The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-01
OHIO WILL SUPPORT BLAINE FOR
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
And will urge Gen. Hckley, of Ohio
for CLERK of the House.
Train Fired Into on the Ohio,
Burlington and GaleSburg
Road,
WHITE MEN KILLED BY INDIANS
IN ALASKA.

CHICAGO, March 1.-The Times Wash.
ington special Of the 2S ult., says that it is
agreed on all hands that James f. Wilson, of
Iowa, is to be secretary Of the interior. 1t
| is understood that all the cabinet, except
Gen. Schofeld and Attorney General Ev.
| arts officers, have officially rendered their
| designations to President Johnson, and they
| will be accepted tomorrow In the mean.
time their respective departments will be
left in charge of officials next in rank, az
acting secretaries.
The Tribunes Washington dispatch says
the senate committee on public lands order
ed it's chairman to report back nearly all the
railroad schemes, and asks to be discharged
from further consultation. The bills thus
returned, provided for granting an aggre.
gate offully ffty-seyen million acres ofland.
New YORK, March The Herald says
Gen. Van Allen has arrived in Washington,
and had conversation With Gen. Grant on
Cuban affairs.
Gen. Van Allen was the bearer Of import.
ant documents from the reyoluuonists, and
charged by them with the task of laying the
true state of affairs before Congress and the
President elect
Gen. Grant has expressed himself strong
! lv in favor of recognizing Cuban indepcnd
ence, and says Spain did the u. ). serious
wrong during the war, by protecting aud
harboring rebel priyateers and blockade
runners.
A Washington dispatch says: At q
meeting of the members elect from Ohio,
they agreed to support Blaine for speaker,
and present in caucus the name Of Ger.
| Eokley, of Ohio, for clerk.
The following account is given OF visit
| of Senator Stewart to Gen. Grant, Senator
Stewart said be come to know how Graut
stood on the constitutional amendment Civ.
ing universal suffrage in the North and
South. The General replied that be under.
stood the amendment aud hoped the states
would ratify it. He believed the Republican
party we're bound to see this conclusion re-
allied. This statement, he desired all gen
t'emen present to understand, was not for
their private information alone, but for the
whole country to hear.
SAN FRANcIsco, Feb. 2s.-The Union
| Pacific is still blocked with snow for many
miles. No trains either way from Wasatch
since the 18th Of February. Latest over.
land adyices from New York are Of the 9Th
| inst.
William Bradley, Assistant Surgeon and
Brevet Major U. s. Army, died suddenly
Yesterday Of apoplexy, at San Jose.
The Congressional amendment to the con.
stitution allowing universal suffrage, receiv'
ed at Carson City by telegraph, was submit,
| ted to both houses ofthe Nevada Legislature
Yesterday, and made the special order for
| Monday next. Ratification of the amend
ment is doubtful, as the opinion prevails
that it permits Asiatics to become citizens
Alaska advices Of the 9Th Of February
state that two white men, while on a trad,
ing expedition We're killed by the haikee
Indians near Sitka, in revenge for the death
| of their friends shot by sentrles at Sltka.
United States steamer Saglnaw,wlth Gen
Davis and staff, was about to leave for
| Kaikee.
Quincy, H., March, IA band Of ruffins
recently attacked train on the Chicago
| Burlington Il Galesburg railroad near Zen
nessee station. They threw club through
the glass in the car at the engineer and at
terwards fred two sho's at the tram, but
without doing any damage.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March The Clem
murder trial closed on Saturday night. The
Judges charge to the jury was considered
strong for the state and It is generally bellev'
J ed that Mrs. Glen will be convicted.