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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
TEE CLEVELAND COAL.

| Ten car loads of coal came in on the
Rockford road yesterday, from the Cleve
| land coal banks, and is finding a rapid sale
I at the depot to-day. The price at present
| fixed upon is 50 % per ton at the cars. This
was the price at which the Coal Valley
Mining Company delivered their coal short
time since, before the reduction.
They now deliver it at 50 per ton. The
majority of purchasers will fail TO see such
difference between the qualities of the
Cleveland and Coal Valley coal as to war
rant this material difference in price, and as
an Involvement to vote $50. 900 to the road.
Judge Green promised coal a, competing
rates on the coming in of his road and we
think that the individual or individuals who
regulate the price of the Cleveland coal
should so FIX it that we OBJ.
tain that article as cheap at leas.
as that furnished BY the Coal Valley Mining
Co. 1t is represented tina. the Cleveland
coal is of superior quality burning to q
| fine ash etc, 1t is not too much to demand
of the Cleveland Co., who have continually
made special promises in this connection, tina,
we get their better quality of coal at the same
rates delivered, as that furnished by the Goa
Valley Mining Company. There could be
no competition else
OUR CITY BULLETIN.-We place at tn {
head of our city news column to dsv q care,
fully revised and corrected City Bulletin,
containing the time of the arrival and de
parture of all the railroad trains, the opening
and closing Of the mails and the Post Office
hours, which will be found great sd van
tage to the travelling public and to our
business men. This bulletin can be relied
upon as correct, and any changes hereafter
made will be reported at once, as soon as we
are notified by the proper authorities. We
ara determined to make the ARGUS reliable
in all matters of Importance, giving the
very latest and freshest news, the most
correct reports of all city and county trans
actions also carefully selected literary and
miscellaneous matter, as well as the correct
exponent of the sterling principles of the
! Democratic party. Thus hoping to make it
acceptable as representative Of the inter
ests of Rock Island city and county, and q
recognized valuable auxiliary In building
up the many grand interests and enterprises
of this section, as well as in inducing others
to seek our city as a desirable location. We
have Oh abiding faith III the future OF Rock
Island, and all we ask is that every citizen
will join with US in Fastening it forward,
And now is the accepted time.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
Wanted,

An agent for Zell's Eneye1Spea,o, ne co"pen.
dun Of human kno~ied9e- ihose A0 nave not
yet subscribed address
6enl. Agt.
Quincy. Ills
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18

! PUBLIC LEDGER ALMAN4C.-0ur thanks
are due the proprietors of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger for q copy OF this very valua
Bile work
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
LOCAL COLUMN.
A Modern Gsllileo

When Gsllileo insisted upon the correctness of
his theory that the earth revolved around the
sun, he not more earnest and determined
than Newburger is TO sell out He is offering his
entire stock of Dress Goods, Flannels, Cloths,
Furs, Staples, Millinery aud Notions, at actual
cost and all should avail themselves of this rare
opportunity FOX procuring bargains.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18

LADIES declare DR.. Prices Cream Baking
Powder admirable, and that biscuits made
from it are Incompatible. All reliable gro
GERS keep il.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
At Wadsworth & Co.'S.

Just opened, Linen Towels, from 200 apiece up
hemstitched Handkerchiefs, from l5c 10 sl.5U
apiece; also, Hosiery, Gloves, Hoods, Nubias
60, at very low prices.
The best assortment of Lace Collars, Lace
Handkerchiefs, Dress Goods, Shawls, &C. to be
be found in Rock Island is at " ads worth i Co.'S
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
z He CITY.

FoR SALE.-F'irs: quality of Cleveland
coal at the Rockford depot. 2s
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
Odd Fellows

Rock Island Lodge No. Is, I. o. o. F., meets
every Monday evening at Odd Feilows Hall,
southeast corner of Illinois and Eag.e sts., Of
"a o'clock Ply.
B. KNOX, N. G.
G. W. HAnILrou, r. 8.
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Masonic.

Barrett Chapter No. IS, R. A. M, meets al
Masonic Rail On the first and third Tuesdays o
each month. II. CLEVELAND, H. P.
W. L. SWEENEY, Seo'y.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18

The Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis
railroad is making rapid progress in Hen
derson county.-Huscatine Courier.
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THE BRIDGE HORSE RAILRoAp.

