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Year: 1866

Will address the voters of Portland this even
ing at Deering Hall. Mr.. Hamlin comes among
us, not as Senator, not as Representative,
to defend the body of which he is himself a
part He comes among us to declare the dis
passionate Judgment of man unusually well
qualified to weigh the merits of the question OF
authority which has brought the President and
Congress almost to swords points. Sitting
apart, mere locker on, drawn by motives of
self interest to the Presidents side, Mr.. Ham
lin has decided, not for but against the Presi-
dent, and has acted promptly upon his decis-
ion, breaking at once the tie which served to
bind him to the Administration, and flinging
himself into the contest. The people of Port
land will be glad to hear him.
Year: 1866

New YORK, Sept. G.


In the full bench of the Supreme Court in
this city to-day it was decided that the Excise
Law is constitutional, and that the liquor deal
ers must take out licenses or pay the penalty.
1t was also decided that the Board of Excise
cannot be enjoined. The decision was unani-
Year: 1866

SAYINGS FOR THE HoUsEwIFE.--Loose
an hour in the morning, and you may
hunt for it all day, and never find it An
hour in the morning is worth more than
two hours in the afternoon. No mans
business or household matters ever -four
ished where there was slow breakfast
table. You may mark it. a SIS


Order was made for the family, and
not the family for order. am II aalay


Dirt is not dirt, but something In the
wrong place.


The three family physcisns-Doc
Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merry
man.


Temper is nine tenths Of Christianity.
Year: 1866

finishing the work, so nearly completed
/ in other respects, was the only feasible
I one which had been presented, and
/ that it was impossible to ignore the fact
/ that the States were exercising their


rights and enjoying their privileges


within the Union were, in short, re-
stored IN all other respects, and that It


Is too late TO question the fundamental
/ right Of representation.


Il then remarked 10 him that I heard


it suggested that legislation could
1 properly be made by Congress, purely
civil in its character, providing for the
/ protection of the freedmen by the
United States Courts, Of inferior juris-
diction, in all cases where the States
did not do so themselves


"He replied that such an idea would


run exactly parallel TO his plan, but he


had not thought il yet time 10 tx his


own ide2s OF the precise mode Of ac-


complishing this, aud because we had


3 margin of time lasting till after the


next session Of Congress, during which


the present Freedmen's Bureau could


continue in operation. If, before that


time, the Southern States should re-
cOgnizs the necessity Of passing proper


laws themselves and OF providing a
proper system Of protection for
the freedmen, nothing further, on
our part, would be necessary. If
they did not do what they ought, there
would then be time enough 10 elab-
crate a plan.


"He then referred briefly to the fact
that men have been rejoicing over his
veto message, saying that if these men
in good faith adopted the views Of his
policy, which he had himself held and
acted upon, and which he had so fully
elaborated in his annual message and
explained 10 the country, surely he
could have no cause for sorrow in that
If disloyal men and rebels everywhere, |
North and South, should cordially
give their adherence to the conditions |
of restoration he had uniformly in |
sisted upon, he thought that was pre- |
cisely the kind of pacihcation loyal |
men everywhere would rejoice in. The |
more they were committed to such a !
course the better he would ike it, for if |
they were not sincere they would at
least diminish their power Of danger
Gus opposition in the future His
whole heart was with the body of true
men vino had carried the country
through the war, and he earnestly de
sired 10 maintain a cordial and perfect
understanding with them. This senti-
ment and purpose he regarded as en-
tirely consistent with a determined
tc the obstruction policy Of
those extremists, who, as he believed,
would keep the country in chaos until
absolute ruin might come upon US.


Such, my dear sir, Is the statement
Of the President on this important mat
ter, and if you could meet his straight
honest look, and hear the
hearty tones of his voice, as ! aid, am
well assured you could believe with
me that although he may not receive
personal assault with the forbearance
Sir. Lincoln used to show, there Is no
need TO fear that Andrew johnson is
not sincere in his adhesion to the prin-
ciples upon which he was elected.


