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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

defy competition with any other similar estab-
lishment, as we'll they may, for with its present
capacity alone it is second to but one in the
United States, and as they will continue to en-
large 1t as fast as their increasing trade re-
quires, theirs will soon become the leading
tile and sewer pipe mandatory in the country.
l. OTHER MATTERS.
! Besides the above, and Clark & Sons great
| Cement works, there are number of stores,
| shops, SC. Leading among these, is the large
general store of E. E. Taylor Mr.. 7. is an
old citizen of Utica and has met with the ups
and downs of business life, and is now doing
a good business, with all the credit, capital,
energy and social qualities one need have to
success. His line is dry goods, dress goods,
| crockcry, boots, shoes, &C., and his prices are
| regulated So as to fall as fast as the markets
east. He sells all articles as cheap as the same
can be obtained at Ottawa Across the way
is S. Lockwood's store; further down the large
Touring mill of E. F. Dimmick s. Co.; and OPP
posite, good hardware store owned by the
same parties. Further down still is the store
of that prince of good fellows and wide.awake
business men, James Dervin, who has been
there five years. He keeps the sample room"
whern may be found, at all reasonable hours,
the best of cigars, wines, liquors, &c.-svery
thing correct and orderly, and James, with a
smiling face, ever ready to wait upon custom
ers. Around the corner, next to Taylor's, is
the Post Office, where H. w. Highly, ESQ.,
will be found. lie is the attentive and accom-
modating Postmaster. He also keeps books,
drugs, &c. Further along, a few doors north
ward, we find the tin and stove store of John
Holcman. He has good stock, and is all
right on job work, and sells at living rates
His Is the only stove and tin-ware establishment
in town. Near him we find Mr.. E. d. Smith,
worshipper at the shrine of Vulcan and
Pan, the gods Of fire and music 4, e., he is
good blacksmith by trade and rare musician
by profession. He is member of the Utica
Brass Band, we'll known and much admired at
Ottawa. He also sings in glee club, and in
choir at church, and in all other respects is
a very fine gentleman.
1t would be impossible as we'll as unjust to
end this article without notice of our enter.
prising friend, Mr.. T. O'Sullivan, on the west
side of the square. His line is groceries and
provisions, and he has plenty of them He
also keeps fluids and cigars.
We found Mr.. Halliday at the mills, super
intending the putting up of machinery Mr..
John L. Clark was paying ont gIeenbseks
at the rate of 500 per minute to his hands.
Mr.. Clum B. Clugston was busy at Clark
L Co.'S weighing office. Mr. Remington was
buying drain tile, and Prenths, the hotelist,
was bobbing around attending to 'biz'" In
short, We found no one more idle than
ourself. So we left. We close this item
expressing the opinion that Utica. with its
enterprisng manufacturers and live business
men, will always be growing and prosperous
place.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

PApAL AVAILABILITY. ---Thursday' DIES.
patches by the Atlantic cable announce the
unanimous adoption of the infallibility dogma
by the Ecumenical Council at Rome on the
lAth GOO Bishops voted in the affirmative
and none in the negative
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

Ritualism is all right The Unicerse, an Or
gan OF the spirtualists in in New York, says,
1--WE are told that prominent spiritual medium,
who is in the habit Of visiting St. Adams.
in this city, the head quarters of Ritualism,
has heard raps made near him in approval, by
the spirits. Of certain portions of the elaborate
services of the chapel" There, now. ..t
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

The miners of La Sale, after two days DELHI.
Grafton and discussion Of the question OF striking
against reduction of wages from $125 to ST a
ton for mining, unanimously resolved last week
to 80 to work without further ado. The decis.
ion WAS sensible one.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

BRUCE.-The election in this township result.
cd in the defeat of Mr. John G. Campbell, the
regular democratic nominee, and the election of
DR.. Croswell, also demosrat, but man of con.
servative views. A variety OF local causes con-
trolled the election
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

"Shoo fly" cards arc the latest agony out.
When young lady receives note from an OBJ
jectionable party, she simply encloses card on
which is printed "Shoo Fly" and the young
man is presumed not to "bodder" her after wards.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

