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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24

STATE OF IOWA,
Wspello County,J
To Margaret Meter.
Madam YOU are hereby notined that
there is now ON file in the cfY1ce of the
clerk of the District Court Of said Coun.
ty the petition of Peter. Meter asking as
against you decree Of divorce for reasons
set forth in said potion.
And unless you appear and answer said
petition on or before noon of the second
day of the next term of said Court COM
mencing on the 25th day of January 1869,
Judgment and decree will be rendered
against you AZ claimed IN said petition.
T. BIGHAM, Atty.
for Petitioner
Dec. "a 1858 WIT.
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CHICAGO MARKETS..

Chicago, Dec. %.
Flour dull spring extra at &c, ESQ.
675 supers $4,5Oa4,75.
Wheat weaker No 2 closing at
/ Deal OCT. No l sold at l14@1l5.
Corn--new firm at 462.
Oats steady at 45a45a.
Rye dull No / at 107a107l.
Barley steady at 1,48al so.
= ! ! ! ! 4 ] : !: !: :;
Highwines not quoted.
Seed not quoted. J
Provisions higher. Is
1ess pork ~ $500.
Lard ct II. M
4 Green hams ct 13ia14.
0roenshoulders 1O}a1Oi.
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nr. LOUIS MARKETS..

Ot. AOulA, DeC. IAs
Flour dull and lower. Sales Of su-
per western 6,sOa7, 35; extra wes-
tern s.46a10,00.
Wheat-very dull sales of No 2
spring 1453a155; Amber 2 10.
Corn new 93a99.
Oats dropping 75a75}.
Barley not quoted.
Rye unchanged. t
whisky not quoted.
Provisions 6rmer.
Pork at 27,50@27,75.
Shoulders 10}.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, Dec. %.
Flour low grades and supers neg
lected; sales Of spring supers 8, so; fall
supers {, O0a6, %; extra {, so; Xxx 7,OOa
7,25.
Wheat dull; choice red fall 1,g2a
1896; white fall 2,0Oa2, 10; common
spring 1,25.
Corn dull at 63a66. ~ 81
O4ts in better demand 64a57.
Barley dull, Ito.
Rye firm ut ! 27a1 80.
Pork firm at ~ ,5Oa28 90.
Bulk meets quiet.
Beef quiet unchanged.
Shoulders lie.
Clear sides 14aa15.
Lard firm 17a17.3
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MAR

CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MAR
KET.
Chicago, Dec. %.
Live hogs in brisk demand to-day
at further advance of 35a40c; Sales
. 7bal0 Is for good to choice, and
8 5000 60 for common to fair.
The markes closes firm at the i'm
provelnent, with further and upward
tendency.
Cattle-Some $50 head changed
hands during the day alta range of
3 O0a6 IS for common to good grades.
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tits no wonder that Col. Wyncoop
and all the Indian Agents Commiss-
toner's, and other thieves OF high and
low degree, connected with that Rob-
bers Roost, sometimes called the In
dian Bureau, should set up such a
wall against the murder of poor in
nocent Black Kittle with the Ex-
pressman's scalp in his belt.
Every Indian that is killed, leaves
but the number less, for these villains
to pluck.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24

IMPOSSIBLE. - Seward has tele.
graphed Reverdy Johnson to 0hold
his jaw"
This is absurd. You might as well
tell jackass to take in his Jas to
expect an old antediluvian schovelty
funk fossil, like Garrett Davis or
Reverdy Johnson to stop their driyel
of tailings.
1t can't be did Mr.. Seward
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24

WINDING UP.-John White, the
oldest and most successful banker at
Oskaloosa, has purchased nearly all
the stock Of the First National Bank,
Of that city, and will surrender it's
charter and wind up its business, and
establish in it's stead, "John Whites
Independent Bank" alleging as a
reason, that the various and sundry
modes of taxation now imposed on
National Banking, renders it unprof-
liable.
John, being sound financially and
democratically, we commend his
statement as good nut for copper
johnies to crack, who have ranted
and ravedso much of late, about the
exemption of these interests, from
their share of taxation.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24
RascalitY.

