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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

| The New York Evening Post started a
| lie to the effect that General Grant had &C
cused General Hancock of being aparty to
swindle ON the people of louisiana. The
| World at once looked up the story and the
result of its Investigations is best told in
| it's own columns:
A reporter of the World was sent to Gen
eral Grant to-day in order to find out from
him what truth, if any, there was in the
story of the EDen6ng Post that he has ac-
cused General Hancock of promoting
swindle upon the people of Louisiana
General Grant said II saw the charge
made by the Post cited in the World of this
morning, and it was there treated as 1t
ought to have been. No man, 50 far as |
know, ever made charge of corruption
against General Hancock. | never did my
| self, nor did I ever have any reason to do
so. The circumstances probably alluded
to in the Post were these During the last
canvass q private conversation of mine, one
not intended for publication, was reported
incorrectly. What / said and what
was true at the time-although [ do
not pretend to remember my ex-
act phraseology-wa in substance
that when General Sheridan was in com
was part he discovered that an attempt
was being made to foist levee bonds upon
the people of Louisiana from which they
would receive no benefit. He removed the
| Governor and Board of Levee Commits
sioners. He reported what he had done to
me, together with all the facts. [ sustained
his action. When he was relieved and
General Hancock appointed to his place
called upon Generanl Hancock with view
| of advising him about his command and
| intended informing him Of what had
| learned about the Board of Levee Commits
sioners. But for some reasons which were
explained in the conversation alluded to
| above did not so inform him, SO that he
was never aware, to my knowledge, OF
what I believed was an attempted fraud
upon the people of Louisiana. When he
took the command I published an
order which prevented him from
reappointing any one who had been
removed by his predecessor, thus
preventing the possibility of his being
made even innocently in any way party
to this fraud President Johnson was
anxious to have the persons so removed
restored. but I refused. When General
Hancock was appointed to the command
of the Department of the Gulf, l started
for his hotel for the purpose Of warning
him about the officials who had been dis
charged, and telling him the reasons fol
their discharge. For reasons not necessary
to specify here did not tell him, but re
turned to my hotel, and unless he ha:
learnt the fact from others he is in igno
rance to this day Of the reasons for TIT
discharge of those men. At least never
had any conversation with him on the sub
iect This is the only possible origin 81
for &c T fxnou of the story DublIShed in til,
, Post / repeat that never charged no
!. had any reason to charge Gen. Hancocl
with corruption in any form; nor do
: know of any one who has. The Wort'
treated the subject rightly this morning
and am glad to cooperate with it in re
: polling any insinuations against Gen. Han
locks character"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

political economist of the Philadelphia
school who pretends that the tarlH ought
not to be revisited.
The only question Is upon what prin
ciple ought the revision TO be made what
do we lew customs taxes for2 If for reve
nue.. then it is evident that the tariff ought
to be laid upon as few articles as possible,
upon articles which are necessarily i'm
ported and not raised IN TINS
country, and upon articles upon which the
duty can be readily apprised and surrey
collected. If we levy them for protection,
then the tariff ought to reach all articles
which are produced abroad and which are
also produced in this country, and it ought
to be so high as to exclude the foreign
articles altogether. Now this question Is
preliminary question which must be an
swered before the revision is undertaken,
since the whole revision depends upon the
answ CT which is given to il, and which
cannot be answered By practical men
1t must be answered by theorists, and it
must be answered upon general considera
lions touching the wealth OF nations, =
and of this country as a member or the
family of nations. Nor is it possible to
shirk this question by referring it either to
theorists or to practical men. The respon-
sibiIity of answering it is put upon Con-
gress, and although Congress may
and should get all the light
possible to be shed upon it
both by professors of political economy
and by manufacturers, Congress cannot
refer it to either class for an answer. 1t
seems to us highly desirable, not that the
tariff should be taken out of politics, but
that it should be put into politics and dis
cussed as the essentially political question
which in reality it is ii it had been dis
cussed heretofore, as it should have been
discussed the country would have been
spared the disgrace of seeing Dawes emery
ore monopoly and Miller's wood-pulp mo-
nopoly enrolled in the schedules of the tariff.
If it had been discussed heretofore the
country would haDe been spared the dis
grace which came upon it last autumn of
seeing whole communities stampeded by
an artful clamor raised by the speakers and
the newspapers of one political party,
while scarcely newspaper or speaker OF
the other political party ventured to expose
| the folly of the clamor. AS things were,
| the popular intelligence was not prepared
| to understand discussion of the tariff
even if the democratic newspapers and the
democratic speakers had been ready and
willing to enter upon it. This misfortune
and this disgrace came from the fact that
the tariff had been ''taken out of politics
and left to the opportunities of interested
persons, or, in other words had been 'es-
| tablished as q business interest in the
country"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

