The Rock Island Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • 2

DEVOE CRAMFION'S COLUMN. Habd ox Jcdas Iscakiot. Artemos Ward, BY TELEGRAPH ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. aaroBTEB roa the aious. STEBLINK P.

PAPER TOUR HOUSES 1 PAPER YOUR "HOUSES PAPER YOUR HOUSES 11! IFr go vkrt Democratic Princiflet lead tkt araj, vkrm tkey ditappear ceat to follov." ADVERTISING Agent, 255 Randolph at Chicago, ia authorised to receive adverti menu for this and other leading papers of the northwest, and ia the only and exclusively authorU iec agent in the northwest for a majority of theBU -j J. TO TI1E DEMOCRATS OF THIS COUX- ty. If the democrats of thia county wish to place our psfrty in a condition to make a contest for the county next fall, it is time to commence an organisation and make preparation for the great canvas oflgOU No election, since the organization of the government, was ever of so much importance to the peace, the prosperity, the harmony and perhaps the stability of the government as the one to take place next November. Shall the democratic party succeed, and the nation be saved from BUY OF DEYOE CRAMPTON BUY OF DEVOE CRAMPTON BUY OF DEVOE CRAMPTON 21. Wednesday Morning- REWARD I LOST, on the night of the 12th inst, a gold hunting case English lever watch, nuda by Jaa.

Uaddell k. London, No. 13,025, for the return of which to my store in Rock Ial'aad the above reward will be paid. WALL PAPER WALL PAPER WALL PAPER LU.aclt21twl Tt T. UGCs WALL PAPER WALL PAPER WALL PAPER WINDOW PAPER WINDOW PAPER WINDOW PAPER DEATH OF GOV.

BISSEIX." Sran.ertru, March IS, 1S60. An all-wise Providence hsving, after a pstafal illness, removed from this life WILLIAM H-BI3SELL. lata governor of the statu of Illinois, we hare thought it our duty, la the absence the Lieutenant-Governor, from the of government, to make this afflicting bereavement kaowa to tb people of the state by announcement, under our hands. Ha died at the goveraor's residence, in thia tlTfe "great American showman," relates, in his peculiar style, the following- V'r INSIDUNT IN UTIKY, In the Faul of 1856, 1 showed my show in Utiky, a trooly grate Bitty in the state of New York." 1 Tho people gave me a cordyal recepshun. The press was loud in her prases.

1 day as I was given a descripshun of my Beests and Snakes in my usual flowry stile, what was my skorn disgust to see a big burly feller walk up to the cage ontainin' my wax Aggers of the Lord's Last Supper; cease Judas Iscarrot by the feet and drag him out on the ground. lie then commenced fur to pound him as hard as he cood. What under the son are yon abowt cried I. I Sei he, "what did you bring this pussylaner-hous cuss here he hit the wax figger anuther termenjis blow on the hed. Sez You egrejus ass, that air's a wax figger a representashua of the; false Postle." Sez he, 'that's all very well fur you to say, but I tell you, old man, that Judas, Iscarrot can't show hiseelf in Utiky with impunerty by a darn site 1" with which observashun he kav-ed in Judassis bed.

The young man belonged to 1 of the 1st famerlies in Utiky: I sood him Jbthe Joory brawt in a verdick of Arson in the 3d degree i i CHARLESTON COXYEaTIOX," EXCURSION TICKETS I the effects of sectional fanaticism or shall the first purely sectional opposition ticket ever formed in the United States, succeed, and one half of the union be proscribed with all the PAPER PAPER PAPR WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW OOOD FBOM conseauent dancers of such a course? These are the questions to be solved by the people, durins'this serine, summer and fall. In our eitT thia eighteenth day of March, Anao Domini FIGURED AND PLAIN FIGURED AND PLAIN FIGURED AND PLAIN FIGURED AND PLAIN lSbO, at thirty nun a tea before one o'clock ia the 17 C3' own state there is no question but the present afternoon. i The people of the ttate of Illinois, overwhelmed campaign will be closely contested, and bitter. All our state and county officers have to be elected this year governor, members of con like ourselves, by thia melaaeholy veiit, will de- 1 1 .1 V. mr- gress senate and house of representatives in ealm and resigned, aa hia hie haa been patriotic, 6IL SHADES AND GILT SHADES OIL SHADES AND GILT SHADES OIL SHADES AND GILT SHADES the legislature one, and more than probably, useful and distinguished.

AatiiroExc.tTS roa tm two United States senators, circuit clerks, sheriffs, coroners, Ac. It is necessary, then, The circumstaneea in which we are placed by ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. Carefully keep down little expenses and there will no big ones for you to keep down, John Kelly, of North Blacastone, now in hia 84th year, has tended the same grist mill for seventy years, and still delights in his old occupation. Mr. Kelly was never in a railroad car or steamboat, and never a hundred miles from home.

