Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-11-04

advocate the placing OF lemaIe CLERKS
on an equality with the male clerks
In regard to salary, rs he has some
who can do the same work better
and faster than the men.
Pendleton has got to be President
at last-of the Kentucky Central
Railroad.
The forthcoming report Of United
States Treasurer Spinner will show
that the increase in the revenue col
lectiOns, and tho reduction of Treas
ury expenses, added together, will
present q clear gain for six months
Of 1869, as compared with the same
period for 1868, of fifty-six millions
Of dollars. This is at the rate of one
hundred and twelve millions year
money saved. IG
~ LONDON, Oct. %.
The Times has an editorial on
American finances, wherein the wri-
ter comments on Secretary Boutwell's
advocacy of paying the national debt
in gold, and considers the very ne.
ccssity of such advocacy as q proof of
strength, and says that Mr.. BOutwell's
efforts for paying the debt will earn
him glory. The obligation cannot
be put too simply and nakedly. 1t
is duty which America owes pri-
marily to the creditors Of the nation,
and does not want any reason but
that the creditors right pointed to it..
IIindoostan is suffering from pes
thence and apprehensions of famine.
Four hundred persons are dying u
day from Cholera throughout the
Northwestern provinces. Since 1858
there has been no season so fatal to
Europeans. In places the epidemic
| has been very fatal. seventy per
cent. of those attacked die. Thelong
drouth is supposed to be the cause.
4 AS failure of the crops il threatened
starvation must follow, unless heavy
rains have occurred since the latest
advices were received.
Summing up somo general items
from forthcoming Government Re-
port, the Philadelphia Press remarks:
"a terrible war honorably and tri.
umphantly closed, the national debt
going down, the production and val
! ue of all the great crops of the country
going up,and the oppressed people ol
all nationalities asking to share our
blessings and future--What more
splendid tribute has history ever re-
corded to the policy or government
administration of Il great party?"
Gen. Sherman, in published let
ter, repeats the expression of his
belief that the National Capital will
not be removed in our day, but that
lift is removed to the West, some
point on the Mississippi, several hun
dred miles above st. Louis, will be
chosen.
The report about the recent discov.
cry Of the bones of an immense giant
near Syracuse, New York, appears
| to be hoax.
1t appears that Gen. Babcock, OF
Gen. Grants staff, is still Mt San
Domingo, holding long interviews
with Prcs't Baez; and it Is reported
/ that he is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the island.
The Freedmen's Aid Society Of the
Methodist Church supports 90 freed
mems schools, 6 normal schools, an
orphan asylum, and employs lOi
teachers to teach ten thousand pupils,
| a beautiful and accomplished
! young lady Of Quincy, Illinois, Miss
r. Mckay, committed suicide by
drowning on the 2Sth uIt. No good
cause is noted. She left ii note stating
that she killed herself "not for shame
nor5for love, bnt simply because her
friends were all false to her and she
was tired of life"
Gen. Belknap assumed the duties
of Sec'y of War OH Monday.
The authorities at Washington
have detailed 4 Lieutenant O'ToOle
as Professor Of Military Science al
the Missouri State University. This
Is the first instance Of the kind we
have noticed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.
The National Enan,pment of the
Grand Army OF the Republic has
adjourned after two days session.
Eighty delegates We're present, rep.
resenting nearly all the different
States. Various subjects of impOr.
i tance were considered. The result Ol
| the meeting will shortly be prOmul.
gated to the members Of the Organi.
zatiOn through general orders.
There are now between 15O,OOOand
200, 900 members belonging to the
organization throughout the country
There was a great fire at Manteno
Illinois, last week, by which over q
buildings were destroyed. Loss some
100000. Great distress prevailed.
Geo. Peabody, the eminent Amer
ican banker and philanthr0pist II
| | London, has been seriously Ill, but
at latest Cable advices was thought
to be recovering.
There is or has been big excite.
ment in Raleigh, N. C., about a com
pany or more ofnegro militia which
Gov. Holden has been organizing
Our latest word, Mt this writing. say
| that Gov. Holden's intentions in tht
/ matter are not known. ~ ta