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THE QURHETOA fil'AHIHAS.
TH ITUSD AY, JULY 22, 185$.
.1. RICH,
EDITOR,
Republican State Ticket
For St-cretiiry of Stat«,
ELIJAH SELLS, of Muscatine Conty.
1'or Auditor of State,
JONATHAN W. AttELL, of Cedar.
For Treasurer of State,
JOHN W. JONES, of Hardin Conntf.
For Attorney Genera),
SAMUEL A. RICE, of Mahaska County,
For Reg lister of State Land Office,
AMOS A. MILLER, of Cerro Gordo.
For Commissioner of Des Moines River Im
provement,
WILLIAM C. DRAKE, of Wajne.
For Member of Congress, 2d District,
WILLIAM V AND
EVER, of Dubuque.
^LECTION TUESDAY, OCT. 12,1858.
REPLBLICAN CONVENTION.
By order of i In- Republican Central Commit
tetia of Grundy, llliiekhawk, Buchanan, Dela
ware uiul Dubuque counties.
June 24, 1KP.
Republican Conutf Convention*
REPUBLICAN COUNTY OONVEN
tion will be held at the Court House in
Independence, ou Saturday, July 24th, at two
o'clock P. M., to eloet. 1I1 legates to the District
Convention, to be held at the same plnee,
Liberty
Spring,
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MB ximru JHHCIAL MSTUICI.
The Republicans of tl, cuuntie* comprising
*n«• JNinth Judicial District, namely, Dubuque, 1
Delaware, Iiuelmuan, Blnekhnwk «"iul Grundy.'and
011
Wednesday, Aug. 4th, 1^38. The ratio of rep
resentation will be one delegate for every twen
ty Republican votes east at the lust guberna
torial oleoriuii.
The following table shows the number of
voUs cast in the several townships, us appears
from the poll books 011 file in the Co. Clerk's
office, ana the number of delegate.", to which
each township is entitled.
Alton t... S3 Votes,
Newton, 23
Madison, 26
Sumner, 22
Perry, 23
J'.utVfilo Grove, .. 17
3 Delegates.
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2
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127 7
29 8
34 2
144
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Washington,
S. P. WEBSTER,
Chairman Co. Com.
Is Ike Democracy
ciple of Popular
tST A late number of the Dubuque
actions of the Democrats. 1 heir course:
—which was HO much admired by
The only principle io the Cincinnati
platform for which so-called Democrats
claim any especial credit, is that denom
inated Popular Sovereignty, which de
clared the right of the people of a terri
tory to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way. This was
jhc language of the Kansas-Nebraska
bill, previous to the passage of which
this principle was in no sense part of the
political creed of the Democracy. It is
the endorsement of this principle by that
platforru, to which the Civilian refers. It
ays tha parly has been trite to the priu
jt'iple. Let us sea.
on their part in order to give it force.
Minnesota was likely soon to ask admis
bion, and to maintain the prosent politi
cal equilibrium it was,necessary that a
slavo state should bo ready t» offset it.
of Slavery. A time-honored restriction
bad already been removed by the Demo
cratic party, under the pretence of giv
ing operation to (his principle. The
Cl
Mh. R. J. Thornton. with Older, L-o Co.' and vigorous sinews of the army of free
linlvipndt'n\
is our Hutliori/od ncrent for thnt i„i i i ,v.
iciiiiiv. ilr. TIIORSTOKwillivctiTf findrwHpt without help the forinci
i\.r HultH.ri]tions, n.Uortipimonts, *,». All jot.1 must succumb, and the end aimed at in
work entrusted t«lii* oarv will
ippled energies of Slaverydom was not,
however, able (o cope with the powerful
,I .1 T.
«0.,t clipper una U tu thau can be done\L- the annunciation of the boasted principle
v lure in this County.
ILT T. S. Ski.nnr* 4 Co, Dubuque,
Imvo Uvn July apjiointed Agents for obtain
ing ¥iilm'ripti«n« mud advertisement*, for this
pjlj»er.
W
will meet in Delegate Convention at lmlepeii- n„ i„„
denee, on Wednesday,
the
next, lor the pur^e of nominating
•IWSVF£«FOR,,Y'
1th day o! AuUt!eSSence
a
Distnet
Mv,°W U'*
ation is
one
delegate
1
of Popular Sovereignty, likely to be de
feated.
