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Agricultural.
BUCKEYE SCHOOL HOUSE,
March 2, 1870.

BUCKEYE SCHOOL HOUSE,
March 2, 1870.
Agricultural society met at p. m.
and was called to order by the Presi-
dent.
Minutes of last meeting read ana
approved.
Subject for discussion, fruit growing.
Mr.. Carson said he had not been
very successful in growing fruit
trees. had only found ono or two
varieties that would stand the
sleot. Autumn Strawberry and
Caswell, Cooling stand tho sheep
best, and are good varieties. Trees
should be act out 20 to "a feet apart.
Orchards should be cultivated.
Mr.. Ives said Wine Sap, White
Winter Pear Mair, Sweet, Romantic
and Genitans good varieties and pro
life bearers. Trees should be soft
apart. Farmers should cultivate
small fruits; would be healthier If they
used mere fruit.
Mr.. Coleman said the use of fruit
promotes health, good morals, and
prevents the govt. Trees should be
set so that when full grown, limbs
willjust come together. Rambo and
Pippin good varieties. Large sour
apples best for market. Orchards
should be cultivated and no sod per-
mitted to grow in it.
Mr.. Hartman said trees should DO
set "a feet apart; should DO washed
with soap suds, scented with
turpentine; keeps insects from inter-
rupting them. Best varieties
for summer apples, Red June and
Sweet June. For fall, Famuse, Maid
ems Blush. Rambo and Early Pence.
For winter Milan, Jonathan, Genitan,
Wine Sap and Tolman sweet. Prune
in May or June. Mr.. Phillips: or
chard should have wind break !;
should be cultivated and kept clean.
Genitan, good bearer, keeps we'll
and good market apple. White
Winter, Pearmaln, White Sap, Sweet
Romantic, Northern Spy, Fall Pip
pin, Orange, Little Romanist, Fam
use, Benoni. Big EARLY, Red June,
and Sweet June, all good. Thinks
peaches will pay in Iowa. Trees
should have wind break has had
pretty good success in raising peach
es. Prune in Fall or February.
Mr.. Whitney said trees should be
set 80 feet apart, Prune in winter
Success depends On culture and care.
Mr.. Pollock said Prune in FEBRUARY.
Trees should be MANFRED. Location
makes no difference.
Mr.. Hartman moved that cultiva-
ting grain be discussed at next meet
ing. Carried.
g. CARSON, Prest.
| THos. j. NELSON, Sec'y,
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Des Moines, March ~.

ed with prayer this morning at clock,
by Rev. Mr.. Williams, of Des NJ Dimes.
Mr.. Mahin, from the Committee on prin-
ting, made report.
Mr. Campbell ofthe Committee on Town
ship and County Organization, reported
back the bill proposing to organize the
new County of Merrill.
II. +. No. 3l7, to amend section 864 OF
the Revision was taken up,diseusseh and
passed.
IL. f. No. So was taken up and discuss
ed by Stanchfeld, Lacy, Apologize Row
ell and Dudley. This bill amends section
1851 of the Revision, by striking out 1888
and inserting sl.OO. 1t passed by vote
of yeas So, nays Is.
Here, Jones, of Polk, offered bill, No.
3ls, which was referred to the Judiciary
Committee
Mr.. Brown, of Van Buren,, called up -
+, No. So, which is the bill to compel pri-
soners and convict to labor on the streets,
&c. 1t was warmly discussed by Brown,
Lacy, Mills. Dudley. Wilson, Apologize.
and Russell, when Wilson moved to table
it the motion was lost by yeas 81, nays
SIS. Fl
A motion was then made to strike out
section 2. which failed.
Mr.. Lacey then offered an amendment,
which failed. The bill was then engross-
ed and passed by yeas 81, nays "a.
Mr.. Murdoch called up Fl. +. No. %.
which relates to notes given for patent
rights, it passed by yeas 81, nays /.
