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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-25
4 DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER.

STATE RIGuTs-Two eases Of conslera-
Bile importance have been decided by the
United States Supreme Court recently, as
involving the relative rights of the States
of the Federal Government. 1t has been
held that the Legislatures of the States had
not the power to tax the National Banks,
and their managers refused to pay. The
Supreme Court, however, has decided
against the banks, and they must contrib
ute their share toward State taxation. The
Massachusetts,, that pious and discreet
Commonwealth refusing to permit the sale
of Intoxicating liquors within her borders,
and certain parties having procured Ii
ccnsc from the Feneral authorities for the
sale of such contraband fluids, insisted up
on carrying on the traffic. The Court has
decided that the local authorities can pro-
hibit the sale Of anything they please
Massachusetts, is ready to fall back upon
State Rights whenever she has point to
gain on her own behalf, but refuses to re-
cognizc their validity in the case Of her
sister States. The discrimination between
the powers exercised by the States and
those conceded by the General Government
is the perfection Of our political system.
1t leaves every separate locality to consult
its own tastes, without interfering with
others. Massachusetts, has right to pro-
hibit the sale of liquors, except on the sly !;
but if New Jersey chooses to cultivate ap-
pple,iack, or Pennsylvania 10 patronize
lager, they arc equally entitled to DO so.-
If these mutual rights were recognized and
we might avoid the difficulty and
trouble their violation always produce
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McGREG0R, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1865.

