The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-11
Election of Senators in So.
Carolina and Alabama.
The Will of Horace Greeley
Contested.
Bank Failure in Chicago.
Other Items, Etc.

W ASHlNtTDN, Dec. IA IenIiSylNdnld
member offered general Amnesty bill in
the House, and moved TO suspend the
rules and put it on its passage The vote
stood l02 in favor of suspending the rules
and passing the bill to S4 against A two
thirds vote is required TO suspend the
rules, which was lacking in the vote to-
day Among those who voted against
amnesty were Amber, Oakes Ames,
Beatty, Beveridge, Ill J, Bingham, But
Ter. COburn, Dawes, Foster, Hawley, (lll }
Maynard, Sprague, Monroe, Peck, Snapp.
Smith and Epson Havens and Parker
were the only members from the Mis-
souri, Valley against suspending the
rules Garfield and Stevenson were the
only Republicans from Ohio who voted to
suspend the rules. Farwell and Hay were
the only Republicans from Illinois who
voted on behalf of amnesty.
BosToS, Dec, l0.-Mayor Castor was
reelected by 352 majority.
| NEW ORLEANS, Dec l0.-The mass
meeting of business men in front of the
( City Han adopted memorial to Congress
expressing a preference for military gov
ernment rather than the present irrespon-
sible and usurping rule.
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Judge Gilmore enjoined Pinchbeck from
discharging the duties of Governor.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. lO.-John J. Pat
terson was elected United States Senator
on the first ballot.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. l0-F. ".
Sykes was elected United States Senator
to-day by the Legislature at the capitol.
Sykes was a Greeley Elector at the late
election A resolution looking to the i'm
parchment of Governor Lewis was offered
and referred to a committee of five to re
port on Thursday The Court House Leg
islature elected State Treasurer Bingham
Public Printer and adjourned
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 10-A sensation was
created at Elizabethtown this morning by
the commencement of a suit in behalf Of
VIM NJ Lent, of San Francisco, against
Philip Arnold, John Dock, and other par
ties engaged in the recent diamond opera
tons in Colorado, for $3.50, 600. The safe
at Arnold's residence in Ehzabethtown
and valuables in the bank of Thos. Polk 4
Co., of that place, were attached upon the
affidavit Of Lent, through his counsel.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec l0-John c
! Patterson, Senator-elect from South Caro-
: lima, has been arrested on a charge O
, bribery.
{ New York, Dec 10.---John A. Dix ha
resigned as Erie director
, Mayor Hall emphatically denies that b
ever wrote, instigated or dictated a lin
editorially for the Herald, and says tn
story that he is to become connected ther
with is hoax.
! A. T. Stewart denies any intention t
erect a building for the accommodation G
: young men of the working classes
, The Italy, from Liverpool, arrived yes
. terday, bringing So emigrant passengers
! of which nearly 500 were Italians in a
e extreme state of destitution Authorize
G at Castle Garden are in trouble as to thei
S disposition, as they are as general thin
unable to earn anything after their arriva
and are at present without means of AN
kind.
KINGSTON, N. Y, Dec. 10 = tn
- steamer Norwich, to-day, while passin
through Warregat, West Highlands, wit
a tow of thirty vessels, twenty-eight {
l. which were coal laden canal boats, owne
: by the PENNSYLVANIA Coal Company, eI
d countered gale The hawser to whic
,r the coal boats were attached parted an
and all of the twenty-eight boats sunl
% The entire amount Of coal lost is 3,52
4, tons, the value of which, together wit
le that of the boats, exceed $25,000.
IF CHICAGO, Dec. lO.-The Scandinavia
= National Bank is broken, through the o.
erations in Europe of its President, Ferd
ie nand s. WinslOw. 1t is stated that bI
rs $4,000 of its capital stock of quarter
n, a million had been paid in: that Winslo
II owes the bank $200,0OO, and that a recei
i; er will be appointed to-day. The balanc
L" of the institution are scattered all over Il
northwestern States.
0, CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-Capt. Bogardu
e. the champion sportsman, accidently d
ly charged the contents OF his gun throul
= his thigh, inficting a painful injury,
II :. Elkhart, Ill, yesterday.
IL CINCINNATI, Dec. l0.-The Chron6,
II reports the burning of H. d. Keptingei
It. hub factory at Alliance, Ohio, last nigl
d. Loss $4,000. Insured. -.
New York, Dec l0.-The Fie.h Ay
& nue. hotel took fire tonight on the sout
west corner of the upper story. The +
- upper stories were ruined. One lady "
badly burned.
2. NEW Ofth, Dec. lU--AL W ultt Il Id
10 yesterday the daughters of the late \
Greeley, with few friends, and accom-
:, MED by counsel, appeared before the s.
,ck rogate to offer for probate the will Of tn
i'll father. This viii was executed on n,
nd 29th 1872. 1t had been written by \
a. Greeley some time ago, but was only p
sented to him for execution few hol
before his death It gives all his prope
. equally to his two daughters. This
strument had been placed among his !
vate papers by Mr.. Greeley and was OF
ND taken from among them at the time of
led last attack, and the first mcid inter
thereafter offered to him for acknowle
ment.
ggnss Atthe same time counsel appeared bef
nch the Surrogate TO sonteEt this will and of
in ing in its stead one dated ip January, IL