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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-28

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of charge, on receipt of the prioe.
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HEMEOPATHIC MEDICINE co.
Office and Depot, No. 6s2 ROADWAY, New York.
Dr. HUMPHREYS is consulted daily at his Office,
personally or by letter, above, for al forms of
disease. z-.s -
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febI4dly.
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tCommunicated.l

EDITOR ARGUS. Sir-The Union of To.
DAY, after making an extract from your pa.
per, which refers to Mcclellan, says :.
False. Mcclellan did not resign when he
Tas no minsted--not till after the election, ana
ne vas so badly beaten as to be ashamed TO con.
tinue in his place"
y, The Union is incorrect. General Me.
S'elian resigned on the morning of Novem.
Der 9Th, 1864, 1.-THE day of the election and
before the result could possibly have been
known. Vide Army Register for 1865,
~ VoI.
hock Island, May u, 1865. xsa
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pailp Ar9ns.
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-28
SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR
HUMPHREYS
HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS

LAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
IL experience, entire success: Simple,
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only Medicines perfectly adapted to popular use,
so simple that mistakes cannot be made in us
ing them; SO harmless to be free from danger,
and so efficient to be always reliable. They
have raised the highest communication from a.,
and will always render satisfaction:
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-28
DIED.

In Rock Island, at o'clock on the morning OF
the 2sth, SoPHrE A. HEN, aged years, month
and Is days. r.-
Funeral tomorrow at o'clock in the
afternoon.
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Rock Island, May u, 1868. -

Inc above communication would have ap.
peafed yesterday had it been received in
ume' IL came TO hand through the post
,nss' ana was not received until our paper
had been put TO press,
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Forty CENTs line will be charged for
each insertion of all articles under this head.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-28
A GARD,

A CARD.
GEORGE W. HAYDEN, practical Watchmak-
" er, working Jeweler and srtistie Engraver
and Ensmeler, snd the well known maker Of the
Champion B. B. Belt, has secured the former tel
egraph office, three doors from the post Office, for
q work shop, where he viii give his entire atten
tion to the working part Of the above branches.
After experience of twenty years, in the large
cities Of the east he hopes to prove himself with
out exception, the finest workman in the west.
Watches and clocks cleaned, repaired, and ad-
! listed on scientific principles, by which accuracy
10 guaranteed. All kinds OF jewelry made 20
order, combining the elegance Of eastern design,
with the intrinsic value Of home production. En-
An:.who wish their work done ct the lowest pos
sible prices eampstibls with the finest possible
workmsnship, should give him . cell. stt
mayf2du GEORGE W. HAYDEN
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ROW MANY THOUSAND OF PERSONS

IIoW MANY THOUSAND OF PERSONS
IL do we daily behold, both male and female,
who are suffering out miserable existence from
the effects of secret indulgence, or from virus
absorbed into their System from venerisl dn<
ease. Look Ut their psHd, ernaciated and disfg-
ured faces, and their broken dawn CONSTITUTIONS,
depicting disease epd its horrible consequences;
disqualifying them iron marriage, or the enjoy
ment of life 7, is, therefore, important for
those sufferers to know that, by calling upon DR..
J. KATES. they can be efectually cured. He
I. physician who has ,s; made private disease"
A.. aprsJ upward of thirty Thousand cases in
Cincinnati alone within the last twenty years.
He Is therefore competent TO cure every form of
disease, both recent and chronic in the shortest
possible time, without neneury or other poison-
Gus medianes. Be careful that you ind Dr.
KATEs, at bis old established Office, 16s syea-
more street. Cincinnati, Ohio. first house below
Fifth street, west side. DIR. HATES attends 20
his patients personally, and may be found in his
office from s o'clock A. NJ, till O'Clock p. n
sundays from . A. N. till IL A. n. All eonf-
denti2i. u d SfEE y 81 po.-1sess'sfsN
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Stocks and Money.
Telegraphed to the AReus.
Nsw YoRK, May 2s.
Gold, 500.
Stocks--strong
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{Communioated.)

