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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

ALCOHOL AND TOBACCo.-The following
curious passage occurs in the sixth annual
report Of the Register General for Scotland:
"All classes are agreed as 10 the evils pro-
duced by the abuse Of stimulent (alcoholic)
drinks and of tobacco. But certain class
decry even the use Of these, and point to
the statistics as triumphant proof of the
baneful effects of such stimulants snd se-
datves. No such conclusions can be drawn
from such statistics and this may be prov.
ed in the most satisfactory manner. To-
bacco and stimulating drinks are almost
exclusively consumed by males, and by al
most none under 10 years of age Yet We
find that in every 100000 males under
10 years of age, the above brain diseases
cut eff annually S37 persons; whereas in
an equal number Of females, only 276 are
cut off by the same diseases. At the very
period of life, therefore, when neither sex
use these so called obnoxious articles, the
male tendency to these diseases is so much
greater than it is in the female that 337
males die for every 276 females. Above
10 years of age, when, for arguments s
sake, we may allow that the female does
not consume these articles, or at least that
the number who do is so significant as not
to affect the general results, while the male
both uses, and in many cases abuses them,
instead of finding that the relative proper.
ton of male deaths from these diseases in.
erase, we find that it rather diminishes;
so that while above Is years of age 2l7
males die from these diseases in every 1OO,-
900 males, 164 females die out Of a like
number of females. But the subject may
be viewed in more striking light still, by
taking the proportion of each sex who die
from these diseases above and under Is
ears Of age. By this it will be found tina,
the relative tendency to death from these
brain diseases in persons above Is years o
age was greater in the female than in tn.
male. The only conclusion, therefore
which seems deducble from these facts
appears to be that, in so far as the statistics
OF these dea.hs go, there is no evidence t,
prove that the consumption Of alcoholic
liquors Gncluding every form-wine, beer
spirits, &c ) or Of tobacco Injuries the gen
eral health Of the population. On tn
other hand, the evidence seems rather t,
favor the idea that the moderate use O
these articles by the mass Of the people 81
improves their health as to act as coun
terpoise to the undoubtedly injurious ant
fatal effects to which the abuse leads in tn
few"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

Boy Love.
GEM reader of the sterner sex, here !.
something for you. Old boy, we take thu
liberty to publish a chapter Of your bio
graphy. Youthful boy we presume to give
a little sketch Of that ''inner experience;'
of that ecstatic suffering which you are
now contented to endure. 1t is from The
Home Journal, New York-this by way o.
explanation, lest troublesome apprehension
arise in the mind of every man and boy
who reads our columns, that We are indulg.
| ing in direct personal reflections.
-and then, the lover
Signing like furnace, with woful ballad
One of the queerest and funniest things
10 think of, in after life, is boy.love. No
sooner does boy acquire tolerable stature
than he begins to imagine himself man,
to ape man.ish ways. He casts side glances
at all the tall girls he may meet, becomes a
regular attendant at church or meeting,
carries q cane, holds his head erect, and
struts little in his walk. Presently, and
very soon, he falls in love yes, falls is the
proper word, because it best indicates his
happy, delirious, ESTABLISHMENT. He lives
now in fairy region, somawhat collateral
to the world, and yet blinded somehow in.
extricably with it. He perfumes his hair
with fra grant oils, scatters essences over
his handkerchief, and desperately shaves
and anoints for beard. He quotes poetry,
in which ''love" and "dove," and "heart''
and dart" peculiarly predominate; and he
plunges deeper in the delicious labyrinth,
fancies himself filed with the divine afflatus,
and suddenly breaks into scarlet rash
of rhyme. He feeds upon the looks of bis
beloved; is raised to the seventh heaven il
she speaks pleasant word is betrayed into
the most astonished ecstacies by smile
and is plunged into the gloomiest regions
of misanthropy by a frown. He believes
himself the most devoted lover in the world.
He is the one, grovelling through poverty,
with the adorable beloved whom he raptur.
ously apostrophises as the first of all earth
ly blessings; and ''love in cottage, with
water and crust" is his beau ideal in q
paradise of dainty delights. He declares
to himself, with the most solemn emphasis,
that ne would go through fire, and under.
take pilgrimage to China or Kamschatka: :
swim storm tossed oceans scale impossible
mountains. and legions Of bayoncts, for
but Cne sweet smile from her dear lips
He dotes upon flower she has cast away.
He chershes her glove-a little wore in the
tingers-next to the heart. He sighs like
locomotive letting off steam. He scrawls
her dear name over quircs Of foolscap, a
fitting medium for his insanity. lie sccrn.
fully deprecates tho attention Of other boys
of his own age; cuts Peter Tibbets dead
because he said that adorable Angelina had
carroty hair: and passes Harry Bell con.
temptuously for daring to compare "that
sawky Mary Jane" with his Incompatible
Angelina: Happy! happy! foolish boy
love! with its joys and its hopes and its
fears; its sorrows, its jealousies, and its
delights; its raptures and its tortures, its
ecstatic fervors and terrible heart-burnings
its solemn righteousness and its intensely
prosaic termination.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

