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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

Chandler should join Mrs. Lincoln in the
old clothes business. His habits are bad
enough.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

John T. MORGAN, Register in Bankruptcy
y for the 4th Congressional District of Illi-
nois, will be at the office Of J. B. Hawley, Esq,
Attorney at Law,
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

Ben Wade's impotence is astounding
He actually presumes to speak for Ohio.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
CITY HARNESS SHOP
NEAR THE CITY seal E 3.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE OPENED A
J. shop in the basement of Smyth's Building,
near the City Scales, where they win be h-ppy to
see all who want anything in their line
) They have workmen equal to any in the west !;
stock of the very best quality, and warrant their
work to be fully equal to any and prices as low
- any.
Repairing done at short notice.
All orders promptly filed
A share of patronage respectfully solicited:
KESLER BURK.
Rock Island, March 20, diff.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

The betting democrats of Cleveland made
$50, 900 on the late election.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
on Thursdav. the 24th inst..

when he will receive Petitions in Bankruptcy,
and administer the oath to any persons desiring
to file the same in Rock Island county and vicin-
ity. oct2Idtd.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23
STOCKING YARN
TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT |!

on the premises, where q suit Of clothes can al
ways be made on the shortest notice, In the best
style, and like everything else at this establish
ment, at the lowest rates The Tailoring Estsb-
lishmenti 10 in charge of Michael Lisberknecht, an
old and experienced cutter and fnisher, who has
carried ON business in this city for nearly IL years.
If YOU want nice broad cloths, cassimeres, fam
nels tweeds yarns, blankets, any kid Of WOODEN
keods, honestly msds, and at veryiew prices call
at the
Rack ISLAND WoOLEN MILLS.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

OHIO DEMoCRACY,-All the voters in town
ship named Jackson, in Auglaize county, to the
number Of four hundred and nine, voted demo-
crstic,-an increase Of seven over last year. They
claim the promised democratic banner.-C Columbus
Despatch to the Herald. We had occasion to
travel through that portion of Ohio q few years
since, when u eolporteur informed US, as the re-
suit of his observations and inquiries, that but
one in thirty of the people could read, while, on
an average, only one in ffty-ive possessed a
Bible.-(N Y.Commerciul Adoertiser.
The colporteur who told Mr.. Weed the
people of the. town of Jackson, marion p
Co. Ohio,were so ignorant that not more than
one in thirty could read, was more chagrined
at his own ignorance than the ignorance OF
those he illuminated. The inhabitants re-
ferred to are mostly German catholics, and
although some may not be proficient in the
English language, they are generally we'll
educated and well informed. Among them
are some of the most learned men in the
country, and all are too intelligent to require
instruction from PROSECUTING colporteur.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-10-23

Jay Cook, President Lincoln's treasury
agent, who made at least FIVE millions out
of the sale of government bonds, owns an
island in Lake Erie, which is called Isle
Gibraltar, and to the luxurious retreats of
which he sends his friends to enjoy them.
selves in fishing and bathing. The editor
of Sandusky paper has been shown the
bankers printed cards, by means of which
his friends travel, at his expense, to and
from this Gibraltar Island to their homes in
the east. Every month the cards are sent
in with the bills attached, and the rich man
settles up the travelling expenses. His ex-
penses are great, but his income is equal to
that of half dozen European princes, and
the tax payers groan. Mrs. Lincoln is now
selling her wardrobe to enable her to main
tain herself decently. Hasn't Jay Cooke
gratitude enough to close up his house one
month and give that lady the ten thousand
dollars he would save?
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03

