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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-07-07
VOL. IX.---NO. 27.

ONE OF LANES BEsT.-Lamb once
convulsed company with an anecdotc
of Coleridge, which, without doubt, he
Matched in his hoax. loving brain:
81 was,' he said, "going from my
house at Enfield to the East India House
one morning, when 1 met Coleridge on
his way to pay me visit. He was brim-
full of some new idea, and in spite of my as.
suring him that time was precious, he drew
me within the gate of an unoccupied gar
den by the roadside, and there. sheltered
from observation by hedge of evergreens,
he took me by the button of my coat, and
closing his eyes, commenced an eloquent
discourse, waving his right hand gently
as the musical words flowed in an unbro.
ken stream from his lips. l listened en-.
tranced; but the striking clock recalled
me to a sense of duty. saw it was of
no use to attempt to break away so,
taking advantage of his absorption in his
subject, and, with my penknife, quietly
severing my button from my coat, I de-
camped. Five hours afterwards, in pass
ing the same garden, on my way home,
heard Coleridge's voice; and, on looking
in, there he was with closed eyes, tho
button in his fingers, the right hand
gracefully waving just as when l left him.
lie had never missed me-"
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UNDER. CURRENTS in the bos-
ON of Mother Earth, unseen by mortal
eyes, are winding channels, where flow
living waters. In mystic depth, unseen,
unheard, yet do they form a connection
between lakes, rivers and sea. Are the
lakes, rivers or seas conscious of this con-
nectlon? Beneath the soul surface of our
lives are sympathetic streams, connecting
hearts to hearts, spirits to spirits, and fates
to fates. In actual reality, or in fanciful
dreamings, are our souls one to another,
through this medium, by sympathetic
changes kept from growing stagnant.
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Alas ! alas did not think,
Amid past hours of deep delight,
That aught could break the golden link
That then between US seemed so bright.
We little dream what time may bring
Tie heart is mysterious thing
A change came Yer thy gentle brow,
And we are but as strangers now.
Yet sometimes in my sadder moods,
Amid dark scenes of toll and strife,
And oft in woodland solitudes,
Afar from gay and busy life,
Thy image rises to my eye
AS bright as in the days gone by;
Thy voice. low, musical and clear, (.
Steals like spirit on my ear;
The vanished joys come wildly back
Along life's dark and arid track
Old thoughts within my bosom STIR
And / am still thy worshipper.
The bird that DER my pathway flies,
The fleeing vision of dream
The star that lights awhile the skies,
Then turns away its silver beam
These, these are emblems to my heart
VI what thou vast or what thou art
The bird, the dream the star are flown,
And | am left alone-alone.
Yet still hear with sweet delight
The song the bird sang in her flight;
The dream with all its fairy train
Still haunts the chambers Of my brain;
And ofttimes when gaze afar
Thro' tears where beamed the vanished sta
It seems again to burn on high,
The glory Of my clouded sky,
And on its lovely disc trace
The pictured image of thy face,
And kneel in worship as when first
Its Eden-light upon me burst.
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The FIRST SHOT EVER MADE.-A
British plumber named Watts, retired to
bed one night as usual, and had most
extraordinary dream. He, so far as his
fancy paints himself, crawled upon
church roof, about to solder defect in it,
when by one of those unaccountable in
cidents which we take away quickly when
they come to US in dreams, down goes the
ladle Of boiling metal into a pool in the
street below. "Try again." says old hon.
esty; and he descends to get his ladle
and his lead. The former was there, sure
enough, but the latter is represented by
a myriad of spears. With real lead ma
terial, and his eyes wide open, he goes
through, next morning, the exact process
he has seen in his dream, and inaugurates
the manufacture of shot.
The story goes on to tell that the pat
ent he had for the invention he sold for
$4,000, and with that sum be built, for
the establishment of his native city,
crescent of houses, which the citizens
were impolite enough to christen ''Watts'
Folly" ....
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1(llst&lIane0us.
Special Correspondence Of The " Y. World.
Breckenridge in Cuba.

