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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
THE TELEGRAPHIC CABLE.

The following eloquent extract, from
an Grafton delivered by Edward
Everett, should be read by every one.
He says:
l bear in my hand portion Of the
identical electrical cable given me by
my friend, Mr.. Peabody, which is now
in progress of manufacture, to con-
meet America with Europe. I read
upon it the following words "A part
of the submarine electric telegraph
cable manufactured by Messrs. Glass
a. Co., of London, for the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company, to connect st. Johns,
New Foundland, with Valencia, Ireland,
a distance of sixteen hundred statute
miles" Does it seem all but incredi-
bic to you that intelligence should
travel for two thousand miles, along
those slender copper wires, far down
in the all but fathomless Atlantic,
never before penetrated by aught per-
tanning to humanity, save when found
ering vessel has plunged with her
hopeless company to the eternal 81
lelce and darkness of the abyss
Does it seem, l say, all but a miracle
of art, that thoughts of living men
the thoughts that we think here on the
earth's surface in the cheerful light of
day-about the market and exchanges,
and the seasons and elections, and the
treaties and the wars, and all the fond
nothings of daily lie, should clothe
themselves with elemental sparks,
and shoot with fiery speed in a mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, from
hemisphere to hemisphere far down
among the uncouth monsters that
wallow in the neither seas, along
the wreck-pavcd floor, through the
oozy dungeons of the rayless deep
that the last intelligence of the crops,
should go flashing along the Shiny
decks of old sunken galleons, which
have been rotting for ages tina
message of friendship and love from
warm living bosoms should burn ovcI
the cold bones of men and women
whose hearts, once as warm as ours
burst as the eternal CULTS closed and
roared over them centuries ago?
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
PATIENCE AND ATTENTION.

There is no real excellence without
patient study. Those who have now
and then risen upon the world without
education and without study, have
shed but doubtful light, and that but
for moment Set it down as a fact,
to which there are no exceptions, that
we must labor for all that we have,
and that nothing is worth possessing
or offering to others which costs US
nothing. Those islands which sc
beautifully adorn the Pacific, and
which, but for sin, would seem so many
Edens, are said to have been reared
up from the bed of the ocean by a
little coral insect, which deposits one
grain of sand at time, till the whole
body of these piles is erected 1t is
inst SO with human eXertions. 3s
Make it the first object to fix and
hold your attention upon your studies
lie who can do this has mastered many
and great difficulties. ,. .'.....s.
Why does the boy who has a large
sum on his slate scowl, and rub out
and begin again, and grow dis
couraged? Because he has not yet
learned to command his attention he
was going on well when some new
thought flashed into his mind, or some
new object caught his eye, and he los
the train of calculation. / have fire
qucntly seen boys take their books OF
summers day, and fee from thei
room to the garden, or the grove, ant
then back again, full of uneasiness
and in vain hoping that changing tht
place would give them some new
power over the rowing attention AM
| the indescribablc restlessncss SO IL
separable from the early efforts to sui
due the mind. But it is all in vain
You cannot flee from yourself; ant
the best way is to sit directly dow
in your room, and there comman'
your attention upon the hard, dr..
lesson. and so master all its difficulties
Patience is a kindred virtue to atten
ton. Sir Isaac Newton, who, on re
turning to his study, found that
little dog had overturned his table
and the papers on whickhc had bee
engaged for years had been burned
up, yet calmly said, "Diamond, yo'
do not know the mischief you hav
DONE" showed soul truly great, an'
| its greatness in this instance cor
sisted in his patience. Without
murmur he sat down to do over agal
the same great labor. He lived t
complete it, and it was the admlratio
of the learned world.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
ddsstnaro tbe COURSE Of Gmpire takes its dNap.'
Y, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2e, 1857.

cane with terrible efficiency, crippling
limbs, yet sparing life. Bill Buffum,
initiating the clemency of his honored
friend, disdaining the use Of either
knife Or pistol, actually trampled and
crushed down all opposition, roaring
at every furious blow" this is the
way to preserve order in court"-a
sentiment he accompanied with wild
peals of laughter In less than two
minutes the party of the Judge tri-
umphed, and the clique of General
Smoot suffered disastrous defeat and
the bully himself was borne away to
prison. a.....
Such was the debut of Archibald
Yell in Arkansas ; and from that day
his popularity as a man, as Judge,
as hero and as politician, went on
rapidly increasing, till eclips;ng the
Oldest and most powerful names, it set
on the bloody eve of Buena Vista.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
4oetrn.
The Birds Of Passage.
BY MRS. HEMASS.

