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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

INVITE COLUMBIAN GlANc.-An sddi-
w tionsl supply Of Columbian Guano, from tho
Island Of "El Rogue" analysing w psr cent
Bono PhssShsts of Lins, tor sale At lowest Tsts''
octs JAS c. kEVEII
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07
FRENCH DYEING AND SECURING EsTAB,
LISHMENT

MONSIEUR AiDOiIN,
From Paris, having taken charge Of the above
named establishment, already tayorably known
for its Gue work, begs the citizens OF Alexandra
and vicinity to bestow upon him the Kind patron
age it has hitherto enjoyed. His long experience
in the line will Ice guaranty t" the public that ms
work will be done in the most desirable style anu
he will spare no efforts that every order entrusted
Ia him will meet with the promptest dispatch.
Lxs- Goods for the establishment will also he
received at p. SELDNER'S Fancy and Millinery
Store, l5i King street. sep 6-e":m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

ETHEREAL OIL.-West's No. / Ethereal OIL
Il full supply just received and for sal. by
WILLIAM A. HART,
Druggist and Apothecary, log, King ST. cor Pitt
Sign Of the Golden Mortar. nov
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

~ FOR RENTING STORE, No SO, on
"a King, next to the y. W. corner Of Fairfax
strr.t JOHN WEST,
any IO-2awtf No. 4. North Fairfax street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

NEW MAP OF IIkGlNIA.--A new map OF
IN the State OF Virginia. handsomely mounted
on rolers--S0 by 40. Price only s..
nov 26 ROBERT BELL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

I AMPS, KEROSENE OIL. tc.-Just receiy-
i 4 cd a supply of pure liRped Kerosene or recti-
fed Coal Oil, also, Coal Oil Lamps, Wicks, DC, by
Dr. K. H. STABLEK,
nov 10 No 1875 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

HEAD OFFICE ioK I'M rNIrLpsIAtk,
No. 81 South Wud Hr,t. PhHaI,IDSy
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

oils! OILS! OILS'-W. b. Sperm Oil, W. b.
" Lard Oil, w. b. Whale Oil, Pure Strained
Oil, and Machinery and Tanners Oil, constantly
on hand and for sale low by
nov rs PEEL STEW EMS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

rHECKS, NOTES, DRAFTS, BILLS OF
~ LADING, &c, &C., engraved and lith"graph-
ed at short notice ROBERT BELL,
deep 81 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

CHEMICALS --Quinine: Citrate of Iron and
" Quinine; Chloroform; Strychnine; Acetate Of
Potash Iodine: Nitrate Of Silver; Iodide of Potas
stun; just received and for ssleby
JAS. ENTWISLE, JR., Apothecury,
nov o. "a King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

TOLMANS ENGLISH MUSTARD; Castor
" Oil; CASTLE Soap; Oil Cubebs: White Wax
Cream of Tartar; Oil Cemon; Chrome Green; Blue
Stone; Camphor; Spanish Brown; Seneca Snake
Root; Corks for Oyster Cans; Propylamine; just
received and for sale by
JAS. ENTWISLE. JR.. Apothecary,
dec "a King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

TE ROSENE OF COAL OLA fresh and
IN superior article, for sale by
JAS. ENTWISLE, JR.. Apothecsry,
dec 3 ~ King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

DARAFINE CANDLES, equal in beauty and
il brilliancy to the best Wax Candles, received
aud for sale by nov 90 II. COOK 4 CO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-12-07

DURNETTS COCAINE for the Hair, just re-
Id ceived, and for sale by
J. K. PIERPOINT. No LIZ,
nov II $. Z. cor. Of King and Wash sta.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01
doltstparS tbe Gourse of empire tatts its dolap.'
ST. CIARIES CITY Floyd

pushing on toward the Pacific-thc
kcokuk road is expected soon to com
mence working up the valley of the
Des Moincs river. The Dubuque &
Pacific will touch the Cedar River at
Cedar Falls next season, and is sure
soon to have branch extending up
that river to connect with St. Paul
The McGregor 4 Missouri River Road
is in progress of construction, and
sooner or later is certain to span the
State from east to west. The immense
value of all these railroads to our
State no man can estimate.
Fourthly, the crops of this year are
likely to relieve the State entirely from
the incubus of individual indebted
ness. Iowa can produce more to the
acre than can any State of the Union,
and we hesitate not to say that twice
as much land is under cultivation this
year as was ever sown and planted
before.
In the next place, there arc thous-
ands and thousands of acres of first
rate lands which may now be had at
very low figures by those who will
settle on them. Owned by men who
have more than they can cultivate,
and who are tired to death of land
speculation, they can be had for less
than their real value. Moreover, town
property is low everywhere. We
need mechanics, and will need them
more than ever, next year not SO
much to build up towns, rs to 6uiid mp
the c0untry 1t is astonishing how
many farmers purpose building the
coming year.
These considerations, we think, are
sufficient to show that our State is
now the place to come to. If gen
orally known, in the older, tax-riddcn
States, they would doubtless bring
within our borders thousands who
would here find peace, plenty and
The increase of our popu-
lation, last year, was about thirty
per cent. We believe it will be, and
ought to be, twice that the coming
year.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01
poetrn.
HOMELY NAMES.

