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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-03-28


The editress of the Rockford Meas says
more sensible things in her local columns
than We find in any other paper. They are
not all as deep as well, but in journalizing
no labored essays are wanted. She writes
to the point, with a pen as sharp and a
humor as refreshing as it is possible to-
Below is letter to Milwaukee Lecture
Agent:
DAILY News OFFICE, ROCKFORD, M'ch I'd,
1860. Mr.. -, Dear Sir:-Your very
kind letter was received yesterday, with, |
must confess, some surprise, and l might
add qualification, if could fatter myself it
was anything had done or any abilities
possess which called forth this mark of APP
probation. But unfortunately can make
no pretensions to the character of a public
lecturer. l am only newspaper para
graphist, and never lectured anybody in my
life but my husband l can only imagine
that my success in that line with him must
have somehow reached your ears and in
duccd you to request one for the public ben
eft l have, however, none written down;
they are always impromptu. And besides,
my dear sir, if you We're ever married, you
will know that repetition Of matrimoni'
al lecture is not only bad taste, but bad pol,
icy. Therefore, in spite of the temptation
of "terms," | must decline your kind and
fattcring proposition. Respectfully,
JENNIE &. CRoLY.
Mr.. -, Milwaukee.
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"Womcn in arms" The Milwaukee Neus
wants to know ''where else they should
?" Your head is Wright.
Kellogg (Rep) of Illinois, has succeeded
in killing Douglas again. This time he is
so completely demolished that the Chicago
Times publishes KS speech as an obituary.
The opinion of the papers seems to be
that Miss Carstang will recover about
100000, off Of that jealous-hearted old
millionaire of st. Louis. Good enough.
Mrs. Croly mentions brother editor of
that city who went to Chicago to sec Miss
Jane Coombs play in the LADY Of Lyons"
and who came home and wrote puff of
the play as "Evadne." She says Chicago
has Gerry bad oater. Colonel has gone to
Chicago!
Winnebago Hall in Rockford was burn
ed on Friday night, March l6. Set fire to
by a strapped jour printer.
We don't believe with the Ne.os that if
the Republicans had supported Hnglas
he would have affiliated" with them.-
Steph. never has left the DemocE1tia> party
yet.
A western Chess Congress is n be held
in st. Louis, commencing on the nth April
next
The editor Of tho Viroqua (Wis.) Erpo-
sit0r, who has received some nice maple
sugar as a present, says 'thc sweet cur
rent from the sapioric regions begins to
flow into the sanctum like lava down the
mountains side" Its not SO here.
A correspondent who has called on Mrs.
Croly, says she is pretty" Of course she
from other than good looking editrcss.-
Don't be jealous, Croly!
The Democratic typos of Lacrosse had
a race with the Repu1lican's, and beat en-
"Set'em up!'
Fanny Fern says she hates to see q
woman nursing lap-dog. Pshaw, Fanny!
Don't you know its because they hav'nt
got anything else?
A destructive fire occurred in Black
River Falls, Wis, on the 18th. Loss $40,
600.
The Dubuque Times says considerabl.
quantity Of floating prairie settled down ir
that city discoloring almost everything. Il
had no effect on the politics of that paper
A fire in Milwaukee on the goth consum.
ed about $4,000 worth Of old wooden
buildings.
A Brooklyn IN. W Representative was
knocked down by young man as he come
out of the State House. Cause Intriguing
with young mans wife.
The widow Of the Anti Masonic Morgan
died, recently, near Memphis, Tennessee.
The Milwaukee Neus says that if Sew
ard never has made any sacrifices for tn
anti.slavery cause he is now willing to of
fer himself As Giving one. You, Sharp
stein!
The Democrats of Tennessee, within
days ride Of Charleston, are in favor o
changing the place Of holding the Convcn
ton. because Of greedy landlords.
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DOliate on the 18th. On the 10th the bill
regulating the rate Of interest, and to pre-
vent usury, was taken up, and after dis
cussion referred. On the same day tic
House set apart the following Monday as
day for disposins of the resumed Railroad
grant. The township collector bill was al
so under consideration, and the House con-
CURED in amendments of the committee,
and recommended its passage. The code
of Criminal Practice has passed the SEN
ate by vote of % to IS.
On the 18th, PAuLk presented petition
of the citizens of Allamakec asking that
the name Winfield be changed to Harper's
Ferry. Also, citizens of same county for
additional mail facilities.
PEEr introduced an act preventing coun-
ty Judges from making contracts without
an act of the people, which was passed.
Bill for establishing court of Quarter Ses-
sions was, after discussion, indefinitely
postponed. The Legislature will adjourn
somewhere between the 9th and the LIST.
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HoME.-The Dubuque Herald, in an ar
ticlc on the Railroads of Iowa, speaks thus
fiattcringly of our prospective road, and Of
our town: r ..- Has
The Eastern terminus Of the McGregor
and Missouri Railroad, is at McGregor city,
on the Mississippi, opposite the Western
terminus of the Milwaukee and Mississippi
Railroad. McGregor contains population
of $500 persons, and is one of the most
hourishing, stirring, business doing and bu-
siness making points OH the Upper Mis-
