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Senator Trumbull declares that the whole
legislation on reconstruction is "wrOng,"
and ''cannot be sustained for a moment" if
the theory on which congress has rested it is
unsound, viz that civil governments do not
exist in the southern states. Very well, then;
we accept his statement in full If there
was a regular civil government i'll each of
these states congress is usurper IN this
business, and "cannot be sustained" Un-
less there scere civil governments In them,
how could they be appealed to, as they noto-
riously were, to vote on an amendment to the
constitution? There is no act which they
could be summoned to perform more grave
and fundamental than this How they could
Z @doit, if there were no Legitimate civil gov
ernmentsn Ito use Mr.. Trumbull's own
phrase) in operation, it would puzzle the
astutest statesman to discover. This very
reconstruction act was undertaken by con-
gress, too, on the plea to the country that
the people of the. south we're still rebellious
IN refusing as q whole to ratify the coastitu-
tional amendment How could they ratify
it, if they were incapacitated from doing SC
by want of the legal machinery with which
alone it may be DONE How is slavery con
stitutionally abolished if the southern states
have all this time been without governments
- assist in the work And more than NIL
how could the last congress consistently lay
down the condition in the reconstruction act
itself, that in order to secure restoration te
the Union the southern states should accept
a constitutional amendment. under which oil
those persons should be excluded from vot
ing for presidential electors and representa-
tives to congress until July 4th, 1870, who
voluntarily adhered to the rebellion, and
gave it aid and comfort There is no end te
the Inconsistencies of congress in it's deal
ings with the south since the war It's whole
purpose has been simply to exclude the elec
toral votes of ten states, which it felt certain
radicalism could never legitimately secure
for its candidate for the presidency.-Boston
Post. F~sf@ ses.
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I.acture by Father Damen.

A lecture will be given by the Rev. Father
Damen, S. j., of Chicago, in the Catholic
Church in this city, on Tuesday evening
next, the 23d inst, for the benefit of the
church. Tickets 80 cents.
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Go to the Best,

Go to to the Bryant & Stratton Iowa State
Business College, to get a thorough practical
business education, or to become good
sound telegraph operator. For circulars ad-
dress [enclosing stamps the Bryant STRAIT
ton Commercial College, Davenport, Iowa.
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Bngle Trimmings, Buttons, Betting Rib
bons, Ill colers, and Hoop Skirts, all sizes
and prices, opened this morning, at
L. KIEsow's. :
Remember, we are selling our best Kid
Gloves for one dollar.
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YAI.UABIEPL0PEETY FOR SALE

T OFFER FOR SALE MY NEW LIVERY
l. Stable in Moline, together with the buggies,
sleighs, carriages harness, horses and hack. The
stable has good run Of custom.
Also my mansion house, situated on Ann St.
The lot is set full of all the small fruits together
with young and large bearing fruit trees, House
two stories Lot S6xl60 feet
Also, eight aeres OF land on the river, within
half mile of the corporation line of Moline.
The land is very rich, suitable for country seat,
a fruit and vegetable farm. There is fine view of
Hampton, Watertown, LeClaire, Davenport, de-,
and can be made one of the finest homes on the
Mississippi river, There is upon the land sub
stantial barn, with stone cellar.
TERMs-Half cash, balance in one, two or
three years, with security.
For further particulars call at my stable.
JAMES McBURNEY.
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FIFTEEN CENTS q line will be charged for
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Odd Fellows

Rock Island Lodge No. Is, I. o. 0. F.
meets every Monday Evening at Odd Eel
lows Hall, southeast corner of Illinois ant
Eagle Sts., at 8 o'clock P. NJ.
w. T. NORRIS, N. G.
3 CHARLES ENGEL, r. S. ...-
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The State Register suggests Chief Justice
Sidney Breese, Of the supreme court Of this
state, as the democratic candidate for presi-
dent at the next election, urging his fitness
and his claims in an elaborate article
Judge Breese has a most honorable record,
scarcely equaled by that of any man in the
nation. Coming to Illinois even before it,
became state, he has ever since been iden-
tilted with its progress and all its great in
terests. He has served the people of Illinois
in various important positions, including
those of state legislator, states attorney, cir
cult judge, United States senator, and judge
of the supreme court, in all of which he has
manifested distinguished ability. 1t is not
probable that the democracy viii have an
opportunity of electing the next president
of the United States, but there are few pub
lie men who have filled more useful places
in the state and the nation with more credit
to themselves, or who to-day are personally
more highly esteemed for their many accom-
plishments of head and heart than Chief.
Justice Breese.-Sprinatield Jo,nna1-asre-
.u1lsea'a paper. N
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The Washington correspondent of I

