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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-04-07
The Courier.

With tins number, commences the
twenty second year ofthe COURIER,
With a circulation much larger
than any other paper published in
this part of Iowa, and which is rap
IDLY increasing; with greatly increas
cd facilities for serving our patrons
ia the future, and a constantly in
creasing job business, the CouRIEB
commences the new volume with as
sured hopes and bright prospects for
the future, and takes this opportuni-
ty to sincerely thank its patrons for
past liberal favors.
We are the official organ OF the
city and county; publish the laws o.
the Legislature, proceedings of the
Board OF Supervisors, and City Coun.
cll, and pay special attention to the
local and manutactsng iutere ats of the
city Of Ottumwa, and to those Of
Wapello and adjoining counties.
May we not, therefore, confidently
appeal to our friends to aid our cir
culation?
At $3.50 per annum for the Week
ly, and 500 for the Daily, we pub
fish the cheapest paper in the State
Men and brethren, will you assis,
us in extending our sphere of use
Iulness?
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A Ridiculous PRAYER.

"Pcrham," tho racy Des Moines
correspondent of tho Gate City,
writes how the Rev. Mr.. Field made
an Ass Of himself the other morning
in praying for the hasheaters of the
Lower House:
'Ho asked, among other things,
that God would cnlighten the minds
OF the members to an appreciation
of the greatness Of our State. and
that they might make u liberal ap-
preparation for new capitol lie
told tho Lord that but one more
vote was needed, (which was nows
to all PRESENT. and asked that good
sense might be given some one so
that that one vote should be obtained.
Then he told the Lord of. the bound.
less resources and wealth and
beauty of Iowa. and asked him il
such Il State was not able to build a
new State House? He thanked God
that this General Assembly had seen
tit TO propose an amendment to the
Constitution So as to allow women TO
vote and hold office, and no prayed
that this General Assembly might
prepare a nice building for tho ladies
when they como up to take their
seats as law makers. Having said
thus much, ho was made aware OF
the Righteousness of his petition by
that sort Of repressed noise which
always preccdes laughter in digni-
fed Assem- blage, aud so concluded in.
Il hurried manner.
1t was food for the enemies of the
capitol bill, but gall for its friends
And that's why there's mirth and
madness in Des Moincs to-day.
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the cost of surveying, locating ana

the cost Of surveying, locating and
grading it.
1t would form an Invaluable link
in The great thoroughfares of travel
and would open large scope OF coan-
try; now almost inaccessible to com.
mercc, to the enterprise Of the places
constituting the tosmini. The rival
lines and bridges across the Mississ-
ippi which would, by It's construc-
ton, be opened 10 ottumwa, would
certainly, by their strong compcti-
| tion, tickle your merchants with
cheap frcights and cause them to
wax rich with honest profits. Ii
your citizens will prepare themselves
to welcome and substantially assist
this enterprise, SO that it may be
prosecuted, Immediately upon the
completion Of the Cedar Rapids &
Ottumwa Railroad to your city, the
future of Ottumwa viii verify be re.
plcte with promise,
| have the honor to be, General,
very respectfully,
Your Obedict Servant,
THos. T. TAYLOR.
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A Little Wholesome Advice
Administered to Phillip
Sheridan, ESQ.