sissippi.
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In Putney, Vermont, March 18th. 1861 while on
visit at that place, CHARLES EDWARD, only child
of Charles +. and Harriet 4. Kemick, nj McGregor
the Lungs and Throat.
''Death loves a shining mark
The bercayed parents will return to their western
home with heavy hearts.
At Platville, Wis, HAR:IETr ", wife OF H. u.
Strong, and daughter of James S. Woodcock. Aged
o2 years.
At McGregor, March Gath, LOUISA H., wife of tho
Hon. John Patee. Aged 10 years.
New Jersey and Iowa City papers please copy.
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German Ball.
The German Ball on Friday evening at
the hall of KuHz & MILLER, is said to have
been first-rate affair,-thosc in attendance
enjoying themselves hugely, and the receipts
of the evening being large enough to pay
the proprietors we'll for their trouble. We
never, now -a-days, attend balls Of any kind,
but we have seen the time when we did,
and for real, downright, eld-fashioned en-
joyment give US "Dutch Ball. every time,
in preference to an aristocratic "Soiree."-
When we have zone to dances isa=r"' 6.
the fun of the thing, and We never enjoyed
ourselves where we had to continually guard
against over-stepping the rules of etiquette
and offending some lady. 49,.
The music Friday night was made by the
Garnayillo Germania Band, and if it was
anything like that we heard as they passed
down and up Main street "der Deutchcr
beeples' couldn't help waltzing; itmade US
feel dancey.
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the direction of public affairs, & mills
ating to be dictated to by q body ef men
who have but recently deserted the crumb-
ling tyranny of the Old World to establish
here system of Sabbath, matrimonial and
religious theories which are as much op-
posed to the genius of our institutions and
the sentiments of our people as would be
the crazy nonsense of the followers of Mad.
anne ROLAND, the impersonation of Liberty
and Virtue in the French Revolution. But
enough Of this. You know we 1.-THE Times
and myself) ask no favors Of anybody, and
we can afford to talk as we please. We are
decidedly opposed to abolishing Sunday, to
ignoring the marriage relation and to the
doctrine Of colored equality, and all the alb
stract theorists that German Red-Republi-
eanism ever turned out can not convert us
to such impracticable nonsense as we often
see advocated by learned philosophical
drcamers from "Fader-L und."
The REvERE,-my home, pro ten,pore,--
is now proprietored by Doc. OsGoop, for
msrly of the popular wholesale Drug Ware
house Of BoLLEs, SMITH & Co., of this city
The Doc. is not very large man in pounds
or height, but he fills as much Hotel space
rs the biggest man in Chicago. think he
is model man for the business he is now
engaged in. The House under his manage
mcnt has been turned inside OUT" every
thing about is clean and tidy; the servants
are as prompt in attending to the wants Of
guests as though their lives depended on
the most implicit obedience. Osgood is one
Of the same kind of men Of whom the Scrip.
tunes speak. When he says to servant,
are gratifying in the extreme to the travel
er. If there is anything more provoking
than another to the traveller, it is the slow,
careless, lazy waiting on which he is in the
habit of getting at city hotels. Here the
prompt manner of the proprietor-tyran.
meal, if you please-brings all your re.
quests up to the standard of clock.work
and it is undeniable that Osgood 'knows
how to keep hotel" Our North Iowa
boys will find the Revere pleasant place
to stop at, and if they are not properly at
tended to they can charge us the amount O
their bills, and the proper credit will be made
on our books.
Tonight l attended Mcvicker's Theatre
Jeanic Deans was the play. A very slim
attendance evinced sad want Of interest il
Scotch morals and Caledonia idiomatic Ian
guage. We think the play was badl,
chosen. The lesson is good one, but tn
language cannot be understood except b,
one who is familiar with Glossary. Til
trial Of ErFIE DEANS (sister to JEANIE) 70
the murder of her illegitimatc "bairn.'
aveald have been affecting, but the "sid
judges" were boys in powdered wigs, an,
1bejuyyMen were beardless chaps, as verdan
in appearance rs the fiftecn-year- odds Of GU
own young city; the consequence was,
slight feeling 81 contempt for the whole ex
hibition. In witnessing Play, we Away
try to get the worth Of our half.dollar b,
realizing the pcrfoI finance Il but with boy
Of Is for Judges. it was impossible to in,
aSine that this constituted Court Bu
Goodbye. Z.
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CORRECTION VISTA in the
Clayton County Journal corrects some err
rors made in Mathew Thompson's commu-
nication to the Times upon the census of
Clayton county. Mr.. Thompson is not to
blame, the errors were those Of the compo-
sitor.
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eW- The La Crosse Union man has been
hunting friends-truc friends. He found
plenty of those who hutter around you
while "your money LASTS" but who were
liable to be thrown off by the centrifugal
power of adversely and as the only means
of retaining friends he saws
If you have friend whom you desire to
remain friend, get in debt to him. He'll
never leave you-he'll haunt you; and Sin
fond remembrance" ever cherish your vir-
tues and the amount of your Indebtedness.
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Speech Making.

