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Year: 1867

FIST neat, 100 S4S1
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First Hed.-Red Dick had many friends, and he was
the avore at 500 to 5000 Tycoon looked too feshy,
and seemed somewhat stiff At the word both went
away together and around the this position was
maintained but at the quarter mile pole Red Dick passed
ahead and remained so under the strong hand Of his
driver, he evidently easing his horse much as pos
sble until the homestretch was reached when he shot
ahead still another length making the first mile in 56,
two lengths ahead. The second mile but repeti
tion OF the first at times Tycoon reaching the launches
of his competitor bat nearing the stand the driver OF
Red Dick allowed him little rein, and he rushed ahead
three lengths in advance, passing the line in 3:49H


Second Hedt.-Bettng now was one hundred to ten
on Red Dick, with takers. Al the tap Of the drum
Tycoon got away two lengths ahead, and around the
turn Red Dick followed him closely. Passing the half
mile pole there little variation In their positions.
Down to the homestretch tycoon led BY two lengths,
evidently only by the courtesy Of the driver OF Red
Dick and passed the judges stand that distance In ad.
vance, in 1:52. Tho second mile was very much the
same until the threequarter pole was reached, when
Red Dick struggled up his opponent and passed him
easily reaching the goal four lengths ahead In 3:5OA


Tho entries for Saturday, the third days racing, pro-
mise to be numerous, and the contests spirited.
Year: 1867

Some of our contemporaries seem to think that the triumph of their cause depended, like the fate of Jericho, upon the amount of noise made-in these days of refinement and luxury, an article of real intrinsic mer. it is soon appreciated; hence the unbound ed and unparalleled success of Plantation Bitters.

 This remedy has ever and always been found reliable. As a gentle stimulant and tonic appetizer it cannot be excelled. II is no doubt a sovereign remedy for stoma chic disorders Dyspepsia, Liver Com plaint, and in stimulating a healthy ap petite.
Year: 1867

ACCIDENTAL SHOoTING.-YeS YeSterday
morning L young man, named John Lasscl
while sporting with pistol in the Sccoud
Market, was severely shot in the left hand
by an accidental discharge of the weapon.
He was carried to the Aims house hospital
where amputation was found necessary,
and performed.
Year: 1867

THE utter rout OF the Radicals in the
elections weighs very heavily on their
minds-at least upon the minds of what
few are left. The organs of the party
are in the deepest distress, and, like a
drowning man catching at straws, they
seek consolation in all sorts of devices,
excuses and promises of the future. Be
fore the election in New York they pre-
tended not to see the tremendous reac-
ton that had begun to upheave society
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
election in Pennsylvania was nothing ; in
Ohio It was a mere temporary thing, an
accident, and turned upon local issdes +;
in another State it was a fraud and not
the real expression CT the people, and so
on. Everywhere the greatest efforts
were made to explain away facts and the
true cause of Radical defeat. But since


the election on Thursday In the Empire
States they have changed their note and
tactics. It is now a Bull Run defeat
They cannot disguise the fact, but they
endeavor to make out that the fight was
lost through a fright and stampede, and
that their force is strong enough still to
whip the enemy. Bull Run it was, true
enough. It was a stampede, and that,
too, of the honest voters who have be-
come disgusted with Radical government.
But it was worse than Bull Run. The
Radicals are in the same situation the
rebels were when Sheridan swept through
the Shenandoah valley. They are utter
ly broken up and scattered, never more
to make a decent fight in a cause as un-
holy and destructive as that of the reb-
els. That is the sort Of Bull Run they
have met with. They may try to screw
up their courage, but they are complete
ly demoralized. They have lost their
=. HeralE.
Year: 1867

To be indeed a good neighbor involves
some of the most practical duties Of life,
and 10 the estimate correctly who is one's S
neighbor. and what are the resulting
moral Obligations, from no unimpOrtant
Year: 1867

AN old preacher in western New York,
who was being persuaded by his church
men, during the political excitement in
the State last fall, to join the Radical
party said:


