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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-08-13
Real Gstate.
Valuable Property for Sale.

TIME undersigned offers for sale his Home Farm con-
Il sstins ofnear 1000 acres besides other lands in
very low for cash, reas enable terms short
long time, to men Who will make homes the land
for themselves.
will sell in any quantity from forty UP to all
have. r.. n --'.
As to the quality of nv home farm there is not sim
gle OF land not fit FOR the plough thu whsle OF IT.
nor is there single 81 upon wcE there is not or
more beautiful building ia the shape Of an eeva,
ton from which almost single foot OF the rest OF
the eighty may be seen at glance.
The sc consists OF mixture composed OF vegetable
matter, decomposed marine substances, always light
and from 90 to 33 inches in debth the highest parts
Of the farm.
SITUATION.
Its situation Is in the midst of the great wheat,
and cattle region OF Illinois, south OF til. Illinois river,
the gently unduatng prairie, six miles east Of the
nexhaustble coal-ieds. The nearest portion oil the
farm is within four miles Of them.
RAILROADS..
1t is ofeasy acces. the Rock Island railroad and
the Chicago, Alton, and st. Louis railroad The Amer
lean Central railroad is being completed, which
has located depot within four miles of the nearest
portion OF the farm.
The Peru and Fort Wayne Il. T. will locate depot
within two and half miles the Tonca and Petersburg
road will locate depot within two and hall miles
the Ga!ena Branch of the H. Central X. r. is also with
in half days drive, and the Illinois and Michigan
Canal is reached at distance of thirteen miles.
STATE AND COUNTY ROADS.
The State Road leading from Danyfe to Ottawa runs
along two sides OF it, Til county road e.dng from
Dwight the Chicago and Alton Il. X. to the Vern.il
lien coal fields, which high 5 seventy coal
side Of the farH, and the buau increase
until T. T. is built along this line it will be q
sure fortune to cntsrprising keep public
house 70: the accommodation OF the travel.
beautiful elevation large enough for house, barn,
orchard lots, DC, 6c., is situated an this road.
Otler Laid out and travelled roads C6 feet wide
located that if should sell emily So each
public road would touch his land at side ano-
without any road going through Il.
There are two steam Touring mills within ten miles
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APPEARANCE OF THg FARM AND GENERAL AS
: PECr OE TILE COCNTEY ABOUND.

There steam Touring mills within miles,
and good water miii within six. The latter has
SAW mill in connection with it,
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F A r MS FOR SALE
CO U MBI A LAND OFFICE.
No. ga Indiana avenue, near Second street, Wash.
ingtoB, D. c.

No. l.-23S1 acres of land in Orange
county, Virginia. On it comfortable dwelling.
good out-buildings, and a young orchard of 900
trees. Price S. per acre.
No. 2.-2S63 acres of land, II miles
from Washington, adjoining Fairfax Court House.
Virginia. Good brick dwelling and modern out
buildings. good grain and grass farm. Price
S2S per acre.
No. 3.-722 acres of land on the Pc
tomac, ~ miles below Washington. On it a
comfortable house, barn, and a steam saw-mill
Wood and timber enough can be sold off to pay
what is asked for it. Price $40 per acre.
No. 1850 acres of land in Fairfax
county, Va, about ~ miles from Washington.
Excellent and commodious buildings. AS dairy
farm, it canHot be excelled in Eastern Virginia
Price S35 per acre.
No. 300 acres Of land adjoining
No. 4, al d will be sold with it or separate. This
tract has Rich Vein of Copper Ore on it, Price
$4,000.
No. 6.-63 acres of land in Fauouier
county, Virginia. near Piedmont Station Very
large building; now used an academy Price
$4,000
No. 7.-750 acres of land on Acokeek
creek, 500 acres in wood. Good buildings Price
SIG per acre.
No. 81, 020 acres of land, Stafford
county, Virginia, two miles from a steamboat
landing and near railroad. The wood and tim
Der on it worth double what s asked for the
land, The hay and grass now yields $500
year. Price S. per acre.
No. 300 acres of land, Va, near
railroad station, and 81 miles from Washington
Good buildings. Price $l5 per acre.
