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The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
Foreign News.

The war movements in Europe still seem
to be progressing. IF the accounts can be
relied upon, the news of an outbreak may be
looked for at any tine without surprise.
Paris letter writers state that armamcnts
were going on in France without relaxation.
Government had decided upon adding 4th
battalion to each of the 100 regiments. of the
line.
1t is computed that by the close of March
Austria would have in Lombardy 20 battal-
ions of infantry, which added to artillery,
cavalry, engineers, &C., make her army in
Italy number about 22O, 900 strong.
Letters from Placansa announce that
$4,000 Austrians with so cannon and other
war munitions had arrived there. The church
had been converted into -four magazine
Warlike preparations were also going ac-
lively forward in other portions of Italy.
It was rumored in Paris, the 2Sth, that a
collision had actually taken place between
an Au 'trian detachment and some recruits
who wished to escape the service; one killed,
and several wounded.
1t is officially announced in Germany that
the Federal Assembly has voted supplies for
arming the Federal fortressess with Prince
Frederick of Wurtemberg appointed COM
mander in chief of the 9Th Federal corps
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
COHslcis prOceeeiisAg.

MONDAY, April 18th, 1889.
Council met. Present. Mayor, Recorder,
Marshal and Solicitor. Aid, Daum, Dixon,
Hunter, Hawley, Caldwell, Mlhurn, Neville,
Potter. Absent, Bradshaw.
Journal of last meeting read and approved.
Mr.. Neville's ordinance of which notice
was given on last evening, was taken up and
read
Mr.. Hawley offered the following amend
ment "And the members of the Common
Council or so many of them ae have received
pay for services as members of the council,
refund to the city all money received for ser
vices as councmen. Amendment lost.
Moved by Mr.. Daum that the ordinance
be lald on the table Carried
On motion of Mr. Potter Resolved that the
council proceed to appoint Judges and Clerks
for the city election to be held Oh the first
Monday in May, or May I'd, 1859.
1st Ward. John d. Devin, Alfred Lot
spich and John Potter We're appointed judi
ges, and James ID. Devin and a. w. Gas
ton, Clerks.
2nd. Ward. James Miligan, L. J. Holmes
and J. A. Newman. Judges, and ID. c.
Mitchell and A. NJ. Bonnifeld Clerks.
Bird Ward John Baker, ST., James Ham,
mond and A. l.. Graves. were appointed
Judges, and w. Goldsmith and G. S. Las
well Clerks.
The auditing Commute report in favor of
the following accounts: J. Wagg $40 CO.,
j. w. Norris $40 81, j. b. Myers SIG 90,
P. c. Daum $27 90. Moved by Mr.. Dixon
to lay the Bill on the table Lost. The
account was then allowed, f. Washburn of
81 90, }. II. Myers of $33 80, j. Potter of
S37 90, J. w. Caldwell of $40 90, A. Ii.
Hamilton of $40 80. Mayor and Recorder
instructed to draw orders for the same.
Moved by Mr.. Hunter that the council
meet on Monday evening next
On motion adjourned
w. GOLDSMITH. Recorder.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

The Europa arrived on the 18th. .r
Breadstufs and provisions dull.
Ministry defeated on the reform bill by $50
to 291. Resignation of the Ministry antici-
pated ........
Serious riots at Galway on occasion of a
lecture by Signor Gavazzi ... ..'
Austria has refused to have the Congress
held at Baden. France leaves Austria to
choose any other place in Germany acces-
sable by rail and telegraph to Paris.
Piedmont is not to be admitted to the
Congress, except on same terms as other
Italian States, and Austria insists upon
Piedmont disarming, which last demand
renders the feasibility ofthe Congress doubt
full. .. .. ......
a grand review of the military was to be
held at Paris
The question ofpcace or war is yet good
deal mixed.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
The Native Wild Plum.