One of the objections made to Sheridan
as warrior is, that he kills people, An
| other is that he kills the Indian father at
a time when his family needs him as a
provider Of food, and The innocent sauaws
| and children suffer from this cruelty. We
| always did think Sheridan killed the enc.
my too much. Why can't you just shoot
them a little, Phil, so as not to hurt them?
Why do you want to go around making a
graveyard OF everybody that murders
American citizens? Don't you know any
way to carry On war without killing peo-
pie in this way? Suppose the poor Piegan s
have taken II scalp or two, and dug the
bow els out OF few live babies, and sub.
lected few women to the embraces of
half a tribe of the most hellish ruffians
that ever wore the human form, what has
that to do with IL? You ought not to
blame the poor fellows. Indians always
do that way. You should send missiona-
ries to them. Send them Peace Commits
sioner-send them the Cincinnati Gazette
send them baldheaded Quaker that
can't be scalped-send them-confound it
send them Mungen and his fiddle. We
can spare him. 1t would do him good to
60. II would do us good to have him go.
The Indians would be glad to see him.
Let him take Mrs. Cobb along. Let him
take the whole female lobby from WASH
ington. If they can't bring the Piegan to
repentance and 10 thinking of his latter
end, nobody can. And don't be So brash
with your shooting any more. Don't you
remember how you used Eosser, in the
Valley? He only wanted to come along
down in the rear. He wasn't hurting you
any. Yet what did you do to that young
man? You went out with Gustav and shot
at him and charged into him with YOUR
Internal cavalry, and made him git and
GIT I'LL his artillery wagons went so fast
that only one wheel touched the ground,
and his horses were nearly tired to death
Ihat no way to treat a man. You should
nave been polite and friendly to him.
You should be polite and friendly TO these
Indians. Give them blankets aud Spencer
Rifles. and scalping knives; give them to-
bacco and meerschaurn pipes, or Partaga
cigars; give them the Agricultural Re
port, and the Congressional Globe, aud
Greeley's Recollections of a Busy Life"
and other Civilized documents. Give
them Lydia Thompson. Give them Lydia
Yes, by all means, give them L.-OAio
State Jonynai.
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Congressional.
SENATE.

washington, April 4.
The Vice President submitted the
order Of arrangements for memorial
services to General Thomas, as
agreed upon by the presiding officers
of the two houses. It provides for
the meeting of the Senators and
Representatives in the hall OF the
latter on Tuesday evening, and the
appointment Of joint committee of
six Senators and seven Representa-
9 yes to attend the funeral.
The Georgia bill was taken up
Senator Stewart moved to strike out
Senator Bingham's amendment. Sen.
ator Wilson offered an amendment
authorizing the continuation OF the
present Legislature for two years
from its reorganization in January
last, provided the clause in the State
Constitution on the subject shall
never be exercised to extend any of.
fetal term beyond the regular oonsti.
tutional period, and that the Legis.
lature to consent to this condition
before tho Act shall take effect,
A discussion ensued, which was
participated in by Senators Wiley
Salisbury and others.
Senator Thurman made a speech
against Senator Wilson's amend,
ment, and was replied to at lenght
by Senator Sherman.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Hoge offered q resolution fol
the adjournment of the session on the
10th Of May, but the House refused
to second the previous question and
the resolution went over.
A bill passed the House fixing the
time for the election of Representa-
tives and delegates to Congress in al
the States and Territories on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday il
November, 1872, and every secont
year thereafter.
The resolution by Mr.. Maynard
directing the Secretary ofthe Navy
| to order an inquiry into the particu
lars 9th, Oneida disaster, with .
view to ascertain the responsibility
for the same, was modified so as t
make the investigation extend to thu
conduct of the Captain of the Bonn
bay, and adopted.
Mr.. Julian presented joint reso
luton to amend the Constitution o
the United States by adding Articl,
Sixteen, as follows:
Section l, The right of citizens o.
the u. S. TO vote shall not be donied
| or abridged by the U. S. on accoun
of sex.
Sec. 2. Congress shall havo powe.
to enforce this Article by appropriate
legislation.
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Conundrum.

The Des Moines Bulletin proposes
to give its Weekly one year to anv
one, who will solve the following
problem: 2
awe say that Adam and Eve con.
sumed ten apples during their ,s;av
IN Eden, and can prove it, How do
your" w
Swlokhammer at our side replies
GIVE ate (9 and Adam too (2). there.
fore we think Swickhammer is stuck
for so Bulletins.
LArER'-We have just found the
above conundrum with Swickham.
mer's solution, in an old Missouri, Re.
publican, and therefore conclude that
the Bulletin man for stealing it and
passing it off as original, and swick-
hammer for doing the same with the
solution, are both dead beats of the
first magnitude.
L. S. Orwig you needn't send the
BMletln~to Swlckhammer.
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Laws of Iowa.
Published by Authority
CHAPTER 20.

