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The hydraulic press., 1859-01-22

TRAGIC ISLES.-A writer in the N.
Y. Tribune who has been giving in Sc
ries Of graphic papers, an account of a
summer cruise on the coast of New Eng
land, thus alludes to the tragic associa-
tions which give interest to the Isles of
Shoals:
We went ashore to look at the curl
osities of the Isles, which are all of mel
ancholy and sinister nature. The first
and most famous is a chasm in the rocks
called Betty Moody cave. Early in the
colony times the Indians from the main
land made a descent upon the islands,
and killed or carried off all the inhabi-
tants except Mrs. Moody, who hid her
self under the rocks with her two small
children. The Indians made sharp
search for fugitives, and the unhappy
mother unable to keep her infants quiet,
killed them with knife to prevent their
crying from attaching the attention of
the savages to her hiding place.
Another spot among the rocks on the
shore was the favorite resort of Miss
Underhill, young lady from New
Hampshire, who taught school at this
island for two or three years. She was
sitting there reading on the 18th of Sept,
lS4o, when a huge wave came and
swept her off into the ocean, never to
be seen again on earth. Another place
OF tragical interest is marked by the
graves of sixteen shipwrecked mariners
washed ashore in a storm. They lie
side by side, each with a stone at his
head and feet.
The hydraulic press., 1859-01-22

No woman can be lady who can
wound or mortify another. No matter
how beautiful, how refined, how cult
waited she may be, she is in reality coarse,
and the innate vulgarity of her nature
manifests itself here. Uniformly kind,
courteous, and polite treatment of all
persons is one mark of a true woman.
The hydraulic press., 1859-01-22
FREEMAsoNs ExcoMMUN1cArrn \,

FREEMASONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AT
DUENos AYREs.-A letter from Buepos
Ayres, in the Hare Journal, states
that the Bishop of that place has ex-
communicated all Freemasons, and de-
clared their doctrines incompatible with
those OF the Catholic Church. In con-
sequence Of this, the clergy have exhor-
ted the wives and children Of Freemasons
70 70 quit them, and servants to denounce
them.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22
NO. Xiv.
Newspaper Publishing.

A veteran editor, after an experience
of quarter Of a century, gives it as his
opinion that the newspaper business il
long followed, will give any one poor
opinio" of the common honesty Of man
kind. Hear him:
"We have tried the business more
than the eight Of a century, and regret
to say that our estimate of the aggregate
Of honesty of mankind has been consid-
erably lowered There is great deal of
latent, undevelopcd rsscaity in the race,
and if a man has any Of 1t his composition
he is sure to exhibit it when his news.
paper subscription becomes due. With
in the last twelve or fifteen years we have
been engaged in the business, VIC have
lost enough money through the rascality
| Of our customersto axe man ofmoderate
desires righ /! Many of those who owe
US these small emounts, from IS to $50,
are rolling in wealth and could pay any
day ia the yeal il they dcsirc cd to do 90.
Many others belong to the migratory
tribe, who are horc to-day, and Texas or
California TO- morrow. Others belog to n
class quite as numerous, who write to ed
itors to send them papers and they will
pay when they gather their cotton or do
something else, but pay day never comes;
and finally after sending the paper four or
Eve years, it is sscertaintd d that they never
were worth snap! Another class of
losses grow out Of the negligence Of post
masters. A subscriber, after taking o.
paper six mon,hs or year, leaves tho
country without giving notice, and after
four or five years have elapsed he hap
pens to meet the postmaster who most
magnanimously informs him that his
subscriber has gone to "parts unknown"
aud if be wishes to get any pay for his
paper had better stop it. Or, after suf-
fering the paper to come two or three
years, he writes to the editor that for
the second or third time he will inform
him that the paper is no, taken out, &c.
These losses, and various others we might
refer to absorb the profits Of the business
to snch an extent as greatly to discour-
age those engaged in it.
Although we had our full share Of
non. paying subscribers, aud have been
worse swindled than any other publisher
We know. we take much pleasure in say
ing we have on cur books the names Of
many gentleman whose punc,uality,
through Il long series of years-al~ays-
paying m advance--cntitles them to be
rated as the ''salt of the earth" Oh,
for an increase of the number.
Occasionally, ,ome one long in ar.
rears, moved by a tardy sense Of justice,
pays his long standing Indebtedness. We
regret that these cases are so rare"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22

