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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07
Now Lumber Yard.

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THE subscribers would respectfully represent to the
i citizens of Ottawa and surrounding country that
they have hand and offer for sale large and well
lected stock of Pine Lumber Shingles, and Laih Our
facilities for stocking yard enables sell at Chic
go prices, adding transportation
We have also hand 4 general assortment OF Nails,
Glass, Sash, Doors, &c
We would say those wishing to purchase, give
call examine stock and prices, confident
that make il your advantage TO give ycur
patronage.
Yard aad Ofhce north side Of the Canal, Bristol
and Earnc's Grain Houses.
janII-tf JOHN CLANCY & co.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07

(CAEb
MANUFACTURED into rings,
Itt Pins Lockets, &c
Eo GalvanzinS, Fire Gliding, and
Ga - SiIvering-al kinds of Repeat
/|r Wing Musical and Intricate Clocks
TZN /~.Ze.H5 and Watches. Music Boxes. Ac-
~st5SS cOrdeons, and all kinds OF fine
IGsss work finished ia a style DEFY
~ yTz--e competition.
tSN~ X 4 Drae5ed Levers. se
,yirs-rr-,
e--<s~-----~ reach Watch Glasses sse
W. a.
:. CROOKS 4 BROTHER,
Wtxf of fie Pest DfTrs. Min strut OryfrI IN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07

GENERAL AGENCY AND LAND OFFICE,
Waterloo. Black Hawk Co., Iowa.
FfTiiE subscribers would inform the public that they have
opened Office Waterloo, where they viii do all
business entrusted TO their with promPtness Land
entered By cash warrant Taxes paid and collections
made ia Northern Iowa Money invested on joint inte
Persons wishing TO invest money in the West, desir
ing information depend upon faithful and prompt
attention
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07
Tonacro "a Cigar TEarsufactory.

IN -;tiiy, IT, L70,. Eifst of Post 0ffce,
rzIE subscriber would inform the public that he is
- nuac;u-ug and keeps hand Tie best quality of
Chewing Tobacco, SNUFF, Pipes &c, wholesale and re
tail, prices favorable TO customers Also, the best oi
Havana, Iaupcra, Cassadors and other kinds OF Ci-
CARS. Farmers others who smoke chew make
great saving by buying OF wholesale, a. l can
sell d better article, a less price than Isedlars-
Please call my Nauufactory, door west OF the
Post Office, and see Tor yourselves.
Ottawa, Nov. 10. G. IL SCHNEIDER
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07
OTTAWA STONE YARD,


JOHN EGsS.
Superior Street, BITaGFds Wagon Establishment
STONE cut TO all patterns and dimensions.
Athens and Joliet Stone for sale, all delivered to order
IA s1aiiIanl's Family Grocery,
(LGte J HasseN 6 CO.,)
KILL be found Of the extensive and well
" lected stocks Of Family Groceries, Provisions,
Fruits, Willow and Wooden Ware, &c, prices that
hardly fail please All they sell is warranted give
entire satisfaction. Ottawa, November %, loJ6.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07
The Bctter...ana Worse.

"There's no such word"
There is"
"Waut TO HET on il,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07
MIL. l. i y J.. /, y
TggNS y;INsErr

u Ef;S leave to in form the ladies of Ottawa V!c'u
- ". that her FALL STOCK OF MILLINERY GonES
ready their examination and she III De happy
to wait upon at who may favor her Hith / call.
Pgglrs over tfe Marble Front store. sei20
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07
II r. NJ . V y l. .
tr.:S FORD

yNTOULD respectfully inform the ladies Of Ottawa and
w vicinity tlat she has removed her Millinery h,i"D
lishneHt 10 tie upper rooms Bassnetts building Main
St oy,pose the Mansion House where she VIII keep
full assortment Of Goods for Fa and Winter trade Al
50. Z .-n.k nf f. shisn.hl. CLnaks lOr sale. nONS
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-02-07

Matchmaker and .Lsg,eLey-SoJfI side Of Court House
!SgtoFs. OttoScG-
YYYs sTCU work Thoroughly done and warranted
w Clocks repaired the shortest notice Clocks,
Watches, and Jeweiry for sale cheap Dec 10
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+. IL. IIOIT,

Ot.Jtrd. Illinois.
Office at his Drug Store on La Sale street
Residence with DIR. Hard, OF Madison and Cn
ton streets sep 15-y
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

Great improvements in Aerial Naviga.
tiOM..-WOnderful. if True.


