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The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19
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uFAaINt, entered the above las ness, in ~
/ i ton, ! am now prepared T. supry customers
With fresh bread, and all ARTICLES IN ne OF
business. Cakes and pastry u every htit.far-
nished 10 families, or iof PARTIES On short no.
tice. Having engaged tie sertioes Of one OF Toe
best bakers ~ the west Il FL confident Of giviSg
satisfaction TO all customers. 4n ". WAITE.
The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19

For Chrisimas and New Years
Those who desire to remember their chill
.lren on the holidays are requested 70
.aotics the new Advertisement Of Ed
Adams 4 Co. Of Davenport.
Al the Iowa Book Rooms can DC founa
= choice selection Of oil such articles ~
SANTA Claus bsssows upon tho good chill
dren, besides having . large stock o.
hooks and other articles, for older Per-
sons
The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19
M,lliners and Maotua Makers.

SgIs- DAVIS & MISS Young, woala respect.
vi fully invite tie Ladies o. Upton, and pub
liz GENERALLY, to call at their residence, on the
corner ab.ye the Eag Gle Hotel They viii fuihli
all orIsrs promptly. Upton Iowa, Oct "a.
The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19
HOUSES FOR SALE.

THE undersigned offers for sale two comfort
/ able dwelling houses situated in Upton.
One is house Of good size, and the Other .
comfortable house for small family hosn
wish good lots. [sotfl mo. H. STARR
The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19

srWho wants hauling from Musea.
,inei Apply ., this office.
The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19

Il LSslsrs vAat uos q Lecture. -Lan
Sunday evening We listened to DIS
eosrss. delivered BY a man calling him.
,sAf shs cslebrased Temperance Lec'ur'
~ Lisdjohn." In the course OF his
sermoa Of lecture, the audience were
.nsds acquainted with considerable OF the
history Of the Li,,lejohn family as well
q Of the wonderful mental powers oil the
speaker. His style Of delivery and IAN
guags was decidedly Of the "Hardss.el'
Dap,iss" order; his subject was diversified
his text vas laid somewhere within 'Le
lids Of the Bible, and his sermon was
HE played on . harp Nv thousand
strings, speeri.s Of JUS, men made per
feck."
The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-12-19
Business & Commercial Department.

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Copies 700
10 1900
80 5000
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~ No paper discontinued until all arrear
ages are paid.
RATES Of ADVERTISING.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

MExIco-A Washington correspondent of
the New York Times says persons who have
recently arr we'd from Mexico express the
opinion that Santa Annals government must
soon fall. Having exhausted the seven mil.
lions Of dollars received under the Gadsden
treaty, he attempted to draw the remaining
three millions, but the United States govern.
ment refused to honor his draft. In this
strait, Santa Anna got wealthy Mexican
merchant, named Escandon, to advance mon
ey upon the faith of the three millions yet due,
but Escandon made snth m enormous shave
that only half the amount, $l,5OO,O0o was
received into the State treasury. This re-
suited from the bargain made BY Escondon,'
that one half of three millions should be
paid in cash and Tie other half III THE nation.
al bonds, which are so deprecated that He
bought them in at the rate of twelve cents
on THE dollar. Thus these bonds cost him
$4,000, and he will get for them 1880,
900.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

tE- Thc movement in the North to make
Commodore Robert Stockton tho nominee Of
tho American party for President, is said to
DO going on, and gathering strength. Com.
modore Stockton might make rather re.
spectacle sort Of President. But that other
srrangcment-intcrrogatiog Geo. Law about
his views on great national questions and
whetherrhe wonldaccept nomination. is per.
fecty farcical.. Geo. Iaw--witliout the first
qualification, OF single element OF suites
manshp about him, and famous only for his
connection with large number Of second
hand muskets which wont Ego off the
Know Nothings place him in nomination and
present him for tho suifrages Of the people
for the first office in their gift, they will es-
tablist their claim to tho title OF Enoip-
Nothinss, or something worse, beyond all
eavil. God forbid that any ninre litslo men
should stumble into the Presidential chnir--
We have had enough of that sort. Our Know
Nothing friends will have to be little more
particular in some Of their movements, OF
they will hardly elect tho next President,
nor tho ono after the next but may turn the
whole business into comedy Of errors or a
farce before tho next Presidential canvass
opens. II has slight squirting that way
already, and will require good deal Of
watching to keep II from losing sight ofth,
object Of its organization. At Toast that's
what some of It's earlier friends seem to think
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

sW- Several of the American or Know
Nothing papers are discussing the propricty
Of casting of the secret feature of the or
ganization, Of coming out into the brond
open glare Of day, to declare their platform
and naunt their banners where all may see
and learn the principles inscribed thereon
This would be most important movement
il would be right and proper, and if the or
der il based on the pure and patriotic grounds
which its friends claim, would give it more
strength than any thing else that could be
done. If the cause is right and just, il must
succeed, sooner or later. As to the propriety
Of casting off the secret feature, there can be
little question of that-it will come to that
cOmplce,ion atiast.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16
THE KNOW NOTHING EXPOSE.