Eastern nurserymen offer good price for
the pits of this fruit, evidencing their appre-
ciatiOn of its value for good and hardy stock,
as they can procure the pits of cultivated
plums much more cheaply and readily
With this fact in view, we would ask other
cultivators to give increased attention to this
fruit-its cultivation and propagation; for
who knows but we may yet manufacture de-
licious fruit from it, by affording careful cul-
ture, with the advantage Of its being, ''bul-
let proof against the changes of weather and
climate? AT least, grow it for protection,
ornament, and fruit, and experiment upon it
by grating and budding. 1t is well worthy
of cultivation on every naked prairie farm,
and will repay the whole cost of transplant
ing many times over every year in leaf mu-
sic, ree-beauty, and the aroma fits flower.
Don't let the season 90 by without setting
out plumb trees in the dry corners about
your homestead, remembering, meanwhile.
that the sight of their leaf laden branches
will do more toward seducing Eastern home.
loving farmers from their birth-land, than all
the stories of unprecedent yields from half
cultivated, partly wasted crops, you can re-
peat.
You who have become used to the bleak
unpoetical, naked prairies, have little thought
of the added beauty which forest poetry, in
the form of trees, gives to our homestead in
the eyes of fresh eastern home seekers
Never mind waiting for the nice ones you
mean to ornament your home with when you
are able, but plant the best you can lay youl
hands on this spring, and do it soon.- En-
thusiast, Home, Ill.-Prairie Farmer.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

We hear Of one farmer in the northern
part of this county who has lost 80 head OF
cattle from actual starvation, and one or
Sugar Creek, who has lost % from the same
cause. So many instances of the loss Of
cattle have come to our knowledge that VIC
may reasonably conclude that the loss OF
cattle in consequence of the scarcity of corn
and hay has been general and in the aggregate
immense. The grass has now started suffi-
ciently to preserve the lives of animals, but
stock ofall kinds is so poor that they require
hay and grain yet while, but will have to
do without as general thing. Unless meas.
ures are taken to import from Polk and the
counties above there where it can be had fol
% cents per bushel according to last accounts
corn is out of the question until it is grown
The numerous boats now navigating the
river furnish means of getting it down expe
ditiously and cheaply. It's selling to day
at75c. A very reasonable margin, it would
seem for profit .....
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

The dodge of the sham Democracy in
changing the time Of holding their State
Convention to the day after the one appoin-
ted for the Republican Convention, is toe
transparent to deceive any one, and is fur,
ther evidence Of the purturbed and anxious
state of mind in which that party at present
find themselves We allu1e t. it, not because
we believe that the dodge will avail them
any thing, or because we deem it of any
consequence, or because it will have any
influence or effect whatever upon the Re
publican convention or its action, but simply
to show that the leaders of that barty are
satisfied that their cause is desperate and
hopeless unless the Republicans are foolish
enough to make iniudicious nominations, OF
adopt some action upon which they cannot
agree themselves, and of which advantage
could be taken by them. They will be de
cicved in these calculations, for the Repub-
licans will nominate a ticket, and adopt a
platform which will command the united and
hearty support of every member ofthe party
1t matters nothing to the Republicans upon
what day the Democrats meet in State con
vention, whether before or after their OWL
meeting; the result will be precisely the
same in either case, the Democracy will be
beaten worse we venture to predict, at the
ensuing election, than they ever have been
We certainly think SO.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
Below we complete the communication o!

| BeloW we complete the communication ol
our correspondent, 'On the Fence Yet which
was unavoidably left unfinished in our is,
sue of week before last.-ED.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE COURIER:
Sir I'm supplying
the deficiency in my last article, l have to
add, that have arrived at the conclusion
that Mr. FoSl Ter has 81 gnally failed in estab-
fishing one foot of solid ground for his pet
Shareholders, on Sciptural authority. He has
failed to prove any resemblance in any ma
terial feature, between the servitude Of the
Scripture, and the slavery of the United
States. There, slight piolence on the part
of the aster, ensured the freedom of the
servant. Here, the slave code bars all pos
sible redress. There, the mere running
amay released the fugitive from further SER
vitude. Here, the fugitive is outlawcd, hun
ted by dogs, and after given time, any per-
son is authorized to kill him, if in the State.
If he reaches free State, the fugitive slave
law seizes and carries him back i'm chains to
bondage. There, marriage was a sacred or
dinance. Here, the shareholders courts have
decided tl,at ''the sexual connexions formed
by slaves have no sanctity, and no civil rights
are attached to them" There, all the heart
strings of family ties could not rudely be
torn asunder at the mere will of the masters.
Here, it is claimed that ''the slave has no
more right to child than COW has to her
calf" and the slave code is framed in accor-
dance with this idea. There, there was no
bar W impeachment to INTEL .ctual improve
ment; he:e, the STAKEHOLDER boasts that 'he
has closed every avenue by which light can
enter the mind, and if he knew how, would
deprive the slave of the capacity to see the
light" There, servitude was not perpetual,
here, slavery knows no Jubilee but the Ju-
bilee Of death. There, man made in the image
of God; the members of Christ body; the tenn
Piles of the Holy Ghost, could not be sold in
the market as merchandise; here, they are
daily sold by thousands. There, the steal
til anu Seiii Iitii "dS plaiiSliSu Will uSd.ii,
here, the STAKEHOLDER demands repeal of
the penal statutes against the stealing of h u
man beings from Africa, and in defiant tones
eXclaim that, "the time will yet come when
the slave trade will be the right arm of our
legitimate commerce"
In my present state of mind, anl with all
these facts steadily in view, before can ad-
nit that there exists any material rcsem-
blance between Jewish servitude, and Amer
ican slavery; before I can justify the cruelty
of the present, by perverting and distorting
the mild patrarchial system of the past,
must extinguish that great moral light which
God has placed in every man, (the light of
conscience,) turn inide, and deny my re-
deemer. Nevertheless if my pro-slavery
friend can ignore all Scriptural truth, and
overwhelm it with an avalanch of his logical
light, let him "go ahead :" | will read with
attention and judge with canlor, and my
doubling friends will do the same, in the
mean time in order to- give the gentleman an
opportunity, although virtually off, yet os-
tensibly will remain,
Ok TIE FENCE YET.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

