The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-24
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-Secretary De I
lana has arrived here much improved in +
health
The Committee on Privileges aud Flee
tons met this morning Mr.. Morton an
nounced that the questions into which the /
committee would inquire were three First /
with regard 10 the electoral vote second, /
with regard To legal elections third, !
whether a legal government now exists i'll
Louisiana.
An investigation into the Louisiana con
tested Senatorship has commenced.
There was large conference at the
Treasury Department this afternoon be
tween the Secretary and the representa-
tiyes Of prominent banking firms who
have made proposals to fund the new loan.
After a lengthy conversation and q thor
ough understanding between the gentle
men representing the firms below men
+ toned. an agreement was made as follows
The parts TO two proposals which have
been pending before the Secretary Of the
/ Treasury having united the Secretary has
this afternoon completed contract for the
negotiation Of the remaining three hundred
millions five per cent funded loan, with
Messrs. Jay Cooke X Co, representing
Messrs n NJ. Rothschild K Son; Messrs.
Jay Cooke, McMurphy K Co, and them
selves; and with Messrs Morton, Bliss &
/ Co, Messrs Drexel, Morgan & Co, repre-
senting Messrs. Barring Bros. 4 Co;
Messrs. j. S Morgan 4 Co, Messrs Nor
ton, Rose ! Co, and themselves.
LONDON. Jan. 23.-There is a report Of
rtIsaS+5.rs Tho kp,rriI.
Channel, just received. An emigrant ship
Of the North feet, which sailed from here
several days aro for Austria, with 4l2
passengers. exclusive Of her crew, came in
collision at midnight with an unknown for
eign steamship and was crt t. the water 5
edge Only eighty-fiye persons are known
to have been saved. 1t is believed every
other person who was on board has
found a watery grave No attention was
paid by the steamship To the emigrant
vessel after the collision and she pro-
, ceeded on her course leaving the sufferers
to their fate.
! The name of the steamer which ran into
the ship has not yet been ascertained, but
/, she is believed to have been a chance yes
, sci. bound from Antwerp to Marsailes.
The Board Of Trade Of this city has offered
= When the collision happened a panic oc-
p cured on the North feet the passenger.
who were asleep rushed from their berth.
e t. every portion Of the ship, where they
4 thought they might be safe and utterly
- refused to obey the orders Of the captain
n That officers as a last resort. to enforce
+ obedience to his commands, was compelled
# to fire upon the terror stricken people
Y l,,o nf .bas,, oil Il hatiD-af
Is that if the passengers had obeyed tht
ii orders Of the captain more Of them wouit
) have been saved.
!. LATER. Twelve other persons hay
.t been saved from the emigrant ship of tn
- North feet, making 81 known to have beel
saved The Lloyds have telegraphed thei
agents at the southern stations to stop
- possible the steamer which run the Mort
! feet down
-, NEW YORK, Jan. 23-The Englis
- troop ship Hamilton has not yet been hear
v from She left England for Halifax on tn
ID second inst She had on board about thre
,r hundred soldiers Of various English reg
- ments
The meeting Of the Greeley Nonumer
' Society convened here last night 4 nun
ie ber of plans and propositions were sui
Of niitted, but nothing definite was decide
= upon. Some $4,000 are already sui
20 scribed.
' " In the Tweed case to-day Garvey ",
Us examined at great length by peckhan, fl
n, the prosecution, concerning his transa
lg tons with ax-Comptroller Connolly
in Counsel offered to show that Garyey
departure from the city was caused /
threats assuming 70 come from Twee
70, and that after Garvey's departure Twet
G. personally took measures to keep hi
lv away.
= Defense objected, but the point was a
III lowed, witness then saying he left in CO
III sequence Of threats He was threaten.
n with assassination Laughter
1t. In one instance Mayor Hall aud Woo
d. ard had requested witness to give Twet
a receipt for the sixty thousand chec
& Witness then called upon Tweed, at who
request he (witness) signed a blank pap
for Tweed, Witness never received u ce
, of the check
u In reply to Fullerton, witness said
first made rough draft of his bill al
then modified and reduced the bill fro
S69,0OO to S60, 400 If the check t
100000, ind0rsed by witness, were shoy
him, he would still adhere to his testim
ny. He lett his check in Tweed al
never got the money.
Judge Davis here excluded as irreleva
- the offer of defense to show that I
names of Domnaaumna and Ashm
were on the warrants and a conseque
forgery.
The counsel however. put the questio
ana received from the witness the adm
SONS that he did put the fictitious nan
BE iil the warrants. whereupon the Jud
an- M brought down his eayel heavily.
ine; nn5 PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 23.--The Consti
ned tional Convention has decided fhat S..
par elections shall be held ON the Tnesday /
lowing the first Monday in Novemher .
al city elections on the first Tuesday in n
ruary.
'''' ALBANY, Jan. 23--Hon VIM. Cass
ther died at half past FIVE o clock this morni
's'h He was Secretary of the Democratic St
tism Committee.
and ST. Louis, Jan. 23.--0wen Norton
eine workman of the St. Louis lead and
tions works, corner Of Cass avenue aud Sec
cpne pne street, while oiling presses to-day,
netic caught in the machinery and had his h
u1ne' DUBUQUE, Jan. 23.-The storm is Y
Sw slight through Northern and Eastern