How, in view of this, did the Demo
cratic parly net Did they still abide
by the principle, whatever its results
We assert not. The principle, we said,
was professedly adopted by that party at
the passage of the Kansas Nebraska act,
and the Cincinnati platform merely re
affirmed it. The Civilian will not deny
that the administration of FRANKLIN
PIERCB entirely repudiated it in their
treatment of the Kansas question, by
forcing upon the people of that territory
a legislature and other officers whom
they never elected, and who were ex
tremely ubnoartofas'lo ihejii. He removed,
as his successor removed, governor after
governor, and officer aflfer officer, as soon
as he suspected them of siding with the
free state majority iu the territory, and
used all the power he possessed to force
the institutions and laws of Missouri up
on the people of Kansas. All this time
he received the united encouragement
and support of the Democratic party and
press, and an endorsement at Cincinnati
from tlie representatives of the party.—
A support and au endorsement for acts
violative of, and utterly repudiating,
practically, this very principle.
MR." Bl*C1IANAN W03 nominated
elected, and then we were to have the
°f
1
°Pular Sovereign!) certain,
Popular Sovereignty was sure to make
K.-mS»3 Mr. BCCU«AN was*.
for
The. ratio of representation
every liftv RvpuMicuu
Gub- rnutoiial election, and one for each frac
tion ovir twenty-five rotes.
A J**'
at_1**°
bodiment of Popular Sovereignty, there-
foie it was Hurrah for BUCHANAN and
Free Kansas". But, just as soon as he
was installed in a position to give force to
this gigantically extolled principle of the
party, there steps in a very elaborate and
very convenient, though entirely unlaw
ful (if we might so term it) opinion of
the Supreme Court, which entirely de
molishes this flimsy fabric of Popular
Sovereignty, by denying the right of the
people of a territory to regulate Slavery,
one of their domestic institutions. To
this decision Mr. BUCHANAN and the
party gave a hearty assent, though still
howling the rallying cry of Popular Sov
ereignty, which by this time had come to
be detiued as a principle applicable only
to the people of an inchoate suite.
Well, was the Democracy true loeven
this limited application of the principle
took steps to form a State Constitution.
How was this principle to be applied, un
less, when forming a constitution, the
people of that inchoate state were allowed
to pass upon that instrument—allowed to
^\T*~rr7Tr acceptor reject the institutions permit
Faithful to the Prin
ular Sovereignty i10(1
b}'
11
coulJ the
Times, in demonstrating the equivocal' tteuiocratie party contend for this The
position of thc Democratic party, says Civilian will find a hard time making the
The Democrats profess to be much P^P1'3 believe it. The modus operandi
devoted to thc principle of allowing the of lh§ submission of the Lecompton con
people to dccide the slavery question for stilution is well known. The method was
themseh.es. one concocted by the Administration it
lo this asseition our neighbor of thejse]ff
devoted to the principle of allowing their..,.,
people to decide the blaverv question for
themselves, but they act on that profes-' d'a110"
au(j
Independence Chilian objeeto. And be insisting upon the popular rights which
replies gqUatter gov ereignty professed to
"They not only profess to be much
Certainly 111 no other way
application be made. Did the
for contending against it and
iv? GUV
DlJ tLe
WALKEK was sacrificed.—
Protcst
aSa,,,8t
ot
sioii, as 110 one can deny who will take! tion at the North did, but the large mass
the pains to compare the features of the certainly did not. WALKER has been a
Cincinnati platform with the subsequent
Y
-I
publicans—iu the last Congress, abun-1 party's consistent support of this princi
dautly proves it and the course of the! pie, as given by the Civilian, namely,
whole democratic press confirms it." the action of Democrats in the Last Con-
We take it for granted that when thc gross. Let us see about what quantity
Civilian speaks of the Democratic party of devotiou to principle there was there
and press in this connection, it means! in. The Lecompton constitution was
simply that political organization and its'sent to Congress with a special message
organs, which, at the present time, arro-J from the President. In that message he
gate to
themselves that title. The tenor and limited the intent of the organic act of
aim of the article proves this. We will the territory, in the declaration made
therefore examine the matter a little, and respecting the right of the people to reg
demonstraie precisely the amount of truth ulate their domestic institutions in thcir
eontaiued in this paragraph from the i own way, strictly to the subject of slav
Civil'tan. ery, and contended that as that question
had been submitted, the provisions of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill—the essence of
Kansas afforded the first opportunity
for the application and exemplification of! of the admission of Kansas, and the re
lliis principle. The Democracy were in puted father of Popular Sovereignty
power, and it only needed a willingness fought valiantly for his offspring. Un
Kansas u*as the only one that could be fast by it. Did they doit? No. Out
acquired, and Southern firo-cater6 were.pf 128 Democrats in the House and
determined that sbe should bear the brand! in tbe Senate, but 22 ia tbe first and 4
thw
r*Pu'
the"* favorite dogma A por-
dead c^k iu Uie u ever gh)C0
llT
..
