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Year: 1862

| Office Of the Secretary of the Board of Education
DEsMolNEs, Iowa, December 2Gth, 1861.
AN ACT


TO ronder District Townships liable for the


debts of old Districts, and to enable them
to sue in certain cases


See. 1. Be ii enacted By the Board of Ed
ucGt1oa Of tie State Of IoUa, That a District
Township shall be liable for all the debts and
liabilities existing against any District on the
18th of March, A. D. 1858 which now
forms a sub District of the District Town
ship.


See. 3. It shall be the duty Of the Board
of Directors to audit and allow all claims for
such debts and liabilities: and when any
such claim is allowed either by the Board, or
by Judgment rendered against the Dis
trict Township, it shall be the duty of the
Board to levy a tax for the payment OF such
claim or Judgment, in the same manner as
though a school house or other tax had been
voted


Sec. 3. The Board may discriminate in the
levy of said tax according to the very right
Of each particular case and in doing so, any
sub.djstrict OR part of a sub-district in the
District may be required to pay the greater
portion, or all Or no part Of said tax, as the
Board may determine, according to the cqu-
ty and justice of the case


Sec 4. Should any part of the territory
comprising the debtor District on the 10Th Of
March, 1858, not now form a part Of said
District as a sub-dlstrict, but form part Of
a new sub-district in another District Town
ship, it is hereby made the duty of the Board
of such last ed District Townships to
audit and allow to said debtor District, so
made liable by this act, such part of the in
debtedness of the original District aforesaid
as right and justice would determine.


Sec. ). II the two Boards cannot agree.
the County superintendent shall decide, and
the amount so found by him shall stand as a
liability of such debtor District Township to
the District Township first named in this
Act.


Sec. 6. A District Township is hereby
authorized to sue for and collect all debts
and demands due any School District as or
ganizcd on the l2th Of March, 1858, which
now forms o sub District in said District
Township.


Sec. 7. When any old School District as
organized On the 9Th Of March aforesaid
shall not now form sub-District in any Dis
trict Township, the District Township con-
tanning q greater portion than any other Dis
trict Township Of such old School District
shall be deemed the proper District Town
ship to sue for the collect the demands and
debts due such OLD School District, and is
also liable to be sued for the debts and ia-
hlities Of such District


Sec. 8. In The case contemplated in the
preceding section, the County Supcrntend-
ent shall decide as between the District
Townships containing any part of the terrific
ry Of such old School District what part
each District Township shall receive. and
what amount each shall pay, Of the amount
due to or due from the District Township
mentioned in said section, as equity and
justice shall seem to determine Provsded,
the District Boards may determine by their
joint agreement the entire subjest of This Sec
ton.


NICHOLAS j. RUsCH,


President Of the Board Of Education.
Year: 1862

LEBANON, KY, July Is, 1862.


DEAR PARENTS Our march from Cave
City to Albany was rough one, but since
that time we have had much rougher one.
We reached Albany on the 7th, planted QUE
tents, and got everything fixed up nicely.
Things moved on smoothly until the 9tb.
Upon that day, while at dinner, a cavalry.
man came riding in, his horse foaming with
sweat, and hurriedly dismounted at head
quarters. He was messenger bearing the
news that about two hundred and fifty men
of the 9th Pennsylvania cavalry, stationed
at Taylorsville, about thirty miles from US,
had been attacked that morning and cut all
to pieces by about two thousand mounted
rebels He also said that force was march
ing on us with seven pieces of cannon
This news soon few through the camp
causing great excitement, which was
heightened every few moments by other
soldiers coming in at full speed, rehearsing
the same tale.


