The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-01-30

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Let US hope.
News and Items.
Mish-sha Sappukni is the Choctaw nam
for the respectable body of water that lave
our wharf. 1t has been called Rio d.
Spirito Santo, driver Of the Holy Spirit,
the Colbert, Rio dc Ia Conception, Missise
pc, Messispi and Mississippi. All these Ind
an names mean "Grcat River" and moth
ing else. The Indian language is not sus
ccptible Of nice shades of expression.
The late Mil. & Miss. R. r. cost $1,000,
900 1T sold for $2,16O,OOO. This is en-
couraging for those who invest in railways
We believe that official robbery runs Of
with the money.
The Massachusetts, Legislature lately
treated itself to a big dinner at the expcns,
of the State. Among the light drinks wer.
225 bottles Of wine, at s. to s. per bottle
Mr. Murphy, Of Indianapolis, was drunk
in blowing some Goals to rclight the fire hi.
breath caught the fame and be came nca,
burning up.
The Davenport "News" and several othe1
of our Democratic exchanges, favor Stat.
Convention.
Illinois has passed bill calling Censti
tutional Convention in January next.
1t was rumored that the Brooklyn navy
yard was to be taken by the "roughs' and
neutrality-suspicious." The police was
strengthened, the military paraded, and
nothing was the matter.
A Union petition from Boston numbers
$4,000 signatures. Edward Everett has
carried it to Washington.
The French paper at New York says
Louis Napoleon will demand the recession
of Louisiana in case the Union is dissolved.
Mr.. Napoleon will have nice time getting
back what his uncle sold, and got the mon.
ey for. .......
A bill is introduced into the Legislature
of illinois to punish the transmission of
false tclegraphic dispatches. The bill
should include newspapers and politicians.
The Hoosiers had terrible time at the
raising of flag over the State Capitol
building. Uniformed companies were out,
Democratic and Republican orators made
patriotic speeches, &C., &C.
Gen. Clinch, the commander of the Sc
ccssion forces at Charleston, is the father
of Mrs. Maj. Anderson.
Prentice has seen portraits of the South
Carolina seeding members of Congress.
He says they are not as well executed as they
ought to be. He also says: H Those
who can see nothing of the spirit of concil-
iation in Mr.. Stewards speech, are men who
could see Cancellation in nothing that does
not involve Disunion and Treason.
Hon. John Bell approves the selection of
Mr.. Seward for the Premiership; he regards
it as an omen Of peace.
The Louisville wit has fine time firing
pasquinades at the extremists North and
South. He remarks that the cotton con-
federacy will always be free from national
debt for it won't have credit enough to ne
gotiate loan. Buchanan" he says, Gin
stead of taking strong ground as reported,
will be more likely ito take water."-
Kentucky don't want a star engagement
on the secession fagr'
When Yulce and Mallory, Of Florida,
Clay and Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, and Da-
Wis, of Mississippi, withdrew from the Sem
ate, all the Senators but Hale and Cameron
crowded round and shook them warmly by
the hand.
Kansas was admitted by vote in the
Senate of SO to 16.
Mr.. Clemens, Of Virginia, made Union
speech in which he commented on the folly
of South Carolina. His colleague, Mr..
Martin, reproved him for his "traitorous
language" a.
Mr.. Colfax proposed to withdraw the mails
from the seeding States, and gave as a rca-
son that there were no U. S. law officers
there to punish violations of the Post OF.
fec regulations. .s... ..... ....
Mr. Stevens, of Pa, proposed to suspend
all U. S. laws in the rebcllious States.
Mr.. Washburne opposed giving slavery
q foot of new soil. -.
Mr.. Seward is doing great good by his
well-timed moderation.
1t is said that Mr.. Stewards speech was
submitted to Lincoln before delivery.
The Free Thinkers of Madison, Wis, are
to have a Tom Paine supper. Such honors
to Paine do no possible good, and they serve
in many respects to justify the already vi
cious in course of immortality. We think
pretty free in religious matters, but obser-
walton has laugh: US that it is not good for
the world to applaud men for discarding
whether divine in its origin or
merely human, its founder was tho great
est parsonage the world ever saw, and his
II you chose so to call 1t, is the
grandest panacea for the usages of society
that ever was promulgated.
The sleeping cars on the Nil. & Prairie
du Chen Road now run to Milwaukee and
back. Until lately they switched off at the
Junction and went to Chicago.
The fremont House is to be screwed up
to grade, at cost of $4,000.
New York city buried $4,000 persons in
1860.
Bcechcr's pews and chairs rented Jan
LIST for over $4,000.
A minister at McGregor, on Sunday, tn,
Goth, IS said to have remarked in his ser
mon, that the negroes Of the South wer,
probably as hapDv and contented NO tn,