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Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA.-By the
Neapol;,an steamer Francisco /, which ar
rived yesterday morning NOV. 25,) we
have received an account of the breaking
forth Of Mount Etna. The mountain had
been for some days heavily capped with
dense clouds; some rumblings were heard
al times. resembling distant thunder; and
many persons, especially on the west side
near Bronte, imagined they felt atintervals
slight shocks of earthquake, or tremblings
of The earth. On Saturday. about midnight
several violent explosions were heard, and
fire was soon seen to ascend from near the
mouth of the crater. The stream of lava
gradually increased in extent and took a
course towards the town of Bronte luck
lily q few hillocks to its left served 10 turn
the direction which then flowed on to-
wards the road to Palermo. On Monday
this stream of liquid FIRE had attained The
destructive breadth of upward of 2 miles !:
it still flowed on destroying everything in
its path. The road TO Palermo is closed
up. filled with burning. lava. The SIGHT
is awful. grand. beautiful. yet terrific be.
yond description. 1t bids fair 10 be The
most magnificent eruption Of the last cen
fury. Pray heaven it may not be more
destructive as yet its damages have been
confined TO few houses and VINEYARDS.
Malta paser, Nov. rs.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

70 Tiv cp.i"s field lI,i.I TIMES, eslaul,sn-
ed some three months ago, by our old boss.
S. S. Brooks, Esq, has kicked up cloud Of
dust among the politicians and editors of that
State. The trouble seems to grow out of a
fear that Mr.. B. will interfere with the estab.
lishmen. Of the State Register, which, from
its 6ddling for both Democrats and Tylerites,
has, like the Bank Of the United States, be.
come terror to all who oppose its dictatorial
course, by laying its rottenness open to the
public gaze. In order to counteract the inhu.
ence Of the Times, and keep the wheel Of for
tune under their own control, filling all Offices
with members Of the Walters clique, they
have charged the editor of the Times with be-
ing tinged with whiggery. Having been a
close observer of the course of friend Brooks
for many years past, and found him ready to
suffer defeat rather than triumph by eaguine
with any faction, which would bring discredi,
upon the Democratic party, thus endangerine
its future success, we cannot for momen,
give credence to the charges made against him.
A purer, self-sacrifcing Democrat we never
knew, and would as soon credit story tina,
Gen. Jackson had united with the wings, as
that 5. 5. Brooks was In cloak Of disguise,
playing into the hands Of the wings, excep,
by exposing corruption in the ranks of the De.
mocracy that it may be purified before i, is Too
late to save 1t from destruction.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

Nothing displeased at the bows and smiles Of
the corps, and wishing to see but few wry Ia
ces, it was deemed expedient to delay the set
clement Of the matter until the editors pockets
were SO near empty that they could remain bat
a short time after they learned their fate.
length a resolution giving abe printing OF me
Journal Of the House 10 Wilson Il keesecker,
and joint resolution giving the printing Of
the laws to Clarke. were introduced. and pas
sed the House, all the wings voting fer hem.
We complain not that we got the ''go by" but
it looks 10 us a little singular that Mr.. Wal
worth should vote for Wilson & Keesecker'
after having, last winter. pronounced their
work, on similar job, disgrace to the Ter
r,ory. 1t looks very consistent.
The Journal of the Council was next day
given to the Hawkeye. 1t was really worth
a trip TO Iowa City 10 see the successful ed
itors smile and grin. Davy Wilson. always
in good humor, save when we twit him a.
bout the gals, wore broad smile all the times
laughing with his eyes so much as to hide
them from view. As for old Hawk, you could
see nothing of him but his teeth and specta-
cles. A christian never felt half so good at a
camp.mee.ing as they felt. How we looked,
who were left to hold the bag, We leave the
reader 10 guess.
We have not yet learned the fate Of the res
olution in the Council, giving the Laws to Mr..
Clarke.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