There was hurrying to and fro at head
quarters as well as in camp. Soon it was
understood that we would retreat. The
bows were ordered to pack knapsaoks and
throw away every thing not needed; to
strike tents aud pile them ready for burn
ing But this last order was countermanded
and we left tents and cooking utensils upon
sLe field. This was our only chance as our
train land our team) had gone back to
Cave City for supplies. We did not know
what 10 do no team and impossible to get
one. After studying everything over it
was evident one of two things must be
done: divide our stores among our boys or
leave them, either for the rebel soldiers or
rebel citizens. We chose the former method
of disposing of our stock. We gave every
thing to the boys in the way of eatables
and tobacco, and what was left we bad put
in a house, whether we will get them or
not remains to be seen. Mr.. Beacon is now
after them. Major Brown of the 9th Penn
syIvauia cavalry pressed. au OK team
into service, in which he allowed
me to put my clothes with some few
things. He also gave me horse. Every
thing being fixed as well as vs. could, the
command was given to forward about five
O'clock. Then commenced our Erst retreat,
and / trust our last. We marched that
nipht until about midnight, and halted
With nothing under me bat saddle blanket
and saddle for pillow, with nothing over.
me but the canopy of the blue heavens,
Law down to sleep, and slept sweetly.
Next morning, after faring as best we could,
we again started on our retreat, but we
had not gone far until we were ordered to
about face and fall back to good position
about a mile back, which we had passed.
This order was given on account of the en-
emy being so close in pursuit. The place
being reached, the the men were drawn up
in line of battle. Every muscle was con-
tracted and every eye was strained looking
for the approaching foe was upon the
AK
Year: 1862

This officer stood by the artillery until
the firing ceased, and then he made his es-
cape, riding to Paris.


A parry of Morgan's men, after trying the
horses they stole, up and down the street,
got Capt. Glass cannon, and amused them
selves, giving that a trial by firing shells
from it over the town. The shells made so
horrid noise, that two or three hundred of
those not aware of the object of the firing,
hastily rushed together and rode madly
about for a few minutes, thinking they
were attacked.
Year: 1862

A company of cavalry to the number of
fifty, posted on Main street, few yards to
the rear of Capt. Glass position, conducted
themselves sh amefully, as they broke and
fed at the first FIRE.
Year: 1862

The hint thrown out in the proclamation
of Gov. Rector, Of Arkansas, that, in the
event OF the failure Of the Southern Con
federacy, his State would endeavor to main
tain her own independence, has received
an appropriate enlargement in like paper
given to the world by Governor Clark of
North Carolina. The latter, in the exer-
else Of the sovereign power not delegated
to the rebel rope Of sand which southern
politicians have misnamed a republic, has
formally Withdrawn from the improbable
and unholy partnership into which his peo-
pie were forced by their traitorous leaders,
and has sgiven JEFF Davis & Co. notice that
all connection Of North Carolina with his
one-horse concern ihas come to an end


This is just what has been predicted. In
view Of the suffering to which the people
Of the South have been subjected, and Of the
now manifest hopclessness of their cause,
that there has not before been rebellion
against the authority which rebellion set
up, is more wonderful than that the predic-


lion, made when the rebel constitution was


proclaimed, is now fulfilled 1t is proba-


bic that Gov Clark's example will be con-
tagious. We have always held that there


was and could be no endurance in such q
cause as that in which this Union was
severed; that the people Of the South had
not the moral education necessary for sue


cessful rebels agains: such a power as that


which this Government w1eIds; that
slavery breeds bullies, not soldiers; and
that when the work Of submission begins
We shall see that no men have ever abased
themselves before authority aud licked the
feet of their enemies with such ahjcct
fawning as these men will abase them
selves before the Administration now IN
power. North Carolina leads the way,
| hesitatingly and timidly. The others will
comc On by and By.
Year: 1862

British fleets sailing up the Potomac to
dictate terms to the Government at Wash
ington, IN the event Of disturbance be-
tween the two powers. And the less so In


hatnot only in manner but in material our
naval fights have turned q new page ia
naval warfare, and rendered obsolete and
out Of date the worlds great navies. The
Warrior aud lie Gloire have from triumnhs
passed into great naval doubts since The
Monitor, and "the wooden walls of Eng
land" have become as useless lumber


