Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-09-12
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Dates to September s.

Dates to September 8. ..4r
New York, Sept. 3.-The Treasury De-
partme Mt has issued regulations to govern the
Transportation of merchandise coastwise be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific ports @
The investigation of. the alleged revenue
frauds, before Commissioner Gutman, COM
menced to-day.
Western dispatches continue to report In
dian 0utrages and murders. Three trains were
attacked on the Santa Fe route, two at Paw
nee Fork, and one at the Cimaron crossing.
One train routed the Indians, the other two
were captured.
The Democratic imbroglio in the Sandusky
District, Ohio, has been settled, both candi-
dates, the regular and Independent, having
withdrawn, and new Convention called to
select new man.
Specials to the morning papers say Secreta-
ry McCulloch announces that it is his purpose
to support Seymour and Blair; he expresses
his regret at being forced into this position,
denouncing the financial plank of the platform.
He says the most Objectionable plank in the
Republican platform is that III relation to re-
construction; but this is paramount to every
thing else. He therefore unites with the DEM
ocratic party, preferring its financial policy to
the Reconstruction policy of the Republicans.
The Republicans in the Sd District of Iowa
have renominated w. B. Allison for Congress
The Georgia House of Representatives, by
q vote of 8O against %, have adopted a reso-
luton, declaring negroes ineligible for seats
twenty. five being thus unseated. -Four remain,
who claim to be white men, and whose cases
will be investigated.
Hartford dispatch says, ex-Gov. Thomas
H. Seymour died at his residence in this city
this evening, of typhoid fever, aged 81.
The Secretary of the Navy, in accordance
with the will of Congress, has reduced the
personnel of the navy to $500 men. the force
it counted previous to the war.
/ 1t has been ascertained that the total t0n-
mage of the steam and sailing vessels of the
United States is 3,l09,267 tons The number
of steamers is 2,942, sailing vessels, 15,O42, all
of which have been officially furnished with
registered numbers
CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-An Omaha dispatch
says it is reported that large body of Chey-
ennes are moving north, intending to strike the
Pacific railroad near Julesburg. Gen. Augur's
troops will endeavor to intercept them
The Commissioners have accepted another
section of the Pacific road, bringing it about
95 miles west of Benton
| Denver dispatch says there are reports OF
Indian depredations from all parts of the Ter
ritory, and that many whites are being killed.
! In the Nova Scotia Assembly, yesterday, At
torney General Wilkins made q violent speech
against confederation with Canada He de-
clared that if redress is not given before next
session, they will appoint Collector of their
own and have the duties paid into the local
treasury and if necessary they will appeal to
another nation such an uproar ensued at the
conclusion of the speech that the Speaker de-
clared the Assembly adjourned.
LONDON, Sept 3-ReTerdy johnson made
speech at the annual feast of the cutters at
Sheffield, yesterday, saying that he visited Eng
land on a mission of peace, and claimed that
the Americans entertained the kndest feelings
towards England
A st. Petersburg dispatch says, Bishop Plat
zrk, having refused to pay an order to send
delegate to the Catholic Synod about to con
vene under the direction of the Car, has been
banished to Siberia.
CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-Gen. Lees reply to
Gen. Rosecrans is signed by Beauregard, A.
II. Stephens, and other prominent Southern
men. 1t states the people of the whole South
regard the slavery question as settled by the
war, and they desired at the close of the war
to return to peaceful pursuits with the sincere
purpose of fulfilling all their duties under the
Constitution of the United States, which they
had sworn to support. If their action in these
parsicula Is had been met in a spirit of frank
ness and cordiality, we believe ere now old
irritations would have passed away and the
wounds inflicted by the war would have been
in 4 great measure healed.