Pride can't endure n homcly name
In fable, song or story,
The hero it would crown with fame.
la classic namc must glory
Woman there's no such word in prose.
But ladies all, pride teaches;
There are no boys, save in long clothes
And gentlemen all in hrccchcs.
There are no fathers pa 5 the rage.
Nor mothers are more plenty
Reflects are frequent under age
And ma am scllcS three times twenty.
Nor are there preachers now-but age
Makes ID. ID. 5 youths are pastors
The pulpit, like a trickster stage,
Is wheeled about "n CastOrs.
The lawyers gone no! So his bill,
But c"unscllurs are swarming;
Nj. u. 5 are surgeons while they Kill,
Mere doctors when they re star ,ing.
No mecting-houscs in our day.
No clerks now read the psGtltcr.
Nine Christians out Of ton ne 81 pray.
The tenth deserves a halter
Then, why discard tho4, homcly names
Those homcly names once common.
Which grandsIr,S used in golden times,
When virtue rank Il Ger maInmun!
For surely words can be more meet,
Than woman, father. brother
Oh, sure there none. that half So sweet
KS muthcr-dctr, dear mother
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01

School DECIsIoN-Hon. +. II. Ben
ton, Secretary of the School Board,
has decided that when sub-distrct is
created from parts of two or more
townships, the township district in
which the School House of said sub
district is located, has exclusive juris-
diction over the whole of said sub
district for all school purposes, includ-
ing taxation, school elections, and dis
tribution Of school moneys, without
regard to the township line. D46uque
Times.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01
A Good Joke.

Not long ago-no matter how long
not far from hcrc-no matter how far
an individual who felt as if it would
do him good to join the Good Templars,
very wisely concluded to do so. He
determined not to let his wife know
anything about it, until after he had
been admitted to the order, and so he
quietly applied for admission, was
elected, and the night fixed for his
initiation. So far, SO good. But his
wife "smclt mice" And when did
a woman's wit fail her? Is not the
answer written in all our history, from
the day our Mother Eve fell in Para
disc up to now?
But he kept mum and she kept
mumer-he happy in blissful igno-
rance of his wife's knowledge, and she
laughing in her sleeves to think how
easy men are cheated. The night
came at last and so our hero present
ed himself at the antc-room, and was
admitted. His astonshmeat can bet.
ter be imagined than described when
the first voice to welcome him, pas Hat
Of his o,cn dear ard thrice happy rife
Of course he was very much aston
ished and blushed considerably, as al
most any body would do under simi
lar circumstances, but the friendly
greeting of kind companions reas
surcd him, and he is now within the
pale Of safety where there is no de
sire to look upon the wine when i
giveth its color in the cup to sting
like an adder.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01
stlrnti6t.
GEOLOGY.

TG1eut Remdris en- n, Gnoiogg Of he NortL,rssf
end the rctn,o'ts q III, tor,a1'iyis to those Of The
East,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01

Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, the telegraph
hero, attended the Williams College
Commencement recently, and was
added to the list of those who re
ccivcd the honorary degree of Master
of Arts.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01

"Old DR.. JAMES," the retired ply
sician,' is letting the balance Of his
sands run out in England, and adver-
tiscs regularly in the London Times
and other papers, as willing to com
municate for stamps.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01

At late meeting of the Scottish
Mcsmeric Association, the audience
were informed, that :" If man wishes
to avoid slccpless nights, he must lie
with his head due North" But if a
citizen Of the extreme South were
every night TO point his head to the
North, wouldn't he be in danger of be-
ing mobbcd as an aJoiitio,lit
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01

+ For a more full exposition of these views,
ce introduction to the third volume Palaon,
oloay Of New York.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-01

4 young Tennessee girl recently
married stranger, alleging that she
should have plenty of time to become
acquainted with him afterwards.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15
The Canvass.

y list of appointments for Mr.. kirkwood to
address the people of this State at various
points will be published in few days. The
canvass on the stump will commence about
the LIST of August. Gen. Dodge has been
invited by the Republican Central Committee
to accompany Mr.. Kirkwool throughout the
canvass, but no response has as yet been
received from him. Indeed, il is not vet
known whether the General will accept the
nomination. lie reached Iowa only last Sat
urday, and has not yet had an opportunity to
consult with his friends, many Of whom, we
understand, will urge him to decline running
for Governor, regarding his chances as hope
less. 1t is already whispered that he will
withdraw, and that the Democratic Central
Committee will place Maturin L. Fisher on
the track, whom they prefer to sacrifice at
this time. Gen.. Dodge is not the man to
meet Mr.. kirkwood on the stump, and his
friends we'll know it hence their trepidation
and efforts to save him from an inglorious
defeat. If he is kept on the track, we have
no doubt some excuse will be concocted for
keeping him off the stump. He dare not
confront Mr.. kirkwood in presence of the
people. Mark our prediction
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15
For the Journal. I
For the Journal
Principles and Advantages of
the Iowa Farmers College.