Gen. Arthur was educated at Union Col
Iege, and graduated in the class OF ~
After leaving college he taught country
school during two years in Vermont, ana
then, having managed by rigid economy TO
save about $500, he started for New York
and entered the law Office OF Judge u. ID.
Culver as student After being admitted
to the bar he formed q partnership with
Henry D. Gardiner, with the intention OF
practicing in the West, and for three
months they roamed about in the Western
States in search of an eligible site, but in
the end returned to the metropolis and at
once entered upon prosperous career.
General Arthur soon after married the
daughter of Lieutenant Herndon,
United States navy, who was lost
at sea, and who calmly
went down to death smoking cigar.
Congress veted a gold medal to his widow
in recognition of the conspicuous bravery
he displayed on that occasion. Mrs Ar
thur died year or two ago.
In 1852 he especially distinguished him
self in giving practical Illustrations OF his
Abolition sentiments. Jonathan and Juliet
Lennon, Virginian Shareholders, intending
to emigrant to Texas, came to New York
to await the sailing of steamer, bringing
eight slaves with them. A writ OF hd6eds
corpus was obtained from Judge Paine to
test the question, whether the slaves were
not freed by the act of bringing them into
free territory. Judge Paine rendered a
decision holding that they were, and order
ing the Lennon slaves to be liberated.
Henty L. Clinton was one OF the counsel
for the Shareholders.
William NJ Evarts and Chester A. Ar
thur were employed to represent the PEG
pie, and they won their case, which then
went to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Charles O'Connor here espoused
the cause of the Shareholders, but he, too,
was beaten by Messrs. Evarts and Arthur,
and long step was taken toward the
emancipation of the black race. Another
great service was rendered by Gen. Arthur
in the same cause in 1856. Lizzie Jennings,
a respectable coIored woman, was put OIL
q Fourth avenue car, with violence, after
she had paid her fare. Gen. Arthur sued
on her behalf, and secured a verdict OF
$500 The next day the company issued
an order to permit colored persons to ride
on their cars, and the other car companies
quickly followed their example.
He nominated and by his efforts elected
Hon Thomas Murphy State Senator.
When the latter resigned the Collectorship
of the Port, on November 90, 1871, Presi-
dent Grant nominated Gen. Arthur to the
vacancy and four years later, when his
term expired renominated him. He was re-
moved by President Hayes on July -,
1873, because of 'incompetency and Off
cial dishonesty"
Afterwards he resumed the practice OF
law, and active participation in and direc-
ton of republican politics in New York.
He was then Chairman of the Republican
State Committee, and last year was elected
Vice-President on the republican ticket.
In person Gen. Arthur is over six feet in
height, broad shouldered, athletic and
handsome.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

ROCK ISLAND 3 MERCER &C., z. Z.
Leave Rock Island at 800 8. m. and Loo p m.
Arriving at Gable at II 40 M. and 6 :f5
leave Cable ut $50 a m, and 1870 p m.
Ar. at Rock Island at s:15 q. m, and 3:15p m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

Gen. Chester A. Arthur, who, by the
decease of President Garfield, becomes
Chief Magistrate of the United States, was
born in Franklyn County, Vermont, on
October s. 1880. He is the oldest son OF
the late clergymen, who emigrated to this
country from the County Antrim, Ireland,
in his 18th year, and who was an eminent
writer as well as pulpit orator, his work on
Family Name" being universally regard
ed as one of the curiosities of English
erudite literature. His other son is Pay
master in the regular army, with the ranf
of Major.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

