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Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.

To all 10 arhom these presents shall come. greeting
II NOW We, that an Incorporation by the
IN name of the Iowa and Minnesota Land
Company has been duly organized, and the
principal place Of business is to be at Quasque
ton, in Buchanan county, Iowa. The general
nature of the business to be transacted by said
Company is bnying and selling real estate. The
capital stock of the Company to be Five Hun.
dred Thors md Dollars, one fifth of which shall
be actually subscribed, to be paid in at such
times as the Board of Directors may designate
at periods not oftener than once in sixty days,
and in amounts not greater than ten per centon
the amount actually subscribed. Said Com
pany to commence business on the 9Th day of
August, 1857, and to terminate on the eighth
day of August, 1867, unless dissolved By order
OF vote of two-thirds of the stock subscribed.
Said company to be conducted by Board Of al.
rectors, consisting Of seven persons who shall
after the first two years be elected by the stock.
holders annually. The greatest amount Of in
debtedness or liability of the Company shall at
no time exceed two-thirds Of the stock subscribed
The private property of the stockholders shall
be exempt from corporate debts.
Quasqueton. August 9Th, 1857. IA II
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
A TRIP FROM ENGLAND TO CHICAGO

A TRIP FROM ENGLAND TO CHICAGO
AND THE MISSISSIPPI FOR ESQ. - A
scheme has been started in England
by the proprietors of the mammoth yes
sell the Great Eastern, for the issue of
tourist tickets by this vessel upon her
first trip to America, embracing the pas
sage-money of the outward and home
ward voyage and all travelling expenses
by rail, coach and steamboat, during a
five weeks trip through the chief cities
of North America, for the sum of ESQ
sterling, or about $3.50 The Great
Eastern will land at Portland, and the
route of the tourists will be from that
city to Boston, thence to New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington,
thence westward to Cincinnati and st.
Louis, ascending the Mississippi to Alton
and thence by rail to Chicago. From
Chicago the tourists will retrace their
steps eastward to Buffalo and Niagara
Fails, thence to Toronto, Kingston, Mon
treal and Quebec, returning to Portland
via the Grand Trunk, SO that the Alpine
scenery Of the New Hampshire noun
tains may also be embraced. 1t has also
been so arranged that the holders Of
these tickets can remain as long as con-
venient at any point on the route, the
only condition being that they must be
back to Portland in time for the return
voyage of the steamer. 8 6
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

Col. James L.,Orr, of South Carolina,
and the Hon. John S. Phelps, of Mis-
souri,, are both spoken of for Speaker Of
the next House. Col. ORR will doubt
less be the man. John S. Phelps or Geo.
w. Jones Of Tennessee, will probably be
at the head of the Committee of WAYS
and Means
The Clerkship Of the House is evil
IDENTIFY between Colonel Allen, of Illinois,
the Hon. Jno. l.. Robinson, of Indiana,
and the Hon. David Mar, editor of the
Trenton, IN. j.. True american. The
South will not ask for both speaker and
clerk, Of course.
There can be little or no doubt that
the erection of new Presidential man
sion will be one of the measures that will
receive the favorable action of the next
Congress. The President has acted wise
ly in refusing to reside in the present
building during the unhealthy season.
Forney's Press.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
NEWS ITEMS.

re- The telegraph reports quite pan
ic in the Eastern money market, and sew
eral serious failures have occurred. That
of the Ohio Insurance and Trust Com
pany is the most important, the labil-
tiles stated at from s to 7 million dol.
lars; assets not given. John Thomp-
son, banker and broker, and publisher OF
Thompson's Bank Note Reporter Della
ny, lselin d Clark, bankers, and E. s..
Monroe, banker, all of New York, have
also failed. E. G. Bates d Co., Boston,
and VIM. B. Ogden q Co., of Chicago,
are likewise.reported as having gone by
the board-liabililies not given.
EUGENE SUE, the celebrated French
novelist, is dead.
Hon. EDWARD STANLEY has been nom
mated by the Republicans of California
for the office of Governor. Mr.. Stanley
formerly represented North Carolina in
Congress, but now stands firm advo-
cate for free labor. There is powerful
opposition to the Democracy in Califor-
MIA, and Mr.. SANKEY'S prospects for cleo
ton are said to be very flattering.
JUDGE WERDEN, of Ohio, an old and
influential Democrat, has come over to
the Republicans since the bred Scott de-
cision, and its endorsement by the De-
mocracy of Ohio, and now supports
CHASE for Governor of that State. And so
the work goes ON.
We learn from the Lyons Mirror that
the Banking House of Locke d Boyd, in
that city, was entered on Saturday or
Sundry night last, and robbed of S14oo.
Also, that the shoe store of Mr.. A.. v.
ERsKrNE was robbed by two men in his
employ, of about $500 worth of goods.
The work of enslaving Kansas goes
bravely on. Governor WALKER but a
liule while since, pledged himself that
every bona-fde citizen OF Kansas should
have the opportunity of voting on the
constitution. This, and this alone, salts
he'd and quoted the people. But he who
trusts to Democratic promises is sure to
discover their brittle nature. Gov. WAL
ker has given his sanction 10 the disfran-
chisement of all the emigration OF the
present year, by exacting six months
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
How FAST THEY DIED.-The eminer