oy hthographlc stamp, with the
name OF one John Fox, purporting to
be member of Congress, covering
three or four various and sundry
prospectuses &c. of the New York
World newspaper, frantically ap-
pealing to the unterrifed Democra-
cy, and the rest of mankind, to give
it support commensurate with the
brilliancy of its coup de etat which
saved New York and New Jersey
from the great impending nav of
Radlcalism.
All the other hundreds of thou.
sands Of subscribers which the Cop
perhead World claims to have, doubt.
less received tie Same document SO
that the reader can easily imagine
the immense bulk of these circular
letters which have burdened; the
mails, and the thousands of dollars
the government has been swindled
out Of by the fragrant violation Of
the law by Mr.. Congressman Fox,
who allowed his stamp to be thus
used;by Manton Marble, of the World
who has used this stamp to extend
his business and circulation, and by
Mr.. Postmaster Kelley, of New
York, who permitted the bushels Of
these begging, swindling letters, to
depart broad cast all over the country
from his..Post Office.
The intent of the franking priv
ilege, was to enable members of Con.
gress and other government officials
to disseminate public, and valuable
documents, &c. among their people
without mourning burdens upon said
officials, too heavy to be borne, but
the practice has degenerated, until it
is now no uncommon thing for ava.
ricious officials to farm out to asso-
Citations, business concerns, &c. &C.,
their wooden stamps to send free all
over the country, Newspaper circu.
lars, Patent Medicine advertisements,
books &c. &c, all as plainly and pal
pably in violation OF the spirit and
letter of the law, as it would be for
them to pick each others pockets,
and much less honorable.
Bread and Butter Randall, ac-
counts for part of his seven millions
deficiency in the Post office last year,
by stating that the abuse of the
ranking privilege cost him one mil
lion dollars alone.
There is q determined effort being
now made to abolish this entire
franking business, and since the sys-
tenn has degenerated so as to enable
Demas Barnes & Co. to food the
country with their Plantation Bitter
advertisements, and Manton Marble
to SOW broadcast into every Post of.
fee in the United States, his begging
business circulars, we, think
it about time that Con-
gress should abolish the whole nui-
sance, or else e'to,it by more strin-
gent provisions of law, that such fla
grant violations Of the privilege as
we have referred to will send the per-
petrators where they properly be-
long, towit; pounding stone in the
nearest state prison.
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OTTUMWA, IOWA.

Insurance policies issued in the most
reliable Life, Accident, and Live Stock
Companies in the United States.
Real Estate bought and sold on COM
mission In Wapello and adjoining coun
ties.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24

sGr Stoves are cheaper than ever
at
T.R. WALLACE & cos
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PATTI ERNs, GOODS

entirely new, and lust received from the
Nst. ss..s ssl.;.,~. fg,s -
She would respectfully solicit the Ma I.
! lies of OttumwAto call and examine her
.oods, and styles.
Entrance on Main street, between Full
'sr ami Wallsce,s stores.
Oct. : s66 dAw SIN.
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NE
MRS. A. G. HARLAN

Has recently established . new Mill
isry store in this city, well stocked with
he latest aud best
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24

eanS P'aceS aS DOnaparte, Leon, De-
catur City, Bedford, Lewis, Spirit
Lake, Esterville, Algona, MareYgo,
and many others of no less size, all
Of which are nearly or quite as far
away from Des Moines and as little
tributary to that place, Tor the I. &
N. r. r., ss Ottumwa, Sigourney, or
our St. Louis 4 Cedar Rapids Rail.
road or our proposed road from
Washington here, and from this point
to Cameron.
No amount Of ingenuity, or soph-
istry, can establish the fact that it
was important to the I. 4 NJ. R. r..
to show Bonaparte and Mount Pleas.
ant, and omit Ottumwa and Sigour-
ney, or to mark out plainly the Iowa
Central, running from Macon to AL
bia, oskaloosa, and Waterloo, and to
leave out entirely our st. Louis and
Cedar Rapids R. R., now nearly COM
pleted to Bloomfield, and at the time
this "Den sketch" was made more
than half graded from the State line
to Sigourney.
If these plain statements do not
prove what we charged in our origi-
nal article, that the map was upon
the part Of somebody, aa studied at
tempt to ignore and belittle Ottum-
wa, and its neighbors tributary to it,
and its railroad connections, evincing
the fear and jealousy that Des Moines
entertains towards Ottumwa, and it's
rapid growth and business, and is un-
commonly small, puerile and impo-
tent, and total unworthy the people
Of the CapitalAof . great State then
we are unable to accommodate the
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24

The young ladies Of the Methodist
Church will, bold festival for the
benefit Of their Sabbath school
Christmas eve. Thursday mighty
NUF CED.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
Tennessee Legislature.

