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MEssRs. CAssELL Il BAuGHN: I have nsed
Greers Ague and Fever Mixture in my family
with untailing success, and would recommend i
in preference to any other Medicine for Fever auC
Ague One bottle cured four cases
September 30 1858. A. W. CLARK.
To those afflicted with Cbills and Fever,
would say, by all means use Green's Ague anC
Fever Mixture. It has never failed to cure th(
above disease in my family
September, 1853. ELIJAH YOUNG.
have used two bottles of GREEN'S Ague ant
Fever Mixture in my family with uniform success
and believe it to be an excellent remedy.
October 1858. W.. ANDERSON.
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Yazoo City,
And by the proprietors,
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W Lead, French Zlnc Oils, Turpen'lne anu
Vamishes. Colored Paints in Oil, and dry Of all
colors. Red Lead. Lytharge. Patent Dryer, Putty,
&c.. Sc for sale by THOMPSON & GRAY.
May 7, 1859.
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Execmtnr's Sale.

October s. 1859.
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How To TAKE LIFE.-Take it like a

How To TAKE LIFE.-Take it like a
man. Take it Just as though it was
as it is, an earnest, vital, essential
affair. Take it Just as though You
personally were born to the task of
performing a merry part in it, as
though the world had waited for your
coming. Take it as though it was a
grand opportunity to do and to
achieve, to Garry forward great and
good schemes, to help and cheer a
suffering, weary, it may be heart-bro,
ken brother. The fact is, life is un,
dervalued by great majority of man,
kind. 1t is not made half as much OF
as should be the case. Where is the
man or woman who accomplishes one
tithe of what might be done Who
cannot look back upon opportunities
lost, plans unachieved, thoughts
crushed, aspirations unfulfilled, and all
caused from the lack of the necessary
and possible effort If we knew bet
ter how to take and make the most of
life, it would be far greater than it is.
Now and then man stands aside
from the crowd. labors earnestly,
stcadiastly, confidently, and straight
way becomes famous for wisdom, in
tellcct, skill, greatness of some sort.
The world wonders, admires, idolizes;
and yet il only illustrates what each
may do if he only takes hold of life
with a purpose. If man but say he
tcIt, and follows it up, there Is moth.
ing in reason he may not expect to ac-
complish. There is no magic, no mir
acle, no secret to him who is brave in
heart, determined in spirit.
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rlVui NiIc iJNd WEEKLY I
THAT NIGGER."

