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rs pass through Oliver sf Monoss -
saFc:saus, He aaid the gentlsnaar ffons
Museafine vas charging areand lilks =
bob tailed stser 81 as time and Il tlss
WesAern naer, did not khow how totraal-
sact business be was most happy 70 hear
that tho gentlemen liring on the Missis-
sippi were willing % take charge o. apdl
direct rs IN our course Of action here. =
was q naost bitter retort, and the ssyerssts
thing of the session.
&, Bell said that the gentlenaan from
Muscatine had repeatedly charged mem.
bers with acting from impure motives
and his course reminded him Of tfsat
class Of persons in the lunatic asylnfas
who imagine that every other person but
themselves arc insane, He Butlerl i'm.
agined that the motives Of every man
who differed with him we're impure and
he allowed every member to draw his
inference.
The question was settled by killing the
bill on the final vote SO the gentleman
from Muscatine was defeated, and failed
to pat a tax of FIVE times its present
amount on the railroads. One. OF the
peculiaritiss of the tax bill, as It passed
yesterday, was, that one half the tax was
TO be for the counties through which the
roads ran--thus continuing the policy OF
robbing the West for the benefit of the
East. :. FL 49,. -" ..1,:.
There seems to be very st1ong ineli-
nation manifested, by a large minority,
to crush out every railroad enterprise !;
but they viii fail, and the only thing
they will accomplish will be to leave the
settlers at the mercy of the railroad
companies, and yet do nothing towards
settling the railroad question.
Tomorrow night both Houses go into
joint session for the purpose of electing
Superintendent of Schools and Trust
ees for State University and Agricultural
College. Monday night to be in session
all night, and perhaps Tuesday morning
the members will be homeward bound,
to meet their loving constituents, and
give. an account of their stewardship ;
and your humble servant thinks Speaker
Butler will have higher Appreciation of
the frontier men Of the West than he
seemed to have at the beginning of the
session. OCCASIONAL.
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Letter from the Capital.

EDITOR N0NPARETL-The session of the
Legislature draws to close, and is be-
coming intensely exciting; and, as usual,
the greatest enthusiasm is in the House.
The Senate indefinitely postponed the
celebrated railroad bill, thus disposing
with the labors of fifteen days of the
House in few minutes, and leaving the
whole subject unsettled. The Senate
seems trying to fix up some railroad
bills, but SO many members are leaving
that it is very uncertain whether any bill
affecting the railroad will become law.
Yesterday bill was under considera-
tion,- in the House, in regard to purchas-
ing the building that is now used as q
Capitol and on this question Russell, of
Washington, made speech that was one
of the most eloquent delivered during
the session. He favored the settlement
of this vcxed question, and the releasing
of the debtors by a compromise that
would take the matter out of the Legis-
lature. The bill was recommitted, with
instructions, and may yet become O law.
The railroad tax bill next came up:
and Speaker Butler entered the contest,
and proposed to raise the tax on rail
roads from l per cent. on their gross
earnings to per cent, and was support
ed by what is called the Unconditional
Resumptionists: Mr.. Butler used every
effort to carry the measure, and after a
long, hard battle, carried At votes, which
was the precise number that was OBJ
tanned for the celebrated House railroad
bill. The passage of this bill was hailed.
as triumph over railroads, and they
claimed it to be regular Vicksburg PIC
tory; but before the vote was announced
Bell, of Pottawattarnie, changed his vote;
and went with the majority, thus giving
48 votes for the biIl--47 being constita-
tional majority. Some thought him sold ;
9th ers knew that it must be for recon
sideration. This morning, sure enough,
Bell moved reconsideration, and this
brought the Speaker from his chair, who,
with all the vehemence in his power,
tried to prevent such measure from
being carried.
The discussion held until noon, the
motion prevailing. After dinner the
conflict was renewed, during which Mr..
Butler seemed to impugn the motives of
those who differed with him. This
caused Burke, of Bremen, to give him q
most severe ehastisement. Next, he had
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HAwK-EYEDEAS..

