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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-02-01

ii will be recollected, has been ordered to be en-
crossed. The senate bill was laid on the table
and ordered to be printed To my mind the SEN
ate bill is altogether the bsst and the house hill
really execrable, and eau never pass the senate
without material amendment Now | Judge
from certain ipdicatoas that the house will strike
out the senate bill and insert that Of the house,
and then both will be defeated. All this may
net be Intentional; but there is something re-
markable about the fact, that measure which
has SO many prot,ssed friends, should be SO diff
cult to pass--that there should be so much dispo-
sition ON the part Of its friend, to hug it to death
The house next took up the senate bill to es'
tablish new judicial circuit cut of the counties
Of Kane Mcilcnry Become aud De kalb. Dir
Norton wanted it postponed, for the reason that
Mr.. Plat would by this bill be left the prosecu-
ting attorney in the Will circuit, whereas he lived
ill., aud wishes to be the attorney of the new cir
cut. and he wanted time TO change The bill to
Accommodate his, as well as the views Of all 9th
ers Interested.
MIR, Nixon opposed the posponemcnt lie
said We were not hero to legslats to suit the
views of Mr.. platt. but of the proplc interested
in the new circuit, whose wishes, he imagined
differed materially from those Of Mr.. p, Now
this bill had been before the committee Of both
house aud had passed the senate, and he could
see no object TO be attained by further delay.
After some further debate, however the bill was
postponed until Wednesday.
A long discussion next arose on similar bill to
establish the 18th and 18th judicial circuits Ii
appears the members interested thought they
understood each other until the bill was read in
the house and then they all took each other
iercely by tie ears. Mr. Howard of Jo Dhviess
and Mr. Miller of Winncbago, two Of the best
fellows in the housc,l in particular got ,heir bris
ties up, tut their better sense prevailed in the
end and permanent misunderstanding will grow
out of their little war Of words, The debate
ended by the house adjourning to go to dinner.
In the afternoon the house took up the special
order in committee of the whole---beng the bill
to Incorporate the Illinois Central Railroad Co.
They progressed as far as into the middle of sec
ton IS. without having adopted any important
amendment. The later part Of this section. how
evci was assailed with perfect storm OF propo-
sitons to amend, in the midst of which the com
mittee arose and the house adjourned. No di-
rect vote was taken on any of the propositions to
strike out the points named in the bill, but the
tone Of the debate on the subject leaves decided
ly to the side OF no points, and rather suspect,
the no point party will prevail.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-02-01
Tuesday. Jan. oS.


In the SENATE, Mr., Judd reported back the
house hill for the protection of the steamboat
channel at La Sale, and asked Ia lie discharged
from the further consideration Of the subject
The bill appears to have been got up to make
lock No. Is the terminus of the canal, instead Of
the end Of the steamboat channel
The bill allowing jeremiah Crotty to establish
ferry across tho Illinois river above Marseilles,
was passed.
So the bill to provide for the geological survey
of the state.
The senate made the Central Railroad bill the
order of the day for two o'clock tomorrow, and
every day thereafter until disposed of
HoUsE.-1he Governor laid before the house
the report Of the Trustees Of the Illinois and
Michigan canal 1t was not read, but was refer.
red to the committee on canal and canal lands
have, however, taken peep into the mountain
Of manuscript, and extracted from 1t the follow
ing, which is about the substance OF the whole.
The canal opened on tho 22d of March last
and closed ON the 9th Of December, having been
opened 259 days against 224 last year
The trustees state that by principle establish
ed by the act Of congress Of 9th Of May, lS49,
granting land to the state Of Indiana, our state
would be entitled to some 10000 more acres Of
land towards tho canal The trustees have open
ed correspondence with the Secretary of the
Interior on the subject and he admits the justice
of the claim, bu, prefers to have the direct au
thority of the law to act on the subject, and has
therefore drawn up bill and presented it to Con
grcss to meet the case which it is confidently be
lieved will pass
The interest and 10 per cent more Of the prn
cple Of the loan of 81 100000 was pad during
the last year, against IA per cent in the former
year.
The total amount Of lands and lots sold in NAV
last was $l?2962 Is or $40 659 "a greater than
the amount sold in 1919
Balance in the hands of the Treasurer Nov
The southern press., 1851-06-26
Fugitive EIHye Law.

