Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-27


Lath do do do 100000 1850
Shingles manufactured i,sSS'S 600 .,ss9
Total ,lss. 2o5
Broom handles, 1000, 40
Flooring dressed ~ 1,lS0,o0o 8, $40
Siding do 1850 900 80
Lumber Dc. 100000 60
Doors.% r67 1850
Binds,s 1853 pairs, $50
Total-seo!Ss Of naanufaeturinS,. .$lS6.l2
This is about double the amount of the lumber
trade for the previous year. 1t shows that this
branch Of trade comprises an important feature Of
the business interests Of the city. We are grated
TO note the fact that it is rapidly increasing. We
doubt whether the lumber business Of any other
city on the Upper Mississippi il equal 10 that Of
NuScatne.
LIrERARY DESTITUTE - Sirth Lecture
The audisses assembled last night to hear the lee
ture Of the Rev. Charles W dollhouse filed fremont
Hail to overdewing The subject Of the lecture was
the vast and varied theme comprehended by the
word Labor The lecturer appropriately and
judiciously dwelt chiefly upon the general princi-
pies and universal laws pertaining to his subject;
but these principles and laws were happily iliusrat-
3D. BY citations of isolated facts and particular in
stances. The lecture was really hymn in praise
of labor; ascrbng due and fitting honors to the
inherent nobility of work. 1t was elegantly and
eloquently written, and its delivery was marked BY
the graceful and impressive manner peculiar to the
lecturer and also, by that quality which is higher
and better than mere grace and emphasis-the
sarnestnsss that convinces the nearer that be who
speaks believes what he utters. A brief synopsis
Of the lecture il all that our time and space will
allow.
The lecturer commenced by saying that he had
been able TO find but two sorts of people who despise
labor the falsely proud and the basely lazy. Of
all the high falsehoods that ever cheated human
beings, mons 10 greater viler than the one which
stuifes the sense of the rst of these classes and
nothing can exceed the miserable sophistry which
deadens the conscience, dwarfs tho mental and en-
fsebles the physical powers of the last. Labor is
Gods law, and mans necessity. 1t is the medium
Of cha; grace by which obtain all valuable gifts.
Tas man who calls labor lew and the laborer mean
il himself low aud mean. He fails to honor even
that God who works aad labors-who founded the
earth upon the seas and established it upon the
foods; whose fingers fashioned the stellar VOL Ids.
and hung the sun in yonder heavens and FURNISHED
all its countless and e1haustless rays of genial
warmth and glorious light, as the symbol Of his
majesty and the witness of his love-
The lecturer alluded to the various kinds and de-
grees of labor some requiring only the strong
arm with but Just brain enough to direct its force,
and others calling into exercise the highest quail
ties of the ntelect-but all useful and honorable.
The mutual and reciprocal relations and depend
encies existing between the rudsst forms OF manual
work and the highest effort OF thought, running
through and intsrlacing althe intermediate degrees
of labor were shown and illustrated BY reference
to the achievements of hand and brain with which
all are familiar. And the fact was forcibly stated
that, wherever free and intelligent labor accom-
plishes the most there exist the highest forms of
civilization.
Ignorance, vice crime and war impose mon
strous ta1es on lie and labor. One hundred years
ago, said the lecturer England free from debt.
The American Revolution saddled her people with
debt Of Billion of dollars. Her subsequent Eu-
ropean wars increased that debt to four billions,
two hundred millions; and it il still unpaid. To
meet the annual interest on this debt, and to sup
port standing army of priests and soldiers, the
English must be add taxed in every conceivable
form and, as . consequence, England's common
laborers-men and women of pure Saxon blood.
are degraded below the level Of the Indian, the
negro. the Chinese the Malays. 1t 10 poor con-
ISOLATION for this state of things that the English
press and orators give good advice to America;
or Englands pensioned poets sing If the battle Of
the Nile; or that her staticans can point to the
wealth Of her mobiles and the cost of the Royal
jswels---
an fares the land to fastening ills prey,
Where wealth sccumulates and men decay"
The fact that in land = especially in the great
cities and manufactures is too often wretch
sdly paid, was fselingly stated, and the words Of
Hoods immortal "Song of the Shirt were quoted,
a. applicable to the poor seanstresses and shirt
makers of our own cities-cities where hundreds Of
costly steeples 60 up to heaven, and thousands Of
women, weak through poverty and unpaid toll, 60
down to hell Is - EtF' 57az 1s'-
Tho charity that closes ito ears and purse 10 shiv-
ering want, It its own door, in winter and sxpends
it, time and money in making flannel shirts for the
black sevagss who bask under Afric's burning sun
the benevolence that always goes abroad to find
fit recipient Of It's gifts-was thus noticed:
Mr.. President, this stand, we have been told, is q
Platform Of free speech-and have speech to
make. have lived in the cities of the North; /
have sojourned in the chimes of the South; and /
think, sir that it il unfortunate that the large
stock Of Northsrn philanthropy should be, in 20
many cases, - much better adapted to Southern
markets than 70 home consumption. 5g.s-
There y deposition, said the lecturer, to tx
suds seine professions from the fsld-of useful and