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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-12-11

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Being An increase in the amount If lands sold
md located under land warrants Of Sos 220 acres
over the previous year
The whole amount thus sold, located under
and warrants reporCd under swamp land grams
md selected fur internal improvements, exceeds
hat Of the previous year bs 8SI,S72 acres; and
he sales woulrwiilout doubt, have been much
larger but f0r the extensive reservations for rail
rads in,Mi,-issippi aud Alabama.
For the quarter ending SO;h Sept, 1859, there
were cold 2i2j5 acres
Located with Bounty lanlwans l,3s7ll6
oibercer,ifcltss 1863
Reported under swamp Land
grsnts e3S5233
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Successful Treatment Of Cholera
i'm GERMANY.

In Germany and Austria the hot air bath
has been called into requisition by some
eminent medical Gentlemen, when patients
have become to weak for the administration
of medicine internally, and in the majority
Of cases where this has been done it appears,
according to the accounts published in the
German newspapers, that speedy recovery
has followed, even Notwithstanding symp-
toms of the worst character had presented
| themselves, and threatened fatal termina-
! ton. Of course the air is previously i'm
pregnated with medical properties of suffici-
ent strength to act powerfully on the system.
There is unfortunately great dislike among
medical practitioners in this country to trav-
ell out of the old beaten track, even though
new modes of treatment are proved to be
both efficacious, and in skillful hands, free
from danger; but it is to be hoped that the
above simple plan will not be lost sight of if
this frightful disease should once more de-
vastate our population. Already the hot air
bath has been successfully brought into re-
QUESTION by Dr. Green of London, but at
present he seems to be the only individual
connected with his profession in that metro
polls who practically advocates the system
The Germans, perhaps, claim the merit Of
the discovery, but the young surgeon of an
English vessel sailing to Calcutta and Java
as long ago as 1880, cured several passen
gers and sailors, as well as the Captain and
himself, by hot baths and friction, but he
! died twelvemonth after, before he had ar
opportunity of making known the wonderful
and potent effect of this valuable agency.
louisville Courier
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Washington Cd. c. Republic.

MYSTERIOUS AND SHOCKING MURDER =
A letter from Troy, Indiana, gives the par
ticulars Of shocking murder which has
been pcrpetrated on the trading boat Eliza,
No 2, near Thompson's ferry
The boat, it is supposed, belonged to Mil
ler q Gardiner of Cincinnati
The boat was found without any person
aboard, and the floor and bed clothes cover
ed with blood This aroused the suspicion
of the citizens, who commenced dragging
the river, and at the time the letter was.
written three bodies had been found with
their heads split open and iron weights
tied to them Several trunks were found
in the boat, which had been broken open
and rihed of their contents.
All beyond the above is still wrapped in
the most profound mystery.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

"UNEAsY Is THE HEAD THAT WEARS A
CRowN A letter from Paris, in the New
York Commercial, detailing the arrange
ments made in Paris for the welcome
back" of the Prince President, tells us that:
The greatest precautions had been taken by
the police to battle any attempts that mi ght
be made upon the Presidents life. So
probable was republican manifestation
deemed to be, that the more prominent dem
ocrats left Paris for fear of being compro-
missed. The police visited all the houses on
the route, cautioning the occupants to admit
none to see the spectacle from their win
dows, but those for whose conduct they
would be responsible. Ever since the in
surrection of June, when Gen. Negrier was
shot from behind closed blind, the police
have distrusted unopened windows All
untenanted apartments were, therefore, on
this occasion occupied by troops. The sec
ond story of the Cafe de Paris was held by
platoon of firemen. The President rode
to the Tuilleries ten PAGES in front of his
suite"
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

HUMAN FAT USED IN MANUFACTURER -
We clip the following from the Scientific
american;
"When the cemetry Of the Innocents at
Paris was removed to the outside of the bar
riers the buried corpses, which had accum-
ulated to the depth of 60 feet were found,
to great extent, apparently converted into
fat The substance of the cellular tissue,
and tendons, all the soft parts, and even the
bones, had completely disappeared, leaving
only the fat, which, resisting longest the in
fluence of decay, (oxygin,) remained in the
form of margaric acid. This human fat was
employed, to the extent of many tons, by
the soap boilers and tallow chambers of
Paris for the manufacture of soap and can
dies. The French are people of fine sem
timent, and they certainly carried the point
to charming point of reflection in receiving
light from candles made out of the bodies of
their fathers We loathe the cannibal, but
civilization has features, which, if not rend-
cred familiar, would be as repulsive as the
practices of the sayages."
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

