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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07

McGREG0R, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1850
,any and mapy a time before have done.

many and many time before have done. A
resolution then passed which will never be pub
lished as it was penne1. It was in substance
this: "Resol,.ed, That every being on Gods her
itage has right to secndc from any thing and
everything, anybody and everybody, to anything
and anybody, whenever he pleases. After il
had passed, Luther Greenleaf peered at it thro'
his 80 year spectac.es, and said: "Mr. Presi-
dent, l am willing to 60 for most any thing
right and as far as anybody, but if understood
that, am afraid it goes too far After the
usual prelimInaries the Convention dissolved,
having set through dinner time, not daring to
adjourn lest none would come back. Perhaps
more space has been given it than it deserved.
have reported it as it was to show your West
ern readers that this new issue is here the same
dishonest, lying, Dragging contemptibility that
it is West. Not one Of the speakers advertis-
ed vas here, or expected by its managers. It
is better for us that they have an electoral tick
ct. or otherwise very many of them would vote
for Lincoln. The Breckenridge strength and in
terests are regularly considered by the Rcpub-
lican managers in their meetings IA much as
there own. Some question has been made since
his unfortunate Hallett letter, how Gen. Pierce
and his special friends will vote. l can solve
that question. He and they here will vote for
Douglas and Johnson. The canvass in this
oId1e progresses very qu'ctiy' AueSc eAIeme
Southern men who have done so much to elect
Lincoln should be putting in their claims
Eren Judas received thirty pieces of silver for
betraying his God They should ask the high
est honors and Offices. Like him, they haue
earned their re,card. 1t may be we'll for them
if they initiate his example still farther.
Snow has once whitened our mountain tops
and must soon again. For sometime we have
had cold, wet, hard weather. Crops are good; /;
our people quite comfortable; business fair;
money comparatively easy. There are some
failures where people least expected it. Men
who strained point and lived through the
panics, in sunny hour fell off like ships that
have gone down at sea when heaven was all
tranquility. Very many of our younger people.
to guard against rheumatism and cold winters,
are buying blankets and popping the question,
or saying yes, or Siding up when the popping
comes in. We are having "apple bees" and a
thousand other 'becs," we're making cider, our
girls are looking rosy, loveable and kissable-
and further deponent saith not. But we are
having good time generally, and wish the
same merry times to the editor of the Times.
Yours, GRANITE.
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WHOLE NO. PIP.
Fa rln ers.

Farmers.
AS a class, these are the most improvi
dent o,kers in existence. They are nscd
to compliments we know, b,'t they must dc
better before we puff them. They taste
enough annually by neglect to make the
country rich. Instead Of providing an
abundance Of Straw, Germ fodder, Hay,
Trrnips, Carrots and such cheap food for
their stock, they work the cattle and horses
poor to raise it all and then refuse to lay up
sufficient store for the comfort of the
brutes through the cold winter of this
northern climate. Worse than that, nine
out of ten Of these ''lords Of the soi' will
waste the bright balmy days of September
and October in running over the country
after deer or an elk or stump politician
and leave their cattle, sheep and hogs to run
their chances Of freezing in the biting blasts
of an outdoor January, when day or two
of labor, would put up sheds or straw bar
riers that would be heaven to their beasts
so per cent more in the spring. Farmers
all know this and generally they mean to be
kind to the unreasoning creatures around
them, but it is melancholy fact that those
who derive their wealth most directly from
the guardian care of Nature are the mo st
careless in exhibiting that practical appre-
citation of her kindness which should induce
them to see that no one of her domesticated
useful creatures should suffer.
Build houses Of straw, stalks or poles for
the COW that feeds your children and do not
have the meanness to ask Cherry or Star or
Brindle to give yon morning pail of milk
when she stands in the wind with three or
four inches Of snow froze to her poor storm
beaten back! Our belief in universal sal
vation undergoes decided change when
we pass farm-yard without protection for
for cattle.
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Poetry.
NEVER GIVE UP.


