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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

A BIG PEACH CRoP.-Peaches are so
few throughout the West this season
that it will make mouths water to read
of the monster crop of this delicious
fruit in Maryland, Delaware and New
Jersey, where the orchards are breaking
down with the weight ofgolden and red
cheeks. Owing to the terrible drouth
in those States, peaches are smallerthan
usual, but the quantity is far ahead of
previous years. The spectators in Del
portation of 100000 baskets; this season
high figure of 100000 baskets, and it is
thought this will not prove a limit to
the immense yield. The apple and pear
crop is also large, but inferior in quality,
owing to the drouth.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

Bsa- The Democratic party carried the
greater portion Of the Southern States
in 1860, and every State which it carried
in 1860, it carried into rebellion in 1861
except New Jersey. And yet there are
some members of this party-of the
party which elected James Buchanan
and sustained his administration while
it plotted and accomplished rebellion
and disunion-who propose to put this
party in power again in order to save the
Union. This is probably on the princi-
pie that the party who broke the Union
in twain know best how to mend the
rent they have made. But what object
has party which went for disunion in
1861 to go for Union in 1865? They pro-
claim the independence and the sover-
eighty of the States, and the unconsti-
tutionality of coercion as cardinal prin-
ciples of the party, and these principles
are utterly inconsistent with the resto-
ration of the Union.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

n@-" "Mother, can't have my daguer-
reotype taken?" mo, guess it is int
worth WHILE" "Well, then, you might
let me have tooth pulled, I never 60
anywhere ~ 4i-s te
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

neA. Strive more to be than to possess.
A moment may deprive you of your pos
sessions, but all eternity cannot take
from you what you are.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
WOUNDED.
Hon. J. B. GRINNELL.-"L Linken-
sale," in a letter sketching our delega-
t;o,, in Conpracc cave of Mr. Grinne1l. :.


The member from the 4th District is sal generis.
There is nobody like him. He is plucky, ener-
getc, intelligent, eternally at work. He does
not know what it is to back down OF 'let up
He can accomplish more in the Departments of
Government than any man know; and he can
an inch. He is on his legs more than any Of our
members, and is ready, effective debater.-
heads They hate him most earnestly. There
are three or four important respects in which he
is our most valuable member, and on all ac-
counts he is entitled to great consideration.
The people of the District seem to be
satisfied with Mr.. G., judging by the
unanimous vote which they gave him in
the Convention at Oskaloosa the other
day for denomination.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

RI The Democratic papers are MAX
ing a united effort to show that Mr.. Lin
coin has progressed with events, and
does not think precisely about public
questions as he did three years ago.
Where is there man whose opinions
have not undergone many changes in
that time? A man too stupid to learn
anything from the events that have
lately transpired must be clod indeed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

The Union county ticket of Mercer
county, ILL.,, is as follows: Circuit Clerk,
James NJ Wilson; Sheriff, John p.
Clay Coroner, Charles J. Simpson.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
To THE FARMERs.-The Iowa Central

To THE FARMERs.-The Iowa Central
Sanitary Fair, to be held at Muscatine
the 18th of next month, appeals to the
farmers of Central Iowa for contributions
of agricultural produce in aid of it's holy
work. The Fair held lately at Dubuque
was magnificent success, yielding
over $40, 900, because the aOhole people Of
Northern Iowa engaged earnestly in the
work of furnishing supplies to it's re-
sources. No class was more active or
efficient than the farmers, who contrib
uted stock, sheep, hogs, grain, wool
any thing that could be disposed of for
money, or made available for the SOL
diers. Are not the farmers of Johnson
county as liberal, as true, as just to our
soldiers? One man in Louisa county
has already secured the pledge of 13
head of cattle from the farmers of that
county for this Fair. How many will
old Johnson give? Will not the ladies
all over the county take hold of this
work and carry it forward successfully :?
Where no Aid Society exists let one be
formed forthwith for this purpose, and
let all existing societies redouble their
efforts. tafr
Can we decline to do this and be guilt
less s?-I0Ud City Republican.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

n@.Gen. Scott in his autobiography
refers to it as "a striking fact, that three
ex-Vice Presidents, Aaron Burr, John
G. Calhoun and John G. Breckenridge,
became, each in his day, a leader in
treason" And he might have truthful
ly added each was q member of the
Democratic party, and was regarded a
leader
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

