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Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-06-25
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The country is thronged with the Agents Of
foreign shops who always sell at an advance
on Shop Prices. We can and will furnish any
thing in the Marble line, for Northern Iowa,
cheaper than can be obtained elsewhere Pur-
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McGregor, Iowa. March IL, 1861. 12t +
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ONLY LEGALLY ORGANIZED 0MPAN'

In the State and the Code OF Iowa declares h crime
punishable by fine Imprisonment for any company To
do business In violation of laws yet there many
pretended companies In state well in other
States that In direct violation Of law swndng the
people o Iowa out OF thousands Of dollars annually with
perfect IMMUNITY.
The recurring accidents Of property being destroy
that which IL has taken many years Of lifetime 10
initiate rendering families homeless and homes desoate,
should admonsh every seek protection especially
when protection can be obtained for u trfiing sum.
A. T.. RICH, OF West Union, our General Agent for
Northern Iowa and Minnesota i duly authorized toap
point Agents make assignments and issus policies Ac
tive agents wanted to every county Men with
BILE For further particular address A. T. Rich, West
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REFERENCES:
Hon. s. j. KRKwooD. ........ Iowa City.
Hon. n. w lsBnL. Marion, Linn Co.
Hon. WIN III HOLMES. .Anamosa Jones Co.
Hon. Jno. r. IhION Iowa 0ity.
JOHN NILES, President; THOS. GREEN, Treasurer
MILTON BRIGGS, Secretary A. T. RICH General Agent
-. Charles City August 10th, 1861.
Certificate from the Secretary of State
OfyTcE SECRETARY OF STATE,
DIS MONIES, July IS, 1861. I
mirror BRiGG, ESQ Dear Sir-Thc American Insurance
Company has not filed its Articles Of incorporation my
Office. The Iowa Mutual Fire Insurance Company h. tina
only company that has filed Articles u In
corporation in my office. Yours truly,
ELIJAH SELLS, Secretary Of State,
35y1 by JNo. NJ. DAVIS, deputy.
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Passengers destined 10
Pittsburg, Wheeling, Harrisburg,
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Il. N. BROWN, Sapt. b. Il. r. r. Buffalo.
GEO. NJ. GRAY, Genr Pass. Agent, Chicago.
JOHN r. HART, Western Travelling Agent.
WIN. h. BARR, General Agent Buffalo, Wy.
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REFERENCES
certificate from the Secretary of State.

JOHN NILES, President THOS GREEN, Treasurer
MILTON BRIGGS, Secretary A. Il. RICH, General Agent
-. Charles City, August 10th, 1851
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W. have much pleasure la Informing the public II
IN, of oar contributors for the coming year vii, Uc
old friend and co3"aEHc.
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Union Convention.

We publish this week call for Union Con-
vention Of men who are for sustaining the Gov
eminent and crushing the rebellion at whatever
cost. to meet at Bangor on the iirstd day of July
next, for the purpose of nominating candidate
for Governor. In reference to the proposed
call the Lewiston Journal whose editor is a
member Of the Republican State Committee,
last week said
"we understand that the Republican State
Committee, in response To the wishes Of the
Union men not identified with the republican
party, have determined not 10 call straight
party convention, but 10 invite the Union men
of the State who are Internationally loyal to
the government, and who give an ,unwayering
support TO oil its measures To crush the rebel
lion. to send delegates TO Union State Con-
veution to be held at Bangor on Wednesday,
July LIST, to nominate candidate for Governor.
This is good news to loyal men of all parties,
and they will undoubtedly avail themselves
of such an opportunity to unite the Union sem
tment of the State. Let US stand shoulder TO
shoulder in support of the Government"
We had looked for different action on the part
of the state committee, but upon them and not
upon us. rested the responsibility Of deciding in
what manner the efforts of patriotic men could
best DO united, and in their decision we acqui-
esce. Let the friends of the Union see to it that
they are fully awake to the importance Of or
gsnizing to meet the emergency of the hour
The call for the Convention is broad and com.
prehensiye enough for all to unite AMI give 1t
that support which it deserves
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The Original Copperhead.
From Benedict Arnold's Proclamation to tho Citi-
Iens and Soldiers ofthc United States, issued Oct.
: -, HSOl

