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SECOND DAY-FEB. %.


Mr.. Fitch made his opening speech on
the side of the people, explaining the ma
ture of the offence under the fugitive
slave law. and reviewing the evidence he
proposed to introduce.
Mr.. Arnold opened for the defence. He
reviewed the legal difficulties in the way
of a conviction, and gave the opinion that
the case would never get to the jury
But in case it did, he glanced briefly at the
evidence the defence would produce.
The witnesses for the defence were then
withdrawn from the court room, and the
prosecution proceeded to call
| Richard Philips, sworn-Said he was a
! farmer, and resided at New Madrid. Mo;
/ that the negro jim belonged to him, and
! had run away on the 18th Of last Septem-
! Der 4 week or two afterwards heard he
was at Jonesboro, Ill, in Jail. Went to
Jonesboro, saw him in Jail and recognized
and was recognized by the negro. De
manded him as his property, but the She
| riff refused to give him up, saying he
must take him on Il writ of h0bsas caypus to
/ Ottawa Went to Springfield and got Il
! writ for the negro under the fugitive slave
J law from commissioner tOfncdu- ana gave
! it to Marshal Dougherty to execute
/ DouChertv went to Jonesboro and came
back with Deputy Sheriff Albright to De-
catur-then left, while Albright, Phillips,
his three sons, DC, came to Ottawa. Phil
lips gave a detailed account Of the rescue
! Of tie negro at Ottawa, substantially
| agreeing with accounts we have heretofore
! published, but giving no names. He said
! a Mr. Bull Cawyer Bull, Of LaSalle) had
offered to buy the negro of him for $500,
/ but he had demanded 1000. lie also
confessed somewhat to the amusement OF
the audience, that he had been immensely
scared all the time he was in Ottawa
! De VIZ t. Philips sworn.-Son of Rich
ard Phillips Knew all about Jim. -
! Had bought him of an aunt for his father
/ several years ago Had gone with his IA
! Their to Jonesboro and to Ottawa, but did
| not see the rescue, as he was on the front
! steps of the court house at the time.
/ jain SDicer secorn.-Phillips Albright, &c.
| had stopped at his hotel III Ottawa (Geiger
! House, Was at the examination before
Judge Cation, Described position of negro,
Judge, &c, and Cations remarks, deprecia-
! ting an attempt at a rescue. Saw Stout
motion to the negro to jump out of the
window Saw Hossack in the court room,
| but not doing anything All connection
! he saw Hossack have with the matter was,
when Pete Myers undertook to stop the
team, Hossack pulled the reins out Of his
! hand.
Adjourned to % o'clock tomorrow.
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NOmpoDati.y.

Among the inventions and improve
mentS with which the day is so rife, that
made by Prof HUMPHREYS is not among
the least, With all the superiority of the
Homeopathic System of Medicine over
that of the old school in its freedom from
danger and the ease and pleasantness with
which its medicines may be taken OF given
to children, it still remained an intricate
system for the people to use. From the
fact that q single medicine is given at a
dose, and each applicable to only certain
symptoms, large number of medicines
and a large book of directions became ne:
cessary in order to their use. And what
is worse, these directions are Of the most
nice and discriminating character, so that
often the longer one looked and studied,
the more puzzled he became, nor could
any amount of learned lumber, i'll the way
of.Domestic Manuals, explain the matter
At this precise point the discovery of
Prof HUMPHREYs comes in. He ascertain
ed from repeated experiments, what had
been before denied, that certain medicines
in this system might be harmoniously
combined in single remedy which pos
sessed, in good part, the advantages of each
of its ingredients and upon this principle
forms a series of Specific Remedies for
each of the more common diseases or all
ments With these all uncertainty and
embarrassment in giving the remedies is
avoided, and they may be properly admi-
nistered by any person of ordinary inteili-
gence His improvement is certainly va
luable, and one which throws the benefits
OF this beautiful and efficient system into
the hands of the people, and must prove a
blessing to thousands. His Specifics are
spoken OF IN high terms by those who use
them, and we can readily conceive must
prove valuable addition to the comforts
of family @ GOD" M
For sale by Miss FANNY NJ EARL, Main
Street, Ottawa, Ill
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to % o'clock tomorrow.
THIRD DAY-MARCH |.