The democratic papers, in publishing the
"KnOw Nothing Expose" have dealt insin.
eerely with their readers. They pretend to
have spread out before them the whole bu-
siness-initatory, progressive, and ultimate,
when in fact great deal, and perhaps the
more interesting portionsare omitted. That's
wfong-when our democratic friends under
take any thing, they should do it thoroughly.
That the "Know Nothing Expose" may be
perfect as whole, we shall, as We can find
space and leisure, supply the omissions which
have been made, and we commence with the
following, copied from the book with the
yaller kirer:
whenever any person expresses, in the
presence of a Know Nothing. strong de-
sire to become member of the order, he is
privately informed that he must be at a GER
tain corner ut the hour of twelve, whistling
Yankee Doodle out of one corner of his
mouth and Hail Columbia out of the other;
then he must have copy Of the Constitu-
ton of the United States in one of his boots,
Cor shoes as the case may be,) that when q
person passes him, in a SLOUGH hat, whistlng
the Star Spangled Banner he Qhe candi-
date) must follow. He will be led up dark
stairway into dark room. He will then be
sworn by some persons whom the darkness
cohceals, neter to reveal anything that he
may hear or see during the meeting. After
taking this oath, light suddenly llumnates
the room, and five men in masks approach
the candidate, holding in their hands the
| American flag, made out Of twelve hundred
yards ofAmercan silk, which they roll about
the candidate, completely ,esScasing him, after
the fashion of an Egyptian mummy, The
five then shoulder the candidate and carry
him into the lodge. Though he cannot see
he can heuf and the Great Grand Flum--the
highest oficer-administers terrible oath,
swearing the candidate never to repeal any of
the passwords, signs, tokens, grips, principles,
designs or private work of the Order, on PEN
atty of being sent 70 the Penitentiary or the
State Legislature Ifthc case is not too ng-
gravated, the violation would only be visited
upon the violater by sending him to the PEN
| tentiary, but the EXTREMIST penalty for viola.
ton is the Legislature.
"After taking this oath tho candidate is
rolled around the room, this being the speedi-
est way Of unwindng the flag He sees the
members standing around him all in masks.
The five principles are then read to him, and
after he has sworn to observe them, he is
compelled to run a splnter-previousy Ia
ken from liberty pole--into the index fin.
ger of his left hand, and with the splinter
and his own blood, he signs the Constitution
and BY Laws of the Order Physicians on
being admitted into the Order, are compelled
to take an additional oath, to the effect that
they will mistake strychnne for calomel in
administering medicine to Dutch and Irish
Catholics. Lawyers have to swear that they
will abandon the habit Of lying and decep-
ton in dealing with native born American
clients. Many Lawyers hare left THE Or
DER"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

KossUTH's PLAN TO BE ADOPTED BY TINE
ALLIEs-A Paris letter says: We have new,
this week from private souees of consider,.
Bile interest. The doctrine some time aco
laid down by Kossuth, that the Allies wer.
not attacking Russia in her vulnerable poiD,
has been at last recognized, and two DAYS
ago Prince Napoleon stated in a diplomatic
circle, that the French Government intended
to attack Russia now through the Prussian
territory. This report has been repeated
very often lately, but it is now for the frst
time confirmed oy the language of the
Prince. The programme of kossuth, there.
fore, in regard to Poland and Hungary, is in
fair way of adoption, not because it is his
programme, but because it is the only "a.
tional one, and because it isnowa demonstra.
ted fact that the Crimea is not vulnerable
point Preparations, therefore, will soon be
made to march an army toward the Rhine,
and then the war will commence in earnest.
for all central Europe, in view of this contin.
gency, is placing its armies on a war footing,
the people Of Poland and Hungary are max
ing their preparations, and the arrival af n
French and English army on the Rhine, will
be the signal that will put all Europe in a
blaze.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16
New York, March 6.

