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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09
FrOceed fngs OF the Demo
cratic State Convention,

The democratic convention assem-
blcd at Moore's Hall, DdsMoines, at
IL o'clock a. m. August LIST, and was
called to order by the chairman of the
State committee, John 2. Irish, who
nominated as temporary chairman Hon.
). +. Duncombe. The convention ap-
proved Of this choice, and Mr.. Dun
combe took the chair. He addressed
the convention at considerable length,
and was heartily applauded.
Committees were then appointed on
credentials, permanent organization,
resolutions, and conference with the
Liberal Republican convention.
The conference committee was as fol-
lows: Judge Claggett, Office; J. H.
Wallace, of Muscatine; d. A. Mahony,
of Dubuque; J. D. Thompson, Of Har-
din; John P. Irish, of johnson; George
Gillaspy, Of Wapello; j. NJ. Walker,
of Polk; Ii. L. johnson, of Adams; L.
b. Potter, of Story.
After transacting some other bust
ness preliminary to permanent organic
alton, the convention adjourned until
the afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention met at three o'clock.
The committee on credentials repor-
ted Ninety-three counties represented !,
and no contested seats. Thereport was
adopted.
The committee on permanent organ
ization reported the following perma-
ncnt o Ulcers:
For president, Gen. A. c. Dodge, of
Des Moines county.
For vice president, one from each
Congressional district, as follows: A. p.
Bently, Of Henry; j. L. Shean, of
Jones; y. IL. 2. Roszell, of Buchanan;
A. &. Case, of Floyd; w. A. Fenlin-
burg. Of Benton; II. II. Trimble, Of
Davis; r. Case, Of Lucas; W. Stennett
Of Montgomery; Mr.. Vandercook, of
Cherokee.
Secretaries, P. II. Bosquet, of
Marion; N O. Ridenour, Of Page; John
Gallager, of Scott.
The report was adopted and Gen.
Dodge took the chair amid great APP
plause, which was repeated over and
over during his able address thanking
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09
Motto of the Grant Party

Addition, division and silence"
Add to what you've got by getting it
how you can. Divide the spoils with
those who gave you an opportunity to
peculate aud hold your tongue Du-
buque Telegraph.
The motto of the party that nominal
ted Greeley at Baltimore when last in
power was abstraction, destruction and
rebellion, steal the arsenals, scatter
the navy and "hold your tongue.
Which do you like best fellow citizens.
I--[Waverly Independent.
We have it upon the best of authority
that the editor Of the Independent is
one of the immortal II contemplate
dogs that voted in Bremen County in
1860 for breckenridge and Lane, the
candidates of secession, nominated and
supported by the men who robbed the
arsenals, and scattered the U. S., navy
to the four winds Of heaven. It is
eminently bcftting now that he sup
port the party that like Tammany,
smothers investigation into its crimes,
populations, frauds and public robbery,
by appointing Simon Cameron, who was
expelled from Lincoln's Cabinet for
fraud upon the National Treasury, as
the chairman Of committees to inyesti-
gate the charges preferred and make
the withdrawing report of his COM
mittee, and whose leaders are John A.
Logan, lack Chandler, Ben Butler,
Henry A. Wise, Pomeroy, Caldw ell,
Tom Murphy and his chum of nepotic,
habits and bride taking notoriety. A
fit man, truly, to criticise the republi-
canism and pronounce judgment upon the
honesty of Horace Greeley.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09

"By the light of these burning
shanties the TEUTON and CELT may
read the certain doom that will over
take them in their attempt to compete
with the native born American for
political supremacy on this continent. +"
Such were the sentiments Of Henry
Wilson in 1854, when the houses of
defenseless foreigners were burned
above their heads by native American
brutality. He is now G candidate for
the Vice-Prcsidency Of the United
States. Let Celt and Teutou remem-
Der these words when they come to de-
posite their ballots in November.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09

Gov. Oglesby undertook to deliver
an immense speech at the Radical meet.
ing in Indianapolis, but she had not
spoken more than half an hour when he
was overcome by fatigue and was CON-
PEELED to close abruptly" That Indi-
annapolis fatigue they sell at fifteen
cents drink is enough to overcome
anybody, and Oglesby's friends should
have warned him against it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09
Democratic Conversational
Convention.

