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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
Overdressed Women.

A New York correspondent who
secs the beautiful but admircs tho
substantial, writes as follows concern
ing the vice of extravaganza in dress.
OverdressiDg demoralizes a wo-
man. 1t takes from her that purity
of thought and character, the high
prerogative ola perfect life, which is
her.legitimate birthright, and she sells
it for mess of potage. It opens the
avenues Of her soul to o thousand de-
stroying influences, and leads her by
silken tendrils, over into the valley
of the shadow of death. I think Of
this when l see mothers helping
their little ones into this thralldom. I
thought of it last sunday; as glanc-
ed from the chapel master, in his
white robes, to baby-worshlpper in
blue silk, en- panier, all ruffles and
folds; and Grecian hend-to tho white
hat with its cluster of matuie red ro-
ses-to the small wrists clasped in
jewelled bands-to the shapely baby.
fingers heaped with diamonds. l
looked at the soft pale, golden hair
arranged just like mamma's-to the
white brow on which the lace hat so
properly rested-to the clear cut fea-
lures Of tho mature, precocious face,
luminous with seven years wisdom,
and could not reiterate the good
mans assertions, "Ot such is the
Kingdom of Heaven" 1t seemed to
me too much in the fashion of this
world (which passeth away"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
A "FulI Hand"
ssI'M FROM PIKE COUNTY AND THAR's
MY TICKET"

's1'M FROM PIKE COUNTY AND THAR's
MY TICKET"
Although the "flush times" have
passed away on the Mississippi, they
still have some queer and sometimes
rough customers on the river boats.
On a recent trip of the Highfyer,
crowded with passengers, the clerk
had allotted the last stateroom and
was about to close his office, when he
was astonished by the apparition of
q tall Missourian, who exclaimed, II
say, stranger, | want one of them
chambers" Sorry, sir" said the efic.
ial blandly, "but our state-rooms are
all taken" "The d. they are, re-
sponded Missouri; GIVE paid my fare,
n / want one of them chambers"
"Allow me to see your ticket" said
the still polite clerk. Putting his
hand to the back Of his neck, the pas
senger pulled out ten.inoh bowie
knife, and, driving it quivering into
the counter, said, "I'm from Pike coun-
ty, young Teller, and thar's my ticket.
1 want one of the chambers Before
the steel had ceased to vibrate the
prompt clerk quietly thrust a loaded
and capped six-shooter under Pixies
nose, and coolly answered, dive only
siv chambers and you see they are
all full" The Missourian edged out
of Grange" and putting up his "tooth.
pick" calculated, Afull hands good,
by-w and strobe off to seek such
quarters as he could find. It is per-
haps unnecessary to say that the pc.
lite clerk has quit steamboating, and
was not as has been reported on the
steamer Dubuque during the late
terrible riot.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

HANDS AND FEET.-I went to the
shop the other day to buy what tho
diapers call SCENTS hose" A smil-
ing young lady was behind the coun.
ter, and when l had made an appeal
appeal to her to show me some socks
] was somewhat doubtful what course
action l ought to pursue in order
demonstrate to her the length of
.ny foot. As / am not a burlesque
writer, it was clear thatI could not
lay my foot on the counter and say,
"with all my sole;" nor could para
phrase Dibdin's Jack Tar, when he
spoke of the dancer who $50 daintily
handled her feet" The little woman
huwever speedily removed my first
perplcxity; though only to plunge
me into another.
evil you," said she, "plcase to
double up your fist and lay it on
the counter p
Ireplied that l did not want gloves
but socks.
"And l want to take your measure"
she said.
"But," l urged, "it is the measure
of my foot you require"
eyes," she replied, "and l can get
it equally as we'll from your hand
Once round your clcnchod fist at the
knuckles, is the length of your foot"
And she took the measure of my
fist, and l took the socks on the faith
OF tho damsel's representation; and,
in due course, / found that she was
quite right, and fitted mo to q nice
fy
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

