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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

AFTER things get arranged in Eur
ope undr the new military systems,
Rassis will have standing army Of
942 900 men aud asia pieces of artil-
lery; France one of Tl2,000 men and
1850 pieces; the German Empire one
of 56S,0OO men and 1900 pieces, and
Austria one of $4,000 men and 9,5l2
pieces.
The Carlists cause in Spain seems
now to be in q fair way Of being COM
pletely oyerthrown. The still greater
task is now before the people Of lay
ing the foundations of the republic
npon \ stable basis. We hope well
for the republic, but we fear its tribu-
lations will yet be many, and that these
trials will run through many years
yet to come.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

The Ottumwa Courier saya The call
for the Republican Congressional Con
vention in that District will soon be
issued, and that It will be held at an
early day.-State Register, 18th inst.
In our issue of May 4th, we said we
had heard incidentally that orr Con-
gressional Convention would be called
early, and proceeded to give our
reasons why we did not think It
proper to be in hurry about it. The
next day in answer to letter we
wrote on the I'd inst, we learned that
we were mistaken in our former infor-
nation and that the Convention would
not be called until after our State
Convention. We therefore in our
issue Of the 9Th inst, published a cor
rection of the article appearing 4th
inst. For some reason however we
cannot set our cotemporaries right so
that they will not publish our first
statement which snow a week and q
half old. Tsss.l " q III 81 ED a.l
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

shots were fred this morning, and one
Of the Brooks colored troops was kill.
LATER "A recruiting party oil
Brooks men were captured and
brought to the guard house.
Captain WEIGHS party, which es-
capped from the steamer Hattie yester-
day, arrived here to-day.
Tho federal troops have made tenn.
porary Notifications In the city. The
Baxter forces are also intrenched, and
since ten this morning permit neither
exit from nor, entry to their lines
without pass. The schools closed
to-day and business IL stagnant. Tho
ministers have called on the people to
unite il supplication to God to-mor-
row, that bloodshed be prevented and
the right prevail. Nearly enough
members Of the Legislature have Or.
rived for quorum In both houses.--
Arrangements havs been made for
|cOnvening thu Legislature outsidel OF
the State House limits. . M
LITTLE Rock, May 1l--In . skir-
miah this morning several Brooks mon
arc reported killed.. The Federal
forces alone prevented Col. White
from capturing Brooks whole force.
Thirty -seven members OF the House
met this afternoon without action. 1
Baxter In reply to the President's
telegram recommending an adjourn-
ment of the legislature, answered that
he favored an adjournment fthe leg
islAture until all Of Brooke supposed
adherents arrived. He would disband
his force in proportion rs Brooks dis.
missed his. Brooks must qnit the
State House and deposit the State
arms. @ u
Thirty five or forty members of the
Legislature endorse this arrangement.
Baxter to-day received about six
hundred reinforcements.
Baxter to-day revoked the declara-
tion Of martial law in Pulaski county
70 far ~ II concerns the Legislature.
Brooks today issued q call for q
session Of the Legislature on the oath
inst.
LITTLE Rock, May 12-This after
noon BROOKE moved . company Of in
fantry out In the rear Of the Cairo &
Fnlfnn dannt ~ nravant sona rac rnst.
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fhras cnrr.n;as .r.;rst th;. forcs
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
IOWA NATIONAL BANK
OF OTTUMwA.
IN THE STATE OF IOWA,
At the cioss OF business,
FRIDAY, MAY lst, 1874.

