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Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-08-29

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Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-08-29

the East arrives it is safe to bet that the
individual who does business at SOC Washington st.
Francisco is not in New York For the literature
thankful ever for the sample badges profound
y grateful; for the ct ceeras,-wel get with with
you before Grant is inaugurated.
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
HOW TO GET DOCUMENTS.

zs-a- WASHINGTON City, May rs. 1863.
The undersigned requests the chairman Of
all state, county, city, township, or ward
democratic and conservative committees,
associations, or clubs, to furnish the con.
gressional democratic executive committee
with the names of members of their associa-
tons, for reference during the pending presi.
dental eompaign. Documents will be fur
nished by this committee. on orders accom-
panied by money, ut the following rates:
For sixteen page documents, in wrappers,
and franked, $12 per thousand. ssf
For eight-page documents, in wrappers,
and franked, 81 per thousand, or at the
same rate for smaller plumber. In particu-
Tar cases they viii be furnished gratuitously.
Communications may be addressed to
Hon. Samuel ]. Randall, NJ, c., Washing
ton City.
By order, j. R. DooLITTLE,
Chairman Congressional Dem. Elk. Com.
SAMUEL J. RANDALL, Secretary.
Democratic and conservative journals will
please insert the above notice conspicuously.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
CONSISTENT SENATOR HARLAN.

Harlan, we mean Parson Harlan, pious
Harlan, etc, is great on impeachment. He
is determined to force cabinet officers upon
the President that are opposed to him. And
because the President is little fractions, he
is for impeaching him. Harlan sometimes
writes letters. Here is one. 1t is to thu
point. Read it.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WASHINGTON, July 3, 1865.
have deemed il to be my privilege, to
make removals IN this department, ana
shall do SO in the future without admitting
the right in qnestior.F When Mr.. Smith be-
came secretary of the interior, he at once
sought and obtained the appointment of
those whom he personally preferred for as,
sistants and associates. / have been doing
the same, and expect to continue TO do the
same. Success as an executive officer re-
qiures it. ANY other course would be suiei-
DIAL. This official rule of right should pre-
vail from the President 10 the smallest ex
ecutive having control of subordinates. The
President should not appoint nor retain a
cabinet minister who is not his personal
choice for the position; and, according to
my views, cabinet officer could not, in self.
respect, remain in Office after becoming sat
is6ed or having reason to believe that he
was not the Presidents choice. The same
rule should be maintained between the heads
OF departments and the heads of bureaus nn-
der his supervision.
/ Yours truly, JAMES HARLaN.g.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
Pain killer a cure for Diptheria.


B All interested, please read the following
extract from letter from Mrs. Ellen B. Ma
son, wife Of Rev, Francis Mason, Tounghos,
Birmah: .-- --.
ID. -.. Ny SON was taken violently sick
With diptheria, cold ehills, burning fever,
and sore throat. counted one morHing
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 knifa-blade. So many
children have died around here, was afraid
TO call 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 dear, and his tongue rapidly
clearing off. also used il as IMMINENT
with castor oil and hsrtshorn, for his neck.
II seemed to me a wonderful cure, and
can but wish it could be known to the many
poor mothers in onr 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 / was stung by q very large
black scorpion the pain was indescribable.
Immediately applied the Pain Killer, (for
nevrr travel without IT, again and again,
and in half an hour my foot was well.
may24dwlm .a..- .
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
Seizure Of Telsgraphic Dispatches

The Tribune makes light of this great out
rage upon the public, and seems to deem it a
fine trick on the part of Butler for the party
There are, the Tribune will find, two sides
to such political gambling and grabbing, OF
which Senator Pomeroy is exhibiting the
counterpart. But, for one side, or two sides
the seizure of telegraph offices is an outrage
and the company which submits 10 it ough,
never to be employed by the public.
In and from New York, rs well as from
other cities, daily 60 kilograms of the most
sacred Importance to the parties concerned
disclosures of private life, relative to peace
and comfort, as well as to business matters
of the greatest importance to parties con.
cerned, that none should know bnt them
selves. Thousands and tens of thousands Of
dollars often hang on the secrecy of a tele-
gram. The movement of the markets often
involve the bankruptcy or the prosperity of
the parties telegraphing. Stocks, all, more
or less, are influenced by kilograms, and
great sums of money are paid on purpose TO
secure early and secret kilograms, and a
mans whole trade may be exposed by any
public developments in them. Now, the
Buffers, the Boutwells, and the Binghams
claim that they can grab sll-know all
and the agents of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, in Washington, have been
eowardly enough, or silly enough, to seem TO
Internationally surrender. Is .E
There is scarcely a government on earth,
even under despotism, where private affairs
can be thus grabbed and exposed, or where
the Ike has ever been attempted. A few
years ago, in England. the British lion 1.-THE
public1 was so aroused as to shake the Min
istry from the throne. Monarchs, emperors,
and czars, however absolute in politics, sell
dom or never interfere with the privacy of
the post or telegram; never, We think we
may say, except in actual war, foreign or
civil but here, in q mock, sham republic, SO
made by radicals working "outside of the
constitution" the outrage is justified as in
the TFibane.-Nesc Tork, Express
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01

