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the opportunity which presented itself of saying a
word or tyo IN reply to Mr. Jones and his twice 70
pented aiius'on TO tho quarter ending with the pres
ent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sd, lS4I. He thought
the Chairman oftbe Finance Committee was dis
posed TO place too much Importance upon tho exit
Of tho present Administration, and that he spoke Of
it as an event VIII ich to bring the country or
The world to an end. Thus much said, was enough,
I" no obnoxious to some one oC the Administration
members who raised Ca point Of order" Mr. Cush
ing said no more in continuation than to express
Inc nope that his colleagues proposition would be
adopted The vote followed, and the result was,
W ~ favor OF making the Bill the Special Order,
and SO against III No quorum rot;np, An adj.
journment followed the hour half pas. three and
the l34 aoseni members too much exhausted 10 AT.
tend to public business fossfour of the wen,y-four
hours! This however is common grievance, but
one not very creditabe TO Public Servants.
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ru C.rrposIAN will be published
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d; din. IN THE UNITED STATES. Accor-
hoo,.. recent calculation, there are now one
o,he, na. ave hundred and fifty five newspapers &
.ix,v r.''0ocals in this country: two hundred and
hnd. '''en IN New England, Massachusetts one
w on, - ana twenty four;) two hundred IL seven
dOv w. III the State Of New York; two hundred and
S,,, ee 10 Pennsylvania, and one hundred and
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-01-26

BY these disasters many lives were lost; 6S4 have
been ascertained and in regard to many others, the
crews were missing, and in all probability perish
W iih The vessel. Added to this 80 vessels have
reported AS missing during tho year, which,
in all probability, went to the bottom with all their
crews. These statistics exhibit in faint de-
gree the perils of the sea- and teach u.s. in en-
phatic language tina, what do for sailors should
he done uckJy
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EMIGRATION TO CANADA. The Kingston Chron-
icle that upwards of $4,000 emigrants arrived
at that plece during the past season, about 5000 OF
whom received employment aud settled in the
neighborhood About 1900 proceeded directly to
the UnitedStates, for the purpose ofoining friends
and relatives there.
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lisloas tenets, replied they Covenantors. "In
Decd! cried he, '1 did not know we had any such
among US awe mean the marriage covenant
replied they, 1--WE are all in favor of that" Gar.
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slHAFrERs.-Some brisk girls, on being
s'''a oy sober man, respecting their re-
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'sHow many gcnders are theree" asked school
master.
"Three, sir" promptly replied little blue eyes
"What are they called''
s'Masculine, feminine and neuter."
s'Pray give me an example of each," said the
Master.
"Why, you are masculine, because you are a
man, and am feminine, because I'm CIR"
every well-proceed.
'i don't know" said the little girl, .'but reck-
on Mr.. Jenkins is neaiter, as he's an Old Bache
lor?"-Vt. Times
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-08

Mr.. Clay says that the income will be
this year, without the lands, or the Sl2,-
100000 loan, SlI,617, l02 05, aud he
says it will require the additional sum Of
5,900,97l l8 TO pay at maturity the ac-
tual expenses of the government This
makes the following snug and cconomi-
cal sum:
Money obtained from revenue, Si6i1,l0! 05
Money to be borrowed, l59O0,97l IS
Total cost of first years whigcry $50 ,5is,073 -
For this statement we are indebted to
the Cincinnati Gazette of the lth of
September ult.
The expenses incurred by Mr.. Van Blu
rem, according the exaggerated report of
Mr.. Ewing, were in the year
1889, S2jii3,7l6 81
1910, 22,3S9,356 81
lSll, (according to Mr.. Clay) 3l,557, 053 SO
So that, according to the whig account,
the country will lose eight millions of dol
lars by the exchange Of administrations,
comparing 1910 with lS4i-or five mil
lions if we compare 1871 with 1899.
