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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-03

At wholesale. by DEMAS BARNES y
New York. teby 5dw
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CalifOrnia--VegetatOn and Extrav.
agance. ...[

All the vegetation of California is
monstrous in growth. Strawberries as
big as hens eggs, some of which sold
at Sanitary Fair for dollar apiece.
Indeed, eggs have sometimes sold in
market at seven to ten dollars per doz,
en-. We have no conception ofthe ex-
travagance of the people. They meyer
think of the price of anything so long
as they have the money. They live on
their capital instead of income, and be-
gin anew every year. lazy stage
driver will toss the stable-boy who wa
ters his horse, a silver halfdollar as if
it were but two cents. Judging from
their generosity, we think this people
must be immensely rich,b they are
poor-keep themselves so by they ex-
travagance; no population in the world,
living at the same rate, has so little
wealth, But the great orops-green
vegetables are to be had through the
whole year, and in size they beat nat
ure. A respectable Presbyterian cler-
gyman told me he planted a peach-pip,
and in fourteen months it had grown to
tree ten feet high, and he ate peaches
grown upon it. Now, you don't believe
this; but it is true. One man cut a
stick which he carried as cane for a
week or two, and then sticking it into
the ground as support for week
sapling, it sprouted, and in two years
he gathered peck of pears from that
very cane! We have no conception of
the activity of that soil. Prodigious
crops of wheat and oats are raised; and
as to peaches, plums and pears, why /
should ruin my character for veracity
should l give you the facts about them.
Pears weigh five and six pounds ;
grapes weigh four and half pounds
to the bunch. 1t is the greatest grape
growing country in the world; they
are produced in the greatest profusion
grapes for breakfast, grapes for din
ner--and yet they are not cheap, be-
cause labor enters into their cultiva-
ton, and labor is high. So nothing is
cheap, though it is picked up in the
streets, because the man who picks it
up will charge you quarter for stoop-
ing down and picking it up. All veg
etables, potatoes, turnips, etc., are sold
by the pound, and you can imagine
what the bills must be.
ant 81 5ar Rev. DIR. Bellows.
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how do you do here, anyhow? aaf
S.-Putty well, thank you; how do
you do yourself?
TT mean what do you do for liv-
ing here?
n. S.-Kecp tavern and sell whisky.
T-Well told you wanted some
whisky.
S.-Stranger, bought barrel MORN
a week ago. You see, me and Sal went
shares. Arter we got it here, we only
had drink between us, and Sal, she
didn't want to use hern fust, nor. me
mine; you see, had spigging in one
eend and she in tother. So she takes q
drink out my eend and pays the bit;
then I'd take one out'n hern and give
her the bit. We'll, we's gettin' along
fust rate till Dick, id skulking skunk,
he bored hole in the bottom to suck
at, and the next time i went to buy a
drink there wurn't none thar. "a 'oisni
T-Tm sorry your whisky's all gone;
but, my friend, why don't you play the
balance of that tune?
SITS got no balance to it. 5n3at
T.-Imean you don't play the whole
of it. go Sli adr l.s .l9-
S.-Can you play the fiddle? $50 40.
T.-Yes, little, sometimes. y .
S.-You don't look like fiddler, but
Nv you think you can play any more
out o that thar tune, you can jist get
down and try. Hon1 4laia lm9ga
(The Traveller gets down and plays
the rest Of it, 1900 - oJ g. luga
S.-Stranger, take half dozen chee-
rs and set down, Sal stir around like a
six horse team in mud hole. Go a.
round in the holler, whar / killed that
buck this moning', cut off some of the
best pieces and fotch it and cook it for
me and this gentleman, directly -
Raise up the board at the head Of the
bed and git that ole black jug 1 hid
from Dick, and give us some whisky; !
know thar's sum lef yit. Til, drive ole
Bose out'n the bread tray, then climb
up in the loft and git the rag that sugar
is tied up in. Dick carry the gentle
mans hoss round under the shed, give
him some fodder and corn, as much as
he can eat. ~,
Til.-Dad, they amt knives enough
to sot the table. z" e-al1
S.-Whar's big butch, little butch, ole
case, cob-handle, grannie's knife, and
the one handled yesterday? That's
enough to sot any gentleman's table
without you'uv lost .um. D-n me,
stranger, eff you can't stay as long as
you pleas, and I'll give you plenty to
eat and drink! Will you have coffee
for supper?
T.-Yes, sir.
S.-I'll be hanged efyou do though,
we don't have nothin' that way here,
but Grub Hyson, and l reckon it's
mighty good with sweetnin'. Play a
way, stranger, you can sleep on the
dry spot to night.
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THE MARRIED LIFE or JouN W,

