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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR
SALE OR RENT,

The THIRD wARD-Iargo and Small Store
,,I Filth and Sixth wards-Brick and Frame Dwell.
my Oountry Residence Is also for SALE
am GSIrous Of engaging In other business there.
III WIN to sell part, II not tho whole, OF my
In estates and will endeaVor to sell TO suit pnr-
'n1Se[E THOS HORNBROOK
uooAO-lm Once Oustonn HouSa
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
Dividend.

NORTH WESTERN BANK OF YIRaINIA.l
sp,. WHEELINd, W. Va. Jan'y 8, 1855.
a SAe4-ANNUAL DIVIDEND OF FOUR (AN
-. ~ cent, free OF Federal tax, has thiG day
pS1 oee9red upon the Capital Stock OF the Parent
.Goot ~ branches ct WelsbuTg and ParkersburR
1iy ~ I On and after the 10th inst.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
Business Notice.

HAVE disposed Of my stock Of Groesriss. Wine.
And Liquors 70 my son, John Reid, Jr., Who viii
continue the business at my old stand, No. 10 MAI
street. opposite B. & o. B. B. '--''AN
JOHN REID.
n AYING purchased the stock OF Groceries. Wines
~ and Liquors rom my father, viii continue
liberal share Of the public patronage. '''N ''li0'
Wheeling, Dec. 81, 1854 JOHN RE jas,.i IL;
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12

CoUyc1I-First Branch-T. ]. Blair. Second Branch
John FreW. School Commandments 2. Hop"
kinB. School TTustees-Dr. J. H Connolly, II. o.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12

CUBsIsTENoE OFFICE, o. 8. ARMY,
y WRE515T0, " Va, Jenuery 19, 1861
first hands, and from citizens loyal to the United
States Government only, will be received at this
TENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1865, for supplying
for the Of the United States Army, Subsistence
Stores to be delivered at Wheeling, W. Va, as fol-
lows, viz:
1000 Barrels Extra Flour.
The brands and places OF manufacture to be stated
in the bids, and whether In round or fiat hoped
barrels. The barrels to be new, in good shipping
order, full head lined with green hickory.
All the -four, as much a. GhalI be called for, to
DO delivered on before the first day OF February,
1885, and to be subject to all the conditions set forth
in my previous advertisements.
H. TURNER,
Jal2-m Captain and G. 8.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
sixth WARD.

Couxcu-Pirst Brauch-M. W. Echols. secon
Branch-James Wilson, Isaac Goudy, Jacob snide
School CommiSsioner-A. G. Robinson. School Tru
tees-John Goudy, H Wallace.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
ConnmissionaI,s Nofioo

pr;ptnJ O.. = LOUISVILLE NY
Office 0-'-' 10 ,a10 s az s9l
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
OFFER ID,

Also male infant, whose mother forsook it when
It was four weeks old. A. 8. TODD,
ja12-1WdE2tW President Of Board.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
Fight With a Grizzly Bear.

In Jackson county, Oregon, a hunter nam.
ed b. II. Baird was killed by a grizzly bear on
Grand Creek. He left his fellow-hunt and
went into the woods with his dog. Three
miles and half from the site of their camp
the dogs reused three grizzlies. Baird fired
at the largest one, Mt a distance of fifteen
yards, and wounded It. The bear charged and
Baird ran. In two hundred yards the bear
came up with him, and knocked his gun out
OF his hand. Baird now sprung to tree, and
managed to get hold of a lower branch The
bear struck his feet in passing, and then rolled
down bill. The dog followed and engaged
him. Baird now reloaded and wounded him
again. Another charge followed, and the gun
was knocked out of the hunters hands a sec
ond time. Baird now got behind bush and
managed to stab the bear in the belly with
his knife. But the bear struck the man sew
eral blows, and the knife was knocked out of
his hand. He had another knife, and got that
out but, before he could use it, the bear seiz-
cd his hand and mangled IL. The bear now
got him down and wounded him dreadfully.
The dog made diversion In tho mans favor.
and while the bear was engaged with him.
Baird managed to get away. He reached the
camp, but died in the course of the night.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
Printers.

