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Year: 1867

BOSTON, Feb. 9, 1867.


THE SNOW.


Notwithstanding Names reputation for Sc
have any adequate idea of the immense amount
of snow that was piled up in Boston by the last
two great snow storms. After the sidewalks
had been shoveled off into the narrow streets,
there was no possible passing with teams till
the snow was carted off, Here was job for
all the idle Irishmen in town, and one thousand
OF them were employed, night and day until
the top of the heap had been reduced, when
the force was reduced to five hundred, and
about this number are still employed digging
down and carting of. Some goes into the docks
and much of it, now well mulched with filth
goes on to the Common. Meanwhile every
backyard and alley was filed full to the brim
to the great detriment of ash and swill men
and for two long weeks more thorough block
ade was kept on the basement stories of dwell
ings, than our feet ever kept off Charleston
and Wilmington. Now the streets are knee
deep with dirty slosh, with rather damaging
prospects for Balmorals and crinoline.


1.-THE BOSTON SLATE"


Certain parties have been in terrible sus-
pense over the offices of Collector and Naval
Officer for the port of Boston, ever since the
present session of Congress began. Mr.. Ham,
lin promised to become one of the most popular
Collectors Boston ever had; he was affable and
dpproachablc,- what could never be said of his
predecessor; but just as he was getting used to
the harness, he resigned. Gen. Couch, his sue
cessor, Iopine, might have succeeded better
had he not been under the dictation of clique
of notorious Copper|leads, who have been per-
sistent in having loyal and competent men put
out and men quit the reverse put into office
As the Senate has rejected him, the man who
seems most likely to take his place is Mr..
Kingsbury, of your State, who is now acting as
Deputy. AS he was placed there by Secretary
McCullOch's directions, and is very gentle
manly man, and quite popular with our COM
mercial people, his chance is good; that he has
little hold as a strong politician, however, is
against him. As to General Swift, the present
Naval Officer, the least said the better. He has
been squelched, as he ought to be.


"THE BLACK CROOK" .H
This spectacle was played about three
months in New York before it was introduced
at the Continental" in this city, 1t has had
unbounded success in both cities, its attractive
features being nothing'more or less than about
forty pretty girls, whose costume is SO arranged
as to make them appear as much undressed as
the law will allow-as the poet says, when
unadorned, adorned the most" 1t is a great
compliment to the dear creatures that all the
men wish to see as much of them as possible.


We are now having reaction from the gem
eral dullness that followed the storm, and the
southerly wind has driven in fleet of large
vessels, giving our harbor its usual lively ap-
pearance. Theatricals have never been more
prosperous. shopping" is once more lively,
and but for the prevalence eff the small -pox and
measles, the health of the city would be re-
markably good. Ni" ExcENTRIc
Year: 1867

Why YoUNG LADIES SrARE-An exchange
says the reason that young ladies seem to have
habit of staring, is simply because they can
not help it, as to keep in the fashion they are
compelled to wear such 4 bunch OF stuff at the
back of the head that the natural hair is drawn
to the highest tension, and as the skin CT the
forehead is drawn back, the eyellds also get an
upward tendency that leaves the lmpresslon
that the girls look bold and fierce. It's all a
mistake The dear creatures are just as gen
tie and loyeable as they ever were and they
would be very willing TO lower their cycllds If
they could do so, without lifting the tremen-
dous ball that is bouud to the head in such
disadvantageous position. When the water
falls get Ignored by fashion, the girls will look
as meek.eyed as they did before the advent OF
that monstrosity Of ion.-Rte'ydu'g LHder
Year: 1867

GENERAL CANBY's OPINIONS General
Candy, who has just been appointed to the
command of the I'd Military District, is said
to have remarked Thursday, IN conversation
with friend, that he was not political
partisan, but that he had studied the recon
struetion laws thoroughly and approved
them, and that he considered their faithful
execution essential to the welfare of the
nation. He thought it the duty of the
Southern people to accept the terms offered
them. He is also said to have expressed his
appreciation of the utility of the Freedmen's
Bureau and his intention of giving its agents
all proper and necessary aid in the execution
OF their work. WASHINGTON Chronicle.
Year: 1867

