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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

Several days ago we published a decision of
the Supreme Court on the subject of delin-
quent taxes, and put construction upon it
which we have since understood was wrong.
1t appears that many County Treasurers mis-
| understood the decision also. In order that
the decision might be fully settled, the appel
liant filed a motion for re-hearing, and the
Court rendered its decision thereon, affirming
that tag payers becoming delinquent under
laws repealed are liable to pay the penalties
of the Revenue Law of 1862 for the time they
shall continue 10 make default Hereunder.
1t appears that since 1850 the Revenue
Law has been twice amended as respects in
terest on delinquent taxes. From 1850 to
1860 the interest was 25 per cent. per annum.
In 1860 the law was amended, making the
interest one per cent. per month. By the act
of April s, 1862, the rate Of interest was fix.
ed as follows: For the first three months,
one per cent. per month; for the next three
months, two per cent. per month; for the
next three months, three per cent. per MONTH;
and for all subsequent delinquencies four per
cent. per month. This is the law now IN
force.
The following table shows the amount of
interest on each dollars delinquent taxes for
the years named:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
Cincinnati Gazette.

This sterling Union paper is now in its
10th year. 1t is always opened as soon as ii
reaches our table, because we know we can
find something fresh and spicy in its well
filled columns. The Daily, which reaches US
only one day behind the Chicago papers, is
afforded at only 81 per year. The Weekly
is 81 per year, single copy, or two to five
copies each $l,75, five to ten copies each
$1,6o, ten to twenty copies with an extra
copy to getter up of the club) $3.50, and
twenty copies and upwards with an extra to
getter up Of each club of twenty or ovef)
$l,25. Address Gazette Company, Cincin-
matt. or
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
Iowa News.

The Dubuque Times states that Gen.
Vandever has been transferred from the De-
partment of the Gulf to the Department OF
Tennessee, and is on his way to Chattanooga.
HORRIBLE DEATH.-Jacob Well, IA years
Of age, whose parents reside in Franklin
township, Lee county, was recently sent a
distance of three miles on an errand on horse
back. Two days afterwards bis body was
found nearly eaten up by hogs. 1t is suppos
ed that no was thrown from the horse and
killed.
KEoKUK HosPITAL.-The total number oil
patents admitted into the United States Hos
pitfalls at Keokuk, since April Goth, 1862, is
1895. Of this number the deaths have been
as follows: OF the State of Iowa, 1879; Iii
nois, 1871; Indiana, 60; Kentucky, 8; Kansas,
20; Minnesota, SO; Michigan, ~; Minnesota,
8; Nebraska, 6; Ohio, 70; Wisconsin, 3d.
Total number of Seaths, GIT. e-.-
We learn from the Vinton Eagle that
Andrew Mullarky, prominent lawyer at &c
dar Falls, and one of the oldest settlers in the
Cedar Valley, was drowned in the mill race
back of Plumer's Drug Store in Cedar Falls
at o'clock on Saturday evening, the 18th
inst.
The citizens of Des Moines are discuss
ing the expediency Of donating several acres
If nublic ground. known as Flea Poi It. at the
junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers,
for the purpose of union depot for the use
of all the different railroads to center there
It will probably be done.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

For the Journal
Advertising Estrays-..Asricult
ON the AscenliaEcy

| On the AScenuhEcy.
! FRIEND MAnlN 1T appears that there is
law in our State that all estrays shall be pub
lished in the Homestead, our farmers paper
published at the Capital of the State. In my
two last numbers, the two last of the year,
see co umn after column, and page after page
! otnotices of esrays from nearly every county
in the State. Now, when an animal has
strayed from any one IN this, and taken Up
in any other county, look in the Homestead
and you will see it there described This is
the advantage Of advertising sill in one pape,
at the Capital of the State, instead of adver.
Using in the county paper. 1t is true j,
gives very liberal patronage to the favored
paper Farmers had better take the Home
stead and the county paper, too.
1t is quite unusual that an agricultural
paper should have such liberal patronage
Political papers are usually the favorites. be-
cause they are the papers of notoriety, exten
sive circulation, have done the handsome
putting for the c,nd dates-the successful
candidates-and therefore they are entitled to
public patronage. Times are changing in
Iowa. The farmers are long way over halt
the people of our State. We have never d.
vided off into party to secure our rights,
and, as affairs are working, trust we shall
never have cause to
Agriculture had two Senators and one Rep
resenta'ive in Congress from Iowa, who were
faithful supporters of the College Land
Grant, of the establishment of the National
Agricultural Department, the wisdom of
which no rational and patriotic man can
doubt. We now have six Representatives in
Congress who will attend to the great interest
of cur State and Nation.
now appeal most earnestly to our men,
bers of the Legislature TO stand by agr cul-
ture, as Washington advised US to. We want
a liberal appropriation to enable US to go on
with our Agricultural College, which was be,
gun five years ago. 1t has dragged too long.
We are sure We are right Now let Us 60
ahead SURI FOSTER
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

