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stop Talking Hard Times.

With most people times are never good.
We remember very we'll that during the
fushest times the west ever saw-in 1871,
80. and SO. half the people we approached
with a newspaper bin, commenced imme-
diately to talk of the scarcity Of money
the exceeding tightness of the times. 1t
is ALWAYS so Times never are good. We
can look back 9nd point very easily TO
times that ,rsrs good, but never realized
it in those times.
These remarks apply to people in gene
raj There are a few rare exceptions
people of cheerful, hopeful frame, who
take more healthful view of things, and
who never see the times so hard but that
they might be much worse. But for these
few in every communicates salt OF the
earth-we should all go to ruin They are
people that make it APPOINT always to pay
their debts and live within their income.
They keep business moving, and by their
enterprize and ever hopeful speech and
beari5lg keep their gloomy neighbors from
utterly responding,
Now, would it not be = good plan if we
should all strive to initiate these moro
happily constituted mortGis? Instead Of,
when YOU get dollar, clutching it as if ii
was the last you ever expected to see, you
should GO and pay q debt with it, snd your
creditor should then DO the same, what an
amount Of Indebtedness might NOT a:ngls
dollar pay in . week or two! And no"
much more relief all around might not b
afforded by such disposition OF large
Sums. Instead OF this, however. # %,
hold on to every dollar, your neigh6o
must do the same, and thus, although tia
country may be full of money, the artici
will really be scarce and the times hard i
the midst Of abundance. The surest va
to cure hard times is TO ignore them.
That there IS no real foundation for tn
almost uniyernal belief at present onJe
tanned that times were never 50 hard E,
now" Let Us look at some figures.
The Chicago Press Of Wednesday Civ,
the following statistics Of the receipts an
shipments of produce at that city durir
the present season as compared with las
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TIE ALARM II Conference.-The tele-
graph dispatches continue to give daily
accounts of new alarms at Charlestown
and threatened rescue Of Brown and the
Harper's Ferry victims; but most Of the
alarm appears to be groundless. It's true,
ruInors abound of thousand men from
Ohio being on their march to Charlcstown,
and threatening letters, and that the barns
and wheat stacks Of four Of the Jurors in
Browns case have been set On fire, Blu.
nobody believes that there are over two or
three Of Browns friends in the neighbor-
hood Of Charlestown, or that any con
siderable body Of men can be found foolish
enough TO seriously attempt Brown srescue
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HYDRorIoBiA-The Pontiac MRS learns
from a friend that Mr.. Samuel Wilson, Of
Woodford county, is dangerously i'll from
the bite of dog, received some five weeks
ago. He at first paid no attention to
the matter, until some pigs and other ami
mails bitten by the same dog died of by
dI'nphobia, when he went down TO Lincoln
to have maidstone applied by an indi-
viduai who is aid to possess one of these
talismans There he learned that John
Bennington of Marshall county had been
bitten by the same dog, LaL come TO Lin
coin and had the maidstone applied, and
pronounced out of danger, but on return
ing home was taken i'll, and died of hy-
drophobia on the 10Th inst Such is the
Mems story.
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VET HEREAS, Nathaniel c. Walker. and Ellen Walker
w his wife, did, about the seth day Of July, A.
ID. 1854 by certain mortgage deed of thst date,
cuted under their hands and seals and me- Thomas
II. Clark delivered, convey the premises hereinafter
described the said Clark, to the payment
of the OF hundred and five dollars, with ine
thereon according the teuor and effect of
tain pronssory in said mortgage deed described.
which said mortgage deed was duly acknowledged o
the first day August A. d. 1859 and afterwards, on
the saidrst day of August 1859, filed for record
in the Recorders office of La Sale county in the State
Of Illinois and recorded therein in book No IS OF d, eds
pages III, u.s. and 1885, and whereas, it provided
IN and by said mortgage deed that If default be made in
the payment of the said promsory note either OF prin
cipai or o. interest, the day days whereon tho
same shall be due and payable l. the said Thomas
H. Clark after Publishing notice in newspaper prin
ted in the county of la Sale twenty days before abe
dav of such sale may sell the said premises, and all
right and equity of redemption of the said Nathaniel
C. Walker and Ellen Walker their heirs and assigns
therein public auction at the court house door III
said La Sale County, to the highest 0ider Tor cash. AT
the time mentioned in such notice; ana whereas, de-
~ and interest secured to be laid by said mortgage
deed which said sum of money is now due and psya-
Bile according the tenor, effect provisions, and con-
ditions OF said mortgage deed and promissory note.
Now therefore, notice is hereby given, that in pursu-
ance of the power and authority me, the said Tho
mas H. Clark given in and by said mortgage deed, I,
tie said Thoas H. Clark, shall offer for sale and sell
at public auction the highest bidder for cash. ut the
south door of the Court House in the city of OTTAWA in
said La Sale county, Monday, the 25th day of No
vember n 1856? the hour OF ten o'clock in the fore
noon day, the following described DE
ing the same conveyed to me in and by said mortgage
deed that say:-The west two hundred and nine
teen and fifth (219 l5) feet of Lot No. twenty-five,
in Ottawa City the county OF La Sale and State
81 Inois all right and equity OF redemption OF the
raid Nathaniel c. Walker and Ellen Walker, their heirs
nd assigns therein Said sale to be made for the pur
poses expressed in said mortgage deed.
The above sale is postponed unit, Monday, December
9, A. D. 1859, at the same time and place; :,
D. p JONES, Atty. nov26
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Death of Zenas Dickinson.

