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Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
The Election.

From the returns which have al
ready been received we are warrant
ed in stating the following, as the re-
suit of the election held in this coun-
ty, on las, Monday:
Judgc-F. Ii. LEE.
Me,W-GlLBERr E. DEFoREsr.
Rcc0,uty-SAMuEL WORKMAN.
Supe,pisc,'-JAMEs F. HANDY.
Co,Dntr-DANIEL S. WARREN.
Su,rcyor-CyRUs SANDERS.
When we receive the official re-
turns of the election, we shall speak
more fully of the causes which re-
suited in the defeat of the democrat
ic candidate for sheriff.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
Robbery of the Enigrants ON the
Plains by the Indians.

The Frontier Guardian, published
at GAINESVILLE, Iowa, had the follow
ing article in its issue of the 18th inst:
From THE PLANs.-It is rumored
that l6 or II wagons of Oregon emf
grants have returned from Beever
Creek, having lost SIS head of cattle,
leaving them barely enough to get
back to the river. We could not
learn whether the Pawnees ran them
off, they stampeded, but understand
that three or four hundred of these
Indians were at their camp begging
the day before. There have been so
many conflicting statements. in re-
gard to the matter, we shall await
the arrival Of the company, before we
give any authentic information.
We have heard nothing from the
emigration that left THIS place since
they have crossed the river.
The st. Louis Union has received
full information of the above intelli
gence, from the sufferers themselves
1t appears that the Indians upon the
route, to the number of some 400 OF
600, followed and visited at seyera
times the little caravan of Is wagons
laying heavy contributions of provi
sions and stock, harrassing the marcel
and making threats against all white
men. At Beaver Creek, about one
hundred miles from the Missouri. the,
caused stampedes among the cattle
and caused such fear and hisheal ten.
ment, that the emigrants gave up the
trip, and returned to kanesville.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

A CHILD TO DIE ON THE GALLows.-
George Long, a little boy only eight
years old, was tried last week in Bal
timore for the murder of another child.
The jury rendered verdict of guilty
Of murder in the first degree, accom-
panying their verdict with an unani-
nous recommendation to the Govern
or to commute the prisoners punish
ment to Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for life. They stood, during the
whole time they were out, eleven for
murder in the first degree, and one
for murder in the second degree
The young criminal, during the trial,
amused himself by catching flies.
The Baltimore American says:
"The verdict will meet with the
general appreciation of the commun-
ity, as the only one which could be
rendered in this singular and most
unparalleled case, the first 1--WE be-
lieve) which has ever occurred in
Maryland of child of his age being
the subject of capital conviction
The boy prisoner heard the verdict
rendered against him without the least
perceptible emotion, though no doubt
he fully understood its purport.
The telegraph report of Saturday
evening states that the Governor has
committed the sentence to imprison-
ment in the State Prison for life.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
MORE OF Ir.-The Washington I'm

MORE OF Ir.-The Washington IN
ion, referring to the fact that the grand
jury had found true bills for perjury
against DR.. Gardiner, who is now in
Europe, and against his brother, in
the matter OF the Mexican claims,
says:
"We have heard many complaints
against the late Mexican board, and
of the wrongfulness of many of the
awards made by it; but, as we have
no authority to send for "persons and
papers," we must wait for further de-
velopments before we can venture to
give currency to the statements which
have reached us. Congress will
doubtless sift the action of the board
and if 1.-THE of what we have heard
be satisfactorily proved, the Galphin
case will be forgotten
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

To THE YOUNG LADIEs.-I have found
that the men who really the most fond
of the ladies, who cherish for them a
high respect, are seldom the most
popular among the sex. Men of great
assurance, whose tongues are highly
hung, who make words supply the
place of ideas; and place compliment
in the room of sentiment, are the ia
vorites. A due respect for women
leads to respectful action towards
them; and respectful is usually dis
tant action, and this great distance is
mistaken by them forneglect or want
of interest.-Addison.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

