Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-08-03

that hold will be still stronger
Madison Wis. Journal.
The Queen Of Great Britain and
y Mrs. stowe.
The New York Express says it has heard it
and heard the report confirmed by
an English gentleman who is well informed on
the subject, THAT Queen Victoria steadily and
perinaciously refused to receive Mrs. Uncle
Tom at her last drawing room, while she re.
ceived several American ladies'. who had no
connection with the Uncle Tom business at all.
We have no doubt the report is true, and We
must say that it reflects great credit'upon the
good sense Of the British sovereign II she
thinks rs woman ought to think, she cannot
but see that Mrs. S. by making herself shew
thro'out her domiuions, and fishing for PEN
MES like Slrolling vagabond, has degraded
the character OF her sex. II she has any patri.
otism, she cannot but despise, from the bottom
of her heart the false traitor that allows her.
self to be paraded before the people Of for
eign country, for the purpose Of slandering her
own, More than this. Victoria. considering
her education-the worst possible We should
suppose--is said to be a woman Of sense Shs
cannot, of course. fall into the errors which
have been perRetrated by such blundering
thick headed. numbskull peers as Shaftssbury.
aud those of his kidney, who are born legisla-
tors. and could have become SO by no other
process than Inheritance. She must know the
u,ler--the amazng--the unheard Of folly Of
attempting to make her people interfere for
the. purpose Of producing emancipation here.
She must know that the Ieanlts Of slave labor
l4r<kths very orsxfi IN the nostriis Of the vary
| people who arc the loudest in dehouncing H.
| She must know, that were tho abUlision of
slavery effected here tomorrow; there il no
! fatally as England She must know that tho
evil to us great IA it would undoubtedly be,
would be small in comparison with tho ruin
thatt would spread over England. She must
know, that her own subjects-her merchants
aud machanics-her ship owners, her trades
men, her farmers, every class Of the community
in the three kingdoms over which she pre-!
sides, inasmuch as they purchase the products
Of slave labor, are equally guilty with the men
who raise them, if slavery imply guilt at all
She must know that the reception Mrs. Stowe
has met with is highly offensive TO this nation.
and with this nation she cannot but know.
likewise that it is her interest, and the inter-
est of her people, to cultiva.e tho most friendly
re alious II she is woman of sense, she must
know all these things, aud it is not to be ex-
pcctcd that she should blunder along with the
stupidity which has been characteristic OF the
conduct of her thick -skulled constitutional ad.
visers on this subject Richmond Dispatch.
SPEECH MAKING ny THE PREsIDENr.-The
Washington Inteligencer expresses the wish
"that the President of the United States would
abstain from Public Speeches." and questions
the "taste Of his making street addresses 10
the multitude" We suppose the practice is
not royal enough to please the Imperial taste
Of the Intel gencer But there is something
decidedly rich in the confession. 'We-Thc
Intelligencer--felt the same objection to tho
practice in The excellent Presiden. Fillmore q
time. but for obvious reasons we did not then
feel so free to cypress IT,"
OF course not; aud il ''the excellent Prcsi.
dent Fillmore" had been continued, for four
years longer, in the Presidential office. we
would have remained all the time in Ignorance
Of the Intelligencer's opinion Of the lad taste
Of Public Speech making by the President Of
the United States.--N. y Sun.
THE LATE SAMUEL AppLEToN's WILL-The
Transcript publishes an abstract of Mr.. Apple.
H., i.S, beat
one million Of dollars. He leaves to his wild.
ow specific bequests amounting in value to
5000, 900 Ec makes ~ other bequests to
ncphers and f,ieces an others, amounting in
all TO $780, 900 more among which may be men
toned $4,000 "to his friend and pastor, Rev.
Ephrain1 Peabody and $4,000 to the servants
living in his family at his decease. to be dis.
tributed among th, m in a manner and accord.
ing TO proportion, to be fixed upon by his wild.
; ow He then bequeats TO his executors manu-
featuring stocks of the value of $780, 900. "to
be by them applied, disposed Of, aud distribu
ted for scientific literary religious. or charita.
bic purposes leaving the same discretionary
with the executors, William Appleton. and N
j. 3owditch.
) TcsSLLga The CHICAGO RivER.-Mr. J. r
} Miller has submitted plan and estimate for q
tunnel through the Chicago river to the com.
mon coun; Ill of that city and it has: received a
favoraoe consideration. He proposes building
! it with two carriage and two foot ways. The
structure is TO be OF wrought iron. of sufficisni
strength to resist external and internal danger
tn nost Z. as,;., tad al clC6 nQn
uJ-Tne Kn;ckerbockey says: How any onl
can look at the human ( oot, composed of on,
hundred end forty -four bones. any quantity o
elastic carti ege, gill and half Of ubricatin(
, oil, and ten thousand other arrangements 90
first class kicking. and still believe thatit is
duty. TO receive an insult without making
nIan smell Of leather. is one Of those eccentsicj
: ties connected with the human mind that VI
Z raxk.r conld fai hon i"