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Year: 1866

NEW YORK, Feb 24.-The Nmes con.
taius the speech of Alexander II. Ste
pheus at Milledgeville on the 22d. Mr.
Stephens said his greatest object was to
see the restoration of peace and prosper


ity to the South. The South was In the
condition Of q man with broken leg,
and the question was not how the limb


was broken, but how it could best he
healed There should be perfect quiet
aud repose, and any attempt TO walk too
soon would make the matter worse
Bad humor and exhibitions of restless
ness would do no good. Every feeling
calculated to stir the discords of the
past should be banished, and all differ
ences of opinion concerning past diAi.
culties forever buried He Endorsed the
Presidents reconstruction policy and
said the success Of the efforts for the
restoration Of the States TO their former
relations was the only hope fer liberty
and self government. BE said the
South should accept the issues of the
war aud abide by them in good faith,
aud expressed his confidence that the
people of Georgia would do so. 10
considered the wholelU States one
common country to be cherished
and defended as such by all
Abolition of slavery should be accepted
as an irrevocable fact, and we should
cease to discuss the question whether
the new condition was better than the
old. Wise and humane provisions
should he made for the negroes Ample
and fol- protection should be secured to
them, SO that they may stand equal be
fore tho law in the possession aud en-
joyment of al rights aud personal liber
" aud property. All obstacles, if there
lie any should lie removed which eau
possibly retari the blacks from being
elevated TO the extent of their capacity.
All proper aid shonld be given to their
own efforts Channels of education
should be opened up to them. Schools
and the usual means II moral aud intel
lcctnal training should be encouraged
among them H. conclusion, he said bis
only hope for the future was the peace
ful re.establshment of good government
and It's peaceful maintenance after
wards aud the most hopeful prospect Of
this age now Is the restoration Of the
Uuion aud with II the speedy return OF
national feeling throughout its length
and breadth The results depend upon
the people themselves upon the people ot
tb North quite as much as the South
upon then virtue, intelligence aud pat
rintism
Year: 1866

The Fourth Uniyersast Congregation, presided
over by the Dr. H. Chaplin having at last been
PEELED Ike many other OF the institutions OF our city to
yield 10 eneroachmen Of business have abandoned their
well known and elegant church Broadway and until the
completion II the edhco which they are now erecting
will oocBpy each Sabbath morning and evening The Large


Hall Of the Cooper Institute. Yesterday morning the
second occasion Of their thus occupying The announcement
that Chap would preach at tho Cooper Hall appeared 10
hayo attracted thber many strangers IN addition to his own
congregation aud the morning services were attended by
large audience.


fourth chapter of Luke: For bs word with power
Perhaps the striking characteristics OF the teachings OF
Christ ths than human authority with which ne
Taught The expression In the text used IN reference to
his preaching Capenaum, bat the same PECULIARLY ire
aueny alluded IN all the accounts OF his M We are else.
told that tho people were astonshed at hs doetrne
There seems have been peculiar vitality and power In
Chr personal presence and his manner OF teaching which
impressed who heard him, and caused the multitude
flock listen him. The which no displayed In his
miracles manifest In his personal presence We are
told this occasion that there came into the syna
gogue q who possessed with an anclean spirit
When Jesus rebuked the unoean spirit. and he came
out OF the the multitude annoyed saying What
word ths for with authority and power he oonmandeh the
spirits and they come out sw readily We may be-


sye the nuen which Chs spoken utteranee had when
even at day the simple relation OF them sometimes
peas with such wonderful power There s manner OF
speaking which sometimes has tho effect OF the most import


nhuence from the which II II told We have been


accustomed hearing the sayings OF Christ related and
discussed In the most commonplace manner that they a 10
strike with The who was born and bred
amolg lofty stends amazed at the emotions which
iss s0lsslgsa!.ga " tasE "KGiDz higsss and doc.
Year: 1866

Secretary WELLEs, of President JOHNSON S
Cabinet. commences letter to Senator Doo-
little. endorsing the National Convention soon
to assemble at Philadelphia, in the following
words:


