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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

SWIFT JUSTICE. learn from the Rocky
Mountain Neps that Moses Young murdered
William West at Denver City, shooting him
down in broad daylight, in presence of sew
eral witnesses. The murderer was arrested,
Judge, sheriff, jury, etc., appointed, by
meeting Of citizens, and fair and impartial
trial granted. The murder took place on
the 18th of March, tho trial on the 18th, and
on the 18th the sentence of tho Cont was
carried into execution by the hanging of the
prisoner by committee of twenty-five citi-
zens. Quick work and speedy justice. The
murder was committed for an apparently
trivial provocation, but it is thought there
was some hidden cause for the deed. When
sentence was passed upon Young he said,
Il have killed my best friend, but for what
the world will never know"
GA new game to swindle uusophisti-
Gated people has recently been developed by
the hack drivers in St. Louis. There are
three men to a carriage, one of whom, when
"gray back" is picked up, pretends to be
follow traveller. He calls for carriage,
gets the victim into it, and orders the man
on the box to drive to tho same hotel. The
greeny is requested to pay the others fare
for him-the money to be returned as soon
as change can be procured. The greeny, in
an accommodating spirit, hands the driver a
$50 or $40 bill, as the case m az be, and as
the driver has no change, he goes into some
store for it followed, OF course, by the dupe.
| As soon as the two are gone, the fellow
traveller takes the reins and drives off in q
hurry. The first driver then discovers the
state of affairs, and runs after his carriage,
leaving the countryman to "suck his
thumbs" and wait for the others return
waiting don't do much good, however, and
at length Mr.. Rustic smells good sized
| mouse.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

CONCLUSION OF THE CARsTANG VS.. SHAW
BREACH OF PROMISE TRIAL.-The second trial
Of the great St. Louis breach of promise case
of Miss Carstang against the rich Mr.. Shaw
came to close on Saturday evening. After
retiring twenty minutes, the jury returned
with verdict in favor of Mr.. Shaw. Imne'
diately on the rendition Of the verdict, the
counsel for the plaintiff filed motion for
new trial. with reasons assigned. The molten
will probably be argued within the next ten
days. A wider disagreement between two
iuries could scarcely be conceived than is that
by which this case was first tried, giving a
verdict for the full amount of the damages
claimed-$I0O, oOO--and that by which the
case has been second time tried, giving her
nothing at all. The testimony adduced by
the defense, which has for three weeks
gratified the prurient tastes of the readers of
St. Louis papers, was designed to show that
the plaintiff was person Of bad character.
The verdict rendered indicates that the jury
were satisfied she was an unit person to
become wife, and that her affections were
not liable to laceration by a breach of promise
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

~ President Buchanan, instead of send.
ing his two column "Protest' to the House
of Representatives,, ought to have gone in
person to the House, repeating the lines of
the old poem
"Pity the sorrows Of poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have botns him to your
door,"
Chicago Journal.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

ca The Cincinnati Commercial unfeel.
ingly breaks all the eggs in the last DEM 0.
cratic mares nest, in tho following:
"a great clamor is being made by the
Administration press over a secret circular
Of the Black Republicans 1t is published
as it it were full of treason, strategems and
spoils.' We found it 80 hideous]y head
lined that our curiosity was excited, and we
absolutely read it; and we found that it
was simply call for money TO Circulate
the Documents 1t is an exceedingly inof-
fensive AFFAIR."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

Gy The proceedings of Congress have
been of so little interest for week or TIVE
past that we have not thought them worth
reporting. That body might adjourn till
after the Presidential Conventions for all the
good it will do till then, as the members
annear to be all absorbed in President making
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

~The Democratic delegates will be badly
aeecod by the Charleston hotel-keepers; but,
saws Prentice, the delegates will have their
revenge in fleeing the people with two.faced
platform and q non-committed candidate.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06
Commercial.
WEEKLY REVIEW.