There is something curious in the ability
which educated men often cvincc for speech
making. Men of thorough education and
of the finest accomplishments in other re-
spects, who can chat and even harangue
volubly enough to two or three friends, of.
ten, as public speakers,
'.Fall fat, and shame their worshippers,"
from sheer excess of ideas and good taste {;
while mere parrot of a fellow, without ed
ucation, and with scarcely thimblcful of
brains, goes off in steady stream of words,
like rain-spout in thunder storm. Swift
has illustrated this fact by the comparison
of church slowly d sgorging a crowd, and
rapidly emptying itself of a few persons a
better comparison, perhaps, is barrel of
cider, or other liquid, which runs slowly and
with many clug- clug, when full, but rapid
ly if nearly out, and especially if so nearly
so that it has to be propped up behind
Fluency of speech is generally an acquire
mcnt, but there are some persons in whom
it seems natural gift; they flow along so
easily, that it seems as if, should one sus.
pend them by the heels, head downwards,
the words would run in floods from their
mouths, without any efforts of theirs, by
the mere force Of gravity. Some time ago.
an English clergyman, in the course of an
apologize prelude to a speech which he read
at meeting of Mechanics Institute, made
some amusing remarks on this subject
"As for myself" said he, "place me cheek
by jowl, and chair by chair, with an old
friend, or, for the matter of that, with an
old enemy, and can generally say some
thing or another. 1t is perpendicularity
that DllZZles ma Somehow or othar tho
moment | get upon my legs, the few ideas
which l possess at the best of times--like
a Chancellor Of the Exchcqu,r's surplus
like five pound note in London like
sailors money on shorc-or, like thief at
the sight of constable-make themselves
wings and fly away Chicago Leader.
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ORIGINAL NOTICE.