The Democratic Congressional Conven-
ton will be held at Mason City, Iowa, on
the 4th day Of September, 1879, commenc-
ing At IL clock A. NJ. for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for congress and a
Presidential Elector for the Fourth
District, and such other business as may be
necessary. The following is the Represent
alton allowed each county in the District:
Blackhawk, Grundy 4
Bremen, 6 Hancock, d
Butler, Hardin. d
Cerro dordo; 4 Mitchell, 4
Chickasaw, 81 Winnebaro. d
Floyd, 6 Worth. a
Franklin, Wright, 4
Howard, 6.
Hon. II. B. Fouke and Col Mcclure will
address the Convention.
W. G. STANBERY, Chairman
Congressional Committee.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09

ed the following which was adopted
We the liberal republicans of Iowa,
in convention assembled as a concise
enunciation Of principles upon which
we desire to act in the campaign
against the corruption, tyrranies,
abuses, and nepotism of the party now
in control Of our state and general
government, we hereby cordially re-
a firm the liberal republican platform,
and cheerfully endorse the nomination
of Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown
as candidates for the presidency and
vice presidency of the Uuited States;
that we hereby ask the cooperation Of
the elements Of opposition to the nomi.
nees and platform of the Philadelphia
convention, and those adhcring to the
same, and that we pledge our hearty
support to the nominees of the Cincin.
natl convention and of this convention.
Appended to this resolution was the
Cincinnati platform.
The committee On conference, witt
the committee OF the democratic con
7ention, presented themselves ant
made their report which embraced ths
following ticket 20 be supported by the
democrats and liberal republicans
For Electors at Large-Gen. Fits
Henry Warren, of Des Moi1es Il. B.
Fouke, Of Dubuque.
Secretary Of Statc--Dr. 4. A. Gull
bert of Dubuque.
Treasurcr--M J. Rchlfs, of Scott.
Auditor--J. P. Cassidy, Of Po:ta,
watamie.
Attorney General--A. G.. Case, o.
Floyd.
Register of the Land Ofice--Capt
Jacob Butler, of Page.
The conference committee reported
also resolution adopted by the joint
committee On conference, to the effect
that district electors be selected by The
respective congressional districts. Thi:
ticket was nominated amid great ap
plause, and committee of three wa:
appointed, consisting Of Jacob Butler
of Muscatine; j. D. Campbell, of Scott.
and E. S. Brrnham, of Polk, to inform
the democratic convention of this
action.
At this stage of the proceedings a
telegraphic dispatch WINS received and
read to the convention, announcing that
Gen. N. P. Banks had joined the lib
eral party.
A committee from the democratic
convention, consisting of D. A. Mahony,
Geo. Gillaspy and j. H. Wallace, were
announced from the democratic conven-
ton, informing the liberal convention
that the democratic convention had
nominated with great enthusiasm the
ticket presented by the conference COM
mittee. A scene of the widest enthu-
siasm succeeded this announcement.
cheer after cheer being given for the
Democratic convention, and it's commit
tee. The convention became so excited
and enthusiastic that a recess for an
hour was taken, to afford the members
an opportunity to exchange greetings
and congratulations with their Demo-
cratic co-laborers i'll the cause of re-
form.
BY this time, the head of the pro-
cession made by the Democratic con-
vention on it's way to the court house,
made its appearance, and this became
the signal for the widest cheering.
The proceedings of the joint ratif-
cation will be given in another place.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09

The Chicago Post declares thai
"Presilent Grant ought to remove Con
sul-General Butler Of Egypt on the
sufficient ground Of generally infa.
nous reputation" Yes, but it is
seldom that President Grant removes q
man upon the same groundas that upon
which he appointed him.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09

An exchange asks: "How does
Grant compare, Intellectually, with
Greeley'' About as the "phosphores-
cent grow of dccayed mackerel' COM
parcs with the calcium headlight Of a
broadgaugc locomotive.
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-09

General Grant says: "Mr. Greeley
would have filed the civil service with
all the worthless men in the country if
| had let him." But, having declined
to let him, he turned right around and
did it himself.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22
A HEATHENIsH AND SUICIDAL POLICY.

