The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-11-03
TELEGRAPHIC.
Washington. Oct. 81.

TELEGRAPHIC.
Washington, Oct. 81.
Gen. Cox in leaving Office thinks
it is his duty to yield to the very
general demand to furnish for publ |
cation his correspondence with the
President. His letter OF resignation
is dated Oct. Sd, d. Staten Island, and
recites that he had learned system
attic effort would be made by politici-
ans to force = change in the policy
pursued in the Interior Department.
.ne renewal sftAs indian survey
ffotn the spheres If ordinary political
patronage having proved specially
distastefufto many influential gentle
mbn in both Houses of Congress-
Gen. Cox thinks his continuing in
Office might embarass tho Presidents
plans BY adding causes Of irritation,
inasinuch as Cox's views ofthe neces.
sity Of reform in the civil service had
brought him more or less into collis-
ion with the plans Of political mana
gers, and his sense of duty had
obliged him to oppose. some Of thoir
methods of action throughout the
Departments.
While the Secretary has no doubt
that public sentiment will sustain his
efforts toward q needy reform, he can
not overlook the fact that for. the
present they volvoopposition which
it may not for the interests of the ad-
ministration to provoke. For these
reasons he rendered his resignation
to take effect on the appointment Of
his successor.
The Presidents reply, dated Octo-
Der 9Th, tostifies to the zeal and abil-
ity OF the Secretary, and the warm,
cordial relations between them. Hc
accepts the resignation to tako effect
upon the completion Of the annual
report of the department. now being
prepared to accompany his message
to Congress.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the sale ut New York, of
one million dollars in coin on each
Wednesday and 10 purchase ono
nllllon in bonds on each Thursday
during November.
Executive orders were received
yesterday at the Department Of the
Interior to take the census Of the City
of New York, the enumeration only
to extend to count the population and
only such particulars as necessary to
verification. The work will begin
Immediately after tho election next
week, and will be pushed to compile.
tion within few days.
New York, Oct. 20.
The Herald's cable dispatch dated
London, 20, says:
A special correspondent telographs
from Saarbruck, Goth as follows
Tho surrender of Bazaine took nobody
by surprise. 1t was certain ever
since the departure of Boyer. For
several preceding days the French
pickets were drawn in and the firing
entirely ceased. The Germans ad'
vanced close to the French and talked
| in friendly manner with the enemy,
occasionally giving the poor emaciat.
ed follows portion Of their rations,
as it was understood the provisions
of the garrison were exhausted. The
men were on the smallest possible
| ratlons. A deputation of soldiers
waited on Bazaine and asked that
the garrison be led to the assault en-
masse, as they preferred dying on
the field to the horrors of starvation
that seemed to await them. The
General received the deputation kind.
ly and represented to them the hope
lessness of doing anything in their
present weak condition. Even il
able to cut through the lines, the
restitution of horses and rations
wvald compel y capitulation SCORER
or later, and he stated that negotia.
tions were pending for an honorable
capitalization, and he hoped soon to
relieve his brave men from their ter.
rible situation.
Immediately upon conclusion Of
the capitulation. the garrison was
provisioned by the German commisa.
~, this being necessary to prevent
horrors of actual starvation.
MEMORIAL FROM BISMARCK TO THE
AMBASSADOR AT NORTH GERMANY.
The following memorialin regard
to the fatal consequences which the
population Of Paris may expect by
prolonged resistance, has been sent
by Count Bismarck to the Ambassa-
dor at North Germany:
Tho conditions of tho armlstice
offered to Jules Favre, intended as q
basis for tho establishment oil
order in France, have boon rejected
by him and his colleagues. They,
therefore, desire the continuance Of
. struggle which, according to the
course of late events, appears with.
out any chance of success for The
French people. Since then the pros.
poets Of Franco in this war, SO full Of
sacrifices, have still further declined.
Tours and Strasbourg have fallen
and Paris is closely surrounded and
the German troops are advancing by
the 6aono and by the Loire. The
large forces heretofore engaged at
the above fortresses arc now at the
free disposal Of the German comman-
ders. The country has to bear the
consequences of war a l'outrance,
decreed by the French authorities in
Paris. Its sacrifices will be- unne,
cessarially increased, and it's social
condition suffer more and more
dangerous decomposition.
The commander of tho German
armies does not find himself in q sit
uation to counterfeit this but it per
ceives clearly the consequence of The
resistance chosen by tho powers in
France, and feels compelled to cal
general attention to one point, name
", the special condition Of Paris
The heaviest attacks heretofore made
from this capital, on the 10Th and 30tt
Of last month, in which the elite OF
tho armies collected in that city have
not been able to throw back the first
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