davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

Rev. DR.. B. M. Hope, Professor Of
Bellies Lettrss in Princeton College, N. j.,
died suddenly on Saturday.
"A white man and thirteen negroes were
drowned in the river at Savannah, Ga, on
the morning of the Goth. in consequence of
the capsizing Of boat.
lion. Lynn Boyd, Lieutenant Governor
of Kentucky, who has been suffering from
severe illness for some months, died at his
residence in that State on Monday.
The Fusee Factory of Joseph Toy, in
Simsbury, Conn.,, was destroyed by fire on
the Goth, ard seven female employees per-
ished in the flames. Two others and boy
were badly injured.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
which iuclines himto bite when he hss !.

which inclines himrto bite when he bar "a
chance. VA "a
! 10 regulate and restrain this propensity
has been the aim of legislators i'd providing
Tor the punishment Of fraud. Perhaps We
would do well to remember that Asprsven-
ton is better than curs;;" and that there
are, and always hayA been, many who.
through ignorance, simplicity or the force
OF circumstance, INCREASINGLY permit tn en-
selves to be outwitted and swindled there
by entailing misery upon their families. To
this unfortunate class let us extend all legal
protection compatible with justice; and rest
assured that Cesar, Az usual, will have
friends and agents sufficiently numerous and
powerful to maintain all ofhis rights.
BIRSS.
Cedar County, Iowa, Doc. 9tIl, 1859.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
espThe southrons. having survived their

The Southrons, having survived their
imaginary destruction, are getting to be sensi-
BILE at last. The Louisville Journal says that
the more intelligent Of the slave-owners of
Kentucky now think that the numerous
anonymous letters scattered through the
South, during the last few weeks, parporting
to emanate from "abolitionists," and warning
the people of impending plots and attempts at
running off slaves, were written by unscrupu-
lous negro traders, with view of getting up
a temporary panic in ''stocks," by rendering
prevalent feeling of insecurity in negro
property among the planters. In other words,
it was a "bear" movement in niggers.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
Republican County CONVENTION.

Republican County CONVENTION. :.
- In accordance with the call of the State Central
Committee above published, the RxPuIlIcANs OF
lfuscatine County are requested to meet in MASS
CONVENTION at the Court House in Mnso.tine
city on Saturday, Jan. It'll, 1850. At O'Clock 2.
H. for the purpose Of eleeting EIGHT DELE
GATES to thu REPUBLICAN STATE CONvEN-
TION, to be held at DESMOINES, Wednesday,
January 18th, lSSe-there to appoint delegate: to
represent the State of Iowa In the REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION Of 1850, for the nom
instien Of Republican candidates for PRESIDENT
and ICR-PRESIDENT. We respectfully suggest
that there b On this occasion snsral attendance
from oil parts Of the county, to give an
tive expression to the sentiments Of the Repnbli-
cans Of this county upon the exciting questions
now agitating the country, and Of their prefer
ences % to the manner Of conducting the coming
campaign, HUGH ]. CAMPBELL,
JOHN r. MERRITT,
H. H. HINE,
ASA GREGG,
WIN. PURCELL.
County Central COMMITTEES!
Muecatine, Dec. 8.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

TIE WEST BETRAYED. The Democrats
from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Says the
Cleveland LEADER betrayed the West by
voting for Mr.. Bocock for the Speakership
he has always opposed the Homestead Bill,
and also voted against Mr. Crows bill, at the
last session. to give prs-emptioners ten years
to pay for their lands. If elected Speaker, he
would so pack the Land Committee as to stifle
both of these measures, SO vital to the landless
and to the wilderness West. Let emigrants
Of all classes who seek new Western homes
make note of these things. -. .e...
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
Correspondence Of the Auscatine Journal.]
Board of Education.

