The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-11-01

The people Of New York arc astd tn.
AID not u little excited by the res.popula
4 census just completed. The en,cd to he
v ton of the metropolis is asc,69. Decyeas.
Of 1860 In 1860, in was
+ in five years, 81, 100! I'D advertises the
Of Somebody in ut 10 cents per quart.
yolhs of eggs for 81 some chemical pro
II He uses the VIII;
a. cess editor was recently request
A wess paper to a distant patron,
10 ed to sa.c would take his pay in ..tradc -
d provi.hd of year, he found that his new
:. At.tiher was coffin maker
a SThe most valuable lot of furs ever
anrought to st. Paul, was received last week
from the Hudson Bay Company-6,O OOmink
skins, worth $50, 900. The skins filled twelve
ordinary sized boxes, and the st. Paul Pres,
says are worth more than their weight in
silver.
A woman who was buying trunk in
front of a store in Centre street New York.
was killed by a hammer dropped from a
window above.
Moral Never by a trunk in front Of a
store in Centre street, New York.
New Orleans papers reveal a dreadful
state Of things. Their local columns pre-
sent dreary waste of paragraphs, from 10
to so day, recording rohherics, outrages
and murders
During the war for the suppression of
the rebellion, % battles were fought, II of
which were naval achievements. There
were 80 in Virginia, 81 in Tennessee, % in
Missouri. Il. in Georgia, 10 in South Caro-
lima, IL in North Carolina, in Alabama,
s in Florida, IA in Kentucky, in the Indian
Territory, in New Mexico, and one in
Pennsylvania, the only one in northern
state.
The late North Carolina State Con-
vention could not find national flag in that
state to hoist over the Capitol at Raleigh,
and We're obliged to send to New York for
one.
A piece of ground located on Union
Square, has been contracted for by Mr.. Bar
nun, Oh which he intends to erect Muse
.um elifre. The ground covers over seven
lots. Work will be commenced in May next
and il is intended to have this building COM
pleted by the lst January, 1867 1t will be
six stories in height, and fire proof, and
contain peculiar facilities for reaching the
upper stories.
A proclamation will soon be issued bv
the President, appointing day Cf national
thanksgiving for the restoration of peace.
Some mischievous parties have hoaxel
the freedmen in Mississippi by the promise
that they will each receive a Christmas pres
ent of tract of land from the Government,
and therefore they refuse to make contracts
to labor beyond Christmas.
A negro, particularly a dead one, is
not considered worth much in New Orleans
Judging from the following item cut from
the local of a New Orleans paper: "Therc
is dead niger in the river at the foot of
Custom House street. That is poor Sam
hos obituary.
one year. Of age, fell and dislocated her
evening. and on the second day she made
her bed, and walked mile. She evidently
was one Of the ..old stock =
In the Jail in Boston are two babies,
one seven and half years old, and the
other nine, both small Of their age, aud ev-
identity infantile in mind. Their offence
was stealing few grapes, and they were
committed for non-payment Of fine and
costs.
Free speech has been infringed upon
at New York. A man called an alderman
thief and has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages.
Rats walking over bell wire lately
kept one Of Alhany's first families awake
for a week Of nights. They thought it was
"spirits. )"
TO prevent the frequency of ..hreach
Of promise eases in the English court, a
bill will soon be introduced into parliament,
enacting that promise to marriage, to be
held binding so that the breach of it shall
constitute ground of action, mus, be given
in writing and atested by two competent
Witnesses
The population Of Washington is esti-
mated to be lo5,OOO Before the war il was
about GO 600
A speculative individual in Petersburg,
Va. is buying negroes At $40 per head, in
gold upon The superstition that the United
States will hereafter pay for all slaves eman-
eipared by the war.