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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
TIE RAILROAD BRIDGE AT Rock ISLAND.

TIE RAILROAD BRIDGE AT Rock lsLAND.-|
We have already stated that Amos Stillman
City Engineer Of Rock Island, has filed an
affidavit in the Office of the Clerk of the
county of Rock Island, to the effect that
the Rock Island Railroad Bridge is unsafe
for the passage Of trains. A petition has
been prepared, says the Islander and ar
aus, founded upon the affidavit Of Mr.. Still
man, and will be presented to the Court at
the March term, asking for an injunction to
prevent trains passing over the bridge IN
consequence of its dangerous condition.
The same paper understands that suits
were commenced on the 14th, in the Cir
cult Court, against the Chicago & Rock L.
land Railroad Company, by W. f. Chadwick, ,
Esq, attorney, in iavor OF the following
named plaintiffs, for injuries done to steam
boats at the bridge:
George Ii. McClintock and others
Henry Graft. $4,000
| Isaac Ii. Mas,n-Steamer Vix,n 10 900
Rotert Herdman and o,hsrs-S Gamer Ara
zonia 1900
w. l. L. jerks and cthers-Steamcr Lucie
May. 5000
Joseph w. BroHn-Barge Thetis. 2 900
J,hu c. irvine and others-Steamer Rescue. ot0
William Do.r-Raft, 5000
Pike. 5000
P. S. Hlrrll-Raft.. 4 900
ton. N '' 200 ooO
To.al. s25s ,ooC
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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

fw-Delazon Smith, who was admitted as
u. s. Senator from Oregon, last week, for the
short term, which expires on the 4th of March,
will make profitable job out of his two
weeks service lie will get full pay, and
about $4,000 of Mileage! No wonder he
wants to be elected Senator again ! Chicago
Journal.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

~ Circumstances every day more and
more indicate the probability of an extra
session of Congress. The action of the
House in refusing so peremptorily to suspend
the rules to allow of the introduction of a
Loan bill, is considered significant of de.
termination not to consent to any increas e
of the public debt, so that the present tnan-
cial difficulty cannot be met in that way
And the President has stated to a member
of Congress that he should call an extra
session about the first of August.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

WThe New York Tribune, referring to
some of the inconsistencies of spirtualism in
fine strain of ridicule, says we have mediums
s'filled with the spirit Of Newton" who, if the
pippin had fallen upon their heads, would
only have rubbed the sore spot and eaten the
fruit
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

eWThc Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says: 'The late speech of
the famous Bolts on the Presidency elicits
considerable discussion among the Opposition
politicians, and they are beginning to pull
such wires as they suppose to be best calcu-
lated to advance the pretensions of their
respective favorites. The supposition now is
that either Bell, of Tennessee, Bates, of Miss
ouri, or Crittenden, of KY, will be agreed
upon by the Republican and American parties,
and run as the Opposition candidate in 1860"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

fw- Old Mrs. Jones is much given to
dreaming. On being informed of the
.lrowning OF Mr.. Brown she exclaImed: la
me! [ knowcl the poor man was dead'
cause seed his apparatus in dlean the
other night"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

DEMOCRATS THE SANE EvEnYwHERE.-Asa a
sample of Democratic legislation in the West,
it was publicly charged, in the Missouri House
of Representatives, on the 10Th, that the State
Bank and Branches appropriated $4,000 to
procure the passage of the Richardson bill
through that body.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

NYSenator Seward has given the Federal
lists in the Senate no.ice that he will, next
year, and every year, while in Congress, move,
till it be carried, that the resolution of the
Senate of June u, 1853, which declared thai
Bright and Fitch are entitled to seats as Sen
ators, be ExPUNGED from the records of the
Senate
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

GyThe expenditures Of the Government
during the four years of Tyler's Administra-
ton were only $S1, ,216,G23. Thus, in less
than ten years, our expenses have nearly
quadrupled. The average under Tyler was a
little over $20;0O0,oOO; under Polk, $780,
73e,O 900; under Fillmore, $4s, ,6OO, 900; undcr
Pierce, $52, ,775 900; and, under Buchanan,
$Gs,5O0, ,00o-all exclusive of payments upon
account Of the public debt.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

Coon SuesEs1IoK.-The Davenport Ga.
sette recommends that the Republican State
Convention he held at Iowa City on the 10Th
of June. We hope both the time and the
place will be adopted by the Central Com
mittee.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

A TEMPERANCE ORGAN.-The 'Old Oaken
Bucket and State Temperance Organ" is the
title of paper just started at Keokuk-D. A.
Day, editor, and Shurly & Runyan, pub
lishers. We wish the paper success.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

This disparity will be largely increased after
the census of 1860 has become the basis of
federal representation. The South must lose
at least ten members Of the House, and the
North, in increase of population and the
admission of new States, will stand about as
follows. saw in 1866:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
G%T The evidence taken before the Print