Mr.. Rogers called up No, 100, a bill to
legalize the acts of Daniel Carroll, a JUS
tice CT the Peace, which was passed by
yeas 63, nays e.
Mr.. Murdoch here offered bill, No.
3l5, making appropriations to the fAgri-
cultural College and Farm. IN
Mr.. Hunter called up No. 272, bill to
legalize the acts of A. T. Green, a Notary
Public, 1t passed by yeas so, nays g.
On motion, the House adjourned Till 8
o'clock Monday morning.
There is no session in the Senate to-
day.
On Monday next is the day fixed for the
special election in Washington Count y to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Mr.. Conner, and it is understood the
canvass is being conducted with reference
to the sentiment on the Capitol question,
and the friends of that measure will not
make any move until information is re
ceived, and should Capitol man be elect
ed, we may expect to hear from them
soon.
The hall Of the House is lonely and
quiet this afternoon, there being but few
persons about the building. The meinbers
are mostly at work on the Commit ees.
The Honse has takenAno action yet in
relation to the day Of adjournment.
With high regard,
ANON.
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The Carbonate Neac Era vehe.
entity denies that Gen. John A. 10
IN will not be candidate for re.
ection as member of Congress at
rye.
The Ne1r Era needn't to brag SO
nd, as nobody seriously supposed
at he wouldn't be candidate.
Gen. John A. Logan belongs to tho
pine which seldom dies, and never
sis MS fat Office.
Moreover, he is the hes, and ablest
smber Of Congress from the State
Illinois, oven ifhe does 60 off some
aes half cooked, as he did recently
ainst the gallant Phil. Sheridan.
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Judge Toman, of the Independence
Bulletin, and Frank Hatton, Of the
Mt. Pleasant journal, both leading
and honorable Iowa journalists, are
having, at this writing, desperate
combat over the appropriation to
start a new Insane Asylum at INDIE
pendence.
At present the fight is nip and
tuck, with "stinkpots," polecats," and
'.jackasses," as the principal weapons,
as the fierce combata ats are closing
into the death hug.
We shall publish the obituaries as
they may become necessary, with
uncommon pleasure.
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From I" Anon"
DES MONIES. Iowa. Mare

Dies MONIES, Iowa, March %.
After the discussion
of the Railroad tariff question for the
last two days, at twenty minutes past
4o'clock, the bill known as the Mills
bill was ordered to its third reading.
The discussion was participated in
by Mr.. Mills, Irish, O'Donnel, Suits
man, Applegato, Ball and Pratt in
favor, and Wright Of Sac, Green,
Stone, Cults and Hobson were un-
derstood to have spoke in favor of
the Railroad interest and against the
Bill. There has been no question be-
fore the House that has created a
greater interest than this
Mr.. Dudley offered a substitute,
which was amended and then voted
down, by yeas p nays 81, the yess
and nays being called. On the mo-
ton to engross the vote was, yeas 81
nays %. On the final vote, the re-
suit yeas 62 nays %. And the House
adjourned. ss
The Same bill was considered in
the Senate. Senator Paterson spoke
for wo hours and a half. Muklern
and Newell each spoke about an
hour.
At fifteen minutes to 5 o'clock a
motion to postpone, indefinitely, was
take !, yeas 20 nays p. On the mo-
ton to engross the bill was lost, by a
vote. Yeas 20 nays 81.
A motion was Immediately made
to reconsider, which carried. Then
a motion was made to postpone the
further consideration until next
Tuesday, which motion was tabled
And the Senate adjourned.
This is dark and gloomy eve.
ming, and rain has been falling lightly
at times through the afternoon.
