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Year: 1868

The scarcity of homes is one of the main
causes of the most serious evils that af1ct Cali
fornia The influence of home is as necessary
to the development of human nature as the in
fuence of religion. 1t is very hard indeed for
the homeless man, unless he is gifted with extra
ordinary strength of character, is governed by
fixed principles that have settled themselves
through long experience and trial, upon tie
frmest basis and given to all the actions of daily
life the force of habits, he will find it utterly i'm


possible to resist the seductions of dissipation
and vice in one form another. 1t is indeed
true that some so situated socially, that,
though possessing no homes of their own they
enjoy familiar access to circles where home in
fuences are brought to bear upon them. Yet
even these are but partially protected from the
dangers that surround homeless There
is nothing that fully compensates for the lack of
a home of ones own. A hotel however good a
hotel it may be, can never be home it is the
same with a clearinghouse. Still less can
those unfortunates who live in furnished lodg-
ings and get their meals at restaurants, be said
to have home. They are in fact the most
wretched of all. Yet many of them are not con-
scious of this, and seem well enough satisfied
with their forlorn and inhuman mode of life,
which is only an additional proof of the extent
to which they have become demoralized. One
great hindrance to the multiplication of homes
is delusion on the subject of the comparative
expense of living in hotels and boarding g-houses.
The truth is, with judicious economy, home-life
is the least expensive, as well as the most COM
Portable and happy Of all modes. The income
which supports bachelor of average means,
would maintain a small family. 1t is true that
In our highly artificial and almost anomalous
social condition, there are many men and wo-
that prefer hotel life or boarding house life
to assuming the duties and cares of separate
household. Where this preference is found on
the part of the man, it shows that all the milder
and gentler traits, all the purer and simpler
tastes have been lost or dulled in him where it
exists in woman it proves that she lacks the
sweetest and loveliest instincts of her sex, and
she is better fitted for the excitements of the
ballroom and theater, and for career of heart
less dissipation, than for the calm current of
domestic life. Men of this description cannot
make good husbands still less can women who
do not wish and yearn for home of their own
with all its care and responsibilities, make good
wives. When there shall be more homes in CAL
ifornia, and fewer clearinghouse, lodging
houses and restaurants, the more grievous of the
social evils by which afflicted will have
begun to dsappear.-Dramatie Chronicle.
Year: 1868

The object Of this Association is to secure q cash
payment within forty days after the death OF .
me mber, OF as many dollars ss there members
In the class 20 which he or she belongs 20 his OF
her heirs
Year: 1868

THE WISCONSIN EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION has
assembled to-day under happy and favoring
circumstances---in somerespects distinguished
from any of its previous sessions. In addition
to the ordinary and usual felicities of such an
agreeable meeting together, after an interval
of separation, of the members of the same
profession from all parts of our own common
wealth. we are honored with the presence of
q large number of our brethren from
younger sister state, who have accepted an
invitation to unite with us in the congratula-
tions aud festivities of this occasion.


GENTLEMEN OF MINNEsoTA We bid you
hearty and cordial welcome-we hope you
will find it good to be with US. We are glad to
receive you as guests in our fair and rising
commercial metropolis, year ago, you
received us in your fiourishing and hospitable
capital, when we found it good to be with
you. We re-echo the sentiment of the gentle
HIAwATHA, in LoNGFELLow's romantic song of
the " Land of the Dacotahs,'' which you have
just left 10 visit us
Year: 1868