" Birds, Joyous birds OF the wandering wing
Whence is il We come with the flowers of s,,ringY"
- We come from the shores of the green old Nile
From the land where the roses OF sharon smi,e
From the palms that wave through tie Indian sky,
From the myrrh trees Of glowing Araby.
" We have swept DER cities in song renowned
Silent they lie, with deserts round,
We've crossed the proud rivers whose tide hath rolf
All dark with the warrior blood of old
And each worn wing hath reganed it. home
Under peasant rooftrce, or monarch dome"
And what have yc found in the monarch's dome,
Since last ye traversed the blue seas ioamg"
=. We have found change, We have found a pail,
And gloom o'crshadowing the banquet hall,
And mark on the floor, rs Of life drops split,
Nought looks the same, save the nest we built"
" Oh, joyous birds =, IL hath still been SO
Thro' the halls Of kings doth the tcmpest gol
Yet the huts Of the hamlet lie still and deep,
And the hills DER their quiet a vigil keep.
Say what have yc found in the PEASANTS cot
Stree last ye parted from that sweet spots"
"a change we have found there. and many a change
Faces and footsteps and all thlngs strange,
Gone are the heads Of the siivery hair,
And the young that were have brow Of care,
And the place is hushed where the children played
Nought looks the same save the nest we made ~
Sad is your tale Of the beautiful earth,
Birds that o'ersweep ii in power and mirth,
Yet through the wastes Of the tfackess air,
YE have guide and shall WE despair?
le over desert and deep have passed.
50 may reach our bright home al last. y"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
NUMBER 6.
Sentiment.
SATURDAY NIGHT.

"Now comes still evening on" and
the quiet round marks the time from
all other periods. The hours have a
wonderous and beautiful significance
for it is Saturday night. The six
days of toll have ended, and the week
is drawing to its eternal close. Some
time since, and earlier than on other
work days, the hum of the many
wheels ceased--the hammer is now
noiseless--the engine puffs no more.
Those who crowd the workshops and
manufactures have wended their way
homewards, and the tired stragglers
rest. The season of results has come,
and there has been an ingathcring of
the harvest. Here is stop in busy
life, in which man surveys the past
as battle won, and takes fresh coun-
sci and consideration for the future.
A part is completed of fragmentary
life, and from what is known, strength
is gained for the conflicts which are to
come. How strongly these Saturday
nights mark the progress of time
They are the stays in mans past ca
reer to which memory ever turns with
fond yearning Men live by weeks,
and the revolving seventh day cycles
apporton time to the distribution Of
human capacity" .. ....s.
Fit herald of the coming Sabbath is
the night of Saturday, and wisely has
it been made the harbinger of the day
of sacred rest When the madness Of
human folly aims to destroy the one,
it should blot out the associations OF
the other for the heart is ever true
to its instincts, and out of the fullness
and satisfaction of the occasion, out
of the consciousness that all necdful
desires have been gratitied, spring the
emotions of thankfulness which make
and seek the time for their expression.
Even human sclfshness receives the
incentives to religious duties from its
qualification. There are weekly re-
unions in many quiet homes, and
while Happy families are seated
around the evening board, hearts over
flow with the joy of the hour aud
grateful feelings ask q blessing on
Saturday night ..-
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
HUSK BEDS.

