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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20
10000 PAPERS.

Shaker Seeds, and Onion Sets
ALL FRESH from the growers.
Don't fail to call soon, as the" first
choice" is an item worthy of con.
sideration. TJan. Soft
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20

~ TUNsTAL L Il BALDWIN are
snd selling all their Wooden Goods,
DOvFlothing NJ cost! -
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20
Patent metallic white Clothes lines

TINE undersigned. agent Of the American Wire
L Company of New York, would beg leave to call
the attention of the huusekeepers of Madison
county TO their Patent hIaIallic Clothes Line
which has been found to be the only article suita.
BILE for clothes line, except the old fashioned
rope which always causes so much annoyance and
trouble by breaking, rotting out and discolorno
clothes. and by being obliged to put it up and take
it down every time used.
With this line You have none OF those annovan.
ces. and when it is Ionce put up it gives more
trouble.
Price, )! cents per foot.
Specimens be ut the Drug store Of
Mosby 4 Richards.
Nav 2 2 G0TTID Agent
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20

Go To CLARK & BALDWIN'S,
Cor BOHEMIAN CUsTARD SETS. 9.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20
AGENTS..

We wish to arrange with Agents male or female TO
represent the American Shuttle Sewing Machine, in
each State, County and town in the United States and
Ontario. Extra inducements to Experienced Agents
For full particulars to salary commission address
Il " n ANDIlI L NvS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20

Go TO CLARK & BALDWINS,
I'@ant CHAMBER SETS. Q.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20
CANTON PRICES CURRENT,
CORRECTED WEEKLY, FOR rHE AMERICAN CITIZEN,
BY p. T. NOONAN.

For BARGAINS, Indies should re i'm.
mcdiaIely to NIB. HEsDORFFER,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20

-EC WHARTON L CO, Merchants Ex.
ehenRr Rooms I'd Floor, Common street, between
Cans and st. Charles, New Orleans, are our au.
tkariaed sgsnta for the city.
AawsF.-Mr Sam. Milton Ia our authorized agen
Canden, aud will collect such accounts a. are
placed in kh hund.. and receive and receipt 70
I'D advertisements aud subscriptions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20

For the largest assortment Of LADIES
md uILDENA SHOES. md boots.
Gsts n B. HESD0RFFER.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20

For HOSIERY of ali descriptions go nm
mcdintcIy to M B HESDORFFER
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-03-20
To Gardeners.

We advise all persons DESTROYS OF
having good gardens for the coming
spring and summer, to call immedi-
ately Mt Messrs. Cassell & Baughn's
and make their selections. They
have IA very large and choice lot of
the finest seed-all specially adapted
to this section. The assortment en-
braces the following popular varie-
ties:
LANDRETH'S SEEDS.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
PLATFORM.

Whereas, Upon the eve OF political canvass. 'he
time houored usuage of our party requires 'hat
platform of principles be announced Tor the govern
mcnt of those who ma! be elected 10 o..ee With
Resofred. That the Democratic party view WIN
alarm the action INSCRIPTIONS majority III
rrsss in their attempts to absorb the powers o NV
Executive and Judicpal Departments OF the GoVerh-
mont and to annihilatc the rights and iuncuoHsre-
served te the State Governments
R..olred That favor reform in the Satiohai
Banking system, looking to an ultimate aboiishheh'
OF that pernicous plan for the aggrahdzen'en' VI
few, at the expense OF the many. !,
Pssolcsd That now, in time past weare opposca
10 high protective tariff and that we VIII use every
effort to prevent and defeat that system et
LEGISLATION which would enrich small CLASS OF h-
uacturers at the expense of the great mass Oh pro-
ducers nd consumers. and that we are IN ia'er oi
euch reforms in tariff system. as shall promote
commerce with every nation of the world.
Resolred, That the pretended trsi, m
naval service of the United States by military com
mission and we denounce the same as unworthy OF
free people, and dsgraceful to the American
nient. ,.,,
nit to nothing less than the settlement OF the hia
hama claims according to the recognized rnies 0, M
ternational law and that declare it to be me a
Of the Government to protect every cltN w. i
naturaized or native in every right OF liberty aa'
propcrty throughout the world, without lh'
pretended claims of foreign nations to their aieei
ance.
Resolrsd That we are in favor Of. and insist npon
mn economical administration of the National ant
Etate Government that the people may be as sreedii
as possible relieved from the load OF taxation VIII
which they are oppressed and that pupiic oHccr
should be held to strict accountability 10 the peopi
for all their official acts.
Pssolred That national debt is national curse
and that while we favor the payment OF our preseh
Indebtedness according to the strict lettero OF coh
we would rather repudats the same, than see II hae.
the means for the establishment of an nipire upo
the ruins of constitutional law and liberty.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
DIED