A little accident occurred at the Con-
gregational Church last Sabbath evening.
A marriage ceremony was performed and
the house was unusually crowded. Near
the close of the exercises a few of the
s1eepers gave way and down went two or
three hundred square feet Of the floor
Fortunately the ground was not far OFT,
nobody was hurt, and the services Were
interrupted only for a Oskd-
lo0Sa Herald.
There will be convention of the wool
growers of Southeastern Iowa, at Mt.
Pleasant on Thursday, April 7th, to take
into consideration the subject of wool
growing in this State, and petition Con-
gress to levy sufficient duty on import
ed wool.
All interested are urged to attend. Pa
pers friendly to the matter are requested
to give notice of the meeting.
Last Friday the weather took a sud-
den change for the colder and up to this
writing has not leased up" much. So
cold has it been for week that it re-
quires no great stretch of the Imagination
to believe that the first week of January
has visited US again. Old Winter not
only fingers in the lap of Spring, but
seems to have taken up his abode there.
However, the cold snap has been the
death of weather prophets.-Home Jour
nal. 80.
''Spring time has come gentle Annie"
over the left. The liver has re closed,
skating is the best it has been this year,
and for the past two d.ys, hundreds have
been crossing on the ice. Duckings, to-
tai and partial, have been so numerous
we have ceased to make any note of
them.
Saturday night boat load of soldiers
were caught by floating ice in mid river,
ice before them aud ice behind them,
where they were obliged to remain until
morning. One or two of them were
touched with the frost" before they
reached the shore Dubuque Times, ed
At the Joint Convention last night,
Hon. Oran Faville, of Mitchell County,
was elected Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
The following named persons were
elected Trustees of the Agricultural Col.
lege: Joseph MCGOWAN, of Appanoose
county Peter Meiendy, of Blackhawk /;
Suel Foster, of Muscatine; L. Q. Hoggatt,
of Story, and Phineas Caldwell, of Harri-
SON.
The following named persons were
elected Trustees Of the State University:
Rush Clarkes of Iowa City; Lewis W.
Ross, of Council Bluffs, and Major S. c.
Woodward, of Ottumwa.
BRIDGE AT DUBUeuR-on the sd inst,
the Senate of Wisconsin passed the bill
providing for building bridge across the
Mississippi River at Dubuque, by vote
of lS to l4,-Regisser. 9th.
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one If tie most inportalat znoysnasnas
Il ooncerning the future aspects e
coanciI BluIR, ii thereoeat consel idationI
,ofthe Cedar Rapids . Missonri. and Mis-
sissippi q Missouri Railroads whereby the
two reads will be oonjoined i short dis
lance east Of Des Moines. The energy
and capital ofthese two powerful oornpa-
mics will thus be. concentrated in the
work Of pushipg forward one line Of road
across the State Of Iowa terminating ct
Council Bluffs. This matter has been
discussed by railroad men for the past
six months, and the fact that these two
roads would be consolidated has been
fixed for some time past--the only ques
ton being which ofthe two routes shoaid
be chosen, and which road should be
merged into the other each contending
that its own route across the State should
be made the route, For . time the
railroad prospect of Council Bluffs looked
very 'sblue," as it appeared more than
probable that the result of this junction
would be to draw the NJ. NJ. to the line
OF the C. r. & M, and thus cut US of en-
tirely from railroad connection with
the east. But the order of the President
fixing the terminus Of the great Pacific
Road at Council Bluffs effectuolly settled
all questions upon this point and desig-
mated this city as the railroad centre
upon the Missouri shore. Speaking Of
the above mentioned consolidation the
Davenport Democrat & Ne,es says:
This arrangement will be highly graft.
| flying to the people of the interior ana
the western slope of the State, inasmuch
as it will secure to that part OF Iowa
much more speedy railroad communities
ton with the east. At present and for
| many years to come, one line of road
through the central portion OF Iowa Is all
| that is demanded OF will pay. The. two
| lines above named have been pushing
across the State at an average distance
of about thirty miles apart, which is GER
tainly too close for the present generation
when beyond the longitude ofEle MONIES.
The cars on the first above named. line
are now running to Colo Station, IS
miles from Des Moines and on the NJ. &
NJ. road to Grinnell, and will be running
early in the summer to Newton, which
is about the same distance from Des
MONIES rs Colo. From Colo, or at some
point cast of that station, the upper
route will change its course southwest
wardly until it strikes the line of the NJ
& NJ. road, from whence the united Ia
bors Of the two roads, the one under the
direction of the Chicago and Galena and
the other, the Chicago and Rock Island
wiltcrowd this single line through to the
Missouri river. on the established line oil
NJ. L NJ. road just as fast as men and ma
terials can be furnished Within two
years we confidently expect to be able to
take seat in the GAYS Mt Davenport al
four o'clock in the morning, and take
tea with the Council Bluffans on the Mis-
souri, river. The energy and capital united
by this consolidation Of interests is i'm
mense, and there will be no such thing
as hating until connection is made with
the great Pacific route.
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New Railroad Route.

