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Warehouse Sale.

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES WILL BE
Il sold at public auction at my warehouse, on the
Levee, in Rock Island, on SATURDAY, March
9Th, 1857, (ssle to commence at clock T. M.,)
to pay charges, unless sooner called tor:
ID. l.. Reader, one handled revolving rakes.
d. Warren, III bundles shingles.
j. c. Morgan, IL wagon tongues.
J. Hard, one box.
Hazen 4 Co., 80 wagon axels.
81 c. l.. Stevens, one fan.
T. w. London, one hox household goods.
Z. Guyne Co., one machine.
Miss L. Wright, one box and one bundle.
d. p. Berry, one tyre shrinker.
Mrs. Carlton, one cupboard, 1.-TWO pieces.
G.. Lyman, one horse hoe.
Owner, one walking cultivator.
Schriber E., one package files.
d. J. Jordan, book case and L chair frame.
c. Campbell, one box.
Owner, three plows. -.
Fisher, Weiland & Co.. reapers and mowers.
Geo. Schnider, one box.
Owner, one soda fountain.
p. Peters, nine revolving rakes. .a
j. johnson, one fan mill.
Harkins Il Co., three corn shelters.
S. Peterson, one sulky cutivator .&
American Match Company, fifty boxes.
L. X. Anderson, one roller buggy. f. f
Various, IL boxes garden seeds.
do eight sickles.
do one dray harness.
do lot Falyey reaper repairs.
Is do lot Beloit :"
l.. J. Wicker, two boxes. a
ID. Mcintyre, one box merchandise. -r.'
L. Mason, one barrel and one key.
.a3 ..-l.--sG-s GEO. W. D. HARRIS.
.s,- Successor to J. ii. Langley 4 Co
Rock Island, Feb. 7-dtd
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The Metropolitan Record gives a fearful
picture of the present state of the country
That well informed journal says - an d
''Every man doubts his neighbor; the mer-
chants complain more and more of accumu-
lating stocks, with no buyers coming in from
the country, and not the remotest indications
of the spring trade the foreign bankers are
sending back, by every steamer, government
bonds by the million the mechanics and
laborers are going about idle, and only hv-
ing upon the surplus earnings of last summer.
The ship yards are silent T; most of the great
employ hundreds of operatives, have closed
their doors there are no new buildings 60
ing up, no railroads making. no canals dig
cling those who have gold hold on to it, and
and people who have money are unwilling to
lend it on stocks, bonds, or railway shares,
as they know that the only thing that i'm
parts value to these promises to pay is the
stability of the government that guarantees
them, and as the radicals are now at work
to revolutionaize that government, they are
not fools enough to part with present
something for a possible nothing.
Men of property and substance stand
aghast at the anarchial and revolutionary as
pect of the near future, as viewed through
the medium Of things at Washington. Tn.
less there be remarkably sudden change Of
policy on the part of those who are aiming
to subvert the government, the country viii
experience financial and commercial crash
compared with which all previous collapses
viii seem but ripples on the wave-buryine
rich and poor alike in common ruin, and in
fieting such a blow upon the material wei
fare of the country as it will be unable to re
cover from for quarter of century tt
come. .|#
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Negro Suffrage and the Presidential
Plan.

The constitutional amendment submitted
to the senate Wednesday by Senator Dixon,
of Connecticut, with the concurrence of the
President and as substitute for the defeat
ed amendment, affords sufficient proof that
the President is not hostile to the extension
of suffrage in the southern states. 1t affords
equally gratifying proof also, that the more
enlightened Legislatures ofthe south are pre-
pared to adopt any reasonable Legislation
necessary to ensure the elective franchise to
the blacks. In that respect it is proposed to
place white and negroes on a par-requiring
a moderate test Of intelligence as to both
races. Further than this the south cannot
presently 60 consistently with its own safety.
Further than this it will not be asked to go
by any one who respects the ballot box, and
its privileges.
1t is to be hoped that the south will volun-
tarily inangurate the proposed reform, re-
gardless OF any amendment to the federal
constitution. 1t viii thus place itself on
higher ground as to impartial suffrage than
many of the northern states, and voluntarily
accomplish reform which is not only right
IN itself, but which will bereave its enemies
OF their last weapon Of offence.-H l,ca,ttee
Ners.
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For the Argus.
What is Congress Doing Z