The dreams in which some of our CO.
temporaries have INDUCED themselves
over the growing liberality of the Empe-
ror Napoleon, and the benefits to accrue
therefrom not only to Italy but to France,
seem to be rapidly fading away. Not
only is the freeing the Italian soil fre n,
the hated and threatening presence Of ,
the Austrians, which was held out as tho
aim and certain result of the Italian war,
abandoned, the efforts of Napoleon TO-.
prevent Central Italy from union with I,
Piedmont exhibi. him in the character
of an enemy to Italian unity, and as anx-
ious to keep the Italians i'll that disjoined
condition which must ever leave them
at the mercy of their stronger nighbors-
beyond the Al pe.
Neither are the hopes to be realized
which have been INDUCED in of relaxa.
tions at home in the shape of greater
freedom to the French periodical press.
In remItting, under the recent amnesty
to political offenders, the effect of the
warnings under the law of 1852, which
any Of the French journals might have
received, the Emperor, as the, journals
have now been officially informed, hoo no,
intent whatever of relaxing the rigor Of
that law
1t would be, indeed, absurd 10 expect.
that ruler like Napoleon should ever,
tolerate anything like free press. Even
supposing that the imperial administra--
tion is at present as pure aDd.as- popular,
as the Duke of Padaa pretends, there
arc too many questionable points in its
past history to make newspaper dicussion
tolerab.e, aud it is one of the functions Of
free press not merely to discuss the
present, bat also to keep the public in
mind Of the past.
However, the Emperor wishes to DO
understood that he is not afraid of the
journals, and does not wish to silence
them altogether 1t is not in his own.
interest nor in that Of his dynasty that.
he thinks it necessary to muzzle the press.
1t is solely view to the public interests
the interests of order, morality, aud
religion--that cause him thus to inter-
fere with it, and il is within these limits,
that he wishes this interference to be
restrained The acts Of the Government
may be discussed, and even disapproved,
but then the appeal must be solely to,
reason Anything looking like an sp.
peal to public sentiment falls under the
forbidden head Of guilty indictments and
hostile passions ~ T. Tribune.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22

Twenty fve years ago, woman se-
duced by farmer in Albany, gave birth,
to little girl. She afterward went. to
Columbia County and married mechanic
while the farmer also welded and pros
pered. In course Of time, the girl came
to this city as IA servant, aud a short time
since, married young mason here
The farmer coming to town with produce.
was attracted by the girls appearance,
aud led to course Of inquiry which re-
suited 10 establishing the fact that she
was his lost daughter. His wife had
never known of his criminal love- and he
dared not reveal it to her For several
months he wrapt the secret in his own
breast, till at last paternal affection would
no longer allow him to remain silent, and
he made himself known to his daughter,
told his wife all, who wisely forgave him,
aud consented to receive her as one Of
the family. Tho daughter is happy 10
tho possession Of a fathers love and will
be joint heir of his property.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22

A fine woman, like locomotive,
draws . truin after her, scstters the
sparks, and transports the ssads.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22
Id " CARDS.
r. D. TURNER,
-AttOrn ney At Law,
Aud General Land Agent.

lIP1ON /: 4: IOWA
y~Speciai attention given to Collecting .fsz
RErEHErNCE.-s;ov. II. r. Lowe, keokuk; Wm
G. Woodward, Muscatine, Iowa; Hon. W. n. Mil
Ter. w. Penn Clark, Iowa City; Hon. Benz. r.
stanton. Eellfontaiac, Ohio; S. J. Crew, Upton
iowa. VI
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22

The U s. Navy, at present, has SO
vessels and S,490 sesmen.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-22
MEDICAL CARDS.

MRS. l.. S. CAM P Is f L.
DROPATHIC PHYSICIAN
yxTOULD respectfully inform the citizens Of
w Upton and vicinity that she treats snc-
es,fully ali durable diseases nth strict adherence
.. Aysieaic prisc,pies being fully convinced that
drugs are not only auecessary in the tre eatment of
disease bat absoisfefy injurious.
nsrR sidence At the corner Of 9TH and Linn
~sxeet. forme rly the hnn.- Of Mr.. Joseph Lee.
Tipt q, Oct. 30. 1858. matt
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
WDasit amounts TO.

