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The national Republican., 1867-12-20
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BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
The Great London STANDARDIZATION it
FlOurished for Seven Centuries
and Half-HOW IL was
Suppressed I'm 1866.

AT about this season of the year the evenings
in England become so chilly that this saying
has become proYerbial:-
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-. NEW EXPRESS LINE T0
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HThs being new enterprise, the Par Is assumed
the market value.
Thomas @. Hand, samuel +. Stokes
John q. Davis Henry Sloan,
Eumund A. Souder, William g. Boulton,
Theophius Paulding, Edward Darlington,
John II. Penrose, II. Jones Brooke,
James Traquair, Edward LafOurcade,
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James c. Hand, James B. Mcfarland,
William G. Ludwig, Joshua p. Eyre
Joseph II. Seal, Spencer McIIvaine,
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Hugh Craig, A. b. Berger,
John ID. Taylor, ID. n. Morgan, g
Jacob Riegel, - George w. Bernardou.
THOMAS 9. HAND, President
JOHN O. DAVIS, Vice-President.
HENRY LYLBUkN, Secretary. l82
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PmILADELPHIA RICHpFONu

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sssSitlksAaas tn ROUGH AIR. LINE TO THE SOUTH
AND WEST
THROUGH RECEIPTS TO NEWBERN.
Also, all points in North and South Carolina, via
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va. tennessee and the West. via Norfolk, Peter8,
vile Railroad
The regularity safety, and cheapness of this rout4
commend IL TO the public as the most desirable me
dium for carrying every description of freight
No charge for commission, drayage, any expense
of transfer.
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larry from first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily,
VIM. p. CLYDE q 90.
No. IA North and south Wharves,
W. p. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City
Point
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DROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA,
No III south tOUhIh street.
INCOkPOkATED sd MONTH zzd, 1866.
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Annuities granted on favorable terms
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ana il other hducary capacities, under appointment
persons, or bodies polite or corporate.
DIRECTORS.
JOSHUA II. NORRIS, II. WISTAR BROWN,
RICHARD WOOD, IW. q. LUNGSTRETH,
RlUHA RID CApB URYh WILLIAM HACKER,
SAMUEL r. sH1PLEY, ROWLAND PARRY,
VIM. &. LOEGST RETH, Vice President.
THl Medical Examiner. Legal Adviser.
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PANN incorporated l825-CharJer Perpetual-Eo.
80 WALNUT street, opposite independence square.
forty years. continues 10 Insure against loss
or damage by fire on Public or Private Buildings,
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them 10 offer 10 the insured an undoubted security in
the case OF lOsS' ooas
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Daniel HRddOck, Jr.
DANIEL SBdIT JR. President
WILLIAM q. CRowELL, Secretary. S@l
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AreEv THE PHILADELPHIA AVN
rsMRkkaSSa SOUTHERN MAIL SThA MSTIIP CON-
FANI'S REGULAR SEMI-MONTHIY LIME
FOR M1LMIN GTON, N. q.
Inc steamship PIONEER. Sl2 tons, Captain T. Ran.
oelt' VIII leave tor the above port on TUESDAY
sept otn AT Socock A M, from Pier lS (second wharf
Bills of ading signed at through and reduoed rates
10 all principal points in North Carolina, N'
Agents a. " ilmiIgton, Worth q Daniel
-, WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent.
SAG No. 3l4 s. Delaware avenue-
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>%FET THE PHILADELPHIA ANm
$6hlkpnM SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP COM.
PANY's REGULAR @ Z SEM; NJ MONTHLY LINE
JUNIATA 1915 tons, Captain p. r. Hoxie
TlOGA, 1915 TONS Captain j. f. Morse.
STAR OF THE UNION, llO76 tons,) Captain T. r.
- COoksey.
The TIOGA Will leave New Orleans ON SATIJR-
DAY. September Z, from Pier IL (second wharf below
Spruce streetl.
leans for this pOTl September7.
Through bills OF fading signed for freight TO MoDh
Galveston, Natchez, Vcksburg, Memphis NasnVn 81
Cairo, st. Louis, Louisville, and Cincinnati.
WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent.
CHAS, Il. DIX ES, FfeiRht Agent,
ARJ No. 3l4 S. Delaware avenue.
Agents at New Orleans, Creevy, Nickerson q 90,
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pHGNIx INsURANoE COMPANY OF

