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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-09-12

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M I l. l. I N E II Y
MISS FORD

rs now receiving fine selection Of MILLINERY
Il GOODS, for the Fall and Winter Trade at her rooms
in Bassnett's building opposite the Mansion House.
Grateful TO her patrons for the past she solics
tinuance Of their patronage.
Straw Bounets cleaned to order. sep12
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-09-12

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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-09-12
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Why don't YOU Insure!
La Sale County Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
CAPITAL $4,000.
RE nsurng property OF all kinds ut very low rates.
"A Office in Nattingers Block, (up stairsD ottawa.
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Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
The True Doctrine.

The convention of the "Nationol De-
mocracy" of Douglass county, Kansas,
held May 25th for the purpose of nom
mating candidates for the constitutional
convention, placed their candidate
squarely upon the Democratic doctrine
(which knows no sectional leaning and
acknowledges no geographical party
lines" And upon the question of sub
hitting the constitution to a vote ofthe
people, sustains the policy of the Ad-
ministration and Gov. Walker in the fol-
lowing emphatic language:
ave will support no man as a dele
gate to the constitutional convention
whose duties it will be to frame the con-
stitution of the future State of Kansas,
and mould the political institutions I'M
der which VIC, as a people, are. to live,
unless he pledge himself fully, freely,
and without mental reservation, to use
every honorable effort to submit the
same to every bona tide actual citizen of
Kansas at the proper time for the vote
being taken upon its adoption by the
people, in order that the said constItu-
ton may be adopted or rejected by the
actual settlers in this Territory as a ma
jority 0 fthe voters may decide
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
The days set for the fiery gent

@-The days set for the fiery gentle
man with "ten billion leagues of tail, "
to knock this little garden spot of ours
into eternal smash" have come and
gone without a solitary indication of his
presence-unless the exceedingly "wet
rain" that came tumbling down in tor
rents the last day set for him to do his
work, was an indication of his prozimi-
ty. But as the "Bearded Devil" as
Holmes calls him, was expected to make
his appearance in a "chariot of fire"
and not in a second deluge of "fuid for
commercial purposes" the timid and
wicked generation who thought their
days were numbered, can now go to
bed withoutb being haunted with the fear
of waking amid a 'crash of matter and
a crush of worlds"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
EATON, O., JUNE 50, 1857.
Cincinnati and Chicago Rail-
rOad,

The opening of the Cincinnati and
Chicago Railroad to Logansport, will be
celebrated at the latter place on the 4th
Of July. An excursion train will leave
Cincinnati at5:30 A. NJ, and Richmond
at $50 A. M, on the Sd, and return on
tho evening of the 4th. The citizens
of Logansport have invited the State
officers and the Municipal authorities of
Cincinnati, Hamilton, Dayton, and other
places, to be present on hat occasion,
at which place an entertainment will be
given to all such invited guests. Half
fare tickets to Logansport and return,
viii be sold at all regular stations where
tickets are now sold, good from date
until the Sth of July.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
More Fruits Of Fanatlclsm.

It is a painful occurrence to every
good citizen to see any of the bonds
which unite the people of this country
together In fraternal feeling, sundcred.
If the men of the same religious opin-
ions, and in the same country, cannot
remain united in their spiritual efforts,
what stranger ties, except the absolute
power OF the government, is to hold them
together in the other relations of life
The General Assembly which closed its
session at Cleveland a week or so ago,
insisted upon declaring the relation of
Master and slave as a sin in the sight Of
God, and an offence in the sense in which
the term is used in the constitution of
the Church. Upon this tho conserva-
tive members withdrew, and in a high
toned address set forth their objections
to this assumption on the part of the
Assembly, and concluded with a call for
a convention to meet in Washington, on
the 9th of August next, "for the pur-
pose of consultation, and of organizing
a General Assembly, in which it will be
distinctly understood the subject of sla-
very will not be introduced"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
"a Professor D. Barton Ross,

