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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-07
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HOLIDAY PREsEyrs FOR ALL,--can be found
at Parker Il Go. s, qs 4 loo Summer ST., Boston
Mass. To enable every person TO provide them.
selves with handsome and useful Holiday pres.
ents from now until the Goth of January, iS70
these gentlemen will issue large eight.psged
Catalogues of all the newest and best novelties in
such goods as Fancy Boxes, Desks, Glove Boxes,
Albums in Morocco, Gilt and Velvet Bindings,
real Morocco Shopping Rags, Furnished Reu-
cules, Silver Plated Ware and Cutlery OF all dc.
scriptions, the latest STYLES Of Jewelry in Gold,
Comedian, Jet, Shell, Etruscan, Carbunclo and
Hair, Dry Goods, etc., etc. etc., and hundreds
of the latest and best published Books. They
are giving One Hundred Tickets to every one
who will become their Agent, without charging
them 10 cents each ms heretofore. Road the
change in their advertisement in another col
umn, and send for Catalogue.
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0ne-Half the Regular Rates.

Wewant good reliable agents in every part of
the country. by employing your spare time to
form clubs and sending US orders, you can obtain
the most liberal commissions, either in Cash or
Merchandise, and all goods sent by us will be as
represented, and We guarantee satisfaction to ev-
cry one dealing with our house.
A the Holidays are coming, we are making
special arrangements to supply every one who
reads our Advertisement, with the most hand
some and useful Holiday Presents that can he
thought of or wished for, and to enable them to
procure them cheaply and expeditiously, We will
give to any one who will become our Agent, One
Hundred Free Tickets, enumerating some of the
mauy different articles from which you can make
your selection Of Holiday Presents.
For returning full clubs from these free tickets,
accompanied by the cash, wc will give the same
extra premiums that we now give Just the same
az if you had paid 10 cents for each one Of your
Tickets. We wish you to understand that not
any other firm in the business can compete with
us in any way whatever.
A. this free ticket is only good for the Holt
days, you must send in your orders before the
goth of January, 1870.
In every order amounting TO over $50, accom-
panied by the cash, tho Agent may retain 1900,
and in every order Of over 500, $500 may be
RATA pI 10
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30 n Il 2 E Z N II
HAIR RESTORATIVE!
FOR THE
Restoration, Growth and Beauty
or rHya VkEp

Will restore Gray or diseased Hair to its orr
ginal health and beauty; will stop the hair from
falling in the worst cases it will promote new
and healthy growth eradcates dandruf will
cure the most severe headache; will warrant to
cure scald head in its worst form. This article is
not dye it will not stain the skin, nor soil the
most delicate fabric. 1t is free from all dirty or
gummy sedim ents that is found in all articles Of
fered to the public. 1t will also prevent the
young from becoming prematurely gray
1t is warranted to make the hair grow on the
baldest heads. We have not failed in any case
yet. as hund red can testify. 1t can be used by
the old and young alike as it is beneficial to ali
It contains nothing injurious, but is clear and
clesn as spr ing water. We can truly say that
we have now ar ticle the public has long looked
for. You ha We but to try it aud you will be con.
vinee1 Of its worth.
PRicE-0ns Dollar in large Bottles.
MsEHfaetur ed by the
Niagara Toilet Manufacturing Co.,
No. Is South Division St., Buffalo, n. 7.
Fer ssls BY Druggists. ossTdsodwsovly
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STERLING SILVER-WARE
AND q"
AND FINE ELECTRO.PLATED WARE

THE GorhAm Manufacturing Co.. of proyi-
denee, r. l., having the largest manufsc.
tory Of solid silver ware in the world. with the
most improved machinery, and employing III,
most skilled labor, are enabled to offer an una.
qualed variety Of new and beautiful design, in
dinner services, tea services, and every article
specially adapted for holiday and bridal gifts.
They offer also their well known and unrival.
led silver electro-pated ware, in which, hey have
introduced new patterns Of rare elegance. The
by U. s. Mint assay. The eleetro-p late is guar
antsod to be superior to the finest Sheffield ware.
Orders received from the trade only, but these
goods may be obtained from responsible dealers
every whore.
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Purity Versus Poison.--Thero IS as much diff
ference between PHALoN'S VITALIA oRsAL-
WALTON FOR THE HAIR and filth charged
hair-darkners, as between the Pool Of Bethesda,
that an angel stirred, and a feycr.brseding mud
pond. The VITALTA is a crystalline fluid.
without single impurity or noxious property,
and the naturalness of the shades it imparts to
grey hair is unequaled.
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pailp Argue.

