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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18
McGaney's Cotton Seed Planter.
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seed.
The seed is taken from the hopper by rotating
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is so simple and complete in its construe-
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

PRIlApxlrRlA. April 1.-THE Penn
sylvsuis Representatives and Senator
Cansroa have agreed 10 the confirmation
e Col Joseph L Coke as Collector Of
his port
he eolorei associations which did not
parade YESTERDAY were cut to day, nAk-
iag gate a display.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18
FOREIGN.

LONDON, April l7,--Consols, 81 8 2Os,
7la Illinois Central, 7Gs Erie, 37b;
corn, 43s.
LlvERPooL, April l7.-Cotiou tends
downward; wheat, california, lbs Cd 4;
No. red, 1ss 0d corn, ass Cd barley,
Is 1ea oats I'D provisions and produce
generally quiet
BreadslulIs are quiet and unchanged.
Provisions are unchanged, except bacon,
which declined to 39s. Refined petro-
leum declined TO Ia Id per gallon.
FnArronT, April l7-Unitcd States
7Gk.
LiyERroor, April II, D. The cotton
market closes extremely dull, with a
downward tendency. Prices declined
fully ID. The sales did not exceed 5000
bales Uplands, llsd; Orleans, lilo
I'D, The Manchester market for noode
and yarns Is very dull and depressed
BrELIE, April 1.-THE National Con-
stituiion, 80 lspg under debate, has been
adopted The Polish members protested
against tho action Of The Parliament,
and ON the result being made known,
unanimously resigned.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18
FROM NEW ORLEANS.

NEw oRLrAss, April lT.--lnforma.
ton has boon received that tho Agnes
aud Waterloo leyees were in imminent
danger, and labor cannot be obtained,
owing to the want Of money Much
suffering in districts overaowed in West
Louisiana is reported.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18
FROM NEW YORK.

Ngw loak, April liza Washington
special says that a motion win be made
in the Supreme Court Tomorrow TO bring
up the Georgia bill Immediately, by
waving the sixty days rule of the Court
in relation to subpmnas.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18

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ssffttn. Sr.ccial cicef, II lueal ccllUl. =
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-18
PROM CONCORD.

coScoEn, n h. April ls,-Ex.Gor.
6eOrge Giluors died his aorsirS, amer
Ieae ilaess ares sAy- sre
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
Noble Sentiments.

Mr. Thurman, who was the democratic
candidate for governor at the recent election
in Ohio, has proven himself, in all respects,
a standard-bearer worthy of the respect and
confidence of all true democrats. He is O
noble specimen of the genus democrat. We
trust brilliant future awaits him. In a
speech the other day at Cincinnati, this sterl
ing patriot, and bold, brave champion Of
democratic principles said, speaking of the
democratic party:
"It stands day rs it has ever stood the fast
friend of constitutional liberty. 1t is everywhere
recognized as the great obstacle to usurpation
and tyranny. Cheers. Tens of thousands who
have heretofore opposed us have this year Joined
US. Scores of thousands will do SO next year. il
we go forward, as l am sure we will, with an eve
single to our country's welfare. say that am
sure we will, for it is remarkable fact that the
democratic party has never advocated principle
that was not equally beneficial to every American
citizen. 1t may have erred, now and then. in
regard to particular measures for it is not infalli
ble God alone is infaliibe-but its principles
are those of eternal truth. IApplsuse.l They
nave survived all opposition and all adversities
out Of every trial TO which they have been SUBJ
yuseeu' they have come forth with renewed lustre
,ney are to society, civilized and free, what the
, Wv .L neere are to the planetary system
"he'o 'n1y prevail all is harmony, order and
peace ihey snea their sweet influences on NIL
alike, and disseminate their hlassinas with an
impartial hand" ess's' VITA "N
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

There are some remarkable pieces of poll
teal intelligence to be found in the impeach-
ing testimony just published at Washington.
One might read thirty columns of radical
oratory denouncing President johnson for
basing his order of state restoration on the
right of the states to their political indi-
vidnality, without getting half as much
knowledge of the conformity of Johnson's
views with those of their lamented idol Lin
coin, as can be gathered from short pas
sage or two in the evidence of Secretary
Stanton. That functionary stated that Mr..
Lincoln died in the belief that the proper
starting point was through the agency of the
existing state organizations. Mr.. Stanton
had formed plan of his own, of which he
says:
My object simply TO bring to the attention
Oh the President and cabinet in practical form to
what thought might be n possible means of or
ganization without rebel Intervention. Mr.. Lin
coin seemed to be inboring under the impression
that there must be some starting point in the re-
organization, and that it could only be through
the agency of the rebel organizations then exist
ing, but which did not at all deem necessary -
That night Mr.. Lincoln murdered.
So Mr.. Lincoln died unconverted by Mr..
Stanton.
There is in these few lines a sufficient ref.
utation to the fifty speeches which have been
made IN congress, denouncing Mr.. johnson
as renegade and traitor, by his desertion of
the policy of his sainted predecessor
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