The Government offered in evidence the
warrant issued by L. 5. Commissioners Cor
neau, of the Southern district, and eXecu-
ted by Dept. Marshal Albright also of the
Southern district in the Northern district
of Illinois. The defence objected to its
admission, on three grounds l. That the
writ was not valid warrant, having no
seal, &c; ID, That, if valid, a marshal Of
the Southern district could not execute it
in the Northern district; and Sd, That Al
bright was not regularly deputised as
marshal to execute it. The Court over
rule ID the first and second of these objec-
tions, holding that the warrant, though
without q seal, &c, was regular; and that
the marshals authority to execute the
writ extended as far as the law extended
The third objection the Court reserved in
definitely. agreeing to decide it if, in the
progress Of the case il became necessary.
The discussion Of these legal points oc-
cupied the whole day, and the Court adj
iourned to o'clock tomorrow friday
morning.
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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL. MOVEMENTS

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS
the Peoples party of Pennsylvania have
selected their delegates to the Chicago
Convention and instructed them to sup
port Simon Cameron for the Presidency
Cameron is but an Indifferent republican,
and very corrupt politician, having got
himself twice elected to the senate by
purchasing votes outright-once swindling
FOrney out Of an election in this way. He
goes in strong for g Pennsylvania interests"
however, and if nominated would be a
hard man to beat in that state
The Republicans of Wisconsin held
their Convention on Tuesday, and instruct
ed their delegates to Chicago to support
Seward for the presidency.
The Indiana Convention, which met or
the Odd, gave her delegation the same in
structions-Bates had no friends in the
convention.
The Ohio republicans elected their dele
gates for the state at large on Thursday
instructing them in favor of Salmon P
Chase. The other delegates are to bt
elected by districts.
The Opposition party of Missouri helc
state convention at st. Louis on Thurs
day, and appointed delegates to the Chica
go Convention, instructing them for Bates
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During the present year of grace, 1850,
the seventh annual census" of the L. ).
will be taken. This Will not be a mere
string of other questions is to be asked by
the Marshals covering statistics of births,
marriages and deaths, of manufactures,
agricultural productions, and variety Of
other subjects. The mode of taking it is
to be this Each L. S. Marshal divides his
territory into districts estimated to contain
about 10000 inhabitants each. For each
of these districts he appoints deputy,
whom he supplies with the necessary
blanks, &c 1t is estimated, that each de-
putty can complete his district in six weeks
so THAI commencing on the st of June, by
the middle Of July the whole census will
be taken
In the way Of compensation, the l. ).
Marshal gets 81 for every 1000 inhabitants
ia has district; SO that supposing the North
ern district of Ill. TO contain 100000 of
inhabitants, the compensation of Mr..
How're will be but 81 900
His assistants, or deputies, are paid on a
different plan Their allowance is two
cents for each person enumerated; for
each farm ten cents; for each establish
ment of productive industry fifteen cents;
for soei&l statistics two per cent. on the
amount allowed for enumerating the popu
lation; and two cents for each mortality
return with ten cents for travelling expen-
ses, to be ascertained by multiplying the
eQuare root of the number of dwelling
houses IN his district by the square root Of
the number of square miles in his divisions
from the product whereof is derived the
number of miles travelled, and eight cents
per page for the two copies.
On this plan, it is estimated that the
compensation of each deputy will be about
$3.50 for his six weeks work OF this sum
however, according TO ancient CUSTOM
he will be expected to pay 20 per cent to
the U. 5. Marshal so that the perquisites
of that digRitary, instead of being but
$1,000, will be swelled TO some $1,000
AS La Sale county contains popula
ton of about 10000, it will be divided into
two districts, and Mr.. Hoyne will h ave two
deputies to appoint from the formidable
list of - Danites in the county Under
the present regime, of course, our voice goes
for nothing in the matter; but if Mr.
Hoyne is anxious TO reward an honest and
competent man, and about the only really
sincere DANTE among the whole batch in
this county, we hope he win not overlook
the claims of Mr. JAMES McBrRNEr. should
he be an applicant
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TELEGRAP-HIC.
reported for tie OHmca Free IrodT.
Arrival of the Edinburgh.

