The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-01-01

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just completed its seventy-third year.
The immense Lindell Hotel at St,
Louis will cost 100000.
The celebrated Mrs Burch weighs
less than 80 pounds.
The Spiritualists of the U. S. a:e said
10 number 100000.
The number of Offices in the gift Of
President is about 100000.
A German blew his brains out at Wal.
/ tersville, H., because his wife gave
birth to a boy instead of girl.
! There are 864 convicts in the State
Prison at Auburn, N Y. Is are olas-
steal scholars. and 60 we'll educated.
Gov. Kirkwood has been elected Pres
ident and VIM Reynolds Secretary Of
the State Historical Society.
There are 10000 sewing women in
London who barely earn 81 90 per
week
Nearly one hundred thousand heads of
cabbage have been shipped from Chica-
go to the South by railroad during the
past season.
The population Of the States and Ter
ritores is 81 100000. The ratio Of repre-
sentation in the House OF Representa-
tives, will be about $4,000.
At the st. Charles Hotel, New Or
leans, $4,000 were subscribed to EN-.
| ploy some assassin to kill Lincoln, So
says an Illinoisan at the South.
Of the So Governors in the U. S., 16
are Republican, 16 Democratic, and one
is an American. This estimate includes
Curtin, and Lane, Governors elect Of
| PENNSYLVANIA and Indiana.
Gov Dennison, of Ohio, has appoint
ed P. p. Lowe, brother ofJudge Lowe,
of Iowa, special examiner of the Ohio
State Treasury.
The law of South Carolina, requiring
people from the North to 90 before u
magistrate and state their business, will,
ii is said, SOON be in force.
The American Express Company will
forward packages Of money or clothing
for relief of sufferers from the famine in
Kansas, free of charge
Every steamer arriving from Europe,
now brings large amounts of specie,
showing Il most gratifying state of
things.
In New Bethel Alabama, young wo
man eloped with her fathers slave, and
after making him her paramount, actual
" sold him in Mobile to pay her expen
ses 10 Cuba.
The Muscatne Journal says that a
little boy named Reuben Bunker died
recently in that city under an operation
10 remove some hickory nut shells from
his wind pipe.
The Illinois legislature meets at
Spring feld on the 9TH inst. The Re
publlcans have a majority in both
Z
Mr.. Trumbull to the United States Sen
ate.
INToxIcATIoN NOT PUNIsHABLE.-A
case has just been decided al Davenport,
in which Judge Dillon hold that intoxi-
cation cannot be punished under the stat
ute of Iowa BY Justice OF the Peace
The n. Y. Tribune states positively
that Mr.. Lincoln is utterly opposed 10
any concession or compromise that shall
yield one iota of the position occupied by
The Republican party on The subject Of
Slavery III the Territories.
CEDAR FALLS & MINI. RAILROAD
This road is already graded from Cedar
Falls to GAINESVILLE. Ii seems now GER
tain that il will run in close proximity
4 to the Cedar River, instead Of diverging
from GAINESVILLE to Clarksyille, and thence
to the Minnesota line. The work is al
ready begun from GAINESVILLE to Waverly
Bradford News.
SECESSION HAY.-The Charleston Mer.
cury Of the Gath, says: " The schooner
w. W. Starr, from Pom Pom, brought
here yesterday 100 bales of rice straw,
consigned to Mr. OTIS Phillips. 1t will,
we understand, be an excellent substitute
for Northern hay.
The Cedar Rapids Times says that the
landlord OF the Rapids Hotel of that
place, Mr.. Stewart, was so badly kicked
by horse recently, in the face, that his
life was despalred of for a time. He had
Just recovered from q broken shoulder.
The Postmaster of New York has Civ
en- notice that all letters received here
after at that Office for California, Oregon
and Washington Territory, within five
days after the sailing of the California
steamers Except such as are addressed
"via Panama will be sent by the
overland route via ST. Louis.
The Waterloo Courier Of the 25th, says
that the Dubuque d. Sioux City Railroad
was AT that time completed within two
miles of that town. The Stage Company
was to make their last trip between Wat
erloo and Jesup on last Friday, apd the