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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-10-13
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL,
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When completed, six years ago, the St Nicholas was
universally pronounced the magnificent,
lent and thoroughly organized establishment Of the
lind on this continent.
What it then, il remains t0-daE-tcitiouta rir1t
In size, IN tH0HRess and in the general elements
OF comfort and enjoyment.
The Hotel has accommodations for 800 guests, in
Guiding leo coDLete suites g Esrtaelsts for fam lies
Sir hRndred perSoRs be comfortably seated at
the tables Of the three public dining rooms, no
thing that modern has devised for the convenience
and social qualification Of the travelling public been
omitted in its plan, is neglected in its practical de-
tails.
The early reputation OF the house at home and
abroad derived from its magnitude, its superb appoint
nents, and its hOn'eIie co.,Tts and lus.uries has
been enhanced every year by the unweared erertions
of the FroprietG-s.
sepi-5m TREADWE ELL. WIlITCONB co.
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ARRIVAL nnd Departure Ct Mails.

HORACE c. THORNE, Clerk.
OTTAWA, Oct. ], 1860
Hostern Adil, Chicago and Rock Island Railroad,
arrives p. NJ; closes lbs A.
Eastern Nail, by same railroad, arrives 1:3o ?. NJ;
closes 1880 P-N N.
Freedom Nal, arrives at 12 N. Tuesdays and Fri
days; departs at l:30 P. NJ. same days
N0rthriHe Nail arrives Fridays 6P.h.; departs Sa-
turdays 6 AN.
Lisbon Ha arrives Saturdays IL NJ; departs Satur-
days p.
1onica Nail, arrives Thursdays and Saturday at IL
NJ; departs same day at 2 Pm.
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Ottah'a'. ,fr;eele: TTr:aabtr.
LOCAL. MATTERS@

SLIGHTLY ArEADl-Our friend Mr.. Ma
THAN HARDY, having seen some JloDing in
the papers about cars of corn with lloo 10
400 grains, took walk through his held
and picked off half dozen of good looi
ing ears, which figure up as follows:
One ear 80 rows, IS grs, to row, i14O grs.
{. - 30 '' IS !loo
m Oh 80 81 1880 "
The other three about equal to last He
saws he can fill several wagons with crack
ears like the above. The corn is ION sight
at this office We should ike to see the
ear that will beat the first in the above
list
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-10-13
H0OFLAND'S GERMAN PILL,

bsins well known throughout Europe and America needs
eommendation here They purely vegetable, are
prepared with great eXactncSs and sugarcoated. No
better Catartic Pill be found PRICE - per box.
These medicines prepared by DR.. C. N. JACKSON
Co., Philadelphia Pa and St Louis No, and are sold by
druggists and dealers in medicines everywhere The sig
nature of c. NJ JACKSON viii be the outside Of each
bottle box
In EreryJods almanac, published annually you
viii find testimony and commendatory notices from all
parts Of the country These Auanars Giv"n away ~
vUr agents.
For sale in O,trya by g l. I'll pI15ON, D. WALK
ER, E. T. GRiGUS, and Il. ESEUSsL. nsvf2
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First Class Insurance agency.

Homo insurance Company. New York,
Capital 100000; Surplus 800, 900.
Charter Oak Insurance Co.. Hartford,
Capital $500, goo; Sur~'us sI2, 600.
Mel chants Insurance TO-. Hartford,
Capita! 100000.
Park Fire Insurance CO., New York,
Capital, 5000, zoe.
EDWARD EAHIES, Agent, -
juno title city B,sHk,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-10-13

DE- WALKER, the Oculist, has returned,
and may be consulted daily, from to -,
A. NJ, and from to ) P A. Office III Free
mans Block, La Sale st.
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NiRRIED-At Lswton. Mich. the 9Th Inst; by Il
s. Armstrong, Esq, Mr. Henry BJUESE anu Mss P.E-
ggITi SioSEos, of Ottawa, III.
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The PLUME PEN-Mr. STERSBURG, the
agent in the West for the sale OF this new
" invented and Justly celebrated pen call
ed upon Us this morning and exhibited
several beautiful samples. He also show
ed Us :. large number OF certificates from
business men and editors throughout the
Western States, all certify to the excellent
qualities of the Plume" pen. We have
tried it ourselves and find it the best arti-
Gle we have ever used. 1t is non-corrosive
and perfectly flexible, which advantages
cannot be found in the ordinary steel pen.
Mr. SrERNBURG will remain in this city
veral days, and during that time will call
Oh our business men and exhibit TO them
the peculiar merits of this new invention.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-10-13

