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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13
Tite Barnacle, ESQ.

| Illinois has secretary of state who is named
Hon. Edward Rummel Mr.. Rummel is q
protessed politician and radical at that, and
after the manner of all professional radical
politicians, deems himself, like the veriest
Stuart, to have a ''divine right" to Office with
all Its attendant sweets. Whatever causes
may agltate the stormy waves of party, the
Hon. Edward Rummel sticks to the good old
ship of Office, the most adhesive barnacle of
them all. 1t is scarcely needless to say that
the glutinous secretary did not forget the pos
sibiities and chances of the elections this tall.
when his official term lawfully, but with in.
convenient disagreeableness, terminates That
any other man in the wide domain of Illinois
should aspire to his position was never dream.
ed of by what little poor philosophy the Hon.
Edward Rummel possesses. Was he not locuas
tenenss Besides, who but the incumbent was
so we'll qualified for the positions Patient
investigation by the Hon. Edward Rummel
easily convinced the viscld secretary, after
much wire pulling and maGuvering, that his
nomination by the forthcoming radical con.
vcntion was foregone conclusion. In this
refreshing state of mind he calmly rested and
considered his little bed nicely secured for
another four years.
But the course of the politician, any more
than that OF true love, does not always run
smooth, and, aghast with horror, the tenacious
secretary discovered that another aspirant to
the office existed in the person Of Col. George
II. Harlow, his own assistant. This was worse
than omipous, for during his official career
Col. Harlow had endeared himself to all with
whom he had business relations, and had an
unimpeachable record. He was emphtaic-
ally "strong candidate" and dangerous
rival. But his audacity, so thought his su-
perior, was worse than intolerable, and the
latter accordingly addressed letter to the
former, filled with whining grief at the base
ingratitute of his subordinate, mingled with
expostulatlon and scarcasm, ana concluding
with hint that Col. Harlow's resignation
would be more than acceptable.
To all Of this the gallant assistant replied
that he had faithfully performed all his official
duties and that his very integrity as assistant
secretary had won him hosts Of friends all
over the state, at whose solicitation he had
consented to become candidate, being
further assured that Rummel's DAYS we're al.
ready numbered. Considering that, under
these circumstances, he had done no wrong,
but was following the dictates of laudable
ambition, the Colonel resigned, and gave
Rummel to understand that he was more than
ever determined to contest the nomination in
down right earnest.
A lively time may therefore be anticipated
in the state radical convention, and the whole
sptly illustrates to what depths radical gen.
tlemen of the Tlte Barnacle school will basely
stoop to attain their continuance IN office.
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About that Little Game.

We regret to see our neighbor of the Ottawa
Republican lose his temper so badly on &C.
count of the playful illusions we have made to
his little game to put himself into safe line
Of succession to the Ottawa post office. Such
exhibitions are at all times unseemly, and are
apt to spoil the little games they are intended
to promote. especially when The game, like the
present is one tina. requires delicate handling.
Our statement that the Grant radical county
committee, which met here last week to ar
range matters with reference to calling con-
| ventlons, were Individually uninciined to fol-
low the editors lead in his little congressional
post Office game, is treated as IN the highest
degree offensive-denonnced, in fact,-not to
put too fine point upon it-as "a mon
strous lie.' Whew! Does the editor under.
stand the use of coffee and plstols2 As our
statement, however, was based on information
derived from member of the committee and
a very sound Grant republican, we must for
his sake, object to the impeachment, though
there is no telling, in "thcse blawsted tlmesr
uoW uuCu ttIaHCc IL 10 NC placed ON WHAT
any one, particularly a Grant republican, tells
body.
We will say, however, if is any comfort to
our neghbOr, in reference to his pet little
scheme of engineering Mr.. Corwin into con-
gress and himself thereby into something else,
that, considering the paucity of Grant radical
material in this district out of which pre-
sentsble congressman can he made, we are
rather inclined to look upon his little PROJECT
with favor. AS it is understood that both
Bushnell and Judge Leland positively decline
t. be considered in the field, Mr. Corwin is
about the best timber there is left tor the pur-
pose. He is an able man on the stump,
coed lawyer We are told, and certainly would
be an immense improvement on Snapp. Now
we hope the editor will not run off and say,
because We have shown a disposition to be
friendly to Mr., Corwin's congressional aspira.
tions, (always, of course, excepting, If no good
democrat or reform republican comes in his
way) that we have been bought up by Mr..
Corwin. Such is not the fact. Mr.. Corwin
has not proposed to propitiate us by the offer
of solitary silver
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13

