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Year: 1866

Ma Hope for the Afflicted another part
Of tbs paper will be found the advertisement of the
oa,ob,ated Institute established by DR.. J. c.
VOTING. in 1850. In this age of deceit and char
1otanism it is boon to the suffering to point out
70 them where they are of obtaining the wished
f relief and cure. Under the care of the skillful
Doctor the sick and troubled divest themselves
of their burdens of pains and shame lay aside their
cross, and secure health and happiness. If you
are sick or in trouble, do not hesitate. Read the
advertisement and follow the advice. Do not for
get the number nor the manner of directing your
letter. CONSULTATION OFFICE, $40 Washing
ton street, San Francisco.
Year: 1866

Speculative would call the attention of our
readers to the Grover & Baker Machines Their
reputation is too well established for us to attempt
word in their favor, but would advise any per
Sons wanting reliable Family Sewing Machine, to
Investigate the merits Of these before buying "a
word to the wise is sufficient y OF
Year: 1866

THE FUNDING BILL.-Senator Sherman's
remarks on the necessity OF consolidating a
debt consisting of thirty .or forty different
classes Of securities and covered by twenty
seven laws will command universal assent
The following abstract is all we get, as yet, of
his argument on the more doubtful point of
continued exemption of United States securi-
ties from taxation: .I'


The Secretary doubts bis ability to float
the debt at five per cent. unless he can have
continued exemption for thirty years. The
question now is, whether we will compel him
to issue six per cent. bonds. The Secretary says,
-"If you will relinquish the slight income now
derived from taxable securities, l will be able
to save you one per cent. on the public debt"
1t does not require very shrewd man to see
that this would be good bargain. The Secre-
tary would be compelled to negotiate at six
per cent, ii this bill was not passed.
Year: 1866

GEN. CoNNoR.-We regret to learn that this dis
tingushed hero is still suffering from his late acci
dent and that it is impossible to remove him from
Danyille junction. 1t is feared that another opera
ton will have to be performed and there to be
consultation of surgeons at that place yesterday 1t
is thought that piece OF dead bone still remains in
his fesh which will have to be removed before con-
valescence can take place.
Year: 1866

"A gentleman who was lately rescued from
drowning in the river Cam, declared that the
accident would be an advantage to him here
after, as he should be able to say that he had
been brought up at Cambridge,
Year: 1866

town than we have heard on any Sab
bath previous. Some say that IL 10 the
Bohemians who do all the shooting on
sunday but We know better, ~ We
have seen others who can lay no claims
to foreign nativity 60 and return with
their guns and game bags. Now for
the good name OF this community, t.
say nothing Of the obligations each one
il properly under to observe the Sab
bath, the Law on this subject should bs
rigidly enforced. We published this
law some two weeks since, and now We
give fair warning, that In future We
will inform on every man or boy whom
We see violating this law, and II those
of our citizens who desire to see the
Sabbath properly observed will do the
same it's dissertation In this manner can
soon be suppressed. This sporting on
Sunday iaR criminal act, and every
man who winks at 80 fragrant q viols-
tion Of this sacred day ia dirslict Of
duty.--Cedar Rapids 1Ymes.
Year: 1866

an entrance being made, the two bodies
were found horribly mutilated and bruised
the woman having plainly gone through a
tremendous struggle before her antagonist
succeeded. There were the same marks of
rihing left as in the other cases, showing the
same author. The prisoner was not only
identified by those who saw him leaving,
but another unfortunate whom he had ad-
dressed the same evening, had been so
frightened at his looks that she would not
take him home, and had seen him afterwards
going home with the deceased. She was
was not the only woman of the class who
testified to having been saved from probable
murder through similar fear.


The strangest fact of all remains and that
is the horror of the prisoner at his own
crimes. His sleep was disturbed by fright
tul dreams. After the last mentioned muir
der those in the house where he lodged
heard him raising frightful cries, as If some
bloody apparition had appeared before him.
He plunged into deeper debauches, to drown
the terrors of his conscience. One would
almost have expected that so wholesale a
prisoner would have been more hardened.
Such is one of the most frightful chapters of
crime that have lately been recorded. The
prisoner, we learn, is not 10 escape the law,
although it is considered that the 1854 cases
are not quite established against him. Even
a French jury has found it impossible to
give him the benefit Of extenuating circum.
stances.


