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I VOL. 1. PKAIRIE CITY, JASPEfe COUNTY, IOWA, FIUDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1871 7 7 NO. 35 KO. 1 Mail, Xo.

6 Freitclu 3 fuel Ac GOING 1. V. K. U. TIMK TA11LK.

GOIXG WEST. ITiOp. m. 9.03 a. m.

10.50 a. m. X'o. Mfatt 0 04 a. m.

Mo. Krvijrht 50 p. in. Me. 4 Patttc 8.40 The doping Western Mail clones at 8.40 a.

m. JUstem at 1.90 p. in. Vandal in Mail ftrrires aid departs try Ji outlay, Wetlnewluy ma Saturday. CITY DIRKCTORY.

EPISCOPAL. K. E. Corner ef Main and 5th. Services over.r Sabbath at 11 a.

m. and 7 p. m. Sunday fScliool at 9 a. m.

Prayer-meeting, every Thursday evening, F. M. flfllteser, tiaetor. All are iuvited. S.

K. Corner of Mar- and 6th, every Sabbath at 11 a.m. and 7 Sunday Scluwl immediately after morning services. Prayer-meeting Friday evtiang. Kev.

All are tnritad. Ttie Vest atid most complete assortment of Millinery, fWcy Goods Ifotions IX rHAIKIE DEESS MAENG JttTD IdLLQIEBT WOBK done to erdcr in the latent style, ft ml best Shop one door north of the post oilice. RS. H. C.

SMITH, TEACHES OF VOCAL AMP n. MUKIC. Gives lessons on Piano, in Yiusallzation and Harmony T3" X. Corner of Madison and Services every other Sublmth at lla.m. ami 7 p.

m. Prayer-meeting every -Wednes- evening. Sunday School at fttf a llcV. Mr. White, pastor.

All are invited. PBBSKYTBKIAN. In Cong. Church Kflbtoth afternoon, at 3 o'clock. the last Snbbath of everjr month.

Ucv. r-, pastor. All arc invited. Societien. A.

F. A A. -Weets TneMar evening? Masonic Hall. N. W.

Corner Square. Veiling brotuers are always welcome. I. O. of O.

Every Friday evening in Odd Fellows' Half. Strangers, members onler. cordially invited. MITB The Mite Soctetr of Conic. Church mets on Tuesday evening, and the 11.

on Friday evening of every week. "Cltr SIDNEV WITJJAMS. W. CLKMKXTS. 4 DEWKESfi.

A. B. DUXU T. JlKKiART, II. II GIFFOUD.

U. L. MCGIMTIB Physician Surgeon, Ortlce at WinrJwft A Wilkinson's Drug Store, Cm', IOWA. NKTTS AGENT Jt BOOKSfclXEK, Also, dealer in STATIOXERV and Froip Jfiirper'9 Weekly. THK PBK3IDKNCY AXD MR.

OKEE- LBY. Last January, when Mr. Greele elected chairman of the Ceutral tee, now as that of which certain Tammany Ropublicans are members, he made a speech in which he said "While publican the fight of every Re- his Uiitrammcletl choice of a noimna tfwt NOTIONS, Tovs, Ac. PRAIRiE CITY, IOWA. All orders for papers and books will receive prompt attention.

the L. CLAKK. ROfiT. RV Attorneys A Counsellors at Law, Office rear of thirst National Bunk, 1 i A 1 VFWTYYV IOWA 4--O 1VJ 11 (Successor to A Rynn,) ATTORN EY- AT-3L A W. Office orer First National Bank, 4-3 XEWTOSi, IOWA.

BU8OTESS DIRECTOET. --y-. TTT H. Attorney at Lair aad Real Estate Agent. HOHEOE, JASPER COUNTY, IOWA.

O. HOVE. TTOWK and at XEWTOX, IOWA. A. K.

CAMPBELL. Will attend hi all Marion, r.inl Mahaska couutics. prom ptlr attended to. WIM.IAMS. Attoraeys-at-Law and Votaries Public, frndi Posr-Ocrriccr PKAJfftlECITY.

IOWA. n. R. WIXM.OW. 4.

