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Year: 1872

that, if ever, the time mas come now for
! every man 20 ay;g his principles; he


has. come out openly on the side Of justice
and truth. and is ready to abide By aud
defend these views to the end. We
commend HIr. Eggert to every loyal
American as fully qualified for the Office
he has been nominated to fill.


Mr.. a NJ. Richter is the nominee for
County Clerk and is as we'll and as ia
vorably known to the people Of Manito-
woe as any of the officers nominated =
During the long residence of Mr. Rich
ter in this County and City, he has es-
iablishcd an enyiable reputation for abili-
" aud integrity in the discharge Of the
several official duties he has been called
20 fill, and the due exercise of which
will only increase that reputation In the
important Office he is nominated for aad
to which he will be gloriously elected
next November. The loss to our city Ia
his official capacity will be gain to the
whole county. Mr.. r had no opponents
that could be really called SO, at the
Convention.


Mr.. j. S. Anderson was nominated for
Dist. Attorney; he is young man that
has long been a resident of this city, and
who has become we'll known throughout
the county as lawyer Of considerable
ability and untiring energy; and of
whom it is universally expected that he
will discharge every duty with the strict
est integrity ard faithfullness, as the lie.
gal representative Of the people.


Fayette Armsby was nominated for
County Surveyor by acclamation He
too is an old, highly esteemed citizen of
Manitowoc County, who knows every sec
'ion line and corner almost by heart, and
is still indefatigable in new discoveries.
Mr.. A. will always be found faithful,
reliable man in every duty he may be
called upon and assume to perform.


Richard klinghoiz is the nominee for
Coroner. If it were the duty of that Of
ficer to sit upon dead bodies, as it is in
many of our States, our friend would
hardly be found willing TO accept; he
would prefer sitting somewhere else, or
have the choice of the body he is to sit
upon. But there being no danger of
that kind in the State, We trust he will
accept the situation, as there seems to be
no pressing occasion for the exercise of
his duties ia an official capacity. Rich
ard K!;ngholz will make an excellent
Coroner


We may we'll be proud CT aud hopeful
for our Republican ticket, aud now all
we ask of the intelligent voters of Mani
towoc County is, to compare the tickets
presented to them by each party, and
the choice between the men presented
for their support cannot help but fall on
the sidesef the Republicans. We
predict one of the grandest victories for
the entire Republican ticket Let all good
citizens add their vote for that great
end.
Year: 1872

During discussion, last evening" by the
Managers Of the Board Of Trade, upon the tax
paid by Loan Associations, on mortgages which
they hold, it was moved and agreed to that the
Board should not make any effort to have this
tax removed by the Legislature. 1t was urged
by one Of the active officers Of the Loans that
this tax was the same on their mortgages as on
all others, and that they could not, in propriety,
be released, unless all were. He also stated
that the average tax per year, paid by each AS.
sociation would not be over $500, and this
would not prolong the running out more than
about one month.


There are several comments to be made on
this. In the first place, the whole working Of
the mortgage tax is bad Under the pretence Of
collecting revenue from persons whose wealth il
invested in those securities, it really adds a new
burden to the already overloaded debtor class,
who, under the present situation Of affairs, pay
the tax. The revenue is therefore derived, not
from those who olon the money, but from those
who are in debt for it, and the more man is il
debt-the further he is from ownership-tht
more tax the State gets from him OF course ,thii
Is not the intent Of the law, but it is the prac
tical operation Of itand will continue to be until
our financial situation is mended by themodifca.
tion Of the Usury Laws. The mortgage tax,
under present conditions is utterly an abortiye
measure, and works harm to the people.


