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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-10-01
THE OTTUMWAC0URIER'
Published spery Thursday Morning
CALDwELL, HOLDEN q Co
Publishers and Prorrietors.
Terms-Two Dollars per Year
Invariably in Advance.
OU'ce on. corner Of Main and Green
Streets, oUer Hinsey, Le,0is q Co's
Drug Store.
oEE1cIAL orr Z COUNTY PApER
The Carpet Baggers.
BY GEO. ALFRED TOWNSEND.

y u. = a
Who nae, se inns that pitch you camp
4 Beside the brown Sava,nahf
! We think not by your nervnm. ,r.
n.y., natlve 70 the manor.
W.. NY. uTm ocr. say your regiments
~, what battle. field We campetl On !,
what infantry or Howell Cohb
i VI troopers Of Wade ITampton?''
We canned upon the Coosa,s tide
,c.W WHn lnomas and with Shermani
4 ln's nor q couple at my side.
- are OF Wisconsin's German:
ess Ta. tnfee With Banks were fever fIayed
ioat my arm on Griefson,s raid
soldier of Ohio ~ 7i
Anea With their ancient battle veil.
Tne hospitable yeomen
A'sAs.su ss urom their threshholds forth, 70
TAsss unprotected foeman;
vc geck ye crippled myrn,idons.
L. Ian9ees and ye yagers
Sueoreta's chivalric sons
Adnit no aarpet -bAggers r.
nay nay brethren. not as soldiers come.
IN knapsacks and with sabres
Dye.n0 tne wtdow-mocking drum.
Nv. We meet yeu friends and neigh bors:
o9r spear is in the pruning hooK.
FOR war to make repayment:
O1r knapsack il the CARPET sack
10 bear our gold and raimon1.
sun menaced these the Georgia brave.
with With rifles and with daggers:
ASur peace we hatef We curse the
x Ho pacE, yecarpet- t-baggers.
four books and Gospels We cor,temni
xur sires they were but braorersi
AZ n Lof ogr truce It was ruse-
do back ye carpet baggersr'
Fofth drove they then these peaceful men
c,, Across their fields of storv: ''e''
ine children mock them as thew po.
AZ scofn the women glory.
but, reverent, the negroes come
TO say, Our freedom faded
since died the dear roll OF your drum.
on, stay, ye travel -jaded!
stay TIL the ballot we have found.
or ye and we may perish;
Right neighborly the greatful ground
Together we will cherish.
And deeper than our plough shares po
Inan Treason's threats or darupers
iill peace and freedom stalwart Grow
! 10 nsii all carpet-b t-baggers p'
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out their blood on the plains of Get
tysburg, in defense Of their homes
and the government which Mr.. lSey
mour was doing oil in his power tc
embarrass and discrcdit.
am quite willing you should
show this letter to any friends who
may take an interest in my opini. "
IN regard to the coming election, and
| am particularly desirous of remov.
ing tho impression, if it exists, that
am in favor of Mr.. Seymour, or the
repudiation Of any portion Of the
public debt. 5r q
lam, cir, very truly yours,
353e JOHN A. DIX,
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An Iowa Boy Robbed of his
Bride.

