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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-11-18

W.susoroS, Nov. 5th.--1he regul, of
the election 10 Illinois is sach az will 1cure
the reelection of Mr.. Douglas 10 the y =.
Senate in opposition to his Republican
competitor, Mr. Lincoln. Another crafty
ing res1lt is that the relative Democratic
strength in The state has ben increasod.
The DcmWratic oanfidats for thr Rfesi-
dency ard Vice Presidency in 1886, obtain.
Cd in Illinois only meagre plurality ,be
Americans having polled thirty seyen ,bou-
sand votes The larger portion 0i the
American vote must AZ this election, have
bsen cast Tor the Democratic candidates.
Thus, In one doubtful and important
Stat. the Lincoln Seward doctrines have
net With a signal rebake, botwi,hsisnding
the perver-en.ss of some Of the Democrat.
Mr.. Douglas eOnf~ back 10 the Senate
with increased popularity and iualence and
i, therefore, able as vel A. disI,sed 10 pur.
sae a conciiiatory oouTse. Thrpogb his er
ample ard iDf1sboe, dis-nsions. whatever
they may b., in the Democratic party, will
cease, and IL will be prepared 10 meet the
coming struggle with the Republicans in a
firm and united body. The union " the
Democracy was never 20 nsce-sary for the
saf~ty Of the Uoion a q, prsssnt. when the
R<pab,icsn chiefs have, 10 eject. proclsirpsd
their purpoe 70 io-,igsts and provoke .
var Of sections.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-11-18
VOL. X.-NO. "a.
THE OLD BURYING-GROUND.
By JOHN o. WHITTIER.


Our wales are sweet with fern and rose,
Our hills are maple crowned
But not from them ouI fathers chose
The village burrying ground.
The dearest spot In all the land,
To Death they set apart;
With scanty grace from Natures hand,
And none from that Of Art.
winding wall Of mossy stone,
Frost flung and broken linesS
A lonesome acre thny grown
With grass and wandering vines.
Without the walls birch.tree shows,
Its dropped and tasseFd head
Within stag horned sumach grows
Fern lesfed, with spikes Of red.
There, sheep that Craze the neighborlng plain,
Like white ghosts come and go;
The farm horse drags his fetl0ck chain,
The COW bell tnkles slow.
Low mourns the river from its bed,
The distant pines reply;
Like mourners shrinking from the deaf,
They stand apart and sigh.
Unshaded smites the summer sun
Unchecked the winter blast;
The school girl learns the place to shun,
With glances backward cast.
For thus our fathers testified
That he might read who ran
The emptiness Of human pride,
The nothingness Of man,
They dared not plant the grave with fowers
Nor dress the funeral sod,
Where, with Q love a. deep a. ours,
They left their dead with God.
The hard and thorny path they kept.
From beauty turned aside,
Nor missed they over those who slept,
The grace of life denied.
Yet still the wilding flowers would blow,
The golden leaves would fall.
The seasons come, the seasons go.
And God be good TO all.
Above the graves the blackberry hung
In bloom and green its wreath,
And harebels swung A. II they rung
The chimes Of peace beneath.
The beauty nature loves to share,
The gilt she hath for all;
The common light, the common cir,
Oercrept the grave yards wall.
II know the glow Of eventide.
The sunrise and the noon.
And gloriied and sanctifed,
II slept beneath the noon.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

SCIENCE vs.. THE INSECTS insects
and vcrmin injurious to vegetation
present curious and difficult subject
ut inquiry. A very considerable part
Of every crop Of grain and fruit is
planted, not for the mouths of our
children, bat for the fly, the curculio,
and the canker-worm, or some other of
these pests of huSbandry Science
has done something, and will no doubt
do more, to alleviate the plague. 1t
has already taught US not to wage
equal war on the wheat fly and the
parasite which prcys upon it and ii
will, perhaps eventually persuade
those who need the lesson, that few
peas and cherries are well by way of
desert OH the cheerful little warblcrs
who turn our gardens into concert
rooms, and do SO much to aid us
in the warfare against the grubs
and caterpillars which form their prin-
cipal meal.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

