The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-28

COL. GODS MUsEUM.-Ine great variety
of queer, curious. valuable and interesting
attractions at Col. Woods Museum, Chicago,
astonish all who visit that institution No
person should fail to pay visit to Col.
Woods Museum, when in Chicago. In addi-
ton to the attractions of the rare collection
TO be seen there, Col. Wood has the finest lit
tie theatre in town, and the very best actors.
The entertainments given there are always
Of the finest class, highly entertaining anus
ing and instructive.
HANNIBAL REPUBLIC.-Hon. Austin Brooks
formerly of the Quincy Herald, has issued
prospectus for daily and weekly paper, at
Hannibal, Mo-, to be called the Hannibal Re
public. MI. Brooks will be a valuable acqui-
ssion to the editorial fraternity of Missouri,
and render efficient service in redeeming that
state from the shameful desposism now WELD
ed over her people by the fanatioal disunion
party. We wish him the highest political
snd peouniarg success.
"a Few PLAIN s.."-Undor this title
the editor of the coppsrhead Union of Satur-
day preached a sermon on vice, virtue, &C..
&C., in which he said
ga very considerable portion of those who make
and get their living honestly, only do i, to avoid
the inconvenience which would result from taxi ng
by force sneaking it out of the pockets of 9th
by larsency. The fact is, mona OF US quite
good as we ought to be.'
What do the honest men of the community
think of that?
In the same article he soys:
81. is true the mass of the people are not saw
ages, but the savage, corrupt nature of tie
can be found showing itself in the most OF them,
though partially covered by the thin drapery of
civilization, more thickly shrouded still by the
cloak of hypocrisy, which the knowledge between
good and evil compels so many to assume. Just
take the trouble to analyze society, and what will
YOU End it to be made Off For every man or wo-
ma, those life is guided by genuine christian
principles or characterized by an honest, perse-
vering effort to live according to the dictates of
conscience, you will find dozen who worship no
other God but their own propensities in some form
other"
This probably has reference to preaching
total abstinence and getting drunk in Sleep
ing car. @
Or AID NAusEAM.-Oil is on the American
and Canuck brain, but we supposed it corfin-
ed to the maturer oceiputs which are schem-
ing for the wherewithal to live in fine houses,
wsar,,fne linen and drive spanking teams
But boydoun, ambitious for tin whistles and
striped candy, is infected, as witness the fol-
lowing veritable account published by CO.
temporary:
Two boys, aged respectively eight and ten
years, got grub hoe and spade together and
started for the back of their fathers farm. -
Their mother protested but the boys We're
inexorably bent ON oil, and could MT be di,-
suaded They proceeded on their search and
finding hole IN the ground, thought tnore
would be good place to commence as it
would save some digging. So at ie they went.
They had not dug long before one of them re-
marked: II smell something-don't you,
Charley?" Charley responded afimasivsly,
and thought it smelt like fathers oil can only
a good deal ssronger-but added, "Mehbe
crood lie, as they call it, smells stronger than
our ile." The boys were good deal slated
with their prospect, aud worked away vigor-
ously tor a time. At length they struck thro'
the cavity, and had a vsritable flowing we'll.
They had unearthed a couple of skunks, and
started for home good deal discomfitsd-
their garments exhaling odors stronger and
more offensive than even petroleum in its
crude state.
San Francisco is going to be supplied with
water from lake in the Sierra Nevada
mountains by an aqeduct two hundred miles
long. aa
The Tilton (Iud. times complains that
cattle, lawyers, hogs and quacks, play and
root in the court house yard IN that village.
SO
The Portland. Maine, papers state that 10
that city of 80, 900 inhabitants there are over
900 dram shops. Where il the Maine Law.