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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-01-28
AYERS
CHERRY
PICTORIAL,
FOR THE RAPID CURE OF
Colds, Coughs, and
HOarSeneSS.

BR1xyIErD, Mass, 10th Dec, 1885.
DR. J. c. AYEs: / do not hesitate tosay
the best remedy I have ever found for
Coughs, Hosrseness, Influenza, and the
concomitant symptoms of Cold, is your
CHERRY PEcroRAL- Its constant use in
my practice and my family for the last
ten years has shown it to possess supe-
rior virtues for the treatment Of these
e-,rnrra;,&e FREy KNIGHT MD
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-01-28

IN Friday, the zSsia DAY Of Feb.

" ruary. ls5S. VIII sell on the prem
ises, at pnblic sale. on a ereditof one, two. and
three years, TRACT, OF Land Delonging,
to the estate OF Peter Ashbs. deceased, and
boun led as foilows:--on the. North BY The
land of George Brown, on the South BY the
land Of Widow Cornell. on-the West " the
land Of james and William Keiih-eoutsin-
ing abont IS acres, and being the greater part
of the land said Ashby purchased under q
decree of the Chancery Court Of Lincoln coau-
Ity. at the sale Of the lands Of Henry H. Pamp-
lin. deceased.
Bond and security required Of the pureha-
ser, aud lien retained until the purchase
money is paid
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
The English Bill.

Notwithstanding the President has
declared that he will decapitate
every Office holder" who does not go
the $4,000 feature of the English Kan
sas Bill, it is asserted that the author
of that bill--no less a parsonage than
the illustrious English himself-has
rcpudiated it in his. Congressional
canvass in Indiana, in order to save
his neck. 1t seems to be quite as bad
tn have ones neck wrune by the pco-
pie AS to be decapitatcd" by the
Executive guillotinc.
The English bill, which was finally
adopted by Congress as the Admins
tration method for disposing of the
Kansas question, contains the follow
ing extract
"But should a majority of the votes
be cast for the proposition rejected,
it shall be deemed and held that the
people of Kansas do not desire adlhis-
sion into the Union under the said
Constitution, under the conditions set
forth in said proposition ; and, in that
event, the people of said Territory are
hereby authorized and empowered to
form for themselves a Constitution
and State Government, under the
name of the State of Kansas. accord
ing to the Federal Constitution, and
may elect delegates for that purpose
whenever, and not before, it is ascer-
tanned, by "a census duly and legally
taken, that the population Of said Ter
ritory equals the ratio of representa-
ton required for a member of the
House Of Representatives of the Uni
ted States" &c.
A distinguished Southern Senator
lately declared hat the South had
been most egregiously fooled in this
whole affair. Said he, ave have been
fooled into playing second to a set of
gentlemen who wanted to DESTROY
Douglas, and into the worst pcrsccu-
ton of our best friends in the North {:
and now, after being committed to all
this sort of injustice, we are to be de-
serted on the basis of the very com-
promise offered to us by the Admins
tration; for he added, II hare no doubt
that Representative candidates in The North
are Instructed 10 go against the English
Till IN order to be elected"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

DEATH TO THE DEAD-HEADs.-By the
recent convention Of railroad officers
at Philadelphia it has been agreed to
cut off ALL free passes, without dis,
tinction. Editors, Legislators, Judges,
county commissioners, and all sorts OF
"dcad-heads" will have to pay cash,
or stay at home, after this wcek.-E1.
change.
Not one Of the railroads here repre-,
scented was built, nor could it have
been built, without the aid of the press.
Whenever q new railroad is started,
the press is everywhere importuned
to do what it can to influence public
opinion in favor of the enterprise.
Having made cats-paws of the editors
and got their roads built, the "soul-
less corporations have no further use
for the press, and are unable to recog-
nize its representatives afterwards.
The true way is, for editors to make
railroad companies pay for every arti-
Gle published III their behalf, as they
would for an advertisement.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
Geology.

