The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-10-03
News ana Items.

Is the secret spy OF BenncttS HerdM.-
This accounts for the correctness of the
HeralTs dispatches.
For the bodies of the Garthc family Oost
in the Elgin) there is a reward of $4,000
offered.
The Persia, at New York, on the 9th,
puts wheat "tending downward" Cara
baldi was in Naples and quietness was
reigning. The Priests Of Italy are taking
sides with the people. The Liberator had
exchanged interviews with the English
Admiral and Ambassador.
Two slavers, containing 1919 negroes,
were recently captured on the coast of AZ
RIGA by American ships.
Lord Renfrew was at St. Louis at the
Fair Of the 27th. lie says he likes the
Americans.
Mr.. Douglas receptions at Columbus,
Xenia, Dayton, Hamilton and Cincinnati
were indices of Democratic majority in
Ohio. At Cincinnati the crowd was great
er than had ever before assembled at that
place. lie was too hoarsc to speak at Gin
cinnati. .-. .. n
The A. 3. Chambers from St. Louis up
the Missouri sunk lately with valuable
cargo. ...... e..
Ha,nlin is visiting his friends in Canada
at the present time.
The Douglas and Breckenridge men held
meeting in St. Louis at the same time and
they quarreled. Two of the latter were
shot. -
A beautiful girl in Milwaukee attends
cigar store. The young men of that par
ticular ward do nothing but smoke now.
A German eff St. Paul has been discev.
cd to be too well acquainted with another
mans wife of that city. Some rascal re-
marks that it is not often that editors are
caught in such wicked amusemcnts. 1t is
rare that editors are liable to suspicion
even.
Walker has purchased Calvin Scriptures
Mail Route from McGregor to DEBORAH. 1t
is believed that daily line will shortly be
established. The Coaches go daily now
but the mail is carried only tri-weekly.
The Princes Ball at New York is tear
ing the Goldfish" into small pieces. Two
Hundred dollars have been offered for one
ticket!
Buffalo received one million bushels of
wheat in one day of last week.
Adah Isaacs Menken has appealed for
divorce from John G. Hecnan. We guess
the divorce is not so hard to obtain as the
marriage was.
The Chronicle of the West, German
paper of Rock Island says the "Wide-
Wakes" were originally the incipient Know
Nothings and that their work was to over
awe peaceable citizens at the polls and do
the rough fighting. We don't care what
they were-now they are not dangerous,
and they may as well have their boyish fun.
Judge Potter is canvassing the south
part of Clayton and portions of Fayette
county, for Douglas. The Judge can make
first rate speech and we arc glad to learn
that he is well received.
Mr.. Geary is no longer the editor of the
Repieo. He goes into the Law Office of
Hon. VIM. McCllntoch and Jud Hale as
sumes the editorial department of the Re-
ciew. Jud. is the Proprietor-hc is a
'brick" and he will make good editor
Success.
Edwin Forest, the great tragedian heard
Douglas in Philadelphia and he says he
no longer wonders at the immense mag
netic power the great statesman exercises
over his hearers.
The Republicans are quoting Buchanan
to prove that Douglas has misstated fact.
But few weeks since they were proving
that Buchanan was the greatest liar and
knave in Christendom. He may do for a
Republican witness but he would'n answer
in Democratic court.
At one of the Ben. Samuels' meetings he
was interrupted by Republican who said
Washington was slave holder and there
fore thief! Ben. didn't argue the point
with him.
Three columns of the New York Herald
are used in describing the styles Of dresses
the ladies are to wear at the Princes Ball.
Some Breckinridg paper sneeringly asks
if douglas has found his ma." A Demo
cratic paper responds "You dry up; you
have found your pap
The children of Hortense louis Napo-
leon is one of them) are said to be bastards,
her marriage with Louis Bonaparte, King of
Holland, being no marriage at all. Old Je-
rome's state papers proved this, but on his
death these papers were all spirited away.
The case is making much talk in France
and England, but We see no reason to talk
of such common affair as this is, in
France. 1t was always suspected that the
present Emperor is the son of Napoleon,
rather than of Hortcnse's husband-in 9TH
er words, Louis Napoleon is the son of his
mother and his uncle!
Red is the Partisan color now. Red skirts,
red feathers and red stockings are all the
go. Red stockings don't fill our eye, by a
long shot.
| A lady writer of distinction says tina,
Millions Paradise lost conveys the impress.
sion that the devil was a fine, bold gentle
manly fellow, and that the Edenic expert
ment was failure!