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St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
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Bachelors Kisses,

Bachelors Kisses.
Sitting tonight in my chamber,
A bachelor, frigid and lonely,
kiss the end of my pipe-stem-
That and that only.
Reveries rise with the smoke wreaths
Memories tender surround me;
Girls that are married or buried,
Gather around me.
Schoolgirls in pantalets romping
Girls that have grown to be misses
Girls that liked to be kissed, and
Liked to give kisses:
Kisses-well remember them!
Those in the corner were fleetest.
Sweet were those ION the sly" in tn,
Dark were the sweetest.
Anna has gone on a mission
or to the South Sea sinners;
Nell is widow, keeps boarders, and
Cooks her own dinners.
Charlotte and Susan and Hattie,
Mary Jane, Lucy and Maggie;
-Four are married and plump, two
Maluen ana scraSSy.
Carrie is dead Bloom sweetly,
Ye migonettes, over her rest!
Her loved dearly and truly,
Last and the best.
Thus I sit smoking and thinking,
A bachelor, frigid and lonely.
kiss the end of my pipe stem
That, and that only!
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

Gov. MARCy's FAvoRrrE BooKs-How

Gov. MARcy's FAvoRrrE BooKs-How
HE DIEp.--A correspondent of the n. Y.
Post writes of Gov. Marcy
ellis old books and his old friends
were his constant solace, and when he
stopped at the antique, shaded hotel
at Ballston, where he died, it was no
ticed how he would take his chair out
under the wide spreading elms, and
entertain his landlord and the plain,
old.fashioned people who gathered
about him, delighted with the pleasant
stories which he told, and the philo-
sophie humor and shrewdness, and so
cial feeling which twinkled in his
keen, bright eye. At other times, he
would return to his room, as his Gus
tom was, and taking up some favorite
old author, Che rarely read modern lit
erature, Milton, Shakespeare, Hervey,
among the poets South, Barrow or
Robert Hall among divines his French
edition Of Machiaval, "a favorite work,
by the way, Of Senator Seward, or
Bacon, among philosophic writings,
and would read until he fell asleep.
And this, indeed, was the way in
which he fell asleep on the noon Of In
Day. He had retired to
his chamber, put his boots in the
usual corner, put on his dressing gown,
and laying down with Knights edition
of Bacons Essays-a small red quar-
to volume-with illustrations. When
he was found, he was still on his bed
his eyes were quietly closed, on one
side were the spectacles, on the other
the well-remembered snuff box, and
open on his breast lay the book he SO
much loved-that immortal epitome of
human wisdom--the Essays of Bacon,
and over it were clasped his hands,
it to his heart. Such was
his final slecp-peaceful, serene, and
worthy of so great life-in the midst
Of the thunders which commemorated
the birthday of the nation whose fame
and power he had done so much to
uphold and extend.
What page it was on which the
volume was opened, l know not.
Perhaps it was on that most appropri-
ate passage where the great philoso-
pher thus discourses "of Death"
A mind fixed and bent on some
what that is good. doth avert the do
lors of death but above all, believe
It, the sweetest canticle is nune dem
mittis,' when a man hath obtained
worthy ends and expectations"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

DECIDEDLY RIcH.-The richest Joke
of the season has just been announced.
Shortly before the Fourth, Hon. Horace
Mann received letter from a young
man in Indiana, who said he had been
invited to deliver a Fourth of July
oration, and offered him two dollars II
he would write it We thought edi
tors received the coolest epistles oI
anybody, but this beats the world.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

Cases of brutal treatment of wives
by husbands are becoming more and
more common daily. The last and
most shocking one chronicled in the
papers, is that of a man named Mar
ten, who lately married . woman
named MARTIN, and in that way knock.
ed out her eye on the Gerry day Of their
mayriags! Infamous
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

II was hot at the moment" said
man, when asked why he had commit
ted an assault. "and SO I struck the
fellow" We all know that percus-
sion generally produces heat-but, in
this instance. the heat produced the
percussion.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

