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Prison Delivery.
A REPUBLICAN CALL.

I'VE print the following from the New
York Tribune, chiefly for the sake of it's ad.
missions concerning arbitrary arrests and it's
demand for their discontinuance
From the New York Tribune, Nav 9.
On the occasion of q new monarch, it is the
custom of the old world to show mercy to
some of the luckless inmates of political
prisons We entreat our new president to
consider soon and earnestly the propriety of
initiating, and even hberalizing, this excel.
lent custom.
We have no doubt at all of the propriety-
nay, the necessity of what are termed ''ar-
bitrary arrests" in time of civil war, in
which traitors are found almost everywhere
Knowing well that the power to make such
arrests will almost certainly be abused, we
yet hold that it exists, and must be exer.
cised. individuals may suffer injustice; vet
let them suffer, if so only can the republic
be saved.
But this power to arrest at will is not only
an exceptional-it is terrible power. 1t
ought not to be tolerated one day beyond the
continuance of the necessity that evoked it.
Under its sway, private rights are suspended;
our liberties are at the mercy of an individual
will The wielder of such a power may be q
statesman, saint and a sage; yet he can
hardly help abusing it, at the beck of dis
sembling hypocricy and scheming villainy.-
We can not doubt that hundreds have been
caught up and Gagged who were innocent and
loyal, and whose estates have become the
prey of the perjured villains who prompted
their incarceration.
Had the wholesale safeguards of the acts
of congress authorizing suspension of the
!. privilege of habeas corpus been uniformly
respected, the abuses of this power would
have been far fewer and less fragrant. We
do not understand why the provision EMIT.
ling the arrested person to hearing before
some proper tribunal after few days incar-
cexation should have been so often disregard.
cd. And it is quite notorious that some of
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The Military Commission
at Washington.
DENUNCIATION OF 1T BY THE LEAD
ING REPUBLICAN PRESS.
RETURNING REASON.
From the New York Tribune republican paper)
May H.

From the New York Tribune republican paper
May H.
There is acurious old document in exist.
ence, known as the constitution of the United
States, which formerly had the force and eff
feet Of the law in that large portion of our
country not especially dominated by the
slave power. Under the rule of our present
cabinet, it seems to have gone ont of fash
ion; and since Mr.. Stanton's accession to the
control of the war department, it has become
practically obsolete. Loyal citizens did not
much mind this while civil war convulsed
the codntry, threatening the permanent over
throw of our liberty and nationality; but,
now that the war is practically ended, it
seems high time that the old parchment were
exhumed and treated with some show of re-
spect. There being, apparently, no copy ex-
tant in the federal city, we quote from one in
our possession, for the instruction and admon-
ition of our magnstes, certain 9amendments
proposed by the states when ratifying the in
strument, which, being duly approved and
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MILITARY COURTS.