The last grand effort in Boston to recover
fugitive slave, at an expense of five Thousand
dollars, satisfied the South SO completely, tina
we have hardly heard since of another. Th
is an awkward result for the Southern Submis
sionists who gave al empire for an abstraction
We suppose that some wealthy gentleman in til,
South, OF the submission party, will come for
ward and make another effort Of the pro tormc
KIND for the sake of affecting the approaching
elections. Indeed, rumors have arisen in Bos
ton that one or two warrants have issued there
recently We find, according to the following
account, that one fugitive has recently been
captured in western Pennsylvania, after desper.
ate resistance.
ANOTHER FUGITIvE SLAVE CAsE.-On Mon.
day George III. Koset, Assistant IT, S. Marshal
for the western district of Pennsylvania, reached
Philadelphia in the Reading cars from Wilkes
barre, having in custody Jesse Whiteman, a fu-
gitive slave, who was arrested In Wilkesbarre ON
Saturday last. The Statesman says:
Marshal Keyser having been telegraphed to
meet the parties at the depot, was promptly on
the spot with an efficient police force, and ac-
companied the u States officers and their charge
to the Baltimore boat, in which they took pas
sage for Maryland.
Whiteman is large powerful negro, and he
fought desperately before surrendering himself
He struck Marshal Roset twice upon the head
with heavy cart-whip, and drew large sheath
knife, which he would doubtless have used had
it not been for the timely and efficient aid of
Messrs. Beaumont, Fell, Cooper, and Seaman.
Whiteman belongs to John Conrad, esq.,, of
Loudon county, Virginia.
On the other hand, the highest judicial author
ity Of New Jersey, thus indicates what may be
expected from the bench of that State:
In letter to Senator Chase, of Ohio, dated
Newark, N. j., April 8, 1851, Chief Justice Horn
blower says:
Somewhere about the year 1886, a fugitive
slave case came before us upon habeas corpus,
allowed by me (and it was few days before
our regular term) male returnable Mt bar On
that occasion (when no such excitement existed
as now prevails) wrote an opinion to the ef-
feet that, lst. Congress had no authority to leg
islate on the subject; and 2dly, whether Con.
gress had such power or not, no man could be
deprived of a trial by jury, when his personal
identity, his age, his ownership of himsef, and
his obligations 10 serve another as his slave,
were in issue. This opinion was not read by
me from the bench, (though the amount of it
was orally stated by me,) because it became un-
necessary, my associate justices uniting with me
in opinion, that the magistrate had no right to
commit the man claimed as slave, as he had
done, to the custody of the sheriff for safe keep
ing until his master came for him, our jails no
being built for the safe keeping of any mans
slaves, but for criminals only"
The southern press., 1851-06-26
Correspondence efths Southern Press.

BALTIMORE, June "a.
We have quite warm weather--the city, how
ever. continues remarkably healthy.
The Diorama Of the Funeral of CALHOUN
gotten up by Messrs Brown d. Dapias, which
gained. so much celebrity in Charleston, S. c., is
now being exhibited here, and attracts full audi
ences. 1t is unquestionably work Of great
merit, and exhibits artistic skill and genius of a
high order. have seen many representations
Of the kind, but never before seen one so perfect
in all its parts. The solemn pagent seems to
assume the form of reality. Every horse and
rider, the chief marsEals, officers, &C., are all
representations of real life. 1t is as a whole one
of the most beautiful and ipgenius representa-
tons | have ever seen. Those who saw the
real procession at the obsequies of that great
and immortal statesman, say that this diorama
is peculiarly striking and perfect. believe the
proprietors intend exhibiting it in Washington,
where they cannot fail in being literally patron
ized I'D
Our market is quiet Sales of 800 bbls How
ard street flour at $4,O6t, and 400 do. Susque-
hanna at $4,25; city mills held at $4,25. Red
wheat 80 SSh cts, white, 80 SO cts yellow
corn, 60; white, 81 81 cts; oats, 38 40 CTS.
Whiskey % 90 cts. in hhds. and bbls
The southern press., 1851-06-26
Is the poor slaves in Cork do, from the barracks

