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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, whose
election over the regular Republican candi-
date was regarded as a great triumph Of
what used to be called Conservatism, has
been to the war, and there has learned
thing or two which the country ought to
know He has lately printed in the Provi-
dence papers an address to the people of his
State, from which we copy couple Of para
graphs:
ut is superficial view, therefore, of the
present national crisis, which supposes that
this conflict can end and leave things as it
found them. We must cross this
flood that swells and foams, or abandon the
national hopes of glorious future. The
issue already made between oppression and
liberty must be fought out to the end now,
or refouglit hereafter, under aggravated cir
cumstances. Slarery re- eesta5lisAed, and the
same consequences essentially soould tollor
again. \
'There is really no possible hopeful end
to this conflict but the end of slavery. There
is no such easy escape from our National
troubles as some seem to imagine-no pros
pect of the war being short but by being
useless, or else by being radical and deter
mined, and, I may add, in regard to false
principles, most unsparing. To propose,
therefore, that the Union shall survive and
its glory and power be triumphantly restor-
ed and perpetuated, is virtually to doom
slavery to speedy extinction. The hepreserra-
sion Of tic Union and tho destruction of
slapery arc inseparable aye,' identical
noe; and he who rotes for the one necessari-
ly rotes for the other.
81 have not thought it necessary to show
that, under existing circumstances, we are
released from all legal or moral obligations to
longer tolerate slavery in the land, If the
safety of the nation demands its extinction.
The case is too plain for doubt"
Gov. Sprague has been reelected by the
votes of all parties. His sentiments do not
harmonize with the resolutions of the De-
mocracy and their conservatism"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

Fame is after all but poor and paltry
motive for one conscious of his own MINOR
tality. AAd the moral to be drawn from the
word forge,fulness, is, that we should do our
work for the present and not for the future !;
for the sake of love and not Of glory, and be
conte with namelessncss ip worthy deeds.
Good works live and bear fruit, though good
workers die and the years cover their names
with oblivion.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

A letter from Victoria complains much Of
a want Of domestic servants there. The
writer says "The other day lady. finding
her servant sitting over the drawing room
fire reading book, said, Mary, your rooms
are not done ; 60 and get them ready as soon
as you can.' They amt done, amt they y
was the reply /; 'then l guess if you want
'em done you must SO and do 'em yourself,
for amt agoing to rise till I have finished
this be ok"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17
The Knights Of the Golden Circle have q

pretty extensive organization throughout
the North. 4 recent exposition says the N.
Y. Day Book was their chief organ, but the
CINCINNATI Enquirer, Chicago Times and
other papers are also organs and are much
sought after by the Knights in the different
States. The plan Of Operations is to cry
Abolition, Abolition! and to revive party ag-.
itatio6. This is the best way TO assist JEFF
Davis their chief. There are some Of these
organs in iowa. Vide the Ottumwa Mercu-
ry, Fairfield Constitution. &c-Rsokuk coun-
tn Ners. na ,- --.z# zt VIZ
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

The operation of fir ing the mortars, is in
tsrestiag. The charge is from fifteen to
twenty two pounds. The shell weighs $50
pounds, and is thirteen inches in diameter.
For familiar illustration it is about the size
of a large soup-plate. The boat is moored
alongside the shore, so as to Withstand the
shock firmly, and the men go ashore when
the mortar is to be fired. A pull of the
string does the work, and the whole vicinity
is shaken with the concussion. The report
is deafening, and the most enthusiastic per-
sons gets enough oft with one or two dis
charges. There is no sound from TIE shell
at this point of observation, and no indice-
tion to mark the course it is taking, but in q
few seconds the attentive observer with a
good glass. will see the cloud of smoke that
follows sits explosion, and then the re-
port comes back with a dull boom. IF it
has done execution the enemy may be seen
carrying off their killed and wounded.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

Some Of the Fort Donelson Sscesh priso-
ners, confined at Chicago, have written a
letter to the Nashville Patriot, which they
request the Tennessee papers to copy, in
which they say.
We want. to say to our wives, fathers,
mothers and children, not to run away from
their homes ard Aresides, as others have
done, even ifthe Federal forces should come
in their midst; nor grieve themselves 9n-
necessarily on our account. We know not
lif we are detained long) how our wives and
children will live; but we are prisoners Of
hope, and We have formed a better opinion
Of the Northern people and the army than
we were accustomed To hear. We are short
Of clothing and particularly Of money.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

