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rTNHE COMPREHENSIVE HERETOFORE
l. existing between the undersigned under the
6rm al name Of RICHARDSON, W EST Co., is this
day dissolved by mutual consent, Mr.. GIVEN rc-
firing. The business will be conducted by the
70 naming parties, At the same Office, and under
the same style.
ID. N. RICHARDSON,
GEO. K. WEST,
JNO. G. GIVEN,
GEO. +. CARPENTER
DAvENPoRr, Monday, Oct Is, 1860.
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EDUCATIONAL.
"A 9 "A ID z M X
-OFTHE-
TnArULATE CINC EPT.t.E
YOUNG hADIH0.
DAVENs ORT, IOWA
Conducted by the listers Of Charity
Oh The
BifSScA VirXiM.
EDUCA TON AL.
BifSscA VirgiIa.

gINHIS INSTITUTION Is MOST BEAUTIFUL
l ly situated about mile from Davenport
and commands view of scenery unsurpassed 1or
richness and variety.
Unceasing and vigilance will be exercised
tOpromote the moral and intellectual improve
met OF the pupils and in sickness the necessities
Of the slffcrer Will be administered to with the
fondLess Of parent.
The course OF education comprises Orthogra
ply, Reading, Writing. Arithmetic, Grammar
Elocusion, Ger sraphy (ancient and modern, His
tory tsacred and pioiane,) Algebra, Book Keep
ing, Astronomy, with the use OF the Globes, Ny
tho.ogy. Rhetoric, Chemistry, Natural Phio-o
ply, physiology, Botany, the French and Gernar
Languages Music on the Piano, Guitar. Ae,, Draw
ing in Crayon, Monochromattc and Poychromotic
also clan and Oriental Painting, AID >. &C lea
instruction 10 Necdle-work, both plain and Orna
mental
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Union Coffee Il spice Mill,
CORNER OF FRONT.AND MAIN
Sovael &. r JONES. 4 60.
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COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.
oosN.s THIRD AND PsaRY sTRsgIA

! THOROUGH COURSE OF INSTRUCTION
"A given in all branches appertaining 10 . busi-
ness education tsught atsny Co0nersial College
in tho United Stsees
Sepersee insssUesioR givsn, u desired, II Pen
manehlp. Agishnesic ea1 Photography.
Rooms or'sn from =. y. till SP.n.
Foe further paso6oulaxs eell1s the sooms oPtoa1
IA cireslsF. $50
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TERMS:
Board and Nu'tion, including Bed and
neddir :, per annum, ..sllo,oo
For each Of the Foreign Languages, per
quarter, SO, 00
Music on Piano, with use Of instrument.
per quarter, 1900
Music on Guitar, with use Of instrument
per quarter, 1900
Drawing and Painting in Water Colors
and on Velvet, per quarter, 500
Monochromatic Drawing, per quarter, 500
Oil Painting, 1000
Embroidery, 800
| Astronomy, with use Of the Globes, per
quarter, 800
Rhetoric. Philosophy, Chemistry, Physiol-
Ogy and Bot ny, per quarter. .......... 800
Towering work in Wax OF Leather, each
per quarter, 800
Washing, per quarter, 500
Med .ciaes and Medica Attendance will be N
extra charge.
Payments mast be made haf-ycArly in advance
and
rKon TINS RULE THERE WILL BE No DEVIATION.
E Young Ladies' If every Denomination ere
admitted into this Academy, but ~ order 10 noc-
essary, they will be required to observe tho ordi
nary regulations Of external worship.
Persons residing 1t = distance are required t.
have RESPONSE bic agent in the city Of davenport
Ne reduction will be made in Ut pupils bein.
Wlthdf1 wn before the expiration Ot the quarter
excepting by p.otracted sickness. One months
notice Of the removal Of each young Lady il re-
| quested.
The correspondence Of the pupils is subject "a
inspection.
For the present year no Uniform will be re-
quired.
Each pupil be required TO provide himself with
furnished Work-box, six Towels, six Table
| Napkins, Combs. Tooth and Hair Brushes. Knife
| and Fork. Dessert and Teaspoon. and Tumbler
There will be Sessions Of months each in the
| scholastic year, commencing on the FIRST Monday
| in September, and ending % the second day D,
July. with ono week allowed for vacation. .,
| Christmas
| Parents can see their children on Thursdays, IN
the Afternoon and no visitors but those authorised
| by the parents, or guardians, will be allowed Il
see the young ladies. The parents who reside IL
| Davenport can Ike their children home on tbs
| first Saturday If each month, but they must re
turn on the following Sunday afternoon.
/ Attached 70 the Academy IL = Day school fo
those in the neighborhood who wish to avail
| th emselves Of it.
Letters TO De addressed TO
SISTER NAKY MARGARET MANN,
| Academy 81 the Immaculate Conception.
| D.veLport. Iowa. A-0
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CO PLUMMER, No. so Brady st.,
Agent for Grover Il Bakers Sewing Machines.
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STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS,
County Of Berkshire.

