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r,oR tho purpose OF chasing out Immediately
l. / will sell at Public Auction, 1T my shop,
in Moline, on Saturday, November 10th, at o.
clock p. N.,3 one aud two horse Spring Wagons,
. Road or Farm Wagons, with extra heavy tires,
all new. Call and examine them thoroughly be
fore the day OF sale. Sale positive and without
reserve.
TERMS or suE.---Tiye months time by giving
approved secured note bearing 10 per cent. in.
terest. l.. hEFNe'
jos Ross, AuctOneer.
Moline, Ills, November IL, 1869.
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NOTICE ia hereby given that this day M.
~ Doyle and J. Ii. Nevins have bought the
right, title and interest Of II. II. Stuart and J.
murphy in the Rock Island Marble Works, and
that her eater the business will be continued I'M
der the Arm name Of Doyle Nevins.
All work contracted, will be finished by the
new firm, and all bills for the same are to be paid
10 them, NJ DOYLE,
J.H NEVINS,
II. II. STUART,
J. MURPHY.
Rsck Island, Nov. 10th, 1859. l2dst.
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The New York herald., 1869-03-01

THE RIGHT Sort OF PRosPERrrY.-A cor
respondent furnishes us with the statement
that the interior town of Springfield, Ohio, has
suddenly sprung up from an obscure village to
the dimensions almost Of city with sixteen
thousahd inhabitants, with it's hundred thou
sand dollar opera house, first class hotel,
&c. Three hundred buildings, costing nearly
a million dollars, were constructed last year.
This is the result of legitimate manufactur-
ing business, including such products as reap
ers, mowers, grain drills, cider mills, lead
paints, manufactured tobacco, &C., realizing
two millions and a half per annum. How diff
ferent prosperity like this is compared with that
of those mushroom cities that rise up on oil
bubbles, gold and silver mines, or any other Of
the humbugs Of the day which glitter for brief
periodand then burst into thin air. running all the
uninitiated who have been so imprudent as to
enter into such wild goose speculations! And
yet this thrifty Ohio town Is but one out Of
many hundred others enjoying similar degree
Of prosperity. Verify, the growth Of the great
West is truly gigantic and substantial.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01
The War and tho Press.

General Slocum, recently elected to Con-
gress from Brooklyn district, lectured on the
war the other night in Brooklyn, perhaps to
make the acquaintance Of his constituents.
We suppose this was the purpose, as the lee
ture itself discloses no other-telling us moth
ing new or specially interesting about the
wsr. The most notable point in the lecture is
that the General went out of his way to say
that the press was "a curse from the beginning
to the close of the war" This round slander
on the agent that more than any other enabled
the government to raise armies and money, and
that kept the whole machinery Of the war eff
cient and energetic by keeping all mems acts
constantly before the people, indicates the
small mind of the thinker who finds the press
defective in the exact degree in which it fails
to take exclusive notice Of his own astonish-
ing achievements. The press is open to the
reproach Of having kept up the fame Of many
small generals, but that in the history of the
war is the worst that can be said Of 1t. It
was, in fact, grand stimulating power, and
1t kept up to the true line of duty Q govern
ment too much inclined to fanatical views and
terribly disposed to laundering. This it did as
nothing else could have done it, and it even
counteracted much Of the harm done by the
politicians, with whom originated all the embar-
rassments Of the army. We should be pleased
to see many generals lecturing on the war,
and the collection of such lectures might be an
important part Of the history. General Slo-
Gums lecture could go in a chapter on the de-
lusions Of the army.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

PRUSSIA CONcILIATINa FRANKFoRT.-One Of
our latest cable dispatches informs us thai
the Prussian Diet proposes to grant two mil
lion forms to the municipality of Frankfort,
and that to this sum King William will add one
million of forms from his private purse. This
sum will no doubt 60 good way to conciliate
the burghers Of Frankfort and reconcile them
to the loss of their ancient independence. II
is notorious that Frankfort has been dissatis-
fed since the time the city was occupied by
Prussian troops in 1866. Prussia, in fact, has
acted in o very high-handed manner with the
Frankfort people all through. In letter pub
lished in these columns q few days ago our
special correspondent informed us that trade
had greatly declined, that almost all the pro-
perty of the city had been gulped up by
Prussia and that the people were almost
reduced to despair. This resolution on the
part of the Prussian Diet shows that the gov
ernment is at last alive to the danger, and
that it will not do to allow the ancient seat Of
empire and the chief of the German free towns
to 90 to wreck and ruin. In the event of
war with France it would not be good fos
Prussia to have Frankfort in state Of rebellion.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

