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MAINE ELECTION The official returns
in Maine, foot up majority Of l5,32S for
the republicans, on the heaviest vote ever
polled in the State This is loss OF over
l2.C00 on the vote of 1856, and this loss is
sustained in the face Of the fact that, the
Breck and Lane party, nearly to man,
supported the republican candidate \
similar loss throughout the North would
give Douglas half the Northern States;
and does any one imagine Lincoln can do
better Ia any Northern State than in
Maine? No wonder the Maine election
causes the republican committee at Wash
ington the utmost uneasiness
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Judge Douglas Position ON the Home

-, 49,
stead Bill.
Judge Douglas, in the course Of his
speech at Cleveland, Ohio, said:
A friend has asked me to explain my
position upon the Homestead bill am
8 little surprised that | should be called
upon to define my position on that subject
For twelve or fourteen years have devot-
ed more time to tho passage of Home
stead bill than any other live man.
ICheers There never has been Home
stead bin before Congress that have not
supported Cheers | introduced one
into the house of representatives. fourteen
years ago, before | was senator, and |
have renewed it year after year in the Sc
nate-When | could not get my own bill
/ always supported the next best one
Cheers. Last year when the house of
represen tatives passed homestead bill
and sent it to the senate, and a substitute
was offered for it, by Senator johnson, Of
Tennessee | supported The house bill in
preference to his because | thought it
was the best. When it failed, / offered
an amendment, which believed was even
better than it, and when that too was re-
jected, / voted for the senate bill, as better
than nothing In brief ! am in favor
now, as | have been for years, of that line
OF policy which authorizes every man to
60 upon the public land, record his clam,
build his house, make his fences, and split
his rails laughter, and when he shall
! have lived on IT long enough to have esta-
| blished hi. intention Of becoming a per-
manent settler, let him have his title free
Great applause | believe that to be the
true policy of the country.
A NoIcE.-IIow long will he live on it y
I Il L..
it forever. Cheers. The public lands
subject Of revenue 10 this government.
On the cuntrary they have tended to dis
organize the monetary affairs of the coun-
try Whenever the country is prosperous,
| imports are large and money is plenty,
every specuator will fill his pockets with
cash, 60 west, and buy up the public lands
in vast quantities. We then get ten,
twenty, or thirty-fve millions of dollars a
year into the treasury from tho sales of
the public lands, at the very time that We
do not want IT, because we have surplus
/ without Il; but the moment hard times
come, the imports fall off, the banks cur
/ tail their issues, and money becomes scarce
there is not dollar worth Of land sold
and the treasury becomes bankrupt for
want of money. Hence the land system
brings money 10 the treasury when we do
not want it, and always fails to do SO
when we do want it. Laughter J.
therefore, would change our whole land
system, and never have another sale Of
public land. IN the world. Cheer. ]
would apply the presumption law, by which
each see.rler may 20 and take up his land
build his home live upon and cultivate J.
aud thus get title, and ! would not lei
any man have q title who was not an actual
settler upon the land That's il"
do no, intend to refer 10 this subject, and
should not have done so but for the fact
that have been informed that the small
leaders OF the republican party have been
representing me a. not being in favor {!
the Homestead bill. Voices That
true
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Ia sale City Election.
4 BIG STRAW !

At the City election in La Sale on Mon
day. GEO II. Buck, the democratic nomi
nee, was elected Mayor by 10 majority.
This IS the largest democratic majority La
Sale has given in 6 years 4 year ago
the republicans carried the city. The de
mocrats also elected all their aldermen
except one,-whereas heretofore the City
Council has been nearly tied. The contest
was purely political, the issue standing
squarely Douglas or Lincoln. Our La
Sale friends are sure they can give the
democratic ticket go majority in No
vember
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Genuine Abuli.iouistS.

The Republicans make immense PROBES
siors Of hostility to slavery but beyond
stealing negro or secretly aiding John
Brown and like reasonable schemes, have
never had the courage to propose inca
sure openly striking directly 8. me evil
The honest Abolitionist, say their anti
slaveryism is hyrocri;ical and thievish,
and only calculated to bring honest ~bo.i-
t;onisn. into undeserved disgrace. They
have therefore organized On thei- own
hook, and put INTO tn. field the following
State ticket for Illinois The ticket was
nominated at Convention a. Lexington
two weeks ago.
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race course. We are not sufficiently yersed
in the lore of horsefiesh TO describe the
races, but will simply say that the after
neon was one or deep interest and excite
ment and, what is creditable, we saw no
betting. The premiums were awarded NJ
follows:
1,rr, "Gen Putnam" Hopkins. %, E Ws0ley'
Sd, P Donlevy.
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Side Wall Notice.


CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
OadJCD, October 4. 1860 {
NOTICE is hereby given tfat the City Council did on
~ the I'd day of October, 1850, order the side walk
the north side of East Main opposite the
third Of block l0 also the side walk the side
Of nton opposite lot in block 49, Original reWn
Of Ottawa, be rebuilt according law and the ord
nance Of the city. Now If the of laid
let's shall not comply with said order within thirty days
from the publication OF this notice, the will be
completed by the city council and assessed according
to law . LEAVENS, CUviCierk
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There is to be grand mass meeting al
Newark, Kendall county on Friday next:
October 18th.
Hon r y MURRAY.
Hon. RICHARD T. MEERICK,
c. S. CAMERON, Esq,
ii. GREENEBAUM, Esq.
L. s. JosLYN, Ese,
VIII be the principal speakers.
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FLORIDA ELrcrIoS.-Florida held her an
nual State election On Monday. The few
returns received show that the State has
gone Overwhelmingly for the Bell and
Everett ticket" This is one of Brecken-
ridges sure states
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EAGLE MILLS.

TSNHE subscriber would inform the public that he 10
Il new ru inning the above MIL and is prepare ed to do
CUSTOM AND MERCHANT WORK
In the best possible manner, the Mill has been
Repaired and is in first order. Good
and attentive Nllers are employed, and will be
SANITY on hand to wait upon Farmers and
others will find it to their advantage give me call be-
fore going elsewhere.
n. B-orders for flour Feed be left at the City
Market at the MIL and will be promptly atten ded to-
Ottawa, DC; ., 1860 j. WOOD
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4 REFORMATION We understand that
exparson Moore, the republican candidate
for Circuit Clerk, has profited SO much by
our remarks of two weeks ago, as to be
able to make tolerably decent speech
Several democrats who have heard him
during the last two weeks, assure US that
his manner and matter have iDnenssly
improved under our correction. We hope
the reformation may be permanent
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FOR GOVERNOR.
JOHN uOSSACK,
OF La Sale County.
FOR LIEUTENANT GovERSoH,
JOHN ". BUSHNELL,
OF Cook County.
TCR AUDITOR.
DIR. J. STOUT.
OF La Sale County.
FOE SECRETARY o. STATE,
PUINEAS CHURCH.
OF Peoria County.
TOR TREAsCEEE.
THOMAS Filler,
OF Dupage County.
SUPERINTENDENT or PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
JAMES BAMFORD,
Of Peoria County.
Presidential Electors.
ELECTIONS AT LARGE,
MILTON SMITH. of Dupagc County.
JOHN ". NAHAN, Of Mclean County.
DISTRICT ELECTORS,
LIST District-JAMES ANDREWS. Of Mclean
% -EEENEzER PALMER, of Viii
I'd -DELOS BUTTON, OF Kane
4th b G. WEIGHT, of Rock Island
sth SAMUEL SEELY, OF Peoria
9TH -JOES FENRF. Of X en- dan
IN IL 81 ROOT. Of Mercer
Sth III II GRIFFIN. OF Warren
9th j II ELY, OF Carroll
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Facts 10 be Remembered.