No one who has not tried them
knows the value of husk beds
Certainly mattresses would not be
used if husk beds were tried. They
are also the most pliable. The first
cost is but trifing To have husks
nice, they may be split after the man
ner of splitting straw for braiding.
The finer they are split the softer will
be the bed, although they will not be
likely to last as long as when put i'll
whole. Three barrels full, well stow
ed in, will fill good sized tick, that
is after they have been split The
bed will always be light, the husks
do not become matted down like
feathers, aud they are certainly more
healthy to sleep on. Feather beds
ought to be done away with, especially
in the warm weather. For spring,
summer and fall, husk beds ought to
be "all the go" and such undoubtedly
will be the case when they are brought
into use. There is no better time to
procure husks than when the corn is
being harvested, and the husks will
bc much nicer and cleaner when corn
is cut up at the bottom and put into
stacks. They do not become so dry
and wcather-beatcn 1t is calculated
that a good husk bed will last from
twenty-five to thirty years. Every
farmers daughter can supply herself
with beds against time of NEEDY at a
trifiing expense, which is quite an in
ducement now-a-days.-Neac England
| Farmer
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
Qoetrp.
For the s.. Charles City lntelligencer
NV ChildhOOd'S Home.

My childhood home-can forget
Its closely woven ties,
When memory's tide that murmurs thence
Is fraught with melodies
Can forget those early friends
That mother kind and true
As DER my young and tender mind
A soft restraint she threw!
Can forget where first learned t.
To lisp our Fathers prayer,
At balmy eve, when it arose
Like incense on the air.
Can forget the kindly smile
That ever welcomed me, .....
When oft from school bounded home.
So gayly, blithe and free'
Can forget that sparkling brook, .-
That 'cr went dancing by,
Where oft I've watched the mirrowed tints
OF evenings gorgeous sky!
Can forget the early haunts, .-.l..r
Of my life's joyous spring,
When hope was glad within my heart,
As the young bird on its wing:
All, no never can forget, .......
Though far from it I've straycd,
For time can ne er effacc the scenes,
BY memory's pen engraved;
Back, back, through time I'm often borne,
On memory's magic wing,
To when wreathcd the sweet wild flowers,
Famed by the breath of spring.
Oh, halcyon days of innocence
Too quickly have ye fled;
Those happy hours no more return,
Their charms forever fled;
But still in memory's sweet commune,
I'll hail them when afar.
As nature untaught worshipers
Would hail distant star II.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29

THE HARvEsr-Wc are having an
unprecedented experience. With the
most plentiful harvest on hand ever
reaped, the produce traffic stagnates.
Western barns and storehouses are
filed with grain and tlour--but they
are locked up by the panic. Ships
and Steamers are abundant to carry
them to market, but they are laid up
by the panic. Western dealers anx-
ious to ship, cannot sell. Eastern
dealers anxious to purchase, cannot
buy-on account of the panic. Until
they getmoney, the Produce Merchants
cannot buy grain of the farmers. I'm
til they sell grain, the farmers cannot
pay their debts to the country stores.
Until they collect debts, the country
storekeepers cannot go to New York
to buy new goods, CT pay for old ones.
And without the country trade the
New York merchants cease to do bus
mess, or fail. Thus it happens that
with breadstuffs enough to supply the
world, on one hand; and world
waiting to be supplied with them OF
the other, we are yet unable to carry
one bushel in hundred to market.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
MODESTY.

Who shall win the prize +? There
was meeting of the flowers, and the
judge was appointed to award the
prize of beauty.
"Who shall win the prize 2" asked
the rose, proudly rushing forward
in blushing beauty, in full assurance
of it's winning worth.
WHO will win the prize 2" asked
the rest of the flowers, as they came
forward, each conscious of it's attrac-
tion and each equally sure Of receiv-
ing the reward.
81 will take peep at the assem-
blage,' thought the violet, not intend
ing to make one of the company, " and
see the beauties as they pass
Just as it was raising it's modest
head from its humble and retiring cor,
ncr, and was looking in upon the meet
ing, the judge rose to render his de-
cree.
'To the VIOLET said he, al award
the prize of beauty, for there is nc
trait more rare-none more enchant
ingly beautiful than modesty.'
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
ADVICE TO TMLERs OF THE SOIL,

