The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-01-26

ity and economy, the river to st. Louis is
made entirely uncertain, greatly to our pre-
judice. 49,
One great cause of this objection to the
river is in the dangers and delays of the
bon At the bridges and rapids. And your
committee would nrge upon your board sys1
tematized and persistent attention at WASH
ington that the ri*er interests are not further
preinAiced in lokness and position of bridg-.
es, and that the natural obstacles at the rap
ids should be jadiciously and speedily inns
proved. --..r.~f
Your committee would further desire that
the citizens of st. Louis, both commercial
and land owning, should be made to realize,
by a publication of theseit items of Mr.Dedge's
report, that they are depending too1niuch up
on natural facilities and position, and must
emulate their neighbors in railroads to the
north, and by facilities for regular, daily
TRANSACTIONS IN commerce, affording punetn-
ally and economy, require this business,
while facts there to be so important and to
have been so early and greatly diverted from
us by our rivals and neighbors with their ell
evator railroad facilities S. "a &
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ia A new dance has been introduced called
the kiss Cotillion.' 1t is very proper.
Why is a New York City election like the
game of Euchre Because the party wins
that carries the Five Points.
When a man jokes, he is in a jocular vein !;
when he cuts his throat, he is in jugular
vein. a-3 p
At length it seems that we are to have
some practical legislation from congress
Er.A ia Nh & = -
s'We are to have some more Christmas
too.-Bostos Posi-. - sss "a -
They have news girls in Chicago.-Ex-
change. ,-,R s.la. -
So we have here. The only difference is,
in Chicago they carry the daily papers here
they take the place of them.-Hancockl o..
JsfersonaaR.t ia rFal s1s:' ,..s
"A mite Of humanity in New York was ar
raigned on charge of petit larceny. The
Judge dismissed the case with the recommen
dalton that the prisoner be put out to nurse
Ritualist young clergrmen seldom get ship
pers worked for them by girls. The fact. is
that they show the cloven foot; and more
oyer they preach celibaey.-PaHch. -
The Indiana legislature has before it bill
to make .'boltingp from either house by any
member, when question is before it, a mis-
demeanor punishable with one thousand dol
lars fine. . ...r e.---.y.
A returned soldier, former member O
the Sixth Massachusetts regiment, fell dowr
in the streets of Pittsfeld, On "Wednesday o
| last week from exhaustion, resulting from
starYauon.-AddDas transcript.
Tt is claimed by the friends Of the FRS
Wisconsin Cavalry that the capture of JEFF
otFa tod h,yt h.a4E icl.s
through disobedience of orders, or unwarrant
| ed assumption of power by the commanding
| officer of that regiment. .4szs
An illiterate character has originated th'
| following conundrum: "What is the differ
enee between Ag, the Canaanite, and a Ger
| tain learned professor? The Canaanite wa
Ag as was, the professor Ag,as-is.' --e-.
| Young ladies who are accustomed to rea,
newspapers are always observed to posses
| winning ways, most amiable dispositions, in
vsriably make good wives, and always seiec
good husbands. -.......-ss
| SAL" said one girl to another, Il am s,
| glad | have no beau now - 1.
why SOP asked the other. a,.
''Oh, cause | can eat as many onions as
| please. 1851 zr 5zs =. ~
Hans, who is a Judge of morals as well a
money, saws that ''being bender to anede
mans wife is not legal bender, no more a
bickIed beets is saurkraat, py tam !. FL
WITSEss-"This here Teller broke GU
| winder with a later, and hit Isabeller on tn,
elber. as she was playing on the palmer
MAGIsTRATE-"The conduct of the pris
ona', and his general charaeta, rendaf
| propa that he should no Tonga be memba
of societa"
Somebody in the n. y. Tribune inform
us that immense forces, iInperfectly explain
ed on the hypothesis of an ever-shifting vac
uam, dwell in tue .trf los eSe; acton ito;
A lady correspondent of New York pa
per, writing from Richmond, says "a Virgin
| ian who does not use tobacco is an anomaly
and Richmondite who is not complstel
saturated, bodily and spiritually, with 1t, II
| equally one.
| When Gov Andrew sent the Massachusetts
| girls to the Pacific coast to supply the wan
| of femininity in that region, he said that the
need not marry immediatly,but could tint
plenty to do in teaching the little children
| Anna Dickinson. "can't see it She say
| Where the little children were to com
| from, out of population of ten THOUSAND
| men, was more than she could imagine bu
she thought that probably Governor Andrew
being man, might be able to do so.''
| The legislature of Pennsylvania is boilin
over with virtuous indignation because Nj
johnson proposes to appoint its rejecte
senator, Mr.. Cowan, Minister to Austria
1t better contain itself. The election of Nj
| Cameron to Mr.. Cowan's place is as large a
undertaking, in the virtuous department, a
it can well afford in single week Nj
| Thad. Stevens told them We know, that the
were all virtuous men at Harrisburg, tn
year. but we beg them to be a trihe mode: