Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-11
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LOCAL DEPARTING EMF.
GYA gentleman just from Davenport
informs us that pixies Peak is all the talk in that
place. 1t is thought that two thousand persons
will leave Davenport, Rock Island and Moline for
the gold regions.
MUsoATINE ACADEMIA communication
in days paper from one of our most prominent
citizens concerning this institution is worthy the
earnest attention of all interested in the educational
interests of our city. We hope that some effort
will be made as suggested to give Prof Stone such
encouragement as will induce him to remain with
us.
SCHOOL ELEoTIoN.-The election of officers
in this Muscatino city, district, will take place ne xt
Monday, in accordance with law The polls will
be opened in the Court House at 10 o'clock. 1t is
hoped there will be general turn out. Last year
only about forty votes were cast at this election
The meager interest taken in these matters is
shameful
Cry SExroN's REPoRr.-Mr. Seller, City
Sexton submitted his report to the City Council at
the last meeting, from which it appears that the
total number Of intermcnts in the City Cemetery
from Feb. l6, 1858, to Feb Is, 1859, was fty-eight
Ofthese IS children and the remainder adults.
There are two other burying grounds adjoining the
city, in both of which there were probably about
the same number of interments during the year.
Ho, PIKE's PEAKERs!-It may not be as
generally known as it ought to be that the route
from w Washington, the terminus of the Muscatine
Branch of the NJ. 4 NJ. r. r. is preferable for per-
sons bound to Pixies Peak to the route from Iowa
City. The road is better and more direct. Indeed,
we are told that many persons going from the East
by railroad to Iowa City, supposing it to be the
best starting point for them with their own convey
ances go from there to Washington to take that
route. If they had been posted they could have
saved that much travel over bad roads. This fact
is worthy of the attention of all who are going to
Pixies Peak from points east of us.
The FAUST PRINTING OFFIcE AND Book
BNDERY.-By an advertisement elsewhere it will
be seen that Mr.. Orr has bought MIR. Fosters inter
est in this establishment The Faust has deservedly
the reputation of getting the best job work Of
any other office in the State, and doubt not its
reputation will be maintained in the future. In
addition to its former facilities the proprietors
have procured book binding apparatus and material,
with the design Of carrying that branch of bust
ness also in connection with printing. The part
ners in the concern all practical printers, and
will take pride in doing their work well.
For PIXIES PEAK ON Foor !-On Monday
last two enterprising young left this city for
the Platte river gold mines on foot. They Shout
dered their knapsacks with several days provis-
ions, and set out upon their journey with deter
mination which must succeed, if there is any sue
cess in such an expedition One of them was Rich
ard Bilsborough, who has been for some time IN
the employ of Dunsmore & Chambers, and the
other was Mr.. Spegler, recently from Philadel-
phia. The former had determined to start on the
expedition penniless, but his comrades in this city
generously made up purse of s25 and presented
it to him before he started. Who knows but that
this young man may return in few years with a
fortune?
Our LITERARY INsrIrUTE.-We copy below
a brief extract of remarks made ON Monday evening
by ]. S. Richman, Esq, previous to his lecture rel
alive to the Literary Institute of which he is Pres
ident:
The society has given seventeen lectures, fifteen
of which were delivered by our own citizeus. The
subject of each lecture has been left to the free
choice of the lecturer, he being at perfect
liberty to give his best thoughts any subject
that suited him. And this is as it should have
been. The success which has attended these efforts
speaks WELL not only for the subject matter of the
lectures delivered but for the discrimination of our
citizens in recognizing and encouraging home tai
ent. Lecturers might have been procured from
abroad. This would have incurred an expense
which we were not well able to bear; and think
am justified in saying that no sixteen lectures
which we could have obtained for pay, would, taken
as whole, have exceeded in interest ability
those to which we have listened this winter.
The lecture-room has become an Institution-a
necessity-whch the tendencies of the age imperi-
ously demand. 4 lecturer should be in some sense
Representatives man, He should embody living
ideas, and express them fearlessly. He should be
a progressive man; and if he has great thought
upon any subject he should not suppress it because
it may not coincide with what has been thought OF
said in the past, or with what may be said Or
thought in the future. The true man says what he
thinks and feels toay-and if he afterwards should
change his views, he is not afraid to say SO. Your
consistent man, who never changes his views on
any subject, and who boasts that in early life he
formed opinions which he has never had occasion
to change modify-simply acknowledges that he
has lived many years without learning anything.
Such men tiue and mooe, but they never think i: or,
if they do, their thought resembles the labor of a
horse tread-wheel, which goes all the time but
never advances any.
But what intended to say is this: A lecturer is
a teacher. He is expected to say things which will
furnish food for th0ught-and not merely to give
utterance to the preconcelved thoughts of his aud
itOrs-nor to pander to their opinions and preju-
dices But he is expected to be true to himself and
his race-and it is only when he Is thus true that
his lecture will be beneficial to himself to those
who hear him.
Notice was given by Hugh J. Campbell, ESQ.,, in
behalf of the Institute of benefit contemplated to
be given Unger's Brass Band, which has contrib
uted so much to the entertainment on lecture eve
nings. Particulars will be given through the press
as soon as the necessary arrangements are COM
pleted.
CRY ELEorIoN.-The election yesterday
was regular SCRUB race" neither party having
made nominations though "retrenchmsnt and re-
FORM was made an issue. The candidates who
pledged themselves to the retrenchment and reform
resolutions adopted at meeting on the I'd instant
were all defeated. The successful candidates. how
ever, expressed themselves, previous to the cleo
tion in favor of the principle and though they re-
fused to pledge themselves to it, they may be ex-
pected to carry it out Early yesterday morning,
Schafer, the so-called Peoples candidate, with
drew from the track, leaving the contest for the
Msyoralty between Judge Meason and Major Hare.
The former who has served in the capacity the past
year, was reelected
The following was the vote at the different
Wards:
FIRST WARD.
For Mayor-Geo Meason 269-196 maj
Am. Hare 70
+. A. Schafer
For Treasursr-G. P. Vesy 101