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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

The FAM Us Ice. Boat The ics-boat is
completed, and is now on the railroad tr ack
at Prairie du Chen, near the Company's
machine shop. tits a funny looking structure,
says the Leader, something of cross be-
tween Wabash River stern-wheel boat,
and an itinerant daguerrean car. Everybody
regrets that its ingenious inventor, Mr.. Wi
ard, has been unable to test it by practca
slide on the ice. 1t is his intention to have
it lowed up to Lake Pepin by the first boat,
whether there should be any ice on the lake
or not. 1t is SO constructed that it will
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

AMATEUR KILLING. On the 18th instant.
stranger named Joseph X. Butts, while
riding through the streets of Natchez, accos-
ted an acquaintance, Alexander Balm, on the
street, with ''Hallo, Aleck, how are YOU"
To this inoffensive salutation, Aleck res
ponded by firing three shots at Butts, all Of
which took effect, one in the right breast,
enc in the hand and one in the groin. The
wounded man died the same evening. 1t
would seem that it is as much as mans
life is worth to speak to an acquaintance in
the city of Natchez
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

Washington letter-writers say that the
President considers the question Of an extra
session to be postponed not decided and his
future action will be determined by the result
Of this experiment. The present probability
is that Congress will be called in November,
according to the policy which Stephens, Of
Georgia, suggested before his departure.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

- The Chicago Democrat strongly urges
the nomination of Abe Lincoln for the Vice
Presidency by the Republican party, and
thinks the ticket had better be headed by
some Southern man. 1t says: "We think it
would aid us materially in establishing a
national position, if we could run some
Southern man for President with Mr.. Lincoln
for Vice President" The Rockford Repu6-
lican takes the same ground.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

TIE SLAYER WANDEREK--Iti is now ascer-
tanned that Mr.. Lamar, who bid off the slave
ship Wanderer for the sum of 81 900, at the
Marshars sale, in Savannah, a few days ago,
was the owner of the vessel a. the time of the
capture! He is merchant of Savannah, and
so effectually was the slave-holding interest
organized in his favor that only one man
dared to bid against him, and he was assaulted
by Lamar! 1t is in this manner that the
laws declaring slave-trading to be piracy are
enforced by the present Federal Administra-
non
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

A Day OF HUMILIATION AND PRAYER
Gov. Lowe, as will be seen by his proclama
ton at the head of our columns, has set apart
the 22d Of April as day to be observed by
the people Of Iowa with fasting, humiliation
and prayer. The Gate City says he has done
this at the suggestion Of members of various
Christian denominations in different parts of
the State
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

TENNEsssE.-Isham G.. Harris has been
nominated for reelection by the Democrats to
the office of Governor of Tennessee. 1t is
also stated that Hon. Joshua F. Bell, late U.
S. Senator, has consented to accept the nomi-
nation as the Opposition candidate.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

CHEAP PosTAGE.-The cheap postage sys-
tenn is in its seventh year. 1t has accom-
plished all that it's most ardent friends antic-
ipated from it. 1t produced, during the year
1S57-'5s, the sum of $8,O5s,952 This is
more, by million and quarter of dollars,
than the Immediately preceding system pro-
duced during the last year Of its operation
In the face Of these facts, it seems strange
that any one should favor return to the old
system. Let the franking privilege be
abridged-let the mails be transported at the
cheapest retes over wagon-roads without
regard to the mode of conveyance-let the
service be reduced upon extensive routes
which have been recently established west of
the Mississippi--and we are confden. that
within a little while, the present cheap postage
system will pay. At any rate, the masses of
the people will not consent to the abolition of
This system until, by the reform of the frank
ing privilege and other abuses, the cost of
mail transportation has been brought down to
the lowest possible point Then, if cheap
postage will not pay, it will be time for Con.
gress to consider the question of increasing
the rates, and not till then.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

