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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
A Three Hundred Million
steal.

A bill has been introduced in Con-
giving to railroad companies which
transported troops during the war more
pay for the services than has already
been paid them. The extra pay provi-
ded by this bill would amount, in the
aggregate, to three hundred million dol
lars. And the bill is quite likely to
pass. 1t is the last chance with some
Of the Congressman who will vote for it,
to make haul from the Treasury, and
is likely to be the last chance of the
Presidential bummers to share the spoils
which will follow the signature Of this
stupendous piece of rascality, by the
President, for sign it he doubtless will,
if an opportunity be afforded him. He
has signed every bill Of corruption al
ready presented to him. notwithstanding
his fair pledges and promises to the
contrary. Now, is there no way to
prevent the passage Of this three hund-
red million steal bill? Of course there
is, but the way will not be made use of
by the people. They seem to be indif-
ferent to how much is stolen from them
They feel like an individual who has
lost all, and who cannot be made worse
off by anything that may happen. So
they let the stealing go on, and on it
gocs.-Dubuaue TELEGRAPH.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
Litllle'S Living Are,

Number 1855 and l456 Of the Liy-
ing Age for the weeks ending April
9th and May 4th, contain articles on
Henry Ward Beecher, from the Coten-
porary Review; Turner and Mulready,
Macmillan's Magazine; Richard Steele,
Temple Bar; The Christian and Pagan
Ethics, Spectator; New japanese and
Chinese Treatise, Pail Mall Gazette;
French Manners, Blaekwood's Maga-
zine; The English of the Prayer Book,
Saturday Review; Modern Manners,
Temple Bar; NJ. Theirs, Economist.
The Dutch Tercentenary, Saturday Re-
view; Easter Eggs, Pail Mall Gazette;
Frederick Denison Maurice, Spectator;
France and Germany, Pail Mall Ga
zettc; the continuation of The Strage
Adventures ola Phaeton, by Black,
author Of "A Daughter Of Heith," OF
the skelligs, by Jean Ingelow; The
Story Of the Plebiscite, by the distin-
guishe French writer's, NM. Erchmann-
Chatrian, et,. The subscription price
Of this 81 page weekly magazine is $s
a year, or for $40 any one Of the
American S4 magazines is sent with
The Living Age for a year. Littell &
Gay, Boston, Publishers
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

Disraeli has made Il speech at Man.
chester in defence Of the monarchy.
One point which he made interests us
over here. He said that the civil list
under Victoria was only half as expen-
sivc as that of the Uunited States under
are public. We are unprepared to say
whether he is right or wrong, but the
same statement has been made on this
side of the water and elaborately sup
ported by figures aud assumed facts. It
is certain that the simplicity and reas-
onableness of expenditure which FORM
erly characterized the public, and which
alone comport with the spirit Of our
government, long since gave way to a
rage for extravaganza and gingerbread
finery which are as snobbish and vulgar
as they are expensive.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

Carl ScllurX u Def.a aHlter.

The New York Times, which without
doubt, is the most venal and corrupt
newspaper in the country, charges that
Carl Schurz is defaulter to the Gov
ernment in the sum of several thousand
dollars, and cites to the proof which
has lately been brought to light in the
Treasury Department.
Suppose he is? The Times charges
that he has been a defaulter for years;
even before Grant became president,
and that it has been known that he was
defaulter, but, in consideration of his
eminent services to the Republican
party, 10 mention thereof has been
made.
If this be the case, in what light does
it place Grant and the officers of his
administration? So long as Schurz was
with the Administration and working
for it, even though the books under
their very noses showed him to be a
robber of the treasury, they kept silent,
patted him on the head and said, $50
on with your warfare against Demo-
Gratis" But when the corruptions of
Grant and his followers became 50
great that he who was a defaulter in
the sum Of few thousand dollars only
could stand it on longer, they at once
lerloose the dogs Of war upon him, ac-
cusing him Of theft, treachery and
other crimes against tho State and peo-
pie. From this We are to learn that
thieves, so long as they areloyal and keep
silent concerning the rottenness of the
present administration, are to be pro.
tected, encouraged ard advanced
Therefore we are taught to believe that
a large majority, if not all, of Grants
official supporters are thieves, defaul
ters and persons who, in order to screel
themselves from justice, must alvocat'
the reelection Of man who was him
self a defaulter to the government year
ago, and whose administration has bee
but apolitical wall behind which all sort
of robbers, pilfcrers, plundcrers an
scoundrels have take refuge and foun
proteetion.-N. Y. Democrat.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

