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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-10-29

Il COURIER |
ETTSBAY lfonxIxa, Or. 29gh, 1874.
A Missouri sditsr's nsms Il. watA-
dam. Hia paper isn't.
Il i nearly time 70 put taFkAys =
training for ThsnksGiviag reasts.
Only nine caaes OF divorce ct this
term Of Judge Sloan's Circuit Court
The Code Of 1879 requires road IN.
psrvisors 70 place guide boards at
croes-roads. n
JeAnson county has given "a major
lily In favor of restraining stock from
running 1t large.
A calf 20 days old and weighing
3s5 poundsi 10 one of Mahaska county's
recent productions.
Iowa City il growing about > bald
headed cook ct 4 rcstaurant-don't get
any hairs in the hash or soup, yoa zee.
The Nonparca says Pottawastamis
county has % thoroughly organised
and well equipped band Of horne
thieves.s
R. g. Wilcox, az miles east Of Ere
mont has large sale Of stock; farm
implsmenta. corn and hay, on the 7th
Of Novsnber.
Negris o 'Neil, the brakeman injur.
ed ct the late railroad accident ct Con.
stock, died last night. An inqusst
was hold on his body by DR.. Lathrop,
County Coroner, 1t 2 o'clock this sf-
ternoon. -Dniiy ed.
John Alexander has brought rs .
!, half buSAel Of Peerless lpotsAoss that
wosld take tho premiuma t The World
Fair. In oil our experience We never
have seen anything like ~ large and
flne tubers - they are. 81 -5
A Califorais paper, describing de-
ceassd editor says: she nads fer .
tme some men look quite large whom
God never attended 70 b xrsat ;gsnd
becanss they wers net graf they for
got 10 had befriendsd thsna." y 4
Fred. HAwlsy left last evening for
Anahein, California, where hs will
spsnd the winter. We hope that Fred.
may return to % In the spriag satirsly
seseored 70 health. The best wishes
ofnnmsroas ffisnds will 90 with HIN
TO California. DAILY ed.
Andrew Johnson said recsstlY u
his Shslbyvl (Tenn.) speech, thu the
had Always bsen- "cessti1ntional
Democrat" II 1 speech q Nashville
daring ths war he sAid: "Wheasvez
yea hear = man pratis1 about ths Con
stitation, spot him I: he's = traitor
A big black dog Waited tn
CouaIrR coynposins rooms this sftsr
noos.. The compositors thought b
might b mad and asked him out. b,
was IL such hurry that hs went on
ofa sscond story window. SaNh |
doGgoaed getting down stairs' h
never saw before. Ddily ed.
Bloomfield 70 peoli1lc Of papers. I
has the Rep1oljcaa, DEMOCRAT. Com
asoAscealtA, Odd Felloscs' Banner, and
now Rev. ,Axline proposes to Issue On
Other paper called the "Tsacher al
Work." the object Of which 10 to Pop
nlasias the methods and priAcipiei
which are Involved in educational
work"
We are in receipt Of the flfst mum
ber Of The Odd Etslosr5' Bonner, nsa
folio shest edited by J. B. King. Al
ito name purports Il % devoted = th'
inkcrn~Aa NJ fhA OrdAp NJ Odd Ea1lavo,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
The Question of liked Schools.

