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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
AI.ittle Plain Truth.

In a letter of rebel officer, and to
Gen. Fagin, in Dick Taylor's army, we
find the following acknowledgment Of
the deliberate murder of colored troops,
and also the murder of whites while
they were raising the white flag. All
this by our beloved Southern breth-
rem"
"After Steele reached Camden, he
sent out large forage train, guarded by
a heavy force. We fell upon this train,
captured his artillery, all the wagons,
and killed the last negro soldier with the
train. The Yankees had full negro
regiment, and the Choctav Indians fell
upom them and killed every one. After
driving Steele into Camden, Gen. Fagin
started with $500 cavalry for Little
Rock, but fell in with the enemy at
Marks Mill, where we had terrible
fight. Our arms were finally victorious,
and we succeeded in capturing about
500 prisoners, 25O wagons, and five
pieces of artillery. 1t was complete
rout, and, though the enemy endeouored
to raise the aOhite flag, but fea0 escaped"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

THE $500 CLAUsE.-The effort to re-
peal the $500 Communication clause of the
CONSUMPTION act has failed in Congress.
Inasmuch as the government has thus
far received all the men it needed or
could use with effect at one time, and
inasmuch as the people have ever prov
ed their readiness to respond to the gov
ernment whenever it wishes additional
men, it is urged by Senators and Repre-
sentatives that the hardships among the
people that would follow the repeal OF
the clause in question, are not justified
by the nations necessities and that,
furthermore, in case of future drafts be-
ing necessary, the government has the
power to repeat the drawings as often as
it chooses, until the needful numbers are
secured and that to secure them in this
way would be preferable to a repeal OF
the communication clause, which, being
repealed, would enablen none but thevery
rich to purchase substitutes, or secure
personal exemption from military SER
vice. This is the ground upon which
the proposed repeal was opposed. The
reader may judge for himself as to its
reaSOnableneSS
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

s9- Henry Farnum, of Chicago, is
the generous man who presented Yale
College with $4,000. Very handsome
on Henry's part. Chicago Post.
Mr.. Farnum was formerly President
of the Chicago and Rock Island Rail-
road Company. He is now travelling in
the Old World with an invalid son,
hoping to benefit the health of his boy.
In a recent letter, dated at Jerusalem,
he makes small contribution to the
Second Presbyterian Chuch in this city.
The money was received through Mr..
John s. Porter, of New York. The
church and society highly appreciate
the kind remembrance of Mr.. Farnum.
Rock Island Argus.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

The reader of history will remember
that during the great Napoleonic war
the Bank of England suspended specie
payment from 1886 to 1922, and we don't
know that the world was ever much
alarmed about the credit of that country.
Financialists, men who make dollars,
bonds and coupons their speciality, take
but little heed of the fluctuations in the
stock market, if they know there is re-
Operative power sufficient to recover
from any temporary reverse. That
England is nation possessed Of vitali-
ty and energy, rich in her resources and
her possessions, has enabled her to car
ry through many years what to our
optics appears like an overwhelming
debt that must eventuate in bankruptcy.
We are not prepared to say that our
nation, with it's broad acres, whose pro-
ducts can feed the world, with it's un-
bounded mineral resources, itsmanufac-
turing interests, and its commerce, is
inferior to England. Two years since
we had spared our last man for war, and
yet to-day the places of those who have
gone are filled. The hum of busy life
is still heard, and we scarcely realize we
are at war. Our National credit is un-
impaired. Its loans are taken at a pre-
MUM and with avidity. Why, then, be
alarmed because gold now goes down
and then up? Let us make up our
mind that we can live without gold as
currency.
Said Mr.. Spaulding, in Congress, a
few days since, upon the new Loan bill,
"Whoever looks for more speedy re-
sumption in this country than took
place in England, in my judgment, is
unwise and studied history to but little
purpose" Let us take the good things
as they come, and not worry ourselves
about those things we cannot remedy
Gold and silver will return to their ac-
customed channels when the laws of
nature and traffic are willing. Until
then, lose no sleep.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

