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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-06

the refuge OF s"ryligiOus house" 10 live upon
sweet "a memories and heavenly aspirations.
N'sver wes such devastation made Ia the
Tanks Of our nobility, titled and untitled, as
during the English Thirty Years War OF the
White and Red Roses. ln the thirteen battles
fought between York and Lancaster, from that
of 81 Albans, In 1865, to that on Redmore
Down, near Bosworth, In 1885, in nine OF
which struggles tho Yorkists were the victors,
Yet they ultimately lost the great prize At bOs-
worth, there perished in ight, by murder, or
ander the axe, two kings, four princes, ten
dukes, two msrquises, one.aud-twenty earls,
two yiscounts, and seven.and.tweuty bar0ns.
To these may he added one lord-priOr, one
Judge, one hundred and thirty nine knights, all
noble; four hundred and forty-one squires, the
eldest eohs of knights and body OF gentle.
men or untitled nobility, Of coat armor and
ancestry, the number of whom rs yariOusly
stated, but which number being Incorporated
with the death-roll of private soldiers sweled
| the great total TO nearly eghty.sX thousand
men, Suck was the cost TO the country OF thaI
couutry's best blood, shed In quarrel which
after all, ended in a wedding by way Of com
nv death and by attaindcr the ranks Of the
peerage we're thus diminished; they do not seem
| TO have been rapidly replenished. In the reigr
oC Elizabeth, in the year 1872, the order Of duke
was totally extinct and VIC learn from one o
| Ben JonsOn's plays, that in James Is time
| was
WRecelved horosy
That England beats no dukes
| The title WAS distasteful " divers mobiles, VIII
| held It ominOus, on the ground that 30 man!
| who had borne IL had lost their heads. Kin
| James however, revived the ducsl order In l62i
by advancing George Villiers to the rank Of tn
| Duke of Buckingham.
The omen was fulfilled in this case. of III
| three staff rds who had been Dukes OF Buck
| iuRham before him, Humphrey was slain, an
Henry and Edward were beheHded And the
this George Villcrs was assessinated, and b
son died a beggar ana chidlcss, In the She
fields this dukedom passed but from one fath'
to one son. That son died miner, and him an
his house Pope celebrated Ia the Epitaph on II
| t.gt ,f bo
The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-03-16

opportunity, and his rights, to every man. There
is no halfway ground for the North. We, the
people, if we would secure justice for ourselves,
must secure it for all alike. We cannot fight for
our own liberty, unless we fight for that of all
the rest of men. We have no political rights
that other men have not an equal claim to. We
are finishing what our fathers began The prin-
ciples which they asserted, we believe in and are
carrying into fulilment. 1--WE, the people,"
mean fathers did, to form more perfect
Union, establish justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, and we mean to
do this more certainly than our fathers did; for
while they meant by 1--WE, the people," only a
part of the people, we mean by it the whole
white and black, native and foreign-for our in
situations then only what they are capable of
becoming, and are then only secure, when under
them every man is certain of liberty and of JUS
tice; and when every man shall acknowledge
that every other man has rights that he is bound
to respect.
We may yet have to fight long before come
to this peace; for shall have to fight not only
the armies of the South but it's ignorance, and
all it's allies at the North But the end, though
distant, isin view.-ChdrJes Eliot Norton.
The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-03-16

GENERAL LoGAN's recent expedition into Ala
bama disclosed some facts of considerable i'm
portance. Almost the entire population of
that section of Alabama through which it passed,
and for miles about it, is honestly, intensely 10y
al. Officers who were in East Tennessee say
that the loyalty of that part of Alabama is as
genuine as any they obtained knowledge of in
East Tennessee There is no whining about
slavery, and abolitonists, IFS butts {;
they are for the old Union. Men who had lived
in the mountains two years to avoid rebel serv-
ice, came in and asked to be mustered as SOL
diers in the federal army. One Albanian, Nc
Curdy, during the expedition, made up COM
pany, enrolled their names on piece of brown
paper with pencil, borrowed arms, and aetu
ally went out with his men and captured a COM
pany ofbushwhackers, called home-guards, and
brought them into our camp.
The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-03-16

