Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-04-25


next Roger B. fancy, ChiefJustice, will
be eighty years of age. He has been an
active politician of the Democratic school.
in the State of Maryland, and an offic, :
holder He was made Attorney General
of the United States in 1881, Secretary Of
the Treasury in 1888, but was rejected
by the Senate. To pay him for the slight,
he was appointed to the Bench by Gen.
Jackson, in 1885, and the Senate indeG-
nitely postponed action upon it. In the
meantime Chief Justice Marshall died,
and fancy was confirmed in March 1886.
The cause of this rejection of the Senate
on two occasions, was the fact that he
was partizan of such bitterness that the
senate felt no confidence in his honesty.
The result proves that they were right.
He will soon resign, it is said, to give
Mr.. Buchanan chance to appoint.
Good riddance.-DetroI-A advertiser.
The BATTLE OF WAGRAM-Napoleon's
bat lie of Wagram was the greatest of
modern times, if we consider the number
ofmen engaged in it, and assembled at the
same moment in the field. There were
three hundred thousand men in the two
armies, and from the extremity of one
wing to the extremity of the other, was
distance of two leagues and half The
beauty and majesty of such a spectacle
may easily be conceived. We had seven
hundred pieces ofartillery, and the enemy
Eve hundred. Thus twelve hundred guns
were laundering simultaneous over the
narrow field.-We fired duriug the day
eighty four thousand rounds of artillery.
and had twenty thousand men put hors
de combat. Yet the victory was without
result. The times were passed when null
titudes of prisoners fell into our hand, as
in Italy, at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena. 1t
was battle gained, but it left many 9th
ers to be fought.-lMenaoirs fthe Duke Of
Ragusa.
The gross receipts from the New York
canal, for the past year is reported by the
Auditor of the canal department, were
$2.749, 1873, 40, and the expenditure for
collections &C., were 1876, 1888, 40.
Which is the cheapest, to hire room
and buy library, and organise scool
for poor children-or pay the damage
which such troop of vagabonds will, III
a few years, iuflict on society.
A difficulty occurred between two men,
by the name of Mangrum and Jordon, in
Mississippi county, Ark, on Friday
night week, in which both parties fell.
1t seems that Mangrum shot Jordon, who
fell, but sufficiently recovered to rise on
his knees and shoot his antagonist. One
was shot through the chest and the 9th er
through the head. Bo.h died very soon.
g. 1t is solemn thing to be married, )"
said Aunt Bethany. Eyes; but great
deal solemner not to be-" said the little
girl, her niece.
TRAGEDY IN GAINESVILLE, TExAs.--The
jefferson Cass County, Texas) Gazette,
of the 7th inst, says
Jones, who absconded from Paris
with his neighbours wife, was caught in
Arkansas, and after trial, under writ of
habeas corpus, was released, and then
killed in GAINESVILLE by the brother of the
paramour. We learn that the people of
GAINESVILLE were SO outraged by the con-
duct of Jones, that he was permitted to
lie in the street where he died, until pre-
parations were ready for his burial.
TAKES IT CoMFoRrABLY.-Welco B.
Sayles, editor of the Providence Daily
Post, thus disposes of the Rhode Island
election The sum and substance of
the whole story is, that we had nothing
to lose, and lost it,
THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH-
The North British Review recently pub
lished some very interesting statistics of
the Roman Catholic " Society for Propa.
eating the Faith" The annual receipts
Of this Society are estimated at $3.50, 900.
France contributes to it much larger
amount than any other country. This
immense fund is principally devoted to
the maintenance of a contest with Pro-
testanism in Protestant countries, and but
a very small part of it is employed in the
conversion of what are known to the
Christian world as Heathens =
Hon. VIM. B. Reed, late District At
torney Of Philadelphia, has been appoint
ed by President Buchanan to the mission
to China, and will proceed at once to his
destination, The U. 8. steamer MINES
ota is at once to be put in state of pre-
paration, and sail, with other vessels. for
the China seas.
The OLDEST MAN IN AMERIcA.--Peter
Nassau. a colored man, now a resident of
Woodstock, VT, has reached the extraor-
binary ageof l26 years! and is doubtless
the oldestliying man in this country. His
history has been traced out by N. Haskell,
Esq. Town Clerk ofWoodstock, and it
appears he was born two years before
Washington. was 46 years old at the date
Of the Declaration Of Independence, and
long before the second war with Great
Britain broke out he had passed the Scrip
toral limits of life-three score years an d
tenl
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