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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
More Light Wanted.

The Des Moincs Journal favors it's
readers with a highly colorcd "auto-
biography" Of Shyster Cole, demo
cratic candidate for Judge of the Su-
prcmc Court. We learn from this
highly interesting production that
Cole is native of the free State of
New York, and emigrated to Ken
lucky in lS47 when he was 25 years
of age. 1t is singularly indefinite as
regards to C. C. C.'s history in that
State. We are inquisitive upon this
subject. We would like to know
something of his political status before
he came to Iowa. Was he always a
Democrat or Know Nothing How
long was he in kentucky before he
violated his northern education and
impulses by engaging in buying and
selling men and women for profit
Which did he find most profitable, his
practice as lawyer, or his invest
ments in "niggers." Did he not lose
considerable sum invested in pro
life woman who was so unreasonable
as to die before adding to c. G. C.'s
stock Of young niggers? And did he
not also lose money by the ungratefu
conduct of a boy" his property, wh'
fled from his tender mercies to Cana
da And has he not been engaged
in fugitive slave hunt since his resi-
dcnce in Iowa? And when he lcf
Kentucky in the fall of 1857, to rea
his children amid free institutions
and beyond the enervating influences
of slavery y did he not sell n portion
of his slaves with as little compunC
ton as he would sell horse, while h
hired the others out to earn the brea'
and butter he consumes here amid tn
free institutions aforesaid! ! Does h
not own slaves to-day in Kentucky
And if he owns them in Kentucky
would he not bring them to Iowa,
an extension of the prcd Scott doc
trine should sanction the step! Ih
Journal will probably decline answer
ing these questions III the affirmative
Let this be as it may, but ie,
months since, prominent Democratl
| law NelS Vi btS SNo III"
he was slave trader in Kentucky
that he made an unprOiitablc invcs
ment in n woman who died before al
ding to his stock of slaves, and tina
since his emigration to Iowa, mol t't
years since, he visited Detroit on
slave hunt? These gentlemen no.
apologize for telling what they the
regarded and now regard as the trutl
by saying that they did not know thu
he was a democrat, and certainly n'
! that he would be Democratic can
: date for Judge of the Supreme Cour
e In this at best they are truthful Il
g no one knew a year since that he W;
e a member of the Democratic part
# Will the journal tell its reade
5 whether or not Cole does not now ha,
e more money invested in niggers
. q Kentucky, than he has in real prope
J. ty in Iowa? Surely handsome fl
II low for the highest judicial tribun
n in the Hamilton Freeman.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

DAcoTAH SuRvEY.-The government
has ordered corps of engineers to
Dacotah Territory to survey into town
ships an extent of country including
seventy miles northward from the
Iowa State line and twcnty-four miles
West, taking the first meridian line
lying to the eastward as starting
point in that direction. But a small
portion of this is to be sub-divided at
present, and that in the immediate vi
cinity Of the Falls.
This survey will include an area of
nearly seventeen hundred square
miles of the richest and most product
i've soil in the Territory. 1t comprises
almost the entire Sioux Valley, from
the southern boundary of Dakotah, (at
which point it meets the Iowa survey
to about Lake Preston on the North,
and as far west as Vermillion river,
including also the valley of that
stream embracing, in fact, all that it
is really necessary to survey out at
the present time, so far as our infor-
nation reaches. Next season it may
possibly be extended westward to the
Missouri, should the emigration to
that point warrant it. We understand
it to be the policy of the government,
at present, however, to survey only SO
much of the public domain as is taken
up by actual claimants, or likely tc
be required for immediate occupation
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
Lge yntelligenttr.
Westward the course of empire takes its way"
A. h. r. HILDRETH, Editor.
St. Charles City, Iowa, Sept. l5, 1859.
The Washington Monument.