SoUTH CAROLINA AND THE CoMPR oMIsE.
The ''sober second thought" of South Car
olina rebuked the folly Of her leaders, who,
while voting for General Pierce, protested
against the Compromise of which he is re-
garded as a supporter. The protest, it ap-
pears, was agreed to only in caucus of
the members OF the Legislature the body
voted it down. The Charleston Constitu-
tional Union remarks:
'The State is thus saved the ridiculous
attitude of supporting the Administration
whilst seeking the overthrow of the G0Uern-
n'ent. But more important, more cheering
results attach to this defeat of the protest
against Mr.. Pierce's Union principles. 1t
IS a proclamation that the war against the
Union is at length to cease-that South Car
olina is once more to come back into the
Union; to renew her ancient, glorious 10y
atty, and to exercise her legitimate ;nfu-
ence, in controlling its counsels and shaping
its destinies"
Washington Cd. CO. Republic.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
From the Gazette and Democrat. |
Arkansas.

Yours Is great State, Messrs. Editors.
Arkansas has almost every thing in it. You
have, from the poorest to the richest soil on
eaYth--from' the loosest sand to the most
compact loan and clay-from limestone to
freestone country-one of the largest river
bottoms and one of the most extensive prai-
ries ever seen-irom the best tobacco grow
ing to the best cotton growing region-from
the freezing climate of the north to the mild
airs OF the south-almost every kind Of rock
from the sandstone to the limestone, through
granite, slate, and marble-almost every
kind Of mineral and metal from gold down
to lead, through coal, iron, tin, zinc, man,
ganese, &c..-almost every kind Of water,
from the meanest to the best that ever ran
out of the earth, from the coldest to the hot.
test, from the icy to the boiling hot spring
almost every kind of timber, shrub, and
plant, mountains of granite, oil-stone. quartz
crystal, and mari and gypsum--from the
most mountainous to the most level country
almost every sort of people, from the
demonstrating to the best-looking, from
the most ignorant to the most talented, from
the toughest and most hon}ely to the most
beautiful and accomplished ladies. Arkan-
sas is great State. Hurrah for Arkansas
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Mr. Fillmore.

No man since the days of George Wash
ington has filed the Presidential chair of
this country who retired from it carrying
with him more general and cordial approba-
ton OF the manner in which he has admin
istered the affairs Of the Government than
will Mr.. Fillmore. If General Pierce, an
unknown man, comes into power at the head
of tremendous majority of the American
people, Millard Fillmore has the still high
or credit, after having been well known,
and tried in the most fiery ordeal to which
any President was ever subjected, of resign
ing his high trust amid the general ACCLAIM
ations of the whole nation--Whigs and
Democrats" Well lone, good and faith
tL ssrvant" This is the highest, the most
enviable, the most sublime position which
any man since George Washington has at
tained General Pierce may be as true
nag be as wise-naay be as faithful to the
Constitution as Millard Fillmore but he
will never have an opportunity of showing
these qualities under such circumstances as
they have been exhibited by the Wing Pres
ident. Fillmore, standing almost alone,
faced the blast of fanaticism and of section,
and Pierce comes into power on sea
which has been made smooth and peaceful
by Fillmore's self sacrificing patriotism
But the noble and courageous Wing Presi-
dent has his reward The whole country
thanks him with a grateful heart, and her
appreciation will be more precious to his
lofty and magnanimoas spirit than the bright
est diadem OF power.
Richmond WAY Republican.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

DEFEATED.-We are defeated and there
is no use in grieving about it, The person
selected to represent our principles before
the people, has been rejected by an over
whelnling majority, and we have nothing
now to do but to brace up against whatever
may happen, and to contribute, as hereto
fore, our humble efforts in favor of conserv-
ative> principles So far from having nothing
now to do, the Wing Press has to stand guard
over the Constitution, and at least to
give warning Of impending dangers, if it
cannot avert them. Its duty now is to re-
buke, and if possible, restrain, the headstrong
notions of progress, which would rashly
and unjustly trample on the rights OF others,
to the discredit, and even danger of the
Union, 1t will have work enough as a faith
full sentinel on Freedoms watchtower TO
keepit employed. Let the Wing Press,
therefore, turn undismayed, from the field of
defeat, to the discharge of its hugh duties as
a conservative agent. It is the hope inspir-
ed by this agency which now alone consoles
us, and sheds beam OF brightness on the
future.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Arrival of the Crescent City.
New YORK, Nov. %.

