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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
Mercer Co. Agricultural Society.

The next annual meeting of the Mercer
County Agricultural Siciety will be held at
the court house, Aledo, Tuesday the It'll day
OF January 1868, for the purpose of electing
officers for the coming year and to take &C
ton with regard to changing the place of
holding the annual fairs of the society, pur-
suant of the following resolution passed by
the executive committee at a meeting held
in Milersburg, October 5th, 1867.
Resotced. That the question of relocating the
grounds of the Mercer County Agricultural SOcie-
ty, be and the same is hereby submitted for the
action of the next annual meeting of said society
in January next, and that propositions will be
received for the same. J. T.. BAY. Sec'y. .
Millersburg, Dec. Is, 1867
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a Carl

The subscriber, for the past ten wears .n..a
as cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailorins r.
adjustment, would inform his friends and a.
eitisens OF Rock Island and vicinity, that he h.s
opened New Merchant Tailoring Establisbmsn,
Tor the purpose of man ufaeturing TO order 6,vt
eiass fne custom work 10 those that have been in
me habit of getting their garments cut by rs
while at Mr.. Cones, we would extend an invite
uon TO call on us at our new establishment. ana
70 tnose that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and are IN the habit of sending east for their
ments we would invite them to call anu give Us
triai, feeling confident that we can suit them in
every respect. We have handsome asrurtuep,
OF nne Cloths, Csssimeres and vestings together
with large variety of splendid French Coatines
and Tricots in different shades and colors for I'm.
business suits. Also fine Beavers in differen,
coiors, for oyercOats,-all of which we will make
TO order in the best aud most fashionable manner
atlower rates than the same class of good. can be-
obtained On either side Of the river Call ard
examine our styles, and compare goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business.
THOMAS MCCULLOUGH
North side of Third Street, near the Post Office
Davenport, Iowa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.
n B. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. F- g nUy29dIy.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18

Alexander II. Stephens is about to publish
book on the .'causes of the war" In a
general way, there have been already too
many books resulting from the southern re-
bellion but we may reasonably expect from
this one the most intelligent review of the
circumstances which led to the inauguration
of hostilities that has ever yet been present
ed. 80
Mr.. Stephens is not, and never was, fire.
eater. He is as little influenced by local
prejudices as man very well could be.
Though in retirement, he is to-day ten times
more statesman than half of those who oc-
cupy public places of importance. No one
has ever denied his honesty ofpurpose. His
intellect is naturally brilliant one, and his
public experience has been an extensive
one. MIR. Stephens was one of a few who
opposed secession in the beginning. and was
still regarded with confidence and esteem
when he finally consented to become identi.
fed with the rebellion.
The history of the late war remains vet to
be written. So far, we have had nothing but
weak essays. highly-colored romances, or, at
least, one-sided settlements. The causes of
the war once fairly and historically establish
will do much in preparing the way for under
standing and approaching the events that
followed. The appearance of Mr.. Sephens
book will be looked forward to with great in.
terest.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
THE Army KxPENSEs.

In the United States house r. representa-
ives, on the 18th. inst. Ho-. h. W. Ross, dem
ocratic member ofcorgress from this state,
offered a resolutica reciting that the report
of the secrets.y of war shows that the ex
penses ofshe United States military depart
ment amount to about $77,000,000, being
more than the entire expenses of admins
tering the national government in its EARL.
er and better days, and directing the COM
mittee on military affairs to inquire into the
expedieney of reducing the army to peace
establishment.
The resolution was adopted. Afterwards
Mr.. Garfield moved to reconsider the vote,
on the ground that the preamble contained
reflection on Gen.Grant. Mr.. Ross dis
claimed any such intention. But the vote
was reconsidered and the resolution laid on
the table. Thus it is that an effort to save
the peoples money is INSTRUCTED, because a
radical demagogue fancies Gen. Grants toes
are likely to be trodden on should the promo
sition be considered
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
The Political Situate, in Boston and Else