MoRMoNs.--The Utah correspondent OF
the Chicago Press & Tribune has taken
notes of the social status of that Territory.
The result foots up as follows: 3S7 men
with seven or eight wives (of these Is have
more than nineteen wiyes); 73) men with
five wives; 100 with four, and 400 with
more than one wife.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

WISCONSIN,. - The Opposition are now
united on Judge Paine as candidate for
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
Judge A. D. Smith, the present incumbent,
(who was announced as candidate, having
withdrawn.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

.wAt the late State Convention of the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, an Anti
Lecompton delegate, after the passage of the
resolution of confidence in Buchanan's
Administration, proposed resolution to the
effect that it was the sense of the Convention
that the Republican candidates would be
elected by $4,000 majority.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

OLD BUCK FOR 1S6O-The Washington
letterwriters tell us that, since the unexpected
endorsement of Mr.. Buchanan's policy by the
late Democratic State Convention Of Penn
sylvania, "Old Buck" has resolved to be a
candidate for reelection. He declares that he
is the strongest man in the party, the only
man that can carry the North without losing
the South, and that the party will have to
take him or be defeated.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

sWWe understand from Banker of this
city that strenuous efforts are being made to
revive the circulation of the defunct Florence
(Nebraska) Bank bills. The breath of life
has been sufficiently kicked out of that insti-
tuition in these parts, and any and all efforts
at resuscitation will prove abortive.- Chicago
Herald.
We hope So We aided in killing the
"varmint' in these parts, some time since,
and are quite willing to see inscribed on its
resting place-Requie- scat % in pace.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

@The man who is to poor too take his
own county newspaper, has bought slab
sided dog, an old shot gun and twenty
shilling gold watch. He educates his chill
dren in the streets, and boards his chickens
at his neighbors.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

ILLUSTRATIONS Run MAD.-The last number
Of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper con-
tains cut of ''The Opera Glass thrown by
Key at Sickles, after receiving the first shot"
This is the refinement of humbug!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

A SINGULAR FAor.-We observe that
there is not a town upon the Missouri,
iron Sioux City to Kansas City, but that is
the best QUILTING point to Pixies Peak, and is
on the most direct and excellent route.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

The STATE OF KANsAs.-An election took
place in Kansas, on Monday last, to vote for
or against Constitutional Convention and
State Government. 1t is presumed that the
vote was largely in the affirmative.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE. Our German
friends will be interested in learning that the
single rate of letter postage between the
United States and Nuremberg ola Bremen
and Hamburg Null has been reduced from
twen,y-t wo to fifteen cents. This reduction
results from the act of the Kingdom of Wur-
temberg in joining the German-Austrian
Postal Inion
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
RicsaHr,s C0ssss2ss.

Richard Golden, the eminent British states
man, who paid our city visit last week, is q
self-madc man. Without hereditary honors,
by sheer application and commanding talents
he became q distinguished merchant Of Man.
chester, Lancashire, many years ago. He
became the great expounder of the niquties
of the Corn Laws, maintaining his opposition
to them until they were repealed. In 1916,
the late Sir Robert Peel stated that it was "to
the unadorned eloquence and perseverance
alone of Richard Golden that the Corn Laws
were repealed" The country, after this great
triumph, presented Mr.. c. with purse OF
five hundred thousand dollars, the greater
part of which he has invested in Illinois. He
lost his seat in Parliament, two years ago, by
his vote on the Chinese question, which vote,
our readers will recollect, overthrow Lord
Palmerston. Alr. Golden is in favor of the
extension of the British suffrage, and is foe
to human oppression. In this country, he
would be known as Republican.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

c. The Norfolk (Va.) Argus puts in
mourning part of its sheet containing an
extract from the Herald, of the same city, in
which it is asserted that "Nrginia aoiU one
day be a free State-ond the sooner tho
betfer0
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

