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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-02-11
An Incident.

In the spring Of ls49, Harriet Tubman,
(colored) was requested by Gerritt
Smith to go to Boston to attend large
anti-slavery meeting. On her way she
stopped at Troy to visit cousin, and
while there the colored people were one
day startled with the intelligence that
fugitive slave, by the name of Charles
Male, had been followed by his master
(who was his brother, and not one grain
whittier than he) and that he was already
in the hands of the officers, and was to
be taken back to the South The ir-
stapt Harriet heard the news she started
for the office Of the United States Com
missioner, scattering the tidings as she
went. An excited crowd gathered about
the office, through which Harriet forced
her way, and rushed up stairs to the
door of the room where the fugitive was
detained. A wagon was already wait
| ing before the door to carry off the man,
but the crowd was even then so great.
and in such state of excitement, that
the officers did not dare to bring
the man down. On the opposite side of
the street stood the colored peo-
pie watching the window where
they could see Harriet's sun bonnet.
and feeling assured that so long as she
was there, the fugitive was i'm the Office.
Time passed on, and he did not appear.
'They've taken him out another way,
depend upon that" said some of the
crowded people. NO said others there
stands Moses yet, and as long rs she is
there lie is safe" Harriet now scing
the necessity for a tremendous effort
for his rescue, sent out some little
boys to cry fire. The bells rang, the
crowd increased, till the whole street
was dense mass OF people. Again and
again the officers came out to try to
clear the stairs, and make way to take
the captive down; others were driven
down, but Harriet stood her ground, her
head bent down, aud her arms folded.
Come, old woman, you must get ont of
this'' said one of the officers; II must
have the way clear ifyou can't get out
yourself, some one will help you" Har-
riet, still putting on great appearance
OF decrepitude, twitched away from him
and kept her place. Offers were made
to buy Charles from his MASTER who at
first agreed TO take twelve hundred dol
lars for him; but when that was sub
scribed he Immediately raised the price
to fifteen hundred. The crowd grew
more and more excited. A gentleman
raised window and called out, 1.-TWO
hundred dollars for his rescue, but not
one cent for his master!" This was re-
sponded to by roar Of satisfaction from
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-02-11
The First Newspaper and Printing
Press in Iowa.
From the Dubuque Herald