DEMOCRATIC NoRwEelAN PAPER.-Our dexa,.
ocratic Norwegian friends in this county and
elsewhere, will take notice, that Democratic
Norwegian Paper and documents, can be OBJ.
tanned at the Office of the La Crosse Democrat.
at the rate of S. per hundred. Mr. Pomeroy
has secured the services Oft talented Norwe.
gian editor, which with his own wit and terri.
bic sarcasm, will make it most desirable,
campaign paper. Democratic Clubs through
out the country should provide themselves with
numerous copies for gratuitous circulation.
spread the truth-circulate the documents.
The Norwegans are reading people, a people.
too. who in this war have been made to suffer
unjustly by the power they have honestly helped
to sustain. They have been swindled out Of
thor money to relieve thOm from the dsatt, AID
scarcely had it been paid over before they arc
again notified to take their places in the ranks.
without a hope of relief. These people ask
for the facts, for the truth in their own LAM
guage. Let us see that their wishes are sup
Piled d-Chdtfetd Democrat. =.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12
THE DRUNKARD,s WIFE.

In the whole range Of English literature there Is
brighter gem than the following by the late James
Percival.
He comes mott have watched the sun 60 down,
But yet he comes not. Once 1t was not SO.
He thinks not how these tears do flow,
The while he holds the riot in the town,
Yet he will come and chide, and shall weep,
And he will wake my infant from his sleep,
To blend his feeble wailing with my tears.
Oh how love mothers watch to keep,
Over these sleeping eyes; that smile which cheers
My heart, though sunk in sorrow, fixed and deep.
had husband once, who loved me-nOw
He ever wears a frown upon his brow,
And feeds his passion a wanton's lip,
As bees from laurel flowers poison sip.
And yet cannot hate! Oh there were hours
When could hang forever in his eyes,
And tine who stole with silent witness by,
Strewed as he hurried on, his path with flowers.
loved him then-he loved me too. My heart
Still finds its fondness kindled If he smiles;
The memory of our loves will ne'er depart;
And though he often stings me with a dart,
venomed and barbed and wastes upon the vile,
Caresses which his babe and mine should share
Though he should spurn mc-I will calmly bear
His madness; and should sickness come and lay
It's paralyzng hand upon him, then
would with kindness all my wrongs repay,
Until the innocent should weep and say,
How injured and how faithful had been
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12
"P0litlcal Literature"

"Political Literature."
We clip from an article thus captioned
the following. Those who take ep,thets for
argument should try to profit from its peru,
sal: ...,.. GA .......+.'., .- .s.. -# ....
"Our political literature has preponder.
ance Of the fash element in it, Scurrility,
in most cases is only another name for in
sincerity, and the man who defames is de-
void Of argument to aid his cause.
If Blinks, who is your personal friend,
knows you to be moral man and good
fellow generally, gets nominated for the
same office you do, and Immediately tells
the people that you are dastardly traitor
and rapscallion seeking to plunder the
people and ruin the government, it may be
safely set down on general principles that
Blinks has very little moral strength or
courage, and is unworthy the attention Of
gentlemen. And yet there is a strange
tendency on the part of all nominees to be.
come B.inkses, and we are sorry for it.
Blinks would not be apt to carry his con-
sistency so far as to tell you on the stree,
that you are political prostitute and liar
not because Of q certain well established
law which would compel you to knock hig
down, but simply because, in his privat,
dealings with you. he, in obedience 10 an
other law, feels it incumbent to be homes
and gentleman. But before the mixet
political crowd he is another being. Where
fore?
Our political literature is full of fanati
cism and opprobrium; vehemence is mis-
taken for zeal, and vituperation is calle.
pim, while mere difference Of opinion il
denounced as dishonesty. That able write
who called late President ''gray haire,
old harlot reeking with fratriciaal blood,
to our knowledge ate dinner with the dis
tinguished villain not long after, and utterl,
disregarded the ensanguined hands tha
dealt out hospitality. And so we see tn
Inconsistency of the vehemence and tn
immensity Of the verbal sham. Our politi
cal Speakers are not Burkes, nor do the,
WELD the bitter pen of Junius. They Ut
terly destroy the force Of their own word
by their unscrupulousness. They win tn
applause Of the gaping crowd, ever read,
to take bitterness for ability; but they los
caste with honest men, and destroy thei
own manhood" ...
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12
Fremont says in his letter of Withdrawal

