Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-18
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| CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Tribune thi
morning pubh$ $hes an interview of 1T
washington 90 respondent with Charles
sumner. The reporter says Sumner ap
proved OF the Cl pclnnati platform as a fan
ana statesman like series of resolutions
ne pronounced the tariff plank the mos
honest expressId n on that subject used b.
any convention slnce he has entered public
me. lie paid high compliment TO Horace
'reeiey, ana SAID In case the campaign was
made q personal one between Greeley and
zen. Grani he Sd ould support the former.
NEW YORK, Ma l7.-Csptsin Patty, Of
sne schooner Fllrt from Martinique, reports
the massacre of , family of ten persons
named Fougier, IN the French settlement
OF 81. Peter, on ID at Island. The Fougier
family inherited six million francs from
their relatives In France, and the massacre
was committed BY l.. Bershemy. an heir
under the will, vi fh the aid of two hired
sssAssins accompanying him from France,
IN order to obtain possession of the entire
estate. Berthemy and his accomnlices will
be sent 10 France for trial.
New YoRK, Ma " 1.-THE icu-neymap
pium oers are the latest addition to the
elgnt-honr strikers. The carpenters of
Williamsburg have olned the movement for
eight hours labor V ithout a reduction in the
rate OF pay. The sash and blind makers
held q meeting last night, which will proba
bly, result similarly
Ihe me N bsrs of the Bar Association aud
OF the Legislature Epress the opinion that
the report In the Barnard impeachment leg
lslasIon 10 incomplete and incorrecl, but that
if blunder has been made and the proceed
lngs are illegal, IN xtrs session of the Leg
isizture Will probably be convened By the
governor tor the pubose of taking final ac-
ton upon the article
The master bakers have resolved TO raise
tne price OF bread tN enty-fv per cent. on
Monday.
AT mass ne & ngIef o lra' y nen cabinet
makers this evening . resolution to strike
Tor eight hours WAS unanimously carried.
Ihe strike will comm encs on Monday.
The carpenters IN ion has received such
accesslons since the commencement of the
strike that 1t now numbers 1000. The
master mssons to-day agreed 10 adopt the
eight-hour system the frst of July, wages to
be 81 per day.
PARIS, May 1.-The negotiations be-
tweed the govern nenk of Versailles aud the
uerman Minister, loo KING to total evacua
hon OF the remaining French territory now
occupied by German trooIs, is reported as
favorsbly
MADRID, May IL. News has been re-
ceIved OF light at Nj hnira and the defeat Of
the Carlists, Numbering 5000, BY the forces
onoer Ten. Letrons. The insurgents lost
Il killed and large Humber wounded and
taken prisoners.
WASHINGTON, May IA dispatch from
Yokohama, Japan of The 23d of April, says
the Emperor of Japan has abolished all he
edlcIs directed against Christianity, which
have been in foroe tot over three centuries.
"AsHIEGToN, May l8.-A report has
been received at sHe War Department
giving details of g IN kssAcre by Indians,
Mexlcsns and Negroes of persons in charge
of a train of supplies al Howaro's well,
near old Fort Lancaster. Col. Merritt, un-
der date of April 29th from Fort Clark re-
ports as follows: "0n the Goth inst,
arrived with cavalry alt my command at
Howsrd's well, few hours too late to pre-
vent one of the most horrible massacrss
that has ever been perpetrated on this from
tier. A Mexican train loaded with United
States commisssry stores, on its way from
San Antonio to Fort S tockton, was attacked
by Indians and plundsred and burned. All
the people with the train, II souls in all,
we're killed or wounded, except one woman.
Ny command buried IL and brought 3
men and one woman into this
post.
A rapid pursuit was made BY Companies A
& 81, 9th cavalry, commanded respectively
by Capt. Cooney, and Lieut.. Vicent. After
the trail some seven or eight
miles, the cavalry came upon the Indians
in force on the summit of steep and al
most impossible bluff. Here 9 sharp fight
ACQUIRED, in which r Pgret to say Lieut..
Vicent fell mcrtally wo hnded while brsvely
lee ding and attempting to control his men.
he died shortly after returning to camp"
The lack of ammuiti on made q prOtrac-
ted pursuit of the Indians impracticAble.
Ono man who escaped reports that SIX In
1ians we're killed in lhh fight. Words fail
10 convey an idea of the sickening afro
oisies committed by the demons who over
powered the train meh. Several of them
we're taken alive, tied 10 wagons and burn
ID. An old woman was carried some dis
lance from the place Of the attack, then
'hot and scalped. Her grand child had its
sars cut of, was scalped, and then its brains
iashed out, while her daughter, m other OF
he child, who witnessed il alI, as also her
husbands death at the train, wss carried
If BY the 6ends.
More than one poor " reich crawled from
be burning wagons after the ropes that
bound them had been burned of, only to
burn to blackened, unrecognizable masses
~ith their eharred hands and faces raised in
positions of entresty. The remainder of
he party we're women and children.
Gen. Anger, in his report, expresses the
opinion that the Indians came from Mexico,
and this belief is sustained from the fact
hat Mexioans and deserters from eolored
regiments we're with hem, such deserters
universally escaping into Mexico.
JAsEsvILLE, Wis, Ma y ia dispatch
rem Waupaeos, Wis.,, says, "a fire last