The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-04-14
llIinais Items.

direction from the east SO far exceeds any.
thing Of the kind hitherto, that it Is becom-
ing the subject Of general remark. For the
single week from the LIST to the 9th of April
the number Of PASSENGERS on the Michigan
5. Il. r. alone was s,6il, while the number
arriving on the Michigan CcE,ral r. r. n us
have been nearly equal. Most of these pas
seBgcrs, it is asserted, come 10 stay, and if
they continue to arrive at the same rate for
a year, our population will be more than
doubled by next spring. This is an awful
state of facts In less than two years. .esc
immigrants from the foreign shores of New
England, New York, &C., will have the reins
of government Of our State under their own
control. lilinoisans will then NJ longer
rule Illinois. We commend the mattcr to
the attention Of the Nnow.nothings.
Hon. Thos. j. Turner, speaker Of the
House of Representatives of this State, was
recently elected mayor of Frcoport. lie
seems to have run on the knownothing
ticket
The publisher of the Cairo Times recently
adopted a rule TO cut off all subscribers who
were a year or more in arrears for subscrip.
ton. Among the number thus dropped was
a practising physiciaa, who expresses his
qualification to the editor in the following
luminous epistlc:
Mr. Editor sir YOU will pies TO receive my
thanks for Stopping your paper as did not
think much Of it atencratc it will be with q
great dele of plesure that | shall Hale the
omition of my Advertisement yours with
reset. +. NJ Low.
This, We presume, is one Of the physi.
clans who lives by his practices.
Cairo is Furnishing. The Times says a
builder in that city took contracts in a single
week to erect sir new substantial buildings
MESDoTA.--Ths is the new city at the in.
tcrscction of the Aurora Branch and Mill.
tary Tract railroads with the Illinois Central,
about sixteen miles north Of La Sale and
Peru 1t is less than two years old and al
ready contains over 1000 inhabitants. The
Peru Chronicle says Of it:
We have never witnessed a place Of such
rapid and substantial growth, and we are
informed that over one hundred houses will
be erected upon Vests addition alone. the
coming season, upon lots already sold upon
condition to build
~, nndn,y,,,l ,t,t .1J:,:a
roads above mentioned, the Rockford Cen.
trail road will connect the Wisconsin railroad
with the many lines meeting at this place
This new line of railway connecting il with
the Pine lands in the interior Of Wisconsin
will make it distributing point for lumbc,
uncqualled, perhaps, by any inland town in
Illinois.
The daily issue Of the Galena JeDersonion
has been discontinued. The Editor says, on
announcing his determination
We have the largest daily circulation o.
any daily in the northwest, and still the
amount Of money received from il will no,
pay for the white paper we have used Nc
daily in this part Of the country does pay
and although we have pride in the bros
pcrity of Galcnn, we shall not allow it T.
ruin us in the publication Of daily at oul
personal expense.
ACCIDENT At PoSTiAC.-A little girl O
Jerome Garner, of Pontiac, broke her arm
in two places, recently, while at play, BY
falling from bed. The limb was prompt,
set by DR.. Johnson and the child is don.
well.
The Springfield papers announce the death
in that city, of David b. Campbell, at on,
iiino A,inr,,n,' r~-.---i - .'.'S 5sa,v, ana iol
the last six or eight years prosecuting attor
ncy for the Springfield judicial circuit. Mr.
c. was in the fullest sense an accomplished
lawyer and polished gentleman. There
are few men who have had so many warn
friends and so few enemies.
Honors are like misfortuncs--they neyc,
come singly. Samuel Ashton, who was re
Gently elected Alderman in the city of Chi
cago, has received the appointment of Reg
lister Of the land Office in that city. Unfor.
tunately the appointment brings few cmolu
ments besides the honor, as the Office il
soon to be discontinued.
CoRS-Thc past week corn brought, il
the market at Pittsburg 81 Cincinnati CSC
Louisville 9Sc; \. Orleans, CSC to 81; st
| puix ~ 70 Suc Nnm,b;g GO. .