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The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-12-04

Sioux Cirr AND CouNcIL BLUFFS BRANcH.
That at no very distant day Railroad from
st. Joseph, Mo-, to Sioux City, Iowa, will
be bnilt, no one who gives the subject q
moments thought, will doubt. Indeed, full
steps have already been taken for the build
ing Of the Road from St. Joseph TO Council
Bluffs, and the friends of the Road have
little doubt but in three years time the iron
horse will be bounding over the broad bot
toms Of the Missouri, between the two points.
The people oil along the line are enthusiastic
in regard to the road, and are coming up to
its aid In the most encouraging manner. 1t
is line that enlists the interest and will Sc
cure the aid not only Of the people on the
east side of the Missouri, but those IN Kansas
and Nebraska. on the west side-all are
deeply interested in the structure. 49,. q.
Now that the Road from St. 10. to Coun-
Gil Bluffs is in fair way of commencement
attention is directed to an extension of the
Road From Council Bluffs to this city. Let
ters have been received here from influential
men along the route Of the Road and at
Council Bluffs, urging the necessary steps to
be taken for the extension, and the friends
Of the road have been agitating the matter
here and at points along the proposed route,
in Monona, Harrison and Pottawattamie
counties. We hear Of no one opposed to
this road-all see the benefits to be derived
from its construction, and the people all
along the line would enter into the W. rk Of
its building with energy and spirit. Every
one who has travelled up the Missouri from
the Bluffs to this place, could not fail to
notice the natural grade, seemingly almost
ready for the ties and rails. No line of
railroad in the world could be so easily built,
and the time consumed in its construction
would be very small, compared with most
Of the roads in the country.
The liveliest interest is felt in. the matter
here, and our people to man, are ready to
move in the matter in a manner that will en-
sure the early commencement and speedy
completion of the road.
Gentlemen are now in the lower counties
to consult with the people there, as to the
best manner of procedure, and to effect ar
engagements whereby the energies and means
Of all will be directed in channel to ensure
the success of the Road. We shall have
much to say on this subject, vital as it is to
the interest Of our embryo city.-Siour City
Edgle.
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NJ. l. NJ. Railroad.

W" are gratfed to learn that Poweshiek
County voted, on Saturday last. loan of
500 900 to this road, without any restric-
tons as to where the road shall run. Grin.
nell will therefore be made point. The
Newton Free Press says these bonds will be
issued only upon an agreement of the
company to finish the road to Grinnell
within twenty months. The Press also
says:
''Iowa County has issued her bonds for
800, 900. which the company has received,
having given security to the amount of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr..
Price assured the editor of the Marenpo
Visitor that work would be commenced
immediately"
The bonds, then, of Poweshiek and Iowa,
added to those recently voted BY Scott
County makes a total of $35O,OO0. 1t is
truly time something like uork was done by
the company between Iowa City and this
place.-Des Moines Journal.
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OUR STATE-ITEMS FROM THE PRESS

CRAWFORD CorNrY.-We had the pleasure
IF IL visit, IL few days since from }. v. Deni-
| son, the founder Of Denison, the county seat
Iof Crawford County, Il thriving village Of
1about 100 inhabitants, situated IN one of the
| finest counties Of Western Iowa.
Crawford contains population Of about
800 inhabitants and some 10000 acres Of
|timbcr, and good water privileges. Mr..
.!Denisou is agent of the Providence Western
LanI Company, and has done much to open
the reso, rces and improve that fair region.
4 GOOD rick Court House 80 BY 40 is
.nclossed, built b, Mr.. Denison, and given
to the county. The, have good steam
saw and grist mill in operation u?d the com
|pany have large amount OF and 'roSen,
READY for new corners. They are lack.Hg
|only one thing-mal conveyance. The
route already established from TT. Dodge to
Council Bluffs, will take some ten Post
Offices on the route, which should be sup
Piled. Crescent City Oracle.
CO The Dubuque State Branch Bank
will commence operations the Oath inst,
and its "pctorlals" will be before the pub
lie before long. Only limited quantity
will be issued, but in such way, we hope
hat every body will get chance to look at
them. Their circulation will not be ready
before the lst Of January. So says the
Dubuque Express & Herald.
CT Pork is selling at Bloomfield, Davis
County, for $3.50 per cwt. nett. Large
numbers of hog. are purchased daily, and
the tradeis becoming quite brisk.
CO" The Charlton Patriot notices the
collection at that place of several hundred
head Of large, fat hogs, intended for the
Keokuk market. The price paid was S2,15
and 50 per cwt., gross. keokuk, says the
Patriot is destined to command an impor-
tant trade with this section of the State, in
the hog line.
Cy" The keokuk Post says-"Pork is
now pretty stiff at ga 5, and indicates
an advancing tendency. Now is the time to
rush hogs on the market. Holders and
raiscrs had better not wait for higher
prices"
CY' The Kcokuk Post learns from n col
rector, just in from the country, that between
Bloomfield and Bentonsport, he saw at least
ten acres of hogs, on their way to the Gate
CITY. He found droves in Mahaska County,
and in fact, everywhere on his route, DOOM
ed for the Kcokuk packing houses.
c. The people of Mitchell County, vote
to- day on a proposition to issue County
Bonds to the amount of $4,000 to the Co.
dar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company.
One of the conditions upon which the Bonds
are to be issued is that they shall not be
disposed of at less than seventy five cents
nu ne dollar,
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DEATH OF A. ID. LONG.

