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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
True to the Core.-Thanks to the
Generous North.

Generous North.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 2l.-The Demo-
Gratis of the sixth District renominat-
ed John f. House for Congress. He
predicted that the next political con-
test would be devoid of sectional hat
red, and said: 81 cannot, fellow citi-
zens. find it in my heart to indulge
in feelings of malice towards the
people of the north. When / witness
their magnanimOus and generous
conduct toward Southern people, l
feel like pulling of my hat and stand
ing uncovered in their presence.
Grander than the victory of Apo
ma,ox is the victory won by the peo-
pie of the North in their noble and
generous contributions TO the strick-
en- and suffering South. Upon that
fatal field, tho South surrendered her
sword: within the shadow of the
dark wing Of pestilence, beside the
new made graves of her sOns and
daughters, with bowed head and
fearful eyes, she extends her hand
surrenders her heart to the generous
aud magnanimOus north. God'sown
hand has bridged the bloody chasm.
Let not the ambition Of man seek to
reopen the wounds and rekindle the
embers of sectional strife. Let us 60
into the great contest of 1880 without
any of these elements Of sectional
bitterness. OF course we will be di-
vided as to the questions of govern.
mental policy, but with that element
eliminated from the contest the repre-
sentitives Of the South can stand up
on the floor of Congress as the peer Of
any from the Northern States and
can look to the material develope-
ment Of his own section, to the en-
ofcommercial relations and
make the Southern people more pros
porous. With fraternity and harmo-
NY restored this great country can
march on to more glorious and IL
lustrious future than has been seen
in the past.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

OuIoAeo, Oct. %.
(By Telegraph
Hogs-receipts, $4,000; quiet,
steady; light s. 05@3 10, heavy and
packing 3@3 20, heavy chipping 3 20
Cattle-receipts 400; common to
extra shipping 50 5095 90.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
New YsrksHarket.

New York, Oct. %.
By Telegraph
Wheat-dull; No. 2 winter red
81 O3 Nov.
Rye-dull.
Corn-shade lower; 45,e @47,k for
western mixed.
Barley-quiet.
Oats-flrm; 26@3l for mixed
western.
Pork-dull; IS So.
Lard-t6 IS.
Whisky-el CO.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-Judge Sam
uel Shellabarger, who was present at
the canvass or the electoral vote In
South Carolina, in commenting upon
the cipher disclosures, made the fol-
lowing statement: 81 went to South
Carolina at the request of the Secre-
tary of War and Attorney General to
act as counsel in the mandamus case
brought before the vote was cast
Wade Hampton's militia, to the num-
Der of 5000, were there to inaugurate
him. l soon found out their plan,
which was subsequently made public
and is confirmed by the cipher dis
patches. 1t was to arrest the repub-
lican electors for contempt of the Su-
preme Court in not obeying lite order
in the mandamus suit, and to impris.
on them in different jails, so that 1t
would be impossible for them to meet
at ten or half-past ten o'clock. Be-
lieving that this was their plan we ar
ranged to have q preliminary meet
ing Of the electors very early that
morning, and to have them vote be-
fore the Supreme Court could touch
them, as that court could not
meet before 10. We found in the
morning that the democrats had one
Of the Electors, o colored man.
The Electors met. l was present,
from the fact that l was connected
with the defense in the mandamus
suit. The Electors were waiting for
their absent member. The report
was brought that he was in bank
with the Democrats, and there was
great alarm among the Repu blicans.
They felt confident there was cor
rupt sale being attempted. They did
not get their meeting before the
Court met, as was arranged. Such
arrangement seems to have been
made that if there had been q plan to
arrest them that morning before they
voted, il must have been abandoned,
because the Supreme Court took no
such action. While I was sitting
there waiting, the absent Elector
came bounding in, and the first thing
he said was, "Hurrah for Hayes "
and then he sat down and told the
story that tho Democrats had been
after him The substance Of his story,
W bich heard him tell in the presence
of the other Electors, before the vote
was cast, was that they had offered
him SO much cash aud another larger
sum after the vote was cast, but, %
represented, he had declined all such
corrupt proposals. What the sum
was DO not remember. then left
the room, and the vote was after.
wards cast.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

Conner, republican, for Prosecuting
Attorney in the Fifth or Dies Moines
district, was elected over Smalley, fn-
sionist, by Ave votes.
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

CAIRO, ILL.,, Oct. 22.-Two new cas-
es, one death in the last twenty.four
hours.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
YELLOW FEVER.

