Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06
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President Grant has made the following
appointments Jos. p. Root, OF Kansaa
Minister to Chilli; j. ". Taylor, OF Mime
sota, Consul st Winnepeg; J. T. Bsfd
ven. Of Ohio, Agent Of the Chippews
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OF Illinois, Agent of the Chippewa IN
dams Of Lake Superior.
A recent dispatch from Washington
nys:
THE drorth hss 20 seriously injured
fhe Eastern and Mode States, tkat the
cTcp OF New England and Certrl New
York il dried rp. TEis VIII be &lnd's
CERTAIN 10 influence the Price OF ossry
PRODUCES, and give Q fresh impulse 70 the
moving business in thst line. In the
Wextern S4s.ez. turrips and cAobsges are
also nearly destroyed, and the poiAto crop
VII NOT return 9 quarter OF its usual
yield Wheat win have TO supply the &c.
hciency In the customary producnon OF
food In the East
Customs receipts for week ending Sep
tsmber II, t4,50l, s3l.
The Commissioner Of Patents has, In
UnkI uec1EiOn, refused to cAt5no tic inpea
important of the Bessemer steel patents,
and the process is now public property.
Hon. 0. p. Morton, Of Indiana, has
been appointed Minister TO England, rice
Nr. Motley, and has accepted the sp-
pointmsnt
During the week ending the oath Ger.
tiAcatee were Issued at Washington
authorizing the following. national banks
20 commence business: Corn Exchange
National Bank Of Chicago, H.; First
National Bank Of Broadhesd, Wiscon-
Mn; First National Bank Of Shelbina,
Missouri; Moni.eau National Bank, Of
California, Missouri. Applications hsd
been approved: From Rchoolcraft, Mich. ;
6ants Pc, New Mexico; Bushnell, Ill ;
D-'-~~. M, An.mnsa- Iowa: OttuEwa,
Iowa; Grand Rapids, Wis
A Washington dispatch Of the 26th
says: "There Ii reason TO believe that the
Instructions TO our new Minister TO Eng
land, as egards the Alabama claims, will
not differ from those given Mr.. Motley,
and will conform TO the views expressed
in Secretary sh's dispatch Of September,
1859. Itis still the desire Of the Presi-
dent thai when negotiations are resumed
they may be conducted In Washington"
The East.
Gold closed IA New York on tho 9th
d llsx
Edward Avery, Of Braintree, has been
nominated for Congress by the Labor Re-
form party, In the Second Massachusetts
District
A pugilistic encounter occurred on the
stage Of the Grand Opera House In Now
York city, on the morning OF tho Goth,
between Jim Fisk, Jr., proprietor, and
Max Maretzek, manager, In which the
former Is said to have been badly pun
khed.
The New York Democratic State Con-
vention at Rochester, on the 21st, made
the following nominations: For Gov
ernor, Jno. +. Hoffman Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Allen q. Beach Comptroller, A.
r. Nichols; Canal Commissioners, long
term, Jno. d. Fay; short term, Geo. w.
Chapman; State Prison Inspector, Solo
mon Schen all denominations.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee Of New York has organized by the
election of Samuel j. Tilden, of New York
city, Chairman, and VIM. Cassidy, Of AL.
bany, Secretary.
The Republican Congressional Conven-
tisn ut Cortlandville, N. T., on the 21st,
nominated Hon. r. Holland Duell, Of
Cortland, for successor in Congress to
Hon. Dennis MCCARTHY, In the Onondsgs
and Cortland District.
One hundred and twenty volunteers for
the French army were arrested at New
York, on the 21st, on board the steamer
Lafayette, by the United States authori-
ties, on warrants issued on complaint Of
tho North German Consul, General Res.
ing. They were soon aftcrwsrd released,
but not in time TO get on board the steam
or. Some 500 or 600 volunteers managed
to sail, however The men arrested had
been recruited In New York and Brook
Ign.
J. Thomas Davis Is the Republican can.
didste for Congress in tho Fifteenth New
York District.
At New York city on the 28d the Chi.
csgo White Stockings defeated the Eek.
fords, Of Brooklyn-2l to8.
Hon. Eli Perry has been nominated for
Congress by the Democratsof the Albany
IN. W District.
In New York city on the Gath, the
White Stockings, Of Chicago, defeated
the Atlantics, Of Brooklyn-0 tod.
A New York dispatch Of the Gath states
that owing to tho presence Of French
gunboats outside the bay, the departure
Of oil German vessels, of which number
were ready to sail, had been indefinitely
postponed. The North German Consul
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