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INCORPORATED 1S64-OHARTER PERPETUAL
NO. 224 WALNUT Street opposite the Exchange.
ANCE, this Company insnres from loss or damage by
furniIure, etc TOR limited periods, and permanently
on buildings, by deposit of premium.
The Company has been In active operation for mora
han Sixty YEARS during which all losses have
cen promptly adjusted and paid.
DRECTORB.
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Robert w. Leaning, A. r. McHenrV
ID. Clark Wharton, Edmund Castifon.
Samuel Wilcox, Louis o. NOrrs
SAMUEL WILCOX, Secretary
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SE%4H THE PHILADELPHIA ANN
Ssl2llff 2RllffAtS - SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP COM
PANY'B REG ULAR LINE SN---
noD, ESh SAVANNAHs ga.
GONAWANDA, $50 tons, Captain Vim, JenninaN
WYOMING, $50 tons, Captain Jacob Teal.
1ne steamship TONAWANDA will leave for thu
ABOVE port on Saturday. August 81 o'clock A. M.
from Pier Is South WbarVes. - -"
Through passage tickets sold and freight taken ror
all points In connection with the Georgia Central Ra
ROAD WILLIAM l. JAMES. General Agent,
CHAS. f.. DILKES. Freight Agent.
,, NO. 8l4 =, Delaware aVenua
Agents Al Savannah, Hunter d GammelL EU
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x66Ta HAVANA STEAMERS. .,sfSEe.

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SEMEMONTHLY LINE
The Steamships - A~~
HEN DRICk HUDSON. ..........,. GA PTAIN TJovu~
STARS AND SIhlPES........,.CA APTAIN HOI,MRa
@ dhese 9 cleaners WIN leave this port for Havana
The steamship HENDRlCK HUDSON, CHowen
Mastery, will sail for Havana on TLJESD AY MOI, ~
ING, September g. at o'clock. ~NN9
Passage to Havana, $50 currency,
No freight received after Saturday,
For Freight or Passage apply TO
THOMAS WATSON q SONS
DIS No. l40 N. DELAWARE AVenn
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20

The tenth National Ssepgerfest, which
commenced in Philadelphia on Saturday,
the 18th. and closed on Wednesday, the 18th,
was a success that was eminently pleasing
to all concerned. The gathering was com.
posed of German Sengerbunds, or singing
societies, from al parts of the country, and
the occasion was grand contest for excel
lence in choral singing, with the accompani-
ments of pic mics and social enjoyment
The visiting societies were received In Phil
adelphia with salutes of artillery and dis.
plays of fireworks, and were welcomed by
Mayor McMichael in formal address, on
Saturday evening. Since that time the
"fest" has been lively. This sort of celebra-
ton is one of the sound, hearty and sensible
customs which the Germans have transplant
ed from the Faiherland to this country, and
for which we should be thankful. As a
class, the amusements of the Germans are
innocent and profitable, and none more so
than this national singing festival, which
We should ike to see grow up into an estab-
lished American institution. In Germany
music is the birthright of the people here,
it is accomplishment, often an abomination.
The Sengerbunds have sung Germany al
most into reality of that ideal unity of
which they dream, and the Sengerfest has
a unifying political influence as well as a
pleasant social effect Let us see what it
will do for us in this country.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
THE SOONER THE BETTER.

