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THE GERMAN y3TE

II is said that Baron HcsIng, If Chicago,
who Is reported 10 carry the German vote in
his pocket figurdlivcly speaking, offered the
Independent Convention at Springfield, if
olu,ion and resolution against prohibitory
legislation and in favor Of judlcious license
law, that their ticket should receive the en-
tire German vote. Our opinloE is that the
convention was foolish not to take him at his
offer 1t is exactly the platform that viii win
in the end, whether the Germans support it
or not. But as to that German vote, how
much does it amount to? We find the follow
ing estimate OF it in the Cincinnati P0Ms-
frfURd
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Chicago on Tuesday celebrated the com.
pletion of her second lake tunnel, which has
water capacity Of l0O,NO0yO00 gallons a day,
or nearly double that Of the old tunnel. THIS
tunnel has clear width Of seven feet and a
clear height OF seven feet two inches. tex
tends distance of two miles into the LAX,
and connects with the crib. Its cost is 1850,
600. The city is now building, a, an expens,
Of $4,000, land tunnel from the water
works TO the corner of Blue Island and Ash
land Avenue, a distance OF three and three
quarters miles, which Is designed to furnish
the West Division with permanent supply
When completed pumping works will be con
slructed and supplied with pumps, the whole
costing nearly 100000. Chicago will then
have the best watersupply in any city in the
world at cos; Of sG,sO3, 7774G.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Inc rate Of negro progress was over.esti
mated when congress iondly believed the
Senegam biaI had attained the capacity to man
age bank and thereupon granted national
charter for huge negro savings bank, with
aprinclpai hank at Washington and branches
AL over lbe country. The bank was KEEP
awe Two or three years and received the say
incs OF poor, industrious negroes, from a dol
lar up, until several millions had been accum
uIa'ed, when one morning, a few weeks ago
terrific excitement arose in Africa on the
announcement that the "Frecdman's Saving
Bank had suspended! partial inyestga
ton shows that the negro is not whit more
honest IN handling other peoples money than
Inc average carpetbagger, from whom he
LOOK his lessons. The bank has been robbed
without stint by its negro officers and is hone
lessly lnsolyent 1t isto be wound I'D at once
and IN the course of tue or three wears "it is
hoped Vill be able 10 pay a moderate divi
oend to its twenty thousand depositor.. the
mass 81 whom, meantime, ure left in a des,i
'u'e and suffering conli,ioa from the loss O,
their ht,lo sayings
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Speaker Blaine has awaited himself of the
afforded him by his re.nomina-
ton for congress to write letter and put In
his little bid for the Presidency The only
points he touches are the currency, tree trade
and the proposed reciprocity treaty with Can
ada. On the currency question he tavorS the
donothlng plan of Mr.. Boutwell,, believing
that If left alone it will come out right "by
the operation of causes more powerful than
any legislation" On the tariff question, he
inveighs strongly against the free trade rcso-
lutions of the recent democratic state conven.
ton of Maine, arguing that free trade would
be ruinous to that state. His carnestness on
that point, however, shows thai Mr.. Blaine
like Winchell, in his address to the mob with
sally looking down all the time" had a
steady consciousness that the tariff monopo-
lists of New England aud Pennsylvania were
locking down all the time" Heopposcs the
proposed reciprocity treaty was Canada as a
death blow to the lumber interests of Maine.
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CIRCUIT COURT.