Rock Island, May IS, 1868.
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Rock Island, May 26, 1868.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-29

A THREE STORY AID BASEMENT BROWN STONE
y front hlgh ttocp House Tor Al nc4efn Improve
Iaenf hnahod IN best manner. S Ferry street. Fnighed
too days.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-29

TToR sALR-FOR REASONABLE PRICES, ON MADISON
In ana Lexington avenues vacant Ground and furnished
and Houses finished In Firth ave-
nue. stye. MCCOSkERS, ~ Nassau street, room b.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-29
Mest aiac.

A CHANGE SELDOM oFFERED.-FoR SALE-THREE
~ story aud basement brick, West foItyEx.. street,
nesr sih avenue Size itsSi5Sioo IN GOOD ortcr gas
lures Ohc0ts, Immediate posscssion; price sl3e0
trns easy also number 81 private and Tenement Properly
nj bsrsain FLOCK CAfFERtY,
li2,j broadway, ncar rhlfty-fonith slfect.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Marching On.

The Southern country is gradually,
but Enthusiastically, it seems to us, ap-
preaching that condition whence the
antagonism between the opposite races
must eliminate and assume some dcs-
perate shape. Our Southern exchange
es contain accounts of most audacious
murders, robberies and outrages perpe-
trated by negroes, followed close upon
by terrible retaliation and vengeance
on the part of the whites, In Virginia
three cases are reported this week of
negroes shot down in their tracks by
white men whom they had assaulted,
threatened with assault, or badgcred
beyond that point where forbearancc
ceases to be virtue.
The white men Of the South, remarks
the Southern Opinion, stripped Of al
most every other right, have not yet
parted with their right of sclf-defcnse,
which is part of Southern character
and where black outlaws, whose inso-
lencc keeps pace with Radical legisla-
ton, intrude upon this sacred domain,
they must expect, as they will certainly
receive, retribution, sudden and terri
blp
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Answer it Who Can.

The popular Indifference to Grant as
manifested in every Section of the Union
has alarmed, it is apparent to every OBJ
server Of "thc signs of the times" the
party that has nominated him as their
candidate for the Presidency. Com
mcnting upon this popular indifference,
the Louisville Journal says:
"Wcll, take away Grants name as a
military man, and what is left of it -?
What is there upon which any mind
can dwell with even pretended admira-
ton? What is there 10 lift him above
the dead level of the commoncst of the
common herd of men? What was there
worthy of praise in his early years, even
according to his fathers biography of
him. which for very shame, the radical
leaders and managers procured to be
cut short? What were his merits
at West Point, where he was one Of the
lowest of his class, barely managing to
obtain a degree? What were his great
deeds in the Mexican war, deeds not
great enough to be commended in sim
gle official report? What distinction
did he, after the Mexican war, win in
Illinois, where he failed, for good rca-
sons, in every vocation to which he de-
voted himself, and where he was known
only as 'Old man Grants sOn'!"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Another Change of Name.

A dispute having arisen between
some persons in Des Moline, Iowa, rela.
tive to the proper pronunciation of the
name of the Republican candidate for
Vice President, one them addressed him
letter of Enquiry. A portion contended
that it was pronounced ColfaX others
claiming that it was Coalfax. The Spea-
ker's reply reads as follows:
WASHINGTON, May 26, 1S6S.-My first
name is pronounced as if written Sky
Ter and the last as if written Coalfax.
The "a" doubtless dropped out while
crossing the ocean.
The Albany Argus thinke it singular
and suspicious that these Radicals all
go by aliases. Grants real name is H.
r0m-Wilson's Goliath and Co0!faX says
his family dropped the overheard in
crossing the Atlantic. We have heard
Of Englishmen dropping HIS; but this
dropping of AS indicate great careless
ness. This "drop letter" business is
catching; and the American people
will probably drop the name by Novcm-
her
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Railroad and TELEGRAPH.

