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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

This makes l60 votes, or twenty-five
less than is necessary to elect. Be
yond question fair vote would give
us North Carolina, 10 votes Louisi-
ana 8, Mississippi s, and Florida 4.
This would give us five more votes
than the necessary twenty-five. If
these states do not go Republican it
will be because Of the fiendish out
RACES committed and to be committed
by democratic kn-klux, coupled with
democratic frauds.
Again, New York 35 votes, Indiana
Is, Connecticut 6, California 6, New
Jersey 8, Colorado 3, and Oregon 3
votes. usually reckoncd doubtful,
give us certainly a very fair show to
get from them the necessary twenty
five votes, leaving out the Southern
states mentioned. We certainly have
an even show in all these states. To
our mind, New Jersey and Colorado
ought not to be classed doubtful, but
Republican, sure. Add to this the
state of Indiana, and we win without
an electoral vote in the South, save
those of South Carolina. Still we
have our chances in New York, Con-
necticnt California and Oregon, Of
the Northern states, and we have no
hesitation in saying that we will carry
at least half of these four latter states
and that New York itself will go for
Hayes and Wheeler.
The states, on the other hand, pref
ty certain for the democracy, may be
set down as folloMs:
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
."HoLD THE soRT.

!
Ho! my comrades, see tho signal, ~ I d
Waving In the SKY! ..ifi
Hear the shouts from Maine to Frisco
Victory is nigh t}f iAf.tiliti a3t
Chorus Hold the fori, for HAYES is coming,..
Victory signals still,
Send the answer through the Union q
Ohio says ''She willl' A 8
SEQ the glorious banner waving :
The beauteo9s strires and Stars ~
Twas borne In triumph by our leaders,
Chorus--Hold the fort, for HAYES la coming
Hear the buglee shrill
Hurl the shout back to Our foemen- y
New England says ''She will ~ aI
Ho my comrades. see the sIgn.l, aa3 Sd
Waves ip oregon, ~.
Reinforcements aye appearing
Victory will be won ~ ~
. Chorus-IIold the fort, for HAYES is coming -
Victory signals still
Wave he banner high above us
Answer, Eyes, we willit tf3aR ls
See the mighty hosts about us, a5saYls
HAv1s is leading ON; stp (.
Theiving Cops can never rout u.s., ,t,,
caorus-Hoid Inc fort, ~ WHEELrn's coming
.vict'ry signals still
Shout the news to California
New Fork says"She wfllv' ss t9 %
Fierce and hot may be the battle s3
But we're strong and true; ift
Confederate Grey has had its day III
Hurrsh, for Union Blue .
Chorus old the fort, for II AYES Is coming!
Vict'ry signals atill-- ,3,gtIIfF
eend the answer to Ne,o Jersey
MICHIGAN says "She wili!v,s tE
Our conn,5ys ~. sas.aa, as shall oat s' pFs%s
The traitors that would tear 1t down, f-ffty +
VIII be to ruin hurled.
Chorus-Hold the fort. for HAYES Is coming!
ytctry Signals still-iEsEaEss ,f;
Our leaders never were defeated
Ioird says "We VIII ~ q s'if
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
Drowning Of an Excursion Party In
Mtchi00n

DETROIT, August Ia terrible ac-
eident occurred about one O'Clock to-
day at Bowbees Lake, about one mile
south of Hillsdale, in this State. An
excursion from Coldwater, numl er-
ing about three hundred, were there
spending the day. Sixteen of them
went out OH the lake on a fiat boat or
scow, when il suddenly sank, and
nine Of the party were drowned.
The water was fifty or sixty feet
deep where the boat sank. The
names of the drowned are as follows !:
G. II. Taylor, aged 45; Mrs. Thorn
ton and child, 8 years; Mrs. Masser.
May Cunningham and her sister Lib
bic, aged respectively Il and 16 years !;
Alice Hayes, aged l6; May Kelley,
Ia, and Randall Blackman, aged 9, ali
OF Coldwater. The widest excite
ment prevails at sHillsdale. At 10 p.
m. all but one of the bodies had been
recovered.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
Eighty Seven ceorgians and Soutt
Carolinians Indicted for the
Massacre at Hamburg.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2-The Isfbune's
Washington special says Senator
Robertson, of South Carolina, has re-
ceived the following dispatch from
Columbia this evening:
COLUMBIA, Aug 1.-The Coroner's
inquest over the victims at Hamburg
brought its work to close Yesterday
and to-day the verdict has been pub
lished and charges Gen. M. G. Butler,
Col. A. T. Butler, DIR. Pierce Butler,
Rev. J. Meeling, and fifty three other
citizens of Aiken and Edgefield coun-
ties, and thirty Georgians, with mur-
der. The inquest has been searching
and exhaustive and a verdict has been
reached at the earliest practicable
time. Warrants of arrest for all the
persons charged with the crime are
now in the hands ofthe Sheriff Aiken
county. The South Carolinians, it is
said, intend to surrender to the Sher-
i'll without delay. Gov. Chamberlain
will Immediately issue acquisitions
upon the Governor of Georgia for
all the persons chaged by the verdict
in that State. Attorney General Stone
is in Aiken, by direction of the Gov
ernor, to take charge of the prosecu-
tions. The evidence is said to be far
more damaging than heretofore be-
lieved.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
The Belknan exnosure was . or,n