fAA A Baltimore correspondence the
New York World, who claims to have
authentic information, states that the
whole rebel army at the present moment
is but 1000; and that the forces under
Gen. Lees command, including those
detached for the invasion of the North,
are only 104, 900, composed as follows:
Six divisions of infantry under General
Lee recently at Petersburg ............ $4,000
Beauregard's three divisions at Peters
burg .. ........ $4,000
Cavalry, all en- route for the North....... 10000
Three hundred pieces field artillery 5000
Forces of Early and Breckenridge on
the line Of the Potomac c....... $1,000
Total. ............... 10000
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
KILLED,

Rea. Casualties in the 5th Iowa in.
fantry during the engagements of the
22d and the 2Sth ult.:
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

LoNEsUM.-My deer boy, did yu ever
go out at mite and lean on the fence for
ours in the spring time, when the frogs
were singing in th,,emarshy ground and
the spotted mite hawks waz glancing
in the air, and the bats was playing tag,
and gaze up into heaven at the CRATE
round moon, and the twinkling stars,
and sigh and want sumthin', and have
your eye fill up with the juise of your
hart, and could tell what allied yu? Did
yu ever steel silly out in big woods just
as the sun fell behind the hill, and set
down agin tree and dreem of nothing
till the twilite costs began to hurri bi
yu, and the warm air began tn thicken
with the fust dark ov the mite, and the
owl ava oph in the distents began to
kali out the toads and the slippry snaiks
and still set there till fear sot WI
thinking? Did you ever draw your
cheer up before the hearthstone az the
brands begin tew grow white ashes, and
the krikets had grown tired of their
songs and-gone into their hoals, and look
stiddy at the dyin' fire, waitin' for your
thots tew come back from the weary
distents and put WI tew bed? Hev yu
did all this and didn't no what allied yu?
1t was Lonesum! 'Twaz your hart that
was thinkin'.-Josh Billings.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

SELFISH SUCcEss.-Books that are
ever harping upon "self help" and the
eXertions by which a man elevates HIM
self from poverty to wealth, have only
qualified usefulness. The honors paid
by the vulgar to that sort of a hero are
quite sufficient, and always will be; let
literature keep her praise for those for
whom the applause Of the mob is not so
ready. "The early bird gets the worm"
and deserves to get it. GA penny
saved is worth a penny got'-that is true,
doubtless; but to inculcate such things
as these is not to preach very light gos-
pei, and there is already too much of
such preaching.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
Tampering with the Malls.

Bereft of all honesty and decency, the
miserable crew who sail under the black
flag of piracy and high treason, and
who themselves assume all the virtue
and integrity of the Democratic party,
as it existed in former days, have deter
mined if they cannot succeed upon
principles cf honor, to carry on a whole
sale business of lying that for meanness
and blackness would put the devil to
shame. ...
Among the numerous lies circulated
by these soulless villains, whose highest
ambition is to defame the characters of
men whose only crime is a bitter hatred
of treason and all its concomitant evils,
the New York World not many days
since charged that letters passing be-
tween Gov. Seymour and A. Oakley
Hall, District Attorney fOr New York
City, had been detained and opened by
employees of the Post Office Department.
AS the miserable villain who edits the
smut machine of the Democratic party
in this county has made the same
charges against the postmasters and
mail carriers in this vicinity, we en-
brace this occasion to republish the let
ter of General Blair to Mr..
Wakeman, Postmaster of New York,
relative to the alleged abuses in that
office. Now let the lying towards who
have made these accusations avail them
selves of the proffered aid to bring the
guilty to justice. If they believe the
one-half they have charged let them aid
the government in detecting the guilty
parties otherwise, let them utter no
more ISLANDERS.
The following is Mr.. Blair's letter:
"WAsHINGToN, August 2.
"DEAR WAKEMAN:-The New York World had
espionage was kept on letters of Democrats pass
ing through the post office. 1t renews the
m oS aS .s n @ 70
| at the charge, and doubtful what course to pur-
sue in reference to it. Some action ought to
| be taken about it, certainly. Suppose you call
on the editor, and assure him of its falsehood
in every particular. Add, that will pay high
reward to any one who will furnish me with in
| formation which will lead to the detection OF
any person engaged in opening letters; that
will pay for detectives, and authorize the en-
ployment of any expert detective, whose char
acter is good, as special agent to run down any
postmaster or clerk who may be engaged in such
business. l want this man, and every other
| man, assured of our most active cooperation to
| prevent any abuses whatever of the mail sys-
! tenn, and that we do not, as you know, permit
any tampering with the mails now, more than
| at any former period.
| 1t is not because of it's political effect am
sensitive about this charge. do uot believe it
will affect single vote / am concerned only
| because it is lie calculated to injure my bus-
ness a carrier of letters for pay. We are doing
improve it, AS it is not the interest of any par
| ty to hurt our business, but the contrary, we
may possibly get retraction, or at least cessa-
tion OF that sort of warfare, by satisfying the
editor that he has been misled. If not will
have to think of some other mode of effecting
it. But will try the course herein indicated
before thinking of another.
Yours truly, NJ BLAIR.
Hon. A. WAKEMAN.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
Good News from Mobile.
Fort Gaines Surrendered with 60 Guns and
GOO Men.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON,
1890 p. NJ, Wednesday, Aug. 10.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
Hover it be, it seems to me
'Tis only noble to be good;
Kind baarfS ara m ora fban nf

