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THE MINERS' EXPRESS.
If. ITOLT, EDITOn.
If. IfOLT fc At KEESL'CKER,
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Wc6l«ESDAr:: WAY 1C, 1849.
OTT TT AIT-STIIRET"" :KNTRANCK SECOND
DOOR AHOVE THK BANK.
G&OtUOUS KEWS FROM VIRGINIA.
DSXOCRATIC GAIR or FIVE MEMBERS OF
COHCRWS !)—SECOND CELBBKATIOX OF
-i.tlll tAtum VlCTORT
few weeks 6tacc, wo had tha gratifica
tion of announcing a Democratic gain of
three Congressmen in the State of Connec
ticut, a* the result ol the election recently
hcH in that State. That was the 6rst gun
titer the Taylor Triumph! and the first ex
pressive of sentiment by the people upon the
treachery of the Taylor Campaign.
We took occasion, at that time to allude
prospectively to the Virginia Election, and
also to the probable condition of the House
of Representatives in the next Congress. A
certain anomylous sheet, not far from herOj
editor from behind the curtain, sneered at
oar allusion and intimated that Virginia
WM not much any hotel We suppose, that
by this time, those Editor, has come to the
•conclusion* Virginia is tome!
^VIRGINIA IS HERSELF AGAIN!
AfcD WHIGGERY IS SHORN OF POW
IN THE NEXT CONGRESS!!
Wo have not received the full returns
from the whole State, but enough has been
Men to render the result as we state it—
FOURTEEN DEMOCRATS to one whig!!
Botts is headed by 300—Goggin is beaten,
Fkmrooy is beaten, Anderson is beaten and
even Jack Pendleton, I he Pro7iso Whig, is
beaten by his Whig competitor, Morten.
*XThe lone ttar hat become the latt Pleiad/"
-r MILHON, MEADE, AVERETT, BOCOCK,
FLTAWELI.,
SEDDEN, BAYLEY, HOLMDAY, PAR­
SER, MCDOWELL, EDMUNSON, MCMULLEN,
DEALS, & NEWMAN—ALL DEMOCRATS
are elected—and so in J. JUorlon, w-h-i-g!!!
ALL IIAIL VIRGINIA!!!
We leave it to the Telegraph aiid Tri
bune to figure up the strength of the Wbig
majority in the next House Representatives!
They are good at figures, and particularly
expert in minut quant
ilia. Go it, ye speck
led coons.
LATEST NEWS.
Our latest St. Louis dates are to the lltb
instant.
Tns CHOLERA is becoming much more
'latal in that city, and much excitement now
pervades the public mind upon that subject.
Deaths by this disease are averaging as
high as ten or twelve per day. The disease
is making progress up the river, and cases
occur on almost every boat. The Disease
.is raging to some extent in Galena but so
far wc have none in Dubuque.
Marshall Hewitt is cleaning up for it.
..and we hope our citizens will assist.
VVe would suggest the propriety of using
:l»me
freely. There is no doubt of its effica
cy. What say the city authorities to an
appropriation for several loads of lime for
distribution?
CONNECTICUT.—The Legislature of this
Qtate met on the 2d inst. Democratic
Speaker and Clerks have been chosen in the
House, but the whig strength in the Senate
was just sufficient to elect the whig candi
date, Trumbull, a3 Governor of t!.e State.
Other State officers will, of course, be whig.
'CALIFORNIA.—News from San Francisco
te the 6th of March, has been received.—
Trado was dull weather cold and but lit
tle gold coming in from the mines.
tThe steamer California was deserted by
•fa^r officers and crew, all but the Captain,
and .there was no prospect of her getting off.
ST. LOUIS MARKET.
MAT 11th—Wheat 63, 67. 75, and 80c.
'per bushel, according to quality. Flour,
price not quoted. Lead—None in market
—-Will command $4 readily.
EDUCATIONAL.
We are glad to perceive, that the subject
of Education is attracting so much of the
public attention in our city. On Mupday of
last week, the Dubuque School District was
permanently organized, by the election of
the following officers for the present year,
to wit: Timothy Mason, President—J. J. E.
Norman, Secretary and Warner Lewis,
Treasurer.
This is an efficient board, and our citi
kefis may rest assured that their interests
prompt business man, and will spare no
pains in the discharge of his duties.
The Teachers' Institute for the mining
region was also.in session in this city dur
ing the week. The exercises consisted }f
^•ectures and Essays at the evening session
discussions during the day.
,Tho interest awakened among our c:(i
20ns upon the subject of the education of t^e
young, is truly grstifying to every friend of
this noble cause.
The subject of the establishment of pub
lie
schools in this city, and of the erection
of a,public building for school rooms is being
Imitated. Nothing ij more needed in this
city than a comfortable and commodious
building for tbat purpose.
1*H* KEOKUK DISPATCH.—John B. Rus
«*1, Esq., has disposed of his interest in the
Dispatch to his partner, R. L. Doyle. Rus
^oll ii employed as Editor.
Q^rDavenpart, in this State, contains
1
Inhabitants, according to the report of
the Oonnty Assessor.