E Professor D. Barton Ross, au-
thor of the Southern Speaker" and
other class books, attempted to commit
suicide in Petersburg, Virginia, on
Thursday of last week, by taking chic
reform and stabbing himself in the re-
gion of the heart with a clasp knife,
He was not dead at two o'clock on Fri
day morning, though little hope was
entertained of his recovery. The wound
was inflicted while shut up in his room
at Powell's Hotel, and when found he
was lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
On the bed were found letters addressed
to his friends and wife indicating disap-
pointment and depression of spirits, and
intimating and attributing the intention
Of taking his life to reverse of fortune,
and the non-appreciation of his efforts in
the furtherance of Southern literature.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
Resistance to the Law in Kan

1.-THE following, which we take from an
exchange, is correct, there is every prob
ability of more commotion and disturb
ance in Kansas. The Topeka malcon-
tents who thus refuse to recognize the
regular Territorial organization, with
Walker at his head, will be compelled
to submit and pay their taxes, if the
whole military power of the nation is
ordered out. The Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser says:
The business of collecting taxes in
Kansas is prosecuted under difficulties.
The Black-Republican Free-State in
habitans, who do not recognize the au-
thority of the Legislature, give the tax
gatherers a reception which is anything
but friendly. One day last week Dep
uty Marshal Fain went from Lecompton
to Lawrence to collect taxes. One of
the first men he met was Colonel Ed
ridge. whose splendid hotel Fain had
been instrumental in destroying last
year. The following conversation took
place:
fCli, SOIoASl, NAVE COuEC L IO"u
to assess property, and collecttaxes from
you and the balance of the citizens
Are you ready to fork over?"
"What I! ask me for tax, you d-vil-
lain, after burning up and destroying my
property. If I should pay you with an
ounce of cold lead, it would be what you
richly deserve. If you have assessed
any tax on my property, just take it
out of that horse you stole from my
barn last summer. Leave my presence.
and the sooner you make yourself scarce
the better for your health"
Fain's reception by the other citizens
of Lawrence was scarcely more fattef
ing. 1t was with difficulty that the
people we're kept from selling, ~tarrin2
and feathering him, and riding him out
of town on a rail. a public meeting
was called, and the people of Lawrence
resolved, as one man, to pay no taxes tc
the usurpers; nor to any tax-gatherel
eve appointed by the Territorial Legis-
lafOra r "
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
.white cloud kansas chief.

The above is the title of a new paper
1.-THE first No. of which we have reeeiy-
ed just started in Kansas Territory, by
Sol. MILLER, formerly of the German
town CO., Republican. It is generally
known in this section of country that
Sol. is a ready and racy writer, and al
ways printed a spicy paper, and we
know that all round here who wish
to get the news from that region of
country, viii Immediately send So, and
have a weekly visit from the "KansaS
Chief" The paper is neutral in poll
tics, and so long as it don't mix, we wish
it abundant success.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
U. s. Hotel.

The travelling community appreciate
the excellent accommodations furnished
at the above hotel, on the corner OF
Sixth and Walnut, Cincinnati, and
consequently it is constantly filed with
guests. The Proprictors have no supe-
riors as landlords, and the kind and
obliging attention of the Assistants,
Messrs. T. f. DEaRoor and J. NJ. Floss,
add much to the house in making it a
home for the traveller and a resting
place to the weary.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25