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Pilot, referring to the Surratt trial,
says:
Forney's Chronicle has already limited
that the prisoner is supported by the sympa-
thy of his co-religionists of the catholic
church, and expresses his apprehensions
that the jury in the. case may not be as do
cile and manageable as the military commits
sions which were organized to convict the
accused. The radical reformers of that
school are down upon trial by jury as well
as upon constitutional governments and
laws as s'impediments in the way of their
progress" giving, as in the reconstruction
acts, a decided preference to military rule,
in which the people, ike an army, are treat
ed as machines. They plainly show this
when they. assume that FIVE brigadiers EN-
body more wisdom, integrity and patriotism
than nine or ten millions of southern whites.
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Type Metal.

Old type in any quantity for sale at the
ARGUS Office. Equal to Babbit metal for all
mechanical purposes.
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The Peuitentiary Steal.

Forty thousand dollars of the peoples
money, the first installmsnt s Of the 100000
steal passed BY the late radical
on the 18th. Pay up, tax payers; radical
politicians and the radical party must be
provided for.-Sprsnafeld Register, 17h.
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Diseases of the Eye Can be, Cured.
DIR. JAS. CAMpREII.

- as DR.. JAS. Campbell.
has opened an EYE INFIRMARY in Davenport
and can accommodate one or two hsndred patiepts
and will treat all diseases strictly confidential.
Office, on Second Street, in LeClaire Block.
No charges made for unsuccessful services.
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ASSESSMENT LISTS.

ASSESSWEN1 LISISs
Cry CLERKS OFrIcH,l
City of Rock Island, July 18th, 1867
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
In assessment lists of taxable real and per-
sonal estate in the city of Rock Island, for the
year 1857, have been completed and returned by
the Assessor to the City Council and that OBJ
jections thereto will be heard by the City Council
at the Council Room, in said City, the goth day
of July inst, at 2 o'clock p. NJ.
All persons feeling themselves aggrieved by the
assessment of their property are hereby requested
to make or file their objections at the time and
place aforesaid.
j. JOHNSTON, City Clerk
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A MARE AND COLT THE MARE IS
IA large, sound, and kind in single double
harness; Colt, No. !. Enquire at Beardsley
Brothers, opposite KimbalPs Wagon Shop. f
iulyl 5dwlw.
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Refrigerators,
Bleaehed Muslins,

Ice Chests, and Water Coolers, at IS
DoN & ELLIOrT's.
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FOR SALE:

Z A COTTAGE CONTAINING SEVEN ROOMS
II and . good bake-oven, with stable attached;
splendid garden of 81 acres, containing As fruit
trees, all in good state of cultivation. The
property is eituated about IL miles from the city
Of Rock Island, and will be disposed Of reason
ably. Apply to 135 fhr N. MARX,
Attorney at Law.
Once evsf TIE Post 0fics. jun13dwtE
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To-Day's Advertisem'ts
Assessors Notice.

ASSC00VI 3 MUC1C6.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
In assessment list Of the town of Rock Island
Is completed, and that the board appointed by
law to review the same will meet at the Office of
she Assessor, in the city Of Rock Island, on
Tuesday, the 3Oth day of July inst, at s o.
clock A. NJ, to review the same.
A. WAGNER, Township Assessor.
Rock Island, July 10th, 1867, dwiw
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FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.

Rock Island, July 10, 1867, dwtd.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-07
CHAP. CCXLLVIII.

An Act providing fer the Appointment of Com
mission TO examine and report upon certain
Claims of the State Of iowa.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
preSentatives OF the United States of America in
congress assembled, That the President of the
United States be- and lie hereby is, authorized
and required to appoint commissioner whose
duty il shall be to examine and report on or be-
fore the first day of December next upon the
claim of the State of Iowa for forage, transporta
fion subsistence, and clothing furnished by said
State to certain volunteers Of said State, who, I'M
der the command of Colones Morledge and Ed
wards, and at the request Of certain officers COM
mdnding troops of the United States in the State
of Missouri, marched into the State of Missouri
10 operate with the troops of the United States
in tiat State in sGpPressng the rebellion. Also
the claim of the State of Iowa for repayment of
certain moneys paid by said State in raising, arm
ing, equiping, paying and subsisting certain
troops of the State maintained by the State the
southern and northwestern borders thereof du-
ri e the late rebellion for the purpose OF defend
ing the State against attacks by bushwhackers and
Indians. And also tDe claim of said State for
compensation for certain forage procured and
barracks built by the State on the northwestern
border thereof, and turned over by the State to
and used By the United States.
Approved, July 25, 1866.
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PUBLIC ACTS.
CHAP. CCXLVII.

