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Year: 1868

From the new York Herald, September l6.l


Gov Brownlow has issued conditional
call for troops to keep the peace in case
the peace shall happen to be broken, and
to put down new rebellion if anybody
can get one up. He says: II call upon
the good, loyal and patriotic white and
colored people Of every county in the
State to proceed without delay and raise
companies Of loyal, able. bodied men"
and further, whether any of the compa-
nies so formed will ever be called into
actual service will depend entirely upon
the conduct of the people in the several
counties" He prefers that these troops
shall be raised in East Tennessee, " where
the people are mostly of one way ofthink-
ing politically. The point of Brownlows
proclamation, therefore, is that he wishes
the men of his party to have an organi-
cation more or less military in character,
aud gives them fair pretext for forming
themselves into companies and regiments
and drilling, by declaring that be fears
for the public peace, though be does not
see that is in immediate danger. The
man who thus deliberately prepares for a
public disturbance under preteBse of an
effort to prevent it can never be at loss
for occasion to use bis troops as his TEN.
per may direct when they are once ready.
[ Brownlow himself is the real source Of
trouble in Tennessee. If that State is
less quiet than others of the Southern
States it is because Brownlow has made
1t so. No doubt there is strong secesh
element there, and there is quite as little
doubt that the vsporings of Wade Hamp.
ton and the attitude of the Seymour par
ty have encouraged the old rebel element
with the notion that their day had come
again. But there are the same reasons
for uneasiness in every State that was in
the Confederacy, and we hear only from
Tennessee of any necessity to enroll
troops. The reason of this difference is
that other States are governed more or
less dscreetly by men who make some
allowance for the passions, even the van.
tiles of human nature, and look upon it
as idle folly to attempt to gag even often
sive bravado. Tennessee is the only
State that is in the hands of born swag


gerer and bully--a man who has no con-
ceptiou and no care that the surest way
to cultivate disturbance is to be always
defying it; to be always Extensively irri-
tating those from whom it may come,
and to desire nothing SO much as to
crowd pride into the last possible corner.


From the account of our correspond
emf. travelling through parts of Tennessee
Year: 1868

A WOMAN CLAIMED BY TWO HUSBANDS
The Rochester Express has an account OF
singular case that has occurred in that city,
in which one woman was claimed as lawful
wife by two husbands, each of whom had
been legally married to her-the last mar ar
riage taking place when the first husband was
believed to be dead. The facts are these:
Two young men were very friendly to each
other. One of them had wife, for whom he
cherished all of loving husbands regards;
the other was all ardent student and expert
mentcr in scientific matters, and bachelcSr--
having devoted himself to perfecting seen
lific instrument to demonstrate a formula
which lie had conceived in his mind.


On the outbreak of the war, the young mar
ried man went into the army and before
doing so, exacted from bis friend promise
that in case &c was slain, and never returned.
he 1.-THE friend at hoinc) would marry his wife
and give her a permanent home and support
With this assurance that lis wife was proyi'
ded for the soldier went to the war. After
while report came that he was killed IN
battle, aud his wife mourncd for her lost hus
band. He did not return, at all events. even
at the end of the war, and after due space
was given 10 mourning, the promise given to
tue absent and supposed to lie deceased sol
dier was fulfilled the widow became the wife
of the husbands friend, and their JOY wa;
crowned by the birth OF a handsome child
OH which the parents doatcd.


There is another Incident in this so far sim
pie tale, which gives it grea;er interest. Soon
after the soldier marched to the South, the
student was taken SILK in his forcrn dormlto
ry, and he WAS believed by his kind physician
to be very near to DEATHS door. lie mus
have careful and constant nursing, or mus,
inevitably die-with the longing Of his sou
unfulGlled. In this emergency, the soldier:
wife, who was earning her livelihood by sew
ing, was called in. She went to the lodgings
of the young man-in block in the centre
of the city-and there nursed him through
the fever, and back to convelescence and Ia
Dor: In this way the lady had established
claim on her own part to the (ulfilnent OF the
pledge given in friendship for her husband.


