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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09
Communications.
For the 81 Charles City lntclligenccr.
A Reyerie.

II ItIbNlNs
| would were child again upon
my fathers knee-that gathered was
each absent one around the family
tree. | would that each familiar voice
might gush as joyously as when
around the old hearth-stonc we tuned
our minstrclsy. ! would my mothers
dark full eye might beam upon us
there her constant, sweet, approving
smile, each childish heart might share.
Her form, seem to see it now, erect
as in her prime, beside that tireless
spinning wheel, that harp of olden
time. I'd carroll then the live long
day, the widest of the van and war
Bile forth all sorts of airs, as only child,
hood can. I'd pat the good old house
dogs head, while summing in the door,
and gently poor the tabby cat, repos'
ing on the floor. I'd gather pebbles
in the brook-make pastry in the sand
rear castles in each leafy nook with
fancy's magic wand. I'd stray through
all the garden walks, and ramblc DER
the hedge and climb the highest far,
off peak, in childhood's fayorite ledge,
I'd note the rose-buds on each tree,
the lilacs on each stcm-count all the
daisies in the vale, and violcts in the
glen I'd watch the apple as it fell
the cherry, plum andpeacll-the grapes
and berries | would Gull, and test my
share of each. | would | were a child
again, if 'twere but for one hour
Alas DER Times relentless wheels
my wishes have no power.
RUTH SIMPLE.
August, 1853.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09
For the st. Charles City mtelligencer.
Letter from Illinois.

MoNr MEAcHAM, ILL.,, Aug 1858.
MEssRs. EDIroRs When we contem-
plate the present state of this great
peninsular, formed by the divergence
of the two rivers, the Mississippi and
Illinois, and contrast it with what it
was but the short period of twenty
years past, we are almost overwhelmed
with amazement at what the hand of
man has performed. 1t was in the
year 1886 that first travelled through
this region, when what is now the elc-
giant and fourishing city of Quincy
was only hamlet, and Rushville, the
seat of Schuyler county, and Pittsfield
the seat of Pike, with kindred places,
were what some have contemptuously
denOminated but little squaw towns"
And, from the junction of the Illinois
with the Father of Waters" at the
southern extremity of the county of
Calhoun, to Rushville, a stretch of
one hundred and fifty miles, or more,
only now and then was seen rude
cabin, with some inconsiderable en-
closure for tillage, this being inter-
rupted, however, by the county seats
of Pike, Adams and Schuyler, with
some few occasional "squaw towns !"
in embryo. Quincy being situated on
the Mississippi was also creditable
exception. For a good portion Of the
way little else than foot-paths, or, as
they were called, "bridlc-ways" formed
my only road.
But now, as l cast my eye over the
landscape what do | behold ? what
scenes arise before my vision !! In
whatsoever direction l turn, widely
extended agricultural districts meet
my view, all dotted over with glowing
hamiets and stately edifices, combin-
ing comfort and elegance, spreading
fields in high culture, and luxuriant
gardens, with varied and unbounded
wealth in stocks being improved, and
attaining to the highest excellence.
Added to these resources of opu-
lence, we have a sublime and almost
! perfect network of railways, compile
ted and in rapid construction, spread
ing nearly throughout the realm. Run,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

ARGUMENTS FOR THE BIBLE.-Therc
are four grand arguments for the,
Bible. The first is the miracles or
record the second the prophecies !;
the third the goodness OF the doctrine
the fourth the moral character of the
penmen. The miracles flow from Di~-
vine power; the prophecies from
Divine understanding the excellence
OF the doctrine from Divine goodness
the moral character Of the penmen
from Divine purity. Thus, Christiani-
ty is built upon these four immovable
pillars-tle power, the understanding,
the goodness, the purity of God. The
Bible must be one of these things
either an invention of good men, or
good angels or bad men, or bad
angels or u revelation from God.
But it could not be the invention of
good men OF angels ; for they neither
would nor could make book telling
lies at the time, saying, Thus saith
the Lord, when they knew it all to be
their own invention. 1t could not
be the invention OF wicked men, or
devils, for they could not make q book
which commands all duty, which for
bids all sin, and which condemns their
souls to all eternity. The conclusion
is irrcsistable-the Bible must he
given by Divine inspiration.-Bihop
Simpson,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