whore.
1t was hailed as a remarkable indication
of powerful reaction in public sentiment
when Boston and neighboring cities cast
their majorities for the demderatic candidate
for governor, Mr.. Adams. Our radical
friends, however, consoled themselves with
reflections upon the impolicy of the prohibi-
tory law, and charged that that linwise thing
had done the business for radicalism, there
being, as they insisted, no real change in po-
litical sentiment. But the municipal cleo
ton which, as the telegraph has already an
nounced, resulted in giving to Boston a dem.
ocratic mayor for the first time for genera
ton shows that the revulsion in sentiment In
Boston is not mere transient change. In
that election the prohibito3 law had no
place, as in the state elaSslon, where mem
bers of the lepislatr~e were elected. The
state election et.ed the prohibitory law eff
fectually nv returning to- the Legislature a
LARGE ma;,fity of license men. It would
seem .nat those who then, when that uues-
t;o- was up, broke loose from party afhlia-
lions, were not disposed to renew the associ.
alton when the question was settled They
stuck to the democratic organization. II
cannot be said that they staii at home and
suffered the election to go by default, for the
returns show that at the municipal election
a larger vote was polled than when Adams
and Bullock drew out in the state election
l6,O67. Adams then beat Bullock in Boston
by sos majority. But Shurtleff and Nor
cross last week drew out l6,20S votes, one
OF the heaviest votes ever cast in Boston;
and Shurtleff, democrat, beat his radical
competitor By 458 votes. This result can be
explained only by supposing that the reac-
ton IN Boston has been so violent as mate
rally to cripple radicalsm, and that the re-
action is permanent.
This is one of the many local signs inyit-
ing attention that present radicalism as
shorn of its strength and power. In the
hourlshing manufacturing town of Manches-
ter, N. H., the democrats defeated the radi-
Gals last week. In that second Lowell, Law
renee, Massachusetts, always radical, the
democracy thrashed the radicals out of their
boots at the last municipal election. In
Pittsburgh no combination that the radicals
could make could save them from the rout
inflicted upon them by the conservatives last
week. And in New York, the democracy.
though having two candidates in the field
by which the entire vote was divided, showed
that with either candidate they were able to
WIN, the radicals making even poorer show
than they did in November. We do not
wonder that radical journalists and radical
congressman allude now to the reaction
as thing that cannot be ignored. It's one
OF the substantial permanent facts of the
times.
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Grand Holiday Drawing
70 be Drawn at covington. Ky.
Class 7, December SIst, 1861.

No more acceptable and appropriate present
can be made 10 mother, wife, daughter, hus-
band or father, than n ticket in the Kentucky
State Lottery. 1t has long been acknow ged
that it offers greater Inducements to the purchas-
ers of tickets than any other legalized lottery in
the world. The December term SURPRISES in
grandeur. anything of the kind ever presented
to the public; it distributes S230,65O. The cap
ital prlEe is $50. 00o. nsuring hand some fortune
to the lucky holder of the corresponding ticket.
Hundreds of well attestcd instances, similar TO
the following, are almost daily occurring: Miss
Mary Russell Milford, who died in 1885, when
only ten years of age, gained, prize in a lot
terry, the handsome sum of ten thousand pounds
or fifty Thousand dollars. The ticket which drew
this magnificent sum, was presented TO her by
her father, Or. Milford, one Of the most promin-
ent men and judges of the time" How many
homes would be frightened by similar success
in the GRAND HOLIDAY DRAWING of the
Kentucky State Lottery, on December 3lst, 1867
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
What Breaks Down Young Men.

1t IS commonly received notion that
hard study is the unhealthy element of col
lege life. But from tables of the mortality
OF Harvard University, collected by Profes-
sor Pierce from the last triennial catalogue,
It is clearly demonstrated that the excess of
deaths for the first ten years after graduation
Is found in that portion of each class inferior
IN scholarship. Every one who has been
through the curriculum knows that where
Eschuylus and political economy injure one,
late hours and rum punches use up dozen;
and that the two little fingers of Morpheus
are heavier than the loins Of Euclid Dissi-
patton is a swift and sure destroyer, and ev-
cry young man who follows it is as the early
flower exposed to untimely frost. Those who
have been inveigled in the path Of vice are
named Legion" fortkey are many--enough
to convince every novitiate that he has no
security that he shall escape a similar fate.
A few hours of sleep each night, high living
and plenty of "smashesn make war upon
every function of the human body. The
brains, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the
spine, the limbs, the bones, the flesh--every
part and faculty-are overtasked, worn and
weakened by the terrific energy of passion
and appetite loosed from restraint, until, like
a dilapidated mansion, the ''earthly house of
this tabernacle" falls into rninous decay
Fast young men, right about!
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
From All the Year Round.
THE ABSURDITY OF DRINKING.

