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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
OUR KIND HEARTED PRrsIDpNr -Opo

Our KIND HEARTED PREs1DENr-One of
the soldiers in the Vermont regiment to
which private Scott, the soldier sentenced
to be shot for sleeping upon his post belong
ed, relates an incident which shows in a
strong light the kind hearted character of
our President. Scott was to he shot early
in the morning, but the place of his contine-
ment was SIX or seven miles from Wash
ington. On the afternoon before it was de-
cded to pardon him, President Lincoln tel
eyraphed to the officer in charge of the ex
ecutIon, but getting no rebly, and fearing
that his message might have miScarried, he
went himself after dark to the encampment
to make sure that all was right Says the
~riter--"l am Democrat, but in the flu
ture, if have an opportunity, shall sure
ly cast my vote for "Old Abe ."-Bostoa
Tareller.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
News and Items.

Gibson's battery from Utah has been at,
ached to Gen. Lanes Bri igade
The sh Wisconsin regiment has beeu
reviewed in st. Louis by Scc'y Cameron.
Rebel dispatches state that a large force
of rebels attacked Billy Wilson's Zouaves
on Santa Rosa Island, on the slh, and af
terra severe fight, in which the Zouavcs are
credited with great bravery, they succeeded
in spiking their guns and destroying their
camp equipage. The rebels confess loss
of 40 killed and so wounded.
The Washington Star says tAat 10000
more troops are wanted there immediately
Indiana has forty regiments in the lid
The activity in the Navy Department
still continues
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

The MEMORY OF MoruEa.-When
temptation appears, and we are almost per-
suaded to wrong, how often a mother
word of warning will call to mind vows
that are rarely broken. Yes, the memory
of good mother has saved many poor
wretch from going astray. Tall grass may
be growing over the halowcd spot where
all her earthly remains repose; the dying
leaves OF autumn may be whirled over it.,
or the white mantle Of winter cover it from
sight; yet the spirit of her, when he walks
in the right path, appears, and gently, soft
ly, monrnfully calls to him, when wander
ing off into ways of error.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

.A9"A poet says-"Oh, she was fair,
but SORROW came, and left his traces there" "
What become of the rest Of the harness he
don't state.-Eris Uispatch.
You arr mistaken about that. The same
'p ct, speaking of the same young lady,
oays-"And all the hmts that sorrow left
have faded out in joy" The rest of the
harness is still missing. Er.
Oh no! Farther down the bill Of poe
try it sayS-"Come with me my assie, and
III take thee to thy hame!'' The balance
Of the harness is still missing, however,
l., Crosse Demorrdt.
Wrong again for in the language of the
poet, having got her to his "hane," his
union was imperlled by quarrel, the Sc
qnel Of which is pathetically given: '"ln
deep atfiiction thus h. spoken tones
that did not falter-I die, Miranda, well
come fate, by means Of. this ere halter :"
The condition Of the balance of the har.
ness, is not recorded.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

sF- The Era (West Union) chronicles
another warning in way Of sad accident
resulting from the careless use of fire arms
1t says:
several boys being in the woods, to-day
Tuesday shooting squirrels, son Of Mr.
"m. " ellis was accidentally shot through
the heart and expired Immediately. We
understand that the boy shot was or 8
years old; the blow upon the family is "a
heavy one.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
Poetry.
Written for the N. I. Times.
TO THE OLD FLAG.
ny n. C.. BALLAR D =,

