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13ELLEVUE GAZETTE. rmiiiiitD it. 8. A. 8TXICKLAND ft CO., R. 8. M'EWEN, EDITOR. DELLEVUE, N. T. - ssss - THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 18T7. "The election the lteauli. Now that lha excitement of the election has in a measure died away, it may not l.e amiss to write down a few iteina of history,' connected wiih the canvass and the cauuiUates. .Every resiJent of Nebraska knows that party lines were not drawn j but that ca;h of the several candidates were tup ported by men of all parties and shades of opinion. Gen. Thayer, we believe, received, a larger share of Republican votes than any other candidate, he being considered by republicans as affiliating with- them to some degree, though it i but just to the General to say that he de rlared himself to be a democrat Bird B. Chapman received the vote or many leading republicans, among whom was Gen. Iariirjer, who for a time was the republican candidate for delegate ; Chop- man also receired the vote of many dem ocrats. Col. Rankin's supporters were of all partie with a fair preponderance however, of democrats. Judge Fergu son received a larger democratic vote than any of the candidates, and among his supporters were the most reliable men nt the democratic rnrtv. But like the - - " - . others, he too, was supported by many re publicans. A regard for truth, requires us to say that political isms were not in volved in, nor decided by the late election for delegate. . Gen. Thayer and Col. Rankin began the canvass as far back as' last winter, tnd both of them it seems made warm friends who did not desert them in the hour of trial. Both of these gentlemen labored with untiring xeal, but so far : as we know, they labored honorably, for an election. Bird B. Chapman, it was known more than a year ago, was maneuvering to secure a re-election. Having secured a seat in Congress two years ago by fraud, in the face of a popular majority of 13 ncainst him, he was anxious to try his hand again. He commenced with nearly th entire popular feeling against him, and with only a few wire-workers, schem inff tricksters to lean upon. He saw the helplessness of his case without some ex trinsic aid, and this he found to some ex tent, in a $30,000 appropriation for i wagon road from the Tlatte river, through or near the principal towns along the Mis souri river to the Leau qui court- Ho imported contractors and a corps of hands ostensibly to survey and build this road, but somehow they seemed to make it (at least,) a part of their business to electioneer for Chapman. He got help from T. B. Cum ing by promising to make him Governor He got lielp from others by promising Judgeships. He trained in all the wire workers by promiir2 a share of the plunder, and realty it is astonishing to see how such a man as Chapman, unpopular, disliked for his want of honesty could bring scheming and the hope of plunder to boar so extensively as he did on the late election. The people were not prepared for his wiles and his arts, and his machinations. - But Bird is defeated and we presume even he, with all his assurance, will hardly dare come before the people again. . Rankin, Thayer, and Chapman, were all self-nominated. . . Judge Ferguson on the other hand was nominated by a convention of delegates from a majority of the counties, against hi expressed wish; but like a true democrat ai he has always been, he yielded up his private feelings to the wishes of the people, and consented to become a candidate. The election fol lowed so close upon his nomination, that he had but a few days in which to work. But those few days were well employed. The Judze visited such portions of lha territory as the short space of time allow ed, and spoke frankly and boldly to the people. He announced himself as stand- ing upon the broad, just and equal plat form, adopted by the convention which put him in nomination. He made no pri vate pledges or corrupt bargains to ob tain votes, nor did he make any appeals for sympathy. We venture to say that no candidate avowed his sentiments with greater frankness, or conducted a can vass with more scrupulous honor. The vote he received shows that the pub' Jic appreciated the man, nd approved his position. He was supported by the con' crrative portion of th people of the ter ritory.more especially in those parts which he was enabled to visit during the canvass. Ilia election was a rebuke to chqueism and scctional'um. It I, felt to be a fatal blow to the knavery and intriguo of Chap inanisin. Judge Ferguson is known to be a true- hearted, upright, inteligcnt man, a good citizen, a thorough going democrat. 