CO The Oskaloosa papers are doing good
service in behalf of the Railroad interests of
Mahaska county, concerning which an election
is to be held next Saturday, on the proposition
to rescind the loans heretofore voted to the
NJ. & NJ. r. r. The Herald Of the 18th is
filled with articles discussing the question, in
which all the arguments for rescission are
fairly considered and conclusively refuted
We are happy to learn from the Herald that
the Executive Committee of the Railroad
Company has ratified the agreement made
between President Dix and the County Judge
to complete the road to Oskaloosa by Septem-
Der, 1860. The prospect is that the PROPOSE
ton to rescind will be voted down by large
majority. If 50; our Mahaska county friends
may rely upon being in railroad communica-
ton with Muscatine within the time stipulated.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

20 W III d. TIUy u, OF VITgInIa
:, Navy-Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut
:, of the INTERIOR. Thompson, of Miss.
Postmaster General Joseph Holt of Kentucky.
Attorney General. S. Black, Of Pennsylvania.
The Slave States continue to have tn e
preponderenoe in the Cabinet, besides hav.
ing the Vice President, and, for that matter
the President, too; for, though born and
raised in Pennsylvania, he long since re-
nounced his allegiance and joined the South,
the peculiar Institutions of which are most
in harmony with his feelings.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

LOTTERIES ABOLISHED IN MARYLAND.-After
period of forty years license, the Maryland
Lotteries are to cease on the 31st of the
present month.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

sY-Col. Forney is of opinion that "the
territorial question must necessarily enter
into all the presidential elections that will
take place for fifty years to come"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

REPUBLICAN PARTY IN KANsAs-A conven.
ton has been called to meet at Ossawatomie
in May next for the purpose of organizing a
Republican party in the Territory.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

az The railroad bridge between Rock
Island and Davenport has lately been made a
free highway to foot-travel, the system of
passes having been abolished by the bridge
companv
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

90 The recent Convention of Federal
Office holders of Pennsylvania, held at Har-
risburgh, passed the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Democracy of Pennsyl-
venia have unabated and full coniidence IN
the patriotism, intcgrity and capacity OF James
Buchanan, the President of the United States,
and desire to sustain his Administration,
from conviction Of the intimate connection
of its principles with the best interests of our
common country.
The answer to this, says the Cincinnati
Commercial, is the returns from the old
Democratic county Of Berks. Why did old
Berks repudiate Jchu CLANCY Jones? Simply
because he was the pet of James Buchanan,
who was found to be a faithless and wanton
trckster, incapable Of honesty.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
he apportionment as follows:

The delinquent list being unusually large,
I will make another apportionment the first
Monday of October.
EDWARD H. THAYER,
County Judge.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

n@- Our readers will remember, Mr..
BRowNELL, at the Muscatine Stove Store, is
selling stoves from three to foe dollars low
er than any hJase in the city. He warrants
his goods See advertiser ent. IL.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

~ The best and cheapest assortment
of all six,s of Carpet and Leather Sacks in tho
city, to be founl at KETcHAM's City Boot an d
Shoe Store, No. l76 Second street.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
CT Abiding to the death Of Mike Walsh
the New York Epeninq Post says:

For few years past, he has not figured
before the public, and we suppose. has yielded
almost entirely to habits of intoxication. Not
long ago, he lost daughter, and he has left
two children living. "Of all my family he
said once in our hearing, mot one has died in
his bed--all by accident or violence. and such
will be my fate" "a prophecy singularly
fulfilled
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
MARRIED..

In Muscatine, by Rev. A. B. Robbins, Tues
day. March 9Th, 1859, Mr.. JOSEPH R. NEWELL and
Miss MARTHA j. ATcHEsoN.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01
For the Journal
OFFICE OF COUNTY JUDGE