TIE WHEAT CROP OF lS5g.-The New
York Herald has large number of extracts
from papers in all parts of the country respec-
ting the wheat crop of 1859. 1t speaks of
the prospects of the crop as follows:
We publish to day an interesting budget
ofgood news from all parts of the Union,
touching the signs of theapproaching wheat
harvest. The crop has 50 far advanced, and
the rains throughout the country have been
so abundant, that we can have little reason
to fear that either general drought Or in
sects can henceforth destroy the present gen.
e1al prospect ola harvest greatly exceeding
that of la It year. Upon this good and glori-
Gus promise We c,a yratulate the American
people, pro luccrs and Consumers, and the
world at !aryr. An abundant wheat harvest
will enable our producers, especially of the
great West, to clear themselves Of the pres
sure of the financial endorsements of the late
revulsion; and to our consumers an abun-
dance of bread is never a very distressing in
convenience. Let us be thankful, too, that
while our scurvey politicians are working to
bring about the disgrace and ruin of our pol
iticial institutions, beneicient and overrul-
ing Providence still showers over our broad
land his choicest blessings.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
From the Daily HawkEye.
ImDOrtant Link i'm our Eastern
Railroad connection provided
fOr-The Peoria Road 10 be
completed 10 LoganspOrt this
SAHSOn.

The New York Times of the 14th has, in
its commercial article the following impor-
tant announcement, by which it will be seen
that means have been provided for the COM
pletion of the connecting link of 60 miles in
our Eastern Road, via Peoria, Logansport
and Ft. Wayne. BY this, to us, very lortu-
nate arrangement, Burlington will soon have
the shortest and best railroad connection
with the Atlantic sea-board of any city upon
the Mississippi, not even excepting st. Louis.
And it not only gives US a much Shorter con-
nection with New York and Boston, but
with Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
Central and Southern Ohio, and in fact with
the whole east. And so large is the saving
in distance and time by this air line road
that it will inevitably become, as soon as
completed, an important thoroughfare-a
great through passenger route.
Arrangements have been on foot for some
months past, and ire now completed, for con-
Meeting the Southern Lake Shore lines of
Railway with Burlington, Iowa, on the Mis-
Sissippi River, direct through the Wabash
Valley in Indiana, and the Peoria Road in
Illinois, The link wanting is 81 miles from
Logrnsport, on the Wabash Valley Road, to
to Illinois State boundary, where the Peo-
ria line from the River, opposite Burlington,
terminates All the other lines, from Buf-
f,lo, New York, to Burlington, unite in means
the build, immediately, this important link.
The mortgage is made for $500 600. The
Peoria and Oquawka Company become the
lcsscs of the Road in perpctuity. The Wa
bash Valley, Cleveland and Toledo, Cleve'
land, gainesville and Ashtabula, and Buffalo
ani State Line Company undertake to pur'
chase the mortage bOnds-or virtually re-
deem them at par from the first or Original
holders-with one half the proceeds of the
business which these Companies derive from
the new connection, both ways.
The New York Tribune of the same date
has an article to the same effect, from which
however we learn that it is expected to close
up the gap and be ready for business III
October next. This will be quick work.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

