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Year: 1868

LABOR was the curse placed on man for
his first disobedience of the divine law, and
men of all ages and all countries have taxed
their ingenuity to shirk this great first
curse" This desire to avoid labor prompted
men to enslave their weaker brethren, and
force them to do what justice required they
should have done themselves. Thus both
labor and the laborer came to be despised,
and men who imagined themselves mas
ters," also imagined that they were made of
better clay, and were regarded with more
tenderness by the Creator than the slave
whose hands were soiled by labor God in
His justice would not permit this state Of
things to continue, and in His own time and
way struck the shackles from the slave. and
vindicated His word that ''in the sweat of
thy face shalt thou eat bread.n And yet
there are thousands who called themselves
masters" who sit down and murmur and
repine at the hard fate which compels them
to submit to the decree of God! r


Many of these are so much occupied in
thinking of the dead ast,-when they revel-
-ed in luxuries, produced by the labor Of the
poor slave that they have no time to dis
charge the duties of the living present, or
look to the bright future of our country.


MoRAL-Labor is honorable, and there
is no avoiding the great first curse.
Year: 1868

In connection with the subject OF educa-
ton, the establishment of normal schools or
provision for normal instruction, will claim
the attention of the Legislature. Normal
schools are schools for training teachers for
the Common Schools Without professional
training, comparatively few become good and
able school teachers. School teaching is an
art which must be learned There are well
asccrtained principles which must be under
stood; there are departments of knowledge
whose elements must be familiarized there
are methods for imparting knowledge which
must be tested; there is much general and
local information to be acquired all this
before one can become proficient in the art
J of school teaching. as


Although youth may have natural apt
ness to tcach-be highly intelligent and edu
Gated even, still, without previous training
for the especial work of teaching, his first
schools will be experiments, marked and
marred by many blunders. Experience may,
and probably will, lead to the correction of
many, and perhaps all mistakes, still there
will be an irreparable loss of time, patience
and invaluable opportunity. With two or
three years of professional training, this
waste might have been and probably would
have been, averted 1t is far more economi-
cal to enter profession with harness already
on and well fitted In other words, to enter
in good working order, than to work into
harness while discharging professional obii-
cations When teacher enters school, he
is expected to teach, not learn to teach; he
is employed to practice a profession, not to
learn to practice. The pupils attend school
to learn, the teacher to teach. But one thing
is certain, unless Normal Schools are provi-
ded. our Common Schools will, for the most
part, be experiments, and in very many in
stances, failures.


We have no time or money to waste, there
FORE let, at once, normal instruction be pro-
vided for, so that our teachers shall be work
men that need not be ashamed, and our
schools shall be nurseries of intelligence,
where our children shall learn how to acquire
knowledge.


If the Legislature would establish an eff
fective system of public schools, there must
be normal schools, and normal schools must
be sustained at the public expense.
Year: 1868

We publish to-day new prospectus of the
STANDARD. If Bro. Pell viii give it one in
sertion, we will place the Sentinel on our
exchange list free for one year. This is the
most liberal offer we can make. .
Year: 1868

The Democratic papers are full of prophe-
cies that Gen. Grant will disappoint the Re-
publican party. If any are so foolish as to
suppose that Grant is Going to Johnsonize
and turn Ku Klux, they neither know the
man, nor are capable of casting up the most
simple of probabilities. The Democrats de-
manded that the Reconstruction Acts should
be declared null and void; do they think
Grant is going to do that9 They demanded
great many other things, and if Grant does
any of them, well give up guessing. 1t is a
little curious to remark, that they who are
most ready now to prophecy political trea-
son for Gen. Grant were the most sure that
he would never be elected
Year: 1868

Sss~ F. Gates & Bro. are still reduc- ing the price of their goods to suit the umes' which they know are very hard There is no excuse in the world now Tor not buying, unless it be that you have no money at all.
Year: 1868

A Mississippi exchange has the fol-
lowing:


This Is a magnificent region, and
we expect to see IL the granary Of
the Southwest within the next ilvo
years.


During the last few days we have
been encouraged In this opinion by
the reports Of many of our most oner-
getic farmers In the county, who
have experimental with wheat dur
Ing the past season, giving II the
choice of land and necessary culture,
q most unusual thing in this section.


We have no doubt that, with propcr
attention, from ten TO twenty bushels
or wheat to the acre can be made ON
any Of our choice firms; and who
can doubt that this result will much
better compensate the planter for his
labors than the culture of cotton, mt
the rate OF bale to nom three to ten
acres, as has been the case ever since
the war?


