The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-12-27
Personal.

Ex-PREsIDENT PIERCE was recently bap-
tised and confirmed in st. Paul Episcopal
church in Concord, N. w.
OLD Santa Anna lives at St. Thomas, in
the West Indies, and some American naval
officers recently danced at grand ball
which he sgave.
Ex-ArronSEY GENERAL BLACK Of Mr..
Buchanan's cabinet has formed law part
nership in Washington with Mr.. Lamon,
formerly . law partner Of Mr.. Lincoln.
GEN. VAN VALEENBERa Of New York,
ha. been nominated for the japanese mis-
sion.
EDGAR ALLAN PoE is to be commemorated
by marble monument in the Presbyterian
burying ground, corner Of Fayctts and
Greene streets, Baltimore, where his re-
mains we're laid.
Ir is q curious fact thatVictor Hugo sho'd
labor under the delusion that he has mistak-
en- his avocation and that as q painter he
could have achieved greater fame.
/ PARErA receives $4,000 per month. Levy
the cornet player, gets half as much.
Mas. SrA1n KING and family have return
ed to Boston from California.
FIrz GREENE HALLEcK is sick at home in
Guilford, Conn.
THEODORE TILroN is paid 81 ,0OO year
as editor of the Independent.
MISS MACREADY, the daughter of the en-
inent tragedian, is about to appear before
the public as poetess. Her book is emit
tied '.Cowl and Cap, and other Poems"
A FEW days since, General David Atwood
the senior editor of the Madison Wis.
State Journal, and the veteran editor and
printer Of the state, was the recipient Of q
very handsome set Of twenty volumes Of the
new American Cyclopedia from the employ
ees Of the Journal Office, it being presented
in honor Of the Generals fftieth birthday.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher il his
Thanksgiving sermon said:
1.-The doctrine Of universal suffrage is the
doctrine of to-day, and from this day on,
there will be no rest in any state, until this
doctrine of universal suffrage Is the law
The tendency Of universal manhood is to-
wards it, and no decree is surer than this
that the time is not far distant when all the
rights of man will be granted to every man
don't limit this to mere color. There is 4
deeper prejudice than this--of sex and SCI
and the day is coming when in politics rs
in religion, our women will 60 with us to the
pOlIS, Wien TIE lhully Will vOtc.0Au1uAlVSASA l
suffrage be the law Of the land.
COMMODORE TATNALL, formerly connected
with the United States Navy, and latterly Of
the rebel concern, is living st Savannah in q
destitute condition.
I THE widow Of Iturbide, former Emperor
Of Mexico, died this week in Philadelphia,
where she has resided since the execution
Of her husband in 1924.
THE Newark Advertiser states that Bishop
Odenheimer, of the Protestant Episcopal
church Of New Jersey, met with severe
accident at South Amboy on Sunday. He
had just concluded the service at Rounda.
bout, and on going out Of the church, made
a misstep and fell, breaking his left knee
The injuries were dressed, and the Bishop
sent to his home in Burlington. He vii
probably be laid up three or four months b.
the accident.
HoN. VIM. A. BARsrow, of Waukesha
Wis, Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, and lat
Colonel Of the Sd Wisconsin cavalry, reg
iment which he organized in 1861 snd le
to the field, died at Leavenworth, Kansa
on the 18th Of chronic diarrhea.
AN editor in describing the doings Of
.. mad dog says: ..He bit the COW in the Ia
which has since died" This was very IN
fortunate for the tail: but we naturally fes
some interest to know what became Of tn
cow.
A MICHIGAN soldier arrested for stealth
goose said he found the bird kissing at tn
American flag, and arrested him for treason
The Washington correspondents are al
at their posts. The Tribune, has Car
Schurz, and three assistants the Herald
Mr.. Cadwaliader. and two assistants; tn
Times. Mr.. Swinton, and two assistants: tn
World, Mr.. Adams: the Express, jane
Brooks; Epenins Pos, and Independent, D
W. Bartlett the Citizen, Miles O. Reilly tn,
Boston Journal. Ben Poore. Philadelphi,
inquirer, q. H. Painter the Bulletin. Z. C
Wallace !; the Ledger, G. ". Adams: III,
Baltimore San, A. G. Allen: Pittsburgh
Commercial. Jos. Mcfarland: Cincinnat
Gazette. Whitelow Reid Commercial, Jas
B. Mccullough; Chicago Journal, B. F
Taylor Chicago Republican, J H. Joggart
Sacramento Union, Noah Brooks.
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