With great respect,
| ANON:
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Scarcely an issue of thar ponderous pa
ier, the Davenport Gazette, reaches.us that
DOESN'T contain some witty fling nj OF
umwa. &fsm
From number before US. we clip the
Glowing as a specimen, which for pure
1nadorned sarcasm and the very subli-
atty of rIdlcule will be regarded by our
eople and all other appreciative ones, as
eing simply annihilating, crushing. and
rOdigious. Here it is:
"The Copper Head thinks 1t is running
'ttumwa by means of figure head CALI
d Littleton. As the place is queer ag-
Generation We can't say whether the as
umption is correct or not
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we are told ofa yaung clerk on the east
side of the square, who loved fondly but
not wisely, for the father was bitterly op-
posed to the match. The young lady re-
turned the attachment. The father yes a
patron of the store. The lovers arranged
a system of correspondence and the gen.
tleman wrote his love messages on the
eggs which the daddy Of TIE young lady
-Pelio Blade.
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Chicago Provision Market.
Chicago, March 20.

Flour-Dull, buyers and sellers
apart, spring extras at 3.60@4 IS.
Wheat-Dull, lower; No 2 closed
at 754 075a cash; No sold in a small
way at SO; No $40; rejected So
Corn - Firm, higher, offerings
light; No 2 closed at "a; no grade e.
to SO, according to location; new,
strictly fresh, sold at 70.
Oats-Firmer, shade higher, clio.
sing quiet at 37a.
Pork--Sold at 1915 to $3.50.
Lard--Good demand, steady, at
144.
Meats - Active demand, firm;
shoulders, 81; rough sides l23; short
ribs 13a.
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The Davenport Gazette opposed the Ca
pitol Appropriation lat session, but sup
ports il this, with an amount of fervent
zeal, only found among powerfully in
earnest new converts.
The deliberate action of the last State
Convention which emphatically pronoun
sed against the appropriation, is of little
consequence to the Sir Oracle or the other
Republican papers in the State, who have
lion.
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The municipal thiev es of New York
nave fallen to fighting like cats and dogs,
eliminating in the resignation of VIM. NJ.
Tweed, Street Commissioner. The people
If New York hav cause to rejoice at this
'rovidsntial lnterposition in their behalf.
When thieves fall out then honest mon
sha II get their dues
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Everybody Who wants TO save
monny goes to Nussbaums, who soils
clothing from 10 to 25 per cent. less
than can be bought..any other place
in the city,
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kEoKUK.-Bill Timberman Tor Mayor,
I'd Capt. Roberts for Marshal, is the Re-
iblican City Ticket In Keokuk which is
, be elected one of these DAYS.
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Ben Butler will probably be the next
Democratic candidate for President. His
2 votes for JEFF Davis at Charleston and
lis presentation of their reputation reso-
utions to the House, can never be forgot
en- by grateful democracy.
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Ben Butler is being eulogized by the
institution and other Democratic papers.
he only dirty thing which Butter has
,ne to draw these compliments, is the
resentation of Deans reputation reso-
itionS.
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The last argument Of the State Register
in favor OF the new Capitol Is, that moth
lug will tend so much to develop the stone
luarries OF the State
Well, a couple of years since we under
took to develop quarry and for three
weeks, with pick and shovel, crowbar and
saltpetre, with the mercury at 9s, we went
for it, but it didn't develop worth cent.
And now, if the State can beat us by
building a new Capitol then count us in
for development We go for a new Capt.
tol. Who else has rock to develop? The
people should make their wants known to
their Representatives, in tt,as rock enter
prise.
Perhaps the State Geologist might lend
helping hand,with fishing tackle or shot
gun. WIN knows ?--Sigouoaey Nc,cs.
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From johnny Caddoo.
Des Moines, March 20, 1870,
HALL OF THE HOUSE.


EDS. COURIER:
On Saturday therewas. barely a quorum,
andbusiuess of general nature was trans
acted. A few local and unimportant bills
were passed in the forenoon. but with
drag and wecriness, which was depicted
on the countenances of the members after
the very arduous labors Of the week, and
it as felt to be a relief when the clock in
Dictated noon. AID no opposition was made
to adjourn till Monday.
Quite number of seats were also W.
cant this morning, and business went on
like the shoemaker's Blue Monday"
rather slow.
The special order was the Senate bill,
los, appropriating three hundred dollars
for the Insane Asylum at Independence.