1 he national administration will find no warm er supporters in the halls of Congress than he, and the people of Nebraska, who have put their trust in him, we feel assured, will find him the faithful advocate of their interests. Ittrd II. Chapman. From the kicking and splurging in the last "Nebraskian," a paper owned by B. B. Chapman and conducted under his im mediate direction, it would seem that he takes the defeat at the election in "high dudgeon." ' One would judge by reading the Nebraskian that the "little trickster had really suppesed that he could humbug the people into his support, notwithstand ing his treachery and developed knavery. He now, however, knows that he is defeat- ed bv the peoples vote, and he and his s hired tools raise the cry of corruption corruption! and he prepares once more to make an attack upon the board of can vassers. We shall see whether he sue ceeds this time in defrauding the people as he did two years ago. Had his steal thy effort to get T. B. Cumming appoint ed Governor, been successful, he , might perhaps have succeded again in getting the election certificate in the face of the peoples expressed will. But foiled in one we think he will be foiled in the other. We have no doubt but that Gov. Izard wil do his duty, despite the intrigues and the bullying of Chapman and his tools. But Chapman has another' object in causing the publication of such inflamatory articles in his "Nebraskian. . If he cannot get the certificate, he thinks he may get pub ic Correction. We neglected to state in our last issue, that Mr. Edwabo Labi-b, whose name ppcars in the returns of the election, as candidate for Clerk of the Court, was not a candidate. His name was usea con trary to his expressed will, lie is a worthy young man, who abides by the will of the Squatters when they meet in con. vention and it is due to him to say, that he is always right when it comes to voting. We remember the time of Air. Chap. man's election two vears aco, the Lhro- notype came out with a flaming article, statinff how Chapman s certificate was od- tained, &.C., and that was published two days bofore the canvass ever took place. Aebraskian Yes, but that was not until after B. B. Chapman had repeatedly stated, that al though H. P. Bennett had been elected by the people, he, Chapman knew he would get the certificate. The Chronotype is not to be blamed for giving currency to a statement put in circulation by Chapman himself. sympathy, where the facts are not known; and by sending his paper to al the members of Congress, he hopes to get them to prejudge the case, so that by con testing the seat of Judge Ferguson, he may have the committee aid him in once more defrauding the people of Nebraska, lere again the "iittlo intriguer" mUcal culates; for when his glaring falshood shall be confronted with the truth, we ap prehend that his villainy will re-act against himself. Trial of neaping and Mowing Machines. There were nindy'ieven Reapers and Mowers entered for trial at the National Exhibition of these machines, at Syracuse, N. Y., last month. They came from fourteen different states, but only about forty were entitled to trial by the payment of the fees. The trial occupied ten days, and was the most thorough test of the capacities of the competing machines, that has yet been made. The report is not to be made public till the meeting of the United States Agricultural Society under whose patronage the trial occurred, at Louisville, Ky., Sept. 1st. It is but a few years since these great labor-saving machines came into use, and it may be interesting to know to what ex tent their manufacture i now being car ried on. A single shop in Illinois, has turned out, since the year commenced, which at their retail price, $145 each, amounts to nearly $7UU,UUU. A rival shop, in the same state, has made over 4000 this year ; and it is estimated that there will be 20,000 machines made this year in Illinois alone. A widow of a patentee of one of these machines, re ceives from yearly sales, the snug sum of 8150,000. Who wouldn't be a widow f whole bill is so close an immitation that none but the best judge can safely take 1 0s on the Bank. 5s on the Chippewa Bank, Wisconsin. We mentioned those several weeks ago. They are so good an imitation of the gen uine that Bunkers have taken them. Those unacquainted had belter refuse all 5s of this Bank. Is on the John Hancock Bank, Spring field Mass. Good imitation of genuine. A large lot of these have been put in cir culation of late in Chicago and west of there. 