one lesson We have learned ourselves
from these victories: the excellence of the
material the war found ready to our hands,
1he recruits for our war vessels have been
almost exclusively from New England,
whose rocky coast is the nursing mother
Of the worlds best seAmen~ In New
Bedford alone the naval recruiting offices
report that in the year ending May 9TH,
1919 hardy tars had enlisted as marines.
From the fishing fleets Of Gloucester and
Marblehead nearly 1000 fishermen have
entered the navy. And so from Cape Cod,
and along the coast Of Maine, enlistments
have been equally numerous, and have left
The merchant marine to ship fresh crews.
Nor must we forget the credit due
the sailors who have exchanged our
lake marine for the gunboat service.
And better men cannot be found than
these who faced death too often in their
profession, to shrink from meeting him On
the gun deck, they for whom the perils
and hardahips Of the fishing banks. the Gu
counters with frost and ice On sealing trips
within the polar circles, and in whaling
voyages, completing the full circle Of the
globe. With this material our Federal
Navy has been recruited, and has won its
place in the history of this war. And
these results We may justly value. They
have taught us the resources we possess as
a Government by the people, and the
strength Of our national bu1warks. They


have brought out Of the fire Of our ma


tonal trials, the shining gold Of patriot


ism ready to giveup all for country, and tc
die in its defense. Already the exultation


with which European despotisms hailed
our disasterh has died out, and if inte1ven


ton comes now it will come so distinctly
as an act Of hostility, that we shall be a
no loss to understand it, not withou
| means 10 treat it as it deserves.
Year: 1862

B The Leavenworth Conservative says the
real name Of the great jayhawker Cleveland
vas Metz he used to drive stage cut Of
Cleveland. Ohio, and hence adopted that name
He was born In that vicinity.
Year: 1862

We have omitted to protest against the re-
cent regulation of the Po; tmaseI General, for
bidding the use, on letters, Of soiled stamps
because it was so unreasonable and 80 fagraut
ly unjust that We felt sure the order had been
drawn up by some clerk unskilled in the use
OF language, and would be modified CT with.
drawn as soon as its effect became known at the
Department But we hear nothirg Of correc
ton, and are forced to believe that the Post
master General either does not yet understand
the effect Of the order, or is regardless of the
Injustice be docs.


II is The business OF the Post Once Depart
nent, by Its local officers, TO guard against
the use of stamps which have already once
been used. To do this, they are at liberty
to deiacc these in any manner they think
most effective. But TO refuse to admit a
stamp because II has become soiled, Is to re.
fuse to honor an obligation freely entered into
A merchant might as we'll decline to recog-
nizs his note Of hand because it had become
worn 10 the holders pocket or safe, Or q
Judge declare a deed or other document 10
valid bscsuse 1t was musty, creased, or soiisd
As the recent order OF the Postmaster Gen
erai il understood aud enforced, the Depart
msnt is doing just that,


The people were authorized, by an act O
Congress, to uss postage stamps for currency
they submitted to the Inconvenience cheer
fully; they held the Governments note O
hand good, be it for ,hree cents or for 5000
Why should one branch Of The Government nov
throw doubt Oh what has become a part o
tho currency of ths country, by an ordel
which is unreasonable and ubjustY As soor
a, ,be new postage currency" is issued il
sufficient quantities, that will naturally rsplac,
the stamps. Till, then, the Post Office Depart
ment should devise a method 10 guard itssl
against the frauds of bad men, without com
mitting Wholesale Injustice on the commu
nifty. The recent order certainly protects The
Department; but a notice that no stamp,
would hereafter be received for postage on
letters would perhaps achieve that end more
efsctJally and would not be much mere un
reasonable.
Year: 1862

gS The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
will shortly issue pamphlet containing the
various decisions which have been msds rels-
tive to business connected with that bureau.
The work is being prepared with all haste, and
its publication in few days will greatly con
veniencs the business interests of the com.
munity.
Year: 1862

..V5 The Board of County Commissioners
meet at thcir office in the Court House, on
Tuesday next, to settle with Supervisors, and
transact the other business of the County
All having business with them will bear this
in mind.
Year: 1862




Correspondence Philadelphia Press)


