Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-12

one of the best Fairs in the State. The
grounds are to be put in such condition
as modern wants dictate, and we feel
warranted in saying that the most at
tractive feature, fast horses, will not be
behind time" as.
HA- The Shoemakers of this city have
adopted the following list of prices. 1t
is a considerable advance on former
rates: .s.. ...
Ens sT Ted s"ss s Tms s
Ladies' Shoes, pegged, So; ladies Shoes, sewed,
MKNpINe.-soling sewed Boots. $780, Selling
Pegged Roots, Sl.oo; Patching. p cents .
Boy \ letter from s. NJ Fisher, of the
10th Iowa Infantry, to his mother, dated
on the battlefield in Georgia, July Goth,
mentions the following among the Mus.
catine boys who escaped capture: Thad.
Purcell, the two Hale boys, George w.
Keckler, Walter Jennison and James
King. There are only about seventy of
the regiment left. ..
EY" The city of Muscatine did itself
proud thing when it elected Henry
Funck its Mayor. We have no doubt
that every citizen feels a consciousness
of having grown immensely great over
the proud reflection that so great and
dignified parsonage as Mr.. Funck
carries the key to the big safe in the
Mayors office, and receives twenty dead
head tickets TO every concert, circus,
show, &C., that honors our people with
visit. The immaculate Funck himself
seems to have grown greater than Caesar
since he usurped seat long since adj
Judged to belong to another. No man
has watched his course for the past six
months who is not convinced that in
meanness Funck has grown much great
er than his most hopeful friends ever
dared anticipate. One of his latest,
meanest, most contemplate acts has re-
Gently come to our knowledge, and we
blush for the good name of our people
that the man guilty of such mockery
and wickedness is still permitted to gov
ern the affairs of our CITY.
This worthy nagnate goes into the
saloons, surrounds himself with bloated
yisages, and, amid drunken jeers and
rbaldry, boasts that at times he has
stealthily placed himself under the WIN
dows of our churches, and then, amid
the ringing of empty glasses and drunk
en- huzzas, proceeds to repeat prayers
and exhortations he processes to have
heard under the windows, accompany
ing them with gestures and bending of
the knees that would disgr,ce heather
Of the Soutn Sea Islands for mockery.-
and this is the municipal representative
Of a party that entertains such holy
horror Of abolition churches!
This is the champion of Democracy in
Muscatine A man who dare not show
his impudent, Shylock countenance in
the light ola prayer meeting, but steals,
like wolf at night, under the windows,
that be may hear something over which
he and his whisky comrades may make
wicked mockery while playing game
who would govern the whole coz TRY.
ACONFEssION.--May Funck's organ
confesses that he was guilty of the sac
religious mockery and revelry for which
we condemned him in Tuesdays paper.
The following is its apology r.-..5
The mescegen youth who runs the odoriferous
printing machine up the Avenue. deyOtes a hall
column of Characteristic backguardsm for the
benefit of Mayor Funck. 1t seems that our
praying scene which he Witnessed in one OF our
the other DAY The Mayor fh ra Rn9w1ng
trying tocheat the Lord; he thought there would
be harm , IN dssefibng the peculiar eontor
and heard the Mayors description, think that
there was nothing in it that was indecent OF
out of the fact the picture was so 1ife-like that
the PRAYING gentleman could not stand It. we
will receive it, ana from no one quicker thar
Mayor Funck.
When it is known that " the praying
gentleman referred to is an exemplary
member of the Methodist Church and 6
respected and honored citizen, whose
only offense is that he refuses to follow
the reasonable lead of Funek ant
Thayer, the ipexpressihle meanness o
the above attack can be in measure ap
preciated. Funck and Thayer! who
made then, judges of mems motives an6
gave them power to condemn others az
"hypocrites?
pEWe are gratified to give the fol
lowing undoubted testimony of the falls
ity of the charge contained in the forgeC
certificate printed in this paper few
DAYS since, concerning Sergt. Manly, o
the 10th Iowa. 1t is contained in let
ter from Capt. Palmer to A. F. Demon
est, Esq, written on the sth of July
He says: t
the 5th inst and took them in fine style. Jacol
Karn, color sergeant, OF my company, was the
for which brave act he was only slightly wound
ed in the knee. Sergt. Manly, of my company
also wounded quite severely in the lef
arm"
How any one could be so base and ma
licious as to endeavor to- injure thu
wounded hero by forging the signature
of the Surgeon to letter charging hin
with wounding himself on purpose, il
beyond our comprehension. We have
preserved the copy of the letter, ant
will take measures to have the miscre
ant brought to justice. Sergt. Mani.
will be at home in few days. His Sc
cret and cowardly enemy will yet b
detected and have double the infamy
heaped upon him which he sought tx
bring upon his unsuspecting victim.
DTWe learn from the Courier thai
some Democrats" have repudiatet
their subscriptions to the Baptist Church
because the Courier was not placed un
der the cornerstone. Whether that was