One of the richest episodes Of the
recent session of the Board of Educa.
tion was the following
Mr.. Perry, Democratic member from
Monroe county, took frequent occasion
to offer "nigger amendments to the
bills under consideration, either for
the purpose Of burlesquc, or to place
the Republicans in false position.
This practice was borne with for day
OF two, when it was determined that
" that Niger should be scotcbed, and
the next time Mr. Perry tried on his
eoiored clause, Mr.. Connolly, of Iowa
county, asked the gentleman from
Monroe (Mr. Perry to explain what
he meant by color-rcmarking that the
African was black, the Indian red,
while the gentleman from Monroe was
white, &c.
Mr., Hildreth, member from FLOYD
county, took exceptions to this cIasifi-
cation of color, especially as to the
category in which Ms friend from
Monroe had been placed Judging
from the pcrtinacity with which that
gentleman had endeavored to legis-
late upon color, it was evident that
some other color than white must in
some way attach to him. Mr.. II. said
he was reminded of negro festival
once held in Boston, where it was de-
sired to compliment Mr.. Garrison. A
prominent darkey there offered the fol-
lowing toast VIM. Lloyd Garrison
He hab a white skin, but a black
heart" This brought down the
House." when the gentleman from
Monroe, not exactly comprchending
the joke, fred up prodigiousIy, and
Challenged the gentleman nom rluyu,
Mr.. Ilildreth,) to meet him at the
base of the capitol, or elsewhere, and
he would give him satisfaction. This
called down another shower of ridicule
upon poor Perry. Explanations, how
ever, were made, and order soon re-
stored. =
This was in the forenoon. Upon
coming in, after dinner, Mr.. Hildreth
stated that he had been to the base of
the capitol, but could not find his
friend Perry, and inquired if he had
not lodged around the corner.
This little episode had its desired
effect, and that niggcr" was not
again brought forward during the re-
Of the session.
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sNistellanu.
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax, member of Con.
gress from Indiana, writes home to
his newspaper, the South Bend Regis
ter, many interesting facts connected
with the affairs Of Government. We
extract the following:
Those who believed the figures that
were published last Summer showing
that the expenses of the Government
were only iil,ty-tuur millions of dol
lars, viii bc surprised perhaps to
learn from the reports Of the Sccreta
~ of the Treasury that " the cxpcndi-
turcs during the fiscal wear ending
June 80, 1885, were Ssl,5S5. .667. :"
The estimated expenses OF the present
fi>c,i year, ending next Jme, are SI4
063 $50, according to the Sccretayl's
rep prt, to which he says must be ad-
ded So, 3,o3o, rs for deficiencies in the
Post Office Department, making about
Seventy Eight Millions in all. As this
does not include private bills to be
passed by Congress the Indian War
claims from Oregon (six millions are
claimed y the additions to the Army
and Navy recommended by the Secre-
tarics in cl roc til, rvJi, and endorsed
by the President, 1t Is not possible
that this years expenses can be less
than from Eighty to Ninety Millions
again and instead of redeeming the
Twenty Millions of Treasury Notes,
now due, which would increase the
burthen to over One Hundred Millions,
Mr.. Cobb likes this kind of Govern
ment shinplasters so well, based as
they are on our empty Treasury, that
he asks for authority to REISSUE them
for another year.
Apart from loans, the actual reve-
nue. of the fiscal year is estimated by
the Secretary at Fifty Three Millions;
but next year he hopes for Sixty Two
Millions. 1t is evident that something
must be done to stop the constant
accumulation of Nation Debt but, as
will be seen by the above estimates,
u bold and earnest system Of retrench-
ment is nat among the plans Of ''the
powers that be-" The National Debt.
Mr.. Buchanan states in his Message,
was S54.9l0,777 on the lst of July
last. and he says to this will be ad
ded $lO,0oo,0OO during the present
fiscal year making about Sixty Five
Millions of dollars-quitc different
state of affairs from the Sl7,7l0,ll4,
which this same Message tells us he
found in the Treasury on July lst,
1857.
But in spite of the dilapidated con-
dition Of the National Treasury, the
whole administration is clamorous for
more money. Although the Secretary
Of the Navy shows that we shall have
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th, may lay lrart he tuned within,
Like David solemn violin.

Be PLEAsANr.-Do be pleasant-oh.
why can't YOU? Will you feel any
better for swapping, snarling or grow
ling? You know you won't, If YOUR
heart were really dirty dish, and ugly
emotions aud cross words were the
unclcanliness, it would be good
plan to get them all out as soon as
possible but unfortunately there can
be no such sudden cleansing Of
mans interior. The more ohiectiona.
bic stuff he throws out the more there
grows to replace it, 'ris only smoth.
ering and choking that suits this ease.
Speak pleasantly then, especially to
the people in any respect beneath
you whether they be inferior to you
in rank, learning, power or age, try to
be pleasant toward them whether you
really feel good natured OF not. If
you get your mouth open to throw out
spike or dagger, Shut it till you,
like the juggler, transform the wea-
pom into Il flower Oh, do be kind
and pleasant everybody to everybody,
and the millennium will come at once,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-01-27