ii'ciS w
Kind hearts are more than coronets:
and certainly very much more than
few thousands scraped together at the
expense of friendship, love, and all the
most genial and affectiOnate emotions of
human nature. Money should never be
made the sole aim of exertion, for if the
mental eye is kept upon it for any con-
sidrable time, to the exclusion of all OBJ
| jects which do not repay perusal by
pecuniary return, when the fortunate
toiler has secured his prize, he does not
know how to enjoy it; he has never cul-
tivated any Of those social relations
which give life its chief charm, and like
the fox who lost his tail, he is obliged to
content himself with telling others land
alas, especially the yOung) how very
pleasant it is to be without them
Make money, my young friends; get
on in life; throw off all amenities and
enjoyments, and go at it with will in
your mental shirtsleeves. 1t is no mat
ter from how low a position you first
start, for only look at me-" OF course
scription, but they are enough to make
us pause in our imitation of them.
owe CAN'T SUBDUE THE REBELS.n-
To the desponding or exulting exclama-
ton, ooh, we can't subdue the rebels!"
there is but one reply. If it be true, our
national flag has disappeared the ma
tional honor is gone and most of the
States of the American Union are separ-
ate powers of smaller population than
the cities Of London and Paris. There
is no navy, no common force, no collect
i've glory. The work of hundred years
is undone.
When this phrase is used merely in
dependency by those who sincerely
wish the national honor to be maintain
ed, they should be asked to remember
what the prospects of the war were one
year ago, and what they are now. Gold
is higher, but so is the spirit of the peo-
pie. The army that drove Lee from
Gettysburg now threatens both his sup
plies and escape from his own capital.
Gold may still be higher, but so will the
national determination, and there is no
reason to anprehend disaster until there
is cry from the cowed and breaking
heart of the American people, 1--WE can't
subdue the rebels !" When that cry is
heard, the rebels may subdue us, and
welcome, for there will be nothing worth
fighting for.-Hugper's Weekly.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19

A train of cars at Bradford, VT, was
struck by lightning last week, and four
men killed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-19
rEngs OF SUBSCRIPTION.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Our Posit;ou.-.Is 1t Patriotic.

.'Ifthey remain in the Union. will go ms lar
as the Constitution will permit to maintain their
iust rights aud do not doubt but that mayor
ity of Congress will do the same But II ne ine
Southern states attempt to sccede from this
Jrnion without f,vther cause, am iii favor OF
their having just SO many slaves ana }uSt SO
much slave territory, as they can hoiu a. We
4 NO l,ov Of
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-13
Marshal'a Sale


