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Pills,

Universally re-
 everybody as
 ktc, nor was ever
 n iY ", ad0sed into use, in
 Country and among
 Glasses, as this mild
 Ut efficient purgative
 sn is, that it is more re-
 A liable and far more efec-
 - tual remedy than any
 other. Those who nave | kitecured them; those who have | their neighbors and friends, does g0 09se fegf r or aoes eesleefSf aI@aSs its d0nPositlon. We have thousands upon t99n tSo sands of certificates of their remarkaDie cures oI tne every neighborhood, and we need not publish them. Adapted to all ages and conditions in all climates; contajning neither calomel or any deleter10us drug, sugar sey coating preserves them fresh and makes them pleasant to take while being purely vegetable no harm can arise from their use in any quantity. They operate by their powerful influence on the interna yiscera to purify the blood and stimulate It into healthy acton-remove the Instructions of the stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the body restoring their irregular action to health and nents as are the first origin of disease. 1 Minute directions are given in the wrapper on the box, for the following complaints, which these For Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Listless- | mess, LanguOr and Loss of Appetite, they should be taken moderately to stimulate the stom- | ach and restore its healthy tone and action. For Liver Complaint and it's various symp- | toms, Bilious Headache. Sick Headache, | JaunGlice or Green Sickness, Bilious | Collie and Bilious Eevers, they should be ju- dicousy taken for each to correct the diseased action or remove the Instructions which cause it. For Dysentery or HDiarrhGea, but one mild dose is generally required.
 For Rheumatism, G0ut, Gravel, Palpi. tatiOn of the Heart, Pain in the Side, Back and LOins, they should be continuously taken, required, to change the diseased action of the system. With such change those complaints disappear.
 For Dropsy and DrOpsical SweIlings they should be takenin large and frequent doses to pro- ducc the effect of drastic purge.
 For Suppression large dose should be taken as it produces the desired effect by sympathy. AS a Dinner PiLl, take one or two Pitts to pre- mote digestion and relieve the stomach. | An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and bowels into healthy action, restores the appetite and invigorates the system. Hence it is often ad vantageous where no serious Arrangement exists One who feels tolerably well, often finds that dose of these PiIs makes him feel decidedly better, from their cleansing and renOvating effect on the diges tive apparatus.
 DIR. J. c. AYER G CO.,, Practical Chemists.
 LOWELL. MASS, .. g. 4. ], 5O-3m
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THE AMERICAN WIT is happy hit. 25 cts. . 1 year. .1n ff
 RICHARDSON COLLINS, A John st., N. Y. '.
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Toilet Articles,
McEWan's Scotch Ale.

The best Ladies Ale made in the world For sale at
 VESSELS & GATES.
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SHORTEST, AND QUICKEST ROUTE TO ALBANY, TROY AND
 THE WEST.

O~SSAsOMAC naAAfO6Us SUMMER ANNAroEm Err. On and after May 18th 1868 Passenger Trains will run as follows
 LEAVE BRIDGEPORT. On arrival of Trains from New York New Ha-
 ven and Hartford lO.4O a. m. for Pittsfeld, connecting at
 Van Deusenvillf with train for
 Albany 6. 45 P. m. for Pittsfeld
 LEAVE PIITSFIELD On arrival of Trains from North Adams and
 Western Rail road. 900 a. mn. for Bridgeport, New York
 New Haven and Hartford 2'5O p. m. for Bridgeport and New York by Rail or Steamboat and train for New Haven and Hart ford. PASS CORNWALL BRIDGE. Go1NG NORTH COMO SOUTH 1000 m. Fl't & Pass. s26 a. m Fr't x Pass l.l4 p. m. 1st Passn 'gr. l1.34 a. m. list Pass 52 m. 2d Passn' gr. 5Sl p. m, 2d Pass Stage from Litchfield connect with 1l34 a m. Train North and with LA p. m trail south.
 | Merchandise Trains Through Daily. l 25-tf AL HOPKINS. Supt.
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Judge Chase.

