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St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
Round.

A curved line is the line of beauty.
There is little grace or attractiveness
in things square or angular. The eye,
the most beautiful feature of the hui
man form, is round and the eyebrow
aids its beauty in a graceful curve.
How would square eyes look? Would
the plump roundness of a lady's arm
retain its beauty if it were flattcned OF
squared? Would dimples in the
check cause admiration if the curved
lines were wanting? Who would &c
into ecstacies with an angular chin
To make a graceful bow one is to III
cline the head in graceful curve
not thrust it forward in a straight line
like a butting ram. The most beau
tiful things in nature are round. The
trees are round, the earth is round
the sun is round, and all human in
stincts obey the same law, for
"Josh kissed me and kissed him
And we went bobbing ROUND!
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

From a confession made by a rogue now in
Jail at Hartford, CT, for various burglaries re-
Gently committed in Pennington, it appears
that one of the gang with whom he was con-
nected travelled through various towns selling
polishing powders with Il view of ascertaining
where silver plate was to be found. In visiting
dwellings he always followed the inmates to
aiacent rooms to test his powders upon silver
spoons or plate. He made in book memo
randum of what he saw, noting particularly
those houses where dog Was kept.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
Gale Oh Lake Michigan.

A telegraph despatch, dated at Chi
cago, Oct. 9th, says:
There has been tremendous gale
blowing on Lake Michigan the past
two days. Adviccs received last
night confirm the report of the total
loss of the Propeller Toledo, off Fort
Washington on Friday night. Forty
lives lost and three were saved. The
cargo and merchandise for Milwaukee
were total loss. The schooner Boz
hemia was wrecked at the same place,
and at the same time. The schooner
General Taylor. with a cargo of H.
600 bushels of wheat, was lost four
miles north of this city on the same
night The crew were saved. The
vessel was insured in the Buffalo Mu-
tual Company, and the cargo here.
The schooner Yonker, with a cargo of
lumber, went to pieces the same night.
Crew saved. The barquc Zadock
Pratt, is ashore II miles from Milwau-
kie, with cargo of coal and stoves.
The Propeller Allegheny City, with a
cargo of flour and wheat, foundered
against pier at Milwaukee. Insured
in Buffalo. The schooner Bohemia,
belonged to the Oswego Linen Compa-
ny. Her cargo was railroad iron. No
lives were lost. ~ .
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
The Presidential Election.

The following is a summary of the
laws and Constitutional requirements
in the election of President and Vice
President
|. Electors meet on the first
Wednesday after the first Monday in
November.
9. Electors meet on the first
Wednesday in December, and cast
their votes. They then sign three GER
tificates-send a messenger with one
copy to the President of the Senate at
Washington before the first Wednes-
day in January another by mail to
the same person, and the third deliver
to the United States District Judge
where electors meet.
3. Each State provides by law for
filling any vacancy in the Board OF
Electors, occasioned by absence, DEATH
or resignation. Such of the electors
us are present are generally author
lied to fill any vacancy.
4. The Governor gives notice tC
electors of their election before the
first Wednesday in December.
s. On the second Wednesday II
February, Congress shall be in session
and open the returns. The President
of the Senate shall, in the presence o
the House of Representatives, open the
certificate of returns, and count thu
votes. The person having the great
est number of votes for President, i
such number be majority OF thu
whole number of electors, shall be thu
President.
6. If no person has a majority al
above, the choice is to be made from
the 3 highest returned. The members
of the House, by States, form them
selves into Electoral Committees, AM
the majority determine which is to b.
the choice of the State-each Stat
having only one vote.
i I. If neither of the candidates &c
a majority of the States before the At!
of March, then the Vice-President shall
act as President.
8. If thepeople do not elect through
their electors a Vicc-Prcsident, the
the Senate of the United States shal
make the election from the two highes
candidates returned to them by tn
electors.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The commissioners recently appoin
ted by Gov. Grimes to revise the
school laws of this State, consisting
of Hon. Horace Mann, now of Antioch
College, Ohio, Hon. Amos Dean of Al
bany, N. Y, and f. Z. Bissell Of Du
buque, are not able to perform thu
duty. Reason, Messrs. Man and Dean
cannot leave their present pursuits
and Mr.. Bissell is therefore obliged t.
decline for want of assistance. W.
trust new commission will be speed
lily issued, and that reference will b'
had to the ability Of the commissioners
to perform the work at once.-Ceda,
Rapids Democrat.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
A Desirable Arrangement.