I No. 10.-1,0 acres of land in Va,
about 81 miles from Washington. superb es-
tate, with fne buildings. Can be divided Price
$40 per acre.
No. Ill, 900 acres of land in Va.
GO miles from Washington, on navigable water.
$4,000 worth OF wood and timber can lie cut
from it. Price So per acre.
No. lib acres at Fairfax Court
House, II miles from Washington. Good build
ing 40 to so acres in grass. Also, % acres,
wood lot, detached. Price SAC per acre
No, 1920 acres of land in Mary
land, miles from Washington, on the railroad to
Baltimore. The buildings are new, and cost
$4,000 Price $4,000
No. 14.-450 acres of land in Va.
81 miles from Washington. On navigable water,
With good ianding. Good buildings Price Sl2
per acre.
No. 15.-100 acres of land near Fair
lax Court House, Virginia, Z miles from Wash
ngton Good Buildings. Price S2l per acre.
No. 16.-25 acres, a wood lot | miles
fom Alexandria, beautiful location for su-
burban residence. Price 500 per acre.
No. 17.-255 acres Of land, 9 miles
North of Washington, with a good water power
and plenty of timber Price S25 per acre.
4 No. 18.-110 acres of land, II miles
north of Washington, a large brick house, sta
hing, &c. Price $50 per acre.
For full description and terms of sale of aoy
or all of the above farms, address
W.M. WATSON L CO.,
CoiaR,bid Land Office, Washington, ID. c.
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i / Is = ID. =
acter of this venerable people, recommends the
substitution of Chinese for Congo negroes, as
involving no danger of the spread of Slavery.
A. i had almost forgotten to notice one OBJ
lection to the Chinese-,hat of their alleged
"immorality." No impartial observer of them,
as immigrant proletaires, has ever denied to
them an extraordinary readiness for labor, a
high appreciation Of the blessings of order and
good civil government, wonderful thriftiness,
and remarkable freedom from crimes of vio-
lence and blood-shedding. Yet think it false
delicacy to conceal the handle which the Chi
nese give to the San Francisco Billy Multi
gans" and the ticket-ofleave diggers of Balla-
rat, for Pecksniffian cutlery against the i'm
morality" of this population. l understand
that the practice of sodonay is tolerated among
them. Now, have no fear that they viii sue
coed in injecting any European or American
population with this vice, so abhorrent to the
feelings of all of us; but think there is much
hope of our bringing them round to our ideas
and tastes ON this subject. The historical
scholar, too, will not fail to remember that this
practice was universally tolerated by pagan an
tiquity, and that vast number of the great
names of ancient Hellas and Rome are impli-
Gated with this to us odious habit and, nota-
bly,, one of the greatest of ancient moralists,
Socrates, the son of Sophroniskos, who was not
ashamed to confess his preference for such
connection to any the other sex could afford
him. Yet on account of this one alteration,
should we be inclined to refuse all intercourse
with the virtues of Socrates, and such as he !?
Should we consider him unfit even to associate
with the lower population of California and
Australia, vicious and crime-steeped as that
population VIGOROUSLY is / trow not. In
the same way affirm that the Chinese can
bring into both the above-named countries
many virtues, many useful qualities, not gen
orally possessed by the laboring population of our
own race. Let us not turn our backs upon them
on account of their one vice. which seek not
to palliate, but which our example will proba-
bly, induce them to abandon. A salaried man
myself, / already recognise in the Chinaman a
political ally and comrade, soon to become
powerful, and | exhort the friends of free labor
to be early in the field to welcome and protect
this new reinforcement to our ranks, which the
progress of human intercourse has of late
thrown among US. Nor less do appeal to those
generous advocates of the black and red races,
not to forget that the wants ofthe yellow man, who
is neither savage a brute, but child of
civilization, call loudly for the exercise of their
good offices, especially in preparing the men of
our own race for the advent of this remarkable
people among US. Sincerely yours,
PLYMOUTH.
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CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND THE
CAUSE OF FREE LABOR.

WHITE PLAINS, February, 1859.