In the case of Thomas vs. CushmaD, OF
trial as we went to press last week, the jur,
gave n verdict of $500 in favor of Thomas
The claim grew out of services claimed tC
have been rendered Mr.. Cushman in drawing
up the plans and doing some work IN the way
Of erecting the Illinois river dams at Ottawa
before the job was taken off Mr.. Cushman's
hands by the Ottawa Manufacturing Com
pany The defense Mr. Cushman relied on
was ;hat in the affair he was not acting in his
own behalf, but as the agent OF the company
u view of the case the jury was not Inclined
TO take, and so gave judgment against him.
a writ of habeas corpus was granted James
Boyle, of Bureau county, and he was dscharg
cd from custody.
On Monday the case of The People VS.
James Conner was taken up, iConner being
arraigned on an Indictment for attempting to
commita rape on Mrs. Dcmont, near Utica.
The prosecuting witness is a comely young
married woman, whose husband, at The time
of the assault, was employed with the defend
ant in a stone quarry at Utica The defend
ant had left the quarry during working hours
and stolen TO the house TO commit the assault,
The woman told straight, honest story
how she struggled and how the wretch was
foiled in his base design-and the jury be-
leved her, finding Conner guilty, and send
ing him to the pcnitentiary for one year.
The case now on trial is that of The People
VS.. VIM. Morris. The defendant Is the man
connected with the robbery of freight cars
on the G.. II. |. Il p. X. X. near La Sale last
fall who was arrested and broke jail at OF
tawa, and was subsequently, rccaptured at
Peoria. The case promises 10 occupy several
days in the trial.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

The big city dailIes were fooled into extern
sively advertising gratuitously in advance
Harpe,'s Weekly for the present week on ac-
count OF Nasty attack it was to contain on
President Grant. The cartoon over which
such blow in advance was made is full
page hy Mast, representing Columbia as re-
proving Grant Tor the nomination of Shep-
herd as one of the District commissioners,
and Richardson as Judge, with the word un-
der it: Don't let us have any more of this
nonsense" Grant is in a crouching attitude,
with an expression of half fear and half hate
on his tace. The picture itself is indifferent
enough, the only importance attaching 10 it
being that it shows the convection of the
shrcwd publishers Of lIarpcr's that Grant is
going down hill 81 rapidly that they no Ion
ger incur the risk of loss by asSailing him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Being excluded from the possibility of al
tanning positive information SIS 10 the inside
workings of the grange, we can only say, il
the following from the Peoria Transcript Is a
correct representation of the financial side of
the question Good Hope Grange" did abou;
right:
Good Hope Grange No. l9s, situated NJ
Good Hope, McDonOugh County, at a recent
meeting, formally resolved TO disband. The
reasons given for the action are the eNpcn-
siveness oi the order, and the fact that there
is disposition among the higher officers in
this State To make the organization poiiii-
cal party, contrary To It's original spirit and
design. Concerning the firstnamed cause,
the members say that their Grange has only
been in existence about one year, and that
during that time il has collected rs dues
from members $52266, and has paid out
Si5i -, besides having abou; $3.50 due as
fees from delinquent members The Grange
decided to divide the amount in its treasury
among the Sunday schools of Good Hope
township. The Grange numbered less than
100 members.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Nullet the supervising architect at Wash
ington Of government buildings is the man
by whom the eight hour law Of congress
was virtually set aside, orders have been is
sued by him to reduce the pay Of govern
ment mechanics and laborers in the same
proportion with the time. When Il public
officer gives ostentatious vent to that sort of
economy" we always expect TO hear next
that he has been stealing something. We
are not disappointed in the case OF Mr. Mul-
let. Says a Washington letter:
ONE ofthe queer documents or file in
the office of the secretary of the treasury at
Washington, is an affidavit by Judson York,
who was at one time in the employ of MI.
Mullet, supervising architect of the treasury,
1t sets forth that York was so employed
from May lst, 1864, to Aug. 1st 1870, and
that in 1869 he was sent to Cairo, TO super.
intend the erection of the custom house
there. He discovered that Mr.. Jas. G. Ra
kin, former superintendent, had used brick,
stone and other material supplied for the
government building, and had built with
them one or more brick houses. Also, that
the men that had done the work on Rakin's
houses, were paid by government pay rolls.
He communicated these facts to Nullet, but
nothing was done about it except TO promote
Itakin to be his (Mullet's) chief assistant.
And York depoSes further that he reported
two Other cases of fraud in the erection Of
government buildings, one OF which was at
Springfield, III.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

