The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-12-12


will soon be consolidated with the North
Atlantic Squadron. During the present
year $50 clerks Of the different depart
ments at Washington have resigned on
account of inadequate compensation. -.
The Pope tells our Washington people
that he will not quit Rome, but expects
protection from King Emanuel. =. :. :. There
are three feet of snow at Omaha, Roads
are completely blocked up. on the plains
and in the mining towns provisions .nre
quoted at starvation prices. Mr.. S. Cad
walader, well known correspondent of
the New York Herald, has become part
owner Of the Milwaukee Daily Ners. He
will commence editorial labors ON the Ne,cs
on the LIST Of january 80. The ministers Of
Norwich, Conn.,, have signed circular
protesting against the practice :ofs having
funerals on the Sabbath. They propose
that those having a job of dying on hand
shall either do it up before Thursday or
put it off until the next week. We should
prefer to adjourn it sine die. .Sok,s- well
diggcrs in Milwaukee found pine Jog in
a good state Of preservation, at the depth
ofeighty-fye feet below the surface, The
rock-boring machines that are boring the
Mount Gents tunnel, it is estimated p will
have to drill 100000 holes bef3iS The
work is completed. The total depth of
these holes will be A, 3e5, $3.50 feet fe1lOs
times the length Of the tunnel, and to drill
them nearly $4,000, 900 blows will have to
be struck by the perforators.r The en-
trance to the tunnel on the French side IS
8, 946 feet above the level of the sea, and
on the italian side 1890 feet. j,
The department clerks Mt Washington
are pressing their suit for slight increase
of pay. Most of the heads of depart
ments and bureaus favor the movement,
and it is thought that Congress will be in
duced to consider it favorably.. During
the month of November, the U. S. pension
Office disposed of no less than 5,O15 cases.
1.-THE Governor of Minnesota has col
lected specimens of Minnesota grain to
forward to the Worlds fair at Paris.
A Jewish house entire has been excayated
in Syria, dating two centuries before
Christ. There are buried in the United
States 341 go Union soldiers in Al nation
al cemeteries. .... The annual income of
queen Victoria is s., OOO, 900 and her living
expenses $500, OOO...... "Why," said Bob
Pitts to Bill Swipes, when he caught him
drinking, ~ thought you had signed the
pledge" $50 l have" said Swipcs, shut
all signs fail in dry weather.. 49,. Brigham
Young says that the Gentiles are trying to
bring Salt Lake City down "to level with
such dens of vice as San Francisco, Boston
and New York" The Richmond En-
quirer says it hopes congress will provide
against future rebcllions, for it is sure the
next rebellion will not come from the
South......A reward of $1,000 is offered
for the apprehension of head centre Stsph-
ems in Dublin. The Baptists' of the
northwest have just organized theologi-
cal institution in Chicago. .SlcighnS in
St. Paul was good on the LIST inst. AN
effort is being made in congress to- sossab-
throughout the United Some n-
known mystical or supposed individual
now reports that j. II. Surratt fixes the
planning of the assassination of Lineoln
at Richmond under the advice of JEFF.
Davis......The amount of gold thus. far
disposed of, by order of the secretary of
the treasury, is between S4,OOo,OOO and
So, GOO, OOO..... John Ii. Surratt is to- be
tried at Washington by the civil courts
SO supposcd......The Fcnian prisoners .un.
der sentence of death are respited till Che
18th of March. Gen. Dix's appointment
as minister to France will be opposed in
the Senate. ....Santa Anna has written
long letter to the president advising DIFF.
ferent policy, in relation to Mexican.*af-
fairs, to that now being carried out by our
government. Ills advise it is said win mot
be noticed. miss Anna +. Dickinson
has been i'll for week at Rockford, M
..... Dispatches from Gambia state thatatke
insurgents had blown up o convent, and
that two thousand Turks had lost their
lives by the explosion. -. jT Vel
The statement of the public debksfo
December LIST. shows deduction, 'witlin
the month, of $l,67s,7s7.5O. The tstal
debt, less cash in the Treasury, is now
2,549, 63l ,23S. 22.........A correspondence
between minister Biglow and Sec. Seward
is published. From it we learn that Mr..
Biglow was told by the Emperor that the
French troops would not be recalled until
spring for purely military reasons and also
that our government, through Sec. Seward,
expresses surprise and deep concern ct the
announcement now made for the first time,
that TIE promised recall of one detach-
ment of the French troops from Mexico in
November current, has been postponed by
the emperor. Sec. Seward also says the
emperor will perceive that we cannot re-
call Mr.. Crmpbell, non, can. we hpdifktbe
Instructions under which he is expected to
treat, and under which he may eyon,tidfk
be treating; the republican government
will, Of course, most earnestly desire Add
confidently expect an early and entire dis
continuation of foreign hostile occupation.
......The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that the anti-rebel "test
OATH is unconstitutional. 90. 1t is believed
that Colorado and Nebraska will be admit
ted into the union as. states during the
r,raonnt ooccson