DR.. Hitchcock, the distinguished and
learned geologist of Massachusetts,,
argues that science, no less than the
Bible, distinctly places man among the
most recent of created things. The
surface Of the earth is found to be
composed, to the depth of some eight
or ten miles, of rocks. These rocks
are full of the remains of animals and
plants. Thirty thousand species of
them, which differ from any living
species, have been disintcrred, yet,
says DIR. Hitchcock, we never find
among them human remains until we
reach the loose soil-alluvium-which
ON all sides is granted to be of very
recent origin. The remains Of other
animals are found several thousand
feet below the surface, while the fos-
sill remains of man are believed never
to have been found SO low as one hun
dred feet below the surface. But if
man had been in existence when these
other animals lived, whose remains
were found at su h depths, his re-
mains would also have been found
there. His bones are of the same
structure as theirs, and no less likely
to resist destruction-for, upon ancient
battle fields are found mingled the
bones of men, horses, elephants, all in
the same stages of decay or preserva-
ton.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
Hon. f. H. Williams.

Judge Williams, the Republican
candidate for Judge of this Judicial
District, was in town last week. He
appeared to be in excellent spirits and
was sanguine of his election. The
Republicans are united in his favor,
and zealously laboring for his election
in all the counties of the District ex-
cept Clayton, and it is said that the
detection in that county will be more
than counterbalanced by the large ma
jority which he will receive in Win
neshiek county alone. In Allamakec
the Democrats have a small majority
the Republican vote there, however,
will be q unit. Fayette county is
doubtful. In all the five counties ly-
ing in the valley of the Cedar River
the Republicans will give him a hand
some majority. This being the case,
Judge Williams election by a hand
some majority, would seen to be
placed beyond a doubt.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

We apprehend great damage from
prairie fires the present fall. There
was little or no fire last autumn, and
there is now "a large vegetable growth
upon the ground. Every thing is be-
coming exceedingly dry, and immedi-
atcly after the frosts have killed the
grass and other heritage, the fires will
begin to run. In our travels this fall
we have not seen a single stack of
hay Or grain in any way protected
from the fires, either by blowing or
burning around them. Why will far
mers be SO negligent in taking care
of their property, when they know to
a certainty that in a few minutes a
fire may sweep away their entire ear
nings for the season, unless some pro-
lection is provided? A word to the
wise is sufficient.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
FLOYD County Bible Society.

At a meeting of the Floyd County
Bible Society-as previously organ
ized--at st. Charles City, Sept. It'll,
a constitution was adopted.
1t was also Resolved
LIST. To authorize the Secretary to
report the proceedings and officers OF
the Society to the parent Society at
New Iork-as it had not been rccog-
nizcd by the latter as an auxiliary.
ID. To append the namcs of those
present to the Constitution.
Sd. That the Depository of the So
cicty be at the store of IIildrcth &
Carver, in st. Charles City.
4th. That the proceedings of the
meeting be published in the lntelli-
telligenccr.
9th. That the Society adjourn, to
hold its annual meeting at st. Charles
City, on the second Monday Of Feb
ruary, 1859. j. w. SMITH,
Secretary.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

INTERESTING TO NEWSPAPER ProPRIE-
roRs.-Onc of the courts of the State
of Indiana recently made a decision
which is of interest to all newspaper
proprictors throughout the Union. \
controversy existed relative to a
charge for advertising between the
Commissioners of Hamilton county and
the Patriot newspaper. 1t was held
by the Judge that the published
terms of newspapers constitute a con-
tract. If work is given to newspa-
per publishers, without a special con-
tract contravening the published terms,
the publisher can charge and receive
according to the terms published. 1t
is not necessary to prove what the
work cost or is worth (; the publishers
have a right to fix the estimate value
of their columns and if so fixed, no
other questions need be asked, but the
price thus charged can be recovered"
This is understood to be a east where
the County Commissioners refused to
pay the bill for advertising lands which
were to be sold for delinquent taxes.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