Being on guard Just at the entrance OF
the First ConsuFs apartment, was not re.
licved. Late in the afternoon I was aston
ished to sec the Mameluke enter the hall
again. He came up opposite the door, and
stood with his arms folded, leaning against
the wall. l ordered him away, sternlv.
but he refused to 90. lie told me he would
stay there until he had seen the Frank
Emir, as the natives called the Consul.
might fire on him if would. but he would
not move until he had seen him. Finally,
/ concluded to let him remain, but to watch
him closely. He remained, standing mo-
tionless, with his arms folded. his head
bent on his breast, and his eyes cast on
the ground, and but for his slow, heavy
breathing, one might have taken him for
statue. At last the door opened, and Ma
poleon came out. Instantly the Mameluke
fell on his knees at his feet, and bowed his
head to the pavement.
! "!Well,' exclaimed Napoleon, in a tone
of annoyance, what now?'
Mighty Emir,' said the man, with his
heard still bowed, to-day you spared my
life when it was in your power I have
Tell me how l can serve you.'
sin short the man offered to enter our
service to prove his devotion to the Consul,
which was as strong as it was sudden. Ma
pOleon was at that time contemplating the
establishment of body guard Of the Ma
metukes, and accepted the mans offer. In
a short time this guard was organized, and
was Immediately attached to his person.
The Mameluke, whose name was Ali, re-
ceived sergeancv in it. He made
splendid soldier, and his attachment to our
great commander was equal to that of the
oldest grcnadier in the service. He watch.
ed his benefactor closely and vigilantly,
and once saved his life. He came to France
with the Emperor when he left Egypt
When the Legion of Honor was establish
ed, he was one Of the first to win the cross.
He rose to the rank Of lieutenant, but re-
fused to receive any higher promotion, for
fear it might remove him from his proxinl-
ity to Napoleon. In the Russian cam
paign his right foot was frozen, but he
kept on with determination that surpris-
ed every one that knew him. Waterloo
was nearly death-blow to him, and be-
lieve nothing but a hope that he might live
to see the Emperor avenged, kept him from
committing suicide. The establishment
of the empire, under our present sovereign,
consoled him, and he fingered on until his
death, two days ago. No one ever knew
of his attempt to assassinate Napoleon,
for you are the first person to whom have
mentioned it, and the Emperor never spoke
of it,
The old soldier paused, and, filling his
glass, drank silently to the memory of his
dead comrade.
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Satisfaction. Eli Thayer, in his
speech at New Haven, made an illustra-
ton Of the style Of Senator to whom he
would not aiIude by name. Tie remarked;
when you and | see the first light IN The
morning we call it the break o. day but
the Senator would say: lone of those
points of time, Illustrated by the poets of
Greece and Rome, occurring directly
through the cycle Of the ages, when the
rosplendent eliulgcnce Of the glorious orb
Of day first illumines the eastern horizon
Who is that ~ Simultaneous cries from
all parts of the hall, Sumner, Sumner,
Charles Sumner y Loud laug ghtcr and
applause.l
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The editor of the Lacrosse Democrat,
writing from Detroit on the 18th, makes
the following mention of the departing
statesman, Gen. Lewis Cass:
He is still alive, though his family
have gathered here in daily expectation of
his decease. The General is now in his
eighty-seventh year. He passes most of
his time in sleep, undisturbed. At rare
intervals he wakcns up sufficiently to ask
for some of his old friends, who are sent
for, but on arriving, even within the hour,
he is generally asleep again. His disease
is softening Of the brain from years CT
mental labor in the service of his country.
lie has all the care, attention and nursing
it is possible to give. His family look MP
on him with the greatest reverence and at-
fection, and pray that his last day on earth
may be far distant. At times he is able
to converse quite freely and nationally with
his family, but this is the exception, not
the rule.
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The Lansing Journal has the following,
from the Statesman, published at Salem,
Oregon, a paper sent to the Journal by
Hon. G. w. Gray, formerly of Lansing,
and well known to many of oar readers
The statistics of Oregon show that state
last year to have had under cultivation
10000 acres, producing 81 ,25I bushels
of wheat, II, 522,62 bushels oats, 6s, $40
bushels barley, 2,6o7 bushels rye. 3S.03O
tons hay, 679,546 pounds wool, "a, $40
bushels corn. Her gold mines yielded
log, ,226 ounces of gold dust. In the stock
business Oregon has splendid record
She had 3l3,lS9 sheep, l02,l7O hogs,
1882 horses, 1868 cattle, q ,o2l mules.
Oregon also produced 70,O55 pounds of
tobacco, 236, l34 pushels potatoes, 3lS, ,74S
bushels apples, $3.50 pounds cheese.
|, ,l03,SO5 pounds butter, SIS baskets Of
oysters, 64S barrels salmon, and Is, 723 ,42S
feet Of lumber. Her population is $1,000
-l7,9 ,997 voters. E
The improvements during the year 1865
in Salem are given, showing So buildings
Of all sorts, Of which Mr.. Gray receives
credit for one store costing $ 500 and fou.
dwellings worth 81 ,0U0 each. OF the
houses mentioned l6 cost $500 and up
wards, and ! $4,000 or more, and & cost
$4,000. The improvements in the way Of
buildings are figured up to $500, GOO in the
aggregate.
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A Klss.--There is much talk in Wash
ington about difficulty between two
prominent politicians, caused by kiss
given by one to the wife of the other. a
sossiping correspondent gives the follow
ing version of the affair:
1.-TWO legislators from the Mississippi
valley had row last night. No. took
his wife to the opera, where he left her in
charge of No. 2, and went TO his room at
a hotel. After the performance, No. 2 es-
corted the lady home, and at the door i'm
printed platonic salute upon her lips
Just then No. appeared, and scene en-
sued, which should be followed by duel, in
accordance with the CODE
Commenting on the above paragraph,
the Boston Commercial says: ''The Bible
admits eight diyersit;es of kisses, i. e. +: The
kiss Of salutation, Sam. xiv, 3S. Yaledic-
ton, Ruth ii, 6. Reconciliation, 2 Sam.
xiv; SO. Suhjection, Proverbs ii, 4. Ado
ration, | Kings xix, Is. Treachery, Matt.
XVI, 50. Affection, Gen. xiv, T."
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THE QUICKEST TINE YET.-A few days
ago the live and lively Chicago agent of
the Star Union line, Mr.. w. w. Chandler,
arranged with some shippers for carrying
certain freights to New York quick enough
to satisfy them. A train of thirteen cars,
consisting Of general assortment of usual
city treights, several carloads of cotton
received from Illinois Central Railroad,
consignments of wool, butter, eggs, grass
seed and the like from many points of the
Chicago at 4:3O in the afternoon on We'd
nesday, and every pound of the whole ar
rived in New York city just S24 hours af-
terward-less than three and half days
The shippers agreed to be satisfied with
this until they can slip By teIegraph-whieh
is considered asnsate for eggs! This is
surely fast age we live in, and the Star
Line seems intent on making it faster; for
it is intended by Mr.. Chandler to make
nearly as quick time, regularly, as the
above. \ majority of the dry goods ship
ped by Star Line from New York arrive
in Chicago within five days from the hour of
shipment; and east-bound shipments are
averaging about the same time.
The Star Line has the honor Of inaugu-
rating the system of running between
Western cities and the seaboard without
transfer, and has been constantly improv-
ing until at present it would seem to have
arrived at the zenith of railroad perfection.
The managers of the line were certainly
fortunate in selecting Mr. Chandler for the
general supervision of its business in the
Northwestern States, for it is generally adj
mitted in railroad circles that no man, even
with all the grand facilities afforded by the
line, could have succeeded in building up
so large first class business as he has
He is one of the railroad functionaries of
the country, in whose perfect integrity and
plicit contidence.-Chicago Journal, l1h.
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II