.h THE MARRIED LIFE OF JonN IVES
LEY.-When Wesley settled, he said,
"It would be more useful to marry"
He married widow, who, through her
jealousy, led him life of wretchedness
and misery. AT last his spirit was up,
and he wrote to her.-Know Inc and
know yourself Suspect me no more ;
provoke me no more do not any long
er contend for mastery, for power,
money or praise be content to be a
private Insignificant person, known and
loved by God and me-" 1t is not like
ly that woman would be pleased a
being recommended to be an insignifi-
can't person. After twenty years dis
quietude she one day left him.. He
bore it philosopieally. He went even
beyond it; he took his diary and put
the most pithy entry into it l ever met
with in a diary; "Non sam rsliqui, non
dentist, non rsyocalo," which may be
translated thus 81 did not leave her
Iidid not send her away;I shan't send
for her back.'---And so ended the mar
ried life of John Wesley. .fs ut,-- 4,
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destroyed the health of almost all who

destroyed the health of almost all who
inhaled Il. t1i,i .aiiissroL =
"The sickness and mortality in those
outside quarters, as well as elsewhere
continually increased, and the marvel
was that any one survived. Starved
and freezing with hardly water enough
to drink, much less to wash their per
sons or the scant clothes they were,
the poor fellows naturally and neces-
sarily despaired and not few of them
were anxious. to, die, to escape from
the slow torture of their situation. y s f.
81 had the best means OF knowing,
and it is my firm belief that out of eight
or nine thousand prisoners at Salisbury,
there We're not, at any time, five hun
dred Of them in sound health, an opinr
Mon in which all the rebel surgeons to
whom i expressed it fully conceded.
"The deaths during the last two
months Lpassed at Salisbury, ranged
from twenty-five to forty-five per day /;
diarrhea, dysentery, catarrh, pneumon-
ia, and typhoid fever--all engendered
by scarcity offood, shelter, and raiment
being the principal diseses. / have no
doubt if the prisoners had been prop
erly treated, as prisoner of war ia the
North are, to the best of my knowledg
and information, treated, the mortality
at Salisbury would not have been more
than an eight OF what it was. = 2 "
'sThe capacity of the SO called hospi-
tails nine in number, which were with
out any ofthe comforts or concomitants
of those institutions-was not, to the
fullest extent, over five or six hundred
patients, and the number of prisoners
who ought to have been inmates there
Of was at least as many thousand. The
hospitals merely afforded some protec
ton from the cold and rain, and furnish
ed rather better rations than were given
to the men who were supposed by a
transparent fiction to be in good health.
Hardly any one would go to the hospi-
tails so long as he could help himself or
induce any one to help him; the daily
spectacle of gastly and hideeus corpses
going therefrom to the dead-house FL
ling all beholders with horror, and in
ducing the soldiers to believe that all
who entered those filthy and pcstiferous
tenements were doomed. al EV y,.
"The prison limits at Salisbury re-
vealed scene of wretchedness, squalor,
despair and suffering, such as /, accus-
toned as am to army life, and the
horrors of military hospitals and battle
fields, had never before witnessed. The
prison authorities, especially after the
massacre attending the attempted out
break of November 25, appeared not
only indifferent to the miserable con-
dition Of the men, but to be acuated
by brutality and malignity towards
them that could not reconcile with my
ideas of human nature. They permit
ted the guards to shoot prisoners when
ever, they pleased, without the least
prctext or explanation, and no mans
life was safe for an hour. The air was
full of pain and pestilence, and all the
horrors ofimagined hells seemed realiz-
ed in that most wretched place, of
which / shall never think without a
shudder, and lessened faith in the pos
sibilities of humanity." t,-s -
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The Arkansas Traveller.

