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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
Ronlantit Skettb.
DICK HARDING's SLEIGH RIDE:
HOW | TOLD MY LOVE.

i'" icLb MI IoN l..
Oh, the glorics of sleigh ride in
the sparkling, bracing air Of Cana
dian winter /! The sky clear and ex-
hilarating- keenly bright, but with u
different degree of lucidity from that
of u bright summers day. Broad,
expanding plains-the city rcceding
behind us as the horses lcaping on
ward TO the music of the Ginning bells,
made for the broad, boundless country.
The far forests are clasped in shad-
owy, ghostly slumber. Far away on
our right are those pathless funeral
groves where the wolves aggregate
in hundreds. TO the left lies ridge
of hills sloping down to the river,
which is locked up in the iron mana
cles of the Winter King Ahead, and
right before us, whittier we are bound
over waste and plain and clearing
lies snugly sheltered village, the
headquarters of the lumberer and
royogeur. Our destination is not quite
so far.
This said destination is a broad
spread, low-lyinS farmstead, with its
almost numberless out houses, consist
ing of cattle sheds and dairies, corn
stores, roofing for winter fodder, wood
stacks, and other concomitants sur.
rounding the dwelling, all palisaded
by zigzag fences as SO many outworks
to protect the comfortable citadel
Within it warm fires blaze and sparkle
from the huge and odorous logs crack
ling on the broad, bounteous hearth.
In the great common chamber, raftercd
and pictures lue as an antique gothic
hall, are warm hearts and flashing
eyes. Bearded men and fair women
are thcre-laughing maidens and
strapping young hunters, who hat
just shaken the snow off their furs a
the portals. Despite the stern, ye
musical baritone of the singing wind
as it goes by singing checks, biting
noses into purple, and making thu
blood tingle, shouts Of mirth ane
laughter rise above the boreal blasts
and our leaping sleigh. gliding-hyins
along, rather-to the music OF the
soft, musical bells, is fast approach
ing its terminus
+ "In the meantime asks the read
er, who occupies this sleigh 2"
First there was your humble ser
want, the narrator, Dick Harding, b,
name, but few months back from the
banks of the Isis, with the "bar" il
prospect. add u few of my person
al items. Rather good looking fail
shot can hit with wonderful vigol
straight out from the shoulder an
five feet ten and growing can pla,
the fiddle, game of pool, and have
the temper Of an angel. l have beer
one Of party Of adventurous sports
men, "going in" for something wor
thy Of Alexander, and, with fishing
tackle, spears and shooting irons,
had done no inconsiderable execution
among the denizens of the Canadian
woods, and sounding "rapids," AM
hunted the bear in his own bold an,
picturesque Businesses.
/ Enough Of myself. Now for m.
companions.
Place aux Danes, therefore-for nes
f ling by my side, wrapped up in rug
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
EDUCATIONAL.
THE GRAMMAR LESSON.

Henry, have You learned your les
son !" inquired Mrs Lincoln, one eve
ming, as she saw her son engaged in
reading a story book
No, mother, don't want to, for it
is grammar lesson, and hate it,"
Oh, dear !" exclaimed Mary, -
wish mother would let you leave off
studying grammar am tired of
hearing you scold about it."
wish she would" rcjoincd Hen
ry-" Come, mother, won't you? I'll
study all my other lessons harder, if
you will. Besides, what use is there
in my studying it?"
g. To teach you to speak correctly,
my SON"
ais that all Pm sure I can talk
well enough now, without any help
from old Bullion's Analytical.'
Mrs. Lincoln was silent few mo-
mcnts, and then said,
Henry, when your bedtime comes
this evening, if you have made less
than sir grammatical errors, you may
discontinue the study of grammar for
the rest of the term. Mary may take
notice Of what you say, and write
down your mistakes and at nine
| O'Clock we will hear the result"
oh. thank you Il thousand times
cried Henry /; d" low nicely shall get
rid of it. lon may be sure shall not
make six grammatical blnndcrs i'll two
hours"
BY and by the clock struck nine,
and Mary laid aside her work and
took up a piece of paper. Henry
glanced at it, and thought to himself
that it looked as if he had lost his
chance but said pleasantly. Come,
Mary, want my fate decided.'
Well" said Mary, in the first
place, You said that tomorrow James
Murray was going to learn you how to
play cricket. That was wrong you
should have said he was going to teach
you. Then you told mother that you
done three sums wrong this afternoon
"Yes, remember that | always
: forget to say did. That's ALL isn't it?''
"No, indeed When father came
in, he asked who left the gate open,
, and you replied, 1t was me- Only
yesterday you were learning the rule
about active intransitivc and neuter
verbs requiring the same case after as
before them and you ought to have
remembered it, and said it was T."
why, l never think Of saying-it
was L; ! ai,eous sag me-
r q" But it is wrong. \ little while at
ter, | said | ha! been writing three
letters to-day, and you asked, Hh'
have you been writing tor Now you
know that 10 is proposition, and re
= Guires the objeoire case after it; sc
: You should have said, To tchom have
:. You been writing -
How many more mistakes arc
there on papcr?" inquired Henry
"Thrrr,' said Mary.
"Wcll," rcioincd her brother, yor
II need not read any more. | see there
II is need enough of my studying gram
e mar, and promise You | won't com
plain of it again until | can speal
correctly, for an hour at least. I'll g
> to bed now, and get up bright and ear
l. ly in the morning and study. Goo,
d night"
Y My young reader how is it wit
you? Do you ever say you hat
grammar If so, | advise you t
- watch your words for an hour or two
or get some competent friend to d
e this for you, and think you will b
IS surprised to see how many errors yo
i. make, even in common conversation.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
A writer in the Ohio Cultivator OBJ.

