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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE !

sWARTHMoRE. Delaware Co Penn.
THIS Institution, under the care of friends and
open to students of either sex, is situated on the
West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad. ten miles
from Philadelphia. Full Courses of study are pro-
vided in both the Classical and the Scientific De-
partment. for completing either of which the usual
degrees conferred. There is also connected with
the College Preparatory School. Applicants ad-
mitted either to the College Preparatory School
who bring testimonials of good character from
their last teachers and pass the required prepare
tory examinations. The examinations for admis-
sion 10 the College or the Preparatory school will
be held the Sd. 4th and 5th days, the 12th 18th
and 14th, of ninth month (September) 1876. To Sc.
cure places, the accommodation being limited, ap-
plication should be made early possible either
personal by letter, to the President. For eata-
logues and further particulars address
EDWARD II. MAGILL, President
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12

No, Hayes is nothing of a musician;
he doesn't play on the piano. He has a
few mortgaged notes, but he suppresses
them.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12

New York at a salary of $4,000. Why should he
not be for Tilden ?-Elnira AdUertiseY,
This is not true. Gen. Sigel ceased to
be register on Jan. /, 1875, and was sue
ceeded by Gen. Patrick H. Jones, the
present incumbent, Republican. More
over, Sigel was elected as a Republican,
being nominated by that party and sup
ported by the Anti Tammany Democrats.
The Tammany candidate against him was
Edward J. Shaudley. who was beaten by
about 25, 900 majority.-N y Sun.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
PRHPOS SAIS

VIII be received for three days by the City Clerk,
for street corners. Samples and Specifications at
Council rooms
Rock Island, Sept. 9th, 1876.
1Id3t s. F. COOK City Clerk
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12

HARPER HOUSE BARBER AND BATH
Rooms now open. Everything neat, clean
aud first class. Best attention given.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Hot and cold
Baths. Keen razors and clean shave.
Hair cutting, shampooning. etc. Patron
age respectfully solicited.
9lldtf. RICHMOND TERRELL, Prop'r.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
st. Louis Market.

ST. LOUIS. September 12
Wheat-Higher for best; No fall 1901 15A
cash; No 3, / 06Go1 O6as; No A, 80.
Corn-Lower; Ala bid cash; 4lsl Oct.
Oats-Higher; So
Barley-Steady; 600S0.
whisky 0S
Pork-Higher; IS 90.
Lard-Better: 10 25
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12

Printing and binding executed neat
quick and cheap at THE ARGUS 0FFcR-
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
Death of Gov. wise, of Virginia.

OeatH OF ToV. W1se, Oh VIE Iu1d
RICHMOND, Sept lex Gov. Henry
A. Wise, died at his residence in this city,
at halt-past two to day.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
FEVER AND AGUE

Fever aud Ague cured for fifty cents. There is
not n remedial agent in the world that will cure
fever and ague, and ali other malarious, bilious,
scarlet, typhoid yellow and other fevers (aided by
Railways Plls) so quick rs Railways Ready Relief.
Fifty cents per Bottle
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
Milwaukee Market.

M'LWAUkEk. StpItIIUeI IE
Wheat-1c higher; G7A cash; 054 Oct; 05as
Nov; No 3, 941aQ99ka.
Corn-46h.
Oats-33.
Rye-64.
HBarley-S7.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12

NEW YORK, September IL.
FINANCIAL.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12
TELEGRAPH1C.

Photographed to the Rock Island Argas.l
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-12

Gold--1 09a.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

son alone may refuse to Cooperate with
the extreme Radical wing of their party.
The congressional contest must at once as
sumo u new phase. Mr.. Jones is pledged,
under circumstances here stated, to with
draw from the contest. However deeply
his feelings may be involved, he Is not the
man to forget pledge to the people or TO
friend. He is advised by letters written
by the best members of the Republican
party that If he continue a candidate Davis
or DaVis's designated nominee will enter the
field to defeat both Jones and Giddings.
With these facts before the people of the
district, the duty of Democrats, Wings
and Conservatives becomes too palpSble to
require definitions at our hands. Judge
Hancock's friends will forge: alleged in
Justice done him and rally to the support
of the nominee of the party. Those who
preferred Jones because of his outright de-
clared hostility to Tom Scott's robbery of
the commonwealth will forget the crime
that was done pOsterity and remember the
rights and necessities of the living and ad
here to GiddIngs. The unity of the party
and solidity of party action must be eff
fected at once in every county, town and
hamlet Of this congressional district. 1t is
not that we are SO anxious to nae IOnes
withdrawn or Giddings elected, as these
two men are personally involved, but we
would thwart the schemes of the Machla-
velian potter who proposed to make a Dsm-
ocratic quarrel stepping stone for his
malignIty and an agency for the reproduc
ton Of his demOniacal power in Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

