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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

RAILROAD CAR SPRSGs.--A mode Of arranging
cylindrical, conical, spiral railroad car springs, in
groups placed in double lines vertically, so a. to pos
the length of action which two series OF the
springs would have if placed one above the other,
while the space they occupy much less, has recent
ly been patented in England. The springs are AZ
ranged in sets Of four more, which suspended
in brackets strrups and secured at their ends in
.ots made in the horns that receive the journals of
the running wheels.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

ss cut with fnI sss.h fve-fee. en-. M.rny & Woods
Reaney. II was fre tght to see the bundles drop
ping Gom the reaper a. isst as two could stack
ITEM.
"a Committee, Appointed by the State Society. Of
which ii, ". Dsight, esq, is Chsirman, was in a.
tenosuce 10 report 10 the Society. We understand that
they &c well "a the farmers, were entirely Satisfied
with is operstions. To our knowledge several certi-
cstes were written and handed 70 Mr.. Sherwood"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

NEW REyoLvER.-A novel six. barrel pistol, In
vented and patented by John Wslch, fires twelve
shots without reosding, two charges being placed,
one above the other, in each barrel, and nipple and
cap connecting with each charge. This Of course
economies weight and space in the breech, which is
very desirable in pocket pistol and should it prove
az accurate and in its operation as the single
charge barrels, will be valuable improvement
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

A NOVELTY MIR John w. Kingman Of n. II. and
Mr. Samuel W. Lowe Of Pennsylvania have each
patented Machines for Milking Cows" As they
both work on the same principle, one description will
give general idea Of their construction and operation
Flexible ,ubes are slipped over the teats of each
COW, and terminate in main pipe, to which is ~
tacbed pump.
In their operation, the air Is exhausted, when it 10
alleged that the milk will flow from all the udders
through the main pipe TO suitable receptacle thus
milking fifty hundred cows in less time than one
by the hand process.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

MACHINE FOR BINDING GRAIN.-Several patents
have been granted within few years for grain bind
.rs zone of which has heretofore proved successful
Next to the steam plow, there is probably no new
agricultural implement SO much desired by wheat
growers as al efficient implement of this Sort Since
the introduction Of barvesters there hundreds OF
farm ers AZ the West who would cultivate twice the
number Of acres il possible TO get the grain
bound their present fields being only limited by the
pumb. of hands that can probably be procured during
the bpsv harvest We have received from Mr.. \.
L. Goss Of Auburn the following letter, announcing
thst euch machine is al length cbtsined. He says:
"pudte our harve,t We have been much interested
10 a machine for binding gram invented by me-
chsnic Of our city, and put in operation ior the nst
tine this season. The machine was a. the S's'e rs'
at Syracuse Ia; Fall, and noticed BY your CORES
popdert. -
tbs avery simple one weighing only aoont %
pounds, and is attached 10 the gram Doa'd OF 'he
ct. IL throws ennealed wire around escn gave a.
II is formed the grain board, twisting the WIG aua
cutting off, the bundle falling upon the ground bound
IL has been tested through our Winter and Sprhg'
wheat harvest and al several public trials 10 the ca
tire satisfaction Of all This machine does sway WIN
the only laboIouS work left in our harvess since the
introduction OF respers; the binding requiring the same
amount of help ss was required 10 cradle the gran.
"0n Thursday, the llti ult., we had large pubhc
trial on the farm Of the Rev. L. Porter near Auburn
some three hundred Of our most substantial farmers
we're present among whom noticed Col. j. VI. Sher-
wood, ex. President Of the State Society; the Hon.
VIM. Paine, our representative IN the Legislature
Judge Sheldon j. J. Thomas editor Of The Country
GeEtiemaa Maior John S. Clark OF Meniz one of our
lx'gest farmers Mr.. Sherwood operated the Binder.
The grain was bound firmly ard hsrdsoney a. fas;
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

A NEW VIsIiLAIoR-A correspondent from Mid
defelc CT, whites that he has discovered and ap
piled new plan for ventilstipg rooms warmed by
''toves, which Is &c foIl5ws: Appl, vertical pipe TO
the frort of the chimney, into which the lower end
should enter below the stove pipe sni the upper end
approach within q few inches Of the ceiling. 10 it,
operation, The foul cir from the top Of the room shes
down and into the chimney, to FIJI partial vacuum
occasioDed by the draft from the stoveppe above.
BY applying dsuper to the pipe, its capacity may
be adjusted as desired. Thi, makes cheap, trust
worthy ventator, end is easily applied.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08

