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TNE STANDARD ON SHERMAN,

the STANDARD ON SHERMAN.
The London "Standard +"
prints a three column review
of Gen. William T. Sherman's
.Memoirs," which have been
published in England, in the
course Of which it says:
The writer's who in this
country have espoused the
Federal cause have labored to
keep out Of sight the Northern
violations-systematic and de-
liberate-of all the laws of
war; the wholesale pillage of
private property, without a
shadow of a pretense of mill
tary need; the wanton ravage
Of vast and fertile regions; the
destruction of public archives,
Of libraries, of colleges and OF
thousands of defenseless
dwellings,; a return, in fact,
to the methods Of war
ill usage Of women excepted)
practised by Tilly. We know
Of none who would venture to
defend these as acts of legiti-
mate warfare, and among the
chiefs of the Federal armies
few were more guilty in this
respect than Gen. w. I. Sher-
man. We cannot say that our
perusal of the work has raised
our estimate Of the writer
There is a display of personal
vanity, of anxiety to claim the
utmost possible credit, and to
throw the blame Of all failure
on others, apetulant spirit OF
animosity against rivals and
opponents,a controversial tone
in regard to passages credita-
BILE neither to the General nor
to his superiors, and a childish
iimpatience Of popular clamol
which appear to US little con-
;sonant with the simple self-re-
spect Of the soldier. No one
could imagine the Duke Of
Wellington Or General Lee
writing as Sherman writes-nc
one has seen anything of the
kind from the pen of officers
who. have real grounds Of com
plant Mcclellan, who
! first created an army out of the
mob of United States volun
teers, or Hallack, WIN main
tanned, recruited, and enlarged
that army till it became the ir
resistible weapon which VOL
Tor Grant and Sherman tri
! omphs as easy as. those 0
Achilles in his impenetrabl'
4 armor, or of the heroes of fair,
legend with charmed sword
and shoes Of swiftness.
Gen. Sherman had the mis-
fortune at Bull Run toshare il
the signal .rout Of the Uniol
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been only double those OF the
South the Spring of 1866 would
have seen another invasion of
Pennsylvania. Sherman as
sailed Johnston somewhat
more wisely and warily, but
with equally little honor. But
in each case the beaten army
was SO overwhelmingly supe-
rior in numbers that it had
only to swing round a part OF
its force behind the enemy's
flank in order to compel him
to retreat. In this way Lee
was forced back into lines Of
Richmond and Petersburg, and
Johnston into those of Atlanta
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Gen. Sherman pretends that
though he had at least twice
as many men as Johnston
and, we may add, ten times as
many supplies; the natural and
artificial strength Of Johnston's
position was full compensation.
But the absurdity of this argu>
ment is shown in his own ac-
count of his strategy. He never
succeeded by attacking john
ston's positions in front, but
always by fortifying a front
line against him. holding it
with equal forces, and swinging
the other half of his army
round Johnston's flank, to
another position which, if forti-
fed, would have threatened his
communications and so COM
PEELED bis retreat. It was sins
ply by dint of superior num-
bers that bis success was
achieved; and it was impossi-
ble for an enemy to make head
against such numbers SO used.
When, after long battling and
delaying his opponent, Johns
ston reached Atlanta, which he
had fortified beforehand, he be-
lieved himself able to hold out
indefinitely, as Wellington at
Torres Vedras. against any at
tacking force. But before bis
plan was fairly tried President
Davis, who had never appre>
ciated his genius and had long
protested against his Fabian
strategy, removed him in favor
Of Hood, a more impetuous and
less skillful general. Hood
threw away the advantages
which Johnston had prepared
He fought, was worsted, and
compelled to abandon Atlanta
the central point of the Con
federate line Of defenses ant
the key Of Gellgia. Then
instead of holding his grount
| 8
in front Of Sherman and th'
invading army, he threw him
self across the communication
of the enemy into Tennessee
/ An enemy thus attacked ma.
in general be compelled to re
tire. but Hood overlooked tw'
material facts. First, the enc
my were able, without weaken
ing Sherman, to place in Hood
front,and in defense of the lin
: of communication, a fore
} stronger than the Confederat
fl army. Secondly, Sherman ha
Il in front of him an utterly de
fenseless country, capable {
feeding his army until it shoul
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Regions Where It Never Rains