Ton SCoTT, having gobbled finally, as he
thinks, the rich and vast public domain OF
Texas, must now dip down somewhat out
of straight line into Texas and then di-
verge from the State as rapidly az possible.
But this grand SJathern 'fell swoOp"
will not the voice of lamnratiOn be heard
in 'Ramey?' will be costly. 1t lengthens
the road from Philadelphia and New York
through st. Louis to san Francisco more
than two hundred miles. 1t will cost
through trains vast sums to run over these
Deedless TWO hundred miles, and more to
keep them in repair, and very soon the road
must be Strengthened and Texas, having lost
th;rty-six million acres If her public do
main, will have to show for il few branch
"feeders" to Tom SCOTS magnificent trans
continental line. We could have endured
this robbery Of the State if Scott, accepting
it, had been compelled to accept with the
condition that the ca stern terminus Of the
rO;d should be at some Southern port: but
his EXcelIency and his late Legislature and
Martin have given everything and get moth
lns-n"thing save the poor privilege OF
having little branches to feed she great
trunk line TO Philadelphia
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
THE PLOT DEVELOPEO-. WITH
DRAWAL OF HON. WASH JONES.

There are two classes of Republicans in
this city, having each its peculiar adherents
throughout the district. The representa-
tive men OF the one class are Messrs. Pease,
Bell and Kinney; of the other, Davis and
Wagner and Parson Akers The first
three are, and have been from the begin
ming, honest sdherents of Wash Jones and
simply because JOKES is outspoken in hos
till to Tom Scott, and because they can
MT affiliate with the Democracy in the
midst of presidential campaign. The
other spoty wing of the dusky orglu:zi-
don is almost wholly black, the whitest
members sadly needing much wh.tewash-
ing. These men are noisy adherents of
Jones and have been busiest IN encouraging
his war upon the Democratic organization.
They themselves, however, never intended
to vote for him. They proposed simply to
dismember the Democratic party. to min
lister to quarrels and to the personal ambi-
ion OF men, to make false promises, and
delude Jones and the adherents of Jones.
The scheme seemingly prospered. 1t was
well devised.
There are honest, upright gentlemen, ad-
herring to Judge Hancock with rare and
laudable fidelity, and to Tom Scott with
singular pertinacity, so ffended that Gid
dings was and Hancock was not nominated
that they declared their purpose To support
Jones. There are not many such ID -mocrats,
but enough to endanger, by possibility, the
electioa of GiddIngs. The Davis Wagner
wing of II ,dicalism saw how its plans
prospered and for ten days past has
been eminently we'll pleased with the
course of events. A share of personal
feeling has been injected into GIidings's
and Jones's debates, and the withdrawal of
Jones, Davis began to think, was Impossi
BILE. Acting on this assumption, Davis's
plans were developed among his contden-
ual friends, and yesterday and last night
the candidature of Davis, or of represen-
tativs Of Davis, was announced everywhere.
oi course honest, upright Republicans.
who lad assured Jones that they would
support him in good faith and not rs q
simple cats paw, 10 claw Giddings out and
Davis into Congress. wrote yesterday to
Jones telling him Of the policy Of Wagner
and Davis as now publicly defned. II
Jones remain in the field, and this is surely
impossible, these honest Republicans feel
themselves bound 10 support him; II he
withdraw they viii almost certainly sup.
port Mr.. Giddings. They do not think
that Davis and his extreme followers have
dealt fairly with Jones, and for this rea-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
TEXAS ON THE SEA-SHORE OF
DISASTER.