IL cordially approve the movement which
has been instituted to sustain the administra-
tion in maintaining unbroken the Union Of the
States. recognize in the call which you
have sent me the principles and views with
which the administration has been governed"
We have known Secretary Welles for a long
period of years. Being a native of the same
State and for many years of the same political
party, we had reason to know him we'll \
man of firm and untlinching fidelity to prin-
ciples he won the confidence of his party and
was for many years its leader That he should
stand firm by the President, when most all OF
the other members of the cabinet have turned
against him, is not surprising to us, when we
call to mind the fact that the President and
Mr.. Welles were both educated in the same
Jetfersonian school. His mind once made up
that he is right there is no turning him to the
right or left. The President has not more
hard working friend in the Cabinet.
Year: 1866

About taking the Test OATH" by the mem
Der elect to Congress. we would say word or
oath, and johnson can. A large majority of
this District cannot take this oath, hence the
radicals would call as " disloyal." 1t is very
evident that the Southern members will never
be admitted by this Congress on any terms.
If the next Congress admits them, they will
also do away with Test Oaths." and every
honest man can sccurea seat. One thing is
certain; the taking of this oath cannot give
men brains, and if it does not, we had better
send a man who has got plenty of them, and
that man is Judge A. b. Greenwood.
Year: 1866

Every conservative johnson man, who has
the good of the South at heart, will cast his
vote for the gentleman whose name heads this
article, for Senator from this district. The
attempt on the part of some men in the dis
trict to detract from his popularity, by malic-
ious and false reports, will fall to the ground.
Every man who knows Jesse Turner--and
there are but few who do not-know that he
is an honest straig ight-forward man, open and
free in his expressions and opinions. That he
has always been an earnest and avowed friend
of President Johnson's course is apparent to
all who have conversed with him, and no man
is a warmer advocate of the principles of the
conservative party Of Arkansas at this time,
than is Mr.. Turner. That he will be elected
over all opposition, we have not doubt Still
it is duty incumbent on all of his friends to
work necessarily to that end.
Year: 1866

We learn that j. ". johnson, the radical
candidate made flaming speech in Fort
smth, not long since, in which he rebuked
the President in terribly scathing terms. Hi'
eloquence was truly Ciceronian. The pathet-
ic manner in which he alluded to the danger
with which the country is now threatened
was truly melting. Such sublimity is said
never to have been surpassed. Poor Green
wood and Bennet, you are are pitted against
giant. We pity you and from feelings OF
sympathy We will have to support you or one
Of you; and we fear SO many will feellike us
that the eloquent Colonel may be defeated
and then, alas! +! my country, what will become
of il?


But, seriously, 1t is an outrageous insult to
the people of this District for man to pre-
sent himself before them and solicit their
votes on the negro suffrage platform. Here is
u man raised among us who is fully aware OF
the prejudces of the people-who knows how
much they have suffered and lost, and by his
assistance, and yet he comes forward and asks
to be rewarded for contributing to bring these
disasters upon them.


His party, while called abQlitionien have
ssi:,.-d for forty odd years, to rob the South
and now, having succeeded, he comes among
the crushed and ruined people and openly asks
them to support him in order to continue the
system of plunder and robbery. by MEANS OF
protective tariffs, revenue taxation, and all
the long array of denominations and iniquties
advocated by his party. The people of this
District, we can confidently predict will in
dignantly spurn his pretensions. and bid him
retire to his original obscurity. from which he
was raised by the answering rule of civil
WARTIME good sink. the unworthy rose to the
surface. Judge Greenwood, a man who has
served the District faithfully. in Congress be-
fore the war, and whose influence at Wash
ington was great, is the man to whom the peO-
pie of this District will undoubtedly entrust
their interests.
Year: 1866

