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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

PERTINENT question by the Boston
Journal: ''In the last days of the DEM
ocratic party prior to the war, under
James Buchanan, the government OF
the United States was unable to bor-
row money at less than twelve per
cent. Now, after eighteen years OF
republican management, it gets all
the money it wants at four and foul
and a half per cent. Do the people
want to restore twelve per cent de.
mocracy""
And more than this, does anybody
want, by the issue of hundreds o.
millions of greenbacks, to weaken the
credit of the nation and put stop tC
its being able to sell its bonds at the
low rate of fonr per cent interest, and
SO throw the government upon the
market with its bonds at an eXorbit.
ant rate of interest if indeed it could
sell its bonds at all. Such an evident
disregard of the nations obligations
would, in our opinion, totally destroy
the nations credit, so that its obliga
tons would not sell at all.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
payment Of Rebel Claims

Conger, of Michigan, i'm the last
days Of the session of the House, in
trOduced joint resolution providing
for an amendment to the constitution
which would prevent the payment OF
rebel claims. This resolution, uneX-
pected at the time, produced conster-
nation among the democratic mem
bers of the House. It's consideration
at the time was so plainly parliament
airy that the Speaker could not rule it
out of order, and hence it proved a
bombshell in the democratic camp.
A vote must be had upon it. 1t would
not do to table it, for this would be
death to the democracy North. The
vote was pressed with the following
result: Only 2O6 members voted; of
these, AS voted in the affirmative and
81 in the negative. A large number
OF Northern democrats lodged the
vote. Only four Southern democrats
voted i'm the affirmative, and six
Northern democrats voted in the neg
ative. Nearly the entire Southern
wing of the democratic party voted
no. The republicans, to, man, So
far as they We're present, voted for
the resolution. This vote is signifi-
cant. 1t shows that six Northern
democratic members had the courage
t record their votes for the payment
of rebel claims and scores more of
them refrained from voting, while
the entire Southern wing of the party
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
The Communists.
From the New York Tribune

1t is no longer safe to treat the en-.
emies of civilized society with indif.
ference. President Grant ia proba-
bly, right in saying that they can new.
er prevail in this country; but If SO,
it is only because popular intelligence
will arrest the schemes of Commun.
lists at very early stage, whether
they mediate employment of bullets
or ballots. 1t has become peculiarly
necessary to teach those who lean to-
wards Communistic notions that theil
ideas are essentially revolutionary
and tend to bloodshed and anarchy
that, in fact, they are nOta whit bet.
ter citizens than the runaway sssas-
sins from Paris whom they seek to
disown. Let them compare their
most guarded political platforms
with the formal declarations of the
Communists of Paris. Let them lis
ten to the speeches Of the men who
celebrated the French Revolution OF
l84S ON Monday night. Exactly what
they want, these assassins tried to
get, aud by the only possible method.
Let the ideas of the Socialists, or
"Greenback-L Labor" advocates in this
country, be fairly compared with
those of the French Communists, and
it will be seen that the distinction be-
tween them is not one of purpose, but
one of courage and candOr.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
Financial Facts.

WASHINGTON, July 3.
The following statement showing
the actual condition of the Treasury
ON the 3Oth Of last month was prepar-
ed to-day. On June 3Oth, 1878,
there were in the Treasury as fol-
lows:
Gold coin, $l6l, 343,914; standard
dollars, 6,8S7,948; gold bullion, g..
O99, 439; silver bullion, 1881, POL
Total-$1S0. 222, 500; fund for re.
demption of United States notes, say
IS per cent of $346, 618, DIG; outstand.
ing in legal tenders $l2l, 0O0, 600 coin
in excess of the redemption fund $780,
222, 500, of which there will be re-
quired for the following payments
unmatured calls of $40 bonds, $685..
$50; coin certificates outstanding
on that date, 81, 1851, OO0-less &c.
469, 800. Redeemed and in Treasury
$N, 897, $50. Principal of debt and
stated to be due and unpaid on thai
date, 100000. Coin interest init.
mated to be and unpaid on that date
100000. Total-$56, IA, $50. Excess
-$M, 74S,2l2.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

