North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-12-18

News and Items.
Both Houses will adjorrn on the 20tf
inst, until the 9th Of January. :. .Ont
week ago the street cars of New York wa.
blockaded with snow.... The Chicago Dali
ly Journal says it is estimated that from
$50, 900 to 100000 hogs will be packed in
that city this season and that one third ol
the number have been received during the
last two weeks. Denver City has been
finally established as the capital of the Ter.
ritory Of Colorado, the acting Governor
having approved bill to that effect re.
Gently passed by the Territorial Legisla,
ture.....It is reported that new paper to
be called the Chicago Age, is to he issued
in that city in opposition to the Times. -.
In 1865 Clayton county had a population
Of 2l922, and now has 22s79......A reso-
luton has been offered in the house at
Washington proposing to send colored
representatives of this government to Hay
ii and Africa. ... The President sent to
the senate. an official notice of his suspen-
sion of Secretary Stanton from Office, un-
der the civil tenure law, together with the
reasons for such suspension. The doeu-
ment covers some officia, correspondence
between the president and Mr.. Stanton,
but in the main it shows, on the part of
the president, that Secretary Stanton OBJ
structed him in the execution Of laws and
in official orders arising under them. The
whole matter was referred to TIE judiciary
committee for future action. The course
taken is contrary to the repeated declara-i
tons Of the president that he shoeld as
sign no reasons for the removal Of Mr..
Stanton, but simply send to the senate q
nomination for the latter's successor. :. :.
The rumored contemplated dismissal Of
100 clerks from the pension Office, and the
suggestion Of the joint committee on re-
trenchment that 800 be dismissed from the
treasury, have caused quite commotion
among Office holders. The Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland has issued proclama-
ton declaring thar the holding of public
funerals for the Fenians executed for trea-
son 81 Manchester is seditious, and prohib-
iting such demonstrations Of sympathy in
the future. Earthquake shocks are now
common occurrences in the West Indies
and some small islands have disappeared.
1.-THE paymaster general calls for an
appropriation of sl.252,254 for de6cien-
cies, including $4,000 to complete the
payment for registration, &c., in Pope
district, and similar amount for Scho-
fields district.
A resolution asking the expense in the
impeachment case was lost. OF course
the RAIDS. don't dare to let the people know
how much the ''force" cost the tax-pay.
ing public as it nigh, work disastrously
to their sweet, scented wrangling party.
Fear of popular revolution is enter.
tanned in France. in view of the evidently
growing discomfort and distress among the
lower classes. In England there is sim
liar unhappy state of affairs. Some
members of the Republican National Com
mittee propose to change the name Of tn,
Republican party to that Of ''Union party
......It is believed cotton will be exemp
from tax after this year,. The tickle
spectators have realized $1,000 by buy
ing up and re-selling tickets foreDickens
first reading in Boston. The Nationa
Republican Convention is to be held il
Chicago......The tobacco supplied to tn
enlisted men Of the army this year cos
SlO4. Ss5.S4......An eminent philossphe
says that if man begins life asFirs
Lieutenant in his family, he need ncvo
look for promotion......Light comes from
the moon in one second and quarter
from the sun in eight minutes, from Jupi
ter in ffty-two minutes, Uranus in tw
hours, from star Of the first magnitud
three or twelve years, from star Of tn
fifth magnitude sixty-six years, from sta
of the twelfth magnitude four thousan,
years. Light which left star of tn
twelfth magnitude when the Israelites LET
Egypt has not yet reached the earth. s.
says q sayant; let US take it for grant
ed that it is o......Lake Erie has a.
average depth Of about 100 feet, while Hu
ron and Michigan average nearly S0(
feet......In l64O, the keys Of the palace n
Madrid, weighed thousand pounds.
The sale Of the reservation at Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas. will be recommended. 80.
Gilbert Monsieur Marquis de Lafayctt
Sprout, Of Tennessee, requests the Legis
lature to prune of his FIRST three names
1.-The Black Crook at New York is as pop
ular as ever, though the Devils Auction
at another theatre is dividing public I'D
miration with it,. The Democratic eau
Gus will not be held until after the holi
days, probably. 1t is intimated that Gin
cinnati will be fixed upon as the place 70
the presidential convention to take plac
soon after the Republican convention a
Chicago......The old "Way to Get Mar
ried," a forgotten comedy, has been re
vived in London by Charles Matthew.
The suburbs all want to he annexed +
Boston,. An ounce of humor is worth
pound of puns. Forced fun is followe
~
by forced laughter......It is reported tina
a majority of the members of the Indial
peace commission will recommend 70 con
gress that the Indian bureau shalt not b
turned over to the war department but b
made separate bureau, detached iron
any Of the departments, and be governe