Tbc Inssrrectieu in Csba-Gensral Grant In
Faver sf Cubaa Independents.
Washington dispatches, received last night
furnish us with important information in re-
gard to the views of General Grant upon the
subject Of the independence Of Cuba. 1t
appears that General Van Allen, who has just
returned from cruise among the West India
islands in the yacht Henrietta, had, during his
absence, confidential communications with
leading insurgents on the island Of Cuba.
From information thus gathered he has
no doubt Of the speedy success OF the
revolutonists. All the facts he obtained he
communicated to General Grant upon his
arrival in Washington, when the latter openly
expressed his opinion that Congress should
not only pass resolutions avowing sympathy
with the revolutionary movement in Cuba,
but also authorizing the President to recog-
nize her independence when in his opinion
the proper moment arrived. This declara-
tion General Van Allen was authorized to
communicate to members of Congress. and,
no doubt, was the inspiration Of Senator
Sherman's resolutions in regard to Cuba
which were presented in the Senate on
Saturday and referred to the Committee
ON Foreign Relations. General Grant
also averred that we owed nothing to Spain,
for the reason that she harbored the rebel
cruisers and otherwise encouraged the rebel
lion during the dark hours Of our struggle for
national existence. Taking the public express
sion Of these Views of the President elect-who
within few days will be in position to en-
force his opinions--in connection with the
recent successes of the revolutionists in Cuba
and the reported landing Of American volun-
teers at two points on the island, and it will be
idle to deny that the doom of the "Queen of
the Antilles" is sealed, and that her flag Of in
dependence will in brief period float from
the towers Of the MORO Castle.
At this critical moment, as we learn by
Atlantic cable despatch received last night,
the Spanish government directs its Minister to
England to proceed to the United States for
the purpose of settling any difficulty arising
from the Cuban insurrection. BY the time
that Minister arrives here we apprehend he
will find he has undertaken heavier job than
he was aware Of II indeed he does not ascer-
tain that, like the concessions of the Duchess
of Orleans in her extremity to the French
revolutionists, he has come altogether s'too
late."
The New York herald., 1869-03-01
Prosrs.. ef Rsfer. i EasIan1.

frO0rcoo o. hkoa0rm IN Emasnnxs
In the EngIish House Of Commons on
Wednesday evening Solicitor General Coaeridge
introduced bill having for It's object the abo-
lition Of tests in the Universities. Tests are
already, to large extent, things Of the past.
They have been so modified at the four Scot
tish Universities (Edinhurg, Glasgow, st.
Andrews, Aberdeen) and at Trinity College,
Dublin, not to speak Of the Queens Colleges,
that University tests can hardly be said to
exist either In Scotland or In Ireland. Oflate
years the tests have been very much modi-
fed at Cambridge, but Oxford has remained
intractable and exclusive. Not having seen
the bill we cannot 60 into details, but from
what has been done already, and from the
pledges which have been given by the present
government, It Is reasonable to conclude that
the bill now introduced will 60 long way to
open up the privileges and prizes Of the uni-
versities to the youth and intellect of the three
kingdoms, irrespective of creed. This Is one
direction which reform is bound to take.
This (Monday) evening will commence the
Irish Church debate, and the wealth and in
tellect and learning and beauty of England
will congregate in and around the House of
Commons to learn the fate of religious es-
tablishment which is as old as the days of
Henry VIII. In the fate of the Irish Church
lords and ladies and the privileged orders
generally will behold, as in glass, their own
fate. The Irish Church may or may not go by
the board; but the result of the debate cannot
fail to be damaging to the principle of church
establishments all over the three kingdoms.
Sooner or later university tests must become
things of the past. So must It be with church,
establishments. Bishops and archbishops may
remain, but ecclesiastical hierarchs will have
to be contented with titles rather than with
lordly livings. The law of entail will follow,
and the big estates of the landed aristocracy Of
Great Britain will be utilized for the general
good of the people. The popular cause is now
everywhere in the ascendant, and the triumph
Of the people implies the downfall of the privi-
legged orders. The example of the model re-
public of the West is rapidly Transforming
Europe and the world.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

