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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16
The Federal Circaits.

The judicial Circuits OF tho United
State, as approved by the new'iaw
Of Congress, 1.-THE appointments 70,
the Judges Of which are to be made
by the President early this fnonth,1
are thus coDstituted:<
! /. Maine, New Hampshire, Mass
acInsetts, Rhode Island. +i,'' z y ~. 20
2. Connecticut, yermpnt, New
York. glIorls ylgaiegfej ii bah ,e,IG =
3. New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware.ql wgI 10 non4o = 9dT
= 4. i Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
virginia, North CaaoIina, South Car
DINA MI 10, slgi tGdi ig08Q8oIat
s. Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas. 40
g., Michigan, Ohio, = Kentucky,
Tennessee. n qdI dYpU1A oisHe4
~. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin.
s. Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Ar
kansas, Kansas, Nebraska. b 1'9l
0. California, Oregon, Nevada.
II In addition to these appointments
to be made by the President, there
is the vacancy on the Supreme Bench
tobs filed. Attorney General Hoar,
is supposed, will be put in that
distinguished place, and would be
worthy of the distinction. " " "l
In making these selections, Gen.
Grant will have to discharge the
most important duty he has yet been
called to meet in the way of office
filing. The country will be satisfied
with none but good men for the
places. The veal Of the people will
be largely in their hands, and in their
SELECTION the quality Of, integrity
cannot be made gedond to intelli-
gcnce. The best men are needed,
and we have full faith Gen. Grant
will so choose. - Register. ''4' " 20
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16

dertake the sphere of the hands, nor
tae hauls that of the head; for each
sphere daA be determined only BY
naturatJ Ieetton. WAnan alone cab
no norpsrm true poIIti9a, society,
than albof bachelors ca form :
true fapIiiy.
The, POSITION of woma9 sndoubt,
edly higher in America IN 1t has
ever been anywhere; and in all civil
lied States the theory that women
are properly subject sex is sharply
questioned. But where ever the
Improvement Of their condition 10
most marked, the more general and
imperative TstKeIf demand for poiit-
zeal equality; nor sIiouidthis surprise
US, for compliment and courtesy to
women, the most raptnrous fattery,
and the loudest professions Of tender
regard for feminine -delicacy, are
found to be compatible With unjust
and contemptuous laws concerning
them. - ~ s,.-tY
Liberty IS the child OF Justice; and
if the voters OF the United States be-
lieve that governments Justly exist
by the consent Of the governed, let
them say whether half the adult
population Of the country, whose in
t.rest in the commonwealth Is as
vita! rs that 5f tile otifer half; who
are as intelligent, as moral, as order
~, who own prop erty, whoray tax
es, who in every way contribute to
the general welfare, shall continue
to be tlisfranchised, with criminals,
idiots, and thelinsand; or whether
every opportunity which men them
selves enjoy, shall.hot lie opened by
them to the equally free choice Of
,woinen.roqaG ealHpdJIet oli a2E
. / send the bearticst God speed to
your Iabors. The cause is but part
,df the general emancipation OF socie-
ty from the letters of injustice and
.inIpelicy; n and Success is sure, for
America. in blood snd fire, upon a
hundred fields, as in the, firm heart
and hope, Of her best children, ois
coDsocrated to liberty. Very truly
yours, . atuo GEORGE w. GURTIssr
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16
Oil cake for Cuf-worms.

IAN exchange says that % handful
of oil meal in a hill Of corn will oceu-
pyIthe cu.-worms till the kernel is
decayed md no longer liable to be
injure,lhy them. q AS n manure 1t is
worth about as much as g,iano, so
that where cut-worns abound it will
pay to use il freely. If this proven
tive is effective in saving corn from n,
the ravales of the cutworm, it would
be of greet Gse lii preserving cabbage
ana swchs potatoes, Of Which a very
large proportion is destroyed every
year, after they are straasplaptea. 3
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16