In our last Saturdays issue, we said that
the parties who were engineering the bill
through Congress for their own aggrandize.
mens, if any such there be, "would be com
PEELED to show their hand They have
done SC sooner than expected. We have had
an anonymous communication explaining
the whole mstter,in everything but the names
of the parties, whom, We are assured, are all
honest reliable and well known business
men. The company is to be organized IN
dependehtly OF the horse railroads on either
side, and is to consist OF SIX
gentlemen frcm Davenport and six from
Rock Island. There is to be double 'r"eN
across the bridge, with fare fixed a. een''
maximum. or less if the travel warrants
,ed,c,;on II is to make connections with
tho Rock Island and Moline Horse Railroad
~ This city, and with the Third street road
to the fair grounds in Davenport. These
gentlemen assert that there is to be no mono.
poly in the management of the road. Ii is
to be an independent affair, untramelled by
the horse railroad companies on either side.
1t will run closely on time, a car to leave
either side every ten minutes, and every
effort will be taken to make it a public &C
commodation in all respects. VIII our
anonymous informant please hand in the
names Of these twelve gentlemen for publ
cation Then we will nsvesdone with them
GOLDEN WEDpING.-L. S. Yiele Of Dav.
export the former treasurer of Scott County
and veteran democrat OF the good old sort,
celebrates the anniversary of his Doth year
of matrimony on the 10Th inst. Mr.. Niele
has become a venerable object, under the
matrimonial yoke. He has had happy fifty
years OF it, and he wants his friends to come
together to see how happy he is after
q half century has frosted the heads
of both himself and life partner. He has
hosts of friends, is jolly young man for one
who has lived out his allotted time, and the
occasion of his golden wedding will be as
Joyous an affair ss was the first celebration,
fifty years ago.
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The Babceck Extinguisher,
Is offered to the Public as Remedy

Eighty to nine
~ per cent. of all
hres are discovered
in their iniopiency,
but there are no
ready means to pu,
them out. Five
minutes delay and
the steam FIRE en- :
CINE may not con
troll them, and IL in
season to arrest the
flames, the dsmag
by flooding the
proper with waite
is often greater thsr
by fire. Two man
ntss -fsh th.E yfp
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18

:
This mail arrives on Tuesdays and Friday 5.
and departs Wednesdays and Saturdays, This
route terminates at New Windsor.
ARRIVES. CLOSES
ALEpo NAIL $50 .. IN. 900 q. m.
Mail matter for Camden Mills, Audalusia,
Edgington, Hamlet, Perryton, Aledo, High
Point, New Boston, keiths burg, 0quswka, to
0quawka Junction, (Sagetown), also for Peassn.
Ridge, Hazltt, Buffalo Prairie. Illinois City
Drury, Copper Creek, and Millersburg, goes by
this route.
MONMOUTH NAIL 700 p. IN. 200 r. m.
This mail arrives Mondays, Wedu esdavs and
Fridays; departs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
uriays. All mail matter for Presumption, Suer,
Viola, North Henderson, Spring Grove, Riehland
Grove and Monmouth, should be sent by this
route. Also Centre Ridge on Thursdays.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-18
ASTONISHING {.

MADAME La RUE can produce. - mean Of
the Horoscope, e true picture Of yel-iatare nus
eanG or wife, name, occupation, Tecuaisry en-
cumstances, date Of marriage. and felicity q
married life She will give you tie ? - st-
dress, so that you can correspond 49, tie e
and full description, and tell how, Wien ald
where you will become acquain ted, u destined
success in life, and everything relating 20 Eolr
future. Ste;e your age, color Of eyes suf aAsr,
enclosing fifty cents. Address y. La RTE.
Box 5SgS, Chicago, h.
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OPENING AND CLOSING OF MAILS.

