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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-23
Catholic Festival.

A~festival will be given for the benefit
Of the, new Catholic Church on the evening
of Tuesday, November 10Th, at Rodman
Hall. Tickets One Dollar.
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Gro to Bamberger's and see his new stock
Of Dress Goods, Trimmings, &c.
aug30dwtf
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Police ITEAs.-Abraham Zeisett, hail
ing from Millersburg, was picked up last
night between eight and nine O'Clock, on
Orleans street near Ohio, by Policeman
Woods, who found him very drunk, and in
decently exposing his person. On being ar
raigned this morning, before Magistrate Con-
nelly, he was fined So and costs, which was
paid.
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Daily ARGUS,
Premium Job Printing.

Orders for JOB PAINTING viii meet Win prompt
,,tantion at the ARGUS OFFICE, and be executed
J.; the very mast manner and at reasonable rates
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8rvF. -
Brass and Iron WORK,
9as F1tTtn&
G6 alg~ 81 y 49, ~ a
-.. oli f=f-avA AND
STEAM PIPES

. LByKE, NEAR FERRY LANDING.
The subscriber has moved into his new shop
naar woltman's Hall. on the 1evee, where be m
- the patronage of his friends and the Pubile
Generally He Keeps constantly on hand All
Kinds Of Brass and Iron Goods; such a. A., s S
Cocks, Valves, Water Gauges whistles; ol Cpp Pr
Beer Cocks, Pumps, Gas ana steam ripe -
steam ara Gas work promptly attended 70 sna
nut uf In vorkmaniike manner.
Gas sxsmres of an kinds for sale
- Gas 6tters supplied.
I y. b. 'n paw .'t JACOB RILEY
-yuF u e ~
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BoTTLED ALE AND PORTER.

He viii also on the shortest neticc sup
ply families and others, at their residences or
places Of business, in quantities TO suit All
" no wish nice Ale or Porter, in bottles tone bot
tie or more) can be supplied, by leaving their
orders at Mrs. Johnson's Ice Cream Saloon at
Vests Saloon. #sHf
Stock and Cream Ale on draught at all times.
9 II. L. WEST,
aprI6dtf. Vests Saloon.
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ceived, were uttered with much feeling and
sincerity. S ~ s. g AFR
Miss Davis, a new actress, IN the COM
pany,who appeared here for the first time,was
very well received and made many friends.
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St. Louis Market.
New York Market.

Telegraphed to the ARGUS.
New York, Nov. %.
! Cotton-l7t. agr Ee
Flour 9,l5al0,00 extra state; 9,4oa12,75
II o.
wheat-2,24 for No spring $50 No.
| do.
Rye 69a70.
Corn ,33a36 mixed west.
Barley firm
Oats-S0 for west.
Pork-20, 65a20,10.
Lard Is.
Pe;roleum-1ll for crude; e6l for refined in
bond
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ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL.-An attempt
on the part Of the prisoners in jail, in this
city, came near being successful on Thurs
day night, the I'D, at two places in the jail.
The prisoners are not closely watched and
guarded against opportunities to get tools
from outside. Greater vigilance is needed
on this point.
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SsandS'S Ale.
"a AT VESTS. 0

GALLON KEEPERS, HOTEL KEEPERS,
~ Restaurants and private families can procure
the celebrated Sandss Chicago Ale, in Barrels,
Half Barrels, and Quarter Barrels, at Chicago
wholesale prices, freight added at Vests, under
Rodman Hall. He has the agency from the man.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-23

.nR! JAMES, FORMERLYs-oF JAMES
- Lock Hospital, Custom House street, New
Orleans, La, Established in 1850, for the last
seven years located in Chicago, H., can be con-
suited at his office and parlors,
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