Effects OF COFFEE on DIsEAsE.-Dr. Nose
ly observes in his "Treatise on Coffee" that
the great use of the articles in France is sup
posed to have abated the prevalence of gra-
vel. In the French colonies, where coffee is
more used than in English, as well as in
Turkey, where it is the principal beverage,
not only the gravel but the gout is scarcely
known. DIR. Faua relates, as an extraordin-
ary instance of the effects of coffee in gout,
the case of Mr.. Deveran, who was attacked
with gout at the age of twenty five, and had
it severely until upwards of fifty, with chalk
stones in the joints of his hands and feet
but for four years preceding the time when
the account of his case had been given to DR..
Faur, to lay before the public, he had by his
advice used coffee, and had no return of the
gout afterwards.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

The NEXT lIousE.-The political complex
ion of the next lower House of Congress de
pcnds, it seems, upon the result of the mex
election in Minnesota, or rather the question
whether the Republicans are to have a ma
iority or rwhcthcr no party will have one
depends upon said election Assuming thai
Messrs. Clark, Haskins and Reynolds, o
New York, Adrian and Riggs ofNew Jersey
Hickman and Schwarts, of Pa, and John G
Davis, Of Indiana, will act with the Republi-
cans, as it is conceded they will, and the
two to be elected in Minnesota, if Republi.
cans, will give us 121. The present com.
plexion of things seem to clearly indicate
this result; besides, the case of Mr.. Blair
of Mo-, may and ought to be decided in his
favor, and if it is there will be two more tc
count on the right side.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
New York, Anil Is

Lord Napier left this city to day for Bos-
ton. Previous to his departure he was visi-
ted at the Astor House by body of Eng
lish residents who presented him with a
highly complimentary address. to which he
responded in appropriate terms.
Later dates from Jamaica say the missing
boat of the steamer Jasseur had been picked
up and brought to Kingston. The men had
been 19 days in the boat and were in de.
plorable state One had died of starvation,
and tn. Purser and Surgeon had both gone
mad
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21

The pleasant weather of the past few days
has been calculated to encourage the droop.
ing spirits of the public, inview ofthe ight
ening prospect of seed time and harvest
We incline to think that some blowing has
been done since Monday in this county
The general impression seems to be favorable
to wheat prospects, although the quantity
sown is limited. We presume the chance
for fruit here-abouts was never better, al
though reports are somewhat conflicting.
The New York Herald has taken pains tc
collect information in relation to the condition
and prospects of the wheat in all parts of the
country, and comes to the conclusion thai
both quantity sown, and quality now indi
Gated, were never better in this country
Thre is general concurrence in this view Of
the matter all over the country. As gene
raj thing, fruit is promising too.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
Mrs. MARTIN & MRS. PARCELL.
NKILLINEIl
DRESS MAKER

INORMERLY of st. Louis, and late Of Burlington
H would inform the ladies of Ottumwa, Agency, Ed
dyve, Blakesburg and surrounding country that they
haveju received from New York citya fashionable
assortment of Sprug Bonnets Of every variety they
have even in the east. Also Head-dresses, Caps,
Laces Elushon, Feathers, Flowers and everything in
the Milenery line. The ladies would find 1t their
bonnets unusually low prices for object is to close
our stock out for cash. Straw and Neopotan bleach
ed bonnets altered and pressed to look like Gents
hats bleached and pressed on Hatter's Blocks Mrs.
PARCEL will superintend the re-snakng department.
Having been lohg engaged in the business in of
the principal cities of the east she hopes to give
tire satisfaction to all who may favor her with call
Dressmakers and Mlliners supplied with patterns.-
Ayr Acton most perfect system of dress cutting and
boys cothings taught in two lessons Terms, 81
Store on Main street, Ottumwa, opposite the Carol
House.
We will be In receipt of goods monthly through the
season.
gSy-Tv o appren ic s .nted.
April 2lst. 1S59.-6-1 l-3m.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
NEWS ITEMS.