A bill has been introduced into Con.
gress appropriating o certain amount OF
public land to aid the construction of q
railroad from Sioux City, in Iowa. to
Lake Superior, via Mankato and st. Paul,
in Minnesota. The Washington corres
spondent of the Chicago Tribune says ::
" The bill, as amended, proposes to ex-
tend from Sioux City, the point where
the northern branch of the Pacific Rail-
road begins the route through North
western Iowa, through Minnesota by
Mankato, which is at the big bend of the
Minnesota river, and by st. Paul, and
through Wisconsin by Hudson to Lake
Superior, making Assistance of about one
hundred miles in the State of Iowa,
about two hundred or two hundred and
fifty in the State Of Minnesota, and one
hundred and thirty or one hundred and
forty in the State of Wisconsin. The
amendment, which strikes out all after
the cnacting clause of the original bill,
provides that lands which have been
granted already on this route either to
the State of Wisconsin, or Minnesota, or
Iowa, are to be deducted from the lands
granted under the terms of this amend
ment. 1t is thought that the amend
ment will reconcile the interests of all
the States-W Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Iowa-and at the same time extend to
them the privilege of reaching the
Northern branch of the Pacific Railroad
for the benefit of all those States and the
entire Northwest. "-RegisteT. '-
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The following Twelve Apostles of Lib.
erty are all that remain on the pension
rolls of the Government as actual par.
Elephants in the war of the Revolution:
Amazlah Goodwin. Somersworth, ".
H., los years old ;, John Goodnow, Sud-
bury, Mass l02 years old; Adam Link,
Washington county, Pa, 100 years old ;
Rev. Dan1 Waldo, CT, 101 years old :
VIM. Hutchings, York, Me-, 100 years
old James Durham, Southampton coun-
ty, Va. 99 years old; Benjamin Miller,
Springfield, Mass, 90 years old; John
Pettingill Windham, Ct, 81 years old !;
Alex. Maroney, Lake George. N. Y, "a
years old; Samuel Downing, I'd New
Hampshire Regiment, no age given |;
Lemuel cooS, no birthplace or age given |;
james Gates, no birthplace or age given.
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THE % Iowa TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Whereas, the President having compli-
mented the services of the veteran sol
diers, by rendering them an increased
bounty, which has secured their services
for another term of enlistment, it de-
wolves upon US to return the complime1 1T
by issuing the following proclamation,
to-wit:
We, the veteran soldiers of Company
6, I'd Iowa Infantry, in camp, do hereby
proclaim and make known to Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States,
that in case he will reenlist as veteran
President for the term of four years, or
during the war, he shall be entitled to a
sixty days furlough. with free transport
alton to and from his home in Illinois :;
ALSO he will be entitled to bounty of
twenty-five thousand dollars and suit
of veteran uniform-bounty and uniform
to be drawn upon being mustered into
service on the 4th of March, 1865. And
further. in case the office is not filled by
volunteering, we order draft to be
mada upon the suffrages Of the people
on the second Tuesday in November
next, to enforce the call and fill mp the
quota. VETERANS OF CoMpANx,
I'd Iowa Infantry.
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what we Need.

