Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-09-09

ID. M. Barzlza, attorney for certain
parties in Texas now under trial be
fore Military Commission, visited
the PresiCeat and acting Attorney
General Field, and received verbal
assurances t'lat the arrangement in
regard TO the habeas corpus in the
Yerger case should be adhered to in
similar cases. The whole mater,
however, is referred by the President
and acting Attorney General to Mr..
Hear Hear. ''' 1.'7-s -; r, ,ssis ~
The US. Revenue Department has
made new arrangements for the more
complete gathering of. legal revenue
from the distilleries in the country.
Good.
SHREVEPORT, September /.
Intelligence has reached here Of a
desperate figl between squad of e.
s. troops nd band Of outlaws,
headed by one Jack Helm, near San
Patri :io. The troops endeavored to
arrest the desperad. O., who resisted ;
and a bloody encounter ensued, in
which four outlaws and one soldit r
were killed and several on both sides
wounded. F...
A new Submarine Telegraph Cable
Is to be laid, between some point in
Europe and one on the South Amer
lean coast. Verify this is an age of
progress. Us.
MADRID, Sept. L.
Two Carlist chieitains have sur
rendered OH the promise that their
lives would be spared. Government
organs say the reinforcements about
to sail will he sufficient to extinguish
the insurrectiOn i'm Cuba.
| Among tie paintings destroyed by
the fire last night was Bierstadt's
celebrated Yosemite Valley.
Vice President Colfax and party
have sailed for Oregon, for a visit.
The California Conference of the
Methodist Church have voted in
favor of lay delegation. Yeas 81;
nays ID.
| N'Su. 4 Iaatih DiuII 10 IUW AciCIUl
Agent of the Life Association oi
America, for Colorado.
Citizens of Chicago have formed Il
Cooperative Coal Society, and sent
an agent Fast to buy coal. Better
send one out to sec our coal mines in
this region.
ST. Louis, Sept. =.
A party of nearly two hundred
gentlemen, representing various bust.
ness interests from Cleveland, In.
CHM iii and other places in Obi }, AZ :
rived here to-day, enrOu'e to the end
OF the Kansas Pacific Railroad fra
| buffalo hunt. On their return they
will stop at various po nts in Kansas
ana Missouri, with view Of purcha.
sing large tracts Of land to establish
colonies upon. They will leave fOl
Kansas City to o-morrow by special
cars. ~ g .tt
The French Senate is discussing
the Senatus Consultum, or bill fol
/, varying the form Of government,
proposed by the Emperor; and foul
articles of it were adopted last week
MADRID. Sept ..
! Journals here are despondent about
Cuba, and demand full official infor
nation as to the state0 affairs in tho
Island.
! The Chicago Times putst the follow
ing cOnundrum to the Democrats o
the North: "If the Democracy of TIT
North shall adhere to the dead issues
of the past, how can the Democratic
party remain national organization
since the whole body Of the SOutheri
white people have abandoned d tht
dead issues and accepted the situa
tiOn as it is""
Mr.. T.. J. Ingcrsoll, nominated by
the temperance party for Governor
of Ohio, has declined the empty hon
or, and writes them u letter saying
that he twill give his vote and infiu
ence for the Republican ticket" II
is not believed that the "fearles!
phalanx" will try to find another
man for candidate, but let the thing
go for this year.
The big newspapers Of the East
apparently for the want Of anything
important to write about, are max
ing a tremendous blow about Mrs
Stoves article on Lord Byron ant
his wife, in the last Atlantic Monthly
| NEW YnRK. Sent. 1.
j.. j. A. Bolt, formerly promi
nent polite an Of this city, died yes
t, rday in the Lunatic Asyll m. Hi
insanity was caused by dissipation
and disappointment at being defeated
for the Mayoralty by Gunther.
The latest Official Statement of ou
! National Debt shows:-Total Debt
principal and interest, ~, ,G26, Goa, $40.
81; coin and other offsets in Treasury
! $3.50, ,691 ,3G8.74; amount Of Debt, les
offsets, $2,475, ,9G2, ,5O1.57; decrease II
August, 90, GOA, ,234.29; decrease sinc'
the 4th Of March last, &49, 800, 1881
Eugenie still fingers at the birth
PLACE OI the 3OnapaTleS, anu TDeuLla
tis,il still fingers In her husband'
b0ny parts. Nfss.l - Llfsf~ q
I Jenny Lind IL said to have become
poor, her husband being an extrava
giant wretch. 1t Is limited that Mad
anne will 60 to teaching. opera sing
erS.
The rice crop OF Louisiana, which
before the war was but II, 900 barrels