A writer in the Ohio Cultivator OBJ
serves " Every fifth farmcr-l should
say every fifth man who pretends to
farm-leaves his farming implements
in the field, or wherever he finishes,
till he wants them again, then he will
have to study to know where they are.
| have seen men even leave reapers
and mowers exposed to the weather
from harvest to harvest. How can
such farmers expect to prosper This
is not a fanciful tale but stubborn fact,
and every observing man knows it to
be true. have not only seen such
things in Ohio, but the further west
the more of such negligence have
observed. have seen carriages and
buggies, purchased at high prices il
Illinois and Iowa, stand in the wealth
er from month to month till the cur
tains were blown in strings and the
carriage ruined, all from the want o
shelter. Thousands of milch cows
stand out OH the prairies in all kind.
of weather, when the winds nearly
pierce them through, because no shell
ter is provided, although the expense
would be so tritling"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

The last rail to complete the gap on
the Mississippi Railroad was laid
few weeks since, thus making a con-
tinuous railroad from Bangor to New
Orleans, except four short ferries at
Hudson River, the Susquehanna, Poto-
mac and James Rivers. This vast
chain of railroads is composed of
eighteen independent roads, costing in
the aggregate for 1894 miles of roads,
$92. .7s4,Os4, or nearly one-tenth of
the whole railway system Of the Uni
ted States, of which 1896 miles are
used in this continuous line.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN MILKING.
Careful experiments show that the
strippings, or the last half pint of
milk drawn from the cow, contain
more cream than twelve times the
same quantity taken from the first
part of the same milking. In some
of the experiments the proportion was
considerably greater. Therefore to
sell milk deprived of the strippings is
but little better than watering it.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

culture of their offspring? The tea
cher, we know, has many duties de-
volving upon him, and because he dis
charges them faithfully, the parent is
not excused from his duty. Parents,
if your school is not closed, and you
have not visited it recently, do so i'm
mediatcly, and we are sure you will
find the time profitably spent.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

In the town of Cheshire, Conn, five
thousand barrels Of cider have been
made the past season from apples
raised in that and adjoining towns,
nearly all of which is now in process
of clarification and will be ready for
market early in the Spring. Four es-
Establishments alone have made from
|, 500 to 1000 barrels each, which are
already disposed of, and will be sent
to market as soon as ready for use.
This, when clarified, is as pure as
wine, and is sold readily in New York,
to bottle, for four dollars per barrel
for the liquid, and when bottled is in
great demand at the South at five dol
lars per dozen. The business is rap
idly increasing, and the cultivation of
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
d0est1aro tbe Course of empire tahes its dolap.'


ers booted and spurrcd to ride them
and the riding does them good. They
need the rcins, the Bit and the spur
Life aud Liberty are not inalicnablc
The Declaration of Independence is
eXuberantiy false, aud aboresccntly
fallaCiUus.
And the doctrines of this book are
supported by the great organs Of the
South-thc Richmond Examiner and
Richmond Enquirer Listen to the
Richmond Enquirer:
Until recently, the defence of slave
ry has laborcd under great difficulties,
because its apologists-for they were
merely apologists--took half way
ground. They confined the defence of
slavery to mere negro slavery, there
by giving up the slavery principle,
admitting other forms Of slavery to
be wrong; and yielding up the au-
thority of the Bible. and of the history,
practices, and experience of mankind.
Human experience, showing the uni
versal success of slave society, and
the universal failure of free society,
was unavailing to them, because they
were precludcd from employing it, by
admitting slavery i'll the abstract to-
bc wrong. The defence of mere negro
slavery involved them in still greater
difficulty. The laws of all the South.
ern States justified the holding of
rhite men in slavery, provided that
through the mother they were de-
sccnded, however remotely, from a
negro slave. The bright mullatoes,
according to their theory, were wrong
fully held in slavery. The line of de-
fence, however, is changed now, and
the Nortn is completely cornered and
dumb as an oyster. The South now
maintains that slavery is right, natu-
raj and necessary. 1t shows that all
divine, and almost all human authori-
ty justiiics it. The South further
charges, that the little experiment OF
free society i'll WeStcin Europe has
been, from the beginning, a cruel fail
urc, and that symptoms Of failure are
abundant in our North. While it is
far more obvious that negroes be
slaves than whites-lor they are only
tit to labor, and not to dircct--yet the
principle OF slavery is i'll itself right,
and does not depend ON difference Of
complexion.
The Richmond Examiner, says:
This agitation has produced one
| happy effect, at lcast-it has COMPEL
ed us of the South to look into the ma
ture and character of this great lnstl-
tuition, and to correct many false i'm
pressions that even we had entertain
cd in relation to it. Many in the
South once believed that it was a
moral and political evil. That folly
and dclusion is gone. We see it
now in its true light, and regard it as
the most safe and stable basis for free
institutions in the world. 1t is i'm
possible, with us, that the conflict can
take place between labor and capital,
which makes it so difficult to estab-
lish and maintain free institutions in
all wealthy and highly civilized ma
tons where such institutions as ours
do not exist.
We desire to place on record this
testimony of Southern men in regard
to the Institution OF Slavery and its
tendencies, and then leave it for the
reader to reflect upon.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
TREATMENT OF HENS.

