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NEAR CooDYs BLUFF. \
CHEROKEE NATION,
H.. IN O-1

September l4th. 1871.
EpIToRs COURIER l wrote TO on
about ten daysago from Horse Creek,
in the Cherokee Nation. If you
found my letter dry and uninterest.
ing you may infer that it was due to
dinner of bareback and dried beef,
which had been eaten just before
writing.
AT night, after writing to you. we
camped or Cabin Greek with quite q
number of Texan emigrants, on their
return to the North, and was well
pleased on stopping to receive the
brotherly sanitation of an old west
orn pioneer, who had travelled the
same road with me in years gone by.
At Cabin creek we found quite a
number of settlers, composed OF Del
awares, Cherokees, Shawnees, and a
few white men, and l was especially
we'll pleased with the attentions and
friendship evinced by the people
generally. | called on a number of
the principal citizens, one of whom,
Mr.. Rodgers Ca Shawnee), | found
living in very fine house, with eve
. ryth,ng both inside and out to render
him comfortable, that good taste and
cultivated mind could conceive.
From Cabin creek we drove about
twelve ,ulles west to Vinita, the June
ton Of ,h 3 NJ. X. Il L. r. r. with the
Atlantic & Pacific, and found few
houses recentlsT there erected, on q
very fine prairie. The junction well
merits tho name of ,1lnita, which, |
was informed, is spanis.'', and signi-
ies "beautiful prairie" TIE Mlssou,
ri, Kansas & Texas railroad extends
about one hundred miles souta OF
this place, while the Atlantic ard
Pacific terminates here for tho pres
ent.
After leaving the junction, we di.
rected our course south, and at night
camped near Pryor's Creek. Here,
again, we found a settlement of Cher
okees, or, rather, a settlement of
white men with Cherokee wives.---
The Cherokee women are very at
tractive to white men--especially SO
if they have plenty Of money and
large focks and herds.
From Pryor's creek, we turned
east and crossed the Grand River, and
spent abont o day and o half in cross
ing the Flint bills to Tahlignah, the
capital of the Cherokee Nation.
Tahlignah contains about twenty
five houses, two story Capitol
building, a comfortable school house,
and some very comfortable residen-
ces, and four or five general stores,
where everything is kept from a
cooking stove down to needle.
4 The country west Of Grand River
is very fertile and well adapted to
farming purposes but east of the
river it is succession OF rocky hills
(lnountains, the natives call them),
and not adapted to anything except
grazing.
Before closing this letter I must
say that L have found some of the
finest springs in the Nation that ]
have ever seen anywhere, more espe
cially on the east side of Grand river
: More anon, j. G. J.
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The Independent Republican, OF
Montrose, Pennsylvania, published
in the same county where Col. Car
penter was born, has the following
in regard to the gentleman's early
days:
"Col. c. G. Carpenter, the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor of Iowa,
was born in Hartford, Susquehanna
county, Pa, in 1929. When he was
twelve years old his parents died,
leaving him poor: He was then APP.
prenticed to clothier. with whora he
worked several years, attending
school only three months in year,
but making good use of his time, he
acquired good common school cdu.
cation. At eighteen he commenced
teaching school in his native village,
and he alternately taught school,
worked on farm, and attended as a
student at the Hartford Academy.
He afterwards went West and ar
rived at Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1854.
At that time Fort Dodge contained
only the old Fort buildings, thirteen
in mum Der, and very few inhabitants
Here he found himself among entire
strangers, thousand miles from
home, With but five cents in his peck
ct. On the morning following his
arrival he was fortunately EN- ployed
by a United States surveying party,
and he was employed by different
surveyors for the next two years.
Soon after the United States Land
Office was established at Fort Dodge,
he opened q real estate land office,
here, and occasionally engaged in
He was elected Rep
'esentative in the State Legislature
n 1857, and secured the passage of
everal important acts during the
eason of 1858. He entered the ar
ny soon after the commencement of
.he rebellion and served with dis
till mustered out with the
18th Army Corps in August, 1866. !
He was with the Army of the Ten
nessee in the Campaign from Pitts
burg Landing to Corinth. In the
fall OF 1852 he was assigned TO the
staff OF General Dodge, and remained
with him till after the capture OF At
lanta, when he was assigned the 18th
Arm, Corps, and served upon the
staff OF Gen. Logan, having been
promoted to the rank of Lieut.. Col.
He was on the celebrated march
through Georgia and took part in the
Grand Review at Washington. Be-
fore the close of the war he was bre
veted Colonel for gallant conduct
upon the field. During his whole
service he was granted but one fur
Tough, which allowed him to remain
but ten days at nome. This was in
in the spring of 1864, at which time
he was married to Miss Kate Burk.
holder, daughter of II. Burkholder.
Esq, of Fort Dodge. In 1866 he was
elected Register of the State Land
Office, served acceptably four years,
and declined a denomination"
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Brother" said Clergyman at the
Conference yesterday, to Col, Jesse
Williams, who was looking into the
ball where the Conference was in
session, Sit will be some time before
the committees are all appointed. -
''Yes,' said the Colonel, throwing his
hat on the back OF his head and
Jerking bis cane from under his arm.
81 guess will go and take a drink !.
The preacher retreated. ---jSj9pI C{fy
Journal.
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Ex-dovernor Hamilton, of Texas,
says he never saw any of the mem
hers, OF the present State Govern
ment steal anything, but when we
SEQ poor miserable cuss, who never
had one hundred and fifty dollars in
ms life, come to Austin, borrow mon.
ey to pay his expenses, and present.
y ind him losing thousand dollars
a night at faro, driving around in a
fancy team, making liquor bills, and
all sorts of bills, and buying buggy
and horses to go home in, we know
he is a thief as we'll as if we had
seen him steal"
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From the Daily Courier, Sept. 80.
Two Fires.

