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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

was crown ofliving scorpions, and around
his neck and coiled in his bosom was the
deadly rattlesnake. had but short time to
look, when, in voice of thunder, he said to
me, Who art thouF And through the long
arches through which had passed, came the
answer, Jefferson Davis! He'll is disgracedi
Cast him outl' Transfixed with horror, the
Devil seemed to gaze upon me, and in voice
of awful depth and hardness said to me,
Jefferson Davis, /, who now sit here, jai.or
of the damned, ambitious to be something,
greater than the greatest, rebelled, and was
cast forth, and this sentence was passed upon
me, to sink down to hell and have dominion
over all tho iniquity of the world until a
greater than should appear. when I should
be released, and my dominion be given to him.
Jefferson Davis long have waited, long have
| I tempted, but in vain, until to day you
appear before me loaded down with crime that
even shudder as I see you. Jefferson
Davis said he, rising, take my seat and
crown
"As he uttered these awful words my hood
seemed to freeze in my veins, and the most
horrid wall of agony arose from the myriad of
the damned, and with shout, l awoke, trem-
bling in every limb, and q cold perspiration
all over me, and broad day light streaming
through my windows. The scenes seemed so
real, and my doom SO prophetic, that it preys
upon ME like a canker, and find myself un-
able to shake it off,"
Davis here ceased speaking, and they DO tn
arose and unlocked the door, passed out, and
as they did so caught glimpse Of them and
never till the day Of my death shall forget
the haggard, care-worn faces of those arch
traitors.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19
Common Colds.

MEssRs EDITORS Every one is practically
familiar with common colds. The chillness
and shivering, the dullness and languor, the
soreness of throat, pain in the head, stuffed
nostrils, and, still WORSE the irritabili'y of
temper and the general discomfort, have not
only been experienced by every one at some
time, but it has been the misfortune of most
people to pass through this unpleasant ordeal
repeatedly and frequently.
1t is certainly quite unnecessary for us to
prepare an article upon the symptoms of a
common cold, and although a consideration
of the pathology and means of cure of this
complaint might be interesting and profitable,
l only propose at present to indicate what nv
own observation and experience appear to
teach, as valuable and efficient preventative
of this disorder.
1t simply sulphuric ether. 1t should be
taken by inhalation. A very little of the
remedy will answer the entire purpose The
patient should make an approach to etheriza-
ton, but only apply the nose to bottle con-
tanning the liquid and make few inspirations.
This must be done lin order to be completely
effectuaD when the first symptoms of the cold
manifest themselves The result is an almost
immediate and complete removal of all the
symptoms, and no unpleasant effect ensues. -
Boston MEDICAL Journal. ~.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19
EBlack pepper is raised to some exter

~ Black pepper is raised to some extent
on the island of Java; bu. Sumatra. which
lies just across the straits, is by far the most
celebrated for this comodity. Her pepper il,
perhaps, the finest and most abundant Of any
one country in the world. Black pepper
grows on vine very much like our, grape
vine. The pepper grows, and looks when
grown, very much like our currents. There
is this difference, however, the current has
each its own distinct stem, but the pepper
has not, every grain grows hard on one COM
mon stem, just as each grain of Indian corn
does on the cob. The color of the pepper,
when first ripe, is almost bright red, and
changes to dead black by being exposed to
the heat of the sun.
The white pepper is nothing more than the
common black with the outer skin taken off.
1t is first soaked till the outer skin bursts
open, which is then rubbed off and the grain
dried. The white is not considered so pung.
emit As the black, though it is nicer and more
as more lsbor is necessary in
order to prepare it. t'F g
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

FARM KNOWLEDGE IN TINE OF WAR.-Never
was there time when knowledge was more
important to the farmer than now. The
labor of single man on the farm, without the
proper knowledge to direct it, will produce a
mnch less harvest than one directed BY the
proper knowledge. Stupid brute labor with
out knowledge is slow and toilsome, and
brings but little fruits. Intelligent labor is
agreeable, rapid in execution, and brings its
harvests an over flowing reward. The accu-
mulated knowledge that our country possess
ses, as connected with agricultural pursuits,
is worth more to the Government in giving to
it an ability to carry On this gigantic war,
than the entire aggregate capital Of the nation.
By the means of the additional knowledge
that the farmers of our country have to-day,
over that they had forty years ago, they are
enabled to produce greater crops by means of
not only half the amount of manual labor
that was formerly required
Consequently we are to-day more able to
send million of meh into the field, than we
should have been able to send half a million
without this knowledge that now offers such
q grand service to the country.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19
Notice of Sherlff's Sale under
ChattelC Mortgages.

