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The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-27

@S- William H. Fry gave lecture re-
Gently before the Mercantile Library Associa-
tion, on the City of New York, in that city.
1t was peculiar and very Aattering to the
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-27
THIS tTuesday) EVENING, December 81, will
be acted the much:admired play of t I'D aao
Fs >, MESALLIANCE; ,
''1 'I'THR TWO OUEENs.

NOTICE -Tradesman and others are cautioned
against furnishing any articles for the theater with
out q written order, signed By the Manager.
Theater, II now open for the reception OF guests.
Rooms can be obtained by the day or week, and
meals furnished at all hours. ftdiIEtltl
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-27

@A firm in New London, Conn, ars
doing q good business in manufacturing horse
nails by machinery and steam power. About
6feeen tuns day Of horse nails are used in
the United States. A.-.- AlLLl.
The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-27

WOODS THEATER.
THEATER.

The Manager takes great pleasure in announcing
an engagement, for limited number Of nights with
the great, qsa gssivsIed ~ srsism1s sism1ssUENpnpT ~
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
QuailS.

In many parts of the State people
arc in the habit of killing the qualls
as if they were of no account. 1t
was not till this year that they have
been seen much in this county, and
we earnestly hope the sportsmcn will
spare them. An agricultural writer
says
One of the prctticst of our Amcri-
can birds is the quail, and although
not very musical, its notes are clear,
thrilling and pleasant. With anything
like decent treatment, guails become
scmi-domcsticatcd, though never en-.
tircly so, and add not only in beauty,
but in real value to the farm for they
are not grain eaters, but immense in.
sect dcstroycrs and farmer should
no more permit quail to be destroyed
about his premises than he should his
domestic poultry-in fact, not as
much, for it may be necessary to kill
off the surplus, to eat or sell, to save
the expense of winter feeding. But
that is not the case with quails and
even should they increase to such ex
tent as to require Il little grain to sus
tain them through the deep SHOWS
they w:ch,y back all the cost of keep
ing M. spring. A flock of quail,
in y6A ssardcn or vine patch would
be the. most eflcctual remedy fol
striped bugs that could he applied
and then the remedy costs nothing.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

SENATOR BRoDERICK From the eulo-
gy of Col. Baker we learn that Sena-
tor Brodcrick was born in the District
of Columbia in 1919 he was Of Irish
descent, and Of obscure and respecta.
bic parentagc. He had little Of early
advantages, and never summoned to
his aid complete and finished educa-
ton. His boyhood, as indeed his ear
ly manhood, was passed in the city Of
New York, and the death of his
father early stimulated him to the cf-
forts which maintained his surviving
mother and brother, and served also
to fix and form his character even in
his boyhood. His love for his mother
was his first and most distinctive
trait of character, and when his broth.
cr died an early and sudden death, the
shock gave serious and reflective
cast to his habits and his thoughts,
which marked them to the last hour
of his life. His mother still lives in
the city of New York.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
OHIo.-Ohio proves to have given

OHIo.--Ohio proves to have given
a Republican majority for the candi-
dates for State Offices of Seventeen
Thousand, and chosen enough Repub-
lican members of the Legislature to
secure majority of Thirty-Nine on
Joint Ballot. The Cleveland Herald
says that the Democracy, in the hope
of re-electing Pugh as Z. S. Senator,
ran gangs of Irishmen into Cincin
natl to the number of five hundred
from ClereianM alone hut this attempt
to strengthen THAR outposts," proved
a failure, and Pugh will join that long
list of Lccomptonitcs who betrayed
their trusts and have been ostraciscd
by the People. The Ohio Legislature
elect will stand Senate, Republicans
25, Democrats 10; House, Republi.
cans "a, Democrats 40.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
Proclamation,
OFFICE OF COUNTY JUDGE) m
of ElnyI (nnnt,. Ct,t, - Z %