That ELI THAYEE, Republican member Of
Congress froIn Massachusetts,, and JOHN A |
ROCKWELL, or Connecticut, both positively
assert the fact, and it has never been con
tradicted, that up 20 the holding OF the
Chicago Convention, the Republican MEM
bers Of Congress held frequent caUcusses
and warmly and vehemeuiiy discussed the
question whether the party, in its platform
to be adopted at Chicago, should pro
nounce squarely il favor Of popular sove-
reignty a. advocated by Judge Douglas or
not, and that the caucus was SO evenly
balanced on the question that it never
came to a decision.
That nine days before the Chicago Con
vention, q. \. Grow, Republican Chairman
of the Committee On Territories in the
House, made the motion, which was car
RED 10y Republican and Democratic votes
sy.Lty o,.t iron, tee Gs2Tit9yiai JilS introduced
bv lIr. C1Vsc, (for the organization of Ar
zonia, Nevada, Dacotah, Pembila, and JEFF
ferson territories) THE CLAUSE PROHIBITING
! SLAVERY Is THOSE TEaElToalEs-thus leaving
the people free TO introduce or e,cct,As ii as
| they pleased!
And lastly, that the platform adopted
by the Republican National Convention at
| Chicago, contains no decLaration against pope
Tar 8overeig,ty, and no assertion of the DUTY
Of Congress to prohibit slavery in the Ter
ritogies
Yet the Republican party NOW claim
opposition to popular sovereignty, and adj
yoeacy of the power and duty OF Congress
to intervene for the prohibition of slavery
ia the Territories, as the ONLY distinctive
principle.
EUEorE.-The news from Italy continues
exciting. The Garibaldians, being in
pcaceabie possession % Naples, had at
tackled the retaining States OF the Church,
and defeated Lamoriciere in pitched bat
tie and taken Peruga and Spoletto So
there is nothing left to the Pope but
Rome. Garibaldi was organizing an army
of 10000 men, and the belief is that he
: meditates a descent upon Venetia. This
of course Will bring Austria and it is
feared all Europe into the field
The weather was again unfavorable for
gathering the crop; and -four, wheat and
corn had advanced trife.
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Coz. JACKSON DECLARES FOR BRECKEY-
RIDGE-Clar.bone +. jackson, whom the
Douglasites. assisted by portion of the
Breckenridgers, have just elected Govern
or OF Missouri made 4 speech at the Brock
enr.d-e State Convention on Friday, and
declared himself against Douglas-La
Sale Pes;
The above i about As near the truth as
Republican papers generally come. GOV.
Jackson made = speech At Boonville, in
which, the telegraph report Of it says, he
gave his reasons at length for supporting
Douglas and said
TO prevent all ,nisapQrehensiou, I now
say that am for Douglas and that it Is
ny duty 10 support him as the nominee
Of the party. formed my opinion that
Douglas was the regular nominee from re-
ports in the Baltimore ErciGnge, a Breck
enridge paper, and from statement, of
Gen. Clark, who until the last report. op.
posed Douglas Ia IL. Convention. and il |
live until November, l will vote for him
and have never said intended doing
anything else Applause
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Iretiil.I Iatch.

This took up the iternoon Of Friday,
and closed the exhibition. A number of
beautiful, spirited horses were entered,
and tie trottipg not only creditsble, but
n the case OF some Of them worthy of any
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Go IT, BLoNDiN During the Princes
visit to Niagara, Blondin surpassed him.
self and all his former hair Drained ex-
plots. In addition to the usual items in
his programme, he added one item which
many people supposed was dodge" to
draw a crowd. But when the time came,
the intrepid little Frenchman was on hand
for the fulflment Of ell he had promised;
and, in spite of the remonstrances of the
Prince and his party, actually traversed his
rope on stihsl In making one OF the pro-
digious leaps advertised in his bill, he was
obliged to come down astride the rope;
but, without removing his stills, regained
his footing and successfully completed the
trip! The stills used on this occasion
were about two feet high, and furnished at
the lower end with three short prongs of
iron, which served him as claws do bird
In the history of recklessness and dare
deviltry, there is nothing like this exploit
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Add the one vote from New Jersey, and
Lincoln is defeated by one majority.
Now is this not settler? Does any
sane man believe that Lincoln can carry
Indiana or Illinois, or any 0"e Of the above
votes?
This is giving everything else to Lincoln
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
New Jersey, Iowa, Minnesota, oA.o,-a!i
of them conie,sedly doubtful States, and
most of them States in which the chances
are decidedly in favor CT Douglas rather
than Lincoln
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Seward at Chicago.