'LrTTLE RHoDY" BUILDING UP THE SOUTH
Rhode Island Is small State, but she pro-
duces men with sound heads, stout hearts and
long purses. Senator Sprague, Of that State,
has just purchased an immense water power
canal in Columbia, s. c., on which he will
soon commence . large cotton mill. A
Southern exchange states that, besides this
enterprise Of Mr.. Sprague, there are several
other large cotton factories being built in
South Carolina, several in Georgia, three or
four in Alabama, as many in Mississippi, and
even Florida and Texas are moving in the
same direction. II the South keeps on pro-
crossing in this rapid way the whole manufac-
turing system Of the country will eventually be
revolutionized, and New England, as she once
did, favor free trade, and the South demand q
protective tariff
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

man, Of broad and comprehensive views, but
for man in the vigor Of his physical strength !;
Tor bis labors viii be those Of Hercules. Like
the first Napoleon, however, we have seen
that General Grant has keen perception OF
the man for the place, and 30 we await in. con-
idence the announcement Of his Secretary Of
the Treasury.
In regard to reconstruction the position OF
the General was fixed In his trenchsnt cor
respondence with President johnson Of Febru-
ary year ago. That correspondence dis
armed the two Houses and made Grant the
republican candidate without further cere-
mony. But as his latest views of the suffrage
question we have an important statement from
Washington. It appears that on Saturday
last among the numerous Congressional
callers upon the General, was Mr.. Stewart, Of
Nevada, who had charge Of the late constitu-
tional amendment In the Senate, which, being
adopted by both Houses, now goes to the
States for ratification in the shape of . propo-
sition denying to Congress and to the several
States eany abridgment Of the right to vote
on account of race, color or previous condition
of servit,lde." Senator Stewart sounded Grant
upon this subject, and the General responded
that he endorsed the amendment, and hoped
the States would ratify it," and ''this state
ment, he desired all the gentlemen present to
understand, was not for their private informa-
tion alone, but for the whole country to hear"
This is very important landmark of the
new administration fixed. We have given it
heretofore from good authority, as covering
the views of General Grant on suffrage, and
we proclaim it now as settlement of the
suffrage question Supported by President
Grant, that amendment will be ratified, and i'm
partial suffrage, with the power given to
Congress to enforce it, will become the su-
preme law of the land His opposition would
have raised party convulsion and explo-
sion; his hearty support settles this negro
suffrage business. The great issues of the
new administration, then, will be, first, the
money question in all its bearings, and, second,
our foreign relations, including the Alabama
claims, Mexico and Cuba and we fully believe
that under the man for the crisis all these
things will be settled as ordained by manifest
destiny"
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

THE MAGPIE AND THE POLITICIANS. They
have q magpie out West which, besides re-
peating such phrases as 1t Is especially in
structed In, sometimes utters others, at the
most unreasonable moments, that are alto
gether unexpected. At little party the other
day Maggie was given piece Of plain Johnny
cake when pound cake was on the table. II
took the morsel In It's claw, eyed It upon one
side, then the other, and then scornfully cast
it away, calculating, ''Oh, thunder It's
nothing but Johnnycake The radical politi-
clans in Pennsylvania are In similar plight.
Being assured by General Grant that q
member Of his Cabinet would be taken from
that State, each clique set to work to recon-
mend some favorite but when II appeared
that the pious and unpledged Stuart was to be
the man, while they were intent upon obtain
ing some rich pickings and fat plums out OF
the great public pound cake, through the in
fluence of the ''man Of their choice" in the
Cabinet, they rolled up their eyes and turned
away in disgust, exclaiming, with more irrev-
erence than the magpie, "Oh, h its nothing
but Johnnycake. Whether or not Stuart be
the coming man for Pennsylvania, It is pretty
certain that most Of those who are expecting big
things from the incoming administration will
finally be obliged to content themselves wi th
something palmer even than plain Johnny
cake.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

