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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
THE. NEWS

= The Planning Mill Of Higgisbothan
& Co., Leavenworth. X. T., was burned OF
the I'd. Loss $4,000. Insured for 81 900
"A dispatch from Independence says the
mail which left there on the 18th ult., fol
Santa Fe, was attacked by Indians beyond
Pawneo Fork, The conductor and one man
were killed. The incoming mail h I'D NOT
arrived on Tuesday and fears are entertain
ed for its safety. o. .Art toa. ~!a"T
"A dispatch frofn Buffalo, Of the 9Th,
says the prize fight that day at Point Albion,
resulted in Price whipping Kelly in twelve
rounds, occupying forty minutes Kelly was
seconded by Harry Gribben and Johnny
Morrissey, and Price by Heenan and Mac
key. AT LAO. P. M. the men shook hands
and stripped for the fight. Kelly appeared
like one bunch of muscle, and the more
powerful of the two, while Price appeared
clean limbcd, lighter and more active. Up
on time being called for the 18th round,
Kelly 5 seconds came and threw up his cap
"a signal OF his defeat. 7# .'.-''.'. 10"
FoHEiGN.-Sir John Franklin's Erpedi-
ton Discovered The steamship Canada,
with Liverpool dates to the 23d ult., arrived
at Halifax on the Sd inst. The most inter-
esting intelligence is that traces Of Sir John
Frankln's expedition have been discovered.
The screw steamship Fox, Capt. Mcintosh,
sent by Lady Franklin to the Arctic regions
in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition,
had returned to England, having been COM
pletely successful. at Fort William, on the
northeast corner of King Williams Island,
ii record was found dated April 25th, 1848,
and signed by Capts. Crosier and Fitz
James. The record says the Erebus and
Terror were abandoned three days previous
in the ice, five leagues to the north vest, and
that the survivors, in all amounting to los,
were proceeding to Great Fish river. Sir
John Franklin had died on June llth, l847.
The total number Of deaths to date had been
9 officers and Is men. Many interesting
relics Of the expedition on the western shore
of King Williams Island and others, were
obtained fr' m the Esquimaux, who stated
that, after their abandonment, one ship was
crushed in the ice aud the other forced on
shore, where it remained. The Fox was
unable to penetrate beyond Bellot Straits,
and wintered in Brentford Bay. Minute and
interesting details Of the expedition are
published. Several skeletons of Franklin's
men, large quantities Of clothing, &C., and
a duplicate record up to the abandonment
Of the ships, were found.-It is said the Zu-
rich Conference is about to result in q
treaty of peace, in which the preliminaries
at Villafranca will be maintained. England
is sending out large reinforcements against
China.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14

A COLD WINTER PREDIcTED.-About
ten days ago a tremendous drove of
grey squirrels, numbering hundreds of
thousands, suddenly made their appear
ance on the Meramac, covering the
trees and waters like pail. Thou
sands Of them we're afterwards found
dead in the river and on the ground.
They crossed the Mississippi at that
point, and worked their way down the
river, until on Wednesday they reach
ed Cape Girardeau, crossing the river
at that point in countless myriads
The citizens turned out en- naasse and
killed them by hundreds. Every tree
and bush in that vicirity swarmed with
them until night, when they all disap-
reared, and have not been heard Of
since. Their route was markell as by
devastating storm. Trees were grid
led, and fields destroyed. Old French
settlers predict very severe winter, a:
it was noticed in 1884 and '52 that
immense droves Of squirrels suddenly
made their appearance, followed by in
tensely severe weather. - st. Loul'
Express, 24th uA
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
News ParaSrIDHlS.

