Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-21
Reproduction of Extracts
From the Courier in 1852.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Matter in News, Editorial and Adver.
Using Columns Fifty Years Ago =
Tells Conditions of the Times = A
Backward Glance.

The growth of Ottumwa during the
past fifty years, the growth, indeed, OF
the entire nation, has 3een wonderful.
Old settlers remember Incidents which
took place in these former days, and
when they tell their stories the youth
full auditor sometimes looks incredu-
lous, so great is the difference as com
pared with conditions today. Nothing
is more indicative of the progress of
the city than a comparison of the
Courier of 1852 with the Courier Of
1902. Fifty years ago the name of the
paper was the Des Moines Courier; So
called, although it was printed in OF
tumwa. 1t was edited By the late r.
H. Warden, and was fully up-to-date
then, although many OF its features
seem decidedly slow at the present
time.
In order that the readers OF the Cour-
Ter may be afforded a backward glance
over the fifty years just finished. the
Courier herewith produces some of the.
news matter, editorial writings and ad-
vertising that was in the Des MONIES
Courier of January Is, 1852. The Cour-
Ter was, of course, a weekly publica-
ton at that time and was issued on
Thursdays, the issuc of January Is be-
ing one of these weekly budgets, eX-
tracts from which are to be found be-
low:
Thirty-second Congress.
Washington, Dec 81. 1S52.-The
house had before it yesterday in com
mittee Of the whole a resolution Tor
the appointment OF a committee to in
troduce Kossuth to the house, but ar
rived ct no action UP to the hour oil
adjournment. Kossuth will be intro
duced to the President by Mr.. Webster
today, and on Friday he will be pre-
sented to the Senate. There Will be
no speaking in the Senate. The Pres
ident and Mr.. Webster will each give
him a dinner.
"Later-The several members o: the
cabinet and a large number of mem
bers of congress were presented to
Governor Kossuth this morning i'll his
private reception room. At about u
o'clock the governor and suite pro-
CteuGu " llS DiNclNiStltIHl iIo'i''ioii 7iii
company with Mr. Secretary Webster
end Messrs. Shields and Steward Of
the Senate committee, and were pre-
sented to Mr.. Fillmore. The Interview
was strictly private. being confined to
the parties named and a few intimate
personal friends OF the President.
There was a very beautiful %serenade
to Kossuth last night at IL O'Clock.
yJ1 NO D,A o~1 #1,rioI-y DllrpcGnI the
people, returning his thanks"
Release Of Cuban Prisoners.
.sThe Madrid Gazette copies an i'm
portant document from the Minister
of Foreign Affairs in reply to Mr.. Web
steT's note on the late insurrection in
Cuba: The minister expresses the
highest satisfaction at the note of Mr..
Webster because he considers it an
act Of justice which satisfies Spain as
much as it eXalts the government OF
the United States. of which Her Ma
jesty never ceased to expect that it
would disappTove such painful events
and thai the loyalty Of its conduct
would offer new guarantees and great
er securities for the maintenance OF
the friendly relations which will in
crease the reciprocal advantages
which have constantly existed between
the two governments The Gazette
concludes by announcing the pardon
of all prisoners of the late expedition
against Cuba who may be citizens Of
the United States, whether in chains.
fulfilling their sentences or remaining
In Cuba"
Model for Fast Steamboat.
"The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Atlas says: There is a
drawing in the navy department of a
new steamboat which is about to be
built in New York for the Hudson riv-
Ell and which is to make the trip from
New York to Albany in five hours.
She is intended to compete with the
New York & Albany railroad. By the
Kindness of Commodore Skinner we
have obtained her proportions, which
are as follows: Length of keel, 500
feet: length of deck, $50 feet. She
looks like a sword fish. There is sew
enty-ive feet of keel at each end ex-
tending out from the deck, which
shows itself above water and which is
sharp and pointed like the sword of
a %sword-fish. Both ends of the boat
are alike and her engines are to work
both ways. She is not intended to
turn around but to work like a ferry
boat. She is to be called the George
Washington and will have accommo-
dations for 5000 passengers. She will
make the passage of $50 miles in five
hours. She has been designed and
modelled by Mr.. Davidson Of New
York
Agricultural Society Meeting.
"All friends to the promotion of ag-
r%icultural interests and the mechani-
cal arts are invited to attend a meet
ing at the court house Saturday, the
oath inst, at / O'Clock p. M, for the
purpose of forming an agricultural So
ciety. Come farmers, mechanics and
all, and prove that Wapello is not be-
hind any other county in the state in
point of agricultural or mechanical
products"
Foreign.
New York, January S, 1853.-The
steamer Atlantic arrived from Liver
pool yesterday at 5 p. m. The news
from England is of very little import
ance. The reception of Kossuth in