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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

A UNION CANDIDArR-EDwARD EVERETT
ABOUT TO BE MARR1Ep.-Yhe New York cor.
respondent of the Buffalo Consnss1 oA-lStwrites.
Hon. Edward Everett. it is pretty well
understood here, is going to do a much
mere sensible thing than heading the for.
lorn hope of forlorn political party
which hasn't even the ghost of chance
Of ever making him President of the
United States-that is to say he is going to
take unto himself a wife. The lady is a
South Garolinian, and enjoys very respect
table literary reputation there. The time
for the nuptials is not definitely fixed yet,
but it will probably be about Christmas.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
From Pixies Peak.-.GOv. Seward.

ST.. JOSEPH, Sept, 20.
The Pixies Peak Express arrivedlast night
with the small treasure shipment of 81 $40.
The Company hereafter will have messen-
ger on the coach tri>weekly. Many owner 8
of quartz mills, who two months ago became
wholly discouraged, and considered they
had lost all they had brought, are now SAM
guine Of success, and are now making two
hundred dollars or more per week. At last
accounts about twenty teams had left Denver
for the States, many of whom were intend
ing to return in the Spring to locate farms
or develop their gold and silver leads with
proper equipments.
The weather at Denver was very cold,
with an occasional fall of snow, the miners
not being able to commence operations be
fore nine o'clock A. NJ, on account of ice.-
The winter is rapidly approaching.
Trains consisting of merchandise have
left here this week to the number Of 3d.
More are preparing to leave.
Gov. Seward arrived last night and left
this morning for the East, making no speech.
Weather cool and cloudy.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

WHAT 1T O0sTs TO BIZ LlNooLN MAN
Down SoUru.-A man in Vicksburg, Miss,
expressed himself in favor of Mr.. Lincoln.
What happened to him il thus narrated by
the Vicksburg Sun:
"When last heard Of, the Lincolnite who
gave his opinions an airing so freely in our
city on Monday, and who for so doing was
sent adrift on the Mississippi river, after
being we'll tarred, was about twenty miles
from here, slowly progressing towards New
Orleans, in mid river. A stout cord and
strong limb is the only fit punishment for
such incendiaries of evil"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
[For the Journal
Calunlny Refuted.
FAIRpoRr. iowa. Oct. 8.

FAIRPoRT, IOWA, Oct. 5, 16oU.
On the 14th evening of last m ,nth, at
Democratic meeting held in the Chambers
school house, l am reported to have said
that "would sleep with any Niger" &c.
Now say that this is false statement, and
the originators of 1t know it to be so, for
never used such language either three or
anywhere else.
Messrs. Chambers and McKibLen made
several attempts to nisrepresent me at said
meeting in my presence but they tailed, for
would not allow it while was there with
them, but it appears what they could not
succeed in before my face they have accom-
plished behind my back, and l suppose their
names add weight to their story with people
of like minds, who love error more than
truth. But all men are not of this character.
Though they offer, yet they honestly differ,
and prefer truth to party
Those who wish fer witnesses as to the
truth of what say refer to DR.. A. Love,
I. Spencer. j. Sparks, j. Middleton, j. O.
Weaver, J. Anderson, W. K. Tiles and r.
Patterson, who were present at the time and
understand the matter as have here stated
it.
Now should have treated this piece of
scandal with silent contempt had they con-
fined it to myself, but this does not answer
their purpose, for they are throwing it in the
face of the Republican party, and trying to
hold them responsible for my private notions.
told them at their meeting, that did no t
belong to any party, but was a free-thinker
on all subjects, and voted, as think all men
should, for whom they see fit. l told
them that voted for Buchanan because I
then thought that he was the best one of the
two in the field. Now, have made up my
mind that Lincoln is the best one of the
three-not only in point Of honesty, but also
in deep penetration Of Thought, wit and
craftsmanship and above all this that he is
unflinchinglY attached to the maintenance
of the Union. No matter whether he, John,
Jack or Steve is elected, this Is ore plank in
the Republican platform on which he stands
that is not found in either wing Of the DEM
ocracy of the day. These I told them were
the chief reasons that I, as private citizen,
should give my suffrage to Lincoln.
In conclusion 1 would say that I, and
alone was responsible for what said or may
say; and think if men want to make DEM
ocratic proselytes, i. would be far better for
them to attack the Republican platform than
any thing else for this think is the chief
exponent OF Republican sentiments, which
men of minor political notions are called on
to rally around, and thirk that when the
brag guns of the opposing enemy make use
of false cartridge and shoot at str.ws, that
they would do better credit to their cause
asd themselves to retire at once from the
field of action and got at some other more
successful business, for such persons evident
ly mistake their true genius, which is to
make impressions on raw matter, not o..
mind JAMES JOHNSON.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

