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Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

| London in length is eight miles, in
breadth three, and in circumference TWEEN
Ity-Six. 1t contains 5000 streets, lanes,
alleys, and courts, and IS squares. II
has 246 churches and chapels, 207 meet
ing houses for dissenters, 90 chapels for
foreigners, and 6 synagoeues for Jews,
making COP places Of public worship
The number of inhabitants is now estima-
ted at 100000. In this vast city there
are 1000 seminaries for education, 10 ins
titutions, for promoting the arts and scien-
ces, 1872 assylums for the INDECENT, II for
the sick and lame, l3 dispensaries, 704
charitable institutions, SO courts, Of JUS
tice, 4040 professional men connected
with the law. There are Is, 800 vessels
trading on the river Thames in the year,
and 10000 wagons going and returning
to the metropolis in the same period
The exports and imports, to and from the
Thames, are estimated at EGG, I'll ,222
annually, and the property floating in the
vast city every year is fl7O,00O,0oo
sterling.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
MIR. Clay and General Taylor.

The Washington correspondent of the
Penmsy lvanian, under date of the 10Th
June, gives the following statement:
cit is stated very positively, and is
pretty generally believed, that Mr.. Clay
has written private letter to Mr.. Horace
Greeley, Of the New York Tribune, in
which, while he advises Mr.. G. to sustain
the. nominations of Taylor and Fillmore,
he at the same time gives the Philadelphia
National Convention an awful scoring for
its desertion Of Wing principles, declaring
that the Wing party has sunk its self-res-
pect, and no confidence can hereafter be
reposed in it-that if successful now, at
the end Of four years it will be broken to
fragments. Great efforts, it is said, are
being made. to induce Mr.. Clay to allow
this letter to be published"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
A Voice from the Past.

Henry Clay, in 1928, must have been
endowed with prophetic vision. Through
the vista of time he saw a military chief
tian," in the person Of Gen. Harrison,
arise to thwart his ambition for the Presi-
dency at time when, if ever, he could
have been elected. He saw himselfthrust
aside by s'blind and needless enthusiasm
for military renown" in 1910. In 1874
he suffered himself to be a candidate, and
was defeated. In lS48 many friends,
shrewd politicians, assured him that he
alone could be elected land he alone could
unite the party-and he issued his mani
festc to that effect, but as in 1910, a"blind
and needless enthusiasm for mere militia
ry renown," crossed his path and he is
thrust aside for "military chieftain"
again. Certainly he must have read the
future with the eye of a prophet when, in
1928, he exclaimed:
"Regardless of all imputations and
proud of the opportunity of free and unre-
strained intercourse with all my fellow
citizens, if it were physically possible,
and compatible with my official duties, l
would visit every State, 60 to every town
and hamlet, address every man in the u
Mon, and entreat them by their love of
country, by their love Of liberty, for the
sake Of themselves and their prosperity
in the name of their venerated ancestor
in the name of the human family, deeply
interested In the fulfilment of the trust
committed to their hands-by all the past
glory that we have won-by all that awaits
us as a nation il we are true and faithful
in gratitude to Him who has hitherto so
singularly blessed us-solemnly pause
and contemplate the precipice which
yawns before us. If indeed, we have in
CURED the divine displeasure; and if it be
necessary to chastise this people with a
rod Of vengeance, l would humbly pros
trate myself before him, and implore Him,
in his mercy, to visit our favored land
with War, with Pestilence, with Famine,
,rith any scourge other THIN military rule,
or blind and heedless enthusiasm tor mere
military renoacn!'
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
Gen. C;lss ut Cleveland.

The Wing papers are trying to assail
Gen1. CAss because he did not deliver a
political speech at Cleveland, at the large
and enthusiastic reception which welcom-
ed him to his Home in the West. Gen.
CAss observed.
''You have made some alIusion, sir, to
principles and measures which agitate the
public mind. l can but refer YOU to my
votes as recorded and sentiments as here
tofore expressed. upon these questions
Ny acts for the last forty years are before
the people, and if these are not sufficient
to satisfy the public, all that | can now
advance will be mere delusion.
Who will not say that this course, in
referring to his votes was not infinitely
more honorable and high-minded than any
lip pledges he could make after his NOM
ina1ion? There is a manl;ness in this
course which commends it to the fearless
character Of freemen.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
From the Hartford Times.
The Result.

