The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-10-05

tors qualified to vote for members Of tn
General Assembly voting thereon. sue
amendment or amendments shall beco,n
a part of the Constitution of this State
The second section OF article 10, furthe
provides that, Pro ".'T ia," amor .'1-nif
'1f two or more amendments shall b
submitted at the same time, they sbalf h
submitted in such manner that the elec
tors shall vote for or against eacf, Of sti,cl
amendments separately" y h@i-7No hrl
The question or striking the word white
from the Constitution cannot. therefore h,
submitted to the people until 1868, and tn,
opponents Of the measure may as Well tel
the truth, If they know how. .''4'f 81 "oi
Camels for the Prairies and Plains
From the N. Y. Evening Post ura
Mr.. Joseph w. Fabens once more urge.
the camel,upon the attention Of our stock.
raisers and western travellers: and we meaf
to help him, for we believe that the settle.
ment Of our Western plains requires il.
demonstration here. 7aiiUln-91 y ,slfg 1914
Last year, during the hottest weather
Pe7ach represented a disguised butler with
the inevitable joint of beef before him
wondering why somebody did not invent a
newanimal TItseems To us that men iour.
neying across our plains with horses and
wagons must have oftan longed for new
Misunderstanding with as much spee3
bnt greater endurance and strength than
the horse.uj nHagarHI r"Tg 9foy ~ tlal7
The camel is ispreciselv the beast REQUIRED
there. According to Mr. Fabeps il needs
only half as much food a. n horse. vii, "a,
anything. from dried lea yes to briers. will
40 without wnter for ten days on stretch;
VIII lltravel steadily for three or four weeks
at the rate of ffty miles per day. over had
TnAd5; rlis5 will bear under such circumstances
iss a.. i,-,-.,- e.. :. - -i>,,,,dred nor, ndsf B
great extremes soff r eit93tt;s efit93tt;s aot-snffs. ..
easily fed; and requires little care and the
cheapest of furniture, RI, r.r,,. ,r.,o.,s II
Only one thing Mr.. Fabens omits. in his
interesting account of the camel-7that is,
the cost of importing a. herd of twenty or
thirty He asserts that they, bear trans
portation across the ocean better than eith-
err horses or cattle. and that specimens
brought over by him, did not drink on the
whole voyage across the Atlantic To i'm
duce enterprisingg stock raisers now to inn
port them to breed from. it neesls only that
they shall be told where-te purchase. what
to pay, and what heprobablec cost of trans
p0rtation. We invite Mr.. Fabens to COM
municate these facts through our columns.
The Government once undertook to fur
nish the stock here--but such enterprises
succeed hest in, private hands; we hays
little doubt that dozens of, our, wealthy
Western stock .raisers would gee the ad'
vantage of raising camels instead of mules
: if they could only have trustworthy state
ments of the probable cost of herd t
| begin the business with, and the. specia
! treatment. "A caravan of ac,mels, coult
make the journey across the plains prob
ably in half the time now occupied by th'
mass of travellers with wagons;nnd miners
and Western men in general, are quick Z
take up new methods where they offer de
cided advantages. ...,..., s,.rff gs-a-gsl.,n asi
The Albany Evening Journal, says tha
the son Of distinguished Southern states
man, now in the North, EXPRESSES himsel
in this language:
ave are loyal--the great mass OF us-fa
more loyal than some OF your own people
You can now better afford to trust us thai
YOU can your miserable Copperheads.-
They are the vilest offscourings of the earth
Had 1t not been for them we should nc
have rushed into war. And vet they fiav
the impudence to come to us, claiming I
be our friends, advising us to be stiffneck
ed, and asking us to strike hands wit
them and form new alliance. The viper:
They have cheated us orce; they will ne,
or cheat US again. We had rather tru.
. the vilest abolitionist that ever howled an
: bounded usldown. than the best of them.
What does the Chicago Times say to thii
, It seems to lit that journal very closely
AcroMMopATINa ,CoUPLE.TThe, Ne
Albany Commercial says that a man ar
woman applied 70, ESQ. Jocelyn in that eli
!. for divorce. The woman said that h
o husband desired TO get g. divorce. Ths
could not live happily together, and q
wanted TO please him, and SO would CO.
y sent to the divorce. r....., ID. Faa sff ~ II
A bystander, somewhat Interested
this time, and admiring her sslf7deni'
g yentured to, ask her why her hushal
n wished the separation. -so1.
20 Because SIR" said she, "he wishes
10 marry another woman" 's'''A
-d'.And why do you submit to this? ', 4
. you want 10 marry another man, also2ii
III A rather reluctant '.yes, sir, came ba
e: in reply, and the two who had agreed
a. disagree were referred to ailawer for n
- ther infornatinh. lsiIsf4 iia st9sls1 jH7
= At little town, the head or ornaYigati
We on the Sacremento river, lives the Wild
at of Old John Brown. Her daughters tea
In public schools, while she finds emplo
e nent iat something between nurse a
Is- physician amongth neighbdring famiii
nd by whom she is warmly loved. She is
ID. tirely dependent upon her own labor
ed support. There is project to purchas
M house and lot for her in this her 'choi