SENATOR Brown ON L1NcoLN.--Hon. Albert
q. Brown, United States Senator from Miss
issippi. made speech at Crystal Spring, in
that State, on the 9th ult. He announced
that he should vote for Breckenridge, although
he has been heretofore known as Douglasite.
Of Mr.. Lincoln he said:
81 served q single term in Congress with
Mr.. Lincoln. My estimate Of him is that he
is bold, outspoken man, whose opinions can
be had for the simple trouble Of asking for
them. He has strong native intellect. without
much of what college people call learning.
He has made man his study, and he has
mastered his subject"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
Baltimore Patriot.

F. G. Evans, one of the oldest and ablest
editors of this sterling and influential journal,
recently made a speech at the Stuyvesant
Institute, in New York, in favor of Lincoln.
We commend it to the careful perusal Of all
our readers. As the utterance of the ablest,
most sincere and most prominent editor Of the
South, it has, at this juncture, peculiar signi-
fcance. 1t shows conclusively two facts in
the tendency of the honest, conservative
minds of the South:
1st. 1t shows that the syRpathies of very
large and influential class of Southern citizens
is warmly and eagerly enlisted in the Repub
lican cause. This is just what we have pre-
dicted again and again. All the persecution
and prescription exercised towards Republic
anism, South, will only render the party
there-when it does finally, as it surely will,
burst the despotic trammels now sought to be
imposed on it there by rowdyism and
rufiianism which meets no countenance at
heart from the principal portion of Southern
communities more enthusiastic and devoted
to Republican principles than any part of the
party, North.
Cd. 1t shows that the Southern people will
take care themselves of their own disunionists
We never have liked, but have always dis.
approved of holding forth or limiting, in the
slightest degree, at the idea that Northern
arms would, in any contingency, be used to
intimidate Southern disunionists. The prin-
ciple embodied in the idea is not right, and,
in the second place, it will never be needed.
There has been some provocation to retaliate
in this manner upon Southern threats; but
the fact is that both the threats and the
retaliation are foolish, uncalled for and injuri-
Gus. If, after "Old Abe's" election, any
portion of the Southern community should be
so mad as to attempt forcible resistance to
his Administration, the people of the South
will themselves put down and punish the
crazy fanatics. The farther this campaign
progresses, the more firmly are we convinced
that the effect of Lincoln's election will be to
form a closer and more inalienable brother
hood between the people of the North and
South. Such men as Clay, Davis, Evans,
Blair, and a host of others, will lead Free
Republican party there which will control the
whole South, make it once more land of free
speech, safe travel and friendly intercourse
with all other parts of the Union, and event
ually restore it, Free South united with a
Free North in indissoluble Union, to the old
paths of rectitude, justice, liberty and peace
pointed out by the fathers.
Read Mr.. Evans remarks, elsewhere.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

DOUGLAS PRoPosINa TO BEcoNs A RrpUB-
LcAN.-The Washington Constitution has
repeatedly published the following state
ment made by Senator Trumbull, and chal-
lenges denial of its truth, yetit remains un-
disputed
Mr.. Douglas called on Mr.. Covode, q Re-
publican member from Pennsylvania, and
requested him to 60 to Trumbull and get
him to agree that he, Mr.. Douglas, should
be returned to the Senate by the Republi-
cans of illinois, and in consideration there
Of he would fight the Republican battles in
1860. @.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
County Ticket:
For Clerk of the District Court,
CHARLES s. FOSTER.
Our Enlargement.


