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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

Dr Joh, Er. vn tells story of
one Jcems, doorkterer at 'ne
United Presbyterian chul~"' ~
Broughton place, Edinburgh. On Il
certain occasion, after a charity
sermon, one of the congregation by
accident put crown piece into the
plate instead Of a penny, and start
ing back mt its white and precious
face, asked to have it back; but
Jeems, who held the plate, said:
''In once, in forever
"Aweel, aweel," grunted the I'M
willing-givcr, 'l'll get credit for it
it heaven"
"Na, ma said Jeems, "ye'll get
credit only for the penny"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

STATE HOUSE CONTRACTS LET
The contract for the stone for the
foundation for the new Capitol at
Dcs Moines, was let on the 18th
inst, to q. II. =. Scott, Of the Ok
ford quarrics, (Tama county, at an
average Of sls per cubic yard,
delivered. The contract for broken
stone, for concrete, was let to futile
& Robinson, Of Dcs Moines, at -.
50 per cubic yard. For cement to
the Des Moines Coal Company, at
sl.65 per bag Of 265 pounds. The
Capitol Commissioners adjourned
to meet on the third Wednesday in
March.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
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The Question of Locality.

Several of our State exchanges
have for some weeks been engaged
in opening the coming political cam,
paign and indicating their prefer
ences as to who shall be our next
Governor and u. S. Senator. The
discussion has renewed the claims
of "locality" for consideration, and
one paper has theoretically denounc-
ed the ''locality humbug" in terms
which are very cordially endorsed
at Keokuk, which boasts Z. S.
Judge, Cabinet Minister, U. S. Sen
ator, and Member of the House OF
Representatives, while it is rather
frigidly received at Fort Dodge, In
dependence, and other points in the
same latitude less favored with Off
cial honors.
Now we suppose that no sensible
man will urge that ''iocai!ty' has
any claims as against fitness as a
qualification for public place. The
correct theory doubtless is, that the
best man should always be chosen
for positions OF trust, ire pective of
the place of his residence. If nee
essary to secure the best men let
them all come from one town, or
even one family. This is theory.
Practically it is necessary to take
cognizance of The fact that human
nature is imperfect in. the best OF
men. I'll men are prone, conscious
" or unconsciously, to use power
for selfish ends; and when power is,
by usage or political craft, restricted
to a circle less broad than the state
the interests of a portion are liable
to suiss:a.. Practically, too, fl men
for most Of the places ofpublic trust
are not wanting in various parts OF
the State. When looking over the
ground for . Governor or \ =. 5.
Senator we must not be limited 20
any district or section. But . FAR
as the administrative Offices Of tn .
State are concerned there are prob
ably few of the counties which have
not men competent to fill any or all
of them. The persistent exclusion
of any one section Of the State from
an equal enjoyment Of its honors is
impolitic, and would. ii persisted in
after proper remonstrarce, he ms
cause for dissatisfaction and protest.
While, therefore, We cannot assent
to the idea, oracularly announced
by one paper, that the Sixth District
must have the next Governor, with
out knowing who is 10 be the man,
nor to the similar claim OF the
Third District to furnish success
or to Senator Harlan, simply on the
score of locality, we believe the
northern half of the State have some
ground of complaint in the di,tribu-
ton Of political honnrs hitherto.
Political parties are to some ex-
tent in transition period. It will
be well for those aiming at leader
ship in the Republican party to rec
ognize this fact, and that spirit of
Justice which shall not provoke Il
disruption on other ground than
clearly defined issues Of principle.
-HaUe Puiae inIra.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

Society in Des Moines, on Wednes-
day of last week, it was decided to
hold the next Annual Fair at Cedar
Rapids. This is about as good a
wina-fall for our citizens as has been
meted out to them in long time,
and we congratulate them on their
success. The benefits to our city,
resulting from the location OF the
State Fair here are so numerous,
and so obvious, that we will not at
tempt to numerate them. Suffice it
to say, that there is no business man,
whatever his business may be, that
will not be greatly benefited,
directly"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

THE Senate Committee on Pub
lie Lands to which was referred the
nomination Of Willis Drummond as
Commissioner of the General Land
Office, agreed on Friday to report
Eavorably upon it. 1t is therefore
likely that Mr.. Drummond will be
finally installed in the position in a
few DAYS
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

