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Year: 1874

PREMIER DIsRAELI's S SPEECH AT GUupHALL
constituted the most important feature of the
grand municipal demonstration which took
place in London yesterday, although no
doubt the banquet was, as it ever has been,
vastly priced by the city dignitaries
and their friends. The chief of the
Cabinet appears, judging by our cable
report to have been in excellent tone
conservative, hopeful and broadly national
The rights of the people Of all classes are to
be respected, while none will be permitted TO
trench ON the prerogatives Of the ruling
classes. The policy OF the Grown is peaceful
howard all the Powers, with, evidently, an in
slination toward q very friendly commsnion
with FrannA.
Year: 1874

From THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC we learn
that the situation for war is maintained be-
tween the insurrectionist forces and the loyal
lists near Buenos Ayres and in the provinces.
The reports are contradictory. They are
sufficiently specific, however, to assure the
world that the commerce and finance of that
portion OF South America are likely to be
vastly deranged and depressed in consequence
Of the rivalries of political factions in the
Confederation.
Year: 1874

PRESIDENT MACMAHoN is about to deliver o
sharp lecture to the French Assembly in the
shape of an Executive message Dangerous
ground, even for an old colder. The Bona
partists are looking up at the elections.
Year: 1874

The PRESIDENT OF THE REpUBLIc OF chill,
other South American notabilities, have been
formally excommunicated by two bishops of
the Catholic Church. This is almost as bad
as the result of the late elections in the United
2totoc
Year: 1874

in vast numbers to be abandoned. Such
distress always helps an opposition. Then,
too, vicious economical policy had fatally
stricken the great railway corporation which
bestrides Pennsylvania and compelled il, if IL
wanted to pay ten per cent or any per cent
dividends, to mind its own business and put
it's house in order Tom Scott had to abdi-
cate his position as manipulation of elections
and master of the Legislature. Democracy
had no longer this adversary to encounter.
just at this crisis, too, the Cameronian intel
lect became disturbed, and at moment when,
If ever, harmony Of all the elements of re-
publicanism was needed, the dominant junta
at Harrisburg took it into its head to
quarrel with the President and, In
paltry fashion, to denounce his
pet Cesaric dogma. Federal patronage al
once ceased to be an active agent, and there
was no longer the tramp of federal soldiers in
the streets of Philadelphia or the contribu.
tions Of the Custom House for the elections,
Such being the premises, the conclusion.
though surprising, was logical enough, and
Pennsylvania takes her proper position in the
array of victorious reform. The success Of
the State ticket, majority of the members Of
Congress, and, above all, q majority on Joint
ballot to elect Senator are the results. To
the last the general public will look with in.
tense interest and anxiety to know whether
Pennsylvania will abandon her traditionary
habits.
Year: 1874

DIpHTHEn1A, in this city, appears to be a..
suming something of the character of viru.
lent epidemic. Our citizens, therefore, should
be very careful in their precautions against it,
and our health authorities cannot better serve
the community at this time than in active and
earnest researches into the causes Of and the
needful remedies against the disease. It
development into its present magnitude here
in the midst Of the most beautiful and gen.
orally the most salubrious autumnal season
we have enjoyed for many years, is certainly
very strange and remarkable.
Year: 1874

embarked in boats, Of which travellers in the East
have told u.s. The animals have such precious dread
Of the unsteady boat and the unstable element that
bulge they won't and they stand long, obstinatey
tremulous on the waters edge. Then come driven
IN the rear monstrous elephants Of whom they have
yet greater dread, and so at last between the two
errors they descend under protest to the boat and
are safely ferred floating waters to new fixed
ground beyond.


story ran last week land ran against innocents
who repeated it for day or two with belief that
the Duke dAumale, urged by the fear of the Bona
partlsts, would put to the nations use one of his
frequent absences from his Besancon military head
quarters, and play the stage of the Versailles
Theater one brief heroic patriotic part proclaim
ing his adherence TO the Republic. This Duke and
his one nephew, the Count de Paris might, by an
intellgibly clear declaration of ten lines in that
sense, assure permanent government to their coun
try, ruin TO both the Centers and more than half
the Republican Left in an overwhelming
majority in the Assembly, to which ve-sixths of all
adult citizens would join their voices in enthus-
astic hurrah of glad acquiescence. The two gentle
men prefer to reserve" their questionable chances
of personal profit and princely prominence. If
these two patriotic French gentlemen should, of
these coming years, again find themselves bound to
the other side of the British Channel by Imperial
edict of the boy now waiting at Chiselhurst for a
passage to Paris let them thank themselves for that
future change in their situation which they are
at present doing their poor best to accomplish.


