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St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
ST. CHARLES
Select School.

YNHE FIRST TERM of the St. Charles Sc.
l. lcct School will commence on the
First Monday IN May,
and continue in session S months, (2l weeks, }
with vacation of 2 weeks jim harvest.
RATES OF TUITION.
Primary Branches, (per SESSION. $500
Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, &C., 500
Higher Mathematics and Sciences, 1000
Latin and Greek, (academical cOurse,) 1900
Music, "wednesday evenings,) extra, 800
Room rent apportioned among the patrons
Deductions for loss of time, except in case OF
sickness, optional with the teacher. Terms
one half in advance and the balance at the
middle of the session Good boarding can be
had among the citizens, at reasonable rates.
A pleasant school room has been secured.
young ladies and gentlemen.
After several years experience in the Fast,
from the District School to the Academy, We
have made our home in the West, and from
past success flatter ourself that the coming
school, with care and effort on our part, and
the hearty cooperation of the friends of edu-
cation, will afford advantages for the youth of
both sexes not heretofore enjoyed in this part
Of Iowa, and we respectfully solicit the pat
ronage of the citizens Of Floyd and adjacent
counties, for our school.
For further information inquire of G. G..
Reiniger, Duncan Ferguson, A. B. +. Hildreth
and others in st. Charles; d. w. Poindcxtcr,
Mitchell j. w. VanOrman, Usage or address
J. NJ. BRAINARD, Teacher.
st. Charles, Floyd Co., Iowa,
April Is, 1857 3ltf
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

The POETRY OF PHYsIc. Pills, glide
sugar-shod, over the palate, but their energy,
although wrapped up, is there, and tells with
giant force on the foundations of disease.
There are thousands Of sufferers who would
not wear their distempers if they knew thew
could be cured for Is cts.-Try Ayers Pills,
and you will know it.
Purify the blood and diseases will be starved
out. Clense the system from impurities and
you are cured already. Take this best of all
purgatives, and Indigestion, Scrofula, Weak
ness, Headache, Backache, Sideache, Jaundice,
rheumatism, arrangements of the Liver, Kid
neys, and Bowels, all arrangements and all
diseases which purgative remedy can reach,
ny before them like darkness before the Sun
Reader if you arc suffering from any of the
numerous complaints they cure-suffer no
more.the remedy has been provided for you,
and it Is criminal to neglect It.
That Ayers Cherry Pectoral, is the best
medicine for Cough is known to the whole
world, and that Ayers Pills are the best of
Pills, is known to those who have used them
Prepared by DR.. j. C. Aver. Lowell, Mass :,
and sold by Druggists everywhere 25-m4
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

INDIAN WAR.-Mr. Cassman, resi-.
dent of Blue Earth, the seat of the In
dian War, was in our Office Tuesday.
He was only five days from Blue Earth
and brings intelligence that will take
the romance out of various letters that
have been written for Dubuque and
other City papers. We learn from Mr.
Cassman that not a single white per.
son has been killed in that vicinity,
and that the little excitement which
had existed consequent upon drunk
en- row between a party of Whites
and Indians, was entirely alIayed.-
Thus it will be seen that the great In
dian war, about which there has been
SO much excitement east of us, turns
out to be one grand humbug.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
"A. II. COAALINC, Tres Z.
WV. B. FAIRFIELD, Sec'y.

SPRING, beautiful spring, with its
buds, fragrant blossoms, and the cheer.
ing and ever changing music of birds,
is here /! The atmosphere is clear and
bracing, the evening, soft, balmy and
delightful. Already, farmers have
sown considerable quantities of wheat,
and are busily engaged in preparing
the soil for other crops. Everything
gives signs of active and busy life.
Buildings are rising in St. Charles, up.
on all sides, like magic. The chief OBJ
stacle is to obtain lumber from the
mills as fast as wanted, and mechan.
les to do the work. At present, our
two large hotels are crowded, and the
town is full of strangers seeking for a
stopping place that will shelter them
Our town is growing rapidly, and
when in few years the iron horse
and the shrill whistle shall waken the
deep echoes from the Mississippi to
the Cedar, who or what place shall
set bounds to our increase in size and
population Farmers and mechanics
are greatly needed. The soil around
us is of superior quality, easily cult
waited, and farm produce of all kinds
meets with a ready sale, at high pri.
ces. Mechanics wages are very high,
and only cash. Our stores are we'll
supplied with goods. The state of So
ciety is equal to any place of the size
in Iowa. In short, to all good citizens
seeking homes in the West, we would
say that FLOYD County is nearest to
an earthly Paradise.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

