Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-11-13
lCorrespo lden1e of the Muscatne Daily Journal
FEsDS9 WASHINGTON.

| Oh The Rampage 0g;ia-. The Suicide Of
| q. 4. Smee i Pc, scRet Matters.
w ,sHINGToN, Nov. 5.
"Jobn Browns body lies Wondering ia the ground,
but his soul il marching on"
| The anti-savery cause in this country has
been steadily gaining ground since the cul
mnation of pro slavery ambition in the an
nexation Of Texas in 1916. Seventeen years
| ago, that cause was in the hands of faction,
sincere in benevoence, fanatical as it seemed,
and impractioable, embracing among its mem
bers some of the bo'dest thinkers, the best
writers, the finest orators and the most fin
ished scholars Of the country, bu. in pc Mt of
numbers absolutely contemplate. They
made mere ''rub.a-dub agi alton" according
to Webster-who did not die in that error,
however. But the cause which no longer
than dozen yesrs ago was in the hands of
faction is to-day a national cause and is very
rapidly becoming the cause of Christendom.
William Lloyd Garrison used to be somewhat
uit a, but Benz min f. Butler has got on the
platform with him Wendell Philips and
Daniel S Dickinson agree on the main ques-
ton; the ideas Of Henry Winter Davis, the
most brilliant man Maryland has produced
during these last hundred years, are identical
with the ideas of John Brown. Only three
years ago. Abraham Lincoln could barely
squeeze handful Of votes out of all Mary
land, and less than three years ago, he hur-
ried through Baltimore with Scotch plaid
about him. Yesterday, Maryland went for
immediate emancipation by $4,000 majority.
'The Union majority in California; said one
of its Senator's, an old Democrat, ''is an Abo-
lition majority" What shall be said, tn II,
of all these laundering majorites which all
the States have been rafting forth? Some
thing of storm! Ascend the Alps some
fine summer afternoon. By-and by, you may
see very fine little thunder storm on the
mountain side below you With the shifting
mists, the darting lighting, it makes a very
pretty spectacle, and there is some sublimlty
about it to -, when the thunder Comes rolling
up from beneath. T at is what | consid r a
very 'nappy illustration" Of the September
cleo ions! After while ano her storm gath
erS, eeps presently higher up the mountain,
spreads over the valley, touches and expe ds
itself upon the rtnge byonl. That will
have to do for the Oo ODER elect ms Then
again there are splendid times, when
alayp
From peak to peak, tie rafting orags among
Leaps the live thunder. Not from one We cloud,
But very mountain now nath found t, ngue,
And Ju answers. through her misty shroud
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aoud''
If Of f,, ~
tober and November, must fall back on my
res rived knowledge and appeal to the
Noachian Deluge. Ard then the Copp.-
heads won dn't appreciate me. They are Ike
the chap who, standing up to his neck in
the tood asked Noah to e him i the ark,
but when the second progenitor of us all
(niggers inclusive tailed 20 see it, told him to
Ego to thunder with his blamed old yawl-
'twasn't going to be much of q storm any
howl" Ii toe wicked and perverse genera
ton Of this day fail to see the storm, it is
their business, ard their funeral not mine
The Nntional Intelligence has a long and
weary death Of it. 1t still fingers, the office
having been again and as in raced till, one
day last week it was found not to be big
enough for the sign which has witnessed the
storms of the past fifty years. And so the
old sign has passed away. 1t was good m
ben of the paper. Long time ago, it had
been read bic, an excellent sign Now you
cannot make anything of it 1t might be
"Weal Pics or ''Weal Pes made out of
Cats" Especially Veal pies made out of cats
for all that can be read on it, TIL r. it
lean ag inst the wall a decaved and useless
piece of lumber. The paper could not lvo
day without goVernmt. tai support. 1t is not
quite so worthy of governmental support as
the Richmond ERquirer. Stewards business
is Just now cavor ing around G cd deal,
being encouraged, no doub', to hope, from he
letter to Dralr, tn I the Pres dent is gong
back to Kentucky and ruin. The letter was
bad piece of business, but the IntsLt'gen-
rs hopes will hardly be gratified. The
eecti1ns spill the gravy out of that theory
But, elated by that lett r, in common with all
the Copperhcad journals of the country, it is
now palting the Administration on the back
very comtortingly, and is in rather good
humor all around. 1t is extremely disgusted
this morning, however, with Gen. Srhenck,
commanding at Baltimore, and will, fear be |
in a terrible state of indignation before the
week shall end. The suppression of this |
hypocrtical old journal would be great ben
eff, since it coul be suppre .sed most easily |
and legally-s IMPLY by g wing it severe let
ting alone Of grernbacks.
The citizens of Iowa here were shocked be- |
yond expression on Monday ornng last |
upon learning that g. Tarbox Smeed, of |
Bremen county, for two years past clerk in
the Sixth Auditors Office, had committed |
suicide the night before by dro wing himself
in tn. Potomac. Mr.. Smeed was, unques-
tionably, one of the most efficient clerks in
the bureau in which he was serving For
several months past, he has had extra work
TO perform, of very exhaus,ing nature, both
to mind and body. He had but recently en-
tered into sp culation which, turning out
inf rtunat ly, seriously embarrassed him =
He had been disappointed in receiving pro-
motion, to VIII oh he most just consider d
D.. nself entited. Otner untoward circum-
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