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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-09-11
MARRIED

Al New Oregon, Iowa. on Sunday Sept. 1st. by Rev.
j. W. Windsor, Mr. A. Il. LEE to Miss MINERVA D.
puLtMaN, daughter of Rev. N. Pullman, all Of New
Oregon.
"e-thc unmarried ''we'' of this establishment
confess that there Is believe our friend has
divided his SORROWS and doubled his joys in the alIi-
ance above noticel. Certainly that jolly happy face
aud fond ausion to "Mrs. Lee" could not have been
altogether assumed 1t is possible that the sessions
OF the bachelor club to be disturbed by the rad:
en satisfaction of friend just depart ed this (.in.
gle) le
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Life Insurance.

Life Insurance.
Those desiring this safest anMchcapest protecr
ton for their families, can secure it in our
Wisconsin Company. 1t has already become,
in reality, State institution, having Agents
and patrons among the best business men in all
the principal towns in the State. 1t is no lon
ger Il matter of doubt that Life Insurance can
be conducted as we'll in Wisconsin as in Connec-
ticut or any other Eastern States.
Thus while duty demands that men should
insure their lives, it also demands that they
should keep their money for investment at
home. Confident that our success has been
more than equal to that OF the most "unprece-
dcnted,"we would cordially invite all our cit-
Zens to call at the office, south west corner Of
Main and Wisconsin streets, and examine for
themselves. S. $. DAGGETr, Pres't.
"A. w. KELLOGG, Sec'y.. #.sss s..#
G. l.: SCOTT, Agent, McGregor, Iowa
May 80, 1860 VI. #fE
COM NJ E RCIAL.
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ID I'D.

In this city of Diptheria the morning of Sept
10Th, Carrie, daughter OF Walter b. and Carrie
Finch aged about twelve years.
Sweet little Carrie, lamcnted by all and by none
more than those who knew her best, Is no more.
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ATTENTION ATTENTION.!
COaE Coal!! Coal!!! COal!!!!

ME undersigned is In receipt Of Twenty Tons Of
l. Blossburgh and Pittsburgh Coal. Call on RAVEN
DAVIDSON, AGENT Ut the s'PiOneer Hardware Store !"
CHARLES WILLIAMS.
McGrsgor, may az, 1861 II
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FOUND.

I FOUND.
! DAY two since, note Of hand signed by
~ friedrich Dausor> chmdt and oavid s. Daubor-
4 schmidt. pay able to Martin Baehel or bearer The
owner can have the same by calling at Times office,
proving tho document and paying for this advertise
. mcnt.
MoGIesor, July 3Oth. lsois WI
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STRAYED AWAY.

From the pren.es Of the subscriber. resident Of
Calmar, Winneshiek Co., Iowa. on or about the lst
inst, six year old red OK; has white SPOT the
1Orehsad and vide, sharp horns. Whoever will re-
turn him 70 Moor inform where no may be found shall
b literally rewarded.
GILBERT THOMPSON.
Cainar, Iowa, August sth, 1861. (Aw.)
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Boots! Roots!

SHOES! SHOES! SHOES!
TIME undersigned has removed his shoe shop dova
i Main street. one doorv est ofthc WEsTBRN IiorEL
where he may found ut all times ready
date customers with slLmade Doors + SHOES OF any
size style quality. respectfully solicit Share OF
public patronage, Repairing neatly done.
MsGrsgor, -@#e.. &. 0PIEZ
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Price IS cents per Box; Five boxes for $1Oo
Greatnumbers of Clergymen, Physicians, States.
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remedies, but our space here will not permit the
insertion of them. The Agents below named fur.
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Do not be put off by unprncipled dealers with
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Demand AYERS. and take no Others The sick
want the best aid there is for the and they should
have it.
All our remedies are for sale by
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sST.aRS and STRIPES.