A jolly fellow had an office next to DOC
tors. One day an elderly gentleman Of the
old fogy school blyndered into the wrong
shop.
"Dr. X. in?''
"Don't live here" says p, who was in
full scribble over some important papers,
without looking up"
"Oh! thought this was his Office"
"Next door,"
"Pray, sir, can you tell me has the doctor
many patients?'
"Not living
The old gentleman was never heard Of in
the vicinity again. but the story was that
DR.. x. threatened to sue P. for libel. How.
ever, he came to think better Off.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

It is said that "the pen is mightier than
the sword Neither is much use without
the holder.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-17

They should remember that, as Hood says,
when bread is dear, flesh and blood is cheap
Mrs. Nettleton WINGED visibly through her
triple armor of pride, parsilnony and ohtuse-
ness; and her husband, who never directly
opposed her, contented himself with resolving
to make it up to her victims in some way,
if he did not forget it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-06-12
EurODean.

New YORK, May S.-The following news is by the
steamship .7usfrdIasiaH, with dates TO April 20.
The Paris Pdtrie learns that two English frigates
were to leave on the 10Th April for Bermuda, with
ordnance and ammunition.
The Pdtrie asserts that England was about to con-
cen,rate troops and vessels Of war at Bermuda.
In Austria the first iron plated ship launched will
be in commission on June Sd. Others are building.
Free trade will be established this year throughout
all the territories of the kingdom on Denmark.
TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS COMPULSORY IN PRUs-
sIA.-rhe Prussian Gazette announces that gyIhnas-
tics are TO be introduced as a compulsory branch of
education in schools of every degree in Prussia
English Paper.
The .uorniag Chronicle, one of the oldest London
papers, has ceased 10 exist. 1t was established in
1863, by the celebrated VIM. Woodfall, and has al
ways ranked as one of the mos; powerful organs of
England. Ii is said to have received from Louis Ma
poleon's Government about 1854, n bride of e26. 900
TO defend the French Government. In its palmiest
days, il counted celebrated men among it's cOntribu-
tors. Campbell the poet APP cared occasionally in its
columns, and HiZlItt the critic was also engaged as
n writer for it. In It's columns Charles Dickens
first contribution to literature appeared, for he pub
lished in it his Sketches by Boz, at a time when he
was engaged by the proprietors as a reporter. Lord
Campbell, the late Lord Chancellor of England, at
one time reported for it; and Shirley Brookes the
novelist. August Reach the light-hearted aud clever
fugitive writer, not to mention other names perhaps
less celebrated. have all canned the money of the
once celebrated Journal now recorded in the obituary
of literary enterprises.
Oranges are imported into Great Britain in i'm
mensc quantities, as the appended figures (referring
to the number of bushels) and dates show Portugal,
1855, 265. 202; 1860, 2lS. $40. Azores, 1866, $685.
06O; 1860. 627. 700. Spain, 1855. S5.127; 1860.
$40, 1888. Other quarters, 1856. 1865; 1860, 1904.
Total, 1855, SOC, 1852; 1860. l,l54,4l0. More than
halt the orange crop is shipped in the months of
November aud December, and the value of the fruit
now annually imported into Great Britain reaches
5000 900.
The division between Prussia and Austria is con-
tinually widening. The language of the Prussian
and Austrian papers is daily more hostile. The agi-
tation in Germany is increasing. Numerous meet
ings of the National Association were to be held, in
which Prussia was expected to t Ike the leadership.
Austria, by her recent conduct, has lost much of her
influence in Northern Germany.
The Emperor Napoleon, at the Tuileries, congratu-
lated Mr. Dayton on the Union triumph in Kentucky
when Zollicptfer was killed. The Emperor showed
by his remarks that the watched the movements of
our army with careful study aud much interest.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-06-12
The News.

