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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
The Eloquence of Silence.

Cicero, one of the worlds greatest orators,
says of silence, that "there is not only an art
but an eloquence in it.'' as fn.0t
Zimmerman, whose very name is suggest
i've of deep reflection in outrageous groves,
writes "Silence is the safest repose for al
the contradiction that arises from inperti-
nence, vulgarity. or envy"
The Tattler, whose name in this instance
is scarcely in keeping with his receipts, af
firms "The deepest waters are the mos
silent; empty vessels make the greatest
sound, and tinkling symbals the worst music
They who think least, commonly speak
most"
DR.. Blair says: "The modes of speech
are scarcely more variable than the modes oi
silence"
Shakespear absolutely teens with llustra-
tions of the same ideas. "Paiabras, neigh.
Dor Verges," remontrates Dogberry. "Words
words, words" sighs Hamlet and even the
senie Twaddler, Polonius, is made to declare
that, "Brevity is the soul of wit" .....
The African--most garrulous Of races
finds certain wisdom in the monkeys, who,
they say, could talk, but refrain lest the
white man should make them work. Inca.
pable of taciturnity, the negro in this illus
tration appears to confess that men become
the slaves of others in proportion to their
liberality to hold their tongues. Unques.
tionably the "gift of gab' is oftentimes pro,
life of evil rather than Of good to its pos.
sessor . "
The late Senator Broderick occurs to the
writer as case in point. OF humble origin
and detective education, he owed much OF
his success in life to the faculty, which he
possessed in high degree, of great senten.
tiousness and he owed his untimey death
to being induced in an unguarded moment
to transcend his practice and sag too mach
Playgoers have realized in Sheridan's Critic
the effect of Lord Burleiga's shake of the
head the very absurdity which silently scat.
ters powder over the orchestra, invests his
lordship with certain respectabii'y. 1t is
evident that, like the owl, he ''keeps up a
devil Of thinking = Courier Dc Ea9uier.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
Hayti and Emigration.

The New York Tribune, of Friday, con-
tanned various official documents in relation
to Hayti and coored emigration. The first
article is circular ''to the blacks, men of
color, and Indians of the U. S. and British
North American Provinces" signed by
James Redpath, as general agent of emigra-
tion appointed by the government of Hayti,
in which, in its name, he guarantees to all
persons of the red and black races in Amer
lea, who can prove good character for in
dustry and integrity, several very important
and liberal advantages, if they see fit to seek
home in the Republic of which President
Geffrard is the enlightened and patriotic
chief.
Among these offers and guarantees are :
free passage; a free farm /; exemption
from military duty perfect religious free
dom; equal, civil and political rights with
Haytians the amplest protection cor
dial welcome a nationality of their own kin
dred; free schools, sites for chaples, rcmun-
eratve work and fair play in every way.
He invites all persons qualified to become
citizens of Hayti to correspond with him, or
visit the IIaytan Bureau of Emigration in
Boston for the purpose Of obtaining further
information with reference to the country
and the character of the Government.
Mr.. Redpath has opened a bureau in the
Washinton Building, (rooms s and 80 22l
Washington street, where the friends of
Hayti, and persons desiring Information
about it, may ascertain all the facts in rela.
ton to this important project. .....
We are informed that the Government of
Hayti instructed Mr.. Redpath to make Bos-
ton the sole port Of shipment for the North
ern States, as recognition ofthe character
of anti-slavery fidelity which this city has
earned both at home and abroad.
He has also received directions from
the Cabinet thi, week, to extend a special
invitation to Mrs. Leary, (the wife of the
colored man who fell at Harper's Ferry,) to
make her home in Hayti, and offering her a
home and house there. Ns#
Rev. Mr.. Holly, Of New Haven, we'll
known and talented colored clergyman, has
been appointed one Of the travelling agents
Of the buraeu, and is now on his way to
Philadelphia to offer to the exiles of South
Carolina an invitation to make their future
homes in Hayti. tb M e
Other agents will Immediately leave for
Cincinnati and Southern Kansas to make
similar propnsitiors to the colored families.
who have recently been banished from Tex
as and Arkansas.
Preparations have been made on scale
large enough to settle 100000 persons as
soon as they shall offer Lfh aa TgWa
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
{ OttumUa Gourifr