Rev. DR.. Barnas Sears, agent of the
Peabody fund, was present at a teachers
meeting in Staunton, Va, last week, and
III the course of remarks there made said
he did not believe that mixed schools
would ever be enforced. He did not be-
lieve it could be done. He denied that
Congress had the physical power to en-
force mixed schools, laying aside the
want Of constitutional power. Such a
system cannot be imposed on State. A
State has the power to abolish its system
of public schools any day. Moreover,
the State can refuse to raise the money
necessary for the support of the system.
Then what becomes of the schools? They
disappear at once. Some persons, through
filse views, may be in favor of seating
the two races side by side on the same
benches, but can Congress compel both
races to attend? No, it cannot. Some
philanthropists, in urging the mixed
school system, are in earnest in their
efforts to benefit a poor, ignorant race
but the question is, will 1t benefit them +?
Among the Representatives of twelve
States whom he had met at Washington
he only found one who was in favor of
mixed schools, and he was from South
Carolina. The great majority of those
favoring the civil-rights bill desire only
that the colored race shall have equal
educational facilities with the whites. =
Many of the Senators who voted for it
were hoping all the times it would be de-
feated, and they will not vote for it again.
Many of those who voted in favor of its
passage had told him that if it did not
pass last session it was dead, and that
there would be no trouble about it here
after.
The foregoing'is printed in the edito-
rial columns of the Washington Chroni-
Gle, leading Administrations Republican
organ. Sears, who is quoted on the sub
iect of mixed schools, is a Northern man
and a Republican. If the views here
reflect the will of the domi-
nant party, what is to hinder the leaders
from giving effect to them at the coming
session of Congress?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
RIVAL PARTIES IN LOUISE
ANA.
Failure OF the Conference.
IFrOm the Picavnne

From the Picayune
There were two preliminary PROPOSE
tons to secure a free and fair registra-
ton. Those were to provide for an
equal division of the registrators of vo-
tiers between the two parties. This was
adopted.
Secondly, an advisory board was to be
constituted, composed of two of each par
ty, and the fifth to be agreed on.
The arbitrator in this board, Dr. Bon
zano. was accepted by both sides. This
board had the assignment of the registrars
among the various parishes.
To this point the conference proceeded
tremendously.
Upon the third there was a fatal
division and termination of the confer
ence.
This was the proposal that the return
ing board should be composed like the
advisory board of two of each party,
with an umpire to be agreed on by the
others.
1t was rejected by the Kelloggites who
insisted upon having three members of
the board. Thus was betrayed their
design to perpetuate the vile system of
controlling the elections in the interest
of their party, aud of thus continuing
and repeating the enormities which
have hitherto disgraced our State. The
Kelloggites were immovable on this
point, whereupon the committee broke
up.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
The Reason why.

A correspondent of the Memphis APP
peal accounts as follows for the outlawry
which has brought so much trouble to
the people, in the Trenton (Tennessee )
region:
] saw to-day the reason why the coun-
try is not prosperous. 1t is a disagreea-
bic truth, but it had as well be told In "a
distance of one hundred miles | saw only
two persons at work in the fields; they
were white boys, picking cotton, and one
of them stopped to throw a rock at the
train as it passed. Laziness is the cause
of our want of prosperity. | saw great
numbers of whites and blacks standing
about doing nothing while the fields were
white with cotton which ought to be gath
cred before a rain. No mendng of
fences, no sowing of grain, no cutting Of
cane, no fall plowng-in fact, no doing
anything. There appear to be more
drones than working bees in the hive. A
change must come or the country is gone.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24