SPEAKING of Northern republican
speakers going south this year to talk
to the Southern people from the stump,
the Albany Ereniag Journal gives the
following as what it thinks should be
the tenor of the speeches:
''The republican party makes nc
war upon the South or her interests
we have no hostility or ill-will to the
Southern people; we only maintain
that the settlements of the constitu.
ton shall be fairly accepted, and We
frankly say that the best guaranty OF
this will be to keep their administra.
ton in the hands that made them
we insist that the equal rights of all
citizens shall be respected, and if We
accord to you of the South all youl
rights and privileges, we simply de-
mand that you shall accord the same
to the humble black republicans by
your side; if you are honestly and sin
cerely for Cancellation and good will
this shall be the test"
And that is very good, indeed.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

in the House, save four, declared
themselves in favor of the payment
of these claims. Let no man say,
therefore. that the democratic party,
which is ruled and controlled by the
Southern wing of it, where a solid
democratic phalanN is formed, will
not, if it gains the power, pass a law
for the payment of these claims.
That they will, whenever the govern
ment is vested in their hands, if it
should ever be, there cannot be the
least doubt. These claims run all the
way from $500, 900, 600 to s., 900, e0O, 600.
We, therefore, whom the people ofthis
country of the danger right ahead OF
them in case the democracy succeed.
They will, as sure as the time shall
ever come when they have the power,
add to the public debt by hundreds
of millions of dollars to pay the losses
incurred by rebels while they were
engaged in an armed attempt to de-
stroy the nation. Can we present to
the American people a greater inn
pending danger, short of revolution,
than this' Is there any branch of the
nations finances which SO demands
the attention of good citizens as this?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
Gains Wife.

A few years ago, while the Ala.
bama and Chattanooga Railroad was
in process of construction, it was q
favorite field for colored preachers to
labor and take up collections "for de
spread OBJ de gospel" Among these
q frequent visitor was old Father
Helms, from Tennessee, whose fervid
eloquence and practical "spoundinga
oh de Sacred Word" were attentively
listened to by large congregations OF
the sable race, with no small delega-
tons of interested white listeners up
on the outskirts. Upon one occasion,
assembled in q lovely Alabama grove,
he addressed his congregation thus
"Ladies and gentlemen OBJ my be-
loved congregation :-Havin' cotched
q bad cold de odder evenin', shan't
attempt to preach to yer dis Sabbath
mornin', but will read chapter from
de Bible, and spound 1t as I 60
along" He then read the fourth
chapter of Genesis, after which he
continued his remarks: "De odder
evenin' l tux for my tex de tragedy
in de garding oh Eden-de KILN OBJ
Abel, and de cuss and drivin' out oh
Cain. And after de sermon one OBJ
your smart young darkies-one Oh
desc yer thin-skinned, saleratus COM
plexioned niggers-steps up to me,
and says he, 'Fader Helms, yer disre.
membered to tell US who Mr.. Cain
married down in de land OBJ Nod ;
was it his mudder? Dere was Q
GRIMM crowd oh no-'count, trifling
niggers wild him, and I 'spected At
once dat de white folks had sent him
up to AK dat question. Twas so over
come wild sense OBJ de sinfulness
and great sumption OBJ sinners, bofe
white and black, dat could say nuf-
fin. I had muffin to say. / took de
question under prayerful considers
ton, and de answer were made plain.
I'm gwine to spouud dat part OBJ
Scripter ter yer all. Who Cain'a
wife was, and whar he got her, is
plain to de all-seein' eye OBJ faith. In
de garding OBJ Eden Cain raised right
smart of craps and garding truck and
SIGH. But after de slewin' OBJ his
Christian brudder Abel we don't read
OBJ his workin' NO mo-. He TUX his
gun and dogs, and went down to dat
sleepy, lazy, no-'count section OBJ
Nod, and loafed aroun' dat country /;
and havin' lost all his plantation aud
mules, and all his self-respec' and
pride OBJ family and State, de mex we
read OBJ him he had got 90 low down
and triflin' dat he married q gal OBJ
one oh dose no-'count poor white
trash families which de inspired pos
tie didn't consider fittin' to mention
in de Holy Word"
The reverend "spounder" gazed
around upon his admiring congrega-
ton with an air of triumph, and q
brother struck up the hymn, "Whar,
. whar am de Hebrew chillen ?"-
Harper's.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
For the Inter Ocean
DO NOT LlkGTo HEAR HIM PRAY
BY EDGAR

