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SAD ACcIDENr.-Mr Pebbles, a resident OF
Somonauk, shot himself, while hunting, on
Saturday last. 1t appears that the gunlock
caught in a limb, and thus discharged the
gun, the contents of which lodged in his
leg near the knee, shattering the parts in a
terrible manner. The physicians of the vi
cinity finding amputaton necessary sent Tor
DIR. Allaire Of our town, who removed the
limb on Sunday morning. MIR. Pebbles lies
in very critical condition from the severity
Of his injuries, but hopes are entertained OIL
his recovery -Aurora Beacon, 18Th.
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DssrRUCrIvE FIRE IN CHICAGo.-About
half mast 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening a
fire broke out near the freight depots of the
Michigan Southern ana hock Island rail
roads in Chicago, which destroyed both
those depots, with large amount of grain
and other freight, destroyed the Crock Is
land House" hotel, the sash factory of Goss
& Phillips, the "Walker House" saloon,
with large quantity of lumber, &C., &C.
The loss was very heavy, and but a small
part insured.
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The ENGLISH Difficulty SETTLED. - Re
ports from Washington state confidently that
the steamer from Europe on Monday brought
dispatches from Mr.. Dallas, announcer 6 that
all the difficulties between the l. :. and
England were settled. The London Adrsr-
tiser gives the following as the terms agreed
on:
THAT the Bay Islands are to be given
over to Honduras. In return for handing
them over to the republic of Honduras the
government Of that republic pledges itself
never TO give them over to any other pow
er, or to allow any other power to interfere
in their affairs America heartily acquies.
ces in this settlement of the question, and
joins US in tripar,ite treaty with the gov
ernment of Honduras for carrying the con-
ditions Of agreement into effect. France is
also consenting party to the agreement,
and has expressed her readiness to sign the
treaty if deemed necessary"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

For Circuit Clerk, j. F. Nash, the present
incumbent, was nominated for reelection by
reclamation
Delegates were appointed to representa-
tive convention, but an effort TO Instruct
them in favor Of some particular candidates
failed.
In reference TO the candidates nominated
We shall not have much TO say, As the present
contest requires that We should devote our
time TO larger game. NJ. Waterman makes
a very good candidate to be beaten. and in a
less exciting contes; than the present would
fall considerably short of his party vote
On the score Of qualifications. it would be
unjust to his competitor 10 institute com
parison, while rs 4 good citizen and man OF
unexceptionable moral character his COM
petitor is at least his equal. Mr.. Nash is
an unexceptionabIe man and makes good
clerk. We shall vote against him only on
account Of his politics, in which he has the
reputation of being somewhat tricIcy. Mr..
Samuel X. Lewis, who was or the ticket with
him for county treasurer last year, is as
competent a man Is we know of to give
items on this head, and 10 him we beg leave
TO refer the anxious enquirer
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

FUTILE CONSTITUTIONAL clergyman called
on poor parishioner, whom he found bit
terly lamentng the loss Of an only son, a
boy about four or five years old. In the
hope of consoling the afflicted woman, he
remarked to her that zone so young could
not have committed any very grievous sin
heaven" ''Ah, sir" said the simple heart
cd creature, ''but Tommy was so shy-and
they are all strangers there"
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MiLAGE ALLOWED TO REEDER.-On Friday,
of last week, Mr.. Washburn, of Maine, re-
ported a resolution to pay Gov. Reeder mile
age and per diem to the time that his claim
which was adopted % majority.
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THrs Is TIE FLae.-Col Black If pon

