The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-05-03
Tbs News.

Prussia and Austria are preparing for war.
The prospects of war have an unfavorable
effect on American securities and COM
merce.
The debate on the reform BILL i'm Par
Lament, has closed. A majority of thirty
is anticipated for it. .a.
In Congress, on the Goth, petition to
expel Garrit Davis was referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee, i'm the Senate. A bill
to regulate commerce between the States
was discussed, but not decided. A Joint
| resolution appropriating $4,000 for ex-
pense of collecting revenue from customs,
was passed. .f.. rr ..
In the House, considerable business was
transacted, but nothing of interest in this
part of the world. ..
The District of Columbia are petitioning
for civil code, a general corporation law,
and delegate i'm Congress. aH
Measures are being taken to discharge
incompetent clerks in the Departments
and appoint ex-soldiers and sailors.
| They are are going to reduce mutulated
currency, sent for redemption to pulp and
make envelopes oft.
| Col. Nixon, a notorious rebel has been
ardoned. .... ........
A large mass meeting to endo Sc the
President, was held in Brooklyn on the
22d. Gen. Rosseau, John Van Buren,, and
others spoke. A letter from Gen. Dix, ap-
proving the object, was read.
| A mysterious vessel was seen off Port
land the other day.
There was riot Mt circus in Cincin-
natl. One man was killed and several
wounded.
There was a cholera panic among the
contrabands nc Washington, Yesterday,
caused by the death of two of their mum
ber. 1t however proved not to he cholera.
| The President has proclaimed the con-
vention between the United States and the
Empire of Japan, for the reduction of i'm
port duties.
Mr.. Jay Cooke. who is building house
worth half million of dollars, obtained
his wealth by advertising during the time
70 the sale of the National Bonds, which
world have been unsold to this day but
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advertiser in the world.
| General Grant in a recent conversation
with Rev. George Hepworth, of Boston,
said of General Sherman: "Sherman is a
man to be proud of. He is impetuous, he
is faulty, but he knows his own fault as
soon as any man." And of Sheridan, he
said: HE is the best man i'm America
He has no peer. He can WELD any force.
He is pure minded, simple-mannered and
a truly noble man." And of himself he
said: There were a thousand others who
could have done the thing as well as /. /
am thankful to God that he helped me to
! do the work, but had I not been living, or
had the Government passed over me, there
are other men who would have won the
victory for you"
Greatsolicitude is of course felt through
out the entire Nation as to the health of
Gen. Lewis Cass, one of the few survivors
of the preceding generation of great states
men. He has lived in the closest privacy
for some time, and his health is so poor as
to require constant attendance, medical
and otherwise. His disease, which is an
incurable affection of the bladder, is not
immediately dangerous, however, and of
late his condition has been steadily improv-
ing. He is now 81 years of age, and has
| outlived all his distinguished cotempora-
| ries except Mr.. Buchanan, Gen. Scott, and
| one or two others Detroit cor. Chicago
Times.
Upwards Of one hundred miles of tele-
graph cable are manufactured per week,
| and the last week in June is fixed for the
Great Eastern to leave Sheerness, on an
other attempt to lay the Atlantic Cable.
A Georgia judge lately threatened law
yer for contempt of Court. "I have ex-
| pressed no contempt of court" said the
lawyer, ION the contrary, 1 have carefully
concealed my feelings
Il never was ruined but twice." said a
wit: 'once when L lost lawsuit, and once
| when gained one.
An Ohio MANNED soldier writes legibly
while holding his pen in his mouth.
Illinois raised 5000, 900 lbs ofcotton last
year, and the quality was SO good that tho
article is favorite in the market, and
commands the highest price.