Ex-senator Hendricks has written an
article published in the North american
ReuieU in which he discusses the tariff
question under the title 'tShall two States
rule the Uniong' The two states are
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and MIR.
Hendricks charges justly that the present
tariff is proved directly in the interests OF
these two states. There are two things
which MIR. Hendrick's thinks would be done
manly:
/. To take the tariff out of politics, or
perhaps, speaking more correctly to take
politics out of the tariff.
O. To establish the tariff as business
interest of the country
To which the New York World objects
as follows
The first of these desiderata, and indeed
both of them, Mr.. Hendricks thinks will be
supplied by the appointment of the com
mission provided for by Senator Eaton's
bill and by the report of that commission.
We fail to see, however, how the report of
that commission could take the tariff out
of politics and establish it as q business in
terest of the country. Mr.. Hendricks takes
occasion to say that the question what I'M
ports shall be taxed and at what rate
are questions which cannot be answered
by theorists" They must be answered by
practical men. That is to say that repre-
sentatives of every manufacturing interest
affected by the tariff must be consulted
upon the effect of the tariff on each partic-
uiar interest Now this is precisely what
has happened already. The repre-
sentatives of particular interests have not
waited to be consulted. They have gone
to Washington and lobbied and rolled
logs, and the most importunate OF them
have secured what they wanted, and theil
success has been in direct proportion te
their importantly. This process has re
suited in the present disgraceful and an
omalous condition of the tarif-a con
ditiou which is admitted to be disgracefu
and anomalous by Mr.. Hendricks, and b,
everybody else. In fact, the tariff as !
whole has no defenders. Even Mr. War
ner Miller the other day had the face e
quarrel with it because his interest wa
not sufficiently protected. There is not |
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23
ASHLAND HOUSE,
Fourth Avenue and Twenty Fourth Street
New Y O1.k.

New Y Ork.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN.
The central location of the "Ashla nd makes u
q very desirable place for strangers, being one
block from Madison Park, also Broadway and Ohy
short distance from any OF the principal places u
amusement.
BY taking either 23rd street, cross town OF
Fourth Avenue street cars, access may be Aau
direct from the door to any part of the city.
FRANK WABD and j. M. WOODS will be iouuo
q charge Of the office.
Rccn and Board-Sa, $3.50 and IS per day.
Rooms-$1 per day and upwards.
mh1odly III. ii. BROCKWAY, Proprietor.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23
To THE PUBLIC !!

TINE UNDERSIGNED. SOLE FROPRIETORS
L and Publishers of THE DAILY AND WEEKLY
ARGUS, desire to announce that THE ARGUS news
paper and Pria'ing Hon e, hes no connection with
1.-THE Argus Printing Company The undersigned
purchased from 'srhe Argus Printing Company
on the 1st of last February, the Newspaper, eeie
graph Franchises presses and other aterial OF the
Office The sale did not include old subscriptions
and cl inns prior to February list, 1885, The col
cton OF til sc claims the present agitation
of 1.-The Argus Printing Company"
The present firm ia RICHARDSON 8 PowERs, and
all business transacted since February fst 1884, is
due them and should be in the firm name.
The announcement is made to avoid any confu-
sion or misunderstanding that may exist on ac-
count of the similarity of the names of the argus
Printing Company and The ARGUS, piper pub
iished by the undersigned
pfrxr Ar,norS1 q. pnwERC
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

1t seems very funny that the Davenport
Gazette could turn its rules and put its
paper in mourning while the Unson, with
its rules in exactly the same condition,
could not But then the Union always
was az enterprising journal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23
Administrators Notice.

IT. >rATE or ELEANOR KtNsLER, Deceased
Il The undersigned. having heen appointed aa-
ministrGier of the Estate of Eleanor Kinsier, late
of the county of Rock leland. state of Illinois. de-
ceased hereby gives notice that he will appear be-
fore the county Court of Rock Island county, at
the oflre of the Clerk of said Court the city of
Rock Isand. at she October term, on The third
Monday in October next at which time all persons
having claims inst sai estate are notified and
requ sted to attend for the purpose of having the
adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment to the
unders sned
Dated this 18th day of August, A. D. 1881.
S-19d3w PHILLIP HEN. Administrator
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23

PARALYSIS, Brain and
Nervous Diseases, Rheu-
matssm, Gout, Swollen
Joints. Sciatica, Neuralgia !.
Lumnag go, Aches and Pal
Nervous and General De-
bitity, spinal Diseases,
We ak Back or Side, Vast
ing, Decay, Restless nights
Niehtmare, Melancholy,
Dizziness or Vertigo, Full
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-23
mi MI. CORRETT.

