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The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-09
/ From. Daily Of All. !

~ We are under obligstions to Mr..
CLARK, of the DeKay House, for files of
late New York papers.
e. The Sanitary Commission will
meet with Mrs. Judge BALDWIN, to-mor-
row Tuesday evening. The public is
respectfully invited.
BE- ksnowy mantle once more GOV,
ers the bosom of mother earth, and the
merry gingle ofthe bells passing our Of
fee brings the consoling thonght that
sowebody is enjoying hissolf" hugely
- The weather on New Years day
being of rather a too frigid temperature
for the exchange of family socialities,
the calling" done in onr City consisted
mostly in individuals to take something
warm" A friend paid US such visit
and the civility refreshed us rnuchly.
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FOR THE CAPITAL.

We expect to start tomorrow for Des
Moines, to remain during the session OF
the Legislature-not for the purpose OF
seeking an opportunity to serve the dear
people at the expense Of the State; not
to grind an axe; but to note the doings
Of the lawmakers and to inform the
readers of the NoSP4RETL "what's up
During our absence the machine will
be kept running. 4 "chief' will be
"amans We, takin' notes" and will keep
the local column posted up to date, while
then N.heavy" department will also be in
competent hands. *-' ...
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LETTER FRoM LEWIS.
Enron NoNnARerL -.

+ Dear Sir The quota Of Lewis under
| the late call for three hundred thousand
men, is eight. One week ago, two only
of this number were raised. Feeling the
necessity of doing something right speed
lily, in order TO save the good name Of
Lewis, which heretofore has furnished
more than its proportion Of volunteers TO
all calls made by the President several
Of the citizens Of the place went 70 work
with will. The result is that the quota
is raised, and Lewis is free of the draft.
The course pursued was good one
| Meetings were held and subscriptions
were received for the purpose of raising
two hundred dollars additional bounty.
Nearly all who were subject to the draft,
and many gentlemen who were not SO
subject, subscribed literally for this pur-
pose. It was rather hard to find the re
quired number of would-be patriots. but
after series of meetings, and she addi-
tiond two hundred dollars cash bounty,
with Uncle Sans three hundred, tie
hearts Of six of the inhabitants of Lewis
were melted to enlisting. At first, rather
a doleful feeling peryaded the meetings.
It was at one of the first that sad feel.
ing Individual arose in his seat and lined
the following affecting hymn
When can read my title clear,
From draft down in Des Moiues,
I'll bid farewell TO every fear
And whistle Anld Lang syne.
But now it is all over. The quota is
raised, and the faces of the timid ones
assume jorial aspect. There are no
more unpleasant conversations about the
draft. The speeulations with reference
to its postponement are at an end
| Everything seems to have undergone a
change. But a few days ago, everybody
and everything, even the very streets and
houses, seemed enveloped in shroud OF
dependency but now the order is re-
versed, and all persons and all things
look cheerful and jolly.
By the way, is it at all cold at the
Bluffs! It has been slightly cold here.
Day before yesterday the mercury fell to
forty below zero, and froze up. Gould
not tell after that how cold it was. At q
meeting held at the post Office, in the af-
ternoon, however, it was decided by a
rising vote, to be one hundred degrees
below zero This was unanimous-not a
dissenting vote.
Hope you will not break your ma.
chine" any more, as the Daily has be-
come one of the fixed institutions oi
Lewis, and We feel like swearing at any
thing that interrupts its regular issue.
| hAGIsTKR
| TSyw;n T1wo Tar q 1S62
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Subscribe for and support Your
Daily Paper.
Mr.. sEpIroR - = d.. -,
Tho Daily Nonpareil having. become
one of the institution of Council Bluffs,
tdoes seem that all our business men
would sustain It by advertising in its col.
umns, as we'll as to aid in its circulation
To persons owning real estate what bet,
ter medium can they find than the daily
to give publicity to the fact, they wish to
sell; and our merchants: having large
stocks of outftting goods, if they would
use economy by advertising the facts and
sending the papers containing the SANS
to hotels and business nenIn the eastern
portion Of this State, and to other States
.itwould largely repay them. and be o.
great benefit TO our promising youna
CITY. ..,, .'.,s !
Camel BlnHs has The natural position
to become the great outfitting point fo1
the overland trade to California, Oregon
Colorado, Idaho. &C.; but ii is with oSsi
business men TO say how fast We shal
progress in the great work in which VI
are engaged. win We set dreaming Of /.
bright future becanae we have the besi
natural points on thu Missouri River, and
let our neighbors. without such nsturs
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II.
advantages atesl march on ID and
leavs Council BlufEs iii tho shade Of her
own beautiful bluff, quietly dreaming
of the advantages of our location, whilo
others are mastering natural Sbsssclss
and distanaing us in the u1arohsof proa.
ress 7 During tsls present pae atIsl Jet esr
business meR Come up and syary one
OF them advertise their business IN tha
daily, and b. February ii would agAirft
have tobs enlarged, whilspeasons abroad
would begin toses we had naked no and
were pushing ahead ia true western styIe.
Suppose the Nonpareil Is not Of pour
POLITICS, stin it Is the only daily paper III
the City, and ut the present time twfo
cannot liver then the duty ofsbustneas
men seems plain that they should sup
port their daily, not ON political grounds,
but as citizen Of i growing yonng City.
1t Is nov fully understood thai the
proceedings ofithe lie siAlatnrsiare tofbs
published daily in the EpnpareiL This
fact alone should double thespbscsiptiass
list, during the session, ut least, and our
northern friends will, Though sl,s col4
tinans, of the new srtweskiy, bs faIy
posted in all the movements and doinss
of the Legislature. esszs+aes.,~.- -. rsif...
It's generally understood that IN Cities
and large towns all the vide e-awake bus
iness men advertise in the daily paper or
papers Of the City, and when that fuleis
applied to Council Bfnffs,h how many os
that class is to be fodHda We do not bsl
heve that the reason for not advertising
by maRy ls what some would sapppses
via: penurious disposition to avoid pay
ing money out on D prospective chance
of being benefited but y rather the re-
suit of carelessness in handing In THAR
adyertis ments, and. this lshart eommu,
nication 1t Is hoped viii stir up their pure
minds and cause them to do their duty
to the daily paper Of their otown So
mote it be-" -.ss SPECTATOR
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e. OF course you don't have to BE-
lieye oil you see in a newspaper, although
the news contained in the NoSAAREIL is
generally reliablei We published in
saturday s issue dispatch from St, Paul
in regard to newly discovered route te
the Idaho gold mines which we wont be
50 impudent as to ask anybody, to believe
The idea of fertile fields and pelucid
streams in the arid desert north west ei
us, probably found its origin in the more
fertile brain of some Minnesota editor
Il is too late now, TO undertake to turn
the emigration westward from the old
established route up the Platte Valley
Less snow in winter" Pah
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( From Daisy Of I'd. ]

