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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-29

f. F. KCNKEL' S BITTER WINE OF Iron.
This truly valuable tonic has been so
thoroughly tested by all classes of the COM
munity that it Is now deemed indispensable
as a Tonic medicine. 1t costs but little,
purifes the blood and gives tone to the
stomach, renovates the system and pro-
longs life. Everybody should have it.
For the cure of Weak Stomachs, Gene
raj Debility, Indigestion, Diseases of the
Stomach, and for all eases requiring Il
| tonic
This wine includes the most agreeable
and efficient Salt of Iron we possess
| Citrate Of Magnetic Oxide, combined with
the most agreeable of vegetable tonics-
Yellow Peruvian Bark
/ Do you want something to strengthen
you?
/ Do you want good appetite?
| Do you want to get rid of nervousness.
! DO yCu want energy?
| Do you want to sleep well?
Do you want to build up your constitu-
/ ton.
| Do you want to feel well2
! Do you want brisk and vigorous feeling ?
If you do try Kunkel's Bitter Wine OF
! Iron.
| only ask a trial of this valuable tonic.
Beware of counterteits, as KuDkel's Bit
ter Wine Of Iron is the only sure and eff
tectual remedy in the known world for the
permanent cure of Dyspepsia and Debility,
and as there are a number of limitations of
fered to the public, l would caution the
community to purchase none but the gen
uine article, manufactured by Z. F. Kun
keI, and having his stamp on the cork Of
every bottle. The very fact that Others
are attempting to initiate this valuable
remedy, proves its worth and speaks vol
unes in its favor.
Sold only in 81 bottles Sold by Drug
gists and dealers everywhere, and in Rocl
Island by Smith 4 Bonney and JOIN
Bengston.
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DR.. G. ". BELDING.

ALL DENTAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED AC-
n rorilug to the most approved principles. Office
.H Null- Block, cor. ofIinJi= and Washington SITS.
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HENRY r. wISHART,
Dentists.
Dr.. J. v. Stark. Dentist.

DoOMs NEXT DOOR TO TIE TELEGRAPH OF
n ice, luiuui- street, RICK Island. All kinds Of
Drlta. Work done in the most approved styles.
Charges reasonable. 6-l7dtf
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| TELEGRAPHJC.
Charges of Extortion
against Illinois Railroads.
The Commissioners will In
vestigate them.
Reduction of Freights from
| New York to Chicago.
President Grant Spreeing
about New York.
Success of American Reap
ers at Vienna.
Meeting of the Catholic To-
tai Abstinence Union
/ of Illinois.
Latest Cholera Items.
Crop Reports from the Ag-
ricultura1 Bureau.
How Much a Mormon Wife
was Damaged.
A Prisoner taken from a
/ Court Room and Hanged
by Vigilantes.
Accidents, Fires, Crime.
How Much q Mormon Wife
was Damaged.
A Prisoner taken from a
Court Room and Hanged
by Vigilantess
Accidents, Fires, Crime.
Etc, Etc.

SPRINGFIELD. IL, July 2S-Mr. Nc
Laughlau. the Secretary Of the Board Of
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
ers. is in receipt of a number of letters
from different sections Of the State, setting
forth the facts in relation to the charges OF
extortion on the part Of the railroads.
Some of them are OF a perfectly outrageous
character and call for summary action.
These will engage the attentionot the Com
missioners at their session tomorrow.
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COLTS ARaoRY, HARTFORD, CONN.
sF- For sale by SPENCER a NoFTsKKR,
Rock Island, Ills. 5-5au
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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
A GOOD DODGE.

