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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01

No. 204.-A beautiful Farm tw miles from Kou nd
Grove, 6e0 acres, so acres broken, good Spring aud
plenty of stock water. The mprov ements are q two
story Stone House, 40 3d. Stable, well of soft wa
ter To any person taking the whole this pro perty
will be sold low. =
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01
Something Desirable

" Ed, Twill pay you to cross the Ferry and merely
L examine our splendid assortment of FANCY
GOODS now on hand. II net, will refund ths
amount Of yoar fsrriage. Don't forget the place.
boc.3 P0R1Ek'S Book LtVFc.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01

nRIED APPLES y PEACHES, ano. article,
H. just reed. and TOR sale low ~ ,srv,
Nd.eto ALVORD & VAN PATTEN.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01

No. 205.-An Out Lot of2O acres lying between the
North Corporation line and Duck Greek, price 100
per on reasonable time, and will be sold 10 one
or more pieces. a asv ys .zsaf
Lets to Lease for . term Of years.
have several beautiful Lots in different parts OF
the city for ten, fifteen and twenty years.
Also Lots of Five acres near the city ON lease OF
ten or twenty yssrs upon reasonable terms with y
right to purchase.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01

Keep Your Feet Dry and Warn!
~ ~ettips 4 pair of nice Rubber Over Shoes ut thu
I'D Empire store. MOORE BROWN
decl<-dtf
AIDES kssI ssitsrs made to order
TENTs' patest leather boots made to order.
NI M. & b.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01
You will catch Cold

WITH those thin Boots In this cold weather.; &c
w yoursalfs pair adapted TO the season 1t the
Empire Store (dssls) MOORE & BROWNS.
The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-01

No. 200.-Another Two Stsry Brick House OF
Scott street next North of 1879. These three houses
and lots will be sold low, 10 ensure good 10
vestment Their present rental Is Is per cent the
price asked. Ihe owner sells them in order to i'm
prove other property to meet the demand for storss
and bu slness houses. 5iaEts5s 81 u = ssz
have also q number Of fine Improved Farms
among which are the following: $3.50 2s&
No. 1s9.--A Farm In Cedar County Of 800 acres OF
the Road from Muscatine to Upton, and two and
half miles East Of Rochester; alt under cultivation
a Two Story Brick House, Stable, Orchard, Timber
and water. ---.-z-'
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-02-22
INSTRUCTIONS,

Continuing conditions TO be incorporated in
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deem proper.
/. Seven minutes are allowed to each inter
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.. Ga routes where the mode of conveyance
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On railroad and steamboat lines, British
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Dated
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The undersigned, postmaster OF ------, State
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and knows them to he men of property, and able
10 make good their guarantee
Dated (Signed.l
The suficiency Of gnaraniors on proposals
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aad by postmasters at the following Offices, and
no others:
In the State of PENNSYLVANIA, postUasers Of
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county: and at Addison, Albion, Alexandra,
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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-02-22
Form of a Guarantee.

The undersigned, residing at , State Of
----, undertake that, if the foregoing bid for
carrying the mail on route No. - be accepted
by the Postmaster General, the bidder shall,
prior to the lst day oil July, 1856, or as soon
thereafter as nav be, enter into the required
obligation TO perform the service proposed, with
good and sufficient snreiies.
This we do understanding distinctly the OBJ
legations and liabilities assumed by guarantors
under the 9th section Of the uct Of Congress Of
July ,, 1886.
(Signed BY two guarantors1
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-02-22

Of The distance ofMe route, lie weigM If tie
maifto be carried, and all ofher particulars IN
refreace 10 the route md seruice, and qtso af-
ter caretm examination of lie insfructfoasaad
requirements ATTACKED 10 The Advertisement
Dated
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27