gabbath Schools -
The regular Quarterly Concert of the
Sabbath Schools of Council Bluffs, will
be held at the Congregational Church,
Sunday, the Sd Of January, At three
O'clock. All the sohools and all friends
of sabbath schools are invited to attend.
Quarterly Meeting. .>.... r
The, second Quarterly Meeting of the
M. E. Church for Council Bluffs charge,
will be held at the Il. E. Church, Jan.
3D. and 4th. Services on Saturday at 2
o'clock p. M 7es5 - @A= ..s7.
= The cold snap still holds COED
Thursday night at o'clock, the mercury
marked 25o. New Years day it stood at
about 20s, and to-day Is about the same
notch. We hear it reported that one OF
the Western Company's drivers was fro
gen to death somewhere between Omaha
and Nebraska City.
ETogeish: = --....3~: .,.
Mr.. PARKS, one of our pork buyers,
purchased on Thursday, Of Mr.. SELLS, OF
: this county, dressed hog. weighing 7l3
pounds. May be some of the Iswa pork
markets can beat Council Bluffs.
GTcomp1aints are still made by some
Of our city subscribers on account of the
non-receipt of their papers. 1t is equal
ly as annoying to as a. to them, and we
shall certainly regulate matters in some
way. Elsewhere win be seen q notice OF
new arrangement we have made, which,
ne hope, viii remedy the evil.
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ALBANY, Dec. 3L-The Governor has
removed the Metropolitan police com
r11issioners and put in their places Messrs
Murray aud BosHorta. OF New Y York and
Lewis of Brosklyn. Gov Seyunonr takes
the ground that since their answer t0
charges made against them there were
good grounds FOR their removal, but he
was unwilling to make any charges during
the excitement last season, but tbs last
report made to him by the commission
ers about the riot In July is seetarian and
partisan and shows that the commission
ers have departed frosn the Impartial.
dispassionate position Of puhie officers,
and lost thoir usefulness. +. IL.
The passage complained Of b as fol-
lows: ~>F@ @H2 512s%4"a-* 2lEfa3't3S' @s-tst
These violent proceedings had J.. q
political design, motive and direction aud
rection and received the sympathy and
encouragement from newspapers and par
tisans of influence and intelligence The
board of police had been threatened With
summary removal which was expected to
occur immediately. Numbers of force
desired their rsmoya1 and there were not
lacking instances Of ofinsnhordination. the
fruit of the expected change. A large
portion of the force were Of the same
nationality, and political and religious
faith as the riotous mob,
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Runaway.

