Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-10-13
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Thursday morning. Loss about 500
900. M m
Snow fell in the nofthern lection. 81
Philadelphia on Wednesday Of last
week.
Nearly 1900 National banks have
! thus far been organized, with b total
capital of a30S, SIS, 2Ol.
Gen. Humphreys, the newly elected
Governor of Mississippi, has been par.
doned by the President, rendering him
eligible for his Office.
At the recent election in Conpecticu,
, the Union party carried sevenSy-OnS
towns and the Democracy forty-eight
A horse thief named Il. p. McCullock
jumped from the steamer Boston, when
being transported from Davenport to
the penitentiary at Fort Madison, and
was drowned. a .,,s.g .,,.,s.sI, =
The population Of Springfield, capital
in SangamOn county and 8,747 pupils
Four new railroads will be in process
of construction to Kansas City, Mo-,
this winter--the Cameron, Plat City,
Leavenworth and Fort Scott.
George Hyer, former editor Of the de-
funct Madison Patriot, and later of the
at Madison, to be the Democratic organ.
Carl Schurz is in st. Louis. 1t is re-
ported he is about to start an English
radical paper in that city, sufficient
funds having been subscribed to make
it financially secure. -
The number of persons now drawing
pensions is 81, S75. .s.....rs... ...
The military department Of New Mex
leo has been abolished. $3.50 q, .aa&
The receipts of the Indiana State
Fair are nearly $4,000, 9
Gen. Pope has decided to make Mi.
waukee his home after he leaves the
service. '..-'a s+#.f
Two large warehouses were recently
burned at Mobile by which $500 bales
of cotton were destroyed. s...
The receipts of internal revenue on
Saturday were S965, 699.22. Since July
they amount to 500, 935, 800. 1h
The defalcation of Isac G.. Fowler,
formerly Postmaster of New York, has
been passed to the credit of bad debts.
The amount is about $l71 200,
The conspirator DIR. Mudd recently
made an attempt to escape from the
Dry Tortugas, by concealing himself in
the coal bunkers of the steamer Thos.
Scott. He was discovered, however,
and set at hard labor wheeling sand.
The quartermaster of the Scott has been
arrested for aiding him to conceal HIM
self. II -s-. 4&ast zE.
Three murders were committed on
last Friday night in Philadelphia.
The late rebel Gen. Lee was installed
President of Washington College, Lex
ington, Va, on Monday of last week.
Arrests of Fenians in England and
Ireland continue to be made. a Col.
i'm the Fenian army in Ireland had
turned informer, owing to lack ofpay,
rations, etc. "."' G.1 'agyg5a A w.
Tn Montana, Colonel Mclean, the
Democratic candidate, is elected dele
gate to Congress by $1,000 majority
In New Mexico, Colonel Chaver poll
tics not stated is elected Delegate to
Congress by $1,000 majority.
Trouble is brewing in Utah, the Nor
mons asserting that the Gentiles are
making encroachments upon their
rights. Several murders have been
committed at the mines in Ruby valley,
alleged to have been perpetrated by
Indians, but believed to be instigated,
at least, by the Mormons.
Commissioner Sells, on his return
from the Indian council at Fort Smith,
met the chiefs and head men of the
Usage Nation at CAMILLE Trading
Post, on the 20th ult., and concluded q
treaty by which the Indians relinquish-
ed 3, 2S4 900 acres Of land, being q sur
plus not necessary for their occupation.
The Government buys 100000 acres
outright for $500, 900. and takes the bal
ance in trust for private sale. These
lands are all within the State of Kan
sas, and are among the most valuable
for cultivation and settlement. The
rights of actual settlers already on these
lands are fully protected. r.
| All the officers Of the Signal Corps
in the United States army, east OF the
| Mississippi river, are hOnorably mus
tered out of the service, with the excep-
ton of Colonel Fisher, Chief of the
Corps, and one aid, who remain on du'
ty. There are twenty-five officers on
duty with Generals Pope and Halleck
west of the Mississippi, and these are al
that remains of the 40 officers selected
during the war on account of thcil
bravery and mental capacity.
All Indianapolis is shaking with tht
ague. .-sa. ..a.t .. -...
Winona, Mimi, which is becoming
one of the most important commercial
points on the upper Mississippi, is t.
have Board Of Trade.
The specie of all kinds captured from
jeff. Davis is estimated as amountin,
to 100000. a
1t was announced Monday by tn
council for Ketchum, the gold checl
fOrger, that his client would plead gull
ty to the charge of forgery.
The case of Jenkins, the Phoeni,
bank defaulter, has been postponed til
the next term of the court.
A destructive. fire occurred at Pithole
. Pa, Monday morning. Property t,
the value of $3.50, 600, including oil, der
, ricks, engine houses, &C., was destroy
ed. 1883
} A severe shock Of an earthquake wa
, felt ut San Francisco and other parts O
, California on Sunday. The building
rocked to and fro, chimneys fell, an,
/ assures opened in the earth. A mum
, Der of persons were injured, but no live
lost. frEt
,, Gov. Sharkey, of Mississippi, Ia
written letter to Col. Thomas, Assist
ant Commissioner of Freedmen 70
that State, in which he says that tn
freedmen undoubtedly have the RICH
4, to testify in the courts of Mississippi
!, Us one Of the results of the action of tn
! convention abOlishing slavery.
The city of Galena, ILL.,, has popu
|, lation Of !, las, and, including the town
ships of East and West Galena, S,672.-
The total of Joe Daviess county is %
. ASS, a falling off Of about 1000.
Highway robberies and garroting
! are becoming so common at and in. til
; vicinity of Pithole, that the peopl
: there are organizing themselves int
: associations for protection.
Y During the month of September,
n 800 acres of public lands were taken II
Y at the Land Office at st. Croix Fall
| Wisconsin, and upwards of 5000 acre
: were entered ut the Office in La Cross
! Leonard Rothgarbcr has fileda notice,
= suit in the Circuit Court of Cook county
Z Illinois, against the Hon. John Wen
:, worth, claiming damages in the sum ,
= $4,000. &.
y A preliminary survey Of the cana
a from Davenport to Lake Michigan,
y now being made. .af q