The North West, of the 2sth ult.,
contains the following letter from
Hon. Bcrnhart Hem, in relation to
mail facilities between the East and
West. We think the plan a good one,
and hope it will succeed, as it affects
the interests of all persons in this
State, as we'll as others
WASHINGTON Cry, Sept. II, 1856.
Hon. GEO. w. JONES Dubuque, Iowa
My DEAR SIR Il have had an In
terview with the Post Master General,
relative to the matter you refer to III
yours of the 10th inst.-to wit The
long time occupied in the conveyance
of letters from the Eastern cities to
Dubuque, Davenport, Burlington, &c
He informs me that he has put in OPP
Grafton between New York and New
Orleans, a system whereby there is a
register kept of the number and date OF
all the mail bags that are sent from
one place to another on that line
thereby every detention or failure is
Immediately detected-the Post Mas
ter and Route Agents along the line
being required to give each other re
eeipts for said bags-and an abstrac
of such receipts being periodically for
warded to the Department.
He says that the system works ad
mirably, and he is about to despatch
one of his experienced Agents to Chi
cago, for the purpose Of putting sai'
system into operation on the Western
Railroads, which, he thinks will rem
edy the delay you complain of.
Yours truly.
BERNHART HEM.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Councillor La NIB, was an old man when
Lord Erskine was ut the height of his reputa-
ton, was man of timid manners and nervous
temperament; usually prefaced his plea with an
apologv to that effect. On one occasion when
opposed to Erskinc, he happened to remark
that he felt himself growing more timid as he
grew older. "No WONDER" replied the wit.
ty, but relentless barrister, every one knows
that the older lamb grows the more sheepish
he becomes
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

ST MARY, Mills County, is on the
Missouri river, on high and dry bot
tom, and improving rapidly in view OF
being the terminus of the Burlington
aud Missouri r. r. There is an abund.
ance of timber and water in the vicin
ity, and the value of property is mate
rally enhancing.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

line of emigration into the territory be
dispersed.
A compliance with these reasonable
requests will tend to restore peace in
Kansas and quiet the public mind of
this State. In the event of a non-com.
pliance, in my view, a case will have
arisen, clearly within the principle laid
down by Mr.. Madison in the Virginia
resolution of 1898, when it will be the
duty of the States to interpose to ar.
rest the progress of the evils in that
territory. l am, very respectfully,
Your obcdient servant,
JAMES w. GRIMES,
Governor of Iowa.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Adabbler in literature and the fine arts, who
prided himself on his language, came upon a
youngster a few days since sitting upon the
bank of the river, angling for gudgeons, and
thus addressed him: et
Audience, art thou not endeavoring to en-
tice the finny tribe, to engulph into their dem
ticulated mouths a barbed hook upon whose
point is affixed dainty allurement?
No." said the boy, I'm a. fshin.'
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

There is a smile going round Eu-
rope, at the simplicity Of the fine ladies
of England, France, and America, in
their worship of Paris fashions; as in
the case of beautiful Empress who
found it convenient, before giving an
heir to the throne, to revive the fash
ion of full petticoats, coming as neal
the hoop disguise as possible.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
The Clayton County Herald says

The Clayton County Herald says !:
"The prices of produce have de-
clined considerably since we last is
sued the Herald, and we do not yet
see any indications of an upward ten
dency. The following are the prices
paid by our dealers for the articles
named:
Wheat, GO to 20 cents, according to quality
Oats, % to 80 cents; Corn, rs cents Barley
81 Potatoes, 40 cents per bushel; Extra S. +.
Flour, So per 100 lbs.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The following remarkable coincidence took
place in st. Francis county, Ark, a short time
since: .'.E
"a one-eyed man stole one-eyed mule.
was arrested by one-eyed sheriff, tried before
a one-eyed magistrate, and escorted to the pen
itentiary by one-eyed officer
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE MIssI:

SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE MIssIs-
slppI AT ST. LoUIs.-Surveys and esti-
mates, we learn, are now being made
for the construction of an immense
suspension bridge across the Missis-
sippi at st: Louis. j. w. Bissel, of
that city, has received the appoint
ment of engineer to superintend the
work. This bridge will be the most
costly supervision bridge in the world.
1t will be over mile in length, and
81 feet above high water, SO that all
steamers can pass under. The great.
est distance between the towers will
be 1900 feet. The bottom of some OF
the towers will be sixty feet below the
surface of low water. The costof the
bridge will not fall much short of two
millions of dollars. 1t is not designed
for railroad bridge, though sevcra
railroad companies are largely engag
cd in the enterprise. We hope now
the citizens of ST. Louis will cease
their hostility to the Davenport bridge
-DarenpoH Gazette
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Madame Lola Montez's diamonds
were sold at auction in San Francisco
California, on the Sth ult They
brought nearly $4,000. She intends
devoting this money to the education
of Mr.. Folland's children in New York
He was her agent, and was drowned
while coming from Australia recently.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

President Monroe died at the residence of his
son-in law in New York, in 1881, and was bu-
ried in a cemetery on the north side Of Second
street, in that city. There is not even head.
stone erected to his memory.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The concert of the Barker Family, in this
place. on Saturday evening, was fully attended.
1t was the best concert ever given in town and
passed off to the delight of all concerned BY
the way, we learn that the Bankers intend to
settle in this vicinity, SO charmed are they
with the Cedar Valley country.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

SERVED HIM R1GHr.-Some rascal en-.
tered the sleeping apartments of a Mrs.
Dougherty, in Keokuk, a few nights
ago, when she shot him with revolv
er. The villain escaped, although the
traces of blood showed that the ball
was aimed with precision.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
st. Charles, Iowa, Nov. 6, 1856.

We particularly request all mail
matter intended for us to be directed
to Freeman, Floyd county, Iowa. The
postoffice here in st. Charles is known
by the name of Freeman, while in
Madison county there is a st. Charles
postoflice, causing us much confusion
and disappointment.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

TIE REToRT COURTEOUS. --Voltaire and Piron
were mortal enemies and to their great en-
barrassment once met at the country house OF
a mutual friend. Piron got up early went to
Voltaire's door, and wrote the word "rogue.
At breakfast time Voltaire advanced towards
Piron, and smilingly observed, 81 thank you
for showing your interest in my welfare by
leaving your card at my door this morning
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Attention is called to the advertise
ment of John Ferguson & Co., in an
other column. Their stock Of goods is
very large, and their prices, we be-
lieve, are as moderate as the times
will bear.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

McGregor, Iowa, has doubled it's pop.
ulation within two months, and is now
one of the most fiourishing towns in
the West. 1t is the terminus of two
important railroads, and receives more
freight and passengers than any two
points on the Mississippi north OF Du
buoue Times
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE--We had occasion.
the other day, to test the efficacy of DR. Hutch
ms Headache Pills in one of the scverest cases
of headache we ever had, and in less than an
hour found complete relief Our readers need
not suffer with headache or neuralgia when
the remedy can be obtained at any druggist S
for % cents Worcester (Mass.) Transcript
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany haye erected number of lamp
posts in and around the depot at Dun
leith, and intend in few days to have
them lighted by gas of their own man
ufacture,
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

(which, my dear lady, do you think the
merriest place in the world?" "That imme-
diately above the atmosphere that surrounds
the earth, should think" And why soF
Because am told that there all bodies lost
their gravity
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

"Wall" said soft headed blubbering JON
athan the other day "Suke has gin me the
sack by gravy, I've lost her." Lost her,
how!" inquired sympathiziug friend. 81
laid the soft soap on SO thick that the critter
got so proud she wouldn't speak to me.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Nor WANTED THERE Herbert, the
murderer of Heating, has been wait.
ed upon by committee, since his re-
turn home, to California, and informed
that he is not wanted there. He will
probably leave. He knows too well
what committees mean, when they
Give advice Of that kind.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

WHITE DEER.-On Wednesday last
we saw a beautiful snow white deer,
with pink eyes, which had been killed
a few miles east of this. With the
exception of the color and the eyes, it
resembled the common red deer.-Pike
Co. Press.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

At recent examination of one of the schools
in the city, a very small boy was asked to de
fine the m Gaming of the word progress. H'
hesitated moment, and then in a clear voice
answered, $50 ahead"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

We have received the first two num-
bers of the Mitchell County Republi-
can, published at Mitchell, by /. B.
Parker & Go. The paper makes a
creditable appearance, and, as it's name
indicates, is devoted to the interests
of the Republican perty.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