Carelessnsss with fact teams don't pay
A pair of horses attached to a cutter
started up broadway, about noon to-day
at q rate of speed not consistent with ou1
ideas of comfortable going, and tsrnine
down Bryant street.. deposited them
selves and vehicle on the under side Of q
bridge: Results, famed team, and
large quantity of hard wood slivers.
Later in the day another "outft'
started up Broadway, and at last accounts
was making heavy advance on the B~
ole ''chebang."
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Lewis, Iowa, Jan. 2, 1868.
hAGISTER.

~We notice that our cotemporary
up street copies notice from the Conati-
tntion and Union, stating the fact that II,
Clay DEAN (D< filthy Bastera,a friend q
Jeff Darts) proposes to publish work
for circulation in Europe, in behalf Of
the Southern Confederaoy: Natural
enough for DEAN to get up work to rem
der aid to the Rebs., and eqsally natural
for the BugIs to notice the fact. Poor
fellows! how they labor for their South
ern master, and how doleful they must
feel while reading his last message. Oh,
DEAN, thou Shiny hypocrite! you cannot
get your beloved Confederacy acknowl
edged by writing books for circulation in
Europe, while your friends lose many
battles, both in the field and at the bal
lot box. Better dry it up, and hunt youl
hole, than 90 into the publishing sbis'
for the benefit of the Confederaey.
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Fire.

Fire. %:--~
Not conaagration de .tactO, but the
fear of one, caused the penning OF the
above. All inhabitants of wos'den bailt
towns are noted for their carelessness in
regard to FIRE. Our City is most excel
lently built for destructive purposes IN
this vsv, and secure as we have hereto
fore been, too much care cannot De tax
On to prevent trouble hereafter. Two
or three false alarms, lately, have some
what excited our nervous system ana
this morning we hear of one private res
;denee that has been discovered On fire
three times within as many days.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 2.=-Dispatches from
Louisville and st. Louis represent the
snow storm unparalleled. All roads
leading from the elatter city are blockaded
Teams and pedestrians crossed on .ne
Mississippi. A large number OF cattle
and hogs were frozen 20 death on sno~
bound trains on the North Missouri Haii-
road.
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HEAD QUARTERS; REcRuIrrSo Der, 7,
DaynxpoRT. Iowa, Dec, 26. 1868. !
MISUNDERSTANDING officers VII take
notice that no man enlisted after the 9th
day Of January, can receive from the
~, 8. more than the Sl0e. bounty pre-
viousiy authorized by law.
The $500 bounty ceases on the night OF
the 5th of January, 1864. -, t1.7ggs =:
Nv order of the superintendent,
-. H.. R-W. PECKHAM. 4*fs. 3
- s,r yrrra Cav, Aci'g Adjt Recruiting Dept.
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REPORT

OF the Treasurer of the Coun Gil
Bluffs Sanitary Commission, of
Receipts and Disbursements from
March 17th, 1909, to December
9Th, 1903.
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SAINT. Ex =