AoA lhc buDAuue
a paragraph has recently been run
ming the rounds of the Iowa press, and
appeared also i'm tho papers of some
states, assuming that the first printing
press in Iowa is still used in printing q
paper in one Of the northern counties.
Similar mistakes have been made at
different times i'm the statement that the
first Iowa press was in use in other To-
calilies.
Without referring to the many blum
ders which have been made by the press
itself i'm relation to the history of the
State and OF Iowa newspapers during
the first twenty-five years of our Terri
torial and State existence, we will give
few facts concerning the first paper
and the first press.
To John King, of Dubuque, belongs
the honor Of engaging alone in the first
newspaper enterprise in what is now
Iowa. lie came here from Ohio in
1884, and having the foresight to per-
ceive that dubuque Lead Mines 1"
would attract the elements that would
eventually build prosperous city, he
determined in the fall of 1896 to estab-
lish newspaper in the mining village
of Dubuque. lie passed the following
winter in Ohio, and in the spring of
1886 went to Cincinnati and purchased
Smith press aud the necessary type
and material to publish what would
now be considered a small weekly paper.
The discretion which led him to dis.
cover the value of a newspaper in build
ing up Dubuque, led to another discov-
ery-that he wanted good man to set
type and to help edit the paper. He
found young man at Chillcothe adapt
ed to his purpose. He was VIM. Cary
Jones, afterwards q successful editor
and publisher in New Orleans, a son-in-
law of Hon. Thomas H. Benton, and
subsequently very successful lawyer
| in San Francisco, where he died in 1867.
Mr.. Jones was Judge Kings principal
assistant the first year. Judge King
made another discovery in finding An
drew keesecker at work on a Newspaper
published in GaleHa. He imported him
! to Dubuque, where he set up the press,
placed the type in cases. aud was ready
for "copy."
He also set up the first type In iowa,
in the words "The Lindenwoods"-
story which occupied the most of the
first page Of the first number of the
''Du Buque Visitor" The motto of the
paper was, ''Truth our Guide--the pub
lie Good our aim;' the date-"Dubuque
Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory, May
llth, 1867 The alleged fact in con-
ncction with the date, was of course a
historical falsehood, but it was ailowa-
BILE in such an enterprise to anticipate
what would naturally soon occur. The
truth was, at that date, that all Of Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin was under
the territorial Jurisdiction of Michigan.
It was a month after the "Visitor" ap.
peared, before the act Of Congress was
passed making the three States named
wisconsin Territory" The act took
effect on the 4th Of July in that year.
Two years afterward, Iowa and that
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the crowd below. At length the officer
appeared, and announced to the crowd
that fthey would open laneto the wag
on, they would bring the man down
the front way.
The lane was opened, and the man
was brought out-a tall, handsome intel
lige1t white man, with his wrists man.
acled together, walking between the
United States Marshall aud another off,
Ger, and behind him his brother and his
master, 50 like him that one could hard
~ be told from the other. The moment
they appeared. Harriet reused from her
STOPPING posture, threw up a window,
and cried out to her friends: "Here he
comes-take hint" and then darted
down tho etairs like wild cat. She
siezed one Of the officers and pulled him
down, then another. and tore him away
from the man; and keeping her arms
about the slave, she cried to her friends:
Drag us out! Drag him to the river!
Drown him! but don't let them have
him!' They were knocked down to-
gether, and while down she tore off her
sunbonnet and tied it on the head of the
fugitive. When he arose, only his head
could be seen, and amid the surging
mass of people the slave was no longer
recognized, while the master appeared
like the slayc. Again and again they
were Knocked down, the poor slave ut
terIy helpless, with his manacied wrists
streaming with blood. Harriets outer
garments were torn from her, and even
her stout shoes were pulled from her
feet, yet she never relinquished her
hold of he man, till she had dragged
him to the river, where he was tumbled
into boat, Harriet following in II ferry
boat to the other side. But the telc-
graph was ahead Of them, and as soon as
they landed he was siezed and hurried
from their sight. After time some
school children came hurrying along,
and to her anxious Inquiries they an
swered, He is up in that house, in the
third story" Harriet rushed up to the
place. Some men were attempting to
make their way up the stairs. The Off
GERS were firing down, and two men
were lying on the stairs who had
been shot. Over their bodies our heroine
rushed, and with the help Of others
burst open the door Of the room, drag
ged out the fugitive, whom Harriet car
ried down stairs in her arms. a gentle
man who was riding by with II fine
horse, stopped to ask what the disturb
ancc meant; and, on hearing the story,
his >ympathies seemed to be thoroughly
arou3ed he sprang from his wagon, call
ing out: "'rhat is blood horse: drive
him I'LL he drops" The poor man was
hurried in; some Of his friends jumped
in after him, and drove at the most rapid
rnte to Schenectady.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-02-11

A sensible English Judge lately in.
structed a jury to give moderate damages
in breach OF promise case, because It,
was most mischievous thing to "fight-'
en- a man into marrying a woman he
did not like, by heavy damages. It Is
much better for the girl that he should
find out his dislike before than after
marriage
San Francisco is to be- supplied with
ice from the summit of the Sierra Neva-
da, in a very novel way. A party Of
speculators have constructed nn ica
house capable of holding $40 or 900 tons.
of ice, near the Pacific Railroad track.
Froma stream Oil the hillside above, =
tlume has been run to the top OF the,
ice house, where the water Is allowed Is.
fall in small jets or spray into the buiid:,
ing below. In this manner they exA
pect gradually to form a mass Of s6l6
ice which will Till the entire kN' /.
ing. ...av !.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-02-11
A Chinese City.