Linsecd meal is found to be great
promoter of cgg-laying. Mixed with
scalded meal or shorts, or with sour
milk, it is readily eaten, and 4 good
substitute for animal food and insects.
Hens like Indian corn better than any
other grain, and it is their cheapest
food. For confning hens, covered
room with dry earth floor, is much
better than an open yard, which the
rain keeps IN filthy state most OF
the time. With sand to roll in, hens
may be confined under cover the
whole season. Half an hour before
sunset they should be let out to range
over the yard and garden. They will
then be too busy picking grass, gray
el, &c, to scratch and do mischief, be-
ing always in a hurry to return to
the roost before twilight. Hens thus
kept will more than twice pay for
their keeping, if not too old to lay
well. Two or three days imprison-
mcnt in a coop will break up black
Spanish hens from sitting, and they
will soon commence laying again If
properly fed. 1t is only profitable
for villager to raise few early
chickens to renew his laying stock,
as chickens are great and increasing
feeders, eating when half grown,
much more than old fat hens.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

4 WELL MANAGED RoAD.-It is wor-
thy of note, in the midst of all almost
epidemic of railroad slaughter, that
there is one company who need not
place single casualty upon their
record. The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the last annual report, in
form the stockholders and the public
that there has not been life lost up
on their line, and this Notwithstanding
that in 1859 there were ,4j9, 10 pas
scngers transported, and "a, $50, 69l
miles travelled.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

Design OF EDUcArIoN. The real OBJ
icct of education is to give children
resources that will endure as long as
life continues habits that time will
ameliorate, not destry occupations
that will render sickness tolerable,
solitude pleasant, age venerable. life
more dignified and useful, and death
welcome sleep.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

The human mind has a much great
er talent at asking questions than at
answering them and many minds
have a greater propensity to raise
doubts and start difficulties, than to
reposc in that measure of truth
which is already asccrtained and in
fallihlr.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01
SCHOOLS OF IOWA.

The following statistics are gath
cred from the recent report Of Hon. T..
II. Benton, Secretary of the Board of
Education, connected with few fig
urcs from the Auditors Report:
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

\ fierce contest is raging i'll Oregon
in view of the impending election Of
the United States Senators by the
Legislature soon to be chosen. Col.
L. d. Baker, formerly of Illinois,
and who pronounced the funeral ora
ton over Mr.. Brodcrick, has removed
to Portland, Oregon, and will probably
be one of the Senatorial candidates.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

Mr.. Calhoun said ten years ago in
the Senate of the United States, 1.-The
war will last between the sections
while there is slavery in the South
The conflict will never terminate.
The South, | fear, will not see it until
it is too late. They will become
more feeble every year, while the
North will grow stronger.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

Education makes more difference
between man and man. than nature
has made between man and brute
John adams.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

the apple is likely to prove as profit
able as that of the grape in the West,
where thousands of dozens Of wine
are put up yearly.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-01

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Marshal's Sale.

DY virtue Of general execution to me directed issued
ID from the Office Of the Clerk Of the United States
tct Court for the District of Iowa. in the northern division
thereof dated the 2Sh day of February 1860 and in favor
Of Richard D. Lahrop, e AL and against George Green
William Green James Q. Traer, John w. Traer and VIII
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south east Of fractional lot number traction
al block number six in the village of Cedar Falls Black
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north to the north ne Of said lot thence east twenty
feet thence south to the place Of beginning Also part
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and three signed by George Secord EACH dated
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October 1862 and the further Of 30 costs
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door Of the Post Office In Cedar Fals Rack Hawk Coun
IT, Iowa. offer At Public Sale TO the highest bidder for cash
all the right title and interest Of said persons above nam
ed In and 70 the above described property TO say aid
execution and costs. LAUREL SUMMERS
U. 3. Marshal for the District Of Iowa.
By Horace Turtle, Deputy.
March 18th, 1860. 81
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