The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-08-10

any company of youmg men ready and
most emphatic condemnation. Thus 1t is
in the range of my observation, and bear
it from gentlemen who hail from all the
states Of the north. Slavery is bad
thing; most particularly for the whites
but the sacrifice Of two or three millions of
whites, and the impoverishment of the
home-idols who arc dependant upon those
drawn off to battle and to Death, are also
bad things, and our people are beginning
to get very clear idea of the two evils.-
Can you find twenty men in McGregor who
will leave their families and take the chan.
ces.of life to secure to posterity the inesti.
mable blessings of the UNION, the security
of Constitutional Law, and the statutes of
civil protection! You can find ten times
twenty Of them; it would not be saying
too much if I were to write all Of them
would spring to the work of restoring pri.
vate and public security and national honor.
Please let me inquire how many want to
engage in such sacrifices Of home comforts,
and possibly life itself, to bestow on the
negroes of the South freedom which thus
far in the worlds history they, as a mass,
have been unable to appreciate or maintain
II you find one man there who will volun-
teer for this purpose without bounty, you
will please secure his photograph for the
admiration Of future ages. And yet is not
this the issue which Lincoln calls on Five
Hundred Thousand to die for! Why do
not men whose lives arc vet their own,
speak out plainly on this point and tell
their public servants they are not ready for
the sacrifice?
Judge LEFr1NGwELL, accompanied by
two young ladies from New York named
VANDEwoRKER, (nieces Of the McGregors)
arrived at the BRIGGS this morning and
will leave to night for our Narrow City. If
the Judge married while he was absent, he
will not confess it to me, and hence I can.
not inform our readers. He looks first rate
and admits that in the range of his travel
through north Ohio and farther east, that
Lincoln stock is decidedly on the decline !:
this however is universal remark from rep
resentatives of all sections The call for
100000 more victims, and the negro.free.
dom ultinaatuna as condition of Peace,
are doing their work. God bless the old
yfat.boatman for thus being Influenced by
the fanatics who surround him! May
Providence permit him to keep doing foolish
things till the people, whose confidence he
has abused and whose rights his satraps
have trampled on, will arouse to the work
Of discarding him from the public councils
and substituting q man who cannot be per-
suaded that he is higher than the written
Constitution of our country!
The Substitute" business in this CITY is
growing into rich speculation for "the
brokers'" Negroes are generally purchased
at to 600 dollars and pre-contracted at
800 or 1000. Indiana and Iowa agents are
here, and l do not know but agents from
other states, contracting for exemptions in
their home precincts. An Indiana gentle.
man tells me he has orders to buy ten re-
cruits at $1,000, each, if they cannot be got
for less. / also know another man who
says he will take the contract. did not
suppose this was legal, but it is done here
daily. 1t is told me that two negroes were
convicted of theft in this city but en- a
proposition to onlist they wero pardoned
by the Judge or their Imprisonment made
very short--they were turned over to a
Substitute broker" for 100 dollars each,
and sold before night for $1,000 the pair
This isn't very slow place of business"
is it?
Any amount Of rumors are afoat to. day
The papers will confirm some and contra.
dict others before this is in type. There
are two very important ones: one to the
effect that Farragut will capture Mobile
this week; the other, that in view of the
danger to Washington from the present
rebel invasion of the North, Grant is about
to abandon the seige of Richmond! Neither
of these reports, and particularly the lat.
ter, is regarded as worthy Of confidence
Gold, the regulator, advanced to-day from
259 to 261 on Change, and the street talk
is that it touched 264 this P. NJ, but am
not reliably advised of it. The markets
were firm this noon but without change:
there seems to be fear that the new crop
will pitch prices down the bank, and ope-
rators are very cautious. The only way
to ascertain what is ahead is to wait It'll
Tomorrow" -,.... .-
Let me suspend writing till Monday
morning and then can finish up with the
current of events as they will then appear
j. Monday Morning, Aug. 9th.
On yesterday an esteemed Hoesier friend
accompanied me on a horse car trip up
North Clark street, to wander through the
city cemetery and look at the German Beer
Gardens out that way. Visiting graves
and Beer gardens the same day may seem
out of place, but it is done by thousands,
and the human heart in America has been
so cultivated to callousness in contemplating
death, that it is quite Indifferent to fine
emotions. A german dance has as much
religion in it as the average of modern
political sermons-of the two prefer the
former. The cemetery is very extensive,
running from one to two miles north and
extending half mile easterly to the lake