IL, III,
Year: 1874

i, q ~
the peripheral stratum q the second layer;
the third layer OF large cells.


The corpus stratum. the optic thslamus, and tho
cerebellum In an apparently normal condition,
though there was evidence Of arteria Injection


g. The pons varoui was not examined 10 the fresh
state was placed In a solution Of bichromate
Of potash TO harden.


L The greater portion Of the meduls oblonsata was
also placed in tho bichromate OF potash solution but
several sections made after the part had been In
absolute alcohol surrounded by ice for "a hours.


a. The frat OF these was mado through the ollvary
bodies level Of the hoor Of the fourth ventrce so
to Include the nuclei Of the pneumogastrc or hypo
gossal Qeading to the tongue) nerves.


Numerous eItravssatons Of blood coudlbe seen with
the naked eye but with inch objective they were
more clearly made out Tho vessels were then seen TO
be enlarged and moro numerous than in the normal
condition The gray matter forming the nuclei OF the
pnenmoSasro and hypogIossa nerves was observed to
be OF distinctly granular appearance and the roots OF
the nerves presented like characteristics. In other
respects the section exhibited nothing abnormal.
Year: 1874

are on the very verge Of inquiry and It would Dc the
hight Of presumption in me to declare that have ds


covered the essential condition OF hydrophooia am
not such that But as far as they 20 the con-


dtous are valuable they aid in discovery What the
nature OF hydrophoba h remains for future invest-
gators TO determine II they are correct we have sort


OF pathological tripod which hydrophobia rests ana
which accounts for the main symptoms which the dis
Year: 1874

Great bargains in dry goods at Wads-
worth & Parsons for the next sixty days
to make room for their fall stock. Dress
goods at cost, shawls and cloaks at cost,
good grenadines at l24 cts Der yard. They
claim to have the only good stock of car
pets to be found in Rock Island, and that
their prices are as low as any where in the
West
Year: 1874

1t is the opinion Of nine-tenths of our
people that Mrs. Robinson is the victim
of deep and well-laid scheme of most
diabolical nature, and those who have
conversed with her believe that she is
uow insane, and are, therefore, the more
determined to see that she is hot foully
dealt with.


Mr.. Robinson returned this morning.
He has left his wife at some place in Mich
igan and it is not known where. He says
that the Inter Ocean Is the only newspaper
that has published the scandal, and that
he will prosecute the proprietors for libel.


Henry Martin made statement TO a CON-
mitee of five last night, stating that the
affidavit which was obtained by Duress
about the fifth day of last March was false,
so far as refers to his using violence, but in
addition admits that he did have criminal
connection with Mrs. Robinson at four
different times previous to the 1st day Of
January, 1874, after being solicited by
Mrs. Robinson several times and reftis-
ing, the latter part of which statement
none of the said committee believe.
Martin is reported to be nephew OF Rob-
inson, but the report lacks confirmation.
Martin also further states that lie had
been member of the Robinson family for
a long time previous to the said statement
and that even since the compulsory max.
ing Of the statement Robinson has, up to
the present time, treated him with great
kindacss and consideration.
Year: 1874

carbon is suspected. walk erect. Suck
poison wounds, unless your mouth is sore.
Enlarge the wound, or, better, cut out the
part without delay. Hold the wounded
part as long as can be borne to hot coal
or end Of cigar. In case of poisoning,
excite vomiting by tickling the throat, or
by water and mustard. For acid poisons,
give acids; in case of opium poisoning,
give strong coffee and keep moving. If
in water, float on the back, with tho nose
and mouth projecting. For apople1y, raise
the head and body; for fainting, lay the
person fiat.
Year: 1874