Council Bluffs, as a city, Is greatly in
need of Market House. We need
greatly need--a place of some kind
where farmers and gardeners can expose
their produce for sale, and where our
citizens may go TO buy, and not be COM
PEELED to rely entirely upon the tender
mercies of Hucksters." AS it is now,
every article of produce brought to town
by our farmers, is Immediately COB
bled" by some shop keeper, and the
same is then dealt out to the consumer
at an advance of fifty or ssventy-hve
cents on the producers prices. by.
establishing a market place, and appoint
ing regular days for market, our people
will know just when and where to go TO
purchase their marketing;" they would
receive everything direct FROM the pro-
Queer, at prices below what they are now
compelled to pay. while at the same time
the farmer would receive better price
for his goods than he can at present re-
ceiys by disposing of the same to shop
keepers.
Besides market house, our town is
woefully in want of public hall. We
have not room in the CITY large enough
to decentIy accommodate two hundred
people. The absolute necessity for hall
suitable for public gatherings will not be
questioned by any one-all admit that it
is needed, but no individual will invest
his capital in this kind Of property, be-
cause he can use his money to better ad-
vantage in other ways.
For just such cases as this, corpora
tons are organized-that the people
may have an opportunity to do collect
ing, what they are unable or unwilling
to do individually. Let our City Gov
eminent then take hold of the matter
and build Market House, with City
Hall in the second story. A building
large enough to answer every purpose Of
market place and hall, for many years to
come, can be built at cost not exceed
ing ten thousand dollars andS@e believe
that there is not dozen property own
ers in the city who would not vote for a
tax for this purpose-for the benefit to
be derived from such an enterprise is
obvious to everybody, and the amount
of money that would be saved to the
taxpayers in one year, in the difference
in prices Of country produce wsuld pay
for the building.
We commend this matter to the con-
sideration of the Council, and hope that
measures looking to the commencement
OF the work will be at once set on foot.
Let the question be submitted to the
people at a special election to be called
for the purpose. Let those who have
the bills to foot say whether they are
willing to be taxed for work of this ma
ture, and we believe the people would
cheerfuly and almost unanimously de-
clare for the work. Will our City Faith
oE consider the matter. -.
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nSr The legislature, about two weeks

Ia The Legislature, about two weeks
ago, resolved to adjourn on the GOTH
inst: As wo have heard nothing to the
contrary, we presume the machine !"
stepped, pursuant to the terms of the
resolution, and that the honorable gen.
tlemen are now en- route for their respect
i've places of abode.
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Ia A nephew Of the rebel yallandig.
ham, living in Iowa, is married to the
biackest kind of niger wench. A
wench is getting dswn pretty low, when
sac marries into that family SOL MIker.
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- The lady wases tried I'd weep Ter pre-
serves II q family jar. found thsy 8szs
soon soured.
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NOTICE.

To Emigrants by way of the Mis-
souri River and a cross the
Upper Plains to the idaho
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Hgg YORK nAKaEE-Fsb. %.


CottOn-Quiet and dropping. Sales at 792Soo
for middling upands-
RIour-Dull ana SC lower.
Sales s6, 6,6O66,s5 for extra State; F,2097 40 for
extra round hOOped Ohio H,45Q950 for Uado
brRnda. Market cl0aing heavy.
WhiskY-MArket hrmer. salss at so Tor Ststss
o2193 for Western.
Whear-Duil and lower Quotations nominal.
Sales al tl sol 5s for Chicago Spring: el,59ol6l
for MilvRukee Club 1ls669li69 for winter RED
Corn-hiarket hrmar with fair demsud. Sales at
al,2THGl,2q4 for Shipping Mixed Western in store;
l.3O for small lots western yellow.
Oafs-Markst without change. Sales at sl9az<o
for Western.
WOOl-Steady
PetrOieum-Quiet
Sales crude at3jci refined IN bond 459t4s&.
POrk-Market more active and nrmer.
Sales at $500 for mess; e2l ,0Qd2 l2f for old do,
ga 0Ofor new do; el6,Z50lS,75 TOR old and new
prime; s2l,0 OIL so for prime mess; mess. Also
800 bbs mess, for March, buyers option, at s2,25,
500 bbls old do delivery at s2.75 and 500 bba
prime mes for March at q 80.
Beef--Firm
SALES at S50oR7OO for country ness 4,Oo95,oo for
prime: 10 e0Gl4,5O tor repacked mess and el5soo9
1850 for extra mess
Prime Mess Beef-In fair request.
Beef HamG-Steady ct l9n2lc
Cur Rfeats-Quist and firm. Sales at 9G1ac for
shoulders and ll1sl36 for hams.
Bacon Stde5-Mark- quiet and prices without
material change.
Dressed HOgs-shade frmer. Sales at 91Ee1O
for Western.
Lard-Firm. Sales at Is54alle
Bufter-Firm. Saiei At z4g50 for Ohio and $50
35 for state
Cbeese-Firm. Sales at Il to II for common to
Prime
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NORTHERN OHIO SANITARY FAIR.

