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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-02-04
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.
Ervs Day. Later from Europe.

New Yoag, Jan. 25-The steamship Eu.
ropa, with Liverpool adyices TO the 9th inst.
arrived Yesterday.
There was nothing heard Of the Wander
biIt steamship Ariel. which left Southamp-
ton for New York, on the 3Ist Of Deem
Der, at the time Of the Departure Of the
Europa.
Later advices from India had been tele-
graphsd 10 London.
Gen. IIavelock died at Lucknow on the
18th Of December, Of dysentery induced by
general anxiety aud exposure.
Gen. wyndham, with bis division, con.
sisting Of little over 1000 men, attacked
q force of the Gwalior nutineers number
ing 5000, on the 9th Of November.
The rebels were marching from Calpec
toward Cawnpore, and fought desperately,
causing the English troops TO retreat with a
loss Of nearly the whole Of the Gath regi.
ment. Sir Colin Campbell, however, com
plctely routed this body Of mutineers, on the
eth Of December, destroying their ammuni-
ton, bullocks and grain, and captured six.
teen Of their guns
Madame Rachel Mar hal Radetzky, and
Reschid Pasha we're dead.
The Madrid journals state that no redress
will be given TO our government for the out.
rage on the steamship Colorado, and that
the mention Of the purchase Of Cuba would
be national insult
Active preparation for combined attack
on Canton continued to be made in Hong
Kong.
Some reports were TO the effect that the
French would not take part in the opera
tons
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-02-04

CINCINNATI, Jan. 2S.--'rhe steamer Fan
ny Fern, from St. Louis, for Pittsburg
with 400 tons of produce fifteen cabin, and
twenty deck passengers, exploded her boiler
this afternoon, about eighteen miles below
this city.
Fifteen lives are reported lost, including
Capt. Woodward, several deck hands and
iiremen, and three ladies'
The boat took fire, burned to the water +
edge, and sunk.
Clerks Rogers aud Dunn were scalded
the former badly aud the latter slightly.
The Ohio and Mississippi road brought
up thirty Of the sufferers-ffteen of whom
were wounded.
The pilots, engineers and mate were
saved
CINCINNATI. Jan. 29.-1hc steamer Fan
ny Fern was owned by W. W. Martin, Of
Pi'tsburg, and was valued at Sl2,O0O--
Insured in three Offices for $4,000.
The following are known to have been
lost; Capt. Benz. Woodward, Of Newport,
ny; Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy, Pa; Mr.. vii
son, an Englishman; Jas. Anderson, Xenia,
Ohio; JAS. Malley, Michael Donahue, Jas
Kayaugh, Thos. Walker, and Robert Rid
die, Pittsburgh; widow lady and child,
unknown, Hannah Thomas. chambermaid,
Allegheny City.
SCALDEp.--Alfred j. Rodgers, Pitts
burgh' severely Harry Dunn, Pittsburgh
Andrew Kirkpatrick, slightly John Finn,
VIM. Paul, J. W. Kerr, K. Henry, W.
Casey, severely. Several Others more or le -
scaldcd or bruised.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-02-04
From Kansas.

~. L"rIS, Jan. 2s.-The Kansas CORES
p'rteni Of the Democrat saws that the Tar.
ritorial legislature has decided 10, to give
way for the Topeka Government bu, to
proved 10 the enactmcn, Of an entirc cole
OF laws to suprseie ali laws prior TO the
special session. A protest 10 Congress
agspst.the constitution is also published.
Co. Clark left here this morning, With
the lscompton Constitution, for Washing
ton Calhoun. Iecomp,e and Cato vii
probably reach here to morrow
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23
WANTED.
ny EMILY C. HUNTINGTON.

