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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14
GQest6arS tbs Course of empire tahcs its dotan.

the glass, and the editor proceeds tc
read the dainty epistle.l
"MR EDIroR / send you a story
which you can put on your fourth
page if you think it worthy, if not
you can put it in the CRATE.
FLORA
Here, Pete Go hunt up CRATE
and put this manuscript in it and
here goes an editorial to inform her
that have complied with her request
Here's letter from my New York
correspondent. Hang the fellow ! No
| wouldn't have him hung, either. He
writes a capital letter. | can't dis
pute with him, but | do wish he would
study punctuation and Wcbster's spell
ing book. I'll wager there isn't a half
a dozen words spclt correctly in these
five pages of foolscap, and he never
makes stop, but rushcs right ahead
like an engine under full steam
And here's correspondent quar-
relIing like Zantippe, because some
body has found ont who he is. That
comes of having printers who can read
and write.
Mercy 'pon us what time we edi-
tors do have If had an enemy
that would consign to an earthly
torment, Id make an editor of him.
Here | am tied down for the summer,
to this hot, dusty city, to dish up news
for people who are pleasure-taking at
Saratoga, Cape May, or Niagara, or
on a visit to the country. job and
his comforters How I'd enjoy hat
iul Of fresh country air, free from dust!
How I'd like to roam the woods, to i'm
bibe crystal draught from some
gushing spring ! How I'd enjoy.
Avaunt you tantaIizing idea Have
| not enough to torment. Good
gracious there is the railroad whis-
tie, announcing the mail and fresh
work and trouble for me ! Patience
alive . who would be an editor if he
could be anything else ?
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14
THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL

Whether we play, or labor. or sleep,
the sun passeth, and the sand runs.
He that is taught to live upon little,
owes more to his fathers wisdom,
than he that has great deal left him,
to his fathers care.
The TRUE Observation-Disclosures is
open, loyal, true ; of human and atfa-
bic dCmeanOr honorable to himself,
and in his Judgment of others faith
ful to his word as law, and faithful
alike to God and man; such mau is
4 true gentleman.
View the groves in autumn, and OH
serve the constant succession Of fall
ing leaves in like manner the genera
tons of men silently drop from the
stage of life and are blended with the
dust.
LovE.--Friendship requires actions
Love requires not SO much proofs, as
expressions of love. Love demands
little else than the power to feel and
require ioNc.
How guarded we should be when
we speak of the unhappy, whose sor
row and detection are apt to dispose
the heart to interpret into an unkind
and bitter sense, every sentence that
does not breathe the greatest gentle
ness and affection.
He who, with talents capable of be,
ing employed in the service of others,
sits down with views that centre sole
ly in himself, and neglects to employ
them further than his own necessities
require, is guilty of a breach of trust
for which he must one day be account
able.
The most beautiful flowers soon fade
and droop, and die /; this is also the
case with man his days are as un
certain as the passing breeze. This
hour he glows in the blush of health
and vigor but the next he may be
counted with the number no more
known on earth.
There is nothing which, in seasons
of Affections, or at the painful evening
Of life, can afford SO much comfort tc
the soul as q steady belief of it's flu
ture existence in "A happier state /; il
alleviates the keenest of human woes
and illumnes the dark valley Of the
shadow of death"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