We must also remark that the affair is by
no means creditable to the French police.
There are said to nave been twenty-three
cases since 1861, but they failed all that time
to find out the murderers, or rather murderer,
since the records all showed a striking simi-
laritY of method
Year: 1866

While the Cabinet appointed by tho illus
trious and never-to-be forgotten Lincoln are
gradually falling away from the standard of
his recreant successor, the Republican Union
majorities of the two Houses of Congress are
daily exhibiting, in the face Of unexampled
trial and treachefy, new firmness and devo-
ton to principle. Witness the votes in both
houses on Monday afternoon against the veto
of the Freedmens Bureau bill. And what
is true of the representatives of the people
will be found to be more than true of the
people themselves. Here and there some
mercenary men may be tempted away by
official bribes or some weak men terrified by
official bullyism, but every such loss will be
at once made up by new converts voluntarily
coming from those who can no longer resist
the majestic march of truth.


The enactment of Mr.. Eliot's bill for the
reorganization and extension of the Freed
mems Bureau into law, the veto of the
President notwithst anding, gives the freed
men system relatively independent of the
vengeance of the late pro-slavery traitors
and the whims of tine Executive. Since the
first veto killed the original bill, General
Howard's bureau has been the victim of in.
conceivable malice and misrepresentation,
and if the fifth veto had not been voted down,
the whole system would have rapidly gone
to pieces. This is a great point gained.
Again let us pay grateful honors to our
faithful Congress. Chronicle.
Year: 1866

lNGRATITUDE TO PARENTS. was o1c
a father who gave up everything to his chll
dren-his house, his fields and gOOdS-a1d eX
pected that for this his children wouldsuppOr
him. But after he had been some hme will
his son, the latter grew tired of hir, and SAT-
to him:


Father, | have had a son BORN to me this
night, and there, where your srln chair stands
the cradle must come. Wlll you not, per
haps, go to my brother. who has large
room p =,


After he had been scne, time with the sec
ond son. he also grew tired of him, and said


Father. YOU ike a warm room, and that
hurts my head Won't you go to my brother,
the bakerY


The father went, and after he had been some
time with the third SON; he also found him
troublesome, and said to him:
Father, the people run in and ont here all
day, as If 1t were pigeOn-house and you can
not have your MONDAY sleep. Would you not
be better off at my sister Kate's near the town
wall p


The old man remarked how the wind blew,
and said to himself" Yes, L will do So
will 20 and try it with my daughter. Women
have softer hearts" Bat after he had spent
some time with his daughter she grew weary
of him, and said she was always so fearful when
her father went TO onuTcn, Ut anywhere elSei
and was Obliged to descend the steep stairs and
at her sister EliGabeth's there was no stairs to
descend. AS she lived on the ground floor.


For the sake of peace the old man went to
his other daughters. But after some time,
she too was tired of him, and told him by a
third person, that her house near the water was
too damp for man who suffered from the
rout, and her sister, the grave digger's wife,
at ST. Johns, had much dryer lodgings. The
old man thought she was right, and went out
side the gate to his youngest daughter, Helen.
But after he had been three days with her, her
little son said TO his grandfather:


"Mother said yesterday to cousin Elizabeth
that there was no better chamber for you than
such as father digs.


These words broke the old man s heart so he
sank back in his chair, and died.


The Bostonians, to escape the cholera, are
said to be rushing out of town and crowding
the suburban villages. Everything in the
shape OF dwelling house for a radius of TWEEN.
ty miles around Boston has beed rented for the
season, and as high as $3.50 month is report
ed as being paid for furnished house of ordi-
nary size. Signs of similar movement are
in Philadelphia, but whether to es-
cape the cholera or not, it would be hard to
say, as the sanitary condition of this city is
steadily improving and the death list as stead
lily decreasing.
Year: 1866