Have been trampled in the dust--the Sword has
lcaped from its scabbard--the booming cannon has
again belched forth its thunderthe brting steel
gittefing--cvil war il declared, and seemingly ruin
and destruction awaiteth the country. Every one
asks what Is to be II result? We think of the blood
which has drenched the soil of Bunker's Hill Lexing
ton, Trenton, Kings Mountain and Saratoga-of the
lives that have been sacrificed to to that in
estimabe and glorious boon,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
A Woman to be Honored,

1t will be remembered that Lieut.. Abner
Smead, of the First Artillery, was sent, a few
weeks since, by Lieut.. Slemmer, to Washing
ton, to apprize the Government Of the absolute
necessity of supplies and reinforcements at Fort
Pickens. Forgetfu of all obligations of honor
and duty, Lieut.. Smead took Montgomery in
his way Northward, and having submitted his
dispatches to the perusal of the rebel authori-
ties, proceeded to Washington, whittier the news
of his treason having anticipated him he was
not shot, as he deserved to be, but simply struck
from the roll of the army. The wife and chill
dren of Lieut.. Smead, with the families Of sew
eral officers on duty in the South, were at For
tress Monroe. The Lieutenant fastened from
Washington to obtain his family, and remove
them Southwark but his movements were not so
rapid but that his crime had been reported be-
fore him. When, therefore, he presented him
self at the fort, he was refused admission, the
officer on duty declining 'to admit a traitor"
within Federal posts the only favor conceded
being that he might have an interview with
Mrs. Smead without the walls. That interview
the unhappy miscreant is not likely to forget.
Attended by few female friends, one of whom
furnished the account which we give Of the
scene, the lady met her husband, and in terms
of scorchng eloquence, reproached him with
his shame.
"Go home with YOU !" she exclaimed. "Nev-
err Our paths in this world are hereafter sep
crate. disown you. A coward, traitor, you
are no husband OF mine. IIencefonh you are
to me as if dead. As long as live shall wear
mourning, and be as a widow and rest assured
! shall educate our chidrel TO execrate and de-
spise your memory as that of recreant and
traitor"
Turning with these words, the nolae and pa
triotic woman reentered the fort and gave way
to her very natural feelings. We add that Mrs.
Smead is, like her discarded husband, native
of Georgia, and that while the latter went
Southwark to obtain the reward of his treason,
the former, with her children, has come North
passing through this City on Tuesday, and is
now at Morristown, n. IN J.. Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
THE WAR.
What vermontors are Doing.

The action of the Legis ature in appropriat-
ing 81 100000 is heartily responded TO through
out the State. Many of the banks have ten
dered the executive large sums OF money In
all amounting to over 100000, in the face oil
the fact that all the banks by the terms OF their
charters are Obliged to loan the State whatever
sums may be called for not exceeding certain
per cent of their capital stock. BESIDES TINS
many towns have raised large sums for the ben
eft of the families of those who volunteer III
the service of their country. St. Adams voted
to raise $4,000, the citizens of Burlington have
subscribed over $4,000, and other towns are
manifesting like liberality. The firm OF f. *
I. Fairbanks & Co., of st. Johnsbury, have
subscribed $4,000 for the same patriotic pur-
pose.
In nearly all the larger towns in the State
one or more companies of volunteers are in
process of enlistment and organization. Be-
sides the company from Burlington in the LIST
Regiment, two other companies have been
raised. Thomas Gleed has raised company
in Morristown, Francis V. Randall one in Mont
pelier, VIM. d. Munson one in Winooski. E.
nough companies are in process of formation
throughout the State to more than fill the six
regiments provided for.
| In Brattleboro, hundred men have given in
their names preparatory to enlistment as soon
as the necessary papers are received. They are
drilling nightly in the Town Hall under the di
] - IL T,1,, al bop 1o,
A. Miles, and are anxious to be enrolled in one
Of the two regiments to be ordered into active
duy Immediately. The preparatory steps arr
in progress for the formation of another com
volunteers is organizing in Putney.-At Bel
lows Falls a sufficient number have volunteered
to form a company and they are drilling unde
charge of Capt. Walter Taylor.
William +. Smith, native of st. Adams
lieutenant in the Typographical Engineers ant
graduate of West Point, proposes to raise
regiment of volunteers, to be differed by mel
who have served in the army.
Maj f. A. Kimball, formerly of Woodstoc
and Captain in the 9th Regiment in the Mex
lean War, is Major in the First Regiment Ne'
York Zouavcs. He will give good account G
himself
Lieut. E. w. Stoughton of Bellows Falls VIII
graduated Mt West Point in 1859, but resigne
his commission early last winter, reports him
self ready for duty so long as the war shall las
The more advanced Cadets at the Norwic
Military Institute are busily enpared in instruct
ing and drilling volunteer companies that ar
, awaiting an organization.
In surveying the field, when we consider tn
depressed condition of the military during tn
last twenty years, we are constrained to beliey
/ that Vermont is not whit ehind any of he
sister States in earnest, vigorous efforts to SUI
tain the government. Her men are general
unused to military life and even to the ordinar
and commonest military tactics, but they al
= teachable and if properly differed will make
l ! afEciout trnous nc any in tho seryica
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