the United States" The oath was ad
ministered by Chancellor Livingston
the Secretary Of the Senate began to
raise the Bible to the Presidents lips,
but he bowed his head and kissed the
sacred volume. At the close of the
solemn ceremony, Chancellor Livings
ton proclaimed Long live George
Washington, President of the United
States !" He was then fifty sever
years, two months and six days old
and he lived ten years seven months
and fourteen days from the time of his
inauguration,
Before the arrival Of the President
a committee had been appointed by
the Senate to consider what style or
title it will be proper to annex to the
offices Of the President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, if any 9TH
crs than those given in the Constitu-
ton This committee consisted of
Mr.. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia,
Mr.. Izard of South Carolina, and Mr..
Dalton Of Massachusetts, and they re-
ported in favor of addressing the Chief
Magistrate as His Highness, the
President of the United States Of
America, and Protector Of their Liber-
ties" The Senate was inclined to fa-
vor that style of addresses, which was
no doubt suggested by the title adopt
ed by the Protector Cromwell, and
that Of the States General Of Holland,
who, as was remarked by Mr. Madi-
son, assumed the style Of their High
Mightinesses." The House Of Repre-
sentatives deemed it expcdient not to
bcstow any title on the President and
Vice President, and in the answers Of
the two houses to the Presidents in
augural speech, he was, without any
titular addition, addressed as "Presi-
dent of the United States" The Sen
ate persevcred for few days in the
attempt to establish a title by legisla-
ton the House continued to dissent /;
a committee of conference was APP
pointed who could agree on no report;
and the Senate, desrous of preserv-
ing harmony with the House of Repre-
sentativcs," postponed the report Of
their committee, and resolved that the
present address be "To the President
of the United States, without the addi-
ton of title"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

CLOSE VorING.-From the returns of
the New Hampshire election, reported
in the Coccord Statesman, we find
that in thirty-four instances the Re
publican and Democratic candidates
had exactly the number of votes cast
at the election in 1858, by the same
parties. In forty instances the party
vote was within one Of that cast the
previous year In twenty-nine cases
it was within ttoo; in twenty-five
cases within three in twenty seven
cases within four; twenty-five cases
within Jire; twenty-siX cases within
sir fourteen cases within seren sev,
enteen cases within eight and eleven
cases within nine votes Of the las,
election making 245 instances in all
where there was not ten votes differ
ence, between the two years.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

Heir LOOMS.

How sacred thing is made by the
lapse of time. A stick may have been
handed down to us that one of our re-
mote ancestors has carried in his
hands, and though he is one with
whom in the world of matter we have
nothing III common that we know of,
unless it be q common name and that
perhaps changed in the spelling, we
are brought near to him by this sim
pie twig--a meaningless thing in it.
self--to which, by some strange pro-
cess, the spirit Of its original owner
has impaired itself. Why not? No
thought is lost, and why may it not
be that our venerable ancestors
thought, that prompted him to cut the
twig we prize, and cherish it, and trim
off the knots, and make it so comely
and shapely, and to guard it for many
year, may still ia some way-we'll
not say how-protcct it, in order that
it may be connecting thing between
himself and his descendants thus pre-.
serving sy mpathetic rapport between
the past and the present. 1t always
seemed to us that heir looms were i'm
bued with this old spirit, for this pur.
pose. And that they have their effect
is manifest in the way that they are
cherished by those people who are
governed by the sentimentality
that recognizes the value Of a thing
above its market price, and set more
by an old cooked hat or pair of small
clothes, or Il faded dress than by a
thousand new things, with no asso
citation, beyond the fact that they may
not yet have been paid for, to com
mend them. What sacredness at
taches to an old chair, for instance
whose arms have embraced many &
generation that still speaks to us
Our ancestors embrace us in the an
tique and queer frame, and we repca
the observation of Miss Eliza Cool
that eve love it," 1t would bring
perhaps, twenty five-cents at auction
and everybody but ourselves woult
laugh at it, but every silver of it ha
value that money cannot offset
Heir looms have good influences abou
them, inasmuch as they come dowl
from good people. Things thus trans
mitted bear some evidence Of perso
or deed that is plcasant-in this d
rection representing one combinin!
! many virtues, and in this some &C
that it makes us better to know, thoug
generations removed from the tim
( and scene of its occurrence. A knit
" or halter would not be preserved a
:, an heir loom, nor the memory of crime
stained life be very particularly chez
ished, outside the annals of justice
So we honor our ancestors throug
transmitted timber, old crockery c
old picture, or keep alive patriot
emotions by collecting canes from ol
Ironsides, Independence Hall or Mour
Vernon. G.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

THE NEXT CENsUs.-Provision was
made in the civil appropriation bill at
the late session Of Congress for the
preliminary arrangements for taking
the 9th Census Of the United States
under the existing law. The Sccrcta-
ry Of the Interior, it is said, will follow
the plan of the last Census in refer.
ence to statistics, unless Congress or.
der otherwise.
In the apportionmcnt of Represent
tatives the number Of members Of the
House is placed at 333, allowing ad
ditional Representatives. for new
States. The present number of Rep
rescntatives is 23T. The addition ol
a large number makes the moving oI
the desks from the Representatives,
Hall a judicious and almost necessary
change for their accommodation aud
if its adoption now had not been
deemed desirable on other grounds, il
would have been likely to follow t
meet the demands of the new appor
| tionment.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14
Gge yntelligenttr.
The ROthSchild Bridal Dinner.