The proprietor of the Usage Demo
crat has been sued for libel by John
McSmith, the Recorder of Mitchell Co.
$40, 900 damages claimed. This is an.
other of the many attempts to muzzle
the press. 1t is an outrage of the
blacklist dye for man (?) to attempt
to put down paper which is the ad.
vocate of the best interest of the
County. The press which has come
here, the pioneer of civilization, should
be we'll guarded by those who wish to
sec our country grow in greatness and
in power.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

SELECT ScHooL.-We take pleasure
in calling the attention of the citizens
of St. Charles and vicinity to the pro.
ject of Mr.. Brainard fora Select School.
The District School will undoubtedly
be so large and crowded during the
Summer as to afford but limited ad-
vantages, especially to the advanced
class of scholars. Under these cir.
cumstances, we think it will prove
highly advantageous to the cause of
education to sustain the proposed
Select School. TO do this successful
ly will require prompt and efficient
action upon the part of those interest
ed and all should feel an interest
upon this subject. Mr.. Brainard is
we'll qualified, and what is more, a
successful teacher. May not this
School prove the nucleus for an Academy
in this town?
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
Public Road.

One of the most important improve.
ments demanded by the increasing
wants of st. Charles, and the country
west of us, is the immediate opening
of direct road connecting this point
with the Military Ridge road at Fort
Atkinson, and in view of the proposed
stage line about to be put in opera
ton between Nc Gregor and st. Charles,
it would be advisable to do something
at once towards cutting out and put
such road in good travelling condi-
ton. The distance to McGrcgor, ria
Fort Atkinson, is so much shorter than
ria Bradford, and the crossings of the
Wapsy's every way superior, that we
should turn our energies in this direc-
ton if we want a safe and reliable
road at all seasons of the year. The
time has gone by for us to be content
ed with the round about route that
we have heretofore been compelled to
travel. AS our business increases, so
must our facilities for doing it; and
time and distance must enter into our
calculations. Give us bridge across
the Cedar, and direct road eastward,
and we are then exactly on the line of
what will become the main East road,
and shall consequently get the entire
business that passes through instead
of having it diverted as it now is. An
expense Of from $500 to $500, will open
this road and put it in better order
than any portion of the old route be-
tween Bradford and West Union it
will also be passable at all times, and
comparatively free from the serious
objections against that road
Were this route now open, our mer.
chants would not be waiting for their
Spring supplies, nor the improvements
depending on their want, be delayed
We must have this new route opened
mac. Let us take hold and put it in
good shape, and when Walker & Co.'S.
four-horsc coaches make their appear.
ance let them have road that will be
no disgrace to St. Charles nor the
Counties in it's vicinity.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
The McGregOr Railroad.

The late Railroad demonstration in
our City has inspired us with renewed
hopes and placed our confidence in the
McGregor st. Peters & Missouri River
Railroad upon basis that is of the
safest and most reliable character
The policy they have adopted must
command the admiration of every re-
fecting man, and we fully endorse the
plan they propose to carry out in the
construction of this road. 1t is not a
new thing, but has been successfully
tried on the Milwaukee g. Mississippi
Railroad, which road in its financial
management stands far ahead of the
very best roads in the West. We
must take that road as a model, and
the same system that has succeeded
there will be found to be the true sys-
TEN for us to adopt here. The citizens
of Floyd County are willing to have
the McGregor Road built just where
the Directors propose to build it, AID
that is on the shortest and cheapest
line-a road that when finished can
have no superior. Private interests
are not to be consulted. 1t is for the
public good that this great enterprise
is to be carried out. We must have
the road built, the business of this
country calls for it, and we must come
forward and use our money, our sccu-
rites and our influence towards it's
construction. The benefit derived
from it will be enjoyed by all, and all
are interested in it's success. The pros
poets are bright we know we have
a fine field for a Railroad enterprise
we know we have the most magnifi
cent section of country in the West
we have class of citizens of the
most energetic and enterprising stamp
and we must come forward, one ant
all, take hold and work with all ou
wealth and strength, and falter not un
til the first notes of the Iron Horse
sweeps through the valley of the
Cedar.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

GEO. DYER & CO..

