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Smyrna times., 1861-01-24
ATTENTION. FARMEEeS

Those in want Of superior HAND CORN.
SHELTERS can purchase them at the Ma.
chine Shop on Commerce street, Smyrna, Del.
2 All kinds Of Repairing Jone with dispatch.
nOv20-4t eH JOHN Ii. BOWMAN. 4
Smyrna times., 1861-01-24
"Why stand yc all the day idle?'

ANY Lady or Gentleman in the United States nos
sessng from So to 81, can enter into easy and res
pec'aoIe business, by which from 50 10 SO per day
can be realized
For particulars, address with stamp
w. r. ACTON & co,
ctlI-3m
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LENS. Cas- Co. Jung Goth 1851.


DESs MAYSAsp.:-I and had a glo-
rious drive out here and am, at p. NJ,
quietly reudczyoused in the Pose Office TO
tell YOU Of the country and crops and other
things. By the way, these new Post Masters,
az far as have become acquainted with
them, are generally good natured, obligipg
fellows. We'll Ill venture the assertion
that Western Iowa never looked better than
1t does new. As to the crops magnidesn:
is the word that just fills the bill, Inever
saw better wheat and rye any where, and
the corn is coming on so rapidly that the
boys havsto hurry through it with the
plough to keep frsm getting "bFushsd in''
while passin. from end to end Of the rows.
Iowa san feed all her troops and have a
great surpius left for the other States not
- fortunate. War and politics are eonsid-
erably mixed in this County, and military
matters are about in aasa quo.
There il a strong rivalry between Lewis
and Grove CITY in regard to the County
Seat. The Grove City people have strong
HeFFs VA HohaS ~ W eASH shtSscs aHo tue
I..vis people will probably mske an effort
to ge. one or tao tiers Of Townships from
PettawatsamisC County annexed to Cast
These vexatious County Seat disputes are
ruinous to the peace and harmony Of COM
munity, and ought in all cases to be settled
- speedily rs possible.
Sonany Of ronr readers have been TO
Lewis tia: | need hardly say anything
about It's pretty location, and quiet. lcdg-
lie appearance. As the girls would say,
ssis's ssees little town." yIDoCQ.
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~ The following is one of a series CT
resolutions passed by the Virginia Union
Convention, in session at Wheeling. 1t has
the ring Of the true metal and is fair cx-
preston of the sentiment Of a majority Of
the citizens Of that State: ..-
Resoirsd, That We utterly repudiats the
heresy sought to be inculcated by secession
lists, that it is an invasion Of Eirginias soil
for American troop, to march to the pro-
lection of VIrsinia's citizens, but on the
contrary, We declare Virgins sell to be
American coil, and free to the march Of
American solisry and sojourn of American
citizens, from all and every portion Of Amer
lean territory; and it is only by such recog-
milton that the Federal authorities could
discharge 4 plain Constitutional duty i'm
posed upon them by the clause guaranteeing
10 each State in the Union a Republican
form Of government. a.
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CORRESPONDENTS OF THE NONPAREuL.
When President Lincoln suspended the
privilege Of habeas corpus in the case Of
Merryman who was arrested FOR treason,
the Confederate traitors set up the howl Of
military usurpation; when it is flung back
into their teeth aud shown that the Consti-
tuition provides for such an exercise of
power by the President, they try to lie it
through. One of them, actuated by the
same spirit which induced him to publish
that Munchausen lie on Henry Olmsted.
comes out in the Bugle as follows: eve
"would like to have some one of these ad-
"vocates Of despotism tell us the article and
" section of the CONSTITUTE on which either
"distinctly or obscnrely, directly or by
"implication, confers such extraordinary
"power upon the President"
Now, Mr.. Bugleman, when you published
your lie on olmsted and he made you swal-
low it, you had cunning enough to know
that some of your readers would never see
his answer; SO now With the same deyilish
cunning you know that some Of your readers
will never examine the Constitution to see
whether you are lying or not. You will
probably with your usua! quibbling coward,
ice, deny that there is any lie couched in the
above quotation. What you have reference
to may be in the Constitution-you simply
want information! Now you know and I
know, that what you mean is that there is
NOT in the Constitution anything which
distinctly or obsearely, directly or by impli-
cation cenfers such power upon the Presi-
dent. II may be that that old man who has
for years been fed and pampered by the
Government, and now 10 it's hour of need
turns against it with fendish malignity, has
compelled you to lie against your will, and
it may be that you lie wilfally and mali
ciously, DO that Is it may. 1 will assist
your readers to End the articles and sections
in the Constitution which do confer upon
the P'esiden. tie power in question. Sec
ton 9Th, Art. lst, reads:
Inc privilege Of the writ Of habeas corpus
ssai! not be suspended unless when in case
Of reoeiiion or invasion the public safety
may require it,,
mere vas notorious case OF rebellion.
Merryman bad wan.only trampled upon the
laws OF TIE United States. He wa, pris.
onef; on' unless the privilege Of habeas
corpus was suspended, he vonld be turned
loose 70 carry ont his treasoa. Congress
Ny aG' y .ss,iaa saa s7uld ~. sssses, IL
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.r,rr coxvE,rIey.