The people of these United States want a
settled policy-they want to know what the
law is and what it viii be for some time TO
come. Do men who have few dollars to In
vest, by doing which they will help to devel-
op the resources and wealth of the country,
know upon what basis they can invest their
capital? Take, for instance, a merchant,
whose business is to buy pork Of the farmers,
and pack it for future delivery-he buys the
pork upon Tor he don't buy it, as the doubt-
full state of the currency may dictate to him
the present ruling prices the money with
which he pays for the pork is borrowed from
the banker, and the price is predicated upon
the price of gold for legal tenders, consequent
ly his obligation is out for SO many dollars.
Now, by drawing in large portion of I.
S. notes-in order to get to specie basis,
Mr.. Pork Dealer will have to pay his obliga-
tons in gold or equivalent. The farmer al
ready having received the pay for hispork. and
in all probability paid out the money, does
not receive any benefit by the resumption of
specie payment-but it must consequently
make bankrupt of not only dealers in pork
but all occupations in which men invest
their capital.
Now. who does this immediate return to
specie payment benefit? 1t is those who
have United States bonds. 1t benefits them
at the expense of all industrious business
men. Why does not congress order the see
rotary of the treasury to purchase and burn
given quantity of bonds and let greenbacks
remain as currency, and by so doing save
the interest on the bonds? Or why don't
| they do something, or nothing, and not keep
the currency question continually agitated?
But from present appearances the whole
| time of the representatives in congress as
sembled seems to be expended in showing
vindictive hatred to the people of the south,
and enriching themselves by contributions
| from such as may be benefited BY the pass
| age OF the infamous tariff bill.
The contemplate manner in which "Mr
Stevens, of Pennsylvania. spoke, in his re-
marks of Feb'y 9Th, upon his reconstruction
bill, in order to drive the week kneed of his
| party up to full party duty. will DO doubt at.
tract the attention of all thinking members
of the party. He says Il do not know
whether it is the desire of the house to pass
any such bill, or to disperse-go home-and
leave the President in Triumph" What
stronger expression could be made BY baf.
fled and disappointed gambler? And is the
President going to triumph? | hope so. Has
the assembled congressional wisdom( p of the
country, with all their puritanich doctrines,
the love of American liberty, the free ex-
preston of thought, come to the conclusion,
after some eighteen months of open consul
tation and private consideration, that the
principles of Andrew johnson, enumerated
In his yetoes and other official acts, are cor
rect, and that the right to govern depends
upon the will of those toabe governed si
.ayE Et3fss ia Vox PoPULI.
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We have had news, lately, of many heavy
fires. All of them occurred in the case of
property that was insured. Anything not
insured does not burn nowadays. =

We are constantly told of the enmity Of
the south towards the blacks; but the follow
ing, copied from the Charleston Is. C.) Mer-
curry, does not indicate any feeling of the
kind: 81 a E~r
Some curiosity and speculation were natu,
rally excited in regard to the practice of re-
ceiving negro testimony, now for the first
time in force in this city and it has been
seen with great satisfaction that, so far, the
new law has been attended with more than
the expected success. The colored witness
ses appear to be fully impressed with the OBJ
legations placed upon them, and their evi.
dence has been generally given with an evi.
dent desire to tell the whole truth, and moth
ing but the truth. There was but little pro.
lixity and RESPONSIVENESS, and the testimony
has, in the late criminal trials, been clear
Ineligible, and to the point.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-14

The Aledo Record speaks in glowing
terms of Judge Thompson's skill energy and
integrity as a railroad fnancier. All right,
Mr.. Record, and if we had congress made
up of Judge Thompsons, we would see some
indications of an effort at reconstructien and
redemption of our country from the vortex
of perpetual anarchy into which the nation
is rapidly drifting, while our great national
councils are trifing away the day of grace
with the contemplate gimcracks of party
political trickery.-Neso Boston Heratd-a
republican paper. ~ s38 .s-afsx SOS
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-14
For the Argus.
To "Veritas."

You ought to know that a resort to per-
sonaiities, is no argument. Ibeheve you are
the man who left the ball early in the even
ing, saying KIT is too low for me-" This
being the case, it does not become you to
censure those who would elevate the stand
ard of refinement. But it is very natural
that, after looking over your old latin books
for about three weeks to find a word Gas
sinusp expressing your character, YOU should
be ambitious to Zap your wings in print,
even if YOU could not answer what said.
+1 EXCELSIOR.
Wednesday evening, Feb'y l3. gs.sr sse4
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-14
Chicago, Reek Island and
Pacific Rail Road Co.
THE OLD CENTRAL ROUTE
CONNECTING THE
Atlantic and Pacific States.

