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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
The Black List.

Extracts like the following, from
the Franklin Ua) Enterprise, and
others of like character which were
published in the Shreveport Times,
the New Orleans Picayu1ae and Bul-
leti,', and other Democratic papers in
Louisiana, are sufficient answer to
the report of the Congressional Com
mittec, that there is no evidence of
intimidation of voters in that State:
''There should be kept and carefully
preserved for future reference black list,
or book of remembrance, in every parish,
wherein should be inscribed the names of
those white men who in this emergency
proved recreant to the instincts and duties
of race, and cast their lot with the Afr-
can. The infamous record should be as
conspicuous for all time to come as the
pictures of notorious criminals in the
rogues' galleries of large cities These
men must not be forgotten. Let their
names be written in the black list with u
pen of adament, that they who descend
from their loins TO the fourth generation
may be Pariahs, forever cast out from all
association with the Caucasian race Let
all who adhere to the negro party in this
political contest be feckoned as negroes,
and treated as such. Let the black list
for St Mary be opened. Let the names
of those who pant for immortal infamy
be enrolled. Whose names shall head the
list? We know two, father and son, who
have equal claims to the distinction y
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

THE subcommittee appointed to
investigate Louisiana affairs have
made their report, and it is published.
The report itself shows the work of
the committee to have been very I'M
perfectly done, if indeed its purpose
is not to apologize and excuse the
White League party in louisiana
1t is not too much 10 say that the
acts and declarations of both parties
to the contest give contradiction to
many Of the statements and conclu-
sions of the committee. The report
reads very much as if the commit
tee cared more to make point
against the administration than to
ascertain the whole truth about the
outrages in Louisiana, and that they
only received or sought for such tes-
timonv as would subserve their pur-
pose. This incompleteness and un-
fairness of investigation is so appar.
ent that the main committee have re-
solved to 90 to New Orleans and in
stitute thorough and impartial in
ouiry, in which both sides shall have
full hearing.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
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Our friend of the RuIIof10 trioS

Our friend of the Bulletin tries to get
around the statement of the Senate Com
mittee that Kellogg was not elected Gov
erner of Louisiana, by saying that the SUI
preme Court of that State declared that
Kellogg was rightly elected Governor
Conservative.
We have tried to get around moth
ing. We are well aware that there
is a strong doubt whether either Kel-
logg or McEnery were legally elect
ed. We simply hold, that the weight
of probability being with Kellogg,
he being sustained by the highest
court in the State, and moreover,
Congress refusing to make decision,
President Grant was compelled to
decide which of the contesting parties
he would recognize, and having rec
ognized Kellogg, he was bound by
every consideration of official duty to
sustain him as the legal executive of
the State, and to furnish him assist
ance in REFRESHING disorder. That is
all that President Grant has done in
the matter, and for the reason that he
will not suffer the White League as
sassins to dominate the State of
Louisiana and butcher Republicans,
white and black, as at ColfaX and
Coushattan, the whole Democratic
press are bowling curses at him.
Not one of the papers that are now
so tiercely denouncing the "great
crime" involved in quietly removing
from the legislative hall five men
who ha". not a shadow of right to be
there, had a word to say in earnest
denunciation of the killing by the
White League of hundred negroes
while prisoners at Coltax, or OF
the other political murders by the
same bloody organization in Other
parts of the State. We appeal to the
readers of the Conservative to say il
it has ever demanded the punishment
of these crimes. On the other hand
it stands as the apologist of the
White League that committed
them.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

circumstances Alter Cases.

