The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-28
State Officers Reports--School
Finances---Long and Useless
Debate--ProVision for COL
ored Troops---Revenue
OMeers and G. 4. z,
In Session.
FAILURE Of THE ERIE STRIKE
the C0L0RED TROOPS PREPAR-
ING TO JUBILATE---MURDER.
STEAMBOAT INsPECTORs---POLE-
GAMY 4 CRIME--THE VR-
GINA CASES--POSTAL TEL
EGRAPH BILL.

SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 27.-The Convention
met at 10 q. m.
The President submitted the report of tn,
State Auditor, showing the appropriation fo
the twety-fif,h General Assem- bly, at 81 ,Ss9,
72370, and of the twenty sixth Assembl,
$3,362, ,257.2l. Ordered to be printed.
/ The report of the Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, covering sixty pages, wal
submitted and ordered printed; also a com
munication from the secretary of State
showing the number Of pArdons awarded
since 1860.
/ Mr.. Cameron presented several petition.
from towns IN Cook county, praying agains
| dividing said county, or annexing any por
| ton to another county.
| Mr. Craig, from the Committee on Coun
ties, reported an article for adoption which
is substantially as follows: Counties shall
contain four hundred square miles, and 1t.
| line be ten miles from any county seat Nc
| county shall be divided without the consent
/ of a ma ority of legal voters. No territory
shall be set off without a majority of voters
/ petitioning for the same No county seal
shall be removed unless its re location i.
fixed by law The fees of all county Off
| GERS shall be uniform, and no salsrr shall
exceed $4,000 per year, all excess to be
paid into the State Treasury.
MIR Abbott, from the same committee
made 6 minority report, which. with the
maj jority report, was made the special order
for February 2ls..
The report of the Superintendentof of Public
Instruction gives the amount of moneys
received from all sources for school purposes
for 1867. At $5,674,592; for 1868, $780,.
52s; for 1869, $7,200,lO2 The amount o.
Indebtedness for school houses, etc in the
same period, s., ,236, ,959; the amount paid
teachers, 3, ,4S2; the amount for school
houses, $5.9G1, las. 1t also shows tha,
normal schools are established In Cook
Bureau and Peoria counties.
The special order, the reports of the
committees on canal and canal lands, and
that Of internal navi CATION, were taken up in
com mittee of the whole, at ll:30.
The discussion of the special order took q
wide range and long turn, embracing
almost everything that could possibly be
thought of bearing any reference to the
subject.
The minority repor. offered by Mr.. Ander-
500, of the military committee, provides that
all persons, negroes mulattoes and Indians
excepted, between eighteen and forty FIVE
years. shall constitute the State militia. /,
is, III other respects, the same as the ma jor
ity report.
The Secretary of States report shows that
l,005 pardons were granted from 1860 TO
1870.
Mr.. Allen, in his remarks on the canal
question, to day, said that if the members of
this convention would agree with him, they
would here put brake on railroads that
p,,iI Of hcIy IN ta
State.
The revenue officers of the State are in
session here, discussing the various subjects
connected with the assessment and collection
of government revenues. The attendance is
large.
The Grand Army of the Republic are in
Gen. Osborn is in command. About fifty
membrs are present
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-The Erie strike is
about over. The strikers have failed, and
numbers ere begging TO go back to their
work.
The marriage certificate of Albert d.
Richardson and Mrs. Abby Sage has myste-
riously disappeared from the Office of vital
statistics, where it WAS filed on Saturday
1t will be replaced by duplicate to be
obtained from the officiating clergyman.
The colored citizens of this city are max
ing arrangements to hold . grand celebrs-
,ion of the complete ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment of the Federal Con-
stitution.
PROVIDENCE, Jan 27.-Mrs. Sutclif, wife
of Henry R. Suscliff formerly of this city,
now resident of Manchester, n. H., at
tempted to kill Mrs. Adrienn b. Mercer, as
she was entering her residence on Broad
street, last evening, by shooting her with a
revolver. She was taken into custody.
Both parties moved in respectable circles.
but there bad been trouble caused by jeal
ousv. Mrs Sutcliff is hsre to prosecute a
suit against Mrs Mercer for breaking up
her family.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S The committee
on com merce have agreed upon the bill To-
eating board Of local esmbosi inspectors
ct Evansville, Ind, in accordance with
petitions from several leading steamboat
men of the west.
The committee on territories has complet
ed the bill for the punishment of polygamy
in Utah. 1t authorizes the President &c
use oil the troops necessary to enforce
its provisions, and also to raise 25, ,00(
militia.
Three members of the Virginia delegation
we're sworn in to day, and fight is now il
progress over the others.
John Eaton, formerly editor of the Mem
phis Post. has been nominated Commissions
of Education. vice Henry Barnard, removed
| Only one Virginia Senator has been sworI
| in. Mr.. Lewis. The other, Mr.. Johnston
did not present himself.
The S peaker has appointed special com
mittee to take charge of Washburne's posts
telegraph bill. Among them is Lawrence
of Ohio, and Beck, Of Kentucky. All tn
gentlemen are favorable to the bill, AM
against the Western Union company.
A lively discussion is going on in tn
House over the admission of charles b
Porter, of Virginia. Democrats accused Q
disloya are explaining their course durio'
the war. and defending the party. Mr.. MOI
gan, of Ohio, asserted that the Democrsc
put down the rebellion. Porter has beel
| sworn in.