How FAST THEY DIED.-The eminent
Dr.. Baudens, in an able report on his
official mission to the Crimea, affirms
that, for some time, two hundred French
soldiers expired daily between that re-
gion and Constantinople, and that the off,
cial bulletins conveyed no adequate idea
of the sufferings and privations of the
troops, and the extent and horrors of the
morality. "If we consult" says he,
1.-THE medical statistics Of the hospital es-
adjustments, the number of deaths re-
corded in the hospitals was about sixty
three thousand thirty-one thousand in
the Crimea, and thirty-two thousand at
Constantinople." Was another cam
paign possible?
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
A balloon ascension was recently mar,

A balloon ascension was recently made
at Sangaree, S. c., by an intelligent ca
nine, belonging to DR.. Ornate, of that
place.. DR.. Ornate seated himself in the
car of his balloon previous to ascension,
but upon discovering that his weight was
too much for his success, he hastily jump
ed out, and severed the cords that held
the balloon to the earth. As the Doctor
jumped out, g Canine" jumped in, and
soon found himself floating through the
air above the river. In the meantime,
he testified his appreciation of the beau
tiful view spread out before him by a Sc
ries of unmltigated barking At the
height of nearly two hundred feet, he
changed his tune, and gave vent to his
anguish in piteous bowls. He finally
concluded to jump, and did jump out OF
the balloon into the river, and padded
himself safely to the shore thus beating
the famous jump of Sam Patch by sew
eral feet. The Doctor says he shan't sell
that dog-no how.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
Eg For the information of son

EE- For the information of some of
our sham Democratic friends, whose love
for the peculiar institution" seem SO
great that they are perfectly willing to
admit of its indefinite extension, we copy
from Richmond paper the following
rates at which their beings are
held in that market:
No. ] men sell readily for $500 to
Sl4o0; something extra, shade high
er. No. girls from Sl1OO to $3.50
field hands. Likely girls (seamstress-
es command from Sl4o0 to $780,
Boys from 2 to Is years Of age, $1,000
to $3.50. Girls, l2 to Is years of age,
$3.50 to 5000. Good blacksmiths, fine
size, ranging from 22 to 80 years old,
sell at $500 TO 5000. Carpenters com
mand the same rates. Bricklayers COM
mand from $1,000 TO $780, These
prices are for negroes free of defects, and
sound and healthy. AT the present time,
however. it is enough to say, that me-
groes, good or bad. command all they
are worth,
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

HEAVY DAMAGEs.-A suit CLAIMING
$50, 900 damages for an alledged breach
OF promise of marriage is causing con
siderable excitement in fashionable cir
cles in Boston.
The parties are Moses Ingle, of New
York, plaintiff. and DR.. Geo. Hayward
and wife, defendants. -st
Mr.. Ingle met Mrs. Hayward ~in Eu-
rope as the youthful, beautiful and
wealthy widow of the late Amos Buniere
where, he says, she promised to marry
him. t3
The defendants are now abroad. Ru-
fus Choate and Pcleg w. Chandler are
retained for the defence. 1t is thought
that the case will be pressed to trial.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

A SIGHT WORTH SEEING.-The farm
ers of Northern Illinois and Wisconsin
are in the midst of their wheat harvest
This and last week embraces the harvest.
ing period for large tract of country.
A friend of ours says that one day las
week he went up on the top of a hill
called Mt. Zion, six miles from James
vile, Rock County, Wisconsin, and
counted on the surrounding plain one
hundred and sixty-four horse power
reaping machines, busily cutting down
wheat. There were one thousand men,
women and boys following after, binding
and shocking up the golden sheayes. /,
was sight worth seeing, to behold the
grain falling and being gathered up a,
The rate Of 200 acres per hour - Chica.
go Tribune.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
Washington Items.