While, however, nine-tenths Of the capitalists
and other persons holding mortgage invest.
ments, completely escape the tax by turning it
over to their borrowers, the loan Association.
are obliged, for practical reasons, to pay it
This is, in comparison, highly unjust as it is, al
any rate totally wrong in principle The pro-
cess of accumulating sayings-which is Just what
these Loan Associations are, until they wind VI
ought not to sustain a tax of a single cent il
any way direct or indirect and all taxes extorted
from them are wrongly and injudicious taken
Wealth should be taxed, but not the process OF
getting it. When the shareholders in the Loan
Associations actually own their homes, and gel
through with the monthly scraping to pay theiI
dues, than their property should share the bur
dena Of taxation, but to insist that part OF wha
they are laying up shall be regularly abstractet
for public use is unreasonable and a wretchet
policy Of revenue 1t is like adding a fresl
weight to the horse who is already full-oaded
and on whose endurance your safety depends.
Year: 1872

u lndisposition and the crowded state Of
our columns, has prevented us from review
Ing the State and other tickets in nomination
By the Reform party this week. We shall
give them some attention IN our next.
Year: 1872

s7g- The State election in Maine took place
yesterday. We look for a increase Of the vote
to the State Democratic ticket, but not
enough to elect it, but we do look for gain
of one or two congressman.
Year: 1872

I am Informed that the report has
been industriously circulated by those
who aim to defeat my election as Audi
tor of King County. that l do not write
readable hand. This is false. I
write perfectly plain and legible hand, SO
that no one who can read writing at all,
can possibly mistake or fail to under
stand at the first glance what word is
meant or what letters are written. Let
those who doubt this call on me.


WI. ". THEOBALDS,
Year: 1872

BANKING.-The Puget Sound Banking
Company was incorporated i'll May last
10y a number Of New York gentlemen to
do business i'll our city. Samuel z.
Warren and o. S. Warren were sent out
to manage tie affairs for the first six
months, and as will be seen by our
advertisement in this issue, there will
be an election on the 4th inst. of Trus-
tees and officers for thsf coming six
months, and We understand that the
management has been perfectly salts
factory to the stock holders and that S.
z. Warren, Esq, Cashier, will be re-
tanned as manager for the coming six
months.


This Bank has given to the residents
Of Puget Sound better and more bank
ing facilities than they ever have had
before. They have drawn Exchange on
Portland, San Francisco, New York and
London at as low rate as the banks of
Victoria and San Francisco, and reduced
the rates of discount for mill drafts and
Eastern exchange, and by so coing have
helped to bring business to our city.
In establishing the Savings Department
they offer a safe and profitable place for
the savings of our young men and pay
them a liberal interest for the same,
and every dollar saved adds that much
to the wealth of our Territory.


We understand that the business has
rapidly increased. and that during the
mouth of September they did as much
business as in June, July and August
combined, and that the business thus
far for October makes even better
showing. A bank under the manage
ment OF experienced and practical bank
ers cannot but receive its portion of the
business and confidence Of our commu-
nifty, and We have no hesitancy i'll
recommending this company to the
general public as long as it remains
nder the management of Major War
ren.
Year: 1872

JUST REcEIvED.-Pumphrey & Young
have just received, per steamer Prince
Alfred, large assortment of the new
series of school books lately introduced
INTO this Territory, and the latest peri
odlcals which they are now offering for
sale at their store OIL Mill street.
Year: 1872

To the Trade and the public generally
we return our thanks for past favors
Our mutual transactions in business,
heretofore, is our chief claim for in
creased patronage.


The rapidly increasing Trade of this
City with the Merchants of the Sound
Ports warrants our present importation.


The Stock now on hand, as usual,
consists Of
Year: 1872

SIGNS OF \ REACTION AGAINST THE GONERNNfENT


From TIE Ne0 Yorker StaGts Z0ung ofFt1. 20


If signs are not deceptive, we have the
prospect OF something that has long been wanting the
United Sates-a diSpassiODate Presidential election
Notwithstanding the warm contest at present going on
in Congress, the sentiment in which the people view
the occurrences there Is apparently quiet The
entire situation points to reaction in public Opnen 10
a feeling OF shame TO apply popular ter H. complete
political KGtzendnmer The picture OF our system OF gov
ernment which, only the opposition in the Senate but
even the Administration side have shown to the people
can fail produce impression, notwithstanding
the diigent efforts of the whitewashers Of the Admins
tratOu outside of the Senate TO blot out that picture
The especial points of contest, such as the custom
era IMPRESSION which is everm9re deeply engraved in
the hearts of the people, that II has entirely un
worthy GOvcrnn ent, and that or entire CONSTITUTIONAL
system il unhinged.
Year: 1872

Nt NeW TOrkT UtnnoFrdI y ~. 70.


The tiresOme "Ams Traffic Debate displays
in full measure what it promised from the be-
ginning thanks to the blind partisan passions OF tho
Administration firm. The adoption OF Conkling foolish
amendment, and the rejection Of Senator DumbulPs
proposition TO reconsider the same which he sustained
IN speech Friday which did not fail in It's effect, go
10 show that the debate upon this di5aseful subject will
DO continued into the middle If not to the end Of this
week and that it will solely within the limits OF
party politics The fault Of this and of the squanderng
of time and the of the people, entaied
by this party contest, Is. as we have fire.
OuentIy remarked to be laid before the door of those
Senators who in their "patrctic" conception OF their
duty toward the people and the party know no higher
0ucstou of politics than that OK the reelection of Grant
As everything even the worst objects. have two sides,
so only all true friends of the people, bH also Of
me ReDubican paTty understand it, every reason
TO be thankful TO the Senatorial Grant firm for their per-
verted proceedings 1t was they who threw down the
gauntet to those who represent Republican party
as it could and should have been To raise up was the
duty of the latter and, believe in the Vinclbs
DOWer of truth SIZED that the zeal interests VI
the Republican party VIII not suffer, but VIII come VIC
tOrOusiy out of the contest.
Year: 1872

The venture il perilOus one. The Labor
Reform party in this state In 1870 nominated ticket
what the RESULT The candidates scarcely polled
votes enough know they running We are afraid
huch will he the result OF the Davis and Parker ticket


Although Davis is strong man, that will avail him
nothing The WOrkngmen not yet ready " tako tlo
Year: 1872

Be 1t Ordained BY the City Council Of The City
ot hock Island That the First Ward Of the
City Of Rock Island be 80 divided that the west
boundry OF said First Ward shall be ths west
line of kxohapge street, from the bank of the
Mississippi river south to wheIe said west line of
Exchange street Strik the west inc of the road
to Milan; thence southerly on the west line of
tAid road to the city limits; and that all that
part of the City of kOek Island living west of
said west lines of Exchange street and aid road
TO Milan be hereby constituted and kno IN as the
Fifth Ward of the City of Rock Island,


And Be it Further Ordained, That the Oity
Clerk be hereby instructed TO call without delay,
an lection for the purpose of eleetiug two Al
dermen in said Fifth Ward, one Of said Alder
men to hold his Office until the first Tuesday in
the month Of March, A. D. 1873, or until his
successor ia elec' ed and qualified the other Of
said Aldermen to hold his Office until the first
Tuesday in the month of March, A D. 1874, or
until his successor is elected and qualifed.s
And BE- Il Further Ordained That the eastern
bOuudry of the First Ward an. the western
boundry of the Second Ward in said City of
Rock Island, be as follows :-Beginning on the
bank of the Mississippi river. at point where
the east line Of Deer street produced would strike
the bank OF said river. thence south on the said
produasd line and the east line OF Deer street 10
where said east line of Deer street iutersects the
north line of Toledo street thence westwardly to
a point the north line OF Toledo ST., to where
= line produced northWardly from the EAST line Of
StOddsrd ST. would intersrct the said orth line Of


Toledo street. thence suuthwardly on said last
mentioned produced line and the east line Of
Stoddard street, and the east line of stoddard
street extended southerly to the City limits
Adopted November 4th A. D. 1872.


