The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-12-12

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for $4,000.
CO The New York Herald happily style.
the glorincation endorsement Of the actor
of the Kansas Convention by the Washing.
ton Union "prsmature halleiujah."
c. The Iowa City Republican, OF Dec
I'd, says that "thres days last week, thu
mercury fell below zero. One day at IL
deg. below, the I'd at 6, and the Sd at
deg. .s.tt.
Ct A disastrous FIRE occurred at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, Nov. %. Property to the
amount of $50, 200, was destroyed, before
the progress Of the flames could be arrested
GA letter from California says that
they are expecting q call for volunteers to
90 and fight the Mormons at Salt Lake, and
California can turn out 10000 Of the hard.
est cases to fight that ever went to battle.
60 The New York Herald says that JOIN
W. FoRNky has splanted himself in the front
ranks Of the Northern niger worshippers'''
This is crowding the mourners with ven
geance. The Herald makes this Classification
from the fact that FoRNEY is opposed to the
Lecompton Constitution. p. sr.r..
e. It is said Senator GwINs Of Califor-
MIA is preparing, and will, at an early day,
introduce bills organizing two new Terrific
ries west of the Rocky ADMINISTRATIONS
and Sierra Madre. His object, in part, is to
protect the overland mail to the Pacific.
CO A call 10 now circulating for Ma
tional Convention of the friends Of Free
Kansas, irrespective of party, to be held in
Cleveland on the 10th and 18th of Deem
Der, to consider the course to be pursued
in reference to the continued attempts now
being made by the pro-slavery men to force
Slavery into Kansas.
CO In attempting to raise the submerged
portion Of the Telegraphic cable, the shore
end has been broken. This will very seri-
ously embarrass the enterprise of securing
it. Is was carried on under the supervision
Of Mr.. Bright, the late Engineer Of the Com
pany.
W Hon. JAMES G. BIRSEY, long an able
leader in the ranks of the Anti Slavery par
ty, died at Eaglewood, near Perth Amboy,
N. j., aged "a years. In 1874, he was the
candidate Of the Liberty party for the Presi-
dency. He ran in opposition to Mr.. CLAY,
and received an aggregate of 5s,572 votes.
c. A telegram from New York, of date
Dec. I'd, states that DANIEL F. TEXANS
majority for Mayor is about 230O. He ran
in opposition to Mayor WooD, and was sup
ported by men of all parties, in favor Of
law, and order, and opposed to rascality and
scoundrelism.
CT A Delegate Convention of the Free
State party of Kansas, met at Lawrence, on
the I'd inst, to take into consideration the
present political position of the Territory,
and to designate some course to be pursued
relative to the New Constitution.
c. The New York Tribune says the
Stock jobbers of Wall street are getting
crazy again. Stocks are going up like rock
cts, and spectators are making money like
dirt. 1t is said that half dozen of these
adventures have each made 100000 in
differences in the last week. The good time
is coming again. Satan, the great gambler
from the slower deep," never forsakes his
own.
CT Information has been received at
Washington, Of the confscation, by the Aus
trian Government, of all the property of
Louis Kossuth within its reach. 1t is only
to be wondered that the Austrian authorities
had the patience and forbsarance to refrain
from taking that step up to so very recent
ly.
CO The editor of the Keokuk Gate Citv,
says that the supply of gold thereabouts is
increasing. He infers thus much, from the
fact, that he received fourteen dollars in
real genuine "yellsw boys.'' Lucky man
fortunate editor!
CO An exchange says stranger was seen
in Cairo, ILL.,, Juggling around upon his back
large turtle, declaring that he intended to
take it to Indianapolis. That stranger was
Ashbel P. Willard, Governor of the State
of Indiana, and the reader, at all acquainted
with his habits, will concur with US in the
opinion that Ashbel was intoxicated.
CT We understand that the Secretary of
War has declared that he will not confirm
the sale Of the Military Reservation at Fort
Ripley, Minnesota. 1t will be remembered
that this was knocked off at an average
price OF four cents per acre. If he would
compel the Spectators who diddled the
Government in the Fort Smelling Reserva-
ton, to disgorge, he would be entitled to
the thanks of all honest men.
CO The Mississippi was closed with ice
below St Louis on the 18th inst. The ice
closed suddenly and unexpectedly and earlier
in the season probably than for many years
before. The gorge formed at Widow Wat
er's 30 rapidly that the steamers Moses
Greenwood and Martha Jewett were caught
and locked fast in the middle of the chan
mel. Several steamers on their way up were
stopped by the ice, and shut out from St.
Louis. a ..
CO The new steamship Adriatic left New
York for Liverpool on the 23d ult-her first
voyage across the Atlantic. This is the
largest vessel, Of any kind, that has ever
been launched. In bulk the Adriatic is 354
feet in length, or nine feet longer than the
United States frigate Niagara; fifty feet
broad, and thirty-three feet two inches in
depth. She measures $500 tons, or 700
tons more than the Niagara, 800 more than
the Vanderbilt, and 1900 more than the
atlantic!
CO The Mormons have invented new
alphabet. The characters arc forty in num-
Der, and they are not like those used in any
other language. They nre as unlike the
English letters as anything can be. The
New York Times describes them "A a com.