The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-11-15
News and Items.

Ii Is rumored IN w ashlngt0n that PreSl-
dent Johnson will issue a proclamation
declaring the restoration of peace before
the meeting Of Congress.
Gen. Steele arrived in st. Louis last
week en- route to Oregon. He thinks the
liberal cause in Meslco nearly at an end
and that all resistance to Maximlian's au-
thori,y will soon cease.
Gen. Frank Blair's vote was rejected by
the election judges in st. Louis b. cause he
refused to take the oath Of loyalty required
by the constitution Of that state. lie has
sued the judges, setting the damages at
$4,000. -...~ -s
A tig4r died Of cholera in the Geological
garden in Madrid.
. The observatory in connection with the
university Of Chicago is completed and the
celebrated Clark & Son telescope has been
purchased and is now waiting transporta
ton. Ithas an aperture Of IS! inches, which
is the largest in the world-the Cambridge
and the Pulkora, Russia, glasses, the larg
est heretofore known, are three inches less
than the Chicago purchase.
The National Union League meet in
grand council at Washington this week.
The Great Western Railway Of Canada,
is to have third rail, laid at cost Of $780,
600.
The hog cholera is raging in DesMones
county. &c.,. u
The state convention Of Georgia has re-
pudiated the rebel war debt. .."t Fla. gss,......
A marriage notice in New York has ap-
pended to it the words "plenty of cards"
Miss Annie Dickinson is sick in Phia
delphia. IN .r.#'. ..
Ct the 9TH Iowa cavalry Co. A, Capt.
Murphy, is at Fort Kearney; Co. E, Capt.
Norris, at Cottonwood; Co. B, Capt VIII.
cox, at O'Fallon's Bluffs; Co. c, Capt
Cramer, at Bearias; Co. D, Capt. Hay ward,
at Julesburg; Co. +, Capt. O'Brien, at Fort
Laramie.
The expense of the pension bureau for
the coming year will be SS,O0O,0OO The
expenses this year are IS, 100000.
4 new daily radical republican paper,
with 100000 capital, is talked Of at New
York.
The currency Of the country is estimat.
ed at thousand million dollars.
The confederate cotton bonds in circu.
lation in England amount to e24,5lS, 800.
The birds of every kind disappeared
from Constantiaople while the cholera was
raging there. s.- ...
CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY died poor man
and his daughters are very poor. Two
of them have been out to service for liv.
ing! ~ -s-~. -. e. Ess~
Two negro women appeared in Mem
phis court, recently, both claiming the
same child. A Solomon's judgment was
lacking in that court. .....
Sir Morton Peto gave dinner at New
York, recently, which cost $40, OOO-$1OO
to each person who Sat at the table. "a
kinds of wine were drank, and some of it
cost $500 bottle. A light meal!
Gov. Fletcher says that what Missouri
most needs at present is more people.
An absurd story is going the rounds of
the papers, of man who pretends not to
have slept wink since 1857. One jour.
nal, in giving the story, naively remarks
lit is possible that he is humbug." Qnite
so. ~
( A New York convention of negroes re.
solved to send delegation Of colored PEG.
pie to Congress to lobby for their interests.
Wirz was hung on Friday the 10th in
the Old Capital prison at halfpast 10
o'clock. He is said to have met his fate
firmly, declaring his innocence to the last
A rumor was current that during his i'm.
prisonment an attempt had been made to
poison him by his wife, she having, at their
last interview, in kissing him, placed a
small pill OF arsenic in his mouth. This
movement was detected by Gen. Baker,
who seized Wirz by the throat, compelling
him to spit Out, the poison.
War has been DECLARED between Spain
and Chill, and the ports of the latter have
been blockaded since the Oath ult Ten
days were allowed for vessels then in port
to make their escape. Z = E.
Intelligence from Haytiens, under the
protection of the British consul, had been
taken from him by force. The commander
Of the man. of war Bull Dog, then in port
demanded satisfaction. No reply being
given, he opened fire on one of the forts
and, his vessel getting aground, she was set
on fire, abandoned and blown up. ..
Further advices from Jamaica state that
the leaders of the negro instruction had
been arrested and were being tried by
court martial Their intention was to
slaughter all white people. The capture of
the leaders had dispirited those aged in
the revolt, and no further trouble was an
ticipated.
1t is estimated that the army Of the
United States now exceeds 10000 men.
A letter from Salt Lake says Brigham
Young and other Mormon leaders have
proclaimed polygamy IS their religion and
are determined to sustain it, .
Hon. jacob Colamer, United States SEN
ator from Vermont, died at Woodstock on
the 9th.
Mr. Johnson, the only brother OF the
president, died in Texas short time since,
from the effects of an accidental gunshot
wound.
1t is rumored at Washington that the
French government has been warned by the
United States not to send any NOR, troops
to Mexico.
The Washington Republican publishes
an authoritative statement of the action
taken by the authorities relative to the trial
of jeff Davis. The president desired the
trial to be before Chief Justice Chase, in
Virginia, which is q part OF his district; but
Mr. Chase objected that no term of the