The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-07-13
McGREG0R, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY l3, 1864.

G. Breckinridge, since the war, were she'
on Friday night, the Sd ult., on account o
the death of his favorite horse, that hat
borne him since the battle of Shiloh"
Secretary Stanton, in q dispatch to Gen
Dix, says: "All the railroads leading int
Richmond are .now destroyed, some o
them badly" Bully for the badly.
Some Of Gen. McClellan's personal friends
in Boston presented him with . library
costing $4,000.
Rumor says Secretary Chase had
made preliminary arrangements for the ne
gotiation of loan of 500, 900, 900 through
the house of Hope & Co., Of Amsterdam
also, that he was in negotiation with foreign
bankers for considerable foreign loan.
The pen used to sign the bill prohibiting
slavery in LOUISIANA is to be presented ia
Gen. Banks.
Gen. Candy has taken all boats at New
Orleans for military purposes and conss.
quently the news from below is cut off for
the present.
Communication between Memphis and
Little Rock is now entirely suspended, ow.
ing to the rebel blockade.
Gen. Candy removed his headquarters
from Natchez to New Orleans on the 22d
ult.
There are one hundred and thirty mil.
lions oysters consumed in Paris in one
year.
In Barks county, Pa, three ont Of four
horses attached to a wagon were struck by
lightning and in an instant afterward the
remaining stumbling animal was struck,
leaving the whole four dead in one heap.
A recent law, passed in I v York, re.
warding the good conduct Of convicts by
shortening the term of sentence, will re-
lease one hundred and sixty prisoners
whose term had not yet expired. The
system is akin to the English ticket oi
leave.
Chas. Aldrich has retired from the Du.
buque Times.
A not very Christian. like man in Wis
consin drowned two of his sons seven and
ten years old-and attempted to excuse
his crime by saying that he expected to 60
to HI himself, but wanted to get place
in heaven for his children.
Since the commencement of the war
nearly too and a halt million Of men have
been called into the service.
A French paper has the following adver-
tisement: "A man desires to find wife
who has suffered much"
1t is said that Mrs. Swisshelm and Miss
Dix quarrel with each other while nursing
the soldiers; the former slurs the maiden
hood of the latter while the latter stands
ON her dignity.
The N. Y. Commercial states, edtorially,
on what it claims to be good authority,
that: "Our total loss in Grants campaign,
exclusive of cavalry and Hunters column,
will not reach $4,000. The total loss since
crossing the James River will not exceed
1900. Only 3,4OO wounded remained at
headquarters on the 9th. AS to the rebel
losses, the Richmond Eaqairer of the goth
gave list of ,lSO wounded sent from
Lees army, and 3,O4O from Beauregard's
command. This did not include those sent
from the Rapidan to Gordonsville, Char.
lottesville, Staunton and other points. Ac-
cording to their own accounts, they have
lost, up to the seige of Petersburg, % gen.
eral officers, and 1900 prisoners are now
in our hands,"
1t is supposed that the profigacy in the
departments at Washington is the result Of
example. BY the Secretary of State boast
ing of his little bell, he caused the followers
of the administration to provide themselves
oach with little belle.
At the Philadelphia Fair lock of Wash
ington's hair sold for $40. A wag says
that Garbaldi sent the hair of two mat
rasses, in locks, to applicants while in Eng.
land recently.
At the close Of recent fight two dead
rebels were found piuioned together by a
ramrod shot by federal soldier during the
engagement.
At fifty cents quart-the recent price
"a moderate sized strawberry bed is
enough for large family to retire on.
Will some one of the numerous strategi
cal writer's tell Us of what particular use
Gen. Butler has been to the service in this
campaign?
The Roman Catholic bishop Of Charleston
S. c., is the confederate ambassador near the
court of Rome.
single distiler in Penn yam, N. Y, pait
for the month Of May $25, 900 intenal tax.
All places Of amusement are hereafter to b,
taxed one per cent, on the receipts. The ia,
in Paris is one centime.
The 18th army corps has been temporarily
discontinued by order of the President.
A quantity Of forged confederate bonds. il
sums Of $26 each, have been sent from N. Y
and sold in England; $72,OO0 were sold i.
London to 60 to Holland.
IMPORTS, EXPORTS. AND GoLD.-The New
York Commercial Adcertiser gives the fig
ures Of the imports and exports at New
York for forty nine weeks Of the fisca