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Year: 1868

At meeting held in Jefferson City on
Saturday evening, to protest against the
Metropolitan Police Bill, resolutions were
adopted informing the Legislature that it
must at once repeal the unjust and heinous
law, and that the time had now arrived
when forbearance isno longer virtue,


Here is the language in which they
pledge themselves to resist the law:


We, the white people of the parish of
Jefferson, in mass meeting assembled, do
pledge ourselves to protect our homes by
resisting, by every means, the installation
of D. c. Woodruff as the Chief of Police of
the city of Jefferson, or the enforcement of
the so-called Metropolitan police bill.
Year: 1868

We publish in another column an ac.
count of the murder If Henry Pope
sheriff, and Valentine Chase, parish Judge
of st. Mary. We also reprint a series Of
extracts from the Banner, the Democratic
organ in Franklin. The circumstances sur
rounding these cOwardly assassinatlons,
together with the barbarous spirit exhibited
by the Banner, show that the people of st.
Mary are subjected to fearful reign of
terror.


We would be glad to learn, before COM
menting further upon these fearful murders,
to what extent the people of that parish
approve the tone of the paper whose incen
diary articles have, 70 doubt, contributed to
these sad results, and how far the people
intend to go in expressions of disapproval
of the outrages committed, and in effort to
bring the perpetrators of the dark deeds to
merited punishment.
Year: 1868

We find the following item going the
rounds Of the Northern press. We copy
for the information Of those concerned and
the rest Of mankind:


General Steedman recently addressed q
Democratic nesting at New Orleans, at
which there were two significant Transparent
cies. On one was, go home, you carpet
Dagger On the other 4 No internal
revenue" The satire on loyalty was com
plete, Steedman being carpet-bagger and
Collector Of Internal Revenue.
Year: 1868

A meeting Of the State Central Commit
tee of the Republican party will be held at
the Mechanics Institute, tomorrow even
ing at seven o'clock. As important busi-
ness will be transacted, it is desirable that
a full attendance be had. is 'ia
Year: 1868

The PhGRir has the following letter from
Judge Poland, and written in response to an
invitation to deliver an address to the Grant
and Colfax Club of Battleboro, on his return to
Vermont, during the Congressional vacation


WAsHSGroS, D. C., July u, 1865.
Ny Dear SRI received yours tonight.
shall be most happy to accept your kind invita-
tion to speak to my Brattleboro friends. 1t Is
very doubtful, however, if | am able 10.


am very glad to see you moving. of course
we know Vermont is safe, but that Is not all We
ought to do, to give our votes for the candidates
Of the party. Vermont Is the first State to vote
and 1t Is all important that We increase our vote.
1t Is an indication Of the popular sentiment that
VIII have great effect in other States that are
not 30 certain As Vermont In this way we can
multiply our vote tenfold Vermont ought to
give thirty thousand majority. If all our people
would turn out and vote there would not be the
slightest trouble in doing it. If we would DO it.
believe We should settle the Presidential elec-
ton in our section. \ falling oft in our vote
would have a disastrous effect If our people
could all feel and see the Importance Of this it
would be done. Set the ball rolling intend
to do what l can when get home Have your
papers urge this view upon our good Vermont
people


In haste, your truly,


L. P. POLAND
Year: 1868

How VOTERS ARE MADE.-A New York city
letter in the Boston Journal says


The politicians in New York frequently boast
that they can roll up any desirable majority
when it is known before hand how large that ma
iOrity need be- 4 fact or two will show how vo-
tiers are made 1t came to the knowledge of the
police officers that an unnaturalized citizen was
on the police. He was sent for and ordered to
produce his naturalization papers. On the face
they were all right. His papers bore the broad
seal of the Supreme Court of New York. By
these papers he had been registered and was a
voter in the city. The papers showed that he
had been in New York three years. The facts
showed that he had been in the country less
than year that he had never been before any
Court that his papers were a forgery and his
voting fraud. The authorities tell me that
over 10000 Illegal votes are cast every season.
1t would not be strange if $4,000 were manu-
factured to give the State to Seymour. Not long
since member Of the Common Council called On
an lrishman and told him that Alderman --
wanted to see him at the City Hall. Hewent uI
and found the distinguished official sitting at hii
desk in the Aldermen's chamber. He handed
the lrishman paper of naturalization, com
pletely filled out with the seal of the Court upon
Year: 1868

