The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-06-12
Anythinss.

Anythinss.
At Cincinnati there are al boats laid "
| for want Of business. d. . We have the i'm
preston that not even the First regimen
Of Iowa troops is armed and equipped
ready for march. Is it SO? Mr.. Blu
chanan is growing dropsical and at his tim
of life this is an unfavorable omen.
Mosquitoes are the most formidable blood
letters our troops at Cairo have yet met
burn camphor in your fires and you vii
Danish the little devils from your Tents.
Gen. Mansur of Indiana is Commissary--
he sells ground beans for ground coffee
and the Hoosers complain thercat. D.. -. Tr
Camp Scott, Pennsylvania, the troops com
plain of putrid pork handed out to them b,
their Commissary. A waggish editor in
qures " if it is patriotic to question thu
act of any authorized agent of the present
administration ?. Mrs Darlington in
quoting Shakespeare says, "Swect are the
uses Of Advertisements" Davis and
Wigfall arc at edmond jeff will proba
bly, head the troops at the Harpcrs Ferry
battle now momentarily expected. q. . Latl
advices from England develop opinions in
the House o: Lords which look to recog.
milton of the Southern States. 1t is idle to
deny this--wc might just as well look it in
the face at once. -. 1.-Two of the grand sons
of ThOs. Jefferson are officers at Richmond. '
Mr.. Jefferson is not responsible for them
....As the Ky. Legislature has passed a
"Stay Law" Prentice thinks the State will
now stay in the Union.
General orders from Washington forbid
the wearing of hoops by nurses. This will
remove some Of the applicants for hospital
service. 80. The Government will build 80
boats for the lower Mississippi. . The
Richmond Examiner calls the Northern
troops las precious q set of rascals as could
be scraped together with fine tooth comb
from the pot-houses and hell-holes of the
.'orth" Douglas remarked years ago that
"Jeff. cavis would prove disloyal to the
Government before he dies" Mrs. Com.
modore Pendergrast is Norfolk lady she
announces that she will never again sleep
with the Commodore. Ergo, she is not a
Union man. Gen. Harney's removal
gives great dissatisfaction to the Union
troops at St. Louis. A gentleman from
that city informs one Of the editors of this
paper that the peace of St. Louis is not by
any means sure since this act of the Com
erin-chief. :. The \. Y. Herald wants
the English Minister dismissed from Wash
ington Better not take too many contracts
at once, Mr.. Bennett. :. Sam Cox of Du-
buque has turned his premises into shoot
ing gallery. The boys shoot pigeons all
day and get shot, slightly, themselves at
night. Hope Plus and the Major" will
set such examples as will reform the Ton
time. We cannot always be there am
had 900 pigeons one day last week. So
great is the excitement at Dubuque about
pigeon roosts that the Court vas adjourned
recently to enable His Honor to bag few
squabs---a DEBORAH man tells US so, at all
events.
Secretary Bates telegraphed the Presby-
Ier'an Synod not to divide geographically,
but the advice came too late. The Catho-
lies and Episcopalians are now the only de-
that are a unit in all the States,
1t is not impossible to carry on the war
Turing the hot months. Sect was in Mex
co in August and the great battles of the
Crimea were fought by Northern troops in
he summer months. :. . Louis Napoleon
to our late minister, Mr.. Faulk-
Ter, that it would afford France pl ASSURE to
mediate between the American sections but
he feared it was too late Wilbie (army
Of the Dubuque Htrald,)
the arms Of the Iowa First
Regiment; he says lit would be master
stroke Of policy to get the scccssionists to
teal them--thcy will kick farther than they
vill shoot--and excite the mcrriment of a
Digger Indian unless he happened to be
behind one.". :. 1t is said that there arc
o he eight Corporals, instead Of four, to
'ach company. From Prairie du Chen
o Milwaukee for the month of May there
we're sent forward Fourteen hundred and
orty -four cars Of Freight or about 80 cars
Der day.. The Chicago Tribune favors
he driving out Of the South Carolina and
florida whites and the colonization of the
negro slaves on the property of their late
masters. This is sustaining the Constitu-
ion and laws beautifully >. Some 1000
people attended the departure of the troops
rom Cedar Falls. We notice the name OF
j. Felt Of Bradford as one of the Vice
Presidents of meeting at Cedar Falls to do
hem honor. Mrs. Tellyea and Mr..
Livengood, arrested at Burr Oak, Winni-
'heik Co., for the murder of Mr.. Tellyea,
we're discharged at the late session of the
Co. Court. We get the fact
rom the Rep bic. The Lansing Mirror,
under the double cditorship of CHAT. &
SMITH is as lively as an eel. Go ahead,
gentlemen, and may your pockets be lined
with cash as q reward for the enterprise
you are now exhibiting.
HALE, the senior, is again the Landlord
Of the United States Hotel, West Union
He is the owner Of the House and knows
how to keep HOTEL. Mr.. Merrill has
sold his interest in the Waukon journal to
Mr.. Rabbit, the senior partner. Babbitt
makes a good paper but we judge from the
tenor of the late article in it that the citi-