5s on Tradesman's Bank, New Haven, Con. This is a new counterfeit, and very likely to deceive. It is an imitation of the genuine. Altered Doles. Is on the aupun Bank, Wis., altered to 10s: well done and very likely to deceive. Viimette, female seated, with shief of grain, &c. ; femule on lower left corner; man with sickle etc., on lower right corner. 3s on Merchants Bank, Lowel, Mass. Vie., woman, shief of grain, plow and cattle woman with scales on left end woman, anchor, ship, &c, on riizht 5s on Marine Bank, Buffalo, T., Vig., female with sickle in right hand, sheaves of grain, &c., female with rake on right end; not like the genuine. 10s on Sank of Rhinebeck, N. Y raised from Is. Vig., man, woman and child female on the left genuine has a female seated, pail and cows on the left, 5s on the Farmers and Mechanics Bapk, Rochester, N. H., Vig., Indian fam ily seated on a cliff. 6s on the JUurlington Kanlf, N. J. Vig., steamship portrait on right and left lower corners, 50s on the Slate Bank of Ohio, raised from 2s, Vig., canal scene, two horses, train of cars portrait on upper right corner. 5s on York County Bank, Penn., vig, man and horse plowing Franklin's head on right girl on the left end 50s on the Union Bank, New Orleans, La., Vig., view of Marion female sittini with liberty cap and pole female on left end reaper sitting on grain on right end. - J . - -C .t .v. ...1J snjoyeu me i cuiieiiiciu vi mv nvnu, and we do not dream wildly when we imagine that somewhere in this prolific yalley shall be the mammoth central de pot of the world, where the commerce or all nations shall commingle, where, in flying trips around the globe, shall meet travelers, speaking all the languages of the babbling earth. Who wouldn t be or the west, western I Wakesha Republican. The first paper mill erected in Ameri- ri a.. m v I'll ca, was at n.iisatetniown, n.j., wnicn William Bradford, royal printer of New York, New Jersey and Pensylvania, pur chased in 1728. Twenty-five camels arrived in San An tonio, Texas, on the 224 ult., for the use of Lieut. Beale s party in openinr the new wagon road to the Pacific. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. PALMER & AVE Rl L L Wholesale and Retail Dflers li CHINA, GLASS AND BELLEvTE LOTS FOR SALE. LOT 6, Block 255, L. 8, B.192, L. 8, B. 253. 2, 245, " 1, 175, " 4, u 129. " 3, " 171, "11, H 23, "11, WJ. 4, - 25," 8, " 138, "12, 87. " 10,11,12, 240, 4," 49. Out Lot 21, in Bennett's qr. " " 25, in Bottom. Also, an undivided 1-2 of Block 155, fc 213. Price. $1750. Enquire of HORACE EVERETT, At his Banking House, Council Bluffs, or 41 J. B. JENNINGS, Bellevue. TERRITORY OF NEBRASKA, 1 M COUNTY OF BAKri. ) NOTICE is hereby given, that ths County Commissioners of Sarpv County, will meet on Monday, Sept. 21st, A. D. 1857, at the house of Maj. Watson, at V o'clock, A.M. to view and locate a public road from the CIIJT Ol DGI1CVUC, Ull Hio Ut.l luu.s ... " I ner or tactions z, 3, iu, ana ii, in lownioip 13. north. Ranee 13. east t thence west In the line between bections 3, and 10, to the corner of Sections 3, 4, 9, and 10, la the same Town- shin and Kanee t tnenc westerly on me most practicable route through Anaerson's Grove j thence westerly to the Platte or Llknoni rav er's. Said Commissioners will meet on the I evening- of said day, at 4 o'clock, at the Ben ton House, Bellevue, to near an parties inter ested in locating and establishing said road or I hie (QJueensware, MIRRORS, And Fancy Goods, mem, TOraasi, TABLE CUTLERY, Fonl riay. We are informed upon reliable author ity, that in nearly all of the precincts in the Territory, that pattern of morality and honesty, Chapman, 'and his tools, circula ted the report on the morning of election, that Judge Ferguson had declared in his (Chapman's) favor. (God save the mark) This had its effect as seen in the votes in localities where Chapman was not known, and his zeal for deception and trickery understood. In those localities he receiv ed relatively his largest vote. Many vot ers told us they were thus deceived, oth erwise they would have supported Judge Ferguson. This shows how Chapman was enabled, in connection with other ras calities, to make the show of strength be id, and to " some extent accounts for the milk in the cocoa