The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-01-02
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Wilmot will be one of the Cabinet 1t
is said all the members have been agreed
upon and that they will shortly meet the
President elect. 4. . II. w. Rogers has retir.
ed from the Local department Of the Du-
buque Daily Times and II. w. Petit as
sumes the place. Mr. Petit is fine writer.
Being personally acquainted with him we
shall read the locals Of our namesake with
additional zest hereafter. An "Inde-
pendent" paper Of beautiful appearance
and large size is just starting at Valparaiso,
Porter county Indiana, 1t is called The
STATE F. D. Galley and G. NJ. Walker,
of indianapolis, e. s. Merrifield, Esq, of
Valparaiso, and Hon. Geo. G. Merrifield, of
Mishawaka, are the editors. S. p. Rounds,
OF Chicago will do the printing. The
State is to be child of the New York
World and like that paper it will play into
Republican hands as soon as It's circulation
gets up. Rounds will print it beautifully.
We arc in receipt of the first No. Call it
Republican, GEORGE, and its readers and
exchanges will like it full as well. :. Mr..
Seward in his New York dinner speech said
the North invented confederation and the
South secession. Mr.. S. should not mis-
lead the reader of American political histo-
ry. The Shay rebellion in Mass. began Sc
ccssion. The same State dissolved the
Union ION paper when Louisiana was &C.
quired-sec Josiah Quincy's speech in 1911
the Hartford Convention" did it again,
the Annexation of Texas sent Massachusetts
out once more. How could Mr.. Seward
credit the South with the "inSention?".
j. II. Field has assumed the local editor
ship of the Chicago Times. He was for.
lnerly an Iowa Editor and racy one too.
80. "A man named McGregor sprang from
the top mast of vessel in Chicago and
was killed. Tremens!. .Spiritualism has
broken out in Milwaukee. The FAY broth.
ers are calling spirits from the Vastly
dcep"-ofhrman crcdulity and astonishing
-. Merchants in California pay high Fri
ces for white dogs, mark their advertise
ments on them in lampblack and they "run,
till forbid" Wot peoples IA new
plan (sccrct as yeti has been discovered for
saving gold from quartz. The reports
from Denver are quite cheering. LIT is
reported that tbs Pacific Republic is sure
thing in case of our separation on this side
of the Rockies. >. Hon. George Ashmun,
the President eff the Chicago Convention,
has recently written letter in which ne
denounces the Liberty Bilr' of Massachus-
etts in severe terms. He says let Mass. do
right herself and then she can talk to others
of their sins. But few western Republican
papers will copy Mr.. Ashmun. Robert
Morris, of Louisville, leading Mason, has
issued an Address to the Fraternity of the
United States telling them to come up to the
work of saving the columns which supports
this Union In the Erie canal there arc
SO boats frozen, their cargos of grain
amount to over amillion bushels, mostly
wheat and -four reduced to wheat. Prem
tice says the South cannot get along with
South Carolina two years. -. The Chicago
Journal publishes and commends Weeds
conservative leader. The Mil. Sentinel
publishes Robert Morris appeal. to the
| Masons. The signs North begin to grow
little better with the press and little
worse with the politicians. ga New Or
leans Miss got mad at her beau, saturated
his clothes with camphene and then touch
ed the faultless fellow off. She was using
him in very aoicked way; in thus making
light of him i. :. A man was tried in New
| Orleans the other day for entertaining Re-
publican principles and discharged. No
principle involved.