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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

GSA solomon's Judgment turned the
point of q California orators plea for a
continued Union through a continued
war. He likened the North and South
to the two women who claimed the child
before Solomon, when the wise ruler,
unable to decide which was the mother.
ordered that the child should be cut in
two, and one-haIf given to each claim
ant. The false mother consented; but
the true mother said she would rather
give up everything than see her child
divided. I'm politics." said he, "our
country is the child; the Copperheads
0re the false claimant; the true mother
; the Union party, which will give up
everything rather than submit to dis
union"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
November 8, 1851.
The Democratic Party.

They asked me if I would join in help
ing along McClellan,s election. ''Not
much," said T., 'just count me out" I
left and the wheels of the cars seemed
to say, in their belief, Mcclellan, y
Mcclellan" and they actually manu-
factured that into enthusiasm for their
candidate.
Not adrum was heard, not funeral note,
| AS his corse from Chicago we hurried -l.
Not asoldier discharged his farewell SHOT
NSO'er the grave where Mcclellan was buried. 1
Laughter. t1
When got to New York the Albany
Regency offered me seat in the Cabinet
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
Don't Brar.

Little Mac doubtless thinks that his prospects
look better, f--c 49, n
Since Val took offense at his semi-war letter;
But wiser he'll be as DER this fact he brOOds
That it's best not to brag till your clear OF the
I'D, Woods $500.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

MosT HORRIBLE DEsPoTIsM.-The
Cincinnati Enquirer discovers evidence
of Lincoln's centralizing tendencies in
his Thanksgiving proclamation. 1t
holds thanksgiving to be State right,
which Lincoln is usurping and turning
into consolidated despotism. @ :
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

DSD% The Copperheads are bowling
over the Administration violation o1
the rights of those in Tennessee who
want to vote tor jeff Davis Chicago
candidates for the Presidency of the
United States, but who have got to take
Andy Johnson's extra iron-clad oath as
the price of the privilege. These fel.
lows declared at Chicago that Tennessee
aOds out Of the Union-they excluded her
delegates from their Convention-and
they threatened, in one of the resolu.
tions of their platform, that if the vote
of Tennessee was counted in the Electo-
raj College, it would be "held as revolu-
tionary" and forcibly resisted!
Beautifully consistent fellows, are
they! The oath prescribed by Gov.
Johnson is one which no truly loyal
man will object to taking. 1t is intend
ed to keep from the polls the thousands
of whipped rebels who have entered the
State, and the thousands still belonging
to the rebel army, who would steal into
the State and attempt to control the
election. Not loyal man in all the
country has ever complained of inter-
ference with his right of elective fran
chise.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

B1" A friend informs us that vote
was taken among the troops at Fort
Smelling, Minn., recently, when every
man in the hospital voted for Lincoln,
and every one in the guard house for
Mcclellan. That's the way every
where-the scalawags" are all for Lit
tie Nc. . rQ7.2 5e+
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

b. The treason trial of the leaders of
Sons of Liberty" Order continues
dianapolis. Messrs. Milligan, Hor-
Humphries, Heffren and Bowles
how on trial on the same charge
! ran away from. The testimony is
usive as to their connection with
fons of Liberty, and as to the trea-
BILE objects of the secret order.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

gesn Secession was not the event of a
day." said Rhett, of South Carolina; cit
has been matter of thirty years." And
the bantling was sent North to Chicago
for adoption via Nassau and Halifax,
and is now at dry nurse in McClellan's
hOSOm -i.sf So ='tt- ll4j Jif-ti
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

