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Year: 1876

prepare t0 hold him and every subordinate who shall act under His instructions liable to the laws of the State which they shall in wade in its execution. While I cannot believe that he will ven ture practically to enforce these monstrous assumptions of power, yet it will be hest that he and those who propose to act under his authority should be confront ed with the results. I view tie action O. President Grant, with his secrctarics of war, the navy and the interior, and his attorney general acting, as they are repro scnted to have done, in consnlta- tion and concert with Sherman. the general of the army; Chamber. lain the governor of one ofthe States; and Patterson so called Senator from South Carolina, in no other light than a conspiracy to invade the plainly reserved right of the states to hold free elections under their own authori- ty. If such attempts escape puB- lie reproduction, or if the people of all the states remain blind to their danger and permit them selves carelessly UT wilfully to be led by their votes into maintain ing in power any party so led and so sustained, my hope of constitu- nonal liberty on this eontinens will have fled.
Year: 1876

We see from the Corning (Clay County) Express, that very re- gently band of nine armed and masked men visited that place one night and by intimidating threats and q free display of pis- tols and arms forced the jailor to release a prisoner from jail. The prisoner was . man of very bad character and stood charged with participation in one or two of the gravest crimes.

 Now such proceedings as this must be stopped. The supremacy of the law must be upheld, and the power of the civil authorities must be made so strong that no man or set of men will dare step in between it and the punishment of criminals. The citizens of the different counties must take a more decided and bold stand. The whole moral aid and counteh- ance of the people must back the officers and the courts, in the ap- prehension and fair investigation and trial of every person charged with a crime. Evil doers must be made to feel and know that they have no sympathy from the people, and that their desper- ate characters and deeds will not intimidate the masses into silent submission to their deeds of law lessness, Let it be distinctly un- derstood that when crime is committed there will be a full and searching investigation, and no peace or countenance for the of fender until he is brought to trial and honorably acquitted. And if found guilty, let it be known that there is no escaping the penalty prescribed by law. Whenever this state of affairs is brought about VIC will have no more of such troubles as has recently oc cured in Scott md Clay counties. Let the peace loving, law-abiding citizens of every county pledge their whole aid and influence to their officials in the suppression of crime and lawlessness.
Year: 1876

The Republican Senate has stood in the way of all substan- tial reforms throughout the eight months and a half that Congress has been in session. There is not rcdceming feature in the proceedings of the majority.

 Every measure of the session looking to the retrenchment, economy, and improvement in the civil service, has originated In the Democratic House. If measures of this class have becn finally passed, it has happened only after a protracted struggle, in which the Democrats of the House stood squarely up to the work, while the Republican lead. CTS in the Senate did their best to defeat them. In the entire histo y of the session there cannot he found solitary exception to this sweeping remark. In this re- spect the present Senate has made the most infamous record Tn the annals of that body.

 The republicans now have q majority of nine in the Senate. The terms of seventeen of the Re publican members expire in March next. There is every req son to believe that the Democrats will secure enough of these seats to give them majority of two Tn the next Senate. Then, with a majority of reformers in each branch of Congress, and with SAM TILDEN in the White House, the country will turn over q new leaf indeed.
Year: 1876

"WE CAN say this much: that the support we give Cooper is given con' scientiously. Can you say as much for Tilden ?''-Carlisle Prairie Flow l CT.

 , Yea, yea, verily and heartily we can. We could not conscientiously do otherwise and claim to be in fas yor of reform and a correction of the manifold abuses of power which have grown out of republican rule. We know, as well as we know any thing, that there is not the ghost of a chance for the election of Cooper. We don't suppose the Independent Grecnbackers themselves think there is. Knowing this, we do not see how any Democrat can think he is doing his duty to throw away his vote on that ticket. It is not hard for us to understand why Independ- ent Republicans support that ticket, for the fearful record made by the administration party is enough to drive from it's fold any honest man and these Independent Republicans not having the manhood to come out squarcly for an honest Democrat, naturally fall in with the Cooper squad. But why q Democrat who believes in the restoration of our government to it's former purity ,and who opposes the unlawful encroach- mcnts upon forbidden grounds, and the outrageous innovations upontime- honored customs and precedents of of our forefathers, should desert the grand old democracy and fly from the support of its regular nominct who stands high up in the estima- ton of his fellow-citiZcns as q man of great talent, sterling integrity and powerful executive ability, is indeed one of the mysteries of poli- tics. We do not doubt your word when you say you act conscientious | ly, but we are astonished at the mis- erable judgment you display.
Year: 1876