The Washington Monument is again
receiving public attention under new
and promising auspices. A society
has been chartered by Congress to
take charge of the enterprise. The
President is at the head of the cOmpa-
ny, and gentlemen favorably and wide
" known are now connected with the
movement. Prominent among these
may be named Mr.. Seaton of the Ma
tional Intelligencer Mr. Corcoran,
the banker and Lieut.. Maury. These
gentlemen will give public confidence
in the work. Lieut.. Ives of the Topo-
graphical Engineers has been charged
with the superintendcnce of the monu-
mcnt. and he is the author Of the plan
to raise the necessary funds by con
tributiUns through the hands of the
postmasters. He recommends the
10000 postmasters in the country to
place box in their Offices for contri-
buttons, and small sum deposited
daily in each of these boxes would
soon complete the obelisk. Lieut..
Ives the architect and engineer in
charge of the Washington Monument,
has made an official report to the So
cicty, in which he says that when
raised to the height of 600 feet, the
entire weight of the shaft and founda'
ton will be 10000 tons The weight
of the structure, in its present condl'
ton is 40, 900 tons. He has been una
bic to detect any appearance OF set
Ting or indications of insecurity. by
scientific calculations he has arrived
at the conclusion that the weight alone
of the monument at its full height
would offer resistance nearly eight
times greater than the overturning ct
fort of the heaviest tempcsts to whlcl
it would probably ever be exposed.
1t was proposed to the Monumen
Society many years ago, to surrount
the foot Of the obelisk with a base o
a Pantheon form, and an engraving
was made of the monument as it woul'
appear if completed in accordance
with that plan. An impression has
been in this way created tiroughou
the country, that the engraved dcslg'
has been adopted, and cannot now b'
deviated from without tearing dow
what has been already built but as i
has not been the intention of the SC
ciety to accept the plan referred tc
and as the errer which exists seem
to have an injurious effect, Lieut.. I've
suggests the expediency of notifying
the public officially that the obelisk
the only portion of the monument tn
form of which is decided upon, an
that the determination of the desig
: of the base is still open for consider
ton. In this suggestion OF Lieu
Ives the Society has concurred.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

HINTS ON Poor FARMING. - lst. ln-
vest all your capital in land and run
in debt for more.
I'd. Hire money to stock your farm,
Sd. Have no faith in your own bust,
ness, and be always ready to sell
out.
4th. Buy mean cows, spawned
horses, poor oxen, and cheap tools.
5th Feed bog hay and mouldy corn
stover exclusively, in order to keep
your stock tame. Fiery cattle are
terrible on old, rickerty wagons and
plows.
9th, Use the oil of walnut freely
whenever your oxen need strength,
1t is cheaper than hay or meal, keeps
the hair lively and pounds out all tho
grubs.
7th. Select such calves for stock as
the butcher shuns beauties of rnnts,
thin in the hams, and pot-bellied, but
be sure and keep their blood thin
with scanty herbage. Animals are
safest to breed from that haven't
strength to herd.
sth, Be cautious in the manufac-
ture of manures. 1t makes the fields
look black and mournful about plant
ing time, besides it is great deal Of
work to haul it.
9th Never waste time in setting
out fruit and shade trees. Fruit and
leaves rotting around place make it
unhealthy. :,
The road to poor farming, though
largely travelled, is not well under
stood, and these landmarks are thrown
up for the common benefit.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
The Future Capital of the U. S.

Where and in what State will it be
located? Who can tell? If capitals
arc located according to the geo
graphical centres of countries, as they
unuuestionably should be, then it
seems certain that Washington, being
located wide of the geographical CEN
tire of the United States, cannot rea-
sonably continue to be the scat of the
Federal Government. But in remov-
ing the capital-if it ever is removed
the name should go with it. There
can be no substitute for Washington,
name sacred to every American
heart.
Although there can be but little
doubt that within the next twenty
wears q movement will be made to
change the Seat of Government to
some point more central than the pres
ent one, yet it will be with the keen.
est regret that the people of the old
States shall witness it's removal. II
will be difficult task to tear the gov
ernment away from place so init
mately blended with the past history
of the nation. But the great west is
filing up with its millions, while the
old States increase in population bu
slowly, and the west will one day as
sert the right with which superiority
in numbers invests it, and then resist
ance to it's claim will be unavailing.
There are serious obstacles in tn
way of removal, however, which ma.
not be easy to overcome. First, tn
almost fabulous sums of money whic
have been expended in rendering tn
national capital what it is to-day
How could the capital itself be di'
posed of so as to enable the Govern
ment to realize one-fourth of the mol
ey which it cost? What mode can /
suggested by which the public bull
ings conld be disposed Of at tithe
! ! their value, estimating that value b
the amounts actually paid for the
. construction
Cincinnati OF St. Louis, in the orc
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
kOssuth and Louis Napoleon.