The author of the articles in late issues
of the Memphis appeal, in which the
Southern people are seriously advised not
to give employment or aid to the eolored
race is beyond doubt of unsound mind.
We do not see how a writer i'll full posses
sion of ordinary mental powers could seri-
ously urge such destructive and foolish
policy upon the South. The great trouble
with us now is, there are not half enough
working people in our borders. Not one
third of the tillable land of the Southern
States is cultivated. The secret of her
slow recuperation is, that there is not
enough laborers at work in her cotton, to-
bacco and corn fields. If her waste fields
were given away to laborers who
would cultivate them, or if her
half-worked farms were divided and sold
at half-price to industrious men who
would raise good crops from them, in five
years every landholder would be richer
with one-half of his original estate left
him. Why, then, seriously propose plan
which must surely and speedily still fur
ther depopulate our section and decrease
our productions? We are not opposing in
this article policy hastily suggested, but
one earnestly advocated day after day in
one of the most widely circulated daily
newspapers of this State.
1t is all folly to discuss such a suicidal
proposition. The colored people are in the
South, part of the South, and all theo-
ries of colonization are impractical and all
polices of determination are brutal and
cowardly.
If the Southern people talked less and
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

thought less of politics and worked more
we would be better off. The public senti-
ment that makes. an honest difference in
politics cause for hatreds, distrust, relig-
ious or industrial ostracism, is foolish and
destructive. 1t will ruin any people.
When the Memphis appeal openly threat
ems to "spot" every man for voting the
Republican ticket; openly advising its read
erS to carry politics into their business re-
lations and seriously proposes to employ
only those who think politically as it does :,
it inaugurates policy that is subyersive
of all freedom of conscience, that strikes
at the very root. of free institutions and
that must bring ruin upon the Southern
people. The dangers it seeks to avoid
would only multiply, if we should fall into
the anarchy and helpless conditions its
proposed policy would surely entail. The
best protection against its threatened war
Of races and other imaginary dangers, is to
have general prosperity, general education
and liberal national public sentiment.
We will not secure these until we bury for
ever beyond resurrection the sectional,
proscriptiye Chinese sentiments encourag-
ed by the appeal and its followers. They
think less of pubic schools, good roads,
more population and industrial enterprises
than they do oftheir little miserable ward
and city political caucusses and rings. If
they will bury all their contemplate pre-
judices for one year.and go to work to build
up progressive, liberal, public sentiment
and encourage reforms we have referred
to, we believe when the time for the next
election comes, they will find little encour-
agement to 'spot" men for their political
belief or in advocating policy to remedy
imaginary dangers that sensible menknow
can never arise. More work and less at
tention to politics, more interest in public
schools and less in political wire, working,
higher respect for honest labor and greater
contempt for idle young men who part
their hair in the middle and live off of hard
working fathers, more busy hands and
fewer politicians, and all the intolerance,
bitterness and vindictiveness now mani
tested by the Appeal and its followers to-
wards Radicals and the colored people
will speedily disappear.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22
TENNESSEE BANNER COUNTIES.

Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. claims
to be the banner Grant county in the
Union. The grand old iron ribbed county
did nobly; we won't pluck a laurel from
her crown. Alabama, in the Washington
Chronicle, claims the banner county
Winston-where the vote stood 672 Grant
to 46 Greeley, all aChite Union men. East
Tennessee has two counties, one of which
beats the Union. Scott county, with al
most an exclusive white population, gave
Grant 361, Greeley but I. A severe rain
storm on election day prevented full
vote, which stands 700 Republican to IL
Democratic Sewer county voted Grant
1,176 to Greeley 13S. These counties will
do for ''banner'' counties.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

WE hear of men saying that the '!news-
papers are soaring people to death over the
horse disease and driving people from
town." So far as the CHRONICLE is con-
cerned it has published from time to time
facts about the extent and progress of this
wonderful malady and the remedies sug-
gested. Our city reporters have been in
structed to ascertain by actual observation
and investigation the first appearance of
the disease here, and to give names and
facts. We propose to publish only the
facts, not to exaggerate, not to conceal.
This is our business. The public EXPECT
it and we intend to do it as
fairly as we can. Gentlemen came
to this city yesterday, reporting
that the disease was not in Chat
tanooga and abusing the papers for stating
to the contrary. The fact is, the Chatta-
nooga papers of yesterday report over
sixty one cases, giving names of stables,
number of horses in each stable, and the
different stages of the disease. We prefer
to accept such statements to those of per-
sons who have not investigated the facts.
In all such maladies, whether attacking
men or animals, the only proper course for
the press to pursue is, to report the actual
facts as fully and fairly as possible. This
the CHRONICLE always has done and al
ways will do.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

THE Memphis Appeal says 1--WE are
perfectly satisfied that if the white people
of the country persist in renting land to,
and hiring negroes-in supporting the
aged among them and raising up the
younger ones to manhood and to voting
age-they are digging their own political
and financial graves" etc. All this
because most of them vote for the party
that liberated them and gave them politi-
cal and civil rights. But will the Appeal
stop there Why not colombo those mis-
cradle UItite men who vote the radical
ticket. If the Appeal could colombo all
the Grant voters, wouldn't there be fat
offices for its folks? What high time
the Tennessee military ring would have
then! No need of "battering ram dis
tricts," for no hateful radicals would there
then be to vote against the regular nomi-
nees." The Appeal forgets we had war
or that the "ring" is broken.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22
100000 In BANK.
GRAND GIFT CONCERT.
Postponed to December I, 1872.

FENHE SECOND GRAND GIFT CONCERT IN AID
IL of the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY. announced
for September g. has been postponed to December
1872, because the accumulation of orders the few
days before the drawing made it physically impossible
to fill Thorn without few days delay, and short
posponement was inevitable it was determined to de-
ter 1t to time that would make full drawing sue by
the sale of all the tickets.
The money necessary to pay in full all the offered
gifts is now upon depositin the Farmers and DrOvers
Bank as will be by the following certificate of the
Cashier. ~
FARMERS AND DRovERs' BANK,
LOUISVILLE. KY, Sept. 26, 1872.
This is to certify that there is now on deposit in
this bank over half million of doarsto the credit of
the Gift Concert fund.- $4,000 of which is held by this
bank Treasurer of the public Library of Kentucky,
to pay off al gifts to be awarded at the drawing.
r X. s. VEACH, Cashier.
1000 Prizes, amounting TO
. > 500, 900 TN CA H,
will be awarded the highest prizes being 100000 $50.
Co., $4,000, and down in regular graduation to $780,
which is the lowest. trE5
The drawing will positively and unequivocally take
place December q Agents are peremptorily requ red
to close sales and make returns November 25 in order
to give ample time for the final arrangements Orders
for tickets application for circulars should be ad
dressed to
Gov. THOS. F. BRAMLETTE.
Agent Public Library of Kentucky,
r .... .. Louisville, KY.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22
Miscellaneous.
Tin CHANoERY AT CLINTON,
Anderson County, Tennessee.