% Guerrllas are apt to disappear some
what myster'ou>ly in East Tennessee. A let
ter in The Congregationalist thus refers to q
singular accident: e5t sr- j.
+ Matters are conducted here rather different
from the Virginia method, as to guerrilas.-
Thy have short shrift. For instance, q
commander reported while ago that he had
met twenty guerrillas; he had killed eight,
and captured twelve; but, unfortunately, in
bringing his prisoners into camp. they all fell
off a log and broke their necks. II is hardly
to be wondered at that such accidents occur.
Tennessee soldiers are men whose houses
have been burned, their families abused, their
relatives murdered in cold blood, pre- set
on their heads. 1t is no wonder they are i'm
placable. Nor can one pity the murdsrous
guerrilla taken in the act.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

A FUNNY MIs1AKE.-An old negro slumber-
ing with his feet pointing to glimmering fire.
Opens one eye, and gets a glimpse of them,
as they stand up in the obscurity. Mistakes
them for two little negroes, and cries: elf
fun fore me = and relapses into sleep. After
while opens the other eye, and still seeing
the intruders, says: 'Gif fun fore me, l
say; kick you in de fire if you don't; 1 will,
shu'-and again he shores. His dreams not
being pleasant, he soon opens both eyes, and
still seeing the little pests he draws up his
foot for the threatened kick, but is alarmed
to see the enemy advance upon him, and ex-
claims 'Wba,' where you comm to now
Hump! my own foot, by golIy." t,... ....,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

GEN. GRANTS HEALrH.-An army officer
direct from Chattanooga informed the editor
of the Indianapolis journal that Gen. Grant
is still suffering from his fall at New Orleans,
has grown thin and STOPPING, and shows
marks of so great loss of health and strength
as to create fears of his recovery, though he
still works as indefatigably as ever. When
it was announced at Grants headquarters
that Bragg had been removed and Hardee
put in command of the rebel army, the Gen.
eral quietly remarked: I" He is my choice "
AN opinion that seems to be very generally
entertained in both armies.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
The NlethOdists in the Souta,,
The Methodist, of last week. saws

The Methodist, of last week, says:
"The recent appropriation of $50 900 for
the extension of our work in the far South Is
likely to be followed by important conse-
quences. Almost simultaneously with it
appears the proclamation of the President
offering to the people Of the States now in
rebellion an amnesty upon certain conditions
which he has thought fit to prescribe.
Measures have already been taken to carry
out the plans of our church. Bishop Ames,
at last accounts, was at St. Louis, preparing
to start upon his tour down the Mississippi
Bishop Simpson will soon proceed to Tennes-
see. A prominent and popular Methodist
minister, now stationed in New York CITY, has
been designated for the city of; New Orleans;
and though the appointment demands of him
not little sacrifice, his acceptance is never
theless hoped for. An order has been given
by the Secretary of War permitting the cccu-
patton of deserted churches within our lines,
and the use of them temporarily for religious
services. No questions OF ownership or pos
session are to be raised these can be deter
mined only when the several States are
brought back to their allegiance and civil rule
is once more established over their people.
"Many facts in the condition of the South
ern States encourage the hooe of the return
of the vast majority Of Me,hodis's in the
South to the old church-the church of As.
bury and McKendree, from which many of
them separated with the greatest reluctance"
EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY IN M1ssoURI-A
st Louis letter to the N. Y. Commercial
says the order to recruit blacks in Missouri
was staggering blow to the remnants Of the
peculiar institution in Missouri. The practi-
cal working of the order is as follows: A
recruiting officer goes into district and re-
cruits fifty or hundred negroes--the masters
receiving receipts by which, on proof of 10y
atty, they will be entitled to compensation
The negroes come to ST. Louis, and, on an
by a surgeon, three-fourths Of
the recruits are declared physically unfit for
service They are rejected, and Of course
their masters receipts, are null and void
They are held for a few days, and, in default
of their masters appearance, discharged
lot one in five Of the rejected recruits ever
return to slavery. This has been the opera
ton of the negro recruiting system thus far,
aud the exodus of negroes from the country
is more rapid than ever Slaves slip them
selves into parties of recruits. arrive in st.
Louis, swear they hail from Arkansas or Mis-
sissippi, receive free papers, go into the free
States, and thus are lost to the South forever,
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
Reconstruction.