We are indebted to the popular pub
LEGATION house of Mr.. T. B. PETERSON,
306 Chestnut street, Phila., for a COM
plete copy of "Boz's" authorized
American edition of the above interest
ing and excellent work. The Philadel-
phia Ledger speaking Of this work says:
We need not say that Little Dorrit is
a work which will interest the public
everybody knows the merits of Dicke ms
writings and this last is equal, in gra-
phic power and skillful delineations of
character, to any of his previous works,
The plotis of absorbing interest, upon
which isstrung pearls and diamonds of
descriptive writing. All readers sympa-
thize heartily with Little Dorrit. Her
patient Endurance and unfaltering love
for all who leaned upon her for aid. and
they must heartily rejoice, when, at the
altar of St. Georges Church, she writes
her name as the happy bride of Arthur
Mr.. Psaafsson has now ready eighteen
different editions of Little Dorrit," all
of which have been published stimuli
taneously with the completion of the
story, in England, at an expense of
Ilco Thousand Dollars for the privilege
of having the sheets as they appeared in
England, sent to him in advance of all
others in this country. Enterprise of
this kind is every way creditable, and
we trust the enterprising publisher will
be repaid for his outlay by a generous
purchase of this, the best. work, ever
written by the immortal Boz" Price
of the complete work, Fifty cents only.
Bg-"Godey's Lady's Book" for July
has came to hand, and is a superb mum
Der. The engraving "Grandfather's
Watch" is splendid and beautiful in
sentiment. and has never been equalled
The July No. is the first of a new Vol.
and now would be an excellent time to
subscribe. The Gladys Book" and
Democrat" will be furnished one yea,
for $3.50. Send in your orders.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
UnpoPuIarity of Fngitive Slaves
ia Canada.

Fugitive negro slaves from the Uni
ted States are becoming very unpopular
in Canada. The Toronto Colonist, in a
report of the speech of Colonel Prince,
a prominent member of Parliament, a
day or two before Parliament adjourned,
reported him as follows:
He then took occasion to speak of
the negro fugitives as being most i'm
moral aud unprineipled persons, and
suggested that they should be separated
from the white population, which they
contaminated by their vices. The people
of this country, moved by Il Christian
sympathy for their sutferings, treated
them with Kindness, and they repaid
that kindness with ingratitude they
were chiefly remarkable for their filthy
and dishonest features, and should be
sem to live by themselves on one Of
the Manitoulin Islands, or somewhere
else, where the whites would not suffer
from contact with them.
The agents of the Underground Rail
road will have to select some other place
than Canada for the reception of fugi-
tives, for the people of that country are
getting sick of them.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25

@They advance this monstrous pro-
position: That because a slave State
cnacts that a slave taken to a free State
shall not thereby be free, he shall be
held in that free State a slave. Judge
fancy says this is the law of the land"
The above we clip from an article
copied into the last Register, from the
Ohio State Journal, and pronounce it
as base a Fabrication and misrepresen-
tation as was ever put forth. We had
thought that the rcbuke the Register
men received in this county last fall,
would have taught them that there is
nothing to be gained in the publishing
of falsehoods by the Wholesale, and that
in the coming contest they would use
alittle more discretion, and endeavor to
pursue an honorable course in their
warfare. But it would seem from the
manner in which they have started
in" that they intend to carry on the
business of Icing, garbling and quilting
the people, on n more extensive scale
than they did about poor bleeding
Kansas" slavery, and the reduction of
the wages of the mechanic to stem cents
per day and what they fail in manu-
featuring themselves, will be made up
by selections of the basest kind, from
such reckless and corrupt sheets as the
Ohio State Journal. Ever since the
bred Scott decision, the columns of the
Register have teemed with bilingsgate
and vile abuse of our judicial agents,
and abortiye attempts to mislead and
deceive the people of this county, in re-
gard to, the true meaning of it. IF the
editors havo read it all, they know thatthe
above is false, basely false-that Judge
TANEY no where says that slaves can
be held in bondage in a free State
What he has decided is in plain Ian
guage that, "if a slave is brought into
the State of Ohio from Kentucky, and
then taken back into Kentucky in that
character, his status, as free or slave, de-
ponds upon the laws of Kentucky, and
not of Ohio" Now, how any individ-
ual can make it appear from the Ian
guage we have quoted, that slavery has
the leastshadow of ever existing, or that
it decides that it can exist in Ohio, we
are at a loss to know. Yet these cor
rupt, freedom s~hriekipg, Black Repub-
= lican nigger-stealing editors, are
ing heaven and earth in their efforts to
deceive the honest masses into the be-
lief that such is the intent and meaning
Of the bred Scott decision. Out upon
such knavery and the canting hypocrites
who are attempting to impose it upon
the people of Ohio
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25

