The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-09-04
showed that, one Of the Garibaldni, a corps
Of whom are quartered here, had sought
oblivion in the, very center of deba te. .,ge,
READING TUE MESSAGE --THE HOUSE OF REL

Of whom are quartered here, had seugh
oblivion in the, very center of deba te. ,ge,
READING TUE MESSAGE --THE HOUSE OF REP
!, REsENTATIvEs, .,
4, more dreary proceeding than the read
! ing Of the message cannot well rbe conceived
The Clerks voice was slow and monoton
Gus, the silence in the Senate was unbrokel
lby q single note, of appreciation but in tn
other House, / hear there was moro, anima
| ton. An. attempt was made to sit with clos
| ed, doors FOR the better dispatch of busi
ness, but this was not agreed TO by the ma
[jority, ,.s .,4a. i, .as,oas
|, An enthusiastic lady who came over witt
me, in the Arabia, was very indignant witt
"a countrymen Of hers, because he affirmed
that he had never seen a more dignifed as
sembly than the House Of Lords. "What!'
she she said, "do you, mean for one moment t
say that they ar, equal iri appearance to on
Senators !" In one respect the Senator's ar
certainly destitute of widom which is givel
BY white hairs and venerable aspect. Few
Of the Senators. are men Of advanced years
and Mr.. Crittenden is pointed out as kind
of obsolete -fossilized politician, as much out
of place as Nestor would be in a revel with
Achilles ard Patroclus In another phase
are not SO dignifed,, They do not consider
it unbocoming to write at their desks in I'll,
midst Of bebate. Writing isa base rmechan
ical process, after all, and no man looks wei
while he is engagel at it. Senator's are like
other men. Perhaps they are little fondel
Of stationary.
MODE OF PROSECUTING BUSINESS.
1t must be CONCEDED" that dress ,ha,
something to do with the aspect ola deliber
ative, body, and that Jim Grow hats and lin
en- blouses would detract from the appear
ance of the most aristocratic mob in the
world Pretermitting these things in th,
United States Senate, there are noble heads,
commanding forms, and high intelligonees,
nearly equal to The greatest issues before
them. Business is transacted colloquially
and e,sily, but there is, | am told, a prac
-tice Of making set oratiQns which at on
time threatened the House Of Commons.
The young gentlemen who act as pages o
messengers, would not violate Republican
simplicity by its appropriate neatness ofat
tire. but they, as well as all tie servants 0
the House, and the employers Of the public
all over the State, display q readiness to OBJ
lge, ciyility and courtesy which produce 8
pleasing surprise in the mind of an English
man who remembers how the, gentlemen al
home, not liable to removal at the end Q
four years, assist him in bis inquiries at thu
Circpmlocuton Office. h ss,t
sgiiars ARLISGToE HousE. s}
Arlington House bears maiks OF rougl
usage, and the mansion itself, a very ugl,
edifice, which looksias if the architect a
first intended to build a'Methodist meetip,
house, and had got as far AS a Dorlc portict
ofstupendous dimensions, when he was sud
denly moved toeontinue his designs with {
view to found a lunatic asylum ofthe Han
well type, may not be the better for the pre-
sence of the military ggaa.a 3ifafo
at afofGESERAn SCOTS DIFFICULTIES. on
1t may be readily Imagined how General
Scott deals with such opinions .snd their or
gans. All these gentlemen are for pushing
on ahead and making general attack o.
'the enemy. They Think an army is like {
ronnd Of canister which can be fred OF
whenever match is applied It strikes me
from what I have seen, that the Fedora
troops win have to be managed with ski
and caution in the face OF the Confederates
The latter will fight with animosity and des
peration, tempered by military knowledge {
a certain kind that may neptralize the advan
tages possessed in numbers by the North
as well as other points. The politicians ar
eager to grasp the prize and to bring thei
machinery into play, to round off its. roug
edges, forgetting that they must first clea
the ground by armed force for the lever.
Every man, of course, here believes h
can write a leading article, row boat
drive sig, or fight battle, and hav
heard men, with high military titles, VIII
for their lives could not form a regiment il
square or occupy farm house, talk abou
operations in the field as if they were ele
mentary portions oftheI arithmetic table :
These are not the only difficulties with whic
the Cabinet has to contend, for there hav
been views entertained on question Of foI
eign policy which would have ended in mos
serious complications had they not been fol
tunately overcome or abandoned. The dar
ger from this source, or rather the cause {
it, still exists.
THE IDEA or THE STABILITY or THE aUNIoS
l;To the Americans Of the North it is littl
short Of blasphemy to doubt Of the Union
which is now dissolved by rebellion. an
can only be cemented again by blood. Th
motto Of Belgium is, 9"I U,iion fait
force ]" the motto Of the Re United State
ought to be, LA Force faitC Unionnli,s1q
.aIwould sooner outrage all the orthodoxic
in Bostan than declare my belief, in. that cit
that Great Britain WIN outliye the great re
public, thought may not be better to ,
blasphemous and live than to be honest an
be pelted 10 DEATH The real Northern lJnio
man probably believes in his soul, as he take
down his musket to fight against the citizen
ofeleven Confederate States, that when Il,