New YORK, Oct. 22.-Weather clear,
cool and windy. Thermometer 65o.
Deaths AZ. Gases reported ia. To-
tai deaths 3, 375; total cases l2,4l6.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

AOW SCCpUeH o"~s" " No
From Home and Family-His Sto-
~ to the President-A Choice Be-
t,ceen Punishment or Death Beau
ties of Cancellation Under Wade
Hampton.
The dispatches announced few
DAYS since that Hon. Stephen A.
Swsils, of South Carolina, had called
on the President and related to him
the story of his ostracism and bAnish-
ment. We find the complete story In
the Washington Republican. and give
it place. It 10 = terrible story, and
would be impossible anywhere else
in the United States, except south of
Mason and Dixon's line. Mr.. Swails
had the choice Of three alternatives
to surrender his political convictions,
banishment, or death.
MR.. swAILs' STORY TO THE PRESIDENT
Shaving been invited to address
the republican club at White Oak
about Z miles from Kingstree, on Sat.
urday, the 9th inst, accordingly or
the morning of the 9Th, with Mr.. A
j. M. Montgomery, I proceeded te
the place, arriving there about II
o'clock. Shortly after our arriva
several persons of the democrati,
party also arrived from Kingstree
coming with tho intention as was af
forwards shown, to disturb and breal
up the meeting. The club was calico
to order and was called upon to ad
dress them, which I did. About tina
time g. p. Nelson, of Kingstree, cam,
into the church. The president o
the club informed him that he coult
not remain 40 none were allowed t
be present but republicans. Nelson
then went out and, after being sbsen
about half an. hour, came back int
the church. Mr.. Montgomery wa
then speaking, Nelson was again in
formed that he could not remain. :
He seemed to be somewhat in liQuo
and commenced speaking about hav
ing fair play and dividing time.
Finding that Nelson intended t
make q disturbance I advised tn
president of the club to adjourn
which he did, the members leavin
for their homes. There was some eli
Ut scVou IcpuUi1Ceue iEOiu AluSeu
and vicinity on horseback and one i
buggy, all of whom, upon adjourn
ment started for home. When abou
, 8 miles from Kingstree my party Wa
overtaken by SO or 100 men, mounte
and armed with state guns, the me
seemingly to be in detachments, fror
Captain Gilland's company, Captai
!, Cooper's company and Captain Fitch
! company Of state militia. Captai
: Fitch was in command of one detact
: ment.
. "Thc whole seemed to be undo
: command and direction of DIR. s. N
3 D, Byrd, one of the commissioners {
f election for the county. After TO
Q lowing for some time, their comman
8 was broken into two detachment
one of which passed us and imrned
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

ST. LOUIS, Oct. %.
By Telegraph
HogsEdull, nominally unchanged
receipts $500.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

Hiram Price comes within 1873 votes
Of beating both his democratic and
greenback competitors for Congress
In the Second district.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

Markets.
In our local markets this week II
will be observed that wheat
has declined somewhat but
10 firm at the quotations
given below. Potatoes are lower
also, but the receipts are only moder-
ate and prices are liable to 60 higher
- soon - the weather turns cooler.
Hogs are dull, lower, prices ranging
from $2.2502.6O, . decline OF 25c per
hundred. Cabbsges are selling ct AZ
DC per head, for good quality. Tur-
nips are In fair demand at 25c per
bushel.
Ottunwa Grocery Market
DoDAAl pR1ooe.
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23

Imost clleerfully recommend LAwsoN's Cua.
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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
RuLLDOzERs AGAIN.

How Stephen S,cails Vas Driren
From Home and Fdmily-His Sto-
~ to the President-A Choice Be-
t,ceen Punishment or Dcath-Bcau-
ties of Cancellation Under Wade
Hmm ,,fon
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

In mortuary reports OF cities in which
yellow fever exists the good doctors
persist in calling it congestion, even
as they call whisky CASTRO enteretis-be-
cause, we reckon, 1t ''enters" and
leafs" the little 'stommicks" of inno-
cent people. But when these people
discover the real facts they ''get up
and GIT" and then il is called yellow
fever straight, and it kills even with
out whisky. 1t will be observed, too,
when congestion" whacks them thick
and fast, that the first evidence of a
big scare is the sudden devotion of
mayors and aldermen to street and
alley cleaning. The cutters are wash
ed out vigorously by the water compa-
ny; sinks and drains and reeking depos-
ilories of incomprehensible fouluess are
opened and contents, as carted away,
smell to heaven. Then we may know,
if Yellow Jack is not already brows-
ing about in those parts, that he will
surely make an early call. Attractions
pr, ffered by hot sun and evaporation
from uncovered foulness suddenly stir
red up are wholly irresistible to the
hideous destroyer of our race. OF un
derground drains there were none in
Shreveport, Memphis or Vicksburg.
Savannah, too, was blest with surface
drains-gutters-hll the bosom of des-
olation destroyed city fathers with
their matchless stupidity. 1t is
even amusing to read of the sud-
den devotion to duty and
cleanliness and 10 drainage, which be-
gins to operate upon the average
Southern alderman. Each obituary."
in each morning paper, beginning in
solemn monotony: ''DIed-Of con-
gestion," ETC., scares some city dad out
of his boots and into the sewer busi-
ness,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
THE sUN'S DEATH AND REsUR-
RECTION

