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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03
A Jacksonian Reply by Lincoln to
Maryland Compromisers.
Gen. Harmey Captured by the
-i. SecessiOnists,
The SOUTH IN A STATE OF ANARCHY

GREAT CHANGE OF SENTIMENT IN MARYLAND
FOR THE UNION.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

TIE FIRST SEcEDER-The Devil was the
first Secessionist ever known. and he seeded
from better Government than the leaders
of our Cotton States did, but from the same
motives. Rule Or ruin was the platform
of both. Here, for the most part, the peo.
pie have been flied and drummed out of the
Union, and denied voice upon the subject
The same spirit aetuate secessionists where
yer they arc found. Had Bell or Douglas
been elected, the same state of things would
now be upon U.S. These Southern conspirs-
tors intended all this mischief, and they have
brought 1t about. The Southern Democracy
are to blame for all this thing Bro,,nlos0's
fnorciWs Whig.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

TIE SINRws OF WAR.-The New York
World says more than hundred millions Of
dollars have been rendered to the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury for the
support OF the Government.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

TIE RIGHT TALK. The Newport News
reports the following:
ga correspondence, of which the follow
ing is the substance, is said to have passed
between Gov. Hicks, Of Maryland and Gov.
SprAgue, of Rhode Island, on Friday or Sat
urday of last week, by telegraph
Coo. Hicks to Coz. Sp5Ggue. - 4 under
stand you are about to proceed to Washing.
ton with the Rhode Island Regiment. !
advise you not to take them through Balti.
more, and thus avoid trouble.'
Coz. Sprns ue to Gov. Hcks.-The Rhode
Island Regiment are going to fight, and it
matters not whether they fight in Baltimore
or Washington."'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

THE DANGER OF WORKING Classmates GUNS.
"A Charleston correspondent of the New
York Commercial Aduertiser writes
"In presence of the fact which has been
stated in refei ence to the assault upon Sevas-
topol - namely, that the men who worked
the guns in casemates had to be relieved
every twenty minutes, and rubbed with
alcohol the other fact, that Anderson and
his men fired from the casemates for twelve
hours without being relieved, while the
shocks of the guns were realized 81 miles
from Sumter, what must have been the effect
npon the men in these narrow casema tes
It is certainly wonder that they were moi
shattered to pieces" 80 .s.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

Il T Massachusetts takes the same posi-
ton in this war that she did in the Rev.
folution. Four days after the Presiden
made his requisition on the States for troops
to defend the Capital, the whole contingent
asked OF Massachusetts, was on its way to
Washington. Massachusetts men shed the
&rst blood in the contest, and it was on the
very anniversary of the day when her volun-
teers were shot down by the British regulars
At. Lexington. She has added another to
her list of glorious memories. -.u
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

SERIOUS DIFFICULTY AT NIoBRARAH-Four
Men Killed. The steamer Omaha was re-
rently sent up the Missouri to bring down
the troops from Fort Randall. When she
arriyed at Niobrarah, number Of citizens
presented themselves armed, and declared
that they would allow no boat to pass up for
the purpose of removing the Fort Randall
troops, as they were all the protection the
frontier had. A difficulty occurred, when
the citizens and the steamboat meH COM
menced firing on each other. Four persons
are known to have been killed, and several
wounded. The Omaha was obliged to turn
down stream ..a-a
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

SYMPTOMS OF DIsAFFRcr1oN AMONG Ne
GRoEs.-From all parts OF the rebellious
States accounts of negro turbulence meet
our eyes. Strong disaffecticn is said to ex-
ist among the slaves in Ma yland, Eastern
Virginia and South Carolina. We have al
ready published some statements relative to
negro plot at tSamaphobia, Miss. AT Mem
phis, on Sunday week, seven negroes were
arrested while snspiciously consulting toge-
ther on the outskirts Of the city. On the
day previous, furious negro woman was
taken into custody, while tiourishing pis-
tol, and declaring that she Was a & Black
Republican, These are but specimens OF
more than twenty similar facts related in
our Southern exchanges.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

