Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-10-27
News Items.

John Mitchell Is shortly to be releas.
ed.
There are but ten dependent freedmen
in Galveston, Texas.
The Veteran Reserve Corps is to be
mustered out December LIST.
The majority of the Mississippi Leg
islature are in favor Of negro testimony.
Sixty miles of the Pacific Railroad
west of Omaha, Nebraska, will be fin
ished by the LIST of December.
The steamer Atlanta from Mobile for
New York, was lost in q gale on the 18th
| instant. Forty-seven of the fifty. two
persons on board was lost. - ''.'s
The expenses of the Navy Depart
ment for the year ending June 80, were
S112, 100000. The estimated expenses
for the current year are $23, 100000.
The Legislature of Mississippi have
elected Hon. VIM. l.. Sharkey to the
| u. $. Senate to fill the uneXpired term
of Jefferson Davis, by vote of 100 to
| SO.
| 1t is reported i'm Des Moines that. the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company are about to purchase the De-
cOrah Branch Railroad, with view to
extend it to st. Paul
The order of General Grant, for mus
tering out the colored troops in Texas
caused considerable of a sensation in
military circles there. General WeitZels
corps loses eleven regiments in conse-
quence.
Harry Kelly, the champion oarsman
of England, has excepted the challenge
of Hamill, of Pittsburg, the American
champion for a race to be pulled over
the champion course from Putney to
Mortlake, on the Thames, next spring,
for $500 side, the American chambi-
OH being allowed ESQ for expenses.
Reports from collectors of Internal
Revenue in Georgia, give gratifying
evidence of the abundance of money in
the South, Notwithstanding the eX
hausting process it has been subjected
to within the last four years. The Col
lector at Augusta reports having col
lected two hundred thousand dollars
within the last three months, and the
Collector at Macon reports one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars i'm the same
period, all of which is from taxes on
cotton.
The Goth United States colored infant
ry is on the way to Davenport to be
mustered out.
The 9th Iowa Cavalry will soon be
The amount of currency issued to the
National Banks last week was SO, 49,
400.
There are rumors afloat in Washing
ton that Ben Butler is to have q seat in
the Cabinet.
A firm at Lawrence, Kansas, has con-
tracted to furnish certain tribes of In
dians with 1900 ploughs within the
next three months, SO that the red men
may begin to use them in the spring.
The working men of Charleston held
meeting on the 10th. They adopted
an address to their fellow citizens, in
which they expressed the belief that
the destruction of slavery will ultimate
ly prove great benefit to all the people.
Last week "Wednesday the residence
of the late Edward Everett, on Summer
street, Boston, was sold at auction for
$50, e7l, and will be superseded by bus
mess property at once.
A despatch to new York Sunday
paper says President Johnson will short
ly issue proclamation appointing a
ing for peace throughout the land.
The Attorney General has decided
that all colored volunteers shall be
white volunteers in regard to bounty,
and the paymasters are instructed to
pay them accordingly.
The Cleveland Herald claim to have
information that the Presidents forth
coming message will commend to Con-
gress the justice of some system of man.
hood suffrage in any legislation they
may pass relative to establishing State
governments at the South, but, with
intellectual limitation as to the freed
men. -......
In the Fenian Congress on Saturday,
b. Doron Killian, a delegate from Mis-
souri, announced that he had procured
the unconditional release of John Mitch
ell. This announcement electrified "
the Congress, and three cheers were
given for President johnson, three for
the United States, three for Killian,
and three for John Mitchell.
The proposition to increase the regu-
lar army, has been fully discussed by
Generals Grant, Sherman, Thomas,
Mead, Hancock and others, and they
have agreed that it shall be increased to
$4,000. The plan is favored by Secre-
tary Stanton.
Gen. Grants plan in mastering out
the unemployed Generals, is to dis
charge all such, except those who have
been personally disabled by reason of
wounds received in battle, or by disease
contracted while in the service.
Strenuous efforts are being made by
parties directly interested to get the
| President to revoke the order issued by
Gen. Sherman assigning the Sea Islands
to the freedmen, and have them restor-
ed to their former owners. -