Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-19
South Carolina Finances
TIE MEXICAN REVOLUTION.
General Summary.
Market Reports.
tRsporIsd Expressly for the AssUs.l

NEw YoAK, Jan. lS.-A great crowd was
at the court of Oyer and Tsrmiuer this
ID morning to witness the arrsignment of
Stokes for the murder of James Fisk.
Stokes was brought 70 court in a close car
riage and srraigned. His COUNSEL asked for
q postponemsnt, as they had not seen the
indictment yet.
The case was then adjourned until Wed
nesdAy next.
CAtacazy sailed for Europe last Sstur-
day.
The report of the increase Of small pox
in this city begins to excite alarm. The
cases have increased in the past week from
6s to so. The disease seems to be confined
to no one.ssection. Vaccination is vapidly
progressing, but among the lower classes of
Germans, who objec. to vaocin ation
the contagion il making most marked rsvA-
ges.
A subscription Was started yesterday
among the crowd gathered to witness the
unveiling Of the franklin statue, for the
purpose Of erecting q statue of Horace
Greeley, TO be erected opposite the statue OF
Franklin, ct the other end Of the square
Six thousand dollars were subscribed, the
list comprising, among other names, those
Of Charles A. Dana, Mayor Hall, Henry
Ward Beecher, VIM. 0rton and Samuel B
Cortney.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. l6.-Ths resolution d.
rectiug the payment of State bonds mAtur-
ing this year DO paid in currency instead Of
coin, which passed the Senate last Friday
every day this week, passed the House TO-
day, by vote of SO TO 33.
MADRID, Jan. Is. The Ministry has di
rooted the governors of provinces to sup
press the iDternationGlists withia their
Jurisdiction, but at the same time not to
interfere with liberty of speech, and to take
no notice OF simple ennu Citations Of princi
Piles by the International society, as ths
laws Of Spain provide no punishment foI
such utterances.
PARIS, Jan. l8'--The suppression of the
newspapers Gsulois End Constitution i:
exciting great indignation.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. l5.-In the Democratic
caucus tonight, Geo. 4. Dennis, the presen
State Senator from Somerset county, wa
nominated for United States Senator, T.
succeed Hon. &. Vickers, ON the seconC
ballot, receiving So votes.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19.-John V. Childs
9 we'll known eugrAver, was found dead Ii
bed, from an overdose Of lsndsnum, thi
| morning.
LONDON, Jan. ls.-The Queen was yes
,erdAy congratulated by the inhabitants O
! Osborne on the recovery Of the Prince Q
Wales.
New YoEL, Jan. l8.-A Columbia dis
patch states that Gov. Scott has assented t
9 scheme Of the Union Trust Company o
New York and Carolina National Bank Q
ColumbiA whereby the debt of South Care
lima is to be diusted. The Union Trui
Company, besides assuming the debt {
South Carolina ON basis Of fifty cents o
the dollar, also settles the Indebtedness Q
thsStAte to the present financial agent.
BOMBAY, Jan. IA dangerous revo
among the RookAhs of AndiA has been SUP
presssd by troops, who marched directly I
the headquarters Of the rebels and con
pletely defeated them, killing one hundre
aad taking several hundred prisoners. Qui.
now prevails.
KEUKUE, Iowa, Jan. ISL is reporte
that on Friday last the boiler of q steal
ullll bh otShOht mus w tuc hAunibi
and St. Joseph Railroad, exploded, killiA
six men, aud wounding others, and demo
ishing the mill.
SAN FRANCIsCo, Jan. l8.-The weather
very warm. and exceedingly favorable f
crops.
The Federal General Csrona is preparir
10 attack Mszsllsn by land and sea. The
| is no doubt Of the defeat Of the rebels in .
the 0axacs and Juerero possessions BY q
Federal authorities.
The CAliforniA Assembly has passed
= bill to strike out the words "white" 81
male" in the Attorney act. The propol
tion to license gambling meets with CO
1t siderable favor.
e HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. l8.-W.
d Tweed passed here, going West, last eve
p ing.
MATANoRAs, Jan. .ls.-A large force
Indians from Mexico are burning ranch,
killing settlers, and RAINING of stock fro
Texas between Soredo and Eagle pass
\ their camps on the Mexican side of I
Rio Grande.
\ AUGUSTA, Me-, Jan. 1s.-In the Temp
Ance Convention, to-day, report was
auimouAly adopted that the Michigan Ii
of making the ssllsrs Of liquors and owl