1876 East Water Street, Dlilwaukee, TIis.,
Manufacturers Wholesale aud Retail Dealers in
Saddlery, Saddlery Hardware,
CARRIAGE AND TRUNK TRIMMINGS,
RUNkS, VALISES,
Carpet Bags, Collars, Whips, Ely-Nets, Bells,
blankets, Horse Brushes, Curry Combs,
Cards, &C., &c., &c.
- ADDLES-MOre than 100 varieties of Side.
~ Spanish, Pad, Columbian, American and
English Saddles Also Brides, Martingales,
Girths, Stirrup Leathers surcinglcs, Crup-
pers, Halters, &c.
HA.RNEss,,Ieam, Wagon, Buggy, Gig, Car
rage, and Coach Harness.
COLI.ARS-Of all kinds and every quality.
SADDDERY HARDWARE-Embr a
great variety Of Bits, Stirrups, Buckles.
Hames, Trees, Terrets, Hooks, Fad Screws.
Cockeyes, Chains, Rosettes, Ornaments.
Iacks, Webbs, sc. Russct and Patent
Leather.
CARRIAGE MISUNDERSTANDING q va
riety of Bands, Clips, Props, Shaft Tips NAL
leable Irons, Enameled Cloth, Trimming
Cloths, Damasks, Laccs, Fringes, Silks,
Tufts. Buttons, Carpets, Oil Cloths, sc.
TRUNK IRIMMlNGS--Locks, Mvets, Hin
ges, Nails, Innings, SC.
Notwithstanding and Travelling Trunks.
valises, Carpet, Leather and Enameled
Cloth Travelling Bags, Ladies' Trunks and
Hat Boxes.
WHIPS.Twig, sulkey, Trotting, Gig, Wag-
on, and Coach Whips, covered Wood and
Raw Hide Team Whips Raw Hides, Hick-
DRY Stalks, Buck and Horse Hide Thongs, Ok
and Stage Lashes.
LEATHER AND SKINS-Russct Bride, and
Skirting Leather, Patent Skirting, Patent
Split Skirting, Flap, Blind, and Dash Leath-
er, Oil Top Leather, Enameled Top Leather,
Colored Enamcled Leather, Hog and Cha
mois Skins.
~ The attention of purchasers is called to
the above, as the goods are made and selected
with great care, and for sale at prices which
will compete with any in the West, ut 1876
East Water Street.
1y33 GEO. DYER SEQ.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
NO. 33.
Notice..
STATE OF Iowa, FLOYD COUNTY
Edward Vaughn In District Cour,

