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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-28

Mrs. 0'Leary, Of Chicago, still lives,
and she dives down among the suds,
fishes up a towel and gives il a twist, as
she remarks: me COW niyer started the
big ere at al, ct all"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-28
ELECTION.
ELECTION.
OFFICE
fernando Insurance Go.
MEMPHIS, MAJ u, 1875.

UUE STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS COM
pany are hereby notified that the annual
election for Directors will be held at the office
Monday, June 1lth. prOx.. between the hours
es.ss INV +. M. NELSON, ssc'y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-28

SINCE it is rumoIed that General Sher.
mar has been offered 100000 for the
copyright Of his memoirs, it is conf
IDENTIFY expected that President Grant
will put out a book very soon.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-28
MEETING.
GERMAN CASINO.

THE MEMBERS ARE RESPECTFULLY
L invited to meet at their ball on Monday.
pose Of attending the annual decoration Of
graves at the National Cemetery. By order
Of the President, DIR. A. SZERENYI.
SIG R~oEsOHER, Secretary.
Appeal and Avalanche copy II.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
The Skies Bright.

The Oskaloosa Herald, the editor
of which is the chairman of the Re
publican State Committee, says in his
last issue:
The most encouraging reports
come up from all over the State, re-
garding the success of the Republi-
can ticket, State and county, Counties
heretofore Democratic, where Re
publicans have for years worked and
voted without hope, are thoroughly
organized and the members of the
party are actively at work and
promising the public to redeem their
counties from Democratic rule. In
others where the large Republican
majorities have made victory so Ger
tain that work was thought to be mn
necessary, the members have been
inspired with new zeal and deter
mlnation to largely increase that ma
iority, and they will do 1t. These re-
ports are not from one or two local
tiles alone but they are general; and
while allais zeal end animation in the
Republican, ranks, the funeral cor
tege of Democracy slowly wends its
way to the political graveyard of an
initiation and oblivion.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

The conditions of the Pennsylva-
MA oil regions presents a curious
spectacle. The bowels of tho earth
are so fat, and they have been work
ed with such industry, an yielded 50
profusely, that the oily supply has far
exceeded the demand. Prices &C
cordinely have gone tumbling down,
and no combination Of operators has
been able to keep them up. The de-
spair Of the operators has extended to
the operatives, and manifested itself
in communistic devices to save them
selves from the trouble which ls
threatening them. One conspiracy
has already been discovered to burn
up 100000 barrels of oil above
ground and another to plug up all the
wells. In the face of this curious
condition of things, hundreds of new
wells are being drilled. which will
prove an irfatuation of q costly de-
scription. There Is already said to
be enough petroleum in store in the
oil regions to last the world six
months. At last accounts the dealers
and operators, although they had had
several consultations, had failed to
find any way out of their dilemma,
except by absolute shutting down of
all the producing wells, and this they
fear to 10 Gu account of the lack Of
good faith hitherto shown by opera
tors in keeping such agreements.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
REPUBLICAN, STATE PLAT.
. EORM.lS7S.