r..,e cotyegfiSa " the HEraaiIesbs q lows - 1870
., 5, their DELEGATES At Tie city Of pss Aoihs
a. 10 s'egok a. m, On
WEDNESDAY, July 81. 1851.
nsniaaliga CT ofcefs % tie eIecied 81 the Cen
,,I y,.sslon Ia ocsober * tbs year Candidate are
!, Re &c eese tsr The eee q Governor, Lisut soyee
Us, aud one Jusse q ID. sapseas ce'iii; ihe 1'a-
xes.,ba will take sgEh osheg &etion A may IA -
oBIGan ecrfIpaas So --~~ses ~ the RsrHbi tsah
Party Every organized County SiIte certified 70 one
as,exase 10 the CanyeptIon, and one aGditl0asl Pc
gate for each two haadred votes, and Tor az :"
fraetLaa on one hansifei or more t = wig
General Election sor Abraham Linen % y
the unites states Republican county een'fat oon'-
mites are requested to cal, ser Conventions d select
their pessates IN the r,so aiovs stated and for Ell
efet. organization prep-ratofy TO The Canvass.
N duxIR, CAairaen STATE Corn
say,reiY Niier, J. B. Weaver, Geo. A. ha"iy.
,swNu s,p,,s ". b. Fairfield, J. r Seedham, W.
!, warren Il n TathiH, II c. Henaerson, s. J.
-.ts, gsrfs CsairuI Comnife..
p.,.,vssssne County Is entitled to Delegates, un-
der his cali. t 49, ~s"4
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,-~~S -
allow.

