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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05
New York Market.

Telegraphed TO the ARars
NFw YowK, March. 5.
Cotton-very firm at 25 middling uplands.
Flour-shade frmer at 9,75al0,2 % extra state;
9,Sea13,75 round hoop.
Whent-quiet and firm at 41a2 spring deliv-
cred.
Corn-1a2c better at 22a26 new mixed western
afoat; 81 old ditto in store.
Oats-dull and dropping at S22 for western
in store.
Pork-firm but dull at 23,37a23,62 for old
mess; 24,9Oa95 for new.
Iard-heavy at 15al6A; 16a small lots choice.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05
M. MARI,

nEUTSCHER ADVOCATE, ATTORNEY AT
- Law and Notary Public. 0fise in Post Of
dee Block, Rock Island, Illinois. sram sTsF1 E1s
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SiMlLiA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR.
HUMPHREYS ..
Hon6H0PATIIIC SPECIFICS

HAyE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
IL experience, entire success: Simple,
Prompt Efficient and Reliable. They are the
only Medicines perfectly adapted to popular use,
80 simple that mistakes cannot be made in US
ing them; so harmless to be free from danger,
and so Efficient as 10 be always reliable. They
have raised the highest eommenoation from all,
and will Away render satisfaction
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05


THE Davenport Democrat is badly posted
in regard to local matters in Rock Island
1t says the defeat of the democrats, at our
late city election
Can be attributed to the suicidal course pur-
sued by leading democrats in allowing themselves
TO be used by the monopolsts as opposed to the
interests of the people and the advancement of the
city"
What "monopolists ?" The ferry com.
pany, the gas works, the horse railroad, the
Peoria railroad? These are all run By rad.
icals. What Pleading democrats" were
used by these monopolists p r
We do not presume that the Democrn
wishes to misrepresent the democracy O
Rock Island-and if it does not, it will look
for reasons in democratic instead of radical
newspapers. The true reasons for the de-
feat of the democrats were given in the AR
GUS of last evening
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05
PETER FRIES,

D ECTIFIER AND MANUFACTURER OF
sa( Domestic Liquors, Importer and Dealer in
Foseign Wines and Liquors. Front street, oppo-
site Ferry Landing, Book Island, III. a-e-sa
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05
p,ailu ARGUS.
Rrsrniurn sob Frinting.

Orders for jon PRINTfSG win meet with Prompt
attention q the Assaus OtFIcE, and be exeeuted
in the veF1 best manhsr and Unreasonable rata.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05

BUTTER is becoming scarce in the mar
ket.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-05

and various other articles Of the kind, of good
quality, and at cheap prices - @&~
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
Letter from Delaware.

lSOEi ospUHutuCc Vi lue OllO SVHLekmAn.
t- '. DELAWARE, O.,-S pit. 80, 1868.
EDITORS STATESMAN: The editor of the
Sandusky (O.) Register -Nettleton-spoke to
the RAIDS here tonight. Tile crowd to hear
him was in the main composed of women
aud little girls. As a speakist he is not a
success. A Republican. one of the earliest
graduates of the o. w. u, of this place, re-
marked, after hearing him, tina. the speech
was remarkable for one thing-a want OF
sense throughout. All the information we
can get, goes to show that we are pretty
certain of electing portion of our county
ticket. The chances are also very favora-
BILE for the election of our Congressional al
nominee. He is gaining ground every
where, while OIL the other hand his oppo-
nent is losing, owing to his somersaults
on the Greenback question. 1851 .'a .-.aa
Our meeting on Friday night last was a
complete success-very large and enthu-
siastic. The speech of Hon. c. A. White was
a grand effort. carrying conviction to every
heart A number remarked that it was the
finest effort they had every heard. Geiger
was as humorous as ever. Gen. Jones, a
Radical of this place, undertook to inter-
rupt him, but the General cut his comb in
short metre. The meeting will do power
of good; like bread cast upon the water,
will Sc found again. Hurrah for Seymour
and Blair! lit.s Az % .. iatsea t,ra 7i-:r
ta ssuo LOUIS DDen0era'lcAiif; 3. VIC.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
Letter from Dublin.

