The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-05
A wJNDFALL.

The Harper's Ferry riot is windfaIl-"
perfect God send-to both wings OF the
Democracy. Their organs, from the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Bugie, doun to the Richmond
Enquirer and St. Louis Republican, have
with avidity seized upon the reasonable
work of old Brown as ground Of warfare
:sgains, the Republican party. The entire
available space of all the Democratic Or
gans, with but few exceptions) is filled with
exaggerated accounts Of the eneute, togeth-
er with emphasized articles stating the
completely of the Republican party in this
foolish, wicked and singularly fanatical
riot at Harper's Ferry. Not content with
the fact, that the entire Republican press,
and party, condemn EsowS for his treason
able foray, the Democracy seek::to make po-
lis,cal capital, by stating that this action Of
the Republicans is superlnduced by policy
that they deserted BRowS, through fear Of
future injury to the party. They are par
ticularly "down upon " the Republicans
because they wont defend BKowS and his
reasonable scheme. This was to have
been xpected-because it detracts very &C.
riously from the measure of political capt.
tai the Democracy at first, expected to make
out Of this riot. All attempts to hold the
Republican party responsible for this out
break in Virginia, will prove utterly futile
our opponents IRE welcome to all the
political capital they can make out of this
affair, but they must not expect the Republic
can party to uphold Brown in his nefarious
scheme, merely for the purpose of aiding
the Democracy in their impoten. efforts at
keeping this old hulk in seaworthy condition.
They will not do it, because it i, no part or
parcel Of their creed, to interfere with the
domestic institutions of any State in the
Union. But, this attempt to connect the
the Republican party with Ola BRow>'s mad
outbreak, says contemporary, is necessity
Of the Sham Democracy. As they are not
able to beat the Republican in single Free
State tbs side of the Rocky Mountains,
they must make most of their victory over
Old Browns fifteen white men and FIVE
negroes. They have made 50 much ado
about it that they are ashamed to have the
small number of their ndversaries and VIC
tins known. 1t wouldn't do t. own that
the Federal Executive and those of Virginia
and Maryland have been frightened half
out Of their wits by madman and his
platoon of followers. Already the bullet rs
of this war exceed in length and ponder
BUSINESS those of the war Of the Greeks
with Xerxes and still the Geographic wires
groan With further details. This is keen
hunt for party capital and will ultimately
recoil on the hunters.
WHAT A n. Y. EDITOR SAYS OF Us.
G. F. Thomas, Esq. the genial, observing
and Travelled editor Of "Appleton's Railway
Cuide,' paid Council Bluffs visit, some
time in June last, rs some Of our townsmen
may recollect. While here, Mr.. THOMAS
expressed himself highly pleased with the
bcautifulappearance of this portion of Iowa,
and was very sanguine in the belief that a
brilliant future awaited Council Bluffs at
no distant day. Upon his return to New
York City, he published, in the September
number of the Guide-a work, blythe way,
which has an extensive circulation along all
the Railway lines in the United States-,he
following resnarks, concerning the Railroad
prospects Of Iowa, and the important posi-
ton occupied by Council! Bluffs as n con-
verging point for westward bound travel !:
The Guide says-"We trust the time is not
far distant, when the whistle of the loco
motive will be heard from the City Of Chi
c,go, H., to the City of Council Bluff,
upon the Missouri. We know not how it
is, but there - charm in the sound of the
whistle Of The locomotive which is indescri-
ba5c. We have ever observed just so far
as the sound reaches, just SO far do VIC
witness the sure reward Of enterprise and
industry. And when the NJ -,.pp' q
Missouri Railway I"ished from D"ven-
nor, n Cs."eI Bluffs. then will we witness
81. saxing her position among the wealthy
and prosperous States OF the Union, and the
road itself position which it cannot rea-
sonably e1pec, to have until it is done. 1t
is the opinion, that with a little e1ertion,
energy, and determination on the part of
the citizens, it might be finished in two or
three years; and as the reader will perceive
by gIancins at the Map of the United States,
Council Bluffs being over one hundred miles
nearer Pixies Peak, the Great Salt Lake
and California, than any other point on the
Missouri, and the roads from the Bluffs be-
ing the best in the country, one moments
reelection will show its advantages in the
saving Of time, labor, and money"
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Bug'e Of the Goth of Oct, at the