Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-28

depaCcn OF the HUtn e6ys: IL was freely
stated by prominent officers Of the Feniar
organization, yesterday, that not onlJ
will the expedition against Canada depart
within few days, but that fighting will
have commenced on the frontier ere the
close Of the present Congress. General
O'Neill win direct the movements Of the
Taiders."
The number Of immigrants arriving 81
ne port Of New York on the 10th was
unprecedently large-5, O23-and the num-
Dor passing through Castle Garden was
greater than on any one day siace the
beginning Of the year.
~ The West.
The Iowa Legislature adjurned zine dil
on the 18th.
The Clerk Of the District Court at San
Francisco has declined to allow the regis.
tration of negroes. About 100 applied on
the 18th to be registered.
Forty-six Union printers employed In
the st. Louis Republican Office struck on
the 14th, but the question of wages was
not involved in the case.
A reward of 5000 Is offered for the ar
rest and delivery to the Sheriff OF Dade
county, Mo, of w. w. Amos, commonly
called Bud, who killed James Farmer, at
Cedarville, Mo-, in March last. Said
Amos is described as being "about 81
years old, five feet six inches high, dark
complexion, with heavy black beard If not
shaven /; the fore finger on the right hand
is crooked, and the nail (if any grows on
end Of finger; has peculiar way of jerk
ing his shoulders and ducking down his
head" Id s,s.r5
A Court Martial convened by Presi-
dent Grant, for the trial Of Brig. Gen. Tot
ten, Lieutenant-C Colonel and Assistant In
spector General of the United States
Army, met at Louisville, KY, on the 10Th.
One of the charges against Gen. Totten is
said to be absence without leave.
Every business block but two in Me
dina, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 18th. The loss, 1t was
thought, could not be less than 1000,
| the insurance on which would not exceed
cne-third of that sum. Many persons
were burned, some severely, but no lives
were lost.
In the Illinois Constitutional Conven-
ton, on the 18th, proposition to strike
out the word "male in the suffrage arti-
Gle was rejected-12 for to 46 against.
The tow boat Raven exploded her boil
ers at Cincinnati, on the night of the 18th.
There were twenty.three persons on
board at the time Of the explosion. Three
were badly injured, five known to be
saved, and the remaining fifteen were
missing.
In the Illinois Constitutional Conven.
ton on the 10th, a proposition providing
for submission TO separate vote Of the
people the bare question of woman suf-
frage, was adopted-40 to 81.
The General Assembly of Ohio ad-
journed on the morning Of the 18th. Dur
ing the session seventy-threc general, and
forty three local, laws were enacted also,
flfty-six resolutions adopted.
At Dubuque, Iowa, on the 20th, the
water in the Mississippi was about four
inches above the extreme high water
mark, and still rising slowly.
The case Of Joseph A. Berry against
Gen. Bacon Montgomery and others, for
$4,000 damages, for false imprisonment
and destruction of plaintiffs newspaper
office, in 1856, by State militia for alleged
disloyal publications, was decided on the
10th, at st. Louis, the jury returning a
verdict against Montgomery, assessing $50
damages, and finding the other defendants
not guilty.
The South
BY the terms of General Order No.
Al, recently issued from the headquarters
of the army, after June ! Virginia is to
be annexed to the Department of the East,
commanded by Gen. Mcdowell, and the
Department of the Cumberland is discon-
tinued, the troops within the latter to be
attached to the Department of the South,
Gen. Terry commanding
The Georgia Legislature met at Atlanta
on the 18th.
A heavy frost in Georgia on the night
of the nth, caused great damage to cot
ton, corn, and vegetable crops Advices
| from the canebrake or cotton belts ore
very unfavorable.
E. M. Yerger was brought before Chief
Justice Shackelford, of the Mississippi
Supreme Court, at Jackson, on the 10th,
on writ of Aabsds corpus, and released
on giving recognizances in $4,000.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned on
the 2Oth to the 25th. A member of the
| House stated that Gen. Terry opposed
any legislation while the Georgia bill wa
pending before Congress.
Foreign intelligence
Riots broke out at Seville, Spain, on the
18th on account of the attempted enforce
ment of the CONSUMPTION act. They were
suppressed without much difacnlty.
The Fenian scare in Canada continued
| on the 14th. and great activity prevailed