The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-15
The Contemplated Repub-
lican Frauds in La.
All Quiet in Vicksburg.
An Architect who don't
want Office.
Plans for Mississippi River
Improvement.
Grants N. Y. Organ Dead.
A Shocking Sensation in
Sioux City.
N. Y. Organ Dead.
Accidents, Crime, Fire, &c.

| returning board to-day. John ~. DAVIS,
supervisor of registration, and six com
missioners Of election of St. Helena par
ish, made affidavits that the election re-
turns from that parish. now in the hands
of the returning board, have been tamper-
ed with and changes and alterations made
in them since they were delivered to the
secretary of the board, Mr.. Arrows Of.
fered the following
WHEREAS, According to the sworn state
msnts Of the supervisor OF registration OF
the parish of ST. Helena it is charged that
the returns filed by him have been tamper-
ed with since said returns have been filed
with this board.
Resolged That this board SHALL before
acting upon said supervisor returns, inves-
tigate the charges made in the above state
ment, in order that the guilty parties be
dealt with according to the law.
Adopted, and to- morrow the investiga-
ton will be made.
Gov. Wells proposed that the Democrat
ic counsel submit all evidence and examine
all atfidavits relating to the contested par
ishes aud then submit the whole to the
board for their action TO this proposition
the Conservatives objected, for the reason
stated that certain papers have been placed
among the records without their knowl-
edge, and the contents Of which they are
not informed. They requested that while
the protested parishes are under consider
ation as each case is taken up, that they
be notified so as to inspect the papers i'll
each case and see that none Of the proof
offered by them has been distracted or
suppressed, nor that any new contrary
proof offered by them has been filed un-
known to them, so that all legal proof and
none other may be before the board for its
consideration. This request was acquesced
in and the Carroll parish returns taken up.
Before anything had been done a messen-
ger came in and whispered something to
the president, Gov Wells, who at once
arose and stated that he had just been Of
fcially informed that armed White Leag
uers were stationed in an adjacent build
ing, ready at any moment to disturb the
proceedings of the board. He, therefore,
moved an adjournment till ii O'Clock to-
morrow. Morris Chester, colored mem
Der of the Republican committee, sug,
gested that an adjournment would
not improve, but would rather tend
to increase the excitement NJ Sconaker
suggested that if the President had any
| fears of violence, he should call for United
States troops to protect the board that he
MIR. ocouuko., Id hoan informed tina.
troops would be furnished at once ii uooi.
ed. Governor Wells said he did not wish
to canvass the returns under the protection
| of United States troops that he did not
intend to be intimidated. Wells insisting
upon it. the board adjourned.
The military here are on the qai rtre by
orders from Washington.
An effort was made this morning to in
troduce five or six colored girls as pupils
into the girls upper high school, which re-
shifted in the withdrawal of over fifty of the
graduating class. This is the first attempt
that has been made to place negroes in this
school.
| VIcKsBURG, Dec. 1.-THE rumors tele'
graphed yesterday by a special correspond,
ent that the negroes were massing to attack
the city, proved untrue. Quiet reigns
throughout the country.
New YORK, Dec IA Washington
dispatch says John Macarthur, of Phila-
delphia. declining the Office of supervising
architect, the position will be rendered tr
Mr.. Walsh, of st. Louis, now superintend
ling the construction of the new post office
in that city.
Another Washington dispatch states
that the commission sent to Europe to ex
anime the jetty system at the mouth of the
Danube and other rivers, with a view to as
certain whether it could be adopted in the
ldeepeuing of the mouth of the Mississippi
are now at Southwest Pass. 1t is under
stood that Generals Comstock and Wrigh
are of the opinion that the jetty system il
Iimpracticable for the Mississippi, and tha
the Fort st. Phillip canal, being examined
by another commission, is the only way tt
avoid the mud lump blockade which has 81
seriously interiered with the commerce oi
the river river.
The commission of whom Gen. Warrer
is President, appointed by the President
to report upon the best method for im
proving the levees of the Mississippi, anC
reclaiming lands, are unanimously OF th'
opinion that the government should begli
at once comprehensive system of re
building and improving the levees Dor
dering on Arkansas, Mississippi and Lou
Iisiana, as otherwise the crevasses causet
bv the floods of last spring, will expose
the inhabitants of the submerged district
to more serious trouble than they hav,
yet experienced, and utterly impoverisl
, them.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Presiden
tonight sent the nomination Of Don A.Par
dee to be United States Judge for Lousi
ana. vice Durrell, resigned.
The bill to repeal the so called press-g
law was referred by the House to the Ju
dietary Committee after refusing to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill.
New iUaK, Dec 1.-THE Republi
newspaper has suspended publication, tn
last number being issued to-day.
\ The Police iceSupeIintendent received ads
patch from Fort Hamilton. Long Island, thi
morning, stating that VIM. Mosher an,
Joseph Douglass. burglars, were shot las
: night, and that Douglass, before dying
declared that MOsher knew all abou
Charley Ross, the child from Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Dee. l4.-Detective
state that Mosher. one Of the two burglar
shot near Brooklyn, L. l, last night, an
Q accused By his companion with being tn
!. abductor of Charley Ross. resided prior {
: the abduction on Monroe street, near Sec
!. ond, in this city, and at that time owned
horse and carriage.
NEW YORK, Dec, 1.-THE FIVE childre