nut," and we commend the old saw to Chapman, " honesty is the best policy." If he had acted upon this maxim in the late election, he would have had and been entitled to, that he does not now possess, even in defeat the respect of the people. Poor Bird ; with all your treachery, your lying and your defeat, you have fallen very low. " The way of the transgressor is hard." " Too Honest." We clip the highly complimentary no tice of our newly elected delegate to Con gress, from the Nebraska Advertiser. The press of Nebraska is right, and re flects the will of the squatter sovereigns: 'We have not the official returns, but all concede that Judge Fruit ca FcaoosoK, who for two years past, has faithfully and honorably discharged the duties of Chief Justice of Nebraska, is our Delegate elect to the next Congress. Of him we need not sneak, as we have before done so; and he is well known throughout the Territory as a man coining up squarely to the JefTer- soman standard "honest and capable. although not the man we supported, we recognize in bun all that we could desire as a citizen, and well wisher of our terri lory. We have every confidence that he will faithfully and impartially represent us in the National Legislature. He will take with him into its halls position and ac quaintance, and consequently influence As a journalist we hereby pledge him our fullest assistance to render him usefu to the squatters of Nebraska. . e op posed not the man, in the campaign yiti closed, but the manner, time and motives which brouphl him before the public It was a coniDlimcutarv remum. however, wa heard made more than once in regard id the Judge one that he should and no doubt does feel proud of that "he is too honet. Kiohtt Negroes Set Fbee. The Harrisburg Telegraph states that Col. Thos. I lite and other citizens of Jefferson coun ty, Va., set free eighty of their slaves on Thursday last. The Colonel as the agent of the owners, accompanied them to Mid- dleburg, Pa., when handing each individ ual forty dollars in money, and equipping them all with sufficient clothing, they were set Bt liberty. Financial. From Preston's Financial Circular and Bank Note Reporter, we select the follow ing list of Broken Banks and Counterfeit Bank Notes, which we publish in lieu of more valuable or interesting reading mat ter. Ou readers will do well to cut this list out, and post it in a conspicuous place for reference : BANKS American Bank, r&iLtn. Trenton, N. J. sus pended. The notes of this Bank are se cured by Slocks. If no fraud has been a commuted, tney will be redeemed at or near par. At present, we quote them at 25 dia. "Union Bank of Frenchtown, N. J An article has been going the rounds of the newspapers, for the last week or ten days, that this bank had closed its doors It is a mistake. Its notes are redeemed at its counter and in New York as usual. The Cumberland Savings Bank, Md is thrown out in New York and Chicago. v e do not buy its notes at any price. Uhio Hanks A dispatch from Uin says: Uty Hank, Cincinnati, 13 per cent discount; Union Bank, Sandusky, (10 )' These Banks have been closed for some time, and their notes redeemed by State treasurer. Slock Security Bank, of Danville. III.. has been wound up by the Auditor. Its notes are redeemed by him at 83 l-2c. on the dollar, bankable in Chicago at 88 eta. V e quote them ot 15 dis. reople s Hank and Kusrm.'le Bank. Their notes have of late declined 5 to 10 per cent, on account of the depreciation of their stocks and the uncertainty as to when they would be wound up by the Auditor. We quote them both at 25 dis. All other Illinois Banks are at par in Chicago Canal Bank, Cleveland. This Bank has been closed for nearly two years, but has passed current till within a month or two past, as its notes were redeemed at par by the Treasurer of the State, they are now 10 per cent dis. at Cincinnati. COlHTEartlT, ALTERED AMD SnaiOtS VOTES. The country is full of them. We have never seen so many at this point as there are at this time. 10s, on the Northwestern Bank of Vir- frinia. Ttuxte seen were ou the Wellobura Branch, the piste of which i aUitrhtly dif ferent from thoe used by the other Branch es. Part of the dis tre genuine, aud the The West. " I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be t The first low wash of waves, where soon snau roil a numan sea. The elements of empire here Are plastic vet and warm. The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form Each rude and jostlint; fragment