We regret to learn that our distinguished
fellow town.man, Col. Test, was unable, in
the short space of four days, to write arepiy
to the few lines in the last Nonpareai, in
regard to the part he took in developing q
Dis. Union party in this city, He evidently
falls behind hi, prototype, GLAZE. JACKSON,
in celebrity Of movement, and abiity-but in
desire for the downfall II this Government,
and the success, Of the Southern Confederacy
he is not particle behind the isnoble
Governor.
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Council Bluffs, June ssih. 1861.
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eurrea. throaghost the land. Il isatime in
which the work shop, the otice, the cossting
house and the fs!d may veil be abandoned
for the solsna duty that Is upon us, Tor all
these tolls viii bring bss treasure, nat for
ourselves, bat for tie spsilsr, If this revo-
Ju,isa Is vet arrested. Wsare oil, With our
every earthly interest, embarked u mid
ocean on the sane common deck. The howl
Of the storm is in cur ears, and "the light
ming, red glare il painting hell on the sky
aud while tina noble ship pisehss and rolls
under The lashings Of the waves, the cry u
heard that she has sprung a-ieak at many
psin,s.ard that the rushing waters are
mounting rapidly in the hold. The man
rho, in such an hour, triH not tsorS at the
pumps, Is either maniac or monster.
RocAYToR0 EJECT.
On the l4th ms; there vas general
ga,heIip, Of the voters OF ROCKFORD
Township, at the house Of Squire HARDis
JONES. Nearly ever Democrat in the town
ship was in attendance. A nice straight
pole, 50 feet in Length, was raised, and the
glorious old Stars and Stripes run up to its
peak amidst grea. enthusiasm. A. Jackson
ESQ.,. made .pirit.d speech -abcunding in
| e.pres.i ons of determined fealty to the pres
eryat;on Ut the American Government in its
integrity, and in all ito parts. He was
proud 10 be able to say that there was moi
disunionist in the township-all were in
favor Of the enforcement of the laws, bott
North and South, of maintaining the Con.
,titu,ion and the Union unImpaired-and
| il necessary, they would uphold the gov
ermmens and the Stars and Stripes, On tht
field of battle. They would rally as ont
man TO sustain the Constitution OF the
United States, and the fa- Of our Coun,ry
and hoped that that .ime-honored ban.
ner would soon wave in triumph over oul
whole country, and continue thus to wave
unnumbered generations.
The people of Rcckyford evidently do no
believe that the people Of the South CON
menced this rebellion and entered upon Their
/ present career Of treason, merely to obtaiI
.'ii.e;r rights under Inc Constitutions" W.
tru.. that they believe with that noble Ken.
tuesian JossfH EIoLr, late Secretary Of War
that the rebeilious States are bot making I
desperate "srtaggie to overthrow Cor
eminent they hare only kao,cn in it's bless
iGq - that all this treason is the work OF
score or two Of men, who, over all this ma
tional rniu and despair, are preparing t.
cane With the sword their way to seats o
permanent porer." We trust ard believe,
that they hold to the opinions expressed b,
the late Senator DoucLAs, that the effort
new bein: made to put down the treason
abroad ia the land 10 not an "sct OF agsres-
SION az aims. any supposed, or claimed r'ghtS
OF the South, under the Constitution, but
is purely and simply ga WAR OF SELF
DEFENSE on OUR FART. 1t is war
GIN DEFENSE of our QUA just rights
"INDETENSE of the Government
(which we have inherited as q priceless
"lecacy from our patriotic fathers; IN
DEFENSE of the great rights OF the
:. freedom of trade, commerce, transit and
"in.ercourss from the centre to tho circun-
i" ference Of our great continent"
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...,.1mAx cersrr CONVENTION.

ps,uss,e,. g;e-o-s IL ne several snsasPs y
touasy are requested e send Dc es~es
$50 cav Il sssa 10 ss helt II BE C>rFt I1s--
in couasoii gsass, On
- ~uraspaY, srLy 18TH, At y,
"a ,yssn. peiesases 70 The s:.ss e9assni1' ana 'As
;,,assr.asa u ether business.
,,.rsseu,aiion in The conveasaa viii ee pele-
T., s.rs rsunshIy and additional pesss'e 100
81 Is gsyEslicaa votes al he last eies'
x,ti eve y The T9~zghips iAs fg4t7sfp- hsl--'.
ps.sx.se.: ksne, II; cfeseeas, 2 RScssf9's, .
!: silver Creek 4; aaee<soaia, J; sfsss' . =
Centre. ?; gnor, :; wsiaat cresks ? b9o'e'' =
\. or.er Il the centrai c0aaallstes'
June %. y. y
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Sherin's Sale.

By virtue OF an Execution to me directed from .ne
Once of the Clerk Of the District Court OF Pets~A
mic County Iowa, shall proceed to SELL on sa'urda.
the goth day July, A. D. 1861 between the hours VI
O'Clock A. M. and O'Clock r NJ OF said day-.o .n.
mencng at II O'Clock A. NJ OF SAID iro y ~
cnnnv Treasurers Office in the city OF Council BuHs
the following described Real Property OF Aaron rowe,
to-wit-T of Section thiris-siS, ts6l ana .ne
Sc . OF the W u of Section thiry-slS tso) ana tne
South y of the South y Of the SEk OF Section twenty
five COY. and the SW \ OF the SW * OF See.on
twenty-five {25), all in Township svehts-iout w.
North of Range thirty-eeht (3S and lying and hens
in Pottawattane County, State of Iowa. and contain-
ing in all Two Hundred and Sixty acres OF land more
less.
Taken the property OF Aaron Powell to satisfy an
Execution in favor of Milton Black. .
st,. ). II. CRAIG, Sheriff.
Cy F. REED, Deputy Sheriff.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, June ID. 1861.
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For the Nonparei,.

