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announcement.

We are authorized to anneuee JOHN LETC1BR,
Tsq us a candidate for recollection to the next Con
gross OF the o. States for the district composed Of
TIVE counties CT Augusta. Roekbridge, Rockingham,
Shenandoah, Hardy. Pendleton and uigf.and.
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That Volcano.

We have heard nothing for some time a.
bout that volcano in Pendleton. Wonder
il some people haven't been hoaxed
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-02-14

G4s- Thomas j. Burke. I,sq, has been
appointed Postmaster at Rurkes Jill, Au-
gusta equity.
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Wild Pigeons.

Wild pigeons are very plenty in the woods
of this neighborhood, and our sportsmen are
fast thinning their ranks
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Fatal Anray.

\ man by the name of Lindsay Payne
was committed to the jail of this county, on
Wednesday last, charged with stabbing ST.
mon Sheets. Sheets has since died of the
wounds received The parties lived at or
near Fishersgille. We have not learned the
fall particulars, bpt as the matter Is to UNI
dergo judicial investigation it would be im-
proper at this time to say more.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-02-14

RagS-RagS-RagS.

Save the Rags-they are all wanted
and many dollar may be made by saving
them. Bring them to the Vindicator Office
and we will pay the highest price in Cash
for them.
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Feb. 5. 1857.

SIR Your note demanding a liquida-
ton of the debt which owe you was re-
ceiyed, and | will attend to it in full or in
part. next week, though liquidation these
jrtyti@ times are difficult to produce
YRS, very resp'ly.
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-02-14

Es- The National Theatre in Washing
ton was destroyed by fire last week. No
lives lost.
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4 ThaW Expected.

The following is an exact copy of a letter
received by one of our Druggists in reply
to polite note addressed to the writer, who
is free negro, requesting him to settle a
bill held against him. 1t is rich:
Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-02-14

Gg- This is St. Valentines day look
OFT at the Post Ofiee.
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10 ADVERTISERS The Yindicator has a
large and Increasing circulation ia this and the ad
joining counties. and is valuable medium for ad-
vertiscrs. Circulating among business men, it at
fords great Inducements - those who will use its
columns
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

THE SPIRITUAL HuMBUG.-A band Of
" distinguished spiritualists have
been giving public exhibitions at Co
lumbus, Ohio, of a similar character
with those of the Davenport family
there and elsewhere. Drums, tam
bourines, guitars, &C., were played by
some supernatural agency-in the
dark of course. Matters went on
swimmingly until one night last week,
when the whole humbug was ex.
posed:
The hall, says Columbus Journal,
was quite full, and the performances
poroecded according to the pro-
gramme of the preceding night, when
the lights were put out and the hymns
were sung. The believers sat in the
front circle. The medium took her
position beside an old gentleman,
and at length the admonitory tap of
the drum, and the jingle of the tam
BOURNE, gave token that the spirit
king was about coming among us to
beat tune and jingle refrain. He
was admitted, and amid silence and
darkness, he banged away upon the
drum, and the tambourine shook with
ecstasies, and the believers felt how
good it was to be there, when presto
chang. some wicked unbcliever struck
light, which at once exposed the
swindling imposition. The spirit of
the drum was boy about l3 and
there they were both discovered rub
bing the tambourine and beating the
drum. Never did light produce such
an effect.
The female threw down her instru-
ment and rushed to her seat, self
convicted impostor. The lad dropped
his stick and disappeared. The old
man protested that he had been deceiv-
ed, but looked the very imperSonation
of confusion and disappointment. The
believers stared at one another very
much as a greenhorn would do who
had bet his last dime with a thimble
riggcr that he could tell under which
thimble the "little joker" was, and
lost. The audience yelled with de-
light. The old man said they would
give no more exhibitions, and the
door keeper, whom we believe to be the
real principal of the concern, said the
money should be returned, and so it
was, and thus ended the last exhbi-
ton Of Harmonical Science" or
Spiritual Manifestations"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
ST. CHARLES FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA. THURSDAY JUNE