''PRAoR RRrGNs THROUGHOUT OUR STATR. y
The above is the editorial exclamation Of the
jackson (Miss.) Clarion This Is candid,
though perhaps unnecessary, admission from
responsible quarter; for the Clarion Is
edited by one Of the most influential men in
the State. The example should be imme-
diately followed by all the Southern papers
whose conductors really have at heart the
welfare Of their section Of the country. The
Northern radicals are constantly endeavoring
to make II appear that the South Is still In q
state OF quasi rebellion.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

DID GOVERNOR GEARY WRITE LETTER
OR MAKE PROMISE 7-Governor Geary says
he did not write letter to influence General
Grant In his selection Of Cabinet onlcer.
Mcclure says he had ''only the promise" Of
Governor Geary that he would recommend q
particular gentleman for Cabinet onicer from
Pennsylvania. Hence the question arises
Does Governor Geary keep his promises, or
does Mcclure err in stating that he ever made
one2 However, promises, like pie crust, are
frequently made only to be broken, especially
when made by politicians
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

SmHRMAN's BILL TO STRENGTHEN THE PUB
LILO CREDIT Sherman got his bill through
the Senate to strengthen the public credit during
the evening session Of Saturday, and that by
very decided vote. The yeas were thirty, nays
sixteen. It has to 60 to the House Of Repre-
sentatives, but as the subject has been well
considered by that body, and as there Is but
small modification in the bill since II was be-
fore the House, there Is no doubt 1t will be-
come law. United States securities abroad
have gone up, doubtless partly on the strength
Of this measure, and as soon as II is known
that tho bill has passed both Houses Of Con-
gress and received the Presidents signature
they will probably advance still higher.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

ECCLESIASTICAL SYNoDs.-For some time
it did seem as If this was to be great
year with the churches. An Ecumenical
Council at Rome in December, an Evan
gelical Alliance meeting in New York in
autumn, and . grand Jewish Synod to be
held somewhere either in the Old World or
the new, promised to make religion the all
absorbing topic Of discussion for some months.
1t now appears that New York is not to be
honored with the Evangelical Alliance folks
this year. We are sorry for this, as We had
set our heart on seeing some Of the great
European doctors. Religious interest will,
therefore, centre in the Ecumenical Council
about to be held in Rome-the first council Of
the kind since that Of Trent, three hundred
years ago. There is no doubt that this coun-
Gil will be held. II the venerable Pontif Is
spared to preside over it-as we hope he may
bet will throw lnstre over the closing years
Of his protracted, checkered, but honorable
reign.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

surrstt Mr.. schade has asked o. the President per
mission TO claim the head and arm OF the deceased
from the Surgeon General. n
The Ftfchburg murder trial In which Robert Pykc
u charged with poisoning his wife. was continued
on Friday. The evidence did not conclusivev
show that MIRA Pyke was poisoned and the pny-
sician charged BY the prosecution 70 examine ner
stomach for poisonous matter was not called az
all The case was closed on the part OF the State
and the defence called the same physician, who
refused 70 appear. cspias was Issued for bis
arrest and the examination was postponed until
Wednesday.
As. Dinah vies ID WIDOW lady living near Nash
vile, Tenn, ia years old. She had been married
three times and draws pension for each one OF her
husbands who au served In the Revolutionary war.
She has 400 descendants OF whom one Is . daughter
aged ninety.
DR.. Chaplin preached yesterday In the Fifth avenue
Unversalist churcn 1.-THE Faith Of the Centurion"
DR.. Cuyler preached on "False and True Chris
tanityn at the South Reformed church on Twentieth
street and Fifth avenue. Bishop Ltttlejohn o1nci-
ated at the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn tSt Bridgets
church, in avenue B, Rev. Father Mooney delivered
sermon on the parable Of ''The Sower and the
Seod.n
The tin box stolen from the Park Bank, Brooklyn,
on Saturday was discovered by children among
some loose hay in basement In Adephi street yes
terday. The bonds were missing, but numerous
other papers or value to the bank and none to the
tnief remained
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
General Robinson, Of the United States Army;
Captain Edward Halle. Of Florida; Charles M Levy,
OF San Francisco; Captain D. Douglass, Of Panama;
Judge James Jones, Of New York; professor Samuel
Gardiner, OF Washington. and Captain Candelot, OF
Paris, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
General Thomas Wilson, OF the United States
Army; Captain Allen Daniels OF Wilmington, N. g..
and Colonel n. Hamlin. OF Elmira, are at the ST.
Charles Hotel
b. o. westerfeld. OF Nashville. and W. p. Becker
OF Montgomery, Ala, are at the Maltby House.
DIR. Wallace OF St. LOUIS; 7. r. Donaldson, OF
Toronto, and E. R. King. OF Quebec, are at the St.
Julien Hotel.
Commander Hughes. OF the United States Navy:
Colonel o. Jones' OF Albany G. .. Frost, OF Detroit;
J. M. Beal. or Boston, and W. Mason, OF Toronto
are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01
THE LATEST "HUMBLE INDIVIDUAL. See
McClure's card.