Two hundred thousand pairs of brogans are being manufactured at the Rhode Island state prison, under an order from Louis Napoleon," for the French army, The prison labor of New England is even cheaper than the pauper labor of France. The New York Tribvm says "The Hon. Clark B. Cochrane, M. C.

from the Montgomery district of our state, has returned to the state asylum at Utica, after a brief visit to his family. His Jriends hope for his ultimate recovery, but it is not thought probable that he will resume hia seat in the house." 'i It is that Long John, at the recent election in Chicago, appointed a committee to escort Arnold and Judd to the polls and to see that they voted the straight ticket. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says Senator Clingnian says he knows four of the nine North Carolina delegates to be enthusiastic Donglas men. The impression here seems to be that Mr. Douglas will be nominated by acclamation on the second ballot.

The birth day. of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas is the 23d of April, the day of the meeting of the Charleston convention. The birth day of the Hon.

Wm. II. Seward is the 16th of May, the day for the meeting of the Chicago convention. It is very nearly certain that each of these gentlemen will be the candidates of their res- pective parties for the next presidency. The homestead bill, about which politicians have, for a long time, been trying to make a little party capital, has passed the house of representatives.

It passed the same house last year. The substance of it is that any person who is the head of a family or twenty one years or more of age may enter one quarter-section of land, subject to preemption, and at the expiration of five years, if then a citizen, shall be entitled to a patent that the democrats in every town in the coun the death of the governor, render it proper or aa ty should take the matter into their own to make arrangements ior the funeral solemnities A GREAT VARIETY A GREAT VARIETY A GREAT VARIETY" hands, form clubs in every town, make arran Hsving consulted with the family and personal friends of the deceased, we hare concluded that gements to procure documents for distribution amon? the Deoile. Drocure subscribers to the funeral be soiemnixed on Wednesday, the 21st inrtsnt, at tea o'clock, A. X. 1 be religions aer- EUROPEAN NEWS.

i Nw York, March 20. The steamship Fulton arrived to-day. She left Southampton early on the morning of the 8th and brings London papers of the 7th, and Liverpool papers of the 8th. The steamer Bohemian, from Portland, arrived at Liverpool on the 7th-' ENGLAND. In the house of commons.during an incidental discussion of the question of the amnestation of Savoy, Mr.

Fitzgerald erpressed an earnest hope that parliament would enter a solemn protest against that act, and Roebuck inveighed bitterly, against the emperor, accusing him of a breach of treaties. Irish papers deny the truth of the recent reports that Picolomnie was married lately, at Dublin. Paris, March 5. The mVoniteur announces that, yesterday, the minister of the United States presented his letters de creditence. The Conxtitutionele publishes an article, explaining the French policy in Italy, in mentioning the solution proposed in the message of M.

Thon venal. The Const itutioneU says it is nota Sardinian solution, but an Italian one. Sardinia will possess in Tuscany an ally who will aid her to overcome the opposition of Naples and Rome, in order to constitute the Italian nation with tbe concurence of all its nationalities, and not an Italian Kingdom absorbing everything without considering the essential differences, opposing interests, and the distrust of Eunpe. The cardinals and prelates who are members of the senate have presented petitions, demanding the maintainance of the imperial power of the Pope. AUSTRIA.

Vienna, March 5. The Weimar Zeitung will publish, to morrow, the following programme of reforms sanctioned by the Emperor 'The council of the empire will be augmented by the nomination of two extraordinary counselors, selected from persons of known ability, and by the nomination of 37 ordinary counselors, chosen from a list to be presented by provisional diets. Tne council of the empire will assume the bnget, control laws relating to financial matters, laws of general interest, projects for the formation of provisional diets, and all questions submitted to its deliberations by theem- Seror, until the convocation of the provincial iets. The emperor will complete the council of the empire by appointing persons of great distinction on the basis of population. Nice, Sunday, 4th.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the promulgation of the Sardinian constitutidn, manifestations were made by the Piedmontese party, in the Italian theatre. A demonstration also took place in the French theatre, where the poplation of Nice demanded the Ode Napoleon, and the Reine Hortense, which were performed amid enthusiastic applause, and shouts of Viva La rices to be performed at the governor's residence according to the usages of the Roman Catholic EVERY QUALITY AND EVERY PRICE EVERY QUALITY AND EVERY PRICE a a democratic newspapers, and bring every resource to bear to give a democratic majority in their own town. In view of all this.their course is plain. The first thing to do is, to rally around and sup Chicago to Charlestan Het'rn WILL be issued by thePittsbarg. ft Wayne Chicago railroad company it the following rates, which includes MEALS AND BERTHS ON BOARD OP Thp STEAMERS.

Chicago to Charleston and return. 00 yt. Wayne to do do Crestline to do do .....43 1 Thia route ia via Pittsburg, Fort Wayne CM. catto and Pennsylvania Central Railroads to Pat), adelphia; thence by first class steamers to Charles, ton. Time from Chicago about eighty-five honrs.

Steamer will leave Philadelphia, April 19. Ample accommodationa on each eleamer for 300 passengers, and 110 fears need be entertained )( any respect, aa the arrangements are such that 18 will be comfortably cared for. Thia ia -by far the most desirable, aai economical rente for delegates or those desiroaj of attending the convention from the west and northwest. farther information will be furnished at the offices of thia company above mentioned, at a hick only-tickets will be sold. B.

