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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05

THE Daily Post is a large new Republi-
can Journal just started i'll Detroit-Grn.
Carl Shurz, Editor. We need not add that
from one of its editorials. .lf .- 81. ... ...
1t is related OF a jolly old seaman that,
when the cannihals, into whose hands he
had fallen, We're discussing the question
whether he should be boiled, roasted, or
cut into slices and broiled upon bed of
hot Goals, he chewed his "tine cut" with
undisturbed sang Jroid; but when prop
osition was made to stuff his carcass with
young monkey, preparatory for baking it
he suddenly broke out, "Avast there, you
black devils! Amt fgoing 10 DO CONSULTED
on that point?"
The absurdity Ofhis being consulted was
so overpowering to the Feiee intellect that
the savage islanders set him at liberty, i'm
paying for the laugh he had created.
1t may strikethos who are busily engage
cd in framing Reconstruction policies,
Freedmen's Bureau bills, and represents,
ton amendments to the Constitution, an
equally absurd that the negro should de-
sire to be consulted as to the disposition to
be made of his future on this continent
He has been silent, except an occasional
semi-groan, orinvoluntary squeak, during
half IA century OF selling in the shalnhles,
tiaying with the lash, and occasional roas-
tings at the stake; and it certainly. does
appear a little odd that he should desire to
be consulted on the question of stufling,
now that he is to he finally served up ut the
feast which is TO celebrate n restored Union
and u reconstructed Republic. o., % .t.# D..
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Mr.. Ingersoll and his History.

In note to the Des Moines Register, Mr..
l.. ID. Ingprsoll says:
~ just learn that proposition, In a.
mendment Of Senate bill appropriatine
money Tor authorizing the purchase, rath-
err of certain copies Of Capt. Stuart's To-
wa COlonels," was this afternoon intro
duced into the House by Mr.. Thorn, Of
Clinton, authorizing the purchase of the
same number of copies of History OF
Iowa Troops, of which am the author
never saw Mr.. Thorn, that I know Of
and do not think he had any fair right to
Introduce an amendment of this sort with
out consultation with my immediate rep
resentatives, Messrs. McNutt and Burnett,
of Muscatine, or myself. They would have
told him, or should, that was not ask
ing, and would not receive a single dollar
from the State in the manner contemplated.
My work must stand upon its merits or
fall upon its dement's. If it be a merito-
rious work, the officers. soldiers and citi-
gems of Iowa have sense and intelligence
enough to find it out, and it will not need
any legislative aid. If it be not merito-
rious, it ought not to have it. This is my
feeling upon the subject, and 1 protest
against the Legislature spending n single
dollar of the peoples money by buying
my work. If they do not, it shall be my
loss, not theirs"
In answer to which, Capt. Stuart comes
out the next day in the same paper, in the
following words: e. -....-s-.
-)7" EDITOR REGISTER: desire, through
the columns of yourpaper, to say one word
to your readers. AS regards the note in
your yesterdays issue have nothing fur
ther to say than to assert reciprocal
friendship for its author. ] think appre-
ciate Mr.. InSersoll's motives, but have
object in allowing my friends to bring my
book before the Legislature can beexplain-
ed in one word. I was unfortunate in
writing history rather than romance, and
consequently have been charged with be-
ing IA libeler," One is enraged at report
made of a regimental maiuuvre, and 9TH
efs are equally bitter because insisted on
my rights as an author--because I ac0uld
prite my Own sketches. Indeed. there are
f9w who do not have their special grievan-
ces. l knew that L had tried TO write the
truth, and L thought it might silence the
tongues of many if the work WAS endorsed
by the Legislature. The Senate has al
ready given its endorsement. and all that
will prevent the House from concurring is
the bitter and open hostility of certain par
ties whose niodesty should place them out
side OF the arena.
t~+.' e" Your obedient servant.
-... 20: y. .a ...." D' A. a. STUART.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05
ers and making huge promises, but it is

bers ana making huge promises, but it is
of no avail.
The President yesterday issued an order
to the various departments to withhold all
advertising patronage from the Chronicle,
III Is understood that all papers that fail to
sustain the slow policy of the President
WIN be treated likewise, and the advertis-
ing VIII he given to democratic papers.
Gen. Grant, in general orders, yesterday
IN announcing the death of General Seth
Williams and Col. Theo. S. Bowers. lately
his Adjutant General. passed an eloquent
tribute to their memories, as men and SOL,
diers, and directed that officers of the Ad-
lutant General Department wear the usual
badge OF mourning for thirty DAYS.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05
CONNECTICUT ALL RIGHT y!