Professor Goltz, of koningsberg, has been ex-
perimenting upon tho nervous centre of frogs.
He finds that il you take out the brain, aud
then rub wet finger down the frogs back, the
creature will croak a. II pleased. Frogs must
be easily pleased.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

A. 7. Stewart has reduced the rents upon all
of his CITY property. The reduction is from 10
to 30 per cent. In all the cases the reductions
were made without the solicitation of the tenants.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

lady at Williamsport, Pa, has not been able
to sleep. . wink in month. Examination into
tn" cause BY eminent ply soians revealed the ter.
rible truth that her night.gown was out Of
fashion
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

SCHOOL BooKs.-All kinds OF School Books
used in the city and country can be obtained at
Osmsn i Hspeman's Book Store.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

The Lawrence .ournal gives several rules for
making good butter-the first of which is q good
wife that understands the science of butter max.
ing. Just 30. u.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

Tho Aurora Beacon says that Capt. Williams
Of the Oneida, recently sunk near japan, has q
child living IN Kane county
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

During several days list week the numerous
highways leading into town, in many places
seemed TO have no bottom. ono lives lost AZ far
IA heard from"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

Tickets good for So days. Parties can be
made up at any point on tho road, but notice
must be given in time to procure the necessa-
ry cars.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

The Elgin Gazette says storm Of babies in de-.
scending on the town Of St. Charles and the
business OF wet nurses il looking up. ..
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-04-16

10. CALIroRNTA Excursion tickets from
Chicago to San Francisco are now issued at
the following rates:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

these men are mere jugglers, or whether
they are the victims of their own dyspeptic
minds. the evil remains the same; the misled
are not the less dupes because those who mis-
lead them are dupes also; and any form of re-
lgion which is necessarily obnoxious to clear
and vigorous understanding will inevitably
tend toward the hierarchical despotism from
which n portion of the Mormons are seeking to
escape 1t is to be hoped that they Will not
in the end merely go from the fryingpa into
the fire. 1t is to be hoped that they Will
not merely furnish another chapter to the
complex and disheartenng history of religious
delusion which the world sometimes seems to
us destined never to complete-a form OF de-
fusion, it is true, into which the ignorant and
uncultivated most readily fall, but from which
culture and knowledgeiare no safeguard.
II is pitiful to think that in the noblest as
pirations, in faith sublime, however distorted,
i'm the deepest hopes as well as in the most
grievous terrors of the soul, the cunning ad-
venturer should find his readiest and richest
means of success. This evil is not of yester-
day it lives and grows and spreads to-day, in
spite of general education, and Notwithstanding
a marked decay Of religious earnestness. Any
crafty knave who pleases to start
sect may be sure of followers. They
will come focking to his false standard, pros
elytes of all classes, of all ages and of either
sex. The impostOr has but to assert that he
has received revelation from Heaven, and he
will be believed. He may talk the crudest
nonsense in the worst of grammar, and even
educated men and women, if he talk gllbly
and impudenty enough, will fall at his feet
and adore him. They give him their hearts
and their hands, they admit him, privileged
guest to their homes; they empty their purses
into his pocket; and the less they understand
his iargon, the more confidently do they re-
ceive it as gospel. If any protection against
this great and still growing social evil sug-
gested itself to our minds, we should mention
it without hesitation but there is none except
good sense, and those who are wise enough In
all other matters are blown about by every
wind of doctrine, and put off an old folly and
put on a new one just like it, as they put OIL
their garments at night and resume them In
the morning. The strongest point to impress
upon the general mind is that spurious religions,
however successful for a season, are self
limited nuisances, and must come to naught in
the long run. Schism is the first symptom OF
weakness; q schism, broad, deep, and irrecon-
cilable, has overtaken the Mormon absurdity
and it is not too much to suppose, with the
death of only two or three of its ablest lead
ers. that it will become something entirely
different and infinitely more respectable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27
EREE-TRIDE EdIRNESS.