[Corrsspondsnce Of the Auscatine Journal
Beard of Education.
SENATE CHAMBER, Dlsno1Nrs, Iowa.
7Awfsday, Dec. l5th, 1859.
DEAR JouRnAL The Board met at 10
O'Clock. Minutes read and approved.
Mr.. Mills offered resolution withdrawing
the Recommendation of Text Books, made by
the Board at its last session, which was laid
on the table. - &C
Mr.. Perry offered series of resolutions in
favor 81 establishing the Independent District
System" which were also laid on the table,
The Board then went into Committee Of the
Whole for the further consideration of Mr..
Cooper's Bill. At 70 o'clock, the Committee
rose, reported the Bill back, with sundry
amendments, which were referred to the
Committee on "School District Organization"
In the consideration of this Bill, every point
in our school system has been fully and
Thoroughly discussed, so that the business Of
tho Board, from this time on, will probably
proceed with greater rapidity. Every member
mind is made up as to how he will vote on
these different points in the School Law,
without further discussion. Mr.. Cooper's Bill
has been quite materially amended in Com
mittse of the Whole, and am fully satisfied,
from the discussions, that the Board will make
no material alterations in our present school
system, except, as have before said, the
powers of the Sub. Districts will DO increased,
and the Office of County Superintendent will
undergo some notifications. l think the
Office of County Superintendent will not be
abolished, but their salaries will be fixed at a
per diem-no work, no pay. The Board are
of the opinion that there is great inequality
in the salaries and services of the different
County Superintendent, and that the services
rendered by the majority of them, under the
present law, are not in proportion to the pay
received, and that it will work no injustice to
the faithful officer, who does his duty under
the law, to fx their salaries at per diem, to
be uniform throughout the State.
At the afternoon session, the Board went
into Committee of the Whole, with the Bill
reported by Mr.. Roszell, Chairman of the
Committee on Revision. Mr.. Roszelrs Bill
makes no material or radical alterations in the
present law, except to increase the powers Of
Sub Districts, and curtails the duties and pay
of the County Superintendents. D.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

TuE " UN1oN-SAvERs." - The "Union''
meeting at Philadelphia was gotten up in the
interest of Gov. Wise. To make the political
interests of man who threatens treason to
the Confederacy the object of "Union'''
meeting seems like touch of sarcasm. But
that is the way things 60. The meeting of
Union-savers in Boston, it is said, will be in
the interest of Hunter. That at New York
will be IN opposition to Wise and Seymour,
but in whose favor is not stated. All these
intensely patriotic meetings are gotten up in
the interest of some Presidential aspirant, and
to promote schemes of plumber on the part
of their camp followers. "a.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

To the Republicans Of Iowa.
A spscial Convention Of the Republicans Of Iowa
10 hereby esled 70 lmeet. bythsir dseetes. at the
e:ty Of Be- Moinss, on Wednesday, thsS1eth day
Of January, 60, at o'clock, P. NJ, for the pur-
80 Of appointing delegates to represent the STATE
Of Iowa in the Republican National Cow ention to
be held in 1850 for the nomination Of candidates
fur President and Vice President Of the United
States. The ratio of representation will be enc
Delegate for each organised county and one i'd
ditional delegate for each 200 votes Tor fraction
the, eof greater than one-half cast for SAMUEL J.
KIRxwooD for Governor Of this State 1t the last
State Election. am
The chairnan Of the several County Committees
ase requested to issue their calls for County Con.
veations for the nomination Of Delegates 1t An
early day. JOHN Al KAsSON, CRAlRHAn.
III. N. HOXIE, Src'Y. $50 : GE1v.r
R L. B. CLARKE, Mt. Pleasant,
ri G. + STONE, Council Bufs,
pc WIN. LOUGHRIDGE, Oskaloosa,
THOMAS DRUMMOND, ViAton,
e. A.B. F. HILDRETH, St; Charles City,
JIM. NEWCOMB, Bloomfield,
WIN. BlGELOW Sioux City,
.a JAMES THORINGTON, Davenport,
II. A. WILTSE, Dubuque,
L. L. PEASE, Fort Dodge,
a. REPUBLICAN STATE CEHTRAL Con.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

SOUTHERN REPUBLIcAN1sx.- - The Repub-
lican movement is making rapid progress
southwark. In Kentucky, Delegates have
already been appointed to Republican
National Convention, to nominate a Presi-
dential candidate. The Republicans of Mis-
souri, are also stirring; and the Republicans
Of Wheeling, Va, have just held q meeting,
and appointed one Of their number as Delegate
to the Opposition Convention at Richmond.
Just think Of q live Republican venturing to
Richmond in the present perturbed state of
the public mind thsrel bi,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
Commercial.
WEEKLY RKvIYW.

