Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-06-23

HEAVY LOAD OF STAKES.-Dan Marble &C.
casionally lets of a joke that will keep. He
the other day with more liquor on than he could
conveniently carry.
"Halio! what's the matter now?'' said friend
whom the inebriated had Just run against
"Wh-hic-way,n said the fellow, so drunk he
was hardly able to articulate, sswh-hic-way, the
fact is, a lot Of my friends have been b-b-hic-
betting liquor on the race to-day, and they've
got me to hold the stakes for them!''-Pic.
The President of the United States and the
Hon. John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy,
are TO leave Washington this morning for Ra-
leigh, N. c., to attend the commencement of
Oh pei Hill College-before one of the Socie-
ties, of which Mr.. Mason is to deliver an ad-
dress. The President and Mr.. NJ will be ac-
Mason, and Col. walker, the Prerident's
Private Secretary. Arrangements had been made
at Fredericksburg, Richmond, and other points
along the route, for an appropriate reception Of
the President and his suite.-[Union.
aJWe know of no rebuke more cutting,
and better deserved, than that given to
Senator Corwin, of Ohio, by the gallant
volunteers from that State, after the bat
tie of Buena Vista. Those men who had
volunteered to risk their lives in their
countay's cause, indignant at the course
pursued by their Senator in Congress, sf-
ter beating back the Zoe, burnt him in eff
gy on the scene Of their glory; thus mani
Testing their detestation ofthe doctrines he
preached, and of his lack of patriotism
He is not the only whig whose conduct
deserves similar notice, and who will be
remembered by the brave volunteers when
ever occasion may require. Twenty eight
in the House Of Representatives voted as
Corwin did in the Senate.-St. Louis In.
ion.
Information Wanted. - Can any body tell
where the ruin has gone to that was pre-.
dicted by the wings, on the reduction Of
the "black tariff" If they can, they will
confer very great favor on enquirine
wing mourners. Nothing has been heard
of it lately, and it is feared that in their
anxiety for an available, the wings have
lost sight Of il, and it will be lost. The
evil that was to attend the passage of the
sub-treasury bill has also "absquatulated'
to parts unknown. Information as to the
whereabouts of these two essentials in
wing electioneering tactics, will be thank
fully Observation-Disclosures Jeffersonian.
Diuision Of LaDor.-A preacher was
holding forth to q swearied congregation,
when "he lifted his eyes" to the gallery
and beheld ''little pickle" pelting the
people below with chestnuts The minis
ter was about to administer u sharp and
singing reprimand for this fragrant act of
impiety and disrespect; but the youth an
ticlpating him, bawled out at the top Of his
voice, "You mind your preaching, AMI I'll
keep the people awake
Waiter said diner-out, in down
town restaurant yesterday Waiter, bring
me plate of soup, quick
Say soup again, stranger said tall
Tennessee returned volunteer, who hap.
pened to sit opposite to him, And I'll
give you Cerro Gordo whipping, will.
l teld the old General when left him at
Jalapa, that when / come to the States,
I'd lick the first man I'd hear saying soup,
and I'm damn'd if don't do it,
1t was with great difficulty the Tennes-
sean could be saiisGed.-N. 0. Delta.
The Washington Union says the letters
received in that city indicate the speedy
recovery of Gen. Shields. The pain he
suffered at the last dates arose from the
dislocation Of two ribs, which was not dis
covered for some time.
IA YANKEE "DowN EAST has invented a
machine that will reap, thrash. and grind; spin
cotton, scrape potatoes, rock the cradle, darn
stockings white SHINGLES whistle yankee