After one of the severeSt and most une-
DUAL political fights on record, and in spite
of defections in the ranks of the party and
the open and unsparing employment of
Federal influence and patronage against
Them, the republicans of Connecticut have
carried their State by an unexpected and
overwhelming majority. The Legislature
in both branches, is largely Union; and
Hawley, the Union candidate, who wasop-
posed by the President, the cnppcrheads
and the odds and ends of all factions, is
elected 10y Mt least $50 majority!
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New York March 81

ANcW
Inc President has proclaimed the treaty
made with the head men and chiefs of the
Blackfeet band of Dekotah or Sioux Indi-
ans. -
1t is similar to the treaty recently made
with two other bands of che same Indians.
by which they pledge themselves not only
to preserve towards the United States
peace, bit to Withdraw from the overland
routes. In consideration of these stipula-
tons they are to receive seven thousand
dollars per annum for twenty years.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05
The Markets.

New York. April 3.
Money is i'm more active demand. Rates
5 per cent. Gold is active, the price rang
ing from LIZA to l,274.
Flour dull and heavy at from S6,15@
IS, so per Dbl. Wheat, corn, rye and oats
are dull and quiet, with but little demand.
Beef cattle, first quality IWlS; fair to
good quality l6Wl7; common l4@ Is.
a liberal increase in the receipts of beef
cattle has brought with ii the usual result,
and we have to report a marked decline in
prices, though the advance established last
week was not lost, prices fell from to l.
on the lower grade. The different grades
sold at the pIIUes above quoted,
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05

Stirling Price, of Missouri gubernator-
al and rebel fame has written another let
Ter declaring that he "never expect to re-
turn to the United States," and that he is
well satisfied with his prospects in Mexico.
Nobody here cares about hissprospects, but
it is pleasing to know that no grace of
Presidential pardon is likely to coax Price
back TO the State he so well nigh ruined.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05

Mrs. jeff Davis is understood to be en-
route to Washington in the hope of obtain
ing permission to visit her husband in his
prison at Fortress Monroe. She will prob
ably arrive with 4. IL. stephens within Il
d.iv or ty"o.
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End Of the r eb allion.

A Proclamation of the President OF the
United States, dated April End, prefaced
with fifteen whcrcases, officially recOgni-
yes, and declares the instruction hereto
for existing i'm certain States. to be at an
end and SO to he regarded.
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VIM. Is. BRADY, See. +. Il.

AMENDMENT OF THE POSTAL LAWS
The amended postal bill passed the lower
House of Congress Monday. BY it, after
the first of April, all letters sent to the dead
etter office, are to be returned to the wri.
tiers free Of charges. All letters bearing .n
their envelopes, directions to be returned
if not called for, are TO be returned free
and parties can have their letter forwarded
to them from one office to another free
The proposition to sell stamped envelopes
at the price charged for stamps was killed
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.

Thoae wishing corn pl5ws obtain them Of any
OF our Agents, whose names and residence We give
below, or at our mandatory in Ottumwa
We will give d few certificates from men that have
used our plows for the past two years. .a'.rrE
I'VE. the undersigned, have used the DESMOND
0itumwa Iowa, and believe them to he TmK BHsY
Cnltivat"r now In use, and would recommend the m
to the Farmers OF Iowa, to be just what they neeI
plrw that will do their woik ell the best; qht
Of draught and very easy managed, and we beMevs
the most durable and cheapest pillow in use.
:, Rowland, - Richard, George Reeves.
Paris CALDWELL John johnson ape 10 CO. =-.s. q.
1as. Leach-Argo, Luc rs co.
tctory Observation-Disclosures, Wayne CO.
John Cl andier-Cnian CO. ~
Stephen TIL: eldked, Noah Threlkeld, Austin Davis
Charlton. .....- -
p: Wilson, J. W. Richards, II. Richards, W. }.
Purnell--Wapelo Co. IS
William Gethel-Clark co.
Mitchell, g IIo mes, Charles Garten John
Parber g W hopkins, II Adams, Hiram Moore.
Holmes Standardization.
Cyrus Sanford Georgetown.
John Vickman-Centrevilla.
Robt. Observation-Disclosures City. d
Flows can be tbtained from the following Agents
q Blai e-Charton, Lucas 20, - = F. :
Joel II Adams, Jas Leach,
Victory Auberry-Lucas co '..s e.
Moses pean-Clarke CO
John Chandler-Unioa CO .........
Work-Ager cy City " ~
III Durfey-Butler p. O. Keokuk co
John ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CO
VIM Demress-.Ringgold co NH.. -
Mcndenl all 4 Baker-=Pclla .-., ..a..
Mcbride &c Bros. -~0ttamTA
A n BowlanG--Wapelo co 49,. . T.
Hiram Moore-fuur miles cart Of Charlton. >. = .
Wagons cons; family on hand for sale. and rsnair.
Ing Of all kinds done to order. All WORK warranted
March I'D 66-w2m ...
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T IST OF LETTERS Remaining

