The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-04-27
News and Items.
Fitzpatrick is commander of the Cavalry
in the Army Of the Cumberland.

fitzpatrick Is commander of the Cavalry
in the Army Of the Cumberland.
1t is reported that Col. DahIgreen's body
is SO mutilated that the rebels are ashamed
to restore It to his friends.
S. D. Carpenter has sold his interest IN
the Madison Patriot and retires from the
Editorial charge of it. pump" is one OF
the leading writer's Of the Northwest.
The Editor Of the Waukegan Gazette is
down on short haired ladies. Jim" says
cutting the hair off don't improve the
woman bit. just our opinion.
| A bachelor says the friendship Of two
women is always plot against third.
The leading Courts Of Europe agree to
recognize Maximillian. If our Government
defines to do so it will further compiicate
our trouble with the rebels.
The National Bank Bill has passed the
House.
Peter Stout, George B. Hyer and w. w.
Bird all practical printers are the purchas.
ers Of the Madison Patriot Office.
A little girl was sent to buy some
dye stuff. Forgetting the name she asked
the clerk, John, what do your folks dye
with ?" "Cholera, sometimes" swell
then give me three cents worth Of it,
Mrs. Wittenmeyer is about to resign her
position as State Sanitary Agent. .r
A man saw little boy slip down en,a
pavement. "Where are you going?" asked
the man. "Going to get up was the short
reply. ,- ..-.--.~-... 49,. ,.-.,.s,~- -.
A man who has kept close account Of
the reported rebel assertions to our lines
says the number foots 100000! ''F
John Heenan is in London; subject to
| fits.
At the N. Y. Sanitary the married ladies
wear black and the unmarried white aprons.
As much AS to say in the latter case IA
man wanted"
Gen. Smith is to have command of But
ler's department and Butler writes to
friend that he cannot be civil clerk to
Gen. Smith or any other man.
1t is rumored that Mcclellan is to have
command under Grant. Gen. Grant
must be careful not to counsel Mac; it is
remembered that Meade suffered for such
imprudcnce. -
Mr.. Lincoln, in speech at Baltimore,
avoxed that the negro butchery of Fort
Pillow should be paid for in the blood of
the rebels. 1
Gen. Gilmore is to be withdrawn from
Charleston.
Gen. Halleck's resignation is rumored.
Charles Sprague is Banker and Poet.
He has been the Cashier of the Globe
Bank at Boston from the day Of it's begin.
ming in 1924, and the other day personally
superintendent the payment Of its 10Th
semi annual dividend.
The Court Journal announces among
those present at q recent levee Of the Prince
of Wales, the Ministers PIenipotentiary
from Madagascar, Messrs. Rainandrianan.
daraina and Ranifrinfia.
A young lady says she can't fight but
she will let the young men 60, and die an
old MAZDA sacrifice she thinks as great
as can be made.
When Commodore Vanderbilt was asked
to contribute to the New York Sanitary
Fair, he said he would give what A. 7.
Stewart did. Stewart wrote his check
for 800, and Vanderbilt Immediately
covered it with check of his for like
amount.
The contraband half crew of the Penn
bina was nobbed at Dubuque levee on Fri
Gay last by set OF lazy, shiftless devils,
who wont work for $50 month. Mayor
Thompson put these lazzaroni through in
quick style and the Pembina went on her
way to St. Louis. The Captain was com.
PEELED to employ half crew of contra.
bands because of the strike of white labor
ers in st. Louis.
An Alabama deser.er says "the Confsd
crates censcript every man who has Mt been
dead more than two days"
Greedy is not hot just at present for SOL
der voting. Fremont men fear Lincoln
influence in that quarter and judging from
the Fremont organs, Gen. Part-his hair
in the middle will be run whether nomina-
ted or not.
The leading cities of Illirois are Demo-
cratic.
The Sioux have allied with other tribes
and arc playing the devil on the Upper
Missouri. Give them -! ~
Senator Richardson of Illinois, lost his
wife at Quincy on Friday last.
Fifteen thousand new hospital beds are
put up at Washington. Blood will soon
flow.
Grant has driven 1000 Suffers out of
Army of the Potomac. He requests the
Senate to confirm Schofield as Major Gen.
eral How will the RAIDS. like this move
Of Ulysses.
Arrangements are effected for general
exchange If prisoners.
Senator Hendricks of Indiana, offered an
amendment to the army appropriation bill
advancing the pay Of privates 80 per cent.
1t was rejected. Senator Fessenden of
| Maine denounced the amendment as "gross.
ly unjust. at q time when the government
was on the eve Of bankruptcy" II. tisoai
''copperhead" and F. is loyal" 3,i
On the 18th rebel ram sunk three Fed
eral gunboats at Plymouth, N. G. New.