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MCSUC.
MFRS J. II. WILLIAMS AND DAUGHTER, formerly
X1 Of New York City, respectfully solicit the patron
age Of the inhabitants resident in Ottawa and its vicn
ty Mrs W. having been furnished with letters Of intro
duction to highly respectable family in Ottawa, from
whom, and other citizens, she has received much kind
encouragement has decided locating in this place
the purpose Of pursuing her profession.
Mrs. W. and Daughter prepared to offer such test
monals will doubtless prove satisfactory to any who
may wish to procure the services of first class Music
Teacher
Enquiry may be made Of Mrs. DR.. MACARTHUR; also Of
Mr. RICHMOND, Proprietor Of the Gceiger House" ANY
communication left will be forwarded. Musical Term
will commence sometime in September. Terms mode
rate iulIS
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Missouri Election.-.StcwaTt-s Majority
Four HunoIed.

Four Hundred.
The St. Louis Rep, biican of "Wednesday
Gays:
We received last evening by telegraph
from Jefferson City, the official vote of Nod
away county, and have such other and fur
Their advices as clear up any uncertainty as
to the result Of the late election.
The official returns from Nodaway give
Stewart 3Is votes and Rollins los, being an
increased majority for Stewart, in that coun-
~, over the previously published report
From Riply We have report forwarded by
subscriber, which We look upon as correct,
giving the following:
For Stewart, MISUNDERSTANDING 800
For Rollins, .... IL
Majority for Stewart. ..2sS
The one hundred and seven counties, off,
cial, foot up:
Lor stewart. At ,564
For Rollins. .424
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1.-THE Ottaws Female Seminary is now in successful
= operation, numbering 40 and more Students. Glass.
formed in Latin, French, Drawing, and Music,
beside the English branches in the Academic and Cole
giste Department.
dence of Judge Cotton has been purchased for school
purposes for this winter in the spring the building will
he enlarged accommodate Is so students from
abroad; with board and other conveniences
For this winter limited nun Der Of Tor 10 students
he accommodated with board In the Seminary Students
from abroad wishing attend this School this winter and
take board should apply and procure their rooms
For further Information adGsessJ g. Nattinger, Esq
J. v. A. Hoes, Esq, Hon. b. c. Cook, Y Griggs, Esq.,,
or Inoy22l L. UMLAUF. Principal
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How THEY MANUFACTURE HIsTogY. In al
uding to the recent decision of the admins
tration, that free negroes cannot re-empt
land, the Chicago Press has the following:
Negroes fought in the Revolution, and af-
forwards received pensions from the govern
ment for their seryices. Is not here as di-
rect recognition Of their citizenship as
would be An extention TO them Of the privi
lage OF making prescriptions on the public
lands Until very recently they We're rec
osnized as citizens in passports granted to
them w"en about to travel in foreign count
res. Why are they not SO recognized now,
but for the reason above specified: The
question has nothing to do with the humbus
issue OF negro equality" raised by Douglas.
We simply want TO know by what authority
the Supreme Court undertook TO reverse the
whole practice Of the government on this
subject, and what is to become OF these men
whom that decision, if carried into effect,
will reduce to pariahs and outcasts in our
midst, having neither rights nor country.
As long ago, as when John Quincy Adams
was Secretary Of State, he refused to issue
passports 10 negroes as citizens. That de.
ciSion has ever since governed the State De-
partmcnt, and was reafiirmed by Mr.. Web
ster when he was Secretary. The Supreme
Court has sustained the practice Of the gov
ernment--CNi. TINES.
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The Richmond Enquirer dubs Mr.. Keitt a
Guy Fawkes, from his disposition to blow
up everybody; and makes the following
classification of parties in the next Congress ::
FOR THE ADMINISTRATION:
National Democrats. .................1 25
AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIONS
Black Republicans and Know Nothings. 100
Hon. Mr.. Keitt. .................... l
Democratic majority. Is
over Black Republicans, Know Nothings and
keitt. r ...-r
1t is to be hoped Mr.. Keitt will "organize"
his party before Congress meets.
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Blanks! BIanks.!
"E have just had printed, fine paper, about 20
w Reams Of Blanks, which offer sale at Chica
60 prices. They embrace, in part. as follows:
Warrantee, Special Warrantee, and Quitclaim Deeds,
Mortgages OF two kinds Articles Of Agreement Chael
Mortgages, Leases, Warehouse Receipts, Judgment
Notes, and general supply of Justices and Constabe
Blanks. r-sar .. .4r,
Orders by mail or otherwise pr ompty attended to-.
aug22 RATHBCN ORION
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Conclusion Of the Matter

Conclusion Of the Matter.
HAVING decided TO out of business the first Of
Il l. January next, and close up my books and ac-
counts early as be able, propose first
Of September to sell only for cash and barter
by invite all who Indebted By ac
count to call to make settlement and payment early
possible.
To all my friends and customers have say that my
stock will be sold the lowest possible rate
quit cost good assortment will be kept up by the ad
dition of New Goods from the East; equal any my
neighbors, and fully up to the season.
aug22 J. G. NATrINGER.
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TIE WESTMINSTER REVIEW FOR july
This able Review comes to US with nine
leading articles, and its usual criticisms up
on Contemporary Literature.
Article l. Ancient Political Economy. 2.
English Courts of Law. 8. Suicide in Life
and Literature. 4. French Politics, Past
and Present. g. The Sonnets of Shakes
peare. G. Manifest Destiny" of the Amer
lean Union. Z. The Testimony Of Rocks.
s. Naples and Diplomatic Intervention. 9.
The Life of George Stephenson.
The article or the manifest Destiny Of
the American Union" however, is a sicken.
/ ing and disgusting piece Of abolition farfano
made, full of the grossest misrepresentation
I from beginning TO end. It has not tithc
of the merit of an article in similar vein
[ that appeared in the same review on "Amer
lean Politics. year ago. The latter article
was said to have been written by an Ameri
\ can, and bore internal evidence of the fact
/ by the general accuracy the writer displayed
! in his knowledge of American affairs. The
article in the present number of the Review,
however has no such merit to redeem it
The writer displays throughout the grosscst
ignorence of his subject. He catches at the
widest falsehoods OF the abolition and back
republican press of this country, and with
such facts as basis, ''lets himself out" in
way that in this country, would make him
common laughing stock. As specimen of
the writer's general accuracy, we need give
but a paragraph. The following is his version
of a part of the bred Scott decision:
End That slaves are property, in the
same sense as any kind of chattel; SO that
slave-owner may carry his negroes into
any state Of the Union, and settle them there,
as slaves, notwithstanding any State laws to
the contrary If this is true, the whole
Union IS slave territory, and the sovereign
States have no power 10 deliver themselves
from it. 1t needs no showing that this cuts
up by the roots the fundamental liberties OF
every republic in the Union; and ensiaves
the federal Union itself under an assumed or
dinance of 4 long-dead generation.
There are very few Of even the lower class
of black republican pa. ers in this country
that would father such an absurd falsehood !.
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Kansas is nothing of especial in
tcrest from Kansas this week. Atlatest ad-
vices, Mr.. Bucher, the sheriff of Douglas
county, had been for several days collecting
taxes in Lawrence. He had met with TO
opposition had resorted to no violence, and
met with considerable success.
A large meeting of the moderate free soil
ers, with Brown, of the Herald Of Freedom,
VIM. I. Roberts, and other prominent re-
publicans at their head, was held on the
18th, and resolutions were unani mously
adopted to take part in the regular election
for territorial delegates and representatives,
at the election in October.
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|T "a
Mrs. Cunningham, the would be wife Of
the murdered DR.. Burdell, in New York,
has been damaged, by the bogus-baby affair,
to the extent that the surrogate's court o
New York has decided that she is not the
widow of DIR. Burdell, and that letters Of ad-
ministraticn on his estate, instead OF being
issued to hers, must be issued to his next Of
Kin. ...- 49, ....... -. q. e
A CHICAGO CoNvIcr SHOT AT ALroS.-A
convict in the state penitentiary at Alton,
named William Williams, who was sent
from Chicago, for two years and six months
on a charge of robbery. attempted to make
his escape on Monday night, by scaling the
walls. He was discovered by one of the
guards, who fred ct and shot him dead.
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Posr OFFICE RoBsExY IN CHICAGO The
Chicago papers on Saturday morning con-
tanned the somewhat startling announce
ment that James Q. Brayman, for several
years an assistant editor of the Chicago
Democrat, and man who had always borne
character above suspicion, had been ar
rested for abstracting letters from the Post
Office, belonging to McNally & Co., news
paper and periodical dealers The facts as
given at length by these papers are about
AS follows McNalIy.dk Go. having for some
time been missing money letters from their
box, three or four persons were setito keep
a close but secret watch over it, among them
being detective of Pinkerton & Co.'S INDIE
pendent police. They twice saw Mr. Bray
man open the box and take out letters
Hardly daring to believe the evidence Of
their own senses, they did not arrest him
either of these times. But on Friday morn
ing they saw him open the box and take out
letters for the third time, when they arrest
ed him as we have stated. -.-.....
q -AuS Io"@0C|1e, PEA SoheiSs SAPAaAus shS
matter, by stating that on going to the post
office tina. morning, Mr.. Brayman noticed
lad run away from the box of McNally &
Co., leaving key in it, and the box open
with several letters in it. He took the key
and letters and started for McNally's, in or
der to tell him of the boy as well as to Sc
cure him his letters and key, when he was
arrested, attributing the arrest to political
spite, stating that if Mr.. B. had been an en-
ployee Of the Times instead of Democrat Of
fee, he would not have been arrested, &C.
This however, is weak explanation, and by
no means explains and accounts for half the
damning circumstances SO minutely detailed
by the other Chicago papers. Mr.. b. is at
large on bail, Mayor Wentworth and several
others going his security in 81 900 for his
appearance TO answer the charge. -tsf
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Majority for Stewart

Majority for Stewart. 49,. 14O
Which, with Ripley as above, makes his
majority 42s. This leaves only DunkEn
county to be heard from.
The Leader Of the same date says:
We can barely announce this result
which is certain, though the full official re-
turns are not yet in. Dunklin and Ripley
are yet to hear from officially. 1t is said
that even Dunklin gives majority for Stew
art, but allowing that it gives so for Rollins,
Stewart is still 400 ahead. The Coalition is
defeated. The democratic party is victo-
rious. Missouri, in this election, though no.
body seemed to feel it, has been the battle
ground Of the Cnion-and the field is won
thank Godi
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MISyEso1A- Both constitutional conven
tons in Minnesota have nearly closed their
abors, each having perfected constitution
of its own, and the two differing very little
in essential particulars. The two conven-
tons have been negotiating for the last few
days with view of uniting and agreeing on
one of the two constitutions, and submitting
it te the people. The probability, however,
is that the only understanding they can
come to, will be, to submit both consttu-
tons to The people on the same day, and let
them choose between them, and afterwards
to let the people decide whether they want
the constitution and state government at all
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change (mar2ll Ly.WATERMAN, Cashier.
INSURANCE. LAND AND COLLECTION AGENCY 0f
TRUE & WATERMAN.
At The Bank Of Ottd,ea; Otta,ea, III.
COLLECTIONS made in our vicinity at usual rates.
Lands purchased and sold moderate commissions
Titles investigated and abstracts furnished.
Deeds and other instruments made out and acknow.
lodged
Policies issued in the following insurance companies:
Ii I,, s,ae Geunty Mutual Fire Insurance Co..
Stephenson county Mutual do do
FdtionaI Loan Fund Lile As.aranee Society.
Juues-y ISAAC " WATERMAN.
SAVINGS RANK,
IN Giouer's addition to Ottdxa.
q 90 FOR a Lot. Terms Is cash, and IS on the
ali paid. Without Interest, iaias TRUE WATERMAN.
Why don't you Insure!
La Sale County Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
CAPITAL $4,000.
RE insuring property Of all kinds very low rates
"A Once in Nattnger's Block, (up stairs.) Ottawa.
GEO. H. NORRIS, Pres
WM NJ TRuE, Sec'y jun3
HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE Co.
II. HUNTINGTON: Pres: c. B. BOWERS, Sec'y.
ID. ALEXANDER, Western General Agent .-g
Capital Stock
And Accumulated Assets for payment Of Losses,
S6ls,S09 AZ.
Policies in this old and reliable Company issued by
Ottawa, August TRUE WATERMAN, Agents.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICE,
Main St., Hossack's Rosr, Otdsod, H.
1SIRsT class Statesmen, Book-Keepers, Mechanics
& Railway Men, Bar Tenders and Porters. Also,
work FARMS teamsers, boys for learn
trades, female help of all kinds for city country Al
the above furnished for those who want Houses to let
situations found for those out of employment.
Persons having money to loan will hear of chances
do so at high rates by calling on u.s.
nov15 c. c. BREWSTER.
AuctiOny
~ HE undersigned will sell Auction at his residence,
j in the town Of Rutland Saturday, the 18th day
OF September 1851 the following described property,
viz. Nine horses, one horse Wagon and Harness,
stancs Of Bees, Farming Utensils, Household Furn-
ture Tanning Mills, and variety Of other articles
too numerous to mention.
Sale at 10 O'Clock, when the terms will be
made known and due attendance given by
aug29-1wS 80. BENJAMIN FLEMING.
For Sale or Exchange.
II WISH to sell GOOD SULKY, exchange it for q
buggy. [aug29-tf1 J. o. HARRIS.
Situation Wanted.
4 GERMAN and his wife, who have lived four yea
n on a farm would like to get place to work. They
can do all kinds of farm work. Apply at this office
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SituatiO ON Wanted.
4 GERMAN and his wife, who have lived four yea rs
~ on a farm would like to get place to work They
can do all kinds Of farm work. Apply at this office.
auR29-lwH
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Tnher6:,kimD.