DARK lloURs. There are dark hours,
that mark the history of the brightest
years. For not Il whole month in
many Of the millions Of the past, per
haps, has the sun shonc brilliantly all
the time.
And there have been cold and
stormy days in every year. And yet
the mists and shadows Of the darkest
hour disappeared aud fled heedlessly.
The most cruel ice tcttcrs have been
broken and Dissolved and the most fu-
rious storm loses its power to harm.
And what parable is this in hui
man life--of our inside world where
the heart works at its destined labors
Here, too, we have the overshadow
of the dark hours, and many a cold
blast chills the heart to its core. But
what matters it? Man is 4 hero, and
it is only in the darkness and storms
that heroism gains its greatest and
the best development and the storm
bears it more rapidly on to its destiny.
Despair not, then. Neither give up;
while one good power is yours, use it
| Disappointment will not be realized.
Mortifying failure may attend this ef.
fort and that one-but only be honest.
and struggle on, and it will work
well.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

OLD PSALM TUSEs.--Therc is, to u,
more touching pathos, heayt-thrilltn
expression, more feeling displayed, IN
some Of the old psalm tunes than in
whole batch of moderuisms. The
strains go home, and the fountain ct
the great deep is broken up"-the
great deep Of unlathpmable feeling,
that lies far, far below the surface of
the world-hardencd heart; ana as the
unwontcd, yet unchecked tear starts
in the eye, the softend spirit yield to
their influence and shake off the load
Of earthly care, rising, purified and
spiritualized, into a clearer atmosphere.
Strange, incXplcable associations
brood over the mind, like the far
off dream of Paradise" mingling their
claste melody with musing of still,
subdued, more cheerful character.
How many glad hearts in the olden
time have rejoiccd in these songs Of
praise--how many sighed ont their
complaints in those plaintivo notes,
that steal sadly, yet sweetly on the
car-hearts that, now cold in death,
are laid to rest, around that sacred
tune, within whose walls they had so
often swellcd with emotion -BiacL.
lr00y
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09
THE PLACE FOR sCHOoLMA'Ms.

Prentice, of the Lousvilc Jourrt,l,
relates the following experience Of his
sending Schoolma'ms South
Some may think it strange ut isn't
though) that, ever since the time
when we remarked in our paper that
ninc-tenths of all the hundreds OF
young women sent by us to the South
as teachers have got married there,
we have been literally overwhelmed
with applications from New England,
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
We do not think, that, in Justice TO
such of our Southern friends as arc in
want Of teachers we can send any girl
that will not pledge herself to US 10
continue at least six months in tho
business. We know that the con-
ditions seem hard, but really we shall
have to be ineXorablc.
About three years ago the trustees
of fine female academy in one er tho
Southern States wrote 10 us to send
them Il teacher We sent them q very
beautiful and accomplished youua,
lady, and they promptly wrote us 10
letter Of warm thanks for the selections.
In about three months they wro1c
us again, telling us that their teacher
had got married and requesting MS to.
send them another. We did send
them another quite as beautiful and
accomplished as the first, and they
were, as they might be, very mnch
delighted with her. In just about
three months, however, they applied
to us a third time, begging us to send
them still another, the second having.
got married like the first. In their
last application, however, they in
sisted that the lady next sent to them
should be plain looking and not less
than thirty-five years old. The con-
ditions were difficult. and we did not
succeed in complying with them We
prevailed upon our friends, the trus-
tees, to accept a richly talented lady
who was neither old nor ugly, she
giving us her honor that she would
not marry in less than half u year.
We understand that she held out like
4 brave, good girl to the specified
time, but not day afterwards. ...e
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09
Qoetrp.
Gone Home !"