DoN'T GRUMBLE.-He is a fool that
grumbles at every little mischance.
Put the best foot forward, is an old
and good maxim. Don't run about
and tell acquaintance that you have
been unfortunate. People do not like
to have unfortunate men for acquain-
tances. Ado to vigorous determine
ton a cheerful spirit; II reverses
come, bear them like a philosopher,
and get rid of them as soon as you
can. Poverty is like panther; look
it steadily in the face and it will run
from you.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
steam Navigation Of the Iowa.
No contemplated improvement in middle
lows is Of such immediate aGnasaitx~aGl1u

lows is Of such immediate GnasaitxnnG01
16Vll 1g1vet w sleam D6dEs. With the excep-
zion Of short interval Of ice in mid-winter,
Nhere has not been day since last September
on which its navigation by any suitable boat
of three hundred tons, was not entirely practi-
cable, and yet. strange to say with wide
spread country, upon its borders, whose every
interest will suffer until the project is realized,
there has been hitherto, no actual effort to Sc
cure regular navigation Of this important
stream. No great length of time, however can
clapsc until it is accomplished. The attention
of the people upon the river itself, and of sew
eral Mississippi towns, such as Burlington and
Keokuk, has been latterly turned to the sub
icct, and We may soon expect some practical
results Of their deliberation. Davenport and
Rock Island are also turning their attention
hitherward, in this connection. We have been
shown letter from the mayor Of Davenport to
all that has an influence upon our prosperity
IS a community, in which the writer says, that
he has "learned from river men Of experience
that the navigation of the Iowa is practicable
good part of the year," that "a double en-
CINE boat 100 feet long and "a feet wide, every
way suitable to the trade, can be built cheaply
at Davenport" "the people Of Davenport
will take an interest in it, and that "there will
be brisk trade opened up into the interior of
Iowa from Davenport and Rock Island, in view
Of the early completion of the Rock Island and
Chicago railroad" which will certainly be with
in two years. These are important words of
encouragement from an unexpected quarter, and
great degree of merited censure will fall up
on our commercial and business men here at
Iowa City, if they much longer neglect to Sc
cure so important matter, as the permanent
navigation of our river, by either cooperating
with those who have friendly feeling abroad,
or by embarking in the enterprise upon their
own hook. From several years observation,
We can safely assert that, with boat of the
above description. the Iowa can be navigated
at all times when ordinary Mississippi steam.
crs can pass the rapids loaded, and in extreme
low water when this cannot be done, such a
boat would coin money to her owners in plying
over the rapids. In the very nature Of things,
this .desideratum will not remain much longer
anaceemplished, but its realization could be
greatly accelerated by suitable effort at this
point. Who will set the ball in motion?
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

FEMALE WARRgoRs.-An English
paper received by the Africa, con-
tains a letter from a missionary cor
respondent from the interior of Afri-
ca, giving an interesting account of
the defeat of the Amazonian army
of the King Of Dahomy, a negro king
dom of Guinea, north of Whidah, on
the slave coast. This army is ne
gress infantry the Dahomian monarch
being a savage who usually stays at
home, while he sends his female sub
.jects to fight not to extend the area
of freedom, but for the conquest of
slaves for the market. The battle of
which we now have an account, was
nothing but foray, such as is COM
mon with the Dahomians. The at
tack of the army of Amazons was
made upon town called Appeokuta,
about go miles from Lagos, in the
Right of Benin. 1t was successfully
resisted by the inhabitants, who are
called Egbas, and the Dahomians
completely routed, with the slaughter
of no less than 200 many of whom
were female soldiers. The terrible
check which the Dahomians received
it was thought, would have an inn
partant bearing upon the suppression
CT the slave tradc.-Maine Age.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
WHAT IS A RAILROAD-Its pow
er and its necessity at the pres
emf Slav.

