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St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04

Iy attCrward the horrible and unac.
countablc poisoning affair at the Ma
tional Hotel developed itself, by which
many persons lost their lives. \
short time atterward Senator Rusk, on
his return to Texas, committed sui.
eide without any apparent cause.
Oar informant regarded the matter at
the time as idle talk and as the vapor.
ings of such crazy characters as Kcitt
and Brooks, but in view of what has
transpired since, all the circumstances
related certainly are remarkably GU.
rious. This was during Frank Picrce's
administration, but our informant does
not think he knew anything about it
except perhaps as one Of the thousand
rumorS of the day.
But there is other evidence that n
matured plan existed at that time to
break up the Union, the witness being
no less a parsonage than James Bu-
chanan, who informed some members
of the Boston City Government, du-
ring a visit to Washington last year,
that he knew of the existence of a
plot to break up the Union had Fre-
mont been elected. Mr.. Buchanan
ought to have known that if such a
plot existed it had only been postpon-
ed, not abandoned but he allowed
the traitors to mature their nefarious
schemes at the close of his own term
without interference.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
THE CAPTURED PIRATES.

The capture of the privateer schoOn-
cr Savannah, with thirty fclons on
board, who had just signalizcd their
character by seizing the brig Joseph
+. Richards near Georgetown, >. G.,
brings the questions Of piracy and
the punishment of piracy, before the
government and the country. So far
as the President and Cabinet have to
deal with the matter they are solemn
ly pledged by proclamation to regard
them as pirates, and to hang them ac-
cordingly. So far as the coults of
justice may have to deal with them
they cannot be viewed in any other
light. They are taken plundcriug
private property on the high seas.
They are found sailing under letters
OF marque granted, not only by no
recognized power, but by parricides
and traitors against the government
OF the United States. They are thus
branded with the double ntamy of
piracy and treason. How they can
escape the gallows or the yard arm,
it is difficult to see.
There has been good deal of COM
plaint against the Administration for
its leniency toward the rebels captur-
cd with arms in their hands, and to-
ward spies who, by the usage of civ
ilIzed warfare, are subject to the death
penalty. 1t has been asked, of what
use is it to arrest the scOundrels if we
are only allowed to furnish them
few days rations, and then set them
at liberty. Whether this torbearance
is we'll or i'll timed we will not under
take to decide. The case now before
us is widely different. Robbery on
the highway is one thing, and robbie
ry Oh the high seas is quite another.
The laws of civilized nations, with
abundant reason, prescribe imprison-
ment for one, and death for the other.
But there are peculiar reasons why
these, the first corsalrs taken on the
ocean, should be swung aloft in the
eyes Of all nations. If public ex-
ample be made Of them, it will go far
towards ending the eXecrablc business
set on foot by jeff. Davis and his reb-
el Legislature. 1t is doubtful whether
a second rover would venture ma
rine league from the shore after his
ears were burned with the intelligence
that thirty Of his colleagues had
adorned the yard arm of the Mime.
sofa. On the other hand, if these
scoundrels are permitted TO go un-
hung not only is the Government
brought into meritcd contempt, by
coming short Of its own solemn cove
nants and engagements, but the pre-
MUM of impunity is set upon the cor
sair business, proctded Imerican commerce
Is their prey. The vagaLonds Of all ma
tons will be let loose on our mer-
chantmen, for the temptation will be
prodigious and the risk merely nomi-
nal. But the evil does not stop here.
Necessarily the confidence of our own
mercantile classes i'll the stability and
energy Of the Government must be
weakened, and their support with
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04

Agriculture ITS NOBILITY.

