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Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
CRIMINAL STATISTICS CT
IOWA.

RETURNS FOR lSi9.--Number of
counties reported, 30; number of con-
victions twenty-eight.
Crimes-Murder /, manslaughier 4,
assault with deadly weapons 2, larceny
3, gambling 2, suffering gaming 3, OBJ.
structing roads 2, shooting domestic ami
mails /, assault and battery ,, threats 2,
breach of the peace /, sureties to keep
the peace 2 -nr'
Character, Habit, S'c.-Good and in
dustrlous 10. bad and incorporate IL,
unknown 4, can read and write IL, can
not 2, unknown 7.
Fines imposed 1900, ex penses TO
the counties 1854.
Occupations. -Farmers 8, blacksmilhs
2, carpenters S, painter /, unknown s.,
wood chopper l, mate steamboat L.
RETURNS FOR lS50.--N lumber OF
counties reported, IA; convictions, 30.
Crimes.-Bastardy /, suffering gam.
ing 2, contempt 2, overturning wagon |,
larceny 2. selling liquor without licens 5.
Character, Habits, S'c.-lndustrious
and good Ia, dissipaled 2, unknown 5,
can read and write ID, cannot 2, un-
known 5.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 8, grocery
keepers 5, laborers !, attorney /, gam
blers /, unknown 4.
Amour. of fines imposed $4lS; ex-
penses s6,347 43.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
oTTUMwA, IOWA:
Friday Morning, Jan. IT, 1851.

D A communication which appeared
in the Courier Of January &c. headed
"Des Moines River Improvement" pur-
porting to be correspondence between
the Hon. G.. G. Wright and the Secre-
tary of State, we are informed, was in
tended by the author, wholly as a
burlesque on Col. Patterson.
The Editors of this paper had moth
ing to do with it pro or con, neither did
Messrs Wright or McCleary. The au-
thor got it up without the knowledge or
consent Of either Of these gentlemen or
ourselves, and handed it in for publca-
ton, and his name is at the service OF
any one;who feels aggrieved by the pub
LEGATION.
We believe i, TO be great injury TO
the work and an insult to the good
sense of the people for the President to
ID keep his Office at a point where no work
is going on, to suit his private interests
and convenience, to the injury of the
public good. But..when we have any
thing to say about the President or any
other member Of the Board, all can bear
us witness that we are in the habit of
speaking on, plainly, SO that all can know
who we are. The author is Demo-
crat, and the blame comes from the
Pres ldent's own side of the House.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

stituents we have right to speak, but il
far from our wish to abuse the privilege.
As public journalists it is our province
also to speak of the public sentiment
We would therefore assure you, in all
the candor of which we are capable,
that the BALL OF PROGRESS AND LIBERAL.
PRINCIPLES. IS rolling! RoLLING!l
ROLLING!! and that it is gathering
momentum from every obstacle thrown
in its path and from every act of hesi-,
fancy which marks your proceedings.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

! CoRREsPoNDENTs.-The communica-
tion-"Modus Operandi of Mercury
is declined, from the fact that it would
call forth an endless number of commu-
nications for which we are not disposed
to open our columns, as they would not
particularly interest our readers. '
FIDELIA's poetry is not without merit,
Yeti would not do credit TO the author
unless corrected. 1t is not an editors
business to revise communications.
On the fourth page will be found q
contribution from the pen of that talented
au,horess, Mrs. MARY r. HALL. Our
lady readers may look for frequent con-
tribu,ions from her, in the columns OF
The Courier.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

1--WE were never guilty Of having of
fered to print quarter-sheet poster foi
one dollar and fifty cents, after an a
greement with another establishment that
fwo dollars should be the least price
charged for such job.-Rpubfc.
In reply to the above we will just say.
that we never made any agreement ,cifh
the editorsof that paper as to what we
would charge for job-work. A person
who was formerly connected with that
office, enquired of us what our prices
for doing work was, but no agreement
YVES ever made as to what we should
charge. And further the quarter sheet
poster alluded to was only an eighth Of
a sheet, and was printed for j. w. Well.
man, of this place. The Republic Of
fered to do the job for the same price
we. done it for. We will do such jobs
for that price all the time and so will the
Republic. Try to tell the truth, neigh
bors. ---.-- .....- ..--.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
Downing, the Horiculturalist,

