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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
Goutational.
INTELLECTUAL CULTURE,
A LESSON FOR YOUTH.

Winter evenings present to youth
a favorable time for improving their
minds by devotion to study. They
are too apt to spend their evening
hours in idle conversation or dissolutc
pursuits, which are weakening to their
virtuous principles, and destructive to
their moral energies. The mind Of
man, like his body, requires regular
food, and it must be supplied with
that which is good and wholesome,
or it will become diseased and dis
qualified for usefulness. Youth is the
spring-timc of life, in which it is as
essential to SOW the seed Of mental
improvement, as it is for the husband
man to sow and plant if he would
reap harvest.
Time often hangs heavily on the
hands of the young, and many of them
have but few books which are sufli-
clently attractive to prevent their
leaving home, to spend their evenings
with those similarly situated, and per.
haps more loose in their habits. Thus
their time is spent unprofitably, and
they but too often contract those evil
habits, and indulge in those propen-
sitics, which ever prove a barrier to
high and honorable attainments. The
mind becomes vitiated, and evil prin-
ciples become so firmly fixed, that not
withstanding their judgments may
condemn, they have no fortitude to
eradicate them.
If the young would render them
selves respectable and useful in after
life, they must apply themselves with
assiduity to those studies which will
qualify them to fill honorable stations
in society. There is no one from the
age of twelve to twenty-five, howev-
er arduous his daily toll, who cannot
find time to store his mind with much
useful knowledge. Many of the most
respectable, intelligent and influential
members of society, of both sexes,
have struggled with the severest pri-
vations in youth, and persevered un-
der the most discouraging circum-
stances, in their pursuit of knowl.
edge, and now they are honored and
respected for their learning, and many
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

bagc, scraps of fruit, vegetables,
crumbs Of bread, shrcds that arc rrc.
qucntly wasted eating them from
the hands of any one who offers. 1t
is thought that the Purik Sheep would
be suited to the climate of England
and exactly adapted to the waste Of
many cottagcrs. If so, it would also
suit many in this country. 1t would
be great object TO get an animal to
consume the kitchen garbage, less OBJ
Ject'onable than the hog, and the flesh
OF which would afford a more whole
some food to the common people, too
many Of whom live, so far as meat is
concerned, almost exclusively upon
pork.
1t is supposed that this kind of
sheep would make rather interesting
pets, of which children would be par
ticularly fond and we approve any
thing that would be likely to displacc
worthless dogs in their affections and
at the same time add to their happi-
ness.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
FATTEN HOGS EARLY.

The above caption has been brought
to mind by reading an article from a
correspondent of the Ohio Farmer.
He first "hogGcd down (in western
parlancc) forty acres of corn, between
the 10Th of September and the 23d of
October. BY the hogs being weighed
when they were turned in and when
they were taken out, it was found
that they paid forty cents bushcl for
the corn, estimating the pork at four
cents T. h., and corn at forty bushels
per acre.
Ills next course was to take one
hundred hogs, averaging 200 TBS each.
which were placed in nine covered
pens and fed all they covld eat of corn
and cobs ground together, steamed,
and given in allowance five times a
day. In week they were again
weighed, when, reckoning seventy tbs.
Of corn and cob equal to bushel of
corn, and the pork as before, the hogs
paid eighty cents T. bushel for the
corn. The weather was warm for
the season.
The same experiment was tried
again the first week in November,
when the corn brought sixty-two cents,
the weather being colder. The third
week in November the corn brought
only forty cents, and the fourth week
the corn brought but twenty-six cents,
the weather continuing to grow cold
cr. Another lot of hogs was fed
through December, which gave only
twenty-siX cents a bushcl for the corn
a part Of the time the temperature
was at zero, and then the hogs only
gained enough to pay -fre cents a bush
cl for the corn, and afterwards, when
the mercury went down to ten de-
grces below zero, the hogs only held
their 0UR.
The inference from this trial is, that
in general it is not profitable to feed
corn to hogs after the middle Of No
vember The difference in gain is
certainly surprising whether caused
altogether by the difference in tenn
peraturc or not, no person Of obscrva-
tion can doubt that hogs gain much
more in proportion to the food they
consume, in mild than in colder wealth
or. 1t seems that the hogs gained
much less by helping themselves to
corn in the field than when the ears
were ground and cooked and fed to
the animals in pens, under equal ad-
vantages Of weather.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
CHILDHOCD'S HOUR,

