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The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
Our Drug Stores.

Although we may say without fear of contra
dic,ion, that Iowa is one of the most healthy
States in the Union, and that the northern por-
ton Of Iowa IS the healthiest portion of the
State, ego away, Cummings, with your "shdrp
stick , il is q fact that Dubuque has the most
extensive stocks Of Drugs, etc, to be found in
the State. The supply Of our "Medcine Men
was already very great, but since the large ad
dition To the stock of W. r. Allen has arrived
we cannot DIVINE how il i. al to be used up in
a healthy region like this. Mason, Gillespie
and Allen, have each received great quantities
this spring See Aliens ne1 advertisement II
another column
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

The EARrHQUAKE AT WAsnINGToS.-a let.
ter thus describes the occurrence:
ave have had a severe shock Of ear,houake
here to-day Some of our good people were
rightened out Of their houses if not out of their
wits, and | understand that the clerks in the
Census Office rushed out Of doors in double
quick time ! am in the habit of taking things
cooily and ph''osophically, and can tell my ex-
per'ence automatically in this case, SO far as
| regards elaboration. | was near the window
in my room on Seventh street, in the third story
OF brick house, engaged in reading. Sud
denly, my chair began to totter. glanced a,
the window, to see what heavy team had caused
the commotion There was no team inst
antly Concluded that it must be an earthquake,
an as had for many years lonyed to experience
zone, instead Of mounting my leges, in which
position should scarcely have felt it, sat fast
TO my chair, and enjoyed the rocking to my
hearts content for about minue''
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
Democratic County, District and Senate

Democratic County, District and Senate
rial Convention.
The Democracy of Dubuque County will
assemble in Convention at IoHN FLoYDs, IN
this county, on the 5th day Of June next, at
CLOCK P. NJ, for the purpose Of nominating
candidate for the Office of Clerk of the District
Court, Prosecuting Attorney, Supervisor OF
Roads, and Coroner and selecting delegates
to the Congressional and Senatorial District
Conventions; and for the transaction of such
other business as may be deemed exp"dient.-
1t will be RENE mbered that the Township Com
mittees were duly appointed last spring; and it
is to be hoped, that, in calling their Township
meetings, they will 1--WE ample notice and time,
for the people to come toge,h in mass, and Sc
lect such Delegates as a majority will be salts
fed should represent them in Convention.
The basis Of representation from the differ.
ent Townships will be as follows: Julien u
Jefferson ); Concord =; Liberty =, Iowa
Centre 3; Whitewater 9; Cascade 3; Wash
ington 2; Mosalem 3; Peru 2; Table M'une
3; Vernon 2; Prairie Creek =; Taylor
Dodge 9, and New Vine =.
! At the same time and place, the delegates e
the County Convention, will act US delegates t.
the Representative District Convention com
posed of the counties of Dubuque, Delaware
Buchanan, Blackhawk, Grundy, Butl,r AM
| Bremen. for the purpose IF nominating four can
didates for the House of Rrpres natives.
As there was no Committee appointed at tn
last Senatorial Convention, for calling a futur
Convention, this Comnittee would respectful
recommend that the Senatorial District Conver
ton, composed of the counties of Dubuque, Clay
ton, Delaware, Buchanan, Blackhawk, G undy
Butler, Bremen, Fayette, Allamakee, Winnie
shiek, Howard, Mitchell, Floyd and Chickasnv
be held at Colesburg, Drlawarr county, on Wee
nesday, the 23i day of June next, at ~ o'cloc
A. M.
The Committee would recommend that III
vote for Governor in 1850 be- adopted as ii
basis Of representation, and that one delega
be allowed for every fifty Democratic vote
and an additional delegate for every faction
over twenty-five.
In view Of The importance of the arpToacht'
; elections, the Com'nitee would respectful!
urge upon the attention OF every democrat
: the County aud District, the necessity of viso
I Gus and united action and organization
VIM Fl MERRITT,
,, JOHN G. SHIELDS,
THOMAS HARDlE,
BJ O'HALLORAN,
A d ANDERSON,
Central committee OF Dubuque County.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

u The editor of the Western Democrat
argues, that because the editor, Of the Demo.
cratic Review, is out in favor OF the nomination
Of Douglas for the Presidency, that therefore
Douglas is responsible for the article, together
with al the coarse ridicule heaped upon Cass
Butler and Marcy.
If we thought this, we would be the last ia
desire his nomination.
The cogency of this reasoning is about as
palpsble ~ that, wherein the editor short time
since, attributed the language of the Progressive
Era to rs, and when we challenged him to refer
us 10 the date Of our paper for proof, denied
6atly the charge which his previous No. had
contained. What a genius for "Western
Democrat"
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
WAsHINGroN Nav 10