Among the stated number Of bona tide appli-
cants for employment at the Castle Garden
labor exchange are large numbers not counted.
These non-recorded may be classed as fellows -
Those who attend from day to day ostensibly for
the purpose Of obtaining employment. bat who
persistently refuse fair offers, demanding ex-
travagant wages, or for some other frivolous
reasons; and those who drop in at the Labor
Exchange from time to time asking for clerical
appointments, or for some select situation, and
who depart in disgust when informed that the
chances for such kind of employment are very
scarce, but that their services will be greatly
needed in some other less elevated position; and
those who pay hurried visits at the Office, do
clining to remain and to wait for an employer,
but offering to leave their cards, with the re-
quest that they may be notified whenever salt
able place can be found for them; and those who
restlessly swarm in and out of the Labor Ex.
change, continually importuning its officials fol-
employment, but who are never at hand wher
! they are wanted
Year: 1868

IHE HEIpLEBERG TUN.-ln the vaults Of
the Heidelberg castle is the famous wine tun,
the largest in the world, &c feet long and p
feet high, holding 500 hogsheads or 2S3 900
bottles. Upon the top of this huge structure
is Il dancing floor, from which pumps extend
into the Interior to suck up the contents.
When the vintage was all in, in those old
days so famous in German history, the Elect
ors held a great banquet, and the guests
danced over the new pressed vintage. They
were Jolly parties, no doubt, and probably
the dancers were not careful how often they
tasted of the wine. There was something
beautiful in thus conscrating the new vintage
by great demonstrations of JOY. How | wish
the huge tun was now filled with one Of those
celebrated vintages of three hundred years
ago, with spider webs carpeting the surface
and covering the heavy slaves. But the king
would own 1t, and the king would not let me
drink such rare old wine!


Among the old pictures preserved in the
castle is q portrait in oil Of the man who
built this monster cask. 1t is a curious face
to study-large, rotund, " red and Jolly,
with an uniathomable depth of good nature
in the eyes and mouth that tells of capa-
cious stomach They have forgotten his name
and the artist neglected to put his own upon
his work 50 | conclude that the face was
50 like the wine tun that the portrait, when
found, was at once supposed to be that Of
the man who built it. What sorry figure
be must have cut dancing on the vintage
with his great corpulent body, and holding a
1 glass of the red wine above his head, as was
then the fashion


A bevy of rats and mice ran out of this ca
/ pacious receptacle as | struck it with my canC
/ and ascended to the top to walk on the dane
ing floor. They are fast eating up the tim
Der of which it is built, and it will never be
filed with wine again. OF all the vintage
of the Neckar and the Rhine there is not a
present enough kept by the growers to fl
such cask. America buys t and pays lib
orally. So it is shipped over the sea, an,
some of it to other parts of Europe, instea,
OF being kept to dance upon. The Declara
ton of Independence had never been though
OF and Boston was wilderness when the oil
"ine-growers thus put away their wine.


How everything has changed since Americ
grew rlch enough to consume the products c
Europe We buy all their wine, and leav
them none TO dance upon in Heidelberg.


French rar+lap,a, c..
Year: 1868

OAn ms SOhAOOA " LII 0s'


There is such school as this, and |
very good scholars it makes. They |
cannot read or write, but they can
sing. They sing a few simple notes,
like the small linnets you may hear in
the fields; but after they are taught
they will whistle regular tunes.


Last summer l was at a friends |
house at Nahant. rose early in the
morning, and went down stairs to walk
on the piazza. While there ] heard, as l
thought, some person whistling tune
in very sweet style. 1 looked around,
but could see no one. Where could the
sound come FRONT l looked up and
saw a little bird in cage. The cage
was hung in the midst of flowers aud
twining plants. "Can it be" thought ],
'fhat such little bird as that has been
taught to sing a regular tune SO
sweetlyl" ! did not know what to
make of it. When my friend came
down stairs she told me that it was
indeed the little bird who had whistled
the sweet tune. Then my friend cried
out to the bird, "Come, Bully, Bully,
sweet little Bullfnch, give us just one
more tune" And then this dear little
bird hoped about the cage, looked at
its mistress, and whistled another sweet
tune. 1t was SO strange to hear a
bird whistle a regular tune SNOW
Bully" said my friend, "you must
lgive us Yankee Doodle Come,
come, you shall have some nice fresh
seed if you will whistle 'Yonkee Doc
de- And the little thing did whistle
it much to my surprise. ''rr ia ''s q