The President, short time ago, re-
ceived letter from Prof Silliman and
others, including several Drs. of Divini-
w. Directing to the employment by him
of U. S. military forces to execute the
so-called laws Of Kansas, and assuring
him that they would cease to pray that
he might have the proper course of duty
pointed out TO him, or something to this
effect. To this letter the President re-
piled briefly, but pointedly, denying their
premises, and questioning their know
ledge Of these laws, and after acknow-
lodging their validity, he calmly assures
them that, by the help of God. he will
enforce them in accordance with his oath
of office.
The General Land Office to day decd-
ed against the pre-emption claims of a
colored man to $50 acres of land in Wis
consin, taking the ground of the Supreme
Court in the bred Scott case, that free
negro, whose ancestors were brought to
the country and sold as slave, is not a
citizen within the meaning Of the Consti-
tuition of the United States. This deei-
sion Of the land Office applies to all other
similar cases now pending.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

EF The Republican State Convention
met at Iowa City on Wednesday, Aug.
18th, in the Hall of Representatives
Col. s. V. SANDERS, of Henry county,
was chosen President DoDeE, of Potta-
watamie, and BuRDIcK, of Winneshiek,
Vice Presidents and j. TEEsDALE, of
Johnson, and j. SANDERS, of Scott, Sec
retaries On the Sd ballot for Governor,
Judge LOWE, of Lee county, received
l73 votes, and was declared unanimous
ly nominated.
Three ballots were had for Lieutenant
Governor, upon the last of which, OR1N
FAvILLE, of Mitchell County, received
1T votes, and was declared tie unani
nous choice of the convention. Judge
TABOR, of our own county, received up
on the first ballot 43 votes, and on the
second 81 votes, a result to him and to
US entirely unexpected, but compliment
by no means undeserved. A platform of
principles was adopted, which we have
not the time nor space now to give, and
the convention adjourned at an early hour
in the best of spirits and feeling.
Judge LOWE is a native of Warren
county, Ohio, but now resident of Keo-
kuk, Lee county, and is about fifty years
of age. He graduated at the Miami Uni
versity at an early age, and afterwards
studied and practiced law in his native
county. In 1929 he removed to Musca-
tine, in this State, where he cultivated
the soil and practiced his profession till
1857, when he removed to Keokuk. He
soon acquired large law practice, in
which lie continued until 1852, when he
was elected TO the bench of the LIST Ju-
dicial District. Previous to his election
to the Bench, he took lively and active
interest in politics; but since then, though
sympathizing and acting with the Re-
publican movement, he has refrained
from an active participation in political
strife. deeming partnership incompali-
bic with judicial duties He is a man of
much ability, honest and straightforward,
and much respected by those who know
him.
ORAN FAv1LLE, the nominee for Lieu
tenant Governor, is native of Herkimer
county, New York, and is about 40 wears
of age. He has occupied Professor
ship in several colleges in New York,
Vermont. Illinois and Ohio, but from i'll
health has been compelled TO retire from
his sedentary and arduous profession,
and is now engaged in cultivating his
farm in Mitchell county. He is said to
be man of marked abilities, an ardent
Incorporating Republican, and his
nomination will undoubtedly be cordially
endorsed.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

Es- 1t will be seen, by the letter of
excellent Independence correspondent
that two of the escaped prisoners have
been letaken. The reward which was
so promptly and judiciously offered by
our county Judge was the means of pro-
curing their re-arrest. We feel every
day more impressed with the Judges Pc
cnliar fitness for the Office which be
holds. His decision of character. his
ability and sterling honesty, in position
where his authority is almost absolute,
We feel confident will make his admins
tration an excellent one for the interests
OF the county, and rebound to the credit
OF the party which nominated and elect
ed him. The Judge is rising man, and
The same Straightforward, consistent,
and uncompromising advocacy of the
principles which he processes, that has
carried him to lis present position, will
yet carry him on ward to a more premi-
nent and nobler one. We fully be-
lieye that his talents and character need
but 10 be more widely known to place
him in the foremost position in our State.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