ASHyILLE, January lS.-Ine 10ilOW-
ing bills were introduced in the Senate,
and passed on first reading:
BY Mr.. Cate: An act to amend the
criminal laws of the State, making the
theft of all sums up to $50 as petit lar
ceny, and authorizing the Justices of the
Peace to summon jury of five men to
try all cases of petit larceny, and If the
defendant should be convicted, he shall
be confined in the county Jail Tor such
time as may be agreed upon.
Mr.. Aldridge: A bill exempting $1,000
worth of real or personal property to the
head of every family, and exempting all
the property of the wife, received both
before and after marriage, from execu-
ton for the debt of her husband.
Mr.. Mccall: A bill to empower the
Governor to authorize the organization
of a militia company of thirty men in
counties where the Sheriff makes afida-
Wit that he is resisted in the performance
of his duties. A
A supplementary report from the les
sees of the penitentiary was read, show
ing there are two hundred aud thirty
tou- convicts in the penitentiary whose
average theft did not amount to fve dol
lars. and that the convicts comingin now
average one each day, with bill TO have
a committee TO examine said report, and
autborizing the Governor to release all
those who have been imprisoned for
such petty offenses. Laid over under
The rules, and $500 copies ordered to be
printed.
lating the country on the reinstatement
of E. NJ. Stanton, as Secretary oil war
was adopted by the following vote:
Ayes-Messrs. Aldridge, Eckel, Eaton,
Fnson. Garner, Henderson, Keith, Nath-
aws Nelson. Norman, Patterson, Parker,
RodOers Smith, Underwood, Wyatt,
Wilson and Mr.. Speaker Senter-ls.
Noes-Messrs. Cate, Lindsey, Lyle,
Mccall and Wisener-5.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to the
Mobile and Ohio railroad company
passed its second reading.
The bill repeating an act conieTIlng
the elective franchise TO certain aiiens
was lost on its third readisg. ,
In the House, the bill making haoituai
drunkenness a cause for divorce passed
its second reading.
The bill to prevent disfrauchised rebels
from practicing in the courts OF the State,
vas brought up by the Judiciary Com
mittee recommending its rejection.
Mr.. Bowles moved TO noR-concur in the
report of the committee.
The ayes and noes being called for, th'
vote was taken, with the following result
Ayes y, noes IL. So the House refused
70 non-cOncur.
The question recurring upon a concur
renee in the report Of the committee,
discussion ensned, after which The bill
vas withdrawn for amendments
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THE MoNsrRous 1rIouIrY.

The new reconstruction bill 10 evidently
to be pushed and hurried through Con-
gress. It's plain object and effect is to
strip from the President the power
which belongs to him as the Chief of the
Executive Department of the Govern
ment, and place it in the hands Of Gen.
Grant All this is in defiance Of the
voice Of the people, as expressed in the
recent elections, and of the whole people
of the Union. 1t is revolutionary, and
the last demented and desperate throe
outside of the Constitution and in spite
of it by usurpers who deliberately intend
to retain their power, and rule by viola
tions of their sworn oaths, and at the
cost of the distress and tears of innocent
millions, and to the destruction of the
credit, business and prosperity OF the
whole country. To rule they must ruin,
and that they will take pleasure in
doing. AS showing how completely this
Radical Congress misrepresents the
people of the United States, we copy the
following summary, ready to our hand,
by that able and jealous defender of the
truth and right, the Pittsburg Post
Would to God we had President
worthy of the great crisis:
The following tables are made up
from the Tribune Almanac. The first
one shows the vote in all the States that
laid alacfiona in 1851.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

