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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-03-31
Terrible Storm OH the SusaMe'
hanna.
DUNCASNON. Pa

DUNcANNoS, Pa, March 10.
We had a terrible storm here last night,
which did much damage to property. The
fine old Clarke's ferry bridge across the Sus-
quhanna, used as towing bridge for the
canal, and belonging to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, was nearly all blown
away. 1t was about three quarters ola mile
long, Ithad no connection with the Rail-
road, which crosses the .iYer about ten miles
further down. ,.-.
PorrsvILLE, March 19.-Tnis region of the
country has been visitel by very heavy rains,
doing an incalculable amount of damage to
the coal mines, many Of which are completely
drowned out, and all operations have been
suspended. The roads below h,rc are sub
merged, and it is reported that serious
break has occurred in the canal
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direct cote Of the people for, aohose aopan-
ment they are framed contains a vital Demo-
cratic principle that is as true to-day as II
was in 1856, and will be equally true during
all time as it is to-day. The Convention of
1857 unfortunately ignored plain declara-
ton Of that principle, although nine-tenths of
the Convention were staunch believers in it ;"
We are inclined to think that the doc
trine of non-committalism will again prevail,
in spite of the above plain talk of the Du-
buque paper. We are pretty certain that
hereafter as heretofore, 'the masses of the
people who look to the Democratic Press for
their information" will be yet while kept
in the dark, as to the real'policy and meas
ures of the Democratic party, so far as the
forthcoming Convention is concerned IF
we might venture to haz ,rd guess, as to the
programme which will be then and there laid
down, we should say that all alusion to ma
tional politics and the last Congress, the
Homestead bill, the Post Office Appropria-
ton, the Pacific Railroad, Tariff and Nation
al debt, will he studiously avoided, while up
on niggcrs, Republican extravaganza. equali-
ty ofraces, &c, they will enlarge as usual
In relation to Cuba, and the $30,O0O,O0O
Bill. their remarks will be eloquent, but very
general and indefinite. As to the next Pres
idency. they will get warm, but if they define
themselves, they will first adjourn and re-
organize as many appendaees as there are
candidates spoken of, in which Douglas will
be extravagantly extolled as the Great High
Priest Of modern Democracy, and Buchanan
damned with very faint praise.
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OTTuMwA CorRIER.-The neat and trim appear anc e
and the bold and imposing figure head OF the COURIER,
indicate that like the city in which il Is published
has ROCK BoTToM.-Fairfeld Jeffersonian.,
We beg pardon Of our frienls of the
Jtsrsoni1a, for delaying so long an &C
acknowledgement of the above notice. It twas
cut out at the time, but failed to get in.
Ottumwa has rock at tn, bottom as our
friend says, and when we get our founda-
ton fairly laid on it, as we are now in the
way OF doing, right soon, We shall have a
bottom too durable to be easily knocked
from under US. Friend Jacobs, by the way,
is familiar with the geology of our city, and
is also well posted in the Dos Moines' Valley
generally, being an old resident Of the State,
AMI an accomplished engineer. The first
grade Of our streets was established by him.
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reply. Before A. A. Stuart undertakes to
inform this community in reference to the
public or private life of another, he might do
an important service to society to enlighten
it as to himself and his history
With reference to the motives which are
attributed to me for the part I took in the
temperance meeting, and the after proceed
ings and prosecutions, I have nothing to say,
except that the insinuations are as false as
the heart ofhim who makes them is black,
cowardly and contemplate. 1 l.
Thanking you for the use ofyour columns
to make this short defense, and regretting
its 'cessity, and assuring you AMI the pub
lie that have done with the m,tter, | re-
main yours, &C.,
Mar 3lst. H..B. HENDERSHOTT.
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We confess to little remissness in no.
ticing the Editorial dispositions of our neigh
Dor of the democratic Statesman" for ,me
weeks, and perhaps have been little dis
courteous withall, as he has favored us with
several notices lately; but we will make w
this week for past omissions by transferring
to our columns the entire editorials of our
neighbours issue of the 9th. 1t is what
printers call "fat."
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The Bottle.

