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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

THE Dubuque Times pays the fol-
lowing handsome compliment to the
Republican weekly press Of this
State. While we have not the van
ity to appropriate any share of the
praise, it gives us real pleasure to
acknowledge its justice as applied
to large number Of the weekly
exchanges on our list:
"IIonor to whom honor is due" is
a noble motto, and under its promp-
tings we feel bound to say that, hav-
ing during the campaign thus far
had the opportunity of reading a
large number of the weekly papers
of our State, and noting their man
agcmcnt of current political topics,
We have been again and again com
PEELED to admire the candor, earn
estness and ability which the edi-
tors OF Republican weekly journals
have shown during the canvass. 1t
would be unpleasant to make any
direct personal illusions, where all
cannot be named; but we must say
that in some Iowa weeklies we have
seen editorial articles which, had
they appeared in some of the large
city dailies, would have attracted
general and deserved attention.
Some people seem to have a fancy
that no political article is worth
reading unless they see it in a daily
paper. We very cordially assure
them Of their great mistake. Some
Of the ablest political articles first
see the light in the columns of those
Republican weekly newspapers of
which our noble State of Iowa is so
justly proud.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

The Bulletin man had better look
over his own columns to see if in
them can be found word of "Ship
canal improvement" in connection
with the record of it's hero prior to
the McGregor Convention.-Peoples'
Paper.
We have complied with the above
request, and report that we find in
our files repeated mention and help
full notice of the Ship Canal, some
Of the articles, strange rs it may
seem, dating back even prior to the
existence of the Peoples Raper.-
AS to their connection with its
(our) hero" never having had a he
70, we can't say. Regarding Mr..
Domains record in favor of the
Canal improvement, we apprehend
that it needs neither our indorse-
ment or that of our friend, who, by
inscrutablc dispensation of Provl-
dence, is permitted to make weekly
proclamation of his emptiness,
through the Clermont paper.
In turn let us now invite the Peo-
PIES Paper to make diligent invest
igation of it's own columns, or those
of any other paper, of the report
of the proceedings of any public
meeting, the details Of any private
conversation, or Of any speech or
letter, and when done let it tell us
if it has discovered that previous to
the present canvass it's candidate,
John I. Stoneman, ever, by word,
deed, pen or purse contributed in
any way, to the advancement or ul-
innate success OF the Ship Canal, or
that he ever alluded to it except in
terms Of derision.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
Political Notes.

The following good hit is from the
New York Commercial The New York
World figures out Greelcy's election from
a table which it say lies before it, 1t
probably refers to something from the
Tribune; that paper generally lies just
ono day before the World.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: 'Iowa,
one of the staunchcst Of the Republican
States, and one that has been under
Democratic rule less. we believe, than any
other State, is entirely out Of debt. and
large cash balance in the Treasury. So
much for the Radical thieves"
Tho St, Louis Dsmocrat ef&eps to take
the list of the delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention, land will give $1,000 for
every man on it who had not applied for
and been refused . federal Office, or been
defeated for office by the people, if any
other newspaper will agree to give 800
tor every man on it who was defeated
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

THE Lansing Mirror and Chron-
icle thus succinctly states one of the
reasons why the election Of Stone
man would be injudicious and i'm
polite:
With what success could John Il.
Stoncman urge measure upon Con-
gress, unless it was presented by
and received the appreciation of Re-
publicans? The idea is preposter-
GUS. Representing, as he does, the
minority, his election would result
in the Third District being repre-
by man without a particle of po-
litical influence in Congress. On
the contrary, Mr.. Donnan has large
influence in Congress, is in fellow
ship with the majority, and his
wishes are received with respect
and furthered by his colleagues.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
MINISTER Washhurne. on his

MINISTER Washburne, on his arri-
val in New York, was presented
with complimentary address by
the German citizens, thanking him
for his services rendered their coun-
trymen in France during the Fran
co-Prussian war. In reply, Mr..
Washburne modestly disclaims all
credit to himself for such action,
saying that to the Administration of
Gen. Grant is due all the praise, for
it was by its specific direction that
he complied with the request of the
German government to assume the
protection Of Germans in France.
He also alludcs to ahe satisfaction
which his efforts gave to both the
German and French nations, and
the approval of it by our own gov
eminent.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
A NUMBER of individuals styling