We wish some of our democratic friends
would tell us what particular object 1t IS
for foreigner to become naturallzed
citizen of this country. He is in no dan
ger Of icing impressed into foreign service
while he remains within our boundaries
and if he goes outside of them into the
country of his birth, his naturalization IS
of no use to him. What does naturaliza-
ton accomplish we ask agains Is it not
plain that naturalization should place II
man on precisely lie Same footing with
the citizen born here, to be cared for and
protected just as be is. Short of that,
our naturalization laws involve very little
worth having. Instead Of restricting and
destroying the effect of naturalization as
our democratic administration is attempt
ing to do, we ought to he laboring to re-
move those distinctions contained III our
constitution preventing naturalized citi-
zen from becoming President, and going
to the Senate or Congress until several
years after naturalization. The period of
naturalization is long enough. AT the
end of it, the foreigner should stand pre-
cisely where every other citizen does
Free Democrat
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
Gov. RanGalE's letter.

II. S. Ram, editor Of the Whitewater
Register has addressed letter to Gov.
Randall on the subject of the next gutter
material nomination, to which the Govern
or makes sensible, straightforward re
ply, closing as follows;
have no laundering after the Office =
| have no trades, or promises, or pledges
to make of any kind whatever, to please
aud copciIiate any man, or any set of men,
or any interest. I IRISH at distinctly IN
derstood, Mot whils Ido hold Mts office
IacM do aChat I think right, and what
my judgment approves, and let the con-
sequences take care Of Themselves. II
the people and the party DO not Ike this
position and this course, they can easily
make change. l shall cheerfuily sup
port whoever may be nominated by the
convention.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
= Woman i'm a.. Gage.

The Troy Budget is responsible tor The
following -
awe have for some tame been eogni
nm, Of persistent piece of cslclty tow
ards 4 lady of the first responsibility IN
shis city, and whom We hoped ere now to
find relic, Q by t. interference of friends;
II appears that her husband in Mt OF
;.alousv, something like year ago, pro
erred complete cage of iron, into which
be compelled his wife to enter, and aitho
il is impossible to stand erect within 1t,
she i. never ermitted to leave it except
Mt night. Tie social positie II, OF the par
ties is such that we are persuaded not to
mention names at present, but shalt not
fail to do so within . day or two unless
in the meantime, We find the lady quietly
relieved"
We apprehend that the editor OF the
Troy Budget is jolly fellow, and that the
ssgs which the lady is not permitted to
ieave .'except at night, would be spelled
HOOP SKIRT.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
r. w. Brown,

The eloquent temperance lecturer,
THURLow WEED BRowN, has determined
to give up the business Of featuring. His
reasons are want of health, and the mis-
ernhle poor compensation which he re-
ceives. He says
The pledge, almost thousand times
made in the last ten years, and as often
violated under importupties, | now make
ouce again. Ind IL shall be uttered TO-
[ will answer to no more calls for lectures
where | am left to return home without
remuneration sufficient to pay the help |
am obliged to hire while I am absent
from, business. IF [ choose TO go on my
own responsibility and pay my own ex
penses, responsibility shall be my
own. But shall be caught no more by
cordial invitations, and left to the passing
of hat, and collection which will bare
" meet my expenses to and from. The
odds are too great. The merest tritlo
from the crowds of friends who attend
meetings and wept and shout in their
enthusiasm, would save us from harm.
1.-THE friends Of the cause have not such
a tri1e for our self or others whom they
wish to hear, tley are engaged in the
veriest child's play. Ifthey cannot afford
q dime, we cannot afford weeks away
from our business and family, and come
homo to suffer with severe physical pros
tration as the result of our labors. We
leave the field to those who have more
means and health than we have, and who
can afford to give both to awakening
those who seem to think n trip!e-hcaded
curse--the unhollowed alliance of appetite
money, and party-is to be vanquished
by listening to gratutous lectures and
enthusiastically applauding the same. We
beg to be allowed to remain at home
with our family, and the little health we
have left, to see bread for those who have
a claim upon us.
Now that we are out Of the field, we
must say farther: There is not tract up
on the Temperance question, published
or distributed in Wisconsin. There is
not lecturer employed. There is not
two thousand copies of Temperance
publication take in the State. The Chris
tain pulpit only here and there, and at
long intervals, blazes with an outburst Of
Temperance gospel. The Christians
church is dreamily putting up its morning
and evening prayers by the side of ten
thousand seething craters, whose week
day and Sabbath fires are vomiting the
blasting scoria of Sabbath breaking, pro-
family, gambling, RIGHTEOUSNESS, rodvism,
out upon every community.
Temperance people are saving of their
dimes, and welded to party. As the ma
tural result Of al this, the rum-traffIc is
overshadowing the State with its power
and desolations.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
A Woman for Pixies Peak.

