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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
and Despotism of Slavery.

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Mr.. Arthur Robinson, publisher Of 81
Presbyterian paper at New Orleans, has been
,amished from that place, and forced to return
to Cincinnati, his old home, simply because
he declared himself conscientiously opposed
to slavery. That was the height of his offense'
he had latterly said no more against slavery
than he had always been in the habit OF saying
during several years residence in New
Orleans. He was arrested, on the S0th Of
November, while pursuing his regular bust
ness, on the vague charge of being an Aboli-
zionist, and sent to prison, where he laid los
days, subjected to the insults and derision Of
arufianly jailor, while his house was searched
by order of the Mayor, and all his writings
and papers taken possession Of. The Grand
Jury at length found an indictment against
him, containing several counts. Among these
was "using language calculated to excite dis
content among free people of color, and
characterization among slaves" Another was
having in his possession book entitled
"Barnes' Scriptural Views on Slavery" Still
another was having in his possession scrap
DOCK CONTAINING inUsDa;..y selections from
the New York Independent, among others
Bayard Taylor's letter to Richmond Lecture
Committee, and Whittier's poem on John
Brown, which, by the way, condemns al
violence in the attempt to enfranchise tht
slave. Mr.. Robinson was finally released BY
the decision of Judge Hunt, who ordered thu
Attorney. General to enter noue prosequi il
his case, there being several informalities il
the indictment. 1t was made condition
his release that he should leave the city II
twenty-four hours.
If any civilized country on the globe cal
show a worse form of despotism than this, VI
would like to know it Such instances (they
are numerous, we are sorry to say,) furnish
some real ground for the North to seced
from the South. 1t has, indeed, been
wonder to US, since we have secession
movement in the country, that it did no
originate in the States whose citizens ar
subjected to such indignities at the South 70
opinions sake.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

A New MILLERIrE Through
many parts of Canada, the excitement in
reference to the second advent of Christ is
again revived, and the new prophets of the
Miller school are springing up, who assume
to have discovered that the Saviour's appear
ance on earth will positively take place in
1000
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

THAT'S THE QUEsrIoN. "A contemporary
inquiries If half dozen pew,holders in Z
rich and fashionable church should take 6
notion to secede, and convert their pews into
pig-pers, and the trustees of the building
should fall back on the law in order to protect
the common rights of all, and insist on the
removal of the pigs, would that be coercion
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

The U. S. TROOPS AT WAsu1sarox. 1t
is not deemed prudent to remove, at present,
the soldiers of the regular army, and the
marines, who were concentrated at Wash.
ington before the inauguration, in all to the
number of 1900 or more. It is announced
that they will not in any event be sent out
of the city until after the Virginia Conven-
ton has decided upon its action, and perhaps
not even then. Their removal might en-
courage some violent foray Of reckless
adventuzers from Maryland OF Virginia.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

The SEsATE.-John Sherman, who has
been elected Senator from Ohio. will make
the Republican strength in the Senate 29-
. clear majority. Kansas will stand two
more Senators, raising the number to 81.
If the seceders had been wise enough to re-
main, they would have 38-a majority of Z.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
Currency Question at Pittsbnrs.

CurEeMCy VWestIOM ~ TIttSOuFS
PrTTsBURG, April /.
The business men of Pittsburg and ALE.
ghany City held an enthusiastic meeting on
the currency question to day. Many bust
ness men. not heretofore participating in the
movement, assented to the unanimous voice
of ths meeting, not to receive deprecated
money except at brokers' rates.
Missouri and Virginia money is, to-day,
quoted at per cent. discount.
Farmers will demand par funds for their
produce.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

w Ex-Secretary Holt has replied to the
letter of Ex-Secretary Thompson, attempting
to excuse his treason, and shows very dis
tinctly that Thompson did not rely on the
telegram in the papers in reference to the
sailing of the Star of the West, as he pretends,
but first obtained official assurance of the fact
and telegraphed it to Charleston, while still a
member of the Cabinet. And, in his Missis-
sippi letter, he shamelessly gloried in this act
Of treachery, and in the defeat of the rein
forcement of Fort Sumter byit. No casuistry
can cover up or palliate tho act.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
Arrival of the California Steamer.

