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The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
AWFUL MURDER.

On Monday last, Mr.. Boone, OF Greenyille.
complained to Justice Rork that he had found
the dead body Of the wife Of Frederick ShoefIer.
lying in rough box in the barn belonging to
said Shoetfier, with but single rag covering,
and under circumstances which led him to be-
lieYe that she came to her death by foul means.
A Coroner's inquest was Immediately sum-
moned, proceeded to the spot, and after long
and patient examination Of witnesses, came to
the conclusion that she was poisoned with arse
mic administered by her husband and that Els
father and mother were access ,ries TO the crime.
PRS. Beach and Mosher, and Prof Cooks, made
post mortem examination of The body, and
found a large dose of arsenic in her stomach.-
Dr. Beach testified that he had sold Shoeffier a
quantity of arsenic about two weeks ago that
s. said he wanted it to kill rats. Shoefflers
mother (being examined apart from her sony
SAID there were no rats there.
1t further appears that the woman died on
Saturday; that she was sick hut short time ::
that she was disliked by her husband and his
family, she had friends in Milwaukee; and her
husband complained that it had cost him SIG to
get her from Milwaukee here. The feeling is
great all through our County, from the reckless,
unblushing aspect and tone assumed by Shoe.
fier. The examination is still progressing; of
which, full particulars next week.-.4ppleton
HIS. Crescent, Oct. g.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
THE DEEPEST WRONG.

The deepest wrong that thou couldst Go
Is thus to doubt my love for thee,
For questioning that, thou question'st st too
MY truth, my pride, my purity.
Twere worse than falsehood thus 10 meet
Thy !, asst caress, thy hghiesi smile,
Nor feel my heart exul,ing heat
With sweet inpassoned JOY the while
The deepest wrong that thou could-i do
Is thus TO doubt my faith proiessed--
How shall love, be less han true
When thoH arr noblest, bravest, best.
For thee braid and bind my hair
With fagrant flowers, for only thee
Thy sweet approval all my care,
Thy love the perfect world to p,e!
For thee fold my fairest grown
With simple grace, for thee, for thee,
No other eyes in all the town
Sh"ll look with formed love on me.
For thee my lightsome lutte tune,
For thee it else were mute, for thee
The blossom TO the bee in June
Is less than thou 20 me
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

TO THE CITIZENS OF DUBUQUE
BY j A. LINN ELL

te p'wcrs s'premei to yu sing my ssE-
fe powers that are Il know not for how loIg)
Toynu dedicate this siirp'e lus
AHd ,iihe interests viii du.Ie nj its way
" ~ rJt. cur isles fn--.ur isles wc pant
Ns drrdse our sloirgLs-ia fretip sieg cant.
WY spend the public money tpr o.;r CURSE
sndwh sit silent when the public pirse
- pdteied IN your sight! Al haur !-furbf ar
4 rc a5e pen yogr wil--iikt ntn declare.
WIS see tih. iaeal,ic Of our daily t,.i,s
Absorbed, polluted 10 desfi0y sur is.ezs
why sient oir taxes for nearer fw:
Saudbaf Will obsiruct The path bel.wl
An! why destroy our isles before ctr sight
Gequeathed by ceartcr .or ,i.tlal right
am are yoar poWe.s--yc sn2w il and We know
fot Cannot turn the Mississippi's how
Then why this huinbng? Why thus Sc + dstased,
iiy al assisted, but by self jsgra ed
we want 10 b uffs abuve, or slouphs below
Nor wish to turn the Parent Waters fow
ARA yn'i ye fathers, liza We yCu no more sense
ihan to cypress your offspring with expense
10 coiln'eracf the evils you have done
And with Impnnty re-'ax your on,
tax;ng The present and future race
ana on your 'fspring, brand their src's disgrace
iohr en- llren viii exclaim by reasons rules
" ohr Jdth rs acsre a set If Sirhtiess foors.o
ANA iools they are who public interests scan
And re- tine people, but TO make man,
dubuque Telegraph Office Nov 2nd rs53
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

