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Andrew johnson made a speech q
Nashville, the other day, to the pa
rolled rebel democracy, in which he
used the following language:
II would to God that the Govern
ment had not the credit to borrow q
dollar to carry on war. Thank God
my honers have not been gained
through blood. The wounded sol
dicrs cannot attribute their wounds
to me. He called upon them to cling
to his compass, and stand by the Con
stitution. Hespoke about two hours.
/ Is there any word Of denunciatior
in the English languages strong
enough to hurl at the head Of a mar
who was the blood and thunder 10y.
alist in Tennessee, during the war
the President who raved and foamed
at the mouth like . wild beast, in
demanding that treason should be
made odious, by melting out the well
deserved halter to the rebels, and
who has now entirely gone over to
these selfsame traitors, and in the
presence Of the MANNED and crippled
men who fought for the "Lost Cause
at Shiloh and Nashville, servilely
covers before them, and in imitation
of Macbeth, (ghost Of Macbeth forgive
us for the comparison chatters thro
his cowardly, treacherous teeth
shake not your CORY locks at me
you cannot say twas l that did it!'
We pause for q reply.
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A CoNsuL.-Gen'l Grant has done
q very bad thing in appointing Emil
Rochester Consul to Bremen, in the
opinion of the Davenport Democrat.
The burden Of its wall is that Hoch-
ester is q German Republican, and an
actor formerly, and that finally he
became "penny-a-liner on Ger
man newspaper, still occasionally act
ing on the Snnday evenings. During
the Grant campaign, he took the
stump and was paid one hundred
dollars week to talk radicalism in
Missouri, to his countrymen."
Grant has been very unfortunate
in the selection Of his subordinates,
not having been able to make one
single nomination yet that has proven
satisfactory to the democrats. The
virtuous sensibilities, and traditional
piety of the democracy, are particu-
larly shocked. at the selection of o
retired actor, and "penny-a-liner for
the Sunday papers" to represent our
consular relations at Bremen; the
port through which majority of our
foreign population emigrate.
Meantime, since the selection OF
this distinguished and eloquent Ger
man, is satisfactory to his loyal coun-
trymen, to Grant, and to the Repub-
lican party, and this funeral being a
select affair Of our own, we rather
guess the Democrat and its followers
will have to submit to Rochester 60.
ing to Bremen.
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The President.

President Grants message to Con.
gress, the 9TH instant asking that
body to do something looking to the
immediate Reconstruction of Nissis.
sippi and Virginia, contained the fol-
lowing passages which will meet
with the hearty approval of all good
citizens: 7} s.Hy 40
"The authority of the United
States which hss been vindicated
and established by its military pow.
er, must undoubtedly be asserted for
the absolute protection for all its cit.
izens in the full enjoyment of free.
dom and. security !; which is the
object of the Republican Government
--but whenever the people of re.
bellious State, are ready TO enter, in
good faith, upon tho accomplishment
of this object, in entire conformity
with the constitutional authority Of
congress, it is certainly desirable that
ali causes of irritation should be re.
moved as promptly as possible, that
a more perfect union may be estab-
lished, and the country be restored
to peace and prosperity.
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Vol. 81, No. 2.

4 o'clock, this p. M, and it is expect
ed the. fire will be entirely subdued
before morning. 1t is is now stated
that at least forty men perished by
the awful calamity. The bodies re.
covered present horrible appear.
ance and indicate desperate efforts to
escape and the intense suffering of
tho victims before breathing their
last. ID - sf'' ''' "25iE.
A Washington special says.
The Judiciary bill passed yester-
day. 1t provides for the appoint.
iment of an additional Judge on the
Supreme Bench, and nine new Circuit
Judges, each of whom shall possess
the same power within his circuit as
Justice Of the Supreme Court allotted
to that circuit. The courts in each
circuit are to be held by the Justice
of the Supreme court thcre to be al
lotted, or by the District Judge, each
sitting alone or'either two sitting to-
gether. The salary of, the Circuit
Judges shall be $4,000. Each Judge
on the supreme bench is required to
attend at least one term Of court in
each district OF his circuit every two
years, Any Judge Of 10 years ser
vice and 20 years of age, may resign
thereafter, and receive full pay as the
pension act goes into effect the first
of next month. @ siE ts
The President has sent message
to the Senate withdrawing the nom-
ination of Mr. Steele for postmaster
at Toledo, Ohio, with the design of
leaving Alexander Reed in office.
|. The friends of Mr.. Motley assert
positively, tonight that he is deter
mined upon for Minister to England,
and that Mr. Loran, present Secreta-
ry of Legation, is TO be retained with
him. 1a H9s ged upa# #et 7S&
The testimony Of DIR. Shipleigh,
who examined Twitchell, is to the
effect that death was caused by tax
ing cyanide of potassium, q small
bottle containing about quarter of
an ounce OF which was foundsecreted
in the toe of his boot in the CELL
The coroner's jury have adjourned
till Saturday. There is no clue yet
as to how Twitchcll obtained the poi
son. s's w Peg
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The SenatorshiD.