We learn from source which gives
attention to such matters, that about
10000 miles of railroad have already
been constructed in the various coun-
tries which have adopted steam loco
motion, within the last fifty years, and
the extent of Geographic communica-
ton by the electric wire is still greater.
Both are increasing at the rate Of 10000
miles each, of rail and wire, every year,
and the probability is that this proper
ton will be doubled within the coming
decade. Half a century, therefore, will
not have elapsed ere the whole earth
will be enveloped in network Of iron,
thrilling with the movement and the
thought of humanity. In fact, the re-
ticulation of tlrei railroad tracks and
the Geographic lines, crossing, recros-
sing, combining and branching off in
every sense, will, in no slight degree,
resemble the arrangement of blood
vessels and nerves in the living body,
and q future generation may see half
realized that old Iindoo notion that
makes the ball we inhabit an animate
creature.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
An Astounding and COnfounding
Discovery.

We have an enchanted land in Alas
ka. Here is what Russian guide told
q Californian who asked about q range
of mountains near Sitka: "They are
mighty in size and cause much cold
Wonderful things are told of them
1t is said that in some places there are
deep pools and la kes in which dwell
monsters-serpents as long as fir tree,
which, when they are in the open sea,
would commit mighty damage. One
thing which the Indians tell us for GER
tain-that yondcr, far away to the
north, in the heart of these hills, there
is wonderful valley, so narrow that
only at midday is the face of the sun
to be seen. That valley lay undiscov-
cred and unknown for thousands of
Years; no persons dreamed of its cxis-
tencc but at last, q long time ago, two
Indian hunters entered it by chance,
and then what do you think they found
They found a small tribe of unknown
people, speaking an unknown tongue,
who had lived there since the creation
of the world, and without knowing
that other beings existed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
The Sting of the Locust.

There is a difference of opinion among
men who profess to be familiar with the
cicada as to whether their sting is pois-
onous. From the following article pub
lished in the Reading Dotty Dispotch, it
would appear that the sting of this in
sect is poisonous:
On last Wednesday, Miss Elizabeth
Gambler, residing near the Temple Sta
ton, on the Pennsylvania railroad,
caught locust--the first she had secn-
and was exhibiting it to her mother,
when it stung her in the hand. The
sting caused her much pain, and its poi
sonous effects ran through her whole
system, from the effects of which she
died on Saturday evening. Miss Gam
bier was very amiable young lady of
eighteen years of age"
The same paper from which the above
is copied contains the following:
Mrs. Ream. wife of Frederick Rcam,
residing on Washington street, was yes
terday stung in the back of the neck BY
a locust. The wound Immediately COM
mcnccd swelling, and fears were enter
tanned for Mr.. Rs life. The following
remedies were applied. and she is now
out of danger. A young chicken was
killed and Quilted. and the flesh applied
to the wound. In about an hour the
poison was absorbed by the flesh of the
chicken, which presented a greenish APP
pcarancc.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Notwithstanding but JacObins.

Notwithstanding but JacObins.
Under this appropriate head the New
York Ecening Cypress has the follow
ing article, which gives the Radicals the
title which justly belongs to them. The
Express says:
We like the ring of that resolution
adopted yesterday by the Maine Demo-
cracy in State Convention at Augusta
"That the time has come for all to
band against the Jacobins."
"Jacobins" is the very best word in
the Language, because it is the word
that has the most meaning, to properly
characterize the Radical party. They
call themselves Republican, but to that
character, we all know they really have
no claim. There is positively nothing
Republican about them, unless it be
Red Republicanism.
They are Jacobins-becaus they seek
q govern the people through the in
istr,nncntality of II Central Directory, or
u Rump Congress from whose decree
there is no appeal.
They are Jacobins-bccause under
the rallying cry of liberty, equality, and
fraternity, they have, since their Access
sion to power, helped to dcluge the
land with fraternal blood.
They are observation-disclosures under
pretence of giving liberty to all men,
they have set up military despotisln,
which leave millions of men of their
own race, practically, no liberty what
s0ever.
They are Jacobins-bccaus they rule,
and seek to rule by force, intimidation,
and terror.
They are observation-disclosures they have
set up, and seek to set up, the power of
the few over the wishes of the many.
They are observation-disclosures they are
constantly seeking to stir up strife, and
to excite the passions and prejudiccs of
one class of people against another
class.
They arc Jacobins-bccause they are
cternally attempting mischievous expe-
ments in government, politics, finance /;
excitement being an aliment without
which they cannot exist.
They are Jacobins-because of the
conscriptions and forced levics, to feed
the laws of war and of death, with
which their name must ever be histo-
REALLY associated.
1t took the French people some years
to get rid of this hidcous monster, ia
cobinism-but as an end was made of It
at last, so we, too, if historical parallels
are worth anything, need not despair
of driving it from existence. We
believe it has already well nigh run
its course, and that the hideous thing,
with all its CHASTITY accomplishments,
will be deep down in its grave about
the time the wintry winds of Novcm-
Der are whistling in our ears.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
High Sense of Honor,