WILSOS. we Jt Notaries Public. Office over Savings Rank, i 4-3 XEWfOX IOWA. B. cimdijjate for jjext President tintll a is venture to suggest Grant wilL be better tMt! in omen tons trust in 1872 in The.

Tribune how say.s Greeley does not himself favor trie renominaticn of and is prepared to give his reasons at the proper time. For the present, he considers the premature-" It ie to be regftttejl that tiie editor of one of the chief fr Hepublicnn journals in the unwilling yet to enter upon because there is a very considerable body--in our opinion the immense majority, of the party--which expects and desires the reiioniination of the President; and if there are sufficient reasons reconsidering -their intentions, the sooner the in Ore plainly those reasons are stated the better. Mr. Greefey is an politician; and although his foresight and judgment have not always been eminent his opinion will always receive attention. It would, therefore, be interesting to know why" he is indisposed tie support a HIM Hd ate in 1872 who, as lie concedes, is better qualified for the position than when he dhl support him.

All Repnbli- cans also would be glad to hear whether it is upon personal, or administrative that Greelcj" opposes the re- noinination. In the speech from which we have quoted lie commends 'the Ad- men Jls exllibiting tlie VHlue ministration "for its judicious, energet- qllow these yearg ic, an success 01 to procure thej Mr. Youner has no acciU'ate the If this sum of money were not thus ex- dares that it relinquishes its policy, re- pended, it would pay the interest and its faith, and eats its words. A ty BIIrely does not wish to act unwisely, annual earnings of the whole population. Under changes front, and de- Those who favOr the renomination of the President Jo so because believe it to be the wisest course for the of the interst-bearing debt of Let those believe who Let those and consequently for the country.

If the United States in aboat three years who are alumed bjr being told that in oppogfhg the Democratic plans they are slaying the slain, suppose that the government can safely pass out ol Republican hands. But those who have studied pp- litical history will not be cozened by fine they are mistaken, it is for eVefy reason and a half. If e3cn consumer would they should know take but three drinks where he now taker- fotirj the sum saved would equal the entire annual interest on the public the consumers of this stuff would The longer the effort to show them their mistake is delayed the more difficult it will be" for them to adapt themselves to the new situation, if they perceive that they ought to relinquish their present views; and consequently the more diffi- cult the canvass will become. It is desirable that, if possible, the noroiitfUion should be settled by the general conviction of the party before the Convention meets, as it was in 1364 and 1868. If the President is not the man, who who honestly think that he is not ought certainly to indicate the Republican who commands more general con ft- dence, and would probably poll a larger vote.

If there is such a man the mention of his name would instantly strengthen the position of Mr. Greeley and of those who agree with him, because it would show that those who are opposed to the renomination of the President are united upon a candidate. From the Chicago Tribune. THE WASTE IN WHISKEY drink but twice where they now drink nor blandly confide in decoj Mr. Young, Chief of the National Bur can of Statistics, in a letter to the Secre- fonr times, and fl epos it the money thus saved at interest in savings banks, the money thus rSueil from worse than waste would, with the accruing interest.

in ten years amount to more than the capital of all the railroad corporations in the United States cpvning 50,000 miles of railway, If each man would drink but twice where he now drinks times, i ducks. There will constantly be some such event KS the attempt now happily; defeated in North Carolina, which ill i reveal the tendency of the Democratic party. Ignorance, hatred, unbroken traditions of injfisttee; organized into ft party, are not suddenly reformed by resolution. The necessary tendency of the Democratic party will sweep off the and deposit the sum thUs retained in a hopes and wislies of its better theoretical savings bank, the aggregate savings in five years would exceed the entire amount of capital now invested in the United States in national and all other banks. The money expended for liquors as a beverage is, generally speaking, a waste --an exchange of that much products of labor for that which has no practical use, and tends to no personal or public betie- fit.

Unfortunately, the waste is not the only loss. The excessive use of liqnor destroys health, produces idleness, induces crime, leading to misery, want, and as a spring freshet carries ef? chips and dead leaves. Mr. Wendell Phillips hopSs tnat the Republican party will be broken That sesins to to be merely a wish that the government may be surrendered to the eager enemies of every cause and every principle that 3tr. Phillips and It is a wish that the which made the black codes, whrcfc yielded to the mob in New York, which: incites the Ku-Klux, which is responsible through its chosen chiefs for the afc- tounding New York frauds; which baa tary of the Massachusetts Temperance! degradation.