The JOURNAL appears, this morning, with
enlarged limits and new head. Under many
discouraging circumstances and much pecu-
mary pressure, the proprietors Of the JOURNAL
have, with strict economy and much self
sacrifice, devoted the entire earnings of the
paper, over their support, for several years
past, to its improvement. -four readers will
compare the JOURNAL, to-day, in amount and
quality of reading matter, telegraphic news,
market reports, and in appearance, with any
paper that has before been printed or is now
printed in the county, they will be sensible of
the truth of our remarks as to the improve
ment of the paper.
The WEEKLY JOURNAL is now much the
largest paper in the county, and is equal, in
size and appearance, to any other weekly in
the State. Our daily paper we have not
hitherto, in the midst of ether imperative
expenses and of the hard times, felt able to
enlarge. But with the general improve,
ment of the times, and with materia'
increase of our advertising patronage and
circulation rendering an enlargement neces-
sary, we now present the DAILY JOURNAL in
IN enlarged form, equal in size, and, we
believe, in its news and ell other departments,
to any daily in the State. While we return
CUR sincere and hearty acknowledgements to
the public through whose patronage we have
thus succeeded, net only in weathering the
first trials which always meet any newspaper
enterprise in its commencement and in a
thinly-settled county, but to advance with the
county and grow with its growth, we are not
blind TO the fact that the success and improve
ment of the JOURNAL as a newspaper is as
much to the benefit of this city and county as
that Of its proprietors. 1t is also an equally
great advantage to the party whose organ it is.
We therefore say to all our citizens and
patrons that, as they encourage and pay US
for our labor, we will faithfully, in proportion
to that encouragement, devote all the proceeds
of the paper that we can to its improvement
in size, appearance and in quality; so that it
shall increase yearly in interest and value to
whole public.
To our friends in the county we repeat what
we have before said: Our increase in circu-
lation is to your advantage. EVERY such
increase strengthens our power as journal,
and consequently our ability to work for the
party. We ought to have at least six hundred
more subscribers in the county. We present
you with all the Geographic and market
reports now in advance of any newspaper that
you can receive here. Our paper is richly
worth its subscription price to any man.
We request our friends over the county and
State to render US and the public one service,
Of which they themselves will receive the
benefit; that is, to communicate to the
JOURNAL, in brief letters, any item Of news
that may transpire in their neighborhoods.
We will publish all such correspondence, and
the result will be benefit both to our cores
pondents and the public.-Dailg, 3D..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

JOHNSON A DIsUNIoNIsr.--In his Parkers-
burg speech, Senator Green, of Missouri,
alluded to II. V. johnson as follows:
"They bring charge against John @.
Breckenridge of being disunionist. Now,
gentlemen, who is upon this ticket with
Stephen A. Douglas as keeper of their broad
seal? Mr.. Herschel V. johnson, who, few
years since, ran for Governor on the secession
ticket; and my friend Howell Cobb had to 20
down to Georgia, and, by running on the
Union ticket, whip Herschel v. johnson, the
Disunionist, from the course. And yet those
who pretend to object to John G. Breckenridge,
because of his disunion proclivitics, place the
acknowledged and rabid disunionist, Herschel
V. johnson, in the second post of honor in
their affections u
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
Trial of u SLAYER.

H- - lreg Il BOSTON, Ocs. l.
Thomas ]. Morgan, the captain, and Byron
j. Chamberlin and VIM. Durham, the mates,
of the barque Orion, were arraigned IN the
U. S. Court, this morning, on the charge Of
being engaged in the slave trade. At the
request of our Government, the British
authorities have ordered Paymaster Hay and
Mr.. Lamb, gunner, of the British steamer
Pluto, to attend the trial as witnesses, the
Pluto having captured the Orion on the coast
of Africa, with 600 negroes on board.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

The lRRRPRRssIBLE CoNFLIcT.-The home
organ of Mr.. Douglas, the Chicago Times
and Herald, in late issue, holds the fol-
lowing remarkable language.
'Let free labor have o chance for fair
stand.up fight with slave labor, untrammel-
ed by political envy and partizan passion
and just as sure as free labor is stronger
and better than slave labor, inst that sure
will slave labor perish out from its path.
way"
This ia the ssirrepressible conflict" stated
in different words. The idea is the same.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

