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The daily union., 1856-12-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
REMARKS OF HON. p. $. BROOKS,
OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

In the House of Representatives December IT, 1885, on the
question of referring the Presidents TO the Com
mee Of the Whole the state Of the Union, and the
printing of ten thousand copies thereof
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

CONVENTION TO REVISE THE CONSTITUTION.
At the August election in this StRte there were
cast 36, 100 votes for Conventi6h, and IA, 1872
against it; giving in favor Of a convention
22,62S majority. The Governor has issued
IA proclamation calling upon the people to
elect delegates to the convention on the same
day of voting for Presidential electors.
These steps towards revising our State consti-
tuition are being taken in pursuance of an act
of the General Assembly approved on the oath
day of January 1855. ' a..
This act provides that g the number of del
egatcs shall correspond to the number of SEN
ators in the apportionment at the time of the
election of said delegates, and each senatorial
district shall constitute district for the cleo
ton Of delegates a, --
That said delegates shall meet in conven-
ton at the then Capital of the State, on the
third Monday of January 1857, for the purpose
ofrcvisin or amending the Constitution o.
the State. And tn at said revised or amended
constitution, when agreed upon by the con
vention, shall be submitted to vote of the
people at the time and in the manner pre-
scribed by such convention. And that it shall
become the Constitution and the Supreme
Law Of the land, if majority of the legally
qualified electors shall approve the same.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The Buchanan and Breckenridge Club are to
raise flag, in other words, unfurl the I" stars
and stripes" in this village on Saturday af-
ternoon next We understand that the FIRE.
mont men are also having U. S. flag made
which they intend throwing to the breeze ere
long. We like these exhibitions of patriotism,
they show that the Union will not be dis
solved, at present. Eas
{ Speaking of flags, reminds us that the Amer
lean ensign has for some days been floating
over the dwelling house of Mr.. James jackson
in this village. The boys will have it, that
G. neral Jackson's "head quarters - are there,
but better joke than that is, that a Connecti-
cut Yankee, fully infused with the Sharpe's
rifle, free Kansas spirit, on arriving here the
other evening and beholding the flag of oul
friend Jackson, fancied he had arrived upon
the great battle ground of freedom, in Kansas
and gravely inquired if it would be safe to ap
proach near the "hcad quarters and inspec
the works! a. f.'
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
The Men of Southern Iowa.

Hon. D. F. Miller, of Fort Madison,
thus speaks of the kind of material of
which the men in the southern portion
of our State are composed -
"Whcn you are informed, sir, that
full one-third of all the voters in this
(Hall's) district were born in Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Car
DINA, and other slaveholding States,
and that in fact very large majority
of this portion of our voters are the
most ardent and active Republicans,
and fought best for the defeat of Hall,
you will be enabled to properly apprc-
ciate how much the non-slaveholding
portion of the South hate the extern
sion of slavery, and will speak out
their sentiments on the subject where
they can do it with safety. Having
come to iowa to enjoy the blessings of
free labor and progressive industry,
and by experience lcarnedhow superior
are Free institutions to those of Slavery,
we never can nor will consent, but
will oppose to the bitter end, every
effort of the Slave Oligarchy to extend
Slavery over our sister Kansas. The
Missouri Compromise was the common
charter of Freedom for both Iowa and
Kansas, and, though the letter of it
has been violated as to Kansas, you
may rest assured we will maintain the
equity and spirit Of it at all hazards"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
WHAT CAN ONE DO?