At regular meeting of Cement Lodge No. 3o4,
A. F. & a. NJ, Utica, Nov. %, 1859, the following
preamble and resolutions were passed:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the Supreme Architect
of the Universe call our beloved Brother, LENAS
Dickinson, from this Lodge TO the Grand Lodge
above: therefore,
Eesolced. That by his death we have met with n
sad loss, which feel deeply His mild and man
" department won for him the respect of all who
knew him. But he is gone! His venerable form
will be seen no more in this Lodge, nor VIII mis-
voice again be heard within these walls. Peace TO
his ashes,
Resoiged That deeply sympathise with the
family and friends of the deceased in their acton
Resolced That our Lodge be draped in mourning,
and the members wear the usual badge OF mourn
Ing one lunar month.
Resolced, That copy Of these resolutions be
sent to the family of the deceased, and be publish
ed IN one or more OF our county papers.
JAS. ii. PEARSE, SsCy.
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Col MARX DArBIEy has resigned his Of
flee as lighthouse keeper for Chicago. He
was ordered by the Department to remove
his family into the new lighthouse at the
end of the pier, which he declined doing,
preferring to resign his office He deemed
the situation dangerous to the safety of
his family. y Chicago paper says:
Col Baubcn has been blest with TWEEN
ty-one children. seventeen of whom are
living, and by the blessing of heaven they
still keep coming very fast; but Mark said
that he feared if he removed his family to
the lighthouse his children would get
drowned faster than thew come to town
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All who suffer from weakness deb isy, where there
is a want of energy should at have recourse to
JUDsON'S MOUNTAIN HERB PILLS They immedi-
aeiy purify the blood upon the handspring 81
life, giving strength and vgor to the system fouhs
persous enter ug into womanhood, with a deraR cement
OF the functisns and mothers at the turn OF me-
these Pills will effcacious in correcting the ilde
of life thar NAV he on the turn Young and elderly
men suffer in a similar manner at the same periods
when there il always daueer they should therefore ui-
dergo OF this purifying medicine which en-
sures lasting health.
This great Household Medicine ranks amsng the lead
ing life it il well known 20 the Voriu
thnt il cpres complaints other remedies cannot reseh
this fact il as well established that the sun lights the
World.
In Medicine h''"-'"
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The ToIcE OF MASONRY AND TIDISGs FROM
TIE CaAFT.-This excellent sheet, devoted
exclusively to the Interests of Freemason-
". is now commencing its second volume,
under the same prosperous auspices as be-
fore Mr. Rob Morris continues as seHioT
editor, with the same intelligent corps of
associate and assistant editors. Mr. +. D.
Cooke continues his travels through the
Lodges of Europe and Asia, as the CORES
pendent of the Voice" These features
when compared with the very low price of
the paper, 81 per annum, commend it TO
all who are interested in the subject of
Freemasonry.
From the columns OF the "Voice" we
learn that there are now 1902 Masonic
Lodges in the United States and British
Possessions, with 2l2,OoO members In
the most Of these Lodges the Voice"
now circulates as the great organ of the
fraternity, and from them all the innumer-
able facts and tidings are gathered which
fill its columns, and render it so interest
ing to the Masonic reader We cordially
recommend this journal as an exponent of
Masonry, and hope it's circulation in this
vicinity will be largely increased.
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The Peopls vs.. I'm, Cotte'o.-lndictment
for rare. The jury were unable to agree
in this case and il goes over for another
trial.
Tie People vs. lIiIson.-Indictment iof
burglary, committed at the Hardy house
in La Sale. Found guilty and sent to
penitentiary for one year. Motion pen
ding for new trial
The case of .Ea,olcs Rotca and LG'0rsNce
OBrien. for murder at Mendoza, Is set for
next Tuesday.
The Grand Jury adjourned OIL Wednes
day. after having found some 50 Indlct
mentS.
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A Coop SIGN--The Lawrencebrrg (lnd.
Reqistv states that John L. Robinson. Uni
ted States Marshal for Indiana, in a late
speech at Versailles. Ripley county, in
that State declared in plain and unambi-
guous terms, that if Senator Douglas
should receive, the nomination at the Char
festown Convention lie would give him a
cordial and decided support.
This indicates the tremendous pressure
of public sentiment for Mr. Douglas which
exists i'm Indiana, for it is not long since
that Robinson read Mr.. Douglas and his
friends all out of the Democratic party.
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TIE Atlantic MONTHLY FOR DECEMBER IS
already received. That it Will lose moth
ing IN interest in consequence of the re-
cent change Of proprietors, is sufficiently
evidenced by the contents Of the present
No, as follows:
The Experience Of Samuel Absalon1.
tHibuster; The Minister'S Wooine: The
Northern Lights and the Stars; Thomas
Paine in England and in France; EIka-
nah Brewstars Temptation: MagdaIeno
Strange Countries for to Sec Po,,,t,, ~
Billiards; Italy, 1889; The Aurora Pc.
aus The Professor at the Breakfast-Tahle.
heviews and Literary Notices; Recent
American Publications; Contents.
Published by Ticknor & Fields. Boston
at 3 per annum, copies fer SO &c.
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who says he is going to cross the Atlantic in
his big balloon, went up in IA smaller sized
one from New York on Tuesday afternoon
last. and came down in about an hour at
West Farms, which is on the mainland q
few miles northeast of the city To graft
fy the people among whom he alighted,
Mr. Lowe went up again got a mile high.
and came down in about twenty minutes
The Tribune understands that Mr. l.. in
tended to start for Europe, in his big bah
loon, on Saturday last
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SENATOR SEWARD Is on his way home
ward from his Orienta! tour. The last
heard from him he was at Jaffa, in the
Mediterranean sea. He has completed
hisjourney up the Valley of the Nile to
ancient Thebes, had surveyed the Pyra-
mids, and he was about to proceed to Je-
rusalem, and thence by Damascus to Con
stantinople. He is expected to reach
home again by the lst of December
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-11-26

DIsAProTNTNEyT.-The people of Portland
Maine, complain bitterly over their disap-
pointment respecting the Great Eastern -
They had put themselves to great expense,
both in public and in private, and had ex-
pected much profit from the crowds that
would have flocked To their city to see one
of the wonders OF the world Il has re
suited in a serious pecuniary loss to all
connected
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-11-26

TnE appropriation for carrying on the
artesian well at Columbus, Ohio, has been
exhausted. and the work has stopped UNI
finished The well is already 2,343 feet
deep, being feet deeper than the deepest
we'll of the Kind heretofore existing in the
world
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OYSTER DEpoT REMovED-Mr. Gregg has
removed his oyster depot from Stone &
Eels' corner, to Woods Meat Market, cor
her Of Madison and La Sale streets. He
is selling oysters in cans and kegs, at
wholesale and retail, They are the genu-
inc Blue Pointers from Baltimore, the fin
est oysters in the country
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A NEGRO PANIC IN KENrUCKY-A good
deal of excitement has lately been created
in the counties of Harrison and Bourbon,
in Kentucky, by the receipt of two anony-
nous letters through the post Office at Gym
thiana, announcing the existance in that
locality of "a secret organization, having for
its object an instruction among the slaves
a public meeting was held, and vigorous
measures adopted for arming the inhabi-
tants, and otherwise providing for the pub
lie safety.
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EDIToRsIS LucK-Humphrey Of the Ken
dali County Free Press, and Cook, OF the
Livingston County Sentinel, have been
elected Trcasurers of their respective Cour,-
ties We rejoice at this evidence of their
acknowledged worth as citizens and trust
mat the confidence of their friends may
s,eycr he shaken.
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The Indian girls at the Usage mission
Indian affairs to be the bearer of present
to the President of the United States
The memento consists of couple of purses
of silk and buckskin, beautifully worked
in beads The package is Inscribed in the
hand writing of Victoria White Hair, one
of the Indian girls, From the Usage Girls
to the Great Father"
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SENATOR IIAUN.--The new California Sena-
tor, Hon. Henry HArS. appointed to fill the
vacancy in the L. s Senate. occasionei bv
the decease of Mr. BRonERIDE, was toleave
California on the 9TH inst, in the Golden
Age for Panama
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THERE is a newspaper issued at Tameroa,
Perry Comfy, H., called the Egyptian Sj,y,
which is printed in the first type that ever
came to 1llinois-the same which printed
the laws of the State wfilc the seat OF
government was at Kasl<aski
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-11-26

A young lady in Aurora, Indiana, lately
got up in her sleep and ran half a mile to
a schoo. house and back again to bed
In the morning she was told of her ex-
PLOTS, and said she dreamed two men
came to kill her aunt, and she few to the
school house for aid.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-11-26

DEATH OF KIT CARsoN-The Omaha
(Neb. Ter.) Republican of Nov. 20, announ-
ces the death Of the celebrated mountain
eer Kit Carson He died at Taos, New
Mexico, whore he was acting as Indian
agent
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HI ~ -.

These figures show that the rate Of re
caipts and shipments Of produce from Chi
cago during the present season is more
than double that Of last ycar-that where