A miner on Lake Superior was blown six
tv feet by the premature explosion of blast
he was preparing. lie was torn into frag-
mens. -r
A Young man in Davis county, X ntucky,
insuited a lady, for which he was fined $2O;
not deeming the punishment sufficient, her
son shot the insulter dead, and then fled.
The N. Y. Herald proposes, during the
next session Of Congress, to report the pro-
ceedngs and speeshes OF the preceding day,
verb tim ct titeratip, in its daily issue Of
tn. next morning. .... ...
Bridget Erwin, of Wiiloughby, Ohio,
drank vial Of bug poison, a week or two
since, thinking it some kind If spir!uous
LIQUOR, and died after several days OF intense
suffering.
MIR. Charles Snyder, q hitherto respectable
citizen of Cincinnati, was recent y accused
cf forgery and perjury. Smartlng under the
charge, he took an overdose Of laudanum OF
which he died.
A lady in Middletown, Conn.,, has reccv.
cred by law suit $35 and costs from an
ill hammered cbup who dressed himself ur
as ghost and nearly frightened her tt
death.
s.Irrepressible Conflict" Clubs are being
formed in New York State, the members
p'edging themselves to maintain an untirine
and ceaseless vigilance in opposing the
designs of the slave power.
The expenses of running the caloric en-
CINE used in printing the Ctncinnat' Penns
JDress has been for six moths but $lo
while that Of steam, with the necessary help
for The same time, would have cost upwards
of $500. m..,..-- ....
The rope which supported Blondin, while
walking across Niagara riv n, has been cu'
up into small pieces, to be distribut among
the wonder mongers. and seem to be regard
cd with as much favor as q section OF the
1s.submerged cable.' .a.
Samuel Roberts, of Pekin, Niagara county
NY, has four daughters, who, with him
self, do all the farm work OF lou acres G
land. The eldest daughter, who is onl
eighteen, plowed 20 acres, and one OF tLt
Younger sist, rs dragged in the grain.
An ingenious Scotchman has trained
couple of mice to turn reel for tWlst'n nj
twine. The laborers run about ten miles
dav and reel from 100 to l20 threads. Z
half penny's worth Of oatmeal lasts nous
I've weeks; and the clear annual profit Of
each animal per year is computed at 81:
} shillings. T.. 20. -,.- q.
Mr.. John Minnon, Of York Pa, recentl
astonished large crowd Of spectators by
number of antics performed on top OF
church spire, on Sou,h George street. =
stood upon an arrow near the top OF IN
vane, lay at full length upon it, and a.
sumed other positions too frightful to loo
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14

OLIVER SMITHS WILL.-Many years
ago Oliver Smith, an old bachelor who
resided in one of the towns of Hamp-
shire county, Mass, left the bulk of
his property to be managed by trustees,
until it should amount to $4OO, 900,
when one half the income was to be
given to twenty one boys who should
faithfully perform certain conditions OF
the will ; one-fourth to ei shteen girls !;
one eighth to ffty-four young women
for marriage portions, and the remain
ing eighth to the same number of indi-
gent and deserving widows. The requir-
ed sum will be reached in October next,
and accordingly, about $1o,8O0 will
hereafter annually be distributed among
the boys-about S515 apiece, naking
quite a prize for these who are lucky
enough to secure it; and an army of
bows will in time be furnished with q
handsome sum to start life with. The
sum of S., 400 will be distributed among
the giris-$3OO apiece; $2,70O for
marriage portions, making $50 apiece,
which will pay for many Of the neces-
sary 'fxings," and the same sum (S5O
apiece) to the widows. The trustees
Of the fund are annually elected, like
all other town officers, and the princi-
pal of the fund is mainly loaned upon
real estate in the various towns OF the
county. We are unacquaintid with the
prescribed requirements for obtaining
one of the prizes
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
The Wholesale Trade Of Musca-
tine.

Muscatine, at the present time, is offering
great inducements 10 merchants and other:
for the purchase Of goods, at wholesale
The jobbing houses are receiving extensive
stocks of goods for the fall trade, in the vari-
Gus departments of merchandise Their
facilities for receiving md sending out
goods to all the various towns in the region
of conntry surrounding them in Iowa and
Illinois enables them to compete success
fully with any cities or the Mississippi river,
or with Chicago, for the jobbing business,
Among the prominent business houses
which are doing an extensive c jobbing trade,
in the various departments, we would call
attention to the well known wholesale
Hardware, Farming Tool and Seed estab'
Iishment of CmAs. Il WM. r. SToNE-the
ong-cstablished and very extensive Boot
and Shoe house of Messrs JOHNSON & EVANS
- the large and wel-fsled Crockery and
Glass -acare house of GEo. W. DiLLAwAY-
he extensive wholesale Grocery house of
CnAs. Evans the wholesale Saddlery- Hard
aoare, Leather and Shoe. Finding establish
ment of II. S. CoMProN-the very large
wholesale Lumber, Furniture, Dry Goods
and Grocery establishment OF DUNsMoRE &
CuAMBERs-the old. established wholesale
Iron and Siore store of II. W. MooRE-the
very large wholesale Dry Goods house OF
LEMp Il >ELLs = the long-known wholesale
Grocery house of HATCH Il HUMPHREYS
and the wholesale Drug Store OF f. II.
STONE.
These houses have all been established
or considerable length of time. They i'm
port and procure most of their stocks from
first hands They are already enjoying an
extensive Wholesale trade, but with the
stocks they have on hand and arriving, they
are enabled to accommodate still more
extensive trade. We would, therefore, in
vite for them call from dealers in the
various kinds of goods in their seve raj
branches of trade in towns more reno te
than those to which they have heretofore
extended their trade, as well as those with
whom they are already acquainted.
We would also say in this article that
our produce buyers hare plenty Of money
and pay higher prices for Wheat, Pork Hides
and all other kinds of produce than any
other town on the river above St, Louis.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
VOL. ..XI---NO. Is.
The Tree and its Fruit.