Jones (who thinks that Smith has
been little too free y" Mr. Smith, l
wish to speak to you privately. Per-
NIT me to take you apart for few
moments. Smith, (who isn't in the
least frightened. y" Certainly, sir, if
you'll promise to put me together
again."
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

A LADY TRAVELLING ON HER NERVE
Lola Montez in Baggage CARVE
hear that the dashing Countess of
Landsfelt created quite sensation on
a train of cars between Niagara Falls
and Buffalo last Friday. She was
going from the Falls to Buffalo, and
feeling inclined for smoke, made her
way from the passenger Car, where,
to the horror of the railroad men there
congregated, she drew forth delicate
little case, took from it a fragrant ci.
garette, lit it, and composed herself
on pile Of baggage for it's comforta-
bic enjoyment. The GOODNESS and
abandon of the independent Lola
struck the men in authority speeches.
for while, but one of them soon found
voice enough to insinuate to the lady
that her presence in that car could
not be allowed, and it was entirely
contrary to the rules of the road. The
gritty" countess turned look of
the most sovereign contempt upon the
stwalart baggage smasher, and with
out the least emotion replied that she
had travelled all over the United States,
and had made it point to travel in
whatever car she pleased that for
the time being it was her pleasure to
travel in that car, and that she should
not leave it until the train entered
Buffalo that she had cowhided better
men than any Of those she saw pres
ent, and could upon occasion perform
the same feat again The "boys y
were aghast; Lola took the matter
easily, and never stirred from her po-
sition, but there was lurking devil
in her eye whose spring it was deem
ed best not to provoke, and the spunky
lady was suffered to enjoy her position
during the trip to the city without
further molestation.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

BRIGHAM YouSG's Personal APPEAR
ANcE.-In person he is above the me-
dunn height, and a little inclined to
corpulency He is dressed in black
cloth, and although the air is very
warm, he is we'll wrapped up in an
overcoat His habits of life make him
very sensitive to the slightest change
in the atmosphere. He has suffered a
good deal in his younger days, and
with this and the cares of his family
for his children are very refractory
begin to weigh heavily upon him.
His constant struggles and difficulties
with the United States officers, not on
ly try his patience, but also wear his
body. His consuming anxiety about
his object of ambition-the establish
ment of an independent kingdom-and
his efforts to maintain the people in
constant and implicit submission, are
sufficient to leave their mark on any
mans physique. He is now fifty-six
years old +; and, although young look
ing in features, still evinces his age in
person. His face is Indicative of PEN
etration and firmness. Some ladies
think him handsome but his lower
lip, if nothing else, eminently betrays
the sensual voluptuary
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
Now that the comet has whizzed by


'.Ten million cubic miles of head,
Ten billion leagues of tall
some editors, whose teeth chattered,
and whose flesh crept, in anticipation
Of its approach, are waxing exceeding
valiant, and defiantly exclaim, "who's
afraid?" Others more consistently
express their relief at its departure, in
grateful strains, as the poet Of the
New Orleans Crescent:
Crate Comick ,yure goin! With grateful feelin'
approximate the fack, and wish yer pleasant
Jurny. With my telespoak, I've wotcht yure
Moshuns and Tme free tu say like the
Aspect of yure tale mutCh moar nor that NV
Yure phigger head.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

The New York Tribune announces
that Bayard Taylor, the distinguished
traveller has found the Ell Dorado he
has SO long been seeking. He is afi-
anced and is shortly to be married to
Miss Marie Hansen, daughter Of the
eminent German Astronomer.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