HAVANA, June II.
General J. c. Breckenridge, accompa-
MED by his aidde-camp, Capt j. Wilson
his faithful war servant Thomas, Colonel
Taylor Wood, and two Confederate SOL
diers, arrived at Cardenas on the 18th
inst, in an open boat of about one ton
burthen, from the coast of Florida. This
party, after the capture of the President
of the late Iepublic, made their way to the
st. Johns river, where they procured a
boat, in which they proceeded up that riv-
er until they reached point due west of
Indian river, near the head of navigation
At st. Johns, Colonel Taylor Wood join
ed the party, having been captured by the
command of General Wilson, which cap
tured the president of the Confederacy by
accident, but be made good his escape the
same night
The small boat was hauled across the
country from the st. Johns to Indian
river, distance Of twenty-six miles, and
aud launched for the ocean.
On reaching a point called Gilbert's bar,
near the mouth of the river, the boat was
beached, and dragged across sand spit
slxty-yards and launched in an inlet COM
municating with the ocean. On this part
of the route Indian parties supplied them
with scant provisions of county" of
which they made bread. For the balance
of the voyage they were compelled to live
on shell.fsh, caught along the shore, and
turtles eggs, of which they also laid in
stores for their voyage across the Gulf
stream.
From tho inlet near the mouth of In
dian river they coasted suuth some fifty
or sixty miles, when they beached their
boat to hunt provisions. At this time a
United States gunboat or steam transport,
running down south between the shore
and the Florida reef, observed the party,
the commander despatched boat from
the vessel to ascertain who they were and
what they were doing there. As the boat
began to show herself, there was some ex-
ctement in camp, and Thomas began to
get his weapons ready for use. They we're
temporarily located on a shell-ridge, be-
tween an impenetrable swamp and the
waters of the ocean, SO that if they lost
their boat they would perish in the swamp.
Taylor Wood, with the cool determination
of Trough and Ready" his grandfather,
ordered two men to launch the boat, which
was instantly accomplished, and the others
having retired under cover of the brush,
the two soldiers took to the oars "with u
viii" and pulled for the advancing boat
which they met at about one-eighth of a
mile from the shore. An officer in the
stern seat of the gig, with revolver in
one hand, hailed the boat the usual ma
rine questions. Taylor Wood became i'm
mediatoly tina toughest longshore woods.
man, wrecker, and fisherman that ever
lived in Florida. chs men we're parol-
cd soldiers; they had to live some how ;
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THE WONDERS OF THE BRArN.-One
Of the most inconccivable things in the ma
ture of the brain is, that the organ of sen.
sation should in itself be insensible. To
cut the brain gives no pain, yet in the
brain alone resides the power of feeling
pain in any part of the body. If the
nerve which leads from it to the injured
part be divided, it becomes instantly un-
conscious of suffering. 1t is only by COM
munication with the brain that any kind
of sensation is produced, yet the organ
itself is insensible. But there is cir
cumstance more wonderful still the brain
itself may be renoved-may be cut away
down the corpus calasum-without de-
stroying life. The animal lives, and per.
forms all its functions which are necessary
to simple vitality, but no longer has
mind sit cannot think or feel. It re-
quires that the food should be pushed into
the stomach once there it is digestedj
aud the animal will live and grow fat.
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B@~ Gentleman-"My good woman,
how much is that goose ?"
Market Woman--"Well, you may have
the two for seven shillings."
Gentlemau-"But I only want one."
Market Woman-"Can't help, it, amt
a-goin' to sell one without the other
Them ere geese, to my certain knowledge,
hev bin together for NOR thirteen years,
and l amt a-goin to be so unfeelin' as to
separate 'em now"
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So. uTbe t;mes ore co how'd how'd,

