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Year: 1868

An indefinite postponement of religious
services was recently announced in church
at Saratoga Springs. The edifce was un-
dergoing repairs and the congregation met
for worship in the basement. During the
morning service the worthy pastor made
this announcement :-'t Our usual after
noon services will be suspended until we
can meet in the sanctuary above"
Year: 1868

A lively urchin accosted travelling Ap-
ple-merchant in the street the other day,
and cried, in an earnest voice: Mr.
please give me an apple; my brother goes
with your sister p He'll do.
Year: 1868

Women get married because they don't
consider it respectable to be single; and
men because they think wife good
thing to have about the house, like furni-
ture, to be both useful and ornamental.
Year: 1868

The principle feature of Wall street yester-
day was the incre ased activity in money. aud
he hardening tendency of the market. The
rate for call loans was plump per cent and
the demand Is in excess OF supply. This state
of affairs is quite natural IN view OF the ship
ments of currency 10 he West to pack The Jg
crop, and the continued drain of gold and
greenhacks to the South 10 move cotton TO the
seaboard' The currency balance in the SUB
Treasury is now nearly twenty millions
" hich is much larger Than for a long Tlm- past
and this also has its influence upon the money
market. The changed condition of the none
tary situation was felt In Wall street, aud the
result was a general, but not marked decline in
values
Year: 1868

RECEPTIONS AT THE PRES
no time has yet been fixed for the reception at
the Executive Mansion this winter, IT is pro D..
able that the ladies' receptions will be in the
afternoon instead of evening, as last year. The
conservatory is now fully repaired and filled
with fragrant flowers aud plants, and by hold
ing afternoon receptions visitors are enabled 10
go through il. The President will hold several
evening receptions during the season, but OF
course none will take place until after New
Years day, when the season will be opened
Year: 1868

SUPERVISOR FOR SOUTHERN OHIo.-The
nomination Of General Thomas L. Young, for
Supervisor Of Internal Revenue for the South
ern District of Ohio, is still before Secretary
McCulloch, but the impression seemed to pre-
vail that n will be confirmed at an early day,
though there is great opposition to the appoint
ment
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale or to let,
and those desirOus Of purchasing renting such pro-
perty will ud it to their interest to advertise in THE
TRIBUNE It's aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any
ether newspaper and In addition TO this advantage TIE
TRBUNE will be found. not only IN NewYork and all its
cities and villages but IN every state and Territory
within the Union The advertisement should be made as
brief as will allow Of the advantage offered being clear
so the reader. We would especially dwell on the fact
that the subscribers for the three editions Of THE TRlB
UYE SemiWecky, and Weekly, comprise individuals in
every profession or business consequently advertise
Snents IN each disseminate among all classes. THE
TRBUNE deyOte especial attention to the reports OF real
estate both I'm the city and in part OF the State
thus adding greatly the value Of its columns ad
vcrtsing medium The charges for advertising are as
follows: DAILY TRIBUNE 25 cents per line for aslngle
insertion WEEKLY TRIBUNE 81 80 per line; SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. % cents per line.
Year: 1868




The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
Us 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 fine custom work to those that have been in
the habit Of getting their garments out by US,
While at Mr.. Cones, we would extend an invita-
uon to call on Ia at our new establishment, and
TO those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and are in the habit of sending for their gar
nents we would invite them to call ana give a
trial. feeling confident that we can suit them in
every respect. We have handsome assortment
OF tne Cloths, Cassimeres aud Vestings, together
with large variety of splendid French COatings
and rricots in different shades and eolors for fine
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
colors for oyercoats,-all of which we will make
to order in the best and most fashionable manner
at lower rates than the class of goods can be
obtained on either side of the river. Cali and
examine our styles, aud compare our goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business


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


Davenport, Iowa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


N. B. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. nov29dfy.
Year: 1868

Last week, the fat men of Fairfield County had a clam bake at Norwalk. They were visible to the naked eye from Long Island, where they were supposed to be convention of base-drummers. There was considerable variety of figure, howev- CT. Some were oblong, others fattened at the poles and largest at the equator. They were all great on the parallels of latitude. I notice that the Democratic papers claim the fat men for Sey- mour. They {" prefer the statesman to the sol dier" Of course they do. All the way down from old Jack Fallstaff, they have disliked war. Since the invention of artillery, they are sure to gel picked off at long range Gilmore's Swamp Ange would have pumped the Chairman of the clam bake, ever time, at four miles. The only way the, can save any of this kind of warriors nowadays. is run up yellow flags on them and pass them off fol field hospitals. Then they are generally respect cd by an enemy.

