The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-01
By Telegraph.
WASHINGTON.
Cuban Question.-Wool
The Tariff Cheap
Postage.
MONEY DISTURBANCE IN LONG
ISLAND.
Jacksonville Female Seminary
Burned,
Effort to Break up the ct. 1oui 8
Public 8cho OILS.
New Orleans Packet sunk--Silver
Mine Discovered
FOREIGN NEWS,
Effort to Break up the st louis
Public 9cho OILS.

WASHINGTON. March lst.- The House
/ Foreign Affairs Committee have had another
| long discussion on the Cuban question. The
/ indications are that Banks resolution viii
/ be agreed on, directing the President. tc
issue a proclamation of neutrality.
Several leading wooden manufacturers
from New England are here, urging ths
Wavs and Means Com mittee to reduce duty
on foreign wool.
4 movement is on foot to have the tariff
bill indefinitely postponed when it comes uF
for consideration. The vote on it will be
very close.
Mr.. Allison, of Iowa. has prepared q res
olution declaring in favor of tariff 70,
revenue only and against the present tariff
Senator Turner is preparing a speech In
favor of reducing letter postage to one cent
NEW YORK, March For more than
two months past the people Of Long Island
have been In an excited state of mind over
the success OF the Mormon bishops and
elders in making converts to their faith
The society which was driven from Freepor,
the other day by mob, located themselves
q. Pstchogue, where protection was prom.
ised them by Justice of the Peace. This
action on the part of the Justice has caused
was held a, Christian Hook, and 1t was
thought for a time that a serious disturbance
would occur, but the mslcontents were dis
suaded from making an assault. Elder
Brewer, of Salt Lake, h.rsugued the assem-.
bly,. 1t is predicted that If the Mormons
continue to hold their meetings and propo-
gate their doctrines On Long Island, a serl.
Gus disturbance will occur, terminating in
bloodshed.
Jacksonville, H., Feb. 2s.-This morn
ing about o'clock the Illinois Female Col
lege building located in this city. took fire
from defective fiue, and, excepting one
wing, WAS almost totally destroyed. The
loss of the bnilding is estimated at forty
thousand dollars; insurance on the building
thirty thousand dollars, as follows Repub-
lie, Of Chicago, ten thousand; 4EIna, Hart
ford, ten thousand; North American, Phila
del phis, five thousand; Security, New FORK,
five thousand The furniture was al re-
moved from the burning building, but in a
damaged condition. There was no insur
ance on the furniture, which was owned by
by the Superintendent of the College, Pro
fessor Demott The College was In q flour.
ishiBg condition, about one hundred and
fifty Young ladies being in attendance, all
of whom escaped the burning building. and
saved their clothing. As one wing of the
College building was saved, there will be
bnt few days interruption IN the regular
educational exercises Of the institution.
JACKSONVILLE, Feb. IS The Illinois
Female College, the main building of which
was destroyed by fire this morning, is own
ed by the Illinois Conference of the Method
st Episcopal Church.
ST LOUIS, March IA bill passed the
lower horse of the legislature or Saturday
last, almost unanimously, requiring the
school board to appropriate TO every private
school now or hereafter established at ST.
Louiss to each scholar receiving free
tuition in such school. 1t is said if this bill
becomes law, it can be made TO almost
entirely break up the public school syste m
An effor. will be made t. defeat it in the
Senate.
The New Orleans packet Mississippi,
which sunk at Water Proof, Miss, left here
on the 18th inst, heavily laden She was
valued at S5O, 900. The cargo was estimated
at $500, 900.
louisville, March, 1st.-A Silver mine
of UNPARALLELED richness has been discovered
in Greyson county Ly., is found 10 contain a
larger per cent. of silver than any hitherto
discobered. The mines are almost ineIhsus-
table and will be developed in the spring.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 1.-The funer-
al of Hon. Anson Burlingame took place
Saturday. The English, French and Amer
ican ambassadors acted as pail bearers. The
remains will be sent to America
MADRID, March Three Brigadier
Generals and several Colonels have been
transferred to distant ports of the peninsula,
on account of their disloyal uttersnce.
RoMr. Feb. 2S-Th9 Pope's secu!ariza-
ton of Pere Hyacinthe, gives general salts
/ faction.
| HAVANA. Feb. 28.-Santa Ana was sent
NASSAU yesterday on Spanish man-nt-
war.