Muscatine City, March 30th, 1859.
Mr.. EDITOR Section 20 of the new School
Law provides that, "On the first Monday Of
April, annually, the County Judge of each
county shall apportion said tax, the school
tax, together with the interest of the perma-
nent school fund to which his county is enti-
tied, and all other money in the hands of the
County Treasurer belonging in common to
the schools of his county, among the several
school districts therein, in proportion to the
number of persons between five and twenty
one years Of age"
AS this apportionment is of considerable
Importance to the schools of our county, you
will doubtless confer favor upon those
interested by publishing the following state
ment:
The tax levied by the County Judge for
school purposes was one and-a- half mills on
the dollar
Making total of $s162 O6
The amt collected on this levy is 245O. 90
The amount Of interest collected
on the permanent school fund is 1O92.3O
Amount received from the State, 2121 SO
Amt reed from Delinquent list, 1O42.77
Amount received from fines, 10000
Amount received from estrays, 66.97
Total amount, 5000. 80
Whole number of scholars in the
county, 5,16S
Amount coming to each scholar, $l35
Making the apportionment as follows:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

Every man has something to do
which he neglects.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

The NATIONAL CABINET. all Of our
readers may not lave the list of the p esi-
dents Cabinet officers fresh in their memo
ries, We publish it complete in its present
shape:
Secretary of State-Lewis Cass, of Michigan
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

- Mrs. Darlington, after listening to the
reading of an advertisement for young
ladies' ,arding school, said: For my part,
| can't deceive what on airth eddication is
coming to. When was young, if girl
only understood rules of distraction, provi
sion, multiplying, replenishing and common
doniator, and knew al about the rivers and
their obituaries, the covenants and domito-
ries, the provldences and ump.res, they had
eddc alion enough. But now they have to
study bolt my, algibbery, and have to re-
monstrate suppostions about sycophants Of
circusses, tande,ns and diagnosis Of paral-
elgramy, to say nothing about the exiles,
corostics, and abstruse ,riangles - Thus
saying, the old lady leaned back in her
chair, her knitting fell on her lap, and for
some minutes she seemed in deep meditation.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

~ By reference to our advertising col
umns it will be seen that Rev. Mr. Skemp
Sunday School Missionary for the LIST District
of Iowa, has been succeeded by Rev. H. B.
Swift, formerly Of Philadelphia. This is Rev.
Mr.. Swift's first visit to the West, and he
expresses himself highly pleased with the
evidence OF thrift, prosperity and future sue
cess which this section Of the Union every
where exhibits. As he exhibits no small
degree of cordially in his notions of the West,
we have no doubt but that the West Will
reciprocate the opinion, and extend liberal aid
and sympathy to the object of his worthy
Observation-Disclosures Express and Herald.
The change is one which the interests of
the Sabbath School Union urgently demanded.
The Rev. Mr. Skemp showed his unftness for
the important post by libeling the condition
of the West, in an article published in the
Sunday School Banner, for the purpose of
exciting the sympathies of the people in the
East in behalf of the benighted and half
starving heather of this State, as his letter
would lead the uninformed to suppose. The
people of Iowa can well afford to spare the
services Of such man.
- The Charleston Mercury, in publishing
extracts from Senator Browns late Cuba
speech at Tammany Hall, accompanied by the
comments of the New York Journal of Com
msrce and the Washington Union, states it's
chief reason-lke Mr.. Brown's-for desiring
the acquisition of the island to be the
Strengthening of the institution of slavery
The Mercury adds:
Both the Journal and the Union advocate
Cuba as damaging to slavery. This is the
Northern or National Democracy interpreta-
ton of the proposition. Black Republicanism
opposes the acquisition because it may
strengthen slavery, however desirable in other
respects. If persuaded that the position of
the Northern Democracy in this respect is
correct, and that it would tend directly to
injure the institution, they would probably
support any rational project for obtaining
Cuba. Let the people of the South under
stand their position.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

An HONEST THEFr.--Fred. Douglass, the
darkey orator, tells the following: When
he was slave in Mary land, that an cd me-
gro, named Sandy, had the appearance OF
beng always well-fed, and looked very fat.
He asked Sandy if he would explain how it
happened SO. "Wali, "said Sandy, III steals
it," Douglass demonstrating on this point,
Sandy replied, pointing at pig that chanc-
ed by: 'sD'ye see dat ar animal dar, eh %
"Yes." "Wall, dat 'ar am massa's property,
and l is massa's property; darfore, put
dat FAR property into dis property, an its
all right; yah, yah, yah"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-01