Why is it that the Washington
Union does not read Henry \. Wise
out of the Democratic party? 1t is
all the time engaged ostracising Doug
las with the fact patent that Governor
Wise is quite as r~esolutely against
the Kansas policy of the administra-
ton as Judge Douglas himself. The
Unions thunder, however, is reserved
for Northern men only. Col. Keitt
may rave at the President in choice
Italian (; the New Orleans Delta may
encore, and Governor Wise may differ
in the boldest manner from the policy
of the administration, and yet the
Union is silent and satisfied +; but wo
upon Douglas, Haskin, Hickman, Bro
derrick, and McKibbin. They are
Northern men, and, therefore, are ex.
pected to be obedient, o to be excom'
municatcd.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
Perfection of Sorghum.

In proof that cane which produces
ripe seed loses its sweetness and
juice, and becomes dry and pithy,
would simply say that made it my
particular business, while my cane
was growing, to determine it's pecu-
liarities, so far as / could, that might
know how to cultivate it profitably.
! cut stalks every few days, after it
tasseled ont, until dead ripe, and found
that before the seed was full in the
milk, the juice had a %grecnish, I'M
pleasant taste, and the inner portion
Of the stalk was about as sweet as
sugar candy, and the stalk perfect.
When the seed began to turn dark on
the tip Of the heads, | found a small
hollow forming in the centre of the
stalk next to the head, and as the seed
.ipened this extended down the stalk
from one-half to two-thirds its entire
length, and the stalk had q pithy ap-
pearance. The juice about this hol-
low became fiat and insipid, and tasted
very much like the last run of maple
sap, after the buds have started. The
lower joints of this same stalk would
usually remain sound and very sweet,
while the upper portion, as the seed
ripened, became nearly dry, and very
much resembled the inside of a ripe
corn-stalk. From these observations
] came to the conclusion that when
the seed is fully formed and about to
turn dark, then the stalk is at the
highest state of perfection for use,
and will make either sugar or syrup,
rs you desire-that after the seed ri
pens it becomes unfit for syrup or
Sugars. Z. CHAPMAN.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

We have received two or three num-
bcrs of the Davenport Daily Times, a
very neatly executed and ably con-
Quoted Republican newspaper, recent
ly started at Davenport. The edito-
rial force consists of j. X. Mills, n.
Ii. Parker, and w. Y. Clark. Mr..
Mills was from Holyokc, Mass. ; Mr..
Parker is the author of Iowa AS it
is" &c. ; Mr.. Clark is unknown to us.
We shall be happy TO exchange with
the Times, and if its paste and wrap
per" man will send to st. Charles City,
in Floyd county, instead of st. Charles
in Madison county, we shall undoubt-
eddy receive the numbers regularly.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
A, R. r. mLDRErH < n. D. W. CARVER, EDITORS
st. Charles City, Iowa, Oct. Z, 1865.
Sorghum Manufacture.

The manufacturers of molasses from
the Chinese Sugar Cane, in this vi
cinity, have experienced some difficult
ty in clarifying the juice of the cane
Sc as to remove the acid or tart taste
from the strip. Some have used lime,
and others saleratus or pearlash, and
yet the molasses would have a sharp
acid favor.
Mr.. Harwood, of this town, has
been experimenting, and on Monday
brought into Jul Office a sample of
strip that he had just made from
which the sourness was nearly if not
wholly removed. The acid being ex-
tracted or neutralized, we have no
doubt the strip can be graduated and
good sugar made from it. Mr.. Har-
woods process was to take super car
bonate Of soda, which readily combines
with the phosphate and sulphuric
acid Astounding in the green vegeta-
bic extract, and causes a scum to rise
rapidly, which he removed with a per-
forated ladle or skinner. This pro.
cess he repeated several times until
the juice was perfectly clear. Two or
three pounds of soda is sufficient for
$50 gallons of juice. We may state
the process more clearly as follows /:
Take half a pint of water and in it
dissolve a te%a-spoonfull of super car
Donate of soda, (Which may be OBJ
tanned at any drug store,) and pour
the solution into the strip before it
comes to a boiling heat. As the scum
rises it must be removed. Repeat
this process every 6 or 8 minutes I'M
til the juice is thoroughly clarified
perhaps for one hour or more. During
the skimming a gentle fire must be
kept up, but the juice must not be al
lowed to boil, except a little on one
side of the vessel.
After the green coloring vegetable
extract is taken out in the form Of
scum, the juice may be boiled down
to sirup, when it should be strained
off and set away to cool. The pure
juice is transparent almost as water,
and the pure sirup resembles castor
oil. If slightly burnt it will have an
amber color. After the strip has had
time to cool and settle, it may be put
on a second time, for " sngaring off,
and treated in precisely the same
manner as maple sugar is madc-that
is, clarity again with eggs or milk,
or both together, and boil down to a
proper consistency, if for molasscs, or
a little more if it is desired to granu-
late it aud make sugar. Set it away
in clean wooden vessels and if proper
ly boiled down, without burning, crys-
talization will commence in a day or
two. After the graduating process
is over, the molasses may be drained
off, leaving a sugar of superior quail
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