One advantage Of raising wheat I'm
Mississippi IN, that II forestalls the
Western yield and he who makes a
good wheat crop In our region, can
put II In the market In June, and
have his money In his pocket In time
to purchase the cotton planters farm
aud stock In the fall at sherlf's sale.
Year: 1868

From the Nashville Union, cal t


Our attentive correspondent al
Thompson's Station sends us the fol-
lowing highly important information;


On a line of hills commencing about
seven miles from Franklin, and run
ming in an east southeast course about
twenty-five miles, there is the finest
bloom of coal l have ever seen. /
have not made eany inspection myself,
except In one or two places, and some
of the coal taken from the ground at
the depth of six inches burns equal TO
the best Cumberland coal that YOU
have in your city. A gentleman who
has been n civil engineer In this coun-
ty for number of years informs me
tina t all along the ridge for the dis
tance mentioned there Is q good quail
ity of bloom. 1t IL to be hoped that
the matter will be looked into, as 1t
would greatly reduce the price of coal
in your city, If there should be good
coal bed In these hills. A branch of
the Nashville and Decatur railroad
could be run to the hills, which is on
ly five miles from West Harpeth sta
ton, the country being quite level all
the way from the road to the hills, SO
that but little expense would be in
CURED in building the branch road.


TYPO.
Year: 1868

The time for filing petitions by those
who can not pay fifty per cent. Of
their debts will expire on the last OF
December, and as the extension from
last June was obtained with difficulty
10 u not at all probable that the timo
Will be further extended. Petitioners
satisfying the Clerk Of their inability
to deposit the whole OF the one hun
dred dollars before January I, Will DO
allowed to file their petitions upon
payment OF n sum sufficient to cover
immediate expenses, thus saving the
Limitation Of the statute and afiorilng
them time TO complete the deposit.


IL. IL. CAMPBELL, Clerk.
Year: 1868

MARRYING FOR MONEY! never
knew marriage for money that did
not end unhappily. Yet managing
mothers and heartless daughters are
continually playing the same game.
] believe that many think they will
not have D better chance, and dread
being dependent. Such marriages, no
doubt, sometimes prove tolerably
comfortable, but greater number
would have been far happier single.
If / may judge by observation Of
such marrying for a home makes a
tiresome one.-Mrs. child.
Year: 1868

Daniel Webster, in a discussion on
the influences Of the press, spoke az
follow "Every parent whose son is
away from home at school, should
supply him with newspaper.
well remember what marked differ
ence there was between those of my
schoolmates who had and those who
had not access 90 newspapers. The
first were always superior To the last
in debate, composition and general
intelligence
Year: 1868




A very good business has been done
In all departments of the dry goods
trade the past week, and prices have
ruled steadily for all classes of fabrics,
excepting domestic sheetings and shirt
ings, which have undergone decline
of half to a cent a yard, on account of
a fall of three to four cents a pound in
the raw material. The jobbers have
worked off their old stocks to great
extent, and laid in "a new supply; and
the regular Fall season may be said to
have commenced in earnest. In prints
there has been less change of prices
than in other kinds of cotton goods; the
new styles selling up to the full price,
while the less desirable styles are barely
steady.


Wooien goods are selling better than
for some time past, and the stock of
cloths in first hands has very sensibly
diminished.


In foreign goods the transactions are
large and lively, and prices are firmly
maintained, particularly for dress
goods and silks. The auction sales
have been large and well attended.
Year: 1868

An intelligent Democrat who is now
traYling in the South writes that "there
are moments when the devil puts an
enemy in the mouth of Mr.. Robert
Toombs to seal away his brains, and
unfortunately, in nine cases out of ten,
these are the moments when he address
ses a Democratic meeting" We are
sorry to be obliged to add that this af-
Fiction from which Mr.. Toombs
suffers so much is not limited to mo-
ments in its duration, nor even to the
occasion when he is talking politics.
In fact, the devil would seem to have
put an enemy in his mouth to steal
away his brains pretty much all the
time
Year: 1868

Objection is made down this way TO
the endorsements of the Blair letter, by a
few timid people, ON the score of pru.
dence, and yet it was this identical letter
OF Frank Blair to his friend. Col. Broad
head, that secured the Missouri hero the
nomination for Viee-President. We
want just such ammunition as Frank
Blair uses.-f fVicksburg Times.
Year: 1868




MOST LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT -
Yesterday evening, during the excit-
ing trotting match on the Fair
Ground Course, DR.. Robert King,
of Vincennes, after two of the horses
had crossed the score on the last
round downward, in the excitement
of the moment, stepped up on the
track and cheered for Billy b rrr,
when the bay horse, Point Breeze,
coming down at the rate of about
2:30, struck him, knocking him a
considerable distance. He was take n
up insensible. At last advices from
him last night he was improving
somewhat, but ti was considered ex-
tremely doubtful if he would recover


Every effort was made by the man
ayers during the day, to keep the peo-
pie off the track, but in vain, and it is
astonishing that only one person was
injured. The police force on duty
seemed to have but little influence,
as general rule. More positive rules
should be adopted and enforced.
Year: 1868

SILENcED.-We have not seen a
single reference to the Know Moth
ing question in the Couriey. since
the publication Of the oath which DIR.
Morgan took when he Joined that
midnight band of oonspirators.
Year: 1868

Executive Committee Meeting.


