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The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14
HERALD OFFICE,
Dubuque Aug. SO.

r, VI,
DIR. SIR As there has been since the first
subscribers to papers published in this City, oi
irregularity in the receipt of their papers at your
office, we are desirous Of ascertaining and show
ing the z. .. Department at Was hington where
the fault truly lies that it may be remedied by
APPLYING the correction in the right place. We
do not think it is i'm your office for we have many
and good reasons for believing that it belongs
to the Post Master at Dubuque. The disorder
and confusion at p esent and during the period
named, existing in the management of mails III
northern Iowa, is such as To have altogether des-
troyed their reliability and as a consequence im-
paired their usefulness. We trust therefore thai
our motives will not be deemed improper IN
seeking the information desired. Will you be
kind enough to inform US whether there have
been any failures of papers published by our
selves or others in this City, to arrive at your of.
fice in the proper time during the period men,
toned, from the first of last May to the present
date.
Have such failures been frequent9 Have pa
pers published here reached your Office several
days after thev were due, and il SO, how many
DAYS? Have there been failures ofthe mail mat
ter from this City to arrive at your Office in or
binary time?
Please also 10 say whether packages of papers
and letters have been received in the mails from
this City at your office, which should have been
sent in some other direction. Have there been
few, or several such instances, and please name
places to which such packages were directed, or
the direction in which they should have been
sent
On the whole, have you been induced from
the contents of mails and irregularity of papers
received at yonr Office since the lst OF May last
4 L., hao d,,r,r, his
time a proper distribution of mail matter in the
Office in this City to the different routes running
thence.
By answering as early as possible the above
points, and such others as YOU think +, you will
greatly oblige us and serve the public.
Yours truly,
MAHONY & DORR.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ToPLoFTIcAL.-
The most accomplished member of the High
falutin Society was lately compelled to sing
small. Our readers will remember that the
abolitionists stole negro from his master a,
Syracuse in 1851. The amalgamationists oi
that city call this affair rescue, and the Stand-
ard sets up the pins
eth. SECOND ANNIvERsaEY OF the Rescu
of the man Jerry from the hands Of Kidnappers
at Syracuse, on the first day of October 1851
will be duly celebrated in this city ON Saturday
the first dav of October next
| The invitation is to all lovers of Justice ant
kindness throughout the land. The Rescue
was the most signal and emphatic vindicatior
OF the absolute supremacy of law, that has eve
occurred in America. Its beneficent influenc,
in awakening kind and genial sympathy in man
for his fellow man, enduring wrong unutterable
is beyond human computation. 1t is brigh
star of hope to the oppressed in all the nation
of the earth. 1t is the key note to the Song o
Universal Freedom. 1t is an exempfcation-
worthy of imitation on every spot thi
broad earth-of the glorious American doc
trine, that Resistance to TyrantS is Obedienc
to God y
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14
THE WAR OF CAPITAL


The Monroe Commercial of the lst contains
the proceedings OF various indignation meetings,
whose resolutions are exceedingly violent
against the Michigan Central Railroad Compa-
nv. The case is best stated in The preamble to
the resolutions adopted by meeting OF 1000 cit
izens al jackson, Mich.
Whereas, it is made conclusively TO appear,
that tie Michigan Central Rail Road Company,
are not only claiming monopoly OF the whole
trade of the north, but are making most lavish
expenditure of money, and creating every op-
stacle which their hirelings can discover OF IN
vent to impede prevent the construction oI
the northern branch Of the Michigan Southern
Rail Road, which is not only provided for by
the charter of the Company, but is also impera-
lively demanded by the commercial and farming
interests of the whole northwestern portion OF
the State, Therefore, &e &c,
In this state of affairs meetings of like
character have been held by the citizens o.
the counties of lngham, Eaton, Calhoun, Barry
and Lenawee, and each largely represented
| This war Of capital on antagcnistic interests
is most natural result. And if the experienc,
of the past is worth anything, we are warranted
in SAYING that it will make but little dlffetenc
to the capitalists whether the interests 10 b
fought against are those ofa rival company o
the higher interests of the State and the peopi
at large This result, so well verified, IN
the history of capital, and its inevitable tenden
cies, appears to be singuarly new to the goo
people of Michigan, and our worthy brother
the Commercial, with superfiuous point
exclamation, thuscommens:
Mass conventions and public meetings, in "
} rous portions the state, are giving utterance
nopular dissatisfaction and indignation arisir
, from the conviction that Railroad powers,
sump,ions and inf fiuences are becoming DANCE
Gus 10 pnblic interest, and corrupiing TO publ
Justice and the independence and purity OF lie
islation :,
II is well that now and then some indie
tions appear to show That the people" " do not
:. ways sleep"
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

THE GREAT SEAL OF EsdLAED.-We had
an opportunity of examining the other day this
impress of EngIaud's sovereignty-the Great
Seal where~ i'h Queen Victoria signifies TO her
subjects her royal will ard pleasure. 1t was
appended to the Letters Patent which Oliver l..
Reynolds, Esq of this town, has just obtain
ed in that country, for his ingenious Sewing
Machiue. The seal of her Majesty is wafer
and sealing wax affair, such as sufces in this
republican country, but solid cake of wax
some six inches in diameter by two inches in
| thickness and weighing at least three pounds.
1t was inclosed in tin box and tied to the doc.
| umenl of which it formed a part, by two or
'hree yards Off jbbon, and the whole concern
was packed in a wooden case about one foot
square. On the seal were various inscriptions
| and devices, among which was the figure of the
Queen on horseback. This fashion of tieing
two or three pounds Of wax to public documents
=" passing them under the Great Seal as the.
phrase isis probably as old as the Norman
conquest, and if so, the amount of wax which
is stored away in the archives of England must
be incredible. (.N HI Enquirer.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

PRIVATE CHARACTER OF A LOCOMOTIVE
People who may locomotive tearing up
and down the land at the rate Of forty miles an
hour, making the earth groan beneath its giant
tread, and the heavens themselves reverberate
with its fearful clater, soaring nature with its
unearthy din, and Tightening all creation al
most from its propriety-people who only see
it in its terrible activity, have no idea what en-
inenty social virtues it is endowed with. This
is its public character Its private one is anoth-
er affair. Now and then one Of these huge
monsters, in whose iron bowels slumbers more
than thousand giants power, comes up and
stands under window, and smokes away as
gently as the most exemplary cooking stove, its
huge steam pipes singing strain as soft and as
dulcet as the most amiable tea kettle, and its
lungs of steel breathing sweelly infant
in its slumbers. But the demon of power is
there. Let any one but pinch its ears, and no
venerable spnster cat will spit more fiercey;
let him gripe those iron hands, and the pipes,
which were tuned 10 SO soft strain, send forth
yell, as if heaven aud earth were coming To-
geler; and those lungs, which breathed so
quietly, cough like a volcano; and off it goes,
darkenng the heavens with its volume Of
s:.1oke.- Home Companion.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

a KR. NJ. ]. SULLIVAN, has lain on his healthy and
Iyl Picturesque Tract Land the Hf..L near the
Residence of lion. GEO. w. JONES into lots of ON L
HALF TO THREE QUARTERS of an ACRE each,
with eight streets from forty sixtyve feet wide.
The s,tuatloa commands delightful view OF the suF-
rounding country and is far removed from the MAS
matte influences Of the river that Doctors visits viii be
few and far between.' There two never failing
Springs on the Plat and good well water can be had
on any Lot depth Of Fifteen Feet Several lotf are
rlready engaged BY Of the best citizens CT Dubuque
and as they designed for the suburban resdenc
respectable persons any il is recommended that
tior he made soon to CHAS. COOKERY. Agent.
Of may be seen at the Agents cfise June ~
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

MEDICAL DIscussIoNs.-We cannot help OBJ
serving the frequent discussions in our exehan-
ges, as to the best system with which to h4ht
the undertaken and sexton. The antagonistic
Doctors seem to have sunk their whole stock IN
trade in their nkstands, and manage to render
the paper patronized perfect drug One fei-
low in the south part of the state, in rapturous
fury ofenthusasn, at the end of a column and a
half, thus overwhelms his unfortunate adver-
sary
Who discovered the new concentrated RENE
dies podophlin, macrotin, lrp'andrln, san
guinarin, ptelin, xanthoxylin, bydrast'n cory
dalin, irie.in and others, which have been usee
with so much success by reiormsrs
Blow your horn, Gabriel we want to g
| oo,r l'
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