Cool AND RIoH.-The telegraph re.
ports from Washington that the Presi-
dent recently received the following
letter. Whether concocted or genuine
"a work of art or nature-it is a
good thing of its kind 1t is either a
faithful picture of rustic and unsophs.
ticated human nature. or good satire
on our system Of post Office admin
istration:
CRAWFORD COUNTY, April 80, 1857.
Mr.. Buchanan-Dcar Sir: :-Mr.-
is the Postmaster at this place, and
he is gone out West, and has been
gone for three or four weeks, and he
has no deputy here, but have been
opening the mails and attending to it
since he has heen gone, as he left the
key with me and the Postmaster
told me that l must make a report at
the end of every month, and did not
tell me who l was to write to, but l
suppose it is to you we should make
our reports, as we are all citizens Of
the government of which you are now
President. If you are not the right
one to receive the report, please drop
me few lines, letting me know who
l am to report to, and l will write
again.
REpoRr.-The weather is cold for
the season.-provisions scarce and
high-but Notwithstanding all we
have regular mails once week, good
health, and the people of the country
are universally pleased with your ad-
ministration; this is all l know that
would interest you; if there is any.
thing omitted in my last report, please
let me know. Ny best respects to
you and Mrs. Buchanan.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

The papers which have been for
some time prognosticating great f.
nancial crash are generally abandon
ing the ides.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

When we see pretty female foot,
we naturally conclude that it belongs
to . beautiful woman-on the princi-
pie that call is well that ends we'll"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

An Irishman in Philadelphia, while
chasing q mosqueto from his premises,
jumped out of . third story window
after IL and was seriously injured
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

ELOQUENT ExrRAcr-The following
passage on Shakespeare is from a
lecture on the philosophy of life, by
VIM. Winter, Esq, of Cambridge:
".Eor the grandest human intellects
there is ND exemption from the COM
mon doom. Ihave sometimes ti,Sash ht
how sad, yet how sublime, must have
been the emotions of that man, whose
privilege it was to stand by the coffin
of Shakespeare, and gaze on that sweet,
noble face, when death had called
out all the strange beauty, which
never lives till then. 1t was worth
lifetime to have laid your hand on
that broad brow, and started at the
cold chill, and SO pausing, to have
called up in memory all the magnifi-
cent creations of his genius, and
him there in the silence
and the gloom:
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

Is IT PRoPsR? Under the head Of
"csr,ess items" IN exchange paper
contains . notice Of soossbeyy;es
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
"Buf he is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels q stone"

So they all go. Man dies, but ma
ture is eternal. The seasons keep
their appointed time. Day returns
with his golden splendor, and night
with its eloquent mystery. The same
stars which lit the CHASTITY battle field
of Troy-rough with the dead bodies
Of ancient heroes which shone on the
marble streets of imperial Rome, and
on the sad eyes of Virgil, sleepless in
the glow of inspiration-the watch
fires of the angels, which through
centuries of devastation and change
have still burned on increasingly
speaking to us as they did to Dante,
Shakespeare and Milton Of the glory,
the beauty and the omnipotence of
God"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

An Albany merchant has been sued
by married lady, who lays her dam
ages st $4,000, for kissing her against
her will.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
3usintss 4irtttorp.

Business Cards Of Ave lines less will be inserted In
shis column for o. pcr For each additional
Ass, over Hvs one dollar will be charged
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
/. c. LEE, JNO. II. KINNAIRD
LEE & kINNAIRD,
Bankers and Land agents,
MCGREGoR, Iowa.
JOSHUA JACKS(

JOSHUA JACKSON,
Justice of the Peace,
Office on Clark Street, one door South of the
st. Charles Hotel
Collections made and acknowledgements ta-
ken. All business entrusted to him will be
promptly attended to.
slm3) u. cnARLss, TLoYD CO., IOWA.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
JOSHUA JACKSON,
GENERAL COLLECTING AGENT

GENERAL COLLECTING AGENT.
n. CHARLES, FLOYD Co, .......... IOWA.
win slso nav particular attention 10 paying
Thxes on Nonresident Lands in Floyd and i'd
ioining Counties. Land Warrants located
Lands bought and sold on Commission, &C.,
kc. References will be given when required.
OG
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06

FERGUSON, EASTMAN & CO.,
BANKERS,
Dealers in Exchange and Land Agents,
r. CiIARLs. FLOYD CO.. IOWA.
Sight Drafts on the East for sale at low rates,
and money remitted to any part of Europe.
Interest allowed on special deposites collec-
tions made and promptly remitted; paper dis
counted and
LAND WARRANTS
Bought, Sold and Located. for cash or on time,
n Northern Io,cd or Southern Minnesota.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
Particular Notice.

ICICUIUV xvVClC0s
AL mail matter, intended for this office, should bs di
rected to FIREMAN Posrory1cx, FLOYD COUNTY, Iowa.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-06
Gbt ynttuige1uer.
westward the course Of empire takes its way"
St. Charles, Iowa, August 6, 1867.

|. B. r. HrLpRErH 4 D. D. W. CARVER, EDITORS.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

CY-A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub-
lean writes from St. Joseph under date of
the 18TH THE emigration to Kansas re-
minds me of that to California, in the days
of its greatest allurements. Trains upon
trains are pouring in from every quarter, but
particularly from the free States | had once
thought, as used to write you, that Kansas
would be a slave State, but am now forced
TO alter my opinion from the overwhelming
evidences to the contrary that force them
selves upon me every day. Our ferryboats
are buslly engaged from daylight until dark
carrying over trains. and the proportion of
freesoil to the proslavery cmgrants is as if
teen to one This is not confined alone to
our point Of crossing but it is SO at every
other that can hear from, and it satisfies
me that the political destiny of Kansas 10
fixed beyond all question, and that another
year will fill all of her prolific plains with
thrifty population. Wars and rumors of wars
she will know no more. but peace will brood
over her beautiful prares, and prosperity
will reign throughout her borders. ! am
pro,slavery man, and would prefer to see my
favorite institution established there; but
am, nevertheless, convinced, that the ener
getic, enterprising Yankee will develope the
resources anu build up the country sooner
than we could do, and that by living in har
mony with them as our neighbors they will
do US no injury in our peculiar property.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

THE NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL.-In
reference to this very important member o:
the new Administration, the Washington
Globe, of the 7th ult. says:
We like the change making Mr.. Brown
Postmaster General, because he is man OF
untiring industry, and of great ability, both
mental and physical. 1t requires such man
to bring that department into order again
and to make it pay its own way, rs 1t should
do. Now 1t sinks an average of $4,000 a
day the year round, while the mails are be-
hind time in every section Of the country al.
most every day; and the people have to de-
pend on private enterprise for the latest news
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

SMALL IALK.-Nobody abuses small talk
unless he be stranger to its convenience
Small talk is the salt of life; there is no
getting on withoutit. There are times when
''tis folly to be wise," when little nonsense
is very palatable, and when gravity and sedate.
ness ought to be kicked down stairs. A
philosopher cuts poor figure in ballroom
unless he leaves his wisdom at home. Meta.
physics is as instructive in the midst Of agreen.
BILE pratte as a deaths head on festal board.
We have met with men who were too lofty
for small talk. They would never condes-
cend to play with rband or firt with fan.
They were above such triing;in other words,
they were above making themselves agree
able, above pleasing, and above being pleas
ed. They were all wisdom, all gravity, and
all tediousness, which they bestowed upon
the company with more than Dogbrrry's gen.
erosity. A man who cannot talk has no more
business in society than statue.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

MUTTos VS.. PoRK.-Physcians recon
mendrd mutton ms the most wholesome meat
the easiest dgested, and the best suited to
inva!ids, while pork, as every body knows is
the most un wholesome fish eaten. In Eng.
land mutton is fav orite dish, and we appre
hend ii is in this, rather than TO roast beef,
that the Englishman owes his robust health
and rosy complexion. Our people eat too
much pork and too little mutton. And yet,
as contemporary well remarks, "mutton can
be produced pound for pound at less than
half the price of pork; yields more nourish.
ment when eaten, and keeping sheep does
not exhaust a farm TO the extent feeding
hogs does. Sheep can be kept during the
winter on hay aud turnips, or mangel wurt.
eel, or sugar beet, while hogs will not do
without ut least some corn. We would like
to see in the papers ever accounts "f big pigs
aud more fat sheep-Portland Transcript.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