The Cincinnati Enquirer keeps it before
the people that 2,5OO,o00 radical votes have
2l6 members of congress, while $500, 900
democratic votes have but sixty members.
Well, what of it? asks the Cincinnati Times.
Whereupon the Enquirer responds: There
is this about it
/. 1t stops, or should stop, the assertion of ig-
noramuses that the people OF the country are op-
posed to the Presidents restoration policy. They
not, but majority of a million in favor
of it.
2. 1t shows that the pretended representatives
of the people no longer represent it.
3. 1t intmates that ''there is something rotten
in Denmark y something that must be corrected,
or else we must abandon all claim to be considered
a country under democratic institutions. If -
500 900 voters are to rule $500 900 voters, the
sooner it is understood the better.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
A Great Bridge.

The bridging of the British Channel is
still thought feasible by scientific men, both
in England and France, and is preferred to
the project of constructing a tunnel under
the sea- A French engineer has made n
plan for bridge, which is greatly praised
by the Paris Moniteur According to that
journal, the bridge would be broad enough
to hold double line of railway, a carriage
road and path for foot passengers. There
would also be space for row of shops along
this Dover and Calais road which, once es-
tablished, would, no doubt, become a very
popular thoroughfare and half way across
there would be restaurant. The bridge
would rest on a series of thirty-two vertical,
rectangular iron piles, each pile to be about
Go feet high and 335 feet broad. The
depth of the channel between the two points
named is found to be not over lbs feet, so that
the bridge would be about 5S5 feet above
the sea level. The journal quoted continues
to say that in building the bridge the first
step taken would be to connect the iron
piles by means of sixteen cables of plated
wire, stretched in parallel lines from Shake
speare's Cliff, on the English side of the
channel, to Cape Blanc Nez, on the French
side, a distance Of about twenty miles. The
body of the bridge would thus be formed of
IOu iISsocS StEctCilc0 iIOiu pAc 70 plie. nc
French engineer believes that he could hang
suspension bridge across the channel from
cliff to cliff. In his eyes it is only ques-
ton of proportion, and he argues that if a
wire of a certain strength and thickness will
hang extended between two given points,
then if the strength and thickness of the
wire be increased, the distance between the
points may be increased proportionately.-
The propOsed bridge NAV he looked upOn as
a succession of bridges from pile to pile
Several objections to the monster bridge are
anticipated by the inventor and provided
against. The iron piles, for instance, would
not be nice things for vessel to run against !;
but they would be of great value as light
houses, and, accordingly, each pile would be
fitted with signal light. The cost of this
Anglo-French bridge is estimated at $50,
100000, and so sauguine is the Frenchman
that it can be built, that he has deposited
his plans with the board of public works and
actually proposed TO form a bridge building
company, with $4,000, 900 capital.
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Mr.. Tbad. Stevens admission that /

Mr.. Thad. Stevens admission that the
embarrassment in constituting the reconstruc-
ton law was owing, in great measure, to
the imperfection of its phraseology, and Gen.
Buffers declaration that Mr.. Stanberry's ar.
gament had been pronounced unanswerable
by the leading lawyers of the country, and
the fact that he did not attempt to answer it
himself, we commend to the attention of
those wiseacres who have accusedTt the Presi-
dent of obstinacy in administering the law,
and Mr.. Stanberry of quibbling and misrep-
resentation in his interpretation. Schenck's s
assault upon Mr.. Stanberrys opinion proves
as ridiculous as his military exploit at Wen
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20

John A. Logan cannot wipe out the facts
of 1861. Republicans and democrats both
knew him then as a hearty opponent Of the
war. Republicans denounced him as a trai-
tor. He himself, ina letter to this journal,
in June 1861, reiterated his hostility to
the war and charged upon the radical party
the entire responsibility for the war. He
does not forget his repeated denunciations of
Senator Douglas for his Chicago speech
supporting the war, nor does he forget that
he deemed Mr.. Douglas so far unworthy on
account of that speech that he refused on
meeting him to speak with him.-T Louis
RepuJtican, l7h inst .t.-
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By Telegraph.
REPORTED roR rnH DAILr ARGUS.


