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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-23

PEnsoSAL.-We had the pleasure Of greeting IN
our sanctum Mr. J. FRASER SHEcUT, who Visits
this city for the purpose of procuring advertise
mcnts and subscriptions for the Atlanta NeU Era
and Ladies Home The Ne,c Era has largo cir
cation in Georgia. and is in every respectan excel
lent advertising medium. The Ladies Home as
its name indicates, is q popular weekly designed
for family reading, and is Southern paper that
should be extensively patronized. Ir. sHEcur
will visit our merchants during his stay, and We
advise all who wish to retain tho Georgia trade
to consult their interests by advertising.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-23
OFFICIAL.

~ OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, S. G., April ~, 1867.
GENERAL ORDER, No. II.
L The Military sub-Disricts of North Carolina and
South Carolina are hereby discontinued.
II. The territory embraced within this command Ia
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-23

YoUNe Mans CHRISTIAN Assoo1AToN.-O On Sun
day evening last the Rev. Mr.. ADAMS, Pastor Of
the Circular Church, delivered an eloquent and
impressive discourse before the Association, in
the Citadel Square Baptist Church. The sermon
showed great ability on the part of the minister,
and we predict for him successful ministry in our
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

SlCKLEs.-The exact facts in reference to
the removal of Gen. Sickles, and the extent
to which Gen. Grant was mixed up in the mat
ter, appear from the correspondence in the
case, which the Cabinet directed to be made
public ON Tuesday, and of which we have in
the Times special of Wednesday the following
synopsis:
Gen. Sickles, it appears from this, received
from Gen. Grant a dispatch requesting him to
modify the order known "a general order No. 10,
under which the conflict arose between the mill
tary authorities and the officers of the United
States district court for North Carolina, who
were acting under the decision of Chief Justice
Chase, made at term of the court, at Raleigh,
in June.
Gen. Sickles denies that he has disobeyed any
order of the President or of Gen. Grant, or issued
any permanent instructions TO interfere with a
civil process issuing from a United States dis.
trict court in his district, without the verbal ap.
proval of Gen. Grant.
When Gen. Sickles received Ger. Grants dis.
patch asking a modification of order No. 10, he
replied, asking that Gen. Grants order of sus.
pension might be held in allegiance until he Gen.
Sickles) could explain. Gen. Grant acquiesced.
In the meantime an attempt on the part of the
civil authorities to enforce a process was again
resisted.
The President, it appears from the correspond.
ence, then directed that Gen. Sickles should be
proceeded against for q violation of the criminal
laws Of the United States, and the United States
district attorney was directed TO procure an in.
dictment against him.
| Gen. Sickles, on learning this, telegraphed to
Gen. Grant, denouncing this proceeding in the
warmest manner, declaring that he was not an,e.
nable to the grand jury and district attorneys
The attorney generals Office then made up a
record of the case, and laid it before the Presi.
dent whereupon an order was issued removing
| Gen Sickles
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07
Recent Elections,

State elections were held this week in Cali
fornia, Montana and Vermont. On the Pacific
side of the continent, it will we matter OF
grief to the rad. reps. to learn that the cleo
tons have gone disastrously for the 'cause OF
the union" lin horn) The democratic can
didate for delegate to Congress IN Montana is
elected by 1000 majority; and the Associated
Press dispatches from San Francisco say OF
the California aelcction: "TlN returns from all
parts of the state show large democratic gains,
and render the election of Haight, dem. can
didate for Governor, tolerably certain. The
Legislature also promises to be democratic, in
which event it is thought Gov. Law will con.
yene the present Legislature Immediately to ra'
tify the constitutional amendment"
Let the friends Of the Union" Gin horn,
take comfort, however. Vermont remains
true Ito niger supremacy and radical disu
nionism.) She elects the radical ticket by 20,
coo majority.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07
Current Ne WIS.

