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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

= 1t is the intention Of the better class
of citizens in Demoinc to enforce the
liquor law and suppress the thirty-two
dram shops which now curse that city.
There is a disposition OH the part OF a
number of the members Of the Legis-
laturc to rc-enact the old license law.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The Kcokuk Journal tells of q man
near that city who caught a big cat
fish, and on dressing it found gold
chronomcter watch in its nav. a
gentleman of keokuk recognized the
watch as his own, he having lost it
overheard from a steamer while com
ing up from New Orleans. Rather
iishy
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

Two men, named James Mcdonald
and John Martin, recently undertook
to convey boat load of pork across
the Wapsipinicon river near Anamosa
when the boat became unmanageable
and went down stream. Martin swan
ashore, but Mcdonald was drowned.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25
Can & Will Sell, for Ready-Pay.
FOR LESS PROFIT,

We can well afford to take less profits, for then
what we do make, be it ever so small zee haze
ii, and can use t. We can buy more goods
with it, and rid ourselves and purchasers of
unpleasant settlements, heavy debts-ever an
noying and threatening us-thc risk of our
property being attached and sold at a ruinous
sacraficc- intense anXiety-expenses of collec-
tions--making enemies of each other, and a
thousand other torments which ever has and
ever will accrue from long credits When a
merchant can sell his goods on time, and re-
ccive all his pay at the time agreed upon.
making no bad debts, then the credit system
will work, but not till then successfully.
! Even then the consumer would have to paw a
large profit for his credit.
Past experience and posture facts have alone
guided us in this movement, believing it best
for us, and, most assuredly, best for the pr,r-
chaser and consummer, for we will sell our
goods for cash and ready pay,
10 Per Cent. Less
Than we have heretofore on Credit,
And our prices hereafter will
make it for your interest to
buy goods of us, and to pay the
cash or equiralent in produce, at
the time you purchase.
Yours, respectfully,
WRIGHT & McNABB.
St Charles City, Feb. %, 1858
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

On a recent trip, the Fort Dodge
stage was five days in reaching De-
NOME. Some of the passengers gave
thrilling narratives of bottomless pits,
impossible torrents, interminable mud,
drcnching rain, and benevolent thumps
from frozen knobs Their impression
is that "Jordan am hard road to
trabel"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The Dcmoinc Citizen speaks OF the
arrest in that city of three women,
charged with keeping house of i'll
fame, and intimates that there are sew
eral such houses there. Shocking.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The Republicans of Iowa have cal
led State Convention to meet at Iowa
City on the 18th day of June next, for
nominating candidates for Secretary
of State, Auditor, Treasurer and At
torney General, and for the transac-
ton of such other business as may
come before the convention.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The Keokuk journal recently an
nounced that FIVE and half tons OF
whiskcy had been shipped from that
place to the Capital, and the Demone
Citizen informs us of its arrival al
that place, two cases of delrinm ire
mems and one of throatcutting having
resulted from it already.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The geese and pigeons that passed
Northward week or two since in
anticipation of immediate Spring and
green "yarbs" about Lake Superior,
have held council with the muskrats
and decided to decline hereafter all at
tempts at foreshadowing the weather
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25
WRIGHT & McNABB

st. Charles City, Feb. %, 1858.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

DIR. Lord, of Dartmouth College, re-
Gently preached in Dracut, Mass, near
Lowell, and stated that when he prca-
chcd in that church forty-five years
ago, he well recolected passing thro'
the forest upon the opposite side of the
Merrimac river, mar The city Of Loaeeli,
on his way to church.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

Antoine LeClaire of Davenport, is
the owner of one million dollars worth
of real estate. He is halfbreed,
(French and Indian, whose embonpoint
tells of good living. He has the repu-
tation of being liberal minded and
enterprising citizen.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The mania for wolf hunting has in
fected Jasper county. Three hundred
and fifty persons in Newton resolved,
at meeting few days since, to go
into general hunt. DR.. Gray was
appointed President.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25
Let Us Reason Together.

