Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25

that project for the divisitn Of Texas
into three States was about to b submitted
to vote Of the people, and it you'd sure
ly carry at the next election.
Horace Greeley arrived at Niw Orleans
on the 18th, en- route for Texas.
Judge N. a. Golfer, of th Seventh
Judicial District of Kentucky hs recently
decided that negroes are citizen3 and have
the right TO testify, if Necessary for their
protection in the enjoyment oflthis right,
guaranteed by the Constitution Of the
United States to citizens Of the State.
The last spike in the Alabama & Chat.
tanooga Railroad was driven on the 18th,
twelve miles south of Tuscaloosa. The
first through train started from Chattanoo-
ga in the evening for New Orleans.
At meeting Of street railroad managers
in Louisville on the 18th, it was agreed
that it was useless to try and resist, or
evade the enforcement by the United
States authorities OF the claim Of negroes
to ride in the cars, the negroes having re-
fused the offer of special cars, and being
determined on riding with the whites. 1t
was decided best TO avoid serious collisions
by opening the cars to them.
A New York Tribuns's special, dated
Raleigh, N. c., May IA, says: Marshal
Hester, assisted by United States troops
from Raleigh, has arrested sixteen per-
SONS, alleged to be concerned in re-
cent Ku-Klux outrages in Ruther-
ford County. No show of resistance
was made, and the accused were
handed over to the sheriff. They are well
known men, and some possess considerable
property The sheriff released them on
their personal recognizance to appear to-
morrow before Commissioner Moore at
Shelby, Cleveland County"
The Republican State Convention of
Kentucky, at Frankfort, on the 18th, NOM
mated the following ticket: For Cover
nor General John NJ. Harlan, of Jeffer-
son; for Lieutenant Governor, Geo. N.
Thomas, Of Lewis; for Attorney General,
WIN. Brown, Of Fayette; for Treasurer,
General Speed s. Fry, of Boyle; for Audi
tor, VIM. Krippenstapel, Of the Louisville
Volksblatt;. for Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Rev. w. e Mobley, Of Todd !;
for Register Of the Land Office, John X.
McCleary, of Rockcastle.
Foreign Intelligence.
BY the terms Of the final treaty between
France and Germany the Paris forts still
held by the German troops are to be i'm
mediately evacuated The cities of Nancy,
Belfort and Longwy are to be retained by
the Germans until the conditions of the
treaty of peace are fulfilled. The treaty
abrogates the commercial treaty between
France and Germany, and gives to Prussia
control of railways in the coded territory,
in consideration of deduction from the
war indemnity of 1926 100000 francs. One
of the clauses of the treaty provides for
the acquisition by Prussia of the railway
from Thionville to Luxembourg.
In the French Assembly, on the 18th,
Theirs announced the signing of the de-
flnitive treaty OF peace between France
and Germany.
Recent special dispatches from Bonn.
bay report famine in Persia from lack
of rain, and that thousands Of the inhab-
itants were dying.
The ship City of Quebec, from London,
bound to Quebec, was wrecked at Dead
Island on the night of the 9Th. She is
total loss, and all the crew were
drowned.
Gable dispatches of the 18th state that
encouragement had been caused among
the Communists in Paris by the resigna-
ton of General ROssel The Versaillist
troops had captured the Convent of Issy
at the point of the bayonent, though it was
stoutly defended by the insurgents; many
of the enemy were killed and three guns
captured. A dispatch from Paris says the
Communists claimed victories and denied
the reports of success for the Versaillists.
The Committee of Public Safety had
issued a proclamation to the people, which
says: "The Republic and the Commune
have escaped mortal peril Treason had
penetrated our ranks, and brides had been
distributed. Rossels surrender of Issy
was the first step of the drama; the open.
ing of the gates of Paris was to follow.
A majority of the guilty have been arrest
ed, court martial is now sitting, and their
punishment will be exemplary"
A Halifax dispatch of the 10th says
"the local government papers denounce
the Washington treaty as grossly unjust to
the provinces. The government papers
give quasi approval, and want to await
the text of the treaty" A Montreal dis
patch says "the papers generally express
themselves as satisfied with the treaty,
saying that the terms are as good as could
be expected" The Toronto Globe of the
18th waits for the full treaty, but says the
terms, as now published, will never be
sanctioned by the Canadian Parliament
The government organs were non commit