From the Popular Science Monthly.l
Outside the zone Of periodic
winds and rains comes a double
belt, one girdRng the world in
the northern and the other in
the southern hemisphere, the
breadth and area of which are
greatly modified by local cir
within which no
rain falls. These belts are es>
timated to include altogether
an area of 100000 square
miles, but it is impossible to-
make any calculation that is at
all precise, because round the
tracts that are entirely rainlessl
are regions in which rain falls
but rarely. which again pass
gradually into the two rainy
zones, through countries like
Southern Palestine and Cans
getic plain, which, though
usually rainy, are liable at iD>
tervals to years Of drought
These belts of rainless land
near the tropics contain some
of the most hopelessly dreary
country which the world can
show. Beginning with the
west of the old continent, we
have along the Tropic of
Cancer in Africa the Sahara,
or Great Desert, on the south>
ern border of which the rains
cease at 16 degrees north lati~
tude and begin again on the
north at % degrees. Passing
farther east the southern rains
ceasein the countries on the
banks Of the Nile. between Is
degrees and 10 degrees, aud
the northern begins between
q degrees and % degrees.
Passing into Asia there is. a
great rainless tract in Arabia
of which we do not know the
exact bounds, and it reaches
through Beloochistan over into
the delta of Indus, where il
does not cover more than -four
degrees OF latitude. From this
point the rainless zone turns to
1.-THE northeast and extends to
thirty degrees north latitude
Crossing the great Himalayan
chain it includes the high table.
land Of Thibet, but does not
appear to reach into the Chr
nese Empire. In South Africs
There is q sandy, desert, rain
less tract on the north Of tht
/ Orange River, between twenty
four and twenty-eight degrees
lsouth latitude, and q great par
fof the interior Of Australi;
seems to be nearly or quit
rainless. In North Americ'
the rainless belt includes th'
California Peninsula, aud ex
tends round the northern en-
Of the Sierra Madre chain pas
! chihuahua and Monterey t
the shores Of The Gulf Of Mex
co between latitude q degree
, and 26 degrees. In Sout
America it includes betwee
J, Ilatitudes % degrees and q d.
grees the northern province {
| Chill, and through an extensiv
slow tract Id the interior of th
{ flc0ntinent belohfiihg to the te
ritOry Of the Argentine Cor
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BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY, AUGUST l9, 1875.

belonged to men who, in the
war he was waging, were loyal
to the Government under which
they were born and. had al
ways lived-the Government
OF their State. That he was
aware of the illegality of his
conduct is evident from the
many paltry and transparent
excuses he makes to conceal
its true character. Thus at
Nashville he gave orders to
seize all houses not occupied,
and all house-rents due to alb
sentees, evading an open con-
fiscation Of all property be-
longing to Confederate soldiers
or citizens. But he warned
the people that all who re-
mained would be considered
as having cast their lot with
the invaders, would be liable
to be called out in their SER
vice, and forced at their peril
to swear allegiance to the
Union, and having thus driven
every honest Soutberner out
side the city, he made their
absence and excuse for rob-
bing them. His troops syste-
matically stole, pillaged and
ravaged; and, though he pro-
fessed to disconntenance their
conduct, he made not the
shadow Of an effort to prevent
it. The savage havoc commit
ted by Sheridan in the Shen-
andoah valley was excused on
the plea that the enemy might
draw supplies thence-a plea
which would justify invaders,
! Germans in France or Eng
land, or French in Germany
in destroying all food within
reach OF their cavalry, and
booming millions to starvation
but which could not excuse
Sheridan in burning houses
and furniture wherever he
passed, or his men in destroy.
ing women's clothes and forci
bly, robbing them of their jew.
elry. But Sherman's proceed
ings were without any plea O
military advantage. His ples
Ito his own Government wa.
that he desired to make th.
rebels feel the miseries of war
in order to compel their sub
mission-a plea which put
him exactly on a level will
the worst rnfians of the Thirt,
Years War orwith the devas
tators of the Palatinate.
THE MARCH TO THE SEA.
| To Sherman was intruste,
the duty Of following up an
destroying the second army Q
the South, which, under Jot
E. Johnston, was free to NOV
much at its pleasure; Will
Grant closed in on the arm
of Lee, tethered as it was t
Richmond and cut off from a
reinforcements except such a
the Carolinas and Virgini
, herself could furnish from
nearly exhausted population
Both chiefs acted on the sam
principle. Their supply
men was unlimited; if the
J could kill a Southerner f
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The Memphis Appeal pros
poses that Col. w. 81. McCar~
die, of the Vicksburg Herald,
shall be made the next Senator
from Mississippi.
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army. He does his best for the