U*We have been requested to call atten
t0 the notice of the Baptist State Con
mentioned in anothor column.
D6*!rHAN.—The rumor that this
bad been appointed Commission
In Affairs appears to have been in
appointment has as yet been
the Whigs of Missouri seem to
«v Miller to Col. Doniphan.
The Cambria brought $247,000
fjMiH* to Hoeton.
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THE CONVENTJ'^-
The call upon tho Demo«*acy °ftbe State
to meet in Convention a*''1® Capital, has
been mado bv the StatP^cn'ra' Committee,
and it is important thl
cach
have her full r^prcp0***'011'
County should
n
^at Conven­
tion,
We presume the different counties will
be prompt the selection of their Delegates,
and w*i be careful to send such persons as
will reflect th« will of their constituents in
their action as members of that body.'
The offices to be filled at the August elec
tion, and for which candidates are to be se
lected by this Convention, though few in
number, are important in their character.
In the proper discharge of*the dutieb devolv
ing upon the Board of Public Workp, is in
volved much that is of paramount import
ance to the interests of our State. Those
duties should be imposed upon none but
prompt, efficient, intelligent business men
those who have proved themselves thorough
ly capable of discharging them with honor
to themselves, and with credit to the State.
Upon the Convention of the 28th of June,
will devolve the duty of selecting such men
as candidates to fill those offices.
A report was in circulation some time
since, that Judgo Corkery, the present Se
cretary of the Board, would not be a candi
date for re-election. We have never heard
anything of the kind, directly from Judge
Corkery, and have never supposed there
was any foundation for such a report.
The following, from a late numbgrof the
Keosauqua Democrat, which we presume
speaks advisedly upor. that subject, will put
the matter in its true light:
"in connection with this subject, we will
remark, that a report has been put in circu
lation that Mr. Corkery and Bratain will
not be candidates before the Convention for
renomination to the offices which they now
bold—this, strictly speaking, may be true
the Board of Public Works are Democrats,
therefore they stand where every democrat
should stand, neither to seek from their par
ty an office, nor decline one when offered—
this we hold to be democratic doctrine, and
are only sorry to see it regarded so little by
aspirants to office.
The present Board of Public Works have
been elected by the people, they have serv
ed in their respective offices long enough
for the people to judge of their ability to
serve them, if the people are satisfied, they
will continue them in office. If not, they
will elect other men to fill their places.—
The people have a right to do all this—not
only a right, but it is their duty, and with
the people, (not a few designing men,) the
Board of Public Works, as we understand it,
are willing to leave the matter. If they are
nominated, they will accept the nomination
if not, they will be the last men to complain
of the Convention."
RESIGNATION.—We learn from the State
Gazette, that Dr. Bailey, the late U. S.
Marshall for this State, has resigned his of
fice. We are sorry to hear this, as the Doc
tor's was a case that would have fairly tried
the fidelity with which the administration
stick to their promises. We like much bet
ter the stand taken by Mr. Hager, Postmas
ter at Burlington. On receiving a polite
letter from Fitz Warren, suggesting that
he had better resign, to save a removal, he
replies in the following language:
"In November last. I voted for the Dem
ocratic candidates, Cass and Butler, and
supported them during the campaign, and
weuld do so again if the opportunity afford
ed and if for this I am to be proscribed and
removed from office, despite the pledges of
Gen. Taylor, and the declarations of the
party which supported him, no man will
submit more cheerfully than myself. My
office is at the mercy of the new adminis
tration whenever they see fit to appoint my
successor."
This is the language which should be a
dopted by every Democratic office-holder.—
The principle virtue of the Administration
of General Taylor was to have been his op
position to proscription for opinion's sake,
and if Democratic office holders shall volun
tarily give up their officcs, there will be left
no opportunity for the exemplification of this
darling virtue.
JUVENILE, VERY.—The Tribune whines,
in a most ridiculous tone, because we have
thought proper to inform our readers of the
dishonesty of Fitz Henry Wnrren. He says,
he knows a good many Loco Focos as dis
honest as Warren is, but 6t ill he doesn't say
anything about them, nor does he intend to,
as he should only make them more popu
lar."
Sensible to the last.
will be promptly attendod to. Mr. Norman, letter from Independence, Mo., to
the Secretary, upon whom most of the la-J
l'ie
bor of tbe board devolves, is a correct and tionsthat J. V. Berry and family, William
Bessinger and Gerrick, of Dubuque,
Iowa, were in camp, ready to start.
,.N
Republican, dated the 2ht ult., mcn-
The same letter states that Ohio is more
largely represented than any other State, in
the numbers about to undertake the overland
route. Wo shall expect to hear from the
same writer, through'the Republican, in a
short time, from Grand Island, 280 miles
west of Independence, at which point the
caravan from Council Bluffs will join the
"%tber.
CHOLERA ON THE MISSOURI.—There were
21 deaths on the steamer Mary, from the
time she left St. Louis, till she arrived at
Glassgow. They were Mormon emigrants,
who had just arrived from New Orleans in
the worst possible state of health.
There were 15 deaths from Cholera on
the Iowa, from New Orleans, on tbe 6th.