At the residence Of his son, Charles l.. Angler. in
Garnavllo, Sept 18th, ELIJAH Angler, in the
SD year of his age.
Mr. Angler was born in Fitzwiliam, N. II. in 1857;
he lived many years I'm Essex Co., N. Y, and came to
Clayto County about 1G years ago. His powers had
been gradually falling with age, and gave way after
an illness of five six days. lie died in firm hope
of an "eternal home in Heaven"
His funeral was attended at Garnavillo by large
number of mourning friends and relatives on the
1sth-a discourse being delivered on the occasion by
Rev. W. c. Wright OF the McGregor Baptist Church.
of which til deceased was member: text Ps. 1925
"My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the
strength Of my hca,t and my portion forever"
Communica ted.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Filings af the ACr. Fairs.

1t seems that good many Editors feel
called upon, of late, to contribute their
mite to the fund Of sympathy for the OPP
pressed visitors of agricultural fairs.
Managers are accused of allowing them to
degenerate into trotting matches, where
gambling horse fanciers occupy the place
that should be filled by the practical farm
ers. The great popularity of these fairs,
and the remarkable interest in agriculture
al subjects which they have developed and
sustained for q long term of years, speaks
well for the sound sense, and good taste
Of the people of the cities, as we'll as
those of the country. For it should be
borne in mind that very large share of
the support which these fairs receive is
derived from these who have no pecuniary
interest in agriculture. They should not
be allowed to control the fairs nor change
their legitimate character, still, as a matter
of courtesy, aud of interest also, their
tastes should be consulted. This can lie
done without degrading the character of
the fairs, and we think the managers have
not oyerstepped the bounds Of duty in
making agricultural fairs attractive to the
thousands Of well-behaved and well-pay-
ing visitors who could poorly appreciate
an affair conducted in the strict, exclusive
style prescribed by those who indulge in
these filings at the present character oil
our fairs. The term gamblers (which can
be properly applied to but few has been
used rather freely by these sticklers for
primitive simplicity. The owners and ad-
mrers Of fas. horses are not necessarily
! gamblers, and the practice of applying
this epithet unfortunately to them
should be rebuked. Fo. though, as a
class, they spend their money freely, il
will generally be found that it is money
honestly obtained. And it should be con
sidered that, beside the patronage which
they bestow upon these exhibitions, large
sums of their money find THEN way int
the rural districts in pay for the fast horse:
bred tn re, and whose characteristics they
have become acquainted with at thes'
fairs.
|. Farmers will find these "fast men," a
they are SO sweepingly and so indignant.
termed, when they become better acquaint
ed with them, are not such monsters O
such fools as they have been representa-
f to be. And they will find, too, that tn
taste Of the young at their homes crave
something of this character; and it wi
be much better to crafty it in a Harmless
f way, and direct it properly, than to oil
struct its course by rules too rigid, an
thus divert it to more dangerous means {
qualification.
There is probably no serious dissatis
a faction felt among farmers in regard
/ the character of the late fairs. The con
plant has evidently arisen from tn;
/, fruitful source which is forever producin
=, something that will tend to make the farm
err sulky and jealous of his city friend
and which is ever creating a breach b.
O tween classes whose interests are mutua
$ and who would otherwise respect eac
g other.-Erch.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Tho Ottumwo Cour;er tails the following

