The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-03

BsHop GARRISON, of Chicago, met with
serious accident while on his way from
Council Bluffs to Boonsboro, en- route for his
new mission in Nevada. The stage upset,
by which mishap Bishop Clarkson's collar
bone was dlslGcated.
THE following compilation from our ex-
changes shows how some Of the generals,
who figured prominently during the war,
are now engaged.
Burnside has gone into the railroad bust
ness at Reno and Pithole. Carl Schurz is
Washington correspondent. S.gel has be-
come editor Of a Baltimore German paper
Franklin is experimenting the Colts armo-
ry at Hartford. w. s. Smith, the famous
cavalry leader, has gone into the retail
grocery trade at Chicago Patrick has re-
turned to the pillow; Ferrero is leading the
art of dancing, and Percy Wyndham is again
fencing master.
Among the late rebel generals, Buckner,
of KY, Is now associate editor Of New
Orleans paper; Gardiner Of Port Hudson
memory, is local reporter; while the gen.
eral who drove off Franklin and his $4,000
men at Sabine is bar-keeper at Houston.
Gen. G. +. Anderson opened butcher stall
at Atlanta, but has become an auctioneer at
Augusta. Gen. B. NJ. Thomas, West
Point graduate, is clerk on a steamer plying
between Mobile and Montgomery. A Gal
weston letter writer speaks of seeing a reb-
81 officer in the street "with his full uniform
on, stars and all, driving o dray with
mule, whose harness was made Of rope"
Forrest and Wheeler, the two most promi
nent cavalry leaders after the death of
Stuart, are employed, the former running
saw mill in Tennessee, and the latter doing
commission business in Augusta.
A. 7. Stewart, formerly Lieutenant
General in the rebel army, is now a school
master at Memphis, Tenn. Another
rebel Lieutenant-G General is now in the
grocery business in the capital Of Ten
nessee, while an ex Maj or-General directs
combination Of public carriers. A famous
Colonel runs foundry in front Of the Gay
$50, House and another will soon run rail-
road. There are also dozen rebel Generals
practising law.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer says Of General
Joe Hooker, whose condition was lately re-
ported as critical, that paralysis has made
sad work with his fine physical frame and
handsome face. One whole side Of bis body
has lost its vitality, and hangs aabby and
loose, like wilted weed.
GERALD Massey, the poet, has just COM
pleted work on Shakespeare, his Sonnets,
and his Private Friends"
DIR. William A. Hammond, late Surgeon
General Of the United States, has gone to
Europe in charge Of grandson Of the late
John Jacob Aston; and gossiping CORE
spondent says that he receives for his SER
vices $4,000 in gold for six months, all
travelling and subsistence expenses literally
paid, and $4,000 for each month occupied
beyond the six.
AT recent meeting Of the New England
Society, DR.. Bellows, Of the Sanitary Com
mission, stated that 80 per cent Of the SOL
diers in the late war were Americans.
JOHN G. SAKE has new volume nearly
ready for the press entitled ssThe Masqer-
ade and Other POEMS"
CHARLES Dickens is to deliver the frst Of
a series of secular Sunday evening lectures
in London.
| The tenacity Of the ruling passion was
strongly illustrated in the case of the French
dramatist, Dumanoir, noted as purist in
language, who died recently at Pau. A
short time before his disease friend was
reading to him letter written in his youth,
and in which he says: "Dear friend, come
back to Paris, SO that we might be together. =
On hearing that he had used false tense,
namely, ..mi ght I" instead Of ..may,' the
dying man, gasping for breath, exclaimed
conclusively: Might Did really say
| ing made an error in reading, and assured
him that the proper tense had been used.
"Ah!" calculated the dying author with an
air of infinite relief; and for time his fail
ing strength seemed to rally, 50 great was
his satisfaction at finding that he had not
been guilty Of grammatical transgression.
A DR.. F., an official of the little Bavarian
town Of kaufungen; is said to have abducted
child Of the Prince of Schwarzburg, which
he keeps imprisoned in cave, with view
Of extorting ransom for its release.
The Prussian Major Won Setback. who
shot Col. Calow in duel, has been 81 ntenced
to ten years Imprisonment.
PRINCE Esterhazy is selling at auction his
famous collection Of arms, and has also dis
missed the expensive body-guard Of grena-
diers maintained by his family for centuries
past at Eisenstadt.
| IT has been stated in the newspapers that
| Mr.. Nj. G. Bruce, formerly member Of the
rebel Congress from Kentucky, and now a
commission merchant at Augusta, Georgia,
had given the sum of 100000 to the fugi-
tive traitor John c. breckenridge. This is
publicly denied by Mr.. Bruce, and he adds
that Breckenridge is living in high clover in
Canada and in magnificent financial con-
dition.
TIM Paris correspondent Of New York
journal reports, as something extraordinary,
that Mr.. Bigelow has made the acquisition
Of carriage and two horses. The late Mr..
Dayton also had a carriage Of his own,
which was remarkable for the tasteful sim
pllcity. There was not any heraldry of
United States arms upon it, as there is on
that Of Mr.. Bigelow. In other respects
there is little difference between the two.
In connection with this important subject,
we are enabled to state that Mrs. Bigelow
has her fly, which she drives herself, es-
corted generally by colored servant and
one of her children.
JupGE Terry, of California, who killed
Broderick in duel, is living in Mexico,
near Guadalajara, engaged in farming
BlERsrApr, the artist has made $40, 900
with his brush in three years. He is now
building princely mansion at Bovington,
on the Hudson, and drives the most stylish
team in the Central Park-a pair of spirited
black hawks, both Of which figured in the
war.
THE property left to his children by Tom
Sayers, including the value of his personal
effects amounted to about $4,000. About
$500 were found sewed up inside his vest
after he died
THE Tennessee Ierislafure has vofnd