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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

Hon. Geo. Bancroft once delivered
an address before the New York His.
torlcal Society, in which he said
"Not the half Of Franklin's merits
have been told. He was the father of
the American Union. 1t was he who
went forth TO lay the great design at
Albany and in New York he lifted
up his voice. Here among us he an
pearcd as the apostle of the Union
1t was Franklin who suggested the
Congress of l774 and but for his
wisdom, and the confidence that wis
dom inspired, it is q matter of doubt
whether that Congress would have
taken effect. 1t was Franklin who
suggested the bond of this Union
which binds these States from Florida
to Maine. Franklin was the greatest
diplomatist of the eighteenth century.
He never spoke a word too soon ho
never spoke 4 word too late he new
er spoke word too much he never
failed to speak the right word at the
right season.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
DOUGLAS AS A STAKEHOLDER

Mr.. Douglas has substantial reasons
for regarding the spread of the insti-
tuition Of slavery with a favorable eye,
as appears from the Mobile Register.
That paper cannot see why southern
politicians should have any fears of
his soundness on the slavery question.
1t says:
By the death, lately, of the mother
of Judge Douglass first wife, who was
Miss Martin, of North Carolina, his
two boys, his only children, came into
the possession Of large fortune, con-
sisting Of plantations and slaves. This
added to his extensive Mississippi
property, will make Mr.. Douglas, in
behalf of his children, one of the lar
gest slave-owners in the South. How
man who has twice selected South
ern lady for his wife, the whole for
tune Of whose children is dependent
on the pcrpetuity of our institutions :;
who in his public life has ever been
the friend, and, until quite recently,
the idol of the South who is almost
the only northern man IF prominence
that has never uttered 'onc word Of
dislike, much less Of hatred to slave
ry, how such man can be represent
ed as a worse enemy to slavery than
Lincoln, passes ovr comprehension.
The Judge has been sent for by his
connections in North Carolina, and
will probably visit the old North
State.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
THE EDITOR.

The editor is 4 man who is expect
ed to know everybody, tell all he
knows, aud guess at the rest; to
make known his own good character,
establish the reputation Of his neigh
bors, and elect all candidates for Of
flee to blow up everybody, suit eve
rybody, and reform the world to live
for the benefit Of others, and have the
cpitaph on his tombstone, " Here he
lies at last :" in short he is q locomo-
tive runner on the track of public no.
toriety his lever is his pen, his boil
cr is filled with ink /; his tender is his
scissors his driving wheel is public
opinion whenever he explodes it is
caused by non-payment Of subscrip,
tionS.
An editor is a public servant and
withal a servant of the devil. A good,
natured fellow-must always smile
bow to everybody-must be killing
polite on all occasions, is always ex-
pccted to know the latest news, is
styled "Muggins if he is not well
posted must please everybody, and
is supposed never to need the one
thing needtul must work for moth
inc and board himself must trust
everybody, and is considered great
bore if he presses his bill must be q
ladder for all political aspirants to
step into Office, who very soon become
independent, don't owe him anything,
consider him q good fellow, and final
ly, summing it up, he is expected to
be a man without a model and with
out shadow.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
NUMBER 40.
AMERICAN GIRLS & MATRIMONY

American girls Of good education
do not know how lucky they are.
Every American girl who is sane and
sound-and many who are neither one
nor the other--lIas not one, but MANY
chances OF marriage. 1t is very diff
terent in Europe In the country
towns in England marrying men arc
so rare that it is quite common to
see dozen charming girls, all we'll
educated, pretty, and lady-like, fight
ing tor a half starved curate or a
wretched attorney. Among English
mothers matchmaking is carried 10 an
extent wholly unknown here and
not from mean motives but from sheer
necessity. In France no father ex-
poets his daughter to get husband
unless she buys him. Every man
who has a daughter begins when she
is ten years old, to save money to brv
husband. Papa and mamma de-
prIve themselves of luxuries, and even
necessities, to amass a respectable
sum; the boys education is cut short
to swell the daughters purse. In
proportion to the size is the quality of
the husband. \ father who can give
his daughter half a million francs will
expect General or a Senator, and
SO on down. In Germany and indeed
throughout Europe, a father who cx-
poets his daughter to marry, must buy
husband. In America, hearts are
conquered, not bought Any good
girl, however poor, can always, if she
will, obtain q husband-and one she
will be proud of, and in every way
worthy Of her hand and heart.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
OLD MAIDS,