Read the following, whether you
believe in Woman Suffrage or not.
Tho writer is editor Of Harper's
Weekly, and one Of the ablest lawyers
and politicians Of the country. The
letter was read at The late National
Convention at Cleveland:
q. ,ar q ~ NORTH SHORE, L.. I. (qn
I.Ge5of s &; Nov. IS, 1862, 9aJgq
DEAR MADAM: ] was very glad
to sign the call for the Convention,
and. l am sure that the. question of
suffrage for women will be presented
By it to. the country in q manner
that will command, the most respect
ful attention. There are many, per-
sous who, see and deplore, the ,disad.
vantage under which, women still
labor In modern society, but do not
sec that q share In political. power
would help them; and such, persons,
hope, will be persuaded not more
by the argument than by the tone
and character Of the Con vention.Isai
! All that we ask 10 the remova Of a
disability z tlnreasonablys imposed,
Nature has certainly,as is constantly
alleged in reply to our, demand, de-
signed the sexes for certain functions
lin human society; but has nature
hidden the truth from one sex and
revealed 1t only to'the other? DO not
American women : know what is
lwomanly. quite as well as American
men, and land If they do,why should
1t ibo supposedntint,T III liberty o.
choice We're given them, they would
Instantly desert The womanly sphere;
IT seems to be, forgotten that the
functions and dutits arising from ses
arc not dependentsapon choice; and
on, the other hand, that on Interest
in the, proper regulation of,society
does not depend upon sex. /. If, in
deed, it be-, true, as lis constantly
urged, that their sex units and dis
inGlinesi women fora practical slaar'
in, the, governmentOf theconiip0n
wealth that truth can only be PROVED
by removing every restraint. ltwil
not do for a. gardner who, trains hi
pear trees upon a tltrellis, to asser
that. pear trees naturally grow lik'
vines; but such ggandners' are 1nnel
who declare that to allow wonIen,ta
| vote. would bea reqyi Io9 ~ against pa
ture,qfpr lthcyqmerelv assertIa ebn
i venseat- theory, and refuse TO CIV,
nature - .chance.torprove itiOr dis
Eprayesit.at lei aaD g.sis4 - ( sat-
The state nseds the / wisdom, vi
expsrieheeI the instinct of al III
members. But it cannot have then
without liberty, and the history Q
liberty Is theredl1e the story Or soef
ETY. gradually ginning the use 81 d
/ Its powers. / ina sound body, head
1 heart, and hands move In lraSmohi
euel aetiDn.,l The heart must not un
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16

Ceneral shirldan Oh the 10Th
70 kuendment.
/ The ~ noble ringing words
ate frp ptsht speechSf liehtfsl.
sileridI beet Cincinnati. ofher.
AND bsert fewds, but not elears'
u. Pies. Of I and Gen; ermap
have ID the same jdsassii
rs ik16f q g,5fious thing that now
the great men Of the nation should
speak like this?-
Ny friends, / do not want 1t said
that / left NJ expression of oMniop
10 Obib In kgArd' I'd the Fifteenth
Amepdmeas. as1 believe init -lbe-
|,lieye in giving the black men OF all
the States q right to vote. ! cannot
understand the earnest desire ON the
part of some men to deprive the
black meu of the franchise. 3 / believe
the negro is a man with a soul as
white as yonrs or mine. / believe
God has made him and Christ died
for him. / don't believe the crown
Of tlrorns that pierced the brow of
the .Redeemer drew from out his
sanity forehead afcrimson tide for
the salvation of the white man, and
the nails that smOte, his hands and
pierced his feet drew from thence a
A.rksr.siiGf2 r ibs redemption OF the
black man, .As near as can l
would look Oh eali {. the world as
God looks on it. ~ The black
men of America have earned the
right to, vote, They were our COM
rades on many a battlefield; and
when, the, conflict grew fierce and
hot, when our lines were decinated
and we, were looking anxi0nsly for
help, we never asked the color of the
squad OF. division that swept by or
over us, with Ieveled bayonets, and
cheers that shook the earth. What
difference did it make q to us
whether the cheers Of victory,
that came out Of the battle cloud,
sprang afram the throats of men
whose skins were white and fair, or
welled up from bosams duslSY the
night? What cared we whether the
blood that, was rsddeningL the field
around usfowetl from the veins and
arteries. Of men boastingpa long Tine
Of Saxon arcestry, Or gushed from
the ,rstrioken heart OF men whose
blood had grown fiery beneath the
sultry sunt0f Africa? We struggled
for victory, and shouted with joy as
tho 'braWny slaves Of the South, with
teeth firmly cienched and dusky bo-
SONS leaving withna sense'of man
hood, swept by us and went crushing
through, the lines and over the ram
parts Of rebellion. My friends, as
far as 4 am concerned, | never look
at the color Of d mans face who
stands pointing with his battered
bayonet to his title deeds Of jcitizen-
ship, written npon the scroll Of 10y
atty in the blood ofhis race and peo-
pie. Myrpolitical creed is simple,
and can he stated briefly. q b'liniH2J!
"The man that is good enough to
share my dangers on the battlefield,
rs willing to die there, If need be, as
myself, ID good enough to stand up
beside me- and vote" t.@
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16
Taxatvi knit Of Rai' rre "a. Prop Prop
Cr(y. *,...s,,, tt,.. l.,.. z

