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The Magnetic Telegraph ForeshadOwed.

Nh. EDITOR: In Bailey's Dictionary edi.
ton of l730-l27 years ago-under the
word "Loadstone," | find the following
foreshadowing of the electric telegraph:
'sSome Authorities write, that by the help
of the magnet or loadstone, persons may
communicate their minds to a friend at a
great distance; rs suppose one to be in Lon
don, and the other at Paris; if each of them
have circular alphabet like the dial plate
of clock, and needle touched with one
magnet, then at the same time that the nee
die at London was moved, that at Paris
would move IN like manner, provided that
each party had secret notes for dividing
words, and the observation was made at Il
set hour. either of the day or Of the night;
and when one party would inform the other
of any matter, he is to move the needle to
thoseletters that will form the words; that
will declare what he would have the other
know, and the other needle will move in the
same manner. This may be done rccipro-
cally.''
When we reflect that, at the time this
book was printed, magnetism was derived
solely from the loadstone: that electricity
was only known ''as power or property
whereby amber and few other substances,
attracted straws and similar light bodies;''
that it vas not till % years afterwards that
Franklin raised electricity to the dignity of
a science, by proving its identity with the
terrible thunder bolt; that gaiyanism was
unknown until 1890; that the next great
step, the discovery of electromagnetic
was not made till 1870, and that the final
triumph, the invention Of the electro tele-
graph, was not made till 1887: when We
consider all the aboye facts, this extrac,
from old Bailey seems indeed prophetic
and inspired. It is, if possible, yet more
wonderful, that the process so minutely de-
scribed by Bailey is almost identical with
that pursued in the manipulation Of Wheat
stones selegraph-sbe telegraph general,
used in England.
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|. is the opinion of some astronomers that
the tail of the comet of 2S43, passed oyer
the earth. though not to be noticed; 1t Is
also their opinion that other comets have
done the same. Good angels often visit US
without one being conscious Of the fact, and
why should not comets !!
The head of comet commonly consists
of concentrated mass of light" so docs
that of a wise and great man.
The generality of comets, says an astrono-
mer, care subject to sudden and violent
CONFUSION in their inteIior'- like people
who drink too freely Of poisonous liquors.
Many comets have no taIis-and we have
seen dogs in the same condition.
The tails of some comets appear TO be
shortcning-llke those of tadpoles.
SIN general, the light of comets is dull
like that Of too msay Christians.
Some comets seem to be altogether dla-
phaneus. like the characters Of many good
people.
The movements Of many comets are &C.
centric; SO are these of many men.
The motion of more than half of the
comets that have visited the solar system is
retrograde: the ratio of sucn motion among
mankind is about the same, less tnan half
keep on the constant adv ance.-Dut,laue
Times.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.


Mayor presiding.
Present-Aidermeu ALLEN, BABBITT,
BALDWIN, COVE, NrE, TREYNoR and Will
LIAMs.
On motion of Mr.. BALDWIN, the Doth
Rule was suspended for the balance of the
day.
The "Ordinancc defining the duties and
qualifications of City officers and fixing their
salarics,' was then amended and read a
third time by its title and passed and title
agreed to.
An "Ordinance in relation to City War
rants,'' was taken up and read a second
time, and third time by its title and passed
and title agreed to.
An "Ordnance concerning Licences was
taken up and read second time and third
time by its title and passed and title agreed
to.
An F'Ordinance concerning public I'M
provements," was taken up and read a Sc
cond time, and a third time by its title and
and passed and title agreed to.
An ''Urdinance regulating the election of
City Officers" was taken up and read Sc
cond time, and after some amendments, it
was read a third time by its title and passed
and title agreed to.
An ''Urdinance concerning misdemeanors
and puniShmcnts," WAS taken up and read a
second time and amended. 1t was then read
a third time by its title and passed and title
agreed to.
Council then adjourned to meet on Friday
the Sd INST, at , O'Clock, p. NJ.
Attest: FRANK STREET,
City Recorder.
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cot Neil CHAMBER.

July LIST, 9 O'CLOCK, \. NJ.
