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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-14
Proclamation.
STATE OF Iowa.

EAECUTlNJs DEPARTMENT.
In conformity with the religious custom
of our people, and in compliance, also,
with the recommendation Of the Presi
dent, designating Thursday, the 2Sth day
Of November; instant, as a day of Nation
al Thanksgiving and praise
l, w. NJ. Stone, Governor Of Iowa, do
hereby earnestly request the people of this
State to observe the day thus appointed,
gratitude to Almighty God for the divine
them during the year now drawing to a
close. Letus devoutly thank Him for
our abundant harvests, tor our great
prosperity, and the general health and
quietude that have prevailed within our
borders, Remembering that "Sin is re-
proach to any people," let AS, in public
worship and in secret homage, reyerently
pray for an increased measure OF the
righteousness which " exaleth nation. -
and let us ask that, as the Author of all
good, lie may continue toguide our Com
mOnwealth in the ways of prosperity and
true honor, and that his divine mercies
may be yOuchsafed unto our people and
their generations forever.
In Witness Whereof, have hereunto
set my name and caused to be affixed the
Great Seal Ofthe State of Iowa.
Done at Des Moines his 18th daylof No
vember. A. D. 1867 in the twenty-first year
of the State Of Iowa. and of the independ-
ence ofthe United States the ninety-s Sec
ond,
BY THE
ED. WRIGHT,
SECRETARY OF STATE,
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CHICAGO MARKETS.

Chicago, Nov. Ii.
Flour-The advance wheat caused
a tirmer feeling, and holders ask 24c.
higher, but buyers refuse to pay tho
advance. Sales of prime extras ut
S.00a9. 70; supers 5.0Oa7.25.
Wheat excited and higher; No l
1.S6a1. 86a; No 2 closing ut $.74ial75;
No 3 ], l67a1674.
Corn dull at 97a9S.
Pork steady ut zoe for old mess 20
SO for new.
Lard dull at 113aa.
Grvvn mcnts-Hnms easier and
small smiles ATTIC.
Shoulders nominal, 6ia73.
Mess beef IA.
Hogs-reccipts to IL m. 13,041.-
Market active ut opening but closed
rather quiet, owing to warm wealth
er and large receipts prices range ut
5, 30a6,25.
Cattle receipts to IL m. 973. War
ket dull and lower, shippers out Of
market and packers doing but little
prices ranged 5,874a6,75 for choice
4 ,2Oa4, 254 for good packing.
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DIR. Mudd.

The temporary and local successes
of the Copperheads in tho October
and November elections hasset them
to wriggling very..much as it would
o knot of frozen vipers to put them
on q warm hearth, or under the rays
of the spring sun. Under this in
spiration the Chicago Times of Sat-
urday comes out in an urgent appeal
for the pardon of DR.. Mndd, who was
proven to be one Of the conspirators
in. tho assassination Of Abraham lin.
coin, and to whose house over in
Maryland Booth and Harold fed for
rouge after that bloody deed. An
other fine representative Of modern
democrary-Brick Pomeroy-who
was imported to Iowa to canvass for
Mason, and the Copperhcad ticket at
the recent election, has received fresh
zeal from the result and has in a re.
cent issue of his paper, the La Crosse
Democrat, the following fendish and
barbaric yaup in regard to Mr.. Lin
coin and his wife
"The clown, joker, bnffoon, tyrant,
and form of wax in grasp Of villains,
has gone to his home, wherever that
home may be-sent there as sparrows
fall, only at Cons appointed time.
and by His appointed way-and
blessed be His holy name I! The chief
advisers Of the Late Lamcnted, po-
litical beg gar on horse, have through
self-destruetion sought their King in
hell, or have forsaken his memory,
forgotten his nasty stories, and de-
serted the political harlot who for
gags and gew-gaws made merchan-
disc Tor her amorous influence over a
weak man.
And in another place he has the
following apostrophe to that eminent
martyr to Comprehend principles, J.
Wilkes Booth:
"He hath written his name in letters
of fame
Der tho archway Of Liberty'sportal,
And the serfs that now blame shall
crimson with shame
When they learn they have cursed
an immortal!
He hath died for the veal of land
meath the heel
OF too many merciless Nero;
But while there is steel every tyrant
shall feel
That Gods gengencc but waiteth its
hero.