A rural looking lady and gentle
man OF Sterling, Cayuga county, N.
T., recently called upon one Of the
Justices of the Peace, and expressed
. wish to be married. The pair
were made man and wife. The next
morning they reappeared, and each
In turn desired that the proceedings
might be annulled. The lady was
particularly urgent. She charged
that she had been entrapped into
marrying the man who stood beside
her BY . piece of unparalleled decep-
ton. She had been corresponding
with her cousin in Iowa, whom she
had not seen since she was q child
and during her correspondence her
relative had wooed and won her af-
fectfons. He wrote her that he was
coming on here in December to claim
her hand and take her to his home in
the west. On Monday last the swain
to whom she was married made his
appearance, claimed to be her cousin,
said he could not wait until Deccm-
'ber, etc. On the strength Of these
representations, she had reluctantly
consented 10 wed. She had since
learned that the man whom she had
married was not her cousin, but q
wretch whs had secured wife by q
base deception. The man acknowl.
edged bis culpability, but plead in
extenuatiOn that the Iowa cousin
had read him the letters of his in
tended; that these had influenced
him to do as he had done. His con-
science smote him so grievously since
the accomplishment Of his treachery,
that he made confession to the lady
he had shamefully wronged. He had
hoped to reconcile her to the fraud,
but she would not. Ho was now
willing to make the only amends he
knew of, viz: have the marriage
contract annulled. The magistrate
suggested he had not the power to
unmarry them. He advised that, as
matters had progressed thus far it
would be better for the lady to make
the best ofa bad bargain, and accept
tho situation. After a good deal Of
persuasion on the part Of the BRIDE
groom, the lady finally decided to ac-
cept the advice of the magistrate on
assurance that the said bridegroom
would "make it all right" with the
genuine cousin in Iowa. Upon this
happy settlement the lady dried her
eyes, and the happy pair departed.
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As George II. Pendleton, of Ohio,
was leaving the platform recently,
after delivering one of his most Wig
orous speeches, he was accosted by
q one armed man, who stepped up TO
him and said: "Mr. Pendleton, allow
me to congratulate you on the excel
lence OF your speech. | can we'll ap-
preciate it, as lost this arm in the
defense of the principles you advo.
cate, at the same time holding up TO
view the stump of his arm. "Ahr
said Mr.. Pendleton with . bland
smile. "Yes, sir" said the ex-sol.
der, 81 lost that arm while fighting
in the Southern army against the
Abolition Government" Mr.. Pen
dleton walked off, rather confused,
but the soldier reflected his senti
ments truly.
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my ore ever delivered.

any one ever delivered. .
We re publish it again below, to
show what eloquent epistles Grant
can corkscrew out of others. even il
he cant make them himself. 1t will
answer for Seymour and Blair as
models to copy, after the ides Of No
vcmber Here it is
HDoRs. ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
April 8, 1865.
Lieutenant General U. s. Grant, Com
n,dndiug U. 8. A.:
GENERAL: I have received your
letter Of this date, containing the
terms of surrender Of the Army of
Northern Virginia, as proposed by
you. As they are substantially the
same rs those expressed in your let
ter ofthe eighth instant, they are ac-
cepted. I will proceed to designate
the proper officers to carry the stipu-
lations into effect.
Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
R. E. LEE, General,
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A Grecian Satire.

Wnen lovelywoman stoops alas, to fro,ic
,a AND rues the ruse, too late,
= Wnat balm shall sOothe her meIancbol,c .
"natart shall set her back up straight
The only thing for her disaster
Inc only way her woe to end,
Ii 70 apply q mustard plaster
II she won't do it, let her bend.
&C. H. Webb.
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The tories in England are trying
to cajole the new electors by leaving
bags Of -four and potatoes, legs Of
mutton and articles of clothing ut
their houses.
Rev. DR.. Bond, of Baltimore, says
that, when in a Boston church he
heard such music he began to wonder
how he got in without q ticket.
The milliners boast that they
have at last invented bonnet which
the ladies cannot make themselves.
A monument to Mcndelsshon is TO
be erected in Lcipsic.
The gambling saloons at the Ger.
man watering places are to be closed
forever on tho 3lst Of December,
1879.
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A boy in Rochester exhibits some
intelligent white rats. One lean, wi
ry old fellow bears the name of jeff.
Davis, and carries rebel flag, while
two others are named Grant and
Sherman, and carry the stars and
stripes. The latter, each with dag
in his mouth, pitch into jeff and
drive him into hole.
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Two ladies, to all appearances in
an interesting position, recently at
tempted to cross the Prussian from
tier at Babberich, and, on beng ques-
toned, expressed their wish that
their respective children should be
born on Prussian soil. The Custom
House officer passed them. Shortly
after they were safely delivered OF
sveral TASKS of wine.
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The Campaign.