A TRAITOR HUNG. Capt. Jones, of the
schooner Isabel who previsioned Slemmer
at Fort Pickens, was hung as traitor. The
Mobile Neps says the account is, that on the
arrival of the Thursday evening cars at
Scooba, passenger on the train pointed out
Jones, as boasting to him as being the per
con who "provisioned SUMTER" and stated
that he was then on his way to Washington
with dispatches for Lincolns Government.
He was arrested, the proofs of his treason
found upon him, and was executed on the
spot by the enraged citizens.-Louiscitle
Courier.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

.s7H Now that Virginia has seeded and
the Capital is really menaced, it is the inten-
tention of the President to issue call for
0,0O0 more men. There will be no diff
Guilty in raising them, but is to be regret
ted that double the number were not called
for at first, and the defence of the capital
and the crushing of the rebels, accomplished
lby one-oyerpowering effort. s..q.-t
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

ARITHMETIC VERSUS BRAaa--The telegraph
reports that "the Hon. A. b. Stephens, in
Atlanta Ca, last night, said that it would
require seventy five times seventy five thous-
and men to int;midate the Confederate
States, and then it could not be DONE" Let
us see. Seventy-fve times 10000 is $685.
900 men. The population of the "Confed-
crates, men, women, children and blacks, is
1856, 600 free, and 2,3ll, 5000 slaves; total
4,9e7, 800. We suppose that the five-and-a-
half millions of men could not intimidate
this motely minority. No doubt the babies
and women are terrible warriors down South.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

Quick WoRK.-Sinee Monday, 10Th inst,
Rhode Island has called and held a special
session Of her Legislature, appropriated hall
a million of dollars to fitting out troops,
thrown 500 Rhode Island boys into Fort
Monroe in Virginia, sent to Eaton, Penn:
splendid battery of light artillery, which
might now have been in Washington, had
not it's march been countermanded by the
War Department, and she now has regi
men 1900 strong, with her Government al
its head, in Washington
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

AGooD SueGEsrloN.-Says cotemporary:
We beg writer's for our columns in these days
to mention slavery as infrequently as may be.
Slavery is now speaking for herself, with an
eloquence and force which renders all other
elucidation of her character superduous.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

How SOLDIER KEEPS HIS WORD OF HONOR.
1T Is refreshing in this day, when Twiggs
and Beauregard, and Hamilton, among war
riors, and Wigfall and Breckenridge, among
Senators, sworn to allegiance, are recreant to
their oaths, to read the narrative of the old
soldier, Peter Hart, who was in Fort Sumter
during the siege. The story carries its own
moral, and needs no word of comment.
Hart was an old soldier under Anderson at
Mexico. When Mrs. Anderson visited Fort
Sumter, Hart accompanied her, by permis-
sion of the Confederate authorities, on CIV
ing his PAROLE not to fight, should he con-
clude to remain in the garrison. When the
bombardment commenced, the soldier mount
ed the parapet wall, and shouted to the men:
"Now, fire away, boys; can't fight with
out breaking a soldiers word, but I'll tell
you where your shots strike, and where to
look for danger"
Thus conspicuously a mark during the
whole two days bombardment, HarS left the
parapet only once, and that was to climb the
flagstaff to nail the colors to the peak, after
the halliards had been shot away.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03
Troops Still Pouring into Washington
N. Y. ZOUAVE REGIMENT SWEARS TO
MARCH THROUGH BALTIMORE.
FORT SMITH IN THE HANDS OF sECES'
'".v 81 ONIHT6
Buchanan Reported to have Fled
to Canada.

QUOTA OF TROOPS TO BE
:, vns RAISED.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

At New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery,
"bounty' of ten dollars per man is offered
for volunteers for the "Con'ederate Army
and q bonus Of two dollars additional is
paid to every man who brings in recruit.
The Confederate Government foots the bill,
and it is said to be slow work at that.
ssThat's the way they do things ''down 5ouf.'
Here, where we don't need to be hired
to sustain a benefcent Government, it is
impossible to receive all the soldiers that
offer. Thousands are outftted at their own
charges, and a " bounty on enllsting would
be curiosity for Barnum.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

p@ The Fort Sumter victory is thus
summed up in one Of the Journals:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

The BARBARrANs OF BALr1MoRE. The
Philadelphia Bulletin has the following:
We have it upon the authority of Capt. E.
w. Power, of the Buena Vista Guard, that
when the dead body of Philadelphia volun-
teer, who had been killed, had been put in
car by his comrades, the mob seized the
corpse and kicked it about the street until
they actually kicked the jaw off.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03
The Conservative Feeling Predominating
at Baltimore.

