The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-07
Variety.

iy applied 10 politics, the readers Of
tina. second handed cold hash Police
Gazette, called the Chicago Times,
must enjoy an extremely spicy time,
in reading over, masticating and
swallowing down, the great variety
Of antagonistie political theories,
from time to time, dished up to the
galIible readers of that organ of
Western Democracy, Our readers
very wei, remember the flank movc-
mcnt Of thei Times on Negro Suffrage,
made less than year ago. wherein
it argued from day to day, that it
was not only inevitable, but right,
and III accordance with the .everlast-
ing principles Of pure Democracy.
Its daily TRADES now of abnse of the
Republican party, for determining to
to reconstruct the Rebellious States
on the principles ofpolitical equals
ity, irrespective of color, shows what
superior advantages the TINES read
as eiijoy in,,he way Of variety on
the great Suffrage question. ~
They are net less fortunate on f.
nancial matters. December list, '67,
that journal contained the fol
lowing in an elaborate leading finan.
cial article:
''The first group contains the Gin
cinna,i plan. q. G. the Pendleton
scheme.) The great feature Of this
scheme is what is called payment of
OF the national debt in greenbacks."
It contemplates a new issueof green
backs, equal IN amount to the bonds
which it is proposed to redeem -
Over twelve hundred millions of five
twenty bonds will become redeema-
BILE before 1872. Five hundred mil
lions are redeemable now. The way
to pay them, according to this plan,
is to set the printing presses in mo-
ton. So long as the rags and lamp
black hold out we will have no troub-
le in paying the bonds at maturity
When all have been thus paid, we
shall have added to our paper
money tho trifling imitation of about
81, coo. 100000, making. all told, a
circulating medium Of $1,000, 600, 600.
Then we shall have what are called
good times" splendid timcs."--
Wheat and gresnbacks will be ex-
changed bushel for busl,el. A barrel
OF whiskey will be sold for two bar
rels of legal-tenders. Collectors Of
revenue will 60 about with wagons
having lofty and capacious recepta
cles on them. like those used in
handling charcoal and will .a.her
in the public taxes with pitcbforks.
To levy IS in gold will require one
horse wagon load OF green backs
But the Government bonds will be
paid The only question will be
how to pay the government green
backs. This is something the plan
does not contemplate. Specie pay
iaents under it will be reached
aecer!" 3l
This paperis now an open, ram
pant, partizan Of tho Secessionist
pendieton. and his scheme of repndi-
alton, by putting the printingpresse
to work, aud paying the public debt
in cords Of worthless, irredeemable
shinplasters, which are, in the Ian
guage Of Burton and Flint, in the
last canvass in this county, to be
kept in circulation (if' possible) until
they wear out.
NEwsPApoRIAL.-The Iowa City
Republican has been re constructed
from head to foot, with n new Power
Press, new type, &C., until it is now
o. beautiful as a bride adorned for her
nnptials, and in every respect acredit
to its cnterprising editor, DR..
Brainard, and to our thriving neigh
boring ex-Capital city.
The Sigourheyr Noes has added II
new half medium Gordon Jobber to
its establishment, and in addition to
furnishing the people of Keokuk
county with one of tho best weekly
papers in the State, is now prepared
TO do all sorts Of job work in neat
and expeditions manner.
Val. Mendel, Of the Abba Union,
and Major Walden, of the Loyal
Citizen, are both East purchasing
new presses, type, &c, preparatory to
the enlargement and general i'm.
pnovement Of their very excellent
papers, and upon tho whole, our
neighboring Republican journals, are
exhibiting III unusual degree of
activity aud enterprise, this spring,
which argues n state Of financial
success, which we arc happy to note.