 Our town sent one delegate at large, not a tai man, but beautifully proportoned for the purpose He is by all odds the most prominent man in tht county. Nobody who has ever seen him with hi napkin on, walking in a Masonic procession doubts that

 Whether the price of clans or of freiehts vii come down again, this year, is doubtful It is the penalty We pay for fat mems clam bake.
Year: 1868

gg- It should be understood we are not on the defensive. We are the attacking party World.

 Just so! and it is the rule that the at tacking party loses the most. Jeff Davis and his piratical crew made an attack up on the good old ship Union. Will 1he World tell us how they won? Besides, the democratic papers tell us that in the Negro @ riots, they alacays make the attack and come out at the rate of forty killed to one white man shot. In the light of the above examples, will Tbe World figure out how long it will take the democracy to win a victory by attack?" w.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Avery announces the sale at auction OF
the pictures collected by him during his recent visit to
Paris number Of these works painted expressly
for Mr. Avery and many others selected and pur
chased by him out OF the French Exhibitions OF 1861 Sr
Averys taste aud knowledge OF art are well known to
cultivated people city. Those who look az pictures
with mere mercantile eye may take our word for II that
every picture named in the catalogue u by the artist Is
ascrbed TO- and at the very least, not TO be an
unworthy specimen OF his powers.
Year: 1868

"lf we make our paper money good by
harsh s. stem Of contraction, we shall
cripple the energies Of the country and
make bankruptcy and ruin, If. on the
other hand, we debase the currency by
unwisc issues. We shall equally perPlex
business and destroy rober industry. aud
Year: 1868

WHAT LOYAL SoUTHERNER THINKs.-John NJ.
Bolts has written letter to friend in Washing
ton in regard to the couse of the recusant Sena-
tors in which he says -" have just risen from
the perusal of the Baltimore American and Wash


ngton Chronicle, and conclude that the game is
up and treason is triumphant not the treason
OF secession for which there was remedy in
the stalwart arms of an indignant and injured
people, who Dared their breasts to the storm
and beat back and overwhelmed the traitors of
: 81 but what remedy have we for the ten thou
sand times accursed traitors of '68, who, when
trusted most have most villainously betrayed
nation of patriots? | can not comprehend the
honesty of such votes as we are led to believe
are about to be given and the heart-sck loath-
ing, the withering scorn the unutterable contempt
in which | hold these over-sensitive, double
refined, old-wOmen politicians, whose feet
covered all over with political corns, you may
conceive, but | cannot describe. If all men
looked upon them as do, no decent Republican,
white or black, would ever recognize one of them
as worthy of being associated with, or of being
spoken to again"
Year: 1868

"hsre the rocks are gray and the shore is steep,
ana ana the waters below look dark and deep,
where the rugged pine in its lonely pride
Leans gloomily over the murky tide:


Mhere the reeds and rushes are tall and rank


vh here M .he reeds grow thick on the winding bank.
mhere the shadow is heavy the whole day through,
Lies at its moorings the old canoe
The useless paddles are idly dropped
Like sea birds wings that the storm hath stopped,
AND crossed on the railing, one Ger one
Like folded hands when the work is done;
hile busily back and forth between
Inc spider stretches his silver screen
And the solemn owl with his dull 81 too whoo,
Nesties down on the side of the old
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave
Rots slowly away in its hidden grave
And the green moss creeps Ger its dull decay
Hiding the mouldering past away.
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb flower,
Or the ivy that mantes a falling tower;
While many blossom of liveliest hue
Springs up DER the stern of the old canoe
The currentless waves are dead and STILL
But the light winds play with the boat at will,
And lazily in and out again
1t floats the length OF its rusty chain,
Like the weary march of the hands of time,
That meet and part at the noontde chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turn
By the dipping bow of the old canoe.
Oh many time, with a careless hand,
have pushed it away from the pebbly strand
And padded it down where the stream ran quick
When the whirs were wild and the storm was thick
And laughed as leaned on the rocking side,
And looked below in the broken tide.
To that the faces and boats two,
That were mirrsred back from the old canoe.
But now, as lean the crumbling side
And lock below in the sluggish tide,
Rhe face that see Is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has a sober tone,
And the hand that leant to the light skiff wings,
Has grown familiar with serner things
But love to think of the hours that flew
As rocked where the whirls their wild spray sew
Ere the blossoms moved or the green grass grew
Ger the moUldering stern of the old canoe.
Year: 1868