Already some Of the newspapers are
publishing tables of the probable result
Of the Presidential election. 1t was a
very common thing previous to the last
election-some coming in their predic-
tons pretty near the mark Others max
ing very wild guess-work-and one paper
only in the United States--the Hartford
Times naming all the states, (and no
more, that gave their votes for Mr.. Polk.
The New York Herald gives the follow
ing table as the probable result in the
COMING election.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

Giving the Federalsts all the doubtful
states, and the Democrats then have a
clean majority of AZ. But the Democrats
stand the better chance to carry New
York and Tennessee. If they are divid-
ed in New York, SO are their opponents.
In Kentucky BUTLER is exceedingly pop
ular, and the fact that the lederalists have
kicked Henry Clay overheard to make
room for such a no principled candidate
as L. Taylor, places that state in doubt,
if it does not give the democrats tie best
chance to:' it. As TO South Carolina and
Florida, there is no doubt about them
The only states which we have placed in
the Democratic column, about which there
is a shade of doubt, arc Ohio and Geor-
gia. Georgia is really democratic State,
on true issues; and the Wings OF Ohio,
all through the Western Reserve, and
particularly in their strongest districts,
have passed solemn resolves in their Con-
ventions the past spring, that they would
not support Taylor, should've be nominal
ed-that they could not do so consistently
with their principles. They still declare
they will not vote for him-we mean in
sufficient number to defeat largely. On
the other hand. Gov. Cass was the early
nominee of Ohio, he was brought out in
that State as Western man, and is pop
ular there. The indications are decidedly
that Ohio will give her vote for Cass.
Then we have placed Louisiana in the
Wing column for the reason that TAYLOR
lives in that State; he may possibly carry
it, though he is by no means sure of any
such result. We have also conceded
Massachusetts to the Federalists, though
in that State many Of them refuse to sup
port Taylor, and have called Conv en-
ton at Worcester, to oppose him. Indeed
it is thought by many, that Taylor cannot
carry New England State. But giving
him four Of them, and looking at the case
in the worst possible aspect, the Demo-
Gratis have the day sure.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

More Wing Harmony.-The Concord,
N. H., Democrat and Freeman, paper
which has been making common cause
with the wings in New Hampshire, says.
"Since the nomination we have seen and
conversed with hundreds of wings from
this and other towns in all parts of the
state, including many of the wing repre-
sentatives; and so far we have scarcely
met a wing, (always excepting an exceed
ing small number whose principles are
seven) who does not repudtate the nomina-
ton Of Ia4l0r.o
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
wllssl is Life?
By J.w. REDrIELD.

L
The day grows pensive at its close,
And wears sober grey,
And on IFS face the languor shows
Of Au.umn's yellow ray.
Soon night will spread his sable pail,
The day is dying fast,
How ghost-like are the shadows tall
That on the ground are cast!
Like pilgrims tothc shade Of night,
The shades are hast'nipg on,
To where the brightest grows the light,
Wien day begins to dawn;
A deeper, softer sadness shows,
In gentle evening dew,
And night DER every feature throws
A sad and sombre hue.
And now the sound Of streams and floods,
Becomes hollow moan;
The rushing Of the trees and woods
Hath now willing tone,
And plaintive through the air is heard
The sight-hawk's piping call,
There's not leaf by zephyr stirred,
But hath dying fall.
An emblem Of our life below,
Is every passing day;
More thoughtful Of its end we grow,
When we are growing grey.
Like pilgrim shadows to the shades,
We soon shall hence be gone;
But when life's day the soonest fades,
A brighter day will dawn.
The darkness OF the silent tomb
To which we are consigned,
Will cast sad and solemn gloom
Ger those we leave behind.
And tears will then bedew the cheek
And fall upon our bier;
And sad will be tie words they speak,
The friends who loved us here.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

u Gerrit Smith, of Peterboro, N. Y,
has been nominated by the industrial con-
gress for the next presidency, and Will
liam S. Wait, of Illinois, for the vice pre-
sidency. .r ....... ..
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