as the poor slaves in Cork do, from the barracks
to Black Rock Castle, moaning with hunger
They are not found in whole families lying upon
the sidewalk, bowling with the pains of hunger
under they very eyes, and within the hearing OF
a corporation Of intelligent citizens. When the
| light Of morning b. eaks upon Southern city
where slaves are well fed, well dressed, and happy
IL does not reveal sight to freeze the very blood
of humanity. We behold no starved inhabitani
standing bold upright, stiff and cold in death
No stranger is obliged to hire person to take
up dead bodies from the public streets, and to
carry them, for decency's sake, to the cemetery
OF Father Matthew--where hundreds of vic
TINS are thrown, unrecognized and uncofhued,
into one common pit, with quicklime for a
shroud-as We charge was done at Cork during
the famine.
We have here no corporation interested in
corn or cotton speculations 30 deeply as to be
deaf to the common cries and sufferiDgs OF hu-
manty. We have no scenes such as may be
daily beheld from the Dyke to Black Rock, in
Cork, in which thousands live upon beggars'
aims, and hundreds are crippled to excite the
sympathy of the stranger. No, no Such scenes
belong to the jurisdiction of Mr.. Mayor Lamb
kin and his associates, who can overlook slavery
in its direst form--the slavery Of their own mis-
managed distrct--and find time to meddle with
the institutions of the United States--who can
permit the inhabitants Of their city and country
to fly to this land for freedom and for plenty,
which are denied them in district loud about
foreign slavery, while the worst horrors of white
slavery are at their very doors. Holy hypocrites I
Magnanimous reformers!
The southern press., 1851-06-26
The southern Press.

We have the pleasure of announcing, on good
authority, that the subscription of the Southern
Press is at length larger than that of any daily
paper in the city. When we consider that this
result has been achieved in single year. with
out and against party and government patron
age, and from single section of the Union, and
that not theImost populous, The event is the more
remarkable.
In the South we have more subscribers than
all the other papers in the city together.
We think this victory over the party organs
is adequate evidence of the prevalence in the
South of the principles this paper has advocated,
and of the intelligence of those who support the
cause. Indeed, in looking over our subscrip-
ton list, we are struck with the number of dis
tinguished Southern names it comprehends
Nor can we omit an acknowledgment for the
cordialty and emphasis with which our course
has been and is endorsed. We received last
evening letter from a gentleman who RENTS
next years subscription for himself and two more
for connections, and says that he intends to do
SO every year as long as he lives and the paper
continues. Another writes that he approves of
epery word il has contained. Another from Missis-
sppi says that it comes so rregulary, that he sell
dom gets it, but is determined to have the chance
of gettingit We trust we shall not be accused
of egotsm in referring to these letters just re-
ceived, OIL this occasion. Fer we think we have
INDUCED in that way much less than customary.
We have multitudes ofsuch letters to which we
have never before referred
We must beg the Postmaster General to con-
fer m re re- uarity and efficiency on his De-
partment, as complaints of itare very numerous,
not only among our subscribers but others.
The southern press., 1851-06-26
American Credit.

The price Of United States six per cent stocks
is ll64, which affords to the purchaser rate Of
about five and one-sxth per cent interest. But
then as the debt is redeemable at par in sixteen
years, il reduces the rate to about four per cent
British consols, which pay three per cent, are
worth about ninety-two and since the period o
redemption is remote and uncertain, it is no
taken into the account. Hence the rate of in
terest they afford to the holder is about three
and one-quarter per cent. Hence British credi
stands abouttwenty per cent. higher than Amer
icau
The southern press., 1851-06-26
THURSDAY, JUNE IS. 1851.
The Lancaster convention.