CAt eANys
At the great Railway Celebration
at st. Louis on the 4th inst, Thomas
ALLEN, the President of the Pacific
Railroad Co., made some very sem
sible and patriotic remarks. In IL
Illustrating the necessity Of building
Railways in the new States, he thus
practically explained their every day
advantages:
"a Railroad, fellow-citizens, is a
machine, and one of the most beauti
ful and perfect of labor-saving ma
chimes. 1t works with astonishing
power and precision, and in complete
subsection to the will of man. 1t is
employed extensively in the art Of
transport--one of the mostimportant
of all arts-the art by which persons
and things are moved from one place
to another. The railroads. the most
perfect agency in this art of locomo-
ton and transportation now known,
and every people who are enlighten-
ed as to their true interests, are avail
Ing themselves of it. Strange to say,
this powerful agency has come into
use within the last twenty-five years,
but it has made such rapid strides
as almost to compensate the world
for its previous loss. 1t is now find
ing its way into every. cixjlizaf anul
trys and il apparently destined to en-
circle the globe itself with its iron
bands. It has, however, made more
extensive and rapid progress in the
United States than in any other coun-
try. 1t well suits the energy and en-
terprise of the American people
They love to go ahead fast, and to
go with power-they love to annihi-
late the magnificent distances, and
ovrcome the gigantic mountains of
their country. They have construc-
ted 10000 miles of railway, and are
every where pushing new lines for
ward. The great value of the rail
road consists in its speed and safety,
its power and its cheapness, its con-
slant availability and its precision
1t has long since suppressed the ca
nal-and the most perfect of steam
boat navigation cannot stand in COM
petition with it. As a means of To-
comotion and transportation, the rail
road is unrivalled.
"And again; as social and moral
agent, nothing can equal the power of
the railroad in awaking the energies
of people, in stimulating industry,
in dilfusing apd increasing wealth,
intelligence and domestic comfort,
and all the blessings of civilization.
at is this new lever of power, more
potent than any Archimides ever
deamed of, that we want here in
Missouri. We want it to enable us
to maintain our relative rank among
the advancing States of the Union;
we want it to invite new settlers to
come and occupy our long vacant
lands; we want it to stimulate indus
tsy, and ty unlock the mineral trers-
ures, and to bring to light and life
the wonderful resources of our State;
we want it to cheaper travel and
transportation, and to give security
and alAjlity to trQle;swe want it to
increase the wealth and comfort and
happiness of our people; we want it
to offer to the world the first and
best beginning, west of the Mississ-
ippi, of the road pointing to the Pa
cific, whichis to become the highway
of the Nations across the interior of
the American continent"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

The ADVANTAGES OF ADVERTISING
In letter to Col. Webb, of the New
York Courier u Enquirer, Mr.. Genin
lets out in the following language the
secret of his remarkable success:
"The benefit have derived from
the press, as an advertising medium,
it is beyond my power to estimate,
and | am well satisfied from careful
observation and experience that add
vertising is the main spring of sue
cess in every branch of business"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

THE ENGLISH REvENUE.-From the
offic'alstatemen Of the quarters rev.
enue, issued July 5th, we find de-
crease on the quarter of eos, 1854.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

Dc The emigration from Great
Britain and Ireland, during the last
ten years, amounted to ,494, 7S6p per-
sons; and of those it is estimated that
nearly nine-tenths were Irish.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

U5 Hon. Thomas Wheeler, for
merly one of the editors of the Chi
cago Tribune, was drowned near that
city, recently, while bathing.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

We beg leave to call the attention
OF the Post Master General, to the
suspension of service on the mail
route from this city 70 Fort Des Moines,
not doubling that that office, when
advised Of the importance of the route,
and of the circumstances which have
created the suspension of service on
it, will take immediate steps to secure
the regular conveyance of the mails
on said route. Col. THOMPSON, the
present contractor, who is a respon-
sible and reliable man, supposing that
the Department was correct in the
estimate of the length of the routes
advertised, agreed to carry the mail
from point to point on horseback,
twice week, for $500 per aunum.
He faithfully entered upon the dis
charge of his duties, and carried the
mail, at considerable loss to him
self, for nearly ayear. The route,
instead of being eighty miles, as ad-
vertised, proves to be about one hun
d,cd and t,ccnty-sir miles, being more
than one half longer than was est
mated and making dieenn wv
the NO ts3ps Per week, q over
hundred Y eighty-two miles for whicl
Col. THoMrsoE received no pay. He
was thus compelled to suspend the
service last spring, and no mail has
been carried on the route since.
In addition to thecounties Of John
son and Polk, this route runs through
the counties of Iowa, Poweshiek and
Jasper, which are filling up very
rapidly with an enterprisng and in
telligent population, who are entirely
dependant on this route for mail facil-
tiles. On some points along the
route, there is no post office on any
other route nearer than from forty to
fifty miles, and the result is that,
that portion of our State is complet-
ly excluded from all means of obtain
ing any knowledge of what is going
on in the world. This ought not to
be, and the loud complaints Of the
people on this subjects should meet a
speedy releas from the hands of the
government. Two years ago, the
mail on this route was carried in two
horse hacks; the route is more impor-
tant now than then; the mail matter
upon it is rapidly increasing, and
contains matters of value that should
be protected from the weather, and
the Department ought to, and we
hope, will order the mail to be car
ried according to the old service in
two horse hacks.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