The farmer has been sometimes
styled Natures noblcman, title
which expresses not inaptly his pccu.
liar relations to the mysterious ruling
power of the universe. The term
nobleman, has generally been used to
designate one who assists monarch
in the administration of his govern
mcnt. In like manner the farmer co
operates with nature in the produc
ton and distribution Of her inestima
bic gifts, which are necessary to tho
support and comfort of man and beast
There are many who think farming q
low and sorvile craft, and some even
60 so far as to affirm that it scarcely
raises one above the brates, but these
| look upon as the conceptions Of vul
gar and grovelling minds, which are
not apt to form their opinions from
philosophical observations, but are
chiefly influenced by outward appear
anccs and prejudice, and often | am
led to suspect that there is no small
mixture Of slothfulncss and discomfort
in their combinations. Therefore, IN
order that we may not be led into any
grievous errors, on narrow and one
sided views, let us give the subject a
fair and candid examination, and for
this purpose suppose we look for a
moment at first principles. The har-
mony which is exhibited in tho mech.
anism Of the globe, and the nice
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
SECESSION III 1857 IN EMBRYO.

A well known Democrat of Boston
communicates the following singular
and curious facts
He was at Washington for some
time previous to the 4th of March OF
1857, having a deep interest in the
tariff bill then before Congress. His
main efforts were directed to ascer-
tain the views and secure the inhu-
ence Of the Southern members, among
whom there happened TO be an old
and intimate personal friend through
whom he was invited to their social
meetings, and asccrtained the views
and plans of the leaders from the
South, among whom were Lctcher,
Clingman, Keitt, Rusk, Preston S.
Brooks, and others. Browns hotel
was the head quarters of the South
ern delegation. and they frequently
met at Letchcr's rooms, to discuss
matters, smoke, drink whiskcy, and
curse the Yankees and the tariff. 1t
was Just after Brooks attack on Sen
ator Sumner, and the former was turi-
ous against the North. 1t was whis-
pcrcd that Rusk, kcitt, and Brooks
matuned plans for Southern Rcpub-
lie, but that Gen. Sam. Houston had
thwartcd them and threatened to have
them hung for treason. Gen. Houston
was then at the National Hotel. At
this time Brooks died at Browns very
suddenly, and there We're rumors that
hc had poisoned himself. Immediate
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
I9e yntelligenter,
" Westward the course of empire takes its way"
A. II. F. HILDRETH. Editor.
St. Charles City, Iowa, July 4, 1861.
Southern Opinions of the North.

A gentleman who has recently trav
clcd through the Southern States, and
conversed with many of the people in
that section, and the soldiers connect
ed with the Southern army, informs
the Philadelphia Press that they are
utterly incredulous in regard to the re-
ports they hear from the North in ref
erence to the number of men who
have volunteered to serve the nation
al cause, and the money and other re-
sources at our command. We are not
astonished at this. The masses of the
Southern people are at best but poor
ly informed on any subject, and they
have been grossly deceived by their
leaders about the character and posi-
ton Of the Northern people. They
have been taught to believe that near
ly all our wealth was derived direct
ly or indirectly from the South, and
that the moment she closed against
us what was supposed to be her capa-
clous purse, our very existence would
be endangered, and that we could no
more subsist without her lordly and
muniticent patronage than live with
out air and water. The evident delu-
sion involved in this doctrine will,
however, speedily be dissipated, even
though the severest financial blow we
have suffered arises from the fact that
hundreds of millions of dollars in
merchandise and in money that the
North, out of her abundance has ad-
vanced to the South in her thinly vc-
neered poverty and destitution, is not
now collcctable, and that in reality
this naughty traitor section is at this
moment indebted to us for nearly all
the signs of prosperity which exist
throughout its dominions.
Another tallacy extensively believ-
ed at the South is that while the chiv-
airy are all models Of courage, the
people of the North are essentially
cowardly and utterly incapable of en-
countering in arms the Southern for
ces. The course of events, up to this
period, if it could be understood in
the South, would go far to destroy the
idea, but a pitched battle is, perhaps, |
necessary to entirely eradicate it. 1t
is said that when one Of the fugitives
from Alexandria had retrcatcd as far
as Manassas Gap junction, he met a
South Carolina soldier, who
expressed an earnest desire for a |
hand-to-hand conflict with five or six
of the New York Zouavcs but his
Alexandria friend gently remarked ::
" have seen them, and can assure
you that one would be quite enough !
to monopolize your attention. If
brag and buster could decide the fate
Of battle, we should be completely
at the mercy Of our antagonists but
unfortunately for them the argument
henceforward is to be conducted with
more substantial weapons.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
A Wonderful Architect.