ALUM VS.. F1RE.-We commend the
following TO the attention of parents just
now, when we scarcely open paper but
a melancholy statement of "a child burnt
attracts our observation:
The danger and difficulty can be very
easily avoided by the use Of alum. When
clothing are washed they should be rinsid
out Of alum water-;,ihe solution should he
tolerably strong. If the clothing which
has been newly washed should require
starch, the alum may be pu. in the starch
water.-Alum should be used on all occa-
sions: it renders the clothing fire proof.
All clothing about house or steamboat
made of cotton should be impregna,ed
with alum. For instance, bed and window
curtains. &C.. such articles generally hav-
ing much fringing about them. This hint,
if attended TO, will prove perfect safety
to clothing from fire.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

PRAIRIE PoL1T1cs. "A writer in h,
New Orleans Picayune, who went gu,
last summer with hunting party to b.
Rocky Mountains, says tina. one Of lie
party inscribed the name Of" Henry Clay
near The top Of independence Rock, ahigI
peak in the prairies. nine hundred u1n
beyond the western limits of Missouri
On stopping at the rock, some months d.
ter, ON their way home. they found d,
name Of " Martin Van Buren," in Target
letters placed still higher, and put there By
William Gilpin, Of Missouri, a youngaah
who went out to Oregon with Cap. Ere
mon.'s party. and was formerly the editor
of the ST. Louis Argus.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

u The sub editor Of the Hawkeye is a
rare genius, and would make grand display
in the world of letters, If he had a sheet at his
control of dimensions equal to his gift Of
words. He would do well with sheet no
larger than the Brother Jonathan, as he has a
Gift of words which would enable him to fill
one of its pages without exhausting single
idea. The inside of The Hrwkeye is entirely
too small for such genius. He is decidedly
of the opinion that i. is wrong for man to
chastise his wife:
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

LUNG FLvEa.-A disease, of very hd
character, bearing this name, is prevalhns''
Putnam and ether counties of Illinois II
virulence is said to be singular and remark
BILE. The Lacon Gazette says: Its aAat
den with extreme pain and paralysis d ~
powers of respiration; and in all cases as
have not yielded to medical treatment, dean
has occurred in about week from the timed
attack.
HuRRAH FOR IowA.-Wc see Fourelh
ISOLATION mas been formed ia Jefferson eoa'1
New York, numbering 300 strong, who M |.
emigra.ing TO the Southern part Of this lem
tory on the 7ih day OF April, the birth dg'
Fourier. They have paper at Ws'eIaa
called the I" Iowa Pioneer Phalanx," adfsf
ting tho r-;n Plies of tho Aseo~;ss;@e. ~
gent has gone TO Europe TO solicit pe'sonp
join ttem.-Miners' Express.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

MORE Truth THAN PoGrRY.-The New
Hampshire Telegraph is Of the opinion that
. an editor who cannot stop right liz the mid.
die of one of the finest trains Of thought. tina,
ne is putting on paper, TO minute the dimen-
sions of huge pumpkin, or write an adver-
tisement for dog lost, to enter the name Of a
new subscriber, or receive pay for an old one.
TO take cowhiding for something he has said ,
or blowing up for something he has not said,
and af.er all resume the 'lhread of his dis
cocrse,' and carry out The idea in its original
force md beauty, is next to no editor at all .
Iron Ctt".
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

MAGNETIC TELEGRApH.--The Washington
Cores pendent of the New York Tribune thus
writes -
But it was Of Morse's Magnetic Tele-
graph sat down 10 speak. Congress appro-
priated 1000 last session to test its merits,
and line of wires is now nearly completed
from Baltimore TO this city, for which distance
the Telegraph will soon be put in operation.
saw this invention in its infancy many wears
since, and was then sure it would do, but |
learn that Prof. Morse has made great i'm.
provements on it since. For instance. il now
requires no one TO be watching it at the end
where the intelligence is to be received or ex.
Pected. 1t writes down its own story, so that
blind man can read it, and will lot down.
alone in the dark, messages to half dozen
different persons or bureaux, communicated TO
1t by touch thousands Of miles away. and
transmitted with the speed of thought. Prof.
Wheatston asserts that the electric current
moves at the rate Of 25S,OOO miles Tor ten
times round the earth) per SECOND! Prof.
Morse states as the result of recent experi-
ments, that where the wires make consde-
rabIe angle or circuit the electricity has hab-
It OF cutting across lots. Most marvellous Of
all, you may be sending messages each way
on the same wire at once; thus you send from
Baltimore to Washington by hundred rapidly
succeeding shocks the news +" Cotton has ris.
en- while you are receiving at Baltimore
from Washington the news ssTyler has re-
signed" the two currents passing each other
in their impetuous journey without collision.
l must learn more of this won6er.''
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