Approved. THOMAS MURDOCH, Mayor.
Attest: JOIN BARGE, City CLERK. 5S5t
Year: 1872

IN an article entitled ''The Last Two
Years." which appeared in these columns
some time last winter, we showed that there
had been encouraging and marked progress
in the working out of important plans con-
cernine our harbor and railways, during the
time mentioned. But though this work has
apparently been in allegiance during the past
summer, those who are familiar with the
situation of affairs, know that the cessation
of effort is but seeming, and to accomplish
very important purposes, being in fact, an
other phase of work.


1t is quite likely that within a month or
two, there will be an advance along the line,
which will make better showing to the
outer world, than the mastery inactivity of
the past summer. And taking this first
lumber of our third volume as a new point
of observation, we venture to predict that
the fruits of the hard fought contests and
wesrisome delays of the last thirty months,
Year: 1872

A gentleman writes to the London
Times to call attention to very old and
oppressive feudal custom in the county
Of Sussex, England: the custom Of
taking heriots on a change of tenants
in copyhoId estates. The sufferer in
this case was farmer in the village of
Hankenbury, which ad]oins the town
of Tunbridge Wells, who, together with
his farm, which is freehold, occupies a
small piece of copyhold land under the
Marquis of Camden. The farmer hav-
ing lately met his death from
an accident with q gun, the Mar
quis' agent came to the homestead of
the deceased and selected the finest COW
out of herd of only four kline AZ q
heriot, and claimed the animal or its
price from the son on his succession to
his fathers copyhold. The family is
poor, and the fine consequently pres.
ses with unusual severity on the son at
time when he is also buraened with
his fathers funeral expenses. This
custom of levying heriots the write,
ventures to think is one (which needs
only to be brought to general notice to
be secuted as unworth of tolerance in
an enlightened age. to be reprobated
rs feudal barbarism, and abolished
forthwith as the last remaining badge
of the villianage and serldom of an
cient times.
Year: 1872

ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS is after those
wolves in sleeps clothing, known as 'Possunl
Democrats. In an article in his paper on the
18th ultimo, he expresses himselfin this way


1t is q fact which cannot be ignored, and
one which ought to be realized at once, that
there are now quite number of prominent
men in the country who hold themselves
forth as Democrats, and assume positions as
leaders and organs in the party, who never
professed distinctive feature or principle in
the Democratic creed in their lives. These
men have no other object In the coming elec-
ton, so lar as party is concerned, than the
defeat In the reelection of General Grant. In
principle they are just as radical or centraliz-
ing as he. With them the spoils of office and
its emoluments are all they are looking to, or
caring for; and with most of this class even
the spoils of office have less controlling in
hucnce than a fixed determination on their
part never to permit, If they can prevent it,
another Presidential election to be carried
upon the Jeffersonian principles of the essen.
tial right of local self7government on the part
of the several States of the Federal Union.
They are opposed to General Grant, not be-
cause of his principles or acts, but because of
their personal dislike to him, and their love
of herewith ambitious designs for their
own elevation and aggrandizement upon the
same platform of principles on which he as
cended; and on which they expect to rise still
higher in the rapid progress making under his
administration towards complete centralism
and empire. .' ,'' ..- l.
Year: 1872

SHOULD Senator Wilson be nominated with
President Grant, it will be seen that there is
nothing like leather. We shall have the tam
ner of Gslena for President, and the cobbler
of Natick for Vice. Chicago Post.
Year: 1872


! Meerschaum, German for sea foam, is the
name lame given to q hydrous silicate nagnesia,
on account of its fightness and whitish ap-
pearance, 1t is found In Spain Greece, Tunr
/ key, and other parts of Southern Europe, also
in Asia Minor, When first removed from
the beds II Is quite soft, and cuts like cheese.
1t IS Of varied specific gravity, the ,lightest
quality being too porous for pipes, and the
heaviest being rejected from suspicion of its
being an artificial product. The blocks or
finished pipes are soaked or boiled in milk or
wax, the fatty substances of which are alb
sorbed by the meerschaum, and are acted
upon by the nicotine of the tobacco and the
heat of smoking. Those which have been
soaked in milk become of rich creamy white;
those treated with wax assume the yellow and
brown colors which are so much admired.
The imitation meerschaum pipes are made
from the parings of the genuine material,
which, being reduced to powder, are boiled
in water, and moulded in blocks some times
with the addition of pipe clay. The imitation
does not color so well as the genuine, and is
liable to chip.
Year: 1872

