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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-22
w. ID. WILLIAMS.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Rock Island. II

Office in Buford's Block, corner Illinois and
Eagle streets.
Ss- Will practice in all the courts ofthis state
and of the United States.
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COLT LOST.

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year. NC mare colt, iron grey color, marked with
the letters &C b. on the right hip. ANY one
giving information where she can be found will
De hoeraiiy rewarded By cSliirg on the under
signed. CHRIS BICIER
Andalusa, Sept. 10. 1865. w3w.
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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15

Hon, T. J. Withers, one of the Judges OF
the Supreme Court of South Carolina, died
at Sumter on the Sth.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
A Letter from Hon. John Bright.

rom tne hadlsOn NNHJ JOuTual.J
Some time since djutant-General Gay
lord, of this State, forwarded a copy of his
annual report, accompanied by letter, to
Hon John Bright, the famous leader of
the liberal party in England, and the true
and outspoken friend of the United States
during the darkest period of our fortunes,
when our friends across the Atlantic were
few, and for the most part timid.
In reply, General Gaylord has received
the subioined characteristic note from Mr.
Bright:
RoCHDALE, October 10 1861.
DEAR Sic Il write TO thank you for
sending me the volume to which your let
ter refers.
I thank you also for the kind expression
in your letter. Your war has ended, as I
always hoped and believed it would end,
in the overthrow of slavery and the restor-
alton of the Union.
I fear, however unless the President
adopts frmer tone with the South, the
negro will have hard time of it, ifleft to
the small mercy of his former owners.
1t will be a grevious thing, if, after
fighting for the integrity and freedom Of
your country, you shall fail to deal honest
ly and Justly with the black population, so
long suffering in your midst.
l have had great faith in you, and will
not now abandon it.
Liberty, all the world over, owes much
to YOU, and 1 will not believe now that
color will be permitted to shut out several
millions of your population from the full
rights of freedom.
EYour State has done it share in the great
work which will make the last four years
forever famous in the history of your great
nation.
With many thanks for your kind letter,
1 am, very trnly yours, JOHN BRIGHT.
Augustus, Gaylord, Esq, Adjutant-Gen-
eral, Madison, Wisconsin.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15

The LEADER will oblige the Plain Dealer
bv pointing to any article in its columns
that can be construed as being IN favor OF
q repudiating the National debt" 1t is no
dificult task for the LEADER to make
assertions. but when called upon for proof
Il generally eouivocstes. When the PLAN
DsgIeT announces itself in favor Of any
measure. it does so boldly and fearlessly.
1t has never expressed an OPINION III lS'or
of repudiation.-Ptain Dealer.
We can point to an article where the
Plain Dealer objected 10 N ciUusvbViH5 in
serted in the Constitution fOrbidding the
rerudiation of the National debt, and the
discussion of the same on the foorO Con-
gress. on the ground that it would forbid
the discussion of our financial affairs" In
other words it calls the proposition to re-
nudiate our debt by the mild
noma Of "a discussion of our hnan-
ci.l affairs" If it is in favor
Of the payment of our national debt
wbv object to a clause in the constitution
fastening the debt on our peoPleF 1t II
nsrfectlv evident from this that that shee'
,r;u favor. when it thinks the proper tint
has come, the reputation of the nationa
debit It is already in favor of repudla
ting a part of the contract entered into Il
cood faith BY our government with the sub
scribers to the loan, that United State
bonds shall be free from taxation. Ihl
shows conclusively what that paper wi
eventually come to.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15