Attention is invited to the instance
below of the noble conduct of a color
ed man:
John Dabney, a colored man in Rich
mond, Va, purchased his freedom from
Mrs. Dejarnette of Hanover, Va, just
before the war, for $4,000, agreeing to
pay the amount in installments. Dur.
ing the pcndence of the struggle he
paid about one-half of ii in Confedcr-
ate currency, which was at last so de-
preciatcd in value that his late mistress
requested him to discontinue the pay
ments until after the close of the con-
fict. When slavery was abolished, the
debt was of course no longer due but,
Notwithstanding he was advised against
such a course, Dabney lately transmit
ted to his old mistress, now in INDECENT
circumstances, 5000 in grccnbacks, be-
ing the balance Of the $1,000 he had
contracted to pay.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
The Avalanche Case.

The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
at length given decision in the Mem
phis Auolanche contempt case, declar-
ing Judge Hunters orders in the case
null and void.
Hunter should now gather up his
traps and seek local habitation and a
name elsewhere. He is said to have left
Illinois to avoid prosecution for some
criminal ofi'ense, and his course since
his arrival in Memphis has been such
as to place him outside the pale Of re-
spectacle society, and to justify the be-
lief that the accounts which succeeded
his advent were not exaggerated.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
The Way Radicals Keep up the
Excitement.

The communication below will show
the vile resorts to which the managers
of radicalism in Tennessee arc driven
to keep up cxcitement-the natural ali
ment of the party, and without which it
must soon die. Now that the parrot
like cry of "Rebcl" and "Coppcrhcaf'
has lost its potency, they turn to
manufacturing stories-killing negroes
on paper-and publishing them as Ku-
klux outrages. The following exposes
q late affair of the kind:
PIERCE STATION, Obion Co.,
June 90, 1868.
To the Editor of the Banner:
l herewith send you true copy of
letter l have sent to the Press and
Times for publication. For fear that
paper will not publish it, L wish you to
give it place in yours.
Tothe Editor of the Press and Times.
| noticed in your paper short time
since an account of the murder of three
negroes at Pierce Station, Obion coun-
ty, in which it was stated that no at
tempt had been made to arrest the MUIR
derers. happen to live within one
mile of Pierce Station, and l am man
responsible for what l say. There has
been no such deed perpetrated at that
place, and L think it is time to put a
stop to such gross fabrications. l will
give you ten dollars for the name of
your informant, and 1 will pay the
above reward if he lives in Obion coun-
ty. l want to know who the mischief
making liar is. We are all living in
peace and quiet here, and would re-
main so if bad men would quit publish
ing lies. Whether you give me the
name or not, l wish to correct the lie in
your next issue. l am every way re-
sponsible for what say and write.
Yours, respectfully,
SOLOMON MCMuRRAY,
Coroner Of Obion county.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
RepudiatiOn---The Result of Rad
ical Financiering.