Linkensale" in the Chicago Post,
has the following of the prospective
Senatorial fight:
"Col. Allison, Representative in
Congress from our Third District,
Hon. e. Fl. Williams, of Clayton
county; Hon. George G. Wright, one
OF the Justices of the Supreme Court,
and Hon. James r. Wilson, late
member of Congress, are the gentle
men from whom the choice would be
likely to be made, it made now. The
South having always had both Sem
ators, it is likely TINT Northern To-
wa, where we get our greatest ma
jorlties, will insist upon the Senator
ship. The question Of locality is of
itself but little value, but it is not to
be supposed that all the talents of
this State lie in tho southern part
Judge Williams, though little known
out Of Iowa, and not much known
to the general public in the southern
half of the State, is yet without a
superior in intellectual power, in the
whole commonwealth. In personal
and political integrity, personal and
political independence, he is the peer
of any man on earth. Unrefecting
minds might wonder why he is
unknown in the political world. To
such l have to say that Iowa is no
exception to the general rule, and
here, as elsewhere, it is not the best
laud greatest men who get the off,
ices. 1 do not know that Judge Viii.
Hams would ever consent to be Uni
Red States Senator. / know he
\ would not, at the expense of scram-
Ile for the place. Judge Wright has
keen on the Supreme Bench for
papany years. He has many earnest
Fiends, particularly among the cold
}, bttlers," and the lawyers in all parts
Att the State. He is not only man
fine abilities and great reading,
ST. at one of the most agreeable gentle.
Wien in social life between the Mis-
and sun up. OF Col. Allison
y I'd Mr., Wilson, | need not speak for
. b reason thet their public services
JAk known and read Of by all men Of
Eelligence.
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PERsoNAL.-Ed. Russell writes to
his Davenport Gazette of the follow.
ing gentlemen, whom our readers
are familiar with as Washington
correspondents of the COURIER:
"Mr. J. S. Briggs, in charge of the
House Stationery Department, and
formerly an editor of the Hapkeye, is
pleasantly remembered still by ali
his old friends, and made known con-
tinually to new ones by his excellent
letters to our Burlington contempo-
rary under the nom de plume of
Iowa." Whoever reads these in
the Hapkeye, will know that the
writer is close observer of passing
events and wields ready and grace
full pen. From his household, also,
the newspaporial world has en-
lightenment in the racy and piq-
uant letters of Olivia" given to the
public by Mrs. Briggs in the columns
Of the Chicago Republican but very
generally appropriated for the bene-
fit of readers of still other journals.
Mention must not be omitted here
of still another Iowan whose pen
does good service for the Muscatine
Journal, Ottumwa Courier and other
Iowa journals, in entertaining and
gossipping letters from Washington
over the signature of Potomac
This genial writer is J. P. G. Poul-
ton, once for brief season a resident
Of Davenport, but now, after service
in the army, engaged in the Capitol
Postoffice. Mr.. Poulton is, also, one
nf the ,oorking members Of the Iowa
Association Of this city"
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From Gallatin.