The Belknap exposure was a grand
sham. 1t came at a time when party
feeling was at a white heat. The
democratic party which furnished the
architects of the rebellion, and from
whose ranks came the great thieves
who robbed the treasury and .arsen-
ais of the country, wanted victim,
and Belknap was selected. They
seized him and marched him out, and
the great republican party--the par
ty whose proudest boast once was
that it was a party of nerve and pluck,
a party into the backbone of which
God Almighty had put goodly
quantity of mucilage-stood by afraid
to raise its voice, even for fair play
lest ii would lose some partisan ad.
vantage. Under such circumstances
has Gen. Belknap was placed as he
went forth in search of that5 JUS
tice which should give to his cause an
impartial hearing. For months the
trial was dragged along, and as he
has been tortured by a democratic
hate which republican cowardice has
permitted to go ON, the investigators
have been on his track and ransacked
every nook and corner Of his depart.
ment, invaded his home, surrounded
his family table with detectives, pa.
raded his tailor and butcher bills be.
fore the public, and all they have
found, and all the evidence brought
out thus far proves, is that Mrs. Bel
knap received a present from man
who had been appointed to post
leadership. Inis is all and all the
partisan malignity OF democracy
and all the party cowardice of repnb.
licanism can make nothing more of it
And for this the United States Sen.
ate is trying to impeach him, and
that, too, after he has resigned his
place. Take the politics out of the
trial, and the Senate would kick the
case out of court in moment. There
isno case. The trial is farce. Bel.
knap, for accepting a present, to be
limpcached by the Senate, one-half o1
whose members ride to and from the
trial on street car passes, presented
them by corporation that is contin.
nally asking legislation at their hands
What a grand farce A careful study
Of all the testimony in the Bclknal
ease will convince any intelligent mar
who is not seeking partisan ends, tina,
Gen. Belknap, while he may have
made mistake, is guilty of no crime
and men who thus believe owe it tC
their manhood to speak out and not
longer countenance such farce.
/ As Americans we talk much of oul
charity towards and forgiveness ol
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
conditionalIv pardonee,.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-Dispatches from
Jefferson City, No., says pardons
were received there yesterday fol
Adler and Furst, distillers and recti
fiers of Kansas City. Under the
terms of these pardons, the sentences
are commuted to three months i'm.
prisonment in the county Jail, which
term the parties have already served
.on condition that they withdraw theil
writ of error to the Circuit Court.
affirmation of the District Courts
judgment of condemnation in which
the confiscation of their establish
ment is ordered, and that they pay
the fine required of $4,000.
The Republicans of the 7th Illinois
District, yesterday, nominated Judge
Henry |. Baker, of Alton, for Con
gress against VIM. p. Morrison, pres
ent chairman OF the Ways and Mean
Committee.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

GooD FOR THE GERMAN.--The other
day two citizens stood in the rain dis
cussing the merits of the German
tongue zone was native, the other an
importation from faderland. The
native finally wound up by saying,
somewhat profanely:
"This is nice language just look
at the names--the devil couldn't spell
them"
dat is SO, replied the Tenton; "de
tuyfel he don't got no German names
on his pooks."
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
News from the Indian Country

CHICAGO, Aug. IA dispatch from
Gen. Terry, received at Gen. Sheri-
dams headqurters this morning, says
on the 9th of July he would COM
mand movement up the Rosebud
with view of forming junction
with Gen. Crook. The dispatch fur
thcr states that news from every
quarter indicates that the Indians are
breaking up into small war parties
with view of depredating the bor-
der settlements. Others are probably
tired of the war and seeking the
Agencies.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
CHIPS.