The following ode, written some years
since, by the learned Thomas S. Grimke
one the most illustrious sons Of South Car
Dina, breathes a spirit which his country
men of to-day would do well to revive:
ORIGINAL ODE BIT THOMAS s. GRIMKE.
Who would sever freedoms shrne2
Who would draw the invidous line?
Though by birth one spot be mine,
Dear is all the rest.
Dear to me the South's fair land,
Dear the central mountain band,
Dear New England's rocky strand,
Dear the prairied West.
BY our affairs pure and free,
By our Laws, deep rooted tree,
By the past's dread memory,
By our Washington
BY our common kindred tongue,
By our hopesA-bright, buoyant, young
BY the tic Of country strong,
We will still be one.
Fathers! have We bled in vainp
Ages, must we droop againp
Maker, shall We rashly stain
Blessings sent by Thee?
No! receive our solemn VOW,
While before Thy throne we bow,
Ever to maintain, rs now,
"Union-Liberty |"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
A Hard Case.
Ie took the ague badly.

He took the ague badly,
And it shook him, shook him sorely;
Shook his boots off and his toe-nails;
Shook his teeth out and his hair off;
Shook his coat all into tatters,
And his shirt all into ribbons;
Shirtless, coatiess, hairless, tooth.ess,
Minus boots and minus tos-nails; s ra
Still it shook him, shook him till it
Made him yellow, gaunt and bony;
Shook him till he reached his death. bed;
Shook him till it shuffled for him
Off lis mortal coil, and then it
Having made him cold as could be,
Shook the earth still down upon him,
And he lies meath his grave stone,
Ever shaking, shaking. shaking!
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

"Who Is it knocks this stormv nights
Be very careful of the light" tBes.f ~
TIE good man said to his wife,,
And the good wife went to the door;
But never again in all his life
/ VIII the good man see her more
For he who knocked that night was Death
And the light went out with a little BREATH
And the good man will miss his wife,
Till he, too, goes to the door, as'a ~ a=.
When Death viii carry him up to life, 4 Ei'
- - Gnuatrv Gsotleu,ca
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

"A little pipe clay, Dissolved in water en-
ployed in washing. viii clean the dirtiest
clothes thoroughly; with about one half the
labor and fully one halfless SOAP Besides
the clothes will have improved in color.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

The Urbana Citizen thus gently reminds
its delinquent subscribers Of their unfuflled
promises:
MANY Of our subscribers promised to pay
their subscription after harvest We would
remind them that the harvest is past-the
summer is ended-and we are not-paid."
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
Wake Your Homes Beautiful.

The man who is devoid Of local pride, has
very little pleasure in this world The mar
| who does not make an effort to adorn his
home, and thus assist in making the whole
city attractive, is not good citizen. The
providing of the common necessaries Of life
does not comprise the care Of a family. Food
and raimeht, shelter from the heat and pro
lection from the cold are not really the es
sentials of happiness. All these it is the du
ty' Of every man to provide. When he fails
to do so there is q law to compel him -ant
when he is not able to gather these comforts
for his family, there is charity made sacred
and incumbent by nature as wen as necessi
ty, that is always, prompt, prompt to bestow
these on the Needy. Butt IS the beautiful
that makes home really happy. The little
acts to please the eye. A twig cultiva.
ted to bear single bud, often delights the
eye and overHows the soul with more pleas.
ure than a glutton's dish or a vain fools
attire. It is the beautiful that elevates man
What q world this would be were it not
for the BEAUTIFUL? There would be no love
then, to cheer and chasten, no devotion to
inspire confidence, no hope to establish faith
in one another si-'iiit ~ @ Ta6 1lsa Ec
Without the beautiful the world
would be, If not wild chaos, reality toe
stcra for man to endure. tits the beautiful
that dissipatcs this sternncss A home
made beautiful by contentment, it of it.
self adorned and made more attractive than
those where iveried hands raise the latch,
and conduct you through halls of gilded
brightness to chambers Of satin and damask.
Those are not beautiful homes to our con-
ception Of the beautiful unless love lights
the fame ON its altar and peace imparts its
incerse to all its shrines. Added to these,
the hands ~ must contribute their
share towards creating and multiplying the
beautiful in this world i And this is easily
accomplished 1T costs nothing but time in
wolves only little patience, and the beau-
tiful spring around us like the magic crea-
tions Of . fairy dream. 2sd aiah}l9
The Empress Eugeqie isin, 4 condition
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

