Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-28


m ineofvent National Bank for money 9
which the bank holds to the credit OF TIC
United States. He has also decided, In
connection with this question, that the
COMPTROLLER of the Currency has no
authority, under the law, to declare divi.
dend TO private creditors Of National
Bank before the claims Of the United
6tates, Of all kinds, are first satisfied.
Paymaster Hodge has written letter 10
General Price confessing his deialcation
70 the amount of $4,000.
The President has appointed Isaac "
Pugh Postmaster a. Decatur, Ill, ree Wn'
j. Usrey, suspended
The announcement Of the appointment
q Caleb Cushing and ex-Attorney- Gene
nj Meredith, of Pennsylvania, to be
Counselors to the Geneva Conference IN
DER the Treaty of Washington, has been
o61cially made.
Charges of dedication were served upon
Paymaster Hodge on the 18th.
A court Martial has been appointed TO
try Psymaster Hodge. Among the officers
detailed for the court are Major. General
George G. Meade; Colonel d. B. Sackett,
Inspector General; Colonel Israel Vogdes,
First Artillery. and Colonel N. w.
Brown, Assistant Paymaster- General.
General Spinner returned TO Washing
ton on the goth from his European tour.
The East
Gold closed In New York on the 10th
at 1t4K.
The smallest working steam engine in
the world was ents red st the Buffalo In
dustrial Fair on the 10Th. It will not
cover q space larger than three cent
piece.
The Grand Jury Of New York have
brought In q true bill, indicting Rcsen-
sveig, the aborlionist, for granddaughter.
New York business circles were agitated
on the 18th by reports Of q gigantic CON
spiracy entered into by q ring of financial
sharpers to lock up millions Of dollars OF
gold, and thus seriously embarrass the
business operations, In order to push up
prices. Judge Bedford charged the Grand
Jury, in the event Of evidence being
brought before 1t to this effect, to "act at
once, promptly and fearlessly."
The trial of the Tammany injunction
suit terminated on the 15,h, and Judge
Barnard decided in favor of permanent
Injunction. In rendering his decision the
Judge said:
am not JUSTIFIED, under the circumstances, In
saying that the payment OF these bills by me
Comptroller, snd he raising OF bonds BY the
Board Of Apportionment, authorize me to say they
are entitled 70 the confidence OF The court so us 10
permit them TO go ON and spend more money.
Having fsiled, 10 consequences Of commission, not
OF commission, II In my dnty. and painful du y,
not 70 allow another dollar 10 be PAID ron .ns
time ~ there shall be some alteration In that
board.
this order the city and county governments VIII
be disorganixed. have nothing TO 90 with tnAt:
have q plain duty to perform--not pleasant
0ns, but o which canno. avoid. whenever a
proper case n presented for IN Injunction, IL my
Il IL said there Is a remedy for the purpose Of
trying charges against the Comptroller. ! Know
OF no such legal remedy, and where there 10 no
remedy aRaiIst the robbery Of the community i y
the duty Of the bench to invent remedy; and II
none existed tho court would DC lasnhea Ia re. re-.
sorting To any means In Its power to prevent tho
continuance of state Of things discreditable 10
the city. We oil have the credit OF the city A.
heart. whether aged men wishinG to give their on
spring an Inheritance or middle-aged men Will
ing to provide for their children, or the nuie IN.
fart In the cradle, we all interested In y, ana
In looking for relief TO prevent connscauoh Oh
their property.
II was reported in New York city on
the 18th chat Tweed and Sweeny were At
war, and that an alliance had been formed
bstween Tweed, Connolly and O'Brien.
All the city laborers, whose pay became
due on the nth, hsd received their pay,
and In few days all those who had SINH
lar claims would be paid.
Superintendent Norton, Superintendent
Of the Money Order Department of the
New York Post Office, Is a defaulter to
the amount Of $4,000, and he and his
wife have voluntarily surrendered all their
property ct Plainfield, N j., consisting OF
. farm, several valuable horses, etc., esti-
mated In all to be worth 4175,OOO. 1t Is
aid the government will not suffer by this
deialcation.
An explosion occurred at the Union
Torpedo Works, New York city, on the
1lth, by which two persons, Henry Brown,
and Burke, driver Of truck, were in
SANITY killed. and Michael Goldschmidt,
proprietor of the establishment; Henry
Righart, employee, and Mary Jane Burr,
residing opposite the scene OF the explo-
sion, were 80 badly injured that they
would probably die. A Beekman street
or was passing at the time. and two
horses drawing 1t were almost blown to
pieoea Much damage was done to ada
cant buildings.
An Augusta, Me-, dispatch of the 14th
uays: ave have official returns Of the
vote for Governor from $50 cities. towns
and plantations. In these places Perham
has 40. COZ; Kimball, 89,784. Majority for
Perham, o,Sl8 There are about. 200
towns TO hear from, which will bring the
total vote up to little moro than 100000,
and give Perham majority Of 1900"
At the recent session, at Troy, N. Y, of
tho National association Of 6piristuliste,
Ma Victoria G. Woodruff was elected
Preaident for the coming year.
~a As~l~a% ,onvv,i no tod nv tho ppcouf