scene III the Louisiana Legislature.
Speaker Wiltz-''So far, so good.
| have knocked down the clerk, seiz-
ed the chair, declared myself elected
Speaker, and sworn in enough Dem
ocratic bogus members to give us the
majority. What had we better do
neXt?"
Chorus of Democratic Members =
"Call in the Federal troops to pre-
vent the Republican majority from
gaining possession of the House again
and robbing us of our hard-earned
victory"
Speaker w. -" Sergeant-at-Arms,
request General de Trobriand to
come here with some troops to pro-
tect lis"
Enter General de Trobriand with
soldiers.
Speaker W.-sThe Democratic
members of this House ask your pro-
lection. They depend upon the gal
liant soldiers of the nation to secure
them from outrage"
Chorus of ID. M.-''IIurrah for the
Federal troops! General, ify you and
yonr brave men will stand by us we
are safe. We demand the assistance
of the military arm of the Govern
ment.'
Speaker W.-General, will you
please have the hall and the lobby
cleared of intruders?"
The troops comply with this re-
quest and withdraw.
Meanwhile the Governor demands
that the military shall eject the Dem.
ocrats wrongfully and illegally
sworn in as members by the bogus
Speaker. General de Trobriand ap
pears in the hall a second time and
states his mission
Speaker WI protest against
this monstrous invasion of the SOY
crcignty of Louisiana by horde Of
brutal soldiery. l protest against
the presence of these myrmidoms OF
Il fiendish despotism here. | appeal
to the American people against thi,
wicked assault upon our liberties by
the hirelino cohorts of the Presiden
tial assassin"
Chorus of d. M.-We all protest
The pollution of this sacred place b!
the presence of the nlinions of a mil
itary tyrant is the greatest crime cv
err committed against freedom and
popular government"
Speaker W.-''Lct us withdraw
We might as well, anyhow, because
we are now in the minority since my
bogus members have been elected by
the despot's satraps."
They withdraw, and the next day
the refrain of the chorus is taken III
by the Democracy of the nation an,
is howlcd out right vigorously
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

"TRop," the Des Moines cores
pendent of the Dubuque Herald
writes that Major Rankin, 1owa's
defaultine State Treasurer, is having
bad luck at his new home near Fort
Scott, Kansas. From drought and
other causes he has failed to provide
for his family sufficiency OF the
necessaries Of life, and being out OF
moneyHf not suffering,is at least in a
very uncomfortable situation. ''Trop''
accompanies this intelligence with a
humane expression of regret and
sympathy for Major Rankin, and a
hope that aid will be sent him from
Iowa. If this generous expression OF
sympathy had found place in Re
publican paper and from Republican
pen how the Herald would have
howled in the effort to make political
capital out of it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
State News.

The Ackley Independent has given
up the ghost and, judging from the COM
ments of its ncighbors, none too soon.
Their parting words for the 'Hog on Ice, !"
as the editor of the independent dubbed
himself, are cordial but not friendly.
"A new Military Company has been
organized at Usage called the Cedar Val
ley Guards. They are equipped with 60
Enfield rifles from the State Arsenal
The Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota
and the Dubuque and Clinton Railroads
have been placed in the hands of re-
cciver at the instance of nonresident bond
holders, who somehow don't get their in
tercst.
AT the annual meeting of the State
Agricultural Society, last week, at Des
Moines, the old officers were reelected
and the location OF the next State Fair
fixed at Keokuk, and the date Sept. 18th.
The Treasurer reported funds i'm the treas
ury, So, 625 33
Here's journalistic enterprise for you.
The local of the Sioux City journal says:
"lf we only had our way about it, these
dull times, we would buy up sevcnty-tivc
or hundred loafcrs in the city-if we
could negotiate for them at their actual
worth-and kill one every night for a
morning item. BY this means we could
keep up lively local department aid ben
eft the community at the same time, all
at trilling outlay of cash
j. VI. Dixon, the Blind Editor, an
nounces that he will commence, about the
first of March, the publication of week
" paper, at Des Moincs, entitled The
Blind Editors Offering, devoted to TEN
perance and general literature The first
number will contain the opening chapter
of a serial story founded on the recent
manifestation of lynch law at the Cap
ital
The Monticello Liberal, in anticipa-
ton of the action of the Board of Super
visors of Jones County selecting two pa
pcrs to publish its proceedings, &C., for
the present year, ran up its subscription
list $50 names in ninety days, and failed
to be named one of the official papers
after all. That may be called wasted en-,
terprise.
Mr.. Vincent, now Cashier of the
Merchants National Bank of Fort Dodge,
is credited with the discovery of a new
planet during the eclipse of 1868, while
employed in a corps of surveyors on the
Sioux City railway He was at ST. Paul
junction, near Sioux City, observing the
eclipse through small but we'll mounted
| telescope, when, just before it became
total, he observed within the field of the
instrument, just before the moon, a crcs
cent shaped star, Venus and Mars also
being in sight. The new star is now
thought to be new planet.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