The County Executive Committee
will meet at the JOURNAL Editorial
Roorislthis afternoon at u o'clock.
A full attendance from the city and
countryis requested.
Year: 1868

Dm Nor WANT TO GIVE UP A
SITUATION Night before last. a
man offered to take off his coat, walk
out into the street aud fight police
man. The policeman repliod: Do
yez think am such fool as to
fight yez and give up my situa-
ton" The question is. why did not
the policeman arrest the belligerant
individual2 Was it because the po-
liceman was drunk?
Year: 1868

CONTINUATION OF THE FAIR.-As
will be seen by our report Of the pro-
ceedings on the Fair Grounds yester-
day, the Fair will be continued TO
day to finish the race commenced
yesterday. Two or three new races
will be made. The admission will
only be twenty five cents, and trains
will run as usual to and from the
grounds.
Year: 1868




In all ease. society and which, consequently Affect more
srless directly of entire hum family The
mania that for precocous education and marriage
cause years that designed for develop
ent wasted and perverted In the Of dress
She early confinement Of school, and especially in
healthy excitement OF the ball Thus with the body
half clothed and the mind unduy excited b pleasure
gernE mdngt revsl the hours designed BY nature for
Isep and rest wsrk Of destruction half accomplished
In consequence Of this early strain upon % system
necessary required by the delicate tsry retain
her situation school later day thus sravstng the
,vr When excitement over another in prospective
keeps the mind morbdy sensitive to impression while the
ev constant restraint of fashionable Dress absolutely for
bidding the exercise Indispensable the attaaent and
snon organic health and strength the exposure night


the sudden change of temperature the complete prosirs
Non produced by excessive dancing. must Of y,
legitimate effect Al LAST early marriage clAps
he climax misery and the unfortunate one, hitherto
tsy regardless OF the plain dictates ard Of
delicate nature becomes unw ling subject of medical
sat.n This truthful picture Of III. experience Of
houssnds Of young


Long before ability exercise the funcrs of the gen.
rsvs organs they require education Of .hsr peculiar
svous system composed what Is called th tissue which
In common with the female breast and bps evidently
bd the control OF emotions and associations
riy posIod Of lie and shall subsequently, these
notions when excessive lead long before pubey to habits
hch sap very life of their victims nsrs has self
pmpIsted their development.
Year: 1868

Carpeater, a missionary al Harpoot, In
Eastern Turkey, now on visit to his folks
in Maine, appealed in one Of tic local pa
pers for the means Of purchasing large
supply of carpet tacks which he wanted to
use in preparing books for the blind, OF
whom there are many among the Armen-
JAMS in his field


There are no books in raised letters by
which these poor blind can be taught TO
read, and for substitute these tacks arc
used in very ingenious way, for winch
the structure of the Armenian language al
fords facilities, as the alphabet contains
thirty-eight letters, each having definite
sound.


The use of the tack alphabet is thus ex-
planned by Mr. Carpenter in one OF his let
tiers:


"A very small round topped tack is put
upright into a pine board, representing the
first letter. The same tack inclined to The
top. represents the second; and leaning to
the bottom, the right hand and the left by
turns, the next three. For the next four
letters one side of the tack is then cut oil,
and the cut portion made to face by turns
the top. bottom. right and left hand. The
half headed tack inclined 10 tie tep, the
bottom. and right and left hand, again 10y
turns represents the next four letters Is
seniially the same course is then pursued
with the next two styles OF tacks, and al
phabet is ready. Other sorts of iacks and
variations of them, thenfuTnish points FOR
punctuation and the numerals, and with
good supply of tacks and piece OF soft
pine board for page, we arc ready to
write chapter of the Bible or hymn for
a blind reader whose sensitive fingers will
soon learn to run along the line OF ireG and
copper with almost as much speed and as
surance as arc ours in reading the printed
page. The page once committed to men,
ory or the tacks withdrawn, and ike type
can be used for printing another page. In
this way, two or three dollars worth OF
tacks may be made available for printing
all the chapters ofihe Bible and the hymns
of the hymn book, or anything else which
is needed


Mr. Wheeler has received nearly one
hundred dollars in contributions for the
purchase of his taeks, which arc to be
sold TO those who use them, and tie pro-
cceds kept TO purchase fresh supplies as
needed II is found that the Orientals
have but little appreciation of gratuitous
fayers. a gift in the East rather awakening
unworthy suspicious rs TO the motives OF
the giver Those who think of missiona-
ries as men employed in . dull routine OF
teaching the people unintelligible dogmas
or bigoted forms, will find foed for tho
in this little description, if not for admira-
ton of the pious zeal which consecrates
genius to the welfare of the most iorlon
| of classes. i-lf
Year: 1868