We have not space to give in detail the action
of the Northern States based upon the Pres-
dents requisition for troops. In every one of
them preparations are making for organizing
and arming more regiments than have yet been
or will be likely to be called for during the
present season. But one voice is uttered from
Maine to Minnesota, and that united voice ex-
presses n firm determination to maintain the
general government ut all hazards and at any
sacrifice.
During the past week enough troops have
arrived at Washington and its immediate vicin-
ity to secure the capital against any force
which, for the present, can be brought against
it. The district of Columbia, Maryland, Della
ware and Pennsylvania have been organized
into military District, under the command of
immediate command Of the troops in the Dis
trct Gen. b. +. Butler is at Annapolis with
several thousand men keeping open the COM
munication with Washington. That route is
now safe and it is not likely soon to be impe-
ded. Troops are concentrating at Cairo, H.,
at Camp Curtin in PENNSYLVANIA, and other
points on the frontier.
Maryland is coming into lime. The indig-
nation excited by the action of the mob at Bal
timore in killing several Massachusetts voun-
teers and in obstructnG the passage of troops
through their city, was aroused to such a
pitch that the city and state could only be saved
from destruction by the authorities backing
square out of their secession proclvities. This
they were wise enough to see, and prudent
enough to do before the storm came. The
legislature met at Annapolis and not only refus-
ed 10 secede but affirmed the right of the Uni
ted States to move troops through the telito-
had organized regiment composed of the
most audacious rascals in New York City, eve.
ry one of whom had solemnly sworn to GO
through Baltimore and as they were armed
with Sharp's rifles, revolvers, bowie knives and
slung shot, this was an argument that could
not be gainsayed. Discretion on the part o.
the Marylanders was evidently the better part
of valor. Had Maryland continued her resist
ance she would have been made, as Ethan AL
len told the Workers of Guilford, once OF
a time, in relation to their town, "more DIES
olate than Sodom and Gomorrah.
Virginia has at last tumbled of the fence
face foremost into the arms of the secessionists
, Alex ii. Stephens of the Southern Coniederac.
| came on to Richmond as an accredited agen
, to arrange the terms and sign the deed o
transfer This deed is made subject to tn
approval of the people at an election to b
held for that purpose, but that amounts L
nothing for the people will of course vote t
l go. There is no real Union sentiment excep
in Northwestern Virginia, and what few mel
J, of that stripe yet remain in other parts will b
G constrained to keep their mouths shut. w
d are pleased with this result. 1t is better +
It have that old Commonwealth for an open en-
II emy than a treacherous friend. For years sh
: has been governed by meaner set of me
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
ATTENTION FARMERS