No moro emphatic admonition of the
purposes entertained by the leaders of the
present Democratic organization could have
been laid before the American people than
this extraordinary production. Not sin
gle word appears in this address in favor of
the war for the maintenance of the govern
ment, or in opposition to the rebels who
are fighting for its overthrow. Is it not
amazing, in such crisis rs this, while
nearly seven hundred thousand freemen arc
offering their lives as a sacrifice to the flag
while hundreds of families are mourning
the loss Of their husbands, fathers, sons, and
brothers, and with the record before their
eyes of the monstrous atrocities perpetrated
upon the wounded whohave fallen into the
hands Of the traitors, and even upon the
dead bodies of those who died in honorable
battle-that distinguished gentlemen, pro-
Tossing to represent a large portion of the
people of the United States, should deliber-
ately and coldly refuse to say that the war
in which we are now engaged is a just war,
and that it is being conducted to preserve
the freest and most generous government
in the worlds The bravery, and the skill,
aud the moderation which have extorted
from foreign and hostile nations express
sions of astouishment and praise, do not
awaken a single throb in the breasts Of
these fourteen democratic members oi
Congress"
Year: 1862




On the subject of taxation a great clam
or may be expected from the partisans who
assisted in the measures which undoubtedly
produced the war; Wholly forgetfull that
the slightest exhibition Of courage or fore
sight on their part, or on the part of their
President, James Buchanan, would have ar
rested the preparations of the Secessionists
they have already seized upon the tax bill
which is in fact consequence OF their owl
completely with the Secessionists, or rathe
result Of their submission to these traitors
in order, if possible, still further to damage
the loyal States and to give new license
and future forgiveness to the rebel chiefs.
1t was we'll said, by one who has reflected
deeply on this subject that if the rebels
had not been driven back by the forces oI
the General Government, raised at an ex-
pense which these taxes are TO liquidate,
they would have invaded the free States,
according TO their repeated declarations, and
and in few short days would have infict-
ed such injury upon property and persons
in that section Of the Union, as thousands
of millions of dollars would not have repair.
ed in century of time. One days excess
es of rebel army in Pennsylvania or New
York-one half day of the Merrimac in the
Delaware or Hudson--would have cost the
people of those States alone more than the
whole amount of their share of the Fedora
debt incurred in confning these murderer
Of Liberty within their own limits. Th
price to be paid by the loyal people for th
great acts of protection and punishment re
sorted to by President Lincoln, is therefor
comparatively small.
Year: 1862

Mr.. Carl Steinman visited mount Eecla,
in Iceland, just before its terrible eruption
in 1945, and the following is his narrative of
a fearful adventure which happened to him
upon that sublime and desolate elevation -
Having secured guide | set out at an
early hour, on the morning following my
arrival in Salsun lat the foot Of the extinct
volcano), praying for fair weather, good
luck, and safe return. The scenery, even
from the first, was so different from any
had ever seen outside Of Iceland as to be
worthy Of better description than am
able to give. Suffice it TO say that, as you
push on, ascending summit after summit on
your way TO the great and awful center OF
all. you find the danger, dreariness and des-
olation increases TO the most terrible sub
Unity. till at last when you 90 finally stand
on the highest point in this univing world
of chaos, you instinctively pray God, with
an icy shudder shivering through your mis-
cradle frame, to restore you 10 the life you
seem to have left forever behind you.


o how shall attempt to convey to any
mind the awful scene of desolaTion that sur
sounded me, when at last stood more than
v thousand feet above the level of the


he highest peak of the barren


-tal hours--three on horse


had been clam


helnw and
Year: 1862

Hs- An exceedingly interesting sketch of
Gen. Lane will be found on the outside, copied
from The Chicago Tribune, Of Monday week.
1he facts therein stated are understood to have
been furnished by one who knew his family
lors and WELL and was for many years the In.
innate friend Of bis gallant and lamented
brother, John F. Lane, formerly Of the army
to whom allusiou is made.
Year: 1862

ARMY MEDICAL DEPARrMENr.-The Sanitary
Commission are endeavoring to bring about a
reorganization Of the army hospital depart
ment. They desire the selection of officers of
the regular Medical STAFF, because of their
efficiency, rather than because of their senior.
ity
Year: 1862

