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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-28


COMPOSITIONS are handy institutions If they
torture you with typographical crucifxion
semi occasionally, they are convenient scape-
goats TO be made bearers of ones own sins
and blunders and stupidity. 1.-THE woman
thou gayest me tempted me, and did e6s. I"
Shabby Adam But no one had invented
moral code in his day, and he acted very
naturally. Probably had he known. that be
would get such widespread notoriety as the
worlds years passed on, and how generations
of good-nstured and il.natured critics would
censure that lily-livered excuse Of his, he
would not have made it. AT any rate his de-
scendsnts have followed his bent. Are you
guilty of a mis-. quotation, or q mis.spelling,
or grammatical blunder, it is so easy to say,
sit was the compositor.' And be is so gen
orally impersonal that blame or criticism
never reaches any particular person. Your
sins are abroad in the wilderness, and canno,
thenceafter be identified as individual.
Thus much in defense of the craft. But
that doesn't change the situation when they
make one say different from what one said.
For instance, to make one say, as yesterday;
"Let fast growing shade trees be planted
about that county building this very Spring
Oh Honorable Board of Supervisors, and
thereby remit the benedictions of q Christian
constituency" and you said, "merit the BEN
edictions." Or, as on the morning proceed
ing, TO make Mr.. Pickwick creation of the
literature OF "this country" instead of "this
century" or to start Mr.. B. F. Taylor at
work billing bis appointments instead OF
"hlling them" And "sich.n large
amount Of "sich," which we, and journalists
generally, never attempt subsequently to cor.
rect, unless the error makes the sense of the
original word or statement entirely different.
For the most Fart readers. are left to make
their own correction Of any errors that ap.
pear.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-28

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-28

EMERSON To.NIGHT.-I England and on
the Continent, in literary circles, Ralph Wal,
do Emerson is pronounced Americas most
original and philosophic thinker. Though q
philosopher and scholar, Mr.. Emerson is
not an sbstractionist-a recluse of the studio
establishing no relations with those people.
he recognizes that the mission of Genius
cannot do other than embrace Humanity,
and is valueless, mayhap positive curse, if
1t attempts to DO other. So he has for years
addressed himself to the heart as well as the
head of American people. He has written
and spoken in favor of Liberty and Human
Rights, Culture and Progress, the True, the
Beautiful and the Good He has addressed
himself to the intelligent many, as well as
abe scholarly few. And his name has become
. household word all over the land.
We anticipate, then, crowded house TO
hear the distinguished lecturer this evening.
His great reputation will attract this. And
Mr.. Emerson will not fail to say that which
will profit all hearing him. 1t will be the
first time that majority of our people have
heard him, the only time that many will have
opportunity to hear him, and all, whether
having heard him before or not, viii be glad
TO hear him now. Go early, and let Chatham
Square Church be filed full this evening.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-28

The Fort Dodge North Hest says Judge
Hubbard writes from bis home in Indiana, 10
aleading Republican of that city, as follows:
II intend to take my seat in the 40th Con-
gress. may resign, but not so as to cause .
special election this Spring. Ny resignation
will depend upon contingencies. intend to
get we'll Ny physician says will. but it
will take time. Should resign, will
know it as soon as any one. am improving
slowly
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

IT appears from the inventory of the
estate Of Abraham Lincoln, as filed by
Judge Davis, administrator, in the Office
of the county of Sangsmon, Illinois, that
the total value of the personal estate of
the late President, including the s25, 900
appropriated by Congress to his family,
on account of his salary, was one hun
dred and ten thousand dollars, beside the
real estate held by him. Mrs. Lincoln
has either squandered this estate or is
deliberately guilty of an attempt to black
mail the friends OF her late husband -
The Tribune proposes Congress should
vote her the balance of what Mr.. Lin
coin would have received had he lived
We trust not before the whole truth is
known, and without some better reasons
than now appcar.-Pats. Com.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

