The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-11
By Telegraph,
REPORTED FOR TIE DAILY ARGUS.

BLooNrxGroS, H., March lo.-The coun-
ty commissioners have voted an appropria-
tons Of two hundred and eighty thousand
dollars for new court house and sixty
thousand dollars for the soldiers monument.
A first class democratic daily journal is TO
be started here by Samuel Pike, leading
and wealthy citizen, and will appear about
April first.
NV YoRK, March ll.-An Albany spec
ial to the n. Y. world says: ,-
Gov. Seymour will make a great speech
at the democratic convention there, to-day.
Admiral Fsrracut is talked of as the DEM
ocratc candidate for president.
LINCOLN, H., March l0.-At the city cleo
ton to-day Silas Benson, democrat, was
elected mayor by one hundred majority.
New YoRS, March 1.-THE Worlds
correspondent gives the details of an inter
view with President johnson on the subject
of the impeachment trial, during which the
President stated that he should respond to
the summons to appear, by counsel. After
a long conversation upon the merits and de-
merits OF the charges brought against him,
he concluded as follows
The gentlemen in the house who origi
mated impeachment, and others who applaud
them. are, in certain sense, consistent
Recalling the time, on the eve of the rebel
lion, when l stood in the senate, almost
alone, insisting upon the duty of the gov
eminent to uphold the constitution and the
Union against the traitors who threatened
both, recall a class Of men, in and out Of
congress, who lacked the courage to defend
either. Standing on the same platform that
/ stood on then, / look around and see these
men, now grown bold enough, in the place
of their former weakness. TO disregard the
clearest provisions of constitutional law
After the war is over, in which they took
none but n wordy part, they have relapsed
to their original status as politicians who
bold the constitution at too slight value
to be either valiantly defended or treated
with reverence. Finally it is declared that
!. who have honestly striven TO administer
this government in accordance with the con-
stitution! shall be sacrificed along with the
constitutional prerogatives of the presiden-
tial Office, TO q party necessity. Jefferson
Davis, the head and front of the rebellion,
is NOT brought to trial. Yet congress propo-
SEES to try the President at once. OF what
kind of an offence, compared with that of
Mr.. Davis, the country and the senate may,
perhaps, justly decide
DuBUouR, Iowa, March 10.-The ice took
its departure to-day, without doing any dam
affe. The ferry is now running.
CoNcoRD, n. Fl. March ll.-Returns
from one hundred and seventy-fve towns
give Hartman, republican, 33,792; Sinclair,
democrat, 80, 9O7-republ:can majority p
ss5. FiAy-eight small places remain to be
heard from, which are about equally repub-
lican and democratic. 1t is probable that
Harriman's majority will be about 5000.
The vote will probably exceed 1900 the
largest vote ever polled in the state. The
legislature will be largely republican.
CONCORD, N. H., March 1.-THE rePuD,
licans elect four of the FIVE counsellars and
nine of the twelve senators, and have Probae-
" about 20 majority in the house. Harri-
mans majority is somewhat reduced from
last year.
Albany, March lin convention to-day
with some of the delegates to the democrat
r. state convention, Gov. Seymour reiterated
his positive refusal to be a candidate for
president.
New YORK, March l. -Tbreefourths Of
the town of jefferson Texas was burned on
the Sd inst SO or 60 stores destroyee and
700 bales of cotton. Loss 100000.
BRDGEToS, Conn, March, llth.-The city
election yesterday carried the democrats who
gained IL from last spring.