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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
County Officers.

1t may not be known to most Of our readers
that the new law has made the County Clerk S
office much more important one than before.
The law has devolved upon that officer some
of the duties which formerly belonged to the
County Judge. and much of the power and
patronage. Now, our Republican friends who
elected our present Democratic Judge, Re-
corder and Sheriff, and who have ceased not,
day and night since, to repent of their sin in
sackclotA end ashes, have an early opportunity
offered to them to repair the evil consequences
Of their action. They can now restore to the
hands Of their own party part of that power
of which they never should have aided in
depriving them.
CHARLEY FOSTER, our candidate for Clerk,
is one of the oldest citizens of this county.
lie is known to you all as faithful, capable,
laborious business man lie has had perhaps,
a more thorough experience as practical
book-kecper, in one Of our largest business
houses, than most men in this county, and he
will therefore be the better qualified to assist
the Supervisors in giving the long standing
accounts OF the county thorough and search
ing examination, which they &c, tainly need.
Who will object to having these old accounts
overhauled and brought to light? Certainly
not the people! Mr.. FOSTER has made very
efficient, Industrious and obliging Clerk. No
one could be more so. We therefore more
cordially than usual commend him to the
favorable regard of all of our readers.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

influence Of the good news from Pennsy lvania.
Indiana and Ohio, that reckon nobody will
find fault. In this news see an earnest Of
our coming triumph. do not see in it Offices
and patronage, and honor and promotion, to
men; but see this nation brought back once
more to the policy and faith of the fathers; I
see it starting on new career; I SEQ moral
revolution effected; see the spirit of freedom
revived here and everywhere. I behold it
going into the slave States, and the slave
States commencing system of emancipation,
and finally emancipating their slaves, and
Kidding the country Of this evil; and in that
bright future, now close at hand; 1 behold a
free American Republic reposing proudly
among the nations Of the earth. [Great
applause.]
MIR. Lovejoy closed by calling for three
cheers for the Declaration Of Independence,
which the Democrats pervert and violate
three cheers for the Constitution and the
Union, which they threaten to subvert and
destroy; three cheers for Pennsylvania, In.
diana and Ohio; and three cheers for Old Abe
and the whole ticket Ths audience responded
with the widest enthusiasm.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

DOUGLAS CArHoL1c1rY.-The Knox Re-
publican says that Rev. John Mantece, pastor
of the Catholic Church at Iowa City, wrote a
letter to Archbishop Hughes, for information
to govern his own actions in the Presidential
canvass. The Archbishop, in reply, in
substance, said:
"Stephen A. Douglas did join the Catholic
Church at Rome, and is good and faithful
member, and you must do all in your power
to secure his election. He took the obligation
to do all in his power to promote the interests
of the Church"
We publish the above as an item of inform
alton, and not because we consider Mr.. Doug
las connection with the Catholic Church or
any other church matter for our censorship.
If we believed him honest and trustworthy,
and if he was representative of our politica.
sentiments, we would as soon vote for himl
were he q Catholic, as We would were he a
Methodist. There are some. however, who
think otherwise, and we presume they have
sufficient reasons for SO thinking.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

A PERTINENT INou1RY.-Hon. R. @.
Schenck made a Republican speech at Co.
iumbus, Ohio, on the 2lst, in which he made
the following capital hit:
For his part he did not believe that the
Constitution carried slavery into the terri
tories. 1t was the Republican doctrine that
Congress had the power to keep slavery out
Of the territories, and ought to do it, that
there might be no doubt of their adopting
free constitutions. This was the old Wing
doctrine, and he was sorry to find old Wings
in the Democratic ranks fighting against it.
After the excitement of the campaign was
over, and Lincoln was elected, and the coun-
try was at peace, they would look obviously
at Squatter Sovereignty aud the Slave Code
and perhaps experience the horror and
Of that tipsy gentleman, who
vomited one night into basket of gosiings,
yet to keep warm upon the hearth, and ex-
claimed, when light was brought and the
goslings discovered, 'Good God" wife,
when did swallow them things.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
AerIcuIturaI CIrcular.