Herschell Y. johnson, President of the
Georgia Convention, made a valedictory
speech when that body adjourned last
week, in which he remarked, speaking
of the altered condition of the colered
people:
: aIf I could have the ear of the entire
people of the United States, and if might
be permitted, humble though be, to utter
an admonition, not by way of threat, but
for the purpose of animating them to the
pursuit of a policy which would be wise,
and salutary, and fraternal, and the best
for the country, would emplore them
that. so far as providing for this branch of
our population is concerned, and their or
ganization into a class of efficient and
trustworthy laborers, the Federal Govern
ment should Just simply let US alone.
trust that we will have the poor
privilege of being let alone, in the future,
in reference to this class of our people"
1t is the old cry. The Southern people,
when they were Shareholders, only asked
to be let alone to do as they pleased with
their chattels; JEFF. Davis only asked to
be let Nlane while he DESTROYED the Gov
ernment; even WirZ died abusing our
Door American Eagle for a Yankee buz-
zard. because he was not let alone after he
had completed his work Of wholesale tor
ture and murder A perfectly happy
people our southern friends would always
have remained, had they been "simply
let alone" to perpetuate and extend sla
very. As the ruling passion is strong
in death, so now the lords of th'
plantation, shorn of their right to enslavt
men and women absolutely, from force
habit ask only to be let alone while the,
make the condition of the freedmen a
near like slavery as possible.
The fact is, former slaveholding socie
ties cannot be let alone until all their idea
on the subject of human rights have bee
radically changed. So long as they entel
tain notions of making distinctions in th
laws between the two races; notions (
organizing laboring class separate fro'
other parts of the framework of the
community and notions of the natur
-inferiOrity of the laboring class, just
l.,ng they should be checked and controlle
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
Southern News.
From Columbia.


New YORK, November 1.-THE Worlds
Columbia correspondent of the 7th states {:
Resolutions have been reported from the
Committee on Federal Relations, to the Leg
islature, to the effect that South Carolina,
having fully complied with the require
ments of the amnesty proclamation of Pres
ident johnson, and having emaneipated her
slaves, is entitled to the benefits of said
amnesty, and accowledging their position
as conquered people, and acceptance of the
terms offered them. They ask the with
drawal of the military rule to which they
say the faith of the government stands
pledged. Report says they have with the
truest purpose and entire loyalty of heart,
given solemn pledges to henceforth seek
their welfare in the Union.
The report was not acted on that day, in
consequence of the receipt of message
from Governor Perry, relative to the ques-
ton of adopting the Constitutional Amend
ment and abolishing slavery, enclosing dis
patches from the President and Secretary
Seward, the substance of which have al
ready been published. The resolutions will
probably be adopted unanimously.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
Death OF George Arnold. ESQ.

"McArone," the wit, poet, author and
editor, died at his residence, Strawberry
Farm, New Jersey, on Thursday (yester-
day.. He was one of the most generous
and accomplished spirits connected
with the New York press. The
announcement" says the New York
Tribune of to-day, "will carry grief
to q great many hearts. Mr.. ArnOld's
brief career-he was only thirty-one years
of age-though marked by continuous and
arduous literary labor, ran yet in the
broad sunshine of social intercourse. To
almost every person in this city, connected
in any manner with literature or art, his
kind young face and kinder heart, and his
versatile and brilliant pen are pleasingly
frmilar. He did not, at any time occupy
many editorial positions, preferring to
work when and where he liked, and
being naturally impatient of the yoke of
method. Yet few men of letters have
done SO much in so short a life. His
mind was exceedingly philosophic, and
his culture was unusually extensive and
exact for one who was not student
except of human nature and life He
wrote. with surprising fafility, storios, Po-
ems, ESSAYS, reviews, and witucisms and
while his thought was always direct and
keen, his style was always CHARACTERISTIC
and brilliant. His humOr-which played
entimeht anu Toucnng--~;patGosin''ias
often exhibited in thepages of Vanity Fair,
and in his 'McArone Letters to the Leader
and the Weekly ReUies0. His poems, of
which no collection has ever been pub
lished, have yet been scattered far and
wide in HarpeT's MgqaziAs, and in other
periodicals; and, with such readers as
carefully observe the literary signs
of the passing hour, they have
given him a high reputation among
American poets. He did not attempt
lofty imaginative flights, but he wrote
songs of which Herrick might have been
proud; and rural poems, in which Nature
could see her own face reflected, and gen.
iaI. hearty utterances of the sentiment Of
good fellowship; and delicate expressions
| of what is sorrowful in the wasted
love of youth, and of what is beauti
full in the serenity and faith Of age
1t is as a poet that he will be remem
bered hereafter. But Just now, while ye
he lies unburied, it is the thought of hi
winning personal characteristics that mos
will fiji the minds of those who knew
him. They have our deep sympathy. Non
better know than the writer Of these hur
ried lines how tender and true the hear
was that now is at rest forever. Mr.. Ar
mold will be buried tomorrow at Re-
Bank, III New Jersey"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
VOL. XIX---NO. 272.