Our Washir gton correspondent refers to
the objection the Radicals make to the Pres
ident's proclamation, and disposes of it in a
way which is undoubtedly the true one. We
think it will be found, after all, that the
President is on the right track, and that he
will cut the Gordian knot of our difficulties
before the over-zealous and short-sighted
friends of freedom are aware Of what he is
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

Streeter, convicted short time since of
the murder OF the Mccoy family in Medins,
Ohio. and sentenced to be hung on the 9th
of January, escaped from Jail on Christmas
night, by secretly opening hole in the wall
Of his cell with jacknife. A reward of if
teen hundred dollars is offered for his arrest.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

INTERESTING TO OFFICE SEEkERs.-While
President Lincoln was confined to bis house
with the varioloid, some friends called to sym.
pathize with him, especially on the character
Of his disease Eyes" he said, ut Is . bad
disease, but it has its advantages. Fer the
first time since have been IN office, have
something now to givs to everybody that
calls"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

Samuel Stevenson,a Kentucky gentleman
Of wealth and leisure, died in Washington on
Tuesday Of last week, from the effects,
It is. thought, of a slungsbot blow, which be
received in the yard connected with house
Of ill-fame.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
M1~The propress OF this revolution is see

rwT The progress Of this revolution is seen
as much by the way the Americans of Lon
don observed the 26th of November, the
National Thanksgiving, as by any event that
has transpred. They had grand banquet at
St. James Hall, Hon Robert j. Walker pre-
siding; Rev. Sella Martin, fugitive slave,
acting as chaplain; Charles Francis Adams,
our Minister at the Court of St. James, tie
orator. showing the causes of thanksgiving
and eulogizing Mr. Lincoln, and many prom
inent Americans being present and making
speeches Now this meeting proved great,
err social revolution, within twenty years, than
was ever before seen in the world If twenty
years ago it had been told Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams the son and grandson Of presidents,
that he would anywhere associate with full
blooded African negro upon an equality, he
would have thought himself insulted, AMI the
predictor would have been considered q fool
II it had been told that the American Minis
ter at the first court in Europe would have
attended banquet to sit by the side of a
negro-a man never Recognized as an Ameri-
can citizen the one so prophesying would
have been sent to mad house as a lunatic
But how much more improbable was it that
Robert J. Walker, then senator from that
fierce State, Mississippi, which for slsveho!d-
ing was next to South Caroina-that R. J.
Walker. just after Secretary of the Treasury
under Polk, a STAKEHOLDER himself, ard sdvo-
eating free trade that the North might be
crippled and slavery perpetuat:d, and who
locked forward to be President through his
adherence to the South-how much more i'm
probable that he would be sitting down to
English beef, beer, and bread, with the wine
bottle foaming by their side, and laughing and
joking across the table with negro. who had
fled from slavery--one that he had declared
and deemed to be chattel, piece of prop
erty to be sold at auction with oxen, swine,
and manure.
Where and when, since the days of Adam
and Eve, or at least since the great food. has
such change in so short a time come to any
peopleY It was never known before. In all
other countries and times, slaves, subjected
peoples, serfs and tenants, have struggled for
generations, and ages some times, and they
have seldom reached an equality with their
masters, conquerors, and the aristocratic
landed proprietors. Here the revolution has
been completed in half the lifetime Of one
man; the black at the banquet in London,
was on an equality with the white, and the
former slave with the cd STAKEHOLDER.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

W A days ration, issued to one Of our
prisoners at the Libby Prison, is exhibited at
Washington. 1t consists of piece Of un-
bolted corn meal cake, without salt, having
the appearance Of being ground, cob and all
in one mass, mixed with little water, and
baked 1t is 81 inches thick, Al inches long,
81 inches wide, and weighs 70 ounces 1t
was issued, with plentiful supply Of James
River water, to lillian Stannus, an Iowa
soldier. from Keokuk, prisoner of war at
Libby Prison, Nov. Is, 1868, the day he was
exchanged, after Seven months confinement
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
For the M scatine Sournal.

COLUMBUS CRY, Iowa, Dec. 2G, 1863.
Mr.. MAHIN :-Christmas was pleasantly
celebrated by number Of the citizens of this
place in witnessing the presentation of an
elegant sword to our fellow townsman, Col.
W. W. Garner, from the officers and members
Of company +, Goth regiment Iowa volunteers
When the 18th regiment was being raised
cur town furnished one company, viz: com,
pany F, commanded by the brave and patri,
otto w. G. Allen. From the time of its
inception until its completion, COL Garner
was active and efficient, and when ordered
into camp at Mt. Pleasant the Colonel follow
ed it there and remained with it, assisting in
its drill and preparing its muster rolls, until
the day the regiment was ordered into active
seryice-a period Of some two months or
upwards. When the company left Mt Pleas
ant the members and officers offered the
Colonel pecuniary reward for his serv ces
He utterly refused, as he had labored for the
GOOD Of the cause and that of the brave boys.
his neighbors and his mel. hbor's sens, who
were going to fight the battles of their country.
Blu: the brave soldier never forgets friend,
and after the terrible battles Of Lockout
Mountain, Mission Ridge and White Oak
Mountain, when the 18th got into camp at
Bridgeport. the officers ard members of Com
pauy raised sum sufficient to purchase
the Colonel an elegant sword, and sent the
same by the hands OF Sergeant W. P. Miller,
who was coming home Oh recruiting service
for the regiment.
The presentation speech was made by W.
A. Cotton on behalf OF the company, and was
responded to by the Colonel in a few happy
remarks, thanking the donors for he accept
able and elegant present. After which mirth
flowed freely and unrestrained, "and all went
merry as a marriage bell" The Colonel felt
as happy as Prince, and every body shouted,
"bully for Company f." Yours,
EBENEZER
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01
Correspondence OF the Muscatine Daily Journal !
FROM WASHINGTON.