Never give up, though the banner Of free dom
Down to the dust by delusion Is cast;
Stout hearts and true ones (our country vii need
'em)
Stand by your principles, firm to the last.
What though fanatics, triumphantly screaming,
Moistcn our lips with Adversity's cup,
Soon will the "Keystone" awake from her dreaming,
Stand by her, Douglas Men Never give up.
Never surrender! A single disaster
Serves but to strengthen the souls Of the brave,
Call no disunionlst ra-spltter, ''Master,''
Wear net moment the gives OF a slave;
Arm for the Union, fer Right, and remember
Sealed IL their doom should the enemy win;
Broken and crushed 1t will fall in November
Stand by them, Douglas Men! Never give in!
Yield not an inch 'Ts the hour Of trial,
Red with the signs Of unnatural strife /;
Time passes rapidly over the dial
Listen, the Negro is hc'ting his knife,
Down by the Rio i el Norte already
Burned j. the homestead. and poisoned the cup,
Fair maiden- dishonored by Africans. Steady,
Forward now, Douglas Men Never give up.
Never despair! 'Tis the act Of craven
Tamely to cringe at appearance Of might;
Let the faint t-heart ed one croak like raven,
We will march steadily on to the fight;
Up with the banner, from mountain to valley
Comes the inspiring peal of our "Bel,' -
Union battalions, in myriads rally
Charge with them, Douglas Men! All will be WE'LL
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Senator Crittenden.
This venerable Kentucky Senator is pro.
badly the truest political friend that Henry
Clay ever had. He was lately invited to
address Bell-Everett meeting at New AL
bany, Ind. Being unable to attend he
wrote the Committee Of invitation a letter
urging them to vote for Douglas. Here is
the conclusion of his letter:
eff were a voter in the State of In
diana, and believed there was no probability
that Bell could carry the State in its popu
lar vote, then WOULD UNHESITAT
INGLY GIVE MY VOTE TO DOUGLAS
and should do this thinking that thereby
l performed my duty as a true Union man
and rendered both to my country and t.
Bell & Everett, the candidates Of my choice
the best service that circumstances permit
ted me to dop'
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A Volume Condensed.

A Volume Condensed.
We clip the following paragraph from a
local article in the Dubuque Herald. F..
B. WILKIE, ESQ, the accomplished editor OF
that department OF the Herald has written
some of the finest passages to be found in
newspaperdom. We do not remember to
have seen better description of the fussery
consequent upon "new arrival"-we are
sure no equal number of words ever told
more forcibly Or tenderly the sadness Of
the other side of the picture:
The population of Dubuque within the
last week has increased beyond all possible
belief Nor is it from outside emf grafton
either, that our population is thus being
added to; for almost every third man you
meet on the street has quiet gleam in his
eye and look of sheepish, fatherly import
ance, which tell of rare little treasures at
home e-of new voices in the family music
of new blcssomings on the household tree.
And the enlarged list Of grandmothers!-
Bless their old spectacles! how busy and
fussy, and proud, and happy they all are
nowadays! Who but them could handle
the blanket with its tiny, lobster-colored
contents?-who but them know the secrets
OF catnip, peppermint, paregoric and sooth-
ing syrup? And all the old ladies-they
too are happy; there is new subject of talk
over their bohea; "reminiscences to be bro't
up and discussed and at least three DAYS
fun to be had generally.
Then there is the 'happy father"-of
course he's got to keep out of the way of
grandmother, nurse, cook, chambermaid
and the old women generally; of course he
knows nothing abont such matters, and the
more he don't put his nose into such af-
fairs the better for him. So he hangs
around the store, is very grateful, humble
and complaisant to the old crones that are
caring for his Penates and Lares, and con-
tents himself with quiet little undemon-
strstive bit of joy somewhere within.
And yet all goes OH not unsorrowing
Here and there we hear Of cases where the
silver cord is broken-where the pale one
totters for little while on the brink of the
Beyond, then falls over, disappearing for.
ever in the Shadows-where the wife, meet
ing for the first time her geat Duty, goes
worsted from the conflict and is thenceforth
hidden, but not forgotten, in the noiscless
chambers of the dead The slain hero of
q hundred battles is not so worthy our tears
as she; nor waves the solemn yew above a
rounded grave deserving loftier monument
than that which holds the poor form Of her
that died in the sacred cause of maternity.
Well, so goes, or rather so comes the
world.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07
Philad elphia Frauds.


