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The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-07-13
B. j. O'HALLORAN,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,

DEALERlN
FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS, READY MADE
CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES,
Queens ,oare, Groceries, ind Hard. 1oare &C.
Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-07-13

CASTINGS.
= TONS well ASSORTED Castings, for sale cheap, by
- NAV IN Kennedy, GILLIAN 4 co
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-07-13
PRIZES REDUCED,

To enable all invaIds to ENJOY Tie advantages oil IHeI
great restorative powers.
Single Bottle as cents.
Also for sale by IF. GILLESPlE
Dubuque, low
III. BLAKSLEY "a.
JnIy oS lS5o-wly st. LOuIs. Mo.
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Entered according to act oCongress, the year 1851
byJ, s. HOUGHTON, NJ. D., in the Clerks
Office of the District Court for the East
District Of Pennsylvania.
ANOTHER SCIENTIFIC WONDER!
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-07-13

A. C. Hazard, Jno. Washburn, ID. w. Clark, william
Isham, G II. Northam, w. Kellogg, L.. Humphrey, II
Belden, E. SeeIev, W. B. Robbins, +. Belknap, ID
Clark, w. Thral, E. Hills, w. A. Ward, William
Williams.
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THOMAS g. DAVID s. WILSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Dubuque, iowa.
NYOrErcE, Globe Buildings, corner Of Main and Filth
streets. .
WILL attend to any law business or collections i'll
w auv of the Northern counties of the State.
ter sections for and two years:
Feb - lS50-23-y
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

Coop BYE.-The editor Of the Albany Regis.
ter, in word of true pathos and beauty, thus
speaks of this sad word
word. How full Of sadness, and to us, how full
OF sorrow it sounds. 1t is with AS a consecra-
ted word. We heard it once within the year,
as we hope never to hear tagain. We spoke
it on an occasion, such as we hope never 10
speak again. 1t was in the chamber Of death,
At the still hour Of nights noon The curtains
to the windows were all closed, the lights were
shaded, and we stood in the dim and solemn
twilight, with others, around the bed of tn e dy-
ing. The damps of death were on her pale
young brow, and GOODNESS was on her lips, as
we kissed her for the last time while living
"Goodbye, my daughter" we whispered, and
"Goodbye father" came family from her dying
lips. We know not if she ever spoke more,
but "Goodbye" was the last we ever heard of
her sweet voice. We hear that last sorrowful
word often and often, as we sit alone, busy with
the memories Of the past. We hear it in the
silence Of night, in the hours of nervous wake
fulness, as we lay upon our bed thinking of the
loved and the lost to US. We hear it in our
dreams, when her sweet face comes back 10 u.s..
it was in its loveliness and beauty. We hear
it when We sit beside her grave in the cemetery
where she sleeps, alone, with no kindred as yet
by her side. She was the hope of our life, the
prop upon which TO lean when age should cone
upon US, and life should be running to its dregs
The hope and the prop is gone, and we care not
how soon We 60 down to sleep beside our darl-
ing, beneath the shadow Of the trees in the city
Of the dead
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

OTIs' PATENT DIGGING MAcHINE.-We wen
| very much gratiied this morning with the in.
specton of the Patent Digging .Nnctine, which
Mr.. Webster has introduced upon his job on the
Railroad, in excavating earth for filing up the
Depot ground on Grassy point.
1t is Machine Of some twenty-five horse
power, made very much on the principle of the
dredging machines used for deepening docks
and channels. 1t is of giant proportions, and in
strength and adoption of each palt to the other
harmonious. 1t we CHS twenty tons, and is
moved on little Railway Of its own, made in
instailments of some four or five feet in length
The digging or shovel part has four or five
| strong, sharp noses or ploughs with which it
| scoops up the earth, and penetrates equally well
the hard blue clay, in which it is now at work
or common loose earth. 1t fills the tub or scoop
containing forty-fve cubic feet or about one and
half yards of earth each time, which, by ma
chinery, is easily swung around to deposit its
load In the dirt cars standing on the Railroad
beside 1T. In one case it took up stone the
estimated weight of which was five tons, and
deposited it on the dirt car which was broken
down by the weight. The gigantic strength Of
the machine was thus severely tested, and stood
the trial. When in full blast it is capable Of
moving two of these three large scoops full, or
three cubic yards, minute, though the most
the machine has actually moved, with about a
dozen men to operate it, has been about three
hundred cubic yards per day. Mr.. Webster
confidently expects however, to excavate eight
hundred yards per day, which is only five yarts
in four minutes, while its full capacity is twelve
yards in that time. We deem this estimate too
| sangune, and even if it excavate five hundred
yards per day, it will do the work of forty men.
When working with full success, it would per-
form for the time being the work of one HUNDRED
men.-TOiedo Blade.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

