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I I. anxitx. tforntigjb .8I0KH.U i CXItt»l P»pw of th« ,*C '.'®* partmant. 11''' "ll^ OAtftfl Vhttk* of ike cfounty. [gre»§ion4t 5Dipirict fixes the minority .-pWMn »t 1,873. is tM~Xietrict. in which it wrtt suppmd Wis Republicans might be CTTCbngresgman. Backalew How—is this immactlate I Lib**) at D«rif«trat? The legislators of Indiana conven wed yeeUrday in special session at In J1di*i»j^)Ua. Lastglght the Republi can member* met incauens and by a mmltnous tote selected the Hon. 6f iVW*l^'M^rtott,.as the Republican can dldAte for U. 8. Senator. -This will jpr probably etose the mendacious mouth of the CfrteQTo Tribune To Jacob Rich, Fsq., the very able editor of that excellent paper, the Du buque Tim*. WW C Pi ^«Ul P»Mr *f the City. -IH'lH." Br K&0i' fe it ADYANC* OMUTIOX OV BIZ KOtrTM. 1 m','1 the Ooritsr Mirkot and seo» Po«t omoe. Co* .iWlW wilt the State Register dls iue its ttnwarranted flings at Sen- »•-T Uui. We ask pardon tor pre suming to advise the editor* of that sr.^ot bog to- fcourteously suggest S'r opinion the biter la being bit in i operation. In Philadelphia owtheSth ofNovem ber Grant received flotar hundred and ty-one rotes leas than Hartranft did the8thof Oct. On the other hand )ndt«lew received twenty-fire thous 1 four hundred and thirty-one more than Greeley ...did. Islfpossi so many thousand Democrats »$ipafe#fek on orow, or vu there illegal voting in that city by Democracy for upon this sub ject. Thlrpfcpefr hat a penchant for mixing up InBenubllcan though 1S tttfiSWos fac to shame. caucusses, as face were callous jPheroaif. W. WoolsOn, whose death we announced yesterday was tine of Iowa's best citizens. He was a native of the State of New York, and emigrated from thence to Mt. Pleas ant, Iowa, in 1856, where he has since Presided. He WM A lawyer by profes sion, and a0yary successful one— especially an honest as well as able He was eight years in the Iowa enate, Where we knew him well, and gladlv aftosl to his ability and sterling frrth. The Hon. Stewart Goodrell, who died in lies Moines yesterday, 13th St., at 2 o'clock p. m., was among the larliest settlers in this State. He was first A resident of Washington eauuty in this State, and was a member of the flrtt convention to frame a con stitution lor the State. At the time of his death be was pension agent at I)es •Moines, a quite I crative position, to hich lie was appointed in 1869. lie as a citizen ol sterling qualities, pos essing always the esteem of a host of iends. gladly accord so far our information extends, prompt' ergetic efficient and faithful labor land zeal, as Chairman of the Republi can $Uto Central Committee during the campaign just closed. We believe he has had at heart above and beyond all other considerations, the general good of the Whole party, just. a» every chairman of the committee ought to have. Ffrbm our knowledge of hie services, we believe he is worthy of all praise. Mrs. Victoria WoodhulU and Ten pie ClafSiu are willing, according to 'reports, to acknowledge the falsity of tb« story agnmst Henry Ward Beechcr and even to quit forever the City of New York, If mercy can be shown them to the extent of relieving them from a prison life. As a preventive of futowerimo of a like nature not on ly from them, but abandoned women everywhere, we think their punish ment should be meeted out in due form of law, and with rigor. It is, in our opinion, mercy to all people to so lo, and if ,w,e have correct data to judge Irom, and we think we have, Theodore i Tilton ought to share a prison with them. The election news from Marion county, in this Congressional District cOmes in slow, and even yet we cannot hill positively whether Loughridge carried the county or not, but it is thought he has. The whole Republican county ticket is elected and Grant car ries the county by a large majority. So much for W. M. Stone's influence in behalf of Democracy. But we will let a former, very warm friend of Stone's, to-wit the Pella Blade, tell about it: With all his power on the stump, and political trickery, Stone has discover ed the fact that he cannotcurry the Re publicans of "old Marion" with him Into a coalition they believed and knew to be opposed to the best interests of the country. Tiie Greeleyites were ju bilant over the accession of Stone and Curtis to their ranks and felt certain of a complete triumph on the 6th ol November, but they find themselves farther Irom the goal of their hopes than ever, without a shadow of a hope for the future. CMt«nal«l laltnmllraal ExhlbHIon. We publish in to-day's paper an ad dress from the CeutenniAl Commission to the |ieople of the United States. It is proposed to-hold, at Philadelphia in 1876, au International Exhibition that will ecKpsc anything the world has ever witnessed, and for this pur poss it is necessary to raise by volun tary contribution the sum of $10,000, 000, or au average of 25 cts. to every porson in the Union. No couutry in the world has been so blessed or has SO prospered as has the United States, siaoe the Declaration of Independence, at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, in 1776 And it is right and proper that should have a grand and glorious Fourth of July celebration, to com feemoifcte the centeunial epoch. For this noble purpose every citizen, whether native born or adopted, should feel proud to contribute, and we trust that it shall not be said of Ottum wa, nor of Wapello county, ihat either of them failed to do their whole duty. At the proper time, a meeting will be held to form a county society in furtherance of the object spoken of in the address, and we feel confident that our people will make a generous re spoiiM. DEMOCRACY MVtS. "Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency was excuse sufficient for the hot heads otthe South to lead their section Into secession. The gist of the whole matter is, that these slave-ocralic leaders wanted disunion and still want it, their desire being rather intensified than diminished since the close of the rebellion. These leaders, in their hearts, scout the idea of aj^overnment by the people they refuse, except as a necessity, to abide the result of the fairly expressed will of universal suf frage in this country they finally, to sum it alf up in a few words, no longer believe in democracy, in republicanism, in universal freedom, but they do be lieve in aristocracy, in slavery and de gradation for a part of the human race They failed to gain a victory on the field of battle, and as Horace Greeley said eighteen months ago, tbey are seeking in the political field to attain that which they failed to obtain in the passage at arms. It was this as it was preached from the stump all over the South, which led these same South ern leaders and their hosts, to vote for Mr. Greeley in the late contest, and it was this that fired the zeal of ths old Republican army and