The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-03-21
News and Items.

News and Items.
1t is said there are 100000 gallons OF beer
made annually at Keokuk.--Gen. Custer
stated in his testimony before the reconstruc.
ton committee, that the people of Texas are
more hostile than they were six months ago,
and that dsioyalty was engendered by denial
of reprcsentation.-The senate has passed
the bill for the reorganization Of the regul ar
army. The measure provides for 6Orcgiments
of infantry and l2 Of cavalry.-The house
has adopted the joint resolution approprating
100000 to aid in the exhibition Of American
products at the Paris exposition. --[ndanap
oils has upwards Of $4,000 inhabitant. and not
respectable public hall. Our city can ditto
that--all but the inhabitants.
The senate committee on foreign relations
offer to report in favor of the confirmation Of
Lewis D. Campbell as minister to Mexico
The treasury department has received the
first instalment Of the new one and two dollar
There are now 2,OU0 appointes
who have passed examination to fill vacancies
in the army.-1he detective bureau Of the
treasury department has obtained possession Of
the plate from which the counterfeit compound
interest notes were printed The New
York board Of aldermen indorsed the Fenian
movement. and en.oined upon city officials the
general observance of St.. Patrick's day.
City Of Mexico correspondence gives state
ment that M Langlais, Maximilian's minister
Of finance. whose sudden demise has been an
nounced, was poisoned -In recent sxpedi
ton against the hostile Indians of Dacotah,
Col Adams. commanding at Fort Abercrom.
bic, captured $50 warriors.
Havana advices to March 10 states that the
Spanish war steamer Neptune had brought in
thu captured slave.steamer MathiIde, with 375
negroes OH board. The original carg, consis.
| ted If LAYS slaves.-The m ,terial advance
| in the price Of teas in China, announced in =
recent San Francisco dispatch, was uufounded.
"A man arrested in New York has been
placed H. Jail at Washington, who is believed
to be the guerrilla Quantrell The applica.
ton Of Colorado territory to be admitted into
the Union as state has been rejected by the
senate because she refused the right Of suf.
rage to the negro.-Omaha has been made a
depot for military supplies, and extensive sup
ply stores are to be erected there this season.
Forty five different telegraph wires centre
in Chicago Maj Gen. Hooker is recov er'
ing.
The Wisconsin senate has voted in faver Of
amending the constitution, by striking out the
word white from the section in regard to quail.
fcation Of electors.-A printers masquerade
ball is to come off in Chicago on the 26lh
More than thousand steam voyages acros.
the Atlantic will be made during the present
year by the vessels Of different lines. This is
more than in any previous year.-A state.
ment is being prepared in the treasury depart.
mant showing the amount Of prize money re-
eived by each Of our Jack tars during the war.
Some OF the seamen received as much as $l2,.
0J0, and only few, it is said. less than ST..
O00.-Cur state legislature will adjourn on
the Sd Of April.-Senator Doolittle is pre-.
pairing freedman bureau bill which will be
in accordance with the views Of the preside ut,
and which he will introduce at an early day
The State senate voted to purchase 800
copies of the biographies Of Iowa colonies and
| their regiments. house pissed a bill to
pay the state bonds due in 1868 with the un.
loaned school fund. A bill was introduced to
resume possession Of the lands granted to the
Blu arlington and Missouri River railroad. Also
bill to re grant the same country in such MIN
mr. as to protect the settlers.
tbs rem .ins of !. man. supposed tn b, lr,f
Potter, of Pennsylvania, has been discovered
in the mountains ia California The Pr.si
dent has determined to muster out al colored
troops in the South during the coming month.
Mr.. Mccormick, of Arizona, has been ap
pointed Governor Of that territory, in place Of
Caleb Lyon. resigned -Robert dale Owen
has been before the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, arguing the policy of guaranteeing til.
interest on the $4,000. 900 Mexican loan-