MuscATlNs, Thursday, April 5-P. NJ.
Weather still clear and dry. We had a
sht rain on Saturday night and another
on Monday night, but only sufficient to lay
the dust each time. Such continued dry
weather at this season of the year is unpre-
! cedented.
The receipts of produce have been quite
fair during the week, but not as heavy 40
last week. Shipments less also, because Of
scarcity of boats, high winds causing thsm
to lay by. A rise of some Is inches in the
river has had tendency to lower the freight
on wheat and corn to ID cents per bushel,
to st Louis.
The price of wheat is without material
change. Corn declined 20, and oats &c.
Barley advanced Sc.
Wequote:
Wheat-Spring, 85@87o.
" Winter, 81 90.
Fleur-Spring wheat 5000;
Corn meal, 40@5Oc p bushel.
Corn, in the ear, 22c, shelled 26c.
Oats-25@sOc.
Barley, $4,000.
Rye, 623c.
Beans, 6oa$1.
Potatoes, 2O@25e.
Onions, 100000.
Hay-timothy, 5000 +; prairie, 81; Hun
sarian, $3.50 per ton.
Apples-green ST. oo@s1 so, per bu. and
81 so per barrel dried 1925 per bu.
Eggs, 1880.
Butter, l23@15c.
Smoked ham, sugar cured, 1Ial23e.
Shoulders. 8a1Oc
Clear sides, l0@12c
Lard l23c.
Hides green, Sic dry flint, 124(113c.
LUMBER $lOa$SO per 1000 feet.
Brown sugar -.8@9c; crushed l2o
clarified 103e, refined, white, ll}c.
Molasses - plantation SOC, s. H. 90,
Belcher's 81, kegs $6,o0@$6,5O.
Oofee-l4@143c.
Nails-ass. So 1904.
Rice &c.
Live Stock. cattle are prompt at $2-
50@$3.
Seeds. = Timothy s1.75@s2,25 . bu.,
clover $500, Kentucky Blue grass $3.50,
Kentucky Red.Top $3.50, Hungarian grass
45@50c.
New York, selling "a percr.
Philadelphia, 2i
Boston, 2f
Baltimore, 24
Chicago, J
St. Louis, currency
St. Louis. bankable funds
st. Louis, specie 2@
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

WT The Census Marshals are to be paid
at the rate of one dollar per Thousand of the
population reported, and the assistants two
cents head. Under this system, it is not
likely that the population will be reported
less than it is-on the contrary, quite other
u;oo
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

s~-The election in Rhode Islan1 took
place Wednesday. As there was disatfect'on
in the Republican ranks and union OF the
Democrats and Know Nothings, we expect to
hear of the success of the pro-slavery ticket.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

~ For the best stoves, etc., at .ne 1oy-
s:fpr'ces, 60 tothe "Muscatine Stove Store.'
See advertisements:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

,. ~ See advertisement Of DR., Sanford's
Liver lnvigorator sad cataartic Pills, In another
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

|. ~Mr. Henry q. Carey, the distinguished
political economist, in his twelfth letter to
Mr.. Bryant of the N. Y. Evening Post, dis.
cusses the question of disunion from an
economical stand point, and finds in the
present non protective policy the origin of
the bad feeling existing between the North
and the South. Referring to the period from
1888 to 1888, when the policy OF the Gov
eminent was protective-s'In all that period
there was, consequently, general tendency
towards harmony between the North and
South, in reference to the vexed question of
slavery both Virginia and Maryland hav-
ing in 1882, shown themselves almost pre-
pared for abolition. Had the then existing
commercial policy been maintained, the
years that since have passed would have
been marked by daily growth of harmony.
and of confidence in the utility and perma-
nence of Of our Union. Such, nnhappily,
was not to be the case"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

WThe New York Herald declares that
Wendell Phillips has elevated Seeding to be
one of the fine arts. 1t says:
"The oratory of Wendell Phillips is the
poetry of scolding. Therstes could not hold
candle to him. Phillips is Juvenal, Horace,
Junius, Pope and Swift rolled into one. He
has sublimated and etherialized Billngsgate-
purifying it from its vulgarity, and making it
almost divine He finds fault with all things
in heaven and earth, and the place below !;
but, so classical and elegant is his satire, that
the object of it feels delighted, even when his
throat ia cutn
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