SANTA ANNA.-The return of this fire.
quent exile to Mexico in the train of the
secondhand Bonapartist usurper Maxi
millian, by whom he has been appoint
ed Marshal of the sham empire, will
recall his former return by the conni-
vance of President Polk, during ::our
Democratic war with Mexico for annex
alton by war, with the right Of peace
able secession. The game of the Demo-
cratic Administration was to return
Santa Anna, who would seize the Gov
ernment and then make peace with us,
selling us liberal slice of the territory.
But as soon as Santa Anna reached
home he went vigorously into the pros
ecution of the war for his country. If
opportunity offers he will be very apt to
trip up the heels of Maximilian In a
similar way.-CSn. G0zette. f1
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

Two MOMENTOUS OBJECTS.-The n.
Y. Times, noticing the defeat in Con-
gress of the proposed amendment to the
Constitution for the abolition of slavery,
says the Union party has two moment
Gus objects before 1.-THE reelection of
President Lincoln, SO as to insure that
the war shall be prosecuted until the last
rebel soldier lays down his arms, and
the election of two-thirds of the men,
bers of the next Congress, so as to give
the States authority to entertain the
amendment abolishing all slavery in the
land forever. With proper effort, the
party will just as surely secure this end
in Congress as that belonging to the Ex-
ecutive. The anti-slavery issue is every
way as favorable to the party as the un-
compromising war issue.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
Who iS Dunbar =?

The Desmoines Register is anxious to
know who the Democratic candidate for
Attorney General is. We are notaston-
ished at your ignorance, friend Regis-
ter. The truths Dunbar is oneOf those
fellows whose merits are not footed from
his own trumpet, and for that matter,
the trumpet of any other man. Dun
bar? let us see, it strikes us we have
heard the mans name before. We used
to know man of that name when we
were school boy, and our recollection
is that he was engaged in a much more
respectable business than training with
Copperheads. In those days Dunbar
wagon called soap
cart, and when the boys cried to him
I" Dunbar! Dunbar! sound your horn!"
there came on the wings of the wind
such toot as only that Dunbar could
sound. Unlike his illustrious predeces-
sor, the Dunbar who aspires to be Attor-
ney General, is too modest to toot his
own horn, so he must needs employ a
Copperhead Convention to do that same.
Well, every one to his own taste. But
the Register wishes to know who Dun
bar is. We half suspect he is the same
youth who once ran for District Attor-
ney of the 7th Judicial District. We
have faint recollection that Dunbar
was badly beaten at the last Judicial
election in this District; perhaps Mr..
~ vSyn %nn
after all, that the Register should be so
ignorant. Dunbar! who is Dunbar p
Why he is the Copperhead candidate
for Attorney General of Iowa. We ehope
this information is satisfactory to the
Register. For further information in
quire of the people of Garry Own,
Jackson county.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
We thought no.

A paragraph in another column taken
from the Chicago Tribune confirms our
previously expressed opinion, that Stur-
ges was drunk when attacked by For
man could have brought our forces away
with but little loss. All that saved the
entire command from capture was skill
full management of the I'd brigade, under
Col. Winslow, of the 4th Iowa cavalry,
who covered the retreat Sturges is a
drunken sot, who ought never to have
been entrusted with a command. We
don't believe he has reformed since 1851.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

s@@ Atlanta, Georgia, now threatened
by Sherman's army, is situated in the
northen part of the State, on high and
remarkably healthy plateau, and being
the center of four great railroads, it was
a place of considerable activity and was
the cotton and grain depot for adjoining
counties. Since the commencement of
hostilities several large factories for the
manufacture of cannon and small arms
have been established, and rendered the
place of vital Importance to the rebels.
The town is on the south bank of the
Chattahoochie River, which, uniting
with the Flint at the extreme southwest
corner of the State, forms the Appa-
lachicola River running through Flori-
da. Atlanta is 291 miles from Nashville.
The mountains of the region contain
gold, iron and other valuable minerals.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
What a kentucky Patriarch Thinks.