soon Its fitting place shall find, The raw material of a State, Its muscle and its mind." Whitier. This west of ours is a great country, Look at its extent. It reaches almost from the tide waters of the Eastern At lantic to the low water mark of the Wes tern Pacific, and from chilly Superior to torrid Texas. See how many proud States, each one a country by itself, it includes, with their different social systems. Ohio and Indiana, with their old fash ioned civilization, the growth of less than a renefation of toil; Wisconsin, Michi gan, and the far North-West, with their small free labor farms, displaying the nearest approach to practical demo cratic equality ; Illinois with its broad fields and vast farms to be in a few years the highest example of the application of capital to agriculture , Missouri and the South-west, witn their rich plantations representing in a new country the feud ally of the Old World ; Utah with its practical communism and its fanatical so ciability ; California with its well nigh fabulous wealth and its barbaric magnifi cence ; and Oregon's chain of settlements binding the forest of the western slope to the flood of the Western ocean, as with a brooch of human destiny. See its prand proportions: its lakes that would float the navies of the world its rivers tnai coneci toe waters ot a con tinent ; its mountains tipped with eternal snow ; and its broad beautiful prairies once the gardens of wild verdure and luxuriant flora, and fast becoming the model farms of the world. But more noble than all this greatness of extent and grandeur of beauty, is the rapidity of the civilization of this glori ous region. The tide of travel with its spring and autumn flow and ebb, is inun dating this West with the commerce, and me civilization, me ricnes ana ine renne meat of the Eastern and older regions of the earth. Homes are peering out from the dark richness of the prairies; and nestling in the shadows of die old forest, the fence of the settler intercepts. The Indian's trail and hearthstones have sup planted council nres. Railroads are creating channels of traf fio and directing the current of sympa thies, and the locomotive as it follows the star of Empire on its westward way urws a nation in its train. The past of the West is rich in bold and daring deeds, its present is filled to the brim with unexampled enterprise and its future is overflowing with incon ceivabie anticipations. Ine West is not yet an atom of what it is to be. Though not in the far west, the valley of the Mis sissippi is the geographical center of North America ; acd the richness of that no ble stream is yet to run like a golden thread through the very center of the Union. When this great Republic is a continent wide la its extent, as it must be, the west will be its center, and those vigor ous young States we are building up wil be jhway. By ord L.S. en By order of the County Commissioners. STEPHEN D. BANGS, Clerk of Sarpy Co. Bellevue, Aug. 18, 1857. 41 DISSOLUTION. 9TTHE co-partnership heretofore existing be- tween tne unaeraignea in tne brick ma king business in this city, was this day dis solved ny mutual consent, ine debts doe the firm, together with all its liabilities will be settled by L. Beldon. J. F. COFFMAN, M. W. STODDARD. Bellevue, Aug. 8, 1357. 41. NOTICE! jf LL persons indebted to Clarke k. AX will come forward immediately ai up. "A word to the wise is sufficient." CLARKE fc BRO. Bellevue, Aug. 12, 1897. tf. PLATTE BIVEE EEBJELY. THE Platte River Ferry Company have their Ferry in successful operation at the MOUTH of PLATTE RIVER. This route is six miles shorter than that by ueaar isiann, ana is a mucn better route. EXPERIENCED AND CAREFUL MEN will be in attendance at all times to accommo date the traveling; public. Rates of Ferriage as low as any otner point. W. M. SL.AUUUTER. Plattimonth, Aug. 1, 157. 3m40 DISSOLUTION OP COPARTNERSHIP. NOTICE. The subscribers hereby give notice that the copartnership heretofore existing between tbem under the name and style of Todd & Smith, it this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to or against the firm will be settled by Eurton W. Todd. BURTON W. TODD. E. P. SMITH. Bellevue, August 12, 1857. 