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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
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FAITHFUL
IN THAT WHICH is LEAST.
BY NEs. y. M'CONAuGuY.

Emma Brainard was the daughter
Of a clergyman who died when she
was bot seven years old, leaving his
widow in very humble circumstances.
rhe kindness OF the parish gave her Il
litc-lcasc of the old parsonage, the
question of building 4 new one nearer
the church having been finally settled.
This was regarded by both rs Il great
blessing, for it secured TO them home
cndcarcd by a thousand pleasant mem
orics, and saved the heavy burden of
paying quarterly rent. The house
was low and old,fashuucd, but in the
summertime il was beautiful with
climbing roses and swcct.sccntcd HON
cysucklcs, and the pretty howcr-hor'
ders, from March til winter snow,
were sparkling with the sweetest
floral gems. \ little llowcr-stand was
placed beside the southern window,
and when all was bleak without there
was ray Of sunshine always glcam
iug from the little pot Of monthly TO
srs, and another of bright carnations
with few gcraniums in carefully
patched bowls and tea cups gave L
grateful perfume to the room.
Little reader, If you are ever st
poor, have a little pot ot flowers tc
cultivate. Watch it, water it, tend il
carefully, and it will repay You {
thuusaulfold in pure, innocent enjoy
mcnt, and in the refining influence il
will exert upon your heart.
| Emma's mother was woman of re
fined and cultivated tastes, but The
straitcncd circumstances in which sh'
was placed made it necessary to wcigl
twice every hcard-carncd penny be
fore cxpeuding it. As Emma grew
older she studied with her mother al
the primary branches Of an EnglisI
education. Mrs. Brainard had been
teacher herself, and laid solid ioul
dation for her daughters future a,
tainmcnts. 1t was Emma's carncs
desire to become fitted for teacher
so that she might one day maintain
herself and her mother. There Wa
an excellent young Laulcs school Il
the place, and after great deal q
managing and saving Emma's mothe
succeeded in laying aside enough t
send her to it for year. Many Ion,
consultations were held between til
two before the ways and means fo
raising the twenty dollars were al
contrvcd, and as last res )rt the bl
reau had to be sold to make out th
sum. Emma shed some tears at thi
and was ready to give up the schcm,
but her mother cheercd her up, sa,
ing that many people had got alon
comfortably all their lives without
bureau, and that there was Il nic
large chest up stairs she could mov
into the bedroom, and it would auswc
: every purpose for laying away the
clothes,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
EARTH'S DEVILS.

The Rev. Henry Ward BccclIcr, in
a recent discourse, thus draws u pic
turc of that large class of men who
delight in tempting TO ruin the inmo-
cent and unsuspccting
1t is not the Indian alone who loves
to carry the scalps which hc has
taken in battle there are thousands
Of beings, male and female, who love
to carry in sight the numbcr Of the
victims they have scduccd or corrupt
ed. to count them over and boast ol
their crime There are men who love
to corrupt the young, who love t.
teach them sullciouS vices, and Sc.
ducc them into evil compIianccs, and
wait till it begins to lcavcn the whole
lump. They seem to have a horrible
gloat Of pleasure in this. They resist
all the efforts Of tncir victims to break
away and if he does get away they
pull him down again-and God lets
such men live
Did you ever see a spider spinning
his web in the corner? With what
dclicacv of his loom does he spin all
the web. how it shines in the sun
and who has spun it all right and
after spinning it, he makes himself a
little hole, in which hc goes back and
lies in wait for a singing fly that has
surveyed and philosophical on the
universe he looks upon the web, and
the instant he touches it, how the
spider rushcs on to seize him and il
he be a small insect, and Il large spi
der, he will bite him aud roll him NJ
in the web or if he be large fly
lie commences rolling him up and pre-
pairing by and by to cat him; and il
for momcnt the poor little fly turns
to escape, how he rushcs out and in
stantly scizcs him again, and rolls
him up and up, and over and over
more closely than ever. and thel
drags him down to some corner
have seen men treat men just SO
They spin just such webs, and thcl
sit in some dark corner till they catcl
some little innocent fly, and then the,
wind their coils around him till he i
hopclcssly cntangled in the web
leading him in their internal work
and rolling him over and over again
in its mcshes and if the poor victim
begins to sing and buzz in his effort,
to break away; how | have see,
them rush out again, and carry hin
back, and utterly ruin them in thei
houses of infamy
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
iloetr.l,.
THE UNSEEN LAND.
BY MISS ELIZABETH !. CUIE.