Point since its occupancy by our armies. was
yesterday commissioned quartermaster in
the regular army with rank of captain. He
stands forty-sixth an the list.
Gen. Baker admits an error in the pub
| lished date of Mrs. Wirz's attempt to poison
her husband, but asserts the circumstance
| transpired substantially as heretofore re-
| lated He also notified Gen. Holt of the af-
! fair within an hour of its occurrence, and
previously informed Col. Chapman that in
his opinion she would poison him if allowed
an opportunity.
Worlds special says Gen. Steele, Just
returned from his command on the Rio
Grande, had a long interview yesterday
with the President and Secretary of War.
He states that military operations along
that line remain unchanged. Our army is
simply one of observation. Probably thew
viii shortly be Withdrawn.
A Senator who called on Gen. Grant a day
or two ago demonstrated with him for keen
ing so many general officers in the service
unemployed. He replied that he had several
weeks ago made out list to be mustered
out, but that they were hanging fire in the
War Department or some other place.
Secretary Seward yesterday completed an
important dispatch to our Minister to Eng
land.
Large numbers of volunteer naval officers
are being mustered out. Forty-three assist
ant engineers were mustered out in October
Cholera.
NEW YORK, November I4-No additional
cases of cholera on board the Atlanta. Pas
sengers on board complain much Of destitu-
to- Strict 0uarantinn is haing enforced
BY the Commissioners.
Gen. Grant in New York.
General Grant, family and staff are at the
Metropolitan Hotel in this city.
The Merrimae Being Raised.
The Herald's Fortress Monroe letter of
the llth says the Merrimac is being raised
Portions of Der machinery have already
been taken out Of the hull, and she has been
raised clear of the bottom and is now sus-
pended by chains.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
From Yesterdays I'd Edition
From Washington.
Miscellaneous News.

New YORK, November l4.-The Times
Washington dispatch says Daniel Miller,
the noted confidence man, has been handed
over to officers from Ohio to answer to the
charge of swindling the first National bank
of Springfield. .-
of those elected to Congress by the late rebel
States, of the next House.
l,The Tribune's special says Judge Under
personal property for conhseaJIUH. ny Teia
estate is not worth the formality.
The totol number of sick and wounded
in Government hospitals throughout the
country is less than 5000. Eight months
since they numbered one hundred thousand.
General Augur has issued an order forbid
ding the whipping of colored men under
any law of Virginia within the limits OF his
department.
General Ingraham, late provost marshal
General of the defenses north of the POtOm-
ac, is being vigorously urged for Sergeant
of Arms in the next House.
The white population of the District OF
Columbia is to the black as four to one. The
statistics of the War Department shvw that
two black soldiers were raised to one white.
The whites furnished 1,750 soldiers almost
entirely by drafting, the blacks over $500,
and nearly all by volunteering, yet during
the war it was impossible for negro to
leave this city to go North without pass
port.
Gentlemen of intelligence just returned
| from the South state that it is the intention
of most of the States to appropriate pensions
| to rebel officers and soldiers wounded during
| the rebellion. No appropriation is to be
made for Southern Union soldiers.
| The Herald's Washington dispatch says
we understand that Hon. Preston King has
resigned the position of Collector of the port
of New York. Who is to take his place Is
not yet known.
The mastering out of detaehments Of thu
veteran reserve corps in the District Of Col
umbia begins to-day.
General Logan Will not accept the mission
to japan under any circumstances.
VIC. Coffin, formerly in charge Of tn
South Western Indian agency. is IN Wash
ington settling his accounts.
The Worlds special says telegram re
ceived fr m Gov. Holden indicates that h
is elected by a small majority.
A large number of pardon seekers, wait
ing for audience with the President, wer
to-day notified he could not be seen for tw
days.
The Herald's special says Col. Bradley
Quartermaster Of transportation at Cit
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
Alien Endemic,