Very truly yours,


[Signed "J. D. Cox"
Year: 1866

To learn his surprising shrewdness
and cunning, attempt to take him
with a trap. Rogue that he is he al
ways suspects some trick, and one
must be more of fox than himself to
overreach him. At first sight it would
appear easy enough. With apparent in
difference he crosses your path, or
walks in your footsteps in the field, or
travels along Inc beaten highway, or
fingers in the vicinity of stacks and
remote barns Garry the carcass of a
pig, or q fowl, or s. dog, TO a distant
field N mid-winter, and in few nights
his tracks cover the snow about it.


The inexperienced country youth,
misled by this seeming carelessness
of Reynard, suddenly oonceiVes a pro.
iect to enrich himself with fur, and
wonders why the idea has not occurred
to him before, and to others. | knew
a youthful yeoman of this kind, who i'm
agin ed he had found a mine Of wealth
on discovering on u remote side hill,
between two woods, a dead porker,
upon which it appeared that all the
foxes of the neighborhood nightly ban
Quoted The clouds were burdened
with snow, and as the first flakes COM
menced to eddy down, he set out, trap
and broom in hard, already counting
over in imaginationthe silver quarters
he would receive for the first fox
skin. With the utmost care, and
with palpitatng heart, he removed
enough of the trodden snow to allow
the trap to sink below the surface Then
carefully sitting the light element
over 1T and sweeping his tracks full,
he quickly Withdrew, laughing exult-
ingly over the little surprise he had
prepared for the cunning rogue. The
elements cOnspired 10 aid MIN, and
the falling snow rapidly obliterated
all vestiges of his work. The next
morning at dawn he.was on his way
to bring in his fur. The snow had
done its work efectually, and he be-
lieved, had kept his secret we'll. Ar
rived in sight OF the locality, he strain
ed his vision TO make out his prize
lodged against the fence at the foot
the hill. Approaching nearer, the
surface was Unbroken, and doubt
usurped the place of certainty in his
mind. A slight mound marked the
site of the porker, but there was no
footprints near 1t. Looking up the
hill, he saw where Reynard had WALL
ed leisurly down toward his wonted
bacon, till within a few yards of it,
when he had wheeled, and with pro
digious strides disappeared in the
woods. The young trapper saw at q
glance what u comment this was upon
his skill in the art and, Indignantly
exhuming the iron, he walked home
with it, the stream of silver quarters
suddenly setting in another direction.


[ The Sa0.0 -lgaLksrs, ia Atlantic Non
hll
Year: 1866

Despite all rumors to the contrary, the


President has vetoed the Civil Rights


Bill; and despite all rumors to the con-


trary, set ahoat by the so-called Union


men who intend to follow the President


in his abandonment of the Union party,


he does not merely object to the constitu-
tionality of any of its minor provisions,


but denounces it in principle and in par
ticular, in general and in detail, from be-
ginning to end.


The message will be discussed in two
aspects-in reference to the intrinsic
force of its arguments, and to the light
which it throws on the Presidents
relations to the party which elected him.
We shall discuss the first more at length
hereafter. Suffice it at present to say,
that the positions it takes are worthy the
era of the Dred Scott decision, and the
party which moulded and sustained the
eternally infamous fancy. We blush to
think that in the days of the regenerated
and disenthralled Republic, man elected
by the party who made the Emancipation
Proclamation q reality, could prove so
false to himself, to his supporters, to the
freedmen, aye, to Freedom itself, as to ut
ter them.


The message will confirm the belief
which the Presidents first veto, his Birth
day speech, his endorsement of Copper
head English, and his war upon leading
Republicans, has forced upon the reluc-
tant minds of the loyalists of the country,
that he intends to carry out his policy,
even if in carrying it out the Union party
be destroyed 1t will awaken g thunder
Gus roar of Indignation throughout the
land, to which the condemnation excited
by his first message will be ss nothing.
The President has deserted the Union
party; but he himself and not that grand
and patriotic organization, is injured by
the desertion. He has leapt from the deck
of the noble Union ship, but, while he
sinks beneath the waves into political
oblivion, the good old ship goes grandly
on, and neither waves nor adverse winds
Will prevent her making the port in safety.
Year: 1866

sOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE eei


If You Advertise in your County Papss
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Paper.
JOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE
4 If you Advertise in your County Paper
TOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


II Tou Advertise u your County Paoss
Year: 1866

DE CAUTIOUS when you are told by any
ID one that they have good Sewing Machines
for sale as any one, etc. The Singer is the
Oldest and most reliable machine and best
now in use, will do all kinds of work from the
finest to the heaviest that any family ever wants
done, and will last a lifetime If properly taken
care Of | have been agent for other machines
and have got rid of them. Please give me call
and examine for yourselves.


