The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-14

General Lee testifies that he never took
an oath to support the Confederacy, having
avoided it purposely.
A sergeant in Richmond has had two
noses shot otf-his own and an india-rubbcr
one-in his campaigns.
JEFF. Davis friends assert that "the pet
ticoat story" will be explained by testimony
to be brought forward at his trial.
The orange and jessamine trees in the
vicinity Of Mobile, Ala, were killed, and
the fig crop destroyed by the late severe
cold.
G. B. Lamar of Savannah, it is reported,
has been sentenced to three years impris-
onment and S25, 900 fine, for cotton defraud-
ing, bribery, SC.
In Alabama, whipping and branding have
been abolished as legal punshments, and a
new punishment is introduced, entitled
"hard labor for the county"
Gov. Brownlow Of Tennessee received a
despatch from Grenada, Miss, warning him
that plot for his assassination had been
entered into by party Of Mississippians.
The Nashville Times accepts it as token
of restored order that for the first time in
FIVE years, an election was held on Saturday
last, in Tennessee, entirely under the con-
troll of the civil authorities.
1t is stated that there have been 900
persons pardoned in the State of Virginia,
ond 400 - Mouth Corol;ro ~ ~ D.os;lont
under the $4,000 clause, since the issuance
Of the amnesty proclamation.
Capt. w. Duncan, an officer of the rebel
commissary department at Andersonville,
was arraigned before military commission
at Savannah on the LIST, on charges Of muir
der, robberies and cruelties to Union pris-
oners.
The late rebel General Longstreet is
President of the Great Southern and West
ern Life and Accident Insurance Company.
Dick Taylor has leased the new canal con-
Meeting New Orleans with Lake Pontchar-
train.
| An eastern paper says that last week some
fishermen on the North Carolina coast took
six tons of rock bass at one haul of the
seine. Some of them weighed over seventy
pounds each. They were sold in the New
York market at ten cents per pound.
Gen. Palmer has commuted the death SEN
fences Of the Kentucky guerrillas, James
Harvey Wells, alias William Henry, and
Samuel A. Berry, to ten years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y, subject
to the approval Of the President.
The celebrated pacing horse, kinney,
Jr.," died at New Orleans few days ago.
He was valued at $25, 900, and his owners
once offered to bet that amount that he could
pace his mile in 2:l0. Kinney was large
roam, and one of the most remarkable horses
Of his age.
A letter from Maj Corwyn, late of Sheri-
dams army, to Archbishop Purcell, publish
ed in the Catholic Telegraph, fixes the re-
sponsiAility for the burning Of Columbia,
s. c., upon Wade Hampton, who was SO
foolish as to fill the streets with loose cotton
and refuse to surrender.
The Petersburg (va.) Inder mentions as a
sign Of thorough reconstruction of the Union
that every Southern family has half-a-dozen
Yankee patent medicines, notions, or hum
bugs in its possession already, and more are
coming A short time ago it was unpatriot-
ic to buy anything of Yankee make.
At Louisville, ON the 9th, party Of eight
discharged colored soldiers went aboard the
steamer Altoona, for st. Louis, and claimed
cabin passage, which the clerk refused.
The soldiers became disorderly, and one of
them insulted white lady. The boat
Waterman interfered, when one Of the SOL
diers fired upon him; whereupon the deck
hands threw them into the river. They were
rescued without damage.