We copy from the Nashville Banner
of the Sd:
The excitement in regard to the State
bonds is still running high, and yester-
days figures dropped to 6776. Yester.
day morning Mr.. Thomas Martin, OF
Giles county, one of the wealthiest men
in the State, and who holds some $70,-
600 of bonds, attempted to dispose OF
his July interest coupons at the banks,
but the banks would not touch them,
and he went to Comptroller Blackburn
To his establishment the Comptroller
likewise fatty refused to take up the
coupons. This fact becoming known
quite q sensation was created among
money changers, which was stimulated
by the following private dispatch from
New York:
"NEw YORK, July 1.-Bcts have beer
offered to-day that Tennessee bond
would sell below sixty cents in thiriS
days, and $4,000 has been offered thai
the State will repudiato in two years.
Better bets than that could have been
taken OH our streets, as it was generally
believed that under the radical finan-
cicring the State would repudiate in
less than year.
We learn from official sources that q
dispatch was received during the day
to the effect that the attachment of the
State funds in New York had been the
work of railroad men, (probably Ten
nessee railroad men) and that certain
banks in New York were willing to
furnish Tennessee with any amount OF
money that might be requested to pay
the July interest. Governor Brown.
low is being fully advised of what is
Transporting. A special session of the
Legislature is talked of, with view to
converting the State railroad debt into
school fund.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Mississippi.

The backbone of the black column in
Mississippi seems to be irrcparably bro
ken. The following comes in the form
of a dispatch from jackson:
Forty-scven of siXty-one counties re-
turn majority against the Constitu-
ton of 1868. Four of the remaining
counties will return a majority for the
Constitution. No case of violence is
yet reported from any portion of the
State during the progress of the cleo
ton. This county registered black
majority of LOO, and gave only 229
radical majority. Loundcs County, with
a registered black majority of 5000 re.
Turns but 200 radical maioritN.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Dear old Mrs. partiOgtOn.

"llavc You any lubricating drops for
bronchial deficiency" said Mrs. Par
tington to DR.. Ipccac yesterday. "Is
your cold dcep-scated ~ asked the Doc
tor bandly. al don't know how deep
it is" with n bark like an Esqumaux
dog, "but its loud enough. What
time for colds this is, to be sure: de-
clare am completely exaggerated with
my cough" "You need an cxpccto-
rant" said the Doctor. 81 expect so,'
replied she, "but, whether it will do
any good or not, must depend upon
how it inlccts me, but | will take box
of atrocious l0zengcrs anyhow, which |
have heard spoken of as mellifuous."
Ike spent his time in playing with the
dumb bells, and the old lady asked the
Doctor to excuse the liberality he took.
because the boy was given to jimclas-
tics.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Alabama.

The Selma Times and Messenger has
the following in regard to the condition
Of affairs in that section:
A few freedmen in Sumter county,
prompted by carpct-baggers, have been,
for some days, very turbulent and i'll
sulting, apparently determined to force
conflict upon the whites, who have so
far, in the interests of peace, borne pa
tiently more than any Northern COM
munity would have borne. 1t is to be
hoped these ignorant and dcluded crea-
lures, who know not what it is they
would invoke, may listen to wiser coun-
sells. But the same spirit has been mani
tested in other sections, and it is GER
tain that collision of the races here is
more imminent than heretofore. The
negroes seem to think the ascension of
their representatives to Office gives
them license they have not hitherto
enjoyed.
Should the collision which the Ala
bama editor seems to apprehend, occur
which God forbid-it is to be hoped
that vengeance will fall, not on the
poor negroes, but upon tho miserable
mean whites who are at the bottom Of
all the mischief of the times.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Trimmed Tn.

Gen. Mcdowell, the hero of Bull
Run, has got himself suddenly tripped
up. The following explains:
ADJuTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, June 30, 1865
GENERAL ORDER NO. 33.
BY direction of the President of the
United States, the following orders are
made:
First. Brevct Major General Irwin
Mcdowell is relieved from the COM
mand Of the Fourth Military District,
and will report to the General in per-
son, without delay at the War Depart
ment.
Second. Brevet Major General Alvan
G. Gillem is assigned to the command
of the Fourth Military District. and
will assume command without delay.
BY command of General Grant.
Z. ID. TOWNSEND, A. "A. Gen.
The Fourth Military District compri-
ses the States of Mississippi and Ar.
kansas,