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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

We rather pity the igorance and bigotry
Of the RIM when it charges all the fraudu.
lent voting, and illegal naturalization, upon
the democratic party. It's own friends in
New York and Philadelphia have abandon.
ed that idea. The reputation given to the
democrats, heretofore, on this subject, was
wholly undeseryed, and was the work Of
systematic and persistent Islander. Go back
to the old days of the Glentworth frauds,
the pipelayng, the Philadelphia yarn, and
oil that sort of business, charged upon the
democrats. Don't the Rim it was,kuow that
after investigation, all placed atthe door ofthc
wings? lift don't know that fact, it is bad
ly instructed. Don't the Rim know that
Dan Sickles and Johnny Cochrane, two of
the most active republicans in New York,
al the late election, were, when in our party,
accused, by the republicans, Of being the
smar.est Of the smart among the Tam
many politicians in making votes and stuff.
ing balIotboyes? If the charge was true
then, we wish to know if they have grown
more yrtuous under their new associations2
Have they uulearnt any Of their old wiles
We trow not and while the decent part of
their party is accusing the democrats Of
fraud, they little know hog the hundreds
Of thousands of dollars which they
contributed were used in the eudeavor tC
carry New York for Grant and Griswold.-
Nor have the people forgot how, in 1864
Beast Butler, with 10000 soldiers, was sen
to New York City to scare democrats from
voting nor how Col. North was arrested in
order to prevent the New York soldiers from
voting for Mcclellan; nor how I. S. Mar
shal Murray, Illegally aud without excuse
began, in October last, TO arrest people and
charge them with having counterfeit natu
razation papers; nor how Gov. Fenton
pretended to be afraid Of riot and sum
moned his militia officers to put the troops
Of the city under arms nor how every pos
sble effort was made to destroy the honest
democratic majority of New York City
But with all the radical frauds, and their
old game Of intimidation, they were not able
to prevent the Empire State from placing
its seal OF condemnation upon the policy OF
the radical party.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28
Niagara.

We once gave our readers the opinion OF
a western drover, expressed on a first view
Of Niagara Falls After looking at them
half minute, he remarked
"Them's nice falls let's 60 up and look at
the town
This was about as cool remark upon the
subject as could possibly be made, but there
is something more exquisitely droI in the
story Of the English cockney who recently
returned from a trip to America. He had
seen the falls, and was asked, ofcourse, what
he thought of them.
"They'r 'andsome," he replied, "quite SO
but they didn't quite hansen my hexpecta
tionS-besides got vetted and lost my at
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

dates in another district, aud the manner Of
securing it, will be discussed more fully, by
and by. 1t is not party question, and can.
not well be made one. It is question Of
right, Of fairness, of justice, and one which
must be carried out to its logical conclu.
sious, or the Liberties Of the people will be
lost The first step is to secure to MINOR.
ties, everywhere, the right to their Just and
fair proportion of boards Of registry and Of
election boards, When that shall be done,
the justice Of the other proposition will be
seen, acknowledged, aud put in practice.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28
minated Mr.. Conkling

nominated Mr.. Conkling.
The Hon Schuyler Colax aud wife are
in this city. They will leave for Washing.
ton tonight,
There was an immense mass meeting OF
democrats last evening at Tammany Hall to
ratfy the nomination Of municipal officers.
Its currently reported through authority
not disputabe that the two receivers Of the
Erie road, Judge Davis ayl Jay Gould, are
working together harmoniousy, and that
there will probably be- no more litigation OF
an acrimonious character.
CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 2S.--The steamer
Boston is reported sunk in Lake Michigan
by the steamer Milwaukee Both belong to
the northern transportation companys line.
No lives lost. No particulars.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