It is wholly unnecessary to argue with
any man in Rock Island, whether he be>a
business man, a mechanic, a laborer, capi-
talist real estate owner, professional
man, or a loafer, in regard to the fact that
his pecuniary interest demands good solid
McAdamized road to Camden. That is a
fact which every man in Rock Island will
admit. Every man wants the road, but the
question is how to get it. We viii suggest
how it can be done:


There is now in the hands of our township
officers some three thousand dollars in cash,
the surplus left from taxes to pay soldiers
bounty bonds, to fill our quota for the war.
The bonds are all paid, the township wholly
free from debt, and this amount of cash on
hand. A town meeting is called, as viii be
seen by an advertisement in this paper, to
meet in the court house on Thursday July
18th, at P NJ, to decide what to do with
this money, and the general feeling of the
people, as far as we can learn, is to pass an
order to pay it into the city treasury with
the understanding that it is to be expended
in building McAdamized road to the city
bridges, and the Camden shore.


1t is also said that Mr.. Sears offers to add
one thousand dollars to the pile, for the OBJ
ject named and it is thought that these
amounts, together with smallappropriation
from the city, will make a good durable and
substantial road. We hope, therefore, that
everybody will attend the meeting and place
it in the power of the city authorities to build
tho rood
Year: 1867

The want of a Line of Telegraph, located with
a view TO accommodate the river trade has long
been felt. Many important towns are now with
out any telegraphic communication whatever, and
the lines now established between other points
are, IN most cases, disconnected, following cir
euitous routes, hundreds of miles out of direct
course, causing vexatious and unnecessary DELAYS
to business, by reason of numerous repetitions
and the frequent Interruptions incident to long
lines When the facts are borne in mind that the
liability of telegraph line to damage from any
cause is increased in the same proportion as its
length, and that the repetition of a message dou-
hles the time necessary for its transmission, the
great and very important advantages of a direct
route over the circuitous ones now in operation
can readily be seen.
Year: 1867

This Company has been organized for the pur-
pose of establishing Telegraphic communication,
IN the most direct manner possible, between all
points OF any Importance on the Mississippi
River from Saint Paul to New Orleans
Year: 1867

The railroad connection between Omaha and
the East is now complete, and the earnings of the
Union Pacific the sections already finished for
the first two weeks in May were $4,000. These
sectional earnings as the road progresses will
much more than pay the interest On the Compa-
ny's bonds, and the through business the on
ly line Of railroad between the Atlantic and Pa
cfc must be immense
Year: 1867




CAPITAL STOCK.
The capital stock of the company is One Mil


lion of Dollars, and is divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each. The company desire to
distribute the stock in small amounts among the


business men along the entire length of the line


IN order to secure their interest in the welfare
| the company, and to secure to them, its patrons
their share of the profits from its business.
ASSESSMENTS OF STOCK,
Only five per cent of the stock will be required


TO be paid in at the time of subscription, and sub
Sequent calls will uot exceed ten Der cent Der
month. After the first payment of five per cent
no further call will be made until Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars shall have been subscribed.
The company confidently believe that they viii


not be compelled to call in more than fifty or six


ty per cent of the subscriptions, in order place


the line in complete working order.
DIVIDENDS.
From carefully prepared estimates, based upon
the amount of business done by the companies


now in operation, and giving them an equal share
of the business between competing points, the
company confidently believe that large and re-
| munerative dividends can be made: and they


further believe that taking into consideration the
| great advantages which they will possess in a


short and direct route, they viii be able secure
nearly all the business along the line, which will
| place the stock at a high premium, and make it
! one OF the best Investments TO be found.
| WHEN To BE DONE.
The company propose to commence work at sn
| early day, and TO push it forward as rapidly as


possible and intend to have their lines completed
without delay.


DISTRIBUTION OF DIRECTORS.
The stockholders viii be represented by Diree-
tors at the principal points of the line.
THE PROSPECT
| Is most fattering. The location of the line is
one Of the best in the country. 1t passes through


large number of important cities and towns where
commercial intercourse is large and rapidly in
creasing. The country along the river Is receiy-
ing constant accessioBs of wealth and population
and these viii bring increase of trade which
must eorrespondingly add largely every year to
| the business and profits of the company. AlIthe
| old telegraph companies throughout the country
| are now, and have been, paying satisfactory div


idends, on a capital stock that has been repeated
ediy watered. If these companies, controlled by
few wealthy individuals owning nearly all the


stock, can do this, it is quite reasonable to sup


pose that company, owned and managed by lis
patrons, with its lines desirably located, and
with a limited amount of stock, can at least do


equally well.