The effect of lopg-continucd constipation, il
to weaken the system and depisss the spirits
The blood thiekens, the head aches, and train
Of evils is superinduced, called by the variou,
names of dyspepsia, liver complaints, jaandcc
bilious eruptions, etc. The cause of these dis.
eases can best be cured by Dr.. Walkers vegets.
bic Vinegar Bitters, which act naturally upon
the liver aud bowels. II is a permanent tonic.
instiing fresh vigOr into the vital forces, giving
energy to the whole being.
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TBE UNIVERSAL CRY, "What shall buy for
Holiday Presents" can be severed best by Par
ker 4 Co., 9s 4 100 Summer St., Boston, who
have an immense variety of Holiday and usefu
articles, such as all kinds Of Fancy Boxes, Writ
ing Desks, Glove Boxes, Albums in Morocco and
Gilt and Velvet Bindings, real Morocco Shopping
Bags, Furnished Reticulcs, Silver Plated Ware,
and Cutlery of all descriptions, Jewelry imits-
tons of the latest styles Of solid gold, which
cannot be distinguished from the real, &C., &c.,
and hundreds of the latest and most entertaining
Books. Their stock contains almost everything
necessary to supply the wants and crafty the
tastes of every body, and they claim that their
superior facilities for buying these goods enables
them to sell at very much under the regular pri-
ces paid for such articles. They want agents
everywhere, to whom they offer most liberal in
ducements. We call attention to their advertise
ment in another column. novl9dwlm.
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COMMISSIONS:
Agents will he paid 10 per cent in Cash OF
Merchandise, when they fill up their en- tire club,
for which below we give partial list of Com
missions:
For an order of $50, from a club Of Thirty,
We will pay the Agent, Us commission, % yards
Brown or Bleached Shecting, Good Dross Pat
tern, Wool Square Shawl, French Cashmere Pants
and Vest Pattern, Fine Large White Counter
pane, etc, etc, or $500 in cash.
For an order of $50, from = club of Fifty, we
will pay tie Agent, as commission, IS ysrda
Sheetipg, One pair heavy Wool Blankets, poplin
Dress pattern, Handsome wool square Shawl,
Silver Gaze Watch, etc, etc., or S. 90 in cash.
For m order of 500, from club Of One Hun
bred. se viii pay the Agent, rs commission, 100
yards good yard-w,de Sheeting, Coin silver
Hunting case Watch, Rich Long Wool Shawl,
Suit Of all Wool French Cashmere, etc., etc, or
81 in cash.
We do not employ any Travelling Agents, and
customers should not pay money to persons pur-
porting to be our agents, unless personally ac-
ausinted
SEND MONEY ALWAYS BY REGISTERED
LETTERS
For further particulars send for Catalogues.
PARKER d. CO.,
9S & 100 Summer St., Boston, Mass.
octl9dwly.
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ONE DOLLAR FOR EACH ARTICLE.

We do not offer single article of merchan-
dIze that can be sold by regular dealers at our
price. We do notssk you to buy goods from US
unless we can sell them cheaper than you can
obtain them In any other way, while the great
er mart 0f our goods arc sold Mt ahout
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With its gloomy attendants, low spirits, dc.
preston, involuntary emissions, loss of semen.
spermatorshpa, loss of power, dizzy head, loss o:
memory and threatened impotence and imbecility.
find q sovereign cure in Humphreys Homeo
pathc Specific No. TweAty eight. Composed Of
the most valuable mild and potent curatives, they
the system, arrest the discharges, and impart
vigor and energy, life and vitality to the entire
man. They have cured thousands of cases
Price IS per package of six boxes and vial, which
is very important in obstinate or old cases. or 81
per single box. Sold by oil druggists, and sent
by mail on receipt of price. Address Humphrey s
Specific Homeopathic Medicine Co., 562 Broad
way, New York. julylly.
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EIrERIErrrA DocEr.-Yss surely experience
teaches those who use DR.. MOrse's Indian Root
Pills that it is better to take a medicine upon the
first symptoms of disease, that will certainly re-
store health, than to wait until the complaint has
become chronic. U,e these Pills in all cases Of
Biiousness, Indigestion, Headache, Liver Com
plant, Female Irregularities, &c. Get the One
ia Almanac from your storekeeper. 1t contains
much useful information for the invalid and con-
valescent. If you are ailing, use DR.. Morse's
Indian Root Pills and you will find them of
great value. Sold by all dealers.
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ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

UNh WlLLlUN DULAhMSs
Our facilities for transacting this immense
business are better than ever before. We have
agents IN all the principal itios to purchase
goods from the manufacturers, importers, and
Others for CASH, and often at an immense sac
rihee from the original cost Of production.
Our stock consists, In part, of the following
goods:
sbawls, Blankets, Quilts, Cottons, Ginghams,
Dress Goods, Table Linens, Towels, Hosiery,
Gloves, skits, Corsets, dc, &c.
Silver Plated Ware, Spoons plated OH Nickel
Silver, Dessert Folks five bottle plated Cast0rs,
britannia Ware, Glass Ware, Table and Pocket
Cutlery, in great variety.
Elegant French and German Fancy Goods,
Beautiful Photograph Albums, tho newest and
choicest styles in Morocco and Velvet Bindings.
Morocco Travelling Bags, Handkerchief and
Glove Boxes, DC.
Gold and Plated Jewelry, of the newest styles.
We have also made arrangements with sopae
of the leading Publishing Houses that will ena-
BILE us TO sell tho standard and latest works of
popular authors at abou. one half tho regular
price such as Byren, Moore, Burns, Milton,
and Tenpysons Works, in full Gilt and Cloth
Bindings, and hundreds Of others.
Thebe and everything elie for
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Fay the Express Charges.


