Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-08-19


WASHINGTON, Aug. II.
Tho official statement shows the
imports for the year ending June 30,
gold value $i37, 7,702,654, an increase
FROM the previous year vi So, ,UU0,UU0;
the exports, mixed values chiefly cur
rency, $ll3,S69, decrease of $40, O,000,-
600. The custom receipts for the
week ending August 7th, were
$3,593,3i5.
Treasurer Spinner announces that
he will redeem ten and fifty dollar
notes of the convertible issue, and
also mutilated bills to the amount of
five hundred dollars or upwards in
multiples thereof forwarded by
Adams Express.
At grand race at Buffalo last
Thursday, tho mare Goldsmith
Maidn made the best time ever made
in three successive mile heats, as
follows:-2:19s, 2:l9!, 2l9i.
The remainder of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Exploring EXpcdi-
ton arrived at Minneapolis last
Thursday, and report the route far
more feasible than was anticipated,
and moro so than on the lines Of the
other two Pacific Railroads.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug. l3.
The lownesS of the river Nile eX-
cites general attention -.-Tbo-'yator
past.
st. Louis and Cincinnati, following
the example of Chicago, are sending
out Commercial Parties to San Fran
cisco, to arrange for more intimate
commercial relations.
Gen. Grant did not accept that fifty
acres of land presented to him by the
spectators of New Jersey. 1t was
mighty poor land, and the President
was too shrewd to render himself
personally liable for the taxes.
A Chinese giant, named Chang,
recently brought to this country, is 8
feet and s inches high, and consid-
cred the talIcst man in the world.
Trunk lines OF railroads from East
to West are now in heavy competi-
ton, and frcightagc has been consid-
erably reduced in consequence.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. l3.
\ Denver dispatch says Governor
Mitchell of New Mexico has issued a
proclamation declaring all Navajo
and ella Apache Indians outlaws
whenever found outside the limits Of
their reservations, and authorizing
the citizens of the Territory to kill
every such depredator.
Fires continue forage in the forests
of Washington Territory, destroying
immense amounts of timber, and
creating smoke 50 dense as to delay
navigation on Puget Sound.
Scc'y Robson Of the Navy has re-
stored the original names to ut least
part of the vessels whose names
were so ridiculously changed by
Borie.
Choy Chew and Sing Nun, the
Chinese merchants from San Fran
cisco, are nowluxuriating about New
York City, Long Branch, Saratoga
and other small towns i'm the East.
They have had such long spell of
dry weather about Philadelphia late
ly that the Schuylkill river is drying
up, and there is a great scarcity OF
water in the city.
The wheat crop of Oregon is said
to be excellent.
The drought in Virginia is very
| severe. In many quarters the farm
ers are cutting up their corn for fod-
der, having given up all hopes of its
maturing. Similar complaints from
all parts Of Maryland.
Senator Warner, of Alabama, re-
CARDS that State as certain for the
Republicans hereafter. 1t used to be
certain for Republicans certain
death.
Reports from Madrid tell of addi-
tional Carlist movements, and say
that the Government executes per-
sons suspected of sympathy with
them, without trial.
A New York dispatch of the 10th
inst. says that work is going on rap
idly on the Spanish gunboats build
ing there, and without interference
from our Government.
PHILADELPHIA,A Aug. l6.
The blockade runner Hornet,
which left here Saturday, ostensibly
for Liverpool via Havana, has been
captured i'm the Bay by the Revenue
Cutter Miami, and brought back to
the Navy Yard--it being supposed
she intended carrying an expedition
to Cuba, the men, it is said, to be put
aboard by tug which was in COM
pany at the time of her departure,
and which escaped. The decks of
the Hornet were literally crowded
with coal and wood, which evidently
was thrown OH board in q hurry.
Here crew numbered twenty-five men,
armed with reyolvers and other
weapons.
The Messenger of the American
Express Company, on the cars be-
tween Albany and Schenectady,
New York, was robbed of money
and valuables to the amount Of $l40,-
900, one day last week, by party of
Wretches who. had secrctcd them