A NUMBER of individuals styling
themselves "the Party Of Radical
Democrats" met in New York last
week. The object Of the associa-
ton is to devise measures to abolish
the Office Of President. To this
purpose committee of fifteen was
appointed to recommend plans
The aims Of the new party are not
essentially different from those of
the party which styles itself Glib
eral." The first proposes to 60
about it's work openly and without
circumloeution, while the latter, as
a preliminary to the same result,
would first bring discredit upon
the Office by placing in it man no.
toriously untitled for its high re-
sponsibilities, one in whose hands
it would be merely the vehicle for
impracticable theories and foolish
whims.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

Emigrants coming to this country
are subjected to great brutality and
to still greater immoral outrage by
officers and seamen on ship board.
This has been going on ever since
emigrants began to come to this
country, and instead Of the evil dy-
ing out under the influence Of rep
robatory public sentiment, it is on
the increase, Here is case in
which the powers Of congress could
be exercised in the interest OF hui
mainly, and for the protection OF
defenceless emigrants '-D"d'eq"e
Telegraph.
The partisan Telegraph prefers
not to tell it's readers that a Repub-
licap Congress has already taken
steps to do away with the abuses
complained Of in tho above para
graph, or that moro than 4 year
since the present administration
dispatched an agent to Europe, part
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

JOHN T. SToNEMAN, the Demo-
Liberal candidate for Congress,
with hypocritical pretcnso of candor
and fair dealing, is going about the
district quoting Geo. VIM. Curtis,
chairman of the Civil Service COM
mission, rs authority for the state
ment that under the present admin
istration, one quarter Of the reve-
nues of the government are lost in
collection, and this, too, notwith-
standing Mr. Curtis has emphatic
ally and explicitly disawowed such
Interpretation of his language. 1t
is likely that Mr.. Stoneman has re-
iteratcd this exploded humbug in
the speeches announced for him in
this county the present week. That
those of our readers who composed
his audiences may know just what
estimate Mr.. Curtis placed upon the
faithfulness and efficacy of Grants
administration, we append a para
graph of the recent letter by that
gentleman to Gen. Logan;
GLOW great the practical reform
in the honesty and economy of the
has been during the
term Of Gen. Grant,a few facts show.
Official figures of the treasury de-
partment relative to the actual total
of defalcations and deficiencies I'M
der the internal revenue law, since
it went into operation, indicate that
they have amounted to S3,200,0O0,
instead of $2o,ooo,ooo, as is often
stated, and that of this amount $780,
900 was under Lincoln's admins
tration, 100000 under Johuson's
and the remainder, about 100000,
under Grants"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

or disappointed candidate. Thus, if more
than one in ten of those who composed
that asscmbaye can show Il record of dis
interested patriotism, we shall lose money.
We shall be out of pocket just in proper
ton as we fail to prove that ninety per
cent. of the Cincinnati delegates were
bummers and soreheads. This PROPOSE
ton stands open till election day"
The SCI p) Democrat, which is
auGreeley md Brown organ in good and
regular standing, gets off the following
choice advice: "If niggcrs mnst vote,
we think it would be good plan for the
Legislature to order that when they
register they should be BRANDED, SO
that they could not impose on white
people more than once at each election.
Commenting on the fact that the Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania gained
1892 votes in the twenty-five counties
of the State IN which the German element
numbers above ! 200 souls, the Pittsburg
Commercial says "the Germans saw
plainly enough that Schurz had com
mitted treason against his own convictions
and that the whole Liberal movement
was prepostcrous and unnatural at
tempt to fuse elements in themselves
essentially antagonistic. Hence, accus-
toned to believe in Schurz rs the repre-
sentative Of their principles, they rebuked
him for his political harlequinry; as they
will again, on the 9Th Of November, re-
buke still more emphatically the whole
mad speculation and false prctense which
he has unavaillingly tried to forward and
bolster"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

