The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-10-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
New York. Oct. a.

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| New; York, Oct. a.,
4 The Times Washington special Says
The murder of Harriet Willis by her para
mour Levi l.. Farwell, which occurred
yesterday morning on 13i street, proves to
have been amore diabolical deed than was
at first supposed. The evidence before the
coroner's jury to-day shows that the muir
derer deliberately administered chloroform
to his victim while she was asleep, then
strangled her to death, threw her body into
a closet, robbed her of her: watch and jew
elry and then fled. He has not yet been
arrested. The animating purpose of the
murderer is said to have been the refusal
of the woman to marry him, he having
sworn that if he didn't marry her no one
else should. Although keeping house of
prostitution here the deceased is said to
have been respectfully connected and has
a son at school at New Brunswick, N. J !,
for which place she intended to start this
evening. She was thirty-tive years of age,
and came to this city with Farwell from
Albany, New York. Farwell came orig
inally from Massachusetts.
| General Grant has ordered that the or
ganization and armament of the mounted
batteries will in future consist of74 pri
Yates and three officers; Sc sabres for the
drivers, and the revolvers for the chiefs of
pieces and caisons. Of the two authorized
mounted batteries each regular artillery
regiment will have four Napoleon guns
and the other four three-inch rifled Rod
man guns. The regimental commander
will designate which battery each arma-
ment shall be assigned to.
The following order has just been issued
by the Secretary Of Wad:
fht ~ @5't,i' War Department,
Adjutant Gems Office, Oct. II, 1856.
General Order No. I02.] ra3' @1lr.' .
Hereafter no persons shall be arrested as
"a deserter for having failed to report nndrr
any draft or for any other noncompliance
with theenrollmenta act, or theamendments
thereto. And and all persons of this class
now held will Immediately he discharged.
BY order of the Secretary of War: i'Ha"
Signed, ID. TOWNSEND, A. A. G. Il
Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas,
Adjutant General of the United States ar
my viii shortly asked to be placed on the
retired list, and will take mp his residence
in Louisiana on a cotton estate which he
has purchased there. ,r.
Advices have been received here from
the election in Florida, which took place
on the 10th inst. A very light vote was
polled, not to exceed three thousand in the
entire. State, and the delegates elected TO
the, convention, are mostly Of, a. strong
nil hor CT Ky ind fIo
policy indicated By Gov Mason. u .fsrIn4a
7 Judge Kurrite was elected delegate from
the Jacksonville district 60 rsFyTc @Faa'r
Strong efforts are being made to induce
the President to release ex-senator David
$. Yulee, of Florida, from Fort Pulaski
where he is now confined. Mr.. Yulee il
President of the Jacksonyiile d. Tallahassee
railroad, aman divide influence on the
politics4 ;sfid nlatesial interests ofthe State,
and his release IL greatly desired by the
: people of Florida in order that he may
, exert himself for the restoration Of the
J business prosperity in that State.
a delegation from Florida is here urging
: the Suspension of the order to Gen. How.
. ard as totlre occupation of the Sea Islands
AheH ""i'' 'to ~ eo,"'ei NoP' 'iiei 'Si''P
rarity iii an afraiiseiilleiits c"ii oe iiia"e
Tor their translihis ssa TO the 9late Oh flor
{ lda, whefe .seif la''or Is 'huch heeueo y!
a the planters. - ..g....- r,.an j. s.Gs a..g q"
The Herstld's Washington special says
Col. John w. Fairfield, of Loudon county
= ler-t.1snss' rrtettru special pardon from the
, President ashort time siace, has forwarded
the necessary documents to secure the res
titution OF his property in the above coun
ty, now held by the Freedmen's Bureau
& and which is known as the Monroe estate
Since the execution, of Cbamp Ferguson
: at Nashville, certain parties here who mr.,
/. familiar with Col, Mosby's war history
are interesting themselves with men r.
; bring the latter to what they call ;ustica
> They allere that Mosbv aIthouoh !. roso.
} colored. pentlen1anlv sort. of villain ,ros
l guilty of guerrilla atrocities which 1yo,Id
, have made Cbamn Farruson blu.b THO,
claim TO have tho no,e. of ox-ro,,a1 81;
GERS among the list of witnessos whoro-
with TO prove inbnmon crimas n,on t,,e
Virginia nartizan
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: Of nonies anh 49, :. sNs .4's''.s
nrevcnt tho n,rs,or;,,, os,t 80 a. o.' :.
! rosor,,,.o ,.orns b., az 80. wy .'''e,"i'
said the sntho,itias ha,a Ell. aes:.,.,. -
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Con Er, o,,d otha,. f.;a,,.,.. ~.
coon, 20 go ,,.,.,, -, - eoips
to have preciptated by their own conduc,
the very action they desired to prevent.
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