The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-04-14
NEWS ITEMS.


The Judicial election in Chicago resulted
in the success Of the Republican candid
ates. r.S az '~.-.
The election returns from Michigan are OF
the most tiattering character and indicate .
Republican majority Of $4,000. /
A Yankee doctor has got up remedy for
hard times. 1t consits of ten hours labor
well worked in. ..... ......... -. -.
VIM. NJ. Walbridge, one of the early and
prominent citizens of Burlington, died few
days since, of Pneumonia. e.......... ...
1t is stated that Jenny Lind's fortune has
been squandered, and that she is about to
attempt to make another. She is advertised
to sing in England.
A fatal ARRAY with pistols, guns, bowie
knives, &C., occurred in the streets of Louis
wills the other day, in which one man was
killed and three or four others wounded.
Sen. Bright is very mad with President
Buchanan for removing his brother from the
Office of Special Mail Agent, and it is said
that he will be restored, although notorious.
ly incompetent. .maor 81. r' .-. .''.
Gen. Dodge, our Great Augustus Caesar
has bid adieu to the virtuous court of Spain
and is on his way home. 1t is mentioned as
remarkable fact, that his speech at leave
taking, was expressed in Spanish!
PEoRrA.-The Republicans have again car
ried Peoria-elected five out of seven Super
visors. This is the second time the Doug
lasites have been whipped in this city since
last fall. .. e.. -....-.a...... s....... b..
ST. LOUIS ELEcrroN-The official vote for
Mayor at st. Louis, is as follows: Filley,
(Republican) 1927; Bogy, (Democrat) !, 1866;
Wyman, (Amerecan) 1926.
Meetings have recently been held in Texas,
to take measures to expell members of the
Methodist Church North from that State, as
they are charged with Abolitionism.
The President has issued proclamation
for extensive sales of public lands in Kansas
and Nebraska during the months of July
August and September. a.'--.~# = ,'
The average attendance upon Common
Schools in Chicago for the year 1853 was
5,516. The number of pupils attending pri-
| yate schools was .675. 80
RAILROAD LANDs.-26O,4 400 acres of the
lands granted to the Dubuque and Pacific
Railroad Company are to be offered for sale,
in New York and Dubuque, on the 9th day
of June next.
Enoch w. Eastman has written another
letter, which has been published in the
Knoxville Journal, giving additional and
unanswerable reasons for his refusal to longer
act with the sham Democracy.
SURE REMEEY FOR A FELoN.-Take pint
of common soft soap, and stir it in air-slacked
lime till it is of the consistency of glazier's
putty. Make leather thimble and fill it
with this composition, and insert the finge,
then, and change the composition once ir
twenty minutes, and the cure is certain.
A movement, said to be formidable is on
foot in favor of Hon. James Guthrie of Ken.
lucky, Pierce's Secretary of the Treasury
for the Presidency. He has among his quail
ifiications, wealth, slave-owning, and devotion
to the slave interests. ... .-.,~s, F.
Gen. Geo. Washington Jones, ex-senator
of Iowa, finding he could get nothing better
or more lucrative, has consented to 60 tt
Bogota as Minister. Mr.. Buchanan, it is
said, promised him Gen. Dodge's nice place
at Madrid, but would mt let him have it afte,
I'LL. -#'. "tf'
We learn by the Iowa Statesman that thu
''Des Moines Belle" new Steamboat, built
machinery and all at Des Moines, was launch
ed on Tuesday oflast week. She drew only
five inches. We hop. an opportunity viii
be furnished the people this way to look up
on this domestic production of the Valley.
1
Tue HARMONIOUS DEMOcRAcY.-The Knox
vile Standard, Democrat, is out in a violent
two column article upon Jarius f. Neal
Democratic Senator from Marion County,
Jarius is accused of plundering and thievins
from the County and State, and of many
other things neither honorable or honest.
Some Ministers of the O. s. Presbyterian
Church in Mississippi have been searching
the records of that Church, and find the &C
ton of that body some twenty and thirty
years ago, unfriendly to the institution O
slavery, and the press South are beginning
to agitate the resembling Of all such past &C
ton and resolves. . n-yl @"
There are now many men in San Francisco
whose families are in state of restitution
who, a few years ago, were worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Speculation in real
estate ruined them. One family that wa.
intensity aristocratic during the inflated
days, now keeps boarders, and take in wash
ing. .-. ,.-,
The CLEVELAND VIcToRY.-The Repub
leans carried Cleveland o., by s63 majority
\ 80 Mode, Ia V,ho, ,,o%, CO., x,o~ ,<ooJ