Ia MISS fL1LAbL4h ii u, ttl l..
Eryond the tile, beyond the 1ood.
iicyond this dark abyss Of woes,
ThcIr i Il Land we have not seen,
Where joy and peace forever flows.
Environci here by cares am,l fears.
How tcaI fully our footsteps roam
UnminIful mid liic's storms and tears
OF that unseen and happy homc.
We close the eyes that bcamed 50 bright
And fold the cold and lifclcss hands
While we. o'crwhclmcd hy sorrow ; might
Forget they It in the unseen land.
Fright faces Lean around the hearth.
Nut unseen hands alc lingering nigh,
Waiting TO bear the spirit forth
10 join that happy choir on high.
Awhile rtcrc fingers on the ear
The hild-!ikc note uf some sweet voice,
Eut OH they may not tarry here,
So swiftly raiI our earthly joys.
This wmli. tho lright our eyes behold,
Bat oh, there much To mar its peace,
soon will our rapturci sight unfold,
To trace that uuSr,n world OF bliss.
That hl"st inheritance is ours.
We feel the earnest in our hearts;
Tho death may blight earth tairest flowers
We slitil he Hest when life departs
Fer deep within the human soul
implanted hy our Father hand,
We feel that tho Iitr's surgcs roll,
There is an Unseen happy land.
Floyd, Iowa, June llth, 1860.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21

TRAVELS OF YouNG AMERICA. - The
Jancsvilc Gazette says: " Among
the arrivals in our city of late, is that
Of the above individual. He started
from somewhere in the eastern part
Of New York with fifty cents i'll his
pocket. He started in company with
another of the same species who had
twenty-five cents, and with whom he
traded caps for two shllinGs to boot,
and parted company with him q quar-
ter better off. Arriving at Syracuse,
he obtained situation as driver on
the raging canawl.' At Rochester
he got on the cars and commenced
admiring the couu:ry as soon as pos
siblc. The conductor came along and
recalled him from his studied admira-
ton SO suddenly that he lost his hat,
and of course his ticket The con-
ductor pitied him and gave him a
check through to Buffalo, and also a
cap. At Buffalo he took passage on
boat bound for Chicago, acting as
cabin boy. At Milwaukee he asked
the captain for money to buy clothes
lie found the depot and concluded tC
so to Jancsvillc, where he arrived
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
WHO WOULDN'T BE A HEATHEN

Mamma. | wish lived away,
Away across the great big SEA,
Where little heathcn children play,
| wish you be n hcathen, too,
And then we could all have bread,
And good warm cloChc, for sister Sue,
'rl4c folks would come and sec YOU then
Mmma. yun look So sick and pale
And hiug some bread and butter, when
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
FRAUDS AT ELECTIONS.

This crime is becoming 50 common
IN this country, that the public press
cannot too often bring the subject be-
fore the attention of the people, nor
patriotic politicians be too often or too
strongly urged to adopt vigorous
measures FIR its suppression.
The crimes Of the Government otfic-
ials, high and low, in this respect, as
revealed by the Congressional invcs-
legations now in progress at WASH
ington, are most disgracciul to the
country, and, if tolerated Ivy the pco-
pie, will result in rendering our form
Of Republican Government sheer
farce and mockcry for the benefit OF a
few shrcwd, ambitious, and unscru-
pu'ous dcmagogucs.
The evidence in the contested Con-
grcssional cases of Blair rs Barrett,
of st. Louis, and of Howard rs Coop
er, Of Detroit, before the Committee
on Elections, dcvelopes, it is said, an
amount Of sharp practice, fraud and
villany at the polls, that is startling
ly enormous, and that ought to con-
denim the party that rcsortcd to such
tlagitious cxpcdicnts to cheat the pop
ular will, to the lowest depth of infa-
my, i'll the Judgment Of every honest
and patriotic man.
1t turns ont that in Connecticut,
too, at the late election there, any
amount Of fraud was practiccd at the
ballot-boXcs in various parts Of the
Statc-the Hartford Times, one Of the
leading Democratic organs, frankly
admitting that such is the fact We
arc assured, on Democratic authority,
that but for these infamous frauds,
the Republicans would have elected
their Governor by nearer 5000 than
500 majority.
These things are getting so COM
mon that unscrupn'ous party leaders,
after an election. deem their crimes Il
fit matter to boast of Is it not time
the honest men of all partics-all who
appreciate the Importance of main
tanning the sanctity Of the ballot-box,
that medium through which the will
of n free people is expressed, should
take bold, decided and determined
stand on this subject Unless they
do So, they may rs we'll make up their
minds to become the victims of polit-
ical sharks, and see in the places of
power class of men who are more fit
to grace the cells cf a pcnitcntiary,
than the Offices Of GUvcrnmcnt.-Chl-
cag0 JUWRai.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21

