The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-07
Chicago.

Chicago.
A Pittsburg poet gets off the fol
lowing on the modern Sodom and
Gomorrah:
have been to thenorth, have been
to the south.
But in travelling man may afilr
To the jumping off place, ere he will
A town to compare with Chicago.
If you never have altered your name
in your life,
Nor ever up to the bar go,
Or else run away withanother mans
"A. wife,
They won't let you live in Chica-
go. @ t elB
Some people send on by Adams Elk
press.
And some put their faith iu Far.
90, p
But If you would go to the devil di-s
rect,
You must enter yourself at Chica-
go.
They won't let clergyman live in
the town.
On snch they have put an embar-
Unless he makes mutton Of oil his
| young lambs
And then he may stay in Chicago.
There The infants arc fed on whisky
direct,
For liquor they all to their Ma go;
Aud the muley cows give, as a man
might expect,
| Milk-punch III the town OF Chica
so.
The town with fast ladies and gay
| gamholecrs,
| Is As iull as a ship with her cargo;
And the very best men it is truthful
j y said,
| Fight cocks in the town of Chica-
so.
There ana al , us small bovs play poker
For most Of them did to tho war
! so;
Aud they sing that wild song called
81 don't care D.,
All nigh, in the streets Of Chica-
80.
Yet it cannot be said that their
morals are bad.
Or that they too much below par
For the devil moral the folks eve,
had
i Who live in the town Of Chicago
!, Oh, Sodom was "some" and Gomor-
rah was great"
/ And in Venice each man'san IaSo
Tut the beautiful city tina. rakes
them all down
! Is the elegant VILE ofClicago.
| The Now York 1Icrald's special
say the following general orders was
issued by General Schofield, Com.
Imanding the first military District
Id. Qrs. 1st Military Dist,
Richmond; Va,
i November Cd, 1867.
| At an election held in the State Of
Virginia, on the ed day Of October
1867, and following days for dele
gates to tho State Convention, and
to take the sense Of the registered
votes upon the question, whether
such Convention should be held fol
1.-THE purpose Of establishing a consti
tuition and civil Government for the
lStatc loyal to the Union, 16922a
votes were cast upon the question o.
holding the convention, Of which
number 1O7342, were cast for the
convention, and, 6l8S7 against the
convention. tho whole number. Of
votes cast upon that question being
II majority of the whole number OF
registered voters in the State, and a
number of the votes cast for the con
vention, beiny a majority Of all the
votes cast upon that question. The
convention will be held as provided
for by an act Of Congress of March
Odd, 1867, at the Hall Of the House
Of Delegates, in the city Of Richmond
at ten o'clock a. M, on Tuesday, the
Sd day of Dcccmbea, 1867, arc desig.
mated as the place and time tor
meeting of the District delegates
elected in the different cities, coun
tics and districts Of the State, who
arc notified to meet ia convention al
the time aud place above specified
! The order concludes rs follows:
| Each delegate will be furnished
with an otficia! copy of this order
which will constitute his certificate
of election.
The complexion Of the convention
is as follows:
Conservatives, thirty, five, Radi
calls, seventy, of the latter twenty.
five are negroes.
Tho Republican majority in Iowa
is only fraction less than 28,0OO.-
We are reminded by this fact that a
ten dollar bill is liable to be transfer.
red from our pocket to that Of Billy
Clark, the majority having exceed
ing our calculations about 1000
Ten dollars ont of a country editors
go