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SOCIAL AND POLITICAL nxlsoys-
p1euon OF the Pacific Hallway might well form III
subject Of IN entire lecture. Wherever Mr. Cola:
snd hl. party went, among lhe snow.capped mouu
tica ralle5s md eoid-beaTing iedees .
elass ai list brood over @ The Ae Columbia: G a@on
.Sa tse people T epoke q ,ne Old stas
as home They eafd, nov that the war IL ovel
stll no re uaiion bend its ssneEeies to oa,1din
nes1.a it W.. aaeetne 70 bear .aeu
talk OF friends iour. thousand miles away
tcward the rising san By sea o. hnd, and thc ool
20 expensive, tnat thousands Of noble men ant
hoping women arc wa11tno to retnEn home I'LL th
road i done. Then they vii eomsEsor thcy g. e.
associated with thousand fond memories Of child
hood Wil be revisited The old school house, ant
the old church, and the venerable pstesnal man.on
| even though owned by strangers, Ntn gave then
| welcome and cheer the tnonghifal visitor:
Who an e,l, In paltsy pelE the valae ot pseserv
h3G ~ ns,on ,osethe1 II III il aud u 1t
cloryr Marx me-the>o sacred hres Will burn on
With The f1te Of the men Wno nov ehes'eh them an
other generation II growing up on the Pac1a
enas; Who, If hey rensain eoI,,ed there, Will thin
little and care less for the early homes Of their "a
their. The Ps1ne Railway IL. therefore. not only
alike 10 the Nelhrt. the integrity, and The very III
ollhe11a,ion. Nov that Congress hate- With pa
trptIc Wisdom never before equaIled, mad
such muu1dccnr grant5 Of money anG OF Land. to Ii
/ companies eneaGed In bulloIpg the line, let Il
people bold the.s men to STRICT accountability
| execute thts hish trust In The shoEse1t po-sih
time and In Ave, Ut most In eight year,, The los
will be done and the integrity and prosperity Of
| Ealion will be secured for ol coming time.
TIE FEIUnk or AMERICA.
4 few words to the younger portion Of my aut
| ence. and l hsye done. 61rd yourrelyes for Il
work. ny friends, acqnll Jonsselyea hka men-i
yon are bern 10 1 grand, glorious tnheri,snt
| When ypuE speaker, and those Of similar lce,
gan life, the frontier settlements we're In New 70
| and efstetn Ohio. The steamboat had iuat beg
10 come into general use. This ocean steamer, I
1aiwaJ. tho Telegraph. the reaplug Enachine, u
scores Of sinilar improvements wete nnkuoH
MpIe-and far worse than all suts-the dark, bJg
ing pail Of slsvery hing o9er the faEiest Portto
Of the Republic and with all our e1o
to conceal or sins rom ourselves 4
from other8.- We wfre divided peop
What Ii the legacy which We, as soon, one sn
| another We are gathered to onr fathers. bequea
J to you, onr childrenf Settlements aye been posn
beyond the Missouri, more than 4 thousand NIL
/ westward. The country nas been res cned isota =
| dominion Of the panther and the s1VaRr~ LIZ ~
| me9abie tines Of railway hAve been huHt. 20 - -
II takes lie more than three days to TaseII ~ 81
1 New Yo,k 10 IaErppce In Kansas. otnVnifs f.
churches, an1 nj tho h!e+einsa OF oas ci;is
civilization, hare been Planted efyn.h,1sn,a la,
| or len 10 two hundred thonsand ~! aeTtt meassgt
| grown up "a II BY magic: 1oa soH Snw York
Of business md Affection noa4 -'
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SC4TQ. HQO If1m 4lkEplUE uHl Ii SlE QpEQ AuA IL
my one b. troubled With rheumatism in Wall
Koeky Mountains. There are pasts OF Mon!sna
8 rs 1sss ~ aSas Haase
lies. Everywhere throughout that Tast valley, up
west Of the mountains there Will be firms In
DgstImuiating alike 10 men and 70 vegetation In
word rome ol the hest SECTIONS Of the continent are
TO be found ar up in toat centzal teson, sbere II
wig s1ppoeed that nothing could live. The Nor
mons hive proved th,s ahnndantfy.
MINERAL RESOURCES.