Then give him q sepulchre broad as
the sweep
Of tho tidal waves measureless mo
ton,
lay Our Brtus to sleep in tho arm
Of the deep
since his life was as free as the ocean"
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posed Of The special commission
for the Manchester rioters was dis-\
solved.
The Gazette publishes the text of
the diplomatic vote, from Prime Min
lister Monobea, which declare that
the suppression Of the temporal pow
err of the Pope is Indispensable to the
maintenance Of the good relations
between Italy and Franco.
The New York Hera'd's Alaska
correspondent dated Oct, 18th says:
The formal transfer and delivery
OF Rdssian American took place to-
day. Mr.. Lowell III. Rousseau being
first to hoist the American flag.
The same correspondent says:
Steamer Assipee experienced a
terrific hurricane 40 miles off Arch
Angle and was nearly wrecked
Lost all her beats ard number six
chronometer destroyed and most of
her fires put out, shipped an i'm
mense sea which damaged the pow
der il. the magazine, and had num-
Der ofsailors wounded but none kill
ed. Ger Rousseau and staff was
aboad at the time. Tho hurricane
swept over the harbor With great
violence. Several vessels badly dam
aged and some driven ashore. A
number of houses were blown down
throughout the city. No lives lost.
Russian commissioners have pro-
tested against the occupancy Of the
fur companies buildings by United
States troops. By courtesy the
troops are now sheltered and sup
plies stored there. This matter will
be referred to Mr. Seward. Much i'll
feeling has been established since our
occupation of that city. Seven duels
on tapis have occurred, but they
were settled without bloodshed.
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tence of his, or cite an act which
could make him even their ssforlorn
hope?" LII our unity they read their
destruction, and know that the fair
tame of Grant will b. an ampler
shield than the sword Of Achilles to
the party that makes him its Cap.
tain.
/ give no opinion as to his being
our candidate; but it will not be for
gotten that the war Of the Revolu-
tion gave us Washington, that Of
1912 jackson, and the Mexican war
Gen. Taylor to one party and Pierce
to another; and in the midst Of our
struggles during the years Of bloody
rebellion. it was the nations though,
that he who would give rs victories
should be crowned in peace with the
civil wreath, provided he should hon.
or loyalty and make treason odious
We shall not ask for success with
any yielding ofprinciples; for thou
sand times better that we suffer de
feat than abandon the policy of Con
gress, which gives ballot to The
loyal in the States latelyin rebellion
May the country never again bt
taken with the volubllity and the al
most profane protestat!ons of a John
lson. "Tlme natures roses and
have no doubt the quiet General will
early enough break the golden 81
lence' to convince the people ofwha
| have now no doubt.
/ You can make a note of it, while
none decry our noble mon in civi
Ire, that O'Connor, our State Attor
ney General, General Baker, Adju
tant General, Howell, of Keokuk, thu
veteran editor of the State, the Nc
Grcgor Ne,os, the home organ ofGov
Merrill, and Palmer, the editor oftht
State Register, with hosts Of others
are in accord with your humble ser
want,
]. B. GRINNELL.
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Grant and the Presidency,
LETTER From Hon. J. B. GRINNELL
OF Iowa.
Grinnell, Iowa, Nov. 4, '67

Grinnell, Iowa, Nov. 4, 81.
To the Editor of the Chicago Journal.
1t seems late to say that my letter
mot written for the press) in refer
cnce to Gen. Grant, contained words
/ did not use, which the printers will
charge to my 'blind hand" and yet
| will not now make the correction.
The note has been extensively copied
it is true, and your remark that two
of our papers in Iowa abuse both the
Journal and myself, if q fact, is one
which neither disturbs nor surprises
me. A class Of persons approve of
nothing save that Of which they
claim the paternity; others have
been snch hoary political transgress.
ors that it is thought to be an indica-
ton of great virtue to charge weak
ness upon all who evince common
sense and do not make continual
boast Of their integrity and radical
ism.
spoke neither for our State nor
the party, but could not refrain say
ling, when asked for an opinion, what
] knew and what | did believe in re.
gard to Gen. Grant and the ,Presi-
dency.
Who meets my positions with a
denial that Gen. Grant has, by great
military success, good sense as man,
magnanimity as a soldier, and by
marked administrative ability, taken
with an unquestioned adherence to
the reconstruction policy ofCongress,
won the hearts of our loyal people /?