The Iowa City Republican of the 18th
says: " Nearly two hundred delegates
reported themselves to the State Teachers
Association this morning. 1t is much
the largest body Of the kind ever before
assembled in the Stale. The members OF
the body are in the best spirit, regard
its future as full Of promise. All its pro-
ceedings have been harmonious and such
as to increase the influence and useful
ness of the Teachers of Iowa. The adj
dress of Prot. Bugbee, last evening, was
an admirable produc ton Astounding with
suggestions worthy of the gravest consid-
Grafton of teachers and parents. 1t pro-
duced most favorable impression as to
the ability of Mr.. B. and his fitness to aid
by his counsels in the Educational move
ments of the State.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

In our paper of the 9th of June, We
made mention of the largest piece of cop
per cut from the big mass in the MINES
ota mine, numbered 5O4. 1t has since
been brought down the river, and is now
on Lvermore's dock. awaiting shipment,
where it may be seen by any one DESTROYS
OF seeing the largest piece of copper ever
sent from any mine. The weight Of the
mass is $500 pounds. Mr.. Livermore
intends to ship it by the Mineral Rock
on her next trip, which will be about
Monday or Tuesday of next week. On
tonogon Miner.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
residence in the territory, as qualifca-

residence in the territory, as qualifca-
ton of the right Of suffrage. But this
is not all. A new legislature is to be
elected in October, and to the Governor
belonged the right to make the appor-
comment. For some reasonhe turned the
job over to the President and Speaker Of
The bogus legislature, and they have ar
ranged it SO as to deprive the greater por-
ton of the territory of the right of rep
resentation. Out of the whole number
of representatives, SO, fourteen counties
have SO and nineteen counties 3. These
nineteen counties contain the principal
portion of the Free State emigration to
the territory the present year, and with
six times the population have only one
half the representation of the single coun-
" of Doniphan. 90 To sum up the fraud
in grand total of National Democrat
ic' swindling," says the correspondent Of
the Chicago 7ribune, " five counties on
the Missouri border, Doniphan, Atchison,
Leavenworth, Lykins and Linn control
both branches Of the legislature" In the
meantime Atchison writes to his friends
in South Carolina, under date Of July
Goth, as follows
If our delegates to the convention
shall refer the constitution to the register
ed voters for ratification or rejection, then
we will ratifv the constitution. If it is
to be referred, as Gov. Walker says, to
all the people who should be in the terri
tory on the day of voting, DC, are must
and wiW hare majority at tie polls on
that day."
And this is squatter sovereignty-and
these are the men and the measures in
whose support Mr.. BUCHANAN has pledged
the whole power and influence of the
Federal Government.
The Surrogate of New York has decid-
ed that Mrs. Cunningham is not the wild
ow of Dr.. Burdell, and therefore not en-
titled to a share in his estate.
A terrific hurricane passed over Wood
land, Wisconsin, on the evening of the
2lst, destroying every house in the place.
A lawyer named Wagstaff was sho,
dead in saloon in New York, on the
night of the 2lst, by an actor named
Nimms. Nimms was discharged from
custody the next day, the coroner's jury
finding verdict of unsuitable homicide
The Entry clerk of the 81. Nicholas hole
named Lawler, has been arrested, charged
with deialcalion 10 large amount.
McKim, the murderer of young Nor
cross, was executed al Hoilidaysburg
Pa, on he 2lst. He died protesting hls
innocence, after speaking from the scat
fold nearly TWO ho
j. O. Brayman, editor of the Chicago
Democrat, has been arrested upon Tie
charge OF taking money letters from the
drawers of the Post Office.
Col. Roberts, from New Mexico, re-
poris.a batde between The Apache Indi
ans and Col Miles, commander on tie
ella river, in which % Indians were
killed, and upwards Of 80 wounded
Lieut.. Davis and nine privates We're
wounded. Col. Miles recovered large
amount of property.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

Three children of Mr.. j. Bernard, of
Watson, Lewis county, N. Y, were
drowned together in small pond of wa
ter ON his property, few days since
The youngest, a girl, sank into hole and
called for help. Hes sister went to her
relief, and also sunk. The eldest, bro
ther, then went to their aid, but they all
became. entangled and sunk together
The father was absent in Illinois nj the
time of the sad accident
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