Do you know the type-setter is a
wonderful architect? You see those
bits of lead and zinc lying over,
across and against each other, like
the tangled braids of a mermaid's
hair? And yet they form an army
more powerful than ever fought on
tented field. Yesterday they stood up
proudly, professionally speaking, in
one form truly, in q thousand
forms. You may look upon the little
bits with smile on your lip, but you
little dream they are stronger and
wiser than you-that they will speak
when you are dead and forgotten.
They have sometimes made you smile,
and sometimes shudder. "Stocks +"
Isn't there something in that word ?
Haven't you been head and heels in
them for years, and don't your feel
ings rise and fall with them alternate
ly? A little further on you come to
the word Married" All VIC thought
that would make you smile. We saw
you kiss baby then and that word
unravels it all. You haven't forgot
the day when you went courting, have
you? Then there was magic in the
utterance. You stood at the altar on
the strength Of the happiness You felt.
and if you have not always loved the
girl as you ought to, there is no one
you love as well. You secretly bless
the day when the single word "mar-
ried" was wreathed like a sacred
archway over the joys of you and
yours. FONT you remember little
Minnie-she whom you loved so well
she with the blue eyes and auburn
curls ? When Deaths dark Angel
folded her little delicate hands over
her snowy bosom, and sealed her low
ing eyes with its icy fingers, don't
You remember how the great tide of
sorrow came surging DER your smit-
ten heart? You little thought the
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
"ddest@aro t6e Course of empire takes its allap"
CITY, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY july 4 1861,

other day when you picked up the
papers-the word "Dicd," of only
four letters--which you laughed at as
they lay dusty and dirty in their
square homes-would make you weep
would make you think of her whom
God hath taken.
If you come to this Office tomorrow
the printer will show you how to dis
tribute knowledge. lie will pull to
pieces tough, wiry arguments that
yesterday dcfcd the world Those
pretty palaces which the poet wrought
will have to come down, and their
golden fancics become tomorrow the
lnteguments Of the politicians prose
In they go-those metallic dwarfs,
scattered broadcast like good seed,
which shall bring forth sixty, aye au
hundred fold. "Sixty lives lost" and
Prentcc's last joke march in together,
and the printer whistles Yankee
Doodle as carelessly as if human life
was below par, and so it is. This is
the printers life and business.
A Printing Office is great bowling
alley. The printer sets up pins-thc
world keeps tally, the editor puts the
ball in motion, and away it goes,
carrying death and destruction in its
front, sending q pin here and a pin
there, while noisy rabble always
stand by to cheer and hiss down the
players. Some play for money and
a fcw-a precious few--do it to pa
tronize the boss and bless mankind.
No matter what the balls are made of
or how they go, if they only hit the
mark. The crowd pocket the spoils
and the honors are left to the propric-
tor, who goes behind the SCIENCES and
starves in his shirt-slcevcs. And such
is life.
When the printer dies, the world
just gets glimpse of his value as
his coat-tails vanish into glory, and
then it looks very bad, rubs its head
a little, calls him a clever fellow
says his only fault was in being poor,
aud then the world shoves his sym
pathy out of sight into that idiom, the
human heart, and on rolls the Jugger-
naut as though nothing had happened.
Some day the people will wake up
and find screw lost in the jagged |
machine Of human progress. If you
10, don't waste more sympathy than
possible on those NEUROLOGICAL fellows
who print your books and papers.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
MlisttIlanu.
Fr' IN tIe CharlcstOn Mercury
Capture Of the Privateer Savannah.

