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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-08
i PH0:NIx
insurance Company,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.,,
Has capital of over
$1,6OO,OOO.

A glance at the eminent services and great pub
lie usefulness of this well-tried and thoroughly
tested corporation, may be obtained from a peru
sal of the following figures of losses paid:
Maine, ,32 Arkansas, So, ,43
n. Hampshire 19,9I5,3 Missouri, 44,72s,I2
Vermont, 32I,4 ,43 Tennessee, 45,4s2,se
Massachusetts 34,3O7, SO Kentucky SO 629o,7I
Rhode Island, Ia, sos 81 Ohio, : $685. 80 4.
Connecticut, 100, ,925,s7 Indiana, AZ, ,645,46
New York, 4o9,635,53 Illinois, 1es,Iss, ,39
New Jersey, 3,320,S2 Iowa, 2ess0f3
Pennsylvania, 27,s03,47 Michigan, : 53,265,02
Maryland, 39,602 ,95 Wisconsin, 661e7,s3
DIST. of Columbia 1885 Kansas, 9,765,s2
Virginia, -27,2 "a Minnesota, 14,92s1o
S. Carolina, 2o,s32,75 Nebraska, l,l67.eo
Georgia, 2l,s33,75 California, 1o9,63O,24
Florida, 2a,46s,42 N. Brunswick. i4,934,74
Alabama, 555,56 Nova Scotia, 14,2s5,7s
Mississippi, POSSESS Canada, 3s,s73, 80
Texas, 3,96l,9S @--i
All of which have been promptly adjusted and
paid.
Va The who omits to insure his property
now, must be either negligent, ignorant or reck-
less.
~ Call on the undersigned.
GEO. w. COPP, Agent.
Office under Baboock's Hall,
-... Rock Island.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-08
II wARNoCK. ROBERr RALST
WARNOCK & RALSTON,

Successors to Warnock & Kell.y)
MANUFACTURERS OF SOAP AND CAN
vi dies, and Lard Oil, Rock Island, III. Cash
paid for Tallow and Grease. meh3-dEWff
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
Number 45.
Josh Billings Sayings.

Human nature is the same all over
the world cept in New England, and
thar it is jist according to cercum-
stances.
If / had boy who didn't lie well
enough to suit me / would set him to
tendin in retale dry goods store.
When feller gifts to goin down
bill, it duz seem as tho everything
had bin greeeed for the kashun.
1 hev finally kun to the konklusion
that good reliable set of bowels IL
wuth more to man than emmy guam
tity of branes.
The man who kan wear q shurt
hole weak, and keep it clean, amt flt
for anything else.
never nu d fool who hadent
good voice.
Thieves hunt in couples, but liar
has no accomplice
There is multitudes of folks that
mean well enuff, but how like the evil
one they act.
Give the devil his due-well enuff
in the proverb, but my friend, what
will become Nv you and me, if this
arrangement is carried out2
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26

ES- The Pontiac Mich, Jefer-
sonian is an honest Democratic paper.
1t avows its true principles, without
fear and without concealment. 1t
says:
"For six years Democracy has felt
humiliated and ashamed of itself, be-
cause forced into a wrong position.
1t has been a hypocrite and liar
through the war. The war is Black
Repub ican property.
And again:
'What is Gen. Sherman, but a
murderer, an invader of private
rights and cotton thief? IT the
Democrats are mean enough to put in
nomination any pup for President
who wore shoulder straps during the
abolition crusade, we hope he will be
defeated, and we will do all in our
power to accomplish that end.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
Odds and Ends,

