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Year: 1864

IUsus NATURE.-A farmer residing
in Scotland county, Missouri, informed
US yesterday that on Friday morning last
on going to his stable he was greeted by
young colt with three ears, the third
one being situated Immediately between
the other two, which were in their proper
place. This is, indeed, a strange freak
in dame nature, but the strangest part of
the story is that this animal, with his
large supply of hearing organs, is entirely
deaf and "cannot hear thunder" as the
farmer expressed it.
Year: 1864

CoSFouNDED.-The Chicago Times OF
February 26lh contains the following
item as special dispatch from Washing
ton:


"The House Judiciary Committee
have considered at length the impeach-
ment case of Judge Miller of Iowa. When
they meet again. an effort will be made to
settle the matter definitely


This is another wilful mistake as to
the man. The Miller against whom the
impeachment case is pending, is Hon. A
e. Miller, Judge Of the District Court Of
the United States, and not against Sam
uei /. Miller of our city. 1t makes it
very annoying for Judge Milller's friends
to have him con!ounded with the Wis
consin Copperhead Judge of the same
surname, and this is not the first time
that the sins of this gentleman have been
laid at his door.
Year: 1864

FRESH MISUNDERSTANDING of new
goods are now the order of the day, and
the enterprising firm of Messrs. Vencill
& Jones being determined not to be be-
hind the times, are now receiving their
new stock of spring and summer goods,
consisting of an elegant and well-selected
stock of piece goods, ready made clothing,
gents furnishing goods, DC, &c., equal
in quality and price to any that can be
found in this market. See advertisement
in another column.
Year: 1864

to fragments.


How Is Grant, now at the White House, any
better situated than he would have been If he
he'd gone to the same point by transports with
out battles He is better situated in virtue Of
the harm that his advance has done to Lees
army by compelling it to fight so many despe
rate battles, many Of them on ground Of bis
choosing; and if he had gone to the White
House by transports the very men who now
ask this question would have set the country
in fever by shouting over the exposed con-
dtion in which such movement would have
left Washington


But, at the same time, with these great victo-
ries in Virginia we have had Others quite as
great elsewhere. Sherman's victories in Geor-
gia are somewhat dwarfed in popular eSi-
nation by the nearness of the struggle in
Virginia; but alone they would have been
sufficient to decide the fate Of the REBEL ion.
He also initiated bis campaign by fanking
Johnston out of a tremendously strong position
at Buzzard's Roost and Dalton, continued it by
aanking him out of Ressacca, and has finally
driven him, by manGuvres and by battle TO the
city of Atlanta-one hundred miles.


correspondent Of the Mobile Register with
Johnstons army writes that Johnston's present
campaign twill be the most splendid one Of the
war before it is ended" He claims many victories
for that officer, and gives this resume of opera
tlons:-"We left Dalton. We fought at Res
sacca We skirmished from there to Allatoona,
We ,oM fall back TO the Cbohdhoochee. We are
moving and movable body-hunting for
fight, and resolved not to make it until we are
ready and have the selection of the ground.
Then we will fight, and valantly; then we will
fight, and to some purpose. Thus far we have
done our work we'll. We haze abandoned forty
miles Of territory, which were useless for mill
tary purposes; but we have killed ten thousand
OF the enemy at Ressacca, losing but half that
number, and we have gained a line which IS
capable OF defence"


II thus appears that Johnston lost FIVE thou
sand men at Ressacca and that, too, in the at
temps 10 hold territory "useless for military
purposes" Johnston used to know better
than that. But it, seems that he did finally
gain line capable of defence, and now he is
sixty miles south Of that line, and his army is
broken and dispirted by defeat