When the Copperhead press and ora
tors call Mr.. Lincoln an imbecile, do
they remember that he is the same indi-
vidual who was regarded as the peer of
Stephen A. Douglas, and made with the
latter one of the most brilliant and sue
cessful political campaigns ever known
in this country? Do they remember
that at the close of that campaign the
people, by popular majority of several
thousands, awarded to Mr.. Lincoln the
honor which accompanies victory? Is
the man who was at all times and in all
places the equal of Douglas in great de-
bate, an imbecile? Did Douglas select
fools for companions? nv.
Gsas~ The gallant defense of Allatoona
by the troops under command of Gen
John M. Corse, Oh the 9Th of October, is
just now the subject Of much praise in
the Union papers. A correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial gives glow
ing account of the affair and pays high
tribute to the gallantry of Gen. Corse
and the 7th Illinois and 30th Iowa regi
ments, which did most Of the fighting.
Gen. COrse was wounded in the check
and suffered much from the loss Of
blood, but heroically held the position,
though completely surrounded by a
greatly superior force of the enemy, who
demanded his surrender. The enemy
were at last driven off, leaving their
killed, wounded, and about two hun
dred prisoners and three stands of colors
and seven hundred small arms in the
hands Of tie Union army.
The losses OF the gallant defenders
were lID killed, 351 wounded and 131
missing; total G37. OF these, the heroic
39th Iowa had 81 killed, 50 wounded and
s missing. These losses of the 39th were
feariully large in proportion to the num-
Der engaged, only d part Of the regiment
being at Allatoona. Among the killed
were the noble Lieut.. Col Redfield, OF
Dallas county; Lieut.. Andrew II. Blod-
gett, of Des Moines city, and Lieut.. O.
G. Ayres, of Winterset, Madison county.
The correspondent adds:
The horses Of General Corse and staff
were all killed. The General had three
orderles with him. One of them was
killed, another severely wounded. The
struggle, so fierce, so relentless, proved
there was not single coward in the
Union ranks. While history is lavish
with plaudits for those warriors who
immortalized the Pass of Thermopyl;e,
it is but faint praise to aver that not less
heroic were those patriots who so sig
nally defended the Pass OF Aliatoona!
Gen. Corse, formerly Colonel of the
5th Iowa Infantry, is a citizen of Bur-
linCtOn IN fills Statn
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
Want of Courage.

SA SOuhs9Cs
Sidney Smith in his work of Moral
Philosophy speaks in this wise of what
men lose for want of little brass, as it
is termed:
ga great deal of talent is lost to the
world for want of little courage. Ev-
cry day sends to their graves number
of obscure men who have only remain
ed in obscurity because their timidity
has prevented them from making first
effort and who, if they could only have
been induced to begin would in all prob
ability have gone great lengths in the
career of fame. The facti that in order
to doanything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand shivering on the
bank, and thinking of the cold and dam
ger, but jump in and scramble through
as well as we can. 1t will not do to be
perpetually calculating risks and adjust
ing nice chances; it did all very well
before the food, when a man could con-
suit his friends upon an intended publi-
cation for a hundred and fifty years,
and then live to see its SUCCESS for six or
seven centuries afterwards; /; but at pres
ent man waits and doubts and consults
his brother, and his uncle, and his first
cousin, and his particular friend till one
"
of age; that he has lost much time in
consulting first cousins and particular
friends; that he has no more time to
follow their advice. There is so little
time for oversqueamishness at present,
that the opportunity slips away. The
very period of life at which a man
chooses to venture, is so confined that it
is no bad rule to preach up to necessity,
in such instances, little violence to the
feelings, and of efforts made in defiance
of strict and sober calculation" '-.''
would urge upon our friends in the
country the necessity of turning out to
the Union meetings, especially during
this week. Go, and let the Democracy
know that you yet feel an interest in the
cause of the Union. This is one of the
duties you owe to the party and the
country. A few days more of labor and
the verdict of the people will be render
ed. Let that time be employed for the
good of the Union. No Union man
should neglect his duty at this time
He should be vigilant, watchful and
active, and in no event should he neglect
any duty on election day. Make your
preparations beforehand to get out your
voters-and see that they are got out
We say again, go to the meetings.
SYNONYMs.-"Dead as Democrat'-
dead as a 'Mackerel. I'D
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

Bs45- A list of exchanged commission
ed officers received at Rough and Ready,
Ga, by flag Of truce, Sept. 2Sth, 1864,
belonging to the Department and Army
of the Tennessee:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

| Gas@ One of our exchanges makes an
excellent comparison between General
Mcclellan and Jack Bunsby. g" Little
Mac" declares for war and the Union,
and then tells the Chicago Peace party
that he thinks they must have meant
the same thing when they voted the
war failure, and swore to an armistice.
Jack Bunsby's position is equally clear:
my names Jack Bunsby. And
what / saysI stands to. Whereby, why
not? If so, what odds? Can any man
say otherwise? No. Awast then Do
I believe this here son and heirs gone
down, my lads? Mayhap. Do say so? !?
which? If skipper stands out by SEN
Georges channel, making for the
| Downs, what's right ahead of him?-
The Goodwins. He isn't to. run upon
the Goodwins, but he may. The bear
ings of this observation lays in the APP
plication on it. That amt no part of
my duty. Awast then, keep a bright
look out for'ard, and good luck to you. y
DeA- What Alexander H. Stephens,
the now rebel Vice President, said to
the Georgia Legislature, in 1861, is all
that is needed to answer the copperhead
charge that the North began the war:
Now, for you to attempt to overthrow such
| Government as this, under which we have lived
| for more than three-quarters of century-in
which we have gained our wealth, our standing
| as q nation, our domestic safety, while the ele-
| ments of peril are around u.s. with peace and
| tranquility, accompanied with unbounded pros
| perity, and rights unassailed-is the height of
madness, folly and wickedneSs, to which can
neither lend my sanction nor my vote.
| What right has the North assailed? What
justice has been denied? and what claim
founded in justice and right, has been withheld?
Can either of you to-day name a single act or
wrong deliberately and purposely done by the
Government at Washington of which the South
has a right to complain? l challenge the
| answer
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04

/ SYNONYMs.-FDeada as Democrat"-
"Dead as a 'Mackerel. s
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
ieg,ei Soldiers EEurraIins for Mcclellan

cat one time the rebels had driven our sl1ir-
mish line within eight hundred yards of the
Drt and captured q sharp ridge right in the
+ own. one rebel sharpshoOter wounded three
.0pe of the FORT and it was dangerous to move
about the three or four buildings which compos-
cd the town, for fear one might be called for
Just below US slzirmish was going on when
the rebels sung out, 'Hurrah for Mcclellan =
Are there any Mcclellan men over there If
there is let him stand up and we won't shoot at
Ailn.'' This fact can be attested to by MANY
men in Col. Watkins Kentucky brigade and
your correspondent heard the conversation"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1864-01-16
FROM NORFOLK.

FROM NORFOLK.
"All the officers of the municipal government
of Norfolk are ord cred to make report to
General Buffers headquarters, in detail, OF
the amount Of moneys received by them,
whether fees or otherwise; the sources from
whence received, and the amount OF money
expended since the organization OF said gov
ernment-the report to be made under oath on
or before the 10th Inst
John Ford, of Norfolk, convicted OF viola
ting his oath of allegiance by corresponding
with ersons within the Confederate lines al
Richmond, and Ell endeavoring fraudulently to
avoid the confscation Of rebel property In the
city of Norfolk has been sentenced to hard
labor in the Norfolk Jail for the term OF one
year; to wear twenty four pound ball chained
to his right leg by chain three feet long, and
to be employed at cleaning the streets or any
hard labor assigned him in said city, and at
the end of that time to be sent beyond the
limits Of the department, and never permitted
to return.
An order has been issued by Butler to the
officers of the city government of Portsmouth
Of the nature of that issued to the authorities
of Norfolk
Advices from Mel xico, as published yester-
day, informs us that General Uraga, who,
with five thousand Mexicans: attacked the
French on the 18th of December at Moralla,
was defeated with loss of two thousand killed
and wounded. President Juarez, IN letter
dated San Luis, December 8, admits that his
only hope of resisting the French IS IN a guer-
rilla warfare. The President estimates the
difficulties of bis position and says that the
French army being very superior to that OF
Mexico in discipline, as we'll as supplied with
all the modern inventions in gunnery, the
Mexicans would be compelled to succumb
eventually in any pitched battle. The Wash
ington Chronicle, in commenting upon the
news says:-''Louis Napoleon has well-tlmed
his movement, and it looks as though complete
success would attend his strategy, and whether
the Austrian Archduke, or aSpanish Prince he
installed as Emperor of Mexico, the Emperor
Of the French will probably reach the climax OF
his designs before helping hand can De e1-
tended to our sister Republic.
James Keith, son of Mr.. Quincy A. kslth'
president of the Kentucky Central Railroad
waa frozen to death a. mig ght or two ago, while
on his way from Cincinnati to his home' hve
miles out on the Lexington turnpike
Fred Douglass lectured in New York on
Wednesday at the Cooper Institute, on the
emission of the War" The large nall
was crowded by an audience Of mixed white
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1864-01-16