MoHAMMEDAN BuRIALs.-Bctwecn
the hotel and the sea the space of
open ground isuscd rs a Mohamme-
dan burying ground, and three new
graves have been filled this morning
already. They excavate about three
feet and abou, scvcn-eights the length
of the body, leaving hole to slip the
head under, SO us to straighten out
the rest of the body. One foot of
this from bottom) vault is laid up
with stone, and after the body is put
in, fiat stone is laid across the vault
one foot above the body. Palm
leaves and Il little earth are sprinkled
on the body. The body is carried to
the grave on bier in a box, but no
coffin is used. The vault is then
filled with earth, amid the same sing
in. and bowling that accompany the
body to the grave. The Mohamme-
dams are fatalists, and to die is to go
to a sensual Paradise ut once-BOr-
respondence Of tie 7oietlo CONNER
ciu}.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

IT would be putting it mild to
characterize the course of the Chica-
60 Tribune upon the exciting topics
of the past month or two as some
what erratic. The facility with which
it changes from one position to the
opposite is bewildering to steady
going reader, and its backing and
filling upon the Louisiana question is
certainly not conducive to its influ-
cncc for good or i'll in the settlement
of that particular matter. What it
stoutly maintains one day it is almost
sure to overturn or seriously weaken
the next. 1t seems to be over con
scious of its independence" that AZ
ticle in its creed, like the sword of a
new-fedged courtier, getting between
its legs and seriously interfering with
its dignified locomotion.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
The Postal Record announces the

The Postal Record announces the
appointment OF E. G. David, of Du-
buque, as Special Mail Agent at
large, in place of H. c. Van Leuven
removed. This is the place which
David was compelled to vacate to
MIKE way for Van Leuven two years
ago, and he now returns to it with
something of prestige, derived from
the incompetency of the late incum-
bent. We have heretofore expressed
our opinion rather freely regarding
E. G. David and his claims for Office
at the hands of the Republican party.
Those opinions are not modified in
any essential degree. AS an unscru-
pulous, office-grasping politician mere
ly, whose principles are held as arti-
Giles of barter, and whose regard for
the Republican party goes no further
than the use he can make of it to adj
vance his own selfish ends, we cannot
endorse Mr.. David, or his present APP
pointment as fit one. We regard
it as demoralizing to the party, and
not to be justified on any grounds of
expediency or justice, when men of
better record and sound Republican,
ism can be found to fill the station.
Nevertheless, we are reminded that
Mr.. David, when III the office before,
performed its duties with zeal and eff.
ticiency, and moreover, are ready to
admit that in this regard he is i'm
measurably superior to that insuffer-
able popinjay Van Leuven. He is
not, by any means, the best or most
appropriate man for the place, but
recent experience shows that he is
not the worst.
Regarding the influences brought
to bear for David's appointment, we
happen to know that it was done
without the knowledge or consent of
the member from this District, and
that he is in no sense responsible for
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
Qlls a6nlltti't,
FRIDAY JANUARY %, 1875.

THE Conservative derives great
consolation from the report of the
Subcommittee to investigate the
troubles in Louisiana, and with rea-
son. AS the whole truth fairly pre-
scented would confound the White
League and their Northern allies, so
a one sided statement like that of the
committee, in which the effort is
made to excuse or gloss over crimes
that are notorious and to mislead the
public upon points of fact that are
well established in the history of the
troubles in Louisiana, is calculated to
make them glad. But the report of
the committee does not change the
facts or the public appreciation of
them.
If in the face of all the evidence
of the bloody character of the White
League, the subcommittee expects
that the country will accept its state
ment as true, that the organization is
simply"a superior police in the inter-
csts of law and order," or if it ex-
poets that it will be believed when it
says, contrary to the evidence fur
nished by Southern Democrats and
Southern papers, that there is no in
timidation of voters of any account,
it will be mistaken. On these points
the country needed no evidence that
was not furnished by the rebel party
of Louisiana itself. But the Conser-
catice says that the committee was
Republican. The leading mind
of the committee and the man who
practically controlled its investiga-
tons was Mr.. Potter, a Democrat.
Another member of the committee
was William Walter Phelps, of New
Jersey, principal stakeholder III the
New York Tribune, about such a
Republican as Whitelaw Reid, and
an inveterate enemy to the admins
tration. Mr.. Foster, the other men,
Der is a Republican, but not in accord
with President Grant. That this
committee cared more to make 4
point against Kellogg and the admin
istration than to investigate facts is
shown by its going outside of the
record and Distressing points upon
which no evidence had been pro-
duced before it, and by its refusal
to pursue the investigation in direc-
tons asked by the Republicans of
Louisiana.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

