Muscatine Weekly Journal

The military occupation of Cairo, at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio, by Lincoln's mercenaries, and the stopping and seizing vessels, will stir up the bravest men on this continent to arms. None of the States that lie on these streams will ever submit to this high-handed proceeding.--Richmond Whig.

One would think that the States which have submitted quietly to the planting of secession batteries, and the seizure of boats, and the confiscation of cargoes, and the shooting of passengers at points on the Mississippi below Cairo, might afford to look with a little complacency upon the seizure of articles contraband of war at that place. Why strain at a gnat after swallowing half a dozen camels, humps and all?--Louisville Jour.