DOES THE MISSISSIPPI RUN Up HILL p
That's the question. DR.. Boynton
takes the affirmative and Horace Mann
the negative. Who shall decide when
doctors disagree 1t is a fact that
the shape of the earth is an oblatc
spheroid, having its equatorial diam
etcr, more than 26 miles longer than
it's polar diameter, and consequently
the equatorial regions are Some l3
miles farther from the earth's centre
than the poles are. If the earth were
at rest, the water in the tropical re-
gions would flow with great rapidity
towards the poles, until the equilibri-
um, as far as the water is concerned,
would be restored. The Mississip-
pi would flow from its mouth to
its source, the former being over two
miles farther from the centre of the
earth than the latter. 1t is therefore
evident that the water as it now flows,
rises or recedes from the earth's centre
between two and three miles, in pass
ing from its source to the Gulf Mexico.
"But how can water run up hill ?"
says Horace Mann and others. For
the same reason that water on grind
stone in motin will mount the centre
ridge instead of running off at the
sides. The revolution Of the earth
round its axis gives all bodies on its
surface, especially water, tendency
to the equator and this tendency is
just sufficient to counterbalance the
rise in the surface in the same di-
rectiOn in fact the one is the cause
of the other. Water is therefore free
to flow in any direction, which ine-
qualities on the surface thus balanced,
may occasion. If the daily rotation
of the earth becomes slower, the ten
dency of bodies to the equator would
and the water would flow to-
wards the poles, until another "sur-
face Of equilibrium" were established.
If the rotation became more rapid, the
water would rush towards the equator,
till the equilibrium was restored.
These oppsite forces, the centrifugal
and centripetal, will always balance
each other.
How Mr.. Mann could be puzzled
about so clear matter is singular.
One would imagine that the mind which
could originate the idea of marrying a
man to twenty fine ladies of the modern
school without subjecting him to a
charge of bigamy, would be able to
comprehend very simple problem in
natural philosophy.-Quiney (Hl.) Re
publican.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
Withdrawn from Market.

The President, upon the recommendation
of the Commissioner of the General Land Of
flee, has directed the withdrawal from tht
sale to he held in Iowa on the 4th of May that
portion of the public lands upon which the
Indians have recently been committing depre-
dations, murdestng the settlers and destroying
their homes, sc. Pennsylrasadn.
This is decidedly rich 4! How much
land was in market in the vicinity of
the Indian outrages! Not an acre !;
nor has Dickinson County, ON the
State line, which Spirit Lake barely
touches, ever been surveyed-nor
Springfield, in Minnesota Only one
place where Indian outrages have
been committed has ever been survey
ed, and that on the Little Sioux River,
where no person was killed.
We wonder if some of our eastern
friends do not fear that we will all be
massacred by those "eight hundred
Indians within fifteen miles of Fort
Dodge ?" Some of them seem to have
about as much idea of Western life as
a shad would naturally have about
the difficulties to be encountered in
climbing a CREASED barber-pole, tail
first, with loaf of bread in his
mouth.
We do not know what land has
been withdrawn, if any, in this Dis
trict, and care less but this we do
know, that of hundred men, who
have been to see it, no one has dis
covered an Indian, and that whenever
an Indian has been seen in the north
west part of this State this spring, he
has been going as though he had been
shot out of gun. We suppose it i'm
possible that q correct idea of the mat
ter can be formed, even in Washington
Fort Dodge Sentinel.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
WHAr's1yA WoxAN's NAME?-Much

