The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-18
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1873.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1873.
If anyone has the hardihood to deny
that most beneficial genius presides ovel
newspaperdom in our city, just let him not
the course of events and collapse. There
was the financial excitement dying anatur.
al death, leaving oh such an aching void
in the matter of stirring news, when 10 and
behold an obliging Senator and an equally
considerate ex-member forthwith furnish
as choice a sensation, with as deep an edg
ing of scandal, aud as wide margin for
virtuous obs and ah 5 as ever journalistic
pen rejoiced in
Senator Pomeroy as everybody knows
was wont 10 sail along majestically under
the flag Of christian craftsmanship and
strict adherence to the ten commandments
but people suffering from acute depression
Of the bump of reverence, were wont to
hint that said flag should really be at half
mast most Of the time yea, they even
went so far as TO metamorphose poor old
Ben Bolt into "Oh do you remember
sweet Alice, old POM and to declare
that some fine day there would be grand
expose of the pious gentleman comings-
in and goings-out.
Well from the political horizon several
thunderclaps shook his nerves last winter,
and on Saturday last he caught not only
thunder but also hail, in the shape of bul.
lets from the avenging revolver of NJ. +.
Conway As it happened he escaped with
only a slight wound and will be able, it is
expected, to go on his way, wiser if not
better man, in a short while.
Mrs Conway, the woman at the bot
tom Of it, has, through the influence Of
Senator p, been a department clerk for
some time and has, her friends assert,
found her path at Mr.. Conways side
strewn with anything but roses. Whispers
concerning a muddle in theirfamily affairs
have long been the rule among gossips
but whether there really was anything
more than kindness, on the Senator part
10 avenge, or whether the cause Of this
target practice was mere foolish jealousy
no outsider can tell still, there seems to
exist a code in the male breast which pre-
scribes a course Of cold lead for any man
who befriends a wife, no matter how light
ly the husband himself has held her affec
ton or his own duties and vows, and ac-
cording to which the would be slayer is al
ready acquitted In the minds Of the people
However, the christian statesman" will
not assume his crown and harp as yet, I'M
less some other irate party should aim bet
ter and quench this shining light from
bleeding Kansas" forever.
The Buddington partyof the Polaris crew
are here now undergoing a severe course
Of interviewing by the Navy Department.
Rumor had brought all sorts Of sensational
statements said TO have been made by
some ofthe crew, on its wings and re-
porters expected glorious harvest, while
newspaper clairvoyants in the most dis
tressingly serious way discussed the proba'
INV VI ~ iooStio hdNluB
Capt Hall, and went for his motives for
the act in perfectly reckless manner As
was expected the whole dark deed prov
ed a mare nest, and the names Of Eugen,
Aram, Dr. Webster 4 Co., which hat
been brought to the fore with flourish
were permitted to retire in the most quie
way.
Among political seers here there seem
to exist the settled belief that, after thi
Presidential term, we Il have another dos
Of Grant, then Ulysses Grant, and afte
that U. S. Grant, with repetition of tn
same while life is granted to that jewel O
President The reason they assign 70
this belief is that the administration ha
at its beck and call from seventy to eight
thousand subservient officials, with re
serve Of at least hundred thousand avail
able tools Of the same stamp, who ar
either expecting Office, or are, throue
some business arrangements, depeuder
upon the party. These, with nine hun