Reader, did you ever let your eyes
run over the story of the Arkansas
Traveller? IT. you have, read it again
and laugh as you did once. Ifyou have
not, restrain you disabilities as much
as possible, and read the following:
Alost and bewildered Arkansas Tray
eler, approaching the cabin ofa squatter
about forty years ago, discoverd the pro-
prietor seated on an old whisky barrel
near the door, partly sheltered by the
caves, playing a fiddle, when the fo slow
ing dialogue ensued, the squatter play
ing only one part of the tune over and
over again: I'll fE..a.
Traveler-Hallo, stranger?
Squatter-Hallo yourself!
T.-Cap ! get to stay all night with
you? IL
S. You can get to h-l.
T.-Have you any spirits here! .ioa.
S.-Lots of 'em. Sal saw one last
night by that old gum tree, and nearly
skeered her to deth. m al,
T. You mistake my meaning
Have you got any liquor? ~. "a.
eS.-Had some yesterday but old Bose
he got in and Tapped all NV it out o the
pot. ~.
T.-You don't understand; ! don't
mean pot liquor. I'm wet and cold,
and want some whisky, have you got
any? 1r.l b. 2
SO, yes. l drank the last this
morning .-st ,.,
T.-Pm hungry, haven't had a thing
since morning; can'tyou give me some
thing to eat? n'
S.-Haint id thing in the house.
Not mouthful of meat or dust of
meal here. e. doosH
T.-Well can't you give my horse
something?
SCOT nothing to feed him on.
T.THow far is it to the next house?
S.-Stranger, ] don't know. I'v
never been thar ,a,- r
T.-Well, do you know who lives
here? -. as5ft git
J. S.-I do that - =. I sh
T.-As I'm bold then what might
your name be? st h
+ Sit might be Dick, and it might
be Tom; but it lacks id sight oft.
9T.-Sir will you tell me where this
road goes to. o5 .Ga.si -a
SITS never been any whar since
I've been here; it's always thar when /
get up in the morning!
ssT.-Well how far is it to where it
forks? o1 uJ
/ SIT don't fork at all, but it's split
up like the devil. 49,
I T.-As I'm not likely to get to anoth-
er house to-niglt, can't you let me sleep
in yours, and I'll tie my horse to this
tree, and do without anything to eat or
drink .,isime9 .0G
S.--My house leaks; thar's only one
dry spot in it, and Sal sleeps ON that.
And that treei is the old woman's presim-
mon; you can't tic to it cause don't
him shook of. She lows to make
beer out'n um. ~. y ;,.,5 ,as's q 'si dsns14
T.-1why don't you finish covering
your house and stop the leaks? 5A :.
| e S,-rIt's been raining all day. 20 d
T-Well why don't You do it in dry
weather? rs = 81. r...i''.r .
SILT don't leak thenN sssii.sH
l., T.-As there seems to be nothing
alive about your. place, but children
.
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SEvEN-THIRTY LOAN.

These Notes are issued under date Of August 18th
1894, and payable three years from that time, in
currsncy convertible at the option Of th. hold
or into
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The articles In hf stock Df JeweIry OF the neat
est and most fashionable styles Certificates of all tbs
various artolts pat in sealed envelopes and nike
thus giving all fair ch.nce, and sent by mail for %
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at your option 10 ONE DOLLAR and take the rticls
named in II or not Five certificates 81: eleven, So
thirty, 50; sixty five, SO; hundred SIS. CeItin
cate mOaey to 90 enclosed with the order. CORES.
pondence promptly answered.
We wish 1t distinctly understood that bu siness
is no Lottery. The object OF this OF SELL w
To give purchasers the opportunity of buying Jew,lry
at the Wholesale prices with the chance OF getting
watch or Home other valuable articles and all goods
sent, not satisfactory, be returned and tn money
Will he refunded
A6EklS wanted In eveTp town and regiment Send
for circular. Address, W.FORSYTH a. CO.,
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GREAT BARGAINS IN
JEWELRY! j

W FORSYTH CO.. 20 & ~ Nassau St; New York
(adjonDg the Post 0fce) olier sale the 70 ing
Magnificent List o, At
WATCHES, CHAINS, JEWELRY sc.
Valued at $50 900 EACH ARTICLE ONE DOL
LAR, aud not to be paie Tor until you know what you
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sist'llH l'5,sdi.ssisz !. lsiG,I
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y The famous OK, General Grant, drawn
in a rattle at the Sailors Fair, in Bos-
ton, was sold at auction by the winner,
on Saturday, for $3.50, .t
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BY authority ef tho Secretary of the Treasury. the
undersigned has assumed ,ths General suqsehptlon
Agenc, for the sale OF United States Treasury Notes
bearing aud three nths per cont. interest per
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SILVER WARE,

Spoons, Table, Desert Meas, Caeam, Sugar, Salt and
Mustard; Table Forks, Pickle Forks, Bntter Knives,
Fruit Knives. Napkin Rings and Nut PickeIs.
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-11-01