GY The evidence taken before the Printing
Investigating Committee shows settled
system by which officers of this Democratic
Government constantly collect from ten to
twenty per cent. on the contracts for work,
paper, and other materials given out at Wash
lngton. The witnesses testify that they found
they could not get these contracts except by
submitting to these exactions. In some cases
admitted that they added twenty per cent. to
their bids to cover the cost of these corrupt
foeS
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

T Somebody says ''the Presidency ID
gravitating to Douglas, and will drop into his
hands," Possibly. Since the Presidency fen
to Buchanan, says Prentics, there is no tslline
whore It won't drop. 65s
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

N. Y. TRIBUNE ON Pixies PEAK.-The
Tribune of the 22d in reply to a corresp)n
dent concerning the Nebraska gold mine,
says:
On the whole we do not believe the emi
grants to Pixies Peak in 1859 will average
a net yield Of fifty cents day over their ex
penses from the time they leave home till
they get back again. We cannot doubt that
nne-tenths of them might do decidedly bet
ter, and make money easier, by hiring out
for the best wages lhey could command just
where they are to day. than they will by
going to Fixes Peak. We say this, with no
hope or desire that any who have caught
the gold fever will be cared by anything we
can say. Like the daughter whose mother
had seen the folly of dancing, and wished
her on that account to let it alone, they will
insist on seeing the folly of it too. There
are certain popular manias for which ex-
perience is the only cure. Gold-dggiug is
one of them. SO, instead Of attempting to
dissuade any, we urge all the infected to go
ahead. Those of them who are good for
anything will mainly return cool, sober,
reasonably wise, and convinced that ,tato-
digging is a much easier and surer road
to wealth than god-dgging. The other
sort will, for the most part, not return at all.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

THE PRESIDENTS SPECIAL MEssAGE.-This
document is an insult to the American people
The President has the hardihood to ask for
the unlimited control of the Army and Navy,
for underlined and undefinable purposes. He
cites us to the superiority Of the Governments
of England and France, because their Execu-
.tives possess the war-making power. lie
also doubtless thinks that the power of Gov
ernment is nearest perfection where it is most
despotic. His impudence grows with his
impotence Cincinnati Commercial.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

ANTICIPATED TROUBLE BETWEEN FRANCE
AND BRAzIL.-France is said to be disposed to
quarrel with Brazil The Brazilian Govern
ment has refused to pay the demands of a
French subject, who established ahippodrome
at Rio Janeiro, which was so obnoxious to the
populace that they set fire to it, before the
police, who had been ordered to pull it down,
could complete their work. The French
Ambassador demanded an indemnifcaton of
$4,000, and, being refused, is only waiting
further orders to persist in his course.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

wT The friends of Mrs. Brannan, wife OF
an officer of the army, who disappeared mys-
teriously from Staten Island, in July last, are
still seeking for an explanation of the mystery.
They have reason to believe that she was
most foully dealt with, and circumstances
point strongly towards one person, but there
is no evidence yet sufficient to warrant his
a rrocf
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

How THE GOLD MINES Pay Sam'l Curtis,
son of Col. Curtis, member of Congress from
this State, is at present in the Nebraska gold
mines, and writes Gas VIC learn from tho
kcokuk Gate City) that, 'on some claims,
men make from S. to $40 day, while
others are engaged at merely nominal wages"
Striking an average between "$5 to $40
day. and nothing, and the aggregate wages
could not be very flatterinp.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
The TRIBUNE ON HAIR. DYE. The New
York Tribune has the following sensible
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The TRIBUNE ON HAIR. DYE. The New
York Tribune has the following sensible
remarks on this subject:
The dignity of gray hairs in this country
is at discount. The Americans in this
respect are the greatest snobs. Fellows
here dye their hair and heards. A Aregment
may be encountered any ine 0y on Broad
way, with that dead shoe olacking look
which. the hair-dye gives. No body is de-
ceived. dyed head always looks like the
devil, exoterically speaking. There Is NJ
harmony between it and the wrinkles and
crows teet over which it presides. The
French manage these things better. There
may be the least soupcon for few strag
glers of the wintery hue but not the filthy
poultice laid on black as night over Il whole
head. This hidenus snobbishne.s is vastly
on the increase. Every barber has the sign
of hair dye. The quantity of that fororn
swndle sold must be immense.
~
TIE PHRASE "LoG RoLLING.'--We have
met with tn, following in the Historical
MagaSine:
The phrase is drawn from the clearing OF
forest land in a new country. The settler
could himself cut down the trees, and cut
them into lengths or logs. The next step
was to roll tn I'm into heaps for burning, and
that he could not do without help so h
called his neghbors to help him roll, Al d
when they had a rolling he helped tlIem.--
This was aptly applied to legislative action
for the passage OF laws for local measures.
Vote for my bill, and will vote for yours.
The phrase was probably Western; it is GER
tainly more than forty years old.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