Where lofty trees their foliage spread
Meath summer grccnest bower,
Ry memory oft we wander there
In childhood's happy hour.
How bright the moon with silver ray
Has charmed It's with its power,
When fancy led us oft to stray
In childhood's happy hour.
Then happy zcphyrs gently waved
And bent the twining flower,
But early joys too soon have fled
Since childhood's happy hour.
No more we sit meath willow trees,
Hid from Tie summer shower,
Nor hear the murmuring of the breeze
We heard in childhood hour.
But all seems sad and dreary now,
The future is not ours;
Oh. changed are scenes of early wears,
Since chidhood's happy hours.
Twas then the sun shone beautiful,
The vale was filed with flowers,
But time change OF life has wrought
Since childhoods happy hours.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
of them are beloved for their philan-

of them are beloved for their philan-
thropy and bcncvulcncc.
Their example should encourage all,
whatever their privations may be, to
use the utmost diligence in their at.
tainmcnt Of learning. Those young
people who spend their evenings in
studying algebra, geometry, astrono-
my, or any other useful branch of
learning, or devote them to reading
the history Of their country, of na-
tions, or Of individuals, or in care
fully pcrusing any other useful work,
will rise III the morning more re-
trcshcd by their nights rest, and
much better satisfied with themselves,
than if they had spent their hours in
vanity and dissipation, in social par
ties or nocturnal rcvcIs. They will
have no npbraiding conscicnccs to
disturb the tranquility Of their bo-
SONS, but approving monitors within
will applaud their laudablc efforts.
Study ard labor are ever essential
to success, and if the young wish to
succeed in any Of the various pursuits
OF life, if they desire to be useful TO
themselves or others, or if they would
be respected and esteemed in after
life, and have the appreciation Of their
own minds, they must not spend their
evenings or other leisure hours in
ldlcncss or frivolous amuscmcnts, but
devote thcm to study, and to the care
fu' and thoughtful reading of useful
books.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
THE REAL DTsUNION SITS,

The Constitution guarantees to the
citizens Of every State the full protcc-
tion Of personal liberty and property
in all the States. The citizens of each
State have the right to pass into,
through, transact business in, all the
others. The freedom of speech, the
freedom of the press, and the freedom
of religion are rights guaranteed to
all alike, and without which there can
he no real liberty. The real disuniuu-
lists, and nullifiers, are those who iul-
pose restrictions upon the free pas
sage Of citizens from one State to
another, who imprson free seamcn
who enter their ports who threaten,
tar and feather, hang, burn, and other
wise i'll treat gentlemen for the mere
expression of opinion who break
open the mail bags Of the United
States and open private letters who
destroy newspapers and make it
penal offence to circulate them who
hang a minister of the gospel for tho
mere possession of q letter, of whirh
he was robbed for the purpose of dcs-
troying him ; who drive away poor
printer for expressing a political opin-
ion who drive back, and refuse the
privilege of work to mechanics and
laborcrs from other States and who
thus deny the liberty of speech, the
press, and religion.
Democratic papers, North and South,
have boastcd and gloricd in the infa-
nous boast, that Abraham Lincoln,
the President elect, could not safely
travel through one half the Union,
making merit Of what it should be
a shame to assert.
The Constitution Of the United
States is practically annulled in eve
ry State where any citizen Of the Uni
ted States cannot freely speak his
opinions, and transact any rcspccta-
bic business. The Constitution Of
the Union is charter Of liberty, and
its trainers would not allow it to Lc
stained with the name Of slave. The
does not recognize slaves
rs property but the Constitution, tho
laws of Congress, and the Courts rec
oGnlzc only persons owing service or
labor. Aud there is no Northern State
that has 10y law forbidden the United
States Courts and officers to arrest
and return persons owing service to
those to whom such service or labor is
proved to be due. No penalty is i'm
posed by the laws Of any Northern
State upon any citizen or official who
aids and assists the officers of the
United States in the discharge of this
duty. Whoever asserts the contrary
is guilty Of ignorance 0r talsehood.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
Qoetrp.
UNDER THE VIOLETS,
By o. W. HOLMES.

