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A. P. RICHARDSON,. ..Editor
Jfc Grtgor, Iowa, Friday, Xov. 21,1856.
i&r CoriEs OF THK TIMES, with or
without wrappers, can be had at tin's office.
THE VICTORY.
The Grand Battle of Politics for 1856,
the Eighteenth engagement of a similar
character since the foundation of the gov
ernment, is over, and the Democracy are,
as they have almost always been, glori
ously triumphant! They may well con
gratulate themselves upon this auspicious
victory. It is not an ordinary triumph.
Expediency has on some occasions deter
mined the choice of mediocre talent com
bined with safe and and reliable political
principles, but in the canvass just termi
nated, the constitutional party have secur
ed not only the success of their lofty and
time-honored doctrines, but they have
selected, to give them force and practical
exemplification, one of the most ablo and
experienced statesman the world has ever
produced. The thoughtless or the venal
who may have believed or invented, the
thousand falsehoods charged by a menda
cious press upon the private or political
character, the mental or political capacity
of JAMES BUCHANAN, will sneer at this
recognition of his right to stand among
the brightest stars in the galaxy of states
men but no man who has read the history
of his country—none who has carefully
notod the frequent concessions made by
his most embittered foes, can escape the
conviction, however he may disguise it,
that the PENNSYLVANIA!? comes to the
Administration of the American Govern
ment with qualifications, experience and
patriotism never exceeded.
We are already being treated by the Op
position press with absurd and shameless
predictions relative to the probable policy
of the administration. The Ostend mani
festo is to be the cause of War with all
the European Nations. The robbery of
Spain in the annexation of Cuba, an alli
ance with Nicaragua, and Central Ame
rica, the conquest of Mexico—are all to
take place, at once, and the territory ac
quired by a system of plunder and piracy
is to be immediately set apart for the use
of the "slave-power" to whom the
President elect has sold himself!" With
"the re-establishment of the Slave trade"
these countries will all be filled with Af
rican Sables and the South will have an
immense preponderance in American
gffairs. Kansas, of course, is to be im
mediately admitted as a "Slave State,".
||nd all the money spent to hot-bed her into
freedom will have been thrown away.—
The New York Sunday Times concludes
an admirable article on this subject asiol*.
lbws:
All this nonsense, a*nd mow asrgratta
tious, we must expect from such sources
and yet we venture to predict that the
administration of Mr. Buchanan will be
one of continued peace and prosperity—
.one in which our foreign relations will be
maintained on the most amicable footing,
and our domestic ones disposed of in a
spirit of justice, cordiality, and genial
patriotism—one during which the ques
tion of slavery will be left, just where it
should, with the people themselves, and
no abolition excitements gotten up in one
quarter of the Union in order to provoke
retaliatory movements in another—one in
which the constitution will be faithfully
adhered to, and all its compromises sacred
ly reverenced as so many of the symbol
marks of practical liberty. There will be
no attempt to annex Cuba, under Mr. Bu
chanan, unless Spain should actually force
us, in selfdefence, to assault her in that
quarter. There will be no more slave
states created, unless the inhabitants of
new states think proper to establish the
institution. France and England will
have no reason to apprehend a blow from
us, unless it be in return for a similar
compliment of their own. In short, we
predict that the administration of Mr.
Buchanan will prove both brilliant and
sound, and that under his executive care
the happiness of the people of these states
will be as complete as our nature will ad
mit, and rational liberty become, to use
tbe language of Washington, a blessing
so well established here, that it must re
commend itself to the applause, the af
fection, and the adoption of every nation
whiok is yet a stranger to it."
i M. & XL RAIL ROAD.
invite the attention of our readers
to the highly interesting letter of the En
gineer of this road. It will be found on
our outside. It is lengthy but every line
of it ioeighs a ton measured by its impor
tance to us. We are indebted to the
Daily Advertiser at Galena for the copy.
In this connection we take pleasure in
acknowledging the receipt of the Advertiser
among our Daily Exchanges. It is a reli
able commercial journal and doubtless an
honest, as it is an able, political ouc but
our tastes are not the same. When the
Timet grows into a Daily, how cordially
will we reciprocate the favors of those
who now place us under these pleasant
vbligatious.
