of taking
up the Cuba Bill. Jones gave the Cuba Bill
the preference. And Dodge in letter in the
National Intelligencer of the I'd inst, regrets
that the Slidell bill, placing $50, ,OO0, 900 at
the disposal of the President for the purpose
of negotiating for the purchase of Cuba, failed
to pass He endorses the Presidents policy.
thinks it wise and judicious. Here are Dodge
and Jones, the head and front-or the head
and tail-of the Iowa Democracy endorsing
the President; in favor of placing large
corruption fund in his hands, to bribe some
person or persons to buy or steal Cuba for us.
just $4,000, 900 to negotiate purchase
which would require the proceeds of about
40, 900 900 acres of the public land! A mere
trifiing sum! And yet this Democratic
Administration thinks it very unwise and
inexpedent to give the settlers of the country
60 acres of the unoccupied land, each, for y
homestead. Millions for the purpose of
Strengthening and increasing slavery, but not
cent for the poor free white men of the
country.
Dodge and Jones does the Iowa Democ-
racy endorse them? 1t endorses Jones, but
the people repudiated him, and the President
mercifully took him out of their reach.
Dodge is now the standard bearer of the party
in the State. He is intimately associated
with the very measures that caused the over
throw of the party, not only in Iowa, but
throughout almost the entire North. And
the only reason, probably, of his being put
forward at the present time is because he can
better afford to be defeated than any other
man amongst them. The party can have no
hope Of success.
In the nomination of Dodge, the Convention
endorsed Buchanan, with his Cuba and Kan
sas policy. And we think it also fair to
include the Dred Scott decision and the action
of the party in Congress in opposition to the
Homestead Bill.-Keosauqna Republican.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

An IMPORTANT SUIT DECIDED. The long
contested India Rubber case, involving the
ii le to the Goodyear patent for the manu-
facture and sale of elastic vulcanized ru bier
goods, which has been announced in favor
of Horace H. Day, by decree of the Uni
ted States G rcuit Court at Baltimore, was
rendered upon first full hearing of all the
pleadings and proofs, and gives Mr.. Day
the monopoly throughout the United States
OF the manufacture, Importation and sale Of
these neouliar fabrics.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

BOLD RoBBERY.-A fellow by the name of
Lecompton D. Party, who has been roaming
through this country for the last six years,
broke into the United States Treasury, last
winter, and carried off its entire contents.
He forced an entrance into the vaults by using
a .Iimnu.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05

~ Brigadier Augustus Caesar is, accord
ing to the War Eagle, to take the stump soon,
when, in its classic and refined language, he
will iclean OUT the Republicans! His last
labor, in this line, was performed in 1864,
when with the aid of the electors of this State,
he cleaned himself out beautifully. He
can do it again. Burlington Ha,okeye.