Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-12

Gen. B. +. Butler has been maxim.
a successful canvass for the Republican
cause in Ohio. Wherever he went hi
was honored by a popular ovation.
Since the breaking out Of the choler:
in Cincinnati, there have been l ,40t
died of the disease in that city, 25i o
which cases were in September. 1T has
now almost disappeared.
Wiscasset, the county seat of Lincoln
county, Maine, was half destroyed by
/ fire ednesday morning. The custom
| house, u large hotel, warehouse, anG
many other buildings, were wiped out
! by the destroying element, and large
numher of families were rendered
! homeless.
The failure of banking house al
Leavenworth, Kansas, OH Saturday,
with liabilities, variously estimated al
| from S2l5,0 900 to $3.50, 900, is reported as
especially disastrous to small deposit
ors.
| A report of the serious illness Of the
| Emperor Napoleon has the effect OF
causing an advance of gold in New
York. There is also an advance in dry
goods, and laborers are asking for an
advance of wages in that city.
There were forty.two cases of
cholera reported in Chicago during
the forty-eight hours ending at two
o'clock Monday afternoon. in the same
time there were seventeen deaths from
that disease.
A telegram, dated Salem, Oregon,
October 6, says: "To-day the Oregon
Legislature virtually expunged the
former ratification of the constitutional
amendment by u vote of "A yeas to %
nays" H........... ..
\ correspondent of the Brooklyn
Union announces that Henry Ward
Bcccher will, in u few days, deliver an
argument and an appeal from his own
ground, i'm favor Of the Republican par
ty in the pending elections" ... ~
Hon. w. w. Herndon, President Lin
coins old law partner, in n speech Al
Springfield the other evening, produc-
cd the data to prove that Andrew
Johnson was the personal and political
enemy OF Mr.. Lincoln during his en-
tire Administration. ...s
The South Carolina Legislatu re, be-
fore adjourning, virtually repealed the
Black Code, and granted certain civil
rights to the freedmen. Governor Ord,
it is reported, is likely to recommend
the adoption of the constitutional
amendments, and new election Of
Congressional Representatives..
Through the influence of the ring of
ST. Louis spectators in Indian affairs,
the President has removed Judge Coo.
ley, of Dubuque, Iowa, the Commission
oil nf T,Iinu a tfoirl and nnnain tal ,nui-
n. Bogy, a St. Louis secessionist, in
his place, " So it goes"
One of the British gunboats recently
placed on Lake Erie boarded and
searched the steamer Congress, flying
the United States flag, under the pre-
tense that she was in the Fenian ser
vice. The Canadian autbo titles are in
vestigating the matter. 1t is reported
that our Government has demanded aa
apology for the insult.
The New Orleans TiH1cs-a Johnson
son organ-publishe the report of the
Military Commission OH the New Or
leans riot, by direction of the President
and assails Mayor Monroe and other
city officials severely-and is evident
ly preparing for a change Of policy fa-
vorable to the constitutional amend
ment.
a cowartily and diabolcal crime was
committed by some murderous cop
pcrheads on Friday, some distance
north of Cairo, on the Illinois Central
Railroad. They threw u passenger
train off the track down a steep en-
bankment, under the supposition that
Governor Bronlow, Governor Hamil-
ton and other Southern loyalists were
aboard. The engineer was Killed and
several persons wounded.