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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
Creation OF Partisan Tribunals.

The creation of tribunals for partisan purposes
has always been regarded rs the most odous con-
trivancc ot despotic power: and. though such tri-
bunals everywhere have ruined the party that es.
tablished them as "A means OF expressing political
opponents, reckless politicians have nevertheless
persistenty REQUIRED to the same schemes when
ever they were near their wits end. 1t is easier
to destroy the wealth, the culture, and even the
morality of nation than to root out its sense OF
independent and retributive Justice. Shortsght-
edness yet seems to int egrant part OF roguery
that even the most cruel teachings Of history new
er prevent the repetition of that dangerous ex-
pertinent. The condemnation of Robespierrc,
Couthon an St Just, by the tribunal which they
themselves established for the exclusive benefit
of the Party of Terror, has often been alleged as
the most striking instance of the infallible ruin
OF politicians by the very tribunals they had es-
tablshed to ruin their opponents The circum-
stance that the revolutionary tribunal, this most
audacious of Robespiorres schemes, was not only
not abolished on that same ninth of Thermidor
on which the monster and his party were politi-
cally annihilated, but that it survived for many
months. until all his accomplices, together with
all the Robespicrian indges and public accusers
of that tribunal were condemned by it, is a still
more striking revelation of the infallblity of
retributivc justice. The terrible instrument was
not broken until it had crushed everybody who
had used it during the time of Terror.
The court of justice which our own revolution
lists seem inclined to change into IL tribunal Of
their own, is the United States Supreme Court.
Certain, at all events, as they expect to be of be.
ing in a minority to the Judges of the Supreme
Bench, they constitute the decisions of this mi
nority as the availing Judgment of the court. II
three out of eight of the Judges declare an act of
TINS Radical Congress constitutional whilst the
other i've say the contrary, the opinion Of the
three must prevail over the opinion of the five
suppose the next Congress Democratic, and
that = bill wore passed declaring ANYBODY, trai.
tor who had aided in the subvcrsion of the Fed.
cral Constitution, and that ono of the very uors.
traitor were condcmncl, by some Of our State
courts. how could the 50 condemned dare 10 m,
peal to tue supreme Court under the plea of nm.
constituuonality of the law for the rausrrcss
ion of which he WIS condemned bv the lower
court Their own theory would confirm the frat
judgment
Men who live only by the abuse of rower are
dead enough when power is taken away from
them Aud this the people undoubtedly Vim do
This last scheme is not the teathcr which hoy
have laid upon the already overloaded back of
the rane,--it j, q milestone, sufficient Of it,olf
to Urea. down oven The strongest belief in Padi.
cllism.-S LO1s B,l5N2icln
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

&TATE AND C0UNT'Y TANES.-The under.
~ sHci Collector for Tie town 'd ottawa gives hocc that
ne VIII commence the collection o State md County TAKE.
ABOUT The 8th OF this month lie may he found every day
from TOD o'clock PM ~ Arthur iochWo9d's o'cc-at all
other iles lie will bc out calling "n the tax payers
The books having ~ order of the Supervisors, been with
held over month. leaves tbs ui.is ntd b. short time
10 make his collections in, and he hopes 'Tx payers will be
prepared to meet their taxes promptly " y. rilELps,
JaiL ll-3w Collector Town If Ottawa
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01
WAGONS. CARRIAGES, &c.

The business in all is branches will lie ,-,s.s.n ,,,
carried ON by c. llaLn, who takes this uppor. a.
umty of iniurmn, bsfriende in tho ctty and
tho Erpiing community generally that after -XZ-----
experience 20 in the above named business in
this city, he feels confident that G durability aud good
Workmanship hi work be excecd by any shop in
the west Al s timber being well seasoned tcioro using
and usu. nothing hut the very best of material ersons
rely ou having good work 10 fact he viii warrant all his
wagons aud carriages.
Thankful for past ayors, he wouldsl solicit continuance
Of same.
All Oling done at short notice.
All accounts will Ue settled by G. HAHN,
go! "a Cll;yn II, 4 telic ,ho Ca. Woiks lsu IL.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-02-01

according 10 the census OF the city of pc.rio
Just completed and published IN the De.o1.r0t &c
the u. the total population ic = l,dOJ. OF these
$500 arc married and 1890 are single. There
arc but 40 Z" cnllud ppssons in that place.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
From the Nashville Banner.l
GREELEY ON BROwNLowysu