lCorrespondence OF tse Ohl0 Statesman
DUBLIN, Ohio, Sept. 30, '6s.
EDITOR STATEsMAN:--T The Radicals of Dub
lin, after getting out hundreds of large
handbills announcing grand basket meet
Ing to be held in Thomas grove on Satur-
day, the 26th inst, and the announcement
stood in the most prominent column of the
journal for one month; and circulars were
sent to every Republican in the four ad-
joining townships, requesting them to do
all they could, and to bring out as many
weak kneed Republicans as possible to the
meeting. After all this advertising, pub
fishing and blowing, the 26th came around
and with it the smallest and most diminu-
tive looking set of sour Radicals ever be-
held or ever wish to again. .-'.
The gathering was so small that they
were ashamed to re-assemble in the grove /;
SO they adjourned to Dublin, and tried to
secure the Christian Church, but they would
not permit the church to be desecrated by
allowing Radical meeting to be held with
in its sacred walls. The next best thing they
could do. was to march to the north end of
town and enter an old dilapidated church,
which had been inhabited by wasps and
owls for the last eight years, as its door has
not been closed in that length OF time. The
church vacated it in 1860. :f
They marched into this church and
planted very little flag Zone foot long by
nine inches wide) on the top of the pulpit.
There may it sprout and grow into a large
one, is my prayer. After they had been
assembled for about fifteen minutes some
semi-clerical chap discovered that there
was an audience in the church, and nomi
mated chairman, who called the meeting
to order, and introduced James l.. Bates
to an audience of sixty persons, male and
about twenty-five voters present, and ten
of these were Democrats. sd, .f7-r
Judge Bates said, during his remarks,
that up to 1861, no party had given the
South the smallest cause tor doing as she
did. Does Judge Bates forget that the
anti-slavery party defeated Henry Clay in
1874 by running Jas. G. Burney. on Free
Soil platform, and thus threw the State of
New York to Jas. K. Polk ? Has he for
gotten that Wendell Phillips said he had
labored thirty years to drive ten States out
of this Union, backed by a strong anti
slavery party in New England? Has he
forgotten that Abraham Lincoln was elect
ed on an unconstitutional platform? How
ever, Judge Bates is in bad cause, and of
course, must do badly. J.J. Winans fol-
lowed. The Judge told us that no sanction o.
a divine nature had ever been found for
slavery. He said this after accusing the
Democracy with the intention of reinsav-
ing every negro in the United States pro.
vided they elected Seymour and Blair. 1
am no advocate of slavery, but challenge
any man to prove the following untrue:
l. Under the Mosaic dispensation, the |
Almighty commanded, through law, the |
children of Israel to buy bond men and |
boLd women ofthe heathen around abou
them, and of course an inferior race-to
be held as their servants forever.
2. Gods chosen people always held SER
wants, another word for slaves. .a-.t !
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30


8. Our Savior while on earth, and during
nus entire ministry, when he saw thou
sands of slaves, or servants around him,
never spoke one word against the system ;
and thereby gave 1t a tacit sanction, while
ne rebuked and denounced every other sin.
4. The Apostle Paul, the chosen vessel
OF God, during his ministry, a fugitive
slave, or servant, came into the place where
he was. and st. Paul sent him back to his
master. Paul in his epistle to the Ephe-
slams, 9th chapter and 9TH verse, says
'Servants-or slaves-obey your masters
according to the flesh, with fear and tremb-
ling, in singleness of your hearts," Sc
much for Judge Winans assertion.
The abuse the Republican party heaped
upon the Democracy during the war, ar d
since, caused the writer of this letter to
leave the Republican party, never to rt.
turn to it again. Yours,
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
ADJUSTMENTS.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Nofe Ihese Eacfs.

The object of this article is call ths attention
of the feeble and ailing to Menaseloes. Ordinarily
business. pleasure in short. almost everything in
this subluuary world obtains more consideration
than the preservation of that blessing with which
nothing earthly should be put in comparison, viz:
health This is dangerous season, and it does n Z
find the human system in the best condition Il
defy its perils. To homeIy phrase, the torr,d
summer weather takes the starch out of people,"
and leaves them limp and languid. The fires OF
vitality burn low. The naturally feeble are mn
usually depressed: the naturally strong are not a
vigorous as taey might be. Seven eighths of the
community feel more less the influence of the
atmospheric changes which produce the malarious
diseases common in October and November. II is
as protective against the effects of these changes
that HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS av
obtained no small portion of their celebrity The
GREAT VEGETABLE TONIC OF THE AGE is not only
specific for Chronic Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Bill
iousness and Nervous Complaints, but also a pre-
Ventive of malarious epidemics Whoever wishes
to be insured against attack of Intermittent or
remittent feverebeth of which prevail to a melan-
choy extent all over the country. will do well to
resort. without delay, to this famous invigorating
and anti-bilious specific. Quinine has had its day.
It leaves sting behind. and physicians are begin
ming to discard it. But HOSTETTER'S BITTERS
become more popular and command a vaster sale
with each successive season. simply because tAey
prodnoe better medictnoE effect than any of the
pot0erful poisons used tOnics and are at once q
safe and palatable preparation.
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

PHALoNs ..PAPHIAN SOAP" for the TOILET
NURSERY. and BATH, will not chap tn
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS-.
Seventh Congressional Districto
.JOHN ~. 'rs. OyI A.. of Clarke.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
ITO Owners Of Horses"

TO owners or HOrSoS.D
Thousands of horses die yearly from Collie. Tn
need not be. DR.. Tobias Venetian Horse Lini-
ment in pint bottles, price dollar. will posi-
lively every if given according to the di-
rectons, when first taken. 1t is warranted superb
or to any thing else for Cuts, Calls. Sprains, Old
Sores. Swelings and Sore Throat. 1t is no new
remedy. but of 81 years. standing. and approved
by the first horsemen in the country. Col. Philo
p. Bush, of the jerome Park Course, has used it
for years, and recommends it to his friends. Or
ders constantly received for it from the Racing
Stables in England. 1t has stood the test of time;
no one has tried it but continues its Rec
ollect to get DIR. Tobias Venetian Horse Liniment
in pint bottles and take no other. Sold by the
Druggists and Storekeepers throughout the United
States. Depot 10 Park Place. New York.
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
"FLOR DE MAYO"

A NEW PERFUME for the HANDKERCHIEF
EXQUISITE, DELICATE, Lasting FRAGRANCE
PHALON & SON, N. Y. Sold by all Druggists
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
FOR PRESIDENT,
i.0RATl0 SEYMOUR, ),
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR, JR.,
=; OF MISSOURI.
OF MISSOURI.

HON. wUFUs p. RANNEY, of Cuyahoea
HON. HUGH }. JEW EFT, Of Muskingun
DIsrR CT ELECTORS.
1st Dist-JOHN B JEUP. of Hamilton.
al ~. M. NOBLE. of Hamilton.
I'd gro. W. HOuCK. Of Montgomery.
Ith q w JACKSON. of Miami. n
M ISAAC i. PILLARS, Of Allen.
stb Nj. al. DAVIS, Of Cleruonts , >
7tS WIN. J. ALEXANDER. of Greene.
sth -E. Y. P0PPLETON, OF Delaware.
sth John A. t!RAMER, of Ottawa
10th ANDREW ROACH. OF Woods
Nth EZRA V. DEAN, OF Lawrence.
18th - II, j. .GREENE. Of Pike. q s-FJlsr
18th &C. F0LLETT. Ct Licking. ~
18th H. b POPPLETOS Of l,orain.
18th ISAAC STANLEY, Of Athens.
18th "af-A. w. PATRICk, Of TuscarawaS; f
17tb r"s-SiMUEL WILLIAMS. of Carroll.
IIsth GEO. WIENER. of Summit. fr
18th MATT, BlRCdAhD, OF Irumouu.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

PHALON'S .sPAPHtAN LOrION''
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
Democratic State Ticket.

