The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-09-05

VARIOUS rrKSGs-ssosxLx sroIEN. j
sr Pm Pan. AID scissees. &
crNsWhsst has been selling in Musca.
tine, IoA, It 20 osns per bsslsAl. Miles
are contssesing for xetnre delivery, e I5's
80 cents.
CO The Louisville Courier states thai
the proprietors Of the largest Touring nilli
in that city, have closed contracts for up.
wards of 10000 bushels Of wheat, at on'
dollar per bushel.
60 The California Democratic Conyen-
ton has nominated Hon. J. B. WELLEE,
for Governor, and the Republican Conyen-
ton, EDwARD STANLEY, as Candidate fof
the same Office.
GA Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore SIM, thinks that in view OF the
result Of the August elections, the Speaker
ship of the next House Of Representatives,
may now be considered settled, and that
Col. ORa's election to that post, is render
ed certain.
EY The Galveston Civilian says, the
Chinese sugar cane has everywhere in Tex
as proved its superior ability to corn in
withstanding drouth.
Cy The St. Paul Daily Times, tells Of
an Irishman in that city, who was engaged
at drain, and had his pick-axe raised IN
the air just as the town clock struck twelve,
when, determined to work no more, he let
60 the pick and left it hanging there.
90 The Muscatine, Iowa, Journal, says
that gentleman in that vicinity has raised
upwards Of an acre of the celebrated Chi
nese Sugar Cane. The stalks Of this new
production will average ten feet in height,
and the cultivator intends trying the expert
ment Of making sugar from it. The sac
charine will be be extracted from the stalk,
by grinding in mill.
STEPHEN II. BRANCH leading Ameri-
can of New York City, and it will be re-
collected, one of the principle actors in the
New York Police Investigation, in relation
to the nativity of MArsELL, has published a
card, in which the following occurs: ~
learn that Mr.. BUCHANAN is nearly 70 years
old, and came to this country with his Irish
father, and am about to send faithful
messenger to Ireland for his baptismal
parish records"
ca Cairo, Illinois, is waking up from
its Rip Van Wrinkle sleep. The Common
Council Of that city are evidently progress
sive-ride the following resolutions: "Re-
solred, That the street commissioners be
authorized to expend a sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, in cutting down the
weeds in the streets of the city,
CO The Dubuque Times is just now en-
gagged in 3 hopeless task-trying to elevate
the moral tone of the press Of that city.
CT By dates from Chicago, Of the 22d
ult., We learn that the day previous, ter
rife hurricane passed over Woodland, Wis
consin, destroying every house in the place.
Mr.. Fox, Station agent, was run over and
killed in endeavoring to stop some
freight cars, which the wind had set in mo-
ton. The telegraph lines Frustrated. The
railroad track was also considerably dam
aged.
CJ The sale of the Delaware Lands in
Kansas, have been concluded. 1t produced
1851 700, and on Tuesday, Mr.. WoopsoS,
Receiver Of Public Monies, deposited in the
Sub-Treasury, at St. Louis, $3.50, 000-the
remainder Of the payments having been
made in United States Treasury warrants,
The whole amount goes to the Indians.
c. The Tax Levy of New York city for
1857, foots up SIS, l66,566, being an increase
over last year of million of dollars. The
levy for 1854, the year before Mayor WooD
came into Office, was s4,74l,225. During
his first year it went up million; the next
year million and quarter more, and this
year another million. The rate of taxation
in 1854, was 81 ,05; in 1857 it is 81, $50.
CO In various counties of England, pro-
tective societies have been formed of per-
sons who pledge themselves not to purchase
4 thimble full of sugar until it has declined
four cents pound. Should tho people Of
this country form such societies, we would
have to go to bed sugar-less, till the ssCom-
ct' should come, and knock us into noncn-
tity. You could count US scout" of any
such arrangement.
CO The Bank of Commerce is the most
extensive financial concern in New York
On the Sth ult., its loans and discounts
amounted to $l2,SlO,349; its deposits to
sS,l04, l64; specie in vault to 81 ,07l,753.
The Bank has a circulation of about two
million dollars. s...
CO The clipper ship Atalanta recently
run from San Francisco to the port Of New
York, via the Horn, eighty-four days and
three hours-the fastest trip on record made
by clipper ship.
CO The crops Of Minnesota notwithstand-
ing the ravages Of the grasshoppers, were
never so abundant as they are the present
year.
E Republican County Conventions.
Elsewhere we publish the call Of tho Gen.
trail Committee Of Pottawattamie County,
for convention to be held in this city, on