Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-14


The statement Of the public debt for
September LIST Is - follows:
Dsht bsssing compound interest, 1881 sces.sO
Accrued interest ............ ........ 81 64so
Ds6t bearing currency intsrest....... %sls0o
ssss1 - s q, ~.
4etnfeo oeDS. ............ .-.-....-.. l.noLols
Dsashg no Interest. 111,2s,sss
Unclaimed interest ..... 9,Si2
1O3i 0oDS...-..... SrSSo IsIoss
A1eHe9S -.............-.........--. ostSosOf
ro.., .ss,aa.o1.s7
Ooin In Treasury. ..................-. S0,sl3.soi
Currency in Treasury. -.....-......-. 7.96s,3t5
Oebt, less cash ia Treasury. "a 12z,56l
Oocsease during August. .-......-. ~ 5,17e
Decrease since March. .....-.......-. 1f6.ssS.z8
Decrease since March 1. 1862 -, S40.6ss
Ths total amount OF bonds Issued TO the Pacific
Railway was tcf.s,s,ss3, on which the United
States be- paid 81 IA. sss interest and the CON-
Hsn,es y trsnsport.tion. mail etc, ssisI.s,
By DE Treasury Department.
The President left Washington on the
night Of the LIST for Long Branch. He
win resume his residence In Washington
about October 1.
The President has appointed the follow
ing Postmastsrs: VIM. Weldon, Iowa
Falls, Iowa. resppointed; z. L. Meal
lister, Champaign, H.; Jas. w. Patter-
Soa, Humboldt Kan; Emerson j. Fl.
Taylor, Bozenan, Montana.
Ala CsbiEct meeting in Washington en-
tho LIT al the members were present ex-
opt Secretary Boutwell, and Postmaster
General Creswell. TIE condition of the
South was considered. especially the dis
affection and reported acts of unlawful
violence in certain counties of South Car
olins. Three reports from Admiral Rogers
were laid before the Cabinet by Secretary
Robson. The United States will not re-
new the attack on Corea, but await the
result Of the British expedition. 1t lie
thought that ultimstaly the United States,
Great Britain and the North German
Confederation may form an alliance
agains. Corea.
The President has appointed John c.
HillmAn, Of Washington Territory, Regis
ter OF the Land ONCE q. Vancouver, and
J. Il. Wickiser, Attorney for Utah Terri
tory.
The East.
Gold closed In New York on the 9th
Il 1t3k. li
A telegram of the 3lst ult., from New
York, says the steamship Java, which left
Liverpool ON the 10th Of August. ran into
the Norwegian bark Minta, on the night
OF the 23d Of August, and sent her down,
with eleven lives. The Minta was making
. trip from Portsmouth TO Quebec. She
had ON board twelve hands Of whom but
one was saved by the boats sent out by
the Java. r
The indictments found against the Pres
ident and Superintendent Of the Staten
Island Ferry Company, and the engineer
Of the Westfeld, are for manslaughter In
tho third degree The indictment against
James X. Matthew'S, United States In
spector Of Boilers, Is for granddaughter In
the fourth degree.
The horse disease In New York city and
Brooklyn was reported, on the 3D., to be
Another of the injured by the Westfeld
explosion, Francis Haggerty, of Brooklyn,
expired on the 81, at his residence In that
city. @ ta..
A largely attended mass-neeting Of cit.
isens, irrespective Of party, was held at
Cooper Institute, New York city, on the
evening Of the 4th, to protest against the
alleged frauds on the part of the city offl
cisls. A series Of twelve resolutions
was adopted, which declare the city and
county debt more than doubled with
in the last two and half
years, being now $113,00o0o0, or over
1e3,OoO,O 900 more than when Mayor Hall
was inaugursted, while there Is reason to
believe that many millions more will be
paid out on floating and contingent claims
unless the present officials arc removed or
the proceedings arrested. The resolutions
name William NJ. Tweed, Richard B. Con-
molly, and A. Oakley Hall Is the officers
directly arra'gned at the bar of public
opinion for these offenses. and declare
that unless they can meet the charges by
other evidence and on different pleas than
have yet been furnished In their behalf,
the credit Of the city Of New York and
tho material interests of its citizens will
demand that they be deprived ofthe offices
whiSh they have dishonored and the pow
ees which they arc abusing. ae
The Executive Committeeof the Amer
lam Woman's Suffrage Association has
decided 70 hold the next annual meeting
In Philadslphia on November % and %. 4
All large meeting Of the Union Repub.
Hem Association, in the Twentieth Dis
triet Of New York city on the evening Of
tho 9Th, . resolution was unanimously
adpptsd accommodating Horace Greeley to
the National Convention as the candidate
Of their choice for the Presidency.
A Long Branch dispatch Of the 9th says
. committee OF 20 OF the Warmoth Loui.
dam delegation had an interview with
the President on that day, and laid before
him their grievances. During the CONVEX
sation the President said he had not gu.
thorised the use Of troops. and that Gen.
RAvnolds. when he filed the requisition OF