Downing. the Horiculturalist, in a
letter from England, says:
1.-The eyes of an in6rm old woman,
to whom my having come from America
was mentioned, and who had two sons
in the new world, frightened up with a
strange joy at seeing some one from a
land where her heart had evidently been
of late more busy than at home. 'l'
was a good country she SAID; 'her sons
had bought land and were doing ia.
NOUS For a working man 10 own
land in country like this, where the
farmers are almost all only tenants Of
the few great proprietors, is TO then
minds something like holding fee sim.
pie TO part of paradise.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
Correspondence of the Louisville Courier.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81, 1859
In yesterdays proceedings, i: was re-
ported a motion to prin. 10000 extra
copies of the correspondence between
the Austrian Charge and Mr.. Webster,
gave rise to an animated debate. All
the Senators who took part in the discus
sion bore testimony to the mastery abil-
ity of Mr.. Webster in conducting said
correspondence. Mr.. Mangum said il
contained national doctrines, American
doctrines, openly and manfully ayowed
in the eyes of the world. Tie cores
pondence is published to-day. The
Austrian Charges important letter char
aclerizes the mission of Dudley MInn
to Hungary as violation Of the prime
plies of non-intervention, as announced
by Gen. Taylor, in formally protesting,
in the name of his Government, against
the proceedings of our (Anstrian) Gov
ernment, and speaks of Mr.. Mann as
spy. -. ....... .. .....s.
Mr.. Webster replies at length, in which
he handles Mr.. Hulseman without gloves.
He justilies the lively interest taken by
our Government The United States) and
our people in the events and movements
of this extraordinary age. wherever ex-
hibiIed; and, speaking of that country
as compared with America, says that the
possessions of The house of Hapsburg
are but patch upon the earth's surface.
MIR. Nebster's reply has received the
encomiums of all who heard it, and the
letters were much talked of to-day.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

CALIFoRNIANs.-The steamer Allan
tic arrived yesterday from New Orleans,
having as passengers ll6 returning Cal
ifornians, who heretofore resided in this
city and Upper Missouri, and Illinois
A few of them have been successful.
and realized from $4,000 TO $25, 900
the great majority have realized from
$1,000 to $4,000, and some thirty reach
ed New Orleans without dollar, and
dependent on their more fortunate com
panions for passage home.-lMo. Re
publican.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

THE BURLINGTON TELEGRAPH The
editor of this sprightly paper has favored
us with the Tri- Weekly since its com
meneemeni. for which, we are under ma.
ny obligations 10 him. We like the Tel
egraph, because it furnishes us with the
latest news, and also, for the fearless
manner in which it hackles the antigua
ted dogmas Of the Old Hunker wing Of
Of the Locofoco party. Go it, General
you are right. jag
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

ty There is large amount of twad
die in the Republic Of yesterday, that
we will let pass, as it is beneath our no
iice. We are satisfied it would not in.
terest anybody but those who are as sof
and lost to sell-respect as those who
publish such stuff, and think it smart.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
scorr MEETING AT HARRIsBuReH.-

ScoTT MEETING AT HARRIsBURGH.-
The friends of Gen. Scott, as the Wing
candidate for the Presidency. held a
meeting at Harrisburgh on Saturday
evening last, at which Capt. John p.
Rutherford presided. Major Sanders.
who served under Gen. Scott during the
last war with Great Britain, and Stephen
Miller, ESQ.,, addressed the meeting
The resolutions adopted are conceived in
a good spirit.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

CoLoNIzATIoN.-A proposition is be-
fore the Legislature of Kentucky to APP
.propriate $4,000 each year, for five years,
10 employed under the direction of the
Kentucky Colonization Society, in re-
moving free blacks from that State, sEd
colonizing them in Africa.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

" The editors OF the Republic say
tha. they have son more than one oeca.
sion, los. job.work, because we offered
to do it for less than they would. This
we pronounce TO be wilful falsehood.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
BaiiOtifsg for u. s. Senator from
.. Missouri. .. a..... .. .

JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, Jan. 10.
Balloling for U. S. Senator, four bal
lots with same result, as follows: III. S.
Geyer, wing, Ga; Benton So; James S.
Green, anti, 81. Yesterday nothing of
interest transpired, both Houses adjourn
ing to attend the funeral of Mr.. Reed,
representative from Lincoln county.
New York, Jan. ID.
Flour market unchanged in prices;
sales of morning reached 1900 bbls. in
Guiding No. 2 superline at 81 !, 44a$4, 62a;
for common to State; $4,Sla$4,9I for
Western and fancy and good Ohio; s4,97
ASSOC for round hooped Ohio; So, 06a
1912 for pure Genessee. Wheat with
out movement or change in rates. Corn
continues steady; small stock on hand;
Saturday, Jersey new brought Zoe
Pork, there is more enquiry, for Mess
Sl2,67 for old and $l3 new city. Prime
nominally same and firm at $9aS9,37 for
old. No change in beef market, prime
mess dull at $l4,50a $l6. Dressed
hogs are held al $3.50, small sales.
There were two arrivals yesterday
from ST. Domingo. Captain Smith, of
brig - (name losD reports market
overstocked with American produce
Provisions were selling at grea, sacra-
flee. aa.. ,s
Capt. Tanger, Of schooner Panama,
from Auxcayez, reports the port healthy
and has been SO TOR long time. Re-
ports that cholera had been raging there
were untrue.
Capt. Hampton arrived at this port on
Saturday. from Ballso, Honduras, after
a passage of 20 days. He brings sew
eral Caliiornians who came through San
Salvador. A serious skirmish had ta-
ken place between government troops
and revolutionisls, with loss to latter of
40, TO former of men. .a
Urea, N. Y, Jan. %.
Seneca Street. Church in this city, the
first Presbyterian, was destroyed by fire
last night. Loss $4,000. Insurance
$4,000.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ID.
The Commissioner of Patents denies
that any difficulty exists on the part of
the Pension Bureau for prompt execu-.
lion Of the Bounty Land Law, and issu-,
ing of warrants. Delays have been oc
easioaed by unavoidable causes. Plates
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
Population of 81. Louis.

A good many statements have been
made in regard TO the population of ST.
Louis, varying considerably in the num-
Der. The following statement, which
has been obtained from the official rolls
of the United States Census, is believed
to be entirely correct. It's to be under.
stood, that this is an enumeration of the
inhabitants as they stood on the lst day
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

THE Missouri REPUBLICAN,. comes to
us in an entire new dress, and much
enlarged. The Republican is the la'ges
and best conducted political paper pub
lished in the West.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

The coalition party have agreed TO the
division OF officers. The Democrats to
have Lieut. Governor, State Treasurer.
five Counc llors and Senator for Ne
short term. The free soliers to have a
Senator for the long term, Secretary of
State, four Councillors, State Auditor,
and Sergeant-at.Arms.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

Modesty doubles the beauties which
are seen, and gives credit and esteem to
all that are concealed.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 7.
Illinois Legislature.

In Democratic Caucus yesterday the
vote stood for Breese "a, and for Cald-
well ls. Judge Breese gave his friends
the most positive assurances that he had
no interest in or connection with Hol-
brooks charters. ....
This morning both Houses met at 10
O'Clock, and at half past ten the Cover
nor's message was received and read
The reading occupied one hour and FIVE
minutes. 1t is very able document,
and shows the true condition and amour,
of our State Indebtedness. He Is very
strong against banks--ihinks that if any
law is submitted TO the people creating
them it should be on the principle of a
co-partnership, making all stockholders
liable and open to all.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
BALTIMORE, Jan. 8.

The Richmond Reform Convention
re-assembled on Saturday and will pro-
coed TO business Immediately, having
now received census returns, for want
of which they adjourned. F.. ....
Messrs. Berrien, of Georgia, and p.
Soule, of Louisiana, have been invited
by the Richmond State Rights Associs-
ton to deliver addresses on the constitu-
tionality of the project of excluding Nor
thern products. ..... T.. ....
Rev. Benz. WofFord, of spartansburg,
S. c., has left $4,000 to build and sup
port Methodist College at that place.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
Telegraphic Dispatches,
For the Weekly Telegraph.
New York, Jan. 7.
Arrival Of the Crescent City--Cal-
ifOruia News.

2P. M.-Sleamer Crescent City has
arrived, bringing 400 passengers and ST.
100000 in gold dust, besides large
quantity in the hands of passengers
The train across the Isthmus, as alluded
10 yesterday. was attacked by muIeteers
and plundered of 100000 in gold dust,
has been recovered.
At 10 p. M. yesterday the Crescent
City saw brilliant light, and bearing
down TO it, found it TO be a vessel on fire
and burnt almos, to the waters edge
1t was apparently about 900 tons
Crescent City cruiscd around it but
could not discover any boats.
The amount of assignments of the
Crescent City are to Adams e. Co.,
$4,000; Brown Bros, $4,000; How
land & Aspinwall, 100000; Thompson
Il Hitchcock, $4,000; Wells & Co.,
$4,000; John Dewitt, $4,000; Buck
land IL Co., $4,000, &c. &c.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

Total, in the city proper,
But to this number is to be added
the population in Bremen. and
the suburbs ont OF the city lin
its.
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17

Philadelphia was settled Oct. 2e, 1902
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
Steamboat Disasters.