Few man have ever gone TO Congres 3
Whh more fun and popularity than the lion
Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky. In the way of
anc;dote, he is une4nalled, while his mode Of
telling stories imparts tone to them that no one
can appreciate who has moi made his acauain-
tance.
Among the 'characiers' that Mr.. Coombs
knows like book, is old Major Luckey, whose
taste tor Dragging amounts at times to the sub
lime. whenever the Major has stranger in
the neighborhood, he "opens wide and spreads
himself, and with success that leaves us MOTH
ing to desire. The following scene took place
between the Major and Col Peters, "a late ar
rival from Illinois:
'MaJor, ! understand from Gen Coom,bs that
shortly after the Revolution you visited Ensland;
how did you like the jaunt?'
'Caphaly had not been in London five
hours before Rex sent for me to play whist, and
devil Of time we had of it,
Rex what Rexs'
Why, Rex the King George the Third
ihe game came off Of Windsor Castle Reg and
l played against Billy Pitt and Edward Burke
and resulted rather comically'
sHow SO ?
'As we were playing the last game, Rex said
IN rather familiar manner, Major, suppose
you know Charles Washington, the Father Of
nis Country Father be DID, says he,
- WV" S"'oSu AeUCiy uHu ndU served nlm
right, he would have been hung long ago.
This OF course, ried me, and to that degree, that
Just drew back, and gave him blow between
the eyes, that felled him like bullock. The
next moment Pitt and Burke motinted me- and
IN less than ten minutes my shirt and breeches
were so torn and tattered, that l looked like
Lazarus. This gave me rather disiaste for
English society, SO the next morning set sail
,or America. Six weeks afterwards landed at
washington The first person met, ATE. en-.
tering the city was G..
% (! what O.
why, that d----d old federaIist. Quincy
Adams. He wanted me to play ninepins with
HIM, and did 50. Won $500 at two shilIings
game, and then had row.
about what.'
'He wanted to pay me off in Continent, II money
worth about shilling peek. got angry, and
knocked him into aspittoon. Whilst still had
him down, Jim came in and dragged me off to
The White House,
sWhat Jim y
why, Jim Madison. l went, played euchre
for two hours, when Tom came in and insisted
that should go horne with him
sWhat Tom p
Why, Tom Jefferson. jim, hoYever, would
not listen to it, and the consequence was that
hey went intoa fight. In the midst oft they
ell over the banis ers, and dropped about ffiy
eet. When left, they were giving each other
iell IN the coal cellar. How it Terminated /
lever could learn, as just then Martha ran in
mo ! saId must accompany her upto Mount
Vernon, to see' George
8 What Martha do you mean p
Martha Washington, wife of George, the
'ld boy that gave Jessy to the Hessians
About here, Coomhs sa.l tse stranger began
9, o discover that he was swallowing thugs.
] he next stage that came along he took passage
n for an adjacent town. The Major, we be-
'eve, is still living, and still believes that the
vailop'ng ne gave Louis the Eighteenth is
he Id best on record.--Nc,c York Dutch
,tan.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
Valuable Real Estate for Sal

- THE Saw Mill, in fine running order. and
Es. 1000 acres Of TimbeFcd Land attached, located
- on the South Fork of the Makoqueta, 6 l-2 miles
g. =. Of Cascade, f0r sale. The Mill was newly fur
nished lastfa, with the most approved machinery
able Of cutting 5000 feet of Oak lumber per day. The
Timber, whichis OF very ne quality viii be sold
demand for all lumber manufactured al
this establishment at good tis the ediae
victnf Of very rich and nourishing settlements AT
verv tSihing expense, Grist Mill could be attached
upon the same water power. Any person desiroIs Of
becoming wealthy, would do well tu xamine the prem
ises Fer terms aud further particulars, the Pro-
pFietorwouldrefer puFchasersto ps
JNO. NJ. McDANELD,
Real Estate Agent,
Orto WM ANDREW.
"A City Hotel, (lO9) Dubuque.
March 3lst. 1859. dav If
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
S J E A M FER R Y

y. Al OODUQUE.
THE UNDERSIGNED would inform the TyayeJin
Public, that the Splendid New Steam Ferry Boat,
SEQ Ut A II
has this day commenced her Feguartr,ps TO be made
every hafhour across the Mississippi atihe Lower Fer
ry at Dubuque.
We will cross any number ofTEAMs that will come
LET THE wEArHER NE WHAT 1T MAY, I'D WILL Run Al
msGHTs iftheTe 10 bvs do.
Our charges reasonable any other Ferry OF
the Upper Mississippi Everything that
want by way Of OUTFIT, be had atthe prices
Dubaquethe City being literally cramed with such ar
ticlos q Caiifornians want
N. B.. Recollect, that the STEAMER is at the Lowe
Ferry opposite the City, and NOT at Eagle Point an
that high winds will not, any time, prevent the boa
f6m Itossiug % is otsn the case with Horse Boats
March 30:h '52-dWy
C.GREGOIRE & Co
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

