North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-08
News and Items.

News and Items.
All but five counties in the State have
reported their population to the Secretary
The counties which have reported make ;
total population of 9ll,952; the five
counties unreportcd will increase the mum
bers to 1,033,S5O. The total increase 20,
the past two years has been 10000. A.
the Assessors make their rounds early ir
the Spring, and constant and heavy It'd,
of immigration has been flowing into the
State ever since, it is safe to say that on,
total population at present is at least ] !,
100000. Every county but Dubuque
Mills and Plymouth, show large increase
Scott is the empire county, usurping the
place that Dubuque county has heretofore
held. The former has 37,6l5, and the
latter S6,946. The third in population is
Lee; Clinton, fourth; Linn, fifth. Polk
takes Des Moines county's place as sixth
and Des Moines falls back to seventh
Clayton is eighth; Muscatine, ninth and
Marion tenth. In 1867 the State had g.,
l27 $3.50 acres of land enclosed. Now il
has 1924, 476. In 1867 it had 155, 75s
dwelling houses. Now, 1880.
A few days ago member of the cabin
ct asserted that Cuba would be independ
ent in less than three months .Serrano,
the present Regent Of Spain, wants to be
made King. There was quite an anus
ing scene at the white house last Monday
Among the callers were Gen. Stokes and
| COL Brownlow, son of the old governor,
and the formers bitter political enemy.
Singular to say, the president admitted
them both at once. Stokes looked daggcrs
at Brownlow, and the latter looked deiii.
ance at Stokes. Finally their embaras>
ment was discovered, and each had Il
separate interview. Brick Pomeroy
says: "With;n the past twenty-four
hours we have been offered S25O,00O in
cash for the New York Daily Democrat
Office and paper, with the proviso that we
can take our weekly paper to La Crosse,
or elsewhere, but not to publish it within
five hundred miles of the city of New
York.
| Fremont is in Denmark. -. Charlotte
Cushman is sick at Edinburg. Roberts,
the billiardist, is bankrupt. He goes to
pocket in vain. ohm Ii. Stuart, Of
Pennsylvania, is made Consul at Turks
Island. postal, Chinese doctor in
San Francisco, gets 81 900 week for dos
ing 700 fellow Celestials.. .....A Virgins
paper calls Mrs. Stowe "a literary body
snatcher.". .Winncckc's comet may be
seen with a good glass by sitting up until
three O'Clock in the morning. Glass Of
what?
A Washington dispatch says: The
President has given unmistakablc evidence
that he has abandoned the radical element
in his cabinet, and has decided to act with
the conservatives. This intelligence comes
from cabinet member in Washington,
and may be implicitly relied on. The issue
was forced on the Virginia question, and
the President and majority of the cabin
et-even IIoar included, whose opinion is
out-dec;ded that the test oath could not
be exacted from the legislature Of that
state. Gen. Sherman also sustains the
President. Messrs. Boutwell, and Cres>
well dissented from the conclusion, and
took most opposite and radical ground
The President, through Gen. Sherman,
will probably soon order Gen. Candy to
assemble the Virginia legislature and in-
stall Gov. Walker. 1t remains to be seen
what Boutwell, and Cresswell will do.
The same dispatch says: 1t further APP
pears that there are other difficulties than
those Of southern reconstruction, causing
cabinet complications. Butler is candi-
date for the United States senate in Mas.
sachusetts against Henry Wilson. Bout.
well, uoar, and Sumner favor Wilson.
Wilson and Sumner have written letters
demanding the retention of Boutwell, aud
Hoar in the cabinet, and that the Presi
dent should yield to their demands, and
carry out the most radical policy in Vir.
ginia, Mississippi and Texas. J,
Orders have been given to prepare
designes for new issues of postage
stamps, the present ones being consid-
ed neither useful nor ornamental. The
heads of Washington, jackson, Frank.
lin, and Lincoln are to be restored in
the place of the present designs. 49,. DR.
Nelaton, the Emperor Napoleon's ply.
sician, contradicts the sensational re-
ports current concerning the Emperor
health, and says his conyalescencc will
be rapid if he takes the necessary rest
MIR. Glagstone, in a note, just
published, says the pardon of the Fen.
ians is under consideration in the cab
net......An Englishman proposes tc
excayate Mount Ararat for the remains
of the ark. Gen. Rodman has pur.
chased an estate near Davenport, on
which he intends building castle, to
be occupied, doubtless, with his own
heavy bores.. Brigham Young and
the sons Of Joseph Smith are quarrel
ling. The former has forbidden the
latter the use of the Tabernacle" but
the Gentle house of worship has been
rendered them and they puncture the
Brophet not a little. .Archbishon