OPENING AND CLOSING OF MAiAS'
Posr OFFICE MITCHELL = LfSpEs BLOCK.
OFFICE HOURS.
Omen d ally Sundays excepted, at 700 q. IN.
Closes " 500 p. III.
General Delivery closes A. 500 p. m.
Money Order Office opens at 900 q. IN.
closes at 500 p. m
Open Sunday from 300 a. m. to 1900 m.
ARRIVES. CLOSES.
7:45 a. N. 700 q. IN.
Gas P m. 900 p. IN.
., 7:20 a. IN. 7:eO q. IN.
1905 p. m. 6:l5 p. IN.
PORT BYRON NORTHERN $50 p. IN. 500 a. IN.
c. VALLEY, ORION ANpoyER 500 D. m. 700 a. m.
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gailp argus.


Orders for Job Printing will meet with prompt
ttention Ut the ARaus OYpIcE, and be executed
q the very best manner and st reasonable r.te,.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-20
PRESIDENT GRANTS CABINET AP-
POINTMENTS.
From the N. Y. World.

From the NJ Y. World.
General Grant is the most amazing man
that ever stood at the head of the executive
government in this country, and perhaps in
any country. 1t would seem the obvious
dictate of self-interest and personal pride, as
well as of good sense and public spirit, for
the executive ruler of great nation to make,
if not brilliant, at least strong, able, and
popular administration. An administration
can exert commanding influence only by
the recognized personal weight political Ca
pacity, and ripe experience of the statesmen
who compose it. When Washington orga-
nized the Government he recalled Jefferson
from France to be Secretary of State, and
placed Hamilton at the head of the Treasury,
putting in his Cabinet the highest political
capacity the country afforded. All our Presi
dents down to Grant have attempted to act on
the same wise rule. There has never been
Cabinet, until General Grant appointed his,
which did not comprise two or three of the
first statesmen of the country, or at least of
the political party by which the President
was elected. Mr.. Lincoln, the last of Gene
raj Grants predecessors, selected Mr..
Seward, Mr.. Chase, and Mr.. Cameron, men
who, whatever their real merits or ability,
were the most prominent and the most in
huential of the Republican leaders at the time
he appointed them. They were men of dis
tluCtiOu, lucn WHO uilcu d ldIB0 space III Iuo
public eye; men who had an attached body of
political followers; men who, whether in
Office or out of Office, had the capacity to in
huence political movements and combina-
tions. All administrations in all free coun-
tries are composed of men of that class.
There has never been an English ministry
which did not consist in great part of men
who had won their title to Office by successful
and recognized political leadership.
1t was reserved for General Grant to make
up Cabinet of political nobodies; and when
one nobody has died or resigned, to regularly
put another nobody in his place. In this
respect, we must award to General Grant the
praise of consistency. The new Attorney
General, MIR. Alderman, is as surprising an ap-
pointment as most of the others which our
wonderful President has made. If the fifty
most intelligent politicians of the country hal
each undertaken to make up a list of the men
General Grant would probably invite into
his Cabinet, no one of the fifty lists would
have contained single name that has ever
been sent to the Senate. Everybody's con-
lectures would have been at fault, because
General Grant does not make his selections
on any principle of recognized fitness There
is not now, nor has there been
from the beginning, member of his
Cabinet whose selection was not sur
prise and-a puzzle to the country. There is
not a member of the Cabinet who has any
political strength. There are at least a thou
| sand lawyers in the Republican party who
are as well qualified for the Attorney-Gene-
rslship as Mr. Akerman. Mr.. Fish, who il
at the head of the Cabinet and beyond al
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-20