g. "The times are 80 hard, hardly
manage to keep my nose above water"
said a husband the other day to his wife,
who was importuning him for a new dress,
"No," she replied with some asperity,
"but you manage to keep it above brandy
aud water easy enough.
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THE UNwELCoME GUEST. Boston
storekeeper the other day stuck upon bis
door the laconc advertisement; ga boy
wanted" The next morning, on opening
the store, he found little urchin 10 d
basket, labeled "Here he is."
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nss- Different sounds travel with differ.
cnt degrees Of velocity. A call to dinner
will run over ten-acre lot in q minute
and half; while q summons to work
will take from fve to ten minutes.
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Boy The question was recently proposed
to "down East" editor: Are hoop-skirts
dangerous He Immediately answered
that they are always very dangerous when
they have anything in them
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NOTICE,

NOTICE.
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I TORS who have not settled their ac-
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B. II. HANSON,
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app
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BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-30

TO coin monsv v.s derived by che general gov
ernment from the states and the people the
power of taking human life by the state was
an original act of sovereignty which has not
been yielded up. So, for the purposes OF
government or convenience, the state issues
bonds, and the bonds OF Msssachusetts have
sold in foreign exchanges at a higher rate
than the bonds OF the United States. Ii Is
true the state of Conn cticut, for instance,
has authorized the city of Hartford 10 issue
bonds of that city. other states other cities
have done the sane; but lid the general gov
ernment authorize Massachusetts to issue her
state bonds? No; it was an original power
conferred upon her by the sovereign people
Of Massachusetts, and she does ii in her soy
ereign capacity. But again, can the city Of
Hartford or any other city, take life, try,
condemn, and execute any citizen? No
that power belongs TO the state.
The states are the sovereign power which
created the general gov, rnment, and the gen
e-sl government is bound by the written law
which limits Its powers and has no power
beyond what it has derived from. and as the
representative of the states. that il can con-
stitutionally exercise.
The general government is the government
OF the United States not a government for
the United States; it does not, in other words,
rule the states, but rather acts as their ser
want; defends, protects them, and guards
over them; il is their agent with instructions
in writing es to the powers delegated, not the
master Of the states with whip in hand to
compel obedience to whatever il may com
mand. A part of it's instructions is that n
may declare war it ia empowered to punist
any member OF the Union, and enforce obs
dience 10 the constitution, who rises in insur
rection its duty is to repel invasion, &C.; il
all this, as In all else. it is the agent OF thu
sovereign states Boston Post.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-30

President Johnson's administration, We Ind
a return to the better days Of the republic,
in his decliuation to accept volunteered gra-
tuities while holding Office, and we regard At
as proof of integrity, in marked contrast 20
the bribery and corruptions which have roc
entity characterised and disgraced Official sta
ton.
IL. Resolved. That the assassination OF the
late presto ent of the United States, was an
act Of unmitigated barbarism, alike destruct-
i've TO civil government. and abhorrent to the
sentiments of christian men throughout the
world, aud receives the most decided reprob-
alton of this convention.
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General Geo. w. Morgan.

George W. Morgan, whom the democracy
os Ohio have just put upon the track for tie
governorship, is capital nominee. He is a
brave soldier. an accom- plished scholar, q
high toned gentleman. and democrat al
ways thoroughly loyal to its organization
lie has had much experience in political af-
fairs, both in the state and nation, the lat
ter of which he represented most creditably
abroad, as its minister to foreign courts.-
He served with credit and distinction in the
Mexican as well rs in the late civil war
There is not biemish or flaw upon bis pri-
vate character. His honesty and purity
were never questioned. He would make a
governor of which Ohio might be proud.
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A NEW FIRM IN THE OLD STAND.
FARM WAGONS FOR SOLDIERS.