We have dreamed of the death of
God-of the Universe left without Its
living soul. The emotions excited
were almost illustrated yesterday while
the sun seemed IN the hour and arti-
Gle of dissolution, and nature hid its
face and wept in sadness unuttersble.
It was an impressive event when the
face of the living god of day was
yelled in blsckness. However harm
less the event and in accordance with
natures laws there are few who did
not confess the sad solemnity of
the moment when the sun with
drew its presence, when chaos was al
most visible aud with the blotting
out of the source of light
and life, and perhaps of all forces of
nature, the end of time had almost
cIme. However, astronomical learn
ing has bereft the event of yesterday
of vain terrors, there are few who were
not led tc reflect upon the coming of
that day when the sun shall shine no
more and earth's millions, living and
dead, gaze in vain into the midst OF
dying worlds to discover the waning
splendors of the dying god of day.
When we contemplate the SUMS death,
as presented il the eclipse of yester
day, we eau hardly wonder that orr
entail superstition bowed reverently in
the suns presence, and that the prim-
eval inhabitants of this and of the old
world reared temples in the suns
honor, and burned incense on their
affairs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

THE San Antonio Herald should
know that the Legislature, however
invested with power to regulate rail-
way rates by Rutabaga organic law,
cannot interfere with roads chartered
before the Rutabaga Constitution was
made. These charters are commonly
held to be contracts between the State
and the railroad builders and owners,
and these charters fix maximum rates,
and beyond this there is no power
which can intervene to lessen the cost
of travelling OF of shipments. The
Herald says that IN creating board of
commissioners to define rates for all
the roads, we only add to the number
of sinecures and offices, and that the
roads would not reflect the action of
the supposed commissioners. The in.
terests of the several companies would
surely impel them to obedience, since
it is not prOmotive of profitableness to
reduce freights between competing
points to nlhility. But we would
have the Herald understand that these
railway corporations deem their char
tiers private, inviolable contracts with
the State older than the R1tabaga Con-
stItutIon which seeks, and therefore
fails, to place these roads at the mercy
of legislatures. The only remedy for
evils of which the Brenham Banner
complains consists in the adoption of
the Massachusetts plan of subjecting
these corporations to the mastery of a
board of skillful railroad men who
shall fix rates absolutely.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

The Nacogdoches Nelcs says the jail
of that town was condemned as hor-
rible nuisance twenty-slx years ago by
a grand jury, and yet Gods creatures
are thrust into this horrible den, on
either side of which are churches ded-
icated to a merciful God. In summer,
the editor says, ''if there are three or
four prisoners in the Jail the stencil is
intolerable. The Jail is go unsafe that
the sheriff is often compelled to chain
his prisoners to the floor like wild
beasts, In order to keep them in safe
custody" And yet the good people
of this country propose to send mis-
sionsries te China and to Sitting Bull.
How many godly people of Austin,
who, following in the footsteps of the
Master, go about doing good, have
ever thrust their delicate noses within
the doorway of the crowded iron prison
pen of this cityl There are as many
innocent as guilty within its walls,
and yet there Is nothing done
to relieve the sn guish which deadly
sickness, born of horrible odors, surely
generates; there are none to have
great reeking recePtacles of fOulest
excretions empsied; there are none to
have drains constructed to purify
crowded prison cells or the air which
an must breathe. The good and gen.
erous Christian people of the world are
not confiued to Nacogdoches.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
Teau.-raet. ~"a FancIes.

Judge F. R. Dean, of Galveston, is
dead.
Escobedo, the border bandit, is
doomed to die.
New corn is being ground into meal
in Comanche county.
The Denton Monitor has been con-
verified into a wide-awake daily.
Capt. T. j. Cakes brou ght the first
bale of new cotton to Columbus.
Strict quarantine is established at
Galveston against New Orleans.
Charles Carter, one of Bass's body
guards, has been captured in Denton
county.
Colorado county deci des the candi-
dature for county offices by primary
election.
Everybody In Sherman is in love
with the pretty, petite elocuuOnist,
Maude Grubbs.
San Antonio had heavy rainfall on
the twepty-sixth. Streets became al
most impossible.
Paul Denton has at last reached Nav
asota, and the Tablet gives his temper
snce speech boost.
The first bale of new cotton from
Brazoria county was shipped from CO.
lumbia July "a.
Twelve Danes, the Advance guard OF
colony. have reached Waco. They
settle in McLennan county.
Cotton picking has commenced Wig
orousIy in Fort Bend, Wharton and
Matsgorda counties.
The cotton worm has taken the place
of Sam Bass in the affections of the
good people of Denton county.
Judge Rastan,a delegate to the State
convention, died at Mckinney as he
was returning home from Austin.
The Courier thinks it would have
been far better for CIV. Hubbard had
his nsme never been submitted to the
convention
The editor of tbs Times was pre-
scented with load Of melons last week
and We thus account for the thu
aquaesness Of is editorials.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01