Mrs. CUNNlNGHAM.-" Burleigh," the
New York correspondent of the Bos,
ton Journal. who is understood to be
the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, Mrs.
Cunningham's council at one stage of
her case, corrccts a paragraph which
was copied from the Rochester Union.
He states that Mrs. Cunningham lives
in Forty-eighth street. She is not in
"easy circumstances but is reduced
and poor. The elegant mansion" is
house in q block on the new upper
street, for which she is indebted to
the kindness of the owner till spring.
Her house is not entirely furnished ;
the most of it not at all and what
is, is of the commonest style.
She has wasted all the property she
had, and is not able to take house
of comfort. All the ordinary avenues
of employment open to most women
are closed to her. The prejudice
against this woman was never strong
Or than now, and, having spent all
she had to defend herself in courts of
law, she is now very poor, and would
keep boarding house OF do any hon
orable thing to get living if she
could do so. Her daughter Augusta
has not been married to Southern
planter" but to a young man in this
city, who has not one dollar to rely
upon but what he earns from day to
day and the rumor about Helen is as
apocryphal as the rest of the story.
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NUMBER 4.
THE sCHOOLMASTER.

We look forward with hope to the
time when teaching will be a distinct
profession, requiring the same course
OF studious preparation as law OF med
Iclne. The Importance of the tcach-
ers labors cannot be exaggerated.
lie wlelds the future success and
character Of the man. Tie work
which others perform may be seen and
calculated, but who can reach so far,
even IN imagination, as to touch the
completion of that structure which
has its foundation in the mind of tho
child !! 1t was the first impulse which
gave motion and shape and direction
to the universe, and sent the earth
and stars to wheel uninjured through
their orbits of eternal space. 1t is
the first influcnce-in the beginning it
may be only grain of sand hidden
in the bosom Of the earth, which i'm.
parts strength and beauty to the hun,
dred years of oak, or foredooms it to
distorted and feeble maturity. 1t ia
the first impulse, likewise, which
shapes and sentences the ever-durinm
mind. % hold that every man is a
debtor to his profession" said Web.
ster and surely no one has so much
power to dignity his Office as tho
teacher. If the next century wit
nesses as vast achievements in the
arts of imparting knowledge as the
last has--if textbooks, the RAILWAYS
and telegraphs Of mental communica-
ton and wealth, go on improving and
extending, perhaps the same amount
of knowledge may be accessible in
weeks which it now requires mouths
of labor to attain. This promise for
the future rests with the teacher.
Whatever is to be the hereafter of our
whatever the calamities which
party warfare may engender, we can
not fail to be secure in the homes Of
our principles and liberty, so long as
the common school, the peaceful glory
of New-England, is perpeteated, and
the work of the schoolmaster is hon,
orable and honored.-N A, Rsriev,
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FARMERS AND THEIR WIVES,

SAID young person to Il lady, who
sat holding her child, "Now what
good will all your education do you
You have spent so much time in study
graduated with high honors, learned
music and painting, and only married
a farmer. Why do not you teach
school or do something to benefit the
world with your talents or, if You
choose to marry, why not take a teach
er, clergyman, or some professional
man But, assit is, you did not need
so much learning for rural life"
The lady replied, "You do not look
very far into the future. Do you see
this boy on my lap? need all the
study, all the discipline, both of mind
and body, that l could possibly get, in
order that | may train him Alright.
You see, | have the first impressions
to make on the fair blank of his pure
heart, and unless my mind was first
cultivated, my own heart first purified,
how could well perform the task now
placed before me? And, besides, do
you not suppose that farmers have
hearts like other men, tastes just as
pure, because they guide the plow and
till the soil for support? Do you not
suppose their minds are just as sus-
ceptible of cultivation and expansion
as other men? Have they no love for
the beautiful in their nature, of art p
cannot good paintings be Just as much
admired on their walls as others, or
does not the evening pass as pleas
antly with them, when they gather
around the piano after days labor is
finished |? All, my young friend, you
have made a sad mistake in your reck-
oning."
Of all the occupations, give me
that of the farmer. 1t is the most
beautiful ; his life is frcer from care,
his sleep is swectcr, his treasures
safer. n farmer need not be a slave
OF any, for he has none to please but
himself. Not so with almost any
tradesman, mechanic or professional
man. They have more or less to do
with the world at large, and have all
manner of persons to deal with. so
that they have need of the patience of
job to live. They, are well aware
tnat they must not freely speak their
minds at all times, that if they do
they will lose custom for they de-
pend upon the people for a living,
therefore, they are servants of all
Then what can be desired more, what
is more peaceful, prosperous, honest,
and happy than farmers
wife ?--Ho0re's Rural Ne,c Yorker.
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Our Mediterranean Squadron.