Council met pursuant 10 adjournment.
The Mayor presiding.
Present-Aldermen ALLEN. BABBIrT, NyE,
BALDWIN, COVE, TREVOR and WILLIAMS.
Minutes of hast meeting read and APPROX
ed.
Mr.. NYE asked and obtained leave of alb
sence.
On motion of Mr.. BABBIrr, a portion of
the regular order of business was dispensed
with, and the Council proceeded to the con-
sideration of unfinished business.
An s'Ordinance establishing the City
Seal" was then taken up and read a second
time, and amended. And on motion of MIR.
BABEIrr, the Goth Rule was suspended, the
Ordinance read third time by its title and
passed and title agreed to.
An 'sOrdinance defining the boundaries OF
the City of Council Bluffs, and restricting
the operation Of certain ordinances therein"
was taken up and read second time, and
on motion eff Mr.. BALDWIN, the Goth Rule
was suspended, the ordinance read third
time by its title and passed, and title agreed
to.
An ''Ordinance concerning the assessment
and collection of taxes" vas taken up and
read second time and amended; when on
motion Of Mr.. ALLEN, the Goth Rule was
suspended, the ordinance read third time
by its title and passed and title agreedto
An 'EOrdinance defining the duties and
qualifications Of City Officers, and fixing
their salaries,' was taken up and read
second time. The Council then adjourned
till O'Clock, p NJ.
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Walkers inaugural.

Kansas correspondent gets of the fol-
io~ine criticism on uov. Walker high sound
ins and almost unaading Inaugural
Gov. Walkers eight COLUMN Inaugural
seems to be bat little talked Of. Tns fact
il the P opie Of Kansas are hk. the Winne-
bago chief, who was endearo ing 20 refu;.
the missionary. argumcn, for the good
ness Of Providence. ''My nation," said he,
'.has more RAIN than II wants. bu. no cat
tie, while The Sacs and Foxes have NOR
cattle than they need. Now, if your uod
were good, he would send u. more beef and
less thunder !" The peaeeably- inclined
people OF the Territory, who have had a
great many fair promises, but have enjoy I'd
partial protection in their rights, are u that
M preca.eiy. They want more beef and les.
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A .Hua UsDv.s


TINS nseresting race Of beings having
achieved q e1traordinary degree Of notc.
fiety oy ~ iase descent upon Washington.
70 control To polls Of that city, may posi-.
bly, possess soAe little interest to the curious
IN Natural History especially q there is {
strong probability Of their becoming entire-
ly eriinct, il they should muster courage d
repeat several times more, the same sort al
operation which they did ON that memorable
occasion.
A correspondent Of the Boston Cour;.,
who has investigated the delishtful thams
to some extent, gives the following descrip
ton Of the animal:
.'The 'sPug,'' or ssPlug," as be Il some.
times called, derives his name, not from
anything expressed in his own rhysiogamy.
but from the effects which he produces upon
the countenance of an adversary. Every
time he strikes, he ''plugs ugly" aud as d
consequence. an ''ugly pug follows. lie
is of limited stature, has compressed face,
close cropped hair, and is generally irm
built. Alone, he is coward; but Ike all
DULLES, is brave when there is crowd a,
his back. He likes to talk vulgar when
decent people are within hearing and always
has rufhanly epithet at his; tongues end.
lie can be enlisted in any cause for money.
which he prizes only AS means Of gratify-
ing the most british appeties. Heis usually
to be found in the neighborhood Of an en-.
CINE or porter house, and he understands
the merest wink. The class to which the
sspug Uglies" belong had its origin in New
York, where they were generated for tho
purpose Of aiding feeble politicians s'carry
-. -
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IL q recent agricultural meeting of the
Legislature, d.. Sheldon, of
Wilmington, exhibited some seedlings which
he had cultivated for SIX years and kept
them free from rot. His theory Is, thai
light and air tend to develop the disease,
ard If the potatoes are kept IN the soil da-
ring the winter. they viii not rot W course
they must be covered deep enough to pre-
vent the frost FROM iniurins them. lie also
exhibited some Uansers Reds, that had
been kcp, from rossing in the same WAY ss'
three seasons.