To The Editor Of the National Era:
l. The present year has brought to the phi
anthropists and the commercial interest alike
two welcome pieces of intelligence first, the de-
feat of the act laying heavy tax on Chinese
immigrants in the Upper House of the Legis-
lature of South Australia, after it had passed
the Lower House by large majorities and, Sec
ondly, the declaration by the Supreme Court OF
the United States of the unconstitutionality of
the act of the Californian Legislature prohibit
ing the importation of Chinese. In both cases
the popular sentiment Of the beautiful and
modest race to which you, /, and most of your
readers belong, was rampant in favor of the per-
scouting and prohibitory laws, and it was only
the :" better class" or aristocratic sentiment,
which upheld the rights of the colored minor
ity.
2 In this connection, sir, have to remihd
you that one of the obnoxious clauses of the
Oregon Constitution laid prohibitory tax upon
Chinese immigrants. This point was forcibly
objected TO by Senator Wade last year, as ma
king an unconstitutional and dangerous dis
elimination between different classes of immi-
grants, discrimination which might hereafter
be applied to any other unpopular class of i'm
migrants the English, for example. notice
this point, because observe that in your reply
to the humanitarian argument against the
Oregon Constitution, yan seem to have over
looked it.
3. Finally, would wish to call the attention
Of the friends of the system of a free laboring
class, to the important part which the Chinese
raca sesns destined to play in the labor system
of the temperatetropieal and tropietemperate
zones of the earth's surface. While the Circas-
sian race produces the proletaires who cultivate
the cooler portions of the temperate zones, and
while the African race excels in enduring labor
under tropical cline, there is an intermediate
belt on both sides of the Equator, where the
yeilop race is, perhaps, calculated to excel both
the white snd lack race of men. The West
India islands, California, and South Australia
where the Chinese free laborer already annears
and thrives, all belong to this Intermediate belt
And never let Us forget this important fact. that
this ancient intelligent people, the children of
time-worn civilization, never permit themselves
to be enslared. Wherever the Chinaman goes
there goes a free laborer. The French Emperor
in his recent letter abandoning this scheme of
African immigration, as leading to Slavery,
with wise forecast Of the instincts and char.
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,, n,x,Fi's Rf.sIGYATIoY.-We learn that
H. Denver signation of the office OF Commits
.fIp5ian Affairs was caused by the ap-
..r,on, by the President of McGufie, the
f-llsr. 10 the perintendency of Indian Aft
=. California. Mr.. Denver had earnestly
'..,o.,rarel with the President on the subject,
ending. his reinonstrance vain, at length
Ill, tbai his own resignation would be the
.,nenc,. Of the obnoxious appointment. He
,t.,.,r- returns 10 California with sentiments
,,.., bat friendly to the Administration. I:
. oa improbable that Mr.. Denver rendered
...,..if unpopular with the ruling spirits in Mr..
p,.bauans Cabinet by his comparatively mod
and iair administration of affairs in Kan
-. ,nd the present opportunity is seized upon
.oa,,ish him therefor
!, ;,a generally accredited fact that nearly
-, rid. members of the Cabinet are against an
..,,r, session.. The compensation OF the post
....-.-, aud the contingent expenses of their
.+.... amount TO 100000 per quarter, OIL
,.l f., the revenue, leaving nothing for the
.4rsic4. Ii has been estimated that the
,.i,4 which is absolutely necessary TO be per
f.-,.d will require abont twice as much as the
.,,.rs receipts. to say nothing of present indebt
.ls.... Next month, the contracts for the
.,..,,b,ra States are to be made, and, in view Of
III. bankrupt condition of the Department, it is
reasonably supposed the proposal will be fal
T.. l.yotsblt than if contractors were to have
,-,r proposals on a cash basis.
Official information will go out in Mondays
p,rd. mail If the ratification of the ten trea-
H.. gth the Indians in Oregon and Washing
;.,.. As this took place during the late extra
ordinary session Of the Senate, after Congress
,ai adjourned, no appropriation could be made
-, ras-y them into immediate effect.
The Washington correspondent of the Phila
drlphia Inquirer, Of Friday last, says:
o. An important item of indebtedness on the
,an Of the Post Office was called to the atten
ion Of Mr.. Buchanan yesterday, not by an Off
eiaL bat by private individual, which ha'
teen. very astonishingly, overlooked by the De
ialmen most concerned. 1t was the fact tina
I'D. are. at this moment, indebted TO England
and France to the amount of 100000, for post
al ser7res already performed; and this indebt
rihess is fast increasing.