1t has become sort of popular-almost
tHonal-faith that it is not possible to be
10y happy unless-and they are by no
h n.as Exclusively the lowest-drink is the
1nS and end of everything. The very
n m;,h = hauor is held to be synonymous
,ha an snJoment, and the dearer the liquor
.ne "o ,n. i.s priced and coveted. Yet every
naa VINO Is aot downright drunkard is
s wen asare INA tne pleasures of drinking are,
ion, and a snare. Iput it TO anv ono u who
has stood half the light at a bar or v sa, LIE
the night in club-roor,, dr;nk;na s s a.
and bandying reckless tar, if the sn ;uns
of such an evening has bean anvtb;ng FL
that of few quiet hours spent at homs NTH
book or a newspaper? The evil inauanoa
of tavern pleasures on the health is too ohv;.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18

GUS to be denied by any one, and the illusory
nature of the pleasures themselves would be
undeniable, also, if the persons who indulge
in them did not deceive themselves and put
the'truth out of SIGHT. "a
Nocne ever brought any good ont of .
SINKING bdnt yet. 1t Is a short, feverish
Pasm Of animal enjoyment, which leaves
nothiug behind bat meroseness, regret, had
empef, selErepreach yand Sheadache. I
should like to ask you, sir, if you say your
prayers when you come home in that state :
No, you don't. You are ashamed to say
them. You postpone them until you have
purged yourself, your mind and your lips by
more sober and rational behavior. Mex
night when you pass the hours quietly with
a book or friend, you feel that YOU have
had real enjoyment, and that time has passed
pleasantly, that you have learned something
and that you have not injured your heahh
You are not ashamed to say your prayers
and you get up next morning with clear
head, good appetiteand an increased facil
lily for work and the enjoyment oflife.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
IoE;r VT4F,T n KNOWN.

On the 18th inst, Hon. A G. Burr, dem.
ocrat;c member of congress from the 10th
Illinois district, alive to the interests OF his
constituents, asked leave to introduce
resolution calling for information as to the
expense of the investigation against the
President before the Judiciary COMMITTEES
with view to impeachment, when
Mr.. Ben. Butler objected. Butler, as is
known, was srong impeacher
and now when an effort is made to in
form the country how much money this
radical electioneering scheme has cost the
country, he lodges. Radical forms of gov
arn r,,ont ara aYransi mo In VI, rins
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
To-Day's Advertisem'ts
NOTICE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT on the
II 2sth day Of May, A. d. 1866, purchased,
at the tax sale, for the taxes and costs due the
state of Illinois and County Of Rock Island,
CUB lot Is, in Block IA, Spencer a Cases addi-
tree 70 the city Of Rock Island, and that the
timsf redemption from said sale win expire on
q he 2sth day of May, A. ID. 1858.
Also, on the 18th day Of January, A. ID. 1867,
purchased the same lot Of ground, above des-
eribed, for taxes and costs due the city of Rock
Island, and the right to redeem the same from
said last mentioned sale, will expire on the 18th
day Of January, 1869.
JOHN RUSSELL.
Rock Island, Dec. IS, 1867, DIT.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
list OF PRIZES
Prizes Amounting to S230,65O.
$4,000 Numbers and 7ss Prizes.
Tickets $l2, Halves Sc, Quar- So