The sweetest bees-babies.
No more massive gold jewelry. It
isn't fashionable.
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston fiend, is
still Gagged curiosity.
Blaine is getting well, and says that
he will speak during the campaign.
Judge Hilton will finish the Stewart
Hotel for Women, in New York,
within year.
If falsehood paralyzed the tongue,
what death-like scene would per-
wade society.
Morrissey still wants to bet $1,000
that he and TildeR are the biggest
reformers out of Jail.
Smuggler out-trots Goldsmith
Maid OH long heats. You can buy
"Smug'-if you have $4,000.
1t is harder work to be a Christian
in Turkey than anywhere else. There
1t is a capital offense to profess Chris
tianity. Here it ia too often "capi-
tai" pretense.
A young lady, following Shakes
perian play with her book, remarked
to her companion: allow imperfect
those actors are! None of them exit
when they go off,
A person who was sent to prison
for marrying two wives, Excused him
self by saying that when he had one
she fought him, but when he got two
they fought each other.
"Mrs. Spinks," observed boarder
TO his landlady, "the equal adjust
ment Of this establishment could be
more safely secured if there was less
hair in the hash and more in the mat
tresses."
Infection by mail. An Indiana
lady sent a letter to her brother in
California, telling him that the fami-
" had the smallpox, and in few
days he had it, too.
Says the New York Sentry
"Strangc that man will sooner pa,
$25 for an old book or cane thar
square up accounts with his washer
woman or boarding mistress"
The Republicans of Ohio promis,
one hundred thousand majority fol
Hayes and Wheeler. That's abou
what might be expected from Ohio
4 This is the way citizen Of Denver
advertises for . lost calf: "Run(
away-l Red and yite caf. His tu b.
hint leg vas plack, he vas q she calf
Enipotti vat prings him pack pairs
t0llars. Jacob zuddering, Clear Creek
three miles pehind the pridge.'
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
NEW YORK.

New YORK, August "A special
correspondent of the Tienn0, tele-
graphs that foreign ambassadors have
interfored and entered protest
against the present conduct of the
campaign in Servia. Several have
given warning to the Sublime Porte
that unless the present system of en-
listing volunteers as crusaders against
the Christians is stopped European
military Intervention is inevitable.
As consequence the Porte has or
dered that no more volunteers enlist
against the Servians.
Another correspondent says Abdul
Ahmed will not accept the throne un-
less it is shown that the Sultan's NAL
ady is incurable, and on the other
hand his suggestion Of regency has
not vet been acceded to,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
AElAcRAMT OUTRAGE.

THIS week the Democratic House,
in the contested election case of Platte
as. Goode, both of Virginia, the latter
"a Democrat and the sitting member,
voted in favor of Goode, though the
committee reported against him. We
cannot better characterize this base
action of Democratic House, than
by giving the following extract from
the speech of the Hon. Charles +.
Thompson, in the House, who is a
Democrat and a member of the conn
mittee on elections:
Mr.. SPEAKER: feel earnestly upon
this question. l have spoken with
earnestness upon it, and do not wish
the Honse to believe that am not in
earnest, for 1 feel that not only my
character, but the character of this
House is at stake i'm the determine
ton of this question. say this de.
liberately, after the most mature
reflection, that if the sitting member
(Goode) is allowed to hold his seat il
will be one of the boldest outrages
upon justice, upon a contestant, and
upon the legal electors of Congress
sional District ever perpetrated in OF
out of this House.
Goode is a member of the commit
tee on Banking and Currency in the
House, and since he has been made
secure in his seat he has steadily alb.
sented himself from the meetings oil
that committee. This leaves the hard
money men in the majority, or at leas,
ties the committee. No action can be
had on the resumption act except by
bill reported from this committee, be.
cause tw0-thirds vote is necessary
to get it up in any other shape. II Il
openly charged, and the evidence
seems to be overwhelming that Tilden
and his friends in the House made q
corrupt bargain with Goode, that il
he, soft money man, wonld keep out
of the Committee on Banking and
Currency, they would vote for his re
tanning his seat. If there was ever 4
statesman of America out of the pen
itentiary, who could beat Sam. Til
den in ways that are dark and trick,
that are yain,' he has thus far failed
to turn up.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