Democrats everywhere should remember
that the New York World newspaper pro.
Tossing to be democratic in politics, now
boasts and takes credit to itself for defeating
Seymour and Blair in the late contest, be
cause they were nominated on greenback
platform. 1t seems that the W0rH, Mr..
Belmont, and other eastern bondholdcr5,
saw, long before the national convention was
held, that the democracy would cmbody in
their platform the theory Of one currency for
the bondholder and for the powhoder
These traitors then determined to defeat the
national ticket, it made no difference who
was nominated. With the aid of the open
ad 5ersary, they succeeded Let the people
remember this shameless treachery, ana that
the New York World is not democratic
newspaper but simply Wall street para
site.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

mother, where the doors were barred aud
locked, for fear he would follow her. This
be did not do, but quickly made bis way to
his old home, where he met a more hearty
welcome FROM his old mother, Thus the
case stands at present. the woman refusing
TO believe 10 the existence Of her husband,
and the gossips Of Dorchester have at least
= months supply Of talking before them.
How long the husband will allow bis wife to
stll call herself a widow, time and the law
viii have to determine. Sensations Of the
quasi Enoch Arden character are not always
wanting even in such s,aii aud sober places
as Dorchester.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

Gen. Grant was impartial in his distribu.
ton of fayors to New York gents. lie
dined with Pierrepont, war democrat break.
tasted with Greeley, radical and dined again
with Hoffman, democrat, at dinner given
in honor of Evarts, johnson republican.
But the fact that he should sit down at the
table with Charles O'Conor, the counsel for
jeff, Dayis-that the counsel for JEFF. Davis
should propose the President elect as toast
second to that Of the President, has nearly,
broken the hearts of the "earneqtmen.o
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

A letter received by gentleman IN Wash
ington from ex.Prosident Pierce, dated at
Concord, N. H., Saturday, November Il,
saws; ~ was quite free from pain yesterday,
and an meSsurably so to day. If the
weather shall be favorable tomorrow, | hope
to put my foot beyond the outer threshold,
which | have not done for three weeks"
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

Mere vulgar wealth is getting to be the so.
cial test of respectabilty in this country. We
have got rid drank to bow before the COL,
den calf of money. Human nature among
US has lost much of its dignity and selfre.
spect in the vulgar scramble for wealth, 1t
is humiliating spectacle. Business is our
real religion and our thoughts, like those Of
Mlton's Mulciber, are downwards bent
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28
Saturday Evening, November %, 1853

The speech of Mr.. ColfaI, at Pittsburgh,
after his election, in which he exulted over
the defeat of the democrats, as though they
we're enemies and not fellow.citizens entitled
to equal rights and presumed to have equal
intelligence with himself, was in exceeding
IL bad taste.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

A FINE THING FOR THE TEETH.-The
fragrant Sozodont has taken a very promin.
ent place among the most approved dent.
frices of the day. 1t is very popular arti-
Gle for the toilet, highly recommended by
all who have used it as beautfer and pre-
server of the teeth, refreshing the mouth
Sweetening the breath, and arresting the
progress of decay.
"Spslding's Glue
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

During the presidential campaign, there
was much discussion as to the number Of
white men DISTINGUISHED in the southern
states. The democratic press charged that
the Acknowledgement was SO sweeping and
general as to give most of the states to the
negroes and carpet-baggers-we name the
negroes first as being best entitled to prece.
dence-altbough they were greatly in the
minority. The republican newspapers said
the Acknowledgement amounted to but a
small percentage of the whole number of
voters.
A prominent democratic newspaper in
New York, which says its authority will be
forthcoming on demand, gives the suboined
figures:
Disfranchissd. |
900
n l2Z,goS
Texas 400
PSI, 1888
IN no two otthe southern states have great.
er frauds and outrages been perpetrsted in
dealing with electors than in Misso,r; ord
Tennessee. It's fact which can be sinh.
stantiated by Crowds of witnesses" that, in
those states union soldiers who fopob,
through the war we're denied the privilege
of voting because they were democrats. If
the jacobins regard their own safety. they
ought to begin to inquire how long this dis |
REIMBURSEMENT villainy can be continued.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING,

THE undersigned have formed a co-partner-
l. ship, under the firm of smealon l. schlem.
mer, for carrying on the business Of House, Sign,
and Steamboat Painting; Draining, Kalsomin,
ing, Paper Hanging Glazing, DC.
FRANCIS SMEALON,
JOHN SCHLEMMER,
Rock Island Aug. 20, 1858, DIFF.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28
R0END OYER.