We see from the reported pro ceedings of the Indian Commis sion that it is proposed to remove the Sioux tribe and locate then in the Indian Territory. This, the report says, is the only territo ry which, in the opinion of tue President, is suited to the purpose

 If it is the wish of the President to create little hell on our yves tern border; to pat an effectuaI and positive stop to the extension of civilization and enlightenment into the Indian Territory; to re. mand that country and it's present inhabitants back into state of barbarious and uncivilized life from which they are now rapidly emerging; and to make Western Arkansas unfit and undesirable for the home of any peaceablc man, his suggestion is a move in the right direction. We can scarcely imagine any measure which could be better calculated to stop all improvement, development and prosperity on the Western border of our State. Even with the half civilized tribes of Indians who at present occupy that territory, it requires the constant care and un- remitting energy of large num- Der of Marshals to keep down dep relations and murders; and, with all thelr care and watching it is found necessary to hang half dozen or so of the red skins every year

 What kind of q pandcmonium might we expect with Sitting Bull and his murderous tribes placed at our very doors9 The proposi- ton is outrageous and the conse quences would be so terrible that  we shrink from the idea. If there in any measure which the friends of civilization and human ity should oppose this is certainly just such an one.
Year: 1876

We had earnestly hoped and fully expected that the election in our whole State on the 4th of September would be so fair, free and openly conducted tha. there would not be the least ground for a single compaint from our republi- can voters and aspirants for office. Especially were we desirous that the conduct of the election officers in Pulaski county should be above feproach. We do not say now that there IS any true cause for accusations of fraud against the managers of the election in that county, but that there has been such bungling and unbusiness like work made of it that even up to this date it is abso- lutely impossible for us to tell who the voters of Pulaski county intended should be their officers, cannot be denied. This has given our opponents cause for cry of fraud and corrupt manipulation on the part of the democrats. We hope there has been no fraud and no criminal manipulation of the actual vote cast, for we have no more countenance for frand by democrat than we have for fraud by a republican. Corruption is corruption, and be he democrat or republican who engages in it, we say down with him. We believe in a faiH free expression of the will of the people at the ballot box, and a correct and true return and connt of their vote; and then we believe in the expressed will of the majority going into full effect without resistance or hindrance on the part of minolities. If there has been no fraud in Pulaski county we hope such may be clear ly shown in the contest at law which is likely to ensne before the matter is settled.
Year: 1876

Vermont has gone Republl- can by about 23,000 majority. The New York Sun, just prior to the election, said that if the Re publicans did not get majority of 27,000 it would be a hopeful sign for the Democracy.
Year: 1876

TIE Little Rock Herald of last Saturday has a fair article on the result of the Congressional ConVen- ton, and places the responsibility for the split where it justly belongs The only fault we find with the Herald article is that the writer at tempts, after showing clearly where the ccnsure lies, to trim so as to cs- cape the "dilemma" of deciding be> tween two democratic candidates. This is not like the Herald. Why fear to come out for that which you believe to be right? Democratic papers in the State must take a stand in this matter and show that they arc not going to tolerate trick cry and unfair dealing in anybody be he what he may.
Year: 1876

Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts who gained some reputation two years ago by getting elected as u Liberal Republican member of congress from tine Fifth District, proposes to acquire little more hotorlety this fall by running as a regular Republican candidate and getting very badly beaten.
Year: 1876

avoid the duty which we conceive to now devolve upon us in thls matter, but the Democratic Press of Arkansas has duty to per form, and We don't propose to attempt to avoid or shirk our part ot it.