8 WORCESTER, Mass July 20.-Atthe regeta,
yesterday Walter Brown, champion of
America, pulled his shell boat three miles,
against time, in 23 minutes. @ 80
I Single scull race miles won by John
Mckee in Is minutes "a seconds Gilbert
Ward, second, in Is minutes 81 seconds;
John Taylor, third, in Is minutes seconds.
Yale crew won the Freshmans race, 3 miles
in 10 minutes and 38i seconds; Harvard
crew came in in 20 minutes and seconds 5
Harvard crew in university race won the
prize 3 miles in Is minutessand Ia seconds,
best time on record. Yale crew came in in
10 minutes and 251 seconds.
New Orleans dispatch says, OF Mexican
ofiairs, Jaarez emphatically declines re-elec-
tion of the presidency and has ordered new
election to be held A...ls,@ .&-St tsAA-ks
1t is officially reported that Gen. Vidnar-
rie has been shot. ga
Gen. Morques is believed to be hiding in
the city of Mexico. He will be shot when
captured. seft~s rl
The NY. Tribune's special says: . -ts
The Presidents message was sapproyed as
it now reads by all the members of the cabi-
net save Mr.. Stanton.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 2l.-The base ball
match between the National club, of Wash
linton, and the Western club, of Indianapo-
lis, resulted in the defeat of the latter by a
score of LOG to 81.
CHICAGO, July 20.-In the house, yester-
day, Mr.. Stevens called the previous ques-
ton on the passage of the explanatory re-
construction bin over the Presidents veto,
and the bill was passed by l09 to 22-a
strictly party vote. A few minutes after,
the veto of the appropriation bill for carry
ing ont the new law came in and was passed
without debate. An hour later, the senate
had passed both by the requisite two-thirds
vote, without debate.
The house fixed no time for final adjourn
ment, but passed resolution by vote of
% to Is. to adjourn from tomorrow after
noon until December 4, and it is generally
understood that the house will acquiesce.
1t is doubtful whether there will be quo
rum in the house to-day, as many western
members left for home, last night.
The President yesterday nominated John
A. McClerland for minister to Mexico.
The senate yesterday passed house bill
repeating an act of last season, which pro-
hibits making Indian treaties. 1t goes to
the President for his approval. Western
| men declare that it will ensure peace, with
proper efforts on the part of the Indian bu.
reau.
JAS. Mcconnell, of Quincy, ILL.,, was yes.
| terday rejected for surveyor of customs.
SANFRANcIsco. July l9.-The ship Cen.
ter, from Hong Kong, China, June Sd, has
arrived.
Hong Kong papers denounce the Cooley
trade practiced by the Portuguese.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
From the Montreal Mir

1t is with much regret that we have seer,
some English papers hazard very wicked
comments on the conduet1of two Canadian
priests implicated in the Surratt trial. We
should like to have found them practising
as much retieence rs we have done toward
them. IF we had wished, we could have
published, long since, the name. of Protes-
tant minister, whose letter is under our eyes
and who himself originated the idea of assas-
sinating President Lincoln. The confed-
crate agents in Canada, whose answer we
also hold, declined the proposal, and the
minister then resorted to a private attempt.
If need be, we could give his name, the place
where he is at present residing in one Of the
! northern states, in city well known, where
he occupies an important post andis respect
Z, Cd -.g a-4Spss -.S.ss- e.f+ .Esz
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
A FINE FARM FOR SALE.

TNHE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE A
i splendid Number One farm, of 100 acres,
well watered in every part, we'll fenced, and hav-
ing first class improvements. The farm is situat-
ed in Richland Grove township, Mercer county,
in the vicinity of villages, school houses and
churches, and only IS miles from the city of Rock
Island. The farm is desirable one in every re
spect. For further particulars, enquire of the
subscriber the premises, by letter, 10 Rich
land Grove post Office Cali and see for
yourselves. '- DANIEL M0WRY.
Richland Grove, May 81, dw2m.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
A New Preparation for the Teeth.