The Knoxville Wing, i'm it's intole-
rant and venomous way, took the
New York Tribune to task, a short
time since, because the latter paper
was not particularly enamored of
Brownlowism. Greeley comes back
ON the Parson, after mild fashion il
is true, but reiterating his belief in i'm
partial suffrage, and his lack of conf
dence in the system of disfranchise-
ment and oppression which character
izes the rule and reign of Brownlow-
ISM We append the Tribune article.
and commend it to the attention of
Brownlow and his followers through
out the State:
Mr.. Brownlow and his friends have
disiranchised a part of the people of
their State-he says u majority, but
we think him mistaken onthat point.
Now he says that the restlessuess.
hatred and lawlessness " of the dis
franchised moiety Of Teninsseeans
prove their Acknowledgement wise.--
We cannot so regard it. We have so
long heard the Ignorance and depriI.
dation of the blacks cited to excuse
their enslavement, or at least their
privation of political rights, that we
regard with disfavor all arguments
that run in the same groove. We ad-
NIT that the blacks are often ignorant
and degraded; we insist that slavery
and political nullity made and must
tend to keep them so. We admit that
the Tennessee rebels are restless, hate
full and lawless; we hold their dis
reimbursement at least a partial expla-
nation of this. We do not believe
that devils will be cast out by Belize
bub.
But Mr.. Brownlow's ground is un.
stable. Every day lessons the NUM-
Der of DISTINGUISHED rebels, and i'm.
creases that of theirdescendants who
have attained the age which entities
them to vote. If the rebels are in
deed majority, their crowd will soon
be In power through the operation of
natural causes, to say nothing of the
chances and changes of politics. And
then we may have the blacks dis
franchised, as well as the surviving
rebels enfranchised. We dislike the
prospect. Shakespeare says that
'bloody instructions return to plague
th' INVENTOR
But we cannot limit our vision by
the horizon of Tennessee. We look
also over Kentucky, Maryland, Del
aware, where the blacks are under the
feet of rebels and sympathizers witt
rebellion. We are impelled, therefore
to advocate principles which suffice
for them also.
Educated in the republican faith
we hold government by the whol,
people bencficent and safe. We woult
not restrict power to our own party il
we could. We submit to the disfran
chisenient Of rebels as temporar,
expedient; but we protest against it
perpetuity, in the interest alike OF
white and black. We are confiden
that half the people of Tennessee ear
not govern that State so wisely ant
well as the whole could. Not IN tn,
interest of class, nor In Difference {,
the passions of the hour, but i'm obe
dience to profound and long settle,
convictions, do we plead for universa
amnesty and impartial suffrage.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
From the Lexington Gazette.l
~. James Military school.

The school is located at Shelbyville,
in one of the fairest counties i'm Ken
tucky, and viii open on the first OF
September next, underthe Presidency
of Gen. Kirby Smith, with General
ID. IL. Hill, of North Carolina, as one
of the Professors. General Smith is
determined to make the st. James all
that West Point Is, as a military
school, and to establish such an esprit
among the cadets as to force n young
man TO be gentleman as well as a
soldier, and with such religious infiu-
cnces over him as will make him a
christian also, if fpossiblc. The num-
Der of Students will be limited to fif-
ty or sixty the first ycar--and some
have already ehtered-so that those
who desire to avail themselves of
such an admirable opportunity for cd
ucating their sons should speak in
time. Every one in this Western
country knows the high character for
every grace that can adorn q man,
which these Generals possess, and the
doors oftheircolege win be besieged by
eager applicants for admission. Gen-
ernl Hill will also remove the publi-
cation of "The Land We Love, to
Kentucky, and the magazine will
gain greatly in circulation by the
change, for Il central position OF this
kind cannot but prove of great ad-
vantage to it.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
JOINING THE MASONs.

