The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-05-08
News and ltpnns.

ly made the passage, per the air line, from
Cincinnati to Columbia, S. c., 1900 miles,
in nine hours time. Very clover speed, but
Yankees will never be content with that
they will devise apparatus for air propul-
sion and increase the rate fully 25 per
cent.
1t is estimated that over so, 100000 feet
of lumber will 60 down the st. Croix river
this season, to markets below.
Charleston is sixty hours sail from New
York.
The political barometer of Baltimore in
dicates the Union feeling to he in the as
cendant.
The report that the New York Seventh
Regiment had refused to obey certain orders
that might be given them, was slandcrous
and untrue.
Capt. Carson, Of the schooner 3. B. Pitts,
from Charleston, reports that he counted
the bodies of one hundred and SIXTY soldiers
who were killed in Fort Moultrie by Ander~
sons guns. We incline to the belief that
Sumter was dearly obtained by the South
Carolinians.
Judge Bond, Of the Baltimore Criminal
Court, has charged the Grand Jury to pre-
sent the rioters who assaulted the U. s.
military on the 10th ult. .....
$4,000 troops ar- to be concentrated at
Washington.
Gen. Scott will soon change his head
quarters to Philadelphia.
w. II. Seward denies the rumor that the
government has proposed any armistice
with the rebels.
Letters from Paris state that the French
government has no sympathy with the
southern confederacy.
Nebraska is a unit for the Union and de-
siroas Of furnishing regiment.
Gov. Brown Of Georgia, has issued proc
la,nation forbidding the payment of all debts
to northern creditors while the war lasts.-.
In plain Saxon this probably means a bra
zen reputation:
Carl Schurz, newly appointed Minister
to Spain, has obtained three months leave of
absence in order to take the command of q
company Of cavalry.
Davenport Of the Cedar Valley Times has
been appointed postmaster.
Two thcaters are playing away in Mil
waukee-each apparently well patronized.
Five military companies have been organ
lied in Bcloit, Wis. They are named "The
Beloit City Guards, The Volunteers, The
College Students, The Veteran Corps, and
an Irish Company. This is the true token
OF noble enthusiasm.
Gen. Scott will be IS years old on the
FIRST of June next.
AT Pittsburg there is so much war en-.
ti,usiasm that premiums OF $50 have been
eHereti for the position of privates in accept
ed companies.
Jared Dennis OF Norwich Conn.,, has con-
tributed five healthy sons to the service oi
the government; the sixth, who is nearly
blind, IS mortified that he cannot 60, and
the old gentlemen actually cried because he
was too old to be accepted. Such patriot
ism is uncqualied.
Five hundred thousand of the celebrated
Enfield rifles are coming to this country
to be used by the government as occasion
may require.
Moses Y. Beach, late proprietor of the N
| Y. Sun, Democratic, offers to aid his native
state, Conn.,, to the extent Of O,OOO.-
He also provides flag and liberty pole, and
equips company Of volunteers.
The N. Y. Herald publishes list of con
tributions made within fortnight in sup
port of the government by states, cities
towns, and individuals. The whole foot:
up an aggregate oftpenty-eight million dol
lars. Our amor patri@ is above suspicion
A company Of seventy attorneys is drill
ling in Buffalo. Although men of parch
ment they have all the points of good sol
diers.
Maj. Anderson is said 10 have applied fo
the command of the New Jersey voulun
teers, whom he proposes to lead into For
Sumter. No one doubts the courage of tn
gallant Major and the whole country woul'
rejoice to see him in SUMrER-ous circun,
stances again.
On the arrival of Sen. Douglas at Chica
60, though late at night, he was called on
by crowd Of friends, and made speed
in which he said, "Evcry man must be 70
the Union or against it. There can be n
neutrals in this war-either patriots, o
traitors"
The Southern troops concentrating q
Richmond and Norfolk are reported to b
IN high state Of efficiency.
Sands, and Mabie's circusses were
, Chicago last week.
There are 1900 men at Fort McHenry
and 900 Virginians opposite. The Vii
ginians are also erecting battery at Han
den Beads.
The first vessels in blockaded ports a,
to be allowed reasonable time to 20 on
and then the blockade will be effectual.
The Governor of North Carolina advise
the sending of troops to Virginia.
Col. Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves have arrive
!, in Washington, mach chagrined becaus
they were not marched through Baltimor
$50 troops from Kentucky are reporte
en- route for Lynchburg, Va. Pesider
Davis forces are said to be concentratin
in Virginia.
The Union feeling is gaining ground
. western Kentucky where disloyalty hi
been most marked.