Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15
Places and Things We saw.

L
, sOnal appearance upon the street foul
days previous toour arrival, and it il
: not improper, therefore, that we should
!. speak of what we saw while absent.
We saw the people Of our country
making preparations at various points
for appropriate. hOnOrs to those who
made for our nation the 4th of July. In
the stage, going west, we were in COM
pany with peace sneak from Iowa
county, who was too cowardly to express
his views, except by inuendoes against
those who are in command of our armies.
With him, Butler was corrupt, Banks
a thief, Sherman incompetent, Hooker
. sot, while Lee was great captain,
Mcclellan hero, Sturges fighting bull
dog and Fitz John Porter patriot
Another, and like unto him, but with
more Of the sneak in his countenance,
We took to be veteran in the whisky
trade, who had been drafted in Pennsyl-
vania and was running away to Idaho.
1t is needless to say, we expressed our
free opinions of all such fellows. Our
conversation was rather animated, and
did us much good. AtNewton we found
a merry throng of not less than 5000
people, who had assembled to do full
honors to the day. Pretty girls, smiling
young men, lemonades, tire-crackers,
flags, and everything but drunkenness
and noisy Copperheads. We saw them
all. Friend Lamb was up to his eyes in
rosy lips and ringlets, but at the sound
of Email was promptly on hand. At
men, 600 strong, assembled to put good
men and true upon our State ticket,
wherewith TO wipe out the Butternut
nominees.
Many Of our friends were kind enough
to express their opinion that We were
just the man to beat John H. Wallace,
in his slow trOt for Secretary of State.
Others, and the majority, thought us
too good material TO waste against the
aforesaid J. H. w., and suggested that
it would be more to our credit to wait
until the Democrats nominated good
man of their kind, whose defeat would
be creditable to ourself and party. We
took this view and didn't get the nomi-
uation. We might add, that another
reason of our defeat, was the want of
votes. Still we are alive and happy,
and were never in better mental and
spiritual condition. Mentally, we feel
more like devoting some time to peace
sneaks than when left home. Spirit
ually, we feel better than we did years
ago in laboring to convince the ungodly
down the Avenue, that the way of the
transgressor is hard" but to little pur-
pose, so perverse was he in his wicked
ness. We take this opportunity to in
form our friends that we are not acandi-
date for Office. We prefer the pleasures of
home, and stirring up the sneaksin this
latitude.
We saw Palmer, who looks rs good as
when his better half said Eyes, / will"
Dixon we saw to our advantage. None
like unto him, except Dixon. He seems
to possess a realizing sense of the high
vocation wherewith he is called, and like
rose, is good to look upon, has a
healthy fragrance, and produces thorns
that are troublesome to rebels.
We saw some men look very happy,
Others not so much so, though all were
good natured. We saw no Byington's,
Thayer's or Hutchin's belching for
" Peace on any TERMS" but men who
were earnest in their devotion to coun-
try and hatred of treason.
We took our carpet-sack in hand, and
seated with two who like us had been
nominated to remain at home, we trav-
eled towards the rising sun by way OF
Nevada. The trip was made in about
seven hours, and an improvement upon
our former trips in that part of Iowa.
AS the railroad is but just completed to
this point, of course it's benefits are not
now perceptible.
!, Marshalltown is the neatest busiest
town of its size in the State. The
amount Of grain bought and sold at this
point is almost incredible. It's streets
are always filled with teams from the
country. 1t boasts of good Court
House, churches, two excellent hotels,
equal to any in the State, three large ell
svatOrs near the depot, &C., &c. 1t is
surrounded by glorious and productive
country. From this point to Cedar
Rapids, on either side of the road rs far
as the eye could scan, we saw fields OF
corn that were never surpassed, oats
and wheat that promise abundant har-
vests. We heard little complaint OF
bugs among the wheat until we passed
the Cedar river. How so much land
could be successfully cultivated, with
o. ch q scarcity of laborers, was our great
est wonderment. Let no man be un-
easy about our crops. We may not have
as much wheat as in former years, but
. shall produce more corn, rye and OATS
the road from Nevada to Clinton, we ad-
wise travellers upon that road to avail
themselves of the opportunity to stop
20 minutes at Cedar Rapids, where they
will find a table whose contents will sat
isfy any reasonable stomach.
Here we are at home, like which there
is no place in the world. We have seen
no place that we like so we'll as Musca-
tine, no people, as our neighbors.
n@ A highly important letter from
Gen. Sherman to Gen. Burbridge ispub-
lished, in which he shows the necessity
in the failure of the civil authorities to
do so-for the military authorities to use
decisive measures to check the outrages
of the guerrillas.
The Treasury Scandal.
Tho fa1snhOods relative tO the Treas.