we had dollar a year ago to pay debts
with we have two this year; and for the
whole year, as compared with last year,
the same paper shows that up to the first
of January the shipments for the four pre-
ceding months will exceed t'relcs mil ions Of
dollars, against some Ave millions for the
same months last year. Northern Illinois
is thus some seven millions i'll cash richer
than she was year ago Should times
shen not improve? There is no reason
why they should not, except this eternal
din and talk about hard times. which wont
let them improve.
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ANOTHER EZcITEMEET.--A despatch from
Norfolk, Va. Nov. %, says: \ special mes
senger has arrived from northampton, on
the Eastern Shore Of Virginia, for volun-
tcers, it having been asceatained that an
attempt is to he made on Friday. the ojth
to run the slaves to Canada.
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THE Winona (Minncsota) Daily Review
contains the particulars OF the b,,rp;,, -,
the brewery and dwelling of Mr. Josno
on the prairie, near that city. Two of b;s
children--iittie girls aged and II veors
persisted IN Inc flames, and the rest of
his family had narrow escape Mr.. 7
was badly scorched His ioss in property
is about 5000
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FRoN BROWNSVILLE, TExAs-Tclegraph
dispatches and newspaper reports have
been in the highest degree conflicting in
their reports from Brownsville, Texss, du-
ring the past week. The town has been
threatened by q Mexican bandit, named
Cortinas, with some 800 followers. and at
one time the capture Of Brownsville and
lis destruction by fire was reported with
much minutencss Of detail by the New
Orleans P;;cay,nc Again it was reported
that President buchanan had determined
to seize the Northern States of Mexico in
retaliation for this supposed outrage per-
petrated by an outlaw and merauder of
Mexican birth The next runlur of the
series, and probably the correct one, was
that Brownsville had not been taken but
that the Mexican authorities on the other
side of the Rio Grande had marched
force 10 the assistance Of the town. The
latest despatch, dated New Orleans, Nov.
Goth, says that Brownsville is safe, and
that 900 troops and volunteers had arriv-
ed or the scene of action. Cortinas' chief
officer who vas prisoner in Brownsville,
was hung without trial Another dis
patch contradicts the statement that the
Administration have any hostile intentions
towards the northern Mexican States
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n man in kalamazoo is training an elk
TO trot ON the race course The elk has
already trotted against horse for purse
OF seven hundred dollars, winning the prize
by & long distance
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We see report that Martin Van Buren,
is engaged in writing an important and
elaborate work which is to embrace a po-
litical history of the country down to the
close of his administration
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CHARLES SUNNI. returned to this country
from Europe in the Canada. which arrived
on Nonday. There is nothing said Of his
,alth, but rumor says he intends 10 resign
his seat in the L 5. Senate.
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Some six years ago libel suit was COM
mcnced in a Cincinnati court by Mr.
Warden against Starbucll & Co, proprie-
tors of the Doiy TINES After winding
its slow length along through the court,
it was finally brought 10 = fall stop on
Monday last, by the jury's finding one
cent damages BY the PLAINTIFF
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Irr.r.t y ol