THE LABOR QuEsTIoN.-There is pro-
badly no question which can interest the
Southera people, of greater moment than
the question of labor, present and to
come. 1t is one with which our future
prosperity as people is intimately asso-
ciated. The general public might think
it one in which our farmers alone are III
terested, but it has a much deeper and
wider significance. The prosperity OF
every branch of::our industry is involved
in its solution, for everything is directly
or indirectly involved in the success or
failure of the farmer or planter. Under
these circumstances it is one which we
approach with very great caution, and yet
it is one which our people would DO well
to consider.


Our farming system has been upr0oted
by the results of the war, and yet many
of our best farmers have endcavored to
carry out the same plans OF agriculture
which were characteristic Of Southern
farming before the war This was' among
others, plan, so tospeak for devastating
the country by cutting down our forests,
wearing out the land, and allowing our
worn out fields to grow up into bramoies
and pines This We can afford under our
old system Of labor, but under the changed
system of labor all must be changed.


Labor is cheaper now than it was be-
fore the war, but it is almost entirely un'
controllable. What we want is labor,
better, more reliable labor. This can be
properly regulated through the Grange
order and if our Grangers will take hold
properly of this subject they will be sur
prisvd at the readiness with which o prop
er solution can be reached. Whom we
have time wo will have something moro
to soy on the subjoct.-CharlOtte- Ob'errer.
Year: 1874




its last issue, has the following sensible
remarks relative to the extensive culture
of cotton to the exclusion of other pro-
ducts, in the South. MANY papers talk
wildly about the great capacity of cotton
production, but that has nothing to do
with the question of Southern prosperity.
Ic every State in the North were to plant
only grain, there would undoubtedly be
a great deal of it in the market, but would
that advance the wealth of the North in
any degree? On the same principle, if
the South continues the foolish policy of
spending every cent Of its available capt.
tai in the production of cotton, it will
drug the market and retard its progress.
The South to-day has really no agricultu
raj independence The farmers Of the coast
States pay from dollar to dollar and a
half bushel for the grain which is destroy
cd in Wisconsin and Minnesota, while the
people of the latter States get the worked
cotton cheaper than the producers them
selves, owing to the better facilities they
possess for cheap transportation.


This is only one of the items that Illus
trates the foolish policy that has hereto



fore been pursued by our planters. Stat
isticians have estimated that the Southern
States spend fully s5O,OOO,OOO year for
the cost of living, almost all of which
goes to increase the already overaowing
Golfers of the North. When it is taken
into consideration t!.at the cotton crop OF
the last two or three years has sold for
but from 5000, 100000 to $3.50, 900, 900
per annum, and that fully one-fourth Of
this has gone for bread, it becomes very
evident that there is an important screw
loose. 1t is positively necessary that
there should be some reform in the mat
ter of cotton. Georgia has raised sufici-
ent grain this year for home consumption
and wo have not words enough to express
our qualification at her wise course. Ev-
cry Southern State can do the same thing
and moro than do it. Every farmer must
not dabble in cotton. There is less mo-
noy than trouble in its production. A
protracted drouth, continued rains or pes
tilential worms may destroy the crop, and
then there is nothing to fall back upon;
no grain; no bread:


harsjia remedy for all this. Plant
less cotton and pay more attention to the
other staples. Enhance the value OF the
cotton that is raised by building mills to
work it at home. Do not depend on RI.
val sections for food and force rival Sec
tions to depend upon you for clothing
This is che true course, and we sincerely
hope the South will follow it."
Year: 1874

ballotng that any party must be strong in
deed il it hopes to overthrow him. That
White Mans Party cannot do it in State
where the numbers of the two races arc nearly
balanced the slight prepOnderance being on
the side of the blacks, hardly admits OF dis
pute But there were unusual opportunities
for friendly union between the good men Of
both cOlors, because there has been serious
quarrel in Kellogg's camp. The action of the
Conservative Convention, however, throws
away this chance, and all but assures the con-