CHAPTER 20.
| AN ACT to amend Section 8 of
Chapter 118 of the Laws of the
Tenth Gen eral Assembly, and Sec
ton II Of Chapter lab Of the Laws
ofthe Ninth General Assembly,
and to regulate the sale of school
lands.
SECTION l. Belt enacted By the Gen.
efal Assembly Of the State of IoUa,
That Section 8 Of Chapter 118 of the
Laws of the Tenth General Assembly
be and the same is hereby repealed,
and that in lieu thereof the following
is hereby enacted: "SEc. 3. Hereafter
no part of the Sixteenth Section, nor
land selected in lieu thereof, nor any
part of the Five Hundred Thousand
Acre Grant, nor any other school
lands whatsoever, shall be sold for a
less SUM than the minimum price of
six dollars per acre, except as by
law hereinafter provided, and in no
casetor less than the amount at which
it has been appraised; provided, how
ever, that the sale Of section No. six
teen, township ninety-tWo. range
thirty-one, and lots numbers two,
three, four, five, six and seven in
section sixteen, township ninety
three, range thirty-four in Poeahon-
tas county, sold by the Board OF Su-
pervisors Of said county prior to the
receipt OF the Resolution ofthis Gen.
eral Assembly Withdrawing school
lands from sale by the Auditor Of
said county shall not be affected by
the passage of said Resolution.
SECTION 2. No School Lands of any
kind shall be sold until there shall be
at least twenty-five legal voters resi-
dent in the Congressional township
in which said school land is situated,
and in fractional township of less
than thirty-six sections the number
of voters residing therein, must have
at least the same ratio to twenty-five
as the number of sections, or parts of
sections in said township has to thir-
ty-six. which fact in all cases must
be shown to the satisfaction OF the
Board ofSupervisors.
SECTION 3. Where the Board of
Supervisors Of any county shall have
once at least, offered tor sale any
school lands in compliance with the
requirements of Sections 1870 and
1871 of the Revision of 1860 and of
this Act, and are unable TO sell the
same for as large an amount as the
minimum price ofsix dollars per acre,
and ifin the opinion Of said Board Of
Supervisors said land cannot be sold
Tor that price, and it is for the best
interests of the School Fund that the
same be sold tor a less price, then,
and in that case said Board of Super.
visors may instruct the Auditor of
said county to transmit by mail, or
otherwise, TO the Register of the
State Land Office certified copy of
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MANHOOD:
How Lost, How Restored.

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Sent under seal, in . plain envel'
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Address, DR. LEWIS. No. z Beach
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the proceedings of said Board Of Su.
pervisors in relation to the order OF
sale Of said land, and subsequent pro-
cecdings in relation thereto, including
the action of the Township Trustees,
and the price per acre at which said
land shall have been appraised, which
transcript the Register of the State
Land Office shall submit to the State
Census. Board; and if q majority OF
said Census Board, including the Reg.
lister Of the State Land Office, shall
approve Of the sale Of said land for
less than the minimum price of six
dollars per acre, then the Register OF
the State Land Office shall certify
such approval to the Auditor of the
county from whence said transcript
came. which certificate shall be tran
scribcd in the minute book Of the
Board of Supervisors Of said county,
and thereupon said land may again
be offered and sold to the highest
bidder ss provided in Section 1871 OF
the Revision of 1860, without being
again appraised, but in ocase under
the provisions of this Section shall
any school land be sold for less sum
than one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre.
SECTION 4. Section II Of Chapter
148 OF the Laws of the Ninth General
Assembly is hereby repealed.
SECTION 5. When any lands have
been bid in by the State IN behalf Q:
the School Fund on execution found
ed on q Judgment in favor Of said
Fund, such. land shall be sold in the
manner as other school lands.
Sec. 6. This act being deemed 81
immediate Importance, shall be in
force and take effect from and after
it's publication in tho Io,ca State Reg
lister and Des Moines Bulletin news
papers published at Des Moines
Iowa.
Approved March 81, 1870.
I hereby certify that tho foregoing
Act was published in the IONA Stat
| Register and Des Moines Bullet,
March %, 1870.
ED. WRIGHT, Sec'y ofState.
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Des Moincs, April /, 1870.