The Iuka Herald has delivered well
tempered article, (and we must say the
ablest and frankest argument We have
SEEM in reply to the opinion which it So
licited from US on the subject of the color
line In response to our assertion that 1t
conflicts with the Democratic Platform of
1872, adopted at Baltimore, our Iuka
contemporary candidly admits that we are
correct, and says:
Again The CLARION quotes The
Democratic platform of 1872, on which
we stood, it should have said ION which
we fell" But aoe deny that it icas a dem
ocratic platform, or that any democrat Is
bound by 1t, or 1Uds intended to be bound By
1t lonqer than the Presidential canpass. 1t
was the Cincinnati platform, a radical
platform, upon which there was an effort
made to pull the democratic party, but
which it Indignantly repealed.
We will pass by that portion of this
paragraph which imputes bad faith to
the Democratic party by charging that
it did not intend to be bound by its
pledge longer than the Presidential can
vass, with the single remark that we are
fsure the Herald has erred. We believe
the party meant what it said and that no
future Convention representing it will
erase from its platform the principles
enuncated at Baltimore.
True enough, as the Herald says,
portion of the Republican party calling
themselves Liberal Republicans had pre-
viously adopted precisely the same
creed; but after it had been deliberately
considered by the Committee on Resolu-
tions in the NATIONAL Democratic Con-
extraordinarily recommended-and
had been received and adopted (that
portion of it quoted by us) by acclama-
ton, surely the Herald will not assume
that it did not become the platform and
shibboleth of the Democratic party of
the Union from Maine to the Gulf shore,
from Georgia to California The Con-
vention furthermore nominated, and
the party supported, candidates whose
past course and present attitude were
guarantees of its good faith in promising
to carry out the principles of the plat
form in the administration Of the govern
ment.
The Herald astounds us when it says
that the southern people democrats
:" and Conservatives, we suppose our CO.
=" temporary mean) never felt themselves
&C bound by that platform and never
I" will subscribe to its doctrines" Of
course we, who supported the platform
in good faith, and because we conscien-
tiously believed it to be right, do not
endorse this assertion. Though the
candidates of the party were defeated,
yet the principles on which they stood,
have lost none of their virtue and the
canvass has had the good effect of bring
ing together Democrats and Conserva-
tives, North and South, and of pledging
them against reviving the agitation of
sectional issues. 1t is preposterous for
those who openly repudiate the platform
and advocate new departures, to impeach
our political orthodoxy while we are adj
herring to the the letter and spirit of the
common creed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
The Grangers' Declarations Oh
GEne subject Of Taxation and
QuaIfiiCadiOns 4 T Office.

The report adopted by the State
Grange setting forth the expressions
which the people of the State are suffer
ing from onerous matchmaking
examples ofsuch wrongs--and respectfully
petitioning the Governor to exercise the
powers of his office to abate these evils
Will be found among other proceedings
of the body. In furtherance of this
paramount object the State Grange has
pledged its members to support no one
for any office, "but men Of integrity and
capacity, and that aUithout regard TO party
lines OF ties, races or color, recognizing to
the fullest extent, the inalienable rights
of every man before the law to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
The Executive Committee were
required to wait on the Governor, and
solicithis cooperation for the achievement
of these ends.
There must be relief from the grieve-
ances complained of The tax payers are
as firmly fixed in this resolve as are the
everlasting hills TO their foundations of
adamant.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
a FuSaciOu~ Governor

Last week, or the week before, It,
Governor Davis came to jackson without
official notification, and lear ing that
Gov. Ames had returned to MaSsachu-
sets, entered upon the discharge of the
Governors duties for the third time since
the Legislature adjourned, as required
by the Constitution. Persons who had
important business with the Executive in
the interval, were put to the necessity of
transacting it through his private Secre-
tary at New Orleans
The conduct of the Governor has been
scandalous. He has shown an utter dis
regard for, and contempt of, obligations
which he incurred in taking upon himself
the office of Chief Executive of the State.
During all this period of feverish excite
ment and frequent rumors of disturbances,
when the Governor was most needed at
MS post, he has taken the precaution to
be away. The people of Mississippi did
not seek him to clothe him with the re-
sponsibilities of office. As military COM
mander, he intrigued to elect himself to
the u S. Senate from the Army and with
his own hand signed certificate on which
he claimed seat in that body. Not con-
tent with the place he had thus gained, he
abandoned It for the Office of Governor;
and after using the latter as toy for
season, throws it away, or puts it off or
on, as his caprice. or some other prompt
log, may have suggested. His quarterly
allowance from the State Treasury will
doubtless not be neglected whatever may
he his other delinquencies.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
REINSTATEMENT OF KELLOGG.

