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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

ST. PETERsHURG, April 1.-THE
Gautos says Europe, probably within
the next week, will receive clear
proof of Russia's determination to
attack and for which her troops have
been concentrated on the frontier.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
Fatal Exploelou.

PoTTsvlLLE, April ll.-An explo-
sion Of sulphur in the Middle Creek
mines, near fremont, yesterday
burned seven men, some Of them IA
tally.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
GOV. cHAmRERLAlM.

We are not convcrsant with the
state Of affairs in South Carolina as
fully as Gov. Chamberlain is, nor can
we expect to be. We are therefore
not prepared to say that his decision
to no longer contend for the Govern
orship is erroneous. We had hoped,
however, that the simple removal, for
o short distance, of the troops from
the State House would not 80 with
draw their aid from the maintainance
OF peace as to call for this action on
the part of Chamberlain. We con-
fess, that in his address, the Governor
makes a strong case. We do not see
how his positions can be successfully
rcfuted. In the light we have, we
believe the President has made a
serious mistake in not deciding which
was the lawful State authority, and
the simple declaration Of such decision
would have settled all difficulty, as
we think, long ago, and peace would
have been established. That decisions
to our mind, ought clearly to have
mndc Chamberlain Governor. In
voluntarily we arc led to exclaim, as
we consider Chambcrlain's address,
that he uttcrs therein noble, true
words which find responsive COM
mcndation in the great republican
heart Of the country. We believe he
can we'll afford to look to the future
for a verdict upon his course. We
shall only be too happy in finding the
policy of the administration cfiicacious
for the great good anticipated by its
to follow, though such a re-
suit be entirely at variance with our
prediction.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
Thg souru.

&
Mr.. E. v. Sinalley, one of the New
York Tribune editors is travelling
south, and from South Carolina
writes the following TO that paper:
"The Southern white man has q
horror of manual labor, especially of
farm work. In the whole journey
from Richmond to Charleston / did
not see a single white man at work
in the fields. Everywhere it was the
negro who was plowing and planting.
So In the towns it is the. negro who
drives the cart, handles the goods and
farm-products, makes the gardens,
does the work in the streets, and
fetches and carries generally. He
shares the trades with foreigners and
and northcrners. The white man
will keep store or practice q pro-
fession, but that is about all he ap-
pears willing to do. If he owns land
he expects to live by it, while the me-
gro performs the labor of cultiyating
the soil. Forgetful of Poor Richards 9
provcrb, the white wants to thrive by
the plow, but will neither hold nor
drive. am at a loss to know how
the white men make living in this
State.
No wonder the country is poor
when the portion of its population
that ought to join to strength the skill
and energy that come of intelligence
refuses to take part in the all-impor-
tant work of an essentially agricul.
tural community. Here in Charles
ton the blacks are not only the do
mcstic servants, carriers, porters, and
stevedores, but they are also the mar
ket-gardeners, fishermen, butchers,
marketmen, and, to considerable ex-
tent, the skilled mechanics"
That's precisely what's the matter
with the southern whites. They
never did work and never will so
long as they can grind living out
Of the faces of the poor blacks.
The process of restoring the me-
grocs to position of scrfdom i'm
which they will be compelled to work
and vote as the lazy whites may die
tate, goes bravely on aud when that
is finally accomplished in the only
two remaining unsettled States,"
to-wit: South Carolina and Louisi-
ana, then we shall hear "that quiet
reigns in Warsaw"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
THERE SHALL Be WlRs
And RumOrs of Wars. but
the End is Not Yet.
No Further Hope that Turkey
VIII Accede TO the Demands
Of Europe.

The Porte Declines the PROTOCOL
War Certain
CoNsTANTINoPLE, April u.-Safad
Pasha, in communicating the Porte's
determinations to foreign representa-
tives, expressed the regret Of the Sui
tan and his ministers at their inability
to follow the well meant advice of the
powers; but both political and
financial reasons made it absolutely
necessary to terminate the present in.
tolerable position of uncertainty.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
As,oo,ooo Fire a, Pomerey. q.

CINCINNATI, April PA fire at
Pomeroy, Ohio, broke out in the
warc-room of ID. G. Gayer Il Son, in
the main portion of the city, last
night, about 10 o'clock, and spread
rapidly in every direction, and was
not checked until twenty-five bust.
ness houses, Offices and residences
were destroyed. The First National
Bank building is the only one remain
ing on the west side Of Court street,
and its third story was gutted by the
flames. Tho total damage at low
estimate will reach 100000. Insu-
rance, about $4,000.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
The Last Chance.