Knobbs has joined the Masons, and
here is his experience i'm getting into
lodge:
must tell you of the perils and
trials i had to undergo to become a
Mason. On the evening i'm question,
1 presented myself at the door of the
lodge room No. 68,666, sign of the
skull and ndcross-bones. was conduct
ed to an ante-room, where five or six
melancholy chaps in sashes and en-
broidered napkins were waiting to
receive me. On my entrance they all
got up and turned back somersaults,
and then resumed their seats. A big
fat fellow, who sat in the middle, and
who seemed to be the proprietor, then
said: "Sinner from the outer world,
advanced" / advanced. "Will you
give up everything to join us?" "Not
If know it,n I said; "there's my
wife and fourteen fine" Another
party here told me to say Eyes" as it
was merely matter of form. So ]
said, eyes, give up everything. -
The fellows in the towels then groan-
ed, and said, "tis we'll" "D0 you
swear never to reveal anything you
may see or hear this evening to any
human being, nor your wife?n said
"pon my word l will not.n They
then examined my teeth and felt my
muscles, and made me put out my
tongue, and then groaned again. i
said, If you don't feel well / have
got little bottle here that The
fat man here took the bottle from me
and told me to shut up. He then, in
voice of thunder, said, "Bring forth
the goat" Anotherfellow then came
up with big cloth to bind me. mo
you don't, Mr.. Mason, | said; no
tricks on travellers, if you please; i
don't believe in playing blindman's
buff with goat. III ride the devil if
you like, but l don't go in blind
Stand back, or I'll knock you into
smithereens.n They We're too much
for me, however, so l had to submit
to be blindfolded. The goat was then
led in, and l could hear him making
an awful racket among thefurniturc.
began to feel that i was urgently
wanted at home, but was in for it,
and could not help myself. Three or
four fellows then seized me, and with
"a demoniacal laugh pitched me on
the animals back, telling me at the
same time to look out for squalls.
have been in n good many scrapes,
Mr.. Editor; have been in an election
fight; I've pitched out Of four story
window; Ihave gone down in rail
road collision, and up i'm steamboat
collision; but this little goat eXcur-
sion was ahead of them all. The con
founded things must be all wings and
and horns. 1t bumped me against the
tables and chairs, and the stove and
the ceiling but hung on like Tro-
jan. | turned front sOmersaults, and
rolled over until / thought IL was all
over with me. / was just on the point
of giving up when the bandage fell
from my eyes, and the goat bounded
through the window, with n yell like
n Camanche Indian giving up the
ghost. l was in lodge of MasOns.-
They We're dancing war dance
around big skull, and playing leap
frog, and turning hand-springs, and
the big fat fellow of the ante-room
was standing on his head in the cor
ner.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
The New York Herald saws /.

Grant IL with the revolutionary
powers-a sort of cast iron Caesar.
who relies only upon blind impulse,
has faith simply in mere force, and
In this character serves a purpose
Already he rules ten States, as a mill
itary dictator by the will of these
men, and can easily step from that to
ruling the rest in the same way
For what impediment Is there? Only
a moral power; only an idea, only
that historically sacred pieceof paper;
the write Of habeas corpas. Suspend
that writ on any prsIeXt, and Grant
rples the whole country as he now
does the South. Removing the Pres
ident, putting in his place a creature
of its 9Wn, Congress will have the
power to suspend that writ, and If il
needs preteXt can easily make one
In disturbance Of any sort. Such is
the abyss the nation stands by, and
even n decision against these men of
the popular voice may not save US;
for If Grant should be the candidate
on one hand and Chase on the other,
and Chase should bechoscn President,
it Is still the purpose Of these men 10
rule by any means. Their very de-
feat would make the occasion for sus-
pending the habeas corpus by their
dummy President, ruling through
Grant ms dictator, and keeping the
rightful President from his place.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
Special Telegram To the Chicago Republican,
Tho Plot 10 Defeat the Impenchmcut
St0rtIing DcNeIOpMcnla.

