The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-04


cutting John for the vandal act. although he
only obeyed orders. Col. Mcneil has better
sense-he keeps his beard though, accord.
ing to the Johnsonian theory, his face must be
"hard, !" as the hair leaves his head but refu-
ses to leave his face. Then johnson is wrong
again, about the color. He thinks we used
"black paint-but this only shows that john
son was, as we before remarked, poor bar
Der, and as unskilltul on the subject of boards
as he is on that of wigs. We mover used
paint, and long ago, had ceased to use dye,
having found that Halls Vegetable Scicil-
liam Hair Renovation" was greatly to be pre-
ferred, for the reason that it was not only a
superior oil dressing for the hair or beard.
but restored either to their former natural
color. 1t is manufactured by r. p. Hall &
Co., Nashua, N. H., and put up in neat bot.
ties, and sold for one dollar each, by Gleim &
Hinckley, druggists. in this city, "None gen.
uine unlesss signed by the proprietors."-
But it will be wholly useless for johnson
to undertake to change the color of his red
hair by using this article. tor 1t is not a dye
it only restores hair to it's natural color.
We are rather pleased that johnson, of the
Y. r. G. sometimes called, by some persons,
the "Venereal Corrupt Corpse'') has alluded
to the Jim Beardsley affair. tor it gives us
another occasion to hold up to public scorn
aud contempt gang of fellows who, in the
most cowardly manner, laid hid behind
building and suddenly jumped upon a man,
unawares, crushing him down, beating him
after he was down, robbing him Of his prop.
erty, stealing it and keeping it to this day
We rather like chance to refer to that most
cowardly and disgraceful affair as often as
possible, the authors of and actors in which
are held in contempt by every honorable man
or woman in this community,
It is really surprising that any man, hav-
ing even a thimble full of hrsins, should, as
this loafer, Johnson, does, put himself in
position. in so many ways, for ridicule and
contempt He exposes himself, in every line,
as will be seen by reference to his letter
witness his attacks on Mr.. Schmd, Col. Nc
Neil's head and whiskers. &C., &c.. and lis
ignorance and stupidity generally.
He says "he hasn't heard of but one officer
that has decided to leave the service" This
is right into our hands Our position was
that, al! the privates or nearly all, in the V.
R. c. chose 10 be mustered out and were mus
tered out, but the officers, johnson among
them, held on and would hold on as long as
they could, although they were not needed.
and the war depaI tment wanted 10 be rid Of
them. They couldn't or wouldn't take the
hint, and even had the impotence to ask to
be admitted to the regular army! Do they
suppose that congress will ever admit such
an amount of ignorance, unskillfulness and
stupidity into the regular armyY Congress
will never DO so foolish an act-not much
not any. And we are glad to learn that the
secretary OF war has now ordered these V. Il.
Z. officers TO their homes. If they don't now
take the hint. and resign. 1T IS probable that
the next order will be to muster them out.
The card which was published, in this pa
per, denounciug johnson for his attacks up,n
Captain Gittermau and Mr.. Schmid, was not,
as he falsely asserts. gotten up by US. We
never saw or heard of it until it was handed
to us, with all the names attached. But we
Can tell this man johnson, that it but family
expresses the indignation felt towards him
by many hundreds Of the people of this city,
for his shameful dissertation of the grave of
an honorable soldier.
johnson is guilty of great number of
misstatements, 10 call them no harsher name.
He says he sent Us copy of his circular
This is no so. The copy we had was solicit
ed by friend of ours. He says, in former
times when we used to defend him against
tn attacks of the Union, and say some COM
plimentary things of him, that when he was
reading these compliments "he would feel the
hot blood rush to his head and experience
sensation as if stung by scorpion" We do
not doub t it, because he knew the compli.
ments were undeserved. Yet, in his heart,
knowing this, he would send to this Office for
extra copies of the papers containing those
compliments. and mail them to his friends
He would also voluntarily furnish us with
items of information from the barracks, and
caution us not to let it be known that he fur
nished the information. When the Union at
tackled him for not carrying straw on his
back to fill the hunks Of soldiers, he sent two
of his officers to our editorial room TO solicit a
reply to that attack. The editor of the Un-
ion, with his daughter, run inside his camp
lines, one Sunday. Johnson, afterwards, in
his own Office, with all the glee of child.
voluntarily told US bow he sent file Of sol.
diers and puc them out,-and he wanted US