I. S. CONGRESS In the Senate, yester-
was resumed An amendment was adopted
prohibiting any person in the service from be-
! coming substitute IN any regiment or compa-
ny except among loops Of the State where he
was originally enlisted or drafted. The Ques-
ton of the rate of Communication elected con-
siderable debate and the sum to be paid
was finally fixed at four hundred dollars, an
advance of one hundred dollars over the
amount required by the old law.
In the House of Representatives bill was
reported and passed providing that packages
of clothing at the rate Of eight cents for two
pounds, may be conveyed to tosolders in the army
through the mails Mr. Wasnburn, Of ILL.,, re-
ported a bill appropriating $4,000 to indenl-
Nifty the owners Of the British schooner Glen
for illegal seizurse Mr.. Schenck reported
back the Senate bill authorizing the appoint
ment of an Assistant Secretary Of War, at
So 900 per annum, which was passed. The
House then adjourned until Monday
MARYLAND LEGIsLATURE.-ln the Senate,
on Thursday, bill was reported to compensate
''loyal citizen" of Maryland for property taken,
damaged or destroyed by the armies Of the
United States in the Confederate States. The
bill repeating the law prohibiting the manu-
mission of slaves in the State was passed.
In the House of Delegates, yesterday bill
was reported providing for the calling of a con-
vention to revise the constitution OF the State,
and for the election Of delegates thereto, the
election to be held on the 9Th Of April next,
and the convention to assemble on the 9th OF
the same month.
The y. S. Senate Judiciary Committee, on
Wednesday morning, resumed the lnyestiga-
ton Of the conduct of Senator Hale by exam
ining Mr. Mckay, of Boston, who paid him
the money, and Mr.. Houghton, of Boston,
LAWYER. who was EN- mployed in the case. Sena~
| tor Hale will, at the next meeting, Introduce
| evidence to show that it was simply business
| transaction, and that he was induced to do It
at the earnest solicitation Of friends
| The French Government has decreed mea-
s,,ro of ;mnortance to the maritime Intercourse
between France and the United States. BY
| on ;mnerial decree of December 2O 1863, cot
ton is admitted fere into the French ports, if
imnorted direct from the country where it is
nroduced il ships carrying the French flag.
The same duties, hitherto levied, will have %
be paid on cotton imported under foreign
| flag.
The bill amending the 'charter OF the city
Of Portsmouth, which had passed the lower
honse Of the legislature sitting in this place.
was unanimously rejected in the upper house,
co,1onol n,on,har9 had SPOKEN IN favor OF
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1864-01-16
WAR NEWS.

W
norning, the following items of war lntelh-
gence.
dispatch from Cairo states that Gen.
Polk is at Brandon, Miss, in the absence OF
Gen. Johnston. Forrest lately moved west OF
Holly Springs with 5000 or 1000 men. He
has sent as many men south to be armed
Eeronson IS in command at Luxahoma and
Sardis, with 1900 men,
The report comes to Memphis, though it is
not generally credited, that the Contederates
have lately moved upon and captured Pine
Bluff, Ark.
The New FORK Herald of yesterday, has
special dispatch from Culpeper, which says
chat General Stuart, with 5000 cavalry,
had crossed the rivers, far to the right Of the
Federal army, and reached Leesburg, the Fed
eral forces there falling back towards Fairfax.
Whether his object was to cut short the rail
; road near Bull Run or the Baltimore and Ohio
road near Point of Rocks, was not known.
Private advices from Chattanooga indicate
che concentration of large forces in front of
Foster, in East Tennessee, and Grant, at Chat
sanooga It is believed that the campaign
will open with an attempt to recover Knoxville,
and that the bulk Of Lees army will be trans
ferred to that army, Lee, himself, taking the
general command Of the Western armies
On Wednesday night party of Confeder
ates made laid into the village of Vienna,
and captured fifteen horses, two Of which be-
longed to the i. S. government, one to DR..
Lockwood, of Washington another to DR..
Lloyd, of that place, and the others to Messrs.
Armstrong, Sweetzer, and others, sutlers.-
They also made an attempt to get to the
horses of the I'd District regiment, but the
guard discovered them, and firing, raised an
alarm, when they made off, cutting five Of the
horses loose that could not travel fast enough
for them.
The last news respecting tie troubles IN
Germany is that England has protested against
the Federal occupation of Schleswig, thus
manifesting her sympathy with Denmark in a
decided manner, and showing disposition to
adhere to the settlement of 1852. The people
Of Norway have also given expression to their
regard for Denmark, and have requested their
Government to support the Danish cause
Meantime, the Federal occupation progresses
The German troops who entered Holstein on
the oath of December had advanced to Wend-
stadt by the Goth, and were expected to reach
Rendsburg on the last day Of the year. This
town is on the border of Schleswig, on the
Elder, fifty miles from Hamburg, and is yoted
tor its fortifcations. It has 10000 lnhabl,,
tants The Danish army was retiring, and
would probably abandon Holslein entirely.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-02-13
A Certific ate from william Kenady.

