The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-03

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the Mississippi valley in the eheapenng of freigkts
o. That we heartily favor the proposed cession Of
me illinois and Michigan canal and the improve
nents the Illinois river by the State Of Illinois,
and declare that the Erie canal should be made free
az tos therefore, hope for the early success of
| the efforts inaugurated tosecure the results
| The following resolutions supplemental to
the report Of the Committee on Resolutions
| were presented by Mr.. Russell, and adopted:
o. That the commission under the auspices of
which this convention has been called be continued
with the proyiso that its membership be enlarged BY
the selection Of an additional member from each
State represented in tbis body, which additional
member shall be named by the delegates of the re-
spectiye States, said commission to afterward elect
ITS own officers and mature its own organization
7. That the commission, when reorganized con-
tc1nplaed herein, be requested to select two gentle
men from each State to present to Congress the APP
/ peal for the support to the work OF internal i'm
proyeInent which is contemplated by the foregoing
/ resolutions
| A number of resolutions handed to the COM
mlttee were reported back without recommend
| alton and without being read.
i Mr.. Edhussen, of Davenport, read the reso-
| lutions in regard to the continuance of the
i canal commission, which the committee has
/ not considered germane to their work, but
| highly approved of.
/ Sam M. Clark, of Keokuk, moved to adopt
/ the report.
| A delegate from Council Bluffs moved to
include the words and Missouri valley" where
the word " Mississippi occurred,
/ Mr.. Henderson said the committee had been
unanimous throughout, and there had not been
a ripple on the surface to disturb their har-
! mony.
/ Mr.. Starr, of Peoria, wanted something said
about the Copperas Greek and Henry improve
ments in the resolutions.
! Mr. Henderson thought it would do no good
/ Tor the convention to say anything as to the
cession by the State of Illinois to the General
Government of these improvements.
hurry Nelson, of Chicago, moved to lay the
j Missouri valley amendment on the table. The
vote was taken on the amendment direct, and
1t was sustained by a large majority.
Mr.. Starts resolution about Copperas creek
was carried amid some confusion.
The report of the Committee on Resolutions
| was adopted unanimously and the resolutions
offered by Mr.. Russell were also adopted
Mr.. Howard. of Toledo, called up and advo-
Gated the passage of the two resolutions in re-
| gard to Ohio canals.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, opposed the
resolutions as inopportune.
Lieut.. Gov. Campbell of Missouri, favored,
and Mayor Lake, of Minneapolis, opposed the
resolutions as not germane.
Mr.. Grinnell, of Iowa, pleaded for harmony,
and asked the withdrawal of the Toledo reso-
] buttons.
They were voted down by considerable ma
jority.
After passing the customary resolutions OF
courtesy the convention adjourned sine die.
The Average Russian.
As for the Russians being "barbar-
ians," and to a great extent incurably
barbarous, that is position susceptible
of a great deal of argument from many
different points of view. The most ia
miliar, most od c0ptondatne, and per-
haps the most unjust theory is that even
the better educated and refined of Rus
slams are at the very best only coated
with a thin veneer of civilization. The
great master of cynical terseness in ex-
preston, Prince Bismarck, has lent the
immense weight of his celebrity and his
| repute for far-reaching sagacity i'll judg
ing the characters of mankind to be
/ sveneeling" and barbarian hypoth-
| eSls IS his famous d1ctTlm. 1.-THE Rus
sian is capital fellow till he tucks his
shirt in. To understand the tremendous
force of this merciless resume of the
Muscovite character one must have lived
IN Russia. Ivan Ivanovich, the mouiik
peasant, droschky driver, mechanic,
laborer, or what not-wears his shirt
usually red cotton one-outside his
other garments. All those familiar with
Russian humanity know Ivan Ivanovich
to be, on the whole, a "capital fellow. !"
He is frank, brave, generous, affection
ate and docile. He is fervent devotee
OF the grossly idolatrous rights of the
so-Greek Church which some Angli-
can Ritualists are insane enough to think
can, without much difficulty, be brought
into communion with the Church of
England He is grossly ignorant; but
he has the utmost reverence for the
offices of the church, and does not think
the worse of his pope or priest when, in
his village, he is occasionally called
upon to assist in carrying home from the
dramshop the ecclesiastic, dead drunk,
on stretcher. Ivan himself gets tipsy
whenever he has the chance of doing SO:
but he is the best-natured of sots, and
too much beer or vodka scarcely ever
makes him riotous or pugnacious. Inc
briefly the rather incites him to the
shedding of maudlin tears, or to an ex-
cess of piety in expectorating to the
right and left in order to exercise the
devil.
Truthful he can scarcely be said to be.
He has been too recently a slave to be
able to understand the moral crllpability
of telling lie, but he is passing honest.
He is, in fine, "good wood" capable of
being seasoned and fashioned to many
useful purposes, and he is in particular,
industrious, patient and submissive. He
is not very inventive, but he has curl
ously strong initiative faculty, almost
Chinese in its concentration and labori-
GUS fidelity to the thing to be initiated.
Thence he can be taught to be an admi-
rable cabinet-maker, an inlayer, an
EVANGELIST, a pottery painter, and worker
in metals. Similarly his womankind are
the most skillful Of embroiderers. He is
very domesticated and very fond of his
children, although he occasionally
thrashes his wife. Of strong liquor, as l
have limited, he is passionately fond;
otherwise he is content to live on the
simplest and coarsest fare. White bread
he seldom tastes; "brick tea" is, after
corn brandy, his favorite beverage; half
picked ogurts, or dwarf cucumbers, en-
ter largely into his diet, and with bad
drainage, help to give him typhus and
the cholera; and he can sleep anywhere
the top of a stove is his most chosen
resting place quite Indifferent as to
bed-clothes. There is no drawer soldier
than Ivan Iyanovich when he is drawn
for the CONSUMPTION, and cropped and
shaven, and put into hodden-gray
gaberdine, with a spiked helmet on his
head and a rife in his band. -EcchGa1ge.
Walking Horses.
Running the risk of being set down as
an old fogy, we viii say that in orr opin-
ion the best gait horse ever had for
everyday use is a walk; but it is a gait
that not one in ten possesses. Colts
are not trained to walk. Young Ameri-
ca wants more speed. Horses trained
to walk fast would be a greater benefit to
farmers in general than fast trotters, as
almost all of his work has to be done
with walk. Horses that are engaged
in hauling on the roads, that are trained
| to walking fast, viii make longer dis
lance IN day than horses viii that are
urged to trot at every convenient place,
because, when a horse commences to
walk after a trot, he.will gomuch slower
than his common gait if kept on a walk,