We the REPRESENTATIVES of the Republican party
of the State of Iowa, in convention assembled, dc
adopt the following platform of principles;
ResOioed, i. That We declare 1t cardinal prin-
ciple of Republican faith that the Republic is q
nation. one and indivisible. within which the con-
slitutonai rights of the States and of the people
TO local seif-government must be faithfully main
tanned:
=. That we favor the early attainment of cur
rency convertible with CON- and therefore advo-
cate the gradual resumption of specie payments
S by Continuous and steady steps in that direction
3. mat we are in favor of u tariff for revenue
so adjusted as to encourage home industry.
1 M, the earnest effort OF the government to
correct tue revenue and prevent and punish frauds
has '9r unqualified approval.
szssSS 14at we are opposed to further grants OF
70 Pathways or other corporations, and we de-
Element under the homestead laws and for other
non fde settlers.
g. That we demand such revision of the pat
ent laws as will relieve industry from the Oppres-
sion monOpOlies in their administration.
Z. That we cordially approve the policy Of the
present administration in the settlement Of diff
cuties between ourselves and other nations by ar
bitration instead Of appealing to arms.
g. That the Republican party of Iowa is OppoS-
ed 20 a third term in the Presidency.
o. Thatswe demand that all railway and other
: corporations shall be held in fair and just subjec
lion to the law making power.
TO- That we stand by free education. our pub
lie school system. the taxation Of all for its sup
port. and no diversion of the school fund from the
public schools.
H. That our National and State administration
of public affairs has our hearty approval.
IL. That we cordially invite all who are Oppes-
ed to the restoration of the Democratic party to
power to forget all past political differences and
unite with the Republican party in maintaining
the cause of true reform.
. l3 That the persistent and tyrannica efforts
of the enemies Of the Union, by murder and in
timidation of the newly enfranehised citizens, and
~~he ostracsms and prescriptions of the white Re
pnSlicans Of the South for the purpose Of render
4ns null and void the Constitutional Amendments
merit the condemnation of every honest man.
That heartily endorse the action of President
Grant in enforcing the laws when called upon to
do so by the proper authorities of the State.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

The only paper in Iowa, up to the
present time, which, to our knowl
edge, has attempted to explain or de-
fend Shepherd LETTERS double mile
age grab, is the Keokuk Constitution,
and it is having a troublous time of
it. In the first place it attempted to
defend it on the ground that the jour
ney from Burlington to Washington
was required to be made, when Left
er was in Congress, on wagons and
hacks and stages called mud-scows.
a second thought convincing the
Constitution that this flimsy excuse
would not do, it took another tack,
stating that Shep. made sort of
pleasure tour to Washington, going
by steamers, travelling about double
the distance of the "nearest travelled
route" as required by the law, and
charged accordingly. But even this
explanation will not do. The Bur-
lington Hu'rAeye suggests it was in
Dec cmber when Letter travelled to
Washington, and the rivers were
frozen up, and mischicvously asks the
Constellation if it means to say that
Mr.. LETTER charged double mileage
because he had to go by way of the
Mississippi river on a steamer that
travelled on the ice. At last accounts
old pap Clagge,t had not invented IA
way to solve that ice or the Xt~A-
PUc's inUIlirV
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
Tweed.

The manner in which the arch
Tammany tibet is, through the agency
of complaisant Democratic Judges
and INSCRIPTIONS attorneys, slowly
working his way to liberty and con-
sequent dominance of the Democracy
of the Empire State, is thus set forth
by the Chicago Tribune:
A few days since an order in the
civil suit against Tweed was formally
entered in the Supreme Court Cham
bers directing the city to serve upon
the attorneys for Tweed bill Of par
ticulars "of the plaintiffs claim, set
ting forth in full and in detail such
parts of and items in the bills, ac-
counts, or vouchers, mentioned or re-
ferred to in the complaint as they
claim to have been fictitious, and such
rs they claim represents supplies, ma
terlal, or labor furnished to the plain.
tiffs, giving the description, date and
amount thereof, and also bill OF
particulars of the plaintiff 5 claim,
setting forth in full and in detail such
parts and items In the bills, accounts,
vouchers mentioned or referred to in
the complaint as they clam to have
been overcharged, or in any other re-
spect false or erroneous, and also set
ting forth the prices at which it is
claimed said items should have been
charged" AS it is altogether doubt
full whether such an itemizcd bill can
be furnished by the city, this may be
considered another triumph Of quib-
bic and technicality for Tweed, and
shows once more how the law can be
twisted and distorted in the hands of
dextcrous lawyer to subserve the
purposes of injustice and to shield
the guilty. APropos of this subject
the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
very pertinently suggests that the
moral right Of lawyers "to place their
brains, skill, experience, fertility OF
resources and expedicnt, absolutely
at the service of any criminal rich
enough to pay them their price, .
ought to be thoroughly discussed and
prosecuted to some result.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

