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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-06-24

from the House, that Congress adj
ourn at halfpast to-day, which was
amended by substituting six o'clock
this evening.
thMr. Hale's credentials for the next
six years, were presented and received.
| Mr.. Slidell moved the usual resolu.
ton to carry over the unfinished bust
ness till next session, which was
agreed to-
The President has issued procla-
nation for the Senate to meet to-mor-
row noon, saying that an extraordina-
ry occasion has occurred, rendering it
necessary and proper that they shall
convene to receive and act on such
communications as have been or NAV
be made to them.
Mr.. Seward offered resolution, pre-
sentlng the thanks of the Senate to
Vice President Breckenridge, for the
dignity and impartiality with which
he has presided over their dclibera-
tons. Which was agreed to unani-
'nously. A joint committee was APP
pointed to inform the President that
Congress is ready to adjourn.
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from the New York Day Book.l

Hair Dye is vile wash but the article that
will naturally restore the color of the hair, the
changing of which to gray being an indication
of a lack OF proper secrctions, is truly q valu-
able medicine. Prof. Woods Hair tonic, if the
certificates of the leading minds over the I'm
ION do not ftlsity, rs the only safe remedy for
badness, dryncss. premature change of color,
and the several evidences of n lack of secretion-
at the roots of the hair, which can be found,
Ouack preparations abound and hair tonics
fill every :" corner grocery" in the country
Avoid all 4" hair tonics unless known TO De
the preparation of some man whose celebrity
has become worldwide. Do not let any nos
trum Nender experiment upon your hair.
Touch nothing you have not good reasons to
believe is all that it purports to be. Prof.
Wood has earned by years of severe test Of his
preparation, his present fame. Over $50 GER
titicates are before us of the value of this Hair
Restorative, from parties who have tried it.
Use no other
CAUTION. Beware Of worthless limitations,
as several are already in the market called by
ditferect names. Use none unless the words
professor Woods Hair Restorative Depot
st. Louis, Mo, and New York, are blown in
the bottle. Sold by all Druggists and Patent
Medicine dealers. Also by all Fancy and Toll,
ct Goods dealers in the United States and
tanadas
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ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The State Convention of the Admins
tration Democracy assembled at
Springfield, Ill.,, June 9th. John
Dougherty was renominated for State
Treasurer, and Ex-Governor Reynolds
for Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton. Resolutions were adopted at
tirming adherence to the Cincinnati
platform reaflirming the principle OF
non-iutervcntion in the Territories
opposition to the concentration OF
power in the hands of the Central
Government deprecating slavery
agitation condemning Senator Doug
las and characterizing his course IN
opposition to the Administration as
over weening conceit ; denounclne
the principles of the Republican party
as tending to a dissolution Of the
Union and denouncing the late out
RACES by the British cruisers on Amer
lean vessels in the Gulf of Mexico ant
elsewhere.
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Dr.. IIosTErrER' Celebrated Stomach Bit
ters have proved such a certain cure for all dis
eases of the Stomach, that no one can for a
moment question its efficiency in the most
dreadful and alarming cases. For many years
we have watched its steady progress in public
estimation and its beneiicicnt effects rs a cure
for all complaints arising from the stomach, o
a morbid nature, ana we are free to say that il
can he relied upon us certain relief and rene
dy. Its proprietor has made the above prer'a
ration after years of careful study and sitting
and is now reaping the reward claimed by this
valuable specific. and which he SO richly merits
1t is the only preparation of the kind that i
reliable in all cases, and it therefore demands
the attention of the afflicted.
Sold by druggists everywhere, and by HOS
TElER 4 SMITH, Sole Proprietors, 81 Water
and IS Front Streets, Pittsburgh.
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Democratic State Convention