One must go away from home to learn the
news. We cut the following from Wood
stock, H., paper:
DR.. Pratt has trout pond near Elgn con-
tninin. 100000 beauties. Those one year old
ore t"ur inches in length. Judge Cation, of
Ottawo, intends to establish a pond to be
filed hy DR.. Pratt.
Judge Cation is not at home at present and
~" are unable to learn how much truth there
i N Tins statement, 1t would, however, be
Just like him. and he has exactly the
ground needed for the purpose.
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Oglesby Consents,

The Hon. r. j. Oglesby, whom Mrs John
Logan laid out so beautifully in the sen.
atorial contest year or two ago, and who
thereupon became SO Disguised with politics
as to torswear all further aspirations in that
line, has, through the modifying influence of
time, soitened SO far in bis desperate resolve,
as to signify his willingness to be sacrificed
on the altar, DC, and accept a reelection to
the office of Governor of ILLINOIS. While 1t is
thus gratifying to find that Orchard Is HIM.
self again" it is painful to note that in his
comatose condition of a year or two Richard
has run behind sadly IN keeping note of pass
ing events. The motives he presents for his
present willingness to be sacrificed are almost
antl-delivian. He fears the great democratic
party, but for his sacrifice, may again return
to power, and then all the fruits of the war
will be lost, and the rebels will be re.instsllel
in their former glory and the niggers re-
ensaved, &c, &c. Well, well. Alas. poor
Richard
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A Virtue of Necessitv

"Can'tcome-it' Snapp, who misrepresentt
this district in congress, has had the follow
| ing letter published in the Joliet Republican.
To tie Editor of The Toilet Pepu5lican:
DEAR SIR-As the convention for choosing
| delegates in this county is to meet ON Nav 18th
to select delegates to attend congressional con.
vention to be hereafter called, desire herewith
! to announce that shall not be a candidate for
| denomination, and hence shall not be in the
held. l do this from a preference to private
life and from u matter of duty which owe to
my private affairs. II. SNAPP.
Mr. Snaps conversion to a preference to
private life" is sudden in the extreme, and the
only pity Is that his convictions did not as
sumo similar form long ago. However, it is
better late than never, and it is to be hoped
that his hitherto uncOnquerable egotism will
be so held in subsection by his newly found
preference" as to induce him never again to
emerge from that "private life" which he
should not have left. We shall rejoice if his
''private affairs" continue to lead him in the
permanent practice Of the belief that he cant
come 1t" in the political arena.
His excuse, however, is but o flimsy veil
by which he attempts to hide the genuine rea.
son for his BETTING retirement. Every one
who knows the man is well aware that merely
'private" considerations would not cause him
to relinquish his hold upon his cherished idol
OF public life. Poor Snapp has been victimiz-
ed, and he may we'll pray to be saved from his
friends. With refinement of cruelty that
only your genuine radical knows how to ap-
ply, the republicans have SO nodded this dis
trict, while their puppet was in Washington,
as to make sure Of his being quietly laid out
when election time came around. This fact
has penetrated even the muddled brain of
snapp, and hence come his preference to pri.
va'e life" and his devotion to his "prlvate af.
fairs" The Republican, OF this city was the
first to spring the mine, and it must have been
with fiendish chuckle Of delight that its edi.
tor first saw the foregoing letter.
Meanwhile the miserable victim ceases no,
ponder this interesting conundrum:
"Since am 50 quickly done for.
"hat In h Was begun ior? 2"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13