An Act to authorize W. j. Sibley and Others,
Trustees, to sell and convey Lot Number nine,
in Square Number Seventy-six, in the City of
Washington.
Whereas lot number nine in said square num-
Der seventy six, in the said city OF Washington,
was conveyed by D. FL. NJ Blair to W. j. Sibley,
Ro Ricketts,, r. w Bates, R. L. Sanders, Renja-
min = Coy and G. Spoarder, in trust, to erect
thereon place of worship for tue use Of the peo-
plo of color, members of the Methodist Episco-
said trustees have not had the means OF erecting
such church, and the purpose has been abandon
ed, and another church, called the Asbury Chapel,
has been erected in or near the neighbOrhoOd Of
the >aid lot which the said trustees desire TO SELL
and apply the proceeds to the benefit Of the con-
rrtgatIoR wOrshippng in said Asbury Chapel,
puposa whic, the said J. II. NJ Blair, as far
Ic had any interest therein, has approved by his
subsequent decd made to the said trustees: there
fore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF Re-
representatives. of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the said w. J. Sibcy,
Ro. Ricketts,, r. w. Bates r. l.. Sanders, Bcnja-
min NJ Coy, and q. Spoarder, trustees oi the said
lot above mentioned, or the survivors of them,
be, and they hereby, authorized and empow-
cred TO sell and convey the said lot number nine,
i'll square number seventysiX, in the said city of
Washington, for such price they shall think
proper, or to confirm and carry out any contract
for sale already made by them with any person,
and to convey the same accordingly, freed and
discharged Of the trust upon which the same was
originally conveyed to them and to apply the
proceeds CT sale to the benefit of the congregation
worshipping in the said Asbury Chapel the
proper aHd legal authority thereof may deem eX-
pudicnG, and for other purpose whatever
Approved, July 25, 1865
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CHAP. {CXLIX.
An Act to Incorporate +' The National Soldiers
and Sailors Orphan Home"