Iowa STATE Aa'L Soc'Y, SEo's OFFICE,
MuscATlNE, Oct. %, 1850.
The following premiums will be awarded
at the meeting Of the Board of Directors, on
the second Wednesday of January next, and
entries may be made up to that time In
all cases whore the parties were not exhib.
itors at the last State Fair, one dollar must
accompany the entry:
No. 64-SoRoHUM AND IxPHRE AND THEIR
PRoDUCTs.
Best 5 lbs sugar manufactured from
either variety of this plant Dip. and $25
Best pint Of syrup, Dip. and IL
I'd best do, =re ssl y-e-s fa ~
The sugar shall be fair sample of
bulk of not less than Is pounds; and the
syrup of not less than 10 gallons; and in
all cases the competitors shall make afdda-
Wit Of this fact, and furnish full, detailed
and satisfactory account of the process of
manufacture.
No. 65-EssAYs.
Best treatise on rearing and managing
cattle on the prairies of Iowa, Dip. and $40
Best treatise on rearing and managing
horses and mules in Iowa, Dip. and 10
Best treatise on the various breeds of
sheep, and their adaptation to the
prairies, Dip. and 10
Best treatise on the transplantjng and
culture of evergreens on the prairies,
Dip. and 10
Each treatise should not exceed ten pages
of the volume Of the Transactions of the
Iowa State Agricultural Society,
Best treatise on the cultivation of tame
grasses in Iowa, Dip. and $40
Best treatise on the rearing of swine in
Iowa, Dip. and $40
Best treatise on hedging in Iowa, Dip. 10
Beet treats, on the cultivation of tim
Der in Iowa, Dip. and 10
Best treatise on fruit trees in Iowa, Dip. 10
The samples of sugar and syrup must be
forwarded to Desmoines at the expense Of
the competitor; and the essays may be sent
to the Secretary by mail. either at Musoatine
or Desmoines.
The contributions to the department of
essays have always been very meagre, and
it Is hoped that as the time for making
entries has been extended to January We
may have quite number of good, practical
papers from practical men. ..-.
Will the press please give the above .
general circulation9 j. H. WALLACE,
Iowa State Ag'l Soc'y.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
Reasons for Fusion
in New York.

The Breckenridge Executive Committee o.
the State of New York have issued an address
exhorting their followers to support the last
edition Of fusion tickets in New York. They
recommend it because they think the success
of that ticket in New York will throw the
election into the House, and, of course, result
in the choice Of Lane. In abiding to the
refusal to concede ten electors instead of seven
to the Breckinridgers, the Committee say:
Filling, then, to obtain any concession
from the Douglas aid Bell men, we consider
it good policy to adopt their complete electoral
ticket for our own purposes. We turn their
batteries against themselves. We occupy
their own ground. We make them our allies
in spite of themselves. We compel them to
be involuntary CONDUCTORS in the election of
our Presidential candidates, unless they resort
to the treacherous alternative of defeating
their own Electors The slight and temporary
modification involved in our voting for some
of our ancient and implacable foes must be
forgotten in contemplating. the national
advantages which are thus insured"
Here is another harmonious extract:
''It is easy to perceive that we alone repre-
sent in this State the National Democratic
principles and cause. After the present cam
paign, the National Democracy, sustaining
the platform of the Convention of the Mary
land Institute, will be alone left in the field
in opposition to Abolition Republicanism.
The baffled and defeated champion of Squatter
Sovereignty, standing alone in the U. S.
Senate, repudiated by both parties, and with
out a solitary vote to back his own, will be an
object of pity rather than apprehension-a
monument of unregulated ambition to testify
the fate of demagogues. He will have de.
graded the white robe of candidacy, with no
result but stern popular rebuke. His example
will teach lesson in the decencies of politics
not soon to be forgotten. Henceforth, aspir-
ants for the first and noblest Office in the
world will refrain from taking the stump to
trumpet forth their own monotonous praises,
and bespatter their opponents with epithets.
They will shrink from playing the political
mountebank throughout the Union, and
await, in calmness and retirement, the popular
verdict which must decide upon their merits.
With the extinguishment of Senator Douglas
must come the dissolution of his band of
followers"
There is brotherly love for you, and pro-
found esteem for the Presidential candidate
for whom the Committee advise their friends
to cast the larger fraction of their vote.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

TIE BELLEvERETrs NowHERE.-The Gin
cinnati Times foots up the entire Bell-Everett
vote in fiftyfour counties, at the late election,
as s,237. In the same counties, it gives the
Fillmore vote of 1856 as . ,4S6-a loss of
1929, or nearly too-thirds of the whole
American strength! That party has evidently
seen its best DAYS.
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Douglas Compliments to BreeIxin-
ridge Men!