Among poultry, which caused SO
much destruction some time since, and
which it was hoped had disappeared, has
again broken out with great violence IN
the department of the Eure, France, and
the adjoining districts. One farmer in the
cornm1neof Jamericout has lost eight hum
dred and fifty hens. No explanation can
be given of this new malady: Whie
waiting until a remedy can be discovered
for it, precautionary measures are recon-
mended. The frstprecautionto to be adopt
ed is great cleanliness and the frequent
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15

The steamer Quaker City, from Charles
ton the l1th, has arrived.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
General News.
NeMsnnner SnIo

C"SpAptE SaIe.
BOSTON, November 14.-It is announced
that w. W. Clapp, Jr., has sold the Saturday
Evening Gazette to Messrs. Worthington
Brewster & Goedsell
Fire.
PORTLAND, ME., November IA fir,
broke out in West Buxton. Maine. this morn.
ing, and destroyed Halls wooIen mills
Lords saw-mill and Hume & Bryanis gro
cery store. The loss will probably amount
to 100000. The fire originated from ker-
osene lamp.
To Prepare for Sea.
BOsTON, November l4.-The Portsmouth
Chronicle learns that orders have been re-
ceived to prepare the immense iron clad
"Passaconaway," now lying on the stocks in
Portsmouth Navy Yard, for sea as soon as
possible. Also that the steamers Minnesota,
Marautanza Galena are to be fitted out for
sea at once.
Hit the Nail on the Head.
ST. Louis, November 1.-THE Legisla-
ture, yesterday, passed resolutions for the
appointment of a Committee to memorialize
President johnson to release all the Union
soldiers now confined for offenses commit
ted during the rebellion, on the ground of
the pardoning of rebel soldiers whose crimes
were infinitely greater.
Message of the Governor OF Indiana
I-rpIAsrAroLIs, Nnvember 1.-THE Gov
ernOr's message, delivered to the LegisIa-
ture to-day pertains mostly to State affairs.
public debt the gtEaBRRf RnF9yision vi for tBf Bf
disabled Indiana soldiers, the establish
ment of Seamen's Bureau, the Inaugural
tion of separate schools for colored children,
the repeal of the statute excluding negro
tertimony from the courts, pays tribute to
Indiana soldiers, approves the Presidents
reconstruction policy, advocates representa-
ton according to the number of voters and
recommends the adoption of such amend
ment if it passes Congress.
Canadian Affairs.
TORONTO, C. W., November 14.-A com
mission is to be appointed who will be ac-
,redited by the Imperial Government to
AXE steps to open commercial relations with
,he West Indies, Brazil, Mexico and other
oreign markets. One of the Canadian
Ministry will be appointed.
The Government are taking all necessary
precautions with reference to Fenian move
nents.
Decision.
'fNAsHvILLE, November l4.-Judge Trigg, |
decided against granting a writ
f hGbeaS corpus in the case of Dick McCann |
nd others, citizens of TullahOma, who were |
ctors in the destruction of the freedmen's |
chool house some time ago. They were |
rdered by Major General Thomas to rebuild |
he same, and compliance to the order being |
efused, General Thomas sent detachment |
f soldiers with directions to enforce the |
rider and put every citizen under guard
ntil the requirements of the order were
omPlied with.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
Washington News.