= -. = " - 1cS
County Of Berkshire.
Z. II. kellogg, President, and J. c. Goodridge.
Secretary, OF the Western Massachusetts, Insura
Company, being sevofay sworn, aepose and say
that the foregoing is full true and correct state
ment Of the affairs Of the said company that the
said insurance company is the bona de owner Of At
least one hundred thousand dollars Of actual cash
capital invested in stocks and bonds, or in mort
8 gcs on ke.l Estate, worth double the amount
fer which the same is mOrtgaged that the abov e
desc bed inv ments. mr. any part thereof are
made for the benefit Of any individual exercising
authority in the management Of said Company.
either as President, Treasurer, secretary, Direct
or, Or otherwise; that tho mortgages above do,
scribed have not been assigned, in any man
ner released Or impaired BY said Company and
that they are the above described ohhcsrs Of said
Insurance Company.
[Signedl i. Il. KELLOGG, President.
J. G. GOODRlDGE, Secretary.
Subscribed ard sworn before me this 23d day
Of January, 1861.
[Signed] ROBERT w. ADAM,
Justice Of the Peace.
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> TT r y ~ E.rT
OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Western Massachusetts InS. Co.,

On the 18th of January, 1851.
MADE TO THE AUuITOR OF IOWA, PUR
Av1 suant to the Statute Of that State. emitted
- u act 70 regulate Insurance Companies not In
oorporated BY the State Of lows" passed January
18th, 1857.
~.
The name of the Company i, '.Nestcrn Mass achu
setts Insurance Company" and Is located at
ut SHIELD, lass.
The ampu..t Of its capt. ! stock u.s.. $4,000 90
The amour, Of its capital stock paid
UP s.... .....'..... .............. l3O,OOO ~
ASSETS
Cash Of the Company on hani.. 1917 Ga
Cash in hands of and due from agents. 1899 O5
Real Estate unincum bel ed. .......... None.
PERSONAL property. ................. 1869 VI
The bonds and stocks owed by .be Company as
per vouchers accompanying, how secured and rate
OF interest thereon, to wit
Amount
2o2 shares Of the Pitts6eld Bank stock. $50. Goa
20 shares Of the Agricultural Bank stock. 2s75
80 shares Of the Webster Bank stock. SIS.
~ shares OF the Merchants Bank stock 32lu
80 shares Of the Adams Bank stock -. g,3l5
% shares Of Rochester City Bank stocx 2 800
5 shares of the Lee Bank stock. .... eUO
shares Of the Hadley Falls bank stock. 500
Total Bonds and Stocks. ....... .s42 sv4
Debts due the Company secured by mortgage ON
unincumbcred Real Estate per vouch ers accom-
panying.
The mortgage Of sundry persons, as per-
certificate Of NJ. ). Wilson, Register 500 $50
The mortgage Of sundry persons, as per
certificate Of X. " hitting, Register 49,. sc 300
Total mortgages. 500 $50
Debts otherwise secured as per vouchers accom-
panying, viz:
Par value. Market value. Am loan a
95 shares Of the
Pit,sfeld bank
stock ....... $S9,5O) 50 500
5 shares Of the
Stockbri
Il Pittsfeld Il.
k............ 500 $3.50 500
Total amount loaned on above $40, 900 %
Accrued interest. 245l %
Debts tor premiums Observation-Disclosures. none
All other securities. ............6 Sc s47 ~
Total assets Of the Company .S213, 3l7 as
LIABILITIES.
TIE amount Of liabilities due or not due
to banks or other creditors. .. none
Losses ad justed and due. ....... none
Losses adj usted and not due ........$ 6, Alb ID
Losses unadjusted $50. ...... 14OUO 90
Losses In suspense, waiting for further
proof. ........ none,
All Their claims against the Company,
none except for small contingent ex-
lenses.
Total liabilities. $40. Alb 81