DY virtue Of two writs rendi Joni erpOnas 70 d.
ID rected from the Circuit Court Of tue United States
fer the Middle District Of Tennessee at its October
term 1861 will expose to public sale, 70 the highest
bidder, FOR cash. At the door OF the Courthouse, in
Nashville, Tennessee, commencing at II O'Clock, A.
~, on TUESDAY, the 18th day Of JANUARY, 1854,
all the right, title, claim interest, and estate which
R. n. GrOomes has piece or parcel Of land In
Nashville, Davidson county, Tenn, described with
the boundaries following Beginning at Dews' 4
Harman's corner, on Water street running thence
with Water street twenty seven feet, more or less
towards Casteman street, 70 BeTrys corner; thence
at right angles with BerTys line 20 Guthrey street.
thence with Guthrey street, twentyseyen feet, more
or less, towards Broad street. 10 Dews' Harrnan's
corner; thence, at right angles, 10 the beginning
being the same conveyed 70 said <. II Gro0mes By
B. T. Foster, as per deed recorded on page 40 Of
Book No p, Of the Registrar for Davidson County
levied on with whatever improvements there may be
on the same, 70 satisfy judgments rendered By said
Circuit Court at its April term 1865 against GVOOmes
Cavert Co., and in faver OF A. g. Handell, and s.
8. Stevens Soas.
F. r. GLASCOCK, Marshal.
dec-St D. ". LELLYETT, Dsputy.
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Anecdotes of Presldent Lincoln.

An English correspondent of q Lon
don magazine is giving some lively
sketches Off American life, and among
other things relates the following anec-
do!es of President Lincoln's CONVERSE
tional manner, IS he saw the President
recently in q small party in Washington:
"The conversation, like that OF all
American official men l have met with,
was unrestrained the presence Of stran-
gers, to \ degree perfectly astonishing.
ANY remarks that heard made, as to
the present state of affairs, do not feel
at liberty to repeat, though really every
public man here appears not only to live
in glass house, bat in 3 reverberating
gallery, and to be absolutely Indifferent
as to who sees or hears him. There are
q few Lineolnana, however, which l
may fairly quote, and which will show
the style Of ais conversation. Some of
the party began smoking, our host re-
marked, laughingly, The President has
got no vices; be neither smokes, nor
drinks That is q doubtful compliment
answered the President; Trecollect once
being outside stage in Illinois, and a
man sitting by me offered me . cigar. l
told him had no vices" He said moth
ing, smoked for some time, and then
grunted out It's my experience that
folks who have no vices have plagued
few virtues
Again, . gentleman present was telling
bow friend of his had been driven away
from New Orleans rs 3 UniOnist, and
how, on his expulsion, when be asked to
see the writ by which be was expelled,
the deputatI0n which called on him told
him that the Government had made I'D
their minds to do nothing illegal, and so
they had issued no illegal writs, and
simply meant to make him 60 of his own
free will SWELL" said Mr.. Lincoln, that
reminds me of . hOtel-keepsr down At
ST. Louis, who boosted that he never had
q death in his hotel, for whenevera que 81
was dying in his house he carried him
cut 10 die in the street." At another time
the conversation turned upon the discus-
sions Hs 10 the Missouri COMPROMISE, and
elected the following quaint remark from
the President: It used to Smuse me
some to find that the shareholders wanted
more territory, because they hHd not
room enough for their slaves, and vet
they complained Of not having the slave
trade, because they wanted more slaves
Cor their room"
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Marshal's Sale,

IN obedience 30 three wrts venditoni ezpOnds 10
i directed from the Circuit Court Of the United
States, for the Middle District Of Tennessee, at its
October term, 1868, will, at II O'Clock, 4. n, on
TUESDAY, the 18th day Of JANUARY, 1854, expose
public sale to the highest bdder for cash. at the
door Of the Courthouse, in Nashville, Tennessee, all
the right title claim interest, and estate which lie
grand H. Carney has in tract Of land ia Rutherford
county, Tennessee, near the town Of Murfreesb0rO,
containing, by survey, One hundred and Twenty
five Acres vested in SAID L. H. Carney by grant from
the Safe Of Tennessee made the Oh day Of UctO-
ber 1859, and recorded on page 1856 in Book No. 10
Of Moses NJ. Swan, Registration ded follows
Beginning &C 40 Ash, the Northwest corner Of a
tract of land formerly owned by David Bowman,
(now by said Carney) running thence South, 50 de-
grees last, with the North line Of said tract FIVE hun
dre1 poles TO the North East corner CT said tract,
thence North forty poles, thence North, IS degrees
West five hundred poles, thence South forty poles TO
the beginning 5" levied TO satisfy judgments rem
dered by the Circuit Court Of the United States for the
Middle District Of Tennessee, at its April term 1863
at Nashville, in favor Of A. T. Stewart Co., Wirs,
AustiS X McYeigh, and J. 2. Janray 4 Sons, and
against L. u. Carney.
F. R. GLAS2OCK, Marshal.
dec5-St By W. LELLYETT, Deputy.
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Many swords must rust in their scab.
bards il the Washington letters tell tho
truth, that the generals expectant, about
a hundred in number, and some of them
backed up by the strongest sort of po-
IticaS influence, are doomed to disap-
ment. Oaly six names are to be sent in
by the President for confirmation, and
the remainder will have TO wear eagles on
their shoulder-strsps q while longer,
much as they might like to sport the sill
yer stars. Worse yet-mSny of these
colonies who aspire to command bri-
gades, have permitted their regiments to
dWindle down to = few score of meD,
snd unless they can secure recruits or
conscripts, they will be mustered OUT
without ceremony.
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DR. KING,S DESPENSARY.

