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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-22

An Ohio paper suggests to the Hon. S.
5. Cox that be give his new book Of travels
the title OF "Sunset in the East"
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-22
pailp argus.
OFFICIAL PA4Hx.

The new Secretary of War is said to have
recently married an heiress in Ohio.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-22
BARTHOLOMEW

SAVE YOUR SILVER WARE.
Yeoman's Ienewer and oleanses
A chemical fluid for cleansing silver and silver
plsted ware, jewslry, etc., removes tarnisn' arr
and grease almost instantaneously, without IN
jury to the finest gold or silver metals soio "
H. M. BARTHOLOMEW, Rock Island.
mAy8dIy.
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BUSIMHS8 CARDS,
BLYTHE L ST0DOARD,
WAGON MANUFACTURERS,
Rock rslaud. Illinois.

MANUFACTURE all kinds Of Wagons,
ls4 Carriages, sulkiss, Skeletons, Farm and
Express Wagons, DC. Every description Of rs-
pairing done at short notice. Psrtioulsa Atten-
tion paid to manufacturing 10 order.
mAy26dly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-12
A Noble Woman-Graosful Tribute TO Ex-
" President Johnson's Wife.

asn. COr. Chlcago hepuDlcan.J
Mrs. johnson, confirmed invalid, has
never appeared in society in Washing.
ton. Her very existence is a myth to
almost every one She was last seen at
q party given to her grandchildren. She
was seated in one of the Republican
Court ohairs--a dainty affair of satin
and ebony. She did not rise when the
children or old guests were presented to
herr she simply said, "My dears, am
an invalid" and her sad, pale face and
sunken eyes fully proved the expression.
Mrs. johnson looks much older than
the President, aud her age does
exceed his by few swings of
the scythe of time. She was never
beautiful, but an observer would say, con-
templatiDg her, "A noble womsn-God's s
best gift to man." Perhaps it is well to
call to mind at this time that it was this
woman who taught the President to read
after she became his wife; and thatin all
their earlier years she was his counselor,
assistant and guide. None but a wise
and good mother could have rear ed such
daughters as Mrs. Patterson and Mrs
Stover When Mrs. Senator Patterson
found herself "the first lady in the land"
she made this remark, which has been
the key note of the feminine department
of the White House from that eventful
day to the present time: I'VE are plain
people from the mountains of Tennessee,
called here for short time by national
calamity. | trust too much will not be
expected of US" When Anna Surratt
threw herself PROSTATE upon the floor of
one of the aHte-rooms of the White
House, begging piteously to see Mrs.
Patterson, she said "Tell the girl she
has my sympathy, my tears, but l have
no more right to speak than the servants
of the White House" When the par
don brokers " trailed their Shiny lengths
everywhere about the mansion, they
never dared to cross a certain enchanted
pathway, and the face of any lobbyist
set in this direction has always brought
up in the end against a stone wall.
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Going Away Alone to Die.

Alexander Dumas, the younger,
came one day SO much too late
10 a dinner to which he had been invited,
that, instead of going at once into the
dining-room, he preferred to await his
friend in the drawing room. This apart
ment be found tenaDted only by parrot
on its perch. "As-tu dejueHe, lacquer
began the celebrated dramatist (that
being the approved manner in France OF
entering into conversation with a parrot).
Imprudently he followed up his words by
trying to take the bird upon his finger;
but Jacquet, not understanding this ad-
vance, bit the finger through and through.
Dumas simply wrnng the birds neck,
and threw il out of sight under a sofa.
More than q twelvemonih after, Dumas
beipg a guest in the same house, the con-
versation happened to fallupon the habit
attributed TO some animals of hiding
themselves from all eyes to die. have
a most striking example OF this kind to
relate" said Mr.. g., the master Of the
house. "You remember, all Of you, my
moor old Jacque', don't your Well, be
VAS found one day, about year ago,
dead under a sofa in the drawing room.
he must have got down from bis perch,
and deliberately retired into concealment
for his last moments. We missed him oil
at once, and quite unexpectedly; and,
after two days search, found him at last
living under the sofa in question" Dumas
did not state his view Of the case, aud TO
ibis day the credulous Frenchman be-
Iieyes that be has had under his own
observation q most striking example Of
me desire for soliciiude svinced hy GER
tain animals on the approach Of death
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two miles from the latter station. At
that time the No. s down goods train was
approaching a mangoe tope, in which
seventy elephants were stationed. The
red lights glaring in the distance, and the
noise and smoke of the engine, would
seem 10 have caused an awful consterna-
tion among the poor brutes, all of whom,
more or less, tried to break away from
their fastenings. One large male, how
ever, the strongest and most courageous
of the lot, became so infuriated that he
broke his chain and rushed forward to
intercept and encounter the supposed
enemy. He had scarcely placed himself
on the line when the train was down upon
him.. He encountered it with head and
tusks; but animal strength proved no
match for steam and machinery. The
poor brute was knocked down and killed
on the spot, and the engine, rebounding,
ran off the line, and it and eleven car.
riages were capsized into ditch. The
fireman luckily managed to jump off in
time, and the guard did the same, but the
poor driver, named Smith, remained in
his place. and received injuries from
which it is not expected he will recover.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-12
Paris Correspondents.

The Paris correspondents of the Lon
don papers are mostly clergymen or
ladies. The London Times employs, at
the present time, two correspondents IN
Paris, both clergymen and both Irish
men. They receive no longer the large
salaries which the Times used to pay to
its Paris correspondents during the first
years after the coup detat The corre-
spondent of the Daily Neios is an ex-
barrister, an intimate friend of Louis
Blanc's, and thoroughly familiar with
French sffairs. The correspondent of
the Star is dissenting clergyman, who
published, several years ago, a French
and English dictionary. The correspon-
dents Of the Globe, Standard and 1ete-
oraph are ladies. The Globe correspon-
dent is a married woman who supports,
by her literary lsbors, dissipated hus-
band and large family of children.
The correspondent of the Standard is
spinster with an aristocratic title, but an
empty purse. As for the Telegraph cor.
respondent, she is a hdbitue of the Tuil-
cries, is invited to all court balls and
other festivities, although there is en- the
"Invitation Book " the following note
attached to her name: Seemingly at
tached Ito the Empire), but should be
watched" aud she receives frequently
information from the private Cabinet of
the Emperor. The Pail Mali Gazette
correspondent is one of the assistant ed
itors of Galignanfs Messenger. The
correspondent of the Illustrated Lon
don Ns,cs is the wife of the artist who
sends French pictures to that paper.
The London Telegraph alone is deliv-
cred regularly to its subscribers in
France. The Times is often eon6scated
at the Paris postofice, and of the Star
and Daily Neps hardly one-ihird reach
the subscribers of those papers in
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Ralgium and Franca.

The Belgian Parliament has recently
passed an act prohibiting the railways of
that country from being transferred to
foreign companies without the consent of
the government. This course of action
has greatly excited the French journals,
which assert that the bill is an indication
of the increasing influence of Prussia
over the future of Belgium. The Peuple,
the new imperial Journal, assumes a
threatening tone, and maintains that the
majority of the French people wish Bel
gium to be annexed to France; that the
Emperor's government has always op-
posed instead of encouraging this desire,
but that the task will be even more diff
cult than it has been hitherto if Belgium
awakens the susceptibilities of the
French nation, or gives rise to the sus-
picion that she is mere instrument of
some hostile power. .Bl ya
The Pays semi-ofieial journal, COM
plains that Belgium a few years ago in
creased the Notifications of Antwerp
with the object of giving up that city to
England; that recently she has adopted
the Prussian calibre for her artillery, and
that now she is guilty of provocation
which would be extravsgsnt, unless Prus-
sia were the sooomplice. The Belgian
papers, on the other hand, ridicule the
panic into which France has been excited,
and state that the object of the law is to
prevent the coalition OF railroad corpor-
ations to put down competition, and to
sacrifice the public convenience for the
promotion of their private gain.
The occurrence, however, shows the
delicate nature of the relations between
France and Prussia. Louis Napoleon
looks upon Belgium as part of France,
and the Rhine as the natural frontier of
the empire. Under these circumstances,
even the expressed wishes of the people
of the disputed territory will not be
taken into account, and,at some day not
very far off the struggle between the two
great military powers of Europe-France
ond Prussia-may commence.-Phila-
delphiG Public Ledger.
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Lord Byron and His Daughter Ada,

We have touched already Oh his deep
affections for Ada. Madame Guiccioli
tells us that the days in which he re-
ceived lock of her hair or her miniature
were kept as days of solemnity, and hal
lowed with inexpressible sadness Even
when in Greece, news of an illness of
Ada affected him so deeply that he was
not able to continue his journal. The
mother of Ada" he would say to Nine.
Guiccioli, "has had the smiles of her
childhood and her youth, but the tears of
her womanhood will be for me-" he
felt them springing for him warm and
fast, afar across the dark valleys of time
and through the frozen vapors of death.
Years after, Colonel Wildman, the
gu ccessor of Byron in the proprietorship
of Newstead Abbey, met Byron's daugh-
ter in the round Of London society, and
invited her to come and visit the seat OF
her ancestors. Sixteen months before
her death, Lady Lovelace made visit
to Newstead Abbey. In the great library
of the Abbey, Colonel Wildman read one
of the finest passages of Byron to Byron's
daughter. Touched with the beauty of
the verse, she asked soho icds the author.
ne HutnOr bdlu OOiOuci w iiuhah'
There is bis portrait" (pointing to tbe.
picture of Byron, by Phillips, on the wall
of the library; and he recited yet m ore
of Byron's poetry to her Lady Love-
lace was mute with astonishment; new
revelation burst in upon her. Do not
think this is affectation," she said, when
| tell you that l have been brought up in
complete ignorance Of all that regards
my father.
From that moment passionate enthu-.
siasm for all that recalled the memory OF
Byron took possession Of her. She
loved 10 shut herself for long hours In
the apartments he had lived in, and
which still retained much of the furni-
ture which Byron had touched and used.
She loved to sleep in the room in which
he had slept She gave herself up to
lonely meditations on his exiled fate and
his premature end, and endeavored, with
intense yearning, out of the association
of scenes over which his memory lin
gered. to extract some of that tenderness
of which she had been deprived-some
participation in the glory of a great ex-
istence. From that time all other charms
of life became insipid and colorless
before her. This child Of Byron was in
consolable. She had been cruelty disin-
herited and robbed Of the most priceless
treasure which it was in the power OF
heaven TO bestow upon her-the parental
affection OF the noblest, most generous,
truest. and most loving heart which ever
heat in the bosom Of man. She waned
and pinsd, and fell i'll, very ill-so ill she
knew she must die; and then she wrote
to Colonel WildmAn q letter, begging
him as favor to let her be buried by the
side of her father. "Yes, | will be buried
there-not where my mother can join
me, but by the side of him who so loved
me, and whom was taught not to love ;
and this reunion Of bodies in the grave
sball be an emblem Of the union Of our
snirits in the bosom of the Eternal
Byron was more than avenged. The
father and daughter lie side by side in the
village church Of acknowledgement.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-12

The extraordinary action of President
Grant in ordering that certain pardons
issued by President johnson near the
close of his term of Office should be
withheld is said to excite much surprise
at Washington. 1t is an act as ungra-
cious as it is unprecedented. 1t looks a
great deal more like the manifestation of
q spirit of hate and maignity toward the
retiring President than a desire to do
Justice and to guard the public interests.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-12
A Funny Fight-An Elephant Attacks q
Locomotive.

The following account of an encounter
between an elephant and q railway train,
in India, is taken from the BeHgaiee Of
January 2, au intelligent native news
paper, published in Calcutta in English !:
A correspondent writing to the Indo-
European Correspondence from Mon
ghyr. states that very serious accident,
brought about in manner unknown,
and perhaps unheard Of since the estAb-
lishmeut Of railways, not only in India,
but throughout the werld, happened to
train on the evening Of the 10th Of De-
cember, at half past eight o'clock, be-
tween Sahebgunge and Nirzapore, about
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The English Press on the Alabama Treaty.

The London papers have elaborate ed
itorial comments upon the rejection OF
the Alabama claims treaty by the Senate
Committee. The Times believes the real
ground for the rejection is the charge OF
British bad faith made in the Boston Pc
tition signed by George B. Upton and
others. The Neios says:
"The English people will be unani-
nous in feeling that their concessions put
them in the right in this matter before
the moral judgment of the world. We
have satisfied the government which first
advanced the claims upon us, have con.
ceded everything which American diplo-
macy felt it could fairly insist upon, and
it is not now for us to take any further
step in the matter. II is quite impossi-
BILE for Englishmen to understand what
their American cousins want, and we can
now do nothing but wait for some intelli-
gible exposition Of their requirements.
But it must be distinctly understood that
we wait in the full conviction that we
have granted all that could be granted
have satisfied to the fullest extent all the
demands made upon us; and have thus
completely cleared ourselves from all
responsibility for the failure of those long
and troublesome negotiations. We, at
least, went into those negotiations with
a desire to settle them, and that desire
has prevailed over every other sentiment.
We were anxious to close up an open
wound to remove cause of offense; to
give q costly proof of our desire for peace,
union and brotherhood between kindred
nations. Henceforth no responsibility
belongs to us. We shall regret that a
perpetual danger to our friendly relations
should exist; bat if these Alabama
claims remain forever unsettled, the
blame will not rest on England. 1t must
be clearly understood that, though We
may stand upon our concessions, and
grant them as readily to the government
of General Grant as we have done to that
of Mr.. johnson, new proposals for set
Element must now come from the other
side if they are ever to be made at all. /"
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A Royal Auetion--Maxinilian's Library
sold ..I| III.

