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NUMBER Al.

A LAMENTABLE CAsE-The following
appeal to the American press and people,
we trust, will be promptly and faithfully
responded to.
Editors IN the United States and Canada
Gentemen-A wife and child lost or
Concealed, or worse, causes this appeal to
your charity TO aid in gaining some clue
TO their fate.
Mrs. JANE PINNELL and daughter ar
rived at New York in the ship Orleans,
from London, in October, 1913, and with
FIVE or six other English people, las has
been ascertained, put up at two boarding
houses in the city. Those five or six peo-
pie acted as if they proposed TO take her
luggage and leave her aud child behind.
She wrote to her husband, Arthur PIN
nell, that she would be in Geneva by
canal Her non-arrival alarmed Mr.. Pin
nell. who has sought for his wife and child
on the way. and in the city, but has found
no clue to either Of them to this day, Feb.
10, lS49. He advertised for them in the
New York Sun, but could learn Eothing
Of their fate. Mrs. Pinnelrs maiden
name was Edwards, from Westminster. in
Wiltshire. She is short in person, Of
good appearance, black eyes and hair.
very quick in speaking, and about thirty
years of age. Her child, Sarah, four
years old, is very like the mother. This
is to appeal TO the sympathy of all COED
people, and to beseech them TO note and
inquire of all English settlers for some
clue to these lost dear ones. Any signs
of either will be most thankfully re ceived
by the distressed husband, ARTHUR PIN>
NELL, baker, IN Syracuse, New York i.
or through General J. G. Swift, at Ge-
neva. New York.
l9.h February, 1919.
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From the New Ysrk Spirit of the Times.
GOWDIE OR THE KINGS POI
BY JAMES R. p. GEEMEs.

THE following burlesque upon the popular novel writer,
G. r. r. James, author Of 'tiowre, the Kings Plot
&c. &C. the best pieces of pure that
have We doubt whether the Oldest and most
reader can peruse it without laughing II may be
useful lesson young writer's who often disposed
TO consult sound the oretfuness of in their
positions.
1t was near midnight, towards the close of rhe
afternoon, on a sultry morning in December 49,.
previous to the revolution of the last war when
the burning moon was just setting in the eastern
sky, casting q brilliant shadow upon the gorgeous
clouds which totally ohscured the armament and
the unclouded sun was sending down his noon
day beams with an intensity of heat far exceed
ing the temperature of the frigid zone, that the
sweet songsters of the deep retired 10 their daily
rest, and were now filling the empyrean with their
silent and redolent music and the caroling of the
farmers herds upon the fertile and moss-covered
lake fell upon the ewes with a soothing energy,
like the shreking of heavy thunder through the
deep mountain gorges of the prairies. The calm
and tempestuous breezes rippled the CLASSY sky,
as they swept across the bosom of the plain and
bent the outrageous rocks that reared their smil-
ing heads upon the summit of each mcandering
hillside. Myriads of stars shed their pale moon
beams upon the balmy atmosphere, and the hum
of spicy fragrance through the tall groves Of low
bushes, which here and there might
be seen dotting the mountain side upon whose
level face reposed the tried and tender oaks of
thousand centuries growth, which had, during
their yet infantile existence given food to the
focks Of speckled trout which filled the air with
The shadows of sobg Above the summit of the
valley. stately ships maneuvred, and evolved
their dazzling perfumes, and greeted the wanderer
with a round Of wel-filled baskets, verging upon
the sublime. I
Lovely indeed was the sound of such spccla-
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A Word ABOUT GARDENING.-No one
can be truly said to LIVE who has not a
GARDEN. None but those that have en-
loved it can appreciate the satisfaction
the luxury-of sitting down to a table
sl,read with the fruit Of ones own plant
ing and culture. A branch of radish, a
few heads of lettuce, taken from the gar
den of summers morning for breakfast /;
or a mess Of green peas or sweet corn, is
quite different affair from the same arts
Gle brought in large quantities from mar
ket in dying condition, to be Put away
in the cellar for use. And plate OF
Strawberries or rasberries lose none OF their
flavor by passing directly from the border
TO the cream, without being Jolted about
IN baskets until they have lost all form and
comeliness. And yet, how many in the
smaller cities and villages of our country,
possessing every facility for good gar
den, either through Incidence or ignorance
are deprived of this source of comfort ?
And how many farmers, with enough land
living waste to furnish them with most Of
the luxuries of life, are content TO plod on
in the even tenor Of their way, never rails
ing their tastes above the "pOrk and
beans" of their fathers.-Gen. Farmer.
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AGRICULTURAL.

