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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23
Josh niilsngs > Faith.
Faith il the rite bowt ov Hope.

Faith il the rite bowt ov Hope.
If 1t want for faith, hare would be
no living in this world We couldn'i
even cat hash with ~ safety, If il
want for faith.
Human knowledge Is very short,
and don't reach but q title ways, and
even that little waysiz fwilite; but
faith lengthens out Ehe road and
makes it light, so thsfFe kan see tew
read the lcttcrings on be mile stuns.
Faith haz won mfc vfktorys than
all tho other pashuns Ir sentiments ov
tho heart and he'd putogether.
Faith IL one ov thci warriors who
don't kno when she itwhippcd.
But Faith il no fnilsop, but live
fighter. She don't 81 down and gru
stupid with rcsignashn, and get weak
with the beauty ov hdattrfbutes !; but
she IL the heroine ov Iorlorn Hope
she feathers her arrois with reaxon,
and fires rite ct thebulle eye oy
| faith.
! Think now il couh have but one
| ov tho moral attribute would take
| it all in iaith--red hoIiaith I mean
and tho 1 mite mai sum fust rata
| blunders, would do ruthing bizzi-
ness aInnng the vaHus dri bones
tharc IL laying aroun lopse in this
worldly. Y. WeektU
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

Boonsbcro has organized a manu-
featuring association called the Gill.
xens' Association Of BOOneborO, with
4 capital stock Of 10000.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

The Buffalo Commercial says: "Let
the country breathe easyl Aresponse
to the question, "WhO cast the six votes
Of Delaware for Horace Groelev2 has
been made In long, splurgy letter
to the Philadelphia Press we t'nd this
answer:
"They were given by (yours trlly'o
GEORGE ALFRED T0WEsEND.
Washihsse~ cits May 10, 1oI2 "
This man Townsend is the @Gafh1 Of
the Chicago Tribune who dishcs up that
papers Washington correspondence.
A man who has been for years and now
Is nothing other than = democrat. A
man also whose strength as writer
consists chiefly in matchmaking about
every public man who ever made any
national reputation. A man who for
the cdification Of some readers, those
who delight in scandal, every now and
then, lwcna like, probes the graves
Of dead statesmen who have been over
half century in their shrouds and
garnishes in a style he is master Of
The poccadilloes Of their life with par
'r1cuixrfty. nnrv nfnfs ssfnStssnur1zcu uy
the people, not content with bcsliming
the administration for the money OF
the Tribune goes to Cincinnati and
represents aud casts the vote ofa State
in which he does not reside aud never
did.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

The most eetimable4yict OF whom
we have heard for sol time is one
Andrew johnson, allnmate OF inc
Nevada State Prison. Ie subscribes
for the principal neIpaper in. tho
State, aud having no hey he carved
n very handsome watdbOx Of stone
and sent Il to the cditdo pay for the
paper until he gets onfprison, when
he promises to pay ulin gold coin
with interest. Such tonvids are
scarce, The princil dawback
about this one Is his iAe.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

REruRNlNG.--Six tea i loaded with
families and their remsntS OF house
hold goods passed thilgh town on
Tuesday OF this week 4 their return
from Kansas 10 Wiscdim homc-sick
and poor enough. THE were only
parallel cases with scog ofothers who
have left Wisconsin I'll the North
part Of this State, gont Kansas, and
have been glad TO nlakjhc best of I,
by coming back again d decidedly
dilapidatesl condition while scorcs
and hundreds OF otherEould rejoice
to be able 10 do so, bu hre prevented
by poverty. Another krRing to well
to do people, to well enough
alone. - Peoples PcgdCtcrsnoat.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

Horace Greeley is aburieric. As
well be an Amaldc.-Katscky
StateS,aad
And I'M November will be High
ernakitc.-St. LoWis Ocvot. !
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

Porte WEIGH, Of The 0skaloosa Re-
form Leader, has returned from Gin
cinnati, and hoists the Greeley Brown
ticket at the head Of his paper. He
says:
III there is honor in IL, the editor Of
this paper has the honor of having first
proposed the organization of q new
party upon the ruins of the traditional
Democratic party
Modest Porte! How we Liberal
hoss-applcs do swim.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