In paragraph which is making its pill
grimage through the newspapers, we are ill.,
formed, to our exceeding qualification, if the
intelligence be true, that sundry young wo-
men in Georgia, members of families former
ly opulent, but now, through the dire in-
fuences OF secession, pauperized, are en-
gagged in setting type IN the printing offices
OF the State. We do not, of course, ungal-
lantly rejoice that these damsels can no
longer pass their lives in dressing and I'M
dressing, which seems to be the main busi-
ness OF those girls whose fathers have moi
yet lost their money by that odd and dis
agreeable combination of circumstances
which is compactly styled '.p Fevulsion /"
but we do rejoice to find the Georgia .usses,
after their education in quite opposite the
orr, so speedily convinced that in this bust
ling land, now that ''WG institution has
become destitutiOn, nothing can come
OF nothing" and that the hest Specification
of a verb is not g to suffer, nor even :. TO
be, but ''to do" To sleep is pleasant to
eat is agreeable TO daintily array comely
person is ii tasteful amuscment; hut the
slsep which has keen earned. the food which
has been honestly won, the garments which
represent intelligent cxertien are the best,
thu most palaiabc, the bravest
Type-setting is an extremely respectable
avocation when the "copy" is respectable
and the proofs turn ont tolerably clean
and the maidens and matrons of Georgia,
formerly in aiiiucnt circumstances, might
have done worse-thcy might have hetaken
themselves to the bad habit OF reading GRO
cus-covered ronlances; they might have
submitted with the stolidity of despair to
their fate, or shrewishly worried through the
remainder of an uncomfortable existence. a
torment to themselves and a comfort to no
body. They will now be not only in pay
ing position 0f they are not cheated out Of
their wages hut they will have the oppor-
tuniiy Of improving their minds, if they are
not compelled to put in type too many fierce
and tlabby editorials. The extracts from
The TRIBUNE alone, which will be given
out to them, will at least lay the foundation
OF liberal education. These Georgia girls
are ministering angels" in more senses
than one, for they will set not only type,
but a laudable example to their fathers,
brothers and lovers, who will we trust, I've
too proudly chivalrous to live upon the
scanty wages of the fair compositors.
There is nothing for the white men of the
South to do but go to wQrk--the only alter
native is miserable, dawdling hand-to-
mouth existeLce, ii existence II can be called
"a chronically comatose condition agitated,
# at all, by the excitements of shooting
drinking, smoking, and playing cards. 1t is
easy tor whole classes, especially where
manual labor has long been disreputable, to
lapse into these habits, and Il is hard when
they are once established to get the better of
them. lE
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03

vet passed. and the door of onr carriage was
opened 10 admit a passenger.
The new conner was young gentleman.
Perhaps he was not exactly handsome. but
he had a face that pleased me, 50 bright and
Ingenious looking. The old ladies eyed him
narrowly, NJ first. as il appeared with some
suspicion, which, however, they could not
maintain more than few seconds, then they
smiled. and looked as serene and contented
as before.
At this station we hnd been asked 10 show
our tickets. and ii was some little time be-
fore thought of returning mine to its for
mer place Of security in my purse. As ] did
so | observed the writing of it for the first
time
"Dear me-, | exclaimed, in sudden dis
tress. They've given me wrong ticket
This says Exeter to Paddington, and it's
London want to go to. What shall do
But the two old Indies laughed, and the
young gentleman smiled such a pleasant
smile, that ii reasured me Immediately.
It's all right, my dear" said one of the
ladies', as soon as she could speak for laugh
ing. "There are great many stations in
London, and the one you will stop at s call
ed Paddinglon. Then turning to the young
gentleman she added This young lady is
going to pay her first visit to London"
coNcLUDED NEXT WEEK.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03
Spirit of the Press.