But we all know if they n0w admit eight
millions of dollars increased expenditures
this year over last year, next March will
show that the increase will in fact be
twelve or fifteen million, of dolIars-lor,
., course, Mr.. Clay has 10, ovcrs,ated
wing extravaganza. Mr.. Woodbury., in
reply, showed that the expenses ought
not to have exceeded Sls 100000. That
our readers may be possessed of a part OF
his reasons for such an opinion we quote
a portion of his speech. And we ask our
readers to preserve this article, compiled,
as 1t has been, entirely from the speech of
Mr.. Clay, as it will enable them at once
to detect the decisions aud false array OF
wing statements. We also ask that it
may be extensively read to the candid
portion of the wings who sincerely believ-
ed that their leaders intended to reduce
the expenses Of the government instead OF
increasing them in order to make offices
and afford contracts to the active politi-
clans.
But, said Mr.. Woodbury., as the gene
raj data, showing the proper amount OF
our current expenses next year, 1912,
may need illustrations, and as the chair
man Of the finance committee (Mr. Clay
has invited specifications of items in which
reductions can be made from the present
twenty eight or thirty millions con,cmpIa
ted under, and by this new economical
administraton---I shall throw myself OF
the indulgence of the senate few mo
ments longer, in respect to that point
The current expenses of 1912 are placed
at only eighteen millions by me, because
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when completed, furnish water power to
almost any extent.
In this region Of the state there are in
eXhaustlble quantities of stone coal, so
that all the necessary materials for the ma
nufacture of arms may be had in the most
ample manner.
may also add, in the south of Illinois,
where have the honor TO represent d.
strict, there are great quantities of coal
and iron ore, together with good water pri-
vileges in many places. At New Haven
and other places, on the little Wabash RI
yer, water power may be had for all use
inl and necessary purposes.
In the same district in Hardin county,
the Ohio river, and not far from the
mouth, an iron foundry is in complete
operation, and preparations are making in
the same place 10 manufacture great guam
titles of bar iron. In this same section of
country provisions are cheap; stone coal
and timber can be had also at cheap rate
and in great abundance.
The southern district in Illinois is adj
Jacent to the greatest rivers on the cont
ncnt, and is morc in the centre Of the
whole valley of the Mississippi than any
other section in the West. 1t is good
climate and healthy. These facts and
considerations being made known to the
President, there can exist little or no doubt
that the Western Armory will be located
in the southern section of the state of Hi
nos. Ii is so reasonable and SO Just that
the location there must be considered al
most certain.
Arms made in this section of the West
crn country could be, with more facility
and with less expense, transported to all
parts of the Western waters, than from
any other point. All the great rivers of
the valley concentrate towards this sec
ton of the country. Tennessee, Cum
bcrland, and Wabash rivers flow into the
Ohio near it, and the Missouri and Hi
nois rivers not far of. During the whole
year the Mississippi will furnish the
means Of transportation OF arms TO New
Orleans, and a great distance up the ri
yer. The same may be said of the Mis-
sour and Illinois rivers. No impartial
observer will say otherwise than the
Western armory ought to be located as
near the mouth Of the Ohio as practi-
cable.
NorE.-Thc above amendment offered by Mr..
Summers has become law.
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-08
a Thrilling Incident.
ny ". CoMSroCK.

passed up the natural avenue and came
upon the green. My feelings were very
peculiar as walked slowly towards the
village church. entered. A popular
preacher was holding forth, and the little
meeting house was much crowded. Sc
vcral persons were standing up, and soon
discovered that must retain my perpen-
dIcular position, as every seat was crowd
ed. however passed up the aisle until
| gained position where could have
fair view of the faces OF nearly all present.
Many of the congregation looked curious
ly at me, for was a stranger TO them all.
In few moments, however, the attention
of every person appeared to be absorbed
in the ambassador of grace, and | also be-
gan to take an interest in the discourse.
The speaker was fluent, and many of his
flights were even sublime. The music of
the wood and the fragrance of the heath
seemed to resound to his eloquence. Then
it was no great stretch of the Imagination
to fancy that the whitc-handed creatures
around me, with their pouting lips and
artess innocence, were beings Of higher
sphere.
