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Year: 1868

well known member Of the demt-nionde has been
In the habit during some time past Of robng herself


in male attire and cutting quite dash in various
parts OF the city, especially in the ndtsons de jote
and so complete was her disguise and so manike her
demeanor that she bafIied detection. BY some
means, however, her eccentricty became known to
the police, and yesterday afternoon she was found by
Sergeant Fields OF the Fifteenth precinct, sporting
around dressed In the most exquisite style as q
young gent and was taken 10 tae station house.
IL being after court hours she was locked up, but
after some strenuous exertions by influential friends
she was released from custody. She has been known
az Charles f. Morgan alias Ward alias julia, and she
claims to be the mistress Of wealthy stockbroker.
Year: 1868

The races at Jerome Park postponed on account Of
the weather from last week. will be resumed to-day
and continue tomorrow and next day. Four races
win be run to-day, the first dash of q mile and
threeeighths for all ages; the race for the West
chester cup, which Is valued at $1,000 for all ages
dash Of two miles and quarter. This will be fol-
lowed by q selling race, a dash OF q mile and
quarter, the winner to be sold Immediately after the
race The sports OF the day will close with dash OF
a mile and an eighth for three year olds The fields
will be numerous and fine racing may be anticipated,
particularly for the cup. which has in it the best
horses In the country. Fanny Cheatham s the favor
ite at slight odds, although Onward ia stouty
backed to wiz.
Year: 1868

RoUNDHEADs, JAooBINs, IMPEAoHRRs. The
Roundheads in England, the Jacobins in France
and the impeachers in the United States are
the same party, the same historical fact, the
same faction existing in the same crcum-
stances, aiming to accomplish the same thing.
Equally violent, vindictive headstrong, coarse
and vulgar, there is nothing to choose between
them. In the other countries one faction used
the axe and another the guillotine, and the
violence of the faction here would pursue the
same course If the age would permit it. This
is seen in the outrageous acts done in defiance
of law and almost without reprobation--such
as the imprisonment Of a citizen without crime
done or trial had, and the violation of the Post
Office and the telegraph.
Year: 1868

THE RADICALS ON CHASE. radicals
are beginning to feel bad and are exceedingly
savage on Chase. They have reason to be.
They say he has abandoned their party and
turned traitor, like Johnson. Our opinion is
that Chase was never mere partisan, never
assented that he was the property of any party,
whether democrat, whig, free soil, republican
or radical We believe that he stands quite
above those little currents of opinion that
make party, takes the stand of statesman
and acts with any party that for the time seems
in the way to carry out his great idea in regard
to the country. He does not accomplish party
purposes but makes party accomplish his pur-
pose. This was the policy of Peel, who used
all parties at will. II is the course of Bright
Of Gladstone, of Disraeli This would have
been also the course of Theirs, controlling, per-
haps, the deslinies of France, had he gone into
the Cabinet of Louis Philippe instead of that
small and inooherent party man, Guizot Every
statesman of name has stood and stands above
party in exactly the same way. Chase has not
''turned traitor to any party. He is simply
still faithful to the country and finds that an
other party than the radical party is likely to
do what is best for the nation.
Year: 1868

TRAVEL In AND Our OF New YoRK-We
have made a comparative estimate of the
travel in and out of this city daily of what
may be termed strangers-that is, of persons
not doing business here, who come in and go
out daily. On an average there are about
twenty thousand strangers coming in and the
same number going out every day That
would be about seven millions year. From
this estimate we exclude the two TO three hun
dred thousand emigrants arriving every year
and all those living outside and doing business
in the city. The strangers we speak of are
pleasure seekers, travellers and those who
come on business. Supposing each individual
spends only ten dollars this would bring to our
hotels, restaurants, places of amusement and
other establishments an income of over seventy
millions a year, to say nothing of the much
larger amount spent at the dry goods and other
stores. These are the evidences and advan-
tages Of mighty commercial metropolis But
in the course of few years this travel to and
from New York and expenditure of money here
will be vastly augmented The growth and
business Of New York represent the progress
and wealth of the country, and they march to-
gether.
Year: 1868

