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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

~OO A/avSS hIOSts
New ORLEANS, Feb. %.
The steamboat Princess, from Vicksburg to
New Orleans, exploded and burned, on Sun
day morning, at Concord's Point, near Baton
Rouge. Four hundred passengers were on
board, of whom two hundred are lost and
missing residents of Louisiana and
Mississippi. a large number of ladies were
on board, filling the ladies' cabin and half OF
the gentlcmcn's cabin. The following are the
names of the killed. as far as ascertained
j. W. Seymour, of Baton Rouge;
Calhoun, of Kentucky;
Pilot of Princess;
Assistant Engineer Of Princess
II. b. Murphy, of St. Louis;
j. J. Hodges, of Mississippi; and
Three, names unknown.
The following are among the missing:
Charles Barrister and S. Howard, Repre-
ssntatives of New Orleans
Joseph Clark, Second Clerk;
Samuel Waits, of Virginia.
No other Northern or Eastern names are
asccrtained.
A large number were badly scalded and
otherwise injured.
The boat and cargo arc total loss. The
boat was one Of the finest on the river.
LATER -Euening dispatch.-A boat, which
has just arrived from the wreck of the
Princess, brings number of the wounded
and dead.
The weather was foggy at the time of the
explosion. The Princess was behind time,
and had too much steam
A Baton Rouge dispatch says that the
Engineer is reported to have said that he
would reach New Orleans at certain time or
blow up the boat
The Engineer was cut completely in two by
the explosion.
About one hundred are wounded, many OF
them dangerously, and in dreadful condition.
1t is impossible, as yet, to ascertain the
number lost
Several boats took on board a number OF
the passengers of the Princess.
Much excitement prevails here and along
the river.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
AS y0N are NOW 50 OhCt was 7;
As I am now so you shaW be-
Prepare for death and follow me-"

TIE APPROACHING New HAMPSHIRE
ELEcTloN-The election in New Hampshire
takes place on Tuesday Of next week, March
9Th. Ichabod Goodwin is the Republican and
Asa P. Cate the Democratic candidate for
Governor. 1t is stated ON good authority
that s., 900 has been raised at Washington to
send into the First Congressional District in
New Hampshire to defeat the Republicans,
and by corruption and bribery to secure the
election of a Doughface Democrat.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

Our Iowa FARNsRs.-The Burling ton
Gazette makes the following nsble re-
marks We have no reason to dictate to
n honorable and intelligent class of people
who ought to be presumed to understand
their own business better than Others can
understand it for tllem-at the same time
the certainty or uncertainty of the seasons
Is about as apparent to one person as anoth-
or. With this view OF the case, and con-
siderins both the present and the past, we
hope to see our farmers, without exception.
turn up all the ground, and sow and plant
all the broad acres which it IS possible Tor
them t. cultivate. A good season will
bring them all out-a bad one no odds how
extensively they may plant, can leave them
no worse off than they now are. Let them,
therefore, stake the chances"-if the sea-
son proves favorable they are made men
f not they can be,no worse off than they
now are, with the additional comfortable
ref .ction that they will have done all that
mon could do to triumph over the adverse
influences Of nature.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
CITY ELECTIoN
Monday, March 9TH, 1859.
MayOralty.