Two Fires.
Al about two o'clock p. M, to-day
fire was discovered in the roof of
Mr.. Il. Washburn's residence and in
spite OF every effort it was speedily
burned to the ground.
The building was frame some Is
or 20 years old. Yet in an excellent
state of repair.
The generally accepted theory is
that il caught from defective fue.
The family occupied the house at
the time bat did not discover the fire
until il was too late to subdue the
inflamable material of which it was
constructed.
Mr.. Washburn had $1,000 insurance
on his house, $3.50 on furniture and
$3.50 on piano.
Owing to the strenuous efforts OF
the large number of citizens who
were promptly on the ground, all tie
furniture tho piano, &C., were saved.
AT about one o'clock to-day as the
DIV. Il. r., train was going west a
spark from the same set fire to a
stack of hay belonging to ]. NJ.
Hedrick, in the upper part of town,
and which was some IS or 100 feet
from the track, and totally consumed
it, together with the fence and posts
surroundingit. The stack contained
some three tons.
ur. Washburn was insured in the
old Hartford Fire, which insurance
will probably approximate his loss,
Mr., Hedriok has no insurance and
will loose Is or 80 dollars.
We take occasion to again refer to
the carelessness of our city authori-
ties in not putting in number Of
cisterns at suitable places. The
engine was promptly on hand and
would have saved Washburn's house
had there been at least fifty barrel
cistern OF water within one thousand
feet Of it. There ought to be al
least three large cisterns or reser
voirs on say Sd or 4th streets a
proper distances apart. BY thi
means the. thousand feet Of hose at
tached to our engine would be abl
to throw water on nearly all GU
houses either from them or the river
We hope this matter will receive
prompt attention at their hands.
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We hear that q boy by the name
Of Hughes got his jaw broke by tho
ball in that Chinese base ball at the
Fair ground yesterday.
1t is reported too that Mr.. Fetzer
OF this place was hurt some ycster-
day by being run over with a car-
riage.
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To the Suffering.

The Rev. william Ii. Merton ,Tnt,a ,.i,
lng in Brazil rs Missionary, discovered in
that land q medicines q RENE dy Tor Coz
sSSaapTioS, Ssfoin a Sore Throit, Coughs,
remedy has cured mysel after ali on her ms,i
icines nad failed. Si iieuN
wishing To benefit the suffering. will sana
the re eipe ,or pr pairing aud using tiii. reI,,a.
ay Y, 20 all who desire 4 f'REE OF HARS5E'
and address on H. a dSroa5. o'tN iiains
Rex. WILLIAM Fl. NORTON.
Sept. II. lSJl--dApfv - ~" ipih ivy
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A young man from Kentucky, who

A young man from Ken tueky, who
undertook TO open country store
in the mountains OF East Tennessee.
came to speedy ruin because he was
'too nippy" Tor that region. He
wore sthvepipe hat, had bis boots
BACKED every day, and mounted q
fresh paper collar every morning, all
Of which served TO disgust the ma.
iives, W no said he put Oh too much
Kentucky bluegrass society style
for them. But still he WAS endured
until the women learned that be had
bis shirts made TO button up behind.
That they could not and would not
stand and when the fair sex turned
against him, all further struggles
with fate became useless. The
young mans stock in trade was dis.
posed Of by the sheriff.
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GIVEN UP AS LOST.