Carlton says the streets of Canton are,
upon on average, not more than six feet
wide. and the houses are but one story
high. The shop signs are long boards,
painted red, green yellow or blue, aat
extend from the ground to the roof
AS you look down one Of these long
straight streets, with . uarrQw crack for
the light to enter over your heads, be.
tween the houses, and behold these gay
signs, and see the moving throng Of
men, some Of them with hats so broad Of
brm that when two meet, one must
raise his hat to pass the other, just ~
men do with their umbrellas at home
on rainy day to see the pig-tails and
the jug handles, to look into the shop
windows and behold rich silks and
beautiful pictures, with great Chinese
canteens rs large as q hogshead, bamboo
basket-work covered with oiled paper,
with dragons and hob b-goblins painted
OH them, you are ready to say that this
is stranger and queerer than any other
city in the world. We must look sharp
If We would not be run down by the
coolies, the men who carry bags, bum
dies and boxes, and sedan chairs. Here
comes a mandarin of one button; an
officer higher in rank would have two
buttons. A button, you know, is .
sign of rank in China, just as bar, an
eagle, or star is in the army of the Unit
ed States. This mandarin is Of no great
account, for he has only four men to
carry him, and no one to run before and
tell people to get out of the way. II he
was high in rank he would have team
Of ragamuffin Chinese soldiers, with
banners and swords, making everybody
| stand aside. We meet water-carriers
with buckets, vegetable sellers, men
with baskets filed with live chickens.
more kitten peddlers, sellers of all sorts
of wares a dozen men carrying block
OF granite which will weigh a ton an
other party with . bale of goods all
talking, shouting Hoo too Hoo too!n
Get out of the way @ w
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!ts uprising in England to the place 1

It's uprising in England to the placei
which it makes its appearance
france. 1t need hardly be said that I'll
difficulty OF perforatina this soil wouk
be very much less than Of perforatin,
the complicated aud hard material whicl
has been encountered by the French engi
neers. On the other hand, however, Their
are dangers and difficulties in tunnellint
under the Straits which, more thar
make up for the comparative ease will
which the mere process, Of penetration
could be pursued. II needg but sligh
acquaintance with the history of the
construction Of the Thames Tunnel t.
enable one to recognize the fact, that
the workers in the sugge sted tunnel be-
meath the Straits would be exposed ID
enormous risks from the effect Of the
pressure Of the sea upon the stratum
through which they would have to
work. Again aud again the water burst
into the Thames Tunnel, aud drove the
workmen out. Brunei himself nearly
lost his lie during one OF these crup-
tions. Now II this happened beneath
the Thames, what might be looked for
FROM. the effects Of the enormous pres-
sure Of sea-to say nothing of the in
creased danger during heavy storms7
and the workmen In the Thames Tun.s
nel had but = comparatively short dis I
tance to run, when they were threatened,
with an irruption Of water. rs such an
event threatened workmen engaged.
nine or ten miles from either outlet Of
the suggested tunnel, escape. would be
hopeless. In Q short tlme the whole
length Of the tunnel would be filled with
tho waters Of the sea, and the labors Of
years would he rendered useless.
1--WE urge these considerations, howe
eyer, not as deprecating the suggested
attempt. Doubtless the dangers which
We have pointed out may be surmount-
ed by ajudicious choice Of the stratum
to be worked through. and by cauticrs
progress-defenses being continually
prepared around every fresh portion
tunnelled. The experience gained DUR
AhS viz tuuaSiHh& :" bsAc AHuIucS SllOwo
that muoh can be done in this way; and
We also have every reason to believe
that once tunnel was constructed Il
would be as safe as the Thames Tunnel
now IL. There arc difficulties in the
way of ventilation, but such difficulties
as these have to be dealt with (and have
been most successfully dealt witL) Ia
the construction of the Mount Cents
Tunnel. Three eminent engineers,
Messrs. Hawkshaw, Brunlees, and
Lowe, haveprnounced the plan feasiblej
and the estimated cost-nine millions
sterliny-though large, Is still reasonable
when the value Of the tunnel IL cousid-
cred. ..
Certainly the idea is at once bold
and an attractive one. Natures harri-
ers are being, one after another, over
come. Now mountain is tunnelled,
then .n isthmus Is cut through, next
the Falls of Niagara are spapned by
railway bridge. Hitherto, however, sea
straits have not been successfully attack
ed, except whereas in the case Of the
Menai Straits-thcy are Of very n.oder-
ate extent. When voyagers can pass to
France without cncountering the ter
rors of seasicll ness, a vcritable triumph
will have been achieved over Nature"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-02-11
PIANOS.
Organs and MelOdeOllS