While my feelings were thus divided
between the beauties and blessings of the
two worlds, and wrapt in sort Of poeii-
cal devotion, detected some glanccs at
me of most animated character. need
not describe the sensation experienced by
a youth when the eyes OF beautiful wo-
man rest for length Of time upon his
countcnance, and when he lmagines him
self to be an object of interest to her. |
returned her chances with interest; and
threw all the tenderness INTO my eyes
which the scene, cancellations, and the
preachers discourse had inspired IN my
heart, doubling not that the fair young
damscl possessed kindred feelings with
my self-that we were drinking together
at the fountain Of inspiration. How could
1t be otherwise
She had been born aud uurturcd amid
these Wild and romantic scenes, and was
made up Of romance, Of poetry, and ten
domess and when | thought of the purl-
ty of woman's lovc.-hcr deyotion--her
truth, | only prayed that | might meet
with her where we could enjoy sweet
Interchange of sentiment. Her glanccs
continued. Several times our eyes met.
My heart achcd with rapture. AT length
the benediction was pronounced. lin
gered about the promises until ! saw the
dark eyed damscl set out Tor home, alone
and on foot. Oh tina, the customs OF So
clety would permit for we are surely
oncin soul. Cruel formalty tina, throws
up barrier between hearts made for each
other Yet followed after her. She
looked behind, and thought she eyluccd
The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-08
THE sun OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Twas at the hour of summer eve,
The day its brightest dcath-snilc gave,
When the mighticst to achieve,
The signets to our charter gave,
A noble band in yondcr hall,
Obcdicnt to their country's call.
Behind the chair; where sage debate
Was well controlled by Washington,
Appeared as if hung out by fate,
A pictured image of the sun
That emblem, would il set or shinel
What patriots eye could then divine
And he, the sage, at whose command
The iorked lightnings left their play,
Was there, and traced with steady hand,
A ramc that no'er shall pass away;
And when the glorious task was done,
Said proudly-"'ris rising sun !"
Yes, now the gloomy hour was DER,
And this was Freedoms brightest day;
Hope lighted up all hearts once more,
And icvers like phantoms passed away;
A gentle spirit lowered there,
With silence deep at that ofpraycr.
Ay, twas a rising sun that peered
Among those purple pictured halls.
A sun whose ray OF splcndor chccrcd
The trecmcn by their distant rills;
a sun whose beams shall never set,
Though nations shall their names forget.
Earth's latest age shall feel its ray,
And millions warm beneath its smiles;
On mountains peak its CLEAN shall play,
And gladden. the rcmotest isles;
The iettcred scr! shall feel its power,
While Kings turn pale, and tyrants cover.
As when amid chaotic night,
When earth came rolling, void of form,
Jehovah said, Let there be light"
And light came streaming from the storm ;
So streamed the ray from yonder sun,
When Freedoms tltlc-dccd was done.
IT'S herc-'tis thcrc-it fills the world,
Though strangely rising from the west;
Fierce llghtnings from its face are hurled,
10 seattle the tyrant's glitterng crest;
And though it rose DER hills of blood,
Tho Magi blessed its dazzling flood.
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NUMBER 20.
3l,6 l0,003 90
3l,54l,396 10
25,i43,7l6 "a
22,3s9,356 81
Total,
Average.
25i,379,O!o 95

Total, 254, $4,000 95
Average, 2ll9s25l "a
From these data, then, as well as the
specific items of reduction before named,
the future current expenses should not ex-
coed Is millions yearly. But on this
point we have higher authority than even
these figures and facts to gentlemen on
the other side. We have the opinion of
the chairman himself, not only years ago,
but at this very session!
In February, 1882, he said on this
floor, in speech from which now read,
sth vol. Of Debates, p. 293, that, after
providing for certain objects of Internal
improvement, &c. by the public lands,
"tor one, Ihare no objection TO the re-
auction Of the public revenue to fifteen or
thirteen, or euen to nine millions Of dol
lars"
Again, at the commencement Of this ex-
ira session, he presented memorial from
Georgia, which asked a reduction Of ex-
pendltures TO thirteen or fifteen millions
yearly, and which he endorsed as correct
IN his views, and entitled to receive, as il
should, his hearty concurrence and Coop
Grafton.
