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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-22
From the Sunday Times.
1 Miss Thee Kate.
BY LILLIA.

Hr
Imss thy loving smile, Katie thy smile wildly bright
I'm wishing thou vert here again,
To soothe my heart tonight;
For Katie dear thon to me- what heaven has rob-
bed me of, ga-rs 1n.t~
sister!-yes, Ilove thee with . ....
sisters kindly love.
miss thy gentle voice, Katie, Its tones rich with
musc's lore, ..s....... ... s-.-... ...
Are playing still on memory's harp,
As sweetly as of yore;
But I'm very sad, Katie, the summers past and
gone, - ..
While others sing happy songs,
My merry lay has flown. - . -e. .-. -r
miss thy guileless words, Katie, SO fraught with
hope and glee, 81 s- r..-.rs .s
That old Time with all his frowns, 1885,.
Has never chased from thee
'Tis pride bids laugh, Katie, so all may not
see, f - #a-
That Hopes bright mystic light Is out
And life mockeryi 3. r.... .-...ez ..-. ..aa.
miss thee oft-oft Katie, and in the hearts deep
is treasured up thought for thee, ..... aa
That naught will ever leave;
Then with friendships spell, Katie, to the heart
that's more strong,
Now autumn walks in summers path Ea
And dstrews dead leaves along. r
New Orleans, Sept. Z, 1851. -a.f ua a..s. -..
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written at my Mothers crave.

kv ny GKo. D. PRENTICE.
The trembling dew-drops fall
Upon the shutting flowers; like souls at rest,
The stars shine gloriously; and all
Save me are blest.
Mother love thy grave!
The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild,
Waves o'er thy head; when will it wave
Above thy child?
'Tis sweet flower, yet must
Its bright leaves to the morning tempest bow,
Dear mother tits thine emblem; dust
Is on thy brow.
And could love to die;
To leave untasted life's dark, bitter streams,
BY thee, as erst in childhood, lie,
And share thy dreams.
And must linger here,
TO stain the plumage of my sinless years,
And mourn the hopes to childhood dear
With bitter tears.
Ay, must linger here,
Alonely branch upon witherd tree,
Whose last frail leaf untimely scre,
Went down with thee!
Oft, from lifes withered bower,
In stlll communion with the past, turn, .
And mdse ON thee, the only flower
In memory's urn.
And when the evening pale,
Bows, Ike announcer, on the dim, blue wave,
l stay to hear the night-winds wall
Around thy grave,
Where Is thy spirit flown?
~ gaze aboye-thy look Is imaged there?
listen and thy gentle tone
Is ON the air.
o, come, while here Ipress
My brow upon thy grave; and, in those mild
Aud thrilling tones of tenderness,
Bless, bless thy child!
Yes, bless your weeping chd
And DER thine urn-religion's holiest shrine
o, give his spirit, undehled,
h To blend with thine,
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A Soft Place.

!. H4-s a. a ? ~ .sF
aIwas down to see tie widow, yesterday"
said Tins uncle, T" and she gave me a back
bone for dinner. went down rather esIly in
the morning; we talked and laughed and chat
ted and run on, she going out and in OCCASION
ally to see things till dtiiper was ready, when
she helped me graciously to the back-bone.-.
Now I took it as a symptom of personal ap-
probation, because everybody knows / like
back-bones, and hattered myself that she
had cooked them on purpose for me.sa So /
grew particularly cheerful, and ! thought that
could see it in her too So after dinners. 90
Twas sitting beside the widow, afancicd we
both felt sort of comfortable--I know i did -
felt that / had head and ears and heart in
love with her. and Iimagiaed from the way
she looked, that she had fallen teeth and toe,
nails IN love with me. She appeared for all
the world like she thought it was coming, that
was a-going to court her. Presently, I
couldn't help it, l laid my hand softly upon
her beautiful shoulder, and remarked, when
had placed it there, in my blandest tone, Tim,
for had tried to throw my whole soul into
the expression-I remarked then with my
eyes pouring love, truth and fidelity right into
her widow, this is the incest, softest place
ever had nv hand in all nv life.' Looking be-
nevolently at me, and at the same time flush
ing ups little, she said in melting. winning
tones, doctor, give me your hand, and I'llput
it on much softer place. In moment Of
rapture I Consented, and taking my hand she
gently, very gently, laid it on my head--and
burst into laugh that's ringing in my ears
yet. Now Tim, | haven't told this to living
soul, but you, and by jinks you mustn't but I
could not hold it longer, so tell you; but
mind, itmusn't go any further" spirit Of the
Times.
