The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-12-19

some education in the poorest class of
Che people in all time to come. AS our
country grows weather., we fear that lik e
ali other nations, the mass of poverty will
increase, and when parents understand
that their children viii be deprived of the
elective franchise unless taught to read
and write, there is scarcely parent so
sorgetful, or so temporarily selfish that
he will not in some form secure the means
Of education to his children. TO speak
IN brief, the educational test is a premium
paid by the state i'll behalf of the acquire
ments, which under republican govern
ment, an eleetor most needs hvae to be-
come awise check upon his selected rulers
GEN. MOWER.
1t is generally known that Gen. Han
cock on arriving at New Orleans reversed
the orders of Gen. Mower who had un-
deftaken to carry out the policy iraugur-
ated by Gen. Sheridan. In pursuing
this course it is generally supposed that
Hancock but obeyed the orders of the
President, from the fact of his having
been a brave soldier during the war.
But we opine that his past good deeds
will not wholly exempt him from censure
if he is really afliiating with unrepentant
rebels now. There is one thing sure.
neither Gen. Hancock nor President
johnson can long keep in subsection Gen
Mower, for he is one of the brayest, most
irrepressible men that ever lived, and he
stands too high with Grant, ,Sherma aad'
at the War Department to be squeched
by the order Of rebel-loving president.
The Sheboygan Times has the fol
lowing comments On the President mes
sage: Those who have taken the trou-
bic to wade through its unattractive
length, and have not become disgusted
with its tone Of :ntolerant egotism and
despotic censorship, can lay claim to
greater eqanimity Of spirit than we pos
sess. To condense the whole thing into
! w
johnson, constitute the government of
these United States, and am infa!lible.
| present my policy Of reconstruction as
the very perfection Of statesmanshiD, D, and
the late rebels as the party most directly
interested in its results, give it their cor
dial endorsement. Congress has dared
to entertain opinions not in accord with
mine, therefore its action has been sub
versiye Of the constitutiou-in fact, it ex-
lists only as al unconstitutional ''rump,"
ana it may be necessary for NE to 'squech'
it By iorcibie resistance.
The most ofthe document is more he
fitting IA stump speech than All official
state paper issuing from the highest dig
nitary Of the land to a coordinate branch
OF tie government.
A New rRoPr1LER. The following
extract from Admiral Farragut' report
on the performance OF Ii. 3. II. iron
clad Water Witch, TOO tons, 1G0 horse
power, vii! interest those Of our readers
WI are interested in marine affairs. The
vessel is driven by what is called the
Ruthvcn hydraulic propeller, which IS
claimed 10 BE far superior TO anyt hing
hitherto used. 4 company has been or
garized il New Z ork to bring cut this in-
vention:
Extract from letter from Admiral Far
ragut to the !. 5. Navy Depot, dated
Oct. y. 81.
| From the Excellent We went on board
the Wafer witch i.eis vessel is an iron
| clad Of faboGts % tous, carries two eight
| inch riticd guns, and is propelled IN a
most novel manner. The water rises
@-om below into the box, whence the ro-
tary pump, worked by stean, throws it
with Z cat violence into two square boxes
placed il. re outside OF the vessel, one III
each side IL. .a-iy amidships, and about
the water line. These boxes are square
gubes, ten or twely feet long and twelve
inches in diameter, open at both ends.
| Near the center is valve. under the
/ control OF the officer Of the deck. and as
| he turns it the water is thrown witt treat
! force either forward or att, thus propell-
! ing the vessel ahead or astern at his will.
So soon IS we cot OF hnard we proceed
! ed out Ui' the harbor. and, 10 nay amaze
! ilent, she wen, ahead at !, ai:ead OF seven
! - eight miles per hour, against a i.c.,.
.yeeze ami quite a sea- The machinery,
vhen once nUt in motion, had no Inter
upton until VIC were ai0ugs!de the wharf
| jgain.
Che movements Of the vessel are entire
! controlled by the oEfieer of the deck
| sho. by maneuyering the valves above
! pokcn OF, can SO ahead back astern, OF
urn the vessel upon her center, all Of
! which was done with great ease and
! Whist | was on board.
| On her return from Spithead to the
shari, she made quite as much as niae
,3sots per do7tr up 10 within fifty or sixty
| ards OF the wharf, when she was sud
lon!y checked and brought up to the
wharf with infinitely more ease than any
;Ieamer ever saw, Notwithstanding she
3 a hcaty vessel plated with four and-a-
.iait inches of iron.
1t will be observed that the Water
Witch has neither paddles, screw nor
rud,lcr, all of those Offices being perform
ID by the hydraulic motors under the
easy control Of the officer Of the deck.
|
| As near as we can get at it, these
travelling auctions, that stop here period
ically, don't sell more than enough OF
their mildewed shoddy TO pay expenses.
People are getting so they Won be bitten
by such sharks When man puts wag-
on load of old goods into IA store and ad-
vcrtiscs that he will sell ten thousand dol
| lars yva.-fh Won can set him down aS .
humbug. Patronizereeular dealers whom
you know, and you will make money fast
enough. 1t is well enough to notice