The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-09-07
THE EEwS.

field, Illinois) now amounts to $4,000.
A government tram of 500 wagons, each
drawn by six mules, left Washington on
Wednesday for Leavenworth, Kansas
Several months will be occupied in the
journey.
Governor Fletcher. of Missouri, has writ
ten a letter declaring that Unconstitutional
provision requiring preachers and teachers
to take an oath of loyalty, will be enforced
by the employment, if necessary, of the
entire military strength of the State.
The firm of Berthold & Thompson, of
St. Louis, assisted by a French chemist
named Dclmie, are manufacturing moias-
scs from Indian corn, by n new process,
with imported machinery. The st. Louis
De0,Itcrdt of the 10th instant says the quail |
ity is not inferior 10 that extracted from
the best cane, not liable TO fermentation,
and of good flavor, body, color. and sac
charine properties. The same paper speaks
of the cheap rate at which the article can
be furnished
HoRRlD ACCIDENT.-T.as Monday week
at Dennis SAW mill, 10 miles north of Iowa
City. Mr.. Sebastian Hyde was instantly
killed by falling on the saw and being cut
through and through. How it happened
no one can tell. The men in charge of the
mill were below nj the engine. Hyde had
come for lumber and was in the mill above.
When they went up they found him cut
into pieces.
The counsel for Wirz say they will sum-
mon at least one hundred and fifty wit
nesses. If so, those, with the witnesses
called for the prosecution, will make three
hundred in all to he examined, probably
extending the trial three months.
BY an order from the War Department,
| Chicago, Illinois, is discontinued as rem
devious for the discharge of troops, and
will be broken up Immediately. The
building and property will be turned over
to the Quartermaster. The guards and Of
ficers on special duty at said rendezvous
will be subject to the order of the chief
mastering officer of the city.
The Fenians have backed down in st.
Louis, and have announced that they will
not seek to enter the cemetry against the
Archbishop's prohibition.
A movement is on foot in the South to
| inaugurate emigration to Brazil. An agent
has been sent to that empire to investigate
the condition ofthe country. Ifhis reports
are favorable, it is stated that at least fifty
thousand Southerners will start for Don
| Pedro's dominions.
Accounts from the plains state that the
! Indian troubles are assumn" more fi,-
vorable aspect. They now seem to he more
peaceably inclined, and arc anxious to
| treat for permanent peace. Gen. Connor's
expedition to Powder River has been a
great success. lie has thoroughly subju-
gated the Indians. Many of the troops on
the plains will return I" the East this fall
and be mustered out. II is stated that the
regiments made up of sx rebels have done
admirably.
| The Liverpool Times Of Aug. 18th SAYS
"Now that the cholera is approaching our
shores, all the scientific knowledge availa-
! BILE is about to be brought to bear upon it.
| The Social Science Congress has called a
meeting of medical and scientific gentle
men, at which speeches were made, plans
proposed. cures discussed; but after all had
been said and done. the proceedings ter
minated with a recommendation to enforce
strict cleanliness as the best preventive
measure. AS to the method Ofcure, it may
he simply stated that the allopathists and
| hOmppathistS are, as might be suspected,
directly at ISSUE
| BUSINESS STAGNATION IN Canada
| Real estate has fallen Seventy-fivc per cent.
30, esu,o or me general depression of bust
ness, and the utter want of confidence that
people hav" in their government. Take
! Toronto az an example. Tn that city it is
estimated there ar" 300 empty tenements.
| Many residences OF Il small size can be had
for slight advance upon the taxes, while
houses such as those that bring a yearly
rental in New York or Philadelphia of $500
can be had in Toronto for 50 per year.
year or two ago All American gentleman
invested S2O0,000 in house property in To-
rontO, and he SAYS that last wear his total
income from rents only Melted him $780,
Cor. ". y. Hernia.
Albert Pike is at Ottawa, Canada, and
has forwarded to Washington petition for
pardon, supported by many of his brother
MasOns. For the sake of poetry, we trust
that Pike will return to his native State of
Massachusetts,. While mt home he wrote
the "Hymns to the Gods and other fine
things, but Arkansas has not proved con- |
genial to his muse, which has been silent |
since he has taken his flight from The class
ical regions of Fatirhavcn and Newbury-
port. I
The father of PAYNE. the consprator, re-
Gently took the oath of allegiance at Jack
sonvillc, Florida, with u view Of visiting
Washington and obtaining the body ofhis !
son.
The London station Of the Midland rail- |
way will have the largest roof span of any |
building i'm the world. 1t will have clear
span of two hundred and forty feet
Madame Jumel, the widow of Aaron |
Burr, who lately died in New York, left
property valued at 500, 600. The Episco-
pal church at Evansville. has been very
small and quite poor. The rector was
very attentive to Madame Juinel She |
left the society money enough TO build an
elegant church, and made the rector her
residuary legatee, by'which he will inherit
the snug sum of SlOo,oo0.
Susan Williams Of South Sutton. Maine.
gives every soldier who enlisted from that
town, on his return, tho sum OF five doll
airs, and the same amount to the families
of those who have fallen in defence of their
country.
The receipt OF gate money nj the Sara
tOga race course during the week of the
races, was 81, 600.