New YORK, April 8.
The steamer Northern Light arrived, to-
day, from Aspinwall, 20.h. She brings
California mails AID treasure
There was doubtful rumor in Nicaragua
that party of fillbusters from New Orleans
had appeared on the Rio Grande.
Advices from Peru state that President
Morino, of Equator, has been intriguing for
the annexation Of his country to France
Letters, written by him, advocating that
measure, have been printed in the Lima
newspapers.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

w The following, from the Charleston
Mercury, of the 25th, does not look like Mai.
Anderson was preparing to evacuate:
MATTERS AT Fort SuMTER.-The activity Of
Maj. Anderson's garrison continues undated.
The openings in the face Of the south wall are
being closed up with stone blocks, and, as
cement happens to be scarce, the joints are
formed of moltenlead. Other changes, useful
and ornamental, are in progress.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
From CharlestOn.

CHARLESTON, April 8.
The Convention is IN secret session, dis
cusslng the new Constitution, which will
doubtless be ratified, on Wednesday, by q
large majority.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
From CalifOrnia...Elccti of u. 8
Senator.

TORT hEAkNHY, april I.
The Pony Express passed here at l P. NJ,
with California dates to the Goth.
San Francisco, March 21s..-Jos. A.
McDougal was declared elected United State 6
Senator by the Legislature, in Joint Con-
vention, last evening, receiving Sc of Ill
votes. He was afterwards awarded the
certificate of election by the Governor.
Subsequently the clerk makes affidavit of
l13 votes being cast, so leaving Mr.. McDou-
gal one vote short. An investigation is
proposed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

The WHEAT AND FRUIT CRoPs IN ILLINOIS
The Prairie Farmer, published at Chicago,
gives extracts from its correspondents in all
parts of the State, all of whom speak in the
most hopeful terms Of the prospect of a heavy
wheat crop the ensuing harvest. Those in
the southern part of the State also say that
thefruit crop will be abundant in that part.
H Here is little speech which Mr..
Prentice made, few evenings since, at
Louisville:
Gentleman, let US preserve the Union
against all influences, against all treachery,
against all treason. am getting to be an
old man, but will die for the Union. Ken
tuckians, will live and die in no Northern
Confederacy, in no Southern Confrderacy-
but here where am now, in Kentucky and
in the Union"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
From Texas.

GALVESTON, April 3.
Houston sent message to the Legislature
protesting against the action of the Con-
vention, and appealing to the Legislature to
sustain him, claiming still to be Governor.
The Legislature took not the slightest notice
of it.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
Democratic Victories.

CINCINNATI, April 2.
Full returns of the city election, yesterday,
show Democratic Union average majority
of 300. The highest majority is 1905 and
the lowest 2,077, The Republicans elect
councilmen and the Democrats 26.
SANDUsKY, April 2.
At the municipal election, yesterday, the
Democratic Mayor was elected by majority
of 155. A Democratic Treasurer and Solic-
itor and Republican Clerk and Marshal were
elected. The Councslmen elected stand:
Republicans to Democrats.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

REVELATIONS OF TIE CENSUS An exam
ination Of the figures of the late Census, al
ready published by US, reveals facts that
few, probably, either in the Northern or
Southern States were prepared for. We
hear and read so much more of South Car
DINA than we do of New York or Pennsyl-
vania, and the term "Southern Confederacy'',
falls on the ear with so imposing a sound
that almost unconsciously we acquire the
habit, even in the North, of rating their i'm por.
lance at about the same rates as do the in.
habitants Of the Gulf States themselves. The
census shows US the "free population lin
Guiding, of course, white free colored and
alien,) of Alebama, Florida. Georgia, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, South Carolina aud Texas,
which make up the Southern Confederacy,
is 2,656, 4sl, being nearly 100000 less in
number than that of Pennsylvania alone,
and more than 1 ,931 1000 less than the pop
ulation of New York.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
DisuniOn Permanently.

