The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-07-20
WASHINGTON July Ia,

- Washington, July Ii.
The followirg Is crsn.. Terry!s order sup
pressing "a, fpiiIsisstid safEhs. Richmond
nond W,s asls a!sh 1855. Sse certain artai,
clause Of the merciful Amnesty Procla-
mati6h-of thek,President of the United
States, paraonipg certain traitors, is stig-
matized as heathenish; and a law of the
land, duly enacted by Congress and ap-
proved by the President, is characterized
as mean, brutal, and cowardly, revolving
ly absurd, and atrociously unjust. 1t is
ordered that the Provost Marshal General
of this department seize, and hold in his
possession the Office, press, type and other
property belonging to the proprietors of
said paper, and prevent thenceforward the
publication thereof. a."f
tSignedl Major Gen. TERRY.
The Tribune's special dated Columbus,
Ohio 18th, says, Major General Sherman
had public reception here to-day. In the
course of his remarks he heartily endorsed
General Cox, and announcing him as the
next Governor of Ohio; he also said he
was not under any circumstances a can
ddate for gubernatorial or Presidential
! honors. ..ran
Cincinnati, July IA.
At a festival given Sherman and Cox, at
Columbus yesterday, Sherman alluded TO
the charge while he was in command i'm
Kentucky, that he had demanded for the
campaign two hundred thousand men,
lie said the fact was when visited by Sec
retary Cameron, he explained the difficult
ty OF matching into Tennessee by diver
gent lines, one TO Nashville and the other
to East Tennessee, with forces outnumber-
ed by the rebel armies confronting him on
one of these lines. He had but fortv-thres
hundred men to meet an opposing force of
eighteen thousand, and when asked by
Secretary Cameron how many men were
needed, he replied for the present cam
paign sixty thousand, and before vou can
reduce the South 70 subiecton YOU must
have two hundred thousand This state
ment made in the presence of Secretary
Cameron's military family, was afterwards
published in eastern papers in detailed and
Incorrect form. -+
New York, July l3.
Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Mis-
sissippi, issued, at jackson, the State cap-
ltal, on the lst inst, mis- proclamation an
nouncing TO the people his appointment by
the President, and informed them of the
duties with which he was charged. To
avoid delay in proceeding with the work
of preparing for the State Convention, he
appoints in large number Of counties the ,
county officers, who were under the rebel
regime, incumbents at the time the nation
al forces took possession OF the State prop
erty on the I'D of May last, but all are re-
quired TO subscribe to the oath OF allegi-
ance prescribed by the President ...
He names as the day for electing dele
gates to the State convention. the 7th of
thu 17tl, af ti,..a
month as the time, and Jackson as the
place for the convention to assemble.
The Herald's Charleston correspondence
of the sth inst. says the white people in
the country above Charleston, along the
Ashley and Cooper rivers, were greatly
excited in the beginning of the month by
a report that the negroes in that region, to
the number of several thousand, intended
to rise in rebellion on the 9Th and march
in body to the city. The stories could
De tEdCeu 10 no TelltDle source. DuU 10 uldhS
matters sure, bodies Of troops were sent
to different points in the district named.
The South Carolinians have been for
some time much annoyed by the garrison
ing of various posts in their midst with
colored soldiers, whose entire removal has
been strongly urged on the military au-sr
thorities, and there is now rumor that it
is soon to take place
The Fourth of July was celebrated at
Charleston in fine style by the army and
navy and there were parades of the coll
ored freemen and other colored associa-
tions, but the white natives did not take
much part in the demonstrations.
The appointment by the President Of
Benjamin F. Perry to be the Provisional
Governor of the State, gave general salts
faction to the people, and a meeting of the
Charleston lawyers to express their appro-
baton, had been held.
A company has been formed for the es-
tablishment Of a new line Of steamers beL
tween Charleston and New York, and the
Charlestonians expect to have through
railroad communications with the North
completed by the middle of August.
The health of Charleston is said to be ex-
cellent, except among the negroes who are
still dying in large numbers. There were
rumors that yellow fever had made its APP
pearance, but they are pronounced entire
ly false.
! A petition TO President Johnson request
ing him TO pardon the rebel EX-GOVERNOR
Magrath is being extensively signed by
the South Carolinians.
The Herald has advices from the capital
of Mexico to the 27th ult., the Imperialist
Gen. Castagny reports that he has achieved
a great success at the town of Lapacen. in
the State of Sonora, having on the 22nd of
May, with 20 French soldiers dispersed in
complete route an encampment of 2, 800 re-
publicans, and captured an immense
amo mt Of valuable property. AS an off,
set to this the Republicans are driving ev-
cry opposing thing before them in the
State Of MichOacan, where besides other
! triumphs Gen. Rigents, after an obstinate
/ engagement of n day and night had taken
the town Of Urapan, and made prisoners of
! its Imperial garrison Of 500, while in San
Luis PotOsi and other States the Republi-
can 9uerrilIas were all giving MaXimi-