 There has been wrong perpe- trated within the Democratic par ty, and to correct it is the duty, however unpleasant it may be, of the Democratic press of the State,

 The honor and we'll belng Of the party is paramount to the personal interests of any individual mem Der or members of the party, and it must be scrupulously guarded and maintained, Whenever the personal ambition of any member of the party interferes with the general welfare of the party, let the antidote be applied,

 Such are the thoughts forced upon us by the developments made last week at the Congress- ional Convention, and we have tried to look at the matter fairly and impartially, Having done so we have arrived at certain con clusions, and what we now say we say without desire to wound any body's feelings, or do injustice to anybody's motives. We have al- so tiied to view it from stand point of right, laying aside our own personal choice between the aspiring candidates.

 Wishing our remarks to be so taken, we have no hesitation in saying that we shall be compelled to hold the Stewart Newton fac tion responsible for the split in the Convention, and to justify the action and recognize as valid the proceedings of the Craven's Con vention. We exculpate the Cray ems delegates from the charge of bolting, because they were denied fair representation for their con stituency and would have been untrue to the voters whom they represented had they gone into an organizatio on on an unjust ba- sis of representation. We excul- pate them because there was in reality no Congressional Conven- tion organized at the time of their declination to accept the represen- tation proposed by the Stewart Newton faction. We recognize the nominee made by the State house Convention because upon a just basis of representation he would have received the nomina- tion by handsome majority. The balloting which was done in the Stewart Newton Convention after the split shows clearly that Cravens was in truth the choice of a plurality of the votes, even on the basis adopted by that faction, for Newton got 9, Stewart 6, and the Craven's delegates who had withdrawn represented Il votes, 10 of which were for Cravens and l for Stewart Under all the circumstances of the ease, we feel that we shall be compelled to place Jordan E. Cravens' name at our mast head as one of Arkansas candidates for representative in Congress. We are not, however, to be understood as taking a stand against an honorable compromise for the good ofthc party. On the contrary we favor such a measure, but until such a satisfactory com promise is effected we shall let Col. Cravens' name stand as the nominee from the Third District.
Year: 1876

A defender Of the ant against
the charge of selfishness saws :
''One day last summer nv wife
was engaged in cleaning some
plants OF small green carterpil-
lars winch were infesting them.
One OF these, in a moribnnd state
Was lying on the tiles, when an
ant coming by seized it as lawful
prize, and after little struggle
(tnere being still some little life
IN the victim) began to carry it
OH. He Tor would it be she y got
along capitally till the clinkers
were touched, when it became i'm
possible for the small example
OF great labor to get her burden
over the obstacle. But presently
appeared a second ant, and, after
a short col,oquy between the two;
No. 2 proceeded to help No. l.
Their united energies succeeded
III getting the caterpillar to the
top OF the clinkers-a task about
equal. l suppose. to that of two
men who should take a sack of
Goals to the top of the great Pyra
mid. Once safely arrived on the
level mold ant No. babe her
fellow-citizen farewell, and No. l
went Oh her way to, deposit her
prey in a convenient hiding
place behind Il flower-pot.'
Year: 1876

How NOTES ARE COUNTERFEIT.
7ED.-A paste is prepared, upon
which the note to be reproduced
il laid, and allowed Ia stand un


til a clear Impression OF the finest
lines are taken. The note is then
removed, aud the paste in time
becomes almost as hard as stone.
An electrotype of the impression
is then taken, and the notes are
struck off, and are so faithful
that none but All expert can detect
the fraud. phiiodelphia Record
Year: 1876

To distinguish cotton when wo
ven into professediy liuan fabrics
it is well to know that linen fiber
when dipped into an alcoholic NO
solution of rosolic acid, next IN a
concentrated aqueous solution Of
carbonate Of soda, and finally
washed several times with strong
soda, attains beautiful red col.
or, while the cotton fibers are
not dyed. Before testing, the
dressing should be washed out
Of the goods, and II few threads
raveled out Oh each of the three
sides. y48 at~s
Year: 1876

