The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-08-10


nation to the people, announcing his ap
pointment by the President, and foreshad-
owing his designed course of procedure
in the performance of his duties. He sets
no time for the election or convention, but
states that they would be held as soon as
practicable. He admonishes the Texans
to dispcl the delusions under which many
of them are laboring, that slavery still
exists, and informs them that it is effect
ually dead, and that if they fail to treat
the negro as less than q freeman their rep
resentatives will i'm vain seek admission
into Congress. lie does not, as some of the
other Provisional Governors have done,
re-appoint the county officers WHO acted
under the rebel regime, but states that he
will make the necessary appointments to
ill their places. ,"ta'l."n d ..'" .'..
The Governor also further explained the
course which he designed to pursue, in a
public address which he made to the peo-
pie of Galveston, in response to their in
vitatiOn. ma a.,r#ia .....a. agar . =
On Saturday night last a party of several
young men made an attack at Rocky Neck,
Connecticut, on the house occupied by a
colored man named w. III. Davenport, who
Is married to white woman, with the
avowed intention of inflicting punishment
on the negro and his wife for their indul-
gence in matrimonial amalgamation. AZ
ter the young men had been several times
warned to leave, the mother Of Davenport,
an old negro woman of SO or 10 years of
age, who was also i'm the house, fired on
them and killed their leader named I.udla
McIiOra. A coroner's investigation took
place on Sunday and yesterday. The jury
in their verdict justified the shooting as
having been done in self-defonce, and the
old negro woman and her son were dis
charged.
The Times 'pecial has the following
receives reports of gross outragos pcrpe-
trated on colored people by their former
owners.
A man named Salop, i'm Stafford county,
Va, recently armed himself and threat
ened his servants with death if they at
tempted to leave. lie also detied the au-
thoritics to take them. A guard of sol
y
persons
In the interior of The South slavery is
still maintained, with a determination on
the part of the planters to make as much
as possible ont of their servants before the
authorities reach them.
Brig. Gen. Haskin has been assigned To
the command OF all the troops in the forts
about Washington.
1t is reported that Gen. Townsend's visit
to Fortress Monroe was in connection with
Davis approaching trial.
The commission to visit the indians will
leave for their destination on the lSlh.--
Col. Parke, of Grants staff, and the chief
of the Six Nations will accompany The
commission.
Col. Osborne, commissioner of freed
mans affairs for Florida, has recovered
his field of operations. .-.
The 18th New York cavalry have turned
in their horses preparatory to going home.
Mrs. Surratt's counsel, who were sup
posed to have done service gratuitously,
obtained from her an acknowledgements
ioI ulTee tHousiillu lNe HuIittTcu uolIaTS
previous to her execution.
The Herald's Washington special SAYS:
The FreedInen's Bureau is informed that
so far IA the negroes are under the direc-
ton Of government authorities i'm Missis-
sippi, they are succeeding admirably, but
in remote localities in the interior. the
old masters endeavor to suppress the idea
among the negroes that the emancipation
is effective