The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-11

NEWTON J. HUBBARD, Town Clerk.
A Washington letter to the New York
Herald says that the present position of az
fairs is decidedly unsatisfactory to the radi-
Gals. 1t says:
"While their high mightiness of the
high court are being bored by dull ques.
hoDs of law and evidence, nearly three
fourths of the members of the house of
representatives have gone to their homes to
make some arrangements in view of their
own denominations, and at the same time to
set their friends right on the Presidential
question. This state of things is not meet.
ing with the pleasure of the senators, as they
consider their own presence necessary to
overlook the marshalGng of the state dele
cations preparatory 10 the grand rendezvous
at Chicago. 1t is now talked of consumma-
ting the impeachment trial one way or the
other as quickly as possible, and then taking
a recess until after the Chicago convention,
This course will allow senators and mem
bers a week or two among their constituents
TO make whatever arrangements they may
have in view to serve the interest of their
choice for the radical nominations. The
approach of the radical convention and the
| mated, do not work well together. The un
certainty which involves the latter already
gives rise to complaint that the convention
was not put off until a later date. The radi.
calls are evidently in bad Ak"
Thomas Darcy McGee, the Irish politi-
clan was shot dead on his own doorstep in
Ottowa, at o'clock Tuesday morning, as
he was returning from the Provincial Parlia
ment. The perpetrator of this horrible and
cowardly assassination is unknown, but it is
suspected that he is a Fenian, as Mr.. McGee
had made himself very obnoxious to that or
ganization in Canada.
Mr.. McGee was born in Carliugford Ire
land, April 3, 1925, was educated at Wixford
| where his father, the late Thomas McGee, held
| an office in the Custom House. He came &c
this country in 1872, and was, for some
| time connected with the press, frs
| at Buffalo, and afterwards in New York. He
| subsequently returned to Ireland, and Joined
the editorial staff of the Nation. In 1877 he
summoned a meeting at the Rotundo, Dub
lin, to oppose the policy of O'Connell. Ii
| lS49, having been compromised by the part
he took in political movements, he again
came TO New \ ork, and published the Ma
ton. After remaining in New York for {
time Mr.. McGee's political sympathies IN
derwent q change; he publicly declared q
preference for British institutions, and set
tied in Montreal, which be has represented
in the Provincial parliament since 1857. II,
| was President Of the Executive Council o.
Canada from 1854 til 1867, Chief Commits
sioner to the Paris Exhibition in 1854, anC
10 the Dublin Exhibition, in 1864 and was
a delegate to all the conferences held to pro
mote the union of the Colonies of British
| North America. He wrote "Lives of Irisl
Writers" published in Dublin in 1876; ar
ish Letters" published in New York il
1852; Canadian Ballads" published a
Montreal in l348; Popular History of Ire
land" published at New York in 1862
| speeches and Address on the British Amer
lean Union" published in London in 1855
and other political treatises.