The public have no confidence IN military
courts, and the victims of these drum head
trials are tenerally regarded as martyrs. A
military court, in the eyes OF the people is
little, if any, better than Lynch Court. The
tribunal of Judge Lynch is composed OF men
adjusted by the same passions as those who
wear straps, and generally OF men VINO
equally desire the peace, good order ana
well being of society The military court
owes no responsibility to the people, and
those in military positions generally look
with supreme contempt upon everybody ex'
cept their creator-the secretary of war, and
him they do not respect, they only fear him.
We are glad to see the republican press at
last realizing the Importance of principles
which the democrats have never yielded dur
ing all the excitement of the war. Several
extracts from leading republican papers, on
this subject, will be found in this paper. to
which we ask the attention of all who read
this paper. The New York Tribune, refer.
ring to the trial of the assassination conspir.
ators before military commission, says:
"We warn all who take any voluntary part in
these strange proceedings that the rebellion Is
suppressed, the war at end, and the right to
suspend the privilege of hdbeas corpus and make
the will ola secretary ofwar the supreme law OF
the land. has expired. If our present secretary
be made to realize these grave truths 1t 10
high time he had a successor; and If our attorney
general believes the assaiant of Secretary Seward
now illegally triable before military commits
sion ,, he badly needs his own time for the COM
pleton of his legal studies, while the government
needs different law officer. There may be pol
&c. Eortk thaan
none ofthese would do them Justice"
Similar expressions of sentiment have teen
made by other prominent republican news
papers, and the conservative. law-abiding
people of the country hail them with satis-
faction. 1t cannot be doubted that had the
arbitrary powers assumed by Stanton been
rebuked by them at the commencement, the
nation would not have been disgraced as ii
has been by the defiance of law. He did in
the ordering of the trial before military
commission what he had been taught to dc
by the press of his party. There has not
been day, in the northern states, nor In any
one of them, during the past four years,
when law could not have been peacefully
administered. The whole system of usurpa
ton by Stanton and the cabinet, in their IN
tervention with the regular course OF law,
has been without shadow of Justification
The victims of thei. lawlessness may bs
counted by thousands, and every victim wal
a reproach to the tameness of the submission
by the people, in view of the outrage. 1t hat
been purely legal fiction that war has exls
ted in the northern states since 1861. and
every proceeding based upon such an assump-
ton, to the end that law might be stricken
down and irresponible power be exercised il
its stead, has been in as palpable defiance o.
the constitution as that which now eliciti
such indignant rebuke from sources which
have heretofore justified the dispotism.
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assassin had no steps to ascend or decend.-
There 10 narrow hall leading from the stage
on the south side of the theatre On 10Th
street on which the building fronts.
Il was at the front door this hall that Booth,
Spangler an another man whose name Is not vet
in evidence, were engaged in the mysterious
Whispering and manoeuvring which attracted the
attention of Sergt los n. Dye as desailed BY
him in his testimony yesterday.
Everything remains undsturbed inside the
building just it at the time oil the assassina-
tion, except the chair on which Mr. Lincoln sat
when he was shot, which has been taken away,
and the blue flag which hung in front Of the box
and in which Booths spur caught has been re-
moved.
The New York worlds's Washington special
says:
The president has respited Milligan and Bowie.
and the Indiana conspirators.
The Cincinnati Commercials Frankfort CORES
pondent says:
The Kentucky legislature assembled yesterday
but no quorum present.
The special business of this session is to try
Chief Justice Bullet on q charge Of conspiring Il
overthrow the government
1t is reported that Bullet resigned in order t,
escape trial.
BUFFALO, May H.-Charles ID. Norton, ha
been appointed collector of the port of But
falo.
New YORK, May 17:-To day the stesme
Scotia took out nearly Loco, 900, dollars an
300 passengers,
Key West advices state that the steame
columbia which arrived here from Havann
that the str Stonewall was hurriedly Ieceiv
ing men and ammunition.
Capt MofItt has assumed command of th
i Stonewall.
U. s. str Rawhattan went to sea from He
West on learning the movements of the Stone
wall
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-17
ANNUAL RAILROAD MEETING.

OFFICE CHICAGO d Rock ISLAND r. r. Co.,
New Yorb, April oath, 1855. J
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Stock.
holders of this Company for the election o.
thirteen Directors for the ensuing year, Will T.
held At the Office OF the Company, in the City o.
Chicago, State OF Illinois, on FRIDAY, the VI
day of JUNE next
The poll will be opened at II o'eiOcA a. ~
and closed At IL O'CLOCK NJ
c. w. DURANT, PresidshL
j. III. lows, Secretary.
May s dtd
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FLOUR AND FEED.

I'VE are now manufacturing and are pre-
wv pared to deliver, on short notice, ID al!
part of the city, the very best quality OF -hsH
-four, rye -four, rye meal, corn meal, honIh!
bran, &C., all of which we warrant
- Orders left at VIM. Shearer's or }. ,.
M c. Frick's grocery stores, or at the mill, vi
be promptly attended to-
BiDDlSON & GILMORE
Rock Island, Dec. %, 1864, DIFF.
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ROCK ISLAND HOUSE.

HE undersigned, having leased the R0eI
lIsisnd House, would respectfully announce %
the public that it will be his earnest endeaEor %
conduct II IN manner TO elicit the aPProbauol q
all who may bestow their patronage on him. ne
promises that il shall not fall below It's former
character, and hopes that the liberal patronage
heretofore extended TO il may be continued
Aug. 5,dwtf. JOSEPH KELLER
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STANTON COMPELLED TO YIELD.

