North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-03
News and ltenns.

News and Items.
The Chicago Tribune, only rarely right
on any occasion, in speaking upon the ad-
journment questionable senate fixing the
first Wednesday in July for re-assembling
and the house the fifth day of June-"al.
lows that there is more danger that con-
gress will become bore than that it will
not adjourn to the proper time. Gen.
Sherman and daughter will 90 on the ex-
cursion from Brooklyn to the Holy Land,
which is to come off in June, provided he
can get leave from Washington. John
B. Cough has received an offer from Eng
land of 81 800, gold, for lectures week
in London, the course to be kept up for q
year. That would make him $62, 4OO......
Some friend of the late Hiram Woodruff
contributes to the Boston Post m anecdote
highly credible to him. One day on the
Bloomingdale road, Woodruff recognized
before dirt-cart the relics of the once
famous roadster "Ajax." He pulled up
at once and inquired the price of the
beast, bought him and turned him out to
Craze unmolested for the rest of his natu-
raj life......Some inventive imagination has
started the story that Mr.. Peabody is to
marry Miss Burdett Coutts, the famous
female philantrophist, of London. 20. The
house judiciary committee will do nothing
further in the impeachment investigation
until about the middle Of April, by which
time the chairman will return. The COM
mittee intend to sit here during the recess.
1.-THE gold receipts from customs are
now averaging about 81 900, 900 per week,
and internal revenue receipts about the
same. -. 1t is said now that Gen. Grant
did not advise against the adjournment of
congress. The April term Of the Su-
preme court is in session at Davenport.
......A DesMoines dispatch says the radi-
cal state convention will be called at an
early day.
The senate judiciary committee have
agreed to report Mr.. Wilson's resolution
to the effect that JEFF. Davis should be eth
er tried at once or released. 1.-THE presi-
dent has nominated Gen. Rousseau as brig
adler general in the regular army, vice
Rosecrans, resigned. The Inauguration
of the Clay monument will take place at
Louisville about the middle of May.
The President notified Senator that he
intends to pocket the bill restraining the
Commisson appointed to award pay to 10y
| al slave-owners for slaves enlisted during
the war. There are several millions of
dollars involved in this measure......The
President intends also to pocket the bill
giving 10000 stand of arms to Tennessee.
This measure was asked for by Governor
Brownlow. II. General Sherman has Or
dered steamboats, ascending the Upper
Missouri river to be armed with cannon
and lauskets, as precaution against Indi-
an attacks. :. 1t is said the president has
prepared proclamation converting an
extra session of the senate for the trans
action Of executive business. Two humid
red nominations are now pending in that
body and a large number are to be sent in.
..... Commanders Of military districts in
the south are being supplied with certified
official copies of the supplemental recon-
struction act, under which registers Of
elections are to be appointed, and state
conventions to be called......A Washington
rumor intimates that Jeff. Davis will be
tried in May, before the U. S. district
court in Richmond, Va.
The Montana trade has commenced, sew
eral boats having left St. Louis for Fort
Benton. -. :. The Catholic Bishop Of Phil
adelphia proneunces the Pope "hopelessly
bankrupt" and appeals for a collection in
his behalf. ."Brick' Pomeroy inaugu-
rated an association in New Orleans for
the erection of monument to the memo
ry of Artemus Ward. The Legislature
Of Alabama has just created a new coun-
ty, and named it "Dixie." Two juven-
lie barons are the lions of New York fash
ionable society at present.