Let us, then, hear no more about the
necessity of an expenditure for the current
service, OF an average yearly, in 1912,
'43, and "A, of twenty-five or thirty mil
lions, contradicted as it is by the general
policy and practice of both the two pas,
administrations-contradicted by their re-
commentators to ongress-contradictcd
by the professions and pledges of those
now in power; and, much more, contra
dicted BY the views OF the chairman him
self on all former occasions. 1t must,
therefore, be obvious, that if we take Is
millions as maXlmum-liable to be reduc-
cd much lower rather than TO no higher,
we shall better conform to the prudent
lessons of experience, as well as the ma
tural course of events, and the promises of
the past no less than the present persons
in power, and the dictates Of wise pub
lie economy.
This, then, is our platform. Here we
stand.
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DcErered in the House Of Representatives, on the
3lst day Of august, lsil.
Mr.. SPEAKER: will promise the House
two things, no politics, and short adj
dress both Of which, no doubt, will be
desirable.
1t is right and proper, and it is due to
this nation, to establish an armory on the
Western waters.
l disagree with the gentleman Mr..
IRWIN, of Pennsylvania, that this is a
Western measure. Although it may be
located in the West, it belongs to The ma
ton; and not exclusively to the West,
more than to any other section Of the
Union. Arms are necessary means OF
national defence, and we cannot exist as
a nation without them. In the defence
OF our country, there is nothing sectional
or limited to the West or East. In the
case of war, and also in the defence Of
the country, the whole nation must be
considered a unit, having no separate
parts or sections, but an entire indvis!ble
whole.
A musket, for example, made in the
East or West, would it have any section.
atty IN it! A good musket would be
the same, no matter where it was made.
This proposition being conceded, the
manufacture of arms must be national
and cannot be sectional in any manner
whatever.
Mr.. Speaker, believe it is conceded
by almost every one on this floor, that
is necessary TO continue the manufacture
of public aims. Some documents hav'
been read to show that there are NOR
arms at this time in the United States
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Agents for the Free Trader.

NJ H M,rT, {Pcm, La Sale county, Ill.
&. q. MILLER, Dayton.
A. o. SNirm, Smiths mills.
IAsov GuRLEr, Troy Grove.
HESnr PuILL,rs Munson, Qndian crcck.)
&. w. RgrSoLps, p. NJ. Pontiac.
RgEs MopGAS, Morgan's mill
WILLIAM R>NEy, near Van Buren,, III.
WILLIAM X. BuowS, Sunbury, Illinois.
HESnY Hicks, Hicks mill, De Kalb Co. Ill.
w. w. WIN, Oswcgo, Kane Go. Ill.,
ANTHONY PIrzEu, Booncsboro', Ogle Co. Ill.
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cntatIVCs, present SESSION.
500 5S,9ll 80
Total,
Average,

Thus, sir, without gong into the army
or the navy, or the civil establishments,
except our own c0ntingcnclcs-wthout
going 10 the foreiga corps, or as proposed
by the chairman, 10 the custom-housGs
and the judiciary-,ce hare at once u re-
duc!ion Of three and half million Of
dollars. If followed out through other
ramiications of the public service, it will
equal more than five millions of dollars
that can be dispensed with, below the
expenses of 1910. This would leave not
over eighteen millions, or eighteen and
fraction. These reductions, now cnume-
rated, require little oxertlon or sacrifice.
