Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-10-14
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.
The clipper ship Dreadnought,
from Liverpool for San Francisco,
was lost off the Island of Terre del
Fuego on July 4th. The crew, thirty
four in all, had hardly time to get
into small boats without provisions.
For seventeen days they subsidized on
,hell-fish gathered from the rocks at
low water. The Indians treated
them well, and they were finally res
cured by Norwegian bark. Ten Of
the crew suffered terribly with the
cold, and will lose toes and fingers,
which were frostbitten. atil 44
The City of Lima, Peru, suffered
tremendous shocks Of earthquakes
about the last of September.
Mrs. Stowe is preparing to back up
her Byron story with vigor and doc
| umentS.
Won1an's Suffrage Conventions
have been the order Of the day lately.
a large one was held at st. Louis
last week. = fas., H.
After all the immense blowing that
has been done by. the papers of Eng
land, France, Spain and this country,
about the note said to have been SUBJ
mitted to Spain by our Minister,
Gen. Sickles, in relation to Cuba,
Pres't Grant now pronounces the
note as published bogus.
| In the opinion of Hon. David A..
| Wells, our Public Debt muy,, by n
sinking fund Of Il hundred millions
annually, be paid off in sixteen years,
and if the same be fifty millions
annually, In twenty-three years.
st. Louis must be waking up. Be-
sides the Grain Movement and the
Capital Convention, it is now consid-
ering project for holding Worlds
Fair there in 1871. And then, prob.
ably, it will take hold OF the A. X.
& D. r. r.
Rev. James Porter publishes let.
ter defending himself against all
charges of defalcation or mismanage.
ment in relation to the Methodist
Book Concern.
The state Of affairs in Spain Is be.
coming serious. The Republican
movement seems to actually threaten
a change Of the form OF government.
No very definite opinions can be
formed from the brief Madrid dis
patches; but it appears that there
have already been several battles be-
tween the Republicans and the Gov.
ernment troops, in three or four
Provinces. es~
The business Of the Central Pacific
Railroad Is larger than ever.
SpnINGFIELD, Oct. 7.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Hi.
nois to-day passed resolutions to
build a State Masonic Temple in
! Chicago, ut cost Of five hundred
thousand dollars, provided the assent
of the Lodges i'm the State can be oh.
tanned. A proposition to repeal the
section in the bylaws which pre-
cludes. the admission OF negroes Ia
Lodges, was defeated by 525 votes
against, and 242 for.
Rev. Mark Hopkins is elected
Pres't Of the American Board OF
Commissioners Of Foreign Missions.
The Board decided to sustain Mis-.
sionary in Japan The next annual
meeting Of the Board will be held al
Brooklyn.
/. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.
NJ. Triquct, an agent Of the ROths
childs, Is expected here shortly. II
is said he comes to tender, on the
part Of these famous bankers, a loan
to any extent our Government may
desire. II Is said that this voluntary
offer on the part Of the ROthschilds
was prompted by the discovery that
certain German capitalists were con.
templating offering our Government
a loan at four per cent. Triquet II
said to be authorized to make the
same proposition. ana .ff
The new Legislature Of Virginia
met last week. The Republican
members presented a protest, urging
that the Legislature was an illegal
body because the members had not
all taken the test-0ath. The Senate
laid the protest on the table. On the
Sth inst. both Housesratified the l4th
and 10Th Amendments--only six
votes being against them In the
House; and in the Senate only four
against the l4th and two against the
18th. One OF the latter two was q
colored Republican Senator who de.
clined voting OF the ground that the
Legislature was illegal. Both
Houses then adjourned to the 18th
inst.
Admiral Farragut was lying dan
gerously Ill at Chicago last Saturday
and grave apprehensions were felt
for his recovery.
| A New York special says A. r.
COrbin is preparing a statement FOR
publication which will reveal impOr-
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