YORKTOWN of to-day is so little like York
town as it was, that neither General CORVALLIS
nor the modern tools of tyranny, jeff. Davis
Hessians could recognize the place. Some of
the old landmarks still remain, such the
broad York river below, the buildings once the
headquarters of General CORVALLIS, few little
Insignificant mounds of earth, once the fortifca-
tons of the British, &c. The Notifications built
by the rebels have almost vanished by the i'm
provements made by Uncle Sans boys. Cen
eral McClellans approaches are still as good as
ever-while those of General Washington can
scarcely be discerned. What volumes of re-
buke to tyrants the history of this place con-
tains. Here proud Britain bent her suppliant
knee to the freemen of the Colonies, and here,
too, the Southrons found the place too hot for
them, and fed before the banners of the free
Two small poplar trees mark the spot where
Washington met General CORVALLIS. An en-
closure which surrounded it until few years
ago has been carried away by curious visitors,
piece after piece, SO that now only its trees re-
main /; and already have the people commenced
to cut pieces of bark out of these.-Cor Cleveland
Herald
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

TRUTH NOT ALWAYS PLEAsANT.-
Dear friend' cried the willow, as she
bent over the stream, and gazed on her
graceful form reflected on the CLASSY sur
face, chow tender and how true youare!
I have not single charm that is not
mirrored on your faithful BOSOM" And,
as the breeze played gently among her
branches, they bent to the stream and
kissed the placid waters.
Summer passed, and winter; summer
and winter; and the willow grew old.
Its leaves were few and its branches
withered.
"How changed you are?" she cried,
peevishly to the stream. "Once never
looked on you but to rejoice, for all you
showed me was pleasant and full OF
praise. Now, when 1 try to catch q
glimpse, I turn away sad and sorrowful
for what do you bring before me? MOI
verdure, not symmetry, not grace; but
baroness, deformity, and decay. 70,
are greatly changed!
'sFoolish willow!' answered the
stream, II am too true-that is my fault
There is change, but it is not in me
but you are not the only one that look
coldly on the truth when it offends tn
liking" {# ss4 SEg.E
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
BENNETT PETERS & co,

These BitterS are prepared, in pure Bourbon
Whisky, from combination of over twenty diff
ferent kinds of roots, banks and herbs, which
act in perfect concert one with the other, pre-
pared from the original formula given by the
great chief, Red Jacket, to DR.. Chaplin, who used
themsuccessfully in his practice for many years,
and by their use gained so great Il popularity in
the treatment and cure of dyspepsia, liver COM
plant, onstipation, Sick and nervous headache,
fever and ague, aud all diseases arising from
torpid liver or indigestion. Persons suffering
from either of these loathsome diseases will
find sure cure by the use of these Bitters,
which are perfectly pure and free from all those
drugs and poisons usually put up in such prepa-
rations and palmed off on an unsuspecting pub
lie. 4 single trial will convince the most skep-
teal that in the RED JACKET there is virtue
which no other btterS possess.
They strengthen and invigOrate the system.
They are unequaled for general debility.
They are a sure cure for dyspepsia.
They give good and healthy appetite.
They assist digestion.
They are the best stimulant in existence.
They are sure preventive of Fever and Ague
They relieve constipation.
They cure Nervous Headache. -..t.
They are perfectly pure and palatable.
They make the debilitated strong, and restore
to strength the exhausted.
Aged persons and delicate females will find
they can save large doctors bills by the use OF
these Bitters.
Beware of counterfeits. The Red Jacket Bit
tiers are only sold in bottles with our name
blown on the side. Our
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

WHITE LIES IN THE PULPIT.-Chap-
lin Quaint has blunt way of freeing
his mind, and he has no scruple in ar
raigning his clerical brethren, when they
are offenders. Possibly some of our
readers may have fallen into bad hab-
its in the pulpit, like a Methodist minis
lister in Winchester, whom he gibbets in
the following style:
One thing spoiled the sermon for me.
He told four falsehOOds.
These: With plan which could not
be directly developed in an hour and a
half, he said he was going to addres us
"a few brief remarks;;0 he knew better !:
he knew he lied. Farther on he said,
But promised brevity, and will come
to an end" He was only one-third
through! Still farther on he begged our
attention to this remark, with which
he would eonclude,n but after this re-
mark was attended to, he began on a
new set of eXhortations. By-and-by,
lone word more, which is all 1 have to
say" One word! he talked on to the
amount of five pages of sermon paper,
and had an application after that. I
presume that this minister is an estima-
BILE citizen, and in private life honest.
1t is truly to be regretted that he, or any
other preacher, should thus utter false
hoods while presenting the most solemn
truths.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