The other day Grant found himself
at the end of his resources on the sub
ject of the indirect Alabama claims d.
plomatic dispute, and so he called a
meeting Of the republican members of
the Congressional Committee on foreign
Affairs, at whose feet he laid down his
bundle. He admitted that he had
made a stupendous blundcr in pressing
the indirect claims; that Great Britain
had simply refused to be bullied or
badgered on the subject, and would ac-
cept nothing but square backdown
which was humiliation that he thought
the Republican party in Congress ought
to assume, or at least share with him.
They failed to see it, and left him to
the embarrassing consequences of his
own blunders. The next day Fernando
Wood and the democratic members Of
the Committee proposed an inquiry into
the calling of meeting of the partisan
members of a Congressional Committee
to which the balance of the members
were not invited, and freely aired the
sinister proceeding The administra-
tion has made a deplorable botch of the
Alabama claims treaty, as it has with
San Domingo, DIR. Howard in chains in
Spain, the French arms affair, and every
other subject of diplomacy in which it
has engaged, and it gets deeper into
trouble with every movement that it
attempts s.-News.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
The SCllOOlhOuSe as a Sign.

There is no surer sign of a lack Of
intelligence and refinement in neigh
borhood than dilapidated and slovenly
schoolhouse, its benches hacked with
knives and stained with ink, it's doors
unhinged, its floor covered with dirt,
its windows open to sun and rain. On
the other hand, if YOU see schoolhousc
neat in design, freshly painted, in good
repair, with a well-turfcd yard filed
with beautiful shade-trees, yo,iinstinct-
lively infer that the families of the
neigb' rhood are enterprising and intel
ligent. If the schoolhouse is what it
ought to be, you are likely to find in it
a competent teacher and well behaved
scholars In such neighborhood,
moreover, you will be likely to find the
farms well taken care of, the fences
trim, the houses and barns iu good re-
pair. The town which neglects its
schools is on the high-road to ruin
Oliver Johnson.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
Did Gran, Save the Country,
From the Cincinnati Commercial,

/
The fcrvcnt Forney was, we suppose
justified in being able and cloquen,
when taking leave of his employees Of
the Philadelphia Custom-House, but the
charitableness that we have for twaddle
on such occasions, large as it is will not
cover this:
81 remember Grant as the man who
saved my country and yours. I remcn,-
Der how he siezcd our cause when it
was sinking almost for the last time,
and bore it to victory; 1 remember his
patience and bis perseverance; 1 re-
member how he avoided complaints to
the authorities and appeals to the peo.
pie; [ remember when Richmond fell
he refused to ride through that conquer
ed city at the head of his victorious
army, but quietly returned to his FAM
lily, then in New Jersey; I remember
how he abstained from the presidency
till it was forced upon him, and that,
but for him, in 1858, we should have
been defeated, even by Seymour and
Blair"
"A more Sickening specimen Of syco-
phancy than this was never uttered.
Make the most of Grants military rec
ord, and we are not disposed to bclittlc
it; and the assertion that he saved the
country is an untruth, a slandcr and a
folly. 1t is an anti-rcpublican falsifca-
ton of history. The man who will
shout over Grant as man who saved
the country, has but one more step to
take, and that not long one, to be-
come monarchist. They utter stuff
in such phrases as that, when our cause
was sinking for the last time, Grant
siezed it, would disgrace a school-boy.
A teacher who would allow pupil to
write such miserable Justification in a
school exercise, without rebuke, would
deserve discharge and condemnation.
The spectacle of multitudes always
seeking excuses to worship somebody
running to idol worseip headlong-;s
discouraging to those who desire to pro-
mote the ultimate triumph of Republi-
can principles in the world. Why
Grant refused to ride through Rich
mond we don't know or care but it is
necessary to say that the excess of mod
esty claimed for him in this case has
not been shown in his innumerable
journeys since the war. If there is
deep anxiety for retirement and mod
est longing for quietude displayed in
the sixty thousand miles in special cars
since the fall of Richmond we fail to
see it. After Forney's tale of the ne
gotiation that led to putting up Grant
for the presidency, in which that Office
was dickered about in the spirit Of
horsc trade, he ought not to have re-
ferred to Grants remarkable abstinence
from the presidency. He evidently
looked upon it as question Of money
and personal position, not of usefulness
and dignity. And if it is true that no
Que but Grant could have saved us
from Seymour and Blair-if he must
go on saving the country over and over
again-what is to become of us when
he is gone? Is there any Dent capable
Of succeeding him? or is Lieutenant
Fred likely to be grown in time to save
us?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
Josiah Brown, '.Dea d. -llca 4 .

