The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-08-01
The south.

The south.
The Nashville Legislature adjourned on
the 18th to the first Monday in November.
Mobile negroes. in common with those in
Galveston aud New Orleans, have caught
the Liberia emigrating fever. and many
schemes for going are discussed.
There were twenty-nine deaths from
cholera, and thirty-f olr new cases, among
the troops on Tybee from nine o'clock Mon
day morning to six o'clock on the oath.
Recently at Memphis, q girl aged IA was
frightened into commissions by seeing man
dressed as ghost. On the next day she
she still lay insensible.
An attempt was made ON the night Of the
Goth, to out the levee, four miles below
Memphis, by unknown persons, who were
probably frightened away by passing
steamer.
Reports received at the Treasury depart
ment state that the southern States are at
present flooded with counterfeit United
States notes, national bank notes and frac-
tional currency Of every denomination.
Gov. Brownlow has gone to Knoxville, to
the great relief Of his enemies at Nashville.
He never travels without guard Of several
men, on account Of the vows which many
have taken to assassinate him.
The vote in the Tennessee House in rati-
flying the constitutional amendment was 43
to Is, two members being present under ar
rest, and refusing to answer to their names,
but they were counted to make up the quo
rum.
Two railway trains in Texas were lately
captured by the Indians. One Of them was
compelled to corral for four days. Capt. Ed
gar, in command, finally succeeded in
making treaty with his captors and his
train was saved.
A man was arrested in Tyler county,
Texas, few days since, for numbering his
wife and three small children. From the
evidence it appears that the man was labor
ing under an attack Of insanity. and arising
about midnight, he took Latchet and liter
ally chopped his wife and children to pieces
Aterrible tornado visited Havre de Grace,
Md, on the 25th, totally destroying the
magnificent new bridge Of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Com
pany, spanning the Susquehanna river
there. Loss about 100000. The COM
pany expect to rebuild the bridge in ninety
days.
A Labor Congress is to be held at Bslti-
more on the Goth Of Au gust next, which will
be attended BY delegates from all the States,
including Oregon and California. All the
various mechanical trades will be represent.
ed, and the convention will doubtless be one
Of the most important ever hold in this
country. As questions Of the utmost i'm
portancc to the labor interest will discussed.
the convention will probably last four or
five days.
A tremendous freshet exists at present in
the Kentucky River, its banks being over
flowed. and in many places the crops, fences,
and even the trees have been carried away
by its mighty current. In Owen county the
residence of Mr.. NOEL was swept away in
the night, the house containing Mr.. NOEL
and all his family, consisting Of nine per-
sons, who were drowned, not one surviving
TO tell the sad tale. None Of the bodies have
thus far been recovered.
An extensive counterfeiting establishment
was broken up on the oath about thirty
seven miles below Memphis. The rendez.
vous was cave, containing large room
about two hundred feet by sixty, the en-.
trance to which was srtfully concealed. A
complete set Of instruments and copper
plates. already engraved, Sc, were fount
with about $92, 900 worth of excellently
engraved greenbacks, of the denomination.
Of IS, los, EOS, and Cos, and So, 200 worth
Of two-cent revenue stamps were found Al
these bogus valuables were dangerous. an,
could only be told from the genuine by ex
perienced eyes. The counterfeiters, mum
bering thirteen, were arrested.
The West.
The bricklayers ct Cairo, ILL.,, have strucl
for and are receiving 81 per day.
The population Of St. Louis, according t
the census recently taken in that city, i
2O4,3
The crops are looking so well about Mad
ison, Wis, that the farmers are expecting
their spring wheat to 60 twenty Eve bushel
to the acre.
Thirteen deaths from cholera occurred Of
the 25th, among the soldiers on Tybee Is
land, and % new cases were reported
There are no cases in Savannah.
Tho Indians have given the Overlan,
Stage Company six days to remove thei
stock from the new Montana or Powde
River Route, and declared war to the knit
on oil trespsssers.
Howlett's immense distillery, seven mile
from Springfield, ILL.,, was struck by light
ming on the 23d, and entirely consumed
Some $3.50, 600 worth Of whiskey is said I
have been destroyed.
John Kennedy, the third Of the trio Z
Sand Ridge murderers, was hung At Wan
kegan, ILL.,, on the 9th, and on the sam
day, at Joliet, George P. Chase, for the muir
der Of Joseph P. Clark, the warden of tn
Illinois State Penitentiary.
Gov. Marshall, Of Minnesota, has o.
pointed Col. Hans Mattson, late Of the 8
Minnesota, as agent Of the State to resid
in Chicago during the emigration season, |