= Governor Jones of Tennessee has
been speaking in Philadelphia, and had
much to say about Henry Clay not being
the nominee. He knows that Taylor cam
not carry Tennessee, as he has said SO in
as many words. In his speech at Nash
vile, on the 9Th of last April, he said:-
II do not doubt that nine hundred and
ninety nine out Of every thousand of the
wings Of this State prefer Mr.. Clay to
Gen. Taylor, OR any other man; yet we
are told that Gen. Taylor is the strongest
man. This to me, is a strange conclusion,
to which do not give my assent. l do
not know that Mr.. Clay can carry this
State; .5u. think ! DO know that if lie cam
not, no wing in the Union can. He car
ried it in 1914 against the strongest DEM
ocrat in the Union in this State. He is
stronger now than then; and knowing the
other party cannot run any other man as
strong as Mr.. Polk, | see no reason to
doubt that he can carry it again.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

There is but one way Of obtaining bus
iness-publicity: one way Of obtaining
Observation-Disclosures; the newspaper
is the fly wheel by which the motive pow
er Of business enterprise is sustained, and
money the steam by which the advertising
is kept going.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
From the ". Y. Tribune. June Is.

n = TOUV S"C ~ 4 = tO10''cs O'0''~
We lost two subscribers yesterday -
one expressly because we hesitated to sup
port and endorse the nomination Of Gen.
TAYLOR the other because we hesitated
to oppose it. Don't hurry, friends! We
shall make up our mind one of these days.
It's dreadful hard pork-mighty trying
to ones conscience about these days.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

WASH. NAT. Mon MEsT.-Nearly $780,
600 have been already received towards
the erection Of the National Washington
Monument at Washington. 1t is contem-
plated to rear this structure, eventually,
to the height of five hundred feet.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

D=Capt. VIM. H. TAYLOR, the inven-
tor of the Sub Marine Armor, expert
ments with which in our navy have excl
ted so much attention lately, we regret to
announce, has departed this life. He died
on Monday morning last in the AID veal
of his age. Capt. Taylor belonged tt
Newark, N. j., but formerly resided il
Newburn, N. G.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

GEs. TAyLoR's AccEPrAScE.-A let
ter from Washington to the Philadelphia
Bulletin, says: "Gen. Taylor's letter of
acceptance was received in town last eve
ming. | have net seen the communication,
but learn that he reiterates his former
independence of party, and declares that,
notwithstanding his nomination by the
wing convention, he must consider him
self the candidate of the masses"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

MRs. MlrcHELL.-By the Britannia we
learn that this lady is still living. The
Dublin Nation publishes a list of subscrip-
lions for the relief of Mitchers family;
they already amount to between $500
| and S7OO.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
IOWA CAPITAL REPORTER


r,,m, Of ssb.cripfion.--Two Dollars per annum
:, advance, or within six months rom me com ,
M. md ftv cents if payment is delayed until al
,Ss exniration OF the year Three dollars will in
.a,;ahly be demanded; One Dollar for SIX months
:c,s;a IN advance, not, One Dollar and hfty cents
must be paid. r..,..,;n..
Rates Of Atvertisi1. square OF twelve Ines
aa :. ones in proportion. Advertise.
an,s sent to the office for insertion, without de-
the number Of insertions, will be continu.
&c., sS,:, ordered out, and charged se~~rdangfy.
a. liberal deductions made to yearly advertisers
Tz-Letters directed to the Editors, IN ofoer " 70
.ove attention, MUST BE POST PAID.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

= Extract from letter from the
chairman Of the Ohio democratic state CEN
trail committee:-''Look out for Ohio -
We will sweep it clean Of whiggery Of all
descriptions. The whole west will roll
up a united voice that will startle the world.
cannot be mistaken, think. You new
err saw such wry faces as the wings put
on. We have good news from all the
state"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
". PENN. CLARK,

A TTORNEY at Law. and Solicitor in Chancery,
Iowa CITY, Iowa, will attend to all business
trusted to his in the u s. District Court. and
the Supreme and District Courts of the State of To-
wa; and also act as LAND AGENT. OFFICE, No.
IL, Iowa Avenue, the Store lately occupied by
NJ. Murray.
April II, 1S4s.-1y 4
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

A newspaper I'M family is equal to three
months in school each year. Go into a
family where newspaper is taken, and
into those who sscannot afford it,'' mark
the differences in the intelligence of the
children, and be convinced.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
A QUESTION FOR WHIG JOURNALS TO