PARIS, April l2.-Duke Decases,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived
in Paris, on. Wednesday, and made,
in conjunction with Lord Derby, a
final effort to induce the Porte to send
. special envoy to st. Petersburg.
This is the last chance of procuring
peace.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

Ex-Gov. Tilden was riding in q
carriage, Monday afternoon, at New
York, when his horses ran away.
Tilden jumped out, escaping without
injury.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
EXTENSIVE REVENUE FRAuDs

Very extensive revenue frauds in
the manufacture of tobacco in North
Carolina have recently been discover
ed. Some thirty manufactures in
the county of Surrey, charged with
participation in these fraudulent
transactions, have been indicted. The
frauds discovered are estimated by
revenue agents to exceed a third of
the total amount of internal revenue
taxes collected in that State.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
Patterson Denies eelford's Right to
Occupy q 46th. .Congression.
al Chair,
a coLoRApo SEAT ooNrrsrrn,

A COLORADO SEAT CONTESTED.
WASHINGTON, April lO.-The Clerk
of the House of Representatives to-
day received a brief from Patterson,
of Colorado, who denies the right of
Belford to seat in the next Con-
gress, on the ground that he could
not be elected at the same time to fill
a fragment of term in the forty
fourth and full term in the forty
fifth Congress, the Convention pro-
viding that one Representative from
the State at large should be elected
at the first election under the Consti-
tuition, and thereafter at such times
and places as may be prescribed by
law. Patterson concludes that as
such provision has not been made by
the State his own election is valid un-
der the general law of Congress,
which establishes the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in November
IS tho day for election of representa-
tivcs and delegate. The Clerk is in
vestigating the law and facts.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
LOUISIANA.
Nichols will Make No
Compromise.
Packard Offers to DO the Fair
Thing,
And the President Won't Decide
which Government is Legal
The Commission Want Further In
structions.

WASHINGTON, April l3.-The Lou.
isiana Commissioners, in their long
cipher dispatch to the President, yes
terday, circumstantially relate the
result of their conferences with all
parties in interest. They find the
NICHOLS PARTY NOT DISPOSED TO
MAKE ANY CONCESSIONS,
but will maintain their ground in
the belief and hope that ultimately,
as in Hampton's case in South Caro-
lima, they will have full and unob-
structed possession of the govern
mcnt. The
PACKARD PARTY ARE READY TO ENTER
INTO AN ARRANGEMENT
for joint Legislature to determine
pending questions, but this being re.
jected by the Nichols party the
Packard party ask the President to
determine which is the legal State
government. The President
DECLINES TO ACT UPON THE REQUEST
as under present circumstances he
would not be justified in making a
decision.
Owing to the disagreement of the
Nichols and Packard parties and the
UNpRoMIsING PROSPECTS
Of an accommodation, the Commits.
sioners ask for further instructions,
which will be sent after the Cabinet
session to-day.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
STILL LATER NEWS.

1t now proves that Sidmore Hay
den and Bridget Meade We're killed.
This reduces the number known to
have lost their lives to be eleven.
There is no positive knowledge that
}. +. Wilson, Bridget White or Clark
and his wife and child are among the
lost, butt is believed they were killed.
How many bodies there may be in
the ruins, of course, is q mere matter
of conjecture. Some think that
twenty or twenty-five may be found,
while others do not believe that any
will be discovered. Persons who
were through various parts of the
hotel just before the floors began to
fall say it was clear of living people.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
Tracy Resigns.