DIED-In Ottawa. la Sale CO. H. October g, 1867
at the residence OF l.. x. sample, CHRISTIAN WiNEsEES-
SEE OF MisInie-barE, Montgomery Co, Ohio, in the
10;a year - his aS-.
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PurRIp SORE THRoAT-As this complaint
is somewhat prevalent in this city, and in
several cases has proved fatal, we publish
tho following recipe, which DR.. q, ". BEN
TON says has proved successful in every
case where fairly tried " Simmer together
paste for plaster, and put on the throat.
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Chicago & r. Island Railroad.

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TRAINS PASS O7T4 va STA TON,
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My Stock is too large to admit Of enumerating prices
fully The I'ri IS Val be Fond ElnGHy Lo1 on Al!
Thankful to my friends and the public for their pat
ronage in the hope receive it future by
FAIR AND HONORABLE DEALING
R1metnJer TIE qlace. hro doors East of Ednes Alien
d co.'s Btf,,k North Of Court House.
Oct 6, 1860. r. PISKE
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

LIBERIA FLoURIsHING.-The annual mes
sage of President Benson, of Liberia, re-
presents all the interests of the young Arr
can republic as fiourishing beyond all previ-
Gus years. More was produced and export
ed last year than In The entire previous
history OF Liberia. The government income
was $40, 6U2, and the expenditures were
kept within the income. A poll tax had
been levied for the first time, and the natives
living within the dominion OF the Republic
were delighted 10 be taxed, as it gave them
sense of ownership IN the governments
The public schools were well sustained aud
highly successful. President Benson is en-
deayoring to create an interest in the eulti-
yatlon OF cotton. He says
IS have already directed measures to be
adopted for the procurement of several bar
rels of the best cotton seed this month at
Cape Mount andA vicinity, TO be distributed
among the native chiefs along our coast fof
cultivation the ensuing season, commencing
in March; and am happy to be al le to saw
that the subject of the cultivation of cotton
is very well received By the chiefs all along
our coast; and it Is at the earnest request of
many of them that seed viii be procured and
distributed. The Veys IN the Cape Mount
region already cultivate some cotton in the
native style for their own use 1t, however.
remains yet 70 be seen as to whether cotton
cultivation viii prove more profitable than.
or even equally so, to the making of palm
oil, and the cultivation OF sugar cane. coffee,
rice. and other exportabie articles The
cultivation of cotton IN Liberia to any extent
other than for home consumption, depends
on this issue. Should the issue declare Ia
favor of cotton. millions of pounds viii be
exported annually from Liberia within the
next fifteen years; otherwise, a very Few
thousand pounds
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

Beauties of the Rocky Mountains.
The editortof the Rocky Mountain Meas
lately took a trip into the Mountains, and be
thus describes the scenery of that region
From Bradford, our course was north
along the valley separating the Backbone
from the mountain range. 1t abounds in
grand and romantic scenery-huge castles,
lofty. domes, pictured rocks. and ancient
ruins. all sculptured and carved in the vari-
enated sandstone rock, standing isolated on
grassy plain or rounded Lillock. Some. Of
them are of vast dimensions and dizzy
height. Through one we found cave or
passage, from one side TO the other, being
over one hundred feet in length. full as
many in height, and from ten to thirty feet
in width. We walked through it, and
gazed upward at the lofty ceiling, polished
walls and massive carved and varied cor
nice, fashioned by winds and waves in ages
long forgotten.
we found seams of marble, beds of gyp-
SUM and lime, and mountains of freestone,
of such superior texture. vast proportions,
delicate and beautiful tints, that when once
fashioned By the hand of the artisan, the
brown stone fronts of Fifth Avenue would
be dimmed and their beauty pale before
them; quarfies so vast that from them the
cities of the world might draw their sup
plies for centuries to come. AT short in
tervals, streams come down from the noun
tains, cut squafeiy across the valley, and
emerge upon The plain through narrow can
ons in the Backbone; some of them impass
IDLE, and others afording natural and easy
wagon roads. Montana creek, about six
miles north of Bradford. is the most impoF-
tant stream. 1t is about two rods wide, and
twelve inches deep. rushing over rough,
rocky bed. II abounds in the finest trout,
and offers e field for piscatorial sport,
with which the streams of Mt. KatahdinI
and John Browns Tract afford no compar-
isoR.
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Journalrsn---..Ab1e Editora.s

