The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-08-01
WHOLE NO. 1873.


Multun In Parvo.
John Van Buren, said the reason why
James Buchanan was like tallow chand.
Ter, was because all his works were acicked
and all his soicked works were brought to
light. The late Douglas Demonstration
in Utica, New York, was the largest most
noisy, enthusiastic and harmonious, ever
held there. Cannons roared, fireworks
blazcd, and Ex- Gov. Horatio Seymour and
other distinguished orators and statesmen
were present and addressed the meeting. .
A fearful tornado passed through Trumbull
county, Ohio, last week, tearing up fences,
houses and everything in its way. One
woman was killed and another very badly
injured. There are 100 farm mortgages
on the Lacrosse, Wis, R. r., and the
mortgagors are as gritty as the devil and
will spend the next ten or twenty years in
lawing about rights which they have fool
ishly given away. When the Illinois and
Indiana Delegates at Chicago pledged those
states to Lincoln, they probably forgot that
they were subject to heavy incumbrance by
one Stephen A. Douglas; an incumbrancc
which will be foreclosed and take the cleo
toral votes of both states at the general
term" in November. On the 22ne inst.
Louisville, KY, was visited by tornado
with hail and rain, unroofing houses, un-
mooring vessels, prostrating trees &C.. -.
At Cairo, ILL.,, on the 22nd tornado un.
rooted the Illinois Central R. r. freight de-
pot, bank building and doing other dam
age. 1t is reported that Hoffman, who
refused to run for Lieut. Governor of Til.
nois on the Republican ticket, has declared
his intention to leave the sectionalists and
vote for Stephen A. Douglas. Gov. RAN
dali, Of Wisconsin, arrived at the depot at
Avoca, the other day, just as the train was
starting; the Gov. jumped nimbly from the
wagon, his flying coat-tail hit the wagon
wheel and beautiful pack of playing cards
were scattered upon the ground but his
Excellency was in too much of hurry to
stop and pick them up, and had to go
aboard without trump to back him. He
had been out making Republican speeches,
and ''those were the cards he played" but
they arc all PLAYED out at last. . e. The Chi
cago Zouaves cleared 81, 500 by their drill
in N. Y. city. John Forsyth and others
addressed very large Douglas meeting at
Mobile, Alabama, the other day. There
arc now 100000 guns stored at the Arsenal
in Springfield, Mass. Hurrah for Uncle
Sam; who's afraid ?. . . The Great Eastern
will probably proceed to Baltimore before
returning to England. She is some ship to
be sure, but old Mississippi, the great
daddy Of rivers, would bear her upon his
the Great Eastern to come to McGregor.-
She dasn't do it.. The Prince Of Wales
reached st. Johns, n F., Monday evening
Of last week. He met with an enthusiastic
reception from the virgin soil of Queen
Vics colonies. Fifty convicts escaped
from the penitentiary at Jefferson city, Mo-,
on the oath inst. Seven of them got off
entirely the balance of them were recap
tured, after severe struggle, during which
three of them were killed outright, and
seven others dangerously wounded. Ga
ribaldi has decided upon the siege of Ma
pies. The instruction in Syria contin-
ues. -. The Maryland State Convention, to
nominate Douglas electoral ticket. meets
on the 10th prox. . Hon. Mr.. Halliburton,
Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, is dead.
The Douglas men and Lincoln men, of the
Excelsior Base Ball Club, of Chicago, had
a match Of Base Ball in that city, on the
Oath inst. The Republican papers blowed
loud and long, and asserted that the Lin
coin men would mlul the Douglas boys
The match came off in the presence of 15,-
90 persons, and the Douglas boys laid out
their opponents, and were declared the vic
tors. 1t is ominious Of more Democratic |
victories in that Republican city Wa
termelons are plenty in Burlington, Iowa.
will be next in order. "A
Douglas ratification at La Crosse, a few
days ago, drew the largest crowd ever con-
vened in that part of the State. It's conf
IDENTIFY believed that Douglas majority in
Wisconsin will exceed 10000. 1t is said
that there is not buggy load of Brecken-
ridge men in Iowa. There will be sulky
load Of Lincoln men after the election.