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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-12-22

III. lecture,
Last Tuesday evening. by Rev. j.
i. Gilbert, was an excellent one. The
subject, '.!he Universal Yankee was
a suggestive and fruitful ono. The
word Yankee was used as syno-
nym OF that energy, perseverance,
wakcirlness and inquiry which have
characterized the advance guards
Of all great movements in the
worlds history, -in fast the arant
colvears OF all reforms. IL conclusion
he gave the real New England Van.
kee credit for a large proportion OF
the wondrous movements which have
characterized the people Of the north
ern portion of the United States. He
also drew picture OF the Yankee OF
the next generation.
The cxtyeme severity OF the wealth
err, on Tuesday evening, greatly re-
dncsd the number of the hearers.
The lecturer has some oratorical
faults, some of which may be RENE
died, aud he carries, Of course, some
what too much Of the pulpit upon
the platform; but, on the whole, his
lecture " az 4 success.
TnE FRuIrs de Witt excrtcd ev.
cry energy, when she subscribed up.
wards OF sixty thousand dollars to
secure tho Davenport and St. Paul
Railroad; but now tho fruits Of tho
new road are beginning to ripen and
fall into her lap, and all can SEQ that
the money was wisely invested. Our
grain dealers can pay from four to
seven cents moro per bushel for grain
on account of having competing
lines to Chicago than when We had
but one line; coal is cheaper, lumber
is cheaper. frcights are cheaper, cars
are NOW abundant on Our switch,
where they used to he provok,nyly
scarce; and, in short, rival railroad
interests give business new life in our
town. Hence, the new railroad is
hailed with delight, and is doing a
better business, we are told, than
even its most sanyuinc friends pre-
dicted for 80 short a line. More
grain is shipped from De Witt over
this road than over the Norlhwes-
tern.
With tho advantage now enjoyed
IN reduced rates, o0r town will get
her money back in sasisSs ID less than
two ycars. Who says the new road
is not q good investment s-(Dc Witt
Observer. M
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-12-22
JAMES WALLACE,
Toledo, Iowa.

Married
At the residence Of the brides pa.
rents, at Tama City, December 20
by Rev. Il. N. Earhart, ALBERT II
LAWRENCE, OF ToIcao, and CLARA NJ.
CoLE, OF Tana City.
The many friends Of the newly
married couple JOIN in congrstala
tions. and desire us TO express for
them their earnest wishes for the fu-
turc happiness Of the now happy pair
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-12-22

Attention Company
CUBE Rlcnr. EncNp!.--A large
stock of furniture must be dlspostd
Of at ruinous rates to make room for
new goods. Those wanting furniture
cheap should call and examine the
stock Of
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-12-22
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eS Get your rag Carpet wove
by G. Bergman, West Of the Catho-
lie Church, Toledo. SOFT
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-12-22

Cash paid for Greer Hides and
Sheep Pel,s by w. N. Brown Il Co
ToLKDo, Dec. 1, 1870. F4ssf
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-12-22

TOLEDO, Iowa, Dec. 6, 1870.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03

in the Oyer and Terminer last week,
is in point. Had he not believed, to quote
his vulgar expression, that hanging for muir
der was "played out" in New York, and had
he felt certain of the doom which should
await his crime, the hand that drove the knife
to the heart of the unoffending man who was
his victim would never have been raised TO
take that life. For such man as Reynolds,
and for many of those who, with faces still
more villanous in their expression than was
that of the murderer himself, attended his
trial, a sentence to prison for life has compa-
ratively no terror. There a possibility of
escape always exists. But they do not find 1t
so pleasant to think of themselves swinging
from the gallows.
An important element in capital punish
ment as O preventive of the crime Is the
swiftness with which it follows upon convic-
ton and sentence. In Massachusetts,, until
recently, murderer under sentence OF death
was required by law to be imprisoned for the
space of one year before execution. Last
year two young men named James, who were
cousins, murdered and robbed q gambler at
Worcester, in his rooms near the principal
hotel in that city, where the college students
throng every summer at the time OF the Uni
versity boat race between Harvard and Yale.
They both were convicted and when SEN
fenced, soon afterward, to be hanged within
a short time, they expressed great surprise at
learning that the law to which we have re-
ferred had lately been repealed. No doubt
was entertained that they hoped to break
prison and escape during the one years i'm
prisonment which they thought the law pre-
scribed.
This murder at Worcester was committed
entirely for the sake of the money taken
from the murdered man; and it is remarka-
BILE circumstance that these two marderers,
while at Providence, r. l., just before going
to Worcester, followed home q man whom
they knew to have with him large sum of
money, late one evening, with the intention,
it is supposed, of killing and robbing him.
A tall, burly watchman, armed with pistol
and club, who knew them, accosted them,
and walked along with them until the man
who had the money was safely in his house,
And in Rhode Island where this occurred,
and where there is every reason to believe
that these fellows intended to commit the
murder if they could find an opportunity to
kill man who had large amount of money
upon his person, the death penalty is abo.
| lished. ....
| At all events, so long as capital punishment
| is known to the laws of the State of New
York, let those who are convicted of murder
| be executed within reasonable time after
sentence, and not allowed to remain unhune
so long that other villains may be induced tC
take human life, under the impression that
hanging for murder is played out in New
York"
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03