1t is estimated that the cotton and wheat
crops Of the year will bring certainly sixty
millions into the State, and when we add
the products of the wool clip, of cattle
drives and of hides and beef and hogs AID
horses and pecans, the annual income of
Texas must exceed one hundred millions.
Then, too, the progressive railway system
of the State is expending 800 900 daily
within our confines, and all this wealth
comes from distant communities, and is
the State to railway builders. Despite
these facts, indicative of prosperity and
progress, there is a share of that dullness
and lnaction, even here, that chsracterIzes
the commercial and industrial condition of
Eastern communities. Morey abounds, but
is idle. Men are doubtful of the future.
Grants violence and the madness of NJ "
ton and rage of placemen when their ten
ure of office is endangered, the war sought
to be precipitated in South Carolina, and
that which threatens Europe-all these are
facts that paralyze the energies of trade and
repress, even here, for a time, business ac-
tivity and speculation. Until Tilden is in
vested with office, there can be, IN older
States. no marked change. Texas, how
ever, stands aloof, having resources and
revenues that partisan follies and crimes
cannot impair. Immigrants bring US incalcu-
liable riches. Cameron's and Grants invasion
Of South Carolina and Ctamberlain's excita-
ton of untutored blacks to armed assaults
upon impoverished whites will send immi-
grants and wealth into Texas. The very
miseries and crimes Of local and municipal
governments. begotten of universal untaxed
suffrage in the Gulf States, send vast sums
and wrecks of once princelY estates into
Texas. Sum it all up, the income from
productive wealth, and from progressive
railways and from immigration, and II
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

THE wealth, homes, decency, intelli-
gence, even the religion of South Carolina
are all involved in the cOnte between knav
cry and barbarism, and Chamberlain and
satrap Merrill on the one hand, and the
white people on the other. Chamberlain
and Merrill have ordered the people to sur
render their arms aBd invoked Federal bay
onets, and the people listen and look on
moodily and sadly enough. Will those OF
the North, who themselves love freedom
and honesty and truth and patriotism, sui
fer these outrages to be done9 The pur-
pose is to prevent the election of Wade
Hampton, who would be, and properly, the
next Governor of the stricken, pundered,
impoverished old commonwealth, and then
to excite such disturb rbances in the State that
its vote if against NJ ,rton Hayes may be
r iectcd 10y the Senate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
wHoLES Ale on RETAIL.

The establishment ora. T. Stewards
and tendency of final effects of railway
construction. Stewart buying and ship
ping vast quantities can deposit goods in
Chicago at less cost than any consumer or
small retailer. Merchants in Chicago and
in neighhorigg towns can buy from Stewart
at less cost To themselves thau # thew
bought ia Europe or in New York and paid
freights 10 Chicago. Stewart buys for a
million and the common tradesman for five
or ten thousand people. Stewart, at last,
is the only real wholesale" dealer in CHI
cago. These facts pertain to tradesmen
here and in interior and neis hboring towns
which must become tributary 10 Austin by
means of the Lampasas narrow gauge, the
international and other railways. An Aus
tin merchant can accumulate goods and
groceries for. distribution at less cost than
he who buys only for one village, and the
country merchant, knowing the Eastern
cost, can buy here, freights added, at less
final cost to himself than if he bought his
small stock III Philadelphia or New York
But this is not all. The C ,untry merchant
saves the cost in time and money of bien-
NAL Journeys to the East, and, better still,
repleni~hing his stock each week AMI month,
as trade demands, he never buvs what he
cannot sell, and has no worthless
stock left each year unsold and
unstable. The saving to the coun-
try merchant enures at last to the
advantage and profit OF the people, and IN
these simple processes we discover the ORR
gin of that infinite prosperity that distin-
guishes communities blest with cheap and
speedy means of commercial intercourse.
Therefore the STATESMAN has persistently
urged the imperative necessity for the con-
struction of the Lampasas narrow gauge
railway. 1t not only multiplies farms and
population and creates towns to trade with
Austin; but attracts, by resistless forces,
other railways to Austin. They would con-
verge here to gather traffic and travel con-
centrated at the capital by the narrow
gauge and other highways already built.
These simple truths serve to show trades
people aud property of Austin the
inf mite imuoTtance of the meeting at the
State fair ot those interested in the CON
structlon of the Lam lasas chsan -~:r----J'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