LuR1D DEsrlN1Es FOR SPAIN MIR.
Walch, who echoes for the National Intel
ligencer. the voice. Of Whiggery from the
other side of the Atlantic, has the follow
ing notice of the prospects of Spain:
1.-The des,inies Of Spain were Lever
more uncertain and lurid. It seeds that a
federal republic, Of five great divisions, is
the most probable upshot. the tendency OF
the present administration OF affairs, and
the composition Of the military and civil
councils being to destroy all the remains
of reverence for royalty in the Spanish
breast and habits. Nobility and clergy
retain not the least influence /; foreign in
terventlon can be of no ultimate avail"
1t seems, then, that federal republic
is, in the eye Of the lntelligencer's poli.i-
cal coadutor, "lurid'' is, to use
Johnson's defnition-a gloomy, dark"
destiny for nation and Mr.. Walsh does
not leave us in doubt why it is so. There.
he tells US the mobility and clergy retain
not the least influence :" and the tendency
of the civil councils is ito destroy all
the remains of reverence for royalty."-
Globe.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

70 Two burglars confined in the Jail at Do
buque for robbng jewellers shop, effected
their escape few nights ago, by burning a
hole through the floor Of the room, which was
made of two layers Of hewn timber, each one
foot thick. One of the Indians convicted OF
the murder of the Tegarden family. also made
his escape, bot the other chose 10 remain in Jail,
and when asked the reason why he did not
likewise leave, is said 10 have replied that he
was put there by the white man, and the white
man may come and take him out again.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

One Of the locofoco members Of hs bo,.,
was turned out Of the theatre las, ush, I =
rioting and disturbance. Having said 50 mo,s Il
justice TO the rest requires me 10 add ,ba, h.
name is Felix G. Mcconnell, Of Aab,m,
This adventure conports with bis upifo,m
character here. What must be the morals q,
the people who send such a representative p
Washington correspondent of the Tribune
We should think tina, they were aAmos, a,
bad as those Of the man whom the hon. Tint.
thy Fuller, speaker of the Massachusetts hms
Of Observation-Disclosures as pe,
son who "spent bis days a. gaming ,ab.
and his nights in the revels Of 6is,AeI'
Henry Clay was the man Mr.. Fuller was talk.
ing about.-Bsston Statesman.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

AN ABOLITIoNIsT IN A QUANDARY.-A
few months since, an abolitionist Of this
city, like many of his brethren, an ardent
friend Of the Poor Slave when liberty
can be made source of proft-en.iced a
young negro man from his master in Ken.
lucky. living a few miles hack of Coving-
ton, and induced him to enter his service
in this city as an apple pedlar. The slave
was entrusted with wagon and two hor-
ses, and in time was suffered to hawk his
frui, about unattended by his new master,
till becoming tired of a service quite as la
borious as that under the cllain of Ken
lucky servitude. and through the 2arsimo-
ny Or the employer, equally as scant IN
compensation, he took it into his head one
day lately, 10 return to his old home so
determined to 60 as other gentlemen some
times do, he went in borrowed state-ta-
kinglwagon and horses with him, and the
change in his pocket which he had obtain
ed on his last apple tour. When arrived
a. home he told his old master where he
had been and wha. he had been doing, and
the master being willing to receive him
back again, and considering that the wag
on and horses would be very good rec
ompense for the service done the apple
merchant by his slave, he determined to
settle accounts in regular business way
by keeping the property and passing them
to the humane gentleman's account. OF
course, the latter is in quandary how to
regain his property, and we care little il
he don't ucceed.-Cincinnati Message.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02
LONG JoHs.-Our tall representative in

