The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-04-27
,roi Stature the canning June. The third

house Cthc Lobby is busy Matching plum
der schemes for the agents Of the people to
indorse under the magic influences Of bad
liquors, fair talk and -holc-ing. 1t is
susceptible of proof that few years ago
one Railway Corporation paid $4,000 to
secure the passage Of an act to favor its in
terests; among the items arc one for $500
forliquors furnished members, at one Hotel |!
Another was $500 paid seedy politician
for lobbying, and 80 the category runs on.
Most of our Railroads have proved to be
shaving mills, in which the substance of
their stockholders has been taken from the
poor and given TO the rich: as usual the
large fish dcvouring the smaller ones, and
instead Of cnuring to the benefit of the pub
lie, has gone to the maws of those greedy
comorants and their highly-feed officers
Consequently the stock of only one in the
State stands at par; in most of them the
stock is worthless. In many of them the
shareholders have not only been anxious to
give away the stock, but handsome bonus
to any responsible person who would take
it and indemnify the holder against his past
liabilities on it! In such a case the stock
"for song" passes into the hands of a few
men who cotitrol it to promote their own sell
fish ends. 1t has become here potent en-
CINE of political power To-day the Rail-
way interest holds the balance Of power in
; thisTstate. Hence by process of 'sapping
and mining concentration of these pow
ers Of associated wealth is fast going on
This year an attempt is to be made to unite
the Concord and Manchester Railways,
which will bring the whole power of this
interest under the thumbs of one man, and
he aScnator, where he can do most mischief
Rum and money will be poured out freely !:
for the result we must wait.
The present Judiciary system Of n II. is
curse to suitors and the State. 1t was
created in the fungus manufactures Of
"dark-lanternism" and which, by the whip
ofcabalS, was driven through our Legislature
over the Constitution and the oaths of it's
members to support it. I. has become a
burden to the taxpayers too grevious to be
borne, and this session strong effort will
be made to abolish it and give to jury Of
the town jurisdiction of all cases for less
than 800. Time only can determine its
fate. We shall of course have the usual
amount of negro-deifying resolutions with
the usual debates thereon. If any thing
worth putting on paper transpires there'll
"bc chiel amang' them "taken notes and
filth he'll prent it." of which you shall be
duly advised
A deep interest is manifested here by all
the reading public, in the Sickles trial. The
universal sentiment here is that the Jury
should return verdict of Served him
right" and also that Mrs. Sickles by nature
was mo better than she should be-" which
opinion has been strongly confirmed by the
ten thousand images of her which, Yankee
like, have been scattered on every wind as
an advertisement of innumcrablc publica.
tons. Her sensual looking mouth, (that
index of a woman's soul,) has condemned
her. But little sympathy is felt for Sicklcs
The universal belief is that though no man
can justify her course, still there are strong
extcnuating circumstances in her favor
that there is ''nigger in the fence which
when seen will explain much in her course
that is now yelled in mystery. To the cred
it of American women, be it said, that what,
ever their proclivitieS, passions and sins, sc
controlling is the moral and domestic power
of their natures that so far as we can dis
Germ through the putrid atmosphere o.
divorce cases and criminal trials, in nine
cases out of ten the husband is directly o,
indirectly the cause Of his wife's infdelity
Till the secret history, the ''insidc view o.
the domestic relations of these parties is
fully aired, the horror-struck, whitc-cloth
nasal winners would do well to observe the
charity of nature which Burns deemed true
religion:
.sThen gently thy brother man
And mere liter woman,
For though they gang keunin wrang,
To step aside--is human"
The Democracy have been defeated il
Connecticut-gaining handsomely ON tn.
popular vote and in both houses over las
year. The result may serve ito point {
moral Toucey, member of the Cabinet
is from this State. He is a noble looking
man, of fine abilities, perfect gentleman
so far as outside appearances go, but he i.
cold Of heart, aristocratic by nature, desti
tute of any sympathy with the people II,
thinks the 'mud-sills" are convenient t.
do the voting where it is allowed He i
was who whipped the two Conn. members
into the support of "Lecompton,' sneeret
at Douglas, led the ''cow boys" to the bap
tismal font and sought to frown tn,
Jury" and Old Guard from the "Sacra
ment." Chickering's, i'll feeling, grew up, ant
though the Little Giant magnanimousl,