An ambiguous lover wrote recently 49,
''Now wish, my dear Adelina, my engage
ments would permit me to leave town and
60 to see You. 1t would be like visiting
some old ruin, hallowed by time, and
fraught with thousand pleasing recollee.
ions" sse
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

Grape vines that have not already been.
should Be taken down and carefully covered
with brush and leaves or corn fodder, to-
protect them during the winter. In the
spring they should be tied to the raols Ss
soon Is the frost is out Of the ground. 4&
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
Douglas Democrats.

Practically, therefore, the Douglas Demo-
Gratis in the free States, and the Republican
party, were in the same boat during the late
contest. They were treated pretty much
alike by the slavery propagandists and Sc
cessionists. Mr.. Douglas was permitted to
speak in some Of the slaveholding States,
but he was treated with marked indignity
during his Southern tour, while his vote in
most ofthose States did not very greatly ex-
coed that Of Mr.. Lincoln. And now those
men who broke up the Charleston Conven-
ton and divided the Democratic party be-
cause the Northern followers Of Douglas
were in favor of protecting freedom in the
territories, embody among the conditions
under which they will remain in the Union,
an abandonment of the doctrine both Of sun
friendly legislation" and Congressional pro-
hibition, and the enactment Of slave code
by Congress for the protection of slavery in
the Territories. 1t is not therefore, because
Mr.. Lincoln has been elected to the Presi-
dency7that secession is threatened; but
because both the Republicans and the friends
of Mr.. Douglas are in favor Of preserving the
Territories to Freedom, are opposed to ex-
tending the area Of slavery, opposed to ma
king slavery the rule and freedom the ex-
ception, opposed to the Dred Scott decision
SO far as it goes towards making the federal
Constitution slavery extending instrument,
opposed to a federal slave code for the terri
tories, and opposed to the re opening Of the
African slave trade. Here both parties stand
upon common ground, and there is no rea-
son why they should not cordially unite in
support Of the Constitution and the laws, in
defence Of the Union, and in strengthening
the administration Of Mr.. Lincoln, pledged
as it is to sustain both the former and to
maintain the integrity Of the latter. We
welcome our Douglas friends in this work Of
cooperation towards a patriotic end--R,ess
and Tribune. erq a;99gs b5hGqs vi
A man, who felt q little inclination of an
appetite, went into q New Haven saloon, the
other evening and ate five oyster stews, one
plate Of raw oysters, one plate OF sapsages, q
Goldfish ball, three cups Of custard, one large
plate pf pudding, and drank six. glasses Of
cider, and six glasses Of ole, filling 10 the
cracks with dopghnnts and small cakes.T
What capital STEADY iboarder" he would
Oex roe
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

A PROMINENT gentleman being i'll at To-
ronto, it was telegraphcd to his family that
"Mr Brown is no worse" The family got
it. us no more" and sent up special train
for the remains.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

The red. wite and blue-the read cheeks,
the white teeth, and blue eyes Of, lovely
girl, areas good Q, flag As > young soldier in
the battle oflifs need f|ght for. 49,:
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

The Romans have carica.ure in which
the head Of Napoleon is laid open, and all
Earope is represented as staring at the I'm.
perial brain with bewildered expression,
denoting the inability Of the knowing ones
to read the riddle which is now perplexing
conseryatists ard revolutionists.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

The Empress Bugepie isin, 4 condition
which gives the emperor and the natlon
great hopes. Exchange, 4 us n ofsaas hIaa,
AID sheempress still greater hoops.-An-
s4hsr. syaaao hs,s -Alo,,.7q f,:f-
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06