They are such as the progress of events
force on us, if wachlul. We can hardly
escape them if true to ourselves and the
country. They impair no great establish
mcnt, they weaken no branch of public
administration they would and should
occur almost spontaneously under any
party in power. How, then, can gentle
men on the other side, protesting econo-
my, gravcly insist, in the face of these ex-
hibls, that the current expenses next
year must be twcnty-eight or thirty mil
lions There is no pretencc for 1t, sir,
but the tallaclous statement that the ave-
rage expenses Of the last four years reach
ed near twenty-clght millions. But can
senators be blind to the fact, that the eX-
penses of those years were increased near
thIrty-six millions by appropriation heap
ed upon them beyond the annual est
mates, and beyond, in most cases, what
the past administration desired This has
been so fully explained on former occa-
sion as not to require repetition, and, if
deducted, would leave an average cXpen-
dlture Of only nineteen or twenty millions.
DO my hearers forget, also, the expensive
Indian removals, eXtlnguishmcnt of Indian
titles, the Indian wars, as well as costly
erection Of public buildings, which were
flung on those four years, and which need
not to be renewed hereafter!
When taking an average OF past years
for a guide, we might likewise as well go
to the last twelve years as to the last four
Il will then be found in the document be-
fore me, that the expenses OF those twelve
years, swollen as some of them nccessa.
rily were, by various causes enumerated
in former debates, and which arc not like
ly to rccur, were only about twenty one
millions yearly, Independent OF the public
debts; and the first four years OF the time,
before these extraordinary causes began
to operate much, were only fourteen mil
lions on an average.
40 lI.-lstAyrs 1929, 80 /, =, S56,25s,9ll IS
1893 22Oi0,3l2 81
1894 lS,i20,5h7 /.
1885 iGuOG,5 ? /,
y lS3G 2l,G5j,gii q
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IN 1899 there were only twenty-five mil
lions /; in ls4G, only twcnty-three and a
half; and in ls4l, should have been, and
would have been, but for this extIaordina.
ry session, not over twenty millions
They were intended to be reduced in
1912, to only eighteen milions-werc in
progress steadily to that result; and the
items for reduction can now be readily
designated.
Thus, in public buildings, the appropriations in
lS4@ may be less than the expenditures in ls4n
1871 Ivy at least $3.50, 600
The treasury building and the patent
office, the new custom house and the
branch minis, and the lighthouse,
virtually finished
Next, the Cherokee treaty, at first over
five millions, and then increased one
to two millions more, will be fulfilled,
and the treasury relieved yearly, by
that and other treaties complied WITH
at least, 100000
The Florida war, if 1t is not closed will
require a less expenditure by quite 100000
The pensions, by death, inevitable and
more rapid among the aged as more
advanced in life, will fall off 700
The contingent expenses of congress,
including public printing, can be pro-
perly reduced, from 1910 and former
years 100000
We ourselves can and should feat
essly march up to this imperative duty.
The drawbacks of various kinds need
correction, so as to draw from the
venue less by at least 100000
The remission Of the duty on railroad
iron has taken over half a million
ycaly from the treasury, and it stop
ped as 1t is proposed would stops
drain hereafter of 100000
Mr.. Buchanan here observed that
the drawback only the last ear exceed
ed half million.
Well, sir, we may then safely calcu-
late, even under some indulgence to
the unfinished railroads of the south,
that the gain will be quarter of a mil
lion, or as much, if not more, than |
have computed.
Next, the reduced sales of the public
lands will lessen the five per cent to
some, as well as the three per cent.
TO other states, to be paid over, 10y At
least 10000
Aggregate of these reductions only, s35OO,OOO
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or every description, executed in the ncatest
manner, at the usual prices.
OTTAWA is the seat of justice of La Sale
county; is situated at the junction of the Fox river
with the Illinois, 290 miles, by water, from Saint
Louis, and midway between Chicago and Peoria.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY nj
GEORGE f. WEAVER g. JOHN HlSE,
La Sale street, one dOor from The northeast corne,
ofMe Public Square.


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S L f. T. & III
or THE
HON. JOHN REYNOLDS,
VI lLLlNOlS,
On the Subject Of II Western Armory.

DeErered in the House Of Representatives, on III,
3lst day Of august, lsil.
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Aggregate of these reductions only, s3,5O0,0OO
Here are the tables, from a report by
Mr.. Ewing, No. 81, House OF Repre-