Tribune, commenting on this very case,
makes some remarks which we wish could be
road in all churches every Sunday for the
next two years.
"1he late war was great war aud holy war
II had noble purpose and a oiious result great
many people were engaged In t. and some very good
people, some not good, aud some, we are sorry to
say, were quite indifferent characters. Now, many
Of these Indifferent characters are afraid, went
into the war not so much because they understood
or cared Row great its aim was, or its end would
probably be, but because they saw IL was popular,
and thought 1t good thing to 90 into. But the war
was fought out by the good people, the bad people,
had and the country and the world possess and
will possess, for centuries to come, the fruits
generations will be thankful and be full OF
praise therefor. All this Is true has been
times again But I neVertSsIess gsea' nr0tssy many
that, because it is true, every honest man who may
turn out to be rogue, or every rogue who may be
shown to be a rogue st shall not make the fact
that he faithful during the plea mitiga-
tion OF punishment for his roguery. He may have
fought well, either with good motive a bad one
and so far as that question goes, let him have due
credit and such fame and such power as he may
have gained Without question as to what his mo-
tives were But IL he commits forgery or steals or
MURDERS or is otherwise derelict in any of his rela-
tons In society, let him take the consequences as
Republican party had ever existed; as though he
had been Robert Toombs himself, or any other OF
Hold MN up TO the light, or apply even the micro
scope to him, il need he, ana have 1t understood,
once Tor ALL that long and weary years given to the
Republican party cannot be pleaded in bar of
punishment for any sort OF rascality whatever"
This is as sound and saving doctrine as
ever was preached. The salvation of this and
of all other countries depends, of course, in
some degree, on the laws, but in a greater
degree on the character of the men who make
them, and execute them, and live under
them. The laws of Greece and of Mexico
will compare favorably with those of the
United States; indeed, we belive the Greeks
beat us by far in their criminal code. What
makes the difference between our social aud
political condition and theirs is the difference
in the quality of our legislators, and judges,
and sheriffs. AS soon as this disappears, we
we pass.
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comparison the most respectable man in it,
was quite disconnected from public affairs.
Out Of office he exerted no more political
influence than any other man who possesses
the right of suffrage. Borie was political
imbecile; Robeson, his successor was never
heard of out of Southern New Jersey until
he was appointed; Rawlins, Belknap and
Cox had quite as little political standing;
and even Boutwell, was never thought of as a
possible Secretary of the Treasury until he
was appointed.
With the exception of poor old Borie, all
these mediocre men we're capable of going
through the routine duties of their respective
offices, as their chief clerks or under secreta-
ies are in the absence or sickness of their
chiefs. The heads of the executive depart
ment should be men of larger calibre; not
mere chief clerks, but statesmen. They
should be SO thoroughly conversant with puo-
lie affairs, and of such tested sagacity, that
their mere opinions would have authority;
and capable of expounding their views with
persuasive and impressive effect. They
should be men of large acquaintance with
public affairs, who, understand their epoch,
foresee what is coming, and can meet every
emergency with the right measure. The pre-
sent Cabinet. instead of consisting of seven
such men, does not contain enc, and the
President is as ordinary as all his advisers.
One would suppose tnat any inexperienced
President would wish to surround himself
with an able Cabinet; but General Grant
seems to have the small jealousy of a feeble man
who fears that he may be eclipsed by his sub
ordinates. Like all Presidents, he wishes to
be reelected; and he is determined that there
shall be no member of the Cabinet who can
become important enough to be thought a
rival candidate. So the dignity, respecta-
bilty, and usefulness of the Government are
sacrificed to small and ignoble ambition;
and in the most important coniuncture of
our history we have the feeblest admins
tration
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ers. II they continue to support it, their
organization viii compel the Introduction of
innumerable others by manufacturers in all
parts of the State. 1t is organization against
organization, and when it comes to that the
result can be easily foretold. The wisest
course for the Crispins is to recognize that
their organization in the present, as in the
past, is a cumbersome, expensive, and useless
one, which unnecessarily makes war only to
succumb. When it forces, by too persistent
sggressions, the adoption of such defensive
measures as the North Adams manufacturer
has lnaugurated, it will endanger it's exist
ence and effect the ruin of its thoughtless
supporters.
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THE COOLIES IN A NEW FIELD.