Nov, to the uinetal reaonrces ofthts vast central
perds in large nneasure the early completion Of
The Pac1dc Railway. bectu with Co'orsdu. Eight
yenrs ago tbas new S,ae YVES the home only Of Wild
breaking ont ot he reoeihon, senta lasec emign-
ao hs. a
Of Con0rets, askine toE admission among her older
sisters Of the Union. The product OF the Colorado
lea nd bes, ses re eoua obaa, viii
DO about {s0, ,0O0Oc0. Owing 10 the delay. caused
BY the introduction Of new and more peifee! ma- pa!
year, secordtne to The fgnrts Of eea,lemen best
posted on the subject will not exceed million or
ollars. Bnl the ertirc product heretofore sken from
tasped a. soon a. the railway Is completed, The
goods and nearly all the provisions 70 supply me
twenty to Thirty thnusand people .! eoGssoo. an9
from FIX 10 feven hundred milcs. At an expense OF
tro ten to tn Nenty Eve cents PET pound. or a the
raie OF two to nve hundred dolta1s per ton: Heuee
only the richest orea can b worked. Build the
pac1dc Railway. and Colorado viii eoon haTe ten
times .he population and produce ten times as
much gold as tke did IN her most prosperous
ytaIt.
us that more freight, tnIin9 the summer month.
passed there every da. for The mountains than any
one Eallway carried out Of Chicago. Any ous who
has seen the 1uleEmlnable line Of teams dragging
their slow length along, can Fey readily understand
The ruth Of this assert1op Colonel Potter United
sta.es Quartey1naster 1T Lesvenwns1h, told me be
had tent 33,tCo,o0o na OF freight wet during tnt
present reason. up 10 October fst and that ne had
Kept cons unity employed 1900 mules and aot
notxes. De Is pseparine for service next teasol
2.C00 WAGONS. Wno can doubt, therefore. with h.
small cost Of the railway up The Plaste Valley. ina
II viii ray handsomely tS soun ~ completed to ths
uomtatns7 .-.......
THE NnsEs or MONTANA. -..
North OF colorado, and AMONG and east Of th.
mounfaIns, Is the Territory Of Aon ma have nj
definite stat{stcy OF The Total amount OF gold pro
dueed lhere rlece The discovery of1he mines. Th
Montana Fbss, of October -, 1865 aays; "Las
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datst6ara tbs Course Of empire takts its aolap."


ty of these white men" Of Memphis
We insist that in view of these
facts Congress institute a rigid in.
vestigation into the whole Memphis
massacre, and call its authors to a
strict account. 1t is one of the inevi-
table effects Of restoring power, even
Of single city, to the hands of reb.
els.
The Executive branch Of the Gov.
ernment is responsible for having or.
ganized the State Government as it is
and Congress is as responsible for not
reorganizing it SO as to make it what
it ought to be, in order to protect the
lives of all its citizens. The Federal
Government is responsible for such
outrages as that at Memphis, ond the
others which will follow if this be
not promptly investigated and its
authors brought TO justice. Stone
mans reputation in the war was that
of man who understood we'll chow
not to do it," and that he should turn
mp at Memphis, when he could do
less harm anywhere else. passes com.
prchension. We hope Congress will
thoroughly investigate this Memphis
massacre, which, with the similar
one at Norfolk, may be counted as first
fruits Of my policy Chicago Ifi-
bUne.
Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-05-17
Gold Mines in New En- gland.

Much interest and excitement has ex.
listed among the good people of Upper
New Hampshire, and in parts of Ver-
mont, in consequence OF ricn discove-
ries Of gold in the quartz of the noun.
tains there. A New York company
has found such proofs of large gold
vein in one of the spurs of the Green
Mountains in Vermont, that they are
now erecting the necessary quartz
crushing machinery aud are going to
work. A Hartford company seem to
have struck an equally rich, or richer
mine. 1t is in the Franconia noun
tains of New Hampshire. and in the
town Of Lisbon. Specimens of the
quartz thrown out 10y blast, and
picked up just as they came. without
selection, were taken to Professor
Hayes. the State Assayer of Massa,
chnsetts, for analysis.
His report would indicate richei
gold mine in New Hampshire than
anything ever known to California.
He pronounced the quartz to be worth
1857 a ton for it's gold. aud Sl59 for
It's silver. This was in January.
Another test ust made, of fragments
blasted lower down. confirms the
above value of tie white Quartz, in
which the gold can be- plainly seen in
bits the size OF mustard seed to thai |
of half "A pea, and makes certain speci-
mems OF grey quartz, in which no
gold is visible, wcrlh much more; as
high, according To one batch of sam
Piles, as 81 500 ton. He declares
it to be the richest quartz he ever
assayed. not excepting the best from
California or Nevada. -.
Right in Lisbon village this
company have obtained aud opened "a
rocky peak which is apparently full OF
plunbago, mixed with silver. Ii is a
beautiful specimen Of plumbago,
yielding. by assay. $2s in plumbago
and $40 of silver. ...