OFFICE OF COUNTY JUDGE
OF Floyd County, State of Iowa.
WHEREAS, at General Election held IN
the several Townships or Election Precincts,
IN said county, on the 18th day of October. a.,
ID. 1893, the question whether Swine shah
be permitted to run at large" was duly sub
mitted to the legal voters of said county, and,
whereas, it is found by the csuiyass of the
votes cast at said Election, upon the said ques-
ton, that a large majority Vi said votes cast
upon said question were cast against Swine
| running at large
NoW Therefore, Ia obedience TO the Laws of
Iowa upon that subject, hereby give notice,
that from ard after the expiration of eight
months from this 18th day OF October, A. d.
1889 the canvass Of said vote,-It shall be UNI
| lawful for Swine to run at large in the county
Of Floyd, and the provisions of Chapter 1873
| Of the Session Laws of 1886, entitled an act
amending Sec. ia, Of Chapter 10 Of the Code,
and also to regulate the same, Approved jan
uary 18th, 1857, shall be in force in said cOun-
ty, rs in said law provided in case where any
county had prior to the taking effect Of said
act, or has since such time, decided by ma
jority vote, in favor of restraining Swine and
Sheep from running ut large. -a-
- Given under my hand and the Seal
seal of said County, at st. Charles City.
Wv this 18th day of October, AID 1859.
DAVID RIPLEY,
43.i County Judge.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
Progress Of the Railroads.

We learn from Mr.. G. II. Mullarky
that ground was broken on the Cedar
Falls & Minnesota Railroad, at Cedar
City, last week, and that a small force
is actively engaged grading that part
Of the line. We also learn that Mr.
BradGock, at GAINESVILLE, will soon
commence on his contract. This in
telligence is certainly cheering, and
spe axis well for the energy of the mel
who have charge of the Company's
affairs. We look upon the completion
of this road as equal in Importance &c
the Western extension of the Dubuque
d Pacific Road, and when built to the
Northern line of the State, will prove
feeder to the Dubuque and Pacific
equal to the extension to Fort Dodge
While referring to this matter. We
will remark that there are good rea.
sons to hope that a contract to extend
the Dubuque & Pacific to Cedar Falls
will be made within two months, il
not sooner.
We also learn from Mr.. Mullarky
that the preliminary survey of the ST
Louis, Central Iowa 4 ST. Paul Rail.
road from Cedar Falls to Oskaloosa,
was completed last week.--Dubuque
Herald.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

Douglass chances for the Charles
ton nomination are growing small
by degrees and beautifully less" as
the time approaches for the convcn-
ton to meet. The whole number of
votes in that body will be COS neccs-
sary to choice 4O4, being two-thirds.
The South will be united against Doug
las with her $40 votes. Add to these,
New York 20, Pennsylvania 81, New
Jersey IA, Indiana 2G, California 8,
Oregon 6 Total, Ais against him, or
more than two-thirds. 1t is admitted
by the friends of Douglas that half of
the delegation from Maine are oppos.
ed to him and the Massachusetts
Democrats certainly are not pledged
to him.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

SEARCHING THE RECoRDs-Douglas
stated in his Cincinnati speech that
his great principle" (thc stump
speech in the belly of the Kansas Me-
braska billy conferred on the people Of
a Territory ohiic Territory, the right
to decide the slavery question for
themselves, and requested those who
doubted his statement to search tho
records and be convinced The cd
itor of the Constitution, the Demo-
cratic National organ, complied with
the invitation, and finds that Douglas,
as might be expected, asserted .
falschood-that instead of conccding
such grant of power to the people
of the Territories, he roted against tie
Chase amendment, which expressly pro-
vidcd that the people thereof, may
prohibit the existence Of slavery there.
i'm
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
John W. FOrney.


There is plan on foot to elect John
w. Forney for Clerk Of the L. S. House
of Representatives. OF course this
must be done with Republican votes,
and the effect will be to unite Forney
and the apt-Buchanan men of Penn
sylvauia with the Republicans Of that
State in the Presidential contest OF
1860. Under such an arrangement
most certainly Forney would he "a
good enough Morgan" for the Repub-
licans to carry Pennsylvania with, and
thus secure the election of Republl-
can President. Col. Forney, It'll said,
will not ask the Republican vote for
the Clerkship unles he is prepared to
unite cordially with them, not only in
the election of other officers of the
House, but in their general policy. A
correspondent of the New York Post,
in speaking Of this question, says:
"Mr. Forncy has no idea of running
as Republican candidate, and, at the
same time, using the influence Of his
position for Mr.. Douglas and the Dem
ocratic party. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Forney will support the nominee
Of the Charleston Convention only un'
der one contingency. G., that ii
adopts plain, unequivocal " Popular
Sovereignty platform. He will not
support Mr.. Douglas even without
this distinct avowal of principles. AS
there is not one chance in thousand
that the convention will do any such
thing, Mr.. Forney is morally sure to
be found in the canvass of 1860 in the
attitude Of opposition to the Demo
cratic party.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
The United States,
As DESCRIBED BY AN ENGLISHMAN.


