Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-18
Oa'lD rano.
Letter from lie Nard.
0arelessne in building the State
Department -Demsraliz ng Life
In Washington Offices The Hal.
timore Convention - women's
Rights, etc.

! vi course the wires flashed YOU the news
OF the terrible accident at the new State
! Department, which has filed our city with
ply and horror; but they can not have
! painted too vivid a picture Just think of
It, men who left their families well and
strong in the morning to 60 TO their peace
ful labor, 10 be killed without q moments
warning; and oil because the great and
good Mullest did not follow the advice of
competent, practical men aud have the
guy ropes made strong enough OF course
there wAs the usual investigation and yer
diet OF no one to blame, there always 10:
| but those who saw the poor, mangled forms
carried by on stretchers; saw whA had
| been men crushed out Of all sembance to
humanity, and then read the statement of
the engineer who had advised the strength
ening OF the ropes, must needs boil over with
Indignation in spite Of all the white ASKING
IN the world.
! While the excitement caused by this de-
! ploraole affair was at its height, news came
that young man, clerk in one of the de-
pArIments, had committed suicide at the
Ebbitt House by cutting the arteries at bis
ETis,s aud throat. Domestic trouble was
assigned as the cause of this act, and the
only wonder Is that not more cases Of the
kind occur. Mr. Greeey's advice to young
men to "go West" has been the source OF
mum berless wittieisms and caustic remarks :;
but if this one had followed it, he would
probably fill POSITION of Influence instead
Of a suicides grave. The simple fact Is
that an able bodied young man of average
ability should shun a olerkship here as he
would the plague. la the first
MI nd hna to
have to die the death under the i1Au
ence of such routine lite self-respec eau
not survive long unless mans opinions
accord fully with those of the powers shat
be ! and then the temptations to ell kinds
of excess are so very frequent and powerful,
that on those possessed OF the strongest
moral PRINCIPLES together with the sweetest
home-lbhuehces can resist them. Living ia
dear and rents exho bisant; go not only the
single, bat even young married people, iu-
Atesd of keeping house IN the good old way
board soon that kind of life, void as il is ol
all that makes home dear, becomes tiresome
and change is sought where danger lurk,
uader every guise OF pleasure. Who SOW
eth the wind shAll reap the whirlEind,' and
soon that course is followed By It's legtim ale
results of debt, qu&,rels, separation, dis
all who loved the poor misguided beiug
ending this not strange however eventfu
history.
The Baltimore Convention brought rust
Of visitors who heroically brave ihe hot
dasty streets and patiently walk the halls c
the pubic buildings, peer into room after
room, butGonnoe messengers, ask question,
iunumersbe and then depart in state .
wonder and perspirslion, feeling very much
edited indeed, for have they not worshIppet
at the American Mecca have they no
done the capital?
Il IS almost unnecessary to say that tht
convention caused great excitement here
true, few dare express their opinions as
10 spite of civil service reform, whici
provides that political opinions are 20 hsv
no influence upon tenure Of Office" the Re
publican has raised The flag with of with
all official heads who will not work for th
party in the future az well as in the past,
inscribed upon 1t. Alas p! how the poor fel
lows ire u bic and turn pale, if by q chAnc
little wee hurrah for Greeley IN some shap
: or other escapes them Truly 1t were
blessing If they could feel as one old cler
in the Treasury dl tie had been III 0ttiC
u upwards ii forty years, aud when some on
remarked hos strange II WAS that be shoul
have renamed during SO may admIuistra
- lions be answered naIvely, that he wuul
Ike to see the administration which cOul
= change quicker than himself Now, to
!. ''looker on IN Venice, things look is!iciru
lyabsurd; here are epubhosDs, under h,
publican govern meut afraid to express the
preference for the creator of their party
nhlle others wonder how, in bis old az
> after all bis labor, Mr. Greeley can fol
sake his principles aud turn Democrat
forgetting that If they, (the Democrsts) 4
'' last see that the old issues, which were We
'e enough during the Jackson campaign. al
dead and buried and, realizing the situation
= adopt the grand principles of the CncInns
:. platform, they only DO what fsr-Feeiug PEE
!, pie have long expected.
l. One grand mistake they did commit how
ever In denying any recognition Whateve
ts 10 the Women's Rights party. Let al sne'
: who choose but that one error will csu'
them some trouble between this al
- November. know from the leaders hei
that he whole organization will concentra
it's strength in support of the ticket whiC
bears the Hon Wilson's name.
have no. mentioned yet hsR zsaloasl
Gen. Howard, tof Freedmen's Blres
fame J guards hi. Apache; II Is truly rdrt
ug to rec bin, with his smile 10 csil1hI
.od bland" engineer his fierce pets fro
one place If interest To another esPecia!
when one reads how their brethren exec
else themselves in the killing ar, and ho
D these only want "h rses, guns. ann unitiC
&c, ." 10 order TO be able 10 carry on the
little game in more effective way th'
with their little hstchets. Well, time "
tell how wise or crimiuAlly foolish these pr
/, ceediDgs are in the mean time | must tt
you mild joke General is m9mb
of the Y. NJ C. A. and took his dArliu
\ there. of course one Of them, l forg
, which, made speech saying that the ia
of mis- and Gen. d a coming out of so ma
, battles with life, proved bow good they wel
{. Those were as near as can tell, his wor
> as translated. How is that for Lo
LIZ NARD