T-
THE LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER.—It
seems to be conceded by the Wbig prints,
that the Commissioner of the General
Land Office is to be taken from tho State of
Illinois, whenever the head of the present
incumbent shall fall by the axe of proscrip
tion. Cyrus Edwards, Esq., of Madison
co., Justin Butterfield, of Chicago, and Hon.
A. Lincoln, ex-Member of Congrers, are
all pushing their claims!'—In this general
squabhle, Illinois may fare in tbe same way
she did in obtaining the Chief Justiceship
of Minesota.
Ds. FOOTS, Editor of the Buffalo Com
mercial, has been appointed Charge d'Af
faires to New Granada, in place of Beoj. F.
Bidlack, deceased.
CHANGE.—The ''Express" will hereafter
be issued on Wednesday, instead of Tues
day. We make this change in order to fa
cilitate the distribution of our papers by
the mails, and upon the principle, that we
should endeavor to do "the greatest good to
the greatest number."
{£rThe Death at the Washington House
last week, reported to be Cholera, was not
so regarded by the physicians who attended
the patient. It was a caso of Cholera Mor
bus, combined with "Gastro-Enterites."
The man had been much exposed to the
damp and chilly atmosphere which prevail
ed at that time, having come as deck pas
sanger on the boat and on the afternoon of
Sunday, although he had then been sick
two or three days, rode through the rain to
Table Mound and back. He of course, was
much worse on Sunday night, and died, we
believe, on Tuesday morning.
He has left a wife and family of children.
His name, as we understand, was Austin
Wilcox. He was lately from Broome co.,
N. York.
IMMIGRATION TO IOWA.
We were apprehensive that the tide of
emigration setting towards the golden re
gions of California, would have the effect to
deprive Iowa of the usual spring accessions
to her population. We are glad to perceive,
however, that such is not the ca6e. The
fertility of her soil, and the salubrity ofher
climate, are too well known to be neglected.
Thousands are leaving the sickly climate of
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri,
or the worn-out soil ofthe eastern and south
ern States, to seek a home of comfort, health
and happiness upon the beautiful prairies of
Iowa.
A very considerable addition will be made
,o the population of Clayton county the pre
sent spring. The same may be said of the
North of Iowa generally and we learn that
a large number are locating in the Valley of
the Des Moines River.
0^-We are under obligations to Michael
O'Sullivan, Esq., of this city, for copies of
the New York Nation and Boston Pilot.
Mr. O'Sullivan is the agert for those pa
pers in this city as well as for the Catholic
Herald, Albany Evening Journal, Troy
Budget, Freeman's Journal, Vindicator,
and Toronto Mirror.
INTOLERANCE.—The Legislature ofthe
State of Massachusetts, by a vote of 84 to
117, have refused to grant a charter to a
Catholic College at Worcester, in that
State. We can but regard this as an act of
intolerance, wholly at war with the spirit
of religious freedom which is a boasted char
acteristic of our institut ions. It is lament
able to recount the anti-ATnerican acts of
this same Whig legislature, within the last
few years.
WESTERN CONVENTION.—The St. Louis
Reveille is agitating the subject of a West
tern Convention, to assemble in that city,
some time during the present summer, to
consider the great objects of Western im
provement, among which are innumerated
the Harbors and Rivers—The Pacific Rail
Road—The Electric Telegraph, &c.
O^-The Bostonians have sent a large
frame School House as a present to the peo
ple ofSan Francisco California-
CHOLERA.—A family of emigrants lately
landed at Davenport, sick with Cholera
four ofthe number died, including both pa
rents. Five orphan children were left to
the charities of the citizens.
(^^-KELSEY, of the "Iowa Freeman,"
lately got married, and while making the
bridal tour on a St. Louis boat, was robbed
of $200! Russel thinks it a matter of sur
prise, or perhaps suspicion, that an Editor
should have two hundred dollars.
MAIL AGENT.—John C. Jacobi has been
been appointed special Mail Agent for the
States of Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa.
WEST POINT—We understand that Dr.
H. Houghton, of Burlington, in this State,
has been appointed one of the Visiters to the
Military Academy at West Point. Rufus
King, Esq., Editor of the Milwaukee Senti
nel, Wisconsin, has also been appointed.
THE MINESOTA REGISTER —We have re
ceived the first number of this paper, pub
lished at St. Paul, Minesota Territory, by
A. Randall & Co. Its mechanical execu
tion is very creditable, and the editorial ar
ticles are written with spirit and taBte.—
\Mr. Randall has heretofore been connected
with the Geological Survey. This paper
is neutral in politics. We wish him great
success. We understand two other papers
are about to be started at the some place.
0^*The new Land Office at Willow Riv
er, Wisconsin, will be opened on the 30th
of June next.
JOHN Q,. ADAMS.—We learn that Gov.
Seward, of New York, has a work in press,
on the life and services of this distinguished
man.