- The Charleston Mercury has expressed
its disapprobation of these Union sentiments
of Judge Douglas very plainly, but a cores
pondent of that notification journal is more
enraged even than the journal, and discourses
as follows:
''Mr. Douglas, upon the back of this inso-
lent assertion of his, cannot possibly make a
speech in South Carolina. His voice will not
be tolerated in this State-even though it be
"a free country" 1t is more than the whole.
some condition of his skin is worth. He
would be kicked from any stump in the State.
The cry of shame from every quarter of the
South should rise up against Virginia, that
she has not only permitted her soil to be
desecrated by the bullying threats of violence
against her Southern sister States, but men
have been found there-found in masses-to
boot on this Western BLACKBOARD with their
cowardly shouts Of applause. Shame shame!
upon poor old Virginia. Who could have
thought she would have come to this?"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
Capture of Another SLAYER.

New York, Oct. 8.
The ship Erie, of New York, arrived, to-day,
from Monrovia. She was captured on the
coast of Africa, by the steamer Mohican, with
900 slaves. $50 were landed at Monrovia,
and 80 died ON the passage from the coast.
The Erie is in charge of Lieut.. Darringto n,
who has three prisoners, supposed to be the
captain and first and second mates.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

The EFFECT OF DOUGLAS Tour THROUGH
OH1o.-If the tour of Douglas through Indi-
ana has like results with that he has Just
finished in Ohio, we congratulate our friends
there, on the important aid they are about
to receive. So far from making any con.
verts here, Douglas-all the more for the
dampened the srdor of his sup
porters. He has improved our prospects
about 5000 votes. Douglas is very nearly
played out. johnson will give the finishing
touch next week, if he will only repeat his
insolent Pittsburgh speech. The work goes
bravely Cincinnati Gazette.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
Accident Oh the Pennsylvania
Central Railway.

IIIISDURdH3 I a., OePEs lSs
The train due here this afternoon, from
the East, on the Pennsylvania Central Rail-
road, when about mile east of Stewards
Station, near Queensburg, met with an acct
dent. One passenger car went ever an en-
banknent of l8 or 20 feet, the top of the car
parting from the bottom. From 20 to 80
passengers were injured-two or three seri-
ously. The brakeman, Thos. Stearns, will
probably die.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
New York State Fair.

ELMIRA, Oct 3.
The crowd at the State Fair to day is very
great. The weather is fine and the exhibit
ton splendid. A trot between Flora Temple
and Geo. N. Patchen takes place this after
noon, and will be repeated OH Friday 1t is
probable that the Fair will be continued
until Friday night.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
The IRREpREss1BLE CoNFL1cT.-Gov. Seward,

The IRREPREss1BLE CoNFLIcr.-Gov. Seward,
in his Lansing speech, gives the following
illustration of the "irrepressible conflict"
els there man in the State of Michigan
who would be willing, to-day, that there
should exist one single, solitary slave, obliged
and bound to perform involuntary labor within
the State of Michigan? If l take out free
man and put in slave, what happens? More
than the loss of an enterprising and useful
citizen the loss Of virtue-the loss of the
spirit and energy that exists only with entire
freedom. Let /. once be understood that
slavery may exist here, and all the emigrants
would desert Michigan at once. The two
systems Of labor cannot exist as permanent
form of civilization. There is an irrepresslble
conflict. Introduce slavery, and you expel
Freedom. Introduce Freedom, and Slavery
will, sooner or later, die.
"Now, from the beginning Of my existence
in politics, l have seen this conflict, and
have considered that my bounden duty as a
patriot was to see to it, solar as it depended
upon my action, that every new State should
be Free State, and to diminish it in the
Slave States, so far as, constitutionally, it
could be DONE"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

WORKING MEN, REMEMBBR, that Herschel
V. johnson, the Douglas candidate for Vice
President, calls you slaves. In his Pittsburg
speech he says -, -.
sLOOK AT THE SLAVES IN YOUR
WORKSHOPS THEY ARE DRIVEN TO
THE POLLS AT THE BECK OF THEIR
MASTERS UNDER PENALTY OF BEING
DISCHARGED p
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
0ov.sEWARD At CHICAGO.
Over 100, 900 Strangers i'm the City!
5000 o. 1000 Vide Awakes in Procession i!