The Ottumwa Courier tells the following
telegraphic joke: "Mr. l.. Rabbit, pro-
prietor of the popular eating house at the
depot in this city, is engaged in building
a hotel at junction City, where the d. V.
has just crossed the c. X. l. & p. Railway
and with the change Of weather the other
day. found it necessary to send n dispatch
to his people here to forward him some
thing to keep him warm Of nights in tho
new open building he was erecting out
there on the prairie. lie therefore tele-
graphed "send me four quilts by the next
train" but the dispatch got transmogrified
into .'scnd me four girls" whereupon his
employees here. supposing that he had his
building far enough along to need the aid
of the girls, sent him four damsels by the
next train.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

Mrs. RAwLINs.-General Rawlins
was twice married. His first wife had
died before he entered the war. In his
war speech at Galena, in abiding to this
bereavement as an event which left him
free to dedicate his life and services to
his country, his emotion so choked his
utterance that he could scarcely proceed.
The present Mrs. Rawlins was engaged
in teaching school at the South when he
made her acquaintance during the
Vicksburg campaign. They have resi-
dcd in very plain manner at Washing
ton, the General having been, always,
since his accession to a prominent
position, too much occupied with his
public duties to give much attention or
effort to the accumulation OF private
fortune -Exch
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Wyoming,

wyoming.
Wyoming Territory is rectangle Of
land, placed in tho heart Of the wide
Western domain, belonging to the United
States. beyond the Mississippi. 1t is the
youngest Of the Territories, and is named
after the beautiful Wyoming valley in
Pennsylvania, famed for the sad massacre
which occurred there during the war of the
Revolution, and rendered classical by the
pen of the British poet Campbell. in his
charming Gertrude of Wyoming" The
face of the country is broken by several
spurs of the Rocky Mountains, which
stretch far away over the landscape, their
rugged sides scanned by the storms of ages,
and their tops covered, even during the
summer months, with thick nantes OF
snow. The most noted of these ranges
are the Big Horn, the Black Hills, Wind
River Mountains, and several peaks
among which Fremont Peak, thirteen
thousand and five hundred and seventy
feet high, is probably the widest known.
Tho Tetons are in Wyoming or Idaho, it
is impossible at present to say which, as
no true surveys have been made.
The days of isolation for the Far West
of the American continent are rapidly
passing away, and the completion OF the
Pacific railroad opens new era in the
progress of our Territories. That mines
of great value will soon be found. and
that miners and the attendant influx of
population will flow into this Territory. is
as sure rs any event of the future. The
dull and monotonons mode of travelling
by wagon across the Plains is nearly a
thing of the past; and he who has accom-
plished that feat will speak of it years
hence as something which reflects great
credit upon himself, and is certainly diff
cult to be realized by those who pass
across now in comfortable cars on the Pa
cific railroad.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
The Labor Congress.

The proceedings of the late National
Labor convention, at Philadelphia, were
interesting and important. a report was
adopted taking ground against the adj
mission of Coulie labor as prejudical to
tie interests of white labor, and tending
to its degradation. A report on mining
labor took the ground that the Government
should take possession OF the mines. 1t
was asserted that the high price asked for
coal was due 10 a combination of monopo-
lies. The just demands Of the miners
were not fully understood, because the
press of the country would not give them
hearing. They 1.-THE miners) were kept
in ignorance by the incessant demand upon
their time by employers, and then ridicul-
ed them for being unlettered.
The platform advocates the overthrow
of the corporation and moneyed influence
upon legislation as dangerous to the liber-
ties of the people and hostile to labor.
The national bank system and land mon
opolies were denounced. The cooperative
system was recommended, that labor was
the sole basis for national wealth and
prosperity. and that the time has arrived
| for protecting its interests against the
combinations of capitalists in alliance
with politicians. Education is essential
to the best interests of the nation. The
revenue laws should be amended so as to
afford just protection to industry. A
financial plank lays down the proposition
| that the legal tender money should be
made legal tender in the payment of al
debts, public and private, and convertible
at the option of the owner into Govern
ment bonds, bearing interest at the rate Of
three per cent. per annum, with privilege
| to the holder to reconvert the bonds into
money or the money into bonds, at pleas
ure. The payment of the national deb
in coin in place of currency was denounc
ed as unjust and extortionatc.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