Threatened Attack on Cairo--A Steamer
for Memphis Stopped at that Point.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

A SIGNIFICANT INcIpENr.-A gentleman
named Ross, formerly resident of Missouri
has arrived at Potosi, Wis, bringing with
him twenty slaves whom he has manumitted.
Before leaving Missouri, he was offered
ISl5, 900 for them, but having himself seen
the despotism cf slavery in the reckless dis.
union forced upon the Soath, he concluded
to make clean business of the thing re-
move to free State, and permit his bond
men to be free men. He has executed his
resolution as above Indicated, and is about
to become land hol-ier, and resident Of
the great Northwest ra,r
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

.ba3qs5oa 81 h.Hya Y ~ Do.is~s.5-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

Observation-Disclosures, of Mississippi,
who has taken Office in the Southern army,
is the man whose wig fell off in the Con
gressional skirmsh three or four years ago.
he and Wigfall ought to exchange names.
The Richmond Enquirer thinks that
thousands in the orth will give aid to the
South. We greatly fear that it will only be
cannon-aid. r f-lf.rs. 70 te. ..-
The editor of the Richmond Eramia-
er advises his subscriber 10 file his papsr.
All tile fling in the world couldn't make it
sharp. Io5 aat hra .qisriT t-~ te1I
Col. Rufus King, of Wisconsin, recently
appointed Minister to Rome, has arked leave
of absence from his post, ia order to lead his
regiment in the approaching struggle to
maintain the integrity of the Union. Col
King had a thorough military education at
the nations costiat West Point, and be re-
Icognizes his moral obligation to give his
country the benefit Of tina. education whene-
yer she needs it. bHa f1@ 10 i1neaa
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03
To the Peace Men.


cries "peace when there is no peace" We
find here aud there solitary individual who,
with Pharisaical sancity, effects to think this
war unnecessary and wicked. Do such men
know if one State after another is permitted
to violate the Constitution, that soon coun,
ties, towns, cities and individuals will set
themselves up against all law, and fearful
anarchy will be upon US. The administra-
ton has shown its just appreciations of the
horrors of war by suffering the rebels to 60
no longer unchecked, hoping better counsels
might prevail. The man who now falters in
supporting the Governmst, is doing all he
can to usher in the horrors of the French rev.
elution. Whoever you are, pause in your
mad career. "Curse ye Meroz, said the
Angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the in
habitants thereof; because they come not up
to the help of the Lord, to the help of the
Lord against the mighty" .
PITTSBURGH ARsENAL.-The United States
Arsenal at Pittsburgh is turning out i'm
mense quantities of war-like material. A force
Of 400 men is at work night and day. There
are 100 pieces of artillery of different cali
bre, and an immense quantity of shot, shell
and ammunition. On Tuesday last, there were
Of small arms 2l00 stand of rifle muskets,
new model; 26,965 percussion muskets, old
model, which were being rhed at the rate
of 1Oo,per day; and there were 1882 pcrcus
sion rifles. There were 4, ,0e5 percussion pis
tolls, one-fourth of which are of the latest
pattern. The greatest delay will be in get
ting the muskets converted into rifles. The
exigency Of the war may oblige the Govern
ment to issue many of them before the i'm
provement is put on. 1t is satisfactory te
know that the Arsenal at Pittsburgh is SC
we'll supplied with weapons, and has such
ample capacity for producing the medicine
for the insurgents.
r- GyThe New York Times says of the Wa
for the preservation of the Union ''lr
every view we can take of the crisis, it is {
life.aud.death struggle. We must inscrib'
on our banner, LAW. We intend to obey
it, and to enforce it. The moment we cas-
aside this watchword we are lost, Anarchy
follows, and withit our material destruction
without the sight or the threat of an enemy
We have allowed license to run wild, till j
has dismembe1ed the country. We mus
have no more traitors in Washington, or il
official positions. In the vindication of Law
we never need count consequences ; they viii
always prove beneficial in the end.'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

