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MISSISSIPPI.
Though we are (up to noon to-day without
any returns from any other than the first con-
ing figures demonstrate the triumph Of Single
ton DemocraD past peradventure, we are
morally sure of tho triumph of an unbroken
Democratic delegation from Mississippi to the
United States House of Representatives.
OHIO.
CINCINNATI, Oct. BIN fifty counties Chase,
Rep.,) for Governor, loses 1900 on Fremont's
vote. Both parties are claiming the State by a
small majority.
Private telegraph adviccs to the Star from
tculars, lead to the hope that our friends
may have beaten Chase by an inconsiderabIe
majority, as strange as that may seem. We
are by no means satisfied Of the fact as yet
however, and therefore will not halloa" until
quite "out Of the woods"
.. ... INDIANA.
SouTM BEND, IND Oct II The elec ton for
member OF Congress in the 10th district to fill the
vacancy caused by the death OF Mr.. Brenton, has
resulted, as far as heard from as follows Elk
hart county gives Case, Republican, 800 majority,
kosciusko 400, Lagrange 500; Allen gives War
den, Democrat, 900 ma ority, and Noble gives
him 60. Case is probably elected.
Notwithstanding the tone Of the above des-
patch, We believe that Warden has triumphcd;
basing our opinion on ante election information
from parties in whose judgment we confde.
IOWA.
CHICAGO, Oct. lin Burlington, Iowa, sam.
uels, Democratic candidate for Governor, has a
majority of $50.
In Davenport, Iowa, the Republican candidate
for Governor, has majority of 200.
r.- TENNESSEE.
The official vote of Tennessee, at the last gu
bernatorial election, is as follows.
For Harris. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. II. $50
For HattoE.. ............. So, sO7
Harris's majority ....................... IL 1852
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e. REWARD.-Strayed away from he subsorI-
S,e on the 4th instant. SORREI. -
HORSE, about l6 hands hIeh and - years In
old, with one white foot behind. w6h black ~
ace stiff IN hIs night front ankle, And snal saddle
mark on his hack. The shove reward will re paid
when Delivered on Estteet, No. 25S, between I'd and
Sd streets. Island. oc u ST
e RE w AR D.-Sfmyed or Stoen-A dark
statue, ana IN good order. She has SIN n.y.
gle FORK IN one ear and a hole in the other, NON
with a small grayIsh blaze in the forehead 4ih~eh-
The above reward will be given for her return 10 me-
w. j. MCDONALD.
oe l4-3ts Canitol MIN
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BoYD's GENEa 3, DIRECTORY
WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN.

CENTLEMEN'S UNDER DRESS, &c.
We offer this season for the fall trade our usual
supply of superior g...
Scotch Wool and Merino Under shirts and
Heavy and Med,um Silk Shirts and Drawers
Canton Flannel and Jean Drawers
Buying excuslvey for cash, we are enso 60 10 OF.
fer Ieneu,s Under Garments tn the trade, ut
retail 1t The lowest and uniform pressr sty,,.
90 s-lotif sales room under 1rovn's Hotel.
DYE AND BARLEY MALT, for ale q the
IL CfTT MALT HOU6E corner Of Wet Felis
svsass end Block strsst,- baltimore, Nd
~ 0-V LII. - 49, .h.---------
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LOST AND FOUND.

e IN REWARD.-Was stolen. from the SImp
eDsSO son House, the morning of the 18th INST.
the lnilowIug HriIcicS:-Onc Masonic Breast Pin
aud Stud; ore paIr LADIES' Ear X inss orc lsrga
Gold Pin, encIrced by thIiieen links; two solver
Pencil Cases, with Gold Pens; one Ladies Pc 70
monnale; aud new black cloth Cuat; also, scV eral
o her articles of Jcwcrv.
The sbeve reward will lee paid for the ret urn of the
goods and detection of tho thief
WM. :. SIMPSON,
oc 10 81 lcth Of. and Pa. av.
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0%I. o. o. F.-EASTERN LODGE, MOI.
NY The members of Eastern Lodge, NOT, TO.
o. are earnestly requested to be in attendance
next FRIDAY NIGHT, 18th inst. at their Lodge
Room. business of vital Importance will be before
tho lodge. BY order: = =
.---gc. --fr-,t..s p. N. PEARSON
oc '4-3tf Recording Secretary.
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GOAL! COALn COALm, COAL.
The undersigned respectfully informs the public
that he rs now receiving largo supplies of Cumber-
land COAL. IN boat loads VIII ich now offer to the
trade at reduced prices for cash. This Coal is of
superior quality, and OF n large size. .,
Can I've seen At my Depot, at the corner Of nth and
street south.
.- =. "a. rE-. JONAS r. LEVY,
&C l2-lm Grocery and Provision Store.
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1UM RsLIAND AL.