RE- The Border Ruffans of Dubuque
carry things with high hand in that
stronghold of the Celt and of the DEM
ocracy. The legal officials, like some
doctors, are ayerse to using their own
remedies, and when deeming themselves
aggrieved, show decided penchom for
the muscular rather than tie legal meth
cd of righting themselves. During the
canvass last April, that judicial bully,
Judge WILSON, attacked his competitor,
Mr.. COOLEY, upon the street, and knock
ed him down, which tended no doubt, as
he expected, to increase his popularity
among the gentlemen of Dublin. -
Finding the game operated so WELL he
has lately taken occasion to boast, in pub
lie, of his pugilistic capabilities, and
threatened, and we believe attempted, to
exhibit them upon the editor Of the
Times. And now Mr.. MuLKERN, the
newly elected Prosecuting Attorney, fol-
lowing in the wake of his Honor, has
made bold strike for popularity by as
saulting Mr.. DoRR, of the Express and
Herald. MuLKERN, however, unlike the
Judge, does not pride himself upon his
muscle, and like degenerate Celt, re-
pudialod the shillalah and took to the
more fashionable six-shooter. But the
result proved his mistake, for, whether
from nervousness or want of practice
with the instrument, he did not succeed
in hitting the editor, though he fired three
balls at him. He has been held, in the
paltry sum of $1,000, to answer.
The origin of the assault was the pub
licatlon, by DoRR, of seduction case,
in which, it seems, Mr.. MULKERN figured,
in an unenviable light as counsel for the
seducer, though no names were given in
the article. The facts, as given by the
Eapress, show a most hearlless piece of
villainy, and the author and abettors OF
the scheme should be held up to the gaze
and eAecration of the community, and
made to suffer the most rigorous penal
ties attached to such crime. Ii there
Is crime which more than any other,
should drive the author without the pale
of human sympathy, and cause him to
be regarded and avoided as loathsome
leper, it Is this. And yet these moral
murderers are admitted 10 the family fire.
side, brought in contact unquestioned
with the pure and the innocent, and fos-
tered by the smiles and attentions of
those acquainted with their true character.
So long as society will warm these vipers
in their embrace, so long must it cxpec,
to be ssung by them. Ii fathers and
mothers will take the seducer by the
hand, bring him within their home cir
Giles, and smile complscensly upon his
acts, they must expect him TO multiply
his crimes, and have no right to com
plain when he takes his victim from
their own freside There is need of a
sterner public opinion upon this matter
"a more rigid dealing with the crmi-
nal, both legally and socially. Let the
press hold them up, as has the Herald
In this instance, to the public scorn and
execration, and let society cast them out
among the vile and infamous-and then,
and not till then, will happy homes be
free from INVASION
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

A woman named Ellis, at Cincinnati.
who had not been living on the best of
terms with her husband for some years,
on Tuesday last stabbed her husband,
formerly one of the watchmen of the lst
Ward, SO that he may die from the effects
of the wound received. 1t is alleged
that for some time deep seated jealousy
existed on the part of Mrs. Ellis. and that
she committed the rash deed while under
the influence of that passion.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
NOTICE

rs hereby given to the stockholders of the
i IOWA AND MINNESOTA LAND COM
PANY, that an installment of Ten PER CENT.
on all the Stock subscribed Inns been called in
by the Board of Directors, to be paid at the Of.
fee of D. S. LEE, Treasurer, at Independence.
on or before the 2lst day of September next.
By Order OF the Board
35-4w f. G. BIDWELL, Sec'y.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27
EsTRAY NOTICE.

TAKEN up by VIM Rowan, of Liberty town
l. ship, Buchanan county. Iowa, one dark
brown horse supposed to be seven years old.
has white spot on the inside Of each hind foot.
has the appearance Of poll evil on the top of his
head. Appraised before N. G. Gageby Esq. on
July 9th, at Fifty Dollars.
(4-4t) EDWARD BREWER,
Independence, July 80, 1857 Co. Clerk.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

PAYING THE RuFFIANs.-The ST. Louis
Democrat exposes plot of the Atchison
rutiians in that State TO levy a Safe TAX 10
pay the expenses of their forays upon
Kansas last year. Stewart, the Democrat
ic candidate for Governor, is said to have
given his pledge to the ruffians to sup
p ort the measure.