THE New York Democrats arc taking
ground for Gov. Seymour for President
aud claim that by their management of
the late State Convention they have ma
tcrial!y advanced his prospects, Con.
siderng that no military man of sufficient
proportions will consent to be the can>
didate of tha party, it is highly proba-
Bile that they will take civilian. Sey-
mour is one of no mean order. He was
on the side of the rebels from the begin.
ming to the end of the war, and acted as
instigator of the New York riots in the
middle. His claims, therefore, are of
the first order, aud his friends have a
right to consider him the coming man.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

The action of the Union Convention
of Maryland, urgently Recommending
to the Republican party Of the country
the nomination of General Grant as their
candidate for the Presidency" and the
bringing forward of his name by the
Baltimore american as such candidate,
are both in accord with the sentiment Of
the great body of the Republican masses.
The elections on Tuesday last virtually
nominated General Grant. When the
result of the election became known, t.
him million eyes gladly turned. 1t was
no device of the politicians, but spon
taneous movement of the people, cutting
knots, dissolving doubts, aud, at the same
time, disposing Of aspirants who could
not survive the first chilling blast.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16
From the New York Tribune.l

I" But every voter who does not read is
a peril; and the multiplicity Of such vo-
tiers subjects the results of our elections
too much to the control of accident. = =
Republicanism lives by Intelligence it
dies in the murky, sitting atmosphere of
Ignorance
The TriJuue is progressing brayely,
and there is reason to expect that it will,
before long, be with us in favor of Sui,
frage based on Intelligence, without re-
gard to race or color-the only safe rule
of equality. Ignorance, operating thro'
the ballot box, is the great enemy that
free government has to fear. Intelli-
gence is its only sure bulwark. In set
Ting the question of suffrage, on which
shall we build What solution of the
question so just, so right, SO safe or en-
during as Intelligence? Recent events
have reinforced this principle with the
sympathies of hundreds ane thousands of
the most intelligent men in the laud. IT
the axioms of the T, iJunc are not mere
words used for effect, then it must be for
Suffrage based on Intelligeuce.-PMs.
Commercial,
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

THE CcuNTEhFEIr BoSps.-The Treasury
Department have made careful examina-
tion to-day of the counterfeit 7.3O bonds,
and have come to the conclusion that the
engraving was not dono in this country but
in England. So far but Que hundred thou
sand dollars of the couuterfeits have been
discovered, and diligent search is being
made to see If any Implications of the bonds
have been paid by the Department. 1t ap-
pears that the counterfeit bonds have ap-
peared in the market since the Oath of Sep
tember.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

The Democrats have right to re-
joice But if they are wise they will not
delude themselves with .he idea that
they have won a victory in this State
whcather SHARswooD has five or zen
thousand. or none at all, the fact will re.
main that he has received less number
of votes than CLYMER did last .JdH. The
simple and only truth is, no Republican
has changed to the Democrats-a few
thousand in the State did no. vote, and
the result is as nearly as possible draw
game. There is nothing in the canvass
or the result that presents hope for the
State by the Democrats, or should cause
a single moments depression on the part
of the part of the Republicans. From
the elections on Tuesday last, certain
things can be predicted, and one of them
is that Pennsylvania, nert fall, eiW gice
fer the RpuJliean Presidential electors
an ocer,oheining majority. The present
result clears the way for such result
then. If the Democrats are wise they
will perceive this, and moderate their
expectations. AS many time during
the war was it the cause, this defeat will
insure victory on the next trial. The
reasons why this win be so are obvious.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

THE election being now over, and both
parties somewhat astonished at the results,
wise men and some not SO wise are ex-
tracting from it the lessons which they
conceive it to teach. Among the latter
class, we reckon President Johnson, who
is said to have discovered that the cleo
tion is an Endorsement of his policy.
His representative in this city and county
must have given him rose colored &C
count of the Endorsement here, to have
justified the Presidents inference. The
Democrats are drawing their lesson from
the election page, and tie Republicans
are profcients in learning theirs, which
had they been little more obseryant
they might have learned as easily, and
with perhaps more profit before election
Another year will be required to determ
inc who has been most benefited by the
present lesson.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16
MARYLAND.
Republican state Convention.
n ,r-,----...,. - L. r,i...Lurnh anzettn 1