A more signal exhibition of the power OF
the press. as . barrier between official tyranny
and liberty was never witnessed than IN the
case of the present assassination TRIALS In
washington. Stanton attempted to hold the
trials in secret. The press throughout the
country, without regard to party, protested
against such course. The protests OF the
press became stronger every day, and the
ssmi-oficial organ of Stanton, the Washington
Chronicle, announced chat -
The seerecy Of the trial win not be abandoned
if the complaints OF the Now York press ara swol-
len into q torrent of denunciation.
Yet, the very next day il was abandoned
and the reporters admitted. Even the inso'
science of Stanton has quailed before the IN
dignation expressed throughout the press ano
the doors of the court were thrown open to
the world.
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really believe that peace has been restored when
q most atrocious crime has to be tried and pun
ished by military court sitting in secret in the
national capital, and in q country in which all -
cret things, and above ALL secret trials, have all
ways been held in abhorrence.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-17
B0WLES AND MILLiGAN RETRIEVED
TO JUNE IST.
H0rsey'S Sentence COMMITTED 10 In
prisonment for Life.

ISDIANAPoLIs, May 16.-A dispatch from
Washington to Gen. aovey, announces a
suspension of the execution Of Bowles and
Milligan until the LIST of June, and q commu-
tation of Horsey's sentence to Imprisonment
for life.
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BOOTHS BODY.

The New York TTibgns, referring to Stantons
action in regard to the mysterious disposition OF
Booths body, says
"But no matter what his Booth's) crime were
il even a hundred times more horrible than it
was, the treatment of his corpse is a stain upon
our national escutcheon, q stigma upon our hu-
manity as n people, that we must remove as soon
possible.
''Great God, was il reserved for the model re
public in the nineteenth century TO reproduce the
horrors of the Byzantine empire to lapse into
the 6arbarites of the middle ages; to regenerate
the cruelties of the Spanish inquisition
There is something absolutely astounding en-
tirely incomprehensible, in the course adopted
toward the remains of the presidents assassin
Booth once dead, justice is satisfied, and even
malignity must be also. There 10 no excuse, no
pallIation under heaven for the secret interment
and degradation of the hfeless clay. Booth COM
mtted murder, and by the severest construction
OF the law paid the fullest penalty by his death
"ln regard to my future course, i will now make
no professions, no pledges. / have long been
connected somewhat actively with public affairs
and TO the history of my past public acts which il
familiar to you, refer for those principles which
have governed me heretofore, and will guide me
hereafter. Ny opinions as to the nature of popu
lar government have long been cherished, and
constituted az am, it is now too late in life fol-
me TO change them."-Presidenf Andrea Johnson
to the Illinois Delegation April Is, 1855.
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Farmers Attention.

ME are now prepared to exchange floui'
wv Bran, Corn Meal, &C., for. wheat aud cor,
We believe We can give satisfaetion both IN qsa.
ity and quality. Call and give US 4 trisl 81 @,
Old Planning Mill where we have in eonneeuoh
First Rate FIGURING Mill, with two run OF sUo.s
nd two reels covered with Cunkle's bes, Du'eA
Anchor Boiling Cloth. Also Rye Flour and HON
sny always on hand.
BIDDlSON GILMORE,
decs0wtf Cor. Warrington and r. X -"
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FIREMEN'S ANNUAL REVIEW.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGNEER,l
Rock Island, May II, 1865
T>HE ANNUAL REVIEW of the Fire De-
partment of this city. by the City Coun-
cil, will take place on MONDAY, THE 18th
inst, At 2o'elock p. NJ, in Market Square.
WIN. KALE, Chief Engineer.
Thomas FISCHER, ASST Engineer.
NAV l2dtd.
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NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS

NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS.
THE UNDERSIGNED have formed a
i partnership for the purpose of carrying on
the grocery trade at Wollenhaupt's old stand, on
Orleans street, and will keep a good stock of
family groceries, provisions, etc. and sell always
at the lowest market rates.
ES- Cash and the Highest price paid for all
kinds OF country produce.
JACOB wOLLENHAUPT,
HENRY SCHNITGER.
mayl5dwtf.
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w. JOHNSON'S
RESTAURANT.
Brass and Iron Work,
Gas F1tt1ng
STEAM PIPES