The Books are closed and ten per cent de-
ducton will hereafter he made in the price OF
goods at our store. We have adopted the
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The farmers of Winnesheik county
met at DEBORAH on the I'd inst. and or
ganized q County Agricultural Socie-
ty. This was a good move. Will not
the farmers of this county follow the
example ?
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

1t is suspected that the various in
cendiary fires in the southern part of
Iowa are the work of Mormons,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

The Alton Courier gives an account
of the alarming yield of children in
Jersey county. One lady bore twins,
when three of her ncighbors event
and did likewise" and a fourth event
one better" and blessed her husband
with triplets. What bunch of ba-
Lies
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

1t is rumored, that in consequence
of the defeat, in the Senate, of the
Army bill, which proposed to add five
new regiments to the regular forces,
the present standing army will all be
needed to force the Lecompton fraud
down the throats of the people of Kan
sas, if it is admitted as State.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

During the last two months explora-
tons have been made in Hamilton
county for the purpose of ascertain
ing the extent Of the coal beds there.
a large vein of camel coal has been
discovered, and a vein of bitumiAous
coal is being worked.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

We learn from the Lyons Mirror,
that boy named James O'Mara was
drowned at Hauntown about ten days
ago. "While engaged in watering
cattle, he stepped upon the ice of the
river, broke through, and drowned in
the presence of little brother who
was incapable of rendering any as
sistance."
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

At Northampton, Mass, the clergy
lately turned out with the laymen and
partook of the sport of skating, on the
principle, says the New York Evening
Post, of Fielding's chaplain, who took
punch because, unlike wine it was
nowhere spoken i'll of in Scripture"
Even the learned DR.. William Allen,
ex-President of Bowdoin College, and
author of the American Biographical
Dictionary, at the age of y years was
among the skaters, and as the papers
say, Exhibited degree of vigor and
agility quite equal to many OF the
boys"
John Catlin, Esq, has been elected
President of the Milwaukee and Mis-
sissippi Railroad.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

At a recent meeting of the stock
holders of the Bay State mills, at
Boston, they resolved to dissolve the
corporation and wind up it's affairs
The report of the Investigating Com
mittee, shows that at the time of their
failure, Messrs. Lawrence, Stone q Co.,
owed the company 1927 900, of which,
with the exception of $4,000, nc
trace can be discovered. With re-
gard to the amount said to have been
expended in procuring the passage OF
the tariff act of 1856, the report says
it was expended without the knowl-
edge or consent of the company.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

A strange woman representing her
self as Mrs. Bennett, from Keokuk,
lately stopped at a public house in Bur
lington, and in the morning was found
dead in her bed, with bottle of NOR
phine near by. She bore the appear
ance of having been. dclicately nur-
tured, and falling into the ways of sin
she ended her weary life suicide
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25

Queen Victoria invited Sarah Bonet-
ia, an African princess, boarding at
Chatham, to the wedding of the prin-
cess, and sent her dresses suitable for
the occasion. What would some OF
our "fustest families have done, had
they been there?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-09
See First and Fourth Pages.
CITY Council.

The City Council held regular meeting last evening.
The report the Revenue Collector showed collections since the
regular meeting amounting SI3s O.. and that Of the
Water Tax Collector to Sl,ss5 rs,
The report the Recorder showed that he had collected during
the S6g7 o. Of license and $3.50 90 on
account Of fines.
The report Of the City sexton there twenty
eight inaen cemetery during the month Of June, 1.-TWO
from the cOun9 twenty whites and eight blacks
Eleven Of the number under five years Of age.
The report Keeper WorkhOuse showed that forty
nine had been committed during the month Of
june and sxree had been discharged leaving seventeen in
confinement.
The Chairman Of Water Works Committee submitted the
report Of GLENN showing that the water tax assessment
for the present six months 3 g. and the tax fer
the privilege Of watering streets during the year 1855 amounts
S2,O7s IS.
AID CoSsE reported that experiment which had been tried
showed gravel could brought the city and put upon the
exceeding ~ cents per bushe whilst broken
rock costs 10 cents per bushel While the gravel cheaper for
grading streets will last fully twice long broken rock
Aid HLE presented petition from Watkins praying
the privilege Of laying down water pipes to
sundy houses be owns on south Of Broad, and
stating that his willing pay the water tax and also
upon personal property, which referred to the Water
Works Committee.
Aid Halle presented petition from sundry steamboat
and ocers, praying that professional runnee be prohibit
ed, by the imposition Of heavy penalties.
AID WARE called Board the fact that
of smallpox existed the postO and that no place
procured place the patient and suggested that suit
able place for pest-hOuse be purchased.
AID HAE offered resolution providing for the appointment
Of conjunction with tie Judge Of the Coun
~ Court to purchase property f0r pest house.
The resolution adopted, and the Mayor AID CoLrAEr in
chair appointed Me HAHE, CosGEE and WARE, said
Committee.
Aid CONsER offered bill providing for building additions to
the work house, suitable for male and female departments at
exceeding $1,000.
The bill passed first and second reading under suspension Of
the rule Committee Improvements
and Expenditures.
Aid. COSsER offered resolution nstrucng the Chairman Of
the Street Committee contract for grading the with
gravel, exceeding AZ cents per bushel.
Aid FOss opposed the adoption Of the resolution at present
He Of the ezpeiency and economy
substituting gravel for broken grading material and
his motion the resolution referred the Committee
Improvements and Expenditures.
Adjourned.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-09