There is report current here that the
new steamer Magnolia has been sunk
between Bayou (D and New Orleans
She was insured at New Albany for
$4,000.
Steamer Creole was burned at New
Orleans on The 9th ult.
... WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.
The Board of Officers assembled here
on the 18th inst, TO revise the Army u
inform Dress.
The President recognizes Bartholem-
ew Watts as the Brazilian Vice Consul
for New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 5.
General Henderson, of Mississippi, is
under trial on account Of the Cuban in
yasion. 1a.aa ..
Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-01-17
Sweet Coalition.

BosToN, Jan. 7.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12
SELECT POETRY.
SPRING BIRDS.

Sweet minstres, from a sunny cline,
Welcome your notes oi mlrlh,
Thou brngest eladness 10 the heart,
And Joy to all the earth.
Ye come 10 us like loving friends,
Who have been absent long
There's cheerfulness in all thy strains,
And music in thy song.
Ye come with mornings earliest breath,
Tuning your notes OF love,
le tell the goodness aud the power,
OF One who dwells above.
love 10 hear your free wild notes,
Ring sweety in the air,
love your soft and plainlive songs,
So free from iaint or care.
Would that my heart were as light as
yours,
Birds of the golden wing,
], then, would sing merry song,
To welcome back the spring.
Your notes. sweet birds, are full of Joy.
But yet, We cannot bring,
Back to the weary heart, one song
OF Iife's pure, radiant spring.
For, hushed the Tyre, whose music sweet:
Oft filled the heart with glee,
1t gives no answering note of thine,
Sweet MARBLES wild and free.
Then sing, bright birds, beneath sunny
skies,
This is yonr hour of glee.
All soon, to soon, dread autumn's gloom
Must shroud your galety
Sing, while the sky is free from clouds,
And ere the leaflets fade
Sing, ere the flowers of sweet SPRING
time,
In earth are softly laid.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12
TIMES TREAsURE.

The first dear thing that ever loved
Was a mothers gentle eye,
That smiled as woke on the dreary couch
Tha, cradled my infancy.
never forgot the Joyous thrill
That smile in my spirit stirred,
Nor how j, could charm me against my will,
Till laughed like joyous bird.
And the next fair thing that ever loved,
Was bunch Of summer flowers,
With odors and hues and loveliness,
Fresh as from Eden's bowers.
meier can find such hues again,
Nor smell such sweet perfume;
And IT there be odors as sweet as these,
'Tis | that have lost my bloom.
And the next fair thing was iond TO love
Is tenderer far to tell;
Twas a voice, and IA hand, and gentle eye,
That daZzled me with It's spell
And the loveliest things had loved before
Were only the landscape now
On the canvass bright, where pictured her.
In the glow Of my early vow.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

combined with innate III rs for blood, marked the rising
OF the South Scavlnm from the first as one Cf the
bnodcst character, in which murder was both means and
end. No revolution Of mldrrit tincs-the great French
Revolution not excepteis blackened with such horrib,
and Magyar journals; and would fan have hoped that
the accounts On both sides exaggerated. Unhappy,
such hope is ilusory the historian indulge it
without fasying the truth Deeds have been perpctrncd
which call to mind the Hurons and Nakis of the American
forests Like them the Serbs m sters IN the art Of
torture and murder like thrm they made their unhappy
victims previously undergo all the dreadful sepso torment
pru1n ing the transition from life to death with refine
mcnt Of cruelty like ihem they vaune the deeds OF hor
ror, and honnred their cxeclrionors as heroes. -
Such unhea of atrocities inevitably called forth retaliation
Magyars and GTnans became slvaccs among sayages -
SCHLEsINGER. Pusky's edition 22-2i.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

