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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05
Where's the TROUBLED

The eastern Republican papers, aware that
heir party is owned and run by the Tom
Sco,tr, Camerons, and other head ccntcrs of
The railroad rings, are very industriously as.
suring the farmers Of the west that their troub-
.es do not arise from the railroads at all The
railroads arc not charging as high rates now
IS they did ten years ago, considering the
additional cost Of their equipment end main.
tcnance, and TIE uncertainties of strikes,
trade Unions, and secret rings to rob and
ylundgr tEem.n At the same time all the
western republican papers us positively as,
sure the farmers that it is not the high tariff
That Expresses them. THE tariff" they say.
is building mp home manufactures for us
IN every way by giving Us a home market"
Now le these papers unite and tell The far
hcrs what IS ailing them They seen to be
agreed that S0mtthiAg is the matter fit is
neither tie railroads or the tariff, the farmers
can have no good reason to cut loose from
The republican party. Perhaps it is because
he democrats generally are fighting the tar
f. At al events, while the republicans east
md west aye unwilling to make either oposi
lion to the railroads or the tariff part Of the
party platform and yet insist that the farmer,
shall stick - the party, there is nothing fol
hem to do but to tell the farmers to stop
heir racket and and behave themselves.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05
Iowa Radicals and the Changers.

The Changers Of Iowa were not as tormida.
BILE Il year ago as they are now and hcrcpub.
lican leaders could curl their lips at and defy
them. And they did ii in Il way the most IN.
sulting they could conceive OF, The Gran.
gers of that state, year ago, drew up an
humble petition to the radical Legislature ask.
Ing that body to adopt some measure to
relieve the farmers from railroad cXtortion
and they selected four leading Oranges t. car
~ the petition to Des Moines and urge action
upon it. The four gentlemen worked dill.
gently for month or more, but the lcgisla,
ture was deaf to their appeals: Finally
Senator Lowry, the President Of the Senate,
took notice Of the cause OF the farmers by of.
fering the following preamble and resolution,
which was adopted, not vote in the senate
being recorded against it but that of half Il
dozen "obsCure" democrats:
WHEREAS, There has been constantly in
attendance on the Senate and House of this
General Assembly, from the commencement
of the session TO the present time, four gen
tlemen protesting to represent the great agri.
cultural interests of the State of Iowa, known
as the Grange: and,
WmEHhAs} inesF srI,ieJ appear - pe
port; therefore be it
Resolced, BY the Senate, the House concur.
ring, that the janitor permit aforesaid gentle,
men to gather up all the waste papers, old
members and thew he allowed one postage
stamp each, the 4mrican Agrtcmturist, What
Greedy Knows About Farming, and that they
oe Perileu 10 l"NG W WI. leih 70 ullvIt 41nies
if bijIs, incIudinr Richards and O'DomneiTs
tariff commission bills, Duncombe's speech
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

their own, one which they originated, are now
maturing, and can control The observer will
notice that this cry to beware" GENES from
that very INSCRIPTIONS class who have here
totore controlled political affairs. They see
their influence waning, and for this reason
squeal.-PeOria (IN) Democrat.
The people of the west are evidently very
tired OF the pretensc, humbug and rascality
OF the republican party, and this peoples
movement is an outcropping of the sent.
ment in practical working form.-PhltQ
detphfa dye,
There is more real life and spirit in the
movement of the western oranges" than in
all the other politics of the Union added to-
gether 1t is now certain that the farmers
movement there has passed beyond the con.
trol OF the party called republican.-BuTGls
az. y Courier.
The rights of the people do not lapse by
Time or neglect to enforce those rights. There
is no statute of limitations to bar the resump
ton OF those rights, and it is not in the power
OF venal an corrupt legislature 10 barter
those rights under semblance of q charter
produced by fraud and bribery, and claimed
as an invoilable "contract" -JdcksonCM Nv
Sentinel
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05
THE WALWORTH TRIAL.