ESa We wish 10 InIOrm the Puohe, that We have
lust returned from the east, with beautiful stock
of Dress Goods and feel confident We can offer in
ducemeuts to purchasers, equal to any other Mer
chants in the city. If prices an object, we are
determiucd to sell as cheap as the cheapest. We
would call the attention of the Ladies especially 10
a lot of side striped Berege and Musiins, which we
bought unusually cheap and will sell Them the same
way. Also Silks Ducals and all the different kinds
Of Drsss Goods Our stock of staple goods is very
complete, all of which we wish to dispose OF imme.
diately on terms most favorable to purchasers. Gan
soon and examine for yourselves.
l. C. NICHOLSON & Co,
orr7-tf No p Public Square
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-09
BIZ TELEGRAPM.
The market..


NRW ORLEANS, July Cotton, sales 500 bales
unchanged; Flour, small sales 4 10
NV YoRK. July 7.--Cottou firm, Gales 1000 bales;
Wheat and Corn scarce; Whisky 2s5a24; Sugar,
Musoovsdo ea74i Coffee qaisti Flour firm
crxcrruArI. July Flour .sOa4 20; Mess PORK
Is 90. Bacon. shoulders s. sides in demand IA
u is asked; Lard Toe.
Nav YoRK. July s.-The steamer Africa has ar
rived of Sandy Hook with Liverpool dates Of the
Cation sales of the week as 600 bales. The mar
kst onsned with but little enquiry aud weak prices
but subsequently became buoyant and active, and
closed with an advancing tendency. Flour very
dull and unchanged
LoSpoH-The money market is slightly more
strinoent Bullion in the Bank Of England in.
creased IA 900 pounds COnsols for account 952.
The Africa saw nothing Of the Telegraph feet
PARLIAMENT-The new India bill passed on second
reading.
India and China news unimpOrtsnt.
There is much indignation in France on account
Of the debates in Parliament on the French free Ia
PrFnee Napoleon has been constituted Minister to
Algeria
900.
LrvRRpooL. June 25.-The sales Of cotton for the
week include S0OO bales 70 spectators ana export
ers. Orleans fair 8 l6, middling l4-I6; Mobile
fair II, middlng Hale, uPlands fair u, middling
11.i6; stock in port $4,000 bales, of when
555. 900 are American.
Manchester sdvicss favorable, unchanged, hold
ers demanding an advance.
Tres ordinarie ct Havre 104f
Observation-Disclosures dull, nominal; weather
favorable for crops; Flour dull, nominal /; wheat
very dull and very much injured; Southern white
IS 6da6s lOd; corn, yellow 84sa34s 3d. white 33s;
Provisions very dull; beef dull; Pork advancing;
Lard dull 54sa54s Cd; Sugar and Coffee quiet; Rice
1920 for South Carolina; ROsin IS Ida As Id; Tur-
pentine spirits, nominal, 46a48.
LoNDOE-American securities dull; BreadstuHs
steady; Sugar quiet steady; Turpentine Az; Linseed
33ss33s Sd.
1t is TumOred that Spain has applied to France for
support respecting the slave trade around the coast
Of Cuba and that the application was met with en-
enlargement.
Calcutta accounts are disoouraging
But little progress has been made against the
rebels.
Shsjehanpore has been relieved.
small conspiracy has been detected In PunJauo.
The Rajah Of Shunda in MagpOre has rebelled.
Hone KoEG, Msy 5.-GeneraI distrust prevailed
in Canton.
The River.
LOUISVILLE, July 8.-The river is falling slowly
with feet ii inches in the canal.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-09
OBJ glas5SiIIs 0lnon & 9nstifaa.
PROsPECTUs
ron THE NEW SERIES, COMMENCING
mAE 10, 1855.