Fremont says in his letter of withdrawal
I'm regard to Mr.. Lincoln, continue to
hold exactly the same sentiments contained
in my letter of acceptance. consider that
his administra ion has been politically,
militarily and financially failure"
And yet the "Pathflnder" advises his
countrymen to support him ! Verify this is
path of devious windings. No wonder the
German element is down on both Fremont
and Lincoln.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

AN amusing scene occurred in Washing
ton City the other day. The son Of lead
lug embalmer, on Pennsylvania avenue, ..
lad of six years old, was cheering Justify
on the pavement for Mcclellan, inspired BY
the music Of democratic band His father.
who was busy with corpse, in the back
shop, hearing this unwonted cry, rushed
out foaming with rage, seized the ulchin by
the collar, boxed his ears. and dragged him
into the house, exclaiming, "I'll teach you
to cheer that way, you brat! Do you wont
to take the bread out OF your old fathers
mouth ?" 5% ~ - .s,2t tat
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

A GOOD HIr.--Saturday evening one of
our news boys walked Up to an officer OF
the 18th Minnesota, who was with few
privates of his regiment alta dry goods
store in this city. and offered q copy Of the
evening DEMOCRAT for sale. The officer
looked at the head Of the paper and with
much dignity handed it back, saying,
II don't buy copperhead papers T. -ss
A private soldier spoke up-"Here boy
I'll buy one; am not commissioned yet !!
La Crosse Democrat.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

alike. Let them follow the flag, vindicate
the rights of free speech, free press, free
and unawed elections, even in time Of
civil war, and thus show to the world that
they were still, and always meant to be
free people. Let them throw the Mcclellan
banners to the breeze with this motto en-
blazoned upon them, 1.-THE Union-it is
our only condition Of peace. We ask no
more; but the Union must be preserved at
all hazards"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

"D.D you say you considered Mr.. Smith
insane y' asked lawyer of witness in .
criminal case. "Yes, sir, did" Upon
what grounds did you base that informa-
ton ?' ''Why, lent him silk umbrella
and Eve dollars in money. and DO returned
them both"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

ILLusrRIoUs "TRAIroKs."-Among those
who participated in the New York McClel-
Ian mass meeting Saturday were John j.
Cisco, James Gallatin, Professor Morse,
Francis B, Cutting, George Law, VIM. II.
Aspinwall, Henry Grinnell, F. A. Tall
madge, and host of other men of national
reputation, large proportion of whom
have hitherto supported Lincoln's admins
tration.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12
Cool CALculArIos.-One Of the radical

Cool CALCULATION One OF the radical
papers says that the enthusiasm Of the
Lincoln meetings is not ',ners srdor,' but
lis governed BY cool calculation Just SO.
There is no ardor in them to speak Of; and
what little there is, is calculated in advance
and paid for. Tell US how many green.
backs are spent on a Lincoln meeting, and
We will tell you exactly what the enshu.
siasm will amount to.-Journal Of Com
Dterce.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

Pro. Marshal General Fry announces that
a resident Of town which is clear Of tho
draft may volunteer as substitute for any
one drafted in another town.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

A smile is to beauty what the dew is to
the rose. s,. ....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-10-18
TELEGRAPHIO NEWS,
FROM EU ROPE,

