The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-12

Colfax $500 about June 16. 1868, which
was deposited at the same time with
thousand dollar note sent him for campaign
expenses, by George w. Nesbitt, of New
York, through the mails The letter and
note were exhibited at the breakfast table
Of MFR Colfax
Mrs Caroline Hollister, a halfsister of
Mr. Colfax, residing in Utah, now here.
testified to the receipt of the thousand
dollar note from Mr.. Nesbitt
After the adjournment of the Commit
tee tonight Vice President Colfax receiv-
ed the following dispatch from his married
sister in Iowa;
KELLOGG. Iowa, Feb. lI.-Mother
wrote me in the summer of 1868, of your
receiving the one thousand dollar bilImen-
toned It. with other things, shows how
much you were appreciated / am search
ing for the letter VIII send it if found
fsigned,l MARY s. CowELs.
The Pomeroy Investigating Committee
met this morning Witnesses were sent
for by telegraph The examination will
commence Immediately. The sessions will
be public.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.-THE chairman
of the Wilson Union Pacific railroad COM
mittee is here to examine as alleged. the
payment of money to james T. Wilson.
but which payment Wilson denies all
knowledge of.
MADRID, Feb, 10 Midnight ht.-At eight
o'clock this evening the King announced
to Gorilla that he had determined to abdi-
cate Saturday last When he declared his
intention Of quitting the throne the Minis
ter, ,strenuously but unsuccessfully endeav-
ored to dissuade him That abdication is
certain creates the profoundest sensation.
but tranquility prevails The royal mes
sage<announcing the determination of the
| King will soon be submitted to the Cortes
The Cabinet will resign
| VERSAILLES, Feb ll-Repubican Den
uty Quinet has received dispatch from
| Madrid, at noon to-day, signed by Figorrsa
and CASTELAR,, saying a republic viii be
| proclaimed this evening
WASHINGTON, Feb. ll.-Mori the jap
anese Minister gave reception last night
to several hundred ladies and gentlemen.
Mori will soon leave for Japan
Secretary Fish this evening received the
| following dispatch from Minister Sickles
AT nine O'Clock tonight the Cortes adopt
ed republican form of government by a
vote of 259 in the affirmative and 32 in
| the negative.
! BUFFALO, Feb. 1.-THE jury in the
| Gaffney case, after hearing the testimony
of Miss Gray and Nanderpool, pronounced
the prisoner sane. The doctors say the
case was one of the weakest kind of feigned
insanity The night watchman testified
that Gaffney offered to bribe him to inform
him of the physicians opinions. The exc.
cution will take place Friday Gafney OF
being informed by the sheriff that the jury
had pronounced him sane and that he Ger
tainly would be executed Friday, at onct
abandoned his insanity dodge
New YORK, Feb lit is understood
that petition signed by prominent mer
chants, and several clergymen of the Epis
copal Church, will be sent to Governai
Dix tonight, asking him to commute til,
sentence of Foster to Imprisonment fol
life.
The murder Of james Graham, Of LITTLE
Neck, l.. l., on Friday last, is still shrowd
ed in deepest mystery There is grea
excitement in the neighborhood over tht
affair, and it is believed there were severa
perpetrators Of the crime
| CONCORD, \. H., Feb 1l.-Some fit,
representatives of the Liberal Repubhcal
party met here to-day in response to a cal
from the Committee, and nominated Sam
uel X Mason for Governor, and ". 4
Head for Railroad Commissioner.
| The Liberal Republican Convention re
ported the following candidates for Con
eress First district, Emory Hubbard
I'd, Josiah NJ Fletcher; Sd, Samuel II
ICooper.