The following circumstance. happened in Ce-
dar county, Iowa 4 certain young man being
out on counting expedition came late on Sun
day evening, and, in order TO keep his secret
from his young acquantances, determined to
be at home bright and early ON Monday morn
ing. Mounted on his horse, dressed In his fine
white summer pants, and other fxns in pro-
portion, he arrives at the residence Of his ina
mOrata, where he is kindly received, and his
horse properly taken care of, being turned into
the pasture for the night The evening pass
ed away, and three clock in the morning ar
rived. Three o clock Was the time for him to
depart SO that he might arrive at home before
his comrades were stirring. lie sailed forth
to the pasture to catch his horse but here was
q difhculty-the grass high and loaded with
dew. 10 venture in with white pant2loOns on
would rather take the starch out Of them, and
lead to his detection. 1t would not do to 20 in
with his white unmentlOnableS so he quickly
made his resolve. He carefully disrobed him
self of his valuable whites, and placed them
in safety on the fence, while he gave chase, with
unscreened pedals, through the wet grass after
the horse.


Returning to the fence where he had safely
suspended his lily-white unmentionables-O
h0rrtduS dictu what a sight met bis eyes
The field into which his horse had been turned
was not only horse pasture" but a "calf
pasture, too, and the naughty calves, attract
ed by the white fag on the fence, had taken
themselves to it, and calf like, had,eaten them
up Only few well-chewed fragments of his
once valuable article Of the wardrobe now re-
mained-only few shreds-just sufficient to
indicate what they once had been What a
pickle this was for nice young man to be in
1t was now near daylight, and the farmers were
up and about, and our hero from home, with
no covering for his travelling apparatus -
1t would not do for him to 60 back to the house
OF his lady-lOve, neither could he 60 to town in
that plight There was Only one resource left
him, and that was to secrete himself in the
bushes until the next night, and then get home
under cover Of the darkness.


Safely hid, he remained under the protection
OF the bushes for some time, and it may be i'm
aglned that his feelings toward the calf-kind
were not of che most friendly character; but
ere long his SecluSi9n was destined to be intru-
ded upon. BY and BY the boys who had been
out to feed the calves, returned with remnants
OF the Identical white garment which had adorn-
ed the lower limbs Of their late visitor. They
were manged and torn to shreds An inquest
was immediately held over them. Some awful
face had betallen the young man. The neigh
5orS were summoned to search for the mangled
corps, and the posse, with all possible speed,
set out with dogs and guns. The pasture was
thoroughly secured, and then the adjacent
thickets, when lo our hero was driven out
from his lair by the keen scent of the dogs
all safe, alive and well minus the linen.


An explanation then ensued at the expense
OF our hero, but he was successful in the end.
and married the lady, and is now living COM
tortably in one Of the fourishing little towns of
Iowa
Year: 1866

A worm protector, designed to capture
and kill the worms which annually infest the
trees Of forests and parks and fruit trees, has
been invented by +. K. House OF Connecticut
1t consists of a tin screen Of bell shape, which
is to be sOldered around the tree and suspended
on an Indian rubber band that fits the bark
closely. Under the expanded edge of the
screen and concealed there is receptacle for
oil. The worm in their ascent cannot pass the
protector, but are likely to fall into the
oil. This invention has been tested, it is said,
with the best results and it will be likely to
supersede the use of the ropes and bands of
hay or straw, saturated with various substan-
ces which are temporarily useful, but very un-
slightly.
Year: 1866

COULDN'T Fool HER-The Lafayette,
lind Courier tells an amusing story of some
ladies and gents of that place who were taking
a social walk near the cemetery when ghost
appeared. They all ran but one sturdy woman
of the strong minded class, who stood her
ground till the ghost got to her. ohe then
thrashed out of the frightful disguise a mis-
walking about graveyards discussed, and had
hid himself to Give the party a fright. She
led him hack to the house, and in reply to the
questions that poured in upon her, said:
dCan't fool me I've seen too many men In
sheets to be frightened by then"
Year: 1866