The PosITIoN OF THE KEoKuK DISPATCH
columns OF the present date, will be found an
article from the Keokuk Dispatch, explanatory
Of the course Of its editor upon the question of
county subscriptions. 1t is but justice to the
editor 10 give him the benefit of his explanation;
and although we cannot entirely coincide with
him as to the propriety Of his course, we do not
doubt but what he was governed by the best
motives. He says he is opposed to the principle
OF counties leaning their credit to corporations
for purposes of internal improvement, and shall
regulate his vote accordingly, but as the people
are determined to have railroads at the expense
of Constitution, Code and the dictates Of sounG
policy, he desires that proper direction shall be
given to those Improvements and that the
zeal for principle, although commcndable
should no, be adhered 10 at the expense of the
prosperity of their town. We do not apprehenc
the dangers which our neighbor Of the Dispatcl
thinks he discovers in the distance, and there.
fore are disqualified from approaching fully The
force of his position. However, his explanation
of the matter, leaves it in better shape than i
was before.
1t is very difficult and sometimes dangerou
task, to resis, the Gu rent of public option, bu
| whenever public opinion becomes vilialed, it i
the solemn duty of the journalist, at wha,eve
hazard, to meet boldly the issue and apply tn
proper corrective.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

A FEMALE AERoNAUr KILLED "A balloon
ascent took place at the Mont de Marsan on the
goth, young woman OF 81 years of age, named
Emma Verdier, the daughter Of gardiner be-
ing the eronaut The balloon arose mostly
evenly and majesically, and as the weather was
perfectly calm, no apprehensions were enter
tanned of any accident. The next day, however,
the inhabitants were much shocked at learning
that the young woman had fallen to the ground
in about two hours and half after her ascent,
at Montesquieu, village so miles distant, and
was killed on the spot. From what was after
wards ascertaned, it appears that some haymak-
ers near Montesquieu, were startled at seeing
white body fall to the earth short distance from
them. They found it to be the body of young
woman dressed in white. She had fallen head
foremost, and her skull was split open. At no
great distance was to be seen the anchor of the
balloon fixed in an oak, a long peace of rope be-
ing attached to the iron. The balloon was also
seen rising rapidly and floating away 1t is
supposed that on the young woman attempting
to effect her descent, the anchor caught in the
tree, and the rope then braking, gave such a
shock to the basket in which she was sitting.
that she lost her balance and fell out Nothing
has since been heard of the balloon GaIigna-
MS Messenger.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

GALESA AND JACKSON CoUSrY-The citi.
zens of Galena and those of Jackson county. are
getting into jangle as 10 the manner Of sub.
scrbng the credit of the County for railroad
purposes. The citizens of the cavern City, de-
sire the people Of Jackson county before taking
the vote to loan their credit for two hundred
thousand dollars, to provide that $4,000, Of
this sum shall be appropriated towards the con.
struction of road up the valley of the Tete
des Mortes, the line of the Great Western rail
road, but the people of Jackson county are mo-
exactly willing to jeopardize their Western road
for the uncertainties Of the Great Northern one
It may be well if they do not allow GaIen,
to steal march on them. Their mouth is o.
pen ready to swallow them up. Our neighbo
of the Press has got his eyes open for them
He is nc Jonah to be caught mapping.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