MARYLAND S APPEAL. Republican
members of the Maryland Legislature have
addressed memorial to Congress, the tone
and purpose of which will be gathered from
the following extracts:
''The rebels of Maryland sent South du-
ring the war some twenty Thousand soldiers
to the rebel army These men have nearly
all returned, and an emigration from the
South since the war has largely. added to
their number. By doubtful construction of
a clause of the existing Constitution,
this General Assembly, thus elected,
has enfranchised all white men, no matter
what treason they may have committed, and
have thus added to the voting population
about thirty thousand who have only lately
ceased an armed resistance to the Govern
ment Not satisfied with this, they have
just passed militia bill which, in direct de-
fiance OF the present Constitution of the
State, has made all white rebels, no matter
what their previous treason, part of the mi
litia force. They have, by deliberate vote.
refused to exclude, even from the highest
Office under this law. any person, no matter
what his rank in the rebel army, and they
are about to put In force this law, the effect
OF which is against our own Constitution
and the army laws of Congress, and which
puts in the rear of the capitol an armed
force, composed largely of the same men
who have Just been forced to cease armed
attempts to capture the capital. =. The
danger of bloodshed is imminent and the
times are perilous We call upon Con-
gress not to adjourn before settling this
grave matter, which, if not settled, NAV
startle them in their recess by something
worse than the massacre at New Orleans,
although not so unequal and one-sided. We
earnestly ask, on the part of the majority of
the people of Maryland deprived of LEGAL
voice, except through us, minority of the
General Assembly, that Congress will guar
antee to us republican form of government
on the only basis of right, truth and peace
impartial suffrage, without respect to race
or color, as it has already guaranteed it to
the Southern States"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

TREATY WITH RUSSIA Saturday,
March 3Oth, the President communicated
to the Senate, then in Executive session,
treaty with Russia, by which chat power
surrenders to the United States its sovereign
ty over all Russian America and adjacent
islands. The treaty specially includes the
strip of land 400 miles wide, which extends
down the coast to near Queen Charlotte .
Island, thus nearly excluding British Amer
lea from the Pacific ocean. This cession
excites intense interest; and it is said that
the English representative at Washington is
sorely chagrined thereat, and that he will
telegraph to Earl Derby for instructions to
protest against its acceptanceby our govern
ment. The acquisition of the Russian pos
sessions will more than double the United
States coast on the Pacific The price to
be paid for this territory is about seven
millions of dollars The impending Euro
pean complications on the Eastern question
is believed to have induced Russia to sell
this territory, as in the event Of war she
Would probably lose it. The treaty will
have to be ratified by the Senate, and the
purchase money provided by Congress, be-
fore it is fully contaminated, which, no
doubt, will be done.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03
The Chester Coal Fields.

Professor Waterhouse gives, in the last
1nercha,,t HagaziRe, a particular account
OF Inc Chester coal fields, of which so much
has been said in the newspapers These
fields are located In Randolph, jackson and
Perry counties, in the State of Illinois.
Eighteen thousand acres have been tested,
and three stratas of coal found. The area
examined Is estimated TO contain 450, 000, 600
tons. The mines are accessible aud conve-
nlent, being only twelve miles from the Mis-
sIssIppi river, fifty miles from the Iron
Mountains of Missouri and seventy,two
miles from st. Louis bv river A railroad
from Chester to the mines is contemplated.
Professor Waterhouse says that the Chester
coal Is free from impurities, having less than
one per cent. OF sulphur, and comparatively
little bitumen. It has been tested in blast
furnaces at Ironton, Ohio 1t is claimed
that this coal can be delivered on the banks
of the Mississippi at 81 80 ton, and at St.
Louis for 81 20 a ton, and that for the man.
ufacture of IRON it does not require to be
changed into coke.
The discovery and development of these
immense coal fields will have tendency to
revolutionize the West in more ways than
one, and to degree which will scarcely be
realized, even when accomplished. The
tendency will be to make regions now en-
tlrely devoted to agricultural pursuits, great
manufacturing localities, and with this
change of vocations will come change of
feeling for governmental policy. To day
the West is the great upholder of free trade
The eInbanasSments now suffered by certain
manufacturers from foreign competition in
fiicted by low tariffs are due entirely to the
persistent efforts IF Western men to prevent
the protection of home industry With
iron and coal at their doors, we expect to
see Western members of Congress clamor-
ing as fiercely for protection as they now
oppose it. Fifty years ago the Southern
States were opposed, and the Northern
States in favor. of free trade. In fifty years
hence, who can say whether similar change
will not take place in the minds of the lead
ing men of the Eastern and Western States.
Time works many changes
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

