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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-22

II you Gold folks) are in hurry, or not,
don't get behind young ones returning from
church. Music In front, always. XIII
MARRIED. lon the 18th inst, BY A. Lot
speich, Esq. Mr. JAMES PEssrwELL and Miss MsLIssA
PLAHcHs, al Of this city.
On the 18th inst by the same, Mr.. JACOB MYERS and
MISS CHRISTIAN RolIy, oil this city. =.
On the 18th Inst, BY Rev. J. +. Robert, Mr.. A. A.
STUART, Of this city, and MISS FANNY AsPINwALL, Of
Boston, Mass.
New Advertisements.
8. M. PETTENG1LL 4 CO.
Are our authorised Advertising Agents for New York.
READs READ!
r. II A d !! !!
Grand Opening Of
SUMMER & WINTER GOODS,
,io 0 AT
JOIN HENRY 4 SONS
NEW STORE,
OPPOSITE FARLEY Co., Stove Store. s.
OTTUMWA, .. IOWA.
WYE HAvEjust received one Of the BEST, Finest
w and CHEAPEST Stocks Of Goods that was ever
brought within the city limits OF Ottumwa.
Such bargains we offer never offered before.
We don't pretend 70 praise up Gun GooDs too much,
but all we say Is
"conR AND LOOK FOR YOURSELVES AND You WILL De
coSvisoED o. rHs FACT"
We viii try and stick to the motto, ZONE PRICE ONLY
and JUsrICE to ALL !" lss e3 ettt'4
Below will be found a:smsll memoir ndum OF goods
on hand at Henry Sons New Store: ~
PRINTS, Of all the celebrated Makers for instance
Merrimscki, Cochecoe's, Pacific, Dunneiis, Phillips
Allan Sons, etc.
LARGE LOT OF ,DOMEsTICs OF ALL KINDS,
Also, Fine Dress Goods for Ladies, such as Silks,
Challies, DeLancs, Lawns, &c.
fun stock of White Goods, such as swsses, Plaid
Jaconets, Plain Jaconetss &s.
Embroidered Goods at prices very low.
GRAPE sHAwLS, together with large lot Of all
kinds Of fancy Shaw at prices to suit the hard tRes
AAN7YLLAS ~
N.iN71LLAS,
MAN7YLLAS,
Or 0CR OWN MANUFACTURES, the very best and new
est Styles and well made extraordinary low prices
TRIMMINGS OF ALL KINDS-NOTIONS, all kinds
at low prices.
In fact anything you should want that you do see
In this advertisement, inst step into HENRY Sons
New Store where you will certainly find It.
We also have large and complete assortment Of
Fresh Groceries, Fresh Groceries
Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Rice, Molasses, White Fish, &C.
Asyou pass, please step in and look We are nj
ways willing to show our goodsnO trouble whatever
JNO. HENRY 4 SON.
July o. 1S5S-n2i-y
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ATTENTION aiUARI

