Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-02-24
IOWA NEWS.

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IAN independent newspaper o. D.
Crane, editor and publisher, has been estab'
lished, at Wheatland, Clinton county; This
is the fifth or sixth paper in that county.
An "Educatio onal Fair is to be held at
Anamosa on the 9th and 10th Of March, and
the Jones county teachers are making prepa'
rations for it. ,aa.g& i. g.aty 81 " YE5a.ssa
A seduction case has been on trial at
Davenport. The lady's name is Townsley
and a MIR. Miner was arrested and tried for
the offence, but discharged, witnesses hav-
ing testified to criminal connection on her
part with other parties !. - 81. .,,, =. -
The Clinton Herald says it has been
shown petition which is being circulated
there praying the legislature to organize a
new county from ''parts of Clinton, Cedar,
Scott, Jones and Jackson countless" The
Herald opposes the scheme. 7ara4o aa ssIa
AT the city election in Oskaloosa, last
week, the entire Republican ticket was
elected. Jno r. Needhamis the new Mayor.
The Herald regerds this result as fore
shadowing of the complete redemption Of
Mahaska next November. PAM ~. -'
The steamer Golden State, now lying
at Leclaire, is advertised to be sold at Sher-
ifs sale, on the 10Th of next month, to
satisfy number of judgments against her.
D., Lo 1ook ipfa
city debt has not been paid, and the Haask-
eye earnestly appeals to taxpayers to "toe
the mark" ..,.: ,.-.-..~ .......
The bill for making the issues Of the
State Bank and Branches legal tender in
for taxes has been killed in the
House by indefinite postponsment, by vote
of 40 to s5. 1t is understood that it will
fail also in the Senate. ........... .....
The Democracy of Dubuque county held
a Convention few days since, and ''happy
time" they had of it as usual. Col. Heath
called Dorr, of the Herald, liar, and the
Herald man forced Col. Fl. to resign his
place as delegate. The delegation is for
Douglas throughout. We have not heard of
a single Democratic meeting in the State in
which the Administration were able to Sc
cure majority. Pc. s... ... . a.. ar.
Coon SUeGEsT1oN.-The Davenport DEM
0crat recommends the passage Of law
making our jails work houses. They are
1t present mere boarding houses for law
breakers. 1t is feet that many persons
commit trivial offences for the sake of being
put in Jail and supported at the expense of
;he county without work. The present
SYSTEM is great burden to taxpayers.
1t is estimated that over 10000 bushels
# corn have been brought to this place
since the first of December, and that there
ire yet 10000 bushels for sale within five
niles of town on this side of the river
Wapello Republican. -.. .... ..... .......
For the Journal
Mr.. EDITOR Allow me through your
columns to address few sentences to your
drandview correspondent, Mr.. l. Frisbie.-
His fart fetched ideas and sayings of tho pa
riarchial era he will find (by reference to
hat history have all been revoked from
ime to time, as the case required in that
lay. He will also find that St. Paul in his
lay, when he had Timothy under his tutor
hip, (and of course as St. Paul was learn
ID and pious man " would teach nothing
yrong) he advised Timothy-who was per-
laps laboring under dyspepsia, probably
rom the fact that his hands refused to per-
orm an adequate amount of labor to keep
lis digestive organs in proper action the
fleet of which on the brain perhaps made
lin dull scholar, and cold water man
t that, so Timothy was commanded to
rink no more cold water but to drink wine
or his '.stomach's sake"
But enough of that. | would inform Mr..
. Frisbie that the total prohibition idea has
'een experimental upon in Europe thous-
nd years before this time and could never
'e made effective. InEngland, for instance,
was tried hundreds of years ago, and the
Ultimate con nclusion to which England came
vas that the human family were naturally
0 prone to excitement, and stimulation
eing the parent Of excitement, they would
esort to these elements, even though they
new 1t was (abstractly) an evil and to
his day you will find that the government of
lnglahd looks upon ardent spirits as an evil
ut as an indispensable and therefore nec-
ssary evil, which cannot be eradcated, but
nay and ought to be we'll regulated. Mr..
'risbie must acknowledge that this Maine
Jaw furor has caused a great deal of trouble
nd hard feeling among the different classes
# the people and did no good anywhere; and
'esides, in every State in the Union the
Iaine Law failed because the great mass of
he people disregarded it and were thereby
orced to live (apparently) in outawry, as
S always The case under such circumstances.
n order to obtain obedience to law from
he people, a law must appear reasonable to
he great masses, accommodating all classes
Then, and not under any other circum-
tances, can you expect these free American
people to be law-abiding. No matter what
school Ma'ams say, WHAT SAY YoUs
A SIoKLEs CASE IN CHICAGO. - A few
weeks since, Isaac H. Burch, the wealthy
banker of Chicago, detected his wife in an
Illicit amour with one David Stuart, cele-
'rated lawyer of that modern Gomorrah,
md compelled her to sign, in the presence of
! Notary Public, a confession OF her guilt
md then sent her home to her adopted faith
II, Hon. Erastus Corning, of New York
Since which time Mr.. Burch has instituted
in the Circuit Court of Cook
county for divorce. His application will
% vigorously resisted. Mrs. Burch retracts