Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-08

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Customs receipts for week ending An
gn3 -, 94,5os, 100.
Vie Admiral Porter has been appoint
a Admiral.
On De 18th Treasurer Spinner recsivet
ftou 81. Louis draft on New York %
s3e&aQa1afaeay Wui9yp sd snssroas soan.
tsrlsit 80 bll On The Shoe q Leather
>Ns&ional Bank, Of New York, have been
recently received at the United States
Treasury IN Washington. TWAS thought
considerable quantities had been sent
West The engraving and tinting
ase al good, and the printing Of the face
II excellent. The shading Of the figures
IN the picture upon the back d much
darker than In the genuine, and this Il
Tie best feature by which TO detec. the
counterfeit.
4 Warrington telegram Of the 2sth says
lie Pension Once IL receiving many in.
quiries In regard to rules governing the
furnishing Of artificial limbs. Where sol
dien elect 70 receive Communication, an or
dr. fx the payment Of the amount 1t the
rate Of e75 Tor foot, $50 tor An arm, or
oeher apparatus, will be issued 1t The
Pension Once, and paid through the near
e. agent Such soldiers - have not
heretofore been able, from the nature Of
their injuries, 10 wear artificial hmbs, are
entitled 70 the benefit of the act. Pay
ment q the rates named Is made in all
cases every five years. Direct correspon-
dence BY applicants, with the Pension
Once, win secure the benefits o. the act
without employing an agent.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Richardson Issued an order on the 2sth
for the purchase Of bonds and sale Of gold
for September as follows: The purchase
Of one million bonds On Thursday, Sep
tembef /, and on each alternate Thursday,
and two millions on Thursday, september
8, and each alternate Thursdsy-seven
millions In ali the sale Of ono million of
eoh on each Wednesday Of the month
four millions in all. 4a8e.
A Washington dispatch of the Both says
s'the Assistant Attorney General has tele-
graphed 70 the United States District At
torney OF West Virginia, to dismiss all
prosecutions under the act TO enforce the
rikht OF citizens of the United States To
vote in the several States, when the Office
n not within the distinction forbidden In
the second section Of the same. In Ken.
lucky and West Virginia it seems that
parties have brought suit against Regis
tiers OF Election for refusing TO register
the votes Of some alleged to have been
in Confederate service. The second sec
tion referred TO protects the colored peo.
pie in their rights, but tho third section
relates 70 al classes who may feel e.
srieved BY the refusal OF registers to re-
csive their votes. II ID understood tina,
the ssms instructions will be sent TO the
Eal.aaar eNia JD0s !aSs!is .Assta rnev' in tn
Ths East,
Gold closed In New York on the o0tt
q 1862.
All Republican incumbents Of seats IL
Congress from Vermont have been re
nominated.
Horace Greeley was nominated on thu
9ah, for Governor Of the State OF New
York, by the Workingmen's Contra
Union, local political organization.
The New York Commercial Bulletin o
the 10th produces facts and figures Il
prove that our country Is receiving nj
commercial advantages from the war.
The travelling delegation Of the Illinoi
Press Association arrived 1t Boston Of
tho 9th.
A New York special Of the 2Sth says
"The feeling in tho produce market
that breadstu6s will continue TO improv,
II. demand from 1rsoRS. laF IS S. . sc;y;
This, II taken In connection with tho fall
ing Oh In the estimated receipts ct tn
lake ports, would argue better prices
The breadstuh market VIII b very mate
rally affected By the length Of the Wal
and everything now points to Ion
WAR;
Tho Cincinnati express train ran OF tn
track ct Greenbush, N. T., on the 27tl
or eleven coaches In the train, I'VE wer
smashed terribly. A brakeman belong
Ing to Rhinebeck, and . woman passenge
from Iowa, name unknown, were killed
A boy had an arm broken. Several othe
passengers received slight injuries. Al
accident occurred on the Camden 4 Am
boy Railroad, ct Lawrence Station, N. ].
on the seth, BY which the rear car Of u
express train Wa thrown from the tract
and demolished. One passenger was IA
SANITY killed, . brakeman fatally injured
three other psrsons seriously and severa
slightly hurt Three cars Of the train 70
New York, on the Morris 3 Essex Rail
road, were thrown from the track nea
Newark, on tho 20th, and several passen
gers seriously injured. Tho cars war
nearly demolished.
ID. ]. Norrell has bean rs-nominate'
1be Comgress BY the Republicans Of tn
Seventeenth Peunaylvanis District