From the Rev. Joseph H. Kennard Pastor of the 10th
Baptist Church.
lhave been frequently requested to connect my name
with Communications Of different kinds of medicines,
but regarding the practice out of my appropriate
sphere have in all cases declined; but with a clear
proof in various instances, and particularly in my
family, of the usefulness Of Dr. Hooands German Bit
depart once from my usual course to express my
ull conviction that for general debility # the systen
AID especially for Licer Complaints, IL is safe and
ral.aLe preparation. In some ii may fail but
usually doubt not it will be very beneficial to those
who suffer from the above Truly yours,
J. Ii. KENNARD, Eighth below Coats st.
Philadelphia, Dec. "a, 1864.
Rev. J. S. Herman, of the German Reformed Church,
Kutztown Berks Co., Pa, cured of Dyspepsia ut
years standing.
A. NJ Spanger, Editor of the Ctltarst, No. 25 North
Sixth street, Phil says this Bitters recommended
to him by medical friend, and six bottles cured him
of complete prostration of the nervous System.
Rev. j. Newton Brown, D. D.. Editor of the Encylo-
pedia of Religious Knowledge and Christian Chronicle,
Philada.; Rev. Thos. Winter, d. d. Pastor of Roxbor-
ough Baptist Church; Rev. Levi G. Beck Pastor of the
Baptist Church, Pemberton N. j., formerly of the
North Baptist Church, Philadelphia at present Pastor
of the Baptist Church, Chester Pa-These gentlemen
express in the strongest terms their favorable opinion
of this BitterS.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-25
PHARAOH,s SERPENTs

From the little cone of silver foil,
That fizzcs and fumes with fretful fire,
There oozes a serpent all yellow and ribbed,
That rolls and thickens and curls still higher.
The magic thing, as by a spell,
suddenly ceases its sluggish crawl,
Its hery breath has quite burnt ont,
And leaves q coil Of dust-that's all.
The wise mans toy is the type of life;
And all our struggles for paltry things;
Our diplomatic treaties and table talk,
Tangled and bound with red tape strings;
Our spider webs and our subtle plans;
Our love and joy and our brittle dreams;
Our poor ambitions, that fleet away
Fast as the winters torrent streams.
conquests, Cpsar's spoils,
All that we hate and all that we trust,
The beggars fears and the rich mans hopes
AL end at last in pinch of dust.
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Read who Says So:

From the Rev. W. d. SeiStred Pastor Of Twelfth Bap
tist Church. Philada.
Gentlemen: have recently been laboring under the
distressing effects of indigestion, accompanied by
prostration of the nervous system. Numerous RENE
dies were recommended by friends and some OF them
tested but without relief. Your Houfand's German
Bitters Were recommended by persons who had tried
tLem and whose favorable mention Of these Bitters i'll
duccd ME to try them must confess that l had an
aversion to ratcht Medicines from the "thousand and
one' quack "Bitters' whose only aim seems to be to
palm of sweetened and drugged liquor upon the cont
munity in sly way, and the tendency OF which, l
fear is to make many a confirmed drunkard. Upon
learning that yours really medicinal preparation
took it with happy effect. 1t action not only upon
the stomach, but upon the system, prompt
and gratifying feel that have derived great and
permanent benefit from the use Of few bottles
Very respectfully yours,
W.D. SEIGFRIED No 254 Shackamaxon St.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-25