An address recently delivered before
the Typographical Society at Wash
ington, stated these facts about print.
ers
"The United States Senate has cho.
sen a printer for Secretary a printer
for Sergeant-at-Arms while a printer
occupies the Vice Presidents chair.
In the House printer has been elect
ed Clerk printer, Postmaster and
ON the first Monday Of December,
1863, the House Of Representatives
chose a printer for their Foreman OF
Speaker and also of the fourteen gen.
tlemen who had filled the office OF
Mayor Of Washington, six were print,
ers, namely Rapine, Gales, Seaton,
Weightman, Force and Towers"
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

buried with the shells of the anima
life that swarmed the waters, demon
strate almost beyond a doubt chat this
now tertiary basin was the course the
gulf stream had carried the sedimen
tary matter that was spread over the
floor of an ancient ocean, and was be-
ing formed the rock we now call the
Potsdam sandstone, and all the lime.
stones, sandstones and shales above
it to the thickness of five thousand
feet. The drift deposits Of sand and
pebbles now found in Northern Wis
consin and Minnesota, were the New
Foundland banks of the latter age O!
that gulf stream. In that early day
navies did ride upon the bosom of the
great deep to founder and 60 down
with their armature of war upon the
floor of that sea, as would be found by
future inhabitants Of cur globe should
the basin of the Atlantic become dry
land. The telescope has revealed TO
the eyes of the astronomer solar and
astral systems, by which the mind in
contemplating is carried up to the
power and wisdom of the creator of
these steller worlds. Again the mi
croscope has revealed in a single drop
of water wonders that equal all the
mysteries of the planets, showing that
in each drop of precipitated rain wa
ter, was an epitome of the laws that
hold the evening and morning stars in
their fixed orbits. So in geology, the
smallest spring branch has its little
eddies, and carries down after each
rain its load of lime and sand, and
makes it's little plateaus Of stratifed
rocks, where in few feet square can
be read history Of all the principal
phenomena of the great rivers that
have abraded the valleys of continents
and spread the sedimentary matter
over the floors of oceans, forming in
that way stratified rocks. We discov-
er by these facts that the limestones
which we now call the lead-bearing
rock, or lead measures, did not have
an existence until long periods of time
had elapsed after the Potsdam sand
stone was formed that the lead ores
had not yet been filled in veins when
the rocks laid in solid strata from the
top of the table lands of Iowa to the
top of the Sinsinawa and Platte
mounds Of Wisconsin that after this
the crevices, and valley and ridge sys-
tenn was formed, and we may suppose
that the lead producing action dates
at comparatively recent geological
epoch, from the simple fact that there
was no necessity for the existence of
lead ore until man had come to have
dominion on the earth, and to be con.
ditioned with mind and wants ma
king necessity for the existence Of
this metal (; for to have repleted the
veins prior to this period, would not
have been consistent with the general
development or plan Of the economic
laws that have distributed the coal
and iron, as well as lead wealth of
this great valley of the Mississippi or
basin of the Continent
PHILLIPS.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
Peculiar Papers.

Editors deploring the dryness of their "ex-
changes are magnanimously permitted to
clip the following article provided that they
republish 1t rebatim ct lasratim, particularly the
twelfth paragraph:
/. The paper having tine largest circulation
the paper of tobacco.
2. The most valuable paper issued in this
country -" greenbacks."
8. The paper that may be examined in every
modern dwelling house wallpaper.
4. A paper for " roughs sand paper.
s. A paper containing many fine points,
paper of needles.
8. Ruled papers-the French journals.
2. A paper that is full of rows IA paper OF
pins. ...
g. The spirualists paper-(w)rapping papor.
8. Papers illustrated with many cuts -
editorial exchanges"
10. Drawing paper--the dentists bill.
IL. A very ;. taking" paper--a sheriff &
warrant.
IL. The paper that ought to be taken by
everybody-the Charles City IntelIigencer.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
Charles City, Iowa, March 2, 1866.
The Freedmen,