said that the South had no inventions,
no commerce, no literature, no science,
very little manufacturing industry,
and less agricultural skill than the
Eastern and Western States. do
not wish to have my sectional pride
gratified at the expense of my national
pride. Even if these wounding state
ments were true, not by his lips should
that truth have been spoken.
''You have Sparta" said the ancient
oracle, embellish that" That Sparta
was but pins point on the map of
the earth, not bigger than one of our
counties. But look at our Sparta |!
See it stretching from the arctic North
to the sunny South, and from the At
lantic to the Pacific behold it fertile
in every thing that can minister to the
comfort or the luxury of man observe
its wealth of coal and iron, beyond the
dreams of avarice, beyond the imagi-
nation of poetry; see its lakes, it's
rivers, and its streams, flowing
through every part like the blood in
the veins and arteries of the human
frame. 1t is for us to- cultivate a
spirit which shall be commensurate
with our opportunities. Westward
the course of empire takes it way"
Be it ours to speed it on its predestin-
ed path. In my minds eye I see the
Atlantic stretching it's longing arms
towards the Pacific | see the Pacific
stretching forth its longing arms
towards the Atlantic. Men Of Amer
lea !! it is your mission to annihilate
time and space, and make these two
lover oceans happy. <s1
: But for this we want the united en-
ergies Of the whole country; we want
the strong pulse of a proud national
spirit. The North must give forth and
the South must not hold back. The
powerful energies now fruitlessly, and
worse than .fruitlessly, wasted in
sectional contests and agitations must
move together in the same direction.
The hands now clenched in mutual de-
fiance must be clasped in fraternal
embrace The fervid passions now
dashed into foam and thunder by fierce
collision must flow peacefully along
the same bed and "make sweet music
with the enamelled stones" see the
march of improvement on its way
across the Western continent. l see
the light of humanity gaining on the
darkness of the desert, as the wave of
morning gold climbs up the beach of
the gray eastern sky. 1t fills valleys,
it CLEANS from the peaks of the Rocky
Mountains, it descends their western
slopes, it mingles it's fraternal beams
with the blaze of that magnificent en-
pire which American enterprise has
founded on the shores of the Pacific,
and the whole intervening region ex-
ults in the cloudless noon of civiliza-
tion, prosperity, and happiness.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
44uetrp.
My Native Land.
BY MRS. o. NJ. LIVINGSTON

BY MRS. o. NJ. LIVINGSTON. .
Fair land! breathe thy fragrant air,
gaze upon thy clear blue sky: #
Stretched over landscapes, brighter far
Than elsewhere meet the human eve.
Thy rivers bold impulsive swell, "
And chime the music of the brave;
They lave the shores where freemen dwell,
The land which they would die to save:
To glance abroad. with eagle eye,
Der prairie rich, and mountain grand,
Where is the soil, on earth, can vie
With thine, my own dear native land.
BY mountain streams, and lucid lakes, .,..
The poet drinks tn inspiring bowl; ,a
From forest tree his harp he takes,
And pours the numbers from his soul
oh grant me still quiet home
However small that home may be,
And l a prince, the world might roam,
am a man, for am free.
Long as the everlasting waves
Roll round old Plymouth's rocky base,
May st thou be one--without slave
Thy future glory to deface. -tt .ss
Dear native land The muse oft sighs
To breathe thy future classic lay
AS nations fall to see thee rise,
And freedoms sunlight round thee play
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
JEFFERSON ON SLAVERY.

We present scrap of history not
inappropriate at the present time. 1t
is known that Jefferson planned the
Declaration Of Independence, a docu-
ment that has received the highest en-
comiums from that day to this. 1t is
also known that jefferson held in utter
adherence the system Of slavery, and
denounced it as fragrant wrong
against humanity and an abomination
in the sight Of Heaven. But 1t is not
known to everybody that Jefferson
embodied in the original draft of the
Declaration of independence, wither-
ing rebuke directed to George Ill,
King of Great Britain, for his guilty
completely in fastening the curse of sla-
veryupon the Colonies. We present the
paragraphs which were struck out at
suggestion of John Adams and Benia-
min Franklin. These omitted para
graphs arefound in Jefferson's Works,
purchasedby Congress, April IL, ls4s,
and published by Taylor & Maury,
Washington, D. G. They are worthy
of a careful perusal, as they unmis-
takably indicate a healthy public SEN
timent among Southern men on the sub
ject Of slavery in the earlier and
better days of our national history.
We commend these paragraphs to the
thoughtful considerationof Judge Kane
who processes to belong to the Jeffer-
son school. Theyarepithy, pertinent and
peculiar "ud rem" Jefferson, in speak
ing of the oppressive, tyrannical acts
of the king, indignantly says: "He
has waged cruel war against human
nature itself, violating its most sacred
rights of life and liberty in the persons
Of a distant people who never offended,
capturing and carrying them into
slavery in another hemisphere, or to
incur a miserable death in their trans
portation thither This piratical war
fare, the opprobrium Of inidel powers,
is the warfare of the Christian king of
Great Britain. Determined to keep
open markets where men may be
bought and sold, he has prostituted
his negative for suppressing every
Legislative attempt to prohibit or to
restrain this execrable commerce.
And that this assemblage of horrors
might want no fact Of distinguished
dye, he is now exciting those very
people to rise in arms among us, and
to purchase that liberty of which he
has deprived them by numbering the
people ON whom he also obtruded
them; thus paying of former crimes
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27

