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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

JoHN c. HEESAN.-lt is stated that John G..
Heenan is once again to enter the prize ring, hav
ing been challenged so TO do by Mace, who claims
to be the champion of England Mace is larger
man than Savers, and is said TO be .'the most
scientific and accomplished boxer Of modern
times" 49, -+-.' tse-t
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

had been oppressed 10y the tariff, but it had been
repealed.
The Abolitionists had opposed Texas, but she
was admitted.
They had opposed the Mexican war and treaty,
but both had been carried successfully through.
Slavery in the District of Columbia and in the
States had been attacked, but the attack had been
successfully repulsed.
The South had been assaulted by the WilmOt
provisO, but the assault had been successfully
PEELED
The fugitive slave law, ever disregarded, was
as well observed as it had been.
The South stood, then, up to the election of
Mr.. Lincoln, on good ground she ever oc-
cuped-in the possession of all rights-irritated
and continually abused, but still possessed of her
rights.
Did, then, the election of Mr.. Lincoln justify
secession: not as II constitutional or legal right
for there is such but as the last resort for self
preservation; the act of revolution or rebellion,
which a certain degree of oppression and danger
justifies in the judgment of all civilized men and
nations.
| will not say what might have been my opin-,
ion had Mr.. LncOln's election been accompanied
by majority in all the other departments of
government, SO that he could have carried out
his principles, being accomplished by a sec
tional majority, against united South, acting
Win tne democracy their ola friends OF tile
North.
Such is not the state of facts.
The Senate was against Mr.. Lincoln.
The House against Mr.. Lincoln.
The Judiciary had decided against Mr.. Lin
coins doctrine
a majority of the people by more than half a
million, was against Mr.. Lincoln. He would
have entered upon his Office without moral or po
litical power, except in the distribution of pa
tronage.
The territories were all organized by laws with
out the Wilmot provisO-and those laws could
not have been repealed.
Besides, Mr.. Lincoln was elected indirectly by
the South, through the breach she created in the
great conservative Democratic party.
In the Union the South would have been safe.
By going out of it, she has thrown all depart
ments of the Government into the hands of Mr.
Lincoln, brought war upon herself, and enabled
Mr.. Lincoln to change the structure of this Gov
eminent into a worse consolidation than Hamil
ton or any other old Federalist ever dared to
think of aloud trr
The South, under great provocation but with
out just cause, has seeded She will have to
take the fate which Lincoln will meet out to her.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

rFf- 1t is stated on good authority that JEFF.
Davis and his brother Joe have recently invested
more than 5000, 900 in Paris They mean 10
have a comfortable retreat when the secession
game is PLAYED out Louisville Journal.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

II The Confederates have been paying on
some OF their employees lately. The editor Of the
Indiana Journal say he has cot "Jef Davis
half dollar ~, A. Ledger AL 49, 81
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

Major Jonathan W Gordon, of the Indiana
volunteers, has resigned and returned home. bay-
ing been appointed Major in the Eleventh Regi-
ment of Infantry, regular army. The Major
passed through this city last evening. and while
here exhibited 10 few friends n watch whichbe
longed TO Gen. Ganett. the rebel leader who Was
killed in a recent engagement. Garnett received
his death wound at the hands OF Sergeant Bur
ingame, OF the S :venth Indiana Regiment. by
whom the trophies were presented to Major 6hr
don. After a brief sojoun at home the MAJOR
will proceed 20 Fort Independence. in Boston
harbor, that post having been designated as the
headquarters of his regiment su
The sword and watch were presented 90 the de-
ceased General shortly after he left West Point
for his valuable services az an officer in the C. s.
Army, and Major Gordon intends returning them
70 the parties who originally presented them 10
Gen. Garnett.-ColuBsbas City Feet .s- a. -
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

Is The Charlottesville Reriep says that j.
W. Cumberlands cavalry company at that place
is fast filling up.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24
Generai McCIcIIan,s Force.

