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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-29
Alexander Il, Stephens after hay.

Alexander Il. Stephens after hav-
ing been a member Of congress, vice.
president of the defdnct democratic
rebellion, and biographer in chief for
the "lost cause" has just now turned
up as editor Of the Atlanta Sun. In
his salutatory, be evinces rsmarkabls
devotion to the constitution as it
was, which he done 30 much to
make - it is, for which the New
York Sun raps him over the knuekles
in this cruel manner:
Shaving been vice-President of
the defdnct Confederacy, Stephens
OF course feels great solicitude lest
harm should come to the Cons itution
Of the United States. Having fought
four years to overthrow the Federal
Government, it is natural that he
should now be extremely anxious for
the preservation Of the American
Union. Having been one al the RI.
ling chiefs in the greatest military
despotism of modern times, nobody
will doubt his sincerity when he
clamors for the domination Of bal
lots over bayonets,
"But even Stephens has to admit
the irresistible force Of events, for
they sweep him along with the rest
OF mankind. In 1850 he proclaimed
war against the verdict Of the ballot
boxes Of that year. In 1864 he was
| still fighting it out on that line. In
1858 he drew rein and came to q
halt. And now no has advanced GO
far that he declares that he will
stand on the principles proclaimed
in the Democratic platform of that
year This is encouraging, and
tends strongly to prove that il
Stephens should live to be as old 81
Methuselah, and if his wind should
not give out, he may catch up with
his times. By way of trying an in
termediate experiment, we advise
Stephens to run himself for Presl
dent next year on the platform o
1868, which be says embodies thu
absorbing living issues Of the day
We assure him that he will not b
crowded for standing room, and tina
the Democratic party will not bring
an action Of replevin to take ava,
his foothold."
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Alex. ID. Stephens, late Vice Pres
ident of the late Democratic rebel
lion, has just assumed charged of The
Atlanta (Geo.) Sun, and has this te
sayin hissalutatory of the old clothes
stealing business in which the De.
mocracy of Ohio and Iowa have inst
entered upon:
THE Sun, under my general con-
troll of its political course, will con-
tinue to stand upon the principles OF
the platform Of the Democratic party
of the Union, as announced in their
last General Convention at New
York in 1868.
"a chief object will be TO show, by
calm argumentativo appeals to the
good sense and patriotism of the
true friends of the Constitution.
North as we'll ms South, that any
departure from the essential princi-
pies or that platform will be exceed
ingly dangerous, if not fatal, to the
Of tho whole country"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-29

VERSAILLES, June

kNsAlLLES, June lt.iai
Tho Pope, in his reply to the adj
dress of sympathy from the French
Catholics praises them for the faith
they exhibit in the cause of the
church and of himself and dcnounces
the liberal Catholicism az an evil as
formidable as the revolution of the
Commune. s
Theirs has issued a decree provid-
ing for the establishment Of a legion
Of Mobiliers, and gen d'armes, to
maintained order in Versailles. The
legion will be composed Of . squad
ron OF cavalry and eight companies
Of infantry. 29srs2 ~
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The ghouls Of Democratic Journal
ism would do we'll to read and con-
slder the truthfulness of the follow
ing paragraph from the Des Moines
Register.
"The New York World is surprised
to sec the Republican press Of the
country speaking so respectfully and
even kindly of Vallandigham since
his death. 1t need not be surprised,
if it will only remember. It has
never known Republican papers to
wage war against dead men. It is
the Democratic press which does
that, as witness it's assaults, which it
continues to this day upon President
Lincoln, and especially it's tiendish
attack upon Secretary Stanton. 1t
would be we'll for the civilization OF
the age, if more Democratic papers
than the World would be SO sur.
prised at the way tho the opposition
press treats their dead men that they
would conclude to treat dead Repub.
.licans decently."
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-06-29

