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COLONIAL COUNCIL.
Meeting 1871 Nay 1872
Concluded J

The Vtceg0vera0r stated in reply TO Sarauw,
that he had not intended that the comparison
between the official fees for the 2 years would
afford a conclusive argument, that because the
amount of fees has decreased, the business also
must have decreased but he had made the
comparison in order to show THAI Wi,u such
amounts of revenue in fees, the,e can b. no press
of work IL tha office. When 5 MGulDe!s OF the
Committee come forward with such a strange
and novel proposal as that about the judiciary
and Police Department, it could not otherwise
than strike. the Government, and make it desi-
r0us to know if that was the general view Of the
Council but now the Spokesman, when called
on to define his plan, says it must come from
Government. But before Government can be
called on to form such q plan, it must have
something to base upon. Let US know first what
is meant, and if that agrees with the general view
Of he subject. Raupach in commenting on the
remarks from the Chairman of the Committee
[Rosenstand fully agreed with the latter in the
usefulness of an incOme-tax officials pay now /
D. Ct. of their income, while other inhabitants
having 90 to $50, 900 dollars income, or more,
pay not a cent he for his part would gladly
pay 2 p. CT. income-tax, and be should think all
and every body would gladly do the same If
that could help the Colonial Treasury. He
never liked the table-money allowed the Cover
nor add the amount to the salary or else alter
it to money for forage, or something else Mo.
William but money any how Officials arc
said to be too highly salaried but other citi-
zens can travel and drive absut in style, etc.
etc., while officials can't afford. The arrange
ments proposed by the Committee instead of
The duties of Building Inspector would be too
burthensome for the Members, who already
complain loudly Of the little business they have
~ Do Whofhar thorn 10 IN hn o0a- pnjNpmaQ.
ter, and a Judge for each town, is something
on which be can have no opinion; he leaves it
to the Government and Lawyers. His Excel
lency says one man as Judge and Polieemaster
in both towns can answer he accepts that but
he would not be able to vote. He had thought
the question of using Military men decided by
the Organisation Ordinance; he could not ex.
aetly explain here in Oounil how matters stand;
bat we can not send men of the garrison to civil
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

The Springfield Republican thus discloseI
the architects of ths, matchless product on,
the Philadelphia platform The exordium
was BY Gen. Hawlsy; civil service plank
and general outline or plan of the platform,
by George ". Curtis; civil rights resolution,
from Judge Ray of Louissns; point-uo- point
resolution about capital and labor, BY Wen
deli Philips and S. P. Cummings, and it is
the attempt of those demagogues to carry
over the labor men to the Grant ticket !;
Herman Raster, German editor at Chicago,
ontributed the resolution against unconsti-
tutioual laws and interference with the su-
prenacy of local governments. which Is
rather an attack upon the Administration
than otherwise; the woman resolution is q
wAtered copy of the originally very thin
declaration of the Republican convention OF
Massachusetts last year, and was asked by
Mr.. Blackwell, who has taken q contract to
give the moral aid and comfort of the wo-
man suffrage party to Grant and Wilson
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18
gailp Angus.
The Bureau County Herald says:

u
"Hen. Newton Basemsn, who signed the cal
lor the sorehssd convention, repudiates the
whole movement. He regards the nomination
OF Greeley, and especially the manner in which
It was made, as destructive of the reform that
ne had desired to see promoted BY the convsn.
tisn."
The Bureau county Herald is altogether
mistaken. There Is no man in Illinois, moi
elsewhere, more heartily devoted to the lib
eral movement than Newton Bateunan. d.
sees in it the only relief to the people from
the imperial Grant and his dynasty. Hsno
only signed the call for the peoples liberia
movement, but he accepted the chairman
ship of the frat Liberal Republican elub or
ganized in this State, and is active, earnes
and consistent in its support. Hon. New
ton BAtemon 10 not the man to take hold o
the pillow and look back. BE aids and goe
with the peoples movsment.-IH inois Stat
REGISTER, June I4th.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