Democratic majority over the Radi- a, eco
calls in seventeen States.".""....'..''" A'ooz
The States represented in Congress,
and not included iu the above table (not
having held general elections last year,,
are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Missouri. Nevada and Oregon. If elec-
tions had been held in these States, 1t is
manifest that the Radicals would have
been beaten in every one OF them, save
possibly Illinois and Missouri. In these
they might have succeeded by small ma.
iorities; but the general result would
have been unchanged, and the Demo-
cratic party would have had in the States
represented in Congress-the loyal :
States-a majority on the popular vote
of the nation of from fifty to one hundred
thousand votes
We, of course, do not include the
Brownlow despotism in the above figures
The vote of poor Polandized Tennessee,
with its disfranchisement of white men
and enfranchisement of ignorant and de-
graded negroes, indicates nothing as to
the general sentiment of the ruling class
ofthe nation. 1t only shows what can be
done with bayonets and negroes.
Now, let us look at the representation
of the above named "lloyal Estates in
Congress, that we may arrive at correct
conclusion of how truthfully the Fortleth
Congress represents the people OF the
United States:
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see
isKentucky elects nine Democratic Repre-
sentatiyes but seven of them are now arbitra-
rily and unjustly prevented from taking their
seats, by the Radical majority In Congress, Tor
no other Apparent reason than that they are
Conservatives. In Maryland. Democratic
Senator, for like reason, is debarred from his
rights by such traitors and revolutionists as
Sumner. Chandler, Wade and their associates, J
The point to which we wish to direct
special attention is this: In the Fortieth
Congress 1,576,507 Democrats are repre-
sented by sepen Senators and thirty three
Representatives, while ,554, 945 Radicals
are represented by ttoenty-siT Senators
and one hundred and four Representa-
tives. The Democrats, with majority
of the popular vote of the country, have
only one-fifth of the Senators and Rep
resentatives.
The total vote cast for President in
1864, in the twenty.three States repre-
sented in the Electoral College, was
3.9s3,6O4, aud Mr.. Lincoln's majority
was 495,804. This year, in seventeen
States, casting nine-tenths of the popular
vote of the nation, the total vote was
3.l3l,452, and in this vote the Demo-
cratic party has majority OF 1862.
Yet the Radicals in Congress have three
four.hs of both branches, netwithstand-
ing they are to-day ina minority in the
nation.
Figures will not lie, and these we have
cited from Radical authority, show that
Congress in all its extreme and revolu-
tionary legislation is attempting the
dangerous experiment of running coun-
ter to the puolic voice. This is perilous
work at any time; but it is intensely so
when the Objectionable legislation is
framed to overthrow iudisputable princi-
pies Of government and when It Is
almost certain to lead to more embit-
tered feeling than we have yet known in
the Northern States, and one that may
eyentuate in bloodshed and war.
We do not know how Andrew johnson
will meet this attempt to degrade the
Executive Of the nation into the position
Of a subordinate to the General Of the
Army; but we have an idea Of Row Gen
eral jackson would have faced the
music" Let President johnson gather
inspiration aud courage from study OF
The career Of Old hickory, and be will
find himself backed by the willing hearts
and stout srms of 3 majority OF the
American people.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
National Debts.
We owe now S2.5O8,l25,l6O.

We owe now $2,50S, 1875, ,l60.
England, with smaller population
and poorer country, owes $4,003, 794,2 ,235.
France owes So, $40, ,029,89O. Her debt
has increased one hundred and thirty
per cent. in thirteen years, aud increases
yearly, while the population remains
stationary.
Austria owes 81 l,3l6, ,lO3, ,2Ol, and has
increased her debt one hundred and
eighty per cent. in eighteen years.
Italy owes 81 OH ,8l8, ,040, and her debt
has increased in six years one hundred
and fifty-eight per cent.
Prussia owes $245, ,766, ,5O3. and has
lately spent much more than her income.
Spain, with less than half our popula-
ton, and not twentieth part of our
wealth or productive power, owes SSl9,-
9S7 360
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