TuURsDAY P. n, Dec. %.
Weather clear and cold during the week.
Roads good, with tolerably fair sleighing.
Receipts of produce large and business brisk
during the week. .zs.o,r....-l,. ~ a.
Whest.--A decline to 300 took place
Monday, being Sc below Saturdays prices.
To-day, however, we quote at 8o@S3cT
thong some loads sold At 85c. Other grains
unchanged. ae.ssr-. -,.s IT,, as
Pork.-We quote prices firm at $4@5 Is
net, which are the extremes. For hogs weigh
ing $50 lbs the price is 81, 175 lbs $3.50,
200 Tbs IS, and extra heavy lots sell at
$5.15@$5.25. The receipts at the slaugh-
tering houses for the season up to last even
ing were a:@e, q
q. At Buffers 1o, 200 hogs.
Leland & Co.'s. 7,728 Is ~. ss
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

OBsTRUcTING TIE ORGANIZATION. - Mr..
Pryor, in his speech, last week, declared that
it was tho intention of the Democratic mem.
bers to prevent the organization of the House
under a Republican Speaker, by resort to
every parliamentary expedient that ingenuity.
could bring to bear for that purpose.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

H Henry Ward Beecher lectured, last
week, at the Tabernacle Church, on "How to
E1oye the Union" He advocated the culture of
Union sentiments which could be endorsed in
very part Of this land; declared the sover-
ienty of the States, and the right of Virginia
Be protected from invasion. He asserted
naf The child was born who would live to see
~ dine when this Union would not contain
gle human being in bondage.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

eTApril 81, the day fixed for the meeting
Of the Charleston National Convention, is the
Of both President Buchanan and
Senator Douglas. It will probably be the
day of their political death, also.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
n6-At a John Brown meeting in Glove.

b@At q John Brown meeting In Glove.
land, few nights ego, Judge Tilden said /:
81 was talking with Frank Wade last nigh.
about this Virginia army Of Gov. Wise,
that was to take the capitol, and sieze all
the public documents, as that worthy had
threatened to do. He (Wade) said he thought
the best way to crush the army would be
to drive droue Of cous among them"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

wAt intervals, for thirty years, the cry
of disunion has been heard. But the cry has
always come from the South. The North has
never uttered it, and never will. >, There is
about az much need of Northern community
declaring itself opposed to dissolution of the
Union as to declare themselves opposed to
sheen stealing 9F.! 80 =.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

SOUTHERN GUBERNAToRIAL MESSAGES. -
This is the season for Governors Messages
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is for Disunion right
away. Gov Moore, of Alabama, is for waiting
until after the next Presidential election, and
so is the Governor of Florida. Gov. Magofin,
of Kentucky, is satisfied to stay in the Union
and fight for Locofocoism. He is by far more
sane than his brothers.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

GT The John Brown fund has already
reached nearly $1,000. His family viii
probably get from various sources, at least
$4,000. A writer in the New York Tribune
suggests = $4,000 monument in memory Of
Brown. 80 ~ @
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

OLD BRowN's BRAVERY AND MAGNANIxITY
The New York Tribune's correspondent
who attended the funeral of John Brown al
North Eliza, N. Y, gives the following para.
graph in the report of the speech of Mr..
McKim:
That John Brown was brave, magAani.
nous, truthful, consistent man, rested not on
the testimony of admiring friends, but was
freely conceded by his open enemies. Mr..
McKim had enjoyed, as they knew, the priv
lege of accompanying Mrs. Brown in her
sacred and solemn mission to Virginia. He
had witnessed the respect and the expressions
of sympathy with which she was met by the
best classes of people from the time she cross
ed the slave border till the time of herreturn.
In Baltimore, on the railway, at Harper's
Ferry-wherever she went-Southern men
treated her with respect, and comferted her by
stories of her husband and her children,
illustrative of their bravery and consistency.
A blunt officer, with epaulettes on both
shoulders, had said, in the presence of . pro-
miscuous group at the Harper's Ferry hotel,
"I'll tell you what my opinion is of Brown !;
he's one of that kind of men that God
Almighty does not put many Of above
ground" Another officer, equally high in
command, and one of the most thoroughly
pro-slavery Virginians that we met during
our visit, took me aside, the night before we
left, and said, 81 do not like to make the
request of Mrs. Brown at such timJ as this,
but should like very much to getfrom her
some little memento of Captain Brown-his
autograph, or some other like relic-any trihe
that She could give me should greatly value"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