AS the figure one is to the cyphers,
few or many, which range after it, SO
is the hero, the saint, the prophet, and
the sage, to their species. One man
enters, thirty-four years ago, the west
ern metropolis of Scotland, sits quiet
ly down in a plain house in the north
west suburbs, and writes sermons,
which speedily change his pulpit into
a battery, and memorize every Sab
bath by moral thunder storm. Pri-
vate as pestilence comes another, five
years later, into London, and his wild
cry, lonely at first, as that of Johns
in the desert, at last startles the press,
the Parliament, the court, the country
without, the throne within, and it is
felt that the one man has conquered the
two millions. Nay, was there not,
two thousand years ago, from an OBJ
scure mount in Galilee, heard voice,
saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven :"
and has not that voice, though clouded
with opposition, choked in blood
crushed under the gravestone, at length
commanded the attention, if not yet
the obedience, of the world Let nc
one say in despair, 81 am but one," in
his unity, as in the unity of a sword,
lies his might his metal be true,
his singleness is strength-he may be
multiplied, indeed, but he cannot be
divided. Minorities, and minorities of
one, generally Go the real work of
mankind.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
UNSEASONED FUEL.

A few calculations relative to the
comparative value of green and sea-
soned wood for fuel may serve to re-
mind those interested, Of the impor-
lance of attention to the subject.
Everybody knows that green wood
is poor stuff to kindle a fire, though
some contend that it will keep up as
wellas seasoned, if applied constantly,
not suffering the heat to go down.
That is, if you have good fire to sea-
son it in. you can burn green wood as
we'll as dry. But to the calculations:
A green stick of wood weighing
1OOlbs., when seasoned weighs only.
66lbs., or such is about the average OF
wood commonly used for fuel. In a
seasoned stick you have all the wood
all that will support combustion-you
have only got rid of 34lbs., of water.
Now, water will not burn, and if
present in fuel, it has to be converted
into steam, at the expense OF the fuel
and it will take five times as much
heat to make steam of water, as it will
to bring it to boiling point. Here il
seen at once the poor economy of burn
ing green wood.
We have shown that about one-third
of the weight of green wood is water
now, how many barrels of water arr
there in cord of wood? There art
1913 cubic feet in a cord, which allow
ing two-fifths for vacant space be
tween the sticks, leaves u feet of sol
id wood, one-third of which is water
equal to over six barrels of water il
every cord Of green wood. The hea
required to evaporate this water
would bring thirty barrels to the boil
ing point. And this is not the only ex
pense. -..H .......
Every farmer should look at, and de
termine to keep stock Of wood OF
hand, sufficient to last one year, a
least. And he may take another lool
at the wood seasoned just enough
and under cover, and that which ha
lain out doors until the sap-wood ha
become rotten, and one.half it's valu
been lost by exposure to the weather
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
Our State Election.

The Chicago Times, the Douglas pa
per Of Illinois, in an article designed
to show that the recent victories in
Iowa, Vermont and Maine do not pre-
sage the defeat of the Democracy in
November, says
Moreover, the result in Iowa has been a
lesson. In that State, the Know Nothings had
three out of the four candidates on the State
ticket, and both the congressman
Now, with the editor of the Chicago
Times we chance to enjoy the honor OF
personal acquaintance. We have
always considered him a gentleman
who would not tell wilful falsehood
He knows us also, we'll enough to be-
lieve that what we would assure was the
fact, might be relied upon with safety
Will he then be kind enough to state
what we assure him is the truth, thai
neither upon the State or Compression
al tickets elected at the late August
election in this State, was there siin
gle Knoac Nothing, but that the foul
State officers, and the two Congress-
men elected, are all Republicans, and
nothing else.-Dubuque Republican.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