A QUESTION FOR WHIG JOURNALS TO
ANSWER, IF THEY DARE.-"Has not Gen.
TAYLOR purchased an immense sugar
plantation between the Neuces and Rio
Grande, and recently stocked it with So
600 worth of negroes?" We pause for a
reply. Ii this is so, is it not the introduce
ton of slavery on free soil, by the wing
candidate for the Presidency?
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
II The Washington CORES pondent of

u The Washington Correspondent of
the N. Y. Herald OF date the 18th, says:
We are assured, by authority entitled
to credit, Of the following facts regarding
the PRONUNCIATION of the Allison letter of
Gen. Taylor, specially got up as the "kane
letter" for the present campaign.
The letter Of April Is, to the editor of
the Richmond Republican, or copy of it,
was sent to some leading political friends
Of Gen. Taylor in New Orleans simultan-
eously with the despatch Of the original to
Richmond. 1t arrived in New Orleans
on the Goth, and fortunately fell into the
hands of Bale Peyton, and Mr.. Built,
ole of the New Orleans editorial corps.
The declaration of Gen. Taylor, that he
would maintain the field, even in the event
of the nomination of Mr.. Clay, alarmed
them. To repair the damage as far as
possible, they repaired forthwith by steam
to Baton Rouge, or the red stick, and they
were there with Gen. Taylor Oil Sunday,
April 23d, on which day, is alleged, the
Allison letter was written, and dated the
22d, in consideration Of the sancity of the
Sabbath; but they were too slow, with all
the speed employed in despatching the
Allison letter after the Richmond letter,
the latter being published, however, in
ashington, simultaneously with the form
er, SO near was the object accomplished of
overtaking and suppressing the Richmond
letter.
Now, this looks very much like truth
full disclosure; and if it be so, the only dis
covery made is, that Gen. Taylor, had he
not been promptly rescued by his friends,
would have dished his chances for the
Presidency. in his zeal to maintain his po-
sition even against his old champion, Hen
ny Clay.
FRoM THE Iowa CoMrANy.-By a let
ter received in town to-day, from John
Moyce, Of the company, in Mexico, da-
ted May 18th, we learn that over 80 of
the company will return together, and
they intend 10 bring the remains of the la
mented Captain Guthrie, and wish TO bu-
ry them with military honors. They will
probably reach this place in few days.
Ir"Brother!' said young Partisan dis
ciple Of the fraternising philosoph to his
young fellow traveller, ''pay my fare for
me-" 81 cannot" was the reply. elbow
citizen! are we not brothers?" "Ah yes;
but our purses are not sisters"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

THE GERMANs.-It is significant that
there is bat one German Political news
paper (the Republican, at Cincinnati,) in
the~Union, which refuses 10 support CAss
and BUTLER. The Germans poll about
100000.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

I=Private bankruptcy is almost uni
versal in France, and accounts state that,
unless some miracle is done, the country
cannot escape National bankruptcy.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
|RGE 8. HA NiPTON,

GEORGE 8. HAMPTON,
A TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, Iowa City,
4 Iowa. will practice in the various Courts in
this State.
March, lS4S.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
wM. E. LEFFINwEl.L,

A TToRNEY and Counsellor at Law, Blooming
ton, Iowa, will practice in the Super and Dis
trict Courts of this State.
March, 1S4S.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

ga law among the Arabs, permits a
man to divorce any Of his wives who
does not make good bread. Did such a
law exist here the number of divorces
would be unaccountable.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
From the Pennsylvania.
y Silent ms the Grave.