It leads to social disorders, just tried to initiate the reversal of re- Alliance, refers to the exaggerated state-1 necessitates large for en- i construction hi North Carolina, may tnents made by temperance men as to the amount of money expended for liquors in the United States annually. lie states' that the tables published by his office in 18G7, showing the sale's of merchandise, including liquors, to have been $1,483,491,865, and in 1868, at $1,621,457,655, having been falsely used by temperance forceing police regulations, and for the ptiishaient of crimes. The labor and capital employed in control government of the United States. (Either the Republican must be successful, or that will be the is-' manufacturing- these liquors and in their sue of the election iii 1872L sale are attracted to the business by the large protits. If the consumption were We in the West have been so eagfcfty watchinsr the course of the Star of Em- 1 reduced one-third, one-half, or altogeth- Al pire toward the Pacinc that we have A I er, the labor and capital thus employed i 4 1 He has certainl men as exhibiting the values of the H-j would not be lost or destroyed, but would immediately seek the next best if we J- and lotary Public, Collective MM! Real Kntmtv PnAIRIECITY.

IOWA. Will attend promptly to business entrusted to. his care. WATCHMAKKR JEWELER. Ami Jewelry, may speak of the Tribune iir this sense as himself--the settlement ERST- Hsh difficulty, the most threatening of foreign He points Kith just pride to the steady reduction of the debt and the diminution of taxation under this Administration, although he cens- eiires tlie tiie Sec- Ale.

becr'and brls, ing the amount of sales of liquors hi the Unites States, but, from the best information in his office, he presents the following estimate for the year ending Jnne 30,1871: Whiskej-63 gillons, at retail at wine-- 10,700.000 gallons, at doncon gowUtylc ami work warrant- retary of the Treasury. He was opposed, 1-13 PRAIRIK UMVA. physician Surgeon, Williams Clements, PR AIR IE CITY. IOWA. OIBce over Oslmm'-t Tailor Simp.

Offioe Vfct Store. PRAIRIE riTY. IOWA. i UKALKSTATK 1 Have for sale A large list of lands, and Make nml nHlprnt laml from tax pay taxes, ami at! promptly to all business cntnwtcil men, i care. I One loor South of Post Oflice, PRAIRIE CITY, IOWA.

K. Physician Surgeon, nrricR AT THE KTORE OP SIHWEI.I. SON PRAIRlfcCITY, IOWA. i-a -m H. i as we and so other Republicans were, to the San Domingo annexation; but lie approved, with tlie rest of us, the excellent commission, and the frank messags of the President upon the i The Indian Policy of the Administration also Mr.

Greeley--or the Tribune--in common with all humane warmly commended. He lias leen likewise a conspicuous supporter of the Kii-Khix legislation, of which some of us were very daiibtiul, bilt which has certainly neither been evaded or oflcn- at ISO retail Native braudies. and cordial--" $380,000,000 35,000,000 53,500,000 130,000,000 unknown, trtiwated value 31.600,000 Total 1600,000,000 A3 a proof the correctness of the above it may be stated that during the last fiscal rear the receipts from retail liquor dealers trho paid fS5 each for license amounted to $3.630,090, indicating that there Irore 146000 retailevs of liquors in the United States. Bv including thosa who escaped paring license fees, estimated at 4,009. the number increased to who, on an at least M.090 worth of Hqnors each, making IftiO.OOO.OO^ as before stated.

would cease to be profitable, and those now drawn to it from other pursuits by the large profits would abandon it to' engage in other productions. The consumption of liquor is universal among It has been confined to no country and.no period of time. All attempts to arrest it have proved the lesson taught by these figures. scarcely noticed a work of the first triag- nitude which has been silently ing in the State of Maine and the ince of Brunswick, and is now approaching its completion. We refer tcf the European North American way, which is to connect the cities of Banger and St.