THE SAENaEIFEsT AND CoNaRRss Our
German fellow citizens get up festival and
manage II in handsome spirit, doing the
thing with all the might Of their hearty natures ;
and we suppose that the whole public generally
sympathizes with them in their anticipations of
pleasure at the great feast they are now organ
izing. We hope the reality may not fall short
in any respect and should rejoice to see them
get in all their prizes from Germany duty free
There is no reason why Congressman, az indi-
viduals, should not attend this festival and
share ts delights; but there are abundant and
good reasons why men should not attend il
from the House Of Representatives as members
and delegates from the House That il alto
gether wrong. Congress quite iorgets it, place
when 1t thus formally recognizes particular
organizations especially when organized on
basis of foreign nationality; and this is all
the worse when the Indictment is most pal
pable spirit of dcmagogery. What society
may not call upon Congress in the same way,
and whittier would this leads
Year: 1868

PROBABLE RESULTS OF THE PRESENT Con-
sRRvATIvE MOVEMENT time ago the
conservatives started a movement to cut in
between the radicals and copperheads, but
they had no head or ralying point, and that
movement failed Now they are trying again
and have got on the right track Chief Justice
Chase Is the head and the Democratic Conven-
ton is the rallying point for this new move
ment. II Is formidable aud started at the pro-
per time. If Mr.. Chase should be nominated
his nomination will break up and demoralize
the republicans In and out of Congress. The
conservative Senators, who killed impeach-
ment and who are already virtually read out
Of the radical party, would, both from choice
and necessity, go for Mr. Chase and they,
with other conservative republican leaders,
would draw with them large vote. Such is
the prospect aud such would be the result,
probably, II the New York Convention should
have the good sense to nominate the Chief
Justice.
Year: 1868

GRANT AND CuAsE-TnE PAST AND THE
FUTURE.-Grant put down the rebellion by
force Of arms, though at terrible cost Chase
furnished the sinews Of war to accomplish that
object. But all this is in the past What we
have to look to now is the future. The
supremacy Of civil government and civil liberty
over military despotism and the regulation Of
the national finances are the paramount objects
in view at the present time. Grant is not the
man for these; they are not 10 his line. Chase
is the man TO restore civil government and TO
regulate the finances.
Year: 1868

LoaAN's DISGUST. Logan cannot get
over the dreadful failure to remove the Presi-
dent. He is determined to remove something,
1t seems, and failing the President goes at the
capital. He will remove the capital because
the people in Washington are 'disloyal"-that
is, not radical. They, perhaps, do not admire
Logan, and he wants to take the capital of the
nation to some place where they do admire
Logan-out West, of course. 1t is a good
policy he indicates Let the nation spend
hundred millions on public buildings in some
new spot, and then when the people that settle
around do not sympathize with some crazy
party of the future move it again
Year: 1868

BY using insulting language toward his superior
ofhcer and the President OF the United States.
such conduct, however, Is the natural result of
taking away the legitimate power and humi-
hating the Executive Of the nation by vim
dictive faction. This Commissioner, instead of
being allowed to resign, ought to be dismissed
Instantly.
Year: 1868

FRENCH MILLINERY AND AMERICAN DRY
GooDs.-We complain of the income tax and
other taxes and with reason, for they are GER
tainly heavy enough but what are these to
the taxes of three or four hundred per cent
over cost imposed upon us by French milli-
ners and all who make up French fancy goods
and American dry goods for us to wear? The
prices in this city frghtfu and out of all pro-
portion to cost or to the profits of other kinds
Of business. In the matter of French millinery
particularly prices are ridiculously extrava-
CANT If the materials of an article cost ten
dollars unmade the price made up is from fifty
to hundred dollars. Now, why should not
A. 7. Stewart, Lord Il Taylor, Arnold &
Constable, Sloane and other houses which i'm
port and sell everything in the way of wearing
materials, get their goods made up for custom
ers at fair price for labor and skill over the
cost of the goods? They can get it done
quite as well and as fashionably. And why
should not our ladies save three, four or five
hundred per cent in this way? A word to the
wise is sufficient.
Year: 1868

EoEm8n0Dg-A0AOx OA0O4o>
tieu.