do not like to hear him pray
Who loans at twenty five per cent,
For then, j think, the borrower may
Be pressed to pay for food and rent,
And IN the book we all should read.
Which says the lender should be blessed;
|. 1t does not say take interest.
do not like to hear him pray
On Bonded knees, about an hour,
For grace to speed Alright the day,
Who knows his neighbor has no -four,
I'd rather see him 60 to mill
And buy the luckless brother bread.
And see the children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their she'd
| do not like to hear HIM pray;
Letblessings on the widow be.
Who, never seeks her home to say:
"Ifwant O'ertakes you, come to me-,
hate the prayer. SO loud and long
That's offered for the orphans veal
BY him who sees him crushed by " roIs
And does not for his su1ferings feel
do not like to hear her pray.
With jeweled ear and silken dress,
Whose wAsherwOman tolls all day,
And then Is asked to work for less
Such pious shearers despise;
With folded hands and face demlre,
They lift to heaven their angel eyes.
And eteal the earnings of the poor.
do not like such soulless prayers,
lfwrong hope TO be forgiven;
No angels wings them upward bears
They're lost q million miles from heaven.
l cannot ann .t pear long prayers to hear,
Our Father lends ready ear,
Let words be few; He hears the heart.
r. S.-The above verses are respectfully inscrit
ed 70 the Rev. Dr. Thomas, Centenary Churcf
by his friend.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
Decrease of the Gold Product.

The San Francisco Chronicle sees
something alarming i'm the decrease
of the annual product of gold. From
its returns from the principal metal
liferous countries for the first half of
the current calendar year it estimates
the total gold supply from the mines
for the year at SS5,000,00O, or about
s5,O0O,000 less than last years supply.
In 1852 the product was 1893, 100000,
since which time that figure has new
err been reached in any year, and the
production from year to year has, on
the whole, fallen off, until now it is
less than half what it was twenty-siy
years ago. At the same time the
population of Europe and North
American-the countries where gold
is most used as medium of exchange
has increased from 266,00O, 900 to
37O,0OO,00O, or 40 per cent. at is
with no little concern" that the Uyo,s-
icle points out these facts.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

SOME of the democratic papers re-
Gently published a document which
purported to have been written at the
dictation of the Louisiana colored
woman, Eliza Pinkston, denying the
truth of her horrible story before the
visiting statesmen" Mt New Orleans
in 1876, of the whippings and outrag-
eous bull-dozing resorted to by the
democrats for the intimidation of the
colored voters. Now Eliza Pinkston
authorizes the statement that this doc
ument of denial is a forgery from be-
ginning to end, the work of some
supple tool of the Potter committee.
She declares that her story of horrors
is every word true, and we doubt not
it was so.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

DIS MONIES is in great travail about
the railroad situation. and the deni.
zens of that city are meeting in mass
convention to discuss and figure on
what shall be done. A writer in the
Register angus that now the Chicago
4 Rock Island company has leased
the X. 4 ID. NJ. road, they will soon
be at the mercy of the former road.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
Its readers the fact that they bore in.


Compound interest, legal tender notes SIT Oh. iso
Temporary loan certificates. 07,14S. 718
Certificates of Indebtedness. .......... GO98,O0O
Treasury bper cent legal tenders. 39,6S6,9 SOL
Ihree year treasury notes. .......... $4,000. 900
Making total of..............,$l,27 i ,sO2 ,s6i
Which bore interest from per cent
to $40 per cent, and which they call
currency. The compound interest
notes bore per cent; the temporary
loan certificates, and 6 per cent; GER
tificates of Indebtedness, 6 per cent;
Treasury legal tenders per cent; and
the $930,00O,OO0, so-called Treasury
notes, and three-tenths per cent in
terest. What we say is, il in 1866 in
terest bearing obligations bearing 6
per cent, 6 per cent and and three.
tenths per cent interest can be called
currency or money, why cannot the
present interest bearing obligations
of the government bearing per cent,
8 per cent and g per cent interest, be
also called money and currency? They
are above par-would be gladly taken
by any one at par for any debts, and
consequently, according to their own
theory we have 81, 200, 100000 of cur.
rency at the present time, and why
are they growing?
Again, we stated that if the con.
traction, which they claim, took place
it took place prior to the latter part OF
1868, and we challenge them to prove
to the contrary, and we wish them to
explain how two-thirlls of the cur.
rency could be contracted at the time
of the greatest prosperity and not felt
till five years afterwards. They give
their statements of September lst
1865, and December LIST, 1873. Now
be honest, and give a statement o.
December lst, 1868, and let your read
ers know when this so-called contrac
ton actually took place, and then ex.
plain how contraction brought about
five years of succeeding prosperity.
As another instance of trying K
mislead its readers, it quotes from thu
same paper, to show that the people
are paying $25, OOO, 600 annually more
interest now than they did a few
years ago. Now these are the fact.
taken from official reports. The gov
ernment paid in 1867, $143, 7S1, sci an
nual interest, that being the creates
annual amount ever paid. Tha
amount has been annually reduced
under the wise management of tn,
republican party, till in 1877 tn,
amount paid was 500, 124,511, being .
reduction in ten years of the annua
charge of interest of $46,657, O8O
These are facts taken directly from off
cial reports, and they cannot be sue
cessfully controversial.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
FOREIGN
Fourth Of July.

