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Year: 1868

The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
a, cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Es-
t,blishment, would inform his friends and the
citizens of Rock Island and vicinity, that be has
oneped 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 our new establishment, and
to those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and are in the habit of sending east for their gar
nents we would invite them to call ana give us
trial, feeling confident that we can suit them in
every respect We have 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
eolors, for overcoats,--all of which we will make
10 order in the best and 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 our goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business
THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,


North side of Third Street, near the Post Ohce,


Davenport, IsWA.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


NIB. The outing department is under our
own supervision. ov2gdly
Year: 1868

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


From The Atlantic Almanac for 1859. |


Warmth, however, and al atmosphere
are not enough to secure health without
insuring the daily presence ofa sufficient
amount Of light. The dark side Of
street Is far more subject to disease than
the light side. Sir James Wylie found
three times as many cases Of disease OH
the shaded side of the barracks at st.
Petersburg as on the other side.
Dupuytren is said to have wrought
cure in the case of lady in seemingly
desperate condition, by simply removing
her from her dark quarters to bright
or residence, and keeping her as much
As possible in the daylight. There Is
no better testimony on any such point
than that of Miss Florence Nightingale.
What she says Of the value Of light to
those who are i'll indicates no less its
necessity for those who are we'll:


Second only to fresh air, however, I
shonld be inclined to rank light in i'm
portance for the sick. Direct sunlight,
not only daylight, is necessary for
speedy recovery. Instances could be
given almost endless, where in dark
wards, or wards with northern aspect,
even when thoroughly warmed, or in
wards with borrowed light, even thor
oughly ventilated, the sick could not by
any means be made speedily to rscov-
err


Very few persons seem to have q due
sense Of the luxury and benefit Of dpri.
cation, or immersion in the sunshine
bath. which every fair day will furnish
gratuitously to applicants. One ancient
man, very poor, and very simple in most
matters, whose clay pipe I sometimes
replenish for him, Is almost the only
person happen to know who seems
really to enjoy the sunshine as much as
II he were . vegetable. That these
humber creatures enjoy it, if they enjoy
anything, we may guess by their ac-
tions. The passion Of the sunhower for
''her god" Is famous in song. But there
are examples Of still more ardent devo-
tlon than hers. Mr.. Jesse tells how a
potato, left in dark cellar will. only
one opening, sent its shoot twenty feet
to get ct the light through that little
ereyice. After this story. the "eye" Of
. potato SENS well deserved name for
the bud that can So crack 20 far of.
The feathered bipeds value sunshine
Year: 1868

SaAI j EIt ltO.


AN ACT In Addition to AN Act cnti-


tied IAN Act for the Incorporation


and Government Of the Hospital for


the INSANE"


2l. BE II cnactedby the General As-
scn'by Of the State Of Ioma, That
no private patient shall be admitted in
to the the Hospital by tho superintend-
ent, under the provisions Of the eighth
section Of the Act to which this il an
addition, unless the applicant for his
admission shall produce tho certificate,
dated within two weeks previous to
the application Of a physician ap-
pointed for that purpose by the county
judge Of the county, or the circuit Judge
where the patient resides, certifying
that the patient Is insane and q proper
subject for custody aud treatment in the
Hospital; Provided. That when the In
sane person happens to be in the county
other than that Of his or heriresidence,
then, in that case, the certificate Of a
physician appointed by the county judge
of such county, or the circuit judge shall
be sufficient.


az. Upon the application of any rel
ative, guardian, or friend Of any person
alledged to be insane, the judge, where
the person alleged to be insane resides,
shall appoint some regular practicine
physician, who shall Immediately ex.
anime personally said person, and, In
case he IL found to be insane, shall give
a certificate to that effect, as it is provi.
ded in the first section Of this act. The
county judge or the circuit judge shai
be entitled to fee Of one dollar for re
ceiving the application and making the
appointment.


"a. The county judge Of any county
or the circuit judge, upon information
being filed before him that there is an
insane person within the county or cir
cult needing attention. shall immediate
ly appoint commission to inquire Int Q
the case, to consist of three persons, one
Of whom shall he q regular practicine
physician. and the other two justices ol
the peace or trustees of the township
whore the alledged insane person re-
sides.


"A. It shall be the duty Of this com.
mission t, examine personally the al
lodged insane person, to hear testimo-
ny and make all proper inquiries In re-
lation to the mental condition Of said
person, and to report 70 the county
judge or circuit judge; !. Whether he
is insane; 2. Whether he Is dangerous
TO b at large, either to himselfor others;
3. II he is not dangerous, whether hs il
Year: 1868

TORONTO, Oct. 27.-Extensive robberies in
connection with the Post Office Department
have been discovered


A package of registered letters, fifteen in
number, seat from here last week by the q rand
Trunk railway, is missing. This package Is
the third that has been stolen during the past
three weeks. No trace to the thieves has been
discovered.


