Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-06

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spsa.eIng, Rector OF ST. Paui's, Erie, Pa, had
been elected Missionary, Bhhop OF Colorado,
Wyoming and Mes MEXICO.
A New York dispatch OF the 9th says that
Peaks. Opdyke K Co., the dry goods firm that
suspended short time Ence, had SO arranged
their business that they had been able 70 re.
sumo. The stock market on that day was
thoroughly depressed, N. I. Central selling a.
low a. S7T. gY "at f#falssgte ~
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 9th an
nounced that z. w. Clark u Co., the we'll
known bankers Of that city, had resumed
business. This had largely tended " estab-
fish confidence In tina. CITY,. fa7aaaa 8s,1
4 The Harmony Cotton Mills, OF Cohoes,
N. Y, and the Newburghi Steam, Mills, Of
Eewburgb, closed their establishments On
the 25th. yHgtaist8iy
| A New York dispatch Of the .25th says q
bold and skillful attempt at forgery had just
| been discovered at the Sub Treasury. The
forgery consisted Of legal-tender note Of
1858 for 500, with genuine face and forged
back. The forgery had been skillfully exc
| cufed by splitting the bill In two, by which
500 bill could be 30 transformed as to make
! two bills OF 800 each, one having genuine
face and forged back, and the other forged
face and genuine back. =
A Brooklyn, N. ", dispatch says that the
! grand jury on the 18th had indicted Whitelaw
Reid Of the N. Y. I,tIuN, and Charles A..
Dana of the Sun for alleged libel upon Judge
McCuc, Of Brooklyn. #s fs i
| A disastrous confagration occurred at Can
astota, N. Y, ON the New York Central Rail-
road, near Utica, on the 27th, which burned
over six acres Of ground, destroying three ho-
tells, thirty-two dwellings, and between forty
and fifty business houses. The fire was the
work Of an incendiary. The loss amounts to
100000
The testimony In the Stokes case was closed
on the 27lh, and Mr.. Tremaine, for the de-
1 Tense, began his address to the jury
| Grave apprehensions were felt on the 28th
that the steamship Ismalia, which left New
York for Glasgow, Scotland, month before,
had been lost. There were no tidings OF her
since she left New York, and the opinion al
Glasgow was that che had gone down.
The New York Board OF Aldermen have
donated $50, 600 TO the Memphis Relief Fund
Theodore Tilton has written letter to the
Plymouth Church Committee, saying that,
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church for The past four years, he does not
feel In duty bonnd to obey. their citation to
appear before them, and therefore respectfully
declines to answer the charges made against
him In the Beecher-Bowen scandal.
1 A New York dispatch Of the 2Sth says
serious results Of the panic were being felt
along the Hudson River, and extensive brick
| yards and other works were being stopped,
and large numbers Of men were out Of en-
| ployment. .-#,tt -"tgl .ih
The Director OF the Mint at Philadelphia
has issued a letter explaining the course OF the
Government In issuing silver coin. The oper-
alton is profitable one to the Treasury at the
present prices OF gold and silver. and is believ-
ed to be more advantageous to the public, in
the present condition Of the money market,
thap the sale OF gold for legal tender noscs;
and Is not a scheme for the resumption OF spe-
Gle payments, but simply compliance with
the mint laws.
The third trial Of Edward 8. Stokes for the
murder Of james Fisk, Jr., came to q close In
New York City on the 10Th, the jury return
ing verdict OF manslaughter In the third
degree lie was sentenced to four years In
the State Prison at hard labor. srf#,
Josiah Quincy, President of the American
Cheap transportation Society, has issued q
lengthy address, setting forth the suggcs-
lions which will be made 70 Congress for leg
isation ut the coming session in relation to
the transportation question, and calling q
meeting Of the above association at Washing
ton for January IA next, at which delegations
from all kindred State organizations are in
vited to appear. N.aH
! The West s.. NJ
The National Board Of Trade was in session
In Chicago on the 2lst, 22d and 23d. On the
latter day the Convention discussed, In all its
bearings, the question of transportation. An
able aud exhaustive address was made by w.
Nj. Grosvenor, OF st. Louis.
The second and concluding session of thu
National Convention Of the Patrons OF Hus-
bandry occurred in Chicago on the 23d The
gathering was entirely harmonious and earn.
est. Railway monopolists were critically de-
nounced. The following resolutions, among
others, were adopted: ,.
WHEREAS. The duty Of q Government Is to pro
tcct its people. Capital, directed by nnscrupuiou,
minds, reaps the profit of their labor. Men oi
great wealth reyel In luxury, white those who carr
tue money are destitute OF tnhny Oh the COHIofs vi
life. Our State Legislatures have made laws de
priving us OF our land, from which we have d
title from the General Government, for the benefit
| Of railroad companies, because II seemed for the
public good Subsidies have been grained them
and Congress has. with lavish hand, given them
public lands the peoples inheritance-and the re
suit Is extortion and oppression; therefore, be IL
| Res0fUed, by this Convection. that we most re
speetfuily, hut earnestly, request Congress TO
: without needless delay, pass d mailman freight
and passenger law, regulating trafiic between the
States, and odr Legislatures . law regulating \,
Il within the States; and We hereby protest against
the further granting OF any subsidies Whatever "a
private CORPORATIONS of any kind ri 20 :,
Resotpsd, That experience has proved that freight
by water II the cheapest and we most respectfully
| ask that Congress, u relieve us Of our burdens
speedily take measufes to open writer routes from
| the Mississippi TO the seab0ard,
| Res0iped, That va demand the construction OF
railroads, and the Improvement OF winter commu
/, pication between the interior and the seaboard
! Government, for the purpose OF a6ording cheap
and ample transportation, and to.protect the PEG
"A pie from the exactions OF monopoly. III =
Resolued, That debt should ever be held "a enc
OF our greatest enemies; thatt depryes us OF man
lhess and In measure makes Us slaves; that IL
i've within our Ipeans however small to pay as We
60, win contribute TO our sueC6ss; recognizing the
fact TINT the people are In earnest we would urge
them To- free themselves Of this cursc. no that III
final struggle must come between the people and
monopoly, our houses may be In order, and We the
better able b withstand itsllig go, 4,g,L