OF the glaring frauds by which Lehman
(Dem.) was deprived of his certificate as
member Of Congress, the Philadelphia In
quirer, a strong Republican paper, says:
This fraud is too gross and revolutionary
in its character to be covered up by the
party cloak that ordinarily covers such mul.
titndes Of party sins. 1t overrides the
common but demoralizing cry that 'all is
fair in politics." 1t threatens the political
rights of every citizen. Elections will be
mockeries of the hollowest kind, unless
this and kindred outrages are punished in
the most prompt and emphatic way. 1t is
therefore the duty of every citizen to assist
and support Mr.. Lehman in the vindication
Of his right, and to second the efforts of the
ministers of the law in tracing out and
bringing to justice the authors of the fraud.
The Inquirer urges Butler, the Republl-
can candidate, to give up his certificate 1t
says: "Should he continue to hold a certi-
ticate awarded to him by means of fraud
admitted by every one, and condemned
without dissenting voice, he cannot ex-
pect to escape severe censure."
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NORTH IOWA TIMES.
gu n, ner.

3""ssSAs
The New York World is confessedly one
of the ablest papers in the Union. 1t is
young yet but it has already taken rank
among the first journals of the country
The World is decidedly Republican in gen.
eral views though far from supporting that
wild sectionalism which the leading orators
and editors of its party are insisting upon
Below will be found notice of Senator
Sumner which is to the life. Seward is
also more a rhetorician than statesman.
Carl Schurz, with his beautifully rounded
sentences and wire-drawn distractions,
would, if followed, swamp this country in
the same way that his dreams of Utopia
did the Democracy Of Germany in ls4s
Men may be brilliant without being states
men-the learning of Hamilton had to give
way before the more practical ideas of
Jefferson and Henry. The World says ::
"When Mr.. Sumner consented to be
Senator he miStook his vocation. Nature
meant him for rhetorician, the original
bent of his mind, his tastes, his training.
the aspirations and pursuits of his early
manhood, marked out for him the part he
was to play, and made him as incapable Of
craftsmanship as Burke said a nisus prins
lawyer was--that is, that he can no more
comprehend it than rabbit that breeds II
times yevr can understand the gestatons
of an elephant! Great fertility in phrase
making, fecundity in figures of speech, al
lusions and classical quotations, long and
laborious search after some curious felicity
Of dicton, which, though it may tickle the
fancy, carries no conviction with it, are all
very we'll for man who wishes to shine in
a literary coterie, lecture to lyceums, and
write pleasant review articles. But n saga
cious and large minded sta :csman will hold
these far sought pettyisms scxtremclycheap."
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In predicting dissolution of the Union,
as consequence Of the election of Lincoln
to the Presidency, the Richmond Enquirer
uses the following extraordinary language
with reference to the position Of the "Old
Dominion" which VIM. c. Preston was
wont to hail as the alag Ship" of our glo.
rious Union:
virginia can no more prevent the dis
solution Of this Union after Lincoln's elec-
ton than she can prevent that election
She will be powerless to prevent civil war,
with all its attendant horrors. Any one oi
the Southern States can, and some Of them
.oiU, involve the whold country, North as
well as south, in the intenrnecne strife of q
bloody and desolating civil war. Virginia
will, by majority of her people, decide
upon resistance, while large minority may
desire to postpone resistance for the overt
act;' but, hitched as she is to the Southern
States, she will be dragged into common
destiny with them, no matter what may be
the desire of her people. We believe that
a large majority of the people Of Virginia,
if the opportunity Of Convention was al
lowed them would vote for immediate re.
sistance and fer common destiny with the
Southern States; and with this belief Oe
,oould adoise tie slaps States not to hss;tat1
10 strike an carly blow from fear that Pr
gsnia mag hssitate IN her duty to the South. !"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07


