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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

A good story is told of Hon. Roscoe Conk-
ling, of New York who has Just been elected
United States senator. Muscle is his mania,
and his leisure hours are passed with the the
weight, or the boxing gloves'in the use Of
which he is quite an adept. Being man
several inches over six feet in height, he is
an ugly customer to tackle. While Dan
kerrigan was member from Brooklyn, Conk-
ling was also member from the Utica dis
trict New York. and he saw fit to be quite
polite to Kerr gan, but in q way that offend
ed him, as Conkling always led conversation
through him TO sporting topics, and, though
probably not intending to do so, conveyed
the impression to the Brooklyn member that
the Utica representative thought he Kerr
gan( knew nothing of others matters. One
day Conkling told kerrigan he should like to
put on the gloves with him. Dan said he
was not much of a boxer. and besides was
too small a man to contend with Roscoe. but
that friend of his was fair sparrer and he
| would bring him to Cenkling's room that ev-
enng, if agreeable. The appointment was
| made and Dan appeared, punetually, accom-
| panied by friend nearly as large as Conk-
| ling. The gloves were speedily donned, and
| the .sparring commenced. kerrigan occupy
| ing himself, the while, in arranging in line
on the table the inkstand, paste bottle, glass
| es and other articles of congressman's ia
| BILE furniture. As the boxers SPARED about
the room, Conkling "got in several blows,
| light ones, but was not struck until he
reached position in line with the string OF
''skulch," arranged by kerrigan, when the
stranger led ont straight, hard blow on the
| congressman mob, which sprawled him fiat
in the midst of Dams preparations. Conk-
ling rose rather discouraged, like the COW
when the locomotive knocked her down the
embankment, and his opponent handsomely
apologized, and expressed his surprise at
succeeding in hitting boxer so superior tc
himself Roscoe kept his temper, and a sec
ond time they went at it, but again when
Conkling reached the proper position, he was
''laid on the table," ike democratic bill in
the house of representatives. A third time
the operation was repeated, when the con
gresham, disgusted, laid aside the gloves
and learned afterwards that Kerrigan's friend
was Ned Price, the celebrated boxer
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
Port Byron. Ill Its Business
Prospects.