An Act to Incorporate ~ The National Soldiers
and Sailors Orphan Home"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That Mrs. Julia B. Grant,
Mrs. Ellen E. Sherman, Mrs II. D. Cooke, Mrs
Margaret Fahrestoek, Mrs. Kathleen Carlse,
Miss Charlotte Tayler, Mrs. Jane Speed, Mrs.
Mary ). Wells, Mrs. A. Harlan, Mrs Jane L.
Smith, Mrs. Mary K. Lewis, Mrs Jane Farnham,
Mrs Ellen Boyer, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Howard,
Mrs. Kate c. Spragne, Mrs. Elsie B. Nye, Mrs.
Annie Rouse, Mrs. Kate L. Plants, Mrs. Eliza
beth G. Todd, Mrs. Abby E. Hall, Mrs. J. NJ.
Trumbull Miss Sarah Wood, Mrs. Jane Anne
Pirtle, " iss Eliz beth Howard, and their success
sors, are constituted body corporate in the Dis
trict of Columbia, by the name of the National
name may sue and he sued in any court of the
United States.
See. 9 And be it further enacted, That the
persons named in the first section of this act
together with such as may be elected according
20 the form of the constitution under this act
shall he the first trustees of the corporation ;
and al vacancies caused by Geath, resignation,
or otherwise in the Office of tru stee, shall be filed
by the board, by ballot, without unnecessary de-
lay, as may be provided in the constitution and
bylaws ofthc corporation.
Sec. 3. And be it further en- acted, That said
corporation shall have power to provide home
Tor, and to support and educate the d, situte or
pans of soldiers or sailors who have died in the
late war in behalf of the Union of these States,
from whatever State or Terrific ry they may have
entered the national service or their orphans
may apply to enter the Home, and which is here
Dy declared to be the object and purpose of said
corporation +; and to such end, and for such use,
the SAID corporation may take and hold property
real or personal to an amount necessary for the
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An Act to authorize the Extension, Construction,
and Use by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company of Railroad from between Knox
vile and the Monocacy Junction into and with
in the District of Columbia.
Whereas il is represented to this present Con-
GresS that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, Incorporated by the State of Maryland are
desirOus Of extending the road authorized to be
built by them, by an act of the general assembly
OF that State, entitled An act to authorize the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to build
railroad from point on the line OF its road be-
tween Knoxville and the Monocacy junction,
through Frederick and Montgomery counties, to
the boundary OF the District of Columbia, so as to
make direct communication with the cite of
Washington" into and within the District of
Columbia: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
rcsentativcs of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company shall be, and they are
hereby, authorized to extend into and within the
District of Columbia the road aforesaid, to such
point or points, terminus or terniini, may be
agreed upon between the said company and the
corporation of Washington, ir respect OF a rocd
within the limits of Washington, and between
the said company and the corporation of George
t"wn as respects Il road within the limits of
Georgetown. An[d] the said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company are hereby authorized 10 nave
and exercise the same powers, rights, and privi-
leges, and shall be subject to the same restric-
tions, in the extension and construction of the
they have may exercise, possess, or are sub
iect to within the State of Maryland, under and
by virtue OF their charter or act of incorporation
from the State of Maryland and shall be entitled
to the same franchises, rights, compensation,
benefits, and immunites in the use of the said
road provided in the said charter.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the
provisions of the several acts of Congress relating
to the lateral road authorized to be buiit into and
within the District of Columbia by act passed
March second, eighteen hundred and thirty one,
and entitled . An act to authorize the extension
construction, and use of lateral branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio Road into and within the Dis
trict of Columbia" and the supplements thereto,
be, and they are hereby, declared to apply to the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company so far as
they are generally applicable TO the location,
StructiOn, and use by the said company of the
road now authorized to be constructed into and
within the said District.
Sec. 3. And be it furter enacted, That the said
railroad company shall commence the construc-
tion of said extension of said road within one
year, and complete the same within three years
after the passage of this act; and failure to do
so, the privilege gaanted by this act shall be for
teited by said company.
Approved, July 25, 1866
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Miscellaneous.
n. G. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

N. G. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
A T A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF d.
n rectors of the n. C. NJ. F. Insurance Com
pany, held at the office of the Company in this
City the 22nd OF January, 1867, after due notice
to each Director, d. A. Covington, Esq, Was
call, to the CHAIR and Rev. VIM. E. Pell was ap-
pointed Secretary. The following order of as
sment was MALE
On motion, Ordered, that for he purpose of pay
ing losses due by the Compab; ut the dates herein
after mentioned, an assessn mt of fifteen per
cent on all unexpired premiums notes, in posses
sion of the Company on the Sth day of August
1863 the 18th day of November 1864, the 27th
day of September, 1865, the 25sh day of February,
1866, the 9th day of April, 1866, the Sth day of
May, 1866, and the 18th day Of October, 1866, be
levied payable Immediately.
Ordered, That the President as soon as practi-
cable give notice to parties liable under the afore
said assessment, according to the charter and by
laws.
Ordered, That parties paying either this as
sessment or that levied the 9th September, 1865,
may be discharged from the other assessments
not paid.
''At the same meeting T. Fl. Selby, of Raleigh,
was unanimously elected President of the Com
dany, and K. P. Battle, Esq, was unanimously
elected Attorney of the Company. Hereafter all
business of the Company will be transacted by
the President. Hence all letters must br addressed
to him" T. Ii. SELBY, President.
Raleigh JAM 26, 1867. 132-1aw4w
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CHAP. CCXLIII,

CHAP. CCXLIII.
An Act to change the Place of holding Court in
the Northern District of Georgia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatves of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the district court for
the northern district of Georgia shall hereafter
be held at Atlanta, instead of Marietta and the
clerk of said northern district is hereby required
to remove all the books, papers, and records
lanta.
See. 2. And be it further enacted, That all
process mace returnable to the court heretofore
held ut Marietta shall be taken and considered re-
turuable to the court at Atlanta
Approved, July 25 1866.
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CHAP. CCLII.

An Act to change the Port of Entry in Puget's
Sound
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentativcs of the United States of America in
Congress assembled That from and after the first
day of October eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
the port of Port Angeles, in the district of Puges
Sound, in Washington Territory is hereby abol-
ished as port of entry, and that Port Townsend
be, and is hereby established the port of entry
and delivery for the said district, from and after
said date.
Approved, July 25, 1866.
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