By cable kilograms dated in London on Sat-
urday and yesterday we have rumors, repeated
almost to confirmation, to the effect that
Mr.. Dsraeli contemplates dissolving Parlia-
ment. There is nothing new in this piece of
information, for, as we all know, Mr.. Disraeli
has been for the last three months frightening
the members of the House Of Commons into
obedience and good behavior by threatening
to dissolve Parliament and make an appeal to
the people. Mr.. Disraeli, however, is as little
willing to dissolve Parliament as any of the
members are to be sent back at present to their
constituents. Still the government of England
Is at present conducted In such an abnormal
fashion that, as many Of the leading journals
have already declared, general election, with
all its decentralization and money cost, might be
positive blessing. AS Prime Minister Mr..
Disraeli has an unquestioned right to test his
position by an appeal to the country; but as
general election, with or without one now,
is inevitable under the new Reform bill, and
as there is scarcely the shadow of chance





would improve his position, it amounts almost
to certainty that there will be no dissolution
until the Scotch and Irish Reform bills shall
have passed into law and the new constitu-
encies all over the three kingdoms are in full
working order. However, Mr.. Disraeli is not
wanting in bravery, and if overmuch annoyed
he may put his threat into execution, hold an
election in November and face a new Parlia-
ment just before Christmas.


FINANCIAL BREAKERS AHRAD.-A hundred
millions of taxation has been taken of, and
that chiefly to benefit small portion of the
manufacturers of the Eastern
States-while the revenue is declining in every
direction and nowhere coming up to the esti-
mates. The expenditures have been increas-
ing, and in the War Department enormously
the weight of the debt has been increased by
the msmanagement of Mr.. McCulloch, for the
aggregate interest on the debt is much
larger the Treasury is being depleted and
there is every prospect that within short time
the income of the government will not meet
the demands. If there be not some radical
change for the better soon the Treasury will
be bankrupt. Looking at the extraordinary
proceedings in Congress on the tax BILL reve-
nue. laws and other financial measures and
at the incapacity of members, we fear the
government is approaching financial ruin.
We advise the people to look out for breakers
ahead.
Year: 1868

UTTER IaNoRAN0E OF CONGRESS ON FNAN-
DIAL AFFAIRs.- never was body of
men representing great nation so utterly
ignorant of financial affairs as our Congress.
The same may be said, indeed, Of the public
mon generally throughout the country. The
Stevenses, Shermans, McCullochs, Pendletons,
and the rest have got hold of some one idea
or another about national finance, and they
think they know everything and are great
statesmen. They are like the man who stole
q brick from the Acropolis at Athens, and
imagined he had appropriated all the wisdom
OF Greece. One goes for jumping to specie
payments and thus bankrupting the whole
country; another for flooding the country with
currency and creating carnival of excite
ment and gambling, and another for swelling
taxation and the list of taxed articles 80 that
no one will be able to understand the law,
while the cost Of collection will eat up the
revenue. The ordinary clerks in any great
commercial house of this city could do better.
Unless the people sift out better materials for
Legislators in the next Congressional elections
we may expect to see a terrible state of finan-
cial difficulties.
Year: 1868

We are very. much surprised, not
withstanding all we have written on
the subject, to find so many people
sweating away at digging with q spade
when in nine cases. out of ten the dig
ging fork will do four times the work
in the same time, with inexpressibly
less labor. II is scarcely necessary to
say that the, people we sec SO barba-
rious, are not our readers, but even "our
own people don't seem to know that
a four tined fork is mach better than
five tined one,-G Gcrdiner's Mont6y. 8
Year: 1868

The subscriber for the past ten years engaged
as cutter at Mr. Cones Merchant Tailoring EE-
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 cut by us,
while at Mr.. Cones, we would extend on invita-
tion to coll on US at our new establishment, and
10 those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and are in the habitO Of sending east for their gar
nents 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, Cassimeres and Vestings, together
with large variety Of splendid French GoAtings
and rricots in different shades and oOfOrs fOr hne
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
oolOrs, for overcosts,--all Of which we will make
10 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. Call and
examine our styles, and compare our goods aud
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. Tho cutting department ia under our
own supervision. Ov79dly
Year: 1868