Taking up the paper this morning
and glancing over the contents, my
eve was arrested by these Words
Wanted, fcw more aettrs and energetic
men, 1t was only heading to an
advertisement, but the words haunted
me all day. l went into the streets
of our busy city; at every corner
stood groups of men, lounging in the
warm sunshine, Or idly watching the
comcrs and goers -" Wanted, few
more active and energetic men,
thought as | hurried past them. Is
there no work in all this great un-
finished world for head, and heart, and
hand, that so many arms are folded in
inactivity Are there no store-houses
of treasure locked up in the bosom OF
the earth for some daring hand to un-
lock are there no wheels in the vast
machinery of nature waiting for reso'
lutte shoulder to set them in motion to
roll the world onward in the way OF
science and progress? oh, fer a fen
more act,re and energetic men men thai
dare to do great deeds, to think grea
thoughts, to utter great truths an(
pull down great wrongs. We neet
, them everywhere, in every depart
, ment. They arc wanted Tor rulers
5 great, calm, earnest men, with Keel
5 ewes to see through every web o
subtlcty and the mist of falsehood, t
y strip error of every plausible covering
+ and hold up the truth and the rIGl'
l. before the people. Men with grea
/ souls to hold themselves at res
J. among the strife and confusion, soul
that shall dwell above pollution an
bribery, in purer atmosphere OF the
/ own. We want them now, when OF
$ Ship of State feels the eddying an
d whirling of countless currents bencal
$ her, when the tempest gathers blacl
e ness every hour, and mut'ny thicker
,e among her crew, we need stron
IL hands at the helm, keen eyes at u
e. outlook, quick arms at the helm, 4nl'
ID arms at every rope and sail. VA
a ed, panted, a te,c more detsre and Emerge
G. men,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23
KANSAS.

LEAvENwoErH, X. r., Aug. 30, 1853.
Are we to have a legislature
among us?" is the grand question of
the day. The Council of the Terrific
rial Assembly chosen last fail, was
elected for two years, and therefore
holds over. But the House of Repre-
scntatives was elected for only one
year The Legislature, last winter,
believing that during the present
year Kansas would become, under one
of her three constitutions, state
in the Union, neglected to pass any
law providing for q new apportion-
ment under which the election was
held last fall, was expressly confined
to the Legislature there to be elected.
1t is, therefore, believed by many,
| that no election for House of Repre-
sentatives can be held in October,
and that we must, therefore, be with
out Legislature next winter, unless
the Governor shall call special ses-
sion of the old body, at an early day,
to make an apportionmcnt and pass
an election law. There is little prob
ability that Governor Denver will do
this for, as he says, he has no as
surance that the legislature. if con-
vened by him, would confinc itself to
the desired action and besides the
melancholy fate which befcl Gov.
Stanton for similar act, is still fresh
in his memory
! On the other hand, it is contcndcd
that as the upper branch of the legis-
lature is still in existence, the old ap-
portionment will be available for tho
election of the lower house, which (its
members being chosen for only one
year, will expire simultaneously with
the Council, but will give us a lcgisla-
tnrc for the coming winter. Gov
Denver who is a great non-committal-
Ist, retrains from giving any indica-
tlon Of the action he designs to take
in the premises. If the people are de-
prived of the Legislature until an act
OF Congress shall be passed, providing
satIsraction. Ana, ON the contrary.
should an election be held under the
old Border Ruflian apportionment,
which, as your readers viii recollcct,
DISTINGUISHES many populous southern
counties, that also, will produce mncl,
: complaint. Neither horn of the dilcm-
, ma is an inviting one; and the feeling
now seems predominant among the
= people that whenever they can elect
!; another representative body, it shall
be composed of men less given to
speculation and more devoted to the
public interests than the Legislature
of last winter.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23

Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his breeches' pockets and u
pipe in his mouth, looking on to see
how it will come out. Good luck is a
man of pluck to meet his difficulties,
his sleeves rolled up, working to make
it come out right--Er.
There is good deal of truth in the
above. Nearly all the " empty pock-
cts" are produced not by fate, but in
dolence. Every time Mr.. Snivel earns
quarter he spends eighteen cents
for iiuleps and cigars. He devotes
the remainder of the day to talking
politics and saving the country.
Swivel complains of hard luck, and
thinks he might have been IA million
airc if it had not been for that cursed
tariff of 1916" Swivel is reformer
and believes in a division of property
"cvcry six months" He is up" on
philosophy, but down on labor He is
a violent opposer of taxation, and yet
spends more money for gin-cocktails
and tobacco in month than his taxes
. amount to in whole year. Snivel is
. the type of large family-a gentle
. man who mistakes cigar-smoke for
logic, and who runs away with the
idea that swearing at hard luck will
overcome the drawbacks connected
: with Incidence.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23
STAY LAWS.

