The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-10-04
The Alabama Convention Nv n vote of 60

debts created 10y the State in aid of the late
war null and void, and torbidding the gen.
cral assembly TO ratify the same, or assume
10 provide for the payment of the same !;
also forhidding the general assembly TO as
sumo any debts incurred by the Contedera' .
States The amendments to the constitution
are to be submitted to the people.
l, Is stated that the regular army will here
after consist Of ID, 900 men.
During Fifty days prevalence Of the cholera
NJ Constantinoplc the deaths were not less
than fifty thousand For several days the
deaths were over two thousand day. More
than one hundred thousand fled the city.
! The Cincinnati Commerr,o| says of the at
temp! 10 assasSinaie Gen Grant. by throw
4 inc his special train oil the track near Law
rcnceburg. Ind, on Tuesday night, the 10Th,
that the proof seems positive there was moth
] ING in the nature Of an accident about this.
Daring Gov Mortnn's administration three
I efforts have been made 10 murder him, twice
/ hy throwing trains in which he was riding
! from the track. and once by firing upon him
| in the state House yard at night.
The 18th Illinois cavalry, for some time
orders on Saturday, the 2Sl, to march to the
plains. hut positively refused to do 50
Thcreupon troops were sent from Lcaven-
worth--the 18th regulars and 18th Tennessee
who. on Monday. surrounded the camp of
the 18th. and compelled an unconditional
surrender Some thirty-tivc or forty still
persisted in their ohstinacy when nineteen
were marched to the guard house, and the
remainder escorted between two files OF sol
acrs to Fort Leavenworth
Ii is said that the President has promised
Governor Bramlette TO relieve Kentucky al
once from martial law ; that The removal Of
General Palmer has been determined upon.
AMI that General Gordon Granger will pro
baby be his successor.
The Earrings. il is reported in London have
made arrangements for Il Massachusetts
State loan of s;J.Opo, 900 or SlU.Ooo,oO0. II
- " cit ~ ssfi thN S-NftFtS 'A'oiS
out 50 heavily.
The hotel OF the Union Stock Yard Co.
Chicago, now in course OF erection, has been
leased to Vim. I. Tucker. Esq. OF the Briggs
House, for So .oHu yer annum for term OF
five years.
Col John Orr. late of the 10Th Indiana
regiment committed suicide al Conncrsylle.
Fayettc county. on the ,.th. by shooting
himself through the head. Col. Orr. was
wounded at Arkansas Post by the concns>ion
Of Shell, ana i said t. hay, been subject to
periodical fits OF partial arrangement ever
since. in one If which. it is believe |. he did
the fatn, deed.
large fire occurred on Friday afternoon
the 10Th nit, in the drug store Of Smith <
Dryer. on the corner OF Lake and Dearborn
streets, Chicago, by which damage to the
amount of SlS0,oOG was sustained. princi-
rally by eastern insurance companies.
The banking house Of August Belmont &
Co., New York, was robbed on Thursday,
the 18th, of $4,000 in government bonds.
/ The lists of letters not called for at post
! Offices will no longer be advertised in news
papers.
Dispatches received at Washington state
that the cholera Is decreasing in Turkey, hut
| has broken out atrcsh in Italy and BARGE
! Iona.
The letter from Captain Hall, now in the
Arctic regions, states that he has learned
such facts as to lead him to believe that three
men of Sir John FrankliPs expedition are
still alive.
Horace Greeley delivered his address he
fore the Minnesota Agricultural Society on
the 10Th.
Orders have been resolved at st. Paul for
he execution of the two Sioux murderers,
Little Six and Medicine Bottle, who
have been confined in Fort Smelling for year
past The time of execution is left with
General Corse.
There is failure to connect in the ar
rangements for joint canvass Of Minnesota
by Messrs. Marshall and Rice, candidates
for Governor, and each party charges it mp
on the other.
The South Carolina Convention has refused
to allow the negro TO form part Of the basis
Of representation.
An immense Fenian demonstration took
place at the Cooper Institute, in New York,
on the 9TH A New York paper gives some
interesting particulars relative to the extent
Of this organization in this country. There
are at present about 500 circles, and they
arc increasing at the rate Of 100 per month.
There are also 300 female circles. The ex-
pcnses Of the body are 100000 per month
Eight per cent. bonds in the name of the
Irish Republic arc being printed, which will
be ready next week.
The tar people of North Carolina are de-
voting their undivided attention to the pro-
duction Of a living from their wreck Of a
State, and have very little leisure for scdi-
tion and that sort Of thing
"GoT The word "got" is often used su
perAao,isly and incorrectly in familiar ex-
preston. When, in reply to !" Lend me a
shilling" you say, "Iye got no money!"
you simply say what you do not mean.
Omit tne SCOT and your meaning is rightly
"fve got bad cold, is not
bad English, if you mean to convey the idea
that you have procured or contracted cold
bnt if you merely wish TO say,
as yon probably do, that you arc suffering
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