TIE Illinois Supreme Court is
very tenacious Of its dignity, but its
efforts to defend it are not remarka-
BILE for wisdom or good judgment.
1t has assumed the censorship of
the press, and, for an article in the
Chicago Eeening Journal critics.
ing the granting Of writ of super
sedeas in the case of a Chicago muir
dercr, has cited the proprietor of
that paper before it to answer for
contempt. BY this ridiculouc sens
itiveness and attempt to suppress
the expression of opinion through
the public press, the Illinois court
justifies the contempt Of all enlight-
ened men, and will hardly prevent
it's expression even within it's own
jurisdiction.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

Of broken packages, which the ordnance
officer refused to receive. saying he
would not receipt for such; that Lieut..
Donnan asked him what he should do
with them and that the officer replied
that they were worthless, and that un.
less they were taken from there he
should throw them into the river. I
then asked the officer if should take
them away, and he said Eyes" l then
procured dray myself and took the
cartridges to camp. Lieut.. Donnan had
nothing whatever to do with removing
the cartridges from the ordnance Office,
or with giving instructions to that eff
feet. HENRY n HARRIS.
Signed and sworn to before me this
9Th day ofNovember, A. D. 1867.
c. I. GRANGER,
Notary Public.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
Gives It Up.

While the Greeley press general
ly, in imitation Of the New York
Tribune, are keeping mp a forced
show of enthusiasm and dolefully
whistling over the prospect Of the
confederate party in the elections
next week, few of them who have
not lost all regard for truth and
canaor, admit the coming defeat in
advance. Ofthis class is the Spring
field Republican, which says:
cit grows more and more evident
that the Pennsylvania result has
settled the reelection of Gen. Grant.
The Liberal leaders are making an
earnest contest in New York, in In
diana, and even in Ohio, all of
which States, under promising
general aspect, could evidently be
carried for Greeley; but the great
desertion Of the new movement by
the Democrats of Pennsylvania, I'M
der the temptations that Cameron
rings know so well how to apply,
has produced not only general
want of faith in Democratic fidelity
to the Liberal ticket, but spread a
wide Discrimination to respond to
the call of their leaders among the
Democracy everywhere. To win
with Horace Greeley is one thing,
to lose is another, in the average
Democratic mind. Since the choice
with them is between two Republi-
cans, many of those who do not re-
ally believe in the new departure
and in Mr.. Greeley, are evidently
yielding readily to the material
temptations to vote for Gen. Grant;
and between such voters and those
who, in confusion and despair of
mind, will stay at home, it is even
possible that Grant wilt carry the
disputed Northern States. At any
rate, the falling off of interest and
activity in the campaign since the
October elections is quite marked"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
A LONDON letter to the New York

A LONDON letter to the New York
Post says that since the recent sui
eide Of Alice Blanch Oswald, the
young American governess, who
threw herself from London Bridge,
the number of shabbily-dressed
young females with soul-harrowing
tales of privation and distress, rep
resenting themselves as American
governesses, has fearfully increas-
ed. American bankers and merch-
ants are besieged ny them with pc
titions for relief. The correspond
ent has an infallible way of detect
ing the imposters: simply asking
them to repeat the passage in the
Bible, "It IS I, be not afraid"
Nine-tenths Of them render it in
this pugilistic fashion: "Iit lis eye,
be not afraid"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

zcphaniah D. scobey,pl'f. In the Circuit Court of
Against buchanan Co., Iowa,
John Browning, def't Dec. Term, A. y. 1872
10 Said Defoai0nt.
VOU arc hereby notified that on or before the
J. 1stday of November, A. D. 1872, there will be
on file in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court Of Buchanan county. Iowa, the petition of
Zephaniah ID. Soobey, the Plaintiff aforesaid
claiming of You the sum OF Nine Hundred Dol
lars, as money justly due from you on promis
sorry note. dated October 1th 1868, and the fore
closure of mortgage given to secure the same
on lots 2O6 and a0s in the village of Jesup, Blu
chanan county, Iowa, known as the National lio-
tel property.
You are also notified that unless you appear
thereto and defend, before noon of the second
day the December term of said Circuit Court of
Buchanan county, Iowa, to be held at lndepend-
cncc. in said county. on the 9th day of December,
A. ID. 1872, default will be entered against you
and Judgment rendered thereon IN accordance
with tho prayer OF said petition.
l.. w. HART.
f3wl Attorney for Plaintiff.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
Tho First Fire.

