The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-21
BOILER EXPLOSION AT QUINCY,
ACCOUNT OF A GREAT CUBAN
BATTLE.

BATTLE.
WASHINGTON, March, 2i.-The San Do
mingo treaty is receiving more attention
from the Senators since the President has
manifested SO great interest IN Its behalf.
Whstever may be its erits. one fact is we'll
known to Senators, namely that those strong
er advocates OF annexation are persons who
have brought up at a low figure, evidences
| of inds btednsss against San Domingo. men
toned in the treaty of annexation with the
Island. These evidences will be at par,
and there is good reason to believe that there
are several millions more than is supposed.
Whether Grant il aware of these facts is not
known, but the Senators are, and the treaty
will receive some rough handling, whether il
is considered in executive or open session
The interest manifested to learn the fate
of the funding bill in the house is very great.
1t is looked upon as the most i'm mportant f..
nancial measure which has been considered
in Congress since the passage of the legal
tender act. To day numerous kilograms
we're received from New York inquiring
INTO the progress made by the ways and
means committee with the bill. These in
quiries seem to be prompted a good deal BY
the conference going on between the com
mittee and the president and secretary of
he treasury. This morning another of
of these interviews took place with the sec
retary. The latter insists upon the restora.
tioa of the foreign loan clause, but is not so
particular regarding other features OF the
bill. he does not lay much stress upon
| that feature reducing the commission 10 be
paid for neg otisting the loan. Nothing has
yet been decided by the committue, but on
Monday they will take up and dispose Of the
sections which have been debated. 1t Is
the intention to report the bill to the house
next week, and to pass it within . week from
the time it is reported. 1t is pretty evident
from the temper Of the committee that the
national bank interest will fail to induce any
chonges in the measure.
A report has been very generally circuls-
ted, to-day, that Commissioner Delsno
intended 20 resign his Office on scrount Of
the interference of the treasury department
on Saturday, in removing Collector Bailey,
of New Y ork, and making other important
changes in the revenue officials of that city
without the consent of the commissioner. II
appears that MIR. Delano insisted on retain.
ing Bailey in Office in defiance of every bad
showing made against him, not only by
parties affected by his seizures, but by other
officials of the treasury department. Secre-
tary Boutwell, having satisfied himself of
this, secured the approval of the President,
and the changes we're made. Mr.. Delano
maintains that he is the Judge In the premi-
ses; is responsible for the collection of the
revenue and .hould manage the effairs of
his bureau without intervention. Besides,
it is said he has figured at Boutwell's oppo.
sition to the plan of the ways and means
committee to make the revenue an indepen-
dent office, with @ seat in the cabinet.
The case of the eligibility OF Senator
Ames to q seat in the Senate will probably
be taken up on Monday. The Judiciary com
mittee viii submit report tracing Ames
residence, and showing that he was not an
inhabitsnt of thr state from which he was
elected senator. They say that on the 18th
Of January, after the date of his election,
ne was q military officer. stationed in Mis-
sissppi, BY order of superior military author
ity and that he did not resi- gn from the army
until sfte- the bill admitting Mississippi had
passed both houses of congress.
BERLIN, March 2l.-King William yester-
day received the eldest con of the late Min
lister Burlingame.
NEW YORK, March 81 Another insurreo-
tion has broken out in Hayti. The pickets
in the Southern department are in arms
against the provisional government, and the
partisans of the late Prest. Salnave, are
Joining them. The government has sent
reinforcemeDts to the army in the field, and
several war steamers have also been dis
patched to the south. The British and
Fren b governments have refused to recoR-
nize the provisional government, until il
assumes the debt of the SAlnsve administrs.
ton.
QUINCY, March Ala terrific explosion
took place at the Eagle Mills, the larges.
establishments of the kind in the city, sbou.
o'clock on Friday night. The mud drum,
as it is termed, exploded with such force as
blow out the entire west side of the engine
room, throwing bricks distance Of two
hundred yards into the river, breaking holes
through shingle roofs and causing g general
CONSERVATION and stampede In the immed-
ate vicinity. The cause of the explosion is
entirely mystery, since the engineer says
that when he left there was no. sufficient
FIRE under the boilers to make such steam.
and yet, after the secident, several bushels
Of coal we're taken from the ERE box How
it got there lie left entirely to conjecture.
~" AohA, m1Ecn <1.-dQvlc6S from
the West Indies make it probable that the
Atlanta, so long missing, is safely harbored
A short time after the execution of Salnave,
she appeared off Port an Prince, but hear
ing that her purchaser had been put to
death, and no one having come to claim her,
her captain took voyage among the Wes,
Indies Islands.
New YORK, March 2l.-The Tribune of
to-day publishes q letter from Havana writ
ten BY an American flibuster who was an
eye witness OF the battle which ended SO
dissssrously for Gen. RueiIo and SO victori-
ousiy for Gen Jordan. According to the
correspondent the number of Spaniards kill
ed and wounded exceeded the number of
Cubsns engaged in the battle, q .piece of
information which the patriots ACQUIRED in
part by having to disinter the Spaniards to
get their clothing. He writes that the Span
isrds buried their dead on the field and re-
treated seven miles to fortify themselves in
strong position, where they remained for
two weeks without daring to leave their en-.
trenchments even for food, which became
very scarce. Their loss including 200 killed
and buried on the field and lbs who died
and we're buried in their refuge. Gen. Jordan
fought the battle with 548 men, including
negroes and Chinese, and some of them so
ragged that they had to strip the dead.
Deserters confirm this Spanish loss. and
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