Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-05

most affecting scenes I have ever wit
messed in hospital. It drew tears CO.
piously from near one hundred of us. It
occurred in the large ward which oc-
cupies the entire body of the church on
Cherry street. The deceased was an H.
linoisan, and had been wounded in one
of the recent skirmishes.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Cupid's arrows are not shot to much
advantage from bow-leg.
He can never speak we'll who knows
not when to hold his peace.
A military definition of kiss would
be report at headquarters.
He who hath servants, hath enemies
that he cannot well be without.
There have been many religions, but
there is only one code of morals.
A man who casts statues may be said
to be the founder of an iron race.
There is always the need for man to
go higher, if he has the capacity to do it.
If some peoples consciences are not
clear, it isn't for the want of straining.
If you cannot please without being
false to yourselfyou had better displease.
He is the happy man not whom other
men think happy, but who thinks him.
self to be so.
People wish to be saved from the con-
sequences of their vices, but not from
their vices.
To prove or to doubt the existence of
God, is to prove or to doubt the exist
enCe of existence
FLASHED IN THE PAN.-The dress
reform movement which was going to
bring down the price of gold by lessen
ing importations of silks, satins, flowers,
and foreign fii1nflams in general, having
afforded ample scope and verge enough
for aspiring male and female orators to
expatiate upon, the beauties of New
Jerusalem in which the saints of the
New covenant were to be dressed in
calico, appears to have ended in smoke
and to have achieved no other result
than to have increased the appetite Of
the two weeks lost to which they un-
willingly submitted during the time in
which the dress reform was 1reudle1at,
for the purchase of those elegant articles
which our loving allies in France and
England manufacture for the adorn-
ment or disagreement of the female pop
ulatiOn.
1t would seem that whatever may
have been the merits of the proposed
movement, land we think that they
have been over-estimated by it's most
earnest advocates) it has never become
popular and never will become practi-
cal except as the result of dire necessity
and bankruptcy coming home to each
ones door,
Humiliating as such reflections are,
they are nevertheless justified by facts.
Vanity will be the last to lay offerings
upon the altar of our suffering country.
The condition of affairs to which we
have alluded, brings to mind the relig-
ious experience of a new convert in
Yankee land. II am willing" said he,
then he added, after long pause, seq
cept terbdcker!"
ENCOURAGING DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF
VOLUNTEERING New York World
shows how poor men may makea specu-
lation by volunteering, as follows: -
ave think poor men without fami-
lies, or with but small families, could
not do better than to take advantage of
the large bounties now offered, and vol
unteer, instead of waiting to be pressed
AAUO UAAC SsAAJs LA VIC A0OoCA SCsoO CACJ
only receive ordinary soldiers pay, but
no bounties either from the national or
county treasury. Moreover, we have no
idea that this war will last longer than
the next 4th of March. The present adj
ministration is the only stumbling
block in the way Of peace and restored
Union, and next November the people
will give them notice to quit. So, as a
simple business speculation, poor men
with no prospect in their several bust
ness occupations, could not do better
than volunteer for three years, and thus
secure the large bounty offered"
This is an encouraging view. If the
Government succeeds, the heavy fight
ing of the war will be over within a
year, and then soldiers life will be
gay until he is discharged. If the DEM
ocratic party succeed they say they will
end the war on the 4th of March. Thus
in either case soldiers will get the large
bounties for short term of service
We commend this view of the case to
the Democrats. Now is the time to en-
list, when the triumph of either side
will net speculation to them