John, and will opened for travel on the 12th of Octobef When connected, there will rail communication betivfcefi Halifax and Bortlaml, except sixty miles of steam navigation across Bay of Fundy; or, while it may make no impression on ir i if a small gap between Shediac and Pic- public at large, inav, if properly present- ton is closed, tins water line may be This sum of $600,000,000 annually for needs any exaggeration to eil, find lodgment in the minds of individuals, and naay induce them in their own cases that economy in an expenditure which, in tlie aggregate, amounts to so striking a sum. THC LESSON OF NORTH CAROLINA. The late attempt of the party in Xortli Carolina to begin the reversal of reconstruction, and to invite avoided.entirely, and the passenger ftofir section in the United States may travel bj rail to the chief city in Novtf Scotia, and there find himself within six days'sail of England. And it will not be many j-ears ere the railway system of the far East will be extended to St. John's, Newfoundland, with a ferriage 6f only sixty miles from Cape Brenton to show the immense waste of men's earn- with the national government' Cape From St Johl1 5 to Ireland ings.

The entire revenues of the govern- i I Al i i i i mcnt, even wnuer the most unprecedented sivcly enforced by the He i A i PKAIRIK Repairing promptlv all work war- mtnl Call. rantnl PKAtCB IV let Cram, Two Doors West of D. C. lo Mnrlcot dx MKATS, j. always on haml.

at tow iiaM for 11 hies 9-1 a MKRCIf AXT TAIIJOR, Street a minors Sontli of office, PRAlHIKriTY, IOWA. A fall tnpplv of icnmls always on ax it 4. FITS WAHRAXTEn. CITY Xorth-Kast CoAcr of Square. PRAIRIE CITY.

IOWA EZRA ADKIXS, PporeifrroR. TWO COOU I-AHGK A AMPLE ROOM9. thinks Uiat there have been some takes in appointments--as, indeed, there inevitably must be under any Administration--but one of the most unpleasant --that of General Sickles to Spain--was very agreeable to Mr. Greeley. It would sccin, therefore, that all the measures and the general policy of the Administration had been approved 5.

by Mr- Grecley, rrhile in his judgment its chief be far better qualified for his position in 1S72 than in 1868. Yet he is opposed to his renomination. Mr. Greely, indeed, hat stated, in reply to the E. in km with UOHM? system of taxation, asnoiintonly The tax voluntarily assumed by the consumers of whiskey is far beyond that sum.

If the theory be correct that all taxes are diffused, and arc drawn from the aggregate of production, and, therefore, are borne by the whole community according to their respective shares of that production, then this tax of (000,000,000 U- paid by tiic men, women, and children of the country, by the non- HF.AI.CB ix 9 iftrMfrteii, PRAIRIE CfTt 4 IOWA. SIGN, HOUSE, ASO has signally The CfToffc was made uiulttr the form of calling a convention for the revision of the State Constitution, and in plain defiance of that Coastitu- lion. Hud tiie plan succeeded, the result would have been two State uwits, between ivhlch the national authority have decided. JThe good sense of the State sustained the Republican opposition to this disorganizing and peace will for the present continue. It will not be forgotten, however, that every man who voted for this scheme will also probably sustain the Democratic candidates in whether upon a new departure platform or any other.

And the fact illustrates tiie exact value of the professed Though there is a difference in cratlc acquiescence in the settlement of term. Hut it ron hardly lie opinion among 1e.ii ned men as to wheth- the amendments. Tlie object of ihe par- Uiatgroiin-1 alone that he tiw cr alcohpl or doe? not contain the'ty. as one of it? southern organs frankly renominatiou of the President. Person-1 properties of fowl, we may assume that i says, to get into power; amd if fine at delinquencies Uie TAtane never thc amount of liquor purchased an to the Plwdcut, and it very liclcof fwl exceedingly small.

