North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-21

drifting over his body. He had found
fate which his mistress had escaped.
Backward, through vista of hanp,
years, looked Russell and his wife to tha
night Of horror in Canada, when peril re
vealed to them the full depth of their de
votion-the infinitude Of their love.
Character OF the Carpet Baggers-Ra.
dicnl Authority rs to the Rascals-
Graphic Description.
Joseph Medill, one Of the Editors of tht
Chicago Tribune, is in New Orleans, ant
is writing some very readable letters tt
that paper. In one of them, recently, HI
pronounces judgment on the carpet-bag
gers and it corroborates all that the Dem
ocrats have said Of this infamous class o
pest. Such talk as this, last year, abou
the wretches, when it appeared in Demo
cratic papers, was disloyal now it is tbt
staple talk of the most radical newspaper.
in the country:
In regard to negro office-holding, the
ex-rebels are more sensitive than abou,
negro voting; still, they declare that they
prefer negro creoles to hold Office rather
than carpet baggers. They entertain an
irrevocable animosity towards carpet.bae
Office seekers, and really cannot blame
them, for it is deplorable fact that re,3
large majority Of these gentry are scamps
and There's rotten driftwood, who have
aoated down the Mississippi, and squatted
on the Offices. They bring disgrace on the
patty to which they profess to belong.
They possess as keen scent and as rare,s-
ous an appetite for plunder as the cultures
,rho fill the air hare for putrid carcases.
The difference between these birds of prey
is that the former feast on the substance of
living men, while the latter content them
selves with the carcasses of dead animals.
1t would be safe to enter the Louisiana
for pilfering, peculating
and scoundrelism, in competition with any
of the tribe in any other part of the South.
These rascals were, many, or most of them,
appointed before the breach between
Johnson and Congress. They gave in
their adhesion to "my policy" while the
power of removal remained with the Presi-
dent. After the enactment of the Tenure
Of Office law most of them proclaimed
radicals. But johnson man
aged to get rid Of good many, and filled
their places with men of the stripe of
and Perry Fuller. But no mat
ter whether they professed to be radicals
or conservatives, they were>all alike vul-
lures, who fed and fattened on the people
and the treasury. Millions upon millions
Of State and city tares haze been stolen, and
other millions Of Federal tares hare taken
the same direction.
Mr.. Medill says that one-third of the
was stolen !; that one-half of the
custom house duties are divided between
the officials and the importers, instead of
being paid into the Treasury, and that 95
per cent. of the whisky tax due were never
that the tobacco tax was fraud
and cheat, but that this scoundrelism is
''excelled in downright unblushing dis
honesty by the State Legislature and State
lie adds, "To sum the
whole matter in sentence, official life in
Louisiana is Synonymous with fraud and
These are few of the hard
words that this ready writer uses, and he
is more severe still on the mixed Legisla-
ture of blacks and whites, that, thank the
Lord, contains no Democrats. That fea-
ture is SO graphic of radical rascality, as
viewed by one of themselves, that we tran
scribe it:
dare not trust my pen to relate what
is told me of the doings of the Legislature:
Of how money is appropriated, raised and
squandered; how bills for swindling the
public were passed, or the means employ
ed to induce the governor to sign some
bills and veto others; how gambling shops
and lotteries were chartered and how
much it cost to pass the bills, and secure
their approval. On every business street
Of New Orleans gambling hells, licensed
by the Legislature to ply tleir avocation.
are nightly in full blast. The gamblers
hire stores on the chief business streets,
hang out their banners on the outer wall,
and from first floor to attic all games of
chance, fraud and deception are carried on
from nightfall to morning, and these places
are visited by throngs of people-hundreds
gambling and thousands looking on and
learning the games, preparatory to trying
their luck in combats with the tiger.
Blacklegs are swarmipg hther from all
parts of North America, and from Europe
to prey on those less skilled in the art of
cheating with dice and cards. A bill for
the licensing of houses of prostitution was
gravely discussed and nearly passed the
Legislature and, it is believed, only failed
from becoming law in consequence of
the inadequacy of the bribery fund raised
to secure it's Observation-Disclosures forni-
cation would be carried on as openly under
protection of the law as gambling now.
This is a picture of radical reconstruct
ton. 1t is almost as bad as the Brownlow
government of Tennessee.
The HANps OF LADIEs.-Arsene IIous-
sage says in his last essay on female beau
ty:-"Irish girls have the most beautiful
hands. English girls have too Aeshy and
plump hands. The hands of American
girls are too long and narrow. The fingers