FROM IRELAND. i 1t was not without
cause, as was anticipated, that, for the, last
two or three weeks, the British Government
having complete command over the Allan
TIC cable, suppressed the news from Ireland
There had been something extremely like
actual rebellion in that country, from the 5th
to the 18th Of March (the date of our latest
English and Irish papers) and while this re-
volt was partial In the Northeast of the
island, 1t was general in the vicinity of Dub
lin, and throughout the whole of Munster
that is in the counties of Kerry. Cork,
Limerick, Glare, Tipperary and Waterford.
It had most strength in Cork, Limerick and
Tipperary. The general plan seems to have
been to attack the isolated police stations.
and to pay nocturnal visits to the houses of
landlords and tenant farmers, the object
being to obtain arms end ammunition. In
very few instances was personal violence
done to any person-even the police. when
captured, were treated with great forbear-
ance after being disarmed If the newspa-
per accounts can be relied upon, ssthe re-
bellton scruShed, and the defeat ed Fenans
had been driven by the army and police to
the mountains OF Tipperary. But against
this is the fact that it had been necessary to
fortlfy Dublin Castle in the strongest man
ner, the reason assigned being that if it
IL was oHCe Nhb"H IN America tnat the green
flag foated over that fortress, thousands
would hasten over the Atlantic to join in
the strife. 1t is noticeable, too, that fur
ther military re;nforcements were under
orders, from various parts Of England, for
the defence of Ireland 1t has been an
nounced, in both Houses of Parliament,
that there would be no necessity for putting
Ireland under Martial law A great many
prisoners viii be tried by Special Commits
sion, and the London press strongly urges
upon the British Government the polite
necessity of Furnishing the prominent per-
sons who may be convicted, not with penal
servitude, but with death The Rebellion,
it seems to US, is far from being exhausted.
-PTa Press.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

MORE MURDERS trouble with mi
ners in Schuylkill county continues. On
March 22d, the Burrell tavern, near Malone
Plains, was surrounded by party of six or
eight Molly McGuires,' and the proprie-
tor ordered to surrender all his valuables
He refused and fired shots into the crowd,
killing one and wounding another. The
wounded man was arrested, but refused to
divulge anything concerning the secret or
der to which he belonged A few days pre-
vious to this the superintendent of one of
the mines in the same county was shot, by
some molly McGuires.' whilst he was
driving home in his sulky, in broad daylight.
Murders are of such frequent occurrence in
the coal region, that life and property are
at all times in imminent danger, and beyond
the protection of the civil authorities. In
view of this fact, application has been made
to the Governor, and to the Legislature, to
devise some means to restore order, afford
security to life and property. and punish the
guilty.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

ENFORCING THE Law IN Details
time ago a citizen of Carbon township,
Huntington county. brought 500 suits for
his use and the use of the Directors of the
Poor of Huntington county, against the
Powelton Coal and Iron Company, together
with some 40 suits against VIM. A. Orbi-
son, for making and passing shinplasters in
violation of law. The suits were lately tried
before a justice, and clear violation of law
having been proven, judgments were enter
ed against the defendants for five dollars
and costs in each case; amounting, it is said.
to $4,000 and costs. That's what we can
fairly call enforcing the law in detail and it
is right
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

CoUNsELING ACCEPTANCE.-Whi some
of the Southern newspapers are still dispos-
ed to fight against fate, a number of them
counsel the people of that section to accept
the situation. mainly because there is no
hope of anything better The Congression-
al plan of reconstruction has brought the
late rebels face to face with the stern fact
that nothing short of submission to the pow
er of the Government as represented in Con-
gress will do This being thoroughly un-
derstood by the Southern people, the work
of genuine reconstruction will progress with
extraordinary rapidity.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03
Washington City Gossip.

