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

I n.n has comp ,ltitnv the necessary
OF Dante. and is .,1c;,.,;an e "e "'> ~0
notes. prior to i""hca'ioh.
4 so.. ~ the late President Polk is EN-
pioyei. with two blacks, the three ut 80 per
day, in taking care Of mules purchased by u
northern Spectator at the army sAles near
Nashville.
An American publishing house has lately
purchased the stock, stereotype plates, copy
rights, etc. of the celebrated I" Bohns
libraries and will soon issue them with
valuable additional volumes. The price paid
was over $3.50, 600 in our currency.
II. II. SMELLING, of New York, has in
pressa Encyclopedia of Photography which
is 10 embody "all that has ever been discov-
cred and made public in every branch Of the
art II will contain from 700 to 800 pages,
and he handsomely illustrated.
LlrrELL's LIVING AaE is about to begin \
new series, when it will be considerably en-
largei.
Tux Washington Star says Mr. Roger A.
Pryor is about to start an evening paper in
Baltimore.
TnE Mraakee Neps says that prcmin-
ent and reliable citizen Of Wisconsin was
told by Gen. Sherman, when on his recent
visit to Milwaukee, THAT Gen. Grants real
name IL Hiram $. Grant. and not Ulysses 5.
Grant, MS he is usually designated. General
Sherman stated that the name Ivy which
General Grant goes was acquired by tho
blundcr of the member OF congress who
recommended General Grant for the military
academy. when he handed in the name Of
young Grant to the secretary Of war. Al
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bryo lieutenant general endeavored to secure
a correction Of the error. hut the officer Of
the academy declined to do SO for want Of
authority, and referred the matter TO the
war department where for some reason it
was neglected. The modest student Of mil
itary tactics finally thanked the difficulty by
assuming the name which accident and the
official record assigned him His mother,
however never forgot to call him Hiram,
and Ulysses never fails to respond to the
call. Whatever truth there may be in this
statement we cannot say
Edwin Forrest owns very valuable estate
near Philadelphia. There is an oak tree on
the premises which he declares he would not
sell for twenty-five hundred thousand dol
lars Forest trees are getting valuable.
..CoRNELIus O'Dowp," in Biackwood, an
cssayist who is sometimes witty, sometimes
dull. and always garrulous and spitetully
abusive ofthe United States and Yankees"
is Charles Lever, the author of Charles
OMalley.'
TEN thousand dollars have been col
leceti for the Lovejoy monument mostly
from four counties that were in Owen Love
joys old congressional district Fifty thous-
and dollars is the sum required to build a
monument according to the design of the as
ISOLATION, and the Rev. Mr. Codding is act
lively canyassing for the sum
SIR GEoRdE l. STANLEY. Bart. contra
diets the statement that has been reported
to the New York Herald from Panama, in
regard To himself and wife.
GE:EnAL AND Mrs. GRANT inspected last
Saturday "A large brick building, situated
at the corner OF Nineteenth and | streets,
Washington, d. c.. with the view Of renting
it rs a winter residence The house is now
occupied as the Freedmen's Bureau. which
will probably be removed nearer to the War
Department.
The Rev. Lot Jones of New York, SAYS
the Tribune Of that city, who was killed by a
fall from the steps Of st. Lnkes Church in
Philadelphia, while in attendance on the
Convention of the Episcopal Church, be-
longed to family who have suffered from
fatal casualties hey ond precedent, Father
brothers, uncles, grandfather and relatives
over ten on dozen. have gone to the grave
qy violence. 1t seems to run in the family
Himself an old man, nearly worn out in the
exercises of his profession, follows at last, a
victim of violence, the long line Of his an
cestors to the tomb.
Gov. PIERpoNT publishes card in the
New York papers, denying statement that
he had uttered disloyal sentiments in the
office of Freeman Clarke, and was ordered
, to leave therefor. He says furthermore,
that Clarke knew the statement to be false,
and yet procured its publication.
GEORGE RYNo young man of twenty
years old, five feet seven inches in height,
Of fair complexion, blue eyes and brown
hair, left st. Louis three weeks ago to col
lect some money in Greene county, Illinois,
and is still missing. His mother desires in
formation Of him.
Mn. GEORGE +. Roof, the popular COM
poser appears to have followed A. Wards
advice to .'let the old man have chance"
His latest published ballad is entitled '.Sing
me to Sleep, Father
KosALiE Poe, sister Of Edgar A., is at
Baltimore and very poor. Her friends ap-
peal to the public for help Why don't Miss
Poe try poetry, and get rich
QUEEN Victoria has now eight grand
children, six of whom are boys. She may
almost liter ally be called the mother Of her
country.
G. VANDERBILT, Esq, was thrown from
his wagon and seriously injured on the 24th
in New York City.
The Louisville Journal, which SO seldom
jests, says: "a Boston man is publishing
poetry under the name of Hubbard As
Boston is notoriously the hub Of creation
he is in double sense a Hub bard" Who
is '.Hubbard - asks the Boston ADVERTISER
Can it be possible that the journal has in
vented this name for the sake Of making Q
pun on it
HENRY WARD BEECHER, in a sermon de-
livered on Sunday, unqualifedly endorsed
President johnson and his reconstruction
policy; insisted that the Northern states
must regulate the question of negro suffrage
for themselves; claimed that we must have
confidence in the loyal professions Of their
people, and spoke q kind word for General
Lee.
Rev. DIR. GARRISON of st. James church
in Chicago, has accepted the Missionary
Bishopric of Nebraska and Nevada, and
will be consecrated at st. James within a
few weeks.
IT appears that Captain Wirz, before leav-
ms Switzerland for America, was impris-
oned for forgery and endorsement, and
divorced from niBwife