The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-06
By Telegraph.
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NEW YoRK, Feb'y 6.-The N. Y. Times


1 NEW YoRK, Feb'y 6.-The N. Y. Times
special says: 81 BE-
The southerners who expected that their
reconstrnction plan would be acceptable to.
congress, are much mistaken, for there is
considerable number who will not accept any
modification of the constitutional amend
ment. 1t will be submitted to the recon
struction committee to-day. The letters sent
by the governors, with their plans, to the
southern legislatures, while they recnnmend
the adoption of the proposition, are decided
ly non committal. They say its acceptance
would virtually effect compromise between
the President and congress, which they con-
slider desirable. - y " - $50 ss@6'
1t is. known that the President has tele-
graphed, as a private citizen, TO the southern
Legislatures, urging them to adopt this prop
osition.
So far as heard from, the southern press
are against the proposition.
The n. Y. Tribune's special says
Mr.. McCracken, who wrote the letter con-
corning Mr.. Motley, is about "a years DID,
In his letter he said he made it his special
business to see how our government Vas off,
cially represented abroad, and found i great
ly misrepresented, and as a patriot he deem
ed it his duty to inform the secretary of state
of the fact Speaking of Mr.. Motley, he calls
him Summer man, who constantly said he
owed his position to Mr. Sumner and not to
Mr.. Johnson, and endorsed MIR. Summers
politics.
Minister Hale, he says, takes every oppor.
tunity to say congress is right and the Presi-
dent wrong. & SIX
Mr.. Murphy, consul at Frankfort, he calls
blatant radical and tool Of Jack Chan
dler. He states that majority of our for.
eign missions are held by Massachusetts
puritans, who are controlled by such men as
Phillips, Butler and Chandler.
E CINCINNATI, Feb'y 6.--The Kenton Wool
en- Mills in Coviugton, Ny, owned by CHASER
& Bros, Of Cincinnati, was DESTROYED by fire
| this morning They were the most extensive
| of the kind in the west. The buildings were
| totally destroyed, together with all the ma
chinery and nearly all the stock. The total
loss is estimated at $225,000; insured at
$4,000 in New York, Philadelphia End
Cincinnati offices. One hundred and fifty
persons are thrown out of employment
CHICAGO, Feb'y 6.-The Journals Wash
ington special saws that new reconstruction
scheme has Just been agreed upon to-day by
the reconstruction committee which provides
for the division of the ten southern states in
to FIVE military districts. The military courts
| are to hold the local authorities in subordin-
acy. The bill will be reported to-day. In
tense excitement prevails.
The ways and means committee will not
take up the tariff bin until the tax bill has
been disposed of.
The bankrupt bill, it is thought, will ulti-
mately he pasSpd hy the senate
ST.. Louis, Feb'y 5.-The Democrats To
peka special says the house to-day passed a
bill prohibiting any cattle from the country
south of Kansas being driven through the
state from March Est to Dec. lst, excepting
the extreme western part of the state. The
bill is designed to protect stock in this state
against the contagious and fatal disease call
ed Spanish fever, from which it is said over
one hundred thousand dollars worth of cattle
died last year.
CINCINNATI, Feb'y 6.-The river has risen
4 feet9 inches, IS feet 10 inches in the
channel. The weather is clear. Mercury
A. esa .ss -a...- Hzs ~
ST. IouIT, Feb'y 6.-An entire block of
buildings in Sprsngfeld, Mo-, including the
Union Hotel, Union press Office, several
stores, residence and large livery stable
were burned Sunday night. Loss $500. 000to
100000. Insurance unknown.
PITTsBuRG, Pa, Feby .6.-Riyer 10 feet
CAIRO, Feb'y -Arrived-Steamers Sam.
Orr from Evenston, returns at am; NJ. r.
Forsyth from New Orleans for st. Louis, 10
am; Lizzie Gilman from New Orleans, re-
turns ut 10 am; Empire from CINCINNATI
for Memphis, II am.
CNrno, Fcb'y 5.-Both the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi rivers are rising very rapidly, and
there is every prospect of big floods. Ice is
running heavily in the Mississippi, but has
entirely disappeared in the Ohio at this
point.
The weather is quite spring-ike, with the
thermometer at 54 degrees.