The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-01-21
By Telegraph.


yesterday was the heaviest of the seasoH.-
Trains are showed in between Cincinnati and
Iadiananapolis.
PHILADELPHIA, midnight, Jan. 20.-The
storm is the most severe one of the season.
The snow is much drifted.
New York mails have not arrived up to
this time. E(SFF EEN
l. PRovipEseE, Il Jan,y 20.-Trains
passed over the Boston road, to-day, and bus
mess will he resumed on that road ts-nierrew.
All our roads are nov open.
BosroN, Jan'y. 70, IL P.M.--Snow has
commenced falling weather comparatively
" Srvl4 OAK, sanss alA,srhe NeI .Ysrk
Heralds I,exing ton; Missouri, corresponde nj
saws
The excitement here has been again re-
vived by the arrival Of two companies of
Gov. Fletcher's militia. Bushwhackers had
entirely disappeared.
Mai. Montgomery was arrested ON the 18th
by the United States Marshal and taken to
Jefferson City, where he was released with
habeas corpus.
Business is almost entirely suspended in
Lexington owing to the presence of the
troops who exert a kind of terrorism over the
| minds of the citizens.
The New York Heralds Washington spe-
cial says
There is dead lock in the Maryland leg
islature which promises to defeat the plans
of GOv'r Swann-to be elected [ pited States
senator. p
Col. Merton, superintendent OF Indian af-
| fairs, in New Mexico, has submitted rec
| ommendation to the government TO establish
| the wild and rowing bands of Indians on res
| ervations where they can be controlled, and
prevented from committing murders and der-
relations. glegr. rrr@
The New York Tribune has the following
| dispatch from Savannah. giving further par
tculars concerning the trouble opposite that
city:
4 collision is likely to oecnI between the
| freedmen and the United States forces grow
| ing out of an attempt to eject them from a
plantation on the Chevis estate. situated in
South Carolina, opposite Savannah. They
refused either to leave the plantation or con
tract for the present year. Pursuant to orders
! from General Tillson, one commissioned
officer and fifty men proceeded to the planta
ton and were met by about 300 negroes, all
armed. - A conflict was only prevented by a
| temporary compromise. Capt. Brandt tele-
| graphed to GenI Scott, commissioner, that ii
was impossible To eject them, and asked per
mission TO detail IA company of the 9Th in
| fantrv, en- route from Lamtonville to Charles
town. to assist the troops sent over by Gem
| Tillson, who are still on the plantation.
BuFFALo, Ny, Jan'y 2l.-A dispatch re
| ceived here yesterday, says:
The trouble between the Central and Hud
/ son River railroads has been satisfactorilvse
tied. Through trains run to-day, as before
+ G#tBsee, Ianv 2I.-There is intense ex
element about the drawing of the Oper;
| House Art Association, which is Just begin
ming, The Opera House is crowded witt
men and women, and business IN the city l.
materially affected by the all-absorbing topic
At 20 minutes to | o'clock the wheels wer
brought in amid the applause of the vas
| audience. The house is filed in every part
| by fashionable audience, who ere husheC
into unusual quiet by the greatinterest o
the occasion. AT 10 minutes to l the com
| rnittee appeared and commenced depnsitin:
the tickets III the wheel, Announcing the mum
Der in each box, as they proceeded. Their
were 2l0000 tickets, and 800 premiums. Tn
numbers OF the tickets were put into on'
! wheel and the numbers of the premiums in
to another. Al half past II all was read
for drawing, when Mr.. Coolbaugh, one of tn,
committee. stated that p, 000to 30 600 ticket
4 in the wheel We're unsold and belonged TO Nj
! Crosby, but he could not give the exact mum
| Der, full returns of tickets sold not havin!
been rcceiNed-
/ 1 The men at the wheels, 10 draw the mum
bers, then pulled off their coats and rolled u
their sleeves and commenced drawing.
The following are the tickets and thei
respective prizes drawn up to II minute
past ! clock, including the Opera House
drawn by ticket No. 5S,6eo--by whom o
| where held Is not known
! Ticket No. 1915, premium No. 267-
Where's Billy
No. Al, l39 premium No 233.--Yiew Nea
Conway n. Ii.
No. 1881 premium No. l9i.--OId Home
stead.
No. 3s,5lI premium No. lG2,--Sea Shore
No. 20,217 premium No. l40,-Children a
PLAY.
No. l25. 465 premium No 46,-Pine Al
pie.
No. s. 27T premium No. l04, ---Vines an,
! Flowers.
No. 205,564 premium l42,-oT coast q
Labrador.
No. 1Os,s54 premium 49,--On Easpu
Creek, kr Fsz-.
No % 00G premium No. 20l,--Ben.Nevi.
! No. l75.59s premium l9,-Jewel Case.
No. 69,l34 premium 26l, Spruce Creek.
No. l0,s2l premium :}3,-Eiew at Yves
Point
No. l34 ,526 premium l29,--Chiekens.
. No. 81, AZ premium l52,--Name of prem
ium not given. esq. E
No, lO6,e93 nremium i3--Boy stonin
| Pigeons
No. l60.4O1 premium llS,Fruit Piece.
No. 95,63S premium 9l,--Marquette.
No. ll1.574 premium 4l,--Not given.