would-an by pothesis which is
as little supported by the his
tory of that battle as by the
subsequent facts of the war
He returned to the West, and
for the remainder of the war
shared the fortunes Of the
Western army, which, having
the least excellent Of the South
ern troops and leaders in its
front, and being recruited from
among the hardy population
of the agricultural Northwest,
was able to achieve much more
than the invaders of Virginia.
and really did far more to de-
termine the issue Of the war
Gen. Sherman rose steadily in
military authority and in ia
vor with the Government, and
played a prominent partin the
campaigns which wrested from
the Confederates the command
Of the Mississippi and deter
mined the result of the entire
contest. There can be little
doubt that even after the fall
of Fort Donelson the triumph
of the invaders was due to an
accident. Had General A. s.
TOMBSTONE not been wounded
at Shiloh, or, being wounded,
had he had his wound at once
attended to, and SO saved his
life and his control over the
army, Grant would have been
annihilated, and all that had
been won up to that time
would have been lost in. a
week. The rout Of the Fede-
raj forces was complete, and
had the Confederate chie1
pressed on, they must have
surrendered or dispersed. The
transfer of command was fatal,
and next day a new Federal
army appeared on the field
and defeated the worn-out
Confederates. On this as on
other occasions, Gen. Sherman
anxiously endeavors to over.
rate the forces opposed to him
The fact is, that when they
gave or invited battle, the Con
federates were rarely more
than one to two; when they
were forced to battle, they
were often one to three or foul
and in Sherman's later cam
paigns, after leaving Atlanta
/ he had seldom or never one
fourth of his own numbers il
front. And, as we shall see
!. lit was to numbers alone tina
he owed his success.
8 SHERMAN AS A TILLY.
The next period, while Sher
man occupied subordinate bu
independent commands, afford
ed him opportunity of showinI
: the spirit in which he was dc
i termined to carry on the strug
gle and illustrated Northeri
q ideas of the laws of civilize
!, war. Not only did he, lik
other Federal chiefs, seiz
everything that could be use
fnl tn his army and f1AStrn
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The Pestmastef Geuetal de.
cides that the oflce q issue is
the otace of publication and
not where the papes nay be
|printed. All such ptblieations
must be sent 70 the pla@ q issue
before they can pass thr0pgh the
mail at pnblishing ratsA
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At a recent political cau-
Gus in Danbnry, one Of the
members was on the floor lih>
ing out a bold, aggressive pol
icy for the campaign, when .
little boy pulled him by the
coat, and said, in quite audible
tones.
Ma says that if YOU don't
hurry home with the pruiess
she'll lock the door, and youth
have to sleep in the street.
s'Gentlemen," said the 0ra-
tor, picking up bis bait "I'll
just step around among the
people to feel the public pulses
and will meet YOU on the CORY
field Of battle.'' @ s>pt
Then he hurried home with
the prunesf Danbury News
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Charles J. Monsell, : young
clerk in a drygoods store il New
Haven, Conn.,, shot himsen = few
days ago in the heart, dying soon
after. His employer deteeted him
in putting in his own pocket mon.
ey received BY him IS salesman,
and discharged, being tie cause.
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A boy was asked which was the
greater Of the two hurting An.
others feelings or his 6sger. He
said the former. Blight nv dear
child,1 said the gratihed questions
er ssand why is it worse 70 hurt
the feeliugsf0 ssBecadse you can't
tie . rag around them,n exclaimed
the dear child.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The finest pastry ever seen on any
hotel table is made by that new pastry
cook at the Harper House.
WIN. Ennis, business man, of Hills
dale, has been appointed postmaster in
place of James Hill, deceased.
-'Cour:ship is bliss" said an ardent
young man. Yes, and matrimony is
blister, snarled an old bachelor.
But very little country produce has
been brought to this city for the last three
days, and Market Square is deserted.
John Sinnatt, the draymau, took out
his license to-day. This ends that trouble.
and now let the marshal make the others
pay up,
The tax collectors books for all
the towns in the county will be completed
and ready to be given to the collectors by
the first of next week.
-Jno. B. Aiken filed an information for
assault and battery against John McGin-
nis-and the latter. who plead guilty, was
fined S. and costs.-Dav Dem.
The president says polygamy should
be banished from the land. But Utah
judge, who "pinched' old Brigham, is dis,
pldCcu ny Duc WHO SSLS HUI Tree. w lily Il
this p Chicago Post and Mail
"A note to this paper, from an officer
of the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis
railroad says there is more fiction
than truth in the item about narrow es-
cape of collision published in the Union
this morning"
Not a word in the whole message
about civil service reform, about whisky
frauds, mail or Indian frauds. Nothine
about the Pacific railroads; no words about
the pension, navy, or Pacific mail jobs
Why this ominous silence upon such i'm
portant topics? These subjects more
nearly concern and interest the people thar
any stilted discussion of the school OF
church questions. Dem.
The c., R. I. & P. r. R. Co., with it:
usual generosity, has resolved to agar
extend to the resident clergymen along it
route the privilege of travelling for hal
fare, the same as last year. All pastors i.
this city desiring to take advantage Of Thu
concession should call upon Mr.. George
Loosely, the passenger agent, at the uppe
depot. and sign their application-but they
had best call just after the departure o
any train as they will be more likely tt
find him then.
The Chicago Tribune, in speaking o
the Chicago whiskey ring, states that "th
persons to be implicated in the new dis
roveries are not distille;s or whiskey men
but gentlemen in authority, who nav
used their influence and positions for pay
Among those likely to be connected wit
the transactions are a congressman,
senator, two editors, an influential German
politician, and a gentleman who lives o.
his influence. Here is a pretty lot Q
Republican ''toneys" Let us hear thei
names. Who are they? Is the senator
Johnny Logan. And is that what mad
him sick? And is the congressman
Charley Farwell?
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Judge Blod9etJ's Charge to the Jury il,
regard to Union Square.