She's gone in her beauty,
In silence to rest,
Like snow drops are folded
Her hands on her breast
She lies like a statue
Of some Grccian art,
With checks that are pallid,
And a cold hushcd heart.
A smile is still resting
Upon her sweet face.
AS if angels had touched it
With holier grace.
With us, through life's mazes,
No longer to roam,
Our loved one hath left us,
But only gone home "
And now she is singing,
With the angelic throng,
With voice like the prelude
To some pleasant song.
Her robe must be spotless,
With her to accord,
For blest are the sleepers
Who die in the Lord!
A grave We will make her
Adown in our heart,
Whose sacrcdness never
From us can depart;
Wen watch it most fondly,
Will guard it with care,
And Hopes cheering rainbow
Shall rest on it there
The flowers, that will ever
Their petals unroll.
Shall be wet by the fountains
That gush from the soul.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

HoME.-Oh! what heaven there is
in home, when the deepening shadows
gather the family together, if each
bring an offering, however simple, for
the altar of Love. The Interchange Of
kind words and Offices, will make
beautiful the pathway whose terminus
is down in the cold and dark tomb,
and neglect makes the way to the
bridal chamber difficult and steep
Why, why is the heart so perverse,
and the eyes so blind to the secret of
all happiness.--Aliee Carey.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

No MAN CAN BoRRow HIMSELF OUT OF
DEBr-lf you wish for relief you must
work for it-economise for it i; you
must make more and spend less than
you did when you were running in
debt; you must wear homespun in
stead of broadcloth drink water in
stead Of champagne, and rise at four
instead of seven. Industry, frugality,
economy-these are the handmaids
of wealth, and the sure sources of re-
lief 4 dollar earned is worth ten
borrowed, and dollar saved is better
than forty times its amount in useless
gcw-gaws.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

1t has been eloquently and truly
said, that if Christianity We're com
PEELED to flee from the mansions of the
great, the academies of philosophy,
the halls Of Legislators, or the throngs
of business men, we should find her
last retreat with woman at the fire.
side. Her last audience would be
the children gathering around the
knees of mother; the last sacrifice,
the secret prayer.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

True GoopNEss.-We ought to be-
ware of committing injustice to others,
rather than Of being injured by them
and, above all, a man ought to study
not to appear good, but to be so, both
in public and in private .--PLato's
Phddo.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09

There is certainly something of ex-
quisite kindness and thoughtful be-
nevolence in that rarest Of gifts
fine breeding.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-09
Business 1irtttorp.

Business Cards of 1--WE lines less will be inserted in
this column for S. 90 per For each additional
line, over hve one dollar will be charged.
Gussavus G. Reniger Irving W. Card Robt q. Reinger
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
First Appearances.

The first bonnet worn in England waE
brought from Italy, in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, and its form was a. compromise
between the present round Italian peas.
ant hat and the French hood.
Hats appear to have been used about
the year 400.
The earliest mention Of forks occurs il
a book of travels published in 1911.
The first steamboat used in Great Brit
ain was the Comet, a small vessel Of forty
feet keel and ten feet and a half beam
with an engine of three horse power
which carried passengers on the river
CLYDE, in Scotland, in 1911.
The first horse ever seen in Canada
was brought to that country from France
in a ship which arrived at Tadousac, on
the goth of June, 1647.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
Hin Memoriam.

The whirlwind that sweeps in its wrath through tn
valley,
Uprooting the oaks in its terrible course,
WhenIthe storm-cloud and tempest their dard squad
rons rally,
And rush over the sky with a ightning-winge
Might seem to the gazer a swift-passing trhae,
Compared with the warriors who welded the rife
With death-dealing aim, and were fearless to sti1e
The fountain of life in their foes at its source.
The nodding of plume, and the waving of pennon,
The g~littering of sword, and the bayonet's CLEAN:
The bounding of steed, and the roaring of cannon,
To Morgan were nought but a pageant's vail
theme.
He came like the lightning that darts in its splen
dor,
From dark cliff and forest-his c~ountry's defender
The scarlet-clad foes of fair Freedom to render
The pale sheeted ghosts OF a maniac's dream.
Ali woe to the Briton! his Boosting is over,
The pride of his legions is low in The dust;
No more shall he visit friend, country, OF lover;
He lies where his weapon is turning to rust,
For a band of dark plumes. with the blue cassock'
belted.
And rifles all ready, and claymores hrm-hilted,
Came forth to the battle-as snow mounds are
melted,
Soon vanished that host who in numbers did trust
IT'S thus that the warriors for freedom contending,
Though small be their cohorts, inyincible stands
Their alters, their homes, and their country defend
ing,
Undaunted each heart, and unerring each hand,
From hillside and mountain-glen ~fastness and valley
Should foeman invade us, those dark plumes will
sally,
And round Freedoms banner, like thunder clouds
rally,
To drive the invaders from Liberty's land.
Rest, Patriot Chieftainl thy warfare is ended,
No more shalt thou wake to the bugle's loud call;
long shall the land which thy valor defended,
Entwine for thy mcrble a bright %coronal.
The fame thou hast won on the battlefield CORY,
Forever shall live in thy c~ouutry's proud story,
And gather new lustre and bright beaming glory,
So long as the sun shall illumine this ball.
Conn, April 20, 1858.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
A Banker Returned to Bill Posting