The Paris correspondent of the Lit
erary Gazette says:
"A great event in the beau monde o
this place has been the RothschilC
marriage. The magniiicence was be
yond all description, and it would ap
per that splendors, vicing with those
recounted in the Arabian Nights
were lavished upon an entertainment
to which nobody was admitted.
mean the dinner given after the nup
tial ceremony, and at which some sixty
or seventy Rothschilds alone were
present. AS no one but the family
was present at this faucion, of course
the feminine public curiosity has
been UNNECESSARILY excited by it, and
every young male RothschiId has been
cross-cxamimed by the fair ladies of
Paris ever since, in order that they
may arrive at an approximate knowl-
edge of the festive scene
1t seems all the plate of all the
houses of Rothschilds, nearly, was
forthcoming for this banquet at least,
the London chief sent his dinner ser,
vice over to his cousin Of Paris, and
the entire changes Of the more than
threescOre guests were made in silver
and silver gilt plates, dishes, every
thing was of the precious metals, as
at the royal tables, only at desert was
perceived the priceless service Of old
Sevrcs, belonging to the Paris patcr
famlLias, and whereof each plate repre-
scnts somewhere about kings ran
som.
AS to the vands on the tables,
they came from every country and
every cline there were swallows
nests from China, sterlets "a fish of
excessive high price in Russia, Of the
size of salmon, and of fat, orangc-col-
Ored hesh) from Russia reed birds
and canvas back ducks from America a;
bustards from Spain, pheasants from
Bohemia, entrees of peacocks brains,
titlets of buffalo hump, and, one Of my
lady informants declarcs-salmis Of
Brazilian parrots .!
Every salt or fresh water has yield
ed up its fish every moor, marsh,
and forest its fowl every hot.bed,
heated by fire or the sun, its fruit :;
and every grape its wine. As to the
flowers with which the table and the
dinner room We're oYnamcntcd 1t is
affirmed that there were Al 500 worth
All the windows were covered with
trclls work, over which were framed
the choicest creeping plants of the
tropics, shedding their sweet perfume
all around. If the rcpast was worthy
of an Emperor Of "A century ago, the
tribe of Rothschild seems to have
been worthy of it, and to have done
it due honor. In the first place it is
affirmed that the ladies present wore
upon their persons between twenty
and thirty millions of francs worth of
jewels, and in the way Of doing honor
to the banquet, those who partook of IT
sat at table from half.past six till mid
night"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14
HILDRETH & CARVER, PROPRIETORS,
Communications.
For the st. Charles City ln,ellgenccr.
PIXIES PEAK.
A SONG FOR THE TIMES.

