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St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
Peterson's Magazine.
The best an the world for tie Ladies.

Only two dollars year. This popular
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column reading matter yearly; from 20 to 80
steel plates and 500 wood cngravings; which
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at any price ever yet gave. Its thrilling origi-
nal stories are pronounced by the press the
best published anywhere. The editors are
Mrs. Ann S. Stevens, author of "the Old
Homestead, "Fashion and Famine and
Charles j. Peterson, author of '.Kate .Ayles
ford, "The Valley Farm" &c. &C.. assisted
by Alice Cary, Mrs. Denison, Virginia f.
Townshend Garry Stanley, and all the most
popular female writers of America. New tai
ent is continually being added, regardless of
expense, so us to keep Peterson Magazine I'M
approachable in merit. Morality and virtue
are always inculcated.
Its superb Mezzotints and other steel engra-
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the end of each year are alone worth the sub
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Colored fashion plates in advance. Each
number contains fashion plate engraved on
steel, and colored also a dozen or more new
styles engraved on wood; also pattern from
which dress, mantilla, or child's costume
can be cut without the aid of mantua- ma
ker; SO that each number, in this way, will
save years subscription. The Paris, Lon
don, Philadelphia and New York Fashions are
described, at length, each month.
Patterns for embroidery, CROCHET, etc, in
the greatest profusion, are given in every num-
Der, with instructions how to work them; also
patterns in Knitting, Inserting, Broidere, An
glasie, Netting, Frivolite, Lace-making, &C.
Also, patterns for Sleeves, Collars and Chemi-
sets; patterns in Bead-work, Hair-work, Shell
work; Handkerchief corners; names for mark
ing and Initials. Each number contains an
engraving of a Paper Flower with directions
how to make it. A piece of new and fashion,
able music is also published every month.
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Twelve copies. $1,000 Premiums for getting
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make club. TO every person getting up u
club, and renting the money, our Portfolio
of Art for the year 1856, containing so steel
plates, will be given gratis. All postmasters
are constituted agents, but any person may
get up club. For club of 10 an extra copy
of the magazine, will be sent in addition
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they please. Specimen numbers sent gratuit-
ously. Adress, postpaid,
C. j. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut street, Philadelph
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
HUTCHINS
FAMILY MEDICINES.
THE CELEBRATED
Golden T1nCture
DR. BLOOD PURIFYER,

OR BlOOD PURlF y Elk, III 4sas
The Great Medical Discovery Of the 10Th Century.
VTNHIS INVALUABLE COMPOUND, which
Il is now creating SO much excitement in tho
medical world and among some of the most
learned in the profession, is curing thousands
of that class OF invalids whose cases the medi-
cal faculty have long sought to reach, but in
vain. In proof of its extraordinary curative
properties, we may be permitted to adduce the
following:
Washington, D. c., Feb. "a, 1852
DIR. Hutchins-Dear Sir: have been request
ed to give my opinion upon the merits of your
Golden Iincture. have used it for indiges-
ton, loss of appetite, &C. with material benefit.
think it a good medicine for purifying the
blood, and Il safe and valuable preventative ~
well as cure of disease. Hoping you may be
prospered in the sale Of it,
l am, sir, your obedient servant,
DANIEL WEBSTER
Rev. r. f. Norris, late editor of the Boston
Olive Branch, wrote under date of I'D
Boston, May Is, 1858.
DIR. Hutchins: have used your Golden
Iincture and have received more benefit from it
than any medicine have tried. SLY
Truly yours, II. +. NORRIS.s
Certificate from Prot. C. Newton, A. M. NJ. d.
President of the Worcester Medical College:
Worcester, June, 1858.
DR.. Hutchins, Sir: As you wished my opin-
ion respecting your Golden Tncture, freely
give it-not that would be willing to lend my
name or in any way give countenance to any
patent or secret nostrum, but having been made
acquainted with the formula from which your
medicine is composed, l may say that consid-
er it essentially one of the best compounds for
the class Of diseases for which it is recommend
ed Yours truly, CALVIN NEWTON.
The Golden Tincture is put up in large pint
bottles and sold at ST 90 per bottle
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
New Patent Fence.

