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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-08-14
FOR CINCINNATI!
CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS,
CINCINNATI SHORT LINE
Rail ROadI

Shortest, Quickest, and only Direct Route from Chi
s. cago to Cincinnati.
Passenger trains leave the Great Central Depot foot
of Lake street, as follows ~.
f1st train t:io I'm, arrives at Michigan City at
1230p.m., tdinner) La Fayette 5:25 (suppero indi.
annapolis s:l5, p.m Lawrenceburg 1870, and Cincin-
natl at 11:45p.m.
Second train scoop arrive at Michigan City 9:2O
E.M. La Fayett: 2:f0 am, Indianapolis $40 a IN
Lawrsnceburg 1920 am, Cincinnati at 1045 am. :
Passengers leave 0ttumwg 400 pm, arrive at
Darlington at J:25 pm. arrive at Chicago at 515 m
ut Cincinnati 1880 am. aaa
Only one change of cars between Chicago and Gin
cinnat ~ go .s#a -G
Patent sleeping attached to all night trains
and run through from Chicago to Cincinnati without:
change @asaa
Through tickets can be had at all railro ad cfices
IN the West, aud at the company Office corner LAX
and Dearborn streets, and at the depot foot of LAX
street, Chicago.
Fare as low as via any other route
HI SpALDISG, Ag't Chicago
WIN. POWELL, Trav. Agent,
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RURLINGroy, PEORIA, AND 10.
HAEANSpDRT -|'

Trains leave Burlington as follows: MORNING
MAIL, 200 IN NIGHT Ex., saturdays exceptedl 5
p. m. Sunday Night Train leaves at 5 D m Connect.
ing at TOLEDO with LIGHTNING Tx. TRAINS on
LAKE SHORE Il. II.
The 500 p m Logansport kXpeessmakes direct CON
nections, as follows:
At Ell Paso with Illinois Central Railrosd
ington, Decatur, Pana, Sandoval and Cairo.
At Chenca with Chicago and st. Louis Railroad for
Alton TO st. Louis
At Gil man with (Chicago Branch) Illinois Central
Railroad for Chicago and South
At Reynolds with New Albany and Salem Railroad
for Lafay ette, indianapolis and Cincinnati
At Logansport with Toledo, Waba and W stern
Railroad for Toledo and all points East also with
Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad for Cincinnati Day
ton and Columbus.
The lao p Peoria Accommodation makes the
same connections as above TO Gilman
The above is q new and very much shorter Line
than any other to the above named points
1t Is thoroughly built, and well manned and run in
every way merritt appreciation Of the travelling
public.
CarswIll run directly through from burlington 20
Toledo without change, and arrive in advance of any
and all other lines.
Our advantages are Shortest and Quickest one less
change ofcars: no 0mnbussing as via Chicago; con.
nections positive as il is owned and controlled by the
same interest while via Chicago isthe reverse In
short, it is every way the most desirable line
J. Il. FAYRWEATHER, Jr
Ticket Agt Burlington.
r. s. WILSON, Passenger Ag't, Ottnmwa.
A. BARBER, Western Ag't, Des Moines Iowa |
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NEW XURX rAND ERIE:
RAILROAD "
Great Broad Guage, Double Track
and Telegraph Route.

Great Broad Guage, Double Track
and Telegraph Route,
FIN0New York, Boston, and all eastern cities, car
Il rying the Great Western and Northwestern
United States mails.
Express Trains leave Dunkirk daily, arrival of
altrans the Lake Shore Railroad, Fl ON Clev eland
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul, st. Louis, Dubuque,
Burlington, Iowa City, &C., and rup through to New
York city without change.
The only route Running through from the Lakes
to New York city. Splendid ventilated sleeping
night trains.
Baggage checked through. Fare always as Low as
by any other route. .t egu -sr. .
Boston Passengers and their Baggage transferred
Free in New York.
Be particular and call for tickets via Dunkirk and
the New York and Erie Railroad which sold at all
the principal Railroad Offices in the West.
This road affords facilities for shipment of freight,
superior to any other route
AN EXPRESS FREIGHT TRAIN
leaves New York daily, making close connections
through to all points West and quicker time than
before made on any line.
For freight rates enquire off, G. Oatman 24l Broad
way, New,York or ofJacob Forsyth, Freight Agent,
6lClark ST., Chicago. A. BARBER, Agent
for Iowa. Burlington, Iowa.
Z. s. SPENCER, Western Ag't Cleveland, Ohio,
SAM'L READ, Ag't, Toledo, Ohio. s.-
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ESTRAY NOTICE.

