Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-10-24
BACKING A Friend.

BACKING A Friend.
We are authorized to offer bets to til
amount Of $4,000 to $4,000, in real an
personal, either on the general result
, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.
The property consists of Minera: Lands
Town Lots, Horses, &C., to be APPRAISED
by dsinterested persons, and the priv
lege reserved Of paying the appraise,
value in money, iflost. Also, 800 cash
on the general result. ~
We have received the first announce
h1ent Of the Medical Department of thu
University Of Iowa. situated at Iowa CT
ty.
We perceive that it is contemplated BY
tho Trustees Of the Institution, to have 9
course of Medical Lectures delive red the
ensuing winter.
1t will be gratifying to the Medical
Profession, and to all who take an inter.
est in the advancement Of science in our
young State, to know that facilities are
thus offered for its successful cultivation
within our own borders One OF the el-
emcnts Of greatness, in state is always
found in her scientific Institutions. And
in the one under consideration, no one
can fail to recognise the commencement
Of what will, under the direction Of the
intelligent board Of Trustees, become a
just source of pride to the State.
The following, are the Trustees, Rev.
w. W. Wood. President, Hon. James P.
Carleton, Hugh Downey, Esq, Ex-Gov.
Robert Lucas, Rev. Mr.. Poyct, Hon. J. J.
Dyer, Stephen Witcher, Esq, Hon. Chas.
Mason, William H. Wallace, Esq, Hon.
Thomas Baker, Gen. V.P. Van Antwerp,
Ex-Gov. Clark, Hon. In Brophy, Hon.
Enos Lowe, and exofficio the Senator'S
Representatives, Governor, Secretary,
Auditor, and Treasurer Of the State and
the superintendent Of Public instruction.
The Lectures will commence on the
first Monday of December next, and con-
tinue sixteen weeks. The terms are fol-
Naturalization So 90. Tickets $40. 90.
Graduation Fec $50 90. Dissccting
Ticket SIS 90.
The ONO ELEcT1oN.-True to the pre-
cedent established among the states in
the August and September elections, Ohio
exhibits in the late election, decided
Democratic gain. At the last Congress-
ional election ten Of the Dedication we're
Democrats and eleren Wings. Now
trelre are decidly Democratic, four anti
Taylor Wings, and the other five not
heard from.
In the Legislature we have majority
of from five to ten on joint ballot, suffi-
cient to continue to that noble Democrat
William Allen, his seat in the United
O'o'eo ooHoIG' VI VIC OOFer0OrS elec
ton it is impossible to say with certainty
who is elected, until the official vote is
received.
Possibly the Wing candidate, Fo:J, is
elected; if so, his majority must be very
small, when it was conceded by all demo-
Gratis, that he would have at least fifteen
thousand majority.
How then can our whig friends enter
tain any hope that Ohio will give her
vote TO Taylor? At least tpenty thousand
phig votes, which, in the Ga5ernatorial
election have been given to Ford, will
be given to the Traitor Van Buren,, in
November. Two or three and perhaps
even five thousand democratic votes, that
have been given to Weller, will also be
lost upon the same individual, which, If
the vote had come out in its full strength
will give Cass from fifteen to eighteen
thousand majority over Taylor in No
vember.
GENERAL PRICE, as we learn by the
St. Louis Union, has reached his home
in Charlton County Mo.
1t will be recollected, that Genera
Price gave up seat in Congress TO &C
cept the command of Regiment Of Mis-
souri, volunteers, and was subsequent,
in July l847, promoted to the rank O
Brlgadier General. His command has
been in New Mexico.
DEATH OF COMMODORE B1DDLE.-Thi.
distinguished Naval officer, breathed hi:
last in Philadelphia few weeks since
The disease which caused his death was
contracted during his last cruise to China
thence to the Pacific and home. Com
modore Biddle was in his 65th year a,
the time Of his death.