THE Frog AND STRYCHNINE.-The frog
is so susceptible to the action of strych-
nine, that DR.. Marshall Hall, the emf
nent OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, has succeed
ed in making manifest, in the clearest
manner, the flee Mousamdth part Of a
grain, by means of this test. In a short
time the frog becomes affected by
spasms or commissions, which may be
excited by knock on the table, or
stamp on the floor, or even by scratch
ing the table cloth in the vicinity of
the frog The Medical and surgical
Journal remarks as follows, on this
discovery
eff further experiments should es-
tablish the accuray of this test, it will
be of inestimable value, especially in
medico-legal cases, where the issues of
life and death may hang upon the de-
lection of minute quantities of this sub
tie poison. The smallness of the dose,
the facility with which it may be Civ.
en-, and the difficulty of demonstrating
it's presence after death, have led to it's
employment of late, in several instan
ces, as means Of effecting murder
of which the celebrated Palmer case
which has created SO much excitement
both in England and in this country
will long be remembered as an exam
pie. By means of this test, the detec.
ton of guilt in such cases will be rem
dered more certain, while community
will be made more secure against thu
repetition of such crimes. DR.. Mar
shall Hall is persuaded that the frog
may be made available for the detec
ton of several other poisons, with eacl
Of which the kind and form of the phe
nomena vary"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

JUST INDIGNArIoN.-The Lyons Advocate
gets "spunky" and lets off steam in the fol-
lowing handsome style:
Girls, why don't some Of you get married
Here our paper goes to press week after week
without q sign of an example in the way of sac
rifice to the god OF love, and yot you all look
for it every week. If these manageable
young gentlemen won't come to time of their
own accord, why pitch into them, it is leap
year and you have perfect right to do it
They have no right to hang off so. Every one
of them may just as well be starving a wife as
not, and then you know it would add such in
terest to the papers. We know of a nice, mod
est, literary, black whiskered, handsome young
bachelor, only 23, and sings like nightingale,
that wants wife bad, and if some of you will
just como round We'll show him to you and
we are sure that "love at first sight" will fol-
low. Wa some Of you get married and give
us a chance for a paragraph.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
APPRECIATION OF THE LIvING.-Let T,

APPRECIATION OF THE LIvING.-Let us
not forget that if honor be for the dead,
gratitude can only be for the living.
He who has once stood beside the
grave, to look upon the companions
ship which has been forever closed,
feeling how impotent, there, are the
wild love, and the keen sorrow, to give
one instant's pleasure to the pulseless
heart, or atone in the lowest measure
to the departed spirit for the hour of
unkindness, will scarcely for the fu-
ture incur that debt to the heart which
can only be discharged to the dust.
But the lesson which men receive as
individuals, they do not learn as ma
tons. Again and again they have
seen their noblest descend into the
grave, and thought it enough to gar
land the tombstone when they had not
crowned the brow and to pay honor
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The riot in Baltimore on the 18th inst, be-
tween Fillmore and Buchanan men, lasted till
midnight, and two men were killed. Twelve
men were MORALLY wounded, and fifty OF
sixty others more or less injured, among whom
were several women and children Several ar.
rests were made. -
1t appears that the different Fillmore and
Donelson Clubs Of the city had arranged pleas
ure party for the quiet enjoyment Of fishing
and social recreation in company with their
wives and children, when they were suddenly
and Unexpectedly assailed by gangs Of armed
ruffians, shouting the rallying cry Of /" Buck
and Breck.'' The party attacked were of the
most respectable citizens in Baltimore, and
their families are in the deepest affection.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The "THuNDERER AMONG Us.-The
Rt. Rev. Robert Lowe, said to be chief
editor of the London Times, is in New
York. He took a seat on the bench
of the N. T. Supreme Court by the
side of Judge Clarke, few days since.
His stiff collar and cravat, white hair,
and red, full face, gave him decided
ly English appearance, which the fire.
quent raising of his gray eyebrows
made still more striking.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The Missouri Republican, Sept. 10th,
announces death which occurred I'M
der singular circumstances. Capt.
BENZ. Watts, of Howard county, was
seen walking out in his park, just
back of his residence, about II o'clock.
He had in the park some elk, deer, &c.
At l o'clock he was found dead, horn
ed to death by the elk. He had some
twelve or thirteen wounds, any one of
which would have killed him. His
clothes were all torn of, or nearly SO.
To all appearance he made an extra
ordinary effort to escape. He retreat
ed to the fence, but was unfortunate,
as the fence was very high one.
From the stones by him, and the po-
sition of fence rail, he evidently
made a great struggle for his life.
The turn of a small hill prevented any
one from seeing him, or hearing his
calls for assistance. The elk was
shot after the calamity, and from the
blood found on his horns there is no
doubt of Capt. Watts having been
killed by the animal.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The Des Moines Courier says that wild
boy made his appearance some days ago in the
eastern part of Polk county, creating great
deal of excitement in that region; but hereto
fore eluding all the efforts to capture him.
He was first discovered near what is called tho
Temple farm, is apparently about II yeass Of
age, and wears no clothing to speak of except
cloth cap. This miraculous story awaits
further Developments. Renewed and better
concerted efforts will be made to capture the
boy, when the public curiosity may hope for
further particulars. "t
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