In Sroonville dwelt Josiah Brown
The champion "dead -head'' of the TOWN.
Where other people had to pay,
His "dead- head" tickets paid his way.
On railroads Brown would have "pass,"
Procured by "cheek" well stocked with ''brass."
On stcamboats, too, he Oft would ride,
But ever with "pass'' supplied.
To balls and parties Brown was sure
complimentary" to secure;
And though he danced till break Of day,
From him the '.fidd.ers' Vt no pay.
Cigars and "cocktails'' Brown would take
When others paid-"'or friendship sake;''
But welded so was he to pelf,
lie never once ''stood treat' himself.
lie went to all the ''one-horse Shows
Appare!led in his Sunday clothes,
And gave the men to understand,
With words and smiles exceeding bland,
'That elergymen-ah, yes,-you sec''-
'Yes, ccrtainly-admitted free!''
OF Brown it also has been said,
That when he and his wife were wed.
lie took with him, to pay the fees
OF Parson Gray, peck of peas.
1t further has been said in town
A rather slough" story to "go down.
That when son to Brown was born,
One calm and cloudless summer morn.
He knew the journey babe had made
Required no money to be paid,
For ''pass' the new arrival had.
TO make the fathers heart most g.ad
On baby's brow the parents view
mark-'.D. H.'-.'dcad-hcaded" throuohi
D. NJ Drake
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
OV W.AK KI.AGE.

HAPPY RELIEF FOR YOUNG MEN from
the effects Of Errors and Abuses in early
life. Manhood restored. Nervous debility
cured. !mpediments to Marriage removed.
New method OF treatment. New and re-
markable remedies. Books and Circulars
sent free, in sealed envelopes.
Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION. No. .
South Ninth ST., Philsdelphia, Pa.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: "the
country is in one broad grin over the
nomination of Greeley" The country
is undoubtedly happy over tho prospect
Of being relieved Of Grant.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
WE'LL DRILLING.

YyHE undersigned is prepared to drill
= Wells in Town. or country or reasonable
terms, and with Large or Small Bore
Long experience warrants him in guaran.
tseing good work and perfect satisfaction
He is also fully prepared with all neces.
sary apparatus for moving buildings
Call at his farm three miles South East Of
Crssco. Or address
DANIEL WHEELER,
ass01 ersseo, Iowa.
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Total cost without tax S45 92l

Here we have some facts that ought
to open the eyes and shut the fists of
working people. For less than forty-six
dollars, were it not for the tariff, the
goods above enumerated could be pur-
chased, but with the tariff they are made
to cost seventy eight dollars, twenty-three
dollars tax on forty-six dollars worth of
goods. Is it any wonder that it is diff
cult for working people to make bare
living? Is it any wonder that farmers,
even with large crops, the bounty Of
providence, and running in debt, or at
the best, merely holding their own,
when, as in the above case they have
to pay nearly twice as much for every
thing they need to buy as they would
were it not for the tariff Here is where
reform ought to begin and tear out by
the roots the iniquity which has SUBJ
jected the people to the domination Of
monopolies. Dubuque Telegraph.
Ard not one cent Of this tax goes into
the treasury or to benefit any but the
weSithy eastern capitalist. who manu-,
facturers and sends these goods out tc
be bought, paid for. and consumed by
the farmer. Ed. P. D.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

The undersigned will keep on hand q
his kiln, two miles north of Cresco, constant
ly supply of fresh burnt Lime Of choice
quality, ut As cents per bushel
Lime from the same kiln will be kept and
sold by John E. Peck at the lumber office
Of Peck & Seargent in Cresco.
Sept Z, 1871.
46m3 HUGH OWENS.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17

SPECIAL FEATUREs-
l. Rates Low, and no inc rease from any
cause
2. Surrender and Loan Value endorsed
on each Policy.
3. Massachusetts, Non-forfeiture Law
LIBERALrZED.
4. Dividends on Contribution Plan.
8. No restriction OH Travel in any part
Of the World.
6. Dividends Non-forfeitable; and Poll
cies incontestib.e.
Rates Low. Expenses Low. Security
Absolute.
The HOPE is Economical, Liberal, Pro-
gressiye and Successful. 26tf
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
Working Man, Look Here.