, Whas Lay nopz'Su - snOsc WAC Cannon
swim.
In world two-thirds water every
body should be able to swim. Many Of
the fatal casualties which result from
the upsetting of boats, and other aquatic
accidents, are attributable to the fact
that the parties are unable to sustain
themselves for five or ten minutes in
the water. Many a struggling wretch,
when help was within an oars length of
him, and friendly arms were already
outstretched to save, has thrown up his
hands wildly, and with that look Of de-
spair which no man who has beheld an
other drown can ever forget,
sunk into the depths with bubbling moan,'
| to rise no more.
When the Hudson river steamboat
Berkshire, wrapped in flames, was ru n
ashore, all who stood upon her after
deck, but off from access to the bows by
wall of fire, might have escaped UNI
harmed had they known how to swim.
The bank was but forty yards off, and
twenty strokes would have carried them
to land. But, unfortunately, of the
thousands who embarked every day, on
steamboats, and other cralt, not a mOiety
are capable of using their limbs in the
water save in such a frantic way as to
insure their almost instantaneous des-
truction. And yet when the trick of it
is once acquired-and the clumsiest hui
man being can Notwithstanding is
as easy as running or walking.-N. I.
Ledger.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
CHERRIES SALE.

By virtue of a special execution to me directed
and delivered from the Office of the Clerk of the
District Court Of Muscatine county State OF
Iowa, against the goods and chattels, lands and
tenements of Philopoena Moore, I have levied
upon and will expose to sale on Saturday, the
18th day of August A. D. 1894, at the Court House
door, in the city of Muscatine, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
Lot No six (6) in the northeast quarter of sec
ton ON. "a (34) in township No. Seventy-seven
CO, north of range No. two (2) west of the 5th
principal meridian, containing one Q) acre more
or less reference being had to the plat and sur
vey madeby George Bumgardner, Of sai said quar-
ated in the county of Muscatine and State of
Iowa, all of which, or so much thereof as NAV
be necessary, will be sold to satisfy said special
execution in favor of Henry w. Starr.
Sale to commence between the hours of nine
o'clock in the forenoon and four O'Clock in the
afternoon of said day, to wit: at half past nine
o'clock a. m. .,.. n. H. HINE
'4 gu '''' 90 Sheriff MuScattne county
Muscatine, July u, lsdI-jyl5w2wprsfeeS7.5 so
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
A Soldiers Reply to "The Brids's faro
we'll to her soldier Husband"
BY 8, 8, BOZARTH.