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GROVER & BAKERS
NOISELESS
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE,
vI,IE UNDERSIGNED, CLERGYMEN OF
various denominations, having purchased
and used in our families "GRovgR Il BAKERS
CELEBRATED FAMILY SEWING MACHINE" take
pleasure in recommending it as Instrument
fully CON sin.ng the essentials Of cool machine.
Its beautiful simplicity. case OF management,
and the strength and elasticity OF its stitch unite
to render il a machine unsurpassed by any in the
In lrket, and one which We feel confident will give
satisfacti,n 10 all who may purchase and useit
Rev. w. ?. STRICKLAND
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AUDirOR's OFFICE, I0wA,l
Des M0iaes, Feb. 1st. 1861.

AUDITORY OFFICE, Iowa.,
DesAloiass, Feb. 1st, 1851.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED. That on the Sl.t day
Of January, 1861, sworn statement was fed 10
this Office, showing the condition Of the Western
Massachuse t. Insurance company, located II
Pitts6eid, in the State Of Massachusetts, on the
LIST day If January, 1861, in accordance with y
provi ion Of IN act Of the General Assembly Of
tho State OF lows, entitled IN act in relation TO
Insurance Companies, approved January 28th.
1887, and An act amendstOry thereto, approved
February 9th, 1858; that said statement shows
that said Company 10 POSSESSED Of tho requisite
amount Of capital, and invested ~ required BY
Law.
Authority is Therefore given to tho shove
named Company to transact business Of in urance
in this State in accordance with the laws thereof
until tho LIST day Of January, A. d., 1852.
1t il also certi6 d, that John l.. Swils, Esq, Of
Davenport, has been duly appointed by said
Company their awful agent and attorney for the
county or Scott, with fail power to take risks Of
insursnee therein, and TO acknowledge service OF
process, - provided by law, upon his fling with
the Clerk Of the District Court in and for said
county, scerti6ed copy Of the statement on file
in this Office II is further certified that the
attached il true and correct copy Of the state
ment.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and q fi xed my seal Of ONE, this LIST day Of
February, 1861.
IL. 81 w.CATTsLL,
frv,1 AUDITOR Of State.
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The Ruins of Rome.


The Italian climate, moreover, robs age Of
its reverence, and makes it look newer than
it is. Not the Coliseum, nor the tombs OF
the Appian Way, nor the oldest pillar in the
Forum, nor any other Roman ruin, be it as
dilipidated as it may, ever give the imprcs:
sion Of venerable antiquity which we gather
along with the ivy, from the gray walls Ct
an English abbey or castle. And:yet every
brick or stone which we pick up among the
former, had fallen ages before the foundation
Of the latter was begun. This is owing to
the kndliness with which Nature takes an
English ruin to her heart, covering it with
ivy, as 'enderly as Robin Readbrest covered
the dead babes with forest leaves. She
strives to make it part ofherself gradually
oblitera ting the handiwork of man, and sup.
planting it with her own MOSES and trailing
verdure, till she has won the whole structure
back. But in Italy, wherever man has once
hewn stone, Nature forthwith relinquishes
her right to it, and never lay her::f fnaer on il
again. Age after age finds it bare and M.
ked, in the barren sunshine, ard leaves it so
- Hotetherne.
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The EsSssmastcr General.
[Fre m the Boston Courier, March g.