A telegram from BeIlsville, ILL.,, says:
1.-THE Star Of the West, one Of the leading
German papers of Southern Illinois, printed
in this city, which has heretofore been run
in the interest of the Great Gift Aker'
and whose editor is United States Revenue
Collector for the Twelfth Congressional Dis
trct, has been purchased by Fred. 4. Scheel,
ESQ, of this city, to be run IN earnest sup
port Of Horace Greeley. The transaction
was consum m sted Saturday morning by the
payment of $4,000. The Star Of the West
is the only daily paper printed in BelleviIle
Ex- Governor Gustav Koerner and Colonel
Fred Hecker will both probably aid in the
editorial department
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

The Grant and Wilson ratification meet
ing, held in this place last Saturday, was not
rumerously attended, nor enthusiastic. In
political parlance, it was "dead failure.
There may have been one hundred present
a portion, of course. boys and & sprinkling
of Democrats and Liberals, as spectators
The enthusiasm was not perceptible TO tbs
naked eve-did not exist and the whole
affair was "Hst, stale and improbable. y
Eeudnee Independent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

Throughout the North, Grants renomina
ton has aroused no'hiag. save official en-
thusiAsm throughout the South, nothing
but negro enthusiasm. Greeley, on the con
trary, is looked upon by the people gener
ally AS the honest harbinger of political re
de nj tion. and, as such, be il hailed with q
srAndly-sweling Oraiorio Of welcome and
approval. In him there is hope of an hon
est and econ omic adm uisrrstion Of our pub
lie Affairs q Grant an assured fear of con
tiuued nepo,ism and official rspaci:y.- Ne,,
Orleans Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

Gen. siokles is said to be red hot for Greeley
and enjoys the proud prs-eminenee Of being tn
only prominent gentlsma in town Of the phi
losophic order OF thinking = Union.
The one Greeley Republican in Rock Island
is seriously coasideri the idea Of forming him
/ self into . club.-U Union.
We have taken the census Of the Greeley Re-
pubiicans 10 this region, and ind them TO num-
Der one chronic sore head in town one fellow
In the country who thinks Greeley 10 a hard
working farmer, and two boys who can't vote
! Union.
Perhaps, after reading the Republican
names signed to the call, in this paper, fol
9 Liberal Republican county convention, ouI
post master may come to different conclu
| sion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

There is a banner in front of the Grant
headquarters on Broadway, near Twenty
third street, New York City, with this in
scriptiou: "For Vice President, Henry
Wilson. One Good Term deserves an
other" Poor Colfs1! Even the banner
makers demonstrate against throwing him
| overheard
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

Boss Bumssesd, the Jersey City million
aire thief, who has been sentenced to the
Jersey state prison, is a great admirer and
emulator of Grant. He is chairman OF
Grants Hudson county committee, and, as
his recent trial has shown, understands tie
cardinal principles Of radicals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

Immediately after Mr.. Greeley was nomi-
mated for President, the Grant men were
very anxious for straight ticketto be nomi-
mated at Baltimore. But, now that it ID
nearly certain that Greeley will have an
overwhelming mkjority at Baltimore, the
Grant faction are working to get Greeley
dropped and substitute some other man in
his place Their tactics are too transparent
they fear Greeley more than any Other
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

Express to all parts of the United States. re-
quest all 10 send call and take back
their money in all cases Of failure. From the
fact that, during Il years from to sir bottles
have never failed to cure eveA in the worst
forms of all tbs abo diseases. {See circulars
Some dealers prefer to sell medicines that nepes
cure because they receive larger profit and have
unlimited saies. 81 q bottle. A-Sold every
where. e. D. FOWLE, Chemist, Boston.
sepl6-deod-t ts6wly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18
Agents w anted
FOR GoODsPEED's
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BOOK.

The great work of the year. An immense sale
guaranteed. Prospectus, postpaid, rs cents. Re
ness and popularity. Three styles of Maps sent 70
Agents for price Of one-$2 50. Address GOOD
SPEEDS Empire Book, Map and Picture House,
Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis or New Orleans.
mch23dtts&wly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

When Gen. Fitzpatrick was for Grant. he
was Little Kill, the Dasher." Now that he
has a Goodness" the radical papers call
call him that id fool from New Jersey
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

The Chicago Tribune publishes a call,
signed by SO Republicans Of Whiseside
county, for q county meeting to sustain
Greeley, and choose delegates to Spring
field
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18
SEMINAL WEAKNESS CURED.

