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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-12

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NEW YORK, Dec ll.-Arrived, steamship Russia
Cook. from Liverpool, z,--
Steamship Borussis, Frsnzen, from Hamburg.
Slesmship Moro Castle. Adams, from Havana.
Steamship Gen. Sedgwlck Munson. from galveston.
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CYN0PTIOAL NEEDLE CASES. CONTAIN
- ing four sizes of extra quality Needles. each In
It's proper partition, are neat useful and not
pensive gift Tor lady For sale by TRUMAN &
below Ninth.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

occasionally we meet an honest Republican
so unsophisticatcd rs to believe that there Is
still some respect felt for the constitution by
the radicals in congress, and that all this talk
about the radicals holding that instrument in
contempt is Democratic slang. Simple people
OF that sort may possibly come to their senses
by reading the debates during the recent dog
day session of congress. Some complaint
was made in the House at the hardness of the
Scnate in acceding to the new supplemental
reconstruction bill passed by the House. Thad.
Stevens apologised for the Senate. lie said
the House should consider that the Senate
was several turlongs behind the Uouse in the
march OF retorm-pcrhaps he ought to say
radicalism." And then, in derision of their
constitutional scruplcs, he said: Some frag
mcnts OF the old constitution had stuck, per-
haps. in the kidneys of some senators and
troubled them. At night when they tried to
progress the ghost of the past constitution
was found in their way and obstructed them"
And this ribad language was received with
Laughter" by the radical rabble engaged in
guiding the destinies Of the Republic.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

THAD. STEVENS and other radicals contend
that the States lately in rebellion are conquer
ed territory and not States at all. Suppose
they are territories and not States, does the
constitution authorize the erection of military
despotisms in our territories Has Congress,
since the establishment Of this government,
at any time, until now, ever deliberately leg.
islated despotism into any Of our territories
Never The outrage is unexampled, until it
was perpetratel by radical Congress. Such
a proposition would have been looked upon as
monstrous by any of our old statesmen. 1t takes
radicalism to do what was never contemplated
by the constitution but what was expressly for
hidden by its whole tenor and spirit.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

r. B. HATCH, one of the late lessees of the
statement to the Chicago Times Of the happy
condition Of affairs at the prison, under the
new rsgim<flast Monday:
At present, in the prison. everything i. rum
ming at loose ends But few of the men are at
work. Some, am told, are working for Messrs.
Root y Burns, in the cooper.shop, some for Mr..
Mack, in the shoe-shop, engaged by our old firm,
and very few for Mr.. George Adams, quarry
ing stone; and those necessary for domestic du-
ties; and the rest poor fellows, are shut up these
long, hot days in their cells.
This is the "humane" system Governor
Oglesby boasts Of, and which is to cost the
state 100000. How much are Root & Burns
paying for the labor of the convicts that they
couldn't afford to employ under their lease
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

In 1860 the REV" ruffian of Tennessee
Parson Brownlow, whom Providence, in
wrath, now permits to be Governor of that
state, protested to have a clear conscience,
and was sure, if he died, he should 90
g straight to heaven" But" said he, "when
shall look around among the untold myriads
of the just made perfect in that blissful abode,
should l, by any chance, any strange unac-
countable peradventure, behold among those
happy beings a single s-k-g Abolitionist, of
any nation, cline or color, be he Jew, Gentle
or Hottentot, shall just at once swear that
there has been cheatin' at the door," 1t is
said that Brownlow, since he has, for the sake
of earthly gear and glory, become one of these
same "s-k-g aboitionists," is troubled with
fits of remorse, arising from direful apprehen-
sions probably, that 'cheatin' at the door"
will hardly avail in his case.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27
The DOG Day Conkress.