The New York Eceaiay Post tells us that car.
bolic acid, used by means Of saturated cloth,
hung up in room, will eli actually drive away
flies and mosquitoes, and that the experiment
has been successfully tried at Railway, New Jer.
scy
A New York paper notes the falling of child
from tifth.story window. and says the little I'M
fortunate was seriously injured"
There is confined in the county Jail at Bloom
ington, an old man sixty-one years Of age on
charge of numbering his own child by his daugh-
ter. Subsequent to his arrest, the daughter test-
fed on oath, that this was the third time her
father had been guilty of the same act.
The colored Convention at Reading Pa, de-
nounced Wendell Phillips as no more fit for Of
flee than woman, and turned its nose up at
white trash generally. 1t approved of Nat.
Turner's massacre in Southampton Co., Virginia,
thirty-tive or six years ago, when he murdered
women and children unfortunately, and de.
creed TO him, in preference to John Brown, the
honor of having struck the first blow for free
dom.
The virulence of the Asiatic cholera in Italy
may be Judged from the following: Between
last January and July there were sixty-three
thousand cases of that disease, thirty-two thou
sand of which resulted fatally. At Palermo the
latest accounts show the deaths to average one
hundred and ninety daily.
There is a brass band of ladies in Decatur.
The Magnet says this band makes good music.
Senator McDougall, of California, died at
Albany, n. T. on Tuesday of this week, Sept.
b. Senator Med. was, up to 1850, resident of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, and had attained quite an
eminence at the bar of this state, previous to his
emigration to California.
John G. SAKE says that it is common notion
IN Boston that, if person is born in that CITY, it
is unnecessary for that favored mortal to be "borr
again.
Wendell Phillips, in an article in the init
SaceIy Standard, says: Congress represents
the Republican party" Congress don't repre-
sent anything else.
The Northwestern "Sacngerfest," which OPEN
cd at indianapolis on the ID inst, was attended
by Al organizations from ten different states,
embracing over 1000 musicians.
Here is an amended quotation, by married
man who has been waiting for his wife "to put
her things on"
Hope springs eternaly in the huslands's breast;
Wives never are but always to be dressed.
A teacher of vocal music asked an old ladv 70
her grandson had any ear for music "WnGl {"
said the old woman, 81 raaly don't know; WON'T
you take the candle and sec 7"
"rhe light of other days"-pitch pine torcbs
and dipped candles. ~ BID :. -
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

YELLOW FEvER,-Southern papers and des-
patches bring fearful accounts Of the ravages
of yellow fever along the Gulf coast 1t has
assumed an epidemic form at Galveston, In
dianola and other Texan Gulf ports, as well
as at New Orleans, Mobile, &c. In Galveston
there have been 300 cases day, and at New
Orleans from 60 to 100. About one-ftth OF the
cases prove mortal, and ninetenths Of those
attacked arc unacclimated northerncrs. Gen.
Hancock has obtained permission of the Pres
idcnt to delay his departure for New Orleans
one month on account of the y0'w fever.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

| THAD. STEVENS, though a most desperate
and bloody minded radical, has a blunt hon
esty about him that cannot but excite our adj
miration. One Samuel ShOch, of Columbia
Pa recently asked him if it was really true
that the late Congress had not taken from the
President the power to remove the military
! commanders of the south, and if not, why not
Thaddeus replies in his blunt way that it Is
really true that Congress had not taken from
the President such power, and as to phy they
did not. he gives these two among other rea-
sons:
"Some men had their wives at Washington
and their women at home, and other men their
women at Washington and their wives at home,
and it was impossible to keep them together"
In plain English, Mr.. Stevens means that
the members could not be kept together to do
the necessary business of the country because
some staid with their kept mistresses in Wash,
ington and Others with their kept mistresses
at home, and thus could not be kept together.
Another reason he gives thus:
Some of the members of the Senate seemed to
doubt their power, under the Constitution which
they had just repudiated, and wholly outside OF
which all agreed that we were acting else our
whole work of reconstruction was usurpaton'
This is of course an honest confession of
what democrats have all along charged-that
the whole radical work of reconstruction had
no warrant in the constitution and was usur-
patton. Stevens, it is true, holds that the
southern states have ceased to be states, are
conquered provinces, aud therefore outside the
pale of the constitution. But Congress, BY
numerous acts, and the Supreme Court, in nu-
merous decisions, has repudiated this doctrine.
Recognizing the Stevens doctrine, then, as fall
lacious, how could those who had sworn to
support the constitution, vote for measures
which all agreed were in violation of it, and
not be guilty of perjury
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07
A Scorching Reply,

