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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
John Browns Letter TO Mrs. Child.

Mrs. l.. MARIA CHILD.--My Dear Friend
(such you have proved to be though a
strangely Your most kind letter has
reached me, with the kind offer to
come here and take care of me. Al
low me to express my gratitude for
your great sympathy, and at the same
time to propose to you different
course, together with my reasons for
wishing it. should certainly be
greatly pleased to become personally
acquainted with one so gifted and So
kind but cannot avoid seeing some
objections to it, under present crcum-
stances. First, ! am in charge of a
most humane gentleman, who, with
his family, have rendered me every
possible attention have desired, or
that could be of the least advantage
and ! am SO far recovered from my
wounds as no longer to require nurs-
ing. Then, again, it would subject
you to great personal Inconvenience
and heavy expense, without doing me
any good. Allow me to name to you
another channel, through which you
may reach me with your sympathics
much more cflcctually. | have at
home a wife, and three young daugh-
tiers, the youngest but little over five
years old, the oldest nearly sixteen.
have also two daugEtrrs-in.Iaw,
whose husbands have both fallen near
me here. There is also another widow.
Mrs. Thompson, whose husband fell
| h.,, " h.,tl,.,, .l,, l,.,r ,,r,, ~
| cannot say. All these, my wife in
cludcd. live at North Elba. Essex coun-
ty, New York have middlc.agcd
son, who has been, in some degree, a
cripple from his childhood, who would
have as much as he could well do to
earn a living. He was most dread
full sufferer in Kansas, and lost all he
had laid up. He has not enough to
clothc himself for the winter comfort
ably. l have no living son, or soll-in.
law, who did not suffer terribly in
Kansas.
Now, dear friend. would you not as
soon contribute fifty cents now, and n
like sum yearly, for the relief of those
very poor, and deeply afflicted per.
sous? 70 enable them to supply
themselves and their children with
bread and very plain clothing, and to
enable the children to receive "a com
mon English education Will yon
also devote your own energies to III
ducc others to join You in giving IA
like amount, or any other amount, to
constitute Il little fund for the purpose
. named?
cannot see how your coming here
can do me the least good and | am
quite certain you can do me immense
good where you are. lam quite cheer
ful under all my affecting circumstan,
ces and prospects having, as | humb-
ly trust, "thc peace of God, which
passeth all understanding" to rule i'll
: my heart. You may make snch use
of this as you see fit. God Almighty
bless and reward you thousand fold!
Yours in sincerity and truth,
. JOHN BRowN.
Mrs. Child went as far as Baltimore,
when she was met by the despatch
that his health was almost restored,
and that all the benevulcncc of his
friends should lie directed to his fami-
ly. She accordingly returned to the
! North
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
Silcl.ifl'S Sale.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of
~ a Special Execution duly issued by the
Clerk of the District Court of Floyd county,
State of Iowa, and to me directed, l shall offer
for sale, Mt Public Auction, at my office in st.
Charles City. Floyd county, Iowa, on the oath
day of Decmember, A. ID. 1859. at one o'clock
in the afternoon of said day, the following de-
scrihcd property, to wit:
Commencing at point on Clark street
twenty two feet north westerly from the south
eastcrly corner Of Lot number four, i'm Block
number Is, in st Charles City, Floyd county
Iowa. and running from thence north asterly
parallel with Wisconsin Street in said City,
sc feet thence north westerly parallel with
said Clark street, % feet thence south westcr-
" parallel with said Wisconsin street ST. feet
to said Clark street thence south -caStcrly on
and along the line of sud Clark Street - feet
to the place of beginning, together with the
buildings thereon, levied on as the property Of
John Heath, Jr., to satisfy said execution in
favor of Allen & Ilosford. and against said
John Heath, Jr., for 4i0,9 "a, and interest and
cost
Terms OF SALE-Cash in hand.
Dated. November 10Th, A. d. 1859.
JOHN BLUNT, Sheriff
AGA of FlOyd County
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
Injured Innocence.