sIowan the very well informed
WashingtonC Correspondentoftne Bur.
Ha,okeye, makes the follow
ing rather startling statements in
explanation Of the somewhat strange
and unexpected course of Chief JUS
tice Chase at the organization of the
impeachment Court:
"There is o motive operating with
the Judge which is not as genencral-
" apprehended now as it will be by
and BY. He is as ambitious as Hen
ry Clay ever was. The Presidential
bug in his ear has bitten clear thro'
the tympanum, and he has passed
beyond the period of discretion and
sound judgment in connection with
that subject. He sees ways of acqui-
ring the Office that no body elsc does.
He is now fully persuaded that there
is to be split in the Democratic
party at the pending election, and
fancies that he is to be the candidate
Of prevailing party composed Of
Chase Republicans and anti -Pendle-
toneAn Democrats. I do not suppose
that he will try, through his friends,
to effect the judgment Of the court
And.he could not control q member
Of it, if he should--not even his SOM
in-law, who acts as Independently oi
his interest and counsel as almost
any one. But remembrance oi
these facts will help to explain what
we have seen of him that has attract.
ed comment, and other things, that
may hereafter transpirr Rnt in any
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tions. Speeches have gotto be made,
light must penetrate into dark places,
documents and newspapers must be
sown broadcast, and every means
used to educate the public mind in
regard to the pernicious and danger
GUS tendencies Of the democratic par
ty, which, if oncc accomplished, our
triumph is secured.
Every county ought to have its
central club to which township clubs
should be made auxiliary, and these
organizations should meet at least
twice month until the election, to
listen to speeches, to attend to the
work ofthe canvass and the dissemi-
nation ofdocuments, and the trans
action Of the hard labor Of the cam
paign. These things properly at
tended to, and a glorious victory
awaits us in November, assuring the
world that the sacrifices of life and
treasure, in the great Rebellion for
the nations life, were not made in
vain.
In the meantime, let our war cry
be- @
"Once moro to the breach. dear friends,
once more ~
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Billsl were introduced TO. provide
forthe payment Of salaries Of officers
and wages Of employees of the Peni-
tentisry and for the general support
Of the convicts; to amend Section
I'll Of the Rev. of 1860 in relation to
exempting from taxation certain
property belonging to educational
institutions. A resolution favoring
the adoption Of . system Of Normal
Schools in this State was offered as
test question, and was lost by q
vote Of 10 to 25. Tho bill to provide
for the erection of . State House
was discussed nearly all day, and the
further consideration Of it postponed
till Wednesday next, at 10 o'clock.
In the House, . bill for an act to
quiet titlo to certain lands in Webster
county, was passed--yeas s5, nays
mono; resolution was adopted ma
king the following bills the special
ordcr for 2 O'Clock, Friday, March
Goth, viz: s. r. IS, substitute for
House Files l39 and 271, and $. 4.
10, aubstitute for House Files 232,
238and ISL, and that they be taken
up and disposed Of in the order above
t-von,l pe1'Sfer
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A Kansas paper has story Of the
late State election. In some of the
counties the question Of hog law
was submitted to the voters, at the
same time the Constitutional amend-
ments were. In one ofthese counties
a day or two after election, an Irish
man called at the house of neigh
Dor lady who had been deeply inter
ested in the question ofwoman suff-
rage, The lady took occasion to ask
him, "Mr. H how did you vote
on the amendments 2" "The amend
ments ?" replied he, hardly under
standing what she meant. "Yes; on
the question Of allowing the women
and negroes to vote, and prohibiting
the rebels from exercisieg that fright" !"
"Well, now, Mrs. NJ, to tell you the
truth, / voted agin the naygurs, the
wimin, the hogs, bedad-so ! did,"
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The Liquor Question.