MOUND CITY Us. CAIRO.-Mound City, it is
understood, is to overshadow, swallow up
and annihilate the ancient city of Cairo. AT
least stockholders in the former hope so.-
Naturally enough Cairo is not pleased with
this programme, and the editor oe the Times
illustrates his individual opinion Of Mound
City by the following crcumstance:
We saw n couple betting high at draw
poker, the other night. The ante was two
niggers, and the little one had run up the
pot to n cotton plantation and three stern
wheel boats.
"I'l go you the City Of Sandoval BETTER
said the big one.
an see you with Mound City and call
you'll" said tother, triumphantly.
"Pshaw! that amt money enough" said big
bones.
"Well, I'll take that back, and bet you a
keg Of tar and blind horse"
"rhat'll do," said big bones, "but don't try
to ring Mound City in again, for want to
play decent game"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

Corn AS FuEL.-An Exchange reports
that n farmer about 100 miles south of CHI.
cago got out Of coal, and as the roads were
in bad condition, he thought he would try
the virtue of corn in the ear to supply the
place Of coal. 1t worked so well that sub.
sequenty he purchased load Of coal and
tried it by measure in contrast with the corn,
and the experiment developed the fact that
The corn fuel toas The cheapest and The best
The corn and the coal were worth the same
price per bushel, 80 cents each, and the corn
went the fur,hest anc made the clranest and
best fire. Much as we would regret to see
the sstaff Of life" converted into fuel, we
think il would be about us well as TO make
il into whisky.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

Mr.. CLAY "ERRED."-I In common with sew
era Of our American brethren, we are in
clined to give our Senator, Hon. c. c. Clay,
considerable credit for his acknowledgment
that he "erred" in taking the Kansas bill,
with its provisions in favor Of ~ wdturdiised
aliens. Few men have the soul to acknowl
edge errors Of the sort, and our Senator will
rise by his frankness, in public estimation.
But how many Administration papers will
:ell this story of Mr.. clay ut the confessions
al! Not one; for the acknowledgment, frank
and manly as 1t was, goes deeper than Il
seems nj first blush, and virtually admits the
necessity for an American Party. We shall,
at some early day, attempt the task OF show
ing that such necessity results from MIR.
CLAWS admission. Mail
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

The SUPREME CouRT.-The Supreme
Court Of the United States is constituted as
follows:
Roger B. Taney, of Maryland.
John Mclean, of Ohio.
James w. Wayne, of Georgia.
John Catron, of Tennessee.
Peter v. Daniel, Of Virginia.
Samuel Nelson, of New York.
Robert G. GrieI, Of Pennsylvania.
Benz. Robbins Curtis, of Massachusetts.
John A. Campbell, of Alabama.
or the foregoing, Messrs. Mclean and
Taney were appointed by General Jackson;
Messrs Cntron and Daniel BY hr. Van Blu.
ren; Mr.. Nelson by Mr.. Tyler; Mr.. Curtis by
Mr.. Fillmore, and Mr.. Campbell by General
Pierce. II will be seen that of the nine
Judges, five are from the Slave States, and
four from the Free.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03
TER VI s:

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Individuals will be charged as advertisement
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SEN Hotel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-04-03

ErDEMIc.-The OswegO Times says that
the extent of the new epidemic known by
the name of "brain fever" IS truly alarming
throughout Madison and Onondaga counties:
"A gentleman who has lately visited the
former county, states that in some localities
the people are leaving in alarm and dismay.
Persons are attacked with the remarkable
malady very sudd, My, soon become insane,
and die IN a few hours. We do not know
that any have.recovered when once attacked
by the disease. Duane Brown and Richard
Thomas, Esqs., two prominent lawyers Of
Madison county, have fallen victims to it, and
we ARE told in some Of the villages deaths
occur daily. As yet there is no rational ex
planation of the disense."