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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-02
B5s Report OF the Moline public schools
Tor the month ending Nav 26th, 1876:


guard at the Moline bridge for the past
year has been assigned to duty at Post
No 2, and John Gamble, late patrolman
on the Island will take his place. Martin
is good guard and vel! liked by every
body here, and all will regret to lose him
from our city, although his present posi-
ton brings him nearer to his own home in
Rock Island. Mr.. Lindgreen. Martin S
partner, still continues at his old post, but
his watch is now from IL A, NJ. until II
P. NJ.
BG@Yesterday afternoon Fred Conway,
| of Rock Island, brought up one of
Williams & Go. S dredge boats, which will
be used in removing the sand bar at
Keator Il Co. s saw mill, in the u per part
of the city. This bar is great annoyance
to our manufacturing establishments, as,
In low water, it completely shuts off the
surply of water to the Water Power Co s
dau. Efforts are now being made II
/ Washington to have congress appropriate
money tor the removal of this bar, bu
whether they will be successful or not re
mains to be seen.
BgJohn Graham aud Dennis J. Ben
nett, residents of Coaltown, got into
dispute Thursday afternoon in Shurtz'
saloon, corner of Wells and Lynde streets
which ended by rough and tumble fight
Policeman Teller arrested them both ant
they were taken before Magistrate
Swander. FROM tie evidence it appear
that Graham had started the dispute an
had struck Bennett, who is an old man
first, and the magistrate accordingly fue'
him $40 and costs, and discharged Ben
nett. Failing to pay he was sent to tn
calaboose Both men was badly scratche
and bruiced.
BgThe Republicans here had gori
J fcation meeting at Morey's drug store las
{ night over the falling Starr" u. Co. i
the Republican county convention yestel
day, and the RereiW of this morning ha
the following:
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-02

CAMP BROWN, wyoming Dec. %, lsi4.
RHEUMATISM -Dr I r Fenton: The Elk bot
ties Sarsaparilla sent in July last, cured me of
Rheumatssm and only used five, Cone got brOken.)
had it for four years. and spent nearly one thous
and dollars, wsth the best doctors in Montana Ter
ritory previous | have GOT two more customers.
Please express me eighteen more bottles to South
Pass. Enclosed find the greenbacks. Write me to
Camp Brown, as before. lours truly,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-02

Why let aches and pains your temper spoil'
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-02

SCROFULOUS NECK, q number of ulcers, open
for nine months; had the medical advice in
Cleveland Q. friend sent me Fenton's Sarsapa-
rilla, Twelve bottles made peri, Ct and perma-
ueut care. W. H. MEARs.
North bloomfield. q.
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The Democratic and Republican National
Committee Organized.

The Democratic National Committee es-
tabllshed their headquarters in the Everett
House Yesterday. Nearly every member OF the
committee was present. In the absence OF the
Hon. Abrsm s. Hewitt, the Hon. Johu J. Priest
Of Missouri presided. Tho reports from the
States satisfied the committee that the outlook
was favorable. II was determined not to con-
fine tho hard work TO selected states, but to
neht the Republicans along the whole line. The
active canvass Is to be begun without delay In
NJ Inc, Ohio, Indiana. and tho other States In
which elections are to be held In September and
October. The National Committee Will meet
again on the 18th OF September. Tue Executive
Committee Will be in session daily in the Everett
House and at 80 Liberty street.
The Executive Committee OF the Republican
National Com mittee met yesterday In the Nth
Avenue Hotel. Among those present were Hon.
A. u. Cornell, Secretary Chandler, Postmas-
er-Generai Jewell, er- Gov. Noyes. Senator Pat
tersun, Senator Conover, Hon. Wn. Cumback,
and VIM. IA. Kemble.
The committee resolved to begin the canvass
In Ohio and Indana and the other States that
hold their local elections before the general
election. Arrangements we're made for collect
ing money, engaging speakers, and distributing
campaign documents. The rooms OF the com
mittee will be open daily.
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A Few Questions for Carl scburz.

