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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

The New MILITIA LAVA prejudice ex-
lists in this community against the new Mill
tia Law, owing to false Interpretation of
one or more of the provisions of the bill, we
are Ct opinion. Many persons think that I'M
der this law an enlistment is tantamount to
volunteering for term of six years in the
u. S. service in case of actual hostilities. This
is a mistake Membership in Militia Com
pany, under this law does not carry with it a
positive obligation to enlist in the U. S. SER
vice.-lova City Republican.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

s7g-Twelve families passed through Bur-
lington Yesterday, driven @. out Of Grundy and
Unionists They were stripped of every
thing, and said as they were paupers they
must go where they had friends and relatives,
and they were accordingly returning to In
diana. They say they were compelled to
leave their cattle, hogs corn in the ground,
every thing. The person conversedw with gave
his name as Gopher, and said the party had
voted the Bell and Everett ticket at the last
Observation-Disclosures Hawk Eye.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

- At the request of several citizens, we
publish the vote in the city council on the
ordinance regulating the sale of lumber, passed
at the session on the 30th ultimo
YEAs-Sells, Stein. ThurSton, and Mayor
Meason. NAYs-Molis, John, and HerShe.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

PESrfrERous.-Smalli insects abound in the
air each evening, and are exceedingly trouble
some, as they are no respecterS of persons,
They are more numerous this season than
ever. A few warm, clear days, we hope will
cause them to '.Seccde'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14
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How TO LIVE WILL Good meals at mod
crate intervals, and the stomach left to rrst
between. Some interval - an interval Of ac
tive exercise is best-betwcen books and
food. A leisure hour for dinner, and cheer
fui conversation after it. A short nap Tor
those who need Or like it after dinner. Liaht
occupation N the evening-!iterature Or cor.
espondence, with more or less social inter.
course, music or other recreation. These are
each and all high y desirable, but the most
indispensable Of all is strenuous and var: ed
exercise.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14
From Vanity Fair.
uerd iys tho S~sdtli...Hls
:. adventures.

|scape from the sonny South.
arrers of outrajus fortin,"
mlick, warn'tnothin in COM
Publes. | came pesky near
plane oaths mOre'n onct, but
10 it, for I've promist she
II be nameless (except that
,etsle J.) that III jine the
baldinsville, jest as soon as
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

Emerson Etheridge, who is now in Wash
ington, states that he was obliged to escape on
horseback, so violent was the secession feel
ing in the part of Tennessee where he resides.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

A LARGE ARRIVAL OF SUGAR.-lO6 hogs
snheads n. O. Sugar arrived last week by
the steamer Sucker State for Pliny Fay,
wholesale and retail grocer, of our city, the
largest arrival of sugD ever received at this
port
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

The BOARD OF SuPERvIsoRs.-Thisb body
adjourned Saturday till Wednesday. From
frequent attendance on its meetings we are
satisfied that the citizens of the county were
fortunate in their selection Of Supervisors
The are all gentlemen of practical good sense,
and are managing the affairs of the county
economically and dscreetly.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

THREE THINGS THAT WOMAN CAN'T Do.
First she can't sharpen lead pencil Give
her one and see. Mark how jaggedly she
round the lead, leaving an unsupported spike
OF the latter, which breaks Immediately when
you try to use it.
Well, then, secondly, woman can't do up
a bundle. She takes a whole newspaper to
wrap up row Of pins, and coil OF rope to
tie it; and it will undo at that.
Thirdly, may allude to the fact that wo-
men cannot carry an umbrel a, or rather to a
peculiar manner in which they perform t';at
duty but won't. scorn to turn traitor
to a sex who, whatever may be their faults
are Always loyal to each other. SO | shall
not say, as | might otherwise have said
that when they unfurl the parachute aiore
said, that they put it right down over their
noses taking 10 the middle of the sidewalk,
raking Off mems hats and women's bonuets
as they g and walking right into tine bre X
fast o. some unfortunate W ght with that
disregard of the consequent gaze which, to
be understood, must be felt, as the offender
cocks up one corner OF the parachu and
looks defartiy at the victim who has the
etffnntry to come into the world and hazard
the whalebone and handle Of her 'umbrella. :"
No! | won't speak of anything of the
nd besides has not celebrated writer re-
marked that ''whcncver a woman is cross IL
i. only because she is sick - Let us hope
he is right. We all know that is orly
cause of a mans crossness, Give him his
iavorite dish and on may dine off him af
terwa,ds--if Won want to.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

