Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-28

.-s a Military HRao.-A late number
Of Vanity Fair contains the first chap
ter cf the 'sWrath of the Rebel Rival''
. romance of the war, by McArone.
We copy the following unique &C.
count Of the hero Of the novel:
On a fine morning in the lovely
month Of December, as the sun rose
above the misty tops Of the mountains
that line the Patomac, . young officer
might have been seen emerging from
the tent in the camp Of the Eleventh
Pontoons. q, s1.-.v s.a.. sig.L ss- by
AND it was no common tent
It had cross halls, piazza, wine
cellar, and stove with o riAsd stove
pipe, to make the smoke shoot straight.
Nor was this young officer COM
mon young officer. '1l- 2 g. Dan
Scarcely forty three, he had already
won the proudest laurels Of the CORY
field, and black eye attested the
blind fury of his valor. In cold wealth
er he was always found where the fire
was hottest. He was arrayed in fine
blue uniform, brass mounted, and
wore yellow gloves, q red coat, scarlet
trousers, q green cap and chaw of
tobacco in either cheek. His loins
was girded up for battle; fire sat upon
his lips; death upon his eword; his
neck was clothed with thunder, and his
breath smelt Of onions.
His father had been an Indian, and
his mother ] utchman, but as both
had petitioned the Legislature to allow
them to become natives of the M. E.
Church, he claimed to be Portuguese
Of the sang azur, and his name was
Senior Rantanquero de Boom jingliDg
He was seven feet high in his socks,
weight two hundred and eighty pounds,
Troy weight; he weighed more in AL.
bany; and had good common school
education. "''
His manners were polished, some;
his war horse was as feet as the wind,
he has suffered good deal from rheu-
matism, and knew DR.. Watts Juven-
lie poems by heart. In battle he was
awful. He welded q Scottish clay
mere longer than himself, and brace
Of double back action revolvers, pre-
sented him by the celebrated gun
maker Of Moscow. g. Il
CASH AND CREDIT.-I It is an impor-
tant element of success in life to &C.
quire the habit of being before and
with Whatever you undertake. I can
perhaps, best illu.t rate what l mean
by an example taken from another
branch of the subject. There are two
friends, gentlemen of large means,
whose annual incomes are about equal.
One of these is always short Of mon
ey, buys everything on credit, and on
the longest credit that he can command,
often when travelling has to borrow
money to take him home, and really
has to turn and shift to get along as il
lie really we're poor All because he
lives just twelve months on the wong
side of his income. The other man,
whose annual income and expenses are
about the same as those of his nei gh-
Dor, never has az open account, buys
everything for cash, always has apien-
ty of money in his phckets and plen-
ty more in bank, and is apparently
without care In the world, SO far as
money IS concerr ed. All simply be-
cause he lives just twelve months on
the right side Of his income. Tee two
men have equal resources. In the
course of their lives they spend equal
amounts. Yet the enc is always poor
an | harrassed, the other always rich
and ct his ease.
HoME.-It is not the house, though
that may have its charms nor the Gela
carefully titled ard st,eaked with your
own foot paths nor the trees, though
their shadows be to you like that of a
"great rock in weary land - nor
yet is it the Preside, with its cozy com,
fort F; nor the pictures, which tell of
loved ones-nor the books-but more
than all these, it is the PRESENCE !!
The altar Of your confidence is there
and adjoining it all, and sending your
blood in passionate flow, is tie costa
cy of the conviction that there. at least,
you ore beloved that there you are
understood that there you will meet
ever with gentle forgiveness !; that there
you may uuburden your soul, fearless
Of harsh, unsympathizing ears; and
there you may be entirely and joyfully
yourself. nttf t-
The TRUE TnlNG.-The end of all
learning is to make US wise. Wisdom
is not one-sided, but comprehensive
culture of beart and mind, soul and
body. The end Of wisdom is use. If
it does no good. it is not wisdom, but
something else. Wisdom comes from
a good natural understanding. enriched
by the dressing Of large and wise
thoughts. Good books there be, which
nourlsh the mind, as food does the
body. In morbid states the stomach
may be consumed by the precise activ-
ity Of the very secre,ioDs and chemi-
cal agents which give it power. This
may serve to intimate to US that the
mind without its fit nutriment ard prep.