ODD.—It is said that ilou. W. Apple
ton whig candidate for Congress aad Fill
more Elector for Massachusetts voted a
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THE MAILS.
Since Writing upon this subject week
before Lost we had an opportunity of call
ing upon Judgo Corkery the P. Mast
at Dubuque. lie had favored our rtitle
with a perusal, and in explaining to u/the
manner in which our mails came up inis.-j
ing he laid us under great obligation^
From an exhibition of the documents made
out by Mr. Brown of the DuBuque office,
we learned that the mails por steam boat
for the
STorth
are made up regularly at the
hour and upon the day specified in the
contract, but the non-arrival of our much
looked-for bag, is attributable to the fact
that the Steam Boat contractors do not
call for it cxcept semi-occasionally.—
There is sometimes an accumulation of
several mails at the Post Office at DuBu
que, and when it suits the convenience of
the contracting company to put it on board
their boats, we gota mail—when it dou't,
we go without
To report such delinquents naturally
suggests itself, but the contract goes a
begging we are told, and wo may as well
endure what we can not remedy. It might
have been worse perh»p« ftt »11 events it
is too late to scold now, just as navigation
is closing, and as we will get a regular tri
weekly by the Land Route through the
winter, with a strong hope that in the
Spring our facilities will be infinitely im
proved, let us "quit getting mad about
what is now irremediable, and go to work
throughout this whole Northern Iowa and
Southern Minnesota, at getting up petitions
specifying the business of each Post Of
fice and praying the Government to es
tablish an office for our Mail Distribution
at MCGREGOR instead of at DuBuque.—
This is the point to which all the territory
named is depending for its Riverand (soon
its Rail Road business, and wo see no
reason why our Eastern mail can uot be
as well forwarded to McGregor via the
Milwaukee and Mississippi, as to be tak
ing it leisurely on the fast freight lines of
the Galena and Chicago Union, and the
Illinois Central, to DuBuque and thence
by accident up the River, or by coaches
over sixty miles of hilly road to get up to
our line of latitude. Let every Post Mas
ter who sees or hears of this sumrestiou
OO
make out the amount of business done at
his office, forward the abstract to the Mc
Gregor office, with a statement as to which
point, DuBuque or McGregor, will best
accommodate his section asa Distributor,
and if allowed, we will publish between
now and spring the whole mass of testi
mony and forward it to the Dep't., for its
guidance. The only way that a new coun
try can make itself heard is to keep up a
continuous sensible report, well-backed
with facts. We have the facts in abun
dance now let every man act.
BALTIMORE RIOTS.
On the day of the Presidential Election,
the Monumental City furnished the Amer
ican People her annual exhibition of in
famy street fights, riots, dead and wound
on Germans and Irish, and rampant K.
N.'s, were the order of the day. The in
habitants of the city established by the
tolerant Lord Baltimore, showed their
regard for the memory of its great foundor
by denying freedom of opinion and action
to those professing his form of faith
The Hon. II. Winter Davis in a morning
speech counselled violence, and being a
good pratiot and exemplary christian he
was regarded as a safe man to follow.—
The Governor and the Mayor had a meet
ing which resulted in a quarrel, and the
d——d foreigners" were killed or crip
pled during the interesting conversation
of these dignitaries. Fillmore swept the
City by a large majority, and Forty of
its citizens are dead or wounded in proof
of the triumph of Know-Nothingism
It is singular that the pure American
doctrine can not succeed in any place
but by the cogeut reasoning of the pistol
and stiletto, brass nucks and fire. Time
was, when sound argument was supposed
to have some intrinsic merit—men were
appealed to in a manner flattering to their
supposed possession of brains, but the
latter-day style seizes the earliest opportu
nity to sprinkle the side-walk with the
brains of an opponent perhaps a K. N.
imagines the article to be more easily
managed out of the head than in it, and to
save time, he applies a club or a ball to
the shell that protects it All right
probably in the eyes of intensified Aeri
canism. We, however, are unpatriotic
enough to hope that such moral suasion"
as is used at Baltimore, New Orleans,
Louisville, and a few Northern cities, will
not become fashionable in the young and
(thus far) tolerant State of Iowa.
CECIL, Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, was
the first to establish in the Colonies, free
dom of religious opinion, llis Colony,
now the State of Maryland, is the only
State in the Union that has forgotton Ame
rican Rights and insulted the memory of
its illustrious fathers by throwing its vote
in the scale of illiberality. Time will
teach the disgracod city to bo ashamed of
the character it has established. Mr.
