The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-07-20

we could only interest its directors in thu
plan of uniting McGregor with Chicago
our happiness would be complete. The
Galena and Chicago Union is now identified
with the North Western, and you may de
pend this means that these two powerful
companies will make every effort to contro
all the North. western trade which wealth
energy and feasibility will permit. May
we not hope that at no distant day the
united companies may look toward point
like McGregor with view to secure the
immense grain transportation of the fertile
country beyond itr Atprescnt these roads
have, at best, only half this trade--by a
little comparative expense they can secure
almost all of it. Two outlets east will not
hurt us, and in time we will have them.
1t is now Saturday NJ. Hot as ever.
Grain market 10 cents better, Gold up to
1854 with rising ppsarance. The tide
seems to be setting up again and faces
change with each fuctuation. HORSE
racing still continues here, and half the
city will 60 to the course TO. day to see
Henry Clay, Princess, Quaker Boy and one
or two other crack horses trot for large
| purse. Clay is the favorite: be was sold
yesterday to the former owner Of the cele-
brated Patchin for Ten Thousand dollars!
CLAY is hall. brother to Patchin. Princess
was the 7opsy Of this city or s
years ago and was then rated at $3.50: at
present she would bring 8 to thousand.
Sanford, of DEBORAH, invites me to ride be-
hind his bays to the races, but prefer to
sit on the break water and angle for the
innocent inhabitants Of the deep blue
Michigan. .-.5
Money is easier here and the opinion is
that prices must 60 up still higher, but such
opinions now a days are only guess work,
and have none 10 give. Reports of the
capture of Petersburg, of Atlanta, of the
Florida, &C., &C., soon contradicted, do
more harm to public credit than anything
else. Credulous people like the Journal
reporter, and others, fiddle their readers
into the belief that "all is well, "no terror
in Washington" "Grant confident" "Gold
declining,' and all this sort Of thing, when
exactly the reverse is nearer the truth,
really do the cause Of the North injury
This disruption of this Union is imminent
and unless better system Of civil policy
is proposed for the insurgent states, more
honesty infused into the administration OF
our money affairs, and more competency
employed in the military, We will soon
whistle in vain for restored Union. The
old Tribune wants all the "coppcrheads"
hung or sent to the front as preparatory
measure for the suppression of the rebel
lion! The ''loyar' folks as they egotisti-
cally call themselves, have too little war on
hand to suit them. The Democrats of the
North must be killed or banished, England
and France must be whaled, Mexico must
be restored to its Republican form, and the
whole world taught the sublime informed
ding morality of the Eastern States.
do not blame New England for cooking
dishes to suit her own palate, but the bal
ance of mankind are not to blame for pro-
testing against the pulpit.and bayonet style
of Boston persuasion, that Yankee food is
the best for every body polite. Henry
Ward Beccher says more uneasy set of
beings never lived than the Puritans, and
their descendants keep up the character
admirably.
Hon. /. N. Arnold of this city, telegraph
cd the President "that the North west wants
him to call for 100000 more troops
How does this Congressional swellhead
and Dampbool know anything about the
Northwest? Let him 60 to the homes
desolated by the war and ask fathers and
mothers if they have more sons to sacrifice
to policy which already has bankrupted
the nation and clothed in black the men,
bers of nearly every family north Of Mason
& Dixon's line. If the patience of our
countrymen is not already gone, the re-
election of Lincoln will complete the JOB.
Just now, however, the prospects of
Abraham are decidedly on the wane: even
the Tribune of this morning expressed
half wish that Washington had been
taken. A. P. r.
We learn that circular is or has been
sent to the different members of the Con.