y "
At meeting Of the Board of Trade
Of Muscatihe TO take measures to Sc
cure tho passage of a law taxing
railroadpproperty at the same rates
as that owned by individuals, a
Committee reported q petition and
the draft Of a law to be presented to
the Legislature. The following is
the petition adopted: ~ ~ ~
Your petitioners, residents and
tax payersiofthe State of Iowa. most
RESPECTFULLY represent: 3Xe9 - j'i''r
That Under the present system Of
taxation 6f the property Of railroad
corporations in this State, great in
Justice is idoneGto the citizens and
taxpayers Of tho State III compelling
them TO bear a much greater proper
ton Of the burthens If the Statetax-
ation than would follow If the capital
invested III railroad property was
compelled to- constitute its proper
share of, the revenue of the State. 4
otThers' iis9now not less that 1900
miles d. railroad in this State, most
of which are earning what would
pay fair interest oyer and above all
lexpenses on a capital invested Of
from thirty to forty thousand dollars
per mile: but toput it atithe lowest
figure, weishould have the large sum
Of 100000 OOrepresentedin this class
q property, which under the present
| system pays but the small sum Of
about s8l 900, ora little over one mill
on the dollar on the vaiuationiof this
large property; willie All other class,
es Of property are compelled, to re-
spend to the time OF from ten to fif-
teen nnillsion the valuatien, whether
N beths FARMER that earns his bread
by the sweat Of, his brow, or the cap-
itaHst who has Invested his capital
in manufactures or other pursuits
equally necessary aud useful as rail-
roads .....-...s. -.
! pKour petitioners further represent
! thatwhAs they. fully recognise snd
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16

Among my IMPROVED FARMS may b
.fg.aiI svsls fenrd the followings
a No.pSTOCK FARM Of 600 acres, 10
~ miles from Knox Vile; $50 acres prairis,
400 under cultivation, frame houses, wells,
s.sblss, 5 peyer-f,ilipg springs, 24O fruit
trees, &C., DC. Price $50 per acre.
GOOD FARM Of $50 acres, miles from
IA Knoxville a good brick house, good
barn, orchard, &C., convenient to school ana
church; land nearly all under cultivation
except 40 acres Of timber. Price $35 per acre.
"a FARM Of ION acres, u miles from Knox.
N willie, : 80 acres fenced, 60 in cultivation,
90 timber. good frame house, barn, smoke
house, 200 bearing fru'tfress. SsSper acre.
A FARM Of 10 acres, u mites from Knox.
~ vile; so acres fenced. go cultivated, ~
timber. good frame house, barn, smoke house,
etc., and 200ibearing fruit trees. $45 an acre.
A FARM Of 70 acres, II miles from Knox.
N vile; 60acres prairie all fenced, and -
| acres under cultivation, 10 acres timber, .
| frame house with rooms, log stable. some
| fruit trees and other shrubbery. $35 an acre.
a FARM Of So acres, seven miles from
~ Knoxville. all fenced, rs in cultivation,
| frame houee 4 rooms and cellar, log stable,
wells, some fruittrees, &c. mile from school,
10 acres timber. Price S2s per acre.
A FARM, IA acres. q miles ffom Knoxville.
| IA altunder fence, 90 In alton, good
new frame house 32x32 . rooms, good cellar,
log stab ., As fruit trees; mile from school.
Price S45 per acre .a,asf4841s s4gE Ess
TyARM Of so acres, s miles from Knoxville,
| Il 80 acres under cultivation, plank house
3rooms, good siable, 2 wells, mile from
Sc hsel, plenty ofcoal under the land. Price
$40 per acre.
T,ARNasI milss frouoKnSxyiIls; 80 acres
| i prairie, IS timber, prairie all fenced, ~
acres in cultivation, small orchard, gooo
house D rooms, ina nice grove. good we'll,
smoke house, ETC., 3miIe from school. Price
S2t per acre. M l!g
| THARM Of 80 acres, joining Knoxville, 81
I under cultivation, frame house 20 by 70
% s1 sers. e ,i,ss:s pfiss SO psr sers. '
TNARM " miles frsm Knoxville, 8 miles
from r. II. ststion; 3a0 acres prsirie in
cuisiyatiop, so scres timber joining, frame
house 4 rooms good cellar, good bank barn y
by 40, go.d wells, springs&c. No. STOCK
farna. Price $50 spSr scrs-ons-t third cssns
and balance inpayments.
G NTH :ss II 81 sis.: q P1.:
rie. ali, under. eultiyat on, and 20 acres q
good Timber; . COED, new ira me house Of
rooms, and CELLAR Barn, 22x4a; All new snd
IgSod; price $s3 per acre; some ti'se given.
i TIE THAT DON'T SUIT YOU We win 30
i end iook at $50 acres. 23.milss from Knox
Vile; 90 acres, under eulfiva ton, I5O fenced,
and 40 acres of Timber, all together, iog nous
the Farm; .pfics 81, 500. in payments, yy
! @yrrY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dssirabls
i ,iRstidsoes. Il Kno5vills, for sale at ysry
rssSonabls Agpres, and on good terms. iss
4 wNRuosssatS !. = onnn nv = -.-A gs8
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16