SYMPTOMS OF A Row IN UTAH.-The Union
Vedette, published at Salt Lake City, has been
engaged for some months past in exposing
the monstrous crimes which, in the name of
religion, have been practiced in Utah by the
Mormon leaders. The whole subject of the
Mountain Meadow massacre has been brought
up, and the surviving perpetrators of it, still
living in Utah, pointed out. The plaps of the
hdeous organization of assassins, under the
name of Dauites," have been made public,
and. the leaders marked. Even the better
class of Mormons are indignant at the con-
duct of the secret bands of villains kept in
the service of the church, and encouraged
even bY.Brigham Young himself. The whole
rotten system Of Mormondom appears to be
about to result in decomposition. Instead Of
maintaining o garrison among these beastly
polygamists for years, the Government should
exercise its authority to destroy the system
entirely, II is standing blemish on the
American.name until it is abolished. g,4
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-11-01

TRoUBLEIN KIT-TA-TAs VALLEY.-A gentle
man, just down from the Yakima, informs
us that the Indians in Kit. ia. tas Valley have
forbidden party of immigrants, numbering
about dozen families, to settle in that vail.
ley The Indians stated that they were will
ling. that the whites should herd stock
there, but they were determined not to per-
nit them to build houses or make improve
ments with view to engaging in agricultu-
raj pursuits. The land in question has been
eeded to the Uuited States, and the insolence
of these savages should be vigorously re-
pressed. The lax administration of Indian
affairs for some years past is breeding a
feeling of insubordination which will yet
have to be quelled with actual military
force, if not taken in time. 1t is of the
greatest Importance to the citizens of this
part of the country that, security shall be
given to settlers north of<the Columbia. If
this could be done, that section would
rapidly fill up with an industrious class of
paople Art - t'.stsL
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-11-01
lailp lHuuntatnctr

From LEwIsToN TO BEAcKFoor MINEs-Thc
citizens of Lewiston are discussing the pro-
priety of opening road to. intsrsect the Msl-
Ian road about twenty miles east of'the C@ur
d. Alene Mission. The road will run very
little. east Of north from Lewiston to the point
of intersection, aud will keep between the
meridians, OH Leo 3O/ and ll1o' West from
Washington. II will cross the ST. Joseph
River above its mouth, few miles, and be-
tween the great Ceur d'Alene Lake and
smaller one, not yet named. The distance
from, Lewiston to the point of intersection
with the Mhlan road wilA5 about one hundred
miles; from thence. ,.one hundred and thirty
miles to IIellgate, and, from thence, one hun
dred to Blacktoot City. In all, the distance
will be three hundred and thirty miles-less
rather than more. By this route it will be
one hundred mites nearer from the navigabe
waters of the Columbia and Snake rivers than
from any other point whatever.
Bnt before this route can be made availa-
BILE, there will have to be large expenditure
of money. IL has been examined by the
United States engineers, and Captain Mullan
once started to build his road around the
south side of the C4ur dAlene Lake, over
pretty much the same ground He abandon
ed the project on account of having to put
down corduroys over large proportion of the
road because he would have TO put on fer
ries on several streams. where bridges could
not be maintained, and, finally, because be
deemed the route utterly impracticable. But
for all lhat he may be wrong, and there may
yet be found an excellent route for a wagon
road over the country in question. Such q
route will probably not be found until perfect
ly competent men are employed for that pur-
pose. 1t will not be discovered by an ex
tremely scientific man with corps of "bug
oatcheis," certainly and il such projec
ever does succeed, ii will,be by following th'
advice of some purely practical man..
The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-11-01

INslseo Mr.. Seward spoke of John Brown
asgpilty Of ofsedftion'; she now says, in q letter
to friend who had sent him John. Browns
picture, thai Brownis one who .has become.
historical ~ o martyr in the cause Of human
natsres" Times. change, and. we. change
with then, pa 9 ''i'eggo 1'''''2
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Pension Bounty and War Claim
Agency.

DENSTONS procured for soldiers Of the
4 present war who are disabled by reason OF
wounds received or disease contractracted
while in the service of the United States and
pensions, bounty, and arrears Of pay obtained
Cor widows or heirs of those who have died
or been killed while in service. all lette. Of
inquiry promtly answered, and on receipt 5y
mail of statement Of the case Of claimant |
will forward the necessary papers for their
signature. Fees in Pension cases as fixed by
law.
REFERENCES. Isaac BENSON, Hon. A
G.. 0LXsrED, J. S. Mann, ESQ. T. VI. KNOX.
Esq. Dan BAKER,
Claim Agent Couderport Pa.
June s, i644ly.
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Roy LOVE.