SENATOR YATES has moved amendment to the
constitutions remarkable fact-that is il is re-
markahic that a man who has spent the greater
part of his political life in persistent efforts either
to ignore or defy the constitution should yet have
respect enough left for that instrument to try to
amend it.-Uubuque T''egrtDh.
The ZSleyrnph fails to make the
proper distinction. 1t is against
his own constitution that Senator
Yates has so long and so persistent
" warred. He was true friend
and defender Of the constitution OF
the country, when the editor of the
Telegraph and his party friends
were endeavoring to make 1t the
pretcxt and shield for treason. 1t
is q matter for sincere regret that
Senator Yates has not made as gal
liant and successful defense against
the enemy Of his own life and use
fulness as against that which as
saulted the life of the nation.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

Proceedings of Teachers Institute held

Proceedings of Teachers Institute held
at Winthrop, Jan. 14th, 1871
Institute convened at the School House
at about II O'Clock, and Mr.. A. D. Webb
was chosen President, and Z. S. Stock
well Secretary. Critics for the day Miss
Mccarthy and Mr. c. NJ StockwelI
The subject of Spelling was first cons i'd
cred, nearly all agreeing that it should he
taught by means Of rrittng One teach
er would use the orot as well as the urit-
ten method. Another would require adj
vanced pupils to construct sentences II
tanning all the words in the lesson, as he
thought it was difficult for pupils to learn
the meaning of words except by their
use.
The hour Of twelve having arrived, In
stitute adjourned to meet at O'Clock p,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

We see it announced, apparently
by authority, that the Senatorial
contest for the succession to Mr..
Harlan is narrowed down to four
candidatcs-"Allison, Harlan, Mer-
riIl and Howell" In this part of
Iowa a good many Republicans
seem to think that the Congression-
al record of Mr.. Allison, both dn-
ring the war and as an important
influence in shaping the financial
policy OF the nation since, would en-
title him to the inside track, if-he
lived in the southeastern part of the
STATED Montana Standard.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

The Chicago journal, ordinarily
ultra and dogmatical to the last de-
gree on the tariff question, was com
PEELED the other day by a cotempor-
arv to come down from It's high pro-
tectire hobby, thus:
"The demand of protection is not
prohi5itory. Let us Lave competi-
ton from abroad. Monopoly, wheth-
er foreign or domestic, is undesira-
BILE. That is the position of the pro-
tect;ve party"
This is new Interpretation of
the position of the protective party,
but it is unquestionably that Of the
revenue reformers in the Republican
ranks whom the Journal takes so
much delight in villifying, and
whom it would like to drive from
the organization altogether. The
demand for competition from abroad
and hostility to monopoly foreign
and domestic, form the very essence
of the principles of revenue reform,
while the generally accepted inter
probation of the tencts of the Lour-
nal, and those whose tariff views it
represents, is that they would dis
courage foreign competition that
home monopolies might wax fat.
We protest against the stealing of
revenue reform thunder by the Jour-
nal Unless 1t has been converted
from its high tariff heresies, let it
stick to the old familiar war cries of
british gold," "pauper labor
&c.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

The Washington Press. an intelli-
gent observer OF politics by the way,
thinks that rs the political s,raws now
blow, Henry O'Connor has the best
chance for being the next Governor of
Iowa, and Col. Carpenters prospects
next best.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
Locality.

