The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-10-20
TELEGRAPHtC SYNOPSIS.
DATES 70 OCTOBER II.

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Commodore Stockton died October 9th, a
bis residence in Princeton, New jersey.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
was burned to the ground. Date not stated
All the valuables were timely removed
Total loss, $4,000; insured for 900.
The President has appointed Thursday
November 10th, as q day of Thanksgiving
and prayer.
The Attorney General thinks the sale made
By Secretary Harlan to the Connecticut Emf.
grafton Company of 100000 acres of Chero-
kae reservation in Kansas, at one dollar pei
acre, is invalid.
The Catholic Plenary Council at Baltimore
met Oct 7th, all present, VIZ: seven arch
bishops, thirty-five bishops, one hundred and
twenty two priests, heads of orders and doe
tors of Divinity, seventy-four monks and
three mitred abbotts. Over 10000 people
thronged the streets to witness the process
aion to the Cathedral.
Famine and pestileuce prevail in Calcutta
and BoIgore. The deaths are 900 a day.
Santa Anna delivered an address to the
great Fenian picnic on Staten Island, Oct. g..
A tornado tore down sixteen houses and
killed boy in Johnson, Ind, October 9Th.
Steps have been taken to procure the SUR
render of JEFF. Davis to the civil authorities
for trial.
The British troops on the Canadian from
tier are withdrawn; as the Fenians have no
further designs on that country.
Many ocean disasters are reported. The
steamer Evening Star. from New York for
New Orleans, with 200 souls, passeDg and
crew, foundered at sea. Only about twenty
were saved. The British steamer Queen
Victoria also foundered, and only three of
all on board number not stately were saved.
Cholera is raging in Chicago. October
10th there were 81 cases and % deaths. DR..
Brainard, President Medical College, and
other netables were among the victims.
Partial returns show that the Radicals
have carried all the late State elections
The following maiorties are reported Penn
syIvania, about 10000 Ohio, $1,000 Iowa,
$4,000. The Democrats gain one Congress-
man in Indiana, perhaps two, but the State
Legislature is Radical Pendleton is de-
feated in Ohio, bat the Democrats claim the
election of Morgan over Delano.
FEArHERINa THEIR Own NEsTs.-The N.
Y Evening Post (Radical thus points out
who those men are who lead of in favor of
a higher tariff than the one now imposed, all
of whom are members Of the Radical party.
1t says:
There's Mr.. Stevens-he demands higher
duty on iron, which, of course, willsraise the
price of that article; he is an iron master. |
There is Mr.. Griswold who demanded heav- I
Ter duties on railroad iron, which would, of |
course, increase the price of that commodity; |
Mr.. Griswold is a manufacturer, at Troy, in
this State, of railroad iron. There is MIR. /
Morrill,, who imposes higher duties on foreign
marble Mr.. Morrill,, we are told, is interest
ed IN marble quarries in Vermont There is
Mr. Dodge, of this city, of whom CORES
pondent wrote the other day:
.sOn motion Of Mr. Dodge, ten per cent.
hd valorem was added to the duty on iron
wire. On motion Of Mr. Dodge, the duty on
was increased from seven to ten
cents per pound. Is be the Mr.. Dodge, of
the firm Of Phelps, Dodge y Co., who are, it
is said, largely interested Tor some of the firm
are) in wire works in Connecticut and Mas
"These are only examples. They do not
exhaust the list of members in the present
Congress who seem to think that they are in
Washington for the purpose of filing their
own or their friends pockets. In few days
we shall publish list of the members in the
present Congress, which will, perhaps, enable I
The public to see why it is that some are so
much interested in the passage of this OPP
pressive bill, and why it is that others, who ]
ought to oppose it, more prudent, but no less )
corrupt, keep their mouths shut, and suffer
he people TO be robbed, that they ortheir
friends may gain" '