The Yuma and Cocopa Indians are at war -
| They had battle about Tie first of the mon,b .
til" Ynmds were victors
Ihiriy 1--WE thousind sheep have been brought
lnto the State by the southern route from Chi
Auahua.
Mayor 'i"dnan made treaty with the Indi-
ans on the Humboldt
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

GALENA AND DUBUQuE.-The relative ad
vantages Of trade between these two points NAV
be estimate from the statement of heavy
Wisconsin trader, whose name we are at liber !
to give, that the stock of goods bought at Du
buque, was purchased fifteen per cent. lowe
than they could have been according to writer
oilers at Galena We do not notice it as ar
uncommon case, but we trust the county deal
ers Of Wisconsin and Upper Illinois, will neet
no further hint in matter which SO nearly con
meets itself with their interests.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

-
Iy Tue investigation into the de plorabIe
henry Clay catastrophe is now being condue /.
ted before the U. s. circuit court, Judre Inper-
soil presiding The case is v,ry importan,
one ana has naturally excited pubic attention.
he courtroom is crowded to exec 5 at each
Sessipn o. the court. The case comes b. f,Ye
this tribunal uEder the title of the peopl. Of
,he United States against Thomas Csllyer,
John +. Tallman, John Germais, edward Hub.
bard, James l.. lessup, james Elinendorf, and
Merritt, owners and officers Of the steamboat
Henry Cliy You will remember that some
sixty hives were sacrificed in open day upon
the Hudson River, when The ko.t was within
Two hgndrra yards OF inc shore. 1t is charged
that the Henry Clay was running race with
another boat, and dat she took FIRE from me cf-
feet Of her boilers being over heated, undes me
direction of her owners, who were "n oosIo I,
the time III. accident occu red, Abe caSnseiy 4
is engaeed on both sides, and it's presume the
the trail will be very lengthy.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

MAcLAY d GREEH-The snow Of the last
torty-eight hours is a very sensible reminder OF
winter, and there will doubtless be call for the
stoves OF this firm, whose advertisement will
I ound under the appropriate head
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

ADVERTISING How yely lew take what we
may call an economical view of advertising
The trader, or farmer, or head of a me. camille
papers, generally does it without any further
thought than the single one that others do il,
and he must be s'with the fashion, Yet let
our advertising friends look at it, The general
calculation which is made, gives six readers to
every single subscriber. 1t looks large, but it
is really below the truth There is hardly any
paper which docs not pass through TWICE that
number Of hands. II tells its tale everywhere
aver the country. Silent, but ever active, it
goes to every place, and whatever our merchant
friends tell it to say, it whispers confdentially
in everyone's ear. What would dealer give
for some industrious gentleman, who would ride
day and night over the country, and tell every
body to go to his store or warehouse if the
cheapest and best goods were wanted ? Such a
man would be invaluable /; yet see how exactly
The newspaper fulflls these hard conditions. 1t
travels day and night, talking always and talk
ing to everybody. 1t talks on every steamboat,
II every sage ~ every farm house, in every
store, al every fireside, throughout our whole
country. ltspeaks to high and low, rich and
poor, old and young-in one word, to every
body. Five hundred years ago the effect of the
newspaper could only have been accounted for
~ the supposition af miraculous powers But
is under our eye, and is too common TO at
ract notice +. The proDhc, has no honor l.;
MS own country 1t is not she less true, how
'yer, disregarded its simple truth my be
fortune after fortune has been made by this
ificient" truth put in action,'' and fortunes yet
emain to be won by it. Truer than of any
hing else it may be said of the advertisement,
=" it makes money while ycu sleep" These
emarks are meant as g word to the wise,
nd We trust they will be I" sufficient" BRISG |
IN YOUR ADVERTISEMENTS
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