The Hartford Press makes an interesting
statement in regard to the recent order o.
Gen. Sherman, allotting to negroes the coast
and islands of South Carolina and Georgia.
1t says that when Mr.. Stanton was in Savan.
nah, Gen. Sherman invited to conference
twenty of the leading men among the negroes,
such as they selected to represent them.
They sent their most intelligent men, their
class-leaders, preachers, some of the large
Drained, shrewd, clear.headed men. With
this body of representative men, Gen. Sher-
man, in the presence of Mr.. Stanton, entered
into full and free conference regarding their
condition and wishes. They fully explained
to him their situation and their desires. They
told him that their principal want was land
If they had the assured possession of land
they would support themselves. They were
then asked whether they preferred to live by
themselves, or with white people. After con-
sultation, they answered, that for the present
they would prefer to be by themselves. The
scheme was therefore arranged in most of its
details In accordance with the wishes of the
negroes, and with their practical suggestions.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
MistslIanu.
EVERYDAY LIFE.
III LEAD PENfII.. ESQ.

A young friend asks me what books
he shall read with reference to appear
ance in society. l can appreciate the
desire of the young man to know how
to appear. There may be books which
will aid him in determining how he
shall behave There are books in
which are found certain rules of eti-
quette which govern in good society
We believe Fowler & Wells of New
York, have published little hand
book on this subject" How to Be-
have (which will furnish all the in
formation the young man will need To
acquire from books. But he should
not depend upon books to fit him for
appearance in society. They may aid
in some degree, but they are as likely
to render him ridiculous as otherwise.
They help to make a man affected.
And affectation renders the young man
or woman ridiculous. a.....
The best way to learn how to ap-
pear in society perhaps, is to GO into
society to learn. Go there without
trepidation--go determined to act
naturally no matter if the sky falls
act Independently. too-that is, do
what your own good sense and heart
tell you it is right to do. You need
not, necessarily, act singularly, nor
make yourself conspicuous. Those
unaccustomed to society are apt to as
sumo over-much-to make pretentieas
which they can not sustain.
My friend Goodenough is an accom-
plished man. His appearance in socie-
ty is unexceptionable-he is regarded
as model. He once told me in his
experiences, and they may furnish my
young friend hint or two which will
help him :" tell you Squire Pencil, !
was once as green and bashful as any
body. But l had sensible sister.
She knew inst what society was made
of, and what perverse old coward
Mrs. Grundy is when she finds she can
not rule. So my sister said to me-
she was older thanI-' James, remem-
Der that you are just as much entitled
to your opinions in society as any one
you find there is to his or hers. That
your ideas of good manners are quite
as likely to be correct as theirs. So,
do not sneak, nor cringe, nor be timid.
Act as well and as naturally as you
do at home, and you will act well
enough. Do not be be bold, but be
manly. If you want to speak to a
young lady, do so. Do not stop to pre-
pare pretty speech, but say what
you have got to say to her just as you
would say the same thing to your sis
ter. BE frank, considerate, kind. Seek
to do favors, but do not be ofiicious. II
you are required to do anything which
you do not know how to do, seek the
most accomplished lady in the room,
tell her frankly that You are ignorant,
and ask her to teach you. She will do
/, it if she is a true lady and if she does
not, seek some one else who will. Do
not shrink from anything society re-
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

quires you to do-that is honorable,
of course,--and if you do not know
how to attempt it, confess it, and ask
to be taught. You will soon learn all
that needs to be learned, and the re-
strain of inaction and embarrassment
will quickly be removed. Try, try,
try said she, and if you make mis-
takes, laugh at them with those who
laugh, and try again. Cultivate kind
feelings toward all Do not look for
other peoples faults. Search for and
emulate, and commend, what you seq
that is good in them. Always try to
relieve others of embarrassment when
you see they are embarrassed. Do it
considerately-kindly. Keep your
heart green and Your mind pure and
clear, and act your@lf, James"
$50 talked ray sister, and SO act
ed, and that is all the training have
had. But there is one thing ought al
ways to be remembered A person
should act at home precisely as he
ought to abroad. The habits of his
everyday life sheald be correct, and
then he will need no special training
to fit him for society" .-.s v.a -
And, after all, Lead Pencil, ESQ,
thinks the home the best place to learn
and practice what will render one re-
spect and respectable in society, The
everyday life of young men and wo-
men should not have two faces. There
should not be a society-face distinct
from the home-face--Ho society.tone
distinct from the tone of the home-voice
no home-habits which should be
changed, or restrained, or masked in
society. If you want to know how
to appear in society, learn how to
appear well at home. Practice ha-
bitually at home, in intercourse with
those you should love and respect
most, precisely what you learn is eti-
quette outside the home circle.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
s CITY, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2 1865