New YORK will as certainly vote for Til
den as Texas, and New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut are enough to elect him.
Therefore, the necessity for riots in Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and South Carolina. These
States must be disfranchised, aud pretext
must be gwen. o: aurse S"u hern peo-
pie, how, yer they might bate rnbo or the
Union. will do no violent deed at this juno
ture. and the North is con scious of this fact,
and therefore Chandler besitated to have
kaJeas corpus suspended, and people every
where incarcerated. The scheme does not
take even in the North. II South Caro-
linIans may be incarcerated even so with
New Workers, and New Workers object,
snd Chandler and Morton and Grant are
staggered.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

ALL over the North the hysteric,l rheto-
ric of Bob Iugersoll Is repeated and wei
coined as political wisdom by insane, mad
dened mul.iludes. 4 Southern patriot
shudders when reading, even AS he is exas-
pera'ed when listening to foul exaggera-
tons and to distortions OF every fact that
distinguishes Southern from Northern
modes OF life and thinking. Ingersoll not
only appeals to the worst passions and in
stIDcts and greed for gain of his auditors,
but to their love Of power. and insists that
these States must be governed hs subjugs-
ted provinces. In fact, Radical placehold.
crs hre 80 alarmed by recent elections that
they do not hesitate to declare that at all
costs their leaders must remain in office
and il need be the votes Of Southern States
will he rejected bv the Senate when pro-
posed TO he couRted. II ia not that Bot
lngersoll Objects sn periodically TO the par
tIcIpatiun OF 'Tebels" in the conduct Of
government, hut that these rebels may aid
III expelling lngeTsoll's friends from office
and even prevent InRersol's investituTe
with ministerial robes. II Hayes be elected,
Ingersoll, because of his piety, is to he II in
lister to Rome.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
THE SfIsIr OF THE AGE.

A volume might be written to show that,
since the middle of the last century, some
great inward cause has reigned, and quick
ened the action of the human mind, as when
in astronomy, the existence of some vast
new planetary orb is inferred from the per-
turbatons of the heavenly bodies. How
States and nations haYe been shaken. What
revolutions and wars have devastated the
face of human society," What industries
and arts unknown to the past, span the
planet.iu their fingers! What rapidity ia
history! What quos .ionIng of the old, and
expectation of the new, and happenings of
the unexpected! What break up of old au-
thority, and plain dissolution of churches
of honest, business-like sclence What a
removal of aged and pernicious obstruction
from all minds; a removal of duIIness
deeper than the grave; new freedom to
think, to will, and to do; hope reborn,
reason Illuminated, and world renovated
and up-springing!
1t is the early spring-tide of a new age,
with the "tree of life" replanted on the
earth, quckening all minds towards a new
and universal religion, which will have
common life and business for its cathedral,
and the sermon on the mount gradually be-
coming the heart in the law of the land,
till it governs public and private admins
tration. This new spirit is working in all
the parliaments and politics of the earth
1t is preparing the Kingdoms ana comm on
weallhs of the world for the indefinite eX-
tension of civil and religious liberty, and
begins to weave and organize the various
nations together; so that at last there shall
be no outside nations; but the family
shall be included in one bond, and Cloths
feared and unknown. From this centre
a steady wave of private and public hu-
manity presses up against righteousness :;
a new fairness and honesty are affirmed !;
of men are successfully pleaded, and new
conscience overcomes old interests in re-
luctant Senates. The old theories, which
have no good influence on life, which have
tolerated or taken quietly all the evils of life
so long us the perpetrators duly go to church,
and have babe US look to future heaven
for our remedy, are being quietly judged
and cast aside, and new views of truth,
duty and work are accepted. These views
eau enter into all churches and reanimate
them, no longer to dwell in religious emo
tions, instincts and sentimentalities, but to
penetrate with spiritual obedience the
business of daily life, to live truth,
and beat down evil, teaching that for re
ligion the life here and the life hereafter
are one life, one duty, and one world. The
true life of the soul is ceasing to do evil
and learning to do we'll, and any theology
that does not affect this is irrelevant. What
cannot save in this world cannot save in
the next.
The spirit of the age, IN its breadth. in
its practical arts and sciences, in its devo-
tion to the end of raising the people into
thrift, duty, education and useful knowl-
edge, is the ruling, prevailing principle OF
this era, fortunate with a divine fortune.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
TIsEj STARE OF TEXAS AND THE
EASTERN WAR.