The loss of the records of the War
Department having been duly made
known to the public by telegram and
otherwise, we are now told that the
Government detectives are busily at
work following the trail of the stolen
documents. Indeed, the public is COM
forted with the assurance that the
originals will be found, or, at all
events, in case they are not found,
that copies of the most important
documents are in existence in good
hands and in state of perfect preser-
vation.
This seems to US entirely "too thin u
to be of any value, save as evidence OF
a growing respect for public opinion
On the part of the Government. When
Badeau, the Presidents historian,
carried off boxes full of the records OF
the Var Department, neither conceal
nent nor apology nor pretence of res.
toration, so far as we know, was at,
tempt, d. Now, however, the Govern.
ment feeling the necessity of paying 6
tribute to public opinion. similar te
that which vice pays to virtue, pro-
ceeds to tell what may or may not be
true. After the Badeau spoliation il
will be difficult to persuade any one OF
the genuineness and completeness OF
the "copies" of the documents stolen in
this last raid. It looks entirely toe
much like smart trick to substitute
"cooked-up" records for disagreeable
originals.
We are not a worshipper at the
shrine of "the truth of history"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27

sultation with the people, and virtually
but promises made under coercion and
force.
Such contracts it is not difficult to
set aside for lack of the binding priG-
ciple. Yet Il State may be supposed
to take other and larger considerations
into this view. While it might be
vindicated in its refusal to become re
sponsible for what it was not consulted
upon, it is to reflect on the Interior
results to its general interests and in
huence, and weigh present losses,
however heavy, with future disabilities
whose removal would be infinitely
more difficult than the discharge of
almost - any assumed Indebtedness.
Reputation Is to be considered before
reputation. 1t is hard 20 think that
the rogues who piled UP this enormous
debt against whole list of commune
ties should not be compeli,l to submit
| to punishment, though not made to
disgorge. The bonds they fraudu-
lently issued have passed beyond their
control, and they have generally re-
| ceived only what they would bring in a
suspicious market. But the question IS
whether 1t is not, on the whole, more sa-
| gaciOus and prudent for State to carry
the load until it is able to provide for
its honorable discharge than to plunge
into the dark night of reputation in
hopes to escape. And we do not doubt
that North Caoolina will think twice
before committing herself to the pro
position Of her Republican Congress-
man. Governor Holden is responsible
for hanging this milestone about her
neck, himself among the hottest and
| earliest of %ecessionists. He first drag
| ged the Old North State to the preci-
pice of war. and then pushed her over
into the gulf of debt And such per-
son receives the open confidence and
favor of the President, who can him
self in no Just manner be exculpated
from the charge of completely III this
gigantic system of robbery. When the
credit of the Southern States is suffer
ing far worse than now in consequence
of these vast frauds, the memory of
President Grants Administration will
be held in such scOrn throughout that
section as it has long seemed to SIN
| cerely invite
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,

Tho President and the Cabinet con-
cured, on Friday last, in the altera-
tons in the Civil Service Rules recon-
mended by the new Board. Even the
New York Times, Grants organ, does
not speak in the most hopeful manner
Of the effect of the alterations, and
candidly admits there are still "loop
holes Of escape" if the President is
determined not to carry out Civil Ser
vice Reform in its integrity.
1t all depends upon tho President,
and this being SO, the rules are not
worth the paper upon which they are
written.
Tho following is ono of the altera-
6ous,
lotions may be made by the ap-
pointing power, at discretion, from
the list of those reported competent,
being at liberty to give preference to
such us raay be justly regarded as
having the highest claims to public
consideration, by reason of loss of
support or of property, occasioned by
death or disability of any person in
defence of the Union in war, or in any
public service of the Government"
This exception. it seems to us, is
broad enough to allow the appointing
power to bring in call the world and
the rest Of mankind
The number of individuals who can
not make some show of "claim to
public consideration, by reason of loss
OF support or OF property, occssioned
By death or disability of any person
in defense of the Union in war, or in
other public service of the Govern
ment, " is doubtless very small in the
Southern States.
No wonder the Times does not feel
cheerful at the outlook.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
THE EDUCATIONAL. CONvEN-