JournaIiSna---ssAb Able Editors.
Thedefciency in what is commonly called
ssliterature. that is stbooks-iss now
largely made up by journalism.
This is 10 literature. what railroads are to
commerce. Journalism carries on the COM
MERGE of new and valuable ideas. It pub
fishes the facts interesting to the communi
ty. and it argues in che great forum of the
people, alf the grand questions of the day.
It is there mind meets mind-thoughts
flash upon thoughts not in the gilt frippe-
ry of poetry: nor in the rolling sentences
of oratory; nor in the algebraic characters
of science.-but In our Saxon tongue and
our mother sense, discussing the problems
of Society, and placing before it the great
procession of events, and recording histo-
~ before history Is accomplished. 1t Is
thus journalism draws to itself the solid
thinkers and brilliant writer's of the age
No more eminent men In literature can be
| found, than those which have adorned the
Journals of France and America. 1t is no
small evidence of Louis Napoleon's sagaci-
ty, that he resorts to the newspaper and the
pamphlet to put forth the opinions of i'm
perial France. A single article thus put
| forth startles Europe. 1t is In vain they
meet it with the DEGREES of Vienna, or the
bulls of Rome. Once sent forth on the
wings of the newspaper, it arouses the
mind of Europe, and by the sympathy II
] excites, announces an inevitable revolution.
But Louis Napoleon only ranges himself
beside Guizot, and Theirs, and Broglie, and
others like them, who resorted to the jour-
nal to influence mind.
Looking to this great fact, will any man
pretend to place the able writer for the jour
nal below the poetaster, or novelist or meta
physician The lightning is known by its
effects; it burns and destroys, though il
! flashes but a moment.
The Journalist. however, must be content
to do without the eulogy written upon his
interiors. He is himself the only author o.
fame, and must be content to trust his name
to the feeting pages of a journal, and mus
j be satisfied that his work will live after
/ him; not in guilt-edged volumes, but or
1 the mind and the heart of the age. He
must be satisfied with having aided in the
great social movements of mankind and
seeing society, like the soil. bearing the
fruit of the seed he has planted, and the la
| Dor he bestowed.
In the nature of the case. the Journals
must often-almost aiways-be anonymous
Il cannot even be said, stat nonainis Wnsbrd
He connot, like Horace. write his name OF
the monument he has built. But.-somt
one may say, like the 'ttwo friends, ;
who have given us some gems of Ohio Pc
etry:
"Few friends were his. All. few his need
OF friendship knew: they coffined dreamsi
But first they buried him. If seems;
His epitaph, He sowed the seed
He toiled not in the harvest hours.
Yet took his harvest home indeed; ~ Is
Whispers the grave, "He sowed the seed"
4 Lo Heaven filed all his wheat with flowers
And, here and there-unknown before
} Where fell the reaper's random seed,
Strange century flowers arise, indeed,
4 Forever blooming, evermore,
Cincinnati Gazett
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

HoRRIBLE. THOUGH TRuE.-I have been
thinking how horrible it must be To see any
body one cared for. drunk, the honest eyes
dull and meaningless: the wise lips jabber
ing foolishness: the whole face and figure
instead of being what one likes to look at.
takes pleasure to see in the same room,
eyen-growing ugly, irrational, disgusting
more like beast than man. Yet some
women have to bear il, have to speak kind
~ to their husbands. hide their brutishness,
and keep them from making worse fools of
themselves than they can help. I have
seen 1t done. not merely by working mems
wives, but lady wives In drawing rooms.
/ think. if / were married, and saw my
husband the least overcome with wine, not
drunk" may be. but just excited. silly.
otherwise than his natural self, it would
nearly drive me wild. Less on my own ac-
count than his. To see him sink-not for
great crime. but contemplate. coward
" bit of sensualism - from the height
where my love had placed him: to have 30
take care of him, to pity him-ay. and I
might pity him, but think the full glory
and passion of my love would die out. then
and there forever. a Life FOR LIFE.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