Senator Wilson has introduced
bill into the /. :. Senate to remodel
the laws relative to the African Slave
Trade, so that they shall be of some
practical utility. His bill authorizes
the construction Of five screw sloops-
ot:war especially adapted to the SER
vice, to be employed on the coast of
africa increases the bounty to be
paid officers and scamcn employed
therein from So to 500 for each cap
tured African; increases the bounty
of $50 now paid for information of the
importation OF any African, to 500;
makes the punishment for engaging
in the slave trade, Imprisonment fnr
life, instead Of death declares that
any person or band who shall be in
terestcd in fitting out slavers, shall be
deemed to be pirates and Ielons, and
punished as above mentioned and
provides for the imposition of heavy
penalties upon any person who shall
aid in landing, holding or buying AZ
ricans imported in violation of the
United States law.
Probably the statutes relative to
this traffic need material amendment;
but the fault is not SO much in the
laws, as in the administration Of them.
Seventy cargocs of wild Africans
have been landed upon our coasts
within the last ten years. 4 prom-
ncnt citizen Of Savannah, Mr. Lamar,
is notoriously y an extensive dealer in
them, yet no man has ever yet been
convicted and punished for having
been engaged in the traffic. When u
prominent member of the Charleston
Convention from Georgia few days
ago made the open boast that his
plantation was stocked in part with
freshly imported African slaves, he
should have been arrested and tried
for piracy; yet no official notice was
taken of the criminal admission, and
the gentleman will undoubtedly be
one of the shining ornaments of the
National Democratic Convention ut
Baltimore.
With new law and new Federal
! Executive to administer it, there might
be some reason to hope for an aba,e-
ment of slave trading; but without
the latter the former would be of very
: little account Du6mqne Times.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
WOMEN'S APPAREL.

1t is none Of our business, perhaps
some Of our lady readers Will think,
but we think differently and therefore
desire TO call attention to what Mrs.
NJ. l.. Narncy says Of the needs Of
woman, in recent number Of the
Scientific American. And we want
to place it on record here, that we
quite agree with hcr in her first as
sertion, and for the very cogncnt rca-
sons she has given. She says
The present working dress is a
shame to the age of invention in
which we live ! am aware Of the
conscientious efforts of many who
have made martyrs of themselves by
trying to Introduce better style 0i
dress for active life. Their cXprri-
mcmts show rant in this direction.
Women need dress that will allow
IA full play Of the chest, the free use
of the arms, and the unconstraincd
action Of all the blood vessels, nerves,
and muscles Of the body. We want
one of less weight by several pounds,
which shall not drag the body down
or knock about the ankles at every
step, and which will not mop the
house from garrct TO cellar The pres
cnt working dress re luircs to be car
rlcd mp stairs. No matter what else
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
C9e yntellieenter.
Westward the course Of empire takcs its way
a. II. +. RILDRETH. Editor.
St. Charles City, Iowa, June q, 1860.
The Spirit Of the Republican Party.
Occasional" writes from Wash,
ngton to Forncy's Press that:

Occasional" writes from Wash.
ington to Forncy's Press that:
No one can read the proceedings
Of Tic Republican Convention, in scs,
sion at Chicago, as | write, without
being impressed by the enthusiasm
and compaCtncss Of that organization.
Tic Republicans will make vigorous
and effective struggle for the control
of the government. In few days
their orators will be found on the stump
in every free State. They will also
have champions in four or five Of the
Southern States. Their Journals are
unlucstionably among the ahlcst and
most progressive in America, and
their leaders, ambitious and daring
men, are resolved to win the character
of being able to administer the affairs
of this Republic of ours. In this city,
they have established headquarters,
and number many partzanS among
The local or resident population. Mr..
hurl"y, Republican member Of Gin
rimnati in the House, is man Of large
fortune, and cntcttains with great and
unsparing libcrality at his mansion
on +. street. Mr.. Blair. the old editor
of the Globe, under jackson and Van
Buren,, living at Silver SPRING a
short distance outside of the town, at
tracts to his social board daily num-
bcrs Of the controlling spirits of the
same party. Mr.. Seward has his lc-
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21

SENSATION AMONG LADIES. While
fashionable conversation was being
held in the Music Hall of New Castle,
England. recently, a malicious wag
called one of the most extensive la
dies aside, and told her, profound
secret, that celebrated electrician
had placed powerful magnet in each
of the six beautiful chandeliers, which
would cause the steel spring skirt Of
any lady passing near them to be in
verted by the power of attraction !!
AS any one might conclude, this pro-
found secret was soon known to every
lady in the room, and produced great
sensation among the wearcrs of steel
ribbed garments. During the whole
evening, not one could be induced to
venture near the brilliant mediums of
light, and several timid ones departed
for their homes instanter. When the
hoax was proved to be such, the storm
of Indignation was worthy of woman
ly lungs and had the wag been with.
in reach, he would have paid dearly
for his amusement
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
Senator IIanllin.


