The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-11-03
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Cabinet and Other Matters.
Special Correspondence of the COURIER.
Washington, Oct. 20, 1870.
While the mail was yet bearing
towards You, 1t acxpress" speed, my
late budget ,pf cabinet speeulations
the telegraph conveyed, at a eight
ming" rate, tho realities of the situa-
ton. Thus, your readers were at.
the same time entertained With the
facts and fancies Of the case--an o.
currence not unusual In these days
when, while time is ahnihilated, space
is but subdued, not destroyed, -never-
theless, the slower meassge.may not
have been without its uses indeed,
its appearance In your columns is the
best evidence that it was not wholly
supplanted by the other.
The lifting Of the curtain has re.
vealed to our expectant audience
some Of the incidents Of the play. and
We con now for = time give our ina.
gination rest, and pay attention to
the players. Already tho first act
has ended, and the, spectators are
eagerly awaiting the rest. The or.
chestra in Newspaper Row, is filing
up the intermission with most discor.
dant music, all prophetic Of what is
to come next, if only themselves
knew, or the listeners understood.
But, patisncei Stag e-manager
Cameron, who has stepped over to
Harrisburg, to SEQ man, will be
back shortly and the performance
will then 20 on.
TO come down to plain English,
such % will pass III Omaha, where
they don't take in anything more
complex than gAs-bag Trains verna-
cular, Secretary Cox has resigned, as
everybody, including your CORES.
pendent, thought he would; Ohio, in
christopher Columbus Delano,
retains her hold on his place, as
everybody knew she would, and
Pennsylvania, typified by Deputy
Douglass, with . superfluous sss'' in
his royal Scottish name, is to guaran.
tee the faithful collection Of the in
and revenue, q patriotic and unset
fish duty. With thisD1 admirable
distribution of the parts, and such
other changes among the star per-
formers as circumstanc es-that useful
term, -may hereafter determine, the
great national drama is expected to
run successfully for several years,
lncluding at least one re Encouragement.
l am satisfied, if / can only keep
away from the phraseology of the
footlights long enough to tell you 30,
have just been "Across the Cont.
nent," with the eminent, &c., young
comedian, O'Dowd Byron, that
what I referred to in my former
letter as attempts to dispossess Iowa
Of her representation here, did not
have the support from the illustrious
party men named therein, that was
claimed for them; nor did they ever
gain q shadow of the success expect
ed, or alleged to have been expected.
Briefly, they never had more
solid basis than the shallow tounda.
ton of a newspaper rumor in q dull
season of the year, and the irrespon.
sible babblings Of the hangers-on Of
the hotel Hobbies. Still, as we are
told that lie well stuck to is as good
rs the truth, and as we know that the
press is q power-whether for good
or evil depending upon the influences
tha' control it, and as these gentle.
mel. It the pen and tongue seemed
resolved to test both the proverband
the assertion, it was, perhaps. just az
we'll that y0. sAe~ld know at home
what was being said abroad, even
though the tale bearers were not bur.
dened, as they professed to some ex-
tent to be, with the weight Of official
responsibility in their utterances.-
This much is pretty certain, (and
state it in further justification Of my
course in sending tho rumor on and
making it the text of an exhortation
to you to come out and be hGard),
that some interested parties did com.
plain about town that the West had
more of the Government than was
necessary to party salvation, while
the East was suffering from a bad
distribution ofwhat it had, and tor the
want Of more but they awakened no
echo OF their wailings in lofty places,
and their melodies have consequently
ceased.
Before parting with the subject,
allow me the qualification of inform.
ing you that Wendell Phillips, the
champion grumbler OF the generation,
I'm irreconcilable, they would call
him in France,-has, right hero, in
this city, declared himself not only
satisfied" with the President, but
with the course and policy of his ad.
ministration. Now, If anybody in
Iowa thinks himself entitled to find
fault after that, his name ought to be
put on the Democratic ticket in the
banner Republican county of the
State. This astonishing declaration
of Wendell p. was delivered to the
reporter Of o sensational daily, pub.
lished hero. This reporter had just
returned from a professional inter.
view with q young Octoroon blonde
lately caught in an attempted elope'
ment with Downing, Junior, the son
of the illustrious colored politico.
oysterman down stairs in the Capitol,
AND with an interesting young
brute about town, jagged for the
savage murder of an old woman, SO
that he was braced up for anything
startling; yet he admits that w. p.
staggered him at first and o conscien.
tious regard Of truth induced him to
draw the oracle out q second time
before Ainging away his previously
sketched outline ofthe interview, a
he expected it to be, and writing il
down afresh, - it was.
( Mr. Phillips presence here was
for the purpose Of opening q course
0ftwelve lectures arranged by the