ALL TRAINS on this Road are in direct connec-
ton at Chicago with all Eastern and Southern
Roads TO and from all points in the New Eng
land, Middle and Southern States. 80 -
AT LA SALE, with Illinois Central Railroad
North to Dixon, Freeport, Galena, Duneith and
Dubuque; South to Bloomington, Decatur,
Springfield St. Louis, Cairo. Memphis and New
Orleans. .@a.Hf $3.50 -sT rtlst :
AT PEORIA, with all roads East, West and South;
also, with Illinois River Packets to all points
on the Illinois River. ~fF.l
AT ROCK ISLAND, with Mississippi River
Packets, to alIpoints between st. Paul and New
Orleans.
AT WASHINGTON, KELLOGG and NEWTON,
with Western Stage Co, TO all -poins in Central
and Western Iowa, and at OMAHA, with the
Union Pacific Railroad, to kearney, Denver,
Fort Brdger, Salt Lake, dc, &c.
On and after Monday, December Goth, 1866. un-
til further notice, Trains will leave Rock Island
Station, as follows: -....
r-ar4 GOING EAST.
Day Express and Mail leaves at. .......9 a. m.
Night Express, ........9 p. I'M.
Way Freight, - 300 P. m.
GOING WEST.
Passenger Trains leave at $50 n. m, and $3.50 p m
Freight Trains leave at $3.50 a m, and p. m.
Through Tickets for sale, and Receipts for
Freight given to most important points IN the
United States and Canadas, by
WIN. b. GRENELL,
Freight and Ticket Agent, Rock Island, Ill.
G. ii. BEARDSLEY,
.-. 81 A ssistant General SUPERINTENDENT.
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plan is received, not its details-not the pros
pect Of its adoption as whole-that we
have hope. If it is generally received in a
good spirit, and with kind feelings, all the
rest will follow as The light theAday.
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City Of Rock Island Feb. 4, 1867.
A PPLICATION having been made to the City
IA Council of said city to cause to be opened
alley in Block sixteen 90 Chicago or Lower
Addition, running from Swan street to Ohio
street. Notice is hereby given to the owners of
the land necessary therefor, of the intention of
the City Council to appropriate and take the
same for the purpose aforesaid --- srs.e-.
feb6-dIot &C. C. DODGE. City Clerk.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-14

Trains leave from j arrive at PoRT BYRON Station.
Leave, Arrivs
Mail Trains,,,7 90 A. NJ. Mail Trains. $50 p. NJ
Night Expr's coop. NJ. Night Expr's 2.45 p. NJ
Connections.
AT RACINE JUNCTI0N-With Chicago, Mil
waukee Railroad for Milwaukee Kenosha Wan
kegan and Chicago.
A CLINTON JUNCTI0N--With Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad for GAINESVILLE, Madison
Prairie du Chen and La Crosse.
AT BEL0lT-With Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad for Evansville, FootvilIe, Madison anG
Prairie du Chen.
AT FREEP0RT-With Chicago and Northwes
tern and Illinois Central Railroads for Rockford
Warren, Galens and Dubuque 'f
AT FULTON-Whhs Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad for Chicago, Dixon, Cedar Rapids anC
Council Bluffs. Hss d. t.s
AT PORT BYRoN-With Chicago, Rock Islan'
and Pacific Railroad for Rock Island, Daven
port, Iowa City and Des Moines.
Passengers leaving Port Byron ON 200 A. NJ
train, reach Janesville, Madison, Prairie du Chen
Oshkosh, Fend du Lac, Portage City and /.
Crosse SANE NIGHT. Night Express Train doe
not run east of savanna Satl,rsisy ,,isht-z
further information and through tickets ap
ply TO c. A. MCLAUGHLIN,
Agent, on the Levee, Rock Island, Ill
....- X. A. KNAPP,
% Supt. Western Division, Savanna, III.
r. c. TATE, Supt. Eastern Division, Racine, Wis
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-14