HoUooay's Ointment and PiUS.-Im-
purities of the blood are often developed
in disgusting eruptions, ulcers, scrofu-
lous sores, boils, and other external af-
fections. For all the distressing and
dangerous complaints, Holloway's Oint-
ment is literally a healing balsam. 1t
n~eutralizes the m,atertes morbi, or seeds
of diseases in the exterior sccretions, and
dispels the inflammation. Nature does
the rest. The experience of every hui
man being who has tested the efficacy of
the Ointment is the same. 1t has new
or failed. When the internal organs
are alone affected, as in liver complaint,
dyspepsia, and Irregularities ofthe bowls,
a few doses ofthe Pills afford certain and
permanent relief.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
Their FaIsehoods

Every sectional, MISUNDERSTANDING,
abolition journal in the country, from
the New York Tribune, down to the
Weakly Register, asserts and repeats the
lie that the Democratic party is the ally
and propagation of slavery. This naked
accusation is their " harp of a thousand
strings" IN which they play that "same
old tune" at the approach of a State or
National contest. We demand the evil
-dence-the facts on which they base the
charge; in proof of its falsity we point
hem to history ; We show them that
he principles which we maintain to-day
are those for which the fathers of the
Republic battled, in conformity with
the Constitution, liberal and just. They
sneer at our demands, avoid the light of
history treat with contempt the opin-
ions of our country departed statesmen,
and reiterate the lie; knowing that on
it's pcrpetuation hangs the existence of
their party. Industriously calculated
and pertinaciously adhered to, it has
already produced bitter fruit; it con
tributed to place in the Executive chair
Of our State a fanatical d~emagogue, and
disgraced the nation with a corrupt Con-
gress it cursed Kansas with a civil
war and threatened the dismember-
ment of the confederacy by arraying
section against section. And yet with
these, its fearful results staring US in
the face, the same lie continues to as
sail the public ear, in such debased
and reckless Journals from the plat
form of the partisan orator, and the pull
pit of the political priest. In commune
ton with the glaring~ falsehood, comes
the equally false and absurd declaration
that the slaveholding interest of the
country is aggressive ; that it thirsts
for dominion and aims to annihilate free
labor. This last allegation, like the first,
is overwhelmingly condemned by his
tory. Slaveholding Virginia voluntarily
ceded to the National Government a
domain out Of which five rich and popu-
lous free States have been created a
slaveholding President, believing the
Missouri Compromise extended in spirit,
though not in terms, to the Pacific Coast,
signed a bill by which the vast territory
of Oregon was expressly allotted to free
labor. And from the Administration
of Washington to the present time, we
defy there habitual sianderers to point
to the first act in our Legislative his
tory sustaining their vile accusations.
If a sentiment of honor or a slight re-
gard for the truth yet fingers in their
debauched natures, they may be in
duced to abandon this infamous prac-
tice of f~alcifying, and to enlighten their
followers by the presentation of facts
and the conclusions legitimately flow
ing from them. That such will be the
case we earnestly hope; the public good
the interests of our whole country
demand it.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
BRIsToL's SYSTEMATICALLY

BRIsToL's SARsAPAR1LLA.-Scald
head, letter, Ring-worm, and the var
ious rashes and scabious eruptions to
which children are subject, soon sue
cumb to the purifying, healing influence
of this powerful, yet healthful, anti
scorbutic preparation; while those terri
bic diseascs-such as Scrofula and Can
cer-which eat into the flesh and glands,
and unless destroyed at their sources in
the elements of the blood, are inevitably
fatal, yield invariably to a persistent use
of this famous remedy. Intestinal
worms, which are believed to be the
original cause of many dangerous disor-
ders among children, are efectually re-
moved by KEMP's Worm PAsTILLEs, a
new and peerless preparation, combln-
ing palatability with the most powerful
remedial properties, and containing no
mineral ingredients.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
Defa!caliOn 80 Indignation Meet