ATTORNEY AT Law, SOLICITOR IN CHAN
~ Gerry and Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and
Collects. Office and Avenue, 3rd door east OF
G nRston = Drug Store. Rock Island, Tile
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

The finest floors are said to
he seen in Russia. For those of
the highest grade tropical woods
are exclusively employed. Fir
and pine are never used, as in
consequence of their sticky charac.
ter they attract and retain dust
and dirt, and thereby soon become
blackened. Pitch pine, too. is
liable to shrink, even after being
we'll seasoned. The mosaic wood
floors in Russia are of extraordi-
nary beauty. One, in the Summer
Palace, is Of small squares OF
ebony inIaid with mother Of pearl.
4 considerable trade is done in
Dantzic and Riga by exporting
small blocks Of oak for parquet
floors. There is an active demand
for these in France and Germany,
but none in England.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
Pay Your Debts.

If you would have the world
friendly with you, then avoid
creditors. The debtors chain is
cold and heavy, and its links rust
on the heart and make it cold and
weary. Credit is a hungry wolf
and hunts down its victims like a
hind is hunted 10 the forest, there
is no escape from its eagle eye, no
matter how skillful you may run
the gauntlet from your Office to
your home, or home to Office. You
may, in order to steer clear of one
Of its votaries turn down some un-
frequented street, dash round some
corner or into an alley, but you
are just as sure to bumpt against
another more formidable than the
one you get rid OF. Debt is a cup
of sorrow within itself. Payday
will come, and will always come
too soon !; you cannot glide it over
and hide it either from friend or
foes. Like oil in water it rises
in view always, and there are al
ways sneerers ready to mock it,
it il an unsheatbed sword hanging
by a thread. Pay as you 60. Do
without is a cross that few know
to bear ; learn to bear it and be a
man among men. Nobody's slave,
Ease does not exist among unpaid
notes nor happiness in the apparel
owned by your sneering trades
man. There is but one debtor
that is unavoidable, aud that is
the family physician. Your purse
may be light, but ever have these
words upon your lips "God
bless the old man if / could clear
my account with him Heaven
knows I would" Angels will
echo them into his heart and upon
his face you will read the index
Of his soul, aud it tells you thai
Of all your creditors he will be the
last TO trouble you.-[Ex.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
Some two or three years ago a

Some two or three years ago a
claim was made by the heirs OF
Napoleon III to the magnificent
collection Of arms preserved at
Pierrefonds, aud to the coilec-
ton of Chinese objects at
Fontainebleau. The French
tribunals, after much litigation,
decided that those collections be-
longed to the nation and not to
the Imperial family ; but it is
only quite recently that the nation
seems to have determined to take
entire possession Of them. Ever
since the lawsuit they have been
lying useless, as it was under Sc
q%uestration ; bnt it has at length
been decided that the collection
of arms shall be coded to the
Museum of Arms at the 1nvalides,
and that the interesting Chinese
collection, mostly derived from the
sack of the Summer Palace, shall
be reinstalled at Fontainebleau,
and shown to all visitors.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
ALL INDORSE IT.

The Recorder, Americas. Ca,
SAYS !: CLERKS, Senators, Repre-
sentatives, Doctors, Lawyers
Citizens, in public and private
life, are testifying by the thous'
ands, and over their own sigma
lures, that a remedy has been
found for Bright's Disease OF
the Kidneys and for Diabetes ;
these are respectively known as
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure and Warmers Safe Diabetes
Cure"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
POLICE JURY.