The Treasurer's Office at WASH
ington is flooded with spurious ten
dollar greenbacks received from banks
in all the Northern States, but more
particularly from the New York city
banks. The counterfeits are so per.
feet that the Government experts
find great trouble selecting the spuri-
GUS from the genuine. It is suppos-
cd that two Of the printers engaged
in printing the genuine note have col.
luded together, and while one of them
has obtained the lead impression of
the face plate, the other has secured
the lead impression OF tho back, and
thus obtained complete impression
of the note. 1t is thought that Gen.
Spinner will call in tho ten dollar is
sue of greenbacks at once, and save
all further trouble from fear of count.
erfeits,
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
Important to County Treas
ur0rS.

again call the attention to a
decision of the Supreme Court in re.
lation to tax titles, rendered at tho
December term, 1856, in case of
Boardman VS. Bourne.
1t was decided in that case that
lands sold for delinquent taxes must
be aduertised, described and conveyed
in seperate tracts, and that but one
town conld be embraced in one des.
cription.
The decision is based on tho plain
provision OF our statutes, and any
deviatlons from it's requirements rem
doris the tax sale void. Treasurers
in some counties have advertised and
sold lands in quarter, and half, and
even whole sections, and lots in whole
or half blocks. All such sales arc il
legal and the tito worthless. A tax
title is doubtful enough at best, when
every provision of law has boon com.
piled with, and Trcasurers cannot DO
too careful in following the exact let.
ter of law, as in that way alone can
we avoid tho most annoying compli-
cation oftitles.- W. Dodge Northwest.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

The Weekly Des Moines Bullit,n
has put in an appearance at this Of.
fee, and is a credit to Iowa Journal
ism. BY the way Messrs. Orwlg, we
send you our daily every day and on
ly receive yours enthusiastically,
What's the matter? Ifyou consider
your paper worth more than ours,
please mention the amount, that we
may remit the difference.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
A RIR-SM ASHER.

A twenty-inch gun, weighing over
ffty-seven tons, arrived at Fortress
Monroe on the Oath July.
It was cast at pittsburgh, Pa, and
there is but one other of the same size
in the United States. 1t was taken
by rail from Pittsburgh to Jersey City,
where it was shipped on tho schoon-
or A. Lincoln for this place. 1t cost
over 81 900 to re.ship it from tho cars
TO the schooner, there being but one
hosting apparatus at Now York OF
sufficient power to handle it. The
schooner arrived, but there being no
facilities for unloading it the vessel
was sent to Norfolk. Colonel Henry
w. James, the Depot Quartermastcr;
went up to Norfolk and procured a
large barge of sufficient tonnage to
carry it, and upon which the gun was
placed. Owing to its great weight,
the placing ofthis gun upon tho barge
was very delicate operation. The
barge was put to her utmost capacity
to carry it. Colonel James procured
the steamer Rcsolute, took tho barge
in tow, and brought herdownin safety.
At high tide, the barge was taken up
the beach to the place where it was
decided to land the gun, and run broad
side on the shore. A foundation of
heavy timbers was then built up even
with the side of the barge, immense
hawsers, block and tackle, etc, were
brought to bear on it, and the ponder
GUS piece of ordnance began moving
down the slight incline to the beach.
There are no gun-carriages at the
port heavy enough to bear the weight
of this gun, but one is being built OK
pressly for it at the Watervleit Ar
senal, which will be complete in d
short time. The gun will throw a
shot weighing about LOO pounds.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
The Dodge Of Now York De-
mQccaCY.