We are the only agents in Ottawa for sale Of YlsKs
metallic BURIAL CASES We keep constantly on
hand all sizes Of WOODEN COfFfNs. "A fine HesrSe al
ways In readiness TO wait upon the afflicted, and our per
s,lecial
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OTTAWA Femaje Semjnary

A1dlTu w OOO AuuubDs,Ts
CAWED Oak Timber-ali sizes-from GIG and l2Xl2.
y and from IL to "a feet long.
Black Walnut Lumber, consisting OF Newell Post Tim.
Der, GIG to SKIS.
Plank, to ~ inches thick. cd
Boards, inch thick.
Hickory and Maple Axle Stun and Oak Plank.
1000 Sawed Oak Posts, for sale by
wM. NJ. TRUE, =
febT-tf Office in Bankof 'Ottaws.
San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28
How Often shall we Eat 2

1t man wishes a long life, he must eat
two meals day, certainly not exceed three;
for the stomach, as it were is the most Vi
tai part, and wears away by too constant
using, the same as everything else in ma
ture. The gastric juice which flows to
the stomach to digest the food, is made
from the blood, and if called upon too often,
will soon wear out the system, and produce
poorer quality of gastric juice, and, as a
consequence, bad digestion, and thou
sand so to speak, unpleasant symptoms.
If man eats half the time, and sleeps
half the time, what does he accomplish? !?
If a man have a soul, itwere best, at least,
to leave off eating hours enough in the
day to give it chance to act even the
mind requires that the body fast often;
all great thinkers are very small eaters,
and many of them eat but once day, and
some forget occasionally to eat at that
Sir Isaac Newton said he could not get his
brain to clear thinking order till four or
five hours after a meal
But, inquiries one, shall we not follow
appetite, and eat when we are hungry =
the animal creation do so. Certainly we
should; and if we have properly employed
all the faculties Of the mind, we should
net desire food more than once or twice a
day. Some Of the animals cat more than
half the time, but we are made so as to
need less time for the mere animal pro-
cesses that we may have more time for
the higher faculties to act.
According to Phrenology, man has thirty
six faculties to crafty; attmentiUeness (the
love Of food) is but one. The reason we
are not better men,.is because we spend
too much time in eating, drtnhing and
sleeping. The glutton, the drunkard, and
the sluggard are prescribed in Scripture.
Some persons can so release their mind
Of all that is worthy Of its energies, That
they are able at all times to eat any thing
good that comes along, and they are called
hoggish not in the sense of a glutton, but
in the sense of one whose main idea is
something to eat.
San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28
SPERRY'S HOTEL,
4 z MURPXIfS ClfNP.

VE7HE commodious Fire Proof Building, 2l5fA4 2TA
Z lately erected by the subscribers, atQl!a2-
Murphys, has been elegantly furnished through
out, after the most approved style, and is now
ready for the reception of guests. Parlors ard
suites of rooms for the use of ladies exclusively,
and parties visiting the Big Trees or other
natural curiosities in the vicinity.
The management Of the domestic department,
is confided to Mrs. Perry, lady Of experience.
The BAR is stocked with fire Wines and Lii
quors, and the lardcr daily supplied with sea-
souable delicacies.
Stages arrive and depart daily for Mokelum-
nc Hill, Sacramento, Stockton, Sonora and CO.
lumbia.
Parties of Pleasure, and transient guests,
will find every accommodation for their COM
fort. SPERRY i PERRY
Murphys, August 90, 1856. sept25-tf
San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28

Bangor, Maine, must have been decidedly
arctic on the oath of January. Such an at
mosphere would suggest an Esquimaux cos
tune and a diet of warus meat.
CURIoUs.-During the greatest intensity of
the snow storm on Sunday night, the electrical
effect on the wires Of the magnetic telegraph in
Chestnut street, near Third, was curious and
striking. There was a continual swapping,
cracking and flashing, like the noise when wood
is burning brisky At one place, on a covered
wire, the stream of electricity suddenly appear
ed about the size of the fame from an ordinary
gas burner, and continued to burn for more
than five minutes On examining the wire, it
was found that half an inch of the covering was
burned off that and the wire beneath it, with
which it was in contact.-Phiiadelphia Ledger
San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28
Corruption i'm Congress.