All idea of Reconstruction is steadily
resisted and denied by the leading politicians
in the seeding States, and they affirm thai
at least four or five Of these States, nothing
could induce return to the Union, no com
promises, no conc essions, no adjustments
Dudley Mann, Commissioner of the South
ern Confederacy to Europe, says that re-
construction of the United States is impossi
BILE. w. R. Cobb, late an anti-secession
member Of Congress from Alabama, is conf
dent in the same opinion. And on all hand:
the sentiment seems to be growing thai
these States cannot be peaceably reunited
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

Senator Grimes AT Home.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, April 3.
Senator Grimes returned TO his home in
this city Monday night.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

~ The following language was from the
mouth of the late Alexander Hamilton, on his
resignation Of the office of Secretary of the
Treasury, in 1895. Holding in mis- hand a
small book, containing copy of the Federal
Constitution, he said:
"Now, mark my wordsl So long as we
are young and virtuous people, this instru-
ment will bind us together in mutual interest,
mutual welfare and mutual happiness, but,
when we become old and corrupt, 1t will bind
US no lonse
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
THE CRISIS AT HAND!
Provisions to xaj. Anderson etopped---
Orders to Commence Hostilities Hour
n Expectedl


ISpoeial dispatch to tho n. 7. Day Book.
CHARLESTON, April 8.
The crisis has at last arrived. Provisions
to Maj. Anderson were stopped to-day
Gen. Bsauregard is now inspecting the forti-
acations. Orders from Montgomery for com.
mencsment of hostilities are hourly expected
The preparations are all complete.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

~ say, Sam, why am the State of
Aiumbamo like a great piece of cork?"
.ytubs pm pp." "Because Of its great boy
Hancey."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

Gen. Scott says the Principles Of the Inaugural
will not be Abandoned.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

Death of Judge Mclean.
Judge John Mclean, of the United States
Supreme Bench, one of the purestand soundest
statesmen of the age, died at his residence in
Cincinnati, yesterday. His decease makes
three vacancies on the Supreme Bench.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

4oTTo OF TIE 6EosDEss.-'Lst o. s
slons.'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

Breckenridge Organ ssGone Up.'
PHILADELPHIA, April Q.
The Pennsylvania newspaper has sus-
pended for the present, on account of the
pressure of the times.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
St. Louis ElectiOn---Thc Anti-Rc.
publican Ticket Successful.

ST. LOUIS, April l.
At the municipal election to-day the Tay-
lor Anti.Republican ticket was elected by
from two to three thousand majority.
The Howe Unconditional Union ticket
was unsuccessful in but two wards.
Two Germans were killed by lightning
during the storm yesterday.
Two 1rishmen were stabbed in political
melees on Saturday night, and have since
died.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
Railroad Accident ..- One Man
Killed.

A passenger trim ON the Dubuque and
Western Railroad, due here at 1920 A. NJ,
ran off the track Z miles west of tho city, this
morning, killing instantly VIM. LOOMS,
brakeman, and severely injuring Barney
Clifford, conductor. Several of the passengers
severely hurt, though none of them, it is
believed, fatally.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05