now Come to the
evidence of the
Popular Sovereignty—had been com
plied with. With this view Mr. DOUG
LAS took issue, and was supported by—
how many democrats in the Senate
Why the enormous number of TWO. Here
was this broad, expansive principle re
stricted to the narrow limits of one do
mestic institution, which the Supreme
Court had declared the people of a ter
ritory had no right to touch, and almost
every Senator in the part)' acquiesces in
the curtailment. What euthusiastic de
votion to principle
Well, Congress discussed the question
answerable were the arguments which he
gave to show that the Administration had
repudiated the principle, and earnestly
did he and a handful of others besecch
the representatives of the* party to hold
in the last voted against Lccompton, and
one of the four in the Senate, Mr. PUGH,
of Oliio, voted so under instructions, but
confessedly against his inclination. Here
we find this boasted principle of the De
mocracy in issue, with the parent him
self battling like a giant for it, and yet,
out of the whole force of 164 professed
adherents of the principle, he can rally
to its support but 25. And even of these,
10 subsequently deserted, and went with
the others in assorting that unless Kansas
came into the Union sanctioning the in
stitution of Slavery, she should stay out
for years. Truly a sublime devotion to
principle! a faithful acting out of pro
fession
There are some oilier assertions, pre
tences and sophistries, in the article in
the Civilian, which we should like to no
tice, but not having seen the paper until
a late hour, we have not the time. The
comparison which the writer wanted has
been drawn—what has he to say in ref
erence to it.
To Contributors.
JfcgTOur Independence correspondent
furnishes us the particulars of the late
sad catastrophe at Otter Creek, in this
county. It was furnished iu season for
hist week's paper, but owing to the diffi
culty of getting our paper from Notting
ham, we were unable to publish. The
other body, which, at the time he wrote,
had not been discovered, has since been
found lodged iti some bushes, a few rods
below where the catastrophe happened.—
Our correspondent will see that we have
somewhat curtailed his letter. We were
compelled to do so because of the press
upon our columns of other matter pre
viously setup. We'll guarantee to pre
sent him unshorn the next time.
We are indebted to our friend, Judge
TABOK, for another story, entitled ME
TEMSYCHOSIS, OR LoVE IMPERISHABLE,
translated by him from the German of
ZSCJIOKKS, expressly for the Guardian.
We cannot hear from the Judge too of
ten.
F. sends us another of her excellent
specimens of versification, for which she
The articlc of our good friend from
Cedar Rapids, is, as usual with every-
he says, full of truth, and because of its
truth, shall be published.
JteT We hear great complaints among
the farmers of our county in reference to
the coming wheat crop, and we have had
occular demonstration that it is very ma
terially injured. We have seen two or
thre£ fields iu which nearly one half of
the heads were blasted and entirely
worthless. The blight, rust, and a worm,
with the nature of which we are not con
versant, are all at work in its destruction.
W e very much doubt if the farmers of
Buchanan county have much surplus
wheat to sell the coming year. Oats,
too, we hear, are a good deal injured.
Corn, however, looks well so far, not
withstanding the extreme wetness of the
season.
We saw recently, upon the farm of our
Quasqueton Brass Hand.
Sffi" Do not forget to attend thc cele
bration of the Sabbath School connected
with the church of Rev. Mr. TOMLINSON,
at Independence, on Saturday next. The
exercises will doubtless be interesting,
as our friend TABOK will deliver au ad
dress, and it is always worth half A day's
journey to hear him.
The celebrated Marten Iv'zsta, the
Hungarian refugee, who was rescued in
Turkey, from the Austrian authorities,
by Captain Ingraham, of our navy, died
IU
OFFICIAL VOTE OF BUCHANAN CO.