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mont which wa freouen,lv be.r m,aa nv
xucb mo, .sJvs,,5.r ,,sJ n Tc,t oca,n.t
tho farther n,osoc,,;o, IF Tho rresen. v,r
And that i, tn. as.er,;o, that ;f !. Penuhl;.
can prs,;lent had mt heen e,ccted. w.
,bould have had no war. For III. ,oke Of
he arcument l.tus,am;t ,h;, IN he tho fact
'thou,b believe that II Doug,,s had hesn
,Iectea tho Sor.h vou,3 b,va t,ker nro.;se.
= the same cou-se which thew have toten
,naer J;,col, /, Il nroves Int ona thin, and
h,. :, that N. Pc,,h,;c,nn = Ior,,tn
he Union. That tbo,yb thew uer. defeated
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bc spcce..f,, candidate h,v;,, been "a
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DISSOLUTION.

DlSSOLUTION.
The soparnership heretofore existing, between 'ns
Undersigned is this day dissolved by mutual consent
The business Of the rrm will be closed up By the nrm
A. L. Larue, will continue the business, 10
;, A. +. LARuE, 90
JP. WILLIAMS,
Council Bluffs, June ssih. 1861. Sw' 81
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Our friends Of the Southern CoafedeTacy
cay they want 10 be let alone. Wssusrses
that hey vsa,1 gs;ses jst . loan.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04

just before the close Of the session, my
friend said:
Mary | wouldn't teach any more
q, must. like il; and besides
haven't accomplished half want to, yet
What do you want to accomplish: z
want to continue my music
What else:'
l want to clo,hc Minnie.'
What else !?
l want TO feel that ] am useful, that l
am doing soIheihing.'
want to hire you, Mary and will pay
you wages that will enable YOU to do all
this
You want to hire me What can do
for yous
Keep my house, and be my wife, Mary.
And then the town superintendent got his
arm around Mary's waist and held her tight
though she struggled little at first.
Let me 90 minute and will tell you.
He released the little figure, and Mary
stood before him. trembling, blushing, twin.
ing the strings of the blue hat around hel
fingers, looking down upon the floor. glanc
ing once into his earnest eyes.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04

THE USES OF MouSTAINs.--M Mr.. Rus
kin notes 1t as one of the most prominent
uses of mountains that they cause pcrpetu-
al changes in the soils of the earth. The
physical gcographers assure Us that if the
whole matter of the Alps were shoveled
out over Europe, the level Of the continent
would be raised about twenty feet And
this process of levelling Is continually 60.
ing on. BY a calculation which he made
in the valley OF Chamouni, Mr.. Ruskia be-
lieyes that one Of the Insignificant runlets,
only four inches wide and four inches deep,
carries down from Mont Blanc eighty tons
OF granite dust year, at Which rate of
theft at least 10000 tons of the substance
of tlaat mountain must be yearly transform
ed into drift sand by the streams, and dis
tributed upon the plain below On White
face mountain, of the Sandwich group,
slide took place ia 1920, which hurled.
down huge blocks of granite, enite, quartz
felspar and trap rocks, and cut a deep Ta-
vine in the sides of the mountain, several
miles in extent But eoa,pepsation was
made in par: for its destructive fury. An
extensive meadow at the base, which had
borne only. xild coarse grasses, rendered
Escre fertile by the fine sediment, here and
there four or five feet il depth, that was
distributed upon it, and now produces es-
cellent grass and whits clover. Take
century OF two into account, and we find
the mountains fertiliz;us the soil by the
minerals they restore to it TO compensate
the wastes of the hsrye-.=- The hills,
which, as compared With liking beingS
seem everlasting, are in truth as psrisIing
as they lis Seiss OF flowing fountains
weary the nio'uxaia heart as the crimson
pslss does saEs. tho nasaral fdrce of he
iron crsz i. abatssl "a IL aproinfed ilne.
lie the sFsps'i. Ct de ipevs IN bumad
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04
MCCLELLAN Y .
Miss Mary's Blue Hat.
BY cRosBY.