We invite the attention of conserva-
tives to the following extract from the
speech of fthevenerable DR.. Breckenridge,
upon taking the Chair to preside over
the National Union Convention. They
are the words Of an earnest and honest
patriot:
"I think, considering what has been
done about slavery, taking the thing as
it now stands, overlooking altogether,
either in the way Of condemnation or
approval, any act that has brought us to
the point where we are, but believing in
my conscience and with all my heart,
that what has brought us where we are
in the matter of slavery, is the original
sin and folly of treason and secession /;
because you remember that the Chicago
Convention itself was understood to say,
and / believe it virtually did explicitly
state that they would not touch slavery
in the States. Leaving it, therefore,
altogether out Of the question, how we
came where we are on that particular
point, we are prepared to go further than
the original Republicans themselves
were prepared to go. We are prepared
to demand not only that the whole terri
tory of the United States shall not be
made slave, but that the General Gov
ernment of the American people shall
do one of two things, and it appears to
me that there is nothing else that can be
done, either to use the whole power of
the government, both the war power
and the peace power, to put slavery as
nearly as possible back where it was
for although that will be fearful state
of society," it is better than anarchy-or
else to use the whole power of the gov
ernment, both of war and peace, and all
the practical power that the people of
the United States will give them, to ex-
terminate and extinguish it. Prolong-
ed applause
/ have no hesitation in saying for my
self that if l were prO-slavery man, if
l believed this institution was an ordi-
nance of good and was given to man, l
would unhesitatingly4 join those who
demand that the government should be
put back where it was. But [ am not q
prO-slavery man. Inever was. write
myself with those who believe it is con-
trary to the brightest interests Of allmen
and of all governments; contrary to the
spirit of the Christian religion, and in
compatible with the natural rights of
man. ] join myself with those who say
"away with it forever" Applause, and
I fervently pray God that the day may
come when throughout the whole land
every man may be as free as you are, and
as capable of enjoying ngregulatedliberty.'
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

n@- The Rock Island Union says
seven hundred and two Democrats of the
Copperhead species arrived at the Gov
ernment prison on" Saturday morning.
We quite agree with the Union that our
troops might have saved themselves
trouble and the Government money, by
treating these Morgan cut-throats to a
more summary process. Won't the
Copperheads do a little bowling over
this new act of tyranny? Can't they
sYmnathiZe?
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

LARGE ARRIVALS OF ENIIGRANTs.-
The emigration from Europe to this port
is unprecedented. No less than 49,
landed here last week, which is larger
number than arrived ever before in the
same length of time. Moreover, the
emigration is of a superior class, largely
consisting of small farmers, mechanics
or tradesmen. Yet comparatively few
portion are Immediately engaged on ar
rival by farmers and others waiting to
receive them, and who pay their trans
portation West. The health of the en-
igrants is also remarkably good.-Neav
York Times, 17th. 5
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

na You know the story of the boy
who would not cry, though the wolf
was gnawing him beneath his frock.-
Most of us have some wolf to gnaw us
somewhere; but we are generally gnaw-
ed beneath our clothes, so that the world
does not see, and it behooves us to bear
it that the world shall not suspect. The
man who goes about proclaiming HIM
self to be miserable, will be not only
miserable but contemplate as WE'LL
A,athony ZfoUope. 8e$
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
Mr.. Garrison in Defense OF the President.

. .
Mr.. Garrison in Defense Of the President.
In replying to Wendell Philips as
sault on the President and Cabinet, at
the Boston Anti-Slavery Convention,
Mr.. Garrison put the case in this sensi-
BILE way:
GAS to his Cabinet, 1 will tell you
an anecdote which read the other day,
and thought pretty good one. Some
one, sympathizing with my friend
(Philips,) went to Washington, and said
to Mr. Lincoln, "Sir, you must get rid
of Seward-throw him overheard. J"
"Mr. Seward" said the President, "is
Secretary of State He conducts the
diplomacy of the country. Have you
read his diplomatic correspondence ?"
"Yes, sir" "Have you any fault to find
with it." mo, sir" "Well, sir, he is
my clerk; I got him for that purpose"
board" Sir, Mr.. Blair is Postmaster
General. Do you get your papers and
letters regularly?" Eyes, sir" well,
sir, he is my clerk for that purpose and
am President of the United States"
[Applause.] Now I say this: that Mr..
Lincoln has never made an appoint
ment which did notmeet the acceptance
of all the loyal and all the anti-slavery
sentiment of the country at the time
never! [Applause.] For instance, they
were well satisfied with the Cabinet,
when it was first appointed, almost pre-
cisely as it stands to-day. If you say,
well, see what it is to-day; l answer,
either that Cabinet has worked with the
President, or it has not. If has, then
it collectively deserves its share of praise
for what has been done; but if the Presi
dent has acted independently ofhis Cabi-
net, then he has done all these magnifi-
cent acts alone, and therefore the Cabi-
net does not control him. Applause.
l care not which horn of the dilemma is
takenV
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
IOWA NEWS.