The Government acknowledges the
receipt Of an important despatch from
the flag officer Of the Mediterranean
squadron. 1t is written in the senten-
tious and exultant style of Caesars
famous bulletin. Let Captain Lava.
lette narratc his own exploits
"The visit of the WalAsh to this
coast at this time seems to have had
a good effect already in other respects.
Many of the principal men of the ma
tive and lawiess tribes who inhabit
the mountains of the interior, hearing
our guns when firing our salutes, and
appraised, too, of the principal object
of our visit, have como down with
their retinues and visited the ship.
They have evidently returned with i'm
pressions that the rights of American
citizens who reside in their district
cannot be disrespected with impuni-
ty."
Wonderful achievement The echo
of salutes reyerberating through the
mountains of Syria, procured for the
Wabash this splendid distinction /!
The American navy needs no other H.
lustration ; since the Wabash has so
profoundly Impressed" the breech-
less nomads of Asia Minor. There
would have been more satisfaction, if
less glory, in the announcement that
Capt. Lavalette had exacted summary
vengeance for the outrage Oh the fami-
ly Of Mr.. Dickson and other American
missionaries.
1t is too serious q matter for Jest.
While foreign fleets are riding su-
preme in our own waters and men-
acing the integrity of our dominions,
the finest ship in our navy is firing sa-
lutes for the astonishmcnt Of Syrian
savages.
The Mediterranean squadron is the
absurdest humbug of the age.
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, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY JANUARY 81 1870

no less than Thirteen ne,c Steam Vessels
Of War finished by next summer, he
insists that Ten more must be author.
lied this session. Although the Army
is now about $4,000 strong, the Secre-
tary of War urges more, and says
that "an increase of its numbers
would be a measure of ecOnomy!" He
asks for a thousand camcls, which he
says would also save an enormous
amount-and also for three additional
brigadier generals, "as a measure of
efficiency and eeonomy," The Presi-
dent wants Protectorate over the
Northern part of Mexico, TO prepare
1t for re-annexation,) which would
doubtless be another measure of econo-
my, and he insists on the Amistad
Negroes being paid for-probably to
economize still more.
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HUMAN LIFE.-Hazlitt observes il
his table talk :"