OKIGINAL NOTICE.
STATE OF IOWA, L. District Court.
Clayton County.
TO Ado!phus II. S. WuN, Maria Wulf,
and Henry Kdnn :
N|OU are hereby notified that there is now ON file
in the Office of the Clerk OF the District Court in
Cayto county, Petition Of II. W. Sanford, claim.
ing OF you the foreclosure of Mortgage the north
west quarter OF the south west quarter and the south
half OF the north quarter Section Eighteen in
Township nnety-two, north Of range two west of 5th
p. NJ and judgment for the amount found due there
on and that Unless you appear, on or before the
first day OF the next term and thereto, judg
ment will be rendered against you thereon.
Ii. w. SANFORD, Plaintiff.
ELIJAH ODELL, Attorney
Attest-T. UPpEGRAFF, Clerk OF d. q.
March 2S, lS60w4
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Weather, Markets, &c.
The weather has been cool and delightful
and bracing breeze; slight
snow on Sunday night Business through
the week, for McGregor, has only been tol-
erably good, for one-horsc towns it would
have been considered first rate. The river
with the exception of the Lake, is open we
suppose, all its navigable length; boats are
arriving and departing, up and down, and
the music of the whistles stirs up the blood
of our business men, as they think of the
increase Of business consequent upon the
reopeniug of navigation.
Wheat is selling at 5000; oats, 80 f;
corn, no change; hides, dry l3@l8t; green,
5408A.
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Milwaukee Gazette.


This interesting and very spicy Saturday
weekly comes to us under the guise of
National Democratic paper. We welcome
it to the ranks of Democracy, "barrin' the
National" 1t seems to us if it is sincere
when it says it will in future support the
nominee of the Democratic party, it could
just as well have announced itself as De-
mocratic journal without the explanatory
prefix National Now this means one of
two things: either that it will be warning
against Senator Douglas, and thereby caus-
ing ill-feelng and dissension in the ranks of
its party, as the National journals have
done since the Lccompton split, or it means
the opposite. If the opposite, why, in dis
cussing the availability Of the different pre-
minent candidates of one party for the Pre-
sidcncy, speak flattcringly of all of them
but Judge DOUGLAS, and Of him use such
expressions as with this view Of the sui
ject (having admitted his strength in the
North) the claims Of Judge Douglas will
be fairly considered, as we'll as the fact that
he has no more supporter than one in the
United States Senate and only thirteen in
the House; and also that when Indiana
sent two sound Democrats to represent her
in the United States Senate, his influence
and votes were against them, and in favor
of the Republican pretendcrs."
Now, sir, ace don't want to be instrument
tai, during our short life as an editor, to
"kick up amuss," but it comes with bad
grace from NATIONAL Democrats to charge
Judge DouGLAs with supporting "Republi-
can pretenders," after the Illinois contest
through which he passed, battling with Re-
publicans and Democratic pretendcrs. We
kao,o that the ''National,' Democrats in that
contest supported LINCOLN in preference to
DOUGLAS, and we know prominent Adj
ministration-supporting editor who voted
the Republican ticket. If DOUGLAS is the
strongest candidate in the North, had we
- ought, if we desire the success of our
70 support him? The South is COM
rapport the Charleston nominee,
nrfhsciN control the formation of
We nominating of the
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TBANKs.-To Senator Harlan and to Re-
preventative John A. Logan, for valuable
Congressional documents. To Messrs.
Hammer and Peet, for State favors to Mr..
Geo. Colgate for nice mailing pencil, and
to Jimmy Of the Post Office News and
Fruit stand for basket of nice apples
The last named is ''brOth Of boy"
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To RE RRMovED.--Mr. L. F. CAMPBELL,
editor Of the DEBORAH Rough Notes, called
on us yesterday, and informed us that he is
about removing his Office to Preston, Mimi,
where he intends publishing an indepcnd-
ent, local paper. Successto you En-, where
ever you GO,
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Notice EXtraol binary.