We clip the following from Lin
kensale's' recent letter to the Chica-
60 Tribune, from Des Molnes
"Upon the whiskey question the
Senate Committee on the Suppress
sion of Intemperance, have submitted
no less than thrss reports lone, a
majority report, in favor Of leaving
the law as it is; a minority report by
Senators Parvin and Smythc, in IA
vor of restoring prohibition of the
sale of wine and beer; and q minority
report by Mr. Holman in favor of q
license law. Messrs. Parvin and
Smythe ought to have boen born
four hundred years ago. They miss
cd their age. The deplorable effects
of sin, how it makes men and women
utterly miserable in this world and
unspeakably tortured in that which
Is to come, were never more energet-
Jelly announced to hereto within
the walls Of the Spanish Inquisition,
or the poor martyr going up in flames,
than the deplorable effects of intern
perance are announced by these re-
spected Senators. The trouble turn.
ed out TO be sevenal hundred yrs ago,
that inquisitorial punishments, with
all their refined cruelty and flames,
were the things which were born Of
hell, and not the heresy. 1t would
be fine spectacle, and an uncommon
one, to see lot of constables and POI
licemen driving folk through the
gates OF st. Peter, hourishiEg their
clubs lively! That is the way the
men who ought to have been born
four hundred years ago or SO pro
pose to do in the matter Of temper
ance. Luckily, their day has gone
by. ! think there cannot be ma.
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The LEGISLATURE has by joint reso
luton agreed to adjourn on the sth,
proximo.
They are now handsomely at
work, dispatching business, and more
will be accomplished in the way of
practical legislation, in the twenty
working days left them than in the
entire session before.
1t is hoped that vast majority of
the FIVE hundred bills submitted by
aspiring Solons, will find their ever.
lasting quietus at the hands of mex
orable committees.
We hear much complaint on every
hand that Dudley's, orsomebody elses
similar Registry Bill has not received
proper attention and early adoption
at their hands. It's to all lovers Of
justice, and an incorruptible and un-
dcfiled elective franchise, the most
important subject upon which we res
quire legislation this season. We have
heard no objection raised against it,
except from those professional ira
ders in politics, who understand SO
well how to get the greatest number
of democratic votes out of the few
est number of voters. By the pass
sage of sound registration law the
occupation Of these scamps would be
gone. This reason il no other, is a
good one why the principle should
prevail. On the other hand the I'm
ion Republican party is to day, as it
always has been, clamorous for the
passage of the law. The only won>
der has been the non passage OF
such law ten years ago. We ear
nestly hope that a well matured
law on this subject viii pass befor adj
journment.
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event, Mr.. Chase will easily learn, if
ne attempts political detour, great
as are his talents, sterling as may be
his personal integrity, satisfactory as
his political record lie, the class Of
friends that are attached to him are
held by no personal magnetism Of 90
cold blooded man, but of all the
politicians in the country they are
the most faithful to principle and su.
rest to heed its monitions, uninflu.
enced by personal considerations.
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Some vears since . prominent bust

Some years since prominent bust
ness man of Northampton, who be-
gan to g SOW his wild oats !" when .
boy, and hasn't got through yet, at
tended 8 colorod ball in that town
After each abreakdow" he noticed
that well near the house, which,
by the way, was not . deep one, was
res0rted to by the imen to quench
their thirst. Unobserved, while the
dance was going on, he slipped out
ofthe house and moved the curb .
few feet beyond the well, and then
waited the result. Presently ont
came one of the dancers, and plump
to the bottom Of the well he WENT
Blowing and putting he camo to the
top and exclaimed "Ooshl who
moved dis well since Use out hero
LAST"
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& The Council Bluffs Bugle calls at
tnntion to the fact, as it doubtless is,
Mat Henry Clay Dean, and not Geo.
L. Pendleton or s'any other man." is
Untitled to the ahonor" CD Of first
*uggesting the ieda Of paying gov
Srnment bonds in greenbacks. The
bugle says: "The writer Of this well
Remembers that in 1853, Henry Clay
Dean, and Colonel James Thomson,
with himself, discussed this propo-
sition and the propriety of present
ling it to the public. The question Of
also, euen at that early
kday, ,cas canvassed !; and the illegal
Nunconstitutional manner in which
ssthe great debt of the country was
5sbeing piled mountains high upon the
y'shoulders Of a protesting people, was
'ssdiscussed in its then fearful condi-
.tion, and its probable future effects
Issupon the commercial and other great
"interests af the people. "-Hawkcys
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The State House Question.

The bill apPropriating the tsifing
amount Of one million Of dollars TO
build a New State House, against
the united protest of the people and
press Of the state, came up on it's f.
nal passage in the Senate on Thurs
day last, and after eliciting pretty
general discussion, was, on the mo-
ton OF Senator Cattell, who seems to
be its champion in that body, post
poned to Wednesday of next week,
q motion to indefinitely postpone,
made by Senator Donnan, Of Black
hawk, was lost by % TO %, and oths
or votes of test character were
had, indicating that the final vote
will be extremely close, with the
probabilities in favor of its ultimate
passage. 1t is sublime spectacle of
modern economy, to see Senator Cat.
tell, of Polk CO., who made such a
desperate effort recently to save
some twelve thousand dollars per an
mum, by boring it out of the allow
ance made to the country press for
publishing the laws, thus depriving
the people of the cheapest, readiest
means Of becoming familiar with
them, now leading the crowd, no
propose to saddle debt of millions
on us, that it will take years Of bur
densome taxes to pay. We infer
that the motion to adjourn was made
by the friends of the iniquity, be-
cause they were not quite certain Of
it's success at that time, and to ena-
Bile them to continue their manipu-
lations that were so effective in se-
curing its passage in the House, and
in consideration Of the fact that it is
understood that several Senators are
about ready to come up to the mour-
ners bench, and are open and liable
to powerful conviction. In the mean
time it becomes the duty of the poo.
pie who expect to pay for this costly
iddling, to send up at once their re
monstrances against this uncalled
for, and untimely extravaganza.
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Organize u! Organize!!!