The new dodge of the Democratic
Leechcs of New York City is to
howl to tickle the Irish car, and ca.
jole the Cuban Junta of that city.
So old Tammany Hall is lighted and
a meeting Of the faithful guardians
of universal liberty is held to take
into consideration the rights Of
American citizens abroad.
They say with a flourish of trum-
pets, can American citizen yet Ian
"guishes in an English prison for an
"alleged political offense." "Ameri-
"can citizens are executed in Cuba
"without formal trial." sand our
Government sits supinely by Offer
''ing no Interference, and the Presi-
"dent is attending watering place
enjoying his ease when such outra.
"ges are committed" ..
And the oily Hoffman and O'Gor-
man, ring the changes upon these
allegations against our Government
to arouse il possible the bitterest
hatred towards the administration in
the minds of their ignorant and delu-
ded followers, and so do they
strengthen their hold upon power,
and the public Treasury.
Oh! for shame upon such advocates
and protectors of human liberty
Men, who when tho nation ran with
fratricidal blood, and universal ruin
stalked abroad over the South; and
mourning at every hearthstone in
the North; mon, we say, who in such
times laughed at our national calami.
ties, gloried in our defeats and Incl
ted the brutal. mob to set on fire
their own city and murder innocent
and helpless children. Can it be pos
sible that any people, struggling for
freedom will ever commit their
cause into the hands of such men.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
ST. LOUIS MARKET

st. Louis, Aug. II.
Flour-Inactive and easier, supcrs
sold at S. 50@5 IS; Xxx SIS 0516 25;
XXX$7@7 40.
Wheat-Opened firm; closed $3.50
lower; prime to strictly prime red
fall 81 25@36; choice to fancy 81 37a
@55; prime choice white 81 35M4.
Communicative but steady; 90 for
yellow; 95@97 for choice fancy
white.
Oats-Inactivo; mixed in bulk "A;
mixed in sacks 50@51.
Rye-Firm at 95@s1.
Whisky-Firm and higher, 12(0
ID.
Groceries-Quict and unchanged.
Pork-Nominal ut $4,000 25.
Meats-Dry salt clear sides sold in
small way at 18.
Bacon-Quiet and firm ut 16 for
shoulders; 18 for rib sides; 10 for
clear sides.
Lard-Nominally firm; choice tiorco
held ut 20.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

ACTION OF THE CENSUS BOARD
We CLEAN from the Register, that the
State Census Board after a session
of several days, has made an equal
ization Of the value of the lands by
Counties for taxation. In the new
County of Dickinson the equalized
value per acre is s1,63 the lowest in
the State, and In Cedar County it is
the highest in the State, being S13, 35
per acre. In this County the equal.
lied value per acre is $500. The
Board has also reduced the levy by
the State from two and one-half mills
to two mills. This reduction i'll the
levy was doomed advisable from
the fact that the State Treasury has
been we'll replonlshed of late by tho
General Government on account Of
advances made by the State in rails.
ing troops for Federal Service.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
TO THE FARMERS OF THE
NORTH WEST. &

From the Prairie Farmer.
The Chinese, arc now attracting as
laborers. The patient and the steady
work to which they are Injured, is
Just what is wanted on your farms.
They are docile, initiative and quick
to learn, and adapt themselves to new
places.
All this has been demonstrated in
California, during the last twenty
years.
Our venerable Senator, Hon. Ben.
Wade, on his return over the Pacific
Railroad, was accompanied by q
friend, who had two Chinese in his
family ten years; and left them in
charge Of his house. -
A.gentleman who has been acquain.
ted with them in San Francisco, and
other places on the Pacific coast,
about twenty years, has found them
peaceful, and gentle, willing to take
hold of the hardest work on the farm
and in the family, cheerfully. On
hand, early and late, and obedient
without complaining.
Used to plain diet in China, they
are easily satisfied with ours.
With reasonable wages they arc
contented, and are sure to make
themselves useful and respected in
families. Hardship is no new thing
to them, and your occupations are
much easier for them than any they
have been used to.
There has been a prejudice against
them in the minds of many good peo-
pie, but this is rapidly passing away.
In California, they are found in the
Sunday School and at the family al
ter, earnestly seeking for the truth,
and blessed be God, many of them
have found "Him of whom Moses and
the Prophets wrote"
As our intercourse with California,
developes over the Railroad, those
people will appear among us, and it
is well for you to DO on the watch
for them, and be ready to avail your.
selves of their help in your largest
and most important of all our om-
Payments. Their industrious and
frugal habits, would spread over our
prairics, in a few years a dense and
active population, teeming with the
bountiful products of the soil, and ad'
ding large increase of stalwart
bones and sinews, with royal hearts,
to our common country. I'D.
Chicago, Ill.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
Chicago Market.