A foreign correspondent of the New
York Tribune, in alluding to recent
events in Europe, observes What
ever be the motives of Napoleon, the
Italian campaign was certainly not
carried on in the interest Of dcspotism.
However mcagre may be the results,
it certainly did not strengthen either
Austria or the Pope : it gave the ltal-
ians chance, by which they have
eagerly proiited, and it left the PENN
sular in better state than it found
it," The writer processes to give
true statement of the negotiations be-
tween Kossuth and Louis Napoleon
in regard to an insurrection in Hun
gary. He says:
"In order to CRAFTY their cravings
for the secret history of the connection
between kossuth and Napoleon, | will
give them the principal points. As
soon as the war in Italy against Aus
tria was resolved upon, Napoleon,
Victor Emmanuel, and Count Covour
planned an insurrecton IN hungary.
as one of the means of cocrcing Aus
tria to evacuate Italy. They, howev-
er, knew Kossuth too well not to know
that such a scheme, by which Hunga-
nv would have acted as the cats paw
for Italy, to be deserted by the Allies
| =. a.. nr hnc nnal cnnII not I'M ppt
with his appreciation. They, therefore,
tried to arrange matters without him.
But when they saw that his name and
talents were indispensable to any ris-
ing in Hungary, and when they found
that he had both the power and the
will to prevent an ill-timed insurrec-
tion, they made overtures to him. lie
twice had an interview with the EN-
peror Napoleon, once at Paris in the
Tuilleries, and once in the camp at Va
leggio, where the plans for an lnva,
sion Of Hungary by French troops
were discussed and fixed provided
that the war should extend to the
shores of the Adriatic. This, howev
er, did not take place, and thus the
Hungarian expedition was, of course,
postponed until the second Italian
campaign, which cannot fail to follow
in a few years, unless Austria changes
her system Of policy. Whatever We
may say against Napoleon. that he
left the Tuscans, Modenese, Romag
noles and Ventians in the lurch, an(
: did not fulfil his famous Milan prom
: Use to free Italy from the Alps to th'
| Adriatic," still we cannot say that h'
: betrayed Hungary or kossuth. III
threw away splendid opportunity o
: rehabilitatlng himself, by destroying
+ Austria and giving freedom to tn
y nations oppressed by her but he ha,
$ not the nerve to incur the open hosti'
: ity of Prussia and the resentment c
England, for it is certain that eve
u the liberal statesmen of England be
s. lieve that Europe requires an Austria
y they wish for a better Austria, bu
!. an Austria they must haye,to prcserv
their balance Of power.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
The New Kansas Constitution.

The new FREE Constitution Of Kan
sas elicits the united opposition of the
Democracy in Kansas, as it did the
members of that party in the Conven-
ton which framed it. They see in its
adoption and the admission Of the
State under it, their last hope gone of
reducing her to Slavery. The fruit of
the repeal of the Missouri compromise
turns to ashes on their lips.
The efforts of Douglas to render a
service to the South, by adding Kan.
sas to the dominion of the Slave pow
er, are reduced to naught, when this
Constitution is ratified by the people
and hence it is not surprising, that
the many hued Democracy rally to a
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

nary course of events, must soon come
to be the centre of population, and
then we way expect to see those cities
vieing with each ether in the strife for
the possession or location of the new
capital. The great states growing
up on the Pacific shores will clamor to
have the national capital brought
down halfway" and the welfare of
the country may require this to be
done much sooner than we are now
aware.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
PRICE, TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NUMBER 81.