PROCESS OF CANvAssING HAMs.-Nine
men, IN Cincinnati, a few days ago, canvass
ed 3,lOS hams in nine hours. The Gazette of
that city gives the following account Of the
process =
The ham after beng smoked, is inspected
by one individual, and passed to the paperer;
1t is then folded INTO a sheet Of slronr hard
paper, and in such manner as to exactly
fit the ham. This papering is extremely
difficult TO do as we noticed that the hands
of the individual doing this work were worn
through the skin in places, producing now
and then drops of blood on the paper. The
ham is passed to the cutter of the canvass.
who fits it with cotton sheeting; it is then
carried of by boy, who places it on the
floor in front ofthe sewers. The sewers are
arranged IN two lines, running parallel from
the rear Of the stand where the papering
and cutting Is done. The speed and per-
feet system with which this canyassing is
carried on, istruly remarkable, Each sew
er is compelled TO take the ham from the
floor, thread his needles, knot the thread,
make fine stitches, sew in strap for the
ham to hang by, sc, This IS done with
each ham.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

A Lesson FOR GlRLs.-An intelligent
gentleman of fortune, says the Bangor
Whlg, visited country village in Main, not
far from Bangor, and was Hospitality enter
tanned and lodged by gentleman having
three daughters-two OF whom, in rich
dresses, entertained the distinguished stran-
ger in the par!or, while one kept herself in
the kitchen, assisting her mother in prepar-
ing the food and setting The table for tea,
and after supper, in doing the work till it
was finally completed, when she also joined
her sisters in the parlor for the remainder of
the evening. The next morning the same
daughter was again early in the kitchen,
while the other two were in the plrlor.-
The gentleman, like Franklin, possessed a
discriminating mind--was close observer of
the habits of the young ladies-watched an
opportunity and whispered something in
the ear Of the industrious one, and then left
for time, revisited the same family, and in
about year the young lady OF The kitchen
was conveyed TO Boston the wife of the
same gentleman vIsiter, where she now
presides at an elegant mansion. The gen.
tleman, whose fortune she shares, she won
by a indicious department and well direct
ed industry. So much for an industrious
young lady.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12
OLD SERIES VOL. II, NO. 90
TIE JENNY LaND LIET.

large proportion of the ldies of New
loIk have adopted the Nj !htinra'e,s fashion
OF hitting their hair above the temples, there
by giving the phrenoogsts peep as 'twerc
behind the curtain of some very interesting
localities
"To some ladies,n says the n. Y. Mirror,
"lhe style is quite becoming but TO the ma.
iorily Of ladies it is decidedly otherwise, piv-
ing them bold, barelaced look, reminding
one Of obstinate 'cowlicks' upon the sides of
their ioreheads"
There is another fashion, sill more trying
to Iady's beauty. 1t is combiug the hair
backward over the top of the head somehow
we are not master of the drtisticaL term
1t there be one. To make this at all tolera-
bic, style of head differing as widely as
possible, from lchabod Cranes, is requisite,
and then it is nothing but a negative style
after all, with no particular grace to recon-
mend it,.
In nothing is lady's taste, good or bad
more evident than in the disposition of her
hair. We have seen fine heads so tied NJ,
like corn in husk, and so brushed up and
braided up, as to give one painful impress
sion merely to look at them Others again
with beautiful locks rolled up and slowed
away behind their ears, like troopers port
manteau on his saddle, and others still, but
no matter-"handsome is, that handsome
does and it make not hairs difference,
how one wears her hair, if she only wears
her heart in the right place.-Chicdgo Jour.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

ASINGuLAR CAsE.-A lady in Cambridge
(Mass.,) died on Wednesday last--so the
physicians said and was laid out for burial
in her winding sheet, but from the fact that
the body still retained an apparent warmth,
though there was not the slightest appear
ance Of respiration, lnterment was suspen-
ded. On Sunday the lady opened her eyes
and called to her husband, albert, give me
some Water.'
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

lhoN-FiouLDsIN IN LINEN. -IGon-moulds should
De wcued, then laid on hot waIerplate, and
o little essential salt of lemons put on the
part. If the linen becomes dry, wet 1t and
renew the process; observing that the plate
is kep, boiling hot Much of the powder,
sold under the name of salt of lemons is a
spurious preparation and, therefore, it is me-
cessary to dip the linen in a good deal of
water, and wash il as soon as the stain is re
moved, 10 prevent the part from being WORE
into holes by the acid
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

EiINEsorA,-rhe Legislature has abolished
the use Of Latin terms in the laws of that
territory, and substituted therefor the synon-
omous English words,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-12

CANNOT READ ANB WRrrE.-Accordi1~, %
tables made out from the schedule If Tho
Assistant Marshalls, there are N tho Com.
mOnwealth of Virginia, r,sorly eiob,v.,bree
THOUSAND white pe',.ops over The are of
we.Giy one VIII oanno, read and write.