1t was only half an hour befor,
the paper went to press, but he
walked unerringly into the edi
tor's private room and, dropping
his hat over the warning pllcart
of "Busy Day-Short Calls
seated himself with easy bar
room p0liteness on the table with
the exchanges. lie was dressed
in an Ulster aud a soiled ruff1ed
shirt, wore all amethyst about
the size Of a hook glass on his
! ! third finger and a cluster pin in
his bosom. He took a 'sev-n- for
a quarter" cigar from his mouth
and, placing it on the editor IS
inkstand, remarked, confidential
ly:


'4'm gong to spend some time
this year.-


The editor clutched his pen
like a dagger, aud paving after
the few hairs OH the top of his
head. said


"In Philadelphia"
The young man spat gracefully
over his left shoulder on the new
carpet and responded


eyes, I've done a little wrltin'
in my day, aud, bein' disengaged
this summer, should like to send
tirst-class journal like yours':-
The editor fell back in his
chair and gasped-''sOme letters
about the Centennial"


The interviewer nodded and
kicked his No. lis pensively
against the veneered panels Of
the desk.


"Would yon like to he packed
i'll ice until your friends cali tor
you ?" said the editor, gloomily
''or shall we forward your remain
III an air tight casket r


Then gazing sorrowf'llly at the
young man he put his mouth to d
speaking tube and asked


"Ar any OF the pressmcD at
hand !"


Promptly waited through the
tin tube came in reply


cred Mike and Big Dan, SIR,


The would be correspondent
started up aelast, put his hat on,
wrong side in front, and button
ed the third button of his coat in
to the second button hole but
the newspaper man, taking no
more notice Of him than he would
of a dead head advertisement,
breathed through the tube


''Give 'em a quarter a piece
and let them come here. Tell
them there is another of those
Philadelphia Centennial fellows
here, and then pull in district
telegraph boy and send for a
hearSe."


Before the last words were i'm
the speaking tube the tails of an
Ulster coat sailed out of the pri.
vate Office and a nervous yonng
man. after trying the door of the
coat room and diving into the
coal closet, reached the counting
room door, looked over his shoul.
der at two brawny Milesians who
had just descended from some up
per region,missed his footing for a
dozen stairs, accented his descent
with a heavy bump OIL the first
landing and reached the street as
the editor wrote the word of an
article on '.the business outlook.
and calmly sent it wliirring up in
the box to the composition room.
Com. Bulletin.
Year: 1876

From the New York Times.


| believe no two good soldiers will
widely disagree as to their sensations
during a battle. l take 1t to be a
piece of bravado in 4 msn to assert
that he had no fear during the pro-
press of a long and severe engage
ment. A battle is a veritable hell
upon earth; not to be in serious ap
prehension while it lasts is % be eth
cr drunk, crazy or insensible. The
highest type of bravery is that of the
man who realizes the full extent of
the peril, but sticks resolutely to
his duty. 1t was my experience, and
that of all those about me, repeated
a dozen times, that shell-firing is not
ordinarily nearly SO demoralizing as
that of musketry. 1t is not often that
shells are thrown so that their frag-
ments scatter death and wounds, and
their loud humming overhead does
not cause that nervous tingling which
always follows the sharp zip of the
rihe-bullet. The peculiar cutting of
the air made by half dozen of these
at once is apt to give the soldier the
idea that the whole air is filled with
them, and that he Is certain to be
struck with one of them. All, | be-
lieve, will agree as to the sensation
first caused by the impact of bullet.
1t is a stunning, numbing feeling,
which for time overpowers the
local pain of the wound. In my own
experience a single buckshot in the
hip knocked me fiat, and for two days
after gave me such acute pains and
such muscular disturbance from knee
to shoulder that l could not stand
erect. Soldiers have frequently been
Frustrated by spent balls. A curious
effect of shell wounds is that they do
not bleed, the hot fragment sears the
torn blood-vessels and stops the effus-
ion. a minnie ball extracted from
the human body present a remarka-
bic sight. l have seen them where
the resistance of the flesh had turned
back the pointed end on all sides
with such regularity that the ball re-
Semblen a saucer or a flower.
Year: 1876

Yonder stands the mountain,
With its summit in the sky;
Dare we overclimb 1t?