The extra appropriation for Collins line OF
steamers will undoubtedly be made
The Mexican Minister is expected to arrive
here Immediately. He is fully empowered by
his government To trea. the grant to the q
). for the right of way over the Tehuantepe
route.
Strong efforts were made to censure Mr.. Man
gum IN the South Carolina Convention, but
without success.
Mr. Clay slept better last night than any
night Tor the past two weeks, and is now quite
comfortable. The Rev. DR.. Butler administer
ed the sacrament to him on Saturday 1t is the
opinion of his physicians that his decline will
be so gradual that the moment of dissolution will
be scarcely perceived.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
The Negro Race.

Bayard Taylor, writing from Nubia, in Upper
Egypt says:
"Those friends of the African race, who point
to Egypt as proof Of what that race has ac-
eomPlshed, are wholly m istaken. The only
negro features represented in Egyptian sculpture
are those Of slaves and captiyes taken in The
Ethiopian wars Of the Pharaohs. The temples
and pyramids throughout Nubla, as far as the
Dafur and Abyssinia, all bear the hieroplyphv
of monarchs, and there 10 no evidence IN al the
valley of the Nile that the Negro race ever at.
tanned higher degree Of civilization than is al
present exhibited in Congo and Ashantee. /
mention this, not from any feeling hostile to the
race, but simply to contrevcrt an opinion very
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

LITERARY LADIES QUARREL.-Alice Carey
wrote lately to the Cincinnati Gazette, finding
fault with the morality Of new book by Miss
dedicated in part to Miss Carey, and she is un.
willing to sanction its sentiments. Miss Cheese
bro now writes to the Gazette, handling Alice
pretty roughly, and citing the opinions of vari-
Gus religious papers in favor Of the morality Of
her book. She says, moreover, that Alice was
aware Of the character Of the book before she
accepted Of the dedication, and suggestion
from her, would at once have led to the with
drawal of her name from it.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

TFILADELPHTA, Nay To.
The trial of w. j. Brown, Of Michigan
charged 9th forging treasury vouchers, wal
commenced in Washington on Saturday.
Both Houses Of Maryland Legislature have
adjourned, after having directed the Governor
to appoint committee Of COME renee with the
Governor of Pennsylvania, relative to the killing
of fugitive slave at Columbia, in that State.
destructive fire broke out last night in the
clothing store Of P. Carr, at the corner of Gay
and Prat:e streets, Baltimor.. The building
and contents were entirely destroyed, together
with shoe store and two other buildings ad.
joining
The Treasurer OF Pennsylvania has officially
reported 800 public defaulters, who have, in the
aggregate. robbed the Stat OF over three mill
ions Of dollars
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

SUDDEN DEArH.-On Thursday April Doth,
Mr. Benjamin B. Taft, brother of our council
mon, It. V. Taft, went in apparent good health
to Robinson & Cos, Athenaum After st and
ing in company with others short time, he fell
backwards heavily on the ground. A few fee
BILE gasps for breath, monentary quivering of
the hands and he was dead 1t is supposed
that his death waa caused by the rapture of a
large blood vessel near the heart.
The deceased came here last August, from
Upton, Massachusetts,, to visit his brother, and
it was his intentions to return TO his native
place this fall, but how difficult was his destiny
and how affecting was this unexpected bereave-
ment to his friends. His age was 44.-Io,ca
Obserrer
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