MATE bank OCX. bank railroad
Towaain.
Miulison 1 22
Newton •3
Perry !9
Washington 307 4 271
Totals
1128
1075
Majorities
tJiat the
thing emanating from him, well written, be held at Independence on Saturday
Our friend has talents of no ordinary' next, for the purpose of nominating del
character, but they are all hid away be- egates to the District Convention, to be
neath his unequTdled modesty. His ar
ticle will appeal- next week, and we shall
expect to hear from him oftener.
friends, the Messrs. POTTER, of Newton who will speak at Quasqueton on the 3d,
Township, a fine field of Barley, the first
we have noticed in the county. Mr.
POTTER estimates its yield at about 35 or
40 bushels per acre.
We had the pleasure of listening,
a few evenings since, to the performance
of this baud, and are happy to note their
rapid progress towards proficiency, un
der the tutorship of Mr. A. FIRMAN.—
They will shortly be able, at the present
rate of progression, to give us some
superior music. Their progress certain
ly reflects great credit upon Mr. FIR
MAN'S teaching.
We understand that SMITH, the horse
thief, who, a short time since gave Sheriff
MARTIN the slip, has again been arrested
through bis exertions, and is now safely
secured in the new jail at Independence.
He was arrested in Osagp Mitchell Co.,
and there is no doubt that he belongs to
the gang of thieves that has so long in
fested this region. As our worthy sheriff
has now a place to keep his prisoners, we
think there is but a slim chance for any
more of them to get away from him.
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Alton 73
4 58 9 3 100
Buffalo Grove 43 13 34 18 8 47
Bvron 45 3 43 3 22 26
Jefferson 126 8 2 132
Libert v It7 2 163
4
132
9 S3
153
52 3
64
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50
6 2
62
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31
31 &
Prairie 19 1 19
Spring 66
60
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Suniin-r
19 22
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43
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Superior 79
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23 88
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261
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53 794
505
289 357 884
527
The Report of the County Judge.
JtST'We publish to-day the Annual
Statement of the affairs of our county,
together with the remarks of the Judge
thereon. The Report is made in the
Judge's usually clear and explicit style,
and exhibits as much in detail as a
proper regard to economy would allow,Hvas an excellent swimmer.
the exact state of the fiscal condition of
the county—what money was spent, and
for what it was paid out. The balance
sheet certainly shows most favorably for
the stewards 6[ our interests. With a
delinquent tax list of
§2848 2(3,
and
with 110 special tax levied to meet the
expense of the erection of county build-
port looming up so largely, we yet find
ourselves in debt but $590 20. This
can easily be met out of the delinquent
list, as much of that will doubtless be
paid during the year. We have, there
fore, secured a noble Court House, with
out the entailment of any debt, and the
rate of taxation cau, for the coming year,
as it will be, lowered to the least amount
that will meet the bare expenses of gov
ernment—a great desideratum in these
hard times. We do not believe that an
other county^u the slate can show as
good county buildings at less than dou-
found the call of the chairman of our
County Committee, for a convention to
held at thewsame place on Wednesday,
the 4th day of August, at which candi
dates for District Judge, District Attor-
Republican Caucus.
A caucus of the Republicans of Lib
erty Township will be held at the Guar
dian Office, on Friday Evening, at half
past seven o'clock, for the purpose of
nominating delegates to the county con
vention at Independence on the day suc
ceeding.
Jilt. WM. VAKDEVER,
The RepuMieart candidate for Congress,
ble the expense of ours, or that one can
show, under similar circumstances, as' save or see A single person of ths par
satisfactory a balaftce sheet. The pres
cnt administration is a most able one, and
its integrity is an undoubted guarantee!1110
Correspondence of the Guardian.
lstBP£lifME£CK, July 12, 1856.
MR. EDITOR
A lamentable accident occurred yes
terday, a few miles from this place, by
which event the lives of four persons
were lost. I will endeavor to give the
particulars, as developed by the coroner's
inquest, held on three of the recovered
bodies, iu the afternoon of yesterday, and
as obtained from other sources.