Now comes the conclusion: A short time
since the long absent soldier reappeared,, ex
planned the reason of his long absence tn
circumstances which detained him we have
not learned,) and claimed his wife The sec
opd husband was 10th to surrender his wife
wso was the mother of his Child also. and M
declined to give her up. The question as t
whah had the best right to the woman wa'
submitted to legal tribunal, and, on the las
day of 1867, the court decided that the hrs
marriage was binding, and the wife must pas,
to the former husband-a decision which oil
parties are understood to abide. What be
comes of the child we have not learned ou
of course the father will have the best rlgh
TO her custody.
Year: 1868

A CARD.


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


THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,
North side of Third Street, the Post Office,


Davenport, Iowa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


N. B. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. nov29dly.
Year: 1868

100 SIXTH AvENUE BETWEEN THIRTEENTH
lJL and Fourteenth streets.A furnished Front Parlor
and Hall Room 90 let for business best loca


on on the avenue. Also rice Rooms. suitable for house.
keeping
Year: 1868

He is mean man who accuses q woman
Of meanness, because her expenditures are
carefully regulated, and her outlay watched
With close and unremitting economy To
be sure, no husband and father ever re-
proaches wife or daughter with undue care
in circumscribing her expenses, bat, Wheth-
er consistently or not, all meh-saye our
more just selves, perhaps-charge the te-
male character with containing n strong
tendency to meanness and close fstedness,
qualities which no one tolerates in another
than himself or those who may spend for
him. You may remember that no trades
man fears the exactions of any male purchas-
er so much as he does woman Nobody,
1t IS said, higgles so long about the half cent
per pound on the price of mackerel, or has
so keen an eve for remnants They are
charged with being bargain hunters, and
are supposed 10 De very set OF dragons In
their desire to save penny.


Now, one word for the ladies' Who
sharpened their mercantile wits? Who
taught them, IN q hard school, the lesson
of economy, and obliged them willing or not
to keep their expenditures down to the low
est limit? Who? Why, these husbands
and fathers. They-excepti in rare instan-
ces Of female supremacy over the
lfedsuIgs wear tHe ClOtues VI authority, ana
control every appropriation. With a close
fist, they haad out little dribs of stamps, or,
once in while, a solitary, companionless,
forlorn greenback, to the female members of
their household And they, driven by this
stern necessity, obliged by higher authority
to be economical, attempt to make fifty cents
buy dollars worth


Gentlemen of justice, pause and ponder
When your wife trades your second best
coat to the Jew pedlar for a pair of parlor
ornaments, or sells your files Of valuable pa
gers at so much per pound, inquire with the
severity that inward examination ought to
have how much you have given her for
spending money this quarter. Upbraid her
not for illiberality if you have forced her to
it. Here we stand to plead her cause assert
the reason, if not the propriety, of Female
Economy. Ladies ReDositoyy.
Year: 1868

polled at such election district shall be reiec-
ted oy any tribunal trying contest under
said election.


10. If any prothonotary, clerk or the
deputy OF either, or any other person, shall
afflx the seal OF otlce 70 any naturalization
paper and give out the same in blank,
whereby 1t may be ffau1ulently used, or
furnish naturalization certificate 10 any per
son who shall not have been duly examined
aud sworn IN open court in presence of some
Of the judges thereof, according 10 the act
OF Congress, be shall be guilty of q high
misdemeanor; OF If any person shall fraudu-
lently use any such certificate Of naturaliza-
ton, knowing that it was fraudulently issued
and shall vote or attempt TO vote thereon.
he shall be guilty of high misdemeanor,
and either OF any of the persons, their aiders
or abettors, guilty of either of the misde-
meanors aforesaid, on conviction, shall be
hnad 10 sum mot exceeding one Thousand
dollars, and imprisoned in the proper peni-
tentiary for period not exceeding three
years.