NEW YORK, Oct. 18-The steamship Scotia.
from Liverpool, on the 18th, has arrived.
Continued uneasiness exists in financial and
commercial circles In England
Cnfavoraole cash returns, showing a heavy
fall In the reserve of notes, have dispelJed all
hope OF reduction in discount, and led to ap.
prenenslons OF possible further rise. the
tunos nave been dropping, and the demand
for money active.
The Bank OF Berlin has advanced discount
from to 7; the Bank OF Holland from 6 to 6x
There are additional failures, including John
Gladstone & Co, merchants, Of London, for a
heavy amount; Geo. Wright Co, merchants,
Liverpool; John Cato, paper dealer, London;
Park Thompson, ship broker. London, etc.
The continued successes OF Sheridan give
great satisfaction to the friends Of the North
and much encouragement to secessionists The
Confederate loan fell to Sc but rallied to So
The Army and Navy Gazette says that it is
plain to all that these are dark days Tor the
South but thinks there is still good deal of
fight in the Confederacy.
AT recent meeting OF the International Asso-
citation Tor the Advancement of Social Science
at Amsterdam, one hunded and sixty members
signed an address to President Lincoln an.
plaud1ng his perseverance against slavehold.
ers, and encouraging him to persev we're in the
holy cause Of liberty, which they feel sure
must triumph.
Bells Life says, neither Mace nor Coburn can
claim stakes, and all bets are off. 1t recon-
mends that Coburn accept Mace's challenge to
fight in England, and proposes that they either
toss for the referee, or that four gentlemen of
the press select one for them. It saws it was
clearly Coburn's fault, for not observing Sc
crecy.
Archbishop Challen had issued a letter to the
Irish clergy, denouncing the fight
M. Mercier, late French Minister to Wash
ineton, has been transferred to Madrid, and M.
Chaleawerenard appointed to Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-10-18

sell them without difficulty, he would give
them $50 addtional-the first price asked was
$780, MIR. Jones gave them 20 TO get something
to eat and they went in the stable lott, and
after they had been there some time The old
man came in. and said they had everything
fixed right, that they had trimmed and disfg-
ured the horses 10 disguise them.
Mr.. Norris here raised the question that a
man charged with one crime could not be made
witness again tany other parties charged with
q different offense, but could only be used
against persons pGrticepS crtmiHts.
The Justice oyerruled this point, and
called
John F. Parker, policeman, who testified that
since the former trial Price had said that he
was going to fix Mitchell Jones.
Several witnesses were called by the defense
to prove the good character of the accused, and
Mr. Sherman, counsel for Mr.. Price, proposed
to recall Chapman 10 rebut the testimony of
Sam Jones, when Justice Miller announced
that he had been placed under arrest on the
charge of being concerned In receiving the sto-
len property.
After some argument by the counsel, tho
Justice held Mitchell Jones and W. HI. Price
to bail in the sum of $1,000, and George Henry
Chapman (colored) in $500, for court and com
mitted the three colored men to jail as wit
nesses.
The arrest Of these parties was made by Of
ficers Franklin and Parker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-10-18

deposits have increased nearly four millions,
while the loans have decreased half u million
The stock market opened strong and closed
heavy Governments are better. Skies Of 1891
have risen to 1O6, and certificates to aiI, five
twenty coupons are firm at l0s. ten forty cou-
pons are offered at 81 state stocks are dull,
bank share neglected, coal stocks steady, min .
ing shares quiet, gold stocks active aud rail-.
read bonds firm.
The National banks now number five hun
dred and thirty five, with capital OF SOL
911,i2O.
By the steamer Damascus, we learn that at
the London Stock Exchange, on the eth inst,
American securities were freely offered for sale,
and prices favored the buyers OF specie, the
Bank of England had lost fI23,5O0 during the
week The rebel loan in England had declined
10 57a5S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-10-18
John Bright on the Presid ency.