Almost every day now brings Ii.
news OF Importance. Yesterda,
brought us the intelligence of the cap
turc Of the privateer Savannah, from
this port. The loss of the schooner
in times like these, would scarcely
call for q moments consideration
But the circumstances are such as to
render the fact Of great import-per-
chance the results may be still graver
With the insane and blood-thirsty
spirit ruling the Government of the
North, there are probabilities that the
crew of the Savannah will be cxecu.
ted. The United States Government
have said 1.-THE popular clamor has
approved the bloody declaration.
Will their bloatcd vanity and malice
give way to the mildcr voice of ma,
tlonal law-of reason and discretion D.?
viii they not go Oh in their mad path
way Of violence and lawlcssncss ?
Their course up to this time has been
uniform. Will they at this day pay
regard to reason, justice or law? II
thSy w l4Ot, Nuht llCu
Aye what then?
Let one Of these men perish, and
we look to the authorities at Rich
mond for immediate and bloody rctri-
button. We look to them, and we
shall expect them to settle stirct ac-
count of blood for blood
If hair of the head of single
man Of this crew is injured, South
Carolina will demand that the outrage
be atoncd for--an eye for an eye
a tooth for tooth-a life for a life.
Aye and size uat haze i-no more
and no less Oh the battle field, and
after the battle. Let one Of these,
her citizens commissioned in her cause
perish Us Il pirate, and woe to the en-
emy who falls into our hands.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
Gboite Solutions.
THE SUNSET OF LIFE.

When, toward the close of some
long summer day, we come suddenly.
and as we think, before his time, up
on the broad sun, sinking down in
his tranquility" into the unclouded
west, we cannot keep our eyes from
the great spectacle ; and when he is
gone the shadow of him haunts our
sight we see everywhere, upon the
spotlcss heaven, upon the distant
mountains, upon the fields, and upon
the road at our feet, that dim, strange,
changcful image and if our eyes
shut, to recover themselves, we still
find in them, like dying flame, or
like glcam in dark place, the un-
mistakable phantom of the mighty orb
that has set :; and We're we to sit down
as we have often done, and try to re-
cord by pencil or by pen our impress
sion OF that supreme hour, still IL
would be there. We mast have pa
tience with our eye, it would not let
the impression go that spot on which
the radiant disc was impressed, is in-
sensible to all other outward things
for time its best relief is to let the
eye wander vaguely over earth and
sky, and repose itself on the mild
shadowy distance. So it is when
great, good, and beloved man departs,
sets, it may be, suddenly y, and to us
who know not the times and the sea
sons, too soon. We gaze eagerly at
his last hours, and when he is gone,
never, never to rise again on our sight,
we see his image wherever we go,
and in whatsoever we are engaged
and if we try to record by words our
wonder, our sorrow, and our affection,
wecannot see to do it, for 4" the idea of
his life" is forever coming into our
" study Of the imagination into all
our thoughts, and We can do. little else
than let our mind, in wise passive
ness, hush itself to rcst.-H0re Sub
serle, By hin Bro,cn, H. u.
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4oetru.
MARY.
BY ANNIE VI. BEACH.

Mary the sweetest name on earth.
The dearest household word.
Where is the heart that does not thrill
Whcnc' cr the sound is heard,
Perchancc gentle mothers name,
Who, in thy early youth,
Led thy young. crring feet to tread
The pleasant paths Of truth.
Mary-thy sister, kind, and true,
Thy childhood S constant friend,
Whose voice, in evening prayer and hymn
With thine was wont to blend.
M.ry-the hlushiug dark eyed girl,
Who met thee in the street.
And shared with thee the gi,ldy dance
When hours were dying Gcct
Perchance it WAS the gentle bride,
Who, at the holy shrine,
Gave her soft trembling hand to thee
And Inurmurcd Il am thine"
Mary-thou'ltf fnd il far away
In Scotia highland homes,
And merry England echoes it
FROM out her princely dumcs.
Upon the vine-clad hills of Franco,
lis Marie, ever true,
With lightsome step. and fairy form,
And eye Of witching blue.
Thou It find it in Italia's bowers,
With every soft breeze blent;
Devotion. bending TO the sound,
\ holy charm hath lent.
Oh, ever hlcSt and holy name
simple, but sweet. It's given.
y spell round many a spirit thrown,
To lead it up to Heaven
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
A GREAT THOUGHT.

