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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-08-28
Hegal.

STATE OF ILLINOIS. La SALE CO..
~ CrcM9 GDyt, 70 Ncysab I.rm I'm CNdp,1y.
non sn Wiley, Jacob yIisey CsthArine A. Mccarthy.
unknown heirS Of Salvin, snyder, deceased - 80
II appearing nom .davt ne In the ooice Of the
ssid state and sal! planant having ed his Of com
sns In ssid court on the chancery side thereof on the
lth Gay OF August A. n 1862 herein, and havn9
been issued thereon according to law;
therefore, Is hereby given to said defendants MaYv
Wilsey. William H: Wilsey, Simon X. wsey Jacob A. vii
eey Cathar1ne A. Mccarthy John Mccarthy Morris D. VII.
ee Egbert Snyder and the unknown heirs Salyns
CT that unless You shall personally be
Court House. In Ottawa in said county the first Monday
Of November next D. 1852 whsn and where said
returnabes and plead demur except said
VI the will be taken for confessed against yop and
tngS. CHAIR rs n HOCJE CIerk
oLvRR c. GRAY, Solicitor. augH a
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A Sad. True Story.

An incident of the sad side of life oc-
CURED in connection with the smallpox
hospital week or two ago. A young
lady of German parentage was taken
there to remain under treatment for the
smallpox, just at the time she was to
have been married to an estimable young
man connected with one of our most
fiourishing business houses. Day after
day he came to the Cincinnati Hospital, ,on
Twelfth street, to hear from his affianced
bride. The time for the wedding pass
ed by, and the news came to him that
she was worse and must die. With the
characteristic devotion of woman she
sent him word not to visit her or to be
present at her funeral. She also made the
request that she should he buried in her
bridal dress. So about the middle of
last week, in the white vestments which
she was to have been arrayed at the mar
riage alter, she became the bride of
death. In the hearing of tender though
strange voices she had passed away.
The hands of strangers clad her in the
bridal garments and laid her in the coff-
in. The eyes strangers dropped tears
as they closed the coffin lid over her, and
thought of what she was, of what she had
hoped to be, and Of the one heart left sad
by her departure. Friends, but not old
ones, saw her deposited in the earth, and
marked the spot, that those who knew
her well might find her resting place
Cincinnati Gazette
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Bloody Affair in Indiana.-TyyO
Men Killed and Three Fatally
Wounded.

The Louisville Courier says A fright
full story of bloodshed comes from Can
Melton, Indiana, place about one hun
dred miles distant from this city. We
have only'a meagre statement of what
are said to be the facts, and our informa-
ton is from persons who came up by
boat from the scene of the tragedy. 1t
appears that ON Sunday last merchant
named Dunlevy, who has been man
of high standing in the community in
which he lived, got into an alteration
with another citizen of Cannelton, and,
words became so hot that both men
finally drew their knives and made fierce
assault, the one upon the other. They
fought desperately, and in few minutes
both had fallen; Dunlevy's heart being
cut entirely open, and his antagonist
bleeding from fatal wounds. While the
bloody rencontre was in progress, crowd
gathered around the combatants, and a
number ofthe friends of each interfered
They did not improve matters much, how
ever, for they also drew weapons, and a
terrible conflict ensued with pistols and
knives! Before the fight ended, three
men fell wounded very severely, neither
of whom will be likely to recover The
man who fought Dunlevy fingered until
Monday morning, when he expired
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Odd EelluXs.

The first lodge in America was organ
lied at Baltimore, ON the 26th of April,
1919, bv Thomas WILpEY and four COM
panions. In 1880 the order had extend.
ed into six States and the District of
Columbia, comprising total member
ship Of over three Thousand. In 1910
there were lodges in twenty one of the
States and Territories, with an aggregate
membership of more than II, 900, and in
1850 the organization h:si augmented to
10000 members in 1850 subordinate
lodges. The Order under the jurisdic-
ton Of the Grand Lodge of the United
States now numbers about 800, 900 men,
bers, comprised i'll $500 lodges, and To-
Gated in every State ard Territory in the
Uni0r. The revenue Of the Order du-
ring the past year approxiinated $4,000,
600, and the disbursements in the same
time for relieving the wants of the sick
and needy brothers, burying the dead
and educating the orphan will not fall
far from 100000. The resources OF
the Order are probably $4,000, 600, and
many fine buildings for Lodge aud En-
campment purposes, are. Owned by the
brotherhood.
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"TOrture by Authority"