Fillmore id doubtless a good man but he
had gome awful fellow* "tagging after
him."
TEXAS.—This State is a model in finan
cial matters out of debt—five millions
on hand—a school fund of ten millions of
5 per cents—one huiuIi ed,i»jjliyuR of U£rea
of land, and taxes lighter than any other
people on the globe.
jar The New Ferry Boatadds much to
the btteineee appearance of Mtiiregm.
c.
iw.
THE STEAM FERRY PACKET,
ALEX. OREGOR.
This elegant boat reached lmt wharf,
at M'GREC
OR,
foot of Main street, on
Thursday, Nov. 13, 1850. Her arrival
had been expected some days indeed,,
she was purchased months ago, but owing
to the low stage of water she was uj
able to got over the rapids at Keokuk.:
Her enterprising owner, the gentleman
whose name she bears, early on Friday
morning gave notice to our citizens and
those of Prairie du Chien, of his intention
to make a trial trip to Clayton City, 12
miles below us. General invitations were
extended to the Badgers and Hawkeyes
to participate in the pleasures of tho ex
cursion. It was our design
,4to
make
the voyage" personally, but business
prevented. The Times was represented,
however, in the person of A. J. FKLT,
Esq., and to him wo are indebted for a
report of the incidents that enlivened the
trip. C. F. REMICK, Esq., has also fa
vored us with an account of the happy
voyage. Mr. R.'s communication will
be found in another column. To Mr.
FELT the public are indebted for tho fol
lowing notes of
THE EXCURSION.
When it was announced that a Steam
boat would soon run for the express pur
pose of conveying passengers between
the towns of M'Grogor and Prairie du
Chien, tho hearts of our citizens beat
high with anticipations of a prosperous
future. Those hopes have been realized,
and we may well rejoice at the success
which has crowned the efforts of one of
our most enterprising citizens.
On Friday morning, (Nov. H,) the in
habitants of M'Gregor wore
:nvited
to
participate in the pleasures of an excur
sion upon the New Steam Packet ALEX.
M'GREOOR. The boat, by the way, is a
model of itself, and deserves more than a
passing notice. It is entirely new, hav
ing been built the present season at Cin
cinnati, at a cost of 912,000. It is fur
nished with a powerful double engine, and
is capable of 300 tons burthen. Its cabin
is pleasant and capacious, and when fur
nished will compare favorably with the
Brooklyn or Fulton lines.
At 11 A. M. a large delegation of our
citizens with their families were on board,
and for the first timo the packet of the
Milwaukee^nd Mississippi, and the M'
Gregor, St. Peters and Missouri River
Railroad left tho IoWa side with its cargo
of living freight for the Wisconsin shore.
Amid deafening cheers from the shore
and the boat,'.the M'GREOOR "walked the
waters" to Prairie du Chien. Here, in
anxious waiting, was Col. French, of the
Granite House, with a fine delegation of
the citizens headed by the Baud. The
trip to Clayton City was lively and pleas
ant beyond description. A rich feast of
the good things of earth was served up in
modern style, in the cabin. The company
are under obligations to H. D. Evans, H.
H. Wilkerson, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Durand,
and others whose names are not known to
us, for a liberal furnishing of those mate
rial comforts which produce, if not a
feastof reason," an unmistakable flow
of soul."
The presence of the ladies (may they
ever be with us) added much to the inter
est of the occasion, and the monotony of
the rugged bluffs and rolling waves with
out, was agreeably broken by the sight of
blooming cheeks and bewitching smiles
within. The excellent Baud, under the
direction of our townsman, Mr. Pace, dis
coursed sweet music and lent fresh pleas
ure to the entertainment. Tho gallant
Col. French, who appears perfectly at
home among the fair, (how we envy him,)
formed a party in the c^bin, and the mer
ry dance commenced to the strains of de
licious music. For a moment we forgot
that we were but a "looker on in Venice"
—a passenger on the Upper Mississippi,
and our mind reverted to the festive
scenes of life's early morn, when the per
plexities of business did not forbid the en
joyment of the giddy dance.