States and seems destined to be formidable
rival OF Montgomery.
The production OF oil from the oil-wells of
Crawford and Venango counties, in Penn.
sylvania, is row so great that the Philadel,
phia North American anticipates that two
or three million dollars will be realized from
1t this year. The transportation now amounts
to five or six hundred barrels daily, and is
rapidly increasing. This traffic, the North
american says, has sustained ninety miles of
railroad built as part of the Sunbury and
Erie line from Erie to Warren. A brarch
road, twenty miles long, is now projected,
for the especial accommodation of the oil
production.
There is queer case on trial in Pittsburg.
Tennessee Cla1in, advertised as s'naturai-
born clairvoyant and healing medium" has
been arrested on numerous charges of
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Among other things, she is charged with
having given "luck papers, to various par :
ties, and it is said that these sluck papers,
nine pins and needle, and an
inscription running somewhat THIS: GOOD
uck; good to you, ---; in gaining gold.
10 getting along, and i'm business NAV YOU
nave luck, in the name of the Father Son
md Holy Ghost. The Lords will be done"
D. U. Ma tin, the vegetarian wherryman,
now Of the firm of Butler & Martin pbre.
biologists, at Boston, happened to take cold
ecently and was threatened with fever.
le tried few doses of starvation, eating
othing but small pear from Sunday morn
e till Friday afternoon, when his pulse was
own to 80; he then ate three common-sized
PIP es, and in two hours after his pulse was
p to SO. He had lost some IA pounds in
lis time, and in week afterwards he had
lined twenty pounds. and was fully restored
health without particle of medicine. His
lief diet is apples, and he has found no
ficulty In keeping warm on that fare the
'st winter, even camping out in the woods p
ID sleeping On a snow bed ut night, vita a
bber coat and blanket
The weekly Butte record., 1861-11-02

SECRET UNION ORGANNATIoY.-The st.
Louis correspondent of the Sacramento Bee,
in his letter of Sept. oath, says;
There has recently been established in this
city secret order, which has for its object the
support of the Constitution of the United
States, and the maintenance at all hazards, of
the Federal Union under it. 1t is a sort of
offset to the Knights of the Golden Circle, and
originated, as l am informed, in the Kentucky
Legislature Branches Of the organization are
now in existence in all the States Of the South,
except South Carolina and Mississippi. In
North Carolina, it is said, the number is more
than half the entire voting population of the
State. Kentucky has nearly one hundred and
ten thousand members, and although it has
been but little more than two weeks since it
was organized here, it is said upwards Of ten
thousand have already come forward and sworn
to support, protect and defend the Constitution
and Union of those States without any equiv
ocation or mental reservation whatever any
law or ordinance of any State Legislature or
Convention to the contrary Notwithstanding
am not aware that the organization has any
existence in any Of the Northern Or free States.
1t is unnecessary, for there is no purpose it
could accomplish. Knowing it originated in
Kentucky, and knowing its numbers in that
State, the steadfast loyalty of her people in
the midst Of treason, in nearly all the slave
States, is not so astonishing.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-11-02
The Country Store.

A store in rural district, over one counter
of which the weekly mail is distributed, while
at an adjoining one customers are supplied
with molasses and dry goods, epson salts and
grindstones, is a capital place to study human
nature. Here, early in the summer evenings,
gather representatives of all classes of society,
to exchange opinions concerning the weather,
as well as to learn the latest intelligence from
the seat of war. All ceremony is dispensed
with, save that which springs from honest i'm
pulse. There is no false pretence to gain
selfish ends; but the actions of all appear to
be as natural as the growth of the elm which
spreads its graceful branches high above the
roof. The village store is an important institu.
ton, and ranks next to the church and school
house. During six days of the week it is en-
phatically the chief point of resort Maids and
matrons visit it to examine the latest STYLES of
delaines as well as to procure the hundred and
one articles adapted for show and service and
which they fancy they really need. Young
gentlemen call to inspect the stock of vesting
and purchase new supply of paper collars,
which appear marvellously like the linen art-
cles worn by city gents Those who have not
travelled through some Of our central counties,
have but a very imperfect idea of the great
extent and variety of the stock of irstrate
country store. A friend who is doing fou>
rishing business in Sussex, recently forwarded
US copy of a circular just issued for the bene-
fit Of his customers. They are assured that, at
this establishment, may be found every article
usually required upon the farm, in the work
shop or in housekeeping. His assortment
embraced plaster by the hundred tons or at
retail molasses and tar by the barrel or quart,
silks rivalling in richness and gorgeous beauty
those that deck the bellies of Broadway or
Chestnut street. harness, ready made clothing,
drugs and medicines, school books, as well as
works on literary and scientific subjects, gro,
ceries Of every description, hardware, millinery
and fancy goods, and great variety of mis-
cellaneous articles, to procure which in city,
one would have to visit fifty different places of
business. In the interior are numerous mer-
camille establishments at which the families re-
siding within circnit of dozen miles procure
nearly every article they desire which is not
produced by their own Industry 10 conduct
such extensive enterprise proftably, requires
a large capital and knowledge attained only
by careful observation and study. j..
Journal
The weekly Butte record., 1861-11-02
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Never can you trust them-never