EDITOR OF THE Rock ISLAND ARGUS
iSir-In the Davenport Democrat of last
week, noticed an article with the above
heading, and knowing it to be very one-sided
and contracted, embracing only those who
were within the limited vision of the inform
ant of the Democrat, / wish you would cor
rect his statistics, and show the town in its
true proportions. He SAYS Port Byron has
now in successful operation three dry goods
stores, whereas there are seren, two of them,
Simonson & Co. and D. s. Metzgar Son.
paving a wholesale dealers license and doing
a business of over $4,000 year each. The
seven dry goods stores are kept by Dodge &
Harris. Simonson Maxwell, ID. g. Com
stock, E. II. Hollister, d. S. Metzgar Il Son,
Devore & Sheppard, and VIM. Parker
From this you see wide difference fromshe
Democrats statement, and this is his first
item.
One banking house, doing a general bank
ing business, with q capital of s. 5000 Hav-
ing access to the q. s. assessors books,
find that the bank returns no capital, but an
average of $4,000 per month on deposits
Two hotels, both been built several years
but the De Soto House, now National, was
purchased last year by our enterprizing citi
zen, Roger Bel, ESQ., who is fully equal to
any of the few live business men belonging
to the clique who are reported in The Demo
crdt. He has repaired and painted the house
| and it is now under the management of W
Kingsley first class hotel for Travellers
The other, the Port Byron House, has long
| been favorably known to the travelling com,
| munity Two grocery stores, Henry c.
Trent, returned soldier, who keeps what is
styled by the clique, the Mechanics Head
Quarters The other grocery store is kept
by Alfred Spaid. Two drug stores; 2 law
yers doctors 2 dentists; livery stables;
i cooper shop; 3 blacksmith shops; 3 shoe
stores wagon shops; l saddler, tail.
ors; l tailoress; millinery store, which
the ladies say is well filed and presided over
by soldiers widow; carpenters; 3 mas
ter plasterers 6sstone masons; l painter
butcher shop, and tin and stove store
that has been established seventeen wears
next door to the informant's, and appears to
be doing living business "a lumber yard
kept by Dorrance 4 Gates, where can be
found all the different kinds and quality usu
ally wanted either by the mechanic or farmer
The past season Gates Il Fogg burnt several
kins of brick, furnishing all that was neces.
sary for the town and adjoining country.
But the largest mandatory within the
town is that carried on by r. B. Chase s
Son, foe burning lime, they having three pa.
tent kilns, which can average so barrels OF
lime each kiln day., of.the best quality
Port Byron white lime, being superior to any
burnt in the state. Their lime is favorably
known from Burlington to st. Paul. They
have q cooper shop connected with their
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, member Of con-
gress from Vermont, and who win be a SEN
ator after the Sd of next month, has recently
made speech in the house, on the subject
of the reduction of the currency and return
to specie payments, which is as full of strik-
ing points as any that has been made since
the session began. He shows to congress
anasthe country that this is a matter Of far
greater urgency than the schemes about
which the members are consuming precious
time. One fact brought into prominence by
him deserves repetition the amount OF pa
per currency in use in 1862 was only $751;
100000, whereas it is now nearly one thous
and millions, or fire times as much! And
his query is a searching one, whether the
business of the country is so much greater
now thanit was then, as to demand such 6
vast expansion of paper money to carry 1t
No one who knows anything about it viii
answer aftirmatively. Then why permit
such useless body of currency to remain
afoat, only to make prices ruinously uncer
tain and to remain as sort of reserve force
ready for the uses of speculation? In the
opinion of Mr. Morrill,, we shall never have 6
more suspicious time than now to initiate
the work of contraction, 1t is not necessary
to add that Secretary McCulloch finds a Wig
orous supporter Of his policy in Mr.. Morrill,
who holds that it is essential to the stabilit,
of our government that the excess Of papel
issue be retired as rapidly as due degree o
prudence win permit. The people, too, de
mand speedy return to low prices, which
they can never hope to have so long as pa
per money is so cheap and the basis of al
business transactions is so huctuating ant
uncertain. -s =--
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

We hope democratic newspapers win drop
the subject of national convention, and let
well enough alone. 4 convention could do
nothing but harm if it met. The experience
of the sage politicians of both parties in other
days was, that conventions and platforms
and nominations should be reserved to the
last possible moment before an election, in
order that the sense and feeling of the peo
pie should be had in the premises. 1t viii
be = fatal day for any party, or the best
cause, or for Union and restoration, when
the few and not the people shall indicate
public policy full eighteen months before a
grand campaign, to decide, perhaps, the fate
Of constitutional liberty and republican gov
eminent for generations. Let the people
stand by the President and the Supreme
Court, and leave conventions alone, for the
prespnf
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
From the Carthage Republican
Rock Island Argus.

p This ably-conducted democratic paper
comes to us in a new dress of beautiful type
making it one of the handsomest papers
in the state. We congratulate our old friend,
Col. Danforth, upon that appreciation of his
labors and consequent success in the mechan-
ical improvement of The ARGUS. If the
democracy of Rock Island and adjoining
counties have one particle of gratitude for
long and faithful service in their cause, they
viii at once quadruple their support of Tue
ARGUS.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The Stats Zieturg don't approve of the
pardoning of Mollie Trussel, and expresses
itself this morning after this fashion
at is scandal, and censurable abuse of the
pardoning power. It shows that in this land of
hypocricy the crime that walks in silk and velvet
and jewels is privileged Aristocratic priestess,
of Venus can do what they choose they find
those who twist at pleasure the waxen nose of
justice, and, at last, governor, who holds over
them the shield. of pardon. Only those prosti-
tutes who are in misery are punished. Mollie
Trussel can resume her trade, and We doubt not
that she will have a fine business"
The trial of Mollie Trussel, her sentence
for one year, and her pardon by the execu-
tive, form a series of acts not less disgrace
full than those for which the miserable wo-
man was tried and convicted.-C Chicago Post,
ID GrsE
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