It seems that a German by the name of
Caspar Wright, his wife and her sister (a
girl of about eleven years) engaged a
Canadian owning a span of horses and
wagon to take them to Fairbank on a vis
it to some friends. They reached Otter
Creek about six o'clock, Sunday morn
ing, and in attempting to ford it, the box
floated off and the wagon uncoupled,
leaving them to drown in a creek only
twenty feet wide and about ten feet deep
One of the four, the Canadian, it is said,
rau
ings, and with the item for pauper sup.- be found the wagon-box, but with no
The
interests of the people will bo|°,clock»
mav put us down debtor. She certainly most jealously guarded hereafter, as they icd to-day. But up to this time, Mon
posseses a good degree of true poetic have heretofore.
talent, and we hear her effusions very
geuerally extolled. Will she not favor
us a little oftener than she has lately
Republican Convention.
Under our editorial head will be
I n 1 e. n
cation, will be placed in nomination.—
The chairman placed this call in our
hands in time for last week's issue, but as
we could not then publish, it renders the
notice a very short one. The fault is ours,
and not that of the Chairman of the
committee.
O U
AND HEAR
and Independence on the 4th, of August
next. Let all who desire to hear the is
sues of the present canvass ably discuss
ed, be in attendance. ,.T
reliable, and from the statement made, the
article is just what the farmers of this re
gion desire.
The St. Louis Democrat, after asking
what National Democracy has entailed
upon us, answers
A bankrupt government, a violated
flag, a conquered West, a desolated ter
ritory, an impeachable President, a drun
ken Governor, and corruption permeat
ing every department of the public ser
vice.
It has been discovered that bread can
be manufactured out of wood. Lonw
before this discovery was made, all wood
W'as known to have grain in it.
JBNKV LIKD.—Mrs. Goldschmidt (Jen
ny Lind) recently gave birth to twins—
one of each sex. Hero we have another
edition in two volumes of Gold
schmidt's Animated Nature."
Here's Webster on a Bridge,' said Mrs.
Partington, as she handed Ike a Diction
ary. Study it conteiitively, and you
will get a great deal of inflamation.'
I
com
Wliat makes him stop, then "Oil,
lately on a sugar plantation near the city jhc'a afraid somebodv'll say whoa,' and Quirk is said to bc turtivdfckick.—-JSfe
of Ciu.itemala, in Central America. The shan't bear it."
•.,» that James T. Crozier, Esq., a younir
MW We desire to call the attention of I ]:lWyer
A part of
the evidence before the coroner's jury,
was, that a Mr. Dyer, who resides near
the scene of the accident, and who was
milking at the time, had his attention
called by his little girl running to him
and exclaiming that there was a woman
floating in a wnjon-box down the creek.
immediately along the bank till
0110 in it, and still right side up. He
%-4\v. the horses struggling to ascend the
batik, and succeeded in extricating them
from ,their unpleasant predicament, but
didmOt see or hear anything whatever of
persons in the water. One of the wit
nesses examined lives about forty rods
this side of Otter Creek. He saw the
party, as they drove by his house, going
toward the creek, but did not think of
their attempting to drive straight through
as it was generally known to be very high
and dangerous to cross. He reached the
creek in less than five minutes after hear
ing the drowning cries, but not in time
of Caspar and his wife and
were
0f
our farmers to the advertisement of G. F. Crozier, Esq., of this city was instant*
W. YERBV, Chicago, of a superior quali- LY killed on Saturday in the following
ty of Wheat, which he calls Russian
ma 11
,, X°.u ba\e to bear the responsibili- blot. It is not often that a man is taken
tY said a mother to a biighteycd young I directly from tl
daughter of oui
terot our acqumtance, who tho't a position but the admirable qualities!
b,Z
recovered before two
p- M-
yesterday, and were bur-
day evening, the body of the Canadian
has not been found, although the search
has been prosecuted two days, by drag
ging the creek from the mouth up to the
place where the casualty occurred.
It is somewhat singular that the bodies
should have been found^o far down the
creek—one of them, that of the girl, be
ing fished up fiften rods below where
they got in, and the other two being
found within twenty rods of each other,
fully half a mile farther down.
Tly CanKJifc—- ..
heard, was a stranger among us, and
leaves a wife and two children to mourn
his sad fate.
A bridge baa long been needed across
the Otter, on the road to Fairbank, and
would be easy of construction. But the
local inhabitants don't appear disposed to
combine their individual efforts, and ap
propriate a little time and labor on thc
part of each, to do it. Philanthropic
travellers are not abundant, and certainly
don't go around benevolently building
country bridges. And, consequently,
we must continue to submit to occasional
baptisings in the Otter, by way of cool
ing our blood and heating our ire and,
by and by, when we have the lucky mis
fortune to drown ourselves in its insignif
icant waters, we will have the satisfac
tion of letting others see that sufficient
time and labor" have been spent iu
fishing up our strangled remains, to erect
several bridges across Uiti Otter.