The trial of Frank Walvorth, the youth
who shot his father in New York, several
weeks ago, said father being the son of Chan
/ cellor Walworth, being q novelist of note, and
husband Of a daughter Of COL Hardin, of this
state, who was killed during the Mexican
war, is developing a series of facts as sicken-
ing rs they are extraordinary. The first story
Of the newspapers, that Walworth had i'll
treated his wife and goaded the youth to the
commission of the horrible crime by his
brutal and inhuman conduct, 50 far from
having been exaggerated, was not half told
In her evidence, the abused wife and mother
made such revelations as showed that the
young man was not only injured in mind in
his youth by the brutal violence Of his unna-
tural father, but that he was often crazcd by
the ticndish conduct of the father towards his
mother At one time, when Frank read a
letter, written to his mother by his father
(Which was read in evldence) he became so
excited that he frOthed at his mouth (being
subject to fits from blow his father had
once given him. and then remained rigid for
an hour The letter is too beasty for publ
cation, but we give brief extract (Walworth
IS raving about his fathers will by which
he was allowed only an annuity, and certain
property was secured to his wife which he
cOyctedD
WILL when stripped by you.of my proper
" and YOU mean il, at last plunge my dagger
into Frank and Tracey's heart, and cut of
the WalwOrth name forever Cd d-n him
He has elevated them and degraded me, and
you gloat over it. | have not one single firm
right under his will. This YOU believe, and
this has been the cause of your despising and
abandoning me With cold calm purpose
you contemplate my eventual beggary and
humiliation. | will kill your boy, and defeat
the ID scoundrel in his grave, and cut off
his Id name forever. Now you Just perse.
cute me about that property and keep this
thorn alive in my heart and by the eternal
God | will kill them and YOU too. Now YOU
hur, my property any further, you Cd id
Infamous b-h, and | Will cut your bows rs
well as you. The Cd id dead william
shant rob me of my wife and children, and
property III can't have anything, I'll have
revenge. Cd d-n you, have lost every
thing which makes life tolcrable.
It seems incredible that theman who could
write such filth as this once passed as a pop
ular society man, an author of merit a leader,
in short, Of tie toH is it exists in the best cir
cles Of New York city The amazing part
OF it is, that long before his brutality culmin-
atcd in his violent taking off by his own flesh
and blood, his family should have rcfrained
from appealing TO the protection of the law
agains, such fendish persecution.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Ven, yot ov it," Suppose Senator John
Mitchell Nipple, Of Oregon, who ran away
from Pennsylvania, leaving wife and family
behind him, did marry another wife in Ore.
gon before he got divorce from his old love ?
Didn't Bowen, of South Carolina, do worse
than that? Didn't he marry two or three
wives without being divorced from any of
Them and didn't Grant pardon him all the
same? As long as Nipples constituents and
his republican friends generally are satisfied
with his record, why need he care?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05
CARPENTERS DEFENCE.

II is certain, we had hitherto formed an in.
adequate estimate Of the capabilities of Scna-
tor Matt. Carpenter, of Wisconsin. His
defence, in a recent speech at GAINESVILLE, Wis
cousin, of the Credit MObilier and back
salary steals is an amazing production. But
lcr's late speech in the same vein was brassy
but Carpenter is audacious and blasphcmous
There was nothing wrong In the Credit Mo.
biler steal, he contends, nothing whatever,
and ColfaX, Patterson, Bingham, sc, are the
victims of their own moral cOwardiCc. Cakes
Ames was as pure a man as Washington
a man of much higher standard of political
morality than Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison
or Monroe; and the dcnunciation of the en-
ginccrs of the Crcdit Moblicr rascality by
the press was as cruel and wicked rs the per
sccution of Jesus of Nazareth The pay voted
themselves by the members Of congress was
not too muCh-not near rs much, indeed, as
the services of man fit to be a member Of
congress were worth in the market anywhere,
and if the people sent men TO congress that
were unfit, 1t was their own fault In word
instead of constructing an ingenious and
plausible plea in defense of wrong Carpenter
impudcntly avows the wrong, iustifcs il by
the morality of the times, and dcfics the
SICK y morality that asails it, In the Ian
guagc of acotcmporary "he defends the dc.
icncclcSs with the rhetoric of lunacy"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

