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A CARD,

GEORGE w. HAYDEN, practical Watchmak-
NJ er, working Jeweler and artistic Engraver
and Rnamelcr, and the we'll known maker Of the
Champion B. Is. Belt. has secured the former tel
egraph Office, three doors from the post Office, for
work shop, where he viii give bis entire atten
tion to the working part of the above branches.
After an experience Of twenty years, in the large
cities of the east, be hopes to prove himself with
out exception, the finest workmai in the west.
Watches and clocks cleaned, - ifed and ad-
usted on scientific principles, by 'ch accuracy
is guaranteed All kinds of jeweIry made 90
order, csmbiaing the elegance of eastern design.
with the intrinsc valve Of home production. En-
cravings executed in the highest style of The art
Al,.who wish their work done at the lowest pes
sible prices campstib.e with the finest possible
work nanship, should give bin q CALL
u may12d KSaGE0RGEw. HAYDEN.
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HIRAM o.. OR ULYSSES 81

What is the name of the man who is now
running on the radical ticket for the highes,
Office in the gift of the American people p
The convention which nominated him calls
him Ulysses S. but Grants father says he
named his son Hiram Ulysses. Concerning
the candidates name and his alias we have
the following information from an authentic
source
From EARLY Life of General Grant" written by
1868.
"hen tne question arose after his birth what
ne should be called, his mother said one of his
cunts proposed Albert, for Albert GalIatin
another aunt proposed Theodore /; his grsudfath-
er proposed hirafn' because he thought that was
handsome name. His erandmotber-srsnd-
mother by courtesy only-that is his mother
step-mother-was a great student of historv-and
had an enthusiastic admiration for the anse;ent
commander, Ulysses and she urged that the
baby should be named Ulysses / seconded that,
and he was christened Hiram Ulysses but bs
was always called by the latter name, which he
himself preferred when he got old enough 70
know about it. Bnt Mr.. Hamer, who nornin ated
him as CADET kno wing Mrs. Grants name was
simpson, and that we had q son named Simpson
somehow got the matter little mixed in maxim Z
nomination, and sent the name i'm Ulysses s..
Grant instead of Hiram Ulysses Grant. My son
tried in vain afterwards TO get it set fright by
the authorities, and suppose he is now content
with his name as ii stands. AZ sse4.s a,ss
|ie So that if Grant were catechised in the
episcopal method, "Who, gave You this
name ~ instead Of following the formula in
reply, my sponsors in abaptism,r he would
De obliged tossay, Mr. Hamers'a sas.,.sssakf
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A Bitter Sarcasm.