From the n. o. Bulletin 10th.
Yesterday Kellogg left the Custom
House accompanied by his Private
Secretary, and entering an open carriage
escorted by a detachment of Chief
Boylan's men, was driven to the State
House into which they both went.
At $50 o'clock Longstreet, with his
staff, went to the State House and there
awaiting the arrival of Kellogg, and
shortly after Gen. Emory and staff en-
tered
Col. Brook approaching kellogg said,
81 surrender the State-House to your
custody" Kellogg replied, 81 accept it, +"
and the ceremony ended.
GOV. KELLoGG's ORDER TO STATE Off
GALS.
All State officers who have been pre-
vented during the recent disturbances
from performing their duties will immedi-
ately resume their officials functions.
The Board of Metrorolitan Police will at
once reorganize the Police force of New
Orleans and assume the maintenance of
The peace and order of the city.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG,
Governor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
SQUELCHED.

AUGUSTA, GA, Sept ga report
was received in this city this afternoon
that about 400 negroes, under the leader.
ship of negro named INFANT, intended to
make an attack on the whites, near Riv-
ase's store, Edgeville county, about fifty
miles from Augusta. 1t is reported that
some unknown parties fired into the house
of I. Tenant, last night, and that ne
intended to retaliate on the whites, who
assembled to resist the assault. A courier
arrived here with note from prominent
white citizen Of Edgfeld, asking for assis-
lance. A party organized, and were on
the eve of starting for here, when another
courier arrived, bringing information that
Tenant had been arrested by the civil
authorities, and the negroes had dispersed
and all was in quiet.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
A Voice of Warming.

EDITOR OF THE JACKSON CLARION -
The editorials of the n. Y. Herald pro-
posing "National Convention of Peace
and Reconstruction" will no doubt appear
in occasional numbers of that tricky
journal for months To come.
They will undoubtedly be written with
all the vigor and ability Of its Caesar
ism" articles. and with as little honesty Of
purpose. While the pretence is to aid
the South, the real motive is to prevent
the reputation of Southern State debts.
Let Southern editors be wary and be-
ware how they reply to these editorials.
Let them make the Herald discover It's
real meaning without committing them
selves.
These articles will be found to be noth-
ing more than fore-runners of certain
bill which Northern bondholders will en-
deavor to secure the passage Of this win
ter-the sum and substance Of which
will be that the National government as to
endorse the bonds of the Ual ions Southern
States, thus guaranteeing the payment Of old
debts and making repudiatiOn IN the future
impossible.
Respectfully,
SOUTHERNER.
New Y ork, Sept. 10th, 1874
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24

exists no cause of apprehension or
mistrust on the part of either race 10 this
town and vicinity, and that we hereby
pledge each other that the rights of al J,
irrespective of color or other distinction,
shall be respected, and we will use our
utmost endeavors to foster a spirit Of
kindness and peace in our midst.
I'd. Resolved, That we all condemn
those, of whatever color or calling, who
try to stir up strife among us, and pledge
each other that as a duty each race owes
to the other, that we will by all lawful
means endeavor TO mete out to such per
sons the punishmen their conduct de-
serves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24

openly repudiate and spit upon it (see
the Iuka Herald
Now, With the foregoing statement OF
the origin, spirit and objects of the popu-
lar uprising in Louisiana against illegiti-
mate government and misrule, we will
leave it to any candid mind to decide if
it contains one particle of the element of
'scolor lineism" which has been proposed
and vehemently insisted on BY its advo-
Gates in their State IF so, we have entirely
Inexperienced its meaning.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24

The nomination of Chamberlain for
Governor of South Carolina does not meet
with hearty Endorsement of the entire
Republican party of that State, and those
favoring complete political reform refuse
to accept him as an earnest of reformatory
intent. Should the boilers develop any
considerable strength, call convention,
and nominate an honest, straightforward
Republican. who has heretofore not been
identified with any schemes of plumber in
the State. it is believed that Chamberlain
can be defeated. Washington Chronicle
(Administration.
The boilers have called q convention.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
Discussion ina Ya1oo.

