The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-10
MARES NEST IN THE UNION ORYrCE.

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Feeling sore over the superiority Of our
news report to that of the Union, its editor
q few days ago made flourish Of trumpets,
and tried to make up for his deficiency in
news BY the egregiousness Of bis cheek, in
the way Of empty assertions. His splitter
called the attention Of some of the readers
of both papers to nparison Of their re.
spective merits as newspapers, and the
result WAS dscon,inuance Of the Union
as a useless expense. This morning il
discovers to its readers genuine mares
nest in the Union office. 1t publishes what
it peases to call the market reports, AZ
given by tho ARGUS, and that ACTUALLY re
ceiyed by telegraph at the Union Office" -
Because these rep ITS vary in some respects,
the bright genius that wrinkles over the col
umns Of that sheet, undergoes spontaneous
combustion, and concludes that the reports
actually received a, tina, office must be in
fsllble, and every departure from them
chase fraud" To say that in this
whole attempt to detract from the value
of our reports and add to his own, he has
shown himself to be silly, is to put the case
in the mildest form it will bear.
After dragging those who may have read
the article, through over halt column Of
drivel, in which is elaborate parallel col.
umns, he gathers in the fruits of his labors
a. follows:
In the ARGUS New York market, wheat
10 quoted firm No. 2 spring firm at ga
20: winter red and amber, sl.33sl &C."
The actual report says: Wheat closed
dull, lower, No. 2 $l.26sl.27."
The mares nest here consists of differ.
ence Of one cent per buShel 10 wheat, &C.
cording to the L'nions infalible standard.
No. Spring being the only grade of which
it received report, while our report EN-.
braced one other grade He follows this
brilliant and startling discovery up with the
following clincher:
The ARGUS quotes corn in New York a,
l.06al.l0, while the real price is l,llal.l2;
and pork at $780, when its price is 81 j0e
32.75.
The Davenport Democrat, which receives
the identical report from which the Union
undertakes to give the correct quotations,
quotes corn in New York at HALLE and
not II, no particular grade of corn being
given in either report. The Democrats re.
port also gives pork--"Quiet, 32.Joa32.7j
for nep. The Union scribbler evidently
hadn't either the sense or fairness to note
the difference between the article quoted by
US and the different article quoted in his
own report. We next have the following
In the ARGUS St. Louis market, yellow
sacked corn IS quoted at S2as3c, and old
white at 93c, when the telegraph says simp'
ly, Corn dull, dropping, 7OaSO.'
Where no reference is made to the grade
Of corn, last years growth il always meant
when there is both new and old in the mar
ket, and anybody who knows anything on
the subject knows that old corn is Away:
worth more than new. The Democrat o.
yesterday, which, we repeat published the
identical report from which the Union pre-
tends to quote, says Of corn at st. Louis
"Dull and dropping at 10a50 TOR new.
The words "for new" could not have beer
accidentally omitted again. The two re
ports, when given in full are in petfec
harmony We quoted old corn of two diff
ferent grades, and the report from which
the Union preteDds to quote gives the low
est and highest grades of new corn. In Thu
respect il has resorted to miserable shift o
suppressing truth in order to sustain hi
fmsy preteDces. To show that the Uni0,
reports are not infalible we mention few
facts In this mornings Davenport Gdzett
which receives the same press dispatche
parade, -four at Chicago is quoted 3.75t
3.s73; the infalible Union, $3.7ja4 87!-
difference ST. No. wheat by Gazette 81
by Union S9-diference 5 cents; rejected
corn BY Gazette, 75a76 by Union
73a74 difference cents; Rye by Gazette
7G; by Union 75 Barley by Gazette s., by
Union 8O-diference cents The Gazett,
quotes wheat at New York l,24sl, &c; In
.on l,2ial,2j The Gazette quotes extra
flour at St. Louis at 4,25a4, Is; the Union al
4a4,75, and XXX by the Gazette is 4,7ja
| $50, and by the Union 4,7ja5,75. The Ga
zette quotes sacked oats at j2a55, the
Union at 5la53; Wheat No. , red fall it
quoted by the Gazette at LOCAL .l2!, the
same grade by the Union at LIS.
We have thus shown the fssi,y of the
Unions pretences from its own stand
ard, and that its own boasted re
ports vary materially from those
given by other morning papers, and
OBJ tanned from the same source and through
the same channels and this variance ii
much greater than ours is from the standard
which he pretends to quote from. Those
who are charitable will set him down an ass
with others his sentance will be severe in
proportion as they are inclined to be exac
in using terms to describe meauness of
very low grade.
We extract the following from the Oquaw