GRANT DRUNK.-The Napa Register, recently,
speaking of the Democratic charge that Grant is
inordnatey addicted to drinking, says =" 1t
must have been fighting whisky we sup
pose, that the General made use Of, and not the
miserable 'tangle-leg' used by the rebels. If
the General never gets any drunker than he was
at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg and Richmond, we
shall feel perfectly safe in voting for him for the
Presidency. When he gets into the Executive
chair, we want him to keep just so drunk, till he
has cleaned out the rebels and traitors that are
the pest of the country in time of peace, as eff
fectually he did their brethren and co-laborers
on the field of battle If Grant do such
glorious things for his country and for his own
fame when drunk, we don't any particular
necessity for his ever getting sober"
Year: 1868

MORE THAN DoUBTFUL.-The Great Republic,
published at Washington, talks in this naughty
manner 1.-THE Chicago Times then goes on to
say it will be one of the efforts of the Democracy.
in the approaching Presidential campaign, to
"purify the social character of the country -
Its crusades will be against vulgarity, and -
adds the Times, 90 it will attempt to fumigate
both Congress and the Presidential mansion
That the White House needs fumigating no one
will deny, but that the political stencil within its
desecrated walls would be materially mitigated
by such odors as Copperhead Democrats of the
Times stripe accustomed to exhale, is more
than doubtful
Year: 1868

Our Democratic contemporaries seem to be
s'after the soldiers with extraordinary ferocity
1t is evident that they will never forgive Grant
OF Sherman for their services in suppressing the
rebellion. The New York World and Express
are proving to their readers that every one of
Lees rebels was equal to four or five Of Grant S
men and the Examiner, not to be outdone in
expressions of malice, is advertising General
Butler as a thief ana General Sherman as some
thing even worse. 1t doubts if q in the whole
history of warfare-savage or civilized-a more
damning and infamous record was ever made"
than that made by Sherman in his march from
Atlanta to Savannah.-OaklandN News.
Year: 1868

GREELEY ON GRANT.-The New York Tribune
says of Grant that &C he was ever magnanimous
foe, and no man is more anxious than he that
the bloody, hateful past should be speedily OBJ
sured by genuine fraternity and mutual good
will. He says the country wants peace, ana
no man better knows the wish of the people or
will labor more earnestly to carry it out"
Year: 1868

TALK AND SILENcE.-Henry Ward Beecher thus
discourses about "talkatve men :''-Talking is
not simply habit, but matter of original con-
stitution. Some persons have talking endow-
ment, and some have not. There is positive
faculty of expression, vocalization, of which
silence is merely the negative. AS cold is only
the absence of heat, so silence may be, not the
result of prudence, but the want of gift i'm
pulse of speech. There is popular impression
that great takers of course fiippant and that
silent people are, presumptvely, wise. To say
of man " he talks +" great deal is equivalent
to saying he thinks but little. But will observa-
tion bear this out? 1t is true that some wise
people tacturn, but others, equally saga
cious, are talkative. Some foolish people talk a
great deal, but there are great many foolish
people who are very uncOmmunicative. One
may see, every day, that some wise men talk very
little, and others, equally wise, good deal. A
little observation will show, too, that silent men
sometimes think much, and other silent men very
little. 1t is true, that training in the ways of
the world will render man cautious of achat he
says. But the impulse of speech is so strong in
many natures that nothing can repress it. Gen.
Sherman is an incessant talker. lie will talk for
hours, for the sake, as it would seem, of reliev-
ing himself of some inward fullness. General
Grant, except in private and confidential circle,
is very silent. Yet both of these men are WISE
and each in his own way, man of genius Is
Grant any wiser for his silence than Sherman for
his speech Each is wise in his own way -
Some people hold their peace because they will
not say, and some because they cannot say, and
some because they have nothing to say Silence
is mere cover. 1t hides thoughts and equally
hides emptiness as soemnity is the arch-father
of hypocrisy-the mask behind which cant and
insincerity practice their parts-so silence is used
to hide weakness or folly.
Year: 1868