The report that compromise had been effect.
ed between the ExpT Sc Company and the ex-
press robbers, is incorrect The case is now
under examination at Sandwich
Year: 1868

PERsoNAL.-Walt Whitman has returned to
Washington from his vacation trip to his native
Long Island, and TO points further North. He
has been taking look at men and things IN his
leisurely philosophical way, and probably has
found opportunity to block out some OF the
work upon the group OF poetical ar icIes treat
ing upon the religious element, designed to
complete has Ledres or Grass.
Year: 1868

AssIGSED.-By direction of the Secretary o 4
War. and upon the recommendation OF the
Commissary General Of Subsistence, Brevet
Brig. General q. l.. Knburn. Colonel and
Assistant Commissary General of Subsistence,
has been assigned TO duty as Chief Commissary
Of the Military Division OF the Atlantic, in
addition TO his present duties at New York
city, and will report to Major General Han.
cock, commanding the division.
Year: 1868

thereUpon fred a volley, some of the shots at
johns. but most OF them in the direction of
naples store, thirty or forty steps from the
column, at which place there were a number of
our citizens, all unarmed, wounding ak citizens
Immediately about twenty of our citizens sprang
to their arms and fred into the column, by which


two negroes were killed and number, unknown,
wounded. The negroes Immediately broke to


thick cluster of timber one hundred yards north


OF the court house. At this point there was en-


attempt made By Pea'ce to rally his routed forces.


Our citizens, to the number of about thirty, part


OF them mounted Immediately made charge


and completely routed the whole force Pearce


heeirg through the woods and fields, and Murphy
aud Phil Joiner escaping IN q buggy up the road


towards Albany. Seven negroes were killed.


from the best Information we have been able to
procure, between thirty and forty were wounded,


all of whom have been properly cared for.
IL Is source ofdeep regret that the calsmitous
consequences of this affair fell exclusively upon
the poor deluded negroes, led on by wicked white
men, Murphy IPearce and Putney, who made good
their escape in the hour of danger with but little
lDyury to themselves. The sad result is to be at
trlbuted more to sharpness and shrewdness of
these gallant leaders in efecting their escape,
tnan to want OF intention on the part Of our people,
We hereby disavow any purpose or intent on part
OF ourselves or our citizens to violate law or peace
OF State in what was done. We were willing, and
so expressed ourselves to these leaders, for them
to hold their political meeting at the courthouse
in our town II the negroes were disarmed, bat we
did think and still think that II was our duty to
obey orders of the sheriff as q civil officer of this
State, in breaking up this unlawful sssembage.
We felt that as their numbers vastly exceeded that
OF our citizens present, that if this meeting had
taken place, that the lives Of our wives aud
children would be at the mercy of an infuriated
mob.


While the consequences sre to be regretted,
and we do not boast of what was done by our
people, we feel that they have but discharged a
painful duty imposed upon them by wicked and
corrupt white men, now engaged in leading
sstray into acts of lawlessness colored people Of
our country. We appeal TO the aw-making pow
ers of Georgia, and the lawful authorities OF the
United States Government, to check the progress
Of these stroling criminals that are proving
about the homes and disturbing the peace and
quiet of onr war.stricken people. The foregoing
statements from military and civil authorities
give full particulars of the riot. The governor
addressed a letter to the Legislature, recommend
ing that the president be petiioned for troops.
The matter is being considered to-day.
Year: 1868

TIE QUEEN OF SFAIS.-In recent " Book About
Spain" the writer gives more pleasant view of
the queen Of Spain than is usual "5he is ex-
actly like her photographs, except that you must
add TO them a nose and lips that look as IL newly
siung by a wasp. She has, however, frank,
pleasing expression, which makes you fancy she
must have been comely enough when she wis
Young: and her manners are said TO be singulaTly
agreeable, and withal queenly. Every one says
that after you have been a short time in her COM
pany you forget what she is In the charm OF her
manner. Among the lower classes and the
country people she Is popular. Whatever the
aueen may be; she never had fair chance OF
being an honest woman. and she ia at least as
much sinued against SHINING. In her younger
DAYS she was regularly encouraged aud trained in
All sorts of excuses by her mother who was
anxious to keep the power in her own hands by
auy means within reach. The king looks like
little boy who has been well whipped, aud he ID
almost lost TO sight behind his wifes porty figure.
He Is always spoken OF with the greatest con-
tempt. and Is called Paquito, the extreme diminu-
tive Of Francisco. he is a meager, weak looking
tile man, with high treble voice, which makes
him still more ridiculous"
Year: 1868