Why withhold the praise due for
that radical and laconic letter to
johnson, which was conceived by
the heart that stood by that Chris
tian patriot, Gen. Howard, in his
work? And is no a conservative
who praises Stanton when the apos-
tate sought to degrade him2 And
did he not uphold Sickles and Sheri-
dan, while on duty in the work of q
Radical Congress? His acts are
trumpet toungued for loyalty and
justice, and I cannot doubt that he
drinks from such fountains of politi-
cal inspiration that he will be pro-
nounced early enough for his own
reputation, or foe the success of who
ever may be the Republican Presi.
Dental standard. bearer.
Ifthere were doubts as to his po-
s,tion, why do not the Democrats,
miserable in their political nakedness
and desperation. choose him? Or
Why not repeat sympathetic sen
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VErH CoMroKTABLEQJ-Is tho,
man who suffers the best years of his
life with some one or other of the
various distressing Kidney complaint
1t has such q soothing effect upon
his spirits that he never feels like
biting ten-penny nail at q single
snap. II there be a person in tho
community, however, who does not
fancy this complaint, he can be cured
by using DR.. J.sW. Poland's White
Pine Compound, which has never
yet failed to effect speedy and last
ing cure. Sold by all druggists at
retail.
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s. -
Several years ago Punch publish
ed spirited wood cut Of two "hory"
looking individuals, one Of whom was
supposed. to DO saying: swell, if o
hatch hand no, hand har, hand q
hess hand he, don't spell 'orse,
then my name hain't Emery ILL.,
The joke has recently been born
again in Erie where cockney in
quired at the post Office for letter
ior Emery Hogden." He was told
there was none. 'Look ere" he re-
piled, little angrily, you've hexam-
ined . hood letter for my name. II
don't commence with o hAitchl 1t
begins with no! Look in the ole
that's got ho's!''.
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Postmaster General Randall has
written q letter to the citizens OF
Wisconsin, declaring that be would
never vote for any man or any ticket
who endorses the resolution Of the
Republican State Convention favor
ing the impeachment Of the Presi-
dent. This is passing strange. Mr..
Johnson's Postmaster General not in
favor Of impeaching himl The OK
content with his fodder, and the ass
opposed 10 the scattering Of his mas
ter's crib. Viewing him from the
standpoint Of his Postmaster Gener-
ship, he finds Johnson exactly carry
ing ont Lincoln's policy, while tho
party has abandoned
them. He has stood still while the
sun and moon, and every body else
have rovolved. Faithful Postmaster
General. And yet the world had SO
high an opinion Of your virtues that
it expected this of you.-Cincinnati
Gazette.
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the chambers of the brain, almost
threatening me with insanity. But
! am bearing it with whatever chris
tan philosophy I am able to summon
to my aid. Atintervals, when have
opportunity and especially when /
have my wife with me, who is my
amancuensis, 1 am engaged in pre-
pairing for the press a book which
shall be entitled "The Valley and the
Shadow; or the Experience Of a Blind
man." Aside from my own expert
enccs, this book will give many in
stances Of hospital life, and will give
whatever is interesting and salient
in the lives Of other blind men with
whom / have become acquainted
This work, which shall be dedicated
tothc Press and to the people Of Iowa,
will doubtless have mahy melan.
choly passages in it, hut ono design
of it's publication, is to reconcile the
blind TO their fate, and enable them
to educe from positive evil. even
from the great darkness wherein
they are continually walking. lessons
of wisdom and of absolute happiness.
In few months more, if life and
comparative health be spared, and
especially if this terrible pain in my
eyes shall be subdued so that every
thought shall not be associated with
physical torture, the manuscript Of
my book will be ready for the press;
and after its issuance from the press
l will travel extensively, making
salos as l 60.
! Brethren, with you I have TO con
ccalments. The book which l an
preparing for the press in great pain
of body and depression of mind, il
chiefly designed to save my helpless
family from that last appalling pen
atty Of pauperism, the County In
Urinary. For myself shall desire
but little more to make me comfort
able during the remainder of my pill
grimage on earth; but for the loved
ones who constitute my family-my
wife and two children must make
one last effort at least to place them
above desitution when l shall have
passed away. The only request
which l shall ever make of you, my
brethren, who have been so kind t
me and mine thus far, and of the PEG
pie of my adopted State. whose sub
stantial sympathies followed me II
my misfortunes, is to help me in thi.
crisis of my fate in which the analogy
Of business has been inverted. to de
fray the expenses Of the publication
of my book.