pArrERsoN, N. j., April ls.-Ham-
ilton Mill burned to-day. Loss $780,
600, partially insured.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
A Poisoning Tragedy.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, April l3.-Ed-
ward Leyer, German farmer, suici-
ded on Tuesday evening by means OF
an unknown agency. probably hydro
cyanic acid furnished by his wife. He
had been convicted of poisoning the
cistern of Frederick Cook, and thus
causing the death OF Mrs. Cook, and
the poisoning of several others. His
counsel proved that though the cis-
tern was poisoned, yet the stomach OF
the deceased upon analyzation show
ed no poison, and contended that the
poison had been put into the cistcrn
after her death by an enemy of Leyer.
The prosecution proved by eminent
medical authority that the presence OF
poison in the stomach was not neces-
sary evidence of the fact. Lever was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life,
which made him gloomy and morose,
The coroner's jury to-day returned a
verdict accordingly to-day. His son
who was under joint indictment fled
but wrote back confessing the decd
and exculpating his father. 1t is con.
sidered most remarkable case in all
its phases.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, April lO.-The State
officers of South Carolina addressed
the following letter to Gov. Chamber
lain, before his letter was made
public:
COLUMBIA, S. c., April 10.
To his Ercellency d. II. Chamber
lain, Governor-DEAR SIR :-Recur-
ring to the views scverally expressed
by us during personal conference
which we had the honor to hold with
you yesterday, in regard to political
complications which have grown out
of the late canvass in this State, we
beg leave to apprise you formally of
the conclusions we have reached, after
mature deliberation and the gravest
reflection which we have been able to
bestow upon the subject. Whilst we
are no less inspired with admiration
for the dignified and rcsolute manner
in which you consistently maintained
your claims to the gubernaf0ssakz
chair by virtue of the election held in
November last, we are no less solemnly
impressed with the validity of your
title to the office.
We are unanimous in the bcliefthat
to prOlOng the contest in the absence
of that support, to which we feel our
selves and our party justly entitled at
the hands of the national administra-
ton, installed in large measure
through the same agencies which are
now held to be insufficient for our
maintenance, will be to insure the
responsibility of keeping alive
partizan prejudices, which are in the
last degree detrimental to the best
interests of the people of the State and
perhaps of precipitating physical
conflict that could have but one result
to our defenceless constituency. We
cannot afford to contribute however
indirectly to such catastrophe, even
our rights. We are agreed therefore
in counseling you to discontinue the
struggle for the occupancy of the
gubernatorial chair, convinced as we
are that in view Of the disastrous
odds to which its maintenance has
been subjected by the action of the
national administration. Your re-
tirement will involve no surrender Of
principles, nor its motive be misap-
pretended by the great body of that
political party to which, in common
with ourselves, you are attached, and
whose success in the past in this State
has been enobled by Your intelligent
and unselfish services. We have the
honor to be very respectfully yours,
(Signed), ROBERT B. ELLIoT,
Attorney General.
THOMAS G. Dunn,
Comptroller.
JcHN II. TALRoTT,
Superintendent of Education.
Il. L. CARDozA,
Treasurer of South Carolina.
JAMES KENNEDY,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Ii. G. HoyNE,
Secretary of State.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

A lady, inclined to ilirt, says men
are like . cold, easily caught, but
very hard to get rid Of.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

Postage stamps are manufactured
at an average cost of one cent hum
dred.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
WADE HAMPTON,
Of South Carolina
Chamberlain replied

"Replying to your note of this date,
l have to say that my private secretary
will meet such officer as you may
designate at IL meridian tomorrow
at the executive chamber for the pur-
pose indicated in your note.
Very respectfully,
(Signed), ID. II. CHAMBERLAIN,
Governor Of South Carolina
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

COLUMBIA, April lO.-Thc State
officers of South Carolina addressed
the following letter to Gov. Chamber
lain, before his letter was made
public:
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

FEKFkCFLt TERRIBLE
and q number Of them jumped from
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

ST.. LOUIS, April 1.-THE Southern
Hotel, in this city, was destroyed by
fire at two o'clock, this morning.
About fifty lives lost, as near as can
be ascertaincd up to this time.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

COLUMBIA, April l0.-Wade Hamp-
ton has written the following to
Chamberlain:
"SIR: Having learned that you
now purpose to turn over to me the
executive chamber with records and
papers belonging to the executive
office now in your possession, 1 beg
to inform you that will send
proper officer to receive the same at
any hour you may indicate as most
convenient to yourself. am, very
respectfully,
(SiUuedl WAnr IT .N,proN
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

She alighted on her feet and was car
ried to the Saint James Hotel still
alive. Her husband, who had been
standing by her side, then tore up the
bedding and let the strip SO made out
Of the window. To this the flremen
attached q rope, which the man hauled
up, making it fast to the window sill
and he safely descended by it.
A man named
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
NOT so BAD AS REPORTED.

There may have been a number
suilocated and lying on floors in the
halls when the interior Of the build
ing fell. Tomorrow search will
commence, when the facts will be
known. Many grossly exaggerated
reports have been sent from here to-
day regarding the loss Of life, some of
them cruel in the extreme, and they
should not be relied upon. While
the calamity was a frightfnl one, it
was by no means SO great as has been
reported. The names Of every person
known to have been killed have been
given in these dispatches.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
The Seething Flames Cause Ma,
ny to Leap from Windows
Only to be Mashed to Jelly on
the Pavement below. :
The Immense Structure a Mass
of Ruins in an Hour.
Kate Ciaxton Makes Another ANivnc-
ulouS Escape,

ST. LOUIS, April III, l As A. MA
fire has just broken out in the upper
stories of the Southern Hotel and the
indications are that the whole struc-
ture will burn. The guests are being
removed safely.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

ST.. LOUIS, April 1l.-At l %, this
morning, the finest structure of the
kind in the city, was discovered to be
on fire. The Salvage Corps respond
ed to the alarm before it was sound
ed on the city bells. Before the en-
gines arrived the entire upper
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

Of the hotel is feared to bo great.
There were some 200 of them, all Of
whom were lodged in the upper story
Of the building. Tho panic among
them was
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18

in the fifth story window, on Fifth
street front, become panic stricken
and
The Osceola times., 1877-04-28
Architectural Appointments.