In narrowing, it is best to pass over
the piece lengthwise the first time; then
diagonally; aud lastly across the fur
rows. Always roll the land in the first
place; this will press down the furrow
Slice, and give greater efficiency to the
action of the harrow, by obviating the
tearing up and displacement OF the sods
by the teeth. Ilarrows OF different de-
arees of lineness should be used. espe-
CiJlly where fine filth Is desirable, and
this Is always the case when grain or
small seeds are to be sowed. Where
but one harrow Is employed, much OF
the strength Of the team as well as a
large portion of the time aud labor ex-
pended in the operation, Is unayoida-
bly, lost.
Year: 1868

AS this Is the sea son for putting grain
in ricks, we will state the manner In
which man OF observation In this couE-
ty, who is both farmer and miller, says
the ricks snould be made TO preserve the
grain in the best manner. The rick
should stand North and South, with the
Northern end smaller than the South
ern, and several feet higher in the mid
die than elsewhere. When built and
located in this way all, except n very
small portion OF the rick, gets the bene-
fit of the sun.
Year: 1868

Never scant your crops. Plant no
more land than you can manure WE'LL
1t is better to have one-balT an acre Of
soil well managed, than ten acres inn
perfectly worked and manured- lt re-
quires no more labor to manage one acre
of land that will produce fifty bushels
OF shelled corn, than IL does TO manage
one that will yield but twenty-five. IL
is acknowledged to be poor policy TO
half feed our domestic animals, aud why
should it not be considered equally alb
snrd aud injudicious TO half starye our
corn and other crops, which We rely up.
on mainly to feed US.
Year: 1868

Wet the stained part of the cloth, and
hold it tightly stretched and level over
the sulphurous flame ota common brim-
stone match. In every case OF stain, it
is desirable to prevent the cloth from
becoming dry, and keep its pores open
to absorb the coloring matter; this is eff
fected by the application of water, salt,
or butter.
Year: 1868

The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
a. cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Es-
tablishment, would inform his friends and the
citizens of Rock Island and vicinity, that he has
opened New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose Of manufacturing to order first
class fne 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-
ti0n to call on us at our new establishment, and
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 and give us
trial, feeling confident that we can suit them In
every respect. We have handsome assortment
Of fine Cloths, CassimereE 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 overooats,-all of which We will make
70 order in the best aud most fashionable manner
atlower rates than the same class of goods can be
obtained on either side Of the river. Call and
examine our styles, and compare cur goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business.


THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,


North side Of Third Street, near the Post Office,


Davenport IswA.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


N. B. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. ov29d1y
Year: 1868

commencement vi JllO WdT UObWccu TdUC6
and England. This raised the direct ques-
tion as TO the right of expatriation in this
country without law of Congress, and
Chief Justice Ellsworth is reported to have
ex plicitly denied the right, and to have as
serted that the common law of England
was the law of the United States on the
subject of expatriation. The prisoner was
found guilty, fined, and imprisoned.


Sir, cannot agree with the honorable
committee on Foreign Affairs when they
assert, as they do in their report, that the
defense thus set up by Williams twas man
ifestly an evasion, and that the just pur-
pose of the court was to show that no such
defense could be recognized for such pur-
pose." Mr.. Speaker, that is rather bold and
summary mode of getting rid of the force of
an existing judicial precedent. 1t belongs to
the comprehensive system OF modern
politics. No sound or cautious lawyer
would assume any such posltlon as
That. The defendant in regular crimi-
nal procedure, in solemn court of JUS
tice, put in his plea in bar, setting up the
facts of expatriation and naturalization
as a full defense to the action. To this plea
there was a demurrer, which raised the di-
rect question of the right OF expatriation.
The demurrer admitted the facts set up in
the plea; and it is somethlng more than
..evasior - on the part of the committee, it
is the torturing of legal truth, to say that
il was the purpose of the court to censure
evasive nleading rather than to adjudicate
a solemn principle of law.


Here, then, Mr.. Speaker, we have exhib-
tied to our observation the state of legisla-
tion and the unsatisfactory and uncertain
character OF Judicial Interpretation upon
this great question OF the right of expatri-
alton of an American citizen. Sir, these
irdicial hints and indications upon the
unestion of this right, and the fact that on
two several occasions, half century ago,
Congress had, in effect, refused to assert
the Fight, have placed us in SO equivocal
and ii1consistant an attitude before the
world that the imperious duty is now
pressed upon us to set ourselves right upon
the question. 1t has been said, Mr.. Speak
er, that the Convention which framed the