The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-04-19
Stabbing ARRAY
in Chicago.
WARRINGTON C1Ex ITEMS
NO EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS-
Removals in the Treasury Depart
ment.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE publication,
in "a sensational manner, in New York pa.
per, to-day, that an extra session Of Con.
gress was to be called in 80 days, appears,
upon inquiry, to have had no official iouu.
dation.
There are about 5000 employees in the
treasury department. Three hundred have
been removed this week. aud it is announced, f.,
to the CONSERVATION Of ths clerks, that the
reduction will continue until the number
reaches about 1000. The work and appro-
priations do not warrant the employment Of
great number In preparing the lists,
care has been exercised to include nearly
every enemy of the administration, aud cv'
cry incompetent person but in many cases
others, including persons against whom there
was no objection, have necessarily been re-
moved, in order 70 effect deduction TO the
desired number. 1t may be well to state
that no appointments arc now beng made,
and that no vacancies exist in the depart.
ment at present.
Despite the threatening ulhmatum Of
Senator Summers speech on the Alabama
claims treaty there is welladvised informa-
ton that the President and Secretary Of
and do not intend to send Mr. Motley to
London with hurriedly considered and lr-
ritative proposition, but will give him only
| a general idea of the views of the admins,
tratiou, which will be followed by details
afterward. The various propositions, and
the correspondence which preceded the re.
| iectcd negotiations, cannot be studied up IN
a week. Katy. Gen Evarts is posting
Minister Motley on international law.
CLEVELAND, April II "A fire yesterday
destroyed Shal's slaughter house and o. W.
Crowelps barrel works. Loss nearly four
thousand dollars. A portion ofthe city was
in imminent danger at the time on account
of the high wind prevailing
LISBON, April IA military uprising ls
feared in Oporto and the strictest precau.
tons have been taken by the government
ROME, April lit is rumored that the
Emperor Napoleon has ordered an invasion
of Rome by French troops in June.
HAVANA, April l7.--Gen. Bucet" arrived
to-day. ,..
In honor of the Catalonia volunteers
| which are hourly expected IRON SPAN
arches have been erected, and other prepa
rations made for an enthusiastic reception,
The government, to-day, seized SeVeral
lots Of sugar belonging to persons named 10
Gen. Dulce's proclamation OF yesterday
Hereafter the permission of the government
will be required to enable any person to sell
produce of any kind.
The British consul here has entered an
| energetic protest against the condemnation
of the captured brig Mary Lowell.
The press of Havana advocates the eK'
pulsion from the island Of Cuban Americans.
The Spanish war steamer Barcelona re.
| Gently boarded the mail schooner Ellen
from Kingston, Jamaica, for Santiago, on
suspicion OF carrying munitions of war for
the insurgents The British consul IS inves
| tigating the matter.
SAvAYNAu, April II DR.. Benjamin
Au0ur, a member Of the Georgia Legisla.
ture, was found Friday morning. lying dead
| BY the roadside near Louisville, Ga. lie
| had been shot between the eyes.
| The Advertiser publishes to morrow a let
| ter from Bayama, Cuba, dated the 1th, an
| nouncing the arrival there OF three expedi'
| tions from Florida aud the union Of the vol.
| unteers and patriot forces, which are increas
ing daily. 1t says the Spanish troops are
deserting and joining the patriots.
CHICAGO, April I8.-About II o'clock
last evening, a man named James Lahan be-
| came engaged in an alteration with one
James Cary, the latter q late empIoye Of the
Goodrich Steamboat company, the result oi
which was that Lahau was severely cut in
the head and back with knife.
NASHVILLE, April IA Republican
meeting held at Marysville, Blount county,
few days ago, adopted resolutions con
demning the action of the President in ap
pointing General Longstreet to Office and
thus doing injustice to "the widows and or
phsns Of East Tenuesseeans, made so by this
same Longstreet."
Representative Stokes spoke at the Court
House to-day to about $500 persons, the
| greater portion Of them colored He was
received With enthusiasm and applauded thro'
out. He said ne had not come to insult any
ones feelings, but simply to vindIcate the
purity Of Congress upon which foul asper'
sions had been cast by Andrew johnson
in bis speeches at Knoxville and this
| place. He showed that Congress had never
transcended the bounds of the Constitution
| in passing acts over the veto. They had
| exercised no power not granted BY that in'
| strument. He accused johnson Of having
been the cause Of all the troubles in Ten
nessee; Of having stirred up bad feeling By
giving Brownlow instructions to call on the