THIS Is THE FLAG Col Black, of Penn.
sylvania, said in his speech on the 4th:
at is related Of Henry of Navarro that
before going into his greatest engagement,
he said to his troops, when you are in
doubt, follow my white plume May l be
Pardoned for saying to you, my countrymen,
when doubt comes over you, in peace or
war, in prosperity or adversely, follow the
flag Of the American Union"
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New PATENrs.-The following are from
the list for the week ending July go:
Charles Hoyt, of West Aurora, lll.-For
improved devices in stave machinery.
Jacob zimmerman, Of Oswego, lN.-For
improvements in moulds for hollow pro-
jectiles.
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A CRUEL ExPERINEST.-The owner Of the
celebrated racer "SacrameatO." recently at
tempted TO trot him 100 miles in ten conse-
cutiye hours in California, but the poor ami
NAL gave out on the 18th mile and soon X
nired This feat has been performed only
four times, and but two horses have surviv-
ed the task.
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NEW YoRK.-A convention of the old line
wings attended by some 500 delegates, met
at Albany on Wednesday to appoint dele
gates to wing national convention to be
held at Baltimore.
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TO all uhom it may concern.

z Office Is hereby given, to all concerned, that at
10 sale for the due town lots and lands In
the City Peru, in the County Of La Sale, and
Iinois held in said City on the cath day Of March,
1855, John p. Thompson became the purchaser Of 6
acres No In block No. 20, in 20 lot com.
prisng the seq Of Bee l6, 7. 81, r. y. Of ID p u.
That said lot sold for the and costs Of A. d.
1854 and that the time Of redemption from said sale WIN
expire the cath day Of March, 1857.
aug16 4. CRCICkEHANK, dsyynse
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\ RAILROAD TO THE Holy CIrY.-A rail-
road is about to be established from the Me-
ditterranean to Jerusalem, with the sanction
of the Turkish and British governments;
the material of the line from Balaklava to
Sebastopol will probably be transferred fog
that purpose.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

FRoM EuRopE-The European news by the
Canada, at Halifax on Monday, possesses lit
tie interest. The insurrection in Spain had
been almost entirely suppressed, Saragossa
alone holding out, but strongly invested SO
that the city must soon fall. The weather
was favorable for harvesting, which had a
depressing influence on the grain market,
wheat having fallen Cd. in week, and corn
Cd. per bushcl.
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"TmE BLACK REPUBLICAN RAsCALS."
New York Herald of the 2Sth saws:

L HE DLACh INEFt bLICAN NAbCNI-S = III
New York Herald of the asth says:
at is an improper use Of words TO the He
raid, or the persons who think with it, il
Tue same category with Wilson, Lloyd Gar.
rison: Wendell Phillips, Seward, or Sum.
her' theodore Parker, Henry Ward Beech
CT, fred- Douglass, and other aboitionists,
oiack repubicans, and rabid secessionists OF
,ne n0fth and south. IIIe ere merely usinl
ne o La republican roscals for the purpose
oil ee''hg reform and revolution in the ad.
miniStration Of the government.
Coming from a straight-out advocate q,
Fremonts election, the above shows wb.,
his hackers think Of each other.
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Cut for Buck and Dreck.

Hon Thomas c. Pratt, one Of the most
prominent of the old whig guard, and now
= member Of the L. $. Senate from Mary
land, has addressed an able and patriotic
letter to the wings of that state upon the
presidential question, in which he aycw his
determination TO support Buchanan and
Breckinridge His viii. colleague in the
senate, Mr.. Pearcc, takes the same ground
Nelson Barbere. one Of the most distiD-
guished wing leaders Of Ohio, and the last
candidate Of that party for governor OF. Ohior
has also taken the field for Buchanan and
Breckinrid &C. at recent d. ocratic meet
ing at lii,lsborough, Ohio
&" lie declared that lac saw no hope for the
country bu; in the success Of the deInocrat-
ic party, and, for his part, he intended to
vote with it. lie also exposed the huckster-
ing, jobbing manner in which Fremont,
through the brokers, bankers and swindlcrs
republican nomination, and denounced II as
more scandalous, abject and vile than ever
was the sale of the Roman crown by the
Pr;ctorian guards. These Wall stree; bro
kers, he said, had degraded the dignity Of
the highest and most sacred office known TO
the American people, and brongh; it under
the auctioncers hammer. Besides the other
momcntous questions OF this contest, there
was a question as to whether " all street
brokers should govern the people or the
people govern themselves. For his part he
believed in the people 9 ycrEing themselves.
He was unwilling to see the government
transferred from Washington 10 Wall street,
where the rulers-Law, GlinnelI & Co.,
cared nothing for the people if they could
have their lines Of steamships from New
York to California, and from California TO
China and Japan, and have " L ncle Sam - to
I" foot the bill"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-08-16

