The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-02-10
FROM WASHINGTON,
Editorial Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID, G.
February Sd, 1s7O.

W AsHlN1loN. ~, ".
February Sd, 1870,
DEAR COURIER:
No pleasanter trip
can be made by rail on the American
continent, than that from Ottumwa-
the commercial centre and Railroad
metropolis of Iowa, to this the tumble
down Federal Capitol of this blars.
ted country" provided all the time
that the traveller takes the 4:3o a.
m, train on the B. & NJ. X. RR., and
goes aboard the luxurious and pala-
tial dining room and sleeping Pull
mans cars of that magnificently
managed tboroughfare, and which
run directly through to Chicago
without change, where you arrive
in the evening of the same day in
time for superb dinner at that
unriyalled hash house, the fremont.
At Chicago, the voyager who has
due regard for speed, comfort and
safety, will take the Pittsburg, Ft.
Wayne & Chicago Railway, TO Pitts
burg, at which lovely town, (accor-
ding to Parton) the men are only
able to distinguish their wives by the
taste Con account of the smoke. y
Here he will 60 aboard the cars OF
The Pennsylvania Railroad, which is
the richest and best one in the
country, on whose fine coaches he
will be transported to New York,
from where he will reach this ancient
city by the Camden and Amboy, and
other swindIing affairs, which run
New Jersey as well as the Congress
of the United States to II great
extent.
This writer left at Chicago, Messrs
Merrill and Daggett, of tho Railroad
Committee, and Fred w. Hawley,
who was visiting the city for medical
treatment, also Mr.. "A. G. leighton,
who has since arrived here on
business connected with losses of
property on the PLAINS by the Indians.
On our arrival in Now York we
attempted to get some definite inlor-
nation about the location Of the
Chicago g. Southwestern Railroad,
and succeeded in not getting it. We
may be more successful on returning
in u few days. In the meantime if
we loose it, the COURIER will not be
to blame. You manifest destiny
chaps who wanted something
for nothing W h expected u
few public spirited citizens
to make you rich, must not
shake your CORY locks AT us. For
over three years; in season and out
of season, have we warned you Of
your danger ; urged you to take the
initiative long ago by getting right
of way, stock and location, of u Rail-
road from Ottumwa to Washington,
thus etfectually forestalling all these
see-saw movements in advance, but
many of you harde ned your hearts,
and stiffened your necks, and now if
you arc Railroadically and meta
phorically damned, it serves you
right.
In Chicago, as a matter Of course,
we went and done the Post estab-
lishment, which is the best, snappl-
est and most reliable Republican
paper in Chicago, or anywhere else
for that matter. 1t makes Iowa
matters q speciality, which are at
tended to BY D Ing ersoll, asso-
ciatc editor, and which statement is
a sufficient guarantee Of their
spicines' aud accuracy. The Post
Is a model newspaper, and should
be patronized by everybody who
don't want the bawdy house Times,
the treachcrous T ribuae, the dish
water Republican, or the cold hash
Journal.
In New York, we found AT the st.
Nicholas hotel, many iowans. lnclu-
ding Burt, CLANCY, Of Ottumwa,
Leighton, Smythe and Bower Of
Keokuk, aud General Ed. Winslow
and his accomplished wife, formerly
OF Mt. Pleasant.
Winslow raised u company in
Wapcllo county, for the 4th iowa
Cavalry, AMI arose througa all tho
grades to Il cavalry division commau-
der, and was one Of the best officers
sent out from Iowa.
At the close Of the war, instead OF
buiaming around among the niggers