| ~ GoNp TOh LIE LINED.
Ho no for Pixies Peak runs the cry through the land
The ore lieth thick in the Cherry Creek sand
As pebbles on Ocean shore
| With bounding leap,
| With a rushing sweep
Comes the stirring call,
Haste yc people all,
To that wilderness region away, far away,
| Where they gather the gold
| From the giering mould,
| And fortunes are made in a day
Ho no for Pixies Peak, runs the cry through the land
Ike the arch of God " a world it hath spanncd,
| And the people aroused from sleep,
| With strong desire
| Their hearts ahre,
They westward pour,
Toward the mammon lure,
In that wilderness region away, far away,
Where they gather the gold
From the glrttcrilg mould,
And fortunes are made IN a day
Ho no for Pixies Peak runs the cry through the land
And there gathers together motley band
Armed with pickaxe and spade and pan,
By many boat,
On the streams aioat,
by the rafting rail-
They shower like hail
On that wilderness region away, far away,
Where they gather the gold
From the gttering mould,
And fortunes made IN a day.
Ho no for Iikes Peak the cry through the land
And gathering strength AS the fame is famed,
Goes up ike a battle cry.
We will snatch the gold
From the feeble hold
y: earth and rock,
And poverty mock
la that wilderness region away, far away,
Where they gather the gold
From the gIitterng mould,
And fortunes made in day.
Ho ho for Pixies Peak, runs the cry through the land
Oh many a heart will retain that brand
TIL il crumblcs into dust
Oh the loved and ostl
Oh, the fearful cost
OF fortunes made,
by health dccayed,
In that wilderness region away, far away,
Where they gather the gold
From the glit,cring mould,
And fortunes made In a day
IIo ho fer Pixies Peak dies the cry in tho land,
FOR see they come the returning and,
Scattered and shattered and worm
And many como not
Of the who went out,
They made themselves slaves,
They aug themselves graves,
In that wilderness region away, lar away,
Where there Is no gold
In the yellow mould,
Nor are fortunes made a day.
St Charles City, April s, 1859. j.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

Bonner knows thing or two, and
here is his latest dodge On the cor
ners Of Canal, Bleeker and Fourteenth
streets, New York city, he has placed
men, who don't bulge an inch from
morning till night, and keep repeating
over and over these four words 1.-The
Ledger is out !"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

The st. Paul Pioneer states that the
machinery for the pioneer steamboat
designed to ply upon the Red River
of the North, and which is being trans
ported overland from Crow Wing
Min, had arrived ON the 4th inst, to
within forty miles of its destination
1t is confidently believed that the
boat will be ready to commenco hel
trips by the end of this month.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

A fearful calamity occurred on the
sea of Azof in February last, by which
three thousand lives were lost. Is
seems that a large number of the in
habitants of Tayanroy went on the
ice to fish, when it broke and oyer
three thousand were drowned, ONLY
one escaping.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

A correspondent signing himsel
}. H., having desire to become dis
tlnguished in the world of letters
sends us "a communication with the
following request:
Messrs Hildreth & Carver please
give this a copy in your paper if you
please Hn
OF course. We will please our cor
respondent, and our readers at the
same time, by giving a specimen OF
the taliest exhibition of genius we have
met with for many day But while
we for once comply with the request
of 81 II we feel it our luty to sug-
gcst to him that such rare productions
evidences Of " slumbering genius
long pent up"--arc lost, wasted, like
the fragrance of the rose upon the
desert air, while lie only holds in sub
lime admiration the few of our readers
who
-" in tales delight
That bolt like hedge hog qulls the hair upright"
81 ii " should make himself known
at once to Bonner, who will, we doubt
not, make every effort to engage him
as special contributor to the Ledger.
Bnt we are detaining the reader from
the article in question. Here it is,
rerbatlm et Hteratim ct punctu0tim
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

Corpulcnt persons desiring to lessen
their circumference, may apply at the
Intelligencer Office for the situation Of
collector.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

This is about as bad as when GER
tain ladies in New England town
raised funds by subscription, to pur,
chase petticoats for sundry marble
angels that decorated a public hall.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14

We see it stated that certain
Council Of Education have nerves SO
delicate that they caused Goldsmith's
q" Deserted Village" in one of their
school readers, to be so amended that
" The hawthorn BUSH with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and uhispsrins orers made
reads
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14
MisteIlanp.
TWO SIDES OF A PICTURE.
OF A NEWSPAPER READER.