The City Of New York is blest or otherwise
with ten or more daily papers, printed in Eng
lish, whereof THE TRIBUNE alone is an open,
earnest advocate of Protection to Home Indus
try. The others are nearly or quite all champions
of Free Trade-the least frank being perhaps
the most effective. The anti-PrOtective in
terest and feeling were always very strong
here so that while our State has always given
q strong majority for each Protective Tariff
passed, the City has seldom or never given a
single vote in the House for sucn measure.
And we presume it will be in the future much
as it has been in the past.
Our bakers dozen of Free-Trade journals
are not content with using their lown columns
to propagate their doctrines; they insist on
devoting those of THE TRIBUNE to the same
purpose. From day to day, they insist that
we should publish this or that which they
consider favorable to their side; but no man
ever catches them publishing anything but
what they must which favors Protection. They
think we ought to give up our columns to the
ponderous essay of Wells, yet none of
them ever dreamed of giving place or
heed to the review thereof by Mr.. w. ID. Kelley.
They would no more circulate the two docu-
ments stitched together than they would cir
culate THE TRIBUNE. What they propose Is
to take everything and give nothing. They
devote their own sheets entirely to their own
view Of the matter in dispute; they would like
to add to these as large a share of our col
umns as they can get. We understand them,
and purpose to be neither their tools nor their
dunes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27
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ACADEMY or MUsIC-Brooky n'-Second Grand
Concert Of Choral Union" The Desert
AroLo HALL Twenty -oghth-st' and Broadway
McRvoy New Hibernicon. 49,
Rooru's TurATER Twenty thrd-St, between Fifth
aud S1tb-avrs.-" Hamlet" Booth
Fu-rII-Avr THEATER.-"Surf"
NIEto's GARDEN" Dukes Motto Fechter
OLYMPIC TuEATER.-"Paul Pry," Robert Macare
@ l.. Fox
THEATRE FR,NCMs.-Opera Bouie: La Grande
DucbeSse he Geosteu." Mrs Howard Paul
THE 1AMMANY.-"B Bad Dickey,' &c
WNIACK's THFATER. Broadway and Thirteenth
e. "Ours" Lester walaok
NoopS MUSEUM Broadway and SOth-st.-trom
+, m tolO D m At2: William Tell" Ats; "luon etc Giant
LEEDS ART GALLERIES, Nos. ST. el9' ana oIo
Broadvay Toe Thompson Collection Of Paintings
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN.-Third winter
Exhibition. :,
NEw-YORK CIRCUS, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES lIo-
granme Cinderella" EguesirianisU
SAN FRANCISCO Observation-Disclosures per
iormsnoeS
SrFINwAY HA1L-COncert-Ben of the German
Ladies' Society for Widows and Orphans
RFy John HALL. ID. D.: Young Mems Christian
Ascent on CEtseru Branch) Hall No. 285 Hudsonst
RRv. THOMAS STREET; Wigwam Forty-ninth-st.
49," CcmbsiyentsS"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27
2Geu'2lprk Daily griblrare,
THURSDAY. JANUARY 81. 1870.

President salnGve has been captured and executed.
&C. The DIXIE Of MoutpeDsier has been defeated in his
candidaturc for the Cortes. Three Of the French
Ministers have threatened resignation. == Meetings
are being held In England TO favor emigration to Canada
and the Colonies. =- A number Of escaped Fenian
prisoners have reached san Francisco. - The Council
at yne will close by Easter The publication of Bishop
Dup anoups letter against Infabity has been forbid
den by the Pope = rumor OF the death OF the Pope
comes from Paris.
In the Senate yesterday James B. Howell Of Iowa dr
Grimess successor) was sworn in; bill introduced
authorizing free banklng the Currency bill again
discussed without result In the House the bill for
the removal Of the Philadelphia Navy Yard tabled
the Appropriation bill considered, and Mr. Butler Of
Massachusetts replied to the charges Of extravaganza
against the Administration made by Mr. Dawes.
The President has signed the Virginia bill. - The
Peabody funeral feet formally escorted into Port
land yesterday. == The Georgia House has been or
ganized. == The Virginia Legislature will meet on
Feb. 8. == Vigilance Committee is forming in Chi.
sago = An ex-Confederate officer has been killed by
an Alaska Indian and the murderer executed. 80 The
Oterbon University at Westerville Ohio, has been
burned.
A partial examination in the supposed poisoning Of
Capt Alexander has been made, but nothing
decisive ascertained. == Edwin Perry is to
be tired again for the murder Of Hayes in
Brooklyn. - The story Of the robbery in Wallst.
Of John NJ. Wood Of Massachusetts is said to
be false =- Buckhout, Of westchester County, has
been indicted for the murder Of his wife. The libel
suit Of George Wilkes against s. d. Bruce, was begun
yesterday I'm the Court Of Sessions. 80 The price Of
coal in the city is falling Gold 1914, 1915, 1913
Temperature 80, At, 81, 90.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

