The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-11-27

a' Tue WORKS OF single hrm In Phila-
delphia.
Ex-Gov. Aiken, of South Carolina, and
Alex. II. Stephens, of Georgia, oppose
secession.
So far as heard from, there is not
Democrat elected 10 the Legislature.
So much for Democratic rule and tyr.
anny.-[St Paul Times.
1t is rumored that Gen. Joe. Lane has
sent the following despatch to his friends
in Oregon Me and Brick are de.
pheeted, but gods will be dun.
JOSEF LANE.
The Branches of the Virginia Bank at
Norfolk and Portsmouth have suspend
ed specie payment. Also the Farmers
Bank of Norfolk.
The Wheeling banks suspended spe-
Gle payment on the 22d. They are in
undoubted condition, and will keep their
notes of good currency.
| The census .taker in New Milford,
Conn, found three old maids who were
each two years younger than they were
in 1850.
The trustees Of the Buffalo Female
Academy have rendered to the daughter
of the lamented Capt. Jack Wilson, free
tuition in that institution.
Gov. Morgan is the first incumbent of
the executive Chair, honored with a re-
election, since Gov. Seward left it, TWEEN
ty years ago. Albany Jour.
There are twenty-five physicians in
New York city who are said to earn an
nually from ten to forty thousand dol
lars, and of this number four are home-
pathists.
SEdward Everett is about to enrich our
literature with Life of Franklin"
which shall embrace the whole of his
career in one continuous narrative.
The vote of Maryland on the PROPOSE
ton to enslave free negroes, resulted as
follows For enslavement 2,815, against
it 1898.
Thomas Hood died composing-and
that, too, an humorous poem. He is said
to have remarked that he was dying out
of charity to the undertaken, who wished
to urn lively Hood.
Eleven dwelling- houses, to cost $4,000
each, are to be built in Cambria re,
Massachusetts, for the Egyptian govern
ment, everything pertaining to them to
be completed in this country.
The value of the hop crop of the Uni
ted States, this year, is estimated at
S4OO, 000-nearly all in Otsego. Oneida
and Madison Counties, N Y.
VIM. r. May, of Pomfret, Connecticut,
picked forty bushels of apples from one
tree, and having made calculation of
the number of apples in bushel, found
that the tree bore 10000 apples.
1t is asserted that Supt Cook, of the
Dane Co. wis poor farm has raised
this year on five acres of ground. two
hundred and sixty bushels Of club wheat,
on an average OF fifty-two bushels per
acre.
A specimen of silver from Pixies
Peak is at the Office of the Missouri Re-
publican. 1t assays at the rate Of S17oo
to the ton of ore. There are said to be
several veins of this ore about seventy
miles from Denver city.
The Presidents message will be pre-
sented to Congress on the Sd day of the
session. Advance copies will be sent
North as far as Boston and South as far
as Richmond.
| PENNSYLVANIA TAKES THE LINCOLN
BANNER.-Lincoln's vote in Pennsylva-
MIA is eos, 5l8, which is majority over
all opposition of 62,51s. He receives
25l 1853 over the straight Douglas tick
ct.
Mr.. Floyd, Secretary of War, has ex-
pressed the determination to hand over
the Forts and Arsenals in S. c., intact to
his successor on the 9TH of March. ANY
attempt therefore to seize them by the |
secessionists, as suggested by Mr.. Rhett,
would inevitably lead to serious conse-
quences.
The ST. Louis (Mo.) Democrat states
that total of 10000 buffalo robes have
been received in that city during the
present year. These robes are all tan
ned by the Indian squaws. 1t is under
stood that, owing TO the last winter be-
ing so warm, no less than $4,000 robes
were left in the hands Of the dealers.
DIR. Lyman Beecher, who cast his first
vote for Washington, was taken by his
son Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,) on
Tuesday, to the polls in Brooklyn, that
he might cast his last vote for Lincoln.
AS the venerable man, with flowing
and silvery locks, entered the room, the
crowd parted right and left, and silently
made way for him.
The Jacksonville (Ill) Journal states
that pair Of fond lovers attempted to
eloPe from that neighborhood few
nights since, but the young lady having
forgotten her shawl, on returning to get
it was caught by her incensed mother