The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-03-11

] OlE. uUS. IL. hltAuhit tiiO SShS'
raj passenger agent of the Penn.
Central railroad, at Chicago, and is
abundantly qualified to take charge
| of the western business OF this the
most important railroad of the UnI-
ted States.
Bowling along at the rate ofthirty
miles per hour, in the palatial sleep
ing cars of this route, where you are
surrounded with all the comforts and
convoniences Of your own parlor at
home, the reflection involuntarily ov-
ertakes you that the inventor of the
last fifty ears has left nothing for
those of the future to do.
Within that timo Railroads, Tele-
graphing, and nearly all the great
labor-saving machines of to-day,
which go SO far TO utilize labor, and
elevate it from mere drudgcty to one
of the fine arts, have been invented.
Yet there are those sanguine
enough to believe that the next fifty
years will add to the aggregate of
human achievements as many tri-
umphs as the past Fifty years have
done. As an uncommonly fine exer-
else for tho Imagination, let the read
ertry and see if it is possible for him
to figure out anything that it is pos
sible Tor the ingenuity of man to con-
ceive, or to invent, which viii be of
as much practical benefit to the hui
man race as steamboats,, steamships,
railroads, telegraphing, reaping and
moving machines, which have all
sprang into existence and practical
utility and application, from the tecm-
ing brain OF American genius, with
in the past generation.
To us it appears that the only
thing left for the inventor (outside Of
the work of improvement on original
ideas and patents already developed
which can add much to the wealth
and happiness, especially Of cur west
ern people. is the invention of steam
locomotive power which will over
come the superficial distractions of
our highways, and propel the farm
er's wagon to market with his crop,
or which will take him to church of
Sundays, or run his wagon to the
timber, and after saving his logs into
lumber, on rails, will bring them homo
to his farm, and to which, when the
proper season arrives, he can attach
hall dozen plows and turn up tho
virgin soil at least u foot below where
the present dcviling, scratching sys-
TEN, facetiously called ploughing, has
ever reached, and which can also
plow corn, cut grain and thresh it,
and do all the labor, and vastly moro
thoroughly and better than is now
done by the present one-horso power
system.
This idea is doubtless within the
range of practicability, and millions
of laborers stand ready to crown the
man who accomplishes it, with
wreaths of everlasting fame. Its
successful development will multiply
the product of the laboring and pro-
ductive classes of the country, by ter
at least, and win reduce farming to
be one Of the elegant fine arts, and
make the laborers become ut one
bound the men of leisure, the aristo
cratic nahobs of the land, thus caus-
ing them to change front by the rear
rank, with the merchants, lawyers,
doctors, and other professional men
of the country.
Not being able to purchase hotel
for our own use which suited us, we
concluded to bivouac at the st. Mich.
olas, which will compare favorably
with our western hotels in its archi
tectural proportions, and cuisine de-
partment, except, perhaps, the Bar
ret House at Burlington.
The only Ottumwa merchant yet
in this city IS Dr.. Taylor, who departs
homeward this evening, after pur-
chasing the largest stock of goods in
his line ever shipped to any Iowa
town. A war between opposing
freight lines enabled the Dr., (and
perhaps other parties) to ship goods
from here TO Ottumwa for 60 cents
per hundred, which is the tariff from
| Ottumwa to Charlton. Joe. Cham.
bers, Wes. Garner, Bill. Moss, Jordan
Edgerly, and Sam. Mahon, have all
como, saw, and conquered, and unu
sually heavy stocks of goods do fol.
low them.
Among Iowa men here / was GLAD
to meet Hon. Jacob Butler, of Mus
catiue, Speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives of the 10th General As
semhly, and President Of the Musea
| tine, Oska!oosa 4 Council Blufs RR
lie claims also TO be the Legitimate
! pufer tdnliiiaSof our Muscatine, Wash
tington, Ottnmwa Il Leayenworth r
| r., aud is an enthusiastic and conf
dent believer ii the feasibility aut
carly completion Ct that great enter
prise. Butler ii one Of the ables
/ and best men in the State, and par
/ italy promised to attend our eonven
! tioa OH the l7th March. Let Bro
Clark and his committee see that b.
Las Il special invitation TO ATTEND.
New York IL full Of birds Of prey
vending tiler way to Washington
1t astonishing to find how many o
| them were the original, simon pur
John Jacob Townshends" who pu
/ Grant in nomination. Most OF then