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


c. SPEIDEL,
next door to First National Bank,


Rock Island.
dec9dw
Year: 1866

s TIE BANKRUPT Bn1.-On Thursday last Mr..
Jenckes, from the Select Committee on the
Bankrupt Law, reported 10 the House Of Rep
resentatives bill to establish uniform system
Of bankruptcy throughout the United States.
This is the bill originally reported as amended
in the House, with some other amendments
meeting the objections then made to it, which
were simply in regard to the fees Of legal
officers. The bill was discussed during the
morning hour, when its further consideration
went over to Tuesday next We hope this bill
will now pass. II has been the subject of Con-
xressional legislation for several years, having
been introduced before the war, continued
through II, and being still agitated. The
measure Is most desirable one for the coun-
try. By its passage the unfortunate merchant
Of former days may resume business, and q
fresh and healthy tone be infused into nearly
every branch Of trade. It will contribute to
revive the depressed spirits Of many honest
and respectable families who have been
harassed by hard and unrslenting creditors for
the payment Of debts incurred in days Of pros
perity, but the failure to meet which could not
be foreseen. What benefit is 1t to creditor to
keep his debtor under the harrow for all time,
when little liberality, in allowing him
to resume business, may be the means Of en-
abling him TO pay OF his old debts in full. If
debtor be honest be cannot pay unless the
bankrupt law relieves him, and he may II so
relieved. The creditor, therefore, stands o
good chance Of being benefited by the law as
well as the debtor. If debtor be dishonest it
win make no difference to the creditor whether
the bill pass or not, and It is ridiculous for him
to oppose IT. We do not see where the bill in
its operations can result in damage to any
Of the great interests Of the country; but on
the contrary we believe It will be the means
of imparting renewed impetus to all branches
Of American enterprise.
Year: 1866

SCANDAL IN HooslERDoM.-Ind
apolis is rife with scandalous stories.
A distinguished citizen has created a
sensation in connection with the young
and fascinating wife of venerable and
confding gentleman. A physician has
found it convenient to retire to private
life on account of the unfavorable ter
mination of a case from one of the
adjoining counties. wherein a young,
beautiful, accomplished and weelthy girl
died under his treatment. The walls
Of the city are plastered with circulars
denouncing a certain gay and festive
young gentleman as scoundrel, villain,
and such like pet names. A lady whose
virtue he had attempted is said to have
taken this extraordinary means of
Showing him up.'' Another young
gentleman, who had been writing letters
to schoolgirl, with dishonorable intent,
was drawn into an ambuscade by the
fair decoy, and cowhided within an inch
of his life by lusty male relative. A
gentleman who spends some of his time
in New York, the other day wrote an
affectionate letter to his mistress, to join
him, and inclosing $50 as travelling
expenses. At the same time, he wrote
a loving and dutiful epistle to his con-
fding wife, full of regrets and lies.
Unfortunately the two letters got mixed,
and that intended for the leman was
sent to the wife. Of course, there was
a row, and divorce talked about, but the
Lothario finally succeeded in making
the impression that it was all joke ;
that Miss was a fictitious person
age, and the whole matter was gotten
up to have a little fun at his wife
expense, whom he knew to be slightly
inclined to jealousy. The wife made
fifty dollars by it, anyhow.
Year: 1866




General Banks, in recent speech


delivered at Washington, in favor of


negro suffrage, told this anecdote:


"When l was younger than am, in
the State Of New Hampshire, at the


town of Nashua, where obtained my
education at university with belfry
at the top and waterwheel under the


lower stories laughterl, looking out


with my associates and fellow students


upon the smooth and CLASSY surface of


the Merrimac river, that stream of per-


petual beauty and perpetual life, we


saw colored boy, intimately known to


US, upon the surface, engaged in the


pleasant exercise of skating, for it was


Winter. While we looked upon the


beautiful Merrimac, the little negro boy


suddenly went in. You may never
have seen negro under such circum-


stances. We went down to him with


all the speed possible. Going out to


the middle of the river, we took up
plank and handed it to the little negro,
and he grasped it with as much alacrity
as any one of them will take ballot
when we give it to him. Just as We
had got it on the hole into which he had
fallen, he fell off the plank and went in
again. The second time he came up,
he wore an expression l shall never
forget. You never have seen negro
under such circumstances. He was
speechless; his emotions suppressed all
rhetoric; he did not indulge in any
eloquence at all. He grasped the plank
this time, not with alacrity, but with
ferocity, and we brought him again to
the surface. We thought he was a
negro saved from the jaws of death ;;
but off the little fellow slipped and went
down. You may never have seen negro
under such circumstances. Laughter.
We handed him the plank again, but
he did not touch it this time. You may
never have seen a negro refuse plank
under such circumstances. He addressed
US speech, and l never heard speech
that contained so much of touching
eloquence as was embodied in that little
negro's speech: please glib dis niger
de wooden end OBJ dat boardr Laugh
ter. You see the end We had given
him was the icy end. 1t was the same
icy end that the Southern people have
been holding out to him for two hundred
years. He was entirely satisfied that
the wooden end was the best. Now, sir,
what we propose for the negro in this
country is to give him the wooden end
of the board. He has had the icy end |
for more than two centuries. The
desolation of more than moral retribution |
has come upon the men who extended to |
him the icy end of the board, and come
upon them justly. | wish now to give
him the wooden end of the board. He
will receive from that act of iuStice the |
same joy which that little negro expe-
rienced.
Year: 1866

