North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-12-04

News and Items.
Bvt. Maj. Gems. Mcdowell, Rousseau,
Scho6eld, Candy, and Ord are assigned to
duty according to their brevet rank......
The radical majority for Governor in 1866,
was IL ,O27, and in 1867, ASP q repub-
lican loss Of 6,275...... Chas: Dickens was
born Feb. I, lSl2......The sun shines Is
hours out of "a in some places in Alaska.
1.-THE Fenian Head Centre Francis, has
been captured. Papers were found in his
possession which leaves no doubt of his
completely in the recent Fenian operations.
......W. D. Moore, Of Bloomfield, in this
state, recently found $4,000 in gold which
had been buried on his farm. 30. .Fenian
outbreaks are feared at Manchester and
Cork......Advices from Naples state that
Vesuvius is in a grand state of eruption.
lone hundred and thirty thousand vo-
tcrs have been registered in New York
City......The California legislature met on
the Al inst. The democrats have Is ma
jority on joint ballot. 1.-THE appropria-
ton to pay for the purchase OF Russian
America will be strongly opposed in con-
gress.. The Italian Government demands
certain explanations of Napoleon before
acceeding to the proposed conference.
Another battle has been fought on the Pa
rama, in which the allies claim to have won
a victory over the Paraguayans......The
Government of Canada is taking action
looking to the union Of Rupert's Land
and the Northwest Territory with the Do.
minion. ,..,.....
Official advices received at Washington
from South Carolina and Mississippi an
nounce the defeat Of the proposition for
conventions to reconstruct the state gov
crnments, under the provisions of the re-
construction acts Of Congress, in those
ates......The annual report of Secretary
McCulloch urges continued contraction of
the currency. with view of Fastening the
return to specie payments, and argues that
if the policy of currency expansion be
adopted it will prove ruinous to tho coun.
try.....New York is now four days dist
ant from the Rocky Mountains......I will
take about 10000 900 to pay the negro
expenses for the next fiscal year...... Mrs.
Lincoln once procured the arrest and in
generation as state prisoner of person
who spoke disrespectfuly Of her. If she
were the wife of the government now, and
were equally vindictive, every republican
editor in the land would find home be-
hind the classmates of Fort Lafayette or
the windows Of the Old Capitol PRISON.. -.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, used water
from the river Jordan and wine from Je-
rusalem in the sacrament last Sunday.
Horse flesh is twenty cents per pound in
Paris. A contemporary notes that Bon
ner paid $50 to 500 per pound. Gen.
Grant shows that Is, 900 men have desert.
ed from the army in year, or about 40
per cent. of the recruits. The Salem
Enterprise (Rep.) says, 1--WE a,c an honest
and Industrious constituency" and cannot
afford to be misrepresented by Gen. Butler.
There is still in circulation four and a
half million dollars of New Orleans city
notes.. ....A successful Australian digger
has gold collar for his dog. Another
shod his horse with gold. ....It is said Kit
Carson is going to lead the Ute Indians
against the Cheyennes in New Mexico.....
The 100000 synagogue in New York is
nearly completed. Chicken cholera en-
dangers Thanksgiving prospects in some
parts of Maryland. 1.-The former country
seat ofJoseph Bonaparte, ut Bordentown,
N. j., has just been sold to milkman for
Sl2, OOO... Carl Schurz is on his way to
Europe. lie is uncompromisingly oppos-
ed to impeachment. ...lt is believed the
Senate will reinstate Secretary Stanton.....
twenty-five states have ratified the con-
stitutional amendment, three have rejected
it, and the remainder have not acted upon
it,. Gen. Custer has been suspended
from rank and pay for one year
Elk Governor Seymour of New York
has written letter declining the nominal
ton for the presidency. IA lady in New
port while yawning, one day last week,
opened her mouth so wide that it became
locked and required two physicians to
shut it......Butler urges the payment of
the principal of the bonds in greenbacks,
were not stipulated to be paid in coin.
The withdrawal of the national bank note
currency, and the substitution Of green |
backs. Reduction Of taxation and re-
trenchment in expenditures. 1.-THE Post
Office Department cleared $743,2lO over
and above expenses the past year......The
committee favor the divi- |
sion of Texas into three states... :. Commits
sioner Rollins states that the whiskey |
frauds reach 100000 gallons which
have not paid the tax......The secretary of
the Navy objects to the use of petroleum
for fuel in steam vessels on account of con- |
venience, comfort, health and safety......
The entire seats for four nights readings
by Charles Dickens, in New York, were
disposed of as soon as the doors were op.
ened.. They have two inches of snow in
Des Moines.. The President states in his
message that treaty has been made with
Denmark for the islands of St. Thomas
and St. John, for naval outpost, which
is to be submitted to the senate. The
of the navy reports that there
are 1913 vessels, carrying ses guns, in use;
10 iron-clads, with 100 guns, laid up, and