Already more than fifty Democratic
Congressmcn have signed paper de-
nouncing the Cincinnati ticket, and
declaring for regular Democratic
ticket NJ Baltimore. We have never
believed that the Democratic party
would either adjourn their National
Convention without making nonina-
tion, or that they would endorse tn
Greeley and Brown ticket. We have
always believed, however, that they
would put forth real genuine pure
Democratic ticket Of their own. While
we have SO believed, we however have
all along wished it otherwise. for VIC
have all the time thought, and still
think, that an attempt at union by
Democracy with the sorchead element,
would work 10 the advantage Of the
Republican party. We have Thought
so, becansc ithas been our opinion, an
opinion we still entertain, that more
Of the Democratic party would either
stay away from the polls and mol vote,
or would vote for Grant than this hyp-
ocritical hermapllroditc party could
draw from the Republican party, and
that really we could moro easily win
q victory IN such contest, than In d
straight old fashioned battle with
Democracy on their own dung bill,
with the sorehcads Of our party siding
In with them 90 far AZ they would,
taking from the Republican party, just
that sort Of an element which would
help much in its purifcation. What .
grand system Of trickery and political
wire working is now going on in this
honest Liberal party, TO defeat Grant,
but tho more il founders the deeper Il
sinks in the mire.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

One Of the members of the demo-
cratic State Committee got conmuni-
cative yesterday, and let ont the pro-
gramme. There was an animated de-
bate in the meeting on Wednesday
over proposition to have secret un-
lerstanding that the young Democrats
of the State should gain control of the
Forthcoming Convention. The propo-
sition was adopted. The idea is that
the young fellows will be more pIiable
and more willing to dicker and trade,
than the old fellows, who refuse to for
get the many long days in which they
hated Horace Greeley with more able
bodied vigor than they ever hated any
other man. What an old lino Demo-
crat knows about Greeley is frightful,
and never can be forgotten. Comsc-
quently the head men in the proposed
dicEcr with the Liberal Republicans
intend to shut out fthe Convention as
many of tho cold hunkerS, PAS they cal
them, as they possibly can. The old
gentleman will be with them as they
arc at it.--ReJisser.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

Senator Stevenson, of Kentucky, the
late rebel Governor of that State, has
fs report sa on hs hlSfa aaq ha MaslaeMElIS M
even it sounds more like approval
than ccnsurc. The dispatch closes n
follows:
''Fhe Senator coneiAitdb by cNouer.i-
ting any Senator o. eilisea from COM
plicity in any Illicit tra.istssioa in con
ncction with the case.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23
Nrw yoer May IL.

A$k" AOGhs -xdy lSs
a scranton despatch states that the
fires on the line OF the Delaware 3
IAckawanna railroad continue, cover
ing Distance Of over thirty miles in
| length. Near the village Of Toby hanus
It has burned thousands Of acres Oval
uablc standing timber. Travel on TIE
railroad Is dangerous and difficult.
a large number Of men are employed
to prevent the burning of slcepers.
at u meeting Of carpenters to-day.
the report that the boss carpenters
last night had agreed to concele 70
the eight hour rule aiter November
first. was universally condemned, and
il wss resolved TO lsold mass meeting
tonight in order 10 agree definitely
GU their future action, also 70 issue an
order for all carpentcrs 70 stop woFa
next Monday.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23
Goes Back ON II !


Stanley Mathews temporary Presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Liberal Ccnven-
ton goes back on the party, as the fol-
lowing dispatch will show:
CINCINNATI, May lG.
The Gazette publishes a letter from
Stanley Matthews. temporary Presi-
dcnt dothe Liberal Convention, to per-
sonal friends in Washington with ref
crence 70 that portion OF his speech de-
claring that the slow poison Of ccrrup-
tion is pervading the whole admins
tration of the government from head
to foot. He says nothing connected
with the late disgraced and Disgrace
| ful Convention has given him SO much
| pain as tho Interpretation put upon his
speech. He has never believed that
personally that the present adminisfra-
fion is guilty Of corrupt Conduct.
What he was striving to say had re-
| ference to the general corruption OF
our political life, pervading 1t in every
department, whereby personal and
party ends are to bc substituted for
public good. The latest and best illus
tration on which he Is free to say, IL
now found in the action Of the very
Convention In presence OF which this
declaration was made and he is greatly
/ chagrined At the whole matter, his own
own participation in it included. and
has concluded. perhaps not Sufficiently
soon, that as politician and president
maker he IL not success.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