THE SUBSCRIBER respectfully announces
l. to the citizens of Floyd and the adjoining
Counties that he is prepared to sell rights for
the construction of Fence upon new and
cheap plan. This Fence is made of boards
nailed to battens and supported by stakes drove
in the ground cross-wise, with a wire around
the top board and attached to the tops of the
stakes on either side. Fence made upon this
plan will be a saving of from ten to twenty
cents per rod over fence made Of boards nailed
to posts set in the ground. The invention was
patented by j. b. Reyman, March 18th, 1856.
Having purchased the right for Floyd, Mitch
ell and Chicllasaw Counties, / will sell the
right and give instruction for making the
Fence, to individuals for their own Use, for
So, O0 to clubs of ten in one Township for
less. A specimen of the Fence may be seen at
this place-formerly called Cutters Mill.
2m3 f. w. JONES.
Fremont, FLOYD Co., Iowa. August 4, 1856
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

STATE OF Iowa,
District Court, Floyd County.
In vacation, November Term, A. d. 1856
Norris Hubbard,
VS.. DIVORCE.
Persis A. Hubbard
To Persis A. Hubbard, Defendant
You are hereby notified that
Norris Hubbard, Plaintiff, filed his petition in
the office of the Clerk Of the District Court of
Floyd County, Iowa, on the 18th day of Oct.
1855, asking the said court to decree a divorce
dissolving the marriage between him and said
defendant, for the cause of adultery, and that
an original notice in the above entitled cause
has been returned by the Sheriff of said County,
'not .fouad," and unless you appear and an
swer thereto on or before the morning of the
first day of the November term, 1856, of said
court, appointed to be holden on the 10th day
of November, A. d. 1856, at st. Charles, in
said County, your default will be entered and
a decree will be rendered thereon as asked for
in said potion.
j. V. w. MONTAGUE,
Clerk of the District Court of
Floyd County, Iowa.
September IL, 1856 n5:4wo
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
A Human Life Saved.
Dowagiac, Mich. March IL.

, Dowagiac, Mich, March IL, 1856.
j. A. RHODES, EsQ.-Dear Sir AS | took
your medicine to sell on consignment no cure
no pay / take pleasure in stating its effects us
reported to me by three brothers who live in
this place, and their testimony is u fair speci-
men of all have received:
w. s. ConlSlin told mel had taken nine
bottles of Christie's Ague Balsam, and continu-
ally run down while using it until my lungs
and liver We're congested to that degree that
blood discharged from my mouth and bowels
so that all thought it impossible for me to live
through another chill. The doctors too I'D all
they could for me, but thought / msst die
Nothing did me any good until | got Rhodes
Fever and Ague Cure, which at once relieved
me of the distress and nausea at my stomach
and pain in my head and bowels, and produced
permanent cure in short time
II. Nj. Conklin says II had been taking
medicine of as good doctor as we have in our
county, and taken any quantity of quinine and
specifics without any good result, from 25th
August to 18th December. But seeing how
nicely it operated on my brother, / got "A bottle
of Rhodes Fever and Ague Cure, which effec-
ted a permanent cure by using two thirds of a
bottle"
S. NJ Conklin was not here, but both the
other brothers say his case was the same as H.
MS i sold the medicine to both the same
uay, ana the cure was us speedy from the same
small quantity, and might SO specify.
Yours with respect,
A. HUNTINGTON.
The above speaks for itself. Good proof as
it is, it is of no better tenor than the vast num-
Der of like certificates have already published
and the still greater amount that is still pour
ing in to me. One thing more. Last year
had occasion to caution the public in these
words 81 notice one firm who have taken
one of my general circulars, substituted the
name of their nostrum for my medicine, and
then with brazen impudence send their pamph-
let with the exclamation, Let the proprietor
of any medicine say as much if he dares, &C."
Now take pleasure in saying that the eau
ton referred to the same DR.. Christie's Ague
Basam that is mentioned in the above certiti-
cate. There are several other industrious pco-
pie who are applying to their poisonous trash
all that publish about my Fever and Ague
Cure, or Antidote to Malaria except the ccrtifi-
Gates of cures, and the certificate of the cele-
brated chemist, DIR. James r. Chiffon of New
York, in favor of its perfectly harmless charac-
ter, which is attached to every bottle. These
will always serve to distinguish my medicines
from limitations. JAMES A. RHODES,
Proprietor, Providence, r. l.
Wholesale Agents, st. Louis, H. Blakeley !;
Chicago, Barclay Bros. And for sale by Drug
gists generally. lm3
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06
New York Herald.
The best Newspaper IN the World.