ONINorS.-One of the defeated candidates
for sheriff at the late fusion convention at
tributes his defeat to the fact that he some.
times ''is a little 1rcf;ne.' How unjust =
Now, does not Parson Lovejoy say that a
man may srear q little and still be good
republican christian?
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PROSECUTIONS IN KANsAs-In the proceed.
inSs Of Congress on Thursday the telegraph
reports as follows:
Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio, was satisfied that
no person now in prison or under arrest in
Kansas Tor treason would be prosecuted or
punished.
Mr.. Pennington's amendment was agreed
to by 81 to D.
MIR. kunkel said he had right to know
whence Mr.. Campbell derived his informa.
ton that there would be no prosecutions in
Kansas.
Mr.. Campbell replied that it was well
known he had no sympathy with the present
administration, nor with the party that bro't
these wrongs on the country by the repeal
of the Missouri compromise. He repeated
that he knew and believed that the men ar
rested in Kansas on charge of treason for
violating the laws, of what is termed the bo-
gus legislature, would not be prosecuted to
punishment. He then said to Mr.. Kunkel
that he never should violate the confidence
rePosed in him by giving the source of his
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! cry respectfully.
W. \. RICHARDSON

The above nails another abolition lie to
the counter, and exposes the contemplate
shifts to which the managers in Washington
are obliged to result to keep up the drooring
spirit of the friends of Fremont, and Frcelove
In the North
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MARRIED-Ip OTTAWA, on the 1ith, by Rev. Henry
Nhippe, Mr. ROBERT $. WILLIAMS, of Pttsburg, and
NARY J. MILLER, of Ottawa.
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Such ARE THEIR WEAPONS Rev. Owen
Lovejoy, the abolition candidate for Con-
gress, in his harangues befors the people of
this district, ignores temperance, and tole-
rates profanity. And he even has the auda-
city to deny that lac ever was an old dissolu-
ton aboltiOnist The he voted for the Maine
law in our legislature, and offered bill to
place niggers on AN equality with white
men, he now finds it for his interests 10
skulk little Notwithstanding his holy po-
siton as a messenger on the walls Of Zion,
he offers his hand in fellowship to the pro-
/ fame swearer and admits that lager beer and
Cogniac is beneficial to the human system in
certain contingencies. Verify, these are
great times when Shapes rifles are COM
mended instead of Bibles, and drunkenness
and profanity spoken favorably of by men
clothed in priestly rooes.-Jo!iet .sigRal.
Worse AND WORSE Fusion WITH COM
menting on the suggestion Of the y. Y. Fee.
Post that the democrats should hereafter be
named " buccaneers" we said that no one
could during this campaign attach nick
name to the democratic party, as " NAKAss"
Trumbull had run the thing into the ground
1t seems, however, that Bross, one Of the
editors of the Chicago Press, ventured to
MpFoFe upon tie lncoInpTenenSiOie Max
- ;-,---.-l ;, r-----L..u, and bring the
thing down to the plain view Of all men.
At a Fremont meeting at Chicago, Bross
made speech when he perpetrated the
:" HIT folIowing:-
Zone Lion leading 100 jack-asscs would
do more service than one jack Ass at the
head OF a hundred Lions and said he,
" Mr.. Fremont is the Lion and Mr. Buchanan
is the iack-as>."
This requires no transportation Of let
tiers, Gas Trumbull is reported to have sail
but is to be taken just as it reads-name-
~ buchanan, being jack-ass leading H.
ons, will not succeed SO well as Fremont
who, being lion himself, heads q party OF
JACK-ASSES!
VIII our fusion neighbors assist us in de-
cypherlng who Is most and who least hit"
in this double witticism. --BeNerWe idr.
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"0He rcntgade christian is trorse Nan tire
Turks" For instance, S. Ilolbrook, grand
master of ceremonies in the late fusion con-
ycntinn ----.---
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The London Times Opinion of Mr.. Blu
chanan.