BANCROFT'S HISTOKY.—Tho fourth vol
ume of the History of the United States by
Bancroft, will appear in September next
MAILS TO THE PACIFIC.—A post office
has been established at tbe Salt Lake Val
ley, in California, and Joseph L. Haywood,
formerly of Q,uincv, Illinois, appointed
Postmaster. The contractor, Mr. Almon
W. Babbit, will deliver the mail six times
a year, and forward all mail matter sent
through by wav of Kinesville, Iowa, to Or
egon California. The first mail went
through on the first of April.
MARSHALS ond ATTORNEYS.—The Na
tional Intelligencer officially announces
that tho State department, (under the new
law) has transferred the supervision of Mar
shals and U, S. Attorneys to the Home De
partment. Mr. Ewing is a practiced heads
man, and we may expect to Bee the axe
work vigorously upon these, his new sub
jects.
ALL FOR GOLD—According to a recent
summary published in the N. Y. Herald,
270 vessels have sailed for California, from
the Atlantic sea ports, carrying 17,341
souls.
STRAWBERRIES have already appeared in
the Cincinnati markets.
CINCINNATI, by a large majority vote of
her citizens, has determined on subscribing
£1,000,000 to tho Cincinnati and St. Louis
Hail Road.
Communications.
For the Express.
DR. HOT.T—I was much shocked at the
"removed" of Mrs. Earll, Post Mistress at
this place.
At the death of her husband, (who was P.
at the time of his decease) the citizens
of Bloomington, with a unanimity highly
praiseworthy, petitioned for the appointment
of Mrs. Earll. Her husband had been con
fined with a lingering disease, during which
time the duties ofthe office were discharged
by his eldest daughter. She has continued
in the performance of the duties, with sig
nal ability and satisfaction, up to the time
ofher mother's removal.
Miss Earll has been the chief support of
her widowed mother and family. Perhaps
nothing but the deep solicitude and tender
regard for an afflicted parent, could have in
duced a daughter to undergo the immense
labor and privations necessary to conduct
the P. O. at this plaoe. Miss Earll wished
to retain the office with all its onerous duties.
This is the family that is now cast upon
a cold and heartless world, almost without
the ordinary means of support.
Mrs. Earll is an accomplished lady, but
at present she is afflicted with almost a to
tal loss of sight, and has been for the last
two years, which prevents her from using
the needle, and otherwise greatly incapaci
tates her for business.
Now, kind reader, bear with me whilst 1
point out to you the political character of
those unfeeling persons, who, in the midst
of a civilized community, have robbed Mrs.
Earll of her support! Robbed, I say, be
cause the present incumbent is not as well
qualified to conduct the office a.s was Miss
Earll. And even feelings of humanity re
volted at her removal. Who is this Fitz
Henry Warren, and JV". Stout? Firstly,
Warren is a long, lank,Joreheadless lookin"
person, with small moral developements,
and large secretiveness—entirely destitute
of the milk of human kindness in his breast
or, if he ever had any. it has Jong since been
curdled by the pool of political corruption
—he was suckled upon treachery and wean
ed upon polution —he is the snme Warren,
who tampered with the Mormon votes, and
dealt out the corruption fund with a scien
ced hand. He is perfectly acquainted with
every by-path, cross road, large hollow tree
and every corrupt Whig in Iowa. He was
also the master spirit in the hog driving bu
siness. He is the same Warren who puts
on a bold front and enters into the business
in propria personae of puffing and defend
ing himself, through the columns of the Na
tional Intelligencer, over the signature of
••Wisconsin,"against certain chirges which
originated' in Massachusetts. He is the
convicted libeller of a gentleman in Burling
ton, and for which be was branded as a "li
ar, coward, and scoundrel." He is mean
enough to rob his mother's grave, and steal
4 rir.gfrom her boney finger —yes, he would
not hesitate to steal acorns from a blind
hog! He is an envious dragon, and could
as easily be singled out from a group ofho
norable gentlemen, as you could single out
a mastiff puppy from a flock of swans. He
is now extolled by the Whig press, as a pa
triot and hero!
2iidly. N. L. Stout, alias, Dicky Dolt,
is the present P. M. at Bloomington! He
is a poor specimen of humanity, partly in
human shape—a "gentlemanloafer^—a long
eared animal, that formerly brayed for the
people of Bloomington, through the columns
of the "Herald," in Hog-Latin and Kanga
roo Grammar—the hired ally of F. H. War
ren, and done up the dirty work for that po
litical scavenger—work that even Warren
would.not stoop to do!!!
The sight of this man, Dicky Dolt, may
yet prove injurious to nervous persons, or
tnosc in certain states of health! Warren
has disregarded tho wishes of the people of
Bloomington, in tho selection of thi3 man
Stout—who has stout hands to work, a stout
constitution, and a very s'out share of lazi
ness and impudence. If this man needs cha
rity, why not supply him with means from
the "Whig corruption fund," or let private
benevolent Whigs aid him? These men
should remember that "a just weight and
balance are the Lord's."
Among other mean things that I have
heard of in the degenerate days of this "no
proscription party," is the removal of this
widow. Why, this Jacob Collamer, War
ren, and Stout, should be buried in a stag
nant leach pool, where the sucking crea
tures could feed upon them below and mus
quitos above their meat and drink should
be crab apples and green persimmons.