We have the curious announcement by Cable
that three Minister'S Messrs. Louvet. Valdrome,
and Daru, have threatened to give their resig-
nations into the hands of NJ. Olivier, on ac-
count of a want of harmony in his Cabinet on
the English Treaty Question. 1t was only
lately however, that NJ. Louvet said on be-
half of his colleagues, Z" emphatically
declare that we shall not withdraw from
the treaty of commerce with England"
The head and front of the antrim
gish portion of the Cabinet is said to
be NJ. Buffet, the Finance Minister, whose
chief of department is a known Protectionist.
NJ. Olivier is also himself suspected, by reason
of his friendship for the ProtectiOnist, NJ. Pou-
yer Quertier. A motion has been made i'll the
Corps Legislatif toward a general agreement
to disagree en- commercial questions, and this
may save NJ. Olliver's experimental Cabinet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27
A RIVAL IN DARIEN.

The chief organ of British opinion, as re-
ported yesterday by cable, has come to recog-
nize the defnitive adoption of policy of an
nexation by this country. The case would be
quite as well stated, and perhaps more ac-
curately were it observed that a number of
other countries were disposing their minds to the
definitive adoption of q policy of being
annexed. We are not responsible for the
humors and aspirations of the Nova Scotians,
the Dominicans, the Winnipegs, or even the
Salvadorians, or the Nicaraguans, if the spirit
of annexation moves them. We are not, how
ever, nor do we think the mass of the people
of the United States are, favorable to policy
of indiscriminate annexation. 1t is still our
belief that incorporation into the great Re-
publican body of tho North is rather
in the nature Of a boon to be deserved.
Yet upon one point suggested by The Lon
don Times we can agree with the most enter
prsing lover of American progress. If annex
alton be word liable to misinterpretation, let
us substitute AUGMENTATION. We firmly be-
lieve that every portion of this continent
should be Anercanized, whether by locomo-
tive or steamer, by policy or trade.
Our national work on the Continent is not
half done it has not half begun. When we
begin our task in earnest we shall realize that
the undiminished enterprise of England in
Central and South American ports has made it
worthy of q noble effort. In Central America
we shall find that Frenchmen as well as En-
glishmen have taken some adventurous steps
in advance, the former counting upon
well-known Latin sympathies. The Nicaragua
Canal, and its French projectors, may fail; but
the Honduras Railroad is likely to set us good
example of foreign enterprise. The important
Tehuantepec route is in our hands, for both
canal and railroad projects, if possible; but
what if the favorite route of oil, that by Darien.
is diverted from us This may not happen /;
yet if French enterprise has gone so far as to
threaten to build our canal for us, it is time
that we should appreciate the fact.
The Colombian Canal Navigation Company,
formed in France, has thus far raised capital
of $6,O00,O 900 toward tho cutting of Darien
Canal by new route supposed to be better
than any yet known. The discovery of this
route is claimed by q French engineer, and
will require S52,68O,O0O for it's excavations, and
$7O,OOOOOO for the general working out
Of its project. Twenty-Five leagues will
comprise its cuttings, and 3St leagues, includ-
ing some distance by river, will DO tho meas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27
THE NEW MORMON REVELATIONS.