led it on to such a grand victory. Over more than one half the territory once in rebellion, there is yet no freedom of speech, no freedom of action, no freedom for the spread of general intelligence through the common school system, through the press, nor from the pulpit. As the very germ of the principle of liberty rests in such freedom of speech and of the press, so per contra, liberty dies in the absence of it, as surely as ani mal life perishes without the oxygen of the air. The freedom of which these Southern leaders complain they are deprived of, by this administration, is such freedom as the wolf desired when he would extend protection to the lamb such freedom as Jefferson Davis desired when be led and forced a deluded people, blinded by the igno rance eutailed by slavery, into rebel lion, viz: "To be let alone" in his trea son such freedom as the fiendish Ku Klux desired when clandestinely un der the shades of night, he shed the blood of the husband and father upon his own hearthstone, because of words spoken in behalf of freedom. That we have good cause to believe the ani mns of these Southrons to be as wc have stated, we publish the following extracts. The Leesburg, (Va.) Tele gram, after the election says editorially as follows: The great Presidential election is over. Geueral Grant is re-elected, and vested with tho authority to control the interests of our country for anoth er four years. How he exorcised that authority before is well known to ev ery one. How he will exercise that authority for the next four years is al so easv to conjecture. Wo beg pardon. The devil himself cannot conjecture what he will do. As he has resorted to the most uncivilized policy to ill sure liis re-election in this instance: as he ha9 succeeded even better than the Republicans themselves expected, we have the best presumptive evidence that he will not scruple in the lutuie to introduce into his administration any innovation, however despotic or corrupt, necessary toexecute his selfish and nefarious designs. But the foulest blot that ever stained the record ot'aiiv State has fallen to the lot of Virginia. That State which has ever stood first in point of honor among the States of the Union that State which has given to our country more of her great and noblemen than any other that State which can boast of her Washington, her Jeflerson, her Madison, her Mon roe. her H. Clay, her Patrick llenry that State o'er whose temples the ban ner ot Liberty has ever fioated, bear ing upon its waving folds the motto, "Sic Semper Tyrannis," has now in dorsed by the vote of her people, an Administration the very name of which is "Corruption." The Selma, (Ala.,) Timet says: Amid all our dangers we have been together. On the field of battle the white people of the South have stood shoulder to shoulder. In reconstruc tion, with all its infamy and outrages we have been as one man. As one man we have been refused the hand of reconciliation. As one man let us proudly disdain the contemptible crowd who madly and exiiltinglv. North and South, shout for Grant, for thievery, tor plunder, for ignorance, for vice and for villainy. We have, as a people, done all we could to redeem a good Government from the hands ol •'thieves and fools," and have failed let us still show to the world how grandly great we are in our defeat. The dav for the change is not yet, but in our judgment, it is rapidly approach ing, and we believe, from yesterday's election, that the American people arc prepared to submit to it. The next struggle for the American people if one iu which the contending factions will represent Empire on one hand and the Commune on the other. Grant and his infamous tribe will represent one of these factions, and the negro with his ignorance is a fair type of the other. Alabaniians—yes, honest men of all colors and sections—'-the argu mcnt is exhausted stand by your arms." The Times closes with the final summing up, "The argument is ex hausted stand by your arms.'' That is to say, await the first opportunity that offers a hope of success and then take up your arms and strike again for a Southern Confederacy. The election of Governor Ilawley to Congress from Connecticut is a source of much congratulation throughout the country. He is a man of brilliant rep utation as a soldier, writer, spoaker aud politician, and is a representative of the best American politics. Con necticut is to be congratulated upon her admirable choice. W iV With bitternesr iu its heart, the Lou isville Courier-*Journal turus on those of its own household with this ngly blow: "The Democrats in the North have not done their duty. Well, tliev fool ed us iu I8t'»l, when they swore tlmt Lincoln and his hirelings would have to march over their dead bodies to get at the South, and they have been tool ing us ever since with word* protesta tions that only misled us. if they had stood u to us Greeley wonld have been elected. It strikes us that here after we had best take care of our lelvos and go it ou our own hook." At the recent election, Chicago cast 13,823 votes and Si Louis 36,237. The Congessional delegation oiien nsssee stands 7 Republicans to 3 Dem ocrats Kansas gives a Republican majority of 33,700, a gain of 13,500 sinee last year. Greeley's majority in Maryland, ac cording to official returns from all but two counties, is 1,067. Greeley's majority in Kentuoky will be about 13,000. The Republicans gain 22,000 on their vote of last year. The best accounts agree that the Boston fire traces its origin to an over heated furnace in the basement of a building on the corner of Kingston and Summer streets. Many of the best judges in Boston now estimate the total loss by the fire evtsn as low as sixty millions of dollars. Most of the large wholesale stores were comparatively empty of goods. The Cincinnati Enquirer yields all the States to Grant save seven, viz: Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, making 74 electoral vote* for Greeley against 293 for Grant. The N. Y. World has it that E. B. Washburn is out for Senator in Illinois This is doubtless simply a scusational Democratic finger stuck into a Repub lican pie, just because it is easy for an India rubber conscience to say any thing. Dick Oglesby, if he lives, will succeed Trumbull in tho U. S. Senate. "I am said Mr. Greeley, "a decid ed enemy of the Democratic party, even in its most respectable aspccts." And the Democratic party has given the verdict, that "in its most respecta ble aspects," it is a decided enemy to Horace. ... Grant, as Gen. The Missouri Itepublican is exceed* ngly frank. It says Greeley would have succeeded if he had not been dragged down by the dead-weight of the Baltimore endorsement. It thinks tho Democracy ought to have gone for Greeley without nominating him, and that would have saved him the damage of a Democratic associa tion. The Boston Globe says of 8enator Sumner: With the overwhelming