STAGNATIoN.-Owing to the stoppage of
0aViSation on the river, or to the present cold
Weather, or to some other cause or causes,
here is general staguation in business about
town. No matter for this, though, there is
good time coming, if people can only be
elatented to wait till it comes.
Year: 1868

LOOK TO YOUR CHICKENS.-Fowls that
were not housed when the cold weather set
in, generally got their legs frozen; we no.
t'ceI numbers Of chickens during the first Of
the Week that we're hobbling about in this
plight, besides some laying around loose and
hieIess; and also some dead ducks (not of
The Forney breed) that had been frozen or
chilled to death. If the cold weather should
continue, peopl would do well to keep their
fowls housed in the day time as well as at
uight
Year: 1868

THE dead of winter is upon US. The
Weather is cold, oh, so cold, that one can
scarcely sleep o nights or hardly get up o.
mornings. The thermometers have not in
Sleated the zero figure yet. but they have
come within about one of it.
Year: 1868

The COLUMBIA GONE UP"-Not exact
ly, but frozen up, or frozen over, and conseN
qa.ntly navigation from Cello to Wallula
has clnsed fJr the present. How long the
river is to remain closed is a matter just now
about which there is considerable specula-
ton, and we may add, it is a question about
which all know absolutely nothing. While
some people are anxious that it should open
very soon, others want it to stay closed a
long time, thinking business would be 50
much better by it in the spring.
Year: 1868

John Stout is getting troublesome Every
day the city marshal warns him to remove those
boxes from the sidewalk before next morning,
and next day tho marshal finds as many there as
ever. Yet, on examination, he finds the old lot
has boon removed, and new arrival has taken
its place. 1t is truly amazing what an amount
Of goods John sells week in and week out, and
the rush seems to go on in spite OF bad weather,
mud or any other obstruction. na.
Year: 1868

SCOTT, HoUTz Il Co. have been so densely
crowded all week with rush of customers that
occasionally they had to entrench on the side
walk The great popularity of this new firm
arises precisely from the facts that they not only
have the goods that buyers want, but sell them
at the lowest living prices. They are courteous
pleasant, honorable men, and take no unfair ad-
vantages of anybody.
Year: 1868

Hamilton have let the contract for the erec-
ton this season, yet, OF large machine shop on
Main street, north of the canal, between the
Clancy Lumber Yard and the railroad track
The building is to be of brick, two stories high,
40 by 120 to l30 feet. The old shop, opposite
the Park House, which has grown entirely too
contracted for their vast and rapidly increasing
business, will, we presume, be taken down and
make room for handsome block of stores some
Year: 1868

NEW MHIINERY.---Mrs. Ford desires US to
call the attention of the ladies to her new stnnk
of millinery just received. She has not only all
the new styles in bonnets and fx-ups, but many
other things the way Of ribbons and trim
mings that the ladies will find worth looking At
Her place is next door north of the post Office,
opposite the Clifton Hotel
Year: 1868

BURK d. HEENAN, our next door neighbors,
have been obstructing the sidewalk in front OF
their store for week past with any number of
barrels, bales and boxes of new goods These
gentlemen boast not only that they excel in the
line of dry goods, but also keep a very extern
sive as well as choice stock of groceries They
are number one men to deal with.
Year: 1868

LOOKS LIKE BUsINEss.-The way Goodsell &
Carson are piling up lumber at their yard on the
side cut near the state yard, locks decidedly like
business. They evidently mean to nonopolize
heavy end Of the lumber trade Of this county
By the way, lumber is going up and people
must hurry if they expect to buy much more at
SIT thousand
Year: 1868