The following is near approximation to the
number of troops comprising Gen. McCLELLAS's
division in Western Virginia. with their positions
at the latest advices. The numerical strength of
his command is near thirty five thousand, nearly
all volunteers:
AT BEVERLY, LAUREL HILL AND BUcKHASSoS.
Headquarters Of Major GenerGS Nc CgeOda and Brig.
GenernLs ROsecrnns and ScLLfich.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

THE ESGLisH GovTRNMfSI AND ANfRicA.-
Malakof. the Paris correspondent Of the ". Y.
Times, writes; mot long ago we heard ono Of
the tea leading statesman remark 70 group Of
American gentlemen: Gentlemen he said, you
must not build up any hopes the good VIII or
aid of the government. The government and
aristocrncy of England while maintaining the
strietest neutrality. ask no better tinRg than. 10
see You tearing each other - pieces"
- few months ago. of All the Democrats
in Indiana, Hon. James Hughes OF Bloomington
was the most abused, and Hon. John c. Davis the
most extolled by Republicans. Now of alfioem-
ocrats in tlle State. Hughes Is the most extoaed
and Davis the most abused by the same class of
politicians. Reason-Hughes Is now making var
and Davis ami war i,eeshes Times cliai,se and
men change xith them. '',--l ,as rrF .stft
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24

1t is estimated that there are two hundred
illiJns of dollars in the Swings Banks of the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07

1t is to me a thoroughly disgusting sight
to see as we sometimes do, the wife and
family kept in constant terror Of the sell
fish bashaw at the head of the house, and
ever on the watch to yield in every petty
manner to his whImS and fancies Some
times, where he is a hard wrought and
anxious man, whose hard work earns his
children's bread. and whose life is the sole
STAY, it is ncedful that ne should be defer
red to in many things, lest the overtask ed
brain and overstrained nervous system
should break down or grow unequal 10
the task. But | am not thinking of such
cases. | mean cases i'll which the head of
the family is a great. fat, bullying, selfish
scoundrel, who devours sullenly the choice
dish at dinner, and walks into all the fruit
or desert, while his wife looks on in silence
and the awe,stricken children dare not
hint that they would like a little of what
the brute hound is devouring | mean
cases in which the contemplate dog is
extremely well dressed, while his wife and
children attire is tn IN and bare; (which
he literally losses abb put his money in the
billiard room, and gdes off in the autumn
for tour on the continent by himself,
leaving them to the joyless routine of
their UNMARRIED life. 1t is sad to see the
sudden hush that fills upon the little
things when he enters the house; how
their sports are cut short, and they try to
steal away from the room. Would that
were The Emperor of Russia, and such
man my subject! Should not he taste
the knout? Should not l make him
howl? That would be his suitable punish
ment; for he will never feel what worthier
mortals would regard as the heavier pen
atty by far, the utter absence of confidence
or real affection between him and the
children when they grow up He will not
mind that there never was a day when the
toddling creatures setup shout of delight
at his entrance, and rushed at him, and
scaled him, and searched in his pockets,
and pulled him about; nor that day will
never come, when, growing into men and
they will come to him for sympa-
thy and guidance in their little trials and
Oil woeful to think that
there are parents, held IN general estima-
ton too, to whom their children would no
more think of going to for kindly sympa.
Thy than they would think of going to
Nova Zembla for warmth.-CounAy Parson.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07

with their capital hire or buy few to labor
for them. A large majority belong to
neither class Neither work for others
nor have others working for them
In most of the Southern States q ma or
ity of the whole people Of all colors are
neitrer slaves nor masters, while in the
Northern a large majority are neither
hirers nor hired. Men with their families,
wires, sons and daughters work FOR them
celves, on their farms, in their houses, and
in their shops, taking the whole product
to themselves, and asking no favors OF
capital on the one hand, nor Of hired labor
ers or slaves on the other.
Ii Is not forgotten that q considerable
number of persons ming!e their own labor
with capital that is, they labor with their
own hands, and also buy, or hire, others
to labor for them; but this is only mixed,
and not distinct class No principle
stated is disturbed by the existence of
this mixed class.
Again, as has already been said, there is
not of necessity, any such thing as the free
hired laborers being fixed for that condition
for life; Many independent nee every
where in these States, n few years back in
their lives were hired Iaborers. The pru-
dent peniless begins in the world to labor
which to buy tools or land for himself then
labors on his own account, and at length
hires another new beginner to help him.
This is the just and generous and prosper
Gus system which opens the way to all,
gives hope to all, and consequent energy,
progress and Improvement Of the condition
to all. No men living are more worthy to
be trusted than those who toll ND or on
from poverty; none less inclined to take
or touch aught which they have not
eoteStly earned
Let them bewars of surrenderins n
political power which they already possess,
and which if surrendered, will surely be
used to close the door of advancement
against such as they, and to fix new dis
abilities and burdens upon them, till all of
liberty shall be lost.
from the first taking of our national GEN.
sus to the last are seventy years, and We
find our population at the end of the period
eight times as great as it was at the be-
ginning The insrease ofthose other things
which men deem desirable has even been
greater. We thus have at one view what
the Popular principal applied 10 Govern
ment through the machinery of the States
and the Union has been produced in
given time, and also what, if firmly main
tanned it promises for the future
There are already among us those who,
if the Union be preserved, will live to see
it contain 10000, 600. The struggle Of to-
day is not altogether for to day it is for .
vast future also.
With firm reliance on Providence, all
the more firm aud earnest, let US proceed
in the great task which events have de
volved upon US. (Signed)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Washington, Dec. ID. 1861.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07
Wtta(ua fret Grader
OTTAWA, ILL, DEC. :, 1851.
War News OF the Week.