rebuke of his own State and of the nation at large resting upon him, he can do no less than retire from his post in the Senate, and give place to some one who will faithfully reflect the public sentiment of Massachusetts. Fairness and common decency require of Mr. Sumner to promptly resign." About a year ago the New York Tri bune, said: "An independent journal is nevitably a fraud." Horace Greeley has now resumed editorial charge of the Tribune, and announces his pur pose to make it an independent journal hereafter. Horace Greeley's follies, isms, idiosyncracies, and mistakes are as numerous and varied as a fashion able lady's head-gear, The Tribune of a year ago is authority for proving the Tribune of to-day a fraud. »«T seen by oar telegra phic dispatches, speaks his mind plain ly to the delegation from Pennsylva nia, in reference to his views upon Civil Service. The occasion for his remarks arose out of the appointment of a Postmaster for Philadelphia. The Troy Press Democratic, draws these lessous from the campaign: First, never say anything agaiust a political opponent, for you don't know how soon ho may be your candidate for President. Second, never denounce an entire party for the sins of a small fraction of it, for by doing so you may poil your tidal wave." NAST, closes out his political earica tnrcs for the Campaign in Harpers Weekly, this week, with Democracy and the Liberals, represented as having fallen over the precipice and found a safe lauAing, save H. Greeley and B. Gratz. Symbolical of B. Gratz's State having gone democratic, NAST, sus pends Greeley in a deplorable attitude, by reason of the old White Coat's ap pendage, (Grate Brown) being caught in the fissure of the Chasm as it closed up. ________ According to the late assessment returns of the State, made last spring, tho number of hogs was found to be 1.244,169. The number of hogs return ed by the assessment of the year before to-wif: 1871 was 1,008,671. This shows an increase in the number of hogs, of the State, this year over last, of 235,498. This is a very large increase and we think it safe to say that the quality of the hogs has not certainly deterioated from last year. The fact is, w6 think it quite noticablo that our farmers are uow improving from year to year, the quality of their hogs, so that we may well suppose that each year the hogs are getting better and better as fhc more of our farmers are yetting rid of their common stock and raising only the finer breeds. This process enhances tho quality of our pork audits yield per hog Irom year to year more than is indicated in the excess in numbers alone. According to the assessment of 1872. tho heaviest hog counties are Cliuton with 39.111 head Cedar 30,272 Dubu Hie 35,544 Jones 35,773 Linn 34,552 Washington 34,511 Johnson 33,(W2 Jalper 32,755 Mahaska 31,893 Keokuk 31,311 Marion 31,190 Jackson 30,010 Benton 28,53*2 Wapello 28,099 Scott 26,816 Jefferson 24,506 Page 23,544 Polk 23,318 Muscatine 22,610 Louisa 20,348. The above list shows that Wapello County, according to her geographical area, is as prolific of hogs as any other i portion of the State. Park Packers OnvHflloa. from KM Dully G*t« Ctty offlar- 1TO On Friday last., the Pork Paofcfcrs in this immediate vicinity, from -Iowa and Missouri, assembled here in con vention and organized by the election of Jas. D. Ladd, Esq., df Ottnmwa, President, and Oscar Klsir, 6f fhji city, Secretary. two session* of the convention were held, one in tho morning and the other in the afternoon. After a free «nd general discussion of all questions per tain ins to the purchase of hogs, their cut ana cure, the following business committee was appointed Col. Wm. Patterson aud Geo. B. Smyth of this city, P. Cunningham, of Alexandria, Missouri, and Benj. Ladd, of Bddyville, who reported to the con vention at their afternoon session, the following resolutions, which were un animously adopted by the Convention, when the"Convention adjourned: 1. That the Convention heartily con cur iu the action of the National Cou ventiou recently held in the city of Cincinnati, and wonld recommend the cat and cure adopted at. the Conven tl6n. 2. That we rec^lfllnaend the organi zation of Locfil'Packers' Associations At the different'ptokihg points in this vicinity, and the Cultivation of good feeling upon the part of packers, and their fiill consultation and co-opera tion with each other in all things per taining to the management of tMf business, the purchase of hogs, and the sale and shipment of thjpproduct. 3. That our experience is that disas ter has followed the packing of hogs for the past, three years by endeavor ing to cut more hogs than naturally center at our respective packing points to accomplish which, the country has been filled with buyers of hogs on commission, in many cases bidding against each other, and running hogs np to a price beyond a shipping point to the large packing points, the price at which hogs are there selling being the proper basis of value at all other points. And our experience teaches us it is no part of a packer's business to buy hogs at or for delivery at points other than packing houses. 4. That wc classify hogs in the same manner they are classified in Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, rejecting as unmerchantable all piggy sows, stags old brood sows, And crippled hogs, and that we do not regard piggy sows nnd stags as fit for human food. 5. That we recommend the point of packing in all cases to be the point for the receiving aud weighing of hogs, and in all cases where they are jiot re ceived off the care and weighed «r driven in, that they stand off feed and water twelve hours before weighing. 6. That the time to pay for nogs is when they have been received aud weighed, as above, aud that the prac tice of advancing money to parties to pay for hogs in the country is to be condemned as calculated to perpetuate the evils of the commission sygtem. The general conclusion seems to have been reached by packers, at all small points who have assembled in Convention, that both their interest aud the interest of the stock raiser, re quires the discontinuing of sending men into the country to buy hogs ou commission, and that they will only purchase hogs delivered, and weighed at their respective packing points, at which ifthits they expect to pay rela tive prices to those paid at St. Louis, Chicago and other large business cen ters. President Grant carries thirty Btates whose electoral vofe is as follows Alabama......... 10 New TTampahlre... ... Arkauftan ... Palifornt*. 6 Delaware. Iowa U OHIO Kansas 5 Total Tot*U Whole elector*! TOO.......... Grant'(majorlt 59??'" 5 GNewYor* .. 80 roTinccticat 6 Notcb Carolina...... ... 10 Nebraska ........... .. 8 3 New Jerm«y.......... .... tt Iiulituia.............. 10 Nevada Illinois. SI Oregon *h .... 9 8 ... 22 Pennsylvania.-^. .. SO Louisiana 8 Rhode IhlanJ...... .. 