q q M E X L A n ID Z q A L.
The Undersigned being compelled to remove
large quantity of Cumberland Coal, assorted in quail
tiles. suitable for Family, Streaming and Black
smiths purposes, will dispose of the same az redsced
prices. GEO. l.. SHERIFF..
l"rd west side IA ST., at Canal bridge.
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The GOVERNMENT SALARIEs-Few persons
AT distance who are not in the habit Of So
journing at the Federal Metropolis can comprc-
bend that the salary Of the President OF the
United States is insufficient for the proper
maintenance Of the dignity and expense of that
ONCE. Nevertheless il is So Fifty years ago
every dollar of the $685. per annum would 60
twice as far as nj present Wequestion wheth-
or PRESIDENT Buchanan, with every possible
system of economy, practised in his household
expenses, can possibly leave the Execu tive
Chair with rs much means as he possessed on
the 4th Of March last The same rule holds
good with reference to the inadequacy of the
compensation Of some others of the servants ot
the people.
But we prefer to permit the Journal fCon-
naerce to explain the disabilities under which
they labor on that account, in the following ar
ucle, which We extract from its columns:
III Is not the best policy for government like
ours 10 pay high and extTavagant salaries to its
chosen agents IN the several departmens-and
YET we are as likely To err upon one extreme as
the other, and withhold reasonable hire from
ths faithful aud worthy laborer We have often
thouyht that this subject should receive more OF
legislative consideration
tThe salary OF the President of the limited
states precisely the same, now that we are ont
Oh dep' ahn nave unappropriated millions In the
ndto,di that IL was In the infancy Of the
Republic, when or credit was low and we were
overbuIthened with debt. The incidental ex-
Pensrs Of The Understandable and indis-
pensabie-have increased many fold and vet we
have made no additional provision for the main
tenance of his Official household The salaries OF
ambassadors and consuls abroad, of heads of de-
partments and members Of Congress have been
rightfully and justly increased, to extent i'm
some measure Commensurate with the increase I'm
the expense Of public life; but no thought seems
TO have been had for the Chief Magistrate OF the
nation, who is supposed to keep "open house.
Tor all his countrymen, from year to year, on the
sum OF twenty five thousand dollars per annum.
The Justices Of the Supreme Cou.t--coHn
PEELED to reside at Washington mnch Of the time,
ana travel from point to point within their re-
sPectiye circuits when not at the CAPITOL
csiye the same stipend which they received half
acehtuiy ago. aud the expenses Of living have
80 inuen Increased, that unless citizen Of legal
eminence Is rolling in wealth, be cannot afford
% accept seat upon the supreme Bench; or, II
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4 ID. HAMMACK'S RESTAURANT,
-. No. 2oS Pa. av., under Willards' hotel.
q The proprietor is now ia ly /.
~ prepared TO supply the pub kS
Si, lie with every thing that the 34A
A1xNK various markets will afford, n "
= and for cons tant su plies his ---
house shall be second to none. BY giving it his I'M
divided attention, he hopes TO merit the pstronag
of the public at large. oc Inn
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

ESr Our contemporary, the Dubuque
Republican, we are pleased to learn, will
appear in about three weeks time, in a
new dress, and in an enlarged form, and
is promised to be made superior in every
respect to any paper published in Iowa.
Friend FLINT is an able editor, and has
done good service for Repubiicanism,
even with his old worn out type and illeg-
IDLE print and we have often wished,
when looking over his "friar-y" impress
sions, that our Republican friends would
encourage him as he deserved, and thus
enable him to give US a good sheet, typo
graphically considered, and give us the
privilege of co~nscientiously recommend
ing his paper to many good republicans
in this region. We venture to say that
in its new dress, the Republican will mer-
it the support of every true Republican
in the North of Iowa.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
re- There seems to have been a goo,

Eg There seems to have been a good
deal of petty thievery going on in and
about our town for sometime past, and
we hope the guilty parties will be fcrreted
out and made to undergo the severest
penalty Of the law. One of the princi-
pal sufferers by this thievery is our friend
ALEXANDER, who has been busy for some
time in placing new machinery in his
saw mill, and who, besides having lost
a considerable quantity of tools, finds
now. when ready to renew operations,
that the lead supply pipe leading from the
cistern to the river, has been cut and
carried off, involving him in considerable
loss, and vexatious delay. 1t will be
seen that he offers $50 dollars reward for
the detection and conviction of the guilty
parties, and expresses a determination to
infict the fullest punishment upon them.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