A very interesting debate took place
last Thursday night at the room of the
Yazoo City Library Association, between
Judge Hudson and Mr.. G. J. Burrus, Oh
the one side, and Judge Bowman and
Mr.. j. Z. Regain on the other The
question related to the expediency of
adopting the Color Line policy at the
present time. The first two gentlemen
named above, spoke from an affirmative
standpoint and their speeches were replete
with sound arguments and forcible illus
trations, and were listened to with evident
delight by all present. Judge Bowman
made most plausible. ingenious lawyer
like argument in opposition to the views
advanced by the gentlemen opposed to
him.-Yazoo City Democrat.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
Ac.luE Governors Proclamation.

LIT. Gov Davis has issued a procIama-
ton appealing to the people of the State
to guard well their actions and preserve
the peace Notwithstanding the prevalence
of strife on their borders The political
illusions in this official paper were entirely
out of place, but the motive of the act
ing Executive in issuing the Proclama-
ton, and its general tone are praise
worthy His advice, if foil wed, will
ward off violence, and save the State
from the vortex of strife into which other
communities have been involved.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24

In the case of the subJoIned cOmmuni-
cation, we have departed from our rule
to publish no anonymous communication
unless the name of responsible party is
left with US We will print it, with the
single remark that we have not thought
that the proposed Convention would re-
suit in any good. Even if the Interior
design imputed to its author we're not at
the bottom of it, it would prove a fasco
as in the case of the Philadelphia peace
Convention of 1866:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24
CLIPPINGS FROM DEEaDCRAT-
EC-CONSERVATEV NEWSPA-
PEERS.

From the Holly Springs Reporter
There is a great deal in this Color
Line discussion smacking of sound and
fury signifying nothing. 1t is difficult
for Us to believe that any sane, intelligent
white man, can hope to accomplish any
good for his race or party by the advo-
cacy of such a doctrine. If it be true
that the blacks have all along been ar
rayed upon that line, it is equally true
that the whites have been doing all they
could to unite their own race in opposi-
ton. Our conviction is strong that it is
well for the peace of society that there
have been some white men IN the Repub-
lican Party. AS long as there are white
men in the Republican party, and black
men IN the Conservative or Democratic
party there will be no war of races. Ar
ray all the whites on one side and all the
blacks on the other, and we may then
grow apprehensive, indeed, of conflict
between the races.
From the Canton Mail.
We desire to put ourselves right on
the color line. We desire to enter our
protest against the disposition manifested
by portion of the Mississippi press to
establish such a line of distinction. We
do not wish to be counted in among the
agitators of policy in which we have all
to lose and nothing to gain. We do not
propose TO join that class who are willing
to precipitate a conflict between the
races. Not that we fear the immediate
consequences, but because we have meas
ured and dread the results that will pee
essarily follow these consequences. We
are, however, in favor of a defensive pol
icy. We would advise our citizens to be
prepared for any emergency; to be ready
to meet the uprising of the blacks that
we have every reason to believe is threat
ening.
To speak candidly, we caunot afford to
be the aggressors. We say, then, let us
declare for law and order, an oppose any
measures looking to a conflict Let it 90
out to the world that we are willing to
abide by the law.
[From the East MississiDpian.
Except it be strictly in selfdefense,
and to be prepared for dangers which
are threatening and imminent, we are
really unable to see any policy in the
position they assume (of forming white
Ene leagues. Why fan into a flame
here in our own State animosities that
ought to be smouldering in that quietness
of non-political and non-elected Let
US rest in peace, at least for one year
for when this question of the supremacy
of race is decided in our sister States this |
fall, there will be time enough for action
Most assuredly the formation of white /
leagues and colored leagues will antagonize
the races completely. Bloodshed will be
its result, and then comes Federal inter
ference; bayonets will glisten in every
town and military rule will return With
all its rigidne IS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-24

Col. J. L. McCallum, late Of the
Central Star, is now the editor of the
Yazoo City Democrat. He is one Of the
best informed journalists in the country.
His large experience and ability, will
make the Democrat useful and popular
DaDpr