WARS IN A WoMAN's NAME?-Much
We can almost tell the character of a
person by the harmonious or dscord-
ant sound of their most familiar appel
lation, and may look for sincerity or
deceit, as they are telegraphed. Take
the sweet, musical name of Mary; it
is synonymous with all that is dear or
domestic It's Specification a tear
the drop of sympathy and affection, it
twines around our hearts, with its ho-
ly associations, its tender memories,
and it thrills from our tongues with a
soft liquid sound Mary is kind, gen
tie and devoted, patient and meek,
with mild, starry eyes Mary steals
through the crowded ranks of life
noiselessly, yet still, on and upward,
ever doing good, choosing the better
part, that will not be taken from her.
Elizabeth how firm and self-reliant,
unfaltering in the path Of duty, scan
ming trouble with an unclouded eye,
marching to the conflict in the mailed
armor of truth, prompt to suffer on the
right cause, noble and heroic
Alice beautiful but too fragile ;
no self-reliance in the day of trouble,
no depth of character, kind, affection,
ate, but quite incapable Of unselfsh
exertion, doing very little good and no
harm.
Jane! homely but good. She
openeth her mouth with wisdom, and
in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She is the treasure Of the household
planning, working, thinking for all
roiling always for the good of others
and seldom unhappy. We respect
her
Isabella! Ugh! we shiver at tha
unfortunate name, never appreciated
and seldom happy, the scape-goat Q
the whole family, who unanimousl,
declare when anything goes wrong
Isabella did it.' Unfortunate ant
unloved. She is model cook, how
ever, and a good nurse.
! Florence modern and sweet!
Take her all in all, face, form and feature,
Is most bewitchipg little creature.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
A Coon OSE.-Dr. Magoon recently,
in q lecture on Mind Your Business" )"
tells the following good story:

4 Coon ONE.-Dr. Magoon recently,
in lecture on mind Your Business"
tells the following good story:
A young man went from New York
City to the West, where he commenced
business on his own account, and mar
ried His friends in the city were in
terested in his welfare, and when q
merchant was about to journey to the
place where the young man had loca-
ted, he was requsted to visit the emi-
grant, and ascertain what sort of
wife he had chosen, his prospects, &c.
Accordingly the New Yorker ascer-
tanned the residence of his young
friend, and called upon him quite early
in the morning. He found him in
small, neat cottage, and just taking
his breakfast. The introduction of the
New Yorker to his wife was quite off.
hand and unceremonious, and he was
requested to be seated and partakc of
the morning meal. The young wife
had prepared the steak, biscuit and
coffee with her own hands, and for a
table had used her kneading-boar
over which a napkin was spread and
the " board" placed on her lap. The
New Yorker declined seat at the ta-
bic, and soon took his leave In ma
king his report to his New York friends
as to how he found his young friend
living, he described the style as mag
nificent !"--and for explanation of the
superlative he said, that were he the
owner of that young mans furniture,
he would not take ten thousand dollars
for the legs of his table
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
NUMBER 80.

THE DEPARTING INFLUENCE OF CALICO
When we look into the thoroughfares,
alas we see no calico Silk and all
its half sister fabrics glide along
some dazzling, some queer, some
splendid, some fantastic,-but none
have the sweet, clean, fascinating, ell
egant appearance of the calico which
used to skip by, with pretty shippers
in it. There are those who mourn
over little things-the dropping violet,
the stricken bird, the broken rattle
box, the fading rose, the dying kitten,
the rain-spoiled bonnet but we mourn
for exalted, animated, small-fgured
calico
Silks trailing through the dust, have
lost favor in our eyes; fancy dry
goods are as unattractive as tattered
awnings, and every costly thing of
feminine apparel no longer surpasses
the hume-spun gown of old.
Nations spring from the wilderness,
then moulder in decay ;. cities are built
in barren places, expand awhile and
waste away men Of obscurity rise
to fame and power, then gather dis
grace and neglect the rich grow
poor, and the poor grow rich the high
sink to ignoble graves, and in the mul-
titudinous variety of things there are
mighty movements and mighty chan
ges.
We are, therefore, of the opinion
that the article of calico has had its
days of glory, also, and is not as much
in use as it used to be. Where is the
man who will not promptly say that
the handsomest object he ever beheld
was being clad in a handsome piece
of calico? He cannot be found. Mas
culine eyes are the eyes for the fem
mime grace to please. Jewels and
toys, and the richness Of silks capti-
vate no man Of sense or taste, and
add not a charm to nature, but calico
heightens and brightens, and softens
and makes a fellow feel good when
he sees it. And besides it costs o
wonderful sight less
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