PATRICK, Ticket Agent. JNQ. J. HOUSTON, General Agent. 'Office southwest comer Randolph and Dearbort streets, mcb21twlm MA FRUITS, HAYING for many year paid "gpecial attention to the cultivation ot small fruits, are now prepared to furnish, in small or large quantities, the following valuable varieties STRAM'BEKRHiS, over one hundred varieties, embracing nearly all the native and foreign kinda oi any repute.

The most universally popular of these is undoubtedly the WIIVSON'S ALBANY SEEDLING, of which we have on hand the largest stock in existence, which we offer at 25 cents per doien, 1 per 100, $6 per $1,000, and $50 per 10,000. It la unnecessary to say anything in praise of Wis fruit, as any one at all coaveriant with strawberry culture for the last two years, who hat acquainted himself with the discussions of fruit growers' associations, and the contents of the Horticultural Press, is aware that. Church, in which the family ol the deceased usual It worshipped. The body to be taken from the governor'a residence to the burring ground ac -A writer referring to the vaatness of the Mississippi river, says "It extends 8,100 miles from the frozen regions of the north to the sunny south, and with the Missouri" river is 4,500 miles in length. It would reach from New York across the Atlantic ocean, or fromNFrance to Turkey and the Caspian sea.

Its average depth is 50 feet, and its width half a mile. The floods are more than a month travelling from its source to its delta. The trappers can exchange the furs of animals caught by them on the upper Mississippi for thetropical fruits gathered on the banks below. iThe total value of steamers afloat on the river and its tributaries is more than $60, numbering 1600 boats, with more than twice the steamboat tonnage of England. It drains an aeraof 1.200,000 square miles, and washes the shores of 12 powerful states.

In one "single reservoir at Lake Pepin, between Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2,500 miles from the sea, the navies of the world might safely ride at anchor." ENTIRE NEW STOCK NEW STYLES; companied by the military and civie processica and deposited in the reeeiring tomb. The various port your county paper. You all know that we have no national, state or county patron military companies and civic orders and associa tions of the state, aa well aa citizens generally are invited to join ia the funeral solemnities. The military arrangements be under the di MAGNIFICENT PATTERNS MAGNIFICENT PATTERNS rection of Thomas S. Mather, Adjutant General of the state of Illinois.

The ciric procession to be age to support us. We depend solely upon the patronage of pur friends in this county. We have done everything we can to encourage our friends to extend the circulation of the Argua, by endeavoring to make a good paper, and by putting the price in clubs of ten or more, at one dollar a year, or for single subscribers at two dollars a year. Every democrat in the county should have a copy, and when they can be used to advantage, democrats who are able should take two or three under the direction of Williaja Jayne, mayor of TflE GREATEST ASSORTMENT THE GREATEST ASSORTMENT THE GREATEST ASSORTMENT EVER SEEN EVER SEEN EVER SEEN EVER SEEN EVER SEEN EVER SEEN or more copies for circulation among their neighbors. What is two, three or five dollars to a man who is conscious of doing his The results of the town elections in! Maine, held this month, are very enoouraging to the democracy.

We notice democratic victories in the following towns Casco, Harpswell, Baldwin, Li rick, Gray, Scarborough, Belgrade, by 50 majority a gain of f7 Windham, a majority of the ticket, and Durham by an average majority of 74., A friend who has recently traveled through Maine, assures us that if an election were held there at tho present time, the democrats would surely carry it. The Pecks, Westona, Someses, and Neal Dovrs have about swamped black republicanism as well as the state treasury, (. country some service in bringing about fraternal feelings between all sections I So receipts of the office have not been suffi ROCK ISLAND ROCK ISLAND ROCK, ISLAND. IN ROCK ISLAND IN ROCK ISLAND IN ROCK ISLAND IN IN on payment of $10. the city of Springfield.

0. M. Hatch, Secretary of State. -J. JC.

Dv, Auditor Public Accounts. William Butlia, Stat Treasurer. XtwTos Batexas, Sop't Pub. Instruction. Though the condition of Got.

Bissell has for jears, been such that his death might at anj time hare beeq expected, and though bj a recent cold and its alarming srmptons, the nevra contained In the above announcement will not be onexpected, still the people will real the announcement with great sorrow. i He was a brave" and, noble man, and the splendid reputation acquired by bim in the i Mexican war will shine brightly in history, when his more recent mistakes shall hare bean forgotten. A patriotic and brave man has gone to rest. Peace to hia sou! 1 Governor Bissell was over fifty years of age. Lieutenant-Governor Wood will act as governor duria the remainder of the term.

TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. At the annual town meetings ia this coun cient to meet its necessary expenses, even by the most prudent and economical management on our part. We do not expect anything At the municipal election in Belfast, Maine, on Monday, Richard Moody, democrat, ductiveness and profit, it stands at the very head of the list ol strawberries. Fruit of this remarkable variety from our grounds sold in the Pitt, burgh market last year at $1 per quart, and 1 tmgle plant lifted with the fruit on, brought $1. A writer ia the Country Gentleman, says, it succeeds well on almost any soil, and that it has produced with bim at the rate of 660 busheis to the acre, Other varieties proportionately low, and great inducements offered to those wauling large quantities.

