The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-04-03
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from Washington; he says there is an ex
. ira car attached to all the trains bound from
: Washington which is called "cussin car, y
in it the disappointed Office hunters ride
and the ''army in Flanders amt circum
, stance to them in the use of unchristian
phrases.
Our Union Springs (Ala.) correspondent,
, favors US with copies of the Southern Home
Journal; by it we learn that the Charleston
Mercury is waxing wroth against the new
Southern Union. ..s..
Dubuque, Milwaukee and Racine have
lately been paying each other reciprocal
visits. Rockford, We notice, is beginning
to PUT Milwaukee at the expense of Chica.
60: the latter city has so much the start of
her young sister she can afford to b: COM
planned Of. Spasmodic efforts to get trade
are not proof of natural advantages.
Mr.. Lincoln is advised that Washington
never dined out while he was President and
hence Abraham refuses to dine out. This
valuable information is derived from Repub-
lican papers
The Boyer Qowa) Record tells of Bap.
list Missionary named Yarnall who has been
writing to an eastern paper, that the chill
dren in that portion Of Iowa have no shoes
for winter. This Rev. Yarn-all is a mate
to the Missionary SKEMP who few years
ago found Clayton County s. Schools held
in Saw Mills. Skemp was driven from the
State and Yarnall will share the same fate.
Angus Smith & Co., of Milwaukee, are
building new Elevator near the Depot of
the Nil. & Pr. du Chen Railway. This
firm handles an immense amount of wheat
during the year.
BY comparison Of the Northern and
Southern tariffs it will be seen that the
duties at the South average one-half only
OF those at the North. This will necessa-
rily bring imports for the west to New Or.
leans instead of New York, and tend to
build up commercial cities on the Mississ.
ippi.
Judge Wright of the Iowa Supreme
Court was injured by fall short time
since and has retired from the Bench. The
Dubuque Herald has it that Gov. Kirkwood
has appointed Judge Williams of this Dis.
trict. We have heard nothing Of it here
though we saw the Judge few days ago.
If he accepts the position the State will
have no reason to regret it.
Dubuque, Davenport, Keokuk, Burlinc.
ton and other Iowa cities are badly in debt.
Let McGREGOR beware!
Barnum has recently paid One hundred
dollars for Mree-ounee dog. lie can buy
one in Iowa for 81 and get so pounds of
sausage out of him.
In England they are experimenting with
Locomotives on common roads; little
travelling on western prairies would enable
them to run but they wouldn't pay.
Iram-Roads" or Horse Railways will vet
be western necessity.
The President has advised the Senate
that it will not be proper to publish the
correspondence with Maj. Anderson. |,
Mr.. Breckenridge and Mr.. Douglas had
an interesting set-to in the Senate.
Riggs, the banker at Washington, will
invest in the bonds of the Confederate
States. /,
Troops are moving towards Pensacola. ,
Mr.. Spingler of the South Carolina Con-
vent'on, proposed to cut off all supplies, ]
mail and otherwise, from Sumter: his pro-
position did not pass. +;
On last Thursday evening the actors at t
Academy of Music ''secedcd." S
Mr. De Groat-a first rate man and whole 7
team besides-came before the curtain and q
told the audience that the managers would
not pay. +
Free Goods" are now received at y
'hicago, via New Orleans, to the great de- $
'ght OF the merchants. Why not? Our r
opposition friends have preached "Frec h
'oh,' Free Farms" "Frce Speech" and '
Free negroes. Why not have "Free I
ioods' and Free Love" with the other u
blessings? &
The first boat to St. Paul, escapes levee a
n wharf chargcs-thc exemption is as good t
IS $1,000 for the season. +
The City of Baltimore arrived on the .
18th. Mr.. Gregory had moved in psrlia- v
nent to recognize the Southern Confedera- a
y. This will be done soon by both En-
gland and France. France, Russia, Sardi- r
'la, Poland, Rome, Austria and Hungary, a
ire getting into what the Yankees call "a S
tcw." The opening Of Spring will proba. 2
'ly cause boiling over of the pot. a
A man named Thadeus S. Green, of S
thica, Mich, his daughter and Miss Tay- 4
or, >(visitor) were found dead in Green's t
house on the morning of the 23d. It is
believed that Green and his daughter were
utility Of incest, that the lady visitor knew
I, that Green invited her to his house to !,
ill her and in the horrid act he became a
maniac and killed both the girls and him !
elf The doors were all fastened inside
he bodies all terribly butchered. f
Mr.. Keogh Of the Wisconsin Legislature, f
Introduced resolutions indorsing Mr.. Lin a
:oln's courss toward the South-the reso- y
utions were referred by the Republicans to i,
he COMMITTEE on Swamp Lands" o
designations in the Southwest still 90 Il
N among the army officers of the U. S.
The Tribune says Fort Sumter must be O
'bandoned or civil war will be inevitable.
The New Orleans steamer Bienvile, has 6
,ann seized In Nau Xorl E,x ,,;oln4;x,a~ H. |