NATURE AND Power OF CoMETs--Al-
though comets occupy an immense
space in the heavens, surprising mil
lions of leagues, yet, on account of
absence of atmosphere in. those re-
gions permitting fluids to be infinitely
rarefied, the matter of these bodies is
reduced to the most feeble proportions.
Sir John Herschel says, that the tail
of large comet as far as any idea
can be formed of it, is composed of a
few pounds of matter, and, perhaps,
only few ounces. And NJ. Babinet,
well known in both hemispheres as
one of the greatest authorities of the
age, in physical astronomy, has gone
SO far in respect to this subject as to
say that the earth, in coming in col
lision with comet, would be no more
affected in its stability than would 9
railway train coming in contact will
f1y.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

RATHER STRoNG.-"Why is it my son,
that when you drop your bread and
butter, it is always the buttered side
down."
81 don't know. 1t hadn't ought to,
had it? The strongest side ought to
be uppermost, hadn't it, Ma? and this
yere is some of the strongest butter l
ever seed"
Hush up; it's some of your aunt's
churning."
did she churn it? The great lazy
thing !"
What, your aunt? ?"
This yere butter-to make that
poor old woman churn it, when it's
strong enough 10 churn itself"
BE still, Ziba, it only wants work
ing over"
"Well, marm, if rs you, when I did
it, I'd put in lots of molasses."
"You good-for-nothingl Eve ate
a great deal worse in the most aristo-
cratic New York boarding houses"
" Well, marin, people of rank ought
to eat it,
Why people of rank!"
"'Cause it's rank butter"
" You varmint you! What makes
you talk so smart 2"
"The butter has taken the skin off
my tongue, mother"
"Ziba, don't lie. | can't throw the
butter away. 1t don't signify.
"Fll tell you what I'd do with it,
I'd keep it to draw blisters. You ought
to see the flies keel over and die as
soon as they touch it"
"Ziba, don't exaggerate but here's
twenty-five cents, go to the store and
buy u pound of fresh."-New York
Picoyune.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
LADY PoLrrIcIANs.-In the recen

LADY PoLu1crANs.-In the recent
parliamentary election, in England,
women seem to have been unusually
active, Lady John Russell contribu-
ted much to her husbands reelection
by visiting the different polling booths,
with her smiles and courtesies among
the electors. Lady Mildred Hope is
believed to have carried the election
of her husband for Maidstone. She
did not exactly canvass for him, but
all through the election she was con-
stantly driving about the town she
also was most active at the nomina-
ton and during the polling, and at the
close, unable to restrain herself any
longer she threw up the window Of
the hotel, and addressed the mob in a
speech which everybody agreed, was
better than her husbands, delivered
Immediately afterwards from the same
place.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

GETTING TO HEAVEN BY WAY OF NEW
ORLEASs.-The Philadelphia correspon-
dent of the New York Dispatch gives
the following:
We have Methodist preacher here
who is jolly wag. A few days ago,
a young man who had long been at
tached to his church, and who was
about to leave for New Orleans, came
to bid his pastor farewell.
And so you are going to that de-
generate place, New Orleans, are your
"Yes, sir; but don't expect to be
influenced by any extraneous pressure
of any kind responded the young
man, with considerable earnestness.
Well, am glad to see you so con-
fident. | hope the Lord will guide
you. But do you know the tempta,
tions which exist there y
Not particularly y, sir"
"Well, | do. You'll find wanton
women in the guisc Of Peris, tempting
the very elect; and rare wines, and
ardent drinks and you'll find gay
company and night brawling, and
gambling, and dissipation, and run
ming after the lusts OF the old man
ADAM"
"Still, sir, l hope to combat these
successfully"
IL hope you will, my dear Christian
brother" was the reply. Il hope YOU
will. And let me give you this mucl
for your consolation in case you shouls
fall from grace. The tempter Is mucl
worse than the sin, and the create
the temptation, the more merit there
is in resisting it. The man who Goe'
to Heaven by ,cdy Of Nep Orleans, i
sure to have twice as high a place IL
eternal glory as he who reaches pal
adise through the quiet portals of Cor
necticut or Pennsylvania"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

LOUISIANA SUGAR-The following from
the Cincinnati Commercial does not
accord with reports heretofore receiv-
ed from louisiana:
w are informed by gentlemen Of in
telligence that should the season prove
favorable, there will he larger crop
of sugar produced this year in Louis
lana than in any preceding year. He
says wider breadth Of land has been
planted, and greater attention will be
paid to the culture of the cane-the
high prices stimulating each planter to
extra exertions.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