Inc Lu1CAMcT t00t6utl0us
II appears from the telegraphic despatch yes
terday of our correspondent ut Lancaster, that
according to his prediction of the previous day,
Geperal ScoTT was nominated by large ma
iority for the next Presidency The despatch
Is somewhat obscure as to the course of the
convention on the compromise. But we infer
that resolutions in favor of it were adopted, and
a separate one, decidedly favorable to the exc
cuton of the Fugitive slave law, rejected, or
suppressed
The same convention re-nomnated JOHNSTON
for governor--he who vetoed the bill to repeal
the law of Pennsylvania refusing the jas of the
State for the detention of fugitives.
Now whether the convention meant by adopt
ing the compromise generally, and refusing the
Fugitive law specially, to signify their approba-
tiou of all the compromise which is favorable to
the North, and to condemn that part OF it which
recognizes right Of the South-or whether it
was held that general endorsement of the
compromise was sufficient, is, from the peculiar
position of the State, of Gov. JOHNSTON, and of
the convention, very doubtful
We are under the impression that the CON-
promise generally is approved, as It was found
that in Pennsylvania the sentiment Of anti
slavery is not so strong at the North. But
General Scorr is not committed by the conven-
ton. lie will pursue the policy of General
Taylor, and take nominations and support from
every body without committing himself pub
licly to any. This is evidently the most dex-
ferrous course to adopt-and it will evidently
perplex and battle the other Wing candidates.
The southern press., 1851-06-26

NATIONAL MONUMENT CFLEBRALIoN---The
managers Of the Washington National Monu.
ment meet at the monument on the morning of
the 4th of July, to receive the delegation with
the block, to be presented by the Sons of TEN
perance Of Pennsylvania. The managers re-
qusst collections TO be made for the monument
throughout the Union on the Fourth Of July
The southern press., 1851-06-26

CExOPArRA's NEEpLE.---In the House OF
Lords, I'd inst. the Earl Of Carlisle, in reply TO
= question, stated that the subject of the re-
noxxl Of the cele brated obelisk at Alexandria
CisopAtsss Needle," presented TO George Nv.
by shs laGs Pacha Of Egypt, was under the con-
sidesa&ion Of Government.
The southern press., 1851-06-26
Financial CentralIsm.

Among the benefits which the North enjoys
from the Union, is the possession and use Of a
large amount of the money of the South. The
deposites iu the New York city banks are about
forty millions, Of which considerable portion
belongs to Southern and Western banks, and
TO commission merchants for the sale of South.
ern and Western produce. On this money New
York pays little or no interest. On the Other
hand interest is paid, directly or indirectly, on all
the merchandise purchased from the North on
credit.
1t is the use Of the large deposite fund of the
Union in New York, that enables that city to be
so extensive money lender 10 the other sec
tons But in fact there is much less money lent
by New York capitalists to other States than is
generally believed. Large sums are negotiated
there, but they are taken on European account
We observe that the stock sales Of the brokers'
board, which amount to three or four hundred
thousand dollars day, comprehend almost nc
securities out of the State or its vicinity, except
United States stocks.
Power is subtle and unmanageable thing
We have attempted to locate some of the polit
ical power at Washington, but SEWARD as car
ried it off TO the rural districts of New Yor,
The money power is locked up in the vaults 0
the banks in Wall street In case of CONNER
cial revulsion New York will know how to pro
tect herself Such are the consequences Of
widely extended Union.
The southern press., 1851-06-26

#-In the Connecticut legislature yesterday,
three unsuccessful ballots for United States
Senator were had, and afterwards indefinitely
postponed
The southern press., 1851-06-26

