North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-12
River Trade.

River Trade.
This important western interest is bein.
well cultivated this Spring. Work on tn
rivers of the west is what we want instead
of public meetings and elbow TIL,
Noha,ok recently carried freight list o
One Hundred thousand bushels of wheat 4
(Flour, reduced to wheat, includej) from
the upper river to st. Louis, to be distri
bnted among the river lines to New
Orleans, ria the Ohio or by rival Rails te
an eastern market, either Atlantic Of
transatlantic. Chicago is quitting hel
Boosting and has commenced to groan
New York is awaking to the danger of hel
Railway monopolist conventions and I,
the counter balancing importance of ar
almost free transit Of produce on the
Great River. When tbs Boards of Trade
of Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Milwau
kee and Boston, can see that we of tho
Northwest have cheap route to Europe
to Soath America, or to the West Indies
by water, free to all, they will put the
pressure of public Commercial interest
upon their Railway turtle and force Capt.
tai to run its head out of its shell. St
Louis and New Orleans are our natural
allies against the cxhorbant demands oil
Chicago and Milwaukee and their R'y
editors. Not far hence we will have the
rough, but pleasing rattle of Locomotives
from st. Paul to St. Louis, and then, with
rival lines per rail and per river, we can
''bite our thumbs" at all attempts to re.
duce our laboring men to hewers of wood
and drawers of water. There's o good
time coming, and we hope to see it. The
subject would bear a longer article than
this, but people so seldom read extended
notices, that we clese with the following
brevity: FL
Mr.. Geo. W. Twinem, Clork of George L.
Bass, of the Forwarding and Commission
trade Of McGregor, favors US with reports
as follows: Receipts per Steamer St.
Paul, Capt. Davidson, May sth, 100 kegs
nails for Hoyt & Holten, West Union 30
kegs for Sibinson & Bicknell sc packages
iron for Drake, Dayton 4 Patrick, Nc
Gregor; 10 cases Of White Lead for Weiser
of DEBORAH. E7o.
Shipped, same day, by Str. Dubuque,
Capt. Rhodes, 30 tons of Pork to st. Louis,
800 Barrels Flour to New Orleans y
Total tonnage, 81 thousand pounds. A..
Gentlemen who have been paid to make
land-route monopilies may as we'll begin
to conclude that the mater routes of the
world are entitled to q large consideration.
Vanderbilt and Fish, of New York, may
rail and run Wall Street, but they cannot
command the "frec and easy' waters Of
the RIVER Of this continent.
The Chicago Tribune recently wrote a
quiet but severe reflection on Grant s
management of public affairs. We pub
lished it, and have since learned that the
Tribune was mad because its principals or
employees got no appointments. How
this may be, we neither know nor care,
but as an diverse view, we give the fol-
lowing from Hon. VIM. Loughridge, Rep.
for the 4th Iowa District. 1t is clipped
from private letter to the Knoxville
Voter. The Tribune and Judge Lough-
ridge do not seem to agree.
OK The new Cabinet
is now organized--gives general satisfac-
radical Republicans. Boutwell, is q mag
niieent man, true to the right, and as
pure as the snow on the mountain top.
Creswell is sound and true, and will run
the. p. O. on radical principles, and put
none but loyal men in Office. Cox is .
splendid man, and good Republican.
Fish, lIoar and Borie are all true Repub-
licans and Grant is as true MS steel to the
right. lie will protect the lowly and the
weak, and enforce the law. Grant has
determined to send two negro Ministers to
IIayti and Liberia. The world moves
think we will adjourn by the 10th of
April"
We think Grant is right, in sending
negro ministers to Hayti and Liberia.
There is where the race properly belongs.
They came here, not by voluntary, but
by force, and they are entitled to return
at public expense. Let them keep going
home! .a ts4M
The Herald snys that the Democracy
shave labored assiduously for years to de-