Brown, the McGregor constable who
robbed a store at that place and man
aged to abscond, was arrested the
other day at Sioux City by a Nc
Oregon detective, and has been taken
back to McGregor for examination.
Brown was in this town some three
weeks ago, on his way west, and was
"spottcd" by some of our citizens.
The next day he procured a meal of
victuals of John Chapman near Rock
ford, stating he was very hungry, he
having lost his way on the prairie.
He said that he owned land in Cerro
Gordo county which he was going to
look after, and also desired to buy
more land. He was marked by vari-
u persons on account of his singular
appearance, and remembered from the
fact that he had powder blown into
his face.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
DEBORAH.

Who that today sec our busy
streets, our fine stores, our noble pub
lie buildings, can be led to believe
that less than ten years since, our
beautiful town site was entered at
1925 per acre. But yet many of IL
readers know this to be the case. Even
in 1850, if we are rightly informed,
there were only two log houses.
EIiphalet Price, of Clayton County,
was taking the census. Tie stopped
with Mr.. Day, of the Winneshiek
House for dinner, and while enjoying
a hearty meal, price knows how to
do that he suggested the dea of lay.
ing out a town. His suggestion met
with disfavor from all except Mrs. Day.
She, with her usual business tact,
quickly adopted it, and she and Price
laid out the town on the dinner table.
The town being laid out, it became
necessary that it should be christened.
Many names were suggested but did
not suit. Finally Price thought of an
old Indian chief who used to live in
this vicinity. He suggested his name
1t sounded well it vas adopted, and
the embryo town was called "DECoRAH."
We have this incident of the earlyehis-
tory of DEBORAH from Judge Price
himself, who also informed us that he
had not visited the place since. We
wish the Judge would visit our ia.
vored town now. On his dinner ia
BILE lots he would find tasty and we'll
filled stores thronged with customers.
In his embryo town he would find up.
wards of Two Thousand wide-awake
inhabitants. On our streets o n business
days, he would see from one hundred
to q hundred and fifty teams loaded
with produce. He would see upwards
of fifty buildings now being erected,
the busy hum Of industry would meet
his eye at every turn, plainly showing
that Notwithstanding the pressure OF
the times, DEBORAH is up and doing.
We have but few words to say
about DEBORAH. If we are allowed to
take the past as a criterion, it plainly
indicates that the future Of DEBORAH
must be onward aud upward" When
our extensive water power is proper
ly improved, it will be capable of run
ming ten times the amount of machine
~ it now does. We then anticipate
the erection of large machine shops
giving constant employment to hun
dreds of our hardy mechanics. It
will not be long ere our ears are greet
ed by the shrill whistle of the iron
horse, as he wends his way DER our
beautiful prairies, bringing wealth
and population in our midst.
Taking all these things into consid-
Grafton, we will not attempt to pre-
dict the future of Decorah.- Decoroh
Gaz.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
Agricultural Society.