The first fire that is lighted on
the hearth in the Autumn, seems to
bring out the cold weather. De-
ceived by the placid appearance of
the dying year, the sottncss Of the
sky, and the warm color of foliage,
we have been shivering about for
days, without exactly comprehend
ing what was the matter. The open
fire at once sets up standard of
comparison. We find that the ad-
vance guards of winter are besieg-
ing the house. The cold rushes in
at every crack of door and window,
apparently signalled by the flame to
invade the house, and fill it with
chilly drafts and sarcasms on what
we call the temperate zone. 1t
needs roaring fire to beat back the
enemy; a feeble one is only an invi-
tation to the most insulting demons
trations.
Our pious New England ances-
tors were philosophers IN their way.
1t was not simply to grace that they
sat for hours in their barnlike meet,
ing houses during the winter Sun
days, the thermometer being many
degrees below freezing, with no fire
except the zeal in their own hearts,
a congregation Of red noses and
bright eyes. 1t was no wonder
that the minister in the pulpit warm
ed up to his subject, cried aloud,
used hot words, spoke good deal
of the hot place, and the person
whose presence was y burning
shame, hammered the desk as
though he expected to drive his
text through a two-inch plank, and
heated himself by all allowable
ecclesiastic gymnastics. A few of
their followers in our day seem to
forget that our modern churches are
heated by furnaces and supplied
with gas. In the old days it would
have been thought unphilosophic,
as well rs effeminate, to warm the
meeting houses artifcially. In one
house knew, at least, when it was
proposed to introduce a stove to
take little Of the chill from the
Sunday services, the deacons pro-
tested against the innovation. They
said that the stove might benefit
those who sat close to it, but it
would drive all the cold air to the
other parts of the church and freeze
the people to death; it was cold
enough now around the edges.
Blessed days Of ignorance and up
right living! Sturdy men who
served God by resolutely sitting out
the icy hours of service, amid the
rafting Of windows and the carous-
al Of winter in the hugo, wind-swept
galleries! Patient women, waiting
in the chilly house for consumption
to pick out his victims, and replace
the color Of youth and the finish
of devotion, with the hectic of dis.
ease! At least you did not doze and
droop, rs in our ovcr.heatcd cdifces
and die of yitiatcd air, and disre-
gard Of the simplest conditions OF
organized life. 1t is fortunate that
each generation does not comprc.
bend its own ignorance. We are
thus enabled to call our ancestors
barbarous. 1t is something, also,
that each age has its choice OF tho
death it will dice. u. Warner.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

The Cincinnati Commercial says
that it evil stand BY the Liberal
party until it is a party Of millions,
commended for its honesty, and
able to nominate and elect at will y
Thus the political status Of the
Comnetcial, hitherto tlighty and
uncertain, is settled for all time to
come. 1t may always be found
standing beside the ''chasm" which
engulfed the Liberal party.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

Mr.. GREELEY is of the opinion
that the harvest would have been
better in October if the sub soiling
had been deeper. The soil was
unusually sterile, and required ex-
ira labor. Liberal agriculturists in
the vet unharrowed States are re-
commended to bear this fact in
mind. There are no ills that can
not be remcdied by sufficiently deep
subsoiling.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
NEW YORK MERCHANTS.
How They View the Situation.