AS class, and on the whole the
worlds least sinful inhabitants wc
have always thought, are " old maids
We are glad to see n kind word in
their favor, in the Home Journal.
Thus says the writer:
There is something in the lot of a
woman who has courageously GOT over
an early disappointment, and who sets
herself to do good in her generation.
and give her ncighbors as much han
p'ncss as she can. That she should
preserve her beauty undiminished at
fifty, and foster a permanent but hone.
less affection in the breast of a curatc
or doctor, are rewards of her rood-
ness which, II they could but be trans
tcrrca from tcton to real life, we GER
taInIy should not grudge her. But
although there are old maids who bear
disappointment in this noble way
there are other old maids whose dis
appointment consists in never having
mad any disappointment to bear and
tins is trial which, at one period of
lltr, is hard to endure, and ought to
AWAKEN more sympathy than it does"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
American Hotel.
NlLN SINEEE, NGREGOR. 10

MAN STREET, NGREGOR, 10 Va
wM. II. HARDING, rKOpRIEToR.
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, aud ii attention 10 tho
wants of guests, good fare and low prices AZ,
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 ar
experienced Ustlcr, and tcamsters can dcpenC
upon having their teams well cared for. This
house being the Stage Office Railroad Ticket
Ol1cc, American Express and General Freight
Office, presents more advantages than any
other can show in the city, and all Task o
my friends, is to try me once, and if not salts
fed, will not ask them to come again.
McGregor, July 1850
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
at(istelIanu.
A COMMUNAL SERMON.

\ connubial little sermon, from the
text, Be happp as you are" is thus
preached by contemporary:
wife and mother, are You tired
and ont Of patience with your hus-
bands and your children's demands
upon your time and attention! Are
you tempted to give expression to an
CRY feelings towards that faithful, but
sometimes needless and eXacting hus-
band Of yours? or to scold and fret
at those sweet and lovely little ones ?
DO you groan and say, What a fool
was to marry, and leave my fathers
house, where | lived at ease and in
quiet?' Are you, by reason of the
care and weariness of body which
wifehood and motherhood must bring,
forgetful of. and unmindful for their
comforts and their joys?
Oh, wife and mother, what if a stroke
should smite your husband, and lay
him low? What if your children
should be snatched from your bosom ?
What if there were no true, strong
heart for you to lean upon? What ii
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
THE "LADY ELGIN" CALAMITY.

Senator Seward opened his recent
speech at Madison, Wis, with the fol-
lowing touching alIusion to the loss of
the steamer Lady Elgin:
Fellow Citizcns-It is bright Sep
tembcr sun that is shining down upon
us; such sun as nature, pleased
with the remembrance of her own be-
neticcnce, seems to delight in sending
forth to grace the close of season
which has been crowned with abun-
dance and luXuriancc, unknown even
to her own protuscness. 1t is such
sun as nature, pleased with seeing the
growth Of n noble capital in great
State, may he supposed to send out to
illuminate and to make more cffulgcnt
the magnificent beauties of the place
on which we are assembled 1t is
such a September sun as we might al
most suppose nature, sympathizing
with the efforts of good men, lovers of
liberty, anxious to secure their own
freedom, to pcrpctuatc that freedom
for the enjoyment of their postcrity,
and to extend its blessings through
ont the whole world, and for all gcu-
rrations, may have sent forth in token
Of sympathy with such u noble race.
But, fellow citizens, bright and
cheerful as this hour is, my heart is
| oppressed, and | am unable at once
to lift myself above the sadness of re-
cent scenes and painful recollcctions
| obcycd the command Of the Rcpub-
lican people Of Wisconsin, to appear
before them on this, the 18th day of
September; and as approached the
beautiful seaport, if may SO call the
city that crowns the shores of Lake
Michigan, and affords entrance to this
magnificent State, had anticipated,
because had become habituatcd to,
welcome that should bc distinguish-
cd by the light of a thousand torches,
and by the voices Of music and Of can
non. But the angel of death passed
just before me on the way, and instead
Of footsteps lighted with the greeting
of thousands Of my fellow citizens, |
found only thick darkness, incrcas-
ed, rs only natures darkness can be,
by the weeping and wailing of moth
crs for the loss of children, and refus-
ing to be comtorted have been un-
able to rise from that sudden shock
| to forget that instead of the voice of
a merry and genial welcome, heard
only mourning and lamentation in the
streets.
To you, perhaps, the scene seems
| somewhat foreign, becausec it occur
rcd in your beautiful seaport, but it
was not merely municipal calamity
1t is a calamity and disaster that be-
falls the State, and strikes home dis
may and horror to the bosoms of all
its people, for these were citizens Of
the State who have pcrished, and
those who survive are mourucrs the
desolatc widows and orphans who are
bercaved. Let me, before proceed,
take the liberty to bring this subject
home to the State authorities of Wis
consin, and ask and implorc that moth
ing may be left undonc, if there is yet
any thing that can be done, to rescue
single sufferer from that dreadful
calamity, and bring to the comforts
of social life, and Of sound, good,
religious and public education, the
orphans who are left to wander on the
streets by the lake side.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
diloIitital.
TIE
SEVERAL POLITICAL PLATFORMS.

