The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-31

News anu Asc"os
The treaty between Prussia and Saxony
has been fully ratified. Pursuant to its
provisions, Saxony is to pay 10000, 900
fiorins... The army of Saxony has been
dissolved. =. 1.-The Baden house of dcpu-
tics has rejected d proposed alliance with
Prussia......A change in the French cabi-
net is expected. The threatened rupture
is caused by the emperor's insiating on the
negotiation yf large loan:. 1.-The French
troops are to leave Rome in Dccembcr....
The Arch Duchess Charlotte, of Mexico, is
reported insane. She ilnagincs herself
surrounded by enemies who havp designs
upon her life and even refuses TO 1,artakc
of food, fearing it may be poisoncd......
They have had heavy frost in the vicini-
to of Memphis, Tenn, doing much dam
age. Count Bismarck, the Prime Minis,
ter of Prussia, is reported to be dangerous
ly ill. The tariff on messages transmit
ted over tho Atlantic cable is to be reduced
50 per cent on the LIST of Novcmber......
A scmi-weekly mail has been established
between Salt Lake City and Prescott, the
capital of Arizona, to commence on the
LIST day of November. From the tone Of
the British press it appears that the Eng
lish Government is willing to submit the
Alabama claims to arbitration. But our
Government will nat consent to such an ar
rangement. .,
The statement that at a recent meeting
between the president, Sec. Seward and
Gen. Grant, it was determined to recom-
mend as measure of the administration,
that We should pay the French claims
against, Mexico and receive Mexican teri
tory in exchange, is now stoutly denied.
1.-THE census just taken, fixes the num-
Der of inhabitants of Minneapolis at 1000.
| ......lt is stated that the entire body of
French troops will. leave the Mexie3n soil
within three months F'.* ~ ~
Maximilian's prospects are daily grow
ing more discouraging. French troops
have begun to arrive ut Vera Cruz, from
which port they will embark for France.
1T is stated that during tho months of
August and September, the quantity of
merchandise delivered at the St. Paul levee
from Lacrosse, Prairie du Chen, Dun
lcith, and st. Louis, reached the enormous
figure of ten thousand one hundred tons.
| 1.-THE New York Express says a very
respectable contribution Of arms and am
munition has been sent to Headquarters to-
day by the Fenians of Troy, who arc pre-
pairing to back it up with still larger do
nation at an early day.
The report that Dean Richmond had
improperly received million of dollars oil
the Merchants Express stock is formally
denied by his son, Ii. A. Richmond. The
denial was hardly necessary. There were
shipped from colorado during the week
ending the 10Th inst. 952 ounces of gold,
which is an increase of $1,000 over the
| previous week. :. Evidences of wide spread
trouble on the Indian frontier have accu-
INFLATED more rapidly than usual within
the past few days. Gen. Sherman has
ceased to discredit alarming reports, and il
taxing every energy to throw troops into
the imperilled districts. Fifteen thousand
Indian warriors arc declared by the latest
adviccs to be actually on the war path. Y
Two young Americans are making tor
pcdoes for the Paraguayans.. .ErricssOn
has had an iron-clad, of his monitor pat
tern, named after him, in Sweden. The
government is building another, $50 feet
long, with tdrret covered with Pinch
plates, to carry . 15-inch guns..... Chairs
and stoves have been unknown among the
Turks till recently. The Pacific railway
is 272 miles west of Omaha: the "tpck-
men" are laying iron at the rate of Rom
one to two and thrcc-fourths miles day.
A party of cxcursionists held celcbra-
1 ton mt the Tooth Notwithstanding sevc-
raj baskets of champagne over the event.
There are Is, 600 men employed in grading,
building bridges, laying track, &c......A
religious paper states that from s., OOO, 600
to s., 5OO,OOO worth of tobacco is~copsnm-
] ed by members of the Methodist church
in the U. S.. ...All the young princes OF
the Imperial family OF Russia are to make
a tour of the U. S......The Treasury De-
partment now holds S93,OOO,OQ in g0Ll.
The November interest on 500 bonds will
reduce tie amount Sl5, 100000.
Since 1861, the production of sugar on
the Sandwich Islands has increased from
two millions of pounds to twenty millions
a year. Another war with Turkey is
at hand-next Thanksgiving Day.....A
Russian company at HIclsingfors has, OBJ
tanned the permission of the Government
to raise the ships which were sunk in the
naval battles of the oath of August, 1859,
and the 9th of July, 1890. 1t is expected
that large quantities of iron and copper
will he obtained by this means. 49,. "A ;4tar-
row hawk recently attacked two ladies in
one of the streets of London, pecking their
heads in furious manner and driving his
claws through the hand of one of them -.
While the celebrated giant Ching height
about eight:.feet, weight 20 stone) wasson
exhibition at Worcester, England, the
PRODIGY stumbled, and out rolled two lv-
ing bodies, one Of which had been hoisted
''atop O. tther. The United States
vessel Sacramento left the. Charleston navy
yard on Friday for voyage round the
world, on which she will he gone two years.
A project is on foot looking to the estab-
lishment Of a paper Sin London and N
", which will contain full kilograms
over the Atlantic cable down to 6 in the
morning each day.. The tunnel under
the Alps has reached 1913 feet in length
on the French side, and II ,2S5 on the HAL
ian. At the present rate of progress, five
years will DC, required to complete the
work. 80. In a life of SO years man makes
upwards Of 5OO,OOO,OOO of rcspirations,
drawing through his lungs nearly 10 tons
weight Of air, and discharging nearly 20
tons weight Of carJonic acid. "A surgic-
al Journal speaks of a man who lived FIVE
years with ball in his head. Job Squircs
says he has known ladies to live twice as
long with nothing but balls in their heads.
......An English lady advcrtiscs "a pi-
ano for sale by q lady who, is about 10
cross the Channel in an oak case with finely
carved legs and of delicate touch" - RI
IxroRrERs.-We have but one mercpn-
tile establishment in McGregor that does
general importing business this IS pc
large Wholesale Crockery House of SQAEz
| & GOULD, late Scott & Brother. Geo. s.