A Question of Time. Asking an
others age.
When a pickpocket pulls at your
watch, tell him plainly that you have
no time to spare.
The young lady who has been tell
ing how she felt the first time her
lover kissed her, is requested to
state how she felt the first time she
was spanked.
Logical exercises for ladies. Jump
ing at conclusions.
The fastest thing going. A hunt
lng-watch.
WANTED--A fresh covering for the
bells that have pealed.
The WRETcH.-A correspondent
suggests that mum is used as
title for ladies On account of their
well known love of silence.
Troubles are like babies--they
grow bigger by nursing. But babies
are not, therefore, always troubles.
Why is an alarm of fire in the
night like clothes brush? Because
it spoils the nap.
A lady advertises: "a piano for
sale by lady about to cross the
Channel in an oak case with carved
legs.
In Turkey, whenever a storekeep-
er is convicted of telling lie, his
house is painted black, to remain so
for one month. IF there was such
law in force in this country what a
somber and gloomy appearance some
of our cities would present.
A young lady in Texas, who adj
vertises for husband, says she can
talk philosophy as well as rock the
cradle.
When does boy begin bird keep
ing? When he first sets up lh)
owl.
The man who had pair of pants
made to match the coat of his stom-
ach. has invented an instrument to
mt in the nose that makes sneeze
sound solemn in church.
What is the difference between q
diving Christian and condemned
murderer One dies with a hope,
the other with rope.
A country doctor, going on foot to
see a patient in neighboring village,
took gun to amuse himself on the
road. A peasant met him, and ask
ed him whittier he was going.
"To see patient" .y
"Are you afraid of missing nims
was the next inquiry.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
What q Democratic Victory
Would Do.

The Cincinnati Commercial, pub
lished page of copperhead sayings
during the war, and in a leader refer
ring thereto says:
"We do not forget that such men
as Judge Ranney and Hon. 81. ]
Jewette made speeches calling upon
young men to volunteer for the war
| TO eoneser the rebellion; but they
were bitterly cursed for it by their
party friends at the time, and no
man who at any time favored the
raising of men or money to overcome
the rebellion, is at this day infuen-
tial in the Democratic party of
Ohio.
Those who are fermost in the
party are those who were the most
rabid opponents during the war
men whose doctrines, if they could
have found followers, would have
changed the character and location
of the war, and made it q civil war
in the North.
To restore the Democratic party TO
power now would be to put In the
high places of trust the worst men of
1.-THE most malignant and unre.
pentant of the outright rebel sympa-
thizers-the meanest slanderers of the
soldiers of the Union-the most
reckless defamers of those who dis
tinguished themselves by their ser
vices in the cause of the Union"
That such men as Ranney and
Jewett did not represent the ''Dem-
ocratic" party during the war, is
plainly evident by a reference to the
party papers of that day. The ex
tracts which follow show this, as well
as the hatred the Democracy" felt
towards every one who supported
the war. Read them curefully.
From the Ohio Eagle. Jan. %, 1868.
We this week place at the mast
head the name of Hon. G. L. Vallan
digham as our choice for next Gov
ernor of Ohio. There may be few
week hneed Union things" clinging
to the skirt of the Democratic party,
in this community, who will object
to Vallandlgham. For these we do
not speak. We turn all such over to
the famous letter Driter, Jewett. L tile
'VAL." does not live in Fairfield,
yet he is of the Fairfield kind of Dem
OcrdtS.
From the same, Feb. 3, 1863
Suppose this trickster, Jewe EFT,
should receive the nomination and
be elected. Could such an election
be called a Democratic victory No!
In 1861, Iewett was a candidate for
Governor. In August he wrote his
letter of acceptance, bidding for Re
publican votes. Speaking of the re
bellion, in his letter of acceptance,
not one word of reproach did he use
against the Abolitionists ard their
blind followers (he was bidding for
votes, but said: with such men |
have no compromise to make--to such
l have no terms to OFFER" DC. Is
not this the language of the Black
Republican disunionist? The Dem
ocratic party of this region = n n
care nothing about men. They would
prefer to vote for an open Abolition
ist rather than disgusted Abolition
ist; and they would soone. vote for
the devil than vote for either.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
Soldiers.
The Delaware Gazette says:

he DeldWdT0 OdLcGOc says.
Soldiers of Ohiol In the Capitol
at Columbus are preserved the glori-
Gus banners which your own hands
carried through the storm and flame
of terrible four years war for the
Union. They are torn by the bullets
and shells of rebels, blackened with
the smoke of battle and the pitiless
winter storm, and some of them
stained by the blood of their brave
defenders. Your valor has crowned
them with wreaths of victory in spite
of the sympathy, aid and comfor!
given those who fought by Thurman
Vallandigham and their party
They are sacred relics to you anj
your noble State Are you ready tc
have them transferred TO the treach.
erous party which villified you, de
MED your civil rights when in the
field, and gave all possible moral aid
to the enemies of your country? Dc
you want Judge Thurman and lady
who, while entertaining their house
fuls of rebel prisoners had not a
word of sympathy or crumb OF
comfort to send to the brave boys in
blue who languished in the hospitals
with wounds and disease-do you
want such persons to become the Gus
todians of those laureled banners?-
Citizens of Ohio! do you want such
persons to become the custodlans OF
those glorious flags, baptised with
the blood of your sons and brothers,
placed in such keeping? Do you
want such a party to become the Gus
todians of the honor of your State
and the safety of your country?-
Answer on the Second Tuesday oi
next October.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
A Remarkable Tree.