" Beautiful is the sun, o strangers,
When you come 50 far to see us
All our town in peace awaits you,
All our doors stand open tor you;
You shall enter ali our dwellings,,
For the hearts right hand we give you.
Never bloomed the earth SO gayly,
Never shone the san SO brightly,
AS to-day they shine and blossom
W hen you come SO far to see us
Never was our lake SO tranquil,
Nor so free from rocks and sand bars;
Never before had our flowers
Such sweet aud pleasant flavor,
Never the broad leaves of our corn fields
Were so beautiful to look on,
As they seem to us this morning,
When You come SO far to see us !"
Year: 1868

divorce from bis or her lawful companion whose
marital rights alone are supposed to be invaded.
But if adultery is a public crime worthy OF
capital punishment, let the punishment be adj
ministered after fair trial before an impartial
Judge and Jury, and no longer, as heretofore,
by the person most aggrieved and therefore
least likely to judge correctly either of the
fact or of the degree Of guilt involved. We
oppose capital punishment in all its FORMS and
we do not like it any better when administered
for adultery than when dealt out for murder,
nor when inflicted by an injured husband
than when imposed by a court Of justice. But
the temptation to make adultery or the sus-
picion of adultery capital, and punishable by
private assassination, will remain so long as
Legislatures refuse to make it a crime, and to
punish it, as they do seduction under promise
of marriage, and rape, by imprisonment in
State Prison.
Year: 1868

We are favored with pamphlet Roll of
I" the Black Dupes and White Renegades who
".voted in Mobile City and County for the
Menagerie Constitution for the State of Ala
bama," which is announced as Published by
order of the Constitutional Club of Mobile"
The object of this publication is unQuestiOna-
bly, to prescribe and persecute these voters, so
that they shall be starved or hunted out of the
State. This is an old dodge, but it seldom
wins. We cite this pamphlet as an argument
for the admission of Alabama by Congress un-
der this "Menagerie Constitution If Seventy
Thousand Men, nearly all poor and dependent,
would brave the consequences of voting to rat
ify it-many of them knowing full well that
they did so at the cost of their children's
bread-they ought to be sustained and strength
ened Room in the Union for loyal Alabama!
Year: 1868

Although we do not assent TO the Free
Trade doctrine, we at least understand what
it is and are capable of arguing against the
wisdom of applying it to this country at the
present time, without incorporating it or
stating that Free-Traders believe what every
Free Trader knows he does not believe. One
reason why We think We have got O little
nearer to the bottom of the Tariff question
than at least some Free-Traders, is that they
do not seem to have made up their minds
upon our doctrines, but TO have reflected upon
monstT0us Misrepresentation Of our doctrines
manufactured by themselves, and as unlike
the real article as an oval piece OF chalk is
like hen's-egg. When we see bipeds of the
Free Trade breed gathering these fraudulent
nest-eggs under their wings and broOding
over them, growing very lean and snappish
because they can hatch nothing out of them,
We feel sense of benignant pity that the
instinct which prompts them to incubate over
such matters at all is not coupled with the
sense to distinguish truth from falsehood.
The following extract from The Chicago
Tribune illustrates this incapacity:


Protection consists In leaving the exchanges OF pro-
duets free and unta1ed That the consumer pays the tax
certain that he purchases and consumes the taxed
goods The tax s not paid o1 OF the goods but out OF
the earnings ana wages OF tho purchaser n taflH is
nothing but tax on the earnings of the person who
buys the imported article. The notion that duty on


import protects" the and Is paid by the pro-
ducer is akin to the DID, exploded belief that the earth
stood t and the sun and stars reyolyed around IT, be-
cause IL seemed 20 the eye. An ignorant shallow
minded person apt TO suppose thata tax foreign
commodity Is paid by the foreigner and therefore pro


cos the home producer when In point Of fact tho tax
out OF the pocket OF the home OF the
article, and instead Of being benefit TO him, Is dead
loss.


The above extract assumes that Protection
afa hOl do ~ hn IN m
such imported goods as they consume. They
hold no such doctrine. The extract assumes
that PrOtectiOnists deny that tariff is tax
on the earnings of the person who buys the
imported article. They do not The extract
assumes that Protectionists hold that a duty on
an import protects the consumer of the thing
imported, and is paid by the producer No
Protectionist holds any such thing, nor any of
Year: 1868