40 the grand centers of the Confederacy. Every prairie will teem with inhabi tantsevery brook will turn a clattering m il the minerals that lie beneath the soil will be dilligently dug forth the country shall be verdeul with faruu, and the towns crowded with factories. Then here, beneath fairer than Italian skies, shall be heaped up the w?al'h, and INTOtlOO. W0 Aaron Brown, WiJaonReynolds.Rlchard Kimball, John Bernard.O. A. Vilie, and all othres whom it may concern take notice that on Friday, August 14, 1857, at 8 o'clock, a. ai. i win appiy ai tne LAna utnee in Omaha, tor the purpose of proving my right to pre-empt we w. i or un rt. vy. or, in section number 18, in township number 13, in ranre number 14, and the E. i of the N. E. qr. of section number 13, township number 13, range number 13, east of the 6th principal meridian in Ne braska Territory. J. 11. SMITH. Bellevue, July 29, 1857. 2t. . i BEIITANIA WARE, &e. Our stock is entirely new, terj large, and carefully selected, and , by adhering strictly to the cash system, we are able . .: . ,i to offer very great in- t ducements to all who ..'." may favor us with . a call ' ' PALMER & AVERILL, BELLEVUE STORE. Corner of Jefferson and 27th street,. Opposite the Fontenelle Bank, BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA WOULD RESPECTFULLY eall the at tention of the citizens of Bellevue, Sar py county, and the surrounding country, to foeir new and selected stock of t DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, . GROCERIES ft HARDWARE,. Which they offer at Wholesals and R-tall at ? rices 30 per cent, lower than ever before off ered in this city. We can and will sell' Goods as low if not lower than, they can be bought in Omaha or Bluff City. Please calV and examine for youreelves. PALMER fc AVERILL. Bellevue, May 28, 1857. Just nccelved, and for Safe, A GOOD LIKENESS FOR $1,00, And upwards. ROESBERG, the well known Sagurrean and Ambrotype Artist, would respectful ly invite the eitlzens of Bellevue, and strsn rers generally, to give him a eall at his lart-e Tent, or Daruerrean Room, which has been put up with a large side and sky lipht, for taking likenesses, and having plenty of hint. in jiiciurri can oe inue wun Dili lime snade He also has the finest 8'oek of cases and small frames ever brought here, which he wilt eeu eneaper, including tne likenesses, than sver have been sold by any other artist in this city. He therefore trusts that all persons that wish to obtain good and cheap likenesses to give him a eall, at the new and large Tent, nearir opposite the School House, and in front of Pike,s Grocery store. I. B. Houses, Horses and Buggies will be copied, on short notice, but only in cloudy weather, if called for soon, at reasonable price, a be probably will not stay longer man Dni ween. 39 ROESBERG, Operator. A LARGE Stock of Furniture, consisting In part of Wood, Rush, Spindle, Spilt Bottom. Jenny Lind. Maple, Mahogany, Children's and Office Chairs, Rockers, fce.i Bureau, Center, Card, Office, Breakfast and Dinner Tables, Leaf, Toilet, Work and Wash Stands. Office Desks, Sofas and Sofa Lounges, Double and Single Lounges, Trundle Beds, Bedsteads of various kinds, Tin Safes, Mattresses, x. Terms cash. PALMER fc AVERILL. 33tf JUST RECEIVED, a large and fin assort ment of Gint'a Shoes and Gaiters. . ' 33tf PALMER fc AVERILL. ANOTLER LOT of Clothing jnst reive4 at 33tf PALMER Jt AVERILL. PALMER . AVERILL have on hand a lot of fin Black Doesain and Cassimer; also, a large lot of fancy Caseimeres. Those wishing a food article would do well to call and examine the above. 33tr STOVES! STOVES!! STOVES!!! myiSkt"'"'1' THE undersirned take this method of in. forming the citizens of Belleyue, and vicinity, inai ne nas jusi received Uke LaaoaiT ADO Best assortment of Cook In k, Parlor Jt Office Stoves, ever brought to this Territory. He would res pectfully invite all in want of Stoves, to call auu iiimioi j or inemseives. I am also manufacturing TIN-WARE of all kinds, such as Buckets, Corrsi Pots, rmmm, or.Aii.in. itc., te., and all articles in uiy line 01 oillinetl. CsTParticular attention paid to Roorme, I Rpoutiwo and job work of every description. All work warranted to give satisfaction. Or ders solicited. Mv place of business is oppo- in mi rnminf vmre. uiim, ft . T. SMf. SAMITL NYPER. CUTLERY A larg assortment of Pocket Knives, Knives and Forks, at Ol BELLEVUE STORE. A larg stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, at Eastern Prices, can be toomi at the BELLEVUE STORE. no 30-U. THE LARGEST LOT of Furniture aa4 Crockery ever brought to the TrrttTV, can be found at PALMER . AVERILL'8 FLOUR, Salt, Salmon, Mackerel, aa C4 fish, at wholesale or Retail, tv PALMER fc AVERILL'8. A GOOD ASSORTMENT ef Glees War at PALMER k AVEFILL'S.