WHAT PAY-DAY!-The Dubuque Herald
talks about an immortal credit" in connec
ton with the Dubuque, Owyhee, Shanghae and
japan Railroad Unfortunately Dubuque has
no other resources -Galena Jeff.
1t does not very well become Journal, print
ed in a town which has been on the retrograde
for four years, and which has most signaly
failed in every public enterprise ever undertaken
by its citizens, except It's steam boat interest, to
talk about the poverty and want Of enterprise
of other towns.
It has been kicked neck and heels out of
every railroad enterprise it has ever sought to
snake itself into-first, the Chicago Union Rail
Road Company, the Illinois Central, then the
Southern Wisconsin and Mississippi, and the
Air Line-and it is little too much, to believe,
that after all this kicking and cutting by railroad
capitalists, they are about TO commence the
airy process of blowing Galena up into an i'm
mense bubble, by foolishy squandering their
means in rail road from Tete des MoItes to
Minnesota. We are quite willing for the ac-
commodation Of our friends at Galena, to
swallow almos, any dose their editors may pre-.
pare for US, believing as the old lady did in re-
lation 10 catnip tea, that their nos,rums are
harmless, and If they do no good, can do ne
harm, but we protest that we have not stomach
enough for such an enormous amount Of gas, a.
is generated and generating in this new fan
gled railroad project. Give US any reasonable
amount of the combustiLle, and we will gener
ously open our stomachs to receive it, but don
for decency sake, terrify US with the enormity
and extravaganza of your demands. We admire
people who can boast, but little discretion il
as requisite in this, as in other particulars.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

RATHER INQUIsITIvE.-We heard friend
relate the accompanying incident the other day
with not little zest, and to the amusement Of
good many bystanders;
Jumping into an old-fashioned stage-coch
last month, in company with nine others, to
jostle over ten miles of unfinished road between
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, l was very much
amused with the following characteristic da-
logue between regular que sion-asking ssdown.
easter and high.headed southerner We
were scarcely seated before our Yankee b.
gan:
Travelling East, expect"
"Yes, sir" q
"Goin' to Philadelphia, reckon"
"No, SIR
ooh, ali! to New York, maybe?"
Yes SIR
"Calc'latin' to by goods, presumed"
"No. SIR"
"Never ben there before, 1 wouldn't wo,-
der?'
:" No, sir, never"
"New York is wonderful place"
" Such is my impression, sir"
" Got letters, expect?"
Yes, sir; am provided with letters ofintp-
duction.''
"Wouldn't mind shown you reound myslf
spell, if you wanted"
81 thank you, sir; but shall not require yur
assistance"
This last remark Of the polite but reservd
stranger was a poser; and the inqusilor fill
back moment to take breath and change lis
tactics. The half-suppressed smile upon tie
faces OF the other passengers soon arousd
the Yankee to still further exertions, and he be-
gan again:
Stranger, perhaps you are not aware hov
almighty hard it is for Yankee to control his
curiosity. You'll please excuse me, but realk
would like to know your name, and the busr
ess you follow | expect you amt ashland
of either Of 'em; so now won't you Just obleee
me?''
This last appeal brought out our southep
friend, who, rising up to the EXTREMIST heipt
allowed by the coach, and throwing back hi
replied
"My name is General Andrew Washington
| reside in the State of Mississippi. | am
gentleman Of leisure, and am glad to be abb
to say of extensive means. have heard muci
of New York, and | am now on my way to So,
il; and if like it as well as am led to suspec.
intend to-BUt lT!'
Then was heard a shout of stentorian laupbtl
er throughout the stage coach. and that was tn
act off that convoro ,tiop til
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

TnE Hoxrsr MAN lit has become SD COM
mon for persons to engage m Railroad enter
prises, and seek to become Directors Presidents.
or Contractors for the purpose Of sspecuiating.
a, the term goes. that it is really refreshing to
hear Of one who sacrifices his own interest for
that IT the persons whom he represents The
Cimcianati Enquirer says that some time since
Mr. franklin Corwin went t. New York with
authority to purchase iron for twenty miles of
the Cine nnati. Wilmington and GAINESVILLE road,
III which he is President When in market he
found he could purchase enough for 10 miles
more at good rates. but his limit by the Directory
was to twenty miles. He determined 10 els
the contract Tor the seventy miles on private ac-
count, which he did. Iron soon rose in value,
so much so that his contract was $500, 900 above
what he had agreed to pay. 1t was legally and
fairly his, but wjth adisintrrcstednrss almost With
out parallel, be gave the Company the en'irc
benef, Of his bargain without a cents cen,pen-
sation. We agree with the Enqair.r IN saying
that the road cannnt fail to flourish when unccr
The control OF such a man lex.
This is an occurrence which docs not happen
more than once in life time.
That man should have monument raised 10
his lurmory
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