On the 4th Of July, 1855, Capt. Richard
Ftz Gibbon of Bridgport, then on bo1rl the
steamer Ariel, bound for H,vre, threw over
board bottle, inclosing note wishing the
finder to report its locality. A few days since
he received note from Mr. Fred G.. Sherman
of North Carver, Mass, saying that he pick
ed up the said bottle on the 18th of October
last, off Cape Sable, Newfonrilanl, after it
had been knocking about the ocean three
years and half
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NO.. IL
COMMERCIAL.
COURIER OFFICE, March 961s,o

r. COURIER OFFICE, March sSlss9.
We were faAored last week with some pleasant
weather, under the influence Of which aided by n
march wind the road became passabe, and business
i'm proved. On Saturday, especially, a good many
were in from the country and trade brisk There
is however Just now little material for trade tLat
business is conned pretty much to laying in neces
sary supplies at the stores Of merchants, who arc
wellsupplied with goods We feeling the effects %
the proximity of the railroad perceptbly the boats Of
which we have one or more each way daily, also con.
tribute to keep things in notion Prices for all kinds
ofprovisions meat and &C., are high Beef to 10 cts
irish Pork cts Eggs 10 cts Potatoes seldom offered
81 So Corn 5, to co. Butter 20 TO 25 scarce Flour a.
IS tn 1890, Lard 121f These prices are Attributable
more to bad travelling than scarcity in this region.
Recommendations is improving In Burlington,
the Hack Eye of the 29th says. The market Is we'll
supplied with goods for the Spring trade. Sugar ~
to 12k Coffee - to H. Molasses ~ to S. Apples to-
80 dry 11k, Peaches l2k, Wheat none arriving,
-Four So to ~ bbl Corn 60 to 10, Oats o. Butter
to %, Hogs 49, so to S4gross, Sc to 81 net. Green
Hides to I, Dry Is to 16.
Notwithstanding was pleasant and busy dav
Teams from the country the Gate City Of the PSI n
informs US, brought recolectons OF old times FIous
s962k & SO to s6,5Oabbl, Corn Is. Wheat Q, to s5,
Oats 81 to $llo, Potatoe. retail Is to 80 cts peck,
sugor X 12l Molasses AZ to59 Syrup 627a. Co fec
10 to IT, Butter retail IS. Hams %, Beef to ctsN
quarter.
stLouis-was dull on the 20. Small receipts
I'm Tho daeIfp eli
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New gold discoveries are reported on the
head waters of the Missouri. Maj. Cnlberston,
direct from that region, reports the discovery
of gold between the Missouri and Columbia
rivers, in the neighborhood Of Stevens Pass
The gold is of an inferior quality.
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Hero is the statement of hiyh-minded,
honorable men who were present AMI heard
what sud at the Temperance Meeting
How it disposes of the charge that said I
would be proud to poluatesr in the prosecu-
ton, &C., is left to an honest community to
determine.
The next day after the Meeting, to which
allusion has been made, was held, a gentle
man deeply interested in the cause of tenn
perance and moral reform, one, too, whom I
highly esteem, but whose name need not be
given, called on me to know if I would en-
gage in the prosecution of violators of the
Liquor Laws, in conjunction with Mr.. NJ. j.
Williams, Esq,
Hear what he says in reference to the in
terview: "The facts in the case are, accor-
ding to my recollection, precisely what you
state. I said to several prominent temper
ance men that you had consented, along
with Mr.. Williams, to prosecute, and men,
toned it for the purpose of enlisting them
in an effort to raise the necessary funds to
secure the services of yourself and Mr.. Will
liams. That the effort failed, was to me a
matter ofdeep regret, but no understanding
had with me, did I regard as violated by
what may have subsequently transpired.-
1t was my expectation that, unless you were
employed, as proposed to prosecute, you
would in all probability be employed to de-
fend, for you remarked that you were ready
to prosecute or defend"
| further said to the gentleman, from
whose written statement to me have ex-
tracted the above quotation, that so far as
my example went as temperance man and
friend to the cause, it was pleasure to me
to tender it as gratuity to community, that
my own interest, that of the community in
which lived, and in which was raising a
family of sons, and my inclinations placed
me strongly on the side Of temperance, but
that when my professional services were re-
quired l must be reasonably compensated,
and that I did not regard the five dollars of.
fered by the law, in each case, to be paid
out of the County Treasury, as such reason
able compensation. In this Mr.. Williams
fully concurred with me. If we were en-
ployed to defend, presume it was in con-
sequence of a supposed fitness on our part
to render services to the accused. Having
done so, l am not aware that either Mr..
Williams or myself have violated any prin-
ciple either in law or morals. .
The allusion made by Self Defence, alias
Solicitor, alias Il. n. Stuart, that he is the
precious repository of "some truths relative
to the history of my public life" &C., carries
so much of the assassin in it that it needs no
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-03-31