1 You who have never deserted m,
since the Inauguration of the grea
woe of my lite, will not withhold
your help when the existence of my
family depends on your presen1
bounty. l plead for them, and no
for myself, knowing that when my
book shall have been issued from thu
press, even if there be no literary
: merit nor popular interest connected
with it, it will place my family abov'
want. A blind mans book, dictated
while intense pain is disorganizin{
his system and letting out his life
will have purchasers so long as &C
tive sympathy is an element of th'
human mind.
-Aa- inaiaa.Ad- abe~e,- s~v ~ld-ee.
will be at Harrison, Hamilton coun.
ty, Ohio, for somo months yet. Ny
friends will please take note Of this
| needi not ask the journals Of m,
1 State 70 rcpublish this communica.
ton; know they will do it, withou
reference to party.
Yours fraternally
J. NJ. DIXON.
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A Mayor was elected in Brooklyn
on the day of tho late State election.
The candidates were Archibald Bliss,
Republican; Martin KalbAeisch, Cop
pcrhead, and J. |. Tallmadge, Inde-
pendent. The vote stands Bliss
1928; Kaltfeisch, II, 96l; Tallmadge,
3,244. Majority for Kalbtleisch over
Bliss 500. Notwithstanding that
the Copperheads carried Brooklyn
and Kings County by 1000 MAORI
ty, Charles Schurig, the Republican
candidate, o one-armed soldier, is
elected County Register by 200 ma.
iori:y.
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A. j. and the Colored Militia

THURSDAY, November IA, 1867.
->~>~>>>~~~>~>s ->~~~> >~.>~> ->>>~. ->>>->~
A. j. and the Colored Militia.
A few days since sensational cor
respondent telegraphed from Wash
ington that the negroes in:arge num-
bers in that city wero being organi-
xed and armed to aid Congress int Q
proposed attempt to suspend and
impeach the President. Taking
counsel from his fears, This very cx-
ccllent accidency, forthwith ordered
his Sec'y. OF War Gen. Grant, to dis
band oil these terrible negro organi-
nations. Gen. Grant referred tho
matter to Gen. Emory, In immediate
command of the District of Columbia,
who, after thorough investigation,
reported that there was only about
400 negroes organized. and that of
these only some 200 were Indifferent
iy armed, and they the remnants Of
negro regiments that had faithfully
served their country all during the
war, and at muster-out had purchased
their arms and were meeting and
occasionally drilling to keep up the
habits and associations of the camp
and field. Moreover Gen. Emory re-
ported to the President that as all
other people were allowed to organize
private military companies in the
District, and martial law not prevail
ing there he was unable to find any
authority. for their disbandment-
This report was forwarded through
Gen. Grant to Mr.. johnson were the
matter rested at last accounts.
None of his official acts more pal.
pably illustrates the trcachery of An.
drew johnson to the party that un-
fortunately elected him Vice Presi-
dent, and to his own oft repeated
professions, than this desperate at
tempt to deprive the remnants O
those regiments of colored troop.
who went out from Washington tc
fight the enemy while at the
same time he has openly connivcc
at, and assisted Gov. Swami JUS,
across the border, IN organizing the
returned members of Mosby's and
Gilmore's gangs of guerrillas, fol
the avowed purpose Of assisting him
in his warfare against Congress, anG
to aid him in his contemplated coup
de etat. Those negroes were COCO
enough to bear arms while they stood
up between him and the blood thirsty
reb's in Tennessee, and were even SC
worthy that he proposed to be their
Moses and lead them out of the will
dcrness, and it was to these same re-
turned Washington colored volun
teers that he made his celebrated
speech from the steps of the White
House. wherein he thanked them fol
their services, and assured them thai
this was their country, as we'll as thu
white mans, and that thoy were en-
titled to the gratitude of their coun
try and the full rights of citizenship
He is now Mortified that they shsult
have the impudence to use those sam,
arms they handled SO well agains
the enemy, in quiet way in drilling
their private companies, but can SCI
no harm in Maryland, rebels will
their paroles in their pocket, doing
the same thing.
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NEW YORK MONEY MAR
KETS.
New York. Nov. II.

Stocks active.
Coupons, go, 81; "a, 81; '65, u:
new, II; 1O-4tps, II; 7-30s, 81; w U,
31i; r |, 944, N Y G, ID; Erie, e;
Reading, 96l; Money, CAT; Sterling.
GLASS.
Gold 1895.