(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette,l
BALTIMORE, October 10.-The Re-
publican State Convention met to-day
and made the following nominations :
Governor-Judge Hugh i. Bond At.
torney General-H. H. Goldsborough of,
Talbot Comptroller-F. Schly, of Fred
erick county.
The following resolutions were adopt
ed
1st. That the Republican party in Ma.
ryland adhere firmly to the principles OF
man hood suffrage, universal and uniform
education, and payment of the national
debt and pledge themselves to fight it
out on this line.
The second resolution advocates pub
lie. education for all children Of the
State and the maintenance of the present
school system OF the State, with no chang
es, except to increase its usefulness and
promote economy.
The third resolution favors the repeal
of the present militia law.
A resolution was adopted, by sixty four
10 seventeen, recommending the nomi-
nation Of Gen. Grant for the Presidency
by the Republicans.
The Democrats are now firing one
hundred guns on Federal Hill in honor
of the result of the late election in Penn.
and Ohio. ...
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16
Communicates ns.
BENZoSIA, MICHIGAN,
Sept. 27, 1867.

y
MAI. ANDERsoN,--Dear Sir !: be-
lieve that your most amiabIe, familiar
spirit with the name Of dubious import,
has been guilty Ct mixing up my last
letter in terrible manner. l said that
the Monroe Brothers had raised 1000
bushels of wheat. He made it 200. L
said Mr.. Hannah had IN orchard of l 900
apple trees, &c. He made it 6,000. [
said we wanted more men. He said more
nep. And now, kind imp won't you try
to do better in future
We have had excellent crops this year.
! have heard of one field or wheat which
produced forty.two bushels to the acre
and as to the fruit, we have not much
yet, but the quality is unsurpassed. DR..
Walker sent me some pears and plums,
few days ago, the most delicious that l
have ever tasted, and the largest | have
ever seen What grape vines are now
here, are loaded with fine large grapes.
Apples are scarce yet, but are beginning
to bear. Berries of all kinds abound
We want good Nursery here. We sup
posed that there would be one started this
summer, but believe it is given up
We are sending out to Rochester for fruit
trees. And talking of trees, we have
most noble timber here. / cut Bass
wood the other day, two and half feet
in diameter at the stump, which, at sew
enty FIVE feet, would have squared twelve
inches, and was perfectly straight and
sound. | measured another which was
scv venteen feet in circumference Most
of our timber is Sugar,Maple, Elm, Beech
and Eastwood. There is also considers,
bic Pine and Homlock, of good qualify,
and occasionally growth of Cedar or
Tamarack. We have no Hickory. Up
in Leelenaw county, the Democrats tried
to find Hickory fer pole, last Fall, but
couldn't get any; and SO they took Slip
perry Elm. We have very little Oak
There are some fine Red-oaks near Trav>
erse City. If we could get our wood to
market, il would be valuable. At present
it is only worth what 10 costs to cut il.
Fences are made Of whole trees--sone-
times fonr and Eve feet in diameter. IL:
is easier to fall them along the line than
to make rails.
But l must stop for this timo. To my
next Twill try to tell you about our Csun-
ty Fair which comes Of next month.
Yours, &C.,
w. j. YoUNa.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16
Horrible Crime.