- unclaimed In tho Post Office Ottumwa Iowa
on the 4th day Of April, 1866. r
TIA obtain any .Pf these letters. the april cant
must call or 'ADvRRTisEH LBrTKKs, give The date II
this list, and pay one cent for advertising. + fa
III not called for within one month, they will be
sent to the Dead Letter ONCE. -. - ".. ~
Letters are not advertised until they have re-
manned In the Office week.
'Place the postage stamp on the upper RICH. hand
corner, and leave space between the stamp and di.
rection for post-marking without interfering with
~ = writing. r.. ".E.. .' .. :
IN. B.--A REQUEST for the RETURN Of a letter to
the writer, II unclaimed within 81 days or less writ.
ten or printed With the writer's name, Post ONCE
ard State, across the left ha nd end Of the eope
on the face side, WILDE complied with 1.-THE usual
prepaid rate OF postage, payable when the letter Ia
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05

We vassf inform the public that we are manufac
taTing large number OF those Diamond Cultivatori
that has given SO universal satisfaction the two
years through the south west counties Of Iowa. We
have no hesitation In saying that the,e Is no Guilt
vator tn It has ever been In the west and been ad
mired so much by Farmers the Diamond Cultiva.
tors, as will he seen by examining the list of certiA
Gates underneath We would call the attention
those wishing Cnltivators this season, to ca ant
examine our Flows before purchasing. You will
save time and money by doing so. It is decidedly
the best Corn Plow in use. 1t weighs only nlnet y.
six POUNDS when all rugged for plowng, and Is.
therefore, light ON teams and easy managed. Any
boy thas can drive p'ou eight
ten acres per day. The pillow can be guaged TO any
depth desired from two to six In ches, by simply
moving pin, or can be thrown entirely out Of the
ground If desired. By adding the mdde-or ffth
plow--it becomes NEST convenient pillow for put
ting In wheat and oats. by removing the forward
plows II hecoraes ye,y convenient corn marker for
lay ing off corn ground .- .. -
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-05
THE DIAMOND CULTIvATOR

has four Diamond Flows attached to II, instead OF
shovels. winch completely cuts up and turns over
yeur weeds and leaves the ground much cleaner than
shovel. There Is also two extra plows, or long
marrow bull o.gues, that go with each ,Cuiti Sator
Tor blowing corn when quite small, NAL king sis
blows TO Cultiyatnr for nf : IL II v
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-06-28
Dependency and Desperation.

Here is a brace OF paragraphs, which
read quccrly together. Southern pa.
pers bewailing the destitute and ruin.
cd condition Of their section, and yet
counscling the rcpulsion OF tho only
course that will restore life and pros
perily to it, Read
Richmond papers say that tho news
from the South in relation to tho crops
are anything but satisfactory, The
lato heavy rains in all parts Of the
country seem TO have destroyed the
crops planted, and nothing short of n
famine the coming winter is looked for.
A dispatch from Memphis gives gen.
cral gloomy account Of affairs in Mis-.
sissippi and Arkansas, from destruc.
ton by floods, cold weather, &c, and
predicts that there will be u famine in
tho South before another season The
planters have neglected planting grain
hoping for an immense yield Of cotton
and big prices. In many places the
planters are out of money, aud are out
of provisions.
Tho Richmond Wig is out in oppo.
sition TO emigration from the Northern
States and tho introduction OF Northern
capital 1t says; Alabama. within
one year OF peace, begins with five
thousand Northern cotton planters. 1t
is frightful to think where sho will end
There is not single Southern State in
which this process, this fatal process
of New England colonization, is not
going on. We must stop it, and, from
this hour, We must resolve to stop it.,
before it cnwraps and crushcs us in its
anaconda folds, We do not moan that
Il must be stopped by resort to vic.
tonce or to any unwarrantablo means,
but by refusing, as we have tho right
to do, to sell our lands or any part of
them, or lease or tenant them out to
radical enemies of the South"
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NEWS OF THE WEEK..