E. C. L.
SAD ACCIDENT.—We regret to learn
Delhi, and brother to William
ncr*
was
Winter Wbeax." W. bclievo him to be ralckratiop ot the
enoaged
in making
4th, and had under his arm a canister of
powder. By some means a spark fell in
to the canister which immediately ex
ploded, tearing the body of Crozier to
pieces, and killing him instantly. Mr.
Crozier was a young mau of considerable
ability, and much respected iu the com
munity where he raided.—Mulmane
Times.
The Farmer Candidate.
James W. Cattell, the Republican nom
inee for Auditor, is a farmer whose whole
attention has been given to his extensive
and productive farm, except when he has
been summoned from the plough to serve
the State in a public capacity. The Qua
ker Farmer is one of the clearest headed
accountants in the State and as State
Auditor will keep a record without a
b-v Mr- Cat*»
p. o eai social, ma." rendered his nomination certain from the
in
the Senate,
day that his name was mentioned iu con
nection with the office.—JJcs Jfoines Citi
ten.
Tw° SI'DDEN DEATHS. SINOULAR
COINCIDENCE.—Mrs. Catherine Quirk
died in this city on Monday last very sud
denly wuh what is supposed to bo the
cramps. Her husband, Michael Quirk,
who had gone to Fort Madison, in order
to try to get the release of his-brother
say, friend, your horse is a little who was in prison there, was dispatched
trary, is he not No. sir-ee !"—J'01'
on
,that
ff.
her death, and word was sent back
he was dead. The body of Mrs.
Statement of the financial condition of the
county, and as the erection of public
buildings, and other circumstances, have
account. But as the financial interests
of the county are especially matters which
vitally concern every tax-payer, I have!*
me to give these further explanations
FROM T1IE COUNTY JUDGE 'j'he Warrant Book ahoivs who took it
To the Citizens of Buchanan Qounty. I from the office, and the Treasurer's book
I11 another column I lav before you a
without any expense to the county.—! ProPer
in both the county papers.
In making out the report in regard to
monies received into the treasury and
disbursed therefrom, the Treasurer com
mences with July 13, 1857, the date of:
menceincut of a new fiscal year. On
his installment into his office, Aug. 0,
1857, there was an amount of $1176,30
in the county treasury ,* but when I was
installed into my office, Aug. 10, 1857,
that sum was diminished to #53D,:{3,
warrants, amounting to 8b'3.,91, having
been drawn in the interim, by my pre
decessor, to pay for lumber for the Court
House and other charges.
In giving an account of the Expendi
tures of the county, I have commenced
with July 1, 1857, and ended at this
date, July 1, 1858, that period being the
proper fiscal year.
On examining the items of expendi
ture, it will be seen that by far the great
est one is the Court House but although
it has been erected during a season of
unprecedented hard times" and scarci
ty of money, and without there being
funds in the treasury to cash the various
county warrants as they were issued,
yet the cost of the building has been less
than was expcctcd, and while it will fa
vorably compare with the Court Houses
of neighboring counties, they have cost
two and three times as much. The
whole amount of warrants issued for it,
in the fiscal year, was $0,24(1,57 of
this, my predecessor, up to Aug. 10,
1857, issued 8 ), 122,97, and 1 $0,117,
60 and prior to July 1, 1857, my pre
decessor had issued $517,94, making
tbe sum total for the Court House $f,
758,51. This amount comprises all that
has been done for the Court ilouse—in
cluding the preparing of the ground,
the lumber, lime, stone, brick, sand,
of keeping insane persons, the" State not
yet furnishing any asylum for their re
ception. Besides, as if we had not resi
dent pauper lunatics enough, it has un­
their objects without contention or ill-'
telIs t0 whom U
these
and
haidware, Src., «.Vc., the hauling the riod of 18 months of profound peace has
same, lailioad freights, the digging and exhausted an overflowing treasury and
constructing the deep well in the square, added to the public debt forty millions of
the materials and construction of the out
buildings belonging to the premises, the
changing of the Court House seats, ac
cording to Judge Wilson's recommenda
tion, and in fact, every species of expense
connected with the grounds or the edi
fice. The full completion of the latter
The next larger items of disbursement
rZlvFcT TP*"
W
bee" f°1'
Coui t, Criminal and I auper expenses.—j held in Capital Square, with addresses