MONTGOMERY, Sept. 22-The assembly did but
little to-day. In the House a resolution was
adopted for the appointment of committee to
wait on the governor and learn what he desired
the Legislature TO do.


member offered resolution of instruction TO
the committee on registration, to report in the
morning what progress they had made. A mem.
Der of the committee seconded the resolution, say.
ing that the registration bill was delayed because
every other member ofthe committee was opposed
to all election by the people. ia November.
Year: 1868

Nor is pleasant TO consult physician for the relief Of
these various delicate sections and only upon the most
urgent necessity viii far sacrifice her great
est charm to do this The win then thank for
placing In their hands simple specifics which will be found
ecaciOus in relieving and curing almost every Of those
troublesome complaints peculiar to the sex.
Year: 1868

sTOcK OF COTTON Al THIs POKT.-We were
very much complimented yesterday for the
plain, Straightforward and accurate report fur.
nished IN the CRESCENT and in our Price Current
yesterday, of the actual stock of cotton sill re
naming on hand in this market. We dscsim any
right to especial appreciation in the matter, how.
ever, as it has been our rule for many years to
take account of stock once or twice a year at
least and to so revise tables that the accumu-
lstion at piekeries, from SAMPLES aud in the way
Of receipts in sacks to be baled here, should be
duly added TO our actual regular returns of the
staple. At the same time we would acknowledge
our obligations to the gentlemen who counted the
stock for us-in some cases under unfaVOrabe
circumstances, as one or more managers of
presses did not appear willing to afford them the
usual facilities; but as we have during a some
what checquered life learned how to overcome
trhing mpedments in the discharge Of essential
and important duties, we have reassured ourselves
in this case that no effort on the part of store
Keepers or Others can prevent US from ascer-
tanning whenever it may be of use to our readers,
the actual amount Of goods or produce consigoed
10 any individual or firm in the Crescent City, or
the total amolnt on hand at any given time. At
the request of several factors and brokers we
have day reuublished our statement of the
cotton supply and would inform our friends that
they can obtain extra copies Of the Crescent con


tanning it on applying at the counting room.
Year: 1868

The Westminster Review, the organ of the
most progressive of political thinkers in Eng
land, and which has usually, as the Demo
cratic school of statesmen in the United
States, advocated the utmost limitation to
the powers of government has recently
recommended policy with reference to rail-
way and other locomotive agencies which
appears, at least upon first glance, to be
inconsistent with its political creed. 1t pro.
poses that government shall relieve the
people from the extortion and tyranny
of the great corporations which conduct
the locomotive system of the
country, by itself assuming the management
of them. Care is taken, however, to base
this proposition on the idea that the true
Office of government is to protect individual
liberty. "From the principle" says the
Westminster Review, "that the Intervention
of government is only justified by the neces-
sity of vindicating individual liberty, it fol-
lows, of ITSELF that the supreme control of
the system Of locomotion may be easily de-
puted to the central political author
ity In default of sucha general admin
istration in the interest of all, there
are rising on all sides self-interested
and tyrannicai corporations, turning to &c
count their exceptional power solely for the
aggrandizement of few. There is no other
apparent way of delivery from this bondage
but the potent coercion of physical force re-
sponsibly administered on behalf of the whole
community" These remarks are worth quot
ing and pondering For they apply quite as
forcbly to the question of locomotive organi-
zaiion and administration in the United
States as in England The tendency to the
concentration of the whole system in
the hands of very few capitalists,
such as Vanderbilt and Drew, who control
nearly all the means of steam transportation
used by commerce and travel between New
York city and the West, is perhaps nowhere
else so strong as in this country. Indeed,
among the rising questions of the future none
is more important than that which involves
desperate struggle of the people to throw of
the bondage Of corporate associations, or pTi-
vate combinations of capitalists, which, IA
vored by special legislation, or by the concen-
trating tendency of capital, threaten to gather
at length all the material power of the country
into their hands.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
n.ople 10 he self reliant, and shall do what we
may be able 10 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducts To this end we will pay special attention
20 the COST and STATISTICS OF manuiacturing'
and exert ourselves TO encourage the d'yersh-
cation Of Southern industries and the deveiop-
usnt Of Southern resources
Year: 1868

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE ASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support Of tho USIos AND DIsPATCH by the
patrons Of both the former papers, the Propre-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hiths
to unsurpassed in this city or State