You will doubtless recollect the celebra
ted epitaph written by Kilbowen, and de
signed for a poor sordid spirit, which ran
thus:
''His soul was surprisingly small
Yet the gleaners may find it. perhaps
When, after the judgment of all,
They go forth to gather the scraps."
Permit me, kind reader, to offer a parody
on the above, which is designed as an ap
propriate epitaph on Warren and Stout,
when they shall have crumbled into their
mother dust:
Their souls! they had none at all.
The gleaners may search in and out,
When, after the judgment is o'er,
They'll find none for Warren and Stout!
Yours, very respectfully P. C,
Bloomington, May 1st. 1849.
For the Express
DOCT. HOLT—The last Telegraph contains a
communication over the signature of
meaning, perhaps, L. H. L.—which insinuates
that the representatives of Iowa in Congress,
have neglected thoir duty, because they did
not procuro an appropriation for the construc
tion of our Rail Roads. Has the sagacious,
"starry" writer for the Telegraph forgotten,
that after a full hearing and discussion by our
two democratic members of the House of Reps.
Messrs. Leffier & Thompson, Gen. Wilson, of
N. H., and others, who favor Rail Road appro
priations by Congress, and who inlreated
them to report in favor of such grant", the
Whig Committee on Public Lands), headed by
the blood-thirsty Callamer, (who has been
since rewarded with the appointment of P. M.
Gen.) and followed at the tail cud by Horace
Greely, had most obstinately persisted in their
determination not to a[!ow any bill or report to
go from their Committee, authorizing the ap
propriation, either of land or money, to con
struct any Rail Road.
Mr. ," [or L. II. L.—as the ease may
be,] in his eargerness to cast censurc upon Mr.
Polk, our late President, and upon our Repre
sentatives, has been peculiarly unfortunate in
putting the saddle upon the wrong horse. The
Democratic Committee on Public Lands, of the
Senate, were in favor of appropriations of the
public domain, to construct our Rail Roads, re
ported bills for those purposes, and procured
the passage of several through the Senate.—
But when it was ascertained that the Whig
Committee of the Whig House of Representa
tives had determined to veto any such bills, if
sent to them from the Senate, it was deemed
good policy, by the real friends of our Rail
Roads, not to gratify the Whigs of the House,
even if they did desire to save Mr. Folk the
(rouble of a veto.
Mr. will never find tho present Re
prescntatives of our States, I think, lacking
either in their exertions or their anxiety to
procure donations of either land or money, for
Iowa, or for Dubuque, albeit he may be one of
the greatest beneficiarics of such donations
himself, and provo as ungrateful hereafter as
he lias formerly done, on more than one or two
occasions. JUST1TIA.
O^r Hon. Mr. Sibley, delegate in Con
gress from the Territory of Minesota, pass
ed up the river a few days since, on his
way heme from Washington.
EMIORANTS.—Tho Missouri Republican
of the 17th says, one thousand persons
reached that city in the pjfvious twa,0«y*
bound for California,
JF
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
MATAMORAS, April 20, 1849
Paredes is kicking up the devil at
present. The pronunciados (insurgents)"
took San Louis Potosi on the 17th instant,
and have marched on Querctaro. The
troops sent from hereto put won the
revolt have pronounced in favor of Pare
des, and joined the revolutionists as soon
as they crossed the mountains."
Our previous advices from Mexico rep
resented that a formidable insurrection
had broken out in the vicinity of San
Louis, and that a large body of troops
had been sent on by the government to
put down the insurgents.
[N. O. Dellta, 28th vlt.
Further by the Cambria.—It appears
there haye been several changes in the
Ministry, by which Sullman Pacha, an
on undisguised and violent enemy to Rus
sia, has become Minister of War.
The Turks have already seized and
taken possession of the Russian custom
house, and are
administering affairs there
in their own way.
It is stated that the Egyptian army
are coming up.
Everything throughout Europe is in
commotion, and presents a fearfully war
like aspect.
Further Particulars by the Cam
bria.
The following is a condensed statement
ofthe foreign news by the regular mail.
In all essential particulars, the news by
the telegraph of a week since, is corrob
orated and confirmed.
Genoa has been declared in a state of
seigo by royal ordinance. The Aus
trians, after a bloody contest, have de
stroyed Brescia. The triumvirate have
concluded not to leave Rome. Tuscany
and Florence are in a state of insurrec
tion. Active preparations for war are
going on in Sicily. The army is to con
sist of 40,000 men. The King of Prus
sia has conditionally refused the crown
of Germany tendered to him by the As
semply at Frankfort. This refusal gave
rise to warm debates in both Chambers
at Berlin. The Austrian Deputies have
withdrawn from the Frankfort Assembly
The Danes have renewed the Schleswig
Holstein war, and some skirmishes have
occurred with bad success on the part of
the Danes. At last dates, the Danish
vessels were bombarding Apenrade. In
the late attack by the Danish ships Chris
tian VIII and the Gefion upon the batter
ies of Eckenforde, the two ships were
compelled to strike after the Christian
VIII had caught fire. A generous at
tempt was made to save her crew by the
crew of the Gifion and some German
soldiers four hundred men were saved,
but the vessel was then blown up with
some two hundred men. Two hundred
and fifty of tho crew of tho Gifion escap
ed, and one hundred and fifty were kill
ed or wounded. Thirteen Germans per
ished.
