The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-02-13
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We are indebted n the Milwaukee I1ily
the news up to Saturday morning last
'he steamer Can,da, from Liverpool, Jan.
26sh, arrived at Halifax yesterday morning,
bringing some % 1000 in specie.
Breadstulis continued to have q declining
tendency.
The b"mbardment Of Gacta, was in progress.
doing much damage 70 the town. The Sar-
dininns entered the Roman States on the al.
dispensing the rractionary bands and burned
the Convent Of Casmalia.
The London Times severely criticises Pres
ident Ruchanana conduct, and SAYS that few
men Who have been called t. 20 important 4
political position, have been found more utterly
unequal tn their situations.
Lieut. Hall, who bears instructions from the
Government to Val Anderson, and Col. Hayne,
the South Carolina commissioner, LEFT Wash.
ington in company. yesterday morning, for
Charleston.
There 10 a rumor from Washington that
Senator's Johnson and Wigfall are arranging
preli,ninaries fnr duel also, that the Seces.
.ionisfs are medt,ting an attack upon the Te.
husntepec transit r.ute.
A resolution has been introduced in the / GU.
isiana Convention, inviting MI the States, ex.
ccpt New England. I" j"n the S"stksrn Con.
ft4lerncy. The resolution waa ordered printed
and made the srecial osder for SATURDAY..
The u 8. Revenue cutters. McCIeland and
W"sIisotoM, are row both in the possession Of
the Is,ui.iann authorities.
A grand military Union demonstration came
of Il San Francisco on the 2al nlt
r'hc Montgomery Convention have adopted
the Ca,,~,;. u&;cn Or the United States for the
Provisional G Government Of the Southern Con
iedrracv.
A tremendous gale awert over Baltimore
hilaielphia and New York, day before yea
{ rl.y. doing much dsm,ge to property. Al
baltimore, 80 houses were unroofed, and the
tide lowered ~ teet.
resolution was adopted in the House
dsy, taking grn'Dl against the proposition Ia
| terrn ON that State
The Southern Con. .i'racv il firmly cs'ab
lshcd Col. J-tf Davis. Provisional Presi-
| dent, and \. n. Stcphens, Vice.
The Little Rock (Nk.) Arsenal, with SOW
stsni uf arms. lot If ammunition and ~
cannon, is s.rr~ndcr 10 State tr'op.
Gov. 'rown, of Georgis, seized ave New
York vess Il in the ,ort If Savannah. This
il H. r..t ,liat"n f;,r the seizure by the city oil
Nr~ York authorities Of munitions Of war de :.
| tined for Georgia.
Tie PRECEDENT has signed the 325. ooo. ooC
| loan bill.
Extraordinary care is taken in directions fo'
! running the Preside. initial train east, which left
| Sprim. field IN tn. llth.
Conflicting reports arrive from Charles on
acme. to the n; ct that Fl. Sumptrr will SION
| be attackal--aOmp that It will not be Gov
| Iickcns annonnccs that it must be surrendered
| to >Outh ar,'in, or blMrisl,eti will follow.
he case will now be Laid before the Montgom.
| erv 'oi,"rrss.
HefFicn and Moody. If the Ind. Legislature
were !" have fought with knives on the 9sh, ii
Newport, Ky.
| called TO- ut Cincn' 'ati, BY Long John. The
Railroads Leading ~ Washington are threatened
with destruction.
Twenty Offices Of the Gulf Squadron resign
ed their commissions in apprehension Of being
| required to fight the South.
At New Orleans, 100 guns we're fired ia
| honor OF the Southern Confederacy. LMnisi
ana obeys the patsl laws Of the U s., I'LL she
can make some 1T her own.
Sixty Republican Congressmen favor the
Border State Resolutions
The Peace Convention il believed to b<
making gMd progress.'
Exchange At Chicago6. Pork, s to &6.ls
Wheat 70 u 80 .....
some Of the Commissioners demand guar
| rantecs that the cspitsl shall not b. attacked
| before they will agree n anything.
The Southern ports will be thrown open Il
| Free Trade.
A Spanish paper suggests that Buchanan hae
HITTER purchase South Carolina aud drop thu
Cuba negotiation!
| Col. Hayne insists that South Carnlna exeF
cises sovereignty OVER every ffTt Of her sill
except Fl. Sumpter, and she il willing to ray
for that which 10 not wanted by the U. >. an!
longer.