THO William Haldeman, Springer Harbaugh, Edward
Rahm and all Others whom 1t may concsfn,-
By virtue Of three chael mortgages executed By the
said William Haldeman to J Leland 4 Co., to secure
the payment Of two promissory given by him to
them-the first for two thousand dollars, dated Janu-
airy 18TH $780, and payable twelve months after date,
with eight per cent interest the second for
three hundred and fifty dollars, dated April 9th, 1890,
and payable January 1st, 1861 with eight per in.
terest per annum, and all other advances Of money
which said Leland Co. might make to him. on all
which there 10 still due and unpaid the ofseventeeu
hundred and forty -four H1O0 dollars, with eight per
cent interest per mum from January rd 1851. Said
chattel being upon the following property to
wit: one FLOODED bull called Emperor, brown mare,
black mare hve cows two hefers calves three
calves incre ased one reaper and combined sic
plows six shovel pows six harrows and lot OF har
ness-said MORTGAGES being upon other property which
cannot be found-I, Hine, Sheriff of Muscatine
county, at the request of Gorhsm Leland and Thomas
Leland, surviving partners of the firm of Leland
Co., and by the authority vested in me by law will
on the 30 b day of December, 1862 at 10 O'Clock
in the forenoon sell the proper described in said mort
CAGES and herein before set FORTH ut public ssle tho
premises formerly occupied by said Hademan, In Wsp
sinonoc township, Auscatine county, Iowa, to the
highest and best bidder for cash. AMI that upon said
sole being made bills Of sale will DO given the
chasers, which will convey all the title Of said william
Haldsman in and to said property, absolutely.
II. H. HINE,
s.. ..-- Sheriff Muscatine County.
HICKMAN Bro, Atty's for Mortgagees.
Moscatine, Dec s. 1869--w4w $40 --e s-s
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

A HONE FOR SALE.-How much we dislike
to read 80 sad on announcement in the adver-
Using department of a paperl Not house
and grounds only, but all the long and cheer
ing memories and tender associations of the
place, that enrich it with wealth beyond the
computation of business men, the traders in
homesteads and other real estate. It is q
sorry day for man-and the more 80 for q
family-when he is obliged to give up his
home and go drifting over the world. No ex-
perience like this shocks the sensitive heart.
All gone, all desertedI The light shining
no more in the window. The familiar faces
no longer pressed upon the panes. The fires
are dead and gone out. The smoke no more
curling from the chimneys. The dear voices
will not be heard there again, though the men
pass and repass the house daily. All, there
is need of no desolation of sort like this.
His must be hard and undeveloped nature
that can contemplate such scene without
the deepest emotion. To lose ones home, is
to lose nearly all that earth has to offer of
happiness to man.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

"TnE PHYSICAL MEN or ONO "-The COM
missioner Of statistics of the State of Ohio. in
his annual report, says: THAT Professor
Henry and himselfhave been several years en-.
gagged in defining the American man, by accu-
rate measurements. He presents only such of
these'as 60 to describe the men of Ohio. For
this purpose, he gives the measurement ofthree
hundred farmers, miners and laborers, in sew
eral counties; oftwo hundred and thirty others,
in eleven villages and five companies of Ken
news cavalry, all native Americans. The fol-
lowing appears to be the general result of these
measurements That the man of Ohio is five
feet nine and one-third inches high, and is
taller than any of the European nations of
which there are measurements. He is taller
than the Belgian, by several inches; than the
English, and even the Scotch Highlanders.
The Highlanders, however exceed the Amer
leans around the chest, and are, on the whole,
the stoutest. In complexion, eyes, and hair
the light predominates over the dark. The
prevailing hair is brown, and the prevailing
eyes gray or blue. In one word, the native
American is modified German of the time of
Tacitus, and such he ought to be from his
Historical Magazine.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