Her hands are cold her face is white:
No more her pulses come and go;
Her eyes are shut to life and light
Fold the white vesturc, snow on snow.
And lay her where the viulcts grow.
But not beneath the craven stone,
10 plead for tears with alien ewes
a slender cross of wood, alone,
Shall say, that here maiden lies
IN peace, beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees with lugcst limb.
Shall wheel their circling shadows round
10 make the scorching sunlight dim,
That drinks the grcenncss from the crount
And drop their dead leaves on her mound
When DER the boughs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves the robins call,
And, ripcning in the autumn sun.
The acOrns and the chestnuts fall.
Doubt not that she will heed them all
For the morning choir shall sing
Its mathis from the branches high.
And every minstrel voice of spring.
That trilIs beneath the April sky.
Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When turning round their dial track
Eastward the heightened, shadows pass,
Her little mouners, clad in black,
The crickcts, sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe Tor her an evening mass.
At last the rootlcts OF the trees
Shall find the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust they seize.
In leaves and blossoms to the skies
So may the soul that warmed it rise
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
A NEW BREED OF SHEEP.

A report has lately been made to
the Society of Acclimation of Animals
in London, of a new breed of sheep,
except in size, found in countries ad-
jacent to the Punjaub. The animals
are called Purik Sheep, and are the
most diminutive of the owls family,
the full grown ones being not larger
than lambs of few weeks old. The
Purik Sheep has small bones, fleshy
carcass, and the mutton is excellent,
and yields three pounds a year of very
fine wool. The ewes generally give
two lambs q year. The great advan-
tage of this over other breeds is its
domestic habits-living around the
cottages as quiet as house dog, and
feeding upon all sorts Of waste gar
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
CUR COMMON SCHOOLS.


* They give the keys Of
knowledge to the mas Of the people
| think it may with truth be said that
the branches Of knowledge taught in
our common schools, when taught in
finished, mastery manner, cr,-rcad.
ing, in which | include the spelling of
our languagc,-a firm, slightly, lcgi-
bic handwriting, and the elemental
rules Of arithmctic,-are of greater
value than all the rest which is taught
nowadays at school am far
from saying that nothing else can be
taught at our district schools but
the young person who brings these
from school can himself, in his winter
evenings, range over the entire field
of useful knowledge. Our common
schools are important in the same
way as the common air, the common
sunshine, the common rain,-invalu-
Ole tor their cOmmonncss. They arc
the corner stone of that municipal or
ganization which is the characteristic
feature OF our social system they
are the fountain of that widespread
intelligence which, like a moral life,
pervades the country. From the hum
blest village school there may 90
forth teacher who, like Newton,
shall bind his temples with the stars
Of Orion's bclt,-with Ilcrschel, light
up his cell with the beams of before
undiscovered planets, with Franklin,
grasp the lightning.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

FRIENDsHlp.-How much Of what is
most lovely and most valuable to us
in the course Of our earthly experience
arises out Of the poverty and feeble
ness of our nature Friendship wonld!
never have existed but for the abso-
lutte want Of the human heart, for its
utter inability to perform the func-
tons Of life without a participator in
its joy, recipient of its secrets, and
soother of its sorrows.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