The Liberty (Miss.) Herald men,
tions:
On the Woodville road, about five
miles distant from this place, there
is, or was short time ago, a singu-
lar freak of nature in the vegetable
creation. This is nothing more nor
less than two trees, the one an oak
and the other a pine, growing from
the same trunk or parent STEM
From the ground up some four or
five feet to the fork, the body of the
tree is covered with alternate rows of
oak and pine bark, and then the pine
tree shoots up 10 distance of about
thirty feet, while the oak Is perhaps
ten feet shorter. Both of these trees
are sixteen or eighteen inches IN di
ameter at the point where they leave
the parent stem.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26

DEMOCRATIC PoLIcY.-A conspic-
uous part of the policy of the Demo
cratic party is to insist that the
United States shall pay the South the
value of their emancipated slaves
which would about double the public
debt and correspondingly increase
taxation. The Democratic Consti-
tutional Convention OF Maryland has
already made the demand for the
Democracy of that State. 1t will
constitute one plank in the platform
that will be adopted next year at
the Copperhead National Convention
to nominate candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
w The fact that Thurlow Weeds

H The fact that Thurlow Weeds
paper, the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser, praised the speech of Seua-
tor Wilson at the Massachusetts Re-
publican Convention, in which the
speaker was very severe against the
President, is regarded as very signif-
cant, since Mr.. Weed was the father
of the Philadelphia Conservative
Convention of last year. Mr.. Weeds
course is also thought to indicate
that Secretary Seward intends to
cut loose from the President.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26

The national debt can be paid
without expressing the country, not
by shot house. experiments, spas
modic efforts, or violation of the
public faith, but by the solid growth
of the country in population, wealth
and prosperity, under the sdministra.
tion of a stable financial policy.
ie7 O. 2. MORTON.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26

ENUINE FRENCH GLASS FOR Pho
VI TOGRAPHERS-on hand and for sale,
BY HAYWARD 4 FULLER.
July IL, '67.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-26
What a WsrId thi. Might Be.
IT CHARLES SWAIN.

! Obi what 3 world this might be
II hearts were always kind;
u friendship none would slight, hqJrs
And fortune prove less blindl
With loge's own voice to guido nee
unchAnging e'er and fond
With all we wish beside u.s. f1sEE
And not q care beyond.
OH what world it might be, Tfhse2
More blessed than of yore;
Come learn. and twill requiteye s5Es1
To love each other more.
Obi whata world Of beauty
A loving heart might plan - l24f
II man but did his duty,
And help his brother mani sat-is 4s
Then angel guests would brighten
The threshold with their wings,
And love divine enlighteu 81 -
The old forgotten Springs
= Obi what : &crfd OF beanfy - usA
- A loving heart might plan
- II man did but his duty, - 1i7s
And helped his brother man. nii8
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
SOUTH CAROLINA.
white PEOPLE Convention to be
held on the 9th of November.

CHARLESTON, November IA circu-
lar has been addressed to the most
prominent citizens of the State, request
ing them to join in holding a convention
on November 9th, in interest of the white
people, to memorialize Congress TO
reconsider the reconstruction bills,
and remove all of the existing
obstacles to full, free and harmonious
expression of the intelligent opinion Of
y people of the State, and adopt such
measures as will influence citizens to
oppose in a proper and lawful manner,
all schemes calculated to result in negro
domination and utter destruction Of the
better interests Of the State.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
FOREIGN.
Pontifioal Troops Withdrawn to
Rome and COMMUNICATIONS
baldians seize Railroad-Aus-
tria Agrees to a General Con-
ference.