State of Iowa, 90
WaDelo County
TEyaken up by David McCosloueh, living in Rich
n land Township, Wapello County State of Iowa,
on the 22d day of March, A. ID. 1861 One dark brswn
lIorse abou. sixteen hands high with white grey
spot on the near jaw, some collar marks IN neck
no other marks or brands perceivable, Supposed to
be eighteen or Twenty ears old, and appraised at
$50 by stephen RyboIt, Asacl Clark and John Thomp.
son, before Joshua Marshall Justice Of the Peace
in and for said County, HUGH BROWN,
March 80 6i-4-13-3 M. Clerk of Dist. Court
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Shortest Time Table.

- GOING RETURNING
8. 500 p M, Burlington, $50 p. m.
1910 a. Peoria, 3:45 D. M
700 a IN ..I. ALSO.
1D:00 m $50 Logansport. arrive $3.50 am $40 pm
lilo M IL: 10 pm Anderson. 1910 am II: 10 pm
400 m 2:30 pm Richmond $40 pm $40 pm
f:45 m $50 pm Cincinnati, Goo pm $50 pm
At Richmond, trains connect with Indiana Central
X. X. for Dayton, Springfield and Coi,.nbus Ohio,
Wheeling, Baltimore and Washington.
Freight Trains make regular connections through,
from Cincinnati to Burlington, in three days.
For further particulars appIyto
.- 7s A. BARBER, Gen'l r. r. Aet. Besmoines Iowa
JAS. FAYERWEATHER, Agt b &PRR
Burlington, Iowa
s.W. CHAPMAN, GenfF't Ag't c &FCRR,
Cincinnati, Ohio
D.. GRAY, Gent FIT Ag't, Central Ohio r. r.
Aug. %, 1860
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NJ. WACHTLER,

BOOT AND SHOE MAX Err,
Main-st., one door East Of Temples Bank,
OTTUMWA, IOWA.
yEygEE proprietorke keeps constantly on hasd good
a assortment of Leatlers, ana is always ready to
accommodate wi good work iii his line on
usineGs April. 0, 1S59-y
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Great Britain,

Parliament not being in session owing
to the Easter recess, there is no political
news ofimportance.
Lord Pa!merston having accepted the
Office of IortFWarden of the Cinaue Ports,
bad to resign his seat in Parliament for
riverton, but was reelected without op.
position. In his speech to the electors,
he adverted as follows, to the crises IN
America:
There is but one spot in the political
horizon, the contemplation of which must
inspire It's with regret and uneasincss. ]
mean those commissions which are now
taking place among our cousins in North
America, leading to n dissolution OF the
Union Of the formerly United States. 1t
is rot for us to Judge between the contend
ing parties. 1t is not for us to say what
ought to be- whether compromises ought
to be made by which the Union may
he maintained or whether it is best for
the happiness of the sections that they
should seperate and form respectively diff
ferent associations and confederaces 4; but,
OF this | am sure, every man who hears
me, every British heart will feel that it is
our cordial wish that whatever may be
the ultimate result of the differences now
prevailing, that result may be brought
out by amicable adjustments. and that the
world may be saved from the affecting
spectacle OF seeing brothers arming against
brothers and parents agains children, and
OF seeing that state of social happiness,
which has hitherto been the admiration
Of mankind, deiolmcd by disputes and
country which has been the scene oi
peace and industry polluted by the eilu
sion OF blood"
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A Word of Warming,

In q sermon delivered at Charleston by
Rev. c. G. Pickney, and just published by
request, with the suggestive title of Ne
buchudnezzar's Fault and Fail" this strik-
ing passage occurs:
Let us not rest our hopes upon iden-
tity of institutions in the Southern States.
.Sarcry IS Itself no bond Of Union. 1t has bo-
come so with US simply as the result OF
outward pressure. The Chnldean monar-
chy, the Roman empire, the Greek repub-
lies. the South American States, were all
slaveholding countries. But they have
all fallen to pieces Notwithstanding. OF
ITSELF il is mere rope of sand, with no
more power, politically. than any other
recognized relationship. Let us not re-
pose on our agricultural staples. Cotton
is the King whom commerce now wor
ships. But its reign may pass away like
other human sceptres. tbs not now more
firmly established in its supremacy than
Nebuchadnezzar was in his. Suddenly as
the ancient monarch was hurled from his
seat the dominant staple may be from its
commercial throne. Sixty or seventy
years since indigo was the produce o
Southern fields, and cotton scarcely
knONH. anu seNeH'y years HcHcc SUNNI
other culture may supplant this as it ha:
supplanted the former production, and
more remunerative labor may fill its place
These are the two human props upon
which the Southern mind is now tempted
to lean. instead of upon the Eternal God
They are tho arches upon which pride is
resting our political house. But they will
sink beneath the superintendent weight
like the arches in the walls of Babylon. .
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Memphis.