- x Ss
second nnraaI Rerurk OF the
Secretary Of the Counekl Blufs
Sanitary G,prnnaiasion.
The arst annual meeting of The Cosin.
ell Bluffs Branch Of the Z Army Saritary
Commission Of the State OF Iowa . ,yas
held at the residence Of Mrs. Samuel
Clinton, March 14th. 1869, for tlas slec-
ton Of officers for the ensuing yaar.
The following officers were elected 81
ballot: sss.-s - aNsss 8 -
President, MRS. s. DODGE,
8 Vice-P president, MRS. L. w. ROSS.
. Secretary. MISS s. LOCKWOOD,
Treasurer, MRS. FRANK STREET.
Depositary, MRS. Fl C. MUTT.
This Association has held tventy two
regular meetings since March 18th. and
hes received for dues and donations, at
these meetings, eighty-four dollars and
ninety cents, f$S4.9o.l
In the month of March this Society
issued Circular soliciting from the
Farmers Of this and adjacent counties
contributions of vegetables, fruit, &e. In
response to this appeal the Society re-.
eeiyed one hundred and three (1031
packages, valued at 2l4,09.. These
were forwarded to the Western Sanitary
Commission, st. Lohis. 7 :. S..z 81,
The money collected at these meetings
and private donations was issued tper
vote Of the Society to defray the expen-
ses Of boxing and forwarding to the Riv-
sr the articles contributed by the Farm
ers. There was, therefore, no money in
the Treasury toremit to the Parent So
ciety. ! =
1t realized from Festival held Aug.
1lth, S156.00-one hundred and fifty of
which was sent to Gov. Kirkwood in re-
ply to an appeal for immediate aid. The
remaining six ts6) was left in the Treas
ury.
From private donations it has received
S24.85; and as present from the Misses
Sanitary Society, four dollars, (S4, and
from the Juvenile Society $40.
The Society sent three boxes Of Hospi-
tai Stores, last March, to Mrs. Witten-
meyer, valued at S43.35.
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RECEIPTS.
Received of Mrs. Officer, Treas
urer for previous year, 5 7 90
Received at Sanitary meetings, 81 80
Received from voluntary dona-
tions. outside of Sanitary
meetings, j. "A s.
Received of Miss Lockwood. bal
ance fund raised at Festival, 90
Received from the Misses Sani-
tary Society. 90
Rec:ived from the Juvenile s., 90
128 IS
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid n. P. Dodge, on orders
drawn for advances for coop
erage, hauling freight, &C.. s 50 20
Paid n. ?. Dodge, on account of
barrel bought for San. stores IS
Paid Mrs. Peck, by order of the
Society, D w
L. Alotn Meines 0' from ron this Society, IL 90
II As
Balance on hand, 81 ~
Totol, SI2o 10
All of which is respectfully submitted
Mrs. A. STREET, Treas.
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CoUxcrL BLUFFS, Jan. I'd, 1864.

CouScIL BLUFFS, Jan. I'd, 1864.
EDITOR NoSPAREILs-- 80:
Please publish the following CORES
pondence for the benefit ofan concerned,
and oblige, Yours truly, H. .....'. ."
f. 1:. NJ. L. AxDEEws,, =
Cant, Sath Inf iowa Vols, and Recruiting odineE.
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CAtRo, Dec. Memphis dates of 3eth
say Col. Hatch, who was ssTerely wound
ed in the fight near LAGRANGE q short
time ago arrived at Memphis on the 18th.
Papers contain no accovnts Of The recent
fight with Forrest. Passengers whoCams
up says he left Lafayette Sunday night,
at which time Forrest was on his way TO-
wards Mount Pleasant. It is supposed
he is trying to reach Holly Springs.
The rebels have burned the water tanks
at Lafayette and cut the telegraph wires,
but The damage has been repaired, -. ,,,,..
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ST.. Paul, Dec. 3Ist.-Capt. Fiske, who
hBs made two successful overland trips to
the Idaho gold mines, has made q report
to the 81. Paul Historical Society, In
which he shows that the route via Saint
Paul, Ft. Abercrombie and Ft. Benton is
32f miles shorter. than the route via Oma-
ha and TT. Atkinson; is better supplied
with water, wood and grass in summer
il more heaithful and safe, and has less
snow in winter. >: NY ~
He returned ,via Salt Lake and Omaha,
and reports that roo miles of the route
was one sandy, barren desert, producing
only sage bushes and allak water, and
that all along that route are graves of en-
igrants and earcasses of their animals, ;,
He also reports thai the expense Of an
outfit Is much cheaper By this route than
by Omaha. - II
He suggests the opening Of q wagon
road via Biz Stons Lake to the Missouri
River, thence along the 18th parallel 70
the Yellow Stone country, wkfch would
shorten the distance 500 miles Ia Bsnr-
mock City gold mines ID a@,5r3g.js f., .. =.
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~ A western editor vents his rage in
the following manner azasal.+7 T. =
g g We would say to the rascal who stola
our shirt of the pole while We lay in bed
waiting for Ii to dry, that we sincerely
hope the collar may cut his throat p -
- Served him right, aag We. III No
business 20 have shirt. Prettg Aditor.
thus to be fndulging in such luxuries.---
We expect the next thing te bear of the
extravagant fellow aspitina % wear stock
ings and furred hatss o. the ayaricesa
unrsasonableness and extravaganza. OF
some folks
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ur,n1r.urrRs, RrcRurrrxo Der, 7,