~, New York, March Ill PM
Inc steamer Edinburgh is still at an
I ,. III TIE lower Bay, owing 10 the fog
W e nave succeeded in obtaining the fol-
lowing summary Of her news
HE ITALIAN QrEsrloN-Lc Nord saws
that the reply Of Austria to the Eugli:h
proposition for the settlement OF the TIA
Ian question has reached Paris Count
Ruiborg states that Austria cannot retract
from the engagements OF Nillafrauca and
Zurich. He observed that if the treaty of
Zurich was respected in Nenetia why
should 1t not be in the Italian duchies.
ana II the propositions Of England are
carried out; that if great experiment is
about to be made in Central italy. Austria
VIII not oppose the experiment by force of
arms, convinced that events will NOT Glilto
give support to the cause Of right. and JUS
tIfy Austria.
ENGLAND-In the Lords on the 18th.
the proposed annexation Of Savoy to
France was pretty generally denounced
In the Commons Lord John Russell said
the Government was not aware of any
proposition being made for placing the
French forces in Italy
SPAIY-A Madrid telegram Of the 18th
says the Spanish cabinet will listen TO no
proposals Of peace from Morocco until
Ianglers had been taken against which
place operations are to continue
lLTALY.-The Coiai1a Of Turin, SAYS the
question OF the new vote To be given by
central states Is not yet resolved on.
According TO a ST. Petersburg despatch,
Prince Gortschkof had Informed the
French Government that Russia does not
consider the English proposals to be alto
@ether a solution Of the Italian difficulty !;
that real understanding could only re-
suit from a conference Of the five great
powers.
1t is said, that the French ambassador
had expressed TO Prince Gortschkoff the
readiness Of his government to adhere TO
the proposals OF Russia.
New batta!iions, composed partly Of TO-
reigners and partly of NapoIitans had been
formed $4,000 municipal guards had
been modified in Slucgo 1t was reported
that the King of Naples had ordered Gen
Penal, in case Of need. to act in concert
with the Papal General
Letters from Sicily announce that poll
teal arrests and excuses Of the police
were increasing Women had been ra-
Wished and beaten by them Political pri-
sOners had died under torture Several
magistrates had in vain protested against
these barbaToUs acts.
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Next Illinois State Fair.

The Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society, a, their late meeting
at Springfield, selected Jacksonville as the
place for holding the next State Fair
The citizens Of jacksonville agreed not
only to prepare all the grounds free Of
charge, but to guarantee the Society
against loss in the exhibition.
The committee also arranged full pre-
MUM list for the exhibition, which will
soon be published Among the premiums
is 81 900 for steam pillow; also $50 for the
best school library in the State.
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BLAcKwOoD FOR FEDRUARY.-The Februa-
~ No of Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine,
the American reprint of which we have
Just received from Messrs. L. Scott & Co,
New York, presents an unusually varied
and attractive list Of contents-Vide the
following:
Norman Sinelair-An Autobiography,
No ?; The Diffusion OF Taste among all
Glasses National Necessity; st Stephens,
Part =; Lord Dundonalds Memoirs; Ro-
bert Burns; The Luck of Ladysmede
Part XII; Ode for the First Week of Jan
uary to Messrs Galen and Glauber; A
Visit to Columbia River and a Cruise round
Vancouyer's Island; Fleets and Navies-
England-fart 4 Mr. Bulls Second Song
The Sly Little Man; France and Central
Italy
Republished by Leonard Scott d Co,
New York, at 50 per annum; OF Black
wood and Edinburgh or any of the British
Reviews, So; Blackwood and four Reviews
SO per annum
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TERRIBLE CALAMITY on THE EEMILIoY-
IHREE MEN DRowNEp-On Thursday of
last week, (Feb. 23d) four men, in a wagon
with two horses, undertook 10 ford the
Ver,nilion creek at Sandy Ford, about two
miles below Galloway, in the town of Ea
gle, in this county. The creek was greatly
swollen at the time, being at least . feet
above fording depth-while but few rods
below the ford gorge of ice had formed,
the water drawing with rapid current to-
ward ITS centre. The team had gone but
a rod or two into the water before the wa
gon became uncoupled and the axletree
detached from the tongue so that the hor-
ses, being loose, swan for the opposite
shore while the wagon was carried down
into and under the ice, taking three men
under with II, the fourth man escaping by
cllnglng to the horses. The men We're from
Ruggs Grove, going to Putnam county
and strangers to the ford, or they certain
ly would not have attempted to cross at
such stage OF water The names of the
three that were drowned, we learn We're
Drake, Ball. and Prober, and the name of
the fourth, who was saved, was Foster
At --latest accounts the bodies of the drown
ed men had not been recovered.
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The Republican Raw Head and Bloody
ISones.