FLORENCE, October 3l-Evening, =
The Ponti6cal troops have all been with
drawn from the country, and are concen-
trated within the Notifications of Rome.
Garibaldians have taken possession of a
portion of the railroad between Rome
and Civita Vecchia, and torn up the
rails. The army of King Victor Emanuel
is advancing in the direction of Rome.
PARIS, October Electromagnetic
Liberd says that the Emperor of Aus
tria has given assent to the proposed
general conference for the settlement of
the Roman question, bat the Pope abso-
lutely refused to be a party to it; and
England and Russia are reported to
have received the invitation of Frnnce to
join the conference.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
ra- What can be the purpose of arm

EG- What can be the purpose of armed
preparations by the negroes and Loyal
Leagues in different quarters, if it does
not mean mischief2 They are not
threatened with violence from any quar-
ter. The whites are neither preparing to
do them any injury, nor entertaining
such thought, nor desiring any thing
but to pursue the avocations on which
livelihood depends, employ the negroes in
agriculture, and be able to live while
paying them fair wages.
Is it the deliberate, concealed and
malicious purpose of the Radical party,
through the Vaccinations Of the Loyal
Leagues, their emissaries and leaguers,
TO reduce the cotton States to the con-
dition of a Haytian Republic? Nothing
else, to all tho extent the party ends may
require it, can be inferred from facts such
as those which follow, copied from the
Liberty miss Herald, and which are
becoming common throughout the South
The Herald says:
Il isl we'll established fact that in the
neighhoring parishes of Louisiana and
the adjoining county of Wilkinson, there
are regularly organized companies of
cavalry and infantry among the negroes
differed, and equipped, and in all re.
spects placed upon a regular war footing.
These companies-and we speak from
information derived from the public
prints in the communities above men.
tioned--hod regular meetings for the
purpose of drilling, to become aocus-
toned to the use of firearms, and at
all of these meetings there are
more or less speeches made, all
of which are of an incendiary and sedi.
tious character. Frequently white men
Radical emissaries--of the lowest and
most debased class, utterly devoid of the
least sentiment of honor or principle,
meet with the negroes, urge them to keep
their guns in readiness for any emeF-
gency, to hold aloof from Southern white
people, not to make any further
contracts for labor, but to wait for the
happy time" when the rich lands of the
South will be taken away from the rebels,
and partitioned out among the loyal
blacks.
Videttes and pickets are always sta
toned whenever these meetings are held,
so as to prevent any except the initiated
from gaining admittanee, and their
whole proceedings are marked by Sc
crecy and careful avoidance of public
scrutiny that is, ofitself, sure evidence
that some scheme Of villainy is at the bot.
tom of it all These associations, or, per-
haps, military companies, is the better
word, are all banded together under the
name of Loyal Leaguers, and are grad
ually extending TO every community
where there are any considerable num-
hers of negroes, and they aYow themselves
to be political organization only, yet it
can readily be seen that this is merely a
cloak 10 conceal their real purposes and
designs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
Tennessee legislature Wednesdays Pro-
ceedinRs.


In the House a resolution for the pro,
lection of wool growers, by assessing a
tax of two dollars on every dog, except
one dog to each family, the revenue
arising from this source to be appropFi-
ated to the common schools of the county
where the tax is collected, was passed on
The first reading
The Senate bill No. o. For the pur.
pose of compelling the attendance of
witnesses before courts having cogni.
zance of cases arising under the military
laws of the United States, was passed on
its third and last reading.
The Senate bill No. 23, Allowing
Jurors and witnesses two dollars a day,
was passed on its third aud last reading
Receiving the Congressional Commit >
tee occupied the remainder of the morn
ing. In the afternoon, Mr.. Ryder pre-
scented a memorial FROM citizens of Mem
phis, protesting against the proposed
extension of the corporate limits of that
city. Referred to the Committee on
Corporations
By Mr.. Shepard A bin 10 repeal an
act passed. June 9th, 1865, entitled an
" Act to protect Union soldiers"
By Mr.. Kercheval: A bill to create a
new Chaneery Division, and a new
Judicial District In the State of Ten.
nessee.
By Mr.. Stone: A bill to amend the
road law of the State.
By Mr. Ryder A bill to incorporate
the Southern Commercial Association.
BY Mr.. Williams: A Joint resolution
appointing a joint committee to consider
the expediency of changing the time for
holding Congressional elections in the
State. Laid over.
House bill No &c Repeating the act
Of March z, 1867, amending the charter
of the Memphis and Charleston railroad
company. Passed.
House bill No 81 To incorporate the
United Ancient Order of Druids at
Memphis. Passed.
House bill No67: Providing that it shall
be unlawful for any president, director,
agent, or superintendent Of any rail-
road in the State to lease or consolidate
such road without the consent of the
stockholders, given at a regular annual
meeting Of the stockholders. Pending
the consideration Of this bill the Con-
gressional committee arrived aud were
received,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
WASHINGTON.
Senator Wilson on impeachment
The Georgia Eleotion-More
Canards.