A late New York paper contains the fol-
Iou;ng fo;tbf,,, el,atoh of 8. soc;o,,- Il, that
-
'hetropohs'
To he fashionable it is not enough to be
rich, to be respectable, to live and dress well,
to give parties and to entertain many ac-
quaintanccs. All this is requisite, but 1ome-
thing more is necessary. Fashionable soci-
ETY. IL organized by clique OF wealthy per-
sons, who. having nothing else to do,
make it their business to give dinners and
parties. They are generally intelligent, re-
side in handsome houses, dress richly but in
good taste, drive fine but not fast horses,
and can trace their ancestors as far back as
their grandfalhers, although their great
grandfathers are often enveloped in dim
and romantic mist, through which II 1t quite
impossible to distinguish whether they were
shoemakers or noblemcn. These organizers
compose their society of few hundred
young ladies and gentlemen. divided for con-
venience into half a dozen cliques. Most
American ladies are in hurry to get married
young; they know the time is tleeting, and
they want man to pay their dry goods
bills. Fashionable young ladies are in no
such haste. With rich parents, and on an
before they are twenty-five. Having finish
ed their education nj n fashionable school.
thew Dass the interval, until their marriage in
dancing the German. attending the onera.
and receiving the attentions ofthe gentlemen
with whom, however, they do not 60 40 far
as to ilirt.
These fashionable gentlemen are also a
peculiar class they toll not, neither do they
spin, except in waitzcs: but Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like unto them.-
The German is their sole occupation. They
rise late, breakfast at noon, and then come
down tnwn, ask The price of gold, and drink
a cocktail at tie lower Delmonico's' by the
v,v nf business E.t;,rned wifi th;e aver
tinS which they nertnrn With "n ,rnat ,n s"smn e
i,v and rea,, rity no If ti,.tinances nj IN.
nation woyIJ hs d;s,rr,n',.d shonld ,ha,,
nmt Il ,bev then m vida ria hnne and 1" dress sds ~
dinner '' ''N ' '''' "''' ~
Ar,ar drrer ,hev ao m vor;o,e ,,or,;os
,ead ,ba Gr,,ar and Sre,;se a, ,,.'o pt pn'a,ncr
n M ~ ~ he a,vaIe ~, fpr saver - hars ,r,;no
to ;n,yent q now ti~nre far ,her i.,v4r;,e y
dance Their only aSnah;t;on Ike Ike v"n ise Ris-
marck "a Is to hn tIe Gnr,non ,nade, u IF the
dnnce S,t ~ - o If wal, Iv M rinna onn1d H., ro,d
~ ?,s VI W. Nv PiinNe co"a y, Pt,oue.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03
SELECT POETRY.
Very Little-t Poctess In the World.

On Thanksgiving dizzy last, the steamship Asago, OF
he only remaining line Of American steamers the
Atlantic wns made the scene Of national dinner, Il
religious service, and miscellaneous exercises The
Rev. Mr.. Woods, Of Cincinnati, gave prayer. The
grandson OF General Schuyler, of the Revolutionary
war presided. Mr.. Beach, of the New York Sur,
read j0nrnal called The Ardgo Dell, and among Its
contributions was pcem supposed TO be sent in by
very young baby on board This was the daughter Of
Mr. George Alfred Townsend, alpo Of the passcn-
gers young lady Of the tender aye Of seven weeks.
II was ss folows:
BABY AT SEA.
The newest soul upon the waste gigantic
A blood drop In the sea,
The mercst dmplc in the wide Atlantic,
No one rep0-ed ~ she;
wrapt In her zephyrs. all the visions sought lpcr
A seek the gulis the fold
nf the bright standard, trailing DER the water
For the pure faith 1t holds.
The ships ca, clept about her couch IN wonder.
As II some bird she were,
calm in the crash oi biw and of thauae,.
In the great Captains care;
For IN the bows the sailOrs said tu.,thcr
A the black watch they scored.
40 marvel nut get 80 trannn weather
"A baby "a an board"
sea-giddy, while the brayest -lck of lris,re
Saw the white caps afraid,
Rocked III the swes she smiled, as tor her pleasure
The waves such music made;
The stsImer gasped as in some drowning THROTTLE
And reelad In shaft and rod,
Bhe manned her fc-b0at---thc nutritious buttlr.
And pulled to re aims Of Nod
To her the place was but some land flying
Der the green sweep OF boughe
With CHEEKY singing to their sigis replying.
And brooks and helds--and cows:
AtiI in its home folks talked, aud walked. aud
Erested,
And siapt liies care away
30 In the gbite arms of her mother nestled.
She dreamed from prayer till day.
Never again, perchance, she shall be trcading
The France where she was born;
Not midst its vines her girlhood ar her wedding,
But In the land ofcorn,
Where ber grandparents in the West are summing
The days with doubts and fears,
Child ofthsir children, she shall yet be coming,
To gladden. their old years.
The deep shall leave upon this baby rover,
No note Of It's refrain
The great bass singer that has borne hsr over
Rhsll rock her shipin vain.
Butin her fe's devotion or detection,
Shall haant hsr dwelling place,
His unrernembcrsd, fatlerly protection.
Like mysterious face.
still ss1ine her eyes the larger and the buep,
More ose her dimples say,
Her tiny soul, the fuller and Lae truer,
IL .aot ta.,
Dear God we pray both precious vessels may be,
In prosperous y0yags sung,
Mud homeward 20 the steamer and the baby
When all their bells are rung
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03
LITERARY AND JOURNALISTIC.