The best judges of o mans charac
ter are his own immediate neighbors
Ii they unanimously and enthusias,
ticaliy endorse him it is pretty con,
elusive evidence of his general good
qualities. The people Of Fort Dodge
the other day, on the arrival of Col.
Carpenter, clothed with the highest
honors which great and dominant
party could confer, seized him on his
exit from the cars and horc him in
triumph through their city to where
bonfres were blazing and cannon
were firing, whore tho next Governor
of Iowa returned his thanks for the
evidence ofappreciation by his follow
citizens.
A man who can extort such com.
pliment as this from his neighb |
will do to tie TO, especially if he has
served four years Us q Com missary in |
he army, and come cut poor.
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Chief Justice Chase seems to BIZ
inspired by the thoughts Of Lucifer
"Better to reign in 'Hell than serve
in Heaven" His letter to Vallan.
digham shows that he is willing and
even eager to lead the party whose
measures and principals he has spent
vigorous life in resisting; but If he
does it, he will contribute to its de.
feat as he has SO often done before.
Judge Chase is no longer himself.
He is possessed by the seven devils
of political ambition which no man
but Henry Clay has ever succeeded
in wholly exercising whom they had
once effected a Judgment in his soul.
Angered, soured, embittered IN 1864
all his sweet juices turned to gall,
BY the faulty Of the people in pre-
ferring Mr.. Lincoln to himself, he
turned his back on them, spurned
them as fools, and execrated them as
traitors to himself, and ever since
he has been dropping through the
darkness into the gulf of popular
odium. 1t is not too severe to apply
to him Whittier's terrible estimate
of Webster, after his 7th of March
speech
$50 fallen! so lost! the light Withdrawn
= Which once he wore;
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For ever more i
"Rcvile him not. The Tempter hath
A snare for all;
And plying tears-not sco-n and wrath
Befit his fall.
"All now Is zone. From those great eyes |
The soul has fled
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man Is dead.
"Then pay the tribute of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward with averted gaze
And hide the shame1
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A colony of fifty persons from
England, on their way to Nebraska,
rested on Monday in Burlington
The Hapk-Eye says:
"One prepossessing man with a
wife and seven children, had q nota-
BILE certificate, not only from his rec
tor, but from his employer. 1t GER
titled that he had been hired by one
farmer for nineteen years, at first at
four pence day, but at last at sixty
pounds ycar--that he had gained
a prize OF four guineas at blowing
match, MS we'll as that his father and
grandfather had been employed on
the same farm. When asked, "Why
did you come to America 2" his an
swer was, TO help my children to a
start. and perhaps save little to
live on in my old age. In England,
said he, 'as soon as l am too old for
labor, my landlord will say, 'go to
the union,' the English name for a
poorhouse, and my children must
begin as / did at four pence day.
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WASHINGTON.
I, WAsH1NaToN, Jun,

WASHINGTON, June ~.
Eight hundred Assistant Assessors
Of Internal Revenue were removed
since the last of October, under the
law providing for the consolidation
of districts. This is thirty-three per
cent. of the whole number of asses.
sors. The removal under this law
will cease with the present fiscal
year. Is
Mrs. O. @. Bowen, No. 8, had an
interview with the Attorney General
Yesterday in regard to the applica-
tion for her husbands pardon. Aker-
man assured her that he would give
the papers in the case due considera-
ton and mako the best possible dis
position Of it.
A petition for pardon is now IN
circulation here and is receiving hun
dreds Of names, some Of them very
prominent in business and political
circles.
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A00EuuMF TO GOV. DUlIs,

n fSsF..
Day before yesterday evening, the
2eth instant, DR.. b. G. Bulls, acting
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, and
the Republican candidate for that
Office y the approaching election,
was thrown from his buggy, at
DEBORAH and perhaps fatally injured.
The following dispatch from the
editor oftho DEBORAH Rspubsican "a
the Dos Moines RICHTER gives the
particulars:
"DEcoRAH, June 27-5 P. M.
r. CDR. Bulls was thrown from 9
buggy yesterday morning at three
o'clock. and dangerously injured il
the left side, through the kidney,
and spino. It was feared he coult
not live through last night. He il
still olive and resting quietly. Tn,
doctors tear internal hemorrhage
and have only slight, if any hope.
"a. e. BAILEY"
Later dispatches. up to 6 P. M. yes
terday, are of a more favorable
character, yet they give but little en-
enlargement to hope for his recov
cry.
! Or. Bulls is one Of tho best mel
in the State, and all our people vii
earnestly hope that his injuries hav
boon exaggerated, and that he ma,
speedily recover.
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TO Charles 8. Allen, Defendant