WASHINGTON, November Wilson,
of the Judiciary Committee, authorizes
the statement that he has not changed his
opinion on impeachment,
The time of the election in Georgia has
been extended for the reason that there
is only one polling place in each county,
except in incorporated cities.
The HeraldS special says the Repub-
lican committee read letters from edu-
Gated Southern niggers, affirming that
they are in great fear of violence from
the whites, and asking permission to
organize militia companies.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01

ReA- The question ofthe next Presiden.
tial nomination is now beginning to be
extensively agtated. Whether too soon
or not, some are beginning to commit
themselves to one man and another. The
issue, we DO not hesitate to say, is now
confined to the success of one or the
oiher-ihe Democratic or the Radical
party. The Conservative party OF the
North cannot be distinguished from the
Democratic party, and we of the South
must act with it, to oil the extent we
may have power to act, because It would
be suicidal to attempt to organize an
other, and a division would insure the
success of the Radical party. There is
no power to save the South from oppres.
sion if the Democratic party does not
WELD it, If this party succeeds, repub
liean institutions will be restored.
Without that the reign of the Radical
party will be a despotism, permanently
fixed on the country, and the North will
be controlled by it as certainly as the
South. II the Southern press or South
ern people can have any In
huence over the result, that
influence should be exeried without stint
for the triumph Of the Democratic and
Conservative men Of the North, whose
professions Of true friendship to the
South may now be more than ever
trusted, that they see their own interests
involved The question ia democracy OF
despotism, free government or negro,
agrarian. radical, despOtic domination
to the whole country. Whatever and by
whonsoever the diabolism can be over.
threwn should Be the instrument.
Principles, not men. Grant, Sher-
man, Penile'on, Seymour, or any
respectable man sho viii place himself
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
Text of the Presidents Thanksgiving Proc.
lamat.on.

The following proclamation has been
issued by the Presidents
BIZ The President of the United States
"A Proclamation.
In conformity with a recent custom
that may now be regarded as established
on national consent and approval, ],
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, do hereby recommend to my fell
low cilizens that Thursday, the 28th day
OF November next, be set apart and OBJ
served throughout the Republic as day
of national thanksgiving and praise
to the Almighty Ruler of nations with
whom are dominion and fear, who
maketh peace in his high places,
resting and RETAINING from secular la
bors on that day. Let US reVereutly
and devoutly give thanks to our Heavenly
Father for the mercies and blessings
with which he has crowned the now clos
ing year. especially let us remember that
be has covered our land through all its
extent with greatly needed aud very
abundant harvests that be has caused
industry to prosper not only in our fields,
but also in our workshops, in our mines
and in cur forests. He has permitted
US to multiply ships upon our lakes and
rivers, aud upon the high seas, and, at
the same time, to extend our iron roads
so far into the secluded places Of the con-
tinent as to guarantee speedy overland
intercourse between the two oceans. he
has inclined our hearts to turn away
domestic contentious and connections
consequent upon distracting and desc
lating civil war, and to walk moro and
more in the ancient ways of loyalty,
Cancellation and brotherly love. He has
blessed the peaceful efforts with which
we have established new and important
| commercial treaties with foreign nations /
while we have at the same time strength
ened our national defenses and greatly
enlarged our national borders. While
thus rendering the unanimous and heart
| felt tribute Of national praise and thanks
giving which is so justly due TO Almighty
God, let US not fail to implore Him that
the same diyiRe protection and care
| which we have hitherto so undeserYedly,
and as yet so constantly, enjoyed, may
be continued to our country and our
people throughout oil their generations
/ forever.
In witness whereof have hereunlo
set ny hand and caused the seal Of the
| United States 10 be affixed.
/ Done at the City Of Washington, this
26th day Of October, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven. and Of the Independence
oftbe United States the ninety second.
ANpREw JOHNSON.
By the President
VIZ II. SEwARD, Secy Of State.
H. Charles Wick killed q man named
WrDrVar near Ticksburg. Monday