The following article from the st,
Louis Republican puts a quietus to
the hue and cry about the "lowa Stay
Laws -
Iowa HAS no STAY LAWS Popular
impressions are often erroneous, and
when uncorrectcd, do needless and ex-
tcnsivc damage. Common rumor Is
a common liar" and the rumor allud-
ed to at this time has travelled so rap
idly and so far, uncontradicted, that it
is high time that final quietus was
put upon it. The writer of this has
received numerous communications
from business men in the Eastern
cities and also Cincinnati and St Louis,
asking information as to the, as they
call them "odious and detestable
Iowa stay laws" and he takes his
mode Of giving some brief but truth
full information on the subject. Iowa
has no stay law, no valuation law, no
appraiscmcnt law, 10 law which III
the remotest or slightest degree i'm
pairs the obligation of contracts, pop
ular opinion to the contrary notwith'
standing. No such law disgaces hel
statute books, and God grant they
never may. So much to the contrary
has been said, and so much needles
r abuse and dennnoiation has bcel
|, wasted by the business men of th'
5 large cities on the "infernal low;
, stay laws that this declaration viii
astonsh them, but.it is true. Durn;
/ the last session Of the Legislature
y which closed about the middle c
e March, proposition after propositlo
II was made for the passage OF sta
t laws and appraisemcnt laws, but the
d were always constantly and prompt
a voted down. Repeated trials wer
4 made in various shapes, but the resu
T. was constantly the same. The onl
d law that was passed that squinted
10 all towards the stay law, was II
k statute making the first term aftt
h suit is brought an appearance teri
,e This, it is believed, is the practice
n nearly all the States of the Uniol
,o and in our experience here makes D
10 little difference, as i'll five cases out
ir six, before the law was passed, a &C
,p tinuance was had to the next ter
he This is the bugbear and the bng-a-b
lis that has frightened Eastern deale
g: out of their wits, and brought do>
ne upon the innocent heads OF Iowa p'
ple the abuse Of men who ought
to know better. And as farther proof
,g the fact that no stay law exists,
nd NAV be mentioned that the Cover
es, of the State is receiving petitions
,cs an extra session of the Legislature,
yes the purpose, among others, OF passl
of stay law! But no stay law will
cir passed. The laws for the collect
we of debts, the attachment law and
, it laws Of like character i'll the State
,ed Iowa are as vigorous as those Oh d
,ed State in the Union, and cannot
ear evaded except in isolated cases a
in no State in the Union can uept
eat collected with more promptness u
ote in this much-abused State OF 10y
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23

The GREAT COMET CONE AT LAST
The great comet OF Charles the V, as
it is sometimes called, but better
known to astronomers as that of
Fabricious, has at last made its ap-
pearance, and will very shortly be Wis
lblc to the naked eye. 1t has been
seen from the Paris Observatory
through its telescope, and pronounced
Arago the genuine article. A sharp
look out for it has been kept up for u
year or two past by the European
comct-seekcrs. 1t is not vet known
whether it vii! appear as it once did.
like very large and bright star, or
with tail 100 degrees in length.
The serious hope is that it will it's
wondcrous tale unfold" Its first
appearance took place on the 22d Of
October of that year, the day on which
Pope Urban ". died, as the world
thought it strange coincidence. In
1856, it re-appeared, and was observed
by Paul Fabrieious, astronomer to
Charles v, who executed map of it's
path which was published in Novcm-
Der OF that year. The Emperor con-
sidcred it as special omen of his
own approaching death but he lived
some years afserwards. 1t was then
described as great and brilliant star
Its course was through Virgo and
Bootes, past the pole Of the heavens
into Ccpheus and Cassiopca.-.WUa"
kee Sentinel.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23
DR.. JOHNSON
on THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Mr.. Bancroft, in the seventh vol
ulnc of his History of the United
States" just published, is very severe
upon Dr.. Johnson, for the Tory pam
phlct he wrote against the American
Revolution. The following paragraphs
will give an idea of DR.. Johnson's
treatment of the subject, and of the
historians treatment Of him -Boston
Transcript.
While such was the state of an
CRY opposition between the citizens
and soldiers of Boston, Lord Howe at
London finally broke off his ncgotia-
tions with Franklin, and the Ministry
used the pen of Samuel johnson to III
flame the public mind. Johnson was
poor mans son, ard had himself
tasted the bitter cup of indigcnce.
His father left no more than twenty
pounds. To bury his mother and pay
her little debts he had written Ras-
sclas.' For years he had gained a
prccarious support as an author. lie
had paced the streets of London all
night long, from not having where to
lay his head he had escaped prison
for trihe he owed by begging an
aims of Richardson, had broken his
bread with poverty, and had even
known what it was from sheer want
to 90 without dinner. When better
, DAYS came, he loved the poor as few
f else love them and he nursed i'll hi'
house whole nests of the lame, thu
blind the sick and the sorrowful. :
= man who had thus sturdily battle'
, with social evils, and was so kcenl,
f touched by the wretchedness OF tn
o down-trodden, deserved to have bee
t able to feel for an injured person bu
t he refuses to do so. Having define
d the word pension as pay given to
state hireling for treason to hls coul
t. try, he was himself become pension
er and at the age Of three score an
n six, with small hire, like bravo VIII
IF loves his trade, he set about the wor
% Of his taskmastcrs. In a tract, whlc
:. he called Taxation no Tyranny f
IT echoed to the crowd the naughty ra
1t cor which passed down from the Kin
st and his Court to his Council, to Il
Is Ministers, to the aristocracy, the
I'd parasites and followers, with nothiI
ir remarkable in his party zeal, but u
ur intensity of its bitterness or III Ii
nd manner, but its unparalleled insolenc
tn or in his argument, but its grotesq
k extravagance.
MS "The Bostonians had declared
lg the General Congress their wlilin
he ness to resign their opulent town, a
ok wander into the country as eXll'
NJ Alas = rctortcd Johnson, the hero
TIC of Boston will only leave good hous
TO wiser mem To the complaints
their liability to be carried out OF tn
country for trial, he answered, :
les advise them not to offend When
be was argued, that they were condemn
I'VE uuheard, he asserted, there is no nt
lks of a trial no man desires to h'
ler- that which he has already SEEM
on Franklin had remained in Gr
,er- Britain for no reason but to prom
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23

conciliation and with an implacable
malice, which was set off by pom
dcrous effort at mirth, Johnson pointed
at him as the master of mischief,
teaching Congress to put in motion
the engine of political electricity, and
to give the great stroke by the name
of Boston,
Did the Americans claim a right
of resistance, Audacious defiance !
cried johnson, acrimonious maligni-
ty The Indignation of the English
is like that of the Scythians, who, re-
turning from war, found themselves
excluded from their own houses by
their slaves
Virginia and the Carolinas has
shown impatience of oppression. How
is it, asked johnson, that we hear
the loudcst yelps for liberty among
the drivers of negroes The slaves
should be set free they may be more
grateful and honest than their masters.
Lord North inclined to mercy.
Nothing said Johnson, can be more
noxious to society than clemency
which cxacts no forfeiture > and he
proposed to arm the savage Indians,
turn out the British soldiers on free
quarters among the Americans, re-
model all their charters, and take
away their political privileges.
Dickinson, of Pennsylvania, has
insisted that the Americans complained
only of innovations. I'VE do not put
a calf into the plough said the moral.
ist we wait till he is an OK This,
however, the Ministry bade him erase,
not for its ribaldry, but as unwilling
to concede that the calf had been
spared and johnson obeyed, COM
pairing himself to mechanic for
whom 'the employer is to decide.
Was he told that the Americans were
increasing in numbers, wealth, and
love of freedom This talk said he,
that they multiply with the fecundity
of their own rattlesnakes, disposes
men accustomed to think themselves
masters to hasten the experiment OF
binding obstinacy before it is become
yet more obdurate' He mocked al
the rule of progression, which showed
that America must in the end exceed
Europe in population. Then sal.
he, in derision, not knowing how mucl
; truth he was uttering, in century
: and n quarter, let the princes of the
!: earth tremble in their palaces
Had Johnson been truly man o
, genius, he would have escaped tn,
: shame of having, in his old age, aimee
at freedom the feeble shaft which wa
+ meant 20 have carried ruin. In spit
h of the ostentatious pomp of his moral
h earth. At the last, he cowcd undo
G the fear of dissolution, as though deaf
e were an enemy, scarifying his limbs
t in the vain hope of breathing throug
$ a few hours more unable i'll the m'
:, mcnt of change to fix his eye on Goo
h OF to grasp eternity-the emblem {
c the old political system, which ais
lay on its death-bed, helplessly Ions
ing to live on His name is nev'
brcathcd as watch-word his WI
tings never thrill as oracles.'
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23