The ST. Louis Republican insists that
the commerce between the two oceans
must be forced, as through funnel,
through that city. 1t may be some
what strange, but the Gulf States can
not comprehend the necessity deemed
so imperative in St. Louis. The Rs
publican is pleased to say that "Scott
Is already seeking to run his line
through this city and Ella the Texas
Pacific to the shores of the Pacific,
while Vanderbilt can come down to the
banks of the Mississippi on the Wa
bash, and after gobbling up the At
lantic and Pacific, work into California
over the Southern Pacific. Gould,
meantime, is cropping his way to the
Atlantic, and can get there better than
any other way, either from Kansas City
or Omaha, ria the big bridge, across
which he can cross hands with Gar.
rett, of the Baltimore and Ohio road. ~
Would II not be quite as just to make
vicksburg. Galveston, New Orleans,
Memphis, Charleston and Norfo k ben
e6ciaries of this trans-con,inental road
as the ever blessed cities of ST. LOUIS.
Philadelphia and New York3 Are
these of the South to be always pro.
vincial communitiesf II the North
have two, may we not have one Pa
cific railwsyl Texas has invested
great wealth in this proposed Southern
road, and Texas does not intend to
be cheated by st. Louis. The South
is not wholly blind, and Southern
Congressman will never suffer the orig.
iual purposes Of the founders of the
Southern Pacific Railway to be per-
verted that great bridge company a,
st. Louis. having made bad invest
ment of $la 900. 900. may grow rich
by forcing the wealth of Cahfornia and
OF the South over ITS pillars and arch
ways. Tom Scott owns or has leased
q continuous railway from PhIadelphls
10 Riehmood, Atlsnte aud vicksburr.
and over these he may force the srar-l
and traffic of the Texas Pacific. bu,
never thr0ush s.. Louis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-01
BILLS OF COSTS-THR PEOPLE
BECOMING IAQUISITIVE.

The cost OF courts of all sorts ex-
cites popular wrath In some OF the
States. Candidates are not all lawyers,
and hard times and heavy taxes excite
a degree of zeal in these investigations
never known before. In one Southern
Sta:e it has been discovered that a dis
trict attorney, by adroi: methods of
taxing costs, has been gathering in
not less than $25, 1000 per annum.
Thieves and villains of criminal pros
ecutions rarely pay a dollar into the
public treasury, aad not one is prose-
cuted who does not cost the people
from $50 to 5000. Therefore we
have said that Texas, for few years,
should substitute the whipping post
for the penitentiary that taxpayers may
be freed not only from enormous
"costs," but from the presence of
crime. The Denitentisry has few ter
rors for evil-doers, while the whipping
post is dreaded as the branding iron
when Judge Lynch gives order and
law to frontier communities. One
might lgnorsntlY suppose that incar-
ceration in Texas Jail, undrained and
sinking like July battlefield, with
vaults that sicken carrion birds, would
beget terror among knaves of high and
low degree; but inmates of prisons be-
come accustomed to physical and moral
pollution, and rot without conscious
ness of decay. They come forth infil-
trated with filth, with lungs poisoned,
blood polluted, brains dazed and eyes
and skin made yellow. Hardin says
he is slowly dying, because his lungs
are lined with cobwebs of filth, and
none remain a month in a model jail
who do not confess that the poison in
jected by humanity and Christian civ
ilization, so-called, into a prisoners
body sooner or later puts a period to
his existence. And yet absurd people,
in the very presence of one of these
foul, reeking, uncleansed, undrained
vaults of filth and foul air, hold
up their greasy fingers and
dirty nails, to exclaim against
the barbarity of the whipping
post. Not only should the accounts
and costs and fee bills OF courts be
closely scanned, but punishments in
flicted by these courts should be of a
different character. Men should not
be punished and Gagged like savage
beasts in foul dens, who have never
been convicted, and yet this enormity
Is hourly done even in the capital of
Texas and here, too, do We find good
men lifting up their hands in holy
horror when it is proposed to invoke
the surgeons art to stop the procrea
ton of knaves and the whipping post
to expel those already born from the
States confines. While looking into
the fearful bills of costs let us also look
at the want of common sense and of
common humanity that distinguishes
the conduct of criminal prosecutions.