The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-04-10
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| April is so called from dpiere, to oper
| ....Geo. A. Blanchard, Esq, is electc
Secretary Of the Galena Packet Co. in plac
Of j. K. Jones, appointed United State
Marshal for Illinois. The Dunleith Advc,
tiser calls the selection an excellent ono.
The American Agriculturst sends crcu
lar west, cautioning editors against adver
Using for Brooklyn and Williamsburg Rev
erend Consumption Curers. These Rover
ends always pay us, per agreement, and un
til they fail we shall not complain of them
LIT is said that Mrs. Lincoln does nj
tho newspaper reading about the Whit
House; she reports to the President. :.
Prentice, in allusion to the birth Of triplct.
at Charleston, says that city is yet "por
Of delivery
F. NJ. Wilkic is reported to have left thu
Dubuque Daily Herald Mr.. sMahoney vii
| find his place very difficult to fill. W.
think there are few better writer's in ths
country than Wilkie. ;. Mr.. Buchanan
writes my health is excellent and would
be happy in my retirement were it not 70,
the condition Of tn. country" Remorse
probably. -. The journal Of Commcrce
wants to know where the negro revolts are
which the Republicans promised the coun
try in the event Of secession. It is doubt.
full If the iire-eatcrs themselves hate an Al
oltionist with the cordially that the masses
of the negroes do.
a pleasant minister, in jefferson county
\. T., got $500 subscribed for his service.
in village. He received the money, Dor
rowcd $3.50 more, got drunk, rode through
the town with strumpet, sworc ike pi
rate and ran off. "Oh, wasn't he dar
ling ?"... The President has had grand
State dinner, as it is called. Pity he couldn',
sit down, like his predecessors, to a United
States dinner. AN English lady lost in
gaming. at Hamburg, and threw hersel
from the tower Of a church, in that city: be-
fore doing so she tied her legs together An
exchange ask "why she tied her legs p
The natural modesty Of the sex induced he /,
to DO SO; the indicate exposure of her per.
son after death was what she dreaded
An advertisement is headed "Usc Coopcr's
Tooth Brush" A western editor SAYS:
Wen see Cooper hanged first" ''IIow
would he like to use ours ~ H
Chinese editor in Sacramento, is nam.
cd zee Yunc. lie is talented fellow. and
is now in Jail for scduction--a very rare sin
among the virtuous knights of the Quill.
...Wilkie, Of the Dubuque Herald, in
speaking of wife-whipping, for which, by
the way, Dubuque is Lecoming uncnyiably
notorious, says: "Thc cowhide, as matri-
monial Establishment, is hardly the thing
to use in public, however it may do in the
enticing privacy Of ones own household"
Matrimonial Establishment is decidedly
original.
The Belfast Star Republican, says it sis
afraid Mr.. Lincoln lacks backbone" The
N. Y. Day Book responds: "For the Lord $
sake how tong back bone do Won wish a
man to have ?'. "A Miss Alice Brown in
writing to the st. Louis Republican about
the "Resurrectcd Year." goes OH as follows:
but, oh! when the sunshine kisses the
Rose with golden mouth till the bowers of
Iran arc not so fragrant as shc--or, when
her young brother, the Dew, slips his sill
ver hand, for warmth, into her virgin
breast DC, &c. Miss b. should have
kept Dew's hand away from Roses "virgin
brcast;" at all events, Alice should not have
told on him. Prentice says the real mot.
to of the seecders is, "Let U. S. alonc.".
a Bachelor Club in San Francisco, forbids
the admittance Of "scolIers at women" to
their meetings. These poor fellows are
sincere penitcnts; they'll burst with sorrow
II they are not hoped soon.
Levi b. Villas is elected Mayor Of Madi-
son by vote of 9G7, to 161 given for B..
Reed, Rep. An English gcolosist, Mr..
Hall, says the coal-felds OF that country
extend, in some instances, to depth of
10000 feet, but the internal heat is such
that they cannot be worked below 1000 it.
John Wentworth says tic only way to
dry up the seeding States is to declare
Free Trade "Ruincd ports and direct
taxation will do NOR, to bring JEFF. Davis
d 20. to their milk; than all the armies the
North can muster" From appearances it
would seem that the Tariff of either sec
ton is not to be very faithfully observed
...Jn explaining the light Republican ma
jority at the late election in New Hamshirc
paper up that way says: "Most Of the
party was in Washington applying for Of
fice!'
The Charleston correspondent of the y.
Y. Tribune is pleased to announce that there
is band of Yankees, Germans and Irish
in the Confederate army, and that it is their
intention to betray the secedcrs when a
conflict arises with the U. S. This is an
honorable body Of men, truly!i How does
the Tribune keep a correspondent at
Charleston We are told that Tribune
lover is not allowed to live down South, and
is it probable that man admitted to the
first circles Of Charleston society, as this
man claims to be, could write about the
conversations he has with civil and militia