Chicago, Aug. liz.
FLoUR-Fair demand; sales offspring
supors ats5 80: spring extra Sc 25a6 rs.
Wheat-Vevy quiet closing lower;
81 40 cash for No 2 spring; No !
spring sold at 81 49,; No B 81 36a7;
winter fair demand and unchanged;
No l amber 81 81; No 2 do 81 47a4S;
No l red 81 so.
Corn-Fair demand and shade
higher; No 2 sold at 913a92i, closing
at 81; rejected S6a4; no grade SOaS1.
Oats-Easier andshade lower, clos
ing at 463@47.
Ryc-Bettcr demand at shade cast
or prices; No l closed at 81 O5@a.
Highwincs-Held firmcr; sales at
81 IL.
Seeds-Dull and easier; sales OF
timothy at SO 75a80 other seeds NOM
inal.
observation-disclosures, with firm
feeling; no sales, and prices nominally
unchanged.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
Closed.

The immense Tobacco Factory of
l. N. Henderson & Co., at Kookuk,
has been closed by the Government,
for the application of fraudulent
stamps to tobacco caddics, which the
Gate CITY says was done by q fraudu.
lent Clerk of the House.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

The two following items are from
the Muscatino Journal:-H. G.. Angle
& Co., of Ottumwa Bank, have sold
out to Seth Richards and George w.
Hale, who will continue tho business
under the name of Richards Il Hale.
Mr.. Anglo is former Muscatiner.
The Now York Tribune gives neat
expression -t0--vr. oftea otsstod fact.
when it says that nothing but rebel
victory ever exhilerated the sham
Democracy like prospect Of national
bankruptcy.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
The Coming Petticoat.

An exchange saws the uses to
which paper can be put seem to be
in no way exhausted yet. Paper
collars have become great fact of
the nineteenth century, but what
will ladies say TO paper pettlcoats?
These have been produced with
great success, and will rival in every
way the snow white and deliberately
ornate garments poor male mortals
are accustomed to look upon with
fear and reverance. We have all
heard Of tho artist who used to make
caricatures of his friends upon his
shirt collars, and the author who in
scribed an epic upon a couple of doz-
en- of the same useful article of attire.
Thus we see field of great useful
ness Tor the petticoat for the future.
Young ladies can make sketches
from nature on their own petticoats.
Every damscl her own sketch book
will be their motto. Poets can in
scribe sonnets to their mistl css' ank-
les around the hem of her petticoats.
Mothers can have fairy tales, alpha
bets and small scholastic works in
scribcd on their garments, and so in
struct their children as they walk
about with them. Fancy the an.
nouncoment, "Madame Percale begs
leave to call the attention of the To-
dies about to visit the seaside to her
new and richly embroidered petit
coats at one shilling each. Each
petticoat contains ali installmcnt Of a
new novel of great domestic interest,
by Mr.. Anthony Trollopc, entitled
'rucks or Frills." The story will DO
complete in fifty weekly petticoats. I"
There is no reason whatever why
journalism should not be represented
in that way. For example the DAD
iy Petticoat, a journal for ladies; or
the weekly pinafore and girls Ga
sette.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
About Wine.

|, The Pail Mall Gazette clearly and
unequivooally AYERS that such q thing
as genuine wine is unknown, the stuff
drank for it being the production of
scientific chemists, who devote their
whole attention to the business. Eng
land annually exports to Portugal
from a million and a half to two MILL
ions Of the spirits that gets back to
gentlemen's tables in the shape of the
rich, old wine, which no well-stocked
cellar can be without. An enormous
business has been carried on at Ham.
burg, by which common German
wines and coarse spirits are trans
muted into ports ndsherries. Trav-
elers believe that in wine growing
countries themselves, the pure juice
Of the grape is to be had at every
inn. But, Italian wines are not desir-
able. Neapolitan wines undergo a
change at the hands of the doctors
before they arrive at Naples. The
vintage of tho Romagna, adulterated
by the proprietor, Falernian, is no
more. The Greek wine is introduced
into the market before it is matured.
The best Spanish WINE comes to town
in pig skins that gives it avile flavor.
In recent trial in New Orleans,
about importation duties, it came out
chat not q bottle OF genuine Lafitte
or Chateau Margeaux ovor oamo here
from France. A wine merchant tes-
tilted that the duly branded wine in
dispute was a manufactured article,
made of the commonest vintage lees
at that, colored by some heavy red
juice that was thrown in. Some of
these decoctlons cost no moro than
$3.50 per hogshead, but we pay 81 per
bottle for Observation-Disclosures MontIlv.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