Words spelled with n by Worcester, and one By
Webster; a. traveller, marvellous duelipg, SC.
The correspondent Of TIE TaIEUNE remarks tbs
concerning such words principle Is needed winch
every primary sshoOlboy can understand and apply
" ard which vii bansh all doubt and uncertainty
" sIisisg from this vexstiOus anomaly. Webster has
" such a rule-ipjicsted by ao.logy and good usage
" and follo,-s 4 sfricrly-whieh Is this:
"' Prin Itives ending With single consonant. pre-
ceded by SIN e vowel aud accented he last sytsd
be double the hnal rant, control, controller
refer reie.rng wher no; accsled tie last liable
they do not double the final AMI as bed. tere
iXg worship, worshiping.
Notx;thsIiilg this rule, and the assertion that
Webe;er "Jo.0rs Z Hrlef.y these words, n utter
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
CITY, COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY,
at the lo5th meridian, an elevation of
6OUD foot iy attained

at the l05th meridian, an elevation Of
5000 feet is attained.
The prairie is designated as fiat"
or rolling its surface in the one
case being nearly level, and in the
other, gently undulating The fiat
prairie is found chiefly south and west
of Lake Michigan, on the head-waters
of the Illinois and Wabash rivers In
other districts the rolling prairie great
ly predominates over the Hat, cs-
pecially in Iowa, where there are but
few tracts of any extent, which are
not more or less undulating Even in
the rolling prairie the irregularities
of the surface are but tritling in
amount, compared with the vast ex-
tent which can be taken in at one
view (; SO that it often happens that a
region which, seen from distance,
appears to be almost dead level, is,
in reality, furrowed by broad depres-
sions, which give a wavelike charac-
ter to its surface. Thus, the traveller
crossing the prairie in any direction,
except along its watershed, will be
surprised to find himself constantly as
ccnding and descending, although on
ly hills of moderate elevation. The
depth of these deprcssions below the
mean level of the prairie may fire.
quentiy be as much as so feet but it
does not often greatly exceed that
amount, without the drainage becom-
ing sufficient to convert the water,
which collects in them, into running
stream. The " swales or sloughs"
of the prairie, as these depressions
are called, are wet and marshy except
in the dry season 4; and, i'll the spring
and autumn make the roads almost
impossible.
The prairies are covered with a
dense vegetation Of grass and herba'
ceous plants, to the almost entire ex
clusion of trees, which occur only un
der peculiar circumstances of moisture
and soil, in scattered groups, called
groves, or along the larger streams,
or, occasionally, on low rocky ridges
which sometimes are met with. This
growth of timber in the river bottoms
does not entirely disappear until we
reach the border of the "plains,'
about in the longitude of 9s0 west OF
Greenwich. In the swales or depres
sions, which are comparatively humid
the grass grows very tall and rank
and the higher and drier the prairie
the finer its growth, and more dense
and closely interviewer the sod
Among the grasses of the prairie Is
interspcrsed a great variety Of flower
ing plants, which bloom in constan
succession from spring to autumn, ant
lend a peculiar charm to the land
scape, giving beauty and variety t.
what might, otherwise, be called ;
monotonouS scene.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
Treasury Eating.

Extraordinary developments are
leaking out with regard to how the
Treasury is plundered through the
Utah army contracts. A short time
since the mercantile firm of Gilbert,
Morish & Martin, OF Salt Lake, offered
to furnish the Government with flour
for the year, delivered in Utah at ten
dollars per hundred. This offer was
rejected, and now it is said that a
contract was made directly afterwards
with the Holidays. at twenty-ei9ht
dollars and sixty cents. Thus hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are put
into the pockets Of speculators-the
friends of the war department. The
average daily consumption of -four by
the camp, is not less than 5000 lbs.
making the annual consumption about
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
GARIBALpI-ONE OF HIS MODEL Proc