We 20 TO press this morning with heav
heart. A deep, and dark, and terrible shad-
ow i, resting upon US. Last Thursday night,
the Angel of Death visited Us, and-A. d.
LONG is no more. While the pitiless storm
was bowling around our homes, he met, il,
the cold, the darkness, and the tempest, a
fearful end. Immersed to the middle in q
freezing stream, with inaccessible banks, he
s.eugslcd for l.fa with the desperation Of
despair-and cried in his agony for help, but
he cried in vain-aud yesterday morning,
Ii. stifencd corse was found under The ice
In Indian Creek, DEArn, in its rildest form:
10 OH mwelcome messenger, but when il
egmc thus clothed in its full armor Of ter
rors, It sends chill Of horror to every heart
The ,lings came heavily to US, but they fell
like thunderbol: upon his young wife
who, all through that long, dreary night,
had been watching in feverish anxiety, for
his return. Tia. wife is our own sister
We romped with her in boyhood-told he,
our hopes, and confdcd our youthful plans
to her, in after years-and no.c the anguish
that wrings her heart, sweeps with crasl
the quivering chords of our own.
Mr.. LONG was warm hearted, steadfas
friend, an affectiouate husbunl and father
and an honest man. lie had not reached
the noon Of life, yet, working as ''jour'
printer, in different sections of the Union
re hsa seen much of the world, and had hi
frR share of the vicisstudes of "trampin!
;our's" life. lie has worked at the "case'
in Virginia, his native State; in Maryland
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
Tennessee, District Of Columbia, Missouri.
Iowa and Nebraska. lie came to this cit.
in the Autumn of 1854, and, at the time o
bis death, had become thoroughlSi identified
with the interests and progres of the Mis-
souri Slope, and was, at the time of hi
death, one Of the publishers Of the Nonpa
.rei!. lie has brother in Wiiliamsport
Nd, and sister in Virginia, whose home
will be shrouded in mourning, by the heav,
news We send them, but it will soothe ,hei
sorrow to know, that wherever he wa.
lncwn, he wa. respected and loved, and tina
b. goes to hi, last, long resting place, fol
lowed BY tho Borrowing hearts Of man,
friends.
The funeral services will be conducted BY
the Rev. JONI HANCOCK. in the Congrcga-
tionM Church, to morrow (Sunday,) COM
nenciug Mt II o'clock, A. VI. The friends
Of tho deceased arc respectfully invited to
attend.
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The Thought, of the 9th ult, speaking
Of the marked improvements in that town
discourseth rs follows owe have lived tt
see q thriving city arise where but shorr
time since the small village Of Coonville was
located and cxerted anything but healthy
influence upon the morals Of the community
At one time our town was well supplied
With whskey, profanity, and immortality
generally as most Of the points in the coun
try this far west, many Of our inhabitants
we're continually idle, our Sabbaths were
de.ccrated by strolling gunncrs, and on
very ministers Of the Gospel were far more
sncoesstul in horse-trading than tho saliva
ton Of souls. Now all this is changed, -
we have large and growing community
our citizens are generally Industrious, vH'
lille land sharks are swarmed out and gone
to build other towns to the east and west OF
as and the horse trading preachers have
accompanied them, SO that as refined gold
go have been tried and the gross having in
o great measure been removed to other To-
ea!ities, we have naught before US but con
tinued success. $50 mote it be.''
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Wreck and kuin on the De sc q.