Tho second thing is. the patients must stay In
are diseased, but il mist be prevented Of q cure
Specially e this Section 81 the Country. IA the
fall and winter season, are all wrong. Physi-
tients, Il their lungs are badly diseased; and YET
because they are in the house they must not
rs much and as fast as the Strength viii besp, to
get up good circulation of blood. The patients
well. This has great deal to do with the appe-
tite, and Is the great point to gain.
possibility. in the worst eases, and moral Ger
tainty IN All others, Is sinful DR. schenck's per-
was in these modest words:
Many. years ago 1 was In the last stages of
time my Physicians thought that could i not i've i've
week then, like drowning man catching at
a perfect cure Of me. 1t seemed TO me that
Thes soon ripened the matter In T my lungs and
would spit up more than pint Of offensive
Z. that besn q my
fever, pains, and night sweats ali began to leave
ess eans
uuch. soon gained my strength, and have
Tie sssf like
have a en-
Dr. schenck has discontinued his professional
visits to New-York and Boston. He or his son,
DIR. j. II. Schenck, Jr.. still continue to see pa-
tents at their oftice No. Is North Sixth Street,
Philadelphia, every Saturday from AM. to Pm.
Those who wish a thorough examination with
the Respirometer viii be charged S. The Res
promoter declares he exact condition of the
lungs, and patients can readily learn whether
they are durable or not.
The directions for taking tho medicines are
adapted to the intelligence even of child Fo.-
low these directions. and kind Nature will do the
rest, excepting that in some cases the Mandrake
pills are to be taken in increased doses; the
three medicines need no other accoE1paniments
than the ample instructions that accompany
them: First create appetite. OF returning
health, hunger Is the most welcome symptom
When IL comes, as 1t will come, let the despair.
ing at once be of good cheer. Good blood at once
follows, the cough loosens, the night sweat is
abated. In short time both Of these morbid
SYMPTOMS are gone forever.
DIR. schenck's medicines are constantly kept In
tens of thousands Of families As a laxative OF
paration while the Puimonic Syrup, a. q cure
OF coughs and colds. may be regarded as a pro
phylacteric against consumption in any Of its
forms.
Price Of the Pulmon;c Syrup and sea-weed
Tonic. l.50 q bottle, or $3.50 a half dozen. Man
drake PILLS, IS cents box. For sale BY all drug
g1ote and Dealers
HuRLBUT & EDSALL,
80 LAKE ST., CHICAGO. Ill
WHOLESALE AGENTS.
decl3.d&wIv.
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SHooTING MATcH.-Tbe +,

SHOOTING MATcH.-The match
came off according to announcement,
on the base ball grounds, at p. m,
to-day. The prizes, three in mum
Der, were awsrded, as follows, to-wit:
Thurman, 1st prize Douglass, I'd
prize, and Ward the Sd. OF ter
birds each Ehrman killed 8, Doug
lass Z, and Ward 6.
The following ia the seora.
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The Colorado election resulted as
near US can be ascertained. in a Two
thirds Republican majority in the
Legislature. Both houses of the last
Legislature We're Democratic.
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THE STATE OF IOWA.
BY THE GOVERNOR.

