The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1859-02-24
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authorizing the employment of counsel
for defense Of Dir, boy and son, charged
with abduc;ing negroes from Missouri
and now in Jail at Platte City. Mo, has
passed the Lower House of the Kansas
Legislature without opposition.
e@Hon. J Il Ward our new Minis
ter to China sailed on the 9th for Chi
ma.
Esssr~ Tie Marietta Cypress, publishes
a call for mass convention at that place
to be held on the Goth inst, to take
measures to secure the location of the
Iowa State Agricultural College, and
Model Farm. This is certainly y most
laudable enterprise.
\ rsA. 1t is said that anew independent
Democratic paper will soon be started
in New York, and that 500 900 are
available for tina. purpose Forsyth
and Pryor are spoken Of as editors.
MD- Gen. Cass has been attacked twice
lately with arpolcctic symptoms, and the
other night had the doctor with him all
night, and till late in the morning. His
friends were much alarg,ed.
rm- Gen. VIM. Walker, the great fill
buster, recently joined the Catholic
Church at Mobile.
s9..The Alton (Ill) penitentiary was
partially destroyed by fire on the Sth
inst. One prisoner escaped. Loss un-
known.
lgThe St. Louis Democrat Of the eth
inst, says :--Going Going The stca
mer Dan. 6 Taylor departed this port
yesterday afternoon for the South, hav-
ing on board another gang Of negroes
numbering, about thirty, who were pur-
chased by traders from this State The
negroes were all young and Of an aver
age value Of 5000 each. The tide keeps
moving out. er
Rock ISLAND Tho Secretary Of the
Interior has decided that Rock Island
was under the charge and control of the
War Department until 1860, and thai
The land is not yet subject to pre- emp
ton, and can only become SO by special
act Of Congress.
OREGON ADMITTED.-The House o1
Representatives has passed the bill
admitting Oregon into the Union By ;
vote Of III to lO3. As the same bill
passed the Senate last winter, it now on
" waits the signature Of the Presiden
to become law, and Oregon to be for
mally one of the sisterhood Of States.
REPUTATION IN WISCONSIN, A
League, it said, exists in Wisconsin
numbering already from three to five
thousand men Who are bound to eacl
other by oaths to resist the foreclosure
Of mortgages on their farms to the rail
road companies. They declare that they
have been wronged BY the railroads and
that they have no right to foreclose these
mortgages.
On the sth inst, the Agriculture
College Bill passed the Senate, with 9
few unimportant amendments-th the Bill
having previously passed the House
It is supposed that the House will con
cur in the amendments, and the bill be
come law.
p9rThe paper of the State Of Iowa is
quoted at par in Chicago, and the same
as Illinois currency in Eastern cities.
sa- The proposition in Story Go. t.
offer SIC, 900 for the location Of the Az
ricultural College was carried on the
7th inst. by . large majority.
B0-A gas illuminated car went
through from New York to Boston, thu
other night, over the Worcester route
It is said that during the nine hours &C
cupied in the TRIP, only ten cents worth
of gas was consumed, and the car was
lighted up as brilliantly as . parlor. S.
Dm-T The Michigan Legislature ad
iourned on the l4th inst y
n0r Mount Vesuvius near Naples il
giving Indications Of another great crup
ton.