The Galva (Il.) Union, radical paper
thus mentions radical love for tAe soldiers !:
The Ingersoll gathering at Galesbnrg,
passed the following bitter sarcasm upon
those who volunteered to do service in the
field during the late civil war. aas-..-ssaas
Resolved, That to the loyal soldiers of the
United States army, who periled life, fortune, and
all that is dear and near, for the perpetuation of
our government and its institutions, we owe an
eternal debt of gratitude, which, although wecAn
never repay, we willever bear bright in our men,
ories.
Immediately on the passage of this reso.
luton, i! O. Ingerson was renominated for
congress without opposition. The gratitude
this knot Of politicians owe the soldiers =
all "wind." So long as the soldiers will vote
for Ingersoll, his friends will keep them
"bright in their memories" but as soon as
they ask TO have one of their comrades re-
membered in the disposition Of offices they
are summarily set aside and their characters
blackened so far as these wretches can black
en- them. The praise of a convention com
posed as the Galesburg one was, is but q bit
ter sarcasm-a foul insult. Remember that,
soldiers. ss - ~ sEk4
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A South Carolina delegate to the Ameri-
can Baptist Home Mission Society, now in
session at New York, told his brethren some
wholesome truths in the. course of debate
upon series of resolutions relating to ma
tional affairs. He said: t-stft-45#& 7
ave at the south do not recognize the
social quality of the negro. All the rights
which he has by law we hare no desire to
interfere with, but we cannot entrust to him
the management of the interest of our coun-
try for this simple reason - God and man
know he is not competent to control them.
We recognize slavery as dead, and we have
no desire nor idea of its restoration in any
form, but the political control of our coun-
try we cannot consent to transfer into their
hands. You may do il and we must sub
NIT; but of our own voluntary effort we will
not-we cannot. We have no disposition to
deny them the rights of freedmen, or of
baptists, or of the ministry. But upon the
question of suffrage we have no right to
commit this organization to republican or TO
democratic principles-to take the side oi
any political party. II Is proper, however.
that / shsnid add that we have the deepest
interest IN the elevation of the coiored peo-
PIE, anu tDeH euVancement IN morals, IN
education, and everything that goes to make
up the dignity of man. We are far more
deeply interested in them than in any other
people under heaven; because we have got
to dwell amongst them, or leave the graves
of our kindred and the homes of our youth.
If they are vicious, corrupt, ignorant de-
based, we suffer. II makes little difference
to you northerners, but all our interests, our
homes. our welfare, depend upon the society
which surrounds Us" ua d
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There is movement among the leading
members of the radical party which lookssto
, Q postponement Of the entire question Of
southern representation in congress until
next winter. A correspondent of the the N.
Z. Sunday Herald says:
This movement has created feeling akin
10 nstsznation ameng the senators and mem
oers elect from the southern q stes vino are here
ciamoring at the doors of either house for seats
upon the foor. One of the reasons alleged for
sne sudden change of base--indeed the most po-
tohe Ieason-is the fear that some of the southern
s1ssessnose that have the largest. .electoraI voas
-atc uAeiy TO cast those votes for the deme-
craAc presloentiai ticket. i Georgia, Alabama,
Arkanses and ivirginia are specially named. and
are likely TO be Kept out from this fear2n ss.s
One would think that the restoration Of
the Union under the most strinees. laws
that congress could enact was a matter of
far more Importance than the triumph of a
political party in general election: but
such ms Is the partisan feeling Of the hour that
men appear willing to change front in day,
ana proerastinste the execution of apolicy
winch they have been months in perfsct;;ns
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A telegraphic dispatch announces the
death of Christopher Carson,-better known
throughout the United States as "Kit" Car.
son-at Fort Logan, Colorado, on the 23d
nit. He was born in Kentucky on the 9th
of December, 1909, and emigrated to Mis-
souri when quite young. At the age of ff
teen he was apprentieed to saddler, ,continu-
ing in that business for two years, after
which, for sixteen years, he led the advenfgr-
Gus life Of trapper and hunter on the
plains. Returning to Missouri at the end OF
this time he met Gen Fremont and promptly
accepted an offer to join his exploring expe-
dition. His reputation as mountain trap
per and guide had by this time become ex-
tended, his name being connected with many
daring feats. In lS47 he was lieutenant
in the United States army and attached TO
the rifle corps, and during the rebellion he
was promoted from rank to rank until he
reached that of brevet brigadier general.
In 1853, Gen. Carson was appointed Indian
Agent in New Mexico, and since that time
he has been largely instrumental in bring
ing about the treaties between the United
States and the Indians.
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The New Tammany Hall.