CoLoRs OF IcEBERGs.-We are Off on the
gentle rollers of the Bay of St. Louis, after a
low, broad iceberg, covering say an acre of
surface, and grounding in forty fathoms of wa
ter. 1t has on one extremity bulky tower of
sixty feet, and on the other forty, and in the
middle huge pile of ice blocks of all shapes
and sizes. the ruins of some spire. While the
outside of this heap of fragments is white,
with tints of green, touched here and there
with the most delicate bronze and gliding, ev-
cry crevice where there is a shadow lurking is
blue, the purity and softness OF which can
not be described nor easily imagined To one
who has any feeling for color, it has senti-
ment as sweet as anything in nature A pure
white surface like this fine opaque ice, seen
through deep shade, produces blue; and such
a blue as one sees in the stainless sky when
full Of warmth and light. 1t is quite beyond
the rarest ultramarine of the painter The
lovely azure appears to peryade and fill the
hollows like so much visible atmosphere or
smoke. One almost looks to see it float out
Of the crystal cells where it reposes and thins
away into colorless air.-1t5er Icebergs Uith
q Painter.
Year: 1862

The PRESIDENT AND His AIMS The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser says that "those who
suppose that the President of the United
States, with millions OF strong and patriotic
people at his back, is covering and crouching
before few hundred thousand shareholders
in the border States, do not know the man.
lie is taking his own time and his own way,
as he has rigat TO do, for on him rests the
sole responsibilities, He understands the peo-
pie perfectly. 1t will not be long ere the peo-
pie understand him. His plans are all matured,
far ahead. His policy ismarked and designed
for great future. His principle anxiety is
NOT TO DIVIDE THE NORTH. He is fully up
to the advancing public sentiment of the age.
and will prove himself the man for the hour.
Prepare the people for movements in the broad
area of freedom as grand as those made by
the Emperor of Russia The Republic will be
saved on the basis of Universal liberty"
Year: 1862

HARRISBURG, August 20.
Adutant General Thomas of the army pro-
ceeds to Philadelphia Immediately, and will
there consolidate all the regiments and send
them to Washington.


Information received in military departments
here from every section of the State justifies
the belief that a draft will have to be resorted
to in very few districts if any. Volunteers
are pledged in almost every county to be fur
nished promptly after the quota is declared
Two full regiments will be sent to Washington
from this place each day during the next seven
days, and seven additional regiments will be
sent from Philadelphia as fast as transportation
can be procured
Year: 1862




From the Southern Wstchman.l


We heard an earnest Methodist divine, and
one who, by the way, is not less brilliant as q
soldier and statesman than clergyman, express
the opinion that war Of fourteen or fifteen
years' duration would be far more desirable 70
the South than short war, because It will take
a long time to wean US from our old habits Of
commercial and manufacturing dependence
upon the North, and to purge, but finally and
forever the last moral, socal, and political trace
and vestige Of the u lon


We differ somewhat from our esteemed
friend. Il seems to Us that war about the
length Of the first Revolution would be time
enough to effect the desired object. Already,
after only one year Of Yankee invasion and
butchery, the great mass of our people are
elienated from us by gulf which our feet can
never CROSSE that gulf is made up of the blood
of our brothers and children, and we cannot
wade through IL to make friends with the men
by whom they have been murdered. 1t requires
q long apprenticeship, however, for nation to
learn the art of practicable Independence
and fear that an early peace would be fatal to
the accomplishment Of the object.
Year: 1862

al sE1IEvE that IL this country is rescued
from the perils by which II is surrounded" said
Senator Powell, Of Kentucky, the other day,
cit will ultimately be done by carrying out the
constitutional principles Of that glorious old
party which has successfully administered this
government for over fifty years." To impress
this palpable truth upon the attention Of the
whole people of this land is all that is necessary
to accomplish the object desired. A large ma
jority of the people are naturally democratic
They have only been led away temporarily BY
the seduJtions and false pretenses Of professed
philEnthropists, whose masks passing events
are tearing of. f.-ChieagO Times.
Year: 1862

the great shareholders are gentlemen engaged
in attempting a revolution. they form but a
handful compared with tho gross sum Of the
popdlatiOn-and they arc not too many to sub
due-and subdued, the rest Of the South will
subside into acquiescence as other men not
gentlemen have done before under cognate cir
cumstnncnR