The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-23
By Telegraph.
DEFEAT OF ANDREW
JOHNSON FOR SEN.
ATOR.
Henry Cooper Chosen over
him.
Important Railroad
Consolidation.
THE CHARGES AGAINST BUTTER
FIELD TO BE INVESTIGATED.
NAVAL TIMBER TO BE PRESERVED
Democratic Election Returns.
DISCOVERY OF GOLD In ALASKA.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN SPAIN TO
BE EXECUTED.
EMPRESS EUGENE ARRIVES In
EGYPT.
The Spanish Throne.

NASHVILLE, Oct. 22--The opposition con.
centrated on Henry Cooper, to-day, and he
was elected United States Senator Oh the
hrst ballot--Cooper, IS ; johnson, 81. Mr..
Cooper is q gentleman of fine ,bility and
has been a consistent Union man oil the
time.
New York, Oct 22.--Mr. Dunlap. of
Chicago, now in this city, makes public
statement that in sixty days the New York
| Central, the Hudson River, the Lake Shore,
the Chicago u Northwestern, the st. Paul
and the Rock Island Railroads will be one
line of railway, consolidated on q basis of
eight per cent OF the net earnings. This
consolidation line will lease perpeiually the
Harlem and the Erie Roads, the Erie at
seven per cent. on one million dollars, and
the Harlem at eight per cent on fifteen mil.
lions. The Erie gauge will be narrowed at
once to the gauge of other lines. Her con.
nections also, the Atlantic and Great West.
eru and the Ohio and Mississippi, and New
York Central, will be put into this consoli.
dation at 240, the Hudson at 200, the Lake
Shore at l2j, the Rock Island at l75, the
Northwestern at par, and the St. Paul at
par.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 22.--Judge Abel yes
terday called the grand jury together and
delivered charge to them, urging them TO
stop, if possible, one of the most daring and
successful frauds yet perpetrated upon the
State Treasury, and this is accomplished by
Wholesale perjury, suhOrnation Of perjury,
and, he believed, by completely Of officials.
He alluded TO false, corrupt and fraudulent
obtaining of warrants upon the State Treas.
urer by virtue Of an act of the General AS.
sembly, approved 1868, for the relief of vet
Grams who served under jackson in the bat.
tie Of New Orleans.
Sr. LouIs, Oct. PA Fort Benton
(Montana) telegram notices the arrival Of
party of miners from point 425 miles north
Of there, they having been forced to leave
on account Of the Blackfeet Indians. and
refusal Of the British TO sell them provisions.
The party, consisting of nine men, subsist.
ed ten days on one grouse. The weather a.
Fort Benton is cold. TIE mercury Yesterday
was ten degrees below zero.
MADRID, Oct 81 The indications now
are that the Duke Montepensier will be the
successful candidate for the throne of Spain.
All republican leaders captured with arms
bands, are to be shot Some executions have
already taken place. The Duke de Mont |
pensier has interceded with the regent for
the life of the leader of the attempted revol,
at Seville.
In the cortes, Gen. Prim. referring to the |
runors current in regard TO his political faith,
declared he was a monarchist and as such |
was opposed to the establishment Of re.
public in Spain.
New YORK, Oct.-22.-Por. au Prince
dates of the 9TH state that fight occurred
between the steamers Salnave and Petion,
Of the regular, and the rebel steamers Quak.
er City and Florida, resulting in the defeat
of the latter two. Salnave was badly dam.
aged.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct. 22.-The En-.
press Eugenie, Of France, arrived here last
evening
SAN Francisco, Oct. 2l--The judicial
election returns from the interior are favor
able to the democrats. The election Of
Crockett and Wallace, Democrats, to the
Supreme Bench, is conceded.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Secertary L be-
son gives notice that in consequence Of the
extensive depredations com mnitted upon the
public lands reserved for timber for naval
purposes in the state Of Mississippi, Alaba
ma, and Florida, naval officers and other
persons have been ordered to examine all
the lands referred to, and cause all tres
passers to be apprehended and prosecuted;
employing the civil power, and when ne
,essary, the military or naval forces, to as
;ist and bring to punishment such persons
IS may be found culpable in this respect.
The treasury department has commenced
IN investigation Of the charges that Assist.
ant Treasurer But;erfeld, of New York, has :
been speculating in gold, and il they are
sustained, he is to be di,missed. The Pres
dent has sent his private secretary to New I
! ork, to confer with Collector Grinnell, and
earn Ruttar6pld's s,orr