North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-07

a mixed commission OF Turkish and British
subjects. Lima, Peru, letter say!
the Peruvian minister at Washington ha.
been instructed to settle the questions a
issue with Spain. All points that canno
be settled between the ministers of the two
countries are to be submitted to the Presi
dent of the United States, whose decision
shall be final. -Four hundred thousand
people exist in kansas......IIumbug is the
name of town in California. y. .. There arc
fifteen salocn:kcepers in the new Spanish
Cortes......Thc Atlantic cable is growing
more perfect in its insulation month by
month, it is said......It takes $4,000, 00C
yards of sacking to put up the California
grain for export. Nearly one hundred
thousand persons arc annually subsistina
by public charities and correction houses
in the city Of New York IA French pro-
verb says that Paris is the paradise of wo.
men, the purgatory of men, and the hell
OF horses. 1.-The housckceper of the Mar
quis de Ia Valettc, the French Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, is his illesitimate daugh-
ter.
The New York Times suggests that we
take Jamaica as part pay for the damages
done by English pirates during the rebel
lion......Thc modified tenure of Office law
now only lacks the presidents signature to
be in full force. The latest Washington
dispatch says he is waiting the opinion of
the attorney general upon it but that he
will certainly approve the BILL. The
Partisan jewelers. say that there are more
valuable diamonds worn at the balls given
by the leading demi>mondaines, than at
the court balls in the Tuieries. =. Congress.
will adjourn on Saturday,. The election
for state officers and Congressman, in
Connecticut. was held on Monday. No
reports up to this, Tuesday p. M....... The
pursuit for which VIC cannot ask Gods
protection must be criminal the pleasure
for which we cannot thank him cannot be
....According to an En-. lish
astronomer, the temperature Of the moon
varies alternately from that of molten lead
to that of frozen mercury. Nice climate
to live in......The Illinois legislature will
re assemble to-day, to do up its unfinished
business......J. Lothrop Motley has been
nominated as minister to England. :. The
office Of the State Record, published at
Topeka, Kansas, was destroyed by fire on
night. Several other buildings,
Including the Post Office, were also burned
.....All England is on strike. Societies
ire being formed among the operatives
md many will come to America this year.
50 says report......Louis Napoleon was
i'll at the time the last reports
we're made......Thc Supreme Court has
lccidcd to take recess from the 18th inst.
o the first Monday in October. In the
esaltender question the Court has decided
o postpone action until its next session.
A protest against the Pope, and letter
Free Masonry, has been large
y signed in Paris and other French cities
..".A filibustcring expedition, intended
o give aid to the Cuban insurgents, is re-
'orted as being fitted cut in New Orleans
nder the leadership of Gen. Steadman.....
immense quantities Of snow have recently
allen ali over the south Of Europe, and |
he telcgraphs have been interrupted in
,any places. The Senate has confirmed
be nomination Of the exrepel, Gen. Long
treet, us Surveyor Of the port of New Or
cans. 1t is now said that he accepts only
and that he is booked for a
etter position. LIN an oyster recently
AIKEN at Stamford Harbor, Conn, were
ound one hundred and twenty pearls ,
..Washburnc leaves New York for
Paris about the LIST OF May. His family
xrect to join him there some time in
September.
A member of the New YORK Legislature
gently, on returning home, left his
ockes-book in the cars, with 81 800 in it.
When the brakeman who found it, returned
to him, the grateful legislator gave him
20. and then whispered in his car quiet
Farming to this eifcct "Whcn you get
p to our place tomorrow you need Mt
ny anything about my losing my pocket
COX. You see, they wouldn't know how
came by that 81 800 exactly"
Mr.. Sumner wants the law prohibi-
ing the importation of slaves, repealed.
The actual demolition of the walls
f the fortress of Luxembourg has COM
lenced.. $50. Another plot to assassinate
he Ficcroy Of Egypt, has been discov-
red and frustrated. The Spanish
linistor of war asks for a contingent of
$1,000 men for the army for 1869. 49,.
an Francisco had another severe shock
f earthquake ON the LIST inst. A scri-
us damage done'.''''Gcncral Custar's
sst expedition has proved success.
Ie succeeded in recapturing the white
romen who were carried off by the In
ians, and the latter have promised to
0 to their reservations. .. Iowa has
early. 100000 ocrcs Of land subject
. homestead. 80. The bank of England
as advanced its rate of discount from
as per cent......The Daily Chicago
Ivening Post says: Let General Grant
top smoking double-handful of strong