S. G. GRIGGs & Co., CHICAGO.-The changes
and transformations in business firms and re-
lations in Chicago are so numerous, constant
and rapid, that few can undertake to keep
track of hundredth part of them: yet here
and there some solid old firm has stood like
rock in the ocean defying all the storms beat.
ing around it. Such has been the b,ok
and publishing firm of S. c. Griggs & Co. AL.
most since Chicago has had name this firm
has been one of its landmarks. 1t weathered
the financial crisis of 1857 without tremor:
ten years later great fire swept away two of
the finest blocks in the city, and with them
the entire stock OF S. c. Griggs & Co.; but
within ten days after the fire the firm was
again doing business. The great fire last fall
again burnt out the firm completely not a
vestige was saved yet in less than month
the firm was again doing business apparently
rs heavy rs ever.
We alude to the firm now merely to state
that although no material change has taken
place in its membership, its business has been
divided, and the firm takes new name. 5.
c. Griggs takes the publishing branch of the
bushes in his own hands, while the younger
members of the frm-Messrs. f. L. Jansen, A.
c. McClurg and +. b. Smith Will continue the
general importing, bookselling and stationery
business, under the name of Jansen, McClurp
Il Co." Their present business place is at
COZ Wabash Avenue, and we can say in all
candor, that after doing business with the
firm to the amount of many thousand dollars
dealt with Wholesale men more thoroughly
reliable liberal and prompt
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est capacity that whatever facilitates the
knowledge of words, sentences and forms of
speech must necessarily increase the dexterlty
to comprehend the thoughts themselves,
whether they are scientific or what not. This
We claim for the classics. They are the foun-
dation of our discourse; they, or the words
and phrases derived from Them are the We
hicles in which we convey our ideas.
There is yet one other fact which seems to
have escaped the attention of DR.. Paul in ex-
Guiding the classics from his course of study.
No student can matricuate IN any college or
university in the country of any pretensions
without previous acquaintance with Latin
and Greek If scholar wishes to enter Yale,
Harvard, or any of our noted seminaries with
the intention of graduating, he must satisfac-
tor;ly pass an examination In the classics at
their very gates. 1t DIR. Pauls scheme is
adopted as submitted, an Ottawa youth might
study with credit to himself and honor to his
teachers and schools the whole range of sub
jects laid down, and, after ALL find his further
educational career suddenly stopped. DR..
Paul very commercially wishes to reduce the
scholastic career OF our city to uniformity and
system, he wishes 1t to be homogeneous within
itself, but he should also, in SO striving, re-
member that the education of our youth may
not necessarily stop within our city limits.
He should not forget that, while the educa-
ton afforded here should be systematic within
itself, it should also be conformable to other
and higher educational systems outside.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13

THE EMINENT DOMAIN BILL-Scarcely any
act of the late legislature of Illinois possesses
more Importance than that which refers ia
eminent domain,' and none seemed to give
our law makers more trouble The bill
(senate bill 205) as finally passed, simply
authorizes the condemnation of land for rail.
roads, and all other cases where general law
authorizing condemnation is applicable.
Another bill, however, Senate bill 1872 was
also passed, which authorizes local improve
ments by special assessment. by tax of con-
tiguous property, or otherwise as the Com.
mon Council or Trustees may by ordinance
provide. Article TX of this bill provides the
machinery for making such improvements,
an9 it further provides that the legislative
authority Of cities, towns, and villages may
adopt this article by ordinance, uthon
adopting the rest Of tile act. If however, the
whole act is to be adopted, it must be submit
ted to a vote of the people. Neither of these
laws takes effect until July /.
There was also a Road bill passed. which
provides its own machinery, and another bill
for drainage purposes. Our municipal I'M
provemcnts must he made under the City bill
No. It's.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13
The Grant radicals have had one SIN

The Grant radicals have had one small
crumb of comfort tossed them lately, (the first
of the kind in long time,) and ihey sieze it
with the cagerness of famished wolves. A
somewhat eccentric lawyer at Aurora named
B. F. Parks, noted chiefly for his nordnate
egotism and unstableness Of mind, but who
had hitherto generally acted with the democ-
racy, recently made speech in which he de.
clared his purpose to vote for Grant. This is
the same Parks whom Ben Fridley some years
ago, after listening to one Of his pompous, ego.
tistcai hnrrangues in court "set GOWN with
the remark young man, you think You are
smart but can tell you it would take an aw-
tul pile of books to hold the law you don't
know ~
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13