The RESULT OF the election in Maine
on Monday is in every respect graft
flying to the Democracv.-NeU York
World. h 4
Now il our friends in Pennsylva-
MIA, Ohio, and Indiana will do as we'll
rs did the Democrats in Maine, they
will carry these three States by
splendid majoriiies, and thus insure
the election of Seymour and Blair in
November.-NeW York World.
There is a political club Of pap
suckers in Washington, known as
the Democratic jackson Association,
and called, for short, aThe Dem.
Jack. Ass" rode by Tom. Florence,
a blatant copperrebel.
The vote on the act to repeal the
old fugitive slave code of 1850 stood
thus IN the House: Yeas (Republi.
cans), 81; nays (Democrats), 81. In
the Senate: Yeas (Republicans), 27;
nays (Democrats) IL. No Democrat
voted for the repeal in either House.
Tho bill was approved by Mr.. Lin
cold June %, 1864.
A Salem Mass Dispatch says:
"a call is in circulation, and is re-
cciycngmany signatures, throughout
the towns in the Fifth District, for
an organized opposition to the nom>
ination Of Ben. Butler for Congress.
The call was simply a call. Gen.
Butler will be nominated on the 2sth
instant by acclamation, and be cleo
ted almost the same way.
Tho complete returns of the Vcr-
mont election give 27,253 Rcpubli-
can majority, the total vote being:
For Page, Republican 1887
For Edwards, Democrat 1874
Majority 27,253
Ben. Hill, a distinguished Georgia
Democrat, who is coming North to
stump for >eymeur and Blair, thus
speaks of the Union white men Of
the South:
"These men are false to their own
race. They will deceive and demor-
alizc your society. They are false to
all. But there is one remark wish
the people to ponder well. l hate
them. 1t is a christian duty to hate
them. No man will ever get to
Heaven unless he hates them"
The Democrats have been denying
that the son Of the late Senator
Douglas was supporting Grant and
the Republican ticket. The follow
ing from the Raleigh Standard of tho
18th inst, in relation to his position
as expressed before the State Mass
Netting of the Republican party, will
put the matter at rest
"Col. Robert NJ. Douglass, Private
Secretary to Gov. Holden, was next
called for and responded in short
but able and eloquent speech. He
said the Republican party was not
governed by sectional preiudices, but
was the champion Of equal rights
and equal laws for all. There was
no path opened for him in y divided
and distracted country. he was,
therefore, for peace and union. He
alluded lnfeeling terms to his father,
repeated his dying message to his
sons, Tell them TO obey the consti-
tuition and laws OF the country, and
expressed his discrimination to heed
his advice. he alluded In scathIng
terms to the bitter proscrlptlve spir-
1T OF the Conservative Democratic
party, compared the two candidates
for the Presidency, and looked for
ward with pleasure to the day when
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The Lac rosse Democrat says Of the
recent election in Maine:

recent election in Maine:
s"The State election in Maine has
been held-the smoke has lifted-the
Republicans have over twenty thou>
sand majority. We are defeated there
and do not like it. We met the enc
my in Maine and are theirs. They
whipped us there worse than we sup
posed they would or could, and 1t
hurts Duty to our readers desire
to speak truth makes us admit . de.
feat there-a stronger Republican
vote than we looked for"
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Republican motto in Indiana -
sSeymour the traitor, Grant the qui-
eter."s
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He Believes that the Election of Sey-
mour to the Presidency ,oould be the
Greatest Calamity that could BefaH
the COuutrU,
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New York. Sent. %

General John A. Dix, American
Minister to France, has sent the fol-
lowing letter to friend in this city.
1t was not written for publication,
but the gentleman to whom it was
addressed has consented to give il to
the public:
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Chicago, Sept. 26.
The Washington Street Tunnel is
rapidly progressing toward compile
ton. The Contractors says that it
will probably be open for travel by
the middle of December.
Tie Rock River ConfaWnce of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, will
meet at Kankakee, next Wednesday.
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Quincy, Ill, Is.

The weather was very unpleasant
yesterday, and rained most of the
time. Notwithstanding this draw
back, the attendance at the State
Fair was quite large, much beyond
the anticipation of the managers,
There were during the day FIVE or six
thousand people on the grounds,
yielding gate money to the amount
of 81 500 to $4,000. The committees
were very busy making awards. The
weather at this writing is still lower
ing.
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disregard any orders from the President to
the contrary. The Committee also waited
upon General Grant and had an interview
with him. They express themselves entirely
satisfied with Grants position regarding this
matter.
The Tribune's special says the House Ju-
dietary Committee has had for some under
consideration petition from VIM. McGar-
ratin, asking to have confirmed to him the
title to Parishee Grandee, mineral tract in
California, and one of the richest quicksilver
mines known. They have heard numerous
and lengthy arguments on both sides, and
will soon report, confirming the old Mexican
title, under which McGarratin claims, upon
upon his paying the minimum price for min
eral lands.
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Eeeting of the Union State Central
Committee.