haps, and sighed at the thought that
they were homeless that the little
tender plants were thrust out of the
sheltered garden to the open moor,
where every passing foot might crush
them, and in the wistful eyes that
looked up to yours you fancicd you
read the plea" Wanted, a home"
But did you ever think that the same
ycarning dwelt deep down in the
heart of many man and woman,
whom you meet in stately halls and
in richly furnished homes?
Wanted, home," sighs the rich
man, amid the splendor with which
his wealth has surrounded him, think
of the dreams he once wovc, of a
simple home made glad by earnest af-
fections, and " the charities that make
life beautiful" and then remembering
the days amid the grinding mills of
toll, and the nights amid empty glare
and the glitter that make up what he
calls his life No cooling spot in the
desert, no sheltered nook for a refuge
from the heat, no dew of affection to
fall at night upon his heart and wash
away the choking dust and stains it
bore-no home.
Wanted, a home" murmurs the
proud queen of beauty, unbraiding the
gems from her hair, and laying off the
heavy folds of her robe. The sounds
of the revel arc all hushcd, and she
sits alone with the solemn beauty OF
the night. Leagues away, over
meadow and upland, there stands a
low-roofed cottage with the moonlight
sleeping on the Threshold, and the
leaves whispering under the caves.
She can see it all, and the splcndor
about her vanishes, and she sits again
in the homcly room, dreaming of the
wonderful future She has heard nc
organ tones SO grand as the surge OF
the wind through the sounding forest,
no music so wondrous as the rush ol
the swollen brook through the mead
ow. All, there has been no love sc
faithful as theirs of that dear old
homestead, no heart SO tender as the
mothers that bore her, and when the
oittSici Hlciiloiy y SDHlcS vi ttlc uoui Siit
bartercd it all for wealth and a sound
ing name, the hot tears struggle on
from under the quivcring lids as tht
poor heart moans-" wanted, home.
Wanted, Il home" says the christ
ian, when flesh and heart are failing
when bitter temptations thicken abou
him, and the drops in his cup turn t,
! gall. Wanted, a home, where the in
+ habitant shall not say am sick
t where the eyes that look upward din
t ly through tears, grow radiant wit
y tt''.%"s,,tifnl IT," grow not old, where mot
1 and rust corrupt not, and where tn
l. psalms of thanksgiving never chang
G to funeral walls. And so the grea
l. portals unfold, snd the Father rcache
= out his arms, and into that calmc
$ safer home goes the glad soul wit
k an abundant entrance. singing in tun
- with the angel voices, found found
= home in the bosom Of Cod
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23
PRICE, TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NUMBER 4S.

The people are embarrassed, greatly
in debt and in want of money, and
they know it, but they have not yet
shielded themselves behind uncousti-
tutional and repudiating laws, neither
do they mean to. This is the simple
and uncontrovertible truth, and is
commended to business men of your
and other cities. They have sold
goods to bad men, and been cheated,
but they must not charge their mis-
takes and errors of Judgment on the
fabulous and mythical Iowa stay laws.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-23

It is insinuatcd in a communication
of the New York papers, that no mes
sage has ever been transmitted over
the Atlantic Gable, that it has all been
bogus invented or'the purpose of run
ming up the stock. This would be a
stupendous practical joke ifit were SO
But it is quite impossible that it can
be true. Communications are noticed
as having been received by the London
papers as well as those on this side O
the water,