The Cincinnati Inquirer has the fol-
lowing Passing along the street yes
terday, our attention was called to a
scene not a little novel and interesting iu
its character. In an alley, with paste
pot in hand, and a roll of bills on his
arm, whom should we see but Wesley
Smead, late President OF. the Citizens
Bank posting his own bills Of property
for sale, for the purpose Of paying off the
remaining debts of the bank. Needless
of the wondering gaze of the astonished
passer-by, he laid on the paste and spread
out the bill with all the readiness and
facility Of a practical poster, taking care
to place them in the most conspicuous
positions, and above the reach of boys
and rag pickers. Forty, three years ago,
DR.. Smead was an apprentice in the Ga
zette establishment, and being the young
est, the duty devolved upon him Of
posting up the show bills, &c. AT this
late period Of his life, when overtaken by
adversely, he is nobly struggling Ia rare
sight, indeed, among bankers) to dis
charge all his obligations to his credi-
tors
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
song of the Union.
BY WILLIAM (Ross) WALLACE.

Who would raise the cry OF" SEVER?
Who would rend our starry Ida
At Monmouth, Yorktown, Saratoga,
Like a hurricane unrolled-
Who would say unto our Eagle?
Let your mighty wings, unfurl'd
From the rising to the sunset.
Fan no more the Western World '
See upon the clouds r~ssplendent.
Mid a Grecian patriot-crowd,
Sit the Revolutions heroes!
HENRY cries to you aloud
Cries to'you their brave descendants
BY the mountain, wave and flood
win ye, can ye dare surrender
Rights that we baptized in blood 90
Frscmen give aloud your answer
Heroes, marking well our foes,
This our flag is but the dearer
Since Disunion's voice arose!
We will bear with many a trouble
We could never dare to sever!
Discord, Battle, Death may threaten
But THE UNION STANDS FoREvERt
We have sworn it in the Northland
By Niagara's awful wave;
We have sealed it in the " estland
BY Kentucky's mighty ave
In the Eastland, in the Southland,
We will raise the starry fold
That our WASHINGTON at Trenton
Like a hurricane unrolled."
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
Fiddler Jake.

Beware Of the rash attempt to remove
smallpox pits by scalding your face
Extensive scalds are often fatal, and at
best, might leave your face more SCARED
than before. Medical authority tells us
that nothing 50 e~ffectually removes these
disfgurements as gently rubbing the face
with a soft towel Immediately after wash
ing. the practice is free fro.:, the objee-
tions to be made against external appli-
cation. 1t quickens the circulation OF the
blood, producing exfoliation and the
formation Of new tissues, and at the same
time restors the cheek to its healthy color,
which is generally lost by coufuent small
pox.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
A Blind Girl Seeing" a Plav

During the performance Of the Jew
ess' at the American Theatre, San Fran.
cisco, a short time ago, a little girl at
tracted much attention by suppressed but
violent sobbing. 1t was thought. at frst
that she was a child whose refined feel
ings were more susceptible than those o.
others, older and more experienced in
the world, aud that she looked on the
scene asreal. But that was not the cause
of her grief. Before losing her sight she
had seen the play, and hearing that il
was to be performed that night by Mrs
Hayne, she desired to be taken to the
theatre to " see it." Several times she
whispered to her mother, there l re
member that part; how l do wish | could
see, but it's so dark" When the Jewess
was about ascending to the cauldron,
the child tried to look towards the stage,
but failing to penetrate the curtain which
hid the scene from herself alone, she
buried her face in her hands, and cried
with bitter vexations and despair. All
who knew of the little girls misfortune
shared in her grief and disappointment,
but they could not see and feel the terri.
BILE shadows that hung about her heart.
dark as the plumes of a ravin. What a
cherries horizon is hers. But for her
there is light beyond the layless ways OF
time, where brighter lamps. lit from the
Holy of Holes, will enable her to see
clearly as the arehangel who has looked
upon the gorgeous scenery since the
birth of ages.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
NJ The Henderson Kv1 Go,oooe,