| Pursuant to law, l, SAMUEL
! MERRILL, Governor of the State of
Iowa, do hereby proclaim that at the
General Election to be held on the
SECOND TUESDAY OF OC
IOBER. 1871,
the following designated Offices are
TO be filled by vote OF all the electors
tho State:
The Office of Governor.
The Office of enant.Govornor.
The office of Judge Of the Supreme
Court, to fill vacancy occasloncd
by the expiration of the term O,
james G. Day, which will occur De-
| cember 31st, 1871.
The office of Superintendent of
Public Instruction..
Whereof, all Electors throughout
the State will take due notice and
the Sheriffs of the several counties
will take official notice, and be gov.
erned accordingly.
And lido further proclaim and give
notice that on tho day OF said gene
raj election the Offices named below
will be filled by vote of the electors
OF the several districts and circuits
mentioned respectively:
The office OF District Attorney OF
the Fifth Judicial District, to fiji a
vacancy occasioned by the resigna.
ton Of G. H. Catch.
The office Of Circuit Judge in and
for the first circuit of the Eighth Ju-
dicial District, to fill vacancy occa.
stoned by the resignation of William
4. Miller.
The office of Circuit Judge in and
for the first circuit of the Twelfth
Judicial District, to fill a vacancy &C.
easioned by the resignation of Geo.
w. Ruddich.
The office of Senator in the Gene.
raj Assembly from tho Thirteenth
Senatorial District, to fill vacancy
caused by the resignation of Angus
tus H. Hamilton.
| The Office of Senator in the Gene.
raj Assembly from the Thirty fifth
Senatorial District, to I'll vacancy
caused by the death of M. 3. Mulk-
ern..
The Office of Senator in the Gene
raj Assembly from the Thirty.eighth
Senatorial District, to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of George
/ w. Couch
The Office of senator in the Gene.
raj Assembly from the Forty second
Senatorial District, to fill vacancy
caused by the resignation Of Henry
c. Bulls.
| The Office of Senator in the Gene.
raj Assembly from the Forty-fourth
Senatorial District, TO fill vacancy
caused by the resignation of En-.
mons johnson.
4 Whereof all the Electors through.
out the districts aud circuits designa.
ted will take due notice, and whereof
: the Sheritfs Of the several counties
therein will take official notice and
be governed accordingly.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, | have
~ hereunto set my hand, ano
I, L. 8. caused to be affixed the great
- seal of the State of Iowa.
Done at Des Moines this eighth
I, day of September, in the year Of oul
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one; of the State O
Iowa the twenty fifth, and of the in
, dependence Of the United States tn.
ninety-sixth.
SAMUEL MERRILL.
By the Governor
, Ed. WRIGHT,
, Secretary of State.
The following officers are to BIZ
: elected in the County of Wapello
State of Iowa, at the election TO BIZ
holden as above:
One State Senator.
Two Representatives.
One County Auditor
One County Treasurer.
One County Sheriff.
One County Superintendent OF
Common Schools.
/ One County Coroner.
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Hon. Thomas A Hendricks be,ng
i permanent candidate for the Presi.
Is',cy OF inc Democratic ticket, tho
inatanapot.s 'Jourma, publishes a
'ding offer of one thousand dol
copy Of any speech made
de war, in which he
afthe suppress
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a Book for the Million.
LOOK TO your cfzrLDaENr

The Great Soothing Ranedy.
MRS Cares Collie ana erin. i price
w hllN5AB . ing IN The Bowels. 25
sfENP. ana htaiitates the Gents
process Of teething.
Atts Subducs Gouvu'sious Price
u Ilt OMbS ana overcome all dis q
hHRDP. eases incident to chill. Gents
dren aud Infants
Mrs Cures DiaTriiea Dye priees
"hliGoMb.S eniery and Summer rs
SYRUP. Complaint in CIiId'n Cents
Of al ages.
IL Is the treat Infants Children s Sootb-
ang Eemeuy IN all disorders brought on by
Ieethiug or any other cause ~ -
Prepared by the GRAFTON MEDICINE
No. no ~. u aouisl MO, Sold by Druggists and
June IL dwbn.
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BUY ME AND I'LL DO YOU GOOD.

The Confessions Of an Invalid.
puBLlSHED asa warning and for the ben
4 eft OF YOUNG MIN and oilers who atIffsI.
from Nervousness, General Debility 0e sup
plying THE MEANS OF sEIF.GUKF
written by one who cured himself and s.nt
Tree on receiving post-patti irected enye one
,Addr ss, NATHANIEL Mayfair.
May ls'w6m.lspnl Brooklyn, NY
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The canvass ia Texas is far from
bong a respectable one, 20 far rs tho
Democracy are concerned. We see
il stated hat the Democratic speak
ers and Democratic papers only ad
wise the people 10 resist the regula-
tons established 10y the Governor
for the guidance OF the officers of
election. peace officers, State guard
militia on duty in compliance With
"an act Of the Texas Legislature.
Such advice. if followed, must lead to
sedition and bloodshed.
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Geo. A. Derby, Esq, counted 500
wagons and carriages at one time in
and around the Fair grounds yester.
day.
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Some of. the stone for the new
State House is now taken from the
Rock Creek Quarry in Van Buren
county. The Repujiiei IN says that
stone from the same ledge have been
in the Court House at kcosauqua
for twenty years, and look as If they
would stand the ravages oil time for
a thousand years to come.
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R1geou shooting,
The London Saturday Reyiep thus
describes it in England
"WEat happened on Friday, June
16, appears to be as follows: The
Prince OF Wales and the Duke of
Edin burgh, with twenty companions,
Vt2t a. u field near London. Each
dist.Dg aished parsonage presented
himself in turn, and took the trouble
of raising loaded gun to his shout
der. a string being pulled wretch
ed pigeon walked out Of Il box. If
the bird did not recognize the hostile
intentions of the prince, peer or leg.
islator, he was persuaded to fly by
means o. an india-rubber ball. The
distinguished parsonage fired aud
slow, mauled or missed him. Ii h.
succeeded in maugling the wretchet
pigeon enough to bring him to tbs
ground within fence, he scored. Ii
the pigeon got away to die with q
broken wing or leg or u crushed beal
the distinguished parsonage did not
score. This performance was repeat.
ed two hundred and twenty times,
and tho twenty-five gallant sports
men felt that they had done their
duty to society. The most distip-
guished OF all appears to have missed
steadily; but we may hope that be
is consoled By the statement in one
of the papers that he hit the birds
hard. The pigeons may therefore
have had the honor Of slowly dying
during the week by his august hand.
x We can only regard it with
extreme ropugnance, and we mag
inc that it appears in the same light
to al but he initiated. America is
supposed to be Is land Of rowdyism J;
but IN America Pigeon-shooting is
lett to the rowdies, aud we could
wish to see il abandoned TO the same
elaes in England"
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
CONSUMPTION.
Its Cure and Its Preventive.
BY J. H. sCHENCK, MD.