The great Republican powow at Chicago
on Tuesday came so near being a failure
that the Press and Tribune is the only pa
per of that city with brass enough to blow
over it. The truth is, 4 careful count of
the railroad trains on Monday and Tues
day, shows that there could not have been
over $4,000 strangers in the city, of whom
5000 were the ordinary daily arrivals
Such a turn out, in the heart of the North
west, where Republicanism boasts of its
great strength, can be called nothing but a
humiliating hatout Why there have
been at Peoria, Quincy, and other places
in this State, within the last two weeks, a
dozen OF Democratic meetings larger than
this greatSeward affair at Chicago, without
presenting any attraction comparable to
the name of Seward and the other big
guns presented at Chicago.
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LINCOLN n EcYFT.-The Chicago Press
AIT TiiJ,r1- correspondence from Egypt is
the standing joke in that region, and caus-
6 more fun and laughter than Punch or
KniI Knax. The following is specimen
In this part of our county (Hazlewood
precinct Alexander county, in 1886. ,st a
ro.e was polled for Fremont and ,o,c we
can boss' Of te9 h,md,ed, and hope by the
9th Of November TO increase that az least
one half We are not all in darkness
Hurrah for Old Abe and progress"
The Cairo Ca-ehe explodes this story by
showing that Lakewood precinct does not
contain over 80 votes, and that there are
not Lincoln men in it
The Ga-c'te charges that the whole cor
respondence Of the Press and 7iiJtoae from
Egypt is of this character, and that it is
wholly made up in the office at Chicago,
as no man writing from the localities these
letters pretend to come from could make
such blunders as they are full Of
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First Class Insurance Agency.

Home insurance Company, New York.
Capital II, 900; Surplus 100000
Charter Oak Insurance Co.. Hartford.
Capital $500, 600; Surr'us 81, 900.
Mel chants Insurance Coz, Hartford,
Capital 100000.
Park Fire Insurance Co., New York.
Capital, 100000.
EDWARD EAMES, A1emt,
junso ttAs Osy Rs~i, 0ttossG.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
1860, L|VE&LET LIVE! 1860.

HANEiU,t returned ON the East with large stock
Il OF Sea=onaie Goods, purchased at Low figures
and respectfully invite friends and the public call
and examine the goods andearR the prices bufore pur
chasing. Ny stock comprises a complete assortment Of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-10-06

MUCu has been said of the Eastern Es
culapius' labors for the sick not one-half
has yet been told of the indomitable per-
severance of this singular man. lmbued
with the conviction that Scrofula is the
parent of disease, he has been years en-
gagged in searching the boundaries of the
earth, for its antidote With vast labor
has he canvassed the products of sea and
land, through both continents, until he
has discovered that combination of rene
dials which expurges this human rot and
corruption from the system. This new in
vention we now offer in our columns I'M
der the name of AYERS SARsAPARILLA, al
though its virtues are from substances far
more active and effectual than Sarsaparil-
la-.HercantiEc Journal
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BY TELEGR A ? H.
Reported for the Oha,0a Free Trader
The Great Meeting at Chicago
100000 Live Democrats
IN COUNCIL!

CHICAGO, Oct. So 2. 81
The crowd today is a crusher. Pro
cession over 10 miles in length-from an
hour and a half to two and a half in pass
ing given point. Crowd estimated at
$4,000 to 100000 1t is conceded on all
hands that the reception Of Senator Doug
las last night exceeded the Republican dis
play on Tuesday evening The torchlight
procession tonight will surpass anything
Of the kind ever witnessed in the West.
PLAISDEALERIsMs-T Cleveland PLan-
dealer furnishes the following:
The Black Republicans of Pennsylvania
seem confident of Col. Curtin's election
1t is very likely that he will prove a drop
Curtain to all their hopes
1t is confidently asserted that Honest
Old Abe Is the "c0ning man" To our
taste he is the most un-coc1s-ly man we
have ever seen
The UraH describes Douglas voice as
bark. This is very appropriate. Look out
in November for the BITE, which will give
the Republicans very DoG-ged look.
ToADYIsH-Some dirty water left by the
Prince of Wales, in basin il his apart
ments at Quebec, was bottled and sold at
four shillings vial to some of his toady-
ing admirers-Rep. paper.
! And few old rails said to have been
/ split by Lincoln in Macon County have
been hawked about the country and sold
. for five or ten dollars q rail to some OF his
! toadying admirers.
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DR.. JOHN HyHIEY.

UE. JC4fN HI ELEYs
VETERINARY SURGEON, whose success in the
treatment az the different diseases which hors
and cattle are liable has been for the last 6y year.
satisfactorily established. DR.. II. is
iDeTant tebanks tina infest aImos; part
tie country but i permanently located in Ottawa. H.
lnos, and is resp ensble for all he does DR.. H. is
ways to be found at the Central House, prepared
furnish medicines and 10 perform any operations &C.
cordiDg 70 the necessity of the case. oc6-6n
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Iincolu,s election an Impossibility.