M HEREAS. R Fl Gratz. A Perdicars, A Rich
ey, jonathan Steward. II AStiles, W r Sterling,
John Redding, Chas Morrell, Thos Magill, and
Charles Steward. have filed their petition for. a
sGnaTter OF Incorporation, to- be known as 81 The
ing for the corporate rights of railroad mining and
manufacturing company in Anderson and the adjacent
counties, commencing in the Mountain Fork of Poplar
Creek, near Dunnavans Gap, in Anderson county. :
This IS therefore to notify all persons pear before
the SAID Chancery Court on the LIST Mond in Deem
granted and letters of Incorporation should not sue
or said petition sil be proceeded with ex parte.
1t further ordered that this notice be published for
thirty days in the Knoxville (Tenn Daily Chronicle
October 31st, 1872.
copy of the order. Test; t
d5Od WIN. II. WHITS0N. elk & Maste
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

SOME of the organs are already obliviCus
of the fact that we lately held an election
in Tennessee. The Memphis Appeal evil
IDENTIFY thinks the military ring" wasn't
broken. 1t acts as though Tennessee was
still under the thumbs of
Zone little, two little, tn rec little Generals,
Four little, five little, six little Co.'s,
Seven little, eight little, nine little Majors,
Ten little military ring leaders,
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

GRANT has appointed Fairman postmas-
ter at Philadelphia, so the Press ana
Herald will be sad. 1t reported him as ap-
pointing Truman and it was as much re-
ioiced over it, as it was over the death of
the Democratic party.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

WE publish in another column an inter-
esting article about Kintergartens," such
a school would prove valuable addition
to our educational interests and would De
highly appreciated by many mothers.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

THE LARGEST CIRCULATION
Of Amy Daily Published in East Tennessee.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-11-22

FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. D, 1872
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-05-25
Phenomena of Earthquakes.
From the Inyo Independent, April aOth.l

rom the InyO lndependentr hprll -ulh-I
 Scientific men everywhere are busy in in- vestigating the cause of those terrible con vulsions of the earth-earthquakes and there Is a faint hope that something of value may be adduced from their inquiries. It seems to be generally conceded that electricity in some form Is the prime cause of these move ments of the earth. It is much to bc hoped that some person or persons, possessing the necessary scientific attainments, will pay this section visit. No better place or opportu- nity was ever presented to American scien- lists to investigate these phenomena on their own soil than this county has afforded dur ing tue past three of four weeks. For the in- formation of such. we will mention few facts, mainly relating to electrical phenom- ena, that has occurred within our knowledge
 4 few days after the big shock. so-called, at Cerro Gordo very loud thunder was heard during violent snow storm. With the ex- ception of the snow the same thing occurred here and perhaps other places in the valley. This Is remarkable because almost unprece- dented.
 Immediately following the great shock, men, whose judgment and veracity Is beyond question, while sitting on the ground near the Eclipse mine. saw sheets of flame on the rocky sides of Inyo mountains, but half mile distant. These flames, observed in sev- eral places, waved to and fro apparently clear of the ground, like vast torches; they con- tinued for only few minutes.
 In this office one day last week, while one of the proprietors was running large num- Der of small sheets of flatcap paper through a job press, these sheets after leaving the press were affected by the movements Of the operators hand, as a strong magnet would affect iron filings. When his hand was near them the whole pile, or at least hundred of them from the top, seemed ta float in the air like tissue paper in slight breeze. The top sheet would raise at each end up to the hand when held four inches above it, and thus by attraction be moved entirely away from the others.
 At other times during the night sparks of fire were repeatedly emitted from wooden shawl, on being touched by the hand.
 At the kearsarge mill, located at an alti- tude of nearly 5000 feet above the sea, the following occurrence was noted by Harry Clawson and r. J. Jo.lyn. The former, while sitting with bis knee within about three inches of cast-iron stove, felt a peculiar numbing sensation, and supposing his limbs were asleep essayed to rub them with his hand. As soon as his hand touched his knee he felt shock, and immediately after and for number of seconds, a stream of fire ran be- tween both knees and the stove