Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-03-19


above narrated. He promised to pay
me visit the first time he should go
to Washington. (The fact is, my
early education made me about as
good in the thees and the tkous as, he
was, and we formed quite an attach
ment for each other.) He came ac-
cordingly, the other day, and among
many interesting conversations, we
had the following dialogue upon ine
subject of Iowa newspapers. | give
it as well as | can recall it, and voucl'
tor its general correctness. ~ ..f.la
WHITE.-I agree to ali thou hast
said, friend, abont the State Of lowa.
| know it is great State, and fast get
ting to be greater. | am truly under
obligations to thee for sending me
copy OF the letter of Parson Browniow,
he is called, bnt who is given to ui-
gedly vituperation against the south
ern rebels not that a little godlya vi
tnperatiou would be nexcusable in his
case, though, for he suffered much in
the good cause. But how are you off
in Iowa for schools, and public jour
Dals ?,f-,.f-..ry. ....,g.--,, ,r.---,--s,
CoRREsroNDENr.-F Firs:-rate. We
have the best schoolmasters and the
prettiest school.inistresses in the
country, who succeed in the best
possible manner in giving the best
possible effect to good system Of
popular educatiou-as good, perhaps,
as that Of any State in the Union,
saving only Connecticut, New York
and Indiana, where they have school
libraries in every district, Onr press
win compare favorably with the press
of any country where there are not
great commercial centres.
WHI-Dp | really understand thee
to say yon have as good newspapers
IN Iowa as in the East;
CoR.-Ccrtain, surc-other things
being equal, desire thee so to nndrr-
stand me- We have 10 snch papers
as the New York dailirs, hccahsc we
have no New York. But the Capital
Eof Pennsylvania has nojuurnat in any
respect comparable to the, Loteo Stots
Register, published at our State Cap
ital, a place of less than 6,000 inIab-
itants. No town in the East of
double the population, has anything
like so good a paper. Its lrariing ed
itorials are thoughtful, truthful. allie
its news department is managed with
skill and enterprise /; it's mechanical
appearance was, unexceptiumhie ill
Etutirta gave ta parogon head letter
/ and, | don't hesitate To say, it's local
departments, nnder friend DiXos, IS the
Ewittiest, spiciest, best local depart
,mept of all thepapers in the conntry.
Then our towns on the Mississippi
river, not one of which has over To-
900 inhabitants, have better newspa-
pers than any in your great city os
Baltimore, with it's more than 200,00O
people. + .a....'.u.o s'aaab
! Will think thou must be trying,
friend, to poke some OF thy tun at nie.
! Do understand thpc to be in earnest
CoR.-Thyself shalt be the .judge.9I
will commence at Dubuque. Here il
the Daily Times Compare it with your
San of the same date, and you will
see il has the same news, per tete-
graph, better correspondence, intinItr-
~ better editorials, and much mere
miscellany. Compare our Mnscatine
DaIg Joaraot with Your Clipper. ana
see if il don't beat it i'm all respects.
1t is by all odds the better journal,
and there is more in il, in two days,
than there is in the Clipper in three.
Then look on this Hatr&- Eye, and then
on yonr Amerioaa Except as to the
shipping news. the Iowa paper is far
superior. Compare this Gats CITY will,
any Baltimore paper and see which Is
the better. Every one Of these papers
is more ably conducted in every res
pect, more honorable to It's pruprietors
and to the public where circulated,
than the best of your dailies. So
what your city would regard as lone
horse /" towns in Iowa turn ont better
newspapers than the great metropolis
of Maryland, And III bet four-eighty-
Wm.-Hutty tntty ! None OF your
bets, and truce TO thy sky-hying and
useless enthusiasm. ! admit thou
art fairly right, but am gravely as
tonished none the less. But for mine
own eyes think ! would not have
believed it. But all these papers. So
regularly filed are of one pulitics.
Are the people all Republicans in
! Iowa?
CoR.-For all practical purposes
they are. Is, 200 majority is nearly az
good as fifteen millions in u State not
Gro wded. But here Ia he keakuk
Constitution, whicl, is edited hy "A form
er citizen of Maryland 10y tue name of
Clagett. #F 'i8
WHf-A very common name with
us. know a great many f them.
Some are men of high standing, anil
the name is funnd connected witt,
many callings, from the rich merchant
and farmer down to the chronit'ler of
small-beer. Any more like this 7
| Cor -Notexaetly. The editor of
one Of our dfsioya! papers is now East,
trying to have book Published, Civ
ing the hives Of late associates in the
Old Capital Prison.
WHI.-What ! A sort OF American
edition of the Newgate Calendar, an
Improvement on the" Lives Of DistiG-
lguislied Higwaymen?" 1t Ought not
to be. fta}
CoR.-Keep cool, friend. None of
thy sky-fying enthusiasm. You can
do the man no good. He is as far
along as the boy in the spelling-book.
| WHi.-Iiow's that?
CoR.- Past redemption !"
WHIT fear il is too true Enough
of such How about what we eal
country papers /" in your State ?2at
CoR.-Yon can Judge for yourself of
this one (giving him the Charles City
IAeiligeueer. which he examined ibr
some time. p 4"5.'a
WHI.--This is beautiful and very
large paper, and seems To be adiIifis.'
bly, conducted. BUt how is this ? 1t
is . City paper-published al Charles