FoREIGN.-The mail steamships Kangaroo
and Persia, with Liverpool news to the 10Th
Of March, arrived at New York on the 3Oth.
Continental advces had been very warlike,
and military preparations continued undated
An outbreak in Central Italy is almost daily
expected. Breadstufs firm and quiet in the
Liverpool market.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-08-04
From The sigourney Offering,
"MY MOTHER


As, with saddoning gaze, we strive to
penetrate the glittoring dome in the ST.
lent watches Of The night, is there not a
bright star, Of the FIRST magnitude,
which seems to say "Come hither," and,
with steady cleaning, warns the child.
ish soul with q certain affection and
conidonce2 All, what anguish burns
on the altar Of the heart in this quiet
hourl
my MotberI She is gone, gone,
away from this bitter world, my beauti-
ful, my young, my gentle mother Be
| fore her child had learned to compre-
hend the depths Of her great love, she
passed away, as a flower too frail for
earth There was weeping and wailiug,
| but save sobs and means all was STILL
The ticking Of the clock on the mantel
only served to disturb the death-like
horror that reigned over the chamber
of the dead, nor did L know what it all
meant. They arrayed her in a beaut-r
ful robe, for Death had made her his
bride, and placed her in the coffin
How wild the shrieks, how subdued
the means, when, with last and ling
ering glance they were severed from
her they loved, Cushioned so slenderlv.
young and so fair" The lid was
screwed down tightly over the form of
tiny Mother" The hearse came, and
they placed "my Mother" within. The
horses waved their black plumes to and
fro, as in a funeral pace they bore her
to the tomb. They placed her-I do
| not know where-somewhere beneath
the sod, but the earth ratified on the
coffin, reminding the bereayed that "mv
Mother" r" had departed forever But she
lives. She lives in the heart of her
child. The tie cannot be broken even
! by Deaths rude grasp. How often
have | imagined her loving arms en-
twined about me, while I toss to and
fro in the sleepless vigils Of midnight.
l look about in the dark blackness to
see her, but -vacancv--noth-
ing--for she is in Heaven. How often
have l filed my apron with pretty
flowers, and in my childish fancy
thought "my Mother" touched them,
and thought surely she would speak to
me aud kiss me when I plucked these
flowers for her. but she never came to
me- But then God sent me another
"Mother' and l loved her so much
l thought she was as dear to me as nv
first, my beautiful, my gentle mother.
META.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-08-04
poctrp
THE SUMMER SHOWER.

my ALBERT LMGHroN.
a white haze glmmered ON the hills,
The vales we're parched aud dry,
And glaringly the beaming sun
Coursod In the summer sky,
The cattle in the distant wood
Sought shelter from its beams
Or, motionless and patient, stood
Kneo.deop amid the streams.
The house-dog lay, with painting breath,
Close whore the elm-tree grows
The blue-bird and the orlole
To shady coverts flew.
Day after day the thirsty earth
Looked up TO heaven FOR rain;
The gardens held their aower-cups,
The fields their lips Of grain.
with doub ting hearts men murmurlng ssid-
"Our tolls have been I'm vain,
We sowed I'm spring, but shall not reap
When autumn comes again."
But while they spoke, within the West.
AT sunsets glowing hour,
God'svolce proclaimed, in thunder tones,
The coming Of the shower.
This deepening shadows slowly crept
Der mountain and DER plain,
Until in cool and copious floods
Came down the blessed rain.
All nature smiled and when al last
The cloudy wings were furled,
The evening star shone regally
Above a thankful world,
o love Of heaven! o fear Of mani
o faith so cold and dim!
When shall we own the ways of God,
And learn to trust i'm Him1