While Mr.. VIM. Jackson, of Cass
county, Iowa, a few days since, was
" fighting" prairie fire which threat
ened to burn his house, daughter
eight or nine years old, getting sepa
rated from the rest of the family, was
caught in the fire and burned to death
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

A jury in Minnesota, commissioning the
case of a poor woman who was charged with
trifling theft, agreed to the following sagacious
verdict =" Not guilty; but We hope she won't
do SO again -
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

"The little darling-he didn't strike Mrs.
Smiths baby purpuss, did he? 1t was mere
accident, wasn't it dear?'
"Yes mar, to be sure it was, and If he don
| behave himself L II crack him agin;"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

"My bretheren, F." said Swift, in a sermon,
''there are three sorts of pride: of birth, of
riches and of talents. l shall not speak of the
latter, none of you being liable to that abomi-
nable vice." Is tE
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

There is an interesting couple in Cincinnati
who have been engaged to be married for tn
last five years, but no time has occurred with
in that period when they were both out OF pris
on at the same time.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Whipple's powder drying-house in
Lowell, Mass, was blown up on the
9th ult., killing two men who were
smoking pipes in the building.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The Rockford (lll.) Register comes
to us this week on an enlarged sheet,
and with newly engraved head. An
indication of success.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The Fort Doge Sentinel says We are in
formed by party of surveyors who have just
returned from the North, that they saw drove
of more than four hundred elk, in Palo Alto
county. They also say that it is quite common
to meet hundred buffalo in one gang.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The st. Paul Democrat says that,
with one or two exceptions, the entire
ticket was carried at the late election
in that territory.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Pray can you toll me, lispcd an exquisite,
why always pause after the first syllable OF
'cupid? 1t is because love to stop when
come to u,
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

for half interest in Blackhawk horse at Frc-.
port, ILL., The horse recently came from Yer
mont, where most of the good horses are rails
al #
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

OFFICIAL VoTE OF PENSsYLvANiA.-The fol-
lowing is the official vote of the State complete
Scott, Democrat, for Canal Commissioner,
212,sS6 Cochrane, Republican, 2l0, ll2-
Democratic majority, 2,774---The State Senate
stands, Is Democrats and Is Republicans; and
the House, SO Democrats and Al Republican.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

1t is said that from thirty to forty children
are stolen from their parents in New York city
annually and are never heard of afterwards by
their relatiy eS - .------
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Dead Englishmen's teeth, collected
on the Battlelields of the Crimea, are
now in great demand by the London
and Paris dentists.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Punch says that Yankee baby will craw
out of his cradle, take u survey OF it, invent an
improvement and apply for patent before he
is six months old.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The Fort Des Moines Statesman says that
the citizens Of that place are making arrange
ments to secure telegraphic connection with
some point on the Mississippi
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

~ say nigga, how you sell dem brooms
cheaper dan dis individual can do, when, be-
tween oursebs, 1 steal de stuff You big fool
Pomp, steal mine ready manufactured"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Pleasure is sometimes only change of pain
A man who has had the govt, thinks he feels
first rate when he gets down to the rheumatism
again.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

LIFE OF FREMoSr.-A fresh supply Of Bige-
lows Life of Fremont just received and for
sale at this Office
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

"Why jim, how pale you look what is the.
matter?'
"Oh got no sleep last night
How was ,hat ?"
"Why, you see, another Teller took my Gel
lar door, and SO had to take another, and I
never can sleep in strange bed"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Snow fell in this vicinity on Thurs
day night sufficiently to whiten the
ground.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Why is Joseph elliott an immoral man ?
Because he tempts people to steal (steeD pens,
and says they do right (write.)
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

An eminent artist is about getting up pan
Drama of a lawsuit. 1t opens in the year one
and closes with dooms-day
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

VALUABLE IMMIGRANTs-Two vessels recent
" arrived at New York, from Leghorn, with
SO organ grinders.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Wanted, at this Office, few loads Of wood,
for which cash will be paid.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Thursday, Nov Goth, has been desig.
mated as Thanksgiving Day in Wiscon.
sin.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

Bob, did you 60 to the gold minesF Yes
What did you digl Il dug home as soon as
possible.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

A. B. +. HIIDRETH & d. D. W. CARVER, EDITORS