FOR sEcRErARY OF STATE
THOMAS RUBBAR d. of LogaDs
- FOR SUPREME JUDGE
VILLA 8 E. FlNCK, OF Perrys
roR nsxBER OF BOARD OF PcBLIo WORKS
an THUR HUG HES. OF Cuyahoga.
.ssoft FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER,
SAMUEL j, Kirk WOOD. of Seneca
FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT.
JOHN m. WEBB OF MahOninE.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

COLD closed in New York yesterday at
141M.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
The Sfudents' Voting Law-False-
hood and Siander of Radical


hood and Siander of Radical
Sheet. r-sra
The Deld,oare Gazette has four columns of
the Columbus Journal the latter paper
adopting it as its own, OF an attack on the
Legislature ofIasr winter because repeal
ed the law allowing students, attending
College, to vote at the place where the COL
lege Is located.
The student is now allowed to vote only
where his residence is. If he resides at the
College, he can vote there. If not, he must
go home to vote. In this, the law puts the
student on tho same footing with the man
that labors. If he works in Columbus, and
his family reside in Delaware, he must vote
where his family resides. No man can be
legal voter in two places at the same time.
A single fact which happened within the
last year, will show the necessity of the re-
peal of the law which thus gave students
ae College but did not give working men
the privilege of being legal voters in two
countiesat the same time. m Hsl
At the last October election. several Re-
publican students. attending college at Del,
aware, Gambler and other points, whose
parents resided in Muskingum county,
went home to vote. The county was a
doubtful one, aud as these young Republi-
cans having the right they exercised 1t, Of
voting in the doubtful county. Some
months after, there being vacancy in the
Eighth Congressional District. an election
for member of Congress was ordered. The
county of Muskingum is not in the Dis
trict, and hence the legal residence OF the
young men who went to that county to vote
at the October election, being in Mus
kingum, they had no right to vote in the
Delaware District, yet they voted. If
a workingman, living in GAINESVILLE and
laboring in Delaware, had done this, it
would have sent him to the Penitentiary
for illegal voting. This distinction between
labor and wealth-between the man that
earns his bread by the sweat of his face,
and the man whose parent is rich enough
to board him at college, is done away with,
by the repeal of the students voting law,
and the Journal inf1icts half page of that
sheet TO abusing the Legislature for doing
that which was IN itself eminently Just,
right and proper.
AS sample of the falsehood of which
characterizes the article, we submit the
following: 1,tto.h
"As a Democratic member remarked, the
purpose of the bill was to stop these abo-
iition holes (colieges) and for the reason,
as stated by another Democratic member,
that we (the Democracy recognize the
fact that the churches and these chartered
institutions are all against Us, and as we
expect no favors from them we shall give
none.'" l.,,s,,.
AS there is not one word of truth in the
whole article, it being like "some books"
which are lies from end to end" we leave
the editor of the Gazstte, with the assurance
that he is a stupid dolt,. whose want of
sense he tries to make up tor by his want
of truth.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-The President
has appointed s. E. Johnson, of this city,
=. Con ujssioner to cOdify the laws of the
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

WASHINGTON, Sept. -2S-The President
has appointed s. E. Johnson, of this city,
as Commissioner to codiiy the laws of the
United States, oios Caleb Gushing, resigned.
We find the above in q special telegram
to the Cleveland Leader. The 5. e. JOHN
SON PANIED is no doubt SANDERS w. JOHN
sros, formerly of Ohio-once a Senator
from the Clermont district and afterwards
a Judge in Kansas. He has been resident
of Washington tor some years.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
Another Radical Forgery Ex-
nO.ed.