He who is passionate and hasty IS gene
rally honest Tt is yonr cold. descending
hypocrite of whom you should beware
There's no deception IN bull dog it is tie
eur that sneaks up and bites you when your
back is turned.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

At q late trial, the defendant, who w.s
not familiar with the number of words
which the Law employs to make a trifing
charge, after listening awhile to the reading
Of the indictment. jumped up and said .
Then ERE allegations is false. and that
ere alligator knows it. - e
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

EXPERIMENT WITH PoTAToEs.-Tbere ex-
lists among farmers great diversity of opin-
ion respecting the most profitable way OF
planting potatoes. Some plant whole seed,
and some cut it. Dir, Alfred Lapham. oil
Burrillville. has for several years made ex-
periments in this respect. This year he
experimental anew. He planted g hills
with whole potatoes; g hills with cut pota-
toes, three pieces in bill, and % hills with
two pieces. The seed was averaged By
weight and size. The result was as follows:
the % hills of uncut potatoes yielded 551
lbs; the 3 hiiis-with three pieces. 273 lbs;
the % hills with two pieces, 80 lbs. The
potatoes we're weighed In presence of Mr.
VIM. E. Nallet, who certifies to the above
facts and figures. Mr. Laphann tells us the
potatoes were all planted together in the
same field. side by side, and tie same guam
tity and quality Of manure put in ali the
bills W0oasocket Patriot
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

Scott says that every Ilan that lives has
his lights and shades We are not SO GER
tain about the shades, but there is no liver
without lights.
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SHERMAN NJ. BoorH was arrested las

SHERMAN M. BooTH was arrested las
week by U. s. Marshal Lewis, and is now
prisoner in the Milwaukee wis. Custom
House. The Sentinel publishes synopsis
of the case, as follows:
On the 4th OF January, 1855 the Grand
Jury of the United States Court, found a
true bill against Booth, for :" obstructing
resisting and opposing the execution OF
process, and " aiding, abetting and assist
ing'' the escape of Joshua Glover from the
custody of the Marshal. On the 9th mo-
ton to quash the Indictment was made and
overruled. On the 10th the trial commence
ed, and the following gentlemen were sworn
as Jurors: Cicero Comstock, Peter Martin
eau, Henry c.. West, Daniel Phelps, BENZ.
R. Hinckley, Andrew Eble, John Wiler,
Butler, Joseph r. Treat, George F. Austin.
The trial continued until the 10Th, when
Booth was found guilty A motion for a
new trial was then made and overruled,
when the Court sentenced him to be impris-
oned for the term of one month, in ahe Jail
of Milwaukee county, and in such other
prisons or places as the Court or the Judge
thereof might direct, and that he pay fine
OI. one tuOOSdHu uOldIS, anu tu0 COSbS Vi
execution to be taxed, and that he be and
remain in custody until the sentence was
complied with,
Booth was accordingly conveyed to the
Milwaukee Jail, where be remained twelve
days, when he was released on ho6eos cor
pas issued by the State Courts.
On the Goth of February, the u. S. Dis
-triet Attorney, d. A. ]. Upham, moved the
court to order Booths re-commitment to
the custody of the Marshal, on considera-
ton whereof the court ordered g that Sher-
man M. Booth be. and is, hereby econ
mitted to the custody of the Marshal, and
that he be confined and imprisoned in the
building of the United States. situated on
the corner of Milwaukee and Wisconsin
streets. in the city of Milwaukee, and in
such other places aud prisons as this Court
or the Judge thereof may from time TO time
direct. until the said sentence be complied
with
The future action in this case will be
watched with intense interestby anti-slayery
people. as the principle Involved is one of
vital importance 10 Wisconsin, and the whole
North.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

A HEART IN THE R1GHT PLAcE-''I am
welded. Coleridge, to the fortunes of my
sister and my poor old father Oh my
friend, / think sometimes could recall the
days that we past. which among them
should choose Not those 'merrier days,
not the pleasant-days of hope. not those
wandering with fair-haired maid, which
have SO often and SO feelingly regretled--
but the days. Celeridge. of mothers fond
ness for her schooIboy What would
give to cali her back TO earth for one day.
that might. on my knees, ask her SaFdoni
for all those linle asperities of temper
which from time to time have given her,
gentle spirit pain And the day. my friend,
l trust, will come. when there will be time
enough for kind Offices of love- if heaven, s
eternal years be ours. Oh. my friend, cub
tivate the ilial feehngsl And,let no man
think himself released from the kind .ehars.
tiles of relationship These are the best,
foundations for every species of beneyo
enee.'- Charles Lamb. 4
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