AMERICAN FARMrRs.-M Many thousand
farmers in New England rear large faml-
lies. paw all their debts and taxes prompt
Is, live independently, well clothed and
comfortably housed, and provided for on
farms Of fifty acres. The plea is, that
these people labor severely. This is a
great mistake. They have much because
they waste no time. With them II ere is
"a place for every thing, and every thing
IN lis place. Their horses, cattle, tools,
and implements, are attended TO with
cIock-l:ke regularity. Nothing is put off
till tomorrow that can be done to>day.
Economy is wealth, and system affords
ease. These men are seldom in hurry,
EXCEPT in harvest time And in long win
fer evenings, or severe weather, which
forbids employment out of doors, one
makes corn brooms, another shoes, third
is carpenter, cooper, or tailor and one
woman spins, another weaves, and third
plaits " Leghorn bonnets. And the
families thus occupied are among the
most healthy and cheerful in the world.
1t is easy with them to reduce their wishes
20 their means, if convenient or prudent,
and to extend their means to wishes
Maine CuhiUatOr.
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THE HOUSE IN WHICH Tom CoRwIv
WAS BoRN.-A letter from an old citizen
of Bourbon County, Ky, to a literary
friend in this city, gives the following ac-
count of the Old HaIIock Homestead, in
which was born the eloquent and dIsiin-
guished United States Senator from Ohio =
" have lately VISITED the house Curwin
was born in. II is one>story log cabin,
about twelve feet square, with one door
and two small windows the glass. six by
eight-the only ones Of the sort, that
know of, anywhere remarked to the
widow lady who resided there, Mrs. Case,
your house begins to look IL Iittle old.
Yes, sir. she replied, il is old and out
offashion, but il must not be altered while
| live, for Tom C6rlciR was born here.
While she spoke, could see the patriDf>
ism flash in her eye. The birthplace of
Corwin is well known throughout tins re-
gion of country. 1t IS part of the old
IIallock-farm. in Bourbon County, Ky en-
the main road, about half way from Paris
to Lexington Cincinnati Gazefte.
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I9.h February, 1919.