H. Any assessor, election officer or per.
son appointed as an overseer, who shall neg
lect or refuse TO perform any duty enjoined
BIZ this act, without reasonable legal cause,
shall be subject to penalty of one hundred
dollars; and if any assessor or election officer
shall enroll any person as a voter who he
shall know is not qualified, or refuse 10 en-
roll any one who be shall know is qualified
he shall be guilty of misdemeanor in Office
and, on conviction be punished by fine and
Imprisonment, and also be subject to an ac-
ton for damages by the party aggrieyed; /;
and if any person shall fraudulently alter,
add to, deface or destroy any registry of vo-
ters, made out as directed by this act, or
tear down or remove the same from the
place where it has been fixed by or under
the direction of the election officers, with
like fraudulent or mischievous intent, or for
any improper purpose, the person so often
ding shall be guilty Of high misdemeaner,
and, on conviction, shall be punished BY a
fine not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars, aud
Imprisonment not exceeding two years


u. Ifany tax collector is found guilty of
issuing a receipt for taxes to any person
whatever, said taxes not having been paid
he shall be deemed guilty Of misdemeanor
in Office, and, on conviction, shall be fined
in sum not less than one hundred dollars,
and suffer an Imprisonment in the county
Jail for a term not less than three months
for every offence.


IS. That for all elections hereafter holden
under this act the polls shall be opened be-
tween the hours Of six and seven o'clock,
A. NJ, aud be closed at six clock, F. NJ.


a. That the county commissioners shall,
at the proper expense of the county, pro-
cure and furnish all the blanks made neces-
sary by this act.


Is. All laws inconsistent with any Of the
provisions of this act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
Year: 1868

BY little presence of mind, one may
often save not only his own life, but the
lives of many others. In the following case
the tremendous risk run in the line of his
duty enhances immensely the value Of the
mans deed;


During the war, an incident occurred on
the Pennsylvania Central. A regiment of
soldiers were going from Pittsburg 70 Harris
burg in a special train. Between Johnstown
and the summit they we're delayed by a
freight train off the track, or part of Its cars
of. This they learned at one of the stations,
and remained there until they should be in
formed that the track was clear. 1t was
in the night, and most of the thousand men
on the train were asleep, unconscious oftheir
danger Four heavily loaded coal cars, be-
longing to train ahead, had, By accident,
become detached, and began the descent of
the heavy grade at a speed which soon be
came terrible The engineer of the special
train heard the roar of the descending cars,
and surmised what was the matter In an
instant he ordered his engine to be detached
from the train, and put on steam to meet the
runaway cars if possible, to break their force,
and save his train. His locomotive was
large freight, and he had moved several
yards ahead when the coal cars struck him
hike thunderbolt and crushed him back on
the train; but his heroic courage had saved
many lives His engine was utterly demol-
ished, and many of his cars were also
crushed; but so had be broken the force of
the shock, that no lives were lost The
mans name was Story, and his grateful
benefciaries presented him some elegant
silver plate, with the deed itself and their
names engraved omit Scientific american.
Year: 1868

Why will men take the name of God
in vain ?" What possible advantage is to
be gained by it? And yet this want0n,
vulgar sin Of profanity is evidently on the
increase. Oaths fall upon the ears in the
cars and at the corners of the street. The
North An. ericdn Reuiesc says well.


"There are among us not few who feel
that a simple assertion or plain statement of
obvious facts will pass for nothing unless
they swear to its truth by all the names of
the Deity, and blister their lips with every
variety ofhot and sulphurous oaths. If we
observe such persons closely, We shall
generally find that the ferceness of their
profanity is in inverse ratio to afhuence OF
their ideas


ave venture to affirm that the profanest
men within the circle Of your knowledge are
all afflicted with a chronic weakness Of the
intellect The utterance of an oath, though
it may prevent vacuum in sound, is no in
dication of sense. II requires no genius to
swear The reckless taking of sacred names
in vain is as little characteristic Of true In
dependence of thought as it is of high moral
culture. In this breathing and beautiful
world, filed as it were, with the Deity, and
fragrant with its incense from thousand
altars of praise, il would be no servility
should we catch the spirit of reverent
worshipers, and illustrate in ourselves the
sentiment that the Christian is the highest
style of man.
Year: 1868