Most people have no time to look in
to the bulky tariff acts, even if they
had the disposition to do so. Indeed
the tariff is such an iniquity that it
forces most people to work all the time
to make bare living, and SO they have
no opportunity to study what it is that
is keeping them down in the dust.
Bnt there are persons who do study
these things. A newspaper here and
there, like the Telegraph, picks out
facts from time to time, and presents
them in condensed form to their read
ers, SO that it does not take much time
to read or study them. There are Con-
gressmen too, who do their duty in this
respect, and for which the people ought
to thank them, considering how few of
them there are who do their duty, and
serve the people faithfully. OF these
Congressman, Mr.. Burchard, of Illinois,
is one. In late speech of his in Con-
gress, he took up certain articles of
clothing and domestic wear, and showed
how the price of these articles is affect
ed by the iniquitous tariff. We take
some of his figures for the consideration
Of Telegraph readers, and we request
that they be read:
Cost Of wool cloth ready-made $12 oo
Tax So per cent 416
Cost without tax S. 81
Pair Of woolen pants ready-made $G co
Tax 50 per cent 20s
Cost without tax 392
Knit drawers and undershirt wool So 90
Tax e6 6-7 per cent 40
Cost without tax 81 60
Wool hat 80 co
Tax GIG per cent lis
Cost without tax lG5
y Vest Of wool cloth 81 90
Tax So per cent 13o
Cost without tax 2Gl
Twenty yards of flannel at 6Oc $12 90
Tax 65 per cent Alb
Cost without tax 727
Twenty yards unbleached domes-
tic, 12lc 50 so
Tax 35 per cent Go
Cost without tax 1S5
Twenty yards calico at 15c S810
Tax 30 per cent 1125
Cost without tax 1e75
Ten yards delaines, at 25c So SO
Tax IS Der cent 90
Cost without tax ISL
One pair ten-pound all-wool blank
eta $40 90
Tax 1913 per cent 499
Cost without tax SOL
Twenty yds common wool carpet$2o 90
Tax 50 per cent AZ
Cost without tax 10 5S
Total cost BIS 90
Total tax % OIL
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s. G.. CANFIELD.

-. u cANF1ELD.
CANFIELD MINI.
Justice of the Peace and col
lecting agent. Will attend to collections
and pay taxes for non-residents in any part
Of Fillmore county, Minn
Refers by permission to Hon. Reuben
Wells, Preston, Mnn.
Peter yelie, Lime Springs station, Iowa.
J. Easton, Banker, Decorah, Iowa.
G. s. Thurber, Cresco IOWA.
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tones musically; birds and insects fill up
the orchestra. Henry Ward Beech

IF the early direction given to life
had been ever SO unfortunate, a mans
folding his hands over it in melancholy
mood, and suffering himself to be made
puppet by it, is a sadly weak proceed
ing. Most thoughtful men have some
dark fountain in their souls, by the
side of which, if there were time and it
were decorous, they would let their
thoughts sit down and wall indifferently.
i Friends in Council
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
MILLER.
CREsCO, IOWA.

PAINTER AND GLAZIER.
South side Of Market street West Of Elm.
Fine work on Carriages, &c. and Papering
. specially.
BY prompt attention to orders, superior
work and reasonable prices he expects to
command share ofthe business. 3l3tt
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-17
.ILLlAM EDWARDS.

Would respectfully announce that he is
prepared to give his attention to
MAKING & REPAIRING WAGONS,
at Cresco, Iowa, and all work of his trade.
Flows constantly on hand of the best
patterns, cheap for cash.
MAJ Shop south Of the Empire House
Cresco, Oct. 20, 1869 T23tf1
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am quite sure it is a most solemn
duty to cultivate our understanding to
the uttermost, for | have seen the evil
moral consequences of fanaticism to a
greater degree than ever expected to
see them realized; andI am satisfied
that neglected intellect is far oftenel
the cause Of mischief to a man than a
perverted or oyeryalued one.-TDr.
Arnold.
To find ones self business, / am per-
suaded, is the great act of life; some
spirit, something Of genius is required
to teach man how to employ himself;
l say man, for women, commonly
speaking, never feel this distemper; they
have always something to do; variety
Of small inventions and occupations fl
up this void and their eyes are never
open in yain.--[Thomas Gray.
1t is great gift to be born rich il
the eyes and ears. Some men hav,
carried before them an endless process
ion of beauty. There are charms fo
them where others perceive barrenness
There is a concert in the air all the tim
for those whose ears are tuned Alright
Trees harp for them; winds roll thei
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-31
THE GAZETTE.
FRIDAY EVENING, NAY 81.
Az SIN AT Hrs OLD TR1cKs.-A Calitor-