The Chicago Press and Tribune, after
spending weeks in traducing John Went
worth, denouncing him as the embodi-
ment of baseness and dishonesty, and
swearing that no man could lay claims to
responsibility who supported him for any
office, now earnestly advocates his election
as Mayor of Chicago; and the potent rea-
son it gives for STOPPING to this self con-
fessed abasement, it finds in the following
extract of letter from one of its own cdr
tors from Washington:
.'WAsHISGToS, Feb 90
"Some of our folks begin to fear that
through disafection among the Republi-
cans, the bogus Democrats will carry Chi
cago The idea gives them cold ctiNs. Sc
nator Wilson says, the loss OF Chicago. at
this crisis, will endanger Connecticut and
do much to insure the nomination Of Douglas at
Charleston At least thirty members of
Congress from other States have spoken to
me about it. They say that for the cause
and the great campaign, the city must be
sdrcd"
"The nomination of Douglas at Charles
toni This is the gorgon and chimera
dire-the great raw head and bloody
bones now invariably held up to all halt
ing and doubling Republicans, to frighten
them into following their file leaders to
the basest extremities. Deacon Bross, at
sight of the frightful spectre, falls with his
face to the earth and eats dust with an
avidity worthy of a Buddhist. Scripps,
Raw, Arnold, Peck, Judd-all Of them
kiss the foot that for years has contemptu-
ously spurned them with kieks-and all
to avert the direst OF conceivable calami-
ties-"the nomination of Douglas at
Charleston
The Republican leaders are no novices
in politics. In the way of sagacity and
forecast calculating with certainty al
most equal to the "sure word of prophe-
cy," the result of an election campaign,
there are no politicians in the country SUI
perior to such men as Senators Wilson,
Seward, Chase, &c. In the nomination OF
Douglas at Charleston these sagacious
leaders see foreshadowed the certain doom
of their party. BY every and all means
honest or foul-lofty or degrading, say
they, avert that calamity! Can stronger
argument be presented to the Charleston
Convention in favor of the nomination OF
Douglas than this palpable trepidation OF
the Republican leaders in anticipation OF
such an event? ..
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Trial of the Ottawa Rescuers.

Our readers have already been inform
ed, that, at the session of the Grand Jury
OF the q. S. District Court, at Chicago, In
November last, indictments were found
against eight citizens of Ottawa for being
engaged in the rescue of the slave jim
from the custody of a Z. S. officer in this
city in October last. Three of the per-
sons indicted Messrs. John Hossack, Jos.
Stout, and James Stout, We're taken on
warrant at the time of the Indictment and
lodged in jail at Chicago Two of them
Hossack and James Stout-soon afterwards
gave bail and returned home, while Jos.
Stout refused to give bail, and remained in
prison. Two others of the indicted-Smith
and Campbell-fed the country, and the
remaining three-C B. and Hervey King
and E. W. hamberlain-remained quietly
at home, no attempt having been made to
arrest them.
On Saturday last-the trial having been
set for Monday-Dept. L. S Marshal Hill
came to this city, and notified those not
under bail that he had warrant for
them. and the others that their presence
would be wanted at Chicago on Monday.
All of them expressed their readiness to
meet him at the depot on Monday, which
they did, and in a body proceeded to Chi.
cago in company with the Marshal
The trial commenced on Tuesday,
Hon. B. c. Cook, ]. ~ Arnold, 10. Knox
and Messrs. Larned & Goodwin appeared
| for the defence e. S District Attorney
Fitch and Judge Arlington for the prose
cution. By agreement of counsel, the tri
al of Mr.. Hossack vas first taken up sepa
rately, to test the questions of law and the
testimony in the case, the rest Of the cases
to follow and share the result.
Mr.. Hossack was placed at the bar and
plead mot guilty" The empanneling of q
Jury was then commenced, which took w
the balance of the day, the following jury
having been selected:
Dennis Rockwell, Chicago
Herman Mack, VIII co.
Chas F. Deane, Chicago
Isaac r Hit, La Sale
l.. +. Parsons, do
j. H. Tiffany, Chicago
Theodorus Doty, do
Harvey Nash, do
J. H. Pointer, do
Charles Avery, do
NJ G. Sherwood do
Fredk. futile do
There We're about dozen of challenges
Among them James Armour was chal
lenged for having expressed the opinion
that if certain things were true, Hossach
deserved to suffer the penalty" BY sin
gular coincidence, the jury is said to be
composed half and half of Democrats anC
. RenubIicans
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VALUABLE FORTHCOMING BooK-We give,
on our outside form this week, fnom the
springfield Register, an interesting extract,
bearing upon one of the important questions
of the day, from forthcoming book, soon
to be issued by NlsIAN W. EDWARDS, Esq,
embracing memoir together with the
manuscripts and correspondence of his
father, the Gov. Edward of the earlier
days Of Illinois. Gov. E was one of the
leading men OF his day, and his correspond
ence, which includes many letters never be-
fore published, from the leading men of
his time, will possess the deepest interest.
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GREELEY OUT FOR r ,Trs - Irrenrass;b,

