The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-28
By Telegraph.


CHICAGO. Jan. 27.--The Tribune's Wash.
ington special says: The memorial of Gen.
Hurlbut and Col Dickey, regarding the
Michigan ship canal and the improvements
OF the Illinois river, has been sent to the
mouse, ordered to be printed, and sent to the
committee on roads and canals, of which
burton z. Cook, Of Illinois, is chairman.
Mr. Cook is understood to be strongly in
favor OF the measure. ~
a delegation representing the i Rock
island haiiroad, has been here for
number OF days, i'm consultation
with the government authorities for the
purpose OF arranging points of difference be-
tween the two parties. The final basis Of
settlement agreed upon was the Joint resoln.
ton submitted to the military committee Lv
Gen. Grant, explaining the acts relating to
the armory and arsenal at Rock Island al.
ready published, with an additional resoIu
tion that at the end of the specified time,
after the completion Of the new bridge, the
railroad company shall connect their track
with it and take down the old bridge, or in
case of failure, the secretary of war 10 re-
move 1t at the companys expense.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 27.-An old ne
gro named Lewis Washington was tried in
the criminal court on Saturday for marrying
white woman, and, being found guilty,
was fined $4,000 and sentenced to the peni.
Tertiary for two years. @
JACKSON, Miss, Jan. 27.-The Clarion
has particulars of an outrage committed in
Jasper county, Mississippi, on the 18th and
10Th inst, by a squad of freedmen who had
been stealing hogs. They waylaid consta-
bles, posse of whom were searching for
them with warrants for their arrest. Two
white men killed, one mortally wounded
and five severely. One negro wounded and
arrested. Several parties are in search Of
the perpetrators.
HARRIsBURG. Jan. 2S.-Bills were intro
duced in both the senate and house last
night to repeal the Gettysburg asylum bill,
but no final action was taken.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 2S-Attorney Gen.
Jones has furnished Governor Swami with
an opinion directly conflicting with tn decis-
ion made by Chief Justice Chase in the Uni
ted States circuit court in October last. The
Attorney General says the civil rights bill is
unconstitutional; the negro apprenticeship
laws Of Maryland are constitutional and the
United States circuit court had no iurisiic-
ton in the case on which Chief Justice Chase
gave the decision declaring that the appren-
ticeship of colored children under the laws of
Maryland was slavery or Involuntary seryi-
tuut anu lH NlOiaIOH Vi t0e thirteenth
amendment and therefore null and void and
returning them all to the custody of their
parents. ~ IL
New YORK. Jan. 2S.-Arrivals of whiskey
from the west, last week are 3,040 gallons,
upon 1920 gallons of which tax was paid,
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 2S.-R. H. Pratt,
of State Line City, committed suicide at
the Commercial Hotel in this city this morn
ing.
The house bill which clears from the stat
utes of this state, all laws excluding colored
citizens from privileges of holding office or
sitting on juries, passed a reading in the
senate to-day, by large majority.
A gentlemen who arrived from New Or
leans, reports that sixty persons died from
Cholera In that city last week.
KASKAKEE, Jan. 20.-The extensive Douglas
Linen Company's factory was burned yester-
day afternoon. The loss will reach $40, zoo to
$780, 00-partly insured. The works we're
to commence operations this morning. Thir-
ty five or forty persons are thrown out of EN-
ployment. The company will rebuild at
once.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2s.-Passenger Train
No. bound east on the Atlantic Il Great
western road, ran off the track near Lewis
burg, Ohio at half past l l last night, iniuring
several persons, The cars are reported to
have been burned. The accident was caus-
ed by broken rail.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2S.-A resolution, intro
duced by the democratic members Of the
Kansas legislature yesterday, instructing
senators and representatives IN congress to
vote against the bill to allow negroes the
right ofsuffrage in the District of Columbia
was laid over. The resolution says that
Kansas voted against negro suffrage last
fall, and that the representatives from that
state misrepresented their constituents in
voting for the bill which passed in Deem
Der.
The senate has adopted resolution
asking congress to grant subsidies to the
Kansas branch of the Pacific railroad. In
the house, amendments were offered TO
include all other railroads in the state for the
same subsidies, and considerable feeling was
manifested against the Pacific company In
consequence of their refusal to pay taxes
and submit to law passed last
winter in regard to the fares.
freight, &c. The whole matter was laid on
the table, but it is probable that the resolu-
tons will be taken up again and passed.
CIyCTNNArI, Jan. 2s. Particulars of tie
sinking of the Cincinnati and New Orleans
steamer Emerald on Saturday last have
been received here. The accident occurred
while rounding out from Turkey Bend on the
Mississippi, fifteen miles below the mouth of
Red river. The boat carreened causing the
cabin to slide overheard. The hull righted
Immediately but struck a log causing her to
sink in q few minutes. Mrs. DR.. Richard
son and daughter, the second chambermaid
and n lady unknown were swept overheard.
The captain and crew were saved, but the
cargo and books were lost. The Emerald was
valued at 6.000-insured in Cincinnati
offices for $4,000. She had on board 600
hhds of sugar and 200 barrels of molasses,
valued at SlS6,0O0, which is insured in Gin
cinnati Offices. The total loss on boat and
cargo is about $3.50
The New Orleans and Arkansas river
stern wheel packet, Geo. d. Palmer, was
snagged and sunk on Sunday, in Arkansas
river, "a miles below Pine Bluffs. She was
c. 60 -,