The mischievous results of the abnormal
receptive faculty developed in the career OF
General Grant are, however, made more
strikingly manifest than before. A man OF
sense might have known that men In general
we're not prone to make presents to public
functionary out Of pure admiration without
expecting some direct or indirect return.
man of delicacy would have disdained putting
himself under personal obligations which he
might have chance of officially discharging.
But General Grant was as willing to receive
as the daughter of the horse-leech, and the
gold ring deemed it blessed to give. Those
who had cast their bread upon the Presiden-
tial waters, now after many days looked that
IL should return to them. Mr.. Fisk gave Mr..
Grant free ride and free supper, and re-
lied upon O little private information in
return. Mr.. Catherwood had been active in
obtaining subscriptions for a house, and was
trusted to get the same information in return.
It is not monstrous that q President of the
United States should suffer himself to be
bought and sold in this wayp The only ex-
cuse for him that can be made is that, though
he suffered himself to be bought and sold, he
did not suffer himself to be delivered. This,
if il were made out, would rather worsen than
better his predicament. And this is not
made out. r...... ...
After the gravest suspicious had been fast
ened upon him, suspicious winch nobody,
friend or foe, was willing to credit, but
which it needed his own explicit statement
to rebut, he declined to make that statement.
The committee courteously gave him to un-
derstand how deeply his reputation was in
volved in the sworn evidence before them.
He declined to vindicate his reputation. His
partisans will tell us that it was 'beneath
his dignity" to appear before committee of
Congress.
But it was not beneath his dignity to write
vague denegations for publication in Mr..
Bonner's Ledger His acquiesoence under
accusations SO grave, and all the graver for
not being formally made but irresistibly de-
duced from a series of circumstances esta-
blished by cloud of witnesses, is as painful
as it is astonishing. Under the most chari-
table construction, such carelessness about q
matter which so nearly concerned his fidelity
as public servant and his rectitude as a
human being shows that he is not possessed
of that ''senSibility of principle" and of that
''chastity of honor" which "feels o stain like q
wound" "Gentlemen of the jury" said O
wise old English Judge, 81 charge you, as
matter of common law, of common justice,
and of common sense, that everything is to be
taken against that party which can show and
which S0tH not show"
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03
HANGING FOR MURDER.

From the NJ r. Sum
1t seems to us that in determining the ques-
ton of the abolition of capital punishment
for the crime of murder, society ought mostly
to be influenced by this one consideration
Without the death penalty, will there or will
there not be an increase in the number of
murders committed2
q. This question cannot well be answered
satisfactorily. Capital punishment has no
where been abolished for any great length of
time; and even if q diminution OF the number
of murders has been recorded in those coun-
tries where the punishment of crime by death
has been the longest prohibited by law, we
cannot be sure that the decrease Is not owing
to causes ether than the non existence of capi-
tai punishment. 'o4 'a'I 'i'- 'I. q1 o
Several recent crimes in this country bear
evidence that there is among us large class
of ruffians who can be deferred from the
most atrocious and horrible murder only by
the certainty and swiftness of retributive
| death.
! The case Of Reynolds, who was sentenced
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03
THE GOLD RING.