THE FIXED STARS Mr. Maedler, superin.
tendent OIL the National Observatory at Dor
pat, in Russia, has made the post important
contributions, to our knowledge, of the fixed
stars, Of any living astronomer Herschel
demonstrated that they were not the immov-
able points before supposed; but Mr.. Mead
Ter, by series of patient and brilliant obser-
vations, has made it more than probable that
alcyone, the brightest star of the little clus-
ter Of the Pleiades, is the central sun of the
universe, around which our solar system, in
common with others, move in their majestic
courses. He computes the time of our revo-
luton around Acyone at t,oenty millions of
gears and our rate of progress one thousand
miles per minute! l-..
Our distance from Alcyone he estimates
such that ray of light, moving at the rat
of one hundred and ninety-tsco thousand
miles per second, would require sic hundred
and forty years to pass through the inter-
vening space
And yet, notwithstanding the immense
distance, the heat our earth is supposed to
receive from this central sun is such, that
without it, the world would be so cold as to
be entirely destitute both Of animal and veg
etable productions.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

Bloomington " toutSide clty,) raised ID
per cent.
Bloomington " (city,) stand as assessed.
Mr.. Price from the Committee on School
Fund, reported that there was in the County
School FUND on the 18th day of March, So,
03G.53, and in the township, district, sub-dis-
triet and school house fund.- 1928 u, being a
total of so .G651 of which the Treasurer
distributed, on the first Monday Of April, 1851
$4879,32 The report expresses the opinion
that the Treasurer had no right to distribute
any money except the $6,o36,53 in the coun-
ty school fund, and that the other fund should
be distributed in another way.
The appropriation Of $4,000 for the relief
of families Of volunteers was rescinded, as an
informaIity was discovered which it is contem-
plated to rciGci Y.
BILLS ALLOWED.
.Iacoh 8nngardner. Sl,36
Adjourned at noon to meet at 10 O'Clock !,
Nj, Wednesday, June 70.
- i;t NcOkUh correspondent VI inc III
buouc Eeya!A, under date Of the Both ult.,
says:
Some OF the companies here are receiving
superb treatment from their people at home.
The Muscatine companies, for instance, re-
ceived a barrel Of tobacco, boxes Of pipes,
several hundred bundles Of straw, writing
paper. postage stamps, and thousand other
| little articles OF a like character"
~ The Keokuk Gate City of the 9th,
thus spealss of the "boys," in describing the
situation Of the first regiment in camp
"Our old friends Of company a, we found
occupying the position on the right Capt
| Cumnlins reports his men in good spirits,
but ready to boil over for the want of fight.
He showed lis a beautiful satin banner which
foated in front Of his quarters. 1t represents
the coat of arms of the State on one side, and
the old Muscatine Light Guard in full dress,
on the other 1t had been presented to the
company during their existence in that city
years ago.
"Of company c, from Muscatine,) the
same may be stated. This is the color COM
pany of the regiment, and the flag, in their
hands, will not diminish in its lustre we can
vouch for that"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14
Understanding.

You cannd
pairs in a fami |
In the game
play the KNAvJ
The more CID
the faster he 81
Any merchI
custom house b
A man wind
and his businod
Mover purcha
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14
"F'" JOURNAL.

