The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-14
SEMINARY or THE WEEK. i.
General intelligence.

Macmillan is about TO issue 100000, 900
OF paper currency.
The friends of Scmmcs, the pirate, assert
that the President has concluded to release
him.
The CHILEAN Government has obtained a
London.
George Starr. a murderer, under sentence
Of death, was baptized at st. Louis, on Sat.
urday, the 10th.
The new steam gunboat Quinebau viii
soon be ready for launching The Idaho isl
now ready for her trial trip
Secretary Mcaghcr of Montana, has is
sued proclamation for State Convention
to be held at Virginia City, March %, to
form a State government.
Secretary McCulloch has SO amended his
cattle circular as to permit Of importation
from Canada only when accompanied by a
consular certificate.
The address Of the French Corps Legis-
l2tif in response to the speech from the
throne Expresses satisfaction that the French
expedition TO Mexico is to close.
The Missouri Legislature is spinning out
its session to a very paying length. 1t is
now approximating its fifth month, the SEES
sion having commenced in November
A proposition has been made TO the Texas
State Convention, to give the Legislature
power to divide the State into two, one of
them being between Red and Trinity rivers.
Samuel Covert, whose inhuman murder
Of a family named Rosa, near Lebanon,
Ohio, some months ago. will be rccollectcd,
has been found guilty, and will be hanged.
The trial of Detective Baker, at Washing
ton, came up on the sth, on the second in
dictment. charging him with felonious as
sault on Mrs. Cobb, but was postponed until
the Goth prox.
Mr.. Peterson, in whose house President
Lincoln died, has received from the Treas
ury $293. 80 for alleged personal services,
injury to furniture, etc, on the occasion of
Mr.. Lincoln's decease.
A man and woman were arrested, on the
9TH, for cutting the curtains in the East
Room of the White House.. and taken before
the Superintendent q Police, who held tho
man for further investigation.
The United States Consul at Liverpool
writes that vaccination for the cattle plague
has proved failure, and that the only way
to stop the spread of the disease is to kill
fhn
John Minor Bolts is ont in a letter declar
ing that there is a widespread conspiracy
among the late rebel leaders to involve the
country in a foreign war, and then, when
opportunity should offer, to take sides with
the enemy.
Fort Leavenworih is to be abandoned as
a Government post as soon as the cars on
the Pacific Railroad are running to Fort
Riley. And this is promised in the Law
renee papers as early as the 4th of July
next
An Omaha paper Of the 2sth announces
the arrival in that city, names not given, OF
party of men who had walked all the way
from Chicago, having been three weeks or
the way.
The banking house of Rufus Lord, il
New York, was robbed, on Saturday, the
10th, of million and half of dollars in
United States securities and railroad stocks.
reward of 100000 has been offered for
the detection Of the thieves.
Pennsylvania is said to be the only State,
thus far, which has actually assumed the
care of the children Of her dead soldiers.
and two thousand Of these are.n now in schools
in that State. The cost per pupil is about
$3.50 per annum, exclusive OF clothing.
1t is estimated that the Gee court martial
at Raleigh, N. c., will cost the Government
at least 100000 before il is at an end
The testimony thus far for the prosecution
is replete with horrors only equalled by the
developments Of the Wirz court martial.
Ecua dor has joined Chill and Peru agains
Spain, and other South American republics
will probably follow her example. A steam
er belonging to the citizens of the United
States has been seized at Panama, on sus-
picion Of loading supplies for the Spanish
squadron.
The Grand Jury at New York have found
another Indictment against McKenna and
Rogers, the CHILEAN officials, for completely
in violating the neutrality laws in fitting
out and equipping the Meteor. Fifty thou
sand dollars bail was given by each defend
ant.
The United States Express Company rob-
bers, at st. Louis, were secretly arrested
n week ago, and half Of the money has been
recovered The robbery was planned by a
saloon keeper named johnson, and partici-
pated in by five others They divided the
money equally.
The gas monopoly Of Washington having
sent bill of 5000 for the gas used in the
Postoffice building during the month of
February, when the whole building, except
the city postotlice, is closed at o'clock, the
Postmaster-Gcncral has ordered that the gas
be cut from the building, and petroleum
used instead.
The French troops in the northern and
western Mexican States are hemmed in a
few towns OH the cost. Mazatlan is bcsieged
by the Republicans, and some fighting has
already occurred in which the Juarists
were successful. Insults and ontrages are
being heaped upon Americans by the I'm