There is no question about this. The
case of Mr.. Lincoln is settled-the YER
dict is made up-his doom is sealed. His
defeat is as positively fixed and settled as
that of Breckenridge or Sam. Houston.
This is placed beyond a doubt by the
recent action in New Jersey. No one-not
even the New York IriJune-claims that
Lincoln stands the ghost of chance Of
carrying majority of all the votes
in New j ersey The Republicans
never obtained more than one-third of the
votes Of that state. But their hope of
carrying the State for Lincoln rests on the
fact that against Lincoln there were three
electoral tickets in the feld-a Brecken-
ridge, Douglas and Bell ticket. 1t
happens, however, that the name of Will
liam Cook is on all three of these tickets.
His election therefore, is placed beyond a
doubt-no matter who may obtain the
electors
Thus stands New Jersey. Next Of Cali
fornia and Oregon. No well informed Re
publican paper claims that Lincoln can
carry either Of these States California
indeed, has long ago been given up As Ger
tain for Douglas, while of Oregon, the only
question is whether it Will go for Douglas
or breckenridge, the Republicans being
conceded to be the weakest of the three
| parties in that State; while the latest ac
/ counts render it nearly certain that the
Democracy will be united on one electoral
ticket
The case then stands thus Against
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0r. w. K. WESCOTT.


Buffalo Analytico Medical Institute
Established for the treatment Of al chronic Diseases
nR WEsCoTr visits Ottawa regularly every four
- and six weeks.
OTTAWA, GEIGER HOUSE, OCT. Goth and 9th, It'll,
nsen,) 1850 VS.
He treats successfully Consumption Diseases Of the
Lungs, Liver, Heart and Kidneys Catarrh, Pieurisy,
Rheumatism Gout Dropsies, Nervous Diseases, Apo
piexy Palsy Epilepsy Fits, Asthma Phthisic Neu-
Iagia Diabetes, Gravel Scroula Hip Diseases, Ulcers,
fumors, EruPtons Humors, Piles, all Female Com
plants.
Cur remedies are Vegetable. We will not make sick
Ia make well, or tear down to build up again. CON-
SULTATION FREE. anil
DUY YOUR SCHOOL BOOKS at
ID sn29 ORTON'S BOOK STORE
For Sale,
1.-THE stock, fixtures, and lease Of Ne. Grocery
L and Fruit Store in Ottawa. Address p. O. bex
1871. sero
DUY YOUR STATIONERY at
ID oRroN's BOOK STORE,
You get nothing good at the Drug Stores. janeS
Kerosene OBl.
NVHOSE that DO net like to Fluid, caa End the best
J. quality Of Cesl Oil At [fsblsl D. wALKERA
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Uttaloo freeGraoct.
OTTAWA. Ill, OCT ;, 1860.
Deuccrat.c Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
STEPHEN 4. DOUGLAS

FOR yIeE-PREsIDENT,
UERSCHEL !. JOHNSON,
OF CECRGIi.
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BY GEO. ?. MORRIS.

Man dieth and wssteth away,
And where 10 hel"-Hsrk. from the skie.
! hear . voice answer and say.
"The spirit Of man never dies;
iiis body, which csme from the earth,
Must mingls again with the sod;
But HE soul. which in heaven hss birth,
Returns to the bosom Of God"
No terror has death. or the grave.
To those who believe in the Lord
We know the Redeemer can save,
And lean on the faith Of his word:
While sshes 10 ashes. and dust
We give unto dust, 10 our gloom,
The light Of salvation we trust.
Is hnng like lamp in the tomb.
The sky will be burnt a. secroll-
The earth, wrapped in flames. will expire;
But, freed from oil shackles, the soul
Will rise in the mics, Of the FIRE.
Then. brothers. mourn net TO- tho dead.
Who res. from their lahore. forgiven;
Learn this from your Bible instead.
The grave 10 the gateway 10 heaven.
Oh Lord God Almighty! to Thee
We turn - our solace sbove;
The waters may fall from the sea,
But not from Thy fountain Of love:
Oh, teach US Thy will TO obey.
And sing with one heart and accord,
He gave and He taketL away,
And praised be the name Of the Lord''
Home Journal.