We print, to-day, the full text of the
charge of Judge Blodgett, of the United
States Circuit Court for the Northern Dis
trict Of Illinois, in relation to the status of
the square known as Union Square, in this
city. 1t will be read by our people with
much interest, and while every point of it
shows plainly the fact that the square was
dedicated to public use, there is one
part of it to which we call special attention.
The learned Judge says: IF man sees
fit to donate piece of land to the public
as public square generally, or for gen.
''eral public uses, then the public have a
right to use it in more extended and
more general way than in a special de1i
''cation to which have referred. "
The piece of land known as Union Square
was dedicated in general way as public
square, for public use, and not for a par
ticular or specified purpose, and therefore
it is that the people of this city will have
a right 70 erect in the centre of that square
public building, for all the city offices
and for the public library, leaving the bal
ance of it to be made into walks. seats
shade trees and fountains. This is tn,
precise course THE ARGUS has Away
advocated.
We commend the charge to the careful
reading Of all our citizens,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09
WHY Is this d?

We are frequently asked why Avery. a
convicted whiskey thief, has been permitted
to leave the city like an innocent man when
his companion in crime, Mcdonald. was
thrust at once into felon's cell? Having
no information upon which to base reply
to this very natural question. we submit it
to the government officers in St. Louis for
their disposal, 1t is certainly curious, to
say the least, that such extreme leniency
should be shown in the one case, and such
prompt severity in the other-when there
is no essential difference between them,
IF tits safe to trust Avery to go where he
pleascs, why should Mcdonald be kept
behind bolts and bars?-S. Louis Repub-
licdn.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09

FULL MEAsURE.-While DIR. Prices
True Flavoring Extracts are full measure
other extracts are short nearly half
what they are said to contain, arranged to
look large to deceive the consumer. The
most of the so-called two ounce flavoring
extracts hold but one and one quarter
ounces, the four ounce less than three
ounces. while DR.. Price are full measure
just as represented, strong and pure. One
trial will prove thar the bottles hold one
half more than others purporting to be the
same size, and the extracts are of strong
est and most natural flavor.
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New Books at the Library.