In fine, our thirty days operations have been
brilliant tr;umphs everywhere, and we have no
disasters with our great armies. We have had
disasters only in the columns employed to
divert the enemy on the James and Shenandoah
rivers; and the fact that we have had disasters
at those points proves that the diversions were
good ones. 1t proves that the enemy employed
at those points very considerable bodies Of
troops, and those troops were therefore KEPT
away from the more important points at which
Grant and Sherman were striking at the life oi
the reb ellion.
Year: 1864

hard service sst the division he spoksa Of 40


cool and able soldier ana courteous gentleman. mo
Of the Seventh Connecca we're very heavy, ana
th regiment sustained Its old repu ssion OF being one
tho best In the division IL under coiamand OF Major
sandford Lieutenant Co1onsl Rodman at present in
capable OF active service consequences OF the injuries
he sustained at Fort Wagner and other places In that ye
nitY.
Year: 1864

On the second and third pages OF to-day's
TRIBUNE will he found review Of the
Trade and Commerce Of Chicago for 1864,
containing full and nccurnte statistical tables
Of receipts, shipments, and prices Of nearly
every important article of trade. It Is just
such document as every citizen should
send to his friends. Extra copies may be had
at the Office Of the Tl1BCEE.
Year: 1864

THE United States is great solar system
and the Constitution is the sun around which
that system revolvcs Far down into the in
tricate depths that luminary flashes its light.
Il is surrounded by States which are worlds
in themselves, but the light Of whose glory is
reflected from the central sun, upon whose
existence theirs depends. The United States
feels confident that there is nothing in the fu.
ture or the past to shame or dismay, In her
treatment OF the nations Of the earth she IL
influenced by neither fear nor favor, and She
sanctions her Executive in every public act
Of his momentous life. The United States
is a great machine; a wonderful piece OF
mechanism. The work il turns out is human
freedom. Some people say il is is rusty and
needs oiling. The fact is that there is a
screw loose down South. But that will soon
be put to rights, md we shall 60 on smoother
than ever.
Year: 1864

We printed. a few days ago, from an At
lanta paper, an account of knocking bird,
which, at the battle of Resaca, perched it.
self on the top of tree, and during the
hight initiated the whistng of bullets and
other noises incident to a battle. iAnother and
more touching incident of a similar char.
acter was yesterday related to us by Cant.
George Babbitt, of Gen. Gresham's staff,
and OF which he was himself witHess. -
During the fierce cannonading at Nickajack
a small bird came and perched upon the
shoulder OF an artilerymen-the man desig-
mated, we believe, as No. H. whose duty
1t rs to ram down the charge alter the am


munition is put in the gun. The picce was
Napoleon, which makes a very loud re-
port. The bird, as we have stated, perched
itself upon this mans shoulder and could
not be driven from its position be the vio-
lent motions Of the gunner. When the
piece was discharged, the poor little thing
would run its beak and head up under the
mans hair at the back of the neck, and
when the report died away would resume
its place upon his shoulder Capt. Babbitt
took the bird in his hand, but when he re-
leased his grasp it resumed its place on,the
shoulder Of the smoke-begrimmed gunner.
The scene was witnessed by large number
of officers and. men. 1t may be subject of
curious inquiry, what instinct led this bird
to thus place itself. Possibly frightened at
the violent commotion caused by the battle,
and not knowing how to escape or where to
go, some instinct led it to throw itself upon
this gunner as protector. But, whatever
the cause, the incident was most beauti-
full and pleasing one to all who witnessed it.
Il Now Albany Ledger.
Year: 1864

there was also another wound in the feshy
part of his left thigh, where the ball had
carried away half a pound of flesh and mus
Gle; this was also full Of maggots, .Turpeu-
tine was used by the surgeon TO get rid of
them, yet the brave little fellow bore the
intense pain like a martyr, and when asked
if he did not suffer, said: Yes, | suffer
very much. but a,n willing 70 be torn,
piecemeal. joint by joint, while living. for
my country and for liberty"
Year: 1864