Printers fee for announcing eandda saoh advance.
Mayoralty.
To THE EDITOR OF THE MuscAr1Ns JOURNAL
Str: - You will please announce my name as a
candidate for Mayor Of the city of Muscatine. at
the March Election, 1859, and much oblge.
Yours, A. M. HARE.
@-We are authorized to announce GEO. MEA.
Mayor.
MR.. EDITOR Please announce The name of
SlLAS HEATON as a candidate for City Treasurer
at the ensuing city election, and oblige MANY.
Mr.. EDITOR - Please announce SAMUEL
sIochER as candidate for City Treasurer.
! HIS FRIENDS:
@We are authorized to announce II. LOF-
LAM as candidate for reelection to the Office
of City Treasurer.
| Mr.. EDITOR PLEASE announce G. P. VESY
as candidate for City Treasurer at the ensuing
| election, and oblige, MANY VOTERS.
| Mr.: EDITOR: - Please announce ROBERT RI
LAWTHER as a candidate for City Treasurer at
the ensuing election, and oblige, HIS FRIENDS.
Wharfmaster.
Mr.. EDIroR:-Pease announce my name as q
candidate for the office of VIVA rfmaster at the en-
suing election. think have served my country
long enough to have an office.
Yours, &C., GEORGE F. FUNK.
Councilmcn.
MR. EDITOR :-PIeaSe announce u. s. ZEOEkER
! az candidate for Alderman in Third Ward at the
ensuing election.
Mr.. EDIroR:-You will Please announce VIZ.
Q. KENNEDY as can1idate for Alderman from
tho First Ward at the ensuing election, and obge
HIS FRIENDS.
Mr. EDITOR PLEASE announce the name of J.
P. WALTON as candidate for Alderman in tho
Second Ward, and oblige. MANY VorERs.
Mr.. EDITOR You will please announce nv
name as candidate for Alderman of the Second
Ward. HENRY FUNK
g% We are authorized to announce W. II,
STEWART as a candidate for Alderman from the
Second Ward.
Mr. EDITOR ;-Please announce JOHN H.AKE
as candidate for Alderman from the Third Ward.
MANY VorERs.
Mr.. MAHIN: = Please to announce ROBERT
WILLIAMS a candidate for Alderman in the
Third Ward at the ensuing Spring Election.
%We are requested to announce S. o. BUT
LER as candidate Tor Alderman in the First
Ward.
EDITOR JOURNAL Please announce EDWARD
BATCH rs a candidate for Alderman in Third
Ward, and obge His FRIENDS.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

~ call has been published in the Kan
sas papers for convention to be holden at
Ossawattomie, on the 18th of next May, for
the purpose of organizing "The Republican
Party of Kansas"
cYThe last special message of Buchanan
has been appropriately termed ''The Presi-
dents Petition to be made Dictator"
TIE WAsIuNGroN TRAGEDY.-The follow
ing additional particulars, in relation to the
tragedy at Washington, are furnished by
special dispatches:
'Sickles had received an anonymous
letter informing him of improper intimacy
between his wife and Key. lie charged her
with it, and obtained written statement of
the facts signed by her. Not long after,
Key appeared in the Square, and waived
his handkerchief, which was the accustom-
ed signal of meeting with Sickles' wife.
Sickles observing it, went over and met
Key ut the corner of the square. Approach
ing him, he said you are the id rascal,
who has dishOnored me, and l have to kill
YOU lie then drew pistol and shot Key;
the latter advanced, and Sicklcs retreMed
few steps and fired again, when Key fell
shouting 'nurder!' While he was down,
Sickles attempted to FIRE his pistol third
time, but the cap exploded wit out being
followed bya discharge. lie then re capped
the pistol and put the muzzle nea KEYS
heart shooting him dead"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

The $50, 900, 900 CUBA SCHEME POSTPONED.
Senator Slidell has dropped his Cuba
purchasing scheme. He has concluded not to
urge the matter farther during this session of
Congress, and President Buchanan's hope of
having $50, 900, 900 corruption fund placed
in his hands is therefore frustrated. Senator
Slidell, however, promises to revive his scheme
at the first session of the next Congress.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
LIST OF LETTERS

REMAINING in the Post Office, at Musca.
tine, iowa, March 1st, 1855.
Persons calling for advertised letters are
requested to give the date of the list.
On and after Nov. LIST. the Post Office
will be open on Sundays, from 8 to 9 A. NJ.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

W The following scene recently occur.
ed at neighboring city /: First actor (firing
pistol,) "Unnatrral son, die, by my hand!''
(rhe pistol misses fire.) Second actor
calling on the STACEY cit is true the pis-
tol missed fire, o, my father, but l die, in
obedience to yOu parental wish!"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
MUsoATINE, Feb. 2Sd, 1859.