TWhat mournful spectacle is presented
by the late census in poor old Ireland. In
thirty-one counties the decrease in population
since 1871 isone million. sercn hundred and thirty
sepen thousand, sir hundred and sirteen persons
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

The USE OF VNEGAR.-"7he use of
Vinegar as a continent may be under
stood from the properties of acetic
acid. In its concentrated state this
acid acts on living tissues as a caus-
tic producing heat,redness and rapid
inflammation of the skin. 1t desolves
many organic products such as cam
phor, gluten, gleatine, gum-resins,
resins, fibrine of the blood, white of
egg, &c. When properly diluted, as
in vinegar, and used in moderation,
it promotes digestion. The property
ofthe acid in desolving gleatine shows
the use of vinegar as a condiment
with veal, young meats, and fish. 1t
also assists the digestion of crude veg
tables, such as salads. Its powers
are heightenedby having aromatic or
pungent substances dissolved i'm it.;
such as chillies OF tarragon. Persons
who use much vinegar, with the view
of preventing copulcncy, may do them
selves much injury, and even engen-
der cancer in the stomach"
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
Land Spectators mt washington.

| l70D fHcy Obfdln Uear ufS3Tl1ookS /bS.Sf
The N. Y. Herald gives the follow
ing expose of what may well be con-
sidered an outrage on poor men who
hold claims for land WARRANTS:
"We have heard loud complaints
lately, about the doings in the Gov
eminent Land Office, in the relation
to the issuing of land warrants, and
it is full time that the Secretary of the
Interior looked into the matter
There at least twenty-five thousand
certificates and proofs in that office
waiting for warrants; and spectators
who understand how to pull the wires
in that department, can get their war
rants through before others which
have perhaps been waiting months
for their turn. The office of the Com
missioner of Pensions, and the Gen
eral Land Office, are equally impli-
Gated in this matter. The advantage
which this unfair unjust mode of do
ing business gives the spectators, is
very great, and they can well afford
to pay the douceur expected. Any
man wishing to get out a warrant and
a patent mithout delay, can, by making
a present often dollars IN each of the
two Offices above named, step before
twenty or thirty thousand warrants
which have been for long time on
file, waiting their turn, and come into
the market sufficiently in advance to
command high price. Speculatosl
who are continually engaged in look
ing up claimants, buy up claims for
about $40, cash. By paying $40 for
hurrying the certificates through the
Land Office, and as much more for
hurrying the warrant through the
Pension Office, making $40, which
added to the first cost, makes a total
of $9O-and the market price here is
$50 each, giving q profit of $50 on
each warrant-the speculator has
thus almost the monopoly of the mar
ket. The iniquity of this system will
more clearly appear when it is con-
sidered it is considered that the GER
tificates delayed so long by the pre-.
ference given to those who pay for i,
are the only ones actually owned by
the poor soldiers. Those hurried
thro' in the mnnner desc ribed above
belong to spectators, who have
baught up the original claims, and
whatever advantage is gained by
being first in the market, is so much
additional profit to the speculator.-
The Secretary OF the Interior must
look to this. Every claimant should
take his turn; and no one should be
able to obtain an advantage by pay.
ing for it. The matter must not be
lost sight Oft is of vast importance
to large class of people, to whom
justice must be melted out with an
even hand. Secretary Stuart mus,
purge his Department of all who have
so little regard for the public, whose
interests are entrusted to their keep.
ing
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