OF civilization along the lcvcc now
busy with the operations Of an cxtcn.
slvc commerce.
Entering the precincts of this old
cabin is like walking the cXhumcd
streets Of Pompcii and IIcrculancum,
and carries the mind through changes
in the history Of the locality greater
than those that have interviewed be
tween the Roman Empire and the
dynasty of King Bomba in Italy.
1t has been suggested that perhaps
the cabin was French "cacha' built
on excavation covered over, as hid,
Ing place for grain to conceal it from
the Indians, as was frequently done
by the early settlers. But they would
not have gone twenty or twenty-five
feet below the surface and there was
no break in the strata above it, and
the posts on the cabin were too small
and too few to have sustained a roof
with large body Of earth on it. Nor
would the builders of such a store
house have used fire in it, or placed
their worn out boots and shoes in it,,
or hung up spinning wheel in it..
1t is one Of those discoveries that
opens pleasant field of speculation
for the curious and lovers or the Won
dcrtul.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
mistsIlanp.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.

Some workmcn, lately y making some
excavations on the streets of Evans
vile Ind. came to the remains of a
cabin eighteen feet below the present
surface of the ground, and one hun
dred feet from the present bank of the
river. The Journal says:
1t had evidently been a human hab-
itation and that of an European. The
cabin was twelve feet or more in
length, formed by upright posts set in
the ground, and the sides boarded up
with split oak puucheons, fastened on
with inch wooden pins. The posts,
punchcOns and pins Were but partially
decayed, and still adhered together ::
the posts had to be cut off with an
axe to remove them. In the interior
were found the parts of an old fash
ioned European spinning wheel undo
cayed. A wooden mall, that perhaps
had served to split the punchcons that
covered the cabin--the fre-stick, with
its charred end, and that had reused
the slumberlng embers Of the fire
pieces of cane that had been notched
and cut APPARENTLY for bow and, up
near where the roof had apparently
rested, were found pairs Of European
made boots and shoes, which had been
placed III that position apparently on
shelf. As the grade of the culvert
did not so to the floor of the cabin by
several feet, the workmen took out
only those things which had been
placed on the shelves OF hung up on
walls of the cabin near the roof.
| What might have been found on the
floor beneath we are left to surmise, as
the contractor refused to disturb the
earth below the grade for fear of in
juring the foundations Of the brick
work Of the culvcrt though his curl
osity strongly prompted him to ex-
| piorc the matter to the bottom. The
earth that surrounded and filled the
cabin was the solid, compact body OF
sandy loan that compOses the whole
substratum of the city. There was
no perccptible difference in the strata
around the cabin, and in those that
extend the length Of the culvert it is
apparently all one cotemporaneous de-
post. The discovery suggests nu-
merous interesting questions. 1t does
not appear possible that a deposit of
twenty OF twenty-five feet of earth can
have been made on the present site OF
the city since the first civilized foot
trod upon the banks Of the Ohio at
this point. The age of some of the
trees that formerly stood upon the
present surface would almost preclude
such supposition. That the builders
and occupants of the cabin were civil
lied men is proven by the auger holes
and pins-by the pcgged soles and
seams of the boots, and by the spin
ming wheel, and the absence of Indian
implements. Who were they, and
when did they erect their habitatiou
there? The date Of the first settle
ment of Vincennes by Europeans is in
doubt, it is known to have been made
before the year l70O-onc hundred
and sixty years ago. 1t is possible
that the spinning wheel, that now lies
in our sanctum, twirled to the moving
foot of the busy housewife, and its
hum was heard among the trees before
the bees made their first music in the
primeval forests here-and these ole
boots perhaps made the first footprints
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
Qoetrn.
The Return.
BY P1RAN.