With the passage of two weeks now, since
the first call to arms was made by the Govern
ment the greatest state of alarm and that
which most nearly demanded action without
any pause for consideration. which will occur
in the entire continuance of the Gountry's dis
turhonce, has probably been experienced.-
While we may boast of nothing yet accom-
plshed, more than satisfactory state of prep
aralion for what may he required by the action
of our foes and although nothing of the i'm
portance of prompt measures in carrying to
a speedy issue the questions involved in this
strife should be lost sight of, the minds Of
many are exercised in the line of rendering the
country best able to sustain a protraeted strug-
least unfavorably affected by that which in its
brightest aspect must be pronounced an evil.
Civil war must form to the body polite, what
the stern treatment of disease in our own frames
does-it being but the medicine to restore the
harmonious action of the members-and its
effects, though in the end it may leave the sys-
TEN free from harmful elements, will have pro-
duced exhaustion in proportion to the causes
requiring its use, or the time employed in the
removal of these means of discord.
We would desire to impress upon the farm
ers of the whole country sense of responsible
ity-holding as they do the sources of produc-
ton in the land within their power-and would
gladly believe that while prostration of com
al Nd ;ool; int cts
sally, no effort on their part will be wanting &c
render the coming season one of plenty il
those things necessary for the sustenunee o
our vast population.
Fighting men will indeed he required, bu
for the most part they can be spared from idl'
FORCES and quiet mills, or from the marts o
! trade and exchange made duh by these dis
| tracing inlluences-and we have no sutfcien
words of commentator to bestow upon thos
who have thus readily responded from all thes
| places. But there a. e fields of victory beSid
those of noise and blood and implements @
power over an enemy, beside the sword an.
bayonet Let not the man or youth VIII
macrhes forth to no sound of the drum, bu
follows the patient team while the iurrows az
quietly turned whose rear-guard shoulder
no weapon more fearful than the. hoe, Will
his knapsaek, in front. contains ammunition a
harmless as grains of corni who, later in III
campaign, whets his scythe while the smell {
fallen hay instead of powder salutes him as h
surveys his field; think of himself as the less
patriot than the uniformed recruit, contendip
on Southern plains for the supremacy of fte
, and intelligent labor and its accompanying Der
efls, if spirit of devotion to the common goo
inspires his acts.
The boys will read ofthe insolence of traitor
, or the acts of heroes, and their blood be mac
to move the quicker, while their hands wou
5 take part in the contest. Let sound judgme
not be put aside, however-no known post
| duty be forsaken at hazard. Your deep fu
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
FIRST VERMONT REGIMENT.

The LIST Vermont Regiment is to rendezvous
at Rutland, to-day, May 2nd, preparatory to
being mustered into the service of the United
States. The Uniformed Militia OF the State hay
ing volunteered to serve on requisition of the
President, the first regiment was organized from
their ranks and the following companies were
detailed for its IMPOSITION:
Company A. of Brandon, Co. b. of Middle
bury, Co. ID, of Rutland, and Co. Z, of North
field from the lst regiments Company A, of
Woodstock Co. b, of Bradford and Co. c, of
Cavendish of the 2nd regiment; Company A,
Of Burlington, Co. B, of st. Adams, Co. c, of
Swanton, of the 4th regiment
The ranks of these companies have been filled
to the standard required by the army regula-
tons, by volunteers, The regiment is armed
with the'rfed musket and sabre bayonct, and
the men are fully provided with all the equip
ments necessa for their comfort
The following is list of the officers, all of
whom have accepted the posts assigned them
respectively:
Colonel. w. Phelps, Brattlcboro;
Lieut. SOIOnel-T. 1. aShOurn, w OodStOck
Major-H. \. Wolthen, Bradford;
Adjutant-Hiram Stevens, Enosburgh;
Quarter Master-E. VI. Brown, Montpelier
Surgeon-E X. Sanborn, Rutland.
Col. Phelps is a native of Guilford in this
county. He was educated at West Point, and
has served in the u. S. Army tweniy-three
years. until about two years since, when he re-
signed from reasons partly personal and partl,
political. During most of the time he WINS in
the service he was on active duty, having served
in Florida, on the frontier, through the Mexican
war, and in the march via Fort Bridger TO Utal
and in the encampment near Salt Lake City, a
which point he resigned. lie is an officer O
large experience, unquestioned ability, and Yer
mont as we'll as the First Regiment is peculiar
ly fortunate in securing his services. The othe
officers are fully cenversant with military mat
tiers SO far as education, taste and active seryic
in the militia can fit men for the duties of
campaign.
The Regiment will be ready to march as 500
as the necessary orders can be issued and W
are much mistaken in the character of bot
officers and men if they do not give good ac
count of themselves.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
IMPORTANT TO LISTERS,

