Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-20
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~ The respectable sum of $3.50 was
paasls other day BY Arm in this city FOR a lot of
20 hogs the average weight of each being close on
to 800 lbs. That's what we call pretty decent
hogs --,
~ The meeting, proposed some time
since, to be held in fremont Hall. for the purpose
of aiding the circulation Of Helpers Crisis, has
been indefinitely postponed. 1t has since been
thought that the exertious of the Enquirer will be
sufficient for every practical purpose in the accom-
plishment of that object.
TQpqNrERFErrs. - A dispatch from Now
York states that the city has recently been flooded
with counterfeit $2s on the Bank of Kent 1t is
supposed that 900 of the money was got rid of
before the police were made aware. Some ofthis
money may find its way Westward
A "SH1xpLAsrEk"-Ih ompson's Bank Note
Reporter has "a strong suspicion that the Boone
County Bank Of Indiana, is worthless shinplaster'
if not dead swindle." -, .
~ We are in receipt of the Tribune
almanac for the year 1860. 1t is compiled and
prepared BY Mr.. ]. E. Cleveland, Of the N. Y. Trs'
6une, the gentleman who has had charge of it for
number Of years. In addition to the careful polt
ica tables for 1852 this number contains the actsn
Of Congress on the Homestead bill, record of the
opinions at the South regarding the foreign slave
trade, an historical sketch of affairs in Kansas,
brief review of the in Italy, the Constitution of
the United States, and the appropriations Of the
XXxvth Congress. For sale at the bookstores.
p@ 1t will be seen below that the course
of lectures instituted at the Oak Grove Schoolhouse
is continued with unaaggng interest. The move is
an excellent one, affording as it does the inhabit
ants Of the ''rural districts literary advantages
hardly inferior to those Of the city. Several
excellent lectures first delivered before the Liter
airy Institute here. have already been repeated
before that of Oak Grove, and, the next in ORDER
G. w. Van Horne, Esq, has consented to give his
magnificent discourse on Hugh Miller ("The Stone
mason of Cromarty and his Quarry") to which our
citizens have before been privileged to listen.
HEAVY HoGs.-We noticed, this morning,
in front of Messrs. Dunsmore l. Chambers store,
y
weight will rank with the best that have been
brought to this market One of the largest in the
lot regular mammoth, pulled the neat figure OF
$50 lbs another AL lbs, and Is weighed $50 lbs,
and over, each. The heaviest hogs, it would seem
are Just beginning to be brought in
( The above hogs, 70 in number, were raised and
fattened BY Mr. J. N. Harker, of this county, and
realized the sum of $47S.-Daily, 14h.
SUDDEN DEArH.-An Englishman, whose
name We did not learn but who has been employed
as engineer in Buffers pork house, died suddenly,
Yesterday, from the effects, as is supposed, Of an
ordinary cold. He recently became afflicted with
this very common and prevalent disorder. and
thought but little in reference to it, until it took
sudden turn for the worse and resulted fatally as
above stated The deceased leaving wife in rather
destitute condition, his fellow workmen raised
purse of some $50 and presented it to the widow to
defray funeral expenses, &c. Such conduct is de-
serving of general applause.-DaiIy, 18Th.
ME- The lectures of Hon. Thos. F. Mar
shall, Of Kentucky, the friend and contemporary Of
the immortal Clay, though attended by large
number of most intelligent citizens were not as
we'll patroniEed they deserved to be. The i'm
portant and wholly practicable ideas advanced
by him upon the social relations that may righte-
ously, SO far as it affects our responsibility to
sbiqher law" subsist between the States North and
South of Mason & Dixon's line, are in the main
precisely those laid down and spiked deep and fast
in the Republican latform: The fact cannot be
disguised. though Mr.. Marshall wishes it to remain
puzzling question, that he sympathisss with that
Platform to the degree of positive acquiescence!
And this is the lesson Of HISTORY. No wonder
the Democratic portion of his auditors look con-
fused, not knowing whether to censure or approve.
History tells sorry tale for them-ths story of
priceless trust betrayed, q country upon which the
favor of heaven had been bestowed, forced to the
verge of ruin But, we will not recall the harrow.
ing reflections.
We regret to state that Mr.. Marshall could not
be prevailed upon to deliver his European course
He lett the city to-day.-Daily, lsh.
How. Tuos. F. MARsHALL's CLOSING
Errour.-Mr. Marshall delivered his third and last
lecture of the course yesterday evening" to an au.
dience about the same in numbers as on the eve
nings previous. The speaker on this occasion
exerted his full strength and held his auditors in
rapt attention for the space OF nearly three hours
under the spell of his matchess eloquence. After
hastily recapitula:ng the results arrived at in his
previous discourses, he continued his invincible
argument drawn from the numerous and concur
rent precedents of history, establishing the right
and Imperative duty of Congress to exercise legs'
lative powers oyer the people OF territory. he
denounced, in terms of blistering invective and
overwhelming ridicule, the perfdious policy inau-
gurstsd in the Kansas Nebraska Bill characterizing
it as clumsy piece of political stupidity, legasating
civil war into the Territories, and exasperating the
people of one section against another without con-
ferring the least benefit upon either.
Mr.. Marshall entered into the discussion Of this
measure at length in ORDER as he said, to vim
dictate the memory of Henry Clay FROM the SIAN
derous imputation conveyed therein that, in the
compromises of 1850, he designed to abrogate the
Missouri Compromise and render its provisions
| 'inoperative and void" ,-.-r, ..--,s~
The legitimate consequences that have already
followed this unfortunate, "fated," and "terrl-
bly mschievous'' instrumental is melancholy
reflection what little talent is required to effect
great mischief - he thus enumerated: the bloody
civil strife in Kansas when, for the first time in
our country history its sweet domestic TRANQUILITY
was marred, tranquility of such long duration as
to which the history of the world furnishes no par
alel: the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the National (mark
that y Democratic party; the melting to bitter
sectional animosty and arraying the people North
and South in hostility with each other; loosening
the National tie occasonins, directly or indirectly
the hostile foray of John Brown into Virginia;
throwing dscord into the Congressional Assembly
and preventing the organization of the Lower
House, and seriously threatening to rend the Union
itself! And, says Mr.. Marshall, the consequences
which are yet to follow, God only knows!