The New York Weekly Herald is published
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and of Congress; important public documents;
European and Home correspondence; finan-
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The subscription price is three dollars per
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Any person obtaining five or more subscribers
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SIXTH VOLUME
The Home Magazine.
EDITED BY T. s. ARTHUR.

The editor refers to the literary character
and quality of the work in the past for what
it will be in the future. He pledges himself
to keep its pages free from every thing that is
ill-natured profane or vulgar, while, at the
same time, he will seek to impart thereto the
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are blended with care and discrimination.
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Chicago Daily Tribune,
Published by
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In the Tribune Buildings, No SO Clark Street
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PARKER'S EXPRESS,

For Cedar Falls, Ioua CITY, Fort Dodge, and Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
4 MESSENGER will leave Dubuque on
IA Monday of each week for Delhi, Indepen-
dence, Waterloo and Cedar Falls !; there connect
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Valley.
A messenger will also leave on Thursday of
each week for Iowa City via Cascade, Bowen s
Prairie, Anamosa, Marion and Cedar Rapids
connecting at Dubuque with the American,
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Particular attention given to filling orders,
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Dubuque, March 81, 1856.
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Col. John Charles Fremont's
TTFE,.

The only complete authorized edition. The
life and public services of John Charles Fire.
mont, with an accurate portrait on steel
One neat volume, II mo. Price ST. BY
John Bigelow, Esq, Editor of the New York
Evening Post.
The publishers assure the public that this
volume, prepared by a gentleman whose re-
sources for the material and authorities are di-
rect, will be the only complete biography of the
eminent explorer, scholar, statesman, hero,
whose recent nomination by the Republican
party, for the highest office in the gift of the
people, has awakened renewed interest in
his wonderful career. Much material hereto
fore inaccessible to the general reader, inclu-
ding incidents in his early career, is incorpo-
rated in this volume.
Orders for this work addressed to us will be
promptly attended to.
HILDRETH & CARVER,
st. Charles, Floyd Co., Iowa.
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LIVERY READER is REQUESTED TO

LIVERY READER is REQUESTED TO
~ notice the advertisement descriptive of
Mr.. SEARS PICTORIAL FAMILY BIBLE,
and send for the printed Catalogue of all our
illustrated Works.
Es5 TO the minitiated in the great art ofsel-
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scheme for money-making which is far better
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gs5H Any person wishing to embark in the
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aiiording very liberal per centage to the agent
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Address postpaid
ROBERT SEARS, Publisher,
No. lSl William StIeet, New York.
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AMERICAN and ORIGINAL.
The Knickerbocker Magazine
Edited by Louis Gaylord Clark.

The number for July, 1856, begins the 4Sth
volume or the Knickerbocker Magazine
Since the price of subscription has been re-
duced from five to three dollars a year. the
circulation of the knickerbocker has been in
creased nearly four to one. In many places
ten are sold where there was but one before,
and through the year it is steadily increasing
1t is now offered as cheap rs any of the Maya
zines, all things considered. Instead of max
ing new and prodigious promises, we submit a
few extracts from notices of late numbers,
which we might extend to a number of pages
''Those familiar with the Editors monthly
Gossip with his readers, have doubtless, with
ourselves, admired the perennial source of its
pleasant wit and joyousness. In each number
the gossip holds on its way like some fair riv-
ulet CHANGING and dancing in the sunshine of a
May morning. We used to wonder how Mr.
Clard held out, expecting he must certain ly
snow brown in the coming number; but as
yet we see no sign OF exhaustion.-No National
hateltigencer, Washington.
mo one ever rose from the perusal of the
Knickerbocker disappointed reader. What
ever may have been his anticpations, they
have always been rewarded When he took
up a new number, he felt sure of literary
treat: it was no mere snowy repast he was in
vited to. Did he seek the grave or didactic
essay, the touching story, poetic gems, or the
humorous tale, he was always sure of finding
tina object of his search. And then, besides,
there was the Gossip Of old 'Knick, always
looked to with eagerness never put down eX-
cept with regret that there were not more pa
ges Of inimtable random sketches-the Knick-
nacks of that repast. Courier, Natchez, hiss
''The Knickerbocker has been and will be
fact of its own; genuine living thing, all the
more desirable now that the new crop of mag
IL -.
authors, makes fresh home creations more
conspicuous and welcome" York Chris
tan Inquirer.
Rev. Il. w. Shelton, Author of Letters from
Up the River, &C., will be regular contribu-
tor. The best talent in the country will be
enlisted, and no expense or effort spared, to
make the Knickerbocker more than ever de-
serving OF the first position among our original
American Magazines.
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St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