The servile trucking of Northern Demo-
Gratis in the Halls Of Congress for the favor OF
the South, (supposed to be necessary to q
future realization of the crowning dream OF
their ambition-the Presidency which has
aided them to triumph in every important
measure calculated to enhance the value OF
their .'property," and remove every obstacle
to the extension of their peculiar institution"
however injurously affecting the interests OF
free laboring men at the North, is already
producing its legitimate fruit~-a cowardlce
and perversion of public sentiment at the
North wicked presumption and intolerant
arrogance at the South. Time was when the
South, humbled before the giant proportions
of free sentiments North, stood abashed under
a sense of the wrongs of slavery, and acknowl-
edging the social and political evils it tended
to produce. Now, she assumes different
attitude slavery is defended as great civil
izing, moral and Christianizing institution,
and, impatient of tardy legislation, she imports
her human chattels in defiance of law. The
inconvenience of the "middle passage" are
but the artificial means for producing in the
barbarous African broken and contrite spirit,
favorable to his conversion and eternal saliva
ton. Vide Dodge's Oskaloosa specify
She utters, through her fawning tools of the
North, her great swelling words of vanity,
and 10! the strong foundations virtue shake,
and here and there the structure crumbles to
the ground Deluded by the sophistries
preached by Democratic orators, men are
everywhere to be found who apologize for and
defend the traffic in human beings. Shame!
She thunders forth her threatenings against
the Union, and stout hearts quake, and the
knees of honest freemen smite one against the
other in terror and dismay; and thus, by fear
or favor, she obtains acquiescence to her
demands; public opinion is demoralized, and
freedom itself is undermined and destroyed.
Away with such a party Lay the axe
bare to the root of that tree, and cut it down
Why cumbereth it the ground?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14

FRIENDS How distinctly and beau
tifully does the author Of "John Hall
fax" set fo1 tn the true value Of friends,
when he says cit is not the seeing
of ones friends, the having them
within the reach, the hearing Of and
from them, which makes them ours ;
many one has all that, and yet has
nothing. It is the believing in them:
the depending on them, assured that
they are true and good to the core, and
therefore could not but be good and
true toward everybody else, ourselves
included /; aye, whether we deserve it
or not. It is not our deserts which
are in question it is their goodness
which once settled, the rest follows as
a matter Of course. They would be
untrue to themselves if they were In
sincere or untrue to u.s..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14

THE CREEDs OF THE EARTH.-C. f.
W. DIETRICH, very thorough and care
full statistician, and Director OF the Sta
tistical Department Of Berlin, makes
the following classification OF the IN
habitants Of the earth according to
creeds.. He takes the whole population
of the earth, 200, 100000, and these
he classiGes as follows: Christians
25.77 psr cent; Jews, OBS per cent
Asiatic religio: S, 46. Is per cent; Ma
homedan, 12.31 per cent; Pagan, 20
29 per cent. The 335, 100000 o1
Christians he divides as follows: Ro
man Catholics, 50.7 per cent; Protes
tants, 25.6 per cent; Greek Catholics
22.7 per cent.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
Opening of the Slave Trade.

