The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-01-03

Mr. Editor-Might I request Of you to
give insertion to the following remarks on
the ball held the other night in Metropolitan
Hall by the members of the Hibernian Soci'
ETY. of this city To the honor Of the socle-
ty can say that benevolehce, charity an:
graceful decorum marked the features and
beamed on the countcnancss oil It's members
on that joyous occasion. Something more
than year ago the society was organized
for benevolent purposes, and on that festive
night, and whilst each one felt that benevo-
lence is the happiness of society in general
and the essence of religion and the duty of
every citizen, they knew full well that rell-
gion is not that enemy to the enjoymcnts Of
life which some represent 1t to be.
For were such the character and genius
Of Christianity its founder would never have
sanctioned by his presence the pleasure oi
a wedding feast. Still less would lie have
contributed, by the performance Of a mira
Gle, to the promotion of its h!!arity. We
find even in the Gospel, Christianity itself
compared to wedding feast, which seems
to Indicate that host iity to checru!ness Is
| not by any means in the number of its cha
ractcIis tics. This is a season Of joy and
feslivi,y all over the States, and can that JOY
be better expressed by our Cit Gems than by
meeting together occasionally Tor the pur-
pose of innocent amusement and mutual en-
enlargement in the God like works of chari-
ty The great and udabIc ann of the So
cieiy is to assist honest and unavoidable po-
verify o! which numerous instances arc TO
be found around our city. No one who is
not in the habit OF visiting the poor, can be
familiar with their condition. Take a walk
around and enter the cold cherries abodes
o! poverty III the SUBURBS, as our visiting
l. t...f,.
orphans stretched wan and emacia,ed upon
the Lonely bed Of sickness, deprived Of tue
means, and even had she means, unable 10
administer the least comfort TO her litt!e
ones, who gaze in hunger oh their weeping,
sick and heart-broken mother. Such scenes
are no. solitary around our city, proverhia
for it, benevoicncc. For the heavenly pur-
losc OF giving aid to such the Ilbrrnian
Benevolent Society met together In Metro
po.iian Hail, and should not the acclanla-
tons of the citizens of Ottawa bless, en-
courage and encore their reunion.
\ MEMBER.
The Republican party claim all the intel
ligcncc OF the American nation, and have
been part'cualy severe upon Southern Hi
rois because she went ovciwh elminely dem
ocratic at the recent election, asserting that
=
owing 10 the intense ignorance OF the peo
pie
Below we give letter, verbatim, from
black republican member of Congress from
( Ohio, who has been in Congress four years,
and was making his third race on a very
1 extensive scale
! Coshocten Co Oct &c
| Sir Y Pier Esq
/ | was in Vanburen yestcr Day
& maid 4 speech | wanted to see you But
you was not there want you to Do yurc
+ Best for INC at Elcckshun and before it En-
! Closed send YOU one Dollar for your DAYS
work at the Fleckshun DO all you can Be
, fore that FOR your Afee,iosate friend
| ". K. SAPP
NC
: If there lives boy fifteen years of age in
/ Egypt who cannot write better letter, and
/ do Up the spelling an punctuation more &C
! curatelv, we would like to see him he
would be curiosity in these parts.
! FATAL ACCIDENT on THE CHICAGO AsD Rock
IsLASc SArLEoD.-A man by the name Of
John o Brien, residin6sa0psite L. Sale,
on the other side Of III J. stepped into
the baggage car of the b. Bsin, of the Chi
/ cago and Rock Island Railroad, on Tuesday
last. while Starting from the depot in LasalIe
looking for piece of baggage, when the
train started. and after running about TWEEN
~ rods Mr.. o Brien eneeavored TO jump
III bp, I'll in such a manner as TO let the
vince, mass oyer M, ieft leg, severinc it be
low the knee. He wa. COW, I'D to the New
Ye~k House, where he died during the ,.,,"ht-