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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
CALHOUN, JACKSON, CLAY AND WEBSTER.

A writer in Appleton's Journal, who gives
interesting sketches entitled Sittings with
Powers the Sculptor" relates the following, as
told him by Powers:
| When John G.. Calhoun was sitting to me,
knew very we'll that he and Jackson hated each
other; but ventured to ask him one day, if he
believed that the President had actually writ
ten a very able message which had just ap-
peared over his signature. every line of it,
SIR he said, "was his inspiration, and contains
his sentiments. 1t may have been put into its
literary form by secretary; but nobody un
derstands American politics better than Gen.
Jackson. He has an iron memory, and has his
own opinions on all American subjects"
The subject of chronological indications
came up Mr.. Powers said: do not know
how far the science may be true, but there are
certainly very striking condolences between
many chronological signs and the character of
those who bear them. Take the great devel-
Opment over the eyebrows, where the percep-
tive faculties are placed by phrenologists l
think | have never known a public man of
striking insight into the popular will who had
not protuberant brOws Jackson, who knew
the popular heart instinctively, and owes his
reputation to his power of expressing it, and
marked perceptive organs. Henry Clay, who
played in his speeches upon the latent thoughts
and feelings of his audience and seemed to
mould them, only because he was first moulded
by them, had the same striking indication in
his brow. Mr.. Calhoun, who understood the
Southern heart completely, was of great per.
ceptve faculty, and 1t was stamped on his FORE
head but. unhappiy he kept his fingers on the
Gnutharn n,tlSa nplv and faila1 fn faal tha
Northern wrist, and so he lost the benefit of
his insight Mr. Webster had no marked de-
velopmeut of the perceptive faculties. His
general reason prevailed over his special in
sight or close natural sympathy with the popu-
lar will. He was absorbed by his argument
ard wrapped up in principles He spoke with
all his power and logic, with little reference to
the immediate feelings of his hearers and thus
lost power as a shaper and exponent of Ameri-
can will. Everett, who was equally deficient
in this special genealogical indication, could
not carry the sympathles of the common peo-
pie, whom he did not lnstinctlvely understand.
He won admiration and respect, but could not
lead the people
Mr. Calhoun SAID jackson was great
actor. The people thought him bluff frank.
outspoken and impulsive and liked him for
those qualities. But he often assumed anger,
when he was calm as a clock, for effect-eSpe-
cially when he thought himself right. But
when unable to defend his position in argu-
ment, where, for want Of training and words,
he was often weak, he resorted to rage, and
frightened his antagonists by the vehemence
and violence of affected passion. When una
BILE to answer argument, he often dismissed
them in this very summary and very effective
way"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

MORE BLUNDEEING.-J. Ross Browne, late
Minister to China, returned to San Francisco
with his family by last steamer from China II
seems that no word was sent 10 him OF the
decIlnatlon of Howard of Michigan, who re-
cercd the appointment to the place, and he
left China with the impression that his success
sor was on his way out TO assume duty. A
San Francisco dispatch says:
Browne is much chagrncd at being compel
led To break of work on which he was making
such satisfactory progress, but feels that to re-
turn now on an uncertainty would place him
in an equiyocal position with the Chinese Gov
ernmcnt, whose officials would look upon him
as not in the confidence of the Government
from which he was accredited.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

SERIOUS CHARGES. A Washington dis
patch of May 18th says that Wood, the detect
i've, in circular published to day, charges that
during the Impeachment trial, Secretary Bout
well, through the Rev. Mr.. Matchett, offered
him $4,000 for certain information to be used
against Johnson. Wood also asserts that he
can prove that Secretary Boutwell, has used
half million dollars in irregular and fraudulent
purposes since he has had charge of the Treas
ury, in trying to influence elections in the
Southern States
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.