Yes, strangely, my lov'd one, the days have
That held us united in loves holy tie"
So BRIEF yet so bright, that q vision they seslh'
zBut the joy 10 too real to be only orsS"'
And fain would have fingered in loves iona
embrace, 49, -.
Letting time pass US byat its swift gliding pace
Each day and each hour with happiness nlleu,
i" AS pure as the dews from heaven distilled.
But our country's in danger and calls for hel
To turn from their low d ones and shoulder theil
To crush the rebellion that is striving with
To destroy the fair fabric Of freedom so bright.
That call / must heed, though the pain that my
VIKINGS with anguish the keenest to think We
Tells me truly that yours must an agony know
As deep as those suffering from widowhood's
woe.
Then "adieu, my hearts chosen.' this cannot
be all!
We will hope the graves curtain may not YET
But that in return to spend years of my life
Mid the joys Of my home, with my loving, low
wife.
Then yield not to despair! with soul warm
and light
Trust to heaven for future more cheerful and
bright;
And remember the love that in your heart
burns,
My own heart aS warmly and truly returns.
I'll accept. for u time your souls tender adieu,
And treasure in my heart the mem'ry OF you
ain the gloom of the camp and the strife OF the
field"
III remember your love and pray heaven &c
shield.
Co. II, llrH Iowa VET. VOLS, July 4, "a.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
Muscatine, July II, 1864
CHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue of a special execution to me directed
and delivered from the office of the Clerk of the
Districs Court of Muscatine county, State of
Iowa. against the goods and chattels, lands and
tenements of Rebecca Virginia Slverthorn
widow and administrative of Williamson g.
Silverthorn, deceased, ct al, have levied upon
and viii expose to sale on Saturday, the 18th day
of August, A. D. 1864, at the Court House door
in the city of Muscatine, the following doscrib-
ed properly, to-wit:
A strip containing fifteen and one-half acres
more or less extending from the northerly
boundary of the southeast quarter ofthe south
east quarter of section thirty-one (3l, in town.
ship seventy EIGHT (7S), range one O east. to the
Telegraph road leading from Muscatine to Dav-
IMPORT off the westerly side of the northeast
quarter of the southeast quarter and the south
east quarter of the northeast quarter of said
section thirty-one-strip OF land being twenty
one rods and fourteen links wide at the north
end, and twenty-one rods wide at the south
end of the same. And also the southeast quar-
ter of the southeast quarter OF said section thr-
ty-oNe, township and range aforesaid, contain
ing fifty-five and one-half acres more or less,
situated in Muscat!pe county, and State of
Iowa. all of which, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, will be sold to satisfy said special
execution in favor Of Charles Smith.
Sale to commence between the hours OF nine
o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock In the
afternoon of said day, - wit, at II o'clock A. NJ.
~ 60 H H. HINE, Sheriff Muscatine Co.
Muscatine, July II, '64-jyl5w3t-prs fee $1,000
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
NHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue Of g special execution to mo directed
and delivered from the office OF the Clerk OF the
District Court of Muscaine county State OF Iowa,
against the goods and chattels, lands and tene-
ments OF Madison NJ Bartlett ct al have lev
led upon and will expose to sale, on SATURDAY,
House door, in the city of Muscatine, the follow
ing described property, to wit: x
ton fifteen 15( townshipseventy-six (76), north
of range two y west of the 5th principal merid-
ian all situated in Muscatine county, and state
Of Iowa. all of which, or so much thereof as may
be necessary viii be sold to satisfy said special
execution in favor of Pliny Fay
Sale to commence between the hours OF nine
o'clock in the forenoon and four O'Clock in the
afternoon of said day, to wit: at ten o'clock
a. M H. H. HINE,
Sheriff Muscatine County.
Muscatine. July II, "a. iyl5w2w-prsfeeS5O U
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

Ice A LIFE PRoLoNGER.-The prob
lem suspending life by freezing seems
to be acclmulating data. Perch and
mullet have been brought from Lake
Champlain frozen perfectly solid, and
on being put into tub of water, have
come to life as lively as ever, A female
convict in Sweden is in ice on expert
ment. A man was found lately in Swift
zerland, who gave signs of life after be-
ing frozen for nine months. The power
of stopping while the world goes on
may be the next wonder. Ice-houses
may soon be advertised with comforta-
BILE arrangements for skipping an epoch,
or waiting for the next generation.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

EXTRAVAGANZA Philadelphia
Telegraph says: 1.-The history IF the
world shows no parallel to the reckless
extravaganza that exists among our
people. Posterity will be at a loss to ac-
count for the peculiar madness which
we exhibit during an epoch which
should be one of retrenchment and
economy. OF what avail are periodical
fast days, of penitential abasement in
sackcloth and ashes, if we throw off oul
garb of humanity like domino at a
festival, that the gorgeous robes beneath
may seem more dazzling and resplen-
dent -
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

HaA German wrote an obituary on
the death of his wife, of which the fol-
lowing is copy: IF mine wife hat lived
until next Friday, she would have
been dead shust two weeks. Nothing
is possible nit der Almighty. AS de
tree falls so must it stand.O
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

EgA little boy imam DER good family,
was rebuked for looking into his spell
ing-book on Sunday. Says he, II don't
see why can't study the spelling lesson
Sundays, as well as read the Testament
Week-days!v
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

"a Many persons are now anxious}y
examining the maps to find the "seat OF
war;" Fubbs says he found it last sum-
mer without map. He discovered it
by sitting down upon a wasp's nest in a
bayfield,.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
HOSrETTER'S BITTEAS.