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, 1860-11-16
SHERIFF'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE or AN ORDER OF SALE Is
sued by the Clerk Of the District Court IN aud for Pierce
County, W. T., and to directed, have levied upon and
viii proceed to sell according TO law At the Court Hose do
10 the Of stelaeoom, IN said County SATURDAY.
the day Of December. is60 O'Clock In The afternoon
the following described premises, 10 wit:
The undivided One-eghh Of that piece parcel Of land
Bnskrks Donation Claim, adjoining llss addition
10 the town Of seacoem, In said County Of Pierce Al.o
that piece parcel Of land known ot No. In Hook No.
TO- aud more particularly described recorded plat
Bils's addition 10 the town of seiacoom afoFesad.
Seized and taken Into execution the property Of Wm n
Rankin sufficient thereof sold satisfy Judgment
for Nine llundred and PoryThree Delars and Forty
cents and 0f suit taxed at Forwo Dollars and Sixty
from The 18Th day of SEPTEMBER sGn, In favor Of VIM. NJ
kandai plaintiff and against VIM y. Rankin, defendant and
for accrung costs.
EGBERT H. TUCKER
Sheriff Of Pierce County, ". 7.
, 1860-11-16

The amateur sportsmrn Of Newberry, S. c.,
have had line time shooting bats during the
summer evenings The bats are regarded as
quite delicacy for the table.
At Timbuctoo, California, on the 10th ult,
pair Of youthful lovers eloped from the roof Of
an "anxiOus parient" while the mother Of the
fair Juliet was deeply absorbed in game Of
Gu, hre.
, 1860-11-16

As Mrs Pond, Of Bedford, Mass, was getting
out Of q wagon q few days since, her dress be.
came entangled, and the horse at the same mo-
ment started and rem, dragging her a mile and q
half and so frightfully gashing and bruising her
head that she died in few minutes
After tight rope walking exhibition in New
Haven, Connecticut, a few days since, the rope
was slackened TO a short distance from the ground,
and then suddenly tightcned, throwing two boys
who had carelessly been allowed to catch hold
Of il some thirty feet into the air, breaking an
arm for one and q leg for the other. n
Martin Kalch, the treasurer of the Columbia
Building and Loan Association, Of Philadelphia,
is charged with suddenly disappearing, taking
with him $1,000 Of the money Of the AssOcia-
ton, and it is supposed $4,OO0or 5000 Of his
own and borrowed funds The shareholders Of
the association are in great tribuatOn thereat
A. j. Welch and family, composed Of wife,
and nine sons and daughters, and William Aid
rich and family, consisting Of eight sons and
daughters, accompanied by John Welch and one
or two other male attaches, from Polk county,
Oregon, says the Sacramento Union Of the 23d
ult., passed up X street yesterday, en- rottte for
Santa Clara county. The party had quite q
train of stock, which was driven by the Misses
Welch and Aldrich on horseback The smaller
IN two covercd raSon, which ,vere con by
the fathers Tbe;r 80. - ....;st.l ef
twentv.our p.o.t .nS ,;s,I w"IoS in.
formed ms tbat 1 :" I'd Az hocm my -os;dsn, or 0recop
since 1s47.
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s'U"s'S W "'AA1 N's'' "U'' NV "N
inc uo,'nan psnevo'en' ,sn I soe''y VI '~" r'A"-
cisco "u'"i"'s NV ,"''"
The Rev. Mr.. BewbV, reported to have been
hung by Texas mob, Us represented as des'
perado from the southern part OF Missouri.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, represents
the Sixth District on tho Lincoln and Hamlin
Electoral ticket in Massachusetts
Mrs Ada Isaacs Menkin, alias Mrs. Ada
Tsaacs Menkin Heenan, has commenced suit Of
divorce against John c. Hcenan.
To,;so R.-- ,ho r,o,hor or the c.,ohr.tod
.,,h"r sI,hnDss Karr died sent an IN
Cannes socd oightv.two.
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a. o,I;,;,,,, - on ooo moi, .,rons1 NTov;cc
psu'''Oe, - = 80
Is sateo Una! the rope mas onereu tue hing
o. Naples the Vulr'naI falace AZ rome as res
ldence.
THANKSGIVING DAY N New lork' TINS year.
comes on the zSlh oi November
New York city owns one half Of the entire
property subject to taxation in the State.
New Orleans has escaped the rayages Of vel.
low fever this year.
Ar,o,,,. .ho D,;sor.rs soDt A .ho ronito,.;.,,
, 1860-11-16
pITGET SOUND HERALD.
1EElCOOn, ". 7. FRDAY, nov. Is, S60.
IITRST FORRIGN and DOMESTIC NEWS.