The contest on Tuesday, must only be re-
garded as the first shock Of the great battle
which is last approaching and which viii be
fought in November. 1t was rec0nnois-
sancc IN force to. feel the Numbers and posi-
ton of the enemy Having fully accom-
plished all we desired, and ascertained the
exact strength and position OF the enemy, it
now becomes necessary for the front along
the whole line Of the great Union army TO
be closed up, every man at his post, every
soldier ready for the mighty struggle and
then! Forward for victory Che contest
of Tuesday taughteas that our foes DO not
intend to present US with triumph The
bold bad men who hrve deluded ignorant
people into their support, and who lead the
factions composing the Democratic party,
are determined to die hard Defeated Tues
day, they will only fight the fisrccr a
month hence. Utterly lost to shame or the
influence Of principle, our opponents are re-
solved to light the coming contest for results
OF personal revenge, for the creation OF an
anarchy, if possible, throughout the free
States. which viii ingulph the whole coun-
try in the bloody wave OF civil war.


Oiw' friends mast at once set dbo1d re-OF-
gGniz5ng. The man who stands aloof from
his party now-the man who neglects to
make every effort for the increase of our
vote, has no claim upon the blessings Of a
good government, no interest IN the hope Of
a speedy end OF the war and restoration Of
the whole country TO peace and prosperity.
Eet as all go tostae,c0rE, from HeiS hour for
,cord uat6 the polls close IN NOrenibfr, and
the tUst t0vat rOte has been cast. Nothing
now but action will prove our determination
to increase our success in NoVember.-Iele-
graph.
Year: 1864

Where $ the fre?'' asked a Copperhead
tearing out of his house in Batavia, in a
lariil at the ringing Of the church bells over
Sheridan victory. La the front tank
and rear of the allied Democracy OF the
South and the North, was Union neigh
bor's ready reply.
Year: 1864

II HAVE lost dear friends who gave their
lives in this war to save the Republic I
dare not vote for candidate who declares
that their lives have been given in vain for
a country not worth having. SO spoke an
honest workingman lately, and his words
will find an echo in the hearts of thousands
who scorn the betrayal of this sacred cause
and of the nations life by such surrender
as the Chicago platform proposes. Tribune
Year: 1864

The following from John Cochrane's re-
cent speech in Philadelphia viii bear a
translation to every Ssate in the Union, as
well as Pennsylvania 1t has been said that
peace had her victories no less than war.
Such victory is within your grasp. Would
you look with pride and qualification If the
Army of the Potomac We're beaten by Lee :?
No So neither viii that army look with
qualification if yon are beaten By. the peace
men of PENNSYLVANIA
Year: 1864

New CATHOLIC CmuRCM IN Rock ISLAND.
Contractors and house builders are re-
qucstcd to notice an advertisement in this
paper inviting proposals for the building Of
q new Catholic church in our sister city
Some three thousand dollars have already
been raised by the Catholics in that place,
and it is expected that the sum can be large
ly increased The intention is, to proceed
with the work just as fast as the money is
raised to pay for it, and that no debt shall,
under any circumstances, be contracted.


All Catholics, gentlemen or ladies, are
also requested to solicit, and collect, and pay
over to any Of the committee, or to the
pastor, any sums they can in aid of the
work


With united and vigorous effort on the
part Of all Catholics Of that city and vicini-
ty, it is confidently expected the house can
be enclosed and the floor laid this season,
leaving the inside work to be finished an
ther season.
Year: 1864

READy-MADE CLormNG.-O cntcrprising
fellow citizen, I. B. Hunt, has just received
from the largest manufacturing houses Of the
east very large and very select stock of
ready made clothing, which he will offer to
the citizsns Of Davenport and vicinity, at
prices that cannot fail to give perfect salts
faction to the most economical. Mr.. Hunt
Aatters himself that he is beyond the range
Of successful competition in this line of bus
mess. In order to encourage trade, he will
give all who sec fit to favor him with their
patronage, for few days only, full suit
free Of charge, The high price Of clothing
considered, this is handsome offer, and
leaves no abled bodied man any excuse for
wearing old clothes. Call and see Mr. Hunt.
Polite and attentive clerks in attendance. No
trouble to show goods. We take pleasure
in bespcaking for him liberal share of pat
ronage.
Year: 1864