~ The New York Times, in commenting
on the schemes to reduce the free negro
population of the slave States to slavery, hits
the nail in this wise:
"The untutored cruelty of the human heart
is incapable of acts so shocking to every
instinct of nature. Nothing but an inverted
Christianity-a civilization turned backward
uponitself ia cruelty born oflogic, and trained
to hardy defiance of conscience and of all
human feeling-could ever prompt commu.
principles ofjustiee and of common right"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

The HOMESTEAD DILLs.-There are now
two homestead bills, Senate bill and q
House bill. The former seems to have been
contrived for the purpose OF avoiding the
issue before the people. The Northern
Democratic Senators who dare not oppose
the plan of Homestead Law will vote for
this bill, and 50 put themselves right, in
the expectation that 10 the competition with
the House bill both will fail, and 80 tho
whole project will fall to the ground, which
will keep the party from getting into q
wrong position at the South, W here the plan
is not popular.
The Senate bill differs from the House
bill, in allowing the presumption only OF
alternate sections, leaving the intermediate
sections to spectators, and exposing new
settlements to the mischief of unimproved
lands held for q rise, which now rstards
their progress SO materially In other par.
ticulars also the Senate bill differs from
the House bill, apparently in order to pre-.
vent its being accepted and passed by the
Repu blicans. III
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06
"All Around" DEsMoINEs, ]
April Sd, 1860. (

FRIEND JOURNAL members are few at
both ends of the Capitol. We shall soon leave
these halls and return to our homes, and l
must say that never did experience so many
regrets at parting from true friends and 'hale
fellows we'll met"
According to custom, the Senate, last
evening at 6 o'clock, went into executive
session, and elected James F. Wilson Presi-
dent pro tenn. He is now in the chair, firm
and immovable as rock-hls eyes red and
moist with parting tears, and cheeks that
denote that his heart has risen to his mouth,
and will not be put down hy all the dignity
his position can command. Before him sits
the Secretary and his assistant. Saunders
countenance betokens the most unutterable
woes, and lis cheeks are moist. Parker's
face is still more "quaint and solemn" and
his heart is too full for its well-springs to flow
in gentle streams. The tall, spare form of
Dan Anderson is upon its feet. A death-like
silence prevails, for Dan is speaking those
true and manly words-those hearty thanks
those earnest prayers for the future we'll
being and prosperity of his ADMINISTRATORS
which only true heart and an honest man
can utter; and, as he speaks, he hesitates, his
voice becomes more tremulous, and his heart
becomes too full of tender emotions to find
utterance, and, with faltering voice, he bids
them all farewell. These parting scenes in
legislative halls, kind reader, are some of the
"honors'' which you so frequently bestow
upon the ambitious and aspiring. 1 shall
never forget the moment looked up and saw,
sitting in one of the west windows, the rash,
impetuous, bulldog spirit OF Tom Drummond,
weeping with all his might, and vainly
endeavoring to stop the flood with white
cloth. Red eyes and slightly discolored
cheeks are now very numerous.
No business has been dispatched since the
adjournment, at 4 o'clock this morning. It
is impossible, in the hurry and hustle of has.y
legislation, to tell what passed and what did
not The Railroad Bill, to which referred
in former letter, was defeated in the House.
The Independent School District Bill was
defeated in the Senate. The Homestead Bill
was also defeated. Yesterday afternoon, the
General Appropriation Bill was passed. It
was really amusing to see members who, at
the commencement of the session, made every
effort to cut down appropriations and COM
pensations of officers, now wheel into the
ranks, and advocate the claims, merits and
services of some officer of the House, and
beseech their fellow members to add half or
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-06

MORE PRINTING INvEsTIGATIoN.-TheS Senate
Investigating Committee have been engaged,
for two days, examining into the charges
preferred against the President and Judge
Black, by Pettibone, who is a bookbinder in
Washington. He swore, before the Com
mittee, that certain alterations had been made
by Judge Black in document which came
from the President. The Administration
make pll sorts of threats of prosecuting
Pettibone for perjury, but that is CANNON.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20
The Houston Party-Its Strength
in New York-Probable Effects
Of Houston's Withdrawal.