The Dubuque Times says that a
distinguished gentleman of that city,
extended an invitation to Jefferson
Davis to visit Dubuque as his guest,
and that Mr.. Davis replied, politely
declining the invitation, and giving
his reasons therefor in the following
words:
Judging by the tone of some of the
papers up that way, and the letters of
some ex-Union soldiers in the papers, 1t
would be an exceedingly ararm reception
l might get up that way, and from gentle
men, too, from whom might haze no
right to expect any courtesies.
The closing words OF the above ex-
tract are significant. 1t seems that the
rebel ex-President has juster idea
of what he has right to expect
from the people of the north, than
his worshiper and defender, the edi-
tor of the Dubuque Herald. 1t is
probable, however, that his fears of
personal assault or insult, while max
ing visit of friendship or pleasure
in Dubuque, or any where else in the
north, are without foundation.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
Mr.. Letters Record.


Shep. Letter was full-blown
Slavery Democrat. He was Cass
Democratic candidate for Congress in
AS, when hundreds OF thousands of
Democrats deserted the Doughtace
author of the Nicholson letter to vote
for Van Buren, and the Wilmot Pro
viso. He voted for the infamous Flu
gitiyc Slave Law IN 40, because lie
was acting heart and hand with the
South, and not as a means of ''settle-
ment," as he now pretends, for that
pretended settlement" rs he well
knows was wholly in the interest of
the South. The only honest measure
in it was the admission of California
as free State, which President Tay-
lor, Southern stakeholder, insisted
should stand alone; but the gallant
Old soldier suddenly and mysteriously
died, and then the shareholders and
doughfaces exaeted as condition OF
admitting free State the giving OF
ten million of dollars to Texas to re-
deem her worthless scrip in the hands
of politicians; the passage of the Flu
gitive Slave law; and the organization
of the Territories ofNew Mexico and
Utah without slavery restriction. LET:
fier sustained this viIlanious compact
and his subserviency to tho slave
drivers did not begin there. In De
cembcr, lS4s, he was one of the eiqh,
representatives from tho Free States
who voted against the Wilmot Provi,
so, on a motion to instruct the Com
mittee on Territories to report bills
to organize California and New Mexi-
co, excluding slavery therefrom. Sub.
scquently in that session he was one
of thirteen Northern representatives
who voted TO give the President con
troll Of the territory acquired from
Mexico. the object being to open it
to slavery. In '4s, on the stump, he
compared negroes to dogs, as can be
proved by as respectable men as 1--we
in Jones county, whose names have
been given; and in his recent speech
at Council Bluffs, to make clear that
he is an unchanged supporter of hui
man bondage ho declared that he
would vote again for the Fugitive
Slave law, under the same circum-
stances as before.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
THE mystery which has enshroud-

The mystery which has enshroud-
ed the fate of the balloonists, who
assembled from Chicago fye weeks
ago, has been partially cleared up.
The body of Newton S. Grimwood,
the reporter of the Chicago journal,
who was Donaldson's companion on
the fatal voyage, was found on the
eastern shore of Lake Michigan on
Tuesday. 1t was badly decomposed
and beyond recognition, but papers
found IN the clothes, including u diary
and notes of the ascension conclu-
slvely identify it as the body of the
unfortunate journalist. The fiuding
of Grimwood's remains on the shore,
leaves no longer any doubt that the
two men met their fate in the waters
of the lake. Active search is being
prosecuted for the body OF Donald
s0f,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

Mr.. LEFFLER stand up! You are
accused by The Republican papers of TAX
ing more mileage when reprcsentaye of
Congress than You were entitled to. An ex-
PLANTATION is in order Did you or did you
not? We, for one, would like to know.
.-C0nseroatiUe.
Whew! here's cheap display of
virtue. And now Mr.. Conservative,
suppose that Mr.. Letter does not
'stand up" and explain, or suppose
he adopts the excuse manufactured
for him by the Keokuk Constitution,
that travel to Washington, in those
days, was by" horse back, one horse
shays, two horse hacks, and stages,
known as mud scolvs;" or sup
pose he offers the other excuse,
that to avoid these primitive modes
of conveyance, he travelled by round
about ways and charged accordingly,
what is the Conservative going to
do about it? Will it repudiate double
mileage Letter if he cannot explain?
If it is not prepared to do this, of
what account is the above feeble
forcible arraignment?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

