North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-01-08

ment on the principle of "small prophets -
......Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has given
81 900 to a fund for the benefit of the
rebel General Lees college in Virginia.
Washington specials say at is stated,
on the authority of members Of congress
that, IN the event Of the senate acting in
favor Of Mr.. Stanton's returning to the
war department, the president will throw
the case into the supreme court, with the
view of testing the constitutionality of the
tenure Of Office act The Mcxicans are
making claims for property destroyed by
the savages on the northwestern line,
which the Mexican Government intends
presenting at Washington. Information
has been received at Shanghai of the dis
covery Of extensive gold mines at the ter.
mination Of the island, about twenty mile,
from Port May, Russian Siberia. The
Russian people refuse permission to for
eigners to work the mir e,......The China
and East India Telegraph Company pro-
pose laying a submarine cable within six
months. The cable is en- route from Eng
land.....A Guaymas, Mexico, letter of
December 10th, says great excitement pre-
walls in the city on account of rumor
that Governor Pesqucra was restrained by
Juareze from taking forcibly certain mon.
eys from Guaymas Custom House. Pes
guerra, instead of submitting, sent the
Collector of Mexico to explain matters.
The Hamburg ship Coquette, with cargo
valued at 100000 was allowed to dis
charge at Guaymas, although a reduction
Of duties had been previously refused ut
Mazatlan and Uras.
Five deserters from the army in Geor-
gia, sentenced to be branded with the
letter 3D. on the hip, with red-hot iron,
were pardoned, the 4th inst, by the presi-
dent, on the ground that the sentence was
barbarous and not demanded by the re-
quirements Of the service in time of peace.
......A special cable despatch to the HEARD
says the eruption of Vesuvius has become
quite alarming; perfect river of fire was
running down the volcano and nearing the
town of Cercala. The volcanic action is
accompanied by shocks, as the roar Of ar
tillerv. A general panic prevailes in the
neighborhood.. 1.-The chairman of tho
senate military committee on Saturday
completed his report, sustaining Secretary
Stanton from the charges preferred against
him by the president, and recommending
that he be restored by the senate to the
war Office. The report is yet to be adopted
by the military committee.
Charles Wolcott Brooks has been APP
pointed Consul for Japan in San Francisco.
He received his commission from the jap
anese Government by the China. This is
said to be the FIRST appointment of the kind
ever received. A letter of instructions
accompanied the commission from the
Council Of State, composed. of seven
princes Of the empire Of Japan,
the governing power since the uLdi-
cation of the Tycoon. A translation Of
the substance Of the letter states, as the
United States was the first to conclude q
treaty with Japan for the opening of the
country to foreign trade, it is eminehtly
proper the first representative should b.
from that country, as San Francisco city
in America, is the nearest to Japan, with
which they have the most frequent inter
course, and since the establishment of thu
mail steamers between San Francisco anC
Yokohama, it is expected that the trade
and friendship will increase between the
two powers, and largely augment thu
travel of the Japanese to America. They
therefore judge it best to create the Con
sulship.
The contractors of the Suez Canal work
are bound to complete it by September
LIST, 1869, under penalty of 100000 :;
month for any delay......Upwards of 1
hundred thousand letters were sent from
tho New York Post Office to Europe las
week. The number received from Eu
rope. during the same time was nearly
sxty-fve thousand......J. c. Terry, deputy
postmaster of St. Paul. informs the PROM
FER that when he came into that Office
eighteen years ago, there were four post
Offices in Minnesota-St. Paul, Fort Smell
ling, St. Anthony and Saltwater. Non
there are 53S!...... Russia has so skillfully
massed her army that two hundred thous.
and men can be seht to the Austrian OF
Turkish frontier at brief notice. ....A mil
lion and half mis-directed letters were
returned to their writer's during the past
year through the dead letter Office. IA
little three-year old girl on being told
that she was too little to have muf,
asked Indignantly: "Am too little to be
cold?'. The Boston JOURNAL OF CHEM
IsrRy says that pencil writing may be fixed
almost as indelibly as ink by passing the
moistened tongue over it. Even breathing
slowly over the lines, after writing, rem
ders them much less liable to erasure than
when not subjected to that process:
So many accidents have occurred on the
Boston and Providence Railroad in Rox-
bury, Mass, that the inha bitants have
asked that the horse power be used and the
speed reduced to eight miles an hour......
During the last ten days of the old year
there were $50 deaths in New York and
2l0 in Brooklyn. There were during the
year 23,7l0 deaths in New York, and
g. 325 in Rr0oklvn San FranciscOans