No, my brethren, I can't Join thaG
party, because all the abolitionists IA
the country are in it, and abolitionism,
my brethren, has done a wonderful sight
of harm among the people. Il has hurt
many shepherds and scattered many
Aooks. tgot into the Methodist church
and broke that up. It got in among che
Presbyterian church and split it in two
and itgot into the government and broke
the old Union to pieces. And my brsth-
ern I don't know of any thing It is good
for but to break down and break up.-.
And if you have any enmity against
the Old Boy, I advise you to send abo.
litionism into his dominiona, and il will
break hell itself up in in less than six
weeks" ..-
Year: 1867

A BRDGEPoRT newsbOy was given q
ten cent stamp by a gentleman a day or
two ago, in consideration Of his not
swearing for a week, and more promise
ed him at the end of that if he kept his
promise. After receiving the money lhe
boy said: Understand that muss not
swear, but how in HI are you going 70
know whether l do or not?'
Year: 1867

HARvssr-A large number of returned
harvesters wandering round our streets IN
search of employment attest the fact that
the busies, season among the farmers Of
Scott county is now over. The wheat crop
is nearly oil in shock but many farmers are
neelecting to have i. put in stack, thereby
endangering its safety. We are sorry that
SO much of this crop is exposed to the
heavy rains that may be looked for soon
The crop has proved good, and We regret
to see it sprou. in the stack from the want
of proper care.
Year: 1867

BASE BALL CONVENTION A circular letter
has Just been forwarded TO all the base ball
clubs in the State, inviting them to send
delegates to . convention Of base "ballists'
to meet at Ottumwa on the 2lst inst, 20
organize State Base Ball Association, and
to make the necessary arrangements for a
grand base ball tournament. At some point
in the State during the approaching fall.


Base ball clubs throughout the State are
requested to send one or more delegates,
and to notify the club At Ottumwa at once
as to their views, the proprety of the move
ment, and if they intend to be represented
We know Of no better place to hold the
proposed tournament than at Davenport
The clubs Of this city will probably be reps
| resented and use their endeavors to make
this city The headquarters Of the Associa.
tS0n
Year: 1867

al prejudice may be sacrificed at any
cost in order to maintain intact the in
tegrity of the great republic, the strongest
palladium OF liberty in the world.


May your President, therefore, come
to an understanding with Congress, and
may dissension no longer exist between
the States constituting your admirable
political system. Such is the wish
formed by your sincere friends, among
whom l am proud to include myself.


Yours faithfully, &. GARIBALDI."
Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Evening Voice, communicates
the following interesting account Of the
"phvsiQueo Of the General, and his sup
posed views upon current questions,
with the rumors Of what the testimony
of Sheridan, Thomas and Others may be-
before the special investigating COM
mittce upon the outrages against Union
men in the South


An observer in the gallery Of the
House for several days past could not
avoid seeing quiet looking, compactly
built gentleman, seated in a careless at
titude in one of the outer and vacant
seats on the Republican side and gen.
erallv engaged in conversation with sew
eral members gathered about his chair.
From the fact that he generally wore
semi.military cloak, his luStleSS yet at
tputiyc attitude and the notice he at
traCted, il could be seen that he was not
a member. 4 close scrutiny would re-
veal a face well known to the country
and dear TO every patriOt-that of Gen.
/ U. S. Grant. To day he might be seen
in the Ladies Gallery Of the Senate a
Quiet but very attentive listener to the
tariff debate going on there.


It is quite noticeable and attracts at
tentiOn-the close and constant interest
/ displayed of late by the General to the
proceedings in Congress. Certainly the
/ education thus attained is one eminently
/ desirable for man in his position, and
/ the associations he there forms are
/ much better for his political health as
/ well as prospects, if he has any, than
those with which he has been connected
! at the other end of the avenue.


From the galleries, Grant does not
impress one as being of higher grade
than the "bold butcher boy" or fireman
tvpe of character. OF course he is not
! of that type in manners or acts |
simply mean in physique and general
makeup. When, however, you get
nearer him, the impression Of power
grows distinctly upon you, Quiet, per-
sistent power is the sum-total of his
points. Take his head, for instance. AT
front glance the forehead is rather
meagre, but moderately broad and
high vet it is not mean, low or paltry
1t is not at all of the smooth, undevel-
oped type, like the Burnside face pre-
sents, nor is it the fiery, impulsive, en-.
ergetic, tomahawk sort of frontal OF
forehead which Sherman's presents
Grants is a good, STRENGTHENING, quiet
forehead. But it is when you get side
aance at the General that you get more
Idea of his intellect. The head and face
as seen from a position when you gel
the artistic three, quarters view, is seer
to be long and compact, especially from
the ears forward.


