The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-07-17

Pr.eeesi.s. = Meeting e .hs s::ea.ssse r. =
At a meeting Of the Stockholders Of tho
Council Bluff aud St. Joseph Railroad Co.,
held 1t Concert Hall, in Council Bluffs, on
Monday, July 18th, 1858, L. W. Rabbit
was called to the Chair, and s. s. Curtis
appointed Secretary. ...--.-.
The Reports of the Board of Directors and
Of the Chief Engineer, were received and
adopted.
On motion of Frank Street, twas Il
Resoluei, That the Secretary Be instruct
ed to furnish copies Of said Reports to some
newspaper, for publication, and that the
papers in the Missouri Valley, interested in
the work, be requested to copy tho Same.
The election of the Directors for the en-
suing year, being next in order, the chair
appointed Messrs. Cochran and Everett,
tellers.
The following gentlemen were declared
duly elected Directors for the ensuing year:
Enos Lowe, S. F. Nuckolls, Benjamin F.
Rector, J. w. Coolidge, L. Nuckolls, L. W.
Rabbit, Jas. A. Jackson, J. d. Test aad
Addison Cochran.
On motion of j. W. Coolidge, a vote Of
thanks was returned to Horace Everett, for
The able and efficient manner in which be
las filled the posts of Director and Vice
President, since the organization of the
Road.
On motion of Loudon Mullin, itlwas
Resolved, That we delegate to the Board
of Directors the power, and request them to
adopt a code of bylaws, for the government
of this Company, not inconsistent with the
Articles of Incorporation.
On motion of Loudon Mullin, it was
Resolved, That our Directors are hereby
requested to select, either from within or
without their own body, one General Agent,
at such a salary, as will enable him to visit
at once, all the Counties on either side of
the Missouri river, along the entire line
see the County Judge Of each County, and
secure an election on County Bonds or
Swamp Land grants, and make such other
arrangements, as will speedily and perma-
nently commence work on our present Rail-
road enterprise, from Council Bluffs, to the
Southern line of the State of Iowa.
On motion of J. D. Test, it was
Resolved, That the papers on both sides
of tho river, along the line of the Road, be
requested to publish the proceedings of this
meeting.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
L. W. BABBITT, Chairman.
S. S. CURTIS, Secretary.
The Great Central Newspaper Organ on . Demo-
cratic Congress.
The editor Of the Washington Union
(supposed to be WENDELL thus daguerreo-
types the present Democratic Congress-
We say Democratic, because the Democracy
have large majorities in both Houses:
ITS DAGUERREoTYPE.
In both of its branches are to be found
men of distinguished talents and promise :;
but they have figured in the deliberations of
the session as very superior star actors do
when cursed and encountered with the aid
of a miserable stock company.
The misfortune of the whole session has
been that the men of real talents have not
been acknowledged as the leaders, and that
true genius has been embarrassed and OBJ
scured in general pell-mell scuffle and
clamor for notoriety and position.
The talent of the present Congress has not
been of the highest grade; nor has it devel-
oped itself, in the instances in which it is
possessed, in the direction of enlarged
craftsmanship.
In the House we have witnessed little of
the chaste eloquence and profound tonstitu-
tional learning of Lowndes, the ripe scholar
ship of Legare, the impetuous fervor and
biting satire of Randolph, or the encyclopedia
versatility in letters of John Quincy Adams.
Though We have observed in the Senate
much power of intellect and versatility of
talent, yet there has been exhibited in that
body none of the massive eloquence of
Webster, the trenchant dialectics Of CAL
loun, the mesmeric facinations of Clay, or
tie capacity for fact and invective of Ben
ton.
What has marred the proceedings of the
Whole session has been the fact that in neith-
9 chamber of the Capitol have we had either
baders or followers.
Our Senate and House of Representatives
ere the very heavens of mediocrity and in
10th have we had during the past session all
the anarchy, Reorganization, and jargon
which occur in congregations where none
acknowledge superior, and each asserts
capacity for command; where reverence is
stranger, and mediocrity plays the tyrant.
ITS ACTS.
Instead of receiving a cordial support, no
Administration has ever had to Withstand so
many assaults from an opposition House as
The present Democratic Administration has
lad to withstand from Democratic House;
and it a remarkable fact that every assault
that has been made upon the Administration
BY the present Congress, though seconded,
Of course, by the opposition, has been in
stigated, directed, and stimulated by Demo-
cratic members.
LIBERALITY OF THE BLACK REPUBLICANS.
We believe it is fact that no measure of
the Democratic party or Administration has
passed the present Congress by a majority
Of Democratic votes; but that every meas
ure that has become a law has become so BY
the Hberality Of members belonging to one
branch or other of the opposition.
Such ia the Tnion's dapuerreotvne NJ