l,DCAt DEPARTM EMF.
~ A horse was killed on the railroad
track, near Ononwa, by the cars, Saturday.
Is Ripe strawberries have appeared in
the market, at ten to fifteen cents per quart
-
~ Sergeant-Major Compton, of the First
Iowa Regiment, arrived from Keokuk Mon
day morning, on furlough bringing a number
of letters
For EuRopE.-P. w. Ditsch, Esq, started
Monday to pay visit Of about two months to
his father in Germany. We wish him pleas
ant voyage.
N3g@ Muscatine county is entitled to ten
delegates in the Republican State Convention
When shall the County Convention be held to
appoint delegates?
Cnn.p DRowNED.-A child of Peter Franks,
not quite two years old, was drowned in Pine
Creek. in this county, last week. We
could not learn any pafucularS.
r3g@A Keohuk correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercialsays THE average weight
of two comp anies from Muscatine, all young
r,ec, is 165 lbs. How will Camp Harrison
compare with that"
A LARGE ARRIVAL OF SUGAR.-l06 hogs
kmhcads n 0. Sugar arrived last week by
the steamer Sucker State for Pliny Fay,
wholesale and retail grocer, of our city, the
largest arrival of sugD ever received at this
port
PEsriFERoUs-Sma insects abound in tn,
air each evening, and are exceedingly trouble
some, as they are no reSpecters of persons
They are more numerous this season THAI
ever. A few warm, clear days, we hope, vii
cause them to ''secede.'
- At the request of several citizens, W
publish the vote in the city council on tn
ordinance regulating the sale of lumber, paSse
at the session on the 30th ultimo:
YEAs-Sells. Stein. ThurSton, and Mayo
Meason. NAYs-Molis, John, and Hershe
The BOARD OF SUPERvISoRS.-ThlS bod,
adjourned Saturday till Wednesday. From
frequent attendance on its meetings we ar
satisfied that the citizens of the county wer
fortunate in their selection Of Supervisors
They are all gentlemen of practical good sens'
and are managing the affairs of the count
economically and discreetly.
INJrSCToN-J. W. Lucas, County Treas
urer, has been enjoined by an orderfrom Juds
Dillon not to collect the railroad tax or pa
out any money from the railroad fund until
case testing the legality of same is decided b
the Courts The injunction was granted
accordance with petition signed by nun
Der of the citizens of this county.
QCIcK TRIP-We are indebted to {. Weed
who returned home last week, on tn
Sucker State, for late St. Louis papers. Nj
Weed was absent eight days, in whic
time ne spent one day in Chicago, day an
half in Pittsburgh, half day in Wheeling
the same time in Portsmouth, with shol
stoppages in Cincinnati and st. Louis. Tha
is pretty quick work
Mr. Weed reports great destruction to tn
crops about St Louis by the ''army worm
an insect from to Il inches in length, whic
N marches in great numbers in columns, like a
army, and destroys everything green before i
1t is said the worm will die undera steady ht
SUM- but the weather in that region has bee
about as here cloudy rainy and warm-whic
makes the ravages of the army worm muc
worse
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

ISJUSCToN.-J. W. Lucas County Treas
urer, has been enjoined by an order from Judge
Dillon not to collect the railroad tax or pay
ont any money from the railroad fund until a
case testing the legality of same is decided by
the Courts The injunction was granted in
accordance with petition signed by num-
Der of the citizens of this county.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14