Indeed, there is a remarkable depth
and breadth in the head before the ears
while the breadth behind shows wher'
the motive power comes from. Th'
chief characteristic of Grants face i'
its uuietness combined with intensity
The close trimmed, brown beard sprink


led with gray shows the powerful unde


jaw to good advantage, while the uppe


part of the face is 10 keeping. | hav'
already spoken of the forehead ;-th'
eyebrows are heavy and have habit o
contraction over the eyes beneath, which
Year: 1867

SKATING-The recent thaw and rains
having filed the various ponds and
swamps in this vicinity with water, the
present cold snap has formed coating
of ice upon them, and East and Otter
Creeks, which affords splendid skating,
and it is being well improved by our
young people during the day and some
older ones during the evening, as it will
no doubt continue to be during the prev
aence of the present delightful moon
light.
Year: 1867

FISH CUITURE.-Mr. Robert F. Cow
ing, near Bartonsville, VT, acting upon
the suggestions made by the Fish Com
missioner in his report last Fall, sent to
a fish breeder in western New York for
some trout spawn. In due time he re-
ceived 100 ova, by express. The eggs
were in a small tin box that was packed
in moss in q tin pail to keep them from
freezing. They were several days on the
road, but upon their arrival he carefully
placed them in a Matching box" " just
above an artificial pond he had made.
In due time the eggs hatched and he has
now over one thousand nice young trout
from those eggs that were transported
about four hundred miles in the cold
weather OF last December.
Year: 1867

ness OF only day or two, 80 brief had
been Gen. Grffln's term OF service as dis.
trict commander that 1t had been mark
ed by no decisive or significant action,
but his policy as toreshadowed was to
be only continuation OF Sheridan's,
to which he had given hearty support
and cooperation during his command at
Galveston. Gen, Griffin made for him.
self high and brilliant reputation dur
ing the war, both as brave soldier and
an efficient corps commander, and by his
death the nation suffers the loss OF a
hero 1t can Ill afford.
Year: 1867

and, and is worthy Of this public record.
A young man Of energy and industry
he has laid aside his income that he
might aid an unfortunate relative and
repay those who had under the laws
given her q maintenance. He also
made donations for an aged father, who
was disabled in the war Of 1872, whose
only dependence was pension, also
sundry donations to other members Of
his family. An example worthy of
other young men whose aged parents
and family are In straitened cir.
cumstances to go and do likewise, in
stead Of spending their lives In Incidence
and throwing away their earnings in
the whirl and excitement Of the passing
hour.
Year: 1867

10 PROVIDE AN ExPEDIrIoUs NODE OF


EXCITING TREsPAssERs.


BE IL enacted, by the Senate and House
OF Representatives now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority
OF the same, That if any person shall
have gone into or shall hereafter 90 into
possession of any lands or tenements of
another, without his consent, or without
warrant Of law, it shall be lawful for the
owner Of the land 50 trespassed upon to
apply to any Magistrate TO serve a notice
on such trespasser to quit the premises,
and if after the expiration of five days,
from personal service Of such notice such
trespasser refuses or neglects 10 quit, it
shall then be the duty of such Magistrate
to issue his warrant to any Sheriff or
Constable requiring him forth with to eject
such trespas'er, using such force as may
be necessary: provided, however, that il
the person in possession, before the ex,
p'rat'on OF the said FIVE days, appears be-
fore such Magistrate and satisfies hi m
that he has color Of claim to the DOS.
session of such premises and enters into
bond to the person claiming the land with
good and sufficient security, to be ap.
proved by the Magistrate, conditioned for
the payment Of all such costs and expen.
ses as the person claiming to be the own.
er of the land may incur in the successful
establishment of bis claim by any of the
modes ofproceediug now provided by law,
the said Magistrate shall not issue his
warrant as aforesaid.


Sec. 2. That the Magistrate shall be
entitled to demand and receive from the
person applying for such warrant, a fee OF
five dollars before issuing the same and
the Sheriff or Constable shall, in like
manner, be entitled to demand and re.
ceive fee Of FIVE dollars and mileage.
before executing such warrant, from the
person applying fcp the same.