9Koar petitioners further represent
thatwhile they. fully recognise sud
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-02-25
The Good remprars-aIee,ing at Dover

A quarterly meeting of the Kent County Asso-
citation Of Good Templars was held in the Hall of
State Capital Lodge No 90. at Dover on We'd
nesday, G. w. G. 7. Wright presiding. After
opening in usual form, The chair appointed the
following committees -
Credcntals-J. Dounham. Canterbury Lodge /;
- Goodcn, Willow Grove Lodge.
Toprcparc business-Alessrs. Smithers, of Ken
ton; Edwards and Rev. Grncey, Of Smyrna /:
Crouch, Cohoon and Rev. J. II. Lightbourne, of
Dover Lodge.
Delegates were present from Smyrna, Kenton
Dover, Westville, Milford, Canterbury, Wyoming,
Camden. Willow Grove, llalltown, F.lton. Little
Greek, and Harrington Lodges.
The following officers were elected for the next
quarter DIR. Styles Kennedy, Of Halltuwn, W.
g. t.; Mrs. Cooper, OF Wcstyillc, w V. Z Mr..
Ayers, of Smyrna, X. S.
vote OF thanks was rendered by the members
of the Association to STATE Capital Lodge for the
cordial welcome cXtrndcd 10 the delegates and
visiting members of the various lodges through
out this county.
The following resolution was offered and unan-
imously adopted =.
Resoired That II Is the Judgment Of this con-
yention that the cause of Temperance shonll not
be identified with either of the political parties OF
the State, and that the history oi the past warns
us not to commit ourselves with any political
party. The chair appointed the following CONF
miltecs for next term -
To propose busincss-Thos. Young. J. 4. Jakcs,
and Mrs. Young, Wyoming; H. J. Enrlght, Do
yer, and DIR. Morris, Camden.
Committee of arrangements -Messrs. Lnfland,
West, and Ford, Of Hnlltown Lodge.
The next meeting of the Association to be held
at Haltown, on the third Wednesday of May,
1862 ut which time there will be an outdoor
temperance mass meeting, when all are invited
to attend.
The Association adjourned to meet in the Hall
of REPRESENTATIVES at $50 in the evening, the hall
havi1g been granted for that purpose, at which
time the meeting organized by appointing A. j.
Wright as Chairman, and II. j. Enright as Sccrc-
tary. After opening with prayer. addresses were
delivered by DR.. Styles Kennedy, of lialltown;
DR.. Samuel McCaum, of Tcmplcvc, Md.
Thos Young, ESD of Wyoming; Rev. o. h.
Fiippo, of Dover: S. lcrsey, of Whining
ton; L. Creuch, of Dover, and Mr. Edwards Of
Smyrna.
resolution of thanks, for the Hall, was offer
ed and unanimously adopted.
This was by far the largest meeting Of the As
ISOLATION ever held IN this county. There were
over two-hundrcd delegates and visiting members
present, who took part in the proceedings ei the
secret session. The order steadily increasing
in the county, numbering at this time twenty
lodges and near two thousand members. The
next session Of the Grand Lodge of Delaware will
be held at Smyrna, on the first Wednesday In
March. We expect to hold two days session
as the R. w. G. Tcmplcr of North America. is
expected to visit Us at that time, when yon will
hear again from \ Coon TEMrLAR.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-02-25
A Flying visit to Massachusetts.