One of our exchanges, after referring to
the complaints made by Capt, Marryatt, who
edited magazine, says:-
"Yet Marrystt was only an editor of a
magazine, a comparatively easy task. He
never sat at his table with unprepared copy
before him aud had a long-winded visitor
insist upon spinning some interminablc warn
or laying down in detail some theory on
subject Of no particular importance, entirely
oblivious of tho fact that the paper must go
to press in two hours, and somehow or other
that copy must be all gone through carefully,
put into the hands of the compositors, trans
ferred to type and the proofs read and cor
rected before the press can start, He never
had people habitually mistake his sanctum
tor reading room, occasionally reading
aloud choice extracts from papers which he
has already peruscd and thrown by. He
never received calls from idiots who wanted
to know whether such and such an article
means SO and so, and, if so, whether he
was willing to make suitable retraction and
explanation. hut an editor of daily paper
has to endure all this and much more. One
of the most vexatious things is the imperfec-
tion of manuscripts During the past three
years there have not come into this office
half dozen manuscripts-even from regular
paid correspondents who have written for
the press for years--that were fit to put into
the hands OF the compositor. There are his
torical errors, geographical blunders, bad
rhetoric, bad grammar, bad spelling, words
inadvertently omitted, incorrect paragraph
ing and punctuation, to a greater or less ex-
tent, scattered all through them. An editss
has to 60 carefully over every page, pencil
in hand, and make corrections; aad when
the letter appears in print of course the cred
1t all goes to the correspondent whose sigma
ture is attached-nonc TO the editor. The
most invariable fault of manuscripts is Ia the
punctuation, which In many cases is posi-
lively fearful. Yet the rules of punctuation
are simple and all founded on principles
easily understood and there is less excuse
for bad punctuation than for bad spelling.
The most common error is in punetuatine
too much. Don't punctuate Your compost
tion to death.
- The intense eoppcrheadism and vile
abusive character of "Brick" Pomeroys
paper, the La Crosse Democrat. has secured
for his weekly large southern circulation.
the rebel spirit greatly relishing Just such
pabulum, as the high pressure blackguard,
ism Of the Democrat affords. 1t is said the
weekly circulates some I2,ON0 copies
Among the disaiiected Democracy, opposed
to the cause of the Chicago Times, it Is pro-
posed to start new organ in the latter city,
and place Pomeroy at the head oft.
The Hanmonton Cul,urisf Is the name
ofa new monthly periodical, devoted chiefly
the culture of small fruit, and published
at Hammonion, Atlantic county, N. ].
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03

The young men of the South formerly
in affluent circumstances" have had an ex-
cclleni opportunity of knowing what a
''Poor White is; and they may rest assured
that il is into precisely the squalid and
bestial condition of the ''Poor White" that
they will sink ii through pride or constitu-
t0nal Incidence, or from any other reason
they now fold their hands and content them
selves with signing for the social stains
which they have occupied in the past, and
which has now become thing of the past
altogether We trust that there is manli
ness enough in them 10 save them from
snch contemplate and ignominious fate,
especially when the ladies are so bravely
contcnding against adversely, and are prov
Ing themselves so worthy Of cheerful and
energetic cooperation. There is plenty of
land to be cultivated and hoes, spades,
shovels, and plows can be obtained at the
North by all those who can give reasonble
security that they will use them. God and
the capitalists of the country will help those
who help themselves; but nobody can help
those who give themselves up to a loose
life and unruly passions. We wish the
Georgia women all possible success, not
only in their own immediate enterprise, bnt
in proving to their friends in pantaloons the
necessity and beauty of labor.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03

Mr.. Felix Belly, one of the writers for tn,
Paris tonstitutionnet, has been visitiong Ire.
land, and was charmed with the beauty Of the
women. He says g No European race, tina,
Of the Caucasus excepted, can complete with
1t in beauty. The Irish blood is OF a purity
distinction, especially among the females
which strikes all strangers with establishment
The transparent witeness of the skin, the alb
sorbing attention, which In France is but
the attribute of one woman in thousand, is
here the general type. The daughter of the
poor man as well as the fine lady, possesses
an opal or milky tint, the arms of u statue,
the foot and hand Of duchess, and the
bearing of a queen.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03

1T is calculated that dancing belle in
one season traverses five hundred miles of
floor. ..-.....f ..- -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

GENERAL GRANT has kept shady with
great success, but the telegrapbic corre-
spondent of the Chronicle has at last
unearthed him. just listen:
General Grant seems greatly pleased
with General Thomas dispatches, and
in conversation with the President this
morning significantly remarked, told
you so.
This is not. all Of the conversation, as
we are reliably informed The Presi-
dent, after the II told you so, moved
to the side board, and gloomily remarked,
How will you have yours, Ulysses
straight or with sugar " The hero OF
the Appomaitox Frightened up, and
smilingly said, straight, and with drop
of peppermint" just here our dispatch
comes to an abrupt conclusion. Pitts
burg Post
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
nnrionn TFect 81 Al tesian watOr.