NorcH BROOK PEARLs.-The story
goes that it was Jersey farmer who
first discovered that the muscles of
the streams Of Passaic county may
contain pearls equal to those of Ceylon.
He has muscles from Notch Brook for
his breakfast. A large fine muscle he
put into his mouth with gusto. At
the first bite his teeth struck against
something hard, when he opened his
mouth with vexation, and out dropped
a pearl as big as the largest sized
marble. But the lustre of the pearl
was dim, for it was cooked, and he
sighed and regretted that he had not
eaten the muscle raw If he had done
so, the precious mouthful which he did
not swallow would have been worth
to HIM about twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
Since that, Notch Brook has been
dragged, and scraped, and raked, and
fished in, and dove into, and rumors
Of the treasure trove" have been
scattered far and wide. The Courier
and Enquirer states, upon the author
ity of Tiffany & Co. that for the larg-
est more than 81, 200 was paid
The largest pearl yet found in the
muscles of the Notch Brook is perfect
sphere, as large as a medium sized
marble, very brilliant, and its un-
doubted merchantable value is So, 900.
In Europe, where connoisseurs in
pearls are more numerous than here,
it is believed THAT its value would be
considerably larger. One hundred
dollars each have been paid for con-
siderable number of the pearls Of much
smaller size, which have been found
in the Notch Brook of Patterson-Al-
bany Journal.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

A good wife will never suffer her
husbands attention to be disturbed
by details to which her own time and
talents are adequate. If she be
prompted by true affection and good
sense, she will perceive when his
spirits are borne down and overwhclm-
ed i; she, of all human beings, can
minister to his needs. For the sick
soul her nursing is quite as sove-
reign as for its corporeal ills. If it be
harrassed and worn to q morbid irri-
liability, her gentle tones steal over it
with soothing, more potent than the
most exquisite masic. If every enter
prise be dead, her patience and forti-
tude have the power to re-kindle them
to encounter with the tolls and
trobules of life.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
poetrp.
Night.
BY ASHLEY ToRRENs.

Darkness hath much divinity for me-"
Sitting in silence in the dark,
The spirit strikes flaming spark,
That like the meteors of this soul,
Through all the heaven of being roll.
The orb of reason, fixed, intense,
Revolves about the starry sense;
While the emotions clustering glide,
And flood the spirit, Ikea tide.
1t conjures up the voices past,
Strikes off the fetters death hath cast,
The futures dark horizon clears
Of her slow-coming grief and fears.
The torturing life of care is bred,
Where the sun-liveried moments tread !;
But peaceful night, thy shapes are fair
AS ever trod the aisles of air.
At thy slow touches of repose,
The gates of sorrow softly close;
The fastest chains that tyrants wove,
Melt in the sleeper's dream of love.
The morrow's s sun repeats the woe,
The evening sees their overthrow,
And at the signs of wasteful strife,
Go gladly to forgetful life.
So in the future, may each morn
OF far higher life be born,
That what we lose of Hope in this
May there be turned to perfect bliss.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

EXCESSIVE SMoKISG.-A writer in the
London Lancet, after full discussion
of the consequences Of the immode-
rate use Of tobacco, recapitulates by
saying that to smoke early in the
day; to smoke, as people are general
ly constituted, more than one or two
pipes of tobacco, or one or two cigars
daily, or to smoke in youth, is an in
furious excess in the use of tobacco.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

RUNNING THE COMET INTO THE GROUND
The Indianapolis Journal advances
new and very striking theory Of the
Aurora Borealis, viz, that comet has
sometime hit the earth at the North
ern Pole, and run into Symme's hole.
leaving it's tail sticking out, the flap
ping OF which makes aurora light.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11

Woman's sphere is home. Her ed
ucation should be such as will fit her
for her life's duties quite prominent
among these comes the art of house
keeping. A thorough knowledge Of
both the theory and practice Of this
art, is no lower, no less imperative
than intellectual culture.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-11
2usiness 0irettorp.

Business Cards Of five lines lc@ will be inserted in
his column for IS per annum. For each additional
line, over FIVE one dollar will be- charged.