A contemporary publishes the follow
ing as an extract from a new history
of the United States by an English
man:
Before I went to America l had
heard much of American natural
scenery confess was sadly disap-
pointed when | came to see it myself.
] have travcrscd the country from the
colonial dependence of Her Most Ora
cious Majesty, in Canada, to the Rocky
Mountains, and | saw nothing that
could be called worthy of the artists
or poets observation. 1t is true that
Canada has some charming scenery
which has been much improved by
British taste and art--thc natural con
sequences of the refinement and cult
walton of the inhabitants but when
ever one crosses into the States, the
country exhibits either wild forests or
naked prairics, both of which are
dangerous to travel through, in con-
sequence of the quantities of vora.
cious animals they contain. A distin,
guished member of the United States
Parliament informed me that rail
road train last year was attacked by a
drove of raccoons, while crossing a
prairie and every passenger destroy
ed. These raccoons are the terror OF
this wild country and have dcpopula
ted thousands of miles of its surface"
Absurd as this is, it is no more alb
surd than some other things which the
English press has published concern
ing the United States. a late Lon
don paper speaks of the State OF
Maine as having been coded to the
United States by the Ashburton trea.
~. An English lady, who showed her
self to be intelligent on general topics
asked an American what the cstab
lishcd religion of the States was. On
being informed there was no cstab
lishcd religion there, she exclaimed
Bless me ! thought the Mahomc
tan was the national religion"
English people have no idea of dis,
tances in this country, and look upon
Massachusetts, and Louisian, pretty
much as they do upon adjoining coun
ties "at 'ome." An American was
about to sail from London to New
York, and a lady, daughter of mem.
Der Of Parliament, asked him to take
charge of three packets and deliver
them with his own hand. One was
addressed to Buffalo, another to Mobile
and the third to St. Louis.
English tourists who come here tc
write book, cannot appreciate ouI
institutions, nor enter into sympathy
with the spirit Of the people. Pretty
much all they have found to write
about is about our splitting, our smok
ing, our hotels, our steamboats,, our
carriages, and other matters of cquaI
Importance. But this sort of thing is
passing away. Englishmen them
selves protest that it is now high
time that English tourists should be,
gin to impart some reliable informa'
ton touching this great country. The
English people are sadly deficient in
such information now.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
so in death its echoes will rcverbate
amid our mountains and valleys, until
truth and valor cease to appeal to the
| human heart.
His love of truth--too warm, too strong
For Hope or Fear TO chain or chill
His hate Of tyranny and wrong,
Burn in the breasts he kndcd, still.

human heart.
His love Of truth--too warm, too strong
For Hope or Fear to chain or chill
His hate Of tyranny and wrong
Burn in the breasts he kndlcd, still.
Good friend true hero hail and
farewell
Far and near the vast asscmblage,
wrought into sympathetic passion by
the words and aspect Of the gifted
orator, vainly cndeavored to repress
their emotions. Audible sobs arose
from beaving breasts, and tears coursed
down many q Drowned and manly
face. At the close, when Col. Baker
bid farewell to the gallant spirit"
and bent down towards the glass
which covered but yet revealed the
pallid features, his selfpossession en-
tirely forsook him, and with faltering
accents and agitatcd face he sank
down. Not an eye but was moist ;
not heart but shared with him his
deep emotions. An ominous silence
rcigned for more than a minute over
that vast concoursc, and then slowly
they began to move off, but not before
Col. Baker, at the request of friend,
had invited the citizens generally to
join in the funeral procession.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
Dissolution of Copartnership.