All the year round, Sheridan's Cav.
airy Condition Powders should DO
given to horses that are "kept up
To horses and cattle that grazc in
Summer, they should only DO given
in Winter and Spring.
Officers and soldiers who served in
the army. physicians, surgeons, and
eminent mon..and women everywhere
join in recommending Johnson's Ano-
dync Liniment to be tho best inter-
nal and external family medicine ever
invented. That's our experience.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

Sam Clark, of tho Gate and Rot
Clarkson of tho Register have been
having running fight over tho merits
of their respective towns, and here
is the last blood for Sam.
Ret, edits paper up in a thriving
locality known in some quarters as
the Three Rivers settlement. They
are called Three Rivers on account of
having no water in 'em. The set
Element is called Three Rivers be-
cause on whatever side of the rivers
you get the town amt there-its on
the other side. A man up there two
winters ago went crazy trying to
find the town, on some side or other
of some Of the rivers; at last he had
to give it up, and he froze to death on
a prairie ten miles from any house.
The Coroner Of the settlement sat on
him. He had died inside the corpo-
ration limits. There is one house in
the settlement however; its Frank
Aliens. We presume there are no
other houses there. For when you
meet native he asks you at once if
you have seen Frank Aliens house.
If you haven't, the native goes and
hires-the natives all have money up
there-they keep boarding houses
for the members of the Legislature;
they get all the per diem of the un-
lucky members, and then attach their
carpet bags for arroarages--with the
proceeds Of the per diem and the car
pet bag the native goes aud hires a
team Of Bill Cleghorn-they didn't
have o team in the settlement until a
Keokuk man went there and took
one with him. With this Keokuk
team the native takes you out beyond
some farms and shows you house.
Its rather good house.
Its rather a good site for town.
The natives will tell you that they
expect to have town there, in time,
but at present the land is more val
liable for farming purposes; it makes
such capital corn growing farms that
they can't afford to build on it. You
will be surprised, at first, upon ask
ing nstive to show you the thiekest
part of the settlement, that he sho'd
show you a four hundred acre corn
field. After you get acquainted with
'em you find that's way the natives
up thcre have. They have an idea
that corn fields are q town.
Recently the settlement has been
improving. For long time nobody
could get there; and if one got there
he couldn't get away. But some
Keokuk men wanted to bring the
trade of the country on the other
side Of Des Moines to Keokuk-
wanted to give the natives a chance
to get to a market and to q real live
town, SO they built railroad up thro'
that settlement. That was three
years ago; the natives up there woro
coon skin caps, blankets and mecca
sins at that time. They are moro
civilized now; they have givcn up
the coon skin caps and moccasins-
they still stick to the blankets how
ever.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
WAYNE County.

The Republican County Conven.
ton of Wayne county, on last Satur-
day, nominated the following excel
lent ticket, which will win by ever
sosmany hundreds of a majority.
Lewis Miles, Jr., editor of the Cor
ydon Monitor for Representative.
Geo. W. Dean, late orderly I'D"
Co, 23d Iowa, tor Treasurer. Col. b.
IL. Jones, Sd Iowa Cavalry for Audi
tor, and LIT. John N. Wright for
Sheriff.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19

Mr.. J K. Graves, of Dubuque, has
received an order to send 10000
bushels of wheat to Franco, which
will go to this destination via Now
Orleans. The Frenchmen are begin.
inning to know that for the best
bread they must send to Iowa.