GONE SOUTH-The 1st Iowa veteran
cavalry left for Cairo this morning by
rail-about $50 men and $50 horses
Dap. Dena., 22d. ......- .i.| ..
Burlington gave one thousand dol
lars to tho Christian Commission on the
occasion of Chaplain McCabe's recent
lecture there.
The Northern Iowa Sanitary Fair,
at Dubuque, was formally opened on
Tuesday, the 21st. The first days re-
oeipts amounted to $4,000. which is a
noble beginning. ......
Burglars broke into the Court House
at Davenport last Tuesday night and
unlocked the Sheriff's safe, from which
they took small amount of money
the only valuables they could find.
"A Southern Iowa Soldies's Fair will
be held in Burlington on the Goth day OF
September. .
"A full blood Spanish buck, owned
by VIM. Worm, of Drakesville, Davis
county, yielded fleece weighing 14a
pounds.
Two mammoth children are on eX-
hibition at Keokuk. They are brother
and sister and We're born in Cass county
Ill. The former is II years of age and
weighs $50 lbs the latter is and weighs
$50.
Patents issued recently from the U.
| S. Patent Office to Iowans: Washing
Machine, Jacob Dodda, Washington;
Wind Wheel, Alfred Trim, Iconium;
Thatching roofs, James Weed Musca-
tine.
INSANE Edwin Hall, an estimable
citizen and property holder of Polk
county, has become insane and been
taken to the State Hospital at Mt. Pleas
ant. For several years his mind has
been absorbed in spiritualism. So says
the Register.
Among the bids for the Government
loan of seventy-tive million dollars is
one from w. p. Post, of Iowa City for
$4,000 at ST per cent Dremium.-Ddu.
Gazette.
The name of the above, we Opine,
should be Coast. No Post here with
that much money to loan.-IOaca city
Republican.
Brig. Gen. Tuttle arrived at Keokuk
last Thursday, on the way to his home
in Van Buren county. The Constitution
says it is rumored he has resigned his
commission.
John McCune, Esq, an old citizen
of Keokuk, has been taken prisoner by
rebel raiders while working one of the
leased plantations near Pine Bluff in
Arkansas.
The M. & NJ. Railroad Co. proposes
to run their road to Newton on certain
conditions, the principal of which is
that the citizens guarantee the payment
of $50, 900 to the Company.
\ SOLDIER ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS
SIsTER.-Wm. Chandler, furloughed
soldiers, while visiting his sister Eliza
beth at Independence on the 21st inst,
accidentally shot her in the forehead
with pistol, from the effects of which
she died in about two hours.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
neaL we have been PLACED innossessi

of sure remedy for the annoyances of
mosquitoes, and give it to our readers
with the satisfaction of knowing that
we confer upon them in this act alone a
benefit worth twicethe price Of subscrip-
ton: The remedy is simply to SIT up IN
bed all night and play the je,0shdrp -
A friend who has tried it assures US that
it In uhigh."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

FAST DAY.-In accordance with the
action of the General Assemblies of the
Old School Presbyterian and the United
Presbyterian Churches, Thursday, Sept.
1st, 1864, is appointed as day of fasting,
humiliation and prayer, unless the Pres
ident of the United States may deslg-
nate an earlier day. These religious
bodies embrace very numerous mem
bership, and the day set apart Will De
rigidly observed. IL 81 r4
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

THE 1910 BoNDs.-The subscription
to the 1910 bonds is still before the pub
lie, and over seventy millions have been
already taken. At the present rate OF
premium on gold, they pay nearly ten
per cent. interest in currency, and at
the conclusion of the war, they will
certainly be worth par in gold.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