The wonderful fexibilty and great comfort and
pleasure to any Lady wearing the Duplex Elliptic
Skirt will be experienced particularly in all
crowded Assemblies Operas, Carriages, Railroad
Cars, Church Pews, Arm Chairs, for Promenad
and House Dress, as the Skirt can be folded when
in use TO occupy small place as easily and con-
veniently as silk or muslin dress an invaluable
quality in crinolinc, not found in any single
spring skirt.
A lady having enjoyed the pleasure, comfort,
and great convenience of wearing the Duplex Ell
liptic steel spring skirt for a single day, will
never afterwards willingly dispense with their
use. For children, misses, and young ladies, they
are superior to all Others. Lss h-r-f.e ..g
They will not bend or break Ike the single
spring, but will preserve their perfect and grace
full shape when three or four ordinary skirts will
have been thrown aside as useless The hoops
covered with double and twisted thread, and
the bottom rods are not only double springs, but
twice Tor double) covered, preventing them from,
wearing out when dragging down steps, stairs,
| The Duplex Elliptic is great fayorite with all
ladies, and is universally recommended by the
Fashion Magazine as the standard skirt of the
fashionable world.
To enjoy the following inestimable advantages
in Crinoline, viz Superior quality, perfect manu-
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| Brsdley's Duplex Elliptic, Double Spring
| Skirt and be sure you get the genuine article.
| CAUIlUN---Io guard against lMfusIIIoN
be particular TO notice that skirts offered as "DU
| PLEX" have the red ink stamp. viz: AZ. W.
| Bradlcy's Duplex Elliptic Steel Springs upon
| the waistband-noue others are genuine. Also
notice that every hoop viii admit a pin being
passed through the centre, thus revealing the two
| Tor double) springs braided together therein,
which is the secret of their fexiblity and
| strength, and a combination not to be found in
| any other skirt. a. ...-g
For sale in all stores where first class skirts are
sold throughout the United States and elsewhere.
| Manufactured by the sole owners of the patent,
VESTS, BRADLEY CARY,
| 81 Chambers & 80 4 81 Reade Sta, n. y. Q
octs6d6m. .-. r.--
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-30

DEATH IN A BALL RooN.-On New Years
eve, Miss Kate Hofmester, daughter of a
widow lady residing in Boonville, Missouri,
died suddenly at a party given by the Turner'S
Society, at the Thespian Hall at that place.
About II o'clock at night, and while on the
floor WALKING, she suddenly threw up her
hands and fell, but was caught before striking
the floor. At first it was thought, amid the
confusion that ensued, that she had only tainted
Restoratires were at once applied, but before
she could be taken home, she was discovered
to be dead Miss Fl. was about twenty years
of age, and apparently in good health up &c
the moment of her deeease. 1t was not de.
termined on whether she died Of an affection
Of the heart, or from the rupture Of some i'm.
portant blood yessel
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-30

REMARKABLE MOVEMENT AMONG TIE JEWS
IN BoMBAY.-The Indian Portugueza, Por-
tuguese journal published in Goa, states that
great excitement has been caused ar ong the
Jews in Bombay by the publication of their
pontiff, H. B. Kyon, member of the family
of Aaron" who has lately come to Bombay
from Jerusalem, of pamphlet under the title
THE Voice of the Vigilant," the object of
this ''Voice" being to persuade the Jews that
it is useless waiting any longer for the prom
ised Messiah as this is Jesus Christ himself,
''whose doctrines have been spread all over
the world without sword or force" The
'N Voice" is said to use arguments that are
solid and conclusive. Compare, . says the
pontiff, ''the old and new testaments, and the
truth will be seen" He also adds that he
was born in the old law. and under it was ele-
waited to the pontiicate, but the light had al
ready penetrated with its rays into the deep
recesses of his mind, and he is therefore per-
suaded, and with well founded reasons, that
it is in vain that the Messiah is now looked for.
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A ISLANDER ON V1Rc1N1A-T Wilmington
IN. c. Dispatch, of Friday, in commenting
on the Hon" J. Segur's statement relative
to the Virginia Legislature and the constitu-
tional amendment says: The blood of Vir-
ginians is cavalier blood. Good blood! Brave
blood! The noble gentlemen of that State
hate towards and condemn cowardice Fir-
ginia is the mother of the best, nobest and
bravest of the soldiers of the revolution; the
mother of those men who plucked the jewel,
freedom, from the mouth of defeat and the
throat of disaster, when oppression piled its
prosecutions and threatened patriots with the
halter. Her sons of to-day are as brave, love
liberty as much, are guided in their actions by
AS high a sense of honor and will be as 10th
to degrade themselves as their fathers.
We do not hesitate, therefore, to pronounce
the statement Of Joseph Segur caumny on
the noble old commonwealth, stigmatise it as
a base lie, to spit upon it, to nail the SANDER
to the counter
Virginia willing to disfranchisc her Lee, her
Johnston, her Malone, her thousands Of brave
soldiers and able statesmen! Never, never,
never Virginia willing to sacrifice her honor!
It must be false.
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LET HER FLOW. "A cotemporarv fro,