Alderman Mackey, of Charleston, South
Carolina, the noted high Free Mason, in a late
speech, paid the following beautiful tribute to
the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. He said:
When the ploughshare of war had marked
your streets with it's red furrows, these good
women moved by day and night amid the name
less horror of your prisons and hospitals, bear
ing food for the furnishing body, and words of
comfort and of healing for the stricken soul
10 the Sisters of Mercy it mattered not Wheth
er the sufferers were cloven down beneath the
bars, while striking with a courage that rose
more resplendent az the cause 1t maintained
grew more hopeless, or whether they fell while
upholdlng the starry symbol of our cOuntry's
sovereignty; but saw in them only the human,
and made them all one under the banner of the
Cross! They shrank not from the path of duty
during the four years siege of this devoted
city. The shot and shell of the untiring be-
sleger-shattering that they might reach, and
reaching that they might shatter-spared not
the roof that sheltered these apostles of hui
manity, but in their pltiless and tar-reachng
flight involved the innocent and the guilty as
victims III the same common calamity! Yet
when many of the brave soldiers of that be-
seging army fell into your hands by the ever
varying fortunes Of war, these Sisters of Mer-
cy were the first to minister to their wants
like the sandal tree, that breathes out fragrance
10 the axe that fcllS it,
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

SHARP HIT.-In condemnation of the mod
ern style of the President and the members OF
the Cabinet having pleasure excursions on
Government steamers, at enormous expense
to the people, the New York Sun, Republican
organ, says:
In despotc governments, like that of France,
the Emperor goes about in public vessels just
as he likes, but in this country we prefer a
different system; and the President and Sec
retary of the Navy will do we'll to remember it
i'm future
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

KEEN BILLIAKDS.-A match game of bill
liards, four ball-carom, 1000 points, discount
was played at Norwich, Connecticut, a fcn
days ago, between Melvin Foster Of New Lon.
don, and George Stone of Norwch-Fostcr
discounting Stone-ior stake not named
Stone played first, and made a run of nineteen.
Foster then started in, soon got the balls in a
corner where lie could nurse them, and in
400 shots made his 1000 points and finished
the game in a single run of IS minutes. He
made only two push shots, and a billiard critic
pronounccs Fosters performance 10 have been
the cleanest, neatest, most precise crotch
work he ever saw
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
STILL PELTfNG GRANT-One of the last

STILL PELTfNG GRANT.-One of the last
filings of Wendell Phillips at Grant is this:
What have we for President! A Jockey and
seaside lounger; a restless boy, needing con-
stdntly to be amused, and 50 impatient of busi-
ness that he cannot stay at his post more than
a week at a time. Five months in office, he
has not yet given us an administration. But,
posting copyisg clerk here and there, to keep
TIE machine in motion, he hurries off to idle a
week at watering place, act Dummy at a
monster show, or Helpless at steamboat ex-
cursion. The Presidency must, indeed, be a
sinecure IT, in such an hour as this, man,
bred in camp and a tan yard can properly
discharge its duties three hundred miles from
the Capitol, in the Intervals of the race-course
and the half hours left after theatres and con.
certs
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

JOIN QUINCY ADAMS Of Boston, grand son
OF the "old man eloquent IN 4 conversation
with correspondent Of the New York Sun,
Dana's Republican paper, a short time ago,
spoke of Gen. Grant, and of the estimation he
is held in by the Radicals Of New England, as
follows
They are in terrible fix They are morti-
fled, ehagrlned, disgusted with their President,
and don't know how to help themselves They
can't control him; nobody can control him {;
and he has no political ability to control him.
self. He is out of his element in the Execu-
tive Office and feels it. State matters are
bore to. him. Statesmen and politicians are
not concenlal companions to him. He dislikes
their conversation and shuns it, thus shutting
himself out from the advice ana information Il
President always needs. He prefers the com
panionshlp of horse jockeys aud retired mer-
chants, who have plenty of money to spend
but who know nothing of public affairs and
care less.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