I chanan.
The following are extracts from an article
/ in the London Times:
! 1.-The Central American question remains,
and threatens much less easy and quiet
I solution if we are not quick about it. 1t
| cannot be urged, indeed, too much, that this
affair must be promptly dealt with; if it is
not put in a final way of settlement before
| the American election there is no knowing
! when it will be settled. \ Buchanan Presi-
dency will be a trying one to English in
| terests, and must be anticipated, if possible.
| There is some chance that President Pierce
will deal fairly with us. But, if we wait till
his probable successor is installed in the
White House, we wait for the Presidency of
a man who will frame his whole policy upon
the idea of American unity and supremacy.
! u Buchanans watchword has
always been american greatness"
The democratic party in the United States
! fuses all differences and all scandals in a
necessary national unity, and makes every
! question give way to the one idea of Ameri-
can greatness. Let "nigger worshippers"
and fanatics divide and dcstroy-he is for
! unity and strength at any cost. Thus the
| watchwords of america for the Amerl-
cans" and the "squatter sovereignty" and
manifest destiny" are the engines OF the
democrat. lie is for pleasing everybody,
who ever he is, and letting him have his own
way-slave owner, squatter, and everybody
else-so long as they will keep together, and
make America great and united people.
Let US forestall, then, if we can the reign OF
a new democratic President. and settle our
Central american dispute betimes-
New YORK CATTLE MARkET.-We invite
the attention Of all beef eaters in this city
to our Cattle Market report, and to the fact
that cattle sold yesterday at prices only
equal to Q or 81 cents pound for the meat
of the very choisest beeves in market.
where vi ward of 5000 head were offered.
and where at least half tibet number were
sold at not over cents pound for the
beef. Now, in view Of the fact that BUTCH
ers ae retailing meat at about the same
rates they did last Spring, when they paid
p to 10 cents pound, and all because they
had not apparently discovered the difference
in cost, we suggest to consumers to read
our report and bring the subject to the no.
tice of all retailers Of beef Tribune.
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we hear it said that, while the peach trees
IN TINS and other Northwestern States, are
killed, in Michigan they withstood the severe
winter, and fair crop of peaches is antici-
patcd.
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ANOTHER ABOLITION LIE ExrosEp.-col
Richardson has sent the following letter to
the editor CT the Washington Union:

August g.
EDIToR of TIRE UNION: find in the New
York Tribune, a despatch dated Washing
ton, h. c., August ,, 1856, containing the
following
Mr. Richardson, Of Illinois, who has
boosted so much since his return to this
city, about his prospects in that State, really
snbwiF5iges4wrHtls the tact-tilat IIinols
Will give large majority for Bissell for
Governor, and Fremont for President"
pronounce the above statement as a po-
sitivc and absolute falsehood, in every part
and parcel, and known TO be so by its author
at the time it made. No well Informed
man in Illinois doubts for a moment that the
vote Of Illinois viii be given for Buchanan
lev Il very large majority
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withdrawal by The Benton democrats their
electoral ticket, IN favor of that of anti Benton
party. Ia doing this the DcinocTa, SAYS ::
We lay down 30 principle which has govern
I'd u III the past, and giving up no doctrine
heretofore conrcuAcd for as right and Demo.
c.latic. Ne fight this battle for the Union
The Union as "A whole, and have evrcy conf
dcnce that those for whose eicvetion we work
will be true to its preservation against all foes.
KANSAS OUTRAGEs-LIEs UPON LIEs.-In
last weeks PantagraM appeared commu-
nrcatf0n purportIng to be from Mr.. John
b. Baldwin, giving the particulars of the
. detention il Missouri, of company of emf
grants from this county, by company OF
MsSourianS.
ne thought at the time, this matter
would turn out to be like the murder of Mr.
White, who went from Springfield, which is
the fact. 1t is all lie, from beginning TO
end-nOt a word of truth in the whole of it,
except that they were stopped by few
United States troops, who took their rifles
from them, telling them that they were then
at liberty TO 90 Just sshere they pleassd-into
the territory, or anywhere else they might
see lit.
These facts we haze from gentleman who
has Just returGsi from Kansas, and who
was an eye witness TO the es,trages Of which
this Mr. Baldwin speaks. They were stop
ped by six or seven United STATES troops,
who treated them with the creates, respect,
informing them that they were ordered not
to allow any one to go into the territory
with arms-that by delivering them up
/ (Which were all .Sharpe's rifes) they would
be at liberty to go in any direction they
pleased. No questions 'cere asked where they
uere from, or ,chat ,rere their political senti-
ments. We have the same version of the af-
fair from gentleman who has read letter
from one of the party, who writes to a
friend in this county; and we have had the
promise of the privilege Of publishing it in
our next. This gentleman writes that they
are stopping few days at Platte City, as
the officers have given them assurances that
they will make some arrangements for them
to take their arms into the territory in a few
days But in the meantime, they are treat
ed with that hospitality with which travellers
passing west are usually welcomed. They
have no apprehcnsions of being molested.--
Bloomington Flag.
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SOMETHING NEW AGAIN:
VIM. DuMcKLERuRG