NY friend then told me that she had
brought the bird from the little town
of Funda, in Germany, where there
are little schools for teaching these
birds to sing. When a bullfnch has
Learned to sing two or three tunes he
is worth from forty to sixty dollars;
/ for he will bring that price in France
or England. 4 Great skill and patience
are needed to teach these birds. Few
teachers can have the time to give to
the children under their charge so
much care as these bird teachers give
to their bird pupils. The birds are
put into classes Of about six each, and
| kept for some time in a dark room.


Here, when their food is given them,
they are made to hear music, 30 that
when they have eaten their food or
when they want more food, they viii
sing, and try to initiate the tune they
have just heard. This tune they prob
ably connect with the act of feeding.


As soon as they begin to initiate few
notes, the light is let into the room, and
this cheers them still more and makes
them feel as though they would like to
sing. In some of these schools, the


birds are not allowed either light OF
food till they begin to sing, These are
the schools where the teachers are
most strict After being thus taught
in classes, each bullfnch is put under
the care of boy, who plays his or
gan from morning till night while the
master or mistress of the bird school
goes round to see low the pupils are
getting on. The bullGnches seem to
know at once when they are scolded,
and when they are praised by their
master or mistress; and they like to be
petted when they have done well.
The training goes on for nine months
and then the birds have got their edu-
cation, and are sent to England OF
France, and sometimes to America to
be sold.-Ihe Nursery.
Year: 1868

At Cincinnati, few years since, an
unsophisticated darky waited upon q
military gentleman with bill Of Sl9.15
for washing done at the camp hospital,
which, after undergoing rigorous
scrutiny by the officer, was returned tc
him with the following explanation,
which the astonished son of Ethiopis
listened to with an equal amount ool
wonder and perplexity. iz


"This bill" said the military gentle
man, twill first haHe to be sent to the
Quartermaster General at Washington,
and he will report to. the Adjutant
General, and he will lay it before the
Secretary of War for his approval.
The Adjutant being satifed, it will be
sent to the Auditor of State, who will
approve of it and send it to the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, who will send !. to
the United States Treasurer, who will
at once dispatch an order to the Col
lector of this port to pay the BILL"


The dsrkey relieved himself of a
long drawn sigh. "Then, massa," he
remarked, "dat last gemblam you spoke
to, pays for de washing, does hel"


"No," continued the other, "he will
hand it to the Quartermaster; but as
there are is no such officer here at pres
ent, some proper person must be appoin-
ted by the Secretary of War, under
direction of the President and his
appointment must be approved by the
Senate. Congress not being in session
now, the commission cannot be issued
until after it meets. When this com
mission is received, the Quartermaster
will show it to the Collector; he will
pay it, you giving your receipt"


The unfortunate negro first scratched
his head, and finally said;


81 guess I'll hab to let dis washing
slide, but it am the last job l does for
Uncle Sam, shure." m @
Year: 1868

During the year 1865 an old soldier,
named Lemuel Owens, was discharged
from the arsenal in this city owing to
some very abrupt reply he gave to a
selfappointed Committee who were
sounding him upon his politics.


As Owens had served twenty-six
years in the regular army, and had
wound up his term of service on the
Peninsula, under Mcclellan, he would
allow no man to question his right to
vote, and boasted too, that he had
served in the Fourth Infantry, under
Grant, when the renowned chieftsiu
was but Lieutenant


He told the committee he would go
and see General Grant himself about
the matter. They jokingly replied /:
"Do so old fellow; he'll make it all
right" General Grant was temporarily
living at Twentieth and Chestnut
Year: 1868

One night as old st. Peter slept,


He left the door of Heaven ajar, 9J
When through little angel crept, -f
And came down with falling star. ~,
One summer, as the blessed beams
-H1 OF morn approached, my blushing bride,
Awakened from some pleasing dreams,