Strange as 1t may seem, the Chicago Jour
nal Is apparently sincere in the prepostcrou
pretencc that in Justice has been done the Bl,cl
Republicans, by holding them responsible 70
the late instruction under the leadership o
their dupe, "poor old Brown" We venture
that the Journal is much less sorry for til,
treason committed, than it is for being founr
out. But, If the journal is serious in its con
domination Of the principles of Brown, and hi
conduct and their influence will it he so obi
ging as to tell us what principles it does APP
prove and advocate ?-Chicqgo HerGld.
We will accommodate the organ O
the President, first, by telling hin
what we do not approve.
We do not approve of the barbarity
and murders which desolated "pool
old Browns" home and made him a
lunatic, while the Administration and
its organs remained silent or made
merry over his woe.
We do not approve of an admins
tration that, after ignoring far greater
ontrages, in Kansas, when the vic.
tins were Free State Men, can only
be aroused to its duty when the do.
mains OF slavery are invaded.
We do not approve of the conduct
Of a party which, after having driven
a man to phrensy, meanly seeks to
shirk the responsibility Of its acts and
fix it upon its opponents, and whose
representatives hang around their
groaning victims, in an cndeavor to
extort from their dying lips express
sions out of which to make party cap
ital.
AS to the principles we advocate,
we would inform our interrogation, that
they are the same which have swept
tie minions of corruption from power
in every northern State, and whose
cchoing tread SO lately reverberated
around its vcncratcd Presidents home
1t will find them in the breeze AS it
comes sweeping from Mnnesota--ovcr
Iowa, along the Ohio, and upon the
mountains and valleys Of Pennsylva-
mia.
Where Sumner was struck down.
where Broderick lies entombed, -
around the embers of the homes and
amid tue grave of the martyrs to them
in Kansas, the Herald will find advo-
Gated the principles we approve. They
are found in the Declaration of Indie.
pendencc, in the Constitution and the
Union, zone and inscparable."--Jour-
nal.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
SlteriH',s Sale.

NOTICE is hereby given. that by virtue of a
~ Special Execution duly issued by the Clerk
OF the District Court OF Floyd county, State OF
Iowa, and to me directed, l have levied on
and shall offer for sale, at Public Auction, at
my Office in st. Charles city, Floyd county
Iowa, Oh the oath day of December, A. ID. 1859,
at one o'clock i'll the afternoon of said day,
the following described property, to wit:
Commencing for the same 81 rods west of
the quarter post on the north side of Section
number g. in Township number SO north, of
Range number Ii west, thence west 20 rods
to a post, thence south so rods to post,
thence east 20 rods to a post, thence north so
rods to the place Of beginning, containing ten
acres; levied on as the property of James
WEIGH and Margaret WEIGH, to satisfy said ex-
ecution in favor of Philip Sharkey, aud against
said James WEIGH and Margaret WEIGH, for
Sl0I, 30, and interest,-and cost taxed at
81, 40.
Terms OF SALE-Cash in hand
Dated, November %, A. ID. 1859.
JOHN BLUNT Sheriff Of
Ala Floyd County, Iowa.
BY F. RICHMOND, Deputy.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

AccIDENT.-Mr j. H. Stale, of Wa.
verify, accidentally fell down the stair.
way of Kelly's saloon in this village,
on Sunday evening, and seriously frac.
tured his skull and otherwise injured
his person. Although dangerously
hurt it is thought he will recover. He
is sober and respectable young man +;
and, it being dark, he was not aware
of the man-trap into which he fell
his intention being to enter the hotel,
where he was to stop for the night, by
way of the dining room door that is
over the stairway.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

The Dcs Moines Citizen speaks in
terms of high praise of the services
in the Republican cause of d. d. Chase
of Webster City. We doubt not this
praise is all well deserved, but in our
opinion the 18th Judicial District has
no more able or efficient Republican
worker than Charles Aldrich, editor OF
the Hamilton Freeman. Mr.. Aldricl
is a young man, full of enthusiasm
and energy, and cannot fail, ere long
to make his mark as one of the promi.
nent Republicans of the State. Al.
ready we hear his name mentioned in
connection with the Office of Chief
Clerk of the House of Representatives,.
With Honest John Edwards for Speak.
CT, and Charles Aldrich for Clerk
(both representatives of the press, }
the House would have a set of officers
of which any Legislative body might
be proud. We should be gratified to
see these two gentlemen elected to
the stations above named.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
COwhiding an Editor.

