The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-11
News and tie ms.

ANDREW JOHNS N.
News and items.
The report that the government has in.
terfercd with the proposed celebration by
the colored people of Richmond is contra
dictcd. -. Head Centre Stephens has es-
capped, and is now il: Paris The bill for
the organization of the army provides for
ten regiments of veteran reserves, to be
consolidated and continued in the army
All officers hereafter 70 be appointed to
that division are to be wounded volun to ers
The present population of New Orleans
is said to be fully 10000 more than before
the war. :. The weather continues unsea.
sonably cold at the South. On the 3Oth
ult. ice formed at Atlanta, Ga IA state
mcnt has been published in several of the
Paris papers to the effect that the Govern
ment of the United States had purchased
Of Denmark the island of Santa Cruz, one
Of the Antilles, with the object of making it
a naval station IA boy of l 6 was recent
ly married to CIR! of rs in Clark county,
this state. In the city election at ST.
Louis, the conservative ticket was elected
by majority of 5000 over the republicans.
49, The man recently arrested as Guam
trell, has been released from custody
A negro instruction is reported in Cuba,
and the Government has sent troops to
quell it,
The Canadians are again in great alarm.
They have ''rcliablc reports" that "war.
vessels and conveys, including two schoon-
ers loaded with cannon, are fitting out at
Chicago" There arc rumors that an expe-
dition under B Doran Kilian, - consisting
of three steamers, with $500 mcn-has
sailed from New York Cor New Brunswick
(another report gives Bermuda as its DIES
tination;) and it is believed that Swecny
designs an attack upon Central Canda.
The cases from the Southern States in
the Supreme Court of the United States,
are to be disposed of at the next tcrm......
A safe containing from $4,000 to $780,
600 belonging to an Express Company,
was stolen at Brownsville, Texas, lately....
The President has proclaimed the treaty of
peace with the Saws Aries band of Sioux
Indian. The first train of the season,
consisting of twenty-one wagons laden
with groceries and provisions, left St. 10,
Mo-, on the 29th ult., for Virginia City.
1.-The Chicago Journal says "a copper
head victory in '6S would be national
calamity The nation mnst prepare for
this trouble--it is sure to come 60. Trains
are now running from Dubuque to Iowa
Falls on the Sioux City road. Internal
Revenue receipts for the year ending Apr.
9TH, amount to pa millions. The negro is
rather cheap luxury, is mt he?.... Farms
worth, of the Chicago district, had the
nerve to oppose, in the House. the action
of his party friends in driving Brooks
(dem.) from his seat. We suppose f. will
be regarded as copperheadish by the Tib-
unes...... France does not propose to with
draw her troops from Mexico. This is the
latest. 1t is rumored that two Fcnian cx-
petitions have sailed, secretly from New
York for Canada. We believe this, ''ovcr
toward Bigelow S. ..... Head Centre Stcph-
ems is en-route for America, via Paris.
REIIGioUs.-As mater of interest to
cur religious Quia snncs we clip the fol-
lowing questions and answers from the
correspondent" column Of the n. Y. Sun
day Times:
~. What is the general theory relative
to the loss of the original Sacred Writings?
Ii. Also what and where are the oldest
Hebrew manuscripts extant? LII. Were
the originals supposed to have been in en-
istence at the time of the Septuagint trans
lation?" ......I. The generally received
opinion is, among learned men. that the
original MSS. of the various '.books'' COM
prise in what we call the Old Testament,
persisted in the destruction of the first tenn
pie in Jerusalem. when ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
took that city, and that fifty years after the
building Of the second temple, the members
OF the great synagogue, acting under d.
vine commission, rc-wrote them, or rather
made rescension Of the existing copies,
to which were subsequently added the
books Of Ezra and Nehemiah. III. The
oldest Semitic works extant are, no doubt,
the Sacred Writings. You will find them
in any synagogue. And yet, the Hebrew
is neither the Oldest of Semitic dialects, nor,
as was long believed, the first of all human
languages. Once identical with the Phe-
nician, it was adopted by Abraham and
his family in Palestine. Then it changed,
after the exile, to Assyrian or Babylonian,
which is the square style still employed in
writing Hebrew. The Sacred Writings, if |
we except a few archaisms, hardly exhibit
a trace of the primitive state of the He-
brew language. Iii. The "Scptuasint,"
50 called because it was IN ldc, in Greek, at
alexandria, in Egypt, by seceniy-two learn
ID Hebrews, was found about b. C. 2S5.-I
Jerusalem was convuered by Nebuchad-
nezzar i. c.. COG, and the temple destroyed
B. c. 5SS, or BOB years before that time
About b. G. AGO, or l75 years previous to
Inc appearance of the Septuagint, appear
ID, as we have said, the Bible by the great
Y. Sunday Times.