Wherever have wandered in my mis-
sionary labors, whether in the East, West.
North, or South, have always observed
that where the newspaper was taken by
the family, their thrift, morality, and
general intelligence were to be found. In
the log cabins of the West, lis soon as my
eye caught sight of the newspaper,
thought to myself, "Iferc, at least, will
find morality, intelligence, courtesy, and
welcome, as garden ripe to receive the
gospel seed y and was seldom mistaken.
On the contrary, where neither nswspa-
pers nor good books were to be seen,
there ignorance, bigot-y, superstition and
grossness were found in all their forms.
Yes, have often thought that the news
paper was the pioneer of civilization, and
did much to make the way easy for the
successful labors Of the home missionary
LORENZO Doc.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

Oae hundred and eight bodies have been
recovered from the Avoadale mine these,
with the two maa-who lost their lives in
the first attempt at rescue. doubtless com
prise the total number Of victims by the
great disaster. Experienced and compe-
tent miners who have made thorough
exploration of every part of the working
are satisfied that all the dead have been
taken out. The figures 202 sat down
originally as the number in the mine
were given on the authority of the outside
foreman, and nobody now attempts to
account for the great discrepancy between
the estimated and the actual loss Of lite.
The widows are SO and the orphans in
this country are 100. A number of the
men had children living in the old coun-
try. The restitution existing is great, land
requires immediate relief. Three and a
half months strike had reduced all the
families to the verge of starvation, the
men not being at work long enough to
receive any pay. There was never a case
that appealed more strongly to the chart
table.
And we are glad to notice that the
charitable are moving with commendable
alacrity for the relief of the sufferers by
the awful calamity. On recommendation
of Mayor Hall the New York Board of
Assistant Aldermen have appointed a
committee to receive subscriptions for
them. Coal operators doing business in
New York are raising funds for the same
purpose, and subscription has been
started by the Commissioners of the Fire
Department. The gold and stock brokers
of New York and Philadelphia have all
ready appropriated literally, and acknowl-
edge liberal subscriptions from parties
elsewhere. Thomas P. Hunt, of Wilkes
barre, Secretary for the relief association,
appeals to the charitable everywhere
Irch
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Outside.

CEtSlae.
Poetry about wife,. Mrs. Prof.
Lyman at Cape May; interesting to
McGregor ladies' The Tariff 49,. First
steamboat from ST. Louis to St. Anthony.
.,....Radical paper on the corruption of
its parity" Domestic Life; : beautiful
and truthful little clip which should be
placed on the fy-leaf Of every Bible in
the world. 1t is intended for both sexes.
Only u lines Of it but how full of truth
......Oxen and Horses rs teams for profit.
wis. Improvement. Scotch Nor
strosity Ireland, "clip'' from A scrap
book of % years ago......Specch of Prince
Napoleon. w orldliness in Religion
camp-meetings, dress and picnics. .....A
Medium. ....A Maine Indian Saint whose
death caused a sacrifice of 2,73l animals
of the forest ard the water IA consid>
cradle about women......E accination.....
The Scandinavian papers on the radical
party. We invite most special attention
to this column, on tho 18th page. The
New York Tribune on the necessity OF
occasionally "boltinS" tho regular ticket
so as to infuse sense into the party. Read
it. John Bell. Iowa Homestead. ....
Miscellany tangled up with fun. We are
careful in selecting articles for the outside
and it is not fair to neglect item.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

MORE STATEs.--Information has been
received at Washington showing that a
proposition is to be made at the next ses-
sion of congress to create two new states
out of old ones,- by cutting off east
from middle and west Tennessee, and an
other, by taking portion of Arkansas
and joining it to the territory occupied by
the Choctaw nation. Such division
seems to originate among a few scheming
politicians, in and out of Office who desire
to get int: the house or senate. Even If
congress agrees to the creation of such
new states, it will require the assent of
the old states, and is not, therefore, likely
to succeed. SO far, every attempt has
been made to keep the new movement
a secret, but the fact that it exists has
leaked out. As regards Tennessee, how
ever, it was publicly discussed in that
state last winter. Marshall Adrauce.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
LAND FOR SALE
0HEAPs
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
OFFICE OF Co. surr. OF PupLIc SCHOOLS,