The latest news is that the Germans
have sustained repeated defeats by the
Danes, who have captured twenty-eight
German vessels.
France.—The provision for tho sup
port of the clergy has been adopted. The
Vice President has declined the residence
tendered to him at the public expense.
Mr. Brisbane, the well known Fourer
ite of New York, has been ordered by
the head ofthe Police toquit France. His
offence was attendance at Socialist ban
quets of exciting character. The Presse
says that he has told the Minister of pol
ice that he would not leave unless com
pelled by force.
Rome.—The Pope has appealed to Aus
tria, Fiance, Spain, and the two Sicilies
to restore him to his domiuions by "/Aeir
armed intervention." The French govern
ment has determined to respond to this
appeal, and a military force has already
sailed to Civita Vecchia. This is strange
news to us.
Austria.—General Bern was in poses
sion of the whole of Transylvania. Gen
eral Puckner has placed himself under
the protection of the Russians, war is
about breaking out between Russia and
Turkey.
LATER FROM CANADA.
MONTREAL, April 26.
The excitement amongst the populace
is increasing every moment.
Three leading Conservatives were ar
rested on a charge of arson, and, after
undergoing a short examination before
the police magistrates, were remanded
to jail till to morrow.
The names are Montgomery, Mack
Howard, and Ferris.
A mujtilude, numbering about 3,000,
accompanied them to prison, amidst con
tinued and deafening cheers.
They were escorted by a guard of 100
men of the 19th Regiment.
The whole garrison are under arms.
The memorial to his Excellency, Sir
Benj Dunbar, pra} ing him to order the
troops to remain in quarters, and leave
the people to settle their own affairs, is in
course of signature, and will be sent down
with a deputatiou toSorel to night.
A mass meeting takes place in the
Champ de Mars at 2 o'clock to-morrow.
The Hon. Geo. Moffat is to be the
Chairman.
The French are enrolling themselves
as a body-guard to proteet Lord Elgin.
It is rumored that the jail will be burned
to night. Despatches have been sent by
telegraph to the Upper Provinces.
The windows of Mr. Hick's house were
broken by a small section of the rioters.
Military guards were placed during
the night over the houses of all the min
isters.
No lives were lost.
Sir Allen McNab,the Hon, W.Badgley,
and G. B. Turner, Esq.
one of the editors
of the Montreal Courier, were cut out of
the Parliament House with axes.
A message was sent to Monkland, the
Governor's residenc, a mile or two from
the city, and the Governor and family im
mediately came into town, and are now
at Donneganas.
A council was neld during the night.—
One hundred and forty-eight warrants
for arrest were issued, amongst whom, it
is mentioned, are the names of Messrs.
Montgomery, Mack Howard, and F.
Smith
The St. Andrew's Society met this
morning to expel Lord Elgin from the
Society.
No news from the Upper Province*.
Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.
MONTREAL, April 27, P. M.
More Canadian Difficulties—More Mobs
and Violence.—An immense mob .assem-
bled last night in front ofthe premises of
Mr.La Fontain, and after much distur
bance and violence, applied the torch to
his house, which, together with the sta
bles contiguous, were totally destroyed.
The exasperated populace next assem
bled in front of the dwelling of Dr. Nel
son Hinks, and threw stones at his win
dows until nearly all in the house were
demolished. The windows and doors of
the other buildings adjoining were also
pelted with stones and other missiles. Nu
merous acts of violence were perpetrated.
An immense mafcs meeting was held at
the Champ de Mars, at 12 o'clock, to day.
and a series of resolutions were passed,
praying for the recall of Elgin. Nu
merous speakers addressed the assem
blage, and exhorted the people to for
bearance and peace. These had consid
erable effect, and tho mob after some
time, quietly dispersed.
The Parliament assembled to-day in
the Market House, and after preliminary
consultation, finally adjourned without
transacting any business of moment.
Much excitement prevails.
FURTHER DIFFlCUTIiSS
MONTREAL, April 30.
There has been another great riot at
Montreal. The mob pelted the Governor
General's carriage with stones and eggs
while on his way to the Parliament House,
completely destroying hiscarrige. Many
of the members of Parliament received
similar treatment. Tho Governor Gen
eral, on his return, was guarded by the
soldiers, who charged the mob and drove
them off.
LATE FROM CALIFORNIA—NEW PLA­
CER DISCOVERED.
NEW YORK, April 30.
Dates from San Francisco to March 3d
have been received. Arrivals have flood
ed the market with merchandise. It is
represented as being a complete drug.
Largo numbers of articles selling at New
York prices. Gold continues as abundant
as ever. A new placer had been discover
ed in Lower California, which bids fair
to rival those on the Sacramento.
The Oregon had arrived at Mazatlan,
and proceeded on.
