The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-07-31
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Anythings.
r There are building at the Navy Yard
r two barges of great beauty for the use o
| the President and family and the member,
of the Cabinet The proper admixture o
the paint for them is blowed over cxten
sively by the little Court journal, the
f Washington Star Greeley thinks this is
n poor time for Old Abe to be playing
gondolier r'....The proposal to assist
Mrs. Douglas and her sons is objected to
by her father, he is able to provide for
them and they do not desire to appear be.
fore their countrymen as paupers. Manly
and womanly, all round. Z. . A writer to the
Cincinnati Gazette describes the appear
ance of the dead at Rich Mountain as more
horrible than anything he had conceived
Of; hate and despair were on every up
turned face. -. The Committee on Ways
and Means have reported in favor of Ma
tional direct tax Of Thirty Millions year.
....Jas. F. rhodes, Company b. Th,ri
Regiment, Iowa Volunteers, drowned him
self recently. Miss Mary Bartlett of Pella
declined Ito have him." Mary made a
good escape. -. IN the New York City
Garabaldi Guards there are twenty-six
languages spoken. We observe an Army
order recently issued which requires all re-
eruits to speak the English language
This last requirement is good one; our
language is tile language of the United
States, and Colleges for the transfer of the
Trench, the German or the Norwegian talk
to this country are of perncous tendency.
Why not teach the Irish, the Gaelic, the
Pict and Polish? Let every man who
comes here be an American just as fast as
he can and educate his children in the use
rul talk of the country rather than in half
German English jargon that sets ones teeth
on edge to hear it :. j. S. Church is Post
Master at Mason City; E. E. Cooley at De-
corah. Both have been members of the
Ii gslature, we think y. Iowa is going on
now towards the 18th Regiment. The
young Hawkeye State is very patriotic, We
~ ambitious and business in civil life is
very dull; the last has much to do with
the filling of the ranks everywhere both
North and South. -. The Dry Goods Re-
porter says that up to July LIST there had
been failures in business in New York
equal to Thirty one per cent Of all engaged
in trade, and that 80 per cent Of the sound
ones are indebted to extensions" to keep
from present ruin. We repeat the caution
given weeks ago: "let every man get close
to shore and look for soft place to light
when the breakers shall land him." The
two sections of this once great Confedera-
cy have asked for just what we are now
getting; if God isn't sorry he ever assisted
this Republic he is more forgiving than the
orthodox credit him for. i. q. AT Windsor.
Canada, there are Thirty three cases of
black male and white female marriages.
Windsor is small village opposite De-
troit and is the Grctna Green of sentiti-
mental Abolition misses who have read on
ly the first part Of OrHELLo. :. . It. B. Car.
ter, Esq, Of Chicago, one Of the unb"caka-
BILE merchants of that city has been obliged
to assign his property to serve all his cred
itors alike. mischief thou art afcot ~
-. Twenty columns of the Dubuque Her.
aa,-close figure-work at that,-are used,
to inform the world of the delinquent taxes
Of that young city. Dubuque is not alone
in distress; other cities are praying for
rocks and mountains to fall on them.--
When will this end I? 1t is announced IN
the leading Catholic journal in England that
Queen Victoria is almost dcranged because
her position is such that she cannot unite
with the Holy Church. Let her abdicate, as
Charles the With, of Germany, did; if she
sees Heaven only through Catholic specta.
cles let her leave the British Crown and
take to St. Peter. George Godfrey, late
Commercial Editor of the Milwaukee News
has persuaded Mrs. Francis E. Kellogg to
marry him. We think the widow has done |
right well; George was known to US when
small boy at q place called the Estate of
Potatoc Creek" ST. Joseph county Indi-
ana Married soldiers are requested to
set off two thirds Of their pay for the use
of their wives and children at home. A !
law to this effect would have tendency to |
discourage the volunteer system-many 60
to war abroad to escape war at home. %.
Bulls Run is so named for the bill which |
the Cabinet made in overriding Gen. Scott
and the run the army made to get out of
danger. We hope to hear no more Of such !
bulls or such runs. Mrs. Gen. Butler
used to be Miss Sarah Hi!dreth, an actress
of fine capacity-the cradle curtains took
the place of the stage curtains. 80 Ma"
said little Bobby on his return from the
country, "cou's milk is good deal better
than milkman's milk. Parson Brown.
low, in reply to clerical fault-fnder, says
"Rev. Mr.. Chasters is suspected of being
too fond of the sisters and to be good
judge of liquor :! The blockade Of
whisky is the best thing that was ever
done for the South. AS they grow sober
they fight with more judgment-let the
"forty rod" among them again and you'll
hear Of no more victories for secession. i. :.
Nearly all the Indiana three-month's men
have returned home to re-enlist after
while. o, bash! the place to re-enlist is
where the foe is We think men who real
ly want to fight this war through would
not travel from Western Virginia all the