Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-07-25
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
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have but just returned to duty. 1t is sad to
see, but cannot be hidden, that the people of
the Eastern cities arc much depressed by the
present halt of our army before Richmond
There is of course hope and a belief that we
shall yet be triumphant, but the belief is
rather vague, and the hope is desperate, and
not buoyant. Meanwhile enlisting goes on
with suggestive slowness, and abolitionists in
crease with each hour. Men who one year
ago were the high priests of conservatism
now say there is no conservatism but in the
freeing of the negro, and making them our
allies. Who would have thought in Novem
Der last that our army of the Potomac, then
100000 strong, would have been year in
reaching Richmond? Yet we shall be fortunate
if we reach it by next November. "The
mills of the gods grind slowly" so we must
wait patiently the solving of the problem now
before the nation. My faith is strong and
earnest thatright and not wrong will triumph,
and that, too, despite the blunders of the
incompetent General who is still kept in
place by the blind Partially of the President.
Whether we are nearly through or only mid
way in the Red Sea, cannot conjecture;
but know that when we shall be led through
we shall see that CHE has triumphed glori-
ously." l count it great gain that we have
left the wilderness and are in the sea-we are
just so much nearer the promised land.
Congress has adjourned. 1t has done
many good things, and the country will be
fortunate if securing as fair an average of
ability and honesty in the coming Congress as
as is has secured in this. Iowa will do her
share if she sends five more men who shall be
equal to the present servant, the Hon. James
F. Wilson. The second district, if she in
tends to match Mr.. Wilson, must pick her
best man. In principal, he must be radical;
he must have talent and industry in large
proportion, and his instincts and his practice
must be always answerable on the side of the
Right Why wouldn't JACOB BUTLER be the
man? Now, if ever, are such men needed,
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be set up to the Nations Council. In my
jugement we can better dispense with almost
any quality in our public servants for the next
Congress, than radicalism.
That is the only salt that has not lost its
SAVIOR
We are sharing the satisfaction which all
Iowans must feel in the appointment of Hon.
Samuel F. Miller, of Keokuk, as associate JUS
tice of the U. S. Supreme Court 1t is a good
appointment. Judge Miller will never make,
or agree to, any bred Scott decision. This
is the first Office the Judge has ever held, and
| is perhaps without a parallel that man
should alone move and step from private life
into such high honor. The Office is for life,
and is worth $4,000 per annum. Long may
the judge live and adorn the place.
| Major Stone is now here as parolcd prisoner
of war, to arrange for an exchange Of prison
ers, and will probably succeed in his mission.
Governor kirkwood has been solicited to
appoint the Major to command one of the new
regiments now being raised in Iowa. Every
one who knows the Major will heartily say,
80 let it be-"
There are number of Iowans now in
town. Hon. S. F. Miller, of Keokuk (; Gov.
Kirkwood, Col. Dewey, Of Desmoines Gen.
Frank Heron, Of Dubuque; II. G. Angle, of
Cedar Rapids; L. A. Duncan, of Iowa City ;
Frank Wilkie, OF Dubuque, the famed CORE
spondent of the n. Y. Times during the three
months campaign of the I" Iowa First;' and
our townsman Pliny Fay, Esq, who, | may
say without betraying any secret, is to be the
Assessor for the Second district.
Gen. Heron bears his new honors becom-
ingly, and really looks more like parlor man
than the fighting man he is so well known to
be, He will soon return home to engage ac-
lively in raising the new troops. His promo
ton, as well as that of Col Fitz Henry War
rem, is very gratifying to Iowans here. The
latter gentleman is the more so because it has
been long delayed. In many respects Col.
Warren has no superior in Iowa and he ought
to have been recognized by the President long
ago.
Our town is flooded with hin-plaster tick
cts, good for ten cents, &c. Silver is 16 per
cent. premium. Congress has provided that
after the LIST of August we may use postage
stamps for currency, but the true way to
bring Treasury notes up to par, and to take
the premium off of coin is for the President
to remove Gen. Mcclellan from the command
of the army before Richmond, and place, say
Pope, in his stead. 10. w.