NJ
Hail. glorious ensign, the flag Of the fathers;
Thy folds fill the land with devotion
And we love it 50 dearly We'll keep the old banne,
Unfuried while b. eeze il in motion,
Till the light from the sky shall 90 cut forever
And the white sails are swept ircm the ocean.
Nor traitors nor rebels shall trail the old ensign
v hie . freeman die to uphold it
And he world will yet see how a nation OF heroes
Will bleed while an eye shall behold il,
While an arm has nerve or 4 soul has purpose
In the broad light Of day to unfold It!
Blessed banner! go forth thy mission Of glory,
Der our land shall ne'sr aoat anotherl
We will smite every foe that dares to assaii it,
Though We crush the heart OF a brother
For We cannot do less in the pathway Of duty
And the hopes Of liberty smother
Through the g,oom of the past, through tho fierce
shook of battle,
The vanguard Of liberty bore it
O'er the land and the sea, by valley and mountain,
The foeHen were humbied before it
And if ever it falls, let pledge to each other
Our fortunes and lives to restorci it
CHICAGO. Oct. Is, 1861.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
; nytlaiIlYs.

asnythin.s.
1t is an old maxim that figures won't
lie; but the ingenius appliances of mantua-
makers, such as hoops, crinolinr, hips, bus.
lies, and cotton breastworks, has played
the dickens with the proverb . :. w hen his
cousin Charlotte Dunno, was married,
Jones said, ''It was Dunno before it was
begun, Dunno while it was doing, and not
Dunno when it was done. +. The new
war vessels now building in England, will
cost that government $4o, 900, 900. The
Tennessee rebels who are marauding Ken
,urky are ignoble characters; they first at
tack the purse and then the person . A
cote,nporary remarks that the reported
GOODNESS between England and Sweden will
probably be largely increased before Spring.
shouldn't wonder We have read some.
where that Goodness" is incidental to
that latitude in midwinter. Thurlow
Weed, editor Of the Albany Evening Jour-
nat says if a regiment or brigade Of prin-
ter> can be raised for the war, he will
shoulder his muSket and 60 with them
Nj. Weeds devotion to Typographical inter-
ests runs parallel with his amor ratria.
Mrs. Browning is said to be still engaged
on poem equal Gin lengthD to Aurora
Leigh. Baron de Vidl is picking oak um
in a London prison. 1t will be remember
ed that he had one son too many :. :. . The
Oskaloosa Times is for sale, the publisher,
Wheelock, being III i'll health. -. We notice
that friend POM roy Of the Lacrosse d.
mocrat Offers steel plate engragings of the
Father of his cou"try to all editors who
will forward him four cents to prepay
postage. We go one better; we will fur.
nish playedout stamps for three cents
apiece "A Memphis paper having COM
planned that certain Kentucky papers were
trying to rob him of his reputation, the
Louisville Journal responds, 1--WE have
heard Of an unfortunate man who came
very near being robbed of hundred chick
ems; nothing prevented except he hadn't
The chickens"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

~ DON'T SEE Ir."-Lord Nelson was
undoubtedly the author of this popular
slang phrase. At the celebrated Naval
battle OF Copenhagen, Nelson, who was de.
termined to continue the fight, but whose
attention had been called to signal of the
commanding officer to cease hostilities,
placed his hand over his good eye, and pre-.
tending to look with his blind one said, 81
don't see it," and at once ordered brisk
renewal of the engagement.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
Nottb yo(ua limes.
GEO. w. TENNEY. ra,.,,.
JOHN II. AiNDRick. 6oltoIs
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUN,
McGREGOR, OCT. 23, :-::: 1861

RErIRED.-J. G. Davenport has retired
from the Cedar Valley Times, and says in
his valedictory that he is broken down in
health and has 'iizzled OUT pecuniarly
This is bad news.
The Times hereafter, so it says, will be
run dependently-by whom has not yet
transpred.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
$40 Pent.Up Uticn.S
Every body has heard the lines,
''So pent up Utica contracts our powers