IMPROVEMENT OF THE RAPiDs.-Maj. Floyd,
who has the general superintendent OF The I'M
provement of the Rapids in the Mississippi
River, was in this city yesterday We under
stand that the surveys OF The Upper and Lower
Rapids are proceeding rapidly as possible
But they are required to be executed with great
exactness, so as TO be made the foundation OF
contracts hereafter to be entered into.
The removal Of the distractions will, 1t is
ascertained, be let out to contractors, and this
will be done as soon possible This settles
one thing Much the largest portion OF the ap-
preparation already made will be expended on
the Lower Rapids, where it ought to be- Vi
this fact, we have no doubt. The citizens OF
that section, who are much interested in these
expenditures, may govern themselves accord
insly.
The above paragraph we clip from the Mis-
souri, Democrat There appear to be SO many
misunderstanding on this subject, that we saai
endeavor TO give something like fair resum'
| of the matter tomorrow.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14
Gbr af'rrklg Cprr5s.
By WM II. MERRITT.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. II, 1853

Mr.. MERRITT Enclosed | send you the
circular letter which the Editors of the Herald
sent to ali the Post Masters of the North oi
Iowa, or at least to so many of them as they
thought were their own particular friends, and
unfrendy to the 2. Nj. at Dubuque. 1t will be
recollected that they said they would give the
Post office at Dubuque a fair trial for month
and during that month they had their nquisiton
at work, and their spies posted through the
country 10 detect every little mshap of the
Post Master or his Clerks. Which of your mer-
chants or business men has moral character
enough to come out pure from an ordeal SO ma
lciously planned and so secretly conducted. |
assure you there are very few 1t will be seen
that this circular held out the idea that the in
nation was only to be used before the Depart
ment a, Washington, and in this way many
have said things which they never intended to
appear in print, and are now sorry for.
Your may select fifty Of the best and purest
men in your City, and by the same secret pro-
cess can find fifty men in northern Iowa, who
will say or swear that all your fifty saints are
thieves!
If these Editors were acting for the public
good, why did they not give the public those
letters which were favorable to the Post Master,
as we'll as those against him. And even of those
which they have published, one half of them
say as much for him as against him. l know
that they received answers from some OF the
largest Offices denying that there was any cause
Of complaint Why were these not given p
Because. Because! BECaUsE! Shall tell
it, Dennis Mahony is going East, and because
he once lived in Philadelphia, and held Jim
Campbell's horse, or blacked his boots, there
fore he will be appointed Post Master of Du-
buque, provided he can throw gutter enough to
get Cookery out! Now you'v got it.
But read the circular, and hereafter l may
treat you to some of the answers Your citi-
zens appear to have a good appetite for scandal,
and as they are dosed by the Herald, hope you
will allow me to give them small taste through
the Express. JACKSON.
HERALD OFFICE
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DUbUV9uE, IOFf4t.
nr Office, on Main-street over J. b. Thomas store.
Law Business Collections, entrusted TO his cae u
this and the ncghborng Countless promptly attended to-
Jnly 1 lS53 dawly
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

THE BosroN COURIER ON THE New YORK
TRIBuSE-Whig editors of course are better
acquainted with their little family pecuiarities
than any democrat can be, and it gives us
pleasure on all occasions to record their candid
opinion of each other. The following daguer-
rotype ofthe Ne,c York Tribune is exhibited by
the Boston Courier No admittance fee is re-
qured.
The subject of these remarks is one ofsmall
momcn, in itself We have touched upon it
merely to cite an example of the exceedingly
bad taste and lack OF sound judgment which are
characteristic of most of what Is written IN the
Tribune. That journal-ii we may be pardon
ed the use of an lrishism-s is never SO happy
as when it can make itself supremely mlsera-
be 1t is always trying to work itself into
violent rage about something, and crying bar
rem, barren!' from Dan to Beersheba No mat
ter how triflng or innocent the matter is, the
Tribune will make it out to be monster of ma
ture with seven heads and ten horns Its editor
is like that celebrated auctioneer who had as
much to say upon riband as upon Raphael.
Everything that he dislikes is as bad as bad can
be; and all enormities, as they exist in bis fan
cy, are graduated to the same maximum point
in the scale Of his rhetoric. When he UNDER
t,kes to shed tear it never rains, but 1t pours;
and he weeps over an old shoe with as heart
stirring lamenation as he bemoans a falling
empire. For this reason his writings are at
times very amusing to read. Their grotesqne
extravaganza takes away all serious effect, let
the writer be ever so much in earnest, for we
are in no mood TO be convinced, or moved, or
enreated, or persuaded, OF brought under the
influence Of any serious emotion when we see
him trying to jump out of his own skin in an ar
tificial paroxysm of wrath, tearing passion
to tat,ers for a mosquito bite, and laboring
to pump up a hurricane through a pop
squirt.'
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