A steamer had arrived at Mazatlan from
San Francisco with 15,000 lbs of gold.—
This gold had been purchased at SanFran
cisco at from $11 to $15 per oz.
A contract had been settled for the es
tabiahment of a telegraph between Mex
ico and San Francisco.
The steamer Thomas arrived with
dates from Vera Cruz to the 17th inst.
She brings $480,000 in specie.
The cholera gradually increasing in
Mexico.
A company of Californians (supposed
to be an American company) left Mexico
on the 11th for California.
A letter from Rio of the 13th states tha
a whaler had arrived from California
with the most extravagant reports rela
tive to the gold. One of the passengers
has 11,000 in dust with him.
THE BASEST ACT OF THE ADMIN­
ISTRATION.
This is the head of an article in a Pitts
burg paper, announcing the removal of
Simon Drum, Esq. from tho office of Post
master at Greensburg, Pa. Wo have
known Mr. Drum from our youth up,
and in view of all the circumstances unite
with our Pittsburg contemporary in de
nouncing his removal as "the basest act
of the adininistratien." Mr. Drum was
appointed by Mr. Jefferson in 1804, and
has held the office ever since. He is of
course an old man, has ever discharged
the duties of the office faithfully, and is
poor. He is the father of the gallant and
lamented Cabtain Drum, of the artillery,
whose battery did such effective service
before the walls of Mexico—who retook
the guns captured from O'Brien on the
field of Buena Vista—and who, at the mo.
ment of the triumphant entry of our
troops into the city, found a hero's death.
And the sire of this gallant son is to be in
sulted by such recreants as Collamer and
Warren!—men whose breasts do not beat
with a single patriotic emotion—who at
all times would sacrifice their country
for party. Can such things be, and not
produce a general outburst of indigna
tiou? While the noble son of this vener
able man was offering himself up as a
sacrifice to his country, Collamer and
Warren were busily engaged in denounc
ing the war, and otherwise crippling the
energies of the country yet these are the
menwho now dispense office, and one of
their first stabs is at a man who was con
fided in by Mr. Jefferson,—And this, too,
under an administration modelled after
that of Washington, with Gen. Taylor at
its head!—[State Gazette.
Colonel ROBERT BUTLER, who distin
guished himself under General HARRISON
in tbe North-west, as his Adjutant Gene
ral, and afterwards as Ajdutant General
of JACKSON at New Orleans and through
all his Indian wars, has fallen under the
uproscriptive"axe
of the TAYLOR admin­
istration. Colonel BUTLER was one of the
Commissioners that received Florida
from Spain, and has resided there ever
since. Until removed by General TAY
LOR he bad held, for some years the office
of Surveyor General of the public lands in
Florida. He is, however, a Democrat
and a worthy relative of the gallant Gen
eral Wm. O. BUTLKR, and must therefore
give place to a brawling partisan of the
administration. Gen. TAYLOR, who, had
"no enemies to punish—nothing to serve
but his country," seems to pay but little
atteniion to his pligted word, and appears
determined to show how reckless and
proscriptive a party President he can be.
[Cincinnati Enquirer
Probable death oj Judge Meeker, of
Minnesota.—The Maysville Eagle says
that a painful rumor of the death of B. B.
Meeker, by drowning in the Licking riv
er, has been current for several days. On
Wednesday last, he left Flemingsburg
for Carlisle, on private buisncss, and was
last heard of just before reaching Licking
river. He inquired of two persons—who
were ignoraut of the sudden rise—if the
river was fordable, and was anewered
that it was. Since then, he has not been
heard of. Two messengers were dispatch
ed from Flemingsburg to go to his destina
tion, and endeavor to trace him out but
with what success wc have not yet learn
ed.
THE GOLD,—The Philadelphia Bulle
tin says :-In the last five days, for instance,
there has been received a! the Mint in
Philadelphia, each day, from twenty
thousahd to seventy-five thousand dollars,
dust.
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EXPEDITION TO TIIK GREAT SALT LAKE
—We understand, that the expedition
for a trigouometrical and nautical survey"
of the Great Salt and Utah Lakes, and
the surrounding country, lying in the
northern portion of Upper California, is
now being fitted out in this city. It has
been organized by Colonel J. J. ABERT,
ofthe Topographical Bureau, and the
command given to Capt. HOWARD STANS
BURY, assisted by Lieut. W. GTNNISON,
of the Topographical Engineers—a corps
which may well be called the working
men of the army.
Tho point of departure in the special
examination of this part ofthe great and
mostly unexplored basin, is Fort Hall, on
the Lewis Fork of the Columbia river,
and thence direcvly south, by a new route,
to the Salt Lake, which forms so remark
able a feature in that interesting valley
between the Sierra Nevnda and the Wah
satch and Timpanozee Mountains, now
chiefly held by the Utah tribes of In
dians, and in which the Mormons have
made a settlement, on the inner edge of
the basin near Utah Lake. The survey
will particularly develop the agricultu
ral resources of the country, with a view
to the supply of our Forts and troops sta
tioned in that country, as also to embracc
the astronomical, meteorological and oth
er purposes which shall give a completo
view of its physical geography and then
explore another new route, on the retnrn
of the expedition, by which access may.
be had to the great basin.