HEREDITARY FEATURES "A peculiar thick.
ness of the under lip has been hereditary in the
imperial house of Hapsburg, ever since the
marriage, some &C INJURIES ago, with the Polish
| family of Jagellon, whence it came In our
own royal family a certain fullness of the lower
and Ia 'eral part of the face is conspicuous in
the portraits Of the whole series Of sovereicns.
from George j, t. Vcoria, and has been equal.
w marked in her members Of The family
The families of the ducal house Of Gordon have
long been remarkable tor peculiar elegant con
formation Of the neck. The Clackmannan ,h,e
Bruccs, who are descended of comm n stock
with the famous Robert Bruce Of Scotland, are
said to have that strongly marked form IF thu
cheek bone and jaws which appears the
coins Of that heroic monarch, as it did in his
actual face when its bones were disincrred at
Dumicrlne, about thirty years ago.
The prevalent tallness Of The inhabitants of
Potsdam, many Of whom are descended from
the gigantic guards Of Frederick | the Span
ish features observable in the county Of Galway,
in which some centuries ago, several Spanish
settlements were made I; and hereditary beauty
of the women OF Pracue--all are well known |
facts, which have frequently attracted the at.
ten.ion of chr biologists. The Burgrsses Of
Romc-ilc most invariabe portion Of every
popu'ation-- Exhibit in the present day precisely |
the same type or face and form rs their ances.
tors, whose busts may be seen carved in relief,
IN the ancient sarcophagi, and the Jewish phys
ogomes portrayed upon the scpulchral monu.
ncnts of Egypt are identical with those which
nay be observed among modern Jews in the
streets Of any Of our great cities.-EngiiSh
PAPER,
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
srRArGErNFAruAr1oN


The following we find in the last "lowa Re-
publican
The people have already seen, however, and
will always see, that when an honest effort il
made to sustain the Union and .the Comprom
isc. the Wings are at the right place with thei
Union and compromise President at their head
and the Reporter may rest assured that the can I
diddle them with his and Mr.. Jackson's clap
traps and humbugs
In the Wing Congressional Caucus at the
opening Of Congress, about one third Of the
Wing party proper was present. and bear
majority adopted the resolution declaring the
compromise final settlement Of the slavery
troubles. But when It came to an open con.
fession on the floor of the House Of Represen.
tatives, we only End seven wings from thr
North voting with large majority Of the dem
ocrats, for Mr.. Jackson resolution declaring the
compromise full and fnal settlement Of al
slavery issues.
And what pray, has the wing Caucus done
which convened on the Goth ult., for The purpose
Of fixing time and place for holding the wing
National Convention Virtually expelled every
Compromise m,n from the Caucus, by resisting
condemning and d-fsa ing the very compromise
RESOLUTION, which this Wi err in the Republican
pretcnds was in good faith adopted by tn whie
Pssty IN it, caucus, in the early par, Of the sess
10 Away then. with such political duplcitv
and nonsense, as that contained in the Renucli
can.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

APPOINTMENTS For UrAH-Orson HYDE
has been nominated to the Senate, by the Pres
ident, as associate Judge in the Territory of
Utah, vice Broccheus, resigned: and Mr.. Rich.
ards has been nominated for Secretary Of the
same Territory. They are both Mormons.-
Judge Brandeburg, of Utah, has resigned, but
his place had not been filled.
The notorious Hyde, will no doubt make a
model Judge. Strange, after the troubles which
have been experienced at the hands OF the Nor
mons, that the Executive should continue TO ap-
point them to office
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

1t seems pretty certain that the Crystal Pal.
ace, in Hyde Park, will be pulled down, and in
anticipation of such determination on the part
of the Government, Company in London
have offered Messrs. Fox, Henderson & Co.,
the sum Of $3.50 ,0s0 for the building, with the
view of removing it to some spot in the outskirts
of the Metropolis, for the purpose Of establish
ing winter garden.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

bill is before the Pennsylvania Legislature
appropriating $4,000 annuity, Tor two years for
the purpose of aiding persons of color in that
State to emigrate to Liberia 1t restricts the
cost of transporting and maintaining any one
above fifteen, at fifty dollars, and below, at
TWENTY-FIVE
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

IL telegraph despatch from Chicago,
yesterday, says: "Names [of contractors Of
Eighth Division Central Railroad not vet
known. Mr. Mason received a despatch yes
terday from MIR. Schiller, saying we would know
next week.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

ACqUlTrED.--John Smith, tried at Cumber-
land, Maryland, for the murder of Henry Ger
ing, has been found not guilty. The Distric,
Attorney entered a mol. pros in the cases agains,
Christopher Smith and Henry Knepkcy for the
same offence.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

NEW IURK, My II VI.
Cotton-Sales 500 bales; upland SIC; Orleans
and Mobile DC; market dull. Flour sales II :
500 bbIs at unchanged rates. Sales
81, 1000 bushels at previous prices. Sales 200
bbls pork; mess $l5 62 10 $lS IS, prime $I6 g.
to SIG IS. Sales 1000 bags Rio and Maracaibo
coffee at private terms. Sales 1000 gallons
linseed oil at 62c; 80 hhds of Kentucky tobacco
at Sc IL to 81 SO; 100 barrels Of prison whisky
at 2lJc.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