A meeting of the citizens of Memphis,
of all parties, was held eon the 18TH
Among other resolutions adopted, we find
the following:
Resolced, That the war which Abraham
Lincoln. claiming to be President of the
United States, has preciptated upon this
country, in the face of Tia express provis-
ion Of the Constitution exclusively vest
ing the war making power in Congress,
by his base and treachei ci,ls is a gross act
of tyranny and usurpatiyn, and, will he
opposed by our dauntles3 determination
to resist his threatened insasion.
Resoived. That we respectfully but earn
estly urge upon the Gov~nor Of Tennes.
see the importance OF Immediately cor
venng the Legislature il extraordinary
session, and that our dciasates from this
county, and the Senator,aEd Floater he,
and they are hereby D-SFsed 20 Ynts
for bill calling Conventssn immediate
ly, with the view of passing forthwith
an ordinance Withdrawing Tennessee
from the Union.
Resotced That in the judgment Of this
meeting twill be the duty OF the State Con
vcntion, when assembled, without unnec-
essary delay or debate, to pass such ordi-
nance, resuming the delegated powers oI
the State and placing her in her appro-
pirate position in the Southern Coniede.
racy in accordance with what we believe
to be the true interests of the State.
RcSolced That in view of the pending
war, the uncertainty OF the direction
which hostile movements may take, and
the duplicty which has heretofore char
acterized the conduct OF the Lincoln Gov,
eminent. Memphis. aud the country OF
Shelby, shouid be Immediately put III an
adeOuat" state of deieiice. and so occupi-
ed as to prevent the passage of troops and
munitions of war through OF 10y the city,
to operate against the South, and that
the proper authorizes of the city and the
county Of Shelby be requested to adopt
immediate financial measures to the end.
RcsoigcE That in case OF all efforts 10y
an organic act Of the State, to place our
city outside the pale Of Lincoln's authority
fail, we shall be compelled to assert the
laws of scll.preservation and to defend
our lives, property and families by our
own efforts and arms.
Resolccd, That we respectfully request
the Legislature. when assembled, to au-
thorize call Of volunteers, and to take
such steps as may be necessary to arm
and equip them.
RcSoiocd, That we urgently call upon
the people of every county in the State.
to hold primary meetings Immediately
for the pu pose of cooperating IN the
views and purposes OF the foregoing reso-
luton.
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Response of Gov. Harris.

The following is the response of Gov.
Harris to Lincoln's call for troops. 1t is
such as will meet the hearty appreciation
of the entire people of the State:
Executive DEPARTMENT,
Nashville, Tenn, April II. 1861.
Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary Of War,
Washington, d. c.:
Sir: Your dispatch of the 10Th inst in
forming me that Tennessee is called upon
for two regiments Of militia for immediate
ervice, is received.
Tennessee will not furnish single man
for purposes Of coercion. but $4,000, if
necessary. for the defense of our rights,
and those of our Southern brothers.
IsHAN G. HARRIS,
Governor of Tennessee.
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Western Virginia.

We copy the paragraph below from the
Abingdon Virginian, OF tbt10th:
Tue DEED rs DOVE The last straw
has broken the camels back" and the
war of sections has commenced. We have
given full particulars, which will of course
be read with avidity. The question is now
narrowed down TO North aud South--it
is no longer Union or Disunior r--and we
must all take one side or the other. 1t is
either fight or suhjugation. Surely there
is not a true man in Virginia who will
hesitate, or fail to breast the storm. il
need be. in defence OF his own State and
the South. 1t is no time lor. elimination
to enquire whether this party or that
is at fault--the citadel is on fire, and we
must put it out. The way TO do this is by
unity of effort. As far as we are concern
ed God knows we haze honestly and
9e0lnuslv nuisued the. co"Lse our judg-
mrnts prompted US 10 no the better to
prevent this great calamity, and we ac-
cord to those who have differed with us
the same honesty of purpose. But no
| matter now which was right and which
was wrong, the Black Republican enemy
has invaded us, and we must fight him to
| the death
We had hoped for the restoration of
this great, beautiful, and once prosper.
Gus and glorious country, to peace aud
| happiness, and to this end have said over
and often that we would not desert the
| Union and Constitution as long as there
was a plank left to stand upon, but the
last plank has been swept away by the
storm OF Northern Ianaticism. and now
it is war to the knife or vassalage to the
North. No time for splits" No mat
, ter whether we join the Southern Con-
| federacy or the Southern Confederacy
| join us. We must stand shoulder to
shoulder. That's it. No matter wheth-
er secession be right or wrong. revolution
is upon us. and we must ride upon the
wave to victory or death. No matter
whether the simultaneous secession of
all the slave States would have prevented
war, or whether peace would have pre-.
vailed had there been no secession, the
torch Of war has been lighted, and we
must march by its blaze to honor, or
quietly submit to degradation.
Some we believe, still advocate Mid
die Confederacy. This. we think, is n
mistaken policy. North or South. Abe
Lincoln or jeff Davis, is the alternative.
We must be united as one man in de-
fence Of our rights and institutions.
We have notr to say more at present,
bat we have not doubt that we speak
the sentiments of 90 l0ths ofthc Union
men, and that they will not be the last
to throw themselves into the breach and
| share the fate o.! the South.
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From New York.

