The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-29

reported for Ms Dolly Arqu..

New YORK. Aug. 29-rhe Tribune's
Brownsville, Texas, correspondent OF Aug. 9th
| Gays: 49,
This evening Senior Rabbelss Mexican minister
of public work 8, came the river on a visit d
was received by Gen. Steele, who gave his dis
tngulshed visitor quite dinner at Miller's hotel
Among the guests were Gems Weitzel and Drap-
| er. After pleasant repast at which friend y
| sentiments were received, the party broke up
Senior Rabbelas recrossed the nver.
Senior ROweis and Gen. Ortgan are said To he
| on their way here and are looked for daily.
The VISIT of the distinguished Liberals seems TO
point to something about to be done the Rio
Grande-
| All is quiet along the river at present.
The Herad's Vera Cruz correspondent OF
the 18th says:
On the goth Of last month the town of Seringol-
lea declared itself in faver OF the republic Ii is
| the chief town ofOne of the most populated dis
| trIcts OF Vera Cruz, adjoIns Orsaba and extends
TO the foot of the Sierra ModesIa which slopes to
the coasts south OF this place. The whole section
! as tar as Yobasco Is being devoted To the repub-
| lican cause and commanded by Gen. Gorrica.
Five hundred men armed with good rifles are
maintaining the independence OF SerIngolica.
force of 200 Austrians, who recently marched
| from Orsaba with the intention of whipping thu
Insurrectionste, tell into smbuscade on the
4 road and were forced to take flight, leaving 30
| dead on the field
/ Encounters are almost daily taking place be-
/ tween the emperiaiists and republicans, IN which
the lssses IN killed alone ranges froai 20 900 TO
| The n Y Herald's Washington special saws:
Col. Samuel Thomas, asst comd'r of the freed
men IN Mississippi, reports from Vicksburg, under
date of Aug Ism, that oct of $40, 900 freedmen
in that state only 5000 are subsisted by the gov
eminent Five thousand freedmen are earning
good living by cutting wood in the forrest.
The colored colonists and farmers are reported
to be doing finely. and, as harvest time approach
es, the help which has been afforded them by the
government is being gradually Withdrawn.
About loo 000, 900 bales of cotton will be pro-
duced by those of the negroes that have under
taken the culture Of that staple.
In the interior of the state the corn crops are
looking most promising The majority of the
freedmen have controlled their labor, are work.
ing well and getting better idea of their con-
dtion
The more intelligent and honest Mississippians
are represented as willing to assist in developing
the new order of things but they cannot be made
tie the feasibility of projects calculated to se
cure the independence and success of the freed
men.
Special to the n. Y. Times.
WAsHISGroS, August 2e.-We learn authori-
tatively that the governments financial condition
is easy; and that the secretary of the treasury
will be enabled to meet all demands with the
means he has at his command
The statement of the public debt will be made
on.the LIST of September. There will be no state
ment, hereafter, oftener than once in two months
therefore the next statement of the public debt
will appear on the first of October ensuing
An investigation, just closed, shows that sharp
ers have swindled soldiers terribly discounting
their claims. One of them alone must have made |
300 900.
Postmaster General Deanson has to-day ac- |
ceptcd the tender of tn \ cifc Mail Steamship /
Co., Allan Mclean PRESIDENT for the mail steam
ship between Sanfrancisco and China, via Homo
lulu and West Sandwich Islands authorized by
aet of and ~
1865. The tender of the Pacific Mail Steamship
20. was the only one received for the service
the compensation, therefore, is $50, 900 per an
mum for the perform ,nce of IL round trips be-
tween Sanfrancisco ard Hong Kong, China,
touching at Honolulu in the Sandwich Islands |
and at Kankgazc, Japan.
The company to build for the service four
irst class American side wheel steamers, OF from
1000 20 1000 tons burden, each steamer to be
of the best materials and after the
most approved model, with all the modern i'm
'rovements adapted to sea going steamers Of the
irst classs.
The first steamer is to leave Sanfrancisco with .
he mails for Japan and China, on or before the i
st of January, 1867, and the term of contract to
e ten years from the date OF the sailing of the
rst steamer from that port.
Special to n Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-The official recently
ent down by the treasury department 10 investi-
ote the affairs of Colonel Loomis, special agent :
the treasury ut Richmond, has returned and =
,ports everything correct in his depar tment.
The sec'y of the treasury has lately received
telligence ofeItensive smuggling operations in :
e Canada boarders of silks, sugar, and drugs
he detectives of TINS department are on the
ack of a number of suspicious persons. (
The able commissioner of customs, Mr.Sares Mt -
q been dispatched by See'y McCulloch TO the e. e.
nada line for the purpose of giving his personal -
peryision to the matter. y