A Brooklyn correspondent writes as that the
only effectual remedy against the universal
frauds on the revenue by tobacco manufac-
turers is to require every package Of tobacco
put on sale to be stamped according to its
value and authorize the officers TO seize it il
found unstamped At present, the business OF
legitimate manufacturers who pay the 40 cents
per pound tax is completely broken down by
competition with the irresponsible swindles
who evade the tax altogether. In Brooklyn,
three factories alone have capacity for turning
out 10000 pounds per day, and are evadng tho
entire tax. So in New-YOrk, Philadelphia, and
the Western cities Formerly, all manufac-
turers branded their tobacco, and the leading
brands had a reputation that was OF great
value. Now, nearly all tobacco Is sold with


out brands. The general practice Is
to hire some irresponsible stool-pigeon
to incur the risks Of manufacturing
subject to the revenue penalties, while
the parties who furnish him with the capital
pretend to sell him the raw material, and buy
from him the manufactured article. While the
reputable manufacturer is thus driven out OF
business by the smuggler, the profits charged by
the latter are such that the consumers pay nearly
as high prices for tobacco in all its forms as If it
had paid Its full tax TO the Government. The
tax acts, therefore, as a tax for the benefit of
smugglers, dishonest inspectors, and revenue
thieves. We have no doubt the stamp system
would be more efficient for collecting revenue
on both tobacco and spirituous liquors. But
in addition to the stamp system, there are
needed reorganization of our whole Internal
Revenue Department; a yigilant prosecution of
all offenders, a removal of all slow, dishonest
or inefficient assessors, inspectors and collectors
and the appointment of new men after ex-
animation by Board of Examiners. Moreover
it is not improbable that some plan of holding
officers pecuniarily responsible for the loss Oh
revenues may have the effect to secure that
vigilance in the collection of the tax which is
needed If every other plan fail, it would DO
cheaper and better to farm out the whisky and
tobacco revenues to the highest bidder at public
auction and let them be collected on specula'
tiOn, than to leave them as they have hereto
fore been, almost wholly uncollected.
Year: 1868

The N. J.. World never tires of reiterating
lis wonder Mt the fact that Arkansas and the
other recOnstructing States can be required and
Iermitted TO vote upon an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States while as yet
they are ont of the Union, and as q condition
precedent TO their admission intt the Union.
We believe the Constitution of the United
States was first voted upQa by States not in
the Union, and that they only came into the
Union by means o. the votes which they had
given for the Constitution while as yet they
were out Of The Union; the provision of the
Constitution being that "t the ratification of the
conventions of nine States shall be sufficient
'fOr the establishment of this Constitution
between the States so Tatifying tho same"
If the whole Constitution can be voted upon
by q State out of the Union, as a condition Of
getting into the Union. how much more an
amendment Moreover, the Constitution author
izes Congress to permit not only the legislatures
but a convention of a State to ratify an amend
ment to the Constitution; and whether the
Legislature of Arkansas can yet be regarded
as valid Legislature or not, there can be
little doubt that it is q Convention, authorized
by Congress TO pass upon this question. But
llaJ lnCnOdle anu undulHltlcu DldVeb bnOulu
perform in advance the functions of States, to
become valid when the State is admitted, so
far from being exceptional, is the uniform pre-
cedent furnished by every State that has en-
tered the Union The very question whether
q State shall be admitted to the Union can only
arise when it has elected United States Sena-
tors and Representatives having first adopted
O Constitution and elected a State Legislature
under it, Yet State not in the Union has
Just as much or little right to elect United
States Senators and Representatives as to adopt
a constitutional amendment. The legal validity
and effect of all these acts dates from the vote
of Congress admitting the State into the Union.
Prior to that time they are inchoate, aud de-
pend upon Congress for their chances of be-
coming valid. The Worlds plan of admitting
States into the Union would be by an act in
two sections, as follows:


l. No State can come into the Union until it
has elected United States Senators.


e. No State shall elect United States Senators
until it has been admitted into the Union