We give in another column SEN
sible article from the Belle Plaine
Onion on the question of locality as
bearing upon the choice of the pco-
pie of Iowa for Governor and U. S.
Senator. Bro. Frost treats the
question as he does all questions in
calm, candid, discriminating man.
ner, and We find no difficulty in
agreeing substantially with almost
every position taken. The question
of locality is and should always be
subordinate to that of fitness, but it
is q question which should not be,
nor is not, ignored altogether in the
selection Of candidates. There is
probably not an aspirant for. posi-
ton in Iowa to-day, who is not com
mended to the support of portion
Of his adherants by the accident of
his residence in certain corner or
district Of the State, not excepting
those candidates whose friends are
getting off so much cheap denuncia-
ton of the ''locality humbug."
There is nothing inherently wrong
in this. The essential qualification
not overlooked, the equitable APP
portionment of the offices to differ
ont sections of the State, becomes
not only an allowable, but IN appro-
pirate consideration to urge in be-
half Of a candidate. The snuffling
cant Of protestation against the To-
cality argument, comes only
from those sections of the State
which are dcharred its use bv reason
of having always enjoyed the lions
share Of the officers.
We believe the Cnion's article
was written with no Interior pur-
pose or in any other spirit than that
of perfect fairness and candor, but
it nevertheless contains an error Of
fact with regard to the Third Dis
trict. 1t is not true that this dis
trict has or will set up claim to
furnish a successor to Senator Har-
Ian simply on the score Of locality. !
We have no reason to do so. We
can we'll afford to challenge COM
parison of the qualifications of our
candidate with those of any other
yet mentioned for the position. The
Republican papers of the district
have generally spoken warmly in
favor of Mr.. Allison for the Sena.
torial succession, and so far as our
observation extends, every one
(which has so spoken bases its advo-
,cacy primarily upon his eminent
fitness for the position, his capacity,
sound Judgment, integrity, familiar
.ity with public affairs, sound politi-
scal record, and a national reputa-
ton earned in an honorable and use
full Congressional career. The ar
gument of locality has been men
toned, but never as the sole or pro-
mjnent qualification.
We are aware that certain pa
per, with persistency in the face
Of facts which betrays its dishonest |
purpose, has endeavored to create
the contrary impression, and it is
possible that the Union has thus
beer, led to assume as 4 fact that
which is most shameless falsehood
on the part of its originator. Speak
ing for ourselves we will say that
no man will receive our support for
Senator, in Northern Iowa or else
where, who is not in all respects the
peer, and in some essential particu-
lars, the superior Of Mr.. Harlan.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

In the field of teaching women have
been unusually successful, and have grad
ually superseded men in most of the
schools According to the census of 1860
there were in the United States 150,241
teachers, of whom 100000 or nearly two
thirds were women.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

The Boston Latin School is the oldest
school in America. 1t was founded in
the year 1868.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
The Contrast.

The following sharply defined
parallel between the political par
ties of the county, is credited to the
Louisville Courier-JournaI the
leading Democratic paper Of Ken
lucky:
"The great Instrumentality
through which Radicalism attains
place and power is mind; the great
instrumentality through which De-
mocracy attains the same ends is ig-
norance. Wherever Radicalism
prevails, there learning lifts her
classic head, and from her ambro-
sial locks scatters intellectual light
and loneliness abroad; wherever
Democracy obtains a foothold, there
ignorance erects her shrines and
her affairs, before which her blind
and ragged votaries PROSTATE them
selves in the dust and sing p1ns IN
her praise. 1t is not strange, then,
that the Democrat who is true to
his principles and his party never
approaches a school house without
instinctively feeling in his pockets
to see if he has such thing about
him as a box of matches or can of
nitro-glyceline. 1t is to the Demo-
cratic party the English poet refers
when he tells us that where ignor-
ance is bliss it is folly to be wise"
There is certainly nothing better
calculated to provoke candid con-
fession like the above than daily
contact with and contemplation of
Kentucky Democracy. The Corr
ier-./ournal has opportunities for
observation Of Democracy in its
most ample and unrestrained de-
velopment, and its estimate Of its
bearings aud tendencies must be ac-
cepted as unprejudiced and truthful.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

The San Francisco Board of Education
has resolved to discharge any female
teacher who gets married.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
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Institute.

A Teachers Institute will be held at
Winthrop, saturday, Feb. 4th, 1871.
LIST. Opening Exercises.
2nl Grammar and how teach it-W.
E. Parker.
3rd. Question for discussion: "Are
Public School examinations and exhibit
tons advisable"
AFTERNOON.
LIST. How explain G. c. d. and L. c. NJ?
e. II. Ely.
2nn. Iistory-H. Day.
3rd. Should singing be one of the regu-
lar branches in Schools. q. Pierce.
4th. How often should our pupils be
examined?
9th. Lecture-Prof Rowe.
A. d. WEIR. Com
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
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Five copies, one year, aaparateiy A. dressed.
Four Dollars
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Fifteen D0llaYo~
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
NslT.RiE FANn pnR SIZE.

ssji sSF II ~ NV FHR SHF.
FINHE subscriber offers for sale at low figures.
/ for cash. X acres OF land ON tie Quasqneion
road Ave miles soHth-east of Independence. On
this land there is 2ts of Timber. ard tie bal,
ance is not surpassed in qnalty Of land for pur-
poses Of cultivation in Town.
sa-k EDWARD PLACE,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

HENRY WILSON was first elected
a,e senate inj's55.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
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York. wherever Convenient II not. then regisse1
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
CHARLES \. DANA, Editor.
The 9ollar steeklu SUI.
THE DAILY SIN, SO A YEAR.