Two Americans, one of them from Rich
mond Va, while in Cuba few weeks since,
visited the spot where Lieut. Crittenden, Of
the Lopez expedition, was shot, AMI erected
a marble monument to his memory. "
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-03-31
| Democratic .Statesman, oath inst.

A democratic mass meeting was held in
Tammany Hall, New York, on the 18th inst,
to give expression to the feelings ofthe Dem
ocracy of that city, in referance to the annex
alton of Cuba. The general tenor of the
speeches was that Cuba must be ours.
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Many of the emigrants to Pixies
Peak, passing through Iowa, have
teams of cows as well as oxen. Ifthey
are used carefully, cows are sad to be
extremely serviceable in this latter
manner.
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NEWS ITEMS.

A. grand daughter of the late Thorn
as H. Benton was marriel at Calcutta
on the goth of Decem Der.
An American waite h has been pre-
scented to the Hon. Joshua r. Giddings
by the colored people of New York
and BROOKLYN.
Reading in "Old Berks' Pensyl
vania, has been regarded as Gibral
tar of Democracy. AT the late city
election there, however, the Opposition
candidate for Mayor was elected by
ga majority The vote stood, Oppo-
sition, l, 7OS; Democrat, 75t.
The Rev. Mr.. Denham, a minister
of forty years standing, ran away from
Terre Haute, on Wedne sday, with an
other mans wife.
Another fraudulent ISIS ne Of Wes-
tern Bonds has been discovered. They
rurport to be Bonds of Marshal County
Iowa, to the amount of of $1,000,
payable in one, two, three and four
years. - ...
The Hon. James Glthrie has been
nominated in Kentucky for tao Pres
idency, and the nomination is appro-
we'd of by several of the Kentucky pa
pers. e. .+ ... a.:
A Chicago butcher, was fined $50
and costs last Monday, for selling tain
ted meat, and also the flesh of a cow
that had died from disease.
The Legislature of Louisiana is about
making an appropriation for clearing
out the distractions at the mouth ofthe
Mississippi river.
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, the
only son ofthe great novelist, who has
just published volume ofpoems, made
his first appearance in print, in the
New York AL bion, as GA Harrow
School Boy. ....
Up tn March 9th there had been
one hundre l and six days of constant
sleighing in Southern New Ham,
shicr. H Il '"'.
There arc 7,779 dram shops in New
York, or one for every eighty of the
population, young aud old. .....
To BE HUNG,-GiIlick, the wife
m urderer, is to he hung at Dubuque on
the Goth of April.
A dreadful death from by 'rophobia
occurred in Cincinnati y few days ago.
The victim was Mr.. joseph w right,
who was bitten by his own dog six
years ago. He leaves young widow
an one child.
\ returned Clifornian has hal his
heart made glal by discovering a
'placer" on stream emptying into
the Little Miami, in Ohio, which bears
Il stron g resemblance to- the California
placers, AMI yicll Is So !, day per
hand. ....
Some New York papers are inclined
to think that Mike Walsh was murder
cd, because he was cognizant of many
damaging ficts in the career of Sick
les, who shot Key.
Recent freshets swept OF many of
the bridges il Ilacolnty; but tn. PEG.
pie turned out, under the direction, of
the County Ju lSe, anil in two days
time most of the streams W ere re bride
ed.
"A dispatch from Washing on of
the 18th says the Gran | Jury has. re
fused to find bill against Mr.. Butter
worth. ." '.- g..
The remains of s. J. Thurston the aero
naut who was carried away in balloon las
sumner; were recently discovered neart
Adrian Mich, His body was nearly destroy
ed, but enough with his W tch and cloth
ing, remained to leave no doubt of lis idcnt-
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The amount of warrants issued by Potta-
wattamie county, from August, 1851, to the
2sth last month, was 1914, 1851. They are
now selling at from SO to Is per cent. dis
count -....- ........ ..
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The City Government of Davenport have
made a large retrenchment in salaries OF
city officials, amounting to saving Of So, 900
per annum. An example worthy of imita-
tion .
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Fare on the n Y. C. Railroad, from Buff
falo and Suspension Bridge to N. Y, has
been reduced to 81.
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The Mayor Of Philadelphia is fighting
man, evidently. He recently rushed into
crowd Of rowdies, seized Notwithstanding
ruffian, AMI, after choking him juiciously,
gave him into custody
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The general tone of the last letters from
Pixies Peak are unfavorable to that region
as to inducements it presents to gold hunters.
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DIssOLU ZION OF PAsrNERSHIp.