@ One of johnson. IS men taken pris-
oner, having been asked what he thought
of our forces and Gen. Sherman, re-
piled in the following inelegant terms !:
fisherman gifts on a hill, fops his
wings and crows: then yells out, Atten-
ton! creation! BY kingdoms right
wheel! march!-And then we git!
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

nA- A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing Of the brilliant charge
tions at Petersburg, says: "When the
negroes found themselves within the
works of the enemy no words could
paint their delight Numbers of them
kissed the gun they had captured with
extravagant satisfaction, and feverish
anxiety was manifested to get ahead
and. charge some more of the rebel
works. A number of the colored troops
were wounded and few killed in the
first charge. A large crowd congre-
gated, with looks of unutterable adni-
ration, about Sergeant Richardson and
Corporal Wobey, of the 22d United
States colored regiment, who had car
ried the colors of their regiment and
been the first men in the works, SALAD
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

A WINTER IN SPITZBERGEN.-Th
single night of this dreadful country
begins about the 30th of October; the
sun then sets, and never appears till
about the 10th OF February. A glim-
mering indeed continues some weeks
after the setting of the sun, then succeed
clouds and darkness, broken by the
light of the moon, which is as luminous
as in England, and during this long
night shines with unfading lustre. The
cold strengthens with the new year, and
the sun is ushered in with an unusual
severity of frost. BY the middle Of
March, the cheerful light grows strong.
Arctic foxes leave their holes, and the
sea fowls resort in great numbers to
their breeding places. The sun sets no
more after the 18th of May; the distinc-
ton of day and night is then lost. In
the height of summer the sun is hot
enough to melt tar on the decks of
ships, but from August its power de-
clines-it sets fast. After the middle of
September, day is hardly distinguish
able, and by the end of October, takes
long farewell to this country; the earth
becomes frozen and winter reigns.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

n@ The population of Richmond, Va.
is for was in 1seO) $4,000, being 1923 less
than the population of Milwaukee, Wis,
and atrifie larger than that of Cleveland,
Ohio. Petersburg has $4,000; Lynch
burg, 10000; and Staunton, $780,
Charleston, S. c., once had population
of 40, 1874; that was in 1860, and before
the "Swamp Angel" scourge had visited
it. Savannah, Ga, has population OF
5000, and Mobile, Ala, &c. 900.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
DeplOrable Condition Of Affairs In Mis-
sOurl. fA
EXTRACT from O Private Letter.]
FT. LEAVENWORTH. June 21.

FT. LEAvENwORTI, June q.
Our military in this Department has
been kept very busy for the last two or
three weeks, watching and killing reb-
els, bushwhackers and guerrillas.-
Fighting is an everyday occurrence at
some point or other along the border of
Kansas and Missouri, on line of about
two hundred miles. Scarcely day
passes that some of them are not sent to
that warmer country" But whilstwe
are destroying so many of them, some Of
our noble soldiers are sacrificed. On
Sunday evening last our folks attacked
a camp of them in Jackson county, Mo-,
killing Is of them. No grounded or
prisoners taken. l learn that our loss
was quite trifling-nOne killed.
Missouri is in aworse condition to-day
than it was two years ago. A large por-
ton of it will have to be fought over
again. A great many desperate rebels
are coming up from Arkansas into Mis-
souri,, and we'll authenticated reports
say that 400 of them crossed the Missou-
ri River at Wellington, in Lafayette
county, Mo-, few days ago, going
North, shortly after which the town of
Cameron, on the Hannibal & St. Joe
Railroad, was attacked and robbed, kill
ing two Union men.
These Kansas and Colorado troops
turn out with as much alacrity after
those bands of bushwhackers as an old
hunter would for a fox chase. Although
they know that if they get into a fight,
some of them will in all probability get
killed, still that risk does not appear to
affect them in the least.
Gen. Mexican, of Iowa, is doing ex-
cellent work in his Department. He
now has about a thousand men out after
QuantrePs band, in the Smi Hills, in
Jackson and Lafayette counties, back of
Lexington. He is said to have a large
force there, but 1 think Gen. McKean's
men will wipe them out.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01

nzConductors on the passenger rail-
wav cars are not obliged to furnish
change to the passenger. The decisions
in the courts are that passenger must
furnish the exact price of his ticket,
and not compel those who carry him to
give change. When change is given at
any time to a customer, it is for his cor
venience and to oblige him, but he has
no tsrightn to demand it.