The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-24
The Stokes Trial.
The River Frozen at st.
Louis.
Railroad Accident in Wis
consin.
Other Items, Etc.


WASHINGTON. Dec. 23,-The Louisiana
committee have issued an address to the
people of the United States, who they be
lieve are not unconcerned spectators of
the events now transplrlug within the
limits of that State, and TO which it is
probable no equal can be found III history
The committee report as a unit in face
Of the insinuation that they are the mere
allies and agents OF Gov. Narmoth, that
they are not representatives of any per-
sonal or party interest whatever. So far
a. Warmoth is concerned few if any of
them have not been among his most bitter
opponents, while in those measures for
which he has been most loudly denounced
he had for advisers the ahettors and coad-
tutors Of the very men who now assail
him, including, especially, Finchbeck, and
others whose names figure most cJnSpicu-
ously in these proceedings
The committee declare, in reply, that
they are not parties To- and have no kn0wl-
edge of, any political trickery intended to
defeat the true voice Of the people; that
/ they do not believe any such existed, and
that they would not be here unless they
could proclaim, conscious Of their convic-
ton that the men who have been toisted
into the offices Of the State have been not
merely irregularly and unlawfully installed
but were not elected by the people and
We're not and are not the choice Of the ma
iority of the voting population Of Louis
lana.
/ The committee add that all they ask Of
the government is to make candid i'm
partial investigation of the facts. and then
proceeds to give a detailed statement Of all
the facts connected with the election and
subsequent troubles.
I WASHINGTON, Dec. - 2-Forney. in the
Sunday Chronicle, in an article on the
present Southern complications, concludes
as follows: The President has wisely
made up hi, mind not To interfere in the
Louisiana cmbrogiio There Is but one
course TO bring relief TO the South First.
Get rid of its corrupt importations, and
then let the President grant general am
nesty thus bringing to thesurface material
that will at least be able to inaugurate a
period Of peace Louisiana is but fair
reflex of the entire South, and it is time
the general government, if obliged to In
terfere, should see that its opportunities
are turned to more substantial purposes
than the creation of bastard statesmen,
who, since the war, have bankrupted and
disgraced every State they have pretended
TO represent.
\ special dispatch from New York to the
Capital too day contains an interview witt
Nhitelaw Reid, wherein the latter is re
, ported as saying that Schuyler Colfax
after an interview with Orton. refused Il
take charge Of the Tribune at any price
That when negotiations were first entered
upon, it was understood that the object il
view was mainly to swing that journa
round to the support Of the administra-
ton. and the name of Coltax was to be the
pledge to old country subscribers; bu
when the plan was further developed o
making the paper the organ of Orton anC
the Western Union monopoly, Schuyler
ID backed out. George VIM. Curtis wa
next suggested, but feeler in that direc
ton satisfied the managers that Curt
could not be made available
: Mr.. Reid says the losses of the Tribun
/ are grossly exaggerated, and came NOR
r from the withdrawal and death of Mr.
u Greeley than from any change in the pape
towards independence.
New YORK, December 22.-Wilhar
Orton, after considerable negotiation, ha
+ resold to Whitelaw Reid fifty shares ou
= of one hundred constituting the capita
o stock of the Tribune Association for
large advance on the price at which h
5 last week purchased it. He retains on
|, share, and it is further agreed that h
. shall be elected one of the Trustees of tn
n association, thus securing it the benefit {
his influence and business ability.
The Tribune, in an editorial announcin
}, the proprietorship, has the following
: we propose continuing our old battl
y against injustice and ignorance under tn
. same Republican banner which Horac
Il Greeley upheld SO stoutg and SO long, an
/ on the same policy Of a candid infuenC
l. which it was one of his latest acts to rea
: firm. over his own signature, in these CO
i, umns. Naturally we shall prefer to SUI
port, as far as possible, an admiuistraiio
{, which processes the party name. Such a
- administration viii receive from US a fran
and cordial approval of every action pc
formed in accordance with its principle
n But the Tribune is nobody's official adv,
: cate. Our party sympathies are III
I strong enough to overcome our lndepel
y dence or muZzle our honest utterance.
Of New YORK, Dec. 23.-Wm. Orton h;
"a a. sold Whitelaw Reid fifty shares Of III
c bune stock at large advance on the pri,
=, recently paid for it, retaining one himsel
s. and Reid will continue to manage Il
lg paper on the same line of policy he h;
been recently puasuing
,r. The opening of the second Stokes tri
n to-day was similar to the first one Jud!
D, Fullerton delivered the address for ii
ut prosecution, reciting the circumstances
the shooting
Judge Fullerton, in concluding his ad
M dress in the Stokes case to-day drew atte
of ton to the lawlessness of the times al
9gg said the question now prominent in Il
vo country was whether criminals should
/ arrested, and when arrested whether tn
ii shall be punished and stop be put to Il
bloodshed by bad men, who regard Il
Furnishing with death played out
- this state of things is permitted we sh;
soon be in state of anarchy.
er. Patrick Hart, Thomas Hart, and ,Jol
OF 7. Redmond, call-boys at the Grand Ce
ms trail, repeated the evidence given at the fiji
La trial. The case was then adjourned
md ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.-Wind from &
md ,In east, thermometer at four p. NJ, ten q
md grees above zero and falling. Passenge
lrs are crossing the ice on foot above t
afs bridge but the ferry boats are still maxi
regular trims helovU II