The Westliche Post, Carl Schurz'
organ, asks these pertinent questions
"Can the friends of Tilden deny that
he abstracted contrary to law, securi-
ties to the amount of 100000 from
the st. Louis, Alton Il Terre Haute
Railroad? Can they fritter away the
court records in that case, and finally
do they believe the lowest German of
the United States will vote for man
who is under so gricvous an accusa-
ton, and who is afraid to meet the
charge 2"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.
Senator Boutwell,, from the Select
Committee on Civil Service, reported
a bill providing that after blank
date the existing pension agencies
shall be discontinued, and all duties
imposed by law or regulations on the
several pension agents shall thereafter
be performed by the Treasurer of the
United States at Washington.
The bill further provides that to
facilitate the payment of pensions in
this manner, the Treasurer may des-
ignate a sufficient number of clerks
to sign checks for him, and the checks
thus signed shall be paid by the Off
GERS or banks on which they are
drawn.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
instructed the various sub-Treasury
officers throughout the country to pay
out silver coin in exchange for legal
tender notes, and in the ordinary dis
hnrsments of the Government.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
indian pepredations. 8 .

CHEYENNE, Aug. 2.--Geo. Powell,
a hay contractor at Fit. Fetterman,
who arrived here tonight brings the
following: Yesterday evening about
30 Indians attacked the wagon train
Of A. H. Reel, loaded with govern
ment stores for that post and killed
and scalped the wagonmaster, George
Throstle, who was riding ahead, aud
wounded q teamster. Also killed
four horses, ten cattle, and burned
three wagons with their contents,
consisting of -four and bacon. 1t is
thought the Indians will be very
troublesome ON this road the rest OF
the season. Last Friday A head Of
horses we're run off by them from
Horseshoe and Cottonwood Creeks
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
CONGRESSIONAL.
First session-44th Copsress.
SENATE.

WAsHrNaToN, Aug. 2.
Mr.. Cameron, Wis, from the Elec-
tions Committee, reported the claim
Of VIM. X. Sebastian, from Arkan-
sas, expelled in 1861, for alleged dis
loyalty, with resolution resembling
the RESOLUTION expelling him from the
Senate, and authorizing the payment
of his salary from the date Of his ex-
pnlsion to the time of his death to
his heirs. Calendared. He gave
notice he wonld call up the resolution
at some future day for consideration.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

DEATH IN, TIiE MrNE.-John Roe, a
new hand woFking in room No 4, of
mine No 2, Cedar Valley, was killed
by blast, Tuesday evening. He
was missing when tho miners had all
fired their blasts and were ready to
60 out Of the mine, sothey went into
his room to hunt him, and found him
lying under some heavy Jumps OF
coal, faarfully smashed, . severe
wound on the temple and nearly
dead. Before they could get him out
Of the mine be, was dead, ,--4lbsa In
sn32 s; . Z t7sss
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
Combinations.

WASHINGTON, Ang. 2.-The Senate
confirmed Green b. Raum, OF Ills, as
of Internal Revenue
rice Pratt, resigned; VIM. Toman,
postmaster at Independence, Iowa.
Morton, Sargent and Cooper are
the Senators on the joint committee to
go to California, and inquire into
Chinese immigration.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

MAJ. P. II. GRADY, a war democrat
of Albany, N. Y, has got too much
crow to swallow in Tilden, and there
are thousands like him in the Empire
State. Recently he was chosen Cap
tain of Tilden club, and the Pres
ident of the club notifying him of his
election, he wrote the following re-
ply:
81 have always been a democrat,
and have not been accustomed to bolt
ing regular nominations but have
also been a Union soldier, and may
rs well confess that l find livery diff
ficult to work up any great degree of
enthusiasm for Presidential candi-
date who pronounced the war for the
Union a "disgrace,"a a Failure" and
who did all he could to discourage
enlistments to the army in the field.
As war democrat claim the right
to vote for a patriotic and honest
Union soldier in preference to a man
whose selfishness and partisanship has
always been more conspicuous than
his patriotism: and i claim further.
that do not forget my rights as a
member of the democratic party in
doing so.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
Nominations Made,

DETROIT, August 3.-The Republic
can State Convention met at Lansing
to-day and nominated the following
State ticket: For Governor, g. M.
Crosswell; Lit. Governor, Alonzo
Sessions; Secretary of State, f. G. ID.
Holden; State Treasurer, w. B. Nc
Creery.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
Heavy Forgery.