This might be entitled "An act to facilitate
Reconstruction"
Year: 1868

istic testimony of the Democracys love for
ignorance), and re-districting the State, so as
to perpetuate their accidental supremacy. One
of their last novelties is to repeal the law
which prohibits the carrying of dangerous
weapons. What does it mean, do you ask 7
Just this: There are Democrats in Ohio so in
comprehensby stupid as to believe in a resort
to force, in case the peXt elections 60 against
them. They have been led to believe, by the
rawlings of Pomeroy apd bis sort that if
another Lincoln is elected, another Booth will
be on his track; and they are thick headed
enough to make this open confession, and pro-
vide-so far as their power goes-fOr the arm
ing of the ragamuffins of their rank and file
against the lawful militia of the State. Their
motion will amount to nothing but it shows
the animus Of the party the active sincerity OF
its hostility to freedom, and its desperate de-
votion to the recovery of its lost power, no
matter when nor by what means.
Year: 1868

The Senate will at noon to-day vote
upon the articles of Impeachment. The
dispatches in another column will give our
readers an idea of the theories and specu-
Iations with which Washington is filled.
We see nothing to change our belief that
the verdict will be one of conviction.


Beyond this we have no more to say
We have closed our case, and we trust that
the Senate will be brave enough to do its
duty
Year: 1868

The abstract of the annual report of the
American Seamen's Fund Society, published
elsewhere, is full of interesting facts. This
Society, though lacking that zeal and ardor
that marked its earlier history, is every year
extending its influence and growing more and
more useful
Year: 1868

A private dispatch from trustworthy source,
received at 2:15 this morning, assures us that
two Of the remaining doubtful Senators will
vote for conviction, and thus rid the nation Of
of its only obstacle to peace and prosperity.
Year: 1868

The recent acquittal, in effect, of the husband
of an adulteress for killing the partner in her
offtnse suggests the vital necessity of some
adequate law making adultery a crime, and
providing for it punishment bearing somo
proportion to the evil consequences of the act.
At present, its consequences are limited to the
liability to which it subjects either party to
Year: 1868

The old Union Republican Campaign Club
will meet at headquarters this evening. for the
purpose of expressing their opinion on the re-
suit of the Impeachment trial. Ladies are
initial
Year: 1868

SHIELD WooLEx MiLLs.-Our citizens
oil have e sort Of lawful pride in this popu-
lar establishment, and are never tired Of
hearing Of its prosperity. Most Of them
have but little idea Of the amouat Of goods
daily manufactured, and the constant run
that is being made upon ito resources. Be
it known then, that the daily average Of
goods that are passed into the salssroom
from the finishing department 10 not less
than Eve hundred yards. The mill 10 run
ming daily until half past nine in the eve


ming, thus making day and quarter Of
time. One would naturally suppose that
three thousand yards Of homemade goods
would supply this market, and that Mr..
Shields would Hnd no difficulty in filing
his orders. This 10 mistake. Though be
entered upon the fall trade with . pretty
heavy accumulation Of stock. made up du


ring the more quiet summer term, he il per-
picked every day to make out goods enough
to Gill the orders. The retail trade 10 very
heavy. and many days consume more goods
than he can manufacture. All this proves
thai home manufactures are not disregard
ed in Davenport. The people understand
that be is making superior articles Of Ca.si


meres, F.annels, Blankets, Yarns, 4c., and
they are not at all slow to make it known.
Year: 1868

We hear the nest AAttsringireports from
the mestinEs of Judge Murphy throughout
the District. He is holding the radicals to
their record, and pouring hot she'll into the
radical camp, and doing vast deal Of good
for the Democratic. candidates. He is .
bod and fearless advocate Of Democratic
pyincjplee
Year: 1868