A funny illustration Of the difficulty Of
understanding nicknames in foreign Ian
guages, is found in Victor Hugo's new
novel He translates Henry Clay's popu-
lar title, ''The Mill-boy Of the Slashes," to
mean The Mill-boy Of the Sear-supposing
Mr.. Clay to have received, in the early
part of his life, a slash from some sharp
weapon, which left a scar upon his fea-
lures.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-25
THE COBBLER,s SECRET,

waggish cobbler. once, in Rome,
Put forth proclamation,
That he'd be willing to disclose,
For due consideration,
A secret which the cobbling world
Couldill afford to lose
The way to make, in one short day,
- hundred pairs OF shoeSl
From every quarter to the sight
There ran thousand fellows
Tanners, cobblers, boot men, shoe men,
jolly leather sellers
All redolent with beer and smoke
And cobblers wax and hides:
Each fellow pays his thirty pence,
And calls it cheap besides.
Silence! the cobbler enters ~,
And casts around his eyes,
Then curls his lips, the rogue, then frowns,
And then looks wondrous wise.
my friends" he said, '''tis simple, quite,
The lSsthat propose,
And every one of you, think,
May learnit if he chose.
A good sharp knife Is ali you need,
In carrying out my plan;
So easy is it, none can fail,
Let him be child or man.
TO make hundred pairs of shoes
Just go back to your shops,
And take hundred pairs of boots
And cut of all the tops!"
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A.

From the Rev. E. D. Fendall Assist. Editor Christian
Chronicle, Philada.
Ihave derived decided benefit from the of Hoof
lands German Btters and feel il my privilege to
omnlend them most valuable tonic, to all who
suffering from general debility from disease arising
from arrangement of the liver. Yours truly,
L. ID. FENDALL
From Rev d. Merge, Pastor of the Passyunk Baptist
Church. Philada
From the many respectable recommendations given
to Dr. Hooilands German Btters, was induced to give
them trial. After using several BOTTLES found them
to be good remedy for debility, aud most excellent
tonic for the stomach. b. MERGE.
from Rev. VIM. Smith, formerly Pastor of the Vincen.
town and Millville On. j. Baptist Churches.
Having used III my family number of bottles OF
your Hooiands German Bittcrs, / have to say that
regard them eXceleat medicine specially adapted
to remove the diseases they are recommended for
They strengthen and invgorate the system when debi
tated and useful in disorders of the liver, loss OF
appetite &C. have also recommended them several
Of my friends, who have tried them, and found them
greatly beneficial in the restoration of health.
Yours truly, WM SMITH,
9G6 Hutchinson ST., Philada.
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ident of the United States (the radicals to
the contrary Notwithstanding; therefore
al men had better be tailors Butler was
politician, and became Il greet general;
therefore, all who want to be great generT
ais Ike Batter, should be politicians.
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REMEMBER

That this BHers is nat 4lcohoiic, contains Ram
Whsky, and cannot make D.a.QFGS, tl! is tie Best
Tonic IN the World
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VOLUME X----NO. 32.
Rock Wells Drilled!
ny THE
McGREGOR PUMP COMPANY.

DuMPS AND WOODEN EAyE TROUGIIS. Par
IL ties desiring anything In line will do well to
write call at steam shop. head of Main Street. Nc
Gregor, Iowa. (467y) Address I. KELLOGG, Box Il
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Beware of Counterfeits f!

~ See that the signature Of &C. NJ JACKSON" Is
II the wrapper of each bottle.
ca Should your nearest Druggist not have the ari-
clc do not be put " by any of the prepa
raons that may be offered in its place, but send u.s.
and we will forward, securely packed, by express.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-20
Interesting from Washington.