The telegraph has informed US OF the
completion of the Union Pacific Railway
to a point six hundred miles from Omaha,
its eastern terminus on the Missouri, and
sixty miles OF track now run over the
Rocky Mountains, where only two
months ago not rail was laid. The
summit of the mountains, not far from
eight thousand feet above the sea level,
has been crossed and left sixty miles in
the rear of the outposts of the working
PARTY. Ten thousand laborers are SAID
to be employed on the road, and the con-
tractors expect to complete three hun
dred and fifty miles more of the tract be-
fore the end of the year The SIX hun
dred miles already accomplished is about
on.-third of the whole distance from
Omaha to Sacramento and as the Cen
tral Pacific Company is pushing rapidly
forward from the California side, It IS
calculated that at the beginning OF 1869
the space between the two lines will not
exceed six hundred miles, so that the
MASSAGE from the Atlantic seaboard to
The Pacific may be made in ten days.
The rapidity with which this work has
nropressed is a marvel when we consider
the difficulties encountered, and that
nearly all the supplies necessary to Its
prosecution have had to be transported
over long distances beyond the starting
point, and constantly carried forward
with the extension Of the line itself.
Some idea may be formed of the speed
of construction when we say that at the
same rate a road might be built from this
city to New Haven in month.


The presence of the Chinese Embassy
in our midst is in this connection sugges'
tive of the trade with the Orient which
railway spanning the continent from east
to west will open up to u.s.. Much OF the
more valuable part of the traffic be-
tween Europe and China and Japan
and the adjacent islands will doubt
less be diverted from the beaten
track and find its way, via San Fran
cisco and New York, to the Old World
while California and our Pacific Terri
tories will be literally Joined to the At
lantie States by bands of iron. The
progress of the two railways which are
being hurried forward from ocean to
ocean to meet each other and accom- :
plish the great end in view has, therefore
a national as we'll as a commercial I'M
portance entirely apart from the interests
bf those Immediately concerned In the
work.-New York Herald
Year: 1868

Grant made a stammering speech to a
mob who called TO congrainlate him on
his nomination, in which be fatty prom
ised, il elected, to be drunk during the
whoh four years Of his term. HIS Ian
ruare was that his record in the past
should be the guide Of his future Good
heavens, what a threat
Year: 1868

ZANEsvILLE.-The good people ol
the ancient Capital, after a number Of
years of quiet slumber, are waking up
and looking round, and after taking
observation of the go-ahead-ative-
ness in other cities, begin to realize
the fact that in order to keep up they
must pull away at the oars or sink,
Judging from the following para
graph, from the Courier, we conclude
they don't fancy the idea of going to
the bottom: 81


"Old GAINESVILLE is at last waking
up. There is now a fair prospect of a
direct communication with the Lake,
by means of a railroad to Cleveland,
that will also interSect all the Great
Trunk roads running east and west.
There is a railroad surveyed, and
part of it under contract, running
from Marietta to GAINESVILLE, by way
Cumberland We expect in a few
days to be able to announce that the
bridges have been made free. And
a project for making a Street Rail
Road from the northern extremity OF
GAINESVILLE, to the southern extremity
of Putnam, has been matured within
the last two days, that is meeting
with good encouragement"
Year: 1868

One of our exchanges thus calls at.


tentiOn to a matter of great impor.
tanee to the people generally:


In a few days, the spring election


will be held, and among the most i'm
portant offices to be filed, is that of
Supervisors. The miserable state OF
the roads throughout the country,
should teach US to select good and
competent men for these offices men
who will take an interest in keeping
the roads in their respective districts
in passable order-especially, during
the winter and spring months. We
hope that in the future the Trustees
Of the different Townships will make
it their duty to impose a penalty upon
those elected who neglect or refuse to
serve.