And found that angel by her side.
God grant but this-I ask no more


That when he leaves this world Of pain,
He'll wing his way to that bright shore,


And find the gate OF Heaven again.
Year: 1868

IMPEACHMENT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
A puny effort to displace Major Poe, Chief
of Police, was made by Alderman Powers
on yesterday, who brought charge against
him before the grand jury of malfeasance
in Office. The accusation was that Major
Poe had released from arrest Mrs Anna o.
Russell, the mother of the girl concerned
in the recent prosecution against Captain
Roche. The question being referred to Mr..
Daniel, he gave as his opinion that Major
Poe could not be held responsible for Mrs.
Russell until at the call of the grand jury
for her appearance. Until that time he
could confnc the prisoner wherever he
should chose. OF course no notice was
taken of the charge, and it ended where it
began in empty nothingness.
Year: 1868

The President asks to be allowed to make
q personal explanation. The motion to cor
rect the journal, which has been just dis
pose,i Of, permits him to say that the COM
mentary upon his course in the Council IN


the State Journal, referring to his official
ruling in question respecting the appoint
mept Of proxies to represent the city in the
meetiug Of stockholders of the Chesapeake
Year: 1868

The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
as cutter at Mr. Cones Merchant Tailoring hs-
tablishment, would inform his friends and the
citizens Of Rock Island and vicinity, that he has
opeped New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose of manufacturing to order first
class fine custom work to those that have been 10
the habit Of getting their garments cut by US,
while at Mr. Cones, we would extend an invita-
ton to call on US at our new establishment, ana
to those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and are in the habit of sending east for their gar
ments we would invite them to call ana give us
trial, feeling confident that we can suit them IN
every respect. We have handsome assortment
Of fine Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestngs, together
with large variety of splendid French Coatings
and Tricots in different shades and coors for hhe
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
eolors, for overcoats-all of which we will make
to order in the best and most fashionable manner
at lower rates than the same class Of goods can be
obtained on either side Of the river. Call and
examine our styles, and compare our goods aud
prices with those engaged in the same business.


THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,


North side of Third Street. near the Post Othoe,


Davenport, Iowa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


n. b. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. oy29dly
Year: 1868

THE REPUBLICAN Congressional Committee
are now sending out documents at the rate Of
10000 per day, and by the end of the campaign
they will have distributed about six millions.
Many OF these are original documents COM
piled tby Colonel r. J. Hinton and Joseph
Warren.
Year: 1868

STEAM CANAL BoATs.-A new plan OF over
coming the difficulties that have hitherto pre-
vented the adoption of steam as a propellln e
power on canals, which Is likely to revolution :
lze the present system of inland navigation,
was tried successfully al New York, a few
days since, by party OF gentlemen connected
with transportation companies, in presence of
some members OF the press. The invention, I,
which was attached TO the propeller General
SIegei, consists OF an ordinary screw n xed in a
protecting frame, ut attached, not } the shaft.
but TO knuckle of iron between the end of the
shaft and the screw blades. BY this arrange.
ment the screw IL made TO serve as rudder
and responds readily to the movement OF the
wheel. The General Siegel made several com.
plete turns in her own length during the trip,
and caused no greater disturbance in the water
an than would an ordinary sailing vessel and
Tar less than a canal boat fitted with large un /.
wleldy rudders. As q test Of the value OF the
Invention for steering purposes the experiment
was perfectly successful and proved that the
chief objection Il the Introduction OF steam on
our canals-the washing and wearing OF the
banks-eOuld no longer apply. The Philadel.
pbIa Esportation and Freight Company,
which has received very liberal charter from
the Pennsylvania Legislature, is building a
number of canal boats to be fitted with this in
yention and run by steam between the coal
regions and Washington, and Washington and
New York The boats will be 100 feet long bv
Il feet wide, and will carry 10 tons of freight.
Year: 1868

Jax says that if man feels
much like getting married, yet
imagines he ought not to, the best
remedy he knows is to help one
of his neighbors to a house full
of furniture-borrow about nine
of his children and hear them cry.
If that fails, build up fire out Of
damp wood and when the smoke
in the room is thickest, hire wo-
man to scold him about four hours.
If he can stand all these, he had
better get married next day-give
his wife the pants and be the Isl
lent partner" in the great firm of
matrimony. The remedy is Sc
we're, but as every man is liable to
these things after he yokes himself;
it would do no harm to try it be-
fore.
Year: 1868

