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

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The New York Election Fraud-..As.
founding COpPerhessd asnscaisS.
The evidence against seymour
agents to take the New York soldiers
votes is overwhelming as to their gullt.
Weare not surprised that the Musca-
4ine Courie;.and other Copperhead prints
refuse to publish the telegraphic reports
OF the testimony. 1t ism I at all pleas
ant for them to think about, because
it fires the Indignation OF every honest
man against the party which seeks to
get into power by fraud and forgery
Fuller reports of the investigation OF
the gigantic and shameful swindie have
reached us in the papers. 1t is shown
that the discovery OF the fraud arose
from indiscreet confessions made 10y
Donohue and Wm. Wood, Union
aren't from Clinton county, to whom
Donohue, supposing him Il Copperbead,
revealed the whole thing, and actually
set him ut work copying names III the
ssoifice.n Ina few hours of q sunday
afternoon Donohue and Ferry, III the
presence of Wood, forged the ballots OF
several hundred soluiers, alive ana
dead, signing, 1st, the voters signatufe,
"a, the signature OF the witness, 3d, the
signature of the officer before whom the
affidavit is made, all for Mcclellan.
These are the facts confessed by three
OF the guilty agents. And yet the en-
tire Copperhead press is trying to shield
the rascals! Can honest men longer adj
here to party 50 depraved and corrupt?
A telegraph Llue Around the Earth.
Mr.. z. NJ. Collins memOrialiZes Con-
gress for the construction of an Ameri-
can line 6,UiO miles long, beginning at u
point in one of our great Western Terri
tories, and running through British
America and the Russian possessions to
Cape Prince of Wales, thence forty
miles) across Behring's Straits, by
means of u submarine cable, around the
sea of Ochotsk and through the settle
ments of Ochotsk, Ayan and Shanter's
Bay whale fishery station) tothe mouth
of the Amoor River in Asiatic Russia.
For this great purpose Mr.. Collins OBJ
tanned grant from the Car of Russia,
In May, 1868, and one from the British
government in February 1864.
The junction of the proposed Russian
American line with the Russian system
at the mouth of the Amoor River would
bring the United States into immediate
and unbroken telegraphic comnlunlca-
ton with all parts of Europe and civil
ized Asia, and prospectively with the
chief places in Japan, China, India and
Persia. Nor is it proposed to stop here,
for the Australian telegraph system,
(now consisting of twelve thousand
miles of local lines,) is expected to be
brought into combination by alternat-
ing submarine and inland wires, with
the Chinese and Russian lines.
MIR. Secretary Seward has written a
very able letter to General Chandler on
the subject, full of information and good
news. Mr.. seward says:
" Finally, it seems to me that in eX
tending dominic over inland mountain
regions, and setting up the national flag
on the Pacific coast, the American peO-
pie, however inconsiderately, assumed
the duty of uiffusing an equal ciVlliza-
ton throughout the whole of the great
country which they thus included with
In their borders. Nor would it be Wise
to smut out from our thoughts the con-
.sideration which necessarily y results from
contemplating calmly the position and
resources OF any northwestern and
western States. l5 becomes our duty to
act upon the conviction that from this
time he;lcetOrth, those States are to per-
form All important part in Il great work,
which shall make the shores OF the Pa
cific ocean the home of communities
that shall be busy, prosperous, free, en-
.lightened, powerful and happy"
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A BRIGHT RECORD.-A little book
published and sold at the New York
Fair, gives the figures for the expendi-
elusive of the Government. 1t is re-
markable exhibit. One may well be
proud of IL country which exhibits such
philanthropy while struggling under
such a contest. The States, counties
and towns have given, for the relief of
soldiers and soldiers families, more
than hundred and eighty-seven mill
lions of dollars. The contributions of
associations and individuals in addition
have been over twenty-four Millions
For freedmen, white refugees, and suf-
ferers by the New York riot, six or
seven hundred thousand. For suffering
operatives abroad, three hundred and
eighty thousand. Total, more than two
hundred and ten millions! What ma
ton can show so bright a record as this?
Besides this the States have advanced
for war purposes, more than hundred
and forty millions in the same time.
0r 1t is feared by many English and
French journals that the early and sud-
den restoration Of peace to our country
would produce, in consequence of the
fall in cotton and naval stores, q COM
mercial crisis in Europe. The New
York Commercial doubts this. 1t thinks
the cotton spectators would lose heavily
and doubtless many failures would take
place at Liverpool, Manchester and