NEW Okk, MaTcn U.
The documents sent into Congress relative
to the Ostend Conference are very voumin
Gus. The Herald and Times Of. this NOR
ming, publishes synopsis Of the correspon.
dence, which led to it, the substance Of which
is, that Mr.. Marcy wrote to Messrs. Buchan-
an, Mason and Soue, setting forth the nd
vantages the acquisition of Cuba would con-
fer on the United States, and the reasons
which led him believe that Spain was
under obligations to France and England,
and requesting the three ministers to meet at
some convenient poin! and consider the sub.
iect. The ministers accordingly met at o.
tend, and resolved that the acquisition Of
Cuba by purchase or conquest was necessary.
Mr.. Marcy, however, was unwilling to 60 be-
yond the offer to purchase, and Mr.. Soule
resigned, feeling that he had been treated in.
dignantly-indeed his letter Of resignation
reflects strongly on the conduct Of tbs ad-
ministration towards him. Tho letters of
Mr.. Marcy to Soue, are couched in very
strong terms, and instructed him TO demand
100000 indemnity for the Black Warrior
affair, to be paid at once; and to state that the
Authorization of Cuba by Spain would
never be permitted by the American Govern
ment Is TT.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

MEsMERIsM.-Dr Henry will deliver his
second lecture on this subject this friday
evening,in the Campbellite Church, lin Athens,
commencing at early candle-lisht. After the
lecture, number of amusing experiments will
be given.
We have met with number Of notices
from the press in different parts Of the coun.
try, in which Br. llenry's lecturcs and cx-
perimentsare spoken of in very eon,menda-
Bile terms. According to the papers, the DR..
is not only very happy in his illustrations of
the Science Of Mesmcrism, but has perform
ed some very astonishing cnres. All who
feel an interest in this interesting subject
should avail themselves Of the opportunity
now afforded. ,r.. ~ aH
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

CLUBs.-We have been in the habit oil
clubbing our paper, in few instances, al
$3.50 per annum--that is, where some eight
or ten new subscribers would join and for
ward the money. The whole number SC
dubbed, in our list Of over twelve hundred
does not exceed fifty; yet we occasionally
hear a word Of complaint from some one
that some one else, who belongs to club
gets his paper little less than he, the frs,
aforesaid some one. To stop such complaint.
We shall discontinue the club system. Those
who subscribed in clubs will have their pm
pers sent to them to the expiration of their
year--at which time, il they want to renew,
they must come in as Others do. Our terms
are published at the head of the paper where
oil can see them, and they will not be de-
parted from under any circumstances.
We have also been in the habit, since the
paper was first established, Of distributing
some twenty-five copies gratuitously weekly,
to old friends, &c. This was not much Of a
tax at first; but it has been n growing one
the price of paper, journeymen's wages, and
every thing connected with the business, has
advanced 25 per cent. within the last egh.
teen months, ard in order to make n little
over and above mere support and put mo-
hey in our purse wherewth to meet the calls
for charitable purposes, which every one,
saint and sinner, is bound TO obeyswe must
retrench and cut off snth expenses as we can
without intiicting injury upon any one. AZ
ter this week, we shall discontinue forward
ihg papers on the free list, except perhaps in
avery few cases.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16
GEN. HOUSTON AND KNOW MOTH.
INCISM

In the Senate last week, when the bill to
increase the military force was under discus
sion, Senator Houston alluded TO the Know
Nothing question in the following interoeu-
ton:
Mr.. Mallory. Will the Senator from Texas
allow me to ask him one question.
Mr.. Houston. With pleasure.
Mr.. Mallory. As the subject of Know
Nothingism, as il is called, has been brought
here
Mr.. Houston. ] have not introduced it,and
am not going to comment on it. ,.--zlall
Mr.. Mallory. Precisely so the Senator
has not introduced the subject, and perhaps
he is not responsible for its Introduction; but
he Is undertaking to say what he himself
thinks upon it. Now, as he is speaking on
the subject, should like to understand dis
tinetly whether he approves or does not APP
prove OF so much of the creed attributed TO
the Know Nothings us would make those
who profess the Roman Catholic religion in
eligible to office?
MIR. Houston. / would vote for no such
law.
Mr.. Mallory. asked the gentleman
whether he approved that or not-not wheth-
er he would vote for il.
Mr.. Houston. No, sir; could not np.
prove of such u law. Bat the prescription
which is charged on those to whom allusion
has been made is no more than formerly ex-
listed between wings and democrats. When
party discipline was kept up, ifa wing voted
for a democrat he was ruled out of his party
and branded as deserter; and if n democrat
voted for a wing he was disowned by his
party. That species of political prescription
will exist everywhere, according to the no.
tons Of people. ! do not set up my opinion
rs the doctrine by which others are to be
governed. ] am governed by my own prin
cipes, and my own sentiments, and have
right to vindcate them, and am responsible
for them to the world When the Senator
from Florida supposes that would cater for
the Presidency of the United States, he does
me great injustice. | would not cater for
any office beneath Heaven. But, sir, know
one thing: / j: were to BIZ thrust upon me,
should make great many changes in some
small matters. Laughter. .a n.
From which it appears that aSam" is
an old bird, and not to be caught with
chaff ooE.s
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