INDEPENDENCE, the county seat of Blu
chanan county, is undoubtedly a thrifty
place. The editor of the Quasqueton
Guardian, who by the way exhibits none
of that jealousy SO remarkable in other
contemporaries, while speaking of their
riv al towns, says some very clever things
of it in the last number of his paper
From his account of its last years pro-
gress, we learn that substantial looking
stores have sprung up in ~profusion, and
its Main Street exhibits all the hustle of
bust ness which characterizes a growing
and thriving town. Several spacious ho-
tells have been built, and the traveller now
finds there accommodations not only
comfortable but luxurious. Dwelling
houses have been multiplied, and nearly
all departments of business find there one
or more representatives" He further
says hat Independence is certainly des-
tined to be n of the largest inland cit
les of the State. A clever compliment,
truly, coming as it does from a resident
of Quasauetcn, than which there is o a
more busting nor handsomer town in the
Siate.-Ti linton Eagle.
Eg- We accept the just compliment
which friend HASroRD pays u town,
and in return can truly say that if Vinton
equals in appearance and excellence his
own handsome little sheet, il don't stand
below No. ] in point of beauty,
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
WIFE WANTED.

A GENTLEMAN of middle age. of a modest
n and retiring disposition, and with ample
means for the support and comfort of wife, nos.
sessing neither the requisite acquaintance nor
inclination to adopt the usual method of acouir.
ing a partner, wishes to form ON acquaintance
with a view to MARRIAGE, of a lady possess.
ing the following qualifications She must bo
passably good looking, not more thar IS wears
OF age, with some pretensions to literary taste, of
a loving disposition. Inc with a tolera6le know.
ledge OF household duties. To such an one he
makes this offer in good faith, conscious that the
connection could but insure mutual happiness.
The Correspondence shall be anonymous until
a mutual satisfaction is expressed, when real
name and portraits viii be exchanged.
Address j. w, Quasqueton Post Office.
finest
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
DUBUQUE NARKET..Jan. 27th.

DUBUQUE MARkET--Jan. 27th.
FLOUR-Exta city $3.50; superfne $3.50
WHEAT-65@75c. Pbu.
CORN-45c.
OATS-40@45c.
RYE-Nominal.
CORN MEAL-70@sO {bu.
POTATOES-75@90c v bu.
BUTTER-Fresh roll 3O@35c
CHEESE-Western Reserve l2H@I3 cts
country s%@l2c.
BEEF-$5, 50@6,0 O carcass.
PoRK-$ao.oO@2l.O 90 y Dbl; hogs y 100
lbs. $5,50@6,0O.
LARD-e@lOc.
VENISON-5k@6c.;
TURKIES-60c@$l ,25 a piece.
CHICKENS-30@45c p pair.
wOOD-$5,5O@$7.5O y cord.
COAL-R. /. $3.50 p ton delivered.
SALT-G A $2,75; Kanawha $3.l5@3,25
Bags 25@30c.
sEED-Clover $6@6,25; Timothy 2.5o@s3
EGGS-25@3Oc.
HIDES-Green 51aa@Gc; dry flint l4@l6.
HAY-$is, O0@2O,oO p ton.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
Gflferap6it Nebs.
OF THE STEAMSHIP PERSIA.
New YORK. Jan. 81.

New YORK, Jan. "a.
The Cunard Steamship Persia arrived
at noon with Liverpool dates to Jan. 10,
three days later than by the Atlantic.
The news is important, inasmuch as ii
states that the Swiss difficulty is virtually
settled by the interposition of France,
supported by England.
Napoleon undertakes that Prussia shall
renounce all claim upon Neufchatel, in
consideration of the release of the pris-
oners.
France further undertakes to prevent
any aggression by Prussia againstS witzcr-
land. Switzerland approves these terms,
and the Federal Assembly is summoned
to ratify them.
The Congress of Paris closed on the
9th, having signed a protocol which is
expected to terminate all difficulties in the
fulfillment of the treaty of peace.
Russia cedes Belgrade and Balback to
Moldavia, and the town of Komrat, on
the right band of the river Cuba, to a
territory of 800 miles.
The Isle of Serpents is decided as be-
longing to the mouths of the Danube.
and goes with them.
The new boundaries shall be fixed and
the Austrian and British fleets shall eyac-
tate the Turkish territory by the Goth of
March next. Immediately thereafter the
Congress shall re-assemble at Paris to
ratify their proceedings.
Advices from Constantinople announce
that the Turkish government has def
nitely arranged with English capitalists
for a loan of E12,O OO, 900 sterling, at 6
per cent.
The monthly statement of the Bank of
France shows an increase in commercial
discounts, and a heavy decrease in bull
lion.
The English money market is easier.
The Bank of England has raised the
charge for loans for stock ] per cent.
AT a meeting of the leading iron mer-
chants at Birmingham, an inclination was
shown toward a further advance, but
none was declared.
The movement against the income tax
had spread to Ireland where it was dis
cussed vigorously.
French papers generally approve the
hostile measures of England against Can
ton.
A dispatch from Naples states that the
Neapolitan frigate Charles III, with
troops bound to Sicily, blew up on the LIST
inst. Many lives were lost.
The leaders of the late instruction
were shot at Palermo, Doc. 90.
The advices of Persian affairs are con-
Trajectory. 1t seems certain however,
that the Persian Minister has actually
left ~Constantinaple for Marseilles. Be-
fore going he had two interviews with
Lord Radcliffe.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
HO! o KANSAS.