PLAN OF THE LOTTERY The numbers.
frsm l to $4,000, on separate slips of paper, are
encircled in tin tubes and placed in glass wheel
by the sworn Commissioners; the prizes arc sim
ilarly encircled and placed in an Their wheel. A
number is drawn by bindfolded boy, and ut the
same time, prize is drawn in the same manner !:
both are opened and exhibited TO the audience
that number being entitled to the prize drawn
with it, This operation is repeated until all the
prizes are drawn. -.H - ...
The above magnificent scheme win be drawn
in public in Covington, Ky, on the 31st day of
December, 1867, being the GREAT HOLIDAY
DRAWING of the year
These Lotteries are chartered and authorized
by the Legislature, and are conducted under the
supervision IF three sworn Commissioners APP
pointed behalf of the State, to see that Justice
is done to all. They are not gift enterprises, but
responsible money institutions, which have been
successfully conducted since 1927, and have
many more years to run. Bonds to a large am
cunt are fled to the payment of all prizes,
The official list of numbers drawing prizes will
be published in the New York Herald. Chicago
Papers, Cincinnati Daily Commercial and Gin
cinnati German Papers.
Address all orders for tickets 10
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
New England Women Unfit for Mat.rn;tv

DR.: Allen, of Lowell, read paper before
the Massachusetts Social Science Associa.
ton, on "The population of Massachusetts,
and changes in the physical organization of
females in relation to the laws of human in
crease" DIR. Allen said it was generally
understood that the birth rate in any pros
porous country ought to be about one in
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18

Has your brother secured a certificate OF
the Washington Library Company of Phila-
delphia, in aid OF the riverside Institute for
educating orphans? Each certificate costs a
dollar, with beautiful engraving, worth
more than dollar at retail, and secures he.
sides, present at the Great Distributou by
the Company. and an equal chance that the
lars. 1t is wonderful and true. Read ad
vertisement.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18


Are Your Family Provided For,
Less than Eve and half cents day viii insure
them one Thousand dollars at your death--sup.
posing you to be twenty-five years of age.
Six and a quarter cents day will secure the
same sum if you thirty years old.
cen. more per diem will assure the same ben
eft atthe age of thirty five years.
At twenty, the cost is but four and three -fourths
cents per day.
Think of the blessings such trivial sums as
those above mentioned will produce.
The chances of your meeting death are great
eight times greater than of your house catching
fire.
Yet who does not insure the latter?
1t is u better investment than n savings bank,
even in long term of years, and has the advaut-
age, should you die ut early day, of affording
a handsome sum to those depending on you, that
could only be attained by long and arduous ap-
plication to the business of life.
It'll certain at the period it is wanted.
Blank applications and instructions in regard
to life insurance forwarded on application to
JOHN III. LANGLEY, Agent,
si..r Rock Island.
Office over Don q EniOtt's Store.
~SSouvA1s .F#* .I~Hr
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-18
Hemorrhoids. or Piles-

They cure an Diseases of the Throat and Lungs.
CANCERS.-They have had an extensive prae-
tice and wonderful success in the treatment Of
Cancers, which they cure without eating them out
or using the Knife. Let those who have Tumors
and swellings, n red spot, lose no time in hav-
ing AZ attended to, as atimely treatment may save
eathem from the horrors, suffering and death Of
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-18

population, which was expected to be SUP
pressed bV the military before 1t had seri-
Ously endangered the white leaders, ap-
pears to have been part of the scheme of
the ConVentionists This would afford an
excuse for Congressional investigation, re-
sulting in Congressional legislation favor
ing the ultimate design of the cOnspirators,
namely, the destruction of the existing
civil government of Louisiana.
5. AS respects that portion of the resolu-
tion of the House which makes it subject
of investigation by the committee, twheth-
er and to what extent these acts were par
ticipated in by members Of the organiza-
tion claiming to be the Government of
Louisiana" the following conclusion is
submitted: In no proper sense of the term
and in no degree whatever Is the riot Of the
Both of July attributable to the Govern
ment Of Louisiana. III there be any mem
bers of the Government OF Louisiana in
whose official or personal acts the remotest
causes Of the riot are to be traced, the chief
among them are Judge r. X. Howell, who,
as the usurping President of the minority of
an extinct Convention, headed the cOnspira-
ey to overthrow the State Constitution,
which, as Judge of the Superior Court, he
had sworn to support, and Gov. James
Madison Wells. who lent to the conspiracy
his official sanction, but on the day OF dan
ger deserted his post, without an effort to
preserve the public peace. And If there be
any members of the Federal Government
who are Indirectly responsible for the
bloody result, they are those members OF
the present Congress, whoever they may
be, who encouraged these men by their
counsels, and promised to them their indi-
vidual and official support.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-18