ToTHK EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: should
like through your columns TO ask Mr.. Carl
Schurz few questions which may help TO sluci-
date his present position.
First-Had be not made up his mind TO sup
port Hayes before the appearance OF the letter
OF acceptance, so that his quotation OF IL, to
Justify his course, Is merely an afterthoughtf
Second-were not the effected paragraphs IN
the conference address, denouncing mediocre
candidates, aimed at Hayes and Others Of his
kind, and so understood by the corferenoe7
1hird-Did he not say to certain member OF
the conference that Hayes, though an amlaole
gentleman, was not a man Of any force, and
would be a mere tool In the hands Of stronger
men2
Fourth-Is the position Of Hayes on tho cur
rency question one step In advance OF that Of
hendricks, whom he denounces7 Mr.. Sohurz
has time and time again argued that there could
be no resumption without contraction; yet MIR.
Hayes conducted bis canvass last year 10 Ohio
on the ground that he was opposed TO contrac-
ton. How, then, can Mr.. schurz regard him as
a resumptionlst7 Ether he Is altogether wrong
In his financial teachings, or Hayes is on the
track. AS0LD REPUBLICAN,.
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steriss are traoeabie TO the newspaper
representatives 10 whom he has refused to
give bribes either In money or in the form
OF free dinners. He justly remarks that
his prices are printed on the bills OF fare
In the hands Of the visitors before they
give their orders, and that no one need
take meal at his restaurant who finds
these prices too high. He argues that he
has not the monopoly OF selling food on
the grounds, that there are large number
of eating places at which the charges are
much lower, and to which he invariably
advises the grumblers to repair; while to
those who desire a choice Partisan dinner,
with genuine French wines, he cannot help
charging their full value.
Several Of the foreign exhibitors of cera-
mics, bronzes jewelry, and silverware have
been approached with proposals OF special
reviews at 30 much per column. And so
all through. JAY GoULD's Tribune has, of
course been especially industrious in this
dishonorable line.
We hear, for instance, from Mr.. J. L.
MORT whose patriotic love for everything
American, including American journalism,
has never been questioned, that tho repre-
sentative of leading New York paper
offered him two columns containing a
laudatory review of his fountains and
statuaries in return for a check of 1880
The shrewd Mott Haven iron founder seems
to have answered, however, that he would
set fire TO his workshops II he thought for
q moment that the articles they produce
could not stand on their own merits.
There is disappointment and mismanage-
ment enough about the Exhibition, with
out newspaper men aggmvating the evils
by venality.
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globe, may well impress us with the scale
OF their operations.
We may notice one other point brought
out In this report. Inasmuch as the United
Kingdom, Notwithstanding it's agricultural
feoundity, is constrained by the density Of
its population TO complete its provision OF
food from foreign sources, 1t is desirable to
know whether the fund Of live stock has
Of late years increased or diminished in
those countries which are accustomed to
viotual the English market. From ool-
lation Of statistics 1t would appear that in
all the contiguous States the number Of
neat cattle is slightly augmented, while
that Of sheep has sensibly declined. We
infer that the time Is not far distant when
Great Britain, which has well nigh learned
to rely on our Western States for bread
stuffs, will draw her supplies Of beef and
mutton from the same quarter.
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Newspaper Corruption at the Centen-
NAL.

Reports OF very unpleasant nature
have reached us from Philadelphia with
reference TO the corruption prevailing
among the correspondents sent TO the FIX
hibition by certain newspapers. Several Of
our contemporaries have established per-
manent offices on the grounds, and their
representatives, ii Is alleged, carry on quite
a thriving business by extorting money
from the exhibitors in return for puffs
given them in the columns of the papers,
Many Of the exhibitors, who are simple
minded enough TO think that such puffs
are OF value to them, pay the brides, and
keep their mouths shut. Those, on the other
hand, who have common sense enough TO
refuse to engage in such transactions are
afraid of the press, and consequently are
reluctant 10 give publicity to the proposals
made to them by the representatives of
certain Journals. The exposure OF euoh
proposals, unless they are made 10 presence
OF witnesses OF In writng-whioh the en-
issaTies of vennl journalism are careful to
avold-might be easily made the occasion
OF legal proceedings from which the eX-
hibltors arc naturally anxious to keep
aloof,
Numerous complaints have however,
boon made to us in conversation and in
private letters. NJ. VERDIER, the proprie-
tor Of the Trois Frdres Proven9aux, sends
us, for instance, long private letter, in
which he defends his establishment from
the accusation OF extortions which has
been brought against II by several nows-
papers. He says that nearly all these
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Grand 'o'''~si1,AAsssstsasssts SO 80 si7aos'0so 90
Excess OF estima's for
1877 over appropria-
tins for 1870. 81. SO, $50 80