IN AND ABOUT " ASHINGToS
There has been nothing said during the
week about forward movement from
Washington. Indeed it is announced that
winter quarters are about to be erected for
the troops, - but this Is not to prevent a
forward movement" &c.
Reconnaissance during the week show
there is no enemy between Vienna and
Hunters mill in that direction and none
nearer than Anandale in another dircc-
ton. McCalTs division has been moving
toward Leesburgh, where the enemy have
about 10000 men, but which rumor saws
they propose to abandon. The enemy has
deserted Fairfax, and his forces on the
lower Potomac are greatly diminished !;
indeed his main force appears to be CON
centrated at Centreville and Manassas.
a spy from Richmond represents that
city in the utmost state OF alarm, and that
the talk is free among the Southern troops
of abacdoning Virginia and defending the
southern coast. Letters from prisoners of
Col Bakers regiment show that most of
of the California regiment supposed to
have been killed are prisoners in that city
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07
virginia Items.

A committee of the Virginia Convention,
charged with the duty Of proposing amend
ments to the Constitution, proposes to
Limit the right of suffrage OF the people to
the simple matter Of electng members Of
the legislature. All other officers, State
or local to be appointed by the Governor
or legislature The committee also de
nounce free schools system (which
compels the rich to educate the children
Of the poor, as an outrage and proof of
a rapid tendency Of things in the Northern
States to agrarianism
The demand for paper of every descrip-
ton is immense in Richmond there being
none to speak of on hand, and hardly any
prospects Of getting any. Ink printing!
is quite as scarce.
The small pox is making terrible work
with the rebel troops on Muldraugh Hill,
Kentucky. Large numbers are dying
daily of it, says despatch in the Rich
mond Enquirer.
The Richmond CHRISTIAN Advocate Eas
suspended from inability to procure print
ing paper
Inc iIchnOHd Examine? GenOuuccs
the payment Of interest due on Virginia
State and other bonds, purchased by
Southerners Of parties in the North since
the opening Of the war, rs paying pre-
MUM for speculation and collision with
the Northern enemy.
The same paper prays for the reign of
an English, French, or Russian Prince
over the South before a restoration of the
Union.
The following are the current prices of
merchandise at Wholesale, (the Examiner
remarking that for small quantities higher
prices are charged viz Bacon, hog round,
% to 26 cents. Butter - to 80 cents, very
scarce Cornmeal soto 81 cents Candles.
tailOw % cents adamantine A. TO ~ cts.
Colfee-none in the market, Hay, timo-
thy or clover Sl.2j per hundred Halifax
herriags $ to So, but none u be had
Pig iron 40 10 SIS, stock small Nails :
to : !c. Refined English iron $ll5 70 SI2D
Leather 60 to g. cents, demand immense
stock very light Lead : to y cents
New Orleans mola-Ses - 70 - cents
Pepper - 10 - ccuts-Tery scarce. Salt.
fine Liverpool, Sljb 10 $50. wool. washed
Virginia (coamouJ 80 TO 10 cents; .iae
m-riHo do, - 10 60 cents.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07

VoLrHTEERs-An order from the War
Department issued on the 30th announces
that the federal army of 800 900 men, au-
thorized by Congress, is full, and that
hereafter, Except regiments now forming
and nearly FULL no more volunteers will
bcaccepted except to keep up to their num-
Der the regiments already in the field To
collect volunteers for this purpose depots
will be established at prominent points
throughout the country, upon which COM
manders of regiments losing men by dis
ease or in action viii make acquisitions to
fill up their broken ranks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07
Congress-.