The revolt i'll India is the harbinger
OF famine $50 millions of human
creatures will need large supplies of
food from the products of other regions.
The army of India, the transport fleet
for that army and its supplies the ne
cessities growing out of the disturbed
state Of that great English dependency,
will call for much of our surplus beef.
pork and -four The two last named
articles are the product of every year.
but beef requires years of nourishment
before it is ready for use. The wick
cd, wanton waste of breeding power
which is besetting sin of American
farmers, ought to be checked. Every
farmer ought to be required to give
an account of himself, who kills fe-
male calf. We ought to preserve ev-
ry "cow calf" that is dropped, for
five years to come. BY this method
we might soon have a supply of beef,
not only for ourselves, but for any
emergency abroad.
Beet, mutton, sugar, eggs and but
ter, the expensive items of life, are
shamefully neglected by the general
farming interest of the whole country
Calves are slaughtered without regard
to sex, or price of food. Mutton is
neglected everywhere, north and
east. Fleece, without regard to meat
is the hobby, and farmers prefer to
make shoes, rather than feed Goats" !"
to sheep.
Hens arc left like prairie chickens,
to take care of themselves. A farmer
who has twenty hens lets them feed
themselves, and buys, or goes without
eggs. One rainy day devoted to Civ
ing them shelter, and five minutes to
direct proper food would give him
eggs to cat and eggs to sell.
Care in making butter is necessary
1t is now, as Il business, neglected,
or, in most instances, done in so SLOW
enly manner that it is impossible to
get good article at reasonable rates.
An immeuse quantity of butter is
made, which has to be sold low, be-
cause of the want of care in putting it
up for market. The few careful farm
ers get large profits while thousands
are disgusted with the result OF their
dairies, who are themselves alone to
blame.
A little attention to these sugges,
tions would produce millions of dollars
now lost to our farmers, and would
help to make labor light and the ways
of life more cheerful to multitudcs.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
aQisoonl IN Mmiatmt.

knowledge is the treasury of the
mind; discretion the key to it; and it
illustrates all other learning, as the
lapidary doth unpublished diamonds.
The whole universe is your library; |
conversation, living studies; and re-
marks upon them are your best tutors.
Learning is the temperance of
youth, the comfort of old age, and the
only sure guide tc honor and prefer
mcnt.
Aristotle says that to become an
able man in any profession whatever,
three things are necessary, which arc
nature, study and practice.
Opinion, and the desire of lasting
fame, spurs ON the ingenious mind,
and makes the greatest difficulties
delightful.
There is a time when thou mayst
say nothing, and a time when thou
mayst say something; but there new
er will be time when thou shouldst
say all things.
As selEpreservation is the first prin-
! ciple of nature, SO care of ourselves,
and our own interests, is the first part
of wisdom. a#
Xcnophon, when he received the
unhappy news of his only sons untime-
" death, answered the messenger
with settled countcnancc. | knew,
said he, that l bcgat him u mortal
man.
1t is a Spanish maxim, he that loseth
wealth. loseth much; he who loscth II
. friend, loseth more; but he who losctli
his spirits loseth all. . -.sss
He that let's the sun so down upon
/. his wrath, and goes to bed angry, is
, Ike tohave the devil for his bed-iellow
Have not to do with amy man in his
passion, for men are not like iron, t.
/, be wrougt upon when they are hot.
! He that accustoms himself to bu,
: supcrhuities, may, crclong, be oblige,
: to sell his accessories.
a Watching for riches consumeth th'
t flesh, and the care thereof drivetl
/ away sleep.
Avarice and ambition are the tw'
). elements that enter into the compost
o ton Of all crimes. Ambition is bound
, less, and avaricc Unsuitable
k Tantalus, it is said, was ready t
e perish with thirst, though up to tn
u chin in water. Change but the man
o and every rich man is the Tantalus i
;, fable. He sits gaping over his MOI
- ey and dares no more touch 1T, tina
% he dares commit sacrilege.
There is world where no storm
T. intrude-a haven of safety again'
the tempests of life-a little world
to Joy and love, of innocence and ira
1t. guilty. Suspicious are not there, NJ
IN the venom of slander. When ma
I'd entereth it, he forgets his sorrows al
cares, and disappointments; he ope
70 eth his heart to confidence and plea
ures, not mingled with rcmorse. Th
ur world is the home of virtuous al
We amiable mother.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29