You are hereby NQtified that there
is now on file, in the once o. N1ne Clerk OF the
petition of pltn CAthafine e ANA. claiminS
that on or about the 2lst day Of February. n.
p lSsS. you deserted her, ana sinoo which
without any reasonable cause: and nskinr
that e decree OF divorce be granted her, and
Catherine e. Hungerford You are fnrf1er
nOtined that unless you appear and make
deience thereto before noon OF the second day
OF the next term of Said Court to be bernn
and held at Ottumwa, in said county. on lie
1th day Of September, 1871, q default viii be
entered against yOu and a judgment and de-
June l.w4tl Aff,vs Snr pitT
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Alexander II. Stephens is to pub
lish q paper through which he can
enlighten the world as to his political
views in these times of revolution in
his party. He is understood to be
radically opposed to the "new de-
parture," aid that on account Of this
movement on tho part Of dem ocracy
he is particularly anxious to make
public his views IN q paper under his
own control. The keen and caustic
pen Of Stephens will doubtless lay
bare the inconsistency and the want
of sincerity on the part of those who
assume the new role, and hence do
those democrats having the new birth
in charge deprecate very much Mr..
Stephens mounting the editorial tri-
pod, because the light he may throw
in upon the situation. will tend to
burst the empty bubble that cunning
and unprincipled men have set aAoat.
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WlAKEN up by James II. Hamilton, of WASH
4 ington Township, Wapello County, Iowa,
on the 39th day Of May. lazt two estray
Horses, described as follows: One dark chest
old, light name and tall, blind IN right eye,
right hind foot white. has On q new bell and
collar. and heavy With foal. collar marks On
star In forehead, both hind feet white above
pastern Joints, several harness marks, and
Roman nose supposed To b seven years old
I Clerk gs DIST. Court Wspsiio Co.. iowa.
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OHIO.


AxE0Se u Vou0to1J01toxv,
CLEVELAND, Juno ~.
U. 8. Marshall Hastings has sue
ceeded in dotecting embarrassing one
of tho most extensive gangs of coun-
terfeiters in the West, including
some most desperate rascals. A
large amount Of counterfeit money
and tools were captured.
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Of villainy, may be and exist, with.
out n supinely resolved acceptance
systematically conjured up to mollify
the guilty perpetrators, or for any
other cause.
At least, so far as our volition is
concerned, it can exist without that
or NOT ut ell-aud the less we have
of it, the better.
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: Inthe District Court Of the state OF lows.
Ia and Tor Wapello County. .Bq 81
,s,5 y. aFaipst, lseptember Term. 1871.
~. Noah L Gebhart, defendant:
IS You are hereby. notified that ON or before
She 18th day of June, 1874, thepotitiOnl OF Will
lam T. Major, plaintiff. Will hs Aled In the
Clerks Odice Of the District Court Of Wapello
County. IoWA. Claiming OF you the sum Of
Four Hundred and Thirty dollars and %
cents, with Interest ct 10 per cent. nom March
the 18th. 1871, as justly dine him on . Judgment
rendered by the Superior Court Of Aonteom-
cry County. Ohio. ON the eth day Of March,
Issue against your property. And that unless
you appear and make dafenge thereto on or
before noon Of the sscond day OF the next
term Of said Court. 70 be began end held at
the Court HOuse IN Ottunnwa. b. sid County,
ON the 18th day Of September, 1871, AeGnult will
be entered and . Judgment rendered thereon
against you. -.ss8 ss2t8 8.f ~ etas q
HAMILTON CHAMBERS,
no0w4tl ~ Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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Genl Noyes, the Republican can
didate for Governor Of Ohio, lost q
leg in leading the Saith Ohio, at the
bloody battle of Atlanta, July ed,
1864. He is reputed one of the
finest orators in that State, and is,
moreover, q Methodist in whom
there is no guile. He will, therefore,
as matter Of course, be elected by
an overwhelming majority.
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q NorrdE Il hereby asvSsit6 ali spsrsops
interested, that on the 5th day Of June
A. d. 1871, the undersigned vas appointed
by the Clerk Of the Circuit oourt OF Wapel-
70 County. lows. Adminiatrator OF the
Estate OF John ]. Stivers deceased, late Of
eaid County. All persons indebted to said
Estate will make payment to the UNDER
signed, and those having claims sgainrt
thenticated, to said Court for Allowances.
June It'll 1871. 81 NANCY EILvEns,
= St.W. Admfufsfratnr
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the Brooklyn Anti-income tax asso-.
citation, and will be appealed to the
supreme court Of the United States,
The book committee, in the Meth
odist Book Concern, which has been
in executive session all day review
ing the evidence in the Lanahan in
vestigatiou gave decision this eve.
ming: Lanahan suspended: vote IL
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KIRKvILLE, Iowa,
Juno ~, 1871.

