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as soon as this was conceded to them, "a vote
might be taken; but that no vote upon the
bill should be taken until the democrats had
spoken upon the subject. Theradicals treat
ed the proposal with scorn. They tried to
force the bill to a vote !; but, to their unutter-
able chagrin, they found that the democratic
members were able to prevent this as long
as they chose to. When o'clock il. the at Z
ternoon, the usual dinner hour, arrived, the
house refused to adjourn, and renamed IN
session all the evening. At midnight mat
tiers remained in the same position. The
house remained in session all night, until 8
o'clock "Wednesday morning, willing away
the weary hours by the most frivolous pro-
ceedings, when the radicals hauled down their
flag, acknowledged themselves beaten, con-
coded to the little Spartan band of democrat
ic members the right for which they had
been contending and took recess till IL.
At IL the house reassembled, and Mr..
Finch, of Ohio, made most eloquent speech
against the bill. Mr.. Rogers, Of New Jer.
sey, also spoke of it in BETTING terms, and
demonstrated its unconstitutionality and il
legality. Mr.. Niblack and Mr.. Boyer also
spoke against it. Mr.. Kerr, of Indiana, stat
ed that he should print his remarks against
it; and then of course the bill passed, by a
vote of l08 to AZ.
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The Nebraska Veto.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The President to-
dav returned 10 the senate, with his objec-
tons, the bill for the admission of Nebraska.
He refers to the fundamental condition pre-
cedent, that suffrage shall be allowed with
out distinction of race or color. This con-
dition is not mentioned in the original en-
aiding act and was not contemplated at the
time of its passage. 1t was not sought by
the people themselves, has not been applied
to the inhabitants of any state asking adj
mission, and is in direct conflict with the
constitution adopted by the people, and de-
ciared in the preamble to be republican in
its form of government: for IN that instru-
ment the exercise of the elective franchise
and right to hold Office are expressly limited
to white citizens of the United States. Con
gress thus undertakes to authorize and com
pei the legislature to change a constitution
which. 1t is declared in the preamble, has
received the sanction of the people, and
which by this bill is accepted, ratified and
confirmed by the congress of the nation
The President proceeded to show that the
first and third sections of the bill exhibit
yet further incongruity. eff" he says, "con-
gress is satisfied that Nebraska at the pres
ent time possesses sufficient population to
entitle her to full representation in the eoun.
ellis of the nation,and her people deserve a
state government, good faith would seem to
demand that she should be admitted without
further requirements than those expressed in
the enabling act, with all of which, IT is as
serted in the preamble, her inhabitants have
complied"
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Jealous of the lieutenant governors sue
cess as story-teller, the governor has also
entered the ring, and is about to commence
the telling of his story. Governor Oglesby's
story y not about his trip to California. That
is sabject which, the governor rightly con-
lectures, has grown somewhat common. Al
most every man one meets could tell story
about California, and the majority of them
would be more interesting stories than either
Mr.. Colfax's or Deacon Brosss. Governor
Oglesby rightly believes that novelty, as well
as originality, is virtue at which story-tel-
Ter should aim who hopes to be graded not
lower than Washington No. 4 or 5. The
governor, therefore, selects for the subject of
his story his trip to the Holy Land. In that
respect, at least, he will have the advantage
ofhis rivals who aim to attain the unoccupied
Washington high numbers, for neither of
them ever made trip to the Holy Land, or
can tell whether the Dead Sea would furnish
the basis of a successful oil company or not.
There is one great difference, which the
people will not fail to observe, between all
these aspiring story-tellers and the story-tel-
| Ter who attained the place of Second Wash
| ington. Washington No. did not tell the
same story every time. Indeed, he seldom,
| if ever, told the same story twice over. His
| repeytoire seemed inexhaustible. 1t was his
vast resources as story-teller, mot less than his
| manner of telling story, which made him
successful and great. His imitators seem to
be men of the most limited resources. To
| keep on repeating the same old story about a
| trip to California, as Mr.. Colfax and Deacon
Bross are doing, or about trip to Palestine
made fifteen or twenty years ago, as Govern
or Oglesby is doing, certainly argues great
poverty instead of fertility of intellect. If
these gentlemen eyer expect to enshrint
| themselves in history as Washington of any
high number. they must be able to tell more
than one story.-Chicago Times.
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There are number of politicians in this
country who seem to suppose that the people
estimate greatness by the ability of its pos
SCISSOR to tell a story. It is possible that this
supposition was derived from the success of
Abraham Lincoln upon the reputation of a
good story -teler.. The faculty of telling a
acapita1 Story it was generally conceded in
! $50. was the chief Recommendation which
Mr.. Lincoln possessed for the high Office OF
president As shepards of old entertained
angels unawares, SO, in eleeting story-teller
to the presidency, it is thought by great
many people that the country found, under a
very unpromising exterior, political leader
that required only the liberal application of
Phillips watering-pot to be developed into a
second Washington"
1t is in view of this historical precedent,
probably, that so many western politicians
are assiduously cultivating the art of story
telling. Among the most industrious appren-
tees to this art are those who aspire to be
ranked, at some future day, In proper numer-
ical order after the great founder of the art,
as Washington No. 8, No. 4, No. 5, and SO
ON. Senator Yates claim to have a sort of
presumption claim to No. 8, in the Washing
ton series; but Schuyler Colfax is contesting
the claim with great assiduity. The indus
triousness with which Mr. Colfax is telling
his story about his trip to California ought to
warn Mr.. Richard Yates to look to his lau-
reis-or, rather, to his number-lest, before
he should know it, the American people
should have taken him down from aWash-
ington No. g." and regarded him as Wash
iiigton No. 10 or Is. taed e
The grade, Washington No. 4, Lieutenant
Governor Bross seems to have fixed his eye
upon. The lieutenant governor is kept al
most as busy as Mr.. Colfax in telling his
story, which is also about his trip to Califor-
ma, with an episode or two about Brigham
Young and his harem.. -A~FaI.GG.
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ention we want at present.

The Catholic Unirerse, in the course of a
long article headed Loan on the President
referring TO the shameful personal abuse OF
President johnson, in the house of represen-
tatives, by Ben Loan, a radical congressman
from Missouri, says:
"Loan is far worse than Wilkes Booth. Booth
was an actor, he murdered in theatre, he muir
dered from the motive to make one half the coun-
try independent of the other, and he murdered
fearlessly. But Loan is member of congress
he has aimed at the murder--murder, for there i:
no justice in the charge-of the President the
foor of congress his motive was partizanship
and his manner of action was that of liar and 9
coward, Booth was. by many degrees, less of 6
criminal and more of an honorable desperate thar
Loan" ga ..
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Radical Attempt to Overthrow
Freedom of Debate in Congress.

There inever was a congress before this
one, in the whole history of the country,
where the minority We're not protected in
their rights by the speaker, as well as by the
sense of justice and courtesy on the part of
the majority. Free speech used to be the
boast of American citizens, and it was exer-
eised in congress to the fullest extent Be-
for the war, the majority in congress used to
be content with carrying their measures al
last, at the close of debate. .'Oh, talk
about it as much as YOU like, gentlemen
they used to say, in substance: @when the
vote comes to be taken, we'll show you where
the strength of the house lies And every
subject of legislation, therefore, that was
cussed on both sides, and the consequence
was, that no illegal or unconstitutional acts
were passed.
But all that is changed now. Free speech
was stricken down by the republican party
during the war: and although the people
generally have at last regained it, vet it is
not enjoyed, to this day, by the representa-
tives of the people in congress. To this day,
it is almost impossible for democratic mem
Der of congress to get up and make a speech
upon any subject of legislation that is before
the house. Whenever the radicals have de
sernined to carry any particular measure,
they introduce their hill, caIl the previous
question upon it and rush it through at once,
in few minutes.
: Mr.. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, attempted
10 play this game on the 22d inst; but for
once he was bafaed by the democratic mem
beers. He introduced a bill to, accompiish
by Legislation what the supreme court has
. Just declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL bill to dis.
qualify nine-tenths of the lawyers in the
southern states from practicing in the courts
/ of the United States. On this he called the
previous question. riait baa
sr But Mr.. VIM E. Finch, of Ohio, rose and
stated that the democratic members asked
one hour in which to discuss the bill; that
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The secretary of war sent to congress, o

The secretary of war sent to congress, on
the 30th, the report Of General Warren, re-
lative to the survey of the upper Mississippi
and its tributaries. General Warren states
that between Fort Smelling and the Roc k
Island rapids, the current of the river has
been sufficient to transport gravel therefrom.
The bars are composed Of sand. He recon-
mends, as a measure Of temporary relief,
which may prove the most desirable, the
construction of steamboats, with scraping ap-
paratus. These sand-bars act as dams, and
the dredging could be controlled so as not to
reduce the pool above the bar. BY this
means four feet could be secured to the
mouth of the st. Croix and thence to Fort
Smelling three feet, at an estimated cost OF
S334 600
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Canals and Railroads.

