The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-02-12


....;,, election in this city, on Friday next,
,s.h inst. "for the purpose of deciding
Hh.,hcr the City of Council Bluffs shall con-
.,;,u,e a separate School District, as provi.
a.a for in Act, No. Il, passed by the Board
Of Education"
r..twre by Rev. G. ". Watson
ox;np to the inclemency of the weather,
~. WATSON did not deliver his lecture On
~. .Iost Races and their Monuments on
Thursday evening last. Nothing preventing,
be v;ll lecture Friday even ne next, at the
School Room of Mr.. FRASER, under Concert
Hall. We bespeak full house on tlat &C.
casion.
e1T The District Court, Judge SEARS
presidins, commenced its session in this city
on Monday last. ..~.-
rg-If John Smith should, while crossing
Browns vncan. lot, happen to fall and tear
his rantaloons, who is res pons'oie Tor me
Ground rent thus creatcd-he or brown
and could Brown compel Smith to settle the
rent with potatoe patch ?-Erchange.
Can't say, but we know that B. K. pEoEAA
keeps an excellent stock Of merchandise, Mt
No, |. Phoenix Block, upper Broadway. II
cmicrants, miners and others, can't be suited
., h;s establishment, both as regards the
oualty and price of bis wares, they had bet
tor "mnke trucks" towards sunrise, IN
doblc. quick timc-that's all.
Fall OF snow.
Wednesday and Thursday, of this week,
We were treated to driving snow STORM
The ground is now covered to the depth OF
anne ten inches. and if the weather don't
"letup" pretty soon, We shall pro5a''y have
quit. "spell of slcishins''-moro or less.
scw Firm.
Messrs. BAYLtss & GRASSLAND, have re-
Gently purchased of NJ. ToorLE, his interest
in the stock of goods at No. ,, Empire Block,
and now offer the same to the public at fair
prices, 70, cash, or its equivalent. Mr..
GRASSLAND is now at The East for the pur-
pose of purchasing an entire new stock,
which they propose to have here Mt the car
lest possible period after the opening of
navigation"
The Gold Mines.
We COPY from the Boston Trdreler the
following article in regard to the probable
emigration to the new Ell Dorado in the
coming Spring:
A movement is represented to be gong
On in Boston which will induce very many
Young men to seek their fortunes in the
Kansas regions, the coming season. a
heavy draft will probably be also made on
many towns in Massachusetts,, and through
ont New England, in the WY Of rccrnlts.-
A, this must result in peorlins Kansas
with representative men, not on from the
North, hut from every section of the mon,
who will at once give character to that
beautiful Territory, which no other State
ever had so curly il its history, and which
must raise it suddenly to wealth, dignity
und influence.
M;ssis,i p Ice Bout.
Norman Wizard, of GAINESVILLE, Wis. has
invented Il curious craft for ayigating
Northern Rivers in winter. lie does not pro-
pose to propcl it through, but on the ice.-
1t i, in the form of boat, sevcnty-two feet
long by twelve feet broad, has two koc's. is
fat-bottomed and so combines the qualities
of huge sleigh when it has firm ice to
f., = abS ~
break through. 1t has driving wheels somo-
thing after the style of locomotives, and an
apparatus ut the stern for guiding it. 1t,
capacity for speed is estimated any where
from twenty to eighty miles an hour, accor-
ding to the quality Of the icy road it shall
traverse. 1t has cabin twenty by forty
feet, and the capacity of the boat is ratel at
one hundred passengers and FIVE tons Of
freight.
Tho Chicago Press & Tribune, from which
we CLEAN the foregoing facts. says Mr.. Ward
has so far convinced New York capitalists
OF the feasibility of this iny entlon, that they
have furnished him the means to perfect it.
aid that it is soon to be tested at Prairie lu
Chen. The Press adds:
The managers of the St. Paul & Fond du
Lac, and the Milwaukee, 4 Mississippi Rail
ways, We learn, have both manifested Il great
interest in the success of the entcrrri-e.-
The Milwaukee and Mississippi Road have
furnished the motive'powcr to test the value
Of the invention. If it succeeds it will very
essentially promote the interests of the
roads terminating on the Upper Mississippi,
during fv" months of the year. Every pos
slh'e effort is bcin. made fn.iy to test the
value Of this novel invention during the next
lew weeks, and if successful, the New York
capitalists will ut once contract for eighteen
ooas OF similar character and construction,
70 be ready for business as soon as the rivers
close next winter.
II even moiety of the plans and hopes of
heprolectors Of this enterprise are realized,
us value to the Northwest can scarcely be
weF-estimatcd. 1t will at once connect with
m's city the vast and important tracts of
s14a'S lying north and west of us, much
more directly and perfectly in winter than in
GUNNER As soon rs the ice is formed in
v'e'0osr and December, the "lce Boat
wa. nave uninterrupted navigation for four
" ~ I'VE months from Prairie du Chen or La
.'o~e up the Mississippi and Minnesota riv-
,rS 10 biz Stone Lake, thence down the Red
hNeF OF the North, and up the Saskatchewan
~ tne base OF the Rocky Mountains.
This ride from this city could not be
much less than ,hrty-dve hundred miles,
"hy think of a pleasure party starting from
chicago by rail to Prairie du Chen. and
thence by "lce Boat" to the Rocky Noun
'ains-a trip of thirty five hundred miles, the
whole with the return voyage to occupy from
ten to twelve days. Or if the ''Captain'
has taste for more northerly tour, he
can "steer" down Mex enze's River for the
Arctic Ocean, and a few days or weeks at
most launch his adventurous craft upon the
sea- discovered by DIR. Kane, and after a
lew days sail nail the glorious "ssars and
STRIPES" to the "nor,h po!e,' of Mother
Earth herself.
"a The Democratic United States Sen.
s.ots have held caucus on the subject Of
hstariff. MIR. Slidel (who wishes the Pres
.aens to have S0,o00,000 poke. money!,
offered a resolution, while h was adopted,
mat 1t was the duty of Congress to look
rather to the reduction of expenditures, than
inc increase Of the revenue. This is
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