The new goods at Morgan & Fosseen's are the
admiration of all whs have seen them. They
have heen selected with great care, embrace none
but the newest patterns in dress goods, and in all
other lines are of the primest and best brands.
You will get no better goods or bargains any
where else
Year: 1868

THE KEYNOTE OF CHILD & BRO. is: with
our unsqualled facilities, we can give you better
goods at lower prices than you can get elsewhere
in the west" There is their advantage They
are branch of an immense manufacturing con-
cern at the east, and therefore never buy from
second hands. They can well defy competition
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
neopIe to be self-reliaut and shall do what we
NAV be able 10 induce the establishment OF
nanufactorio7 in our midst for our home pro-
auets. To this end We will pay special attention
"a The COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves TO encourage the divorsiE
..ti,n of Southern industries and the develop
ueut Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

Rec RDER's COURT.-Pat McCOurt,
who has frequently appeared before
the Recorder, got on a three dollar
drunk, and was costed 81 TO- IfPat.
could be made to realize the exact
amount of labor it would require to
liquidate the claim against him, at 60c
per day, working on the streets, he
might not be caught in such extrava-
gance as indulgence in a three dollar
drunk very soon again.


A young man, not exceeding Is
years of age, who came to this city
from New Albany, to attend a restau-
rant and saloon, was far more econom-
jeal than. Pat; a one dollar drunk
was all the young man could stand
aud even for that he was obliged to
crave the indulgence Of the city,
through the Recorder, not being able
to pay the small amount of 81 10
costs for polite attentions on the part
Of the officers. The Recorder, IN the
plenitude Of his mercy, agreed that he
would reduce the costs as far as he
had control over it, if the young man
would go home to his parents, and
learn to sin no more. 1t is to be hoped
that he will.
Year: 1868

LARGE CLUBs.-We have received
two large clubs of subscribers to the
CAMPAIGN JOURNAL already, one
from Rockport and one from Halle
ton, Indiana, and yet the work has
not commenced hardly. The CAM
PAIGN JOURNAL should be placed il
the hands Of every Union man in the
First Congressional District. By a
little effort on the part of the friends
in various parts Of the District, large
lists may easily be obtained. We
hope our friends will go to work at
once, and see to it that not only every
Republican voter, but every man IN
whose hands the paper is likely to do
good, will be supplied with a copy


The surest way to secure a great vic
tory for the Republican cause is to
circulate good and reliable newspa-
pers. County Central Committees
ought to look after this matter.
Year: 1868

BRIcK.-A large amount Of brick
will be manufactured here this year,
more, perhaps, than during any for
mer season. Sale will, no doubt, be
found for all that will be made. as the
prospect for an increased amount of
building is very fattering. Until the
late bad weather set in the various
brick yards were in full operation,
but, of course, the work is suspended
for the present. With the return Of
good weather, the work will be push
ed forward with vigor.
Year: 1868

DIsAGREEABLE.-Yesterday after
noon was quite disagreeable and
chilly. Several persons built fires
at their various places of business,
the air being so disagreeabIe as to
render it necessary for comfort.
Year: 1868

A DRUNKEN Row.-A row occur
red on Main Street last night about
y o'clock, between a party of two on
the one side, and five on the other, IN
which the weaker party we're roughly
handled One man had quite a cash
cut in his head. while the other re-
ceived a slight irjury, probably from
a fall. The offending party at once
ran away, and placed themselves be-
yond the reach of the police. Only
one name was learned, and tha. we
withhold, with the hope that he viii,
in future. keep out Of such serapes.
Year: 1868

THELECTURE To o-NIGHT.-We hope
all will remember the lecture at Ma
sonic Hall to night. Judge Law has
kindly consented to lecture for the
benefit Of the Library Association,
and we urge all to go, fully satisfied
that the lecture will be instructive
and entertaining. Our citizens should
encourage home lectures, and by their
presence at Masonic Hall tonight
testify their appreciation Of the efforts
Of the Directors Of the Library Asso-
citation to introduce upon the lecture
platform such of our fe!iow-eitizens
as are capable and wiling 70 address
them. The lecture will commence at
eight O'Clock.