The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-11-07
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Gcnssal HAaxEi ha6 been netOy the Nor.
mon, Who had defeated him With aloss Of
600 men. We give the rumor for what it 10
worth; but, it was discredited.
CO Mississippi is to be added to the list
Of States which have prohibited the circula-
ton of bank notes of less denomination
than FIVE dollars. A law to this effect weat
into operation on the first of this month
This applies to foreign bank notes, as there
is no bank Of issue in Mississippi. a9s a7e
CT The estimated wheat crop Of Wis
cousin, this season, j. $4,000, 600 bushels.
Can State become bankrupt, with eighteen
millions Of bushels Of wheat in her grana-
riesp +.
O. DR.. BRANDRErH, of pill notoriety, has
been nominated by the Democrats of the
9Th Senatorial District Of New York, as q
candidate for the Legislature. ..aa
cT A Michigander hrags Of his pump
kins which grow twelve feet in week. Our
government ought to plant some of these
vines to carry the mails. aa ALL
CT "Dry up" was an expressive phrase,
but the boys in the streets have found bet
ter one. Now they say, "Suspend!" AZ Z
cT The total number Of failures in New
York City, since the hrst Of August, is
about 900, and the liabilities are estimated
at ninety millions. This is exclusive of the
Railway failures, which amount to hundreds
of millions more. es n. N, n
CO The Washington correspondent of
the Tribune says that Colonel Benton's book
against the bred Scott decision, will soon
be published, and that it is very severe on
some Of the opinions of the Judges. H..
y BArARp TAYLOR states that the fish
ermen on the coast of Norway, arc supplied
with wood from the tropics by the Gulf
Stream. So.
CO. General WALKER has been visiting
the editors of the New Orleans papers, Civ
ing an account of his successes in enlisting
men and means for new flibustering cam
paign. He claims to have enrolled three
thousand men for his new army, and COL
lected funds to the amount Of 5000, 900.
eT 1t is said that JOHN THOMPSON, the
late banker, is experimenting acandle man
ufactory. 1t is to be hoped that some of
them will throw light on his late banking
operations. t #- ass.@ H.,2+ ..s
g The merchants Of St. Anthony, Min
neapolis, and St. Paul, have had meeting,
in which they unanimously agree to ask a
three months extension from their Eastern
creditors. They say it is utterly impossible
for them to meet their engagements at the
present time. New Workers will have to
grant it-or they will get nothing. ...
CO. Commercial affairs in tie East, are
brightning. The gold which has been set
ing out of the country in steady stream,
is now beginning to flow back. The dry
goods are being shipped back from the bond
ed warehouses, by every steamer, to their
European owners, and this will con-
tinue, until all the warehouses are emptied.
So England will have to pay in gold for the
cotton and breadstufs Of which she will need
a considerable quantity after this date.
CO The Iowa Citizen, learning that
Democratic paper was about to be establish
ed in Winneshiek county, predicts its death
in six months, and suggests that its motto
bee One transient Shrek from Winnie
Miekr'
cT 1t is stated that incessant rains dur
ing the last part of August and the first part
Of September have seriously injured the to-
bacco plant, and rendered it impossible to
prepare the ground for laying the seed;
process which, in order to secure a produc-
tive harvest, must be performed in the be-
ginning of September. A bad prospect for
users Of the "weed."
c. CALEB CUSHING, late Attorney Gen.,
eral of the United States, has accepted a
from the Democrats of Ncwbu-
ryport, as candidate for the Legislature
lie is rather advanced in years to commence
another ascent on the political ladder.
CO Over sixty thousand bushels of wheat
per week have been shipped from Blooming
ton, Ills, to Chicago. The average price at
which 1t has been sold, is about forty EIGHT
cents. f.f..r....
CO A. o. P. Nicholson has been elected
to the Senate of the United States, to fill the
seat to be made vacant by the expiration of
the term of service of John Bell. Poor
PILLow couldn't make the connection. He
can now retire into that obscurity, from
which, like, PIERCE, he never ought to have
been permitted to emerge.
CO The Iowa City Crescent, in noticing
the death of a man, who was killed on the
day of election says his 'sprincipal fault was
his abandonment of Democratic principles.
He has gone now, however, where no other
principles prevail" The Davenport Ga
zette intimates that 'sthat is pretty delicate
way Of saying that man had gone to tho
"bad place." ,...a ~. ...-...s-,
CO Sam Slick says, when fellow is too
lazy to work, he paints his name over the
door, and calls it tavern or grocery, and
makes the whole neighborhood as lazy as
himself. --~-a
CO Rents have been reduced 80 l-3 per
centin Dubuque and Davenport. Land
lords would receive but little opposition
from tenants should such a reduction take
place in this city,. ,t,a.lt sersl5sa.o. .g.#
CO In the Eastern part Of the State,
wheat has been sold as low as IS cents per
bushel. Prices have taken rise, since the
money market became little easier, and
wheat now commands, at nearly oil the cities
on the Mississippb IS and 60 cents per bu-
shel. ....@t ..,... s.. IL. IT. 49,. ~
CT A steamboiler in the India Rubber
works, at Providence, r. L., exploded on the
Doth ult, and the buildings constituting the
works were DESTROYED. 200 neoplc were Mt