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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

MEkITED TRIBUTE.-In business letter
to US from F. Munson, Esq, of Chicago,
one of the leading proprietors of'a Book
binderv in that city where our lamented
friend BoYNToN formerly worked, the writer
says: II regret to hear Of the death Of Mr..
Boy nton. As = thorough, general work
man have never seen his equal. As a
man he had noble and most generous
heart"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

az gentleman at st. Paul, Minneso
has produced. after long labor, six automa
tic figures, three Of each sex, life size, and
so closely resembling living persons as te
deceive all but the closest observers. They
play upon musical instruments and mind
their own business great deal better than
some live people We know of-Ml. News
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

%- The New York World says that
Seward, in his late circular. makes blum
ders in history.
Prentice says we should care very little
how much the administration blundered in
quoting history, ifit would MT blurder in
making it.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

CoLoRED Madame Fashion has ordered
that ladies shall wear, this winter, colored
stockings. Of course, is not everything
to b. colored before we can expect the
millennium? Grey is now the style but
black is bound to win before "this cruel
war is over"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

az You may put fine clothes on some
woman but it will not make them ladies.
Silks, satins and extra trotting harness
never will cover from an observers eye
the defects which characterize snobs.
Ysu may put white stockings on sled
stake but that don't make it girls ancle,
by any means.-Briek.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

GooD.-Jack L. Spery. of the Am. lns.
Company, Dubuque, Iowa, has nearly 400 risks
in Clayton County, 1875 Of these are safe risks in
McGregor. Jack has judgment, energy, suav.
ity, and he is bound to win.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

w Will our Agricultural readers no.
tice the Advertisement of the practical
Farmer" in these columns; the specimen
before us is highly suggestive Of years
good reading at the low price of 81 90, and
crane vines thrown in.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

~ The following compliment is from
the Denver Commonwealth, Republican
paper of rather saucy style:
"Ed. Stanton is peculiarly unfortunate
in possessing small soul, or at least, in
exhibiting the indubitable marks of one.
His conduct in regard to the Mcclellan
testimonial can be characterized but by
one word, and that is downright mean
ness"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

sW- The examination of Thomas E.
Lloyd, before Justice Burr, charged with
the murder of II. l.. Tawney, has been
concluded, and he is held to bail in the
sum of $4,000 for his appearance at the
March term Of the Grant County Circuit
Court. j. Allen Barber and j. Hollo.
way are his sureties. Co. Herald.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

The BRIGGs.--Mead, of the New Oregon
Plaindealer, has just returned from trip
trip east. He saw poor show for General
FUTILE in Iowa and he worked like a
beaver for our favorite in Wisconsin, but
we guess he (Tuttle) failed to connect
Hav'nt heard from Iowa much but we
guess the State preferred Stone and
greenbacks to Tuttle and Constitutional
liverty. Mead thus talks OF Chicago:
ats Hotels are not surpassed by any in
the North. Among them stands promi
nently the BRIGGs. 1t is the home (not
merely the stopping place. Of Iowa men
while in the city. 1t is properly so, for
no house in that or any other city has a
more efficient, accommodating corps oI
Clerks and walters We commend it and
Fred. Burnham to our personal friends. "
We beg to say there are several other
chaps about that house that weigh ton
each, socially.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

~ Noisy MEN. ARE like railwey en-
gines, which make a great uproar and
sometimes no work; but they are always
the puppets Of the quiet men Of intellect,
who are the drivers and Stockers cf our
great social machine.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

E What is the length of . Loyal
League? Not less than thirty. y.three miles
from any battle field, or aboutlthe distance
from Bull Run to Washington.-N. Oregon
Plaindsalsr.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

Don't take too much interest in the af.
fairs Of your neighbors. Six per cent will
do.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

~ The Republicans Of this State 60
for the war, nearly $4,000 strong. How
many Of them will 60 to tho soars
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

sw Write that letter to the soldier boy
and cheer his heart. Don't delay it an
hour.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

- Recent reports show that the aver.
age duration Of life in England exceeds that
in France by II years.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