Mr.. Durham, the able editor of the
the Burlington Hawkeye, has the fol-
lowing in his last issue
THAT Rev. blackguard, Clay Dean,
purchased IA cOwhidc Saturday eve.
ming, and tried to make his Democrat
&c friends believe he was hunting for
us. He need not wear out shoc-leath-
or in hunting for the editor of this pa
per. He can always he found at the
office during usual business hours, and
for the most part until late at night
Deans grievance, we suppose, was
the notice of Dr. Eads' retirement from
the Fl. Madison Plaindralcr. in which
we said that Eads was the most aban
doned, G"d-iorsakcn villain in the
State of Iowa, not excepting Dr. Far
ncr and Clay Dean So far as we
made an exception in favor Of Dean
we take it back. Filthy and Disgust
ing in his person vain, depraved and
vicious III mind at once bully and
a coward having none of those viz
tues or graccs which adorn IA gentle
man gl"rying in infamy and rejoicing
in his own shame the school TO,
scandal and vice cannot produce his
cqual-onr jails and pcnitcn,arics
may be searched in vain for his peer.
We are at the Office from seven
O'Clock III the morning till ten o'clock
at night"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
Trustees Sale.

"iEREAS, default has been made in tn,
w payment OF IA certain promssory Eott
executed by Sarah White and Gideon B. White
to the order of Martha Yardly Southall, bear
ing date October LIST, A. d. 1888, for the sun
OF one hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty
cents, payable one year after the date thereof
annum after due, which said note was secure,
by trust deed upon the premises hereinafte
described, duly executed and delivered to the
undersigned AS Trustee, by said Sarah Whit
and Gideon b. White, and recorded in the Re
corder's office of Floyd County, Iowa, in Bool
- "A OF mortgages, pages 55l, 552 and SOB
and application having been made to me by
the legal holder Of said note, to sell said prem
ises under said deed of trust, for the purposes
and in the manner therein set forth. Now
therefore shall ON Saturday, January nth,
1860, at o. clock p NJ, at the door of the
Stone Store building, where the last District
Court was held, in st. Charles City, in said
Floyd county sell at Public Auction, to the
highest bidder or bidders for cash in hand, the
following real estate in said trust deed describ-
ed as follows, to wit: The northeast quarter
of Section thirty, 900 Township nincty-ive
800 north, of Range seventeen 40 west of
the 9th principal meridian, in Floyd county.
State of Iowa; together with all right, title
and equity Of redemption of the said Sarah
White and Gideon Il. White, in and to said
real estate, for the purposes in said trust deed
set forth.
JOHN CHAPMAN, Trustee.
S. Ii. STARR, Atty. 47w3
st. Chrrles City, Iowa, Nov. Oath 1859.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

Senator Seward is on his way home
ward from his Oriental tour. The
last heard from him he was at Jafla,
in the Mediterranean Sea. He had
completed his journey up the Valley
of the Nile to ancient Thches, had sur
veyed the Pyramids, and he was about
to proceed to Jerusalem, and thence
by Damascus to Constantinople. He
is expected to reach home again by
the LIST Of December.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
Trustees Sale,

M HEltEAS, default has been made in The
w payment OF certain promiSSury not,
| executed by William II. Ackley, and Charlie,
I. Ackley to Martha Yardly Southall, or order
bearing date October first, A. d. 1853. for the
sum OF five hundred and twenty dollars, nav.
| able one year after date thereof, with interest
at the rate of ten per cent. per annum after
due, the payment Of which said note was Sc,
| cured by Trust deed npon the following de-
sclibed real estate situate in Floyd county.
Iowa, to wit The south halfof the north -,ast
quarter and the north half of the south east
quarter and the north west quarter of the
north east quarter of Section number twenty.
and the southwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of Section number seventeen, all in
township number ninety-four north of Range
number seventeen west, of the fifth principal
meridian, duly executed and delivered to the
undersigned as Trustee, by said William
Ackley, bearing even date with said note and
filed for record in the Recorder office of said
Floyd county, on the 9th day of October 1888
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, and recorded in Book
- a OF mortgages, pages 5f3, $40 500 and
application having been made to me by the
owner of said note, to sell portion of said
premises and lands hereinafter described, by
virtue OF said trust deed, for the purposes and
in the manner therein set forth. Now, there
fore, shall on the 18th day of January, 1860.
at two o clock in the afternoon, at the Stone
Store Building, in st. Charles City. in said
county, being the place OF holding courts in
said county, sell at public sale TO the highest
bidder or bidders, for cash in hand, the follow
ing real-estate described in said trust deed, to
Wit: The northeast quarter of the sou h-east
quarter and the northwest quarter of the
north-e quarter of Section number twenty
also the southwest quarter of the south east
quarter of Section number seventeen, all in
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