My friend Kelley was walking down
Main street, Milwaukee, last autumn, in a
brown study, upon some abstruse subject
his yisiSn horizontal and vacant, his step
rapid and careless, when just as he had
forded ore of the cross streets ard had lift
ed one foot to place it upon the curbstone
a big but cowardly yellow dog came sweep
ing along, followed by a little black animal
Of the same species. The yellow dog
whizzed past him, but the black specimen,
oblivious to all things but the object Of
pursuit, as every dog should be en- such an
occasion, and possibly, somewhat under the
control Of his own momentum, struck Kel.
ley's perpendicular leg while the other was
walking, and knocked it out from under
him. My friend went down instanier.-
His glossy beaver bounced upon the pave.
ment and continued its journey. Specta
cles danced jingling into the gutter, while
his shawl stuck against a shop-man's win
dow like paper pellet on a wall.
Kelley gathered himself together, picked
himself up, and looked after the dog who
had done the mischief, expecting 10 fnt
him "hove to- in canine dismay at the ac
cident he had caused but to his utter as
fonishment. ths animal seemed as regard
less of his equilibrium as Of any other triv
ial matter, and was making after the afore
said yelloy dog at a great speed as though
be had not tipped over the best fellow il
Wisconsin,.
While my friend was down, clear, mu
sical, girlish laugh had rung out upon ih'
air. 1t was so evidently spontaneous, Sc
charmingly musical, was so suddenly check
ed and had wi,hal SO good cause, tina
Kelley could scarcely be angry or even
Disconnected.
F.. When the gentleman had recovered from
his surprise at the heedlessness of the quad
ruped, he bethought him Of the music
There were half dozen ladies in view
nut bv a irigonometrical calculation h
reached the conclusion that the laugh mus
have come from either dainty little ha
with delicate, straw-colored trimmings, OF
decidedly sober and ancient brown one
the two being in conjunction, OF eours
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The Tim e =.
BELLOWS FALLS, JAN. A, 1860
Mr.. Lincoln's Position.

Mr.. Lincoln the president elect made q
speech in New y ork last Febrrary,in which
he used the following language, which will
do republicans good to read Mt this time.
Ponder it ye men who would now deyide
our territory into free and slave soil:
" Let all who believe that our fathers.
who framed the government under which
we live, understood the question just as well
and even better than we do now, speak as
they spoke, and act as they acted upon it.
This is all Republicans ask, all that Repub-
licans desire, in relation to Slavery. As
those fa,hers-marked it, so let it be marked
again, as an evil, not to be extended, but TO
be tolerated and protected only because Of,
and SO far as, its actual presence among us
makes that liberation and pratecton neces-
sary."
To the South he says; +" But you viii
abide the election of Republican President.
In that supposed event you say you will
destroy the Union; and then you say the
great crime of having destroyed it will be
upon US. That is cool. A higwayman
holds pistol to my ears and mutters
through his teeth, stand and deliver, or
shall kill you, and then you will be mur-
derer!"
ITO be sure what the robber demanded Of
me, my money, was my own, and | had a
clear right to keep it but it was no more
my own than my vote is my own, and the
threat Of death to extort my money, and the
threat Of destruction TO the Union 10 extort
my vote, can hardly be distinguished ii
principle"
"Wrong as we think slavery is, we car
yet afford to let it alone where il is because
that much is due TO the Necessity arising
from its actual presence in the nation; bu
can we, while our votes will prevent it, al
low it to spread into the national Territories
and to overrun US here in these free States 2
"If our sense of duty forbids this, ther
let us stand by by our duty fearlessly ant
effectively. Let US be diverted by none o
those sophistical contriyances wherewith We
are so industriously Piled and belabored-
contriyauces such as cropping for some mid
dle-ground, between the right and wrong AM
vain as the search for man who should b,
neither living man or dead man such
policy of don't care" on a question abou
which all true men DO care--such as Uniol
appeals, bseeching true Union men to yiel
to dis,.,,iv--;sto, re-~re;.-s5 tisv ai-i..e -sl~
and calling not the sinners but the righteou
to repentence--such as inyoca,ions to Wash
ington, imploring men to unsay what Wash
ington said,and undo what Washington did.
Neither let us be slandered from our dut
by false accusations againgt us, orfrighter
ed from it by menace Of destruction to th
government, nor of dungeons TO ourselves
Let US have faith that right makes NIGH
and in that faith let us to the end dare to d
our duty as we understand it."