NOTICE IS hereoy given, that the Copart-
~ nership heretofore existing between An.
drew Sample and E. d. Woodbridge, under
the firm name of Sample & Woodbridge in the
milling, lumber and real estate business and
all other business in which they were engaged,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent An
drew Sample is alone authorized to. and will
attend to the settling up Of the business % said
firm.
Dated at Nashua, Chickasaw county, Iowa,
this 2lst day of October, A. ID. 1859.
ANDREW SAMPLE.
EN0CH ID. WOODBRIDGE
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
Total. 1929
Repub. majority in 70 counties, 1918.

Repub. majority in % counties, 1918.
The next General Assembly of Iowa
will consist of ~ Senators and sc
Representatives. OF the Senators
fourteen hold over from the election of
1851, and of these seven are Demo
Gratis and seven are Republicans. OF
the newly elected Senators as far as
heard from II are Republican, making
a Republican majority of at least 5
in the Senate.
Of the Representatives the Rcpub-
licans have elected Al, which, without
any further gains, would give ma
jority of s-a good working MAORI
ty sufficient for all practical purposes,
and rendering it certain that neither
"Our Ben" nor the "grcat Cesar"
will represent, nay, misrcpresent Iowa
in the Senate Of the United States.
j. II. Powers. Republican candidate
for Senator, received a majority of 81
in Howard county, 800 in Mitchell,
pa in Floyd, IS in Worth, "A in Ger
TO Gordo, l39 in Chickasaw, and 2 in
Hancock, making 83l. Deduct Win.
nebago, "a, leaves sl7; with Wright
county to hear from, which will in.
crease Powers majority to about $40
E. G. BowdoiD, Republican candi.
date for Representative in this Dis.
trict, has majority Of 2ls in Floyd
county, 80 in Cerro Gordo, Is in
Worth, and 2 in Hancock making all
his majorities 1926, from which deduct
Winnebago (l9) and Bowdoius entire
majority is 800.
ID. d. Sabin, Republican candidate
for Representative in the District com.
prising the counties of Howard and
Mitchell, is elected by majority Of
I'll. The vote in his own county
(Howard) stood, Sabin, (Rep.) 3O3
Jenkins, (Dem.) 305. The vote in
Mitchell county stood, Sabin 446
Jenkins, 268.
Hon. S. H. Merrill, (Rep.) of the
firm of Merrill & Barron, McGregor
is elected Representative by MAORI
ty of A..
Amos lloag (Rep.) is elected Rep
! rcsentative in Winncshcik county.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

a PORTABLE JArL.-The people of
Groton, Mass, have been enforcing
the temperance law. The other day
they arrested victim, and for want
of lookup in town placed him for
the night in an empty freight car Du-
ring the night freight train coupled
to the prison car and steamed away
with the "Groton Jail" and its con-
tents. The prisoner soon awoke to
his condition, but did not succeed in
making his case known until the ARR.
val of the car in Portland, Ne.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
THE ARCTIC REVELATIONS.