Everybody has heard the lines,
''So penn up Utica contracts our powers,
But the Who'll. boundiess continent is ours"
But very few people know the author, or
in what poem they occur. The Portsmouth,
(New Harnpshire) Journal says that they
were written by one Jonathan Michael Sc
wall, Portsmouth poet, as an epilogue to
Addson's play Of Cato, on the occasion of
its performance by an amateur company in
that city in 1888. The whole production
was one of decided power The spirit of
To Revolution entered into every expires
sion. We give y few lines:
"And what now CLEANS with dawaing rays at
home,
Once hlazed in full -orbed majesty at Rome
Did Rome's brave Senate nobly strive to oppose
The mighty torrent Of domestic foes,
Aud boldly arm the virtuous few, and dare
The desperate perils of unequal war!
Our Senate. too, the bold deed has DONE
And Tor a Cato armed Washington
Rise, then. my countrymen, for fight prepare
Grd on your sword, and fearless rush to war!
your greved country nobly dare to die,
And empty all yeur veins tor liberty,
No pent up Utica contracts our powers,
But the whole boundless continent is ours!
Utica, Il city older than any in the vicin-
ity Of ancient Carthage, was the place
where Cato died. THIS fact. with the
above extracts, will S. tficiently expla in
one OF the most expressive quotations in
our language "A quotation which has
been frequently made by the most distin-
guished orators, Daniel Webster among
them.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

~ Education is better safeguard of
liberty :han standing army. If we re.
trench the wages Of the schoolnaster, we
must raise those of the recruiting sergeant |!
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

,B-Ifa woman scorns you, don't keep
her picture as thing to sigh and weep over.
Sooner throw it on the aoor, and replcnl>h
eXchcqnar Of your pril. AMI sclirt>p,ct
10y enac;ing stamp act.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

@ An elephant is often as much Solo
mon as his keeper, and y hog moro of q
Bacon than his feeder.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

Edi'er' Times: :-Supposing the account
may have some interest for your readers |
report you few of the-pincipal events
which have occurred in the month of Oc-
tober:
October Cd 1888, First run of Locomo-
tive i'll the l. S. Oct 4 1888, Black Hawk
died. r. Choate born the 9TH, 1893
Peace with England proclaimed Oct. 9th,
1888. CORVALLIS died 9th, 1905. Amer
lea discovered 18th, 1899. Murat shot
18th, 1915. Battle of Camden 18th, 1916.
Burgoyne surrendered 18th. 1777. Battle
Iof Liepsic 18th, 1918. Swift died 18th,
l745. Battle Of Trafalgar 2lst, 1906
Webster died 25th, 1852 St. Crispins
day (shoemakers holiday 25th GEORGE
H of England died 25th, 1860. Hogarth
the great painter Goth 1864. Capt Cook
the navigator, born eth 1928. Sir Wal
ter Raleigh beheaded goth, 1913. Tower
of London burnt 3Oth, ls4l. John Han
cock died 3lst, 1898. A.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

sBEvery heart is created with hand.
fu of seeds in it; it may become a garden
of flowers.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

~ Stand still rather than proceed by
trespassing on your neighbor. Overcome
difficulty rather that avoid it by breaking
down fence
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

GH-N No general can presume to say that
he may not be defeated, but he can and
should say that he will not be surprised.
\ general mas oftan accomplished more by
the march than the muSket
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

wSomc peoples sensibility is mcrc
bundle OF aversions. and their memory a
row Of hooks to hang grudgcs on.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

~To be honest with success requires
far more talant than to be rogue; to b
honest without success requires far mofs
magnanimite.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

sR-We go to the grave of friend,
saying, "A man is dead;" but angels thrcng
about him, saying, A man is born"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

There are many whose great eneY.
gies run to waist They are enough rapids
and wh'rlpoolS and cataracts in the streama
nf tbp;, liuac I'm ,,n mill dam.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

sSS IN nintey-nine out Of one hundred.
wealth creates more wants than it supplies.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