AAVooS INV tst y " CtOGh Il. III.
Speaker in the chair.
Prayer by Rev. Hobs.
Journal of yesterday read ard ap.
proved.
Mr.. Traer chairman of ways and
means reported to the House sum.
mary bill. Mr.. Dunley, chairman
of committee on claims asked and OBJ
tanned leave to report bills under COZ.
sideration by said commit. &c.
Stone, of Mills, moved to take UP
the regular order. Motion prevail
cd. House had under consideration
bill TO resume the lands given tho
d. Y. r. Il. to aid in its construction.
Mr.. Quits, of Mahaska, obtained
the floor, and spoke against resump-
ton in a legal and somewhat humor-
GUS strain for tbirty-fve minutes,
givm- many and good reasons why
the State should not resume the land.
Mills, of Dubuque, spoke for few
minutes in favor Of resumption.
DIr. Parsons Of Fort Dodge, tho
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Educational.
Mr.. EpIToR:

We send you the fol
lowing report of our school taugh,
in District No. 8, Pleasant Town
ship, hoping you will give it room ir
your columns.
The school commenced October 4
aad closed March 25. Tho attend
ance was unusually good, notwith
standing the hooping-cough was in
our midst.
Number Of pupils enrolled 81
Number studying photography
and Reading, Ga. Number In
Arithmetic, 80. Number in Gram.
mar, IL. Number in History, o.
Numberin Geography, 6. Number in
Penmanship, 80.
The following are names of pupils
of highest rank: W. Marsh, T, G'Bry.
ant, J. Larwood, George Phillips, G.
Marsh, M. Carson, d. Pollock, S,
Neville, Mary Phillips, Lizzie Hart.
man, BERTHE Carson, Lima Hartman,
Catherine Neville, Jane Carson,
Flora Neville, Nancy Carson.
Our school house is good one.
and well seated; but no maps, charts,
or mathematical apparatus of any
kind to aid the teacher in his illus.
trations.
We think the Board Of Directors
would do well to look into this mat
ter.
We think that any difficulty which
may have occurred during previous
terms, in regardto the school,, should
not be attributed wholly to the pupils;
for better dispo sitionod class of
pupils cannot easily be found.
After an experience of nine months
as teacher here, l am satisfied that
whoever teaches the next term, will
find willing minds to study, and kind
and affectionate hearts toward the
teacher. CHAs. II. CRAWFORD,
Teacher.
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Another Railroad,
EDNA, KNOX Co., Mo. !
April I'd, 1870. (


| April I'd, 1870.
GEN. J. NJ. HEDR1cK:
| After my compliments
to you and kind wishes for your
health, desire to inquire what are
the prospects of the construction of
the Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa
Railroad?
In this enterprise our citizens feel
q lively interest, inasmuch as it will
offer an unbroken and direct line of
communication, at all seasons of the
year, from the great wheat and lum-
Der depots of the North to your city,
and from thence on q comparatively
short line to this place.
You are doubtless aware that this
town is point on the Missouri and
Mississippi RR., which, passing via
Macon City, at Glasgow will connect
with the Tebo & Neosho RR, and,
via Sedalia, Clinton and Fl. Scott,
with tho Galveston RR. AS you
will perceive this connection would
more than compensate you for the
loss Of tho Southwestern, as it would
bring your city in a more direct CON-
munication with the great cattle
section of the Union, and would open
to your enterprising traders terri
tory unrivalledin fertility and abound
ing in wealth.
Again: We are fixed and irrsvo.
cable point on the Quincy, Missouri
& Pacific, which will cross the Missis-
sippi by the bridge at Quincy, where
it will connect with the Quincy & ST.
Louis RR., and on this side of the
river will intersect the st. Louis 4
Keokuk road, either of which will
afford Ottumwa route to the South
from fifty to seventy-five miles short
or than by way Of the north Nilsson
ri.
twill be our aim, so to shape our
proceedings as to prolong the Cedar
Rapids road to this point soon after
its completion to your city. Theline
is a very direct one. Edna is loca-
ted in ranges eleven and twelve and |
in the extreme north of township
twelve, and Ottumwa in fourteen,
township seventy three, aocc riding to
government survey. 1t would, l |
think, be located almost due north
from this town to Memphis, Scotland |
County, thence to Troy, and thence
up 1.-THE divide to Ottumwa. This Of
fers a short practicable and cheap
five or six streams OF
note, and seventy miles would in
cludo the entire line; four hundred
thousand dollars would suffice to pay
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Chicago Live Stock Market

Chicago, April 4.
Cattle - Receipts 1860; market
active prices steady; sales 1853 at
63@73 good to choice steers extra
lots sold at 7.60@8.20.
Hogs-Receipts 1850; market mod
erately active, at decline Of 1920
cents; sales ranging 83a9 common to
choice.
Sheep-Quiet, nominally firm and
unchanged.
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Pensions.