A Paris journal publishes a strange ac-
count of an serostatic excursion, which, the
articles declares, has solved the long can
vassed problem of directing balloons The
persons who are stated to have mad the ex-
cursion are the Count de Pleuvier, NJ. Mi
gnn, Mr.. Falconer, (an English @ronaut,)
and Mr.. Henri Page, the writer. The apPa-
ratus used is said to have cost net less than
100000 francs, the greater portion OF which
was furnished by Count de Pleuyicr The
machine is represented to consist of two bal
looms united together, of spherical form,
each able to contain one hundred cubes OF
pure hydrogen gas The directing power is
Il modified screw, communicating with car
and rudder, made principally of whalebone,
to change the direction when required. NJ.
Gavarni, the inventor, it is declared, can OBJ
tain the upward movement of the balloon
without throwing out the ballast, which soon
eXhausts the resources of the very best con-
structed balloon, and becomes an invincible
obstacle to long excursions in the air. The
loss Of hydrogen is instantaneously repaired
by a chemical proceeding, of which M. Mi
g on is stated to possess the secret, and by
a little apparatus also invented by Mr.. Ga
varni. The descent is effected as hitherto,
by letting the gas escape. The departure OF
the aeronautS on the occasion referred to
took place on the 18th January at 10 o'clock
in the morning, from the Park of Ferrieres,
in the Solongue, and the next morning at 5
O'Clock a safe descent was effected within
half a mile of Algiers. The aerial travellers
remained on the African soil only thirty
hours, and eft at noon the day after their
arrival, in sight of an immense multitude to
see them ascend. The return was effected
without the slightest accident, but with
much greater rapidity; at A o'clock the
next morning they alighted at the spot from
which they started, in the park of Count de
Pleuvier.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

MIsTAKEN.-When General jackson, just
before the battle of New Orleans, used the
following language in his address to his col
ored soldiers, he little know what blunder
according to our Supreme Court) he was
making in speaking Of "your white fe1lo,g
chizens":
"When, on the banks of the Mobile, call
ed you to take up arms, inviting you to par
take the perils and glory of your WHITE
FELLOW CITIZENS, | expected much from you,
for was not ignorant that you possessed
qualities most formidable to an invading enc
my. l knew with what fortitude you could
endure hunger, and thirst and all the fatigues
of a campaign. 1 kneac reU hon you lored
y0ur NATIVE COUNTRY, and that you, as well
as ourselves, had to defend what man holds
most dear-his parents, wife, children, and
property. You have done more than ex
pected. In addition to the previous qualities
before knew you to possess, | found among
you a noble eahusiasm. which leads to the
performance of great things"
Such is the noble language addressed to
negroes when we want t; EN- to fight for us,
but when we come to raising cotton the sal
utation changes to-" Down, you black
beast or you'll taste citizens whip"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
The Rush to Kansas.

The St. Joseph (Mo.) correspondent of
the Missouri Republican, writing from St.
Joseph under date of March 18th, says:
"The emigration to Kansas reminds me of
that to California in the days of its greatest
allurements. Trains upon trains are pouring
in from ever quarter, but particularly from
the free States. had once thought, as |
used to write you, that Kansas would be
slave State, but | am now forced to alter my
opinion from the overwhelming evidences to
the contrary that force themselves upon me
every day.
"Our ferry boats are busily engaged from
daylight until dark in carrying over trains,
and the proportion of Free Soil to the Pro
Slavery emigrants is as fifteen to one. This
is not confined alone to our point of crossing,
but it is SD at every other that can hear
from, and it satisfies me that the political
destiny of Kansas is fixed beyond all ques-
ton.
"Wars and rumors of war she will know
no more, but peace will brood over her beau
tiful pralries, and prosperity will regn
throughout her borders. 1 am Pro-Slave-
ry man, and would prefer to see my favorite
Institution established there but am, nev-
ertheless, convinced that the energetic. en-
terprlzing Yankee will develop the resources
and build up the country sooner than we
could do, and that by living in harmony with
them as our neighbors, they will do us no
injury in our peculiar property"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