You are promised liberty by tho leaders OF
your affairs, but is there an individual in the
enjoyment OF it, saving your oppressors?-
Who among you dare speak or write what
he thinks against tho tyranny which has
robbed you of your property, imprisons your
sons, drdgs you 10 The field Of battle, and IS
daily deitging your country ,cith your blood?
Your country once was happy, and had the
profFered Peace been embraced, the last two
years OF misery had been spent in peace and
plenty, and repairing the desolation Of a
quarrel TINT would have set the interests OF
Great Britain and America in true light,
and ccmented their friendship.
/ wish to lead chosen band Of Americans
to the attainment Of peace, liberty and safety,
the first objects in taking the field.
What is America but land OF widows, or
phans and beggars-but what need OF argu'
ments to such as feel infinitely more misery
than tongue can express? give my promise
Of most afisctiopate welcome to all who are
disposed TO join me in measures necessary to
close the scene Of our affection. which must be
increased until we are content with the libcr.
ality Of the parent country, who still offers
rs protection and perpetual exemption from
all taxes but such as we shall think fit to inn
pose upon ourselves. .rH
BENEDICT ARNOLD. .
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Union State Convention.

The citizens OF Maine who are Internationally
loyal TO the Government or the United States, anu
who Internationally support all It's measures Io'
the suppression of the robellon' ana VINO are re-
solved to spare no endeayor 10 MAINTAIN our va
tional Union, both In principle aud territorial
boundary are invited 10 send delegates 10 Con
yention 10 be held In the city OF BANGok,
On "Wednesday, the f.s day Of July next
for tho purpose OF nominating candidate for Gov
eruor. 10 be supported by the Union men OF Maine
At the next election.
Each city, town and plantation Is entitled TO send
one delegate and an additional delegate for every
Ave hundred inhabitants. A fraction or three hun
dred entities town 10 an additional delegate.
LEONARD ANDREWS. York.
SAMUEL Il. SPRING, Cumberland,
RUFUS 3. STEVENS, Oxford.
NELSON DINGLEY. in .Androscoggin.
J. ID. PRESCOTT, Franklin.
JAS. q BLAINE, Rennebec.
JOHN y. BAKER, Sagadahoc,
ID. LINDSAY, Somerset.
E.w STErSOS, Lincoln.
#. r. SIMONTON. Knox.
wM. McGILyERY, Waldo.
EPHRAlM FLINT, Piscataquls.
JOHN WYMAN, PenobscOt.
EUGENE HALE, Hancock.
GEORGE w. DYER Washington.
EBENEZER WOODBURY., Aroostook.
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President Lincoln has issued n procla.
nation explaining the position Of alicns un.
DER the Drafting law. No plea Of alienago
WIZ be received or allowed to exempt from
the obligations imposed by the act Of Con-
ercss any person Of foreign birth who shall
nave declared on oath his intention to become
a citizen OF the United States, and who shall
be found within tho United States at any
time during tho continuance of the present
Rebellion, at or after the expiration Of sixty.
live days from the date Of this proclamation.
nor shall any such plea Of alienago DO allowed
in favor Of any such persons who has 20 as
Aforesaid declared his intention to become n
citizen of the United States, and shall have
exercised at any time the right of suffrage. or
any other political franchise within the Uni.
ted States.
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GRAcE's SALvE.-Like all articles of absolute
merit Gracc's Salve Is surely and rapidly making
Its way into public favor, especially In the army
and among the sea-faring people. II Is an alb
solute remedy for sores Of every kind-burns,
scalds, nesh.wounds, corns, chapped hands, fell
ons, and innumerable cutaneons cruptions To
which flesh is so liable; 1t does not irritate, does
not heat the system, is mild and soothing, and Il
eralicates pimples from the fase and beauties
the skin. The Salve Is rapidly displacing q
variety ofother preparations, because It pos
sesscs every requisite that II claims to be cndow-
ell with, and Is In every respect, the Salve that
men in the army should have about them, and
every family should have in the house. Bos-
ton Express.
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TmK McKLASp papers come to us this week
clad in deep mourning for the death OF their
distinguished townsman, Gen. Berry, whose
funeral oSscquies took place in that citya week
ago last Thursday. II will be remembered that
no was killed in the late battle at Chancellor
Vile. Like the martyr Warren he fell upon
the battle. field. young and in the midst Of q
glorious career.
Flung to tho needless winds,
Or on the waters cast,
His ashes shall be watched
And gathered at tho last,
and when the time comes for the pen to write
the history which our heroes are writing with
their swords. no name viii shine brighter than
tha. Of Mai. Gen. Hiram Gregory Berry. OF
him tho Official order Of the COMMANDMENT
chief says:
The untiuely and glorious death of Major
General HIRAM q. BERRY, of Rockland, while
Commanding q Division Of the United States
Volunteers, upon the 6eld OF battle ut Chan.
ceIIoryille. Va, on the 81 inst, will sadden ell
natriotic hearts throughout the Union.
Gen. Bsrry's military career was most event.
ful and brilliant, and such was his tried skill
and bravery upon numerous well contested and
hard fought fields. that full and entire trust and
confidence Was reposed in him by those he led,
~ well as by his superiors- As Col oil the atn
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Vallandingham.