The geological formation of the
gold mine presents the peculiar per.
pendicular clearage called the "wall y
revealed by blasting, wich experien
ced California miners delight to be.
hold as one of the very surest signs
Of rich deposits. sr
Of course such discoveries have
famed the gold fever" OF the people
there to a high pitch, and speculation
is rife. The company we have spoken
of, made up Of Hartford men, are
organizad with capital of 5000, 900
have leased 600 acres for 100 years
besides other tracts in which copper
is loud, and are about TO put up ma
chinery. The gold Developments arr
confidently regarded as uncommonl,
rich. The gold shows no tendency I,
diminish. while the lead and silver
seem to be less promising as to guam
tity. II the deeper mining confirm,
the revelations already obtained b,
blasting to a depth OF Is feet, the Lis
bon mine will become more famou,
than the California could 4 Curry.
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Ibe yntelligenljt:tr. 1:
A Romantic Story.

The arrival at Paris Of the German
poet, philosopher and patriot, Gott.
fried kinkel, has reminded a CORES.
pondent there of an adventure of the
stormy times Of l843 in Germany,
in which kinkel and Carl Schurz, well
known in this country as soldier, poll
tician and journalist, were engaged.
When the Revolution broke out, X in
kel was professor and Schurz, then
not twenty years old, a student at
Boon. Both took prominent parts in
the struggle, both were captured, tried
and sentenced, the professor to in-
prisonment aud hard labor for life, aud
the student to be shot. Schurz es.
capped across the French frontier, but
could not leave his friend and teacher
IN his dreary confinement. He dis
guiscd himself in rags, and returned
I" Prussia as an orgau.grinder, beg
ging his bread 10y day. and visiting the
friends OF liberty hy night, and thus
Travelled many hundred miles, only to
find that kInkels prison had been
the fortress at Spandau.
SchurZ now.changcd his tactics, and
had recourse Ia stratag"m. Late one
night carriage, escorted by four
dragoons, drove through Spandau to
the fortress, and an officer in the uni.
form of colonel of the royal guard
delivered to the director letter bear
ing the official seal of the Minister of
the Interior at Berlin. 1t ordered him
to send the prisoner kinkel at once, in
charge OF the bearer Of the letter, t.
the citadel of Mal.ehourg. Kinke!
was awakened, securely ironed and
placed in the carriage. 1t Travelled
rapidly all night, the escort Of dra-
g"ons and the magic words "thc
Kings service" iusuring prompt re-
lays of horses everywhere. In the
morning. the prisoner was taken out,
and found himself net at another pris-
IN, but on the sea-shore, close under
the guns of an English vessel, to
which he was Immediately transferred
On her deck he found his wife and
children. and in the colonel who had
borne him away he recognized his
friend Carl Schurz in disguise.
The dragons, it is needless to say,
were confederates in the plot. Kinkel
has since resided in England and
France, unable to revisit his own
country; but Carl Schurz has since
been back at leisure aud without dis
guise to bis birthplace, unmolested by
any one-for though condemned fel-
on he was diplomatic representative
OF one of the most powerful of nations,
and bore as safeguard commission
signed by Abraham Lincoln.
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Governing by Proxy.

A very strsnge state of affairs has
come to light in Iowa. There have
been rumors for some time that Gov.
Stone had diverted certain moneys be-
longing to We State, and legislative
committee ,ssok the matter in hand &.
They discovered that tho governor
was honest enough, and that his pri-
vate secretary is the rogue. More
over they found that the said private
secretary, one Orwig. has been the ac-
tual governor of the State, being au-
thorized by Gov. Stone to sign his
name to all sorts of official documents,
while the real governor has not been
at the State capital more than ten or
dozen times in the two years he has
held Office. Orwig not only signed
the governors name, but he acted on
all subjects without consulting that
official, and his fraud consists in di,
verting to his use $33, ,994 worth of
land warrants, which may be consid
cred a moderate theft when it is known
that $l5l ,254 worth passed through
his hands, were signed with the gov.
"rnor's name 10y him. and were abso-
lutcly under his control.
Orwig was before the investigating
committee himself and testified that
he signed aud issued proclamations,
appointing days for Thanksgiving and
elections. general and special; that he
signed pardous, rcprieves aud dis
charges from the penitentiary, and
exercised the pardoning power where
he Thought usticc demanded it; y
that he signed the certificates of lowa's
six congressman, upon which they
now hold their seats ia congress; that
he signed death warrants that sent
criminals to the galIows; that he
appointed public officers, and APP
proved tLcir bonds; and finally. to
make long matter short, that he had
probably signed the name OF the Gov
ernOr /" niI ety-nlne out OF every hun
dred otlic al papers that have needed
Gov. stones signature The commit
tee fully cXonerate Gov. Stone from
any completely in the diversion of funds
but very naturally censure his loose
way of doing business and placing the
whole interests of the State in the
hands of an irresponsible person; and
that will probably be the end of the
matter. A governor of Massachusetts
would not be likely to hold Office very
long if he should attempt to run the
official machine by proxy in this way;
but they do things differently out
west.-Springfeld, Mass, Republican.