A Convention of the Democratic party Of
Iowa will be held at Iowa City on Thursday
the 9th day Of June next. for the purpose Of
nominating candidates for the offices of Secre.
tary, Auditor, and Treasurer of State also
for the transaction of such business as said
convention may deem proper.
The ratio of representation will be one dele
gate for each one hundred votes. and one ad-
ditonal delegate for each fraction over fifty
votes cast in each county for the Democratic
candidate for Governor, in October last
Counties casting less number of votes will
be entitled to one delegate each No county
can be represented by proxy.
Geo. w. McCleary, Chas Cookery, DO. Finch,
d. II. Solomon, G.. S. C. Dow, VIM Voght
w w. Belknap, John Clark, J, d. Test,
State Central Com1aTtse
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DIR. MAINS AGrE BALsAM -This wonder
full compound is having an extensive sale in
all parts OF the Union where ague exists. 1t
is one OF the few medicines which are now sold
over the country that are really what their in
vcntors claim for them. And unlike all other
remedies that are recommended by their pro-
pretors to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to
this remedy is only recommended for chills,
fever and ague or that particular class of dis
eases growing out of the result OF miasma, so
common in our western country. Tie nuner-
Gus evidences of its great curative properties,
and the high estimation placed upon it, rem.
ders it the greatest discovery of the age, and
it deserves the entire appreciation of all class
es of men. Those having occasion to Use a
medicine OF this kind are urged to spare nc
pains to give this trial if they wish to he
soundly cured. See advertisement in another
column OF this paper. Sold 10y all good drug
gists 2-3iw4
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/ Ito be given today, in preliminary
examination of Lance shall be made
public.
Intense excitement prevailed through
town, as the news Of the fatality
spread from mouth to mouth. A few
men talked very loudly about lynch
ing Lane on the spot, and the notori-
Gus Sheriff Jones Of Lecompton, who
happened to be present, seconded the
suggestion. Sheriff Walker quietly
remarked to him Now Jones, if l
were you, | would be careful not to
excite these people. If any hanging
should be done they would be quite as
likely to begin on gov, as not
Jones looked around upon the omin-
Gus chances cast upon him from all
directions and Immediately started
for the hotel, and took the stage for
home ! Lane was arrested and put
under guard by Sheriff Walker. The
men who accompanied Jenkins were
also arrested.
The scene at the house of the de-
ceased was a sad one. After the
affray, Mrs. jenkins assisted in carry
ing in the corpse. When | reached
the house it was laid out in one of the
little rooms but it was almost impos-
sible to realize that the lusty life )"
had all fled from that stalwart frame.
The widow was shrieking with grief
In an adjoining apartment and her
four fatherless children seemed almost
equally disconsolate.
Jenkins was from Lockport, Illinois,
about torty-fivc years of age, man
of great tirmness and impetuosity, but
universally esteemed in the communi-
ty. He was prominent Free State
man during the old troubles, held a
commission as Colonel under Lane,
and was one of the famous treason
prisoners in 1856 The legal inves-
tigation of the case is about to com.
mence
From Linn County the news contin.
ues of the most discouraging charac-
ter. Mr.. William Hutchinson, who
left the Trading Post" night before
last informs me that the whole coun-
try is in arms-that mounted bodies
of men are gathering in Missouri
that scores of the Free Soil citizens of
that State are moving over into Kan
sas, IN the interior, for protection.
None Of the murderers have been
caught. He regards the probability
Of an early collision in Linn County as
very great.
At meeting of the Directors of the
Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad,
held at their office, June 10th, 1853,
the following Resolution was passed,
viz:
Resotrsd, That w. II. Sessions be
and is hereby appointed the General
Agent of the Cedar Falls and Mime
sofa Railroad Company, whose duty
1t shall be to procure stock subscrip-
tions, right Of way, station grounds,
donations, county subscriptions, and
all matters tending to the general III
tercst Of the company, and is hereby
delegated with the necessary author
ity for this purpose.
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y Office.
WEDNESDAY, June %, 1853.
extra family u cwt 50 %

DI VIRTUE of Il Chattel Mortgage cNccu
ID ted by George Scott To Daniel Mahoney
both of Floyd County, State of Iowa, ON one
Iron Gray Mare of the age of six years, and one
Sucking Colt belonging to said mare, will
offer at Public Sale to the highest bidder for
cash, at the steps of the Magnolia House, in
st. Charles City, on the second day of July,
4. II. 1858 ut 2 o'c clock. 7. NJ. of said day, the
above named mare and colt to satisfy the
amount due on said Mortgage
+. =. HARRINGTON. Constable.
st. Charles City, June Is, 1853. 35w2
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lumber &c LatI1
ASSigneeS Sale.