We sincerely trust that the State
Educational Convention, u be held in
Raleigh, on the 9th of July, for the
purpose of considering. and recon-
mending measures for the P. emotion
of the cause of Education in North
Carolina, will be numerously attended,
and that its deliberations viii result in
nuch practical good.
For no one of it's many sins does the
radical party deserve deeper damnation
than for the sin it has committed
againt the children of North Carolina
in tie matter of education, aud for the
reason that It's III consequences are Ill
such great degree irremediable.
We had once in North Carolina a
common school sy stem that, being
surely and not slowly perfected was
accomplishing greater good year after
year. The debt of gratitude that
North Carolina owes to CALVIN III.
WILEY is one that she never can iqui-
date.
But Mr. Wiley and the good he did,
belong to the days of the past, and il
is of the present we wish to speak.
Now we have no educational facilities
except such as private enterprise and
| such State aid as bankrupt treasury,
| can afford The result of the contin-
uancc of this state of affairs is painful
to contemplate. The educational
famine that has existed for so many
years, cannot produce other than
results the most disastrous to the pros
perity and well-being of the State.
| We hail, then, with pleasure, if not
with hope, every effort that may be
made to present better and a brighter
prospect for the future Already it is
announced that many of the best men
in the State will attend the Convention
and give expression to their views
upon various branches of the great
question that now presents itself tC
every patriotic thinking man in the
State, viz How can the carse of edu
cation be best promoted in Nortl
Carolina
We cannot afford to shirk OF negiec
this matter. Let the Convention
then, be well attended.
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and which was, by order the Legisla-

and which was, by order the Iegisla-
ture, applied to other purposes.
This suit is, doubtless, nothing more
nor less than an attempt to bluff if not
to blackmail the State of North Caro-
lima. The only regret we have about
the matter is to see the name of SO re-
spectacle gentleman as Reverdy
johnson connected with an attempt to
forcs State, by means of " the pec't-
liar cnactments under the Reconstruc-
ton law" TO pay or compromise obj
cations, so-ca,led, that from their very
inception have borne the unmistakable
badges of fraud and corruption.
The statement that many OF tue
leading men OF North Carolina have
1lrgal> IN those bondholders to push
theea suits before the next meeting of
the Legislature, we believe to be utterly
untrue. We do not believe that any
man, who can be truly characterized
as a leading North Carolinian, has ever
urged the bringing Of any such suit
for the purpose indicated. There may
have been men calling themselves
North Carolinians who did this thing,
but that they are in any sense repre-
sentative men of the State, we cannot
believe.
We have very much mistaken the
complexion Of the Legislature of
North Carolina if that body shall
allow itself to be sweryed from the
line OF duty by the prosecution OF any
such suits as those now threatened.
The money that these bondholders
are now so greedy after is no longer III
the Treasury. It has been long ago
expended for other purposes, by order
of the Legislature, and it would seem
difficult, even if process should be
issued, to compel the Treasurer to
apply the money properly, to get any
thing by it unless the Legislature shall
choose to make good the deficiency by
levying q new tax. This the Legisla
ture of North Carolina will never do
Ii there be any authority or any
machinery by which Federal Court
can levy and collect taxes in the State
of North Carolina without the inter
vention Of the Legislature and othel
State officers, it is time the fact were
known, and in this view of the case We dc
not object to the vigorous prosecution
of the suits now threatened
We are opposed to the payment o
these fraudulent State bonds, 81
called, until we shall be forced to maxi
it at the point of the bayonet. If the.
be obligations they were contracted
by authority imposed upon us at tn
point of the bayonet, and it is nothing
but right and proper that they shall
be discharged only at the point of tn
bayonet.
When there shall be an order of tn
Federal Court that the State OF Nort]
Carolina shall take up and discharg
those bonds, and President Grant o
his successor shall send Federal troop
to execute that order, they will b
paid, but not until then.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
TIE H1ECKLENBURG CENTEN-
NAL.