Ratified December Is.
Year: 1867

Somebody says it is a mistake TO sup
pose that everybody in Kentucky is run.
ming for Governor. There are thirteen
men who are not. They are the candi.
dates for Lieutenant Governor.
Year: 1867

Another reason for retracing our steps
will doubtless be seen by Congress in the
late manifestations Of public opinion on
this subject. We live in country where
popular viii always forces obedience to it
self sooner or later. 1t is vain to think of
opposing it with anything short of legal
authority backed by overwhelming force.
1t cannot have escaped your attention that
from the day on which Congress fairly and
formally presented the proposition to gov-
ern the Southern States by military force,
with view 10 the ultimate establishment
Of negro supremacy, eS cry expression OF
general sentiment has been more or less
adverse to il.


The affection of this generation cannot
be detached from the institutions of their
ancestors Their determination 20 preserve
the inheritance of free government in their
own hands, and transmit it undivided and
unimpaired to their own posterity, IS too
strong to be successfully opposed. Every
weaker passion will disappear before the
love of liberty and Law, for which the
Year: 1867

The last dime Of The Debt would have been
paid Of within ten years. And they might
have stopd there without seriously harmng any
body The Cry o. unbcarabIe eyaction Is all
bo8h. We arc not doing any better norl living any
more comfortably since Ouf taxes were reouCeu
y full third if not half than we were before
IL may be very well for as. VINO ong peer
steaks. to have them reduced from % TO 10
cents per pound (thoush repudiatns the Debt
would nt begin to do it,; but you forget that
our people sell beef cattle as well as buy beef
steaks, and that the growers Of cattle do Mt see
this point as you do. The prairie farmer who
has laid away $4,000 in U. s, bonds is not
likely to be tempted to burn them by your
assurance that if he does, he must cyermore
sell his cattle for q third of their present mar
kct price But this whole project is too absurd
to bo graycly discussed.
Year: 1867

We print on another page an essay on
"0ur National Debt" proposing two modes
of extnguiShing it, neither of which, the
writer says, amount to reputation. We beg
leave to differ from him, most decidedly, on
that point.


Let us illustrate the essential rascaity and
neffabe meanness OF his position:


We of TIE TRIBUNE felt it our duty, dur
ing the War, to urge every patriot to invest
all he could spare in the then rapidly aug
mentng National Debt; and what we urged
upon others as duty we felt it duty to do
ourselves: so that we had some $4,000 in
vested in those securities when the War closed.
Since then, we have sold out every dollar of
them, paid off Herewith a $4,000 mortgage
on our premises, and spent the residue
in enlarging our paper and increasing our
printing materials and machinery How could
we ever dare to look an honest man in the
face if we should now turn a short corner and
demand that these evidences of National in
debtedness, after they have been used to pay
of our debts, should be struck dead in the
hands of our late creditors, or others to whom
they have been fairly transferred We can't
imagine how any one can propose this and
not know that he is villain.


Uncle Sam is not "an insolyent debtor He
is perfectly able to pay and WU pay to the
uttermost farthing. Had the Internal taxes
been left as they stood when the War closed.
Year: 1867

The railroads of New-York, like those Of her
neighbors constitute an oppressive monopoly,
with iron feelers stretching out at every point
of the compass of self-interest. They buy up
legislators and lay down sleepers with equal
facility. There is no privilege OF franchise
which has NOT been accorded to them
almost for the asking, so that it has be-
come O formal question not what the pub
lio desire, but what do their railroad rulers
demand The people of the State ought to
DO making hnoney out of their numerous
irop highways. and thus saving something
Year: 1867

The Judiciary Committee yesterday examined
Col. COngcr in relation to the pursuit and
capture of Booth, and the finding Of the Booth
diary. The Committee have made request
upon Judge Holt for copy of the diary.
Judge Holt is expected to appear before the
Committee tomorrow.
Year: 1867

Mons. p. Du Chaillu last evening delivered
at the Cooper Institute the first of the lectures
to be given by him under the auspices of the
Association for the Advancement of Science
and Art. The explorations Of this traveller in
Equatorial Africa have attracted the attention
of the world to high degree, aud his account
of them is of rare interest.
Year: 1867