A. P. RICHARDSON having left us very
suddenly, Thursday morning, this is to warn
Ill persons East not to trust him on our ac-
count, as the probabilities arc we won't have
the money to pay them. Weexpect the re-
turn Of the editor about the time his money
runs out, which we think will not last long.
or than this week meanwhile, he requests
us to say to the ladies, that the promised
enigma will be forthcoming next week. So
many good looking ladies in Chicago had
nearly made him forget the Hawkeye bellies.
Lack Of interesting matter this week &C.
counted for above.
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eY"A. X. says he expects to be able in
a short time to pay everything he owes in
this world. Aye, but there's heavy debt
that he has got to settle in the other world,
7hereH be the I eeH to p"y.
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A STRONG DOUGLAS MAN.-At the Dem
ocratic State Convention of Wisconsin. the
delegate from Sheboygan county, being I'M
able to attend, sent a substitute. In his
letter of substitution, which was read to the
Convention, he said that if his substitute
voted in the Convention for any delegate to
the National Convention not in favor OF
Stephen A. Douglas, he hoped the first man
he met would whip him.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE

rs hereby given, that application will be made at
IL the April term of the County Court of Clay ton
county, for leave to sell the East half Of Northeast
quarter of Section SO, township 95, range west, or
SO much thereof as may be necessary to pay the in
debednoss ag ainst the estate OF r. Eastman deceased
J. T. STONEMAN, Administrator.
NcGregor, March 81, 1860.
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News and Items.

News and Items.
Moore, of the Lacrosse Democrat, saw a
"sarpent' swimming down the Mississippi
That's not the first time he has seen snakes.
Gov. Stewart has vetoed the bill lately
passed by the Missouri Legislature, CON-
pelling free negroes to choose master or
''travel"
j. +. Eanderventer, correspondent Of the
Chicago Press d Tribune, has returned
from Pixies Peak, bringing with him facts
that substantiate the question of the un-
bounded richness of the mines.
A destructive fire occurred at Houston,
Texas, on the 1oth---Loss, S35O,OOO. One
at HAVANA, Ills, destroyed large ware
house containing 100000 bushels of grain.
Dispatches from New Orleans Of the
10th announce the arrival at that city of
two Mexican war steamers, captured by the
U. S. steamer Saratoga.
Greet excitement at Vera Cruz on &C.
count Of the action of the American squad.
ron. The French and Spanish were very
bitter.
Miramon appeared before Vera Cruz on
the 9Th and notified the foreign representa-
tives Of his intention to cannonadc the city.
He made an attack on the night of the 9TH
but was repulsed by the Liberals.
If Miramon docs not guarantee protec-
ton to American citizens, Capt. Jarvis will
land 500 marines.
Boyington, who was arrested in New
York for embezzling $4,000 worth of P.
o. scrip from the Washington Department.
was released on the 18th. Eo1pey had g
amined his accounts and AcuGo
News by the overland mS
uninteresting. Primary elections u (lIl
Den &| cracy in II counties shows 146 Lath-
am Md A Gwin and Weller men. The
Latham influence will secure the Delegation
TO Charleston.
- Georgia correspondent propol
list for the relief of the striking
shocmakers wit 700. Southern
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Editorial Correspondence.
CHICAGO, Thursday, M'ch %, 80.

CHICAGO, Thursday, Mich %, go.
Dear Times:-Our association for nearly
four years has been so intimate that the all
scnce of day from you seems long. !
write you tonight because do not know
sl4en an opportunity may again offer so IA
vorable as the present. lam at the REVERE,
formerly Young America, the locality which
witnessed the tried friendship of Senator
AouGLAs and IKE. Cook, the present P. NJ.
= great city. Cook yet owns the
n>>>,;csu.2aat. Douglas is barrcd
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sJ5... $500 PER MONTH.
Honorable & G. enteel Business
TO PERSONS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.

A GENTS, Local and Travelling are wanted in every
~ Town and County in the Union, to engage in the
Sale OF New and important Article OF Utility Beau.
ty and Novelty, demanded in every family store and
No humbug, but an article in great demand, and
meeting with unprecedented sale wherever offered.
This is chance for persons to make large ssa-
ry IN easy aud gentecl manner.
Full information will be sent receipt of Two Dol.
lars. Address, ii l.. WILLIAMS,
March rs, lS60w2 Milan, Erie Co., Ohio.
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