The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-06-02
From the Daily Courier of the 3lst.
OttumWa & st. Paul Railroad.


J. W. Dixon, Esq, Secretary and
General Agent ofthe Ottumwa & St.
Paul Railroad Company, started
north yesterday for prolonged raid
over the line of that road.
He held meeting last night at
Kirkville, and will hold meetings aud
address the people, urging upon
them the Importance Of the enter
prise, at all the important points be-
tween Ottumwa and its northern
terminus.
The corps Of engineers fully equip.
ped, is already at work, and the
readers Of tho COURIER will hoar
from them from time to time.
In the meantimea railroad project
is brewing from Keokuk vsd Salem,
Fairfield, Siguurnoy, and thence
northward to Minnesota, which will
inevitably stir up those points to Sc.
cure thisgrcat northern outlet, which
will in q certain sense make them
our rivals for this prize.
If the people of Ottumwa fold
their manifest destiny garments
around them, and stupidity and su-
pinoly depend upon their natural ad.
vantagos, the Chicago and South
western modification ,oiA be repeated
for this north and south road ,oill be
built on one Of these aspiring routes.
IF we take hold Of the matter
promptly, and give the same liberal
aid to this enterprise, which we were
finally goaded into in a tort ofpost
mortem spasm, for the G. Is. W.
II. r., then its success will be put be-
yond peradventure, and Ottumwa
jobbing, wholesale and manufacture
ing commerce will have new field
opened up to it of magnificent re
sources, which is naturally tributary
to MS, which must have our trade,
and which will be Of intellectually
greater benefit to us than the road we
have just lost, and which will place
Ottumwa ahead Of ell rivals in Gen.
trail and Southeastern Iowa.
There is not q man in Ottumwa
familiar with the circumstances,
who doesn't know that we had it in
our power to secure the g. 4 8.
W. r. r. without seriously embaras-
sing ourselves, for fully two long
yearsup to the time Of its location.
Shall VIC repeat that folly over again?
In answer to my anonymous
brother IN tho Daily Gazette, of the
Goth inst, I still say I am on Enquir-
or a:terthe truth. have read and re-
read Webster on tho definition of the
term "angcl." Webster has a long
line of defni tons, moro than ono OF
which think suits our inquiry. !
must circumscr:be my space. know
Of no individuality, either material
or spiritual, outside of organization,
does this answer "the proposition
fairly" l demur to the insinuation
Of cndeavoring to "bcfog" any one
by "metaphysical moonshino." How
ever, l think mctaphysic very good
physic, TO help remove tho tradition
airy legends that havo come down to
us through dark and barbarous ages,
and although admitted to have been
by divine inspiration, still it has
seemed necessary that those tradi.
tions and legends should necessarily
be revised and amended by more
enlarged inspiration, nothing yet
said or admitted to controvert tho
truth of immortality and eternal
duration of all things. As to tho
Angelical character of the individual
that appeared to John, the answer is
in the tcxt itself, when he says to
John, while he (John) was on his
knees in workshop: "Worship God.
/ am thy fellow-servant." AS to my
brother and fellow-enquirer's attempt
at ridicule in saying he was not
present on the occasion rcferred to
in all sincerity, answer l think he
was conditionally 90, as much as he
will be eighteen hundred years after
this, and in which vast congregated
unity (which no man could number.
your humble servant expects to be
included. Still / am,
ENQUIRER.