At a meeting of the State Central Committee OF
the Union Party of Nevada, held pursuant to call,
February 10, 1865, it was ordered as follows:
That State Convention for the purpose OF Sc
lecting delegates to represent the State III the
convention of the National Union Republican
Party, called to meet in Chicago on the goth of
May, 1865 be called to meet in Carson City on the
sth day of April next.
That delegates to said convention be apportioned
as follows:
One for each county, and
One for each Senator and Representative to
which such county is entitled.
That the several county Central Committees be
instructed provide for the election of Delegates
to the State Convention said elections to be by
direct vote at the Primaries, or by conventions
;,s the committees may direct. All elections of
delegates to be had prior to the LIST of April next
That at the Primaries for the selection of dele
gates, the following test be recommended, when
over a challenge shall be made to the right of
party to vote:
s.Did vou at the last election for State officers,
srpport the Union ticket;'' land will you, at
the next Presidential election, support the nomi-
nees of the National Republican party
c. Z. DELONG, Chairman.
N. NoTEwARE, Secretary pro TEN.
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BY STATE TELEGRAPH.

| New YORK, February 20.-In the Su
preme Court yesterday, in suit of citizen:
of New York against firm in Texas fol
goods delivered during the war, the plaintiffs
were nonsuited on the ground that the con-
tract was reasonable and I'm lawful.
INDIANoPoL1s, February 20.-The Re
publican State Convention met at ten o'clock
this morning. General Joseph Brown was
elected temporary Chairman; Resolutions
indorsing General Grant and Schuyler Col
fax of Indiana--the first for President, the
second for Vice President-were unanimous
ly adopted BY rising vote. This was fol-
lowed by great cheering.
After the appointment of the various
Committees, James Hughes, of Marion
county, was made permanent Chairman.
Governor Conrad Baker was nominated for
reelection by reclamation Will. Comback
was nominated for Lieutenant Governor
Major F. A. Hoffman, of Cass county, for
Secretary of State; General Nathan Kimball
for Treasurer of State.
TRENTON [ n. j. J, February 2O.-Ihe
House to-day concurred in the action of the
Senate Withdrawing its assent to the action
of the previous Legislature of New Jersey
in the ratification Of the fourteenth amend
ment to the Federal Constitution.
JACKSON (Miss.), February 20.-A CON-
munication from General Gillen was read
in the Convention to-day. He says the des-
titution is not so bad as many suppose. and
he is making all possible efforts to alleviate
the sufferings of all classes.
A section in the Bill of Rights was
adopted providing that no property qualif-
cation for jurors shall ever be prescribed.
RICHMOND, February 20.-Considerable
excitement was caused in the Convention
BY the distribution among mem
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The President, being fanked in his
operations against the War Office by
Grants quiet movement, attempts the
game anew and by the employment OF
other means. Believing, no doubt, that
his action will be sustained by a deci-
sion of the Supreme Court, he makes
such an assault upon the Tenure of
Office Act as, in his calculations, will
bring the constitutionality of that law
of Congress before that tribunal. Pre-
Stunning that Stanton will obey his order
and vacate the Secre.aryship, he orders
him to turn over its papers and books
to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas.
We may reasonably infer that an agree
ment exists between Johnson and
Thomas that resolution of disapproval
BIZ the Senate will be followed by sur
render of the keys Of the War Depart
ment to the President and not to Stan
ton, as occurred when Grant Gd interim
term had expired. In the meantime,
Stanton holds on to the office, declining
to concur in the Presidents order of
suspension. Senators advise this course
of action and promise its sustainment.
The situation would seem to indicate
the existence of two War Departments
il Washington one in the in
,erest of loyalty, occupied by Stanton,
and another in the interest Of rebellion,
occupied by tool of the President.
Matters are thus assuming novel and
interesting phase.
Thomas is unfriendly to Stanton, for
personal reasons. he is a Marylander
by birth, and was suspected of not
being very heartily in sympathy with
the loyal cause. For this reason, Stan