The number of suicides in France
from the year 1885 to lS46 amounted
to 33 ,032 During the year 1885 the
number was 1905, and from that
time it regularly increases to 3,lO2,
with the exception of the year ls43:
The proportion between men and
women was 1,725 to 1885, and SINH
lar in the other years. Suicide was
much less frequent in the mountain
regions than in the level country
The number was decidedly influence
ed by the season of the year. There
were the least in the month of De-
cember, only 1877 cases in the whole
twelve years. From that month there
was a regular increase till June,
which numbers 1924, and regular
decrease again from that time till
December. Among the suicides
during this period were $50 children
under Is years of age; thence the
number increases till between the
age of 40, or so, of which class there
were G,675 cases; then again regular
decrease; there being still 45S cases
over so. As to occupation, 1880
were day-laborers, 1883 military men
1871 capitalists. Ofthe deaths, l l.
Os4 were by drowning, l0,6O5 by
hanging, $500 by shooting, 1891 by
the fumeaaaf cksnaaaL l. 1928 by.sharp
instluhienSs, T9f BY poisoning, and
800 by falling from height. As
to the causes, there were GAO cases,
form metal alteration, 2,745 from
bodily suffering, 1856 from fear of
legal process, 1923 from domestic
troubles 1858 from poverty, 1897
from pecuniary embarrassment, l43
from ill-treatment of parents, 9S3
crossed in love, l4s from jealousy,
l 1860 habitual drunkenness, 3 Two
men) from want of means for the tot
lette, for falling in an examination,
and 6 from political excitement.-N.
Y. Tribune.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06

valley, California, mingled with large Jumps of
clear salt, What will California next produce?
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-08-06
ImnpOrtant Political Movement
General Scott I'm the Field.

General Scott was nominated on
Tuesday last by the Wing State Con-
vention of Pennsylvania, which held
its session at Lancasterin that State.
Resolutions were passed at the same
time, favor of protective tariff, ap-
proving, in general terms, Of the COM
promise laws, declaring strongly in
favor of the Union, and evincing full
confidence in the measures, policy,
and principles of Mr.. Fillmore's adj
ministration. A resolution specially
directed to the support of the fugitive
slave law, as it now exists on the sta
tute book, was rejected by a large
vote; thus ,uneguiuocally leauing that
question open for agitation, either By ,ray
Of REPEAL OF. amendment, in some suisse
quenf Congress.
This, says the Herald, is the first
regular wing nomination made by
auy State Convention for the contest
of 1852, and it comes from one of the
mosfpowerful, influential andrespec-
table of the ,old thirteen-Pennsyl-
vanin always considered the key
ston E the arch of the Union. The
non ION and the platform are both
yq1 ktant matters, and they win
and exciting discussions
nring the next eighA
they were engaged
nominating candidates
f0l lEnorship and other Offices,
appi the administration of Mr..
FILM and those statesmen by
whom he is surrounded, while they
cast both him and Webster overheard
into the ocean of the past, and hois-
ted a new banner in favor of General
Scott, whose name and military fame
are well known throughot therepublic
and the world. The approval of the
existing administration is, therefore,
onits face, mere empty compliment,
springing from wish to concentrate
their lite power, instead of leaving a
opposition that might be directed
against the new candidate and the
new platform.
And the Day Book says that the
nomination, accompanied as it is
with formal refusal to endorse the
fugitive slave law, rings the knell of
the wing party, of compromise, and
of peace, and "opens, in four-fold
power of bitterness and agitation
We see in it deliberate and cold
blooded concentration of purpose on
the part of the fanatical demagoges of
the North, to tear off the bandages
from the green wounds and drive the
patient to delirium, madness-disso-
luton. The movement leaked out
in Pennsylvania, but it originated in
Albany; and the efforts now being
made in New York csy to fore
stall wing public opinion here and
commit the commercial metropolis to
Scott may be traced to the same
source. Let the Union wings of New
York beware! Whatever may be
their admiration, in the abstract, for
the brilliant services of Gen. Scott,
this nomination throws aside the
mask of the cabalfsts and s1
real use that is to be made of ms
great popularity. We greatly fear
that this adroit but most unprincipled
will be fatally successful,
and will forever damn the whig party.
But let the city of New York stand
firm!