Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-10-20

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For Supt. Schools.--W. II. Guy, .95 /;
Richard Merrill, 1919; Richard Herd, 1.
Guys majority, 295. .a %.
For Coroner.-Geo. Murphy, 496; Il.
r.. Gohean, 1919. Murpliy's maj. 297.
/ For Surveyor.-M. ID. l.. Niece, 495 !;
Judd Bradley, 201; l.. b. Raymond, 2.
Neice's majority, 202.
For Drainage Commissioner-W. c.
Thompson, SOB; Roby PARROT, 1885,
Thompson's majority 305.
For Swamp Land.-Yes, 1856; No, 222.
Majority for Yes, IA. .... s.
News Items.
Thursday, the 3Oth day of November,
has been appointed as Thanksgiving
day in Massachusetts.
The Secretary of War having request
ed the Quartermaster General to furn-
ish an estimate of the cost of maintain
ing an army of 100, 900 for twelve months,
it is reasonably inferred that the Gov
eminent intends to keep up an army
of that number Of men for one year lon-
ger. .,. ...,... .... ......g.-..-.. .....s.
Immense frauds in the revenue have
been discovered at Nashville, one large
eminent to the amount of $150,0O0.-
! The United States Collector for Cincin-
natl has gone to investigate the matter
The Canadian authorities have seized
six hundred boxes Of Spencer rifles,
belonging to the Fenians, which came
from the States.
The President has released OH parole
Alexander I'll. Stephens, Trenholm,
Reagan, Ex-Governor Clark, of Mississ-
| ippi, and John A. Campbell, of Ala
bama who have been heretofore Ike pit
in close confinement.
The official majority of Gov. Dilling-
ham of Vermont is IL, TAG.
The gold and stock transactions of
| New York brokers for the year ending
June last, were six thousand millions,
! the revenue from which to the Govern
ment was three millions and q half.
N A New York Company has bought
the Wisconsin railroad running from
Bayfield, to Hudson for $4,000.
Gen. Humphreys, Governor elect of
Mississippi, has been pardoned and the
warrant forwarded to Gov. Sharkey.
The larger part of the business por-
ire last Friday. Loss 100000. The
fire was the work of an incendiary.
English detectives have arrived in
New York to keep an eye upon the
Fenians and report to the home Gov
ernment. One or two of them are on
the way to Chicago.
Mount Hood, Oregon, has been in a
state of eruption since Sept. %. This
fact is supposed to have some connec-
ton with the recent earthquake in Cal
ifornia.
Gen. Hartranfts majority in Penn
sylvania, it is claimed, will be about
q 900, In the Legislature, the Repub'
!. licans have seven Majority in the Sen.
. ate, and thirty-two in the House.
The Provost Marsha's offices in Wis
consin have been closed, and the Off
GERS dispensed with.
The testimony in the Wirz trial wa:
concluded on Saturday, and the Cour
adjourned until "Wednesday, to give the
The people in New York are to vote
in November whether they Will pay
5 the large amount of bonds issued TO
!, dollafs) at once, by direct taxation, o
: whether it shall become debt payable
= in twelve years.
e The records show that Of $4,000, 90
) subscriptions to the various Govern
G ment loans, in Eastern Virginia, S3,O 0O
600 were taken by freed colored men
e and not q cent by the late Confcder
J, :ates.' 10.
g Mr.. McHenry, one of the party Q
7 Env,is;: ca nitalists who have recent
t made n tom. through this country, ha
4 purchased Mr.. bi;crstadt's picture of tn
: Rocky Mountains for the sum OF 80
y 900. Mr.. McHenry, a gentiImai OF Gu
tiyated taste and liberal patron OF a.
: already possesses q fine collection G
/ paintings valued Mt 100000.
! A dispatch from Hon. John Cessua
q Chairman of the Pennsylvania Unio
i Central Committee, says the Unio
:. majority on the home vote this yea
:, will be larger than that Of the home an
:. soldiers vote at the Presidential electio
= lastyear, which was 10000. Itcan hardl
: fall below 5000. The Union part,
? will have two-thirds of both branche
of the Legislature.
e The small pox is raging with grea
n violence both among the whites an
: blacks in Arkansas.
l. There is general move in the nav
= to petition Congress for an increase Z
!, pay.
u Gen. Sherman arrived in Omaha o
q the morning of the 10th, having mad
g the trip of one hundred and fifty miles
from Des Moines to Council Bluffs, j
9 twenty-one and q half hours. III
Q would remain in Omaha three days bt
J fore starting for the plains.
~ The Government is now drawing o
a the Southern pOstmasters for balance
y y due before the rebellion. Ifthese draft
' are not paid, suits will be instituted q
once.
The last invention of the sensatio
reporters at Washington is to the etfet
that JEFF. Davis has escaped from For
:: ress Monroe in the guise of negro, an
e is on his way to Europe. OF cours
e there is no truth in the report.
r Another serious collision oceurre
J. between some white and black troOl
le at Washing ton on Saturday, in whic
IT arms were freely used. One colere
;, Corporal was killed.
Y According to the statement OF tf
Memphis Bulletin that city must De
= lively place for lawyers. 1t says thel
=, are over 600 cases on the crimin
= docket, and 4, 494 cases on the dock'
= of the Common Law and CHANGER
Court. There is but one judge for eac
court, anu tllc DUttct6e uASSS SAANO ~
s. number should be Increased, in ord
re that the dockets may be cleared durir
he the life of the present generation.
II During last week certificates ofindeb
- edness to the amount of 81 ,697 ,920 We
- n redeemed by the Treasury.
y General BraXton Bragg took the oa'
N of allegiance on the 9th, preparatory
h. applying to President Johnson for pa
l. dan.
f. Gov. Lewis, of Wisconsin, has cor
n planned to the War Department Of abu
20 es and harsh treatment bestowed upt
OF troops of his State by Gen. Gustav, al
III asking for their muster out of servic
d. The express train going east betwe'
a Harrisburg and Lancaster, was throw
Sc from the track, Saturday, by a brok'
ne rail. Eight persons were killed al
at ten slightly injured.
j. The planters of Cuba have address