The ROBBERY CAsE.--This case which
occurred last Sunday will be remembered by
our readers, wherein man named Cart
wright, Of Brighton, Iowa, was robbed in
our streets Of $1,000 in cash. lie swore
out warrant next morning ard
Wallace were arrested; time for trial came
but Cartwright did not appear to prosecute.
Thereupon Marshal Pool went after the wit
ness-found him at his home, brought him
back, and the trial is going Oh at the time
Of writing. Cartwright says the reason
why he thus left was that after he had COM
menced suit, he started to 90 over TO Rock
Island to sec a friend to borrow some money
to last him while here. While standing
on the ferry dock, he says that man
came up to him and told him that
his life was in dangcr-that he had bet
ter leave town as soon as possible. lie was
afraid of consequences and rs soon as he
could borrow $500 he left for home. This
is the reason he gives why he did not ap-
pear and prosecute. The trial may make
some unpleasant Developments that will
secure the prisoners-or may make it un-
pleasant for Mr.. Cartwright. The case is
little mixed.
Year: 1864

EcoNoMY IN LABoR-In order to supply
the pressing demand for building and car
pcntcr work generally, Messrs. lIornby &
McClclland have fitted up an establishment
on Main street, above Sd, where they have
introduced all modern machinery, driven by
steam, for turning out carpenter work in
the best manner and on shortest notice.
Their reputation as mechanics and men Of
business is too well established in this city
to require comment. They are in every
way worthy of the most liberal patronage,
and in this enterprise should be amply sus-
taincd See advertisement, and leave or
ders when you want anything in their linc


Nor So-Wc are informed that the
bridge regulations which we published yes
terday are not intended to be carried into
effect We found them printed in the
Company's timetable just issued and nat
urally enough supposed they were as bona
Jftie as the figures upon the same piece of pa
per. What the rule is there printed for un-
less it means just what it says, is mystery
Of the railroad business that we are unable
to unravcl, and never shall be until We own
railroad and railroad bridge ourselves,
which will be--wcll-it will be after this
perhaps


Bridge companies


Move in a mysterious way


Their wShdcrs to perform
Year: 1864

REcRuIrISG.-Each Of the recruiting or
ficers are picking UP the men at little better
advantage than before the bounty appropri-
alton, yet, for all that, there is not any rush
at their headquarters. The bounty helps,
Of course, but it will take great personal
cxcrtion, nevertheless, the fill the quota Of
Scott county in the next ten days. The
greater portion Of the men now being en-
listed are those who were not old enough to
enter service when the war broke out-all
young and vigorous.
Year: 1864

Why stand we here all the day idle
Why don't you either enlist for the 100
days, or 60 to Krusc's and get suit Of
clothes worth having, made to order, in best
style, and for low figure krausc keeps
up full stock Of gents dress material all
the time, and never says fail. Now don't
you fail to give him call. Store opposite
National Bank.
Year: 1864

HAVE you seen the splendid stock Of boots
and shoes at Child & Co.'S? They have
every style made to suit every age and con-
dition. Ladies will find their stock the
most carefully chosen, and Of the most cx-
ccllcnt material. Call in and examine for
yourselves Gentlemcn's wear Of every
kind. Their goods are made of the best ma
tcrial-they are bought low, and can be sold
lower than any other stock of like quality
in the city. Store on Brady below 2d st.
Year: 1864

ARRlvED.-A squad Of 81 men for the
lOo days service arrived this morning on
the steamer Jennie Whipple, at A o'clock.
Where they were from we know not, for up
to this hour the officer in charge had not re-
ported at headquarters. Where he had gone
to or what special service detained him that
ne omitted to observe the duty Of reporting
in due form, is unknown to the writer. The
men went to Camp Mcclellan, and are there
yet.
Year: 1864

General w. H. Norris reported wounded, Is the son OF
General p Morris, until recently OF the editors Of
the Home Journal Hs wounded in the thigh while
In command Of the First brigade Thrd division, Sixth
corps.