On the Both inst. our ever faithful
Representative Hon. VIM. Tough
ridge introduced the following bill /:
Be ii enacted Jythe Senate and House
Of Representatives Of tie United States
in Congress Assembled, That all pen
sions accraing and becoming payable
TO pensioners OF the United States
after tho passage Of this act, shall be
paid in gold coin of the United States
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o"lckhammsr says that the true causs
oflowa being SO Radical, is that the State
elections come off in November instead
Of IN August, as in former times. during
the rule of the Democracy. BE saws that
the baretooted Democracy can't come ont
i'll November to vote while thew did a.
August and he adds in solemncholy
tone of voice, that if they should ever
cultivate their party to ooaing out in
November, that the pesky RAIDS would
forthwith put the elections of to mid
winter, thus disfranchising ever so MANY
good Democratic voters.
swickhammer says this is as gross n
violation OF the Constitution as licking the
Rebels.
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Chicago Provision Mar ket.

Chicago, April 4.
Flour--Dull, a little better spring
xtras 4.37G14.75.
Wheat-Firmer, No l selling al
$1,000; Mo-, 77@77l; No 8, 73@
743. la.,
Corn-fHigher, No 2 firm at 70.
Oats--Firm at 394.
Pork-Mess closed Mt $3.50.
Lard-Quiet, steam sold at 14s.
Meats - Steady, shoulders, 81;
rough sides, 12a; short ribs, 1874 loose
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The State Central COMMITTEES of the
Democratic party of Missouri, have had .
meeting and resolved that it is inexnedi-
ent for the Democracy of that State, at the
approaching election, to nominate tic.
ket.
Forty thousand Republican majority to
start ON with the avalanche of Republican
votes given us by the Fifteenth Amend
ment is too much for the Democracy of
Missouri, and the first sensible thing
which they have done lately, is to recog-
nize the fact that they are .fmnctus o0icio
dogs. "'"0
Upon this matter, the Chicago Post
pertinentiy says:
II is impossible to see what business
The Democracy have to call any more eau
cusses on ms continent, or what excuse
tney can offer for prolonging their unpro-
htable existence as a party. During the
war they mad an apology for being, even
though IT was very wretched one. When
the Union armies were violating the bless
ed doctrine of State sovereignty. and
breaking the Constitution to pieces. bv
recovering government forts and captur-
mhSSStuc DeIlOCTAIS MAD de-
Unite ii not very lofty purpose, which
WAS to keep up howl of denunciation IN
the rear of our Boys in Blue, rjdicule
their battles, cxaggerate their defeats, be.
little their victories, impeach their cour-
age. praise and defend their euemies. and
threaten TO send no more recruits to the
front. When Grant was drawing his tiery
Gordon around Richmond, the ioudest Of
the Democrats of the North were advising
resistance to provost marshals, and de,
n2unclng the great chief as butcher
When Sherman swung his army from the
hills of Chattanooga to the sea, the miser-
able dupes of Henry Cay Dean and Val
iandigham in the West were fleeing to
Canada. and the wretched tools of Bill
Eaton in Connecticut, were choppine
their fingers of, to escape service in "Abe
Iincoln's lniholy war" What place can
such {. party have in American politics
why should not party with such an in
famous record, veil it's face and retire, as
the tories and cowboys had the grace to
DO after our earlier wars? Why should
not the Democr tic detection in Missouri
become epidemic?
jobs cash footed mn $40 OD0 apoorl;n,,
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THE LATEST NEWS.
Telegraphic Summary.
Gold yesterday Liz.

$4,000 fire in bayenport..a
Republican city ticket elected yes.
terday IN Davenport.
Mcfarland murder trial began in
NJ Wy esterday,
10 Hobsoh nominated assessor 3D.
Iowa District.
Election in Connecticut close yes.
terday, with probability that En-.
glish is elected.
Republican City and Bible ticket
elected in Cincinnati.
Evansville, Ind, elects Republican
ticket.