WORKING GIRis.-" If girls knew how
sadly tn miss it, says an exchange pa
per, "while they endeavor to show off
their delicate hands and unsoiled skins,
and put on thousand airs-they would
give worlds for the situation of the de-
spisedworkiue ladies--who are as far above
them in intelligence-in honor--in erery>
thing, as the heavens are above the earth.
Be wise, then. We who have made fools Of
yourselves through life. Turn over new
leaf and begin, though late, to 1--we and
act as human beings, as companions To
immortal man, and not playihings and
dolls In no other way can you be haP~
py and subservc the design Of your exist
ence.
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A New CHANG>ENG.-lf we may cred-'
ii the following account from the Missou-
ri Statesman. duplicate of the Siamese
twins has been produced i'll the Western
country: -
THE Missouri Twins These won
derful children are now in St. Louis.
They are the children Of Mr.. Benjamin
Ross, Texas county, Missouri, and were
born on the 10th of December, lS47.
They are connected from the breast bone
and abdomen, measure twenty inches in
height, and weigh twenty pounds. Their
connection is such that they stand face To
face, heads coated over with fire black
hair, and in all other respects perfect in
form and feature.
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KNIcKERBocKERs.-W seIec, The follow
ing from the March number Of the Knicker
booker:
Swift says: tWe should manage our
thoughts in composing any work, las shepherds
do their flowers in making garland; first
select the choicest and then dispose Of them
in the most proper places, where they give
a lustre 10 each other Item, rose for this
anthology:
Earth has a ioy unknown 10 heaven,
The newborn peace Of SIN forgiven.
Il never knew any man, says an old au-
thor. who could not hear anoiher's misfor-
times perfeciIy like Il christian, which re-
minds US of The old lady who thought every
calamity that happened 10 herself trial,
and every one that happened to her friends
judgment"
Homespun criticism is sometimes CRATE
FIJI Fake the following as an instance:
t An old gentleman was invited by an artist
,o look al a large landscape. There was a
staIne of Aouarius introduced in The fore
oronnd with his urn and trident. After Look
iny al il for some time, The old man turned TO
the artist WIFI very i"'P'N
ance. and uttered these remarkable words
. That is the most natural thing ever saw.
3: am glad you like it,, said the de'is hied
painter. Il thought the scenery might re.
cali some recolIeclions OF - 'Pshaw.
broke in The old man, t is MT The scenery
hat strikes me it's that fellow there with
he not and eel spearI That's the most nat
nral part Of the pictur
"down.east'' correspondent, from whom
i will always be "a pleasure 10 hear ,elis
yood story OF a certain counsellor IN ms VI
..;n.ge. who commenced practice in The Court
e Common Pleas. Thejudge had "ruie'
hal M action should be continued on motion
r. defendant. unless his counsel would state
non his honor that he verify believed there
rs a defence. and he was usually called up
N n state The nature ofihat defence. "Once
non = lime. (" The counsellor wanted con
;pnance; the plaintiffs lawyer obIecimg; ne
vas requested by the court TO say whether
be . was a defence 10 the suit, and ii so, 10
ta,c whatit was. have. may i please
he courr, was the reply, four dclenees 10
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1ourtrp.
COMMON SENSE.

COMMON SENSE.
She came among the glittering crowd,
A maiden fair without pretencc,
And when they asked her humble NAME
She whispered mildly, " Common Sense"
Her modest garb drew every eye,
Her ample cloak, her shoes Of leather
And when they snccred- she simply said,
i dress according 10 the weather"
They argued long, and reasoned loud
In dubious Hindoo phrase mysterious,
While she, poor child, could not divine
Why girls so Young should be so serious.
They knew the length Of Plato's beard,
And now the scholars wrote in Saturn
She studied authors not so deep,
And took the Bible for her pattern.
And so she said, Excuse me, friends,
find all have their proper places,
And COMMON SENSE should stay at home,
With cheerful hearts and smiling faces.
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q Charles F. Hoffman, the author.
we are panied to learn. from a private
source, has met with severe affection.
having become insane. This sad event
adds another TO the melancholy cases Oh
record If the casualties incident TO men
of letters. We sincerely hope that the
care and sanative treatment of the InsIi-
tuition TO which Mr. Hoffman has been
consigned, may prove speedily efficacIous
for his recosery.-N. J. Sun.
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BIRDs.-It is proved that a pair of spar
rows. during the time they have their young
TO feed, destroy. on an average, every week,
three thousand three hundred and sixty cat
erpillars. This calculation is founded upon
actual observation. Two parents have been
known to carry to their nest forty caterpilars
in an hour and, supposing the sparrows 10
enter the nest only twelve times during each
day, the. would cause a consumption Of four
hundred and eighty caterpilars: this sum
gives thirty-three hundred and sixty caterpii-
lars extirpated weekly from a garden. But
the utility of the birds is not limited TO this
circumstance alone, for they likewise feed
their young with butterflies and other winged
insects, each of which, if not destroyed in this
manner, would become the parents of hun
oTeds Of caterpilars
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A RETIRING EDrroR's Abvrcr.-