Rogers Fragrant Odontoline removes all
substances destructive to the Teeth, prevents
discoloration, the accumulation of Tartar
and spongy relaxed condition of the gums,
imparting pleasant and fragrant refreshing
taste to the mouth. Put up in handsome
boxes containing one bottle liquid and one
box powder. Price IS cents.
Sold by druggists, perfumers and fancy
goods dealers. dwtf.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20

The National Base Ball Clnb of Wash
ington, d. C. who claim to be the champion
club of the United States, are giving the
strongest Kind of proof in support of their
claim Within few days they have beaten,
by large odds, the ''crack" clubs of Column
bus, Cincinnati and Louisville. They will
play the "Western Club" at Indianapolis,
tomorrow, then proceed TO st. Louis, and,
having given the clubs of that city display
of their skill, will come to Chicago, where
they win play match games with the Forest
City Club, of Rockford, on the 18th instant,
with the Chicago Excelsior Club On the 9th,
and the Chicago Atlantic Club on the 29th.
We trust that our Chicago players are doing
their best preparatory to beating these cham
pions. 1t will be brilliant feather in the
cap Of any club that does it. Chicago Jour
nal l8h. .5 o. ara sas.-q tr a
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20

5-4, 81, and lO-4 Sheetings, Buff Cham
bray. White Tarleton, New Prints, and lots
of other new goods, Just received and mark
ed at very low prices.
"a few more left" of those great bragains
in Summer Dress Goods.
Best Kid Gloves, only $l.25, worth $l.75.
iyl2dwlw. c. NJ. AIKEN.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
Saturday Evening, July 90, 1867.

How much quicker than by impeachment
would it be to get rid of the President to put
the city of Washington under martial law,
appoint military commanderof the district,
when he could remove Mr.. johnson and ap-
point Ben Wade or John Covode in his
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
Home

Some one writes both gracefully and for
chilly:
I would be glad to see more parents under
stand that when they spend money judici-
ously to improve and adorn the house and
the ground around it, they are in effect
paying their children a premium to stay at
home, as much as possible to enjoy it but
that when they spend money unnecessarily
in fine clothing and jewelry for their child
ren, they are paying them a premium to
spend their time away from home that rs,
in those places where they can attract the
most attention and make the most display.
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
Notice to Contractors.
Proposals ASked for MCAdamizing

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, IN
IN accordance with n resolution of the City
Council of the City of Rock Island, passed July
IS, 1867, sealed proposals win be received by the
City Council, at the City Council Room, in Rock
Island, until 2 o'clock p. NJ. of July 30th, in
stant, for Matchmaking, by the lineai foot, por-
tion of the Camden Road, commencing at the
South end of Exchange Street, in said City, near
the Fair Ground, and continuing South, on said
roai,-the McAdamizing to be of good hard,
finely broken rock, eighteen feet in width and of
an average thickness of one foot.
The right is reserved to reject any all bids.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON,
~a DAVID HALVES,
l. HUBER,
Committee.
Rock Island July 10, 1867 dwtd
The evening Argus., 1867-07-20
UNITED STATES BONDS.

vTNHE FIRST ISSUE OF SEVEN-THIRTIES
i become due August 18th, 1857, and before
that date they must be presented at Washington
for conversion into the SIX PER CENT. GOLD
BEARING BONDS, or the right to convert
them will be forfeited.
Holders can make the exchange at the First
National Bank, or Mt the Bank of MITCHELL d
LYNDE, in Rock Island. All expenses of csnver-
sion and of delivery of the Bonds paid by the
Government. 49,
Rock Island. May Z, 1867, dw3m.