It was on the Fourth of July last year
that the corner stone of the new Tammany
Hall was laid, and on the Fourth of July of
this year the building viii be inaugurated.
II is now nearly completed, and viii proba-
bly be evacuated by the contractors by the
middle of June. The building has already
cost about 100000. 1t is lie feet front
by l22 feet deep, and three stories high;
but the stories are so high that the building
towers far above its neighbors, and dwarfs
the academy of music almost TO insignif-
cance. II contains a large club-room, which
will be splendidly furnished; . committee
room IS BY 20 feet; a library and reading
room, 81 by 40 feet; concert room, 81 by
IA feet; large dressing room for ladies and
another for gentlemen, and several smaller
rooms for various uses. All these are below
the third floor, which is the crowning glory
of the building On this floor is the grand
hall, 1O4 BY 1lo feet, with a ceiling 80 feet
hich. and capacity for seating over three
bousand persons. Here the delegates TO
the national convention will assemble on the
Fourth of July, and here will be held the
great mass meetings of the democracy dn-
ring the campaign. The hall is the largest
of its kind in the world, and when finished,
with its commodious galleries and grand
dome, decorated with appropriate designs BY
first-class artists, it will certainly be one of
the most beautiful. In this magnifcen,
temple the Sachems and Wiskiuskies of Man
haitian will henceforth hold their councils
smoke the calumet and brandish the terrible
tomahawk 1t is a building the braves may
be proud of, as no doubt they are, besides
being a splendid ornament to the greatdem.
ocratie metropolis York Correspond
ence Boston Post.
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LANG AsrER, Pa, Jnne 5.-Mr. Buohanan's
tuneral was the most imposing ceremony ey,.
or Witnessed in this county. 1t extended ali
the way from Wheatland to Lancaster, dis
tance mile and half. Delegations from
New York. Baltimore, Harrisburg, Phila-
delphia, York, Reeding, Pottsville, and ma.
tional congress, as well as committees from
associations benevolent, political, and 9TH
ecs, walked over the route. About 10000
persons were in the procession. The ma.
sons assisted through the ceremony, and all
denominations of clergymen were at the
grave. Services by Rev. DIR. Nevin.
Business universally suspended
and people crowded the streets through
which the cortege passed to Wood
ward cemetery where the remains were de-
posited, according to the request Of Buchan-
an, in a simple substantial oblong tomb,
bearing the following inscription: "Here
rest the remains of James Buchanan, 18th
president of the United States, born in
Franklin county, Pa, April 23d 1871, died at
his residence in Wheatland, Lancaster coun.
tt, Pa, on June list 1868!' u
The will of Mr.. Buchanan is to be opened
tomorrow. He is understood to have left o
legacy to the poor Of the city of Lancaster.
His estate is computed at $500, 900. Mr.
Buchanan's last words were: 40 Lord
Hlmighty, as thou wilt" etA
MONTREAL June 4.-The Herald's special
says The Fenian scare trouhghout the
dominion is increasing instead of abating
and the authorities add to the general fear
of an impending raid by the extensive prep
arations they. are making. In this city a
flying column of com panies of regulars
and 2 detachments Of volunteers are under
orders to march at moments notice TO
any point they may be ordered. At Que
bee the volunteers have been ordered to
draw their requisite amount of ammunition
and rations and to keep themselves prepa
red in every particular for the campaign
A large force of British regulars are to
be sent to Princeton next week
and in the meantime large quantity of am
munition and other war material are being
forwarded to that point. At Athlone, Cana
do, fenian sympathizers are confident and
boast that news they have of the movement
Irish leaders make it certain that an invasor
will take place before the 20thl inst. Two
men were arrested at Sxeatsburg yesterday
charged with being fenian spies. Maps and
papers were found in their possession. Botf
of the prisoners are now confined in Jail.
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Leading radicals in congress, and leading
radical newspapers, are demanding this step.
There is no doubt they will reduce the party
small enough II they carry out the schemes
they have in hand. On this point the Post
sharply remarks: "The Independent lately
read Judge Chase ont of the republican par
ty. The 1ribune now turns out Trumbull
q mes, Fessenden, and Henderson. The
time has been that, when the brains we're
cut, the man would die, and there an end"
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DEMocRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.

At a meeting Of the Democratic County Com
mittee, and of the Rock Island Ward Commit
tees, held at the Office of A. Wsgener, Esq, in
Rock Island on the I'd instant it was veted to
hold 4 county convention in the Court House, in
Rock Island, on SATURDAY, jury i1rH, 1868, at
IL O'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for county officers, and
appointing delegas to congressional, senatorial
and judicial eonye 1tions. Also TO fill aGy VA
caneies which may then exist in the county com
mittee. sF
II was also recon nended that the democratic
and conservative voters in tie several townships
hold meetings on Saturday, june 27th instant,
to choose delegates to the county convention.
Also to form democratic clubs In the several
townships and wards; and take measures to per-
fsct their organ ;xation, and procure q supply of
reading matter for every family within their
Jurisdiction. =zvszz 7a.ea .eeEga@#
Each township win be entitled 10 one delegate
and also one additional delegate for every IS
democratic vo.es cast at the last presidential
Ata fnIsa . ! ,"
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Pain killer a Cure for pipthsria.

~hA AhsShSstSuf PlSaSS iISuu Tie iOioWluS
extract from letter from Mrs. Ellen B. Ma
son, wife of Rev, Francis. Mason, Tounghoo,
Birmah .......--~
-. NV son was taken violently SICK
With diptheria, cold chills, burning fever,
and sore throat. / counted one morning
ten little vesicles in his throat, very white,
and his tongue, towards the root, Just like a
watermelon, full Of seeds; the remainder
coated as thick as knife blade. So many
children have died around here, was afraid
to call a physician, and thought would try
your Pain Killer for a gargle, with small
doses inwardly. / did so, and found the
gargle invariably cut off the vesicles, and
be raised them up, often covered with blood.
He was taken on Sunday !; on Wednesday
his throat was dlesr, and his tongue rapidly
clearing off. i also used il as q liniment,
with castor oil and hartshorn, for his neck.
IL seemed TO me a wonderful cure, and
can but wish il could be known to the many
poor mothers in our land who are losing so
many children by this dreadful disease.
/ have found your Pain Killer one of the
most valuable medicines ever used in Bur
NAH. Once l was stung by very large
black scorpion; the pain was indeserihabie.
Iimmediately applied the Pain Killer sier
nevrr travel without it, again and AGAIN,
and in half an hour my foot was we'll
may 14u" ~ r wE MA@
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Democratic Victories at Galena, ILL.,, and
Racine, Wis.