Hon. II. G. Angle of this City, has
received a letter from Mr. d. II. Da
Wis, one of the delegates to the re.
cent II. r. Convention here from
Gallatin, Davies county, Mo. lie
represents that the people of that 10.
cality are all alive to tho Importance
Of an early completion of the Iowa
Division of the Chicago and South
western Railroad from Leavenworth
to Cameron, Ottumwa and Washing
ton.
They have had a meeting and ap
pointed Committee of gentlemen
who have visited Leavenworth and
interviewed the Company there, ane
the Municipality, and report every
thing lovely. The G. 4 S. w, R. II
Company will be finished to Came
ron by July l.
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Congress,

Both houses of Congress were to
adjourn to-day by q concurrent reso.
luton, but the message sent in the
other day by the President, implor-
ing them to remain in session until
Virginia and Mississippi are put in a
fair way for rehabilitation, with all
the rights of States in the Union,
was put SO strong, and its justice so
apparent, that we are inclined to
think that that body will forego the
intense desire to get away from
Washington, and perhaps at the last
moment reconsider the motion TO ad-
journ to-day, and probably remain in
session a week longer.
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Col. W. F. SApp.-The appoint
ment and confirmation of Col. w. f
Sapp, of Council Bluffs, U. S. Dist.
Attorney for Iowa, vice NJ. D. Brown.
ing removed, is good thing.
Col. Sapp read law with Columbus
Delano, Commissioner of Int. Reve-
nue.; is cousin of Smith, the Solicitor
of that department; served his coun.
try with crodit in Nebraska regi-
ment; was an influential member OF
tho llth General Assembly; and is
one of the best lawyers, and most
perpendicular Republicansin in allIoua.
The population of Ottum wa, inclu.
ding everybody-black, blue, red and
white-touches the very respectable
figure of 5,O57. The real estate OF
both the city and the township IN
which it is located, foots up S1,O15,-
791. The COURIER, however, main.
tains that S3,00O,000 would come
nearer the truth. The manufactures
Of the city for 1868, amounted to
S532, ,S0O.-Oskaloosa Citi-en.
In our article from tho Assessors
books the other day, giving some
items about our population, taxes, &c
it was expressly stated that it was
the city assessment, and not intended
to embrace the township, as some O.
our neighbors do to give them a ro
spectacle showing. Nevertheless
the Citisen tries to make its readerl
believe that the return included tn,
township as well as the city, thus, il
its usual characteristic way, attompt
ing to belittle US.
If the Oskaloosa Citizen is as econ
omical iu monetary affairs as it is il
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he Western Publishing Associa.
J of Chicago, will shortly issue a
nd book of the c. B. l. Q. 4 Bur-
ton & Missouri r. RS, contain
1.-THE name and address of every
doing business on the line Of the
is, together with o short descrip.
of each town, village and city,
hg their population, business and
hfacturing facilities. The work
be we'll gotten up, bound IN cloth
sold at one dollar per copy,
h will make it a valuable adver.
medium for our merchants.
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DISTRESSING MARINE DISASTERS
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
says:
A list of disasters to the fishing
fleet on Georges" though rather a
sombre record, presents some lively
features in connection with the names
Of the vessels. Thus we learn that
"Fanny Fern lost her mainboom."
Poor Fanny! We hope she didn't
"miss her stays"
The Vice President is supposed to
be well settled just now, but the re-
port says
Schuyler Colfax lost anchor and
thirty fathoms cable.'
The Sage of Ashland was consid-
cred skillful with cards, but it seems
that
"Henry Clay had decks swept"
The ladies seem to suffer worst of
all in the list, Florence Clara Ma
rion,' Hattie Mary annie 'Lu-
cille,' and others, losing their anchors
and any quantity of cable; but the
most touching line in the list is
'sSophronia lost man."
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Coon ApPoINTMENT.--Capt. S. w
Rathburn, the genial, gentlemaply,
able editor of the Marion Register,
has been condemned to be branded
"P. NJ" Served him right.
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INsANE.-Pierre Soule, formerly a
distinguished United States Senator
from Louisiana and lis son,
have both become hopelessly insane.
The New Orleans Times says
Those who have known Mr.. Soulc
in his prime as one of the most Wig
orous minded of mon, with faculties
of extraordinary brilliancy, and SO
we'll preserved with temperate, pru.
dent, systemttic habits, will be sur
prised, as well as panied, to hear Of
his infirmity. Only the most poig-
nant, deep and radical sorrow, the
most wearing, agonizing and crush
ing of all calamities, could unseat an
intellect SO well balanced by nature
and long training, SO healthily devel-
oped and disciplined. Recalling the
brilliant career of the afflicted gentle
man, when the halls of legislation
and the courts of justice rang with
the echoes of his mclodious tones, and
audiences were held enchained by his
magical eloquence, when his noble
presence in every assemblage and on
all occasions drew upon him the ad-
miring gaze of all beholders, tho
beautiful and melancholy lines of
Shakespeare occurs to us with peculiar
force and impressiveness:
snow see that noble and most SOW reign
raason,
Like sweet bells tangled, out of tune,
and harsh.''
The Memphis Post says: :sThe
late Timothy Bigelow Lawrence, or
Tim, as he was called, created quite
a sensation by marrying Sallie Ward,
avery fast girl, in Louisville, who
claimed to be the belle OF Kentucky.
She was the sister of Matt. Ward,
who murdered Professor Butler, the
teacher, for fogging his brother as
he deserved. After Tim had grieved
his parents, by bringing home this
fast Kentucky grI, who hoped to
make q sensation in Boston. as she
had in Louisville, by her loud talk,
big feet, and disgusting empressn,ent
OF manner. characteristic, not OF no.
BILE Kentucky women, but of fast
Kentucky girls; his father reduced
his allowance to $1,000 year, to
see if he could make wife out of
this hopeless material. But it was
no go. She must be the sensational
or she was nothing. Sc she scanda-
lized the family by getting divorce
which they were very glad to grant,
and went back to Kentucky, where
she married long-legged doctor
aud went out of sight and remem-
branee. Tim was never anythin
but kind Of runt III the Lawrence
family, and has latterly been out of
sight and mind as Consul General to
Florence
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Horace H. Houghton of the Gale
ma Gaeette, who has been appoin led
Consul to Lahaina, Sandwich Is
land port, publishes an account of
that town, evidently to convince his
readers-frst, that there is such
place; and, second, that he knows
something about it. Lahaiua was
once nearly as important a place as
Honolulu, but is now u secondary
port, chiefly valuable for the sugar
trade, and for furnishing a good
place for a $4,000 Consulate.-Ch
40 Post.
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Supreme Court Decides the
Railroad Tax Law Uncon.
Sfit11finnQ1. kaw $@E At&