The Crescent City has arrived here from
Havana. She was allowed to enter that
harbor and land her mails and passengers.
and her officers we're treated courteously,
the shore. Captain Davenport was informed
that the Crescent City would not be permit
ed to enter the harbor again, if Mr. Smith
should be retained on board, to which the
Captain replied, that Smith would return in
the steamer, and the authorities would be
held responsible if they should not permit
her to enter
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

A New ENGLAND CUsToM-According
to universal custom, in the town of Marsh
field, on the Sabbath of Mr. Webster death,
between the hours Of seven and eight inthe
morning, the bell of the parish church was
rung violently, to announce to the startled in
habitants within hearing, that death had oc-
Cured among them. Then it was struck three
times three, as signal that male person
had died. Next, the bell was struck slowly
and deliberately seventy strokes to denote
the age of the dead and then there went
up mournful voice from every house, st
must be that Daniel Webster is dead"
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
FRlpAY, Nov. ID

FRIDAY, nov. ~.
Mr. Clarke introduced resolution allow
ing A. g. Mayors mileage and per diem pay
for the time he was engaged in contesting
the Senatorial seat Read
Mr. Clarke moved the suspension of the
rules and the reading of the resolution
second time. Agreed to.
Mr. Lcmoyne moved to amend by strik-
ing out the words ''out of the Treasury"
and inserting the words "out of the mileage
and per diem pay of George W. Clarke"
Mr. Clarke moved to amend the amend
ment by directing the Senator from Yell
county to divide his pay and mileage with
the deaf and dumb asylum at Clarksville
After some debate upon the points of or
der, Mr.. Harley moved the amendments be
laid on the table,
Mr.. Lemoyne moved to amend the mo-
tion of Mr.. Harley by adding the "resolu-
ton
Which motion was decided to be out of
order
Mr.. Burrow offered the following amend
ments to the constitutions
THAT the judges of the Supreme court,
and the Secretary of State, and the Audi
tor and the Treasurer be elected by the
people,"
Read and laid over under the rule
Mr.. Burrow, from the judiciary, reported
back the bill = to extend the jurisdiction of
probate courts" with amendments and re-
commended its passage.
Under a suspension of the rules Mr..
Fletcher called up the bill to amend the
second section of the digest under the head
of taking up donated lands The rules
were again suspended, and the bill read
third time and passed
Under suspension of the rules, Mr..
Chapman called up the House bill for the
relief of IT, E. Fort, and it was read third
time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Flether the rules were
dispensed with and the homestead bill taken
up.
Mr.. Burrow offered an amendment that
all homesteads acquired by purchase or 9th,
erwise be exempt from all debts contracted
prior to the acquisition Of said homestead
beyond the limits of the State. Lost.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

HARBoK1NG FUGITIVE SLAvEs.-In the
U. S. Circuit Court at Philadelphia, recent
ly, Messrs Oliver and others of Maryland,
obtained $4,000 damages against Daniel
Kaufman of Pennsylvania, for harboring
and concealing thirteen Fugitive Slaves.
The case was tried before Judge Grier,
who in his charge to the jury, took the ground
that the Fugitive Slave Act did not contem-
plate making mere acts Of charity to the
fugitive a crime, but that the 'harboring''
contemplated as criminal must include the
idea of encouraging the slave in his escape,
and impeding and frustrating his reclama-
tion.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

TEMPERANCE IN IRELAND-An Irish
correspondent of the London Daily News
gives melancholy, but we hope, exagger-
ated account of the reaction among the peas
antry in relation to temperance:
''lt is grlevous to see one new feature of
Irish life disappearing before the echo of the
worlds admiration has died away At Cork
there stands chapel, conspicuous in its sit
uation, and meant to be so for its beauty
Father Mathews caapel-built as monu-
ment of temperance reform. Its pillars are
truncated its arches stop short in their
spring, its windows are boarded up; it stands
"a sad type OF the temperance reform ITSELF
failed enterprise. The relapse of the peo-
pie into intemperance is indubtable and
very rapid. Everywhere we are told that
the reform begun in superstition and politi-
cal enthusiasm. and was maintained only by
the destitution of the famine time: and every
where we see but too plainly that the re-
straint was artificial and temporary. Now
that they are better Off, we are told they
are taking to drink again.; and SO it seems,
by what we see in the towns and by the
roadside
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

