The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
laeneral Intelligence.

General Intelligence.
Hostilities have been commenced between
Dominica and Hayti.
The strike Of a twelve hundred barrel well
at Bennehofr Run, is the event Of the week
in the oil regions
AWashington special states that Quantrell,
the guerilla, has been arrested, and will be
taken TO Washington for trial.
George Chase, convicted Of murder, at
Joliet, illinois, has been sentenced to be cx-
ccutcd on the Odd inst
Nearly thirty distilcrics in New York
were seized by the Government on the 9th
and 10th in consequence Of frauds upon the
internal revenue.
Employers Of negroes in Cuba have been
ordered to produce at the central depot, at
Havana, within Is days, all native Africans
of the captured slave expeditions.
The Spanish fleet has been concentrated
before Valparaiso An attempt of the
Spanish authorities to negotiate with Chill
and Peru has resulted unsuccessfully.
The Rhode Island Legislature has passed
bill prohibiting the exclusion of children
from an public school on account of color or
race The law goes into effect on the 18th
Of May next
The drenching rains have caused an addi-
tional rise to the already swollen streams
throughout Indiana. The Wabash has over
flowed its banks in many places, causing a
good deal of damage.
Three Of the Missouri railroads, to wit,
the Southwest Branch Of the Pacific Rail
road, the Iron Mountain Railway, and the
! Cairo and Fulton Railroad, arc offered for
sale within the present year.
In the case of The five men sentenced to be
hung in bingham Co., Ill.,, on the 10th, a
writ of super sededs has been issued by the
Supreme Court, and the matter will probab
ly be carried up to The higher courts.
Adyices from above Cincinnati report
heavy rises in all the tributaries of the Ohio,
and the probability of a freshet in the river.
The ice is rapidly disappearing on Lake
Erie, and speedy resumption of naviga-
ton is anticipated.
new and very fatal disease among hor-
ses has manifested itself in some of the New
York livery stables. 1t is supposed to have
been generated by contact with diseased
army horses. Livery stable keepers are
said to be keeping very quiet about it.
The army bill as it passed the Senate
provides for one Lieutenant, five Majors,
and ten Brigadier G Generals; FIVE regiments
OF artillery, ten white and two colored reg-
ments of cavalry, forty-two white and eight
colored regiments of infantry, and 1000
Indian scouts.
There will be total eclipse of the moon
on the evening of March 30th, this year. 1t
begins at five minutes past nine o'clock, is at
its total at twelve minutes past eleven, and
begins to disappear at fty-fvc minutes past
eleven. 1t is visible throughout the United
States
An International exhibition of horticul-
ture will be held in London, commencing
on the 22a OF May, 1866 and terminating on
the 18th of the same month The Executive
Committee invite the citizens Of the United
States to participate in the proposed exhibit
ton. The locality selected for the purpose
is South Kcnsingion, and the building de-
signed for the exhibition will cover three
acres
The London Herald says a movement has
begun for laying the Atlantic cable during
the summer As at present arranged, the
Great Eastern will carry the new cable, will
lay il TO Newfoundland, will then coal, and
return to the Atlantic, when she will, with
her consorts, grapple for the lost end the
locality of which can be nscertained
within a quarter .of mile, through
observations taken last summer by
Captain Anderson and Captain MORT
arty. It is not intended that the part Of
the old cable which now lies in the Great
Eastern's tank shall be again slowed in her
hold on the outward trip. 1t will be carried
in another vessel until it is needed. Three
vessels, including the Great Eastern, will
be provided with graphing apparatus.
An amusing account Of a hoax practiced
upon the Spanish authorities in New York,
few days since, with the connivance Of
the CHILEAN Envoy, is published. A letter,
purporting to be for the CHILEAN Minister at
Buenos Ayres, and bearing an imitation or
Senior B. Vienna Makenna's signature, was
dropped in the street at point where two
Spanish spies were passing. They picked
up the letter, which related the movements
of imaginary Gillian privateers, and this
solves the mystery Of the sudden departure
of the two Spanish war vessels, the Carmen
and the Isabel is Catolica, from the port of
New York, The expense to the Spanish
Government of the fools errand upon which
these vessels were despatched, owing to the
ruse played by the Gillian Envoy, is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Political Matters.
The Universal Suffrage bill has passed
the Wisconsin Senate by vote II to /.
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