Hon. JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, late of the Con-
federate Cabinet, but now of England, has, at.
ter two years. appearance at the British bar,
been made Queens Counsel, an honor almest
without precedent in the promptitude of its
bestowal. Aside from making HIM the senior
counsel in whatever cases he may be employed
the promotion will considerably add to his
emoluments Being on the Liverpool and
Manchester circuit he will be retained in COM
mercial litigations of Importance.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
THE MONEY PANIC IN SAN FRANCISCO

The recent very stringent money pressure in
San Francisco was caused by the action OF
Secretary Boutwell, and Gen. Grant They re.
moved the officers of the Branch Mint in that
city, to give place to new appointees of their
own. A change OF officers would cause a sus-
pension of business in the Mint, and that would
create very severe financial pressure In
view of these facts the San Francisco Cham
Der of Commerce and many leading men of
the Republican party in that city, telegraphed
to Grant and Boutwell, an urgent but cOurte-
Gus request, praying that the change of Off
GERS should be deferred for Il short time, in
order that preparations against the threatened
pressure could be made, and 50 that the panic
would be avoided. The officers to be removed
were all Republicans; those appointed to take
their places were Republicans therefore no
actual party ground existed to hasten the
change; and it was simply a scramble for mere
spolls between the individuals directly inter-
ested. Bya postponement the public interests
would be vastly benefitted and the only loss
TO any would be that felt by the new appointees.
10 enforce the change would seriously distract
the finances not only of the city but of the
whole coast, and, perhaps, cause disaster or
rum to many. The whole question was pre-
sented to Grant and Boutwell,, and to their
their shame be it said, in the face of all the
facts; In spite of the respectful and very ur-
gent request Of the Chamber Of Commerce
and of prominent Republicans; and against
every principle OF right aud justice to the pco-
pie of this whole coast they two, the Pros-
dent and his Secretary OF the Treasury, dsre-
garded facts, petitions and the public veal,
merely TO crafty their own desire to put in
tayorItes OF their own, and perrmptoriaIy or
derrd the change TO be immediately made
he consequences. as predicted, are row be.
ing sorcly realized among all classes of busi
ness men, and in greater or lesser degree by
persons of every other walk in lfc. The whole
affair reveals that President Grant ard Srcre-
tary Boutwell, think more of putting their parti-
san iavortes IN positions than they do of sub
serving the important Interests of the people.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

TIE King Of Prussia has ordered that the
victory of Sadowa, over the Austrans, shall no
more be celebrated. Now, let Victoria pro-
hibit celebrations of the Irish Orange victo-
rles, and the people of the United States cease
the celebration of victories, on either side, of
the civil war, and show a spirit equally praise
worthy with the Prussian King.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

JAMES JAMESON was convicted in Monta-
ma, Aug 9th, of stealing treasure box OF
Wells, Fargo & Co, containing $4,000 in gold
dust, from n stage on the night of July 18th,
and sentenced to three years confinement in
the penitentiary. .Jamisson moved for new
trial, and sentence was suspended to await the
issue
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
GOLD PAP'S" NEGRO.-We clip the follow.

ing from late St Louis paper:
Missouri City. Clay county, n few days since,
came very near being the scene of a serious
riot, in consequence of an attempt on the part
of about a dozen negroes to force out of town
n colored man named William Price, who was
formerly owned by Gen. Stirling Price, and
was his body servant during the war. "Old
Pap's" faithful adherent refused to be banished,
and the affair was finally settled by the inter
vention of the Town Marshal, who marched
the ringleader off to Jail. And 1.-The colored
troops fought nobody"
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

YARMOUTH, of Louisiana, proposes to mi.
CRATE back to his native Illinois, when his car.
pet-bag Governorship comes to AT end pro.
viding certain indictments expire by the stat
ute of Limitations in time
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
JONAS w. BROWN.