This eher is more especially to assist agents in
the We.tein and Southern States, but Is open to
al. lnmpra
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RAILWAYS
Sarsaparillian Resolvent

HAS MADE THE MOST ASTONISHING CURES.
SO QUICK, so RAPID ARE THE CHANGES,
TIE BODY UNDERdOEs UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF THIS TRULY WONDERFUL MEDI-
n
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This is large Four Story Brick House directly
posi- the new depot of the NJ. $. 4 c., R. I.
P. Railroa DIS. July ld6m.
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at rs reas enable rates as any other solvent
company.
Chartered Capital, %8,o0o,o0o
Subscribed do 100000
Cash do 225,OCO
HON. LEONARD SWEET, PRESIDENT
IL. W. Ii. CUSHMAN, TREASURER.
G. D. HOOKER, :. SECRETARY
LOCAL BOARD.
CALVIN TRuEsDALE, NJ. D., PRRsIDExr.
Capt, I. J. ROBINSON, DIRECTOR.
ISAAC HEINsFrRTER, DIRECTOR.
j. II. WILSON, DIRECTOR.
HAYES CLEAvELAND, AGENTS.
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PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER DAY. SINGLE MEALS
FIFTY CENTS.
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OF every type the IMPERIAL CROWN BIT
TIERS should be taken---it is the Best Tonic in
tho World. especially adapted to the use Of con
dren.
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take place for as the Sarsaparlau increases the strength
and purity of the blood, all deposits diminished and
wh"Io there tuberUles formed in the lung4 the
further deposits arrested and those that estab
Iishel forming d,oIse4 expelled, exhausted, the
portion Of the diseased lung cCatrSed and the consmp-
tive, sCrJlI0H5 subject receives good If sound,
hPllth.
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Intermittent and Remittent Feyers, etc., etc, use
the IMPERIAL CROWN BlTTERS to effect a
cure. Its anti.perodic properties render it in
dispensable in all malarous districts.
New-York tribune., 1869-01-06

The TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1860 has just
gone press 1t has been extended to pages apart
from advertisements and cover and contains complete
account Of the Elections OF 1863 with the popular vote by
States Counties and in several instances byTownshlps
also, and the Electoral Vote Of each State not only at
the last but at several preceding Presidential Elections
1t contains condensed account Of the impeachment
and Trial Of Andrew Johnson Of the National Conven-
tons Nominations and Platforms Of the respective par
es letters Of the rival candidates abstracts OF the acts
aud resolves Of the present Congress at former
sion; JohnsOns two Amnesty Proclamations and Sew.
ards announcing the ratification Of the XVIII Amend
ent to the Constitution Federal Executive Judges Of
the Supreme Court and Members OF the XLth and also
the XLIs Congress- &c. &c. Though very compact this
is the fullest annual compilation Of Election Statistics
yet published 1t will soon be for sale at this office
Orders by mail will be filed the order of their 1eeep
New-York tribune., 1869-01-06

Mr.. Lynch franked newspaper, containing,
among other matter, speech of his, to 10000
postmasters, more or less to whom the propri-
etors wanted to send specimen copies. He took
the pains yesterday to notify " the House and
"the country" that he intended to keep up the
practice, believing that this was one of the
purposes for which the privilege was con-
ferred. We print this little speech of Mr..
Lynch's this morning. Does he consider it his
duty, therefore to subserve the purpose for
which the privilege was conferred by franking
our entire edition . If so, he may be interested
in knowing that trifie over 100000 of his
franks are needed at this Office forthwith.
New-York tribune., 1869-01-06
Smnstmtnts, 1t.

