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

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pie, and the Sardinians would at once occupy
Rome.
IOW4 NETS.
The population of Dubuque being 49,
500, it claims to be the largest city in Iowa.
Edward Warner, of Dubuque, was one
Of the lost on board the Lady Elsin. lie was
90 years Of age.
CEDAR VALLEY RAILRoAD. The Railroad
up the Valley of the Cedar from Cedar Falls
is in progress Of construction and is expected
to be in running order to Waverly by the
first Of May next.
Iowa TAKES THE PREMluM-The first pre-
MUM, 800, for the best Devon Bull and
two cows or heifers, was taken by 9. D. Bent,
of Iowa City, at the St. Louis Fair, held last
week. The same gentleman took the second
premium also.
CASHMERE GoATs.-John NJ. Cannon, of
Scott county, has just introduced animals of
this species into our State. He procured two
young ones, buck and eve, at the United
States Fair, Cincinnati. There can be scarce.
ly doubt that the climate of Iowa will
agree with them. Their wool brings ten
dollars per pound
| SCIENCE IN Iowa. - W. P. Nicho lson, of
the U. s. Coast Survey, has been employed
by the Smithsonian Institute to investigate
the causes of the late tornado in this State,
and TO collect information respecting them.
Mr.. Nicholson is said to be very compe tent
for the performance Of Che duty, sothat sci
entic light will probably be cast upon the
destructive phenomenon.
GREAT RAIN SToRM.-Rsin fell at Keokuk,
on Wednesday night of last week, to the
depth of 81 inches in as many hours ex-
ceedng anything ever before heard of in
that region. Bridges, culverts, &C., were
swept away, and a number Of houses inun-
dated. The railroad track was so badly dam
aged that trains were delayed day. The
river rose two feet by daylight. The rain
does not appear to have extended very far
from Keokuk in either direction.
Peter Hoffman, formerly of Burlington,
was killed at Pixies Peak recently in con-
test with person about claim. His muir.
derer was hung b. the miners. - Hawkeye.
Nh. EVANS SrEEcH.-A Republican Mass
Meeting was held at the Stuyvesant Institute,
New York, on Friday night, and was ad-
dressed by F. S. Evans, Esq, of the Balti-
more Patriot, and Hon. A. Oakley Hail.
We give IN extract from Mr.. Evans
speech:
Gas their chairman had said that he was
from the State where lived and died Charles
Carroll, of Carrolltoa, it afforded him pleas
ure to inform his audience that he had been
informed, and from source that was enti-
titled to the greatest credit, that the great
grandson of that Charles Carroll was with
them heart and hand. He wasa large plan
ter, lived near Baltimore, owned more
than sixty slaves, and there was no more
devoted friend of Lincoln than Mr.. Meta.
wish, the great.grandson Of Charles Carroll,
of Carrollton. The South had been repre-.
scented as almost urit in opposition to the
nominee of the Chicago Convention.
1t afforded him pleasure to be able to say
that there wei thousands in the South who
were in favor of the Republican nominees
Many were deferred from expressing their
opinion, butt Lincoln was elected the waters
would flow over the dam and we should be
brothers again. He was Southerner of the
third generation, and although member of
the American party, the principles of which
he still loves, he never made any secret in
Baltimore of his intention to vote for Lincoln
He should so vote q. d thousands there
with him. flo and his friends expected no
dissolution of this Union, and if there was
an attempt to oppose Mr.. Lincoln's admins
tration, all they asked was that it should be
left to the people of the South. They would
see that Lincoln had his rights lie and
those he acted with were known as members
of the opposition. He was constituent of
that noble man, Henry Winter Davis and
with him should ever oppose modern Dem
ocracy, and fight the corrupt fusion move
ment to the end
Although the SHOWS of age were settling
on him, he felt the old fire burning within
him, and he believed he should spend the
next six weeks in battling for the Repubi.
can ticket with all his strength. He had re
ceived an anonymous letter telling him that
unless he ceased to proclaim his attachment
for Lincoln he would be compelled to leave
Baltimore, and that he had told friend that |
live or die, survive or perish, if it was the
last act of his life, he would cast an open |
ballot for Lincoln and Hamlin.
For these sentiments, which he had freely |
in Baltimore as now in New Y ork, |
he had been made to feel the effects of polit-
ical persecution. This persecution extended
to his paper and efforts had been, and still
were making, to break it down.
He had expended nearly his all in this
cause, and but few days since he went to
an auctioneer and said to him, want you
to sell handsome three-story house, and
with the proceeds of this sale, shall try to
Keep the flag of the old Pat,iot. flying, the
defender of free speech and free conscience,
md the opponent of Democracy openly OF
masked" -NeD York Paper.
~ We commend the following to those
who are prating about disunion
md secessionists:
"The right of secession must be maintained.
t is the last, the only hope of the South"
Thus wrote Herschel Y. johnson, now of
he electioneering firm of douglas 4 john
on" on August 80, 1851, to Robert White
nd others. Il