What a happy set of dogs editors
are, to be sure Nothing under heav.
ems to do but to read papers, hunt up
news, and write scraps of editorials
now and then. They exemplify the
truth of the adage "There's but a
penny's difference between those who
work and those who play--and those
who play get it." They have ease
and live on the cream of the land.
Does anybody get marricd-always
goes box of the incest, whitest cake,
candies, nuts, champagne. &c, to the
editor to pay him for telling it to the
world. Does anybody raise an extra
large, or extra early fruit, vegetable
or bcrrics-it is sure to find its way
to the editors table. Does a person
make delicious bottle of wine, BRAN
dy, cider or cordial-it's sure to find
its way to the head Of the paper. Jcru-
salem how ] would like to board
with an editor
But that's not half the favors they
receive. If there's concert, a show
or circus in town, the editor and print
ers are sure to have ticket free gratis
far nothing, besides being presented
with season ticket to the theatre.
They have all the Magazines, newspa-
pcrs, Congress documents, tclegraohic
dispatches, and so forth, before any
body else and most generally for
nothing. If anybody writes book,
a copy is always laid on the editors
table. Wonder if he eats it? He
sometimes digSts it, know. Edi-
tors have whole libraries given to
them every year, not to mention hats,
gloves, umbrellas, pocket knives, ci-
gars. walking canes and dry goods
generality enough to set up country
merchant.
And, besides, when everybody else
is curious to know the real names of
writers over iicticious signatures, edi-
tors, 5 Y fellows, laugh at their curl
osity and, when solicited to let out
the secret, answer with rutf-(edi-
tors understand putting to charm y
" am not at liberty to tell" BY the
beard Of Brigham Young wish |
was an editor
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-04-14
VOLUME III,
ST, Cbarlts Citp SntelIigenttr,
pusLpsHED EVERY THURSDAY ny
HLDRETH & CARVER,
EDITORS AND PRorRIfroRs.
PRICE 2,00A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
OFFICE IN INTElLIGENCER BUILDING,
CORNER
MILL AND KELLY STREETS,
SQUARE,
st. Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa

Any person obtaining five subscribers, and forward.
ding the money, shall be furnished with a copy Of the
lnteigeDcer for this long the number shall
be kept good
Business pertaining to the paper can be transacted
with the Publishers any day at the Clce OF Publication
Communications may he addressed to the Editors \ ho
will promptly and faithfully respond 10 them.
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AGENTS FOR THE ISTEIIIGENCER:
A1-S. n. PETTENGuL Co, Newspaper Advertsnl
Agents No ll9 Nassau Street New York and 10 stat,
Street, Boston.
Business Cards of i've lines less Will be inserted in
this column FOR S. 90 per For each additiona
line, over five, one dollar will be charged
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Gustavus G. Reingcr, Irving W Carl Roht g. Rinigrr
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08
chase County.

M. M. Flory has completed the Assess
ment and Census of Chase county, and
from him we learn that the number of vo-
ters in the county is 2O3. Falls township
has 80; Cottonwood, Sc; Bazaar, 35; whole
number of inhabitants, Sal. The amount
of real estate in the county is $45,725
lersonal property. S25,811.
Total, $71 ,536.
There is but little land. pre.empted in
Chase county.
From private memorandum kept by the
Assessor, we gather the following .particu-
lars: The politics of the voters is, .Repub-
licans. TT; Democrats, II; non commital,
g. Their employment is as follows: Car
penters, II; Laborers, 5; Black smiths, 7;
Plasterers, 2; Ministers, z; Doctors. i;
Printers, 4; Merchants, /; Sawyers, 3;
Cabinet makers, 2; Shoemakers, g; Weav
ers, 2; Upholsterers, ] Bakers, 1; Book
binders, /; Saddlers, /; Painters, 3; School
Teachers, 1; Farmers, 156. Chase county
is settling very fast, and the Cottonwood
Valley will soon bloom like the ROSE
Council Grove Press.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-08

The spunky Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm
sends to the ST. Paul Minnesotian the sub
joined spicy letter:
Now. take notice. On the night of the
Esd of March, 1859, Sylvanus B. Lowry,
present Democratic candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor of Minnesota. came down in
to Lower st Cloud. two miles from home,
and staid until / o'clock next morning to
be present at and assist in the destruction
of the ST. Cloud Visitor, that he Vas pres
ent and did assist in that destruction
"When he wants to see the proof in print,
he should sue me for SANDER. would like
special call and authority to send for per-
sons and papers-would like it so much
that / thought seriously of prosecuting him
for burglary; but ! prefer to act on the de-
fensiye. Does he want the proof?
JANE G. SwIssHELM.
ST. Cloud, Sept. 5. 1859.