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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
News Paragraphs.

Horace Greeley reached New York, ION his
return from California. in the steamer Hoses
Taylor, on Monday of last week.
During Gen. Scott's absence, Gen. Wool,
as senior officer, will be acting Commander
in Chief in the Atlantic States.
Charles P. Parsons was fined $50, short
time since, in San Francisco, for insulting
his own wife in the street.
"What is in a name?" One of the can
didates for county officers in La Sale coun-
ty, Illinois, is named Wait and another
Waitmore.
D. A. Rawlings, Marshal of St. Lou $.
and Frank Molair, his predecessor, have
been indicted by the grand jury for misap-
plication of public funds.
The people Of Ohio at The October e,et-
ton vote upon IN amendment to the consti-
tuition establishing annual instead of bien
NAL sesso ns of the legislature.
The project is seriously entertained #
uniting France and Great Britain by a
bridge across the English Channel. The
distance is about Is miles-depth 1913 feet,
estimated cost, $3.50, 700.
A Californian has preached in the Alta a
plan of thirty millions for the Pacific rail.
road, by lottery of 100000 tickets at
SIS each, the prizes from million down to
twenty five dollars to be paid in stock.
At ball held by colored people in La
fayette, Ind, recently, some white mi>creant,
who had managed to enter the hail, threw
cayenne pepper on the floor, causing a gen.
eral stampede of the dancers. "De white
buzzard' escaped.
An oyster bed, three miles long, one mile
wide and foot deep, has been discover d
in Long Island Sound. The New York
| Tribune states that one vessel landed 500
bushels of the largest bivalves ever seen in
that market, were taken from it. Over 200
vessels are engaged in raking up the oysters.
The Ohio Statesman says that u young
lady aged about sixteen, Of considerable
intelligence and preposseesing appearance,
is now residing with the sheriff OF Ottawa
county, preparatory to her removal to the
lunatic asylum, having become insane from
viewing the aurora borealis, short time
ago, which she was induced to believe be-
tokened the approaching end Of the world.
! 1t is said that the first time horse ever
trotted in public in America for stake was
in 1918, when match was made for 81 900
that no horse could be produced which ,ould
trot q mile IN three minutes. A horse nam
ed "BoSton Blue" won the stake, contrary
to general expectation, by tr9tting the mile
in few seconds less thun The prescribed
time. -.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

T The Dubuque Herald abuses the Re.
publican Party Of Wisconsin because itSdid
not nominate Carl Schurtz, II German, for
Governor; and the Republican Party of
Iowa because it did nominate N cholas j.
Rusch, a German, for Lieut. Governor. 1t
attempts, in the same issue, to stir up Ger
man prejudices in fuvor of Carl Schurtz,
and American prejudices against Rusch 1t
is thus that dishonesty defeats its own ends.
Dubuque Times.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

CALLING EACH OTHER HARD NAMEs-The
Democracy, in their evaporation and reckless
ness, occasionally though unintentonally call
each other hard names. Dodge denounced
those who procured the passage of an act
appointing a Swamp Land Agent to 60 to
Washington, without knowing that the orig
inators and supporters of the measure were
his political associates, the principal of whom
were Messrs. Altman and Patterson, of this
county. Donnellan, the officious agent of
Buchanan, charged Judge Johnston, of Lee
county, one of the most prominent Democrats
in the State, with using the Lunatic Asylum
appropriation for political purposes; but last,
though not least, Doc. Eads--the virtuous
Eads--a shining light of Democracy makes
out case of theft against the Democratic
County Judge of Muscatine! Read tie fol-
lowing from Eads' last paper, the F. Madison
Plaindealer:
What Democratic paper in Iowa has told
the people that the Republican party paid, in
1855, debt in Philadelphia of $4,000
created by the Democrats in 1854? -Mt.
Pleasant News .a
In answer to the above question of the
Neus, we will inform him and our readers that
the Black Republican party of Iowa stole from
the School Fund of the State of Iowa, in the
shape of a loan, the money to pay off the
above debt
Our readers will remember that Judge
Thayer stated, in communication in our
paper, on the 18th ult, that he ''borrowed"
money from the swamp land fund TO meet
county expenses-a case precisely similar to
that cited above, and which Eads calls stealing!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