with the Central Pacific Railroad Is.
sue and river improvements, would
undoubtedly, with his name, carry the
State, Maj. Rollins, the Opposition
candidate for Governor of Missouri
two years ago, lost the State by only
$50 and his majority in St. Louis was
but one or two thousand. With six
to ten thousand majority in St Louis
to start with Judge Bates remarkable
personal popularity, and with State
pride in favor of the first candidate
ever presented by Missouri, for the
Presidency, who could doubt the re-,
suit? And with such a canvass as
would be making in Missouri, Illinois
and Indiana would be safe beyond all
peradventure.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

that we passed in the morning pre-
sentcd very different appearance on
our return. Then every pole stood
erect, garlanded with its wealth Of
vines and leaves-thcy looked like
brave and gallant soldiers drawn up
in battle array. Now whole ranks
were lying low, as if levelled by an
enemy's artillery {; while the columns
that remained standing seemed broken
and bent, as if ready to turn and flee.
We reached home at two o'clock,
and found our friends surprised and
somewhat alarmed at our delay. We
had merry time relating our adven.
lures but we never carried the mail
again. After that we contentcd our.
selves with excursions nearer home.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

A renowned clergyman Of New
York lately preached rather long
sermon from the text, Thou art
weighed in a balance and found want
ing" After the congregation had
listened about an hour some began to
get weary and went out others soon
followed, greatly to the annoyance OF
the minister. Another person started,
whereupon the parson stopped in his
sermon, and said, That's right, gen
tlemen as fast as you are weighed,
pass out" He continued his sermon
at some length after, but no one dis
turbed him by leaving.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

The gold-hunters of Kansas have
held a Convention and adopted State
Constitution, which, if ratified by the
People, will be epresented to Congress at
the next session. If they cannot be a6.
mitted as State, they want to be organ
lied as the Territory Of Jefferson"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15
nottrp.
From the Dubuque Tim'
A SONG FOR IOWA.

-
Hurrah for the grains, rich Iowa grains,
Thriving on ridges, in meadows and plains,
Now waving in splendor, rolling in pride
With dash Of Gods glory from flenty's full
tide.
Hurrah for the grains, rich Iowa grains,
Brave sons of the prairie kingly domains;
BY warrior like these all maiid in fine gold,
Our homesteads are saved both from famine
and cold
Hurrah for the grains, rich Iowa grains,
Nature reward for handful of pains
With armies Of wheat corn. barley and oats,
We will conquer the world without cutting
their throats.
Hvrrah for the grains, rich Iowa grains,
Singing of conquest in merriest strains,
Victors DER doubt. triumphantly joyous,
Ye farmers rejoice, and assist the grand chorus.
CHORUS.
Here health to the hills all corn'd so high,
To the valleys reeling with oats and rye,
To the wheatfelds staggering since they were
born.
And the patches drunk with good barley corn
st. Charles, July IA, 1859. S. S.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-15

Beauty like the rose, blooms for .
season-then fades to bloom no more,
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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-02-18
IN CHANCERY AT GAINESVILLE.
Eliza dun BrAntly, ct ais.
Joseph Baynham Et ais.

II appearing TO the satisfaction Of the Clerk
and Master, from the affidavit in the cause, that
X w. How erton, Rebecca Bavnham aud John
Blanc are non residents OF Tenn, that the ordi-
nary process Of lgw cannot be served upon them;
tits ordered that publication be made for 4 weeks
IA the hroni le, newspaper published in the
CITY Of Clurksvi lie, requiring said non resident
defendants TO appear at the next term of the
Chaueery court, to be held in the city Of Clarks'
Vile. ON the Sd Monday Of April next, aud plead
answer or demur to complainants bill, or the
anne III be taken for confessed to them, and set
down for hearing exparte,
Feb II, '59-Iw-pr fee 50
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-02-18
NOW IS YOUR TIME!
The Best Investment Ever offered
IN OR ABOUT GAINESVILLE.