A very talkative little girl used
often to annoy her mother BY
making remarks about visitors
that came to the house. On one
occasion a gentleman was eXpec;
tod whose nose had been accident
allv aattened nearly to his face
The mother cautioned the child to
saw nothing about this feature
Imagine her CONSERVATION when
the, little one quietly exclaimed
ana. you told me not to say any
+b;ng about Mr.. Smiths nose
WHY. he hasn't got any!
Year: 1868

A murderer who was recently
executed in Idaho, assembled the
scaffold with a smile on his face.
An editor in the town, describing
the scene, says: ''But then it
should be understood that the
culprit had but recently married
a widow with eight children"
Year: 1868

An ingenious cobbler, says an
exchange, who is known as a man
Of few words, whose conversation


rarelyextends beyond monosyllar


bles, and who is very provident
even of them, hit upon the follow


ing plan to save expense in paint
ing all the letters of "Shoe Shop"
Year: 1868

IN Convention, and make nominations for
ali county officers for whom they will be per
mitted to vote at the approaching election.


D. That 1nasmueh as there is strong
ground LOT belief that the aforesaid Consti-
tuition will be rejected by the people of this
state, and that they will not therefore be
permitted to participate in the Presidential
election, 1T is deemed inexpedient to nomi-
nate candidates for Presidential electors at
the present time, but if necessity should
hereafter arise tor such action, the power is
hereby vested in the State Executive Com
mlttee to make the said nominations, or to
reassemble this Convention for that purpose
as shall be deemed expedient.


o. That the opposers of Radical donlina-
tlon IN the several counties, be earnestly re-
commended to adopt and carry into prompt
execution, the plan of organization prepared
and submitted for their consideration by the
state Executive Committee, which is hereby
made part of this report
Year: 1868

How beautiful are these autumnal woods
The wilderness doth blossom like the rose
And change into garden of the Lord
How silent everywhere Alone and lost
Here in the forest, there comes over me
An inward awfulness. l recall the words
Ofthe apostle Paul: "In journeying often
Often in perils in the wilderness,
In WEAKNESS, in painfulness, in watchings
In hunger and thirst, in cold and naked


ness !"


And l forget my WEAKNESS and pain,
Ny watchings, and my hunger and my


thirst.


The Lord hath said he will seek his flock
In cloudy and dark days, and they shall


dwell
Securely in the wilderness, and sleep
Safe in the woods Whichever way l turn
come back with my face toward the town
Dimly I see it, and the sea beyond it.
> cruel town know what waits me there
And yet l must 90 back; for ever louder
[ hear the inward calling of the Spirit,
And must obey the voice. o woods tha
wear


Your golden crown of martyrdom, blood
stained,


From you l learn a lesson of submission,
And am obedient even unto death,
If God so wills it,
Year: 1868

A HUNDRED YEARS IN PRIsON.-A
certain hOuse-breaker was condemned
in the latter part of the last century
in France. aud under peculiar circum-
stances, t. d hundred years in the gal
leys, aud strange to say, this man re-
Gently made his appearance in his own
native province at the advanced age
of one hundred and twenty years, he
being about 20 years of age when the
sentence which condemned such a
dreadful punishment was passed


1t is difficult to conceive what the
feeling must have been with which he
returned, as soon s emancipated
from the shackles which had enthrall-
ed MIN for century, to breathe once
more the cherished air of the scenes
of his infancy Bo0rg, in the depart
ment of Ain, was his native home, but
time had so much changed the aspect
of the whole place, that he recognized
it only by the church in Brou, which
was the one thing which had under
gone no alteration. He had triumph
ed over laws, bondage, men, time, ev-
erything Not a relative had he left,
not single being could be had as an
acquaintance, yet he was not without
experiencing the homage and the re-
spect the French pay old age. For
himself he had forgotten every thing
connected with his early youth, even
all recollection of the crime for which
he had suffered was lost, or if it was
at all remembered it was a dreary
vision, contonnded with a thousand
dreary vi-j"na ol days gone by. His
family and connections for several
generations dead, himself a living
proof OF the clemency of heaven and
the severity of man, regretting, per-
haps, the very irons which had been
familiar to him, and half wishing him
self again among the wretched and
suffering beings with whom his fate
had been so long associated--well
might he be called the patriarch of
burglars.