Trsr-CE or THE PEACE FOR IDAHO CITY
i ..s.nc,. Also Notary Public, and Attorney AZ
r. Bls.GeSs in every Court in Idaho promptly
.7t D. aat particular attention given to collec-
-~,s gT-1..ce IN the brick building corner Of
t,-.-,..=ry and Commercial streets.
Ii ~, July Is, lSG9-u
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

JOHN mitchell, the Irish patriot, has caused
the arrest of Gen. Dix on the charge of the al
legged imprisonment in Fortress Monroe of
Mitchell during the summer of 1865, and he
sues for $4,000 damages Dix gave bail of
900 to answer the charge.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

A BOY. thirteen years of age, recently re-
ceived at Warsaw fifty lashes for having shout
ed on the public promenade, in the Polish Ian
guage: "Long live free Poland" After being
fogged the poor little fellow was sent to the
house of refuge in Moscow, where he will be
enrolled as private in the army az soon as he
10 seventeen years old.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

GEN. SHERIDAN has had conferred upon him
by Vermont College the degree of Doctor of
Laws When Sheridan administers upon civil
law it will be very dead
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
SC,yIKER Il BURMESTER.

rr1RNErS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW
| Tju attend 10 legal business III all the Courts
= Territory Prompt attention given to collec-
-, Office in Boise CITY. nltf
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

GEORGE PEABODY has donated 100000 to
establish an additional Professorship in Wash
ington College, Virginia, of which Gen. Lee is
President.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

HENRY VETTERs, miner of French gulch,
Deer Lodge, Montana, was killed q few weeks
ago by the caving of bank of bis claim.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

A NEGRO with nine wives is under arrest at
Nashville. Why not send him and his wives to
Salt Lake,
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

AMONG the many lodges to elude the Mas
sachusetts liquor law is that of woman in
Taunton, who keeps her whiskey in teakettle
on the stove.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
SAN'L 4. MERRITT,

rr0GNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. OF
| 3.e on Commercial street, second door above
,,1gr: house. nlu.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

AN old woman in Owen county, Kentucky
has been indicted by the grand jury for witch.
craft
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

AINSLIE S FOOTE.

-1o2yEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. IDA.
/ b Ctr. Patents obtained for mining lodes,
'--.: a:. &: Congress Of July 2G. lsG6. OFFICE-On
7-- s:,s., opposite Andrews x Co.'S store. nltf.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
Rates OF Advertising:
Hrpfgssipnal Garas.
y,yryER, BURMESTER & EDMoNDsoN,
IDAHO CITY, BOISE COUNTY, I. T.

~T0RNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW.
! Ilsbo City, l. T. will practice in all the Courts
y - Territory. Offices in Idaho City and Boise
-~ May -, '69qy.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02

A Complete Stock Of staple and Fancy
Groceries kept by ECKHART SAUNDERS.
The New York herald., 1869-04-05

MUoH LABOR AND SMALL RESULTS. The
Legislature, which has been In session now
nearly sixty working days, has had before it for
consideration an average Of q hundred bills a
day. OF these only about one for each day has
become law. This is small result Of SO much
work and time. In the remainder Of the scs-
sion there will doubtless be as many more bills
acted upon, in one way or another; but as
hundreds Of the new ones as well as the old
will come under the title of special Legislation,
they must come also under the ban of Cover
nor Hoffman, who will dispose Of them sum-
marly. The sunshine Of May is likely to
enlivea the earth before the present session
expires.
The New York herald., 1869-04-05

SING SING AND THE ALBANY PENITRN-
TIARY.-In spite of the opposition to the en-
ployment of convicts at mechanical labor, the
bill proposing to transfer hundred convicts
from Sing Sing Prison to the Albany Penitcn-
tiary has passed the Legislature. There are
many reasons why this measure should be
adopted. First, the State Prison is crowded
far beyond Its capacity or its means Of keep
ing the inmates in proper subsection. Again,
the late disgraceful scene enacted there, ter
minating in the death of an unfortunate pri-
soner, although the Coroner's jury could find
no murder in it, has not escaped public cen
sure, and proclaims loudly against the bad
discipline Of that prison. Lastly, thero is
plenty Of accommodation in the Penitentiary,
which is reputed to be the best managed iosti-
tuition Of the kind in the country. The fact
that tho convicts so transferred may be en-
gagged to aid the contract system which pre-
walls in the Albany Prison, to the detriment
Of the mechanical classes, is poor argument
against the voice of humanity. Let hundred
convicts, then, or five hundred, If necessary,
be sent from the overcrowded den at Sing
Sing to more convenient and safe keeping st
Albany.
The New York herald., 1869-04-05
Tho Merchants nud tho Postal Telegraph.

