The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-09-28

Nut for the Dubuque Herald.
We would most respectfully call the atten-
ton of the Dubuque Herald to the fact that
some twelve or fifteen years since, the General
Government in the plentitude Of its benevo-
lence. granted to the State Of Iowa magnifi.
cent grant of land, lying on, and adjacent to
the Des Moines river, for the purpose Of i'm
proving the navigation Of said river. Will the
Herald, which is, by the way, the guardian and
historian of the dear people of Iowa, give to
its wards in general and the people oft this State
this grant Please inform them about hsw
much money was realized from it, and where it
has gone to.-McGregor Press.
The last we heard of the "grant" batch of
Republican politicians took it into their heads
to swindle the State of Iowa out of some
| twelve millions of dollars.
At the last session of the General Assembly
| which was overwhelmingly Republican, they
got up bill giving all the lands above Fort
Des Moines TO the Company " whom pre-
| vious Republican Legislature had transferred
| certain work upon the river. In giving these
lands to the company and relinquishing the
company from their contract, the State was to
assume the debts of the Company, which were
stated upon the floor Of the House to be but
2O,OOO,OO.
But private information was communicated
| to some of The Democratic members who in.
sisted upon sn investigation which resulted in
discovering that if the bill had passed, the
State would have been mulctcd in the sum Of
$l2.O0O,OOO.
We find by report to Gov. Grimes in 1855
| that up to that time out of ,3O0,OOO acres OF
land there had been sold only 253, 472 acres,
leaving belonging to the State ,O46, i72 acres
The State subsequently entered into a contract
with a company to complete the Des Moines
River Improvement. After q series of years
under Republican Administration, difficulties
grew up between the State and the Company,
and after the defeat of the attempt to swindle
the State out of $I2 ,OOO, 900 referred to above,
the same General Assembly authorized PROPOSE.
tons to be made to the Company by which the
State gave up to the Company all the remain
der Of the grant except Is, 467 acres, and even
this is to be given to the Company provided the
title is found to belong to the State. (See Sess
Laws, 1859.
Here we have the history of the grant,
When Grimes & Co. came into power the State
had GAG, 472 acres of the grant left. Since
that our Republican rulers have FILTERED away
all but IS 4S7, and all the interest the State Las
in that is to be conveyed to the Company.
| How does the McGregor man like the crack.
ing Of that " nut 7''-Erpress & Herald.
% The ladies having met with such crafty
ing success in begging for Mount Vernon, have
been persuaded to take hold of the "stake and
pumpkin" monument at Washington, to sec il
they cannot put that rather languishing enter
prise through. A Ladies' Washington Nation
al Monument Association has been organized
the purpose of which is to extract the funds
from the pockets of the other sex to complete
the work. We notice among the officers some
forty ladies with the prefix Of Honorable to thei,
names, about twenty Generate. Colonels. Cop
then an Enquiries, and occasionally an untitled
Miss or Mrs. 1t is all right. Generally those
who give to such enterprises are abundantly
able, and while they might make a much better
use of their money. the probabilities are they
i would make much wOrse=Fkee Democrat.