TIME STOCK of Goods lately owned by John
Heath. Jr, will be sold at Cost Prices for
Cash only. Persons wishing Painting or Glaz-
ing done, are hereby informed that the sub
scribers have employed Mr.. Heath who will be
ready ut all times to attend to their wants
J. V. W. MONTAGUE,
WIN. II. FAIRFIELD
Assgnees of John Heath, Jr.
St Charles City, March % 1853 2:24tf
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Marble Factory.

VNIlE subscriber, being agent for the Chicka-
l. saw Marble Works, would say to the
citizens OF st. Charles City and surrounding
country, that he is ready to receive and fill
orders for Tomb Stones, Monuments, Pyra-
mids. &c, made of the best Vermont or Italian
Marble, and as cheap as can be had west of the
Mississippi All work nicely executed and
warranted. ID. GILBERT.
st. Charles City Jan. 90 1853. l6tf
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Notice,

The Subscriber will continue the mercantile
business. as usual, at the old stand of f. A. 4
C. ii. Haskell CHAS. Il. HASKELL.
st. Charles City, March 49, 1858. "A
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E. B. c.. WRIGHT'S
CASH and Ready Pay Store.


TNHE Copartnership heretofore existing be-
l. tween the subscribers under the style and
firm of Wright and McNabb, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent
f. B. c. WRIGHT.
H. W. McNABB.
st. Charles City, April Is, 1853 %
The undersigned will continue the mercan-
tile business. as usual, at the old stand for
merly occupied by Wright & McNabb
f. b. c. WRIGHT.
April Is, 1853.
4 Ii who are indebted to the undersigned,
n either by note or book account, are respect
fully requested to call Immediately and pay the
same WRIGHT & McNABB
April Is, 1858. %
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S,MOkEp HAMS Smoked Sides, Picked
- Pork, Potatoes. Wheat. Flour &c. con
st3ntly on hand and for sale by
T.. b. G.. WRIGHT.
ST Charles City. MAY |. 1855
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CIUCHIIIS, FCC.
MORE Boots and Shoes, Ready made Cloth
wi ing, Hats aud Caps, just arrived. making
my stock full and complete, all of which |
will sell at small profits f. B. G. Wright.
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Wall Paper.
Provisions.

OATS and CORN for sale at the lowest mar
~ ket price by +. b. c. WRIGHT.
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New York trading corporations. Thackeray's
% Virginians is continued in this number.
This is, of all labors of his genius the least
likely to satisfy his readers on either side ofthe
Atlantic.
The Beautiful Home and other Letters TO Child BY the
author Of MinisIerins Children, &c New York Rob
Carter Brothers. For safe BY William balanty
Washington, ID. C.
There is a peculiarly in the mode by which
important truths are conveyed and impressed on
the conscience and heast in this little book In
narrating occurrences in her walks, or some
SIMPLE transaction of everyday life, she pre-
pares the way for turn and application of a
principle of higher import. The story is easily
and often beautifully told, and the transition
natural. Sometimes the form adopted for the
lessons taught is alles Dry, and sometimes too
direct statement of truth. The style is plain,
but few words comparatively are used that do
not lie within the range of an intelligent child's
understanding. The basis of the religious in
struction is the Bible and numerous passages
are referred to, partly only by quotations in
substance, and partly in the very words of the
sacred volume. There is an air of deep and
sincere interest for the young on every page.
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SPECIAL COMMUNICATION FROM THE
PRESIDENT