Mr.. WALLACE, the special correspondent
of the alta California, who arrived at St.
city short time ago ria. the overland route,
writes to that paper from Great Salt Lake
City of the ruin and destruction on the
Desert rs follows:
con the morning the 9th we started out
to cross the Desert forty miles to the Sink.
The first fifteen miles are slightly elevated,
and the road is through continuous lead
of deep heavy sand. At noon We were half
way across, and stopped to exchange ami
mails, which had been sent on for us from
Ragtown the night previous. The road
then is hard and smooth for the CREATE por-
ton of the way, but the plain around for
thousands of acres together is leahess and
lifeless, white arid plains, without water,
upon which the sun glares. And here, too,
over this whole forty miles, are the signs Of
wreck and ruin which HAYS fallen on unucky
emigrants in past years. Heaps of bones
lie everywhere, and everywhere are the IRON
remnants Of wagons. 1t is estimated hat
ten thousand tons Of wagon irons are lying
in the sands on that desert; and there are
OK chains enough, unbroken, to form IL
continuous line to Salt Lake. This forty
miles is the terror of the whole route, and
no wonder. These bleaching bones and rusty
irons are evidences the sight Of which makes
one wish to hurry on, and not feel safe until
they no longer greet the eye. never saw
desert before, and do not wish to see
aaother.
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Trustees Sale,

WHEREAS, J. 4. JOHNSON BY HIS DEgp IA,
W ED November 2ith, 1857 conveyed TO the p,s..
signed IN trust the following described real es,a.
wif;-Lots No four ~. five 81 fifteen C5) ana 81.
teen l6) III JohnsOn's addition TO the town Of 60,
Buns, III Pottawattamie County, IN The State n, I
which deed of trust was made to secure TO
"ntenore Of the County Of Saint Louis, in ii. st,t.
deed OF trust specified, Gated November 2Ith 1857 o.
$3.50 Us payable on the first day July 1853 ui,h -,
per cent interest from date, and whereas said na..
now due and unpaid. Therefore. ], the underssn.s
VIII sell The real estate above described accort,n, =,
the provisions of said deed Of trust in front Of IN.
" Ireasurers Once. In the City Of Council BJu9 i.
bidder, s-"'
Tuesday, Both day of November, 1s,s
between the hours OF 10 O'Clock A. n and 4 o,.Io.,
p. M of said day to satisfy said note and cost. a,
trust and sale. PRANK STREEr Try,,..
October 1Oy2n9T-b - -''ss'
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CT What will the next Congress do p
Now that it is clearly demonstrated tina,
under our present tariff of duties revenue
adequate to pay the heavy expenses Of the
present extravagant Administration canno,
be collected, it becomes matter of curiosity
to know what expedients will be recon-.
mended and what adopted by Congress to
replenish an exhausted exchequer. Will
the Executive still adhere to its favorite
scheme, that of borrowing, or will be ask
Congress to tax tea and coffee: Or shall
we have such duty upon imported goods,
iron, &c., as will ut the same time replenish
the treasury and by incidental protection,
set our spindles, looms and FORCES and idle
operatives to work? We shall see.-Bur-
lington Hawkeye.
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Capt. A. J. Smiih--A Cherry Creek Bunder.


Capt. A. J. Smith, former resident O.
our neighboring City of Florence, arrived
here few days since direct from the Ne
braska Gold Mines! There is nothn!
.s,,cular about this-othcrs have done thu
anne. But there is something "singular'
connected with it, something absolutel,
,cra-ksl.e--he came as Member elect o.
me Ka,asas Legislature!! Who would hav,
ever dreamed, even, Of that7 Our down
river exchanges couldn't have IMAGINED Of
ANYTHING half SO funny! lie is the first
man even sent from Nebraska to the Kansa;
LEGISLATURE, and We guess he will be the
last /! But laying all pleasantly aside, let's
acc how the dcni,cns of Cherry Creek came
20 make so singular a bluudcr. Everybody
knows something of Pixies Peak, which has
attained such a celebrity in connection with
onr gold felds-well its this Pixies Peak
Tho one that the woman climbed, that's the
couse of this mistake. People went te
Pixies Peak for gold-and we've heard as
how they didn't find it; but went North un'
I'll thew did find it--how they went further
north than they thought they did-and hav'
ing no maps or instruments by which they
lould determine their locality they though
they were still in Kansas. The miners OF
Medicine Bow doubtless turned "bordcl
Rutisns''. or they would not seek to meddi'
{, the affairs of our sister Territory. The
latitude Of Fl. Laramie is AZ deg. l. min.
tho M outh of Cherry Creek is 10 miles from
Laramie; Cherry Greek is but % miles
ionr the 10th parallel divides Kansas anc
Nebraska. Our readers may figure to sui
themselves.
The Pacific Railroad Repor. gives the
latitude of Medicine Bow at Il deg. Sc
s,xa .he Omaha Times.
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That SIO.OOO.OOO.

