The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-05-11

ment to the memory Of the soldiers from
that city and vicinity who have fallen in de
Tense Of the Union. most laudable and
commcndable movement
E. Sells, of lows, sixth Auditor Of the
Post Office Department. has resigned, and
accepted the post Of Superintendent Of In.
dian Affairs for the Southern Department Of
Kansas.
The trial Of Mary Harris, who shot Bur
roughs in January. is postponed from We'd
nesday, Nav, Sd, TO the 10th, She is in
PRISON, suffering greatly from erysipeIas in
the face. '..''h7''.
Thomas j. Thorpe, a guerrilla and MUIR
derer, whose execution had been postponed
three times, was Ia ngcd on the morning o!
the 1st inst, in Gratiot prison yard, St.
Louis. ".'.
Pacific RALRoAD--The Omaha Repub
lican Of Wednesday publishes long account
Of the condition and prospects Of the great
Pacific Railr,ad. Six hundred laborers are
at work Immediately west Of Omaha Three
locomotives will arrive in June About 40,
600 cross-tes are cady for delivery at Oma.
la. Twenty five miles will be graded by
the last day of July. Fourteen buildings
vii! he constructed by the Company in Oma,
ha, this season. One saw mill is saving
Ties. and three other mills will be put in
operation by the Company at once. The
Company will commence laying the track
in one mo tn. The cars will be running
before the close Of the war, Council Bluff
Nonpareil. e. .,,, ,.,........s.F .l...TI
The Emperor Napoleon seems to be get.
ting himself into position to make an ALI
ance with the whipped rebels. When he
discovers that political assassination is EN-.
braced in their code. will he not be very ap,
to consider that ne might be in safer. com
pany. The exploit Of the shareholders
tool, Booth. is a standing invitation to every
Orsin, and Pietri in France The news o
Mr.. Lincoln's murder will redouble the pre-
cautions of the Partisan detective police, and
with good reason. IF the mild and benev.
olent President of a. Republic is not safe
from the conspiracies of the murderer, how
will it be with the despotic Autocrat Of an
Empire, who has elected himself to throne
by bayonets and hombsp ...r p.
The N. Y. Tines says that all the funds
required to pay Gen. Sherman's army in
full will be ready ny the middle of this week
1t will require eleven millions of dollars.
The headquarters of General Sherman
are being established at Alexandria, Vlr
ginia. His chief of staff, General Webster,
is experimenting the arrangement of offices,
etc. The General himself will pay q visi,
to Charleston, Savannah, and other points,
previous to his comitssss Alexandria.
MRYLAND REBELS NOT TO RErURN.-The
first branch Of the Common Council Of Bal
timore has unanimously passed a resolution
against permitting any of the disloyal citi.
zens who have left that city on account Of
the rebellion, to return: 70. g.,..,.. f...... ,
. D
. Believing, as we do. their presence in our
midst will 5e a constant source of irritation,
fraught with the deadliest mischief, And
we resnectfullv ask of nur military authnri-
ties, in the most earnest and emphatic Ian.
guage of speech, not to tolerate this, 1.-THE
worst Of dangerous evils which, will, in all
probability, result in collisions, terrible in
their consequences. ,...... %: 81 .r...
q, CHEESE FACTORIES IN 1LLrNors.--A citizen
Of Lemon., H., writes us that small cheese
factory was nj operation at Rloomingdaic,
last season, and that one has. been erected
in Lemont, with a capacity to make up the
milk from one thousand cows. This will
commence operations in full May 1st., We
have also learned from another. source that
the factory at Bloomingdale will, this year,
make TIE cheese frem i've hundred cows
The people were well pleased with its work
ing last year.-Prairie Farmer. ...-...,