The MoTHER's INFLUENcE.-The solid
rock which turns the edge of the CHS
el, bears forever the impress of the
leaf and the acorn received long, long
since, ere it had become hardened by
time and the elements. If we trace
back to it's fountain, the mighty tor
rent which fertilized the land with it's
copious streams, or sweeps over it
with devastating flood, we shall find
it dripping in crystal drops from some
messy crevice among the distant hills !;
so, too, the gentle feelings and affec-
tions that enrich and adorn the heart,
and the mighty passions that sweep
away all barriers of the soul and des-
olate society, may have sprung up in
the infant bosom in the sheltered re-
tirement of home. :" ! should have
been an atheist" said John Randolph,
/" if it had not been for one recollection;
and that was the memory of the time,
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27

Confound the luck! Here Pve beer
half an hour looking after my Sunday
boots, and finally found one of them
on the centre table, beneath a thous
and or less books or papers, and the
other way back in the cuddy-hole
where | stow away old rubbish
Well, Pve found my clean shirt at last
and where do you think it was?
hope to holler if | hadn't put it in my
hat box and my hat l had placed in
a chest where'l keep my linen. Hat
all smashed to thunder-cost five dol
lars-oh, oh !! 't
Jerusalem Herds discovery
This shirt hasn't got button on it
and the wristbands and collar are all
frizzled up with "derficeurs," like the
fringes, I believe that's the name,
on a woman's-what dye call 'sm p
neck encircler that's near enough
any way. Why, what's the matter
with this shirt !? Rip! Ican't get il
off nor on. Rip that's the way the
money goes. Shirt cost me one dollar
and o half; another expense, by Jupi
ter Crackee /! how cold it is Why
the fire has "clean gin out" That's
another job. Crack-crack- phizz
Why, what is the matter with the
Goals? Come to think, threw pail
Of water over them. Have to borrow
some splinters.
Mrs. Sanctimonious, will you give
me a few splinters ?"
"Mercy on us !! Why, if Mr.. Plum
bic hasn't come right out afore me
with nothin' ON but his breeches and
his wig off too! Law sakes, l never
knew he wore wig before +"
"Oh, dear Why didn't l throw
something over me? My wig is of
too. Now it'll be all over town in a
few minutes that Phumble wears a
wig. Wouldn't have it known for fif
ty dollars. No stree |! Well, mus,
have fire some way. Let me see
Blowed if l don't make splinters out
Of that old wash-stand it isn't any
use to me and the wash-bowl will dc
just as we'll on my linen chest. Truly
necessity is the mother Of invention
(Slap! bang y There's something
coming!"
"Mr. Phumble, how can you make
such a racket on the Sabbath day?"
"Allow me to tell you, Mrs. Sancti
monious, that it's nothing of your bust
ness I! Ireckon l am lord Of my owl
room, if ! do live in boarding-house
and if l wanted to, l would break m,
neck for all of you =" adi
Mighty fine talk. Mr.. Phumble--
mighty fine-you old hedgehog Oh
mercy if you haven't broken m,
wash'stand-my favorite wash-stand
Hoo hoo hooio H9
Tears for an old wash-stand Both
eration I'd rather hear it thundel
any time, than to see a woma an in tear
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27

apAitattNtt .tfF 'tt ----- VI 'ssl "i3f -.
Far from the workshops heated walls,
And the broad noisy street,
Here, by the blue Connecticut, rlt .
: sit and think how sweet .,ia ,g...f
Meath such fair skies, on this green sod,
To be alone with nature s. God 's.t1 p
OF far-famed costly works Of art,
Vain man may boast in pride, yini
But what can match the rural scene,
BY this lone river side,
Where the great Artist voice we seem
To hear in the low wind and rippling stream
Above, this ample dome of blue, r ....-
Where feecy white clouds rest,
Around, high hills and winding wales,
In emerald beauty drest, ....
And distant wood with shadows grey,
Where wild birds sing the hours away.
But yondcr scarlet maple bough,
Speaks of the year $ decay, .....
And brings sigh to think ere long
The bright September day #..'A
Will to stern winters king give room,
Whose breath destroys earth $ sverdant bloom
So when young hearts beat warm and light,
Exultant still in hope,
How oft stern truths a shadow cast
Ger lifc's kaleidoscope,
When parting scenes and funeral bell,
OF Time swift changes sadly tell.
But winters cold and chilling frosts
May desolate the earth, ..
Yet gentle spring will come again,
And give new beauties birth,
And sweeter far will seem the May,
In contrast with December's day. ...
Nor yet shall sorrows o er the soul, e.s
Their shadows ever cast,
The good ere long in happier homes
Will sing their sufferings past, .f.tt
And with new joy blest Eden hail,
From sojourn in this fearful vale. i.i''
As then still calmly oceanward,
These waters ever roll, 'l5..
Through light and shade, SO would I press
Unmurmuring to the goal
Where on the banks of life S clear river,
Joy triumphant reigns forever. .;.
Bradtord, w., September, 1856.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
polhital.
SPEECH OF G.. S. HILLARD.