The big st. Louis bridge was formally
opened on the 4th of July by grand pa
gean., consisting of monster procession, a
ride across the bridge, "a banquet of dlgnita-
ries, speeches, toaS,s, &c, with fire works and
q grand illumination in the evening. Presi-
dent Grant was not there, of course, no more
than he was at dozen other places he had
pdrtidliy promised to visit on the 4th; but
Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, was there, and
Gov. Woodson, of Missouri; and Gov. Hen
bricks, of Indiana; and 3. Gratz Brown, and
Gen Hancock, and Senator Bogy, Tor all these
are mentioned as making speeches.
The bridge thus formally openot though
it is opened only for ordinary traye, the tun.
nels needing completion before it is ready for
railroad trans) has been some four years in
course of construction, and from Third street,
st. Louis, to Third street, East St. Louis,
where the highway reaches the level Of the
dyke, is 4,4l4 feet, fraction less than one
mile in length. The genius who planned and
superlntended its construction to completion
was Capt. James B. Eads, OF ST. Louis, who
will hereafter rank as one of the great enSl.
neer of the age 1t is estimated that 100000
strangers were in ST. Louis TO witness and
participate in the ceremonies.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

p. NJ GENERAL-The Presidents departure
for Long Branch was delayed last week for q
few days on account Of his difficulty to find
= suitable man to succeed Cresswell as Post
master General. A few enthusiastic Pennsyl
yanians made an effort in favor Of John w
Fcrney, but the President as much as said,
Anybody but him. Finally he telegraphed
to Marshall Jewell, our present minister to
St. Petersburg and on Saturday a reply was
received from him accepting the position.
Little is known about Jewell or his capacity
except that he was beaten a couple Of times
by democrat for Governor of Connecticut.
Mr.. Cresswell having retired from the Office
on Saturday his first assistant, Marshall, will
discharge the duties until Jewell arrives
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

The Spragues, VINO year ago were sup
posed to own the whole state Of Rhode Island
and TO carry big part of it in their brooches
pockets, are hopelessly bankrupt. 1t was
hoped by their creditors at the time of their
snsnensiop last winter that they would be
able 10 meet their obligations if an extern
sion was granted, but the first lot of paper
becoming due on the 1st was allowed to 20
10 protest. Nothing nowremains tor the cred
itors to do but 10 place the firm into bank
ruptcy and take pro rata share of the pro.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

INDIAN HosTILTTIEs.-Th chances are
that We shall have quite Il smart sprinkling
OF Indian wal during the present seasorf
1t Is reported from Kansas that "thc Chcy-
.enne' Comanche and Kiowa Indians are On
the war path along the north fork OF the
Canadian river Five men have been mur
dered. The Indian Agent asks troops. The
hostile sayages number 1000 warriors"
Meantime Gen. Custar has gone with 1000
cavalry 10 the Black Hills, up in Dakotal
and Montana, To stir up the bloody Sioux
Nothing like sharp little Indian war 'C
make the business of western suffers and
army contractors lively and profitable.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

: GRANGE CELEBRATIoN.-The biggest. ce!e
hration of the 4th in La Sale county was
that of the grangers at Troy Grove. II took
the form of grand picnic, and was attended
by full 5000 people, gathered from Troy
Grove, Ophir, Freedom, and adjoining towns
in Lee and Bureau counties Speeches were
made w. Y. Worsley, Capt Haslc., Mr. VIII
cox, DR. Hattie and others II was noticed
to the disgust of some of the straightout,
tightlaced republicans present that The
speeches generally stepped out of the beaten
path of 4th OF July orators, and instead OF
combining their remarks to clarifying &. Wash.
! ington and the American eagle, they talked
plainly aud pointedly about political matters
of concernment to-day. Noplain talk of that
kind nowadays ever pleases the radicals.
The general enjoyment was unbounded The
grangers' wives and daughters spread the re.
past under some huge elms and oaks, and all
partook with great heartines> The Mendoza
Brass Band footed the music
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