The Indianapolis Herald spins the
following yarn about the water of the
artasian we'll at Terre Haute;
A lively gas--supposed to be sulphu-
retted bydrogen--is emitted from the
water when it first comes to the open air.
An effect of this gas is the rapid dis
csloration of metals The story IS told
that certain fair ladies', addicted to Email
de Paris and other beautiiers, have dis
agreebly experienced the effects Of the
gas Ills reported Of one in particular
that, bending over to catch a glass full
Of the ambrosia, her complexion sudden,
" changed from a pearly white, tinged
with carnation, TO that Of a well worn
saddle. The artesian gas, operating on
The metallic powder, wrought wondrous
change, and the fair Rebeoea who came
TO the well white belle, went away q
Numidian negro. It is reported that she
has abandoned powder
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
WHOLE TICKETS. So; HALVES. Sc
QUARTERS. 50.
Plan of the Lottery ,

The numbers from / to % 900. corresponding
with those numbers on the tickets, printed on
separate slips of paper, are encircled with small
tin tubes, and placed in one wheel. The prizes OF
which there are 7e..v varying as above, from S5O.-
000toS50, are similarly printed on separate slips,
enercled, and placed in another wheel. The
wheels are then revOlved, and n number is
drazn from the wheel Of numbers. and at the
same time prize is drawn from the other
wheel. The number and prize drawn out are
opened and exhibited to the audience, and reg
istsred by the Commissioners. the prize being
placed against the number drawn. This opera
ton is repeated until all the prizes are drawn
out.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

re- Wednesday afternoon, as Ger
man carpenter named William Nesmer
was working on the St Aloysius Church,
in CoviDgton, Ky, the seafold upon
which be was standing fell from beneath
bis feet and be was precipitated to the
ground below, distance Of sixty.fve
feet He was instantly killed by the fall.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
The Kentucky State Lotteries

are no Gift Enterprises, but responsible money
lotteries that have been conducted successfully
for the past thirty years, and are drawn under
bonds 10 a large amount are given for the pay
ment of all prizes The drawings are published
in the New York Herald and Cincinnati Cons
ncrcidf.
Circulars Of Lotteries drawing daily sent free
by application TO the Managers. Address all
orders for tickets 10
MURRAY, EDDY 4 CO.,
Oox-fn ofau Kv
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

MA rnmor is current with the ap-
pearance Of credihility that the body oil
man found in the river at New York, a
fortnight ago, with bullet hole through
bis head, has proved to be that Of Brit.
isl detective, who had been shot by some
Fenians, whose movements be was in
yastigating.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
THIRD 49,

FIRST RACE-"CITIZENs' PURSE. Two
mile heats. Free for all ages. Purse $500.
Entrance $40. rn
SECOND RA0E-Threo mile dash, for all
ages, $50 entrance. Three or moro to start.
Association to add $eO0. Second horse to
save his entrance money.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
EIRsr DAY.

FIRST RACE-"NURSERY STAKE."-We,
the subscribers, agree to run n Sweopstake
Race over the Memphis Association Course,
at tho Fall Meeting. 1867, with Colts and
fillies, two years old. one mile dash, S25
subscription, play or pay; the Association to
add $500. Three or more TO Gil the stake, TO
name and close on the 18th September, 1867
SECOND RACE" GREEN STAKE.D-Mile
heats, for untried three-year olds, $50 ca
trance. play or Pay. Association TO give 800.
Three or moro to Gil the stake. to name and
close on the 18th September, 1867.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
SECOND DAY.

FIRST RACE-GAYOS0 HOUSE STAKE
Mile heats for all ages, $50 entrance. Gayoso
House to add $780, Three or more to fill the
stake.
SECOND RACE-Two mile dash. Purse $780,
Free for all ages. Entrance SIS.