The committee hat visited that Institu-
tion recommended that one hundred and
sixty five thousand dollars should be The
least appropriated for that work. There
is no doubt the State will need accommo-
dations for this class of persons before
Trustees at Mt. Pleasant, shows that they
have been compelled to refuse Abundance
this last year to rs applicants, and our
folks are still going crazy very fast. Still
believe the best plan would be to in
crease the capacity of the Mt. Pleasant
Institution at least one hundred more,
which can be done for a cost Of one thou
| sand dollars per patient, as they have all
the offices, kitchens, and other append.
ages, ready at Mt. Pleasant, and simply
| need additional room for patients. Then
the Trustees Of the Independence Insti-
tute can take more time and care in the
erection Of their buildings. 1t was dis
cussed till noon, Its principal advocate
was Mr.. Lee, a very fine, candid old gen.
tleman from independence. After noon,
owing to the continued absence of men,
bers, the discussion was postponed until
Wednesday.
| A 'i's more acts were passed legalizing
the doings Of various and sundry Leather
heads, when bill was called up to re-or-
ganize the State University. Irish oppos-
ed it in very plaintive tone, and as it
legislates him out Of his regency, one
| ceases to wonder at his opposition. His
colleague, DR.. Stewart, stated that John
was running the thing as political
machine, and made some other statements
that were rather damaging to the local
Trustees Irish moved to indefinitely
postpone it, but the House refused to see
it that way, and SO it still hangs in at the
| adjournment.
A bill was introduced to-day by Judge
Murdoch to purchase the Lord know how
many copies Of military history of Iowa
at the expense ofthe STATE, and the author
| is here beating the "bush" and fatters
| himself that he will work it through.
Respectfully,
| JOHNNY CADDO.
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sansas is having the immortal old hero,
IN Brown, painted for the walls of her
pitol. This will, however, not prevent
soul from marching on just the same,
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Mr.. Garfield has presented to Congress
the petition of citizens of Ohio for don
ton of $50, 900 in behalf of the Wil5erforce
University, near Xenia. OF course no
such appropriation will he made. II the
people ofthis country are to be taxed this
year to support Methodist School in
Ohio, they will be called on next year to
support Roman Catholic, Episcopal and
Presbyterian schools in New York and
elsewhere. No school in the North ought
to be under the auspices of Congress; and
denomination schools Of all sorts ought to
be paid for out Of the pockets Of their pro-
iectors. Chico ago Post.
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he Ga'e CITY gives Lieut.. Gov. Walden
handsome and just compliment Of be-
the best presiding officer the Senate
had.
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Chicago Live Stock Market.

Chicago, March 81
Cattle-Good shipping, 6@7a for
fair to choice E; lot Of fancy steer
sold for $3.50 !; other grades quiet.
Hogs-Firm and active receipts
1859 all sold at S2(0a.
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John r. Shepherd sells Usage
Orange and all other kinds of seed.
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year 1864 he fought against advan.
tages at which Mcclellan would have
been appalled, that the Confederacy
at least in Virginia was far stron ger
then to cxpel him than it was to
drive Mcclellan from Manassas or
from Yorktown; that he fought
Lees army with decision, with
spirit, and with something Of
success. So far, the comparison
between himself and Mcclellan
may be held; and here it ends.-
While Grant was pounding away"
insiGious causes interviewed at last to
anticipate him; and while the North
ern General was doing his best in the
field, there was a black hand laid in
wardly on the vitals Of the Confeder-
acy, slowly COMPRISING tho lite out
of it, and leaving him only a
strangled victim to be carried in his
train Of triumph.