IN OR ABOUT GAINESVILLE.
1T NOW BEING A FACT beyond dispute
by the most skept cal, that the Memphis, Clerks
willie and Louisville Railroad will be built ia short
time--the greater portion of which is now under
contract--and the fact being now known that
the connection by way of the Edgefeld and Ken
lucky road to Nashville will be made by or before
next Spring, thus giving a connection by railway
TO Charleston, Savannah and other Atlantic ports
and by way of the Memphis and Charleston road
to Memphis and Mobile the improvement and
expansion of Uhat has been heretofore busy lit
tie village intoR city. Is not only mantle l. but has
begun aud, having more Real Estate near Clarks-
vile than desire TO hold | have determined to
offer for public sale
One tract of Land lug on west fork Of Red
River, and within "A few hundred yards of the
CORPORATION line, and not more than one mile from
the Courthouse. THIS place is finely timbered,
well watered and contains 2l1 acres. about 100
Of which is rich river bottom land, and is in every
way desirable a farm.
Also-EIght ncres of Land near GAINESVILLE. on
the Russevie Pike, within a convenient distance
from the business part Of the town. aud has sew
erl C comfortable dwellings on Il, aud is very well
suited for market gardens or suburban residences.
Also-Twenty'io acres Of Land near Peter
sons Sulphur Springs, about three miles from
town, o. which is a fine Spring,
Also--One hundred acres two miles from town,
on the RusselviIle turnpike.
Terms easy aud liberal. Apply 10
Aug, 81, '5s.-tf D. MARI.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-02-18
xXXvrH CONGRESS-SECOND SEES.
M rrr SION. re
Fridays Proceedings
WAsnINaroN. Feh. IA

WASHINGTON, Feb. A.
Senatc.-Mr. Green, of Mo. from the
Committee on Territories, reported bill
10 organize the Territories of Dacotah
and Arizona. Ordered to be printed
Also bill, which was passed, TO repay
Governor Douglass, of Vancouver Island,
$1,000 loaned to the Governor of Wash
ington territory.
Mr.. Seward, of N. Y, introduced a
resolution calling on the Secretary of War
for any report from the U. s. engineer at
New York since the Secretary's last report
on the defence of New York and Brook
Ign.
Mr.. Bright, Of Ind, from the Commit
tee on Public Lands, and Mr.. Brown, of
Mississippi, from the Committee on the
District of Columbia, attempted to bring
mp business relating to the District, and
the latter moved that the session to-mor-
row be devoted TO its consideration.
Mr.. Stuart, of Michigan, called for the
yeas and nays upon Mr.. Browns motion,
and argued that the District of Columbia
claimed more than its proportionate share
of the time of Congress to the exclusion
of the national business. Browns motion,
hoHeEerj prevailed by vote OF az yeas
TO IL nays, so that tomorrow will be de-
voted to the business of the District.
HOuse.-Mr. Wilson. of Ind, from the
Committee on Elections, made report on
the Nebraska contested election case, de-
claring Bird b. Chapman entitled to the
seat instead of A. T. Ferguson, the sitting
member.
Mr.. Smith, of ILL.,, introduced bill to
establish a national foundry at Alton,
Ill. Referred to the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs.
MIR. Phillips, of Pa, said that it was
his desire to call the attention of the
House to what he thought were mistakes
in tho estimate of the Secretary of the
Treasury, but he yielded the floor, though
with reluctance, at the request of gentle
men who had made earnest appeals to him
in behalf of the private calendar.
The House then proceeded with the
consideration of private bills.
After passing a number of private bills
the House adjourned.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-02-18
Sewing Machines.

The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines are
admitted to be the best Machines now in use.
believe they will promote health, prolopg life, save
your eyes, cure I'll temper, render you happier and
facilitate your work more than any other machine
you can get. They have "hemmer' attached,
which is of recent and very great improvement.
Call at my Furniture Store, examine these Ma
chimes, andget speci mems Of sewing AMI hemming.
JOHN F. COUTS.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-02-18
Washington Hotel.
GAINESVILLE, TENNESSEE.
s. r. MOORE, Proprietor.

Having taken this wei known tavern stand, and
intending thoroughly to renovate aud repair ~
and from lis long experience IN the business, for
merly at RossellvilIe, Ky, he thinSs he will be
able to give general abstraction, and solicits lib
eral share Of public patronage: 49,.
Travellers wishing TO take the river at this
point may RELY upon being omptly notified Of
the passage Of Boats at any hour In the night ss'
we keep night watch for this special purpose,
and polite and attentive Porters for the transport
tation Of baggage to and from the river.
GFThe Stage Office is kept at this Hotel 10
Jan. 9. I657-ly .l fB.