Tho Merchants md tho Postal Telegraph
The growth Of commerce Is vitality depen-
dent upon facilities for the communication OF
intelligence and the distribution Of merchan-
disc. To this is owing the striking fact,
everywhere Witnessed among civilized nations,
that while population increases, we will say,
in arithmetical ratio, trade augments in geo.
metrical ratio. This Ggure Of speech may
perhaps convey little more than we mean;
but every well informed merchant will admit
tho fact that within the field of his personal
experience, while population may have at
most doubled, trade with the same locality has
increased in somo fourlold, in some tenfold
and in some even hundred-fold; and this
result il owing to facilities OF supply and ro-
turn under the rule of steam and electricity.
II is in consonance with this known law
that the advantages which tho proposed
scheme Of a postal telegraph holds out to
trade are of vital interest and importance to
every merchant. Tho proposition, as sct
forth in the scheme now before the Committee
on Post Offices aud Post Roads Of the Senate,
Is not sufficiently broad and comprehensive in
its plan to meet o truly American view OF the
needs and abilities Of our future; but under
the light thrown upon the question by discuss
sion In the press the legislative mind has
made great progress, and we do not doubt
that II will advance still further in the right
direction IL proposly assisted and stimulated
by the 1.-Two merchants of the day. The pre-
sent proposition is TO transmit letters by tcle-
graph at the rate Of one cent per word for
every five hundred miles. This limit has the
twang of the Old World, not the spirit of the
New, in IL. Five hundred miles to tho
European Is vast space. II carries him far
beyond The boundaries of his own country
into the unknown regions of foreign lands.
But to an American five hundred miles 10
nothing. II Is only our next door ncighbor.
We have letters from him every day Of yester-
days date. What we want Of the postal tele-
graph Is to get letters from those who arc be-
yond him-a thousand miles, two thousand
miles, three thousand miles away and on OPEN
The New York herald., 1869-04-05

TEXAS AFFAIRS IN CONGRESS. The Recon-
struction Committee have closed the argument
in the case of the contending delegations from
Texas, and may soon be expected to report
From the testimony Of the a6 iaitio delegates,
who oppose the voting on the constitution in
July and clamor for division of the State, it
seems that they have no objection to the
constitution itself, nor do they think the pre-
sent time the right one to make the division Of
the State; but they want everything to be set
aside because they did not succeed in ruling
the recent republican convention in Texas.
On the other hand, General Hamilton and
large number of the Texas republicans claim
that everything has been obtained that Is
really desired, and ask that they be permitted
to reconstruct government there. The
response Of their opponents is that the consti-
tuition does not disfsanchise enough persons in
the State. Our idea is that If republican
form of government can be secured only by
sweeping disfranchisement the people il must
be very curious and contradictory republic.
The New York herald., 1869-04-05

OPENING A SAFE.-That was queer scene
in financial story that transpired the other
day in front Of the safe Of the Pacific Railroad
Company, where sledge hammers, drills and
muscle came in as part Of the material of an
argument between bankers. Strange have
been the changes that have taken place in the
experience of men endeavoring to secure valu-
ablcs. The earliest ''bank' was cave near
the city, and the city funds and valuables were
made safe therein by the mere weight of the
stone that closed tho mouth of the cave.
Thieves did not go in strength to move it, and
the citizens did. From that original, by way
of all the devices and tricks Of locks and keys,
VIC seem TO have come again to the mere re-
sistance aud dead weight of matter.