Since the days of Walpole, when members
of Parliament shut their eyes to evidence in
cases of contested elections, and bhndly
divided into Whig and Tory sides, even
until now, Parliamentary or Congressional
minority report" has come to mean q mere
piece of special pleading in behalf of the
party principles of the opposition. The
absence OF such a spirit in the report of the
minority of the committee appointed to in
vestigate the causes and PROFOUND the remedy
of such financial panics as that which die
graced Wall street in September is signal
and honorable exception. For the candor and
cogency which distinguish this paper the
country is doubtless indebted to the acumen
and accomplishments of the Representative
from the Sixth district of New York, Mr..
Cox.
There is no doubt that, of all the parties to
the infamous transaction, Corbin appears the
most contemptible, if not the most culpable.
His lack of scruples when money was to be
made is beautifully balanced by his can't of
piety when reputation was to be retrieved.
Beside him, all the other parties to the trans
action rise to kind Of moral sublimity. The
pleasing frapkness of Mr.. Fisk and the pru-
dent patriotism of Mr.. Gould are noble, and
even what looks so like the venality of Mr..
Butterfield is venia, beside the double
treachery and the whining sancsimony of the
Presidents brother-in-law,
It is as certainly not the fault as il is GER
tainly the misfortune of the President to have
a kinsman of the character of Mr.. Cofbin. A
man is no more responsible for his brother
in-law than he is for his mother-in-law; aud
the victim of an irritable and cohesive
mother-in-law is always an object OF profound
pity There is no doubt in any mind capable
of being convinced by evidence that Corbir
traded on his relationship to the President
We have shown over and over that his ALI
anoe was of no conceivable benefit to th'
ring for any other purpose than the one pur
pose essential TO their desire of knowing
accurately, if, not of influencing ,corruptly
the Executive mind. The testimony takei
by the committee makes this clearer thai
ever. The only question remaining was
what authority had Corbin for the represent
ations which il is undeniable that he made
This question We looked to the committee b
clear up. And this question remains q
cloudy IS ever.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03
WOMEN JURORS IN WYOMING.

FTOTn the NJ 4. deT0tL
The Legislature of Wyoming Territory
lately passed bill giving to women the right
of suffrage. AS this concession is held to
carry with it the right to hold Office it appears
that the Territorial authorities have construed
it as embracing the duty of women to serve
as jurors, and that accordingly for the March
term of the Albany CWyoming) County Court
the names of eleven ladies-some of them the
wives of the most prominent citizens-are
among those drawn for jury service, and that
immense excitement was created thereby. But
this is bringing the question of woman politi-
cal rights to practical test, and how she can
expect to claim the right to the ballot-box
without being ready to submit to the duty of
the y-box, the same as Sambo, we cannot
tell But suppose this question settled, and
that women are bound when called upon to
take their chances with the men for jury
service, will not hanging for murder and the
State Prison for some other crimes be indeed
''played out ?" And what then? The subject
is full of serious doubts and difficulties which
the gallant men of Wyoming, with all their
practical experiments, we fear, will not be
able to remove. Still, as those gallant men
on behalf of women's rights seem to think
they are engaged in good cause, let them GO
on, and let the ladies see that if they are
frightened off by jury duty their cause is lost.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03
NEGROES AS LEGISLATORS.
From the N. Y. Tribune.

''Our African Senator" is the title OF half
column editorial in the st. Louis Republican
(Democratic). in which it is asserted that the
election of Mr.. Revels to the United States
Senate ''marks an era in the history of the
world" that sis the first authenticated in
stance of nation boasting a Caucasian
lineage deliberately and freely choosing. an
African as law-maker, and clothing him
with rank and dignity among the very high
est in its power to bestow."
''That the annals of every age, from the era
of the Pyramids to our own, may be searched
in vain for even the remotest parallel to this
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-03

step which we have Just taken in the science
of government with the utmost indifference
and nonchalance," and much more to the
same effect.
We were quite prepared to believe that the
prejudices of the late lords of caste would
not readily give way to that great advance in
Christian civilization which places all men
upon an equality before the law, which makes
the Declaration Of American Independence a
living fact; but we can see no sufficient rea-
son why this unworthy prejudice should be
yoked with such profound ignorance of we'll
known facts in history as is displayed in the
article from which we quote. The writer
ought to know, if he does not, that there
we're several negro members in the National
Assembly of France, no longer ago than the
time Of the last republic. Does he not know
that in Brazil, the great empire of South
America, there is no caste based upon color
or race-that the Jet black Senator sits by the
side of the white one on terms of perfect
equality in the highest brach of the National
Legislature ? Is he not aware that in most of
the Spanish American republics and West
India Islands the negro enjoys citizenship
upon the same terms and conditions as the
descendant of SpainP Is he ignorant of the
fact that negroes held seats in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature before the st. Louis
Republican had an existence? Has he never
heard that in all the States of Europe the
standing or position of man is in no wise
affected by the color of his skim
The writer seems surprised that q duly
elected Senator should take his seat, and that
the people should look on with indifference
and nonchalance. Perhaps he may yet dis
cover that the people are not all purblind
politicians; that they see and accept accom-
plished facts, and have no positive fear that
one mulatto or quadroon will be more than a
match for seventy-three Caucasian Senators.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-20
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE BOOK. TRADE SALES.