1.-The following beautiful poem is said TO hav
in New York paper. several years ago. 1t Ia
been Iikened TO Hoods Bridge of Sighs' in it
touching pathos and smooth versi6catioa-l
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below;
Over the hoasetops, ever the street,
Over the heads Of the people you meet;


Dancing,


Flirting,


Skimming along,
Beautiful snow, it can do nothing wrong;
Flying to kiss fair lady'S cheek
Clinging 70 lips in a frolicsome freak
Beautiful snow from the heavens above,
Pure as al angel, and fckle as love
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow
How the flakes gather and laugh as they go
Whirling about in its madiening ian,
1t plays in its glee with every one:


Chasing,


Laughing.


Hurrying by,
II lights up the face. aud il sparhles the eye;
And even the dogs, with bark and bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around;
The town is aiIve, and its heart in a glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful snow.
How the wild crowd goes swaying along
Hailing each other With humor aud song,
ipN sHS Say s4tuSSS, ithc luStc'l>. Edsu uN,
Bright for a moment, then lost to the eye;


Ringing.


Swinging,


Dashing they go,
Over the crust of the beautiful snow:
Snow so pure when il falls from the sky
To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by
To be trampled and tracked by the thousands Of
feet
Till it blends with the filth in the horrible street.
Once was pure the sncw-but fell.
Fell, like the snow flakes from Heaveu-to hell;
Fell, to be trampled filth OF the street
Fell. to be scotfed, to be spit on, and beat;


Pleading


Cursing.


Dreading TO die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy;
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead;
Mercltul God have fallen so low
And yet was once ike this beautiful snow,
Once I was fair as the beautiful snow,
With eye like its crystal heart like its glow
Once l was loved for my innocent grace
FlaItered and sought tor the charms of my face;


Father,


Mother.


Sister. all,
God and myself, have lost by my fall;
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by
Will take wide sweep, lest | wander too nigh;
For, Of all that is about me, know
There is nothing that's pure but the beautiful snow
How strange it should be that this beautiful snow
Should fall on sinner with no where to go
How strange it would be, when the night comes
again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain


Painting,


Freezing,


Dying alone.
Too wicked for prayer. too weak for my moan
To be heard in the crash of the crazy town,
Gone mad in their JOY at the SHOWS coming down
To lie and 10 die in my terrible woe,
With bed and shr9ud of the beautiful snow
Year: 1866

In town in Connecticut resides a
man who made a fortune in the milk
business, by not giving full measures.
As be grew rich, he thought he would
change his occupation to something
more respectable, and accordingly
bought g grist mill. In conversation
with his wife, he said he did not feel
right about the cheating he had prac-
ticed in the milk business, and wished a
way could be devised whereby he could
repay in the grist mill what he had
cheated in the other. At last, they
settled OF the following plan, which was
to have the measures with which they
took toll as much too large as the milk
measures were too small.
Year: 1866

admitted, sir,'' said the porter to gay
assemblage, as young man appeared
at the entrance. Youmust leave him
behind if you go in"


every Well," said the young man.
" Stay about here. Prince, till | come
back"


And he Joined the crowd within but
by and by the young man wished to
refer to his watch, when, behold the
chain had been snapped in two, and the
valuable time piece was gone. He
consideded the case moment, and then
a sudden thought flashed in his mind.
So, stepping out, he whispered the fact
to the porter, and gained permission to
take his dog in for minute or two.


g Look here, Prince" said he, "you
knowing dog, my watch is stolen )" and
he showed him the empty pocket and
the cut chain. "Do you understand,
oldsfellow :! In there, sir, is the thief.
You find it, my good doggie, and III
get you famous treat. You under
stand, do you?'