THE UNDERSIGNED, intending to re-
L move in the Spring, offers for sale the =
following DESIRABLE PROPERTY A Fine
FARM situated in Buchanan County, about 2tss
miles from the town of Quasqueton, containing
80 acres of the Finest Prairie, with good water
running through its acres broke.
Also 40 acres Of fine prairie land ~ miles
Southwest of the town of Quasqueton.
Timber sufficient to supply the prairie win bo
sold with it f desired. Also a House and two
lots near the centre OF the town of Quasqueton.
Said property will be sold at q great bargain
for Cash, on application to q. /. CUMINS,
fn6-lm Quas queton, Buchanan Co., Iowa.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
Eyg~ If n of our readers feel NOR

AZ" If any Of our readers feel more
out of patience at the miserable paper we
are compelled to use, than ourselves, VIC
should like to know it. We sent to Du-
buque for paper, and this was sent us
with the intelligence that it was all there
was in the city. And as it has become
incumbent upon us either to use this, or
issue no paper, we have decided to use it.
We have, however, the intense satisfaction
of knowing that we paid the full price OF
an extra quality of newspaper for it.
Why will not some capitalists give us a
good paper mill somewhere near this re-
gion? We believe it would pay as well
as any investment that could be made
in legitimate business. We do notknow
of a paper mill in Iowa, and of but one
in Wisconsin, and certainly a mill at some
point of ready aecess On the Mississippi,
would pay largely. Atany rate, VIC hope
we shall not long have to depend on the
firm who sent us this for our stock.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

re It seems that the clerk of the
weather has been by no means partial to
us, in his distribution of the mercury
~condensing atmosphere which has swept
with chilling surges across u prairies,
for we find from our exchanges that its
influence has been felt to en- equal, and
in many places to a greater extent, than
il has here. The Galena Courier says,
that in a portion of their town, where the
circulation of the air is entirely obstruct-
ed, the thermometer stood, at 8 O'Clock
on the morning of the 18th. at &c degrees
below Zero! If it keeps on at this rate
,ong, we shall, like the Laplander OF Es-
Inimaux, come to consider a tallow can
die a most acceptable and pala:able luxu-
w.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
RAILROAD MEETINGS.

A meeting Of the citizens of Quasque-
ton, Buchanan county, was held at the
store of d. S. DAVIS, on Saturday even
ing, Jan. cath, for the purpose of au.
thorizing the railroad committee to pledge
the influence and support of this section
Of the county towards the building of o
railroad up the valley Of the W~apsipini-
con.
DR.. E. c. BrDwELL was called to the
chair, and r. l.. THOMPSON appointed Sec
rotary.
Mr.. d. S. DAVIS stated the object OF
the meeting. and also gave a general out
line of the results accomplished by the
railroad committee in their recent visit
to Anamosa, and recommended such ac-
ton by the people of this section of the
county rs would give assurance of our
earnest desire for the construction of this
road, and enable him to pledge our indi-
vidual and united efforts for its attain
ment.
Several gentlemen expressed views de-
cidedly in favor of giving the project the
public and private support of the people
of the county.
The following resolutions were offered
and adopted
ResOlred, That we fully endorse the ac-
ton of the meeting held at Independence
on January 3rd, appointing Messrs, BAR
TIE, PATTERSON & DAVIS a committee to
make arrangements for building a rail-
road up the valley of the Wapsipinicon,
and that our delegate be authorized to
pledge the interest of the people of this
vicinity in said road, and their willing
ness to subscribe literally towards its
stock.
Resolued, That the recent vote of this
county, refusing to take stock in the Du-
buque ~ Pacific Railroad, was not the
result of q want of interest in the build
ing of Railroads in this county, or of an
unwillingness to take stock, but was the
result Of a want of confidence in the
pledges of the company, and of the
uncertainty Of the location of the road.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

