The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-08-02
News and Items.

News amt Items.
| 1t is estimated there are il, 900 troops in
and around Memphis. There is much
speculation regarding their destination.
A new Mexican emigration office, recent
~ opened in St. Paul, Min, offers bounty
Of $50 cash, ard 500 acres of land.
A steamer from Montana has arrived at
Sioux City with $500, 900 in gold dust.
A discovery of new aud rich mines on
the Missouri, 100 miles from Fort Benton,
is reported.
The secretary of the treasury thinks the
department will be able to meet all requisi-
tons before the assembling Of Congress, as
receipts are largely on the increase. while
the expenditures are rapidly being re.
duced, owing to the disbanding of the army
and other causes. 90"
Twelve persons belonging to Davenport
were recently murdered by Indians near
Fort Benton.
The cholera is making havoc in Tur
key and Arabia. No less than $4,000 OF
the pilgrims at Mecca have been swept off,
and the streets are filled with corpses. Five
thousand of the Persian pilgrims have died,
among them sheik reported to be saint!
Some ofthe wealthy citizens Of St. Louis
are talking Of buying house for Ger.
Sherman in that city. .s.>
Kirby Smith and party were captured
by the governor Of Saltillo (Mexico) at
! Piedas Negras, on the 4th inst. and with
them, A cannon, 900 rifles, and Is wagon
! loads Of ammunition and provisions. The
| captives were released on parole.
| The San Francisco mint reports 3d..
100000 in gold and silver, coined within
the last year.
A vessel arrived at San Francisco on the
.30th inst, having on board the crews oil
eight whalers burned by the rebel pirate
Shenandoah, last month, in the Arctic seas.
The Shenandoah was continuing her work
Of devastation, and it was apprehended
that she would soon destroy a feet com
prising sixty vessels. The captain Of the
pirate was informed Of the collapse of the
rebellion, but refused to believe the state.
ment.
BENNETT Of tho Herald has purchased
the ground, on which Barnum's Museum
stood, for s25o,ooo. -.+s .s
| A National debt is blessing il ia,
Cooke and the Independent are orthodox
Let US all plunge into debt and be happy
i A. F. PRADr, one Of the wittiest writers
Of the North West is starting the Plain
dealer at Waukesha. IRE .}44.
In 81 vote was taken in Iowa strik:n!
white" from the constitution. In so, 90,
votes only 8 1000 were colored in politics
Alamakee voted $50 for to 800 against
Clayton, 2a9 to 1929; Dubuque u t.
1000; Fayette SIS to 1903; Howard g. t,
1873.
AS late as 1900 there were but fou
tunes known to American congrega
tions-York, Hackney, St. Mary an,
Windsor-and these were sung by rote.-
Singing by note, it was contended, woul'
bring in preaching by rule; praying b,
rule; and so Pcpery. And for promoting
this perilous innovation, ministers wer,
prosecuted and societies turned topsy. tur
Wy.
! Arthur Tappan, the well-known aboli
zionist, formerly of New York city, dice
in New Haven, Connecticut, on Sunday
in the soth year of his age.
Punch says to marry two wives i:
bigamy ; to marry twenty is Brighamy.
Gems. Mesgher and Sibley, and Gov
Miller have peti the government Il
furnish military escort for Capt. Fiske'4
expedition to the gold mines, which start.
in few days.
An anti.negro suffrage state convention
is called to meet at Des Moines on the 23d
This movement is said to be set on foot BY
returned soldiers, and disaffected republi
cans.
Two members of the Canadian govern
ment are at Washington seeking an assim
ilation Of the tariffs of the U. S. aud Brit
ish provinces or renewal of the reciproc
ity treaty.
The Louisville Democrat estimates tina
over 10000 slaves have crossed the Ohio
river, under General Palmer's passes, since
the lSt OF May. at this rate the whole
slave population of Kentucky will "pass
away" in less than one year.
Hon. Schuyler Collax and party have
arrived in Oregon,
A meeting Of business men was held al
St. Louis on the 2sth ult., with the objec
Of securing the improvement of the navi
CATION of the Mississippi river and its trib
utaries, through the instrumentality of thu
general government. -..'.....-..
General Weitzel, with 5000 troops, wa.
encamped near Victoria. Texas, on the Isl
instant. The General is to make his head
quarters at San. Antonio. g..
A Galveston letter of recent date state.
that orders have been issued to officials a
Matamoras to prepare environments for 35.
600 Imperial troops, consisting of French
Austrians, AMI Algerians. The concentra
ton Of large bodies of United States sol
diers at various points on the Rio Grand
is given as the reason for this collection o
Imperial forces.
/ The commissioner of pensions has deci
ded that claim agents are prohibited from
| roo.iy;v~ than Coz ,b.;v oo