GREELEY OUT FOR BATEs- Irrepressible"
republicandom has been stunned by a long
and we'll considered editorial in late
number of the \. Y. Tribune in which that
sagacious sheet, after weighing all the pros
and cons, arrives at the conclusion that no
out-and-out republican can be elected to
the presidency in 1860, and therefore de-
clares for Edward Bates, of st. Louis an
'alf and aif oppositionist. The New York
Courier It Enquirer, the organ of Gov Sew
ard, argues in response that Greeley is mis-
taken, bat declares if the Chicago Conven-
ton come to the same conclusion, we bolt
the nomination in advance"
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WHEAT CRop-The newspapers arc be-
ginning to talk about the prospects of the
wheat crop In this region We hear moth
ing about it, as scarcely any winter wheat
was sown. In Egypt" the Jonesboro
Gazette says, the crop looks better than
we were led to suppose it would. Some of
the late sown has suffered from the winter,
but the early sown looks as well as it usu-
ally does at this season. We have no fears
fer the coming crop in this quarter"
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-Ur.g1ge .Sat # Hsaf E..,,e-

Ja-tgIgc 4S7is Il X.1t Ee'Ffe
yxrHIBEAs, William tiert, and 'i---a.ea kSeT;'
W = ~ oI ihe s4ld William Ebert aHl Lev FEl-et-
f.al ,se county q La sale aHu State d" l.' l'd
Of e HUI day Of May, D. ISIS. execute SUD arli'rr
H.t Joseph e hatheTay. ei i-- S.aty "i-- Hla'S
.1l,.a4I O. mortgage deed Of tst date e; '-v real &C.
certain rrllssCry note therein described bear Gate
abe y.ey-II. day Co. May, I>@> ard eNerat.i ana Cell
.-Tei 10y iA- -l.d william tnert aH4 Lev FE'eei-h" 10
ME, she said Joseph C. Hash way and ~ iI~ as COED
90 C.ares II. ,eAE.ia. vieh said mortgage deed =
recorded tic cords 30 lie Recorders -:ce Il said
Ia Saie county, book =, pages t!Z- l45 AMI "a
.orth aid declared HAT default shall pr made II tnc
payment o. tie principal interest "a sad note AID
deed mentioned. or any p4Tt or portion o. e.
t.,- n ale time or tia.-- iIc all become ule,
cl.o-.. administrators. -s- are authorized 10
sell Tic sad READ pup c auction, a. -r giving
:ouT ae-i' -otcg o! r 'H'e aDa place o. sale Ia 7pAi-
public PER, "a lie county where s4id real estate
situated and convey ta- same 10 the highest ana
beet bidder, aud % tr money arising ieTe.fon
pay al ultcraey aud counsel ees. costs and *
leusrs and retain tHe whole olut o! the prin-
csGal secured Is SAID mortgage. together Tith HE
tLr 90 ts asE rf sa.-, and Pay the
oEerllS o: any - 'h- said nor;-a-or> ard whereas
1r,at has b--a made hy ie SAID u iiii"il ss'f' Anu
Lev Tgs,-tr4I. s- payment ~ tse SAID PEum'ssCEy
note, which d. rcW Due aat payable
Hus therefore. public notice > hereby gwen, that /,
Ch-ries II. Blgkwtt, sH-u=- G.. TIE sid Joseph 9
HatA-vay, - 81. sell a. VL1e auction, 10 Tie 4aIes'
and bet bidder iur cash, tie so1-h door % tae court;
tsas- tle city OF Ottawa. county 81 La sale aad
STATE c. lgois, the p day Cf April A. = I,in 81
ttr hear o. uCiU-E the Afternoon tie real estate
30 said uuI-a = d-r mentioned and de- Al el,
The ha o. the souilwest quarter cf L.; No.
ven - 10 Block No twelve, a. 90 tie Original Town
NV C.ty) of Ottawa, In the county Of LIsaile and
state said sale 70 b. made IA pursuance o;
the power IL said contained, for the purposes
CHARLES II. BECKwITH,
Assigus5 Of yoSsyt & LfttetoGy.
DAVID p. JoSEs, Ally. for c. II. Buukw!th. maro-5~
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ABE LINCOLN has, during the past week,
been delivering republican speeches in
New York, by way of getting himself be
fore the people as a candidate for the
presidency. The HeraH reports one of his
speeches, and speaks of him as quite a
respectable stump speaker form the
West"
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CHICAGO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION TINE
CHANGED The Republican National Com
mittee have held meeting and changed
the time of holding the Republican Ma
tional Convention at Chicago, from June
to May 18th