There IS no duty, no study, no pleasure,
no society, no attachment, from which the
principles and sentiments of true religion
should be excluded Our ordinary labors,
public, or private, official, professional, or
handieraft; our studying in every departmet;
all innocent, genial, and gladsome Bur
suit, tempered by reason, all our attach
ments and affections to family, friends and
country will be the better, the purer, and the
happier for the presence and the influence
of true and happy piety. They do notknow
Alright the mind or the heart Of the man
who would trust to either, apart from the
influences of religion. They know not what
the Christian religion is, who imagine that
she comes into mind or heart to .quench any
noble aspiration, any generous feeling, any
patriotic devotion, any sweet and tender
family or friendly affection. She comes to
quicken, to deepen, to elevate them all to
give new life 10 everything within US that
is worthy of living. As, therefore, there is
no real and sound religion which IS not illus
trated by brotherly love aud Christian fel
lowship, so let US also remember that there
is no pure, or safe, or happy fellowship
which does not rest or move on Christian
principle. That there may be true fellow
ship with one another, there must be fel
Iowship with God and with his Son, Jesus
Christ. The work Of his grace is not to
discharge or extract, but renew and sanctify
the humanity that is within US, and to re
store US to that image of God in which, as
men, we we're created While We are in this
world we must work, and feel, and live as
men. But the Christian knows and feels
that, of religion-or rather of Him whom
religion teaches US to love and trust--it is the
peculiar Office to haIIoE and purify all the
best of what is human by the presence aud
power Of what is divine II We thus pass
on through the course of our pilgrimage,
trusting, working loving, in such fellowship
as this, We may be enabled to say


So shall no part Of day or night,


From sacredness be free.


Ard all my work, at every step,


Be fellowship with thee.


Lord Ardmillaa, Of Scotland.
Year: 1868

Living by rule, as a Medo-Persisn law,
iuhexible, is very unwise, especially II
person is in reasonable health. We have
given a great multitude of eounsels on the
subject Of health and disease, and in CON
nection with the statement that we have
not lost an hour from our Office on account
Of sickness in a quarter OF century and
more, many have inquired, with a good deal
of interest, DO you live up to the rules you
give others? Certainly not man is not a
machine, that must be turned in a certain
direction, or it will be destroyed; nor ike
locomotive, which must run on QUO fixed
track, or not run at ell. The Architect of
all worlds made US for acting under great
variety OF circumstances, and in ipfnite
wisdom and beReyolence has given 20 man
mechanism of wonderful adaptability, By
which be can live healthfully on land or see;
in the valley or on the mountain top; in the
tropics or at the poles; on the barren rocks
or In the rich sayannas. Our modes of life
must be adapted to our age, our occupation
and the peculiarities of our constitution.
There are certain genegsl principles which
are applicable to all. Every man should be
regular in bis habits of eating; should have
all the sound sleep which nature win lake:
should be in the open air an hour or two
every day, when practicable, and should
bave a pleasurable and an encauraginely re-
muneratiye occupation. which keeps hin;
little pushed, and they are happiest who
are in this last category at the same time,
if a man aecustoms himself to go to bed at
nine o clock, be need not break his neck or
get into stew if circumstances occur to keep
him up an hour or two later now and then;
and SO with eating, exercise and many other
things. No one ought to make himself a
galley slave to any observance; occasional de-
viations from all habits are actually bene-
fetal; they impart a pEabihty to the con-
stitutiou, give tia greater range Of health
tnl action. Don't 60 hto ft if dinner is
not ready at the instant. Deliver US from
a machine man, routinist, for which VIC
ever pray. Halls journal Of Health
Year: 1868

KATE cried a girl, looking down from
the upper story of grocery, addressing
another girl who was trying to enter at the
front door, we've all been to camp meetin'
and been converted, 50 when you want
anything on Sunday, you'll have to come
round to the kitchen door,
Year: 1868

The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
as cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Es-
Establishment, would inform HE 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 cut by as,
while at Mr.. Cones, we would extend invita-
tion TO call on Us at our new establishment, and
90 those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and in the habit of sending east for their gar
ments we would invite them TO call ana give US
trial, feeling confident that we can suit them In
every respect. We have a handsome assortment
Of fine Cloths Oassimeres and Vestings, together
with a large variety of splendid French Coatings
and Trieots in different shades and colors for fine
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
eolors, for overcoats,-sll Of which we will make
TO order In the best aud most fashionable manner
Mt lower rates than the class of goods can 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. Tho outing department is under our
own supervision. nov2sdly.