The news by the Sonora of the corrup-
tion that exists in Congress, is painful in
its nature-painful, that in Congress,
where the best and purest men of our nation
should be found, is witnessed acts that
better be6t the lowest haunts of vice and
misery, than the capitol of this great ma
ton. Hon. Reverdy johnson, swears that
Hon. 0. B. Matteson told him that there
were 6etreea taoenty and thirty members
Of Congress who had agreed to vote for
no land bill unless they were paid forit. 1t
has been shown that Hon. W. S. Gilbert,
member from New York, acknowledged
that he had received "seyeral square miles
of land, and some stock" for his efforts
in aid of the passage of the Iowa Railroad
bill. Mr.. j. r. Sweeney testifes that the
Hon. w. S. Gilbert also entered into
contract in his presence, with Capt. Trip
lett, the author and proprietor of book on
the Pension and Bounty Laws, by which
the sum of S14, 500 was to be paid to him
as condition of securing the passage of
the bill making the purchase. The same
witness testifes that Mr.. Welch of Con-
necticut, told him that fifty dollars would
be required to pass pension claim of
widow Kimbell through the committee of
which he was a member Hon. Reverdy
johnson tcstifes, that Hon. O. B. Matte
son told him that 100000, would be re-
quired to pass the bill giving certain lands
to the Des Moines Company, as there
were tcenty or thirty members Of the
House who had agreed not to vote for any
such bills unless they acere paid for 1t
A private letter was also shown from Mr..
Matteson to the President of the Des
Moines Company, proposing payments in
addition to those already promised, as the
only way In which the bill could be carried
through. Mr. Paine stated in Committee
that Mr.. Edwards Of New York told him
he was interested in the passage of bill
making grants to Western railroad, and
offered him 81 800 if he would vote for it.
Also, Mr.. Volk testifes to conversation in
which Mr.. Edwards acknowledged he had
a pecuniary interest in the passage of GER
tain bills. Such facts are rt-sickening
to the people. 1t is the cursed spirit of
party that bears all else to its behest that
foists such scoundrels in Office, to the dis
grace of the whole country. How long is
this spirit to last among us?-,S. Argus
San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28

TIE ENvIoUs MAN-The envious man
is in pain upon all occasions which ought
to give him pleasure. The relish of his
life is inverted; and the objects which ad-
minister the higher satisfaction to those
who are exempt from this passion, give the
quickest pangs to persons who are subject
to it. All the perfections of their fellow
creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor
and wisdom are provocations of their dis
pleasure What wretched and apostate
State is this; to be offended with excel
lence, and to hate man because we ap-
prove him The condition of the envi-
Gus man is most emphatically miserable;
he is not only incapable of rejoicing in
anothcrs merit or success, but lives In
world where all mankind are in plot
against his quiet, by studying their own
happiness and advantage.
San Andreas independent., 1857-03-28
Song.
'Tis Spring There's bloom upon the roses
leaf,


'Tis Spring. There's bloom upon the rose
leaf,
And sunshine in the sky:
And gladness in the brooklet's song,
That ripples sweetly by.
And blithe the birding tunes its throat,
And carols glad and high,
What reck l of his joyous note,
When lone and sad am L?
The Springs soft breeze from forests near.
Comes fragrance-laden by,
Tanning the flowers of low parterrc,
And tall boughs waving high;
Creating bloom and beauty where
1t whistles sweetly by;
Yet brings no balm to soothe the care
OF one so lone as |.
The ripping wavelets kiss the shore
Ere flashing back they HE,
To join the surging pillows roar,
In foam-capped revelry:
Rejecting on their billowy breast
The blue and cloudless sky;
Their ripping murmur brings no rest
To one so lone as |.
Fen Spring can fail to glad the soul,
Though beaming in the sky,
When sorrows waves still darkIy roll,
And tears bedim the eye.
Thus when I hear the dovelet's note
At eve sung loud and high,
| think upon his listening mate,
While lone and sad am |.