The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-04-24
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Facts and Runsors.


The ssoate adjourned on Thursday of the pres
eat week, 60 that hereafter, to the beginning Of
To next session, the presidsnt can make appoint
meah without fear Of their rejection by the sem
ate. Several senators took occasion, before ths
adjosrnment on Wednesday, in open senate, to
exposes their feelings in reference to Grants an
poialnents. Carpenter, Of Wia, said no regard
We had to parcelling the oAicesamorg the states
With any sort Of fairness. Cameron said the
foceign appointments allotted to Pennsylvania
weCe made without consultation with himssH or
colleague. and one Of them-Cox, Of Philadsl.
Phia, as consul to Leghorn, was kleptomaniac.
o.. in plain English. athief. Cox, who had been
confirmed, was subsequently, removed By Grant)
The southern senators generally complained Of
the paucity of appointments given to their states
500 ~ CHICAGO coLLEcroRsur. tg,as
Grant having exhausted the list Of his own and
has wife's relations in comforting appointments,
Is appointing the relatives of his political friends
at least the only imaginable reason for the an
psintment of Jussen to the Chicago collectorship
is, that he Is the brother.in-law of Senator
Shurz. He is said to be most hopelessly incou-
potent.
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
notwithstanding the rejection of the Alabama
claims treaty over month ago, Senator Chandler
rehashed his old speech on the subject in open
senate on Monday, castigating the British lion
and proposing to balance our claims against Eng
land by the seizure Of Canada.
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DISMISSAL OF CLERKS.
For week Or two past there has been great
wsiling and lameatation among the clerks. Con-
gness having gone home, and q large aunbes Of
the women, clerks being thus deprived of their
protectors, have been unceremonioxsly dismiss-
ed, besides which some three to five hundred
male clerks have been dismissed from the treas
ury department There were about 1000 clerks
employed in that department, and the number ia
to be reduced to 1000. 1t is called measure of
economy, and may savs three or four Aundred
thousand dollars year to the governmsat,-oer.
tainly very small matter, when millieas sre
being wasted in other directions. 1t looks verv
like Saving at the spiget and waiting at the
bung" 4g
cUBA TROUBLES.
In addition to the taking of two passeasecs BY
force from the brig Lizzie Major, meatieasd in
our Last, another Spanish outrage demands the
attention of the authsrities ct Washingtea. The
American ship Mary Lowell was captured week
ago BY Spanish man Of war of the Bshaaas,
in British water, conveyed to q Csban port, md
condemned a. prize Instructions haes not only
been sent to our Counsel general at Havana to
demand her immediate release, bat England ID to
be called upon for an explanation Of bow such IN
event came to be tolerated, while the vessel was
ia charge Of q British revenue officer, with the
seal OF the revenue department upon her matches.
To show that Grant means business in this mat
ter, it 10 stated that orders have been received at
the navy yard in Philadelphia for the immediate
fitting out OF three monitor iron clads for servlce
in the gulf