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PpIifira(.
NIAGARA SHIP CANAL.
Speech of Hon. w. B. Allison,
In the House Of Representatives., Nay la, 1866

In the House Of Representatives., Nay la, 1866.
Mr.. Allison offered the following
amendments to the Niagara Ship Ca
nal Bill
Section twenty, line seven, after the word
"pavable, insert lin lawful currency of
the United Statcs' also in line fourteen in
sert the same words SO that il will read
SEC. -. Aad be IL further enacted, That the
sum of 5000, 900 shall be loaned by the
United States, in the manner and at the times
hereinafter provided. To the company hereby
chartered, and its successors, to aid in the
construction of said canal, and shall be ad-
vanced and paid in the bonds of the United
States in denomination of 81, 900 each, paya-
bic in lawful currency of the United States in
twenty years from their date which said
bonds shall be made and issued 10y the Secre-
tary of the Treasury in the usual manner, and
duly attested and dated the lst day of Septem-
ber, 1856, payable at the Office of the Secreta-
~ of the Treasury, on the LIST day of Septem-
ber 1866, bearing interest at line rate of six
per cent. per annum, payable semi annually,
in lawful currency Of the United States, from
and after the LIST day of September, 1866, up
on warrants or coupons to be annexed thereto,
signen 10y the Treasurer of the United States,
duly numbered and registered in book to be
kept by him for that purpose. The said inter
est to be payable and the said bonds to be re-
deemed out OF moneys to be hereafter appro-
priated by Congress. ...-
Section twenty two, page n, line three,
after the word I" thereof" strike out, :" after
deducting the cost of repairs and the expenses
of operating and improving the same +" so
that it will read:
SEC. %. Ahdbe il further enacted, That from
all the tolls which shall be collected upon
vessels, RATS, floats, and property passing said
canal, ten per cent thereof shall, on the lst
day of January in each year after the com
pletion of said canal, be paid by said company
into the Treasury of the United States, which
moneys, with the interest accruing thereon,
shall be applied toward the payment of the
principal of the sum SO To be loaned to said
company, as is herein provided, from time tn
| time as shall hereafter be appropriated by
Congress.
Add to section twenty three the following
proviso:
Prormed, That said rates Of toll may at any
time be reduced and regulated by Congress.
The amendments were accepted and
Mr.. Allison ADDRESSED the House as fol
lows;
Mr.. Speaker-Before entering upor
! the discussion Of the merits of tn,
| particular bill now before the Hous,
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An exchange gives reasons for not
publishing poetic etfusion, AS follows:
The rythm sounds like pumpkins
rolling over a baru Hoor, while some
OF the lines appear 10 have been meas
ured with yard.stick, and others
with ten foot pole"
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Pptfru.
Golden Days.
By ELIZA u. CROSBY.

We stand hcneath the sunny skies,
And we feel the softened air,
And catch the songs of merry birds,
And scent the flowers fair:
And like an incense from the heart,
Rise unspoken words of praise
To the Maker of all beauties,
For the spring golden days.
Golden days each season bringeth;
Summer has them burning bright,
Lying with a quivering heat
Over pastures daisy-white
And they shine ON fruit and harvest
Richer through the autumn haze;
And the snowy rose of winter
Gem-like CLEANS on golden days.
Golden days has each swift season,
Cloudless skies and sunshine bright;
Happy hours has each life epoch,
Filled with friendly love and light;
We look around on human life,
And in sins deadliest ways
We find no life sofwholly dark
That has no golden days.
Golden days in the far future
Shine DER intervening years,
To the young eyes no shades revealing,
Arching rainbows over tears.
All, young form, with high hope thrilling,
There are depths of shadow dark
Weary toll and fruit of ashes,
Ere you reach the shining mark
In the worlds turmoil and struggle,
Turning from the weary maze,
Manhood thoughts roam ever backward
To his childhood 5 golden days,
When the parents love protected,
And there came no thought of care,
And bright angels hoyered near him
Waiting up his evening prayer.
Aged forms that linger waiting
Close beside death river brink
Ask them where is greatest blessing,
What of golden days they think
They have caught the distant cleaning,
Seeing dimly US through haze,
And will point beyond the river,
Saying, there are golden days"
Golden days we each remember,
Sunny with the light of eyes
That are closed in dreamless slumber,
Opened now beyond the skies.
Burdened hearts, o wait in patience,
Murmur not, and in your future
There will come some golden days.
Life's true golden days depend not
On the brightness of the skies,
For to make them dark or sunny
In our hands the magic lies:
For a life of noble action,
Although grief may dark the way,
Brings happy hours, and leads at last
Where liie is one golden day