Certainly, the South cannot have over one
third of the House, and were it not for the
representation of three-ffths of the slaves, the
entire strength of the House could not exceed
one-fourth of the Congressional delegation.
We suppose this element will, even in the
new apportionment, amount to twenty mem
bcrs. 1t now equals twenty three members.
Stated on that basis:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

DARK OMESs FOR TIE DEMoCRACY.-The
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Clipper writes as follows under dates of the
Sth inst:
The split in the Democratic party is begin
nino to assume form and substance. Saturday
nicht was fatal era in that harmonious party.
Pennsylvania has openly raised the standard
of revolt She not only refused to participate
in the deliberations of the Democratic caucus,
and held a separate convention of her. own,
but the Pennsylvania Democratic Represent
atiyes have repudiatcd the course of the other
Democratic members, md have call upon
those of the party who agree with them to
ioii, their faction. Nothing but ordinations
and rccriminations are heard throughout the
whole Democratic camp. Fiercsst discord
prevails. The once boastcd unity OF the party
is hopelessly gone. The Douglas rebellion is
utterly forgotten in this greater and more
rulnous rcvslt. 1t is not a mere personal
disagreement, nor the secession movement OF
a single leader. but the withdrawal OF whole
State, to be followed, no doubt by others. 1t
is division upon one of the cardinal prlncl-
pies of the Democratic faith, and the breach
is already so great that to heal it is acknowl-
edged to be an imposslbillty.
WATcu I'm - We hear it emphatlcally
denied that the Democratic party of Iowa are
going to fix Temperance, Maine Law plank
in their platform, and run none but Temper
ance candidates. But these cunning chaps
have got to be watched. Justas sure as they
can be made to believe they may make more
votes than they will lose by sticking in a
Temperance plank, they will do it. Votes
are what they are after, and any principle is
very immaterial, if an obstacle in the way.
Our suspicious are aroused that these fellows
intend some dodge to catch Temperance votes,
from the fact that two or three of the most
slippery ''organs' arc endeayoring with great
zeal to throw suspicion in other quarters, and
even go so far as to charge the Republican
party with some design of taking up the old
Temperance hobby again. 1t won't do any
harm to watch these scaly Democrats. We
are determined not to be surprised if we find
them, next campaign, marching under Maine
Law Temperance banner, and crying down
with grog- shops -''lown with lager beer
saloons" &C. 1t all depends uponhow many
votes they may make by the policy. .-Dauen-
port Gazette.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

nwT The Federal Treasury is exhausted;
our government expenses largely exceed it's
revenues, and we are reserting to the prodi-
gals cxpedicnt of borrowing money to pay for
current necessities. In such sad predica
ment, it is the duty Of the people to examine
the causes which have produced it, and trace
the extravaganza and reckless expenditure to
its proper source, that responsibility may rest
on the depredators. The Clerk of the House
of Representatives has just published his
annual report of the contingent expenses of
that body. Among the items we find one of
$7O,OOO,5O for furniture, exclusive of that for
the new hail. There were purchased 237 hair
brushes and 234 combs, costing $53l twenty
French plate mirrors, costing 81 ,495, and one
at ST, $50; twenty-one sets of curtains at
$3.50; five clocks at $685. fifty four chairs
at 50 ,456, an average of s4S, 50 each; twenty
five sofas and lounges at $2,575; a pierre
table at $275; carpets at $4,25 per yard;
three bookcases at 100; washstands at $50
each bronze statuettes, clothes-racks, writing
tables, ice pitchers, &C., at equally extravagant
prices And these are simply the contingent
expenses Of the House. Is it any wonder
that we are poor as a nation, or that poll
ticians have become corrupt! Lou. Jou'mnl.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04


VINroN EAGLE.-Wc are glad to see this
sterling Republican paper spreading it.slE
The last number comes to us enlarged to
eight-colu size, with new head and
improved appearance generally. Tho citizens
of vinton and Benton county ought to feel
proud Of the Eagle, and give Messrs. Drum
mond & IIanford, its enterprising publishers,
aliberal support. Long may the Eoglc soarl
ABOUT So.--John NJ. Bolts, in . speech
before the Virginia Opposition State Convcn-
ton, declared that the democracy" had
caused "evsry calamity, every evil and every
i'll that has befallen the country during tho
last thirty years, with the exception, perhaps.
of the smallpox, the cholera, and the yellow
feyer."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