There are things worse than war
Deterioration and moral cowardice are
worse than death and when it be-
comes necessary to die for great
truths and principles, how sweet and
how beautiful is the sacrifice! Let
no one imagine that this is our day OF
deepest darkness. Twenty millions
.of people rising as one man, thrilled
by one pulse, swept 10y one spirit of
self-sacrlice, holding that right aud
justice to be dearcr than life, and that
life for these may be and SHALL be Of
fered up, will appear in history as the
brightest omen of the century. Civi.
lization and free government are not
to fail here, but to come forth more
glorious and secure from trial. This
is the clear pointing Of the finger of
God, and for this he strikes the awful
hour and summons men to their duty
Meanwhile we hope that from all the
altars OF religion will be brcathcd the
holiest sclectcst influence into the
cause Of constitutional liberty as the
cause Of God.-Religioms Maga=ine
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04

"MY FArHER-My MOTHER LovEn Me-. u
Send your little child to bed happy.
Whatever cares press, give it a warm
goodnight kiss, as it goes to its pill
low. The memory of this, in the
stormy years which fate may have in
store for the little one, will be like
Bethlehem's star to the bewildercd
shepherds. " Ny fathcr-my mother
loved me !" Fate cannot take away
that blessed heart balm. Lips parch-
ed with the worlds fever will become
dcwy again at this thrill of youthful
memories. Kiss your little child be-
fore it goes to sleep!
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04

The ANGEL IN THE When
You are world-wcary and soul-sick
talk with a little child. As the clear.
trusting eye is lifted to yours, a
thought of the immcasurablc distance
you have blindly travelled from that
sweet trust to your humble atheism,
will touch tue world frozen fountain
of your tears ; aud just as the little
head, unqucstioning and conGding,
leans upon your breast, so will you
ycarn iustinctivcly for the Father OF
All, whose loving arms are our best
and safest shelter. That man or wo-
man, must indeed be past redemption,
whom the little one in the midst A"
cannot bring nearer ueaven.-Eaany
Fern.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04
CARTER HOUSE,
A. b. L. HILDRETH.
General Land Agent.

ST. CHARLES CITY, FLOYD CO., IOWA.
Will attend to buying, selling and selecting
lands on Commission, &c Town Lots bought
aud sold, money loaned, and the business of
conveyancing and payment of Taxes promptly
attended to- Friends at the East, as weilasin
this State, are requested to make application
to my agency. Satisfactory references given
if required.
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Persons living in the vicinity of tn

Persons living in the vicinity of the
rebel batteries at Vienna positively
assert that when the valiant South
Carolina regiment formed in line OF
battle on one side of the battery, they
placed in front of them $50 negroes
whom they had brought from the Pal,
metto State, to receive the fire of the
Ohioans. But this stratagcm did not
avail, for Cuflee invariably dropped
fiat on his face whenever the mus
kets of the Government troops were
pointed in his direction hence it was
that six South Carolinians were killed,
instead of six negroes.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-04

The GIRLS WE LEFT BEHIND Us.-The
good State of Wisconsin recently
passed a law for the benefit of her
volunteers, allowing such of them as
were married five dollars bounty per
month, in addition to their regular pay.
This premium on Bcncdcts has not
been without its effect. The army OF
young wives, to be left behind by the
brave fellows, has gone up amazingly.
The Second Regiment, when at Camp
Randall, Madison, ordered to leave
on next Sunday, gave liberal en-
ployment to the marrying functional
ries. Six went home from a
single company, and employed their
furlough in brief honey-moons. OF
these, five welded each his " Annie
Laurie" but one left his camp, and
without previous expressed preference
hunted himself up wife, and left her
to receive the monthly stipend.
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"THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENTS. ."-Vir.
ginia is now to take her stand among
the loyal States. The treason OF
Letchcr, Hunter, Wise, Floyd & Co,
is being rebuked on Virginia soil.
The Wheeling Convention performed
its great work, with attendant scenes
which shall live in history. The de.
claration, previously adopted, was en-
rolled and signed on parchment, and
a provisional government was chosen
with Frank II. Pierpont of Marion for
Governor. Wheeling is alive with
enthusiasm, and the Goth of June is
made memorable in Virginia forever.
Gov. Pierpont will now, probably, or
ganize at once a full quota of troops
to serve in the Federal army.