We think that the $40, 900 900 scheme for
the benefit of Railroad spectators, is pretty
effectually used up. The Railroad gentle
men begin to see that the State of Iowa does
not really belong to them-tliat the people
of the State are not all fools after all. So
efectualIy do they see this now, aided by
the light which the bitter opposition to their
scheme has afforded, that we doubt whether
they will attempt any thing in the convcn-
ton called for next month and we are al
most persuaded that the convention will not
be held at all. The whole thing is ''dead
dog' on their hands, and they might just as
we'll bury il. Fairfield Ledger.
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Still Later from the Nebraska G old Mines.
Since our last issue, there has been anoth-
,r arrival from the Gold Mines. 4 Mr..
|GRAErER, member Of a mercantile firm in
Omaha, arrived home on the lst December,
ircct from Cherry Creek, The Times says
he reports gold in sufficient quantities for
all-the limit Of country not being known
he confirms all previous reports. The Times
gathers the following items from private
letter from Mr.. McDoNouGu, dated at Cher
ry Creek, November 9th: SIN speaking Of
the timber he says there is a large quantity
Of the finest quality of pine timber existing
there, many of the trees being 80 feet high.
There is about 400 men in the mines at pres
ent, and he thinks there will be over FIVE
thousand early next spring. They appear
to have caught the infection in Caifor-
MIA, Oregon, Utah and New Mexico, as he
SAYS hundreds are coming from those pla-
;cs. He speaks gratifyingly of the pros
poets there, and says that there is gold in
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The Gold Region.

Mr.. Geo. S. Simpson, an old mountaneer
who has lived under the shadow of the Rocky
Mountains for over eighteen years, informs
the Kansas City Journal Of Commerce that
he has known Of the existence Of gold in the
mountains about the head waters of the Ar
kansas, Platte and Colorado or Green river,
for more than fifteen years. He says, so far
as he has been able to learn, the miners,
though they are now quite successful, have
not been prospecting in the right quarter,
to find large deposits of gold. Mr.. S. being
of the opinion that gold exists more plenti-
fully in the mountains stretching southwark
from the Arkansas, than in the range north
of this stream.-St. Louis Dem.
- We cut the following advertisement
from the business columns of the Banner.
printed at Black River Falls. Wisconsin. and
give Mr.. Clapp the benefit of an insertion
gratis:
N. NJ. Clapp,
EternalIy at law, solicitor at the bar. He
registers deeds, makes conveyanccs, and
plays h-ll generally.
Veilsvile, Sept. %, lS56-vl NJ 3ms
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WI, indian. carne, : En,,..ea.

Some learned theologian whose spiritual
perceptions never rise above the more con-
venient INTERPRETATIONS Of thetext, "Japhsth
shall dwell in the tents of Shem and Canaan
shall be his servant, J" communicates the fol-
lowing to the Due West Telescope, re-
ligious paper published at Abbeville, S. c.:
"The Caucasian has eight cubic inches of
brain more than the negro. But why is it
that the Indian, with only two cubic inches
Of brain more than the negro, cannot be re-
duced to slavery like the negro The Span
iards tried the experiment in the West In
dies and South America, and made fail
ure.
We answer by saying that the rationale is
found in the fact that the Indians are the ue-
scendants of Shem. and the RICH: to hold
them in personal bondage never was given
to the Japhethites, and Consequently every
attempt to do SO has been marked by a sig.
nal failure. Wb-reas God gave the right
to Shem and Japhc:h to hold the posterity
OF Ham IN personal bondage; and hence not
OF. the white face, but the Indian or red,
hold the uamitcs as slaves.'<
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Dent19trvl
Trustees Sale !