The President communicated to the House
81 Representatives on Wednesday of last week.
otter the Era went to press, an interesting mass
vi diplomatic correspondence relating to Mexi-
gan and Central American affairs. The reader
will find an abstract of the correspondence in
another column. 1t will be seen that the British
naval officers who were alleged to have made
an almost forcible visit to the mail steamer
Washington, at San Juan del Norte. deny that
they had any hostile intent and there seems 70
I've re-establishment ofthe entente cordiale be-
tween the two countries. In the mean time, 1t
as been explained that the President under
GOOD beforehand and approved the negotia-
Cons which the British envoy has been con-
sucting with the authorities of Central America.
me object of which has been to avoid future
entanghng alliances, by an abandonment of
the Mosquito protectorate to Nicaragua, and
re Bay Islands to Honduras Such is the ey.
Elanation given by the States.
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THE USE MADE OF THE FEDERAL
JAIL.

In 1850, Congress enacted one of those
shams called Compromise, and among its
conditions was one for abolishing the slave
trade in the District Of Columbia. Southern
gentlemen even acknowledged their disgust at
the sight Of gangs Of slaves, cofled, and
paraded through Pennsylvania Avenue, on their
way to the Southern market; and they, in com
mon with their conservative associates from
the North, voted that the unseemly nuisance
should be abated 1t was not good policy, they
argued, to tolerate in the National Capital such
practical Illustration Of 4" our domestic inst-
tutions,' and thus impress on the minds of
strangers and foreign representatives unfavor-
able ideas of our humanity and consistency
as Republicans. We were never the partisans
OF the Compromise, but We did feel gratiied at
this small tribute TO the conscience and charac-
ter of the nation, and We were so confding as
to hope that it would beaet a more humane and
Christian spirit in the community. But our
hopes soon vanished, and it became apparent
that practically there WIS little if any cessa-
ton in the traffic in human flesh"
The following advertisement, which appeared
in the Star recently, we rive merely by way of
illustration, and not at al because the case is
remarkable:
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Iarper'. Magazine for pecsmber.

This number opens with q A Winter in the
South, which is not only graphic in its illus
trations, but in its text. The Niggers Bale .
is equal to any of the pictures of Uncle Tom. y
" The Old Filibuster" is a most attractive arti-
Gle Of the ancient Buccaneers, as told in the
true history of Sieur Reranan De L,lssdn and
we greatly prefer the ehivalry and courage of
these old freebooters to the modern ones under
the control and management of Gen. Walker
aided and abetted by the chivalry Of the South,
(so-called,) and the unquestioned rascality OF
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administrator Of Jacob Hall.


We neglected to attend the sale, but we have
witnessed enough of sucs scenes 10 satisfy us
that the exposure of two methers and their
offspring upon the auctioa block must have af,
forded rare fun to the '1rafickers in human
flesh The anguish of the heart-broken mother
at the thought of separation from her httle ones.
the vague terrors of the children, and the en-
forced silence of the agEeieved but indignant
father, was q spectacle to put fends in a good
humor.
But we quote the advertisement, in order 10
draw attention to the use which is made of the
Washington Jail. This Jail is built by the Uni
ted States Government The money which it
cost came, for the most part, out of the pockets
Of the people of the North, who have abolished
or excluded Slavery from their Territories. and
who wish, as far as practicable, to wash their
hands of it. But even if the case were other
wise, and surprising that all the States of the
Union were slaveholding, what right have pri
vate individuals to use the common Jail as
warehouse for their hum8n merchandise? A
mule-driver would not beljermitted to stable his
HuleS III the eueFaI JAN ~ Wheat grower would
not be permitted to makesa barn of it; then,
where does the Shareholder get his authority for
using it as slave-pen? IS property in slaves
so much more sacred than property in mules or
property in wheat, that it lhould be entitled to
this extraordinary privilege?
Prior to the memorable Compromise era Of
1850, the traffickers in human flesh, like other
merchants, were put to the expense of building
their own slave-pens and the effect of the pre-
tended suppression of the cratic is, to give the
traffickers the benefit of the jail as warehouse.
If a man mistreats his slaLes or talks of selling
them, and, as a consequence, becomes appre-
hensive of their running a,;ay, he carries them
to Jail as place of safety, until he can find
purchaser for them or as in the present
case, it becomes necessary 20 sell the effects of
a deceased intestate, the CHted States Jail is
made the receptacle Of his slaves. as a safe
guard against their runnit off,
The pretended comprC nise suppression of
the traffic was sham in its inception, and has
been treated as dead letter from that dav 10
this. This slave trade has never ceased in this
city and District, and will never cease, while we
have rulers who are ready TO connive at it.
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BackwoOd's Magazine foe November New York
printed BY Leonard Scott Co.