a letter ia the New ofk IftoaHe
from the Hassler expedition along the
Patagonian coast gives an interesting
description of Its progress. Thegood
fortune of Prof Agassiz and his asso-
ciates in respect to scientific discover
| les still attends them. We read of fish
shaped like wicker-baskcts, anda sea
hag that keeps up an appetite so yora-
cious that afta being laid ont dry on
deck she is still able 30 killand eat 9TH
er marine animals. The proofs oi
glacial action in Patagonia; tht
fact that her mountains are cx'
| tinct volcanoes, giving color to tic 10
4 gends fromswllich Terra del Fuegt
took its name and the determinatio,
| Of the position Of the coal measures
showing that the mining operation
[are carried on ia u true coal, are anlon'
the important results obtained on tha
distant coast.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23
What drseisy Knews Absss sse.ssisn

WHAT 0TocA0y Knows ADout SoceSSIo0
from the y. Y. Tribune. OF Nov. .. ls5o.I 1
If the cotton States shall become
satisfied that tlIey can do better out oi
the Union than init, We insist in let
ting them go in peace. The right to
secede may be revolutionary ono, but
il exists nevertheless. We
must ever resist the right Of any State
TO remain in the Union aud nulify and
defy the laws thereof.
3To withdraw from the Union is
quite another matter: and whenever q
considerable section of our Union shall
deliberately resolve TO go out. we shall
resist oil cocrcivc measures to keep
them in it. We hope never to live in
a Republic where ono section Is pinned
to another BY bayoncts.'
lFrom the N. Y. Tribune. of Nov. as. 1881
.'If the cotton States unitcdlyT aud
earnestly wish 10 withdraw peacefully
from the U1liob we think they should
be allowed TO do so Any attempt to
compel them by force to remain would
be contlay to hcprinciples eilunciatcd
in the immortal Declaration of Indc-
pelldcncc, contrary 10 the fundamentals
ideas on which human liberty il
based
From ths n. Y. Tribune Of Dee. -. 1866 /
III 1t (the Declaration of Indepcntl-
encc) justified the secession from the
British empire Of three millions Of
colonists in 1776 we do not SEQ why ii
would not justify tho secession of five
millions of Southrens from the federal
Union in 1861. II we are mistaken on
this point, why does not some one at
tempt to show wherein and why1 For
our own part, while we deny the right
Of slaveholders to hold slaves against
the will ofthe latter, we cannot sec how
twenty millions ofpeople can rightfnlly
hold ten, or Eve, in a dctested Union
with them by military force
tF.on, the \. r. Tribune. of Feb q. 1864 ]
ave have repeatedly said, and we
once moro insist, that the great princi-
ple embodied by Jefferson In the Dec
laration of Independence, that govern
ments derive their Just powers from
the consent OF the governed, is sound
and Just, and that IL the slave States,
the cotton States, or the Gulf States
only, choose to form an independent
nation, they have clear moral right
70 do an 4
"Whencvcr 1t shall be clear that the
great body of tho Southern people
have become conclusively alienated
from the Euion, and anxious to escape
from itwe wIk do our best to forward
their view"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23

Onc OF the .'checkiests things We
have read OF Is that of a prominent
manufacturing concern having a con-
tract ut Auburn State Prison, who dis
play on their letter and bill heading a
handsome engraving Of the imposing
institution with its surroundings, over
the words "Our Factory at Auburn.''
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-23
The Democratic State Central Com

The Democratic State Central Com
mittec held meeting at Des Moincs
yesterday. The Register says the ses-
sion was entirely secret. According
TO one positive report, all of the mcm-
beers of the Committee but one, de-
clarcd in favor Of straight nominations
at Baltimore, and according to another
equally positive statement all of fthem
but one were In favor ofno nomina-
tions at Baltimore. Sotar as we coald
learn, and can judge from the many
statements, the Committee--eomposed
OF six pcrsons--stood four in favor OF
Democratic candidates, aud two for
Greeley.
We think, judging from the indica-
tions of yesterday, that the Iowa De-
mocracy are in about this state ofmind
Thcy are in favor ofLiberalism in lows
for State, Congressional, aud loca
tickets, but in favor of straight Dem
ocratic ticket nationally. They az,
anxious to have Democratic Presi
dent, and really think they can hav
one, il the right man be named at Bal
timore; and they also think they ca
y gain something in Iowa--having moth
" Ing whatever to loose-by Congression
nlly consorting with the Liberals
The Convention was called for Jun
1lth, to nominate delegates to the Ba
more Convention.
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28
Have you Enemies +?