The secretary OF the treasury has
for some time been considering va
rious improvments and changes in
the architectural bureau, with the
boe of devising some plan which
will result in finishing the govern
ment buildings now under way as
soon as possible, and relieving this
branch Of the service Of numerous inefh-
cient officers. After much discussion
Sherman has about concluded to appoin-
a supervising architect of more caliber
than the present incumbent, Mr.. Hill.
His name Is not yet announced. He will
be assisted by a supervising draughts.
man, whose business will be to zee that
the theories OF the supervising architect
take some practical shape. The gentle
man now being pushed for the place is an
architect of Cincinnati, and he will be
likely to receive the appointment. Mul.
let has tried hard to be reinstated, but
has not succeeded but to-day Sherman
issued commission TO him as superin-
tendent of the buildings in Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis. He will take
personal charge OF completing the build
ings at once, and means TO push the
work. He remarked recently that the
Cincinnati work was progressing like at
snail, and more life may be looked for in
that quarter Washington Cor. Cmcin'
natl Enquirer.
The Osceola times., 1877-04-28
Two Irr~conctimbIe Conditions.

Debility aud health are rreconc liable con.
diiions. Weakly people, that is to say, peo-
Pile who lack the vitality requisite for viv-
orous discharge of each and all Of the bodi-
ly functions, are invariably afflicted with
some, though it may be atrifling, disorder OF
the system. Atony or want Of nervous and
muscular vigor, is accompsniet by poverty Of
the blood and .eanness. A certain way to
overcome it and prevent the aggravated
maladies to which il must ultimately lead is
to used Hostetter's Stomach Bltters, which
promote digestion and assimilation Of the
food, aud thus are the means Of furnishing
the body with supply Of blood of aqualit,
essential to its proper punishment. lnvig-
oration through the instrumentality OF the
matchless tonic protects the feeble from a
host of bodily ills shich lurk in ambush for
the debiitated. The Bitters are an article
which it is most desirable to keep constantly
on hand.
The Osceola times., 1877-04-28

In his address as president Of the Liv.
erpool Geological society, Mr.. Mellard
Reade offered some data for calculating
the length Of geological periods. He
made a careful estimate Of the amount of
solid matter washed down by the
Thames per year; the figures very closely
agreeing with those which Prestwich OBJ.
tanned. Similar calculations were made
by Mr.. Reade for other rivers. The
Thames is credited with washing away
one hundred and forty-seven tons per
square mile every year, the Rhine, 92.3
tons; the Rhone two hundred and
thirty.two tons; the Danube, 1921 tons;
the Garonne, one hundred forty-two
tons; the Seine, ninety seven tons.
Probably one hundred tons of rock ma
terial are dissolved per square mile
every year, of which half may be cal
cium carbonate, fifth calcium sulphate,
seven tons silica, of magnesia carbonate
and sulphate and sodium chloride four
tons each, and six tons of other alkaline
carbonates and sulphates. Taking the
solids removed mechanically at six times
those in solution "a high estimate), the
total denudatien on the globe would be
six hundred tons q year per square
mile One.thir may be added to this
for denudation effected by the sea on its
coasts and for the amount that volcanic
eruptions add to given stratum.
Carrying out this calculation for the
sedimentary crust of the earth, estimated
at ten miles in thickness, its production
NAV hava nccunied hot l-O OOO years
This evidently includes the assumption
that the denuding actien was as slow in
distant geological epochs as at present
II should not be difficult to calculate
from such data the number of millions
Of years that must elapse before our
present continents are worn down to
sea. level. Such a deduction would com
pei very great modification of some of
the figures assumed 10y NJ. de Candolles
in his recent estimates as to the length
of time that the earth will he fitted for
the abode Of man.
The Osceola times., 1877-04-28
The Indians.

Lieutenant Clark, of General Crook $
staff received from one OF the fifteen
Indians who have arrived at the Spotted
Tail agency, the seal ring Of Lieutenant
Van W. Riley OF the Seventh cavalry,
who was killed in the Custer massacre.
It is not positively known whether or
not Crazy Horse, with his band proper,
will come in. His reply to the commits.
sion, sent to them by runner, was that
he would come in aud hold a council.
Since then nothing'has been heard from
him, and to ascertain his ,whereabout at
present and his intentions as regards his
surrender, new envoy under the CON
mand of old Red.Cloud has departed.
The party who arrived at the spotted Tail
agency consists principally of northern
Cheyennes, while forty of the same tribe
are m route for the cantonment on Tongue
river, and will surrender to General
Miles.