LONG JoHN.-Our tall representative in
congress is attracting considerable alten-
ton at tine capitol. Almost every letter
writer has something to say about him,
and like one Of Shakspeare's most noted
characters, he appears TO be not only witty
himself. blu. the cause of wit in. others
The correspondent of the Boston Posi-
gives the following account of his first APP
pearance at the National Theatre at Wash
ington:
Our friend from Illinois attracted the
most attention and afforded the most a.
musement or Wednesday evening. Find
ing the box too short TO stow away his
legs with any degree Of comfort, he hung
them over into the pit-but there they SO
much annoyed the persons sitting under
meath, that he was requested by the police
officer of the house to remove them or buy
another ticket for Them. He adopted the
latter alternative, and thus secured and
occupied seat in the box and pit at the
same time.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

Voltaire said-"I have friend who is a
director in the Bank Of France, who writes to
me when they are going to make money pien-
~ and make stock rise, and then give orders
70 my broker to sell !; sud he writes to me when
:hey are going to make stock fall, and then
wi:te to E:y broker to buy; and thus a. hun
dred leagues from Paris, and without moviue
from my chair, make money"
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02
TERRITORY OF IowA,2 Sc
Musca,ine County,
District Court-To the MAY T

OlSIiiCt OOu!t- i y TIC WAY Atl!u, 's'
Samuel Brisbind)
Robert Foreman.
PROCESS Of attachment issued from The gu ,
court on the 18th day of September, ls4S ~ :
sum Of thirty-nine dollars and seveny.one ee's.
Now unless the defendant shall appear ano r.,
before the first day of the next term Of SAID .yS
judgment will be entered, and the property 'p'A
will be sold to satisfy the same with costs. ~ cba
Feb 2, lS44-4w j. G.MORROm.' "a. "a
5. 9. Hastings atty for p'ff Prize. -
TERRITORY OF IoWA,2s.
Muscatine County, " ,o,e
District Court--To the May Term low
Trad c. Day,2 -, ,,,,0meu..
John Wood, ~. oso,
PROCESS Of attachment Issued HON :, WI ,hs SUI
court on the 10Th day Of October, 1872, ~ ,si,ndap
Of twenty-llne dollars Now unless 'e s,, hs ne,
shall appear and plead before the fist gay and b
term Of said court judgment will be eile,'t the 500
property attached will be sold to sal,sly rlsrs
with costs. J. G. MORko"' 40 30
s. G. Hastings Atty. for Pig. r. H'
Feb. 2, 44-4w.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

~ David Tod, Esq. of Trumbull county,
was nominated as the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Ohio, by the convention which
assembled at Columbus on the 9Th ult. With
the exception Of one vote given to Ex-Gover-
nor Lucas, he was the unanimous choice of
the convention.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

SMALL Pox.-We learn from the Herald,
published at Platteville, Wisconsin, place
containing six or seven hundred inhabitants
that during the present winter, twenty-five
deaths have occurred in that place from this
pestilence. One or two cases have occurred
in Dubuque, and one or two are reported to
have occurred in KeokUk.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

lSDIANs.-A remnant Of the Musquawke
tribe OF Indians has 6;voacked among rs this
winter. Their tents are pitched in the out.
skirt Of our town, while their dingy occupants
daily saunter lstlessly through our streets a.
lounge about the stores.-Davenport Gaz.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

~ Joseph Duncan, Ex-Governor of Hi
nois, and formerly Representative in Con-
eress from that State, died at his residence,
near Jacksonville, on the 18th ult. after short
illness.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

Gen. Dodge, of Iowa, introd uced. on The
5th inst, resolution in the House Of Repra.
sentatives. which was adopted, ins,ruc,inp the
Judiciary Committee to enquire into the expe-
diency Of establishing an additional Judicial
District in ,his Territory.-Miners' Exrress.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

Mr.. Bancroft, the celebrated author OF a
History of The United States, at great
Van Buren, meeting recently held in Bos-
ton, made mos, powerful and eloquent
speech, from which we extract the follows
ing naassaag6Saph
n If MI. Van Buren, receives the nomi-
ration at Baltimore, his election will be
advocated with powerful and widespread
enthusiasm. In his defeat the Democrat
ic principles were defined, insulted and
trampled upon that principle demands TO
avene &c itself; not as an affair of human
passion or personal ambition. No, it is
movement from the higher sphere OF
truth and right, and it is the law of the
moral world, that truth and right cannot
with impunity be outraged. The Demo
cratic principle having for time been
overwhelmed by arts and misrepresenta'
TONS has gathered energy to throw of the
weight and bore it down; it will rise once
more in its majesty to be the guiding light
OF our nation and the hope of humanity"
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