WE Pass FOR WHAT WE ARE.-A
man passes for what he is worth. Very idle
is all curiosity concerning other people $
estimate of US, and all fear for remaining
unknown is not less So IF man knows
that be can do anything that he can do it
better than any one else-he has pledge
OF Acknowledgement of that fact BY all per-
sons. The world is full Of Judgment days,
and into every assemblage that man en-
tiers, in every action he attempts, he is
gauged aud stamped. In every troop Of
boys that whoop and run in each yard and
square, a new conner is well and accurately
weighed in the course of few days, and
stamped with his right number, as if he had
undergone formal trial of his speed and
temper A stranger comes from distant
school, with better dress, trinkets in his
pockets, with airs and pretentions. An
older boy says, 1t 8 of no use, we shall find
him out tomorrow
Year: 1868

MoDEsTY.-There was once to be meeting
of the flowers, and the judge was to award
the prize to the one pronounced the most
beautiful 'sWho shall have the prize?i said
the rose. stalking forth in all the conscious
ness of beauty. "Who shall havetbe prize?''
said the flowers, advancing, each with con
seious pride, and each imagining it would be
herself. II win take peep at those beau
ties,n thought the violet, not presuming to
attend the meeting; II will see them as they
pass" But as she raised her Iowly head to
peep out of her hiding place, she was Observ-
ed by the judge who Immediately pronounced
her the most beautiful because the most mod
est.
Year: 1868

BEGINNING TEE WoRLD.-Many an unwise
parent labors hard and lives sparingIy in life,
for the purpose of leaving enough to give his
children a start IN the world, as it is called.
Setting young man shoat with the money
left him by his relatives is like tying bIsders
under tho arms of one who cannot swim; ten
chances to one be viii lose his bladers and 60
TO the bottom. Teach him to swim and he
win never need the bladers. Give your child
a sound education and you have done enough
for him. See to it that his morals are pure,
and his mind cultivated, and his whole nature
made subservient to the lava which govern
men, and you have given him what win be of
more value than the wealth of the Indies.


To be thrown upon ones resources, is to
be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our
faculties then undergo development, and
display an energy Of which they were pre-
viously uususceptible.-Dr. arnold.
Year: 1868

II is not by books alone nor by books
chiefly that man becomes in all parts man.
Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in
your actual situation, there and now, you find
either expressly or tacitly laid to your charge,
That is your post. Stand to it like true sol
der. A man perfects himself by work much
more than by reading. They are growing
kind of men that can wisely continue the two
things-Wisely, valiantly can do what is laid
to their hand in their present sphere, and
prepare themselves withal for doing other
wider things, if such be before them.
Year: 1868

LOST wealth may be restored by industry
the wreck Of health regained by temper
ance-forgotten knowledge restored by
study -alienatcd friendship soothed into for
getfulness-e forfeited reputation won by
patience and virtue. But who ever looked
upon his vanished honor his
sighted years-stamped them with wisdom


or effaced from heavens record the fear
ful blot of wasted time How important is
it, then, that We should make the best Of
our time
Year: 1868

IT is very indiscreet and troublesome
ambition which cares so much about fame;
about what the world says of us; to be al
ways looking in the faces of others for ap-
proval; to be always anxious about the effect
Of what We do or say to be always shout
ing. to hear the echo of our own voices.
Year: 1868

As he that would accuse God Of injustice
were blasphemer, so he that suspects His
mercy dishonors God as much, and produ-
ces himself that fear which is the parent OF
trouble, but no instrument of duty. .-7Jerenly
TdYIor.
Year: 1868