In my time, Miss" said a stern
aunt, "the men looked at the women's
faces instead of their ankles !" "Ah
but my dear aunt" retorted the young
lady, "you see the world has i'm
proved, and is more civilized than
it used to be. 1t looks more to the
understanding"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

An Irishman down East, wanting
to burn some green wood rapidly, d.
rected a small stream Of gunpowder
from keg upon the burning pile. He
did not cut of the supply soon enough,
aud was blown to pieces. The coro-
ner's jury brought in the verdict /:
"Died for want Of common sense"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

No woman can be lady who would
wound or mortify another. No matter
how beautiful or how cultivated she
may be, she is in reality coarse, and
the innate vulgarity Of her nature
manifests itself here. Uniformity
kind and courteous treatment of all
persons, is one mark of true woman.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

WHY THE FINGERS ARE NOT OF AN
EQUAL LENGrH.-A schoolmaster, in il
Illustrating this question, made his
scholar grasp ball Of ivory. to show
that the points of the fingers are equal.
1t would have been better, says Sir
Charles Bell, had he closed his fingers
upon his palm, and then asked wheth-
er or not they corresponded. The diff.
ference in the length of the fingers
serves Il thousand ends, adapting the
form of the hand and fingers to diff
ferent purposes-as for holding a rod,
a switch, sword, hammer, a pen, a
pencil, engraving tools, etc, in all
which a secure hold and freedom of
motion are admirably combined.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
U9t yntelligenter.
" Westward thc course Of cmpir" takes itS way"
A. II. T.. HILDRETH, Editor.
St. Charles City, Iowa, Dec. 90, 1860.

Will our friends send papers and
letters, intended for us, to 50. Charles
City, Hoyd County, Eora and mol to
st. Charles, Iowa"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
Winter.

The vintage of nature is over, the
rpcncd grain has fallen beneath the
stroke Of the reaper vegetation has
ceased her work, and the frosty hand
Of old Father Time has recently
touched the once bright foliage, chang
ing its living green TO multitude of
tlntS, some grey, some sad Of hue
The carolng of birds no longer grcets
the car-they have flown to their win
ter houses, and the whisting wind
sends forth .EOlian melodies chanting
requiem for the bright winged
months that have flown away. We
search in vain for flowers those fairy
messengers they have fulfilled their
mission Of love, have shed abroad
sweet fragrance, have glallencd the
weary-cycl, and now have sunk TO
rest until genial skies and Il warmer
embrace call them again from their
rcsting-placc.
Winter shoi with f'ecy
Who comcth white, and cold, aud mute,
Lest he should wake the Spring below
Stern winter enters with nnbcnding
aspect AS if to assert his supreme
sway, he sweeps with relentless hand
over hill, and dale, and prairie, and
lake, crushing beneath his iron tread
the scanty remnants Of warmer skies,
and spreads his shroud of white DER
natures brightest scenes. Earth's
gems lie buried by the might of his
spell. We listen in vain for the mel
odics of wood and brake. Even the
ripping Of the rivulet is hushcd, and
the fountains mouth is scaled. We
wake the silence to ask whittier they
have flown, but echo only answers
back roundclay Of death. As though
to compensate for the decay of all
that is bright and bcautiful--Wintcr
bcstuds his funeral pail with gems
more pure and bright than all Golcon-
da's boasted mines can yield. The
leafcless tree is gemmed with a net
work Of silvery hue, while every
withered stump and messy stone is
encrustcd with diamonds rich and
rare.
Home, too, has gained an addi-
tional charm by cold Winters com
ing we gather closely round its
bright freside, and as We listen to
the piercing storm and pelting hail,
we feel, or ought TO feel, warm love
for all mankind, and unutterable graf.
itnde to the mighty God who gives
both Summer and Winter, Spring-timc
and Harvest.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

Arrange it so that the last words
between you and your children at
bedtime, especially the young ones,
shall be words of unmixed lovingncss
and affection.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

"Bob, did you hear that my father
gets married again next Easter 2"
"No, Tom, l did not Does he get
an old woman?"
"No stree He gets a new one"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
American Hotel,

MIN S7REE7, IT GEEGOR, 7OWA.
WIN. II. HARDING, PROPRIETOR.
Having again opened this well known Ho-
tel, the proprietor takes this means 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 oi an
experienced ostler, and teamsters can depend
upon having their teams well cared for This
house being the Stage Office. Railroad Ticket
Office, American Express and General Freight
Office, presents more advantages than any
other can show in the city, and all Task OF
my friends, is to try me once. and if not salts.
fled, will not ask them to come again
McGregor, July 1860.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
A. B. +. HILDRETH,
General Land Agent,

sr. 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
and payment of Taxes promptly
attended to. Friends at the East, as well as in
this State, are requested to make application
10 my agency. Satisfactory references given
II required.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
FOUNTAIN HOUSE,

S. S. Troy, PROPRIETOR.
This house has recently been repaired and
newly furnished. The Doc. assures the trav-
elling public that every effort will be made to
make his house home for the traveller.
Stages leave this house for the East and
West daily 344tf.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20

The right man in the right place
A husband at home in the evening.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-12-20
FOrefathcr'S Day.

Oh, see what wonders meet our ewes!
Another land and other skies.
Columbian hills have met ou. view!
Adicu Old England's shores, adicu!
Here at length our feet shall rest.
IJnnrfu Ia. ,,,l \ 1
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22

1ITE have in store, and Coz sale cheap, large as
w sorfment OF Safes, which Tor durability, and
United States. 80 MIzEII., HOOPER 4 CO, 4. /.
janp-9 Nos. 8 and 3faTlSst So.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22

W P SMITH, Master Of Transpo-ts,io- a.
L ~ CSLE, General Ticket Ageat
E F. FULLER, General Western Agent
" BROWN, Gen'l Ticket Agent, c ORR
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
rr.s,ss run by COLUMBUS TIME, which is Minutes
: faster than CINCINNATI TINE
Baggage Checked Through to
all Eastern Cities.

ss- Passengers should bear IN mind that The aCTN-
CISN ATT h the Oiaf and FAVoHlITE RlI Con.
neciions made promptly the Roads are thoroaghly
BAllAsTED, and all modern Improvements adopted
insurine selap, COMFORT and SAFETY. Il sfsf fs.s
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22


n ness in one Of The most agreed5ie neIsb s,flsss
The city Moderate rent, Possession gwen
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
lotteries.

W, A. GLEAvE, Treasurer.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
Jasper Branch Railroad.
OFFICE NASH. x CHAT. RAHRoGD Co. I

October 5, 1859.
D order Of the Board Of Directors are made n, tho
- stock Of the Company subscribed for building
branch road from Bridgeport Jasper payable 10 the
Treasurer OF this Company follows:
One dollar Oh each share the LIST Of November of
1888, and two dollars each share the LIST day II
December, 1889, January, February, March, April
May, june July, August, September, October
and November. ls60.
q Payment may be made TO Jackson Pryor, al Jas
per- OF 10 the Treasurer al his Office IN Nashville
PromptneSs Ia meeting these calls is requested of
subscribers of stock, the construction of the road
depends exclusively the provided specifically
oet4-u W. A. GLEAVES, Treasurer.
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY.

HE next ordinary drawing Of the ROYAL Havana
Lottery, conducted by the Spanish Government
under the Supervision OF the Captain General o Cuba
VIII take place at Havanah, on
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
Express to Clarksyille-

ME southern Express Company respectfully an
L noGnce that they running eFsSSEyssRs
through 10 GAINESVILLE, via. E. a K and Ii c 4 Poi
cars ami are prepared to forward that place and in
tervening points with promptness and disnafcb an
goods usually sent by express They viii sise fo-r-i
e all places on stage routes connecting with The above
Rsalroots- Bills, notes, drafts, ETC. collected ami
prompt return made -
Be- Office No 10 Public SQUARE
febl1-u A. X. H0IT Superintendent