ton relieved him from the duties of the |
Adjutant Generals Department, some
time in lsG2, we believe and, subse-
queutly, the General was detailed to the
recruiting of colored soldiers and the Or
gsnization of colored regiments in the
rebel States bordering on the Mississippi
River. We reckon that he felt himself
aggrieved by Stanton, and that he is
now keen to help the President to in
such proceedings as are meant
10 deprive Stanton Of official station and
disgrace him in the eyes of the people.
1t is to be hoped that Stanton will
.efase to vacate the War Office unless
to do SO by actual force.
Should the President proceed to such
II extremity as to eject him by an e1-
,rcise of the military power, the climax (
Which has SO long been Imminent would
Re reached, and Congress would be
orced to take the needed action and
,roceed to impeach him, forthwith. =
Anyhow, if Congress does its duty :
AMI with decision, there will
.ot long be "two War Offices at the I
capitol"
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THE RALLY to Grants standard con
tinues with increasing enthusiasm. Ths
Republican party is surging along under
a press of eagerness and a strength O.
united feeling and intent such as it ex
hibited in 1864 Indeed the unanimity
of choice exhibited in favor of Grant is
more emphatic, if possible, than that
which prevailed in behalf of Linccll's
denomination The Chase movemen,
then was comparatively strong. The
adherents of that publicist seem to have
already conluded that this is not q
promising season for his chances. Thus
far, in all the States where anything
like formal expression of sentiment
has been evoked, Grant has been en-
dorsed as the Presidential nominee with
scarcely a dissenting voice. Indeed,
with all the fallibility attending human
actions and the proverbial uncertainty
of white men taken into consideration,
as certain thing az the future vouch-
safes to mortal vision is Grants nomi-
nation By the Republican National Con-
vention which meets at Chicago on the
Goth day of May next. One thing which
is particularly noticeable in the action
of the various State Conventions in the
putting forward of the most decidedly
popular and reliable man of each State
as candidate for the Vice Presidency.
Pennsylvania names the Hon. Galusha
Grow, one of the earliest, most earnest
and courageous Republicans in the
country New York expresses her pre-
ference for Governor Fenton, a man
whose character ard record render him
in every respect worthy the honor which
his neighbors and States people ask to
have conferred upon him Indiana, with
the unanimous voice of her Republic
ans, bespeaks the Vice Presidency for
her honored son Schuyler Colfax and
the Pacific Coast will probably present
the names of Hon. George Williams of
Oregon and James W. Nye of Nevada.
will be likely to ask that
herself and the rest of New England be
awarded a representative upon the ticket
in the person of Ex-Governor Boutwell, |
of thet State Illinois will be likely to
present the name and urge the claims
Of General John A. Logan and some
equally sound and earnest man will
be put forward by Missouri.
It would seem, indeed, that the mate
,ial which is to be employed at the Ma
ional Convention with reference to the
Vice Presidency is to be of the very
choicest quality and that upon whom
'oever the honor may be bestowed, he
will be of the right sort to be consist
entity supported and implicitly trusted
~ the Republican party everywhere
throughout the Union. 1t may with
afety be foretold that the National
icket to be nominated at Chicago will
POSSESS the elements of strength, in
.reater degree than any ticket ever put
'efore the American people Of late
'ears-that which bore Abraham Lin
oln's name, perhaps, excepted.
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Coon DEMOCRATIC AUTHoRITY.-Rever-
6y Johnson, the ablest conservative in the
Senate, said the other day, that Ohio could
not withdraw her ratification of the constitu-
tisnal amendment. 1t is irrevocable.
OF course the same opinion applies to
New Jersey.
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JOHN MCLENNAN WANTED.-Information
wanted of John McLennan, formerly of
Ltchfeld, Illinois. Has not been heard
from since 1851, and was then in Virginia,
Nevada. Any person knowing his where
abouts, or if dead the particulars, will please
address his brother, Daniel McLennan, at
Li,chGeld, Illinois. and will be amply re-
warded.-ISespass.
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STILL SWINGING.

Y. NoTEwARE, Secretary pro TEN.