they discover their mistake too late.
Another class wish to seek honor in
the Prize Ring, and consequently play
knock-down for amusement, as the pay
all goes on one side.
Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill are to
punch each others noses on Christmas
for $1,000 a side.
This is the society and you can
judge of the influences of it in min.
ing tswn. Nearly every other door is
a grog shop or "Pharo bank,
Although every body says the socie-
ty is much better than year ago, at
which time the Road Agents held full
sway, occasionally, even now, an
old operator is fastened upon, and
without judge or jury, save the vigi-
lance committee, has a poultice of
hemp applied which produces very
salutary effect upon his physical sys-
tenn. Truly yours,
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

PErRoLEuM.-The collecting of Petroleum
Is generally regarded as modern discovery
made by Drake. But Herodotus, who lived
2, 800 years ago-about the period of Malachi
speaks of the collection of Petroleum in the
island of zante. on the western coast of Greece.
DIR. Chandler, in the early part of the present
century, visited zante and found an oil we'll
in full opention. The Patriarch job had un.
doubtedly visited that well, or some other one,
flowing one at that-otherwise he would not
have thought of the - rocks pouring out riv.
ers of OIL @#@
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
Stitnti6e.
Wonders of Geology.

The rock known as the Potsdam
sandstone is about five hundred feet
below the level of the Mississippi riv-
er at Dubuque. In boring an artesian
well on Main street, first about TWEEN
ty feet of sand and pebbles would be
penetrated, then thirty feet of finty
limestone, below this one hundred feet
of blue limestone, one hundred and
twenty feet of sandstone, then two
hundred and fifty feet of lower mag.
nesian limestone, which would bring
us down to the Potsdam sandstone.
This rock is five hundred feet thick, so
that about one thousand feet below
Main street would 60 down to the bot
tom of this rock. What is below this
We will not speculate upon, as the
mind may have much better employ.
ment and more healthy reflection in
investigating what is found above
this level. The Potsdam sandstone is
a crumbling, stratified sand rock with
calcareous interlying strata. This
rock covers large areas in northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota. The alti-
tude of these districts is about five
hundred feet above the Mississippi riv.
er at Dubuque, making the dip tow
ards Dubuque about one thousand
feet. 1t is not unreasonable to sup
pose that if an artesian well were
bored ON the bluffs at Dubuque, pure
water would flow out and fill reser-
voirs which might be used to supply
the city, and might prove the most
economical way of supplying the city
with water. This Potsdam sandstone
carries fossil known as a trilobite, a
marine animal that lived at one age OF
our globe in an ocean, was laid down
upon its floor, and was fossilized in
sand and lime that was being deposit.
ed and forming this rock. We discov.
er from this that at one age Of our
Globe one thousand feet below where
the city Of Dubuque now stands was
the floor of an ocean, and from that
level for six hundred feet above the
present site of the city, all the rock
has been formed atom by atom on the
floor of an ancient ocean and from
the family of the trilobites, which have
their oldest burying grounds in this
Potsdam sandstone, each stratum o.
limestone and sandstone filled above
has its tombs of fossils, showing al
outline of the animal life that swarm
ed these oceans.
! Here commences the early history o.
the stratified rocks, and the business
Of the geologist is to take these strata
as the pages Of book, and study out
history of the condition of the sur
face Of the planet as the dynasties O
4 this animal life made their entrances
and exits, each playing their part il
the great drama Of the early life o
! our globe. The reader may ask how
does the geologist know about tn,
depth Of this rock below the city O
Dubuque and about the floor Of thi,
ocean that was once thousand fee
below the present level Of the Missis
sippi river, and about this animal lii;
! that is buried in the strata. We viii
proceed to explain it: In Belcher',
we'll at ST. Louis, bored twenty-tw,
hundred feet deep, an exact scale 0
the rocks was made as the boring pro
gressed. At the depth of eighteel
hundred feet, this Potsdam sandston,
Twas penetrated. Going south Of st
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

