The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-01-16


The Indian Department has rejected all the
bids made for supplies under the advertise.
mcnt of Maj Cullen, the Superintendent
of the North western Indians &C. C.
Messervy, of Milwaukee, is editorially asso-
catcd with Brick" in the La Crosse DEM
oerat. No wonder the Democrat is one of
the trump journals of the West--two liring
quilts Of their capacity would make any pa
per prosper. Speaking Of Brick" reminds
us that his last paper claims new Local in
the person of VI. NJ. Pomcroy junior, a
prodigy Of nine pounds weight, teeth al
ready cut, a package of tclegraphic dis
patches under his arm, and short [lacteall
leader in his little fist. IF OBJ did not
fancy so extensively we should believe
all he says about this "Christmas present.
The Dubuque Times says the Mont
gomery Mail demands as a condition Of
peace that Lincoln and Hamlin shall be
hung, the African slave trade opened, &c.,
&c. The Times is a good newspaper and
has liberal circulation, bat it should not
copy the Stiffness of Southern fools to
operate on the nerves Of Northern fanatics;
we have trouble enough to keep the scnsi-
bic cool without exciting the shallow. =. !.
By fishing for the Atlantic Geographic wire
it is discovered that for $50 miles west OF
ireland the sea is of very light depth-it
then suddenly bluffs down to 5000 feet In
few millions Of years the sea will recede
and give Ireland territory larger than
Great Britain Let us acaiH. j. B. Mac
tin, of Milwaukee,, had big time on the
anniversary of his wedding day, and gave
his wife 100000 worth of property. This
little gift was made public so that notoricty
could be gathered from it. Mrs. NJ. must
have been very poor to require SO large an
amount to carry her over the crisis Some
crazy head is calling, through the 7'ibune,
for the Wide Awakes to rise and settle the
present political hash by arms. 1t is more
proper that the Wide Awakcs be invited
''to pour oil on the troubled waters"
Some joker says 'Thurlow Weed is appoint
ed to deal out the soup to the Office beg
CARS Of New York IAN editor of Brook
Ign has cloped with the daughter Of a
wealthy New York merchant" What Of
it? Hav'nt editors always maintained the
freedom Of the prcss?' Preachers clope,
doctors elope, Fremont clopqd, f.'Ufd Abe
elopcd; and yet when an editor steps aside,
with a lady on his arm, tie devil is to pay
about it >. a lobster is said to be so stupid
as to die in his tracks rather than to take
one step towards his native clement When
the tide carries one on dry land and the
next rise fails to reach him, he stays there
and dies rather than to travel five steps to
the drink ). John Potter, of Boscobel,
died recently. DR.. Carley examined him
past norton. He had lived ~ days with
out food, and had gone 81 days without a
passage! -. c. X. Drew, late Indian Agent
at Bayfield,, has bought Maj. Cullen's in
terest in the American Hotel at St. Paul.
Col. Drew formerly kept the Pavilion at
Evansville, Ind. He is without superior
in that line Of busine IS ...A young lady
of Sandsburg, Ky, planned runaway
with marrid man of the neighborhood and
agreed to meet him at the depot in the
night. Her broth overheard the plan,
sent the married man away on imperative
business before he could see his little love,
and met the sister himself. She got on the
cars with her supposed lover, and when
they got under way he read his sister a les
son that decided her to break off the en-
gagcment and return to their parents.