AVe noticed that some of our usually
staid bachelor and literary friends enjoy
ed the gala amazingly, and we trust to be
pardoned for expressing the hope that
this excursion may not only proVe the
beginning of a union between Iowa and
Wisconsin, but that it will break the ice
that encloses tho hearts of those "book
worms," and thus render it a "union of
hearts and a union of hands."
Our arrival at Clayton was greeted with
a hearty welcome. Owing to the lateness
of the hour, the packet remained but a
short time, and we had no opportunity to
give that enterprisiug city the notice it
deserves. At a future time we will have
leisure to gratify ourselves in this par
ticular.
On the return voyage, a mass meet
ing" was held in the cabin, when George
Harvey was called to the chair and C. I*.
Remick appointed secretary. Judge Wan
zer being loudly called for, responded in
an eloquent speech detailing the growth
and prosperity of M'GREOOR. He closed
amid the hearty cheers of his audience.
Their approval spoke a more telling en
comium than we can write.
Every thing passed off pleasantly, and
the good feeling which prevailed may be
taken as an index of the appreciation of
this great enterprise. We trust the day
is not far distant when wo shall enjoy an
excursion trip on the Rail of the M'G.,
St. P. and Mo. River Road.
Tbe k the bee! Ferry Bgat
that has ever pas.vd Dubuque. Iler time
'torn Prairie du Chien to Clayton (12
uiles) was 45 minutes!
On motion by C. W. P^emiek, several
solutions, of which wo have uot a copy,
[verc adopted. They will be found in
his communication,
DUBUQUE, OA
This fast city is doing an immense busi
ness. The streets arc crowded with
teams, the side-walks with boxes of goods
packed for interior and up-river mer
chants, the Hotels with business men and
strangers, the places of amusement with
pleasure-seekers. The Drays, Wagons,
Stages, Busses and Carriages are so plen
ty that snarls often take place as in New
York, and it requires many minutes to
untangle the knot so as to admit of a gen
eral movement. Mtun street is too nar
row for the business now done on it, and
in less than five years it will be impossi
ble to drive through it during business
hours. Several ®f the streets of New
York have been enlarged to accommodate
the increased trade and travel, and most
of our western cities wil be under the ne
cessity of doing the same thing. The
streets now laid out in old towns and all
the travel-ways of our new towns, should
be established with an eye to the impor
tance which awaits them.
We had but little timo to make the ac
quaintance of the business men of Du
buque, but we have the pleasure of ex
hibiting in our columns the CARDS of a
few of the very best men in it. These men
understand that Milwaukee is looking in
this direction for trade, and unless some
effort is made by Dubuque to retain the
advantages she now holds, her north Iowa
and Minnesota customers will bid her a
long farewell. In our opinion, now is tho
time for Dubuque to show herse If to
northern customers. If she waits till trade
opens in the spring, Milwaukee and Chi
cago will enter the lists at the same time,
and she will have lost the opportunity af
forded her this winter, to make favorable
impressions upon the mercantile classes
of tho great North West.
The circulation of the Times is ap
proaching 12 JO, and wo have little doubt
that in another three weeks it witl in
crease 25 to 50 per cent. It travels into
all the counties of this latitude as far west
as Clear Lake City—--all the southern
counties of Minnesota, and hence we can
impartially commend it as the best adver
tising medium north of Dubuque and
west of Milwatkee. We have now al
most as much advertising custom as we
are willing to acoommodate, but when
time is allowed us to condense and rc
strrang* praa«II4 (MMIM, simtller Typo
will be used, and our ability to oblige will
bo increased.
We respectfully invite all our all our
readers who visit Dubuque on business,
to call upon the firms whose names are
found in our second column*, and give
them your trade. They are all reliable,
gentlemanly and obliging, and you will
find their shelves well supplied with de
sirable stocks and at the most reasonable
priccs. i
If you wanta-Aem« while you are in the
City, you will of course, go to Charley
Hewitt's City Hotel—we need not have
mentioned that.