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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

STATE OF IOWA, L.. sl70, II
!. william A. Mc(3rsw. Cashier of the Tirst Ma
tho above statement u true 70 the best Of my
knowledge and ballet. WILLIAM A Nc0REw,
Subscribed and sworn 70 before mo tn TIN.
tenth day Of May, 1874. w. b. G. JACQUES
CoRRECf-Atteet: NOsAxy Public.
sEAL GioIar HAW. pirscsors
F.W. HAwLnY.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
WASH ING

WASHINGTON, May 9--The attorneys
and agents of Brooks and Baxter here
have agreed to the following plan for
an adjustment of their difficulties -
that the Legislature called by both
claimants to an extra session on the
Fourth Monday in May shall consider
Brooks grounds for his claim to the
office Of Governor. They shall con-
duct an investigation Of such claims
according to the State laws, giving
both parties fair hearing; after hav-
ing determined which party received
majority of votes ia the election Of
1872, they shall declare tho fact and
both parties shall abide by that dccis-
ion. Pending the decision ali military
operations shall be suspended aud the
troops shall all be dismissed, except
such number as not to exceed one
company. which may be considered
necessary for body guard. The
President may, at his discretion, de-
eide which claimant has legal right
to exercise the functions Of office
The above agreement IL subject to the
approval of the contestants. The At.
torney General, who drew 1t up, and
the President. express the hope that
the matter may be amicably settled. -
1t seems TO be understood that il the
agreement is sssented to and ito pro.
viaions, afterward violated, the Presi.
dent will take the matter into his own
hands. s. 4R
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

WAsHINGror, May 1.-THE Attor-
noy General to-day received . tele-
gram from Brooks Substantially the
same - his dispatch to Grant. Both
were considered In Cabinet meeting
to-day.
In oflcfal circles Brooks cause has
been damaged by his refusul to accede
TO Bsxter's proposition. The decision
ofthe government will not be delayed
much longer.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

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TWO MILLION Thres Hondrs6ln1 011on.
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and thsee psebos.s 70 eeDv s6e - = bolly
able to carry ont the contsae& - ~ fGeIooe6.
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
WAsHrNaroN, May IL.

y W ADkalNNIVNp AA0y AAs
The President to-day telegraphed
Baxter . recommendation that the
members OF the General Assembly at
Little Rock adjourn for ten days to
enable Brooks to convene his supposed
adherents and secure q full Legiela-
ture. Any other course would not be
satisfactory to the people.
A dispatch states that Brooks
friends here say such Q course will be
agreed to by him and that he will dis
band his troops II the same be done
by the opposing faction. The u. s.
forces will protect the Legislature and
keep the public peace. t,.
A dispatch was also cent to Brooks
stating that such proposition had
been made to Baxter and that the
President earnestly desired his forces
to be at once disbanded q an initia-
tory peace measure.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
. HOUSE.


WAsHINaroN, May Sherman In
troduced a bill to regulate inter.Stat
aud inter- National commerce. Re
ferred 9FAs* s4a
Davis spoke In advocacy of his bill
to reimburse the citizens Of West W.
for losses incurred By reason of tn
destruction OF public propeFty.by tn
Federals during tho war.
Sherman moved TO take up the a
nance bill, but he hoped its considera
ton would mot occupy more than to
dav and tomorrow.
Scott gave notice that altar tn
finance bill was disposed Of, he woult
ask the Senate to consider bills from
tho Claims COmrnittoe,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14