WILKsBARRE, Pa, August 1T ap-
pears that Thomas d. Conyngham,
SON of the late Judge Conyngham, is
a forger to the amount of quarter
of million dollars, mostly on the
iron firm of Broderick \ Co. The
paper is held largely by private par.
ties
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
]. N. HEDRICK s CO., PROPRIETORS. .l8

the state of society calls not for gov
ernment troops and martial law, but
for man of nerve and executive
ability in the highest state Office, quail
tiles which, unfortunately, Governor
Chamberlain has not. This worthy
gentleman is much more intent upon
political success than in restoring to
that unhappy and distracted state the
good government and social order
which should long ere this have sig
nalized his administration. The tron-
BILE is simply want of attention, and
want of purpose to put down lawless
men. If South Carolina was governed
by man like Wade Hampton, who
knows something of government,
and the state was overrun as now,
with bandits and thieves, fault might
justly be found with southern rule,
but being governed by radical
carpet-bagger and radical state gov
ernment composed of men lately lift
ed from ignorance to power, the case
assumes different phase, and the
blame must rest where it properly be-
longs"
In the meantime, our telegraphic
dispatches announce that Butler ard
some eighty Of his Confederate mur-
derers have been indicted, and that
Governor Chamberlin will bring all
the powers Of the State to bear, to the
end that the Hamburg assassins may
be speedily brought to their well
earned halters.
While liberal and fair-minded
Democrats are generally demanding
the swift punishment of Butler and
his crew, the Burlington Gazette be-
comes their apologist, and wants the
government of South Carolina turned
over to their and kindred control,
and this is the kind of journalism
which makes Democracy practically
one of the lost arts in Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

REPUBLICANS are charged with too
great display Of the 'bloody shirt
We certainly could not faunt them
ifthe Confederate Democrats did not
manufacture them for us. Murderers
never like to visit the corpses of their
victims after they are cold.-Omoha
Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
The Belknap impeachment is ended.
On, the first day Of august the Senate

The Belknap impeachment is ended.
On the first day Of August the Senate
voted and failed 70 obtain the two
thirds majority, necessary TO convict.
The decision, SO fer as the negative
vote was concerneA turned solely up
on the question Of Jurisdiction. Those
voting not guilty, eqasidered no other
question than that 0fjurisdiction, and
expressed no view,. Of course, as to
tho merits Of the cas<s One Senator
declined to vote at nh, having decid-
ed in his own mind that the Senate
had no authority to try the case. he
would not by inference express any
opinion on the merits. The highest
vote on any count for conviction, was
thirty-seven, comprising all the DEM
ocratic with several. prominent Re-
publican Senator'S The smallest vote
for conviction on afy count was thir-
ty-fve. The number voting not guilty
was twenty-five.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
The Cincinnati Enquireri is the lead

The Cincinnati Enquireris is the lead
ing democraticpaper of Ohio. 1t now
supports Tilden, but did not before
his nomination.. 1t is amusing to see
how this great representative organ
Of Ohio democracy and reform, eats
crow, and the fearful kind of crow it
feeds on. For instance, soon after
Tilden's nomination, it said of him :
ut could not but be that a man edu-
Gated in cunning, in hypocrisy, in
iniquity, nominated in corruption and
shameless effrontery, even though his
millions could elect him. would give
us the most corrupt administration
the country has ever known
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
FOREIG N.

VIENNA, August 4.-Monkhtal
Pasha is expected shortly to take ref
.uge in Austria with his army. He is
so hemmed in at Treble, il is impos.
sible to force passage north.
The enforcement of Midhat Pasha's
proposed constitution has again been
postponed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09

THIS has been the longest session of
Congress in the history Of the coun-
try. The other long one was the first
session of the seth Congress, which
began Dec. 4, 1865. and ended July
2S, 1866. The second session of the
37th Congress was from Dec. 2, 1861,
till July H. 1862.