THE PREss.-The rapidly with which news
able as the assiduity with which it is cleaned
In looking over our newspaper the readers eye
in, five minutes, glances over items of news
picked up from every quarter of the globe. In
those few minutes he reads an epitome of the
worlds daily history. From the bursting of a
volcanoin Italy to the petty larceny In his own
street-from the revulson of an empire to the
petty squabble of his own town council-he has
it all. Earth on more has secret corners in
which she can play her unseen antics. The
eye and ear Of the silent satellites Of knowledge
are everywhere and ever at hand and the cleo
trio fash of thought transmitted, the answering
press thunders to the world, the deeds of earth
and thoughts Of men-Cin Sun.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

LARGE DEPoslr.-Agreeably to an order
from Washington, the Receiver of the Dubuque
Land Office, Mr.. P. Quigley, left this City yes
terday, on board the steamer Lamartine, with
$26O,OOO in specie, to deposit in the Sub Treas
ury at st. Louis.
This amount has been received from four
ofhces within the last three months-namely-
the Office at Dubuque, Iowa City, Fort Des-
MONIES and Charlton, and is probably not equal
to the amount received in Land Warrants.
We hope Mr.. Quigley will have safe and
pleasant time getting this heavy responsibility
off of his hands.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

Several Democratic clerks have recently
been removed from Office at Washington Civ
for indulging too much in the " internal spirit Of
rum.-DaU. Gaz.
Who informed you they were " Democratic
Clerks e'-DuGuque E1.
We saw it in print, besides had they been
Wig clerks they would have been turned out
long ago.-D40. Gaz.
Begging your pardon, Mr. Gazette, one third
OF the clerks in the Departments at Washin rton
City, are Wings. At least SO we were informed
not long since, by distinguished Member of
Congress. Dubuque Er.
Precisely, and if they had been addicted 10 in
temperance under the administration of Mr..
Fillmore, they would have been ousted lonp
since.-DaU Gaz
Would they? We would like to see the
proof for this. If we recollect right, manv Of
Mr.. Fillmore's appointees, were guilty Of offences
infinitely more odous and revolving, than that Of
intemperance.
But the Gazette seems to be begging the
question, and therefore we will drop the sub
ject.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

THE GARDINER MINE.-The Commissioners
appointed to visit Mexico and ascertain the
whereabouts, in San Luis Potosi, of DR.. Gar
diners Mine, have returned and confirm the ties
timony Of previous Commissioners, that no such
mine is in existance.
Putting the amount fraudulently distracted
from the National Treasury by this grand scamp
Gardiner, with what has been expended in fer.
reting out the rascality, and it will make large
sum which has been ilched from the people
through the missmanagement of the last admin.
istration.
II What can be the matter Of our friend
General Morgan He has been as quiet as
sucking dove, since the lashing Of the State
Gazette. We hope it has done him good, ant
we have no doubt it has, for he was fast losing
the equanimity of his disposition.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

RAILROAD LOANS AT ST. LoUIs.-The vote
OF the city OF st. Louis to subscribe half a mill.
ION dollars TO the Iron Mountain Railroad, and
half million to the Moth Missouri Railroad.
was almost unanimous.-Ga. Jeff.
II It had been fifty millions or three times
what the City is worth, it would have probably
keen the same thing. Men in these railroad
times, do not stop TO count the cost or even to
institute the enquiry of what they are worth,
but goit blind if they can but have the assurance
Is for a railroad
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

The WoRK OF DIsoRGANIzER.-We
Learn that the editors of the Dubuque Herald
are writing to the various Post Masters through
out the country to extract, if possible, some.
thing derogatory to the character of the Pos
Master in this city. This is about small
business az sending their boys to the Office en-
curing far other peoples matter, and thereby
endeavofing TO em5arrass the Post c flee bust
ness, which they were guilty of a few weeks
ago. Il is well enough for the people to un'
derstand that. that corrupt concern will resort
to a,.y means, no matter how dirty and con-
temptible, to accomplish their foul purposes.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