A recent cencus of Davenport shows q
population of $4,000.
Arrangements are making to establish a
pa ,nr mill at Des MONIES,
Schuyler Colfax of Ind is suggested as
speaker Of the next House.
The debt of Keokuk amounts to $1,126,-
| 1927. Dubuque owes S996,S57,G9.
A fierce war of color and race has broken
cut in the island of Jamaica.
A Woolen factory has been established at
Maquoketa, Iowa.
4 cow in Louisa Co, Iowa, recently gave
birth to three heifer calves, all of which lived
and are doing well
The Docket in Madison Co. has 2l5 causes.
The damages in one of them, a. breach of
promise case, are laid at $4,000.
1t is said that about $50 persons have or
will leave Fairfield and vicinity for Pixies
Peak.
Hon. VIM +. Lefffngwell has been added
to the list of Democratic candidates for
nomination for Governor.
ONE number, of the New York Herald
lately contained SO columns, or 14O1 distinct
advertisements.
The Charleston Mercury says "there is
but one party in the United States, and that
is the Abolition Black Republican party"
James H. Knox has withdrawn from the
Tndanola Visitor, for the purpose of going to
Pixies Peak. Heis succeeded by j. G. Brown
The Republicans of Wheeling, Va, request
the selection of that city as the place ofhod-
ing the next Republican National Conven-
| ton.
1t seems to be conceded that deep laid
scheme to revolutionize Cuba by natives of
that Island, but fitted out from this country,
is about to be carried into execution.
Mr.. N. J. Rusch, of Scott county, has e.
rected wind grist mill, at a cost of $4,000.
1t grinds at the rate of from10 to 13 bush
els of wheat per hour.
Many a woman who continually abuses
her husband won't let anybody else do it.
She thinks it such a luxury that she must
needs monopolize it.
A friend of ours thus eulogises his musi-
cal attainments 81 know two tunes. The
one is "Old Lang Syne,' and the other amt.
[ always sing the latter"
SUSPICION OF CORRUPTION IN INDIANA
The Evansville Und.) Journal says that the
Democratic Auditor of that State has for ten
years supported his family upon salary of
$3.50 to 800 per anfum and laid up $780,
600.
There is negro one hundred and twenty
years old in Anderson, Texas, still hearty
and healthy, and his masters favorite ''boy.
lie retains distinct recollection of the battle
of Guilford Court House, Va, during the
Revolutionary wa.
A vein of iron ore has been found in the
yard of the Clinton, \. Y, prison. 1t APP
parently runs in the direction of State lands
outside the prison stockade, in which case
it will be available for use in the prison, fur
nish.ng fire for the forges and labor for the
convicts.
A Democratic States Rights Convention
was held at Harrisburgh, Pa. on the 18th.
Hon. John Hickman made a lengthy speech,
which was enthusiastically applauded, and
in which he pronounced all talk Of concilia-
ton and compromise between the two fac
tons of the Democracy in Pa, as preposter-
Gus. Hedenounced Buchanan in the severest
terms.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
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any other troublesome and dangerous dis
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should not hesitate to avail themselves Of
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For sale by Druggists and dealers gener.
ally, everywhere.
The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1859-04-21
w. GOLDSMITH, Recordel

Manufactures on large scale are daily
adding to the pre-eminence Chicago has at
tained as the great commercial centre of the
Northwest Amongst the many, we may
select for an example the manufacture of
bags, as being more intimately connected
with the grain trade, ofwhich Chicago is the
greatest primary market in the world. But
three years since our miers, -four, grain,
salt, and other dealers, depended entirely
upon the Fast for their supply Of bags
Now one factory alone, that Of Mr.. Simeon
Farwell, AZ, ~ and 4G Wabash avenue is
making, branding, and shipping 5000 bags
per day, with a capability of manufacturing
five times that amount This mammoth cs-
tablshment the largest of any without one
exception in the United States, or in the
world, employs 20 men, wonIen AMI boys,
runs 9 sewing machines and , cylinder
presses, the motive power being a steam en-
gine of II horse power. Three years since
bag factory in Chicago was but an expert
ment now to every man i'll the West, using
such an article. "Farwelrs Chicago Steam
Bag Factory" has become IA household word,
and to Chicago an ",nstitution" of which
she may well be proud, showing amongst
many other evidences, the real xoiik progress
she is daily making. Oar country readers,
when in,town, should call on Mr.. Farwell who
will take pleasure in showing them over hi.
establishment.-Welrs Chicago Commercial
Exnress