NEsA 80 DR.. KING Formerly Of Kew York +,
for nst4 yosrs Of Louisville, Ky /,
- .<s2S Who has devoted bis attention. 70
the treatment Of private diseases for 80 year, 1atteIa
hrnsef having attended 10 q practice for % usny
wears, and cured 30 many Thousands, be Is enabled
10 cure sI diseases q private nature no matter
tow bad they may be from injudoious medical treEi ..
,ueus, or from neglect Of their own. d. Kings
nspsrsary j. No 20 Dsaderiok street. between Cher
~ and the Square, second story, where he cuRss sl
diseases Of private rsturs.
Gonorrhca cured without uau1eoGs medic,nss or
Interference with business.
Structures Of old or recent date sGscuGy cured n
n few days By a. operation which causes no pair /.
Where structure exists health cannot Be enni0yej
Perhaps no disease cauaes moro mischief srd uaGa,
mines the constitution &c much.
Syphilis, with al the diseases OF the EkE5 growing
cut Of neglect bAd treatment, can be e1ect1alls
cured In few dsys
esrriaaI Observation-Disclosures attention having beea
sIvsa to this disease, and ell the consequences grow
lug out Of il, brought IN many oazes By the de-
directive hsbits of trco1sderate youths aud ezcss
i've indulgence Of tbs passions, q EegleCt Of which
viii undermine the constitution rendering the 81 .
,eot unit fer business Eoosoty, and casiRg Prem
tzIe cid age.
Females who nky be laboring with any dinsouity
She Womb msy rost assured Of inrnodiate Tsl--4.
Persons residing abroad, by writing and sts8taG
their case, with fee enclosed direct 70 Dr.. A. ling,
10 Ss Desderick street. Nashville, Tenn VIZ hsyS
she asocsszxg raedciaes ssat 10 thsT eddreza. e1s
acurs fr0sa = s'el0ek 81 ths morning Uzil il 2s
ss1tEg ff7sv - = aFEsg,
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AAeJSA euN - - ~ ~ ~
Com'r Org'n U. s. ColOred Tr0o


NASHVILLE, TENN, Dec. 18th, 1863.
I take pleasure in directing the attsn-
ton of my military friends, and all
others, to the science of photography, as
taught by Prof. J. W. Delbear, of this
city.
have availed myself of the oppor-
tunity of taking q course of instruction in
this labor saving science, and though my
official engagements prevented my regular
attention, yet I am perfectly astOnished
with the progress 1 have made in SO short
= time. Eight or ten lessons includes all
the instruction have received, and by
which have been enabled to master the
principles, read and write it, with e&se
and readiness. The admirable adapta-
ton of this science to the requirements
of the people in this age of railroads and
telegraphs, must commend itself to the
attention Of every rejecting mind.
hesitate not to say, that Mr.. DIS expert
ence is such as to enable him to impart
its principles to the comprehension of any
ordinary mind, in the remarkably short
period of few hours. am further pre-
pared to assert that if the practical utility
OF this remarkable invention was pro-
perry appreciated, no friend Of progress
and improvement, would be so unmind-
full of his duty to himself and others, as
to neglect any opportunity to avail him.
self of q practical knowledge of this
rapid, rational, snd philosophical system
Of committing ones thoughts TO paper.
7. j. RHODES
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