IT has been stated that the Presi-
dent and Secretary Bristow are not
in accord in the effort to mete out
justice and punishment to revenue
defrauders. This idea is exploded
by an autograph endorsement on a
private letter received by President
Grant, intended for his information
concerning the frauds, which he has
forwarded to Secretary Bristow. The
President says' ~ forward this for
information, and to the end that if it
throws any light on new parties to
summon as witnesses, they may be
brought out. Let no guilty men es-
cape if it can be avoided. BE spec
tally yigllant or instruct those engag-
ed in the prosecution of fraud, to be
against all who insinuate thai they
have high influence to protect them.
No personal consideration should
stand in the way of performing pub
lie duty. Signed,
u. s. GRANT"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

The Conservative, compelled by
the facts in our article of last week,
to abandon, first, its assertion that
there was no law justifying Mr.. Kirk
wood in receiving his salary from
and after the resignation of his pred
ecessor; and second, the ridiculous
statement that the Legislature had
fixed his Senatorial term, it now falls
back on point which it finds ready
made for it by the Fayette Union.
The point is contained in a proviso
which the Union says was attached
to the section of the law quoted by us
last week, and is in the following
words:
"Prouided, That no member shall
receive for his compensation more
than $4,000 for any one year."
Now, what was the object of this
proviso? Simply to provide that the
salary of the outgoing member and
that of his successor in any one year
should not, in the aggregate, exceed
IN amount the regular salary of the
member of Congress, which, at the
time Of the passage Of this lac, was
So OOO NOR opnu,n NVhon +bo color
les of Senators and Representatives
was subsequently raised to $1,000,
the proviso was, very properly, made
to correspond with the change, for
even our contemporary will not con-
tend that Congress intended to frame
law that would give a portion OF its
members $4,000 per annum, and the
rest only $4,000. When Mr.. Harlan
resigned, the regular pay of a Sena-
tor was, as now, $4,000 per year. Dir.
Hrrlan drew pay for that portion of
the year during which he was Sena-
tor. His successor, by plain provis-
ion of law, as we have shown, was
entitled to draw the balance, provid-
ed that, together with that drawn by
Mr.. Harlan, it should not exceed the
legal compensation for Senators and
Representatives, which was $1,000.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

William Jones, who was incarccratctl
in the Vinton calaboosc for stealing a
watch, sawed and dug his way out last
week, and is henceforth lost to sight of
the Vintonians.
The people of Vinton, by vote "a
to 10 have determined to adopt the policy
of licensing the sale of beer and wine.
The license fee is fixed at at $500 per an
mum, with bond of $500
A. S. Mitts, Of Waterloo, committed
suicide at Sioux City on Saturday last.
He first took IA dose of strychnine, and
then stabbed himself three times with a
large pocket knife He was machinist
and, failing to find employment, in fit
of desperation, made way with himself
He has family in Waterloo.
Grove A. Lightall, young man Of
26, of good family in Indiana, and of for
mcr bright promise, but whose intellect
had been yelled by epilepsy, was found
oSou III hia DCu ut VIC lIcillOul IIOuSc,
Dubuque, or Monday, in which hotel he
served III a mental capacity, having expir
ed in fit
The Anamosa Eureka, of last week,
contains IN interesting description of the
new water works just completed at that
place. They consist OF a reservoir with "a Ca
pacity of 100 900 gallons, an engine of forty
horse power, with a capacity for pumping
1000, OU0 gallons every "a hours, and the
connecting pipes, mains, fixtures, &c.
The cost of the whole is $15 OGO, and is
the result, entirely, Of private enterprise
by the Intervention of II stop gate, the
works can be run on the Holly principle
when required.
Three convicts ut the Anamosa peni
Tertiary, Sheridan, in for ten years for
robbery. Whaley, for three years
for horse stealing, and Scott, ne
gro, made their escape through the stock
AIDE of the prison last week, but were soon
recaptulcd by the guards and citizens. In
the pursuit, Sheridan and Whaley were
shot by the guards, the first in the knee
and the other in the groin 1t is thought
Sheridan will lose his leg.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