I,HE subscriber keeps constantly on hand
i At his new stand on the corner Of West Esgs
and Front Streets, near the Gas Works, ali KINGS
OF Brass and Iron Goods, such as Steam COef,,
Valves, Water Gauges, Whistles, OIL Cups, Beer
Cocks, Pumps, Gas and Steam Pipe of all sizes
Zinc, Babbitt Metal, etc., etc.
Steam and Gas Work promptly attended to ilG
put up In workmanlike manner.
Gas fixtures of all kinds for sale.
Gas Filters supplied.
N. B.-Cssh paid for Old Copper and Brass.
JACOB RILEY.
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The New York Tii6Yas, referring to Stanton's
action in regard to the mysterious disposition OF
Booths body says
The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-11
Important from Mexico.

New ORLEANz, Aug. 1.-The Times
City of Mexico correspondent, writing
on the 18th ult., says:
The French organs state that it will
require one hundred thousand more
men to destroy the bands of Juarists.--
The reports of French successes are un.
founded.
General Alvarez has just inflicted a
heavy blow on the Imperialists at Tefal-
la, completely routing them and taking
three pieces of artillery.
Juarez is still in chihuahua undisturb.
ed.
Cortinas proclaims to the Matamori.
ans that unless they support the Empire
he will denounce them as traitors and
conflscate their property.
The Liberals hold the entire State OF
San Louis, except the city of San Louis
Potosi, but have their lines within three
miles of there.
Guerilla outrages in Texas are hume.
rOus.
The State Treasury of Austin was
broken into and robbed of thirty thou.
sand dollars in gold.
Alabama news shows great improve
ment in public sentiment. The plan
tiers express their confidence in the sue
cess of the free labor system.
Generals Gordon, Granger, from Tex
as, and A. g. Smith, from Montgomery
have arrived at Mobile, en- route fol
New Orleans.
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Kentucky Election.

LOUISVILLE, Aug. THE election for
Congressman and Legislatures took
place in this State to-day.
In the fifth district the election of
General Rousseau, the Administration
candidate. over Mallory, conservative,
is conceded. All the Administration
candidates for the State Legislature
from this city have also been elected.
The returns from the interior indicate a
close contest between the candidates in
favor of and against the Constitutional
amendment.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. Sin the sixth dis
trict Green Clay Smith is undoubtedly
elected to Congress.
Randall appears to be elected in the
eighth district.
In Oldham, Mallory has 455, Rosseau
149.
LEXINGTON, Aug. 8.-The Conserva-
tives have carried every county in this
district by the following majorities
Fayette, SOY Franklin, $50 +; Boyle, 164
Woodward 435 Lincoln 800. Estimated
majorities - Bourbon 500 Scott 800
Glessamine 800.
ELIzABETHTowN, Aug. s.--The vot'
of Hardin county for Congress, give
Hardin S65, Taylor 1888.
Henry county gives 230 majority fo
Mallory.
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LETTER FROM A TOURIST.
ence of the Norfolk Post.

lpffssP0aQence OF ths NWJ0th fVst'
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, August 7, 1855
A prolonged stay in the city of Buffalo,
aptly styled the "Queen City of the
Lakes" has made us quite familiar with
its varied features. 1t is situated or
Lake Erie and Niagara River, p miles
from the great Falls. 1t is handsomely
laid Quits streets and avenues arr
wide and finely graded, and shaded by
magnificent trees. The streets are lit by
double rows of lamps, and the waters Of
| the Niagara are brought into the hotels
and houses, and made tributary to the
comforts of her citizens.
Many beautiful residences adorn the
principal streets. The adjacent grounds
are tastefully laid out, and numbers OF
the mansions are built of Milwaukee
stone, light cream-colored stone,
which gives light and graceful effect.
On the main streets are fine stores,
filled with tempting fabrics. The
Young Mems Association have cree
ted large and stately edifice, in
which various societies have rooms.
Here are the rooms and museum OF
the Buffalo Historical Society,"" the
"Young Mems Library" which is open
to all lovers of books, from s a. m. to
to 10 p. M, and the "Art Gallery"
where one might spend day looking at
the choice productions of Biershadt,
Bradish, Sontag and others, of our
principal artists.
Buffalo has population of one hun
dred and forty thousand. The harboris
a great receiver of grain from the
West, and this is, indeed, the most
thriving and prosperous branch OF
trade here. In the city, there are
twenty-seven elevators, with a ca
pacity for 2,s0S, 900 bushels per day, and
storage for 5,ss5,0OO bushels. Any Of
these elevators can load canal boat, OF
5000 bushels, in one hour. Navigation
on the Erie Canal opens annually on
May LIST, and ends December 1st. The
yearly transfer Of grain into boats or
stores is SIG, 100, 900 bushels. The num-
Der of canal-boats ISIS, 1eo. The average
amount of grain, shipped from Buffalo,
on the canal, is 192,s64,OOO bushels
each season.
Up to, July LIST, this year, this city hao
exported $4,000 barrels of flour, and
,oooo'ooO bushels ofgrain. Quantities &c
W way of the various railroads thai
Aae M OF pass through Buffalo.
= Tue people here groan in spirits ovel
! ss when old Sol mounts to go in the
snaoe Inc weather here is delightful
y cooi ana agreeable, by contrast with
the burning sun of the South.
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From the Richmond Republic. |