LIVERPOOL AND CHICAGO.—The Galena
Advertiser contains an interesting letter
from an Englishman, chronicling the arri
val at Liverpool of the Dean Richmond
with a cargo of Western products direct
from Chicago The writer predicts a
brilliant future for Chicago and Galena
through the trade thus successfully be
gun and we both believe and desire, that
the brightest anticipations of the commer
cial seers of those two cities may bo re
alized. But there is another point loom
ing up to the vision of that portion of the
west lying North of 42 degrees. The
Galena correspondent seems to have over
looked it. That point is MILWAUKEE. Her
lorn arms, Briareus-like, are extending
themselves in all directions, .and but a
short time will elapse, before her advan
tages will be second to those of no city in
the Valley of the Mississippi. Situated
near the outlet of Lake Michigan and
draining a country unrivalled for its pro
duction of Northern export materia], she
too, will Go down to the sea in ships,"
and deliver to our famishing trans-atlflntic
relatives the surplus of a crop that will soon
bo gathered from territory equal in extent
to half of Europe. Milwaukee has not
been immodest. Her onterprize has been
marked on the map of the west in the iron
characters rather than in gaseous preten
sions, aud when her lines of Road strike
the Mississippi, the coming year, it will
be discovered that she is almost without a
rival iu tho transit trade of the Upper
North West. What that trade may be in
1060 is beyond all estimate. The Galena
and Chicago Union, and the Chicago and
Fulton Lines, can tell what place Milwau
kee occupies on the commercial map,
after they have figured up their freight
business next fall!
INDIANA LEGISLATURE.—House,
Dem., 36 Rep.—1Seuate, 23 Dem. 26
Rep-, 1 K.N. Willard for Governor by
7000 maj.—Buchanan nearly 15,000.
We are proud of the Hoosier State.-—
Had there not been so many hold-over"
Senators of the Fusion Stamp, the De
mocracy would have
earned both branches
of the Legislature.
For the Times. I
The Now Steam Ferry Packet Alex.!
M'Grogor came to the levee in this port,
on the 14th instant, at about 8 o'clock
A. M. She is a fine craft, intended to
connect tho Mil. and Miss, to the M'G.,
St. Peters and Missouri River R. R., and
to unite the broad fields of Wisconsin
with the fertile plains and softened vales
of Iowa. An impromptu glorification
was made on tho same day, in honor to
A. M'Gregor for this honorable achieve
ment of enterprise aud art. She will car
ry 175 tons burthen, and is the most ele
gant ferry we have seen on the Miss. Riv
er. Some hundreds of the ladies and
gentlemen of the towns of M'Gregor and
Prairie du Chien made a trip (by way of
dedicating the Alex. M'Gregor) to Clay
ton, and during both the upward and
downward voyages the clouds were liter
ally filled with mingled cheering and ex
ultations. Such was the exuberant flow
of spirits on this occasion that some were
compelled, long before the journey was
complete, from sheer fatigue, to seek re
pose of retirement. The festivities were
celebrated by each according to each ones
inclination or caprice. Some celebrated
in an upright and others in a reclining
posture—some by smoking like Turks,
others by dancing like Gipseys some by
chanting like nuns, and others by roaring
like clergymen of the Methodist school.—
To add to this extensive variety one could
accasionally overhear the mellow tones of
the Band, as they were borne away upon
the gentle zephyrs. It was gravely as
serted by sober, credible persons, that it
was a "glorious day," and although 1
would not be willing to depose to the truth
of this assertion, yet such was the com
mon belief. No bad spirits intruded
themselves upon the tacred ceremonies of
this dedication day. The bright sun,
the sweet music, soft breezes, the gush of
svmpathetic feelings, exhilerated and in
spired by the greatness of the occasion,
made it a scene of enchantment. There
were the Fairies, too, tripping "the light
fantastic too." It was a chapter of fables
converted to reality.
The party held a convention on board,
conducted strictly upon legislative rules
as set forth in Cushing's Manual, at
which all were sober, grave, still, and
thoughtful. After the convention had
been duly organized, and our most grave
and potent president had been duly in
stalled, and our Rev. chaplain had duly
performed his unctions, the following res
olutions were adopted
Resolved, That we, citizens of M'Greg
or and Prairie du Chien, regard the ac
complishment of Alex. M'Oregor's long
cherished design of securing a steam fer
ry between our respective towns, as an
event of greater importance to the em
bryo cities connected thereby, than any
other which has transpired for many years,
and that it reflects great honor and credit
upon our fellow citizen, Alexander M'
Gregor, for his untiring energy and per
severauce iu achieving so great a public
improvement.
