North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-16

ship lately arrived at Havre, from Vera
Cruz, with a cargo Of hair only, which
consisted principally of Indian scalps.
The hair is nearly all black, and is exceed
ingly filthy and offensive to the sense;
but it will be clenscd and purified and be-
come very soft and glossy. John e.
Whittier says: tNothing that have done
has satisfied me; and ! am painfully sen
sible of my defects as writer but sup
pose no one comes up to the ever-eluding
ideal" ..Ex- President Pierce and Gov.
Grape. of Michigan, are very i'll, neither
OF them expected to rccover......E Elk Gov.
Curtin has intimatcd that the Philadelphia
Press chad better shut up about Seymour's
having been disloyal, for it made him
(Curtin) out a fool and liar IA
backward spring is produced by present
ing red hot poker at mans nose......
The reason the Indians have such a free
swing at the whites on the frontier is be-
cause Congress has detailed 10000 of the
army down South to prop up the bogus
governments.......A California paper
speaks Of a murderer as having ga won
derful talent for beroaving any family he
does not happen to like" 1.-The Newberg
New York; Press has this good one. 1t
reaches the spot as an illustration of the
radical demand for peace: "'Why don't
these Southern people behave thelAselvcs?'
ask the radicals; they can't expect decent
treatment as long as they remain insubor
dinate and contumacious.' This, us Mr..
Lincoln used to say, reminds us of little
story in point: Mother, mother said
hopeful urchin to his maternal parent,
make Bill behave himself whenever hit
him on the head with the hammer he
4lollers ="
The following State elections are to take
place before the general election this fall:
Nebraska, October 6 Ohio, October Is /;
Indiana, October ID; Pennsylvania, Octo-
Der 10; West Virginia, October 22......
The wild Indians on the Plains number
$4,000 1t will take some time to exter.
inmate them, as some propose" Alrs
well that ends we'll" That's why girls
with small feet are counted pretty.......
The London Court Journal says Dickens
made more than 5000, 900 in America.
The War Department for the month of
August cost the public Treasury $l6,S0O,-
600, which is as much as it used to cost,
under Democratic administrations, for q
whole year. Let US have peace. Fifteen
new publishing houses have started up in
New York within twelve months. New
York horse cars are infested with bedbugs
and feas......Southern Kentucky expects
to gather twice as large tobacco crop
this season as in 1867. Coal has ad.
va1ced forty or fifty cents per ton at the
mines Of Pennsylvania.......T The death of
Abijah Mann, one of the founders of the
Republican party, is announced..... Bet
ting on the result of the Niece assassina-
ton trial is very brisk in the Canadian
ties......Gen. Ewing, OF Kansas, stumped
Maine in the interest Of the democracy. $50.
"What kind of a time did you have in the
penitentary p said u man to Il negro who
had just returned from one and half
years service for stealing. "Oh!' replied
Sambo; "a bully good time, sab. Three
hundred and seventy six Of US in there
and only one id Democrat in the whole
crowd
A creature by the name Of Leslie, who
recently kept dance house in New York,
is now leading carpet-bag Senator in
the Legislature of Georgia. lie is an
ardent member of the party Of 'grcat
moral IDEAS" Surprise weddings arc