A GOOD MANY FARMERS, who have
"A served their country faithfully and received
honorable discharges, are now returning to their
farms, and they want new wagons. To all such,
who purchase OF me, i will make a deduction of
Five Dollars from the regular Puce.
b. II, KIMBALL.
Rock Island, Aug o. dwtf
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Rock island, Aug. 20. Ovid.
UNITED STATES internal REVENUE
Collectors Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the annual
~ Collection List OF Taxes, assessed under the
laws et the United States IN the Fourth Collection
District OF ILLINOIS. annual list of the year
1865. has been returned me, the collector, BY
the assessor OF sA.d district The Inst inc Iudes
License Taxes, Income Taxes, and other Annual
Taxes SAID Tares are now Que, and payment Is
hereby demanded.
All persons assessed in said list, and residing in
Rock Island county are notified make payment
TO the undersIsned, deputy collector o. said DIS
tret, al my Office IN Rock Island county, Illinois,
ls65.
All taxes will be subject To a penalty of ten per
cent. ten days after demand.
JACKSON GkIMSHAW, Collector.
By ELDAH CARTER, Deputy Collector.
aUg2SdwI0o.
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ST. MARY's UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO.

CTUDIES will be resumed on the frst
~ Monday in September, in this Institution -
Theology, Law, Medicine, good English and
Commercial education comprise this courses Of
studies pursued in tine house. A German high
School 10 also established in connection with the
univsrsity. J. MeMuLLEN, d. D.,
President,
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preached before the inference of the metho-
d;st church south, ct st. Louis, on Sunday,
couuseled his brethren not to take the oath.
The new constitution prohibits all clsrgymsn
from preaching the gospel, unless they take
this oath. and the object is 70 exclude from
preaching the gospel those clergymen who
sympathize with the south. Robbers AMI
murderers are pardoned, BY the new consti-
tuition, but teachers and preachers must be
punished. This is an interference with reli-
gion which will not be tolerated. A state
has no right to punish men for preaching
the gospel. 1t has no right to punish treason
by depriving a minister of his sacred once.
The right TO preach the gospel does not de-
mend on the permission of any civil sushori-
ties. The state has no right to prescribe any
conditions whatever on the subject. The
right to preach the gospel is an uncondition-
al right, and if state may prescribe enc
condition it may another, or forbid. 1t alto
gether. In a conflict of authority between
the church and the state, the church should
to the sole arbiter of the extent of it's author
ity, because it derives its power directly
from God There can be no doubt as to the
duty of the clergy of Missouri-that question
was settled for them centuries ago, when the
apostles, rather than be silanced, braved the
power and terror of the Roman empire
Christ, the great founder of their cause, set
them the example when he went TO the cross
rather than cease preaching and doing good
The state of Missouri Is guilty of usurpation
in ENGRAVING that infamous requirement into
her constitution, and the authors of this I'M
righteous decree will invite revolution If they
attempt to enforce it. Ii will require the
voice of HIM who spske IS never man spske,
to calm the storm u just indignation which
will surgs throughout the land if the Nilsson
ri authorities imprison or attempt to punish
the meanest of the clergy of that state. The
question is not one of loyalty or disloyalty
Ii is question Us to whether a state can In
terfere in matters of religion, and upon this
question, every minister of every denomina
ton, loyal or disloyal, catholic or protestant.
ought to be found on the side of NON INTER
FERENCE IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.
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WANTED.

'I'O BORROW ONE THOUSAND Dollars
l. on School bonds by district No. j, town 10
north east, 4th p. NJ. Applications can be made
IN person or BY letter to Henry B. Hobart, clerk
10 the board OF directors.
Port Byron, Aug. I4th, Is65.w2w
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The owners of the Bangor Democrat have
sued for $50 900 damages for the destruction
OF their establishment by a mob in 1901
Exchange.
Exactly So As the civil law gradually
takes the place OF the higher law, men who
have suffered by the mobocracy Of loyal lea
CUES will be able to vindicate their rights
and have their wrongs redressed in courts Of
Justice Many q loyal league mobocrat will
be made to laugh out of the other corner Of
his mouth, when justice lays her hand upon
him.
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CIGAR AND TOBACCO STORE,