have thought proper 10 make the following
statement, as had been sorely afflicted with diff
ferent diseases for the last years--the Diabetas
Gravel, Kidney disease, 0atarrh in the head aud
Liver comPlant--so that the most of the time |
not hardly able to do any business, in fact my
limbs became diseased could not hardly 20 out
of walk withou; f..i ling down. l had applied to
different doctors for help and they all failed 10 cure
me, or hardly 10 do me any good, and about the
first of November last heard of Mss Tennessee
Clatin, then and now stopping at the Geiser House
in Ottawa with her parents, who was SAID to be
very skful in treating all kinds Of diseases and
went immediately TO her, and she examined
and ted me Of all cosH plants tina, afflicted me-
TO my satisfaction, and also SAID she could cure
me, that put myself right under her treatment,
and the first time took her medicine and applied
her linlnlents began to get better, and couinu-
cd TO Improve so FAST put nv and wife under
her treatment also. they bot: being badly diseased
and no, hardly able to bs out OF bed, and US soon
as they began 10 take her medicines ;hey began to
get better and are still mendng and | feel myself
nearly well, so much SO | can now attend 10 INV
business a. usual, aud now have no doubt of ruy
final and permanent cure by taking her medicines
and hope God Will bless her in all time to come
liye on High Prairie. La Sale county. about !.
miles from Ottawa. WILLIAM hEN4yY.
Jan. l., 1864.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-02-13

FIRE -Betweeu ten and eleven o'clock
on Monday night q FIRE broke out in the
back upper part Of II. z. Brunker's gum
smith establishment on Main street near
Fox River bridge, and liz a very short time
the building and contents were DESTROYED
fortunately several kegs containing all the
powder Ir the establishment were saved
A more complete wreck than the establish,
ment exhibited next morning was never
witnessed. Guns and pistols by the huns
-3red, and all the parapherna!ia Of sports
men, lay mass f broken, bent and
molten ruin, together with Mr. Brunkers
fne machinery.
occupied the second story, lie not less than
1000, on which there was about 81 500
insurance. The building belonged to ".
II. ". Cushman, and was also insured, we
learn, for few hundred dollars.
The bsilding was surrounded on three
sides by other wooden buildings, of which
but one-a small wooden shop adjoining
il on the east side, shared the same fate
The others were saved by the almost 81
perhuman exertions Of the firemen,-and
particularly by the gallant boys OF
Undine No. > the Niagara, on account of
some difficulty with her hose, not coming
into acton until most of the danger vas
over
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-02-13
AGASsIz,S LECTURE.

Prof Agassiz, who could not keep his
appointment last Wednesday evening. will
lecture in Union Hall on Monday evening
Feb. 18th, commencing at s o'clock, doors
open at I. Tickets 25 cents. Sold at the
Soer
To have seen and heard Agassiz, is to
have seen and heard q man known by
fame to the scientific world In all civilized
nations A man who never asks, but de-
elines emelument, and yet who mas fame
- eternal as truth which his patiest in
vsstigation has brought to light
The crowds who decked to see a few
costumes, fashioned after the manner of
their grand parents, have now an oppor-
tunity to hear the voice and see the tenn
pie Of a soul clothed with wisdom gather
ed from the relics Of ages more ancient
than the flood