MUsOATINE, Feb. 23d, 1859.
Mr. ED1roa:--A report having been circulated
throughout the city yesterday that had declin.
ed the nomination for Mayor. permit me to an
nounce to my fei ctizeus through your paper
that such is not the fact. The nomination having
been given without any solicitation on my part do
not feel at liberty to decline it, especially as it was
made with such unanimity by my fellow citizens of
this great and growing city. pledge myself that
if elected Mayor l will perform the duties Of the
Office faithfully and impartally to the best of nv
in the expenses of the city government, SO far as
relates to city officers, but in favor of moderate
Improvements in the city where it is absolutely
/ return my most grateful acknowledge
ments to my fellow.citizens for the very atterine
vote with which they nominated me, and cheerfully
accept the nomination. F.A. ScHsrEs
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

"A SUBSTITUTE FOR CUBA-A South Carroll
nian, who thinks it best to let Cuba alone,
proposes Through the Charleston Mercury)
torut . ship canal through the peninsula Of
Florida, and thus, by making great island
fer ourselves, create second Cuba, which
sinh hereafter command the Gulf of Mexico,
aud 1sssvsr neutssiise the isle a. !. strategic
point Whsn that is done, we shan't need
Cubs, be thinks.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATIC STATE CONvEN.
TIoN.-The Democratic Committee of Penn.
sylvania (says the Philadelphia Press have
fixed upon Wednesday, March 10th, for the
State Convention to assemble to nominate a
State ticket. The general election does not
take place till October.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

ITALIAN ExILEs.-About sixty of the italian
political prisoners of the attempted revolution
of 1S49 will soon be landed on the shores of
America. The tyrant of Naples banishes
them from the country, and will land them on
our shores with the paltry sum of hundred
dollars each-the only indemnity for all their
suffering undefimprisonment and the loss Of
their fortunes.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

VA. Our readers will remember, Mr..
BRowNELL, at the Muscatine Stove Store, is
selling stoves from three to foe dollars low
er than any house in the city. He warrants
his goods. See advertisement.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
High POstaSc-.-NO Reform!

The Senate, by vote of 30 yeas to 25
nays, has passed what Mr.. Yulee facetiously
designates ''Post Route BILL" but which
ought to be entitled "a bill to render the
UnitcdStatcs Mail system more intolcrable
nuisance than hitherto" This bill
1. Raises the postage of single letters from
three to tire cents EACH Double, treble, &c.
letters in proportion.
z Kaises the postage of newspapers carried
out of the county in which they are respect
lively published at one cent per copv. In
other words, doubles and quadruples the
present postage on newspapers in general
circulation.
3. Refuses to abolish the Franking Priv
llese. This privilege is somewhat modified
and restricted by the bill as it stands, but its
essential injustice and deformity still remain.
In other words: The Senate refuses to
make all who use the Mails pay for such use,
and insists that those who now pay shall pay
nearly double, in order to cover the cost of
carrying other peoples mssives for nothing.
There seems to be no need of wasting words
on this conglomeration of injustice and mis-
chief On behalf Of the reading mllions-of
those who live by their own industry, and not
by Government favor-we entrcat the House
OF Representatives to put its foot on the neck
OF this bill. Amend it so that its fathers will
never know it again! No increase of postage
on those who pay, until the experiment of
making every one pay has been fairly tried
Stop all political and specializing Mails, or
charge their expense to the general Treasury!
Abolish all Franking that is, stop carrying
AS letters and documents at the cost Of B.
and c.. Members who prefer light to dark
ness, do not let this bill pass without a
thorough exposition! Challenge every pro-
vision, and let the people have the yeas and
nays IN, Y. Tribune, Goth.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

a 1t is not always the privilege of the
Vice President to maintain an easy and dig
nified non-committalism. This would be a
convenient attitude, indeed, for one who is a
Presidential aspirant after the current fashion
twas sad thing for Mr.. Dallas, after having
secured MS own State under the banner of
"Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff of 49," to be
compelled either to forfeit that pledge, or to
cut loose from the dominant Southern wing of
his party. But he had to give casting vote,
and that vote destroyed both the Tariff of AZ
and his own political prospects. Mr.. Brock
inridge, with like fatality. has indefinitely
postponed the Homestead Bill by his casting
vote. He was forced to choose, and decided
for his Southern masters against the people,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

LlBERAL.-The well known New York
advertising house of S. NJ. Pettengill C Co.
have presented the SUN of five hundred
dollars to the Mt. Vernon Fund,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
Columbus City Enterprise.

The first number of this paper, issued on
Saturday last, has been received. Ii friend
Edwards makes each succeeding number as
sreditsblc in appearance, and As interesting,
a. the first, his subscribers will be captious
indeed if they ever complain. In short, we
are constrained to say that the Enterprise,
though small, (being six columns to the pase,)
10 one of the best looking and best edited
country journals in the State. If the citizens
of Columbus City and Louisa county are alive
to their own intercstS they will give its
snterprising publisher liberal support. Mr.,
Edwards is an easy and graceful writer, and
always writes to the point. His salutatory is
. model in its line. After concisely and
clearly defining his political sentiments, he
makes the following sensible observation:
But it is not our purpose to make the
Enterprise peculiarly Republican paper.
With US, politics will be of secondary impor-
tance We do not believe in little country
papers dabbling in politics, and devotins col
umn after column to the prosy views of the
editor, or some Office-seeking candidate, upon
political matters and politicians, as though the
safety of the Union depended on the amount
of gas, vituperation and billingsgatc thus
expended. The citizens of Louisa county
want good local newspaper, and such it will
he our aim to make the Enterprise. and as
such we hope it will receive the support of all
parties.
We vish tho Enterprise the success it
eminently merits. Its publisher has adopted
the advanee-pay system, the only system on
which paper can be successfully conducted.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

Tnx UERALD's OpINIoN.--We have already
referred to the debate of Wednesday of last
week in the Senate. In regard to this debate,
the N. Y. Herald, Administration organ,
says that the Senate debate, on the 23d ult.
strongly forcshadows division of the Demo
cratic party, as the maturcd fruit Of the
Kansas Nebraska BILL That fatal experiment
Of Northern traders upon Southern capital
has already destroyed the pre-cxisting prestige
Of the South. 1t very nearly destroyed the
Democracy in 1856, when the party was saved
by the skin Of its teeth, through the personal
popularity Of Mr.. Buchanan. Now, the party
leaders, North and South, in leaving the safe
landmark of his Administration, and in
reyiving these territorial slavery distractions,
seem resolved upon the most perilous sectional
shaping Of parties for 1860, regardless of
consequences to themselves or the country
The disclosures of every day increase chances
of riotous and revolutionary scrub race.
This is tho Herald's opinion.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

"a The recent marriage of MIR. Day and
Miss Field presents this singular anomaly
that although he won the field, SIZE gained
the day
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

STILL FOR SLAvERY.-The bill abolishing
slavery in Kansas Territory, which passed
both Houses of the Legislature, did not
become law. 1t was sent to Gov. Medary,
and still reposes in the pocket of that model
Democrat. The Democratic party has done
50 much to force slavery into Kansas that it
was hardly to be presumed that Democratic
Governor would approve bill to get it out.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
GENTS. LIST.

GENTS; LIST.
Iaus Elias Atwood William
len Amasiah Ayers S A
lson Henry
rnet Peter Bolmen James
nnett William 0 Brainard Orrin
ward William Braan Thomas
nokley Homer Brown Elisha
nsall l. Miller Burris William
yd Peter Burlinggame Seymor
G
RI George Cook Joseph
asc John W 2 Conner II G
apman Anderson Currie James NJ
over Isaac
v George Dsnz Henry
ring Andrew Donneliy James
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mond William Eustis Edwin
,helberger Levi
ming James Fowler Daniel
rvler Janas Fry Henry
ties Sc Gibson William
H
gsrmann Heinrich Horton
dsel Benedict e Hopson Emmett
lie Henry Harvard Amos M
gen Joseph Harvard Cornelius
arm Patrick Hurst
lm Ed Hucke Jacob
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Din George Kuhns Augustus
lena Samuel Longeneckar Joshua
nix FL Lay Peter
NJ
Donald Miller Josiah
Creary David Miller
Cabs John Morgan John f
Michael James Mulvehill Lawrence
Cormick James Myers
tz Phillip
land Martin Nichols Samuel
p
lcs Abraham Prosser David
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ndolph G T Rhodes Charles
ID John G Riley Edward
lee james shirky James
mahl Gottfriel Smith W W
enck James Smith william
It RW STANDBY Richard Fl
moll Henry Stoner Abraham
Der Josiah Swearinger SAMUEL
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mas Wallace W
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bo RG 2 Wilson II II
ndel Michael Wright Henry
lite Solomon Wright Silas Il
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LADIES' LIST.
A
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,ford E. liza Brown Abby
o Catharina EiizlbethBridley Mary
wn Margret
oil Mary Craig Maya
non Margret
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lis Hattie Dickinson Abby
mis- S J
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Evans Sinah
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Glbber I
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key Margret Hopkins Maria
1en Sarah A
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nedy MA Kllehcr Files
Langenecker Helen R
NJ
nla Mayer Diana
err Laura Mas, Nancy
son Larinia
p
Perkins Mary
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Elizabeth Richardson Jane
5 Robers0a Lucretia
S
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beth Steward Carrie
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Wilsen Laura
j. A. MCCORMICK, r. NJ.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04