CAMFoRNIA.-Gov. Weller has dcci.
dcd TO appoint [. S. Senator to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Frederick. The fortunate man is
said to be Maj. Samuel J. Hensley,
President of the California Steam Ma.
vigation Company.
In Bear Valley the people are sub.
scrihing freely and literally for the
Broderlck monument. Col. Fremont
headed the list with subscription of
five hundred dollars.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

From Boston we learn that Geo. Il
Burnham, late State liquor agent, was
arraigned on the 18th inst, before the
Superior Court, on charge of adulter
atlnS the State liquor. He plead not
guilty, and was held in $4,000 bail
for trial.
). Mansfield & Co, boot and shoe
dealers, Of Boston, have failed liabili
ties 100000.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
Sherif's Sale.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue Of
~ Special Execution duly issued by the
Clerk of the District Court of Floyd county,
State Of Iowa, and to me directed, shall offer
for sale, at Public Auction, at my office in st.
Charles City, Floyd county, Iowa. on the oath
day of December, A. d. 1852 at ten clock in
the forenoon of said day, the following de-
scribed property, to wit The east half Of the
north east quarter of Section ten in Township
ninety five north, of Range fifteen west of the
9th Principal Meridian, levied on as the prop
erty of Henry Carver, to satisfy said execution
in favor of Russell Arthur, and against said
Henry Carver, for III Al, and interest and
cost
Terms OF SALE-Cash.in hand.
Dated, November Is, A. d. 1859
JOHN BLUNT Sheriff of
f6:4 Floyd county, Iowa.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
cold virginny nebber tire. I"

The Republican State Central Com
mittec are expected to call State
Convention, to be held at Des Moines
during the session Of the Legislature,
Tor the purpose of choosing delegates
to the Republican National Convcn.
ton, which will probably be held in
the month of May, 1860.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24
Trustees Sale.

\" HEREAS, default has been made in the
w payment of promssory note executed
by Henry l.. Griffith to Harrison l.. Clough,
or order bearing date August %, A. d. 1858,
for the sum Of two hundred and fifty dollars,
payable one year after the date thereof, with
interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per
annum FROM the date thereof, which said note
was secured by Trust Deed upon the premises
hereinafter described, duly executed and de-
llrered To the undersigned as Trustee, by said
Henry l.. Griffith, and Recorded in the Re-
corders Office of Floyd county, Iowa, in Book
"A of Mortgages, ON pages 1856, 4S7 and
4ss, and application having been made to me
by the legal holder OF said note to sell said
premises under said Trust Deed, for the pur-
poses and in the manner therein set forth
Now, therefore, shall on the 18th day of
January, A. d. 1860, at two o. clock in the af-
ternoon, at the Stone Store Building, in ST.
Charles City in said county, being the place
OF holding courts in said county, sell at Pub
lie Sale, to the highest bidder or bidders for
cash in hand, the real estate described in said
Trust Deed, to wit
Lot number ten, lO) in Block number three,
90 in Range number two, (2) in the village OF
Floyd, in Floyd county, State OF Iowa, accord
ing to plat of said village on Record in the
Recorders Office in said Floyd county, togeth-
or with all the right, title and equity Of re-
demption of the said Henry L., Griffith, in and
10 said real estate, for the purposes in
said Trust Deed sci forth
Dated St. Charles City, Iowa, Nov. l6, 1859
SILAS SMITH, Trustee.
BY RoBT. G. REINIGER, his Atty. ALB
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

