The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-10-12
'TELEGRAPHIC,
Now York. Oct. s.

The Herald's Washington special of the
4th says: Several Louisiana gentlemen
were admitted early to-day TO an interview
with the President. and urged their views
touching reconstruction in that State
Gov. Wells is warmly s'stained by them.
and Gen. Candy is blamed for the civil
disorders and factions thatreigns through
out the commonwealth. Gen. Sheridan
was spoken of i'm high terms, and is con-
ceded to have confined himself to the dis
charge Of his military duties. They rep
resent that permanent order cannot be re-
stored until General Canby's interference
in civil matters is forbidden. II .........
T The publication in New York of the
statement that the proposed conversion OF
the compound interest notes into 5.2Os bv
Secretary Mccullough, gives the latter the
power to isSue additional notes to replace
those thus absorbed. must have been made
under misrepresentation of the law, and
does the Treasury Department great injus-
tice. Such additional issues will not be
made, and none such were ever contem-
plated by M"Cullbch. On the contrary, as
has already been stated in the Herald, it
is the move of a series OF contractors. and
Mhen rightly understood will receive the
universal appreciation of all who desire a
lesSening of the public debt, contraction
OF national currency. and a return to the
specie days.
The battalion raised in California which
was attached to the Massachusetts quota.
is now to be paid in full. but the pavmas.
ters are required TO keep a separate ac-
count of the travel, pay and subsistence
allowed, amounting to about $500 for each
man, in order that the account NAV be
presented 10 Massachusetts, for rein burse-
ment IN the United States treasury.
The Herald's Berlin correspondent states
that the German emigration to America
appears chiefly 70 he directed toward Mis-
souri,, Illinois, Indiana and Western yir-
gina.
New York. Oct. 5.
The central council of the Fenian broth
hood. now in session at the Astor House.
in this city. have called a special general
congress of the entire organization in the
United States. to meet at Pniladelphia. on
Monday. the 10Th of the present month.
The Herald's Washington special says:
IT is evident from an order issued from
the Freedmen's Bureau to-day the resto-
ration property now held as abandoned
and confisrated. is to he entered into by
the commissioners Of the bureau in regard |
to the title Of the same and the legal own |
ers thereof .. .... ....t
Agricultural Commissioner Newton has
i, e, Il,
1t relates chiefly to farm stock. In the
summary he states that the average I.
amount consumed in Great Britain and !
Ireland is shnnt 600 nnO hushalc -s,4,a
will then make il about one third greater .
- 600 900 bushels.
The immense corn crop of this country,
now safely gaown will enable US to ship
largely of wheat to foreign countries. AL
though the wheat crop has been fully as
much as reported in the last monthly
statement and a great part of the new crop
is no good. In many States the amount
of old wheat will not he as great as antci-
pated. The buckwheat and potatoe crops
may be very large. but the danger of the .
rot is too imminent to base any calcula-
tons on the latter crop.
Dick Turner. who has been confined in
the Libby prison, Castle Thunder and /
State Penitentiarv, Richmond. ever since f.
the evacuation. upon'charge of mal-treat- ,
ing United States prisoners, has engaged .
the services of Marmaduke johnson, as
his counsel. and that gentleman expresses
strong hopes of being able to disprove the
charges against his client
The Lynchburg Republican states that ,
the famous ex-rebel, Gen. VIM. Malone.
been appointed General Superintendent of
the Norfolk & Petersburg and the South
Side Railroad.
The Times Washington special saws, an
erroneous impressions prevails with the /
pubic as to the number Of pardons thus
tar granted by the President; some esti- .
mates placing it as high as $500. We as
certain on official authority that the num-
herup toand including the warrants signed
this dav. is but 2.65S. Among those lately |
pardoned is /. Pope Walker. the first reb- |
ell Secretary of War. the man who gave
the order TO open fire on Fort Sumter.
II is proper To state that the Cabinet have
declined to recommend the pardon of the
exempted classes. save those coming un-
der the sixteenth exception, known as the
500. 600 classes.
The Secretary of War has before him
communication signed by prominent SEN
ators and Representatives in Congress
from all the States, earnestly protesting
against the mastering out of all the twen-
ty-four regiments of veteran reserves now
in the service. They ask that if il is in
tended TO reduce the troops to the necessi-
ties of peace establishment, the veteran
forces now scattered throucht the country
and anxious to be mustered out be dis:
pensed with first, thus leaving in the SER
vice only the regular army and the veteran
reserves. whic combined amount to fifty
seven regiments. Most Of these regiments
need recruiting. They also ask that per-
mission be granted TO the veteran reserves
to recrnit their regiments up 10 the full
number. Ii is urged as one of the reasons
for retaining these troops that most of them
have received during the late war such
bodily injuries as unfit them for the ordi-
nary business avocntions. and as they
promptly and patriotically volunteered to
yut down the rebellion at its commence
ment they should be retained in the SER
vice, and especially as it is now known
/ that a regular force will be required equal
! to that of the regular army and the veteran
! reserves combined. Secretary Stanton
holds the matter under advisement and for
consultation with General Grant on his
! return 20 this citv. ......... ...
! The General Land Office has offered the