Ey An article in the Boston Post lately ex
amined the charges put forth in Putnam's Ma.
gnsiae The answer Of the Post is completely
triumphant. One passage relative to the YER
dict ofihe people on these charges, we cannot
resist giving our readers. The entire of the
Post says:
1t might readily b supposed that an admin.
Istration thus basely traduced from the moment,
II startsd into being, without i1tefmissitr O,
pause, should, in some degree, become obiec-
tionablc to HE people. But this expectation, il
it has been entertained, (and that it has been en-
tertaned no man pretends to doubtD has been
overwhelmingly disappointed. Every election
that has taken place since General ElEgcs has
been President, has resulted in triumphant
Vindca,ion Of his policy, after the most exciting
discussions of his pledges and hislprac,iccs. In
no single state has the democratic j,alty gons
bakcwatds, tried by the standard Of the ballot
boxes, since the fourth of March ofthe pres
eGt year Jaundiced journalism has poured its
complaints upon the public ear--eloquent ora
tors haYe prognostiCated calamioIs catastto.
phies-dlsapPointed men have threatened the
gravest disasters-and have been stimulated Ly
ufhG nsed @a1-administratiop Of the Presi-
l0dnseff0rs- But the popular
Agile answering impulse for thess
manifestations. North Carolina re.
pdncej her confidence in the principles of
ghesPresiGent, though the dsapI ,nted eoltor
Of the New York Herald raved with ins1ne
violence. Tennessee elected democratic gov.
lsrnor and maj jarity Of her congressional dele
alton, though JONES grew angry and HENRY
desperate; Louisiana proclaimed anew her faith
N democratic principles, even while her Hui.
letins Numbered, and her Crescsnts clamored
Alabansa spoke louder and bolder for deinocra.
cy, in the midst of whig hopes and domestic
discussions Georgia give hex verdict onoe
more for fIEncE, thou STEVENS denounced
and TooMps declamed | Nnginia outdazzled her
own bright past. and Mf4BoTTs predicted, and
the Rlchnona Hhig illuminated all in vain
Even Kentucky returned BREcKEsRleeE to ihe
disappointment of PRESTIGE, and Ee.as adLed
her own majorities, as a new trioute that her
vote of November, 1852, had neither deem for
gotten nor regretted New Hampshire, Com
nec,icnt, Rhode Island and Maine, renembcsod
in their late elections none of the calumnes
that had been hurled against the President thew
had aided to elect. Even as we write the ma.
jrstic column ofdemocratic triumph is crowned
with the trophies OF victorinus Pennsylvania
and pho, as if two add the only elem mt re-
qnired to complete the vindica,ion of F,anklin
Pierce and his policy The writer for Pataan,
requne es a. more significant and unans werable
retoris to his SANDERS thaq these emphatic yo;-
ces Of the people
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
a MEN WRINKLE,

+ We venture In say ihIt few. IL any. of ou
great barometer 1t is true, nevertheless
| Every one who has pissed close la The poles
has no doubt remarked The sound which the
wires max. continually. They are never ill,
As any one may ascertain by putting his ear
close 10 any Of the poles II is III re ob>rrv-
stle when the wires run north and south, but
occurs more or less in crsry wire, in whatever
direction it extends. Day and night, rain or
shine, wind or no wind, it pours fourth never
ceasing tune. like q sori of m mlm,nnth AZ ,lian
this never-interluittng air, will always atfrd an
ind cation Of the weather some ,wcniy-four or
thirty-sx hours ahead If the wire sings
gentle treble, desend on it, there viii be m
change. lf on the contrary, il changes TO
hoarser note, and louder one, you can be assur-
ed that the weather clerk has taken his pen
from behind his ear, and is about to draw off
san entire change Of programme Don't
hatter yoIrselfliat it is only the wind, for if you
do, You may calculate or losing the oysters, or if
TOO confident, you may ind some of your spare
unds invested in hat for somebody else. We
nave known the sagacious wire commence lis
leavy bass note when there was not apparently 1
breath Of air, and when The skies were as blue
is woman.s eye. But in few hours it turn
d to sky 'othergates than that, and the storm
ame down handsomely. Try it at least II is
cheap barometer, and very interesting one
" he hve
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

SHIP BUILDlEG IN New YoRk-The New
York EUening Post, after enumeating the
names and yards Of the various ship builders in
New York, makes up the following.
eThe vessels building may be cIassed as fol
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
MONETARY PROSPECTS