IST OF Ia nds and Town Lots within the limits
City OF OTTAWA deemed benefited by the construc
ton OF main sewer, commencing at the south side Of
the Illinois and Michigan Canal. in the Of Pine
ST.. running thence south through and under the
Of said point the north line OF Lot
eight 81 in block enty t.2 States Addition
Ottawa thence .asterly the line OF said block,
with the valuation thereof and tie Of money
verally .ed thereon.
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GEx. SCoTT arrived at Portland, Oregon.
on the Dist October, and was very warmly
received by the people. tt is said that
Gen Harvey is quite displeased at the
coming of the commander-in-chief
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j. r. $. Bond has retired from the chair
editorial of the Mendoza Observer. The pa
is TO sppear under new name
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MURDER--An Englishman named Mark
Wells was murdered at Bunker Hill. Ma
coupin Co., on the 18th inst An Irishman.
named Daniels, is the suspected party
The quarrel seems to have been whiskey
affair fe
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MYSTERIOUS DIsaPrEARASCE-So four
weeks ago a man come to this place with
= peddling wagon and a fine span of blacl,
horses, and stopped with F. L. Butterfie!d.
He left the horses, wagon, and a trunk with
Mr.. 2, stating that he was going to Chi
cagO for q stock OF goods and would return
IN two or three days, but has not been
heard Of since.
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A RoYAL TRAGEBY-The royal tragedy
reported from the Sandwich Islands APP
pears to have been regular key-Sickles
affair King kamehameha ". it seems
had reason TO suspect II. 4. Nelson. his
private secretary, of improper intimacy
with the Queen his wife, and summoning
Nelson TO his presence. shot him with q
pistol 1t is said that His Majesty, in the
extremity Of his wrath, also gave his
Qnecn severe whipping, and threatened
to shoot her. This occurred on the llth
of September, and ut last accounts Nelson
was in fair way of recovery.
The Kings jealousy. rs TO Nelson ard
the Queen, was generally believed to be
without shadow Of foundation-and il
would seem that the rash King himself
came to this conclusion few days after
wards, inasmuch as the account from which
we condense the above, states that he Is
overwhelmed with grief ever since the un-
fortunate occurrence; that he has offered
to make Mr. Nelson all amends in his
! power: that he entirely eZoncratcs the
| Queen. and insists upon abdicsting and
! submitting himself 70 trial He after
wards. AT the petition Of the Pr;vy Counsel
reconsidered his intention Of abdicating
and the excitement had entirely subsidized
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Narcotics Items.

DEowsED.-Mr JAMES WALLACE, a young
man, aged about 30 years, and a resident
of this place. was drowned in the canal at
Morris, on Wednesday morning, the sd
inst, at ) o'clock He was on the boat
Glasgow. owned by Scott d Harrington.
and left the boat in order TO 20 to the sta
ton TO give some directions in regard to
the horses. lie was found in the canal
between the boat and the station. on
Thursday, and brought 70 this place on the
cars in the afternoon.