II win be observed, In looking over this re-
capitulation, that there is a regular and steady
increase In the sum demanded Tor the support
OF each and every bureau OF the Navy Depart
ment, and at the same time that there are in
eIplicaole discrepancies In the character Of
these demands. How, for instance, could the
sum wanted for the pay OF the navy, under the
general service item be increased from 60 30 600
TO $7,600y0J0 without any increase In tho force OF
the establishment But. II the force has u
creased, then the cost Of provisions ana clothing
for them must have increased ptri pdSst, which
does not appear by the figures. Again. there
are continually double charges throughout all
these items, as, for instance, where $2000O is
charged for postage" for the department; vet
the item Of postage" is included In the "con-
tingent' allowance for each aud every bureau
Certain 1t Is that whether there he ground or
not for impeachng Secretary Robson, he ought
to be discharged for incompetency.
There must still be added to the above total
OF estimates $4,000 for prluting for the depart
ment and $1,000 for indemnity TO seamen for
lost clothing, and allowance for reduction Of
wages under the Eicht-Hour law.
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Beikpap's Certain Guilt and tho ssnate's
Acauittal.

The failure to convict Belknap of the de-
testable offences which were proved against
him Is a serious misfortune to the country. IL
not only releases a corrupt bride taker from all
adequate official condemnation OF his corrup-
ton, but II establishes a preoedent which Is alb
surd In law, ridiculous IN reason, and pernciOus
and dangerous in fact. 1t Will hence forward be
practically impossible TO convict an otiicer who,
being exposed IN crime, resigns before impeaCh-
ment. That any such result was anticipated from
the provisions Of the Constitution by those who
framed them we have not the slightest evidence.
That they would nave regarded such Result
with regret and humiliation, were they living to
witness II, we cannot well doubt. Hut the Wis
dom OF the Senate OF to-day IA Of quite novel
and presumably superior sort, aud when Cou-
pie OF dozen OF Its members make up their
minds to give us n wholly new version OF the
Constitution, and, unluckilv, have IL In their
power to do SO, the country must abide the con
sequences. Practically, the men who Yesterday
alleged their opinion ON a question OF law To ex-
plain their verdict ON a question OF fact, intro
duced into the law OF impeachment a principle
which cannot easily be overtnrOwn, " at all, and
which modines ana substantially upsets the
whole machinery provided by the Constitution
for the punishment OF hieh crimes and INSIDE
meanors on the part Of exalted Federal officials
That IL should DO possible thus to nx constitu-
tiona law by the vote OF less than one-third OF
one branch OF Congress, without tho interposl-
ton OF any judicial authority, and without ref
ence to the people, ID unfortunate.
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Mr.. J. NrHcTAP, which seems to be q
faDciful way OF writing the honest name Of
PATcBEs. favors us with q letter arguing that
Gov. TILDESs election will not be Of any bons-
1T to workingmen, because one OF Its Hrst re-
suits will DO to discharge a great number Of
ofhceholders. These ofBcebolders win have to
get their living in other ways, and will thus
come into mretition with the working classes,
to the injury Of the latter. Mr.. PATcHEN is mis-
taken. Whatever lessons the cost OF carrying
on the Government reduces the amount OF
taxes, and every such reduction at once inn
proves the condition of workingmen. Rich peo-
pie with accumulation OF money may stand
heavy taxes, but those who have to depend
upon their labor for their living are directly and
palpably benefited by every decrease In taxation.
Let Mr.. PATCHEN think this over.
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OUR SAYINGS BANKS.
Additional OmciaI ktntem Of their Pres
cut Financial Condition.