THE REPUBLICAN, CREED.
cANpIp,1ES
For PrcStlcM-Abraham Lincoln, of
Illinois.
Fer lIce Presidem-lIannibal Ham
lin, Of Maine.
PLATFORM.
Below is the Platform adopted at
the National Convention, recently hol-
den at Chicago:
Resolr rd, That we, the delegated
representatives Of the Republican
electors Of the United States, in Con-.
vcution assembled, in discharge Of the
duty we owe to our constituents, and
our country, unite i'll the following
declaration
!. That the history Of the nation
during the last four years, has fully
established the propricty aud ncccssi-
ty Of this organization and that the
causes which called it into existence
are permanent in their nature, and
now, more than ever before, demand
its peaceful and constitutional tri-
umph.
2. That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated i'll the Declar-
alton Of Independence and embodied
in the Federal Constitution. that all
men are created equal that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain
inailiablc rights that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness that to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent Of the govcrncd--is cS-
scntial to the preservation Of our Re
publican institutions and that the
Federal Constitution, the Rights of the
States, and the Union Of the States,
must and shall be preserved.
3. That to the Union Of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in,
crease in population, its surprising
development Of material resources, its
rapid augmentation Of wealth, its hap
pincss at home and its honor abroad
and we hold in adherence all schemes
for Disunion, come from whatever
source they may. We congratulate
the country that no Republican mem,
Der of Congress has uttered or coun'
tcnanccd the threats of Disunion Sc
often made by Democratic members,
without rcbukc and with applause
from their political associates and
we denouncc those threats of dis,
union, in case of popular overthrow
of their ascendency, as denying the
vital principles of a free government,
and as an avowal of contemplated
treason, which it is the imperative du.
ty Of an indignant people stcrnly to
rebuke and forever silence
4. That the maintenance inviolatc
Of the rights Of the States, and especi
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
poetrpn.
For the st. Charles city mtell zen,
FAREWELL TO YOUTH.
DY FITZ JAMES MACKAY

One more burst of youthful laughter.
One more gush OF childhood. tears,
One day mole of castle building.
One more dream of golden years.
One more childish superstition,
Here. the pnst and present sever
Here. bid my old companions.
Youth and Truth, farewell forever.
Still ] pause and glance behind ne,
And with bitter, deep regret,
Sec the radiant star of childhood,
With fading glory, set.
But farewell, yc happy moments,
From my presence ever flee:
| would live in hope, mon cherish
T. on the sweetest memory.
Yes. farewell stcrnly, Time, oh sternIv
Still the pulse and dry my tears.
Steel my heart, and make me ready
For thc war Of coming years.
Nerve, oh, nerve my heart for mrnhoud,
Keep il firm for manhooi's sake,
Till ut luSt, ia bitter anguish,
Ger thy bounds, Oh Time, it breaks.
September, 1860.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
For the st, Charles City IntcIligc,
TO MRS. S. HAYS,
By MISS II. +. BRAYSAED.

By MISS II. F. BRAYSAED.
Oh, can there nOu@ht be found on earth
TO soothe the aching heart,
When with friend to lis most dear
We have Gecrcallcd to part!
The heart that once o 'erfiowel with Joy,
To know that it was blessed
With ties to soothc its throbbing pains
When heavy and distressed,
Is bleeding now at every pore,
For death cold hand is laid
Upon the bud once bright and fair
BY death twas bid to fade.
Oh, can the joys of earth suffice
To give that heart relief,
Who, i'll this trying, painful hour,
Is weighed So low in grief
There is no place but in that Heaven
Where saints and angels dwell
There We may look through faith and bid
WILLIE the long farewell.
Floyd Aug. 25th, 1850.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
For the Il. Charles City !:;el'ifcu
LONGINGS IN AFFLICTION.
DY Miss ELIZABETH J. COLE.

Bf Miss ELIZABETH J. COLE.
| long to tread the sacred aisle,
And hear the GOSPEL sound once more,
To feel Il Savior's loving smile,
Such glory . CT my spirits pour.
Aiiiiction binds my willing feet
From Thy Lowell people blcat abode 4;
Faiu would hear their converse sweet,
And walk the dear, familiar road.
PcrChanCc | nee may trace again
The walks loved 10 well OF yore,
But where the blessed Savior rrigns,
No pain will ever reach me more
Great God, refine my every thought
Oh make me now and ever thine.
Then | shall praise Thee Us | ought,
Superior joys will then be mine.
killbucl, Ogle Co., H., Aug. 23, 1860.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

A GIRL PLAYING DANDY.-A gentle
man of New York, married and veal
thy, visited Saratoga this season with
his nephew" a youth who was the
envy Of the young men and the admi-
ration of the young ladies. Charley
smoked, drank, and did many other
" fast" things. One day he got drunk.
and said many funny things. among
them that Charley" was n woman.
This proved to be fact, and on tho
development the married New York
er and the nephew" Charley con-
cludcd that Saratoga was not hcal-
thy place.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
A. b. +. HlLDRETH,
General land rent.