II He unrivaed Ambrotypis, has the pleasure Of =
l nouncng to the citizens cf ottawa and vicinity,
that he has taken in Walker lIcklings Block.
the south side 81 the square, second noor where he 10
prepared to take Ambrotypes by entirely new process
that has Just ght-fBtLyOypss htkeD on gtisS
BY this process pictures have depth Of tone that can
not be got by the tmbrotype process, and yet
possess all the light aud shades
| will remain in this place but short time, during
which all who wish a perfect likeness will do well to n
prove this opportunity These pictures he excelled
by none Anbroiypes put up in good for from
to twenty five dollars.
Please call and examine specimens
augl6 WI DUNCkLEBCRG& co.
NOTICE is hereby given the owners Of the follow
~ ing described lots that the Gath day OF Decen-
1857 sale Of lots and lands for the asscss-
ed in and for the City Of Ottawa for the year ISIS and
the costs thereon held at the Court House said City,
the following described lots sold, and bid by the
subscriber
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Fusion County Convention.

The fusionists of this county held a conven-
ton on Thursday 10 nominate candidates
for county officers The towns generally
were fully represented. From the town Of
Eden two sets Of delegates appeared, one
headed by l.. l.. Bullock, and the other by
c. Z. Potter. We were unable 10 catch the
ostensible cause of the difficulty between
the two sets, but the real cause was plain
enough. The parties differed shade or
two in the depth of their abOltionisiE-and
the set of delegates deepest dyed III. In III, ;bfe
Among the delegates from Peru appeared
n citizen Of st. Louisa slave state, Of
course he too rs rejected with horror, We
have heard it privately limited. that the rea
son for putting the gentleman from the south
on the list was, that it was found difficult to
find fusionists enough among the citizens Of
Peru to make up full set.
T. l.. Waterman, of this city was noIui-
mated on the first ballot for Sheriff, the vote
& ,lT,v-=
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For BUCHASAN--How will our FuSionis,s,
who shouted so Justify over the result of the
election IN ST Louis, ike the following an
uOuuccmvHt?
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''In the old times. l was what was called
an anti-slavcry wing. But, Mr.. President,
it has come to my mind like conviction,
that it is utterly in vain to hope that we can
live under such government as this, with
our professions, and with our pretended love
of freedom and right. Why, the thing is
impossible. There cannot, in the nature Of
things, be any union between the principles
been any union except by the subjugation of
the principles of liberty to those Of despot-
ism. For one, sir, believe that the duty
of every true man is now to take the ground
of secession"
We have space for no more. Here free.
soiism, abolitionism is pushed to its conclu-
sion. 1t practically denies the validity of
the constitution, and it ends in the crime of
disunion.