MURDER.-We learn from the Northwest
that on Saturday, August 23d, near Lamotte,
Jackson Co., while Michael Carroll was thresh.
ing wheat, he became angry with a young
man at work for him, and in moment Of
passion, with but trivial provocation, struck
him to the heart with sheaf-kn He at
once gave himself up, deeply regrettng his
fatal violence. He is farmer, highly esteem
ed, about forty years Of age, and has child.
Hoffman, his victim, was young, single man
of good character at
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

All persons addressing letters to this place
should be particular to put on Floyd County.
The postotfice here is named Freeman, it hav-
ing been established before the town was or
ganized as st. Charles, and all efforts to get
the name changed have thus far proved abor-
tive. There is another st. Charles, in Madi-
son county, in the southern part of Iowa, and
very much of the mail matter intended for this
place finds its way to that Offices sometimes
even when Floyd County is distinctly added to
the superscription. 1t is ardently hoped that
the difficulty may in some way be rcmedied
ere long. } <a,tF.at
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The WELL, THE ALTAR, THE TOMB
The most ancient records OF mans life
on the earth presents us with three
chief tokens to mark the possession of
Of it's surface as an abiding-place Of
human families the we'll of water,
the altar of worship, the cave or tomb
for the dead. With what an impressive
power-the force and beauty of simple
truth-does that combination of the
well, the altar, and the tomb affect us.
They lead us back to the tide of ages,
and bring us to the first habitable
spot of earth. The altar, rising above
the SOIL the well and the grave be-
meath it, express to the three great
natural wants of man. Lies chief
necessity, its divine law, it's inevitable
issue, are thus presented to the eye
and to the mind Amid our ten thou
sand wants, behold the three which
crown them all, and one Of those three
the body's lonely and everlasting
couch
The well-spring gathering its crystal
drops from the secret depths Of the
earth, and receiving them back again
when man had used them, and heav.
emily distillation had renewed their
purity, was a token that to it grass
would grow, and man and beast find
sustenance. The rude altar-stohe,
which no tool had touched, was raised
upon some overlooking summit /; kneel-
ing around it the patriarchal family
called upon themselves the name of
God, and thus recognized that ever
lasting, that universal truth, the basis
Of all true thought, knowledge and
science, as well as Of religion-that
this earth, and all it's elements and
tribes, depend upon the loftier inhu-
cnces of the sky, and owe allegiance
to the unseen Centre and Source OF
power, whence comes forth the en-
crgy that controls and blesses. When
the mind that has been nourished by
food and water, and kept mindful of a
divine oversight by the altar, came to
its appointed close, there lay cold
and changing body, a forsaken tene-
ment, and the mourner said, "Let me
bury my dead out of my sight"
Wells, affairs, and graves, the ear
lest, the universal tokens of mans
presence on the earth, the most essen
tial objects Of his interest, are also
the most enduring Of his works. They
multiply as do the tribes and numbers
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
Wisconsin Legislature.