The following positive statements
concerning the mob murdercrs at
Des Moines, are made by the Fort
Dodge Messenger, and not contra
dicted by the papers of Des Moines
so far as we have observed:
1.-THE mob that hung Howard at Des
Moincs can be traced to detection, if the
officers of that city wish to do SO. And it
is all useless to claim that theelnob came
from outside places. Every man engaged
in it, without almost Il single exception,
lives in Des Moines. And one of the mob
has been lying quite low, from the effects
of wound received by accident on that
disgraceful morning. He has been kept
in secret, attended by Il Des Moines physi
clan, and we have reason to believe that
forty arrests could be made by the city
authorities if they were so minded"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
MORTGAGE SALE.

STATE OF IOWA, 90
Buchanan County, e'
WHEREAS v Wm G. ,. Adams and Jesse use Gray
cuted and delivered to Geiser Thresbing Machine
Company chattel mortgage, upon the following
described personal property. to wit One Geisel
Threshing Machine. And said mortgage was dul,
recorded in the office Of the Recorder of Deeds in
and for buchanan county. Iowa, in book 4S Of
Chattel Mortgages. on page 295, on the 18th day Of
September. 1873 at rs O'Clock. p. NJ.
Now. THEREFORE,, Notice is hereby given, tina
in pursuance OF the statutes in such cases made
and provided, the said chattel mortgage will BIZ
forecosed by a sale Of the property therein de
scribcd. at Public Auction. at the farm Of Vim. G
ID. Adams, county of Buchanan. State Of Iowa. OIL
the 9Th day of February, A. ID. 1875 at 10 O'Clock
A. NJ, of said day. or SO much thereof as shall b.
necessary to satisfy the said mortgage, costs ant
expense Of sale, unless the same be sooner paid
GEORGE o. FARR Sheriff.
BY +. l.. CURRIER Deputy.
Dated at the Sheriff Office, this 18th day OF Jan
nary A ID 1877 2y2I
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

JAMES SANDERS, Pr.
ARTHUR MULLEN. OWEN IN '"e NH'ui' 'ou''
MULLEN. $ Z. RUSSELL o., p,
y. j. PECK. WEST FAR i"i o"Nh"han county
gAR AND CoMEFY, Eu- ,a r.
NICE CLARK & THEODORE io""' ie'i""'s ieih'
SMITH, EX'Rs, RUSSELL n ,.-.
Il Co., AND TIMOTHY a. ~ 100
RIoEDEN, Defts.
To sad Uefenddnfs.
NOU are hereby notified that or before the
i 18th day OF January. A. ID. 1875. there will be
on file in the Office Of the Clerk OF the Circuit
Court of Buchanan county. Iowa the petition OF
James Sanders. the plaintiff aforesaid claiming OF
you the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, al
money justly due from you on, two prOmssory
notes; also. asking the foreclosure Of title bono
for the north half of the northeast quarter OF
Section thirty three (33). in township eighty -egh
tSS). north OF range seven ~. west. in Buchanan
county, Iowa Nopersonal Judgment asked agains
any defendant other than Arthur Mullen and Over
Mullen.
You also notified that unless you appeal
thereto and defend before noon of the second dal
OF the February term Of said Circuit Court of Blu
chairman county, to be held at Independence. il
said county. on the sth day OF February, A. D
1873 default VIII be entered against you ant
Judgment rendered thereon.
iw23 W. G. & }. b. DOMAIN. Attys FOR Plf.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

The New York Tribune, ever since
the Pacific Mail investigation began,
has been giving out hints that it was
possessed of information that would
be damaging to Congressman, in con-
nection with that affair. 1t has insin-
mated that members of the Ways and
Means Committee, investigating the
subsidy business, know more about
it than they pretended, directing its
covert and mean attacks particularly
against Mr.. Dawes, because he is a
prominent Republican and candidate
for Senator from Massachusetts.
In view Of all this giving out, the
committee summoned before 1t this
week Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, editor of
the Tribune to make a clean breast
of all that he pretended to know
about the corruption of Congressman.
His testimony shows him upin very
contemplate light. When put to
the test he absolutely knew nothing
of what he had been throwing ont
insinuations, except from vague re-
port and hearsay, and had to acknowl-
edge before the committee that the
serious charges in the Tribune had
no foundation other than the tales of
Wall-street scandal mongers. Such
is '"independant' journalism.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

TIE Cook County National Bank
of Chicago, of which our Iowa capt
talist, B. F. Allen, of Des MONIES,
is president and principal stock-hold-
CT, closed it's doors on Tuesday, un,
der pressure of difficulties. MIR.
Allen, in card, assures the deposit
tors that no loss can accrue to them,
and that their payment in full is on
ly a matter of time. Mr.. Allen is al
so the owner of private bank at
Des Moines, which will probably be
compelled to suspend. He has ma
nv friends in Iowa whose confidence
in him will not be easily shaken, and
who will hope that he may easily
surmount his difficulties.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

UNTrEp STATES Senators have
been elected in seven States this
week, and number more are hang
ing on the ragged edge. Those
whose calling and election have been
made sure, are as follows: In Del
aware, Thomas f. Bayard (Dem.) };
in Indiana, Joseph L. MELON
ald Dem.); in Maine, Hannibal
HamIin Rep.); in Massachusetts,
Henry L. Dawes Qiep.); in Missouri,
Francis M. Cockrell Dem.) }; in New
York, Francis Herman Dem.); in
Pennsylvania, William A, Wallace,
DEM. ~
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22
TIE call for the Bourbon NEE

TIE call for the Bourbon meeting
in New York City, relative to the
Louisiana trouble, says: "a legisla-
tive body of a sister State, pcaccably
assembled. has been broken into and
dispersed by Federal troops, acting
under orders from the President of
the United States" Here are several
distinct falsehoods. The Legislature
was not organized peaceably, and
was not organized at all, as has been
shown repeatedly, and the troops
were not acting under the orders of
the President, but did act first under
the orders Of the Democrats, and sec
ond under the orders of the Governor
of the State, at the request of the Re
publican members; and, lastly, that
they did not ''dispersc the Legisla-
turc," but simply removed five inn
posters from one branch thereof, who
had no color of right to seats, at the
order of the Governor and fifty-two
members of the body. They did not
touch or modest any person who had
certificate of election or Il right to
sit in the body. And yet, upon the
strength of these t:llsehoods, the
newspapers Of New York City have
induced certain people of that city,
headed by the venerable Mr.. Bryant,
to call a meeting to denounce the
action Of the President, who has not
taken the first step in the matter!
This is properly described as ''going
off at halt-cock." p Chicago Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

The Conservative, i'll discussing
the Louisiana Outrage" would like
to ignore OF make little of the fact
that the Democrats in the Legislature
by a unanimous vote, first invited the
United States troops to interfere in
the organization Of the House. But
this fact will not and cannot be
ignored. If it is a "great crime" an
"outrage,upon the Constitution, &C., :"
for Republicans to invoke the aid of
the army to quell disorder in a State
Legislature, it is equally SO when
done by Democrats, especially if the
latter set the example. But the Con-
sercatice goes into spasms of indig-
nation over Kellogg's action, and
ignores that of the Louisiana Demo
Gratis. The explanation is found in
the fact that the latter are Democrats,
and Kellogg a Republican.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

THERE was an instruction in the
Nebraska Penitentiary few days
since, and United States troops were
employed to suppress it. Now why
don't the Democracy set up a howl
about it? What better right has the
government to step in with the army
to put down q riot in Nebraska than
in Louisiana?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-01-22

SILAN MOVES, editor of the Cerro
Gordo Republican, died at his home
in Mason City, on Monday. Mr..
Noyes was an editor OF force and
ability, and a most genial companion
and friend. He has long been con-
nected with the press Of Cerro Cor
do county, and his loss will be sensi-
bly, felt in the community.