Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-08-20

WAsHINeTGN, Aug. II.
Since the publication of the Sumner let
tiers, all kinds of ludicrous assertions of what
would and what would not be done to the
colored race if Mr.. Greeley were elected,
have been put ahoat the latest is that then
they would ell be driven out of Washington;
which Gas the "nar and brother" loo4 IS upon
an existence here as equal to private box
in parsdise) is about the worst thing that
could befall him, and he is frightened ac
cordiDgly, and prsys for Mr. Grants reelec
ton as the only means of preventing the
dire catastrophe. Now people may laugh
to think that such transparent campaign
joke should be believed by them; but
knowledge of some other of their standing
terrors will explain it easily. Say might.
doctor" for instance on dark evening in q
crowd, and if they don't melt away in allegro
movement, then they're not genuine dsrksyG.
They have the cheerful idea that medical
students in pursuit of knowledge 90 about
after dark gobbling up unwary sons of
Ham, to send their spirits where good dar-
keys 20 first, and then have . nice time
upon the remainder with their dissection
knives. One evening last winter two young
men on their way home, started one up and,
seeing him run, followed until he, finding
that they gained on him, fell upon his knees
with "Oh Lor Marse Nightdoctor, lem me
60 dis once Use pc sinna shuso, lem me
goW OF course they let him 90 and he no
doubt considers himself g remarkably
| fortunate nigga" to have escaped with his
( life. / once overheard an EDglishman, who
was doing the city, air his opinions of women
| in a street car, and found them 80 touching
tnat was driven to make a demonstration,
| i shook my fist at him; but diplomat
cslly, with my hand in my pocket. Well,
some tine after, while riding in the country,
we came to a spot where several roads me
and where, near by, stream of the coolest,
! freshest water dubbed up out Of the sand at
the foot of an old forest king. There two
citizens cut in ebony popped up their woolly
heads with Have a drink, sab? Have your
boss watered, sab? and we had drink all
around. There, while Jack was distributing
! fractional currency a carriage came N
sight, and in it the Englishman. Well, ]
knew he would want drink, and perhaps
wish to ask something about this shocking
country, so, I'm sorry to say, fell from
grace in the following manner Il told JACK
dudibly that there was the nightdoctol
coming to look up fresh subjects, and W.
must hurry away. Great Caesar
how those bows did run had hardly gaiC
it, when the flag of truce from the rear o
the hlDdmosl dissppe' red in the under
growth and the last | saw OF heard, wa
the Euglishman wildly ges,iculsting an,
calling "Yeau hesw wataw my hseose !!
} But there was no one to ''heaw," and l fel
Oh so serenely virtuous.
On the evening Of the 8th inst the Lib
erals OF our city had, what the Radical
, called ''fzzle" of their own and "fzzled
! to such an extent that the people within
, radius of mile have not fully recovered
their hearing yet, and devoutly pray tina
! the next ole may come off anywhere else
unless they are put under bonds to lesv,
: their liberal lungs at home, or at least keel
their cheering at half-msss The meeting
passed off very we'll however, without ROY
or disturbance of any kind which for thi
} place is something out of the common order
, The latest topic of conv ersation is the at
D tempted suicide of one Of our teachers, VII
: at New York tried to drown herself bu
was rescued. The press of that city, a
usual, took the worst possible view Of tn
case, imputiug dear knows what to the poo
4 girl while, in fact, there are few lives NOR
1 DlAneieSs IMAM nefs. Sbe was nara BLu
g dent, and some years ago had brain feve
which resulted in insanity. She was take
0 to the n. Y. Insane Asylum, cured Their
# and then sent to Scotland, where she foil
}, recovered her health. Returning she eE
|, gagged in teaching with such success tbs
!. she became a universal favorite with parent
sudschildren ; and all would have been We
e had not her parents tried to prevent he
l. marriage with young man of this cit,
z They took her to New York against her vii
I, and the nervous excitement consequer
e upon it brought on an attack of deEsng'
ment again. And that's al of their ''olt
}. old story" LIE NARD-