~A gray-haired Kentuckian, citizen of
Olden county, 70 years of age, recently went
to Washington to see about some land which
fell to him under act Of Congress, as soldier
in the war Of 1912. On his return, he was
arrested, taken from the train of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, at Martinsburgh, Va, and
confined for two weeks. On the I'd, he was
discharge and sent away with pass,
certifying that he was ''all right"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
IOWA NEWS,

run over and instantly killed by the cars
at Whitefeld, Jefferson county, on the 9th
inst. 1t is supposed that he was drunk at
the time.
Edward Mooney, young man, was
tried and convicted last week at Dubuque,
for the murder and robbery of Charles Wood,
in November. His accomplice, named Cliff
ford, il now on trial. Mooney is from Her
kimer county, N. Y. The day of his execu-
is not fixed.
D,sAppEAKANoE.--Mr Hoeck, an elderly
German lady, mysteriously disappeared from
Davenport week before last. 1t is feared
that in fit of mental arrangement she
threw herself into the river.
ALL RIGur The n Y. Tribune of last
Wednesday says: s'Messrs. Atwood & Co.
have reUei,.a the funds for the payment of
interest due 1st of January, Oh tho State
debt Of Iowa" This is as it should be.
DEowNED.-A little son of DR.. W. H.
White, of Iowa City, was drowned in Iowa
river on last Saturday afternoon. He was
sporting on the ice under the railroad bridge
when, by some means, he fell into hole
in the ice md disappeared. His body had
not been recovered at last accounts.
"A Mr.. Carpenter, of Scott county, has
published in the Davenport Gazette the re-
suit of his experiments in cultivating Sorg-
hum. He raised this year, from fifteen
acres of ground, thirty-nine barrels of mo-
lasses. At fifty cents gallon, his crop is
worth to him fifty dollars an acre. The
greatest yield on any port on of the ground
was twenty-eight gallons to one eighth of
an acre, which would be 224 gallons to the
acre, and be worth $112.
MELANoHoLY Aoo1DENrs.-Th Fort Dodge
Sentinel, of the 10th inst, states that on
Thursday week, Hon. A. ". Marsh, County
Judge of Humboldt county, was killed in the
following manner: Driving about the town,
his horses took fright on Market street, near
the court house, and he was unable to man
age them on account OF wearing frosty wooden
mittens. In turning corner the Judge was
thrown out, falling with great violence upon
his head. He was taken to the St. Charles
Hotel, and the best of medical advisers called
but to no avail. He only survived a few
hours. f'5
The same source states that Mr.. G. II.
Dodge, was found ON Wednesday of last
week, lying on the ground a short distance
from his house in an insensible condition.
He had left town on the previous evening
intoxicated, and had been unable to proceed
further than the spot where he was found.
His nose was frozen to the ground, and he
was in other respects so far overcome by
the cold that he died next day.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23


Total, 1928 sm
We append our usual quotations:
Wheat-Spring, S0@s3c.
/" Winter, 90s.
Buckwhest 50@75c.
Flour Spring wheat, $4.2S@$450
Buckwheat, $3@$3,50 per l00fbs.
Corn meal, 500 p bushel.
Corn, in tho ear, new, 22@26c.
Oats-25e.
Barley, 35e. O.,
Rye, 45c.
Beans, 6o@75c.
Potatoes, 10000. ,a.a aa
Onions, 10000.
Hsy-,tti.mothy, $500; prairie, 81; Hun
garian, S. per ton.
Apples green 81 oo@$1 .25, per blu. and
1915 per barrel I; dried 1926 per Blu.
Butter, l5@2Oc.
Shoulders. 8a9c
Clear sides, 10@12c
Lard 12}c.
Hides green, 4@5c; dry flint, 124c.
Timothy seed $3.50 p bu., Hungarian
grass seed soc.
Lumbef, 3l0a$30 per 1000 feet:
Brown sugar $3.50; crushed 10
clarified 103c, refined, white, lilo.
Molasses-plantation 42a44, 8. H. At
Belcher's 81, kegs $6,o0@$6,50.
Qofee-12a133c.
Nails-ass. 81, 25.s
Rice Gle. -
Live Stock Fat cattle are bringing from
81 to $2,25 gross.
Furs.-Otter $3.50, mink $3.50, wildcat
35c, fox Csc, coon i0@40c, muskrat 5@lOc.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

DOUGLAS "SuBDUED." - The Democratic
Senators have in caucus deposed Mr.. Douglas
from being Chairman Of the Committee on
Territories. "My place. on that Committee
is occupied by Mr.. Green, Of Mo. Mr.. Mason
remains as Chairman of the Committee on
J, Foreign Affairs, Mr.. Clay as Chairman Of the
COMMITTEE on Commerce, Mr.. Yulse on the
Post Office, Mr.. Mallory ON Naval Affairs,
NJ. Bayard on the Judiciary, and Mr.. Brown
ON the District of Columbia.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