mower of government to do that which We
believe is best done by every mans own
honest convictions of right. But assent in
the language of Milton, who was not only a
great poet, but great statesman, that you
can have no great civilization in any land
where men are coereed in all actions of
their life. / once asked a gentleman if he
believed in the system of coercion so CON-
pletely that if a man would not drink for ten
years because the law woald not let him, he
would be temperance man thereafter. He
said he did. / said, suppose you make a
law SO perfect that he would not be guilty of
any misdemeanor whatever. would you not
consider that better still?" He ssdd ne
would: Suppose you make Law so perfect
that he shall rise, retire, labor QUARRY, read
his Bible every day in his hsdroom, and go
to church twice aav a~ery Sunday, engage
in no immoral cop.srsatiou, and be subject
to no temptaticas-would net that be the
nerfect;on r. your SYSTEM" He admitted
that il r,uld. Well, my FRIEND said /, if
vop % down to Sing-Sing you will find a
Aousand men there living under your sys-
tenn, and if one Of them escaped tomorrow
and your house was burned, he would be
the first man you would arrest"
AS Sing-Sing is the location of enc of the
state prisons of New York, the hit was pal
pable, and called forth roars of laughter and
shouts of applause. . .--
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

Robert F. Lee, who inherited it from his
father, Why does not ''the government
restore it to him? He has never been dis
qualified from holding property; and this es-
tate has never been "confscated." 1t was
seized BY the agents of the Freudmen's Bu-
rean, and has been used by them and the
negroes for the vilest purposes for the last
four years. If Gen. Lee should bring SUIT
for the recovery ofthe estate in the proper
court, he could unquestionably recover it
"The government pretends to hold it by a
tax sale title, but it is as easy as winklng TO
knock daylight through that. A direct
war tax Unconstitutional, of course J, was
levied upon the estate in 1864. The amount
of this tax was arbitrarily fixed at 1913, when
il might with equal propriety have been
fixed at $3.50 or S., 1900. 1t was then putup
at mock sale, and bought as the record
shows, by honest Abe Lincoln, husband to
Mrs. Lincoln, for s26,OoO. Twenty.six
thousand dollars for q magnificent estate,
embracing immense woods of noble forest
trees, besides the part under cultivation, the
whole worth fully three hundred thousand
dollarsl But even this paltry sum was never
paid to any person. 1t was admitted that it
ought to be paid to some one of the Lee
family, and the excuse for not paying it to
them was that there were none of them here
to receive it! Somebody pocketed the 500
900 therefore. Who was it?
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
a CARD.

The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
as cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Is
Establishment, would inform his friends and the
citizens of Rock Island and vicinity, that he has
opened New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose Of manufacturing to order first
class fine custom work TO those that have been in
the habit Of getting their garments cut by US,
while at Mr.. Cones, we would extend an invita-
tion TO call on at new establishment and
TO those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and are In the habit of sending east for their gar
ments we would invite them to call and give Us a
trial, feeling confident that can suit them in
every respect We have a handsome assortment
of fine Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings, together
with large variety of splendid French Coatings
and Tricots in different shades and colors for fne
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
colors, for oyercoats,-all of which we will make
TO order in the best and most fashionable manner
atlower rates than the same class of goods can be
obtained on either side Of the river. Cali and
examine our styles, and compare cur 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.
| \. B. The cutting department is under oul
own supervision. nov2ed1y.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14


Sleep is partly an requirement and partly
a gift. In any event it is great possession.
The man or woman who can sleep soundy
eight or ten, or even twelve, out of the TWEEN
ty-four hours, has to be thankful. 1t is no
loss OF time. On the contrary the individa
al lives in his waking hours far more than
those whose sleep is more or less sleepiess
which is the case with majority of people.
If men and women knew how much it con-
tributes to the satisfaction, effectiveness and
strength of life to command sand ~"a .os-
ular sleep, shey would cultivate it as duty.
She psrdons and forgets little denials of food
and some other matters, but in sleep she !. is
memorable.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.