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Our idleness is another q eat evil. In the
town of Somewhere lives Mr.. Manygirls. with
family of grown up daug ghters; once he was
poor, but now he is runously rich. He trains
up his daughters to do nothing, and their heads
are as empty as the blocks on which their bon
nets are shaped. These girls doing nothing
themselves, have seven persons employed on
them, and thus more available stock for labor
is lost On the other side of the way lives
Mr.. Manyboys, who has seven sons, like the
daughters last mentioned. They do nothing,
know nothing. In summer they wander from
pond to pond, angling, rod in hand, with a
worm at one end and a fool at the other. These
pairs perhaps marry, and raise children, who
in their turn do nothing but live on their grand
fathers bones, until some crisis like this ruins
their wealth and forces them to work. aasEaal
Then another great cause is our rashness Of
enterprise. Our young men start in the race
with small means and perhaps small talent,
and in the dark leap four or five of the bitches
in their way, only to stumble into the SIXTH
This, however, is not so bad. His failure will
teach him lesson and give him a ,ightto shape
better course afterwards. Then again we
are not by any means too honest, but in this
we are improving, for the best merchant Of a
hundred years ago would hardly be admit ed
on 'change to-day. Once again, our system
of buying and selling on long credits is great
evil We buy easily to-day, because payday
is a long distance off. ,s.assaeg
Then AGAIN, and lastly, our crowning trouble
in the mind Of the speaker, was our way of fix
ing value on that which has no value. We
stamp our paper and call it money, and as we
can stamp as much as we please, we think
money isplenty. This is an error. Real money
is only to be got by real labor, and should cost
as much to raise it as it does to raise any 9TH
er article Of real worth. Our paper money be-
ing plenty, and being as we say H good as the
gold," our gold goes to where they think more
of it. Everybody having plenty OF money,
(paper) our imports are large and must be
paid for in hard coin. We think paper is as
good as gold, but France and England don't,
and when they get all our money, we go down,
as now we are down. Our crisis comes as it
has come. ard here we have the reason. The
speaker thought the days were dark, but hoped
that brighter skies would give us better rules
of trade, and that this panic should be our last
His remarks were very attentively listened to-.
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The virginia Democrats.

The Hon. Robert Hunter next year vacates
his chair in the u. s. Senate. Thereupon
'war exists" among the Virginia Democrats,
as to who shall sit in it next. The champlons
of the respective factions are the Richmond
South and the Richmond Enquirer.
The Enquirer wants that chair for Gov.
Wise. The South declares that Hunter shant
be crowded out. The Enquirer says then Hun
ter must hurrah for Buchanan, aud throw up
his hat for Walker. The South replies Walk
er is traitor. The Enquirer mutters s.Dis-
uAionists." The South retorts, sold fogies and
cowards!" "War to the knife, then!' figures
out the Enquirer. "Give us the head of Walk
er," bloodily responds the South. "Common
rumor says Keitt has bought you up," insinu-
ates the Enquirer. "Common lumor lies"
boldly retorts the South. The quarrel spreads
Tie Charleston Mercury walks up and blows
bias, for secession-its specific in all emer .
gencies Mississippi editors look through
the dictionary for hard words to pelt the Pres
ident, and hit upon the happy expedient of
calling him san Abolitionist." Thereupon,
the New Orleans Delta pitches into JEFF. Da-
Wis; and jeff. Davis swears he'll reopen the
slave trade. So they go, knocking one anoth-
er down like row of tenpns.
Meanwhile the prudent, peaceable old par
ty organs in the rural districts, like the Fred
ericksburg Recorder and the Southside Demo-
ocrat, venture into the ring, imploringly en-
treat.-"Now, do pray, gentlemen, be quiet.--
There really isn't any quarrel," ect., ect,,
while the Richmond Wing gleefully caps its
hands like bottle holder at prize fight, and
eggs on the combatants with SEQ in Bob Hun
terl"-"GWe it to him Wise!"-the whole OPP
position press Of course echo and cry encore.