The celebrated speech of Sir Boyle Roche !:
I" Mr., Speaker, smell a rat see him float
ing in the air but mark me. l shall yet nip
him In the bud" was evidently model upon
which writer in Kansas framed, the other
day, some remarks upon the recent election.
The Leavenworth Conservative says that, by
the result Of that election, "the fall OF COR
ruption has been dispelled, and the wheels of
the State Government will no longer be tram
melled by sharks that have bcset the public
prosperity like locusts.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02
4ostrp.
Eulogy Of Gen. Sherman.

Dedicated to the noble woman who can boaf
the rare felicity of being at once the daugt
ter Of wise statesman, and the wife of th
greatest living general. .
Have We read in truthful story,
Or in Fictions legends hoary,
Aught that rings with real glory ..i
Louder than our Sherman namef +.
Through campaigns Of conquest vaster
Than before were trod by master
Of the sword, without disaster
He had marched to deathless fame
Less like man than wierd magician
He hath stormed each strong position,
Pushed the foe to swift perdition,
But with arms his reason wrought;
Spurning battles frantic thunder
As crude and cruel blunder, ....
He hath crushed rebellion under
Blasting bolts Of quicker thought!
Mercy mild, he proved Gods daughter,
Dearest pearl from Eden's water;
Still disdaining useless slaughter,
Wise, he fanked the Red Seas flood.
Loyal in his country's quarrel,
True unto the highest moral,
He contemned the greenest laurel,
Vengeance vain he left to others;
Rebel sons he knew were brothers,
And he felt they might have mothers
Tender as his own true wife.
He would only doom assailing
Hosts to death, while trumpets wailing
Mourned the hearts in battle failing:
He but warred with weaponcd life.
Those who cried for quarter round him,
PHYS kindly angel found him
Widows lone and orphans crowned him
With the love Of grateful tears.
Wars wild mandates he did season
With the eloquence OF reason,
Seeking still TO WOO back treason
To its faith of former years.
Since he passed the purple border
OF which civil strife is warder,
Never did ruthless order
Shame our Sherman's gentle hand.
Small in words, but great in action,
Ne 'er a demon of Distraction
Dared to class him with faction
Narrower than his native land
Glory's record shows the traces
Of the mighty ones. whose faces
Triumphed over alien races.
Conquerors of the weak alone:
But our hero's stern persistence
Nanquished warriors in resistance
Brave As ever had existence,
Kindred bravery to his own.
Pray fJr Sherman preservation,
Ye who seek the land 3 salvation
Hopes. the highest of the nation,
Cling for life unto his name.
Praise him for his posts forsaken,
Laud him for Savannah taken,
Cheer him, till the world awaken
With the echoes of his famei
A. w. ARLINGTON.
Chicago, Jan. 1st, 1865.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

The HusK PAPER PRoJEcr learn that
the experiment now being made at the Clin-
ton mills. Steubenville, N. Y, to manufacture
printing paper from corn husks. by the Aus
tran patent, h progressing very favorably.
The pulp produced from the husks Is a. white
- the driven snow. and said to be equal in ap-
pearance to the pulps made from cotton or lin
en- rags ' '.=
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

In the rebel House on the l4th, areport was
made of tho names of men who had sold
wheat to the Government at extortionate pri-
ccs. The first man on the list Is the Hon.
James A. Seddon, late Secretary Of War. who
sold 500 bushels for $40 per bushel
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

The workmen in the Ophir silver mines,
Nevada, have been driven out by an immense
quantity of hot water from some subtcrranean
reservoir bursting In upon them. 4
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-02

What woman is that who knows not what
she sayss She who swears that she will never
love, or that she will love forever.