Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-11-24
Is.-Ask Mr.. Stout.

I Is.-Ask Mr.. Stout.
Dev.-(Timidly approaching the senior
edi,or.l Please, sir, did you mean those
words for Hudson's Bay?
Stout ment them for just what they
are; cant you make them out?
DEVICES sir, but my geography says
that the St. Peters empties into the Mis-
sissippi.
S.-What says the manuscript?
Dcv.-I. says the St. Peters empties
into Hudson's Bay, sir.
S.-Then how dare you insinuate that
it empties into the Mississippi, you imp?
Dev.-Cause, l cant understand how il
gels across that great river, without spill
ling all its water into tbs gulp Of Mexi
co.
S.--What is that to you, impudence?-
1t is not for you TO inquire how it gets
across, or whether it crosses at all. Cant
7 it run round, you ninny'9 I'll have you
to know that the St. Peters shall empty
itself where choose to indicate, if it has
to run all the way up hill to reach its des-
tlnation. Back to your case BECOME,
sirrah!
Here the indignant editor dismounted
his tripod and made demonstration to-
wards the poker; whereupon our inform
ant became alarmed, and lei..
Rcpn(lia1ioa--Af: fairs il, England.
We think that the abuse of the United
States,as regulators, by the English press,
was not only absurd and unjust, but ill
timed. The papers which have reached
us by the last steamer from that country,
TEEN with doctrines that look more like
reputation than any we ever yet had oc-
cas,on to listen to. The United States
never repudiated. They have twice paid
off their entire national debt, and will do
so again.
Some Of the members OF the confedera-
cy, for their private and local purposes,
unquestionably borrowed money, which
10y a change OF times and policy dictated
by the bank Of England in order. to affect
American interes's,) they were unable
promptly to pay, but they have never re-
fused to pay any legal contracts they have
ever made. All they asked was time.
But the English capitalists, while they
submit to stocks deferred until the day
Of doom, to diminulions OF interest to abso-
lutte non. paym and to all sorts Of vii
liany from crowned heads, have nearly
pulled the wind out Of their cheeks in
uttering curses against Yankee swindlers
No allowance could be made for the
young states of the south and west, who
created debts that they might construct
railroads and canals to carry English iron.
No allowance was made for the generous
country which receives their starving pop
u|atlon as brothers, welcomes them 10 her
soil, elevaies them in the socia. scale and
tells them they are men! No; it was snf-
ficient for these proud bankers, that the
S'o'SS p"eo ihoiS y, anu oNihS AioiiS y ,
were pick pockets, kna,es and villains.
Now the tune is changed. The Amer
lean debts are the best debts the English
have. Of all the property they have in
the world, the American funds are the most
reliable and most certain TO be paid. We
should not be surprised if there was a
sudden reaction in the English mind, and
IA large investment of British funds IN
American stocks, wi:hstanding all the
cutlery we have heard.
1t is very evident that property Of all
kinds in England is very unstable at the
present moment, and we find il rendered
more so by the advocacy of doctrines in
its Leading journals which go beyond any
thing we have yet seen avowed in that
country, at least by the press.-Dry
Goods Journal.