A "Ladies Temperance Convention" was
held in Baltimore last Monday. The fair
delegates decided that temperance festival
should be held annually, the proceeds of which
should be appropriated to the relief Of the dss-
titute families Of reformed inebriates. The
first and second days Of January were des,gna-
ted for the occasion; but the place was net
decided upon.-lron City.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

PENNsYLvANlA.-It appears from III. =
cial reports, that the recei.s from ,h a' w.
lie works Of Pennsylvania, after dsi ss'
ing all expenses, for the yaar 1912 ' ~
$l,O75.367. This Is much large, ,I ~
the receits Of las. year. although III. % ss'
had been greatly reduced. l, appear, % '1'
the state has paid this year 10 De, ... %a
tors sl,97l.s36. 1t is said tia. as h., , y
mestic debt is nearly cancelled upward, AID ~ =,
a million will hereafter be paid 10 a, a,O
creditors. for interes. due on state bo.;
Pennsylvania received last year ns, Is
$4,000, into her treasury ora, . -,
above the amount received as ,az q, ~ ~
and personal property, which las. amoo, N.Y.
ted TO $553,00O.-Sla,e Register ''
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02
Re,r,su SHIPS AND TIC RIGHT OF STARCH.
LIZ GRoof kHllal0

BslrlsH SHIPS AND The RIGHT OF SEARCH.
France is determined that Great Britain
shall not have all the fun 10 herself IN the mat
Ter Of boarding and seizing trading vessels
The captain Of the English brig Ranger com
plains bitterly in the London Herald OF the
treatment he experienced from the officers Of
the Frencl, nen-of.war. He was trading IN
palm oil. a, Grand Cestos, and had twenty
one Kroomen-blacks-on board. engaged IN
working and loading his ship, when ne was
:. visited,r placed under arrest, and detained
all night. All this was TO retaiate for similar
outrages committed on French traders by Brit
ish men-ofwar. Capital, this. j will soon
work out its own cure. The captain OF the
Ranger says: "My Only business is to cali
attention to the state of uncertainty and emoaf-
rassment in which British trade on the coast
Of Africa is placed by such a state Of things.
sit is calculated to ruin our trade entirely"
he also remarks. We hope the polite French
men will dose John Bull with the right OF
visit" until the latter gets his fill of it.--bos'
toa Statesman.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

Democracy is found in right, and Dem
ocrats have only TO 60 to work in right
way to be ultimately successful in the
spread Of their principles. Intrigue and
assembling should be despised. and the
men who practice them should be spurn-
ed from public confidence. We have no
need of their aid to carry out our princi-
Piles. and shall only find them dead weights
if we encourage their appearance in our
ranks. Jefferson and Burr were once RI
val Democrats. The former was an hon
orable. high-,ninded man, and now lives
as such in the hearts of his countrymen.-
The latter, base in,riguer, was taken in
his own crafliness, anc lives in memory
only as infamy is remembered. Anc as
were the fortunes Of these two men, ever
have been and ever shall be the fortunes
of parties, of communities, Of nasions.-
New Haven Columbian Reg
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

The democrats Of Kentucky have nominated
the Hon. VIM. Q. Butler as their candidate
for governor. VIM. Pitcher for lieut.. governor,
and James Guthrie for presidential eec,or
from the Louisville district. The ticket is q
strong one, and with such men il the field as
Butler. Guthrie. &C., the democrats Of old
Kentucky will give the COINS terrible sha-
king.
Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-02-02

PUBLIC LANDs.-The National Intelli-
gencer Of the 2O!h Dec. says. The COM
munication from the General Land Office,
yesterday laid before Congress, shows the
sales of lands for the last year to have
amounted to 1889 GA acres shaking two
millions Of dollars, exceeding the amour,
received the preceding year by 5000, 900.
vi the sales, not more than 10000 acres
have been sold above the minimum price,
owing. as the commissioner thinks, to the
operation of the pre-emp,ion laws, which
enables the actual settler to secure the
choicest lands at the minimum price. Du.
ring the same period, more than ten thou.
sand patents have been transmitted, and
all that have been presented have been
signed.