One Mr.. Marsten, who the other evening, ad-
dressed the Young Democrats of the Twenty
first Ward, alluded eloQuently to the peacea-
able condition of the country under Demo-
"cratic rule" In making such an argument
for his party, it is clear that this bold orator
relied mainly upon the extreme youth of his
hearers. They must, indeed, have been mere
chickens if they did not remember the kind of
"peace" which we enjoyed under the rule" OF
Messrs Pierce and Buchanan. The first was
so "peaceable' that we were in hot water
during most of the days of his administration ;
the last was so "peaceable' that he kindly
permitted us to drift into a great civil war
without raising his little finger to arrest its adj
vance while under Seymour's rule" we should
have just so much "peace" as the Ku-Klux
Klans might be good enough to allow us. The
Juvenile Democrats of the Twenty-frst should
select more knowing sChoOlmaster to teach
their young ideas how TO shoot.
Year: 1868

STANToN's REINSTATEMENT. How comes it
that the man who sits in the Presidential chair,


by the act of a traitor and murderer, is at va
rance with the party which less than four years
ago elected him to preside over the Senate
Who has changed? All the Republicans in Con-
gress and out of it opposed to President
Johnson, or rather he is opposed to them, and


has thrown himself into the arms of those who
made war upon the constitution upon the peo-
pie, and who would subvert the Govern
ment to their own reasonable and destructive
ends. He would subvert the will of the people
he would hold that will at defiance he would
obstruct the enforcement of the laws and rein
state anarchy among us-if he could. 1t is to
chain this bold, bad man that Congress acts in
defense of liberty and law, and I'M support of
free and popular Government. If he had the
chiefs of the army with him he might cause
much blood to be shed-for that seems to be his
hope and desire but with Stanton in the War
Office, Grant at the mead of the army as the
great, watchful, ever-vigilant, collected power
full, determined lion in his path, with Sherman,
Sheridan, Meade and the other great Generals
ready to abide by the laws and enforce them at
the bayonets point, what can the poor, shorn
and baffled tyrant do? His first effort at vio-
lence will be his last. He will be crushed to
atoms by loyal voices and loyal hands the mo-
ment he raises his rebellious to strike at the
life of the Republic or the peace of the nation.
Whatever fear may have existed in the past as to
his power for harm, there is none now. His
will, we know, is great, but like the serpent,
whose poisonous fangs have been drawn, his
coling and Kissing bode no danger. The people
have passed triumphanty through too many Or
deals of late to be frustrated now by any man
however high in station or however wicked be
may be. Long live the Republic.-Sacramentc
Year: 1868

SENSIBLE TALK.-Announcing the demise of
the Butte County Press, a paper which lately
said that " there more intelligent white men
in this country to-day who respect the name of
the name of Abraham Lincoln, the Chico Cour-
ant says -" We remarked, some time ago, that
that could support two newspapers. We stated
that two might linger out a miserable existence
for time, but one or both would eventually 20
to the wall as sure as effects follow causes. We
have been in the newspaper business for more
than ten years, and know what it costs to run
paper, and know whereof we speak. We stated
to the projectors of the Butte County Press that
two papers could not live, and if it was deter
mined to start party paper that our office was
for sale, as we had no ambition desire to pub
lsh paper for glory, at loss of more than one
hundred dollars per month. The projectors of
the Press seemed to think that there was a for
tune in the printing business, and treated our
statement as an interested and selfish one. They
started, and have found, by experience, that
told them truly. The Press has labored through
starved and lOosing existence of thirteen
weeks, and at last succumbed to the fate that it
could not avoid. There is talk of again resusci-
tating the institution, but whoever tries it will
meet with the same fate as his predecessor If
there must be party paper in this little town,
we again say that our Office is for sale for two
papers, we again repeat, cannot live, and we
have no desire to work like slave, and endure
the vexations of editorial life for the doubtful
glory of the business"
Year: 1868

SroP IT.-All the little Democratic. organs
from Dan to Bersbeba, and from the Hudson to
the Columbia, says the Dramatic Chronicle, are
caterwauling over our " crushing debt" Now
the fact is, this terrible debt is far lighter than
that which the English have borne for a century.
1t is also less than the Dutch have managed to
shoulder for nearly two hundred years, without
ever limiting at reputation, or making any out
cry about it