Douglas Compliments to Breekin.
ridge Men!
The following are some of the expressions
used by the Douglas Democrats in Ohio, New
York and Pennsylvania. We commend them
to the perusal Of the Breckenridge men in
this State. One thing is certain the Brock
inridge men take all the abuse very coolly.
They know very we'll that, after this election,
they will have the Douglas men at their
mercy, and they do not hesitate to proclaim
their intention to be to bring tho rebels down
on their marrow bones to beg for quarter, and
to crush those who resist the humiliation to
powder. Tho Breckenridge party will, the
day after the election, have the sole, undivided
control of the Democratic organization. They
will have Mr.. Douglas and his followers COM
pletely at their mercy. And, if they don't
put them through course of "hickory
sprouts which will make the Douglas boys
see stars, it will not be because they have not
the will and the power, but it will be because
they will no. be able to find Douglas man
after the election. Leave out few simple,
foolish minded chaps, who "haven't got the
hang of the ropes" and you will find all the
knowing ones in the Democratic ranks in this
city supporting Douglas under protest, and
putting themselves in such a position that,
Immediately after the election, they can walk
right over into the regular Democratic organ.
ization and deny that they ever were Dousla
Democrats at heart. If you doubt this,
reader, just keep your eyes open and watch
the movements Of the most shrewd and
prominent Democratic politicians of this town.
But here comes some choice specimens OF
Democratic harmony. The Indianapolis
Guard prints the following expressions OF
rage against the National Democracy, uttered
by sundry Douglas orators and papers in Ohio.
1t looks as if the Douglasites We're losing
their temper at the prospect Of humiliation
eve will give these Breckenridge devils a
little hell after the October election" IS. S.
Cox.
"These Breckenridge men should, every
oAe VI theiu, have IueN III tuTOaLS CUT.
Judge Rankin.
"They are the greatest set of rascals
unhung." james Haddock Smith.
Let the boiling scoundre!s 60; their room
is better than their company."-Gen Geiger.
Z" would rather see Lincoln elected than
Breckenridge. Thomas Miller.
81 will never vote for Breckenridge man
while ve."-Jacob Reinhard.
a Breckenridge ratification meeting-a
couple of niggers." y Ohio Statesman.
81 prefer the election of Abraham Lincoln
to that of John c. Breckenridge, if compelled
to choose. ~ Edison B. Odds.
To these we add the following on the
Breckinrdge side:
:" So help me Heaoen, IAad rather cote for
-ur. lincoln, tonight, than for Stephen 4.
Douglas. john L. BRADY, of New York.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

Member Of Board of Education.
The Republicans of Clinton county having
put in nomination DANIEL w. BILLS, of
Lyons, for the vacancy in the Board of Edu-
cation from this District, We place his name
at the head Of our columns. Mr.. ELLIS, we
understand is gentleman we'll qualified in
every respect for this position.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

EThe "fcsion'' proposed at Davenport
has been finally exploded by the fiat refusal
of Mr.. Altman, Chairman of the Douglas
wing, to go into it. Mr.. Corbin, of the
Breckenridge Committee, was willing to
"fuse.' The Bell man didn't answer to the
proposition, and probably has not yet made
up his mind. The thing is dead, however
and still the country is safe.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
@r There is no longer a contest in Iii

Va There is no longer a CO ntest in Iii
nois on the Presidential question. 1t is con.
ceded that the electoral vote of the State
will be given 70 Lincoln. The contest re-
naming which will give interest to the
State election is as to the Legislature, which
will have to elect an U. 8. Senator in the
place of Trumbull, and to make the new
Congressional apportionment.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
The CATHOLIC Press AGAINST THE T EMpo