Letter fom John Haserty-1ndians ON
the Flains-Rough Treatment Of
Emigrants.
CAMP ON PoRr NEuF RIvER,l
OREGON, Sept. 16, 1860.
Dear Col. i: 1t may interest," you and the
numerous readers Of your valuable paper,
to be made aware of the many hardships
and vicessitudes that emigrants have to en-
counter in crossing the plains. People be-
fore leaving comfortable home in the States
should consider the many risks they arc
subject to from ferocious Indians and ma
rauding Mormons. Unfortunately your
humble servant did not take this advice,
and Pixies Peak, with its golden allure
ments beckoned him on, with many hun
dreds more, only to be disappointed. I
left Pixies Peak, after becoming satisfied of
its being humbug, for California, and pro-
ceeded as far as Fort Laramie, where
Joined party of emigrants from Illinois
ana ;owa, numbering in all eleven men,
three women and five children, with three
wagons and considerable property in horses
and cattle, and destined for California, like
myself We got along without encounter
ing danger, to the Emigrant Crossing on
Port-neuf River, Oregon, U4ander's Route)
where we procured an escort of nine men
from Col. Howe, commanding I'd Dragons,
then encamped at that place for the protec-
ton of emigrants en- route for California
and Oregon, and proceeded as far as CITY
Rocks, Oregon, where the escort left us and
returned to their encampment, on Port
neuf, according to instructions from com.
mandng officer. The dragons had left us
but two days, when, on the second night,
we were attacked at eleven o'clock by a
numerous body of Indians; they tried to
stampede our animals, but being on the
alert we prevented them, after exchanging
few shots, from accomplishing their OBJ
ject. We Immediately mounted two of our
party, and sent them in all haste to procure
assistance from the I'd Dragoon head quar-
ters, then distant one hundred miles, Four
weary days and nights elapsed before as
sistance came, and although Lieut.. Saun-
ders, I'd Dragons, command of twenty
men, Travelled night and day to our rescue,
we were despoiled of everything we had
before he arrived. In the interval between
the first attack and the arrival of Lieut..
Saunders, we defended ourselves from three
distinct attacks from Indians, and but for
the timely assistance rendered by this eff
cient officer, believe there would not be
one of all our party alive to tell the tale.-
| am but expressing the wish of our party
in offering him Lieut. Saunders) our warm
est wishes for the kind manner he minister
ed to the wants of our party, and they were
not few. The women and children had to
be conveyed in government wagons to this
place, and received all the attention that
could be extended to them, and will pro-
ceed in . few days to Camp Floyd, U. T.,
distance 25 miles. We are under many
obligations to Mr.. John Mendelhaus, of the
firm Of Livingston & Co., for his kindness
in procuring many ofus clothing
lremain, sir, your obcdient servant,
JOHN HAGERTY,
of McGregor, Iowa.
To A. P. RICHARDSON, ESQ.
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From Hunts Merchants Magasine !.


FAIRBANKS ScALEs.-Weighed in the
balance Of o just criticism, all are obliged to
admit that the scales of Fairbanks & Co.
are, without exception, the best ever invent
ed. We know whereof We affirm, because
we have tested their value, and are fully
satisfied Of their superior merits. The in
PRODUCTION of these scales has wrought a
revolution in the transaction of various
business, and their accuracy is such that
uniformity in weights has been established
all over the country, thus making them
national, legalizsd standard. Nor are they
confined to the United States; they have
found their way to almost every part Of the
civilized world, and are adapted to the STAN
dards Of all countries, SO that it may be
said, all nations, if not weighed in these
balances" at least weigh by them.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07
The Rurch Divorce Case.


A rich joke leaked out in connection with
the BurCh affair, a few days since, viii h has
not and probably will not find it's way into
the columns of the Chicago papers.
An old maid-a blessing on old maids
went to St. Louis few weeks since. and
while there learned that Mr. Burch was
stopping at one of the leading hotels, and
was occupying room in partnership with
beautiful woman, who was passing off as
his wife. The old maid returned to Chica-
60 by the first train of cars, and made the
facts known to Mrs. Burchs attorney. He
being one Of the smartest lawyers in the
Western country-at once saw the advan-
tage Of the information, and therefore lost
not moments time in arranging his plans
for securing all the necessary evidence
After weeks diligent labor of score of
spies, informers, and dsintercsted old maids,
it was discovered that one of the most beau
tiful women Of Chicago, who had long been
suspected of easy virtue, went to st. Louis
and staid for week with man who regis
tered himself as Burch, but who was, in
fact, wealthy and influential deacon in
one of the most prominent churches in
Chicago.
On being shown the immense amou mt of
incontrovertible proof which had been col.
lected to crush him, the deacon exclaimed
with great trepidation ats all true gentle.
men; but for Gods sake don't publish it
1t can't do Burch or his wife, or anybody
else any good, and it will raise the deril with
me! I'll pay all expenses you've been to
in collecting the testimony if you won't say
anything about it."
The story goes that he paid the expenses
over two hundred willingly,
and the only indication he showed of i'm.
patience was the remark as he left the law.
yers office II wish the devil had all the
old maids ~
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The AMENDE.--The Cleveland Herald,
with the Republican press of the North,
gave currency to the charge that Douglas
was the author of the Lecompton swindle
which he hazarded his whole political fu-
ture to defeat. The Herald, since Judge
Douglas speech at Milwaukee, has the
manliness to say that "the question at is
sue must be regarded as settled in favor Of
Mr. Douglas"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07