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Majority against..the regular Slack Democ-

The ISSUE IN MrssouRI.-Ihe Black Democ-
racy of Missouri have presented an admirable
issue for the emaneipationisfs, by repeating the
law which prohibited the fffsther introduction
of slaves. If the freeman o. that State cannot
be rallied to resist measure as disastrous to
the welfare of the Common wealth as it is dis
honoring to free labor, the act will show that
the reign Of terror, which isseverywhere found
essential to the support of Slavery, has not yet
been overthrown. The ST. Louis Democrat
says: ~
"The present General Assembly will be
known in all after time, bots in the State and
out of the State, as the Negro Legislature Of
Missouri 1t gave earnest some time since Of
its hostility to our white lsfoFing men, by the
passage ola bill to invite all tpe worthless slaves
of other States here to dispessess our laborers
of their vocations. 1t was { cruel blow aimed
at the growth of the State, 1nd ell TO minister
to the passion Of slsvsholdip0 and slave- hiring.
White men, said they in subsistence, if they be
born in Northern States q other countries,
shall not be welcome to Missouri, unless they
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the feet, now that it was nearer his own terri
tory.
The corvette Peacock left Montevideo on tho
I'd of January, for Buenos Ayres.
None of Cromwelps steamers had arrived.
The vessels already gone up the river carry, ia
addition to their usual armament, each one Or
two of Dahlgreh's nine-inch shellguns, and
from twenty to fifty men more than their com,
plement. !
/ 1t is stated that the Brazilian Minister has
instructions to recommend to Lopez by all
means to settle the dispute with the Americans
amicably The Brazilian Government offers
to lend him the funds required for the purpose,
The Braziians are secretly hostile to the
Americans, and do not want the country of the
La Plata thrown open to American commerce.
FURTHER FROM MExIco.-Mramon Rumored
to be at the Gates of Vera Cr1tz.-The New
Orleans papers contain additional news Of in
terest, brought by the Quaker city from Nina.
titan. By advices from the city of Mexico Of
the 23d ult, it appears that General Miramon
was marching on Vera Cruz with an army of
$500 men, and reserve force of 1000. He
made his headquarters at Orizaba, from which
place he sent out small force, under Negrete,
for the purpose of attacking the forces under
General La Lave, at Jalapa. Negrete's forces
Perote.
The Progreso of the 9th ult. states that
General Miramon was at Tlacotalpan or AL
varado, with 5000 men and few pieces of
artillery, and was slowly preparing to march
upon Vera Cruz. 1t appears, by the statement
of the Progreso, that the inhabitants of Vera
Cruz were very anxious that Miramon should
arrive, they having made every preparation for
desperate resistance, and being sanguine as
to Miramon's defeat.
The ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILRoAD.-Aibdny, March 20.-The accident
on the Great Western railroad happened be-
tween Hamboro and Dundas, Canada. The
storm had washed away the bank, and the en-
CINE ran into chasm nearly twenty feet deep,
carrying with it the baggage and two passen-
ger cars. The scene was most horrible one,
terrible storm raging at the time, and tor
rent of water was rushing through the chasm
There was the utmost difficulty in securing the
dead and rescuing the wounded. The cars
were completely wrecked, and the engine buried
itself in the soil. The night express train
passed over the spot in safety only half an hour
previously The killed are as follows:
Jones Boyer, of Chicago; Alexander Brard,
of Hamilton; G. Morgan and w. Milne,
brakesmen; and two others, whose names are
not reported. -
Among the wounded, some of whom are dan
gerously injured, are the following;
Henry Post, of Buffalo; W. w. Smith, of
Kalamazoo; j. ID. Adams, wife and children,
and 4. D. Bryan, Of Pontiac; Thomas Sackett,
of Livingston county, New York; Adam Will
son, of Hamilton; j.. Fl. Smith, of Livingston
county, New York; Hiram Cook, of Cleveland; ;
Columbus Desser, of Detroit with others, whose
names are not reported.
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