A correspondent of a Mobile paper thus
describes how the national bird was turned
loose in the Alabama Legislature on an
educational bill. Mr.. Clayton said "Mr.
Speaker, look at the king of the air, the
noblest of birds, the eagle Of the Alps !;
watch him as he stands erect with his proud
and noble form on some high point upon
the rock of Gibraltar, with a keen eye,
peeping up at the sun. He looks sleepy,
drowsy, droopy, with the mist and dew of
the morning covering all over his frosty
form. Thus he is before the break of day.
At length the great God of the morning, as
he shines through this mist, warns him up
little, and he begins to feel like soaring
upwards somewhat; and he does soar, and
soar, and SOAR! away up above the smoke
and dust and clouds, kicking back at the
laundering noise and rampant confusion
and uproar going on below him. SO,will
10 be with Alabama, If we adopt this law.
She will rise in intellect above all the SUR
rounding trash and rubbish which lies piied
up thick about US. But fail to pass it, and
you will have to send out of the State for
your intellect, and you become &hewsrs, Of
wood and drawers of water to those who
will educate" ~,
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-18
LYONS PERIODICAL DROPS Ia.
THE GREAT FEMALE REMEDY FoBeis .
a'l IRREGULARITIES '2airgtS

These Drops area scientifically compounded fluid 4
preparation, and better than any Pills. Powders or
Nostrums Being liquid. their action Is direct andk
positive, rendering them raiabIe speedy and car-s
tain specihcfOr the cure Of all obstrgctiOns and
pressions Of nature. Their popularity is indicated
BY the fact that 900 bottles are annually sold
and consumed by the ladies Of the United States ~
every one of whom speak in the strongest terms ysT
praise of their greatmerts, Thsyare rapidly TAXA
ing the place Of every other Female Remedy, and
are considered by all who know aught Of them q ~
the sures safest and most nfallible breparatiot y
the world for the cure Of ali female complaints the
removal Of allobstEuctons Of nature and the pro 4
molten Of health, regularity and strength, Expoit
directions stating when they may be used and ex-.
planning when and why they should mot, nor
could not be used without producing effects contfh N
rytoinatures chosen laws. VIII be found carefully
folded around each BOTTLE with the written sigma
thTs Of JOHN \. LyoN, without which none arc gem
uine. ~ ~hss4 s4i-a4
Prepared by Or. JOHN L. LYON. 1ss OhIbs rs
street, New Haven. Conn, who can Be. consulted ~
either personally or by mail Enclosing stamp) con
corning ell private diseases and female weaknesses
Sold ~ DRUGGISTS everywhere 9s \ = ~ N ~
General Agents fcrU n. aud Csnad6ss y
sep29-d&wIy
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-18

COlgatels Aromatic Vegetable Soap
ksapsriot TssIes soapsrF from ssGh-
cd vegetable OiIsih combination with eIya
cerfne, and especially designed for The n sof
LahieS and for The Nursery. Is perfume d
sxquisits and is waning prnporiias nnkivkllg hr
For sale By all DrusEiSts' ,isbio-dtVlylo
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-18


The Democracy of franklin county have
formed an association for the purpose of
disseminating Democratic principles among
the people; organizing the county In every
school district and for such other purposes
as may be necessary during the ensuing
campaign. We hope the Democratic Coun-
ty Central committees ofevery county in
the State will fellow the praisewOrthy ex-
ample. Let us organize for the contest and
from this time until the evening of the Oc-
tober election be vigilant and earnest in
talking Democracy, circulating Democratic
newspapers and documents among the peo-
pie, and glorious victory will crown our
efforts. Democrats Of aEittle IFayette,p
your opponents are organized for the pur-
pose Of forcing upon you negro suffrage
and all the outrages of Radical fanatieism; !;
organizeto to oprotectyourselvesb by the peace
able means of the ballot-boxi Let us COM
mence at once, and if we donot redeem our
county welwill at least give the negro suf-
frage advocates an almighty big scare ~
ONO Begtsters u Das s9Goc eBasi G! ,ysuos