The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-05-25

and tho President will leave for
Long Branch on, the 3lst inst. His
cottage is now being pnt in order. 4
The Post Office Department is
congratulating itself Oh the'increased
prospect Of making the postal iser-
vice self.suataihing. dl The revenue
thereof for the presen t6scali year lie
found to DO III, 200, 900 more than
last year. - igo4tsoiF tt esle.i ~
Summer, rising TO q personal !ex,
PLANTATION, called attention. to what
|purpoEted to be 4 report Of . speech
made by him last Friday, IN hxeu.
utlve session, published ia the New
York Herald, Iof Saturday. Trum-
bull. irterrupting, remarked, aand
80 Of all reports Of executive ses-
sions Of several days past. They
were al inventions.s' Sumner, re-
saming, said all the reports which
6S had Seen Of what were called his
speeches, were pure inventions. He
hoped that wherever these reports
had gone, this contradiction would
follow. Fisher Ames once said that
= lie would travel from Maine to
Georgia, while truth was putting on
his boots. Wilson offered resolus
ton, which lies over, that the Ser
geant-at-Arms be directed to dis.
charge White and RamsdeIl immedi-
ately after tho final adjournment of
the special session Of the Senate.
i . r. g4HE =. i
sip ela59N Ew York, May %. 4
Victoria q. Woodruff il out in q
card, defensive and offensive. She
ssys, II do not intend to be made o
scapegoat to be offeredup as victim
TO society by those who cover the
foulnesso of their lives. thoughts with
the hypocritical mantle off pro-
fessions, and by divcrting public at
tention from their own iniqnity in
pointing the finger ut me. / believe
In splritaalism !, I advocate free love
in its highest and purest sense, as the
only sare for the immortality and
deep ,damnation by which men cor
rupt and dis6gure Gods most holy
Institution Of the sexual relation.-
Ny judges preach against free love
openly, and practice it secretly. For
example, know Of one man, q pub
lie teacher Of eninence, who lives in
concubinage with the vito Of another
public teacher Of almost equal emi-
nence." She concludes: ri shall make
il my business to analyse some Of
these lives and take my chance in
the matter of libel suits. f
Since yesterday morning seven
corpses have been found floating in
the rivers and harbor, and six sud
den deaths have occurred In public
| places. tgY y.t4.s,.,sss. .!t.i
Gen. Schenck, United States Min
lister to Great Britain, and his two
daughters, arrived in the city yester.
day. They depart for England on
Wednesday per steamer Cuba.
, New YoRK, May %.
A special correspondent at Yer
sailies last. night, stolegraphs the full
particulars, OF the manner in which
the government forces entered Paris.
Captain Treego, of the navy, won't
from the trenches to the ramparts at
Pont du Joar, and finding that the
insurgents had retired, called 300
sailors and took possession Of the
gates. The other troops followed,
and before anyone was aware the
entry had commenced. Not rifle
was. fired, nor man wounded. The
whole thing was unexpected; The
white flag was hung out at Anteuil.
Another brigade Of VersaiIlists has
entered Porte Montrouge, and troops
are pouring down on both points. It
il reported that the Arc de Triomphe
has been reached, and that the in
surgents made but slight resistance.
The guns on the ramparts have been
turned on the communists Seventy
Thousand men. are. under Issy, and
10000 are moving on the open gates.
~ WASHINGTON, May 90. b
The next trial Of ex-COngressman
Bowen, of South Carolina, for big
amy. will begin here to-day. The
principal witnesses against him are
from Augusta, Ca, and left there
Saturday for Washington. Among
them are Chief of Police Christian,
Judge Levy, Ordinary ofthe county,
Sergeant Hicks Of tho police, aud q
lady who claims to be Mrs. Bowen,
Bowen arrived in this CITY this
morning. y -
But few visitors are admitted to
the room of Vice President Colfax.
His physician reports that he was
easier and in an improved condition,
though he is very weak, and requires
careful attention. w f'af.ia'aa-
The Senate met at 1880 O'Clock.
The Secretary laid before that body
. letter from Colfax, saying that he
did not expect TO preside over the
Senate during tho rest Of the session.
On motion OF Sumner, Anthony was
elected President, pro tenn, of tho Son
ate. Cameron moved to go into ex-
ecutive session. Senator Sumner
asked that his resolution to dis
charge Messrs. White and Ramsdell
forthwith DO taken up, but instead
of this motion tor an executive
session prevailed, and the considera.
tion Of tho treaty resumed. aais.
New YoRK. May %.
Edward J. Sears, LII. D., editor of
the National Quarterly Rsviey, was
arrested last evening on q charge Of
rape preferred by Margaret O'Keefe.
Ho was confined last night in the
Sixth precinct station house, and
will be taken this morning before
Judge Bowling, who issued the war
rant. Miss O'Keefc is said to be
relative of the accused.
1t is reported that now telegraph
company is forming of Now York
and European capitalists, who intend
to lay submarine cable from some
point on the coast of Georgia to San
Domingo, Jamaica and Tho West
India islands, thence down tho cast
coast of South America to Rio
Janeiro and othor points. 1t is also
the intention OF the company to lay
another cable between the United
States and Aspinwall to build land
lines across the Isthmus, to Panama,
and to proceed .hcnco, by submarine