The CATHOLIC Press AGAINST THE EMPoR.
AL Power OF TIE PoPs.-Articles in Broun-
sons Reuiew and the Freeman's Journa,
join in the cry for the unity of Italy and
the success of the revolution, asking the
Pope, for the good Of his native country, to
leave the ranks of temporal rulers. The
Roman Catholic press has caught the inspir-
alton Of liberty, andin disregard of Bishops,
has plead for humanity against despotism
and The Pope. .--..-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

ALL BREcKINRIDGE MEN.-It is stated on
the authority of Col. Forney, Of the Phila.
dslpia Press, that the Eve Democrats elected
to Congress in Pennsylvania are all Brock
inridge men.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

~At the Newark On. J.) election we
notice the Republicans carried the Board of
Education, and the Democrats the Board for
granting liquor licenses. Each party looked
out for what it was most interested in,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

= Only ten working days intervene from this
time till the election. Republicans, keep
actively at work! Your glorious principles
are worth contending for. Victory is almost
ours! five remain firm and do our duty, it
is sure! 81
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

"A man out west threw quantity Of
powder on some wood to facilitate its burn
ing, and was blown to pieces. Verdict
Died for pa mt Of common sense. a1
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
RreckinridRe Meeting.

The Breckenridge wing of the Democratic
Church hold meeting at the Court House,
this FRIDAY night, and also on Tuesday night
of nextw Eminent speakers from abroad
are expected to be in attendance. We have
no sympathy with either faction in this Kill
kenny fight of the Democratic cats. We do
not admire the intensely doughface principles
of the Breckenridge party, North; and we
have q sovereign contempt for the want Of
principle of the Douglas faction. confess
also, to sore disappointment at the failure Of
their attempted fusion at Davenport. We
hoped that tie "fusion' would have gone on,
but instead it has gone off. If they had
succeeded, we would have whipped them by
about $1,000 majority in this State; Whereas
now, we must put up with $4,000. But,
Notwithstanding, we are by no means glad to
see the fight between these two halves Of the
Democratic body. We have quite curiosity
to see their meeting, Tuesday evening Of next
week; and we advise all persons to 60 to 1t
You will never cease to regret, to the end Of
your lives, the loss of such a sight as that
meeting will present. Such a sight it will
never, to all eternity, be possible to see again,
north of the cotton and sugar plantations.
1t will be thing to repeat to your children
and your grand children, and they will regard
you, while telling it, with greater wonder and
surprise than we would now regard man
who had been an actual spectator Of the old
black-robed inquisitors sitting round Calico
and sentencing him to be burned because he
thought that the earth went round the SUM-
1t will be the last meeting Of PRo-SLAvER1
DEMOCRATS that UsU be visible to the naked ey|
north of Mason and Dixon's line.
Turn out and see them!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
VERMoNT.-The following is the official
vote for Governor at the late election
Whole number of votes, 1876
Erastus Fairbanks has 34,1S5
J. e. SAKE (Doup Dem II 1915

y. VI CdAe (DUug. Oe1H. II,Io0
Bob't Harvey, (Breck. Dem.) 2,l15
Fairbanks over SAKE, % 1889 - over all
1924
1t ought to be known, perhaps, that of the
scattering, eleven were for John Wheeler,
and are supposed to indicate correctly the
strength of the Bell-Everett party of that
that State:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
IOWA NEWS.