1t is stated that the judiciary Committee de
sire some information OH the disbursement Of
the Contingent fund of the State Department
There are several items in the official state
ment of the Department marked merely
" Presidents approval" and together amount
ing to $117,7G3 Gj. 1t is alleged That part Of
this money was used for political purposes.
Year: 1867

The Attorney General yesterday submitted to
the Cabinet the main points of his opinion on
the DisfranchSemcnt and Reconstruction bills
1t is reported that it will be communicated to
the military commanders in the shape of an
order from the War Department.
Year: 1867

Thanks to the wrctchedness OF the city's
quarantine provisions q load Of smallpox was
very nearly entertained at Castle Garden the
other day. 1t was only fortunate that the
Deputies of the Health Officer arrived in time
to prevent the landing of pestilcncc from the
stpampr
Year: 1867

AS a Nation progresses, its Government has
new duties to perform. In particular is this


true of our own Government. Craftsmanship
which thirty years ago might have been pro-
found, may be worthless to-day. One who is
not impressed, or who is incapable of being
impressed, with this idea is unfit for a states
man. The rapid increase of our population
and the great demand for fabrics, for varied
and abundant food, for good furniture,
and for comfortable dwellings, give new
energy to the farmer, the mechanic,
and artisan. The supplies of food
and clothing which we require are so large as
not to be realized by statement in figures,
and they are increasing, to-day with a rapid
ity in excess of any other period. In addition
to our own people, we are receiving each day,
through the ports of San Francisco and New
York, thousand foreigners from the two widely
distant shores of the Old World. Manufactures
are fOurishing-at least they are getting strength
in mortal conflict with foregners-and we are
fabricating and consuming more goods of all
kinds than were produced in the whole of
Europe at the time of the Revolution.


1t is important to know that less than one
fourth of the territory east of the Mississippi
furnishes our meat and bread. The Southern
States never have made their bread till this
year, and they may do so a few years longer
but if they do, it will be at the expense of the
cotton crop; nor will an accession to their
population be of advantage to them or to the
Nation. The capacity of the South to feed
their people poorly has been reached; if better
food is to be provided, they certainly do not
want more people. We know all that can be
said regarding the vast extent of ncultivated
land, and of the benefits they will receive
from capital and the establishment of manu-
factures 1t is true there is some land
left, and it is a blessed thing that there
is but the amount not subject to over
flow, OF to malarious disease, really is very
little. Long ago, wherever there was o chance
for the opening of even a second OF third class
plantation, there the planter made an entry /;
and now, only some forests attached to large
plantations, and some upland valleys, which
can be made valuable by drainage, remain.
To be sure, there are millions of acres among
hills but nobody thinks they can be turned to
the least account. When some plan shall be
adopted for restraining the waters within the
Western Levees, and making it worth while
to cultivate the plantations already made, we
can go into the jungles of cane-brake and
Spanish moss aud have many new farms of
Year: 1867

In response to a resolution of the Convention
asking the Superintendent of Public Instruction
for detailed statements of the amount of taxa
ton for school purposes since 1910, that official
says that part of the desired information can
not be got, and that the remainder can only be
ascertained after protracted and costly labor
Year: 1867

The news is startling, but it is scarcely to be
doubted, that Gen. Grant will. as instructed
by the President, issue an order removing
Sheridan from the command of the Fifth
Military District. This then is to be the reward
of Shclidan's loyalty and cOurage-this the
first act of the new Secretary of War.
Year: 1867

In Convention on Saturday the time of the
brief session was occupied with debate upon
the prohibition of the consolidation of railroad
corporations when their capital exceeds $4,000
OOO Without final action the Convention ad-
iourned TO this morning.
Year: 1867

The height of impudence IS touched
by the last resolution Of the New Y ork
Democratic Convention, expressing
profound gratitude to the victorious
soldiers OF the war. Those soldiers
know better than any one else what
KIND OF friend to them the Democratic
party was during the war.


Ihe Union soldiers remember very
well that 1t was Democratic Secreta-
ry Of " ar who put hundreds Of thou-
sands OF arms and tons Of ammunition
INTO the hands OF rebels.


The Union sailors have not forgot
ten that 1t was Democratic Secre-