ATTENTION GUARD S.
UNHERE will be meeting OF the Ottumws City
Il Guards, at the Court House, on next Saturday
evening at O'Clock. Members and all who are interes
ted In the Company will please attend.
BY order Of the Captain.
W. w. FARLEY, Orderly Sergeant. "a ~
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"HO! Every one that Thirsteth,
COME NE TO THE FOUNTAIN,
DURE SODA WATER, made with Nichols
IL Celebrated Mineral Water Apparatus, for sale BY
ELMENDORR,
July 1st-n1S-2m Druggist, Ottumwa.
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WANT What you owe Milburn 3 Co., and In
II tendto have II BY some means before long. have
made up my mind to all delinquents Who are such
June lst next So look out T. J. WILLIAMS
May 18th 1868 nol1 81 771T7'sf
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We think that our neighbor, the Statesman.
was greatly mistaken last week in stating that
the feeling for Trimble, in Davis and in this
Country, partskes Of the nat,rs Of enthusiasm
or anything Of that sort. It partakes more
Of The nature Of total indifference thar any
nomination within our recollection. In feet
IL is matter of sommon talk hereabout mat
this nomination was made upon considerations
entirely independent Of the powers Of Mr..
Trimble to inspire enthusiasm, in every re-
spect independent OF Mr.. Trimble himself
II Is well understood here that Mr.. Trimble's
claims and qualifications for this nomination
had nothing to do with it, or Far less than the
designs OF another Gentleman upon nomina-
ton for another Office. Trimble's nomination
was good deal like some French marriages,
one OF convenience, not Of his swn, but OF an
other man. In other words Trimble was like
Mr.. Weller sswictim of circumstances.''- -
The result. Of the election will show him to be
such in more senses than one.
BY the way, we should like TO know, and
we would PROFOUND the question to the States
man, il we had the least idea that it would be
answered candidly and explicitly, we should
really like to know where this Mr.. Trimble,
whose nomination is received, not with enthn-
sasm, only some nameless thing bearing some
resemblance TO II, stands upon the political
questions and issues Of the present age Of the
world. The Statesman, with q great flour
ish, locates him on the constitution and the
Cincinnati platform. and we think likely it
could just as easily Lave located him on Noah's
Ark il it had tried. We beg respectfully to
remind our esteemed neighbor and cotempo-
rary that if he could consistently have located
his candidate somewhere about here, perhaps
some good gnesser might determine whether
the gentleman has given his attention to, or in
his retirement in Davis county, has even
heard Of, anything bearing upon tina interests
of his country and race, besides or in addition
to the venerable documents TO which refer
ence has been made. Unfortunately, the
noise and confusion, we presume. prevented
it. Mum is a very convenient nag to ride,
when it is dangerous to mount any other.
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NEEDHAM HOUSE,
Corner Of Lafayette and Harrison Streets,
IOWA.
SIS. NEEDHAM, Proprietor.
DOCTOR !. L. TAYLOR,
pyeo Dhyys;o;o

DOCTOR J. L. TAYLOR,
Practicing Physician,
a NNOUNCES TO the citizens Of Ottumwa and vicin
~ ity that he has resumed the practice OF his pro-
fession ONCE for the present. At his new residence,
ON the Hill, near Judge Hendershott's.
July 15-n209-M
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATKON.
DUBLIC Procession, Grafton, songs by the 'Bards,'
Il and music by the Band. grand display Of ire
works, admission free. mass meeting, and (not)
free Barbecue Firecrackers torpedoes rockets ser
penis, wheels, &C., &c. At the same time may be
found At my store fresh supply Of Butter Crackers,
hgs, raisins, nuts Of all kinds candles and extra
quality OF Soda Water to wash them down. Admission
free. children half price. VIZ. y. ELMENDORF,
July ist n1S-2m Druggist, Ottumwa.
lust NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lye," one Can
- VIM make Is gallons Son Soap, "and no ie" %
cents Can. Also, Babbitts Potash, In pound Cans
July SNIP Inn ELMENDORR.
IUST RECEIvED-Freshs selected Figs, only 20 cents
- pound: Also, Raisons, Figs, Dates, Nuts, &c.
To Invalids, Physicians and Others.
lust RECEIVED lot Of nne Blackberry Brandy.
- for dlsrrhoea; also, Claret, Port, Madeira and
Sherry Wine. warranted pure, By. sil..,s. ~.
July S-u19 I'm. ELMENDORf ~
EvREsH BURNING FLUID-Ope dollar TslIon-
- and anything usually found In : Drag Store 70
be found 1t ELMENDORP
$50 ss Apothecasy. RichArd's Building,
vi -TS
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ture OF races that the inferior race bears the
superior down. Why. Judge, il we do not let
them get together in the Territories they won't
mix there. Immense appl,use.)
A vcice-sThree cheers fol Lincoln" (The
cheers were given with hearty good willy
Mr.. Lncoln-I should say at least that thai
is self evident truth.
Now, it happens that we meet together once
every year, sometime about the 4th Of July,
FOR some reason or other. These 4th OF July
gatherings suppose have their uses. II you
will indulge me, will state what suppose to
Be some OF them.
We are now mighty nation, We are thirty
-or about thirty millions Of people. and we
own and inhabi. about one-ffteenth part Of the
dry land Of the whole earth. We run our
memory back over the pages Of history for
about eighty-two years and we discover that
Ne were then very small people in point Of
numbsrs, vastly inferior to what we are now,
with vastly less extent Of country,-with
vastly lees IT everything we deem desirable
anong men,-we look upon the change as
exceedingly advantageous to US and to our
pos:srity, and we fix upon something that
happened away back, As in some way or 9th.
q being connected with this rise Of prosperi-
". We find . race Of men living in that day
whom we claim y our fathers and grandfath-
sss they wers iron men, they fought for the
priscipis int they were contending for;
end " underwood that BY what they theo did
Il has followed that The degree Of prosperity
that W How enjoy has come TO ~. We hold
tAis. aanusl celebration to remind ourselves Of
s III IL god done in this process OF TINA, Of
how II wss done and who did it, and how we
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II you Gold folks) are in hurry, or not,
don't get behind young ones returning from
church. Music in front, always. XII
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slavery upon any other creature. [Applause. ]
Let us then turn this government back into the
channel in which the trainers Of the constitu-
ton originally placed 1t. Let US stand firmly
by each other. II we do not do 30 we are
turning in the contrary direction, that our
friend Judge Douglas proposes-not ipten-
tionally-as working in the traces that tend TO
make this one universal slave nation. "a voice,
'sthat is so.") He is one that runs in that di-
rection, and - such resist him.
My friends, have detained you about a.
long % desire to do, and l have only to say,
let US discard this qubbling about this man
and the other man-this race and that race and
the other race being inferior, and therefore
must be placed in IN inferior position.-dis.
carding or standard that we have left us.--
Let US discard all these things, end unite q
one people throughout this land, until we shall
once more stand up declaring that al men are
created equal.
My friends, could NOT, without launching
of upon some new tropic, which would detaiu
you too long, continue tonight. (Cries Of
ego on.') THANK you for this most extern
sive audience that you have furnished me to-
night. leave you, hoping that the lamp Of
liberty will burn in your bosoms until there
shall no longer b doubt that al men an
created free an equal.
Mr.. Lincola retired amid perfect torrent
OF applause and cheers.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