Principles and Advantages of
the Iowa Farmers College.
1st Our State is pre-eminently an agri.
cultural country, and hence the greater ne
cessity Tor agricultural knowledge.
ID. Our State is new and comparatively
poor, and but few, who would be glad to
send their sons to High School, have tn e
means to spare to 10 so. The tuition of
this school is to be forever free, and the
boys will all be compelled to work few
hours each day, enough to pay about half
their board thus making it of less expense
to boil, the State and the scholar than any
other school.
81. Regular daily exercise is indispensi-
bic to health. 1t is great detriment to the
health Of young man to take him from
hard labor of the farm or shop, and set him
down at school. Backward in his studies.
and ambitious to keep up with his class, his
great change of habit ruins his health.
4lh. by manual labor, and vigorous health
of body, the student learns faster.
9Th. By the three or four hours labor
upon the Farm, thu student acquires the
most approved practical knowledge Of the
cultivation Of the earth, and ell the variety
of products suited to this climate, a knoaol-
edge second in importance only to that o.
The wriiten language Of our mother tongue
in the omission of which, most of oul
oduca' ional men have made wide mistake
9th 1t is expected to give most thor.
ough instruction in all the Natural Sciences
aud especially the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, ilf all their immense variety
and thereby acquire knowledge of raising
fruits, crops, forests and animals, ard tt
remedy the diseases and the defects of thu
same by actual practice upon the Expert
mental Farm.
7th. The graduates of this school will be
qualified for the mechanic ssbop or the farm
or any other business either public or pri
vate, except it may be the learned profes
sions, and these studies are indispensable t,
them. They only need to add other studio
to them.
9Th. The United States government ap
propriates annually from $4,000 to 800,
900 for agricultural purposes. This is fa
more useful than many millions otherwise
spent. A powerful effort will be made mex
session of Congress to establish an Agri
cultural Bureau, with Secretary. 1t now
becomes the duty Of each State to open ar
Experimental Farm, to receive, plant, cult
vate and report to the Secretary of Agricul'
ture, those valuable seeds, plants and ami
mails, which are gathered from all nation
of the earth, and to return to that Office,
portion of those valuable seeds and thu
to cooperate with the national government
IN encouraging and sustaining the most i'm
portant and valuable Qhough much neglec
ted) interest of our country.
SUEL FOSTER.
| fro BIZ CONTINUED
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15
CAMPAIGN SuBscRrBERs.-Per not nov

CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIBERS not now
subscribers to the Weekly Journal, who may
wish to receive it during the election campaign
in this State, are notified that We will send it
to them from August LIST to December LIST
four months-for Fifty Cents, payable in
advance. This will enable them to keep
posted in matters Of interest during the
canvass, and also give them the result of the
election.
The Daily Journal will be furnished during
the same period for One Dollar and Half
We hope number of the citizens Of Wilton,
Moscow, Atalissa, West Liberty, and other
points on the railroad, will accept this
arrangement.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

w Mr.. S. 9. Adams, of this city, who
has just returned from visit to Henry
county. ILL.,, informs us that on Saturday last
twelve p' isoners escaped from the Jail at
Cambridge. About $50 citizens, however,
started in pursuit and arrested all except
one, who eluled their vigilance. There was
mucL excitement in the village in conse-
quence of the affair. The prisoners effected
their escape by cutting through the focr
with knives which had been taken secretly
to them by visitors. Mr.. Adams also in
forms US that the crops in the country
through which he passed promise an abund-
ant yield. Harvesting has already COM
menced, and wheat is found to be only slight.
ly affected with rust in some places. Corn
promises to yield at least one fourth more
than at any previous season.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

IMPORTING WHEAY.-Alargecargo Of wheat
has Just arrived at New York from France
1t brought ten cents more per bushel than
western wheat, realizing handsome profit for
the importers. The importation of grain from
Europe at this time rather tends to dissipate
the idea that the war would create demand
for breadstuffa from this side of the water.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

How 1T Works. French editor
gives the followsng amusing descrip-
ton Of the manner in which ADVERTISE
ments work out their glorious effects in
stimulating trade: The first time q
man sees an advertisement he takes no
notice Of it. The second time he looks
at the name; the third time he looks
at the price; the fourth time he reads
it; the fifth time he speaks Of it to his
wife, and the sixth time he goes and
buys.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15
| CHIvALRoUs DEMocRAr.-The Mis-.