How it will end remains to be seen.
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When unblushing imnoralities are abroad,
we need to re-assure ourselves that virtue is
not phantom, nor religion pretence. None
but bad men think that; and il we credit it, it
only shows how low our spiritual life has
gone. We may have thrust upon us, even to
loathing, the recitals Of iniquity things hith-
erto deemed most sacred may be dehled ont of
some impure heart. Satan may seem to be
going up and down the earth unbound every
offence known to the code may be perpetrated,
and then proclaimed; we may be left to the
dismal alternative between the prisoners Grim
inalitY and the perjury of the witness ;-still,
and nevertheless, look about you, and close at
your side, and all over the land, for every such
revolving apostacy, you shall find hundreds of
answering men, unblemished homes, blame
less youths,-women pure in heart,-great
hosts of Gods elect, unreported and unpraised,
moving as before, on their quiet missions of
beniic cent and chaste integrity. Let US never
part with generous confidence in mankind.
Faith IN goodness here, has close kindred
with faith in the goodness of heaven. When
a man loses his trust in human principle, and
talks of the universal corruptibility of his kind,
he only notifies us that earnest and noble SEN
timents are fast perishiug in his own breast
To part with holy affections, is the natural
way to disbelieve in their existence. Charity
believeth all things, sufereth long, thinketh
no evil and covers multitude of sins. Men
may stumble and fall but humanity is not lost.
For God made it in the image of himself !;
His providence upholds and guides it; His
Christ has redeemed it; and his Holy Spirit
re-quickens, renews and sanctifes it, whenev-
er faith and love consent that it shall be so
blessed. d.-Relgious Magazine.
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% The lives of British authors prove that
poverty has been the ally of genius. Bacon
lived life of neanness and Distress, Sir Wall
ter Raleigh died on the seafIold: Spenser died
in want; Milton sold his copyright of 'sPara-
disc LostD for fifteen pounds, and died in oh
in the streets; DRYDEN lived, in poverty; Steele
was in perpetual war with the bailifs; Cold
smiths '.Yicar Of Wakefield'' was sold for a
trihe, to save him from the grasp of the law;
Richard Savage died in Bristol jail for debt of
eight pounds; Butler lived in penury and died
poor; Chatterton, the child Of genius and mis-
fortune, destroyed himself.
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From the Ladies Home Magazine.
A Thorn in the Memory.

llARTLY BANCROFT was. in the general ac-
ceptation of the Term, kInd-hearted man.
His feelings were easily reached, and these
gave, unusually, ready impulse to his actions.
But quick feeling has, in most cases, two
fold range, warming now into kindly emotion
and now burning with sudden anger. Your SO
called kind-hearted men are often betrayed in
to cruel words, and even cruel actions. But
there is this merit about them; when the heat
OF passion subsidies they repent, ani some
times seek to heal where they have wounded
Such man was Hartly Bancroft. While
the current Of events ran smoothly along, the
surface Of his life reflected the unvarying sun
shine, but very little obstruction sufiiced "a
ripple the waters, and then their aspect dark
ened.
One day Mr.. Bancroft was sitting at hls
desk, with pile Of checks and bills before
him, the sum of which he was taking prepara-
tory to deposit in Bank. 1t was late in the
day for him to be figuring up his account;
but he had unusually heavy payments to make
and the mountnecessary to lift his notes ha
been obtained with difficulty. Mr.. Bancroft
felt both hurried and worried, as his quick.
nervous movements showed.
just at this nauspicious moment man en-
tered the store, and walked quickly back to
where Mr.. Bancroft was sitting.
.sGood-day, Mr.. Cartwright!'' @
There was not very coadal tone in the
syoice Of Mr.. Bancroft, although the other
was customer who had bought of his goods
freely.
"Good-day!' There was an embarrassed
air about Mr.. Cartwright.
"What can do for you?" twas only a
I rm Of speech on the part OF Bancroft, or
rather new form of saying, "Dont ask me
for anything.