As an indication of the general increase Of
the business of Ottawa, we are enabled to
state, on the authority of Mr.. Touzalin, the
courteous md gentemany agent Of the c. B..
Il Q. Railroad Co., at Ottawa, that the receipts
for ireights, fares, &c, at the Office IN this
city, have been steadily on the increase for the
last year, and that for the ast-month they
exceed the receipts of any preceding month
by quite heavy percentage
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13

An exciting contest for school trustee took
place on Monday last in the district comprls-
ing the townships of La Sale and Peru, which
resulted in the election OF Squire Ncustadt, of
La Sale. The real bone OF contention was
the treasurership, the disposition OF which was
the power behind the scenes actuating the
rival candidates and Their friends.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-04-13

Feed of all kinds at The Eagle Mills.
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late News Items.

The residence of Edward Thomp-
son, in Carrolt0n, La, was burned on
Tuesday. Mrs. Edward Thompson, SO
years Old, was unable to escape and was
burned to death.
Two colorcd grand jurors were i'm
papel)ed for the first time in the United
States Court. at Cleveland, on Tuesday.
The President made a number of
appointments, Tuesday, including E. p.
Epscombc, postmaster at Lebanon,
n. H.
Hon. Joel f. Aspen, ex-member of
Congress, died at Chillicothe, Mo, on
Tuesday, of dropsy of the heart
At noon on Tuesday, thirty foot
cylinder boiler in Fulton & Co.'S rolling
mill, MorristOWn, Penn, exploded with
a terrible force, scattering destruction
around, and seriously, if not fatally, III
iuring number of men.
Augustus Killing, who was arrested at
Halifax, n. s., for the murder of his
wife, has been released, the Boston
authorities having modified the charge
against him to manslaughter, which does
not come under the operation of the eX-
tradition treaty.
On Tuesday morning, at 1ndianapo-
lis, Ind, as tue celebrated trotting mares
Aileada GOlddust and Minnie were prac-
tioing on the park for the 2. 38 race this
afternoon, Minnie became unmanageable
and the two mares came into collision.
Zileada was seriously injured by the
shaft tearing open her breast, and Min
ME was instantly killed. The former
mareswas valued at 800. 900 and the lat
Ter IS, 1000 or $4,000 Zileada is owned
by 5. S. Dorsen, of Louisville, and Min
ME by Frazier & Moore, of Cinthynia,
KY.
-Aeligmann, the banker of Paris, gave
dinner Tuesday night, at which Minis
ter Washburne, Senator Sumner and
Messrs. Everts IL White were present.
Affairs are still very unsettled in
Pope county, Ark. There is trouble on
the Mexican border. Flores, desper-
ate outlaw, has gathered together num-
Der of desperadoes and proposes to cross
into Texas to avenge the death of his
brothers.
A Carlinyille, H., wife becoming
angry because she could not have the
last word in a dispute, recently put her
sick husband out of doors at midnight
and in thunder storm. In the NOR
ming she found him on the stoop, dead
from exposure. She is in an insane asy-
lum
The New York State Fair, which
opened at Elmira on Monday, promises
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to be very brilliant affair. The show
of horses, sheep and cattle, the machin-
cry department, and the show OF flow
ers, fruits and vegetables are all very
fine.
The present season, says the CHI
cago Journal, is one of the most slckly
ever known in the Northwest. In some
localities almost every person, young
and old, has or has had fever OF some
kind. 1t is hoped that with the change
of the weather from warm to cold there
will be an improvement i'll the general
health.
The Titusville, Penn, Daily Ege1a-
ING Press, an independent paper, an
nounces that there is fraudulent regis
tration in Titusville of nearly one thou
sand names. 1t intimates that this is
part of the system of colonization, which
has been extensively practiced through
out the oil regions. The Press does not
charge the proceedings upon either party.
The registration is nearly double that OF
last year. There is to be a vigorous in
vestigation commenced at once.
The unexpected and unwelcome
news comes from Japan that the conser-
vative party there has got the upper
hand, and for the present the progress
of western ideas and institutions is
checked. The ministers, both citizens
of the United States, who were com
missioned to organize agricultural
and law departments on American mod
els, have been dismissed; the embassy
now in Europe is left without funds and
without instructions, and work on war
vessel building for Japan in New York
has been stopped for want of funds.
Mr.. Arinori Mort, the japanese minister
in Washington, is said, on the same au-
thority, to have been recalled, and his
place is to be supplied by young man
of the anti-progressive party. The fact
that he is to have q successor of any
kind, however, is an indication that the
reaction is not so violent as might be in
ferred from other statements of the dis
patch. Further news from the island
empire will be awaited with interest.
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who ask for Reconciliation

