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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23
Commercial.

MUscArlNE, Thursday, Sept. %.
Market for wheat declined 2(03c. Re.
ceipts large for the past few days. Business
generally quite brisk. .t.
We append our usual quotations
Wheat-Spring, 6O@66c.
Winter, 70@75c.
Flour-Spring wheat, $4@$4.50.
&c Winter " 1926.
Corn, in the ear, old, 4Oe, new, Csc.
Oats-25c.
Barley, zoe.
Rye, 4O@45c.
Beans, 75ca$1 90
Potatoes, 20@25c.
Sweet Potatoes, 80c to $1,OO.
Hay-t}mothy, 5000; prairie, $500
81; Hungarian, IS per ton.
Apples-green Csc to $1.o0, dried 1925.
per bu.
Eggs, 1Oc.
Butter, l5c.
Shoulders. Sa9c
Clear sides, l0@12c
Lard, IL 1-2c.
Hides green, &c; dry flint, 13c.
Lumber, $l0a$30 per1OO0 feet.
Sugar-6ia74c, crushed ll3c, clarified
e4al0c, refined, white, lO4c. -.
Molasses-plantation 42a44, s. H. Al,
Belcher's 81, kegs $6,o0@$6,50.
CoFee-12a13c. 1919
Nails-ass. 1925. -s,s ' 81
Rice 53a6e. ~. s.a-,g.--- s..a.
s EXCHANGE.
New York, selling II per ct.
Philadelphia. ii
Boston, s d. .. II
Baltimore, II
Cincinnati, Il
Chicago, !
St. Louis, currency /
St. Louis, bankable funds l -a, a-
St. Louis, specie II
Pittsburgh, ~ VI II
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

MAINE ELEoTloN.-The Portland Adver-
tiser says $50 far as this State is con-
cerned, then, "Douglasism and Buchanan
i'm both lie buried in the same unhonored
grave, while the living, active, progressive
and determined men of Maine stand re ady
to give majority of at least $4,000 next
year to the Presidential candidate of the
great Republican party. That result is
placed beyond doubt or question BY the re-
corded vote of Yesterday.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

SOUTHERN PLATFORM FOB CHARLESTON
The Huntsville (Alabama) Democrat, edited
by J. W. Clay, Esq, brother OF United
States Senator Clay, of that State, thus ex-
plicitly states the conditions upon which,
and which only, Alabama will support the
nominees of the Charleston Conventioa:
No nominee of the Charleston Convention
can obtain our support, unless the platform
adopted shall substantially recognize the
constitutional rights of the South on the
Slavery question, as laid down by The bred
Scott decision, to wit: that slavery is rec
ognized in the Constitution, and that it is
the duty of every department of the Fede-
raj Government-Congressional, Judicial
ard Executive-to guard and protect it;
and unless the antecedents of the nominee
are such as to justify the belief that he will
be safe custodian of the rights OF the
South under thu Constitution.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

WoN'T Do TO TIE To.--Does our friend,
Gen. Van Antwerp, remember that character
istic remark of Old Bullion in regard to Mr..
Douglas? HE can never be President, sir.
His coat-tail is too near the ground, sir; too
near the ground, sir" The General ought to
it, and not "tie to- man against
whom Old Bullion has vaticinated disappoint-
ment and defeat. "a tail hold" in such a
case would not be "a good hold."-G Gate City.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

WAR Is FAME?-Ons of the trotting
horses exhibited at Chicago is named
Henry Gao Dean
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

LAKEWOOD AND DoDGE.-As soon as Kirk
wood was through, Gen. Dodge took the
stand, and was greeted with such rounds of
applause as testified the confidence and esteem
in which he was held by the masses. His
speech was candid review of the positions
of the parties, an eloquent statement of the
facts and arguments, and also Kidding and
exposition of the sophistry Mr.. Kirkwood
attempted to palm upon the people. Kirk
woods friends knew it, and their fallen coun-
tenances betrayed them. 1t must be acknowl-
edged that Dodge achieved a complete triumph
over the thirty per cent play off farmer and
his sectional principles.--Sigourney Dem.
We have heard that story before. The
paragraph contains the pith of what our
Democratic exchanges had to say about the
joint discussions. 1t won't take hereabouts,
at present. If the Democrat had said that a
few bewildered and drunken Democrats were
fools enough to believe that Gen. Dodge was
a match for Kirkwood, it might have passed
without notice. As it is, the paragraph
deserves to be held up for those to look at
who heard the discussion here, last week.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

~Senator Harlan is doing good service
in the Northern part of the State, speaking
daily, to large and spirited Republican
gatherings. -cs .17
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

The NEXT FIELD FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
or the Indian Territory, as has before been
occasionally limited, is likely to be the next
rallying point of the South, for the organiza-
ton of new slave State. Kansas has been
thoroughly tried, and is at length to be aban-
doned. A Kansas pro-slayery correspondent
of the Charleston Mercury (which paper, if it
is below zero on any other subject, is always
at boiling heat on slavery,) significantly
writes:
1--WE have about 1900 Southern men in
Kansas, and they intend emigrating South as
soon Us Kansas is admitted into the Union.
We are connected with Southern organiza-
ton, and, including all, we have about II 900
men. The next theatre for action will be the
Indian Territory south of Kansas, including
the Cherokee, Greek and Choctaw nations.
The South should prepare for this in time,
and stand by her territorial rights"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

HlsroRY OF FLORA Flora Tenn.
pie, the Queen of the Turf was born in
the town of Sanger6eld, Oneida comfy, N.
Y. She was foaled in 1845. and, whenAuits
young, sold to Nathan Tracy, OF Hamilton,
Madison county, for the SUN of $l3, who
kept her less than three years. Flora then
became the property of VIM. Congden, of
Smyrna, CheEango county. who subsequent
ly sold her 70 Messrs. Richardson u Kel.
logg, Eaton, Madison county. This firm
kept livery, and Flora became quite popu-
lar with the patrons Of their stable. Mr..
Richardson finally took the marc to Wash
ington Hollow, Duchess county, and swopped
her off to Jonathan Vielee for purse con-
tanning 1915. Two weeks after she was
sold to Geo. E. Perrin, of New York city,
for $3.50. She was soon after put upon the
track, and after successive triumphs has
fairly won the title of the 'Queen of the
Turf" Her best time land the best on rec
ord of any horse) was 1922 in harness.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

Why DON'T THEY DO 1T "A leading Dem
ocrat Of this city declared to US, few days
ago, that if he stood in the place of eithel
Dodge, Hall or Mason, who are charged as
aiders and abettors of the poll book fraud, he
would "break up" every Republican news
paper which repeated the charge. He pro
tested that he knew nothing as to the truth.
fulness of the charge; but, if it was false, hi
would not rest tamely under the imputation
Now, this charge has been repeated for months
it subjects those who make it to heavy
damages for ibel-but neither of the distin
guished characters implicated have dared to
vindicate themselves. Why? Because the
charge is ue!-the record shows it See
the extract from the report of the Congress.
sional Committee, published elsewhere, in
which these men are censured by their own
party friends.
E- The Dubuque Herald is making
violent attacks upon the State Bank, and
denounces it as ''rag money" scheme Of the
Republicans to cheat "the dear people," As
the President and moving spirit of the insti'
tuition, G. Weed, Esq, of this city, is an
uncompromising Democrat, and majority Of
the Board of Directors, we believe, are also
Democrats, this warfare of the Herald is
supremely ridiculous. We do not apprehend
that it will succeed in persuading gerry many
Of its readers that the State Bank is going te
do them harm. We imagine that it is toe
soon after the adoption Of the Banking Law
by an overwhelming majority of the people
themselves, to sustain the charge which the
Herald brings with such junction and so much
,{o
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

Choose Ye Whom We will Serve.
The following brief and fair exposition Of
the principles held by the Republican party,
and the se.callsd Democratic party, 10 SUBJ
nitted, without note or comment, to the can
did consideration of our readers. 'Choose
70 this day whom ye will serve"-if Repub-
licanism be right, support it; if "Democracy''
(either national or "patent') be right,
support it: "a e,A srg a,..a.
The Republican party hold that the Constitu.
ton Of the United States does not recognize
property in slaves; that slavery is strictly
q local institution; that the Territories are
the property Of the people Of the United
States; that Congress possesses full legis-
lative power over the territories, and that
it is the right and duty of Congress to
prohibit slavery therein.
The National Democracy stand by the bred
Scott decision, which asserts that the Con.
stitution recognizes slaves as property; that
the Territories are held for the common use
Of the people of all the States that neither
Congress, nor any other tribunal acting
under the authority of the United States
has any right to deny that protection to
slave property in the Territories which il
allows every other species of property
consequently, any legislation unfriendly to
tho free enjoyment Of the right of property
in slaves would be in conflict with the
Constitution.
The Douglas party admit the authority and
binding force Of the bred Scott decision
that slaves are recognized as property by
the Constitution; that neither Congress OF
Territorial Legislature can exclude slavery
from Territory but still claim that the
people Of Territory may evade their con
stitutional obligations, and deny it tn
protection Of local law, without which they
assert it cannot exist
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23
KirkwOOd and Dodge Mt Column
s bus CITY.

The discussion between Dodge and Kirk
wood came off on Wednesday afternoon. The
audience was not as large as we expected to
see on the occasion, only about 800 persons
being present. Mr.. kirkwood did not arrive
till late, and, having to speak in Wapello the
same evening, the debate lasted buttwo instead
Of four hours, the usual time consumed.
Mr.. kirkwood opened in a speech Of half
an hour, in which he reviewed the policy of
our Government from its organization down
in relation to slavery in the Territories, con-
tending that Congress had the power, and
should exercise it, to prohibit slavery in the
Territories. His remarks were clear, candid
and convincing, and were listened to with
attention by the audience from the commence
ment to the close.
Gen. Dodge occupied an hour in reply. We
were much disappointed in him. We had
supposed that a man who had been all his life
in public office, and had been for twelve years
a member of the Senate of the United States,
would be capable of making q statesmanlike
speech. But no such speech fell from the lips
of Gen. Dodge. A more incoherent mass Of
nonsense we never heard from any man who
pretended to be public speaker. There are
fifty men in this county who could make
better speech. There was neither argument
nor point to it. He spoke in a pompous,
clustering manner, and, when he sat down,
there was not man who could repeat
sentence of his speech.
Mr.. kirkwood used half an hour in closing,
which he devoted mainly to State affairs, and
showed by facts and figures how groundless
was the Generals charge Of Republican
extravaganza. We shall have more to say
upon this subject next week, and will then
give some of the facts presented by Mr. K
Judging from their conversation, the Dem
ocracy were chagrined at the result Of the
discussion, while the Republicans were we'll
pleased Observation-Disclosures, 18th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23
From the COUNCIL BIuHS NOnpdrleI.
GDO1ge,S Side ShOW.o

The Winterset Madisonian says that
after the discussion between Kirkwood and
Dodge in this city, it was found necessary
by the Democracy to fit out ssside show''
to travel with Mr.. Dodge, and give exhibit
tions in the evening, at the various places
at which tho candidate for Governor should
speak. L. w. Babbitt was selected as per-
former for this "side show If the pro-
gramlne of this "side show" were made out
and printed, it would read something like
this:
l. GRAND OVERTURE Onslaught on the
Lunatic Asylum-by an cable nan.'
cable Man." Mr.. Babbitt
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

s~ Dodge, who received $4,000 for
four years. services from the Government,
and Babbitt, who held on to ten thousand
dollars of Government money, in addition
to three thousand dollars salary, are travel
ing over the State and fercely denouncing
the extravaganza and high salaries of the
State officers. And Eads, who robbed the
School Fund of seventy thousand dollars,
and Tomlinson, with whom he shared the
proceeds, fill their filthy sheets with virtuous
denuncistions of the corruption of the pres.
ent State Administration.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

SEVERAL PRISONS "FELT HURT" - Mr..
Orsamus Hurt, of Ridge Prairie, Saline
county, No., advertises in the Kansas City
Journal that five of his human chattles,
named Caesar, John, Dan, Charles and Ann,
worth, we suppose, some $4,000, took to
themselves legs and ran away, in July last
Hurt feels hurt about it, and offers $500 to
the man who will catch them. Probably,
Caesar & Co. felt hurt that he didn't pay them
their wages. Several of them are described
by scars they bear; perhaps they felt hart
about that. Cesar calls himself Caesar Logan.
Hurt says che is black in color, aged about
thirty-four years, can read and write, is a
blacksmith and preacher, rather quick spoken
and sprightly in conversation. = Emporia
(Kansas) Nesos.
Where is our Caesar? Here is q chance for
him to vindicate the nationality" of the SEN
timent expressed by him at Oskaloosa, and at
the same time earn $500, which can be applied
towards 'strengtheningthe outposts." Clear
the track for the Cesars!
"ABoL1T1oN" DEMocRAcY.-For five sue
cessive years, ending in 1853, the Ohio Dem
ocracy, who now endorse Buchanan and the
bred Scott decision, passed the following
Abolition resolution:
"Resolued, That the people of Ohio now, as
they ever have done, look upon slavery as an
evil, and unfavorable to the full development
of the spirit and practical benefits Of free
and that they will, at all times,
feel it to be their duty to use all power clearly
given by the terms of the national compact,
to preuent its inerease, to mitigate and finally
eradicate the euil." ~ ~.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

FAwKEs' STEAM PLow TRluMPmANT.-The
committee appointed by the United States
Agricultural Society on the award offered
for steam pillow, have presented an elabo-
rate report in which they award the Grand
Gold Medal to the Lancaster" the inven-
ton Of j. W. Fawkes. The report sets forth
at some length the superiority of this pillow
over its competitor, the Waters patent. The
ssLancaster" also took the prize of $4,000
offered by the Illinois State Agricultural
Society for the best invention Of this kind.
The awards in both cases were made by the
unanimous voice of the Committees.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23
An ELEGANT Extract"

"The communicating! ABoNINABLE!! DAM
NABLE!!! heresies of the Republican party
of Iowa. speech of G. c. Cole, Democratic
Candidate for Judge Of the Supreme court.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

of articles which.came under our observation,
ysstsrd lsaying fos our next issue further
notice IT, Fair, n which we will speak
more p fcd Fly ofAe sock on exhibition,
which psu.l1 gel. The Fair has
already ovd q saa sssb yoa1our expect
atoms. Daily, 22d
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

2. mutations AND VAR1AT1oNs.-Defenc of
the Democratic candidate for Lieut.. Gov
ernor, against the charge of being Gov
eminent defaulter-by "a man OF much
real worth of character"
"Man; of much real Mr. Rabbit.
worth of character
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

3. Como MEDLEY--Ringing of the changes
on Republican Extravaganza --consist-
ing of reading long extracts from Demo.
cratic papers-intetspersed with classical
comments on Gel tain neat combinations Of
figures by "a reliable Democrat and
popular favorite."
heiia1le democrat una Mr.. Babbitt
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

The LoCoFoCo CANDIDATES CENsURED.-
The Democratic majority Of the Committee on
Elections in Congress, in the poll book case,
said in their report:
YoUR COMMITTEE WOULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD
AS JUsTIrYING TIE CONDUCT OF THE CLERK OF
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, OR OF THOSE WHO ABsTRACTED TIE
Poll Book AND SUBSEQUENTLY DETAINED IT;
ON THE CONTRARY, WE THINK THAT
IT MERITS THE SEVEREST CENSURE.
Hall carried off the poll book; Thompson
and Mason detained it; Dodge approved it,
and called for three cheers, at the Eddyville
Barbecue in honor of the guilty clerk.
Dodge, Mason and Hall are now candidates
before the people, and ask them to honor the
poll book robbers whom their own friends in
Congress regarded as meriting the severest
censure.--Gate City.
A SAMPLE or DEMOCRATIC EcoNoMY-The
Democracy make terrible fuss about the cost
of the new Insane Asylum, and contend that
a smaller and less expensive building would
answer the purpose now, and that, when
necessity required it, additions could be made
to it. The Pcnitcntiary at Fort Madison has
been constructed according to this plan of
Democratic economy, and has already cost the
State over $500, 900, and will require 5000, 900
to finish it, and, when completed, will not be
half the size of the Insane Asylum, and unfit
for the purposes of Penitentiary. Before it
is completed, it will be found necessary to
erect new building. On the other hand, the
Insane Asylum, when completed, will be
and the people will not be taxed
every year to build additions to it. Columbus
Citq Enterprise.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

As our readers would doubtless be pleased
to know in what estimation this s'side-show"
is held by the people residing on the Char.
rem and sterile hills of the prairie" we will
give from time to time, as we have often
done before, for stroliing performers, the
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
At present we have but one notice of this
ssside-show." but Others will follow in due
time. From the Winterset Madisonian we
clip the following:
ssWe have never before listened to so dull
and undressing speech, and one contain
ing so many untrue assertions, as this speech
of Babbitt and we have heard several
Democratic speeches too. The grammatical
errors, of which it is full, showed him to be
far from fit to occupy the position Of presid-
ing officer of the Senate and Of the Board of
Education of our State"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-23

Anere u no queStlon tnat the common variety
of potatoes is running out" in this country.
We observed stalk of corn, upon which had
grown ten well developed ears, but did not
learn by whom it was exhibited. In the
vegetable department, there were o. entries.
The number of articles on exhibition was too
great for particular mention. .".',. -.
Jonathan .Ady exhibited specimen of
manufactured honey, which is difficult to
distinguish in taste or appearance from the
genuine article. If he should turn his atten-
ton wholly to this business, 1.-THE little busy
bee," which improves each shining hour"
may well exclaim with Othello that his
occupations goner'
VIM. A. Brownell had on the ground ten
varieties of stoves, he being the only exhibitor
in this branch of manufactures. 80
Specimens of -four and meal were exhibited
by A. Ogilvie, j. Bennett and F. M. Cummins.
Abrillisnt display of flowers and evergreens
was made by Foster & Morris, and of flowers
and greenhouse plants by DR.. James Weed
Specimens of toilet soap, equal to the best
foreign manufacture, were exhibited by 8. p
Hopson; also, . choice article of SORGHUM
molasses, by ]. P. Hitchcock.
Conspicuous in the show Of poultry, which.
was quite fair, Was . three-legged rooster
exhibited by Thos. Aorford. Old Chanticleer
seemed to carEy his extra " drum-stick
around more for ornament than use and we
learn that he sometimes finds it quite incon-
venient, IS it catches on fences, and leaves
him suspended when he attempts to migrate.
Among other curiosities on the ground, one
worthy Of especial notice was genuine fix
tree, exhibited by A. Cone.
We have thus hastily sketched number
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-11-30
John Brown to be Hung.

Friday next, the 2Rd Of December, is thu
day Fixed for the execution of Capt. JohI
Brown. That he will be executed on thai
day there is little reason TO doubt o.
~magnanimity the Virginia Authorities have
none, and the plea of insanity, however well
established, would avail nothing against
the frightened, frantic masses who thirst fOr
his blood. That Brown has violated the
laws of the State of Virginia, and, Of heis
in all respects, a sane man, should suffer
the penalty, no one doubts. But it seems
to us that when the fact that insanity is
hereditary in his family, is SO well estab-
lished, when he has given so many eviden-
ccs in has own past life, that he has been
a monomaniac; when the very act for which
he is to suffer was one which no one but a
mailman could commit, that a decent res
pet for its own reputation would cause the
authorities of a great State, (and that state
the one which more than any other is proud
of its fame to pause before it placed upon
its record so foul a blot, as will be the
hanging of 0SsoWatomie Brown.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-11-30
Deatbs.

At Monmouth, ILL.,, on the 5th of November,
Mr.. ALVIN H. REED, son of Garry C. Reed,
Esq, of this county, in the Both year of his
age.
October Both, 1859, in Bazetta, Trumbull
County Ohio, ELISHA G. TEW, formerly of the
firm Of Baldwin & Tew, of Fowler, Son of Nr.
Henry Tew Of Fowler, in the Both year of his
age.
He was n young man much esteemed by all
who knew him, energetic and honest in bust
ness, affrctionate and attentive as n husband
and father, his loss to his family is irreparable.
But disease had marked him for its victim,
and for more than n year preyed upon his man
ly frame, until it finally triumphed, and he
sank in death.
The writer of this brief notice visited him
during the last weeks of his life, and found
him expecting his change, and although he,
like too many others. failed to avail himself of
the comforts of religion and the advantages Of
II membership in the Church of God, he did not
die without thinking seriously upon the sub
ject of death, remarking at one time, with calm
and confident expression, 81 am willing to die,
l think | am prepared" At a later period he
remarked with the same marked composure, Il
look upon my case rs very critical, and very
doubtful as to my recovery" and so it proved
to be. He has gone in the prime of life, full of
earthly hope. his early death is an admonition
to all his friends. Be ye also ready.
Fowler, Nov. Is, 1889. G. II. BROWN.