Ten years ago, when Hannibal Ham
lin was still n member of ihc Dcmo.
cratic Marty no wos rc.clcctcJ +, the
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the following extract from the -\uSus-
I, Arc or \u~ust ~, 1850;
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houses oi ,mc i"'S 'S'''',c "'' "'I,
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Democfa''c hae'hpets |" Supl"'t NM
the prc'cNt o, lhe'f "pp"S','oh oe'nS
the opinions He c"'ci'a'"co upon '''e
snGlect OF Inc extension p' S''NT'E'
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with you. Besides, shall have ahund
ancc Of time, if Charles is here, to
write you long letters every week
and you will tell me everything that
interests or pcrplcxcs You. | have
passed through the same scene myself,
and know it was very valuable
school to me-"
After the interview with the gentle
man both were well pleased to make
the Arrangement, the salary being
larger than even Emma's day-drcams
/ had imagined
" Only make it for year, though,
said Mrs. Harris, smiling significantly
with an expression that puzzled Emma
as she recalled it.
The next year was an important
one in Emma's history. Thrown en-
tircly upon herself, she developed fas-
ter than she had ever done before. 4
quiet, womanly dignity Of manner
succeeded the gentle, halftimid re-
serve Of the schoolgirl yet she ncv-
cr lost the sweet, mild grace of her
early years, nor the tender, loving
sympathy with every sorrowing heart
70 her mother she was still the same
Gond little girl, even when she moved
in talented, literary circle, to which
her presence was one of the brightest
ornaments.
Spring came again, and Emma re-
turned to her mother, lovely, finely
developed lady. Her great improve
mcnt in personal appearance was re
marked by every one, and perhaps it
was with little maternal pride that
Mrs. Brainard watched the dozens Of
old friends who pressed around to
shake hands with her as she passed
out of church the sabbath after her
return.
Would she 90 away again ? They
could not spare hcr-hcr mother need
ed hcr-indccd, she must not 60"
were among her greetings.
They were all answered a few morn
ings after, when Mrs llarriss we'd
ding cards were laid upon their center
tables. How every one was taken
hv SURPRISE as they had fully decided
that she woull always remain a wild
ow Her husband was wealthy
merchant from Chicago, and they left
directly for their western home.
Emma Brainard became her sue
ccssor as principal of the young Ia
dies school, to the entire satisfaction
Of all its old patrons. The income de-
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-21
American Hotel,
AIN STREET, WGREGOR, 10 vi

MIN NIRTE7, Vt GRELOR, IOW-I
JOHN T. WRIGHT, PROPRIETOR.
The undersigned ha,in leased the we'll
known American Hotel, beg leave to inform
the Travelling public and the rest of mankind
that he intends to make it worthy the pat
ronagc of travellers, and if attention to the
wants of guests, good fare and low prices are
any inducements, he hopes to have his share
of business.
In connection with the Hotel is the largest
Barn in town, which is under the charge OF an
experienced Ostler, and tcamsters can depend
upon having their teams well cared for. Our
house being the Stage Office Railroad Ticket
Office, American Express and General Freight
Office, presents more advantages than amy
other can show III the city, and all We ask ot
our friends, is to try lis once, and il not satis-
cpii not To come again.
McGresor, Sept. 20, 1879. 80
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\ gentleman living at ST. Joseph's
Island out West, was engaged to be
married to Il pretty French girl, and
the banns were published in the Catho-
lie Church on a certain Sunday. The
next day Yankee made bet OF
500, with a friend, that lie would
marry the girl himself. The money
was placed in the hands of a third
party the Yankee then called upon
the lady and made proposition of
marriage. She told him that her in
tended had already given her $40 to
buy clothes, but that she didn't like
him very well. At this her new suitor
handed her a like amount, and then
placing forty dollars more with it, re-
marked: "Thcrc's his forty dollars,
and Iii so forty better The young
lady could resist no longer, and taking
the money, returned the amount given
her by her first lover, and married his
competitor within an hour, we'll salts
fled with the bargain. The bet was
won, and in the course of month the
st. Joseph islander married the sister
of his first allianccd.
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WELLS & CO.,
A. B. L. HlLDRETH,
General Land Agent,

ST. CHARLES CITY, FLOYD CO, IOWA,
will attend to buying, selling and selecting
lands on Commission, &c. Town Lots bought
conveyancing and payment of Taxes promptly
attended to- Friends at the East, as wellasi
this State, arc requested to make application
to my agency. Satisfactory references given
if required.