Capt. 18th Inf iowa vOls, and Recruiting On
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-09-01
THE UARD-TACIS LINE.

a Western correspondent with Shcr-
mans army writes:
An old lady of the Partington school
was found the other day in terrible
state ST CONSERVATION on the approach Of
our forces to this point. tohhston's "a
GERS had passed through the ncighborhood
and everything, even the poultry, pork
and cattle had been taken with the mala-
ria of " falling back" The old lady was
left entirely alone, deplorably wringing
her hands, with poTcrty as her only com
panion, and it was strongly apparent
even in her speech. She viewed first one
hearty, jolly, fat-sded "Iank." and then
another, as much surprised at their gift
of CAB as their lack of horns, when ohG,
an enormously huge Buckeye. stepped in-
to the yard to qucnch his thirst and fill
his cantcen at dilapidated specimen of Il
well. Says he:
" How are yon, .aunty''
"Tolablc ailin,' jis now
We've got her at last"
"Where did you come ffom =? Ar yer
hooL.crs or Rinh,ers, Or is yer shrniif$F'
"Tl.dre are some boys here who might
1 reckon, hook chicken or two; but
we're all Buckeyes, in the pot"
"Lord! you don't say so. I've hearn
tell of trees what bore them ar nuts, but
never seed any aforc. How'd you git
here p
"Weli, if Uncle Abe wants any help,
he just sings out to our Governor, up in
Ohio, and when Johnny Brough shakes
the trees, just as many as he Wants let
20 all foids ard roll down here on the
harl-tach line"
" Fore God, no! Mother new line ,
How many lines has you 'uns all got ?
We 'uns almost taxed t'dcath ready
mother line III hang us oil, sure"
Haint you folks got about rs much
OF this as you want says Buckeye
"Got? p? We isn't got nothin." Done
loss all we ever had got. | don't see
what you'uns all want, way down here to
Gcorgy.'
ave come down here to stop this
muss. When we get through with old
Johnston, his army will have chance to
60 home and see their relations"
" But the General says you 'uns don't
fight fair. Your s,crmins keep troubin'
of him, und shown of him in front and
your hoohers keep runnin' onto his ccnds
with your fiahcrs."
"Good evening, .Qinkcrs," said Buck
eye, and away he went making room for
some others more quizzicrl and iiilsehiev-
Gus than himself.
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\ PERILOCS POSITION.

\ curious incident of the recent rail-
road smash-up at Berlin, was rclat-
ed to us by soldier from the Army
OF Shc Potomac, a son Of Doctor Funk,
OF this city, who Vas toh,ing home oh
. THROUGH, granted oii account of a
wound received in the battles of the Viii
derness. The young man sat in the car
face to face with pretty young *cman,
stranger to him, with whom he had cx-
changed few words, and to whom he re-
marked, on seeing the car next forward
vibrate, lift and plunge, in an unusual
manner, Wesarc having smash up"
or words to that effect, to which the young
lady replied with light word or laugh
of increduliiy, which had not escaped her
lips ere the forward end of the car in
which she sat was hurled upwards, throw
Ing the caf into a position nearly perpen-
dicular, and tic young lady into worse
position than tllat.--for she was landed
squarcly upon the head of The young war
rior on the other seat, Siio Vas Complete
ly buried in the ample hoop skirt and
other mysterious articles of female appa-
rel more embarrassing to him no doubt
than rebel abatis, or, perhaps, dn en-
Glaling fire
What made the matter worse, in the
general crash and wreck the lady WAS
forced down upon him with such violence
that his head burst through her under
clothing and c;ire out between the upper
bars of her hoop-skirt, whrrc he was held
firmly by the neck, The young woman,
in her mortified modcsty losing all schsg
of the tragical nature of the fatal scene
In which she was so strangely figuring,
blushed like d full blown poeny--while
the imprisoned youth also blushed but
I,om incipient strarsulation more than
modesty. After some vigorous struggles
on both sides they succeeded in clearing
themselves from the embarrassing alliance,
the soldier coolly remarhihe that that was
no time to stand on modcsty After
helping his pretty companion out of the
wreck, he bctook himself to the aid of
others, and some hours later he met the
fair unknown on Main street, in this city.
and she blushcd more deeply than ever
at this second meeting 'cf the young man
who had experienced such a strange in
to .-HutfoH Times.