Christnas-Mr. Kasson before a Washimg-
ton Audience-1he President and Wendell
PHikips-etc., etc.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

W --,.--- CAIRO, Dec. 80.
Nine hundred and forty seven bales Of
cotton were sold in Memphis on Saturday the
25th inst. The sales for the week were l,649
bales, being $50 bales less than was sold the
previous week. The amount shipped during
the week was 1851 bales, ST. bales more
than the previous week. The weekly ship
ment from Oct. 10th to Dec. 26th, inclusive,
was %, 600. .
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-01-01

was 22,600
| .. WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.
The fire alarm telegraph patents of John
R. Gamewell & Co., which were conAscate d,
were sold to-day, by the United States Mar
shall, and purchased by John F. Kenard &
Co, of Boston. ........ .-.. -..-.
Chief Justice fancy is thought to be some
what better this morning
BosroN, Dec. 30.
The usually well-posted correspondent of
the Boston Herald, writing Fl ON the fleet off
Charleston, dating Dec 23d, says
l see by the papers that there is good deal
of uneasiness because the Navy here is idle.
Lane says that the people at the North only
knew the reason why we are idle they would
stop grumbling. In due season they will
have chance to rejoice over the doings of
the Navy before Charleston. To prove that
this is no idle stl tement, am willing to wa
ger 81 900 with any Northern grumbler, that
if everything works according to the plans
laid out, the place will be occupied by the
Union forces in sixty days from date. .,...,
New YORK, Dec. 80.
A Washington dispatch says Lord Lyons
had q protracted interview, to-day, with the
Secretary of State. The Chesapeake affair is
likely to prove troublesome question.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Enquirer
says the official report Of the rebel loss at
Chickamauga is stated as follows: Killed,
1929 dangerously wounded, 4,78O; slight.
ly wounded, lO,5O0; missing, 1850.
ga ls .aA SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.
The French paper of this city has received
news from the city of Mexico to the 7th inst.
The French troops entered Morelia on the
Both of November, without opposition.
r. Gen. Berthier had occupied Acumbero.-
Gen. Brazieria was at Colyia, where General
Commonfort was assassinated Juarez and
his ministers are said to have left for Duran
60. .al l-tiio c s9btal vi
Gen. Brazieria had collected II, 900 French
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l
candid man but would admit the justice of
his criticism. But it is not correct. Mr. Lin
coin does not propose to submit the question
of emancipation, as decided by his Proclama-
ton of January /, 1868, to the arbtrament
of the Supreme Court, in any such sense as
Mr. Phillips suppOsss. the President is far
from bringing the executive branch of the
Government, or the legislative branch, into
subsection to the judicial branch thereof, or
from proposing any such thing. He says
nothing about his views or surmises touching
the future ac.ion Of the Court. He does re-
auire of all men who seek to reconstruct State
governments in insurrectionary districts, in
States now practically out of the Union if
you please, to swear that they toiH sustain
I'LL The measures the erecutive has adapted
oqainst slayery, until those measures are de-
cided against by the Supreme Court If you
will particularly study the phraseology of the
proclamation of amnesty, the form of the oath
required, ETC., you will perceive hat, prac'i
calIy, the Supreme Court can have nothing to
do with reconstruction under the Presidents
plan. Those who take advantage of that
plan must first be pledged, and that by oath,
to stand by the acts of the President in the
matter of slavery. 1t would be in them so
monstrous breach Of faith to hurry the
question off into the courts that such course
is not to be expected. Besides, as matter
of fact, the men who will accept his plan are
the very ones who will want slavery totally
destroyed Such, except in very rare In
stances, are the only ones who will take the
oath at all The others are incorrigible slave
holders and rebels As public enemies, or
even as citizens, so claimed to be bv them
selves, of Government at war with ours,
they cannot come into our courts for any pur.
pose. And thus it will practically turn out
that those who could, will not, 60 to the
courts, and those who would, cannot. At
any rate, the proclamation is a very long
headed affair, and by no means turns over
any branch Of this Government as ward in
charge of the Supreme Court. The practical
effect of it will be to reconstruct tie States
on basis Of freedom. That being done,
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