A VALUABLE RECRUIr.-The HOrnells-
vile On. w. journal, one of the ablest OF
the interior Republican papers came out
last week as follows:
We place at the head of our columns this
day, the names of Douglas and johnson, in
the place Of Lincoln and Hamlin, and the
paper will hereafter be devoted to the prin-
ciplcs Of the Democratic party, and advo-
cate conservative National doctrines. The
crisis has arrived when we consider it to be
the duty Of every lover Of his country to
lend his aid to check the progress of Sec
tional fanaticism, and strive to place at the
head of our Government men who will re-
gard alike the rights and intesests of every
portion of the Union.
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a '0flCksH
Pomeroy of the La Crosse Union ana
Democrat, in starting a new volume, thus
explaterates. ''Brick' will keep talking
just what he pleases; there is no stopping
the acag Of his tongue on the point of his
pen:
"As to the future course Of the paper we
shall say but little. 1t will always be Dem
Ocratic, and its editor is able to be about as
independent as the next man. What we
like we shall approve of-what we don't
like we shall condemn-a if the people
don't like the tone, or style of the paper,
they can remedy the matter by taking such
one as they do like, or, like fools, going
without any. If Douglas is elected Presi.
dent, and we expect he will be, this will be
Douglas paper, except he should do as old
Buck, when it won't be a Douglas paper.
If he is not elected it will be a Dougla
paper still, fighting on for the principle of
non intervention.
During the next year we intend to say
great many very mean things-and to
omit saying number Of very good ones,
and the people who sit up nights to finA
something in the La Crosse Union d Dena-
ocrat that ought not to have been there,
will just as like as not find the object of
their search Such is human frailty!
Soon as election is over, we shall present
some new features in u western paper,
which will make it one Of the most reada-
BILE papers in the State. We shall 60 in for
fun-for making money-for rewarding
friends for furnishing enemies-for helping
along the cause of education and agricul-
ture-for getting farm mortgagers out of
the trap they have been caught in-and for
extending the circulation of this paper.
We believe that white men are as good
as niggers-as general thing! That there
is more hypocrisy than religion in all ortho-
dox churches-that the honest, hardy Pho.
neer who goes intoa territory to cut out for
himself a home, is capable of governing
himself and needs no Congressional, wine
guzzling guardlan-that the interests of the
northwest are worth looking after, even be-
fore the interests Of the negro in the south
that James Buchanan did not succeed in
cramming his Lecompton 'swingil' down
the throats Of free people, and that if the
aforesaid James Buchanan, Esquire, sue
ceeds in getting Abe Lincoln elected Presi-
dent, we Democrats can stand it as long rs
anybody can!-which will be but four
years any how"
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AZ The latest Irish bull we read of is
the case Of an Irish gentleman who, in Or
der to raise the wind whereby to relieve
himself from pecuniary embarrassments,
got his life insured for large amount and
then drowned himself.
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w A little daughter of Mr.. Calvin D.
Pratt, of Taunton, Mass, died last week in
consequences Of having swallowed the chem.
ical preparation upon some matches with
which she had been playing.
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~ Past services should never be for
cotton, as the parson said when he preach
ed the same sermon for the Goth time
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~ stop that abominable noise," said
. commanding officer to horrid trumpeter,
in the midst Of 4 battle. 1--WE can stand
fire, but We can't stand that air."