The Southern Confederacy was
never conquered by the force of
arms. No desperate and multitude
nous battle decided its fate. There
was no dramatic close; it was the
collapse, suddenly and completely
PROSTATE, of a thoroughly rotten
thing. Jefferson Davis was not
where, in his speech at Rockets, in
1861, he promised he would be-
"where the last line of bayonets was
levelod;" that clown of the war
Bombastes Furioso Wise, did not do,
as he once declared he wonld do, in
his cohcky style of oratory (haying
habit of delivery as if his eloquence
cut him across the bowels)-die in
the arms Of glory on the battlefield;
"the last ditch" proved bloodless, o
slough from which have been bred
creatures with ditch. water in their
veins, the toad-eaters and dirt-eaters
Of our day. The former ruler of
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report the fact as it came from the lips Of
General Lee: :" Nearly two-thirds were
conscripts, who had never been under fire,
and were only half instructed"
If any balance Of generalship is to be
held between Mcclellan and Grant as to
the number Of forces which opposed them
in their respective campaigns in Virginia,
or as to the veteran material Of these
forces, their condition OF discipline, and,
in general, their formidable character, we
shall have no hesitation in deciding who
was the greatest General. The test is not
the most certain one, but the correspond
ent referred to has chosen to enterprise it,
and however Insignificant the act Of inge-
nuity may be in his own person, there are
not few Southern newspapers which
have solemnly adopted it.
As to the general question Of compare
tive merits as commanders between Nc.
Clellan and Grant, what we have said Of
the former suggests the main difference
between the rivals. Mcclellan may have
been an excellent organizer Of armies il
has been said Of him that he had the Pc
dantry Of war without its inspiration.
There could be no greater contrast to his
moral timidlty, the mechanical sense Of
order, the slow geuius, If genius at all, Of
Athelstane the Unready," than those
qoick instincts of fight Sin Grant which
gave him the merits of great command
er-that he never declined a battle, and
that be went at IT With force of decision
that sometimes appeared irregular, be-
cause it never calculated the inferior cir
cumstances of the situation. His military
genius might have been the unbrilliant
and pondersus one ofa commander deter
mined to conquer by repeated strokes Of
physical force but no one can doubt the
readiness and determination with which
he struck at all times. II he had no fin
esse he had no procrastination. He was
never bothered by that nice attention to
details which is always adjusting and re-
which never realizes precisely
the combination it desires, and which, in
stead of making real preparations, keeps
itself only in a constant state of unreadi-
ness and distress.
But the fact which we wish especially
to bring to light. and which may surprise
some readers, is that the Southern COME
deracy, so far from being in the extremity
Of despair described by the Washington
when Grant undertook the
Of 1864, was never at any time
Of the war, in military point of view,
more able and desperate. The lapse from
This condition was sudden and awful be-
fore the year was out, and froii causes at
which we will presently glance. But the
ruth is indisputable to those who lived
IN the South at the time, and made care
Jul and Intelligent observations around
hem, that the Confederacy never turued
Upon her foe more Imposing and deter
mined aspect than when, in the early
months of 1864, GraAt took command of |
he Northern forces in Virginia, and found |
IN his front an army which, though some-
what less numerous than that which dc
Gated Mcclellan around Richmond, was
very much more formidable. 1t was an
Ilmy of60, 900 men, all told-the best sea.
oped army that Virginia had ever put In
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25

LET any man pass an evening in va
cam idleness, or wen in reading some
silly tale, and compare the state of his
mind when he goes to sleep or gets up
next morning, with its state some 9TH
er day, when he has spent a few hours
in going through the proofs by facts
and reasoning, of some great doctrines
in natural science, of learning truths
wholly new to him, and satisfying him
self by careful examination, of the
grounds on which known truths rest
so as to be not only acquainted with
the doctrines themselves, but able to
show why he believes them and 20
prove before others that they are true;
will find as great a difference as can
exist in the same being-the difference
between looking back upon time un-
proftably wasted, and time spent in
self improvement he will feel himself
in one ease ~listless and dissatisfaction
the other comfortable and happy in
the one case if he did not appear to
himself humble, at least will not have
earned any claim to his own self-res-
pect in the other case he will enjoy
the proud consciousness of having, by
his own exertions, become a wiser and
therefore a more exalted nature
IBrougham.