In the present canvass the doctrine of
reconciliation is the rallying cry of the
opposition. 1t is a pertinent inquiry
who are they that need reconciliation !?
Certainly not the loyal masses of the
American people or the soldiers who
served the Union. They are satisfied
with the Union as it is. They are al
ready reconciled. They are content with
the Union with all its new guarantees
of freedom and justice. They are salts
fed with peace and order, with the pro-
lection Of the citizen and with the en-
forcement of the laws. The work of
reconstruction meets their views. They
desire no change of the present admins
tration. They make no complaints.
They do not feel oppressed. They are
reconciled to affairs as they are. They
have treated the rebels with leniency.
Not a traitor has been executed but
many thousands have been pardOned
Only a few of the more notorious and
unrepentant leaders are prohibited from
holding Office, and they can secure full
pardon by the asking. General if not
universal amnesty has been extended to
the rebels. The right hand of fellowship
has been proffered to them. They have
been given their place in the Union and
restored to all rights and privileges of
citizenship. They have been awarded
equal rights, equal justice, equal protec-
tion-everything but an acknowledge
ment of the business of the cause for
which they took up arms against their
country. What more can they reason
ably ask? Still they are not reconciled.
Their unconditional surrender was &C
cepted, but they did not surrender in
good faith. They made only tempo
rary surrender. They are bidins their
time and watching their opportunity.
They demand the unconditional surren-
der of loyal men and will be reconciled
on no other terms. These Horace
Greeley and his partisans propose to &C
cord them. They are ready to clasp
hands with traitors across the bloody
chasm, and seek reconciliation on any
terms. This is what the rebels fought
for, it is what they are waiting for, it
is what. they are working for, and it is
what their Northern allies, the Liberal
Democratic Republicans are trying to
secure to them now, as they tried to
give them victory during the war
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i am chairman of the State committee
and on my order every dollar of the
funds of that committee was disbursed,
and from first to last we did not have in
all the control of but little more than
$12, 900, and / further assert that every
dollar of this amount was expended Ell
ther in the payment of speakers, dis
tribution of documents and papers, or
the bringing home of absent voters.
These accounts of the State committee
are kept with rigid exactness, and the
entire force of sixteen men viii testify
to the truth of what | state. / arraign
Mr.. Greeley, therefore, as slanderer of
the republicans of Maine-a party of as
gallant and true men as ever cast an I'M
purchased and unpurchasable vote.
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CTATE OF vERNNT.

~ DISTRICT OF l. 1LA&B. % 8.
Be 10 remembered. tbs "a q session OF
the Probate Court. no. gr Rutland,
within and for said Dist. Oh the l=f DAY
Of October. A. u. 1872.
Present: Hon. WALTERs lUNTpE. Judge
Whereas. a certain inrumeut i'm writ
ing. under seal DurDOr1 o. 10 be the ll=1
viii and testament OF NTH Roe. late %.
Rutland. i'm said Districflece having
been this day presen1eCD said Court tOI
probate. and duly nledl the Register
Office: Therefore. il isi leTed that an
persons interested i'm tlpsrate of said de-
ceased. be notified TO IN before said
Court. at the Probate Om -u Rutland. l1
said District. on the tiTkt esGaE iu No
Eember. 4 . ID. 1872, by 81 l5caflOu OF this
order three weeks sueee rciV previous
thereto. i'm the Rutland crald, "a news
paper printed at Rutla aforesaid. ar
show cause why said inst neBt i'm writ
ing should not be proved ~ allowed. as
the last viii and testaulelof the said de-
ceased
JolC. BAKER
lows Register