The following new books have just been
added to the library.
Uncle John.
The Wreck of the Chancellor.
Spain and the Spaniards.
Radical Problems.
jolly Good Times.
A Woman in the Case.
Uncle Peregrine.
Nine Little Goslings
Madame ReCamier and Her Friends.
At Home and Abroad.
Italian Journeys,
Thr, aiding My Way-An Autoli g.
raphy.
The Island of Fire.
The Cruise of the Betsey.
Roman kalbris.
Memoirs Of Baron Stock mar, 2 vols.
Morse Mythology,
Remains of Lost Empires.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09
The Men and Women of the 1887 Ball

1t would have been gocd idea to haze
taken some measures to have procured the
attendance Of all the men and women now
living who attended the opening ball at
the old Rock Island House, July 4, 1887,
at the opening ball of the new Rock Island
House on Tuesday evening. The house
has become historical, in our locality, and
it would have been a graceful tribute to
the pioneers of 1887 to have recognized
them IN some way and secured the atten-
dance of as many of them as possible.
But we suppose it was forgotten. We
hope some occasion may yet offer when
this may be done.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09

IMPORTANT INFORMATIoN.-Re il
you prize Your health, and use, or conteG
plate using any article for restoring OF
dressing the hair; avoid the numerou:
hair preparations made from lead, sulphu.
and other metallic poisons, and send tor
pamphlet how to detect them, and which
accompanies the Egyptian Hair Colorin4
which is the only safe and etfectual article
used. No sediment--no poisohs-no stains
is not dye
Geo, Wm. Southwick, proprietor, New
York, Z. q. Box 1873.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY,
SESSION OF THE COUNTY GRANGE
Election of Officers.

The Rock Island County Grange, of
Patrons of Husbandry, was in session, in
this city, or Tuesday and Wednesday.
Nine oranges were represented. The fol-
lowing officers were elected:
Master-A. G. Stevens,
Overseer-L. d. Edwards.
Lecturers i. Swisher.
Stewards. Shelter.
Assistant Steward-N. B. Wright,
Chaplain-Wm. B. Bruner.
Treasurer-C. Z. Kyle.
Secretary-Frank II. Harris.
Gate keeper. A. Searle.
Ceres Mrs. L. Fl. Harris.
Pomona-Mrs. L. D. Edwards.
Flora-Mrs. Sam'l Kennedy.
Stewardess--Mrs. III. Saddoris.
Executive Committee-Lewis Wilson
Henry Saddoris, j. A. Searles, A. G. Ste
vens. +. H. Harris.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09

LADIES throughout the American and
European Continents haye testified to the
excellent remedial virtues of Pozzoni' S
Medicated Completion Powder. 1t
imparts to the skin beautiful transparent
wilderness. makes it deicately soft and
smooth, removes freckles, tan, and allays all
irritation. Sold wholesale and retail by
J. A. Pozzoni, St.Louis, Mo-, and by E
Breunert, Emil kehler, G. Speidel, and
Benser & Thomas, Rock Island
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09

Merchants Gargling Oil has won for
itself a worldwide reputation as a liniment,
useful in rheumatism, sprains, brusis,
burns, scaldS, &c. This preparation was
first manufactured in 1888, and since then
has steadily grown into the favor and con
tidence of the people. The long term of
years during which it has constantly been
brought to the notice OF the public, together
with its immense sale, gi.e evidence of an
inherent value (Which caunot be doubted.
An objection to its use-that of staining,
| the skin, has been entirely removed, SC
that 1t now leaves no stain whatever. AL
though called ''Family Or aud pre-
pared Intentionally for human flesh, it
answers as well for beasts; and will be
found one of the best remedies for all
purposes, where linimont is required that
has ever been manufactured. file
DrH8gjSt,' NCaO Lejan0a, A. Y
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09

The cures made every gay Dy Freligh' $
Remedy are really wonderful. Magic is
the only word to express the action of this
truly invaluable medicine. Everybody
that once uses it experiences relief, and not
only continues to use it himself but recon-
mends it to his friends. If you are suffer
ing from Neuralgia or Rheumatism, send
at once Tor bottle and try it. Druggists
generally sell il.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-09

ONE BOTTLE OF PERUVIAN ALTERA-
TIVE will remove pimple or skin eruptions.
Two bottles will cure liver complaint, loss
of appetite. or debility, and three to five
bottles will cure scrofulous or venerial
faint, rheumatism, tum0rs Of the blood.
CRUMBS PERUVIAN ALTERNATIVE is the
greatest tonic and blood purifier ever dis
covered Sold by all druggists.