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II 10 the cussem Of some good Housewives
&c lsy asvn eSgs when they Are pleasy.
aSains. . tine Ok scarcity. Sometimes they
are packed in salt. very dry, bot tais Is per-
ilsss; Sometimes IN lime water made very
strong. Dipping in oil is also recemmend-
ed, and PACKING IN Indian meal. Lay them
with the small end daun. AID il and,ssursesi
they win be IS good a. the end of the yeas
rs when packed. our plan il to keep them
in the original package and have them
SHIELDED out ~ wanted. Thev ALWAYS keep
satisfactorily in this way, until they rcaen
tie tsht.. ~ksn .hsv are ..,or spniis,i.
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There are now NO iillibusters in the Cen-
tral American or Mexican territ0y. Wal-
ker's crew have I'll been driven out, and the
gray-eyed man b perambulsting the coun-
ay in search Of sympathy and material Tor
q new expedition. The defeat Of Crabb's
expedition to Sonora has already been an.
nounced. His career was short indeed, and
its termination was bloody. He went down
from California with some hundred men
well armed. They made their first attack
upon the town Of Caovora. The Mexi-
cans surrounded them, drove them into q
house, set it on FIRE over their heads, and
they came out under flag of truce, surren-
dering themselves up Internationally. The
Mexieans had previously offered to let them
retire if they would surrender. They re-
fused. And now, When they surrendered
withou, condition, the Mexicans refused to
grant them mercy. They were bound. taken
off in small companies and shot. Crabb was
the only one who was reserved for soiita-
~ death. He was permitted to write let
ter to his wife, then tied to stake. hun
dred balls penetrated his body at the com
mand SIRE" and his head was cut Oh and
exposed to the jeers Of the populsee.--
Only one of the fated band escaped. Their
end was rs terrible as it was summary
Crabb had been man of much influence IN
California; scheming political manager.
He took pattern from Walker, turned his
attention to the inviting field OF Mexico, and
a hundred Americans more sleep under
alien soil, leaving to their friends and faml-
lies how much consolati0H?-to their coun-
try how much Of honor?
They were shot and brutal indignities
were put upon their lifeless bodies Bru-
tality is inexcusable under all circumstances,
but no enc will deny that their lives were
Justly forfeited. They put themselves out
of the pale of all law. They invaded a
friendly territory for the purpose of con
quest and plumber. By the laws Of nation
they had nothing but death to expect in case
of failure. No government with ordinary
self-respect would have permitted them to
escape with their lives. Whoever invades
our territory with the same motives, must
anticipate the same fate, and we are afraid
that speedy Justice would be meted out to
them with as little mercy.
And now we hope We have recorded the
issue of the last fllibustering expedition
upon our neighbors that will leave Ameri-
can soil for long time to come, though it
is doubtful if such prove the case. Six
thousand men left to rot under tropical
sun by Walker, and the bloody fate of
Crabb, may still prove insufficient to deter
the reckless and the desperate.-keokuk
Wing.
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The Emigration 10 America.

The number of passengers arrived IN the
United States, during the year 1856, was
5,3Os males, aud 80, ls9 females; total
224. 496 smaller number than in any year
Of the last ten, except 1850, when the mum
Der was only CASIO. The largest number
was in 1854, 46o,474; the number in 1855
32o,416. OF the immigrants arrived last
year, there was born in Germany, 63,sO7;
Ireland, 54,34o; England principally Nor
mons 25,9O4; U. States, "a 900; Great Bat
ain and Ireland, l4,33l; France, ,246; Prus-
sia, ,22l, British America, 6,49S; China, A.
1873; Wales, 1927. &c. The number landed
in New York was, l62, lOS; in Boston, 9,225;
New Orleans, 1888; Pennsylvania, $3.50;
Maryland, {, l23; California, 1865; and Tex
AZ, 1876.
There are said to DO 100000 German in
habtants in the city Of New York. They
have upwards of twenty places Of public wor
ship, upwards of fifty schools, ten bookstores
and five printing establishments; and II Ger
man theatre.