FEATURES OF The LATE NEws-The severe retslia-
tory measures adopted by the Government are pro
ducing their due effect. Every day develops add
tonaI proofs of q desire among large NUMBERS IN the
insurrectionary States 10 return TO their loyalty.
The greatest disafection is not merely asserted, but
positively known 10 exist among the aTIaIes Of the
Southern COnfederacy. Al Coriu,h q number of
companies, amounting to several regiments, have been
under arrest, and similar difficulties have prevailed
IN DAVIS army since its retreat from Yorktown
Five hundred deserters had gone over to the Eederals
in n body, and still they were Aocking in from all
a arters, reporting that nothing but the impOsSibili;y
Of getting away prevented others from j lining. \
strong Union sentiment exists in the States over
which the recent conQuests OF the Federal arms have
exrended-especially in Virginia. Ineurable dis
unionisis are fOcking further South. The plan of
burning cities and destroying property is becoming
very unpopular except with the landless classes.
Inc Senate has passed a resolution requiring the
President to ascertain in which of the States insurrec-
ton exists, whereupOn real estate is TO BE- charged
with It's due proportion of the direct tax imposed at
the last session. The severest measures, however,
exceeding in their stringency the ordinary confsca-
ton acts Of the day, are these by which the slave
property Of the States in resurrection is declared
free.
The great armor-clad nondescript, the .16rrimac,
has gone the way of all Rebel vessels at last, to the
chagrin of those who fancied that she was destined 10
alter the course Of the war At the South and drive
our navy from the seas The plating being an after
thought and very cumbrously done, the vessel, which
on her frs; launching as an iron plated war steamer,
merely rolled If the stocks and began sinking, was
consequently compelled TO cOnfne her operations TO
quiet water. The appearance Of the Mentor, insig-
nihcant in appearance. yet carrying an armament
for the destruction of a citadel, appears 10 have af-
frighted the officers and crew of the Rebel %7unboat,
whose crew presently deserted her and blew her up,
to prevent her from falling into Federal hands.
Norfolk surrendered through a delegation of its
citizens, on the appear nee of the Federal army, and
thus two leading objects of the war in that section
are accomplished. The Rebels are now hemmed in
on every side, although for a brief time the way for
retreat a short distance further Southwark seems
open to Beauregard, but foreign powers are now set
ting their faces decidedly against the rebellion, SO
that but few points Of any consequence remain TO be
conquered. The war is evidently nearly ut an end,
and nothing but American obstinacy prolongs it.
The Contederates have long since abandoned hope,
and are now sighting merely because they hate to give
in, except on compulsion.-S. f. Herald.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-06-12

tiers # the House. Mr.. Webster novel that the por-
tOn Of report Of the Committee on Finance referring
TO the estimated revenue and expenditure Re read.
Mr. knu1sen thought this unnecessary; that the re-
port hal heen bur recently read, and all were familiar
with II. Motion lost. Mr.. Harris asked where they
were going TO obtain an equivalent for the Sl3, 900
per nnuum which they were about TO strike from the
estimated revenue. Mr.. Baldwin suggested that IT
might be found in certain items OF the proposed
Appropriation Bill. Mr.. Harris would rather seek
an equivaleu, by cutting the horses Threats. and Mr..
W%ilemann thought 1t utterly impossible to reduce
further the propo-ed estimate Of expenditure. The
bill passed. without further debate by an overHhelm-
ing majority. Adjourned
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-06-12
THIRTY SECOND pAY-JrSE Z.