STATE OF lows, FLOYD COUNTY.
Edward Vaughn In District Court
Samuel P. Pearson. Flovd County.
To SAMUEL =. PEARSON:
Pursuant to an order of the Judge of said
District Court made ut the June term thereof,
A. d. 1856, you are hereby notified that OH
the 18th day of February, A. d. 1856, notice
was placed I'm the hands of the Sheriff of said
Floyd County, notifying You that there was
then on file in the office of the clerk of the said
District Court a petition of Edward Vaughn,
claiming of you the sum of S245,O4, with ten
per cent interest on sle5. O4 of said sum claimed
from September 22d, A. ID. 1884. and six per
cent interest on 5000 remainder of said sum,
from July 3Oth, A. ID. 1863 rs money due from
you to the said Edward Vaughn, on due bill
executed by you to William r. Hazard, dated
July Both, A. D. 1853 for $4,000, and three
promissory notes, executed by you to the said
Edward Vaughn, each for sci SO, dated 22d Of
September, A. d. 1854, and payable one in
four, one in eight, and one in twelve months
from date, with ten per cent. interest per an
mum, from date. That said petition is sworn
70 and asks that writ of attachment may 10
issued against your property, &C.. which notice
was returned at the June term of said District
Court, A. ID. 1856 by the said Sheriff, - Not
Found And that the following described
property, has been duly attached by the said
Sheriff, as your property, to wit; The south
east quarter of section thirty-six 1867 in town
ship nincty-six (96) north, range nineteen )19,
west of the fifth principal meridian and being
one hundred and sixty 16O acres more or less,
situate in the County of Cerro Gordo, in tho
State of Iowa.
And you are further notified that unless you
appear and answer to said petition on or before
the morning of the second day of the next terni
Of the said District Court, to he holden in said
Floyd county, commencing on the third Mon
day after the third Monday in May. A. ID. 1857
judgement will be rendered against you for
the whole amount, claimed in said petition
with interest therein stated and costs of suit.
w. W. MONTAGUE. triet Court Of
Floyd Co., Iowa.
G. G. RErNIaER. Attorney for Plf.
Dated st. Charles, April % A. u. 1857
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
Emancipation in Missouri.

The "emancipationists" Of st. Lou
is, Mo-, carried that city, by large
majority, at the recent charter cleo
ton. We do not wish to over-esti-
mate the Importance of the recent
election in Missouri but while it is
doubtless the fact that the local and
material interests of the city have con-
tributed to the result, it is none the
less true that this result is the enter
ing wedge which will ultimately split
off the system of slavery from the
State. The business men of St. Lou
is, and the owners Of real estate have
begun to fear that they will be swamp
ed by slavery. They have shown
great sagacity and foresight, and
seem determined that the cities of Chi
cago and Cairo (Which is yet destined
to be great city, in Illinois, and the
new neighboring city of Keokuk, on
the southern border of Iowa, both free
States, shall not take away their bust
ness with Illinois and Kansas, and re-
duce their city to fourth-rate town,
like Richmond, Virginia, where the bust
ness men have to depend alone upon
slave-holding customers.
The people of Missouri have begun
to look upon the slavery question as
one of dollars and cents and when
this practical view of the matter is
generally taken, it will not require
long to root out the system. The Mis-
sourians are satisfied that any State
where cotton and rice cannot be made
staple products, must continue to de.
cline in wealth and population, so long
as slavery exists therein. With the
growing conviction of the unprofta-
bleness of slavery, we may reasona-
bly, expect to see Missouri become,
within fifteen years, one of the most
fourishing free States in the Union.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
Railroad Meeting.

At a Railroad Meeting held at St.
Charles, Monday evening, April 9th,
Hon. A. L. Collins was appointed
Chairman, and VIM. B. Fairfield, Esq,
Secretary. The Chairman introduced
to the audience Hon. Jedcdiah Brown,
the Secretary Of the McGregor, st.
Peters & Missouri River Railroad
Judge Brown briefly reviewed the
course and action of the Company
since its first organization, and an
nounced that the Board of Directors
had laid down a plan Of action from
which they would not depart. To
show what this policy was, he read
the preamble to the subscription to
the stock of the Company, and then
stated that no subscription to the
stock would be received by the board
of Directors with any more conditions
attached than those expressed in the
above preamble. The Judge then in
troduccd to the audience Dea. Edmund
D. Clinton, one of the Directors of the
Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad,
who said he endorsed fully the policy
adopted by the Board of Directors, viz:
To build the road upon the most d.
rect route due West from McGrcgor
as stock, business and practicability
would permit. He dwclt forcibly upon
the causes of the failure of 80 many
roads; pointing out the causes and
showing wherein this road would es-
cape those causes. In illustration he
cited many roads in Wisconsin and the
Eastern States. In reference to the
cost of the road, he said he would be
glad of the opportunity to grade the
road from West Union to this place at
the price of 5000 per mile; and then
adding the cost Of the iron chairs and
spikes, (s,500) the road could be built
from that point to St. Charles at an
expense of only $ll 500 per mile. He
challenged any of the States to pro
ducc a road where nature had given
them more advantages. Dea. Clinton's
argument in favor of the practicability
and pecuniary advantage of this road
was clear and conclusive. He an.
Eounccd that the Directors were now
DESTROYS of receiving subscriptions
enough to the Capital Stock of the
road to enable them to make begin
ming. This stock is to be paid in foul
years, one quarter each year.
Mr.. Conger inquired if the bonds are
to be sold at a depreciation of SO per
cent, whether it would not be better
torevoke the vote of last fall and make
up the difference by private subscrip-
ton? Mr.. Clinton replied that he
should be unwilling to sell the bonds
for even Is per cent, and he should
hate to take the bonds at such sac
rifice. Judge Brown said that he
should not sell them for less than par
unless driven to it by some extraordi-
nary emergency. Mr.:Conger moved
topublishprococdings in the St. Charles
Republican lntelligencer. After some
remarks from Mr.. Ferguson, meeting
adjourned.
A. L. COLLINS, Pres't.
| WM 3. FAIRFIELD Sec,y.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

