The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-26
The News,


Gen. Grant, with his family, is ona visit
TO Richmond. .. ..,
A large number of freedmen left Wash
ington on Saturday to be employed on
platations ut the South Mt fair wages.
A Philadelphia despatch, always to be
doubted) processes to have high authority
for saying that jeff. Davis will soon be re-
leased on parole, on the same terms aceor-
ded to Clement c. Clay.
The steamship England, which put into
Halifax, some two weeks since with chol-
era OH board, has arrived in New York
lower bay. She has on board n crew Of I'D
men, sixteen cabin passengers, and 1902
storage passengers. The number who
have died from the cholera is 20. All are
n wv doing well.
A sensation suit Is in hearing in ST. Lou
is before the Circuit Court in Banc, the
case Frank Blair, VS.. Ridgely and Thorn
son for $40, 600 damages, brought by the
late CHIEF Of cavalry against two Judges of
election for refusing to allow him to vote
without taking the oath of Loyalty. Mr..
Glover is counsel for Blair and Mr.. Drake
for defendants. In their arguments on
Thursday, the merits and dement's of the
New Constitutions were fully discussed, as
well as the general principles of republi-
can government. Mr.. Glover concluded
the argument late this afternoon.
II is theopinion of prominent Congress
men that the present session of Congress
will be closed early in June. Apart from
the subject of reconstruction, ell other bu.
slness can be closed in several weeks.
The last sensation story from Washing.
ton is the rurnor Of proposed duel be-
tween two distinguished Senators. The
difficulty is said to have occurred outside
the Senate Chamber. The challenged par.
~ is in no need of proving his courage by
accepting az iayilatioR to face pistol at
A. Government detective officer, in an
official report on bounty-jumping, makes
the astounding statement that out of 500
GOO men who were sworn in as volunteers
and received bounties, only les, 900 reach
ed the field, all the rest having "skedad-
died" This is hard te credit.
United States Senator McDougal, of Cal
ifornia, seeing preparations making to ex-
pei him, Yesterday made very humble
apology for his drunken and unseemlv ex-
hibition of himself on the floor Of the SEN
ate Chamber few days since.
Hon. Robert Dale owen thinks that
within six weeks the whole question Of re-
construction will be settled, and amity re-
stored between the Presidcntand Congress.
he speaks of plan by which Through a
United States Constitutional Amendment)
the States would solemnly agree to extend
universal suffrage to all men in the coun-
try, and who are citizens hereof, on the 4fh
day OF July, 1876, upon the centennial an
nirersary of our independence Day.
Gen. B. =. Butler visited the Sepate
Chamber of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg
the other day, and fell in with his old ac
quatntance, Hon. Hester Clymar, Cop
perhead candidate for Governor ofth.t
State. To Mr.. Clymar's remark that they
had not met before since the Charleston
Convention, Gen. Butler replied that thew
had not, but that since that time he had
captured, i'm arms against their country.
Eve of his fellow delegates TO that Conven-
ton. ...s .. -.. .. n...s-..- .,.g .7.a .-..
Inc Reconstruction Committee agreed
on the 2lst, that the Constitution must he
so amended that no State hereafter shall |
make any distinction on account of color.
and that after July4, 1865, negroes must
have the right to vote; that there shall be
no representation between 1866 and 1876
for colored persons not allowed to vote:
and that Southern States may be repre- |
scented on these terms, on their representa-
uves taking the test oath prescribed by
Congress. .-..#tr o-s. g
No further progress is reported in the
war OF Spain against Chilli and Peru, and
no prospect of settlement. The revolu-
ton at Panama is ended. 1879. ..'
Important arrests Of counterfaiters of
United States compound interest notes and
other currency have been made in New
York, and some important revelations
have been made as 10 the origin of the
counterfeit compound interest notes.
The recent reports Of Fenian warlike
preparations and demonstrations on the
Maine border are pronounced to be utterly
and entirely false. There is no warlike
excitement in that region-nor anywhere
else that we can ascertain, as far as the Fe-
mans are concerned.
Chowan county, North Carolina, is said
to be perfect Rhineland for wine. One
gentleman makes five thousand dollars a
year from one hundred acres under grape
culture. aa a54 ,e a.af
The physicians have finally decided that
the disease on board the emigrant ship
England, at Halifax, and the emigrantl
steamer Virginia, at New York, is Asiatic
Cholera. The fact that the cabin passen-
gers, who had sufficient air and healthy p.
God, are entirely exempt from the disease,
confirms the opinion that cholera, like 9TH
" epidemics, can be controlled by proper
anitary regulations, and robs the disease
4 many Of it's terrors.
The New Orleans Times asserts that
beE6 = not sufficient labor or force in the
'tets Of Mississippi to produce three hun
lfed thdulond bales Of cotton Of fur hun a
'r"d and 6fff 1ounds per bale. lc