NEBRASKA LEGIsIArURE.-Thc Omaha
Ncbraskan extra, gives an account of a
split in the Nebraska Legislature, 81
members of the House and 8 of the
Council, headed by Speaker Decker
of the House, had gone to Florence
while the minority remained in Oma.
ha, having possession of the journals,
&c, adjourning from day to day. The
majority were incenscd at being foiled
in their efforts to remove the seat of
government, by the Governors veto.
The Legislature have enlivencd their
proceedings by expclling Mr. Robert
son, of the Omaha Ncbraskan, from
the Hall where he was acting as re-
porter. He has, it seems, reviewed
the political history of some of the
members. One of the gravcst charges
against him was calling one of the
members "a small potato !"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

AMERICAN WArcHEs.-The prediction
of Mr.. Banks in his address at the
Crystal Palace, that in America we
should shortly be able to manufacture
watches for three dollars as good as
arc now made in England for three
hundred, seems to give some promise
of being realized.
A watch factory has just been
established at Waltham, Mass, by
Appleton, Tracy a. Co., where the
separate parts are all accurately
stamped out by machinery and fitted
by hand. The jewels are bored by
hand, and the corresponding pivots
fitted to them by females. All watches
are made alike, so that they can be
easily repaired, and any part of one
size will exactly fit any other watch
of the same size, so that they can
easily be repaired and reftted. The
simplest kind of lever watch without
the fusee, is the form adopted, and
they can turn out about ten thousand
per annum.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
Travelling Sketch.

A young man who was formerly en-
ployed in this Office lately started on
a journey to Fort Randall on the up.
per Missouri, and when at Council
Bluffs wrote back to us as follows un.
der date of January 18th, 1853:
On leaving st. Charles !
expected to find a stage route from
Cedar Falls through to Sioux City, but
on reaching that place the stage agent
informed me that should have to 60
by way Of Iowa City. | reached the
City on the 18th. Business there was
very dull The capitol building is now
occupied by the Iowa State Universe
ty. Leaving Iowa City next morning
came directly through to Dcsmoine
the new capital Of the State. The
Legislature was to begin its session
the next week, and great preparations
were being made for it, The site for
the town is a well chosen spot. The
new capitol stands upon the East bank
of the Dcsmoine River upon beauti
full cmincEcc, is four stories high and
built Of brick. 1t commands fine
view of the town and surrounding
country, and is an elegant and con-
venient cdificc.
At Dcsmoinc / took the stage fol
Council Bluffs. The country lying
West of Desmoinc is the most rolling
and picturesque of all the choice lands
of Iowa. Although this region is al
most entirely composed of hills, swells,
ridges, valleys and bottom lands,
thrown together in the most grand
and poetic manner, there is scarce
ly an acre of waste land in the whole
of it; even the highest points are
covered with luxuriant grass and
vegetation, or timber. The upland
prairies are extremely rich and pro-
ductive
Council Bluffs City is located three
miles East of the Missouri River, d.
rcctly opposite Omaha in Nebraska.
Council Bluffs was first settled by the
Mormons. In lS49 it contained 1000
inhabitants; now there are about 5000,
the Mormons having nearly all emf
grated to Salt Lake.
Council Bluffs is the county seat of
Pottawattamic county. An overflow
ing stream, called Indian Creek, runs
through the town, and upon the high
points of the adjacent bluffs the coun-
try may be seen for many miles around,
including broad slope of the varied
and beautiful lands of Nebraska. The
inferior or Western portion of Ncbras-
ka is more mountainous and barren,
and almost entirely destitute of tim
Der and water. 1t is of little or no
value except for grazing. The first
newspaper printed in Nebraska was
the Nebraska Palladium published at
Bellevue and started in the fall of
1854. The weather here is perfectly
delightful. To-day is really summer
day. Tomorrow | start for Sioux
City by stage, and thence proceed by
Government express to Fort Randall.
Yours, truly, HEB.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
The Wayerly Rcpublican has a long