The Savannah (Georgia) Neaos publishes
the proceedings of a meeting of "a large and
respectable portion of the citizens of Ware
and the adjoining counties, assembled in the
Court House in n5Waresboro', on the evening
Of the 2lst of September, to hear Col. VIM
B. Gauldcn deliver an address on the re-
opening of the African Slave Trade" AT
the conclusion of his, speech, he offered the
following resolution.oq eai ard Iaft'I1I
That, in consequence Of the high price OF
labor, the agricultural interests Of the South
areih a languishing condition; therefore,
Resoloed, That, in order to obtain the
requisite supply, all laws, State and Fedora,
forbidding the slave trade, ought to be
repealed. 5on p u .is. 2.l'7A =>.
The resolutions were carried by consider
able majority. And yet in the face and eyes
of all such evidence, the Northern Doughface
organs and politicians tell US that there is no
danger that the African Slave Trade will be
re-opened-that the shareholders do not want
it re-opened- that the Republican papers
are "agitating" the matter only for party
purposes! .-'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Reported for the Journal !
SENATOR BRODERICK KILLED in A
m .Ha GlG. DUEL! a ~ gdl no

/ .
~ d1G. DUEL .a L OH no
Ia .ara e,., as ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 9.
The Overland Mail arrived last night.
Some of the San Francisco papers cv'nce
disposition to make itappear that Senator
Broderick was the victim of conspiracy
but the most prominent ones assert that tht
duel was conducted in strict accordance with
the code daello. .Broderick's pistol went of
before it was raised in line with his antag
ouist. Terry's shot took effect two inches
from the right nipple, carrying away q part
of the breast bone. Broderick, suffered
intense agony from the time he was, shot till
he died. When the mail left, two hours
after his death, all the flags in the city were
at half-mast, and emblcms Of mourning were
beginning to appear in all parts Of the city
Judge Terry had been arrested. The public
are much excited.
NGw YORK, Oct. 8.
Alta fire which occurred last night ut Nos.
225 and 237 Washington street, occupied by
Wright. Gillis & Bro, dealers in teas, cotfees
and spices, property to the amount OF
$6O, 700 was destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3.
Judge Ludlow this morning rendered hfs
decision in the famous case of VIM II. Jean
dell, who was arrested in July last on
charge of breach of peace in running
passenger Car on the Sabbath, ordering dis
charge of the defendant, the arrest having
New ORLEANS, Oct 8.
The Filibusters have arrived here in the
custody of the U. S. Marshal. Captains
Maury and Scott and Col. Anderson have
been held to bail in So 900 to answer. The
rest of the men, who were lett at the Bar
racks below the city, have since decamped,
there being no guard. The Fllibusters made
the soldiers leave the steamer while coming
up the river. They state that they were on
u fishing party. ..
NORFOLK, Oct. 9.
The steamer Quaker City, with one hum
dred passengers, bound for Havana from
New York, was lost 10 miles south of Cape
Hatteras by breaking her engine and spring
ing leak. Her passengers were rescu'd ~
the bark Dumbarton, which arrived safely
in Hampton Roads last night. @
New York, Oct, 9.
The steamship City Of Manchester has
arrived here from Liverpool, via Queens
town. Her dates from the latter port are to
the 23d ult. but have been anticipated by
the Canada, at Boston.
10Th Price, the victor in the recent
prize fight, is to have fight with George
King, of Boston, in about three months.
The struggle is to take place in Canada.
Heenan is the trainer of Price
AUGUSTA, Ga, Oct. 10.
Returns of the Florida election have been
received, but they are incomplete. Judge
Dupont seems most certain of election to
the Chief Jus,iceship. The popular voice
shows decided opposition to the annexa-
tion of West Florida to Alabama.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14

IDLENEss.-Said the distinguished
Chatham to his son !:
Il would have inscribed upon the
curtains Of your bed, and the walls Of
your chamber IF you do not rise
early you can never make progress in
anything. If you do not set apart
your reading; if you suffer yourself or
any one else to break in upon them,
your days will slip through your hands
Improbable and frivolous, and really
unenjoyed by yourself"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
A Word to ssDecent'' Men---The
Duty and Responsibility OF Voters.