NAPOLEON AND FULToN.-It has been fire.
quently asserted that Napoleon contemptu-
ously rejected Fulton's proposition to apply
steam-p power to the propulsion of vessels, and
even pronounced Fulton charlaton This
error has at length been conclusivelv refuted
by the publication by NJ. Rapetti, in the
Moniteur of the 18th inst, of the following
holograph letter, which forms part of the
Forthcoming Napoleon correspondence
Monsieur de Company II have just read
the scheme Of Citizen Fulton an Engineer.
which you have been far too late submitting
to me, inasmuch as it may change the face
of the world. Be that as it NAV, it is nv
desire that you forthwith entrust the exam
ination OF it to commission composed of
members to be chosen by you from the
different classes of the Institute. 1t is to
that body that scientific Europe should look
for judges to solve the problem in question.
A great truth-a physical, ralpable fact-is
apparent to me. 1t is now the business of
those scientific men to perceive, and to en-
deavor to appropriate that face Their
report, as soon as made, will be sent to you,
and you will transmit it to me. Contrive, if
possible, to have all this done within eight
days, for | am full Of impatiencc.
@ f. "'sao NapoLEoN.
Camp of Boulogne, olst July, 1904.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
General Wilson'S Early Life.

The Keene Sentinel says: Our interest in
Mr.. Wilson is enhanced by the fact that he
was New Hampshire boy, having been
born in Pennington in 1912. At 10 years
of age he was sent to live with a farmer in
his native town. 1t was agreed that he
should remain till he was 81 and that he
should have four weeks schooling each year
and six sheep and yoke of oxen at the
close of his term. This engagement was
fulfilled and the oxen, sheep and forty-nine
weeks schooling were his wages for his
eleven years. service. During the Sundays
and nights of this period he read, by the
light of pine knots, various books Of history
and biography which he borrowed from diff
ferent persons.
In 1888, Mr.. Wilson removed to Natck
and for several years worked so untir.ngly
at his trade of shoemaking that his health
began to fail. He was accustomed during
that time to take part with tremuous voice
and hand, in the exercises of the village de-
batting club, and displayed the fruits of his
reading in his knowlc ledge Of the history of
the country.
In 1886, he was present in the gallery of
the House OF Representatives at Washing
ton when Mr.. Pinckney's famous gag reso-
lutions were introduced, and j. @ Adams
voted against them. What Mr.. Wilson then
saw and heard awakened in him that feeling
of hostility to slavery which has marked his
subst quent history.
During the winter of 1887 Mr.. W. taught
school in New Hampshire, and in that of
1888 in Natlck He first tccame known rs
a political speaker during the hard cider
campaign Of 1910.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Ceser's Opinion OF his Likeness i'm Wor-
sfed Work.

In review of ''The Apocatastasis," a
work against spritualism published in 1854,
at Burlington, VT, the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser tells the following story:
GA most respectable, though not very
cultivated lady, once invited us to private
exhibition of rappings and scratchines, by
which she believed that she held converse
with her own deceased friends, as well as
with many people who had been illustrous
in their day and generation. AS we were
looking about her simply furnished parlor,
our eyes fell upon screen whereon an his
torical scene-the passage of the Rubicon,
we will call twas depicted in wOrsted
work. Now, any one familiar with the spe-
cirnens of this art which are sold at our
country fairs will agree that, however, inter-
esting they may be as monuments of human
patience and human eysght, they do not pos
sess the interest of greatly resembling any
territorial objects with which we are ace uain-
ted. The visage of Caesar upon the screen
was no exception to the rule; square patches
of red were driven in to represent the flush
upon his cheeks, black triangles, consisting
of three stitches, did duty as his eyebrows,
while his eyes were glass beads that started
in different directions. As this screen was
evidently the ornament of the house, We
hazarded the observation that it must have
taken long time to work it-or something
of that sort Yes" replied our hostess,
but that is the least part of its interest;
for Julius Caesar came here the other even
ing and told us he considered it a capital
likenessr"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

