Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-02


paper, writes back a. follows:
-, Miss, Oct. %, 1860.
FRIRND MsLvIN: - hasten to drop you q fe
!, lines concerning the papers you sent me- Ever
paper you send here to me is opened by the pos
master, and all the Black Republican ones are nc
journal; 1t was given to me. Please send no NOR
lof that kind but such as are not tainted wit
Black Republicanism, and they will be thankful
received. MN
No wonder that our friend Melvin, though he
not Republican, expresses indignation that he
not at liberty to send to his friends anywhere jus
such papers as he peases. 1t strikes us that it
about time Northern men were asserting their Con
stitutional rights We hear much said in Ties
: days about 'the Constitutional rights Of tn
South, and loud threats of disunion are mad
about them, though we have never heard that
was contemplated to deny them any Of the right
guaranteed to them by the Constitution. But her
we have an instance among thousand where mel
FROM the North denied the privilege of reading
such papers as they may choose. And this not il
Russia, in France, or in the dominions of the Sui
TAM but in America, under the stars and stripes o
the United States, and among people Boosting
Bhat they are the frsest of the free
JUsTJcE's CoURT. - Before Justice Wash
: burn, on Monday, the owners Of the steamer Kate
cassell were arraigned for overchargng $40 on 4Ot
sacks of flour to st. Louis. The shipper claimed
that the rate agreed upon was Is cents and exhb
tied bills of lading to that effect, whereas the
amount charged was IS cents per 100 lbs. The
clerk acknowledged signing the bills of lading on
representation of the shipper that the Captain had
agreed take the -four at rs cents, but the Captain
produced witness who testified that he heard
him refuse to take it for less than IS cents The
jury was equally divided and SO new trial was
set for the 9th of November.
Tuesday, the case of the State vs.. Henry
Smull, came up before the same magistrate. The
defendant was accused of assault on Chris Stiehl
and his wife. All the parties were employed on
the old ferry boat "Muscatine," now used by
Leonard Arnold in boating wood. smull, in vindi.
cation of his character from some remarks of
Stieh, seized him by the collar board the boat,
Monday. Stiehls wife interfered, and was ungal.
lantly jerked aside by Smul. Before anything
serious transpired, Mr.. Arnold separated the par
ties. Smull was fined s. for assaulting the man
and 81 for assaulting the woman. Solomon White,
another employee on the boat, who also assaulted
both stiehl and his wife, injuring them severely,
could not be found.
| CURIOUS CASE OF INSANITY. ON Tuesday
Of last week, young German, known as Fritz,
was confined in the county Jail for safe keeping, in
a raving state of insanity. We learn that on the
day he was brought in. he attacked and seriously
injured Mr.. john II. Miller, who lives near Cedar
river, with whom he had been employed, and also
damaged his house considerably by breaking the
windows, &c. His insanity is supposed TO have
| originated from unrequited love of Mr.. Mers
daughter. Since his incarceration he has fire.
quently been taken with fits of frenzy, in which he
calls the name Of the young lady, and endeavors
to wreak his vengeance on everything within his
reach. On one occasion another insane young man |
came near his cell, when he caught hold of him |
through the CRATES of the door and would probably
have choked him to death had not some of the |
other prisoners interfered. He is subject to some
singular freaks and occasionally declares that he |
Is an OK, and calls for hay and corn. At first he
refused to take medicine prescribed by physician
who called to see him, but when Sheriff Gordon |
adopted the stratagem of calling the pills grains OF
corn he took them readily. He is thought to be !
getting better and may yet recover. We under
stand that he hes no relatives acquaintances in
this country, but has wealthy and pected parents
in Germany, from whom the ran away, which has |
appeared to trouble his mind very much of late. |
He is about 10 years of age.
ALMOST A CoNFLAGRATroN-Naryo Els. |
cape AT about II o'clock Tuesday night fire was
discovered in W. 5. Humphreys store, on Second
street. by Marshal Dill and Mr.. Demorest who
CHANGED to be passing by. They Immediately gave
the alarm, when number of persons came to their |
assistance. by prompt efforts the fire was extn |
guished. 1t was burning in large brick vault |
in which some papers OF but little value were kept.
but the heat intense that 1t drew pitch from
the pine rafters over the If the fire had not
been extinguished just at the time, the magnif-
cent block, including STEMS furniture store and |
residence, would no doubt have been DESTROYED,
involving loss Of $40, 900 or $50, 600 The fire is
supposed to have originated from some matches.
which were probably ignited by rats.
THE ELECTION D1spATcuEs. - Mr.. Sweet.
Superintendent of the telegraph line, having put
the price of election news at sixty dollars we pre-
sumo there Is no other recourse but to pay the
extortionate demand. At the last Presidential
election these dispatches were obtained for ten
dollars. We would not have grumbled at fifteen
or twenty dollars at the ensuing election but the
demand Of about three times that amount is pilng
it on little too steep. The individual or the
company that will use its monopoly to make extor-
tionate charges in an emergency deserves holding
up to public censure. We expect to pay share
of this amount, but shall at the same time claim |
the privilege of "pitching into" the Company to
our hearts content.
KANSAS AID MEETINa.- meeting at the |
Presby terrain Church last evening was attended by
only few, and those few were discouraged by the
apparent want of interest in the public. After re.
marks by Revs. J. Uford and E. l.. Belden, and |
Messrs. Ogilvie, Hanna and others, a committee, |
consisting of two from each Ward, was appointed,
viz:
lst Ward-A. Jackson, Joseph Bridgman. i
2d-Thos. Hanna s. G. Adams.
3d.. B. Dougherty, Geo. Uford.
On motion, Thos, Hanna was requested to pub |
lsh address to the people of the county on the
subject.-DaiIy. LIST.
RW We add to the notice on the fourth
page, headed ''Stoves, Stoves" that we know the
Quincy City" to be good, having had one in use
sold us by Mr.. Brownel over two years since. Two
persons also, connected with this Office are using
| the same kind of stove and say, with us, ave
want no better" In consequence of bis facilities
| in furnishing new pieces when one is destroyed by
fire or otherwise, we are saved this year ten or
fifteen dollars, which we should have had to pay
| for an office stove
| WILTON AoADEMY.-See advertisement of
| this institution.
| Gard.
The undersigned, deeply approaching the XII nd
ness of their friends in the very liberal donati on
made by them on Tuesday evening last would take
this method Of returning to them their most
! sincere and grateful thanks. +. W. EVANS,
| NJ. A. EVANS.
Muscatne, Nov. l, 1860.
The Atalissa Calamity.
| ATALISsA Oct 29th 1860.