Resolved, That we acknowledge our
selves under deep obligation and return
our sincere thanks to Alexander M'Greg
or for the joyous entertainment afforded
by this excursion, and that this day,
which unites M'Gregor to Prairie du
Chien in matrimony, is long to bo re
membered.
After the adoption of the resolutions
the following motions were carried, to
wit:
Vote of thanks to the Band for their
entertaining music
Vote of thanks to tho ladies for their
genial presence.
Voted to request the mover of the res
olutions, C. F. Remick, to forward a copy
of the same to the North Iowa Times and
Prairie du Chien Courier.
C. F. REMIC*.
By order of Convention.
NEWS IN BULK.—Mr. Sumner declines
a re-election. Tho three Wasliburnes
are all re-elected to Congress. The dem
ocrats will have a majority in the next
Congress. Denmark has consented to a
O
reduction of Transit Duties. Bissel (Rx?p,)
is elected Governor of Illinois over Ri|W
ardson. The Sardinians in New .York
propose to purchase 100 pieces of cannon
for the use of their countrymen in de
fending themselves against the Austrians.
The taxables of Ohio have doubled since
1850: this is attributable to Railroads.—
The Coal fields of the U. S. are 160,000
square miles in extent—those of Great
Britain 12,000. Troubles with Indians
inJOregon continue. Gen. Walker's po
sition is more favorable. San Francisco
dates to Oct. 12 say trade is good. Sen
ator Weller has boon sick. The Legisla
ture of Vermont has refused to vote 620,
I 000 for tho relief of Kansas cause vy"
—rthe election is outer! Fremont's majori
ty in Wisconsin is 14,000 —in Conn.
7,600. 12 acres were burnt over, in Syr
acuse, on the 10th loss $1,000,000
homeless families 100. Tho Bank of the
Republic has "gone up." Five new
Banks have recently opened in Illinois.
The Emperor of the French is afraid of
assassination. He and the Empress are
i both said to bo growiug dissatisfied with
each other. Nobody on this side the
water cares a ime about either of
tliem, i* Texas the Indian*
some, ..
Nothing so heightens a woman's
ivaTy sa ui^deratcly bh'nled colore.
BETS, BETS.—-Pay all your bets liko
men, and then quit the pernicious prac
tice. Major Poor of West Newbury on
the 7th Nov., wheeled a barrel of apples
to Boston (36 miles) in payment of a bot
with Col. Burbank of the latter city.—
Ten thousand people with all the Fillmore
clubs of tho city, a military company and
a mounted cavalcade of citizens escorted
the Major up State Street to the steps of
tho Tremont Honso, where the winner was
waiting Jo receive the stakes. We'll bet
that New England rum was in demand
about that time!
THAT CIIAIR.—There has been more
contention for the last few months as to
who should occupy tho Presidential seat,
than the seat is worth. While the public
have been raising tho devil about this
small matter, we have stumbled upon a
method of obtaining a seat that beats them
all. You all know CHAMBERS of tho New
Frame Block—well, ho has just received
piles of chairs, and for the want of room
they are stacked under the roof of Heav
en's blue arch. His friends come along
and carry them off at any price they name.
We picked up a prize in tho shape of a
handsome EDITORIAL CIIAIR that has given
us more comfort, reasoning a 2o$teriori,
than all the chairs of Washington arc ca
pable of imparting.
When we get the hang*' of this lux
ury, our readers may expeet an improve
ment in the Times.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.—Gossip is busy
with tho private affairs of Mr. Buchanan.
One writer says he looks very pleasant
since election, another supposes he will
have need of a large stock of good humor
to bear up under the beggiug of place
hunters. Rumor has arranged a marriage
for him with Mrs. Polk. Buck is known
to be in favor of Tho Union." A Pho
tographer is taking views of Wheatland
and vicinity. A lady Phrenologist came
a long distance to get a cast of his head.
Ho told her to examine him to her hearts
content, in every particular except the
bumpt.
THANKSGIVING.—Yesterday (Tursday)
Nov. 20th was the day appointed by half
the Governors for the death of Turkeys,
the manufacture of Oyster soup, and the
destruction of Nut Cakes and Mincepies.