GARIBALpI-ONE OF HIS MODEL Proc
LAMArIoNs.-The following is adescrip-
tion of Garibaldi, given in commu.
nication from Lombardy:
He is of lofty stature, broad
shouldered, the head of lion on the
shoulders of an athlete. His long,
black, grizzly, uncombed beard his
eyes flashing with lightning glance |;
his black felt hat ornamented with
dark plumes his scarlet mantle tied
around his throat, present to you q
parsonage of no ordinary stamp. !
am everywhere assured that he is a
gentleman, gallant to ladies, severe
to men, and more severe to himself,
sober to excess, animated and cold at
the same time. He inspires into his
little army a confidence only equalled
by the terror he inspires in his ene-
mics. Ever the foremost in the fight,
urging his charger into the thickest
battalions, dismounting now to seize
musket, sharing with the meanest
follower the labors of the march, he
gives an evidence alike Of courage
and coolncss which astonishes ALL"
1t adds that he issued the following
address to his soldiers
"My children you are one to 1--WE
Before you is death behind the mus
kets of your comarades, who will
shoot like a dog the first who retreats
] h,x taE b
them. Let US die what matters it
Italy must be free. Behold your re-
al recompense."
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
FASHIONABLE WOMEN.

Fashion kills more women than toll
or sorrow Obedience to fashion is 4
greater transgrcssion of the laws of
woman's nature, Il greater injury to
her physical aud mental constitution,
than the hardships of poverty and
neglect. The slave woman at her
task will live and grow old, and see
two or three generations of her mis-
trcsscs pass away.
The washer-woman, with scarcely a
ray of hope to cheer her in her tolls,
will live 10 sec her fashionable sisters
maid is hearty and strong when the
lady has to be nurscd like a sick baby
1t is a sad truth that fashionable
pampcrcd women are almost worth
less for all the ends of human life
They have little force of character
they have still less power of mora
will, and quite as little physical ener
gics.
They live for no purpose they ac
compish no worthy ends they ar,
only doll forms in the hands of milli
ncrs and servants, to be dressed anc
fed to order. They dress nobody ant
save nobody. They write no books
they set no rich example of virtue
and womanly life. If they rear chill
dren, servants and nurses do it all
save to give them birth And whel
reared, what are they? What do the.
amount to but weaker scions of tn
old stock ? Whoever heard of fast
ionable woman exhibiting any powe
of mind for which it became eminent
Read the biographies of great me
and women, who had about as littl
to do with fashions as with the chang
ing clouds.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
Mistellanp.
The Connecticut River Valley.
By A. ID. y. HILDREfII.


Tourists and essayists have made
classic almost every important section
of our loved country, and | have often
wondered that the valley of the Con-
necticut river should have attracted
SO little notice. The Hudson and its
Highlands have been celebrated again
and again, in prose and verse. The
rivers of Maine, with their broken
and picturesque scenery the Niaga-
ra, with its thunder-toned cataract !;
the great Mississippi, with its forest
clad lands and turbid waters all
have been celebrated by poets and
ravellers,-written about and talked
over a thousand times,-while the
Connecticut is scarcely mentioned :
and yet how beautiful it is how un-
like almost every other stream in its
quiet and home like scenery Every
thing about it breathes peace, plenty,
contentment, happiness, beauty.
Some there are, who affect to see
nothing worthy their admiration which
is American. They must needs cross
the broad Atlantic's wave, and repair
to the vine-clad fields of sunny Italy
and an excursion upon the Danube ol
a voyage down the Rhine, must be
had, before anything beautiful, and
grand, and sublime, can be witnessed
True, there is beauty in all these, bu'
am so mush of an American as t.
believe that my own land surpasse.
them all, and that the Connecticut val
lev will not suffer in the comparison.
The Rhine is wild and picturesque
and the histories of thousand years
have hallowed its banks, but its cur
rent is narrow and broken by rapids
and it finds an ignominious grave il
the sands of Holland. The Danube j
sublime, where the Syrian mountain
bend down, as if in homage to it
tide but it grows stagnant in tn
marshes of Servia, and its divide
flood goes sluggishly on to mingl
with the stormy Euxine. But the ri'
ers of American have grand, orig
nal beauty Our Connecticut is maj
tied with garb of green unshorn foI
est, is girded about with mountain
! whose far SUBMITS brighten in til
ether air" OF is environed with parks
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
Qottrp.
For the ST. Charles City lntelIigencer,
FLORA.
BY FLORENCE PERCY