" Al SIN AT Hrs OLD TRICKs.-A Callfor-
MIA paper publishes the following:
i The card transaction between All Sin and
Mr.. William Nye, which has gained so much
celebrity, owing to the graphic manner in
which it has been described, by Bret Harte,
may possibly have been an actual occurrence.
Gambling is a passion with the Chinese. For
thousands of years they have studied and prac-
ticed all manner of sinful games, and they are
adopts at all the tricks by which gamesters cir
cumniyent the laws of chance. In the Chinese
umter of town on the Pacific slope couple
of smart young men recently encountered some
Mongolians engaged in the Mclean game of
draw poker. The boys asked if they could
come into the game, and received a cordial
welcome. Presently the innocent-looklng CHI
namen began to sweep In their coin at an
alarming rate This did not meet their views at
all. so they tried on the simple heather two or
three the sharpest tricks known to American
gamblers. The Celestials appeared to be en-
tirely oblivious to the advantages they were
taking, and permitted them to bet on their
sure thing to the extent of their funds, when,
on call, the American sharpers found that
they were nowhere, and had the modification
of seeing their antagonists rake in their stakes
with most aggravating expression OF artless
indifference. The Cinnamon had seen through
their trick at glance, and beat them by meth
DDS yet unnaturalized in this country. As the
outwitted visitors withdrew one of the China
men, with smile of sweet simplicity, invited
them to call again. Said John, "S'pose you
next time like to play more pokee, you come
see me.'' But the invitation was not accept
ed, and at the present time there are not to be
found on the Pacific coast any more ardent OPP
ponents of Chinese emigration than the young
new wrinkles in the pouIar American game,
which they supposed he did not understand.
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RAILROADS..
ORANGE, ALEXANDRIA AND MAN.
~ ASSAS RAILROAD.
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DOUBLE Dali


On and after SUNDAY, May 5. 1872, two
daily passenger trains will run between WASH.
INGTON and LYNCHBURG, effecting double
daily connections through between NEW YORK
and NEW ORLEANS. At Gordonsville con-
nection is made by mail train with the Chess
peake and Ohio Railroad daily Sunday except
ed to Richmond, Staunton and the VIRGINIA
SPRINGS at Lynchburg with Atlantic, Mis-
sissipp and Ohio Railroad for the West AnG
Southwest and at Washington for the North
and Northwest.
Leave Washington daily at 7.0Oa. m. and 1920
o. NJ. and Alexandria at a. nj. and II: 10 pm,
arriving at Lynchburg at 5. 10 pm. and SIS AIN.
arrive at Alexandria at 6.G p. m. and 6.43 a. m,
and at Washington at 7.l5 p. m and l:3O a. nj.
For MANASSAS DIVISION leave Washington
daily excepting Sunday with main line train,
at ZOO a. m. and Alexandria at $40 a. m.
Leave Manassas Junction at $3.50 a. nj pass
Strssburg at LIS p M, and arrive rye at u Harrso1
burg at 4:25 p. M, connecting with Harmon
Co.'S Stage Lines to Staunton Rawley Springs
Eastward, leave Harrisonburg at 1920 a. m.;
pass Strasburg at lao p. m, arrive at Manassas
Junction at 500 p. M, connecting WIFE man
line through to Washington and the North and
West
Good connections, by comfortable coaches, are
made to Fairfax Court House from Fairfax sta
ton to Mddleburg from Plains; and to Upper
vile from Piedmont
Both the Eastward and Westward bound trains
make close connection at Strasburg with the
Winchester and Strasburg Railroad TO WlnchcS-
ter, Harper,'s Ferry, Capon Springs, Sc.
Elegant sleeping cars are run daily between
New York and Lynchburg, without change.
Also, cars through between Baltimore mn"
Lynchburg, avoiding the Inconvenience OF trans
fer in Washington.
Through tickets and baggage checked to all
prominent points,
j. NJ BROADUS,
my 3-tf General Ticket Agent.