aAAssN - Snc0S - PAsssSo 49, esAsSeS ~ =
trowsers? eE#lf
Those Arkansas field marshals arp
displaying strategic ability enough to
make Napoleon or Wellington rise
from their graves and howl with envy.
Imperial Cesar himself never accom-
plished more brilliant amuscsde than
that by which the gallant Brooks
recently bagged o whole corps Of
Baxter's army, consisting Of ten pri-
vatcs and . major general.
awhile journeying by rail-" says q
traveller, IL witnessed the following
Incident: One night, just after l had
scrambled into my sleeping-berth, /
heard loud and angry voices proceed-
ing from the rear end of the car 4
tell You this il q sleeping car, and you
can't come in without a ticket Be
CORA, 1 had q ticket, sWhere is It'll
I've lost it, If you really had the
misfortune to lose Your ticket, per-
haps yQn can remember your berth Z
There was an interval ofssilence, Pad
dy evidently employing his thinking
powers. Och, be jebers Y he at length
exclaimed, 4 was born on the 26th
day OF October, 1927 ~
The Lanark Gazette, a staunch Gran.
er paper, publishes the following,
which is too good to be lost:
"A Granger dreamed that he died
he went straight to the spirit-world
he knocked ct the gate of the New Je.
rusalern, and II was opened; he was
asked, adid you ever belong to any
secret societies ~ to which he replied,
i'"I did, 70 the Grangers." 'eThen, sir,
you cannot be admitted. Depart He
then went to the door Of the bottom.
| less pit, where the same questions
were again asked him by the Devil
and again he was told to depart. AT.
| ter he had gone little way Of, he xaa
| accosted by the hOmcly ruler. of the
pit, when the following propositions
were made: Stranger" said Nick,
IT will not admit you here; they do
not want you in heaven but will
sell you two hundred barrels of brim-
stone for cash, ten per cent. on, and
you can start q little hell OF your own,
J with no agents or naiddleI6cp.7
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13

CITIZENS who have substantial IN
terests in the District of Columbia are
signing papers addressed to the joint
committee of Congress appointed to
frame a form of government for the
District, expressing the wish that IN
the new organic law suffrage may be
dispensed with. The reason for this
course is, they are Disguised with the
former perversion of the ballot, and
therefore wish to be saved from a repc-
tition of such abuses, believing that 4
government can be framed answering
all desired purposes without periodical
elections, which heretofore have not
reflected the wishes OF those who most
largely contributed to the support Of
the local government, and which have
been in the interests of mere polltl'
Clans
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13

people forced it upon them? Was the
convention which nominated the David
son county ticket politicians conyen-
ton? Was the Executive Committee,
to which the success of that ticket was
so largely owing, a polticians' COM
mittees'
The Banner need not now answer
these questions, because we think
we understand its position. 1t
seems to think that the Civil Rights
issue was drawn in the late county
canvass for the special benefit of some
Senatorial aspirant. In this we are
satisfied it is mistaken. Under the
same impression, it deprecates the is
sue in the State and Congressional
canvass. Here again we think the i'm
preston that any one or other of the
Senatorial aspirants can be helped or
hurt by discussing the threatened out
rage is incorrect.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13

The colored man was vested with
the right to vote in Tennessee before
Congress passed the fifteenth amend
ment. Before the law they are equal;
indeed all the rights as citizens which
the white man has, the colOred man has,
without question. Whatever may be
asked in the form of additional legisla-
ton must be special class legislation,
designed to make the cOlored race bet
ter before the law. The Civil Rights
bin now pending in Congress is special
class legislation, which proposes to give
TO cUlored citizens special privileges to
be enforced by the officers of the Uni
ted States Government. No well be-
haved and sensible colored man or
woman will ever be benefited by it,
and will never ask or seek its enforce
ment. But the noisy politician, the
Office seekers merely, those who pre-
tend to be the champions Of the color.
ed race. and those who are turbulent
and bad hearted will no doubt seek Il
enforce all the civil rights, and in pro-
yoking bad blood and excitement hope
TO get to be so-called leadcrs.-Mem.
J1his AUdlGRchc.
Stay, friend; the Civil Rights bill
must not be discussed. Horace May
nard has uttered the fiat. The hR0E
giUe Chronicle and the Chattanooga
Commercial, the two Republican or
gans echo the command to the faithful
Others are falling into line. The Civil
Rights bill can be more esily passed
without discussion. That is the pro
gramme.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13
LET US HAVE PEACE.