ALARNED--We have ever been of the
opinion that the weight of the recent Abo
lition majorities would break them down
the immense vote they got is evidence of
a wish for pay, on the part Of large num-
bcr Of them. About half Of the orators
and drummers will want to go to Congress
or to the Assembly, or to some other place
and the confusion Of tongues was har.
mony compared to the discord they will
see so soon as division Of the spoils is
called for. In 1910 Harrison carried the
States by 90 to 1000 majority. Congress
was almost unanimous anti.democratic
body. The successful, cut such fantastic
tricks that the people became disgusted
and the consequence was revulsion in
two years which almost amounted to a
complete summersault.
Cover, the candid, plain and shrswd
editor of the Grant Co. Herald sees the
breakers ahead and thus warns officers and
crew. Time. servers can see in these few
lines just what IS thought OF them by those
who were artful enough to lasso them. We
italicise a few sentences ito adorn tale. "
bad men haze crept into our party in
large Numbers and aoiH exercise great con-
troll. The Democratic party used to be the
home Of such their home is now with lis
to large extent. Let it be our boast that
zoe can manage them, and not surrender to
them as did the old democratic party which
has thereby gone to ruin. We have with
US all that is valuable of the old Jackson
democracy, but much also that is devilish
bad. We have some Of the best Of the
old whig party and allthat is hard to man
age. Let the good and true hang together
otherwise there will be a break.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

A writer in the Anthrepological Recieso
argues that fair haired women are getting
rarer in England than they were formerly,
and that this change is the result of "con-
jugal selection" the men having q decided
preference for dark hair, Mrs. Somerville
remarked upon this fact some years ago,
in her valuable work on Physical Geogra-
ply. Size was of the opinion that fair hair
was then much less common among her
countrymen aud country women than she
remembered in her youth.
DR.. John Beddoe took the pains to col.
lect some statistics on this subject. He
gives particulars respecting the color of
the hair and the social condition of 7S7
who have come under his observation in
his capacity of phys to the Bristol Roy.
al lnfirmary. OF these 1877 women the
hair of % was "red," that of 95 was "fair,"
that Of 24O was "brown," that of 336 was
dark brown" and that of 33 was "black."
Reckoning all the ''red," the "fair," and
the "brown" as fair" and only the s'dark
brown" and the "black', as ''dark," the
respective totals were thus nearly equal,
being 367 "fair," and 500 dark" OF the
967 fair haired women, however, 80 per
cent. were single, while of $50 dark haired
"o"Sh why ~l.O pSi VIII WSIO 0Au6iCs
would thus appear that a greater proportion
Of fair haired women ''live and die unmar-
ried and without offspring" and that the
increasing prevalence Of dark hair in Eng
land is due to what-slightly varying the
phrase which DR.. Darwin has rendered so
familiar Dr. Beddoe calls "conjugal selec-
ton" 1t should be noted, too, that DR..
Beddoe's figures established not only that,
speaking generally, a dark haired woman
has Cat least In tie west of England) =
much better chance of getting married than
a fair haired woman-the proportion Of
fair haired women who failed to find hus-
bands being to that of dark haired women
who similarly fail as three to two-but also
that, among dark haired women themselves
the chances of marriage are in proportion
to the degree of darkness of the hair
Thus, of the women of dark brown hair
who came under his observation, % per
cent were single, while Of the women with
black hair only Is per cent. were so. DR..
Beddoe had some reason for supposing that
dark hair has been on the increase in Eng
land from as far back as the Norman con-
quest.
1t has been noticed that dark hair is
more common in our eastern and middle
States than in the West
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11
A. M. Framework,
Tiderp allb ,feeo Stable,

At the American House Barn, foot OF Ann street,
McGk EGOk, IOWA.
HAVING secured this large and we'll arranged Barn,
- Ia now prepared to furnish Boarding and Stsblng
or Horses on the most reasonable terms. Best OF
Horses and Carriages always on hand to let.
July l862mS
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11
9orth gowa Times.

TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

McGREGOR, NOV. IL, -: -: 1853.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-11-11

A1We publish the lines below for several reasons.
They are good; their author has kind heart; she Is
young and We want to encourage talent, and to
oblige our friends, Mr.. l. Mrs. r.
WoBuRN, Mass, Oct. le, 1868.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01
POE Y



The following Lines on Woman, may be
cad alternately, or as they are written, just as
aay suit the taste or sentiment of the reader -
The bliss of him no tongue can tell
Who III woman doth conide:
Who with a woman seorns to dwell,
Unnumbered evils will betide.
They fiji each desirable day
With joy and innocent delight;
With cherries gloom and misery
Are none possessed While in her sight.
They make the daily path of life
A pleasant journey strewed with flowers;
A dreary scene of painful strife
They quickly change with matches powers.
Domestic joys will fast decay
Where female influence is unknown
There'er a woman holds her sway
A man is in perfection shown.
She's never failing 10 display
Truth in its native IaYsliness
A heart inclined to trAAehery.
A woman never did possess.
That man true dignity viii find
Who tries the matrimonial state;
Who pours contempt on womanklnd
VIII mourn his folly when too late
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

The following quaint epl1tle has been furnished
| fer publication by member Of the Mounted
Rifles, who picked il up in a deserted rebel camp
on the Chowan river about thirty miles from
Winton while out on scouting expedition last
spring The letter was addressed in this wise
Read, if you want to, you thicveing scalp hun
ter whoever you are, and forward postpaid to
the lord nigh chancellor Of tho devil exchequer
| ~ on earth.
JEFF. DAVIS Richmond, Va.
HEADQUARTERS. SCALP HUNTERS, CAMP Crow
AN, n. c., Jan. l1.-ExcELLkScY DAVIS Il i
with feelings of undeveoped pleasure that al
affectonate conscript entrusts this sheet Of con-
iscated paper to the tender mercies OF Confed-
crate States mail carrier, addressed az II shal'
| be, ato Yourself @ jeff, Red Jacket Of the Gulf
aud Chief VI the Six Nations more or Tess. he
writes on the stump of a shivered monarch Of
the forest, with the pine trees wailiag round
him, " and ''Endymion' planet rising in the
,ir" To you, Gear Of all Chivalry and Kah.
of Cotton Tariary, he appeals for the privilege o
seeking, on his own hook, land less free hons
lmong Northern hyenas. VIII you not halt YOU
brave columns" and stay your gorgeous ca
| seer for thin space? AMI while an admitin.
| world takes brief gaze at yonr glorious and
God -forsaken cause, pen for the happy eonscrip'
| 1 furlough without end? Do so. and mail it,
GU please. to that city the windy. wandering
NiafsH didn't winter in, called for short Phila-
delphia.
he Etesan winds sweeping down the dehles
f the Old Dominion and over the swamps II
suffolk. come moaning through the pines Of the
id State laden with the music. and sigh them
elves away into sweet sounds Of silence TO tb
4r-off South Your happy conscript you'd e
the far-away North, whence the winds CONF
nd leave you 70 reap the phrlwind, with ne
ne but YOUR father the Devil, to rake and bind
fter YOU And he's going.
II Is with intense and simultaneously proud
ttisfaction that he gazes for the last time o.
ur holy fag-thatsymb and sign Of al adored
-inity-cotton niggers and chivalry. BE ST
ees in ii the little camp on the Chowan, tied 10
he peak Of it's palmetto pole, and floating on
yer our boundless Confederacy, the reYiled
| eic Of ages gone, banner II orr king, Of few
avs and full Of trouble And that pole, in i's
.pering uprightness, testifying some Of thu
.andest beauties Of our nationality; lis pe4A
ointing hopefully towards the tropical sta
nd its biggest end-run into the ground. Be-
nd he leaves the legitimate chivalry OF tbs
ntounded nation centered in the illegitimat>
On of q Kentucky horse thief.
| But a few more words, dlluEtrious President,
| nd he is done-done, gone.
Elevated BY their suferings and SURFACES to
he highest Office in the gift Of great and ex-
Y .a:r,, Frse r.eorla wau have held vcur poSieion
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