The North american is still,stupifed at
the blow its hopes and preference received
in the nomination of General TAYLOR -
1t looks in vain for the avenue by which
| to make an honorable surrender to the flag
which floats over, but is socoldly sustain
ed in, its columns. Whichever way it
turns, the road is filed with obstacles: its
own opinions, like 50 many bloody BAN
Gus at the board, start up to appal and to
admonish it. Ifit proceeds to recommend
General TAYLOR as friend OF war, its
own bitter censures rise before, it like
bitter warnings. If it commends him as
man ofpeace, the atmosphere is filled with
the hissings and scorn Of an insulted peo-
lple. If it presents him as the friend Of
protection, his three hundred slaves are
marched out to deny and denounce the
allegation. If it urges him, as the oppo-
nent of the extention Of slavery, or the
acquisition Of slave territory, Mr.. Boris
steps forward to assert that the claim is
not just, and proceeds to prove his asser-
ton. If, desperate and hard-pressed, it
declares that he was attacked by the loco
focos for the capitulation of Monterey,
from the columns Of its twin-brother, the
United States Gazette, is dragged forth into
the light of day, the first assault upon that
famous transaction. lit screams out that
JACOB THOMPSON, Democrat, assailed
TAYLOR, the thunder-tones of indignant
truth fling back the name Of CoRwIs, a
wing, as his bitterest foe. Titturns to the
army for aid, the blast Of anger from the
soldiers against the opponents of the war,
makes it hide its head in terror. If it
turns to Ohio for comfort, the Western
Reserve rises and refers it to the slave
ground Of Baton Rouge. If it turns to
New York, pale-faced GREELEY directs
it to the proceedings of the "National
Slaughter House," at Philadelphia. II it
implores aid from Kentucky, the answer
is, ;swho assassinated Henry CLAy?"-
If it goes to South Carolina, and demands
support from that quarter, the Mercury
coldly refers it to M1LLARD FILLMORE.
II it goes to Mississippi, or to Tennessee,
indignant Whiggery asks for the TAYLOR
platform. fit goes to Indiana, a thousand
voices rise about perditiont to those who pre-
fer no-party man to john MCLEAN.
/ Turning back over its own files, its
eye-balls are scared with its rebukes of
Democracy, for yielding to the South
| its heart made sick with praises Of CLAY
its very blood cnrdles over its argu-
n'ents in favor Of "Whis principles"
In such a strait, what can the North
.4mericnn do but hold its peace? Every
gun that was charged before the nominal
ton has been spiked, and it must either
open the war, and offer itself up living
sacrifice to the Democratic sharpshooters,
firing upon it with its own ammunition,
or else consult its own safety and say
nothing.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
a. WrNTHRoP ADAMs,

DEALER in Dry Goods, Groceries, Queensware,
~ Boots, Shoes, sc. &C., under the Free Mason's
Hall, johnson Street, KEoKUK, IOWA.
April, 1855
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
InHN IS. DuNLaP.

~ ENERAL Commis sion and Forwarding Merchant
VI and Dealer in Flour, Bacon, Pork, Lard, Beet,
Wheat, Hemp, Tobacco, &c. &c. E5-No y, Front
Street, ST. LOUIS, MO.
April 1S4S.-
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

The whole number of electoral votes in
the approaching election will be $780,
One hundred and forty-six (l46) will
constitute a majority.
1t is not ye. time to weigh the influences
that will be uppermost in the different
states, but looking at the present state Of
parties, audi their candidates, the follow
ing appears to us to be the real condition
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
d, p. PALMER,

4 ATTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, will prac-
~ tice in the District and Supreme Courts of
Iowa, and in the United States District Court.
BLOOMFIELD, DAVIS co. IOWA.
May 2sth, ls4s.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
MORGAN RENO,

A TToRNEY and Counsellor at Law, Iowa City,
Iowa, will practice in the Courts of this State,
and attend promptly to all business entrusted to him.
March, 1s49.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
GILMAN FOLSOM,

A TToRNEY at Law, Iowa City, Iowa, will prac-
"A tiee in Johnson and the adjoining counties, in
the Supreme Court of Iowa, and in the District
Court ofthe United States.
March, 1S4S.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
BE yrs HnrPoaIUnn OF FASHION,

MO. 60, Chestnut Street, between Second & Third,
~ SAINT LOUIS, MO. All garments made at
this establishment for neatness of fit and style,
unsurpassed.
Jusr REcE1vrD-New and Elegant Cloths, CAST
meres and Vestinys, by late arrivals.
April, lS3S.-4
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
p. II. PATTERSON,

A TTORNEY and Counselor at Law, Iowa City,
= Iowa, will practice in the various Courts Of
this State.
March, lS4s.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19

s. A. BJSSELL,
A TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, Upton, &C.
IA dar county, Iowa.
March, 1S4S.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
h. b. PATTERsON,

A TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, Iowa City,
"a Iowa, will attend to all business entrusted to
hun in the line of his profession.
March, 1913.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-07-19
CHARLES A. ROBBiNS,

MATCHMAKER, Engraver and Jeweller, lows
City, at the sign of the "Big Watch,' corner
OF Clinton and College Streets.