HAVING obtained the agency for most OF
IL the first-class Instruments. I am prepared
Ia offer greater inducements to the musical
people of Cedar county than has heretofore
been offered. For Pianos, sell
STEINWAI'S.
CHICKERING & sons,
NEW YORK UNION, &c.
Geo. 4. Prince & CO's and Mason 4
Xamtin's organs and Mciodeons,
and others If they are desired. l mention the
above kinds as the best in the market, and
every instrument will be fully warranted
Please call ana examine my prices before
purchasing elsewhere. SHEET MUSIC furn-
fshed at a reduction ON publishers prices.
To the above list of Instruments have late
ly added the STAR ORGAN and MELODEON,
which, for beauty and purity OF tone, surpass-
eS anything in the west. A sample can be seen
at any time by calling Mt my house.
Always to be found at A. p Gilbert Il Co.'S
shoe store.
WM. S. WOODS.
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VIM. M. KNOTT,

A UCTTONEER. viii attend promptly to
~ selling all kinds of property at Auction,
In any part Of Cedar county. list of his sales
will always he found at the TIProS ADvERrI-
SER office, where those desiring his services
can nx the day for their sale without seeing
Inn. zEsfs4 ..-f y 5"."#*- Al
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How no TREAT BALKY HoRsEs.-If
you have balky horses it is your own
fault and not the horses, for if they do
not pull true there is some cause for it
and If yoo renloye the. cause the effect
will cease. When :sourhorse balks be
is excited, and does not know what to
do. When he gets little excited, stop
him for five or ten minutes; let him be-
come calm, and rs soon as he is over his
excitement, he will, in nine cases out Of
ten, pull at the word. Whipping and
slashing and swearing only makes mat
ters worse. After you have gentled him
awhile, and his excitement has cooled
take him by the bits; turn him each way
a few minutes, as far as you can, pull
out the tongue; gentle him q little, un-
rein him, then step before the balky
horse, and let the other start first; then
yon can take them anywhere you wish.
A balky horse is always high spirited
and starts quick; half the pull is out be-
fore the other starts; by standing before
him the other starts first. &C.,
BY close application to this rule you
can make any horse pull. If horse
has been badly spoiled you should hitch
him to an empty wagon, and let him
draw it around for a while on level
ground; then put OH little load and in-
crease it gradually, caressing as before,
and in short time you can have good
work horse.-Penn. Farm. Journal.
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flowers in fertile waste.

flowers IN fertile waste.
Too sadfor tears Is the bitter fact that
everything pals; that the highest and
best satisfies only for time. They who
live in the midst Of such splendor grow
so familiar with It that they value it
not They are spared a certain nunt er
of wants, but others are felt that may
not be supplied. The spirit is not salts.
fled with junketings; the faculties Of the
heart may not b. filled with show OF
pleasures or the tnsel Of display.
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Roofing and SpOuting.

My principal hand has worked forty years at
the business his name il WIN II. HAM.
MOND: is good sort of a man, ready for any
RIUMwil be found in the VIRGIN BLOCK
Upton Iowa, where will he happy to smile on
my customers: Come along with your green
backs and will make YOU happy by present
ing you with my goods in exchange for them.
2Oyl WM. II. HAMMOND.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-07-31
The Democratic Nominee for
Governor Of Pennsylvania.