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably ith


best in the entire country; and in ssyine


we only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons, who are most capable Of judging in


matters
Year: 1868

One of our old and respected citizens being
at the Capitol a few days since, had his eyes
opened He has been deluded by Bowen and
other leading RAIDS of our County, into the be-
lief that Democrats were deceiving him by
telling him that the policy of the Radical par
ty. was to degrade the white and elevate the
negro race Being at Little Rock, he saw four
or five great greasy, black negroes walking,
with rattan" in hand, into the hall of the
House of Representatives. Upon inquiring
he was astounded by being informed, that
they were there TO make lans TO gocern him and
his children. 1t was difficult for him to credit
this. But becoming satisfied of the truth oft,
the corruption and indecency of his party al
most overwhelmed him, and with full sense
OF his pride OF race, he Mt once renounced all
allegiance TO this party of denominations


Hundreds of good men in our State are delud-
ed as this man was, and cannot believe that
the plantation negroes are sitting in the high


places, until they actually see il. 1t is never
theless true. The negro, by Radical policy,
are now among our lawmakers Shame,
shame on the white men who knowingly aid
in the accomplishment Of this political crime.
Year: 1868

He will show the citizens of Van
Buren, and Western Arkansas, stock
of Goods, selected expressly tor this
market, unsurpassed by any other
House in the West, and at prices that
will defy competition.
Year: 1868

When a female is in trouble. afflicted with disease
weakness of the back aud limbs pain in the head n~
of sight, loss of muscular power, aptaon OF the
heart irritshy, nervousness extreme urinary difficult
ties of digestive functions general debility
vaeintis all diseases of the womb, hysteriS sterlty
and all other diseases peculiar females, she should
write TO the celebrated female doctor, w X.
Dohery his Medical Institute and consult him about
her troubles and disease The Doctur is eiecng
than any other physician in the State of California
Let false delicscy prevent hni apply immediately
and yourself from painful suffer ngs and premature
death All married ladies' whose delicate health
circumstances prevent Increase in their families should
write or call Dr.. W X Dohertys Medical Institute
and they will every possible relief and help The
Doctors offices arranged that he be consulted
without fear of observation
Year: 1868

z -


FREE


- CURES GUARANTEED, or NO.


PAY REQUIRED.


- IN ALL CASES WRERE CONF.


DENCE rs REQUIRED THE


UTMOST SECRECY MAIN.


Tanned.


The above rules, established by
DR.. j. c. Young in 1850, and which
have done so much to secure the
reputation of this Institute, are still
adhered to, atfording thosei in need
of medical aid, the certainty of cure
and the utmost confidence.


There is nothing of so great i'm
portancc to the sick as to know
where to find a physician whose
skill and humanity give assurance Of
proper and delicate treatment. The
Doctor would respectfully call the
attention of those of both sexes who
are suffering or in trouble to the in
variable success that has marked the
career of the Institute in the seven
teen years of its existence.


1t is unnecessary IN this connec-
ton to enumerate all the complaints
treated at the Institute, but the Doc
tor .eels it his duty to call especial
attention to that terrible scourge


SEMINAL WEAKNESS,
that is sapping with its insidiousness
the very life of its victims; in the
treatment and cure of which TIE
Institute has earned SO enviable
reputation.
Year: 1868

To lhs Editor Of The Tribune


SIR: few days since you gave summary
OF the growing crops throughout the country with the
probable yield, emitting to mention Kansas. Having
inst made extended the State, the nforms
tion I send you may be Of interest.


The amount Of land under cultivation is more tEan
double any previous year Winter wheat and rye were
sown In about the quantity, and will be ready
harvest in about ten days The yield To the acre VII
be large and uniform. Spring wheat and oats look
ing vigorous and growing rapidly Corn generally
ready for cultivation and is very promising We have
labor. From present indications we shall have bOunt
ful harvest.


loaded and apples very numerous where orchards
have had sufficient growth Grape vines give promise Oh


large yield The planting Of fruittrees this Sprug has
been so large that most Of our nurseries have been
cleaned out.


OF breaking being done Is i've times that OF any peYb
year. Emigration larger than ever before and We
are evidently the highway to pro spcrity and wealth


Topeka, Kansas, May 70. 1868 j. ".
Year: 1868

The leases OF the ferries which ply between James
street and Hunters Point and Jackson street and
Navy street, Brooklyn, having expired, Comptroller
Connolly yesterday disposed Of them by auction for
a term Of ten years each from the 1st day Of May,
1868. The former was purchased by Oliver Charlick
by the Navy Yard Ferry Company at rental Of $50
per annum. Besides the ordinary terms Of such q
lease covenant is prescribed requiring each ferry
boat to nave attached TO its engine fire apparatus
or force pump with not less than 400 feet Of hose of
the quality and dimensions that used by the Metro
poitan Fire Department Of the city of New York. and
TO be used for the extIngushment Of fires whenever
required by the Chief Engineer or his assistants OF
the Metropolitan Fire Department OF the city Of New
York for which services the lessee shall receive $40
per hour for each hour engaged and no time to be
counted less than one hour.