LET HER FLow.'-A contemporary from
The Rappahannock region gets of; the follow
ing, which shows that he has no poetry in his
soul:
A poet whose illusions, published in the
Richmond Enquirer some time since, are ad-
dressed ITO the Rappahannocck," in most
strains beseeehes that river to
s'fow on!' The poet, doubtless, feared a
freeze during the late cold snap; but it is to be
hoped the appeal will not be in vain, and that
the bright river" whose banks are fringed
with woodlands" will continue to +tgit up and
DIT -
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A THEAsH1NG CAsE.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette says: Lord Francis Russell, who was
lately fined for iIlusing his horse, has just
been brought to the bar at Maidenhead for
punching his coachman's head. This time,
however, his lordship WAS acquitted. The
speech in which he addressed the court in his
own defence-is worth recording for curiosity:
Who is the complainant in this case? a
drunken, foul-nouthed groom He is contin-
ualIy getting drunk, and has been forgiven
times out of number for the sake of his wife
and children. His promises of amendment
are like pie-crust. He had good wages, lodg-
ing, money, kind treatment, but has been
drunk four times in three weeks The Bench
held that as the coachman was drunk his mas
ter had a right to thrash him.
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Two MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IL PARIs.-The
population Of Paris, including the arrondisse-
ments OF St. Dennis and Sceaux, according to
the census Of 1866, amounts to ,150,916;
which is an increase of I96,256 above the
number given in the census returns for 1861.
As the annual expenditure Of the city Of Paris
now amounts to upwards Of 10000, 900 francs,
il follows that the local taxation is ten francs,
Or eight shilings, for every head Of the
population
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The Geek Fir: of the Fenians.


The London Lancet says the Greek fire.
. Of he Fenians is no myth. tits a solution Of
pill phorus in bisulphide Of carbon The pc
cuIIar properties Of the former are well known,
while those Of the latter. as being compara-
lively recent chemical preparation, art not
generally understood, The bisulphide of car
bon is a highly infammabIe LIQUID, eoorless,
and almost tEansp parent, giYln, Of fumes Of
sulphurous acid when burned It Yolatilises
very rapidly at ordinary temperatures, and
when its sapor is mixed with air and light
applied it inhames with slight explosion It's
vapor is poisonous. The phosphorus dissolves
readily in the bisuI phde of carbon, if the tenn
perature Of the latter is slightly raised.
A few weeks ago the Liverpool detectives
seized, as they were being removed from a
house in that town, three boxes, each contain
fng fifteen jars or cans Of phosphorus. In each
jar were twenty sticks of phosphorus, each
stick being at least six inches long and two
inches in circumference. Several bottles Of
the compound Of phosphorus and bisulphide Of
carbon have also been seized, as we'll as some
bottles OF the latter without the phosphorus
dissolved in it. These bottles were all of the
same size and shape, were quite full, and held
about three pints; had short necks and small
mouths, and were made Of green glass, prob
ably having been manufactured for the pur-
pose, as their shape was somewhat peculiar
Several experiments have been made at diff
ferent times to test the properties of the COM
pound. On one occasion one of the bottles
was thrown against the centre of a high wall.
A loud explosion followed, and the concus-
sion and exposure Of the fluid by the bottle
breaking were sufficient to Ignite its contents.
and a flaming fluid streamed down the wall
evolving dense fumes of an irritating, poison
Gus nature. A stream of water from !. large
hose, which had previously been placed in
readiness, was Immediately directed against
it, but some gallons Of water had to be poured
upon the wall before the flame was extin-
guished; and even some hours afterwards,
when the day was darkcning, a smmering
light was observable on the wall where the
fluid had been, doubtless given off by the
phosphorus which had remained adherent, so
highly charged with that substance was the
fluid. 1t was further found that the COM
pound ignitcs most rapidly when used in small
quantities, spread over large surface, and
freely exposed to air; therefore, when poured
upon cotton, tow, and similar materials it ig-
nited simultaneously.