Donnellan, the Jesuitlcal agent of Blu
chanan counts on the entire Fillmore vote in
this State for Dodge and the pro slaveryites
He figures in this manner: american vote in
1856, 9,243 Republican majority in 1856,
7,63s-but by adding American to Demo-
cratic vote, the difference shows 1905 in
favor of Democrats" Will the Americans
meet the expectations of Donnellan, or is he
reckoning without his host?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
Remember!

All the Republican Senators voted for
taking up the Homestead bill, and % of the
Democratic Senators voted againstit. Jones
lodged the vote, and Vice President Brock
enridge gave the casting vote against it. That
IS beautiful record for the Democracy of Iowa
to go before the people with, and claim that
the Democratic party is in favor of the meas
ure. They might as we'll claim that the party
is opposed to slavery, in face of the facts that
four-tifths of their members of Congress are
shareholders, and four fifths of the Democratic
States are slave States.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

VERY NEAR.-"Do you know, Harry,
that came very near marrying that girl 2"
ono, is that SO %
% Eyes, kept company with her for some
time. Folks said it was match, sure
Well, you see the way of it was this : one
night when was seein' of her home from
conference meeting, asked her if she would
accept me, and she said she had rather be
excused, and / was so excited, and such q
COMPOUNDED fool besides, that ! excused
bar - .
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

A YOUNG OPRRAToR.-The little daughter
of the proprietor of coal mine in Pennsyl-
vania, was inquisitive as to the nature OF
hell; upon which her father represented it
to be be gulf of fire of prodigious extent.
Spa said she, couldn't you get the Devil
to buy lis ccal Of you?" 1921 -sA s....-i
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
THE NEWS.

| Prof. Coe, accompanied by Mr.. Cott-
man, of Rome, N. Y, made balloon ascen'
sion from that place on the Goth. When at
the hight of two miles, the balloon burst
and turned up into the netting, forming a
parachute and landing the voyagers safely in
a swamp three miles from the starting point.
Prof. La Mountain, the missing @ronaut,
was last seen in the town of Pitcairn, St..
Lawrence county, N. Y, fifty miles due
northeast from WATERFOWL, at q supposed
altitude of five miles, going due east with
great velocity. Mr.. Morrison, of Troy, his
agent, has proposed instituting thorough
search for him.
"A despatch from Troy of the 9th says
the announcement of the safety OF La
Noun tain, the @ronaut, is erroneous, He
has not been heard from
A canal bridge at Albion, N. Y, gave
way on the 2Sth, with large crowd of
people on it, and the whole party was thrown
into the canal, and many were drowned
before assistance could be rendered. The
loss of life is estimated at eighteen, though
it is supposed that many bodies are still in
the water. A large number received severe
injuries. ''
The New York Tribune says there is
now but little doubt that La Mountain, the
aronaut, and his companion, j. A. Haddock,
editor of the Watertown IN. w Reform,
have been lost. They assembled from Water
town, on the 22d of September, since which
time they have not been heard from. They
have probably met a fearful DEATH A reward
of ST. 900 has been offered for the discovery
of the bodies alive, and $500 if dead.
The Denver City Express, with dates to
the 22d ult., arrived at Leavenworth on the
3oth, bringing $4,000 in dust. The increase
of crime in and around Denver City and
Auraria had become alarming, and demanded
prompt action for its suppression. The State
organization movement had been defeated by
5000 majority. Some fraudulent voting is
alleged. The election for Delegates to Con-
gress comes off early in October. Gen.
Laramie is prominent candidate A hunting
party had returned, reporting a contagion
among the buffalo, killing them by thousands.
Prospecting parties had penetrated to the
head waters of the Blue and a tributary of the
Colorado, where rich leads are said to have
been discovered.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
CO The attempt to galvaniz, the Americans