OO oGlaAtuC hAetsu uuu uOu u1luu
them. If they get in yorr way,
walk around them regardless of
their spite. A man who has no
enemies is seldom good for anything
for he is made of that kind of ma
terial which is SO easily worked that
every one has hand in it. A sterling
character is one who thinks for
himself and speaks what ho thinks !;
he is always sure to have enemies.
They are as necessary to him as
fresh air they keep him alive and
active. A celebrated character who
was surrounded by enemies used to
remark '"They are sparks which
if you do not blow, will go out of
themselves" ''Live down, ,preiu-
dice," was the Iron Dukes motto.
Let this be your feeling while thus
endeavoring to live down the scan-
dal OF those who are bitter against
you. If you stop to dispute, you
do but as they desire, and open the
way for more abuse. Let the poor
gossips talk-there will be O reac-
tion if you perform but your duty,
and hundreds who were once alien
ated from you will flock to you and
acknowledge their error.
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28
An Anecdote Of Vice. President Colia1.:

Miss Laura Ream writes to the
Cincinnati Commercial an account
of au interview with Schuyler Col
fax, in the course of which the re-
firing Vice-President remarked: II
stood to-day on the very spot IN the
Senate Chamber where I made my
first reports for the indianapolis
Journal. Itwas then owned by M
Douglas, and he gave me two ID;
lars a day for my services. Ir
member pleading with him fors
other dollar. I had to pay + !,
dollars q week for my board :,
with that and the expense Of elp h
and coming here and reta1 i,
home, I could not very well - q y
way clear. When I insists j q
the other dollar, MI. Dosgb sai
to me: You don't seem to a nsi.3,
the advantages you enioyss sou AZ
in a way to make valuable oquain,
tances. See what Abefts Whit
has come to. He waa a lce a ro
porter: You may be an ember o
Congress some day. Wly 5 knows J
I frankly confeaa = cont ,nued M
Colfax, that I said to him. in re.
ply, I will give all my chances j,
being a member Of Congress Tor The
other dollar a day.
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28

| ~S~SSA&As~S~2 SSAASA
Mrs. Buzby in tears.
| A few days after Betsey took up the
morning paper. She gave a piercing
scream; then Josephine took up the
paper which Betsey had dashed down,
and she screamed; then Caroline made
a rush for it, and she, too, screamed.
Heavens! what ails them?" asked
Mrs. Buzby, picking up the paper; and
ca 1~--s3 .-.-.a .Ouu " e1o a.v4 eo. ~r.u.o UnaS
Mr.. Buzby thought that a concealed
wasp in the paper had stung all the
women of his family. He examined
the journal which had caused all this
excitement closely, and there he found
the wasp which had stung the ladies;
it was only this:
''Married-On Tuesday, the End, by
the Rev. Mr.. Schiller. Major Cramwell
late of India, and Frederick Myers, Of
Germany"
"Ha, ha," he laughed until he was
crimson in the face. ''Scnsible fellow
true man; he knows the wheat from
the chaff; ha, ha; hoity-toity, who
would have thought it?''
"Why, we all would have thought
it," said Mrs. Buzby, angrily; don't
we know the way to mans heart? Do
stop your absurd laughter; Major
CramweQ is not the ony man who HAS
married a woman because she knew
how to cook"
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28
OUR EN- rs.