We trust that theinterest in the cele-
bration OF the Centennial Anniversary
Of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
lndepence will not die out. The reso-
lutions upon the subject, intro
duced by Mr.. Johnston, of Bun
oombe, into the Legislature and adopt
cd by that body, which have already
ben published in the JOURNAL with
approving comment, have the ring of
ie true metal about them.
We trust that the enterprising peo-
pie OF our sister city of Charlotte will
spare no effort to make the Mecklen-
burg Centennial grand success. The
W, Il known public spirit of the people
of the Sc future London" and their
dashing, go-ahead habit of prose-
cutting any enterprise they may under
take, make US feel confident that what
ever can be done will be done. And the
Carolina Central Railway having ere that
day drawn Wilmington and Charlotte
into closer relations of business and
friendship, will afford to the people of
Wilmington an opportunity, they will
not willingly neglect, to show that they
TOO sacredly cherish the memory of the
men OF Mecklenburg and their bold de-
claration of Goth May, 1775.
The following timely and well con-
sidered article, bearing upon the sub
ject, we take from the Wadesboro
Herald, and we trust that our brethren of
the Press throughout the State, will,
from time to time, call public attention
to the matter. It viii be remembered
that at the recent Press Conversion of
the State the project received it's COZ
dial endorsement and epprahstiop.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
GENERAL BEAUREGAKD AND
THE NEW ORLEANS EsESOiG-

Certain resolutions purporting to
haye been adopted and signed by a
committee of citizens of New Orleans,
General Beauregard being among the
number, have been published far and
wide over the country.
These resolutions propose amongst
other things to obliterate all distinc-
lions and "prejudices, social or ether
wise, growing out of race and color.
It is sufficient to say, without going into
| any argument about the matter, that
the thing is simply impossible.
The people of the South have long
cherished an affectionate regard and Il
! loving admiration for their peerless
Beauregard," but they cannot follow
him in the new departure to which he
has giveh the sanction of his honored
name.
If there be any necessity for the
amalgamation of the black and the
white races in Louisiana we confess
that we are unable to see it. We do
not believe that the tyranny exercised
over the people Of Louisiana is any
more grinding or oppressive, Or I'M
| lawful than that heretofore exercised
in North Carolina and IN f5oSliaa Caro-
Una.
The people of the Carolinas have
felt every outrage that the people Of
Louis ana have fett. We 30 not for .
moment wish TO t}n understood
az undertaking the terrible evils
that have befa.len that unhappy sat-.
They have been and still are sucii a
to shock every better feeling Of human
nature. But they are rot witLoU' 4
parallel, nor do they, IN or opiuion,
Justify the entire surrender 81 s,rin-
eipie that the New Orleans Resolutions
propose to make.
It affords Us no pl> assure TO talk
thus, and did uot duty bid us speak
out, pain and mortifica,iGn woj.ld keep
us silent But we have jJs1s1i. e duty
to perform, and that dury bids IL &c
clare the ratification of the white aud
black races, and the obliteration OF the
sepreiudices Of RAGS and color IN tie
South, will prove eS2a1n far more
bHght1ng than even the goyer1.s@rr,fIlt OF
Kirk, Holden and Bond proved to Ne
in North Carolina, or that of Merrill,
Scott and Bond IN South Carolina, or
that of Kellogg, Longstreet aaAl Dtrell
in Louisiana.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
OUR SPECIAL COssKs f.&pONn-
ENCE.
REIDSvILLE, ROCKINGHAM Co.,
June 23rd, 1873.
DGut Journal:

