The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-07-27

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the consideration Of the ssverS1
therein stated.
Provisional Governor PerrI
markable speech at.Greenville.H
olina, on the 3D. inst, before he kneS - L.
appointment. It's tenor may be inferred
from the following expressions:
Mr.. Chairman, I will here frankly saw.
as have often said during the past four
years, that there was not q man in the
United States who more deeply regretted
the secession Of the Southern States than I
did at the beginning of the revolution. and
| there 10 not now in the Southern States anv
one who fesls more bitterly the humiliation
and degradation Of going back into the
Union than I do. Still know that we
shall be more prosperous and happy in the
Union than out Of it. ..-..-
He also said jeff. Davis was not special
ly to blame for the failure of the rebellion:
that the people, tired of fghting. had
stalked from the field; that Johnston had
10000 men on the muster rolls Of his armv
but only $4,000 in his ranks; and adds.
Congress, too, Mr.. Chairman, is greatly to
blame for their exemption law. All be-
tween the ages of Is and Is should have
been forced into the army and kept there.
1t mattered not whether he was doctor,
lawyer, preacher, politician, editor or
school teacher, if an able bodied man, he
should have hAen sent to the army. fnt
instrumental in plunging their country
into this mad revolution were all exempt
ed by Congress from fighting. alluds to
the politicians, editors and Preachers
This was not fair. The man who gets up
fight should always take his part of it.
He also said that President Lincolns
death was no loss to the South; that he was
a Whig and anon-slaveholder, while john
son is Democrat who has held slaves, and
who voted for breckenridge in 1860, there
fore the people should have every conf
dence in him. He ranks Lee next to Wash
ington. ...e ... ....
The Times Washington special has the
following: Secretary McCulloch announces
that the shipment of arms, ammunition,
gray uniforms and gray cloth, may be
made hereafter to and within the State Of
Tennessee.
Governor Murphy, Of Arkansas, has in
informed the President he will not hereaf-
ter recommend persons for pardon who
participated in the rebellion, owing to the
demonstrations of such people on the 4th
Of July. He is satisfied they ought to be
kept on long probation. ..t ~
There are but forty-two and one-half
millions of dollars remaining. .Of the last
series of the seven-thirty loan. -.
Government intends to reduce tnelArmy
to one hundred thousand if not tdHhfty
| thousand men. .... -.. ...v
Advices from the Indian cotintry are ia
cable relations with the tribes in the South
western agency. ...-.. o..
| Now York, July %.
The Tribune's Washington special says,
the Mayor and most of the magistrates Of
Alexandria, Va, boldly declare their de-
termination to adhere to the old State law,
and say that sooner than receive the testi-
mony Of negro in their courts, they will
resign their respective offices. .-
A case in which the testimony Of colored
( men was refused, recently occurred in that
city. A well to do negro was arrested on
the complaint Of white man, and whom
in introducing as his only Witnesses, sew
eral colorsd men, was informed that their
deposition would not be heard by the
court
On communicating this fact to the Off
GERS ofthe Freedmen's Bureau stationed in
Alexandria, that the officers Immediately
repaired to the Court room and moved q
discontinuance Of the trial; on the ground
hn ;esa - Al, l,,
from Gen. Howard's Headquarters, the 10
cal Courts have no jurisdiction in such
cases. The officers ofthe Freedmen's Blu
reau being instructed by said circular Il
adjucate all difficulties arising between
negroes or between negroes and whites
The Justice still persisted in proceeding
with the trial. The negro defendant no
appearing In Court in compliance will
the instructions of the officers Of the Freed
l mems Bureau: The Conrt then gave judg
: ment in favor of the plaintiff, and issue'
3 an execution for the seizure Of property @
| the colored man, over whose residence
s guard was at once posted by an officer c
> the Freedmen's bureau to prevent the civi
0 officials from executing the orders OF tn
Court. ... - a.
On learning the circumstances, Ger
= Howard Immediately addressed = letter
the mayor earnestly requesting him
!, transfer all similar cases to the officers {
his bureau, in accordance with the prov
. sions Of circular No. 5, from his headqual
d tors. Should similar cases occur, the mi
! itary authorities will be called upon to er
n force Gen Howsrd's order.
J. City Point will no longer be q militar
ldepot.