Mr.. Kip''s bill obliging the petitioners against the
validity of AN election TO furnish the witnesses, was
real the second time, aud ordered for Committee Of
the Whole.
Mr. Kaakua read the first time a bill providing
that District Justices be paid by fees in cases where
the Legislature makes 10 pro. isiOn for them. The
bill was rejected ON motion of Mr. knudsen, on the
ground that the Civil Code contained IA like provision.
MIR. WiIemann real the first time n bill authOriz
ing the Minister OF the Interior 10 grant licenses TO
eel drugs and medicines. at $40 per license for
Honolulu aud Lahaina aud SlO Tor any other district.
Mr. Wiiemnnn stated the object Of the bill. that the
Legislature If 1860, toy unwittingly repeating Sections
$50 Of the Civil Codes upIosing them I" refer
merely TO the vending Of opium and poisons, had
thus repealed The only law oblising any one 10 pro-
cure a license to sell drugs aud medicines. The bill
was ordered 10 be translated.
Mr.. Harris read the first time a bill providing for
the peryeIuaiiug Of testimony, by aui horizing the
taking the deposition Of witnesses for any future
action. or action in posse. Ordered for Committee Of
the House
Mr.. Rhodes bill for the encouragement Of inter
island Steam Navigation. passed its third reading.
The Speaker announced \ message from the Mobiles,
that they had passed the bill providing for elections
where the ballots exceed the names enrolled. and
the bill to facilitate the collection of debts.
Mr.. II ,rris read the first tim" 4 bill amending the
Act TO prevent married people from forsaking one
another, by giving District Judges also jurisdiction
in such cases. The rules were suspended, the bill
read a second time. and debated in Committee Of the
Whole. Mr.. Harris thought II a species OF chronic
peculiar 10 married HIwaiians 10 forsake enc an
other. and that, as "A District Judge was more likely
to appreciate petty tribulItions and grievances OF
married life, Jurisdiction in such cases ought TO be
extended to him.
Mr. Dowsett remarked that the law to which the
amendment was proposed, had been the source Of
merriment in courts, often TO the disturbance Of the
gravity due the bench and justice.
After some debate as to the merits OF the original
act, the proposed amendment passed, favored by
Nessrs. Dowsett, Kaauwai and Moku, opposed by
Messrs- Knudsen and Widemann.
The House next went into COmmitte to debate
Mr. Moku's bill TO reduce the special tax on horses
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-13
As was to be expected, the Courier

As was to be expected, the Courier
expresses dissatisfaction with the Moder-
ator of our late Town Meeting. The
Courier says upon division of the house
upon the question of the election of an
Auditor, Mr.. McKeogh had over one
hundred majority, Notwithstanding which,
the Moderator decided that Mr.. Barrett
was elected. The question was upon the
election of Mr.. Barrett to the Office upon
nominations, and not upon the election of
Mr.. McKeogh. How does the Courier
know that all those who voted against Mr..
Barrett were in favor of Mex eogh? In
regard to the statement of the Courier that
there was one hundred majority against
Mr.. Barrett, it is enough to say that that
is only the assertion of the Courier. The
Moderator occupied a position which
enabled him to make the count more &C
curately than any person mixed up in the
crowd. The vote was evidently pretty
close, but we have no reason to suppose
that it was not correctly announced.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-13
rTbe Courier, in abiding to the

EThe Courier, in abiding to the
statement in the Auditors Report, on
page IS that an order had deem drawn in
favor of the Poulney Band for $49lo 81
to which we called attention few days
ago, says the d in the word Band
was intended for k, and that 1t must
have been apparent that the word Bana
was intended to be Bank. We gladly
make the correction and perhaps we
should have thought it a typogr' phica'
error, had we not noticed on page 80 the
following in the Selectmen's account
" Aug. 6, one day settling with Poultney
Rand. | So" How could we think the
same error would occur again? 1t IS
said lightning never strikes in the same
Mace twice. The Courier thinks the
Herald ought not to say much about typo
granbical errors, since il contains several
of its own occasionally. A Daily paper
is of course hurried to press with an occa-
sional error of that kind, but there is no
excuse for it in book and pamphlet print
ing. We notice over GO typographical
errors in the Auditors Report. For In
stance, without legislative permission thu
name of our respected townsman f
Chatfee, is spelled Chates, and then finally
changed into Coffee! This is even worse
than the fate of Lots wife, who was turned
into pillar of salt j; for Coffee, though
pleasant beverage is made from 1t, Is ma
tive of the dark land of Ethiopia, and
generally considered not to possess pre-
: servative qualities, like salt. We sugges
to the Courier that it would be yastl
mere proper and agreeable to turn Cote
into Chafte, than Chatfee into Coffee
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-13