Now it happened that Mr.. Cartwright was,
on that day, in very "tish place." as it is
called. It was two o'clock, and all of his ef-
forts to get the full amount of money he need
ed had failed. Several notes had matured, and
among them one Of seven hundred dollars Civ
en- to Mr.. Bancroft. All but this he had sue
ceeded in lifting; and now, frightened at the
aspect Of things, he had come very reluctantly
TO his creditor, whom he only knew as a kind
hearted man, to state the extremity of his case,
and ask check for the amount of his note,
as a temporary loan.
81 am short seven hundred dollars. Can
You help me?"
.No!" was the answer, made in an emphat-
ic tone, and with knitting of the brows.
MIR. Bancroft noticed that his words seemed
TO stagger the applicant for money; he also
aoticed that he grew pale, and had a look of
singular distress. But Mr.. Bancroft was too
much excited and annoyed for these things to
have upon him at the time any right influence
"Then," said Mr.. Cartwright, "you will
have to withdraw my note from the Bank.
cannot lift it,,
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suspension of Specie Payments
"A Neminiscence.

The first general suspension Of specie pay
ments in this country occurred in September,
1914, Immediately after the capture of the City
of Washington by the British. The banks in
New York, and those in the South aud West
suspended, aud did not resume generally for
three or four years, till after the bank of the
United States was starteG-many never re-
sumed at all. None of the Banks in New En-
gland, however, suspended during the disas-
trous periods Of the embargoes aud war. rea
The general suspension of specie payments
by the banks in 1887, began in New York,
May 10th. The next day. those of Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, followed suit
There were no telegraphs in those days, but,
as fast as the news was carried from city to
city by the mails, the banks universally s'let
down" at few hours notice. In fact it was
the best thing they could do. a... ...f
The banks generally throughout the Union,
made an effort at resumption in 1886. but al
most universally broke down in the operation.
The Legislature of New York legalized the
suspension of their banks for one year. They
accordingly, all resumed May 10th, 1888, and
sustained themselves for three or four years
during the disastrous times that followed
The resumption was not thorough and general
throughout the Union until 1S43-'44.
When the New York banks resumed in
1s43, their business being then on specie ba-
sis, Exchange on that place from all other
points rose enormously high. Itranged from
10 to copper cent premium.
The suspension in New York in 1887, was
preceded by a period of unprecedented COM
mercial distress. Three hundred paying firms
failed there that spring with liabilities ,esti-
mated at 100000, 600, and it was said that
10000 men, dependent on their labor for tn cir
support were thrown out of employment
The pressure was equally severe in other pla-
ces one hundred and sixty-eight firms failed
In Boston d;iring the six months preceding
the suspension. In New Orleans, as every
western man will remember, business was
transacted on most inflated scale. In two
days, houses stopped there, owing in the ag-
gregate 00,000.0 900 and it was stated in The
papers that the liabilities Of the house of H. s.
J. Dick reached sl5,0oO'ooo, and that their
bank payments the day before they stopped,
reached $4,000. A general bankrupt law
was necessary to clear the country Of these
wrecks. 80 '-' "s.s1
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Law Of NEWSPAPERS.

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the
contrary, considered wishing to continue their
Inscription
g. II subscribers order the discontnuance of their
periodicals the publisher may continue to send them
until all arrearages are paid
g. If subscribers neglect refuse to take their pc
riodicals from the office TO which they directed
they held responsible till they have settled the BILL
and ordered them discontinued.
A. II subscribers remove TO other places without in
forming the publishers and the papers sent to the
former direction, they are held responsible. F car
The Courts have decided that refusing to take pc
riodieals from the Office, removing and eav them
uncalled for, is PRIMA evidence of Intentional
fraud
gH- Postmasters neglecting to inform publishers,
when papers not taken from the Office, lay them
selves liable topay the subscription.