Sewing neatly done to order.


also have machine twist and thread for raie.


Auy one wishing to purchase please give me a
cali w I. NORRlS, Agent,
next door TO Babcock's new hall, up stairs,
3 Illinois street
Year: 1866

They may talk of love in n cottage,


And bowers of trellised vinc-
And nature bewitching1y simple,


And milkmaids half divine:
They may talk Of tho pleasures Of sleeping
In the shade Of Speeding tree
And walk in the fields at morning


by the side of footstep free
But give me sly Irritation,


BY tho light Of chandelier
With music TO play in puuscs,


And nobody very near;
Or seat OH silkcn sofa,


With glass Of pure old wine,
And mamma too blind to discover


The small white hands in mine.
Your love in cottage is hungry,


Your vine is nest for lics-
Your m!kmaid shocks the Gracea,
And simplicity talks of pics
You lie down TO your shady slumbcrs
And wake with bug in your ear,
And you damscl that walks in the morning
Is shod likr q mountaineer
True love is at home on carpet,


And nightly likes his case
And true love has an eye for dinner,
And starvcs beneath shady trees,
His wing is the fan of lady,


His foot is an invisible thing,
And his arrow is tipped with njewcl
Aud shot from silver string.
Year: 1866

The MILEAGE QUESTION. : President
Johson stated that the radical Congress in
creased its own pay $4,000 head, but re-
fused to give proper bounty to soldiers.
The President is in error in his statement,
as it implies that vast sum was added to
the perquisites of the members by the BILL
This was not the case. The mileage was
reduced to one half of its present amount,
and the sums thus received were divided
among the members more equally 1t used
to be that the Western members, many of
whom were mere nullities in the House,
would receive $4,000 mileage, while East
ern members would get 5000, and do all the
work. To equalize the pay, an increase of
regular salary and reduction of mileage
we're agreed upon. So far as the real @d-
di,ional outlay is concerned, the sum is too
Insignificant to be fought over.
Year: 1866

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20-The In
vestigating Committees Secretary is
instructed to obtain from Mayor Mon
roe the names of the parties holding
official position in New Orleans by
popular election or by appointment Of
Mayor in July and August last, and
the names of the police force of the
city, both regular and extra; and the
Mayor is respectfully requested to
cause the committee to give such aid
in the premises MS will enable them
to obtain the information required.
Year: 1866

FOURTH OF july Pic NIc.-We are re.
questsd to say that the catholics of this city
and county will hold grand pic mic in or
near Rock Island, on the 4ta Of July, for the
purpose of raising means to pay Oft the small
Indebtedness now hanging over their church.
They will endeavor to make the occasion a
pleasant one to all.


s1- The public generally are respectfully
invited.


Davenport and Moline papers please notice
and oblige the catholics of Rock Island.


june4dT2w
Year: 1866

Rock ISLAND PAPER MILL.-This estab
lishment has now fallen into the hands of
men who understand the business, and we
may henceforth expect to witness some lite
and intelligence about the premises Messrs
Rice, Brightman & Seely, from Milwaukee,
are the purchasers, and are now running the
machine, and they propose, if the business
will warrant is.to shortly build a large paper
mill here, and manufacture all kinds of pa
psr. We hope our citizens will take pride
in aiding them in every way possible, and
encouraging them with such patronage as
will enable them to enlarge their establish
ment to the capacity of anv in the country.