Tow BoATs FOR THE STRAITS OF MAGELL-
LANA writer in the Philadelphia Bulletin
warmly advocates line of tow-boats fIr the
Straits of Magellan. The advantages Of this
passage in shortening the voyage to the Pa
ific from twenty to thirty days is well
known. Unfortunately throughout the year
the winds bl W with more or less violence
from the north and northwest, so it is al
most impossible for vessel to make head
against the current. The consequence is
they have to go ronnd the Straits, where it
is not uncommon to spend twenty days bat
ting with the winds. To render the passage
by the Straits easy, and one eventually to
be chosen by all Pacific bound vessels, the
writer thinks two powerful propeller tugs,
300 tons burthe and $50 horse power.
would be sufficient for beginning.
The heaviest wind in the Straits creates
but very little sea, so that propellerss can
usually work with full power The time
consumed in towing through 800 miles
would of course vary with the size of the yes
sci towed. Three days are assumed as the
average, with an ordinary sized California
packet; but running day and night, when
the channel had become known, the passage
might be made in forty-eight hours.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

TEA AND CASHMERE GoATs IN SOUTH
CARoLINA.-A correspondent writing to the
Boston Post from Greenville, South Carroll
na, says:
81 am within few miles of the place
where the experiment was made of raising
tea. 1t has proved failure. The plant
will grow we'll enough, but wages are too
high in this country. We cannot afford to
pick, to roll up and sell any sort of leaves
here for half a dollar pound. In China,
where a man is hired for one dollar month
and boards himself, it may be done.
g am glad to learn that the Cashmere
goat, introduced by J. R. Davis, does well
here. The goat is hardy, prolific, and pro-
duces heavy fleece of wool, SO fine that
the finest French merino is coarse in COM
parison, and then it is from six to nine in
ches long.
" His son, Scott Davis, has cargo of fresh
Angora Chashmere goats on their way to
Gallatin, Tennessee, where he intends to es-
tablish colony of these Asiatics."
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Maple Sugar I'm Wisconsin.

The Madison Patriot of recent date gives
some fact in relation to maple sugar in Wis
cOnsin.
Wisconsin in 1850 produced according to
the census tables nearly 10000 lbs., but as
most of the "sugar camps" were out of the
beat" of the census takers, perhaps not
over one-half of the maple sugar was "reck-
oned in." The present season is no doubt
favorable one, and the produce of the ''maple
orchards " of the State must reach an ag-
gregate of millions of pounds, and at the
present and prospective prices of the sweets
of lille, be highly remunerative.
In the counties of Dorr and Outagamie are
to be found the finest sugar districts of this
State. In one township alone in the latter
county, several years since, II 500 lbs. were
manufactured, exclusive of what was turned
out of Indian camps. The counties of Calu-
met, Manitowoc, Brown, Oconto, Shawano
and Winnebago, also contain some of the
best maple lands in the west-all of which
will be opened up by the railroads about to
be built. When these counties become thick
ly settled the sugar yield will be immense.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Education I'm Canada.

The report of Mr.. Chauveau, Superinten-
dent of Education in Lower Canada, shows
a wonderful progress in that somewhat slow
State. 1t appears that at the present mo-
nent more than half the boys and girls who
are an age to learn are in receipt of regu-
lar education from com, etent teachers
The proportion would be much larger but
ior the spareness Of population in Lower
Canada, the length Of the winters, and the
necessary difficulties of loconotion in such
a climate. As it is, the figures sh graf
flying advancement since the department
passed into the hands of it's present incunl-
bent
Upper Canada is in advance Of the East
ern province, rs was to be expected from the
homogeneous character of its people, the su-
peror density of settlement, and generally
the greater analogies between it and the
great States OF the West. 1t nearly rivals
New England and New York in the greatest
Of the elements of civilization-sound edu-
cational institutions.
There are but lew States in the Union
which can now afford to look down upon
these provinces, which, few years since,
afforded so little satisfaction to the sta esman
and so little hope to the econonist.--N. Y.
Her0M
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

DEATH OF THE REV. DR.. CoLToN.-Tne
Rev. Calvin Cotton, well known throughout
the country, died at Savannah, Ga, on Friday
last, and his remains have been sent to AIassa-
chusetts for interment. The deceased grad
uated at Yale College in 1872, was ordained
Presbyterian clergyman IN 1915, and was
settled at Batavia, N. Y, until 1926, when
he partially lost his voice. This induced him
to devote his time to writing for periodicals,
but in 1885, after visit to Europe, he took
Episcopal orders. Subsequent, however, he
turned his attention to political matters
In 1912 he commenced editing a paper in
Washington called the True Whig," which
he continued until 1874, when he went to
Ashland to obtain materials for life of
Henry Clay, on which work, together with
the volumes of Mr.. Clay's correspondence,
he has since been engaged. The volumes
have been published at intervals and the au-
thor was engaged on the last volume of his
work when summoned away.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

