The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-09-21
Especial to Hsrald.l

AxkLLos
Especial to Hsrald.l
.E Washington, Sept. Is.
Extensive and valuable discoveries OF
copper and other mineral wealth are said
to have been recently made on what Is
known as Tyler's farm, in Frederick coun-
ty, Md. The copper resembles the virgin
ore of Lake Superior, and is often found
remarkably rich, in large blocks. Prof.
Henrienci, chief chemist to the!Department
of Agriculture at Washington, has visited
the locality and examined the specimens
and considers them sufficiently promising
to justify making explorstions to deter
mine the real nature and value Of the de-
posits. Should these prove satisfactory,
the location win commend capital and the
wealth Of the State win be greatly aug
mented. -. .. --.,., -v,-..s ...s.-s,s
The Herald's Washington special Of tho
14th says: Hersheel v. Johnson, Of Ga,
returned to Washington to-day from q
visit to Alex. III. Stephens in Fort Warren.
He spent last Friday with Mr. Stevers,
and reports him In ordinary health and as
comfortably situated as any one can lie in
confinement. He has the freedom of the
fort. and is allowed to receive the visits Of
friends. Quite as many are admitted a
he desires to receive His brother Linton
Stevens. who accompanied Mr.Johnson TO
Fort Warren, remains there still and II
permitted to sleep inhis brothers apart
ments and join him in his walks. Mr..
Stevens will probably not bepardoned un-
A. s.
tically settled by the admission Of Ieprs-
sentatives from the Southern States.
Lieut.. Col. Williams of the Freedmen's
Bureau who. In June last, was dispatched
upon = tour Of observation through the
States OF Arkansas and Mississippi, re-
ports from st. Louis of his operations. un-
der date Of Aug. 9. The main facts Of
general interest contained therein. are that
there is no lack Of employment for negroes
at $50 per month for males. and SIS with
board; and in addition he says that large
numbers are engaged in cutting wood for
the yards along the Mississippi river, from
which they are allowed considerable profit,
the residue of the proceeds going. to sup
port the destitute Of their own race,
Those who lease lands for cultivation are
require the same'rental that parties do WIN
apply directly to the Treasury Department.
I one locality three freedmen's schools
established in October last, with an attend
ance of so pupils, have been increased to
| FIVE with an average attendance Of i've
| hundred scholars. ...E .a |-..I
! The numbers requiring support from the
government is reported to be everywhere
diminishing. The teachers engaged in
most of the schools for the blacks are paid
by northern societies, and receive from $50
to $50 per month.
| Many OF the inhabitants who have no
lack Of food, are very scantily supplied
with clothing and can scarcely get through
the coming winter without assistance in
this regard.
New York, Sept. lo.
| Advices from Jamaica. West Indies, to
Sept 7th. reports that the long and pro-
tracted drouth, which had caused wide
spread distress in the Island, was over,
and favorable showers had fallen.
Gen. Lawathe. a refugee from Hayti re-
siding at Kingston, Jamaica, having been
threated with expulsion from the Island
for alleged completely with the Haytien
rebellion, had written to the Governor of
Jamaica, denying that he was at all mixed
up in any recent scheme against his coun-
try.
There does not appear to have been any
truth in the report received by previous
arrival that an insurrection was about to
break out in Western portions Of Jamaica.
!, The rebellion in Hayti isstill unsubdued.
n A letter from Port au Prince of the 10Th OF
August, published In Jamaica paper,
says that Geffrard, as already mentioned,
! left Port au Prince on the 25th for the seat
, Of war, taking with him 1000 men. The
insurgents had been repulsed in ali their
, advances. The recapture from Of the town
! of Cape Haytien was daily expected. 1t
was runored that the port OF ST. Michael
had already been captured by the national
: troops, with so prisoners.
: ..-. New York. Sept. 10.
I Charleston papers to the 18th have been
I received. Ex-GOv. Aiken received fui
: and complete pardon from the President
: ON the llth. ......... ..... ....-. .a.r
The Tribune's correspondent says: am
told by persons whose authority canno
ditpute, that the President and Mr.. Sew
ard look upon tho recognition Of Mexict
"a an yet perfectly legitimate In itself. ant
. which must eventually take place. and thii
u to without prejudice OF the maintenance o
}. The Monroe Doctrine, which the rscogni
n ton of Mexico does not interfere and which
" will be rsasssrtsd with more strength thar
9 ever. .-- !.
New York, Sept. Is.
The Times Washington special says, tn,
Bureau Of Rebel Archives, under tn
charge of that well known scholar ant
: writer, DIR. Francis Lieher. IL now fairl,
organized and at work in lha examinatio,
and classification of the five hundred box
: es Of arehiveso the late rebel Government
These documents relate 10 every depart
= ment and period Of the REBELLION, and GOV
y ers the larger part of its civil and inilitar,
history, Their ciassifcations and coinpi
latiou by such an able and Discriminating
gentleman as DIR. Liebcr, will put the his
IS tory Of the Confederacy In a correct ligh
te before the world. Tho title of the Burea
IS has been changed, and it is now called th
= Archive Office Of the War Department an
II il will be the custodian Of an immsns
u portion Of the archives of the wsrA~hic
has been forwarded 70 the psfarssasAt