FRIBAr, Dec. l3.-Board met pursuant to
adiournrre Mt. present same as yesterday, ex-
cept Supervisor Foster, Supervisor Perkins
Chairman of the Board, presiding. Minutes
of Yesterdays proceedings read and approx.
ed.
TIL joint accc4nt Of Rock Island with
Gable 4 Co, n tie matter of tax sales ex-
amin ed and OIL desed placed on lie.
On motion of Supervisor MeCandless, the
order of yesterday, rejecting the bill of Nc
Laughlin and Taylor, for reasses~ing the
town of REX Island, was revoked
SUPERVISE dcCandless presented the fol
lowing preamble and resolution, and moved
their ndop6on. via
WHEREAS, This Board did at its last Septe mber
term. for certain reasons, order q reasscssment of
the property ia Rock Island township, for which
services the appointed assessors claim the sum
of S20b. each. which claim seems reasonable
and just: and
f5HERE 8, A diversi ty Of opinion exists as to
whC her said claim is justly chargable and
stn'ii he paid by the own of Rock Island or by
this county now, therefore, in order that said
claim should be lid, it is
i.eso'ced, ythis Board, That the Go unity Clerk
re directed &c order upon the Treasur CT
to Charles A. Mclaughlin. for $500, and nm
ordss to II. b. Taylor tor S200, and that the mat
ter hal be Submitted, by the County Clerk, to
term, T.. D., 1865; and if he decides that the
claim should he paid by the said town of Rock
Island, then Inc payment ut this time by the
county shall be considered a loan to he col
lected i:om SAID town.
Supervisor Kim ball moved to amend the
above resolution by stricking out all after
the words "R. i. Taylor for $780,
amendment lost and original motion car
ried. C1#
On motion of Supervisor Joslin, the fol-
lowing resolution vas adopted by the Board,
viz:
"Rrsolred, That the thanks of this Board are
due and are hereby rendered to the trustees and
officers of the "Iinos Soldiers Orphans Home"
for the interest and kindness shown to our SOL
diers orphans, and that we send greeting to them
our sindest wishes and 10 the children especially
a ''Merry Christmas and "Happy New Year"
On motion of Supervisor Kimball, it was
ordered that al appropriation of $3.50 be
and placed in the hands of JAS NJ Boards.
ley, County Clerk, for the benefit of the Rock
Island students IN the Illinois Soldiers Col
leee
Members allowed as follows for serving in
the special November and December terms
of the Board by recommendation of the
Committee on Ways and Means viz:
j. L. Perkins 1900; Stephen 0dell, 1900; ia
cob II. Marshall, 1900; re. Tempe,!i2 200; b b.
Joslin, 1000: VI. b. Webster. 1900; ]. NJ.
Gould, 1900; B. ii. kimball, 1900; s. B. Stod-
Gard, 1900; Alex. Owens, 1900 John McCand-
less, 20.OO; Samuel S. Forster, 1870; Rinnah
Wells, 1900; VIM. Wait, 1900; L. C. Elliott,
1900; Err Thornton, 1900; J. NJ. Beardsley, 49,
90 John Peetz, 1910.
Board adjourned until the second Monday
of March, e. D. 1868.
IL JAMES Nj. BEARDsLEY, Co. Clerk.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
Grand Holiday Drawing
TO be Drawn at Covington, Ky.
Class Y, December 3Ist, 1867.

No more acceptable and appropriate presen,
can be made to a mother. wife, daughter, hus-
band or father, than a ticket in the Kentucky
State Lottery. 1t has long been acknowledged
that it Offers greater inducements to the purchas-
ers Of tickets than any other legalized lottery in
the world. The December term surpasses, in
grandeur. anything of the kind ever presented
TO the public; it distributes $230,650. The cap
ital prize is S50. o0o insuring handsome fortune
to the lucky holder of the corresponding ticket.
Hundreds of well attested instances, similar to
the following, are almost daily occurring: "Miss
Mary Russell Milford, who died in 1855, when
only ten years Of age, gained, az prize in n lot
terry, the handsome sum of ten thousand pounds,
or fifty thousand dollars. The ticket which drew
this magnificent sum, presented to her by
her father, DIR. 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, 1867-12-14

On the night of the 18th of November,
1866, Andrew B. Carl, an engineer In the
service of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw
railroad, was coming in on that road. When
he arrived at Gilman, at the Chicago branch
of the Illinois Central railroad, he ran into
some cars which had been left on his track
by the employees of the Central. By the
collision his foot and ankle were broken and
badly damaged, as well as his train. The
Central company adjusted, without suit, the
damages done to the train that Carl was
managing, but utterly refused to do any
thing for him, and even treated his attorney
contemptuously. But he commenced suit
against the company, laying his damages at
$4,000.
The suit was tried in the Iroquois county
circuit court last week. Judge Wood, for
merly- the attorney of the Central road, pre-.
siding. Hon. W. W. O'Brien, of this city,
was counsel for the plaintiff. The trial COM
menced on Monday morning, and was not
closed until Thursday evening, when the
jury returned verdict for Carl, the plaintiff,
for $4,000, within $500 of what was claimed.
This, we believe, Is the largest verdict ever
given in a similar case, by an Illinois Jury.
Mr.. Carl is employed III the machine shops
Of the Teledo, Peoria ( Warsaw company,
his injuries having disqualified him from
his station on an engine. His brother engi-
neers congratulate him on the handsome
and just verdict given him by the Livingston
jury.--Peoria Democrat. Dec. 3.
Mr.. Carl was formerly resident of this
city, and his friends here will be glad to hear
of his success. We suppose the railroad
company will fight the case as long as any
court will permit it to do so. That is usually
the way in such cases
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
LIST OF PRIZES.
Prizes Amounting TO S23O,65O.
$4,000 Numbers and 7ss Prizes.
Tickets SIP, Halves Sc, Quar- So