FACTS FOR VEaErARlANs.-It is indeed a
fact worthy of remark, and one that seems
never to have been noticed, that throughout
the whole animal creation, in every country
ind cline of the earth, the most useful ami
mails that eat vegetable food work. The all
powerful elephant; and the patient, untiring
camel, in the torrid zone the horse, the OK.
or the donkey in the temperate; and the rein.
deer in the frigid zone, obtain ill their mus.
cular power from natare's simplest produc-
tions-the vegetable kingdom. But all the
fesh-eating animals keep the rest OF tn. an
mated creation in constant dread of them.
They seldom eat vegetable food unless some
other animal has eaten it FIRST, andlmade it in
10 flesh, and is most foul and offensive.
Great strength, 6eetness Of foot, usefulness,
and docility, are then, slwaysi
Of vegetable eaters.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

A PLEA FOR MeRs1MENr.-Don't be afraid
Of little fun at home, good peoplel Don't
shut your houses least the sun should fade
your carpet; nor your hearts least hearty
laugh should shake down some of the musty
cobwebs there! If you want to ruin your
sons, let them think all mirth and social eniov.
ments must be left on the threshold when thew
come home at night. When once home is
regarded only as place in which to eat,
drink and sleep, the work is begun which
ends in gambling houses and reckless degrade
ton. Young people must have fun and relax
alton somewhere. If they do not have it at
their own hearthstones, it will be sought 10
other and less profitable places. Therefore,
lot the fire burn bright at night, and make
the home ever delightful with all those little
arts that parents so perfectly understand.
Don't repress the buoyant spirits of your
children; talf an hour of merriment around
the lamp and freight of home, blots out the
Of many care and annoyance
during the day, and the best safe, guard they
can take with them into the world is the
unseen influence Of bright little domestic
3anctum. 1sGee IL tc
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

~A glass of whisky is manufactured
from, perhaps, dozen grains Of corn, the
value of which is too small to be estimated. A
pint of this mixture sells for one shilling and,
if a good brand, is considered well worth the
money. 1t is drank in minute or two. 1t
fires the brain, sharpens the appetite, derang-l
es and weakens the physical system. On the
same sideboard upon which this delicious bev-
erage is served lies newspaper. 1t is COW
cred with half million type-it brings intel
ligence from the four quarters of the globe.
The newspaper costs less than the glass of
grog, juice ola few grains of corn; but it is no
less strange than true that there is large
portion Of the community who think corn
juice cheap and the newspaper dear!-Scien.
tito american. seit' ~
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat,
writing from Helena, Arkansas, under the
date Of September 9th, describes, as fol.
lows, one Of the ''peculiar institutions"
"Perhaps your readers are not aware that
whipping negroes is regular business in some
parts Of the South; but such is undoubtedly
the case. Improved machinery has been in
vented and put into operation, and whipping
is done by wholesale.
tan institution of this kind is located at
Mayena, twenty-five miles from this place on
the St. Francis road. The whipping house,"
as it is called, is about six feet in diameter
and ten feet high. A shaft runs from bottom
to top; on the upper end is a small cog wheel
horizontally, into which large wheel works.
The propeling power is robust negro. At
tached to the shaft are leather thongs or straps
about two inches wide. Lashes are inserted
in these, and when the shaft is in motion
they reach the walls The straps extend from
the feet to the neck. Near by is the Office
and stripping house. Here the victims are
Invested of their clothing, and five or six are
placed in the torture-room, the door being
fastened, the negro on hold of tho crank; the
proprietor with watch in hand orders the
machine to be put in motion. Around whirls
the shaft at the rate of two hundred revolu-
tons per minute, with straps and lashes ex-
tended, brui sing lacerating the poor VIC
tim with thousands of blows extending from
head to feet. Fifteen minutes is considered
by the proprietor Hampton Jones-to be a
reasonable time to grind batch of human
flesh, and then it is so gerry cheap, costing but
dollar per head. do think it very nearly
equals hell itself. Nothing for human torture
could be more terrible. A thousand scorpions
singing their flesh would not inhct more
punishment. At the expiration Of the time
the poor bleeding, quivering victims are
brought out more dead than alive The plan
talions for miles send their grists to this mill
to be ground, and the proprietor has been
doing thriving business until the Union
troops came. and consequently Othello's occu-
prtion was ruined"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19
Original Notice.
THE STATE OF IOWA, sEs

