The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-10-02


A Practical SPIRTuALTsr.-A dry
old codger, connected with the railroad
interests, man who listens always and
speaks little, and was never known to ar
que hobby with anybody, has lately
been ell mouth and ears to very com
munieative Spiritualist of the ultra
school. He listened to and swallowed all
sorts Of things from the other world with
SO much placidity of assent that the spir-
itualist at last believed him to be one of
the faithful. A few days since the spir-
itualist said to his pupil, "The spirit of
B, appeared to me last night, and
ordered me to borrow FIVE dollars Of you,"
for certain purpose that was named =
" Yes, know it did" replied the other,
and isn't it strange Tie same spirit
called on me half an hour afterwards, and
told me not to let you have the money,
as it had made mistake in giving you
The order y The pretended spirituaist
hasn't been to see the old codger since.
The Irish Republicans of Rochester, n. Y.
have formed Wide-Awake Club, which now
numbers two hundred and fifty members
There are one hundred and three Germans in
Lafayette, Indiana, who have declared their
intention to vote for Lincoln and Hamlin, who
voted for Buchanan in 1856.
STILL THEY CONE. - The Albany Eoeninq
Journal contains call signed by III gentle
men, residents of the Ninth and Tenth Wards
OF that city, all Of whom have, up to this time,
been identified and voted with the American
parry, calling meeting to take measures to
6 scaro tae election OF Lincoln and Hamlin
a STRONG ACCESSION. Hon. Thomas Par
sons, n lifelong Democrat, Of Rochester, New
York, and the Representative of that party in
the Assembly, in 1855, and defeated candi.
date for the same place. Oh the same ticket, in
1883, has wrlttena very able letter to the Roch-
ester Denocrat, announcing his intention to 20
for Lincoln and Hamlin.
The Journal Of Commerce comedies the State
of New York to Lincol n, since the failure of
the Breckinridge and Douglas committees to
make any satisfactory arrangement for Joint
electoral ticket. IL The other States" it saws,
"cannot avert the catastrophe OF sectional
domination, we may make up our minds 10
submit to il with the best grace we can Pos.
sloly, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. and other
States, may achieve the victory which should
have crowned the State Of New York
THE LiITLE GIANT AT THE SouTH - A GO.
temporary says that six of the nominees on the
Douglas Electoral ticket in Tennessee, have
declined. In Florida, the Dougasite ticket has
entirely collapsed. A Breckenridge paper des-
cribes the S9uatterite electoral ticket Of Miss
ssippi rs " like q mouth with bad set of teeth
full of vacancies" Breckenridge and Lane
viii receive a nearly united vote of the Southern
Democracy, carrying q large proportion Of the
Southern electoral vote.
TraPEnAHcE.---At the recent session Of t he
Grand Lodge Of the Independent Order of Good
Templars, the following resolution was adopt
ell:
Resolved, That the Clergy Of our State are
respectfully and earnestly requested, BY this
Grand Lodge, TO unite in presenting the sub
iect Of Temperance to their Congregations on
the Sd Sabbath IN October next, and TINT the
press of the State be requested to publish this
resolution.
One OF the immediate effects Of the visit and
speech Of Gov Seward, at Kalamazoo. is the
conversion TO Republicanism Of Alexander Hen
derson, one of the Oldest and most influential
Democrats OF Allegan county. Two years ago
he was the Democratic candidate for Sheriff
and ran very far ahead of his ticket He is
now one of the Census Marshals, and a delegate
TO the Douglns County Convention, which
meets this week