RASPBERRIES, Brinckle'a Orange $1,50 per f7 per 100; Fastolff, Rivers Large Fruited Monthly, Knevetft Giant, red and yellow Antwerp, $1 per dozen, $3 for our services, but the current expenses of was chosen mayor by 29 majority. The election was on strict party grounds. Last year the republicans had a majority of 200, We are bound to extend and spread until LOWER PRICES LOWER PH1CE3 LOWER PRICES LOWER PRICES Lowua kicS LOWER pitlCES we absorb the entire continent of America, in the establishment must be paid or we cannot carry on the paper. The county news and eluding the adjacent islands, and become one Impredtore, 1 ica La Annezone. grand ocean-bound republic.

I do not care whether you like it or not you eannbt help Jonathan Tuck, democrat, has been elected mayor of Biddeford, Maine. The republicans have a majority in the new coun The condition of the country is very crit it! It isthe decree of l'rovidence. 1 his con ical. AT DEVOE AT DEVOE CRAMPTOX'S CRASIPTOX'S tincnt was set apart as an asylum for the op Lextox, March 3. General Echarne has per 1W.

cil. pressed of the whole world, and as a nursery commenced forward movement from Sevallo, BLACKBERRIES. New Rochelle, or Lawton. $1 per doxen, $3 per for liberty, and here the people are collect but it is not known in what direction. ing irom all parts ot the world, and taking Bombay, Feb.

11. Twj regiments are un 100, and $40 per 1000. Alcohol, says Liebig, is a bill drawn on the workman's health, which he is incessantly compelled to renew, as he haa not the funds to meet it. The bankruptcy of the body is, shelter under the shadows of the great tree of der order to embark immediately for China CITY BOOK STORE CITY BOOK STORE Dorchester and Newman's hornless, $3 per 100, $25 per 1000. Wholesale purchasers and dealers allowed a liberal discount.

liberty. Stephen A. Ihjuglas. i Tho Times' City article of March 7th says, al though the discussion of last evening on the The vanity of the world appears in this accordingly, the inevitable result. The Southern Jndianian, heretofore PlauUby Mail.

For $1 we will send to anv Dost office in the savoy question.created a disagreeable impression, the English funds opened this a. at a market- reports alone are richly worth the price of the paper, and no family in the county should be without it. We trust that the democrats in every town will make an organised and systematic effort to extend its circulation to every family in the Of what use is it to attempt to talk to the people of this county, upon any matter of interest to them, when perhaps not one-half of them ever see or read the paper. Democratic politicians can understand this, point, without further illustration, and we trust that they will Bee to it, in each town, that immediate arrangements are made to supply every family in the several towns with a copy of the Weekly Argus, at least until after the fall election We are indebted to Hon. Owen Lovejoy, M.

from the 3d district, this Btate, for a copy that a little "cross will embitter great com forts. One dead fly is enough to convert fractional has been mam country, except Oregon a'nd California, post-paid, and carefully put up ia cotton and oiled silk so at republican sheet, has abandoned that sectional party and enrolled itself under the demo to be held on Tuesday, the 3d day of April next, the people will rote upon the question of continuing or abolishing the system of township organization, in this county, as will be seen by a notice in our advertising columns. A few years ago, the system was adopted in this county, by a considerable majority, and, aa V. a fr timA was rru rtA if Wa tained to the close. whole box of the world's most fragrant ointment into a stench.

There are so many in THAN ANYWHERE' ELSE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE cratic banner. gredienta required to makeup worldly felici I'rom Washington. The Hartford democrats are come to Washixgtox, March 20, House. Mr. ty as riches, health, home, friends good name, and the like that if any of these be Hally offered a resolution, which was adopt build a hall on the corner of Trumbull and wanting, the whoe composition is spoiled ed, calling on the1 secretary of the treasury Pearl streets, in that city, capable of holding i ou may as soon grasp a bundle ot dreams for all the papers pertaining to the removal of NOW IS YOUR TIME NOW IS YOUR TIME or take up an armful of your shadow, as fill 4,000 people.

tbe late collector ot Milwaukee, as to whether to carry safely," 4 Wilson's Albany Seedliaf Strawberry plauts; or the same number ol plant! of any other variety ia our catalogue offered at t5 cents per dozen; those at 50 cents per dozen half the number. For $1 we will also send six sew Rochelle blackberry plants. Printed instruction! for cultivation will accompany plants. Catalogues sent on application, enclosing a stamp. J.

Knox, mch21twawtf Box 478, Pittsburgh, Pa. Michigan Central and Great VVestcri (CANADA) RAILWAY. Fall and Winter Arrangement. npRA INS LEAVE TnE GREAT CEX-I 'TRAL DEPOT, Chicaso, as follows the boundless desire of vour soul with earthly Jm- he was a public defaulter. Tni Wheat Crop.