The following act has been accepted by this
Year: 1867

a Cutting REBUKE.-General George II
Thomas commenced his speech in reply to the
address of Governor Brownlow present
ing him, on behalf of the Tennessee Legis-
lature, with gold medal by uttering the
following appropriate aud patriotic senti-
Dent


Some twenty years ago | receieed my
diploma at the Military Academy. and soon
after commission in the regular army. On
receiving that commission, took the oath to
sustain the Constitution of the United
States and Government. and to obey all the
officers of the Government placed over me-
l have faithfully endeavored to keep that
oath, as solemn pledge on my part to re
turn to the government some little service
Tor the great benefit | had received in OBJ.
tanning my education at the Academy.


What cutting rebuke to other Southern
Appeal.
Year: 1867

ELECTRICITY AS A Motive PowER-James
G. Duncan, of Placer county, claims TO have
invented an electric engine which works
admirably, running fast or SLOW backward or
forward, with great or limited power at
will, and under perfect control. Estimating .
from the model. now working, he saws he
can make fifty horse power machine which
would occupy ne more than six or eight feet
hoor surface, and the cost OF Running it would
not exceed twenty five cents per day, for
acids to supply tie battery. He thinks, and
truly, if all he says be true, that his inven-
tlOn would save some of our great mining
companies hundred thousand dollars year
in fuel. That electricity will be put to u,e
as a motive power we have no doubt it s
one of the items in the inevitable progress
discovery. If Mr. Duncan has succeeded n
tanning the steed which franklin caught and
Morse bridled for service as newscarrier so
far as to get him in the traces and make him
come down t. his regular work, all right, we
would much rather Californian should
reap the honor and reward than any other
man.
Year: 1867

tho following funny fancy


Insects must generally load joyful
life. Think what it muet be to lodge
in lilly. Imagine palace Of ivory
.or pearl. With pillars Of silver and
capitals ofgold, all exhaling such per-
fume as never arose from censor.
Fancy again the fun Of tucking your
self up for the night in tho folds Of q
roso, rocked to slcop by tho gentle
sighs of the summer air, and nothing
to do when you wake up but to wash
yourself in a dow drop and fall to and
cat your bed-clothcs.
Year: 1867

WHY THE BEST FLOUR rs CHEAPEST.
Two dollars extra on the price Of q
barrel Of flour will secure much supe.
r;or on lily. Any one who will dcyote
a little observation to the subject will
notice that with poor bread people cat
from three fourlhs to ono half as more
butter than thoy do with that which is
Of superior or extra quality. II we
reckon llirec-fourtls moro, it will be seen
by the calculations Of the proceeding
item that two dollars saved in the price
Of flour involves five dollars and sixty.
two cents more expenses for butter, or
other condiments, to make tho poorer
bread palatablo.
Year: 1867

Crowded houses still the rule at the Academy Of
Mus,c during the performances Of Mcguire Rislsys
Imperial troupe The attraction Of the saffron faced
children of Japan is something unprecedented in the
annals Of in this city, and there many
presen. last night who have attended their entertain
ments regularly since tho season opened. What df
ference between the Numbers and character Of the
audience that short time since locked on and won-


ered AZ the shin ana tree in the African and that which


attracted BY the bamboo pole the japanese tubs
OF the orange skinned acYobas seems 70 be moro
popular than the most extrsyessnt vocal osc,on-
straions Of the widely punsd operate vocaisl6
The aboriginal music OF the Japanese, which may be
called the normal state OF the divine art s drawing
larger houses than the diluted Of Verdi snd
Msyerbeer The only reason that can be given 10 that
the former, acrobatcaly speaking, s deserving the
name OF art while the latter was sorry endeavor 20
deceive discerning public with weak imitation Of
italian opera The directors and stockholders Of the
hitherto Inflated Academy are radiant at the appearance
which their reconstructed temple presents now every
night and there weeping and gnashing Of teeth among
those who have embarked all In the centipeda drama
The matinee at the Brooklyn Academy yesterday was
also crowded.
Year: 1867

len Davis In Glover and the south Starving.