Hon. Montgomery Blair, the newly ap-
pointed Postmaster General, was born in tho
State of Kentucky, but removed in his youth,
with the other members of his family to the
city of Washington in 1929, the first year of
| Gen. Jackson's administration. His father,
the Hon. Francis P. Blair, was the founder
of the Globe newspaper in Washington one
of its first proprietors, and, during the ad-
painistrations of Gen. Jackson, Mr.. Van
Buren, Gen. Harrison and President Tyler,
its sole editor. He is man eminenty dis
tinguished fol his talents, learning political
sagacity and integrity of character. As an
editor, perhaps, we have never had IN the
country his superior, in the general manage.
ment of a political journal. He was an init
mate friend Of Gen. jackson, and prosahly.
more trusted by the old hero Of the Hermit.
age than any other man.
His son, the present Postmaster General
inherits largely his fathers talents and sa-
gacity. He has been most faithfully educa-
ted, firstat West Point, and then as lawyer.
He was placed upon the bench in the State
of Missouri at very early age in life, where
he acquitted himself as judge with great
ability. Subsequently he received from Presi.
dent Pierce. disappointment of rs. Attorney
for the Court of Claims, than which more
laborous position cannot be found in any Of
the departments OF the government. Thous-
ands will bear willing testimony to the ready
learning, the great ability, and the persever.
ing and untiring industry which Judge Blair
brought to bear in the discharge of the du-
ties of that responsible Office.
Whatever differences of opinion may ex-
list in his party, as to his political tendencies
or afiinitics, all who have made the acquaint-
ance of Judge Blair viii accord to him tai.
ents of the first order, profound learning as
a jurist, the most energetic industry and per.
severance in whatever he undertakes, and o
moral character entirely without reproach.
Judge Blair is an elder brother of the Rep
resentative in Congress from the State of
Missouri, Hon. F. P. Blair, Jr.; and his wife
"a lady Of rare aceoomplishments-is a
daughter Of the late Hon. Levi Woodbury..
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Mark tho FlUnkey.

The proprietors of Harpsr's Weekly Jour-
nal have seemed determined to show the ut
most extent of meanness to which bastard
ly fear of losing their Southern customers
can carry men who are otherwise decent
unless, indeed, we in charity assume that q
partisan malice has helped the meanness,
and that detestation of the Republican prin-
part inspired their recent course. In one Of
their recent papers they try to conciliate
their Southern patrons--whose only ground
Of offense agninst them seems to have
been that tolerable picture of President
Lincoln was displayed in The Journal just
after the election-by representing Mr..
Beecher and John Brown as presiding at
communion service where Lincoln, Sumner,
and others are partakers, but where the Sac
rament is violently and saornfuly refused to
Washington on the ground OF 'No commun.
ion with shareholders :" and beneath this
they show still more odious and disgusting
caricature of the present President of the
United States, in which he whom so many
millions of his countrymen honor and con.
fide in, as among the purest and most emf
uent of Statesmen, is represented as stupid
driveling, maudlin sot, rehearsing silly and
tipsy jests tot company of wretched old
sots like himself, while the Constitution and
the Union are in the distance borne by up
on hearse.
No language seems to us adequate to
characterize the deteStab!e meanness or the
criminal malice of these mendacious misrep-
reservations of men whom the best portion
of our countrymen are every day learning
more and more to honor and to trust. If
any such scurrilous and libelous exhibitions
shall be made by them in future, it will be .
duty which every respectable Northern man
owes to himself, to his family, to his country
to make his reprobation of such elaborate
fonlness of falsehood felt by these people
where only they can be expected to feel it
in the pocket-by refusing to purchase az
other number of the sheet which they defile
with shch poisonous scum, or make It
precious in the eyes Of the South. If they
are wiling thus to violate the truth, and
override all public decencies, let them learn
! at any rate that the North has some sense
! of what is due to itself, and that such ribald
slang will not be purchased by those who
heretofore have been their best patrons. ~
| y Indepenaent.
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Two Bald Heads.
'hese correspondents say:

These correspondents say:
ave have heard many reasons given for
the rapidly increasing badness among men
who have not even reached middle life; hut
the true reason, We think has rot yet been
guessed. We declare It to be mainly owing
to the fact that business men are in the hab-
it of wearing their hats to so great an extent
in their heated counting-rooms during bust
ness hours All physicians know that caps
constantly worn by infants in the house re-
tard the growth Of the hair. This old FASH
ioned custom, therefore modern mothers
have long since dispensed with. We think
business men had better endure an occasion.
al "draft' than thus run the risk Of parting
with all their hair before they begin to grow
old in other respects. We are both bald
headed. and are certain that our bald
ness was oecasioned by the practice alluded
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Mr.. Lincoln's White House habits are
very regular and simple. The servants of
his predecessor are still retained The
Washington correspondent of the Philidel
phia Press says Mr.. Lincoln "rises early, and
begins to receive confidential friends at
eight o'clock in the morning; bears himself
with dignity and courtesy, and attends to
ths duties of his office with great regularity
As soon as the hurry is over, the White
House will be refitted aud rearranged, ac-
cording to precedent, Congress having
made the usual appropriation for this pur.
pose"
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WAS LINCOLN IN DANGER AT BALTIMORE?
A correspondent Of the Macon, (Ga.) TEL
egraph, writing from Baltimore, states that
Mr. Lincoln would have been egged beyond
a shadow of doubt had he passed through
that city according to the programme. The
writer speaks of his own knowledge, for he
was in the crowd at the depot, heard the
threats Of those composing it, saw the eggs,
and, what is mere to the purpose, nasal proof
of their bad quality as they were premature
ly crushed in the swaying of the crowd.
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MARCH,
Mt WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.


DY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
The stormy M,rch has come atlast,
With wind and cloud and changing skies
hear the rushing of the blast,
That through the snowy valley flies.
All, passing free are they who speak,
Wild, stormy month in praise of thee, H.a
Yet, though thy winds are loun and bleak,
Thou art welcome month to me.
For thou to northern lands again
The glad ar d glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast Joined the gentle train
And wears the gentle name offspring
And In the reign of blast and storm,
Smiles many a long. bright sunny day,
When the changed winds are soft and warm,
And Heaven puts on the blue Of May.
Then sina along the gushing rils,
And the fall spring, from irosts set free,
That, brightly leaping down The hills,
Are just set out to meet the sea. -a
The years departing beauty hides
of wintry storms the sullen threat;
But In thy stearnest frown abides
look Of kindly promise yet.
Thou bring'st the hope Of those calm skies,
And tha: soft time Of sunny showers,
When the wide bloom Of earth that lies,
Seems Of brighter world than ours.
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It is ascertained on further investigation
that Illinois will be entitled to fourteen men,
hers Of CONGRESS- inst ad Of thirteen as first
reported. This is gain Of five members,
and the largest gain ofany State in tl,eU Union.
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81 can't undertake, wife, to crafty all
your whims it would be as much as my
life is worth" "Oh, sir, that's nothing"
she replied.
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A real lady never gossips. She is too
thoughtful, too amiablc, too modest, too wise
to gossip. Gossiping women are not womanly
ladies.
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Mr.. Lincoln received last week from en-
Office seeker, petition said TO be eper frS
miles iN lcrgtal
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-03-27

One Strong Advantage of Fort Sumter
II can never get out at water.