BY the terms of the act passed at the recent
Extra Session of the Legislature entitled, "An
"Act to provide for raising six special Regiments
"for immediate service, for protecting and de-
blending the Constitution and Union," provi-
sion is made for drafting men to ill upthe said
regiments in case there are not volunteers
enough who have enlisted. In order that these
drafts may be made it is necessary that there
should be thorough enrolment of all men Ii
able to do military duty. This enrolment is to
be made by the listers of the several towns.
The act of 1856, entitled, can Act relating to
the Militia" requires that "the listers of the
"several towns Of this State shall enroll every
"person liable to enrolment, between the ages
"of eighteen and forty-fye, in their respectiy We
"towns; and they shall correct such rolls an
''nually in the month of April and said listers
"shall annually in the month Of May, make re-
"returp of such enrolment to the Adjutant and
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STATE OF VERMONT.
ADJUTANT e. INSPECTOR GENL

ADJUTANT e. INSPECTOR GENL's OFFICE,
RUTLAND, APRIL "a, 1861.
Circular TO the Volunteers and Militia Of Yer
mont.
The following articles are necessary for troops
in campaign service:
IL EACH KNAPsACK,
Flannel Shirt,
pr. Drawers,
pr. Stockings,
Cotton Shirt,
Blanket,
l Great-Coat, (outside,)
| Towel,
| Hair Comb,
Needle Case, with thread, spare buttons,
etc.,
| Shoe brush & backing to each Squad
TO EACH COMPANY THERE SHOULD BE
Mess Chests. with proper partitions for sugar,
coffee, soap, salt, candles, one tin plate, knife,
fork, spoon and tin cup TO each man,
Coffee Mill,
Axes,
| Spade,
| Shovel,
lIatchets,
Mess Pans,
3 Camp Kettles,
Copy U. S. Army Regulations,
Copy SCOTS Tactics.
The Clerk of each Company to have tray
Cling inkstand and paper.
Field Officers, the Adjutant, Quarter Master
Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon to be mounted
and uniformed, and equipped, inclusive of horst
equipments, as prescribed by the Army Regu
lalions.
Regimental and Company Officers will pre-
pare for convenient messes of two or NOR,
persons among themselves, with such means o
cooking as they may find suitable. Officer
provi lie their own bedding. One small travel
ling table (legs folding under) might be trans
ported with each Company's baggage, for tn
use of the Captain. Only Commissioned OH
GERS will be allowed trunks or valses.
II. Henry BAXTER,
Ad. C Insp. Gent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
Counsel TO Volunteers,

"An old soldier" gives the following good adj
vice to volunteers through the columns Of the
New York Post:
/. Remember that in a campaign more men
die from sickness than by the bullet.
>. Line your blanket with one thickness of
of brown drilling. This adds but four ounces
in weight, and doubles the warmth.
3. Buy a small India rubber blanket (only
s ,5O) to lay on the ground or to throw over
your shoulders when on guard duty during
rain storm. Most of the eastern troops are
provided with these Straw TO lie upon Is not
always to be had. a.. III.
colored soft felt, the crown being sutheienlly
high to allow space for air over the brain, You
can fasten t up as a continental in FAIR weather.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-02
MORE TROOPS CALLED FOR.

The administration has decided on policy
which will meet with cordial response in the
breast of every man who is for maintaining the
Constitution and preserving the Union; at the
same time it will be quite likely to impress our
secession neighbors with the id a that they have
undertaken a difficult task. The President has
issued orders for SO, 900 more men in the diff
ferent departments Of the public service. These
orders call for forty thousand volunteers for the
army to serve three years, each to receive 800
bounty at honorable discharge; they also pro-
vide for the addition of twenty-five regiments,
OF thousand men each TO the regular army
and an increase of the navy from the present
complement of seven thousand five hundred
men to twenty-five thousand. 1t will be re-
membcred that the $4,000 men heretofore called
out will all be in the feld-the quota assessed
on the Slave States then not seeded but which
they declined furnishing, having been supplied
by the North. This will give the United States
an effective force of 100000 men besides what
remains of the regular army as it existed OIL the
fourth of March, and an efficient naval force
The most gratifying feature of the case is the
fact that this large number falls short of the ac.
tual offerings of troops already made.
To use a slang phrase, the secessionists vii
find that in commencing hostilities they "put
their foot in it."