A ship-canal ria the bank of Niagara river
would afford us scarcely more facilities than
we already possess. 1t would simply take
the place of the Welland canal. and would
not in the least shorten the distance between
Lake Michigan and the Atlantic. The diff
ference between a Niagara ship-canai and
the canal now in existence is more theoreti-
cal than real 1t is found in the fact that
the former would be upon American soil,
while the latter is not. When Lake Ontario
would be reached, whether through a canal
running upon American or Canadian soil,
the outlet to the ocean along the st. Law
renee would present the same difficulty
against which We now labor,-it, too, belongs
to a foreign power. So far rs the idea of
nationality is concerned, we should be but
little better with ship-canal on our own ter
ritory than we are now without one.
And again, any canal in this latitude would
he available only IN the summer. 1t would
be closed in winter and we should be as
much at the mercy of railroads AS We are
now. In the summer they would lower their
prices, and IN the winter they would charge
us whatever they would choose. Hence the
relief afforded by Niagara ship-canal would
not be very great, except In the event of
war between this country and Canada.
The Times has never regarded this Mia
CARA canal project as a permanent relief to
the expressions against which the northwest
has to struggle. We have urged it simply as
limited part of a work of improvement
which should include ship-canal across Mi
chigan and another from Lake Ontario to
the ocean ria the Hudson river or the ST.
l.awrence,-the latter only in case the Cana
das should become a portion of the United
States. We have urged its construction not
in the belief that it would itself be sufiici-
encv. but because it would be an important
part of grand whole, which, in time, should
extend from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic
As we have seen, the mere construction of
ship-canal around Niagara Falls would, save
in the exceedingly improbable event of war
with Canada, effect but little more than what
we have already.
Behind all this question of water-routes
lies the difficulty of railroads. With ship
canal running direct from Chicago 10 New
York, there would still remain the difficulty
tha. 4,r .n~r. ,i..,, .,..>s-,itr., q year we
should be at he mercy of these conscience
less monopolies. Prior to, or at least con-
temporaneouslv with our settling upon how
to build ship-canal to Underwater, should be
settled the question of how 10 make railroads
subservient TO the public good. Without a
settlement of this, we NAV build dozen
ship-canals to the Atlantic, and still would
there be cause of serious complaint Unless
we can find means to regulate them, We
shah always labor under an oppression which
competition seems Powerless to mitigate, and
which. each year. grows more and more in
able Chicago Times.
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The affirmation On the part of the legis-
lsture that it has control over railway cor
porations. and that it both can and will reg
ulate the rates of freights and fares in the
interest of the people, meets universal ap-
probation. There is no doubt whatever that
the principle is correct. The franchises of
railway corporations have been granted to
them to be used for the benefit of the peo-
pie. It is only on that ground that they
have the right to take private property and
TO lay their roads wherever they may think
best. When corporations to which such priv
ileges have been granted use them adversely
to the popular interests it is quite time to in
terfere and regulate them by law. If We are
to believe the complaints which are made on
all sides, the great lines of railway in Illinois
are rnequaTly and unjustly administered and
instead of benefits have become instruments
of oppression.
1t is not only that the transport of the
crops to market has been effected at ruinous
rates, bat the grain has been fraudulently
mixed, false receipts have been issued, and
the farmer has been swindled by lowering
the quality and value of his grain. These
evils are notorious, universal and undenied.
Senator Fuller's act, if it becomes |; W,
viii regulate the rates of freight and travel,
and will compel railways to give specific
receipts for grain transported over their
limos
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Partv Supplications.