Death is but too often the termination OF
what in its beginning was lightly treated and
fatally neglected as common cold The snow
ball does not increase faster by rolling, than
does danger from an unchecked cough or cold.
When inflammation is once upon the delicate
tissue of the Lungs the process of fire is scarce
y swifter or more fatal than that of Pulmona-
ry disease through its various stages, and its
terminus death. Yet it may be arrested in all
cases by prompt resort to DR. Halls Basam
for the Lungs
For sale by Montague & Co., and by all
druggists, and by agents in every town in
the country.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

The Ccrro Gordo Press has suspend.
ed. The Harrison County Flag has
fizzled. The Benton County Democrat
has gone up. The Marion Herald has
cavcd. The Maquoketa Sentinel has
rcclined. The Burlington Gazette has
collapsed. All Democratic. A singu-
lar malady must be prevalent among
the democratic journals of the State.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

New GooDs.-Messrs. Wright &
Brother of this place are in receipt of
large stock of Winter Goods of
every description, which they will be
pleased to exchange for all kinds of
farmers produce, Butter, Cheese, Pork,
Lard, Wheat, Corn, &c.,-cash not ex.
cepted.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

The St Charles Lyceum VII hold its next
regular meeting for the season at Cheney
Brackets Hall on Monday evening, at g.
o'clock.
EssAY-By Asa w. French, on Education.
DEBATE-Is John Brown : invasion at Harp
er's Ferry justiiahle' Affirmative james
Jackson i NJ pnrS"ns, = Harwn"I Mega.
uve-A. b. +. Hildreth, Ii. c. otnson ID. ID
w. Carver.
Ladies and Gentlemen are cordially invited
to attend.
A week from next Monday evening the Mus
tache Press, by ID. d. w. Carver will be read
Contributions to the Press are solicited.
l. w. CARD, Secretary
November %, 1859
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

ANoTER OUTPOST STRENGTHENED.-We
learn that a sergeant with eight men
left Governors Island on the 18th inst.
for Harpcr's Ferry, to strengthen the
military force at that place. This add
dition will increase the number of men
on duty there to forty, sufficient
number. it is hoped, to protect the
place against the apprehended attacks
of the Abolitionists." The poor,
frightened "F. +. V.'s"l
cod Nirginny nebber tire
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-11-24

This is by far the largest majority
the Republicans ever had in the Leg
islature of the Empire State. The
Senate inst elected will take part in
the election of a u. ). Senator, two
years hence, when the term Of Sena-
tor Seward will expire. The Albany
Journal says that Brooks, in his effort
to "smash the machine" has met the
fate of the bull when he undertook a
like job with locomotive. In each
case the animal was smashed" and
the machine" kept right on.
At the State election in New York,
one year ago, the vote for Governor
stood as follows:
Parker, DEM $50, 5l3
Burrows, (Am) .......... 6l ,8SO-29l 1893
Morgan, (Repl ..................2i6 GAG, 800
Democratic and American majority, 44,4iO
This year the Republicans have re,
duccd the 44,440 majority against
them to little, or nothing, and have
carried both branches of the Lcgsla,
turc by the largest majority they ever
obtained. That will do for 1859. In
1860 they will gain another $4,000
WIscoNsIN.-The Milwaukee News
comedies the election of Randall, Ire.
publican,) for Governor, together with
the entire Republican State ticket
Randall's majority is about 1000 The
Republicans have "a majority in botI
branches Of the Legislature.
New JERsEY.--Complcte returns arc
received, and show a majority of 2l2G
for Oldcn, Rep, for Governor, over
Wright, Dem. In the Senate the
Democrats will have five majority, and
in the House the Republicans will have
four majority.
McClernard, Democrat, has been
elected to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Col. Harris, in the
..;-.I. o.. -es"e.,-ivnH District OF HE
nois. The District is Democratic by
5000 or 1000 majority.
The Republicans of Kansas at the
State election, reelected Mr.. Parrutt
as Delegate to Congress by some
5000, and a majority in each branch
of the Legislature.