THE SUBSCRIBER has purchased the
l. Tobacco Store Illinois street, IN Johnson,s
American Block, where he will continue the bus
mess OF a TooacconIst, and the manufacture OF
cigars he Will keeP always hand q good
stock OF all Ainds of Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff.
Smoking aud Chewing Tobacco, Pipes, CIsar
Holders, Tobacco Bags, Cigar Cases, &c, &c,
where he hopes 10 see all hIs friends and the pub
lie generally and merit a share of public patron
age. MATHEW SCHLEGEL
Rock Island, June % dtf.
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Inc ca hone archbishop who has Jurisdic
dIction over Missouri has issued circular
asserting that priests Cannot take the oath
required by the new constitution of that
state without a sacrifice of eecls.;a.,;csl
liberty" Bishop Kavanaush, in a .a,mon
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FARM WAGONS.

NOTWITHSTANDING am building a
IN large number of PIke's Peak Wagons, still
continue the business OF making
THE VERY BEST FARM WAGONS.
and woulisty 70 the farmers OF this and adjoin
ing coanties that eau supply them with any
thiag they want IN my line, of the best quality
and az reasonable rates. B. H. KIABALL
Rock Island, Jan. 70, dwtf. y.
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COLTS AT AUCTION,

4 LOT OF Colts, taken up in the city linn
II ats, will be sold at auction Thursday, Aug
3lst at 10 O'Clock A NJ, at the CITY scales. un-
less previously redeemed.
FL. UNDERWOOD,
CITY I1rshsl.
Rock island, Aug. %, Ovid.
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STRAYED OR STOLEN.

A WHITE and yellow spotted setter dog,
u about nine mOnths old, with leajh strap
around his neck. A LIBERAL reward " III be paid
for has delivery at The coal Office on the levee.
Rock Island, Aug. 20 dwIw.
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UyI0y COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Democratic Union Voters OF Rock isiano
.o,r,x ard all who are in favor OF sustaining the
aamini.traton of Andrew Johnson, are requested
to meet ia their respective townships on aonoeJ'
September llth, 1860, at the usuai places ~.
holding township caucuses, luniess eaucase'
sh,Il be called at some other time by the town
ship committees) ard elect delegates to ATTEND a
Democratic Union County Convention, 10 De heiu
in the Court House in Rock Island on
Wednesday, the 18th Of SEPTEMBER
al O'Clock P. ~, to nominate candidates for the
following county Offices, viz
County Judge.
County Clerk.
County Treasurer.
County Surveyor.
County Superintendent
Each township will be entitled TO one oelegate'
and one additional delegate for every 20 demo
cratic votes cast at the last election, as follows;
Cordova ...2 Rock Island ........IS
Port Byron ........-.2 Coal Valley .'.'''''.'.''.
Coe Black hawk.'.'''.'.''''
Zum. .....2 Edgington. ..............o
H,,ooton q Buualo Prairie ..........4
Moline .......5 AndslusIa. ......''..Z
Diary. .......... 1888 co
Whole number of delegates .....os
In the towns of Rock Island. Moline, Ham pton :
port Byron Cordova and Black Hawk the meet
iups will be heI at O'Clock IN the evening, anu
in the other towns at O'Clock IN the afternoon
The caucuses. when met, are also requested TO
choose to nship and school district committees
and perfect the organization OF the party In each
township.
Va 1t is earnestly requested that the demo-
Gratis of the several townships see to u that these
caucuses are fully attended and that men are
chosen who will be present, at the county con-
vention, SO that every township may be fully rep
resented.
J.B. DANFoRrH, JR. Rock Island.
IaA CRAwFoRD, Hampton.
ST. HARTMAN, Buffalo Prairie
CHARLES NJ OSBORN, Rock Island.
DAVID l.. CUNKtE, Rock Island.
County Central Committee
Rock Island, August IS, 1865.