For a few days past enjoyment. iSuhop Hopkins. The house then voted on the referring to cf the Patent Office Report, and a package of we have gleaned from our exchanges in this the committee on military affairs. Lincoln of Illinois delivered an address state what information we could regard to TO PAPER YOUR HOUSES The West Point acadamy bill as returned from the senate, with an amendment, makiug before a two-third houso in Dover, N. re the wheat crop, which we present in a con vat (.

aA cat tiujf fv a aaa a shall vote for its continuance, but we freely admit that it does not work as well as we expected. We have no doubt thai thia is the feeling of many who Toted for its adoption, but hare, like ourself, been disappointed in the practical working of the system. But there are many things which can be urged in favor of its continuance, as well as against it. The opponents of the system claim that, in a sparsely settled county, and especially in a county situated like ours, with so- many fractional townships, the precinct system is much mni that th brmrd nf mirwrw densed form as toliows: TO PAPER YOUR HOUSES TO PAPER YOUR HOUSES an appropriation for calling into service a cently. His hearers were hugely astonished at the imbecility of the performance, and therefore not surprised that he was beaten by mounted regiment of Texas IheJlenam index learns mat tne pros rtects in that "county is tood.

The" wheat. to 111 against 1 2. 6.00 A. M. New York and Boston Express.

speeches, several copies of the speech by Senator Wilson, a copy of John Hickman's speech, in German, etc. Mr. Lovejoy will please accept our thanks for hia remembrance of a democratic newspaper which fights his sort of politics as hard as it knows how, but we hope does it fairly and honorably. Mr. Douglas in tho contest lor th6 senator- Mr.

Otero introduced a bill authorizing the though not yet out of danger from frost, is not ship. Boston Courier. president to call into service a regiment of I injured to any great extent; some fields ap ft- (except Saturday,) arrive at Detroit P. Suspension Bridpe or Buffalo 4:30 A.M.) Albany 4:00 P. New York 10:15 P.

M4 Boston 12 at night. CHEAP volunteers for the suppression of hostilities The Newberry (S. Conservative, pub pear rather thin, but generally the indications are that there will be a good crop unless it is -ii CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP in New Mexico referred to the committee on CHEAP CHEAP 9:10 A. Cincinnati Louisville Express, lishel near Chappell's depot, S. says that the recent illustration in Frank Leslie's illus aiuea aiter xnis.

military offairs. A Shipwreck. (except Saturday,) arrivea at Cincinnati l.X A.M.: Lonisville at 5:00 A. M. By the way how does it happen, that re The Oquawka Plaindealer learns that the trated paper, of a mob hanging an abolition visors is an unwejldy body, sometimes govern publicans are flooding this region of country 7HW P.

M. iew York and Boston Exprtta, wheat prospect in Henderson county ia good ita is a nuttibug. io sucn occurrence ever ed by local and rival interests that it is New Orleans, March 19. The propeller especially in the ohoaon with cart loads of speeches, franked in blank, took place. So muah for the illustrated hum oophia, ot 1 inladelphia, witb a valuable car more expensive than the county court system, Daily arrives at Detroit 7.0U A.

M.j Sutpea-aion'Bridge or Buffalo 5:0 P. Albany 4: A- New York 10.G0 A. 3u; Boston 4:0 M. ready for direction, and that the democrats bug which gave "an accurate picture of the Farmers inform the Jersey ville Gazette that in that county early sowed wheat is not in go, was lost on the 15th on the cosst of "COME ONE, COME ALL, BOTH GREAT AND SMALL, 'I HOOP DE DOODEN DOO." and doesiot transact the business as intelli lexas. There was a heavy sea running, and jured the late about killed out.

It appears the sails were hoisted, but the propeller pre better, however, in some localities than Among the the reasons why the' Gazette are doing just nothing at all We know that our democratic congressmen from this state are fcom the middle and southern part of the state, and probably they have enough to do gently or as well that the assessment of property Is not as equally or jastly made as it can be by county assessor and that the vented ner steering, and she went ashore. others. On a recent trip to Jacksonville, tavors the nomination of Leonard Swett for the editor heard similar reports alone; the governor is, that he is a "moderate, conserva road. Charleston, March 19. The steamship Pemano, Capt.

Hall, from New York, bound tive republican." Well, that will do. i Re- 11 1 .1 a to attend to their own districts. But if they taxes are not as promptly or economically collected. These are a few. of the reasons puoiicanisra is a tning mat uie Jess a man Farmers inform tho Springfield Journal for Calleo, has put into, this port for re have any spare favors, and desire to bestow SEEDS I SEEDS I has of.

it the better he is Jntelli that a smaller quantity than usual was sown nrjred for the discontinnance of the system, pairs. them upon democrats who get few from Mr, and a return1 to the precinct system, Farnsworth, we should be glad to aid in their 7,00 P. M. Cincinnati Louisville Expreaa, (Saturdays excepted) arrive at Cincinnati 11:31 A. M-; Louiaville 4:00 P.M.

