Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-02-06

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"Pl0to, thou reasonest nell. n-Some lit.
tie time since, on reading an article in
the Tribune, which reflected pretty
strongly on the Wing Office seekers Of
Dubuque, we vcntured TO suggest thu,
the Editor Of that sheet was probably an
applicant himself, and was only endeav-
oring to choke off those who were likely
10 stand in his way.
We are now convinced Of the fact. In
the last number Of his paper, he comes
out in open opposition to the proposed
County Convention called by the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Wing Club of this
city, and calls those who are engaged i'll
it,5 .orer-zealous gentlemen, CA. r. uses
hard names occasionally). The Editor
is correct in the conclusion he has come
to, that if the filling OF the "Government
| offices Of Iowa" is to be left 10 such Con-
| cention as this Executive Committee are
! endeavoring to call together, his claims
will likely be passed over,---whereas if
left with honest, plain old Zachary Tay
i Tor, who has been a regular recipient Of
the Tribune ever since he was nominated
the Editor will stand la pretty good change.
We think, land we would tell General
Taylor so if we had chance) that in
point Of merit Or capacity, or any other
ofthe Jeffersonian qualifications for office
A.&P. Wood stands head aud shoulders
above any Of those who are plotting his
political assassination In 5factIwe dol
!; "'pon oner"H IF oar neighbor will only
stand perfectly still upon the Scion Rob
binson platform, ten to one if he isn't IT,
ken, while all these "orcr-@eazous gentle
men'wil be left. Verbum Sapientin, &c.
The Cholera The. excitement caused
by the great mortality from cholera, in
New Orleans, a few weeks since, seems,
in a great measure, to have subsided.-
That city, at the latest dates, was almost
entirely free from the epidemic, and in
lis appearance in Saint Louis and other
towns on the Mississippi, it has shown IL
self mild in its form, and in almost every
case yielded promptly to medical treat
ment.
We have many reasons to hopo that
our city will escape the epidemic, or, at
least, the fatality which has usually char
cterized it. This hope, should not, how
ever, be allowed TO lul the community
into false security. Let every house
keeper examine carefully his own premi-
ses, and see that he is not har boring the
seeds Of the disease, in the form Of some
kind Of filth. "E,ernal vigilance is the
price Of liberty" but internal and exter-
nal cleanliness is the price Of life and
health, whenever the cholera is about.
@To CALIroRN1ANs, or those who
are intending to become such, we would
remark, that the snow al and above In
dependence, along the Platte River, on. :,
the route 40 the "reglons;'' is represent
ed TO be very much deeper than usual,
and the streams frozen over with very
thick ice. If the spring opens with a
heavy rain, early emigrants should be
prepared 70. much detention on the banks
of the streams, by the floods they will
find pouring down from he mountains.
These deten:ions will, however, serve to
recruit both man and beast, and give op-
portunity TO: hunting and fishing. But
what are fish, or deer, or turkeys, or
prairie chickens worth to man, unless
they are we'll cooked? Now, our friend
ROBERTS, just over the way, is 'getting
up" a sheet-ron Cooking Stove, intended
for outdoor use, which, with all the uten-
sils necessary for cooking, can be packed
into the smallest space imaginable. No
man should read this without looking
first at his advertisement, which may be
found in another column. and secondly
at his Stoves, which may be found at his
Shop; and no company should think of
going to California, or any where else a.
way from home, without one Of these
Stoves.
j THE CIIOLERA--TIIE ELECTRIC THE
DRY.
A report from St. Petersburgh, which
we recently noticed, affords striking
confirmation Of The views expressed BY
Dr. Hawthorne, Of the pathological ma.
lure Of cholera, in his very valuable
pamphlet. 1t is stated in the report, that
scientific men have, from the outbreak
and during the continuance ofthe disease,
noted the remarkable fact Of the almost
total absence Of ELECTRICITY from the at
mosphere, and the almost total depriva-
ton of electric power in those bodies
which, ordinarily, are possessed Of it in a
condensed degree. A magnet, for in.
stance, Of forty pounds sustaining capa.
city, was found, while the disease was at
its height, TO be incapable Of sustaining
more than four or five pounds; and it