The law passed BY the last session
of the legislature, and commonly
known as the Township Tax Law,
was pronounced unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court of Iowa, at Da-
venport, yesterday, by three to one
of the Judges-C. G. Cole alone dis
senting. 4aa
The law was before the court on
an appeal Of Hanson vs. Vernon, Of
Henry county, in which case Judge
Springer, one Of the ablest jurists in
the State, had sustained the law.
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footing.


We have no right to object to
Fairfield, and our other outlying su.
burbs, footing their own tin trum-
pets; in fact wo have faint recollec-
ton of indulging in that innocent
pastime ourselves, occasionally, before
we had passed from the polywog
state to the full grown proportions
of great railroad center city. But,
in the language of distinguished
colored individual Of this city "busi-
ness is business" and we may add
footing is footing, which, we take it,
is grey horse of an entirely differ
ent color from willful misrepresen-
tation, Of which quality the state
'ment largely partook in a recent ar
ticle in the Chicago Post, which was
substantially copied in the Musoatine
Journal, when it said, ut now costs
$40 per car more to reach a market
from Fairfield than from Ottumwa ;
And now for the proof Of the falsity
of the statement, we submit below
the tariff of freights charged on tho
B. & M. RR. to Fairfield and Ottum-
wa respectively, compared in parallel
columns, as furnished us by Mr.. June
A. Wentz, the obliging agent of that
road at this point:
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REFORM SCHOOL.

Notice is hereby given that the Sts
Reform school for Juvenile offenders "
be open Oh and after the lst of Oct. rea
for the reception of all boys WHO may
sent there.
For information address, ISAAC
GIBSON. Salem Henry County, or JA
D. LADD, Ottumwa
J, A. PARVIN, Prest.,
Sept 9th 1868 OF Board OF Trustees
Oct LIST '6S dwtf
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The Iowa Tribune.

