The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
AWNINGS.

Anyihings.
Quiet reigns in Warsaw" used to be
stereotyped expression. II has now given
way to the inevitable daily Geographic re
port: "all quiet at Cairo" -. The funny
editor of the N Y. Herald calls the editor
of the n Y. Epsning Post a"water fowl
poet" The Post gets the score even hy
transposing the two first words of the Her
alEs definition. The government has
devised mode of libcrating Union men
without exchange, to wit releasing on
parole e. &. Wine and women are said to be
playing the dickens with the Sandman
King, Victor Emanuel. There are many
precedents before him. ..... California
papers speak of "astonishing revivals" in
he gold fields of California, Oregon, Wash
ington, and Nevada. The New Orleans
papers talk Of heavy ordnance that has
been contracted for that State. Query, is
it heavier than the ordnance of secession :?
....A Lcavenworth paper says Col FIRE.
mont has mustered fifty Delaware Indians
into the U. S. service. They will be EN-
ployed as scouts Jos Credible was held
to bail in Cincinnati recently in the sum of
$1,000 for poisoning his child and attempt.
ing to poison his wife. Cheap punishment,
that. DIR. Winship has developed his
strength to such an extent that he now ad
vertises to lift twelve men weighing 40 lbs
each Can he lift twelve el4O notes !?
80. The wife of Moses Barres, Of Chi
cago, has get a divorce on grounds Of i'm
human treatment. She may now be said
to be dis NJ Barrcs.ed. Col. Lander hay
ing been offered body guard, thanked his
friends, but told them frankly that he did
not believe in that kind of nonsense. Right;
body guards and vivandiers, are, or ought
to be, tabooed everywhere The Cincin-
natl Commercial makes delicate announ-
cement in this wise: If Gen Mcclellan
had been given the opportunity Of winning
a great battle on Saturday, as seemed prob
able for a time on that day, it happens that
very young lady Of this city might have
mentioned in after times that she was born
on the day Of her fathers great victory &. .
A nest of snakes, says the Richland Co.
Obscroer, has been found by Mr. Palmer,
who succeeded in killing fifty four Of them
That will do for snake story -. Ristori,
the stunning Italian trgcdiennc has been
engaged for season in this country next
year. b.. Madame Jenny Lind is engaged to
sing twice in Liverpool during the present
month. She refused to take $4,000 for the
two evenings, preierring to take her chances
by sharing the receipts. The venerable
preacher and poet, Rev. John Pierpont
now &c years of age has gone to the wa, as
chaplain of the 22d Mass. regiment.
The Memphis Appeat concludes an articl,
with the following fraternal and polite in
vitation: LET the brutal minions Ct 8
bcastly dcspotsm come on! The slaughte,
pens are ready and Yankee blood shall flow
as freely as festal wine There is san
culinary editor for you-on paper. >. Jas
Russell Lowell will contribute to the mex
No. Of the Atlantic Monthly, pocm 0
considerable length having for its sul!j.ct
the National crisis 1. :. Advices from tn
Red river settlement on the Hudson Ba,
coast, to the 10Th Of August, state that til
ice had already set in aud as far as the ey
could reach, the coast wa, covered with i,
| Ugh !. There is Colt in Hartford sal
to be worth $2,5J0,OcO e. A. Calkns
once we editor of the Madison A,gus, is ap
pointed Major of Col. Barstow's Caviar
regiment. If he can WELD sword as we
as pen, he will make his mark on the ugl
/ monster of secession Coffee is leclinn.
Good news to customers who cannot max
up their minds to decline coffee Til
latest fashion among the church goers
r N. Y. is clapping Of hands and stamping
, feet whenever the eloquent divine uttcrs
t good thing.