The Waverly Republican has long
critique upon our article of few
weeks since, in reference to the mails
and NJ. o. Walkers connection, or non
connection, herewith. The editor says:
awe fail to see the ground of the Sc
we're condemnation heaped upon Walk
en-" Very well: then it is great folly
in you to undertake to write upon mat
tiers of which you know nothing, as is
evidently the case in the present in
stance. We, and all st. Charles peo-
pie, know altogether more upon the
subject than we wish we did. The
treatment under which our people have
suffered is such, that they are unani-
nous in the determination to have a
stage and mail line independent of
Walker, Notwithstanding his notorious
penchaA for breaking down all compe-
tition. Such a line is in successful
operation from McGregor via. Fort
Atkinson, Jacksonville and Chickasaw
to ST. Charles.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

HENRY j. Mario & Co.-Thc large,
elegant and well filled Hardware
Store of Henry J. Nazro & Co., is one
of the Institutions of Milwaukee, and
we rejoice to learn, from their adver-
tiscment, as from other sources, that,
having fairly weathercd the financial
storm, which, during the last few
months, has wrecked so many heavy
houses all over the Union they are
now shaking out a reef, or two, and
making ready for Spring cruise.
Their stock is very large, carefully
selected, and sold at the lowest prices.
Country merchants and others, in need
of anything in the hardware line, can
have their wants supplied by calling,
in at NaZro's Mammoth building Nos.
l2l, 1913, and l25 East Water street.
- Sentinel.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

The Wavcrly Republican notices
the late clcctioneering tour of Mr.
Hacklcy of the Dubuque Tribune, anc
his writings about Wavcrly which he
sent home to the Tribune for publica
tioa. Mr.. Hacklcy appears to have Il
remarkable faculty for hunting up
great men. The small ones are those
who do not think as nc does. In wri
ting of Waverly, he mentions Mr.
Lewis, one of the prominent men OF
that place." whom the editor of the
Republican does not know, and has
"yct to learn that such man lives
there Mr.. IIacklcy treated st. Charles
matters very much in the same way
and was successful in discovering that
one Or two men (who did not live in
town. were "promincnt" or "lcad-
ing" citizens here. Some of his 9th
er discoveries were equally new to
our people. 1t was fortunate for us
that Mr.. Hacklcy came along-othcr.
wise, we might have never known
who is who!
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
For the St. Charlcs City lntclligenccr
The Maids SOlilOQuy.

The maid alone, with Milton in her
hand, opens on the celebrated passage
Hail welded love Mysterious law
Our Maker bids increase. Who bids
abstain, but our dcstroyer-foe to God
and man?
soLILoQUY.
1t must be so, Milton: thou rcasonest
well Else why this pleasing hope,
this fond desire, this longing after
something unpossesscd or whence
this secret dread and inward horror of
dying mespoused? Why shrinks the
soul back on herself and startles at
virginity? 'Tis natures self that
points out an hereafter, and intimates
husband to the sex. Marriage
thou pleasing yet anxious thought,
through what variety of tolls, through
what new scenes and changes, must
we pass The enchanting state OF
wcdlock lies before me- But shadows,
clouds and darkness rest upon it.
Here will | hold. If nature prompts
the wish, (and that she does is plain
from all her works, our duty and oul
interest bid indulge; for the great
end of natures law is bliss.
But yet in wcdlock women mus
obey. Pm weary of these doubts, tho
priest shall end them! Nor rashly dc
l venture. Bondage and pleasure
loss and gain, do meet my thoughts at
once.
! wed, my liberty is gone forever,
but youth itself has happiness secured
Love first shall recompencc my loss OF
liberty, and when my eyes grow dim
with age, my stature bent with years,
then virtuous friendship shall sue
coed to love. Thus pleased, I'll scorn
infirmity and death, renewed i'm,
mortal in final race. OMEGA.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