The Great Rebellion !
Troops Still Pouring into Washington.
N. Y. ZOUAVE REGIMENT SWEARS TO
MARCH THROUGH BALTIMORE.
FORT SMITH IN THE HANDS OF sECEs-
''P SIONIsTS
Buchanan Reported to have Fled
to Canada.
QUOTA OF TROOPS TO BE
uoH RAISED.
The Conservative Feeling Predominating
at Baltimore.
Attack on Cairo--A Steamer
for Memphis Stopped at that Point.
A Jacksonian Reply by Lincoln to
Maryland Compromisers.
Gen. HarMey Captured by the
rt SecessiOnists.
GREAT CHANGE OF SENTIMENT IN MARYLAND
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

PRAYERS OF THE RIG GHrEous.--An Amer
ican paper announced the illness of its ed-
tor, piously adding: All good paying sub
scrlbers are requested to mention him in
their prayers; the others need not, as the
prayers Of the wicked avail nothing accord
ing to good authority. .,r. .ar ..-
Gen. Pillow proposes to raise 10000 reb-
els. Everybody remembers his great achiey-
ment in getting the cart before the horse in
Mezico:y sft l.as . ISIS 10 -.
hang my harp upon a willow ,
oiroI hiI.l-I
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

..aavu~t sii.gslWo4 e at5g = .odlgcS
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

1t is reported here that dispatch has
been received by Gov. Letcher, from Mr..
Cameron, Secretary of War, at Washington,
inquiring whether if he came to Richmond
he would be protected his purpose being
to ask for an armistice for sixty days.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

ya0gatssE % na0sa1 s1oW ,bnaors sg4m owi
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03

tits said that on Friday evening, pro-
peller. with boats, reinfor ced Fort McHenry.
The United States receiving ship Alleghaney
is now at the Fort. -. e. r.i..,.s~. ,q..za-.
Another Massachusetts volunteer died this
morning of his injuries. rr
Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-28
Great Confingration- La Forte in Ashes.

The town Of La Porte, Sierra county, was
almost entirely consumed ly fire yesterday
morning 1t caught in the rear of gam
bling saloon, near Main street, about two
o'clock in the morning, and spread with
great rapidity, in every direction. The office
of Eyert, Wilson d. Co., being burned no
express came down, and all the news we
could get came through Billy Andrews, the
stage driver. The fire was still raging when
the stage left, at half-past three, but the fol-
lowing items are probably correct, as far as
they 60: The only business houses left stand
ing are Eve d Crews banking house, Gordon
d. CO.. and Arnolds. The fire swept from
the old Essex Companys warehouse to the
creek, and from the Methodist Church clear
through to the opposite side of the town.
We regret to learn that our friends of the
Messenger Office are among the sufferers
No idea can be formed of the loss, at
present.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-28
ElOpement and its Consequences.

A woman and her child were shot by the
husband and father, yesterday. at the st.
Nicholas hotel. The circumstances connect
ed with the affair, as nearly as we could
learn them, are as follows:
A man by the name of Morgan had been
in the employ Of another named BoyGe, for
year or more in Shasta. A few days since
Boyce's wife left her husband. taking with
her their children, two little girls, aged about
three and five years, respectively, and went
to Oroville, where she met Morgan, and they
passed as Mr.. and Mrs. Smith. Day before
yesterday they came to Marysville and put
up at the United States Hotel, as Mr.. and
Mrs Jones. Boyce followed them. and ar
rived here in the Shasta stage, night-before-
last. Learning the whereabouts of the guilty
ones, he procured q warrant from Justice
Lucas, and on repairing to the hotel, found
Morgan occupying the position which legally
belonged 10 him. Morgan was placed under
arrest, and the women and children were
taken to the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Just before Morgan's examination com
menced, yesterday morning, the parties being
in the Nicaragua Saloon, Boyce attempted to
Stewart; but Stewart caught the pistol, and
it was discharged without doing any damage.
About II o'clock 4. NJ, Boyce went to the
room of his wife, in the ST. Nicholas, accom-
panied by two other persons who stayed n
few minutes and left AS soon as they were
gone, he drew n six-shooter and fired two
shots at his wife, one of which went into the
ceiling and the other into the floor. The
woman then got by him through the door
and ran down the hall, followed by the
youngest daughter. Boyce ran after them
and fired again, hitting the little girl in the
right shoulder, the bullet passing around and
lodging just under the skin above the left
shoulder blade. The wound is not a danger
Gus on. The woman then ran into room
where was a lady with young child in her
arms, and grspipg the lady. held her tightly.
Boyce followed, grasped the lady by the
arm. and, reaching over both, shot his wife
in the back, the ball entering near the left
shoulder blade, and ranging downwalds. An
elderly lady, who had heard the firing,
rushed in st this juncture, and seizing his
arm, held him till Mr.. Whitcomb arrived,
and took the pistol away from him.
Laet night the woman was considered in
critical condition, and the surgeons had not
succeeded in finding the ball.
Boyce is in Jail
Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-28

Mining Items from WashOe.

