Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-12-13

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ture in New York, at the Cooper In
stitute on the above subject. We ex-
tract his opening paragraph: !
There is in Re igion an element of
love and an element Of justice. 1t is
q part of Christian duty at certain
times to recognize the divine element
of Justice, although always in the spirit
of love. The times in which we live
are sublime inspiration of justice ap-
piled by the hands of free and intel
ligent people. This is the day of jns-
tice !; and although it may have SEEM
ed to linger, it has fingered only that
when the time should come its works
may DO more perfectly done. What
do we behold? The revolution from
an industrial people to warllke one
of thirty millions Of inhabitants. The
spectacle thus presented is memorable,
not merely from it's rapidly, not mere
ly from the manifest superiority of the
people to the best Government in the
world-for it cannot be denied that
though the Government is the best, it
has always been tagging behind the
people. The best government the
world ever saw is that which is at
Washington and yet it has scarcely
kept pace with the people behind 1t
and beneath it. But the proof which
is presented at this time is, that good
Government, based upon an intelligent
and free people, is the sublimest spec
tacle of Government that the world can
witness. No Government of strong
people can long be weak. If it had
been q monarchical Government, it
would have been dead and buried long
ago. If it had been an Austrian Gov
ernment, so low had it been reduced
by corruption, that doubt whether it
could have stood it would have been
overthrown. But our people are strong
er than ever before. = Applause. In
the very moment when Europe looked
| for dissolution here behold such mil
itary power as was never known before
| on the globe! There have been greater
armies, though I doubt. if you count
both sides-and the whole country be-
longs to US yet cheers )-whether
you find better material for an army.
a million Of men stand in arms and
we may count with confidence on FIVE
hundred thousand of them. Nor are
cur people educated as European peo-
pie. OF that half million of men may
be said-what perhaps could never
have been said before-there is not
one conscript, not one drafted man,
not one enforced soldier. Not OILY
are they all free, but they are not men
who volunteer for their bread, but they
have got noble occupation. Speak
ing Enthusiastically Of our army, they
were men who did business men who
had an interest in the struggle not
alone on account of their families, but
who felt that the Government must be
sustained. 1t is scarcely seven months
since the call was made, and where be-
fore in monarchy, spying out weak
ness in a republic, were such signs of
stupendous weakness seen?
MAN AS A MEDLEY.-What a strange
tumble of material is full grown hu.
man being, when you come to contem-
plate yourself little minutely! Ac-
cording to the best authorities, mar
weighing one hundred and fifty four
pounds cotains on an average one hun
dred and sixteen pounds Of watery
matter. Thus there remain but thirty.
eight pounds of substance, and of that
amount about ten pounds are mineral
matter, such as iron, phosphorus, sui
phur, sodium, potassium, silicum, cal
cium, and magnesium. Plants, like
ourselves, as we'll as COWS, sheep, and
other animals, absorb all these miner
ais, and assimllate them into food we
eat; but the two most con- bnstible
things in this mineral list, viz, sulphur
and phosphorus seem to. be essential
to the constitution of every globule of
blood, every fibre of muscle. every cell
of the brain, and nervetissues in our
animal economy.
Only think OF phos .ihorus IN connec
ton with the human intellect /! What
a hint it suggests Of the subtle energy
Of the brain, particu arly when we con-
meet it with the electric.liko character
Of its communication, by means of is
nervous ramfcation, with the subordi-
nate portions Of the frame. 1t is
whimsical idea, and yet it is n truth,
that "the NEST luminous cor.uscations
of thought have their source in brain
rich in phosphorized fats" an that the
"though,s that baeatl.e and the words
that burn have been really Graded
from their birth in dormant Ere" We
boast of being flesh aad blood; but
what is it, as popular writer has well
said, bnt slime that strengthens our
bones, iron that flows in. our veins,
flint that brist!es in our lair, sulphur
and phosphorus that culver in our
nerves, and give life ard light to the
secret chambers Of the Intellect p
Ear.
The THREE CAMP DISEASES. SOL
diers in camp suffer from three dseas-
es: diarrhea, rheumatism and fever.
The commonest cause diarrhea is bad