The nominee for Governor Of the Demo
cratic State Convention Of Pennsylvania.
the Hon. AsasPacker, when quite youth
served several years in \ tannery in Con
nscticut. and subsequently removing to
Pennsylvania, appspnticed himself to a
carpenter. Having served out his time,
he bought small farm on the upper wa
ters Of the Susquel,anns. This he soon
disposed OF, ssnde:b engaged in several
important railroad and coal mining enter
prisss. and by his tact and energy soon
amassed great fortune, estimst-d at over
3i5. 100000 In 1868 he made hand
some return for his wealth by founding, at
South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the lie
high University, for the establishment Of
which he donated magnificent park. six-
ty acres in extent. and roupd half mil
lion in money. The PhiIadeIphis Tsle
graph says rss4Te ss 'est-'ss='i 10 2
While engaged in his extensive and ab
sorbing business projects, Mr.. Packer has
devoted much Of his time and attention to
political slfairs. For several years he was
a member Of the State Legislature. his SER
vice in that body terminating IN le43
H. was then elected Judge Of the County
Court, holding theipos;tion Eve years: and
in 1863 he. took his seat in theelower
house Of Congress. rs member oft Thir
teenth District, holding it until 1857.
During all this period, AS st- present, h.
was an earnest. thorough going and con.
sistent Democrat. When the Democratic
National Convention assembled at Tam
many Hall, in New York city, on July 4.
1865. J Judge Packers name was presented
10 that body BY - Pennsylvania deIega1.
tion n q candidate for the Presidential
nomination. With bats'ight variation he
received the voie Of his own State. and Of
that alone. during the first fourteen ballots.
after which bis name was dropped for that
Of Gen. Hancock. s-sai s4t,s
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r. Dr.. Smith observes. !: THAT b

Gy Dr.. Smith observes. |: THAT BY
some ve.y extraordinary and unluckv
circumstance. good man may come to
be suspected Of crime It which be was
altogether incapable. anil upon that
account hasno.t unju.t'y exposed for the
remaining part Of hi. If. to the hotror and
aversion q mankind. By an accident ,ql
TIL. kind he may be said TO !oS+ bis al,
Notwithstanding his integrity and justice
ID the s~me manner as = cautious man,
notwithstanding hia .utmost cicrumspec
tion. may BE- ruined by. an earthqu,kr OF
sn inond.tion. Accidepts Of the 6rst kind,
however. stS perhaps still mose rare, and
still more contrary 70 the common course
lof things than thoss Of the second; and j:
=stil remains trasfhat the practice Of
truth, js.tice .ud humspity Is certain
sod almost infallibls method Of acquiring
what those virtues chiefly, aim At, the
conf fiisnnoAn lore Of those ", live with.
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THE APOSTLES CREED.

The precise origin Of this simplest and
most ancient Of all the crce,ls is involved
in some uncertainty. AMI has long been a
matter of dispute among learned thyo'o
gians. 1t is at least certain that it.
universal use in the Church may b. traced
back, if not to the apostolic age itself. We,
to that Immediately succeeding; and there
is very Old tradition that each If the
tweve articles Of the creed was composed
by an aposti'ic author. -, -.,-..
1t is said the twelve assembled in coun
Gil before dispensing themselves to preacl,
the Gospel throughout the world, to frame
the symbol or watchword Of the Christian
Church and it will bc interesting to our
readers to know the apostle to whom
each article is ascribed. The tradition is
a- f,lnws:
ST. Peter-"I believe in God the Ether
Almighty, Maker Of heaven an earth"
St. Andrew And, in Jesus Christ his
only Son our Lord" ....
St. James the Grrat-"Who was con-
ceived BY the Holy Ghost, aud born Of the
Virgin Mary.
s.. Johu Suffered under Poutius
Plate. was crucitied, dead. and buried -
St Thomas-"lIe decenled into he'll y
or. He went into the place Of departed
Spirits" which are considered as words of
the same meaning, The third day he
rose from the dead: :"
St. James the Leslie ascended into
heaven, and sitteth on the right hand Of
God the Father Almighty :"
St. Phi'ip-"From thence he shall come
TO judge the quick and the dead :" =.
St. Bar,hoIom-w-''I believe in the
Holy Ghost :"
ST. Mathew-"The Holy Catholic
Church. the Communion of Saints:
St. Smon-""Th- forgiveness. of Sins :"
81. Judas Thsddeus-''The Ressurrec
ton Of the Body"
ST. Mathiss-.'And the Life Everlast.
ing-Amen." '-' ,'A .s = go, . T..