The action of the dog day Congress, just
closed, is thus summed up by the Albany
Argus:
1t has enlarged the powers of the military,
so that now a military governor can
Suppress newspaper;
Silence lectures;
Remove Mayors of cities, Governors of states,
Boards of Commissioners, ETC.,
Can exclude white Aldermen and appoint
blacks in their places;
Can take possessions of savings banks;
Can enact stay laws and postpone payment Of
debts;
Can prohibit the distillation of corn and the
sale of liquor;
Can run down city stocks and repudiate city
currency;
Can spend 100000 for registering black vot-
ers, and ask for $500, 900 more;
Can abolish local taxes and regulate the circu-
lation of papers;
Can settle the rate of wages and the price of
commodities;
Can disobey the President and insult the Con.
gress;
They can do all this, and far more. What they
can't do, no one has ventured yet to say.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

Cool CoMFoRT.-The Chicago Tribune takes
solid comfort" from the frightful prevalence of
small pox in that city as follows:
There is one comfort, however, even in this an
nouncement of the presence of small pox it is a
promise that the cholera will give us the cold
shoulder this season. The two diseases seem to
be as antipathetic as oil and water or water and
tire-they are never seen in company, or at least
we have no record of the association In Chica-
go the small pox which had been gaining
strength for several years, disappeared entirely
in 1866, the year in which the cholera came to as
last Now that the variola is here, the Asiatlo
vistant will probably not come The two evils
are each too great to come together, and the one
will draw back abashed at thesight of the field al
ready occupied by his brother, feeling perhaps.
that the ground is not large enough to subsist
both. or it may be that it would conflict with the
notions of mo1osty which exist among demons,
to afilict too heavily at Chica1o 1f1-
lame 11W
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27
"Freedom'' I'm Texas.

The Paterson, N H., Guardian thus relates the
experience of former citizen of that place in
Texas since the inauguration of the era of "Free-
dom :"
Mr.. McAusland, well known to our people.
and highly respected citizen formerly of this
city and lattcrly of Texas, has arrived here We
believe he thinks Texas used up place for
white men IN the future. Before he came away,
he saw jury in the courthouse composed OF
eleven negroes and one white man. This was
now nothing Uncommon
Mr. McAusland brings the correct account of
the atrocities now practised upon the whites BY
the negroes, instgated by the troops. He gives
full particulars OF the burning Of the town Of
BRENNAN in Washington county The first
trouble occurred at aprivate invitation ball given
by party of young men. who had taken their
sisters and sweethearts to the hall hired for the
purpose In the midst of their enjoyment, the
officers of the troops stationed in the vicinity at
tempted to gain admission and afterwards
brought in FIVE negro wenohes, whom they insist
ed ON having admitted promiscuously in the
dances. Of course this produced trouble. The
young men protested, and declared the negro
wenches must not only keep out Of the quadrilles
but leave the room, AS it was private ball The
officers declared they should keep their black
partners in the room, and also that thew should
white girls declined to dance in quadrilles with
the negro wenches and were about to retire.
when they were insulted by the officers; this
produced q rumpus the young men of the town
rallied, fight commenced, and the result wac
that the officers and the wenches were cleared
out
The next day the troops rcturntd, and ia ~
venge burned up the business part Of the place,
and gave the whites notice b, leave "a they would
come back and finish the job. This they did, and
burned up the court house and churches again
ordering all the whites to leave. They next,
aided by drove of negroes destroyed every
building in the town. Not single house wa
standing when MI. McAusland left, TO mark where
stood 40 recently the hourishing and happy town
Of Brennan, Washington county, Texas.
Mr. McAusland recites other acts showing the
desOlation and horror now spreading over once
fertile and happy Texas He speaks discourage
ingly Of the future and has little hope of relief
for the white people, at the mercy now Of their
former servants. Every day negro outrages &C.
cur, and there is no longer safety for man, maid
or woman.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27
Current News.

