The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-05-10
THE NEWS.


The internal revenue receipts of the last
week amounted to S., 3O6,375.
Mrs. Davis was allowed an interview
with her husband on Friuay morning, in
Fortress Monroe.
The telegraph announces the cession OF
large portion Of Lower California to a
party of New York capitalists.
The reform bill has passed the House of
Commons, by five majority.
The military bill was defeated in the
House on the I'd inst. q.
A bad breach occurred in the Erie canal
Is miles west of dorchester yesterday morn
ing.
There was no cholera on thelast steamer
that arrived from Europe.
The New York Tribune says that the
President has prohibited General Howard
from giving inform uion about outrages
committed 10y Southern whites on the freed
men.
1t is said that JEFF. Davis expresses the
opinion that he will not live through the
summer unless he is released from impris-
onment. His victims at Andersonyille
doubtless entertained similar views of their
own fate, and with much better reason, but
jeff. save himself no concern about their
apprehensions.
Paymaster Paulding had overhalfa mill
lion dollars of Government money i'm the
suspended Merchants National Bank at
Washington, and it is probably lost to the
Government. The banking house of Now
ry d. Co., have also failed, influenced. it is
said, by the failure of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank. .. .......
AT Detroit, on Friday afternoon. the two
men engaged in dragging the river, fished
up, near where the Windsor used TO load.
mail bag, locked and cut open at the
side. A heavy bar of iron was attached to
1t, and from its appearance it has probably
been In the water for quite time. 1t is
believed this discovery is the first clue to a
mail robbery as yet unknown to the pub
lie.
The New York World says of the recen
Fenian noise in the Northwest: ""rhe real
purpose of Killian in taking three hun
dred badly armed men to PASSPORT, was to
help the cause Of confederation in British
Provinces, and to create row bv break
ing the neutrality laws, in order that the
Government might be compelled to issue
proclamation, which could only result in
breaking up the plans OF Col. Roberts and
Gen. Sweeney"
The Howard Association has gone into
operation in New York for the express
purpose ofnursing the sick should cholera
become an epidemic during the approach
ing warm season. Tn addition to furnish
Ing nurses, the Association will contribute
relief in the shape of medicines, &C., to the
INDECENT, gratuitously. After death thew
will, where the deceased is a stranger. de-
Gently inter the remains, taking such mea-
sures as will insure Identification, should
relatives or friends from distance desire
removal or reinterment after the pesti-
lence has abated.
European advices to the 9th uIt. are re-
celved. The steamship City Of Washing
Ton is still missing. The Austro-P russian
dlfnculty is said TO he amicably settled by
both parties agreeing to mutual dfsarma-
ment. Relations between Austria and
Italy are unsettled. The armies of both
powers have been placed on war footing.
A battle had taken place in China betw cen
the 1mperialists and rebels, and the army
of the latter, consisting of fifty thousand
men, utterly annihilated. The rebel pi-
rate steamer, Tallahassee, is to be given up
10 the United States Government. The
wife ofThomas Carlyle, the English essay
list, died suddenly, while riding in HYDE
Park, London.
Judge Underwood, of the L. S. District
Court for Virginia, says that the Grand
Jury, which meets at Norfolk on Monday
next, will bring in a true bill against JEFF.
Davis for treason.
The entire number of pardons granted,
as shown by official documents transmit
ted to Congress,iis 5,035, of which more
than half were granted to parties in Geor-
gia and Alabama. The same documents
also show that large quantities Of land
have been restored to rebel owners under
special pardons fran the President.
William Hutchings, the last surviving
Revolutionary soldier in the State, and the
last but two or three in the Union, died,
Thursday, i'm the town of Penobscot, in
Maine, aged l02 yeurs. Special honors will
be accorded to the memory of the deceased
veteran at his funeral.
Mr.. Sherman's thirty-year five percent.
loan bill is freely canvassed in all quarters,
and favorable opinions as 10 its practical
bility and success are rapidly Increasing.
A strong evidence of this is seen in the
rapid appreciation of the ten-forties.-
There is a strong probability Of the pas
sage Of the bill.
Capt, Faulkner, of the schooner Corsi-
can, which vessel arrived ut Oswego ON
the 4th, from Hamilton, G. W, reports
that when Off Oakville he picked up /. skill
containing two boys nearly exhausted, ahd
girl who had died from exposure. 1t was
ascertained that the skiff had drlfted out
frem Oakvillo, with two boys and three
girls, but two of the girls were washed
overheard and drowned. Their ages were
under fifteen.