DISSOLUTION OF PARrNERSHHp.
A LII Persons are hereby notified that the part
IA nership heretofore existing between E. w. Fetts
Thomas q. Woo dward, In the Clothing business, Kin
Ottumwa Iowa, has this day been dissolveaby mutuI
censent-E W. Belts having Withdrawn from the bi-
siness. .... .... ...-..... ...... ...
The business will hereafter be carried by Thom.s
G. Woodward at the old stand, where all persons
requested to call and settle their accounts and nots
withbhim. Respectfully,
=. W. BETS,
r.... TlIOS. Q. WOODWARD.
Ottumwa, iowa, March 29th 1859.
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The Fl. Madison Plain Dealer is in favor
of the nomination of Ben NJ. Samuels for
Governor by the democratic State Conven-
The South Tier Democrat goes for
Dodge.
Hon. J. G. Knapp, is spoken of by the
Democracy As candidate for Supreme Judge.
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OTTUMwA SEMINARY.

TENiIE fifth term will commence, Monday, April a.
Z 1859. The instruction will be systematic ar.i
horoagh, and every reasonable effort will be -
to render the institution worthy OF patronage. Sta
dents will be prepared for College, Professions Bu.-
ness, or Teaching. Tuition win be- per term Of ten
weeks Elementary Branches, &c. Adv -nced Branch-<,
IS; Latin, Greek, French, Drawing, Painting Water
Colors, Wax-Frut and Zephyr-Work. each, IS; OIL
Painting, $40 .f - .... ..... 1881
Students will be received ut airy time; and charged
from the date Of entrance.
&c. Wuopw, Rp A. b. Observation-Disclosures ana
Natural Sciences. g.. .... .'.-J..H ..r. .
Mas LIZZIE ID. Wonpw tKD.-Drawing and French.
Rev. J. NJ MCELRoY, A. M.-Latn aud Greek.
REV. 8. II. WORcEsrER.-Oil Painting
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Chicago-on the &c, produce declined slightly.
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The remains of S. J. Thurston the zero
naut who was carried away in balloon las
summer; were recently discovered neart
Adrian Mich, His body was nearly destroy
ed, but enough with his W tch and cloth
ing, remained to leave no doubt Of lis idcnti-
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Fcrthe 6eariU.

