The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-09-06


and proper picking appliances by May; then
Law n new cable and afterwards pick up the
old one and continue laying the same The
telegraph companies have resolved to lay
new cable next June, and pick up the old
old one The Great Eastern Ind arrived at
$hea rncss, and behaved splenaidly as sea
going vessel on the trip, improving her rcpu
taion wonderfully.
MIR Mason, writing to the Times, says
dcrs were at once forwarded to stop the She
nandoah's cruise on the termination of the
war.
BY the explosion Of the Mobile steamer
Reindeer, on the 3Oh nltimo. three persons
were killed. and twenty-five injured
An accident occurred on the New York
Central Railroad on The 81 inst, by the
breaking of an axle The baggage man was
killed, and the express messenger and one or
two others slightly injured
Ii was believed at Port Mahon, on the 18th
utimo. that should the cholera continue to
advance for the following three weeks, it
would reach England
Governor Lewis, of Wisconsin, has issued
proclamation thanking the soldiers of that
State for their services in the suppression of
the rebellion.
jeff Davis is suffering from another attack
Of erysipelas. The disease is not regarded
as serious.
Last week a woman named Perkins, wife
of respectable, well-to-do farmer, near
Branttord u c., finding herself on her death
bed sent for clergyman and confessed that
she had, at different periods of her life, COM
mittcd $40 murders, and all by poison
Railroad communication is expected to be
complete between Washington and New Or
leans in few weeks, Ella Virginia, Tennes
see, cite.
Imperial successes are reported in North
western Mexico, and successes by the Repub-
lieans in the eastern part of that country.
Affairs in Mexico arc badly "mixed.
Gen Fisk gives most encouraging account
Of his operations among the Freedmen in
Tennessee He found fifty white persons to
one black subsisting on the Government.
Werz after being twice abandoned by his
counsel is now suffering under most gall
ing exposure Of his enormitics brought out
by evidence ON his trial. Among the varieties
OF harharity practiscd by him and by his
orders were shooting, starvation, robbery,
laceration by hounds, and vaccination with
poisonous matter His trial was still pro-
ceeling on Monday, the 4th.
Gen. Grant has, during the past week been
on visit to st. Paul, and was expected to
reach Milwaukee and Chicago on his return,
by the first of this week.
The news from Havana is of interest In
dications Of petroleum have been found in
the Island, and company has been formed.
Kirby Smith is still on plantation near
Matanzas A grant has been obtained from
the Queen of Spain and company has been
formed to lay sub marince cable from Porto
Rico and Cuba to the United States.
Albert Pike, the Arkansas poet has sent an
application for pardon. He denies having
melted the Indians against the United States.
Barnum's new museum was to be opened
on Monday the 4th inst 1t is situated on
Broadway, just above the st. Nicholas hotel.
A monument is to be erected at Detroit in
honor of Michigan soldiers who have fallen
during the war. The structure is to cost
100000
Sterling Price, Magruler, and other rebel
officers are said 10 have offered their military
services to Maximilian which were declined.
Governor Fletcher of Missouri has writ
ten letter declaring that the constitutional
provision requiring ministers and teachers
to take the oath of loyalty, will be enforced
by the employment, if necessary, of the en-
tire military strength Of the state.
It is rumored in New FORK that the check.
hypotheticated by young ketchum, have dis
appeared. Ii is supposed they have been
bought up by his friends, oprevent their use
as evidence. The parties associated with
him in issuing them, have also disappeared
Gen. Grant will return to Washington
about the LIST of October.
There are only about five hundred sick
ana disabled soldiers in the Washington Hos
pitfalls.
II is understood that Gen. Grant is in favor
of military trial for jeff Davis The Gov
eminent, however, inclnes to trial in the
civil courts
The Swiss Consul General at Washington
has refused TO receive any contributions for
Werz. 1t will be remembered that the latter
is Swiss by birth.
Considerable excitement has been caused
among the Fenians At ST. Louis. by an edict
ssued by Archbishop Kenrick, forbidding
lie use Of the Catholic Church for the fune-
raj Of Head-Centre McCarty, or Catholic
cemetery for his burial
The President has intimate1 to Missouri
delegation, that he shall soon issue a procla-
nation restoring the writ Of haJeas corpus
The receipts Of Internal Revenue for the
month of August, foot up over thirty four
millions.
The Hayticn rebels have obtained victory
over Geffrarl, and compelled him to retreat
The ruins Of an ancient city, with temples
Of colossal size, have been discovered in
Mexico.
Two destructive fires occurred yesterday
at st. Louis and New Haven. In the former
city hemp warehouse was burned, loss
1926 600; in the latter firearms and piano