The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-07-07
A Radical District Attorney on
Trial for Bribery.
The Body of a Murdered 1Gau
placed on the Railroad Track.
Foreign
Market Reports.

WASHINGTON, July THE Senate river
and harbor bill are adding quite q number of
amendments to improve rivers and harbors
ID the Southern States.
! An effort will be made to get the hsuse
to concur IN the senate naturalization bill
wIthors sending it TO q conference com
mittee.
| The house will concur in the amendments
of the senate to the tax and tariff bill.
The conferencecommittee on the currency
bill have just agreed on an addition to the
$45 100000 provided in the senate bill
They have added sl0, 100000 more, making
5000, 900, retiring only the $45, 100000
three per cent.
The additional SO, 200, 900 provided for
is regarded as slight expansion, but SO
gradus as to amount but to but very little.
The redistribution of$25 900, 900 is retained,
as also the clause which provides for free
banking on gold basis.
The three prominent features of the bill
may be summed up rs follows 1t retlres
forty five million three per cents now held in
| reserve by banks issues, In lieu thereof,
fifty four millions national currency, in
addition to three hundred millions now
authorized by law; takes twenty-five million
dollars national bank circulation from New
| England and the Middle States, and distrib
utes it through the south and west, and
allows free banking on gold basis. 1t is
believed that both houses will accept it.
| The conference committee on the legisls
tive bill have refused to increase the salaries
| of the United States Judges.
The house amendment to give the same
pay to female his TO male clerks, where they
perform the same service, has been concured
In.
1t is generally understood that Mr.. Fish
will succeed Motley at the Court of St.
James
Four hundred recruits have been forward
ed within the past fe " days to the regiments
serving at St. Paul, Galveston, and San
Antonio.
Some senators are desirous of extending
for ten days the time for the adjournment OF
congress-, being apprehensive that the ne
cessary pu bic business cannot be transacted
oy that Il me, but the house, it is said, will
not consent to such extension.
! New YORK, July Over one thousand
subscriptions have been received from tele
grs ph operators for q memorial statue to
Prof Moran, the telegraph inventor, to be
unveiled on his eightieth birthday, next
April.
! Two-fifths of the twelve hundred men in
the custom house are of Mr.. Grinnel1 6
appointment, oil of whom will be removed
by Murphy at once, if confirmed. More OF
his friends have gone to Washington to urge
his confirmation, which, the Tribune says
is doubtful.
Canada advices say the an ne1ation feel
ing is rapidly spreading. Another Union
League has been organizing at Montreal.
In no previous year for fifteen years pas
has so ez cessive mortality prevailed as a.
present in this city. One death by Aeiatie
cholers has been officially reported. Nine
hundred cases of relapsing fever have os
cured since January, Of which l4O were
fatal.
S, n. Pike has commenced the erection
/ of another theatre in this city. to be the
finest in the city, on the corner of Broadway
and Twenty third street.
Two heavy failures are reported in Liver
DC oil. One is in the cotton business, anc
ha a liabilities of 100000. The other il
D, ointment in the India shipping and pro
duce trade. Liabilities heavy.
The Hudson Bay Company has appropri
s.ed the 100000 received from Canada fo'
the transfer of its territory to the paymen
Of . dividend of three pounds sterling tt
sh areholders.
The deaths of ex-Brig. Gen. j. G. Ham
bien and ex-Mayor Brush, Of Brooklyn, ar
an nounced.
Crxc1NNArI, July The new Schoo
Board of this city is organized by the eiee
tio of Francis Ferry, President; W. +
Harlbut, Clerk John Hancock, Snperinten
dent. The officers elected are all 10 favo
of the Bible 10 public schools. The major
y was small, but equal to the expectation
of the friends of the Bible.
sr. LOUIS, July The city council ha
passed an ordinance for the regulation {
bswdy houses, based upon and oonta'nln
many of the provisions Of the French, be
: gisn and European laws on the subject
PEORIA, July During drunke
quarrel at Otto. Fulton county, on Sunoa!
: a man named Craig, shot another ma
r named Brown, twice, killing him Instant.
The murderer fed. but was found b
! Browns friends, at Ipavia, and hung to
: tree. Great excitement exists.
G. G. Whitney, attorney fo- the Maso
lcounty district, has been indicted for bril-