a Cmsarean operation. Those who ad-
v Sc il hope tha, it may prolong, at least
for brief period, the life Of the dying
Radical parry But would it not be the
death of American liberiyY
.SIgYs OF AN EMPIRE.-The moment
the great Bonaparte perceived the first
CLEAN of the imperial purple dawning IN
the gloomy aud agitated horizon OF
France, he affected an utter contempt
for trading politicians and stump orators,
and coined word to express It. In q
letter to one Of his brothers he terms the
lawyers and ring" managers Of Paris a
set of biologists aud takers" The
Radical "idiologists in this country
may perhaps go far to create an empire,
but will they be permitted to rule 1t Z
Upon this issue the people of the United
States will likely settle the question to
suit themselves next November.
The GOVERNMENT AND HOUSEHOLD OF
THE GRAND RADICAL EMPIRE. We pre-
sumo we shall not violate imperial conf
dence by foreshadowing the character OF
the government and household OF the
new and magnificent empire proposed to
be erected by the Radicals upon the ruins
of republican liberty in the United States
Here it is;
His Imperial Highness Ulysses I.-Monarch
Of all he surveys.
Imperial Mouthpicco and Keeper q the I'm
perial Word ami Conscience-E. d. wash
burne.
Minister of Confiscated Estates and General
Factotum of the Imperial Mansion-Thaddeus
Stevens. . a,
Minister of Military Injustice-Edwin M
Stanton.
Minister of the Radical Rack and Political
Joint Twister in General-George s. Boutwell,.
Usher of the Black Rod-Fred Douglass. :,
Lord High Chamberlain and Picker UP OF AZ
the Imperial Old Boots Old Hats and Old
Clothes Generally-Jo ohm w. Forney.
Imperial Soft Impeacher and Knight Com
mander Of the Order OF the sulphurous Bath
James NJ. Ashley.
Imperial Windmill and Chief Of the Imperial
Blowpipes-J. W. Hunnicutt.
Court Watchman- Henry Wilson.
Court Hangman-Ben Wade.
Keeper of the Imperial Bedchamber Charles
Sumner.
Lady in Waiting-Anna Dickinson.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
saturday, the e5th of January, Isos
TRUsT SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST EX-
ID ecuted to me on the 18th day Of January,
1861, by Pierre Bacquet, T. secure the payment
of three certain promissory notes, made by the
said Pierre Racquet in favor of Josonh Etche
varne, and due respectively on the 5th day OF
May Of the years 1861, 1862 and 1853 seid Deed
of Trust is recorded in the Registers Office
Shelby county, in book No. 46. pages 3SS, $50
and $40. and the said Pierre Racquet having
failed to psy his said note falling on the 5th day
of May. 1863, will expose and sell at public
auction, on the 3Oth day Of January. 1865, at
the southeast corner Of Court Square, FOR
CASH, to the highest bidder, the following
described lots OF ground, to-wit: bots No. a.
q and 29. as marked and described on FIippin'
plan OF the subdivision Of lots below Fort Pick
ering. and lying between S. NJ. Wheaton's and
Naecaro's. and severally fronting 50feet on the
Horn Lake road, and lot % cornering on Will
kerson's avenue, and severally running fbac.
$50 feet q an allev. Equity Of redemption
spccia ly waived. Title believed to be coed,
JEAN ETCHEvARNE.
eQ-l2S Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
The Coming Empire.
From the New York Herald

From the New York Herald.l
GENERAL GRANT AsB THE RADICALS.
History has, to large extent, justified
the statement that the tendency ofrepub-
lican institutions is toward absolute
monarchy. 1t was so in Greece, in Rome,
in the Italian Republics, in England,
and more lately in France. 1t is all
very well to say that such tendency is
neither natural nor necessary; but facts
are stubborn things, and in their infiu-
ence more potent than theories. Are we
in the United States about to furnish
another example2 The events of the
hour certainly point in that direction.
The Radical Republicans, once the hope
of the country, are no longer patriotic.
The love of party, it is now manifest,
has extinguished the love of country.
Come what may Of the country, the
Radicals must rule-such is their policy.
Like a certain illustrious parsonage,
they think it "better to reign in hell than
serve in heaven" Anarchy or dictator
that is the future they are preparing
for the country. Ofthe two we certainly
prefer the dictator, and General Grant
as imperdtor might be q relief from
greater ills.
HISTORICAL PARALLELs.-Gaul was
conquered by soldiers that went from
Rome, and that army then, renewed in
Gaul, returned the compliment and con-
quered Rome. How long may it be be-
tore good Radical Cesar, holding the
South by Northern army, but all the
tine racruifing that army hy the yOung
fellows Of the South, can repeat the
Roman story in coBquegng the unarmed
Norih2
A CEsAREAx 0PERkTI0S.-In surgery
the Cesarean operation is resorted 70
only in extreme cases, aud sometimes,
although rarely, both mother aud child
survive. In politics the desperate ex-
pedieut Of making a Casar out Of Gen.
Grant may be called, in certain sense,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

A PROPOSITION has been introduced
into the Ohio Legislature to restore the
old law as to rates of interest, which
recognized six per cent. as the legal rate
where no rate was stipulated, but per-
mitted charge of ten per cent. when
specifically contracted for.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21
NOTICE.

L WILL EXCHANGE BUILDING LUM-
Il Der for a small stock Of Groceries, PrOvi-
sions. or Dry G0ods-censisiing Of Calicoes,
nomestics. Wool Goods, Hats. Boots and Shoes.
aud Clothing, suitable for a country store.
Three or four yoke Of 0XkN wanted.
The lumber 10 be sawed a. Fddins' mill, In
Memphis. at mouth Of Wolf river. All the
lumber sawed according TO the order Of pur-
chaser.
Apply TO me, at EDDINs, saw MIL
10 DEXTER CURTIS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-21

In Montreal, man named Henry, q
liquor dealer, recently purchased two
hundred and twenty packages of spirit
GUS liquors in bond. Subsequently he
succeeded in extracting the liquor from
the packages and reflling them with
water, defrauding the revenue of $4,000.
Henry has escaped to the States.