4 Maine 7 South Carolina Maasactixuetts... ..... W Vermont Mississippi ,Z 5 8 Ybirlula .. It Minnf"«'tft .... 5 WUcon^in .. Michigan ....... 11 West Virginia l'» .... Horace Greeley carries seven States whose votes are as follows: z:}f Florid*.— lllflssourl 15 (Joorgia lllMaryUDd. Kcnnii'ky 18'TeIM 'leaueacee IS v a ... Voaitlac Vomiting snakes was one of the mat ters discussed at the late meeting of the Vermont Medical Society, when H. D. Bradford, of Northfield. made a detailed statement of a case which he had thoroughly investigated, having procured the snakes that Vere said to liave been vomited, and presonted them before the society. The man had no knowledge ol having swallowed any such thing, nor was Ijie suspicious at any time that his stomach contained any such animals but he remembers that while at work he was in the habit of drinking from some pools in his pasture, which he made for that pur pose by scraping out with his bands, a depression in which the water might collect. His peculiar symptoms began on the8th of May last, were repeated in June and again on July 30, when he vomited two snakes six inches long. They were vomited in his own home and in the presence of his own family so there can be no mistake about the fact of their having been ejected from the man's stomach. The reptiles are a species of water suakes, which propo xate in just such localities as the man describes, and probably when the pa reut suake uttered licr warning cry of approaching danger to her yotiug, they mistook the open mouth of the drinking man for that of their mother, and found their grave in place of their placc of safety were ejected dead. The Boston Trateller, of a recent date, says: Massachusetts' part in-the graud work of Tuesday can be easily summed up. Hie gave a Kcimbliuiu popular majority of 74,000. .she elect ed a Legislature that, is Republican hi proportion of about ten to one and she constituted her Congressional dele gat ion entirely of Republicans. That wis euongh for one day. even here— we have lost the Banner, whieb psnses to Pennsylvania. As four or flvo darkies were passing an agricultural implement store down South one of them pointing to a culti vator, said A man can just sit on dat thing and ride whili* he is plow ing." "Gollv,'" replied the other, "de rascals was too shi't-p to think of dat 'foro de nigger was free." The Chinese on the Pacific slope are just now having their annual "devil driving." They keep up an Infernal religious uproar for eight days, and the evil one is then supposed to be ef fectually eliminated, and the vineyard of the soul safe from his incursions lor another twelve month. MCLEAN COUNTY, Illinois, the home Of Judge Davis, gave 2^500 majority tor Grant au increase ofoOO over 1868. VOLUME 34. OTTUMWA. WAPEIXO 00111^. XC»WA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21.1872. NUMBER 32. AH AMKMM««"ritteRIRITENSTATES OERRSJI.VT-.AI, COKMMMIOT. To tht People of the United Slates: The Congress of the United Sttrtea lifts enacted that ihe completion of* the One Htindrcdth Year of American In dtfp&tdeiiee shall be celebrated by an Int^rflgfitfhal^Exhibition of the arts, Manufactures and products of the soil and mine, to ho held at Philadelphia in 18TO and has appointed a Commis sion, consisting of representatives from each State and Territory to conduct the celebratfon. Origiftaf iitg tinder the auspices of the .National Legislature, controlled by ,a National Commission, and de signed as it is to "Commemorate the ^rst'echtury of dhr existence, by an ex hibition of "the natural resources of the country anil their development, and of our progress iu those arts which bene fit mankind, HI conipaaisou with thogp of older Sfaffbns* it is to the people at large that, the Comnfis'sion'ftek for the aid which ia necessary to make the P.euteiinial.. Delegation the grandest ever known. ifaA pie o i s e n tury oronr exiawnc|should bo marked by $ome impftW&tdwisngtratioti is, .we JwKeve, ffiflndlic- 'wish of the people of StefjraHe country. The Congress Tjuited States has wisew ^cftfear that the Birth-day of thie^ore'af Republic can be most fitting ly celebrated by the universal colloo tion ataA-display of All the trophies of Utt'pnegMss. It Is d**l#t*ttl to bring together, wit 14a ai^nftUMng covering fifty acres, not,only tip vat'tpd produc tions of our mines and the soil, but types of all the intellectual triumphs of oirr citizens, specimen* of'everything that America can furnish, whether from the brains or .hands of her chil dren, and thus moke evident to the world the advancement of which a self governed people is capable. In this "Celebratiou" all nations will be .invited to .participate, its char acter being International. Europe will dismay her arts and manufactures, India her curious fabrics, while newly Opened China and Japan will lay bare tho treasures which for centuries-their ingenious people have been perfecting. Each land will compete iu generous ri valry for the palm of superior excel lence. To this grand gathering every zone will contribute its fruits aud cereals.— No mineral shall be wantiug for what tho East lacks the West will sup ply. Under oue roof will the South display in rich luxuriance her grow ing cotton, and the North in mania ture, the ceaseless .machinery of her mills converting that cotton into cloth. Each section«f the globe will -end its best offerings to "thflf wclubilion, and each State of the Unitflpfcs a nifember of one united body politic, will show to her sister States and to the world how much «he can add to tho greatness of the natiou of which she is a harmo nious part. To make the Centennial Celebration such a success as the patriotism and the pride of every American demands, will require the co-operation of the people of the whole country. The United States Centennial Commission has received no Government aid. such as England extended to ber World's Fair, and France to her Universal Ex position, yet the labor and responsibil ity imposed upon the Commission is as great as iu eitherof those undertak ing. It is estimated that ten millions of dollars will be required, and this sum Congress lias provided shall be raised by stock subscription, anil that the people shall have tlie opportunity of subscribing in proportion to the population ot their respective States and Territories The Commission looks to the nnfail ing patriotism of the people of every section, to sec that each contributes its share to the expenses and receives its share of the buuetits of an enterprise in which all are so deeply interested, It Avould further earnestly urge the formation in each State and Territory of a centennial organization, which shall in time, see that Lhe county asso ciations are formed, so that when the nations are gathered together iu ISTti, each commonwealth can view wirh pride the contributions she has roi»» tributedto the national glory. Confidently relying on the patriot ism and zeal