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

LOCAL DEPARTMENT..

eB Rev. j. p. Donelan will conclude his
lscturs III Jerusalem and the Holy Land, at Ire
mo- NY, on Tuesday evening of next week.
A.A IN 25 cents
CO The latest river news is that boats
are running to Quincy and some have departed from
st. Louis expecting to reach ksokuk. The new
steamer, Hawkeye State Capt. r. Z. Gray, which
was built at Pittsburg, made trial trip last week
and gave general satisfaction. She will make trip
from Pittsburg to New Orleans, after which she
will take her place in the Upper Mississippi trade.
CO We had a friendly call this morning
from Mr.. Camp, who has been stopping in this city
nearly two months for the purpose of securing the
arrest of Barclay Coppock. He thinks the letter
published yesterday from Mrs. Raley, the mother
of young Coppock, is forgery. We, however
think it is genuine. 1t was copied in our paper
from the Chicago Press and Tribune, but how it
came in possession Of that paper unable to
say. The language and spirit of the letter bear
strong resemblance to from Mrs. Raley pub
lished sometime since in the Davenport Gazette by
her. Mr.. Camp intimatsd to us that negotiations
were pending which he thinks will result in young
Coppock being soon taken to Virginia for trial. He
disavows any personal interest in the matter as he
is only acting in discharge of his duty an officer
We think the authorities of Virginia well afford
to drop the matter where it is They have certainly
vindcated their honor and fully avenged their
wrong. If We held the post Of Mr.. Camp we would
resign before being party to measure SO merci-
less and inhumsn as drag gng consumptive boy
from his mothers and protection to certain
daa the call rially yheDi js
whether he is guilty of any ofsnse against the laws
aud quite certain that he is powcrless for any harm
lii the future Daily, 2lst.
ACCIDENT ON THE Ice - 1aco Horses
Drowasd-Yestsrdaya afternoon, while Drs. Reeder
and Waters were returning from visit to Dr.
Merry, in the upper part of the county they trav-
elsd portion of the way on the ice on the river
When about FIVE miles above the city, the ice,
which was rapidly melting suddenly gave way, and
in instant, almost, both horses and the buggy
disappeared. Or Waters, soon as he discovered
the ice breaking leaped out and fortunately alight-
ed on firm ice, while DR.. Reeder, who was driving
remained in the buggy till it passed from under
him. He was only saved from drowning by DR..
Waters pulling him out on the ice where he stood.
They then made their way to shore IN safety,
though they discovered that the ice in many other
places was unsafe and DR.. Waters, who had escap-
ed with dry skin, afterwards broke in and got
ducking while returning to the scene Of the dsas-
ter. 1t was fortunate circumstance that the
buggy top was down. 1t was raised while they
going to DR.. Merry's, and by the merest chance
lowered when they started on their return.
One of the horses drowned was the sorrel so long
familiar to citizens the faithful buggy horse
Of DR.. Reeder. The other belonged to Worsham &
Bryant.-DaiIy, 22d.
r. The buggy and harness lost with the
horses drowned by the the accident which occurred
to Drs. Reeder and Waters, (notced in last
issue,) were recovered yesterday afternoon by
Aalen Brown who is supplied with apparatus to
recover property from the river. They were found
in water twelve feet Deep about fifty feet below the
place where they sunk. The ice was very unsafe,
and it was necessary to lay down plank for Mr..
Brown and his assistants to stand on while at work
DR.. Reeder had offered reward of fifty dollars for
the recovery of the buggy.-Daily, 2sd.
LITERARY INSTITUTE - Tenth Lecture
There was a crowded audience again at fremont
Hall Monday evening. Previous to the lecture, the
President of the Institute, Mr.. Bridgman, announc-
cd that the association found itself short of funds
He appointed number of gentlemen to pass sub
scription papers through the audience The sub
scription taken up, we understand, was quite
liberal.
The lecturer for the evening, Rev. John Ufford
was then introduced. His subject was Character"
or, rather, the force of character. Character he
defined as the normal condition of all things. Man.
as the noblest work of God, possesses the bodest
outlines which character can assume on earth.
Character, as it relates to individuals, is composed
of those elements so ingraned in the nature OF
man that they make unit of his life and actions
giving vividness to all his conceptions and direct
and stability to all his aims. Individual char
acter is two-fod. 1t may be good or bad. The will
may do battle for the wrong as we'll as the right
Again. character may affect the mind or the heart
may have respect to the mental or the moral
habits of the man. The want of the age is individ-
ual character. Too few persons bear any very
distinctive mark-are stamped with those features
which separate them from others and give them a
character of their own. We are ready to swell the
throng of fashions votares or to echo the popular
idea. The last impression upon the mind is the
strongest. We hold to opinions for which we can
give no reason. One man leads thousand not
because he knows more than they, but because they
are too lazy too Indifferent to ask whether ne IS
fitted for guide. These facts not the result OF
feeble mental force but of mind abused of intellect
ual power squandered.
The lecturer gave number of illustrations Of his
subject Poe possessed genius that might have
placed his name in a far higher niche of fame than
it now occupies if his intellect had been under his
control and his moral habits pure. Byron had
intellectual character and power, but weakened by
his moral obliquity. His muse awakes no longing
aspiration-kindles no warm and genial glow in the
soul He arouses the darker passions of the heart
but fails to touch the spring of truth, of love and
duty. False views of life and its relations to the
future of the ground of happiness of the soul and
its destiny are skillfully disguised in language
rich and glowing. Cowper's sweet and plaintive
strains, Wesley's holder notes, sustained as they
are by living faith in God and goodness, will bs
sung by thousands when Byron shall have been
forgotten. Coleridge possessed giant intellect
but he has left US no lasting monument of his
genius, because he lacked character and purpose
Of mind. Hannah More was cited as an example, on
the other hand, of the force of character withou
commanding intellect. She liyed in one of the most
critical periods Of English history, when the
masses, catching the spirit of revolution from
France, were excited and discontinued. She wrote
little tract, ful-not Of genius or profound reason
ing - but of common sense and the little missiv'
went out as angel of mercy all over the land ant
fell like balm upon the public irritation, like Oh
upon the troubled waters. 1t unmasked error ant
made such appeals to the good sense of the people
that clouds dispersed and the thunders died away
in the distance By her influence also in educating
the people she wrought great and glorious change
Howard is name of world wide reputation, not a
belonging to a profound reasoner or one gfte'
with song, but to one who, by force OF character
worked q cure for evils that had disgraced GU
common humanity. The present age furnishes
striking instance of the force of character in Horac