Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-22

Wu NEWS SUlQARY.
Washingtsn News.
TIE Postmaster General has submitted
LII report 70 the House Of Representatives
saking for IN appropriation Of $25. 4S6, 6SS,
fn the service ending June 30. 1872. The
rsceipts from postage and standing appro-
uRistions for Tree mail service, are esti-
1aaed q e2l, 4e7, 315 leaving, 70 be appro-
priated ont Of the Treasury, 1886, 1873, to
make the receipts equal to the estimated
expenditures, and the further sum OF 81
736,Oo0 in special appropriations for the
Steamship service
The Senate, in executive session on the
9th. confirmed the nomination Of Colum-
hus Delano - Secretary of the Interior.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Tribune telegraphed on the 9Th
1hss il WAS reported that the President and
Admiral Porter had been reconciled, and
ahat General Sherman had been acting as
pescemAker. A dispatch Of the 9th says
President Grant desired the confirmation
q Porter 70 the Office made vacant by the
deash Of FarrAgut
The President has appointed Isaac II.
Oenrgeon, Of Missouri, ]. A. Thatcher, OF
Minnesota and Hallon Richardson, OF
Maryland, Commissioners for the Kansas
I'D Denver Pacific railways.
The N. Y. TrJun<s Washington cores
poudent telegnphed on the 9th that there
va the highest authority for stating that
he English mission had been formally
rendered 10 General Schenck, and that he
lad accepted 1t.
The following nominations were sent to
tie Senate on the 18th: SenatoS Chas. D..
Drake, Chief Justice Of the Court of
Claims; Albert G.. Edward, Assistant
Treasurer at st. Louis. Senator brakes
nomination was confirmed by the Senate.
The New York 7rDuns's Washington
special Of the 18th says 1t was considered
certain that the Forty second Congress will
meet and organize on the 4th Of March
nAxt A careful canvass has been made by
pessons interested In organization, and
nome Of the reelected members favor ad
iournment without electing officers.
The President sent TO the Senate on the
l3ah the name of General Pleasanton for
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th at
110x.
J. g. Cox, General Superintendent of
Tie Pennsylvania & New York Canal and
Railroad Company, died suddenly at To-
wanda, Pa, on the 7th, Of apoplexy.
An important decision was made in the
New Hampshire Supreme Court on the
Oh, whereby It denies tho authority of
Police Courts to naturalize aliens under
United States law, and renders void all nat
uralization made by these courts.
Three years ago Jay Cooke sent twenty
three government bonds Of 81 900 each to
the Treasury Department, and they were
redeemed. The bonds were spurious, and
the financier, when called upon, refused TO
refund the money. The government then
Suod him, and the jury gave tho United
States the amount claimed. The costs are
rid TO be over $4,000.
Winnie Ream arrived at New York on
tho 9th, from Europe, with the Lincoln
statue.
CASTOR, Democrat, was elected Mayor OF
Boston, on the 18th, by 1000 majority.
jas. Is. Blake, Republican, was reelected
for the sixth time Mayor of Worcester,
Mass.
A number of counterfeit go National
Bank notes are in circulation at tho east !;
they are Of excellent execution, and are
supposed 10 have been newly issued.
The st. Crispins of New York city re-
osntly struck against . proposed reduced
scale Of prices Tho strike was quite
general on the 12th, and contributions
wero being received from tho lodges in all
fho States.
The population of New Jersey, accord
ing TO the new census, is 0O3,046. This is
q increase of 231 ,029 over the enumera-
tion Of 1860, or over "a per cent.
Two thousand three hundred and eighty
one immigrants arrived at New York dur
Ing the week ending December 10.
The census returns of Pennsylvania are
now completed, and the total population
A. asccrtained to be 3,492, 5O2--s gain of
%. 868 since 1860 being go Is per cent.
The West.
The Dakota Legislature organized on
tho 9th, electing Geo. A. Hand, Speaker;
George ]. Foster, Clerk; Rev. Joseph
Ward, Chaplain.
Full returns Of the Michigan Lcgisla.
ture foot up, Republicans, 70; Democrats,
=, and one vacancy.
Al q called meeting Of the Cincinnati
Base Ball Club, on the 9th, q resolution TO
sustain the recent action of the Executive
Board. In abolishing the professional char.
actor of the Red Stockings, was defeated
~ . decided majority.
McCormick's majority for Congress in
Arizona Is 8b1.