The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-11-26

Tnere are three hundred. and fifty steamers
afloat in the service burning coal. The
Iro1sides acRe burns two tuns per hour,
forty eight tuns per day, or sixteen thou
sand tuns per annum. One million five
hundred thousand tuns j. the estimated
quantity required for this part of the ser
vice. - Washington Union. ain
Coop WoRK An exchange says that
several co9ntics Of Indiana, are vyiug with
each other in the noble work of making sol
dier's families comfortable and in affUrding
aid to the sanitary conmRsoh. AS IN
stances of what is doing there it Gays that
I a Supper at Lafayette, the other night, ne
ted $3.50. Carroll County supplied $3.50
in cash and four hundred wagon loads OF
provisions. One gentleman in Richmond
! contributed $1,000. So the work goes on
So it ought to 60 on. Those who have
4 means cannot do better than to distribute
portion of it to the dependents of those
whose courage and patriotism have made
their means availnble and valuable. va"
our people do likewise?
There is factory in Portland, Me, that
preserves and prepares for the army, trom
five hundred to thousand bushels OF po-
tatoes day. A bushel Of potatoes weighs
sixty pounds; all the water is absorbed,
leaving about five pounds of nutrlment,
which is ground up, giving it the appearance
ofIndian meal. 1t is cooked by returning
the water to it in boiling state. and keep
ing II hot from ten to fifteen minutes, when
ii swells like starch, and again assumes the
appearance Of potato prepared Tor the taole'
Tn four steamers lately captured OF
Wilmington, thirty thousand Enheld r' nn
were found, besides large quantity o. clp Ptthl
irr, sa'tpetre and vaicable i'itary stores ores
One. of the cargoes alone was valued at Two
hundred thousand dollars. We trust the
blockaders will keep their hand in II WI
minp,on be shut up completely, there will
be hard times in Dixiei--7andd that VIII hslp
things along to the proper result = very
vessel captured helps us and intilcts Sc
rious loss on the rebels and those VINO seek
TO Aid them. These captures suit us ana
we Guess the sailors don't object to them
Four persons, named respectively John
Brown Charles A. jackson, john Curron
and John jackson, of the crew OF The pirate
Florida. who were arrested on their arrlvai
at New York from Liverpool, having lett
the Florida wi en- she touched at Bres''
France, we're on Friday discharged from
custody by the Marshal, the evidence show
ing that they were forced to perform duty
on the piratical vessel against their incl'-
nation -
Tina JtllNsoN's ISLAND TUNNEL-it has
been ascertained that the tunnel on john
sons Island led from the city of San San
to the Commissary Department on the Is
land instead of from the prisoners quar-
tiers to the shore, and that it was filed with
rifed whiskey instead Of ritied muskets.-
| Detroit Free Press. ifzgs grgssy s.f s'.,lm
A New Hampshire paper says those
who went to Lebanon one day last week.
for examination. were sh rcked to see
white man t,ers fallogel ny his young son,
whom he was trying to sell at the highest
price as substitute. Tie man atlast, after
much ban,er,ng., sold his boy for $3.50, and
pocketed the gtesnblck' with the c,1sst
satisfaction, while the boy dejectedly pass
ed into the ProvoSt's Office. tr.s zasy brs
| Henry Ward Beecher reached his home
at Brooklyn, N. Y. on Monday last. VI
course he was warmly received by his faml-
Inv and host OF friends. t
The citizens of Princeton, Gibson county,
Indiana, tur ned out last week and cut 200
cords of wood for the families Of the brave
men who are away fighting the battles of
our country. The wood was furnished by
three whole-souled benevolent farmers in
the vicinity OF that town. 81 #dt
I N. B. Judd, Minister to Prussia, is re-
ported to have returned on a visit, is now
at Washington. and will he at his home in
Chi ago. inafew DAYS. Loagi'ae Fp'5
Ten Paymasters, with their cldrks and
two and a half M Hons OF dollars, arrived
on the cars from ST Lnu;s. snuday Inarning
a1d left on the steamer Bell Memphis in the
evening for Memphis. where they will payth
troops Stationed in that vicinity Cure
Democrat, 17th 'hao' 81 1%''s q a-l's -
The supreme tribunal # Madrid has just
given final judgment in asuit which has,
been under, litigation 240 years and which
involved the succession to the. Inheritance
of Francis Pizzlrro, lie famous invader and
conquerel Of Peru in 1882, - 49,,
SOME Of the ladies in Hartford appear in
the streets without hoops, but with dresses
that cone down only to the ankle disclos /
ing .balrnoral boots apd striped stockings.
One Of the Hartford papers thinks tais, a
pleasant ref9rm.' rs q soia0 a9tog rgd4
{ Thomas b. Bryan, who became the pur.
chaser Of the original manuscript of the
Emancipation Proclamation, has donated it'll
to the Soldiers Hameyat Chicago, to which
tho price he paid was also appropriated.
1t is supposed that the Historical Society
wlbliecome the purchaser, thereby adding
to its funds the amount thus obtained to-
it. 81 The ,pa,uscript is to be Autographed,
so hal all who wish may sha We :, co0z1i -iadl