T'OO P. tram to Niles only on Saturdays. Only one train on Sunday al 7:00 P. The 6.00 A. M.

and 7:00 P. Mt. trains connect at Paris with the Buffalo Lake Huron Railway, for Buffalo and all points east at Toronto with Graad Trunk Ratlway, to Kingston, Ogdensburg, Aloa-treal, Quebec, and all points in Canada East, Northern Yerroont, New Hamshire and Maine. checked through. Through tickets for sale at all the principal Railroad offices ia the West, and at the general office, corner Lake and Dearborn streets, opposite tbe Tremont House, Chicago, and at the Depot, foot of Lake street.

i R. M. RICE, Supt. II. J.

Spalding, Gen. Pass. Ag't- March 20. The Union, and in Sangamoa county, and that a considerable part of the crop has been winter killed, but that the early sowed fields look well. The statement of farmers, from nearly every pre Those who favor the continuance of the sys- A.1IBEB SYRUM American of the ICth, comes out in favor of distribution.

Send us the packages, gentlemen, nnd we will attend to their distribution FOR THE tern, urge that the management ot their local The most delicious table loiury Good aa hon holding the democratic convention at Balti eyf With Flavoring Extracts Fancv Good; cinct in tne county, on tbe question ot wheat, in this county. If there is any place where Fresh and Dril FriliM Pinn.n are about the same. more. Steamer tost. Bacon, Corn, Potatoes, and all aorta of staple and The Jonesboro Gazelle thia eounty, missionaries are needed where light should be diffused among the people, it is here in FARMER, GAUD ITX rsncj uroceriea and provisions, or sale cbeso C.

1 mm town aifiiro is, by the system of township or ganiiation, taken out of the hands of a central power, like the county court, and brought more immediately nndcr the control of the people that each town then assesses its own property and collects its own taxes that the at least, this uselul crop looks Tar better than we were led to suppose it would. A few ur vssu uj ai. n. tu.i wax, Illinois street, Opposite Dr. Judd'a.

northern Illinois, where every abolitionist Wiscassett, March 2D. -The steamer Eastern Queen, employed on the route between. Boston and the Kennebeck was weeks ago a great many of the fields looked WWW TOWN FOLKS PLEASE CALL carries nigger on his back; and threatens to aa though they had been scorched, but now totally destroyed by fire this morning. She AND i destroy every sentiment of loyality to our con WILLIAM BLAIR A OR ANYBODY ELSE, FRESH AND GOOD, many of the same pieces begin to shadow was owned by Nathaniel Stone, Isaac Rich people have a better and more decided con No. 176 Lake Street, Importera and Wholesale stitution, our country, or our laws.

and George Bacon of Boston, and Wm. Brod- ELECTION NOTICE -Dealers ia I tortti a tairer promise or good crops. have no fears of the coming crop of wheat in street and Kimball of Gardner. trol of their roads and bridges; their schools, their poor, and the local affairs of the town T)Y virtue of an act, entitled an act for sab- At Loss estimated at $75,000. mis quarter at In Montgomery and ad join in counties the IJ nutting tbe question of township organtxation to the people of the several counties in the atate Ml Washbitrni Disocxcid.

The Free- generally. They also say that it tends to ele Arrested. A ft A Cutiery, Nai's, Tin Plate, Sheet Iron, Copper Zir Copper Bottoms. Block Tin, etc. Alee a fal assortment of Tinners' Tools and Machines, and pressed Tinware, Rivets, Ears, etc.

i WM. BLAIR k. CO. tort Journal, one of the leading republican late sown wheat is entirely killed oat, the early sown and that put in with a drill Dcyoc it Crampton's. New York, March 20.

Sabastion Keener vate and instruct more men in regard to the management of public affairs, and to the more general diffusion of intelligence among the journals in this distrist, denounces Mr. Wash- or Illinois, art. 25th, sec. 4th, of the genera! laws of Illinois, and upon the petition of fifty legal voters of the county of Rock Island, and atate aforesaid, filed in my office, ia the city and ecunty 1 r. 1 1 I nrt-l 1 was arrested here yesterday, charged with burne lor bis opposition to Mr.

Sherman's looks finely. The Quincy Whirr savs the universal onin- arson in the first degree, in having set fire to 1 people and that the tendency to corruption mileage bilL The opponents of Mr. Wash 111s store in iiuHalo, and collected the insu ion in Adams county is that the prospect of a ia the management of public affairs is more burne inthe republican ranks will make nse ranee. oi unci isisna, on me zm aay ol D. iHOO, I hereby giv notice to the citizens, legal voters of said county, that at the annual town met ting for each of the several towna of aaid coen-ty, to be held at the several places of election, on of his course on this measure to defeat his1 re- iair crop is exceedingly The Rushville Times says many of those Fence Wire.

100 tons Annealed Fence Wire, No. 7, 8 sad (or aale at lowest market price. Cash orders will receive prompt attention. WM. BLAIR 176 Lake Street, Chicago.

Louis, March lU.GoVi Stewart, of IF YOU WANT nomination this fall, if possible. We give an with whom it has talked think that the wheat tnia state, has vetoed the free negro bill. Tuesday, April 3d, A. D. 1860, extract from the JoumaTs article likely to be checked by a large body of men, like the board of supervisors, than by a central power composed of three men, which forms the county court.