MONDAY July 16.-The Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue has decided that, although tho tax OF
upon banks on the notes Of State Banking Asso.'
Citations paid out by them after July l. 1866 is not
actually repealed until the act of July l3 instant
takes effect on the 1st Of August next yet, as it
was clearly the intention of Congress to POSTPONE
the tax until that time, and the act of 1866 does
not provide specially for the manner OF ira nav
ment, it will not be collected for the current
month.
VETO OF THE FREEDMEN's BUREAU BILL-1T is IN
sTANTLY PASSED OVER THE VETO.
Tho President returned the Freedmen's Bureau
bill to the House with his objections to-day about
two O'clock and before five o'clock it was a law.
having passed both branches by votes largely in
excess of tho required two-thirds The messaoe
was received in the House during the discussion
OF the Rousseau. Grnnell case. Mr.. Raymond had
the floor, and yielded a moment to allow MIR.
Eliot, Chairman Of the Freedmen's Bureau Com
mittee, to move that it be printed, and to give
notice that he would call for action tomorrow,
after the morning hour. MIR. Lie Blond (Dem.j
sarcastcaly asked if that not too long to defer
action? Hadn't it better be considered at once 2
Whereupon the Republican members took
him at his word. The previous question
was moved and sustained, and without debate the
pill passed by 103 yeas to 3s nays AZ members
being absent. The Republicans who voted against
Phelps, OF Maryland, Kuykendall, Of Illinois, and
Henry ID: Washburne, OF Indiana. The bill was
immediately sent to the Senate. The Message
support OF the bill. When he concluded, Mr..
Hendricks addressed the Senate on the same side.
The weather WAS evidently too hot for speeches
on the other side and nobody deigned to make
thom. Most Of the Republicans quietly went to
the committee rooms to sleep, Or sweat or work,
and when the speeches were done, the pages
quickly rallied them. The question was ordered
more than two-thirds. Thus the Freedmen's
Bureau is fixed fact for two years from the 10th
Of July, 1866.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 8. c., /

A, y,
General:-I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt Of your letter of tho Sd inst, informing
me that there WAS Trustworthy testimony as to the
Of both races and That General n scRea SSaes
had disapproved or the ration return upon INV
ah recevs and hasten 70 Isni1
the subject growing oaag 81 6any 9
General Sickles. There is great Mt ed OF distri-
buting rations through the Freedmen's Bure au in
every dst riot In the State In some the necessity
is greater than in others, and what I intended to
impress upon General Sickles was that appica-
il all the stories which told Of the officers OF
the Bureau in different sections to be credit
ed, the distribution would embrace too wide a
| range
regret that Gen. Sickles should have under
| stood from me that the necessity for issuing ra-
passed As early as March last an est%ete Waa Maa
made in the Chesterfield District and it was
! found that there were only seven bushels OF corn
to each person in the district. Without feeding
| any portion of this to the stock, the supply was
inadequate to bread the people. Other districts
| are nearly as destitute. In Plckens, am inform
el that some 600 families without sufficient
supplies OF breadstus. The scarcity is also great
in Barnwel, Beaufort, Colleton, Clarendon, Will
lRiamSssbusg Lexington, sPartsnburg Lancaster
| authorities cannot possibly furnish the needy
The tax levied for the support OF the poor is a
direct tax, aud it happens that in those sections
lation are least able to pay local tax, and hence
there are thousands in the State, white and
colored, who must suffer for the commonest
means OF subsistence unless rations are issued
from your Bureau, and regret extremely that
a"y opinion of mine should have been 30 under
stood as to Justify. or require the suspension Of
the issue OF the rations which it was proposed to
distribute in this State. My object and intention
was simply to guard against the issue to persons
without claim, and thereby increase idleness
and vag abondism. Doubtless did not sufficient
ly explain my views and Gen. sickles was justified
in reaching the conclusion he did.
A month ago it was generally believed that
about the time Of the wheat harvest an average
crop would be made, but since the crop has been
| thrashed out it is found not to exceed half an
average crop, and far less relief will be furnished
the needy from that source than b ID anticpat-
ed. therefore earnestly request that you will
have the rations issued as estimated for by your
| agents in the State, and which was disapproyed
by Gen. Sickes. Proper instructions to distribute
ing agents may be, If they have not already been
given, to guard against imposition from those who
| are not proper subjects of relief. have written
to-day to Gen. sokles, and have explained to him
the extent to which intended my conversation
with him to go. JAMES L. ORR
| Governor Of South Carolina.
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smonipg In tho Omntbuses.

To the Editors Of the Charleston Daily News:
AS we look upon the press as conservators oi
public manners, do use your influence to protect
US from this growing nuioance. Time was when a
segar or pipe was never seen on these important
conveysnces. Now it is very common to travel
up and down with a segar. have repeatedly
seen smoking when ladies and children were in
the stage, and in some cases infants were within
a foot of the smoker.
Messrs. Editors, is it not bad enough to have
the smoke pulled in our faces in the streets2 Gan
we have no protection2 The omnibus in
Charleston is q place where good manners are
always to bo met with. Why should this consti-
tute IN exception If it is not stopped am sure
it will provo serious injury to the lines now 30
great public accommodation.
TRAVELLER