Gold closed in New York, Tuesday
evening, at 1861.
The Delaware Gazette reports that
the Jail of that county has been with
cut a regular inmate for three months
Judge Lane, late Chief Justice ol
the Supreme Court OF Ohio, died al
Sandusky on the 18th inst.
Col. W. W. Soaton, of the National
lnteligcncer, died on Saturday, at
Washington. His age was eighty-one
years.
A stock-raiscr in Tennessee recent
y sold $4,000 worth of cashmere
goats in one week. One eve sold for
Isl, 800.
Tho Springfield (Mass) Republican
reports that II company of Mormons
recently passed through that city,
which numbered six hundred in all
Eleven hundred emigrants passed
through Columbus during the week
ending June 0, 5l6of whom proposed
TO settle in this State.
Very rich gulch diggings have been
discovered at Vermilicn Lake, and "a
great rush from Superior City is going
on.
Jeff. Davis counsel, backed by Hor.
ace Greeley, are again urging the re
lease of jeff Davis, or his transfer to
somc other place of confinement.
The Newark American says: Mr..
Giddings, of Vermont, few days ago
sold the half interest of four ewes to
Daniel Peters, of Hartford Township,
for $4,000 being at the rate of 1880
per head.
The President has approved the bill
extending the provisions of tho Home
stead Law to all the public lands in
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Florida, with a provision
that for two years no entry shall be
made for moro than eighty acres
The bill permits negroes as well as
whites to acquire homesteads on these
lands.
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A TwENTY THOUSAND Doll. HORSE.
Wilkes Spirit records the sale of
2 another flying trotter, a Massachusetts
bay mare, BY Ethan Allen out of po.
d cahontos The price paid was 500, 900.
~ Is stated that she went mile in
harness in 2m. 25bs., and then, after
the usual iimu allowed between
mile heats, repeated in Pin. 23s. This
ists amasihg, coasideripg that tho mare
Ids young and has yet had very little
a9done.wilh her to develop her speed
rShe is beautiful and symmetrical: in
i7.siSe, tho medium between her little
Z sire and tIiceFcat, grand pacing marc
J her dam, Pocahontas. She has inhcr
= tied this iaultless tYotling action O
"a Etham RnditiS believed that the bi,
: chestnut Inarehas not oDly contribute,
to her spced, but givensher the powc
70 keep up tho high rate and stay.
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Col,perheads.

81 am Coppcrhcad, and glory in
the name" said Vallandigham at the
recent "Dcmocratic" Convention at
Columbus, and was loudly chccrcd fol
the expression. We suppose this final
ly settles the title of this party, and
that wc will hear no moro OF applying
oppro6rious names when we call tho op.
pononts of the Union Party, Cooper,
heads" In fact we expect that as the
great Mogul has accepted and glorie,
in the name, that il will be universally
adopted in the future, and that til,
Democratic Union at Upper Sandusky
and Marion Democrat, at Marion, vii
in tho future read Copperhead Union,
and "1lhWion Copperhedd." We shal
-BncyHrS Journal.
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s - . -
Dag- The Editor of the CanfeEd. OH