Ihe augmentation of these is inevitable by Hon. B. F. Wade, Hot. B. Stanton
as the county increases in population and --J CUUIHJP
wealth. 1
he influx of poor persons is
greater than formerly, and the opportu
nities for crime, and the temptations to
its commission, are more numerous. In
all these departments I have strenuously
attempted to keep the expenses as low as
justice, humanity and the law would per-! tween Gov. Cumrnings and Peace Conv
mit but notwithstanding all this, the missioners, and the heads of the Mormo*
amount is a formidable one, and there is church, arc that the troops shall enter the
no reason to believe that it will be less city withaut opposition. The civil officers
at the end of the fiscal year just com-1 shall be permitted to perform the duties
menced. The pauper liabilities have of their offices, without interruption and
been very largely increased by the cost
luck.ly happened that they have been ed against both civil officers and stritt
inflicted upon us Irom other Suites, and gers, except one which is occupied by
the charge of tending and returning them the Governor and family. Everybody
has formed no inconsiderable item. The else were obliged to sleep in their warcn#
number of paupers being greater has or on the ground.
likewise swelled the fees of township The persons in the city, where Gtff.
trustees, who have necessarily had to Cumrnings, Secretary Ha'rnett, Powell
look after these persons, and the hard and McCullough, Peace Commissioners,
times have caused almost every man who Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indiaft
performed any service for the county to! affairs, Mr. Craig, Indian ai'ent
exact pay for the same. Dodson, Marshall of the Territory, and
1 do not know that the other items of, Messrs. Simonton, Fillmore and Brown,
expenditure specified^ in the Report need correspondents of the New York Times,
any further explanation, unless perhaps
it be the subject of Roads. About ono
half of the amount of that item was for
State Roads. And, speaking on this
topic, let me digress euough to urge up-
the field for so responsible of the delinquent tax be collected, it will the State work is nearly three thouetmd
make a surplus in favor of
the county of
county 1 have aimed to be as full and ex-1
plicit as a decent regard for space would
permit but I would say to those who
have any curiosity for minuter specifica
tions, that now, as has always been the
case heretofore, the books and papers of
the office are accessible to the public,
and are at all times open to the free in
spection of whatever citizen may desire
to see them. Not a mill is expended
without the why and wherefore being
definitely recorded in writing. When a
warrant is issued the Order Book state*
the date, the number, the amount, the.
name of tho person to whom it is issued
and the purposes foi
more than eight hundred dollars. bad hoped to provide ourselves with such
In classifying the expenditures of the
Paid- ^r° Print
fi cohlTnn of the Gl,ard,sn
v,ltan»
a,ul woulJ bc
causcd the amount of expenditures to be! I^nse hundrwds of dollars. I hav®,
greater than ever before,] have made therefore, endeavored to be so explicit
the llvport more full and specific 011 that
eveiT
aH
details would probably more than
»»d CB»
"t*»fJed with an et-
tax-payer ean have an exajt
complete understanding of the
co_n(J,lJon
1'
thought some details in addition to the
Report would not be unacceptable to my
fellow-citizens, and the kindness of the,
proprietors of the Quasqueton Guardian duties, I shall continue my endeavors to
and of the Independence Civilian enables
of the county, ^aud yet I have
to stud) bre\ lty as muuli as possi
ble, and answer these onds, for the pur
poses of economy.
In the performance of my flnanc fell
C0ItlPr®ss
to thc
n,a,n
ally concerns them, I publish my Report dollars worth of accouuts as to make no
errors of judgment, or to suit the ideas-of
every individual interested but my fel
low citizens may depend that 1 shall con
stantly aim to preserve a rigid economy
ar'd
his predecessor's report, and he brings Sar,d to lmohing the county in debt-*
it up to this date, July 1, 1C58, the com-1
expenditures ofthe court
,owe»t
point compatible with a
reSar.d
That citizens of every kind may have an s^es. It is, of course, impossible for
opportunity to examine what so materi-
to all attending circum-
so to audit twenty thousand
t° exercse a vigilant caution in fe-
fo
av.oul
u»wise extravagance 011
the one hand, and extreme parsimony on
the other. STEPHEN J. W. TABOK.