The idea, which seems 10 hold IN
some quarters, that the Civil Rights
infamy should not be discussed and its
deplorable tendencies, as developed by
the startling news of the day, should
not receive proper comment, lest a
'war of races" result, is a fragrant alb
surdity, worthy only of Radical tactic
ians. White men, in defending their
rights, inherited from hundred gen
a,-atio.ae. make NJ tLe bl~OAs.
A man defending his own property,
makes no war. 1t is the intrudlng
burglar who makes war. On this sub
iect we heartily endorse the timely
views of the Memphis Avalanche: "In
all Tennessee there are only fifty
thousand colored votes. But there are
nearly two hundred thousand white
voters. The white people of Tennessee
have no need to commit the folly of ar
raging themselves as race against the
colored people to Cypress them. 1t
would be political cowadice SO gross
that all sensible men would be ashamed
to engageinan act that would degrade us
all. The abuse Of politicalpower to the
extent of expressing the colored people
under the sanction of law or of public
opinion would be condemned by the
world as unjust andunmanly. But the
bad blood stirred up by the bad heart
ed or corrupt and selfish politicians
must be suppressed, and the evil ad-
visers and leaders must be silenced.
The colored people must rely on them
selves more and on Congress less. The
duties of good citizens are upon them,
and all the responsibilities of equal cit
izenship. They must be content to be
simply equal before the law, and those
who reach OF fiatter them with any the
DRY beyond this are their enemies"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13

The Nelv York HerdId'S Washington
correspondent says of the action taken
by the new Commissioners, in forcing
the most obnoxious feature of the Civil
Rights upon the people of the District:
"a few years ago, the agitation of the
question had such an evil effect upon
the schools that it took them nearly two
years 20 recover from 1t. The best
teachers resigned, and parents with
drew their children from the schools.
A repetition of this Is feared when the
schools reopen in September. Besides
the mixed school feature the Commits
sioners have by this action practically
overturned the whole school system of
the District, and they did it in utter
ignorance OF the wants and require
ments of the schools, for they did not
consult with a single prominent school
officer. If they had done so they
would have been told that the new
Board could not carry out the existing
school system, which has for years met
the approval of the citizens # Wash
ington, and under which the schools
have attained a very high degree of ex-
cellence."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13
PURIrANIsM AND OWE RIeHrs

FOkITANISM AND CIVIL kAGH1S.
The Ne1o York Tribune finds the re-
cent elections in Kentucky and Ten
nessee mot pleasant To read ABOUT. "
Indeed, it rather sees IA better pros
pect for the South in the spectacle of
Packard and Pinchback quarreling
over the spoiis of Louisiana, than
Knoxville going wild with 10y over the
success Of the white mans ticket. 1t
says no political issue materially infiu-
enced the contest The staple argu-
ments were the dreadful old Bour-
bon conundr1lms, do you wish
to Oe buried in Niger grave
yard? Do you wish your daughter to
marry negro? Are you going to
send your boy to a niger SCHOOL,
If these questions were forced home on
the Tribune diIettanti by the presence
of a large negro population and a
pending Civil Rights bill, perhaps they
would not object to be buried in negro
graveyards and to send their daughters
as well as sons to negro schools.
The Tribune is peculiar; the Tribune
is Puritan. The Beecher- Tilton agony
of now four years duration,
and known ali through to
scores of (" respectable " men,
with families, develops a condition of
society that we do not understand, nor
care to understand. The Tribune and
othor PuIitans may bv SINCERE In their
advocacy of the Civil Rights bill. 1t
may be, that, in our place, they would
logically prefer to be buried in negro
graveyards and send their daughters to
negro schoolmasters. We do not gam
say their sincerity. We simply do not
understand them, and are certain that
they do not understand US. The best
course then is to let each of US regulate
our own affairs according to our tastes.
We have never sought to interfere with
the domestic and social relations of
the Puritans. We decidedly demur to
their effort to impose their own pecul-
lar notions on us through COMPRESSION
al centralism. There is a dead fly in
the ointment of the TI-ibune's Liberal
ism so long as it supports a Radical
Congress in this despotism over inter
ests held by us more sacred and dearer
than life itself. "a FL
But Civil Rights are only one form
of this Puritanism against which the
masses North and West as well as
South are arraying themselves. We
have the same Tribune and the same
Puritanism to fight against the
tariff enOrmities, against manufacture
ing and banking monopOies, against
railroad exactions, against Credit
Mobilier corruptions, and against cen.
tralism in all its threatening forms
Civil Rights and social levelism are
but the latest fruit of the Puritan tree
We must cut down that Upas growth
and throw it out of the National gar
den, root and branch. 1t may flourish
as II viii in Its native soil, undisturbed
until Boston or Brooklyn becomes a
second salt Lake, for all We care per
sonally, but it cannot be permitted tc
1 hl;obt tha whole nation
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13
Chancery Sale.
j. &. MeCrary, Executor, vs.. J. N. East.
man and others.