The undersigned, bankers, mer-
chants, and business men of New
York, respectfully submit the fol-
lowing statements for the informa-
ton of all parties interested there
in:
The Republican candidate for
President of the United States is
General Ulysses S. Grant, who was
unanimously named for reelection
at Philadelphia, in June last.
At the commencement of General
Grants first term of Office, March
4, 1869, the national debt was
$2,525, 100000. On the LIST Of Sep
TENDER of the present year there had
been paid and Cancelled of the prin-
cipal of this debt $34s, 900, 900, leav-
ing balance Of principal unpaid
at that date, in accordance with the
official statement Of the Secretary
of the Treasury, the sum of $2,l77,-
900, OOO.*
Of this amount S1,l77,O0o,ooo
are represented in a funded debt,
bearing interest in gold, while
$500, 100000 remain unfunded in
Treasury circulation.
Up to the close Of the last session
Of Congress the annual reduction Of
taxes, as measured by the rates of
1860, has been as follows:
Internal Revenue tax ............. $50, 000, 900
Income tax (repealed) Observation-Disclosures 30,OOOOOO
Duties on imposts. .................. $500 900
Making total reduction of. ...... $170, 600 900
The reduction of the yearly inter-
est on the public debt exceeds the
sum of $23, 100000, of which $2l,-
743,9OO are saved by the purchase
and cancellation of the six per cent.
public securities.
A careful consideration Of these
results of a prudent and faithful
administration of the national Trea-
sury induces the undersigned to ex-
press the confident belief that the
general welfare of the country,
the interests of it's commerce and
trade, and the consequent stability
of it's public securities, would be
best promoted by the reelection Of
General Grant to the office of Pres
idcnt of the United States.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

\ LETTER written by Thurlow
Weed in 1870 to Thos. c. Acton, in
explanation of the writer's refusal
to support Horace Greeley, who was
then running for Congress, has just
been published. 1t is caustic and
complete showing up of the charac-
ter of Mr.. Greeley, especially his
secession record, by one probably
more intimately acquainted with it
than any other public man.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

THE Delhi IHonit0r calls Stone
mans speeches ''las. kicks at the
Republican bucket" Appropriate.
We notice that they grow visibly
weaker as election approaches.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

For every Republican voter who
is likely to vote for Greedy the Grant
party boast they can buy two Dem
ocrats to vote for nt.-Dubuque
Telegraph.
From the fact that the Telegraph
publishes the above statement with.
ont attempting to controvert it, the
public can gather its estimate Of the
party Of which its editor is so shin
ing a light.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

LATE news from South Carolina
show that the Republicans made a
clean sweep in the State election.
Perry Democrat, before reported
elected to Congress in the First
District, is defeated by over 1900
majority.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01

The Red Oak Erprees objects to the
Liberal candidate for Recorder in Mont
gomery county, because he owns dog.
1t does not pretend to defend the logic of
the objection, but does not see if good
against Grant why it is not equally good
against the candidate for Recorder on the
Liberal ticket who, moreover, is fond of
his dog, making his offense the more ag-
gravated.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-11-01
Largo Demands for Grain Aaticipa-
tod.
Our farmers will read the follow
ing dispatch YIN interest:

my uiopdlOf YittI lIltClCSO.
thcs NV York, Oct. 80.
The Bsa1e&,IAsTaicipates a brisk
move in produce exports to Great
Britain to supply the deficiency in
the cereal crops there, It says:
"The money value of the deficiency
is variously estimated at from $780,
100000 to twice, and even three
times that amount. But whatever
it may be, it is quite certain that
the United States will be required
to supply large proportion; SO
that we may look for very large
and active breadstutfs trade. This
view is also sustained by the fact
that the wheat supplies from Rus
STA, where England for the last few
years has drawn the bulk Of her i'm
portations, are likely to be less than
usual, owing to the unfavorablc
harvest in some Of the more impor-
tant grain producing districts Of
that vast empire. The supplies
from Taganrog, the Sea of Azof,
and the Black Sea, are much below
the average, and at last accounts
were rising rapidly at nearly all the
ports Of supply. This advance may
be partly accounted for by the Gag
crncss of merchants to increase
their supplies before the close OF
navigation, but under ordinary cir
cumstances the supply at shipping
ports is equal to the demand. But
while England will take all the
grain we can spare or find means to
ship, and pay a fair price for it, any
speculative movement to force up
rates or make corner in wheat in
view Of the exigencies Of the Euro
pean market, would not prove any
more successful than is usual III
such enterprises"