While the North Is paying the enormous pub
lie debt that has accumulated in the effort 10
prove that there lie no such thing as treason
while from all parts Of the South misery has
stretched its gsunt hands towards us 10 beg
for support, while We have freely opened our
treasure to prevent their starving, we see but
little inclination on the part of the leading
Southern people to make an equal effort. On
the contrary, fifty thousand dollars has been
presented to Jen Davis, which he is about to
invest in summer residence near Montreal
where he can coolly watch the folliee Of the
Northern people and ponder over the fact that
In the great republic there b no SUCH crime ~
treason.
Year: 1867

time OF great danger, compacted into firm
political unity by the necessities Of tremen-
dous struggle, that party carried the war to
glorious issue because ih views and pur-
poses were the views and purposes Of
the people, because the spirit Of the people
filed and vitalised al its acts. But its leaders
misunderstood the result They thought the
victory was not the peoples victory-not the
great ultimate aspiration Of the country, but
merely the triumph Of some pitiful party plans.
In that thought they set about prostituting the
national success-appropriating it to their
small uses-attempting to make it subserve
purposes Of personal ambition and partisan
tyranny. Having attempted to steal the ma
tional victory and brand It with party name,
these leaders arc now quarrelling over the
spoil. Going blindly away from the people,
they have gone too far going beyond the real
purpose with which the people waged the war,
they have lost the great bond Of unity-lost
the great guiding purpose Of popular will,
and, like the babblers Of Babel, confound one
another with strange utterances.


But they confound no one else. The pur-
poses Of the people arc unchanged. They
waged war TO preserve the nation, and 1t is
their purpose that this shall be Union Of free
and equal States; that no great community Of
American citizens shall be trampled down IN
order to secure the supremacy of any party
schemes. Strong in this great purpose, with
the same power with which it waged war the
nation will rise in counter revolution against
those violent party leaders-against any and
every party machine, plan or platform that
would divert or urge forward the great war
and great success to any other object than that
Of securing the national welfare-the happi-
ness, prosperity and peace Of the whole
Union-the freedom Of every part Of the
people. This the politicians already feel, and
this the next elections will show.
Year: 1867

Republican Jsurnaiism-A New Pssjeefs


Many paragraphs have lately been fostine
on the surface OF journalism which indicate
vast preparations for the establishment OF
new republican organ in this city. As Dana
and his associates have purchased the old
TammSny Hall we think 1t quite probable that
they will undertake the enterprise attributed
to them by rumor The explosion in the re-
publican camp occasioned by Greeley's going
bail for JeG Davis may prove favorable to the
new project Of DAM. Greeley arraigns the
members Of the Loyal LEAGUE Club as "nar-
row-minded blockheads" " wh,o would like to be
useful to the cause, but don't kn.,w how. The
course Of their proceedings in Greeiey's case
shows what blockheads they are. But although
blockheads, they are representative block
heads. There is no doubt that they faithfully
represent the actual sentiments of the republi-
can party in this city, in the State Of New
York and throughout the North. The gentle
men whose names figure at the head OF
Greeley's epistle to the loyal leaguers had not
sense enough to be useful. They had not the
courage to carry out their intention Of expel-
ling Greeley from the club. They can get up
charity fairs and even imaginary riots; they are
heavy on Sunday blue laws and sharp to cur
tail the Germans allowance OF lager beer;
but they are totally unable to withstand the
demoralizing effects Of the bombshell which
Greeley has thrown into the republican camp
II remains TO be seen what the consequences of
the explosion will be to Greeley himself
Dana, at least, will now have good chance TO
start paper that must prove formidable
rival TO the Tribune, if he shows better COM
prehension Of the real situation Of affairs and
the prevailing sentiment Of the people than
has been exhibited by the guide, philosopher
and friend" with whom he used to work hsr-
moniously At the Tribune Office, until their quar-
rel exiled him to Chicago. Failing there, 1t
may be that he has returned to New York Just
in time to be luckier here.
Year: 1867