Since the Southern people esteem ii so
capital an object of interest to be reliev-
ed of military rule and reinstated in the
rights of self-government, they will not
think it an impertinent or useless in
quiry to ascertain by what method that
important end may be attained.
"How not to do 1t" is obvious enough.
Any man not utterly infatuated can see
that it is not by provoking the jealousy,
inf1aming the resentment, and exciting
the apprehensions of the Federal Gov.
eminent we are to achieve the restitu-
ton of our lost liberties. We may be
sure that if we shall betray symptoms Of
disaffection we will not be intrusted with
political power. We may take it for an
incontestable truth, that if we exhibit q
recusant and insubordinate spirit, we
will be objected to the discipline of mill
tary authority. The first and paramount
duty of the Federal Government is to
re-establish it's dominion over the re-
volted States, and so to confirm its as
cendancy that no other attempt will be
made to overthrow its authority. To
this indispensable object every inferior
consideration will be postponed; and
until the United States are satisfied that
the South is reclaimed to the Union by
affection, as well as by force, they will
not restore us to the enjoyment of oul
civil rights.
What, then, are we to do? Simply
what we engaged to perform by our oatt
of allegiance-to discharge all the du
ties of good citizenship-to redeem thai
most sacred of pledges in spirit as wei
as in letter. We areto repress every ebu
lition of refractory temper; we are to sus
tain and assist the Federal Government
in its endeavors to bring back peace ant
prosperity to the country; in a word, tt
recover the precious privileges of civil
liberty, the people of the South hav'
only to show that they do not intend t.
abuse these privileges to the detrimen
of the Union. The President is anxi
GUS to re-invest the Southern State
with their original rights; a powerful
party in the North supports his policy
and except the Southern people act wit
an excess of criminal folly, they vii
speedily reclaim their heritage of free
dom. May they exhibit the wisdor
answerable to the occasion, is the praye
of all patriots.
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THE JUVENILE CoNcEkT--On Wednesday night we
had the extreme qualification of hearing the well in
struced class of Mr. ]. F. Wilkins, at the Opera House
The smiling and animated faces Of the GLASS; Is they ap
peared TO U.s. systematically arranged on seats across
the stage, and graduated from the base to the tor
Of the platform, according to size presented very
beautiful and striking appearance, and looked like
young fairies in rich eastern scene of the anciens
The singing Of this class fully sustained Mr. wilkins
ability preceptor and his pupils did credit to them
selves and justice to him. Roll the Hoop Cheerily,
sung by little Eureka the tune Of Swat for the Wa
gon created lively sensation and long, loud and con-
tnued ,phoop from the audience until the little Miss
appeared and sung it Fairy Belle" (ouartette
well sung and fayorably received slow can Leavs
Thee" by Miss Amelia sung with emotion and stu
died ability to time and control Of the voice. showing
couclusvey the preceptors Judgment in presenting the
young Miss for the occasion the piece selected These
exhibitions should be appreciated and sustained by oui
community, nothing better could be selected for
the entertainment of refined audience an. the i'm
provement Of the children engaged We heartily wish
Mr. wilkins every with his class Last night the
house was well attended and the ladies turned out in
force