HERE'S YoUR MULE F'-It was at the battle
Of Stone River raw Hoosier recruit in one
Grose's regiments got Very much interested il
the fight. 1t was the first time be had smellee
Gre. He had been long enough in the army to
learn its slang and he used it zealously. Tn
fellow fought like tiger. He loaded in gooc
deal less than mine times, and fred whereve.
be could see head lis whole soul was in il
Every time be leveIed and fred he shouted
Here's your mule, . snap-bang there you
mule T. At about the twentieth round rcbt
aharp-shooter struck him in the left arm.
looked at the wound enhancement, and Wit
a sort of spasm calculated, they We shot me
then laying down his musket carefully, am
stripping off his accouierments he also laid theI
down deliberately, and ran to the rear vii
frantic energy II was evident that here
Your mule had stampeded The officer VII
described the affair said il was the most ludicrots
Incident he had ever witnessed on a battlefield
'Rosey' laughed at it until the tears role
down his cheeks.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

THERE is a bachelor who says that al
should ask in wife would. be good temper
health good understanding, agreeable physio
nomy, figure, good connection, domestic habits
resources Of amusement, good spirits, conversa
honal talents elegant manncrs-nvoEey! tt
unreasonable rascal Isn't there anything NOR
DC can think off
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

A calm, blue-eyed, seif-rossessed young Lad,
a village down east, received a long ca,
he other day, from pryiag ola spiaister, who
after prolonging her stay beyond her own con-
ception of the main question which had brought
lev thither, said
# have been asked gooi many different
lines if you we're engaged TO Dir. p. Now, ii
olks inquire again whether roa are or not,
shat shall tell them think 30
Tell them, answered she that ypa think
GU don't know. and that yoa are sure It's none
3f your business
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

PArRlorIc. H4vtrhii Gazette reports the
GLOWING street conversation -:
Understanding, c.. Ready for tn
iraft ~
O." Ready!!l If my distracted country
needs me-if she requires tie sacrifice 81 my life
If the lettering edifoe Of our gicriong Union
reeds 10 be eemensed with M hearts blood--if
n is necessary, for her rreaervaticn, that she
strides onward, onward TO victory over my dead
ody-then, sir, the victim il ready With
heart prepared for any fate, and with firm
rust in Divine Providence, shall With lively
,eling Of doing M duty, AID nothing but ny
luty, march boldly op-to the Collectors Office
and pay my three hundred dollars f.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

without change Ct base, or purpose Of any sort
through weary months Of war, and want an
woe and though every conscript would uniH
with the thousands OF loyal ard true nen Ia til,
South in grand ola grief at yoar aownfall, s.
100 viii they sink under tne calamity of an en-
quisit joy when rou shall hare reached tina
eminent MERIDIAN whence al progress is perpen
iicular.
And Dow, bastard President Ct poliuca.
abortion. farewell
Scalp hunters, relic, pole, and chiralroc-
Confederates in crime good bye. Except il h.
the army Of the pnion. yoa Eill nat agait
see the eoascrigt.
Soax HAgRolD.
Of Ashe county, y. G.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

SMART Boz A bright little three ear-ol4
@as sitting in bis mothers lap lew evenings
,ince. when be asked, Are stars il hsaven2
The mother, Of course, responded in The afflrma-
ye when the little fellow put the further qaes-
ion. Are the Stripes there, too, mother -
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

BAD EsGLf-H Swearing.
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

e'DAppy, said Young hopeful, "let's 60 I'll
70 the nine-pin alley aad roll. Roll, what 81
ron know about rolling 70 Me kaoxs about II
WHY, ean roll your dArEed eyes out in Tn
minutea"
Hammond gazette. [volume] (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-01

4 QCEsTios FuR JoHs BVLL--If th-hc o. foC
rebel priyateers can destroy twelve millions G.
property IN three years, what amount can tao
4undled Yankee private armed ships destroy IL
half the time2
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-04
:ument was a sufficient reply to the objec-


