The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-10-14
Funeral Of Gen. R. L. Lee.
Market Reports.

tnepoEteo expressly Ior the ARGUS
LONDON, Oct. I4.-The Times cor, es-
pondens with the German side writes tina,
the bombardment of Paris will positivel J
commence on the 18th or 18th.
A correspondent writes that the number
of men and amount of material captured .,
Strssburg should be reduced At least one
half from the Prussian figures.
The town of Ables has been burnt, &C
cording to the threat of the Prussians. The
people not regular soldiers of France had
| fred at the Prussians.
Gen. Burnside has frequent interview.
with Count Bismarck.
The Germans are certainly advancing on
Amiens. The rumored disorders ct Rheims
are denied.
The correspondent of the London Stan
dard reports that $50 volunteers from the
United States recently arrived At Tours, and
met with an enthusiastic reception.
A letter to the London Telegraph says g
reign of terror exists at Lyons, where Gen.
Cluseres, in defiance Of authority, carries
things ss he wishes. HIS chief friends and
supporters are released galley slaves. An
archy reigns throughout the city. All labor
is suspended. The citizens are in dread of
their lives. Army officers are resigning and
quitting the town in disgust. Collisions
between the Red Republicans are hourly
expected, as they are qusrreling over the
spoils.
New IoRK, Oct. .14-The World this
morning says that although the election
turns are still incomplete, new is coming in
better and better tor the democrats.
The Stats Apzeiger enumerstes the
French losses, exclusive of TOul and
S,rasburg, and Q long list of killed and
wounded, at Marshal, 80 Generals, 1886
officers, l04,750 men, $4,000 wounded at
Sedan, TO- 40 horses, l02 mitrailleuses, $50
Geld and fortress guns, with . vsat amour,
of munitions and stores.
A Lima letter of September l4th gives
| The annexed details of . Coolie insurreosion
in the Vallsy Of Sufe, $50 miles from Lima,
on the plantations of PAtiot and Galepon.
Here nearly 200 Chinese we're employed,
and on the neighboring estates more than
4, 1000 of the Coolies vere contracted. Dis
satisfaction WAS shown among them months
ago, but little was though t of it. so overseers
| and owners took no precautions against .
surprise. The Chinese matured their plans
at leisure. The agent of Patiot arrived with
| funds to pay the laborers and purchase
| cotton While he and others we're At supper.
on the night of the l4th, some two hundred
OF the Coolies armed with stakes, and every
| Imaginable weapon, burst in the doors and
commenced an indiscrim mate massacre.
They were all killed but one. The coolies
then marched on the haciendas and villages
laying them all in ruins, until they encoun
tered an armed force. and fight ensued, In
| which 60 were killed and the remainder
dispersed.
The funeral of the late Superintendent o.
Police, Jourdan, to day, was one of the mos'
imposing pagesnts ever Witnessed in the
city.
Brick Pomeroy and J. J. Tucker have
sold the Daily Democrat to Jas. 81. Lam
bert.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1.-The election o
the democratic state ticket is conceded b,
all parties Eighty five counties heard from
mos. of which are official, give the demo
cratic ticket 1876 majority. The sever
counties ye. to hear from gave . democratic
majority at the state election in 1868 o
l4.I56. The democrats have 8 majority IL
the House, the republicans have the senate
Gen. Shanks, republican, ma ority in thu
9th congressional district will not exceed
two hundred The result for congress il
4,h district is still undecided.
Gen Coburn. republican, majority in tn
9Th district is 1868.
WASHINGTON, Oct Ia "A dispatch from
Senator Morton to Secretary Boutwell, say
the democratic state ticket in Indiana il
elected by about 1000 majority. The legis
lature is still in doubt.
| VERSAILLES. Oct. 14.-Yesterday tn
French army of the Loire were driven GU
of Orleans after . nine hours fight. Orlean'
was subsequently, stormed. The Prussian'
took upwards of ten thousand prisoners
Their loss 10 small
LEXINGTON, Va, Oct l3.-Gen. Lee vii
be buried Saturday, the 18th, at noon. Hi
remains will be placed in q vault benestl
the college chapel, which stands in tn
midst Of the college grounds, and which !
the first building be had erected after hi
removal to Lexineton-he having declared
it wss proper that the 6rst thing the colleg
did should be to dedicate . house to the
service of religion The corpse was removed
to day from his residence to the chapel
where it will lie in state until Saturday.
MANSFIELD O., Oct l4.-The funeral Q
the late Ex-Gov. Mordecai Hartley tool
place Yesterday. Business was suspended
FRAsKFoRT. KY, Oct. 14-Ths synod @
Kentucky Presbyterians has been sitting
day and half.
The great Mscklen whisky suit for $45,
, 600 resulted in hung jury.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. l4.-Senator Morto
asserts that the democratic state ticket
elected by majority Of l.500. Lew Wallac
10 defeated 10 the Ninth District. Tn