John Bright, the "Briish Reformer," whose
efforts in behalf OF the United States, in COM
rebels, have awakened for him love and graft
tude on the part Of all loyal Americans, has
written letter to Horace Greedy, in which,
after alluding to the great struggle for liberty
in which we are now engaged, he says:
At this moment, we turn our eyes rather to
to the political than to the military struggle;
and there is. with ns, the same difference of
opinion and OF sympathy, as regards your
coming Presidential election, that has been
manifested In connection with your contest in
the field.
wished well to the rebellion, who have hoped
for the breakup of your Union, who have
preferred to see Southern Slave Empire
rather than restored and free Republic,
far as can observe, are now in favor of the
election Of Gen. Mcclellan. All those who
have deplored the calamities which the lead
ers OF secession have brought upon your coun.
try, who believe that Slavery weakens your
power and furnishes your good name through
of your Union as thing to be desired and
prayed for by all good men, so far as can
Judge, are heartily longing for the re election
OF MI Lincoln. Every friend Of your Union,
probably, in Europe, every speaker and writer
who has sought to do justice to your cause
since the war began, is now hoping, with an
intense anxiety, that Mr. Lincoln may be
placed at the head of your Executive for anoth-
er term.
1t is not because they believe Mr.. Lincoln to
be wiser or better than all other men on your
his career grand simplicity OF purpose, and q
patriotism which knows no change and which
does not taltar. To some Of his countrymen
there may appear to have been errors in his
course. 1t would be strange indeed il, in the
midst Of difficulties 80 stupendous and so unex-
pected, any administration or any ruler should
wholly avoid mistakes. To us, looking on from
this distance, and unmove by the passions from
which many OF your people can hardly be
expected to be free-regarddng his Presidential
path with the calm Judgment which belongs
rather to history than to the present time, as
our outside position enables US, in some degree,
to regard tive see in IL an honest endeavor
faithfully to do the work Of his great office,
and, in the doing Oft, brightness OF personal
honor on which no adversary has yet been able
to 1x stain.
believe that the effect OF Mr.. Lincoln's re-
election IN England, and in Europe, and indeed
throughout the world, will be this: IL will con.
vince all men that the integrity OF your great
country will be preserved, and it will show
that Republican Institutions, UiM an in structed
and patriotic people, can bear nation safely and
steadily through the most desperate perils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-10-18
THE SITUATION.

r.o military news received from various
,rarters i'm the last week makes it plain that
except Immediately in front of Grants army
the rebels are at length compelled, for want of
force, &c, to content themselves with guerrilla
warfare Thus Longstreets (late Early's)
force TURF and fly whenever any portion of
Sheridan's army approach near striking dis
lance Of It, Hoods, also, does not now venture
to make stand in front of any portion of
Sherman's army; and Prices force In Missouri
take due care to jump out of the way of Rose
Grams wherever that General moves in force.
All three of these rebel forces are simply en-
gagged in endeavoring to harrass the rear and
to injure the communications OF the three sew
eral Union armies named above.
This is nothing more nor less than guerrilla
warfare and proves beyond the shadow OF q
doubt that the capacity Of the oligarchy to
offer further effective resistance to the armies
OF the Union, except before Petersburg and
Richmond, has vanished; and each succeeding
movement OF Grant Is clearly Gripping their
means OF resistance there. Thus, his every
collision with Lees army Of late has resulted
in L. loss of some position or work for the
retention OF which he struggled. 1t is certain
that Grant is hourly growing stronger, while
II Is no less certain that Lees strength Is being
hourly exhausted without the existence Of a
possibility that it can be recuperated.
1t is plain, therefore, that with the fall of
Richmond, now only a question Of hours, the
rebellion ends, SO far as the capability of the
oligarchy to keep respectable force in the
field is concerned. Nearly every civil war
that has occurred since the days OF antiquity
has ended in guerrilla warfare for longer or
shorter period depending for the most part
upon the facilities for hiding offered by the
country in which the war took place, and the
hesiancy Of the successful side in disposine of
guerrillas captured, on the principle that they
are but bandits-the policy invariably resorted
TO In the end. and always effectively. The fall
of Richmond will doubtless be Immediately
followed by the adoption of that policy by this
Government.
One leading object Of Prices, Forests, and
Wheeler's current operations, is doubtless to
strengthen the copperheads in our approaching
Presidential election, and as the oligarchy are
losing men rapidly by those operations which
they cannot replace, while they gain nothing
whatever worth striving for when they do
partially succeed in them, as soon as our
election is over the bands of these guerrilla
leaders will doubtless be hurried to Rich.
mond, in the vain hope of enabling Lee to re-
sist the further successful progress OF Grants
army.