We met woman driving a team on
che Dubuque road one day. There were
vokei on the wagon four oxen and two
COWS. The team halted RS we approach
ed when the following conversation took
place:-"I say, stranger, that ar is Iowa
City, is it Right smart of houses-heap
o people live bout here" After answer
ing her questions, VIC inquired how far
she had come, and how far she was go
ing. The prompt reply was, From Ill
mos, and going to Pixies Peak" We
ipformed her that the news from that re-
uion was unfavorable and assured her
that this WIS beautiful country, and
that it would be letter to remain here
than to take such family rs hers into a
new ccaatTy, among shafpeFs and ste u
lstors, away from good society; and as
we were proceeding to mako our remarks
moro impressive, she interrupted us by
f]ourishing her long whip and at the same
time exclaiming in the most emphatic
manner, "You can't skeer me. I'm not
sfearsd !; spectators arn't the wus people
in this ere world by long shot; and as
FIR society, can git along without it, as
essy as as talliu' off log. This country
roay Be well enough for mon and horses,
hut lee poor chance for woman, cows,
sna o3sn." So saying, she touched up
the ssesrs. and bidding Broad and BIN to
gee, and haw. and 60 on, che went CD
her way, followed by her husband on
horscback.-Lowa City Protestant.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
4 Baby 10 Conxasfon.

Some time ago there was a dancing
part given, "ur,nortb," near Weavervilie
Cal. Most of the ladies' present had ut
tie babies, whose noisy perverslty requlr-
ed too much attention to allow the moth
crs,to enjoy the dance. \ number OF
gallant young men volunteered to watch
the Young ones while the parents indulg-
ed in a 'breakdown." No sooner were
thew LEFT in, charge of the mischieylous
devils, than they stripped the infants,
changed their clothes, giving to one the
apparel of another, The dance over, II
was time to go home, and the mothers
hurriedly took each Baby, in the dress
Of her own, aud started, come to their
homes, ten or fifteen miles of, and were
far on their way before daylight. But
the day following there was prodigious
row in the settlement. Mothers discover
cd that single day had changed the sex
OF their babies-Obseyation disclosed
startling physiological phenomena, ana
then commenced some of the taliest te-
male Notwithstanding miles apart
IL required two days to unmix the babes
snd as manv months to restore the moth
ers to their naturally sweet disp- eltlons =
To this dav, it if unsafe for shy OF the
baby mixers to venture within the terri
tory.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
Republican state Convention

Republican State Convention will be held
at the CITY of Madison. III The Assembly-Hall
of the Capitol, on Wednesday, the 3ist day OF
August next, at II O'Clock NJ, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for State officers to
be supported by the party at the ensuing g n
eral election and TO transact any other business
that may properly come before it.
Asst subject of selecting delegates to the
next National Convention may be entertained
and acted OH by the Convention, il Is suggested
that the people in their primary caucGses, and
the district conventions make such expression
az viii intimate to their delegates and the State
Convention. the general sentiment OF the state,
on that subject.
Each Assembly District viii be entitled Ia
two delegates in the Convention.
It is recommended that District Conventions
for the selection OF delegates be held through
out the State on or before the goth day Of 4 u
gust. and that committees make early calls tor
that purpose and it is especially urged that
every district be duly represented in the Con-
ycnt.un.
H. A. TENN
VIM. G.. ROGERS,
GREGOR MENZEL,
WINFIELD SMITH,
W. 2. LYON,
r.. +. PHILLIPS,
GEORGE GRAY.
GEORGE S. GRAY ES.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
EVENING SESSION.