Mr. WEBsTER's EP1rAPH.-At dinner
given to DIR Webster at Albany, n Y he
said in speech there delivered, ii wish
no other epitaph than this" While he
hred, he dill uhat he lie could to support
the Constitution Of his country"
Mr.. Webster is now dead, and more
appropriate epitapn could not be engraved
upon his tombstone citizen pilgrims
should yearly read that inscription, and en-
deavor to profit by the example Of the
mighty one who there rests from his la
bors.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

The New Constitution of Louisiana hav-
ing been adopted by the people of that State,
the duty will devolve upon the Governor, as
provided for in that instrument, of ordering
elections to be held in the several parishes,
on the 4th Monday of December, for the
following offices: Governor, Lieut. Govern
or, Treasurer, Attorney General, Secretary
of State, and Members of the Legislature.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

ARREST OF JAS. L. OAwsoN.-James
L. Dawson, who killed Seaborne ELL, a
merchant in the Greek Nation, in July,
1874, and for whose apprehension large
reward was offered by the friends Of the de-
ceased, was arrested in Texas, and arrived
at Little Rock on Wednesday night last, in
charge of Mr.. Cleveland. deputy Marshall
for the Western District of Texas. Daw-
son was indicted in the T. S. District Court
of this State soon after the occurrence, and
was arrested under writ issued by that
court, and brought back for trial.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

E A Bill to repeal the act of Decem-
Der 30tb, 1913, distributing the internal
improvement fund among the counties, has
been introduced into the Legislature. The
Bill provides that Whenever, and as often
as there shall be in the Treasury, sufficient
amount of the internal improvement fund
to pay to each county in the State, one hun
dred dollars, the same shall be placed equal
ly to the credit Of each county, there to re-
main until invested in one of the four
Railroads, proposed, as the county court of
each county by order shall direct to wit
in a railroad from the Mississippi opposite
Memphis to Fulton on Red Rivera rail
road from Helena to Little Rock and thence
to Van Buren, or Fort Smith,-a railroad
from the Missouri Line to the Louisiana
State line to connect with branch of the
New Orleans, Opelousas and Great West
ern road--and the road from Gaines Land
ing to Fulton
What disposition will be made Of the bill
remains to be seen; but we trust it will pass
either in its present shape or some other
Anything is preferable to the present sys-
TEN. If not voted down we will endeavor
to lay the bill before our readers next week.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

Instantaneous Instantane-
Gus portraits can now be taken on collodion
by a very ingenious French invention. The
person whose portrait is to be taken is placed
at some distance off. in front of the lens, and
the operator, while conversing with him,
pulls a trigger By so doing a newly in
vented cap (obturatewr) turns on its own
axis, and in it's rotary movement allows the
light and the image of the sitter to pass
through hole twice the diameter Of the lens.
The portrait is obtained in the fraction of a
second, and for quickness can only be COM
pared to electricity. 1t is but justice to the
inventor of the collodiom (M. Bertsch) to
state that the rapidity is owing to its extreme
sensitiveness, which rendered it necessary to
use the above instrument. BY the ordinary
method the collodion would be spoiled by
the light, however skillful the manipulation,
before the portrait could be taken.
Scientific american.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Extraordinary Lock.

The editor of the American Artzan was
recently shown a piece of mechanism which
certainly goes ahead Of anything in the shape
of a lock that we have ever seen or read of
in the essential of security from depreciation.
It is called Yates Magic Lock, and is as
absolutely unpickable as the kernel of a
walnut would be without damaging the she'll.
The only opening is circular orifce, half
an inch in diameter, for admitting the key
and through which there is no possible ac-
cess to the tumblers by any instrument what
ever-not even by the key itself, strange
as that may seem. BY a singular contriv-
ance, portion OF the key is detached after
insertion and sent to distant part of the
lock. where it moves the tumblers, and
where the tools of the burglar never could
arrive, except by first battering the lock to
pieces. The key hole resembles the interi-
or of small pistol barrel and having no
opening in the interior basin of the lock,
would not receive powder enough to blow it
open. The lock is, therefore, absolutely
cupowder proof also Among other pecu-
liarities, the key is susceptible of from for
ty thousand to one million of changes. A
change of the key changes the lock also in
the act of locking, so that one may have a
new lock every day for hundreds of years
BY a change of the key after locking it is
rendered impossible to unlock, even with
the same key until altered back again
One may thus lose the key or have it stolen
and still entertain no fears of the lock- S be.
ing opened with it. The proprietors offer
reward of five hundred dollars to any
one who will pick it through the key hole
using whatever instruments he pleases, and
taking any length Of time he may desire.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Orleans and OpelOusas Rail
Road,