Wneu tuuS OOtalnCu tHey are lOSC Us soon
you stop payment.
Young ladies are said to like cold weather
because it brings chaps to tier lips.
The real victim of a coquette is the man
she thinks she honors by marrying bun.
One half of lmost every communi is
more or less busily engaged In talking about
the other half.
The chairman of political meeting, seeing
a rowdy who was raising his arm to throw h
stale egg ut him, bawled out-"Sir, your
motion is out Of order -
"Mick, what kind Of potatoes are those
you are planting? ''Raw ones, to be sure.
BE the houly poker an does yer think I'd be
al ther planting billed ones ~
Initiate the example OF the locomotive
lie runs along, whistles over his work, ana
yet never takes anything but water to wet
his whistle
"Is it very sickly here ~ asked son OF
the Emerald Isle the other day of brother
lri>hman. "Yis," was the reply, "a great
many have died this year who nlver died be-
lore"
TIE MIME BULLEr.-The MIME bullet was
invented by Capt. MIME, and is a fearful
missile. A writer on The subject says it is
an elongated conf, having fiat base which
is rammed Gown on the powder, the base be
ing followed out like thimLle. When tn,
cLar1e is fired, the explosion instantly ex
pands the leaden shell, forcing the lead int,
the grooves, and ny preventing the escape
t Tough them OF any portion of the gas gen
Grated by the explosion, concentrates the
whole energy of the charge upon the ball.
No wadding is used in loading. The powder
is poured int the muzzle, then the ball i.
inserted with the hollow part downward, anc
when down is rammed gently on the pow
der, SO as to force 1t up into the cavity O
the ball. The latter is not ramsned in hare
at the muzzle like the spherical bal bu
ides down the barrel with the least posi-
ole effect The loading is, therefore, per
formed with greater quickness, and with less
expenditure of labo by the soldier.
This ball is made out Of cold lead by
machine of American invention, of which
there are only three in existence The ad
vantages Of the ball are long range, correc
craftsmanship and terrible destruction W
have seen it stated MIME ball will pas
through SIX OF seven persons before its fore
is spent 1t makes a terrible wound, and it
flesh wounds are generally mortal, making
. hole as big as dollar. At 600 yards, il
the hands OF a good marksman, it is sure Q
doing its duty nine times out of ten. Il
fact, soldiers armed with the Mimic ball, an
proper weapons for its use, have tremend
Gus advantage over those armed only witt
muskets. at $50 yards they can pick Of
men and horses as they please, and thu
quiet batter es, while utterly safe from harr
by an enemy not similarly armed. The ball
are now being made by thousands for the us
o. Government. The South has no machin
with which to manufacture these balls.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-06-14
WOODEN WARE,
Eoery Variety at Retail or by the Package

ne CASH" or "SuoRT TIME" WHOLESALE
CUSTOMERS will find it greatly to their advantage
examine stock before purchasing in Chicago st.
Louis.
Union Block, Muscatine, Iowa.
April 5th lS6l-wem
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-05-25
=, From tho Charleston Mercury. 1
Gods .GovArninent ()ver Art

The argument, TO our conscicnccs, from tho
Divine law,,l as NO Have studied Il, and at
which. our. people have universally arrived, is
conclusive in favor. Of obre institutions. At
lastifies ns, naniaintafniBg our State and eoi-
dition Mt all. hazafds, 6 k..sss2sS ..s,.s syss
may bs;said fiat nation. does not need
this justification at all events, not in any dis.
eussion with rival powers, Perhaps not, s..
Still 1T ois well to have it. It is wei jf Va
can feel that We take AIMS in al cas,so
which RECEIVES the Divine sanction ,Y siis Is
sssl'Sassurea iu!hofai as IN In: social nr pollGcSl
respects; :: ''tssS sSs Is Jsa.s,5i g
'ts trpe etatesMat, will never loss; ;sigf.tlSf
Perioaee hiclii ) proper Il iisSlold must .fcol
TO bs Inevitable God govssysss Il set,lsS,
s as al; n la y
g sle.sfs s ts1c and that aud duiyoyssI
L arrow to fal ;ii suns
noticed 70 Tho loss hs hsssifNl
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-05-25
by :RowT.a a. THoAfPsoNi & co,
..@R0@06MAl, Pot RW
roh THE cotRisR, ,.i.js,ss.
The Kingdom of Glory.

r. J': :. .DY r.. G.s, ti. 4.t.. ~
Il I'VE talk of.its temple Of light, : ".
/. And splendors so rich and so sair,--sx
! lts millions in garment so white,
: 7'' But what must II be'to be theref",,
We talk Of its rapturous songs j, 4.
- And hrcezes and ambient air.
Its freedom from sorrows and wrongs,
I" But what must it be to be there 2" :
!. we talk of its river OF life. -y.a
'And blessings which Cbristians shall share
Its freedom. from battle and strife.
*But what MUST II be to be there?"
We talk Of it's heaycnIy, T!eins,
And blossoms and fragrance 20 rare,
!, The Kingdom where Jesus Christ reigns,.
: - But what must 1t bc to. be there ?'' y
Wetnlk of its peerless white throne,
And safety from dangers and care, -.
z Its bcnQtics which ages hive known.
:. but what must it be to be tlcrc:'
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-05-25