LONDON, July 6.-Americans In
Geneva had dinner and ball on the
Fourth of July. A party from
Chamanuix had the American flag on
the summit Of Mount Blanc on the
4th.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

6r. LOUIS, July 9.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-higher, No. red S6k
bid cash, 83h @86 July.
Corn-higher, 35k cash, 54@3616
July.
Oats-higher, 25z cash, 231k bid
July.
Whisky-$l O6.
Pork-dull, unchanged, jobbing
80 5000 As.
Lard-$6 80 asked go bid.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

The Anti-Slavery Society of Great
Britain has united i'm a memorial to
Prince Bismarck asking him to sub
NIT to the congress declaration that
the slave trade be henceforth regard
ed as piracy, and that slavery shall
not be recognized as illegal institution
by any of the States forming the con.
gress. The memorial states that the
trade for the supply of Cuba and the
Mohammedan countries causes los.
of 100000 lives annually in Eastern
Africa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
Trouble Apprehended

MONTREAL, July 6.--Mayor Beaudy
has issued . proclamation setting
forth that trouble is apprehended on
the 18th of July, and stating that any
one guilty of disturbing the peace
will be arrested aud punished, and
notifying the people that no parade
or gathering will be permitted ON the
streets or in the city. He calls on all
citizens to help preserve the peace.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

If you murder anybody now you
might get hung for it. Such a penal
ty for homicide went into effect July
4th, and it is our opinion that the
standard of humanity will have to be
greatly improved before such law
ought again to be repealed. We are
aware that an opponent to our view
would say that humanity is not i'm.
proved but degraded by the existence
of such a law. The same objection
would hold good against any kind o
nenal laws.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

NEW YORK, July 9.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-spring, 1@1Ac better, win
ter shade firmer, receipts 1900 blu.
sales $4,000; No. 2 spring 9414@h
Sept.
Rye-irm.
Corn-4@A better, receipts 81 ,OO
bu., sales 10000 at 42@47A for west
ern mixed.
Barley-nominal.
Oats-advancing receipts 5000
bu., sales 35, 1000 at 29@31h for mixet
western, 32@S for white.
Pork-firmer, $40 25@lO so.
Lard-firmer, 81 OH.
Whisky-$l OH.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
A. n. Stephens Defends himself
Before His Constituents.

First in the order of his reply, was
to the charge that he had violated the
trust contided in him, in reference to
the so-called "Potter resolution" to
inquire into the frauds of the last
presidential election. No one, he as
sumed doubted that frauds, huge,
enormous and hideous, had been COM
mitted. He had no objection to an
investigation if it We're done for q
proper purpose. He never was de.
fender of fraud perpetrated by any
party. But his opinion was that an
investigation ought not to be one-sided
He believed the American people
would not favor such an investigation
If an Investigation was made on one
side, it ought to be made on the other
land the evidence massed to guide flu.
ture legislation, and prevent repeti.
ton of similar frauds through all
time. He took the ground, also, thai
in entering upon such investigation {
declaration ought to be made that il
was not to investigate the title of Mr.
Hays to the Presidency. Both thest
propositions had been denied him
, yet twenty-three days later, after tn,
, democracy of the great state of Penn
: sylvania had declared i'm thunde
tones, that the title of Mr.. Haye
must not be questioned, every demo
crat in the House, with the exception
of fourteen, had voted for the resolu
| ton of Mr.. Burchard, republican o
: Illinois, declaring the title of tn
| President inviolable. Ifhe had erret
? his error was thus endorsed by tn
? democratic representatives of tn
5 whole country, including every on
: of his colleagues, representatives from
: the state of Georgia. How then
: could he be censured for affirmin,
! what ought not to be done, which tn
: democracy including his colleagues
: subsequently declared must not b
2 done.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