YOUR clothing can be cleaned and bound
L and pressed over, SO that it will look as
well as new, by
L. WILCOX,
Tailor,
Washington ST., bet Orleans and Rock River,
sepl5d3m.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-28

When / remember oil
The girls I've met together,
| feel like d rooster in the fall
Exposed to every weather.
feel like one who reads alone
Some barn yard all deserted.
Whose oats are Aed--whoso hens are dead
And off to market carried.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

like ono of these" There may be il il
true, little more "style" and 'fashion
and less charity, found in the city thar
in the country. But men aud women oi
tho country and the farm, remember the
truth uttered by him who hath said
that "Fashion Is an umpire that fools
doth bow to-" The idea that ngricult-
ure, that farming, that cultivating tho
soil, that earning the broad VIC eat by
the sweat Of the brow, is low calling
or an avocatiou dishonorable, is fostered
only by the grosecst ignorance and sug-
gested only by the shaIlowest mind.
Let no one bo mistaken in tho impor-
tanco Of agriculture, or the exalted posi-
ton held by the farmer. For upon ag-
riculture depends all tho other business
and pursuits of life. It is the very foun-
dation, the substratum Of our political,
social, civil and commercial systems.
Farmers are proud of their calling
aud well they may be, for it is in the
country and upon the farm that is found
native personal independence, intclli-
gencc and honor. 1t is there that is
found domestic peace aud good will to
all, and is felt the operation Of the per-
feet law Of liberty.
The great men Of our country we're
farmers. Washington spent the earliest
and latest days of bis life in the pursuits
Of agriculture Jefferson and Franklin
were farmers; Clay aud Webster, whilst
they were great Statesmen, orators and
lawyers, they were always interested in
the agricultural prosperity of the country,
and when tired Of the cares and perplex-
tiles Of public life, retired to the farm
for quietude and repose. And Jackson
was not prouder man when Packenham
surrendered to him his sword aud made
him the hero of Orleans, than he was
when cultiyating the soil at the Hermit
age, or training his horse aud testing bis
speed at the turf
Farmers Of Linn county farmers ofOr-
egou greatly prize, aud fill well your high
position. Upon you and the influence you
exert, the State, the country depends for
the development Of its great resources.
Teach your sons early the lessons Of the
farm. Teach them how to piow, how to
SOW aud how TO reap. Teach your daugh-
ters likewise as they should be taught
Your sons will thus make better farmers,
mechanics, statesmen, lawyers or other
professional men than they otherwise
would. Your daughters, though born
they may have been in some humble cab.
in and rocked in u cradle made of a box,
yet with the proper instruction they will
be obedient daughters aud will make
noble women. They may not dash forth
from the retreats Of modesty, aud assume
the garb of manhood. or engage in the
angry agitations of the political arena,
but they will flI sphere the noblest,
the highest aud the holicst that man or
woman can gil they will teach the law
Of kindness, Of purity aud Of love.
Thus will be promoted the public
good and civilization of the country.
Stronger still will be the pillars of our
- Farmer Republic" and solidiGed still
more the bulwarks around the citadel of
liberty.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10
NO. 8