DR.. B0HANNAE's VEGETABLE Gu
RATIVE" permanently cures all forms of per-
matorrhsa" or Seminal Weakness" in from two
TO seven weeks time. 1t restores "Lot Power"
and brings back the youthful vigor" of those
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practices. Young man suffering from the effects
of that dreadfully destructive habit of Self
Abuse use this medicine with the assurance
Of speedy and Permanent cure. This remedy
has been used by old DR.. Bohannan in his pri-
yse practice for over thirty years, and has never
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ebssrvation). Sold only at DR.. c. A. Bohan-
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Nc. Established in 1887.
nch23 dwly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18
MEDICAL.
WARRANTED

perfeot cure for all kinds
of PILEs, LEPRosY.
sCHRoFULA, CANcER
SALT REEUM, CArARRH
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18
SPERMAToRRHQEA.

Caused BY sefabuse excessive veuery the symptoms
being Seminal losses Indigestion Irritatity loss Of
" power aversion society rendering marriage improper
This disease is very and thousands mope
knowing what is the matter. many do cannot visit
After 30 years experience have prepared cures
No. The formation stage. No The stage progress
No 5. The stage Of decay and lmpopency, IS
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viii OF the kind. fully send
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thus you have skill less than travelling
penses without exposure One package will
and a in this is certain in time remedy is
changed 10 suit circumstances
Pamphlets enabling any TO state their fully 20
pages in scaled letter envelope for Is cents. Address
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

@a- DIR. BoHASEAEs Treatise en- Spec
ial Diseases" which fully explain the nature,
sausss, sy mptoms, etc., of ''SPsrmatsrrhea" OF
Seminal Weakness" Syphilis, Female Com
plants, all impediments to Marriage, and val
liable inform ON other delicate subjects, sent
FREE to address in plain sealed envelope, OF
reesipt of enc stamp.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18
HAIR DYE.

Price SO Gents Per Box.
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In the World.
Aoontains no Lead or other
Yoisons. Warranted.
0oe4 not Fade or Wash out.
Gives Natures Coler, Black or
Brown.
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B9- Gold by Jshn 3sngston and
all Druggists and Dealers.
feblOdeod tts5m
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

CURKs ALL CHRONIC AND SPECIAL
~ Diseases in n short time, either in Male OF
Female; charges low fees; uses no Mercury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-18

ssuLr's Standard Goods are for sale By all
sy.t-elass dealers in the North West and IN
Rssk Island By L. L. LANE, and JOHN
BENGRT0E. wsh1sd-mwfsway
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13
About Lawns.

WE have touched the renewing and i'm
proving flawns time and time again, yet
every now and then we are button-holed
on the street with: 81 wish you would
tell me what to do with my lawns" Well,
we ask about it-"why, somehow the
grass seems to have got thin, and don't
look good and strong; the soil is rather
light, although every year have given it
top dressing of stable manure in the fall
and raked it all off in the spring"
Yes, we say, just as many another man
void of knowledge of the wants of the
grass roots has done. You have sup
piled a little stimulus, and a very little
one, to enable the plant to make first
start in spring, by reason of the ANN oni
acal alkali obtained from the teaching of
the manure during winter, and as soon as
that is exhausted, which generally is ere
the heated season comes in, the plant has
nothing but the poor old soil and its
broken roots to support it. Now, if you
would first SOW over your lawn fine bone
meal at the rate of eight bushels to the
acre, then salt at the rate of four bushels
to the acre, then plaster at the rate of one
bushel to the acre, then cover the whole
half an inch thick with fine garden soil,
leaf mold, or fine chip mold from an old
wood yard pile, and then SOW clean blue
grass seed at the rate of two bushels to
the acre, and rake the whole with fine
toothed iron rake, finish by rolling, and
we guarantee you lawn that will keep
fresh and green all summer, no matter
how dry the season. We hope some of
our button-holing friends will read this,
cut it out and keep it.-Cleoeland Ue1uLd.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13
The Duty of To-Day.

