The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-18
SEMINARY OF THE WEEK.
General Intelligence.


new five cent piece, to be composed Of
copper and nickel, will shortly be issued.
The rebel Quantrell is now said to be re-
siding in Cuba, where he is laboring on
plantation.
1 has been decided to admit imported
hides, upon indisputable proof Of their
soundness.
Washington paper announces positively
that Fenian expedition has sailed to strike
q blow for Ireland
The Mormons of Utah, have notified the
"Geniiles'' to quit the country, or fare
ro-.e.
Eight of the men injured lately by the
explosion of the boiler of the 'Pomeroy, o.,
ironworks have since died.
A disease resembling the cholera has bro
ken out among the fowls in St. Louis and
St. Charles counties, Mo-, which is very
fatal.
Gen. Grant, on the 18th, acknowledged
the service of y warrant for fast driving,
appeared before Justice Of the Peace and
paid a fine.
There is large call upon the Freedmen's
Bureau from the South and Southwest to
supply farm hands from the freedmen
around Washington.
There is terrible freshet in Louisiana,
and dangerous crevasses have occurred in
several places. Nearly the whole country
is overlooked.
The New York Tribune celebrated its 25th
anniversary with splendid dinner at Del
monico's on the 9th The paper has been
enlarged TO the size of the London Times.
A full cargo of tea, direct from China,
consisting Of 1880 packages. arrived at
Boston on the 18th. This is the first direct
importation from China for several years.
The Twelfth Annual Horse Fair for South
ern Michigan. open to all the West, is to be
held at Adrian from the 18th to the 18th Of
June, inclusive, with very generous pre-
mum list.
The editor Of a leading Irish paper in Ca
NADIA declares that killian is spy, and fur
nishes the Canadian Government, through
Mr.. McGee, every design Of the Fenian
Brotherhood.
Mr.. Gordon Cumming, whose marvellous
hunting adventures in South Africa some
twenty years since gave him a worldwide
reputation, expired at his residence at Fort
Augustus. Scotland, on the 24th ult.
A fugitive from justice, formerly receiver
from banking luse in poictiers France,
has been arrested in New York, as an alleged
defau,,er for seven hundred thousand francs.
He will be claimed under the extradi,ion
treaty.
The Senate was not in session on the
14th. In the House, Mr.. Garfield delivered
brief, eloquent, and stirring eulogy on the
martyr Lincoln, and then the House ad-
journed.
In respect to the memory Of the late
President Lincoln, the public offices were
closed on The 14th, including those of the
Executive Mansion. The President did not
receive visitors
AS Gen. Banks has never submitted re-
por, OF the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va.
and the siege of per, Hudson, the Secretary
Of War has called upon him for said reports,
which the General is at present engaged in
preparing.
Intelligence from the CHILEAN coast gives
some particulars of a late naval engagement
between two Spanish war vessels and q
CHILEAN steamer. The latter was oyerpow.
cred and went down, with the loss Of two
hundred and fifty men.
Mr.. Pike, believing that his Opera House,
at Cincinnati. was set on fire, has offered
$4,000 reward for the capture Of the incen-
diary. Another report is, that the fire
originated by the explosion of tanks con-
tanning naphtha, or petroleum gas, placed
under the stage.
1t is again asserted that the trial of JEFF.
Davis will speedily take place. He will be
arraigned on charge Of high treason.
Other prominent rebels are mentioned in
this connection, whose cases are being pre-
pared for adjudication. Fears are enter
tanned that he cannot live through the COM
ing summer, if not released, as his health is
growing worse.
Several vessels, recently fitted out and in
tended for service on the fishing grounds,
have been ordered to the ST. Croix river, to
keep an eye upon the Fenians, and, if oc-
casion requires. prevent them from break
ing the neutrality laws.
Secretary McCulloch has issued circular
declaring petroleum, benzine, &C., to be
explosive burning fluids under the intent
Of the steamboat act of Aug. 80, 1852, and
requiring all steam vessels carrying passen-
gers to procure special permit before
taking such articles on board.
In Washington, considerable sensation was
created on the 9TH, by the sudden death OF
. couple in family Of colored people, with
all the symptoms of cholera. An investiga-
ton disclosed the fact that the habitation OF
the family was in an extremely filthy con-
dition, and that others Of its members were
likely to suffer from that cause.
Newt Morrison, one of the ugliest des-
deradnns 4hnt ;nfe,. T-..eo, as uiscu rod
hanging from the Court House railing. al
Wyandotte, on the morning of the 18th.
quite dead. One of his comrades, named
Harvey johnson, was killed about one week
since, while resisting arrest
The Gee court martial at Raleigh. N. c..
is drawing to close. The evidence of nm.
imneachpd Witnesses nrora, ,ho. - .