North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-01-15

whittier he has led surveying party Of
the Union Pacific Railway, on the 35th
parallel through New Mexico, writes very
rosc-colorcd account of the railroading
facilities clear through to that point. The
grade is nowhere more than sixty feet to
the mile, the climate very bland, and tho
country finc.. The Kingdom Of Bavaria
is smaller than the state of New York, and
yet its standing army numbers 100000
men,. How would you measure your
lovers sincerity? BY his sighs......The
military authorities at Ottawa, the capital
of the Dominion, have found it advisable
to treble the guard around the Parliament
buildings. 49,. They are having cold snap
at st. Louis, the river being frozen over
and navigation stopped, including ferries.
......A correspondent desires to ask who it
is in Dickens novel with the ungramma:i-
cal name Of ''Our Mutual Friend" who 10
meant to play the partof the mutual friend.
Some say Boflin some say Harmon; some
say Jenny Wren some say Lizzie. We
can't answer the question. Senior Cana,
the CHILEAN minister to the United States,
has been succeeded by Senior Martinas,
and will sail for England, to which mis-
sion he hns been assigned, on the 10Th.
.....A military officer sent out from Rich
mond to Halifax. Va, reports an armed
organization among the negroes Of that
locality, and brings in supposed officer
of the came as trophy......A singular
expression Of sympathy has been offered
by IAN fisherman" who writes to a Dub
lin paper as follows, Dear Sir--I beg
to forward you the inclosed two shillings
for the relief Of the three Irishmen execut-
ed in Manchester lase Saturday,
Five British war vessels have been in
search Of a strange armed vessel, said to
lie without legal papers,. Senator Sher-
man has specimen Of the new French
coin, brought home by Professor Rugge!s.
On one side is stamped IS doilars-25
Francs," Napoleon doing us the honor to
name the dollar first. On the reverse
side is the head of the Emperor. Eight
hundred thousand dollars in specie was
shipped from New York by Saturday,
steamers. ....Mr. Edward Thornton the
| new British ambassador to this country,
sailed on Saturday for New York. The
Second Teller Of the City Bank Of New
York is reported to be defau ter ~ the
amount Of 500, 900. Cause, speculation
in stocks. ....Is is a literary curiosity, that
in our language, no word beginning with
the letters ISL" is more than merely re-
spectacle, and that nearly all of them are
decidedly mean. Instance-slink, sion Oh,
slump, slave, slope, slice, sly, slu: gard,
slit, slap, and many others. The i ip
Siebritz, from Hamburg, which arrived ut
New York on Saturday, after a passage
Of sixty days, had los deaths from chol.
era, en- route, and has now thirty-6ve -
on board. ....Gen. Meade has issued :
der .:'validating," as the telegraph has it,
AN ordinance Of the Reconstruction Con-
vention of Georgia, staying the collection
Of debts for one year. Claims for labor
are excepted. It ia also announced that
the general has removed Gov. jenkins and
appointed Gen. Dunn, member Of Gen.
Pope's staff in his place.
''Wbat air woman's spSer ?" asked a
woman's rights man of literal old codg
err, and then answered himself: ut mir
he domestic hearth, sir" The old codg.
or scratched his head moment, and then
said: "But if her house is heated with
furnaces, and she amt got no hearth, what
air her speer then ?'......A Herald special
says the recent agitation of the subject OF
the intended action of the Supreme Court,
relative tG reconstruction, has led to q
movement to effect a passage of an act
declaring that in cases testing the validity
of any law passed hy Congress, two-t irds
If the whole court shall be necessary to
effect decision. .....T The Reconstruction
Committee has agreed upon bill addi-
tional to the reconstruction acts OF former
sessions, which will be reported today in
the House. It declares that the existing
civil governments Of the so-called states
lately in rebellion are not valid, and trans.
fers the power Of appointing military com
manders from the President to General
Grant. In fact, it proposes to take oil
power of managing the lately rebellious
states from the PrcsiIn-.