THE BoRE.-And the Bore talked on. He
had caught his victim at a hotel at the din
ner hour, after a long Journey fatigue and
hungry. The gong had sounded, and hurry
ing feet along the corridors denoted that i'm
patient people were to be made happy with
dinner.
And the Bore talked on.
There was the odor of viands coming from
the dining room, exciting gustatory longings,
and the victim looked distressed.
And the Bore talked on.
Opening doors sent up the clatter of knives
and forks, indicating fierce appetite and its
allayment, awakening deep sympathy in the
victim.
And the Bore talked on.
Opening doors again were heard, and re-
turning steps slowly pressed the corridor
satisfied steps--and men were seen picking
their teeth with a contented air.
And the Bore talked on.
The hand upon the Connecticut horologue
had marked an hour upon the dial al-plate-the
sounds of dinner had faded from the ear
and victim minus the mid day meal q
But the Bore talked on-on!
What can sensible people do with Bores,
or where shall they be placed? Answer
anything-any way. Always pro estlng,
however, against being held by the button.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

NOVEL MEErING.1Dr X. attended mas
querade ball. In the motley and happy
tlrong, he falls in with a fair pilgrim in
black silk, whose charming person, snow
white neck, and bewitclingly coquettiSh airs
ava ened in his soul the most rapturous
love. She casts upon HIM looks of the most
languishing tenderness he reveals in the
hope of having made blissful conquest
He musters up his courage, and ventures to
address her.
"Who art thou, lovely mask?" asks DR..
", almost melted in the glow of love.
Is it possible you do not know me, Doc
tor?' lisps the lady in bla ksilk.
"No, upon my honor, L do not know
thee"
Bethnk yourself, Doctor"
"Ah ! thou art surely the gracious fairy
who has appeared to me to-day. for the
fourth time, to open to me the gates of bliss"
'You mistake. Doctor, am no fairy"
"Ah-who art thou, then2"
''I am the well-known lady to whom You
have now these nine weeks been indebted in
the sum of two dollars and seven shilllngs
for washing and ironing"
The Doctor stood like petrifed herring !!
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
JUVENILE LoGIC.-"That which thou hast
to do. do it with all thy might" said cler-

JUVENILE LoGIC.-"That which thou hast
to do, do it with all thy might" said cler-
gyman to his son one morning. @
$50 did this morning." replied Bill,
with an enthusiastic CLEAN in his eye.
" All, what was it darling 2" and the ia
theirs fingers ran through his offspring's
curls.
"Why, I walloped Jack Edwards" said
the young hopeful, till he yelled like
thunder,-you should just hear him holler,
dad"
The father looked unhappy while he ex-
planned that the prccept did not apply to any
act like that, and concluded mildly with
You should not have done that nv
child.'' tt3
"Then he'd walloped me-" replied young
hopeful.
Better" said the sire, "for you to have
fed from the wrath to come"
Yes, but" replied hopeful, by way of
a final clincher, "Jack can run twice as fast
as I can" .e.
The good man sighed, went to his study,
took up pen, and endeavored to compose
himself.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

A TERRIBLE LEAp.-A female named Su-
san Lent, who had decoyed countryrnan
into an oyster saloon in New York, and af
ter Supplying him with drugged liquor, rob-
bed hlm of his watch and money, was ar
rested by an officer, who found her in the
third story of house on Worth street
After her arrest she requested little time
to arrange her dress, which being granted,
she opened the window and leaped out into
the rear yard-faiiing distance of nearly
fifty feet. On striking the ground she gave
a loud screrm, when the officer ran down
and found her helpless and nearly insensible
from the injuries she had received. She was
removed to the hospital, when the examin-
ing physician, on making an examination,
that both her ankles were dislocated, besides
which she received fearful injury to the
spine which may prove fatal. She lies in a
very critical condition.