At an adjourned meeting of the citi-
zens Of Buchanan County. held at indie
pendence, IN Monday, Jan. 26.h, 1857,
for the purpose of considering the FEAST
bility Of a railroad up the valley of the
Wapsipinicon, through Buchanan coun-
ty, towards st. Paul, d. S. LEE was
chosen President, and II. G. HASTINGS,
Secretary. DR.. 7. c. BARrLE, chairman
of the committee appointed to confer
with the Directors of the Lyons and An
amosa Railroad, made a report, where
upon it was voted to appoint the same
committee, viz T. c. BARTLE, D. S.
DAVIS, and F. c. PATTERSON, to meet and
confer with said Board of Directors at
their meeting in New York City.
On motion, the following named gen.
tlemen were chosen a committee to draft
resolutions expressive of the sense ofthis
meeting
II. G. HASTINGS, Esq, L. W. HART,
and Fl. P. HENsHAw.
The committee reported the following /:
Whereas, 1t is evident that the inter-
ests of Buchanan county will be favora-
bly, affected by the construction of a rail
road from Anamosa up the valley of the
W~apsipinicon through this county, thence
north towards St. Paul,
RESOLVED, That the people of Buchanan
county pledge ourselves to use all our
energies and to employ all honorable
means to seeure a speedy construction of
said road, and that we furthermore pledge
the support of the voters of this county
for a loan to effect this end, and a liberal
subscription as individuals to the stock of
said road.
Voted that the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Independence
Cicaian, Qaasquoton Guardian, Anamosa
Eureka, and Usage Democrat.
Voted to adjourn subject to the call of
the committee.
D. S. LEE, Fl. G. HASTINGS,
President. Secretary.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
BACHELOR STATISTICS OF CEDAR FALLS


Mr.. IL. c. KELLY, the gentlemanly
travelling correspondent of the Dubuque
Eapress d Herald, gives the following
9 Statistics"
"By request of the Bachelor Club OF
Cedar Falls, and for the information of
the ladies who may be disposed to look
tavorably upon these lonely Benedicts in
their present desolate state, | make this
addenda to the statistics of Cedar Falls,
and give it the benefit of a separate arti-
Gle.
Wander Of bachelors and disproportion
Of Bachelors to Single Ladies.-ln Cedar
Falls, a Bachelor Club was organized in
January, 1855, of which the following
are the officers, of all of whom, it may
be said, separately, in the language OF
Hamlet, Take him, for all in all, we ne'r
shall look upon his like again.
Prcsiden-R. M. CAMERON.
Vice-P resident-J. M. BENJAMIN.
Secretary-S. S. BRowN.
1reasurer-CoLoNEL j. D. CENTER.
This Club at present numbers over one
hundred members, all men who, in point
Of personal appearance, education, en-
terprise, and comfortable circumstances
will bear comparison with any Of the
most favored towns in the Union. The
proportion of bachelors to single ladies is
about twenty to ne. This alarming dis
proportion is owing-not to any unwil-
lingness on their part to marry-nor to
any ugliness or ferceness on their part.
Cedar Fall, like many other points in the
great West, has been settled by young
men who have broken away from the
systematic and old fogy East, to carve
out for themselves fortunes in the pure
atmosphere of Iowa; and now that they
are comfortably and permanently located
they begin to think of more serious mat
ters-such as love, courtship and mar
riage.
appearance, Accomplishments and In
ducements.-The Bachelors of Cedar Falls
range from the age of twcnty-four to
thirty, all in good circumstances and
business, of fine education and a frst-rate
taste for the graceful and the beautiful.
Whether treading the misty mazes of the
light fantastic toe,' or whether with their
fine Cedar Falls Brass Band, filling the
beautiful nights with the CHOICEST melody
in the winter season, with the
fair ones at their side in the cozy sleigh,
with juggling bells, flying with their blood
ed nags over the crisping snow, or in the
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

E The voters of this school district
held a special meeting at the school-house
last evening, to consider the oversessment
of taxes made by the Board of Directors
upon the district. After a great deal of
discussion, and the expression of consid-
cradle ill-feeling on the part of many
present, it was moved and carried that
the present assessment be referred back
to the Secretary Of the Board, and that
he be requested to make it conform to the
sum voted by the District. The meet
ing then adjourned to meet again next
Friday evening.