As rats desert sinking ship, so do the
politicians come out from the radical party
now that its downfall has become assured
Some of them, like Wendell Phillips, kick up
terrible row, while others depart in a SEN
sible manner. To this latter class belongs
Don Piatt, well-known Ohio politician,
who in his valedictory address INDUCES in
some sound philosophical observations upon
the causes which led to the death of his par
IT,. he says:
fThe seeds of weakness and disease were plant
ed in its birth. We began q party of reform, OF
agitation, Of aggression, and we took into our
embraces the old whig party, that was party of
conservatism, aggravated by great dignity and
timidity. The result has been internal dissen-
sions. The ultra reform party could not digest
the conservative lump, and we have been afflicted
with collie, so to speak, that well nigh destroyed
our usefulness"
In regard to the last internal CONFUSION,
Mr.. Piatt admits the honesty of the recrean,
senators, but thinks they made a political
blunder to belonging to the radical organiza-
ton at all. He says:
"This blunder, great it was, might have
Guiding act of q long series. Through the unset
tied condition of q country suffering from civil
wars we have developed more rascality than any
organization ever called into existence. Wehave
filed the offices with thieves and their pockets
with stealings. We have organized rings that in
turn create ot6ce-holders and con.rel the govern
ment. Men go in poor and come outmiilionaires.
For one dollar paid to the government from
hard-earned taxes hundreds stick to the dirty
fingers of official scoundrels. We have whisky
rings, Indian bureau rings, manufacturers rings,
national bank rings, railroad rings, land=jobbing
rings and internal Improvement rings. From
the lowest officials up to senators and cabinet
officers, the faint of corruption runs, until the
people, dsxed and confused, confound the right
and listen with indifference to the threats of ex-
posure. Il
Mr.Piatt concludes with graceful admis-
sion that the radical party is dead beyond
the possibility of resurrection, and consoles
himself with the reflection that ''there is no
use in being lschrymose over the lost tactical.
/ can stand it if the rest cant
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
Shall the Negro Rule :

One of the resolutions adopted at the
Grant convention in Chicago, takes square
ground in favor of negro rule. There can
be no lodging the negro Issue now. II
Grant shall be elected, the first object of the
radical party viii be to securet the permanent
ascendency of the black element In the
south. 1t win cost as more to do il than il
dio 10 set the negroes free. And when it is
done, what right have we to expect better
results than we see in Hayti and every other
place under negro domination ? The north.
ern radicals will feel obliged to conform
their action to the views Of their southern
allies, and SO we shall get practically q ne.
gro government for the whole country. The
snccess of the democratic party leaves the
negro upon precisely the same basis as ey.
cry white man, except that he shall not r,ar.
ticipate in any government without the CON
sent Of the state in which he resides. II
Maine, Michigan or Texas please to penfran-
chise their negroes and make them eligible
to Office, no outsider will object. But the
federal government viii do nothing about
the question of suffrage, as il has no power
to do under the constitution. Shall the ne
groes rule us ?-Quiscy Herald. ras
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
CALL FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS CON
VENTI0N

We, the undersigned soldiers and sailors, res
ident at Springfield, the capital of Illinois, dep
recating and condemning the revolutionary and
anarchisi doctrines and practices of the leaders
OF the radical party in this country, and desi-
ring, above all things to see the Union for which
we have fought and imperilled our lives, speedily
restored under democratic auspices TO its original
constitutional integrity, and the federal govern
ment brought back to the standard of its early
purity, frugality and benefcence, do hereby earn
estly appeal to all our comrades who ympathize
with US in this regard, wherever they may be in
the United States, TO take immediate and suita-
BILE measures to appoint delegates to represent
them in soldiers and sailors national conven-
ton, to be held in the City of New York on
the Second Day of next July.
Major General John A. MeClernard.
Colonel a. Schwartz
Adjutant Louis Souther.
Lieut.. Colonel Jas. Fl. Matheny,
Lieut.. Colonel Edward r. Roberts.
Surgeon J. L. Million.
Private Michael Ryan.
Captain John S. Vredenburgh.
Lieut.. John FL. Barrett.
Captain r. C. Kelly.
Private J. Scully.
Captain j. W. kehoe.
Captain John G. Roberts.
Captain A. J. Allen.
Captain VIM. Sands.
Surgeon Augustus A. Shut.
Captain John III. Cherry.
Private Cal. Montanye. E sHkE
Private Geo. Horwath.
Sergeant Thomas L. Bishop.
Lieut.. Colonel 7. D. Vredenburgh.
Sergeant John C. Decker
Corporal Jos. E. Hickman.
Captain z. e. Bates.
Captain VIM. S. Hunter
Private Patrick johnson
Private Thomas Haughey.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
Democratic Committee Meeting,
TIME TO COMMENCE ORGANIZING.

The Democratic County Committee, and tn.
City Ward Committees, requested to meet a
the office of Abrsm Wagner, Esq, in Buford's
Block, in Rock Island, on Tuesday, june ID
1853, at o'clock p NJ, TO consult as 70 che besi
and most effective mode of organising the county
for the coming political campaign. Also TO de
termine the time for holding County Convention
to nominate candidates for County Officers, and
appoint delegates to the Con gressiona, Senatorial
and Judieial Conventions.
The following is the list of members of tn,
committees:
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Cordova-R. X. Mccormick.
Port Byron-Dr. E. E. Rogers.
Coe-JOhn B. Larue, Port Byron Post Once.
Canoe Creek-John NJ. Walker, Port Byron o.
Zums-John Shafer, Port Byron Post Office.
Hampton-Lucius Wells.
Molins-John S. Gilmore.
Coal Valley-Lewis Wilson, Camden Mills p. O
Black Hawk-Jacob Adams, Camden Mills P. o
Bowling-James Mcdonnell, Camden Mills ?. o
Edgington-R. b. Olmsted, Hazlitt Post Office
Buffalo Prairie-John kistIer.
Acknowledgement Kenworthy.
Drury-J. r. Underwood.
RosK ISLAND WARD coMMIrrEEs
First Fard-Chsrles Engel, chairman; S. B.
Stoddard, Henry Reddig.
Second Ward-James r. Johnston, chairma an /;
David Nunsn, John Stauback.
Third Ward-H. C. Connolly, chairman; Jas
Broderick, Ignatius Huber.
Fourth Ward-Jacob Dodge, chairman Hen
y Fitzsimmcns, III. Marx.
1t is earnestly desired that every member of
these committees shall be present, promptly, at
the hour named.
B. D. BUroRp,
Chairman County and Ward Committees.
Rock Island, May IS, 1868.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01

senal The number buried there is about
200, and the Union wants it particularly
understood that As of them were colored.
| Of course Jim Beardsley made speech.
But no notice was taken of the 1000 graves
of confederate soldiers which was in plain
sight-except to sneer at "the lost cause
or point to their graves as o warning against
treason. How different it was in st. Louis.
Read the following telegram
ST. Louis, May 3l.-0ver IL, 900 graves of I'm
ion soldiers, at Jefferson Barracks cemetery,
twelve miles below here, were decorated with
flowers yesterday afternoon. Rev. DR.. Elliott,
Gen. Carl Sohurz, and Others, made addresses
suitable to the occasion. About 500 graves OF
rebel soldiers were also strewn with flowers, and
received the same attention those Of the feder-
al troops. ~
What O rebuke is this to the small and
mean bigotry of the fanatics who run the
'loyal" machine in Rock Island. In st.
Louis, under the auspices of Carl Schurz,
the radical leader and temporary chairman
of the Grant national convention ut Chicago,
the same attention was paid to the rebel
graves as to the federal graves. We have
not forgotten how these ignorant, narrow
minded, pseudo Rock Island ''loyalists" ma
hgned the ARGUS for insisting that the rebel
prisoners, and the sick, and the dead, should
receive the same humane attention we would
wish paid to our prisoners, our sick, and our
dead soldiers--and we are glad, at this late
day, to be INDICATED by Carl Schurz, at the
St. Louis ceremony. How small and mean
must the SUPERFICIAL squad in Rock Island
feel, at their public exhibition of hate
and bigotry and fanaticism, on Saturday
last
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
READY GLAZED SASH.

TN CONNECTION with my Planning Mill, I
l. have opened Ware Room for the sale Of
Priined aud Glazed Sash, where will keep CON
stantly on hand all sizes Of these articles, which
/ can sell at much cheaper rates than they can
be purchased for elsewhere. I obtain my Glass
from the manufactures at Pittsburg, thereby
saving the profits which others must pay Who
buy in this market. An Builders, Farmers, and
others in want Of Sash will consult their own in
forest by giving nae q call before purchasing else
where, as I am, offering unusual Inducements foi
b IL trade. t.@-.-- J. A. BIDDIS0N.
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struck his daughter, and carried off her
jewelry, leaving her and her mother without
any money and an unpaid board bill. Crab
tree announced his purpose TO return to En-;
gland and live At case off his daughters
earnings. The affair created a good deal
of feeling, here where Lolita is a great
favorite.
Gov. Fletcher and number of prominent
persons have telegraped to Gov. Baker re.
questing him to release McCoole from con.
fnement.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
SENATOR HARLAN AND TIE FREE
BRIDGE

The Davenport free bridge committee
have received a very cold and formal note
from Senator Harlan saying he had received
their petitions and would, at the proper
time, present them. The Davenport papers
don't like the very indifferent manner with
which they are treated by their senator
The Gazette says ''the response of Mr.. Har-
Ian Is not as hearty as the committee and
the people had hoped The Democrat says
che does not intimate that he will work for
the appropriation himself" The Davenport
papers seem to have overlooked one little
fact about Harlan, viz He is methodist
parson, and Spencer & Robinson own and
run the methodist church. When "Brother"
Robinson was in Washington, in March, he
prayed with Brother" Harlan, and probably
left little 'ferry salve" with him. This
praying with the ''brethering," when there
is any mean thing to be done, is well illus
trated by the fact that during Friday, the
18th ult., and while the public anxiety in
regard to the vote on impeachment was at
its heighth, much interest was felt as to how
Senator Wiley, (methodist) of West Virgin
ia, would vote. Harlan, (methodist) his CO.
senator telegraphed the methodist bishop,
(Simpson) then in Chicago, his apprehen-
sions thusly: 81 fear Brother Wiley is
lost" To this, Bishop Simpson replied =
Brother Wiley processes to be christian
(methodist). Brother Wiley has soul to
be saved He cannot barter away his soul,
and imperil the country. Pray with Brother
Wiley"
For fear that the prayers of Brother
Robinson have got cold, or that the "ferry
salve'' has been used up, he is going again
to Washington to renew his labors with
Brother" Harlan. This methodist streak
runs all through the basiness, and our Da-
venport contemporaries need not be at all
surprized to find Brother Harlan on the
side of the ferry swindlers. He'll be there
if they use prayer and salve enough.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01

formerly of New York, who has visited Rock
Island regularly for the past ten years, and
effected many wonderful cures of old Chron-
ic Diseases, Cancers, and diseases of the
Eye and Ear, which have been pronounced
incurable by the medical profession general
", can be consulted at the Rodman House
Wednesday, June Sd, as will be seen by his
card in another column. Z.
Consultation free. - Il ~
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
DECORATING THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD.

For the purpose of making little party
capital for secret political society 1.-THE
Cars Johnny Logan issued an order for
them to decorate with flowers the graves oil
the dead federal soldiers, On Saturday, the
3Oth inst. The ceremony is not, therefore,
spontaneous offering of the people, but o
show made by the Cars, in obedience to an
order from their head man. Of course this
ceremony is confined to few northern GEM
eteries, where not one in twenty of the dead
soldiers are buried. If all the graves of the
aead heroes could be decorated, or if an or
DER was issued applicable to all, federal and
cohledera'e' Gil over the country, and it was
practicable to carry it into effect, it would
be well enough. But it is not practicable
to decorate the graves, even of all the federal
dead, in the south. To do so would cover
the whole south with bed of flowers. The
Chicago Times says:
If one could rise in the air and take h;rs,s
eye view of the country during the process of
such decoration, he would observe that the so,tb
would resolve itself into o fower-earaen -
etraightway, Arkansas and Missouri, at Wilson,
Greek, Pea Ridge, and Lexington, would suddenly
develop immense fower-beds; while all over
botn states there would thousands of smaller
bunches become visible, showing where there
were light skirmishes and lonely assassinations.
The southern bank of Red river would for
hundreds of miles, become suddenly gorgeous rs
conservatory, showing where gallant patriots
gave up their lives for the sublime cause of cot
ton. cotton spectators, and cotton thieves.
About Vicksburg, and Shiloh, and Belmont.
and Fort Donelson, miles of ground wouId he
covered so thick that the roses, and yioIets. and
blossoms would seem interviewer like tbe warn
aud filing Of canvass. From Chattanooea 10 AL
ianta, and thence around to the sea, the route
would be fecked here and there with wre.ths.
and so would the valley Of the Shenandoah. the
sou Of kentucky, the sayannahs and seaport
towns OF Texas, and the Atlantic coast from the
gulf to Fortress Monroe.
Wnen al these graves were decorated, then
would remain the herculean task of alI-that Of
following ana scattering flowers along Grants
route to Richmond. To lay ever SO tiny O wreath
upon the grave Of each brave who went down id
the merciless development Of the strategy of ham
mering and attrition, would drain dry the gardens
and conservatories of half the world
& Here in Rock Island, flowers werelaid up /.
on the graves Of the federal dead, at the Ar.
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Ready for Inspection.

have just arrived with a nice and ,ele-
giant stock of Prints, Brown and Bleaehed
Muslins, Domestic and French Ginghams,
Dress Goods of all kinds and styles, Ladies
Sackings, Shawls, Hosiery, Notions, and all
kinds of Fancy Goods, which will be sold at
very low prices.
.amay6d I'm. L. WOLF.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
AGRICULTuRiL MEETING.

THE Stockholders of the Rock Island County
Il Agricultural Society are hereby notified "a
meet at the Office of the First National Bank o
Rock Island. on Saturday, the 9th day OF june
rect, at o'clock NJ, for the purpose Of electing
President, Vice President Treasurer, . Seo-
rotary, and q board of Eve Directors.
J. M. BUFORD, Sec,y.
Rock Island, May Is, 1868, dw3w.
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DEPOT
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ITO SALOON KEEPERS, HOTEL KEEPERS.
L Restaurants and private families:
The undersigned is the only Wholesale Age,t.
in Rock Island, for the celebrated sands's Ale
Brewing Company, and for Ills Chicago Brew
cry, and viii furnish the same il Barrels, H,I
Barrels, and Quarter Barrels, at Chicago shoie-
sale prices, freight added at his place. der tie
Rodman Hall. He has the agency from the msu.
ufsctureTs.
BOTTLED ALE AND PORTER.
He viii also, on the ehortest nstice, .vp.
ply families and others, at their residences on
places of business, in quantities TO suit All
who wish nice Ale or Porter, in bottles tone bot
tie or more) can be supplied, by leaving their
orders ct Mrs. Johnson's Ice Cream Saloon or At
Vests Saloon.
Stock and Cream Ale on iraught OF All times.
IA Utica White Sand, for SALE by the Barrel
Agent for the Celebrated Phelan Billiard
and Pigeon Hole Tables, Manufactured by R.
klsenan d Co., Chicago.
l-Dr. Bells Golden Tonic Bitten for sale
at wholesale retail.
He. WET,
Vests saloon.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01

1t is reported that among the telegraphic
dispatches seized by the Impeachment
Managers are some from Mr.. Thornson, tne
British Minister, and that he is indignant
thereat
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-01
STONE CUTTERS WANTED.

EIFTY Stone Cutters wanted on the Dunleith
u aud Dubuque Bridge.
REYNOLDS, sAULPAUGH & co.
Dunleith, Illinois, May 20, 1868.
Va Quincy, Illinois, and Burlington, Iowa,
papers, publish weeks and send bill to our of
fee in Dunleith.
msy20dw3w. R..s.A Co.