| The Washington MteUigencer of Tuesday an
nounces, apparently on authority. that the presi.
den. will fully carry out the reconstruction laws
and the supplemental act. 1t entirely discaims
for him the construction placed upon a portion
of his late message, that he did not intend to
| execute the latter act.
Tho famous $4,000 libel suit commenced by
Gerrit Smith against the Chicago Tribune has
been settled. The Tribune which had charged
that Smith feigned insanity to shield him from
the consequences Of his completely with the John
Brown raid into Virginia, takes back its charge
by admitting that Smith was really insane, and
knew nothing of the John Brown raid until
after it had taken place. Smith, on his part
affirms that while personally ignorant of John
Browns intended raid into Virginia, he loved
and admired Brown, his principles and his cour-
age, and that he reveres his memory. Isn't
Smith crazy still
BISHOP WHITEHoUSE, of the diocese of Hi.
nois gives notice that the annual convention of
the diocese will be held this year on the o1st of
August, instead of the ID week in September,
the usual time. The change is made to enable
the Bishop 10 attend the conference of all the
Bishops of the Aglican Communion at Lambeth
England on the 2lth of September next.
Miss Kate Fisher and Miss Leo Hudson, two
well-known actresses of the Adah Isaacs Menkon
Heenan Davenport Dumas Mazoppa school, have
each crossed the bridge over broadway in New
York on horseback.
According to Washington correspondent,
Chief Justic Chase has recently expressed the op.
inion very positively that tho impeachment move.
mcnt was one of great folly. He expressed no
opinion as to tho facts developed, but simply as
to the policy of tho movement
1t is stated that the frequent and late rains of
the present season have bred, in the vicinity of
Now Haven, Conn, blue black bugs, about Il quar-.
ter of an inch long, whose appetite forgreon things
is quite terrible to behold. They 20 through
from tho most delicate little plant to
the largest trees and are driving farmers distract.
cd with their ravages.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

BASE BAII.-rhc National Base Ball Climb.
OF Washington City, which has been ON IL.
rout westward for Il week or two. and heat
all the best Base Ball Clubs son the way from
Washington to Chicago, met Tartar at CHI
cago on Thursday. This was the Forest
City" cla' of Rockford a match game lee.
tween the two clubs was played at Dexigr
Park in presence Of AN audience of 5000 peo.
pie, and The Rockford boys came of winner,
by tallcf-the score standing 30 for tho
Rockford club and 2S FOR the Nationals. III,
Excelsior club, OF Chicago, a week or two AFRO
beat the Rockford cGb by taille, Thi.
leaves the Exceaiors the champion base bail
players Of the country.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

JCDGE BREEsE, who is now Chief Justice
OF the supreme Court of Illinois, is nominated
by paper at Rushvile, in this State. as a can
'sidate tor the Presidency. Several papers in
Southern Illinois second the nomination, and
the Springfield Register regards 1t with favor.
There Is no doubt that in all the qualities that
make up the statesman, Judge Breesc, if not
the hr>t man in the State. is 1T least without a
supeT'"F, and a, compared with Abraham Lin
coin always stood vastly his superior in every
point Of view. We know of no democratic
statesman in the country of greater emncnce
and purity OF character, or whose election TO
the chief magistracy of this nation would
tend more largely to restore the Office to that
pristine dignity from which it has Of late wears
so feartny fallen
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

The President, in his recent veto message,
impales Congress mercilessly on the sharp end
OF picket as follows:
Congress declares these local state governments
to be illegal governments, and then provides that
these illegal governments shall be carried on by
federal officers, who are to perform the very
duties imposed on its own officers by this illegal
state authority 1t certainly would be novel
spectacle if congress should attempt to carry on
legal state government by the agency Of its own
officers. 1t is yet more strange that congress
attempts to sustain and carry ON illegal state
governments by the same federal agency.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

There is now living near Paris, Illinois, man
by the name Of John Regain, native of Ireland,
who WIS burn on the 4th of March. 1894, and is
consequently in his hundred and fourth year.
He came to this country when quite small. and
fought with General Washington in the revola.
tionary war. He helped to build the first house
that was ever built on the site where now stands
the city of Columbus, the capital of Ohio, when
all around was perfect wilderness He is the
father Of sixteen children, nine sons and seven
daughters. Two of his sons were killed in the
war with Mexico, and three fell in the late re-
bellion. The old gentleman says he never knew
DAVIS sickness
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

