The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-04-23

| on the Moline road-bat they will not do 1t
| unless there is some power reserved TO re-
| quire early and late trains for their conyen-
fence and also for the convenience of la
| borers. Laborers want to get to their work
in time to make day; and business men
want certain mode of conveyance home
after business hours, at night. The right
to control this matter should not be surren-
| dered by the city council. But, says one,
the company viii do it lift is for their inter
est-and if not for their interest they ought
not to be required to do it. We do notagree
to the idea of leaving this matter to the ten
der mercies of any corporation. We would
not exercise the right,unless the public com
plain of a want of accommodations, and re-
quest it. We would hope the railroad COM
pany would run its trains so that there
| would be no grounds for complaint But if
| their late and early trips should not pay as
| well as some other trips in the day, the COM
| pany should be required to run them for the
| accommodation of the public, and as a com
pensation for the right of way over the
streets. The right should also be reserved
to require trains to run as often, at least, as
once an hour.
These are matters which should be care
fully considered, and solely with reference to
the good of the public, both now and in the
the future. 1t is not best to hurry up the
passage of this ordinance before the people
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much easier to give away the peoples rights
than it is to recover them. when once
parted with. And when extraordinary
privileges are asked the people desire to
see some compromising return for them.
THE GAS TURNED OFF AT O'LEARY's Lee
TURE-HE ESCAPES BEING Rotten EDGED
BY GETTING IN AMONG THE CRowD.-We are
informed that the quack doctor, O'Leary,
made miserable failure last evening, he
evidently having exhausted his COURSE and
| become frightened by signs of public indig-
| nation. Some of those who attended express
| considerable disgust at the weak and wan.
dering talk which he calls lecture. Dur
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was turned off three or four times, and he
barely-escaped being egged by having his
body guard around him, mixing in among
| the thickest of the audience as they left the
hall, and hurrying to his quarters as quick
as possible.
Now, while we condemn all acts of rowdv-
ism and violence, and all attempts to abridge
| the freedom of speech, we can easily per.
ceive how the vile ISLANDERS, abuse and black
guardism of this imposter has produced
state of things which renders this city de-
cidedly unhealthy to him. 1t was about as
| much as public sentiment could endure to
permit him to practice on the credulity Of
the people but when, to his humbugs, he
added attacks upon Our citizens, it is not to
be wondered at that he should reap the fruits
of what he had sown. The subjects he at
tempts to lecture upon, even in the hands Of
able, upright and honorable men, are open
to grave objections, before promiscuous
| audience, but in the hands of icentious
and unprincipled scoundrel are decidedly
dangerous to public morals. Fathers and
mothers, who have heard this creature every
| night since he came to town, and seen his
| pictures, models &C., &C., give it as their
| deliberate opinion that his course is directly
| calculated to cause an increase of prostitu-
ton wherever hegoes, and that he should not
be encouraged by any person who would pro-
mote virtue and morality among the people.
A priDate lecture to men only, telling them,
among other things, how to seduce the wo
men and prirate lecture to females only
| telling them how to produce abortions, or
| prevent the necessity of them; land gloss
| it over and cover it up by a deluge of words
as he may, that's what his lectures teach)
| followed by interviews with his dupes, at his
rooms, at which some of them are insulted
| may pass off quietly, in some communities
but not in this. And when, to all this, is
added attacks upon officers of the city who
are simply performing their duty as the
| servants of the people, collecting money for
| the very people who were silly enough to
| laugh at his abuse,-when this is added to
his quackery and humbugs, it is no wonder
that the indignation it created should find
vent in some shape.
The fellow saw signs of storm and was
so agitated that he was unable to make any
thing like a connected story of his pretended
lecture on "love, marriage, divorce, woman's
rights, does woman love more than one
man." &C., &c. He apologized for having
lied about the city ordinance in regard to IL
censes, and attempted to avert the storm by
backing down a little but he did not
wholly prevent it.
| The Union speaks of his having been at.
tackled by the ARGUsl The Union is mis-
taken. We commenced no attack on him
Or his lecture. He commenced the attack,
first upon the city officers land the Union
encouraged him in it, for doing their duty
and then upon us for defending them in do
| ing their duty. If, in defending the city of:
Ulcers for properly performing the peoples
work and defending ourselves from the vile
creatures abuse, we "carried the war into
Africa" he has only himself to blame for
bringing it on by his own imprudence.
j MARRIED.