/ After many years passed in wanderngs,
returned to the home of nv fathers. and fom
it forsakcn - The friends of my YOUTH"
exclaimed in bitterness, where are they
and echo replied WHERE ARE TuEY,'
| Though since | left my native soil,
But few the intervening years.
Yet, filled with peril change and toll
\ weary length their lapse appears
BY Turing visions led to rove
In distant lands, my lot has been
A wayward fortune still to prove
Through many wild and varied scene.
BY now to torrid climes adieu--
My fathers dwelling greets my sight
Ny longing eyes at length review
The spot where first they saw the light.
Peace to that sacred roof-too well
I've learned in wmdcrings far and lone
| nc'er shall find, whcr'cr dwell,
\ friend like those ! there have known
Can forget how warm and true
The hearts that in that mansion dwell,
How cold the world / never knew
Til their bereavement | had felt.
Of woodland skirts the meadows green,
As when my joyous childhood strayel
Along the wcll-rcmcmbcrcd scene.
'1fs still the same-but wlcrc-Oh where
Are they who shared that walk with me,
Go ask yon silent groves, for there
Their footsteps ne or again must be-
There, when to while the summer day
We sought the shade at noontidc hour,
Fair were the forms the voices gay.
Whose mirth rc-cChocd through each bower
But still It's soothing to these eyes.
The scenes they loved again to trace;
And, where yon grassy tnmbs arise,
To view their final resting place.
The truth Of superstitious lore,
Alas how fondly would ! learn
That from their dim and shadowv shore
Beloved souls may yet return.
All fond and idle phantasy-
As said the royal bard in woe,
" The dead cln ne'er return to me.
But to them at length shall go"
Away, yc teachers Of despair,
Tell not to me your dreary creed
That mind the fate of dust shall share,
Nor cen the soul from death be freed.
That blessed hOpe-ohi shake il not
That cheers when earthly hopes have flown
The loved, the lost, the unforgot
Await us in that realm unknown.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
JAS. JACKSON.
A. S. FELT,
General Real Estate Agent.

Mason City, Cerro GordO Co., lara.
Will select lands in the Usage and TT Dodg,
Districts, locate Land Warrants, buy and sci
Real Estate, pay Taxes for nonresidcnts. and
do "a general Real Estate business. Timbe,
and Prairie Lands for sale cheap ANY bus
hess entrusted to my care will receive promp,
attention. Refer to
Bartlc, White & Henshaw, Independence,
Greene, Weare & Co, IT. Dodge,
Greene, Weare and Rice, Ft. Desmoines.
Greene n Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Hon. T.. W. Kingsbury,
Madison House Chicago Ill,
j. s. Lovelaud, Earlville, n. Y,
Capt. G. c. Brand. Utica, n. Y.
Hon G. V. Denniston, Albany, N Y.
March, Is 1857. 27yl
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
HlLDRETH & CARVER,
General Land AGENTS

ST CHARLES, FLOYD CO., ,........... IOWA,
VIII attend To buying, selling and selecting
lands on Commission, &c. Town Lots bought
and sold money loaned, and the business of
conveyancing and payment of Taxes promptly
attended to. Friends at the East as well as in
this State, are requested to make application
to our agency. Satisfactory references given
!
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
@sst6arb tbe Course Of empire takrs its dolan.' -
City, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA. THURSDAY FEBRUA H. 1853

of Chickasaw kindly furnish them with
whatever they may lack of the neces-
saries of life.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
agricultural.
What is a Good Cow q?

Every man likes to owna good COW,
but people do not always agree in
what really constitutes a good COW.
Some cows will give great flow of
milk little while during the year,
and then fall off greatly, while others
will be more uniform in their yield of
milk, and hold that uniformity great
cr part of the year. 1t is evident that
the latter is the most profitable and
therefore the better COW.
A writer of an exchange paper (and
we are sorry that the name of the pa
per has escaped us, gives the follow
ing definite rules or figures as consti-
tuting good cow:
:" A COW that will average five quarts
of milk day through the year, ma
king 1925 quarts, is an extraordinary
good cow. One that will yield five
quarts 4 day for ten months is a good
cow, and one that will average four
l"oito tuiiii5 tiidt tiillc ID UltIc llluli
an average quality. That would
make 200 quarts year, which at
three cents a quart, is $50. We be-
licvc the Orange county milk dairics
average about $40 per COW and the
quality of the cows is considerably
above the average Of the country.
1t Is as important TO keep a good
cow as it is to get her good. This
can never be done by careless, lazy
mixer. Always milk your cow quick,
perfectly clean, and never try to
countcract nature by taking away her
calf Let it suck, and don't be afraid
it will butt her to death 1t will dis
tend the utter and make room for the
secretion Of milk BE gentle with your
COW and you will have gentle COW
Select well, feed we'll, house well, and
your cow will yield we'll"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