FILLING ICE-HoUsEs WITH SNow.-As
the time is now approaching, says the CoaGn
try Ge,itleataa. when the supply OF ice for
the ensuing year is to be secured, beg
leave to give you the experience OF one of
our ''Clinton Farmers Club" Of Clinton o.
hio His ice-housa is situated on the side of
a gravel hill, covering a pit about four or
five feet in height; the sides Of the pit are
boarded up and the drainage is through
the gravel Finding it expensive to haul
from the neighboring ponds and rivers, he
last winter filed his house with snow, after
the custom prevailing in Switzerland and
California for my friend is a traveller, sim
ply rolling up in masses, and with wheel
barrow conveying it to The house-frst in
ing the sides of the pit with straw, and after
it was filed covering the snow with the same
material, thus filling his house without cost,
and securing an abundant supply of good ice
for his large family during the whole sum
rner. The snow settled down into conf
pact mass, when the spring and summer
heats affected it, and portion still remains
at the hottem of the pit,as solid as glacier
of the Alps.
Year: 1866

The Boston Journal relates of a Portu-
guese soldier, recently returned from the war,
that when he went into service, he could not
understand even the military orders In Eng


lish, but made good soldier. Coming TO
this city. he got into debt for his board with
one of his own .countrymen, and said that,
when he enlisted, he received five hundred
in bounty. which he hid in a crevice of his
barracks on going to war His landlord and
others took him about to the several militia
ry camps in the hope that recdlection of
the place would enable him to recover the
secreted money; and it was not until a friend
had provided him with means of going to
New Bedford to ship, and his missing the
way aud return, and that chance led him to
New Hampshire. where it proved that he en-
listed, and, on going to the barracks at Con
cord, he found his five hundred dollars which
had remained safe for two-and-a-haf years.
Year: 1866

enlisted, where they enlisted, the period fol
which they enlisted, and what became OF
them, In behalf of this list of names we
have very little to say. 1t is source OF
regret to all interested in its publication that
so little apparent attention has been paid to
accuracy. Many of the names are spelled
wrong, and in some instances names are
given entirely different from what they
should be. In this respect the record is
incomplete and unreliable, otherwise the
book may be considered a full and au-
thentic history of the First Delaware Regi-
ment of Infantry, and as such should be
in possession of every family in Delaware
No library should be without it. 1t may he
purchased al the store of L. S. r. Butler,
No. 420 Market Street, in this city
Year: 1866

him there is scarcely one house left stand.
ing, from the Savannah River to the
Pee Dec, and yet he dared to declare
solemnly that he did not burn Colum.
bia ! do not wonder that he should
strive to escape the infamy which, like
the leprosy of Gehazi, shall cleave unto
HIM an unto his seed forever, for he
commission of this dark deed. Nor am
surprised that he should naturally seek
to to escape by taking refuge behind a
ialsehood. But he shall not with impu.
nty make me the scapegoat for his sins.
Wherever he has taken his army in
this State, women have been insulted or
outraged, old men have been hung to
extort from them hidden treasure. The
fruits Oft the earth have been DESTROYED.
leaving starvation where plenty once
reIgned, and the dwellings of rich and
poor alike have been laid in ashes. For
these deeds history will brand him as a
robber and incendiary, and will deserv.
edly damn him TO everlasting fame"


lam, your obedient servant,


WADE HAMPTON,


Lieutenant. General.
Year: 1866

that ever came to this city.
Please give him call and you will find in his
store, everything in the cleanest and most perfect
order, and prompt and civil attention TO all.


c. SPEIDEL,
next door to First National Bank,


Rock Island.
Year: 1866

BROKEN CHINA OR GLASS WARE is
neatly and securely mended by cemenling
the broken edges with cherry tree gum
while soft Press the edges firmly to-
gether till dry, and the break is scarcely
perceivsble, and stands water well.
Year: 1866

.gsy" The St. Paul Pioneer says: Old steamboat men declare that the signs of tine past four or five seasons point to the permanent drying up of the Mississippi river, reducing 1t from steam nayigable for the largest boats the whole season to one of uncertain navigation like the Mis- souri, passble at certain seasons, and the rest of the year shrunk to a mere creek, winding along among sand bars and shoals. There is certainly some change taking place in our climate that is affecting our lakes and rivers. They are greatly differ cnt in their habits to what they were eight or ten years ago. The average of water is steadily decreasing. Our June rise, once as certain as the coming of the month, has totally ceased. The heaviest rains, which once would have swclled the river several feet, now do not seem to affect it in the least.