There is large deficit in the revc-
nues of the State, owing to the ex-
penses incident to an extra session of
the Legislature, the Constitutional
Convention, and the fitting up of the
new State House. There is DISPOSE
ton to secure temporary relief, by a
loan based upon State Bonds. 1t is
apprehended that there will be an i'm
mense deficit in the taxes collected
the present year The scarcity Of
gold and silver, and the impossibility
of selling produce, cannot fail to en-
barrass the farmer in paying his taxes.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

ANOTHER BRooKs.--lt was Brooks OF
keitt, we do not remember which OF
the two sprigs of chivalry, that pro,
posed, if Fremont beat Buchanan, to
march upon Washington, seize the
public treasury, overturn the govern,
ment and break things generally. Mr..
Reuben Davis, Of Miss, proposes to do
that same anyhow" He is coming
with the sword in one hand and the
Bible in the other, and a stream of fire
is to follow in his train. Good. There
is but one way to subdue this Mr.. Davis.
Let us get out the fire-engines and
squirt him to death.-Chieogo Tribune.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

At the County Convention in this
town, on Saturday last, committee,
consisting of II. w. Humphrey of st.
Charles, Chester Butterfcld of Floyd,
and r. G. Horr of Marble Rock, was
appointed to investigate the state OF
the county finances and report at al
adjourned meeting three weeks from
that time. 1t was voted to pay tho
committee two dollars each per day
for their services, the money to be
raised by contribution. Some resolu.
tons of instruction to the committee
were passed which VIC do not recollect.
No official report of the proceedings
has been furnished us.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

Mills CoUNrY.--The first marriage
iii Pacific City, a young town, was
celebrated Christmas evc-the parties
being Mr.. A. II. Orr and Miss Marga-
ret +. Hill. The editor of the Enter
prise thcreupon facetiously says -
"Who can doubt of the prosperity of
our city, when we make all our social
and domestic relations subservient to
her interests. The first birth in Pa
cific gave us a new Street and the
first marriage takes away a Hill.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11
A. B. +. HILDRErH & D. D. W. CARVER, EDITORS
St. Charles City, Iowa, Feb. II, 1858.

NARROW EsCApE.-On Friday after.
noon, of last week, the team of Mr..
Petit broke through the ice on the
Cedar river, just above the dam at
this place, and were narrowly rescued
from drowning. The team were en-
ployed hauling stone for the new
bridgc-passing down the river from
the quarry on the ice. Having on a
heavier load than usual the wagon
cut through the ice and went down in
about twelve feet of water dragging the
horses after them. Assistance being
Immediately rendered, the horses were
drawn out of the river, upon the ice,
and are now in a fair way to recover
from the effects of a bath in the Cedar
The driver barely escaped the fate OF
the horses. The wagon, loaded will
stone, is perhaps exploring the mys
terics of the bottom of the river.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

SAD CASUALTY. Mr.. Andrew Reed
a resident of Pleasant Valley, was
killed week ago Monday by his
horses taking fright, running away
and throwing him off the wagon. He
loaded his wagon with wood and
placed dressed hog upon the load
to be brought to the city, and when
he got on the load himself, his horses
became FESTIVE, started over the rough
road, at high speed, and threw him
forward upon the double-trccs, where
he became fast, and was dragged a
considerable distance before he was
separated from the wagon.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-11

Much interest was manifested in the
discussion of the pro-slavery and anti.
slavery character of the Constitution
Of the United States before the St.
Charles Lyceum. The debate occu-
pied two evenings; was able, and
listened to by large and appreciative
audience. After the debate closed, the
audience decided upon the merits of
the question that the constitution was
an anti-slavery document. The chair
deciding upon the weight of argument
sustained the decision of the house.