FEMALE EQUEsTRIANIsM.-W regard this
feature of Agricultural Fairs as not the least
interesting. We have noticed heretofore the
premiums offered to the fair competitors in the
South, but from the WcilsuiHe Gazette, Colum-
biana County, Ohio, we see that the people
| further north are not behind their southern
friends in gallantry. The Gazette says:
I To add to the interest of The approaching Fa
| and to afford the ladies of the county and Others
who may be in atts ndance from distance, ar
opportunity Of displaying their agility on hors'
back on that occasion, number of liberal gen
tlemen have raised purse of $3.50 to be distr
bute6, in premiums, worth from s. TO $50, L
the best female rider, or to those most skilled il
refining single horse or span of horses il
harness.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

HALL OF THE CONGRESSIONAL LiBRARY-
We spoke few days ago Of this splendid room
-unques'ionaby the most perfect one of its
kind in the world. Another and longer visit
enables US to add some new and interesting par
I'ticulars.
The first impression as you look up and
around is one of unalloyed pleasure. The whole
work, TO the most minute part, is iron and yet
| so splendidly is it painted and gded, SO elabo-
rate and finished the ornaments, that you
can scarcely credit the fact The ceiling, COM
posed of ofimmense iron plates looking like mas.
| sive blocks of brown marble panel WORK, is
| most artisically constructed, SO as to combine
strength and beauty in perfect harmony. 1t is
the only entire iron ceiling on the earth. Rum
ming through the centre is The sky!ight, which
is elegantly ornamented with cluster of stars,
numbering some neutrality-suspicious. as many
| as we may yet number States in our conledera-
cy.
Next are the two long galleries-all IRON
the pillars, the lattice work, the baustrades, the
trusscs, the scrolls, the floors, the shelves, the
alcoves and the steps by which you ascend
Nothing Of the kind can be more perfectly
beautiful than the large ornamented scrolls
which appear to support The sides OF the ceiling.
They represent elaborate carving, with golden
ears of )rn, and golden clusters of grapes inter
spersed among their inches. The casting was
done by Messrs Jas. Beebe, s. Co, of New
York, and reflects great credit on their taste
and Indictment. The brilliant velvet carpets
which adorn the floors of the hall, galleries,
and alcoves, were also made in New York, and
were procured expressly by Messrs Clagges
g. Dodson, of this city The furnishing ar
rangements are the handwork If Mr.. L. F.
Clark, of Washington, and he may well be Cum
graduated with regard TO them.
The Library now comprises some % 900 vol
umes, and is destined to be much increased
One great Improvement is the facility with
which the books can be reached. The acoves
aae SO constructed that no ladders or steps are
needed to reach them. The tables and sofas
are 50 situated as to afford ample room for prom
enading, and the polite attentions ofthe libra
rian and his associates at once render every Wis.
tier at home Union
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

REMOVAL OF THE DAKOTA INDIANs-This
measure, so desirable for the tranquility and
prosperity of the settlements on the Mississippi
is now being quietly and efficiently effected
The Medawakan,ons, including Wabashav
and his band, are all now en- route for thei
new home on the Upper Minnesota.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

1t will be seen that in the last four weeks,
four thousand three hundred and sixty one
deaths from yellow fever alone have been re-
ported, and what renders the matter more fright
ful is the too obvious consideration that in the
prevalence Of such desolating epidemic, hui
dreds of deaths may occur out of the reach OF
the hospital or registers of mortality. The
yellow fever of 1853 stands first among horrible
array of modern epidemics and is equaled by
very few in the history of the world
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