THE TICHBoRNE ESTATE. family seat of the Tichbornes, made so very famous by would. be heir, is in Hamp- shire, and there is 8 very curious story about custom of almsgiving which pre- vails there. When Lady Mabe,la, wife of Sir Roger de Mchborne, knight in the time of Henry II, was lying on her death bed, she besought her loving husband, as her last request, that he would grant her the means of leaving behind her 8 charitable bequest in dole of bread to be distributed to all who should apply for it annually on the Feast of the An nunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sir Roger, her husband, readily acceded to her request by promising the produce of as much land as she could go over in vicinity of the park while certain brand or billet was burning; supposing that, from her long infrmity, (for she had been bedridden some years,J she would be able to go round small portion only of his property. The venerable dame, however, ordered her attendants to convey her to the corner of the park, where being de posted on the ground, she seemed to receive renovation of strength, and to the surprise of her anxious and admiriDe lord. who began to wonder where this pilgrimage might end, she crawled around several rich and goodly acres. The field which was the scene of Mabel la's extraordinary feat retains the name

 of "Crawls" to this day.
Year: 1872

MIXED STATE OF AFFAIRS. curi- ous dispute has arisen in Strasbourg. The question at issue is whether the language of the plays shall be spoken in French or German. Naturally enough the people wish the talk to be in French, the tongue they can all understand but the Governor thinks it due to the dignity of Prussia that the language heard on the state of Elsass should be German. A compromise has been suggested by the fact that French company is to act ia Metz. It is supposed that they come and play once week in Strasbourg. and that on other nights the pieces shall be performed in German. The people of Strasbourg are understood sullenly to as- sent to this arrangement, and to intend simply to leave the theatre empty when they cannot hear French in it. By way of conciliation, the Governor promises to give them an occasional Italian opera. But the back of the citizens of Strasbourg is up, and they demand that if opera is sung at all it shall be sung in French.
Year: 1872

It is gratifying to have at length the text OF
the Tariff bill. for in the recent confused legs-
lation there was reason to fear that Congress
might make many ill-cOnsidered changes. The
principal reduction of the Tariff is, of course,
made in the section which lowers the duties
10 per cent on all articles composed of
wool, cotton, the metals, paper, india
rubber, glass, and leather; as well
as on the raw materials used in such
manufactures. This measure evinces an un-
skillful manner of regulating duties, and is al
most without parallel in the fiscal history OF
any other nation. 1t acts unequally, for while
some branches of the different industries will
not be materially affected, others, as IRON
smelling and ol-producing, will suffer, and
ought not to have again to experience the in
stability of the Tariff. The additions to the
free list seem on the whole judicious,
consisting mainly of commodities used in the
arts or in medicine which we do not produce
at home. The duty on bituminous coal has
been reduced from 81 so to rs cents per tun-
a change which will put to practical test the
Free Trade assumption that the price of both
the home and foreign product is enhanced to
the full amount of the existing duty.


Salt in bulk is to pay in future cents
instead of IS per 100 pounds, while in bags it
will pay 10 instead of "a cents. This change
will remove convenient pretext for assailing
the whole policy of Protection, and ought to
secure a valuable industry from constant mis-
representation. That salt will be sold to
the great bulk of our people at less
prices than formerly is not probable, for expe-
rience proves that it has advanced in price in
proportion as its manufacture was retarded by
unrcstrained foreign competition. Considering
that Congress was in no mood to give due
care to industrial legislation, and was deter
mined to make a heavy reduction, it is fOrtu-
nate, on the whole, that there is SO little to
complain of in the present bill, which is as
near an approach to preserving the present
Tariff as was consistent with a diminished
revenue,