A few days since, United States Senator
Wilson, of Massachusetts, made speech at
Saratoga, New York, in which he said:
"There is not Democratic flag floating ON
the Potomac to Florida, and they dare not raise
one"
In reply to this New York Democrat strik-
es him between the eyes in following STYLE
"The undersigned remembers when there was
a Democratic flag floating from the Potomac to
Florida and that flag was the Star Spangled
Banner; and the time when that Democratic flag
was floating from the Potomac to Florida was on
the 4th Of July, 1856. The Democrats of the
town of Natick, the residence of Senator Wilson
hung out the flag at the same time, but he, in.
stead of participating in the celebration of the
birthday of the American Republic in his own
town, was present at the anti-slavery meeting in
South Pennington, in the same county, and
clapped his hands when William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips, Parker Pllsbury, Elizul
Wright, and host more, now very loyal Union
men, spit upon the Constitution Of the United
States, then throwing it to the ground trampling
it beneath their feet, then consgning it to ashes
and these ashes they again trampled upon.
! remember this incident to-d.y Just as clearly
| as remember he other fact that meeting in
fremont Temple, February, 1861, Carl Shur,
| slandred George Washington as a slaveholdine
old fogy, and that the whole audience clappec
applause with their patriotic handsand on botl
occasions | saw neither the flag of our country
nor any other fag--the democratic fag--o
course not. But when John Brown was hung
saw the flag OF the country lowered at half mast
and that in the town where the honorable sena
tor resided, and that insult to the national faa
was not perpetrated by the democrats, but by
the party o. which Mr.. Summer is the leader.
SAMUEL STERN,
| 104 Orchard Street, n. Y.''
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

Says 'loyal" paper before us-the Syca-
more Republicans:
George II. Pendleton has been advocating a
mild method of reputdation-to wit paying the
interest on our bonds in greenbacks. He will
never help his party by such speeches as the one
made by him the other day in Cincinnati, and he
certainly will not help himself thereby. The
people will not listen to any thing that in
the best of reputation. They are as fxedin this
determination as they were in the determination
to put down the rebellion.
When Smith borrows money Of Jones and
agrees opay him back principal and interest
in gold, the courts hold that Smith discharges
his debt on rendering Jones the amount in
greenbacks, though greenbacks are worth but
60 cts. on the doliar iii gold, because Congress
has made grecnbacks a illegal tender" II
greenbacks are las good as gold" in the pay.
ment of private debts why are they not equal
" good in the payment of government debts
If congress can make them legal tender in one
case. why can it not make them legal tender
in the other case! Is it less just in one cast
than the other Is the contract between
Smith and Jones less sacred ard binding thar
between Mr.. Shoddy Bondholder, Esq, ant
the Government If the legal tender law o
Congress does not "impair the obligation o
contracts" in one case, how would it in tn
other
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07
The School Master.

1t can no longer be uttered as reproach
against Illinois that " the school master il
abroad" The school master is at home in al
most any part of Illinois, and instead Of being
the meek, unasuming individual poets and
novelists have painted him, he puts on airs
and assumes the role of the politician and
statesman, capable not only of instructing the
young in the mysteries of reading, writing and
cyphering, but Of instructing MEN in their
social and political duties. The school mas
tiers OF Illinois are banded together in COM
| mon association known as the I" Illinois Teach
ers Institute" and this body recently met at
Bloomington. Usually these teachers meet
ings have been held for purposes Of selfim-
provement, but the teachers of Illinois, be it
understood, have got beyond that. They
knew all that is worth knowing long ago
the people it is that need to be taught. Our
people have held various strange notions about
schools. Roman Catholics have hesitated to
send their children to schools where either
no religion at all, or religious precepts hostile
to their own, have been taught. Episcopal
lians, presbyterians, and puritans have to some
extent shared the same notions, and have
sought more exclusive associations for their
children than those of the common schools.
Again-in districts where niggers are numer
Gus, some parents have been SO preverse as to
insist that their children shall not be huddled
together on the same benches with the greasy.
oderiferous Africans. The embodied wisdom
of the pedagogues of Illinois would teach our
people differently from all this They pro-
claim 1t as their solemn conclusion, "That
all children of lawful age, without regard to
race or color, should be freely admitted on
terms fperiect equality to the public schools
of the state"
AS the school laws of this state make no dis.
tlnctlon, in race, creed or color as to who
shall share in the benefits of the public schools,
this pronunciomieato can only be leveed at the
practice SO generally in vogue of providing
separate rooms, or at least separate seats for
niggers in the public schools. Our people
generally are not fully educated up to radical
ideas OF the perfect social equality of blacks
and whites They are not educated up to
belief in or realization of the beauties of social
ISM amalgamation and miscegenation. The
schoolmasters OF Illinois kindly make it their
Office to teach them. When our people arc
brought up to this point OF radical perfection
they VIII be prepared to take another step,
and be educated up to capability of appre-
eating the beauties Of spiritualism, free love
and tourierism.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