The leading article in tbs number is review
of that very remarkable book, Buckles His
tory of Civilization of which the readers ofthe
Era have already had our opinion. BlackwoOd
gives very high praise to the author, who said
to possess almost every qualification for his
great work, " A Philosophical History of Eng
land There is another article, of great inter
est, on Edward Irving, the eminent minister Of
London, the Contemporary and countryman Of
Chalmers. He was intensely Scotch in his ma
ture, and, as the Reviewer says, his whole
soul and eloquence breathe of his country-a
heroic sublmation of the lyrical and choral
genius of his native soil"
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WHO INVENTED THE ELECTRIC TEL
EGRAPH?

We find the following curious and interesting
statement in the Travels of the celebrated Eng
fish agriculturist, Arthur Young, published in
1893.
In Paris, in 1897, he called upon Mons.
Lomond, very ingenious and inventive me-
chanic, who has made an improvement of the
jenny for spinning cotton. In electricity he
has made remarkable discovery. You write
two or three words on paper he takes it
with him into a room, and turns a machine
enclosed in cylindrical case, at the top of
which is an electrometer, small, fine, pith
ball; wire connects with similar cylinder
and electrometer in distant apartment, and
his wife, by remarking the corresponding mo-
tons of the ball, writes down the words they
indicate; from which it appears that he has
formed an alphabet of motions As the e,,qth
Of the icire makes no difference in the effect, a
correspondence might be carried on at any dis
tonce-,cithin and without beseged town, for
instance; or for purpose much more worthy,
and thousand times more harmless, between
two lovers, prohibited or prevented from any
better connection. Whatever the use may he,
the invention is beautiful. Mons Lomond has
many other curious machines, all the entire
work of his own hands. Mechanical invention
seems 70 be in him a natural propensity
Vol. |, pages 1867.
The work containing this remarkable state
ment was published in Dublin, in 1898. 1t is
said to be "out of print" and very rare, but
may be seen at the Washington Library of this
city.
MAP OF THE RICHMOND Coal FIELD.--We
are indebted to the publisher, S. II. De Bow,
for a Photographic map of the Richmond Coal
Field, so-called, lying on both sides of the
James river. 1t is Autographed by Richie,
Dunnevant & Co., and is remarkably well
executed. This coal field is twenty miles in
length, and eight miles in width, containing
lI5,200 acres.
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/" By A. Green.l Anetioneer.

Administrators salez-I will, in pursuance
OF an order of the Orphaa's Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia, sell tt public auction, on
Friday, next, Nov. 18th, at twelve o'clock, NJ,
IN front OF the Jail, to the highest bidder, for
cash, viz
One negro woman AID three children, one
negro woman and two children, and three like
~ boys from fourteen to 'aineteen years of age.
H.Yr
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rsS@ A few of our new subscribers will receive
This week copy of our Extra containing
the story entitled Jasper" published in the
Era, up to December lst; those who do not re-
ceive it viii be furnished, about the first of
January, with doWble extra, containing allthe
story up TO that time. 1t appears we did not
print large enough edition of our first extra.
The Extra is issued at heavy expense to us,
but we know it will be fully appreciated by our
subscribers.
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WASHINGTON, D. G.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER %, 1858.
JASPER.
Inducement to New Subscribers.

Owing 10 the unusual interest manifested
by our readers in the story now in course OF
publication in the Era, entitled JASPER" we
have concluded, in order that all neD subscri-
bers may have the benefit of the story, to issue
an Extra on the lst of January, contain
ing eli the chapters published up TO that time.
This Extra will be sent free TO all neIo sub
scribers