man and others.
n. 651
IN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE Rem
dered in this cause by the Chancery Court at
Nashville at its April term, lS14, will sell to
the highest bidder
at the Courthouse, at Nashville, on We'd
nesddy, Sept. ?, 1874.
a tract of land containing by survey 80 acres,
living In the 18th civil district OF Davidson coun-
ty and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stone in the line between
Winston and Porter, running thence north 50
deg east "a s-IOO poles along said line TO stone;
thence north 40 deg, west Is poles 70 a stone in
the edge Of the timber, opposite an OAK, thenee
north ~ deg. west % poles % stone corner IN
the line between Williams and Winston, near
the old crib; thence south 53H deg. west SO 6-lO
poles TO a stone in said line opposite the build
Ing site; thence south 39k deg. west 5sX poles
10 the corner Of Williams and Winston at the
termination Of the new turnpike, thence south
s. ! deg. east 81 q poles 20 stone near the gate
and an elm: thence south So deg east . poles
10 a stone in the corner Of the field, thence south
34l, deg east O. poles TO the beginning.
There Is a tWO-StOTy frame dwelling contain
llgG rooms besides kitchen. servants room and
OuthOuses; also a cistern, with running water on
the place
Trims OF SALE-Credit Of 6, y, Is and
a months with interest, with good personal Sc
eurity and lien retained FOX payment OF pur-
NATHANIEL BAXTER, JR.,
Clerk and Master.
ausI3 II l., Is, Is, p, ., ., sept1.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13

THE following paragraph from the
JonesbOro Echo shows the tactics
adopted by the Butler men to choke
off Gillenwaters: For sometime on
our masthead has appeared these lines
under Judge Buffers announcement;
Subject to the decision of straight
out Republican Convention. The Re
publicans of this district having de-
termined to run Judge Butler and a
convention being entirely unnecessary,
we withdraw this proviso.' .
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13
NORTH ALABAMA NEGRO ON
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Montgomery Advertiser


Jim Cons IS "A cOlored bIrber in The
town of Florence. He is a candidate
for Probate Judge in Lauderdale
county, Ala. aud ina speech a few DAYS
ago be said:
when Judge Clark wa, here at the
last term oi the Circuit Court, he asked
him CLARK how he stood on party
questions. and that Clark said. If I
had one drop Of blood IL my reias h It
ucas not Republican, / jvould cut Il ont. .
and yet said Coin this same Judge
Clark is opposed to the Civil Rights
bill Before 1 looaid rote for ham, or
for any iohite man for any office ioho as
opposed to that BIZ, l0oHid lose ma
right arm, and any colored man Who
does vote for such man is traitor 10
his race"
Mind you, it is all wrong for white
men to make the race issue, while the
negroes have been making it for nine
years.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-13

THE Loudon Times, a Houk organ,
puts it in this way: Maynard and
Thornburgh, by their advocacy of the
intamy known as the Civil Rights bill,
are completely shelved and as etfectu-
ally killed off as it is possible for them
to be-" And again: "Thornburgh's
signature to the address of the Nation.
al Congressional Executive Committee,
and Maynard's speech at Tuckahoe,
sweeps them from the canvass, and
leaves Houk alone in the field and tri-
umphant."