ICOTTespOn0ences
Editors Times Almost every day we
hear it said that slavery is the cause Of
this war. 1t is fippantly called the slave.
holders war. Is that true, or is it mem
orable hambug. For about fifty years af.
ter the adoption Of the Constitution of the
United States, Massachusetts, and South
Carolina voted together almost uniformly
Tor President. South Carolina being slave
As she is to-day, and Massachusetts, being
free as she still is,-no illfeeling between
them living together in perfect harmony
and friendship. Now ask IN all candor
what is the cause Of the present strife be-
tween them will any sane man say it is
slavery, was not South Carolina slave from
the bcginnngs she is slave still, she has
not changed, then where is the change |?
Is it not as clear as ray Of light that the
whole change is in Massachusetts,. Will
any candid man say that had Massachusetts,
continued mp to the present time to manage
her own internal policy as she pleased and
allowed her sister South Carolina to do the
same, as they both had an undoubted right
under our form of Government; that they
would not to-day be at peace Certainly
the slavery Of South Carolina under such
state could not have caused difficulty for
Massachusetts,, had we perfect harmony
with her, she being slave all the time for
about fifty years.
If my position is impregnable is it not
insulting to the common sense of men, to
hear persons who have spent lifetime in
stirring up strife between the North and the
South with hypocritical cant call this un-
holy war-Gots acar, and berating the
President of their own choosing for lacking
moral courage to go forward in obedience to
the God of Heaven with fire and sword to
the determination of Shareholders and slav-
cry? Yes, and those same fanatics profess
to believe that God is Interchangeable, and
that he fought the battles for our fathers
during the long seven years of the Revo-
luton, all the Colonies being slave; that
this same unchang.able God was with
Washington and the other founders of our
glorious Constitution, almost all of whom
were Shareholders, giving them aid and
counsel, and has blessed us as Nation
as h. has blessed no other Nation in mod
ern times, and when we are going on
smoothly pursuing the even tenor Of our
ways, just As lIc has started US, this
same unmercifnl God has brought upon our
Nation one Of the saddest calamties known
to history. What Heaven daring profani-
ty 3. d.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23

A TRUE MANA lady recently from
Richmond, gives the following account Of
a true old hero:
"Col. Payne, U. S. A., and for many
long years friend of Gen. Scntt, had ex
cited Il reluctant admiration there on ac-
count Of his psrsevering and immovable
determination not to desert the Stars and
Stripes. No bribes, or threats, or fatter.
les could shake him; he had the Napole-
onic temperament, ",ike block of marble
over which the thundcrshatt gilded along
leaving no impression" Jefferson Davis,
and all the distinguished men of his king
dom visited the old man, and sought to
reason him on; of his fealty, but in vain;
and even lady to whom he was once en-
gagged was commissioned to weep over
him, but the old mans heart replied, if his
lips did not,
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-10-23
81 could not lovc thee. dsar, 30 much,
Loved not honor more"

Finally, the dog showed his teeth prop
erty belonging to him. to the amount Of
$5O, 900 or so, was threatened. LET it
60" said the aged soldier. At latest OBJ
>erva,ions, this planet, ovcraw,ng the
night of Secession, was not in obscura.
ton"
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-09-28

EzS- The following are the resolutions
which were passed at the recent Democrat
ic Convention of Wyoming: -
Rssolvcd, That democrats are as dc.
termined and devoted "Union Savers" to-
day as they were in times past, when sec
tionalism was plotting its destruction.
2nd. That sectionalism and nationalsm
are SO utterly and absolutely antagonist
cal, that there can be no union between
them without compromising both-that the
democratic party is based upon the Union,
and therefore, from necessity, places the
cause of the union above that of party its
success being involved solely in that of the
restoration, triumph and prosperity Of the
Union, depending solely upon its success
and its policy that the history of this
government, from its organization to the
present day, establishes this fact beyond
doubt cavil-that the prompt and ready
support which democrats have rendered tc
the present administration in its contest
with Secession, as well as the repeated dec
larations by the democratic party of it
determination to stand by and support tn,
administration in all constitutional dnG
propsr measures for the preservation of thu
Union, affords the best evidence of ou
desire to place the cause of the Uniol
above all other considerations and tha
to do this ehectually, we must guard thu
purity of our party with jealous care, t.
preserve it from all sectional taint.
3. That the threatening attitude which
the administration has assumed towards
all who are unable to sanction its policy i
calculated to inaugurate re3 3gn Of terro,
from which increased union and increased
fidelity on the part of democrats to tn
great principles Of their party, alone, cal
rescue the country.
4. That while We acknowledge and la
ment that Northern intolerance and ia
naticism upon the one hand, and South
ern disloyalty upon the other, have rcsul
ted in the horrors of civil war, frol
which there is no present escaee but i
recognition of the Southern Confcderac
Ia step which no true democrat is prepare
to recommend) we hold it to be the dut
of the government to inaugurate policy
in aid of our arms, that shall bring I
bear against the common enemy the Who'll
moral and constitutional power of the ba
lot. box-a policy that shall remove tn
E shackles from the arms Of southern |oyalt,
give to it new life and new vigor, remoN
the gag from its jaws, and enable it
thunder with Crittenden for the Union.
e O. That we regard rigid adherence
f all the requirements of the Constitution,
all times and under all circumstances, {
indispensable to the pormanency of a FRI
> government, and the restoration of Il
= Union.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-09-28
The Vote of the Soldiers.