CANTON, u, October -13, 18G7.-This
afternoon while the congregation wsre
assembling in the German Reformed
Church, most desperate and deadly as
sault was made by Ferdinand Hoffman
upon the person of his divorced wife,
| Caroline Yost. Approaching her in the
choir, he demanded few moments cons
versation, which being denied he asked
her to kiss him, and while in the act Of
doing 80, he stabbed her with butcher
knife three times in the breast and eight
times in the abdomen aud on the limbs.
The scence was terrible and heartrend>.
ing, and the screams of the women and
the shouts of the men as the assassin fed
from the scene of his assault, were ex.
citing in the extreme. The murderer,
with the butcher knife still in his hand,
streaming with the blood of his victim.
attempted to reach the railroad, pursued
by maddened and excited crowd, but
was arrested in his fight BY stalxart
countrymnn who compelled him to sur
render. The excitement at this point
was intense, and the general demand was
that the monster should be lynched on
the spot Prudent couusels prevailed
and he was marched to Jail. AT one
point the agonized mother of the unfortu>
nate young woman confronted the crowd,
and with large sized stick beat the
prisoner over the head, while at the same
time he was beaten indiscriminately by
parties in the crowd, aud another demand
was made for his immediate hanging.
He was. however. safely lodged in jail
The excitement is still very great, and
numerous threats we're made to take him
from Jail. 1t is doubtful whether the
lady can live till morning. Hoffman is
desperate character, and was released
but ten days from State prison. His only
regret is that he did not kill her at once.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

sS-The people of Ohio have this year
had the question OF negro suffrage before
them, and on vote, have given it
a decided negative. This decision is not
inconsistent with their support of the
reconstruction law embracing negro suff.
rage in the States lately in rebellion.
The cases are entirely different. In the
South, it was not on the question of color
that they we're rdmitted to suffrage, but
one of loyalty-the only basis on which
civil governmenment can stand. A few
loyal whites have been funnd in the
South--few compared with the rebel 81.
ement-but not enough to sustain them
selves against the overwhelming odds
aud not enough to constitute the State
Governments respectfully republican in
form. In this anomalous condition, the
enfranchisement of the entire loyal pso-
pie, without distinction of color, was a
necessity. As this manifestly just and
wise measure embraced the large proper
tion of the negro race, it falls into the
same category as their emancipation and
their enlistment as soldiers-to save the
Republic from detriment. The question
decided in Ohio is altogether different
and rests on entirely different grounds.
Tha decision of it cannot, there fore, be
interpreted as opposed to the reconstruct
ton policy oe Congress, and there is no
inconsistency in voting against the Ohio
Amendment and at the same time sup
porting the Republican policy Of rccon-
struction. n.-PHstargh Consmerciak
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

IT was arranged that Mr.. johnson
should makea speech on the elections,
Wednesday night. But tho Democrats
put their foot on it aud the screnade
which had been planned did not come
off. The cross purposes of the Demo-
Gratis and Mr. johnson are visible even
TO the naked eye. The first time he gets
an opportunity to make a speech he will
claim the result of the elections as an
Endorsement of him aud his "policy !"
whereas the Democrats put in the claim
that it was achieved indepsnd dent of him;
in spite of bin, in fact. Mr.. johnson
harbors the idea that he may yet be q
Presidential candidate, and will not be
slow to appropriate to himself the entire
capital contained in the elections, to that
end. These little complications quashed
the serenade, and Mr.. Johdson must get
his glorifcation speech in on some other
occasion.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

There is no longer doubt that we
we're badly beaten everywhere last Tues,
day. Sharswood is elected Supreme
Judge in this State. In Ohio. the Con.
stitutional Amendment is defeated by a
heavy majority, and the democrats have
majority of the Legislature. That's
election news enough for one day. No
use hanging your under lip. Get provls.
ions, and go aboard for Salt River for
one year, and then we'll see whas we
will sec. Perhaps the salubrions bresz-
es of that classic region will put little
vigor into the Republican party. No use
taking about how it was done or who
did it; the thing is done. Wonder if
that lightning struck any other place
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16
THE Pittsburgh Post reverberatcs the