MANY of us say to ourselves, eff were
in some position better fitted to my
capacities, 1 could become greater and
more noble; but it is of no use for me to
try to do any good here, where every
thing goes against me-" It is all mis-
take; for if our duty still holds us to the
place, We shall surely find that the faith
full, cheerful performance of it noso and
here, will be the best fitting we can
possibly have for that other and greater
work when God shall think best to put it
within our reach.
This humdrum round of duties, the
same from day to day, of household
cares, of teaching, buying and selling,
writing, or exchanging the everlasting
dollar, seems Il very narrow life to us
sometimes, and we are too apt to think as
before that there can be no chance for
doing anything great or serviceable to
others while engaged in them.
But is it not by being faithful in the
minor daily events of life that we gain
strength and wisdom for the greater?-
and indeed these things are not so little
as they seem. We must begin at the
beginRing; with ourselves not only for our
own sakes, but for the sake of our chill
dren; and with them also in the begin
ming, while the soil is fresh and new to
receive the seed. Then will the seed
spring up more readily than if planted
after the soil is hardened by many
storms Home Mdgdzine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13

ONE of the pleasantest and noblest du-
ties of the head of the family is to furnish
its members with good reading. In times
which are past it was considered enough
to clOthe and feed and shelter IA family.
This vas the sum of parental duty. But
lately IL has been discovered that wives
and children have minds, so that il be-
comes necessary to educate the children
and furnish reading for the whole house
hold IL has been found out that the
mind wants food as well as the body, and
that ii wants to be sheltered from the pitt
less storms of error and vice by the guard
ing and friendly roof of intelligence and
virtue. An ignorant family in our day is
an antiquatcd institution. 1t smells of
the musty past. 1t is II dark spot which
the light of the modern sun of intelligence
has not reached. Let good reading 90
INFO home, aud the very atmosphere of
that home gradually but surely changes
The boys begin to grow ambitious, to talk
about men, books, the past and the future.
The girls begin to feel a new life opening
before thcIn in knowledge, duty, and love.
They see new fields of usefulness and
pleasure. And so the family changes, and
out from its number will grow intelligent
men and women, to fill honorable places,
and be useful members of society. Let
the torch of intelligence be lii in every
household. Let the old and young vie
With each other in Introducing new and
useful topics of investigation, and in cher
ishing a love of reading, study, and i'm
provement-RurdLN eto Yo,kor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13
Onions.

To RAISE onions from seed, the seed
must be fresh. Throw pinch in cup
of water. If it sinks it is sound. If not,
plant potatoes in your onion-bed. If
good, it should be put in the ground the
last of March or first of April-not later
than the middle at any rate. Make drills
foot apart. Sow the seed pretty
thickiy. 1t will come up in about two
weeks. Thin to an inch or more apart.
by hand. Girls can tend an onion-bed
and be happy. Never hoe dirt up tvard
an onion plant. When the tops die, it
is sign that the bulbs want digging.
Leave in little heaps for a few days and
then store away. Sets are mostly raised
from seed. 1t should be sown thickly and
not thinned. You will thus get Il vast
number of little onions, which are to be
laid by and planted in the fall or spring.
In the purchase of seed you had better
select either Wethersfield Red, or Dan
vers Yellow.
Setonions should be planted in autumn,
and covered with straw when winter sets
in. You will thus get the start of your
neighbors, and thereby fill them with in
tense pleasure They will succeed
planted in the spring, but will not give
SO early crop. The potato onion is the
best to plant for the main crop. They
should be set out in the fall, and treated
as sets. They are safer there than in the
cellar. The small bulbs make the large
ones, and the large ones produce the
small ones. l have often got ten small
onions from the one. q guess not very
"often," either. Say once in a while
They are not as strong as the common
sorts, are much mere easily grown, and
come earlier. OF course, raising onions
from the seed Will give larger crop, and
is the NEST profitable, all things con-
sidered .-ChristtoR Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13
Mems Rights.