PLAN OF THE LOTTERY The numbers.
frem I to q, GOO, separate slips Of paper, are
encircled in tin tubes and placed in a glass wheel
by the sworn Commissioners; the prizes are sim
iarly encirc,ed and placed in an, Their wheel. A
number is drawn by bhndfolded boy, and At the
same time, prize is drawn in the same manner /;
both are OF ened 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
The above magnificent scheme win be drawn
in public in Covington, Ky, on the 3lst day of
Dece mber, 1861, being the GREAT HOLIDAY
DRAWING of the year.
These Lotteries chartered ana authorized
by the Legislature, and are conducted under the
supervision Of three sworn Commissioners, sp-
pointed behalf of the State, TO see that justice
Is done to ALL They 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 fled to secure the payment of all prizes.
The official list of numbers drawing prizes viii
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, 1867-12-14

CoNFDENCE.-"You say you have conf
dence in the plaintiff, Mr.. Smith,
"Ges. sir
State to the court, if you please. what
caused this feeling of confidence"
why, you see, sir, there's alters reports
bout eatin' house men, an l used to kinder
think"
Never mind what You thought-tell us
what you know" --
"Well, sir, one day l went down 10 Cook
ems shop, and seq to the waiter, waiter seq
|, give US veal pie"
"Well, sir, proceed
We'll, Just then Mr.. Cookem comes up,
and SEE he, how du, Smith, what We going
to hev?"
'Weal pie" seq t.
"Good, SEE he; I'll take one tn; so he sets
down and eats one of his own veal pies right
afore me2" -.-
Did that cause your confidence in him2"
eyes, indeed, sir; when an eatin' house
keeper sets down afore his customers an
deliberately eats one of his own veal pies,
no man refuses to feel confidence-it shows
him to be an honest man."
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

The board of supervisors of Cook county,
now in session, having unanimously passed
a resolution iustracting the committee on
public buildings to act in concert with the
common council of the city of Chicago either
for the enlargement of the Proscns court
house edifce or the erection of new one,
for the joint occupation of public offices of
the city and country, the 'spirits" which
have haunted that building for sometime
past have retired from public view-the
newspapers OF Chicago having used them to
produce the desired effect upon the supervi-
sOrs
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

The recent democratic victories through
out the country have attracted the attention
of congress, and on the 18th inst, Mr.. Getz,
of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution recit-
ing that the cities of Boston and Pittsburgh
had recently elected democratic mayors,
thus indicating spirit of disloyalty which
should be promptly suppressed, and direct
ing the committee on reconstruction to in
quire whether Massachusetts and Pennsylva.
mia have republican forms of government,
and do not need reconstruction.
Debate arising, the resolution went over.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
Whara il Hurts

Congress conferred the right of suffrage upon
the negroes at the south to secure the building up
and perpetuation of republican form of govern
ment in that section.-Qaiacy Wing.
Well, if it was necessary to 'confer the
right of suffrage upon the negroes in the
south" in order to ''perpetuate republican
form of government" how is it about the
northern states?" Why don't you insist
that congress shall interpose to establish re-
publican governments in the northern states
by allowing the niger to vote? Is "a re-
publican form of government one thing
in the south and another in the noth?
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

A clergyman in this city yesterday advis-
ed the ladies to grow and expand their hearts,
but he intimated that it wasn't quite clear to
him how some of them could do this to apr
considerable extent in the present e~~aea-
giant style of treating--or maltre".ahg
waists. He evidently had SIS eye on tneir
corsets which is ve,y improper place tor
a clergyman to have optics, or indeed any
other man.-Boston Post. S
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14
Tho Arlington Estate.

correspondent of the Picayune makes
the foiNwing reference to the Arlington es.
tate, the property of General Robert L. Lee:
Inc conaoct of the government in relation
to the ArhngNn estate, the property of Gen.
Robert L. Lee, has been most disgraceful-
do not now alluse to the shameful acts that
were perpetrated w falsely styled Union
soldiers during the wan; but to the course Of
tine government" since. The whole estate
embraces more than hundred acres, and is
W worth fully three hundred thousand dollars,
II 's'the privase property Of one man. namely.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-14

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lars. He may be made rich through an act
of benevolence. Read advertisement.