The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-04-11

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An act allowing District Attorneys TO
appoint deputies to examine the Dockets
of Justices of the Peace, was read third
time and passed.
The quantity of gold now in existence
is estimated to be three thousand millions
of dollars.
The books in the library of the Brit
ish Museum, it is said, occupy twelve
miles of shelf
One hundred men could not carry the
amount of the national debt of England.
counted out in ten pound Bank of Eng
land notes, notwithstanding the lightness
of the paper they are printed on.
The Douglas organ at Washington de-
nounces Col. Fornev as "traitor and
trader in politics" and gives people to
understand that its Presidential candi-
date and that gentlemen have parted
company.
The St. Louis Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society offers $50, 900 in pre-
miums for the next fair Ii is thought
that four or five thousand dollars more,
in private awards, viii be given for tie
best stallion.
The London Times of the l7th an
nounces the death of NJ. Julien as fol-
lows: we hear that the eminent must
clan, M. julien, in whose behalf sub
scription WAS being collected. is no more.
He died, we believe, yesterday, in a Luz
matte Asylum in Paris"
Charles f. Sinclair has resigned his
position as associate judge Of the U. s.
Supreme Court for Utah, Judge Cradle
baugh, of that Territory, is in Washing
ton. 1t is not known hat any of the Fed
eral officers excepting Gov. Cummings
and Surveyor Gen. Siambaugh are now
in Utah.
| lRoS WORKS IN THE UNITED STATES
| There are | 300 iron works in the Uni
led States-882 furnaces, ass FORCES, and
222 rolling mills. which produce annu-
ally about 8 80, 600 tons of iron, worth in
ordinary years $50. 900, 600. Mssis-
sippi, California and Oregon only. have
no iron works.
Look OUT FOR ANOTHER SwISDLE.-
Wizards Bank Vote Reporter states that
certain parties. are preparing to issue a
! quarter Of a million in the notes Of new
wildcat : Bank Of WAHcfeld, Dalton,
Georgia-for circulation in the North
west. The Bank Of Whaefeld is, no
doubt, a swindle Of the dirtiest cast.
Delaware is rapidly getting rid of her
slaves. She had 5000 at the first census
and but 1000 at the last one Their own
ers find it more profitable to sell them at
the South than to keep them, Sussex
county alone ships to the South, on an
average, six per week, or three hundred
and twelve year. Every census shows
decrease Of ten per cent, in the slave
population.
Tom Sayers, the English Champion,
has been engaged by an enterprisno
American SPECTATOR to give n series al
exhibitions in the principal cities in the
United States, Immediately after the fight
with Heenan, The engagement has been
detinitel y settled, and, we are assured,
will not be broken, whatever the result
of the approaching contest may be.
F. B. SANBoRN, of Boston, who refused
to obey the summons of the Harper's
Ferry Committee, was arrested on the
night of the Sd by the Senate's deputy
sergeant-at-ar and United States
Deputy Marshal Much excitement en-
sued, and he was taken from the officers
by the citizens until writ Of habeas cor
pus was sued out, which was issued by
Judge HOARD, of the Supreme Court
The Scientific American states that
there are in the city of New York about
200, 600 smokers, each using two cigars
daily, making 400, 900 cigars every dav.
These, at an average of four cents EACH
make the enormous sum of $4,000 dali
/ ly consumed in smoke, in New York
alone. There are some 900, 900, 900 ci-
CARS manufactured in that city annually,
which at the same price amount 10 $50,
900, 900.
The Constitution makes official an
nouncement that information has been re-
ceived at the Department Of State. that
the Cass- Herran treaty between the Uni
ted States and New Granada, providing
for the adjustment and payment of our
citizens on account of injuries received
in the Panama riots in 1856, has been
ratified by the New Granada Govern
ment, and thus has been satisfactorily ar
ranged another Of our foreign differ
ences.
The House special committee on the
Pacific Railroad have adopted the propo.
silion Of its chairman. Mr.. CURTIS, Of this
State, which is That the road shall
start from two points, one on the western
boundary Of the State Of Missouri, and
the other on the western boundary of
Iowa, with two conyerging lines bearing
westward, and uniting within two hun.
dred miles OF the Missouri river, and
then proceeding by single trunk line,
by the nearest and best route, to the Bay
OF San Francisco, or the Manageable waters
Of the Sacramento, in California.