Nor steel nor fire itself hath power,
Like woman in her conquering hour.
Re thou but fair--manhind adore thee
Smile-and a world is weak before thee
The poet has disclosed the whole
secret of womaa's conquering power
Fair in her virtue, smiling in her good
ness, she wields an influence which
mailed warrior never could Her
strength is in her graccs, her weapon
is love and her power is resistless
when these are combined with mod
est merit, and dictated by conscious
duty. .....
In influence woman is as much SUI
perior to man as affection is superior
to intellect. Man represents the un-
derstanding of the universe, and wo-
man the soul; man the reason, wo-
man the heart. The powers of obser-
vation and reflection are cold, useless
appendages to the human being, un-
less warmed into exercise and at
tracted to good objects by the feelings
and sentiments of the atfection's mind
How little, in this world, do we think,
Judge and know, in comparison with
what we feel ! Man may do mighty
thingsoin the intellectual advance
ment of the world; but
What most prize in woman
Is her affections, not her intellect
The intellect is finite but the affections
Are infinite, and cannot be exhausted.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-29
THE RIGHT KIND OF A WIFE.

A New York editor says he had an
introduction last week to the heroine
of the following sketch:
Mr.. -, q merchant, now residing
in Philadelphia, who formerly lived i'll
ratheran extravagant style, was III the
habit every Monday morning, Of Civ
ing his wife certain sum OF money
for the table and other household cx-
penses of the week he never men
toned his business to his wife, and
she deeming him sufficiently capable
of attending to his own affairs never
inquired into them. About FIVE years
after her marriage, through some
slight mismanagcment, and the rascal
ity of his confidential clerk, Mr.. -,
suddenly broke, and his fall was
mentioned "sympathizingly' ON ex-
change, and, like all such matters,
there all sympathy ended. The
merchant kept the affair u secret,
and the first intimation his lady had
of it, was a news paragraph III the
Ledger. Shortly. after dinner was
over, ON the discovery of the startling
fact, Mrs. - requested her husband
to remain in the parlor few moments
as she had something to say to him
She then left the room, hurried u!
stairs, and shortly after returned, will
a splendidly bound Bible in her hand
Handing it to her husband she said
George, the day after our marriage
you gave me this precious book as
token of yonr love, and as Gicl
fountain to look to in the day o
trouble. Its pages have been preciou
to me and as your brow looks sa'
to-day, l now return it to you, tha
you may CLEAN from it some consoia
ton in the hour of gloom" She the
left the ROOM
The merchant opened the book care
lcssly and bank bill fell out. H
picked it up and glanced at its face
it was a SO bill. He opened the boo
again, and found another note OF tn
!, same amount before him. He opene
it at the first page, and, continued
find an X between every two leaves
till he arrived at the commencement
! of the book of Revelations. He wa
saved, could commence business, an
a had a capital of $4,000.
!, He rang the bell, a servant appea
; ed.
"Request your mistress to come
me Immediately" said the merchar
y The lady obeyed, entering the roo
l. with something between tear al
c smile.
$ "Kate /! Kate where did you pl
c cure all this money!"
1. "This is the weekly saving of o
II household expenses for the last ii
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years." was the modest reply Every
week | put ten out of the twenty dol
lars which you gave me into our Bible
bank that when day of trouble came
upon us, we should have something to
save us from the wolf'
''But why put it in the Bible, Kate ?"
Because it is a good book, one
which will not suddenly break re-
piled the lady.
"You are an angel, Kate cried the
delighted husband, clasping her to his
heart.
And so she is. Does any body
doubt it.
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A RULE by which you can te

A RULE by which you can tell
whether any standing tree will make
a stick of timber any required length !:
Measure from the root of the tree on
the ground distance equal to the
length of the timber required, cut a
stick just as long as from your eye to
the ground, set the stick up just its
length towards the tree from the spot
measured to, then sight from the place
measured to, over the standing stick
and where the eye strikes the tree will
be the same distance from the grount
as YOU are from the tree.
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COVERING FOR PLANTs.-Wc have
never found green horse manure,
which some use under the mistaken
idea that it is warm all winter, SO
good for covering flowers and other
plants that need protection, as leaves,
straw or other dry, clean haulm. The
manure attracts and retains moist.
ure, which freezes upon the plants ana
| INJURIES them.