New YoRK, April 1.-THE Border
States stocks declined. Tennessee skies
"a; Virginia AZ; Missouri 494; North Caro-
lima So.
The merchants meeting TODAY was
most imposing and enthusiastic. $1,000
headed the subscription list for the 7th
regiment on the spot. 1t is expected that
$4,000 will be raised tomorrow.
A mob has gone to compel the Journal
Of Commerce to hang out the American
flag.
The Express and Day Book complied
under the same terms.
1t is reported that A. T. Stewart offers
$1,000, ,0Ot to the Government.
Recruiting is going on briskly. Sailors
in great numbers are applying for Naval
service.
The 70 regiment has rendered its ser.
vices. Voulteering is progressing briskly
in numerous Northern and Eastern local.
tiles.
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Republicanism Whipped out of
New Jersey.

No wonder the Republican journals,
hereabout, have been in state Of great
purterbation these few days past, in re-
gard to the critical condition Of things" +"
over in the glorious I'D Union State OF
New Jersey. Some of them have gone so
far us to proclaim suspicion that certain
plots were connecting TO precipltate the
Bread Seal" into secession. But then
this was Just previous to the municipal
elections IN Hudson county, and is we'll
understood to have been but one OF those
little private electioneerirg tricks, for
which the" friends Of freedom in Kansas
are nova days notorious. Still, there Is
no doubt that there has been desperate
plot over there. not. however, against the
Urion,-to which New Jersey has been
ever truc,-but aagnSt the Union-split-
ters and what is more, the plot Is already
IN fat arc0niDH. Vide the election returns.
In JERSEY Cry, out of ten Aldermen the
Republicans have been able only to elect
one! and that one only by the s'siN of his
teeth, in other words, 10y II majority Of
three. In Ilohokcn, out oi forty-nlne
local officers elected, they have, with
great eXertous. succeeded in eleciing IL
while in Hudson City, on the hill, they
have been completely wiped out--elect.
ing Just O.
Thus. in New Jersey, as in Connecticut
and Rhode Island. the people are sending
Republcanism into Coventry just as fast
us they can. White men are beginning
to think and to act. Negro" politics
have driven seven States out of the Union
already, and unless the negro himself is
let alone. nine more may go. The peo
nile rpcOuniZing these momentOus facts
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Who is to BlameP

The Indianapolis Sentinel, the organ of
Il hundred thousand voters in that State,
says:
The ABOLITION WAR OF SEWARD, LINCOLN
AND COMPANY.
The telegraph dispatches announcing
that civil war commenced in Charleston
Ilarbor, on yesterday mdsninri "iii cause
intense excitement all over the country.
Civil strife has commenced. Tie Aboh-
Ion and d;sunion Administration lars attempt
ed the coercion Of tie Confederate Suites, Such
are the first fruits Of Repuhlcanism--the
end no one foresecs. Mr.. Lincoln rW scek
to erade The responsibility Of i"aparatinp crit
,car, Jy charging The orct act upon the Mont
gomery Government If WAR WAS NOT IN
TENDED, WHY WAS A Military AND NAVAL EX-
PEDITIoN FITTED OUT, WITH THE MEN AND
APPLIANCES TO REINFORCE AND OCCUPY FORT
SUMTER AT ALL HAZARD? This was not
peaceable mission. 1t WAS an expedition
intended to convince the people OF the
Southern States. in Republican langua e,
that we have n Government. 1t was
known that the demonstration would be
regarded as an act of war. and the men
OF the South would have been regarded
as mere braggarts if they had not resisted
unto death. Their honor was at stake
If THEY HAD YIELDED WITHOUT
RESISTANCE THEY WOULD HAVE
STOOD DISGRACED BEFORE THE
WORLD.
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CAN THE souru SurroRr GOVERNMENT