OTTAWA MANUFACTURING Co.--Pursuat to
notice. the above Company (which is the Comp
any having charge of the proposed water power
at OTTAWA met at the Office of c. H. Force, Esq.
on the Goth ult., and elected the following
Board Of Directors--W. Ii. w. Cush1aan, ].
V. A Hoes, L. Leland, d. T. Cameron, J. f. Nash,
G. H. Force and VIM. S. Easton.
Subsequently the directors elected the follow.
ing officers
President-John V. A. Hoes
.Secretary-C. II. Force.
ErecuttCe C0mnsuee-J " 4 Hoes and D. +.
Cameron.
This organization is effected to meet the obiec-
ton raised few weeks ago IS the Commissions
ers upon whom the statute devolves tho duty of
subscribing the 100000 stock voted by the city.
The Company are still unable 70 locate the
dam, feeling it necessary 10 await the report OF
Gen. Wilson, who is now at La Sale, ana on the
point of completing his notes the survey Of the
ship canal route from Chicago to La Sale, Just
made Should that report be made soon, it is
possible operations on the water power may
still be commenced this fall
PETERsoN's MAGAzfNE, for October, and all
late publications, at OsMAN ~ HAPEMAN's, west
of Court House Square.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07
The New Party.
AN q HAPEMAN.

Next Monday, Sept. 9th, Is the day appoint
ed for the grand mass meeting at Ottawa t.
inaugurate in this county the "New Party,
based on the idea of an increase of the curren
cy.
We think, With all Difference, the words
"new party" as applied to this movement, are
a misnomer. The country for months mas
been gradually dividing itself into two parties
on this question, whether we shall slowly ana
gradually return to specie payments, by cur
failing the currency Gas Secretary MeCuilocn
is now doing,) or whether we shall have flush
and easy times by Issuing more currency. Peo
pie are attaching themselves almost uncen
sciously to one or the other OF these parties
without dreaming that they are at the same
time sundering their ties with the Older par
ties on other questions.
Regarding, thence, the formation OF new
party in antagonism to the other parties O1
the day as an experiment of dubious success, ii
is YET of great moment that we should look
the question the movement presents square IN
the face. To return to specie payments, as the
friends of more currency very justly maintain,
is virtually to double the national debt for the
debt was contracted in paper worth less than
80 cents on the dollar. The plan, with refer
ence to the national debt, then, is something
like this. In year more the 5-20s will begin
to fall due. Pay them off at once by issuing
greenbacks. Of course this will immensely
dilute the currency, and possibly raise gold to
$50. Very well. Gold was 26S when much
of this debt was contracted. But that will be
bad faith, says one. Not so. Although the
government contracted to pay the interest in
coin, it made no such agreement as to the
principal.
For our part if the thing can be put in
practical shape, we go for paying the national
debt as soon as possible, in greenbacks. We
don't like to be vcxed to death with the eter-
mel tax gatherer. The debt went largely to
enrich men who prolonged the war because it
filed their pockets. The people feel that, up
on the whole the destruction of slavery and
the erection upon the ruins Of the south of
negro governments, is costing more than it
comes to, The debt begins to gall and chafe
1t looks like paying enormously to have about
as bad as nothing done, and if anybody can
suggest plan by which we can speedily get
rid of the burden with honor, let him be heard
with all favor, and his suggestions, if sound
and practicable, followed. We shall watch
with deep interest the developments of the
leaders at the mass meeting on Monday.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