A Rose ON AN APPLE TREE.--i COR
respondent the of Maine Farmer gives
an account of natural curiosity
which he saw in the garden of Mr
Winslow Hall, of letter Ii plantation,
Aroostook, on the 2lst ult This was
u tnll-blown rose on an apple tree.
The tree blossomed at the usual time,
and when seen by the narrator, had
apples on it. The blossom was near
" two inches across the surface,
perfectly white, and rcscnblcd in all
respects the common white rose, hav-
ing as many leaves, and being as large
and full otherwise.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

People frequently reject great truths
not SO much for want of evidence as
for want of an inclination to search
for it.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

STICK To TIE FARu-Amid your plans
for the future, never for one moment,
harbor the idea of bcttering your con-
dltion by entering the area of CONNER
cial life. Do not exchange a home of
quiet, real enjoyment for the turmoil
and illusions Of Il city residence. Bar
ter not sweet rcposc for visions of
empty wallets, nor let notes due on the
morrow assume the prerogative Of the
nightmare. Very poor comtorters for
care and anxiety are these little real
itics in the commercial world. Stick
to the farm. What though hard labor
be the everyday command, it is noble,
hcathful and conducive to the full de-
vclopmcnt Of the whole man.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

ILLINOIS APPLES IN MAssAcHUsErrs.-
Quincy, Illinois, must be Il great place
if we may judge by its fruit. Mr..
Morse, the dealer on Main street, has
received a lot of apples from the above
city, specimens of which he has left
with us, and we think they are indeed
worthy of the Great West" Spring
field Mass.) Republican.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13


their friends. Both parties are excited. and
. battle is anticipated" ssse ssg
FukE,eN.-The steamship hdian arrived
|atsfbrtland, Mes on this 10th, with Liver.
pool dates to the 97ths TIE marriage Of
Piincc Frederick william Of Prussia with
tile Princess Royal of England was cclebra
ted at the hapelof Royal St.James Palace
on the 25tl, Of January, according to the an
nouncc,nent. The day was generally o.
served as a holiday. Immense GRO wdscheer-
ell the royal party in the most enthusia tic
manner. The principal streets of London
were brilliantly illuminated in honor of the
occasion. Operations We're resumed on the
Leviathan on the 23d and 25th ult., and the
ship was moved forward about nine feet per
day. The further details developed in re-
gard to the recent attempt to assassinate the
Emperor Napoleon are unintercsting. Con-
gratulatory addresses continued to flow in
upon Napoleon. There is nothing OF excl
ting interest from India or China.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13
Rachel, the Actress.

Rachel played thirty-seven times in
the United States, and received there
for $3.50, 900, which is over four Mous-
and dollars per night! During the
last eli ght or ten years her income was
estimated at 100000 per year. She
lived in magnificent style; her rooms
were sumptuously furnished. Her jew
elry and stage wardrobe were valued at
$125,OOO. She owned one set of di-
almonds worth 100000. She studied
hard, ate little, but drank much wine.
Late hours shortened her life. She
rarely retired before four in the morn
ing. As Rachel grew rich, her love Of
money and jewels increased. In her
last illness her fondness for these things
did not desert her. She frequently had
her jewels and rich garments brought to
her bed, and beguiled the weary hours
in looking them over and on one oc-
casion, after taking one long, lingering
look at them, she exclaimed, with .
sigh of heartfelt distress, "K faut
done gutter tout!' {" Must / then
abandon all !") Her death struggle
twas long and severe, and her last hours
are described as agonizing. She was
thirty seven years old when she died,
though she only confessed to thirty-two
years. Her public history is known
Her private life is yet unwritten. Scan
dial has been busy with her name. She
was never married, though she was the
mother Of several children, by several
fathers. In this county she would have
been called courtezan; but the STAN
dard of morals is different in France.
There, her dramatic genius, her fame,
her wealth, protected her against the
scorch Of public opinion, which
she would have encountered had she
belonged to this country and attempted
to act SO contrary to the rules Of Amor.
lean society.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13
CITY OF r1UsCATlNE:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1858.