We must bravely, greatly try.
Tremble not. nor falter,


As the pathway leads on high;
Courage conquers all things
We must on ourselves rely.
Prizes lie in thousands,


Ripe and ready to our hand;
Cowards never win them,


Why then should we doubling stand!
Right ahead the goal is,


Let the word be, Do or die;
Let us to the contest


Let us on ourselves rely.
Round us swells the battle,


Spread before us lies the field;
Let us on, like brave men
Self-reliance, spear and shield.
On, with steady banners,


Dauntless heart and fearless eye!
Who shall stand before us


II we on ourselves rely?
Down the path of nations


Who have won the proudest name
Carved it ont in glory


On the battle-roll OF fame!
They, the sons OF daring.


Men of courage firm and high,
Men who dare to combat,


Men who on themselves rely.
Con we then the lesson


Taught by manhood staunch and trne;
Heights lie still uutrodden;


There is work enough to do
Work enough for courage;


Work the weakest still may try.
God is near to help us,


If we on ourselves rely.
Year: 1876

MOTHER would you cause your child
to look bright, cheerful and happy? If so
give the child few of Van Deusen's
Worm confections. They act like magic.
The life of many an innocent one has been
saved by the timely use Of this truly valu-
able medicine.
Year: 1876

A humorous Frenchman said in des-
eribiEg rheumatism and gout: place you,
joint in vice, turn the screw till you car
bear it no longer; that gives you an idea
of rheumatism; now give the instrument
one more turn aud you have gout
Rheumatism can be cured by the early
aud faithful use of Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil, and in fact it is good to cure
any kind of pain or lameness. Sold BY
Druggists and Grocers.
Year: 1876

The cures made every Gay pv Freligh' 8
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 for bottle and try it. Druggists
generally sell it.
Year: 1876

For Book BINDING or Ruling, go to
THE ARGUS Bindery. No better work
can be done in this vicinity. Prices reason
able, Work done quick. Leave orders
at The Argus Counting Room, opposite
the Post office. If
Year: 1876

The EVENING ARGUS, with afternoon
telegraphic news and markets, delivered
to subscribers in Rock Island and Moline.
Now is the time to subscriber Leave
orders at the Phoenix Hotel in Moline, OF
lot the office in this city.
Year: 1876

There Is more or less complaint about

 the appearance and management or utter

 lack of management of the new burying ground north of town. |; is represented

 that our departed frien.ts are. ito use

 homely but pointed language "planted

 promiscuOusly." We have been to the ground number Of times and our i'm presSion is that such is the case. There is d portion Of the ground occupied by the Catholic church and there they lay away their dear friends, perhaps with some or der in arrangement Of the respective the dead are buried as chance or momen- tary choice may dictate the location. This is wrong. Everything In death as in life should be done decently and in order

 Economy is good thing but don't let il commence with the dead, for whom there is nothing left but a decent burial. We are making no reflections whatever on any one. If there is fault in the matter 1t belongs 10 us all. Let us seek 10 remedy what may be wrong. Letthe ground, both Ndthoi4C' lu HoI uIIetuN 1 duu AIotestdHti be carefully laid of. First the exterior boundaries, then avenues and lines for graves. and let the marks be so frequent and distinct, that disorder cannot occur. And when we offer the above suggestions as to manner of proceeding, they are only suggestions. We wish 10 open up the sub ject. There may be and probably are bet ter suggestions 10 be made, especially as The subject Is one which should appeal to every heart. Don't let 1t pass unnOticed and unattended to. Let it be immediate ly brought before the proper authorities.
Year: 1876

THE weather last week was delight ful until Friday. Friday morning the fiends of the upper air, came down from a storm cloud on the Santa Ritas, and behaved most indecently, causing people generally to lose all the advance ment of piety which they had gained during the previous days. However, if II were not for these windy days, we would become 90 attached to Tucson and its delightful climate, as 10 forget that we are merely Soiourners here. and thus be led to neglect the future state.