An Extra Session of the Legislature
of Wisconsin, was recently convened
at Madison. The matters to be taken
into consideration were the disposal of
the grant of lands recently made to
the State by the General Government
the report of the Investigating Com
mittee, appointed to examine the State
Treasury, said to have been robbed Of
$3.50, OOO-thc report of the committee
on the affairs of the Fox River I'm
provemcnt-thc payment Of the State
debt-and the re-apportionment Of the
State. Among other things, Governor
Bashford's Message recommends the
consideration of measures for the pro-
lection of citizens of Wisconsin in the
Territory of Kansas. He says that
since the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture, intelligence has reached him from
reliable sources, that many citizens of
Wisconsin who had not expatriated
themselves, but had gone to Kansas
for lawful purposes, had been seized,
robbed, and imprisoned, and their lives
jeopardized by the people of Missouri.
Gov. Bashford adds: ..
"Outrages of this nature have be-
come SO frequent that l deem it my du
ty to call your attention to them, that
you may devise legal measures to pro
tect the citizens of Wisconsin, and re.
dress their grievance-the General
Government being either impotent Of
wilfully neglectful to do So"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

TROUBLE IN WINoSA.-It appears that d.
versity of opinion exists among the citizens of
Winona, in regard to the legal right of using
the levee Of that town for private purposes
many contending that the whole of what is
called the original levee" should forever be
held public and open. Notwithstanding this,
some few buildings have been erected upon
this ground. On Tuesday, the 9th inst, some
fifty of the citizens met, and proceeding to
one of these houses, erected by Mr.. HUFF, ut
terly demolished It, At the same time the
occupants of Mr.. Hamilton's house, were also
notified to remove their office within three
days, lest it should share similar fate
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

A FIEND IN HUMAN SHArE.-An Indian has
been arrested in Paducah, Kentucky, who re-
Gently outraged and then brutally murdered a
little girl only eleven years of age. He con-
fesses to have murdered three women, whose
bodies have been found, with the heads severed
from the body, all residents OF the same vicin-
ity. He also confesscs to belong to club OF
murderers and robbers, which is composed of
Indians, Negroes and white men, and num-
bering thirty three. Great excitement exists
in the community, and an armed force is or
ganizing to scour the country. Es
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

On the 10th inst, the Democratic
State Convention of Massachusetts,,
met at Springfield and nominated E.
D. Beach, of that place, by acclama-
ton, as their candidate for Govern
or. In accepting the nomination, he
made an eloquent. speech, concluding
by saying that wherever the Democ-
racy of Massachusetts, go, he would go
with them, and the flag Of his country
should be his winding sheet if they
fell.n
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

The Democrats of Fayette County
held Convention at West Union, on
the goth ult., and chose eleven dele
gates to represent that county in Dis
trict Convention to be held at Eldora,
in Hardin County, Oct. 4th, when a
Delegate. is to be nominated for the
Constitutional Convention.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

to the ashes which they had denied to
the spirit. Let it not displease them
that they are hidden, amidst the tumult
and the dazzle of their busy life, to lis
ten for the few voices, and watch for
the few lamps which God has toned and
lightened to charm and to guide them,
that they may not learn their sweet
ness by their silence, nor their light by
their decay-Rusk1n.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02
Respectfully,
DAVID EDWARDS.
Chickasaw Co., Sept. Is, 1856.

Hon. Ely Moore, formerly a promi-
nent member Of Congress from New
York city, and resident Of Kansas
for more than a year, writes as follows
from LecomptOn - re
"The truth is, neither the New York
Times nor Tribune has any correspon-
dents in this place. This know to be
so. The correspondents of those papers
live in the city of New York, and I'm.
doubtedly are attached to those respec.
tive Offices"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

CHILD CARRIED OFF BY A BEAR-In the
village of Neshota, Manitowoc Coun-
ty, Wis, achild nearly five years old
was carried off by bear, few weeks
since. The mother witnessed the af-
fair, and soon aroused the neighbor-
hood, but no trace has yet been found
of the child. stsr I'D