t1o The following beautiful extract is
taken from an article in the Louisville Jour-
nal, elected by recent demonstration in that
city by the disciples of Tom Paine, who
draw their code and inspirations from his
sage Of Reason"
Alas, for the vagaries of the human mind
Men can be infused with the widest fables.
and induced to reject the plainest matters of
truth. But what must BE- the state of that
heart and of that mind that has no past with
its clustering fruits no future with its bright
glowing, and ennoblng hopes7 He who has
capacity to weigh facts in the scale Of evil
dence, who does not find from the most rig
orons investigation that the Bible is the rev.
eIatlon OF God to man, that its histories are
records Of actual occurrences, it, teachings
the inspiration Of Heaven, its predictions the
breath of eternal wisdom waited into the at
mosPhete Of time, and its whole contents, in
It's parts and relations, living truth, can be-
lieve nothing whatever that lies in the past
beyond the shadow Of his own generation.
Such being has no past, and can have no
vision for the future. Upon that narrow
isthmus Of time, the present, he stands, and
even that present is bounded by his immedi-
ate surroundings. To him all other things
are vain alike. To him Eden presents no
bowers; the choral anthem of the angels on
the morning of creation ufters no music for
him; Egypt was no nursery of arts and scien-
ces, Canaan no land flowing with milk and
honey; TO him Assyria and Persia utter no
sound; Greece is voiceless in her poetry, her
history, her philosophy, and her arts Mara
thon breathes no morning call to the battles
of freedom. All, all il one vast dreary
blank.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16
THE FOREIGN ELEMENT.


The interest now so lively and so unIver
sal in this country in reference to the for
eign element in our population, gives II new
value to such facts as the following, CLEANED
from the reports of the census bureau:
The whole number Of emigrants in the
United States is 2,24t602. The largest
number that ever arrived in one year was ia
ls5a-37a,725. The largest from any one
country in that year was from Ireland, l57,
548. The smallest number from any one
country was three from Turkey.
The Irish immigration is as yet the lArg.
est, and the German next. Then come the
English, Scotch, French, Canadian, Swiss
Swedish, Prussian, Dutch, Norwegian, West
Indian, Welsh, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Austrian, Russian, Chinese, etc., in the order
in which we have named them.
The total immigration is increasing few
thousand every year. The Irish immigrn-
ton is decreasing. 1t was largest in 1850,
when ll7,O3S landed at New York alone.
The German is increasing largely. The
emigration trom Protestem countries is in
creasing, that from Catholic countries dimin-
ishing. Leaving ireland out, the Protestant
emigration every year largly exceeds the
Catholic.
As to religion, the Germans are (princi-
pally) Lutherans and Cat!aiies; the Irish,
Catholics and presbyterans; the English,
Episcopalians AMI Meihodists; the Scotch,
Presbyterians; the French and Canadians, d.
vded between Pedestrians and Catholics;
the Swedes, Norwcgians, Prussians, Swiss,
and Dutch, L1thefans or Calvinists.
The Irish settle mostly in our commercial
towns. and along the lines of our railways.
The Germans settle most in the country, in
Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and the
new Territories. They are by large ma
jority farmers and farm laborers, though in
the towns considerable portion are machin.
ists taiIors, physicians, cabinet makers, work.
ers in gold, silver, iron, brass, copper, etc.,
and small portion merchants. The French
settle almost exclusively in cities and be-
come merchants, lawyers, artists, cooks, mu.
scians, and tailors in greatest proportion.
The Welsh 60 into Pennsylvania, New
York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, and Ten
nessee, into the woods and mines. They
are mostly miners and farmers, and choose
generally the toughest and most unpromis-
ing.ooking places to begin at The Swedes
and Norwegians arc mainly agricultural in
their pursuits. The Swiss become mer-
chants, watchmakers, jewellers, or farmers
on pasture lands. The Others are few in
number.
Great MS the influx Of foreigners, the mum.
Der of American births per annum is about
double the number of emigrants, and the dis
proportion in favor of the "native" new-com.
ers is constantly increasing. There is con-
ISOLATION for "Sam" in that fact
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

An extra session of Congress is freely
spoken OF as inevitable, although the Pres-
dent would wish to avoid making the call, If
lie could do so without compromising the
interests Of the country. Many of the
Western members of Congress express an
intention to remain'in Washington for the
remainder Of the Week, believing that the
President will determine the question in n
few days, and thus save them the trouble OF
long and fatigiiing journeys.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-16

6TThe Washington Star contradicts in
the most positive terms, the story lately put
forth by the Washington correspondent of
New York Herald, to the effect that promin-
ent Southern Democrats have resolved upon
the nomination of Daniel s. Dickinson, of
New York, for President, to checknate Sam.
Houston. The Star asserts that the story
has no foundation in fact.