Many human being has passed away for whose
Known and proye f means of sur
Those near and dear to family and friends are
sleeping the dreamless siumber into which, had
they calmly adopted
DIR. JOSEPH III. SCHENCK'S SIMPLE
TREATMENT,
and avaNed themselves of his wonderfully effc,l.
cious medicines, they would not have fallen
DR.. Schenck has in his own case proved that
ity BY his medicines and lis direetions fo- TIER
use, Is Quickened into healthfnl vigGr.
tnous. no the faith Of the Invalid y made no
representation that Is not a thousand times sub
ses IL. S ue f aha wonh edcne
Is MS simple as 1t is unfailing Its philosophy re-
qnires no argument. misunderstanding, self-con-
The sea-weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are tho
malady is assailed. Two thirds Of the cases OF
ssG nnsI1p Originate in dyspapsa ana t4no
the bronchial tubes ssympathise with tie
stomach. They respond to the morbiac action
result, and the setting in, with ali its Distress
CONSUMPTION.
The Mandrake Pills are composed OF one of Ma
lures noblest Rifts-the Podophillum Peltatum.
properties or calomel, but unlike caiomei, they
LEAVE NO STING BEHIND"
The work of cure is now beginning, The .vitia-
ted and mucous deposits in the bowels and in the
alimentary canal are elected. The liver, like
clock, is wound up. 1t arouses from its torpid
ity. The stomach acts responsibility, and the
patient begins to feel that he is getting, at last
A SUPPLY OF GOOD BLOOD.
Tho Sea-weed Tonic, In conjunction with the
Pulls, permeates and assimilates with the food.
Qualification ID now progressing without Its pre-
vious fortunes. Digestion becomes painless, and
the cure Is seen to be at hand. There is no more
fatulence, no eIacerbntion OF the stomach. An
appetite sets In.
Now comes the greatest Blood Purifier ever yet
given by an indulgent father to sus.ouing man.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup comes In to perform
Its functions and to hasten and complete the
cure. 1t enters at once upon its work. Nature
can not be cheated. 1t col cts and ripens the
impaired and diseased portions OF the lungs
expectoration, and 10! In a very short time the
malady is vanquished, the rotten throne that It
patient, in all the dignity Of regained vgor, steps
forth to enjoy the manhood o. womanhood that
was
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DIR. F. c. CORNELL,
Physician & Surgeon,
Eddyviile, iowa.
araral, 90 ,e-, -,

~ y TNts " and Preserving the Tseti,
PeasSns who VINO have used Farnhams French
cents TO VIM. I'll. Farnham& On sna,ta ~,
aud novel. o.uIIg new
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Pigeon Shooting,

OrTUMwA, Sept. Goth, 1871.
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The Mandrake Pills are composed of one of Ma
ture's noblest Rifts-the Podophillum Peltatun
They possess all the understanding alterativ
properties of calOmel, but unlike calumel. they
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A SUPPLY OF GOOD BLOC

The work Of cure is now beginning. The Vita
ted and mucous deposits in the bowels and in the
alimentary canal are elected. The liver, like
clock, is wound up. 1t arouses from its torpid
ity. Tho stomach acts responsibility, and the
patient begins to feel that he is getting, at last