CAN THE SoUTn SUPPORT 4 GOVERNMENT !?
-Eliphalet Case in an able communica-
ton to the Boston Post, fully answers this
question, as follows:
Now, there is nothing that puzzles the
radical Republicans so much as the diff
Guilty the South will have, in their esti-
nation, in raising revenue to carry on
their government. Did it ever occur to
them that ten per cent, on this one arti-
Gle, of export duty, would raise on $780,
100000, SIS 100000, and that this would
not exceed one cent pound on the en-
tire cotton crop? Then suppose the
South should conclude to tax the pro-
ducts OF the free Northern States ten per
cent, and tho shoes, hats and other i'm
ports from the free States east of the
Allegheny mountains ten per cent, this
wouid yield at least S25,000,000 more
Then an import duty on all other imports
from all other parts of the Globe would
make an income of Sl0,000000 more
SCI, 600, 900 in all. The South is rich in
all the resources that go to make the
wealth and power OF great nations; and
can easily, within its present territory,
support two hundred millions OF people.
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Reply of Gov. Ellis of N. G.

RALklGI, n. c., April l5.-To the Secre-
tary of War: Your dispatch is received,
and if genuine which its extraordinary
character leads me to Doubt have to
say In reply, that regard a levy of troops
for the purpose of subjugating the States
of the South as in violation Of the Consti-
tuition and usurpation of power. can
be no party to this wicked violation of
the laws of the country, and to this war up
on the liberties of free people. You can
get no troops from North Carolina. |
will reply more in detail when your call
is received by mail.
signed, JoHS W. ELLIS,
Governor of North Carolina.
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Correspondence.

We find the following correspondence
in the Nashville Union and american, of
the 10th:
NASHVILLE, April 18th 1861.
To His Erceliency 1sHAM G. HARRIS, Gov-
ernor Of Tennessee:
SIR:-l hold myself in readiness to hon
or your draft OH me for thousands of dol
lais TO aid you in placing Tennessee in a
state of defence.
doubt not, that there are many others
quite as able, and more patriotic than
myself, who will come to the rescue OF
our State in its perilous position.
am most respectfully your ob't serv't,
BYRD Doi,GLAs
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CHE gust.
Athens, Friday, April pe, 1891.
Extra Session of the Legislature

PROCLAhATiON bh inh oVNhnNon'
WHEREAS, an alarming and dangerous
usurpation of power by the President oi
the United States has precipitsted a state
OF war between the sovereign States oi
America.
Therefore, I, IsuAM G. HARRIS, Cover.
nor of the State of Tennessee, by virtue oi
the power and authority in me vested by
the Constitution, do hereby require the
Senators and Representatives of the two
houses of the General Assembly Of said
State, to convene At the Capitol in Nash.
Vile, on Thursday, the 25th day of April
inst, 1861, at IL o'clock NJ, to legislate
upon such subjects az may then be sub
mitted to them.
~ In testimony whereof, have
LIS. hereunto set my hand and caus-
~ cd the great seal Of the State to
be atfix at the Department. at Nashville,
on this the 18th day Of April A. D. 1861.
IsHAM g. HARRIS.
By the Governor:
J. f. X. RAY, Secretary of State.
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am respectfully your ob't scrv't,
IsHAM q. HARRIS

WHAT STooD IN the WAY or THE EvAcUA-
TIoN OF FoRT SuMTeR.-A correspondent
of The Worid says
Now, in regard to evacuation, it is a
plain fact that to accomplish this. perms
sion must be asked of the Southern Con-
Iederacy. This is in accordance with
established usage, as all must know
Opposing forces often allow mutual cour-
teses 10 each other, but where one party
is in state of siege, no evacuation can
take place without the consent of the be-
siegers If these statements be true, and
think they are, then it follows that Ft.
Sumter cannot be evacuated save under
one of two coalitions, either by force or
by the consent Of He government Of he South
ern Cogfsderacy The former is in the
highest degree impracticable; the latter b,-
roIves The recognition Of The Southern Coafedcr.
acy, both OF which are, to say the least
istasteful to our administration. Accord
ing to this view, our government is plac-
ed between the horns of dilemma,
neither of which can be resorted to. And
this is why think Fort Sumter has not
nor cannot be evacuated.
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Response of the Gov. of Arkansas.
In response to the requsition of the
Black Republican Administration upon
Arkansas for troops. Gov. Rector thus
briefly and to the point telegraphed:
"Yours received calling for regiment
of volunteers from Arkansas. Mary one
SEQ you d-m-d first!'