D AS the congregation of the Methodist
Church at Camden, N. j., were rising from
the attitude ofprayer, on Sunday week, it was
noticed that lady remained in kneeling pos
ture. Those near her gently touched her, but
without effect and close examination reveal
ed the fact that she was a corpse
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

u The Davenport Gazette says, the best
men are leaving the democratic party. and " ia
king proud stand in the front ranks of Tenn
perance." Perhaps there may be few about
Davenport. 1t would seem from the recent
election that there are. Let them 60. The
sooner the democratic party is rid of those ia
natics who will not, from ignorance or design
discriminate between politics and morality, or in
other words, who are resolved to connect reli-
gion and temperance, with politics, the better
will it be for its present and future organization
and the stability and perpetuity of the govern
ment.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

$40 REwARD.-Caleb Buchanan Of Cascade,
offers $40 reward for a Mare and colt, either
estrayed or stolen, supposed to be stolen from
his premises about the 18th inst. This is a lib
eral reward and should insure the speedy return
Of his property.
Mr.. B. gives broad hint, that gang Of horse
thieves and counterfeiters are on the road be-
tween Dubuque and Iowa City and that some
OF the settlers are giving them counten-
ance. II this be the case, they had better keen
sharp look out, or they may get trapped before
they know what they are about.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

THE MACHINE Is COMING. PREpARE FOE
ia fire engine bought for this city last
spring is on the way and will be here in a
few days. An effort is now making TO organ
ize company to take charge of the Machine
as soon as it arrives A meeting was held on
Saturday evening for this purpose, the proceed
ings of which will be found in an other column,
and was adjourned, without any definite action,
to meet at Globe Hall on Tuesday evening.
call upon our citizens to turn out to the meeting
will be found in another column and we t.ust
they will heed it. There is no reason why
good company should not be promptly organ
lied
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

The London Times" of a recent date,
is out in a bitter article-embodying all the big
otry and prejudice of the old tory party Of
England-against the Crystal Palace. After
the very courteous manner in which dis.in-
guished Englishmen have been treated at the
Crystal Palace, it betrays mean spirit in the
Times to indulge the comments it has been
guilty Of
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

II Gen. John Sidney Jones, we'll known
and wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, was ar
rested by the police in New York, for addressiu Q
an extemporaneous meeting on the steps of the
Merchants Exchange, Wall street. His sub.
ject was The Encouragement Of railroad compa
Mes His wrists were lacerated by cords en-
ployed to drag him through the streets Ga
Jeff.
The simpleton should have known better
than to interfere with the Locomotive men. |,
will be well in these times, if men can escape q
broken head, by evading, rather than seeking
| railroad controversies
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

FuSxY.-The Galena Jeffersonian concludes
that because Mccoy, the City Hickman, has
left, we have no Carriages in the city.
We will venture picayune against the bes
editorial he can produce, that we have more
Carriages IN this city, better horses, and more
liberal patrons, than they have in Galena. We
do not like to boast, but if there is any one
thing We excel in, it is our Livery. How is the
market for old horses and secondhand carriages
in your place, Mr.. Jeffersonian, we have few
we want to dispose of,
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

THE New SrEAMBoAT-MoNrAu
beautiful boat, just built at Pittsburgh, arrived
here on Thursday night
The Montauk, was built expressly for this
trade, at a cost of $25 900, and is furnished and
finished in style not to be surpassed by any
boat on the western waters. She is IT'S feet in
length, and draws but 26 inches of water, and
will, probably, find no difficulty in getting over
the Rapids.
She is commanded by Capt. Glenn, of whom
it is needless to speak; Chas. p. Warner, a
very clever and obliging gentleman, will be
found in the Clerks Office, assisted by two
other gentlemen who we are not acquainted
with-Ga Jeff
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-08-31

MISSISSIPPI AND Missouri RAILRoAD.-The
surveys on the second division Of this road, from
Iowa City to Fort Des MONIES have been de.
layed for few daysin consequence Of the ILL
ness of the principal Engineer in charge, Mr.
Dey. We are happy TO learn that this efficient
and enterprisng gentleman has SO far recover-
ed his health as to be able to resume his station
in the field and that the work will now be push
ed forward with his usual energy and dispatch.
MIR. Farnam declares his intention to put the
entire work, for the second division, under
contract as soon as the surveys are completed,
provided the citizens along the line and at Fort
Des Moines raise their proportion Of subscrip-
ton to the stock.-Dauenport Gazette.