Few persons seem to appreciate the
importance Of this Office to the com
munity. A great many people when
they come to the polls, either do not
vote for supervisors, or careIessly vote
for anybody without reference to the
important duties they have to perform.
If the citizens of every road district
would consult as to the best man and
then elect him, the difference would
soon be apparent in the highways.
When we take into consideration the
fact that good roads not only add to
the comfort Of the travelling public,
but also aid to develop the resources
Of the community, we viii then begin
to inquire who can best superintend
the construction of our roads.
Year: 1868

Every kind of paper is known by
the statiOner, by its name: quarto post,
8vo post, foolscap, etc. The term fools
cap to designate a certain kind Of pa
per no doubt has puzzled many a young
inquirer. The origin is not only anus
ing but historical. Charles I. Of Eng
land granted numerous TnouOpolies for
the support of the Government
Among others was the manufacture of
paper. The water mark Of the finest
sort was the Royal Arms of England.
The consumption of this article was
verv great at this time, and large
fortunes were made by those who had
purchased the exclusive right to vend
it. This among other mOnopOlies, was
set aside by the Parliament that
brought Charles 7. to the scaffOld; and
by way of showing their contempt for
the king, they ordered the royal arms
taken from the paper, and a fool with
his cap and bells to be substituted. 1t
is now over two hundred years since
the foOlscap and bells was taken from
the paper, but still the paper of the size,
which therumP Parliament ordered for
their journals, bears the name of the
water-mark then ordered as an indig-
nifty to Charles 1.
Year: 1868

It is a healthful sign TO- see the
Southern newspapers coming geund
to advote the policy of personal efofi
as a means of political and financial
redemption. A number of influential
journals are boldly recommending
that white men, instead of loafng
around corner groceries and whining
about the refusal of the negroes to
work, should 60 to work themselves
Cotton planted by white hands will
grow as well and yield as much as
that cultivated by ebony Christians.
If the white men in the Southern
States who have spent the last three
years in idle complaining, had devot-
ed even half their wasted time to hon.
est labor, there would have been no
complaint of poverty, little bankrupt
cy and no suffering. Even the freed
men, inspired by the good example,
would have emulated their old masters
in industry and thrift.
Year: 1868

Some one has made the remarkable
discovery that there can be no negro
Congressman from the South for some
years to come, since the Constitution
provides that no person can be a Sena-
tor who has not been nine years a
citizen of the United States, nor any
one a Representative who has not been
seven years a citizen.
Year: 1868

The Commissioner of Statistics gives the
following facts with regard to the growth
OF population in this State. He says: .


ain Ohio, the growth of population is
very uniform, but its increase is not now
fast, and is not equal to the ratio of the
whole country. The very rapid wrowth
is, of course, in the new western States, but
the growth of Ohio is fully equal to that
of the great central States. The ratio Of
increase in Ohio at each decennial census
for half a century decreased as follows;
Year: 1868




One Of the most remarkable instances Of
somnambullsm that ever was known in TN.
eity, occurred during the past four days AZ No
% fogg street, between Spruce and Stevenson. !.
avenue, In the case Of a negro woman aged
sl1ty-hye years, the wife of Daniel Duncan
she had for a long time been deranged About
two months ago she tell sick and suffered A very
severe illness, without the attention OF a phy-
slcian, until Friday afternoon. when she san X
INTO a deep slumber, and slept until a quarter
past nine O'Clock on the following Wednesday
morning, at which time she was found dead
During the four days of her somnambu-
llstic state she did not move a muscle, ex =
cept TO raise one leg and arm, and pnt
them down again. Sunday morning. she
awoke for a second, while thick steam. like
log, continually arose from her body Insomuc IN
that the wool on her head was frosted with /. .
Although her face and breast We're constantly
bathed with cold water, the fever was not al
layed in the least Her stomach continued 10
swell up TO the day of her death, but during the
whole time Of the sleep she seemed unconsci-
Gus of any pain. Her nose became cold soon
after death, but her body continued warm until
two clock the next day. When her husband
and children We're asked why they had not
called physician. they replied that their
former mistress had died in the same gay and
''de ole woman was bound TO die anyhow .