G The Henderson (Ky) Commercial
tells the story Of a fashionable lady of
%color," who was promeBading the streets
on Sunday last. when all at oncc news
papers commenced falling and her dimen-
sions contracting until about fifty papers
were strewn upon the street, nor was she
aware of the loss until a little darkie
just behind exclaimed at the top of his
voice, "Lor a massy, Is do believe dat
niger is made of newspapers p This
raised the lady's ire, when she retorted
by exclaiming, you fool, boy. OATS what
Missus makes hearn on.p
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
Three Things.

Three things that are as good as the
best-brown bread in a famine, well wa
ter in a thirst, and a great coat in very
cold weather.
Three things not easily done-to allay
thirst with fire, to dry wet with water
and to please all in everything that is
done.
Three things as good as the betters-
dirty water to %extinguish a fire, a homely
wife to a blind man, and a wooden sword
to a coward.
Three warnings from the grave-thou
knowest what l was, thou knowest what
| am, remember, what thou art to be.
Three things Of short continuation
lady's love, a chip fire, and a brooks
flood.
Three things which should never be
from home-a cat, a chimney, and a house
wife.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
For the Monmouth Weekly Herald.
The Shfpyvreck.
BY FINLEY N

BY FINLEY JOHNSON.
The sea was calm, it had sunk to rest
Like an infant child and on its mothers breast;
And the crescent moon by her radiant light,
Added grace and beauty unto the night.
Such was the scene, and such the hour,
When a ship sped forth in her mighty power;
Onward she few like a thing of life,
While her deck with human beings were rife;
And the mariners bold, with a joyous laugh
Pledged a safe return, as the cup t4ley quaff'd;
And the passengers too, threw aside all fear;
As they gazed on the night so bright and clear:
And the jest went round from lip to lip,
Ofthose wAo thronged that fated ship.
Little they thought as they trod her deck,
That ere to morrow they'd be a wreck,
That the. hearts now filed with hope and glee,
Would find q home in the clear blue sea;
That the eye which beamed with a living light,
Would be closed in death ere the coming nigh
Their dreams were of hope, they thought no
pain
As the ship gaily trod the heaving main;
And the laugh went round, and at beauty 8 becl
Light feet went dancing on the deck.
But all of a sudden, the face of the sky
had changed; and told of the dangers nigh;
And on the proud an awful darkness spread
While floating DER the mast's tall head
A black cloud lowered, now appeared from afal
The moons pale beams, or twinkling star;
30 deep the gloom that DER the ship was cast,
Tho timid stood amazed,-the brave aghast.
When the morning sun rose clear and bright,
There were none to tell of the scenes of tina
night;
For the sea was calm, but beneath her waves
In the labrynth wide of her hidden caves
The bodies OF those who were lost on the deep
Have there found a spot of eternal sleep;
And there shall they sleep until the end of time
When men and kindred of every cline
Shall stand before the throne of their God.
obeying his word and fearing his rod;
Then there at that great judgement day
Shall old ocean at last yield up it's prey;
But their collins are now the foaming surge.
Their requiem old oceans dirge.
BALTIMORE, NJ. D.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29
no. THE FOLLOWING i } ,,e,bo,i,n -

Bsl The following is a verbatim con
yersation which occurred between twf
middle-aged men, at the corner of Ruch
street and Hog alley, Pass Christian
Friday morning, at eight o'clock.
How do you do, Mr.. Brown 2"
"Do what?"
Why, how do you fud yourself 2"
f" never lost myself"
We'll, how have you been ?"
"Been-heen where ?"
"Pshaw l--how do you feel?
Feel of me and see."
Good morning, Mr.. Brown"
ut isn't a good morning either"