The case of jeff. Davis has assumed a
new phase. Judge Underwood was in the
city on Friday March 29th,. comforting with
Chief Justice Chase Judge Underwood
remarked. afterwards that it was more than
probable that the trial of Davis would take
place in MAY next before the United States
DstEct Court, sitting in Richmond.
Some considerable importance was attach
ed to the debate 10 the Senate on March
29th, wherein it was maintained by the Sen
ators, that Congress could enforce negro suf-
frage in any Northern State by virtue of the
second section of the Constitutional amend
ment, abolishing slavery.
Both houses OF the Fortieth Congress ad-
iourned at noon on Saturday, March 30th,
until Wednesday the second day of July,
1867. The President was at the Capitol,
with most of his Cabinet, during the fore
noon. examining and signing bills. Contra
ry to general expectation, he signed the bill
repeating the law which gave three hundred
dollars to loyal owners of slaves, where the
latter enlisted in the Union army and the
bill furnishing ten thousand stand of arms
to the State of Tepnessee for military pur-
poses.
The President also approved the bill pro-
viding that hereafter wrapping paper made
of wood cornstalks, or any other material,
shall be exempt from internal tax; that ev-
cry national banking association, State bank
or banker, or association. shall pay a tax oil
ten per cent on the amount Of notes of any
town, city or municipal corporation, paid out
by them after the lst day OF May, 1867, to
be collected in the mode and manner in
which the tax on the notes of the State
banks is collected That from and after the
passage of this act ladders made wholly
of wood, shall be exempt from tax
The gold receipts from customs are now
averaging about four millions per week, and
Internal Revenue receipts about the saline.
1t is announced that the ordinance De-
partment at Washington has about 40, ,O00,.
600 rounds of small arms ammunition foi
sale. An offer was made last week from
New York to buy it at about one half it:
original cost, but the Government refused
TO SELL This ammunition is held at so high
a figure, it is reported that only nation
about to engage in war can afford to pur
chase it.
Fifteen thousand freedmen have applied
to the American Colonization Society to b,
sent to Africa within eight months, of whom
six hundred have embarked.
Maj. Gen. Steadman, on March 3Oth, wa
confirmed by the Senate as Collector of In
| ternal Revenue for the First District OF Lou
isiana, which includes the city of New Or
leans
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

SALE OF A LARGE LUMBER TRACT
Messrs. Fred. A. Howe & Co, of Meadville.
have sold an immense lumber property in
Forest and Warren counties to the Tits
burgh and Forest County Lumber Company
for two hundred thousand dollars. Mr..
Howe retains a large interest in the new
company. This is the largest real estate
sale that has lately been made in the neigh
borhood of the oil region The lands are
on the Tionesta, and are covered with the
finest pine, hemlock, oak, and other valuable
timber, and mills are now actively engaged
in getting out the lumber for maaket.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

PAY OF ARMY OFFICERS. s.-The pay and
allowance of army officers. on its peace foot
ing are reported to be as follows General
Grant, $4,000; Lieut. Gen. Sherman, s 4
SI4: Maj. Gen. Halleck, ,s7,7I7; Maj. Gen.
Meade, S7,717 Maj. Gen. Sheridan, 81, III;
Mai. Gen. Thomas, s7,7l7; Brig. General
Mcdowell, $5,ol7; Brig. Gen. Rosecrans,
$5,5l7; Colonels, 81, 500; Lieut.. Colonels,
s3,994; Majors, SO, 765 Captains, 5000;
First Lieutenants, S2,713; and Second
Lieutenants, s2.e5$. Who wouldn't be a
soldier?
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CI.EARFIELD, PA, APRIL. 5, 1867.

PERSONAL. AL.-One day last week, copy
of the Journal, of March 18th, 1867, direc-
ted to ST. W. Stone, Hiner's Run, Clinton
county, Pa" was returned to this Office,
with the following note written on the mar
gin;
IT, W Stone has gone to Piutough Dark de
Mains where all the Niger worshiper will go So
better Keep your Infernel Lieing Paper at Home" p"
This endorsement was evidently made by
the Postmaster, or clerk, of Hiner's Run
Postoffioe, as the paper had been pulled out
Of the wrapper, the note written thereon
and replaced; after which the name of Mr.
Stone was erased on the one side of the
wrapper and directed Journal Ciearfeld,
Pa on the other.
Now, the vile wretch who could thus In
suit the family and friends of Mr.. Stone
who, We would infer from the note, is dead
by telling them that he has gone to hell be
cause he was a Republican, is not fit to live
in any decent community, and deserves the
scorn and contempt of all respectable and
intelligent people. Besides, the writer vir-
tually brands himself as mean, servile,
crouching Copperhead-as Rebel at heart,
who was too base and craven a coward to
openly. ally himself with the traitors of the
South--as one who, Satan-lke, speakingly
aud meanly insinuates his Shiny and oath
some carcass into the presence of decent
and loyal men, whenever he can-and as one
who verify is fit representation of Pluto 's
dark doneaiits The writer is welcome to
his fling at u.s.. but he should beware how
he ISLANDERS the dead.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