The library Of the Emperor Maximil-
ian was sold BY Leipzig auctioneer on
the last day Of January Numerous pur-
chasers had arrived frnm Vienna, Ber-
lin, London, Paris, Munich, aud even
from America, to attend the sale. The
highest price was paid for book con-
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tanning only eighty-fcur leaves, and
printed at Mexico in the year l543; it
was sold for Ss05, no doubt because it is
the e rst book printed in America which
contains on its title page the year of it's
publication. Another small volume OF
about two hundred pages, and printed
three years afterward, in the same city,
was sold for $484, and a similar volume
for $500. A volume entitled " Regla
Christians" Mexico, l547, was sold for
s46l; "Manera de Hacer las Process
sioues," thirty-two pages, without year,
for 1910; the magnificent "Prayer-book
of Ann of Britainy," for Sl76 smaller
prayer-books at various prices, from $50
to $50; set of the "Revue des Deux-
Mondes" for 1925. The sum total OBJ
tained at the auction exceeded by far the
estimates made by auctioneers and libra
rians previous to the sale. Every volume
containing the Emperor's autograph
brought at least ten dollars. The books
containing Carlotta's autograph were
purchased by the agents of the King of
Belgium.
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County Rights for Sale on Liberal Terms.

In order to introduce the Hive speedily pn possible EXTRA BAR
GAINS Rights
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-02-05
application for Patent.
Soticc.-No I1D.


CARSON CITY. New. November 10th. 1855.
NJ OTlCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT TIE
~ American Mining Company, by Williams &
DiXlcr, attorneys. have this day filed IN this Of
ice n diagram, together with u notice Of appli-
cation fora Patent from the United States. under
Act Of Congress, approved July 2Gth, 1866, for
a,5GS feet of a certain vein or lode Of quartz or
other rock In place. bearing. gold, silver. copper,
and other metals, formerly known as the North
American Mining Company's claim, and now rs
the American Mining C0mpany's claim, situate
in Gold Hill Mining District, Storey County,
Nevada, being the y M vein or lode developed
in the works Of tho Oyerman Mining Company,
adjoining Il on tho north, and lying between the
southern and northern boundaries dclincatcd on
the diagram, and described AZ follows, tO.wit
Tho southern line commences ut stake No. /,
marked North American Company, south
line" located In American Flat, at u point about
onc'half mile northeast OF the Bay state mill,
and about scvcnty-fyc (T5) feet east OF the Amer
lean Flat road, and runs S5io Z passing through
a cedar bush in small rarlnc) and y 80 W Qlass-
ing through n stake located on road, marked
North American Company, south line" The
northern line commences nj stake No. 9. marked
= North American Company, north line" located
at the Uncle Sam boarding house, said point
bearing from stake No. / n 300 L 2.JGS feet, this
distance being the amount claimed on the lode,
and run S so L passing through n stake at 200
fcct distant, marked North american Compa-
ny, north line y and \ so W (passins through
a stake at 800 feet distant, marked North
American Company, north linc') At n monu-
mcnt of stone markcd 'Pt OF reference on plat)
located \ $50 T. BIS feet from stake No. !, the
southwest corner Of Sec. q Il. lG y. X. 81 L,
bears S 40 ~ W 1893 foct distant. Mt. Lincoln
bears S ~ 3P L, and the smoke stack OF the
Bay Siatc mill hears $ 800 30 W. The extent OF
said vein or lode cannot he ascertaincd by actual
measurement, hut raid vein or lode IL bounded
OIL each side by the wall Of the same, and the
amount of ground contained between the given
end lines and the unasccr;aincd walls of snid
vein or lode, IL estimated ut 20 acres. Said
claim ismora particularly described in tho notice
and diagram posted in this Office and on tho
claim. WARREN i. LOCkHART.
noISygll Register.