1t must be rather discouraeing TO those
honest farmers who can't see their way clear
n the organization of a new party, and hope
20 attain the objects the farmers have at heart
by the reformation of the republican party,
% see that party in Massachusetts, supporting
Ben. Butler, the father Of the salary steal, for
Governor; in Wisconsin led by Carpenter
the shameless defender of the Salary and
Credit Nobilier steals; and at Washington
doing oleisance 10 the man who signed the
. salary grab" act and whose signature alone
made that robbery possible. Reformation,
..ErDl
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Jesse Il. Grant, father of President Grant
died at half past 10 O'Clock Sunday night, al
his nome in Coyington, Ky, in the 10Th veal
OF his age He had been sick for several
months past, and during the last two weeks
lay in such a critical condition aS to cause
his friends 70 look for his dissolution at al.
most any moment. Yet it is noted that al.
though the President was advised of his con.
dition, he never reached Covington until five
hours after his fathers death. From the care
Grant seems 10 lake in providing for his rela
tives lie can hardly be regarded as hearilesS,
We; such neglect of his father .a ,strt5is is
the subject Of a good deal OF remark
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The failure of John II. Daniels, o private
banker At kankakee, is announced. lie is
said 10 lack about $4,000 of being able 70
square up with his creditors. The principal
loosers are depositors, Of whon The heavier
portion are of the poorer class. Ne excuse
is given for this wasting of other peoples
money. There may be some apology for
bankers, in times Of sudden commercial re-.
vulsion, being una5lcto meet their Liabilities
but banker moving along in the even tenor
OF 4 regular daily business, accepting dcpos-
its and banking on them, cdaHo; break hon
estly He is either rogue or utterly in
competent TO manage his business, and in
either case deserves punishment,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Henry Ward Beecher has at length broken
silence in reference to the stories circulated
against him. lie gives fall permission 10 the
publication of any letters Of his Mrs. Wood
null may have in her possession, or anybody
else, and adds: AS to the stories and rumors
which for some time past have been circulated
aboutme, they are grossly untrue, and stamp
them in general and in particular as utterly
false"
1t looks now that instead of Beecher, the
man b be tried will be his accuser, Bowen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Though there may be forty or fifty mem
bers OF the last congress that have had con.
science enough left TO refuse TO draw the $4,000
increased they voted them for their term, no
such squeamishness affects The members ofthe
present congress. Though not one of them
has yet been at Washington or done a days
work, all of them have promptly drawn on
the treasury for their first quarters salary at
the rate of $500 a year-all except Foster,
of Michigan, who alone draws for pay at the
rate of s., 600 a year
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

If it is not unjust discrimination" to
.harge % cts. for % miles and IS cts. for 800
miles we can neither understand the law or
The meaning Of plain English words
The railroads may imagine twill pay them
% crush the interior towns of Illinois to OBJ
ain long through freights, bat our impress.
sion is the game in the end will be found
'0sng enc. Such tariff will rot be submit.
led to-thats all
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05
THE NEW RAILROAD TARIFFS.

The law of the last Legislature, designed to
compel the railroads of this state to charge
(" fair and reasonable" rates for frcights and
passenger fares, and to prevent unjust dis
elimination" though perhaps bunglingly
drawn, is explicit enough as to its leading
objects. These are that charges shall be fair
and reasonable, and that there shall be no un-
lust Determinations, 1t is true, the act pro.
cecds to define what, in the estimation Of the
legislature, would be unjust discrimina-
tons" and while the new railroad tariffs are
carefully drawn to sail clear of these dcfini.
lions, they run against very importsnt saw
inc clause which is added 10 the definitions
20 wit, the provision that /" this section shall
not exclude evidence Of other unjust dis.
examinations in freight and passenger rates"
The legislature knew very well that no
matter low comprehensive might be the list
If Supposable cases of discrimination they
prohibited, the ingenuity of the railroad
managers would enable them to invent other
modes and yet steer clear Of the prohibition
To head of that game, this general clause to
include aN other cd5es of unjust discrimina-
lion was added.
The railroads, ignoring this clause, proceed to
base their tariffs on single general principle,
and that is to encourage through freights and
f-eights for long distances and making villain.
ously unjust determinations against short
distances. Here is a specimen. 1t is the
Tariff of the c., b & Q. road, but all are about
alike:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The Belleville Democrat says, the crop just
harvested is enormous-thc heaviest perhaps
ever gathered-and the quality of the grain
excellent. With favorable weather for secur.
ing It, our farmers will realize rich reward
for their labors
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Ex-senator Trumbull has settled down into
the hum-drum routine Of law practice in Chi
csgo. His family is broken up, and it must
be lonesome life for a man who has been
for so many years in the very from; and focus
of public affairs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