WASHINGTON, May lG.-There haa
been startling developments here to
day, which show consclusivcly that
there has been a regular conspiracy
Oh the part of Chief Justice Chase
and renegade Republican Senators, to
defeat the impeachment and elevate
the former to the Presidency at tho
cost of breaking up the Republican
party.
Night before last, Chief Justice
Chase invited Hon. ii. S. Bundy,
member of the 30th Congress from
Ohio, to call upon him, and stated he
had some important matters to talk
about. Mr.. Bundy having Ions
shared the confidence of the Chief
Justice, and being heretofore his firm
supporter and personal friend, accep-
ted the invitation,
During the interview, Mr.. Chase
told Mr.. Bundy that IL was his in
tention to become candidate for the
Presidency on the Democratic ticket,
and not succeeding IN this, he should
enter the arena as an independent
candidate against Gen. Grant. or
bc 20 doubt. The impeachment
Wanld fail, and thus falling, would
divide the Republican party, aud
that statesmen like Trumbull, Fcs-
sender, Henderson, Grimes, and
Fowler would be rccongnized as head
of one division of the Republican
party; and the five men, he said, had
pledged themselves, ten days ago,
that they would stand by and support
him in this movement. The Chief
Justice gave Mr.. Bundy his views
In full on this movement, speaking
very confidently Us 10 its success, and
predicting the downfall OF Radicalisn
Represented by the advocates of I'M
parchment.
This treason on the part of the
Chief Justice so astonished Mr..
Dundy, that he at once communi-
Gated what had been said 10 leading
Radicals here. The whole matter
has been kept quiet, and the cOnspir-
acy was so apparent, thai leading
Senators to-day urged upon the
members of the Board of Managers
TO take immediate steps in the mat
ter. The Managers, however, said
that they had no power 10 do so.--
They had been commissioned with n
duty TO perform, and that duty had
been done, aud their ease was In tho
hands of the Senate. If the latter
failed 10 perform theirs, the people
must give n verdict as 10 the purity
Of their action. Thus far Init few
have been informed as to this extra
ordinary language Of the Chief JUS
tlcc, bat II having been communicn-
tel to the Managers, your correspOu-
dent Il now at liberty Co make 1t pub
lie.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
srr. PendIcton's Speeches.

The Southern Home Journal, pub
lished at Baltimore, is edited by one
of the most eminent literary men OF
the South; In recent article upon
Mr.. Pendleton he pays him the
the following compliment, outside OF
the domain of politics, which all who
are acquainted with his addresses, po-
litical and literary, will accept as
being in the highest degree deserved.
He says:
"It is remarkable that Mr.. Pendle-
ton has none of that coarseness or ex-
cess usually attributed to the Western
politician. His appearance Is singu-
larly cultivated, his dress dccorous
and becoming, he suggests recollec-
tions of the old school gentleman, and
in his style he has the merit of reviv-
ing the graees of literature i'm politics.
He calls to mind those better days OF
the Republic, when the politician was
also the gentleman and the Scholar
We name him confidently as the best
living model in America of n pure
and literary style in party politics, in
abstinence from personalities and low
fancies, in dignity, in well-knit and
justly-adorned language, he has no
equal among the pubic speakers OF
his day.
"Even if he writes on the 'resolu-
tions of 1893 and 1799.' we are attrac-
ted by the charm of his style, and
fancy we are obtaining new infor-
nation of subject which other in
structors have made trite and thread
bare. 1t is. style i'm which are most
ingeniously distributed all the ele-
ments; in which the arguments is
well braced with illustrations; in which
the logic is neither too dense nor toe
desultory; and in which ornament is
so judiciously used as to draw without
dividing attention. That Mr.. Pen
dleton is one of the first political
scholars of the country, no candid
person will dispute; and that he is SC
without prejudice to the familiarity
of his intercourse with the people, i
the effect not only of his amiable per.
son, but of the happy literary style
by which he obtains admission to The
minds and hearts of even the most
ignorant of the populace."
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
From the Metropolitan Recordl
THE BROKEN SwORD.s



We clip the following beautiful and just
tribute to the Heroism, courage and feeling
of Capt. b. +. SAUNDERS, from the Metro
polttop Record. The incident referred TO is
the breaking of his sword by the Captain
when told to surrender IT,:
Not never shall this trusty glaive
Which / so long have borne,
BE grasped by hands less true or brave,
Or "a cowards side adorn.
Too oft i'm war its silver beam
True men have followed far,
AS thro' the battle-storm its gleam
Flashed like u falling star.
Dear hands have bound 1t to my side,
While struggling to repress
Unbidden tears, the sweet lips cried,
Go, love, thy cause Is blest!
And often I'M his childish Joy
Along the shining blade,
The dimpled fingers of my boy
In artleSs wonder strayed.
Then think you could lightly fling,
At some proud foeman's feet,
A sword round which such memories clinl
So sacred and SO sweet
No, rather let 1t evermore
Rest meath thy rolling flood,
Oh stream that laves my nativc shore,
Now darlSly stained with blood.
Then proudly turning from them, he,
Unsheathing as he spoke,
Its hallowed blade, across his knee,
The tempered steel he broke.
And far into the aztire stream
The glittering fragments threw,
And sternly watched their last faint CLEAN
Sink glimmering from his view.
Whate'er he felt, in tear or sigh
Not there, he sought relief
1t was not for a foeman's eye
TO gaze upon his grief.
Roll on, thou river! glad and free,
Forever pure and deep;
A stainless hand has given to thee
"A holy trust to keep.
Thou mayst have treasures rich and rar,
Beneath thy restless wave;
But none so precious can'st thou bear
As that true soldiers glaive!
"Suggested by an incident that occurred
after the fall of Fort DonclsOn
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
A Heroic Mother.

