The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-14
STOLEN BREvIrIEs . EDITORIAL GRAFrIsss'

CT.Thc N. Y. Tribune says, sat this
time no State or Territory can hold out in
duccments to settlers equal to Iowa; and it
is the opinion of discerning men that the
year 1858 will witness larger emigration
to this State than any preceding one."
evIt is earnestly stated that the Presi-
dent has taken tho precaution to appoint an
agent to proceed to Frazer River d'gging',
whose business will be to prevent citizens
of tho United States from coming into COL
lision with the British authorities.
CyThe Dubuque Times in an article
setting forth tho advantages Of Western
Iowa, says that the climate is SO healthy that
Doctors can make more at day wages, than
by the practice of their profession. Verify
that is tho land of promise. Physicians
seeking location will take notice.
GyA company has been organized in
Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, which has
for its object the immediate erection OF a
telegraph line from the West, through Cedar
Rapids to the Des Mones River, and ulti-
mately to the Missouri.
CTA company is about to be formed at
Davenport to 20 to tho new Eldorado-the
Frazer River Gold Diggings. 1t proposes to
60 by St. Paul and the valley of the Sas-
katchewan. The distance is supposed to be
about 1850 miles.
GTOur neig hbor Of the Bedford, TAYLOR
Co., Southeast, is of practical turn OF
mind, and is disposed to take things as they
come, as may be judged from the following
in relation to the mails-"Mail arrived !!
Forty days later from Keokuk!' ~
cy"ToM CoRwIN, the "Wagor Boy OF
Ohio,' has taken the stump, and is doing
telling service in behalf of Rerublcanism
in his native State.
ryWM. B. AsroR, the New York million
airc, has determined to build three large
steamships, the cost of which will be about
1000, 200, SO rs to give employment to
mechanics who are now unable to obtain
work. After the ships are finished, he will
offer them for sale, first to our Government,
and if not successful in selling them here,
then to European powers.
CTThey have pretty hot weather in Pc
tersburgh, Virginia, according to the South
side Democrat, which says: ave amused
ourselves yesterday, by roasting eggs in
the back window of our sanctum. 1t was
a decided improvement on the old way.
The thermometer, in the meantime, Standing
FIVE feet high"
CVBy neglect Of our Lawmakers or
omission of the Enrolling Clerk, Carroll
County is not placed in either Of the Judicial
Districts, and is, of course, without legal
tribunal higher than that of Justice Court !!
CO Gen. Dill of Philadelphia, is evident
" a military ''brick." AT the 4th Of July
celebration he gave the following sentiment:
General Cass-His civil and military ser
vices are Justly estimated by the country.
cyThe Charleston Mercury says that if
the recent meetings for the reception OF
Senator Crittenden in Kentucky are the re-
fex of the feelings or opinions Of the people
of that State, she m ny we'll be stricken from
the roll of Southern States.
cyThe greatest triumph of any age has
been achieved. The Atlantic Teegraphic
Cable lies in the bed of the '.deep blue
ocean, and the Old World and the New are
united. So says a dispatch IN the ST. Louis
Rnnnhiann nf rho 9Th
yThe merchants of Cedar Rapids are
having a fine 1ime-boating, as may be in
fer7cd from the following:
The undersigned will run a boat, to accommodate
their cu,tomeTS from their stores, Etys Block
corner"f Commercial and Eagle streets, free Of charge
during The boating season on said streets
LEACH Woop
BANGS BIXBY.
Aug. 4, 1853
cyThe City Council of Davenport have
adopted 4 license system for liquor selling
in that city. The license for each establish
ment is fixed ut fifty dollars.
Mad dogs are taking the countrvin
the nerghborbool of Ncosho, Missouri. The
Herald Of that place gives frightful account
of the havoc they have made. More than
twenty people have been bitten, half of
whom died with the hydrophobia.
cy According to Senator GREEN, of MIS-
souri,, one of the wheel-horses of Lecompton
Democracy, the institution of Slavery is
both the foundation and the main support
of Republican institutions liberty and po-
litcal freedom cannot exist withoutIt.
I'm Ohio the crops are better than in
any Northwestern State. The wheat cropof
Ohio will be an average; but the oats aud
corn will not be quite so abundant.
CyThe President of the United States
has issued his proclamation, ordering the
sale of public lands. at Lecompton, on the
lst and 14th of November, and at Kickapoo
on the LIST and 10Th of November.
CyTThe Detroit advertiser gives this in
teresting passage in the life of the present
editor Of the Administration central organ:
s'The Administration editor of the WASH
inston Union is Sim johnson. He used to
live at Grand Rapids. Old Rix Robson,
of Ada, Kent county, once presented him
with a pair of stoga boots, but in the hurry
of the presentation he forgot to take them
off his own feet. They were presented end
wise"
Cy7Thc Louisville Journal says the
Democratic party and the anti Dem ocratc
party are growing prodigiously-the latter
growing big and the former little.
CTW. II. ENGLISH, the nominal author
of the second edition of the Lecompton
Swindle has been nominated for re- election
to Congress, by the Lecomp,onites Of the
Second Congressional District of Indiana.
cDMr. Comstock, agent for Collins &
Co., has returned from Europe, and has
contracted with the French Governmet. or
with DartieS in France for the sale of tha