The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-07-04

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]. winter, and take back nothing therein
contained. They never appeared till this
lying puke had nsulted those who were in.
, strumental IN calling that convention, which
II |: nae not been abandoned, would have
been productive of moro harmony and good
ieel!ng than some mass meetings since held
! was among those who called it. and we
were styled by this man "somc over zeal.
Gus gentlemen, who thought proper to vote
for Taylor" &c., with much more of his
characteristic slime. 49,
answered HIM, and gave him his own,
as am doing now, and will again whenev,
er ne repeats it.. He commenced ABUSING ma.
again OF late, thinking no doubt, was With :.
out an opportunity to reply, and that he
would Kick me while Il was down. hnt
! tuanks 10 generous political foes, l an in
the neld against him and Fogieism, ready.
wiling and able to battle them to the death
ak not to me OF the interests of the party
when compared with the principles ofrirht
ANY party that can't withstand the shock
consequent upon the truth being told is I'M.
worthy the support of treemen; and if nm
spared long enough to procure a press next
fall, Iii tell the Foges some truths. which
VIII materially benefit the party and .hem
too.
The Wing party, il, believe, strong in
might and right, and will be made more
strong oy the operation. seek no personal
controversy, but / will! not be tramnled m
by mortal man. God has given me n be,r1
to think, tongue to speak, hand 20 write
and while these blessings remain 20 ma. hi
use them against Fogieism.
| 1t is false, that publicly declared that
81 washed my hands Of the matter IF ,hc
convention last winter" and however oood
and handy Wood may be at stickinp goh-
bIers into his mouth, he shant put words in.
to mine. agreed, so far as and nv friends
were concerned, to abandon it, after 6nd.
ing, to my astonshment, that Mr.. Mobes
opposed it, with view to prevent Difficult.
ty.
The assertion that MAJOR Mobley propcs-
81 us substitute, mass meeting of the
tIh1ss Of Dubuque county, is barefacedly
false, and as this involves question Of ve-
raclty between the Major and myself, and
| tue only witness to tao conversation (Mr.
Berry, being absent, have waited upon tho
Major and showed him an affidavit, whic,
made and subscribed before Judge Hamil-
ton, setting forth that no such language was
used by him. l invited hi N to make a conn
ter one, which he declined doing, and ad-
mlts that he proposed a meeting ofthe lead
ing Wh1gs about to1on. or mass meeting o.
the Wings about town. And further. the
MAJOR states that he neUr authorized Wood
to make such an assertion.
This affidavit will refer to more at length
in my next.
The man who can tell about this secret
mass meeting Of the party, numbering less
than u bakers dozen is Mr.. f. e. Daugher.
ty, and the particulars shall DO given next
week. assert nothing but what can
prove, while the Stray bune man has resort
ed to nothing but base lies, pitiful aubter-
luge and sneaking insinuations to sustain
him. But III astonish tho Fogies before
I'm done. and as their recollection seems
lamentably dull about some things, I'lIrouse
them up next week, with bugle blast, to
their remembrance.
Fogieisn, avaunt! shake not thy lantern
jaw,-wag not thy rafting dry bones at
me! fear neither tAee nor thy abettors!
Halo there! young Whigs,--to the rescue.
GEO. L. NIGHTINGALE,
Dubuque June Both ls49.
DUBUQUE, COUNTY, Iowa, June IS, 1s49.
Honorable Stephen Hampstead:
SIR:-As you arc one of the Commissioners
to revise the Laws Of Iowa. there is one point
to which would respectfully call your aIten-
ton. The subject to which I allude, is the
School Law. ! he whole system is, in my view,
defective. There must be moro econ omy, sir,
in the management of this fund, or it should
be called anything else but School Fund.-
Under the present system, the salary of tho
several officers, and the time required of the
several districts to carry it out, will consume
IS per cent. Of all the interest arising from this
large fund.
The whole community, 80 far as am &C
quaintcd, call for change in our School Law.
The system which l would present, is the
folowng:-Thc first thing, as matter of
course, would be, (howevcr unpleasantI to abo-
fish all the offices conn ected with the School
Fund This would not be prescription, but re-
trenchmcnt.
I'd. There should be Land Agent chosen,
or appointed, who should keep his Office at the
Capital, and have the supervision of all tho
State lands, and transmit to the State Treasu.
rer certain day, to be fixed by law, the a.
mount received from the sale of all lands dur
ing the year, specifying the amount received
for School Lands.
Sd. The principal arising from this or any
other State school fund, should be loaned out
by the State Treasurer, on good security, and
the interest arising therefrom should, at GER
tain time, to be fixed by law, be apportoned to
the several counties within the State, accord.
ing to the number of persons between the ages
Of . and 81 years; and the amount due each
county, transmitted to the County Trensurers
| respectively.
4th.. The Treasurer of each county should.
al u fixed time, apportion the amount of school
fund received from the State Treasurer, as we'll
as the county fund, among the several organi-
zee townships, according to the number of
scholars, and transmit the same to the town
ship treasurers respectively.
5th. 1t should be the duty Of the township
treasurer to receive the amount OF school mo-
ncy due his township from the county treasu-
rer, and pay over the same to the school agents.
or directors Of each district, according 10 tho
number of scholars in each school district
9Th. 1t should be made the duty of the sew.
eral county assessors, al the time the valuation
is taken, annually to take the number of per-
sons in each family between the ages Of sand
81 years in each township. and furnish the
county treasurer with the same; and the sew
erel county treasurcrs should transmit cert.
fed copy of the assessors return to the State
Treasurer. The Directors Of each School Dis
trict should furnish tho township treasurer