1t is fact that may well cause candid men
to reflect, that almost all the evils which att1lct
us as a nation are chargeable to an indifference
to and neglect of the means Providence has
graciously placed into our hands for our pro-
lection, on the part of very considerable
portion of each community. To all such we
commend the following thrilling exhortation
from the lips of that Jealous patriot, Hon.
Tom Corwin. Its words Of solemn expostu-
laton should carry conviction to every hesl-
tating heart, and induce its possessor to dis
charge his whole duty as friend to the great
institutions under which we live:
"Let those gentlemen who feel themselves
quite too respectable and decent to mingle in
our elections remember that God Almighty
will hold them responsible for the manner in
which they discharge their duty as voters.
That right and privilege is not given to them
for their benefit, or to be used at their pleas
ure, but for my benefit, for your benefit, and
for the benefit of the thirty millions of people
in the United States. If one sees an unworthy
man 90 to the polls and take possession of the
government, and he will not prevent it, if
there be such a thing as future responsibilities
as we all believe that man will have
something to answer for upon that final day
when all of US must account for our acts.
"Do you suppose it is well pleasing to God
Almighty? Do you suppose that the old
men who published that Declaration of 1nde-
pendence, which gave birth to your national
existence, for the maintenance of which they
appealed to the God of nations, approve of
this neglect? They felt their own weakness;
they, reasoning upon the commonly accepted
principles of human reason, felt that they
would perish in the conflict in which they
were then about to enter; and, at last, as
poor, feeble man always does when he feels
that he has nothing to lean upon but his own
arm, he goes to God Almighty for help in that
hour of trouble They appealed to Him, and
He answered well in the day Of their trial
and all of the struggles they endured, all of
the blood they shed, all the pains and priva-
tions they suffered, were simply to end in just
one thing-in communicating to every rational
free man the power to govern the nation.
That office they communicated to you-the
voting people of the country. Did they sup
pose--could they have believed-that the
Said people of the country, the respectable
people of the land, would so scorn the great
and priceless estate which they left them, as
that they would not attend to appointing the
agent to take care of it, but that some mer-
cenary spirit was to take care of them?'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
My MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME A LIE

My MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME A LIE
-Motber! can your child say that p
Happy are you then; your child has nj
conception Of excellence above yours
if your words to him have been uni
formly truthful. lie has perfect con
fdence in you.
When a child looks to his mother az
the embodiment Of love and truth, he
is safe and she is q blessed mother
and true woman. .-.
But if the mother has in any way
cheated the child, disguised the truth,
or in any way pervertedit, he will learn
it, and from her own eyes and lips too;
then her influence is no longer sure,
nor is it safe. He ought to distrust
her, and he will do it.
The child's noise disturbs her, and
to still him she makes a slight prom
ise, never afterwards thought of. Or
he was cowardly and to inspire him
with courage she said what he after
ward learned was false. Or he was
lazy, and to induce him to do as she
wished, she promised large reward for
the service, which promise she was un-
able to redeem.
Be cautious how you promise.
He was irritated and dsobedient, and
10 restrain him she threatened to pun
ish him sho'd this again occur. But
when the next time came she could not
punish, because the mother in heart so
filled up.
Never threaten.
If punishment comes let it come nat
urauy, as an effect Of his conduct, not
as an arbitrary affair.
But whatever else may come to your
children, never let lie come to them
from your lips.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
Condolences for the People to
Remember!

Seventy six members of the House OF
Representatives voted for raising the rates
of letter postage. Seventy six members also
voted against the Homestead bill.
The seventy. six who voted for the former
were nearly identical with the seventy-siz
who voted against the latter. GYFAll Of
them were DEMOCRATS. wa
A Democratic Senate slaughtered the
Homestead bill after it had passed the House
by Republican votes. GO The same Dem
ocratic Senate also voted to increase the
rates Of postage. I'D
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14
w- The following amusing incident took

W The following Amusing incident took
place last week upon one of the Ohio river
S: s:eamboats. aud was related to US by an eye :
witness. While the boat was lying at, Gin
cinnat, just ready to leave for Loui'Yl les,
yourg man came on oard leading blush
irg damsel by the hand, and approaching the
clerk, in suppressed voice 81 say y he ex-
caimed, ''me and my wife have just got mar.
ried. and Pm lookin' for accommodations
sLooking for birth? p hastily inquired the
cl.rk-passing tickets out to another passeil.
ger "a birth thunder and lightning, mol!
ua-ped the a>tonished man, zoe haUe~t 6u
lust oot married We want place to stay
/ all night, You know-and bed" fts.