PRACTICAL RECONSTRUCTION New
berry (S. CO. Herald states that within q
week twenty more immigrants had arrived in
that town and gone to work on the farms
in the neighborhood, and that more are
Immediately expected. 1t is the same with
other towns not only in South Carolina, but
throughout the South. Now is the time for
Northern farm laborers to 60 South. In .
few years they will possess plantations of their
own. As for the owners of the farms in the
South they can sell out at great advantage at
the high prices real estate is ruling now. Go
South and live in almost princely style, with
out undergoing half the drudgery and labor
bestowed upon your own rocky homesteads
to realize scanty livelihood.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01
Sailors Snug Harbor-The Good and the
Evil Of Philanthropy.

Evil Oh fulhauturOpys
There is in our midst an immense estate
perhaps scarcely second in value to the Trinity
Church property-known as the Sailors Snug
Harbor estate. This estate originated in q
modest bequest made long ago by an old sailor
whose heart was gently inclined to any other
old sailor who might need to lay up from the
storms Of life, and who cared more for such
fellow sailors than for any relations he may
have had. His modest bequest has become
vast endowment, through the fact that . great
city has run its principal streets through the
fields he gave. All men will sympathize with
the spirit and motives Of the generous old tar.
AL can see the good he has done, and many
can see possible evil in 1.-THE evil of the
concentration Of property in few hands. Gene
rous men give of what they have charitably
and for the good Of mankind; and for thirty or
forty years the objects they have had in view
are carried out. From that time the manage
ment Of the money falls into the hands Of men
whose principal study is how to do something
else than what the donor wanted done.
In the case Of the Sailors Snug
Harbor it is hardly possible to misunderstood
what Captain Randall left his money for; and
If his thought were acted upon there is hardly
bruised old tar speaking the English Ian
guage but might be laid up in clover at the ex-
pense Of his estate, SO rich has it now become.
Yet in fact that estate does exceedingly
little for the sailor, and does that little grudg
ingly and meanly, at the same time that the
trustees chatter whether they shall have thirty
six thousand dollars or more per annum
ground rent for one small portion of the pro-
perty. At the same time that the old captains
object is defeated, that much of the good he
intended is not done, all the possible evil Of
the concentration of wealth grows worse and
worse, and a practical question arises for the
public whether there should not be limit to
this. We have decided that we will not have
property entailed on heirs because Of this evil,
and why then should we permit II to endowed
institutions? The principle and the danger
are the same.
The New York herald., 1869-03-01

THE LAMPooSERs OF PRESIDENT JonN-
soS.--Those editors and public men who are
80 vilely lampooning President johnson upon
his retirement from Office should remember
that on his return TO Tennessee he may take
q new departure and re-enter the Capitol again
as United States Senator. What sharp
thorn he will be in the sides Of the radicals In
that event. There Is such uaisq ~ vssom
overshooting its mark.