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The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS-,
WILLIAM VANDEt Elk.
State Nominations.
What Popular Sovereignty has Done.

Stephen A. Douglas, the Northern Democrat
ic candidate for the Presidency, and the great
apostle of Popular Sovereignty, in the Senate
of the United States, on the 10Th day of May
last, states the results of his doctrine to have
been rs follows:
Under it the people Of New Mexico have in,
troduced and protected Slavery in the whole OF
that Territory
Under it tract of free territory five times as
large as the State of New York has been con-
verted into Stare territory
Under it Slavery has been extended from the
Rio Grando to the Gulf of California
Under it Slavery has gone rs far North as 80
degrees North latitude, degree and half far
ther North than the South ever asked that it
should gol
1t has converted the only inch of free terrific
~ to sIare territory that has ever been SO con-
Yertel on the American Continent.
WHAT MIR. DOUGLAS EXPECTS 1T TO DO.
eff it be true he said, tkat this principle
of intervention has given to slavery all
of New Mexico which was surrounded on near
" every side by free Territory, will not the
same principle protect you in the northern
States of Mexico when they are acquired, since
they are now surrounded by slave territory
are several hundred miles further South have
many degrees of greater heat and have eli
mate and soil adapted to Southern produc-
tions I"
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
SUPERIOR, Sept. 7th, l8G

SUPERIOR, sept. Ih, 1901.
Mr.. RIcn:
Dear Sir-Presuming that you
are always willing to receive news items
of local character, | send the follow
ing:
Early this morning | was called on to
assist in making the necessary arrange
ments for the burial of Mr. Henry Stuff.
cool, who had been killed by lightning
during the severe storm that passed over
us in the night. At the time of the
stroke he was lying in bed on the floor,
near window with one light out. And
Notwithstanding the severity of the stroke,
which passed from his head to his feet,
there was no. the lightest mark or disar-
rangement either in his sleeping gar
ments, or bed, and the only disarrange-
meni that could be found about the prem
Uses, was the removal of small piece of
the floor, some four feet from the bed, as
if cut by an axe. And still more strange,
his mother and two sisters, sleeping in
the same room, although awake at the
time, did not know OF the occurrence
until half an hour after. They were
slightly shocked, and able TO smell the
sulphur, but did not know that it had
come on their own premises. Still more
strange, there was on his body several
impressions of vines and trees, as dis
tnct and perfect as can be produced by
any steel plate engraving. | have read
Of similar occurrences by lightning, but
never before had an occular demonstra-
ton of the truth oft.
Respectfully
RANDALL JACOBS
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Administrators Notice.
Sale Of Valuable Real Estate

NOTICE is hereby given to the public and
~ all persons interested in the following
real estate, that the same will be exposed to pub
lie sale, at the door of the Court House, in the
town of Independence, Buchanan county, Iowa,
on Thursday, the 18th day of October, A. d.
1862 between the hours of Two o'clock p. M.
and Four o'clock p. NJ of said day, and sold to
the highest and best bidder for cash, viz Lot
No Four in Block No Two, in what was the
village of New Haven, but is now embraced in
THE said town Of Independence, being &c feet
front by 1872 feet deep.
BY order of the County Court of Dubuque
County, Iowa.
JOHN d. JENNINGS.
Admr. Est of Chas. O'Hagan.
Sept. 10, 1860. 26-4w 4aaa
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
QUASQUETON TANNERY.

GkEAI lMfRON EMENI in LEA HEN
The undersigned desires to call the attention
Of Boot and Shoe makers, Harness makers, and
the citizens of Buchanan and adjoining Coun-
ties generally, to the Leather made at his Tan
merry. This leather is tanned by the patent pro
cess of Mr.. |. l.. FrRnusH, Independence, when
process has many advantages over any other
known Ii is much cheaper than BARK nt tho
usual price it is much more rapid, requiring
only from ten TO thirty days for nll kinds OF
Leather it makes softer, tougher, stronger.
and heavier feathers leather which wears
we'll, turns water we'll and never eiMeks. No
hot liquors or anything that can mi ure the lea
thes, is used, the materials being mainly vegc
table. The patentee is practical tanner, and
twenty years experience in all the various meth
DDS, has enabled him TO speak with confidence
of the superiority Of his invention. have
manufactured by it for a year past, and my
leather has & wen the most universal sausiae
ton ms regards softress, smoothness' anu
strength itcannot be surpassed. ! am also ser,
ing it at lower prices than other leather u ~
same quality. | invite u trial OF n - no
trade j. y. Mon MAJ
Quasoueton Iowa, Juneai i'''h'
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

~ DOUGLAS and his followers in this
State are terribly incensed at the idea OF
allowing negroes and Indians the privi-
lege of the witnesses stand, or the right OF
suffrage. In Minnesota, however, it is
different When the Democracy formed
the Constitution of that State. they gave
the right of suffrage to every Indian that
had adopted the habits of civilization.
What that means may be learned from
the fact that year or two ago, the fed
eral Office holders in the Pembina district,
on the strength of single coat and pair
of breaches, voted whole tribe of sara-
ses. They dressed one after another up
in that suit and called them civilized,
put the regular Democratic ticket in their
hands, and led them to the ballot box
In this way, and by false returns, they
managed to elect SIBLEY governor, and
carry the State for their party. They
also elected several Indians to the legis-
ture-men unable to speak word Of
English. This is the breech -clout De-
mocracy" Of Minnesota. And yet the
Democracy of Iowa and Illinois, and of
every other State, profess to acknowledge
no itzenship, no right OF suffrage, for
any other race than the European! And
Democracy is the same everywhere
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
AbOlitiOnism.

EF 1t IS no less astonishing than true
that Democratic presses have so poor an
opinion of the intelligence and honesty
of their readers as to suppose that they can
call Republicans abolitionists, without
those readers feeling and declaring, men,
tally at least, the editors to be falsifers
and deceivers. How is it possible for
an editor, claiming to be candid or hon
est, with three grains of common sense,
in view of the platforms, the acts, the
teachings, of the Republican party, to
charge abolitionism upon that party :?
How can they insult their readers by
presuming them either so ignorant or SO
credulous :? Ii the charge of abolition
ism means anything, ii means the forci-
BILE interference with slavery'in the States
where it now exists, by non-residents of
those States. 1t means the application
of the power of Congress for the aboli-
ton of slavery in the slaveholding States.
This is its popular meaning, and unless
it means this, it means nothing. I'm
less it means this, it means something
that Is constitutional, just, righteous.
Meaning this, what man so foolish, what
man so careless of statement, what man
with SO little regard for truth, as to
charge such views, such objects, upon
the Republican party?
But our neighbor of the Civilian, in
his last weeks issue, retals the sense
less charge, and bases it upon an extract
from the Chicago Democrat, and sup
ports it by the fact that Judge TABOR is
a member Of the party. What does our
neighbor mean by Aboltionism ? Does
he define it as it is popularity defined
as we define it? If so, does he assert
that there is anything in the article from
the Democrat breathing that kind of
! doctrine Does he mean to assert that
Judge TABOR ever talked such doctrine
If he does, we emphatically deny both
assumptions. Judge TABOR is no aboli-
zionist, never was. He never proposed
to interfere with slavery In the States,
and no man ever heard him declare any
doctrine that could be tortured into any
such position. He stands broadly upon
the Republican ground of non interior
ence with slavery in the States. That IS
the Republican ground, and no leader OF
the party, no convention of the party, no
platform of the party ever asserted any
other doctrine, and nothing but the gros-
sest ignorance of Republican principles
can excuse our neighbor or his political
friends from charging abolitionism upon
us. We don't talk thus because we are
afraid of the epithet. We have no fears
that such things can delay the triumph
of our principles particle. We have
borne the onus of the charge from the
first, and yet our progress has been up
ward and onward. And it must be up
ward and onward SO long as the human
heart beats responsive to sentiments OF
Justice, of humanity-so long as the hui
man mind delights in the sentiment Of
liberty We denounce the charge be-
cause it is so grossly false, and simply
because of its falsify-not because of its
effect. a.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
Cassius vi. Clay.

Mr.. CLAY has written second letter
to the Republicans Of Dubuque. stating
that he shall be unable to meet them be-
fore the middle of October. A great
number of our citizens have expressed a
determination to hear him, and Buchan-
al County will send large delegation
to Dubuque ut that time.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

An experienced Nurse and Female Physician,
has a Soothing Syrup for children tecthing,
which greatly facilitates the process of teething
by soitening the gums, reducing all infiarnma,
non wiii ailay nil pain and regulate the bow
els Depend upon it, mothers, it viii give rest
TO yourselves and relief and health to your in
fants. Perfectly safe in all cases Sec advcr
tlsement
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
EFT We have received from the man.

ayers of the Cedar Valley Agricultural
and Mechanical! Association, compli-
mentary card Of admission to their ex-
hibition, TO take place at Cedar Falls on
the 18th, l9th and goth of this month
The premium list Of the Society is quite
liberal, and the premiums, we believe,
are opened for competition TO persons
from other counties.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

Our Republican contemporaries call
CLAY Dean a tub Of dirt We think he
is barrel of soap-made out of lie and
grease very dirty lie and very greasy
grease.-I,ua City Reporter.
If Dean is full barrel Of soap, Mr.
Reporter, where does the Rev. ckguard
find room for his whiskey !?
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

Advices from Honduras state that
Walker had raised the old federal Cen
trail American flag, and contemplated the
regeneration ard union of all the West
India States. viz: Honduras, Guatemala.
Nicaragua, Salvador, and Costa Rica.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

The Daily advertiser, of Niagara, and
and Weekly Democrat, the only papers
in the county, at the mastheads Of which
the names of Douglas and Johnson have
hitherto appeared, this morning came
out in favor of Breckenridge and Lane.
Miss Maria Bracker, young lady OF
about 25 years of age, residing in Scott
township, Johnson Co., as we learn from
the Iowa City Reporter, recently com
mitted suicide by cutting her throat
with razor She had been an invalid
from her infancy, and finally took this
course to get clear of her sufferings.-
She had always appeared very patient
previously, and her amiability had gain
ed her many friends.
The Jasper Free Press has the follow
ing:
One Third of the Democrats in Grin
nell me out for Lincoln last week. A
club was organized, and Putnam Banner
last fall Democratic citizen of New
ton, born and raised in a Slave State
and brought up Democrat after the
strictest fashion-was made chairman.
+" CAPITAL SHOULD Own LABOR -
Herschel V. Johnson, the candidate fol
Vice President on the Douglas ticket
maintained in a speech in Philadelphia
in 1856 that capital should own labor.
The following advertisement from Sa
yannah paper shows how this doctrine
works in Mr.. Johnson's own State
MECHANICS FOR SALE The subscri
| wi Der has on hand two excellent Carpenters
three Blacksmths and one Wheelright, all ex
cclent mechanics in their respective lines
young. strong and healthy. of quiet and peace
able dispositions, and several of them quite pi
Gus, all of which will be disposed of at moder
ate rates. Persons in want of Mechanics are in
vited to call and examine these, as they are al
desirable wrokmen.
w. G.. RENNYMAKER,
No. 40 Canal ST., Savannah, Ga.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
ng DUBUQUE County holds her frs

H- Dubuque County holds her first
agricultural fair on the 17th, 18Th and
10Th of September, and from the arrange
ment made, we have no doubt the ex-
hibition will be a most excellent one
The list of premiums is very complete,
and quite liberal. We acknowledge the
receipt of complimentary invitation to
be present. During the fair, as we learn
from the Secretary, Mr.. MARX MILLER,
a great time is expected, politically. On
the 18th the Democrats have some tall
speaking, and -. -. a IL 1'-----'~- e--''
anp viii be there. The Dubuque and
Sioux City Railroad will carry passen-
engers to and from the fair AT half price
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
To Persons Out OF Employment.

TO VISUHs OUI "a H1HIVIOyHCHSs
4 GENTS WANTED TO SELL THE ERIE
"A SEWING MACHINE. We will give a
Commission, or wages at $40 per month"; aud
expenses paid This is a new Machine, and
so simple in its construction that q child of 10
years can learn to operate it by half an hours
instruction. 1t is equal to any Family Sewing
Machine in use, and the price is but Fifteen
Dollars.
Persons wishing an Agency will address
j. N. BOYLAN,
Secretary Erie Sewing Machine Company
25-Gl MILAN, Ohio.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

~ The following are the appoint
ments made for the Vinton District by
the Upper Iowa Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church:
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
Mass Meeting at Cedar Falls.

Es- The Republicans of the Upper
Cedar Valley, had grand demonstra-
ton at Cedar Falls on the 9th, as We
learn from the Gazette. Five thousand
persons were present and the greateste en-
thusiasm was manifested. Delegations
were present from Bremen, Butler, Chick
asaw and Floyd counties. There were
flat boats, carrying men splitting rails,
33 young misses representing the states,
and great number of flags, Transparent
cies, and other paraphernalia. Speech
es were made in the afternoon and eve
ming by Hon. Tom. DRuMAoSD, Judge
NEwooMB, S. p. ADAMS. ESD, JOHN A.
KAssoN, Esq, WIN. b. FAIRFIELD, Esq,
L. w. PALMER, Esq. We regret that
an invitation TO the meeting came too
late TO our Wide Awakes TO allow them
joining in the demonstration. Let our
Blackhawk County friends give US due
notice Of any similar demonstration in
their midst, and we shall be on hand OF
,nrtoi,,,,.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11
What evidence has he 1Lincoln given that

What evidence has he [Lincolnl given that
he is capable of filling the Office of President
of the United States.-HeyaM
The evidence of Stephen A. Douglas, who
told Senator Wilson that he Douglas had been
in Congress sixteen years, and that he had new
er met q man who was Lincoln's superior in
point of ability and the evidence of every
sensible man who has read Mr.. Lincoln's
speeches.-Iinacs.
Eg- Mr.. DOUGLAS also says that Mr..
LINCOLN has the happy faculty of always
doing we'll whatever he undertakes.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

Rev. Daniel Worth has not yet raised
the $4,000 necessary to reimburse his
bondsman in North Carolina.
Gen. SAM. HoUsToN has Withdrawn
from the Presidential contest. He ex-
presses no preferences relative to other
candidates.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge has
been recently painted. The Niagara
Sentinel says it required for the operation
90 tons of paint.
A southern editor says that, political
ly, Mr.. Douglas is as dead as if he had
lived before the flood, and had not been
admitted to the ark.
A New York capitalist Of distinction
has purchased the saltmeadows of Ber-
gen county N. j., and will fatten frogs
for the market on an extensive scale. 1t
is to be a great speculation.
Hon. Richard w. Thompson of Vigo
Co., Indiana, prominent Bell man, on
account Of the desertion of some of his
party to Douglasism, has publicly made
known his purpose to support Henry ).
Lane, Republican candidate for Govern
or.
The grain warehouse of j. M. Watson
& Co., at Manchester, Delaware county,
was struck by lightning during the storm
of Monday night, 9Th inst, and consum-
ed, together with its contents. Loss
about $500. Insurance OH the building
about $3.50.
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, being ap-
piled to to throw some light on the char
acter of the fusion electoral ticket of
New York, is said to have answered
Enthusiastically: "The voice is the
voice of Jacob, but the hands are the
hands of Esau."
John VanBuren says that Cagger d
Co. committed "the great blunder OF
the age, when they fused with the Know
Nothings, the most violent enemies the
Democratic party ever had" He also
says he "will be much surprised if Doug
las carries more than single State
What State that will be, John does no
mention.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-11

The Guardian is the official Paper
of buchanan County, and having
a much Larger Circulation than amy
other Paper Published therein, is
the most Valuab hi e to esident or non.
resident property holders, and is also
the best ma ium f0r Advertisers.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-11

dasses suffered severely. Some returned 70 me old
country, carrying diseourngng repcFs and tne oenet
was widely spres4 that there was more g1iferng IN
America than in Europe. By my book On missouri, 4
hope to convince my eontrymen that this ittree az
Is only 40 Of our large and crowded oee, ana tnal ~
the West there IL employment and bred enongn Tor
millions more. To this must be added the Re)aaCe
against foreigners excited by the late Know NotmnB
movement which those hostile to the cause o. emBrS
ton have taken pains 10 exaggerate and overStAteS
well a. the less Of respect and confidence N our posi-
ton, social and moral which has begun 10 DO leh u,
Europe. II was my chief object, in the sboVe-hsmeo
pamphlet to give these objections their trae value 70
explain the Of future prosperity ana great.
neFs, TO draw comparison between European anu
American life, representing as far as PosslHe !ho
bright eide Of the latter, well as 10 give Jua n-
precision OF the unbounded resources Of the New Wofd
have every to believe that an importan,
German and Swiss emigration Of vine-growero ana
farmers WILL In the next three or four years, pour mo
Missouri and develop the free labor and the agrfcIi-
tnra resources Of that favored State. No State IN the
Union has been so thoroughly advertised in Europe,
and its vne-gowibg facilities offer peculiar induce
ment to the labor Of Continental Europe.
Believing that the benevolent and intelligent efforts
Of the Farmers and Vine Growers Society will bring
in rich reward 10 this country.
have the honor 10 be- &c, &c, r. MUNICH, Agent
This Il correct abstract Of Mr.. Hnneh's report
C. l.. BRACE, Sec'y, per +. hoSTsoHHRT'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-11

Bot while NJ. Ls Verrier was communicating Lis dis.
covery TO the public doctor Of medicine In ons Of the
departments of France ure-et-Lor was ACTUALLY Oh.
serving one Of these planets n Lescarbaul the doc
tor of Oreeres, while yet student in Paris had 50
strong mania for astronomical observations that he
saved out Of his yearly allowance Of $780, $3.50 for
Telescope This he installed in turning dome, In
great part the work of bis own hands, and, oddly
enough. be recorded bis observations on wildwood
panks with pencil. When plank was full, few
strokes of the plane made it as good as new. So a
plank an inch or two in thickness became equivalent to
whole rean of paper, but these new palimpssss re-
tanned nothing of the old writing Indeed, the ssro-
nsmie physician used almost as primitive book as
that by which the Norway lumbermen are paid Oh.
The bOokkeeper, after comparing accounts with the
workman, sends him to the cashier for his wages,
chalking the amount on bis back and when the cashier
hss paid him. he takes his receipt himself by brushing
of the chalk marks.
II was on a white-wood plank which, fortunately
had not been planed of, that NJ lie Verer found the
first observation Of planet, with an estimated d.
ameter Of about quarter that of Mercury and much
more important in weight if not in bulk than any Of
the 81 planets which inhabt the void between Mars
and Jupiter. NJ Lescarbaults planet requires about
three weeks for its revolution about the SUM- while the
period of Mercury about three months. It is oaly
oneseventh Of the distance Of Mercury from the CEN
ter Of the sum- snd it is very doubtful whether it can
be except when it passes across the disc Of the
sun.
Thb observation was made before the publication
of NJ. lie Verrier's calculations and ts importance
revealed to the obscure physician by article in
the Cosmos, which encouraged him to publish it,
NJ. lie Ver1ier went Immediately to Orgerss, and the
modest doctor was infinitely surprised one morning to
find the astronomerin-chief Of the National Observa
tory bis guest. The original plank was carried of in
triumph by the National astronomer, and publicly
exhibited at the next meeting Of the Academy Of
SciGnces.
This is probably only the first of new series. Its
action Mercury only account for its perturba
ons in part. Probably there are not lees than dozen
in the comparatively limited space between the and
Mercury, only about 30 900 900 Of miles Theoretical
astronomy has achieved new triumph. Our solar
system has been explored with pen aud telescope from
its center TO its circumference.