Rev. Mr.. Israel, who left Wilmington on Sun
day week, to attend some duties in Boston
and Springfield returned on Thursday. His ex-
pericnce of the weather on his trip shows the
very extraordinary and rapid changes which
everywhere prevail. Leaving Wilmington in a
violent rain storm, the intensity of which seemed
to increase with the progress northward, on the
erproeeh TO woreeater about o'clock, 2. NJ,
OF Monday the whole country appeared covered
with sleet. Nearing Boston, the storm continued
in the form Of rain, which falling on the frozen
ground ran of Immediately, and produced a Sc
rous inundation, covering the railroad track for
miles, and doing some damage On Wednes-
day morning, the sun shonc bright and beautiful
when leaving Boston, aud there lay upon the
ground slight sprinkling of snow, but on ar
riving al Springfield, the snow had increased to
enough for excellent slegiing, which had been
enjoyed by everybody Tor the past two weeks
At midnight of Wednesday, the sky over SPRING
field was clear and bright; at five O'Clock New
York was in q snow storm riding through New
Jersey in the forenoon, the day brightencd and
Wilmington appeared at one O'Clock, with cheer
full, pleasant weather.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-02-25

bad taste, bad principles and british people.
Do paint man deficient in energy? MIR.
Curtis is not a type of the compact and in
fammable mind that must burst forth in ag-
gressive and arresting words. There is no
jet of flame in his style. cannot even say
that his personality is invigorating. come
in contact with bis mental being to be har-
monzed and Modified. The asperity of our
New England climate is neither in his mind
nor in his temperament. Like his native
soil should say he lacks depth and variety.
EUGENE BENSON, In March GALAXY.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-02-25

MrToN, Sussex county, Feb. 16.-During the
past few days pctitioxs, memorials, recommen-
dations, etc, have been lying around town and
begging attention at every street coruer. AS
pirants for Office under the incoming National
Administration, and persons concerned in certain
contemplated legislation at Dover, are becoming
intensely anxious about these matters. One
petition gathering up signers about town is pray
Ing the Legislature to enact law which shall
restrict the sale of intoxicating liquors, by the
drink, to hotel keepers only. This is designed
to do away the groq-shop traffic, and throw more
OF this traffic into the hands of keepers of hotels.
1t would be better to do away with this terrible
business altogether. However, if these grog-
shops which infest State are closed, 1t will be
some advance in the right direction.
The young gentlemen Of town, headed by two
popular young physicians, are about organizing
what is to be styled the "Orchestra Glee Grub OF
Milton.' II the character of the getters-up of
tho thing augurs anything it will prove grand
success.
The Methodist Protestants of town arc now
holding protracted meeting, which bids fair to
be success. Their pastor is Rev. Isaac Atkins,
formerly local preacher in the NJ. L. Church.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-02-25

might call him the Baynrd of our polit-
so much has his most disintcrcs,ed and gra-
cious nature been employed in his public and
literary work, so courageous his action, so
stainless his record. Called from the epicu-
rean experience of social favorite and of
literary gourmand, his dainliness has become
delcacy, his sensuousness moral suavity. If
fresh from the enervating Orient, he wrote
with the tcpid lassitude of tibrcless and
springless nature, and, so to speak, split his
mind in memories of the exhausted East, Of
twenty eight he wrote the "Potipbar Pa
pers." His mind had regained its tone; H.
bre, purpose, and skill were in his work.
At twenty six sensuous senlimcntalst, at
twenty eight social satirist, then moral
ist To-day journalist, that is TO say preach
er, politician, and essayist, but in each char
acter alike serene and thoughtful At first
he wns supcrfine; supcrfine in his reading,
superiine in his expression, superiine in his
experience, But he seems to have been
touched by the serious and penetrating gen.
ius of Thackeray. The phrase maker form
ed uuder Emerson and English poetry dis
appeared; in place of that exquisite writer,
a clear-eyed, delicate, and decided man
looked and reflected upon the comedy of
actual life, instead Of brooding over nature
and recalling the feliclties of poets. His
literary work in this new phase was admira-
bly, done; with good sense, with humor,
with dramatic life. Then he gave us the
clarified and winning expression of his per-
sonality in ''Pruc and Ia book full of
grace and pathos and humor--a book of SEN
timent and souvenir, which shows that Mr.
Curtis is closely related to Lonetellow,
Hawthorne, Irving, and Mitchell-men in
whom the genial and conteniplative mind
dominates,-men who have sense of art, of
nature, and delightful perception of char
acter but who are devoid of energy. They
may be said to be of one literary school
These men have an honored place in Amer
ican homes. They hold Old World memo
ries with New World facts; they make the
transition from European culture to the
social aud literary life Of our seaboard towns
and cities.
Mr.. Curtis is a mild contemporary; he is
never vulgar, never hostile to anything but