Ex- consumer as well as tiie With the exception of such portion of this liquor as is used for scientific, mechanical ami medicinal purposes, this expcndi- the distance 13 only sixteen hundred and the time only four and days. Upon the opening of tbis route it cannot be doubted that all the passenger traffic, the ffest freight, and the mails between America and Europe, will seek that route. A trip ean then be made from Chicago to Quccnstown in eight days, or one day Ics? than it can now be made from Xew Tribune. Kansas wlicitation that he should (urcisllKulc for li 0 used as a bever- sell be a candidate, his preference of a 1-1 Painting, justly and promptly repelled the sugges- eliHlinir all other it is safe As Senator Schnrz well Ifcc aw to ihat carr- on Uir All tioii that he hml atilliorized any tlwt of UiU Hqnor 15 pnreha ernsc of troops at the late Louisiana Convention. Can it lie, then, Uiat it because of the of palronace will help, it will not hesitate to ptxfess finely.

in his will hr be All Ml at In-. Itrajt Mmrc vill to PRAIRIE crrr. tow A. MROCKMAOKX, AXft mtAlJCR BRIDf.KS. WHIPS, rtJRRT COMBS, HA1HH.ERV HARDWARE, ntAtftffC CUT, IOWA.

1-lt K. E. that Mr. Grrcley in to the nominaUon? lie saVI recently Uiat he accepted the chairmanship of the miUc6 with the hope or.harmonizing Ute for no other or than as The indications of a war in Europe, which Russia will combine with France against Prussia, Austria, and Italy, art' every growing jtrortyer. The recent decree by which all privileges extended to German colonists in Russia have been revoked is but an item in the preparation.

The idea of German is evidently regarded equivalent iff German supremacy, and this is ent ttitJi the national equality of Russia and France. This German supremacy includes the maintenance of die Turkish Empire as a curb on mud aft if at Oiicago, the jEeneral tributary of Germany, thU tionhas been carefully cultivatod that France naturally looks for all tiie establUlml of security for revenge upon Prussia and lier allies 'would be swept away if the Democratic anl the recovery of her lost proving; part ciacceotlexl. That prospect having anni thun daily the entail cloud of war in PCALCX party in city, bat that lie had when Mr. Grinncll and General were removed from the col- lectorship ami office- But a slimulatiitg or exhilirating then, pay, annually, from the tarn- ings of Uic people, fun, and vnjnrnient produced failed to bring the party into power, Europe, is growing larger by oMittiniing the icveral varieties in which liquor is presented to lie twlc- We spend this rlly--Uiat h(, for an article not nwlcd for by the Administration will lie a reason for refusing to ratominatc bend is Architect Inilier, BCKTS SHOES, SETTH, BRI Saddlery Hardware, be physical for any intrllortnal mjoytnent. We make it a to the demands of a and swallow, annually, XNKMKKt worth of Ivqiwr which we with great benefit to the general HIM! lo the order, and wrll- i II secvns tows anfoiHinsitc that a being of wviely, dispense with.

The" racnl of for opposing action swtn of expended for laquor tried to save that was possible the RtpnMican party evidently a Jievcrapo, taking total Urwlor Andrew if fetion At 3flWXW, canal to per djwml his liostility to Cltil Rights to the prolecUon of the treedmen, now try to remove Uie impression. Rut Uie object in both is Uie same. If tin; amendment? arc apparently ac- it mill be because Uic parly can not help itself. Bat Uie moment Uiat, in of power, there should be a probable chance of reversal, it would do what it has attempted todoinNorUi Carolina. is Uic old spirit of Uic Democratic parly ly HbistnuAll When the war ended, parly, by black codes and vagrant The ClncinnaU Commercial has discovered the following national anomalies The French Wive best and the most ba1dhcaled men of any people in the worRL Tftt hare the best and the most bad teelh of any in the world.

Thtf English have the bert coTA doctors anrf the most corns afly people in world. Tbc Germans have" flu? best lager and Uic fewest of atoy PRAIRIKVlTY, IOWA. ranted. 1IHMM I-W pmnipUy done, and war- fof upon theory that the time has not to When will thai time arrived if not when the qnmion generally both friends ami Taking number of male adults to lie as one cverv six of wral to mdkral poHcy of In dartestom, several fever have been reported, and whole population, or the aver- i At Convention of three reported have A larjrc nnmber as now to, and when fit y. arp vv I liquors drink, In Tammany Hall, it hoped to carry cmals 177 annually tor caeli man.

Thte i pndiation of the war debt, and to control; of ttifj- now are? tV fwr- fr of 977 Annually for each man. This pndiafion of war debt, and to control Mw adminiMrtfion of okl. the disnm of an fo the.