The prayer of the Chaplain of the House
of Representatives, made at the opening of
the session, and read at this distance of time,
sounds very much as if it were delivered on
horseback before a company Of moss-troop-
ers, as he gave it TO the assembled house at
the opening of the session. Suppose the
elections to have gone as overwhelmingly
the other way as they went in favor of the
republicans. Suppose the successful party
to be precisely what the radicals style them
enemies of the Union, seeking only its
ruin. And, to make the case Thoroughly
consistent, suppose chaplain answering ex-
actly to the sentiments of such a house had
got up in the desk and uttered a prayer as
strictly in keeping with the imputed .senti-
ments of the house as this radical chaplain
has done for those of his own party. Does
anybody believe there would have been no
hullabulloo raised over it? ,-~l-
This reverend individual ventured On lam
guage like what we quote 1--WE thank
Thee, o Lord, that Thou didst nerve up
these men now present so that they have
done duty while absent from this spot more
important even in its results than what they
were able to do here" And again 1--WE
bless Thee, that Thou didst give them the
wisdom and the strength to enlighten the
people on the great questions at issue before
the country; and We thank Thee, Almighty
God, for the magnificent uprising Of "a free
people, instructed, as they We're, to make
right decisions in reference to every great
question presented, so that we know that it
was not in vain to depend upon the intelli-
gence of the American people"
| This is the prayer of an out-and-out
''bread-and-bntter' man, evidently. Were
the house of representatives composed diff
ferently, he is the very man to turn off a
prayer, to correspond. His effort illus
trates what is so often condemned as party
preaching; it assuredly cannot work with
any JUNCTION on the conscience of the party
| that has colared him, nor can it be expected
TO avail to an appreciable extent on the party
he fires at before the Lord. So that afte,
all, what is the good of such a person in pol
ties They may give a seeming color TO
doings that need a religious overgarment, bu,
they are no help to the purposes ofshonesty
and statesmanship.-BoSton Post.
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Valuable Lands for Sale!

THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE
l. on easy terms, some of the most valuable land
ed property in Henry county, consisting of III
acres this Home FARM of rich, dry bottom lands,
on section Is, township II, Mnersville, all of
which is under cultivation, is highly productive,
and contains a good house and outbuildings. This
is one of the hest Farms in the county ~ t3
Also, l60 acres OF timber land, on section 20,
township l. located in the coal fields below Min
ersville, adjoining James Glenn's Banks, which is
covered with the finest growth of young timber in
the county 1t is also rich in coal and mines are
worked on both sides of it. For its splendid tim
Der and ncxhaustible coal supplies this is one of
the most valuable tracts of land in Illinois.
Also, 40 acres coal land, situated in Munson
township, six miles east of Geneseo, section r.
and about one mile from Shearer's. A three feet
and half vein of coal runs through this tract,
which Is easily worked. efE
The above property will be sold at low prices.
A part of the purchase money may remain for
series of years on good security. The titles are
clear and no ineumbrance For further particulars
enquire of the subscriber the farm in Miners
Vile. or of JAMES BRADLEY, Esq, at his store,
near the New MIL State street. Geneseo, Henry
county, Illinois. THOMAS HODGES.
ian3o-dwln
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A Washington special of the Both, to the

A Washington special of the Both. to the
Chicago Journal, says: Haes@
Leading southern men have been in conference
here, for some time, with leading republicans. for
the purpose of arranging new plan of adjust
ment, which will be satisfactory to both sections.
They have nearly accomplished it, and it will be
made public in a few days. It is a modification
Of the constitutional amendment
1t all depends upon who these "leading
southern men" are. If they are any part OF
the torch and turpentine brigade" the plan
will amount to nothing-uniess, perhaps, an
evidence of backing down on the part of the
radicals. If the 1leading southern men, are
really and truly such-the representative
men of the south; then indeed are we near
settlement of the controversy. We hope
this viii prove true, for the people want union
and peace
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Old Settlers Association.

....-. Rock island, Jan. ZOth, 1867
To THE On SETTLERS OF Rock ISLAND
COUNTY lii Geatiemen-The second an
nal meeting of the old settlers association OF
Rock Island county, viii convene at the
court house, in Rock Island. on Monday the
4th day of February next, at | O'Clock p.
NJ. s ..s#
Iou are urgently solicited to attend. as
business of importance, besides the election
of officers, in reference to the annual festival
and statistical information will come before
the meeting.
Respectfully Yours.
y. GREGG, Pres't.
A. h PnILLEo, Sec'v.