FEELS SMALL WHEN TAKEN MT is said
that watchdog is not so large in the morn.
ing as at night. because be is let out a,
night, and taken in in the morning.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

If woman could talk out of the two
corners of her mouth at the same time. there
would be a great deal said on both sides.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

If you wish to collect together all the
pretty girls in town, advertise Lecture
TO young men,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-24

Wonderful things are words-half spirit,
half sense. so flexible, so various in their
power The poet can body forth to the
fancy or to the imaginative faculty in words
almost everything the sculptor orthe paint
er can in form and color, and great deal
that form and color cannot embody. What
painter could give adequate form to the pic
ture that Shakespeare in words puts before
the minds ere
What object do you see now pr said the
Doctor.
The young man hesitated for few mo-
ments and then replied ut appears ike
Jackass. doctor; I rather think it's your
shadow - fssssaSsss SO { sF<ssi
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= n0A DRY HIDES WANTED. for which
1.USJSJ the highest cash price viii Be pas.d. e
IoyI3-H PRo0TER'S-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-12-26

necticet and Massachusetts, almost wholly, the
boundary line between them and New York
being on the eastetn edge Of the valley Ten
miles north OF Millerton is the village Of Bos-
ton Corner, where the three States Join, and
about four miles north Of this Is Mount Ever
EFT, the highest land In Massachusetts. At
Millerton this mountain range is cut by a val
Icy that lesds il sn easterly direction to Sails
bury, CT, place of considerable resort, espe-
cially for Washington people. The western
side Of the valley is bounded by a ridge of
mountains extending several miles below Mil
lerton. The range Is continually approaching
that on the eastern, until at Boston Corner
they are not quarter Of mile apart, but at
this place this western range terminates, and
z broad valley from Poughkeepsie enters the
Harlem valley. This broad valley is bounded
on the west by range Of high hills. but not
rs high as those bordering the Harlem valley
On the terminal hill of this west Harlem range
Is fine view, one Of the anest was ever per-
mitted to see. I saw one Of our most brilliant
sunsets-f cannot describe the scene. With
the face east, Mt. Everett bained in the light
OF the setting sun is the most attractive object
The Harlem valley, with its villages, stretches
OIL to the south. Facing north, at your feet is
the small village of Copske, and beyond to
Hillsdale the land is rolling quite hilly, but
under high state Of cultivation. Facing the
west: the sun Il setting behind the folded
ndnQe oi the 'Old Man OF the Mountain,
That name being given to that part of the
Catssil Mountains which resemble a man of
giant form lying on his back with his hands
folded across his breast, his head being north
and represented by round peak, these de-
presSions and elevations corresponding to the
huEdn form, even to the feet, and being To-
J sated at proper distances, the whole is very
| appropriately called the cold Man Of the
Mountain At your feet is the town and
village Of Ancram, located in the Poughkeep.
sic valley. This valley is some four or FIVE
miles wide, and highly cultivated. This view
must be bounded by horizon Of nearly q
hundred miles.
| Night from the valleys gradually crept ur
/ the hills, and took possession Of ths scene, bu
| we had the picture, and il could not be oblit
i Grated, nof would we have 1t. 1t was a view
| taat leads the mind irresistibly beyond wha
| Is seen, then leaves 1t to contemplate the de
| sign. Of its Creator. How has this scene beer
| repeated thousands and tens of thousands o.
times, and is to be repeated thousands anC
millions Of times in coming ages, and fol
what? 1t hardly seems possible that mint
that cannot grasp the beginning or the enc
can be able to know why II is done. Yet W,
do know that daily as the heat Of the sun vi
brstes every particle Of the mountain, hill
and valley, the surface Is gradually lifted from
our plan Of existence to higher, till animated
nature Is presented, and this Is the object; ant
| when all latent vital force becomes active, ant
matter shall assume its highest animated form
then shall Ii cease, and time shall be eternity
| VICTOR LAURESTz.