The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-05-02
n eSvs and Items.

The 9TH Iowa cavalry is cnroutc home to
be mustered out. 1.-THE Missouri river is
reported to be onc-twenteth higher than
has been known for eight years.. The
treasury department intimntes that the ma
tional increase of revenue for the present
year viii reach $500, 100000. The bal
ancc ut present at the command of the Sec
rotary, from all sources, is estimated at
Sl6O, zoo, 600. .Mutilatcd currency here
after received ut the treasury department
will be converted into pulp, for the manu-
facture of stationary, for the use of the
department, instead of being burned. II
is estimated that from $1,000 to $4,000
per year will be saved, by this means, to
the government. 1T is said Of the Rev.
John NJ. johnson, a minister of the Bap.
list Church, who died in Pike county, Mo-,
on the Goth ult., that, during the last nine
teen years of his life, he Travelled 27,94O
miles in the dicharge of his ministerial
duties, and preached 1892 sermons, an
average of three week during that peri
oil, and received as compensation for his
services 81 ,2O5, or about S6l,SO year.
..... 1t is said that Gen. Mcclellan is al
Berlin, in consultation with the Prusian
Minister. Count Pepoli, the husband Of
Madame Alboni, has become hopelessly in.
sane. I'VE learn from the India that the
Hon. Rustemjee Jamsetee Jujeebhoy, has
been reelected member of the Bombay
Legislative Council, and that Mr.. Mungul-
dass Nathobhoy has been appointed to one
of the vacant seats. The most cheerful
mon onns.,nd ~, tho Te..,hs, ~ Now York,
is Jenkins, whose defalcation created SO
much excitement in Wall street last sum-
mer. He occupies large cell in the front
building, in what is known as the boys
prison. From his place of confinement he
can look out upon Centre street, habit
which he largely INDUCES in. lie is OK
ccedingly cheerful, and says he is perfectly
rcconcilcd to his lot. Much of his time is
spent in reading, while the luxury OF
smoking he is almost constantly making
the most of. Books of philosophy are his
fayorites, but his chief delight is Carlyle,
whose writings, he says, have given him
great comfort and consolation. lie is ex-
ceedingly anxious that his trial should take
place, and hopes to receive a light sem
tence, SO that he may have an opportunity,
after the expiration of his term of impris-
onment, to make ample restitution for all
the wrongs he has done.
The health of jeff. Davis is rapidly fail
ing. His wife has been granted permits
sion to visit him.. Smuggling on the
Canadian frontier is now practically at an
end. ..All the agricultural college lands,
situated in Shawaner, Oconto, Marathon,
Chippewa, Clark, Dunn and Polk counties,
Wisconsin, will be offered for sac, at pub
lie austion, on the 18th day of July next.
......A raid has been made on liquor sellers
in number of counties in this state, and
the parties offending fined heavily in the
district courts......Great suffering is re-
ported to exist among the poorer classes in
Alabama. Messrs. Eyarts, Clifford and
Rosseau have been retained by the govern
ment for the trial of JEFF. Davis. They are
now in Washington busily preparing the
testimony in the case...... During the debate
in the Senate, on the Postofice appropria-
ton bill, Mr.. Hendricks, in reply to some
dropped by Mr.. Trumbull, asked
that gentleman if this Congress intended
to sit nine months. Mr.. Trumball ayaded
. direct answer, but said, smilingly, that it
Is nothing unusual for Congress to sit nine
months. The first session that he (Mr.
Trumbull) came to the Senate, Congress
sat until September, and he supposed it
was not impossible that such a thing might
occur again.. House passed reso-
luton giving President johnson full dis
cretionary power to take any measures he
may deem expedient to prevent the intro
duction of cholera in the United States,
and appropriating an indeinate amount
from the Treasury to carry out such meas
ures. The War and Navy Departments in
tend to make stringent rules relative to
Southern ports. -. Eleven million gallons
of whisky were drank in Scotland last
year......Upon Secretary Stewards discon-
tinuance of Forncy's Chronicle, cotem-
porary remarks that it "makes the dead
duck waddle through two column lead
Ell" ......An Augusta paper gives u rumor
that there is soon to be colored conven-
ton there, to send delegates to Congress to
represent the territory of Georgia.
Prentice says that "the portly majority
that the Connecticut radicals had year
ago is reduced to skin and bones.". IA
man out in Michigan sold his wife for seven
dollars and FIVE pounds of maple sugar,
taking note for the money!. The elc-
CANT Brownlow, in speech at Knoxville,
said that President johnson could carry
no state north of KY, and he wished the
President would carry that state to h-u.
......A storekeeper tire other day stuck up.
on his door the following laconic advertise
ment: "a boy wanted" The next morn
ing on opening the store, he bcheld a little
urchin in a basket with the following la
bel; "IIerc he is" The Lincoln fune-
raj car is not to be sold but viii be deposit
in Ford's Theatre instead. -. Chief Justice
Walker, of the Supreme Court Of Illinois,
has decided that shares of national banks
shall be taxed. ....A move has been made
in the Tennessee senate to have branch
of the West Point Military Academy es-
tablished at the Hermitage, Gen. Jack
sons residence. Mrs. Gen. Tom. Thumb