Worthwhile DEBATING SOCIETY.-This soc-
ETY. meets Mt the school house in Worthwhile every
Saturday evening, and about twenty-five mem
bcrs. They expect GLORIOUS old time this
fall aud coming winter. The question for debate
Saturday, Sept 18th, is: Reso'ced, "That money
has moro influence than talent on mankind. y
Leaders in affirmative: JAS Cooley and DIR. u.
A. David, of Worthwhile; Negative, Solomon
Pitcher, of Worthwhile, and J. |. Montgomery, OF
Serena. All are requested to attend. The OH
GERS IRE, Solomon Pitcher, President; j. l. Mont
gomcry, Secretary.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07
Condition of the South.

The following extract from letter to the
Charleston Mercury. from Marlboro, s. c., ex-
hibits lively and vivid phase of society in
that Quarter under the blessed auspices OF
radical military rule and negro suffrage A
prophet from Oberlin has appeared in that
quarter, sent. as he says, by Thad Stevens and
Ben. Wade, to instruct the negroes in their
political duties. He gives his name as the
Rev. Nick Williams; and what he breaches is,
that the South belongs to the negroes exclu-
sively, not halfand-half to the negroes and
whites; that the negroes must therefore stick
together, vote only for negroes for all offices,
and prepare the land for the reception of all
the negroes of the north and the final exclu-
sion of the whites. Says the Mercury letter,
in conclusion: s.t......
He asks the negroes why should they vote for
reconstruction "Wili it put muskets in your
hands or mine ? If you go into reconstruction,
you will be cheated out of your rights. No!
stick to your color!" He denonnces the South
erner as having just as much right still to claim
the negro as his slave, as he has to claim right
to his land. No one can imagine, unless he was
present among us, the extent and character of
the excitement among the negroes. All labor is
suspended; our fodder withers in the fields
whilst crowds attend the reverend gentleman
everywhere he goes. He is partnl to young
girls, and has troop waiting on his every want
So great is the fear of him by the negroes gem
orally, that more than one have lost their reason
in virtue of some of his threats of punishment.
One, favoritc servant for years of gentleman
in the neighborhood, is made raving maniac,
and gentleman tells me that he has seen
another on his knees to him imploring his mer
CIV.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

THE P. RAOne Of those brutal exhibitions
known as prize 6ght-perhaps the most brutal
that ever took place in this country, came off
near Cincinnati on Saturday of last week
between Mike McCoole and Aaron Jones. the one
from Cincinnati and the other from ST. Louis.
The parties fought "a rounds, when Jones, hav-
ing two ribs broken and his frontal bone crush-
ed, was knocked unconscious for ten minutes,
and being unable to "come to time" was de-
clared beaten. McCoole, after being pronounced
the victor, jumped five rail fence and ran
quarter of a mile like deer, being apparently
as fresh as when he begun.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

THE EXCURSION TO CHICAGO comes of on
Wednesday of next week. Sept 18th, and prom
Uses to be a great success. The whole county is
walked up on the subject.
Tickets are for sale III Ottawa at the Bookstore
of Oslnan & Hapeman; Music Store of Simon &
Bro, and Jewelry Store of o. Trask; in Mar
settles at the stores Of l.. S. Chosen and L. r.
Sample in Seneca at the drug store of Jackson
& Bro; and in Utica at the Post Office. q"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

THE AETEsrAN WELL. has now reached n
depth of about $50 feet, and the stream grows
stronger at every foot of descent 1t is very
confidently expected that the fountain will be
struck at less than 400 feet, and within a few
days On this happy event, the works will
Immediately be removed 20 the Court House
Square in Ottawa, when, if sufficient encourage
ment is given, an artesan well will at once he
opened there.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-09-07

DR.. o. p HATHEwAY, who during the recent
Horse Fair at Ottawa was relieved by some
cheealier dindastre Of very valuable gold watch,
are pleased to learn, has recovered his proper
ty. He offered rewa I'd of $75 land no qucs-
tons asked" for its return, in response to which
a Chicago police officer notified him that the
watch was in his hands and at the doctors dis
posal on the terms proposed.