BROADWAY THEATFR.-This Evening at A Play
BY John Boughsm The kmsGd Ring Mr. aud Mrs BarreI vi"
hams
BRYANTs' NEW MINSTREL HALL, Tammany Build
ing Foueuthst adjoining Academy Of Music" II Iro'aore
"Oeneyieye De Bryant Gsbe the Gensd Arms Bryant Min
sireis-De Sofia, the Infant Tenor
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN.-Day ana Even
ing-BEhlbuon Of Pictures and Sculpture
NEw-YORK CIRCUS Fourteenth -st.-This Afternoon
a. a and Bvenng ID Blue Beard IA TuqueFsno~s" Display
Of Athletic skill Melville. Roland. Stcknsy, etc
NFw-YORK THFATFR-This Evening at s." Field
ofthe Cloth Of Gold" wor,el Sisters
NBLo's GARDEN.-This Evening at s." After
Dark or. LOudonby Night"
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Afternoon at Il and Even
log ats" liumpy DumpyF G. L. Fox Mile. Sspgsh
PIXIES OPERA HOUsE-This Evening at s." La
Peichole" Mile lrma-
SAN Francisco MTNsTRELs No. 5S5 Broadway
Tbs BveuDg-" Bone Squash Diablo"
SNEDECORs ART GALLERY. No 76S Broadway
This Diy.-Free Exhibition Of Paintings and Cbrouos
STEINwAY HAII~-This Evening at S-Scientlhc
Leeiure by Prof HOrsiOrd
THEATRE FRANCMs.-This Evening-Opera Bou1e
-" Gs0eyieve de BrkbSnt'
Tue TAMMANY.-Tammany Hall, Fourteenth ST.
This Evening at 7i-nsugural programme
WAII4CK's THEATER. 49, TINS Evening at s.
"Capian Watch" WooicOeks Little Game Lester NaAck
WoOD's MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN THEATER,
Rroawly and ThirtehAt Noon-Pao Entertainments This Al
tenoon and Evening ErnDi; The Horn OF Dilemma
Family" Throughout the DAgIbe kng and tOoie
Combination ard Grsud Mealgereof Living wild Animals
New-York tribune., 1869-01-06
SUBURB1N TRAVEL.

The failure of the first attempt to build an
underground railroad in New York has prob
ably thrown back for at least two years the
opening of cheap and rapid transit between
our crowded marts of commerce and the homes
of the poor and the middle classes, and has
given fresh Importance to the problems of city
passenger transportation which grow every
day more and more perplexiug. The poor
mans difficulty in living in New-York has be-
come distressing. Rents increase, and the
home and the workshop get farther and farther
apart, until the labOreI is obligedltO spend lin
the weary journey to and from his labor the
hours which ought to he devoted to domestic
enjoyments and mental improvement. 1t is a
hard case, and many of the steam railway COM
panes are doing their best to make 1t harder.
Westchester County, for instance, ought to fur
nish pleasant homes for many more thousands
of our citizens than it now does; but the rail-
roads are doing a great deal to drive away
those who live there already. This is especially
true of the Harlem Road, which carries large
majority of the harder working people-men who
must be at their business early and late, and
to whom a quiet home in the fresh air of the
suburbs, with convenience and rapidity of ac-
cess, is more important than TO any other
class. The first difficulty with tins road is the
enormous rate of commutation-nearly double,
il we are not mistaken, the rates on some of
the New Jersey roads. A second is the insult
ficient accommodation for passengers A third
is the inconvenient hours of the trains With
reasonably good railway facilities, the villages
from Harlem to beyond Mount Vernon would
very soon double their population. But
a tired man, at the end of a days
work, is in no humor to scramble for a
place in crowded car. where the benches are
ranged lengthwise like the seats in an omnibus
so that passengers can be wedged in tighter
and where many can get no seats at all then
to be conveyed at a snails pace-t takes
so minutes to go 10 miles from Twenty sixth ST.
and for this accommodation TO be charged a
preposterously high fare If he is detained
later than $50 p. m, the poor man cannot go
home at all. If he oversleeps himself and
misses an early morning train he must wait
until late in the forenoon. Such railway policy
is not economy but parsimony. 1t dwarfs the
local traffic of the road, and, while
more liberal arrangements prevail on
the other side of the river threatens
to uri'e our suouioah Popui"'ion ho" "oS'
chester into NewJersey. Crossing ferry,
however, is serious objection to many peo-
pie, iand the villages north of us will probably
always be preferred if their inhabitants can
prevail upon the railroad corporations to make
better provision for their necessities mdivid-
ual remonstrance can do little, but something
might be effected by concert of action, and
before the Spring opens we hope the expert
ment will be tried.
New-York tribune., 1869-01-06

The contractors for stationery for the Patent
Office take the pains to furnish us with their
defense against the charge of having swindled
the Government 1t is not at all certain that
they cannot make out their case. The Gov
ernment seems without doubt, to have been
swindled, and they seem, without doubt, to
have profited by the swindle; but it is quite
possible that they have only exacted the letter
of the bond-in which case it would seem that
it ought to be the worse for the official VINO
made the bond. Some Jack Bunsby for the
Printing Committee Iucidly insists that, not
witbstandnc the contractors defense, the "evi-
:" dences of fraud are fragrant and need further
investigation!