Another Radical Forgery Ex-
posed.
The Cincinnati Commercial and other Rad
ieal sheets, have published the following
with extensive comments and severe de-
nunciation:
"BANeoR, Me-, Aug. q, 1868.
".Sonsrs Kenney. Esq. Houston. Texas:
my DEAR SIR:-Yours of the I'd inst.
dated at Brownsville, was forwarded to me
from Cincinnati. In reply, have only to
say that you can not urge too strongly our
brethren of Texas to stand by the National
Democracy, and resist all Radical attempts
to abuse you. My heartfelt wish is that you
may succeed In your new undertaking. we
are making a last fight for constitutional
liberty, and the signs of the times indicate
Democratic triumph hitherto unknown.
Yield not seintilla of your honor. There
is no room for compromise. About your
being allowed to vote, be not alarmed: we
shall see that Texas is represented. " ote,
by all means. Send me your paper to Gin
cinnati. will write more fully tomorrow
or the day after. s@s 5s.e- 4. 7..s =
--1 s.Yours truly. ~ s.5i.,--
"GEo. II. PENDLEToN."
The COMMERCIAL of yesterday, publishes
the following from Mr.. PENDLEToN, show
ing the letter to be forged document: Z &
1--WE have received from the Hon. George
H. Pendleton the following: 20 s., s--7
"'CIRcLEvILLE. O., Sept. %, 1858.
".To the Editor of The Commercial:
"'The letter In the Commercial of to-day,
as being from me to Somers Kenney, of
Texas, dated Bangor, Maine.a september
81, 1858 Is forgery. Your friendly COM
ments conveyed the first knowledge had
of the letter or of the person to whom it is
addressed.
"sGEoRGE 81. PENDLEToN.'
"The forged letter has appeared in the
Eastern papers and provoked q great deal
of comment. The Tribune and Herald, of
New York, have editorials about it. They
will of course note the fact that Mr.. Pen
dleton Is not responsible for the letter."
We will see if the Tribune and Herald
will take back their charges against Mr.
and the Democratic party
based upon the forged letter. Let us have
Peace. -a - fd@d M
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

PIPE AND FITTINGS.
Wrought-iron Pipe (Plain or Galvanized,
Cast-irOn Soil P,pe.
Stone and Cement Drain Pipe,
Malleable and Cast iron Fittings,
Steam Valves, Stop Cocks,
Gas. Service, d
-... Meter Cocks, &C., &C.,
Or anything in the Pipe or Fitting line is at
." MCHENRY x CO.'S Depot,
Nos. East Fourth and l62 Main street.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30
PROBES SIONAL,

DR.. A. B. WILLIAMS, West Broadway, nor
iigh street. Columbus, Ohio, has devoted himself
series of years to the trestD ent ofcertain priI
7ate diseases. He may bscensultsd at his ofice-
broadway. near the Exchange BANK
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u i''AN' . -'A' HoHENRY & CO.'S Depot.
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But that plan OF adjustment was thrust
aside-thrust aside, as shall endeayer to
sh you, in violation of the Constitution
of the United States, to the infinite injury
of the whole people of this country, North
en- but to secure the domination in this
country of party which felt itself about
to become minority party.
Gen. EWING then passed to the Radical
Congressional plan of reconstruction, and
briefly alluded to the two which had been
put forth. The first by Senator MORTON, OF
Indiana, that the Southern States were still
States of the Union, and when the war
ended they had Constitutions and laws
which the war had not destroyed. This
plan falls short of the party emergency in
this: Congress, in its reconstruction meas
ures, did not merely undertake to enable
the electors of the Southern States who
were qualified to vote, according to their
State Constitutions and laws, to themselves
restore their governments, but it explicitly
declares that those Constitutions and laws
are ,abrogated and it expressly assumes
I"paramount authority" in Congress to
ilegislate in those States without re-
gard to their Constitutions and laws.
1t aorogates the State Consultations
and laws by depriving very Iary e
body of the electors of the right of
suffrage, and by admitting to the right OF
suffrage another very large body of ne
groes who are excluded by those Constitu-
tions and laws. e-
If those States were States in the Union,
their Constitutions and laws must have
been in existence when the war ended.
and must have been valid, and if they
were, Congress had no right to say that the
great body of the electors in the Southern
States should be changed, and to say that
those Constitutions and laws were de-