DoG-sTEAL1NG IN the second degree, HOOK
ing town made sausages
A journal asks what is the difference be-
tween a good soldier and a fashionable young
lady and replies One faces the powder,
and the other powders the face"
Gossip is one of the meanest, as well as one
of the most degraded crimes that society toe-
rates.
The flowers of love can never flourish upon
a soil that is not moistened by the dews of
respect and admiration.
Love is the shadow of the morning, which
declines as day advances friendship is the
shadow of the evening, which deepens as the
sun descends.
Garments for the Seat of War. = The
breaches made by the artillery
A romantic individual was asked the other
day why he showed greater attachment to a
very thin lady than to one that was more
stout. at is" said he, because am nearer
her heart"
Fashionable people are apt to starve their
happiness, in order to feed their vanity.
Why is the letter G like the sun? Because
it is the centre of light.
You may be sure that when a lady makes
you pair of slippers she wants you to "put
your foot in it.
Which FIVE names in the Bible indicate the
commencement of corporeal punishment p
Adam, Seth Eve, Cain Able.
One of the editor speaking of large fat CO.
temporary, remarked that if all flesh was grass,
he must be load of hay. :" suspect l am"
said the fat man, from the way the asses are
nibbling at me-"
A young woman down East has commenced
a suit of divorce against her husband, because
he would not allow her to apply her tongue to
the stopper of the molasses jug every time she
used ia privilege every Yankee woman con-
siders sacred.
How does COW become landed estate ,
BY turning her into field.
A dentist is not necessarily mad because he
shows his teeth.
Instead of saying it is false" the phrase
is now changed to :" it is telegram and
the change seems good.
ARE you the Judge Of Reprobates ?" asks
Mrs. Partington, as she walked into the Office
of a Judge Of Probate.
"I am the Judge Of Probate" was the reply.
Well, that's it, I expect" quoth the lady
" You see my father died detested, and left
several little infdels, and l want to be their
exeeutioner."
Come here you mischievous fellow"
Won't you whip me father"
"No."
q" VIII you swear you won't"
"Yes."
Then won't come father; for our minis
ter says, lie that will swear will lie"
A good many years ago, satirist wrote the
following epigram to a pale faced lady with
red nosed husband
Whence comes it, that in Claras face
The lily only has its place?
Is it because the absent rose
Has gone to paint her husbands nose q
The weekly Butte record., 1861-11-02

MINERAL REGION OF CALAyERAs.-It is
doubtful, remarks the Stockton Independent
if the world contains another tract of country
of about equal extent t. that known as the
copper region of Calavesas, possessing so great
variety and quantity of minerals. Intelligent
practical miners who have prospected there for
years and familiarized themselves with what
the earth and rock hold in their embrace, in
form us that there is scarcely mineral known
by man which may not be found in the hills to
the west Of Bear Mountain. In what Is called
the Napoleon claim owned by Hughes &
Co., there is an irregular opening, passing
downward some 80 or 40 feet through several
strata Of earth, gravel and cement to which a
horizontal open cut has been conducted. In
this cut and in the sides of the irregular shaft.
are gold, silver, copper, chalk, tin, iron, teu
rum, all presented to the eye in the primitive
state, at single glance. There is first a vein
of the oxyds Of copper; then a stratum of au-
riferous gravel then layer of chalk then a
vein of argentiierous and auriferous tellurum
The whole interior Of the earth appears to be
a perfect net work of precious and useful min
erals. With energy to investigate and capital
to develope it, there is wealth enough buried in
Western Calaveras to enrich thousands of men
for ages to come.