MUseATrNE COUNTY,
THO Andrew NJ. Wailingsford, Diana Wsllingsford,
and James Wallipgsford: .s 80
You are hereby notified that there 10 now on file In the
oce OF the Clerk of the District Court Of Muscatine
County, State Of Iowa, petition of Samuel Nicbels
claiming Of Andrew NJ Wallingsford nine hundred and
twenty-five and 11100 dollars and per cent inter.
est on two hundred aud fourteen and $500 collars Of
the came from Fob 16th 1858, and same interest ON
two hundred dollars of the from January 1st 1885,
and interest five hundred and eleven and O1O0
dollars of the from November 7th 1862 % money
due three promssory notes by said Andrew
Wallingssord, aud two mortgages executed by said
Andrew M Wallingsford and Diana Wailing sford, his
wife. lf ----l-1 -
Said petition also asks the foreclosure Of the right of
all Of said defendants to redeem from said mortgages
executed to the payment Of said rotes and for
other purposes the following described real estate
situated in said Mrscatine county, to wits Fiythres
in the west half Of the quarter of ssc
tion eleven 1) in township seventy seven (77 north
OF range four ~ west and the undivided quarter
OF the north west quarter of said section eleven )
and the undivided oneqnartsr of sixty acres of the
south half Of the quarter of section two M
same township and range. w
Now, unless you appear thereto, and defend, ON or
before of the second day tho next term Of said
Court, commencing en- the first Monday Of January, A.
D. 1863 default will be entered against you and udg.
mont and decree Of foreclosure rendered thereon
$40. J. CARSKADDAN,
NOV ~, lS6ZW4W u 6Ol Solicitor for Plaintiff.
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Original Notice.
T1h- NJ n n.I~e
Petition
for
Foreclosure
Of
Mortgage.


Z. T. 8. Schenck. n. 8. Schenck, Robert for
O. Schenck. VIM. Hademan. g. A. Aus. Foreclosure
tin, Cooper Clark, Charles N. Cover, of
Delaney Hershey, W. O. D. Bedford, Mortgage.
James Snyder and @. Aultman & Co. ,
The defendants in the above entitled will take
notice that the Plaintiff the eighth day Of October
1862 filed his petition in the District Court Musca
tine county, Iowa, praying for the foreclosure OF
Mortgage executed to the Plaintiff on the seventh day
Of July, 1857, on the following described lands
to wit: ~ rc
East half north quarter and north east quarter
Of section nine 9 township seventy eight s) range
four N vest wtst half north quarter Of section
ten Q0), township Is, range four (4) west; middle
twelvc 2 acres OF north least quarter Of southwest
quarter Of section three l3) township seventy EIGHT
(78), range four O and there being three hun.
dred and thrtytwo 382) in all of said parcels
and all In the county Of Muscatine, Iowa.
And claiming that there Is due to said Plaintiff
from the said Il. T. 8. Schenck the amount OF two
promissory notes. - follows: One made on the 18th
allie on the 18th day Of August, 1857, with ten per
there endorsement Of three hundred and thirty
three dollars and twenty six cents Sept 26th, 1862
And the other Of said notes. made July Th 1851 and
payable 18th day of August, 1855 for one thousand
three hundred and seventy dollars with ten per
cent. interest after due, until paid.
Now unless you appear and plead to said petition
or before the first Monday Of January next, In &C.
cordance with the rules Of said District Court de-
will be rendered prayed in said petition aud all
the interest Of said defendants In said mortgsgcd prem
ises will be forever barred and foreclosod.
JACOB BUTLER, Atty for PIE.
November Is, 1862-nov19w4w $40.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19

IMPORTANT TO VoLUNrRHRs.-1t has been
decided ty the authorities at Washington
that ia soldier is discharged before he has
served two whole years, or to the end Of the
war, If sooner ended, he forfeits his 800
bounty. The back dues for wages, and fifty
cents for each twenty miles travelled from the
place Of discharge to the place Of enrolment,
he is entitled to on the pay certificates from
his nearest paymaster. 1fa soldier is killed,
or dies of disease, before the end Of two years
or the close of the war, he has, under the lib
eral construction Of the law, served to the end
of the war, so far as he is or can be concerned.
Congress intended by the provisions Of the
law that no one should have the bounty unit:
the end of the war. The 800 bounty, by
this law, will be Immediately paid, go soon as
audited.
Under an order and rule of the War De-
partment, there can be procured for wives of
soldiers imprisoned in the South the..monthly
wages of the soldier, to the date OF allowance,
except the last months wages, which the gov
eminent reserves. If no wife, the minor
children, by their guardian. are entitled. If
the soldier is unmarried, his widowed mother
isentitled.
An important decision has been made by
the Secretary of Wlr and the Paymaster-
General in effect, that a soldier is entitled to
pay from the day he enlists, and that he is
not to wait until his company is full, or the
formal muster ofthe regiment into Govern
ment service.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-12-19
From the Salem (0hio) Republican,
MCCLELLAN.