A CmvALRous DEMOCRAT. The Missis
sippi papers report Senator Brown, who was
barbecued, the other day, and made speech,
TO have spoken in extremely contemptuous
terms of the Democratic party. The Senator
who caused the debate in the Senate on the
23d of February last, by his determination to
havc such an understanding that he would no
longer cheat nor be cheated, said that the
Democratic party was being abolitionized
1t refused, he said to acknowledge the duty
"of Congress to protect slavery in the Terrific
ries. He proclaimed that the only hope of
the Southern Democracy was to make a fight
IN the Charleston Convention-to 90 there
determined to have their views incorporated
in the creed Of the party, or burst the concern
np in row. lie had no doubt, as they had
heretofore controlled the party On all great
questions, that the Northern Free. Soil element
would yield in graceful submission again. If
it did not, why then apply the torch to the
great temple Of Democracy, and slow the
concern to finders Rather than see the
party destroyed, the North, which didn't care
for principle, would allow anything to be
anterpolated into the creed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

~The Memphis Avalanche says that
mo Democrat, who has the spirit of Sepoy,
can read Mr.. Douglas letter without feeling
that it is an indignity offered him and his
party-an attempt at dictation, which be is
bound by every principle Of personal and
political independence ospurn with contempt,
and resist BY every means in his power"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

EADs' CAsE.-The case of the State againet
Doctor Eads, for defalcation, was to have been
tried at the late session of the District Court
at Fort Madison; but it was again postponed,
as we learn, at the request of the States
Attorney. The counsel of Eads wanted to 60
to trial.-Rnoruils Standard.
ave learn" that the case was not postponed
TAT the request of the States Attorney"
The Attorney, General, at his own expense,
went to Fort Madison, and spent several days
there, trying to bring the case to trial, but it
was not reached, and was consequently post
poned. The States Attorney" was anxious
to have the case tried. These are facts. In
the meantime, we notice that the notorious
Eads is in full fellowship with his party,
taking prominent part in its recent State
Convention. With Eads mounted on their
shoulders, the leaders of the Africanized DEM
ocracy are crying out ''extravagance and cor
ruptionr We venture to say that inconsist-
'ency, more shallow and shameless, was never
exhibited to the gaze of an outraged and
plundered people. Oskaloosa Herald.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

BALLOT STUFFING IN A CONVENTION. is
a noticeable fact that, in the Maine Democratic
Convention, when the balloting for Charleston
Delegates commenced, there were not over
five hundred delegates present. The ballot
box, nevertheless, was found to contain at the
close over eleven hundred ballots! Truly,
harmonious Democracy is the same every
where" from Bangor, in Maine, to Oxford
and Kickapoo, in Kansas.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

During the next fall season, monument
twenty-five feet in height, of pure white mar
BILE, will be erected in Ashland Square,
Baltimore, in memory Of wells and and Mcco-
eral Ross, commander of the British forces
at the battle of North Point, but who were
Immediately shot themselves, in consequence
of the deed.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

EAre you sick, or have you friends
that are sick2 Then read Dr.. kasterlys
advertisement in another column of this
paper and 60 to the agent in this place and
obtain the medicines recommended for the
complaint. We allade to Dr.. Easterly'a
Iodine and Sarsaparilla. Dr.. Carter Cough
Balsa,n. DR.. Easterly's Fever and Ague
Killer. DR.. Bakers Specific and DR.. Hoop.
er's Female Cordial. These medicines have
been thoroughly tested in tho various forma
of disease tor which they are recommended
and can be confidently recommended a. the
most efticaoious remedies known. They
are very popular anil are selling: rapidly in
nearly every city and town in the United
States.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

The GuBERNAroRIAL CANDIDATES MEEr.-
Hon. S. j. Kirkwood, who called on us yes
terday, informs US that he made the acquai,,,
lance of Gen. Dodge at Burlington. on Monday
last. The General arrived at that place from
Washington on Saturday, it being his arst
appearance in the State since his return from
Spain. Mr.. Kirkwood speaks in compliment
ary terms ofhis competitors appearance and
manners. 18Th.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-15

The second trial Of Charles Cook, for the
murder of Kate Bureau, closed at Cincin-
natl on the I'd inst He was convicted of
m anslaughter, and was sentenced to the
,penitentiary for term of ten years. At
his first trial he was convicted of murder in
the second degree, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life. A new trial was grant
ed by the Supreme Court and every effort
was made to save the young man from incar-
oeration in the penitentiary. But notwith,
standing be is respectfully connected and his
victim was courtesan, the Jury were not
disposed to screen him from merited justice.