THE Pittsburgh Post reverberatcs the
malicious accusation that Col. Jordan,
Secretary of State, cannot be trusted to
canvass the returns of the election. The
attempt to direct suspicion against that
State officer could have proceeded only
from conscious guilt and the fear of dis
covery. In Philadelphia the Democrats
have perpetrated frauds whereon pfoba-
bly, hangs the result. Had they the pow
er to cover up these frauds they would
succeed. Unfortunately, Colonel Jordan
cannot be relied on for such service,
nor will he be deferred from doing his
whole duty in the premises by the stop
thief cry which the Age and the Post
have raised against him.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16

The election does not change the ma
ture of things. OF some things in the
political arena it does not change the po>
eition. The interests and the laws Of
the country are the same that they were
before it occurred. And unless there
should be treachery and usurpation at
the head of the Executive Department
of the Government, the maintenance of
those interests and the administration Of
those laws will 60 on, without let or hin
drance. as before. We refer particularly
to the legalized process for the restoration
of the seeded States to the Union.
Should the election encourage latent
trcaehery TO become more open and ac-
tive: in other words, should it stimulate
the President to obstruct the laws which
he is bound by oath and duty to execute,
it will be q consequence such as has new.
or vet followed au election, and an inter-
probation such as has never been put
upon the meaning of one. If the laws
are unacceptable to the majority of the
people, there is a proper method of an
nulling them. Obstruction by fraud, vi.
olence or formal neglect, is method
which the people of this country have
never yet approved.
The central plank in the Republican
policy has been, and is nov, the restora>
tien of the seeded States to the Union,
con just and proper conditions This has
been impeded by the President, and the
Democratic party have instigated and in
dorscd his course in this respect. The
laws Of Congress have been indorsed by
the Republican party. Until repealed
or modified, their execution must con>
tinue to be the duty Of the President,
whether he shall perform 1T or not. The
election, therefore, does not legitinately
affect the prospects of that just and safe
reconstruction which has been the aim of
the Republican party. There is no al,
tentative ..or evasion, but in gross de-
reelection Of official duty in the Executive
As to the future prospects of the great
central questions, they must be deter
mined by the voice Of the people in fu>
ture elections. Next year, in the elec>
zion of new Congress and new Presi>
dent, the opportunity will be legally pre-
sented for an expression of the peoples
will on the subject But the next year
we anticipate that expression in favor of
the Republican doctrine of roconstruc-
tion, on the basis of fidelity 20 the Uuion,
We are not at all respondent in conse-
quence of the defeat we have had On
questions foisted into this canvass, which
are not connected with the main chance
Last year we recollsct after their seventh
defeat, the Democrats rallied their hopes
Immediately after election. After glori-
Gus victories for seven years We hope the
Republican party has too much vitality
aRd too much spirit to give way to des-
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-16
Editorial Clippings.

THE Tribune, in pronouncing some
timely words of warning to the Republi-
can party, says:
the Republican party need not depend
for its victories on the persistent misbe,
havor of its enemies. 1t is strong enough
to rule by its own merits independently
of their follies and crimes. But to this
end it must first: Complete promptly the
Reconstruction of the Southern States on
a basis of blended justice and maguan>
unity Second Systematically educate
and eniighten the people. The necessity
and urgency of closing up the work of
reconstruction on the broad and safe ba~
sis of Universal Amnesty with Impartial
Suffrage is now so clear that we will not
dwell upon it. Events are more cogent
than arguments.
We will not quarrel with the Tribune
about its plan for reeonstructing the
South, if it will come with us in support
of Intelligence as the basis of Suffrage,
when we come to have the matter over>
hauled in the North. The ballot in the
hands of every loyal man became me-
cessity in the South, not only for its own
sake, but to save the country from the
domination of the unreconstructed and
ever rebellious portion of the community
there-a necessity whereof negro suffrage
was born. The necessity in the North
for an intelligent ballot is scarcely less
apparent. We are sure the Tribune re-
alizes this. While theaefore we rein
force loyalty with the ballot in the South,
let us improve every opportunity to make
intelligence and fitness tho basis of voting
here. What says the Tribnne ?-Phts.
Commercial.