EXCHANGE OF PRIsoNERs.-The movement
at the recent session Of Congress to get 'good
thing for half dozen of seedy politicians, by
having rowing commission constituted to ex-
anime into the treatment of Union prisoners
by the rebels, at the same time excluding all
inquiry into the treatment of prisoners on the
other side, has raised discussion that, for the
good name of the radical administration dur
ing the war, had better been avoided. It
has brought up the old sore about the exchange
Of prisoners, and Mr.. Robert Ould, the ex-rebel
commissioner of exchange, has entered into
the controversy. In a letter just published, he
says II did offer, in August, 1864, to deliver
the federal sick and wounded without reouir
ing an equivalent, and urged the necessity of
haste in sending for them, as the mortality was
terrible. l did offer to deliver from 10000 to
$4,000 at Savannah, without delay Although
this offer was made in August, transportation
was not sent for them until December Dur
ing the interval the mortality perhaps was at
its greatest height. If had not made the of
fer, why did the federal authorities send trans
portation to Savannah for 10000 or 10 900
men! If | made the offer based on the eouiya-
lent, why did the same transportation carry
down for delivery only 1900 men p
1t will always remain as a stain on the add
ministration of Mr. Lincon, that nearly all the
cruel suferings of Union prisoners in Southern
.ails could have been avoided but for its unrea-
sonable ebstinacy in the matter of exchange.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27
Impeachment.

| The Impeachment farce In congress met
with another cruel rebuff during the last day
of the recent "dog day" session. It occurred
| in connection with the Presidents veto of the
second supplemental Reconstructed bill. The
President having for the third time sent back
with his veto, measures SO glaringly unconsti-
tutional as to admit Ofn argument, came near
losing his temper, and commented ON the pal
pable Inconsistencies of the bill in terms of no
little asperity. This enraged some of the rad
ideals beyond measure, and Mr.. Boutwell,
tiercely demanded that the members Of the
house should not rise from their seats until def
mite steps were taken, sin view of this last in
suit" for the Presidents impeachment Mr..
Randall, democrat of Pa) ridiculed Mr.. Bout
wells tragic buster, defed the radicals, and
said they DARED notproceed with the impeach-
ment. Boutwell,, Williams, Schenk, and others
thercupon cloked with rage, and were bois-
ferrous to let Mr. Randall see at once whether
they dared or not.
But about this time Thad. Stevens got the
floor, and proceeded to cool them off effectual-
ly.. "He agreed" he said "preciscly with Mr..
Randall, that we cannot impeach the Presi-
dent, and say to our friends ON this side who
are urging that matter, that they are urging in
vain. have taken some pains to understand
the composition Of the house and the senate,
and | am quite certain there are enough per-
sons in the house, first to prevent the presen-
tation of articles of Impeachment, and enough
in the senate, if articles of impeachment were
voted, to prevent conviction. So Irepeat that
any attempt to impeach the president will be
vain. 1t is impossible to pierce the panolpy
which surrounds the white house."
Then as to the grounds on which Mr.. Bout
well so fercely urged impeachment just now
that the President had insulted Congress by
accusing them of passing again and again pal
pably unconstitutional laws, Mr.. Stevens said
frankly that the President charged this on an
assumption to which the house had in a hun
dred instances given its assent, "that the con-
stitution is theoretically in operation over the
WuOlC tCLlitoAS vi tuC SOuth uuO IL lulS a.
sumption was correct, the rest of the Presi-
dents argument was impregnable. "But,
said Mr.. S., II deny that the constitution is
either theoretically or practically operative in
the conquered procinces of the south" &C.
The blunt honesty of Mr.. Stevens has brought
the house up standing at a most uncomfortable
point. They have repeatedly voted his doc
trineof conquered provinces, and its resutants
that secession was success, that there were
no traitors at the south, &C., as wholly unten-
able and absurd, and yet he convicts them of
daily supporting measures, and even threaten
ing impeachment against the President for op-
posing measures. that are palpably unconstitu-
tional except on theory which they presist
in voting absurd.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

