Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-13
10 poke some Of thy fun at me. Do under.

topoke some OF thy fun at me. Do under
stand thee to be in earnest Ky
CoR.-Thyself shalt be the Judge. will
commence at Dubuque. Here is the Daily
Timer. Compare it with your Sun Of the same
date, and you will see 1t has the same news,
per telegraph, better correspondence, infinite
ly better editorials, and much moresmisce!la.
ny. Compare this Muscatine daily Journal
with your Clipper, and see if it doesn't beat
it in all respects. 1t is by all odds the better
journal, and there is more in it, in two days,
than there is in the Clipper in three Then
look on this Hawk-Eye, and then on your
American. Except as to the shipping news,
the Iowa paper is far superior Compare this
Gate City with any Baltimore paper, and see
which is the better. Every one of these pa
pers is more ably conducted in every respect,
more honorable to its proprietors and to the
public where circulated, than the best ofyour
dailics. So what your city would regard as
"one-hOrse" towns in Iowa, turn out better
newspapers than the great metropolis Of Ma
ryland. And I'll bet four-eighty-seven 49,.
WM.-Hutty tutty None of thy bets, and
truce to thy sky-Aying and useless enthusi-
asm. admit thou art fairly right, but am
gravely ast0nished none the less. But for
mine own eyes think would not have be.
lieved it. But oil these papers, so regularly
filed, are Of one politics. Are the people all
Republicans in Iowa?
CoR.-For ali practical purposes thew are
10, 900 majority is nearly as good as fifteen
millions in State not crowded. But here is
the keokuk Constitution, which is edited by
former citizen of Maryland by the name Of
Clagett. .s..'
VILLA very common name with us. I
know great many of them. Some are men
of high standing. and the name is found con-
nected with many callings, from the rich mer.
chant and farmer down to the chronicler Of
small-beer. Any more like this :?
CoR.-Not exactly. The editor of one Of
our disloyal papers is now East, trying to
have book published giving the lives Of his
late associates in the Old Capitol Prison.
WH.-What A sort of American edition
of the Newgate Calendar, an improvement on
the "Lives of Distinguished Highwaymen ??
1t ought not to be.
CoR.-Keep cool, friend None of thy sky
flying enthusiasm. You can do the man no
good. He is as far along as the boy in the
spelling book. ....
WHI.-lIow's that?
CoR.-"Past redemption ~
WILL fear it is too true. Enough of such
How about what we call country papers" in
your State?
CoR.-YOu can judge for yourself of this
one (giving him the Charles City Intelligen.
cor, which he examined for some time.)
WHI.-This is beautiful and very large
paper, and seems to be admirably conducted
But how is this 1t is City paper-publish.
ed at Charles City, in Floyd County.
CoR.-O, that ''City" is merely an innocent
big tail to small kite. Charles City is only
county town, of about 1900 population.
Wills it possible? ......-
CoR.-They are live people, though-Yan.
KEGS, go-ahead folks, intelligent and most en-
terprising, who know the worth of properly
sustaining home newspapers. Then here are
the Oskaloosa Herald, Iowa City Republican,
Independence Guardian, Upton Aduertiser
Council Bluffs Nonpariel, Boonsborro News,
and Washington Press - all well filed with
late intelligence, army correspondence, sensi-
bic editorials, and items of local goings-on.
Your Maryland Country papers" are not hal
so good, nor half so we'll sustained as these.
| wish had more of our county papers to
show you.
WHI.-How many papers are printed in
your State?
CoR.-About one hundred and thirty.
Will am greatly obliged to thee for
these facts. l will not forget them. If there
were in the State but fifty journals such as
these you have now shown me, and but an
indifferent system Of education, it would take
long for the people to become ba, barized. I
hope not one of the truly loyal journals will
be forced to succumb to the pressure now
bearing heavily upon the public press; for I
perceive that the journals of thy State ought
to be source of great and commendable pride
to thy people. The fertile prairies, the fine
streams, the salubrious climate, not injured a
jot by the cold north west wind s.
Here my friend, in attempting a gesture
toward the Russian Possessions, discomfort.
Grated bis wig, and after kind censure from
me on his "sky-hying enthusiasm" the con-
versation dwindled into comments upon pub.
lie affairs and small-fry politicians.
LINKENsALE.