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The "sell out" argument; The*' advance-in-real-estate'! argument; The "great-demand-for-labor" argument; The c * abundance-of-labor'' argument; The f• no-sale-of-liquor-within-a-mile-of-the-collegeJ' argument; The argument that the college act is no force as against the city charter,—called for short, the "poppycock" argument; The "evangelical" argument; The "dead-open-and-shut" argument. The above are to be used within the limits of the town of Urbana and West Urbana, and explain themselves with the exception, perhaps, of the "dead-open-and-shut" argument. This is used with the silly few who persist in denouncing the whole thing as infamous; and consists in bullying, denunciations and threats. I am happy to report to you that no minister of the gospel, or member of the church, requires the use of the "deadopen-and-shut" argument. As a member of that prayerful sect, the Hard Shell Baptists, I am rejoiced at the circumstance. For the country,?! the ring" have got up the following arguments: The "poultry" argument,—subdivided in the "cock-andhen," the "duck-and-gosling," the "hen-turkey," and the "50ccnts-a-dozen-for-eggs,? * arguments; The "stock" argument,—subdivided into the "bull-calf," the? \ breeding-sow,\9 and the * • high-price-of-mutton" arguments; The "dairy" arguments,—subdivided into the "butter-andcheese" argument, the "sweet-cream" argument, the "sourmilk" argument, and for the Dutch, the "smere-case" argument; The "vegetable" argument,—subdivided into the "applepie Root" argument, the "early-potato" argument, and, for the Germans, (and a strong card it is,) the "sour-krout" argument They use a great many others; but these are the arguments on which "the ring" rely, and which will carry them through.