ST. CHARLES CITY, FLOYD CO., IOWA,
Will attend to buying, selling and selecting
.nds on Commission, &c. Town Lots bought
sonveyancing and payment of Taxes promptly
attended to. Friends at the East, as wcllasin
this State, are requested to make application
my agency. Satisfactory references given
required
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

The clergy i'll some places have set
apart a day to be observed as one of
special thanksgiving for the bountiful
harvest with which the people have
been favored. This is highly proper,
and we wonder that the clergy Of
Iowa generally have taken no action
in the matter
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

1t is said that Gov. Stevens, of
Washington territory, now chairman
of the Breckinridge national commit
tee, is the $4,000 dcfaulter to the
treasury department, lately mentioned
in the papers.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04
JAS. JACKSON,
dRCHIIECT &. BUILDER

ST, CHARLES CITY, Iowa.
prepared to execute in Il neat and tasty
maner, Ground Plans, Elevations, Perspective
Views and all other kinds OF Architectural
Drawings.
Original designs for Dwellings, and Public
Buildings furnished at reasonable rates.
Buildngscontractcdtur OF put up 10y the day
Lessons 8iycnin Architectural draughting
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

Lord Renfrew has been out cunning
on the Illinois prairics. He shot 2S
quail and 3 rabbits, and expressed
himself as highly delighted with his
first experiment at sporting in Amer
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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

The NJ. L. Church has now three
Conferences in this State the Iowa
Conference, the Western Iowa Confer.
euce aud the Upper Iowa Conference
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

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6. That the people Justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza
which pcrvalcs every department Of
'he le1rr2i Government mat re-
turn to rigid economy and acc0uuta-
biity is Indispensable to arrest the
systematic pluudcr of the public
treasury hv favored partisars while
the recent startling developments Of
frauds and corruptioms at the Federal
metropolis, show that an entire change
Of administration is impcyutivcly de-
mandcd.
That the now dorna that the
Constitution, Of its own force, carries
Slavery into any or all Of the Terrific
rics of the United States, is DANGER
Gus political hrrcsy, at Variance With
the explicit provisions Of that il.Stru-
mcmt itself with contcmporaucouS OK
position, and with Legislative and iu-
dicial precedent is revolutionary in
its tendency, and subycrsivc Of tic
peace ami harmony Of the country.
: TI.. tlo uor,,,,I r,,liti..,,. ,r al
tie territory Of the I,rjtrI States i
lhat Of fr,rIum THAT rs orr p.nnh.
nr;l, rail,rs ,yhrn tIrv had 2I,l:.I.
cd slavery IN all on,. rntir,.I t.r,;r.-
|ry. oyIaincI that emo rcrsun shnuII
| Hr lruriy,I Of lif. liberty or pr,rrl..
ty, without Guc nrorrss Of law !,
| hccomca Luty. iy lr.gi,Iation.v hem
ever sn,D Icr;sI3tjnn i urrrSs3,v f.
maintain this provision Of the CUnstj-
tuition AGAINST all ATTEMPTS to violate
! it and we DENY the authority Of Con
orcss, Of a territorial lroislaturc, or
| Of any Individuals. to rive lcral rx.
tension to slavery in any territory Of
the United States.
.. That we brand the recent re-
opening. Of tie African slave trade,
mnJcv the cover Of our national flag,
aided 10y pcrvcrsious of judicial pow
,r as a rIir,n pr,,i,st Lur,,ritN and
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

Will our friends send papers and
letters, intended for us, to 81. ChorIes
City, H"yI Couaty, Era ? and not to
"S St Charles, Iowa."
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-04

James I. Brady, candidate for Gov.
ernor ON the Breckinridge ticket in
New York, recently made a speech in
which he proclaimed war to the knife
against the Douglas Democracy, de-
ciaring that if Lincoln were elected,
Seward would be his Secretary cf
State and Evarts would take Sew
ards place i'll the Senate in which
event the Republican would be the
only national party, and would be in
the ascendant, and that after this con-
test Douglas would not be heard of
again. This speech is regarded as u
final blow to a union of the Democra-
cy of New York.