Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-16

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Sec'y Boutwell's plan for the re-
sumption Of specie payments.
The great Ecumenical Council
opened at Rome on the 9Th inst.
with the most imposing demonstra-
tions. The ceremonies exceeded in
magnificence any that the eternal
City" has witnessed during the
present century.
The daily papers have filled COL
umn after column with accounts Of
the Richardson Mel Farland marriage
and-murder affair, and the sensation
al talk over it by the New York
preachers. The subject has made
almost 40 much notoriety as the Key
and Sickles affair had, years ago.
NEW York, Dec. 8.
The Union League of America
held q meeting here to-day. A re-
port of the Secretary shows that the
League has spread over twenty-five
States, and is especially strong In the
South.
The women of New Jersey-or at
least some of theln-have made ar
rangcments for q concerted effort
throughout that State for their own
enfranchisement.
Gen. Butler is endeavoring to
perfect a plan for the payment OF
pensions through the Money Order
Offices, and is preparing a bill en-
bodying his views.
Pere Hyacinthe, the great French
preacher, processes his admiration
Of our country, and says that when
he returns to Europe he shall tell
that he has "found here Liberty as
sociated with Christianity, and has
been among q people who do not
think that to be free they must be
parted from Cod"
LONDON, Dec. 10.
The Times has an article ON the
Alabama claims. 1t hopes the Amer
ican Government will appoint such
men as George William Curtis and
VIM. M. Evarts to state the facts and
law of the case, and it thinks good
results will certainly follow such
selections.
Many cities in France were illumi-
mated on the night of the 9Th inst,
in honor Of the opening Of the Ecu
menical Council. At Marseilles there
was q riot in consequences crowd
Of 1900 men marching through the
streets, singing the "Marsellaise, T"
destroying the decorations, and COM
mitting other excesses. They were
finally dispersed.
HAVANA, Dec. 8.
President Grants message caused
intense excitement; sympathizers
with the revolution are disappointed;
the Spaniards are satisfied, and look
upon the message AS harbinger OF
peace and prosperity In the Island.
The Small Pox is raging in part OF
the city of Brooklyn, New York.
One dollar suffices to purchase 1852
cigarettes at Manzanill0, Mexico.
The Secretary Of the Navy In his
Report urges that our navy needs tc
be greatly increased in effective force.
The actual expenditures In this De.
partment for the year ending Dec. !
were $2O, O,OSl 1856. The estimates for
the fiscal year ending June 80 are
s2s, ,2O5,67l.
HAVANA, Dec. 10.
Gen. Cespedes has issued a prOcla.
nation in which he invOkes all true
Cubans to destroy their tobacco and
sugar crops, in order to deprive the
Spaniards Of these means Of rev.
enue.
The French Corps Legislatif has
had some stormy sessions lately
apparently rivaling some scenes In
our own Congress.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.
Mr.. StOughton, counsel for Della.
mater, having moved for release OF
the Spanish gunboats, and District
Attorney Pierrepont having made
no opposition, saying that he had
received instructions from Washing.
ton to proceed no further In the
matter, Judge BlatchefOrd made an
order granting motion Of StOughtOn.
The San Francisco Bulletin reports
the receipt Of news that the bark
"Margaret Brander' some six
months ago sailed for the Gilbert
Islands, and took on cargo of 800
men and women as Coolies to serve
as slaves in Tahiti; but that on the
voyage the Coolies mutinied, and
killed the Captain and several Of the
crew Of the vessel; and the Mate f.
nally blew up the ship and blew
nearly all of them overheard, killed
the rest Of them, and then succeeded
in bringing the hull Of the vessel
back to Tahiti.
The rate Of reduction Of the Public
Debt since the Inauguration Of Presi-
dent Grant has been 1262, Az Q day!
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 8.
The Attorney General to-day Or
dered the u. 8. troops to assist IT,,
arresting Whittemore, the assassin
OF Marshal Moses, at Sedalia, Ma.
A London dispatch II last Saturday
reports that Mr.. Bl III games Treaty
has been ratified In China.