Seymour's appearance, as he took the
chair in Tammany Hall is thus described
Seymour is dressed in the old-styIe, shad
belly coat, which is buttoned across hi,
chest, leaving open diamond.shaded
portion Of irreproachable white linen and
a very neatly arranged black neck.tie oi
moderate dimensions. The head il well
shaped, and set gracefully back on a firm
pair Of shoulders, and the lower part of the
face, below the eyes, is almost perfect
oval. The eyes are Of brilliant brown
color, and shine like diamonds beneath
firmly balanced forehead, which ia bald
the badness extending back az far as the
skull. The mouth is pleasant and mobile
and when Seymour smiles at you, the eff,
feet produced is genial one. This ys a
cultured man, u man of free tastes and
high purposes, man Of elegant diction
and also powerful analysis. The skin
OF the face is sallow and thin scam of
white whiskers encircles the throat under
the chin. Why is it that all men of mark
in the worlds struggles have this pccul.
lar sallow skin 1t has always been an
accompaniment, if not an Indication of
genius. The Caesars, Napoleon, Freder.
&c, Tully, Turenne, Disrnli, Henry CLAY.
Webster, and many others Of similar Gel
ebrlty, have had, or have sallow SKINS
The dress Of Seymour is in perfect ac.
cordance with good taste, for Horatio
Seymour is gentleman first, last. aad
all the time. When he makes a GESTURE
it is dignifed. and yet graceful. Ills
voice, slightly impaired yesterday by a
bad cold, is correct in its intonation. full.
and, when approaching a climax, reso.
nant. The hands, when lifted in air. are
white like woman's, and the fingers
slcnderly shaped. When speaking, all
eyes and ears are turned his way, and his
influence on large body Of men Is mag
netic and thorough His long and stead
tast adherence to Democratic principles.
his persistence in the right, through
good and i'll report, has made the name Of
HoratIo Seymour dear one to all Demo
Gratis. To the humbIest man he il cour-
leous, polite and kind in his manner
His knowk dge of parliamentary law is
full. His manner Of recognizing a dele
gate on the floor is all that could be de-
.ired aud no man in the house ever
looks at him for Eve minutes without feel
ing that he is worthy Of being chairman
IF that convention"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

RATES OF ADVERTISING. pr yr.n (,na
Column, 800 Half Column, $50; cuarter COLI
umn, S35.
transient Advertisements per Square often Iines
or less, FIRST insertion, So each subsequent inser
ton, 81.
square Is one inch in space down the column,
counting cuts, display lines, blanks, &c., rs solid
matter. No advertisement to be considered
than square, and all fractions counted a full
square. All advertisements inserted for = less
period than three months to be regarded as tran
sient.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10
Aggregate increase in four years. 7sg 4ss

Aggregate increase in four yeAFs........$ 75s 4ss
Where has this tremendous increase in
the contingent expenses of the House of
Representatives, gone toI What excuse
is there for an increase Of seven hundred
and .titty-seren thousand four hundred
and thirty.elgM dollars, in these expenses,
in time OF peace :? Can you account
for it, taxpayer Shall these things
continue? Shall this system of whole
sale robbery, inaugurated by the Radical
blood-suckers of the Rump, go on from
year to year until the treasury is depleted,
and the Government and the people
bankrupt 1t is with the people, the
taxpayers to say. A vote for the Radi-
cal ticket is an endorsement of this policy.
A vote for the Democratic ticket is vote
in favor of.reform, of economy and homes
ty in the administration of the Govern
ment.- Winona Minm.) Democrat.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10
Radical EcouOmy-Keep the Facts
before the People.

From June to July the national debt
aroselfrom s2,00l $50, ,s42 to 81, ,O60. $50
392, being an increase of more tha nfifty-
three millions of dollars in one month.
Taxpayers, look at these figures.
Fiity-three millions increase of the debt
in one month, or at the rate of nearly two
millions day! Notwithstanding that
the people are taxed, taxed Oh everything
they eat, drink or wear; taxed upon the
implements with which they earn their
daily bread; taxed upon their products.
their incomes, their notes of hand-taxed
upon everything, the immense resources
thus secured to the General Government
are squandered by the Radicals who have
it in charge, while at the same time the
burdens of tbs people are being increased
rather than diminished. Taxpayers.
think of it Fifty-threc millions in.
crease of the public debt in one month.
when We are at peace with the whole
world
4 table before US contains a statement
of the contingent expenses Of the Rump
House of Representatives for several
years past. From this statement the peo-
pie can gather an inkling of the Radical
idea Of economy, and of the manner in
which their substance is squaudcred.
The statement before US is official, and as
| follows
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10
Avn exnhnnoe defines a eonntrr edi