Prince wagged his head and tail, and
gave his master wonderfully knowing
look, and then the two stole quietly into
the place again. Quietly his dumb
detective glided around among the peo
pie, smelling at this ones coat and that
ones chain, until at last he set his teeth
frmely into the coat-tail of genteel-
looking man, and could not be shaken
off. The young man quietly made
known the case to the bystanders, who
gathered around him, and had the
thief's pockets duly searched. Six
other watches were found upon him,
which he had gathered up in the course
of the morning, and which their right
full owners were glad to get their hands
on again. Prince selected out his mas
ter's property in twinkling, as that
was all he cared for, and gave it to him
joyfully. 1t would have taken very
keen police to do work so neatly and
quickly; and all agreed that he merited
as good dinner as dog could have.
A good beef bone and bowl of milk
satisfied all wants, and then he was
just as ready to do the same favor again.


SOME philosophical wretch says that
cage is venerable in man, and would be
in woman-if she ever grew oldn'
Every woman acknowledges that she is
growing old until she reaches twenty.
After that, nobody has right to ques-
ton her. There is belief current that
when she arrives at that age, she dis
covers the fountain of perpetual youth
so vainly sought by Ponce de Leon, but
whether it consists in exercise and fresh
air or cosmetics and cotton, We have
never ventured to inquire. There are
sanctuaries which would be profaned by
the footsteps of man, and chief among
these is the place where woman puts
herself together and takes herself apart.
Were mankind one-half as inquisitive
as the gentler sex $50 called), this mys-
terry would have been solved long ago;
and it is still questionable whether or
not some modern Paul Pry will not tell
US all about it, though we should be
sorry to have him do so. We prefer to
take the ladies at their word, and shall
thank no scoffing inhdel for undermining
our faith in the ability of woman to
remain young just as long as she chooses.
Champaign (Minois) Union.


AMONG the sports in Australia is that
of hunting the emu. A few months
ago, Sydney paper tells US, as MIR.
Year: 1866

eighty miles of the cable to repair it. On
the 29th of July, when seven hundred
miles of cable had been laid, Insulation
again suddenly ceased. The ship was
stopped, and the cable transferred to the
picking -Hp gear, which commenced hauling
in. After picking up two and a quarter
miles Of cable the fault was found to be
the presence of stout piece Of wire which
had been driven through the cable. Two
and quarter miles of cable were re-
covered from a depth of nineteen hundred
iathoms. The defect being repaired, the
work was resumed and continued with
success until August ,, when, after one
thousand three hundred and&wclvc miles
had been paid out, the insulation again
ceased.


The ship was soon afterwards stopped,
and the cable transferred to the picking-up
gear at the bows. The operation of haul
ing in commenced. By noon the engine
used for picking up stopped for want of
water for considerable time. Two miles
Lad been recovered, and the cable was cut
10 see if the fault had come on board. At
about half-paSt II 7. NJ. the cable caught
and chaicd on the mouth of the "horSc
pipe" and was with considerable difficulty
removed, and at twenty-five minutes IL
it parted on board where it was injured,
just behind the shoppers, and in moment
the end disappeared in the water.


After three unsuccessful attempts to
raise it by graphing, the Great Eastern,
with the remainder of the cable on board,
returned to ShccrncSs on the llth. II
seems there was no difficulty in graphing
the cable even at the great depth of water
of two thousand fathoms; and the object
of the return of the Great Eastern was to
obtain stronger graphing gear, that on
board having been broken three times.


The place at which the cable had sunk
was buoycd, and the vessels abandoned the
attempt for the year.


THE CABLE OF 1866.


1t was settled that the next attempt
should be crowned with success. The his
tory Of that attempt, and how it succeeded,
is given in the Dipatch of yesterday
morning in the diary Of Cyrus W. Field.
The Great Eastern has yet another duty
to perform i'll the attempt To be made to
raise the cable of lSG5 and finish it to
Hearts Content; and this stupcndous work
may yet be Il success.
Year: 1866

POLICE ARREsTs.-Thc only arrests in
the middle ward yesterday were those Of
William Fox, drunk and unable to take
care of himself, and Walter c. Whittle
for assaulting and beating William Fox, and
Tor violently resisting the police. His
Honor the Mayor will dispose of the case
this morning.