Monday, Nov. 18th 1880.
The Police Jury met this day
according to adjournment.
Present Howard Hofpauir,
President, and Messrs. Broussard.
Trahan, Vanslyke, Nunez and
Primeaux.
Absent !: 1'hibeaux,
Minures of previous meeting
read and adopted.
The official returns of the spe,
cial election held at the different
precincts in this parish on the I'd
day Of November, 1880, in order
to take the sense Of the property
taxpayers as to levying a tax to
build a Jail we're submitted and
compiled by the Police jury, and
showed the following result
For Jail Tax" $50 votes
Against Jail Tax" 100
Maj. for Jail Tax 230.
And it was thereupon ordered
that the Clerk of this body cause
to be published and promulgated
in the official Journal a detail re-
suit of said election according to
Sec. 4. act No. "a of the General
Assembly approved April 10th
1880.
Art lst Resolved, that !, O.
L6ge surety on he bond of Fere-
gus Lege, in the case Of the State
of Louisiana vs. Feregus Lege
which bond was declared forfeited
oufthe 7th day of Sept. 1880, be
allowed to settle the amount due
the parish on said bond, viz !:
Eighty dollars by crediting the
parish with the sun Of Eighty dol
lars on the Judgement in favor of
said J. 0. Lego by the Parish of
Vermilion, and paying the costs
of the forfeiture OF the bond and
the fees of the District Attorney I.
Art % Resolved further, that
the parish Treasurer he authorized
10 settle with J. 0. Lege By Civ
Ing him a receipt 70: said $50
upon said LGge giving him said
Treasurer q receipt for said
amount in account OF his judgment
against the parish and endorsing
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

One of the latest ventures upon
the dangerous and troubled sea
journalistic, comes from Bastrop,
La, and is provided with two
men "at the helm." 1t is the Cot
ton Plant devoted as its name
would indicate to King Cotton
and is edited by Messrs. Tatum
& Ellis, while MI. A. l. Hartley
8 publisher. We wish them sue.
&C IS and hope that the Plant may
not he BLASTED nor dcvoured by
the "army worm" debt.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
Nytice.

I would respectfully inform my
customers who owe me, that it is
time that they should return the
assistance granted them during
the past year by coming up and
settling their accounts. Thanking
all for their liberal patronage, |
am pleased to give notice that on
Monday, the 18th inst, l will
commence and continue to sell at
cost, for Cash alone till Mardi.
Gras, when | will put in a New
Stock, Cheap, Cheap for Cash.
A. D. MARTIN.
Jany. 1881.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

The present cold is almost with
out parallel in the memory Of the
Oldest inhabitant. "L.es Viellards'
all agree that no such continued
cold has been experienced in these
parts since January 1856. Ice
froze in the edd;es in Atchaia.
laya Bay, for the first time in
over fifty years. Coulee Kinney
and Crooked Sticks were also
frozen over.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

Hyams, you must make Billy
Gray and Oscar Woodcock be
have themselves. They have each
other by the ears, and are talking
rather naughty, all because, Oscar
called Billy one Of those things,
and Billy said that Oscar was
another.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

One Of the most useful publica-
tons Of it's class we have seen
lately is the western Farmers
Almanac" published at the low
rate of 10 cents per copy, by
Messrs. John P. Morton e. Co.. of
Louisville KY.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

Rev. J. F. Scurlock the new
Methodist minister, for this circuit
arrived last week and will preach
at the Methodist Church to.mor-
row night at 7 o'clock. The pub
lie are invited TO attend.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
T 4 n 8,

The MER1D1oNAL. is published weekly
in English and French, at two dollars
and dfty cents per annum payable IN
advance. ~
Advertisements will be inserted at sl.OO
per sauare of ten lines, or less, for each
insertion. 80
Advertisements published in English
and French will be charged for both Ian.
guages.
No advertisement will be inserted for
less than two dollars and fifty cents.
PAYMENT Of all advertisements is con-
adhered due Immediately after their first
publication.
Advertisements not marked with the
number Of insertions required, will be
published until otherwise ordered, and
charged for accordingly.
Ten dollars in advance Is required for
announcing candidates for office; and
election tickets or other job-work mus
be paid for on delivery.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

Mrs. Abel & Co., of Baltimore
Md. have placed US under lasting
obligations to them for a copy OF
their valuable "Sun Almanac
for the year 1881.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

ma "Whar shall l 60, Sam, to
get me a cheap par oh shoes. De
Boss jest paid de sugar making ?"
Go next week to dis here mer-
chant dey call Martin. He's jist a
aingging away goods.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15

Bs- Monday the 18th inst, is
the day that Martin will sell at
Cost, till Mardi. Gras "and dent
you forget it."