They pay the highest price for rags,
Year: 1866

PEnU BEER-Phil Hem respectfully informs the
public that he always has supply of the best Peru
Beer well everything else found at first class
saloon. Everything GA l'' at his establishment
anlIStf
Year: 1866

HANK ZEIs-This dirty beast accidsntly
run right in the way of a stream of nasty
water and coal dust, on the levee, the other
day, winch covered and soaked him from
head to foot. It was very singular that he
should be going along the levee just at the
time men were emptying the nasty stuff out
OF buckets and that he should have got e1.
actly in the way of every drop of it. 1t was
singular-but it was just right-he ought to
be kicked from the sidewalk by every man
who meets him. If the decent men of Rock
Island don't protect the females from the in
suits of this beast, they ought not to have
heart Tar and feathers, and wooden
horse are too good for the vagabond.
Year: 1866

ARE THEY GONG I'VE haven't missed
any of the fenians from this place. If they
are really in earnest about the matter, why
don't they go? Or don't they like the POSI-
ton, between the American army and the
British army? Before the fenians can take
Canada and hold it they have got to whip
both the American army and the BIRTHS h
army The United States government is
bound to prevent an armed invasion of Cana
ds,-and the British army will gobble up
those who escape our vigilance What kind
of a chance does fenianism stand in that
fight? With no organized army no COM
missariat no arms, or ammunition no sup.
plies of food or clothes no horses, OF means
of transportation /; and no place to remain,
uumolested, over night, what do the silly
people expect to accomplish


We commend the good sense of the Rock
Island fenians in staying at home.
Year: 1866

WoRRY-Men and women given over to
worry, viii worry about the strangest the
most out.of-the-way, the most unheard-of,
the most laughable things it is possible to
conceive. 1t matters very little what are
outward circumstances-the will can find
something in it TO remind it of its own limi-
tation of power and to provoke its consequent
resentment 1t is curious TO see how people
Of this habit will take anything that first
comes to hand-good, bad or Indifferent
and instantly begin to fad something in il
to grow anxious or impatient over and Ia
pu about first on this side and then on that,
until an exciting consciousness of their own
inability to do anything in the matter, and
an irrtated feeling in consequence of it. get
the upper hand Of their good sense. What
we have to say by way of practical suggAs-
ton is just what every body says, and says
to little or no purpose. Worry doesn't dc
you the least good. Itrelieves from nothing
it helps nothing, it qualities for no work, il
conduces to no desirable result 1t very
gratuitously puts on an amount Of wear and
tear immense upon the nervous system with
out in the slightest degree obtaining any
compensatory satisfaction. Il is neither a
duty nor pleasure; and yet men almost
invite, certainly entertain it, as if it wert
both
Year: 1866

THE PEACH CRor.-From present ap-
pearances, we shall have full Peach
crop in all this section of country. The
crop in the States north Of the Ohio Riv-
er is almost if not quite total failure.
Year: 1866

The following s tho Of game played at Hobokrn
yesterday afternoon between tho dry goods house q
" s. Janray Co and The notion house Of Almon Miller
a Co. resultinr in favor Of the latter
Year: 1866

We Hope for the Aflicted.-In another part
of this paper will be found the advertisement of the
celebrated Institute established by DR.. ]. C.
YOUNG, in 1850. In this age of deceit and char.
latanism it is boon to the suffering to point out
to them where they of obtaining the wished
for relief and cure. Under the care of the skillful
Doctor the sick and troubled can 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.


Speculative would call the attention OF our
readers to the Grover & Baker Machines. Their
reputation is TOO well established for to attempt
word in their favor, but would advise any per-
sons wanting a reliable Family Sewing Machine to
investigate the merits of these before buying "A
word to the wise is sufficient OF
Year: 1866

IMPoRTANr.-We see noticed in the Mining
and Scientific Press that somebody up north
ers and Amalgamators, works twenty-five
tuns of rock per day of twenty-four hours
We can't see it. If our mill men can find
such machinery, they had better do it, quick
Year: 1866

