North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-10-06
the Government of the United States. ;. =.
The Portage Register says: "To quiet

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Th~S4vevYdentYy radical plot on foot
to prevent the admission of Virginia when
congress meets. Not only have certain
radicals in that State and the North CON-
bined to have congress exact the test oath
of the legislature, but they have arranged
for an investigation into the election held
in July. They have also got up charges
that some of the congressman elect are
opposed to paying the national debt.
Whether this will succeed or not, remains
to be seen.
Private dispatches from Nashville say
that an informal count shows Andrew
johnson to be ahead for the senate. He
is there at work among the members, Elk
Senator Nicholson declines to allow his
name to be used.......lt appears from the
statements of Capt. c. +. Hall, who has
spent FIVE years in explorations in the
Arctic fegions, for remains Of Sir John
Fran klin's party, that there is no further
room for doubt that every member Of the
expedition long since persisted.
The Chicago Joa'nal says: Work will
begin next winter upon a magnificent
bridge across the Mississippi at Prairie
du Chien......The Spanish Government re-
fuses all offers Of mediation from other
nations in her relations With Cuba, and
it is again announced that General Sick
les, our Ministertat,Madrid, has withdrawn
his note to the Spanish Charlottesville
coal mines discovered near Fort Dodge,
Iowa, proves to be a very valuable one,
both as to quality and quantity of coal.
......Amos Kendall, who was Andrew
Jackson's Postmaster General, is lying at
the point of death, in Washington. His
physicians say that his recovery is impos-
sible.
Ex-Prcsident Pierce is in very low
state, and his recovery is doub full. The
Iowa Homestead has the following infor-
nation for its readers: Farmers, do
you want a lot of Chinese laborers? You
can get them wholesale, retail an.l pig
tail The largest gold brick cast in
Montana was made ut Helena, September
%, by Bohm & Aub. Its weight was
twenty eight hundred ounces, coin value
over S49, 600. 1.-The Tennessee Lcgisla-
ture met on Monday. A dispatch says
Andrew Johnson will be elected United
States Senator, which troubles the radi-
Gals. They fear him as the desperate
fears the hand Of justice. When Prince
Arthur was in New Brunswick the ladies
crowded into his chamber, beseeching the
valet to let them even see the cast of
clothing of the young chap; and it is Civ
en- for fact in the World that one enthu-
siastic lady kissed an old pair of pants
belonging to the valet, supposing they be.
longed to the ''dcar young man."
The Golfer dam at the Government
works at Moline, H., above Rock Island,
washed away by a rise in the Mississippi,
causing loss to the United States OF
Sl50,000, making It necessary to suspend
work for one year, and throwing eight
hundred men out of employment......Th The
Bull Run breast works are in process of
demolition. ...Adyices from Paraguay up
to August % state that Lopez has been
defeated in two severe engagements, and
had fled with the remnant Of his army.
| In, tho Euc k1,o Dnr
lost 900 in killed, 300 prisoners and IL
cannon; in the second battle they were
utterly routed, losing 25 cannon, and
being compelled to abandon all their
steamers, which fell into the hands of the
Allies. The Provisional Government of
Asunoion has declared Lopez an outlaw.
......Attorney General IIoar has given his
opinion upon the power of the Virginia
Legislature to elect United States Sena'
tors, and says they can do SO after organ
izng. as such action is not regarded as
Legislative business, and will therefore be
legal.
The late New York State Fair receipts
were $4,000 less than last year.. 1.-The
election in Texas is to continue for -four
days. This will give the carpet-baggers
time enough to figure nights upon the
amount of fraudulent voting they will
require the next day to carry out theil
schemes.
A horrible calamity occurred at the In
diana State Fair, ut Indianapolis. A
steam engine exploded, with terrible effect
. killing twenty-seven persons, and many
others more or less seriously Injured. i
= was most tragic and melancholy closing
Of the festivities Of delightful day..
Horace Greedy says he cannot accept thu
Virginia Senatorship, and is not a candi
date for any Office. Friends of the ad
: ministration, who claim to be advised o
. the Presidents purposes, say that the va
cant place on the supreme bench will b.
rendered to Judge Hoar; that Mr.. Pierre
pont, of New York, will DO nominated fo
attorney general, and that Pennsylvania
will have the position Of secretary Of war
Where to Remove the Capital.
The governor Of Iowa has appointe(