One of the queerest things to think of
in after life Is boy love. No sooner does a
boy acquire tolerable stature than he
begins to imagine himself man, and to
ape manish ways. He casts side glances
at the tallest girls he may meet, carries a
cane, holds his head erect and struts a
little in his walk. Presently and very soon
be falls In love-ves, falls is the proper
word, because it best indicates his happy
delirious self-abasement. He lives now In
fairy region somewhat collateral to the
world, and yet blended somehow inextri-
cabIy with it. He perfumes his hair with
fragrant oils, scatters essence over his
handkerchief, and despairingly shaves and
annoints for beard. He quotes poetry
in which 'loye' and dove and dart pc
culiarly predominate and he plaDges
deeper in the delicious labyrinth. fancies
himself filed with the divine affiatus, and
suddenly breaks into scarlet rash
rhyme. He feeds upon the looks of his
beloved is raised to the seventh heaven
! ifshe speaks pleasant word is betrayed
into the most astonishing ecstacies by a
smile; and is plunged into the gloomiest
regions of misauthropy by frown. He
believes himself the most devoted lover
in the world. There never will be ! He is
the one great idolater! He dotes upon q
flower she has cast away. He cherishes
her glove-a little worn in the fingers
next to his heart, Happy Happy! fool
ish boy love with its joys, and its hopes
andits fears its roptures and its tortures;
its ecstatic feryors and terrible heartburn,
IiDgs, its solemn ludicrousDess, and It's in,
tenselv prosaic termination.
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CAN THERE BE HARM ~ KIsS1FG'

The waters kiss the pebbly shore
The winds all kiss the hills;
The sunbeams kiss the tulip bud
For the odor it distills.
The dew-drops kiss the rose at morn,
The cereus dew at eve,
And fern and flower in circling clasp
Their mystic beauties weave.
The moon-beams kiss the clouds at night
The star-beams kiss the sea,
While shadows, dreamy, soft and light,
Are kissing on the lea
The zephyrs kiss the blushing pink
That blooms on beauty's lip;
And ruder blasts through cold and chill,
It's ruby nectars sip.
The winds, the waves, the budding flowers
The laughing merry rills,
Are kissing all from morn to eve;
And clouds still kiss the hills.
Fen Heaven and earth do meet and kiss,
Through tears of sparkling dew;
In kissing then, can there be harm?
l don't think so-do you?
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An Appreciative Negro.

Last summer, Henry,a contraband paid
visit to the city of Philadelp elphia, and on
his return to the army was in the habit
of giving daily account of the wonders
he had seen in that place. One morning
his master happened to ask him if he had
been to the theatre during his absence.
"Oh, yes sah," was the reply /: "Iso
been to the theatre a good many times,
Still l don't like the theatre as well as
the opera"
This was said with g sentimental ali
that reflected infinite credit on the
speaker.
"Do you admire the opera very much?
said the lieutenant.
every much indeed" answered Henry
"I goes every night when l possibly eau"
(Which sort of piece do you like best,
the German or the Italian 7" was the
next inquiry.
Don't know sir" was the answer;
''but I always likes that kind of pieces
where de young lady Jumps through de
hoops"
1t was evident from this that, Henry
had confounded the opera with the cir
Gus.
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DREAMs.-There is new guide to
the Interpretation of dreams. An English
paper thus puts it:
To dream of millstone roznd you=
neck is sign of what you may expect if
you get an extravagant wife.
TO see apples in dream betoken a
wedding, because where you 6nd apples
you may reasonably expect to find pears.
To dream that you are lane is a token
that You will get into hobbie.
When young lady dreams Of coffin
it betokens that she should instantly
discontinue lacing her stays tightly and
and always 20 warmly and thickly shod
in wet weather.
TO dream that your nose is red at the
tip is an ;ntimatlon that you had better
leave OF brandy and water.
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"HARDLY KNEW YoU."-A maiden
lady, residing in great seclusion, bad not
been to church for several years; but, on
the accession of small property, she
bought herself a new bonnet, shawl, and
dress, with the appropriate gloves, boots,
etc, and appeared on the following Sab
bath in style which almost destroyed
her identity with the hitherto shabby and
and hoopless old maid
Just as she was walking up the aisle,
and as every eye seemed to be turned up
on her, the choir commenced singing an
anthem, the burden of which was Halle
Iujah Hallelujah !" The indignant spin
ster retraced he steps down the aisle in
high dudgeon, exclaiming-
"HardIy knew YOU indeed! Why,
this is not the first time I've been dressed
up. Hardly knew you' guess don't
come here again very soon p'