! have been favored by Col. BUcKNER
AYNE, the indefatigable and efficient
al Superintendent of this road, with
flowing data. which we take the earli-
portunity Of laying before the public.
rnres sum up promisingly, and augur
" construction of this magnificent
Of intelna! Improvement.
following Parishes have voted the
sums to aid in this work: Match
$250,O00; st. Landry, $4,000;
tie, $4,000; St. Martin. $1O4,00O;
onne, $l40,000; Lafourche Interior,
300. Total, S746,000
following Parishes are expected to
5he following sums, and there is little
t they will:-St. Mary, S157 900;
yelles, ( private, } $4,000; DeSoto,
5000; Rapides, $250,O00. Total,
1000. Parish Of Orleans, fright bank }
900; the city of New Orleans has voted
100000; private subscriptions, after de.
ting tax subscription, $60O,0OO. Grand
!odl, S3,503,000.
Here is little over three millions and q
lalf Of dollars voted and subscribed. This
is desired to increase to four millions. II
5 proposed, also, to increase the capital stock
f the company to $5,000,0 ,000 and applica'
ion will be made to the State to take one.
fth, or one million of dollars. Such an
mount will enable the Directory to con.
truct the main trunk road to Logansport
n the Sabine River, a distance of 324 miles
nd to build the branch to the Arkansas
inc, on its way to St. Louis.
We lock upon the building of this road
s fully as necessary to the city as the North
rn road 1t will pass throug gh country Of
lnrivalled natural advantages, and will open
nd foster trade, the vastness and value o.
which, to this city, cannot now be calculated
Ne hail the progress made with unaffected
and say, with all our heart push
N the good work, so auspiciously commenc
d and under way.
The branch road to the Arkansas line
viii commend itself to our St. Louis friends
ONE Of whom had chid us as neglectful o.
heir favorite road, west of the Mississippi
They will see that our people have not been
Of their arguments or requests.
~. q. Com. Bulletin.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

A magnificent set Of tea-service was pre-
sented to Gen. Zollicofer, editor of the
Nashville Banner, few days since, by his
Whig friends as mark Of their esteem for
him as fellow-citizen, and regard for the
untiring energy. devotion and ability dis
played by him during the late political cam
paign. 1t was very handsome compli-
ment most worthily bestowed.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
Steamboat Accident.

BATON ROUGE, Nov. IA collision oc-
CURED this morning on the river, about ten
miles below the mouth of Red River, be-
tween the steamboats, Teas Ranger and
Leila, in which the latter was badly in
jured A large portion of her cargo, mostly
cotton, was thrown overheard but has since
been recovered by the steamer Trenton
No lives were lost by the collision.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01

NORTH CAROLINA The official vote of
North Carolina stands as follows For
Scott and Graham 39,05S for Pierce and
King &c. .744 Majority for Pierce 6S6.-
The whole vote is 1868 less than that of
the Gubernatorial election in August
Clingman's district, it is said. saved the
State for Pierce.
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
SARp1NEs.-The editor of the Nam

SARDINEs.-The editor of the Manches-
ter Mirror says from personal knowledge,
that the bay of Monterey, California, is lit
orally filled with this delicious fish. They
are said to be found there in greater album
dance than in any other part of the world
They are to be found not only at Monterey
but in all the still waters on the coast from
Panama to Oregon
Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
THE TELEGRAPH.
ASHEN GTON:
WEDNESDAY,..:. DEC. L, 1859.

RED RIVER continues in good boating
order. The steamers Fra acis Jones and
Pitser Miller arrived at Fulton on Satur-
day--the Jones passed on up for Fort Tow
son, and the Miller returned to New Or
leans. The r. NJ Jones. from New Or
leans, passed Fulton on Monday laden for
Fort Towson