The first act of jeff Davis, after his
accession to power in the confederate
States, as permanent President, was to
appoint day of fasting, humiliation and
prayer. How is it about prayer in jeff
dom, we are unable to say; but as to fast
ing, all days are pretty much alike, and
humiliations are latterly almost "a every
day occurrence. 1t would therefore an.
pear as if all days were pretty much
alike.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-13
@yWe learn that the person frozen

gWe learn that the person frozen to
death in the great storm some two weeks
ago, was George York instead of Thomas
York as we announced it. His brother,
Thomas York, writes us that he started
from home about 2 o'clock P. M, and
Travelled some six miles north on the road
from Weston to Mt. Holly, until he came
to the foot of the Mountain, over which
he must pass. Here he stopped to warm,
and left about 5 o'clock p. NJ, and trav.
eled one mile and a half where he was
found the next morning by the school
children. When found, he was entirely
lifeless. lying with his face downward
with his feet between the hinder feet o.
his horse, two rods from his sleigh
It appears he had got off from the road
and thinking he could not get through
had detached his horse from the sleigh ir
order 10 90 back. He took his horse.
blanket and umbrella, and had proceeded
hut a short distance before he was over
come by the intense cold. and sank down
10 die. We learn that he was a man Of
-rrictly temperate habits. and his relatives
and friend, are much afflicted by his un.
timely deatl.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-13

MIR. EDITOR: - The Western Vermont
Agricultural Association, through the kind
ness of Hon. f. P. Walton, have received a
quantity of choice seeds, which will be sent
to the town managers of each town in the
association Any person who is willing tc
give them fair trial and report the results
at the next Fair, will be supplied by calling
upon their Town Managers.
G. D. SPENCER, Sec'y.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-03-13
tn. L.y., Ne. Of "a. sera., states,

IeS AoySu men - We
1t is with pain that We notice in some OF
the more violent journals Of the North sneers
at the 10y al men Of the border States. For
ourselves we have nothing but unmixed adj
miraiion for them, and too much honor can
not be accorded to men whose loyalty has
been baptized in the blood of their own sons
and brothers. The Northern people are
loyal to the Union by interest and associa-
ton. l, is rarely the case that one of the
citizens of the North has a relative in the |
r,beI army. But on the other hand, hun
dreds and perhaps thousands of the Union
men of Kentucky and Missouri have sons,
brothers or fathers under the Confederate
flag, and they have gone ont and fought with
bullet and steel, thei, own kin in defence OF
the Union of our fathers. That is practi-
cal test of loyalty, thank God, that we are
now called upon to meet 1t is kindred TO
that sublime principle Of christianity, LAID
down by its founder, which requires that the
Savior shall be loved more than father, moth
er, brother or sister, and which demands OF
the christian TO deny all these if need be
in devotion to Christ Those noble loyal
men of the border States have shown that
they love the Union more than father, broth.
er or son, and shall they be sneered at as
temporiziug, halting Unionists, whose policy
is s,iemahzed as weak and gentle ? And
must the President be denounced for treating
such men with some consideration Shall
it be said they love Slavery more than the
Union, when they refuse to join their Slave
: holding sister States, but choose rather to
9 ion their destinies with the Free States of
the North Let us be reasonable let us be
Just. 1t is the tendency of revolutionary
4 times, and civil connections, to excite extreme
D views and bitter feelings Tus i, ne OF the
=, melancholy fruits of such connections.
!. Consider the condition in which the Union
u men of Kentucky were placed few months
ago hcutucAy uhu Stoto oiaNoio, SAs>'>N
II before the rebellion, whose sympathies were
with the traitors. So of a majority of bott
branches of the Legislature. John c. Breek
enridge and other popular leaders were
drawing thousands Of thoushtless young mer
IT the flower of the State-into the whirlpool
"a of rebellion. The bench OF the Fedora
~ Court was occupied by a traitor at least
And worst of all the military organization o
re the State, known as the State Guard, unde
the command of the rebel General Buckner
T, was under the control of the traitors. Thu
it will be seen that the patriotic Union mel
nj of Kentucky were compelled to stand VI
ID against their own Governor, Legislature, an(
their own organized soldiery. Did they no
do it nobly-grandly Does histo ~ reco
greater moral heroism than they displayed
T, They performed their duty in the face {
trials and difficulties we know but little Of
I'll they have driven the traitors from their DO,
ed ders-redeemed their State. and to-day ker
or lucky has more than her quota Of troops
'i' the field All honor, we say again, to tn
gallant Union men of the border States.