DRowNED.-We learn from the Burlington
Gazette, that a young man named Jonathan
Nyeman accidentally drowned in the river
about two miles below that place on Tuesday
last At the time of the accident he was en-.
gagged on fiat boat, unloading wood on to the
Wisconsin, on her upward trip. By some
means he fell overheard, and before skif' coule
be sent to his assistance, had sunk to rise nj
more He was about 25 years of age, a native
of Pennsylvania, and had resided 10 or l2 year
in this State.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

EsT This year seems to be 'good year fol
charges against officials. Gov Ramsay, has a
commission after him, nip and tuck in Min
nesotn, collector Collier has been arrested fo
stupendous frauds at San Francisco, Judge
Hubbell has just been acquitted latter long ant
expensive trial on most disgracefu charges il
Wisconsin, Canal Commissioner Mather is un-
advices, the people of Cincinnati generally
were taking proceedings to impeach Judge
Finn of the Criminal Court of that city
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

MAISE.-The liquor law question is dividing
tthe Democratic party in Maine. The Dem.
ocrats in favor Of the law having nominated a
separate candidate for Governor, are proceed
inr to organise in the Counties. In OxforG
county they held large convention day o.
two since, and nominated separate Senatoria
ticket
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

Party lines are qui,y closely drawn. few
Of the counties are whig, but majority OF them
are democratic. Some idea of the growth of
Oregon may be formed from the fact that IN lS4o
the vote for delegate did not exceed 700; in
1851 it was 9 500 in 1853 it reaches 5000, not
withstandng the vote Of Washington Territory
has been taken from it, Such an increase is
unexampled in the history of any State or Ter
ri,ory except California
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

The TURKISH, Russian AND French
FLEErs.-The French Fleet, under Vice Ad-
mral Hamclin, at the Dardanelles, consists OF
COS guns, in sixteen vessels. The British hee1
under Vice Admiral Dundas, carries 9lS guns
soon to be reinforced to 1919 guns. The
Ottoman fleet, under Admiral Achmet Pacha
and stationed at the outlet of the Black Sc;
carries 2, l02 guns. The Russian fleet ON thu
Black Sea, under Vice Admiral Berg, carrie
| 1912 guns.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

u. S. SrocK.-The Secretary of the Treas
ury, Mr. GUTHRIE, has extended his opera
tions in the purchase of the Public Debt 10 tn,
Skies of 1856 and of 1862. For the former h
pays 81 per cent. premium, and the latter II
per cent premium. The purchases alread
amount to about a million and quarter.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

u Among those private items of the day we
notice that M Sartiges, the French Minister
got into difficulty with an ltish porter, OF
hackman, at Charleston, South Carolina, which
ended in general attack upon him by score
of the lr.shman's friends, who beat him terribly
before he was rescued from their hands.
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14
WooDEN NUrMEGs Yankee ingenuity take

WooDEN NurMEGs-Yanke ingenuity takes
advantage Of all human desires to turn prnita-
bic penny into its own pocket. Conscience ha;
nothing to do with the operations of that clas:
who live solely by their wits. The Deiroi
Times of Saturday says:
We have just beautiful specimen o
spurious old-bearing quartz from California
! purchased by Mr.. Alexander Sibley, and pre-
sented by him to G.. T.. Trowbridge, Esq, o
this city Mr. Sibiey paid $l7o 20 for it i
San Francisco, because it such beautiful
specimen of quartz. On closer examnatio
however, the splendid specimen turns out to b
Of home manufacture, '.got up in ConnectI
cut, and sent to California to gull the natives
The whole is SO well got up that it would dt
ceive even good Judges OF the precious meta
!, Ey The new British Houses of Parliamer
I have coct n; mo uI!ions of dollars
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

New RAILWAY PRoJEcTs-The Dayton Jour
nal speaks Of a letter just received there from a
gentleman connected with their railways, who
is now in New York, which communicates n-
tellgence Of vital importance to new railway
enterprises. 1t is, that the capitalists in New
York have determined to " shut DOWN on al
new projects in the West. This has been in-
duced by the great number ofnew schemes in
the West, many of which they think, cannot be
productive
The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

During the seven months of 1853, the whole
number of alien passengers which have arrived
in New York is l47 900, which is 10000 less
than the corresponding months last year.-The
number for the mouth of July from Ireland
was 1886; Germany, 1857; Great Britain
exclusive of Ireland, 1905.