In the last number of Hearth and
Home Mr.. F. S. Cozzens gives an inter-
esting and painful account of some of
the tortures practiced in our State pris-
ons, such as the "buck," where man is
hung up between two chairs, head down,
by his hands and feet, the ''crucilix," the
iron collar, DC.
1t is curious to remark, in such a case
as this, the value of pictures; there is in
the article an illustration of a man un-
dergoing the torture of the buck, which
tells the story so vividly that, though the
fellow is evidently low rough, the posi-
ton is too painful, and the picture itself
would, if generally circulated, suffice to
abolish this mode of punishment.
Mr.. Cozzens tells some strange stories
of the careless inhumanity with which
severe punishments have sometimes been
inflicted He relates, for instance, that
in one case new officer, instructed by
his senior in his duties, by chance adj
mitted that he had never seen the ''buck'
applied. 1hereupon a conrict acas sum
ma,ily called out and "bucked"
Such eutrages are likely to produce
mutinies. Under competent wardens
and officers severe punishment would
seldom be necessary, even with the most
savage convicts. Pillsbury, the ablest
manager of criminals whom our prisons
have produced, has never, we believe
found it necessary to use barbarous pun.
ishments.
There is a true story Of a convict who
threatened to skill old Pillsbury the first
chance he got" The fellow was bar
Der, and was employed in the prison
barber-shop. Pillsbury, when he heard
of the threat, went to the shop, sat down
in chair, removed his cravat and collar
barred his neck, and called to the convict
to come and shave him.
The man turned pale and hesitated
"Come quick" cried Pillsbury. The man
shaved him, without scratch, in silence
but under great agitation.
"Why did you not cut my throat,when
you had the chance ?" demanded Pills
bury, some days afterward having called
the convict aside. "How could ?" slut
tered the man; 81 could not hurt you
when you put yourself in my hands, in
that way, sir" The warden spoke kind
ly to him, and exhorted and encouraged
him to good behavior; and the convict,
under Pillsbury's management, became
from being one of the most intractable
and savage, one of the mildest and most
trusted of the prisoners, and when his
term expired, was set free a thoroughly
reformed man"
Under right management, no barbar-
Gus punishments would be needed in oul
prisons and penitentiaries, ,and the public
when it hears Of mutiny in Sing Sing,
or Of a convict punished to death, does
right to blame the officers Of the prison
Their incapacityis the fault.-Ne~ York
Post.
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A Veteran Duelist.

Granier de Caslasnac has fought eigh-
ty-five duels since 1874 His son Paul,
the champion duelist of France, boasts
of even a larger number of duels. He
has, in addition, heen called over five
hundred times liar and slanderer, been
spit upon in the street seven times. been
horse whipped in public four times, got
his nose pulled four times, and been
once badly beaten in his editorial sane
tum He has now sixteen challenges
outstanding. 1t must not be supposed
by the msophisticated that fighting a
duel in France is the desperate business
it is in this country, where double-bar-
relied guns, rifles and pistols are used
The difficulties of honor are generally
settled with small swords, and. merely
touching one of the combatants, so as
to draw blood, is considered sufficient
balm to assuage the wounded honor of
Mr.. Crapeau. Eighty duels for FIVE
hundred and eighteen deadly insults is
rather small number 1t took fifty
indignities to produce each one of them
or else there must have been q fearful
amount of apologlzing done by the par
ties who had the fun of misusing him.
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Saturday Night.

Saturday night makes the people hu-
name, sets their hearts to beating softly,
as they used to do before the world turn
ed them in to war drums and Jared
them intattoes. The Ledger closes with
a clash; the iron door vaults come to
with bang; up go the shutters with
a will click goes the key in the lock.
1t is Saturday night, and business
breathes free again. Homeward ho !
The door has been ajar all week gently
closes behind him, the world is shut
out? Shut in rather Here are his treas
ures after all not in the book-save the
old family Bible-and not in the bank.
May be You are batchlor; frosty and
forty. Then poor fellows; Saturday
night is nothing to YOU, just as you are
nothing to anybody. Get wife, blue
eyed or black eyed but above all true
eyed; get a little home, no matter how
little, and little sofa, just to hold two
or two and half in it of a Saturday night
and then read this paragraph by the
light of courage.
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| From the National Intelligencer.]
What Is Needed.