Dear Journal:
The pleasure and profit we derive
from the DAILY Journal has suggested
to rs the communication for its yallla-
bic columns of q few hlirrvgrapl,ic
observations ON this locality, made
during n short visit to this growing
town. #: Eeidsville, on he..Riclmond &
Piedmont r. r., half way between
Danville, Va, and Greensboro, n. c.,
in the heart OF the finest tobacco grow
ing region in the South. There are
five tobacco factories and six large
ware houses here for the daily auction
sales and transfer of that staple from
this county, Rockingham, and the adj
iacent counties to the Richmond va. }
remark we heard the Hon Hugh WaG-
dell, of Hillsboro', make twenty years
ago, that g North Cardinals commerce
reminded him OF Il strong man bleed
ing at both arms, the trade from her
northern half going to Norfolk, (now
going to RichmOnd) and that from her
southern half going t. Charleston,
s. c., for the want OF 4 North Caro-
lima sea coast city, and it appears to
be very little better off III 1873 tlIan it
was III 1S.)j III THIS ScctlOH.
Then, again, there have been fifty
travelling solicitors from houses in
Richmond, Danville and Baltimore.
here during the last two months, and
not one from Wilmington or any town
IN this State this state OF commerce
must carry all the proceeds OF the vast
tobacco crop from our State to Vir-
ginia no wonder our good old State
remains Impoverished, and builds
no cities while her great staple pro-
ducts go to enrich Richmond. The
great warehouse auction sales of to-
bacco, encourage the farmers by Civ
ing them higher prices, but they don t
live as well as when they transported
their tobacco to Washington. \. c.. ,
and Plymouth, ard exchanged it for
herrings and shad, caught by our own
fishermen il Chowan and other Alder
mari and pamlico sound CONT
Some OF my ancestors We're extensive
fishermen and farmers in these cOIn-
ties and / know where OF ] speak Now,
the merchant here buys the tobacco
and sells it for Labrador lerrin"S, and
mackerel.
Again, our State is yearly losing the
most important portion of her popula-
ton, in the Young men who are leay-
ing their comfortable, moral, and hap
Ply rnral homes, where they have been
reared to industry AID steady habits,
and taught the excellent occupation OF
farming, to enter upon the dcmoral-
ling life Of clerking in large cities.
where they bar ly make their boArd
aud clothes during the first three or
four years after the change. Thus
thousands are changed from tIie most
profitable producers to injurious con-
SINNERS. We do hope the Oranges
have tendency TO stop this rUinous
depopulatiHn of Our farm. We know
several young men who are clcrking
for S775 per annum, and board. in
these small towns, who have made
$500 worth Of tobacco, corn and pork
a year, besides fur better board and
healthier habits at home. Why is
this. and how shall it be rcmcdicd,
vii be shown i'll our next letter I.
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Let the good work push on by all
means. The Herald SAYS:

AS our readers are aware, vast pre-
partitions are being made in Phila-
delphia for the Centennial Celebra-
ton there on the Fourth of July, 1876,
of the National Declaration of indie
pendence. The matter has attracted but
little attention in the South, the whole
affair being looked upon by our peo-
pie as a mere play upon the patriotism
Of the country to the tune OF pecunl-
airy benefit to the speculative Philadel-
phians. There is strong sentiment
In the South adverse to this proposed
ostentatious parade of an effete paSri-
otism, and the Petersburg Appeal,
fortunately, has struck the keynote to
the Southt IN sentiment. Thatpaper, III
q very able editoria. article, denounces
the Philadelphia Celebration as d
meaningless pageant III which the
South has no interest, and hopes tina.
not one dollar of Southern money Will
be contributed to this ''swiodling
scheme of Yankee sharpers.
The indignation OF the Ap21ca( IS
Just and its hopes aIe holy. We reach
across to our sister State and clasp
hands with it on this issue Nlrglnlans
and Carolinians have neither part nor
parcel in this n1Onstrous show. Our
claims are prior and higher and holler
than theirs, and we do not care to
amalgamate with them. The buSle
call of liberty was sounded in North
Carolina and Virginia long before the
Philadelphia Declaration was signed.
The spirit of that liberty is still with
us, although its body has fed. Here
it has not been prostituted to sordld
greed of gain aud personal aggrandlze-
ment. It is this pure spirit of patriot
ism which we desire to preserve and
transmit to our children as we have re-
ceived it from our fathers, and We do
not, therefore, care to cOntamlDate II
| by an association with the base abor-
| ton now called freedom and indie
| pendence in the Northern States.
And why cannot we have a CCnten-
| NAL here in North Carolina, here where
liberty was first Graded, and where its
| legends and traditions are as sacred
| to this day and generation as they were
| to our forefathers The Mecklenbure
| Declaration was made more than 3
year before the National Declaration
| and it would be meet and proper for Us
| to observe its one hundredth annlver
| sary. We believe that we could gather
to the city of Charlotte (there where
| our Declaration was first given to the
world the pride and boast of on
goodly Southern land. Let the bal
be started by the enterprising citizens
ofthe Culture London, and we believe
| that it will soon roll on to mighty pro
portions. What say our brethren o
the press in Charlotte, Wilmington an(
| elsewhere Q