The board met pursuant TO adjourn
ment.
Sup. Bennett, Of committee on cancel
ing county orders, reported verbally that
the committee had compared the comfy
road orders to the amount of nine hun
dred aud eighty dollars, with the clerk
record, and found them correct.
On motion of Sup. Beardslcy, the re-
port was accepted and the committee dis
charged.
Said orders were then destroyed.
The minutes Of the afternoon and even
ing session wero then real and APPROX
ed.
On motion of Sup, Bea.dsley, the
board than adjourned sine die.
OLIVER GIBBS, JR.,
County Clerk.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
Editorial EreyEfieS,

In Byron's famous 'Drealn of Dark
ness" it is mentioned as something remar-
kable that,
Morn came, and went, and brought nochange'
We have seen plenty Of such mornings.
In fact, we hardly remember morning
that has brought us any "change,' while
what we have is fast tltering out OF our
vest pockets.
Early frosts are quite common, but
the most remarkable thing we have read
of in this liue is thus recorded:
"Miss Caroline Frost of Rochester,
girl not yet thirteen years old, is the moth.
er of fine boy weighing seven pounds
We call that an astcnishingIy early
Frost for western New York.
At a late Dress Reform Convention,
held at Auburn, n. Y. number OF Ia
dies declared they should wear "Bloomer
dress or nothing We hope they will
Get the Boomer, for Nothing, was dis
ca4dcd by the very '.t'rst society" aud it
would make very questionable "rctorm
dress"
President Buchanan, in recent
speech in North Carolina, said -
al do believe that mankind, as yell as
tie people Of the United States, are in
terosted in the preservation Of the Union"
We wish the President had been SO
kind as to inform us what kind of a kind
of beings 'the peop,e of the United States
are.
Some people think that stealing the
livery of Heaven to serve the Devil in,"
means putting on your 'meeting clothes
and strolling around on the Sabbath.
Some of the most common "houso-
hold words" are, "Lift up, you're on my
dress
One editor having charged another
with copying his articles without credit,
the offender replied that he WAS not doing
''credit business"
Some of the papers are discussing
the question whether politics and reli5ion
ought to BIS connected. We fear most CT
them know too little about the latter to
reason upon it inteligently.
A story is going the rounds that
man in this State owing another $500,
actually paid tie whole amount five days
before it was due. This shows how ready
some editors are to humbug their readers
with sensation paragraph.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20
Degeneracy.

A Democratic prophet discoursing up
on the degeneracy of the times and tue
ruin that is in prospect for the nation, runs
up the ladder of climax and sitting down
upon the topmost round exclaims in the
extremity of his grief: SEWARD the sue
cessor Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the success
sor of DALLAS" People of imaginative
temperaments will not be slow to observe
that such static Of things would be tru-
ly distressing. Think Of the immaculate
old Pennsylvania who doats on old rye
and never takes anything stronger, giving
up his scat to the fanatical SEw.RD,
whose RepubIicanism is several degrees
"blacker" than the ace Of spades in dc }
cellar, on rainy midnight, Or if you
have the strength to enduae SO shocking
a spectacle think of the amiable, white
haired DALLAS being supplauted by the
freedom shricking, Brooks-beaten Sum
NER! Who will make that man pillow
of feathers, plucked from the American
Eagle, and pair of Summer trousers
from the remnants of the star-spang!ed
banaer.-E'ree Democrat.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20

Music There is something very
wonderful in music. Words are wonder
full enough but music is even more WON
derful. speaks not to our thoughts as
words dot speaks straight to our
hearts and spirits, to the very core and
root of our souls. Music sooths us, stirs
us up; it puts noble feelings into us: it
melts us to tears, we know not how; it is
language by ITSELF, just as perfect in its
way as speech, as words; just as divine,
just as blessed.-Kingsley's .Srrmons.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-20

THE father ofthe Hon. S. S. Cox O.
Ohio, lives in GAINESVILLE. He has been
for many years deacon of the Baptism
Church in that town. Since his son was
elected to Congress he was appointed by
the United States Marshal one of his
deputies, and he was chiefly instrumental
arresting colored man in that town, on
the charge Of being fugitive slave. The
members of the church thought in unbe
coming Christian society to have a
slave-catcher for deacon. They called
a meeting and expelled him from the
church, for dong which The Ohio States
men thinks "the concern ought to crunl-
BILE to pieces and become extinct"