Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-14
Do6 our apology for any shortcomings
this week.-Daily, 11h.

&c our apology Tor any shortcomings
this week.-Daily, 11M.
l1Es-The readers attention is di-
, the advertisement of Whcher Il Thomp-
son No have for sale choice lot of family groce-
ries at reasonable prices. SyES
HEAVY Pies essrs. Leland u Co. re-
ceived at their pork house yesterday lot of 80
hogs averaging go lbs, and for which the owner
received the snug little sum of S7S0,57 They were
raised and fattened by Mr.. Geo. Robshaw, of Cedar
township. llM
GARaE Hoas.-Thos. Harbach, boot and
hoe dealer of this city, shipped to Chicago, the
10th and 18th inst, 156 hogs, the average weight
of IS of which $50 lbs net 90 of them averaged
80 lbs heaviest hog, 432 lbs We believe this to
be the heaviest lot yet shipped from this place.
&W-J Fl. Wallace, Esq, Secretary of the
State Agricultural Society, and Suel Foster, Esq,
member of the State Agricultural Board, started
yesterday morning for Desmoines, where the Board
meets next week. The Board will probably take
some action at this meeting concerning the location
Of the State Agricultural College.-Daily, Sth
M. 4 NJ. r. R.-Important Change Of
that new arrangement goes into effect to-day and
that We now have but one train day going east
and west though we have as heretofore two trains
to Wilton, but without the former delay at that
place to passengers bound for Iowa City. Passen-
gers going east must take the 500 p NJ. TRAM and
those going to Iowa City the $3.50 A. NJ. train. A
stacking off in travel the past month is the reason
one of the daily trains has been discontinued. We
understand that only ore train day is now run
over the Rock Island and Burlington roads. This
arrangement will probably be continued till spring
DAILY, 1oth.
Triton R. R--Progress Of the Work.-
We are pleased to inform readers that the work
OF grading the Upton Railroad is progressing quite
satisfactorily. Yesterday, in company with Mr..
Green, President of the Company, and Mcssrs
Dougherty and Compton, we passed along several
miles of the line which Messrs. Carmichael 4
Curtis are at work. In many places it already
looks very much like railroad. At point about
five miles from Wilton depot has been located on
seven acres of ground donated by Mr.. Andrew
Wilson. Col. Hardman, three miles above, has
donated ten acres of ground for depot at that
place also, and two of his neghbors have agreed to
give each five acres more. There are now nearly
100 men employed on the road this side of Upton
Above Upton about rs men are at work, and nearly
two-thlrds of the grading is already completed.
So the conditioned this enterprise is encouraging
We would remind the stockholders, however, that
money is needed to meet the monthly estimate due
on the 18th of this month. As vet comparatively
little cash has been paid into the treasury of the
Company. We hope, therefore, that the urgent
demand for ''the needful' at this time will be
promptly met.
LITERARY INsrITUTE.-Rev. Mr.. Belden's
Lecture-The subject of Mr. Beldens lecture having
been, according to custom, previously announced,
we repaired to the Hall rejecting upon all We had
ever read of that giant man of old-that God-com-
missioned leader of his peoplc-Moses The Brass
band was already there, and peal after peal of
spiritstirring music came surgng through the Hail.
the matchless versatile talents of the man faded
from our contemplation, and Moses assumed his |
single character of the conquering hero. His men
of war; valiant host, and the still more numerous
and terrible array of the foe, desperate to defend
their country and their homes, moved in fancy be-
fore u.s. the shrill blast of the trumpet calling to
conflict, and the deafening din ofbattle broke upon
devout Inscriptions of praise to Him who
gave the victory, and whose mysterious presence
lowered before them in cloud by day and fire by
night! In agreeable transition from this exciting
scene came the calm voice of the speaker, as he
arose and addressed himself to the assembled audi
ence, which was quite as large and appreciative as
my before. 1t is this fact we would fam offer IN
apology for the rambling and disconnected remarks
that may follow: e.-.--r-..,5-
The speaker began by avowing it to be his object
to vindicate the character of Moses and his laws
rom the foul aspersions of Infdel calumniators,
who, as we say, in their savage efforts to do vo-
ence to these, betray sagacty deep as it is damn
able, for here rest the proud foundations of the
Christian structure Barely citing, as claims of the
avs of Moses upon our respect their antiquity and
theological bearing, he took position independent
If these aRd argued their exalted worth from civil
md political point ofsiew, thus boldly engaging the
enemy in his fancied strong hold and, in our opin
on, wrestling it from him. He showed to our
mind, concusivey, that Moses, by the operation of
causes purely natural Though for that none the
ess Providential grew up into the most substan-
iaasswise, humane andliberty statesman and
.eformer To this point he adduced the concurrent
testimony, spoken or written, Of some of Earth's
greatest names, and fairly established it that his
influence was widely felt and acknowledged beyond
he Jewish people themselves while he lived, and
aas left an impress on the destinies of the that
never can be effaced
The speaker~dwelt at some length upon the
individual featuresof the great political system in
Produced by Moses, and pointed out their unexcep-
t,onable democracy, allowing to that term its legit-
innate Specification. The Jewish Judge answered to
our President; the seventy Elders to our Senate;
the Congregation so styled by them, to popular
body that Immediately represents the people-al so
combined to support and restrain each other in
manner that modern science in Government, with
all its Wanted progress, cannot hope to improve
upon Sovereignty lodged in the people and was
exercised by them, from the moment they with one
voice consented allegiance to Jehovah, to that when
dazzled by the pomp Of royalty of which they had
occasionally been witnesses, their clamors for a
King were gratied, though Samuel himselfs olemnly
protested Inlanded estate there perfect equal
ity among the Jews, by virtue of what might be
termed Homestead Exemption Law. Property
at first assigned in equal portions among the people
could never be wholly forfeited, and at the end of
fifty years, no matter how often it had changed
hands, reverted to the original owners or their I'M
mediate heirs.
The speaker would frequently in the course of his
remarks point out the close similarity between the
system of government devised BY Moses and our
own, and wound up with strain of well-directed
and glowing eloquence, of which we can, from
memory, convey but feeble idea.
1t is not to Greece and Rome that we must look
for the cradle of berty-the dreadful hand writing
on-the-wall of Despotism- Declaration of indie
pendence, is butan ecAo from the deep Aundeyiugs Of
Nc. Sinai! The fundamental principles of liberty
were laid down by Moses at the dictation of
God; they are the germs Of an eternal truth long
crashed to the earth, but rising with invincibe
Y>ovvop poas;na II ia true fhrouph lonp baDtism