rsy Racine, Wis.
GALENA, ILL.,, June 3.-The democracy oi
this city achieved the most glorious victory
yesterday ever obtained. We elect our
mayor, III. N. Savage, editor of the Galena
Democrut, by from ESQ TO 800 majority, and
also elect the entire board of aldermen by q
handsome majority. This victory is the
more gratifying, as it was stitct psrty CON
test, in view o. the approaching presidential
campaigns. m a b,eaH ,.9ses Is !
e DuBUouE, June 3.--A city election was
held i Galena, Grants home, on Tuesday
= d resulted in the overwhelming of the
Grant, w ashburne CLIQUE so 1dly that the
radical paper, the Gasette, the only paper
Grant reads, refuses to give the figures
The Gazette Of this evening. says at ia
rumored that the democrats sometimes called
copperheads, had things pretty much their
own way. Shouldn't wonder. We have
not the exact figures Have not bean in
the mood to-day to hunt up figures. ana ia
fact don't take much interest ia figures.
particularly when they foot up democratic
najorities," &C.. Grant gets cold comfo,l
from has old neighbors--those who should
KNOW him best. T. sisis ss&}s ~ ssass4ss
THE democrats Of Dubuque are iubiisut
so.n,gh. s9say S'efe oyer the result Of the Oregon
's RACINE, Wis, Jone n,ees s.-Racinsee -Ri se is redeem
ed /; Mcdonald, democrat, Is. elected by .
large msjsrity for jnstice Of the peace.
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The democracy the several counties of the
Fourth Congressional District are requested to
appoint, in the usual way, delegates to attend q
Convention to be held at Monmouth, on Wednes-
day, the AZ day of July, 1868, at o'clock P. NJ.
forsthe purpose of nominating candidate for con l.
gress, to be supported and elected by the votes
of the democracy and of all other friends of free
government, of republican liberty, and Of the
constitution and the Tnion. 8
Each county will entitled to one delegate
for every hundred votes cast for the democrat
ic candidate for President four years ago, and an
additional delegate for q fraction of fifty votes
or over, as follows
Adams, .............46 Warren,
Hancock. ...........-.29 Mercer |
Rock Island..........l5 Henderson. g
THoNAs JASPER, Adams.
Fl. V. SULLIVAN, no"s'
B. T, SCHoFIELD, Hancock
J. B. PATTERSON, Henderson.
Al SWAIN, Warren.
J.G. MADDEN,
d. r. WATERS, Mercer,
WIN. EGGLEsroS, Rock Island.
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DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

There being no record to be found of the exis-
tence of o democratic Senatorial or Judicial
District Committee for this District, the under
signed, editors of the several Democratic News
papers in the District have been requested, by
many Democrats, to unite and issue call for such
Conventions.
Therefore, the Democrats of the Counties OF
Rock Island, Henry and Bureau, comprising the
Twenty-First Senatorial District, requested 10
send Delegates to Convention to be held in
Sawyer s Hall, Geneseo, Wednesday July 18th,
at II o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose of nominating
q candidate for Senator, and also for Member Of
the State Equalizing Board. Also TO appoint a
Senatorial District Committee to call future dis
trict conventions.
The ratio of representation 10 the convention
will be one Delegate for every one hundred votes
cast for George b. Mcclellan, in 1854, as follows
Rock Island, l542-l5 Delegates.
Henry, l4l4-l4 Delegates.
Bureau, 1f92-1S Delegates.
J. B. DASFoRTH. JR.,
Rock Island Argus.
j. w. Seaton,
Prairie Chef-Galva-
C. L. Smith,
Bureau County Patriot-Prineeton.
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Major Gen. John McAnis,er Scho6eld, the