From the San Francisco Herald Of the LIST inst
-. clip the following summary Of the latest in
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-08
THE PUBLIC MONEYS.

For several years past, the Postmaster of this
City-it is now conceded-has been stealing
the Public Moneys which passed into his hands,
and squandoring them in party engineering, wild
specuations, loans 10 personal or political friends,
and general extravaganza. One hundred and
fifiy-fye thousand dollars is named as the amount
for which he stands a confessed dcfauter ON the
books of the Department. bat there is 10 doubt,
among persons cOnyersant with the matter, that
the actual aggregate Of his embellishments is very
much larger. Let that Office be honestly managed
for as many years Mr.. Fowler had control of it,
and the net receipts will show that the amount of
his plunderipgs is nearly or quite Half Million.
This immense sum il gone; so is the Postmaster.
There is no hope of the return of either. What
we hope for and have right to expect IL,
such ventilation of this gigantic fraud as will
afford some reasonable ground Of assurance that
the crime Of Mr.. Fowler cannot be repeated and
diversified at pleasure and with perfect impunity.
This is lust what our rulers seem determined not
10 afford us. Wien we first stated, on Information
and belief, that eur Postmaster was heavy de-
fainter. The statement was Indignantly conradicted
at Washington, and attributed to political hostility
or personal ma.evolence Mr.. Fowler was retained
in Office, and allowed to continue his stealing un-
1ebuked. At laft when the robbery could no
longer BE- cloaked, it was blazOned, and the head
swjndler driven into exile with pethorc pockets.
But. down to this hour, the public is not permitted
10 know how such wholesale stealing could be car
RED on for years with perfect impuulty' Inc
President assures us that he did not know Mr.
Fowler to be defaulter. The Postmaster-General
clears himself by like disclaimer, and lays the
blame on Mr.. Tate, Sixth Auditor of the Treasury
Department. Nj Tate says he isn't the man
that Mr. Zeyely, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, is the real culprit. Mr.. Zevely throws
the blame back on the Auditor; the Postmaster
General backs his Assistant-aud there the matter
rests-or rather rocks-the Public Money stolen
by carloads and nobody in fault but the thief who
bas steamed of TO smoke his cigar in some SunDie
cline.
Can this answer The Treasury is called on for
Five or Six Millions per annum, to offset alleged
deficiencies in the Post Office revenue. Contract
ors are kept out Of their dues for months and have
to be paid ioterest on those dues when they are
finally adjusted If there is really no check on
postmostcr's thelts but his own honesty or fear,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-08
OUR POsT-OFPsCE.
J.. s. P.

The Postmaster General, we are told, has bought
the old church now occupied Post Office for
this City; the Government paying $500, 900, and
Individuals interested in keeping it that loca-
ton adding $50, 600 to make up the required pur-
chase money. The People of this City have been
no more consulted as to the matter, and their
wishes no more regarded than those of Calcutta
or Hong KOpg.
This location is eminently unfit and inconvenient
1t is not isolated by streets or public grounds from
other buildings, as our Post Office should be. 1t
il approached by none other than narrow, uneven,
inferior streets. No railroad runs, none is likely 10
run, within several streets Of it. There ia no
chance to run cart, much less ear, into the
Post. Office, or ts inclosure, to he loaded or un-
loaded. In short the place is filter for the site
of Po,tO Office than Harlem is for our Custom
House; and it is only kept there by force of the
wealth concentrated in and about Wa-street
This will hardly stand. We shall yet have
Post. Office into which mail-cars from all the great
lines ofrailway out of town can be- run, locked in
unlOad,d loaded afresh, run ont upon the tracL
again, and rolled away. Instead of building new
Post Offices in Brooklyn and other suburbs, we
ought TO have Post-Ofice here which would
sweep radius of ten or twenty miles, gathering mp
letters and distributing them at each Office store
or dwelling several times each secular day. How
much longer shall this City lac far behind London
OF Paris in the completeness of her facilities for
collecting ard distributing letters