We hope to see in the struggle before
the people this fall in the great States,
and in Congress next winter, bolder
and more resolute stand made against
the lniquity of the party in power. The
opposition in Congress has been so far
entirely too tame The Conservatives
there have not acted as if they .1et the
truths they were uttering. or had any
just sense of the dctestable acts that it
was their business to oppose. They
went through their work as if these diff
farences were merely political, like those
of old times, when a man might be
Democrat or Wing without impeachment
Of his patriotism or character We deny
utterly that the struggle to reform this
Government, to purify it, and crush out
the tyranny that afflicts the land is of
such nature. There can be no compro
mise with this evil The times demand
the spirit of a Hampden, and of the men
who fought the struggle of 1776 against
the crown What we want now is cOur-
age and bold championship. If men
are to come here as mild protestants
against this tyranny, and then hob mob
pleasantly and fraternally with the au-
thors of all this calamity and foul ty
ranny, then they have mistaken their vo
cation. The people want bolder utter
ance. In the House of Representatives
we specially recall, as answering best to
the temper we desire to see, Mr. Eldrldge,
of Wisconsin,, and Mr.. Burr, of Illinois!
In the Senate Mr.. Sprague has spoken
most boldly in denunciation of this vile
tyranny; he has spoken and acted as if
he was really in earnest. 1t is this that
has done so much to make his speeches
popular. We thank him for his example.
He addressed himself directly to the
men who sat opposite in the Chamber,
who had brought this shame and ruin on
the country. He went right up to his
adversary and struck his shield in the
center This pluck is just what the peo-
pie want. Let this example be taken-up,
and this battle with usurpation will not
last long. In this connection we must
do justice to Gen. Blair, our late candi-
date for Vice President He from the
first has realized that we have to deal
with revolutionary party, and that they
must be met with determination to put
them down. He has never quailed he
has never hesitated to call these men and
their tyranny by their right names; and
to. day he is perhaps more feared and
hated by these Radicals than any other
person in America These leaders know
well whom to dread. They know that
the class of gentlemen who in their daily
lives and style of speech confound the
distinctions of vice and virtue are not
the sort Of men by whom the Radical
leaders will be brought to their doom
Against all such they feel secure, and
they, therefore, call them publicly "their
friends" We repeat, that the Conserva,
tives, if they want to regain liberty and
restore the Constitution, must hunt
about for the bravest and most resolute
champions of the cause they can find
Courage and will should be the first and
the last qualifications they should insist
| on.
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Sleeping Together.

The Laws of Life says: "More quar-
rels arise between brothers, between sis
ters, between hired girls, between clerks
in stores, between apprentices in me-
chanic shops, between hire0 men, be-
tween husbands and wives, owing to
electrical changes through which their
nervous systems go by lodging together
night after night under the same bed
clothes, than by almost any other dis
turbing cause. There is nothing that
will so derange the nervous system of a
person who is eliminatiye in nervous
force as to lie all night in bed with an
other person who is absorbent in nerv-
Gus force. The absorber will go to
sleep and rest all night while the elimin-
ator will be tambling and tossing, rest
less and nervous, and wake up in the
morning fretful, peevish, fault finding
and discouraged. No two persons, no
matter who they are, should habitually
sleep together One will thrive and the
other will lose. This is the law, and in
married life it is defied almost univer.
sally"
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From the New York World.l
DELI T'c.pfVn

There is dull trade. From mercantile
palaces to the temporary little bazaars
along the wharves, the sign of dealers
is that never did buyers, local or from
afar, seem SO reluctant and so Door
The demand for goods in the interior
and in the distant West has dwindled-
Now is beield result of the cxtrava-
gance, the absurd imitation of prices,
the speculative fever, cngendered by DO
litical maladministration and an over
fluN of greenbacks among all classes of
people, even among tillers of the soil
Western farmers, not content last year
or the year before to dispose of all their
grain for the high prices then ruling,
held immense remnants Of the crops of
1867 and 1868, hoping for an advance.
These restricted sales did not net funds
enough to enable them to pay their debts
to country merchants. The latter with
outstanding accounts on their ledgers
in lieu of available currency in their
money drawers, are prevented from sal
lying hitherward, as was their wont, and
from making their customary large
spring purchases in the metropolis.
They buy only what their patrons act
uaEy require, and many of them buy
of merchants in Chicago, st. Louis, and
Cincinnati, instead Of wholesale dealers
in New York. An immense amount of
Northern capital has found its way, in
sums both large and small, to the South
and this fact, too, affects metropolitan
trade. People who have money seem
to he seeking safe investment for it,
and people like the Western farmers, for
instance, or like forwarders, receivers.
and all concerned in the grain trade.who
have waited vainly for "rise," feel their
disappointments and losses too acutely
to do more Gin some instances they do
less than liquidate their past obliga-
lions. The reckless flinging of money
away the country wife's demand for fab
rics, guads, and biiouterie, the wild and
speculative course of trade for the last
four years and more, are succeeded by
stagnation. Notwithstanding that Mr.
Grant sits in the White House and Mr..
Boutwell, in the Treasury Building at
Washington, no impetus has been gwen,
no confidence pervades, the monetary
and mercantile affairs of these United
States. Men are suspicious The Ad-
ministration of Mr.. Grant is regarded
with certain distrust. The rumors of
his ambitions designs upon foreign ter
ritory-which, if any one of them is at
tempted to be carried out, may fatally
disturb even the presentill ordered state
of business and social concerns-fl the
air. There not wanting dismal people
who predict, after this sluggish calm, a
melancholy monetary crash
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Desperate Condition of Italian
Finances.

The report of the Committee on the
Italian Budget Revenue for 1869 has
been published. The Governments es
innate of the total ordinary and extra
ordinary revenue is 1,0S4,215,l99 lire.
This amount is reduced by the committee
to 999, ,472,616 lire, being still an increase
of 2l9, ,5S4, 5S9 over the revenue of 1858
The committee calulates that the grist
tax will produce in 1869 100000 of
lire, or 25,000,000 less than estimate of
the Minister of Finance. The committee
anticipate an increase 10000 lire in the
receipts from the registration tax, 4,0OO,-
600 lire in tobacco revenue, and 2,000,-
600 in the revenue derived from salt
The estimated total deficit for 1869 is
IA, ,7l0,S74 lire. A report has been is
sued of the progress of the works for
the Mount Gems railway up to the 3lst
of March. The length of tunnel exca-
waited is 1922 metres, there remaining
still 2,697 metres
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-05-04

Another rich gold vein has been dis
covered near Rutherford, North Carolina
A counterpart of the Inperialistis to
be started in Philsdelphis under the title
of the Empire.
There were two hundred and forty six
sales Of real estate in Chicago last week,
aggregating $1,27s,5l7.
Complete returns ftom Michigan show
the election Of eight Denocratic Judges
out Of sixteen circuits.
The peach crop of Maryland, except
in few locations, is said not to have
been seriously injured by the late frosts.
A letter from Camp Wachita to the
ST. Louis Republican, states that the
friendly Indians are moving to their res
ervation, but that the hostile tribes are
preparing for new depredations.
LITTLE BOY sPRAGUE
Little boy Sprague, come blow your horn.
The Senate's fool and the country fcrlorn,
Burnside's coward, and Abbott'sa puppy
Blow, Willie, blow 'em all up, up, uppy.
The 18th of May has been fixed as the
date for the meeting of the Old and New
School General Assemblies of the Pres
byterian Church in New York, when the
question of reunion will be finally set
tied.
Judge J. B. Hubbard, of Van Zandt
county, Texas, was recently murdered
about a mile from his residence by two
men dressed in Federal uniform. He is
said to have been literally riddled with
balls
The Union Pacific railroad sold 10000
passenger tickets from Chicago to White
Pine, Nevada, during the month of
March. Every thing indicates great
rush to the silver regions from the East
this spring.
The Baptist Foreign Missionary Un-
ion has received $4,000 during the
year, and expended but Sls0.000, which
leaves $4,000 toward the reduction of
the debt of $4,000, which was reported
Inst year.
The Mont Ceais Tunnel has penetsa-
ted through the quartz and has come to
a stratum of soft stone, which is so east
ly worked that it is now expected thai
the time for opening the line may be set
six months earlier than heretofore.
The last poctical story about the auro-
raj display is that of correspondent of
a Nsw Haven paper, who looked at the
telegraph wires, and saw sparks of
electricity hop along them like in6nites'
simally small Illuminated toals.
It is noticeable rs one incident of city
extremes, says the New York Express,
that the beggars are increasing beyond
all precedent. Then there are thousands
of boys and girls, armed with pins, tapes
or something to sell, in order to protect
themselves from arres, as heggars. Most
of this crowd are declared to he profes-
sionsl beggars, who follow begging as a
business and not from necessity. ,
The New York Express says: The
highest store rent paid in Broadway is
that of Z. S. Jeffrays dry goods store,
corner Of Leonard street, which brings
100000. The highest hotel rent is that
of the Fifth Avenue, which rates at sl00
600 per annum: but the most profitable
of all its editices is Trinity Building
This is occupied by offices 1t cost
about $2OO, 900. and rents for nearly one
half that sum. Single Offices bring from
$1,000 to $4,000. and the coal trade is
almost entirely done there. 1000.
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The Imperialist.

There has been good deal of spec
ulation. as to the origin snd financial
support Of the new organ Of the Radi.
cal party, The Imperialist. On the 10th
ult.. the Newark IN. j. Journal aban-
doned the aeld of speculation, and made
the positive assertion that the newspa
per is "edited under the auspices and at
the cost of the Secretary of the Navy,
Mr.. A6olph Borie;" and on the 22d ii
printed an editorial from which We ex-
tract the following:
an the short space of eight years,
from people exceedingly jealous of their
liberties, we have submitted to outrages
upon the guaranteed rights of the citi-
zen, and one usurpation after another,
until we have become abject and sub
missive in the extreme. A decade ago,
had the following, which we extract
from The Ilnperialist, been published, it
would have cost the editor his life, GER
tainly the property of his office:
"The name of the form of govern.
ment is matter of little consequence.
The Empire will bring us peace. Shall
we refuse it because we like not the
name of the giver2 To-day The I'm
perialist raises the banner of the En-
pire against the red flag of Republican
anarchy"
"And yet this treason to the national
ity, this insult to the memories of our
heroic and patriot dead, are passed over
in respectful silence by some, and open
ly approved of by others, to the num-
ber of thousands, who are doing their
utmost to extend the mischievous circu-
lation of this sheet Nor does it lack
for influential backing A prominent
member of Grants Cabinet stands forth
as its financial sponsor. Grant himself
lends countenance TO the scheme by aid
ing with money and means its circula
ton among his friends. Already num-
bers are mailed to the heads of that Sc
cret organization, the Army of the Re,
public, that has its posts scattered
throughout this land
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Keep Your Receipts.

The Knoxville Press and Herald says
that one of the most telling points in Mr..
Johnson's speech was made when, as the
evidence of his loyalty he produced the
following document:
Received, Nashville, March "a, 1862,
of Andrew Johnson, Military Governor
of Tennessee, fifteen hundred dollars, to
aid in the establishment of Union press
at Knoxville, Tennessee, and to defray
my expenses while passing from under
secession oppression to the city of Nash
vile,
$500 WM. G.. BRowNIow,
, For while he withheld the signature
while he dwelt upon the intrinsic proof
the paper afforded of his own loyalty
But when. in response to repeated in
quiries, he read the name of WIN. G.
Brownlow as the maker of that receipt
a tumult Of cheers and laughter arose.
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The Eight Per Cent. syy,na,e.

The Lower House Of the OhioLegis-
lature passed, some time SINCE, bill au-
thorizing persons to make contracts bear
ing eight per cent interest. The bill is
now before the Senate where it is rcceiv-
ing some pretty hard knocks. Mr.. COL
Den, in his remarks on the 9th ult., said
that 90 hundred thousand dollars were
deposited in certain bank in this city,
for the purpose of securing the passage
of certain bill, referring to the House
interest 5ill. He did not assert that it
was d fund to be used for corrupting the
Senate, but for the purpose Of manufac-
turing public opinion in favor of the
proposed legislation. He would use
every effort consistent with hisobliga-
tons as a Senator, to defeat such an
ipiquaous scheme" l
That 100000 was deposited by the
money robbers to influence the Senate to
pass the bill in order that they might the
more etFectually skin the people.