! A recent discovery, that was purely
scientific in its origin, has led 10 fur
thcr discovery of means Of relief for per-
sons who are troubled with weak eyes.
Some time ago it was made known to
the Paris Academy Of Sciences that 4
lens. or glass. covered with n thin film
of silver leaf, would enable person to
gaze at the sun through it without the
usual painful dazzle and glare. More
recently the Academy received com
munication from another member. in
which he described an application of the
above mentioned discovery for the pro-
lection of weak eyes. His own sight
had been impaired in the course of some
chemical experiments, SO that the light
had become painful to him, and he had
recourse to the ordinary colored specta-
cles used in such cases. He used spec
tacles with black glasses at first; he
then put green glasses over the black
ones. These answered tOlerably well,
but he ultimately took set of blue
glasses, which he had covered, as above,
with thin film of silver leaf These
answered the best of all, and afforded
him the relief he was seeking after.
A film of gold leaf over the glasses has
q similar effect. The light transmitted
is very pleasant, especially in the case
of gold leaf. The latter, when yellow,
lets green light pass; when green, (that
is, alloyed with silver the eye receives
blue light. He therefore thinks that
persons laboring under the incon-
venience of weak eyes will derive great
relief from spectaeles so prepared.
Year: 1866

The decision of Judge BNRToL, of
Baltimore, in relation to the removal of
the Police Commissioners in that city,
a telegraphic report of which was pub
lishod yesterday morning, fully justilies
and sustains all that was said by the
Democratic press of the country in APP
proval of the course pursued by Cover
nor SWAMI. 1t couvicts the radical
politicians of Baltimore Of an attempt
TO organize rebellion against the laws of
the State and directly condemns Judge
BOND as guilty of an unwarranted
usurpation of power. Thus, the con-
servatives of Baltimore have not only
triumphcd over their opponents in the
election, but they have the satisfaction
of knowing that in the struggle which,
at one time, threatened to lead to re-
newal of the civil war, they were con-
tending for the supremacy of the law.
Year: 1866

The radical journals are parading III
their columns an editorial article
favoring the adoption Of qualified
negro suffrage, which appeared recent
ly in the Chicago Times, heretofore
regarded as Democratic paper The
Times seems to have very suddenly
" Topped over" to the support of the
doctrines advocated by the radical IA
nstics. 1t has strange views of the
the policy the Democratic party should
pursue, and seems to think that the on
ly way to restore peace to the country
is to concede to the radicals all they de-
mand now, and all they are likely to
ask in the future


The Times can hardly be considered a
very wise counsellor or o very valuable
Year: 1866

advocate of the principles of the party
to which it processes to belong. Illi-
nois never cast any other than Demo
cratic vote up to 1860, but since that
time the radicals have had almost I'M
disputable possession of the State. Ger
tainly this fact does not afford very
flattering evidence of the influence of
the Chicago Times as a Democratic or
gan. or give it much of claim to be
considered as representative of the
Democratic party.
Year: 1866

THE Mobiles Gazette, of Moscow, lately
contained this curious phrase: Until
now, thanks to the whole protection OF
Providence, the cholera had only at
tackled the lower classes but at present
the terrible scourge attacks the middle
class and even the nobility"
Year: 1866

LETTER FROM HON. MIR LANGDoN.-The
Mobile Register contains letter from
Hon. G. G. Langdon from which we ex-
tract the following % a' .A7 '.'N


d A prominent radical remarked to
Southern man a few days since If
we could be assured that your Southern
members would not act with the Demo
cratic party, the would be admitted to-
morrow" Il And here is the secret of the
whole matter, 1t is not principle, it is
not the Constitution, it is not the good OF
the country, which they are contracting
for, but it is party-tbe preservation of
party ascendency, the perpetration OF
party power. So long as the Southern
States can be kept out of the Union, just
so long will power be retained in the
hands of the Republican party, but not
koue day longer. Hence the party neces-
sity of keeping them out indefinitely
and it will be done, if it can be done.
AS remarked in former letters, the Presl-


deut can defeat their schemes, and trust


he will ere long. But should he be dis


appointed in this, we must wait with pa


tience for the people to speak through the
lballot-box. . am assured that the peo-


nile of the, North will not sustain the ac-
ton Of this radical Congress that when


the issue shall be fairly presented be-
tween the policy Of the President and


that Of the radicals, The former will be


sustained by an overwhelming majority.
Our friends at the North are anxious that


this issue should be made, confident that
i it would result in the utter defeat ana


final overthrow of this mischievous and
unprincipled Black Republican party.