The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-02-20

| Po'""eousiyI uHu WIZ ho" So'ho w
close.
How he secs there Is "nothing goin,
wrong" nothing that really hurts any
body" we are not able to tell Seven State
out of the Union, financial matters in ruin
and civil war asked for by his radical sup
porters, looks, on the whole, as though
something is going wrong" But let thu
reader make his own comments and ICON
sole" himself.
AT Pittsburgh his speech was entirely ir
praise of the tariff--not word being sale
on national troubles. At Cleveland his
speech was similar to the Cincinnati and
1 Columbus efforts more Of cunning thar
candor. lie reached Buffalo on Saturday.
| News and ltcns. @ iga-s Es e.
A woman in Portsmouth Eng has bur-
ried her eighth husband and is not yet a
mother. Jenny Lind has presented her
German husband with another boy. Mrs.
Howard Of Glasgow recently became the
mother of twins-she is only 81 years old.
These are infantry items.
Charles Lever, the Irish novelist is CON-
ing to America to escape the Sheriff
Florence Nightingale is hopclcssly ill
her recovery is not counted on. a
The name of Capt. Morrison, of the
Revenue Cutter Lewis Cass, has been
| struck from the rolls of the service for sur
rendering his vessel to the State of Ala
| bama. a-
S. c. in 1882 voted %, COS for secession
1921 against it. Now she is unit.
| Gossip and Toadyism say that Mr.. Lin
coin waited three stormy nights at the
Springfield Depot for tho return of his
plump little wife; for this act of faithfulness
he is highly praised. The Scriptures, in
speaking of doing good to our .friends, say
| "cven the heather do this" Now how
long would Abraham have waited for a
woman who was not his wife? w. o.#
Eidcr-down petticoats are worn by the
ladies Of England as a protection from the
cold. The elder is a large sca-duck Of the
Shetland Islands famous for its fine down
or fur feathers. ..
Aldrich, Of Mimi, in a Congressional
speech threatens secession on the part of
Minnesota if 100000 is not appropriated
| to establish northern Pacific Mail route
The bill was defeated last week by a vote
of so to l2o. :
Chief Justice Emmett, Of Minnesota, has
decided the three years exemption law to
be Constitutional, The U. S. District
Judge had previously pronounced the law
dead letter.
Mr.. Douglas thinks one r. r. route is
the feasible plan and then run one branch
from the frontier south east toward Mobile,
the other north east toward Iowa.
Heavy freight trains will commence run
ming from Leavenworth to Denver April
Goth. Jones & Cartright are the sue
cessors of Russell, Majors & Waddcll
Cartright is good name for tcamstcr.
A lady visitor carried candles under her
crinoline from Charleston to Fort Sumpter
for the relief of the garrison. A aoickcd
ruse on palmettodom. ..-.
Colorado" is the name of the p. P. ter.
ritory as it passed the Senate for organiza-
ton last week.
Greedy, in deriding the merchants Of
N. Y. for petitioning Congress to compro-
mise and stop our troubles, snceringly says:
"Shop keepers are always timid" An in
dignant merchant Of the city scarifics the
Philosopher and significantly asks him
whose bold name stands at the head of the
signers-w whose money pushed the Rcvo-
luton forward and whose interests were
most sacrificed by that War? While. the
name Of Hancock and Robert Morris are
remembered it will not do to decry the
mercantile community.
Men often treat when they should re-
treat. Weprefer losing a person we Iowa
to living with one VIC hate. A fellow OBJ.
jectcd to playing poker because he "played
| all one Summerand had to wear thin breech-
es all the next winter" A family without
bread should not keep dog. Never play
the spy on others if you would avoid hav-
ing Your feelings hurt.
Petitions continue to pour into Congress
for compromise. One was brought from
Philadelphia by q Lincoln elector and con-
tanned the names of over two thousand
persons who had voted for Lincoln.
| King. of New York, preached Force. ard
Green Of Missouri promised to reply at an
carly day. The force propositions will
embroil the country in immediate war
Craig, of North Carolina proposed that the
President be instructed to acknowledge the
independence Of the seeding States
Farnsworth, Of Illinois, moved to refer the
proposition to the Committee on Patents!
Mr.. Mexican offered resolution looking to
the purchase Of the Border slaves. Laid
over for debate. 1t is confidently stated
that the Border resolutions will be reported
by the Peace Convention on Tuesday Feb.
ruary 10th.
Tennessee has overwhelmingly decided
against immediate secession. johnson Co.
gives the Union question large majority.
Gov. Floyd will be in Washington this
week to answer to the indictments against
him.
Ministers to European Governments arc
appointed by the Southern Confederacy
President Davis, Of the South advises
against attacking Sumpter. The Commits
sioners from the South called on the Presi