MALAYSIA CouNTY-Our Railroad Inter-
ests.-The Oskaloosa papers speak cheeringly
of the prospect of the NJ. & NJ. r. r. being
extended to that place next year. They say
there is some opposition in certain parts of
the county to the Issue of the bonds to the
company, but they regard such opposition as
ill-advised and selfish, and as rejecting the
views Of very small portion Of the people
The Times thus alludes to the NJ. & NJ. r. r. :
For ourselves, we will say, once for all, that
We think the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
is the only one that now presents any plausi-
bic grounds of belief to the citizens of Mahaska
that it will be running to Oskaloosa within
the next five years. We believe, if the people
of this county will take hold of the matter
rightly, and extend their influence and their
favor (such influence and favor as Mahaska' S
true interests require her to put forth for this
purpose) to the Muscatine road, that it will
lie in running order to this city on the LIST
day of October, 1860. We think, further,
that no other proposed road can or will be
built to Oskaloosa in less than three years
at the shortest limit-from the date of this
article. Our reasons, at large, for these
opinions, we have not now time nor room to
give, but they are satisfactory to US, and at
some future time we think we can demonstrate
their plausibility to any liberal minded citizen
Of Mahaska.
The Herald refers to an effort for the
extension of the road beyond that place, in a
southwest direction towards st. Joseph or
Leavenworth 1t submits the following
proposition to the people of Marion county:
Let the county authorities submit the
question of voting one hundred thousand to
the NJ. & NJ. road by way of Knoxville, and
an equal amount for the Keokuk road by way
of Pella. Such vote would probably be
carried, if submitted at the same election.
Otherwise, Marion county may do without a
road for long time. In this way, she may
have two roads in two or three years. What
say our Marion friends to this proposition
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

fee for announcing candda 81 EACH advano
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(rO BE CONTINUED
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-05-06
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Treasury Department. Registers Ollce,
March 2. l-jp.


T. B.odgs, Register.
From this statement it will bc seen that the
balance against the opposition is 81, ll3,23l %.
From this should be deducted the sum oi
S7945s0 sc, the difference between the pay Of
members under the old and new compensation
law, which still leaves a difference against the
opposition of $3ls,G50 ~.
Let us look into the details Of this state
mcnt.
The opposition clerk hire only cost over that
Of the Democratic the sum Of s31,266 9+
The item Of miscellaneous alone leaves dill
ference against the opposition of sd4,092 l."
Democratic horses and carryalls cost only
$4,397 Gs less than those Of their antagonists
In the mere folding Of members speeches
and books, there stands against the opposition
the enormous sum Of s57.269 5S.
In binding there is the trihins amount IN IA
vor Of Democratic economy over that oil the
Opposition Of $ll4,9l0 s4
In reporting and publishing proceedings
Ss,l37 10
And yet thercis great clamor against Dem
ocratic extravaganza and pro!isacy
The Administration OF Gen. Pierce estimated
the appropriations necessary for the expenses
of the Government for two years from 1st July,
1856, to sofa June, 1858, and the amount ne
cessary to supply the deficiencies for the year
ending June SOth, 1856, as follows: