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New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17
STATE PRINTER.

STATE PRINTER.
Whenever a great wrong has
been done, whenever truth, right
and justice it sacrificed to satisfy
the demands of falsehood, wrong
and injustice, whenever the well
fare of an entire State is sacri-
feed to blind and partizan bigot-
~. and when all men are taxed
for the support of principles they
despise, it is not matter of Won
der that bitter complaints fill the
land. The truth is we have fall
len upon evil times, and while
borne down with an insupporta-
bic load of debt and taxation, are
doomed to still greater embarass-
n1ent, still heavier taxation with
out benefit either to the State or
its people; and this by men who
on the eve of an election are the
unfinching advocates of retrench-
u,ent and reform.
We are brought to these re-
marks by the unnecessary haste
ofthe Republican members of our
own State Legislature in the
election of a State Printer. This
action Of the Legislature surpri-
ses us the more because frauds
and speculation charged upon this
branch of the service were such
that & committee of investigation
had been appointed to examine
into and report uponit.
BY this election all investiga-
ton became useless, for the pur
pose Of reform under Republican
Legislation. .p..l.s
Besides this there were other
reasons why an election should
have been deferred; and one is
that MI. Teesdale the present in
cumbent, holds the office until
May, 1861, which would have
given time for investigation with
out detriment to the public SER
vice, "FaN '3
But there are still stronger
reasons than these to urge against
the action of the Legislature, in
this matter, and for disobeying
which, they will be held to a
strict accountability to the SOW
ereigns.
1t is by this time we'll known
to the people of the State that the
policy of the Democratic part!
is to let the state printing to the
person that will do the most fol
the State and the people for thu
least money. Aud in keeping
with this safe and judicious policy
they introduced a resolution in ia
vor Of giving out the State Print
ing to the party that would per
form this labor for the least mon
ey. This measure having so otter
been brought before the Legisla
ture from the same source, ant
being SO just in provisions and SC
correct in its principles, the PEG
pie were led to expect it's adoption
at this session. Consequent,
~''cants for the work were MI
re Of whom would dc
'ums greatly below
II BY the law for thi.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17

We are under renewed obliga.
tons to c. N. Munson for q fine
messof6s nsokrDs from Lake
Albert Iea Mimi. I \
--.- IA Y
Please omit the word Oh, the
second time il. -occnrs in the last
article on the first page.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17
COUNTY CONVENTION

COUNTY CONVENTION r
Elsewhere in our paper Of this week
will be found the proceedings Of the
Democratic county convention.
A resolution instructing the dele
gates to use their influence to favor the
nomination Of Hon. s. A. Douglas, was
adopted by very lean majority. :
While large majority: Of the Demo
Gratis Of the county favor him as the
Charleston Nominee, they wished to
send the delegates to Des Moines not
as automatons, but as living representa-
tlves Of the progressive spirit of the
age. " S.'2 ,.,''.." . '..5 %'@s'e
We believe that the nomination Of
Judge Douglass since his recent able
and patriotic speech, on his bill to pro-
tect the States from invasion from citi.
zens Of other Ststes, would be accepta-
BILE to the entire South, and it certainly
would to US, if he possesses the avalla-
bllity to ensure success, for we doubt
uot the affaira Of the nation and the ill.,
terests Of the Democracy with which
the safety Of our institutions are identi-
cal will be entrusted to safe hands.
The Charleston nominee will have
the untirng support Of the Plaindealer.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17
SHERIFF'S, SALE.

RY virture7 Of one Execution issued
~ out by the Jerk ofthe District Court Of
Howard county, Low a, and 0 me directed and
delivered, against the goods and chattels and
for want tlereof the lands and tenements Of
e. p. Spragne and CIV, Schofeld, whereby
am commanded to make the sum Of three
hundred and eighty dollars is CENTS besi'les
costs Of yuit and 90. ruing costs. to satisfy
judgement that c. L. Clausen obta ID against
c. I. Sprague and G. w. Scho6eld on the
25th day Of October AID 1859, in said Dis
trict Court /, have levied upon all the right
title and interest whichthe said P. Spraeue
and e. w. Scho6eld had on the 25th day of
Ostpber;- 1850. or sny time thereafter in the
following described real estate, to wit:-The
north east,1-A of the north west Ia OF Sec
ton lS and the south east Ia of the south
west IL of section 20 I'LL in town %, range l3
west also the south weeti Ia dissection "a town
80 range IL, wsst yofths 9TH PRINCIPAL meri-
dian, wh;ehI shall expose to public sale as
the law d reefs: 81 the front door oft Eagle
Exchange Hotel in the, village Of New Ore
gon Iowa on the second day Of March. 1860
between the hours Of nine O'clock A. M. and
1 O'clock p M. Of that day to satisfy said
demand. --------. ......
Dated Decent n goth 1889. In rs 4wl
= '.1F' JAS CARPENTER, late Sherif.
a,sl-.r tor ala NJ I'D rs~
,s.,s. ea,Ra. bGa n3 getut Hsfa. 1 ~, u
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
RLANK Devds, Of The style approved by the
D7O6cers Of the Coaoty:s'' 80
gni ,ahg az t' ""'
Blanks Of all kinds furn. shed on short no
tice and at Us liberal rates, as at any ofhcein
NOrthera Iowa. .VIgUte9 seine'vAh yh
~ rr,eo.sw = IN {. = CIV. PIERCE.
- 49, - .4ai b, tauT II.
New Oregon Steam Saw Mill,
Munson 4 Fierce, proprietors, have con-
stantly on hand q good assortment Of lum Der
and Hath, chear asthe cheapest " ly.l
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17
W For President ~ 1860, The
NOMINEE. s o. b.

~ Advertisement handed us for pub
iient;on will he continued until all arrears
are paid and charged according to advertised
rales set forth in aAOthur column.
H.RrcxEL & CoMpAxr1 Booksellers aud ST.
s,oners Main street. McGregor. are our autho'-
lied agents Tor procuring subscription and
advertising and fcceipting the same.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17

=, New BosToN, Winona Co., Mimi.
October Sd, 1859. -Graefenberg Co.
81 Park Row, N. Y.
GENrLEMEN:--We most cheeriully
join with many others in this country
iu'giving our testimony to the general
CORD character Of the GRAEFENBERG
Fanny MEincrNEs, both for the pur-
pose Of rendering justice to you aud to
place within the, knowledge Of others
who may be languishing on bed Of
sickness the means Of cure. CIV,
la Living in new country, - We have,
for some years, where to obtain good
and reliable physicians ID out Of the
question, we substituted the GaAErEN.
sERa MANUAL Of .HrLAu for . fami-
y physician, which we have never had
cause to regret, but much cause for
grateialness to you for the benefits rem
dered Us and our friends by its able
yet simple teachings Of the treatment
Of disease and the preservation Of health.
Vosa,.~ k,s,1N,
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17

Messrs' Rice & Skih of the
Eastern Hotel give a Cotillion
Party on Wednesday evening
the 22nd inst. in memory of the
birth day of 1.-The Father of his
country" We bespeak a large
attendance for the occasion, with
a good prospect of a rich harvest
Of fun and hilarity. 49, L
Good music will be in attend
ance.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17
And as it is our purpose only

surety in the sum of $4,000
giving many of the best men in
the State that the work should
in all respects conform to the re-
quirements of the law. ~
But the Sham advocates of''re-
trenchment and reform in the
Senate refused to even hear the
roposal read in that body.
What say the people, the tax
payers to this! and what apology
can these demagogues make to
them in giving an account oftheir
stewardship. ...,. ..r
Besides this proposition to do
the work at greatly reduced rates,
Mi. Luse of the firm of Luse Lane
& Co. one of the heaviest and
best publishing houses in the
west, told us in the presence of
many others in this town, that
their firm had offered to do the
work for the State at fifty per
cent below the rates now paid,
and perform the work in a style
to correspond with the 9th vol. of
the Iowa Reports. The true
friends of retrenchment, those who
pay the taxes of the State would
do we'll to reflect upon this.
IA Here the Republican portion
of the Legislature voting in a body
refuse to let this work to this firm
with $4,000 bonds, as to the
speedy manner, and proper style
Of the work, when they proposed
to do it in style superior to any,
thing ever performed for the State
and at one half the price now
paid. ra.. ...
There is retrenchment with a
vengeance. The firm of Luse,
Lane s. Co., are as true and de-
voted in the Republicans faith
and principles, as is this man
Palmer, and but for the ingredi-
ent Of political honesty in their
composition of which the state
printer is totally deficient, might
have succeeded. ""
The Iowa Citizen, a sheet sold
for spoils without hope of redemp-
ton says in denouucing the Dem
ocrats of the Legislature for their
efforts in the way of economy in
printing. q NV 't ~ NJ f..
s'sThe consumption of time al
ready, upon this question alone,
has cost the State little less than
two thousand dollars; and bids
fair to nearly equal the whole cost
of the State Printing, before the
end of the session." ota6
If such logic is correct, the
Democrats should never utter a
word against any act the Legisla-
ture may propose, though thous.
ands Of dollars of the peoples
money be squandered thereby, be.
cause to resist such Legislation
will be attended with expense
and delay. But the closing Of
this article ofthe Citizen surpas'
ses anything in impudence W.
ever said. 1t says p.
''They daily waste the time O,
the Legislature, in partizan har
argues upon this subject; in thu
hope that Republican majority
will be guilty of the folly of rem
dering an office worthless to {
political friend"
In this we ask as one to be ex.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17

~ ANU EKV1 NEW OREGON.
y Ecssern'maiP sMive Afosiny, Wednesday,
md Friday aSl cldsk nm E7
n Western nls trivs TaSsday, Thursday.
nd Saturday stD O'Clock =. m.
" Northern si( Arr,vss on Thursday at D.
IN. and depaSes q Fri1Ay 80 y. N. =
Letters for eth, route should be mailed
hxF An tOuS beobrs the arriva Of the mail. "
Postage ON newspapers is requi ,sd in 3D.
vance and unless 20 paid viii be charged
dosbls postage, - required by law.
s. LAWYER, P. M
NEW OREGON fRfCE CURRENT.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17

Blanks Of all kinds. flrn: Shed on short no
tice and at Us liberal rates, as at any once in
NOrthera Iowa. .1lglfe9 s-teetvNh j
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-02-17

~Patent medicines every descrip
4, ton, ,., -, In5.6mls -
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28
WINDY BILL

STAND FROM UNDER.-The friends of Seward in
New York, powerful majority of the Abolition
party, are already maniesting symptoms of a
grand bolt. The Tribune, anti Seward organ,
thus snesrinsly announces the fact and threatens
It's authors:
we hear that some prominent members of the
Albany lobby, who have hitherto professed to be
Republicans, express their determination to bolt
the Chicago nominations This is good news.
If few members of the Legislature of the same
stripe would join them, it would be a great bless
ing to the party and a great help to the ticket"
Here is pretty muss to begin the campaign
with. The Republican party carries in its own bo-
som the seeds of dissolution. Its members return
from the grand pow-wow in the Wigwam at Chi
cago to commence a free fight among themselves
at home. The rotten hulk of Abolitionism ex-
hibis signs of going TO pieces before the first gun
of the campaign has been ired.-Dempcrohc
Citizen
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

READING AND TnIxKING.--Our grand
mothers had few books, and fewer news
papers, and no system Unpopular lecturing.
yet what they acquired they had time men
tally to digest, and so became much SCUM
der. When Bacon said that reading made
the correct man, but conversation only a
ready one, he meant the reading of more
thorough age than this. What converse
ton was then. common reading is now.
Women now read light and easy books
instead of talking with their gossips, and
gain very little If any more improvement.
The true use Of books, or even of good
newspapers, is not merely to crafty curl
osity, but 10 supply facts and principles,
which may bo laid away in the mind, TO
be drawn upon subsequently. as the exi-
gencies of life demand. She who reads
without digesting. never has a stock Of
ideas on hand to think about it. She IS
like the Istaelites in Egypt, when they had
no straw to make brick. A careless reader
is also a bad thinker. The mind Of Il
thoughttul reader is like The boiling appa-
ratus Of a mill, separating the bran from
the -four, coincident with the act OF duty.
The hasty reader reglecis this. Women
generally forget what they have read almost
as soon as the book or paper IS laid down.
They never, or rarel y exercise their judg-
ment. They don't think. They dream,
but dreaming is not ttlnkiag.'
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

CRoPs Harvest has commenced. The
farmers in Jackson county began cutting
their whea: last week, the Seymore Times
says. and no doubt the work will be taken
up in a good many counties this week.
We shall then know better what damage
the fly has done, and how much the
winter killed, and may leave speculation
till Eext spring and the next crop. AS a
general rule the reports of the prospect
in our country exchanges are favorable,
though with nonsiderabe and marked ex~
ceptIons. The Shelby Banner. Parke Re
publican, Randolph Journal. Vevay Re-
yellie, ConnersviIle Times, and several
other papers, speak of the prospect in
their counties as excellent, while the Fort
Wayne Times and some other Nothern
papers, in the dumps about the flv.
Indiana Journal
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28
What HAS Aisti-&Eaycry
ksOEnHP

/. 1t has divided the great Methodist
Episcopal Church.
2. 1t has divided the New School Pres
byterian Church.
3. l; has induced the Board Of Missions
to abandon one of its missions among the
Indians of our country
4. It filed Kansas with Blood and Car
mage.
5. 1t has carried on for years an organ~
lied system of freebooting upen the South
ern States.
6. 1t has stolen the negro from his com
Portable home, to one in the midst of pow
erty and crime.
7. 1t has inflicted a deep wound upon
our noble medical schools.
8. 1t is laboring to divide this mag
nifcent Union.
8. 1t is at this hour staying The wheels
of the Government to the untold injury Of
the nation.
10. 1t is wearing upon the interests Of
our merchants and business men, 10 the
amount of millions Of money.
IL. 1t has alienated the hearts of coun-
trymen, the one from the other, to a fear
. lul extent.
l2. 1t has made the press OF oar North,
ern and Western States to groan with the
most Infamous falsehoods against the
South.
Is. 1t has desecrated muliitudes of our
pulpiis. and influenced many Of the pro-
fessed ministers of the gospel to become
beligerent, instead Of men of peace.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

A WIFE IN TROUBLE. Pray, tell me,
my dear, what is the cause of those tears :?
.Oh. such 9 disgrace! l have opened
one of your letters. supposing it addressed
to myself. Certainly it looked more Ike
Mrs than Mr.
is that all What harm could there
be for a wife to open one of her husbands
letters?
But the contents such disgrace !'
What has any one dared to write ne
a letter unfit for my wife to read p
'Oh, no. 1t is couched in the lnost
chaste language. But the disgrace :?
The husband caught up the letter ca
gerly. and commenced reading the epistle
that had been the means of nearly break
ing his wife's heart. Reader, you couldnf
guess the cause in an age 1t was no 9TH
er than a bill from from printer for &
three gears subscription!
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

RAIL ROAD. An accident occurred on
tie L. n. d c. r. Il. yesterday, which il
is supposed will cause the death Of Geo.
Corey, a brakesmar When near Salem
the engineer, on approaching bridge,
~hisiled down brakes. and Corey, who
was standing on the baggage car, unac
quaiuted with the road, looked out 10 see
what was the matter, when his head came
in contact with the timbers of the bridge,
knocking him out of the car. breaking one
leg and ann, and Injured him SO severely
that no hopes are entertained of his recov :
cry. Tho accident happened about ten
O'Clock a. m., and at eight clock last eve
ming a dispatcl was received that he was
unconscious and would probably die be-
fore morning. He is represented as an
estimable young man, and has relatives
living in Vermont. -Latdyet1s Journal.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28
A DRUyKARp's HouE-Of all the Voc

A DRUNKARD's HoME.-Of all the woe
and wretchedness which awaken our com
passion of al! the scenes Of misery which
call 50 loudly for sympathy; there is none
so harrous up the feelings as the drunk
ards home Look at him who began life
with the love OF friends, the admiration Of
society, The prospect OF extensive useful
ness, look at hlm In other years, when he
has learned to love tie draught, which,
We shudder while we say it, reduce him
to the level OF the brute. Where now is
this usefulness Where the admiration.
the love that once was his -? Love Love I,
None but the love of wife OF child can
cling 10 him in his degradaiion Look at
tie woman, who, when she repeated for
better or Tor worse would have shrunk
with terror, had the f:.intest shadow of the
worse fallen upon her young heart. Is
that she, who, on her bridal day, was
adorned with such neatness and taste :?
All. me what sad change And the
children, for whom he thanked God at
their birth the little ones Of whom he
felt SO proud, whom lie had dandled upon
his knee, and taught to lisp the endearing
name OF father: sec them trembling before
him. endeayoring TO escape his violence.
Look at TIE empty basket and full bottle /;
the natural wants of the body denied to
satisfy the cravings Of Il deprayed appe>
tite
Oh God have pity upon the drunkard's
home
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

A ToPERs OBJECTION To WATER. An
old topper being urged to drink the beve.
rage prepared by God himself 10 nourish
and invigoraie his creatures, and beautify
his footstool.
No. said the topper, water is danger
ous--very. 1t browns people; it gets
into their chests into their heads water
on the brain, for instance. And then II
makes that Internal steam what's alters a
bowin' feller up. Waterl no! I'll
drink none ont. Let 'em drink it what
likes.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

SPEAK WELL OF OTnERs--If the dispo-
sition to speak well of others was invariably
prevalent, the world would become per-
feet paradise. The opposition is the Pan
doIa Box, which, when opened. fills every
ueigborhood with pain and sorrow. How
many heart burniugs flow from this source
How much happiness ! Envy, jealousy.
and malignant spirit Of evil, when they
find vent BY the lips, go forth on their
mission like foul fends 10 blast the repu7
taton of others. Every one has imper-
fections; and in the conduct of the best
there viii be occasional faults which might
seem TO justify animadversion. 1t is a
good rule. however. when there is occa-
sion fox fault finding, to do it privately
! Il is a proof of interest in the Individual
which will generally be taken kindly, il
the manner Of doing it is no: offensive
The common and unchristian rule on the
contrary, is 10 proclaim the iallings of 9TH
ers to all but themselves This is unchris-
tiau, and shows desPicab|e heart.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

GALL THE HONESTY, ETC. The ReDubS
isans of Michigan have raised tremen-
dous breeze about their eafs by neat i'm :
itation of the practices of their compatri-
OTIS in Maine, New York, and other Sta tes
where they have gained control Of the peo-
pies money. 1t appears that they have
given contract TO repair She Saut canal
to an exTreasurer, another tool of the
Administration, for $4,000, when il is
well known that responsible parties stood
ready to do the work for $50, 600. A
loan Of 100000 to meet this expense
was voted by the Legislature, $50, 600 of
which was given to Hazleton d. Co., of
New York, (of Litchfeld Bank memory
on worthless securities, which il Is con-
tended will prove a dead loss to the State.
Then, in order 10 cover these mistakes,
the tolls on TIE canal were raised SO per
cent, thus not only stealing the peoples
money to the amount of nearly 100000,
but making them pay fer the rascaity of
these dishonest Republican officials AS
might be expected, their transactions have
created the greatest indignation --Neeg
Haven RegiSter
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28
NJ A. @. PACKARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
PLYMOUTH. IND.


NOLLECTiON Tax Paying and Examina-
~ ton OF titles &C., promptly attended to
REFERs To
Peoples Bank, N. Y. City; How g. Whitaker,
~ Y. City; Terbell, Jennings & Co, N. Y. City;
Security Fire Insurance Co., N. Y. City; Henry
Z. Carter, N. Y City; Hon. c. A. Stacy, Tccum-
sch, Mich; l.. G. Berry d Co., Bankers, Adrian,
Mich; J. S. Dunlap, Esq, indianapolis, Ind; NJ
d.Oglesbee, Esq, County Treasurer, Plymouth.
tie has associated with him in practice, Hon
James Bradley of LaPorte, Ind, whose assistance
ne will have at the sitting of the Circuit and Com
adjoining counties.
Plymouth, March 22, 1860. Off
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

SELF RELIANCE. Don't rely upon your
friends. Don't rely upon the name of your
ancestors. Thousands have spent the
prime Of lie in vain hope OF help from
those whom they call friends; and thou
sands have starved because they had rich
fathers Rely upon the good name which
Is made by your own exertlons; and know
that, better than the best friend yon can
have. is unquestionable determination uni
ted with decision Of character.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

The WHEAT CRoP. The wheat crop in
this part of the country will be lighter on
the ground than usual, but the prospect
now is that the grain will be good. The
wheat harvest will commence the first OF
next week. The corn crop looks fine,
and promises TO he a fine crop.--PGof Ia
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

REvIvALs.-A revivnl has been going on
in the Presbyterian Church, at this place,
during the last eight or ten days.--Booa
County Pioneer
The Presbylerians of this place have
been holding protracted meeting for sew
elal days There has been several new
members added TO the church. Prnc..on
Lsdianidn.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28

y HIT, VERY PALeABLE Hrr.' Luse,
The Black Republican editor Of the Lafay-
ette Journal, in writing TO thas paper from
the Chicago Abolition Convention. speaks
thus of Col. Lanes speech in the Wig
wan: regret to learn that Col Lanes
anecdotes are wearing out. and general
desire is manifested 10 furnish him with
new supply
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-06-28
ADVERTISING:

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Longer advertisements in proportIon-lesS than
half a square TO be charged as half square, and
over half square 70 be charged as whole square
a liberal deduction VIII be made on advertise
ments inserted longer than one month.
1;7 Legal advertisements must be paid for in
advance, or satisfactorily secured
IL The above terms viii be strictly adhered to
in every instance.