A RETIRING EDrroR's ABvIcE.-
Young men. especially, should read news
papers. III were boy, even ofI2 years.
| would read newspaper weekly, though
had to work by torchlight TO earn mons
ey enough to pay for it. The boy who
reads wen viii learn to think and analyze.
and if so. he will be almost sure TO make
a man of himself. batting vicious indni-
gences, which reading is calculated to be
get distas.e for f"
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CRops OF THE UNITED STATEs.-Ihe
Ledger has received from its Washington
correspondent an estimate from the report
of the Patent Office, relative to the crops
of the United States for the past year.-
The tables are TOO long for insertion, but
we have condensed them into the follows
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MARRYING IN HAsTE.-The hurry TO
sunder the bands of mairimony is so great.
that the chancery docket of the Common
Pleas Of Hamilton County, Ohio, is main,
ly made up of this business Twenty
couple were unyoked last week, aud about
a hundred are waiting their turn.
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WoMAS's Iowa graceless chap
from New York lately visited celebrated
watering place, when his companion re-
ported around that he was worth $780,
900. He won the hearts of u girls.
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this action; First, the mole declared on is a
forgery secondly, my client was under age
when he signed it; third he has paid il (;
fourth, il is oullawed! You may enter a
continuance. Mr.. Clark. said the Judge.
Thank your honor, we haze.
The same legal wag was riding in the cars
OF down-easI railroad the other day, when
he fell into conversation with a Boston Job
Der. Coming to a crossing, he pointed out
10 his neighbor road which had Just been
opened, with the remark; That's very i'm
portant road 10 this part OF the country
rery important 'Ah, SAID the other !;
there are good many settlers in there. |
suppose. No: there 1rere. before the
road was made, but now they're ali mOring
QUIZ
PRAcTIcAL.--A commit nication, maxi
ing inquiries on the nature of repentance,
appears in the Advent Herald, signed " A
Sinner" The editor replies =
eff the above sinner had paid his
postage, without taking ten cents out of
our pocket, we should have seen more ev>
idence that he was in earnest in his en-
quirles. He must cease to do evil before
we can hore to teach him how to do well I"
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JOSEPH H. BARRETT, EDITOR.
TERMS OF VOLUME XIII.

Village subscribers, s2'0o
Mail Subscribers, within the State, sl,56
If not paid within the year, Sl'I5
Mail subscribers out of the State, $500
individuals and Companies who take al the office,
$3.50. or SI,75 if not paid within the year
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If not paid at the end of the year, s2,25
No papers discontinued until arrearages are
paid, except at the option of the proprietor No
contract with or payment made 10 Carriers, cash.
keeping, or otherwise, allowed, except assented 10
by the proprietor.
All communications must be addressed to the
Editor, Posi- PAID.
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TON ia authorized TO transact business for this
paper.
JUSTUS COBB, PUBLISHER,
NV WHOM ALL KINDS oF BOOK AND JOB PRINT
ING WILL BE EXECUTED on
SHORT NOTICE.
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MISCELLANY.
A TEXAN R AN G E R.

AN EXCITING ADVENTURE.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-04-04
Letter from Father Mathew.

Gen. s. F. Carey, as the head of the
order of the sons Of Temperance, invited
Father Mathew to be present at the Ma
tional Jubilee of the order in Cincinnati.
on the 18th May prox. The following is
the reply Of that "Great Apostle of Tenn
perance," just received:
Cork, 18th February, lS49.
My Deor Friend:-I feel much honored
by your much priced invitation TO be pres
ent at the great National Jubilee of Tee
totallers, announced to be held at Cinc;n-
natl, next May. The prospect of meeting
SO many Of the high minded people of A.
merica, on that and previous occasions, is
to me an additional inducement to hasten
my departure for the United States.
Now that my health il, thank God suAi-
ciently re-astablished, to permit me with
out apprehension to undertake the voyage,
1 intend, with the divine blessing, to leave
ireland during the month of April; and
after my arrival in New York, where
can determine on my future movements, /
shall have again the pleasure Of writing
to you.
Grateful for the compliment conferred
by inviting me to Join this assemblage,
and presenting the kindest remembrances
to my friends in your city.
l am, Mr.. Cary,
Yours devotedly,
THEOBALD MATHEW.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-04-04
A Hand some Com ,liment,

In the late TAYLOR speech of VIM. B.
RsED Esq, he pays the following high
but unconscious compliment to the great
Democratic party, which has, with two
rare and brief intervals, controlled the
administration Of the government for near
ly half a century:
shave now done. The thoughts which
this Anniversary has prompted have come
from heart which has been taught from
earliest infancy to love the institutions of
our country, and their history with an al
lection that grows stronger and stronger
IS each year rolls by: Young as those
institution are, for there are many living
now, who remember their beginning, and
the time when Washington was President;
the history Of man skows no such pTosperi-
ty, no such growth, no such internal peace,
as are here revealed. In less than sirty
years a continent has been spanned by our
advancing settlements, andth arch of inner
ican constitutional freedom reaches from,
the atlantic to the Pacific. 1t is progress
of which mans history has no parallel"
If we had been present and had heard
this good and true thing said, we should
have touched our hat 70 Mr.. Reed, and in
the name of the good old Democracy,
thanked him for his frank liberality.-
Pennsylvania.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-04-04
MIR. Folks Administration.

While the adherents of apostate Van
Burenism in New York and elsewhere
are pouring out vindictive curses on Mr..
Polk, as he gracefully and proudly re,ires
from the high Office he has adorned, all
the sound democratic papers which stand
by the OLD Jacksonian landmarks, many of
the wing presses also, and most Of the
independent papers likewise, are paying
him the highest compliments, though he
be, officially speaking, setting sun. The
following article is from the albany
Knickerbocker, an independent neutral pa
per:
''THE New REGIME.-This week COM
mences the administration of Gen. Taylor
and Wing Cabinet, yesterday morning
they took possession of the ship of state,
after one Of the most brilliant cruises that
glilters in our history.
At no former period has the model re-
public stood in more glorious position
before the nations Of the earth. When
Mr.. Polk came into power, he found the
country in confusion--the Oregon difficult
ties TO settle with England, and large
sized wailoping due Mexico. He surren-
ders his office with the republic at peace
with all the world, with military reputa-
ton that not only places us among the
first powers of the earth, but which Sc
cures US peace for the remainder of the
earth, but which secures us peace for the
remainder Of the century. During the adj
ministration of Mr.. Polk, our borders have
been not only enlarged, but enriched-the
size of the Union being nearly double
what it was four years ago. He has not
only added half a continent to the public
domain, but he has furnished us with geld
enough to fence it in with. Our COM
MERGE he leaves in the most prosperous
condition; and our people the most happy
and the best fed, Of any people in Gods
world.
That Mr.. Polk has his faults like other
men, we shall not deny; but want of pat
Iiotism is not one of them. That he has
always done what was best for his coun-
try, we shall not say; but that he has
done 1t with that intention, there cannot
be shadow of doubt. Mr.. Polk leaves
the Presidency with the best wishes of
his fellow men, and hands over a country
to old Buena Vista and posperity, which
will puzzle both to either add TO or inn-
prove.'
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Delinqucnts Attend!
I II E. L A ST CALL!

4 IL persons indebted to me for subscription to
n the IcwG Capital Reporter, advertising, Sc, are
hereby notified that directions VIII be given to the
Justices, and others with whom their notes and ac
counts are left for collection, to commence suits
thereon by the first of March next unless full pay
ment, or satisfactory arrangements therefor, be
made prior to that day.
Having ne yet, in all MY business transactions,
instituted legal proceedings against any in this
State, will deeply regret being reduced at last to
such an alternative. But, in the cases of those
whom have INDUCED year after year, upon fair
promises, the point is reached at which @forbcaf-
to be vrtue; and if forced to this der
neir resort in order to my just dues, the
emulation Of Costs-perhaps equal to the entire
amount of their indebtedness--wil be the unav old
able consequence Of their own culpable neglect
Look to this, ere the day Of grace be past.
The notes and accounts against persons in the vi
entities below named, are left, principally, in the
hands Of the following persons:
In Linn & Benton co.'s, with Hosea W. Gray, Marion
Those Of Mahaska CO: with Henry Temple, Oscaloosa
Louisa g Saml. Warn. Wapelio.
Keokuk ts J. c. Mcconnell, Sigourney
Muscatine d. c. Cloud, Bloomington
Those not found with either Of the above named
per sons, are in my hands. Remttances to me di-
rect, by mail, will be punctually credited.
A. H. PALMER.
Iowa City, Jan. II, 1s49.
N. D. wish it distinctly UNDERSTOOD that no re-
spect Of persons will be shown in favor of that gene
f class of who only took the paper to spa
tronize'' it, not pay for It.