SAILING IN TUB.-During the freshet an
amusing incident occurred at one Of the boa I'd
ing houses on Canal street. The good woman
of the house. on going down cellar TO get some
meat for dinner, found two or three feet water
IN 1t. Nothing daunted therea', she got into a
wash tub, and by means Of q mop handle and
broom, she propelled herself across the cellar
the meat barrel, obtained sufficient meat for
dinner, and then sailed back to the point Of Dr.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

Too Coop TO BE Losr-PAss 1T RouND-
WIrrY AND True, TKuE AND WITTY--SoME-
THING Coop FROM WHIe-ONE WING
Upon Two-WEBsTER AND FILLMORE PAINT
ED TO THE LIFE FEW LIGHT TOUCHES
OF THE BRUsH.
We clip the following from an exchange down
east
WEBSTER AND FiLLMoRE---James S. Pike,
Esq, late Wing candidate for Congress in the
Aroostook district, nialnc, and " ho within
a few votes OF an election, is the Was ingt n
correspondent Of thu New York Tribune For.
merly Il e correspondent for the Boston Courier.
Being taken to task by that paper for his want
OF reverence & "Daniel," he thus responds :
"Dan e is great man He has been called a
"Scamp Jupiter, aud an ''intelectua mons
ter This is severe, and we do not endorse it..
One Of his cfiicial associates says (hmself a
man Of genius) ''the gre atest mind since b icon.
But the pet says of Bacon:
The wiscst, greatest, meanest of mankind"
| Alas that the comparison should be 81 sug-
gestiye. Daniel is great, but he has pluck,
no moral stamina, and people do not believe in
his honesty. |, would be great thing to have
him President, said one of our friends recently
So great a man What lus!re would his eleva.
ton confer upon the country. But is integrity
nothing was asked in reply. Yes, To be sure
but national affairs would be IN such SAT- hands
The worst he would do would be to bankrupt
the Treasury
The President differs from the Secretary. He
too, lacks pluck. But nobody doubts his ineg
rity He wants back bone. He means well
but he is timid, lrresolute uncertain and loves t.
lean lie is a man to care in before the flint,
face ofthe South. There will be no Thermopy
lac in his life, there has been none in the iif,
Of his chief Secretary. Nature bestowed no IN
trepidty in making up others composition.
was the omit Il ingredient. Would the name
of either be mentioned the header If tor
lprn hope? Alas, we ueed II vt answer. Wuull
there have been .sno North think you, it OH
Hal with all his sins) la teen born III Massu
chas It's
We lament-we grieve that Northern spirit
and Northern sentiment, aud Northern conyic
tons are not honestly represented by Nor her
men, We do not wish to see scctin.asal, hu
) We do wish to see manly Independence and a
unt1inching adherence, steady devotion
truth and duty. We confess, we do not fin
those high qualities of character either in tn
President or Secretary that command respect c
inspire confidence. They will not stand fire
) They are not good in tight place The aho,
of ia crisis takes all the starch out Of the
legs.
They melt before The fervent heat of oppos
ZION "lke wax image gainst the fire." {
high toned flinty manhood, they have none-
The Pres: dent has good intentions, but accort
: ing to the great moralist, hell is paved wit
these.
This may be plain talk, but it is the essene
of the best judgments in relation 10 these tw
gentlemen on the points in question. Such al
: the sober convictions of our UNDERSTANDING
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

To RENDER WATER WHoLEsoME-The al
kaline waters found on the plains, and so often
found fatal to man and beast making their jour
ney over land to California and Oregon, are SAID
| to be rendered entirely palatable and wholesome
by mixing small quantity of citric or tartarie
acid, which neutralizes the alkali.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
Tothe Ladies.