 There arc many theories advanced to explain this One is that the climate is undergoing some change, which seems plausible; as those who have studied the meteorology of our State are convinced that this change is taking place. Another theory is, that the cultivation of the coun- try, destruction of the forests, and other physical causes have tended to increase the rainfall, and retard the flowing of the extra moisture into the streams

 Whatever may be the cause, the effect certainly exists, and the same thing has been on all the Western rivers, which are gradually shrinkingup. In our case, how ever, the evil is less to be feared, because our railroad system is so nearly developed, that our river navigation is not now the necessity 1t once was, to our commercial public. The river anneyer again, wheth- CT it continues navigable or not, assume the important part it has hitherto played in the development of our State.
Year: 1866

nSy- The candidates for the various county offices were in town on Wednesday last, doing the usual amount of hpgging and playing the agreeable generally. The candidates for Representative addressed their fellow citizens at some length upon questions of State and court policy, each showing ill regular order the folly of his competitors positions and the soundness of his own As all persons in the country have heard them we forbear commenting.
Year: 1866

The Missouri Republican charges that Chic
Justice CHASE refuses to hold Court in Rich
mond for the trial of JEFF. Davis, for the
reason that he wants JEFF. DAVIS tried by a
Military Court. And the Republican, taking
its own assumption for granted, in spite of
Chief Justice CHASE own statement of the
ground of his objection, to-wit, that civil pro-
cess could not be enforced there except under
military protection and through military
force, proceeds to condemn the Chief Justice
for thus perplexing President JOHNSON, and
protracting the imprisonment OF President
DAVIS. And thereupon the Republican, init.
mates that it will soon become the duty OF
President JOHNSON to release JEFF. DAVIS in
the interests of humanity and magnanimity,
and no longer subject him to the torture of a
dungeon.


Why does the Republican want Justice CHASE
TO hold Court in Richmond? Clearly that he
may thus give rebel jury of that vicinity the
opportunity of acquitting their Chief, and
thus release the chief traitor from prison and
from the peril of punishment, and thereby put
an end to all apprehension of punishment for
traitors of every degree henceforth and for
ever And if Chief Justice CHASE won't thus
release JEFF. DAVIS, the Republican demands
that President JoHSsos should assume the
responsibility and set him Free and relieve
him from the ''tortures of Imprisonment"


How tender hearted, how sympathetic,
how pititul are all these copperhead organs
when they speak of JEFF DAVIS and his treat
ment by our Government. The confinement
IN aspacious apartment, with every personal
comfort, convenience aud luxury, with the
choicest of food, of clothing, of books, and
servants, and physicians to wait on him at all
times, they stigmatize as ''horrible treat.
ment, "the tortures ofimprsonment.n But
when Union prisoners suffered in Anderson.
vile and all the Southern prison pens all the
real and horrible tortures conceivable, result
ing from disease INTENDED, wounds unstaunch-
ed and undressed, accumulated and over
whelmng filth, and utter destitution of cloth
ing, of water and of food papers of the stripe
ofthe Missouri Republican never had word
OF condemnation for JEFF. DAVIS and his Gov
eminent, nor a word of sympathy for our
suffering soldiers.


1t is only when the chief of the traitor oil
garchy is restrained of his liberty and confined
In luxurious ease, that the copperhead press
begin to manifest any sympathy for ''the tor
lures of Imprisonment" and insist upon the
release ofthe illustrious sufferer, without even
the form ofa trial. We call upon men who
have fought and suffered for the Union to
note the contrast between the active sympathy
manifested by copperheads in behalf of JEFF.
DAVIS, and their utter indifference to the tor
lures of Union soldiers in Southern prison
pens during the war.
Year: 1866

A LOVING WIFE.-A man named Blank
was recently killed On the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, and the Coroner, at the request Of
some of the jury, sent messenger to the
residence of the deceased, to inform his FAM
lily of his death. The messenger thought hs
would endeavor to tell the sad news to the
distressed woman in as feeling manner a.
possible, but he soon found that tenderness
in that quarter was like throwing pearls 10
swine. She received the intelligence of hi.
death very calmly, and said she was 'tglad he
was gone" The messenger told her that q
his corpse was not removed by his friends
Immediately, that it would be taken to ths
Poor House for burial. She replied thst
"she did not intend to bother herhs.d about
him-they might bury him in hi, for al
she cared.