OFFICE OF Co. SupT. OF PUnLIc ScHooLs,l
Elkader, Iowa, Sept. IL, 1869. (
NOTICE is hereby given that Teachers Institute
will be he'd at Elkader. Clayton Co. Iowa, for per-
iod OF not less than six working days, beginning
the Eleventh day of Oct. 1869.
Prof Jonathan Piper of Manchester, has been Sc
cured as conductor. There will DO full programme
OF exercises consisting OF lectures and discussions Of
the best and most successful ethods of conducting
and giving instruction in our common schools.
A full attendance is solicited OF all who inter-
oited III our public schools-both teachers and pat
rons.
The school law is explicit in defining the duty of
teachers and school officers with reference to having
the schools closed and full attendance secured
the benefit of whom Herewith insert &c. A. Chapt
lst.: THAT during the time of holding Teachers
Institute in any county of this State any school that
may be in session in such county shall be closed and
it is hereby made the duty of all teachers and any
parsons desiring teachers certificate to attend such
Institute. or present to the County Superintendent
satisfactory fer not attending, before
ceiving such certificate"
Every teacher in the county win bear in mind that
their certificate to teach in the shcools of the same
expires the first day of the Institute and that it
will be necessary to have their certificate renewed in
order to be valid w. A. PRESTON,
Go. Superintendent,
3wG.i Clayton Co., Iowa.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

AMI the people
beheld the wonderful cures which were
produced by this drink, Abraham said,
My children must not suffer; give me
thy drink, and viii. give it a name"
And so Abraham drank, and said there
was nothing like it, even in Sangamon
county; that it was bitter to the lips, but
good for the stomach; and because there
were bitter times in fighting the masters
Of the plantations, it shall be forevermore
called Plantation Bitters; and SO it has
been.
And the wonderful work which it has
performed is witnessed at this day in ev-
cry town, parish, village and hamlet
throughout the world
And he said, "Let it be proclaimed
throughout the length and bredth Of the
land, from the valleys and mountain tops,
that all who suffer from fevers, dyspepsia,
weakness, loss of appetite, nervous head
ache. and mental dependency, will find
relief through the Plantation Bitters
They add tone to the stomach, and brill,
ancy to the mind, Of which l, 0 people,
am a living example"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22
Iigllt Literature.

II want paper that has long stories in
it." said Il young lady and she added.
| don't wlnt paper for anything else"
Poor girl much to be piticd : and a
pitiful appearance she will make through
life at the present rate. She wants moth
ing serious, no acquaintance with the
history of her times, nothing but newspa-
per novels
Empty heads they must be that can
find room every week for some ten col
umns of sham story. Yet these are the
heads for which the eastern press tolls and
groans, throwing off by the ten thousands
its sheets of shallow, insipid, and disgust.
ing fiction; and for this an amount oil
money is paid which sound home
literature utterly fails to command.
Fathers and mothers buy this vile trash
for their sons and daughters, and so min
lister to their ignorance and restitution Of
all good taste and fitness for LIES duties
Doubtless the weekly or periodical pres:
does more than any other one instrumen
tality to decide the opinions, habits o
thought, and general character of the age
| A family will very soon begin to show :
sympathy with its weekly paper, anc
| parents and children will soon begir
assimilating TO it in sentiment and feeling
and as families are. 90 is the communit,
at large. Blind and stupid, therefore, yea
worse, are those who tolerate in thei
houses class Of papers which are mad
up of the writings Of silly, ignorant scrib
blers, who would he sat the foot in tn
town school Of morals. Such are teacher
of half the generation. And such is til
false philosophy of patronizing trash.
papers from the East. yea Police Gazette
and Days Doings, while pleading povert,
to sustain the most sterling home ourn
\ ais
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-22

The enterprise Ferry at Des Moines,
in one day transferred two hundred and
twelve wagons, four hundred and twenty.
one horses, seventy five head of cattle,
and three thousand passengers, and to do
all this she made forty-seyen trips.
That gives some idea of the amount OF
travel that crossed the bridge before it
was wrecked.