WE give list of few unquestioned
rights of men, merely as variation upon
the "rights of women" which have been
more fully discussed. The list, it may be
mentioned, is not exhaustive To fight,
to work at the pillow, the sledge hammer,
the bellows, the anvil, to cut down trees,
to build houses, to dig canals, to construct
railroads, make steam vessels, cast can
non, create cities, to climb to the top of
the mast when the seas roll and the wind
blows, to furl the sail that will save the
lives of forty female passengers to chuck
coal into the furnace to feed the fire that
heats the water that makes the steam that
urges the ship that bears the husband
that loves the wife to the house that love
built in the city that men built; to stahd
in the pitiless storm at night and guard
the slumbers of town, or in the front of
battle, brave the assault that would over
whelm ballot and bonnet and life and lib
crty; or when the fierce flames lick the
chamber, to mount through its teIrors to
save a women who has tainted with a
child clinging to her bosom; and not to
get the incest part of a turkey or chicken,
or anything else, if women is by and
wants them
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13

THERE are several modes of growing
early cucumbers. Our one is to plant the
seed early in hot-beds Soon after the
plants begin to show their second pair of
leaves, push knife or trowel under them
so as to sever the tap-roots; in a day or
two, transplant them in the hot-bed; do
this without divesting the plants of earth
A week later push knife down around
them so as to cut lateral roots within an
inch of the main root; then lift the ball
and transplant it.
Once every eight days or so, shorten
the roots, each time going little further
out, and after each pruning transplant.
Some two or three weeks before setting
in the field, transplant into cold frames, or
admit Geld air freely to harden Nothing
can be gained by transplanting into cold
frames or into the garden until the soil in
either place first becomes warm.
Small frames covered with glass may
be advantageously used in the open field
on cold nights, as a protection against
frost or cold winds; but at other times the
glass ought to be left off. In this way, if
plants are properly hardened and balls of
earth containing them are carried to the
field and set without disturbing the roots,
cucumbers can be had six weeks earlier
than by planting seeds early in the open
grOund.-Ifdif1e Farmer
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13
Better Feed, Better Manure.

UNDER this heading the Name Farmer
says: Few truths in agricultural economy
are better established than this: that the
better and richer the feed given to ami
mails, the better will be the manure made.
Animals kept on straw and coarse, rough
fodder, with little or no provender, even
if they have this sort of food in album
dance, will produce manure of very infe-
rior quality to that made from corn meal,
cotton seed, rape cake, or other articles
rich I'm nitrogen. 1t is custom with the
best English farmers-a custom as well
as Il business-to feed for the purpose of
obtaining the manure. And while there
is almost always loss in feeding animals
upon purchased food, leaving out of cal
culatiOn the manure they make, when
this is considered, especially if one wishes
to restore or maintain the fertility of a
farm, all experiments show that feeding
animals is the cheapest mode of obtain
Ing manure.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-13
seed put in hills and covered will be for

seed put in hills and covered will be for.
warded by carefully pouring on boiling
water and turning over them box or YES
sci to keep the heat in. 1t is especially
good in late planting.
Eternal vigilance is the price of vegeta-
bles
The thumb and finger is the best
squash bug" trap yet known. Dust often
with sulphur, air-slackcd lime or plaster;
use on cabbage and turnip to protect from
t1eas.
Begin in season to make your. garden,
and be seasonablc about all your opera
tons.
Dwarf popcorn planted in drills eight
cen inches apart, and thin, will produce
abundantly. When silking sow early
purple-top strop leaf turnip between the
rows.
Plants do not eat manure. They drink
the essence of it.
Drop a few tomato seed with peas, when
the peas are removed thin to four feet
apart; they will come on rapidly and
make excellent late tomatoes.
Plant beets rather thickly; those taken
out when thinning make excellent greens.
In cultivating with fork or rake work
backward to avoid showing footprints.
Cne large, strong eye left on potato sets
throws up one strong stalk and gives
large potatoes. Several stalks give many
small ones.
Four to six hills of cucumbers will sup
ply family. Plant for pickles in July.
Ohio Farmer