HUMAN Hazlitt observes in
his " table talk -
The length or agreeableness of a
journey does not depend on the few
last steps of it, nor is the size of a
building to be judged of by the last
stone that is added to it. 1t is neither
the first nor the last hour of our exist
ence, but the space that parts these
two-nOr our exit, nor our entrance
upon the stage, but what we do, feel
and think while there-that we are to
attend to in pronouncing sentence
upon it. Indeed, it would be easy to
show that it is the very extent of hu.
man life, the infinite number of things
contained in it, its contradictory and
fuctuating interests, the transition
from one situation to another, the
hours, months. years, spent in one
fond pursuit after another that it is,
in a word the length of our common
journey, and the quantity of events
which are crowded into it, that, baf-
fling the grasp of our actual percep-
ton, make it slide from our memory,
and dwindle into nothing in its own
perspective. 1t is too mighty for us,
and we say it is nothing 1t is Il
speck in our fancy, and yet what can
vas would be big enough to hold its
striking groups, its endless objects !
1t is light as vanity and yet, if all
its weary moments, if all its head and
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MIR. BEECHER on THE VIoLIS.-Master
Mallatratt, the Brooklyn boy who was
sent to Europe by the members Of
Henry Ward Beecher's Sunday School,
to obtain a complete musical educa.
tion, is doing well. At a concert
lately given uadcr the auspices of Mr..
II. w. Hill, of the Royal Italian Opera,
he performed very difficult solo on
the violin, 9th air with variations,
De Bcriot,) } of which the London Musi,
cal ofltic says 1T was played IN u
style that augurs brilliant future for
this interesting boy, now only thirteen
years of age. He was encord."
1t appears that some of Mr.. Beech,
er's congregation We're first shocked
at the idea of the boy playing tho
" fiddle Mr. Beechcr, however. in a
recent sermon, publicly announced tho
fact of the boys success, and indulged
in fine pcroration upon the heavenly
music that could be produced from q
violin, an instrument which was alln-
ded to 10y some eminent hymn, in the
following couplct
oh, may lay lrart he tuned within,
Like David solemn violin.
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lSDusTRY.-Every young man should
remember that the world has and al.
ways willhonor industry. The vulgar
and useless idler, whose energies of
body and mind are rusting for want
OF eXercise-the mistaken being who
pursues amusement as q relief to his
enervated muscles, or engages in cx.
erclscs that produce no useful end
may look with scorn upon the smutty
laborer engaged in his toll. But his
scon is an honor. Honest industry
will secure the respect OF the wise
and good among men, and yield tho
rich lruit Of easy conscience and givo
the heart selfrespcct which is above
all price.
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BEAUTY OF AGE.-Thcre are OK
tremcs, my reverend seniors, into
which we are tempted to fall when
we find ourselves upon the wanc.
Declining ladies, especially married
ladies, are more given, | think, than
men, to neglect their personal appear.
ance, when they are conscious that
the bloom OF their youth is gone.
do not speak of state occasions, of
set dinner parties, and full dress balls,
but OF the daily meetings Of domestic
life. Now, however, is the time.
above all others, when the wife must
determine to remain the pleasing wife,
and retain her Johu Anderson's atiec.
ton to the last, by neatncss, taste and
appropriate variety Of dress. That q
lady has fast growing daughters
strapping sons and a husband at his
office all day long, is no reason why
she should ever enter the family cir.
Gle with rumplcd hair, soiIed cap or
unfastencd gown.
The prettiest woman in the world
would be spoiled by such sins in her
toilet. The mornings duties, even in
the store-room and kitchen, may be
performed in fitting, tidy costume,
and then changed for parlor habili-
mcnts equally tidy and fitting What
ever her age, a naturally good looking
woman is always handsome, for hap
PLY there exists more than one kind
of beauty. There is the beauty of in
fancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty
of maturity, and believe me. ladies,
the beauty of age, if you do not
spoil 1t by your own want of judg-
mcnt At any age woman may be
becomingly and pleasingly dressed
Dickens.
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4ostrp.
CHARITY.

Hon. Edward Everett recently delivered al
address on charity in the Music Hall, Boston
in aid of the Boston Children Friend Society
About thirty of the Juvenile proteges of tn,
society were prescnt, simply but neatly clad
and looked happy and pleased with the pro
ccedings. Mr.. Everett has a peculiarly hap
py faculty to make himself interesting ane
pleasing to children.
The exercises of the evening commenced
with voluntary by the organist, after which
the children sung, in a pleasing manner, a
hymn entitled I" The Cross and the Crown
composed for the occasion by Hodges Reed,
ESD, of Taunton.
An appropriate prayer was offered by Right
Rev. Bishop MantOn Eastburn. The youthful
choir then sung the following, composed also
by Mr.. Hodges, to the tune of Coming
through the Rye" B. W. Williams, as before,
acting as musical director
Happy children oft hear them
Shouting Fathers come
As he from his toll, awearied,
Nears his humble home
Then he calls his prattlng household,
Gently, to his knee,
look and listen but alas
No father calls Tot me.
In her cheerful palace parlor
Sits a mother dear.
Circlcd by her cherub treasures,
Happy all the year
As the gleetul children in her
Foniling AIMS l see,
/ cannot wrcstie down the sigh,
No mother fondles me.
Homes are happy all around me,
Wheresoe er go;
Full of little merry makers.
Who no sorrow know
Yes; | see them bright and happy
Happy as can be;
Oh, let me never envy them
But there 5 no home for me.
Towards the little homeless wanderer
Act a fathers part
To the sighing of the lone one
Give mothers heart
Then the orphan, blithe and happy
Happy as can be,
No more shall wake the sad refrain.
But there's no home for me.