Our old Iowa friend, l.. d. lnger.
soil, iLinkensale,, has been appointed
Librarian of the War Department,
lngersoll is in luck and So is that Ii.
brary.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
THEIR PEDIGREEs.

Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette)
LOUISVILLE, July 4.-Mollie McCar-
thy has the prestige of q career of un-
varying success. She has already
won two races of four mile heats
such as the one for which she is now
entered. Her pedigree is of q
kind to take pride in, since it runs
through Lexington, Glencoe, Levia-
than, Yorkshire, and Buzzsrd, the
gamest and ~purest blood the turf has
ever known. But three horses, with
the exception of Lexington are bet
ter known for their get than
for their own performances
on the turf. The mare was foaled in
1873, her sire being Monday, son of
Cotton by Mollie Jackson, by Vandal
queen of the turf in her day. Her
running has all been done on the
Pacific slope.
The horse is even more aristocrat-
ically connected, however, than his
little competitor, at least on the side
of his sire He is now six years old.
His sire was an imported horse Fan
ME Holton, his dam. was by Lexing-
ton, so the pedigrees Of the two con-
testants run together SO far as the
line of American ancestry is concern
ed. Ten Brock is very sensitive,
and subject to strange failings at the
very moment when the greatest de-
pendance is placed on him. Against
time he has run his l :39A, but he has
been sometimes ANONYMOUSLY beaten
by horses that could not fairly be call
ed his equals. As far as clear rec
ord for steadiness and power goes,
the mare has the decided advsn-
tage.
YESTERDAYS RACES.
LOUISVILLE, July 5.-The fret race,
mile heats-Janet won, Sweeney sec
ond time :46.
Second race, dash of one and one
fourth miles-Tolono fret, Warfield
second time 2 :l4A.
The last race one and one-eighth
mile dash-Kate Clsxton won, Joe
Rhodes second time 2 :09k.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
THE LIES ABOUT RESUMPTION.
The Big Stories Of the creenback.
ers with the Air out Of Them.
From the Winferaet Madianninn.

The Beacon Light in its last issue
finds fault with the lladisOnian be-
cause it stated in a late article that
there had been no contraction of the
currency to the amount of 81 ,OOO, OOO,-
900, as is stated by greenback papers
and speakers all over the state, and
thereupon it copies from some un-
known paper table in which it in
cludes the following classes of interest
bearing obligations as currency, care
fully refrainfng, however, to state ia
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

OHuoAeo, July 8.
{ BY Telegraph
Wheat-strong, higher, GAG "a cash
93ss july, 82A@as Aug.
Corn-strong, higher, No. 2 381i q
1885.
Oats-strong, higher, 24s4 cash
"a July. 22A Aug.
Rye-48.
Barley-48.
Pork-firm, higher, 50 30 cash
9 30 bid Aug 9 SO Sept.
Lard-firm, shade higher Sc so cash
6 80 Aug, 100 Sept.
Whisky-$l O6
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
&o60-0oa.000.

for the past year, of our exports over
our imports. This excess for three
years past has reached the enormous
sum of 5000, 100000. This is rapidly
paying our national debt and improv.
ing our credit. A return of prospect.
ty is sure to follow in the train of this
large balance of trade in our favor.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
GREATLY AFFLICTED
TRIED EVERYTHING.
REV. ]. n, WIcolN SAYS:

Each package contains pr. sanfordr Improved
Inhalng Tube, with full directions for uAe In all
cases. Price, S10O. For sale by all wholesale and
Retail Druggists and Dealers through theU
Gtates and Canadas. WEEKS q POTTER, genera
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10

State Register: A grand State Green
back Rally at Des Moines the first
week lin September is now being ar
ranged, with Brick Pomeroy and
Henry Clay Dean as the orators of the
day and the lions of the occasion.