Congress met on Monday. Forty mem
bers were present at the roll call in the
Senate, among them Bright of Ia, p well
of KY, and Bayard Of Del, three avowed
sccessionsts, but who protest they are
| loyal. In the House ia old members
were present, which with new ones sworn
in, made q quorum. The Presidents
message was read on Tuesday, and the
usual number Of copies ordered to be
printed
The business thus far has been impor
| tant only as throwing out straws to show
which way the wind blows. On the first
day-indecd the firsthour of the session,
Mr. Trumbull gave notice of bill to con-
iiscate and give freedom to the slaves of
! rebels, and on Thursday he introduced
his bill. Considering the quarter it comes
from, it is quite moderate. 1t is almost
word for word the bill of the Confederate
Congress, coniiscating absolutely all the
property of persons in rebellion against
the government, only adding clauses to
include and set free their negroes and
providing for their colonization at the end
Of the war. Other propositions have been
made to have the President declare by
proclamation all the slaves free, and pro-
/ posing compensation to Union men; but
the bill of Mr. Trumbull seems thus far to
be the favorite.
\ resolution offered in the House by
Mr.. Holman, reafiirming the Crittenden
resolution of the last session, was laid on
| the table, II against 60.
Mr. Wilson presented q proposition in
the Senate to abolish slavery III the Dis
trict OF Columbia.
a proposition made 10y Mr.. Salisbury,
Del, to appoint Willard Fillmore, Flank
lin Pierce, Edward Everett, and dozen
Others of that class to meet q like number
to be appointed by the South to negotiate
aIeace, was hooted down with laughter
The House, on motion OF Sir. Loyeioy,
passed vote Of thanks to Commodore
Wilkes for his arrest Of Mason and Sldell,
resolution was also proposed, asking the
President to put Mason and Slidell into
close confinement, like criminals, while
the Coniedcrates similarly confined Coils
CSgcovan, Brown, dc.
John X. Read, of No, and II. C. Bur-
nett, of Ky, both Secessionis:s, were ex-
PEELED from the House. JOHN c. Breck-
inridgc was also expelled from the Senate.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07
EXCITEMENT At PApucaH-There is trouh

EXCITEMENT AT PADuCAH.-There is troub-
lie among the Generals at Paducah.
week ago, a secessidnist in that city hung
a rebel flag out of his window. Gen. WAL
lace notified the commandant, Gen Smith
of the fact, but the latter manifested no
disposition to Interfere Thereupon Ger
Wallace sent a squad of men who removed
the flag and raised the stars and stripes
over the building. The party were met by
one of Gen. Smith aids with orders to re-
place the secession flag and remove the
other Gen. Wallace declared it should
not be done while man remained alive
in his brigade, and that the secessionist
should have the honor Of sleeping under
the union flag, Smiths aid thought that
no great honor, whereupon Wallaces aid
knocked him down. Thereupon Gen
Smith issued general order derouncing
the occurrence, and Threatening punishment
for characterization. Gen. Paine and other
commanders sent word to Wallace to keep
stiff upper lip, and that they would stand
by him. So the flag still waves, while on
all sides the greatest indignation is express
sed against Gen. Smith.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07
From Missouri.