One great secret of DIR. Halls Balsam for thu
lungs, is in the fact that patients cured by it,
Use, feeling greatful for the preservation of thei
lives, cannot withhold the expression of thcil
gratitude from their afflicted neighbor; and
thus like the increasing size of snow ball ,as il
rolls onward, do the praises of this medicine,
as they pass from lip to lip increase to wide.
spread and universal popularity. Price. 81
per bottle, or for SIS. For sale in st. Charles,
by E. A. Haskell.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

Small Pox, Cholera and Yellow Fever ar
Justly dreaded, but the mortality from these
diseases is small compared to the vast multi
tude who fall victims to consumption. Wells
Pectoral Syrup of Wild Cherry will cure every
disease of the lungs There is nothing like it
Price 81, or six for IS. T.. NJ. Wells, propri
etor, Chicago.
Sold in st. Charles by E. A. Haskell, ant
by one or more agents in every city and town
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

The dwelling house of E. Stoddard
of Rock Grove, Floyd Co., was burned
on Tuesday night, the 2lst inst. The
fire was communicated to the building
from the stove pipe which passed
through the roof. The family barely
escaped--saving nothing but tn,
night clothes they had on.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

FIRE ON THE fRAIRlEs.-The prairies
In this vicinity have been burning
during the past week. In the eve
nlng the flames as they sweep along,
swallowing up the dry grass, present
a grand spectacle.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

Henry j. Adams, Free State Candi-
date, has been elected Mayor of Leav-
enworth, Kansas, by $50 majority
over all.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
Delinquent Taxes.
ME TAX Upon THE FOLLOW.

HE IAA UPUN HE FULLUW-
ing list of lands and Town lots,
levied for the year 1866, stands
L upon the assessment roll delin-
quent for that year. Notice is hereby
given that said lands and town lots
will be sold at public sale, for the
taxes accruing thereon, at the Court
House door, in St. Charles, Floyd
County, Iowa, between the hours Of Q
o'clock A. NJ, and 5 o'clock, P. NJ, COM
mencing on Thursday, the 2Sth day Of
May, and to continue until all is sold,
unless sooner paid.
JOSHUA JACKSON,
Treasurer of Floyd County, Iowa.
April p, 1857.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

Iowa City elected Democratic
Mayor at the recent charter election.
A majority of the council, are also
Democratic.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

Aaron Burr defined law to be -
:" Whatever is boldly asserted and sue
cessfully maintained"
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

BALD HEADS, ATTENTION can raise q
most luxuriant crop of hair by the simple use
of Prot. Woods Hair Restorative, which is for
sale by all druggists. Sold in St. Charles. by
E. A. Haskell.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

The man whose feelings were "work
ed up" has ordered fresh supply.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30

The Dubuque Express & Herald says that the
Democratic State ticket is elected.
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-30
BREWER & PECK,
Wagon and Carriage Makers,
VEST UNION. DWI

V75o1 U-VzV-V, 10 VIII
"IAGONS, Carriages, &C., of various de-
w scriptions constantly on hand and for
SALE Farmers and Transfers Wagons made
of the best material and in the most thorough
manner, at from $50 to 500. 3Otf