Removed thank Godi the incubus
Which squatted on the Nations breast
Flucked of Thank God ! the succubus,
Tainting the life blood, stands contest.
This nightmare horrors gone. Thank God
A great, long breath the Nation draws.
Reaches her giant limbs abroad,
And strikes ut Treason earnest blows.
With Burnside soon the dogs of war
Shall bay on Treason's bloody track,
Who longing snutfed the fight afar,
But muzzled were by "LI.rLH Mac"
IT'S but q day since blank despair
@ VI triumph 10 our gTevious task
Assailed our hearts, and every prayer
Rose c'ogged with doubts, too faint to ask.
Whys on Antietam, Kindred blood
Poured lsvishly as summers rain,
On Antietam, Mcclellan stood
rendering mid hecatooms of slain.
Pondering, not how the morrow's eve
Might close on rebel hosts o'erthrown,
Nor how POtomac's gilded wave
Might swallow Treason's dying grosn:
Ponderimg. not this, but how the dead,
Who perished there in Treason's cause,
Aud mangled forms of those who bled,
Night minister to his applause.
Aye, colder than the fair cold Noon
Looked Ger that shuddering, groaning plain
Mcclellan looked, and musing, soon
Arranged the plan of his campaign.
81 must not win this victory,
Let but glimpse of dawning come,
The Nation, as one man, would cry,
Crush the Rebellion. Strike strike home
"No must still delay delay
Till agony and bloody sweat,
Force the cowed mass for peace to pray,
Slinking, like whipt hounds, from the debt
''Then shall stand as fai r umpire,
Loved by the rebels, whom spare,
And build me up great empire,
And glory with Napoleon share"
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fused them to return to their comrades before
execution, which took place in half an hour
after leaving US. They were hung with cot
ton ropes, and two of the party broke down,
and were allowed to live about An hour, and
see them put their comrades in collins, after
which they were again hung up, and their
lifeless bodies passed our isil window in about
half an hour" AN~
The balance of the p5rty expected from
day to day to be taken out and hung, but
v ere not disturbed in their miserable exist
ence for four months. In October last, being
informed that they were to be tried by court
martial, and expecting no mercy, they, on
the evening of the 18th, rushed upon the
iailer when he brought up their supper, de,
prived him Of his keys, released four other
prisoners, and in . body fell upon the
guard and dsarmed them. They then scaled
the fence and made for the woods, about a
mile distant. The guard pursued firing, and
the party scattered, every man for himself,
except Wood and Wilson, who kept together
and made their escape. How many were
shot or retaken they do not know. Capt
Fry, one of the party. staggered and fell, after
being repeatedly shot ut, and was probably
killed. After being twenty-five days in the
woods, Wilson and his comrade reached the
Chat, ahooche river, and there found boat
in which they got to Columbus, Ga, subsist
ing on raw catfish and berries on the way.
They did not venture into the city, but
started for the Gulf coast, and after eleven
days of suffering and hardship. reached
Apalachicola, and there for the first time ir
seven months beheld the flag Of the free float
ing from the U. S. steamer Somerset, on board
which they were taken, and treated with thu
utmost kindness. From that vessel they
were transferred to the Stars and Stripes, ono
j taken to Key West, whence they propose t
start for Washington, en- route to join thei
regiment.
THIS narrative is romantic one, and rest!
mainly upon tho statements Of the two men
but is corroborated in . measure by Gen
Prentiss, who, in q recent speech At Washing
ton, alluded to the hanging, at Atlantis, Ga.
of eight privates of an Ohio regiment, VIII
had been sent by Gen. Mitchell to destroy
railroad, but unfortunately neglected to Gu
the wires, and were intercepted by rebe
force from Chattanooga.