July 1, 1858.
Ohio Republican State Convention*
Colcmbus, O., July 13.
At the Republican State Convention
the attendance was large, all the countin
,in the stata being fully represented.^—
Samuel S. Crawford, of Dayton, presided.
The committee on resolutions, through
their chairman, Hon. B. F. Wade, pre
sented the following, which w*ro unani
mously adopted—the convention giving
a tremendous ave
Re solved, That the Republicans of
Ohio in Convention assembled entertain
ing an abiding faith in the cardinal doc
trines of the party heretofore inscribed on
its banners, an in defense of which it has
never failed to secure from the intelligent
and patriotic freemen of the State an
ardent and triumphaut support, hereby
reaffirm the same, and again commend
them to the favorable consideration of tbe
people.
Resolved, That the President of tbe
United States and his servile partizansit
Congress aided by emissaries in Kansas
in their persistent efforts to enforce by vio
lence, fraud, bribery and intimidation a
Constitution in opposition to the will of
the people of the Territory, and in fraud
of their undoubted right deserve and
ought to receive the unqualified condem
nation! of all the American people,.
Resolved, That thc astounding disclo-'
surcs of corrupt prodigality of the Nation
al Administration which in the brief pe-
publi
will require a few hundred dollars more, i government to its original purity and
tor stone steps, lightning rods, stairway I principles and preserving it as .'tu i'nheri
*'. i' *7. to tiiw wh» nm* come nftrr i,«
uut. but considering the ample ditnen
sions of the building, its thorough con
struction by thc masons, carpenters and
plasterers, and the excellence of the ma
terials used, it must be pronounced, by
all competent judges, one of the cheap
est public buildings ever erected.
dollars without any visible indication of
a proposed remedy or a cessation of the
evil, submits to the people to choose be
tween the alternative of National Bank
ruptcy of National Reform.
Resolved, That we invite all men of all
parties to join with us in restoring the
r„, k.
come after us.
Ihe following tickt*
was
nominated
tor Supreme Judge, Win'„m y p0(J^
of Scioto for Attorney, C. P. Wolcott,
of Summit, by acclamation for 1x^1
troller, W. B. Thrall, of Franklin fo.
Board of Public Works, Jim S. Murtin,
of Butler. Great harmony and good feeJ
ii\or prevailed. An immense and enthusi
aslic ratifu
ratification meeting is now b^ine
and others.
From Utah.
ST. Lot-is, Juhr ji,
Utah correspondence of the Republi
can, under date of June 18th, says ttfe
conditions agreed at the
conference
bo-
an unconditional obedience to the lord*
of the land, shall be given. On the other
hand, past offences shall be forgotten.—*
As stated in the President's proclamation*
i all the houses ii the city, have been clos-
Herald aim Tribune.
on all who desire to locate or alter "roads, 'enacted by the late Legislature. A sue*
to so discuss the matter with interested cession of difficulties and unexpected de
parties, that there shall be no litigation 'a}'s °ur arrangements will delay tbe
or strife upon these subjects in the coun- publication of these laws beyond tbe'usu
ty court, and in this way they can secure
Publication of the Liwt) fce.
We must crave the indulgence of the
public for the non-appcaranc of the laws
al
a
which it is issued.: io close to-morrow.
time. It was our confident expectation
and
feeling. lier than usual, although the the Legisla
It will be seen, that saying nothing I lure, under the new Constitution, meats
about thc delinquent tax, the county has {one month later, and sat nearly two
outstanding against it only $590,29 be-j months later than usual. This last fact
yond the resources of the fiscal year, and should be borne in mind. The expense
even should no more than fifty per cent. °f getting a press and engine suitable for
earnest purpose to get them out ear-
dollars, including transportation, we
press, and delayed the work for that rea-
8on-
But wo found it impossible to make
the nesessary arrangements in.time for
the work ou band, and were compelled
at length, to commence with such materi
al as we have.
We trust that our friends of the preift,
if they hear complaint, will give us the
benefit of this explanation, la another
year we meara to be fully prepajred, if
such a thing is possible these times.*-^
Des Moines Citizen.
Banks Rejected.
LonsviLiK, fuly 13.
Tfc« #iiizens Bank at Nashville a||fe
Memphis, are refused, and are expectMft