The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-01-15
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The suit for the shcriffafty, of Dubuque
county has been settled in favor of the in
cumbent, Chauncey j. Cummings .
Vanity Fair, the Prince of America, give.
the philanthropy of Exeter Hall, a terrible
dig, in this brief cpigram: Britania's
breast with pity swells for slaves, whose
wrongs are ne'er forgotten; poor Maid
we fear her bosom's swell is but the rise
ard fall Of cotton. Not much inferior to
the above in cutting satire is the following
item which comes from the Shasta (Cal.
Courier, on the other side of the continent
"Gen. Price has retreated in bad odor, to
fifty miles below Springfield, Mo-, near the
Arkansas line, where he is fortifying him
SELF McCulock is in the rear of Price
and privy to all Of his movements. Il,
is not generally considered that there is an
intemperance of eating as we'll as of drink.
ing. 80. One of the most extravagant me.
taphors which has fallen under our obser.
walton during the past week is this, which
we clip from an eastern paper: "thc sha.
dow Of the trees under which Plato taught,
lie pleasant and cool upon the souls of the
scholars Of the present age.". 1T is an
old and true saying that "many persons
are solicitous about everything which con.
Germs the comfort Of the body, yet are in.
different to the welfare of the soul" 1t
should, however, be remembered, that there
is also another class very so!icitous about
that which concerns the soul, and yet obi
vious to the welfare Of the body . . Some
witty philosopher says, some mems
mouths, like the dykes of Holland, seem to
be made to keep out water. "A summa-
ry Of the present condition Of England is
thus announced, by a member of the
gallant "Sixty- Ninth :" England is
jist like thin witches as used to gallivant
about these parts-shc's very much both.
cred by Cotton Mather". las illus.
trating the wholesome dread Of the military
genius of Gen. Seigel, which is entertained
by the sccessionists everywhere, it is said
one Of the insurgents recently wrote they
had not much fear OF Selgel so long as he
was advancing; "but when that id
kRptchman begins to back down, look out
Tor h l.".. AT a recent matinee Of the
Germania band at Philadelphia, crowded
with the the elite of the city, the orchestra
struck up God save the Queen" which
was drowned by a storm Of Kisses. After
another trial with like result, the attemp,
was abandoned. :. The three leading banks
OF New Yor!: represent an aggregate cap
ital of SIS, 000, 900. i. i. Madame Ristor, the
great tragedienne will soon arrive at New
York and appear at Nblo's. t. . 1t is said
that one of the last suggestions Of Prince
Albert to Queen Victoria, before his death
was that "gentleness and forbearanc &C
should mark the dcmcanor Of England to
a kindred people, soured and inflamed by
the passions of civil war" If this b.
true, the American people have not ye,
appreciated the loss which they, as well as
the Queen, have suffered in the recent de-
cease of the Prince Consort. =. e.. The fol-
lowing novel advertisement appeared a
week or two since in the DEBORAH Republic
"Whareas, my wife Sarah has 'harcd up
because would not lend ber< more money
without security, therefore she ripped open
my feather bed, took out a majority of the
feathers, and then threw the balance out
of doors. 1t being near night the old man
was obliged to take up his tick and walk
Wherefore forbid all persons trusting her
on my account. (Signed) F. w. Sher-
man. 1t appears to us that the complain
ant has treated Sarah fowl-ly. and, natural
born goose that he is, should not complain
at the tritling loss of a few feathers. More
over, if he goes on "tick" himself, it is alb
solutcly ridiculous in him to forbid the
pabic to trust his wife. Thcm's our SEN
timents.