The French author Of the play from which
we obtain "the Serious Family" and the inim-
table Aminidab Sleek has shown that philan-
thropy is not always improbable, but can be
made, in some hands, exceedingly remunerative.
We perceive that the Tribune has become the
recipient Of the immense advertising patronage
of our copperhead city Corporation. This
"plum" is worth fifty or sixty thousand dollars
year at the lowest calculation. The CorpO-
ration is at present indebted to the HERALD to
the amount of over twenty-five thousand dol
lars for past advertising but although the bill
was contracted some tmo ago we cannot get
any money out of them. It seems to be differ
ent with the Tribune. The cepperheads of the
Corporation have been entirely won over by
Greeley's straw bail bond for JEFF Davis, an
old democrat and, rebel, and are pouring
their advertisements and patronage into
his lap with proiuse liberality. Tho
bail bond signed by Greeley for JEFF Davis
holds the former liable for Eve thousand dol
lars. If the chief of the rebellion should run
away and leave his bail in the lurch, and If,
which Is very unlikely, Chief Justice Chase
should call upon him to appear, Greeley would
probably have to pay five thousand dollars for
his bond. The ffty or sixty thousand dollars
bestowed upon him by the admiring copper
head Corporation would well remunerate him
for this loss. So, after al, Greeley has made .
good thing out Of his bail bond and his philan.
thropy. He has taken upon himself the very
distant chance of being held liable for five
Thousand dollars at some future day, and has
secured ne substantial reward Of fifty or sixty
thousand dollars in one year from the notorious
Corporation OF the city of New York. He can
we'll afford, ON these terms. to bully the "nar-
row-minded blockheads" of the indignant
Union League.
Year: 1867

1t is understood that the President viii
leyote considerable portion of his mes-
.ge TO the questions Of finance and the
collection Of the revenue He has in Ais
possession evidence to show that upwArd1
Of one hundred millions Of revenue from
whiskey along have been lost to the Gov
ernmcnt during the las. year by the inefh-
cheney and corruption of officials in tho
collection Of the revenue, and very largo
amount has been lost on tobacco from tho
same cause 1t is the determination OF
the President to correct these abuses, and
prevent these frauds. and to do 30, tho
present system of collection will have to
be changed. as viii also many of tho Off :
GERS charged with this duty ". 7.


World
Year: 1867

political rights


Mr.. SHELLABARGER SAID:


Mr.. SPEAKER: | would like TO make
the first thing say on this occasion the
most agreeable thing which l shall say
and with that design shall say first that
| am not about to make an hours speech
Laughter.


Mr., Speaker, the man who is now the
acting President of the United States
once said to me, in speaking Of bill
like the one now before the House, that
it was measure to dissolve the Union.
That proposition has been so often re.
pealed by members upon the other side
of this Hall during the debates upon the
subject now under consideration that |
have thought the House would proba-
bly, pardon me if should attempt to
condense into few sentences a sugges,
ton or two in regard to that declaration,
repeated so often and worn out so thor
oughly as it is ; and with the purpose Of
making the shortest statement that !
can, of condensing it into as few senten'
ces as can, trust the House will par
don me for reading part Of what have
to say about 1t. Isay it now, not be-
cause it is either new or importart--im-
portant I mean as presenting anything
novel for the consideration of the House
Il present it only because the declara
ton has been repeated again and again
with apparant earnestness by gentlemen
on the opposite side OF this Hall and as
being worthy the attention of gentle
men on this side.


Every argument and every view and
every method OF presentation and states
ment which ever has been or which ever
can be devised to enforce this doctrine





to wit, that the nation has no power tc
guaranty to these revolted districts 10y
al republican Governments, condense
themselves into but two. One of these
methods runs thus that as all loya
men confess that by no secession, rebel.
lion, or other possible or conceivable
act OF its people eau any State, or the
people thereof, withdraw from the Union
therefore these rebel States are In the
Union. If in the Union then, as there
can be no State in the Union which Is
not entitled to two Senators and at leas
one Representative, therefore these re-
voted States are entitled to such Sena
tors aud Representatives and to all the