Message.
The Posts Washington special says The
President is preparing his message, rising
at five each morning for that purpose.
Reports.
The Heads of the Departments are finish
ing their annual reports.
Constitutional Amendment.
No official notification of the adoption of
the Constitutional Amendment by the
South Carolina Legislature has been re-
ceived by the President.
Report.
The Commercials Washington special
says: The Secretary of the Treasury in his
forthcoming report will simply show how a
portion of the public debt may be funded,
and will ask the general authority to do so
at such rate of interest as may seem expe-
dient TO him
Rumnr.
There are additional rumors ola Presiden-
tial proclamation of peace and a restoration
of the Southern States to the Union.
Inquiry.
WASHINGTON. November 14--Inqniry has
been made respecting the rumOr Of
trouble of serious character on the Cana
dian border but it does not seem that any
verification of the report has reached the
War Department.
Suffrage.
The Board of Common Council have pass
cd resolution, nearly unanimously, that in
the event any bill be introduced in Congress
for the admission of the colOred men of
Washington to the right of suffrage, the
Mayor be authorized and directed to call
the Council together for the purpose of tax
ing into consideration measures for holding
a special election to ascertain the sentiments
of the people on the subject. The Aldermen
have not yet voted on the resolution.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
Drinking On Wager-A Nan DnNs LILIES
TWo Pounds OF whisky In an AO"T
meath the Result.
,hna foN statesman.l

rFrom the Columbus lU.l oIAI1su@H'I
Theodore Reeder, a young man about
.;In.oon haoon years of age, died suddenly at
agsse tbe Star Saloon, in Circleville, on the 10th
uit, uaT in "a their verdict, that the deceased
say, aay,s ~ TO his his death BY drinking twenty
oa,ht o;nbt ounces of whisky" at the said saloon,
Seiwsen S.s the hours of three and four
O.aI"cT Oeg~sen p N NJ of the above-named day.
ebat elVIH Ritbin ten minutes after drinking the
SnS' ina siT ounces the deceased fell soon be-
nanos la1T e. insensible, and died about eight
caIl~ o'oiocl- p NJ of said day. The jury further
Sornd that "this whisky was drank at the
;U.tonce ;UsrT of Jacob Gephart, Henry Cook
and T. W. Hodges, and on barter maas
by them" These three men we're arrest
ed on the lst inst,
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15

A good deal of excitement has been
caused in Nashville through the discovery
by the Committee of the Legislature ap-
pointed to investigate the affairs of the
State Bank that between FIVE and six mil
lions in spurious notes were issued by the
Rebel Governor Harris and his accom-
plices. Their plan was to issue the notes
and dnto them bnok- -bOforO- tho -robollion
commenced, in order to give them greater
apparent value, especially in case of col
lapse of the rebellion.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-15
The Great Amendment-The Work
AInnnraA Cam nnInNn-

!
The constitutional amendment,propose(
by Congress, abolishing slavery through
out the United States, has been ratified
by the following States, at the times indi
Gated by the dates annexed;
Illinois, Feb. 1, 1865 Virginia, Feb.
Rhode Island, Feb. Indiana, Feb. l3
Maryland, Feb. 3 Nevada, Feb. l6
Massachusetts, Feb. Louisiana, Feb. IL
Pennsylvania, Feb. Missouri, Feb. "a
West Virginia, Feb Wisconsin, Feb. p
Michigan, Feb. 3 Vermont, March
Maine, Feb. 7 Tennessee, April
Ohio, Feb. Arkansas, April -
Kansas, Feb. s Connecticut, May 1
Minnesota, Feb. iowa, June 30
New York, Feb. 8 n. Hampshire, ,Jnne 90
1t has been rejected by the following
States:
Delaware, Feb. 8 New Jersey, March
Kentucky, Feb. 90
Twenty-seven States are necessary to the
ratification of the great amendment.
Twenty-four States have already done
their part of the work as above stated.
New Jersey decided last Tuesday to make
the number twenty-five. The Legislatures
of California and Oregon will meet in
January, and as they are largely Union
in sentiment, their votes may be set down
as certain, making the con Institutional num-
ber-twenty-sevenI Colorado will be ad-
nitted early in the winter, but her Legis-
ature viii have said yes to the amend
nent even before the act of admission.