The Republican demonstration at Chicago,
on Tuesday last, appears to have been the
largest gathering yet held in the West. The
Evening Journal calculates the number OF
strangers in the city at not less than loo, 600.
The speaking was announced to be in the
great Wigwam, but, on account Of the i'm
mense crowd, it took place in an open space
near that locality. In the evening, the city
was brilliant with Wide Awake torches and
fireworks. 1t is calculated that between
5000 and 1000 Wide Awakes were in the
procession.
While Gov. Seward was on his way from
st. Louis to Chicago, he made . short speech
as the train halted at Springfield, the home Of
Mr.. Lincoln. Upon concluding, Mr.. Lincoln,
who was present, pressed forward and shook
Gov. Seward most cordially by the hand, and
introduced others. The train then departed.
Lincoln Oh DisuMiOM.
The bold and patriotic words given below
were uttered by our standard bearer, in a
speech made at Leavenworth, Kansas, last
Winter, when Democrats in Congress were
crying so loudly for disunion. They show
Lincoln to be man of the Jacksonian stamp
-one whose perceptions Of right and wrong
are strong and clear, and who will enforce the
laws and maintain the Union at all hazards
"You Democrats greatly fear the success of
the Republicans would destroy the Union.
Why? Do the Republicans declare against
the Union? Nothing like it. Your own
statement of it is that, if the Black Republicans
elect q President, you won't stand it. You
will break up the Union. That will be your
act, not ours. To justify it, you must show
that our policy gives you just cause for such
desperate action. Can you do that? When
you attempt it, you will find that our policy
is exactly the policy of the men that made the
Union nothing more nor nothing less. Do
you think you are justified to break up the
Government rather than have it administered
as it was administered by Washington, and
other good and great men, who made it, and
first administered it? If you do, you are
very unreasonable, and more reasonable men
cannot and will not submit to you. While
you elect Presidents, We submit, neither
breaking or attempting to break up the Union.
If we shall co1stitutionally elect President,
it will be our duty to see that you shall submit.
Old John Brown has just been hung for
treason against State. We cannot object,
even though he thought slavery was wrong.
That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed and
treason. 1t could avail him nothing that he
might think himself right. So, if constitu-
tiona!ly we elect President, and therefore
you undertake to destroy the Union, 1t soi1 BE-
our duty to deal aoith you as Old John Broom
has BEN dealt acith. We shall try to do our
duty. We hope and believe that in no section
will minority so act as to render such
extreme measures necessary"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

~ We commend the following to those
Douglasites who are prating about disunion
and secessionists:
"The righto secession must be maintained.
It is the last, the only hope of the South"
Thus wrote Herschel Y. johnson, now Of
the electioneering firm of "Douglas 4 john
son." on August 80, 1851, to Robert White
and others.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

~The Douglasites accuse the Republi-
cans OF being . lone idea party"
Take the popular Sovereignty" humbug
away from Douglasism, and what ssides" will
there be left in it, Chicago Journal.
The bred Scott decision has taken it away
already, and Wickliffe has finished the
business. ~
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05
Fatal Explosion.

PHILA DELPHIA, Oct. 3.
The boiler in the Preston Mills, at Mana
yunk, exploded this morning, scalding
several operatives, one of them fatally.
considerable damage was done to property
belonging to the Mills.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-05

PExxsYLvAN1A.-The Pittsburgh Gazette
saws there are one hundred and forty six
papers in that State, now supporting the Re-
publican candidates, which opposed Fremont
and the Republican party in 1856. Of all the
Fillmore papers, there are, says the Gazette,
hat two which now support Bell and Everett.
Lincoln is sure of an overwhelming majority
in the old Keystone State.