The attention of the ladies', who we know,
can duly appreciate such things, is invited to
the ncw advertisement Of Miss GREEN, who
has just returned from ST. Louis with a rare as.
sortmen, Of everything in the Millinery line
and don I forget that ''wedding orders are
promptly Intended 10.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

REV. DR. KISa.- This gentleman, an Amer.
lean missionary and the U. s. Consul at Athens
Greece, has had his sentence of banishmen,
confirmed, for preaching and publishing attacks
on the Greek religion. He was to leave Athens
April 10TH
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

1t is conjectured by some that the Baltimore
Convention will result in such division of each
Of the two parties as well lead to the nomina-
ton Of four candidates to the Presidency.
Such is the language of correspondent of
the st. Louis Intelligencer. Wonder whose
conjecture this can be:
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

PREMATURE BURIAL-The ALBANY Register
in the course Of an article upon this subject, re-
lates the following instance of which the editor
was perfectly cognizant
Some years ago, we were perfectly cognizant
to an a fair of this kind which was of the most
heart rcnd;ng character. The wife of gen.
tieman taken suddenly i'll in church, and
was carried to her home in state of syncope
In few hours she partially recovered, but i'm
medaely relapsed, and never again showed
any signs of consciousness. She lay in this
condition nearly two days, battling the skill Of
the physicians, and then, as it was thought and
as there was almost every reason TO believe,
died. No sign of breathing could be detected,
the limbs became rigid and cold, and the eyes
remained open with the fixed and CLASSY stare
OF death, but there no change in The color Of
the skin. Tins was the only reason in the
world for surprising that dissolution hac not
taken place. The poor, bereaved husband, al
most frantic at the loss Of the young and beau
tiful wife, whom he almost idollzed, chung with
desperation to the hope lImncd in her face. and
ong resisted the unanimous decision of the
| physicians that she was certainly DEF d.
They told him what is doubtless true, that it
sometimes, though very rarely, happens, that
there is no dis. oloration for days and even
wee'is after dissolution has taken place. But
still he resisted, and It was not until three days'
h d passed without the faintest signal Of change
or sign of life, that he finally gave up and suf-
fered the burial to take place. She was en-
tombed in vault. Months passed. A ceme-
terry having been laid out, the husband purchas-
ed and beautiied lot, erected an elegant mon-
ument in it, and when all was ready, superin-
tended the removal of the body of his wife from
the vault to its final resting place When the
vault was opened he remembered the circum-
stances Of her death. above detailed, and de-
sire suddenly seized him to once more behold
the corpse By his direction the coffin lid was
moved. The spectacle which presented itself
was nconceivably horrible, for it showed that
she had been buried alive. She had turned
quite over upon her side, she had clutched her
nails into the coffin until her fingers had bled,
portions of her grave clothes were torn, and in
her horrible struggles she had contrived to carry
her hand to her head, and had plucked from it a
mass Of hair, with portions Of the cap that COW
cred it.
! The poor man never recovered from the shock
of that awful spectacle. He was borne away
senseless, and for the rest of his weary life was
!. an utterly broken and miserable being.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

II "rhe Western Journal and Civilian for
April 1852 is on our table. 1t contains a very
fair article on the sAspects Of civilization. y
Article End or The Population of the U. States
is replete with important statistical matter
The other articles we will notice at a. other
time
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

SENATOR RHErr,-The Charleston .Nercury
of Saturday, states that private despatch had
been received in that city from Columbia, in
tiinating that Mr.. RHErr has resigned his seat
in the United States Senate
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

The Bowden College boys, on hearing of the
defeat Of Neal Dow, Illuminated the college
buildings, and evinced their joy, in various well
known methods
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
CoAMt NIcArHp.

DuBuQuE, May SO.
This evening our Merchants commence clo-
sing their stores at half past seven o'clock
this arrangement is to continue until the 18th
day of August next. tits to say the least of it,
very commemorate Increment. Both, employ
ecs and their patrons must see and acknowledge
the utility in giving the young men in business
few moments to themselves, when we consid-
er that they are "always on hand, from 4. n.
until 10 P. N. We think their request is rea-
sonable and small. We hope our merchants
will be unanimous in strictly observing the
agreement, and that those who have not signed
the article will valve their objections and act
in concert with their fellow tradesmen who have
30 generously and numerously signed the pa
Der
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

The New York Journal of Commerce states
that Mr.. King, the sculptor, of Boston, received
by the last steamer an order from Lord Ashbur
ton for copy of his bust of Daniel Webster.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

[YAt the sale of Louis Philippe's library
romance of chivalry, called "Pearce'forest, y
bound, was bought for the Duke d'Aumaie for
S2,2lO The rival bidder was an agent OF
the British Museum II is the only copy in the
world
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19

ENGLISH PARLIAMEKrARY PuGILlsM.-Fer.
gus O'Conncr was recently tweed knocked
down, in the lobby Of the House Of Commons,
for impertinence to Mr. Herbert. another M p