A prominently read bic newspaper, with sho
Iarges Circulation IN the word Free. indo.
pendent, a d fearless IN politics. the news
from everywhere. rW cents o copy By mall
60 cents month. or Sc year.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27

The widow of Hon. Thos. Darcy
Niece lately died at Toronto. She was
found dead, having prayer book in her
hands, evidently having expired in the
midst of her devotions.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-13

drowned or killed Mr.. Thomas, as soon
as he reached the city with the dead and
wounded, returned to thewreck to ascertain
the particulars The following list Of
wounded so far as ascertained:: w, ".
Wheel, brakeman, leg broken ;N Heal
Point Isabella, Indiana, bruised Miss
Heard, Trenton, cash in hand; j., w.
Scott, Nashville, bruised Mrs lherdeS
Nashville, leg broken; ]. W. Thompson,
Amherst Courthouse, bruised Mss Glenn
Leake, Nashville, fractured arm; w: w:
Alkcsbor, city, jaw broken w p. Weight
man, Memphis, cut IN head; MIR. Brown,
OF Johnsonville, two peg wounds; John
Campbell, Nashville head and leg hurt
5. s: Brown, Nashville, jaw broken Rob
ert Daniels, Bedford County, arm broken
Tom Dunn, Kingston, slight brulse and
cut Thomas Wayne, of Edgefield, cut
about head. The scene at. the depot. on
the arrivalof the train with the dead and
woundcdss wis. s.ifcart.rending m the -ex-
treme. Themotherss. fathers, brothers; sis
ters and friends, of the victims were, there
to learn the fate of some dear one. ans
MANY were Mortified to see without being
forewarned, the mangled dead body'of that
dear one.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-13
Black andswhite.

The experiment of seif-gnyernment by
the black man thus far wherever made,
(says the Norfolk Yirginlan> has proved
a political pancake, absolutely flat and
perfectly indigestible. Itbegets dyspep-
sia, and brings on a "death in life," more
terrible than the sharp dissolution of So
ciety broush. ,sbont by waritself
!. In the British West ladies'. in South
and Central America and il, Mexico, he
has degenerated into barbarism since his
emancipation. Tae Empire, or Republic
Of .Hayti, as you choose to call it, is q
monstrous combination of farce and trag-
edy-one day the monkeys amuse, the
next the tigers shock and disgust us. Lii
IBERIA is not much better. 1t is a dreary
failure and is recognized as such by.all
we'll informed people. But it is in the
South that we have been compelled to see
the incapaclty and insofence and reck-
less audacity. Of negro rule, aggravated
by the scoundrelism of designing white
men. Louisiana and South Carolina pre-
sent pictures that appeal to US. In short,
turn where you will you find that the
men of Africa have failed in attempts at
self-government.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-13

GG- AT Washington, on the Sth, Judge
R. B. Carpenter, Of Charleston, was five
hours before the. Ku Klux Committee.
There had been Ku Klux outrages in
various parts of the State-not, however,
originating from hostility to the Federal
Government, but the natural outbreak Of
men who had no redress throughout the
forms and administration of the law.
The Governmental the State is defective
in capacity in all its departments and
venal; it had increased the debt S1l, ,OOO,-
600, without constructing mile Of rail-
road, a foot of canal, or a school-house.
When candidate for Governor last year,
he visited every County in the State, but
never heard man utter word against
the. Federal Government. The opposi-
.tion was to the corrupt and mal-adminis-
tration of the State Government. Mem
bers of the. Loyal League committed
outrages, such as murders and burning
gin-houses, before there were Ku Klux
organizations. The. people submitted
quietly for two years, until they found
they had no redress through elections Of
law. The Ku Klux was composed of
men of high respectability, organized for
redress and protection. Judge Carpen-
ter, however,did not endorse the organi-
za.ion. He testified that the collection CT
s4,ooO,ooO, levied this year, vii, bankrupt
one-third of the State. The general con
dition OF affairs in the State is bad.