Some months ago, anticipating war, as
the result of Turco Sclavlc complications, be-
tween England and FRANCE on the one hand
and Russia ON the other, the STATESMAN
suggested the necessity for the production
of wool and wheat rather than of cotton.
well as for clothing and bread, and if the
war come, aud it can only be prevented be-
cause Prussia staAds aloof and may ''com-
mand the peace, There must follow
transfer of the commercial marine of the
countries involved 20 neutral powers. The
merchantmen of England and France and
of Italy will become the property of
America sh p-owners. In all these plain re-
suits of II mighty Eur pean conflict we do
not sec how we are 20 suffer save to the ex
tent that cot 'on-growers must become cat
tie and wool ami wheat-growers, and Tex
as is finer field fer these war-begottep
systems of industry than may be found
elsewhere in America or Europe. Mighty
as are the armies of England and France
and powerful as Russia has become, capa-
BILE of sending two millions of men against
despised Nj sem, the conflict cannot be
protracted. !, will cost too much money
and of human life. Not only have destruc-
tive weapons been rapidly improved since
two earned mobs" were cutting
throats and destroying civilization
in America, but So rapidly may men be
slaughtered by revolving cannons, each dis
charging one hundred lamp-posts per min
ute and destroying multitudes three and
four miles distant, and so enormously cost
ly are these pleasing processes OF murder
devised by modern Christian civilization
that Turkey will he annihilated in a month,
and in the next Russia or England must
ground arms. Bat while these vast bodies
OF men are moving on ConstsnliIople, and
while myriads are preparing for conflict
that determines not only the fate of Islam
ism but of British or Russian dominion in
Asia, there is deal Of money tn be made
by those who provide for changed CONNER
cial conditions and facts begotten of a ca
larnity that may evolve woes more fearful TO
our race than ever befei ancient or modern
Europe The quarrel between gland and
Ru, STA seems Irremediable. 1t involves
nnmirally the freedom or eRslavement Of
Northern Turkish provinces inhabited by
Christian populations; but it involves the
mastery OF the Mediterranean by Russia
and the loss of the Suez canal, recently
bought by Disraeli, to British commerce
and, finally, it endangers British India.
Tne stake is enormous, and the players,
hen the game begins, will fight desperate
ly The old worlds dominion is at stake,
and the issue at las: is that defined by Ma
puenu, when he said that within fifty
wears Faraps must be either republican or
Cos ack" The half century has just ex-
pired, and we may confidently anticipate
the speedy fufiilment of the great warriors
predictions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

GENERAL RUGER, in command Of the
government troops stationed in 'uth Caro-
lima, in transmitting orders of the War De-
partment, gives additional instructions that
''the piompt and firm execution of the
duties" should be tempered with ''sound
discretion and perfect Iurtesy." ''Let it
be distinctly aud decidedly understood"
he says ''that their influence and that of
their commands Is all on the side of good
order and justice; that they are not there
in the interest of any political party, except
So far as either may be benefited by the en-
forcement of Law iu protecting the unoffend-
ing and restraining violence and disorder" !"
and ''undue or excessive intimacy with ac-
knowledged leaders of their party would
almost inevitably lead to the destruction of
an officers influence for general good for
the community, and is therefore to be
avoided" Such expressions as these give
the people OF South Carolina some assurance
that they are to be treated with all the len
iency and generosity which seems to char
acteriz G,n. Ruger. The military orders
abate none of the enthusiasm for Wade
Hampton, and he will beyond much doubt
carry the State in November.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

PETER PERKINS, a Vermont college pro-
fessor, has been opening ancient mounds
in Indiana, and sagely tells the people that
they are very old apd were reared by the
mound builders. Won't Prof. Pet'r please
tell who were the mound-builders When
did they fl urish! When did they dissp-
pear? Were they the original race of this
continentl Were they from Greenland or
Asia or Africa, or from Mslacc4l Or were
they an original race, indigenous to this con-
tinent and younger or older than the build
ers of the pyramids or of cities with which
Solomon traded in Southern AIrcal Why
doesu't the accomplished professor tell US
something we did not know beforel Any
red savage could have revealed as much ss
the learned NrTmOnter.