The Waterloo Courier comes to
our table this week with the parting
words of its able and spicy editor,
Andy Felt, who, as announced last
week, has sold his interest in the con
Germ to his partner, w. Hartman. 1t
IS with genuine regret that we take
leave Of Mr.. Felt, and we hope with
mended health and old-time vigor he
he may soon re-enter the ranks of To-
wa quill-drivers. Mr.. Logan, former
ly of the Co"rier, takes the tripod va
Gated by Mr.. Felt. We extend him
q hearty greeting.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20

THE Treasury officers have just
completed the national balance sheet
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
and the result shows that instead of
the deficit predicted by the croakers
in the last Congress, the receipts
have exceeded the expenditures by a
handsome sum. The expenditures are
less than the estimates and the re-
ceipts over three and halt millions
more than was estimated. Another
gratifying fact is, that the expenses
of the government for the past year
have been less than any other year
since 1861. All of which is 81 gnif.-
icant commentary upon the charge
of general recklessness and waste,
brought against the Republican adj
ministration by Democratic newspa-
DprS
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
Lemer's Congressional Record.

A Washington correspondent of
the Denison Rev,eac has been looking
up Mr.. Letters record of service
during his two years in Congress, and
gives the result IN the last issue of
that paper. The record is very
meagre, at best, and its character is
thus summed up in an editorial para
graph in the Revieac::
We have always commended that the
Land Grant policy was originally a Demo-
cratic measure, of which Stephen Doug.
las was the author. 1t now appears that
the only business which Letter brought
forward in four years were land grants to
railways while, in the only speech he
made, he pandered to religious intolerance
and prescription by denying the Mormons
the right to vote We have instructed
our correspondent to furnish us with an
extract from that speech, as it is the only
record he left behind him.
1t should be added that Mr.. Letter
also displayed very notable vigi-
lance in his own interest, by drawing
mileage in amount nearly double the
sum to which he was entitled.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
--E--Ass Ky -

IT has been noticed that the Dem
ocratic press, which so eagerly i'm
proved the opportunity offered by the
failures of Jay Cooke & Co. and
Henry Clews & Co., to make capital
against the Republican party because
the members Of those firms were
members of that party, and loyal dur
ing the war, now have very little to
say OF the recent collapse of the house
of Duncan, Sherman & Co; much
less do they attribute it to the demon.
alizing influence of Republican ad.
ministration. The reason for this
considerate silence on the part of
Democratic newspapers is disclosed
by the brooklyn Union. The house
of Duncan, Sherman & Co. is not on
the Republican side in politics, nei-
thor was it on the side of the govern
ment during the civil war. They
were spectators in cotton and all
their sympathies were with cotton
and the South. They bulled South
crn bonds in Europe and backed
blockade runners. They circulated
peace tracts and other demoralizing
literature in the army of the Potomac
until stopped by a general order from
headquarters. They would not touch
i government bend, and used their
influence in Europe against them,
agd generally showed their sympathy
WITH treason ana 4ispnion. This is
their record, and this is the REASON
Democratic newspapers are handling
hem so ginger]y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-20
Extravagance-AT Telling Comparison.

Look at the tigures-they will
please everybody but Democrats, who
will make wry faces over them. The
expense of carrying on the general
government has been carefully figur-
ed, and the amount per capita upon
each voting citizen under the last six
administrations ascertained. S e G
how the figures look, and when you
next hear some noisy Bourbon ex-
claiming against the extravaganza,
waste and profligacy of the Republi-
cans, show him these figures. We
give the name and party designation
of each administration and the rate
Of cost per head hereunder:
Polk, Democrat, per head ............ 81 .05
Taylor and Fillmore, wing, per head .......,. 1.s9
Pierce Democrat. .......... 2.33
Buchanan Democrat. - ....... lbs
Lincoln and johnson, Rep. 4 ........ 1.4i
Grant, Republican, .....,.... LOG
This kind of extravaganza of radi,
cal rule the people can endure Won
derfnl sight Of