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Arturnip..

Nineteen wagons, containing upwards of
a hundred MoTmons direct from Salt Lake.
passed through our City to-day on their
way back to the States. They have abjured
the Mormon doctrine, as practiced in Utah,
and express great dissatisfaction at the state
of affairs in that country. They report kav-
ing had great difficulty in getting oct Of the
Mormon Territory, being compelled to trav-
el cautiously from one settlement to another;
and finally to separate and Lease N sma.i
bands to prevent suspicion an4 avoid he
yasehful spies Of Brigham Young.
Omaha Tines.
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ESassoys GsLp BorLpEs Foe B.-Tht,
Marysville Herald says thai ,he Downles-
Vile Tunne. Company. al Ceusf=Y4M- nss
fennd the largest boulder eonsaiH.n DAD
perhaps erer found IN California. ID %
the last accounts they had extracted 81, 49,.
and had not get asceEEa1ned It- full .gx..-
ThsE estimate the amount o: gold II con-
saans as Rot less than slt9,Ouas Tbs boui.i-
sr is fsir ses-os TO the one from Austria
ha, sh:ch the English papers have recently
mentioned as being on exhibition IN Lon
don, and which Weighs (quarsa aud gold, J
four hundred pounds, and Is valued BY some
sanguine individual ~ en1 900 or 500. 90
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The following remarks, from the Dayton
Empire, have general application, and We
would recommend them TO the consider..-
ton ot all.
"Under the influence of tho modern spirit
Of improvement, some Of the most delight
ful places are school rooms. This is the
reverse Of what has long been true, and to
no extent remains true, ct the school room
We need not travel far TO find lamentable
instances Of the ill-judged parsimony which
leaves the place Of instruction unattractive,
and even Tepalsive. Pleasing advances IN
this respect have been made in this city, but
it must be conceded-in the footsteps Of
our Eastern friends. Yet are We Of the
swiftest In the race Of progress, and both
our school system and school architecture
will shortly rival the first in the world
Nothing contributes more to the beauty Of
o CITY than the beauty of its educational
halls, and OF their appropriate surround
ings. OF all places away from the green
! fields, the school room should be fair and
| bright. An ancient sage vas wont TO say:
81. is better for a people. to elevate the
minds Of their children than the roofs Of
their houses" How excellent then is it to
elevate both at one and the same time! The
mind will expand 10 tbs extent OF ifs dwell
ling place, for which reason the skies are
minute and the great world i round
Through the scholars heart the harmony Of
the universe should play, there must there
fore be no discordant ,neaness OF dim and
! .,oomy school walls TO bar them out. Let the
school room accord With the freshness, puri-
~ and vivacity Of the youthful mind. Es-
pscislly where youth AMI beauty meet in the
liner md fsirer cf our kind, should the
poets philosophy Of Schiller be realized.
Through the morning gate 81 beauty goes
The psshwsy TO the land Ut knasietxe!' st4.
How lavishly thousands daily expended
for temporary and unquestionsble good =
Let millions be given for lovliness, light and
jos-millions for the purity and bills. Of the
sons and daughters, I'D less for Injuries
which fascinste only 10 cnervate and destroy
th.m.
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60 \ Leavcnworth (k. IT, corrcspon.
dent of the st. Louis Democrat, states that
a California Emigrant train, which consist
ed Of seventeen wagons, when about hum
dred miles west of Fort kearney, was at.
tackled by aparty of Sioux or Cheyenne In
dians. who murdered every person in it
mon, women and children-burnt the cattle.
aud drove of the wagons. The number of
persons with the train is said to have been
about TWENTY
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49,.