\ lady in Reading, Pa, who put ont several
pieces OF lace on the grass, was mystified by
their strange disappearance They finally
were discovered in tree, - which 4 robin
had carried them % weave into IT. NEE.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The New York SIM is too CaptOUs. Il has
discovered that Mr.. Mullett, supervising ~
chitect Of the Treasury Department At WasA
ington, travels about the country attending
to the business pertaining to his Office on q
free pass furnished him by the Treasury De
partment, and yet draws from the treasury 10
cents mile to pay travelling expenses. If
Mullett is to be denounced as a dishOncs'
man for doing little thing like that W,
should like to know where you will find your
honest radical. The SIM will next object to
that travel on free passes draw
ing mileage.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The Hon. A. NJ. Craig, the papers tel Us,
took and caused to be filed the following oath
of Office when he took his seat ON the Su-
prcmc bench:
|, Alfred NJ. Craig, Judge Of the Supreme
Court Of the state OF Illinois, elected in the
9TH District, do soicmnly swear that | will
support the Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution Of the state of Illinois:
and that | Will faithfully dischargethc duties
of the Office of Judge Of the Supreme Court
of said state to the best of my ability. That
| will administer justice without respect 10
persons, and do equal right to the rich and 10
the poor without fail or denial, promptly,
without delay, conioYmably to the laws, with
out favor, objection or Partially, TO the best
of my judgment and abilities
Signed. ALFRED VI. CRAIG.
Can any one give % rational reason why
Mr., Craig should take thi. extraordinary oath
instead Of the plain, comprehensive and quite
sufficient oath prescribed by the Constitution
for all state officers, as follows:
do solemnly swear mat win supper, the
Constitution Of the United States, and the
Constitution of the state OF Illinois. and that
| will faithfully discharge the duties OF the
office of Judge of the Supreme Court accord
ing to the best of my ability.
We opposed Mr. Craig's election, but a. NE
was fairly elected, our disposition is to give
him fair chance and render him all respect
and consideration due his position. But
how can one highly respect Il man whomakc,
himself ridiculous by such tomioolerys
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Hiram Powers, the greatest OF America
sculptors, died at Florence, Italy. on the 9th
ult., of consumption. He was born in Wood
stock, VI, July 29th, 1895, and had alm0s;
completed his Gsth wear
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The old house at Morristown, New jersey
used by Washington as headquarters during
the New Jersey campaign, was sold at auc-
ton recently. They will sell his pantalOoGs
out OF the patent Office some of these days.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The Great Eastern arrived on Tuesday at
Newfoundland with the end of new Atlantic
Gable, which the Old Cable Company has
just succeeded in successfully laying from
the Irish coast 10 Hearts Content
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Simon Cameron has vouched for the good
character Of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon. and
the unfortunate man is completely prostra;eu
/ by this last stroke of i'll luck.-Ciaciaaar
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

The Boston Transrrtpt says: What oppo-
'nent of the peculiar institution ever expect
ed to live to read that Henry A. Wise had
declared to Virginians that slavery had beer
a blight upon southern industry and prosper
-.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-05

Mrs. Woodruff and Tcnnie Clatlin have
been acquitted, in accordance with the chargc
of Judge Blatchford, that, under the law.
newspapers cannot he casscd as "obsceuc
publications
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
" 70 shopo the uery age and Lmly Of the Tmcs.