The attendance at the sales yesterday con-
sisted chiefly Of those nterestedn Catholic publications.
the day being given up to the invoices OF p oShes of
this city, and p Donahoe Of Boston. The catalogue in
addition to few standard works, included Bibles,
prayerbooks sacred story books for children, poems,
tales legends allegories and manuals These we're sold
in great quantities. and the range OF prices may be
judged from the following examples Osheas illustrated
Bible trade price s22. sold for s. 81 the complete works
OF Dean Swift which sold for S15 brought only rs
cents; the Gentle skeptic, original price
81, sold for 65 cents; the American Repub
lie, by o. A. Brownson 80 cents. The remainder
OF the books consisted almost exclusively Of sacred
works and treatlses, which sold at prices varying
from $50 to 81 So The sale to-day begins with Putnam
Sons invoice OF the works OF Irving, Bayard Taylor
Thomas Hand, Father Hyacnthe Mrs. Hawthorne, Prof
De We're, &C. Ii has also several publications OF
special interest, among them the Snnyside Book" by
popular authors and artists Remnants book OF rav
els, IentLife in Siberia, &C.; Prof Malloy's Geology
and other new books not yet published The event Of
Saturday next will be the Offering for sale OF the original
copper plates OF Audub0ns great work birds which
was published many years ago at cost OF over 100000
The price of each copy OF the work then produced
about $780, hut they have since been sold for $1,000
The plates are to be sold for all they will bring above the
price OF the metal,
New-York tribune., 1870-09-20
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.

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Baeher Miss Underwood Ms Spencer Nj.
and vie Rev. Smith Ma Smith Mr. Neville and via
children Miss Mining Mr. 1bomA and daughes
Miss o. Tooe Mr. ROdan, Mr. Murray wife and chden Rev
J. Reed Mrs Perry Rev Hsyiens Mr. Gael and wife Mt Lee
McLorey and LADY Miss Deerng Mr. Cannon and wife
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Lamb Riorsn HoIen Dayton W. Carter HenderHon nehes
YER r. Brown Engemand j. G. Dosung A. Mitchell A. Cook J.
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New-York tribune., 1870-09-20

attacked on the sst hank The Ninth Corps first threw
itself advanced detachments OF the enemy Toward
artillery fire from the neighborhood OF Vernevle
announced that the corps at that spot engaged The
tenOn OF the enemy the nights by artillery fire from
its front. About l246 they opened slow and we'll
directed caDnOnade upon the einenoes OF the Pontd-
Jour to which the enemy replied from numerous hat
teres The thunder of the cannon was drowned by the
strange noise Of the mitrailleuses.
The position was an exceedingly strong one, and its
security was increased through fortihcatons and by
peaFoSce Of fortress The attack could not succeed
until commanders had achieved the difficult task OF
ready well for the battle the north as ON the
east and the latter attack could only commence when ~
I e ny dS to out
the movement, which to enveop the enemys right
a ad h9Ig & Tseu @ trme Hgt 70 as long and aim
cult at various points on the left wing the saxons
fought and the Guards St. MarieauxChene AFTER
ward the precpitous slopes of b. Prlyata Mon
tagne then in that village and IN Roncourt On the
right at St. ALL and beyond at HabOnville, the WOOD OF
La Cusse and verneyile, as far as tho norhery road
from Metz to yerdun, the Guards and the Nntn Army
anx.wood up to the Mosee the Eighth and Seventh
Corps and from the further side OF the riNer @ pak
some Single Divisions Of the Third and Tenth torps
pecally artillery. On the enenys side the whoe ol sle
naly destined for the Baltic expedition, with the exeep
tion of MacMahons Divisions not stationed at e% anu
'T bs bravery OF our troops succeeded at
the approach of dusk in stOrming the hights ana
had been marching since q. m, taking decisive part
I'm this on the right wing The battle terminated about
SEQ when il was quite dark During the night the enc
nv drew back into his intrenched camp at Metz sum
bcrless wounded and stray detachments still wandered
in fbe neighborhood of the battlefield. His Majesty,
who had directed the battle ultimately from thc m OI
Gravelottle made Rezonytle his headquarters . 10
The losses as was inevitable in such combat must ne
very considerable; at present they cannot De approx
mafey stated as lust as little the number OF the prs
oners and other trophies he reckoned As TO the last as
I'm reference TO all encounters round Metz great booty
cannot lie looked for pursuit not possible III the
Vicinity Of the fortress The battle formed the concu-
sion of the previous strategic movements round Metz
and the result is that the hostile army s for the time cut
off from all communication with Paris. Ii is subject OF
rejoicing that on this eventfl day the brotherhood In
arms the Prussan, Saxon, ana Hesslan trOops HAS
been sealed in blood.