ever displayed by oirr people iu every national undertaking, we pledge and prophesy, that the cen tennial exhibition will woathilv show how wealth, greatness and intelligence can be fostered by such institutions as those which have for one hundred years blessed the people of the United States. JOSEPH It. HAWI.EV, President. LEWIS WALN SMITU, Tem'y See,y. ROBERT LOWKY and COKEB F. CLAUKSON, U. S. Centennial Commis sioners for Iowa. "Soy Anif n To Tlut, Bniher." In the south of New Jersey, sotne years ago, there traveled over some of the hardest counties, a good, faithful hard working brother named James Moor, as he was fumilhuiy called. A true loyal Methodist, plain, pointed, and sharp, iu all his preachiug aud ex hortations. He had been laboring a year on one of his circuits, and before leaving for his new field, he gave his people, who dearly loved him, his farewell scr men. v At its close he said: "My dear brethren this is ijay lest address to you. 1 am going from yotr and you may never hear tho voice of James Moor again."' "Amen,!" came loudly from the seat before him. He looked at the man with a little surprise, but thinking it was a mistake wont on. "My days" on earth will POOU be numbered. 1 am an old wan, aud you may not only never hear the voice of James Moor but never see his fkee ajiain." Amen,!" was shouted from the game place more vigorously thuu be fore. There was no mistaking the design now. The preacher looked at the man —ho knew him he a hard griudiug man, stingy ai.tl merciless to the poor. lie then continued his address: '•M y the Lord '''ess all of you who have done your duty, who honored llim with yonr u',lance, who have been kind to the poor and—" l'ausing and looking tho intruder straight in theev .andpoiuting to him with his tinger— rest, on those who ord, and ground the avis. Snv snien to "May his cur^e have cheated the poor under his to that brother." The shot told, ropted again. Information that the Work He was not Intar- •lies irom Minnesota •a the North Pacific Railroad has virt'iaily been abandoned that the contract r- have left, and that the laborers and earns have retntned from the end of i e track 111 Hose Lake, Dakota, thus leaving 300 miles of the road to tho Mls^uirs River unfinished. Tho Baptist church of Unrrodsburg, Ky., will toon eelebrato their centen nial abouflhe-nnts of the same tree that their first serviced wnc under. s*v NHAVIXG A MILLIONAIRE. Everybody who livo^ in New Jcrsoy recollects Billy Gibbon&u the million aire. He was an eccentric man, and numerous stories are told of his freaks. Here Is one of them v It seems that Billy, while in a cdn'n try village, in which he owned some property, stepped into a barber shop to get shaved. The shop was full of oustomers, and the old gentleman qui etly waited for his turn. A customer who was under tho bar ber's hands when the old gentleman came in asked the "knight of the razor," in an undertone, if he knew who that was, and, on receiving N negative i*e ply, ha informed him in a whisper, it was "Old Billy Gibbons, tho richest man in the State." "Gad," AAld the barber, "Pll charge him for his shsve." -.i. Accordingly, after the old-man hnri the operation performed, he w.*va some what surprised upon asking the price, to be told, "seventy-five cents." Said he, quietly, "isn't that rather a high, i e "It's mv price." SAU he Ckf the lather brush, independently, "and as this is the only barber's shop in tho place, them as come into it must paV what The proposition somewhat startled the unfbrtanatc hair dresser, who final ly found words to staininer out that twelve or fifteen dollars a month would be enough. "Pshaw!'' said the old man "that wou't do. Now listen to me—I'll give you that store, rent free, one year, and engage your services six mouths all ou these conditions: You are to shave and cut hair for everybody that ap plies to you, and take no "pay, just chargc it to mo, and for your services I'll pay you twenty dollars a mouth, payable in ndvanee—pay to commence now," continued he, placing two ten dollar notes ou the table before the as tonished barber, who, it is almost un necessary to state, accepted the propo sition, aud who was still more sur prised to learn that it was Billv Gib bons himself that had hired him.* In a few davs theInhabitants of that village were astonished by the appear ance of a splendid new barber shop, far surpassing the other iu elegance of appointments, and iu which, with now mugs, soaps, razors nnd perftimcs, stood a barber and assistant rendv to do duty on the heads and beards oi'the people. Over the door was inscribed "William llarriugtou, Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon." The people were not long in ascer taining or slow in availing themselves of the privileges of this establishment, and it is not to be wondered that it was crowded and the other deserted. The other held out some weeks, suspcctin" this free shaving—for Bill kept his se" eret well—was but a dodge to entice customers away, who would soon be chavgcd as usual, but when, at the eud of six weeks he found Billv working away as usual, charging not a cent for his l.-.bor, an^ having monev to spend iu tho bargain, he came to the conclu sion that he must have drawn a prize in the lottery, or stumbled upon a gold mine, and was keeping a barber shop for fuu, so he closed the shop in de spair aud left the place. Meanwhile, "Billy Harrington" kept on busy as a bee, and oue fine morning his employer stepped iu. and, without a word, sat down and was shaved on rising Irom his seat he asked to see the score for six months past. The barber exhi'iitud il, anil alter a careful calcu lation, the old man said: "Plenty of customers, eh "Lots of VM," said the barber '"never did such a business iu my life." "Well,"' replied Money Bags, "vou have kepi the account well. I see I've paid you one hundred and twenty dol lars for your services—all right—and there aro three hundred aud thirty charged for shaving all that applied now, this furniture cost mo one huu dred and cijlit dollars, balance due vou one hundred and twodoilars. Here it is. Now you own this furniture, and aro to have the shop rent free for six months longer, and alter to-day vou are to chaige Ihe regular price for work, for vour pay from me stops to-day." This of course, the barber gladlv as sented to. "But,"#aid the old man, on leaving, "take care you never cheat a man In charging ten times the tuual price for a shave tor it may be another 'old Billy Gibbous.'" .it V*' j£". I ask." To the old ipan this WAS evidently a knock-down argument, for'he drew three-qnarters of a dollar from his pocket, paid them over to the barber, and left the shop. A short time after this he was in close conVersamSf with the landlord of a tavern bard by, and the topic of the conversation was '-barber shops." "Why is it," said he, "there's only onf barber shop in town There seems to be nearly