,po sv Of uone., &c, Ae
Here, il expressly says that the "boaf0
shall have No POWER to levy taxes 9
make appropriations.o of MONEY!. There =
not the least foundation for the charge OF
confiction in the Constitution, and OF 'sdn-
other Legislative Department other tnan
the one whose powers are enumerated IN
Article Ill. The only thing IN Article la
from which the Bugle draws this unwar-
rantable conclusion. is this:
SEC ne Bad Of a , ss ,nl p SS
and regulations in. relation to Csmnon schools and
YeSeive aid from the school Or uaiversiy fund q this
safe %, =. me nss ,nsse or repeaea Sy the
enetal a..eusy and when 50 ,i,sr ~, .nsa,sa 81
Edasasiou
1t viii be seen, that this extra Legislative
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ca The Charleston Mercury in an arti-
els declaring the inability of the Democratic
party to ward off Northern aggression from
the South, says:
awe do not believe that the Democratic
party is competent to protect the rights of
the South. 1t has been incompetent for 40
years to give us n just constitutional Tariff.
1t has been incompetent to defeat the plum
der of Internal lmprovem made by the
General Government. Ii has been incom-
petent, with the united South supporting
them, to keep abolition agitation out Of
Congress by the 2lst rule. Il has been in
competent to give the South equal rights in
California. 1t has been incompetent to
secure to the South the recovery Of her flu
gitive slaves in the North, and it has been
Incompetent to give to the South fair play
in Kansas. But for adyentitious circum-
stances, such as Mr.. Fillmore being support
ed by a portion Of the North, in the late
Presidential election, it would have utterly
failed to prevent the election Of . sectional
anti-slavery Presidentr'
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A correspondent of the Burlington Hduk-
eye, writing from this city, states that the
wealth of this county bears heavier pro-
portion to its population than any other
county in the State, by about thirty per
cent. When the census Of this county was
taken, in May and June, 1856, its population
III little short Of 1000, while the assess
Ell valuation Of the property, at the same
time, was S2,729 $50, or about 800 to
each inhabitant. Dubuque county, is the
weaIthiest county in the State, but the pro-
portion of its wealth, to its population, is
thirty per cent. less than in this county
Dubuque is claimed as the largest and
wealthiest town in the State, and yet the
county in which it is situated, has to play
"seco,,d fddle'' to old Pottawattamie, in the
matter of the proportion of its wealth to its
population--being only about 1914 to each
person. This, we would suggest, as fit
to harp upon. In proper treatment of it,
they may fLd sample scope and verge
enough" to display their immens logical
skill, and powers of imagination, to say
nothing of their gift Of prophecy. The same
writer says that ''shis year the assessed val
uation in Pottawattamie will probably ex-
ceed $1,000 700, to Il population Of 5000.
This undoubtedly stands number one with
its sister counties in Iowa, in the proportion
of wealth to its population. The rapid rise
in the value of property in Pottawastamie
county during the last four years, is, pre-
sumo, without a parallel in any other coun-
ty in the State. 10 1853 the assessed value
was Sl50,O00; in 1854, S450,ooo; in 1855,
,050,0 900, and in 1856, 1929, 652-show-
ing an average increase Of considerably over
one hundred per cent. for each year. And
yet the county has just taken start. Last
year about half Of the population of the
county was found in Council Bluffs, and it
still retains about the same population. The
great advance in the value of property is
owing mainly to the rapid strides which
Council Bluffs has taken in the last two
years.
That the increase in the value of proper
ty in this county, and especially in Council
Bluffs, during the past three Or four years,
is without parallel, since the earliest and
palmiest days Of California settlement, we
presume no one is disposed to dispute, if
we exccp, few jealous and disappointed
town proprietors, not thousand miles
from here. The above estimate of the
valuation of property in this county. and of
the number of inhabitants, We should think
n fair calculation. Allowing the above
figures to be correct, We have an increase
in population for the past year Of .titty per
cent, and further increase in the pro-
portion of wealth to the population Of about
Twenty-Five per cent, or 1888 to each per.
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The eowa div indscss.on Of the Fed
er&l t'eveznrn snt in is d. .lings With tab
10 at soe- sham sfal apl lud.crous. IL is no,
unlike that Of a big puppy dancing and rear
ing and paving around q bFlstling little
mouse. LoaisrilL. Journal,
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III :. POST, 10 cur Asihnsizei Advertising and
Subscription Agent 81 Lsuis, No. Any busisess lef,
=: his Advertising Occ. No S. North seus.d Street,
viii be promptly ATTENDED 10.