The Houston Committee Of this city will
meet within few days, and issue an address
10 the friends Of the "he 70 of San Jscinto,'
announcing that in consequence Of the with
drawsl Of their candidate the Houston Fec.
,orisl ticket 10 dissolved. The address will
recommend no particular candidate, but aI.
vise the friends of Houston to vote accord.
ing to their prefere erences--sdyice which they
~ill BE- very likely 10 follow.
In conversation with prominent aud 10.
tslliPent Houston msn this loren Don, he
slated that the strength Of Houston In New
York had been much underrsted, and ex.
pressed his belief that n he had not declined.
he would have received forty thousand
vo,es In this State The party. he observ.
ed. was strongly Anti.Dougl,s in its feel.
isas, end he believed that at least half of It
would support Lincoln. Singular as II may
msy sssra, . large element In the party
German, spd these, almost to 10 q man,
will vote for the Republican candidate. 81
have not" he remarked, "conversed with
but one Houston man who would prefer
Douglas to Lincoln. As rule they would
quite ss soon have Lincoln IN. Y. Ever
Ing Post.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20
AYERS
Compound Extract Of SarsapariIla,

the most cffectual remedy which the medical
skill of our times can devise for this every.
where prevailing and fatal malady. 1t Is com.
bined from the most active remedals that have
been discovered for the cxpurgation Of this foul
disorder from the blood, and the rescue Of the
system from its destructive consequences.
Hence it should be employed for the cure Of
not only Scrofula, but also those other aAec.
tons which nrise from It, such as ERurrIvl
and SKIN DisEAsEs, ST. ASrHoNY's FfRs,
RosE, or ERYsIrELAs, PMpLEs, PusruLss,
BLoIcnFs, BLAIss and BoILs, TUMons, TErTzR
and SALT R"Eux, SoAID HEAD, RINowoRM,
RHEUMATISM, SyrHILIric and MERCURIAL Dis
HAsgs, Dnorsy, DyspEPsIA, DxHILIrY, and,
indeed, ALL COMPLAINTS ARISING yRoM VITIA-
TED on IMPURE BLooD. The popular belief
in "iDpwity fMs blood" Is founded in truth,
for scrofuu is degeneration Of the blood. The
particular purpose and virtue of this Sarsaps-
rilla is to purify and rcgenerate this vital Ruid
without which sound health Is impossible in
contaminated constitutions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20

Hsal,hy human Blood upon bsins Analysed 81
i i ways presents us with the sane essential
elsmsnts. and gives Of coarss the True Standard.
Analyse tie Blood Of person suffering from con.
sumption Liver Complaint, Dyspesia, Scrofulh.
&C., and we lind In every instance certain defci.
eneies IN the red slobules OF Blood. Supply these
deficiencies, and you are made we'll. The Blood
Food 10 founded upon THE Thsoy--hence is 10.
tonishing success. There are Five Preparations
adapted 10 the deficiencies Of the Blood In differ
on, di:sases. For Coushs. colds. bronchitis, or
any affection Whatever fihs Throat OF Lungs In
Guiding consumption, uss No. J. which . slso tho
No. for Depression ofsplrits, Loss Of Appetite and
Tor all chronic complaints arising from over.uss,
ssnsraidsbilisy saa nervous p,oessarcu. No, Q,
TOT Liver complaints, No. 8 Tor pvspesia. Being
already prepared fcs absorption istsktn BY drops
and caris9 'immsdiatsly Into the circulation, 20
that what you gain you rstsln. The No eve feg
female irregularities, hystsri6. Wesknsssssldkc. :
Sse specjsf 3lfsukions fos this. For sslt fheum,
Erupsions scrofaiqss, kidney and bladder compla.
ints; take No 5 In sll cases the directions mus,
BE- strictly nlicwsd. Price ofshs Blood Food ei
=. No <oe Bsosdwsy, New York
And by all respectable dryggi:w ,S,oughos, sAs
sTH P.sss.sss, As.as, 81. Clsi~viiis, o<is
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20

I will attend in person or by deputy at the
place Of holding Elections In each Of the town
on the following days, for The purpose Of re-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20
The Necessity Of Labor.