Lieutenant colonel Chapman's remains win arrive in
New York tomorrow morning. He was shot through
the heart while leading his command the Fitty.sevenh
New York vounteers) during the battle in the Wilder
Year: 1864

Important County Fond Decision.


We publish in another column, the late de-
cision Of The Supreme Court Of the United
States in the case Of Gelpcke vs. the City and
County Of Dubuque, in which 1t is most em-
phatic.1ly declared that city and county cor
Torations must pay their honest debts. This
is right We ::re glad that the Supreme
Court hes SO decidedly settled this question
on the side Of Justice, morality and law, and
we telierc that the good people Of certain
counties In Iowa will ultimately rejoice TINT
they are not permitted to 80 forth with the
stain of reputation branded upon their
honor.
Year: 1864

FOUNDER IN HoRsEs.-I send you receipt
for founder IN horses, which have never seen
in print. have used and recommended it for
fifteen years. and, SO far as my experience goes,
it is sure and speedy remedy. Take a table
spoonful of pulyerized alum, pull the horses
tongue out OF his mouth as far as possible, ane
throw the alum down ais throat, let go of his
tongue and hold up his head until he swallows.
In six hours time (no matter how bad the foun-
der,) he will be fit for moderate service. l have
bad this remedy tested SO often with perfect
success, that / would not make five dollars DIFF
ference in horse foundered, it done recently.
and one that was not Country gentleman,
Year: 1864

The Mobile Register remarks: Prices will
have to ccme down; that is one comfort out Of
the currency troubles of the hour. People who
have been asking ten prices for commodities of
clothing and food will soon see the time when
they will be glad to take one price. Commo-
dities of many kinds are scarce, as the result of
war and blockade; but money is going to be
more scarce. Whenever that is the case, prices
fall. Heretofore everybody has wanted to ex-
change their bills for commodities. The time
is at hand when they will want to part with
their commodities for money.
Year: 1864




TINE oRPLANrING. In our former articles
on this subject we have spoken of the sselec-
ton of land, Equality OF SOIL" preparation of
soil" and smanuring."


We have something to say now as to the
time of planting. Our advice is to plant early.
There are several reasons for this. In the first
place, the seed of the sorghum is hardy; SO
much so, that we have frequently seen it come
up vigorously in the Spring, after lying in the
ground all winter. Any farmer will find, on ex-
amining the lard cultivated in sorghum last
year, that, as soon as a week or two of warm
weather has occurred in April, the seed dropped
in gathering the last crop have germinated and
sent up the little grass-like blades over the sur,
face of the soil. There is not then the same
danger oflosing the seed by the early planting
Of this crop, that there is from too early plant-
ing of corn.


A second circumstance in favor of early plant
ing, is the hardy character of the young plant.
1t is not so sensitive to frost as young corn.--
Hence it runs but little risk from the late frosts
of Spring.


A third argument for planting early, is found
in the fact that the seeds will not bear deep
covering. They should therefore be put into
the soil before the surface has become very dry j.
In this climate tie latter part of April and the
early part of May often give us very dry wealth
er. We would therefore recommend the early
part of April as the safest time to plant crop
of Sorghum.


Fo1rthly, it should be the object of the culti>
vator to give his crop as long growing season
as possible. II the stalks are well matured, they
make q larger quantity and a better quality of
molasses, than they do when cut green, or when
the process of maturing has been cut short by
the early frost of Autumn. Then give the plants
ample time by letting them have an early start.
Again, besides getting better yield of molas-
ses from al early crop, you get better seed for
the next years planting, or for feeding stock !:
and moreover the blades may be secured in
time to escape Frost if the crop comes to ma
turity at an early period.


Filthy, early planting of one crop, leaves the
force of tho farm free to give attention to 9TH
ers. If the Sorghum is planted early in April,
it will not interfere seriously with the corn
planting. The season for planting corn has
range of at least one month after the 18th of
April. Sorghum may be planted during the
first Is days of April, and leave ample time for
planting corn. We, therefore, recommend ear
ly planting.-Ler. Gazette.