GREAT EXCITEMENT AMONG TIE MECHANICS
AND LABoRERs OF THE NAVY YARD.-On Mon
day morning, when the mechanics and aborers
employed in the Navy Yard, at Gosport, arrived
at the gate, they found it closed, and an order
posted to the effect that hereafter the gate
would not be open for the admission of en-
ployees until the ringing of the bell. On learn
ing the import Of the ORDER a SHOUT of ndigna-
ton arose from the assembled crowd, and in a
body they returned to Portsmouth, and repaired
to the court house yard to deliberate in meeting
on this novel and unjust procedure of the
authorities of the yard. A chairman was ap-
pointed, resolutions passed and committee
appointed to wait on President Fillmore, at Old
Point, and represent to him the matter, and
request his interference. This committee, we
learn, Immediately chartered one of the ferry
boats and departed to discharge their mission.
We are informed that the sole reason given
for the issue of the order, was to prevent pifer-
ing, in which one or more persons had been
detected. If this be the only cause it seems TO us
to be wholly insufficient; surely the discharge
of the offended would be the wisest course TO
pursue; but to annoy and degrade the entire
workmen of the yard by such suspicious and
mode of prevention, is impoliiic and arbitrary
The objections urged against the order are, that
where crowd OF several hundred are obliged
to await the sound of the bell, before the gates
are opened, it will be impossible for all to OBJ
tain entrance in time to answer the roll call
and that during the time they are waiting they
are exposed to every incemency of the weather
We understand that Capt. Stringham has is
sued another order, to the effect that if tn,
workmcn do not go to work at the sound of tn,
II O'Clock bell to-day, they will be discharged
and new set engaged--rather a more difficult
undertaking than he anticipates, perhaps. W.
hope, however, that the President will investi
gate the matter and have the difficulty settled
| Norfolk (Va) Netos
The southern press., 1851-06-26
irish Abolition,

The following account of the proceedings Of
meeting in Cork, Ireland, and the whitening
response to it, are from the New York; Herald
paper which, although somewhat wayward in
its course, is one of the most able and indepen-
dent journals of the North.
THE CORPORATION OF Cork, AND ANTI-SLAv-
ERy.-The city of Cork, Ireland-as if it had
not enough to do to improve the social condi.
ton of its own inhabitants-has an anti-slavery
society, the object of which is to reform the in
stitutions of this country. Annexed is an ad.
vertisement found in the leading newspapers Of
Cork, Dublin and London s4
The southern press., 1851-06-26

FRoM MEMco.-The Mexican Congress met
in extra session on the 28th ult., and organized
by the appointment of their different commit
tees and officers. Senor Iacunza was chozen
president of the Senate, and Senor Alcorta presi-
dent of the lower house. The regular business
was to have been entered upon on the lst inst.
A letter had been addressed by the archbishop to
the clergy relative to the reforms which hscon-
sidered necessary Under an edict, that all gov
eminent pensioners should have their pensions
stopped in case they abused the public authori-
ties, Senior Amieras, one of the editors of the
Universal had suffered the prescribed penalty.
The legislature of Puebla had refused to accept
the resignation of its governor, Mugica The
promulgation of the act of the Mexican Con-
gress, annullno the grant to Garay, had taken
place. General Herrera had been appointed by
President Arista to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Gomez Pedraza, late director of
the Monte Pic. His nomination for the office,
However, had been protested against by the man
hgers of that institution, on the ground that they
were not consulted.
In Guanajato drought was doing much dam.
age, and the cattle were dying by thousands
Much suffering was anticipated by the inhab
tants of the province
The expected arrival of an expedition o
Americans from Upper California, under thu
lead of Morehead, was creating much alarm a
Mazatlan. The object of the invaders wa
thought to be to capture Lower California an'
Sonora, and the political chief of La Paz ha'
ordered two Americans to quit that place ab
ruptly, on suspicion that they were the ddpdnc
guard Of the incursionists. The injured par
ties had laid the matter before the United State
consul at Mazatlau.
Changes were still occurring in the Mexica
cabinet. Senior Yanez, who had occupied tn
! department Of minister of relations and Of tn
treasury, resigned both, and afterwards resume
the secretaryship of relations The Apache II
dinns were invading the State Of Sonora, and a
expedition against them was organizing by Co
II Carosco
The southern press., 1851-06-26

PAcrIc RArLRoAD.--Advices from st. Louis
state that the board of directors of the Pacific
railroad on the 18th inst, located, by unani-
nous vote the first division of their road. IT
goes out six miles due west from St Louis, and
strikes the Merrimack river about twenty miles
from ST. Louis. The first division of the road
reaches to within about ten miles of the iron
lead and copper mines district of the Missouri.
II s understood that the directors will break
ground on their new road on the 4th Of July.