enough work for two." "Well, there used to be two," said the landlord, "till last winter, when this new mnu came up from the city and opened a new shop, and, as every thing in it was fresh and new, folks sort of deserted Bill Harrington's shop, which had been going on for nigli fourteen years." "But didn't this Bill do good work i Didn't he shave well, and—cheap "Well, as for that," said the landlord. "Bill did his work well enough, but his shop wasn't on the main street like the new one, and didn't have so many pictures and handsome curtains, and ail of the folks got in the way of think ing the new chap was more scientific and brought more city fashion with him, thongh, to tell the truth," said the landlord, stroking a chin sown with a heard resembling screen wire, "I never want a lighter touch nor a keener razor than Bill Harrington's."' "City fashions—eh?" growled the old man. "So the new man's city fMhious the other's shop "WeiV, not exactly^" said the land lord, "though things%vcr did seem to go well with Bill after tho new shop opened first, oue of his little children died of fever then his wife was sick a long time, and Bill had a big bill to pay at the doctoi's: then as a lost mis fortune, his shop was burned dowu one night, tools, brushes, furuitnre and all. and no insurance." "Well," said the old man, pcttjshly, "why don't he start nuain "Start again!" said the communica tive landlord "Why bless your soul, he hasn't got anything to start with." "H—in—! Where does this man live asked the old man. lie was directed, and ere long was in conversation with the unfortunate tonsor, who corroborated the landlord's story. i '•Why don't yon take a new shop?" said the old man: "there's a new one in the block right opposite -the other barber's shop. "What," said the other, "you must be crazy. Why, that block belongs to old Billy Gibbons he'd never let one of those stores for a barber shop they are a mighty sight too good besides that I haven't got twenty dollars in the world to fit it up with."' "You don't know old Billy Gibbons as well as I do," said tho other. "Now listen. If you can have that shop all fitted up rent tree, what will you work in it for by the mouth? what is the least you can live on Courier. Iowa Condensed. BooOs county has a, Mormon settle ment.' r"' Cedar Rapid* is overrun with In dians. The postofflce at Casey has been dis continued. has a public libranr of lo,- Keokuk 000 volumes, Seventy students attend the Keokuk Medical school. .jlCeokuk bos reduced the price of Gas to $3,50 per 1000 l'cet. Elijtabeth has been established as a postofflce in Grundy County. A Burlington bookseller advertises a "snperior quality of Bibles." Tho Tama County Liberal, has gone up.the spoilt along with Greeley. O'Conor carries two counties in ^jj^aover Greeley—Sac and Greene. John Bloom dropped dead in a field near Cedar Falls a few days since. The State Grange of Patrons of Hus bandry meets iu lies Moines next Jan uary. Buenn Vista County Voted not to remove her'Wunty seat to Sioux Rap ids. John A. King, of Hamburg, has in vented and patented a washing ma chine. A railroad contractor lost his pocket book in a Dubuque saloon last Mon day. He paid *200 for that drunk. After a trial lasting four days a les Moines jury has convicted Joseph Hierb for selling liquor contrary to law. A State convention of the Young Men's Christian Association will l»e held fit Davenport on tlie 19th and 20th insts. Two young meu near Belle Plaine lost each an arm In a threshing ma chine, lately. Oue died in a few hours. W. Pelan, of Dubuque, is to wheel 5U0 shingles on a barrow a distance of half a inilc. He bet ou Greeley you kuow. One Meisher, of Burlington, has been abound over," for assaulting his wife—niv favorite amusement when drunk. Three townships in Frauklin county, did not give a single Grceloy vote, and Reeve township gave Graut 124 and Greeley 2. tr Three young Burliugton bMop ped anothor lad tlie other night and "went throngh"' his pockets in true highwayman style. Bangor Township, in Marshall coun ty, gave 250 votes for Grant, and none ftor Greeley or O'Conor. The Town ship is mostly settled by Quakers. Miss Harriet Webster, of indianola, is announced for a lecture at Leon, and Miss EfRe Webster is posted for a lecture at Oskaloosa against woman suffrage. E. S. Sleight, grain buyer at Man chester, has failed aud gone into bank ruptcy. He owes $48,000, with 117.600 assets'. His creditors are farmers, aud number 150. At Clinton, Saturday evening, a lad named Pillsbury was being drawn up by the rope on a flag pole when the rope broke aud he fell a distance of thirty feet breaking both his arms. Mrs. Egan, of Dubuque, seveuty years of age, has been fined $5 and costs tor "shying-" a stone at a neigh bor, thereby inflicting an ugly wound on the latter's head. A family feud was the cause. Kossuth county has a large number of homesteaders who live in sod houses, and burn the rauk river bottom grass for fuel. Tlicy twist it, when dry, into ropes, and thus prepared it gives out an intense heat and has lasting quali ties. John Berger, a baggageman at the Davenport, Depot, while assisting in making up a train, caught liis foot in a frog just as a locomotive was ap proaching. A conductor saw his per il, but was unable to extricate his'foot. The leg was mashed so severely that death soon ensued. The Humboldt Connty Independent, sports a rooster because Greeley has a majority in one of the town/hips in that county. And it was only r. major ity, at that. But the editor thinks it was the only township iu the United States which gave a Greeley majority, and so he rejoices. Next week, in payment of au elec tion bet, Rev. L. i). Trac\, of Cedar Falls, is to trundle a wheeiharrow sev en miles to Waterloo, and in the vehi cle is to ride Judge Converse, Seuator from Butler county. The reverend gentleman will take two dnys to do the job, camping out over night iu a tent, and will le accompanied by a crowd of sympathizers and a brass band. Some Ics Moines girls sought to play a joke on a bashful young man by putting in his bed the representation of a ladv. and scattering around the room a profusion of skirls, false hair etc. He came home, saw how maUei stood, hid all the things under the barn, and when the girls had to stay at home from church next day tor want of -undry toilet articles ho "smole u ghastlf smile" and wondered who caiue out ahead. At the recent term of the U. S. Cir cuit Court in De* Moines, tho Grand Jury found a bill of indictment ngainst C. Augustus llaviland, editor of the Soldier's Friend, published at Chicago, for charging pensioners for whom was acting as claim agent, extortion ate fees, and for reiniiiing their monies in his hand«. He was arrested bv tho I'. S. Marshall of Illinois on Monday, and last night Deputy lr. Marshal Bowers left J)es Moines J\r Davenport where tho prisoner will be delivered to him this morning, when he will bring him to this city. Those who are posted on the .subject say there aro two sides to it, and that Mr. llaviland has been falsely accused and wrongly in dicted. The public should be fair enough to suspend judgment till lie real facts are developed.