A special despatch in the Chicago J0,tr
nal of Thursday evening gives the follow
ing startling news fiom Missouri:
Gen Rains had cut MontgomeIy's force:
all to pieces, and taken him prisoner
M,Culloch had surrounded Sicel at Sc
dalia 1t was believed the latter would
be forced to surrender, c. &c Gu q, l,i~ces
| Gen. Price had crossed the Gasconade
river en- route for st Louis People every
where focking to his support 1t is be
lieved he would have an army of 10000
/ before reaching st. Louis.
/ Geenville, Tenn, Nov. 30-Hcnry Fry
and Jacob NJ. Henslir, Unionists, were
hung to-day for bridge burning.
Yesterdays Chicago dailies .ia-.e nc
mention Of this. From other sources, the
reports left Price moving northward from
! Springfield in three divisions-Rains with
! 5000 linen on the west, Mcbride on the
cast, and Price with 5000 men in the cen
tire, Price at last accounts being at OscoIa,
/ 80 miles south of Sedalia
| Since the evacuation Of Springfield by
Gen. Fremont's army, and Gen. Price
commenced returning northward, the
State has been overrun everywhere be.
yond the immediate reach OF our troops
by bands Of from 80 to 200, who pretend
to belong to Prices army and enter the
houses Of Union men, driving off the in
mates and taking all they can lay their
hands on. The result has been the driving
of thousands OF Union families from their
homes in Southern and Western Missouri
into Ssdalia, st. Louis, &c, and even into
Illinois The evil has become 50 great
that Gen. Hallecll has Issued a general
order which is intended to meet the case.
The order directs /, the arrest Of all
persons found in arms against the L. S.
or giving aid totle enemy, and the seizure
and confscation Of theirproperty. . Per-
sons found in disguise within our lines,
proved to be rebels, arc to be shotu itLout
ceremony, as spies 3. Persons not be-
longing regularly to the rebel army, COM
mitting acts Of hostility, and taken, Will
not be treated as prisoners OF war, but as
criminals and shot 4 Union citizens
tbbed and driven into ST Louis, Sedalia,
&c, will be quartered in the houses of
avowed secessionists.
Maj Bowen, OF Gen. Wrran's command,
with 100 cavalry, had fight last Saturday
with a force Of 800 rebels at Salon. routed
them, killing 10 and wounding 20 The
loss of the cavalry was l., killed and
wounded.
Fremont's boly guard has been dis
charged. Most Of the men enlisted in
other corps.
A'member Of the Arkansas legislature,
with 40 companions. arrived at Rolla on
the ID, and joined the regiment of the
Hon. John 5. Phelps They report Ar
kansas full Of Union men.
BY order Of Gen iIallecIz, commandments
at the different military posts in the inte-
rior of Missouri are engaged in collecting
the property of all descriptions taken by
the troops III their march through the
country, and will turn it over to the
proper owners, as required by the articles
Of war
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-12-07

THIS document, which has b0en looked
/ for with so much interest, will be found in
or columns to-day The general cfoct
upon most readers we imagine, while they
( will find n it much to approve and little
! to condemn, will be that of disappointment.
Its rmarkajle brevity, avoiding that clear
and comprehensive resume of the affairs OF
/ the nation with which ali former Presidents
/ have favored us, by referring instead to
/ the department reports, will contribute to
this effect But the greatest dissappoint-
ment viii arise from tie Presidents ambi-
| guilty On the vital topic-what to do with
| the negroes He seems TO lean to the side
! OF conservatism, bat there is no Disgusting
| that his language is capable of opposite
! Interpolation. g ! have enCleavored faith
fully to execute he says, Z" the confscation
law of the last congress ; but if that law is
not considered strong enough, :and congress
chooses to pass another, its proprtety shaL be
dry considered" The Tribune stripe of poll
that the President, by these expressions,
virtually recommends the adoption of a
new and more staingent negro confiscation
act; while thr conservatives affirm with
equal confidence, that TIE Presieent OBJ
viously means the present law goes far
enough, in Difference to the rabid abolition
lists, colby promises to give their new act
If they choose 10 pass one a respectful con-
s.deratOn. but by no means agreeing to APP
prove it. The vpshot of It's, that we must
await developments to find out what the
President really does mean.
In other respect, the message is terse,
clear, well written, and sufficiently eleva/
ted in style and statesman like views to
give it a respectable position rs a state
paper among our national archives.
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Total

CoTToS GROWN ~ ILLNoIs-A farmer in
Christian county, on the line of the Hi
nojs Central Railroad, planted ten acres
Of cotton this year, and although it was
planted so late that but one picking could
be had. yet the average produce, was but
three hundred pounds per acre This at
present prices IS doubly profitable to the
raising OF corn or wheat This experiment
has 50 encouraged the product expert
ments that he proposes to enter largely
into raising another season-cyen 10 the
extent of two thousand acres. Other par
ties in that and the neighbor;ng counties
ate preparing to make this their principal
business another year Buildings and ma
ehinery are TO be erected for ginning and
bailing. The Tennessee upland variety is
used One resident, of twenty-seven wears
standing, says he has raised cotton every
season, without single failure, which is
more than can be said OF wheat or corn.