FALLos's SrEREoPTIcoE.-In the brief
limits Of 3 newspaper notice it is utterly i'm
possible to do anything like justice to this
wonderful exhibition, which WAS presented
in this city for the first time, at the Academy
of Music last evening. The recorded praises
of METROPOLITAN journals and our best artists
and critics had prepared Us for the advent Of
an entertainment Of superior merit, bat the
reality far exceeded our anticipations- The
most lucid description we can give Of this
wonderful invention, which combines the
highest triumphs Of optical and chemical
science, Is that it is an instrument BY means
Of which objects are represented upon can
vns surface Of six hundred square feet, with
a truth and vividness that almost deludes
the spsctntor into the belief that he is view
ing the reality and not the shadow. Photo
graphic stereoscopic views are presented Of
all the most celebrated places in the world,
and of the most famous statuary. Melrose
Abbey msIts gradually from the sight, and
Palmer's exquisite "White Captive" assumes
upon the canvas the marble life Of the orig
insl.
While the charmed spectator is yet gazing
upon the pensive features of the Munich
Madonna, he hnds himself confronted by
the stern-vissgsd Sphynx and the royal
ruins of Egypt. Seated at his ease IN the
hall Of his native town, without inoonYenienee
and at a trihing expense, one becomes a.
most as we'll acquainted with the beautiful
landscapes, gorgeous palaces, venerable
csstIess, solemn osthedrsls, and cities Of the
old world, as the gentleman at his elbow,
who has spent years and thousands in going
to look at what the genius Of Fallon has
brought in magnificent miniature to the
homes of his less wealthy cOuntrymen. Aud
by the by, you will aud that that same tray-
eiler who has seen the original views, will
applaud the copies the most enthusiastically
feb24 II
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P1RE.-A Ere broke out yesterday evening
about eight o'clock, in the guard house at
Camp Cleveland, end extended to some Of the
bsrraoks adjacent. As there was no water at
tsinabIe at the Camp, our FIRE engines did not
90 over to the Heights. The hook-and-ladder
companies, however, were present at the
scene of t-e oonaagration and great
Iy al ded in preventing the spread OF
the FIRE. No loss of life was sustained, and
but little damage to property was DONE
The report prevalent in town last night
that the hospital was on FIRE was nothing bat
an exaggerated rumor.
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mORNING, FEB %. 1854.
TRAYELLER,s RKGIsTKR.
N1w ADVERzIsKmENTs.

CA Read a Oo-Oleveland and Columbus Stock
Taylor Griswoid & 70 Spring Gooes-
Or. ". WeIls-Nedical.
W. C. WHisms-Eor Sale.
s. ColahEn-Hay Presses.
o. Cutter son-Auotion.
For sale-Pisno.
Found-Psrt Of q Buggy Hs-ness.
Wsnted for rent-A House.
Wauted-A Girl.
Berzert AdsmH-Locsl Notice.
HaIl-Locsl Notice.
Prof. Thomas-Loosi Notice.
Eighth Ward-Locsl Notice.
Sixth Ward-Local hottie.
W. @. Establishing at sacrifcs.
Wsnted-To Exchange.
Lest-s bun.
Northern Ohio Sanitary Fsir-Local Notice.
Commencement-Local E0iics.
Prof. Henry-Locsl Notice.
Wm. Buttzmsnn-Locsl Notice.