We gather the following items from the
Territorial Enterprise Of recent date;
MouE WATER-Our citizens lin Virginia
City, will recollect that some monthssn the
ltonsides Company, in sinking shaft, struck
heavy stream Of water, which prevented
their sinking further Since that time they
have been running tunnel for their claim,
and have struck the ledge five hundred and
fifty feet from the mouth of the tuhhel -
They find good rock, and splendid stream
of excellent water water is new running from
the the tunnel.
CoPPER-A party of prospectors from
this place have discovered a magnificent lead
Of copper ore, about thirtysix feet in width,
in the neighborhood of Jnmison City, Plumas
county. Some of the ore has been assnyed
10y Ruhling g. Co., of this city, ann is found
TO contain 6S per cent of copper The lucky
discoverers intend making arrangements for
working it Immediately.
WArER-The citizens of Gold Hill now
have prospect for an abundant supply of
water The water which is being taken
from the Bradbury tunnel has been carried
over the divide to Gold Hill, and now runs
down the main street of town. There is suf-
ficent fall for the water to warrant the con-
stiuction of water works, and the intro
ducton of the article into every house in
town.
The LATRoDE TuNNEL-The Latrobe Com
pany now have their tunnel in about twelve
hundred feet, and are getting along well
with their work They are passing through
a formation of trap rock, which requires
some blasting. There are about fifteen
inches Of water now running from the tunnel.
RICH LEAD.-The Zouave Company, Els
worth Ledge, some two weeks since, struck
a ledge thirteen feet in width. which assays
very richly. The Company have run their
tunnel nine hundred feet, and certainly de-
serve the good luck they met with.
Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-28
Summons.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Cn1.-NrN on XunA &C

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, I
COUNTY OF YUBA, ss. (
DISTCICT COURT, Tenth Judicial District The
People of the State of California, to Charles Hell
alias Charles iIesenbuter and l. s. Belecher viii
liam Belcher partners under the name of Belcher &
Belcher q Getting. You hereby required TO appear
in an action commenced against you as Defendants
by John G. FALL William s. Webb and George NJ Han.
son under the name and style Of Hanson, Fall and
Webb as Flatats, in the District Court of The Tenth
Judicial District in and for the County of Yuba State
of California and the complaint therer (which
is on file with the Ceek of said County) within ten
lays after service upon you Of this Summons (excu-
sive of the day of service1 served in said County of
Yuha twenty days if served out of said
in the Tenth judicial District of the Stgte of California
forty days If served out Of said District but with
in the State; or judgment by default will be taken
against you according to the prayer of the said com
plant. The said action is brought to obtain a iudr-
ment and decree of this Court annulling and cance
ing nine certain promssory notes particularly dcscrib-
ed in this said complaint executed by the said pl'Gs
and delivered to you the said Charles ITesen alias
Charles Heisenbuter on or about the 9th day of
Feb'y 1861 amounting now to about S4S5S 0)-100and
now in the hands of you l. S. Belcher and William
Becher and alleged by the said plaintiffs 10 have been
frauduenty obtained from hem by the said Ueisen
alias Heisenbutter, and also to restrain the endorse
ment transfer sale Of said notes by you or either
Of you and to the 5000 90 damages all
of which particularly set out in their said complaint
to which reference is hereby made together with such
other and further relief in the premises as to our said
Court may seem right and proper and if you fail to
the said complaint, the said plaintiffs win ap-
ply to the Court for the relief demanded .herein
.... Given uhd er ny hand and tie Seal of said
: SEAL Court, this 25th day of July A. D. 1861.
'''''' WN.E. ONEALE
Cl'k of the District Court in and for the Co. of Yuba
BY NJ. d. DoBmNs, Den. Crk
G. f. De Long GEORGE ROWE, Att'ys for PlaT's.
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