IL 10 nigh time that the work OF
organization for the pending Prcsi.
Dental conflict was inaugurated, not
only in Ottumwa and Wapello coun-
ty, but over the entire country. In
every respect it is the most impor-
tant election we ever had in our his
tory. The legitimate frnits Of the
bloody conflict from which we have
just emerged must be safely garner
cd by the establishment of Republi-
can governments upon the smoking
ruins OF caste and slavery in the
Southern States. The splendid sys-
tom Of internal improvements that
became . cardinal principle of our
glorious party at its very inception
at Philadelphia, in 1856, and which
has now givcnus the Pacific Railroad
completed six hundred miles from the
Missouri, and which will DO compile
ted to San Francisco by 1870, must
still be fostered and encouraged. The
present highly prosperous financial
condition with the remunerating pri-
ces prevailing all over this broad
land for the wages of the workshop,
the plow, the loom, the anvil, must
BE- still maintained BY a rigid, faith
fnl, honest, discharge Of our public
liabilities, and thesupport Of our pub
lie credit untarnished, upon which
the whole superstructure of our mill
tary, political, and financial prosper
ity rests. There is no way under
Heaven or among men 10 do these
things, except by the election Of Gen
eral Grant, or somo other equally
good Republican, to be President, ard
thore is no way to accomplish this
latter desirable result, except by hard
persistent labor, through township,
oe,in.v, State, ard national oreaniza-
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LAWS OF IOWA.
Published by Authority.
CHAPTER 8.


An Act to amend Chapter l23 Of
the Laws ofthe 11th General As
sembly relating to the sGray Uni.
FORM" so-called, which was furnish
ed by the State to certain members
of the I'd and Sd Iowa infantry.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State Of
Iowa, That the Adjutant General of
this State be directed to procure from
the Paymaster General U. s. A., or
the I'd Auditor Of the Treasury Of
the United States, copies of all rolls
that can be used as evidence, in re-
lation to the claims OF said soldiers Of
the I'd and Sd Iowa Infantry, for the
"Grey Uniforms so.called; and ii
said rolls, or the remarks thereon, are
not satisfactory proof to the said
Adjutant General, he may take, or
cause to be taken, or direct to be
furnished to him, the evidence Of off,
GERS or soldiers, in order to enable
him to decide upon the validity of
said claim, or claims; ahd if sufficient
evidence is taken, and furnished, to
satisfy said Adjutant General of the
validity of said claim, or claims, then,
the said Adjutant General shall issue
his certificate, in the Same manner
Is is provided in said Chapter to
which this is an amendment; and as
in cases where full evidence existed
on said rolls.
Soc. 2. In case any soldier Of eth
or Of said regiments shall have bcen
entitled to said certificate, or shall
have paid for said clothing, and Is
now deceased, then said certificate
for said amount shall be given to his
widow, ifany, and if there is no wild.
ow, 70 said soldiers child or child
rem, and if said soldier died leaving
no wife, or child, then the said certi-
icate shall be given to the next heir
ct law.
Soc. 3. This act, being deemed of
immndiate imnnrsanco. shall take ef.
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Throws up the Sponge.