An exchange defines country editor
as ian individual who reads newspapers
writes articles on any subject, sets type
reads proof, works press, folds and mails
papers, prints jobs, runs errands, saws
wood, works in the garden, talks to al
who call, scandalized by the mean anC
low-minded whenever he calls on LADY
more than once, receives blame for hun
dred different things which are no one.
business but his own, works from 6 a. m.
to 10 p. M, and frequently gets cheated
out of half of his earnings"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10
HEAR WHAT A SOLDIER sArs.-Gen

HEAR WHAT A SOLDIER SAYs-Gen.
cral Hancock, in a recent letter gives ex-
preston to the following manly senti-
ments:
"ThOse who suppose do not acquiesce
in the work Of the National Democratic
Convention, or that do not sincerely de-
sire the election Of the nominees, know
very little of my character. Believing,
as | verify do, that the preservation OF
the Constitutional Government eminently
depends on the success of the Democratic
party in the coming election, aeere 1 10
hesitate an its cordial support, 1 feel l
should not only .falsiIy my o,cn record,
BUT COMMIT A CRIME AGAINST MY
COUNTRY"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

Bay- 4 writer in the Church Union, 4
religious Radical paper, thus speaks OF
Grant:
Gen. Grant is not ut man for "a
christian TO support Here now
is this speechless sphynx envcloped in a
cloud Of tobacco smokc--a silent, stub
born man Of the world. Suppose he
tEkes it into his head to convert his four
years grant of power into a life lease, or
any other whim lie has the army at
his command, and erery epR Influence foo
IN the land ,eW support him. We do not
say this will be, but is it proper for chris
tian men TO give over the executive pow
er of this nation inte such hands
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

THE following little item of informa.
ton speaks volumes. A Florida cores.
pondent writes
l think the northern tax payers, who
make their living by honest toll, should
know that for two months the govern
ment has been distributing free rations to
the negroes in this State. In Leon
county, where the negroes registered
about 2,700 voters (2,666, some $4,000
rations were issued last month alone. Do
you give free rations to the laborers of the
north?
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

A paper, giving an account of Tou-
louise, France, says: "It is large town,
containing sixty thousand inhabitants,
built entirely of bricks" This is only
equalled by well-known description Of
Albanyl "Albany is a town of eighty
thousand houses and twenty-five thou.
sand inhabitants, with most of their gable
ends to the street"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

A California editor says he lately met Q
grammarian who had just made tour
through the mines cogitating thus: "Pos'
tive, mine; Comparative, miner; Super.
lative, minus"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

IF IGNORANCE is Bliss" the South
Carolina black.and-tan Legislature is the
happiest body in existence. 1t is said tC
contain eighty members who can neither
read nor write.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

1t is said that dose of pulverized
charcoal taken daily is the best preventa-
tive of cholera and all summer diseases
This remedy is coming largely into usc
for dvsnensia.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

A victimized philosopher insists that
those women whose babies have no visi-
BILE fathers, should not lay their sins at
the doors of other people.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

How many people are busy in this
world gathering together a bundle OF
thorns to sit upon!
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

An adventurous young lady in Ohio
lately captured beaver, and also the man
who was carrying it about on his head
Young ladies are given to such.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

Some wretch of an editor says another
twist to the present mode of doing VI"
the ladies' hair would take them off their
| feet.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

"I never was ruined but twice." said
wit, "once when I lost a lawsuit and once
when I gained one."
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

DIDN'T PRAcT1oE.-An old lady an
nounced in court, at Atlanta, that she
had no counsel" that God was her law
yer" {" My dear Madam" replied the
Judge, He does not practice in this
court"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

It is said that Butler will go into
Grants cabinet. Certainly-if he keeps
his spoons there.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

IF Adam had asked Eve for a kiss
could the latter, without profanity, have
replied, 81 don't care Adam if you do. ."
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

The first Chinese flag ever raised in
this country was put at half mast by the
Embassy, in honor of the late Ex-Presi-
dent Buchanan,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-10-10

A French paper advertises for an edit
or, and promises double pay while ne is
in prison.