CO The attempt to galvaniz, the Americans
of Ohio into action for the present campaign
has proved an utter failure A call for State
Convention was responded to by only about
half dozen persons, who, in the absence of
anything else to develop their political genius,
passed resolution in favor of supporting
Judge Swan for reelection to the Supreme
Bench, in opposition to Judge Gholson, the
Republican candidate. D..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

This monster ship combines steam power
in both shapes, screw and paddle, with call
ing power. She contains ten boilers and one
hundred furnaces. Her crew will consist OF
80 able bodied seamen, 80 .eamen riggers,
200 engineers and tirelnen stewards staff
100 making with officers, about 500 s''
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

s9THere is a fact not generally
known: There are thirty two bones,
neither more nor less, in all the divi-
sions of the human body Thus, there
are thirty-two teeth, thirty-two spinal
functions, and so on.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

c. The citizens Of Christ Church parish,
near Charleston, 8. c., have voted to have q
grand slave trade barbecue at that place on
the Goth of October, at which all the promi-
nent advocates of the re-opening of the trade
in that State are invited to attend. Slave
trade barbecue at Christ Church-what a
combination of words
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

S ME- QU.:sGI ms y WY d, not the Demo-
c...lic party tell he re" pc what the Repub-
cans id with the n,.ilies levied for State
t.Xt>?
What Demo cratic nper in Iowa has told
The {, pe that the Republican party p'id,
N 1879. IL debt in P..i ae!eIphia of $57 800
created by The Dem"c,"ts in 1916?
When the Democratic party claim that
our county taxes are too high, why not
tell the people that the present county sys-
TEN is Democratic measure, originated in
1851, by ''that same" parry? and why do
they not say that the Republican party has
passed resolutions in their State Convention
against it, and in this county.
Are the Democracy in favor Of the pres
ent system OF county organization
Is the Republican party chargeab!e for
high county taxation in Desmoines a. d JET
ferson counties, where the County Judges,
who levied the taxes, were each Democrats,
especially as the system is Democratic one
What appropriation, either for salaries, or
for literary institutions, or for humane in
stitu ions, for the blind, the deaf and dumb
or the lunatic, passed the Legislature with
out Democratic votes, or which one of them
could not have been defeated by the Demo
cratic party's voting against them INT.
Pleas ant Ne,cs.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

Who WRITES OUR SoNGs.-It is a
fact but little known, that the popular
songs of America are nearly all written
by the same person, stephenAC. Eos
ter. His first attempt was the celebra-
ted "Uncle Ned," written when the au-
thor was but nineteen, soon followed by
"Susanna," "Massa's in the cold, cold
ground" sold Kentucky hone," "Oh
boys carry me long," "Nelly was la
dy," "Old folks at home," and others
nearly as popular. Mr.. Foster has
latterly abandoned the Ethiopian style,
and among his late efforts, we have
"Gentle ANNIE" "Willie, we have
missed you,'' "Maggie by my side, :"
."I see her in my dreams,'' cold Dog
Tray" &c. These songs, as we'll as
the Ethiopian melodies, are sung by
thousands of persons not only in our
own country, by the high and lowly,
but are common wherever the English
language is spoken. Long live Ste
phen G. Foster, and may his songs still
continue to cheer and enliven the world.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

$40 REWARD. Democratic stump
orators all over the State from Lee county
to Buncomb, have taken up the worn out
song of State indebtedness and Republican
extravaganza, and their singing of it surpas.
SEES all the wAang-doodles of the last twenty
years. Why don't some of their honest
ones, if there are any such left, tell the
people these heavy taxes are caused by
county, and not State taxation. Don't the
intelligent people yet know that our State
taxes have been growing less, in the aggre-
gate amount levied, and, on IA average, less
than it was under Democratic rule, by one
half mill at least, to the dollar? A safe
way to test the truth of this assertion is
this: We offer, from this time until after
the election, ten dollars in gold, as a reward
to any Democrat in this county, who will
show us his tax receipts for the years lS4l
and 1858, the first Democratic and the
latter Republican year, in which the tax
levied by the Democrats for State purposes
in 1851, are not jus, d ut e what they were
in 1888, levied by the Republicans; provi-
d,d the asse> >ment Of the property is the
same. la other word, eve Y Democrat in
the c unity paid twice as much State tax in
1851. ~ he did in 1858 o 81 900 in money
ar ! | 900 worth Of any other property land,
We will pay the $40 10 any Democrat who
vii! rove Tire contrary hy lis receipts and
t!l. records. Now e !l"pe the Democracy
Will b. stin ulnted t" prove lheir charges, or
that they will step m king lhem.-[ Mount
Peasant News.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
GFor the Journal.
THE HEARTS DISEAS e /.
By MINNIE Ax.xxx.