WILL THE LEcoApToN CONSTITUTIONS BF
.Apoprspe-The Enquirer Of this city ex-
presses the opinion that the Lecompton Con
stitution, which it now calls swindle,'
tasTk the expression,) will not pass Con,
!, gresa. With the information we have con-
serning its chances, we think it will, and
that the editor Of the Enquirer will yet have
to retract his denunciations Of 1t if he re-
mains in the pro-slavery Democratic party
There is undoubtedly majority OF from
three to six for it in the Senate, and it will
pass that body without much trouble. The
great fight will be in the House, whore, ac-
oerding to tho test vote on Monday-take
on reference to tho special committee-thcre
was a majority Of only three against it. a
majority of ttcelvs had been previously reck-
oncd on. 1t will be no difficult matter fol-
Executive sunshine to melt away the meagre
majority Of three among so many saleablt
men.
The &c swindle" will pass, and the great
crime which it contemplates against self
government will be consummated. Upon
the heads of the perpetrators Of this iniqui-
Y be the consequences
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13

~ The Mormon Delegate, according to
the Washington correspondent of the Pre- So,
of Philadelphia, denies that he has made
any proposition to the President or any body
else, looking to the removal Of the Aormons
30 the Pacific.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13

Gxs. JONES PRorHEsYINe.-W have be-
fore us somewhat fuller report OF the re-
marks Of Senator jones, on presenting the
resolutions of instruction in the Senate on
Friday last. We quote:
"Mr. Jones said he presented the rcsolu
ton as matter of respect to his State, and
not because he had the most remote idea OF
obeying it's instructions. He believed that
the people of Kansas had had ample oppor
tanity of expressing their views at the bal
lot-box, and if they refused to do so it was
thsir own fault. His own mind was made
up to vote for the admission of Kansas un
der the Lecompton Constitution, unless
some stronger argument could be made
against it than any which he had yet heard.
The resolutions which he presented were
adopted by strict party vote, every mem
Der of the Democratic party in the Legisla-
ture voting against them: Although he was
inclined to think that majority of the PEG
ple Of Iowa might now indorse the resolu-
ton, he believed that after a thorough cram.
.tnation of the subject they could come to a
different conclusion For his own part he
intended to do everything in his power to
sustain the Administration upon this ques-
ought to be admitted into the Union as
twin sisters, in the same way as was done
with Florida aud Iowa"
Upon what grounds the doughty gentle
mon POUNDS his belief that the people OF
Iowa will come to different conclusion We
are at loss to know. 1t cannot be by any
signs indicated by the history of the past
Since 1854 the Republican sentiment has
been steadily growing stronger in this State.
He probably considers himself gifted with
spirit of prophcsy just at this time. We
shall see whether his vaticination will prove
true 1t is certainly an insult to the intel
ligence of his constituents for him to insin
uats that they do not understand the sub.
iect.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13
Gaines Of Ore,

Elk. Governor Gaines of Oregon,
whose death Yves announced by the last
arrival, was native of Virginia. lie
served in The war Of 1872 at the battle OF
the Thames, and in the war with Mexico.
During the latter war he was taken pris,
oner and confined for several months in
the City Of Mexico. but finally made his
escape and joined the American army
He was frequently member Of the KEN
lucky Legislature, and was twice elected
o Congress from that State. He was APP
pointed Governor of Oregon in l849 by
President Taylor, and served out his full
term.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-13

Bow1vG HIM OUr.-Considering that Mr.
Buchanan is generally understood to be anx-
ious for re. election to the Presidency. the
expressions of his Cabinet, in their letters tc
the late Philadelphia meeting, are uncom
monty rich. Secretary Cass says:
''IIe (thc Presidency may we'll appeal in
hia justiticati N to the efficient services of a
long life now drawing to close, and which
cffers Iii M no REGARD he uould accept at thu
end of his constitutional term Of office but
the confidence and gratitude of his country
and the appreciation Of his own Conscience
The persuasiveness Of Sec'y Floyd is equal,
" touching: .....
"a State which has supported her son du-
ring long public career will not forsake
hinfin his last public service, scten his only
aspiration can be to render her name and
ms own illustrious by a pure, honest and
faithful administration of his arduous office
And even Attorney General Black, him
self Pennsylvania. follows in the super
serviceable vein:
:" He (Mr. Buchanan) has no object O
earthly ambition, except to perform the
functions OF his Office, so that yhsn he retire.
from 1t he may read his history in the eyes
ola contented aud prosperous nation"
If Mr.. Buchanan himself has any "eyes ,,
lie had better open them, on these delicate
hints.