tinuance of the present disgraceiul State Gov
ernment, with all the social, political and finan-
cial evils that follow inevitably in its train.
If the policy of the refOrmers is always to be
swayed by prejudice and passion, we may make
up our minds that the dynasty of
the Kelloggs will be perpetual. The
South must learn that the negro is no
longer a servant, but power in the State-a
useful ally and dangerous enemy. lie can :
not be restored to the position Of inferiOrity
and submission he cannot be treated as
humble dependent he cannot be kept away
from the polls, and the White Mans Party
may as well recognize the truth at once that
he cannot be kept out of Office. How he shall
behave himself in his new dignity, what no
shall do with his new power, depends, let us
warn our Southern friends, a great deal upon
the behavior of his former masters.
Year: 1874

The outlook in the Southern States is far
from reassuring. Riot spreads from town to
town, and at the faintest symptom OF disorder
black and white spring to arms and timld
people tremble at an impending war OF
"races.n The disgraceful affairs the other day
in Kentucky arose from the rivalries OF two
white politicians, but it was race prejudice
which famed the spark of quarrel into the
fame of riot To-day we read of still more
atrocious affair in Tennessee, where number
of black men, who had manifested strong
"desire to kill two or three citizens and fire
and sack the town." were taken out of Jail
by a party of whites and brutally murdered.
AS sequel to this extraordinary statement
the reporter adds, " The whites are taking steps
"to defend themselves IN case of an outbreak"
1t will certainly not be surprising if, in the
light of frequent succession of incidents like
these, and the declarations of the Southern
Conservative Conventions, the unlettered freed
men get the Idea fixed in their heads that
Black Mans Party will be very handy thing
for them to have.


With few conspicuous exceptions here and
there, the whites show very little cOmprehen


sion of the dangers they are inviting. 1t was
the antagOnism of black and white that gave
the carpet t-bagger his opportunity, and in
stalled Kellogg at New-Orleans and Moses at
Columbia. In the first years after the war it
was perhaps inevitable that certain distrust
and antipathy should prevail between the ex-
master suddenly deposed from absolute power
and the ex-slave suddenly elevated from the
condition of chattel to that of ruler. But
the stanchest Republicans never desired that
this unnatural state of things should continue,
and never imagined that Southern society
could be permanently reconstructed by turn
ing it upside down. We all trusted that time
would soften asperties and allay sus-
picons, so that black and white
might work together on equal terms,
recognizing their common interest in just
laws and an honest administration, and their
common duty as citizens and voters. This
cOnsummation, the only hope of the South,
has been long deferred by the rascalities of
thievish adventurers thrown to the surface in
the turmoil of reconstruction, and the chances
seem to be that the blindness of the Southern
Conservatives will postpone it still longer.


Here is Louisiana, fer instance, where one
might have thought the duty of all honest
men to hold together was too plain to be
overlooked. But the Peoples Party" of that
State held convention the other day to or
ganize the campaign against the rascally des-
potism of Kellogg and Durell, and they called
to their councils Democrats, Conservatives,
Refomers, Liberals, Independents, all fac
tions, big and little but no colored
men. They would nominate none but
whites for Office, and they wanted none
but white votes. Now in Louisiana, if
anywhere, q coalition between the two races
seemed to be the clear dictate of the situa-
tion. The new registration law gives the
Governor such extraordinary power oveS the
Year: 1874

The awakening of people to sense OF
unitv is not only of supreme importance to
the nation thus aroused, it is an event OF mo-
ment in the history of mankind. or this
character was the action of the Hungarian
Diet in 1s4s; the campaign of Garibaldi in
1860: the uprising in our Northern States on
the capture of Fort Sumter. This is the most
important feature of the millennial celebration
in Iceland so fully and plcturesquely described
in tie valuable letters of our correspondent.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor, to which we gladly sur
render so much of our space this morning.
Remote, isolated. speaking language OF their
own, the Icelanders have preserved for CEN
turies, though almost uncOnsciOnsly, their IN
dividuality as people, despite their success
sive subsection to foreign Governments. Our
correspondence gives insight into the charac-
teristics of the race and supplies many details
in addition to what is generally known of
their circumstances and history, that will
serve to explain their somewhat sudden and
fervid desire for self-gOvernment, and the
concessions of Denmark made public at this
millennial festival.