I have a heart-a tender heart,
By every woe DISTRESSED; a.E ..-a-
A loving heart as ever beat s-.ts =
Within maiden's breast. t-g
But yet, though gentle as child e-.
And placid Us the dove, II
Ny heart with all its tenderness Il lu-
Has never learned to love. -s3s ,e'
But, do you ask s'Why not'--why nots"'
"should such q heart as thine
Through life's long journey be condemn'd
In loneliness to pine ~ ID ,e - -,
hsi I'll answer, then, with blushing cheek
Aud timid look askance,o .ToY,otl .t
My heart has never loved because.
II neyer had a chance! -. ,.,...i,. =.
[Minnie's condition is certainly deserving of ths
sympathetic attention Of some of our good-lookinl
young bachelor friends. MT
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

SOMETHING FOR THE GERMANS OF Iowa TO
READ AND THINK ABoUT.-On the oath of
February, 1854, Hon. A. P. Butler, of South
Carolina, delivered speech in the United
States Senate, on the Kansas Nebraska Bill,
reported in the Daily Union, Of Washington
City, of the 9TH of March, 1854, in which he
used the following language:
"Why, sir, the STAKEHOLDER, with his slaves
we'll governed, forms relation that is inno-
cent enough and useful enough. Ibelieue it
Is population aohich loUa to morroas 1oald
prefer to an inundati. n Of those men coming
as emigrants from a tore,gn country, wholly
unacquainted with the institutions of this
country--and nearly all continental conner S
are of that class. The same remark cannot
be made of those who, like the Irish and
English, have lived under the administration
of the common law" .........
The record does not show that the Senators
from Iowa (Messrs. Dodge and Jones) ever
uttered word in condemnation or rebuke Of
this sentiment of Senator Butler. This same
Gen. Dodge, who silently and acquiescently
heard these sentiments uttered in the United
States Senate, and spread them broadcast over
the State in Mr.. Buffers letter to him and his
colleague, of April Oath, 1854, now asks Ger
man citizens to vote for him for Governor of
Iowa. Will they do it? ....,., .,,,s.. So
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
IOWA NEWS.

A boy named Owen Grant, eight years
old, was instantly killed in Davenport, CD
the Goth inst, by falling into q well. The
we'll was about twenty feet deep and was
dry, having had no water in it for some
time.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

j.. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VIEWS OF THE
OLD-T1ME AND THE LATrER-DAY DEMOCRATS.
- When, during the first year of the Presi-
dency of Mr. jefferson, Governor St. Clair, of
the North Western Territory, undertook to
set up the assumption of Territorial indie
pendence, Mr.. Madison, then Secretary of
State, was instructed by the President to
revoke that distinguished Governors COM
mission! That is the Jefersonian reply to
the first doctrinaire of Territorial government
@ A passport has been brought to light, given
by James Monroe, when Minister to England,
in 1906, to Essex White, slave and body
servant of John Randolph, of Roanoke, and a
negro, in which the said Essex White is called
"a citizen, Of the United States" Mr.. Monroe
must have been Black Republican himself,
or he never could have evinced such freedom
Of sentiment. ''s-S '.i~ $40
ga And yet we are told by the distinguished
Dodge and his retainers on the stump in Iowa
that Democracy has always been the same,
and that "squatter sovereignty" and the bred
Scott dogma have been approved by the long.
time policy of the nation! ."-ah 1880 ts7
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

DEATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF DAooTAH.-
The Sioux City Eagle says that Hon. Henry
Masters, Governor of Dacotah Territory.
died very suddenly on the 10th ult., on his
farm near Sioux Falls. He had been very
feeble in health for some time. ...,...--
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

Mr.. KlRKwooD.- speaks an Ohio
journal, near his former home, of Mr.. Kirk
wood, the Republican nominee for Gov
ernor:
"In 1856 he removed to Iowa, where, as
will be seen by the following extract from
letter to the Hon. VIM. Patterson, dated
Sept. II, 1885, and widely published at the
time, he maintained his position unchanged.
He says" .... all.
"'I was really glad to learn that you and
the other persons you have named have
determined to support the Republican ticket
this fall. If were in Ohio, would not
only vote for that ticket, but would stump
it wherever could find stump to stand on,
and dozen voters to listen to me.
"'In my opinion the only way to save
Kansas from the evils of slavery, and save
our country from the crime and disgrace of
converting free soil into slave soil, is for the
men of the north without distinction of party
all men who are Democrats in fact, and
not in name merely all who believe that
God holds us responsible for all the deeds
done in the body political, as well as others,
for all such men to unite and say by their
votes, this foul deed shall not be done.'"
AS then, so is Mr.. Kirkwood now, con-
sistent politician, a true Republican, and an
honest man; and the people of Iowa in
electing him for their Governor, will find him
an honor to the Office and an honor to the
State. ."H ". L-s--. zig -s.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

~ Horace Greeley, now in California,
is broken out all over with boils. We
thought it likely that what he saw at Utah
would make his blood boil.-Lou. Journal.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07
Increased TaxatiOn---WhO Is to
o''''9i '.5 ~ ~" Blame e ' -i's5aA"'"'

We have the authority Of the Enquirer 0
this city for the statement that our take.
are constantly Increasing in the following
long winded paragraph from its article re-
ferring to the speeches Of Elwood and
Finch 5aA' ''2''7o 81 D'a"'' o'' '.'-N''
''If ever the corruption and wasteful ex.
travagance of a waning administration, rot.
ting and fostering in its own putridity and
fast approaching its dissolution by the
righteous indignation Of an outraged people,
was unveiled to a community anxious to
know why taxes were constantly increasing,
and the State every day more and more bur-
dened with debt, it was done on this oc-
casion."
It is well known in this community that
every original idea (and many not, Originally
which appears in the columns Of our wake
full neighbor emanates from the Democratic
County Judges office. We hold him res
ponsble for the above. If it is true that
our taxes are constantly increasing" why
don't he tell us how they are increasing?
He is in the position to know all about this
matter, and yet he withholds the truth and
winks at (if he does not perpetrate) the
falsehood couched in the above elegant ex-
tract. Why does he not acknowledge the
fact that under Republican rule the State
taxes in this county since 1857 have. been
REDUCED OVER SEVEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS; and that the reduction through
out the State is about ONE HUNDRED
AND FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!
The tax payers of this county, who have
been for two years past enjoying the bles-
sing of Democratic rule, are invited to in
vestigate this matter. They will find from
the record that the State tax of 7Muscatine
county amounted in 1857 to $4,000, in
1858 to about $4,000 and this year to a
little over $4,000. If it is true (as we have
it from Democratic authority that our tax
es ''are constantly increasing" who is to
blame? We have shown that the State tax
has been lessened. But the county tax,
under an economical Democratic admins
tration, as near as we can ascertain, has
been INCREASED almost TEN THOUS-
AND DOLLARS since 1887! The levy
for county, railroad and school purposes this
year is over thirty flee thousand dollars,
while for State purposes it is only about eight
thousand dollars! These are the facts =
Now who is to blame for the constantly in
creasing" taxation, and which party is charge
able with ''wasteful extrasagance
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

Shell out, now, gentlemen Democrats, and
show your faith by your works! .a