Dear Sirs-Tho citi-
zens of Kirkvil!e and vicinity have
determined to have an anniversary
celebration of the Declaration of
American Independence, and in con.
nection Herewith Union Sabbath
school pic mic and basket dinner at
Kirkville on the 4th of July. Every
body is invited to.come with their
baskets and little ones.
BY order of the Committee.
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Tho Senatorial Convention of

Tho Senatorial Convention OF
Montgomery, Mills, and Potawata-
mic, meets next Friday and will
nominate Capt. J. Y. Stone, as Mills
and PotawatalDie are instructed for
him, with Montgomery for Web.
Eaton, editor Red Oak Daily En-
press.
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ENGLAND.

LONDON June q.
The Fenian convict Burk, has boon
released from imprisonment on con-
dition that he reports yearly to a
magistrate. -.
A fire is known to be raging at
Sheffield and fears are entertained
thIt it is in the old collery which ex
tends to the very confer of the town.
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GERMANY.
BERLIN. Juno 81.

BERLIN, juno n.
Emperor William has decreed the
dissolution of the present army CON-
binations in France and the forma-
ton ofall the German troops in that
country into a combination called
the Army of Occupation OF France,
OF which Gen. Monteuffel is appoint
commander.
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ran Nnw DnPARTuRn.
Here is what Brick Pomeroy says

Here is what Brick Pomeroy says
Of the anew departure:" adv
"Resolced, That we put on the
skin of jackas, and hew wood and
draw water for our masters.
"Resolued, That the Democratic
party disband, and it's members join
10 oarpet-bag crusade against the
long outraged and submissive peo-
pie Of the South.
tfrhe above resolutions are offered
for the suggestion Of the Democrats
as recipe to assist in making politi-
cal campaigns easy. The Chairman
of the Committee on Resolutions
should now have the floor to say:
"'Pat me in my little bed ="
'a And the New York World, the
ablest and most respectable organ Of
the party in the entire country,
sneers at the Iowa development of
the new heresy, as follows:
"Thus the Democrats Of Iowa &C.
cepts the situation, 30 called that
is, adapt their utterance to the bigotry,
the ignorance and the narro,o prejudice
of men who have hitherto voted
with the Republican party"
And again the World declares:-
"A great deal Of the Iowa platform
is Of this soyt-'steps for infant
minds.'"
The evidence is accommodating that
the new departure is virtually the
last will and testament Of the Dem.
ocratic party.
a. Liberal and intelligent Democrats
) can see no difference between comine
over and endorsing the results of tn.
Republican policy, for the last ter
years, and bodily getting on oul
platform and accepting our faith il
good faith, while the original old in
4 corrigibles can see nothing in it but
- . cunning device of the leaders t.
sr get INTO once ana plumber.
It will result, az previous efforts o
the Democratic party in the possuu
line have invariably resulted, in dis
gusting the fellows who believe il
restoring slavery and the whipping
post who favor repudiating th,
public debt, and ignoring the oonsti
tutional amendments, and, rs they
composea large portion Of the voters
of that party, and, as they will fol
the most part refuse TO come out t.
vote, tho new dodge will inevitably
result in defeat, disaster and early
and entire dissolution OF q party
which has been travelling around 70
several years only to save funera
expenses. e @#
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ITALY.
FLoRENcr. June 81,

FLORENCE, juno "a
King Victor Emanuel leaves here
tomorrow for Naples and from there
he will proceed to Rome, and will en-
ter tho Holy City on the End of July.
While in Rome he is to join Prince
Humbert in the Inauguration Of tho
Rife Palace.
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Eighth Street, sT. Looms. No. - AZ
- NOttce to the Adltcted md fZakn,es...,ns
Repairs on County Jail.