now Of those miserable antics of miserable
blind guides, called politicians. than. when he
sent down fire upon the city OF the plain,
and surrendered Nebuchadnezzar.to his own
madness. His judgments do,not faib though
we are but too apt to lose sight of, thcir con-
ncction with the offences Of which they are
the proper sequence, and which they are de-
signed to punish A false philosophy, COM
ing to the aid of false statcsmanship, will
refer to natural causes--mcrc caprices and
etullitions Of material agents fiery ser
pcnts, the thundcrbolts the frogs and fsics
that poster: OF, the plaques aud storms which
rayage and destroy. In one sense they arc
natural causes, being, as we think, the re-
suit of Divine law which rhhs decreed that
the fantastic tricks of vanity, and tie inso-
lenco of lust and power, shall bring, about
their proper fruits in this very way Ger
tninly, When we find the judgment following
hard upon the offence we shall instinctiyely
recognize between them7thc relation Of cause
and effect.
And SO, however we may phrase it, indi-
rcctly We require it to be done Religion
and government must ever be made to har-
monize, if we would not forfeit our sccuri-
ties, offend God, and bring down upon the
head of human government just overthrow.
The wise statesman, who must be got d If he
would be wise, must shape all laws in coriso-
nance with what his. s.enlightcned Conscience
shall teach him are the laws Of God ,tsIf,
following the real meaning in what is said by
Christ, lie refuses absolutely to blend religion
and politics together, he is not the less heed
full to see that his laws, his policy and its.an-
actments, shall never como in conflict with
Gods law; and this must be estimated, and
can onlybe estimated by an enlightened con-
science of rulers and people trained together
to great social purposes undcra common NO =
ccssty. Wo may make no law, enforcing,
or establishing, any order of belief, or creed,
which. is the substantive meaning of one Of
the most emphatic amendments ia; the Con-
-stitution of the United States for crceds are
SO various, and are so held and maintained
variously, by the swisest and best Of men,
that statesmen may well pause, in modest
Difference, and leave the establishment, or re-
.coghition, of creed, to the sober Judgment
and honest instincts Of their people assured
of this, that their people have ligior, 4desso
religion, and fccl its necessity and, justns
certainly as they seek religion, just so ceytsin-
ly will each, individual cndeavor, after His
own poor mind and humble spirit, to secure
that which his conscience persuades him to
be, the best. The hc;modcsty aud doubt which
he will feel, as respects his own search, after
its consolation, will make him chary Of. that
mpton-the besetting sin of the North
ern; people-which is rot only bent ON sliar-
ing the morals and religion OF, all other peo-
PIES to their own, but which impudently.
rogatcs the, privilege of reforming the Deity
himsclf. They tncitly accuse Him of great
many mistakcs--of very unwise toleration
nf
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-09-26

HORRIBLE INHUMANIrr or THE MIS-
SOURI, TRAIroRs-THE RIeHr OBJEcrs
OF FREMoEr's PRocLAMArIoS.--0ur
readers are familiar with the recent act
OF destruction Of a railway train on
Platte river, where innocent travellers
were hurried TO horrible death, or so
mutilaGed that death would have been
a mercy, by the Infamous wretehes Of
that region, who resort to such methods
of carrying on a war. But here is a
new fact in relation to it, which we find
in the Daily Nebraskian:
In St. Joseph, when the bridge-burn-
ing 6ends returned from their work Of
murder, and told Of the destruction
they had caused, and the bearth-stones
they had made desolate-the lives de-
strOyed and hearts broken. when the
sad tidings should be made known to
anxious friends-the proprietors Of the
Pacific Hotel threw open their doors,
and, spreading their tables with rich
food and costly wines, invited them to
a feast such as no other body of men
ever psrtook of in that city. This, too,
is the very house before which the dead
and wounded were placed, and while
the groans and cries Of the latter, COM
with the lamentations of friends
who were searching amid the pile Of
blackened and dis6gured dead for the
faces Of loved ones, were borne upon
every breath of sir which enters its
open doors, and while the spirits Of the
murdered dead were lowering around
the very windows of the festive hall.