In by gone days knew a child,
merry little maiden
With heart all pure and undeflied,
With joy and sunshine laden
Her eyes were bright with rnirth's gay light,
Undimmcd by care or sadness
She seemed laughing fairy sprite,
Forever full of gladness -
The namcsske of the FlOwery Queen,
Whose smile seemed beaming DER her,
The fairest foweret ever seen--
My own, my cherished Flora
When last clasped her form, and breathed
last fond fearful blessing.
And felt her soft arms round me wreathed,
So lovingly caressing,
Her fourth bright spring, with magic powers
Her infant form had rounded,
And oped with lavish hand the flowers
Oor which her bright feet bounded
-Four crcng suns had scattered down
Their beaming brightness Ger her
Touching her golden curls with brown
My lovely little Flora
Her voice was ever gushing clear,
III some WHd Joyous chorus
Like music which we sometimes hear
When slumber's wand waves DER us;
And when in some soft thrilling lay,
Her liquid tones were ringing
You might have turned your eyes away,
And fancied seraphs singing
And peace and love, with sl,eltering wings,
We're ever lowering DER her
Shielding her heart from sinful things
Sweet, smiling stainless Flora!
Oh often when DER earth rcpoSed
The shadowy-w wing Of even,
I've seen her kucel with eyeliis closed,
And caspcd hands raised 10 heaven,
And breathe our Saviour's humble prayer,
In accents soft and iowly,
Fresh from heart all warm and fair
siniess, and pure, and holy
And as the moons sweet glimmerings
Shonc through the lattice o'er her,
An angel who had lost her wings
See seemed--my gentle Flora
And as the soul -subduing prayer
Was murmuringly ascending,
Mchought the hlshcd aid listening air
With holy thoughts seemed blending;
A smile Of almost heavenly grace
Seemed DER her features beamng,
And giving to her bcauteous face
bright angelic seeming
And gentle smiles Of angels bright
Seemed softly resting DER her,
Bathing her upturned brow in light
Nv own fond trusting Flora,
And when, with heart in meekness bowed,
Eve laid her on the pillow
An angel resting on cloud,
blossom on a blow,--
Oh, have wished that could be
As free from sin and sorruw--
Could sink 10 sleep 81 peacefully,
And wake to joy to MORROW
But oh, more ferventy prayed
That He, who watches DER her,
Might keep her heart from sorrow's shade
And bless my darling Flora
And now though many weary mile
Parts me from her caresscS,
In dreams see her happy smile,
And twinc her siken tresses--
list to her Joyous melodies,
So full of mrth and gladncss,
And gaze into her laughing eyes,
Forgetting all my sadness
Oh, may sweet peace and holy love
Forever hover DER her,
And guard from I'll my gentle dove,
Ny own, my cherished Flora
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

Some time ago there was dancing
party cup north,' where most of the
ladies present bad little babies, whose
noisy pervcrsity required too much
attention to permit the mothers to en-
Joy the dance. A number of gallant
young men volunteered to watch the
young ones while the parents indulg-
ed in a breakdown" No sooner had
the women left the babies in charge
of the mischievous boys, than they
stripped the infants, changing their
clothes, giving to one the apparel of
another The dance over, it was time
to go home, and the mothers took
each baby, in the dress of her own,
and started, some to their homes, ten
or fifteen miles oifAend were far on
their way before daylight. But the
day following there was prodigious
row in that settlement mothers dis
covered that a single day had changed
the sex of their babes observation
disclosed startling physiological phe-
nomcna, and then commenced some
of the tallest female pedestrianism /;
living miles apart, it required two
days to unmiX the babies, and as
many months to restore the women to
their natural sweet dispositions. To
this day it is unsafe for any of the
baby mixers to venture within the
neighborhood.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

HoME.-A mans house should be on
the hilltop of cheerfulness and sereni-
ty, SO high that no shadows rest on it,
and where the morning comes 50 ear
ly, and the evening tarres as late, as
those of other men. He is to be pitied
whose house is in some valley of grief
between the hills, with the longest
night and shortest day. Home should
be the centre Of joy, equatorial and
tropical.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

The Vermont papers state that the
banner belongs To Hardwick for maxi
ing the most maple sugar this season.
That town made $4,000 pounds. Or
leans county boasts of 10 farmers that
have made 25 900 lbs Hardwick has
25 farmers that have made IS, 600 lbs,
and two farmers in the same town
have made 1900 lbs,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

How You May KNOW Coon Fathers
1t is a good sign and true when
you see amid a group of boys one
dart from the rest, and, tossing his
arms above his head, say" There's my
father :" as he runs to meet him. You
may be sure, no matter what bust
ness soever, that man may have, that
that there is spot in his heart still
fresh and green, which the cares OF
the world have no power to blight
"There's my father.' With what a
pretty pride the little fellow shouts
this. He must indeed be brute
whose fatherly heart does not swell
with love, whose eyes do not glis
ten, who does not at such a momen!
feel amply repaid for that days toll
no matter how wearisome. After all,
love is the only thing worth having
in this world. They who stand over
new-made graves tell us so. Fame,
money, and ambition dwindle into
nothing, beside the white, calm brow
of death, though God knows it may
be the youngling of the flock whose
lips have never even learned to sylla
BILE our names.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
NUMBER 20.
1000, 900 pounds. This would amount
to $579, 900.

1000, 900 pounds. This would amount
to $4,000.
Now, when it is remembered that
Messrs. Gilbert, Morish & Martin
offered to furnish the supply Of
-four at $40 per 100 pounds, and that
Mr.. j. Little agreed to take the same
contract for 81, so per 100 pounds, is
it not strange that Messrs. Holiday
and Martin have been awarded this
contract at $2s,6O per 100 pounds
Does it not look like collusion on the
part of the Secretary of War?
And this is by no means the worst
feature of the case. For says
correspondent, the quality of -four
manufactured in this Territory is of
the poorest description, and would
pass for "sweepings" at any market
in the States"
1t appears that since the arrival Of
the contractors (Messrs. Holiday and
Martini in the Territory, they have
been contracting for this sort of flour,
at from S. to s. per 100 pounds.
Were they to pay So per hundred for
all they buy, it would only require an
outlay of sl60,00O to complete their
contract with the Government, leaving
them the snug little sum of four hun.
dred and ttceire thousand dollars. Now
if, as this correspondent thinks to be
correct, there are four partners in this
arrangement, they will realize ono
hundred thousand dollars each and be
at no trouble or risk. The entire
wages Of the men employed in the Q.
NJ. Department for whole year,
would not amount to one-half the sum
squandered ON this flour contract.
To what purpose do we hear this
cry about retrenchment in the expen-
ditures of the government, while heads
Of departments are thus permitted to
lavish upon contractors hundreds of
thousands of the peoples money? We
shall not be surprised to learn, when
the expenses Of sending out the army
to Utah to make peace with Brigham
Young are footed up, that the profits
of spectators connected with the ex-
pedition exceed by thousands Of dol.
lars all its other expenses.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
HILDRETH Il CARVER,
General Land Agents,

ST. CHARLES CITY, FLOYD CO, ,..... IOWA,
Will attend to buying, selling and selecting
ands on Commission, &c. Town Lots bought
and sold, money loaned, and the business Of
conveyancing and payment Of Taxes promptly
attended to. Friends at the East, as well as in
this State, are requested to make application
to our agency. Satisfactory references given
if required.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

"Long in its shade shall chiidrens children come
And welcome earth's poor wanderers 10 a home
Long shall Il i've, and every blast defy,
Till times last whrlwnd sweeps the yaulied sky J
Bradford, y,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21
St. Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa

AGENTS INTEIIlGESCER:
aH.S. NJ PErTssGnI CO., Newspaper Advertising
Agents No 1le Nassau Street. New York and 10 state
Street, Boston
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

Business Cards Of i've lines less will be inserted in
this column for 500 per aunum For each additional
Hpe over five, one dollar will be charged.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-21

The land was theirs--this glorious land
With all It's wealth OF wood and streams
Their warriors strong Of heart and hand,
Their daug hters, beautiful as dreams.
when wearied al the thirsty noon,)
They knelt them where the spring glshed up,
To taste their Fathers blessed boon--
Unlike the white mans poison cup"