ALBANY, Aug. 2.-The following com
pletes the statements of the savings banks in
New York city for July:
German Savings Bank-Rcsourcea, tl3,6o3.553 .27.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. due depositors, tl2osp, llso4 ex'
cess OF assets, 81. O04. ass. Is.
Teutonis Savings BaDk-Resources q, 7O2 267 SO.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. due depostors, 81 7O2l 0si tx
cess Of ass cts, COZ 140.45. Open accounts, b177.
Iorkvillc Sayngs Bang-Resource-. felOO5.oi.
Liaointes- cunt due depositort, t2olo1lv excess
Of Assets. ts43.S2
Trades Savings Bank- Resources tp7 03. Liabil.
ities-Amount due depositOrs. tpivl3.O6i excess Of
assets, t2.2p4e7.
blities-Amount Que depostors. t2o5,s23 excess OF
assets. k5,052.s6. -
Metropolitan Savings Bank-Rosourees, 1888, tsLo5
ACCOMPLISHMENTS ue deposltors, td,Se7S47 as ex
cess Of assets. t470. 1876 81.
North River savings Bank-ltesourcest tSo96l7.Ss.
Ilabitics- Amount due depositors, f73o, S2664
cess OF assets ~. SS6A7
Bowtry Savings ank-Reeources. t34. las, 0e7 81.
Liabilities Amount due depositors t2s, % ex.
cess Of assets. q. 5S3.l7p57.
he resources OF all the savings banks In New
York city In January amounted 10 $685. AS ;
liabii les, tls4127,1&2; SURPLUS, te06s7 ,6S3, In
july the resources were f7 SOC liabilities,
tls4, la, 1s9 surplus, t23,2+6,7y.
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/RoBBER,s OPPORTUNITIES.
Rsbbcrsen's Figures for 1879 and 1S11-
What our Rotten Navy Costs.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-The Book of Esti-
mates shows very plainly how, under Robeson's
corrupt management, expenses are increased In
the Navy Department from year to year. The
total aggregate OF our naval expenses for the
three years 1872 1878, 1914 the years In which the
American navy won its greatest glory and per-
formed Its most signal achievements, was t22,-
17,s9095. In that period the victory on Lake
Erie was won, the Constitution captured the
GUERRERO, the Macedonian the Java, and there
wero hundred brave actions on and lake to
exalt the honor and magnify the importance Of
the United States dlR. In 1870, when Duncan
InRraham electrified Europe by taking Martin
koszta from aboard an Austrian war vessel, our
total naval expenses were 81, s6O,5s1.3S. Three
years before that when we were bombardlug
Vera Cruz and Acapulco, and blockading every
Mexican port, our naval expenses reached only
9,7So,700.e2. In 1854 with the great war Of the
rebellion on our hands, three thousand miles Of
seacoast to blockade, great ornaments aud ex-
petitions to nt out, and hostile enemies to pur-
sue in every soa, we only spent ss5 70le 63.14 on
the navy. What did Secretary Robson ask for
his diapldated collection OF unseaworthy hulks
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872 We APP
pend table Of his estimates from the OH cial
letter Of the Secretary Of the Treasury, and for
purpose Of comparison, we add the sums appro-
priated for the same objects for the fiscal year
which ended June, 1876:
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Belknap and Robson.

As he coDtemplates the course which the
great majority Of the Republicans are pur-
suing toward robson, BELKNAP must
think he committed a blunder in confess
ing and resigning. II no had remained in
offioe, would not the Republicans have
tried TO carry him through, just as they
are now trying to carry through robson
His misconduct Is not a tenth part as
fragrant as that OF RoBEsoN; and are not
the Republicans in the House whitewash-
Ing RoBEsoNi and in face Of the damning
fnots does not GRANT keep him In the Cab
ineti and are not nearly all the RepubI-
can newspapers In the country defending
robson, and denounoing the Democratic
members OF the Naval Committee for ex-
posing his thievish, pronigate, and dis
astrous administration OF the Navy De-
partmentf
II BELKSAP had stayed In office and
fought his battle on that vantage ground,
is there a shadow OF doubt that he could
have rallied 10 his support all the inilu-
ences that have so promptly come forward
to protect RoDEsoEi With the aid OF
GRANT and the other members OF the Cabi-
net, and whtewashing report in his favor
from the Republican members OF the Wal
Committee in the House, might not BEL
KNAP have hoped to deter the Democratic
majority from impeaching hImi Or. II
unsuccessful in this, yet with a case
against him which is weak and contempt.
BILE in comparison with the colossal rascal.
hy OF HonEsos, might he not have found
sufficient number Of Republican Sena'
tors ready to save him from oonviction1
Bold rascals don't like towards. by
throwing up the sponge at the commence
ment OF the CONFLICT BELKNAp lost III,
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The Presidents axe continues to do its
work at Washington, on every oficeholder sus-
pected of being friendly to BRIsTow or JEWELL
no matter what his services or his merits may
be. Capability and honesty are held TO be the
best reasons for dismissal. Mr.. WIN. A. POTTER,
Supervising Architect of the Treasury, 10 the
latest conspicuous victim. When public opin-
Ion revoltsd at MuILETr ind his barefsced job
berry with Boss SHEPHERD and Others, Mr.. Por-
rKR was brought In TO lift the ONCE out Of the
m ire and disgrace into which II had fallen, as
outRrowth Of Grantism.
He has administered II upriehtly. brought
order out OF chaos, and executed the law as
Congress intended, thus saving millions to the
Treasury through a system the very reverse Of
the corrupt practices OF his predecessor He hap
pened to be appointed under Mr.. BRIsTow, and
that ia held to be sufficient for abrupt dis
missal. or course, II 10 now IN order to restore
MULLETT. and = new attack Of " neuralgia of the
brain" Is only wanting to insure the consumma-
ton OF this outrage.
TYSER. tho back pay grabbing Postmast
General, has, under Senator MoRroS's direc-
tions, commenced the work OF reforming"
that department. Judge CowELI- the Chief
Clerk. has received his walking papers, and
Others are to follow, who had the misfortune TO
| enjoy the confidence Of Mr.. JEWELL. WOOD
FORD, Chief Special Agent, ana sPERRY, In
charge OF the stamped envelope branch at Hart
ford, are on the black list but bravely refuse to
resign. So they must be forcibly removed.
The order of the white House is 20 clear out
| every incumbe who has been faithful to duty,
| and who might serve as arestrant on MoRroN's
policy Of making the Post once In all its parts
| partisan machine for the Presidential cam
| paign.
GRANT Is desperate and reckless. He cares
| nothing for public opinion. and during the next
| seven months he intends to use all the power at
| his disposal to crafty personal revenses nrst,
| and next to contribute to HAYEss election,
| upon whom he relies to perpetuate Grantism-
"if elected" The situation at the capital is in
deed lovely to look upon.
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ters in the country, besides being philosopher.
man Of modesty, and patriot; but his soul is
replete with all that feeling and IMAGINATION
which appear so remarkably In the obituary
poems on which bis literary reputation 10 chief
ly based.
The correspondent in question had better not
write us any more letters.
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1t has now been proved beyond dispute