1scension-P. Landry.
Baton Rouge-S. W. Rnggold.
Caddo-W. Harper.
CsrroN-R n. 1ackey.
Cstahoula- Morris.
Conoordia-D. Young.
DeSoto-M. 81. Twitchel!.
East Feliciana- John 0air.
Faliciaus, West-R. ]. Taylor.
0rant-ohn W. Francis.
nssia-6. Wakefield.
fberville-2ev. John Ashley.
iMburche Oscar Crosier.
Idison-William Murre1.
Ytchitoches-Raford Blunt.
nchita- ID. II. Hill.
aauemines|. C. J. Rivers.
hpides-Wm. Crawford.
g. Helsns-Rev. James Reese.
4. Tammauy-Jsmes Taylor.
Ftnsas- ~. Ross Stewart.
lsrebonne-F. G. Wright.
Rodney-s. J. Ireland.
ricksburg-T. Broadwnter.
uxsAa-A. Robinson, ". Il. Gray.
aoA-EdMn Belcher.
ksAxA-H. n. Turner.
aDAJ. J. Wall.
mcxr-Horace Morris.
swR1-st. Louis, John Turner.
EuxA-1ndianopolis, James 8. Hinton.
Cincinnati, VIM. Il. Jones:
aols- Chicago, Lewis B. White.
NtssEE-Memphis, Robert Church.
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28
Mleness -Indolenee.

Idleness was q criminal offense
at Athens, and should be 80 reear-
ded everywhere since ''drones suck
not the blood Of eagles, but rob
beehives." Plutarch in the Life Of
.1yc' 1yeu was- one day fined for this Of
fense. but was greatly condoled by
brother idler as having been con-
demned for keeping up his dignity.
Rather do what is nothing to the
purpose than be idle, that the devil
may find thee nothing. The bird
that sits is easily shot, when flyers
escape the fowler. Idleness is the
dead, dead sea that swallows all the
virtues, and the self-made sepulcher
Of a living man
We pity any man who has noth-
ing to do, for idleness is the mother
of more misery and crime than all
other causes ever thought or
dreamed of by the profoundest
thinker or the wisest theorist
pray, of what did your brother
die?" said Marquis Spinola one day
to Sin, Horace We're. He answered,
HE died, sir, Of having nothing to
do" "Alas!" said Spinola, 'that is
enough to kill any general Of us"
Laziness grows on people; it be-
gins in cobwebs and ends in iron
chains. The more business man
has to do the more he is able TO
accomplish; for he learns to econo-
mize his time. In a workhouse at
Hamburg idlers are punished by
being suspended in a basket above
the tables, SO they. can see and
smell the things provided for the
industrious, but they arenot allowed
to taste them. Idleness is a COLI
stant sin, and labor is a duty. Idle
ness is the DEVILS home for tempta-
tions, and for improbable, distract
ing musings, while labor profteth
other than ourselves.
There are hundreds that want
energy for one that wants ambition,
and sloth has prevented as many
vices in some minds as virtue has in
others Idleness is the grand pa
cific ocean Of life, and in that stag
nant abyss the most salutary things
produce no good, the most noxious
no evil The son bred in sloth be-
comes a spendthrift, prodigate, and
goes out Of the world a beggar.
No pains, no gains. No sweat,
no sweet. No mill, no meal. An.
idle brain is the devils workshop.
Incidence is q stream which flows
slowly on, but yet undermines the
foundation Of every virtue. He is.
not only idle who does nothing, but.
he is idle who might be better en-
ployed. Much mending breaks the.
bow, much unmending the mind.
We have more Incidence in the.
mind than in the body. Indolence.
is the paralysis of the soul.
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28

A GooD WnH.-A stout, jolly
looking mendicant entered a shop
in Dublin, and asked the owner for
charity: He shook his head, and
and said
II am not able to give you any
thing"
The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28
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The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-28
The Pleasures of Death,

Junius Henri Browne, who, while
a war-correspondent, saw about a
dozen men die every day, shows
conclusively, in an article to the
Galaxry, for November, that Death
has no terror for the dying. Pois-
ons produce stupor, which passes
into oblivion. To be killed outright
by a gun-shot wound is easy.
Death from falling from hight is
unattended by single throe, "Of
falls of this kind I have had my
share, says MI. Browne. Freezing
to death is positively pleasant; and
Frenchmen, in search of amusement
are known to be habitually hanging
themselves-careful instructions be-
ing given to their Wallets as to the
precise moment for cutting them
down to prevent the final extinction
of the vital spark, No body but
Mr.. Browne would have dared to
put the rider of the "Pale Horse
on the pleasant and social footing
of q rather desirable visitor, His
paper is exceedingly well written;
abounds in apt illustration and vivid
reminiaoence. and in convincing as
far as it concerns the dissolution of,
as Artemus Ward used to say, ''any
other man."