The New York Herald, the most
extensively circulated democratic
journal in the country, and one that
has much sagacity in divining and
predicting political results, if with
out the influence to control them,
thus throws up the sponge for the
copperhead candidate for the Prosi-
dency, whoever he may Be, and &C.
knowledges that our triumph in New
Hamshire, unerringly indicates the
election of Gen. Grant:
"Yet against all these drawbacks
the Republicans in New Hampshire
held their ground. They triumphed
in the late elections over all these
distractions in rallying under the
flag Of General Grant as their candi,
date for the next Presidency. This
was in fact the initial fight for testing
the popularity of General Grant as q
Presidential candidate, and the result
shows that he cannot be beaten, Gen.
Sickles and Cochrane, under the ban.
ner of Grant, in reviving the political
issues Of the rebellion, revived the
old war spirit among the people, and
the opposing Copperhead orators
brought in from other States to
preach the old Copperhead gospel Of
the peace democracy did good service
for the republicans. Thus we see
yet once again that where Copper
headism, with all its obnoxious peace
principles and affiliations during the
war, boldly presents itself before the
people, its offensiveness weighs down
all the subsequent expressions, cor
ruptlons, spoliations, usurpationsand
revolutionary measures and schemes
of the party which carried through
the war against rebellion. Thus, too,
it is apparent that General Grant, as
the great Union champion Of the
war, upon his record Of the war, and
upon his merits as sound, practical,
conservative statesman, has secured
in this preliminary field fight suc-
cess which emphatically pronounces
him the coming man."
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Esta blished in 1848.
The 0ttumWa Courier
J. N. HEDRIcK, Editor.
oTTUMwA, IOWA
Thursday .... March 26, 1868
Iowa State Agency.

During the war andsinc it's close
nearly every loyal State has main
tained a competent agency at the
Federal Capitol to look after the
claims of soldiers and nensioners-
This has been eminentlv proper and
has saved to the needy and merito-
rious claimants of those States, a vast
sum in the aggregate, that otherwise
would have gone into the pockets of
local and Washington City claim
agents.
To his credit Governor Stone early
comprehended the necessity Of hav-
ing an agent in Washington to col
lect data, and assist the needy sold
iers, or their orphans:s and widows in
collecting gratuitously from the GOV
ernment their hard earned dues, and
appointed Col. Geo. Cowie. Of Pow
eshiek, County Chief Clerk Of the
5th Auditors Office. to act IN that ca
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m sad Case Of Suicide.
nth Of Mr.. F. A. Dallam of the
Warsaw Bulletin.

F. A. Dallam, Esq, Editor Of the
arsaw Bulletin, committed suicide
Sunday, March 10Th. It was mo-
ced that he was laboring under un-
sual mental excitement for several
ays. Mr.. Dallam, like so many
ifted and brilliant men, was the vic~
I'm Contemporaries. Inrecent years
had led him into an unwilling but
strong bondage. He resisted,
krovs against it again and again, yet
4 s often Il bound him, struggling but
helpless. Only q few days before his
Heath. he made q last desperate effort
10 get ont of thraldom. He quit the
? Ise Of liquor, but it was only for
bout o week. He couldn't control
he appetite. He was in Keokuk .
reek ago last Saturday and drank
considerably while here. From that
lime he seems to have been constan-
Nv under the influence Of strong
(lrink. He was excited, craxed. This
was particularly noticeable Saturday
evening last. About 2 O'Clock Sab
bath afternoon a. young gentleman in
his employ went to his office, and
binding it closed, broke open the door.
he found Mr.. Dallam lying upon :
nounge, aud in great agony. He
brought help and Mr.: Dallam was ta-
ken to his home. He was unc0n-
Bciods then, bat afterwards he came
to himself and said that he had taken
kbout two ounces Of laudanum. An
tidotes were administered, but vainly.
In transitions from consciousness he
fingered on until near one o'clock yes
erday morning, and then died. -Four
Zines before when frenzied by liquor
10 had attnmpted to take bis life,
but had been saved by timely aid.
q Mr., Dallam was not widely known
here, but the tidings Of his death will
reach and shock large circle Of
Friends and acquaintances in his own
State, where he was widely known.
He was many years journalist, and
had been connected with several pa
5pers in Illinois and elsewhere. He
was for some years Editor of the
Quincy Whig and Republican, and
eame from that paper to take charge
of the Warsaw Bulletin. He was tai
Dnted, q ready and brilliant writer,
hue to his friends, formidable to his
pes, with generous impulses and
hrgo hearted; always with bis jour-
s1alistic armour on, never dodging
}Ittacks and using all his guns full
NOTED when he got into fight, de-
eldedly party man, honest and
Nth intense convictions, an earnest
Republican, a go,d editcr, a gifted and
noble-natured man, all that knew him
nust profoundly regret his untimely
nd sad death. Hewas, we presume,
bout forty-five years Of age. He
*aves q wife and seven children, whose
reat grief at this terrible afiiiction
5eould be soothed and mitigated If the
warm sympathy OF numerous friends
Skere competent for that.-6ate Cily.a