The weak stomach is rapidly invigorated and the az
petite restored By vs agreeable Tonic and hence It
wsnders III ceses OF Dispepss and in less con-
frmed forms of ind,geston. Acting gentle and
painless .pp+ret well npop tle liver, it also in
varably relieves the constipation suprrindnced by r.
Gar action of the dig stivo and secreive organs
Persons of feeble habit. liable to Nervous attacks,
Lovness of Spirits ard Fits Of Lrnguor find
Prompt md Permanent K eIief fl ON the
Bitters.
tn testimony this points most conclusive and
from bot h g.
The agony OF Bilious Collie Is immeda te1y assnaged
bv single dose Of tie timnlspt, and by occasionally
rting 10 it, the return of the complaint may be
pre-, epted
As a General Tonic,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

u.s. Says Tribune correspondentfrom
near Petersburg:
''If YOU would see the wrinkled front
of grim visaged War visit the hospital
after battle. Go to the operating table
and observe the delirium of the subject
as the great finger of the relentless sur
geon explores his bleeding side. But
the poor sufferer is all Unconscious, for a
surgeon with a towel saturated with
ether and folded cone shape, stands
at his head and while he closely watches
the beating of the pulse applies the
blessed neutralizer of pain as ne deems
necessary. Sometimes the subject lies
passive under the severest operation and
at other times he imagines himself on
the awful and raging battlefield. He
curses, raves, taunts the enemy With
physical energies exhausted, he sinks
into short sleep, awakes to find himself
living weak and nerveless side by side
with scores of others in a hospital tent.
Here is an officer whose case the surgeon
saws at glance is beyond the reach of
skill. He was sho; through the forehead
by a'sharpsho Otera small globe ofquiver-
ing brains protrudes from the wound and
the convuisive grasp, at longer Intervals
shows that the poor sufferer is fast ap-
preaching the sleep that knows no wax
ing. And yet, he says, he may live
twelve hours longer. Such eases fire.
quently occur. Return to the hospita!
in the morning. The attendants are
bringing out those who died during the
night and laying them wrapped in their
blankets in rows outside the hospital,
preparatory to their burial. Go count
the little headboards made from cracker
boxes, and standing in rows over the
graves of the dead under yonder trees.
Perchance the form of some acquain-
lance or soldier friend whose warm hand
you grasped but yesterday, may rest be-
meath one of those unpretending head
boards.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
pure powerful Tonic, aud Alternative
wonderful efficacy in oisease Of the
Stomach, Liver and Bowels.

Nothing that is not wholesome genial and restora-
tive in its nature entSs IL 20 the cbmposiion o. hoc-
LETTERS -TUMA CH BI tEAS bis popular prep
aTation coutnin6 40 nner.l OF any kind, no deadly
botan cal element; fiery exciIant t 1t is coi'i.
bination Of the ext acss rare aalsamIc berha ana
plants with tho pur aud Iiidest OF ali dtEasive
stimulauts.
1t ws be fJr-arn,ed .g,nst disease and sc lar
the human aystem protected by humah means
against fiaAdie. eng nd4red by unwhoiesone at
mosl here impure water and other external causes,
HoSTErTEH'S BITTE"S may be relied on AZ SAFE
gnard. In 1iptricts infested will
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
HAMLIN'3 WIZARD Oh
June 3 'REwly
CHERIFF'S SALE.

Is
BY virtue of a special execution to m direct
ed and delivered from the Office OF the Clerk OF
the District Court of Muscatine county, state OF
Iowa. against the goods and chattels, lands and
tenelnents OF Phoebe Valdez and William Wal
der ct al, I have levied upon and will expose to
sale on Saturday, the 18th day of August, 4. d.
1854, at the Court House door, in theCity OF Nus
The southwest quarter of section thirty-three
fs3) township seyenty-cisht 90, north of range
situated in the county of Muscatine and state
of Iowa, all of which, much thereof as may
be necessary, Will be sold to satisfy satisfy SAID
sDecial execution in favor OF James NJ. PenneL
Sale to commence between the hours of nine
o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock i'll the
afternc0,i of said day, to wit: at 10 o'clock a.
m ~ II. H. HINE,
Sheriff Muscatine county.
Nfuscatine July r. I864-jy I5w2wprs fee 500
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22

hainrmanuf tn red from sound and innocuous mate
rjals and ro FRI he acid elements nresent
more or less the ordnsr onics and stomachics of
, the dav .
NAV be truly ded dessrvedy popular with the intslt
&c ut ortion of the comm nity.as
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
HOSTETTER'S BiTTERS

produce fleets which ne experienced witnessed
b-f re they be nil, appreciated In of Con
stut nal Weakness Premature Decay and Deblit, ard
Decreptitufe ansieg from 'ld Age. IT exercises the
electric Influence In the cnntalescent stages of all
diseases it ,psrates deli htfnI invixoran WhsH
tn. powers relaxed 1t operates to
force ~ re -estahish hem,
Last but not IL st 1t lie