Petitions have begun to arrive in Wash
ington begging congress, instead of trying to
strengthen their grasp on the government by
impeaching the President, to do something
to strengthen public confidence and revive
the interests of labor and capital. The PEG.
pie are beginning to make the discovery that
demonstrating" the government is running
the country. Whether the revolutionary pol
iticians win be able to discover this fact or
not remains TO he seen
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
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The four styles described above embody all the
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The Albany Ereaing Journal lrepabli.
CAM says: "a leading dry goods merchant
of New York said to us yesterday Il would
willingly draw my check for hundred thous-
and dollars as a bonus to any benevolent in.
stitution, if the House would tomorrow dis.
miss the subject Of impeachment si8&
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The wonderful fexibility and-great comfort and
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A lady having enjoyed the pleasure. comfort,
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For children, misses, and young ladies', they
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They will not bend or break like the single
spring, but will preserve their perfect and grace
full shape when three four ordinary skirts will
have been thrown aside useless The hoops
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the bottom rods not only double springs, but
twice Tor doHble) covered, preventing them from
wearing out when dragging down steps, stairs,
&c.
The Duplex Elliptic is great favorite with all
ladies, and is universally recommended by the
Fashion Magazine as the standard skirt Of the
fashionable world. So
To enjoy the following inestim able advantages
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
niSSOlutiOn.

THE COMPREHENSIVE HERET0FORE
Il existing between.the undersigned, under the
frm name ana style Of Bamberger d Burgower, ID
this day dissolved by mutual consent.
Mr. Burgower having Purchased the entire in
terest Of Mr. Barnberger in the property and bus
mess of said firm, viii pay all ts Indebtedness and
continue the business at fheold stand on Illinois
street All debts due and aeeruing to said firm are
to he paid to, him esssesb. -s#. .g, 4
A. BAMBERGER. 3
III. NEWCOMER.
Rock Island, Illinois, Jan. 30, 1855. .dwtf
Union please cony
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

Ceding to the United States of America Jur,
isdiction over certain lands in the county
of Rock Island, in the state of Illinois
BE Il ENACTED by the People Of the State of III
aois represented IN General assembly Of
SEC. l. That jurisdiction over the Island of
Rock Island and the small Islands contiguous
thereto, known Benham's, Wilson's and Winnie
bago Islands, and their shores, taken and assigned
by the United States for the establishment of al
Arsenal and Armory, be and is hereby ceded to
the said United States, provided that the com
mandng officer allow the execution of all civil
and criminal process, issued under authority Of
the State of Illinois, in the same way and manner
AS if jurisdiction had not been cedcd aforesaid
SEc. 2. Be at further enacted, That the Islands
before named, and the public buildings and other
property that may he thereon, shall forever here
after be exempted from all State, County and Mu
nieipal taxation or assessment whatever, so long
the same shall be used by the United States
an Arsenal or Armory.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
manners.

Grceley's Tribune Almanac ought to be
impeached. 1t puts down the southern states
as states, and gives the names Of the Cover
nors elected by TRAITORS"
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