yTTHEREAS, A. J. SMITH, BY HIS DEED NJ.
w November 10th, 1851, conveyed to the uns.AIko
ed Sheriff Of Pottawattame County in The :. "a.
Iowa, in trust, the following described real
ated in said County Of Pottaw atsamie ,o,t, hsa-
undivided Eighth part Of the W. y and the q ~ VA
the n 81 u. v and n. W. \ Of s. W OF Ss,t."aa
eighteen (ls) One undivided eighth part o; III Ne
= and W. }, and S. E. n Of w. 4 and n 80
z. Of Section No. nineteen (s) in Toxp.p,al
seventy-six t16, North Of Range No far.pAo
(a3) West, and one undivided eighth part az ~ afss
and S. W. Of the W. \ and S. W q, 80 1
Of Section No. thirteen ga One uudiydss =.
part OF the w. OF the n L. \ and tbs .sasa
the N wv Of Section No. twenty-six f9sI ~ T.
ship No. seventy-six t7el North Of Range n iosn-
90 West WHICH deed Vt trust was rasds ., y-'ouS
II. r. b. WhItiemore 4 Co., u the CONN.,, eeifa 70
Louis III the State Of Missouri, the payme,; SAINT
ssoTy Note in said deed Of trust specified -, prom.
Der 10th 1857 for $a0i o. payable on tbs g. No'em-
Nay 1858, with ten per interest f,o,a aAy Of
whereas said note Is due, and sen On ,h, md
paid. Therefore, the undersigned sbe,,r ees IN
waitaine county, as Trustee will sell the re-. .s.a.
before described, according the proyisiors .,
Of trust IN Council Bluffs in said county In frnn,
County rreasurers office at public vendue FOR essa
the highest bidder On Nss0,
Tuesday, 3Oth day Of November 1s.s
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock A. n and . o,.,,,,
NJ oil sad day, to satisfy said Note and cost "a -
" "'' aA' 'a'e' WILLIAM BAKER,
Sher!1 Poffd. Co, r Trusf..
Per FRANK STREET, Atty for II 4 r.. b. Vs;,,.
'Hofe y w. October 30y9ps.s-
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Dressmaking,

Mrs. l. J. RoAASlE respectfully informs the
wi Ladies Of Council Bluffs and vicinity. that she is
pTeared 10 do all kinds Of Dressmakins Ladies
Wishing work done their residences she Will be pleas
Ell !" accommodate.
s-Room0ht Dr.. E. I. Woodbury's, No. l. Parmers
~ Sfatr a--nn
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SUBSCRIFE AT ONCE,

IF YoU WISH TO SECURE 4 COPY OF THAT ELE-
CANT Engraving. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH,
and the ART JOURNAL, with the other premiums he
sure and subs ibe 50 before the Ist Of Jan 1859 -
Specimen c"iles of the above, and fun particulars
given by applying 10 Ii. {. MUTT HonarGry Sec m
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Trustees Sale!

WHEREAS, ANDREW NJ HUNT, OF THE Cnry.
w ty Of Woodbury., and State o. Iowa did on N.
18th day Of September A. D., 1857 execute aetn,xI
edge aud deliver TO JAMES A. JACKSON his c.-,.,
Deed Of Trust upon the following property to-si, n
one Undivided \ Of the Ia of the s W. O, se-,,os
No six t6) IN Township No. seventy-four r1ai So-.,
Of Rance No. forty-three (i3) West in the County !,
Potis~attamIe and State OF Iowa for the purpos. q,
securing 10 Toctie Jackson. the payment Of ce1,,,
pronssory Note executed the same day If ssid D,,s
of Trust by the said Andrew NJ Hunt To- ssiu To,I.
jackson payable ninety 800 days after the date he,,s
for Seven Hundred and twelve dollars and ffty yh. IN.
tSII2 5oj- And whereas the said deed o: tru,. An
thorlzed the sad James A. jackson to sell said lana
pubic sale, after giving two notice Of III, tim.
and place OF such sale, in w>paper published IN
Pot'a~at'anle County Iowa and apply the proceed. Q,
such ale I" payment of said Note il not paid when
was due. which said deed 81 wss duv recorded in
the ofice OF the Recorder Of said COUNTY in Box
Page 80 And whereas, The said Hunt has failed 10
pay SAID Note, or any part thereof Therefore 7
JAMES JACKSON, Trustee aforesaid do hereby
give notice, that on
Saturday. the 18th day Of December
D.. 1883 in from. Of the Post Offce In the city q.
Council Bluffs Iowa, between the hours Of 10 o'coct
A, VI. and O'Clock P u. of SAID day will offer A.
public sale. and sell to highest bidder the .bo,.
described real estate for the purpose Of paying said
Note, and VII! make deed TO the purchaser ihereof
JAMES 4. JACKSON
November 10, ls5s-nsosw.