The last Cincinnati Railroad Record contains
very cheering article OH the financial condi-
ton OF our Country. We place great reliance
on the Record in all these matters, and annex
part of the ar icle below. After noticing the
bad symptoms of the market, overtrading &c =,
the Record proceeds to say:
We repeat what we have previously said
more sotd prosperity nerer existed in ann
country, Mdn eEists an ours. But, that there
has been oreriradi4g, and consequently, oror-
dedtlng Is an obvious fact. for which the remedy
is SIMPLY, less private consumption, aud less
importing foreign goods.
10 illustrate how completely the 'spressure'
IN our money markets has been dependent on
the imports Of foreign goods, we will quote
the commercial statistics of three different peri
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

u The Albany Journal says business was
never as active as now, on the New York cana
and Hudson River, since 1873, the year Of the
Irish famine.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

ty The London Morning Chronicle Of Oct.
5'h has leader on the war question 1t saws
Again and again we, reiteratc, England must
now prepare herself % light, once and for ali,
for her own indepepdssse. and the rights of ali
nations, civilized and Hticivhized, whose liber-
ties are threatened bv Russia There is not a
point Ut the earth where the machnations OF
the Czlr cannot be iraced-from nearly under
the North Pole and close to the Icy Sea-where
his agents are undermining the Swedish Gov
ernment by interfering with the rights of pastur-
age held unquestoned by the Fins and Lnps for
untold ages-to the northern frontier of China
and the banks of the Indus. Everywhere-in
Persia, on the Danube, in Atfghanistan -wher-
ever there is friend of England to persecute,
or an enemy to irritate and excite against us,
the-e we shall find the Russ Well may the
words of the poet, as applied to the Andeas, be
paraphrased as a description of this huge and
oEeEweeni,ig Rowe.
.'Where Russia giant Of the 1. rstern Star
WiIh wars red Standard, 10 the winds uai.rld
Looks from her throne of 'ce' DER half the world"
We tell the people Of England it will not do
to lntrust the conduct OF this mighty struggle to
feeble and imbecle hands. 1t is a work which
will task TIE strongest heads and most powerful
arms
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

GALEsA RoBBERY.-The jeweIry sto:e of
A. T. Phyerton in Galena was robbed Of jewel
ry on last Saturday night, to the amount of
$4,000. $500 are offered for the recovery of
the goods and arrest of the thief
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

Ws have few words 10 say to subscribers. We
have large number of little claims for subscription
scattered all oy,rthe State, which need, bn, which
would involve gr deal of time aud expense 20 af
them Wewould like TO have those who are ind ,bt
ed to forward this fall and square the books
We hope they viii duly appreciate the situation OF
massers ana relieve from resort harsh measures
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

DEADLY AssAULT.-A man named John Swift
was knocked down and robbed of 80 on monday
night, on the Common, near the corner Of Bowl
eton and fremont streets. He was found bIesd
ing and nearly exhausted, by the watch, abont
one clock, and conveyed to the hospital 'rhe
weapon used by the perpetrltor OF the outrare
was one OF the stakes bearing the sign uN,ll
on paths, which was FOUND removed frou, ~
place and having upon it blood and hair a o,,t.
rage like this is most startling, but we know of
no remedy Tor it unless quick eye, and a strong
hand a''th son,ethtng "a i,-Eos Statesman,
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09

A CoNGREssMAN LOSING HIS IDENTITY
The state of Iowa is young state, and by a
sort of natural analogy she has chosen mostly
young men for h'r working boys We have
been good deal anuscd with practical Illus
tFation of this truth in regard to Hon Berntart
HEM of our congressional delegation. In go
ing round the country, Mr.. Hem Glanced to
call at the house of one of our solid Iowa farm
ers who was not personally acquainted with
him. As Mr.. HEM however appeared to be a
good sort of boy, he was, with Iowa hospitality,
immed diately "made at home" The comfort
Of the young man having been duly attended
to, the proprietor Of the house in the course OF
conversation, took occasion to enquire the name
of his guest. He was informed that it was
Hem. The farmer once more regarding the
youthful appearance of Mr.. Hem, pleased him
sell with the idea that he was seeing relation
OF his districts representative, and immediatel "
inquired after "the health Of his father" Mr.
Hem informed him that his father had been
dead tor some years. ga - said his Lost with
evident disappointment, s. had supposed that
you were related to MIR. Hem, our member of
congress" His astonishment on being assured
that his guest was the man himself" will be
readily imagined by all who have the pleasure
OF personal acquaintance with " the member
from the first district
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-11-09
Wooden Ware.

A SUPPLY OF Buckets, Tubs, churns, Bale Buck
IA ets Boxes Bowls Washers, spoons, Butter Prints
Rolling Pins. Mop Handles, cloths Pins Tar Buckets
Wash Bowls, etc. etc, just received and for sale by
Nlaa A. GILLESPIE,
May 4, '52 No. l,GlObe Building