There is a trifle of "Religion" mixed
with their proclamations but de'il the
VALCE OF STOCKS.—In Wall street our
leading Railroad stocks stand as follows
Michigan Central 94. Michigan South
ern, 88. N. Y. Central 86. Erie 65.—
Galena 110. 111. Central 92. Penn.
Central 93. LaCrosse and M. R. R. 82.
M. .and Mississippi 75.
Land Warrants. New York, Nov.
1st, Forties, at 1,10 per acre. Eighties,
93. Quarters the same as eighties. One
hundred aud-twenty acre warrants are
only 88. .•
bit" of it is seen in the carrying out of
the programme. We saw no alteration in proprietors of the oung America Saloou
the conduct of our people on Thursday.
The McGregor folks are uniformly pious
and they live on good things every day.
LI#M QW
NEGROES.—It is said that hundreds of
negroes voted at the state election of Ohio.
Vallandingham has given notice to Lewsi
D. Campbell of his intention to contest the
election in the Butler Co. District, on the
ground of Campbell's receiviug great num
bere of mulatto votes. A correspondent
of the Statesman, writes from Xenia that
65 negroes voted in that town. How
much of Border Ruffianism" is there in
this palpable violation of tbe Constitution
of Ohio
MURDER.—Jno. F. Taylor, Sheriff of
Winnebago county, was shot at Rockford,
by Alfred Coatryman on the 11th. C.
and his brother were arrested for stealing
cattle. They were both lodged in jail,
but Alfred escaped. The (Sheriff gave
chase, and when about to overtake him,
C. drew a pistol and shot Taylor. He
died immediately. The homicide fled to
the woods, but was followed by the citi
zens.. overtaken and lodged in jail. Some
disposition to Lynch him, but better coun
cils prevailed.
CLAYT()I\TOUNTY%ETU RN S.
We are indebted to B. F. Fox, Esq., the
Co. Treasurer, for an official Abstract of
the late election. Our columns are so
crowded that its publication is impossible.
The result in the whole Union has ab
sorbed all minor interests, and we con
dense the vote of Clayton County.
Whole No, of votes, 2248, of which Fre
mont had 1420, Buchanau 755, and Fill
more 73. Fremont's nujj. over Buchanan
675, over both 602. For Constitutional
Delegate whole No. of votes 2024 of which
Alpheus Scott received 833 Geo. Gard
ner G26, aud M. L. Fisher 565. Scott's
plurality over Gardner 207. over Fisher
268. Scott's minority in tho Co. 358.
Mendon,(Mc.Gregor)Mallory and Read
townships gave Democratic majorities
on President. The vote of Clayton City
was Rep. 35, Dem. 32, Fill, 16.
The average Congressional and State
vote, cast in August, was 1416, of which
the Repuublicans had 1026 the Democrats
390. Average R'p. Maj.616. The Re
publican vote has increased about 33 per
cent,—tho Democratic nearly 100 per
cent: a large relative gain.
WOOD.—The itail Roads" of the S.
consume annually 5,COO,000 cords of
wood—the prftU#fof 100,000 acres of
laud.
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Vote of Crawford Co., Wisconsin. »,
The following abstract has been forwar*
ded us by a friend at Prairie du Chien
PRESIDENT.—Fremonts
maj.
93
CON.—Washburns maj. 195
SENATOR.—Price, 1^38
RKP'T.—Hutchison,
maj.
31
Sheriff—Pr.du Chien.—Campbell 242.
Le Clerc 202. Wise 13. Barrette 29.—
Eastman.—Campbell 80. Le Clerc 28
Barrette 3. Utica~— Campbell 67. Le
Clerc 21. Wise 19. Scott.—Campbell
52. Le Clerc 3. Wise 62. Marietta.—
Campbell 27. Lo Clorc 24. Wise 76.
Wm. A. Campbell's majority over Wise
296, over Le Clerc 178.
Cowdon is elected clork ©f court OY9T
C. H. Blair 285. Wiso Clerk Supervi
sors over Dunn 145. Phillips Pros'g.
Att'y., Bronson Register of Deeds, Oentil
Co. Treasurer, Hall Surveyor, Stuckie
Coroner. No opposition to the five last.-
Campbell, Wise, Cowdon, Wright,
Phillips and Stuckie are Rep.
Le Clerc, Barrette, Bronson, Gentfi,
Blair, Dunn and Hall are Dem.