& Ma1or Oeh. JOuu hCsAAfstcE oCHoHefu, tuS
new secretary of war, was born in New
York on the 29th of September, 1881. At
the age of u years he removed, with his
fathers family, to Illinois, and entered West
Point from that state. He graduated in
1853, receiving the usual brevet OF second
lieutenant. After some years service in an
al illery regiment at the south, he was or
dered 10 West Point as instructor in natural
philosophy, and filed that position for FIVE
years. He was, in 1860, granted leave of
absence to occupy the chair of natural phi
loso ,hy in Washington University, St.
Louis. When the war broke out the then
Lieut. Scho6eld was appointed major in the
lst Missouri infantry, and in May, 1861 ,
he was made captain in the regular army.
From that time he rose rapidly until in the
following November he was commissioned
brigadier general of volunteers and assigned
to the command of the Missouri militia. In
November, 1862, he was commissioned a
major general of volunteers, in 1865 bre-
vet major general, subsequently being ele-
waited TO the full rank. After the close of
the war, Major General Schofeld was sent
to the sout hern states, on a tour of inquiry,
and after a short absence returned to Wash
ington. In May, 1867, an act of congress
divided the south into military districts, the
first of which, comprising the state of Vir-
ginia, was assigned to MAJOR General Scho-
field, which place be filed until appointed
secretary of war.
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The National fntelligencer photographs
Colfax under a strong light. This is the
picture:
He is a small country politician, faliaof am
bition, selfish, cunning, unscrupnious, and a
servile instrument of party, ever prompt to push
On in the ruck of partisans like himself and
keen TO protect his own interests by every form
of submission. This constitutes, IN fact, his
whole stock in trade, if there be added to 1t
plodding industry in politics, constant self-seek
ing, smiling exterior, and facility that may
impose on q mixed crowd Of noisy serenaders.
He is wholly deficient in high culture, breadth
of view, knowledge, qualities that serve to
make up an enlightened or practical legislator
After fourteen years of service in congress- there
is ne record off any measure that he ever originat
ed, of any new idea that he ever announced, or
Of any speech that he ever made which is re-
membered with interest or is marked by ability.
Mr.. Colfax is nothing but an industrious politi-
oian of whose class and character there are thou
sands in all parts of the country-nen who
make stump speeches, attend conventions, look
after nominations, and never forget themselves. T"
Yet this man is expecting to reach the
second dignity in our national government
through popularity gained by cast-iron
smile and facility in hand shaking.
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The responses to impeachment and Use-
less Grants nomination are swfully discour.
aging to the radical black-and tan party.
The state of Oregon, and Washington City,
where Grant resides, have both been re-
deemed from radical rule both have repu-
dated Grant and the guano impeachers.
They see the handwriting on the wall.
Grant will be beaten as bad as Scott was.
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18th Day Of. June. 1868,

at Q o'clock in the forenoon, "For the purpose OF
voting for or against said township subscribing
Five Hundred Shares to the Capital Stock of the
Peoria & Rock Island Railroad Company" upon
the express condition that said "Railroad shall
be located in and through the corporate limits of
Rock Island and shall enter said limits by way
of Moline. Shares to be Of the denomination of
One Hundred Dollars ($1o0) esch-the whole
amounting to Fifty Thousane Dollars 1850, ,0o0.)
Said Township to issue its Bonds bearing7 per
cent. interest per annum, to said Company in
payment of said subscription,--the principal
sum to be made payable as follows, via: Five
Thousand Dollars (S5,oo0) in Ten 10) Years
from date, and Five Thousand Dollars ($5.00O)
annually thereafter until the whole sum shall be
paid
"prorided, That said Bonds shall not be issued
until after said Railway shall be completed, ex-
cepting only they shall be required for the
construction of that portion Of said Railway
located IN Rock Island Township. And prOri-
ded further, That If said Railway Company
shall not so locate and construct said Railway,
then such subscription shall be absolutely null
and void and of no binding force upon said
Township being the object contained in the
said statement fled in my Office.
Given under my hand, at Rock Island, this
1st day Of june, A. ID. 1868.
P. L. McELHBRNE, Jr, Town Clerk.
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Whole number of delegates, IS
M%-H is hoped that the democrats in every
township will see to it that these meetings. are
hold and an organization made for the coming
campaign. Let no township 60 unrepresented
In the convention, or fail to form club, as re-
commended.
By order Of the Com ,nittee
B. D. BUFoRD, Chairman.
JACOB ADAMS, Sec'y.
Rock Island, June 4, 1858.
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Mrs. Il. B. Stowe, who has spent much
time for the past two years in Florida, con.
victs the radicals when she says the southern
people are no more inclined to resist the
laws, or to foster the spirit of rebellion, than
Vermont is.