1t is also their duty In such cases. to notify the pub
Usher that the papers taken out by those they
are senl and the why they not II known
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ca AT one time, Wesley was travelling in
Ireland, his carriage became fixed IN the mre,
and the harness broke. While he and his
companion laboring to extricatei it, poor
man passed BY in great distress. He said that
he had been unable, through misfortune, to
pay therent OF twenty shillings, and his fami-
ly had just been turned out of DOORS. SIS that
all you need % said Mr.. Wesley, handing him
the amount" here go and be happy Then
turning to his companion, he said pleasantly,
."you see now why our carriage stopped here
in the mud. - sss
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of the Democracy,

The fall campaign of the black democracy
appears to be marked with unusual tribulation.
Grevious dissensions at home, rend the party
iu a most pitable manner. In Ohio there is not
only great detection of the foreign vote, bat
the natural proclivities of the democracy to-
wards Knownothingsm, is prompting large
numbers to forsake their own ranks and sup
port the American candidate for Governor in
that State. The already slim chances for the
success of the democracy in Ohio, are daily
growing beautifully less.
In Wisconsin, besides similar detection of
the German population, special trouble has
arisen in the democratic camp in the fact that
Gross, the democratic candidate for governor,
is now posted upon the record as having, but
few years siuce, been exceedingly active in
framing and circulating petitions that "nig-
gers'' be alleWed the right Of suffrage,
Now, this is a dead shot between wind and
water, for Douglas and his party have just en-
tered into the pro-slavery contest with fresh
zeal, charging all the diref4l results to flow
from the possible equality of the much dread
ed negro, upon their opponents. By all means
they wanted a clean record undefled by any
such suspicious; ans 10! now, the tainted rec
ord of their candidate, stained by thls special
sir, above all others to be deprecated, is thrust
in their faces
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G A statistical writer has estimated that
the value of the buttons worn Oh the backs of
gentlemen's coats, where they are entirely use
less, is large enough in the aggregate to sus-
tain all the public asylums in the United
States s --s@ fstHs a =" h4H tts
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eT There are two kinds Of family jars; in
to one you put sweet-meats, and in the other
you put-your foot.
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GBTA A Good story is told Of Yankee who
went for the first time into bowling alley,
and kept firing away at the pins, to the immi-
nent peril of the boy, who, so far from having
anything to do in "setting up' the pins, was
actively engaged in endeayoring to avoid the
balls Of the player. which ratified on all sides
Of the pins, without tou,hing them. At
length, a fellow seeing the predicament tie
the boy was in, yelled out, as he let drive an
other ball, "stand in among TIE pins, bab, il
you doAt want to get hitl'' F3 ss'h
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. US Two persons contending very sharply
on matters regarding late election, got 20
rather high words, when one Of them. said,-'
"Yon never catch lie coming out Of my
mouth" The'other replied, s'You may we'll
say that, for they fly out SO fast that nobody
can catch 'em.n q ,assirsa
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GT A word for the ear Of single men. 1t
strikes us that there Is a Sword Of wisdom'' in
the following quoiation--brief as it is:
"Every school boy knows that kite would
not fly unless il had string tying it down.,
II is just SO in life The man who is tied
down by half a dozen blooming responsible
ties and their mother will make higher and
stronger flight than the bachelor, who. having
nothing to keep him steady is always found
ering in the mud. II you want to rise in the
world tie yourself to somebody's lsals4a
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oW An exchange paper says the most dig
nifed. glorious and lovely work Of nature is
woman--the next, man-and thirdly. the Berk-
shire pig. ~ 81 -
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GT There is nearly as much ability re4ai-
site to know how to make use of good advice,
as 10 know how to act for ones self. ASA
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Gy The ministry is a noble profession, aad
rich in interest to him who loves it : to him
who does not it is life OF drudgery.
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F Us Trees withdouble flowers are, too ef-
ten the emblems of friendship--there is plenty
of blossom, but NO fruit. 5lsg ca asf .vs
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% Whatsoever the base rsaani finds evil in
his h. own soul. he can with ease lay upon an
other. Ri9 ~ ts %oSs tNes = " 'l'sa4
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4 GE' You need little air,p said a phvsi-
clan to maiden patient. .g'.H l do,'' was the
reply, '''li wait till ! get married" Bolus
looked thoughtful. ea1 FEse kp- xseex
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ey Punch teaches book keeping in three
words ..Neyer lend tlfe;n,