Tint bios be received Mt the Auditor,s IF.
flee. in ottum wa, for repairing the Wnpel-
10 County Jail, according to plan and
specifications in said Auditors Office mn.
til July 18th, 1871. The Board reseryinp
the right TO rajec, any or all bids. Adop.
tod. 0P'
GEO. D. HACKwORTH.
noii-w2I County Auditor.
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KANSAS.
AroArsoN. .Jnne 81

ATCAIsoN, June 81.
Work on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fee r r. is progressing rapid
ly.
The crops are the best ever raised
in this part of the State. The small
grain is all harvested and the yield Is
prodigious. Corn is very promis-
ing.
Immigrants are rapidly settling
up this region and are vending thor
way westward by the hundred.
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Chicago Market.
Chicago, juno q.
FLouR-Quiet; super 81 OO@4 Is;
common to good extra white winter
IS 0095 SO.
WHEAT-Unsettled; 81 263 cash.
CoRN-Steady; at 54c cash.
OATs-Quiet;at 48fc cash.
RYE-Firm; at $40 cash.
BARLEY-Quiet; 85c.
PoRK-Quiet and firm; at S145OI
cash.
LARD--At 10a; July.
WHIsKY-Firm; at 88ac
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CUBA.
HAVANA. June q.

HAVANA, June %.
Charles West a republican Amori-
can insurgent, colored, has been shot.
valmaseda in . proclamation, Of
fers pardon TO all Spanish deserters
and to grant them better terms Of
service if they will deliver up thoir
present chiefs, dead or alive. He
gives large rewards 10 those cond uut t
ing troops to places whore they can
surprise insurgent camps, and also
to those contributing to tho capture
Of the principal leaders of the insur.
rection. 'usasi "
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A woman recently saved an OK.
press train, on the Penn. railroad
from being smashed to pieces against
mass Of avalanched rock, by Wig.
orous waving of her apron in front
of the train, for which the gushing
passengers forthwith presented her
with the muniicent sum of twenty
dollars in cash, and, also recommend
ed her to the kindly consideration OF
the Railroad Company.
We think those passengers must
all have been kindred to the chaps
around Gettysburg, who charged cur
soldiers, en- route to that bloody field,
for the water they doled out Of their
wells.
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Brick Pomeroy goes for the new
departure thusly:
"lt is hard for us to ascertain what
the Democracy and dissatisfied Re
publicans are to gain by voting for
Radical principles under the name OF
New Departure Democracy" II
Radicalism is right, let the party
that invented it administer it, say
we. The ofice-seeking Democracy
Of Ohio have entered into an arrange
mont by which that State is to be
given to the Republicans this Fall by
. large majority. The real Democ.
racy may wake up in time for the
campaign of 1872.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Forrest, first
known to tame rs q Memphis slave
trader, and later as guerilla com.
mander in the rebel army. and who
quite naturally arose through all
these intermediate grades to be a
democratic leader in Tennessee, is
before the Ku Klux Investigating
Committee at Washington.
He fully agrees with the great and
good Horace Greeley, of New York
and Texas-the Mechanical, Vege-
tartan, and Rnotectionist candidate
for the Presidency-towit: that all
the murders, thefts, outrages, and
violations Of law in the south, are
committed by Carpet-baggers, and
that the meek and lowly,: and lamb
like Ku Klux, are the only victims.
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The Register says that 1.-THE Capt.
tol Commissioners have selected Mr.
Appleyard, of Detroit, as Superinten.
dent of Construction. We are moi
appraised as to Mr.. AS superior quail.
ifcations over the many experienced
builders in our own State"
We presume that the Commissions
ers took the superintendent on the
same principle that they selected the
architect from Chicago, to-wit: be-
cause they could get one from abroad
with sufficient experience in erecting
public buildings, to the end that we
may hereafter be spared the ding
dong about cracked walls, caving
foundations, and leaky roofs, which
have greeted our ears, about the
present Capital from the mouths of
real estate spectators around Des
Moines for the last ten years.
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June %, ls7l-r
Hseray Notiee,

TAKEN up by CHARLES UhtIbefH, Of Polk
Sth day q April. is6. 6ns SSSisy asre, de-
scribed as follows: Bay color; supposed to be
ten years old, three white ieet, white spot in
AZ $D.OOs V. .s <s Ia M. COOLEY,
Clerk Dist. Court, Wapello Co, Iowa.