FfCfn the NJ L. 1T16u9ae.
Massachusetts grapples the coolie problem
in another spirit than that of California or
the South, and we believe time will prove
hers the wiser resolve. There are singular
contrasts in the circumstances which force
this question into prominence, and in the
methods by which it's solution is attempted
California, which needed laborers, accepted
her coolies under protest, and now, in obedi-
ence to another laboring element which is
also political power seeks to restrict their fur
ther immigration. The South in still stranger
mood and more glaring folly, rejects the
labor herself established and educated for
the sole reason that it has attained political
power, and seeks, in her spiteful temper, to
introduce unskilled creatures in whom she has
no confidence. Massachusetts,, on the contrary
not wanting labor, but forced by combina-
tion of more than 60, 600 of her skilled work
men producing annually single article to the
amount of 100000, 900, imports coolies to
her workshops, and hopefully and heartily
welcomes them. In California they get blows
that frighten them away; in the South they
are received with doubts that discourage; in
Massachusetts, with full work and fair wages
that inspire them. There is for them taxation
in the West; contempt in the South fair play
in the East. Tested thus differently, the prob
lem, of course, results differently. California
farmers pronounce the Chinaman lazy, dirty.
IND destructive, and want no more of him;
Southern planters, having hardly begun the
experiment, already think John poor sub
stitute for Sambo; Massachusetts, manufac-
turer finds him industrious, intelligent, clean,
and economical, and all the other manufactu-
rers cry for him to come.
But the Knights of st. Crispin in Massa-
chusetts demand that he shall not come to
that State, and by violent threats against the
little colony in the Berkshire Mountains and
by infammatory appeals to Congress seek at
once to stop this immigration, and to make
the issue between themselves, or rather their
organization, and the manufacturers Of Massa-
chusetts a political question. 1t is all in
vain. The immigration cannot be stopped,
and the duty of Congress is to regulate
it. The present issue in Massachusetts, is
not worthy and is not destined to as
sumo any grave political Importance. Mas
sachusetts, which has prospered under immi-
grafton, and doubled her manufactures each
decade for thirty years, is not to suffer
under the influx of the coolies. The
knights of st. Crispin nay suffer, however,
if they blindly persist in their effort to
maintain wages at rates which the state OF
trade, the condition of finance, and the cost
of living do not justify. BY organizing to
regulate their wages and maintain them al
the war standard they have forced one
manufacturer to resort to the experiment OF
introducing new and cheaper class of labor
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''THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS" IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
From the N Y. Nation

From the N. \. Nation
We asked the Charleston Daily Republicans,
a fortnight ago, how many members of the
last South Carolina Legislature could read
page of the ''Pilgrims Progress" intelli-
gently, or read any plain writing at all, and
requested that it would, if possible, fortify
its opinion with some statistics. For st ats
tics, it refers us to Treasurer Parker's safe
and ingenious statement in the Independent,
that all but three members signed their
names to the pay-rolls-the value of which,
as an indication Of the condition of their edu-
cation, anybody who has ever seen the la
borers signatures to the payroll of any large
public work will appreciate. AS to their
ability to read page of the "Pilgrims Pro-
eress"-about the easiest thing extant-the
republican says it cannot tell, "never
having heard any of them read from
that particular book" that they did
not graduate at Harvard or Yale; but
they could read "a Pilgrims Progress of
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SEMIMONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON N q
The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Saturday
day, June 25th.
Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat Oou,
Dany, the Wminl ton and Weldon aud North Oaroiina
Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
to all interior points
Freghts for Columbia s. o., and Augusta, Ca taken
via Wilmington low rates by any other route
insurance effected when requested by shppers.
of adng signed at Queen street wharf before day
of ssilng. 80.
WILLIAM L. JAMES. General Agent
6H No 10 South THIRD Street
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Will ehectuAlly cleanse from all IMPURITIES, and re-
move foul smell from passed through it,
In operation and for sale at tie eMANUFAoFoRY, No.
800 DOCK Street. and ssd By Houssfurnishing Stores
generally, bAt
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-20

COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
L Of ali numbers and brsndA Tent. Awning. Trunk
and waTon-ooysr Duck. Also. Paper Manufacturers
Drier Felts from thirty TO seventysix inches. vita
PaulinA. hsitinx, AaAl Twius. s.e; ssu w vvxux.w
no. u QXCRg4 Street lVits stozsA
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are now receiving freight at
cents per 100 pounds,
cents per toOt, la cent per GALLON. .,,I.
option.
INSURANCE y OF PER CENT.
hxtra rates on small packages iron, metals, eto
NO receipt or bill of adng signed for than 50 oeos
The Line would call attention seueray To
the fact that hereafter the regular shippers by this Ina
Will be charged only 10 cents 100 lbs oents Der
foot, during the winter seasons.
For further particulars apply to
s2ss PIER ls NoRTH wtI.Yvrs