There is a good deal to be said on both sides, crop in Schuyler county this year, will be the largest ever raised. being the first Tuesday in aaid month, a vote will betaken at such meeting upon the question ol Wheeler Hi I son's SEWIXG MA CUIXE, I. The Conn tj Fair. "Those members of congress who sought SU Louis, St. Paul, Stillwater and St.

ANTHONY aoonsninir tne towjashm onriniutinn in i It is noticable that all the papers agree that early sown wheat and that put in with a to ueieat this measure, nave made a record county of Rock Iafand, by ballot, to be written or I860. DAILY PACKET LINE I860. and we admit that, with our present knowl which they will find of unpleasant memory THE annual Fair of the Rock Island Agricultural Society will be bold on the SJth and 28th days of September, lh60. drill, looks finely, while that which was sown PRINCE'S OX nmea, or pini; written and partly printed, berealter, while Honest John fcherman. and OP NORTHER ONE STEAMERS.

late, or merely scratched in, has been nrettv lunmuiu uiKouizaiion." or "Arainst ftr.ania.tinn )1 mA .1 II those who sustained his policy from the be- POCKET KNIVES, --r uu muiit caavassea and re turned ia like manner as votes for state and einninj, will be gratefully remembered by Aotice to Tree Planters. SIDE WHEEL oiucera. usiea Rl itoca Island, this 6th A. the tax payers, and all who love to see econ generally killed out. How long will it be before our farmers will learn that in wheat raising, as in all aother kinds of business, it will pay to do their Work well, and that it will not pay to slight it.

Chicago Democrat. marcn, A. u. isou. JOS.

CONETV omy ana lair dealings in public matters Clerk of the Co. Court of Rock Island lib NORTHERNER P. Alford. CANADA Capt. J.

W. Parker. as well as private. nether tne bill will be BUY TREES AT HOME AND PLAYT smothered in the senate, remains to be seen. V.

L. B. Jenka. EARLY. B.

Rhodes. SUCKER STATE Let it be watched, and whoever plays either GOLD PENS, iV COMBS; BRUSHES, BLANK BOOKS, CURTAIN FIXTUIES, HI -I v-I 1 CpRD AND 'TASSELS, Trustee's Sale. T. B. Hill.

North Carolina, it is said, has elected del. the open antagonist or the "tkulkina attas- PEMBINA W. L. GRAY Johb B. Rhodes.

sin," let him not escape the responsibilities WIIJREASon the 29th day of 1859. Isaiah Marshall and Jan M.r.k.ll nrtk. gates to Charleston friendly to Douglas. A despatch from Washington says, majority of them are so," The editor of the Cincin edge of the practical working of both systems we would not vote to change from the precinct to the township system, yet aa the township system is now in existence, and may ultimate: ly work better, we shall not vote to change, at present. We know no political reasons for Slnt either system.

If there are any, we rather think that the old county court system is more, favorable br the party having the control of the eouaty, than the township ystem, but we do not suppose that makes much difference, either way. We presume the people will talk the matter over among the nselves, and every man act aa he thinks will be for the best interest of tLe county. Speaking of Abe Lincoln's late speech. In Bridgeport, the Former of that city says THE Buhacriber haa on hand a fine assortment of large and desirable fruit and ornamental trees at lair rices for readv nav. eonsist- NORTHERN of his acta, no matter of what political organization he claims to be a member." D.

S. Harris. P. Lodwick. Capt.

Wheton. VVorden. v. 01 iw isiana ana state ot Illinois, execated unto Anthony Van Wyck, as trustee, a certain deed ITASCA tTV MTV IV IV 1 I A tae nati Enquirer publuheaa JLst of tho delegates' and says "Some of them we are personally ing of over 80 Varieties of apple trees, Irom to aix years old. The term of "tkvlkiag assastin" is intend WAR J.

B. Da via. SHEET MUSIC, -r y--: HAWK EYE ST Capt. R. C.

Gray. Standard and dwarf pear tree, (some bavinr acqoainted with, and knote td be for v. hhi, cuuveying 10 said trustee the land in Rock Island county, Iilinoic, described aa follows, to wit The west one half J) of the northeast qr (i) of aeo seventeen (17) tp nineteen 19) north ol rangethree 3 east of the fourth 4th Principal Meridian, which aaid cMmpnraKu produced fruit.) incse magnincent siue-wtieei steamers were las." The telegraph announces the election of Latham (Douglas) delegates from most of ed by the Journal to be applied to Mr. Wash-burae, who endeavored to defeat the bill by votiegto refer it to a committee whio- would never have reported upon it, and by loading built expressly for the trade, and are manned bv A lair aupply el early Richmond fine. careful and experienced officers, are fitted aad fur the large oonntiea and cities California.

aaid Isaiah F. Marshall and Jajta Mar.k.11 .1,. nished with ail modern improvements, with ever. flams and peaches in moderate supply. Grapes new and old kinds.