1t has now been proved beyond dispute
that Gen. CUSTER was not scalped, that his body
was not in any way mutIlated, and that his uni
form was not stripped OF bv the Sioux. But II
IL q fact that BUFFALO BILL, white man and
killer Of Indians, has Just sent to his friends
In Rochester the scalp which he cut from
the head OF the Cheyenne brave YELLOW
HAND, after he had killed him, and the blanket,
head dress, and girdle which he took from the
body Of YELLOW HAND after death.
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sympathy and aid OF the corrupt elements
in GRANTS Administration and the Rspub-
lican party; and that ruined him. HOW
different the course of RoBEsoSi Like
him, BELKSAP should have drawn around
him all the rogues, and fought 1t out on
that linz
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The increase OF the
cavalry force OF the asked for by the President
ON the accommodation Of Gen sheridan, will not be
voted by the House Of Representatives, The ostensi-
bic for this is the Sioux war but the
real reason Ia that the President may efectua
carry ssinR the SOuthernStates III
tov1ung for Hayes and Wheeler There Is doubtless AN
undersl anduK between the President and sheridan,
who would relish opportunity To play the satrap In
the south this fan and with strOng force Of cavalry
harras the people whom he has already desgnated as
bandltt.
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Filming the Mayor.

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, July 30-Mayor Rhoades,
on coming into office, commenced to enforce an
old ordinance IN respect to htchlng horses, and
had several hackmen arrested and fined for
breaking the law. Since then the boys have
been ON the watch for his Honor. Saturday
morning they caught Is year-old horse Of nis
standing on the street unhitchcd. A few min
utes HfterwaTd "A marshal marched Rockford S
Mayor before a magistrate, who, after repri-
aDding him, hned him the amount prescribed
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Tho Editor of,he Herald al Newport.


NEWPORT, July N.-James Gordon Ben
nett Is making a very deep impression here as a
games, but as a pubhc-spirited person who
means to do all he can to improve the city OF
Newport The yachting club owes much to him
and now II is sand that that much needed i'm.
pTovement, the Introduction OF water, will come
through his money ana influence more than by
any other means. He IL a graceful rider, and
wins OF loses at Polo with equal sangfrold.
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VIVA, New York Daily Paper Costs.

II the Witness he II transparent humbug,
IL Is u very costly one. 1t has cost the prcph-
etor all ne had IN tue world and II has cost two
or three friends lone especiallU very large
amounts. hese parties have sunk something
over 100000 IN It, ana believe the money given
at the Lords call, aud spent In His service In
addition to tins. quite a number OF friends adj
vanced about 5000 last fall aud winter: nd, as
will be seen, We acknowledge over $1,000 re-
ceiyed IN cash since last March, and pledges for
upward OF f2l.OOO more, to tie paid when the re-
naming 81, 800 Of our $4,000 loan is subscribed