rY" "Awtul Developments" are again
turning up in the Journal The success
achieved in this line, in the late political can
vass in Iowa, is the strong incentive to a
renewal of the same warfare There has been
corruption in the building of the Blind Asylum
at Vinton is the charge now brought forward
OF course, the whole story is fabricated, having
no better foundation than the exploded lies of
the late campaign, which have already been
swallowed, in part, by the Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee, through
his organ, the Statesman. Of the $l5 900
appropriated to the erection of the ASYLUM,
but $4,000 have been drawn, and only a
portion of that amount has been expended
Mr.. Jones has not resigned his place as one
Of the building committee; and, of course,
Gov. Lowe could not have refused to appoint
Mr.. Gllcress to till a vacancy that did not
exist. The State officer who is represented
to have written a "scorching letter to fellow
Republican in Vinton," about this matter, is
perfectly willing to have anything he has
written made public. Other developments"
of the same texture arc furnished by the same
re-lie-able witnesses. Gov. Lowe, it is said,
is ruled by clique at the Capital, and by
Gov. Grimes. "Two dozen" gentlemen of
leisure, it is alleged, have been pensioncd
upon the State Treasury, in various capacities,
by the Executive. The only wonder is that,
when it was just as easy to say t,co hundred
as ''two dozen,' the larger number was not
adopted. So far as any effect upon the public
mind is concerned, one statement would
answer just as well as the other. We wish
the JournaLa a great deal of joy over all the
trouble it can find in the Republican camp.
That If can find but LITTLE To comfort If and
encourage hope, in the increasing divisions
and the bitter strife that rend the Sham
Democracy, is fact patent to the dullest
apprehension. In its extremity, it must be
excused for desiring to see the same state of
things in the ranks of the Republicans. But,
we would deferentially suggest that one whose
tender regard for the public interest is so
unwearying, ought to cast his eyes toward
Washington occasionally, and advise his
readers of the swindling schemes of Jones,
the magnificent plundering attempted by
Slidell, and the disclosures Of the corruption
committees of Congress. Citizen:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

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FAILURE OF WESTERN FRUIT TREEs.-Lew-
is Ellsworth, one Of the most successful and
Intelligent fruit growers in Illinois, says in
a communication to the Prairie Farmer
that the loss in fruit trees in that State with
in the last three years, is millions of dollars
and is attributed to the cold winters and
dry summers. But he asserts that to great
extent this result has arisen from their
standing unprotected in soil underlald
with retentive clayey-loam .subsoil, which
characterizes most of the prairie lands. lie
has adopted the practice of ridging his land,
by,f-oaSed pIowings, commencing at the
same ridges aud ending at the same burrows,
aud where nursery trees were formerly
thrown out by freezing since ridgiDg they
stand throughout the winter with out injury,
and make better growth in the simmer.
He recommends the ridging system for all
orchards, each row of trees being placed on
sthe center of the ridge.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

PoLITIcAL POWER OF FREE AND SLAVE
STATEs.-The annexed table shows at a glance
how the free and slave States stand in Con-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

Majority aga nst free negroes, 1928
Six of the sixteen counties in the State
made no returns on this question.
The State Legislature has fixed upon Port.
land as the future capital of the new State.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

OREGoN.--Tho Oregon State officers are
Governor, John Whitaker; Secretary of State,
Lucian Heath; Treasurer, John D. Boone;
State Printer, Ashabel Bush. These are all
Democratic "Hards." The Constitution under
which they will take Office was adopted Lv
tho Oregonians in 1867. The question of
Slavery at the same time was voted upon, with
the fOllOwino resulta.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
Majority against Slavery.

Jof1y aSdIIISC OIdVtfy, 4,y7U
An expression of the sentiments of tho
people on the question of allowing free negroes
in the State was also taken, and, as far as it
could be asceltainsd, the following was the
result:
Against allowing free negroes in the
state, $40
State, e51
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04

"On reviewing the events of the past year,
the association cannot but feel fkat it has
abundant cause for congratulation. The
country was suffering severely under a
financial crisis,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
Our Book Table.

Tho Ago of Chivalry. Part king Arthur and
his knights. Part 1.-The Mabnogeon, or
Welsh Popular Tales. BY Thomas Bulhnch,
author Of the 'Age of Fable Boston Crosby,
Nichnls 4 ca. nu hi iShcrS.''
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-10-15
SAN FRANCISCO

IIktA4NNII5t|NF.
If these facts do not establish reputation
we know not what can.
At the above named TW WENTY FAIRS. all helh
last Autumn Qs58)-at nearly all of them, the
boasted SINGER s'Shuttle Machine" DID CON
TEND, as well as Grover & Bakers, Weeds
SEoat's, Webster's. Bcutholt's, and twenty or
more others; and ALL, in EVERY INsTACE,
have been signally and fairly beaten. No ra-
fl.i ean aesT aefay the tfaet that