The Saco Democrat Of this week deyotes two
columns to defence OF the traitor Vallsnding-
ham, and in flaming letters announces that the
liberties Of the people are lost" &c. sc. Gen.
Burnside's uuanswerable defence of his course
will be found in another column. and we ask
for it candid pcrusal from every person who
thinks the Gems. course arbitrary. For ourself
we are only sorry that the rascal was not hung
upon the spot. The dish water method Of treat
ing northern traitors with velvet hand, and
and yet sacrificing hundreds Of thousands Of
lives to put down far more honorable ones at
the South. ought to and must cease.
This fellow, concerning whose arrest the DEM
ocratic papers are interesting themselves lust
lily, has employed his time for the last six
months in endcayoring 10 excite sedition and
treason against every act the government has
committed against the rebels, declaring that
the present war is an injurious, cruel and I'M
necessary war-a war not being waged for the
preservation OF the Union, but for the purpose
of crushing out liberty and establishing des-
potism--a war for the freedom OF the blacks
anu inc VI thc VIM, ~
the administration had so wished. the war could
have been honorably terminated that peace
might have been honorsbly obtained by listen
ing to the proposed INTERPRETATION Of France !;
that proposition by which the Southern States
could be won back, aud be guaranteed their
rights under the Constitution was rejected the
day before the battle of fredericksburg, that
Order No. IS of Gen. Burnside was base usur-
patton Of arbitrary authority, and that the
sooner the people informed the minions OF
usurped power that they will not submit to such
tyranny the better. lie declared also his
purpose TO defeat an attempt to build up mon.
archy upon the ruins OF our free government,
and that he believed the men in power were
trying to establish despotism.
II such n course does not constitute an overt
oct Of treason within the meaning of the clause
In the constitution defining the same, VIC chal-
angc any democrat this side of rebellion to state
what does. And yet, IL vollandngham is only
to be shut up in Fort Warren, VIC are sorry
that he has been arrested; for the sure passport
TO democratic favor is to be convicted OF trea-
son . the United States. Better let such preach.
ers alone, unless the Government is prepared
10 meet out to them the full rigor of that law
which is recognized by oil nations as the only
punishment ft in such cases. and that is-death.
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A SEVERE BATTLE AT SUFFOLK
The Rebels Retredted-Railroad to Richmond
Destroyed.
New YORK, 10th.


A Cansevillc letter of the 10th inst, states
that severe infantry fight took place near Suf-
folk on the 18th. On the morning Of the 18th
heavy rebel force of infantry was reported
having driven In our pickets at Beaver Dam
Church. A section of the 7th Mass. battery,
the 9th Mass. regiment, and two companies of
the ll2th New York regiment were sent out to
to oppose the rebels, with the remainder of the
1l2th N. Y the 10th N. Y. and the 10th N. Y.
as the second line of battle. After short Skin
mish the rebels retired before two companies
Of the 9th Mass. and the 10th New York, but
agan.opcned soon after. A third assault by
our troops was made to draw the rebels forward,
but they retrcatcd, and our forces now occupy
strong position in and around Cancsyill. Our
loss was two killed, 81 wounded and missing.
Our forces are busy removing the rails from
the railroad, and the whole track is being taken
up.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
SYMPTOMS of Colds.

A cold Is usually accompanied with weight and
pain In the head oppression ut the chest and sono
difficulty of breathing sense Of fulness and stop
ping at the nose, watery, inilamed eyes, soreness
and rawncss OF the throat, coughs pains about the
chest, cold shyerngs, succeeded by transient bushes
consequence Of Inflammation OF the membrane Of
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difficulty OF expectoration. In all such cases,
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FIom Gen. Grants Army..-Gen. Bragg
withdrawing his Troops from Muir
freesbOrOrO.
CINCINNATI. MAY 90.

CINCINNATI, May 90.
We have intelligence here that Gen. Grant
after destroying the State House and rebe
stores in Jackson, Miss, evacuated the place
We have no particulars later than Gen. Grants
own dispatches give.
A rumOr is prevalent at Murfrcesboro that
Gen. Bragg is cautiously Withdrawing por.
ton Of his troops from our front and sending
them to Jackson, Miss.
From Shelbyvillc II is reported that three
brigades had lett there and afterwards seen nj
Chattanooga. It's possible they went to Knox.
vile rather than Jackson.
AL is quiet ut Murfreesboro.