A religious awakening, such as has never
before been known, has broken out in Pitts
burg. 1t commenced with the week of
prayer, and still continues with unabated
interest. The religious awakenings all over
the country, and the proportions assumed
by the temperance reform, indicates that we
are on the eve of grand moral revolution
such as the world never witnessed.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

As IT SHOULD BE--Some four hundred
of the battle-stained flags and guidons of
the regiments of Illinois have been careful
" and neatly folded and slowed away in the
Office of the Adjutant General, at Spring
field, and upon the pole of each neat sill
yer label in the shape of a shield has been
affixed, bearing the number Of the regiment
and arm of the service. In their solemn
and stately silence they look like so many
sentinels still on live duty.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

Nor LEAVING EMPTY H ANDED A dis
patch from Paris states that an Imperial
steam transport has just arrived from Mexi-
co at St. Nazaire with a small detachment
of troops and twelve millions of dollars IN
treasure. Napoleon was evidently deter
mined not to leave Mexico as empty handed
as he went there. The mines have been
attended to as we'll as the interest of Maxi
milan.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03
SHERIFFS SALE. BY virtue Of =

- A1El1Ef . DALE. - Dg NHtuO
~ writ of Tenditioni Erp0RaS; lssaeGt .tst
out of the Court of Common Pleas OF Cleain',s
county, and to me directed, there will be eIpO'.s.
to public sale, at the Court House in the 6ofVusTT
OF Clearfeld, on "WEDNESDAY, the 18th pAI =.
APRIL 1867, at o'clock, P. NJ, the fSiiOAi's
described Real Estate. TO wit;
Three certain tracts of land situate IN hhcA ~
Glearfeld county, Pa, one thereof beginning a.
a hemlock, thence 40 w. 1S6 percbes to stone 4 RP
thence S. so W 81 perches to birch, South ~ q p,
1856 perches to hemlock, n so E. 81 percnes.
place of beginning. containing 100 acres
80 perches.
The second piece beginning at birch, S. 40 "
40 perches to hemlock, S. 81 W. 80 perche.
pine, S. 67 W. "a perches to post n. 81 perez,
=, - N 30 Z. so perches to beginning, con'aiH'-'
80 acres =,
The third piece beginning at hemock, . .
w. 10 per. to post, N. IS &. 42 per to aspen
W: 40 per. to beginning, containing Two s n,
Seized, taken in execution, and TO be soia .
property of John Mayer and Thomas Mehss;s
March 27, 1867 JACOB A. FAUST, e- On n
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SNUBBED BY HIS FRIENDS. P.
Blair addressed Copperhead meeting at
Hartford on Monday, March 25th He was
so incoherent that the faithful" Kissed
him and insulted him in every possible way
and finally hooted him from the stage.
They would not hear him, and he retired
crest fallen when about half through his
muddled harangue.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

THE EASTERN QUESTION Sebasto-
pol dinner, annually shared by those officers
who shared in the campaign, has just come
off at St Petersburg General Menkoff,
who delivered the speech of the evening,
remarked among other things that the e.
vents now preparing in the East were a har-
binger of the good times coming. in which
both Sebastopol and the Black Sea feet
would be reconstructed
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

COMMON SENsE.-The New York Ece-
ming Gazette refers to certain classes of des-
titute and degraded in New York, for whose
relief and reformation means are greatly
needed. 1t suggests that want and misery
at home are as well worth attending to as
starvation and suffering in the Southern
States and Gambia. The suggestion would
apply to charitable enterprises in other To-
calities as well as New York
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

'tWe have launched our barque upon the
breeze "-Lycopaing Sfanaara.
Wonder if the Colonel modelled his
barque" after the famous flying machine"
frequently announced within the past few
years? IF SO, won't he go hiting over Ly-
coming county as he flies his 'barque" in
the ''breeze" with his Standard futter-
ing at its stern?
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-03

EXTRA SESSION. President, on the
30th of March, issued proclamation, con-
vening an extra session of the United States
Senate, on Monday, April lst for the trans
action of Executive business Over two
hundred nominations to office are now pend
ing that body, and more are to be sent in.