Following the legendary myths of the
dragon, the hame-breathing bull, and the
giant with the iron staff that occupied the
mountains of Iceland, there comes history
of many centuries of sclf-governed people,
not wanting in enterprise, industry, and COM
parative wealth, and possessing pantheon OF
heroes eminent in battle and discovery. The
people that have preserved these records have
kept with them also something OF the SIM
plicity they describe They are grave, as be-
comes the sons Of the North, and take their
pleasures solemnly. When the grand old
hymns which tell of the glories OF the past
are sung, the holy joy of patriotism
lights their faces, and their eyes
are filled with tears Singing these
hymns is a marked and frequent feature
of the celebration. Unused to the noise and
show of demonstrations honored by the pres
ence of royalty, with scarcely cannon on
their shores to answer the salute from the
shipping, they receive their visitors with
quiet dignity more impressive than the blare
of gunpOwder or the uprOar of mob. Down
to the lowest peasant, their manners are those
of people whO like ourselves, are born to
consciousness of equality. In asking from the
King of Denmark new constitution which
grants them a considerable autonomy, under
which on the one hand they pay no part of
the expenses of that kingdom, and on the
other take no share in its government, they
claim from their sovereign an equal respect
with that they yield.


Characteristic of land of simple manners
and honest lives is luxuriOusly furnished
prison, empty and tenantless, which has long
waited in vain for an inmate; guides that
show visitors the way and refuse pay for
~,
clothes while only their Bishop is adorned
with high hat and arrayed in ruflles, velvet
and satin. When the Crown Prince of Dem
mark has learned the Ioelandic language, as
his father promises for him, and comes to
claim his appanage, he will probably find that
the love of freedom in honest hearts is not
incompatible with loyalty under the flag of
the white falcon.
Year: 1874

The genial DR.. Oliver Wendell. Holmes appears to
have lost something of that regard for the youth OF
Boston he had of yore when he wrote charming
pages concerning young Benjamin Franklin, his
Landladys boy. he was invited the other day to the
funeral of tame bear and in refusing to be present
at that melancholy ceremonial took occasion to re-
call with words of respect those particular quadru
peds which taught divers children OF Bethel ana OF
Belial that they might not be rude to elderly per-
sons 81 think loose bear or two" he observes
" might be of service in our community and regret
much the loss Of an animal who might have Gone
so much as a moral teacher for the young OF this
city and its suburbs" To those who have ever had
respectful fancy that Boston boys and girls were
constantly absorbed in the study OF parallelograms
and polyps, &c. this does seem crnsher
Year: 1874

nev.r meet the conditions of its erection. We
are dong great work without knowing it, as
great work is always done; but the work
about which we babble incessantly is not
great. We shall have a Pantheon when we
have demi- gods, and these we shall have when
the world has gone back to it's sacrifice OF the
whole TO the GLORY OF tho individual.
Year: 1874

There is probably no relief for Fourth-ave.
residents from the annoyance of the Harlem
trains short of the completion of the sinking
of the road. Fortunately this improvement
is rapidly advancing toward completion.
Year: 1874

AS late as the Goth of August the Custer
Expedition was peacefully encamped in the
Black Hills. 1t was reported that Four Horns
was about to attack the Expedition but there
IS every reason to believe that Gen. Clusters
force is strong enough to withstand any
assault that the Indians may venture TO make.
Year: 1874

THE StatS journal announced yesterday,
that it would hereafter suspend its daily
issue, but win, as usual, continue to pub
lish weekly paper. AS "a cause fir this
suspension, it ascribes combination. which
has seized its presses and thus put it to a
heavy expense and inconvenience in pub
fishing. The truth at the bottom of the
matter is, that the paper has not the patron
age to support it, and it.would have been
more graceful to acknowledge it.