[St. Lous Rep.
U. S. SECURITIKS.—We cut the lollowing
from tbe New York Tribune:
"By private letters, we learn that the at
tention of capitalists in London, and on the
continent, was being turnud strongly to our
securities, and that one or more parties
would go out by the steamer for the purpose
of making large purchases of American
stock on foreign account. If this be true,
the effect must be felt here sensibly."
The Commissionern for the settle
ment of claims against the Mexican Gov
ernment, assumed by the U. S., are now in
session at the city of Washington.
BLACK JUSTICE—Governor Briggs of
Massachusetts, has commissioned Robert
Morris jr. a colored man, as Justice of the
Peace in Suffolk county in that State.
SUICIDE.—Henry Ford, at Long Grove,
Kendall county, in a fit of insanity, shot
himself on the 23d ult., by placing tho
muzzle of his rifle under his chin, the
ball passing out of his left eye. He af
terwards cut his throa*. with a jack-knife!
[Gal. Gaz.
SPECIAL ELECTION.—The special elec
tion held in Adams county, Pa., for a mem
ber of the Legislature, in place of Hon.
Jesse Cooper, resulted in the choice of
Wm. McSherry, the Whig candidate.
FRUIT DESTROYED —We learn from Mis
souri papers, that much of the fruit in that
State has been destroyed by the cold weath
er.
O^T THE FLYING MACHINE when exhib
ited at Tremont, Boston, would not go.
BOGUS MANUFACTORY.—The Frontier
Guardian, sajs, that bogus coin is manu
factured in tho neighborhood of Kinesville,
Potawottomie County IoWa. jPhnt peculi
ar peopie, the Mormons, ought to be looked
to. To whom has Fitz Henry Warren del
egated the authority he formerly exercised
in Potawottomie.
No SURPLUS.—The Frontier Guardian
says there will be no surplus of provisions
at the Salt Lake tettlement until after har
vest, consequently the emigrants to Cali
fornia cannot renew their supply at thatjl
place. We believe that very few from thia Mi
Northern country will take that route, most
of them keeping north of the lake, and ,1
crossing the ridge-, dividing the valley of#*
"Lewis Fork" fYoia the Great Basin, a
bout 150 miles west of the Lake, and then$
follow the Humbolt River. A-:
The editor of the Milwaukie Sentine^f
does not boast "ofthe size of Wisconsin'%
'babies,'" but says "they are an uncom^
mon sure crop."
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
The Democracy of Dubuque County
are requestee to meet at the Court Ilouso
in this city, on Saturday the 2d day of
June next, at 3 o'clock, P. PI., to chooae
Delegates to the Slate Convention, to bo
holden at Iowa City, on the 28th of June,
and also to select candidates for the fol
lowing county officers, to be elected
the August Election—to wit:
One candidate for Sheriff
Recorder dcc. |f
Co. Comrs. Genio
Probate Judge.f,
Co. Comm'r.
By order of the Democratic Central
RELIGIOUS NOTICE.
THE IOWA BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION,
will hold its Eighth Anniversary witbtm
Baptist Church in IOWA CITY, commenciog
on Friday the first day of June next, ti lO
o'clock, A. M.
N. B.—Editors in Iowa are respectfully
requested to copy the above.
T. H. ARCHIBALD, Cleft*
Dubuque, May, 1849. |p
The Hair has not been Voli.|
Fox RIVER, June 12,1848^
Dr. Sloan—Sir Please send by the bear«&l
new supply of your Horse Medicines: rf
are the best articles of the kind that I have ev
er used, never having been disappointed in their
effect, as I have been in the use of other, even
the most celebrated Ointments, Liniments,
&c. of the day. 1 like very much this featuro
in them, viz: that they do all that is promised,
and upon a thorough trial, 'one is constrained
to add. that "half has not bton told."
Respectfully, M. DUDLEY,
(•"All the Medicincs advertised by B/W.
Sloan, ar sold on Agency by E F. Gin
1 A N K S W O S E I I
following, from an agent, shot
domand which this medicine crcated, whj
it was introduced:
"Varysburg, Wyoming co., N.
December, lOtli, 1847
"J. Kidd &, Co.—Your traveling agjikt le
with me last summer a quantity of O
Lime's Pilln und Worm Spocific, toselt«0 eoj&
mission. Tho Worm Specific is all sotiL ai
I should be ^liid to procure mere, as itjgjll» V
ry readily, und has a very salutary eftinl in e
polling worms Jf you can forward ipison)
or send ino an order to call on your'igent:
Buffalo, (L. S. Reynolds,) I think it Will me
with a rapid «alo. W. H. AINSWORTH.'
0*ur. Win. J. Kichards, of Cincinnati,
he cured a case of Consumption by the usq
Dr. Rogers' Liverwort and Tar, after et|-Qti
romcdics had failed. This 1 cmedy may fa I
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LAM CAIN, as a candidate for County Re
corder—subject to the decision of the County
Convention. [May 15tli. 184St
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