Suppose one of you were assaulted by
| ROBBERS, who threatened to burn your re-
sidence and murder your family if you did
not give up your money; that your neigh
Dor came rushing to your assistance, and
with him one or two stout negroes, with
clubs and axes and guns; that while you
are engaged in close hand to hand con-
met with one OF them you should see that
oraWny negro hewing one of them down,
would you say, Hold ont l don't want
any negro to help mei,' Here, MIR. Rob
Der, 1 am not going to succeed in driving
you OF by any such aid as that; you may
burn my house and take my property" Is
this what any sane man would do? But it
is just in this way that Southern sympa-
lzers-Constitutional Union nen-talk.
Ihey would have us, because the Presl-
dent does not use just such weapons as they
think proper, say, Here JEFF. Davis, take
all we have, and slay us as soon as you
please; not another man or another dollar
can we give till LinGpln quits fighting with
these things"
| am for the Constitution framed by
Washington and his compeers-those good
and great men who We're touched with more
than human wisdonl-at all hazards and at
ali expense. Are you for it? Alas, fear
you are for the Constitution and Union of
the Southern Confederacy, for every means
and measure that you object TO being used
by the Federal Government, yon are per-
fectiy willing that the rebel Government
should use. You are opposed to the Union
being maintained by unconstitutional mea-
sures, but you are not unwilling jeff. Davis
should fight unconstitutionally, to destroy
the Union and the Constitution. This shows
where your heart is, better than your for
mer professions Of Unionism.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-04
WHAT THE REBELS THINK OF PEACE

WHAT THE REBELS THINK OF PEAC
ISNEAKs.-Jenkins, when in Greencastle
pennsylvania, was approached by a white
nvered sneak, who announced himself as .
sympathizer and peace man. Jenkins sale
ne wasn't worth paroling in the usua
! form, and ordered up squad with thick
boots, who kicked the fellow out of the
village. The Richmond papers treat the
ONO peace sneaks in a manner equally
1 ontemptuous, but they take il with q
illea kness and servility which indicate their
proper htness to come under the yoke OF
sm.il natural lords and masters the
autocrats of the plantation.
correspondent of the Phila3elpbia
: Iess, who was in Chambersburg during
oehhins occupation of the town few DAYS
$50, gives the following incident as an IL
ros.lation OF the contempt in which the
., une.s noid the sniveling and spiritless
sy,nr,ipathlzers in the North:
,,s, me rebel General Jenkins being fond of
s"eitzer kase and lager" accompanied
Snnsn " our young men to a drinking
no.se. a blatant young sprig OF the law
" <ss one OF Inc party, and having become
somewhat exhilarated, he commenced TO
. .eatllate ms disloyal and reasonable SEN
. .iiiieLits' ne was not allowed. however, to
proceed very far, until jenkins informed
MN that he discovered in him one of those
creatures termed copperheads, and that
where ne came from they were hold in
more profound contempt than the ayowed
Black Republicans. This should have
Deen enough for our assinine friend. lint
ne preferred to show his ears still fnrtber
by referring to ''poor Vallandigham', as .
greatly represented individual, who had
Oeen sent out OF our lines by our despotic
government. because Of the fact that he
had exercised the right of free speech, and
mad given expression to sentiments which
were interpreted as reasonable by those
in power.
The reply Of Jenkins was this: "NIv
copperhead friend, your Administration
old not DO its duty. II Lincoln had per-
formed his part as he should have done, he
would have hung him six months ago. Ifl
any man in the Southern Conte1eracv
would utter sentiments as adverse to our
government as VaIlandigham did to yours
we would not only deprive him OF liberty. |
but we would take his life.'' Nv infor- |
lnant says that this shot had the effect of I
sending our besotted friend home a soberer
II not wiser. youth.
Another fact which I shall give you. is 7
The rebels were not in town more than a |
ball hour until william went to some of |
Ine leaders and informed them as to the |
direction in which most of the citizens
horses had been taken, and also that the
bridge at Scotland was IA wooden structure
ma not iron, as Stuart's men had been in
ormed. This General Jenkins told to one
u our most influential ladies, and when
she requested him to take the fellow with
men, his reply was that they would not
awe such scoundrel in their Confedera-
y II they could prevent it.-CJH. CONNER
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