We understand that it is in contem.
p~lation to organize a County Agricul,
tural Society for Floyd County next
week, at the time the District Court
is in session. This will be an import
ant movement in the right direction.
By an expenditure of $25 of our own
money the county will be entitled to
draw 5000 from the State, for agricul-
tural purposes. The meeting for the
organization of the society will be
held in St. Charles City, on Wednes-
day, Oct. 18th, at 3 o'clock, p. NJ.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

The Washington Union is sending
out circulars addressed to all the Post
masters and other Government Off
Gals, demanding service of them as
follows:
you are requested and EXPECTED to
exert yourself to give increased cir.
culation to the Union, uehose position and
relations to the administration enable 1t 10
kmoo and express the wishes and senti'
mnnts of the Executive
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
The New Executive Test.

The day of liberation, even of the
slightest liberty of thought or action,
seems to have entirely gone by, in the
Judgment of the present Administra-
ton.
There was a time when, if a laborer
or mechanic in the employ of a Wing
was dismissed from employment for
failing to vote as his employer desired,
a universal shout of execration
against such an act of tyranny went
up from the Democratic camp from
one end of the Union to the other ;
yet now we find laborcrs and mechan-
les in the Government navy yards
ruthlessly discharged because they
will not register the DEGREES of the
Central power.
There was a time when no man for
feited his standing as a Democrat, in
the eyes of any one, by exercising
full freedom of choice at delegate
elections, and supporting the nominal
ton of whatever Democratic candi-
dates he preferred but now for this
high crime employees in the navy
yard, the custom house, and the post
office, are unccrcmoniously dismissed.
The following extraordinary state
mcnt which occurs in the report of
Senator Browns Mississippi speech
shows the stand taken by the Prcsi-
dent, and, coupled with the Executive
indulgenccs granted to various North
crn Democratic candidates for Con-
gress, explains the contradictory po-
sition of Congressional candidates in
different sections of the Union in re.
gard TO the English bill :
Mr.. Brown stated that he called
upon the President before he left Wash
ington, and hat Mr.. Buchanan assured
him in the most positive and unequiv-
ocal terms, that he would appoint no
man to Office who held the opinion
that Kansas ought to be admitted be-
fore she had a population which would
entitlc her to u representative in Con
gress, according to the terms of the
conference bill, and that he would
decapitate every Office holder who ex-
pressed such q belief"
One of the stipulations made by
Mr.. Leifingwell with his Dubuque
friends the other day, in order to Sc
cure their support was, that he would
oppose the admission of Kansas until
she had a population of $4,000.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07
The splendid fall weather we ha,

The splendid fall weather we have
had during the last few weeks has
been very favorable for maturing and
ripening the Sugar Cane. In a ma
jority of cases the seed is already
sufficiently ripencd to be gathered,
and we advise farmers to give par
ticular attention to saving the best
and earliest, and in liberal quantities.
Another year an early frost may de-
stroy the seed, and then they will find
it convenient to have a supply of this
years growth on hand.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

We are always pleased to record a decrease
in the Affections to which humanity is heir.
And We do SO now in hearing testimony to the
wonder working powers of DIR. j. Hostetter's
Celebrated Bittcrs for diseases of the head and
stomach. As a specific, it is perhaps without
a rival, and the people whom it has benefited,
even within a limited period, are to be count.
ed by thousands. The Bitters bases its repu-
tation more on what it has itself done, than
on what it gets convenient friends TO say for
it. For dyspepsia, tlatulence, constipation,
ect., cct., it cannot be surpassed, in s~peediness
of cure. Try them, and our word for it, they
will give satisfaction.
For sale by Druggists and dealers generally,
everywhere.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-10-07

Messrs. Chapman & johnson are
now supplying our market regularly
each week with fresh beef. Mr.. Chap
man was for several years a butcher
and provision dealer in the London
market, and thoroughly understands
his business. Indeed, he is the only
n who has ever brought meat into
st. Charles, slaughtered and dressed
in a proper manner, or who appears
to understand cutting up and selling
it in a scientific way. Their head.
quarters are for the present at Monta.
CUES