Except authority given the Minister Of War
to purchase $4,000 rifles abroad it cannot be
perceived that the Spanish Government is
taking any active measures against the Car
lists. Meanwhile they appear to be operating
theoretically in Navarro; have destroyed al
arch of the railway bridge at Puebla, and cut
off communication between Miranda and Vito,
ria. Seventy officers and men of hussal
regiment in Bayonne with several officers OF
artillery regiments; have gone over to them.
The Philadelphia afternoon papers publish
an account of the daughter Of a prominent and
wealthy merchant of that city, aged II years,
who recently fell in love and eloped with and
married colored man, the brother of the larnl-
" washwoman, at whose house she formed his
acquaintance. The police discovered the par,
ties living together in a low den in the lower
part of the city yesterday. The girl has been
sent to the house of refuge, and the man hello
for trial No names are given.
The Special Transportation Committee O.
the Senate met in New York yesterday to hear
the railroad officials state their reasons fol
asking an increase Of pay for running posta
cars.
The steamer "Ncw State" bound from
Pittsburg to Wheeling, was sunk on Wednes
day near Brunots Island. No lives were lost
but the boat is total wreck.
Dispatches from various points 10 New York
Pennsylvania and elsewhere report the river
very high, aud many railroads and a large ex
tent of territory are submerged.
The much-talkcd of strike By the capcntcr
and plasterers in Brooklyn has resulted in ;
failure.
France and England are to send large NUN
Der of paintings and statues to the Vienna Ex
nOsition
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09

Itsecms that the appropriations by Congress,
first of 81 500, and an addition of $4,000, tol
the proper Improvement at Aqua Greek, Fa.'
will fail Of its purpose on account of Its made
quacy. Engineer W. P Craighill writes to ),
B. Sener meuber of Congress from the Fred
ericksburg, Va, district, that it will require
$4,000 to make lasting and available I'M
provemcut at that point, and inclines to think
it would be waste Of money to use the limit
ed amount appropriated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09

The Philadelphia Ledger in its weekly re-
port of the Pennsylvania coal trade says
while the market is quoted steady there is a
fair amount of business 10 coal, and information
from Boston, Providence and other coal centres
at the eastward as we'll as from the South, Of
unusually short stocks of coal. There is some
little holding off of orders 10 the hope that coal
may be lower about the first of May, as has
heretofore sometimes been the case, but is not
likely to be now"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09

A letter from Richmond 10 the Petersburg
Iudcx ys:-''The Commonwealth has made
no sale of delinquent lands lands upon which
taxes arc due since 1860. But under an act
passed by the General Assembly on one OF the
latter days Of the recent session all the lanus
which have become delinquent Of late years are
to be sold by the Treasurers of the respective
counties during the months Of October and
November This it is expected, will bring into
the treasury considerable amount of money,
but if it does it will differ from all former cx-
pcricncc Of the kind"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09

The Governor has appointed the following
commissioners TO represent the State of |lr
ginia at the Vienna Exposition Gen. Bradley
T. Johnson, Capt. Chas. j. Anderson, Lieut..
Finders Robinson, Maj. Fred. r. Scott and p.
V. Daniel, jr, Of Richmond; Prot: W. W.
Humphreys, Of Lexington; Alexander Mellon
aid, of Lynchburg; Simon Ii. Ililb, of Staun-
ton, and Prof. J. G. Foertsch, of Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09
ALEXANDRIA,, VA.
In the Court ofAppeals, sitting in Richmond,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 0, 1878.

In the Court of Appeals, sitting in Richmond,
Yesterday, upon the petition Of Wise Brothers,
agents for Barclay 4 Livingstone of New
York, Sir VIM. Martins and Capel and Co.,
London, and Martha L. Grove, sole exccutriS
of the Right Honorable Lady Grace Grove OF
Brighton, Eng. "a rule Was awarded against the
second auditor, returnabe to the first day of the
next term to show cause why a writ ofmandanus
should not be issued to require him to fund
certain bonds of the State of Virginia held by
the parties above named. A similar rule was
awarded returnuble to the same term Tor the
some purpose upon the petition of Il. IL. Maury
& Co.. agents for S. Il. 4 u. Z. Ward OF
New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-09

Wall street yesterday was free from excite
ment and marked by further decline of the
Gold premium to lis, and a relaxing of the
money pressure. Call loans commanded per
cent per diem, but the rate declined to I per
cent, gold, per annum, at the close OF business.