Gov. Curtin has issued special procla'
nation providing for tie voting oi the
Pennsylvania Volunteers, in actual SER
vice at the time of the general Election,
on the second Tuesday of October next.
1t authorizes such volunteers to exercise
the right of suffrage on the day of the gen.
eral election, at such places as may be ap'
pointed by the commanding officer of the
troop and company, in the same manner,
and under the same restrictions as if they
were at home, provided, the volunteers
aforesaid are, at the time, more than ten
miles from the place at which they would
be entitled to vote fnot in the service as
aforesaid, The captain or commanding
officer of each company is to act as judge
and the lst Lieut., or officer second il
command as inspector, and in case fthei
refusal, the officers next in command shal
be authorized to perform this duty. Th'
Judges are to administer the oath to tn
inspectors and clerks. The judges, as a
foresaid, are within three days to trans
nit the returns through the nearest pos
Office to the Prothonotary of the county il
which they reside. A similar return is to
be transmitted to the commanding Office
of the Regiment or Battalion, who shal
make a general return of the votes of al
the companies under his command, to tn
Secretary of the Commonwealth. The
return judges of the counties in which tn
volunteers have resided before being calle'
into active service, are to meet the seeon'
Tuesday in November, when they are t
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-09-28
Election, yassaay, 0ctCbeg s, 1861.

ARTtcIE I-Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion prohibiting the free e1'
ercse thereof Abridge the freedom oil speeGh, OF
of the Press or the right the people peaceaby to
assemble and petition the Government Tor reuTsss
of grievan Constitution Of the United States
ARTICLE 9-lhat the printing shat be iree 10
W undertakes examine the proceedings
of the legislature or any branch of government and
no law shall ever be made restrain the righ thccof
The free communication of thoughts and opinions is
one of the invaluable rights of man aud every cti-
zen may freely speak, write and print on any SUBJECT
prosecutions for the publication Of papers investigating
the official conduct of officers, men IN public capaci
or where published is proper Tor pubc lh-
formation the truth thereof may be given IN eIdehee
and in all indictments for ibels the jury snail nave
ruht to determine law ans the facts under the III.
rection Of the court in other cases-C0hSutR0H ~
PeHHs yludnig.
Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-09-28

OUR REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATES.
We publish to-day the Proceedings of the
Representative Conference, which met at
Bloomsbury last week Geo. S. Tuition Esq,
of this Borough and Col. Levi l.. Tate of
Columbia Co. received the unanimous nom
ination.
A resolution was passed in its tone
highly patriotic, expressing the position Of
the entire Democracy of the District in
our present contest with the Seccssionists
proving again-if indeed proof is needed
the utter falsity Of the charge lately made
by the Intelligencer of this place, that the
terms of Osterhout and Kline were abrid-
ged one year on the ground of their votes
for supplies to the army. This Infamous
Libel upon the Democracy will be emphat
ically resented at the polls by every maj
of spirit in the District,-North B/ancl
Democrat,