DIsuN1oN IN VIRGINIA. - The following,
from the Petersburg latelzigen6r, is the
most sensible and truthful answer which one
of the best edited papers in Virginia gives to
the rigmarole about disunion:
ave very much doubt whether there is q
single county in Virginia that weuld vote in
favor of disunion, if the question wore pre-
scented in such shape that the people could
vote yea or nay. We have seen no evidence
of such state Of feeling IN this, vicinity, nor
during recent visits through the counties of
Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Prince Edward, Cum
berland, Appomatox, Campbell, Bedford,
Roanoke, Montgomery, Pulaski, WITH, Smyth
and Washington, did we hear OF see tnything
that would indicate that surh feeling Is
abroad in theSate. These sensation papers
manufacture much of the excitement that
furnishes the text for their comments, and
their long jeremiads are spun out about the
necessity for action, winding up usually with
the stereotyped phrases aboutthc nationality
Of the Democratic party the necessity for
everybody to fall into line and run with the
machine, in order to save the Union.' asli
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
EXCHANGE.
THE MARKETS.

New YORK, Dec. 81.
Flour &c better, with sales of western
brands. at $59$5.75. Wheat southern
$l.20@$1.S0; Racine $1.2O. Rye 800
@9Oc. Barley 85c(986c. Corn 92c. Oats
46c@47c. Mess Pork $l65O.
CHICAGO, Dec. 81.
Flour dali at$4.37}C9$4-60. Wheat firm
and advanced 3c@1c, closing quiet at $50
for No. . Spring 10 store. Corn 42cC044o.
Oats 35c9S63c. Green hides 5495}c, dry
flint l2}(9l3c. Mess Pork held firm at SIT;
buyers offer $14.50@$14.75. Fat cattle IN
demand at $z.123094.
ST. LOUIS, Dsc. II 9
Flour $45o@$5.50. Wheat--elub $l.08.
common fall $l.09@$1. 10, good do. $l.16
9$1 163. Corn 65c(970c. Oats 5lc956c.
Rye 90c095c. Barley 65@773c Hides
green sailed &c, dry aiut 13c. Potatoes 76c
,9soc. Onions 5Oc96oo. Mess pork $l5.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

AURORA AusTRALEs.-Ave vessel which was
off Cape Horn on the LIST of September re-
ports magnificent ruddy display of "South.
ern Lights'' on the same night of the great
display of "Nor.hern Lights" seen all over
the Union and in Europe.
We believe this is the first time such q
coincidence has been observed. It would
seem to appear that similar electrical phe-
nomena occur at both poles at the same
lime.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23
HOgS.

CINcINNATI-The Cincinnati market on the
14th was staggered by heavy receipts. Prices
ranged from $3.50 to 1925. Large holders
concluded to feed a few weeks longer, antici-
pating another rise. The Gazette of the
18th says: ,tff4
There was more steady feeling in the hog
market, to-day, under comparatively light
arrivals, the receipts for the twenty -four hours
being only 1000 head. There was no advance
in prices, but packers took hold pretty freely
at the asking rates of yesterday. The
improvement in the demand for medium hogs
was particularly noticeable. Many parties
who have heretofore been paying, virtually,a
premium for 200 lbs averages, with view to
making mess pork, are now giving attention
to bacon hogs. Lots averaging 100 to $50 fbs.,
lighter averages sold at s.. 25935.40, and
closing stronger, but with no indications of an
ing off in receipts. The total receipts to date
are about 200, 900 head. 'i.i1&a
A dispatch from Cincinnati, Of the Goth, y
says: "Dressed hogs advanced CSC. Sales
1000 at se@e.6o. Receipts, to-day, only 2
27o0. Pork-Sales Of Western mess at .
$16.25@$16.50.
I CH1cAao.-The Pres and Tribune Of the
21st says: u1Hi asAN
The receipts Of hogs, to-day, were about 4
5000, live and dressed, and the market Was II
irmer, though rot quctably highcr-isales Of
and live at $4.509$465. The market was :,
tolerably active q these prices, and there
were net many leftover. ag.3s9T a9ii.a5 o.
( ST.. Louis, Dec. II The Market IS inactive Gs
and weak. Sales COMPRISED several hundred >
in lots, to-day, from $>25 to $5.s7& for $50
to 200 b. hogs-but Divers are offering Sc
for extra heavy lots A$5(1$6 being the
extreme limits Of the make3 The number 2
The The Who. number cut tx a ysss, aid not
exceed 80, 900. - Repu6 lica". s.,'., ~
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-23

"a GONE sUoKRR"-supposed to be 8. A.
Douglas. 50 =.