Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-02-26

out coming to conclusion the COMMITTEES
arose and tie House adjourned.
| A WHARF Boar FOR MUsCArINE.-At the
last meeting of the city council the following
agreement between the city of Muscatine and
the Northern Line Packet Company, permit
ting them to place wharf boat at the steam
] boat landing was agreed to-:
Sec /. The said City Council grants to the
said Packet Company, the privilege of keeping
wharf boat at the levee in the city of Musca-
tine, upon the following terms and conditions,
viz:
Sec. 2. Said Packet Company are to keep
and maintain said wharf boat without any
expense to said city.
Sec. 8. All the rights of the said city re-
specting wharfage are especially reserved to
said city.
Sec. 4. Said Packet Company shall not at
any time charge or receive any compensation
| for storage of, or receiving or discharging on
and from said boat, provided no freights or
merchandise shall remain on said wharf boat
more than "a hours after landed here on said
wharf boat.
SEC. 5. Said Packet Company shall not
engage in the business of buying and selling
any goods, wares or merchandise of any de-
scription on said wharf boat, nor shall they
permit any person or persons to engege in
any traffic on said wharf boat.
Sec. 6. Steamboats, not belonging to the
said Northern Line shall have the privilege
of receiving freight from, and discharging the
same, upon said wharf boat, at any time when
the same is not actually in use by the boats
of said Packet Company, or when the freights
placed upon il for shipment on the boats of
said Company do not require the use of the
whole Of said wharf boat, as the agent of the
said Northern Line Packet Company may
permit.
SEC. Z. The said City Council reserves to
itself the right to restrict or annul this agree
ment at any time, by first giving said compa.
ny, or any owner, or their agent, three
months notice of such act of rescission.
SEC. s. This agreement is approved and
accepted by the City Council of the SAL city
Of Muscatine, this Goth day Of February, A.
D. 1854, and recorded by order of said city.
Signed, as per order of the said City Coun-
Gil of the city of Muscatine, this 22d day of
February, A. D. 1864.
HENRY FuNcK, Mayor.
A copy of this agreement has been sent to
the President Of the Company for his sigma
ture, and at the earliest opportunity after the
opening of navigation, a commodious wharf
boat will be placed at our levee.
Go IN EPH.-A historian of the "Great
Rebellion" named Kettell, in narrating the
battle Of Wilson's Greek, gives all the glory
Of the charge which was headed by General
Lyon on that day, to the Second Kansas regi.
ment. Eph. Holmes, of Go. H, 18th Iowa,
one Of the heroes of that day, is after Mr..
Kettell, in the Davenport Gazette, placing
the credit where it belongs, to the Arst Iowa.
Mr.. Kettell will get into . pretty "kettle of
fish" if he detracts from the honors so Justly
due the glorious First, for their valorous
deeds on that Day, or gives the glory to any
other regiment. Go in Eph, we'll hold your
hat. -
Iowa MEDICAL CoLLEaE.-We have receiv-
I'd from DR.. Hughes circular of the Medical
Department Of the Iowa University, located
st Keokuk. The college is in . Aourishing
condition. AT the urgent request of num-
Der Of students spring and summer course
of lectures will be given, commencing on the
first Of March. The hospitals of Keokuk are
among the largest in the country, and offer
excellent advantages to the student. The
commencement exercises will be held on
Wednesday, Feb. 10th. Es @ s
RECEIPTS AT THE FAR.-The receipts of
the festival given by the Ladies' Aid Society
last Monday and Tuesday evenings, amount
ed to four hundred and ten dollars and fifty
two cents. The expenses will probably
amount to one hundred dollars, leaving clear
profit of three hundred dollars. This is
much better than was expected, and reflects
great credit on al concerned. u i. q
"A SLIGHT CoLD," CoUGHs.-Few are
aware Of the importance of checking . Cough
or .'sight cold'' in itsfirst stage; that which,
in the beginning, would yield to ., mild rem
edy, it neglected, soon attacks the lungs
'Bros0n's bronchial Trucker give sure and
almost immediate relief Military Officers
and soldiers should have them, as they can
be carried in the pocket, and taken a occa.
sion REQUIRES. -! lIT-l