D4" The Editor of tho Garfield, Ohio,
Herald, says =
"WHEAToN ITcu 0lNTMENT.-It has
been said thatto get the itch is no dis
grace, but it is disgraceful to keep it,
No one need have the itch forty eight
hours if they will use Whoaton's Oint.
ment, for it is Il sure cure! We saw
it tried on the persons of several chill
dren and adults u few weeks since,
and the itching at once ceased, and in
two days not an eruption was visible.
1t is effectua in removing pimples,
blotches, and especially old sores. We
used the Ointment on one of our own
children, and the effect was magical
The itch, which has been so prevalent
about here, has not yielded to tho usu-
al remedies for this complaint, and we
are glad that a remedy has been dis
covered that is so etfcctual and vet so
cheap. Read the advertisement.
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FoREIoN.--The Moravian, from Eu
rope, brings thrcc days later news
The situation was not materially
changed No hostile blow had actual.
ly been struck, but the great parties
to the expected melee, were occupy
ing the same threatening attitude TO
ward each other. The Turkish gov
ernmcnt is also manifesting q disposi
.tion TO bc prepared to take a, hand II
the gamo, and is mastering armies un
der the lead of Omar Pasha. A few
days must solvc the question OF peac,
or general war in Europe.
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- rr.tt. At 49, =. a. IL - Z
.sAhe attempt TO break up The ConstiLu
lion you are sworD to support mus
not be elected or appointed to FEEDER
~ Offices. But even in this demanC
5 tho Union party will not be unrelcnt
ing; bnt If the future conduct of any
one Of the leading rebels shall make
amends for his past, thirds vot'
of Congress will be sufficient to re
move the disability.
a. We can not possibly consent tC
the payment of the debts incurred fol
che purpose Of breaking up our coun
try. Bit we, are bound by every con
ysideration Of honor, good faith anC
morality, to pay, the debt contracted
for the preservation Of our nationa
existence. -,
5. For the faithful performance o.
these conditions we ask but one sccU.
rity. Let them be made part of the
supreme law of the land; let them be
inserted in the Constitution, SO as to
place them beyond the reach OF bad
faith aud disloyalty.
III Thus the Union party proposes to
complete the great work of reconstruc.
tion. Its past services entte it to
your fullest confidence 1t has saved
the country from dissolutio~. 1t has
suppressed gigantic rebellion. 1t
has yindicated the cause Of constitu-
tional liberty and republican elf-gov-
crnmcut. 1t has purged our national
escutchcon of its only stain. ltnever
for moment despaircd OF the great
American cause 1t never faltercd,
not even in the darkest hour of our
national trials. When the Democrat
ic party had denounced the war as a
failure, when thousands Of faint hearts
had despaired, when all Europe, with
the exception of honest Germany, had
predicted an inevitable dissolution, the
. Union party never for moment
ceased to believe in the American ma
tion 1t never ceased to confdc in the
manhood of our people. 1t did not
desert the ship, bat piloted it safely
into the harbor of peace. And it pro-
poses now to finish the great task Of
reconstruction on the basis of liberty
justice and magnanimity. Will you
allow it to finish its glorious work, OF
will you ntrus: the task 10 the Sons
of Liberty and the Knights of the
Golden Circle2 i confde in the peo.
plc Having made such enormous
sacrifices for the preservation OF our
national existence, it will not now un'
do politically what it has accomplish
ed by the war. 1t will not leopard
ize the results of the war by confer
ring political power on those whom
it has just prevented from breaking
up the country, Issue has been join
cd and the cpsc is now before the grand
jury of public opinion. Tho aiders &
,,abcttors Of treason, rebellion, perjury
slavery, anarchy and secession havo
again thrown down the gauntlet tc
the friends Of an American nationali
ty based on liberty and law. on human
rights and justice, or patriotism an'
loyalty. Let us take it up then, anc
God will speed the right
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New Political Movement.
GALL FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION

|
The Cincinnati Commercial has the
subjoined dispatch from Washington,
| in relation to which wo have no room
for comment this week. further than
10 remark that tho platform, as far as
IL goes, appoarsto contain nothing that
every true Union man cannot unhesi-
talingly subscribe to, AS to the ne
ccssity or good effect of such a move.
mcnt, or whether its real object is the
advancement of the Union causo, that
is another matter. Wcawait the pub
licaton of tho call in full before max
ing any extended expression of views
in relation to it,
WASHINGTON, June 90.
The following call has been issued;
A National Union Convention, of at
least two delegates from each Congress
sional DistriJt of all the States, two
nom each Territory, two from the
District of Columbia, and four dele.
gates at largo from each will DO held
ut the city Of Philadelphia, on tho 18th
of August next. Such delegates will
be chosen by the Governors OF the sew
craI States, who sustain the Admins.
tration in maintaining, unbroken, the
Union of tho States. Delegates are
asked to agree,
Frst--Thc Union is perpetual and
indissoluble,
Sccond--Equality Of States and tho
right to representation arc sclemnly
guaranteed.
Thirl--No right OF secession or OK.
clusion,
Fourth lavcry is abolished forcv.
or.
Fifth. Each State has to prescribe
notifications for its own electors.
ixlh".The maintenance Of the right
OF each State to manage its domestic
concerns inviolate,
1t concludes with an appeal to eve
| " IIhtINe w llbNH upou Nno HVtVH VI
Congress, which can only rokindIo an
imositics, and TO encourage peaceful
and conciliatory measures; but no del.
cgate will take u seat in such conven,
ton who does not loyalty accept the
national situation, and cordially en-,
dorse tho principle above set forth
and who is moi attached in true allo,
glance to the Constitution, Union and
Government of tho United States.
gJ A. W, RANDALL, Pros't
j, r. D0OLlTTLE,
o, II BROWNING,
ftse EDGAR COWAN.
] CHARLES KNAPP,
'ey SAMUEL FOWLER,