ing.
The Ohio Statesman says a very large
meeting assembled last night to con-
slider the recently developed frauds on
the Treasury. The handbills are un-
derstood to have been issued from the
Journal Office, and it is possible, if not
probable, that the whole thing was
originated to whitewash Chase, and fore
stall public opinion by indorsing his
" promptitude in the matter. The
resolutions were concocted by a Black
Republican committee, appointed by
the Black Republican chairman, DR.. R.
n. Barr, who was called to preside yer
the meeting by some Black Republican
friend, who was doubtless posted, and
took time by the foreloek.
The crowd was addressed by Mr.. Car
rington, who wanted the people to wait
and hold still, that Chase would do every
thing that was right. An inquiry was
on foot to investigate and develop the
facts.
When he concluded his desultory re-
remarks, Hon. S. s. Cox was eagerly
called for, and responded in a close,
argumcntative speech, of more han an
hours duration, in which he examined
with particularly and acumen the va
rious stages of the game that has been
played. We furnish a report of a por-
ton of the speech, which was unanswer-
able, searching and irresistible in its
logic. MI. Dcnison made an effort to
relieve the Governor from the agreeable
position where Mr.. Cox left him, but
signally failed. Black Republicanism
was there with ready hands and clamor-
Gus voices to cheer their speaker and
interrupt others, but it was in the min
ority. .
Mr., Henry Miller Republican, at
tempted to be heard, but the clamor was
so great, his voice, save to those imme-
diately around him, was inaudible.
There were repeated calls for ''Geiger,"
and at the close Of the meeting I" the
General" wound it up with a character
istic harangue, denuneiatory to the
spoilers, and anything but delicate to
the tenderness with which they have
been treated in contradistinction to the
vigor in which the law is applied in
minor cases.
The resolutions were repeated by Mr..
Bascom, late clerk of the Senate and
once an editor of the State Journal;
there were no Democrats present on
the committee.
They we're denunciatory save the
first clause of the second, which COM
plimented Chase for his "promptitude."
Exceptions we're taken to the second
resolution, and a motion was made to
strike out the offensive cause-offensive
because it was not true.
The vote was vociferous on both sides,
and the ayes had rather the preference,
but the chairman, with an India rubber
sketch of his prcrogative, decided other
wise.
To the balance of the resolutions no
exceptions were taken, although there
was a large negative vote, on each reso-
luton, probably caused by a predispo-
sition in some to burlesque the whole
afair.-Dayton Empire.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25

n Chicago is one of the cities yon
read about. Within the past two weeks,
says the Chicago Times, only three CON
stables and two Justices of the peace,
have been sent to Bride@oll, one county
physician and two almshouse agents
arrested for robbing graves, and selling
human bodies, and m Mayor arrested
for stealing mail bags! That is all-in
the official line. If the public officials
are corrupt, the people of the city seem
to know what their proper duty is to-
wards thems and by bringing the bad
to justice they will secure a better set
of officers.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25

gsl Messrs. j. P. BRooKINs & Son,
in anticipation of pleasant weather and
a desire to do something for the comfort
of Us poor mortals here below, have
erected at their Drug Store, a Soda Foun-
tain, where all are invited to come and
E'drink of the waters of life freely
Besides this, they have many other ar
ticles at their establishment which is
calculated to ''take the eye and tickle
the fancy
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-25
WHAT WAGES DO FARMERS PAY La

WHAT WAGES DO FARMERS PAY La
BoRERs I've ask this question in or
der to find out whether laborers get only
"ten cents a day" as u opponents said
last Fab, they would if Buchanan would
be elected. Well, Old Buck has been
in the White House, now, these three
months and laborers should begin to
feel his hand on their shoulders if their
wages are to be reduced. How much
do you pay, now, farmers? If you pay
your old wages, or higher ones, then you
must know that the Opposition to the
Democratic party lied, when they said
that Mr.. Buchanan would reduce the
wages of laborerF.