Currants of sev purpose of securing the pavraent of two eert.in against the WellerGwin and administration influences. Good. v- accommodation for passengers, and wit run aa advertised, making connection with the various rail it with ridiculous amendments, but who voted for' the bill on its final TiajuiarrV-mGalm-iui er varieties. Lawton blackberries, raspberries, atrawberries, (best kinds.) pie plant, about "Roll on ailrer moon. STEREOSCOPIfJ' VtEWS, 1 ENVELOPES, '1 WRITING: PAPER.

V. PORTFOLIOS, BEADS, AVRlflXG DESKS, TEETH BRUSHES, roads above, and with the Minnesota river packets at St. Paul. Returning, they will connect at Han prora.ssory notes, and the interest thereon, aignsd by said Isaiah F. Marshall, dated the 29th day ol January, A.

IX and payable aa follow One 'uVrUm0forty-fiTe do11. "60 kinds, monthly, June and climbing. Shrubbery Cvttrier. II forgot that be was in a place whose interests hare been seriously iojaredby John Brown's raid into Slechanics who ot many kinds, peonies, dieiytra speciaouts, narcissus, fce. Evergreens in good aupply large aad small- nibal, with the Hannibal and St.

Joseph Railroad, and at St. Louia with daily line packets for Missouri river, and New Orleans, Memphis, Louisville another for the aunt of Chicago Produce Markets. The receipts of produce during the past w.7f sone Mti.C and Nashville caskets, and utuo river packets tor all hardy kiada, ailver maples, elms, mountain ash, A.C. Garden and flower seeds. Sweet potato have been thrown oat of employment or put on "half time" on account of the withdrawal twenty four hours were as And now, aaid two prominnorv antes havin in Cincinnati, wneennir arm I'ltuburgb.

.1 come due and nnvhl plants in season. Flour, 971 of southern orders, are not very enthusias 1 he Northern racket Line oner increased facili l.ii 1 -rr 1 iu ifn Wheat, bos. 11,556 ties, and hope, by strict attention to the comfort of TEETH PICKS, OR tic admirers of irrepressible convict leaders, of the Lincoln stamp. Corn, bus. .66,636 Barley, 915 Seeds, lba 29,037 Lire hapa.

S3 Cattle, 337 Hides, .42,301 passengers and interest of shippers, to receive the an Wyck, trustee aa aloresaid, d. hereby give thia ubhc notice, that bvvirtn. Oats, bus iDeral patronage beretolore extended to the line. is 1411, la cn Rye, 25 or freicht or passage, apply on board, at the on Bat- Hon. R.

M. T. Hunter, United States senator from Virginia, In recent speech in the senate, thus alluded to th subject of labor in the south Nor is itrue that the institution of la very makes manual labor on the part of the white's demisable in the slaveholding states. There is no country on eaith in which honest labor, as I belie more respected; and of this I am certain, that every white laborer in the slave-holding states is more nearly on an equality with every other man in the community than every white laborer in the north is on terms The friends of Judge Bates have given harf fcoat, foot of Locust atreet, or at the North Flour yesterday was dull and droopiog. urd.y March it, A.

D. 18C0, at the hou o'clock ia the foreaooa of aaid day, at hour 1. house of ten Fersons touiig neugv piouu must cuuuki iw them before the 2oth or I cannot aupply them, as the demand is larger than the aupply. Samples of trees can be aeea at the store of T. A.

Babcock, in thia city, opposite the Rock Inland Jlouse. Orders from a distance accompanied by a remittance, promptly attended to, and sent according to directions. Black Hawk southeast corner tf ti city of Rock Island, 111. marMwawtf D. F.

KINNEY, Proprietor. publicity t-i the statement that he bad emanci ern Line Packet Office, No. 67 Commercial atreet, OO TO door in the citv nf Rrw i.i.ii second door from Olive, St. Louia. JAMES WARD, President offer for at public auction, the parcel, of land above described, or so much thereof aa shall be Wheat advanced 2c, but closed quift, and a shade weaker.

Corn was steady and active and closed firm. Oats advanced under a good demand for shipment to St, Louis. Rye was quiet. Bartev in omul A Dcvoe I M0XEY TO LOAN, patedhn skves. So far from this being the ease, it La undeniable that they run away from him, and he used every means in his power to re-capture them.

Thus, it leaks out that from a philanthropist and an emancipa tioout hs become a Jave catcher" and a "kiln ap per." fit BOOK STORE, AN well improred farms, in Rock Island Timothy seed aetiir anfl stnatf Pin ana pay tbe amount of aaid notes, with the interest thereon to the day of aale, together with ail the costs and expenses attending aaid aale, costs of thia notice, and trustee's the 16th day of February, A. D. I860. femawtd ANTHONY VAN WYC Trusts. county, at moderate rotes.

Apply to DARLINGTON TOWNsfeisD. IlUnoir Street, Rock Island 111. of equality with every other man in the norta. 4 High wines quiet. Green hides do-cknedjc Chicago HAVANA and Principe Cigars, and chewing tobacco, of the best qaality, 8.

W. Cor. Second ajid Brady mcbl4twaw3at Davenport, Iowm. I mchSltwawtf.