At meeting of the Wings of Bos
ton held in Faneuil Hall on the l6tl
ult., the Hon. Mr.. Hillard, of that city
delivered, before a large assemblage
of it's "solid men," an elaborate anG
able political address, from which we
copy, for the instruction and gratiica
ton of our readers, the following CO.
pious extracts. The high character OF
the speaker, together with his literary
and professional eminence, impart tc
his political opinions and sentiments
deserved weight and influence, which
as they are appreciated at home, will
we are sure, be none the less recog
missed and honored by candid and con
servative men in every part of the
country, to whom Mr.. Hillard is al
ready known, and favorably known
from his former services in behalf ol
sound and national politics:
Our people are vehement, excitable,
impulsive, ever rushing from one ex-
treme to another, hating moderation,
and ever seeking right in reverse of
wrong. In one of Dickcns's novels
the manager of strolling company
said that he once had an actor who,
when he played Othello, entered into
the part with so much spirit that he
BACKED himself all over. l have no
doubt that this actor was an American
and that, if now living, he is jealous
member of the Republican party. The
moral strength of that party is derived
from the fact that it embodies the pro.
test of the heart and moral sense of
the people against the pro-slavery
course Of the Democratic party, and
that protest is right in it's essence, only
it is excessive in degree and unwise
in its direction.
said that the repeal of the Missouri
compromise was the Democratic party.
| pray your attention to this, because
the Republican leaders are forever
roaring in our ears that it was done
by the South, Or the slave power, as
they delight to call it. 1t is Southern
aggression, Southern wrong, they say.
Nothing can be more untrue or unfair.
1t was party measure, devised for
political purposes, with a view to the
present or next Presidential contest,
and not Southern measure, devised
in the first instance for the extension
of slavery 1t is true that the repre-.
sentatives of the Southern States did
vote for the measure when the issue
was presented to them. / think it
would have been magnanimous in them
had they done otherwise think it
would have been wise, for in politics
magnanimity is always wisdom; but
think it was human in them to do as
they did. / have long ceased to ex
pect superhuman virtues from human
beings. l believe in Burke's wise and
generous maxim, "He censures God
who quarrels with the imperfections
of man." The Southern represents
tives did what the same number OF
men would have done under similar
circumstances, in any time, in any
country, since Adam left the garden Of
Eden. The plant, self.sacrifce, does
not grow in great profusion in politi
cal gardens. A single politician who
will resist mistaken public sentiment
and thereby forfeit place, power, and
distinction, is a rare creature but
ninety-three of them in one batch
would be greater miracle, than a
flock of phenixes on shoal of mer
| maids. s#
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27

when my departed mother used to take
my little hands in hers, and caused me
on my knees to say, Our Father
which art in Heaven!'" . a..
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
UNITED STATES HOUSE.
s. HALE, PROPRIETOR,
WnSf Sida Of thu p,.hl;a Co.,a.o z

West UNION, FAYETTE co. ,......... IOWA.
~ Containing the only Office in the place
tor the East, West, North and South Stage
Company. Travellers will find this 4 good
stopping place. Good stabling attached to the
psss.Femi 40 rf
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
Business 1irettoru.

Business Cards of five lines or less will be inserted in
this column for IS, 90 per annum For each additional
line, over fve one dollar will be charged.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
G. G. REINIGER, aa
Attorney 4 Counsellor at Law,
Real Estate Agent.

ST. CHARLES, FLOYD CO., IOWA.
Is prepared to attend with efficiency to all
business pertaing to his profession,
In Northern Ioaoa 4. Southern Minnesota,
Gives particular attention to Home and For
eign Collections, and to the
PURCHASE and SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
Moneys INFESTED and Loaned
AT THE USUAL RATES.
Good references will be cheerfully given on
request. ~