COMMENCING with the above dst the HAsHyLE eaIoS AND
.,po.v viii be Published and edited By Z. g. EASTMAN,
q u,useroS O. GRIFFITH, and @. g. POEEDEEIER, under
The style OF T. g. EASTMAN Co. The TERMS as heFoiore WIZ
be- for the Day Sc for the Tr weekly, IS and for the week
y, 80 per snuum.
bib he USOS and afterwards the UNION AMERICAN, has
, :, Fnsnt part rendered It necessary for pFede-
os % publish almost an exclusively political journal In
that errtnt paper has always occupied rank second to
none IN country length the principles and policy Of the
democratic party have hxsa and mpegnae and
We proposeO make central democratic Organ In its and
commercial Departments all that il has been in Its political
While sng tOf heart and energy support Of the Prin-
eipes and policy great Democratic party have perfected
arrangements by which wiz supercede the necessity Of the
business man general reader going Of the State for
pers containing the latest intelligence
@ The News.
The latest News all quarters, and all important sub
iecPolitca, Commercial and Genera-W have precedence
hereafter over every thing else We shall spare pains
pese 10 place cur paper this respect advance Of all
pettors necessity to those Of citizens
Who may not sympsthize With our political opinions.
wit and HumOr.
SUI LOVEEGOOD's nimitable sketches viii continue
bsllsb the humorous department Of our paper.
Commercial and Home Departments.
gentleman Of intelligence experience employed
Local Commercial Editor who will devote his whole time
relating the Commerce Of the country and the In
dusry OF the State.
Our EXertiOns
To increase usefulness Of UNION AMERICAS will be
unremitting. We this Spring and Summer investing
Materials buildings, &C., money than the whole establish
appraised five years ago Our determination is to
make establishment among the influential well
institutions of the Stae and make Of the central
organ Of the Democracy paper which be referred 70 by the
people and pride And while do this, ask
our add subscription list As that increases
shall increase energies and enterprise.
Clubbing.
We will send Weekly Paper Clubs at the following rates
Five copies one year, new subscribers, SnOO
Ten 20O0
The cash accompany all Club subscriptions, the paper
viii not be sent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-09
NASHVILLE.
psrsavE Yous Parasitic Murfressooro Mems gives the
folovi,r 7s.b,e advice 70 ia rut,scr5ers


TArsavE YouE PArzas-The Murfreesooro ss gives the
following sehshle advice to its subscribers
ave of-a se persons ssasch Ct Gle Of FapeF
article pm si months ago. i is matter al Import
amount q! whole wears srscron 70 nno H. Lhes pons
many regular subscribers Go the "er but
they nav uot prerxel theif Pasts' ~ Al Llsls "
yous county paper III history Of passing eVens ANS now
humble may contains much that i worth preserving.
Who would te pleased 70 have perfect file Of papers
tending from he hrst that was printed 10 Mueero down 70
the present time. Any Of the journals nov published In this
city, preserved, viii Be considered Of much more value ten years
hence tan they are 81 ms ue ~ YOU nave no cone SO mere
tore begin row your paper, do not soil H. do
H. do runple ike dish cloth, but, aer reading T. lay t
caley sway youE children and your cadTen children E
regard it fy years hence treasure OF WORTH
zone papers have been printed slmos week in
this town Tor than forty years. II had papers no
desnce what particular for each week since the trs vas
issue what treasure Of Interesting knowledge be would posses
No has and suppose have such history Love
papers that would now considered priceless have
been lost though circulated among hundreds OF people, fy
fsg Of them have been preserved.
ssne record Of events great and small. local and foreign
where found except your county paper Fol
prc deaths ana marriages. with hundred other things ara % pc
fn n ~. r ~ ror ecuutv We again say YOU, preserve
your paper you viii end occasion 70 refer % ourel
and others Who viii live aher you viii desire 70 do the same
thing"
The most valuable histories are old newspaper files beeau
they contain very local character possessing general
interest," way into history at may
be written From invaluable records may be Cleaned more
correctly than from any other source knowledge OF the politics.
the MORALS progress population and wealth in the
portions OF the State For instance the newspapers that
have been published Nashville furnish, their reading and
advertising oOlumn better insight into the growth and pros
y Of the city than any history that be written Here We
business In its progress, politics In its fluctuations pop
uation in growth and indeed, record il regard to
every interest pursuit In which may engsg Al this In
the lapse Of years. valuable in historical point and
the men ho subscribe pay FOR newspapers
not careful preserve them. It should be the practice with
to preserve his newspapers carefully as he does bis
links
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-09
A Card.

It r due to my friende we'll myself s' the reasons
which have influenced decline canvass for the One %
Mayor at the approaching eectionavng partially c0nsele
20 do so-shoud he publicly given.
the time did 3d. believed that in the event Of my election
os Dc in nv mower to give my whole undivided atten-
ION to the business Of Office upon mature rejection
might important fer to b. absent from the
city intervals during the year, look after my own private
Affairs in another quarter That being the and believing
whoever fills that position should be meacumbeed with other
business here elsewhere my duty decline a. the
same time rendering my friends and press sincere
thanks for their proered support their kind expressions Of
confidence and regard. Very respectfully,
July9 X. e fVsLEh' 'Rp'
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