The notion is false that genius can secure
lie aims without labor. All the great minds
who have lett their marks upon the history
,f the worlds progress. have paid for their
success and notoriety BY the price Of unre.
nliiting toll aud labor.
Napoleon Bonsparts ~orked hard end in-
cssssntfy, and has been known to exhaust
the energies Of several secretaries Of one
time.
Charles XII OF Sweden frequently tired
all his officers.
The Duke Of Wellington wss the hardest
working man 10 the Peninsula; bic energies
never tagged.
Milton, from his youth, applied himself
with such indefstigsbIe application to the
study Of letters that 1t cccssioned weakness
Of eight and ultimate blindness.
The labor OF Sir Walter Scott Il evident
in the numbeI o: his literary productions,
and IL 10 apparent to every reader that the
immense masses OF general information
which sbound throughout his multitudinous
works could only have been acquired BY
din, Of many yesrs' hard study.
Byron was in the habi, Of reading even
st bis mesls.
Luther made Il q rule to translate verse
Of the Bible every day. This soon brough,
bim to the completion Of his labors, and 1t
was q matter Of astonishment to Europe,
that in the multiplicity Of his other lsbors,
besides travelling, he could find the time to
prepare such surprising work.
Newton and Locke pursued their studies
With tirsless effortsi and Pope sought re-.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20
A. Y Z RS
Ague Cure,
ron 1us sssspy cuRs OF

-" $50 ~ssSs SsSe "
Ssv.r S:y:r sI F'S:, :.A as.
Agus, Periodical Hsadachs, Or H1llous
Hsadache, end Bilious Fsvsrs, inassa
ins in hillary Ssrsag agsmsnt, csass1 81
the nsisria Or Missnstie Countries.
We are enabled here to Offer the community .
remedy which, while Il cures the above complaints
with certainty 10 still perfectly harmless In any
quantity. Such remedy Ia invaluable In districts
where these siiiisting disorders prevail. This
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AND Aous from the system, and prevents the Do.
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proach Of its premonitory symptoms.. Itisnot only
the best remedy ever yet discovered for this class
o. complaints, but also the cheapest. The large
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FrvaR AND AouE prevsils. every body should
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ton. Agreat superiority Of this remedy over any
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cher injurious sdscts Whatever upon ths constitu.
tea.. Those cured ~ y are LEFT - healthy q u
they had never had the diaeasA.
,fsv:t and Agas is not alone the conssqusaes Of
the niesmasie poison. A great vsristy of lisor.
deu aiss nom IL irritation, smeus whlek sss
Netp,dkgis, RAsus,dtisnss 0osR, Hso4oeke Dkni
wsss. 16otAacAs. 4erachs, CatarrA, AstAMa, Pal
pitatio.. PsistL Afsetica Sf tie Spleen, Hrstsv.
vansssens Of a. SsonscA, al Of which, whsn
originating II this canss, put on the inesrmitssl
syps, o. become periodical This " Guar " sxpsls
the poisen sfom the blood. and consequently ousss
them Ill alike. II is an invaluable protection 70
immigrants and psssons travelling O. tsnpogsrily
reading In the mslsrious districts, II taksu oooc-
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hat Will b sxcfstsd ffon the system. and csnaoi
asoumulsts IN sulaoisnt eusad1 b ripn ~ ~,
$50 Hence u Y sysa lnese yslssslf e pgetse.
mittsnn u tksy aval AAasnaSlsss q ~ psoooc1io1
this rs~>ay sSsate. Y gS.l5i.GE 3 4
sls,ssssa lgpHSe An = o.. xsssx -
- a'' JAMES w. COLLlNs,
's. H'te 81. Clslrsvills. Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20

er1ha isad niass Of Gslsaa yield one
thoossed pses per day. Tbs yield Of the
:. prsssst > sss indiestss en- Increase Of ahy
:. thousand RiGs ovse last ysSr.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-09-20

Thousands arc daily speaking il the praise Of
l. DR.. EATON'S, lnfantile Cordial, and whyt
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Children Teethipg. ::Diarshss, Dysentery. Grip.
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the gums, reducing inflammation, regulating the
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the mos: delicate infant. Price, 25 cents. Full
ec,ions accompany zach bottle. Prepared onlyO
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