The piano forte, now considered an
almost indispensable article in every
family that purchases it, was invented
by j. C. Schroeder, of Dresden, in
III: the square piano was first made
by Freiderica, an organ builder of Sax
ony, about 1853. Piano Fortes were
made in London by NJ. Zumple, Ger
man, in 1866. The manufacture of
this instrument was commenced in this
country since the opening of the pres
ent century.
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THAYER'S
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For sale at the ST. Charles Bookstore, by
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stitute arb Art.
The Printing Press.

The inventions of movable types and
of the printing press were the greatest
discoveries that ever blessed world.
They were the keys which unlocked
the mysteries Of knowledge and OPEN
cd vistas through which the human
mind, emancipated from long night
of error, might roam at will. When
the printing press was announced, it
was as the light breaking through
thick clouds of darkness, which had
enveloped the ages Immediately pre-
ceding it. 1t was morning light to
the soul, increasing light, reviving
light; it was as well-spring gushing
up in thirsty land It spurred up
intellect which had slnmbered long ;
gave action to the mind in every di-
rection, an impulse to the sciences, OPP
ened every avenue in which reason
and the Imagination loves to dwell.
1t dispelled the shadow of the dark
ages, and greatest achievement of all,
it opened the pages of Gods sacred
word to men-that record which had
been hid in clustered cells, and been
kept from the longing eyes of those
who felt there was something higher
and nobler in store for them, than
what cowled monks doled out, of those
whose aspirations groaned for a closer
communion with the God and Father
of all.
Yes-and let it never be forgotten
it was the printing press that open
cd for lis the rich treasure-house and
never failing store, which are found in
the Scriptures-the surest solace in
deep sorrow, a blessed comforter in
affliction-one triumphant hope in evry
state of being. We never think of the
great boon the printing press has been
to the world, without recurring to the
fact that the Bible-frst of books
was the first volume upon which it was
employed.
Did our limits permit, we might
trace the gradual improvements that
have been made i'm the printing press
down to the present time. But were
we to indulge our inclinations in this
respect columns would be required.
We must therefore, content ourselves
with a rapid survey of the whole
ground
Movable types were invented in
1896, by John Genshiech, better
known as Gutenberg. The house in
which he was born at Mayence, Ger
many, still exists, and, more interest
ing still, the house which contained
his first printing office.
He printed the earliest edition of the
Bible, which was commenced in l444
and finished in AGO. Peter Schaetfer
cast the first metal types in 1852, and
was therefore the inventor Of complete
printing. The first printing press in
England was set up by William Cax-
ton, mercer of London, in147l. The
press was of rude construction, and
very few improvements were made in
it up to the close Of the hast century.
Since that time the improvements
in the printing press have been rapid
and wonderful, but it was left for r.
Hoe & Co., of New York, to bring it
SO near to perfection that any attempts
to improve upon their ideas seem to be
futile. They are.the most celebrated
manufacturers of this great engine in
the world, and they stand, as is their
right, alongside Of Watt, Arkwright,
Fulton and Whitney, brilliant gal
axy in the history Of inventive genius.
Boston Herald.
The piano forte, now considered an
St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-06

THIS mill is built in a thorough and sub
l. stantial manner, has two run of stone, and
does frstrate work. Grinding of Wheat, Corn
&C., done for customers with promptness and
and having Il first rate Miller, full
satisfaction guaranteed. Flour constantly on
hand for sale
JOSEPH KELLEY, Proprietor.
81. Charles, July, 1856.