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STATE PRINTER Edwards Of the
Hawkeye, Mills of the Register,
Rich late of the Independence Bulle-
tin and Howell ofthe Gate City, arc
already in tho field making an ac-
two canvass for the office of State
Printer, which Office is to be filled
by the approaching legislature
Besides these gentlemen mentioned
it is understood that several more are
"lying around loose who might be
induced to accept the position with.
out great Importantly. At any rate
the public may expect lively scrim.
mage, and an interesting race
between the numerous candidates
with the matter go much in doubt
at present, that we do not wish to
hazard onr reputation by predicting
who will be the winnig man.
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SECRETARY OF STATE,

Go and SEQ those fine imported
shirts and drawers at the Bazaar,
they are something far superior to
any yet offered to this market.
blot.
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NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YURK WAKKE1S.
New York, Nov. II.
Flour 10a15c better, at 8 50a1O IS
Wheat 2a3c better. 2 24a2 26.
Rye firm at ! 30.
Corn dull.
Oats That's.
Pork dull aud heavy at 20 IS to
no AZ
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From these indications who can
doubt that if the Copperheads
should succeed in power, Grant will
be sent back to his lanyard in Gale
ma, and Robt. r. Lee made General
of our armies, while Davis, Breckin-
ridge, Toombs 4 Co., will again be
the Presidents and Senators of this
Commonwealth.
Conservative Republicans and sold
iers you men with tender feet who
for fear Of the Radical bugaboo voted
the Confederate ticket, or done what
was worse staid away from the polls,
is this the entertainment to which
you were invited?
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Devil, bring the two lines. Hero
they are!
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keep down by law, shood rise above
us?"
II shood unanimously conclood
that ther he'd bin mistake in the
figgers, and that we wuz, after all,
the sons nv Ham and they the sons.o
Japeth. How wood 700 like that?
But that amt what ais us. There,
Perfesser, amt where our danger is.
Dimocracy like man with a tape
worm, carries the clementso of it's own
destruckshen. Missegenashun is
watts sappin the foundashuns NV the
party. Agreein with 700 that the
nigger's place is fixed, and that the
Democracy coodent get along a min-
it without the niger, here utter
solemn again the continyoo iessenin
Of the race, becoz that race is our
rock, and onto that we stand. Wat
sense is there in wastin our capital,
or ruther dilutin it?"
swat do 700 mean askt I, not get
gin at the drift Nv wat he was drivin
at.
"Meanl My meanin is plain. The
blacker the niger is the further he
is below ns-the whittier he is the
nearer our equal he is. In this cal
culashen we don't tako the intelli-
gence or virchoo or anything OF the
kind into account, but perceed upon
the hypothesis that devlish mean
white man is considerable better
than a smart and honest niger
Therefore, any drop NV white blood
in a niggcrs veins makes him just
ono drop less Objectionable. Look at
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certain contingencies-first, time and
weather, and second, bats and mode of.
procedure-certain kinds of fish bite GER
tain Kind of bait, and this only at certain
times OF the year and during certain states
of the weather. Bass are the largest and
best order of fish in this water. The time
I for these is early in May. They win bite
at minny bait, but are best taken with
trolling hooks, the modus Of which the
curious can have explained on the
ground by old experts. Cat, perch,
Pike, sung epd I%sometimes suckers,
can all be taken In 4great numbers in
the usual way of hook, line and worm
Finer, healthier, or more innocent sport
than this is, not known, it.seems to me, to
man., The highest style of the piscatorial art
is trolling. 1t is rapturols fun to get a
three or four pound bass on your troll
hook, with its strong line and silver" fix
ings," and draw it by degrees into your
boat, or to sit and smoke yOnr cigar lfo1Ir
!, of our eight used the weed excessively
and haul in" a ,silyer-sided ."sunny"
every minute or two, especially when your
companion In; the other end of the skif is
catching nothing, and half blind in smoke
and envy at your success. s.d aL .s,rF-
He 1groYls, he grppts, he changes his
position, blames it on his hook, "pulls up"
re-baits, throws in as near as possible to the
spot from which his successful rival is
@hauling them out" and still gets nothing.
. ] tell you, reader, this is rare sport, as
from recent experience do know Jf, g.
Now, If you wish to spend few days OF
relax; tion most protitably TO both body
and mind, in which, dull care and oppres-
sive business may be left behind. go to the
Reservoir. Put up. at the Reed, House" !"
now kept by Mr.. Springer, one OF the elev-
crest men you ever met. He will furnish
you with all the information and instruf
ments necessary to your taking sany guam