It is but two years since the United
States sent on the track of Sir John
Franklin, man of whom the age may
well be proud, and Of whom his coun-
try may well boast as long as religious
hcroism is Il thing to boast of. Only
Two Winters ago, around every fire,
side in England as well as here, there
were eyes wet with tears over kane's
noble record of the long Arctic night
through which he watched in the
brave hope that he might tell the
world where Franklin and his men
Lad persisted, and we had hardly done
Dcrusing il when Kane himself died
in the cause. The world had well
nigh despaircd Of ever getting anoth-
Ct ray Of light thrown on the mystery.
The Ships had sailed away into the
frozen seas. Eight years of pursuit
had brought no better traces Of the
expedition than a few graves, few
instruments. few vague Esquimaux
Iumors and the public had almost
been reconciled TO the pain of uncer-
tainty as to the exact nature of its
fate, by the perfect certainty which
time had brought that no member of
it was now living.
Happily Lady Franklin hoped
against hope, was proof against de-
m0nstration and against failure and
when both England and America had
rccoiled from the icy barrier in de-
spair, she launched one more ship on
the track. 1t was small, screw
steamer, commanded by Capt. McClin-
took, manned by twenty-five men, and,
as the result proves, all worthy of one
another and Of the duty they under
took. This last reserve of wiie's
devotion has done what all else failed
% accomplish. The fate of Franklin
aud his ships and men is at last
known. He died twelve years ago
\ year afterwards the two ships were
abandoned, and the surviving crews
--l05 men in all-started on their
march southwark over the leo. They
persisted miserably, man by man,
along the frozen waste, and their
track remains, marked by skeletons,
clothing, arms and food, lying as they
dropped.
There was but one thing wanting
to have made this Franklin Expedition
worthy Of as noble an epic as that
which immortalized the fall of Troy
and the conquest of Jerusalem-and
that was that the man who laid bare
the mystery which has perplexcd US
for twelve years should be worthy o
the men in whose footsteps he follow
ed and VIC are glad to say, this too
has been vouchsafed us. The story o.
Captain McClntock's wandcrings, as
told in his own narrative, forms a
worthy close to this great tragedy
There are incidents calmly recorded
in it which no tale Of adventure has
Supplied anything to surpass, and
winch we hope will be mentioned with
honor, as long as courageous devotion
to duty, in the face of the most appal
ling perils, finds anybody to admire
it. Oar age is after all the age o.
'livalry. The march of Christian
civilization may have turned the fire
which prccipitates murderous shock
bal it has fed the calmer and noblel
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

A man discovered America, but a
woman. equipped the voyage" So
every where man executes the per-
formanccs, but woman trains the man.
Every cticctual person, leaving his
mark on the world, is but another
Columbus, for whose furnishing some
Isabella, in the form of his mother,
lays down her jewclry, her vanities,
her comfort. 800 -..t.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

One of the smart tricks concoctcd
by Conger, aided slightly by that
spcckled Coon" of Cerro Gordo Coun-
ty, was to send over this Senatorial
District just previous to the election.
Republican Tickets" containing the
name Of f.. p. Poners, in place of j. II.
Powers. for Senator. They made
heap" by the opcration-almost as
much as was made by the "Champi-
on" handblls.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

MINSEsorA.--The Chicago Press and
Tribune sums up the election in Min,
nesota as follows Republican ma
Jority on State ticket, 3,4l2. Senate
Republicans, %; Democrats IA.
House-Republicans, SIS ; Democrats,
%. Republican majority on joint bal
lot, 3S. The ST. Paul Minnesotian
says:
Our victory is complete. Our
whole State ticket is elected by near.
ly the same majority as Gov. Ramsey
and our congressman by still larger
vote"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
Hancock County.

Judge Rosecrans, of Hancock coun
ty, called on Wednesday and informed
us that the vote of that county'on the
State ticket stood Republican, 10
Democratic, II. For Senator, Powers
(Repub.) had 10, Conger, Dem Is
For Representative, Bowdoin, Repub.
had 10; Stanbery, (Dem.) l6.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

Ben. Butler, of Lowell. Mass, &C.
ccptcd the gubcrnatorial nomination
from the Democratic party of the old
Bay State by writing long letter,
wherein he declared himself favorable
to protective tariff, and expressed
the opinion that slavery exists no
where by natural right, but by posi-
tive enactment and yet he declared
that the bred Scott decision protects
slavery in the territories.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

On the bill of fare of hotel in St.
Paul they have "Fried Water Chick.
ems" A traveller, wishing to test
their quality, ordered some for himself
and his party, including two OF three
ladies. All partook of them and pro.
nounced them nice and tender, though
rather small Spring water Chickens.
The worst of it was, they couldn't
puke them up on learning they were
frogs
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

STATE LEGISLATURES. The Republicans have
a majority in the Pennsylvania Legislature OF
so on joint ballot; in Ohio Of 80; and i'll Min
ncsota OF 3S. These are what We call lire
pressible majorities. Caicago Journal.
Iowa might have done something
more in this way, but the people OF
this State went to the polls on election
day to bury Caesar" and paid less
attention to Caesars friends than they
ought to have done. -DNbnque Times.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27

The son Of Baptist clergyman in
western New York went a counting
and on leaving the house in the early
morning he fell into the family well
where of course he staid till daylight
He is said to have renowned "immcr-
sion" since this "going down into
the water"