The revolt of portion Of the Mormons
against the spiritual and temporal tyranny Of
Brigham Young and his servile priesthood has,
we regret to say, assumed somewhat un-
promising form. We hope for nothing from the
continuance of superstition and it is upon the
superstition of the people that the new move
ment seems to be mainly relying. We say this
with full knowledge that in the teachings Of
the refOrmers there is a reason and refine
ment totally wanting in the coarse, sensual, and
clumsy system of Young But we distrust re-
formers who begin their work by declaring that
they have been commanded by special and
divine revelation to engage in it. Messrs. Har-
risOn and Godbe affirm that they have heard
heavenly voices" the real melody of angels"
Bishop WOolley and OrsOn Pratt denounce these
as Exclusions of the devil through ventrilo-
"quism," and in thus charging impOsture they
occupy a favorable standpoint which they will
be shrewd enough to improve. If necessary,
their own revelations" can be made just as
miraculous, as they will be quite as authentic,
as those vouchsafed the recacitrant brothers.
The spirit of Joseph Smith can speak to them
as well as to Harrison and Godbe and in the
business of religious thaumaturgy these veterans
The new men, however. will hardly lose
ground by claiming too little. Their "revela-
"tions,n which are mainly platitudinous and
nonsensical, come from the Almighty Himself,
from the Savior, from the Apostles, and from
Joseph Smith. AS we cannot be at the trouble
of quoting them, the reader must take our
word for the fact, that these communications
from celestial lips are all in the sloppy and
silly style which heavenly messages to the
"Spiritualists" have rendered familiar. The
credulOus wonder at rappings upon the table
and at tappings upon the wall our wonder is
that the spirit of Socrates or COpernicus
shoHld talk exactly like the spirit of Andrew
Jackson or John Quincy Adams and that all
four should talk as q school girl writes for the
Sunday newspapers Our astOnShment is that
distinguished spirits should have SO little to
say for themselves, and that the little which
they say should be expressed in the style of
Rosa Matilda novel. The communications to
the Mormon reformers are not whit better.
though they have more of a scrptural tone. The
painful part of the matter is that hose who
are struggling to free themselves from one
form of delusion should lapse so easily into
another Polygamy is repulsive, and the argu-
ments in its defense are sufficiently contempd-
bic and absurd but polygamy does not imply
that complete prostration of the intellect,
that lapse into sem-idiotic acquescenCe
which is indicated by belief in special reye-
latons TO Messrs, Godbe aud Harrison. Whether
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

One of the missionary operations of the
Quaker Indian Superintendent would furnish
new chapter for Sartor Resartus. Friend Jenny,
who has set up a primary school for the Win
nebago papooses, finding that his pupils came
to the academy with nothing on but blankets,
has breeched and petticoated the tender crowd
at his own expense; and the young savages
now walk about in the attire of civilization.
We should think that nothing could have a
more subduing and retaining effect upon a
young Indian than pair Of pantaloons; and If
to these shall be added a regular jacket and
vest, with the luxury Of paper collar, it would
be impossible for a red boy TO grow up with
the least desire to scalp anybody.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

The bill granting an increase of pay to the
employees of the various departments of the
State Government has passed the Assembly.
and one of our contemporaries finds it necessary
to put forward an elaborate apology for the
fact, claiming that Republicans voted for the
bill, and that precisely similar measure has
been passed at each session since 1868, the
Democrats being always in minority. Grant
ing that this is entirely true, we can see
therein no justification for taking large
amount of money out of the State Treasury
for the benefit of men already paid more than
they would earn in private employment
Yesterday, the bill reached the Senate, where
1t once more appeared under the deceptive
title of bill to increase the salaries of the
clerks in the State Department. Thus far we
have heard of no Democratic voice raised
against it, while in previous years it was Wig
OrOusly opposed by such sterling Republicans
as Senator Folger. The Democratic ideas of
retrenchment are altogether strange and past
finding out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-27

Here are pleasing little statistics The cost
of hanging Pike, the Hampton Falls On. H.
murderer was $780, The gallows cost $3.50;
the Sherif7s fee was 500 land not bit too
much); and the incidental expenses were S115.
But the point to be noticed particularly is that
it was with great difficulty that the Sheriff
found carpenters to build the gallows, work
men exhibiting no little repugnance to en-
gaging in its construction Really, these
honest New Hampshire carpenters must have
neglected the study of Jewish history, or they
would have known that there is nothing more
delightfully."- beautiful than the fine old dec
trine of an eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth