Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-09
NEW York. Dec. /.


The fact has been ascertained from
undeniable authority that, so far
from the statement being true, as
frequently published, that the Su-
preme Court at its present session
would decide upon the constitutions
ality of the Legal Tender act, the
Court has in reality not considered
the subject in any form, and viii not
consider it at the term just closing.
Official reports show that the total
receipts of the Freedmen's Bureau,
from the date Of its ogganizatIQR.Bn
to the 31st of August last, were $12,-
69j,395, and the total expenditures
meanwhile were Sll ,249,02s. During
the time the number Of rations issued
to dependent white refugees was
5,49i ,067.
Tire Crawfordville Review an
nounces that Miss Lizzie Boynton
will be q candidate for Congress from
that District, tof Indiana) in opposi-
ton to Lew. Wallace.
J. C. Buell., who had long been
fully trusted as Cashier and Teller of
the I'd National Bank at Cleveland,
Ohio, has proven defaulter in the
sum of $477 ,0O0-caused by specula-
tons in stocks and grain.
Rates. of freightage westward on
railroads from the Atlantic seaboard
took considerable rise last week.
1t is officially announced that on
and after the lst of January the rates
Of postage on half an ounce or under
for prepaid letters between the Uni
ted States and the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland will be
reduced to six cents or three pence.
If not prepaid, or insutiiciently pre-
paid; q fine of six cents, or three
pence, will be added to the deficient
postage, and collected on delivery.
The rates of postage, and conditions
of payment, on newspapers, books,
packet and samples OF merchandise
remain unchanged.
A lady in Virden, Illinois, has
earned a farm of seven hundred acres
BY teaching school,
It is announced at Washington
that by the first of January next, at
the present rate Of purchasing bonds,
the accrued interest OF the Sinking
Fund will amount to nearly 2,00O,.
600 in gold. This will be disposed OF
at public sale, and the proceeds used
in the purchase OF bonds.
A considerable number Of Nor
mons, repudiating polygamy, have
removed from Salt Lake to Jackson
County Missouri.
The mammoth swindling whisky
ring, in and around Pekin, Illinois,
has been broken up by the active
efforts of Government officials, and
its members are nearly all bankrupt
as the result Of their immense law
suits.
The cotton mills in Lancashire,
England, are again running on full
time.
MADRID, Dec. 3.
The Portuguese Government has
invited tenders for the manufacture
Of and laying OF a submarine cable
from Portugal to some eligible point
on the American coast.
The Woman Suffrage. question is
now pressed at all points. 1t will be
presented ut the Constitutional Con-
ventions of Illinois and Tennessee.
A grand seizure Of some thirteen
illicit distiileries in Brooklyn, n. y,
was made by U. S. revenue officers
last Friday. 1t was expected that
there would be resistance, and SO 500
regular troops were ordered out to
assist the revenue officers. A mob
threw bricks and stones, but no seri-
Gus outbreak occurred.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.
J.C. Fremont is said to have OBJ
tanned loan in Europe for his pro-
posed Southern Pacific Railroad.
The National Board Of Trade,
meeting at Richmond last week, had
under consideration a project for a
great double-track railroad from
Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard,
but tabled 1t on account Of the supe-
riority Of water communication.
Also tabled, n resolution asking Con-
gress to fix a tariff of transportation
rates on railroads. Adopted, by vote
of Al to 90, resolution. urging upon
Congress the necessity for the Mag
ara ship Canal.
A case was lately before the Courts
in Massachusetts, in which two men
plead guilty to swapping wives, with
mutual consent all round. They are
all young people, and appear respect
able.
Charles Brown has just escaped
from three-years captivity among
the Cheyenne Indians, and reports
that they still hold more than twenty
white boys and girls captiyes.
PuILADELPHIA,D Doc. 4.
The General Synod OF the Reform
ed Church closed to-day. The report
on the state OF the Church Shows
that. connected with the General
SYNOD. are 81 classes, 52i ministers,
and l7.OOOg commandments. All
Churches were directed to observe,
in a religious way, all Of the chief
Church festivals-Christmns' GOod