THE TOWN.—New buildings, improtoi-'
ments in old ones, arrivals of Goods and
sundry other matters of interest are Itfid
over for want of space. Look our paper
over carefully, and if you think wo deserveV
it, interest yourself in getting subscribers'
to it. Every name you procure for us,
adds to the value of your advertisements,
and gives importance to the Town and
county.
D. Allen df Co., Bartlett & Co., Evan*
k Coukey, the Hardin School and Messrs.
Koss & Preul's notice of Dissolution, are
among our New Advertisements for this
week. v.. V
THI CLAYTON TRIP. Our columns OTIFE
tain copiuB notes of this ever memorable
voyago, but there is an unicritten history'
of it that would probably "take the socks'
off the published report. The comic, tho
fantastic, aud the hilarious, must have
prevailed in an extraordinary degree.
Our town got such an exciting start ou that
day, that it has scarcely recuverod from
it yet. Fun and frolic has ruled the hour
since Friday morning last. We are uot
sure that the influence has not extended
into the country. Tho Editor of the Times
by some inexplicable mystery was seduced
by his Monona friends aud found himself
a participant in the 'giddy dance' at the
•Egbert Hall,' on Friday evening. The
(p i of'Parry's Express' are to blame for
this. Th e result of the election may have
contributed to the lubrication of joints
that has extensively prevailed lately.
Well, this is a rough world any how, and
the more pleasure we can enjoy, the better-
tW The Rail Road,—Is not finished
yet from M'Gregor west, but travellers
can And a nice substitute for the Cars by
taking passage with G, L. Moore whoser
carriage is generally at the River Landing.
Mr. Moore is a carsful man and wiHnot
charge you unreasonably.
It is said that a lady was tried reoaptly
iu Ohio, for making an American flag
with "B. dt B." on it. Wo do not be
lieve it. The church for three years past
has been mean enough in its fanatical pro
scription to do almost anything, but the
man who reported the above certaiuly lie*
under a mistake.
KANSAS.—The
Herald says Buchanan
is in favor of having Kansas a Free State.
Knowing his history and location, who
ever doubted it His feelings are decid
edly with the North but his opinion as to
the settlement of tbe vexed question is,
to leave its decision to those who are most
affected hy i^ fif: the actual residents of
Kansas.
TH* GERMANS.—The Fremont
papers
arc complimenting the Germans for their
adherence to Republicanism in the late
contest. Wo are glad our opponents are
estopped from cursing the "Foreign-
F(WA.—In 27 counties heard from ofB
cially, there is a Republican gain of
1300.
THB AFRICAN »C.AVK TRADE.-—TBEU^'
nited States was the first nation in tbe
world to make the African slave trade pi
racy. It began the work of legislation as
to it, March 22d, 1794 it followed on in
subsequent years, dated 1800, Mav 10
1803, Feb. 28 1807, March 1818, A
pril2 1819, March 3. Not a slave, it is
stated, has been imported into this cou»- .,
try since 1808. Andrew Stevenson, of ,.v
Virginia, as American Minister to Lon
don, wrote to Palmerston, iir the most in*
dignaut terms, "of this odious traffic,"
aud stated that the United States having
been the first to abolish it, "as to their
own people, could not but feel sincere F.
gratification" at the steps taken in thia j*
direction by others.
ID" The guperioiity of American inventive ge
nius, not only over that of our English progeni
tors, Lmtiudecd of all other nations hmi become
too tangible to be disputed. It was notorious at
the World's Fair in London, that the American's
far outstripped all others iu the u&cl'ul inventions
which they supplied. We beat the English in
vessels, ruiliimde, aud manufactures by powers— iT
We are beating tUeiu in tbe scientific arts of
Chemistry and Medicine, as we have kmg best the 9$.
rest of mankind. A new and practical proof of
this assertion is shown in the fact that the princi
pal remedies of the allied armies of the East are
furnished from the laboratory of our own country
man. Dr. J. C. AVER of Lowell is filling orders
for immense quantities of Chcry Pectoral and
Catharctie IMIls, for lioth the land and sea forces
iu Turkey, lii.s medicines have been tried six)
approved lv thunc in power who have found them
the most ruliuble which they could procure for tho
exigencies in which they are to he employed*—«
X. V. City Tinum,
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