— h'et//*ter. There lives at Pella, in this 8tatt\ a miuister who does not eeem to think that the members oi'the le- i! profes sion stand in danger of beiier Iran (da ted in a bodv. In immersing se^rcrol converts to his way of thinkinr., tha othi i da\, as wc see by the liejl)li of Newton, he baptized, am ong fhti rest, a talented young memb 0 Marion county bar—'Tlior tha j: iS Ryan. Estp.—and as he i-alsed tlie broiher from the water, exclaim. -i[t,re is a Christian lawyer." It 5/evident ho thought he was diseo'Vf,. ,,., o the on looking audience „onK.thing which they never before flad it would J»e intcrcdtwg fcnow what class of law) ers the eVlU1jud gentlomau has JRe/fist#6 jabit of associating with- i- r- News and Other Items. Distress ia an excellent school-mis tress. Gen. Mcftd was born In 1816, In Cad iz, Spain—ou a visit. The Brazilians consume American fine cut (|uite freely. Faribault, Minn., fans jttot »t*rt«d a friction match factory. The American oysters are pronouue ed the best in the world. The New York papers ore full of advertisements of oxen for sale. The rate of the earth around the "still is a thousand miles each minute. Water reddens the rose wliiskev. the nose and tight boots, the toes. Half the people of England are suf fering with catarrh, or horse distemper. A National goose pickers' conven tion is to be held iu Chicago next year. A Texas desperado, not yet of age, has killed twenty-eight men in five years. A San Francisco hen with fbnr legs draws the public attention there at present. Froude the great English historian, says the Irish are the oldest nation in Europe. Oregon will commence a State Cap itol at Salem, with one hundred thou sand dollars. Anua Dickinson threatens New York wit 11 new lecture entitled Things Hoped For." Drinking a gill of cream a day is what gave a Bondont lady eight pounds of flesh. It is doubtful whether Sumner H11 take his seat In the United States Sen ate at this session. The last conundrum is—Where's Brown? For answer, applv to the Little Brotfti .Tug."' Theodore 1 ilton is buying up and suppressing all the copies of his bio graphy of Mrs. Woodhull which he can find. Gen. Banks is likely to add as much to his fame by his expedition up Salt liiver, as by thatupHed River.-lioston Globe. The latest thing in the explosive lino comes from Iowa, where a grain bin has been and gone and burst, killing three men. The hens of Kail River, Muss., are suffering from the horse disease, hav ing contracted it by feeding on the immure piles. The 1'aUeimni (\.,J.) Guar,Hun say s: 111 no place In VBto stateiadraufc eness so common as among women ill Patterson." A11 exchange, alluding to the pecu liar chauges wrought by the horse dis ease, says:—"The milkmen now de pend eutirclv upon oxen.'' Ilero js the last atrocity of the New York Worh!: "Our uuregencrate ob serves that city milk is more like vege table than animal food, because it's some pump-kin." If,"' says Bee'her: "you are walk ing down the street,and a chambermaid empties a slop-pail on your head, what can you do about it but wash vourself and move 011 Success in life is very apt to make 11s foryet the time when we weren't much. Jt is just so with a frog on a jump he can't remember when he was a tadpole, but other folks cau. A young gentleman writes to his wife in Troy: Dear Wife:—Dolly has got it—I mean the hippezoo. I am slowly hauling tho btiggv in. Home to-morrow. CIIABI.IK. Wlmt is your consolation between life and,death asked a Sunday-school teacher of a young lady iu the-Bible class, who blushed and said: I'd rather be cxcused from speaking his name."' A little boy in Michigan was silting on a stump playing with an opened knife, lie lost his balance and in the convulsive effort to recover his equilli brium, cut his own throat with the knife. A Greeley exchange wants. "Uod to interpose to save our bankrupt nation from ruin, by a drunken administra tion.'' Saving a baukrupt nation from ruin would be about as profitable as running for office on a Democratic ticket. Mr. Post, the American Consul at Vienna, has received under his protec tion thirty-five Jewish females who fled from persecution in Wallachia.— subscription has been opened at the Consulate to enable the exiles to emi grate to this country. Providence, R. I., recently had one ot its cattle hunts. First, the steer chased the inhabitants all around the state, and afterward, mustering conr age, they turned and chased the steer, and followed up the business by oatiug him the next day. Il is not best to be particular about your hash in Tennessee. A man named Waggoner-was shot and kille at Fulton. Teiin., recently, by John llell, a boardinir house keeper, white eatiuif breakfast, for making remarks in regard to the fare. A Si. Louis .switchman discovered a drunken man 1\ iug on the track, and ran to save him from a 11 approaching traiu. lie tossed hint from the rail, but lost hi* own balance and WHS kill ed. The driinkcii parly is now all right and ready to get drunk agufh. A prisoner in jnil in s.-o ianieuto, Cal.. i8 hanged himself to the ceiling of his cell several times lately but the jailor has always found him and cut him down. It is the current '.elief there that he does not mean suicide but performs these little tricks to amuse himself and scare the jailor. A shocking murder has recently been committed uear Xenia. Ohio. The de tection of the murderer, by circum stantial evidence showed a very com plete and convincing array of connected facts. The victim was shot from be hind a wall. He survived long enough to say he saw a man in gray flannel •clothes, and that he thought it was one 'William Uitchison. 1'it'hison was I found and arrested. He hud 011 the same clothes as (hose described by Fowell, and was apparently much dis concerted by his capture. His boots were taken from his feet and found to lit the impressions left on the ploughed field, throngh which he had passed to reach home, aud these marks were traced to within a short distauce of his house. I11 a haversack, which he was in the habit of carrying, was found a spelling book, with a portion of its contents gone. On examining the waddiug picked up 011 the ground, it was found to be identical with the missing part of the book. A box of naps was found near the sccne, and the oana ou tho nipples of Kitchison'* gun w«r« found to comtpond. 