Nothing is lost; the drop of dew
That trembles on the leaf or Hover,
Is but exhaled, to fall anew
In Summers thunder shower;
Rerchance to shine within the bow
That fronts the sun at fall of Day :
Perchance to sparkle in the How 81
Offountains far Away. Fl s8
Eoueht lost, for even the tiniest SEED.
s. BY Wild birds borne. on breeaes blown,
nassomething suited to its need,
wherein tits sown and grown
Perchance finds sustenance and SOIL
In some remote and desert place,
Or mid the crowded homes oil ton,
Sheds usefulness and grace.
E The little drift Of common dust. - d
BY the March winds disturbed and tossed,
Though scattered by the fitfnl gust,
Is changed, but never lost g..
1t may yet bear some sturdy stem, n
Some proud oak battling with the blast, -
Or crown with verdurous diadem
Some ruin of the past. E4 IL
The furnace quenched, the fame put out, 49,
Still cling to earth or soar In air,
Transformed, diffused, and blown about,
To burn again elsewhere
HAPPY to make the beacon blaze,
That CLEANS athwart the briny waste,
Or light the social lamp, whose rays
Hume the home of tase.
The touching tones of minstrel an,
The breathings of some monrnful lutte,
Which we have heard with listening heart,
Arc not extinct when mute;
The language of some household song,
The perfume of some cherished Hover,
Though gone from outward sense, belong
To memory's after,hoar.
So with our words or harsh,or kind,
Uttered, they are not all forgot,
But leave some trace upon the mind; T. b
Pass on, yet perish not e AN
As they are spoken, so they fall ..
Upon the spirit spoken to;
Scorch it like drops of burning gall,
Or soothe like honey dew.
So-with our deeds, for good or ill
They have their power, scarce understood
Then let us use our better viii
To make them rife with good;
Like circles on lake they go,
Ring within ring, and never stay;
Oh that our deeds were fashioned SO s..
That they might bless Away
Then. since these lesser things ne'er die,
"A But work beyond our poor control,
Say, shall that suppliant for the sky
i The greater human soul
All, mol it still win spurn the past,
And search the future for its rest,
Joyful if it be found at last, --..
Mong the redeemed and blest.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The Secretary of the Interior advcrtises
proposals for new jail in Washington
Radical congressman had better mend their
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

The New York Tribune thiaks low and
vulgar personalities are more common in
congress now than in the days when the
southern chivalry were there.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

Trains leaNeI q arrive III fORF bfHOb StatkOn.
> Leave, Arrive
Mail Traius..7 90 A. NJ. Mail Trains, $50 P. NJ
Night Expr's coop. NJ. Fight-Expr's 2.45 p. NJ,
-E Connections.
AT RACINE JUNCTI0N-With Chicago, Mil
waukee Railroad for Milwaukee, kenosha Wau-
kegan and Chicago. 1855
A CLINTON JUNCTI0N-With Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad for GAINESVILLE, Madison,
Prairie du Chen and La Crosse.
AT BE1.0IT--With Chicago andf Northwestern
Railroad for Evansville, FootYille, Madison and
Prairie du Chen
AT FREEP0RT-With Chicago and Northwes-
tern and Illinois Central Railroads for Rockford,
Warren, Galena and Dubuque.
AT FL LTON-With Chicago and Northwestern
. Railroad for Chicago, Dixon. Cedar Rapids and
Council Bluffs - Fl
AT PORT BYR0N-With Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad for Rock Island, Daven-
port, Iowa City and Des Moines.s
Passengers leaving Port Byron on 700 A. NJ.
train reach Janesvile, Madison, Prairie du Chen,
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Portage City and La
Crosse SANE MIGHT. Night Express Train does
not run east of Savanna Saturday nights. 4
For further information and through tickets ap.
ply to G. A. MCLAUGHLIN,
Agent, on the Levee, Rock Island, Ina
r. A. KNAPP, :
Supt. Western Division, Savanna, Ill.
X. Z. TATE, Supt Eastern Division, Racine, Wis.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

A lady sometimes keeps charms upon her
wateh-guard; but it is more important that
she keeps watch aud guard upon her charms.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
KEROSENE AND GAS STOVES +!
TEA AND COFFEE BOILERS. GLUE
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n.y. All the Cooking for family So
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Eeock 1rticle manufactured hy he Company q
g,oraateeqto perform an akat Is damned for It.
b s8 g. Ets" Send for Giro alar rsS-N -.ss-se
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

We are indebted to Representative Coe
for copy of the foregoing act, which has pass
ed both houses of our legislature and is now
10
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Liberal Discount to the Trade.
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04
To-Days Advertiser ts.
LIST OF LnrTRns

DEMAINING UNCLAIMED IN THE POST
N Office ct Rock Island, stAts u Illinois, on
4he an dav of February 1857. 49,
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Feb'r /, 1867.
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Ms- To obtain any of these letters, the appli-
cant must call for "4drertised Letters" and give
the date of this list.
-asss- If not called for within one month, they
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
-t..- JAMESF. COPP, p. M.