heIayfayette JOHrndtsays that on
Saturday last, the wife of Mr.. n. g..
Throckmorton, living near Romney,
Tippecanoc county, having drawn "A
bucket of water from the well, went
into house, leaving two children, one
three, the other five years old, play
ing In the yard. In n few moments
after, the older child came crying into
the house, and told its mother that
the other had fallen into the we'll,
Instantly the mother rushed out, ana
at once realizing the necessity OF the
case, sprang into the open well. The
distance to the water was more than
ten feet, aud the water more than ten
feet deep, Grasplng her child, the
brave mother clunrto the side of the
well, and, still retashing her presence
Of mind, told her little boy to go for
his father, who was at work more
than half mile FROM the house. In
about fifteen minutes. which must
have seemed hours, the welcome as
sistance came, and the mother and
child were rescued unhurt. The
mother appeared at church the next
day serenly unsconsciOus of the hero
ism she had displayed.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29

HARD ON GRANT.-Several Ger
man Radicals of st. Louis have pub
lished In the Gestliche Post, Of that
city, an address TO the "Friends OF
Progress" in which they say:
We believe Il permanent success for
the people, the maintenance of their
republican liberties, can only be ac-
complished by the Republican party
strictly and energetically adhering to
its principles; and that we cannot dis
cover in the past of General Grant
any guarantee for his future action,
nor in his former department any
show of statesmanlike capacity.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
REspoNsIpIIIry OF STEAMroAr

RESPONSIBILITY OF STEAMBOATS,.
a man who got aboard the Talisman
Mt Paducah on her last trip To Nash
willie, brought suit i'm the court of Jus
tees Smith and Mathews, To recover
Sll0 which he declared hc had depos-
tied with the clerk of the boat on get
ting aboard, He had taken deck pas
sage, got drunk, and the clerk refusing
10 keep the money, gave il back d
him, ana he was subsequently robbed
of the whole amount. 4 Judgment
of SllO and costs was rendered in ia.
vor of the plaintiff, it being consid,
cred that the clerk having once re-
ccived the money should have kept II
until IL was called for. The case was
appealed, and the steamboatmen de
clare they will spend $4,000, if neces
sary, to test the question involved
NdshpiHe Dispdtch.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29

Nor n single divorce has ever been
granted in South Carolina, since its
settlement. The new Constitution,
however, contains sectioa providing
for the legal separation of dissatisfied
husbands and wives. This sort OF
advance, one of the papers thinks, is
something like "the progress of the
serpent in Paradise
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29

The statue of Thomas Benton, for
thirty years United States Senator
from Missouri, will be inaugurated at
81. Louis on the 27th instance, and
unvaiied by his daughter, Mrs. Gen
eral Fremont.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29

WILLIAM a. BUCKINGHAM will
ho chosen United States Senator by
the Radical Legislature Of C0npectf-
cut, 10 replace Dixon.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29

According 10 an official report the
receipts of the Atlantic Cable for the
month of March were el PA per day,
against II, 00i per day In March,
1857.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29

Last year Dyer county produced
1900 hogheads of tobacco and GOO bales
OF cotton, ohion county, 800 hogs
heads of tobacco aud 1900 bales Of
.gstt.sJ
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-05-29
j. R. TAPSCOTTs
CIVIL ENGINEER,
A II Q H L II L G II -,
AND SURVEYOR.

Plans and specifications of Bridges fur
nished, also of Buildings and Ornamental
Grounds. Work of every description con-
nected with building measured and calcula-
ted Also, Manufacturers Agent for Steam
Engines and Machinery of every description,
Iron Verandahs, Railing, Marbelzed Iron
Mantles, Crates, Window Caps, etc., Terra
Gotta Ornamental Work, Chimney Tops, and
all kinds of Building Material, finished and
unfinished, embraced in carpenters work
Galvanized Iron, Copper, Zinc, Tin, Slate
and composition Roofing.
All business intrusled to me will be at.
tended to promptly.
Bay Office, on East siGe Of Public Square,
Clarksville, Tenn. Jan. 3, l866-tf