R. W. Patterson, an old and respected
citizen of Burlington, died few days ago.
Owen Lovejoy is to speak at Burlington
on Saturday Of this week.
SUIclDE.-Miss Frank Bowen. of Oska-
loosa, committed suicide at the residence of
her father on the 10th inst. by taking stryeh.
nine. She fingered only about half an hour
after taking the fatal poison. Medical aid
was summoned, but proved of no avail. The
caase of the rash act as yet emains secret.
EXECUTION AT DUBUQUE. Daniel Clifford,
who, together with man named Mooney,
robbed and murdered Mr. Wood, mineral
Dubuque, about year ago, was hanged in
the Jail of that city on Friday, 18th inst.
Fathers Donelan and Dur win attended him
to the scaffold. He made no speech but re-
pented of bis crimes, ard died an apparently
easy death. He was about Is years of age,
and has wealthy and respectable relatives in
Ohio. Mooney has taken appeal, and has
been granted new trial.
"A great Republican mass meeting was
held at Fairfield on Wednesday OF last week.
The number of people in attendance was
about 10000, including $500 Wide Aw axes,
Rangers and Minute men. Hon. W. P.
Thomson, of Chicago, John A. Kasson,
Esq, and Senator Harlan, of Iowa, spoke
from one place; Governor Kirkwood, Col
A. Sanders, of Iowa, and Mr.. Kramer, Of
Michigan, spoke from the second; and Sen.
ator Grimes and J. ". Rankin from the
third. 1t was the opinion Of well.informed
persons present that Lincoln would carry the
State by 10000 majority, and Curtis the
District, by 1900 majority. We do not
doubt it.
The Burlington Hawkeye says the putrid
sore throat (probably Diptheria) has destroy
ed many lives in that eighborhood. and has
now attacked persons in that city. Rev. A.
A. Sellers, of that place, recommends the
following remedy, vouching for its effective.
ness in most cases:
Reeeipt.-One :ea-spoouful Cayenne pep
per, one tea. spoonful Baberry, put into half
pint warm water. Take one tea.srconful
every half hour.
Mouth Wash.-White oak bark, sage and
alum boiled to syrup; use as gargle three
or four times per day y; warranted to cure
nine times out of ten.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

Pennsylvania Official.
The official canvass Of Pennsylvania reveals
a Republican majority of 80, Os4 for Curtin
The total vote is ~ follows:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

u In Ohio a Black Republican judge,
Brinkerhof, has given a decision that makes
ID 900 negro voters in that State. Brinker.
hoff is now reelected by these $4,000 negro
votes.-4H the Doughfacs Organs.
Now what is the truth in regard to this
matter Under the Constitution of Ohio
framed by Democratic Convention and
adopted when the Democracy was in the as
cendant, it was decided by Judge Wood, at.
forwards elected Governor of the State by
the Democracy that ali persons of less than
half negro blood were entitled to vote.
The Constitution was Democratic, the de-
cison was Democratic, and was endorsed by
the party in the subsequent election of the
Judge who made it to the Chief Magistracy
Of the State. TIE decision made by Judge
Brinkefhof, of which so much complaint is
made, was in reference to the "Oberlin
Rescuers."
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WEEKLY JOURNAL

WEEKLY JOURNAL
OlrY OF MUsCATlNK:
FRIDAY, ::::::: OCT. 26, 1860.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,
Abraham Lincoln.
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Hannibal llNnllill,
Presidential Electors.
AT LARGE.
F. II. WARREN, of Desmoines
J. A. CIAPLINE, Of Dubuque.
DISTRICTS.
lss-M. L. MCPHERSON, of Madison.
2d-CHAS. POMEROY, of Booze.
State Ticket.
For Secretary Of State,
ELIJAH SELLS, of Muscatine.
For Auditor OF State,
J. W. CATTELL, of Cedar.
For Treasurer Of State,
JOHN W. JONES, Of Hardin.
For Register Of the State Land Office,
AMOS D. MILLER, of Cerro Gordo,
For Attorney General,
G. G. NOURSE, of Polk.
For Supreme Judge,
G. G. WRIGHT, Of Van Buren,.
For Congress I'D DISTRICT
WIN. VANDEVER, of Dubuque.
For Member of Board of Education, 9th Judicial
District,)
DANIEL w. ELLIS, of Clinton.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

Tie WHEAT CsoP OF 1860 The New
York World estimates the wheat crop in the
Northwestern States produced this year as
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

In 1856 the vote of Pennsylvania was,
Buchanan, 2sO,772; Fremont, l47, 1863 /; Fill
more, S2,207.
The Legislature stands as follows:
Ssnate-Rep. q Dem. g
House-Rep. II Dem 20
Joint ballot SO 30
Republican majority GO.
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County Ticket.

For Clerk of the District Court,
CHARLES s. FOSTER.