| lLIiSoIa STATE TEACHERS 1NsTIruTE.-A
Session of this body to continue four weeks will
begin at the State Normal School building near
bloomington, on Monday, August 9th. All the
faculty Of the State Normal University, as well
as other eminent teachers will be present and
give their services. No charge for tuition,
Board in the village Of Normal can be obtained
at $3.50 wcok. -|
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

eratien of important concessions made BY Dr.
w. to the present Marseilles Water Power Com
pany, he retains the right to draw from the dam
now being erected one-fourth of the Illinois
river. This water, by cheap lateral canal, car
be conveyed from the dam to plateau affordine
incompatible mill sites, Is or 20 feet above any
possible overflow Of the rivera danger to which
the other side will always be liable, unless pro-
tected by expensive levees. 1t needs but q
superficial examination to show that Dr. w. is
far from being as extravaganza as some imagine in
his estimate of the Importance and value OF his
possessions on the south sde,-especially will
this be apparent if the proposed chip canal is
ever built, which it seems inevitable must pass
around the rapids on the south side of the river
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

The Treasury Statement to the LIST OF July
presents rather better exhibit than was an
ticipated. The public debt statement for July
will show reduction of the debt to the
extent of between Ss,oOOOoO and $1,000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27
Dedication.

The meeting house of the First Congregational
Church in Marseilles, will be dedicated Sabbath
August 4th, 1867. Sermon by Rev. J. E. Roy
Of Chicago, agent of A. H. NJ. Society. Religious
exercises will be held in the evening, lalso The
friends of such glorious enterprise are invited
to be present
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-07-27

Money was so abundant in London a week
ago that 81 5000 sterling has been offered
on security of consols at II per cent, and refus-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-09
ALndy Of Rxnsrinnce.


The varied experience of the late Mrs.
G~roendycke. as narrated by herself,
will be remembered long as an example
of something to be avoided. Married
in q ball room at the age of fifteen, to a
stranger to her father against his will
she so far was found living apart from
as not to be present at his side if he
died, and she only testified to his death
upon the hearsay testimony ofone per-
son, namc unknown. She, about this
time, visited Boston, met a gentleman
of some means in the street, who ''liked
her looks" and after a s%ojourn at his
brothers house, married him. Next he
and she led"a rather fast life in Phila-
delphia, whence he, and subsequently
she, came to the West. She wandered
over this and adjoining States, as per-
haps the weight Of testimony would
show, with persons not her husband,
as we'll as with her husband.
She, tired of him, sued him for a
divorce, and for weeks before she OBJ
tanned it, was residing in the house of a
widower, whom she had once met before
she started to his home. Being divorced
she married Groendycke on the day she
received the decree. She went to their
home, and was next publicly heard from
in her suit for divorce, in Washington
county, Iowa. She compromised that
proceeding, and next was in Chicago,
sueing again, aud as it appears by the
evidence yesterday delivered, was spend
ing the daylight hours in Court, testify
ing to her love1for A. T., while at night
she was displaying her charms TO
George Warner, who is to be the sue
cessor in that marital relation, which,
on oath, she lately so frequently said,
she had renounced forever. = Chicago
Tribune. 7l .1Ii
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-09

WHAT A waoPPEs.-St. Anthony and
st. Paul are getting perfectly reckless.
In yesterdays Sacramento Union, they
say: "Thst Bidwell could have been
elected by frank acceptance of the
nomination there can be little doubt"
How & "frank acceptance" would have
elected him certainly does not appear.
But take the meaning as probably intend
cd, and how desperate does it show the
Union Saints to be-when they will talk
so wildly. We do not doubt but that
Fay will get more votes than Bidwell
would have received, after a frank &C.
ccptsucs; because Bidwell is generally
held in contempt, and Fay is not SO well
known.