Mr.. EDITOR Il regret exceedingly the
necessity Of troubling you for place in
your columns, or your readers with any
thing personal to myself, but self respect,
and respect for the continued good opinion
of community in which have resided for
fifteen years, requires at my hands an allu-
sion to Communication in your issue of
the 18th, inst, over the signature of
"Se!f Defense"
The attack there made upon me is so gra-
tuitous and false, that it can BE attributed to
no other source than an envy, malice and
prejudice, too mean to find an abode in any
other than he art the most depraved and
pitiable. 1t is Of such character that it
can be traced to no other motives or feelings
than those which impcl abandoned and vic
ious men to attempt "to creedily lap from
SANDERS cup the blood of reputation."-
This Self Defense has vainly sought to do,
and as if the more certainly md effectually
to accomplish the purpose of his desire, he
withholds his real name from the public, con.
scious as he must have been, that the true
name of the author of his base SANDER would
have affixed sufficient antidote to that
which he so much desired-a wound upon
personal character ..a FIN.
Not content even with the suppression of
his true name, and fatally bent on accom-
pishing the nefarious and black purpose to
defraud, he utters a palpable falsehood in
order the better to conceal himself. TO ef-
feet this he says, in his classic and most ele-
CANT language, "Had I been in the boots of
Mr.. Solicitor, would have followed in
strain" &c. ..'' a.'.. ~...'"'. ....@
Self-convicted ola total inability to SLAM
der over his real name. Self Defense, alias
Solicitor, alias A. A. !Sturrt, by the perpe-
tration Of a fraud on community, in thus
falsely personating some other than himself,
who might perchance, if his production
would justify it, be supposed to possess
some claims to truth and veracity, says,
"Had Ibeen in the boots of Mr. Solicitor"
A. A. Stuart Is the Solicitor, and the same
A. A. Stuart, IS Self Defense. ... '."-.'
Thus while he ao,uhl d,fraul and SANDER
me, he stands before the worl |, selfaccused
Of want of veracity. .."
This sam, Self Defense. ayia' Solicitor,
alias Stuart, knowingly, wilfully AMI malici-
ously utters an untruth when he charges
that in a temperance meeting, recently held
in this place, I said would feel proud to
o'lunteer in the prosecution of liquor dealers.
He knew when he penned this charge,
it was false, and he must have known that
his statement could and would be proven
false. Read the following: ..
- Ottnmwa. March 81. 1859.
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e... Ottumwa, March 81, 1859.
Hon. H. B. Hendershott.

... grrt DEAR SIR The under
signed were present at Temperance Meet
ing held at the Court House somc weeks
since, and heard your remarks upon that oc-
casion. The substance, if not the exact
words used by you, were that you had not
been called upon by the Marshal to CON-
mence prosecution against Liquor Sellers,
but that you were ready and willing to do 50,
when called upon, for fair compensation.
We understood your position to be the
sane in this case as would have been that of
any other professional nan in any case.
respectfully,
G. d. r. BOYD.
., ..... WM. J. ROSS.
G. C. CT OUTMAN.
A. w. CASTOR.
. .... E. L. JOY.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-17

The following eloquent, earnest ami effective sd-
dress delivered at recent Democratic csacns ia
TIE tOwD Of Sanford, Brooue County, by man who
had bsea an inmate Of the County jail ON sn
inGctm.It for murder. Tie speech Is too good to Do
lost. Here 1t u:
"GExrLEAEs: BY Cd. We are going 70 bea, the
ID Black Repubilcans. l an going 10 work this
year. Last yesr were licked because Was IN Jail
sDd could uot vote. vas peIsecltsd and kept Ia 2u
because | was g Democrat. Gentlemen, the Demo-
cratic ps,ty is persecuted parts. Go % Ill ole ysas
md .sfate Prssgss IN tie country, oRL yoz rsH fed
phs or, 81 ecery ta Of al ths crtq1is Dsm1r0ats.
Now, marx what tell yon. EN- not in prison tnis
yer, spd you viii see what can do
Cas- LIr WITH GAs.-Ths nov passenger ears on
tbs Centre! ONO E1prees-runniDg through from
Wheeling ard Belair to this ciiy-ars !: Win g's,
made by the Company from some conbinsto's o.
burrirg fluids. The Light is Brilliant ana conHl 49,
materially to me cbeerfal Appearance oi TAO s's'n''
a. right - ~
GKEAr SEATING Fr.r--Tassdsy, the let inst, II;
X. w. Ayre. a PRIMER Of TIE Pres oih'e, sxa'sd
iron tbs city aero.s Lake winosbago, AMI np tho
Fox River 10 B-rlip, distance % - m'rs, pen nm.
ips ~. ea in los. IRE hovrs md eeT N ~g.ss OF ss
the Iate VI IA mI<s per Leus. ifssa Do Lac f'sss'