'Onrttb Published eveutug, (SuBdayt siosptx —TERMS— To malt subscriber)*, peryear #7 0» S month* 4 OS 8 mouth* 2 61) 1 month Ol) Delivered by carrier, p»r week an The Courier Job Department complete with new TVPKS AND FRESHES PRINTING OK ALL KINDS. From a ViMtlna Card ton Mammoth PMI executed In (lomt Style, Eastern prleea work duplicated. The AdvniitnicvH IIIMI nMnatan* Nlielii-r HrllK to Onksrd*. B,T w. U Ft.AGO. i o e e brings the eon. ditions of a forest, we have pretty con clusive evidence in the French exper iments of M. Mathion, translated into the last (1870) volume of the Illinoli. State Horticultural Society, that theft 1st, increase rainfall: 2d, prevent th£ rapid evaporation of moisture an* 3d, make the temperature more unl* form. These, at least, arc the imme diate and local effects, although it Is claimed by opponents that the local benefit Is had ai the expense of sou* adjoining region, as the rainfall auK. mean temperature arc constant quail* tities. We have the evidence of Mr. Tice, erf St. Louis, that a dense hedge of Scotch pine along the west side of the frutico tnin of the botanical garden of llenry Shaw, showed a difference of tempera ture of five degrees between the west and east sides, close to the hedge, di minishing to one degree at sixty feet from tlie east side of the hedge, Thii shows that the immediate influence of an evergreen hedge 011 temperature ia very considerable Samuel Edwards, of IA Moile, Bu reau county, noted as a planter of evol* greens, states that pear trees anion his evergreens are more productive, and that Ihe fruit is les- shaken off by high winds. O. It. Galnsha, Sc. rotary of the I1IU nois State Horticultural Society, stated iu a lecture at the Industrial Universi ty iu ls(i!t, that in 18*!-, at the timo when spring wheat and oats in tht northern part of the State were just past bloom, a severe and extended storm prostrated nearly all the graift not sheltered by timber or shelter belts, and diminishing its value nearly oue-half. In one locality a single Una of broad and tall willows, closely planted, proved a sufficient check to the wind, so that a tield of wheat ad joining it upon the east stood erect and was harvested with a machine, while in exposed situations Ihe shruukca grain, it' saved at all, was often gath ered np by the slow and tedious pro cess of booking it np wilh scythes. Mr. tialusha, in his ad interim re port for 1&7G, qualities his views of protection to orchards by fhe Mr. Galuslia continues that "it is of ten remarked that in orchards whicli are exposed ou the west sides, the same varieties in the middle of Ihe orchard produce more fruit than in the we row nlso, that the north easter halves of trees iu the west row usually produce more fruit than the south western halve, owing to the greater prevalence ot southwesterly winds." Observations in Wisconsin, bv J. C. Plumb, lead him Jo recommend "pro tection trom the south-west wind for the preservation of the fruit from e.o cCMvire winds." He implies that he would have protection for no other reason, and I have seen somewhere a statement by a Wisconsin horticultur ist that some of the best results in frait* grow iug iu that fetate were from apple trees fully exposed to the north-went and its winds. The president of tlie Nebraska State Horticultural Society, at its last meet ing. recoinmendicd shelter belts on all sides of an orchard, aud at least one member echoed the opinion. It would probably be found that all, or uearly all the states wet ofthe Upper Missis sippi would concur, made up as they are. in large part, of wiudv plains. The weight ofthis te-iiinony is in favor of protection for orchard** and may bo summed up as follows The advantages of shelter belts aro, 1st, That they mitigate the extremea of heat and cold, both of which ar« brought mainly by western wiiids. Jd. That they check the rapid cvap* oraliou ot moisture, and probably ilk crease the local rain/all. Md, That they protect trees from thi mechanical elfects of wiuds that woul4 otherwise bend them over and shake o Ihe fruit. The sum of these advantages is a large amount. It is probable that the deterioration ot trees and fruits that many claim to take place axthccouutiy grows older, N the result, not of til* a decrease of rainfall or mean temper#* ture, but of the of heat an4, aridity ot cold and drought that com® train a more naked surface, and any thing that will in uny degree rcstofv the equilibrium n.u*t he of value. v )n the other hand, the disadvantage# of shelter belts are 1st, They rob ihe nearer orvba frees of their sustenance aud previ their proper development. 2d, They prevent, to a certain o*«. tent, proper ventilation of the orchard* rcsuliiug in an increase of fungoid tlie* ease and a healthy development of fruit. Even movement on the steii^ our grape-growers de-lare, is neccs-h» l-y for the production of the fiucet grapes. Many of our Southern Illi nois grape-grower- also thiuk it esseVr tial to provide for proper ventiiatiqa iu their vineyards by widening the space* between the north and souUi rows and having no protection 011 tho north to prevent the free passage ofthe southern winds. The same is no doubt true lo a certaUt extent of the orchard fruits. 'I he iii--t of these disadvantages call be easily guarded against by leaviM wide spaces between orchard belts ana the nearer trees. The second is more ditlicult. It amounts to this tliat checking the free passage of air dK« at once good and harm, aud we must, to the best of our ability, endeavor to get the good without the mischief. To do this we would suggest the follow ing points: 1st, Plant shelter belts in this stile 011 the west sides ot yonr orchards on ly. They will" thus tend to break the force of the west and northwest winds. If the orchard or field is large it may bc well, tit Mr. lid wards, of Lamoille, suggests, to plant oue or more north ami south belts through the orchard, as has been done in the Industrial Uni versity experimental orchards. 2d, If the orchard i» much exposed ou the uorth it may answer to protect it with dumps of trees that will uot entirely check circulation of air. 3d, If there be hollows to the uorthward thene should be inch planted with acluinpto prevent the ascent ofthe cold air that would at times be driven up them like the )ceau waters iutoabav. 4th. Leave the south aud east sides open—the lat ter to be protected by your next neigh bor's plantation, if at all. and the for mer because you wish to admit all south wiuds aud perhaps some portion, of those from the southwest.—Vhitmn Gaie/lc. ..*• In Georgia, the Democratic major it y ol Oaobei is reduced 40,001). Clev. ton, Whitely, aud Slayon probafciy electsd to Congress. t. I: I i following statement "The ofi.-repeated view of members of this society tlctt suitable protection to orchards by belts and groves of tim ber is advantageous, seems to be re-af lilined from year to year. I have, however, seen a few instances in which an excess of protection seems to have been "iven. diinini-hing the produc tiveness of tlie orchards. These or orchards were closed in ou all sides but Ihe south by belts of trees, so dense and so close to the outer row as to pre vent circulation of air through them." $ fer tv