Iowa owes much for its reputatio n
general prosperity, and glorious Re
publican majorities, to its peerless
press, and now comes The Iowa Tri-
bune, an elegantly printed and ably
edited, eight column weekly, from
Iowa City, to add it's power to the
volume of usefulness in this direction.
Ballord & Huff are editors and
proprietors, and we welcome them
into the newspaper brotherhood Of
Iowa.
It is Republican to the hilt, and
says:
"To this party we have given
faithful effort all the years of its life ;
and by this party we expet to stand.
and in its ranksto serve, all the years
of ours. We were of it at its birth,
and. we gave it vigorous aid and
cheer during the mighty tramp of it's
young manhood. We have rejoiccd
over its growth and maturing ener-
gy, and have sympathized practical
ly with its unspeakable distresses in
the days Of its tribulatlon, when it
supported the country against infa-
nous treason: and wo fool no molina
ton to abate one jot or little of our
faith in its sacred covenants, now in
the days of it's triumph.
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RRIED.-.Wc notice from the
Sney Neacs, that Col. A. Roberts,
Yucceeded to the command of
tlth Iowa after Terrence was
slas come all the way from Ne
bfo gobbleup Miss E. A. Brooks,
o. the fair damsels of Keokuk
q " None but the brave de-
sAe fair"
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1t will be observed that the differ
ence is quite triAing, even from Chi
cago, while from New York, where
we have choice or routes. and lively
competition, there has not been one
day in the past year that our Ottum-
wa merchants could not ship their
goods handsome margin less, than
could be done to Fairfield, or even
Burlington.
We presume this statement in the
Post was made up from information
furnished by Fairfield parties, either
ignorantly or willfnlly, and have to
suggest to all the parties concerned,
that there is such q thing as foul
holds, and striking under the belt, in
Journalistic pugilism, which is dis
honorable to the profession.
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FINE HoRsE.-Messrs. Sanders and
Bell have imported from Ohio to
Sigourney, the celebrated Norman
Stallion, Victor Hugo, at an expense
OF $500.
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bumwa claims to have the big
drug house west of Chicago
H!-Gate City.
ing up your little one horse
liption Drug Stores, and wc will
lem in ours, and then have as
broom left as a pumpkin rolling
ain an empty wagon.
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JoMIN1.-Henri Jomini, who served
ia turns on the staff of Napoleon,
Ney, and Alexander of Russia by
far the ablest and most comprehen.
sive military writer of modern times
and whose works are text books in
all countries where the fine art oil
war is taught, died the other day in
France, aged SO.
We first formed Mr.. Jomini's &C.
quaintance during o leisure month,
after the surrender of Vicksburg,
through his Analysis of the Princi-
pies of Strategy, Grand Tactics and
Military Policy; lively work Of
light reading, as may readily be in
ferred from it's title, and regret that
he should have been cut down at such
a tender age.
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ORDERS SOLICITED.

Mr.Trumbull proposed several ver
bal amendments designed to remove
the antiquities of the bill. Agreed
to. .
On motion of Mr.. Edmunds, the
sixth section authorizing the com
manding General to suspend until
the action of the Legislature all laws
which he may deem unjust and op-
pressive was stricken out.
Messrs. Davis, Stockton and Bay
ard opposed the bill and denounced
the amendment of Mr.. Morton.
Nr. Casserly, while he would have
oppos sed the passage of the bill as it
came from the House, because it was
simply in compliance with the ex-
press recommendation of the Presi-
dent. The bill passed A to 9.
Nothing important doing in the
House.
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MAKING TREASON ODIoUs.-Monta-
ma was mainly settled with draft ske-
daddlers from both sides; hence the
fact that it is the only one of our ter
ritories which still adheres unwaver-
ingly to the Dark Ages democracy.
As a fitting punishment for their
manifold political and other iniqui-
ties, Grant has sent the Ambrosial
Ashley to rule and reign over them
as Governor for the next four years
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TYP me ballad, ladye, fayre, my
ladye, ballad typ" and ye man he
twlrled ye black moustache that COW
cred his upper lip, She lay aside her
brolderie-for hys love she stryves to
wln-and to a weird-like ayr the Ia
dye tayre attunes her mandoyn.-
81 do not care for wild romance Of
ye days OF old, says he, but rather
I'd hear, if my ladye please, some
touching melodie." And over We
ladye's musyc book ye gallant soldier
leans, while she sings with sweet
and angel voice, Captain Jinks of
ye Horse Marynes."
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the use of the truth, when it comes
to write of Ottumwa business affairs,
then that paper is destined to become
the richest one in Iowa. 4 R9E a
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Andy Fcit's sour Iowa Exchan-
ges' in the Nashua Post is the best
local column published in the Iowa
press.