SCHURz.-It is understood that the very
able and distinguished Senator from Missouri
will decline - enter the contest for re.elec.
lion TO the L. S. Senate, bu: is about TO be.
come the editor of German paper in New
York city. Doubtless Mr.. Schurz is little
adapted 10 become the toady and henchman
OF any political party at present in Mlssouri
yet without il would fail TO secure re.elec
ton. Men of his mental caliber since the death
81 SUMNER, dnlst find the L. s Senate quite
as deyoic Of congeniality as an average pc
liiical club in the backwood..
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Gen. p. T. q. Beauregard, at one time com
uap6erin.chiet of the rebel army, has ac
cepted the situation of chief engineer of the
Argentine Republic, AZ salary of 100000 a
wear. He will have charge Of the defensive
works of the republic and superintend the eX-
plorations Of Plate river We notice, also,
that the Argentine Republic is importing
college professors and school teachers from
the United States Two Of Chicago's best
teachers have accepted situations there.
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CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER.

! The honest farmers of La Sale county
who, persuaded that they are continuously
and mercilessly robbed by the railroad tariff
and other monopolies, yet have such an lido
latrous faith in the republican party that they
believe all their ills can be more speedily
cured inside than outside that organization
cannot fail to take courage in view of the
nomination made by the late republican con
yention Of Illinois for State Treasurer. Thos
S. Ridgeway, their nominee, is not only pres
idsnt of IA national bank and thus inside of
the great rag money monopoly, but is also
president of a railroad company, and there
fore sworn supporter of all the monstrous
pretensions Of that huge cOnglomeration OF
monopolies and rings. The nomination of
such man to handle the peoples money at
time like this, when the farmers are in the
midst Of such an earnest effort to disconnect
our public offices from the control of the
hired servants of monopolies and rings, is
little better than an insult. OF all the offices
in the State, that Of treasurer is the last that
should be held by bank and railroad pres
ident. Rdgeway may be an honest enough
man in his way, but who ever questioned the
honesty of Jay Cooke or Tom Scott until the
temptations of their position as bank and
railroad presidents led them to defraud the
people of millions.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

The Annual Reee,ta Of the Inter Collegiate
Rowing Association comes off at the Sara,o.
ga Lake, July 18th and 10Th Yale, wesle
yam, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard
Dartmouth, Brown, Williams and Trinity are
all represented A complimentary ticket lie.
On our table, and We would give good deaI
for the privilege Of gong there To see tn,
boys pull the race, and we know they woult
be charmed to see us. May the best winl
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

WIITISG MACHINE.-A Washington des-
patch says the various government bureaus
at Washington are rapidly introducing in the
the letters instead of writing them. The
work is done very neatly by an expert, and
il is claimed much more rapidly than in the
ordinary way of writing. What sort of a ma
chine Is it,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

The attempt Of Carpenter and sherman, 10
have a law passed to punish editors in any
part OF the country, having the tcmerity to
speak abusivcly or disrcspectfully Of mem
Der OF congress or a government officer by
Indictment and prosecution in Washington
City, was supposed TO have failed; but it
turns out that Senator Poland of Vermont,
had address enough to smuggle the Carpcn,
ter bill as an amendment INTO another bill
sailing under very different colors, and that,
therefore, in point of fact, the proposed od-
ious Carpenter gag has become law. At
least Boss" Shepherd, whose rascality the
New York Sun took extra pains TO expose,
has awaited himself of the Poland amend
mcnt TO commence prosecution against Mr.
Dana, the publisher of the .SuIt, in Washing
ton City Mr. Dana is to be indicted and
then carried to Washington City by Il |
5. marshal, and locked up until he can get a
trial If Senator Poland has really succeeded
in ioistiDg upon the legislation of the coun
try a law by which such an outrage upon
the press OF the country can be committed
he will soon find himself buried under a
mountain Of odium fathoms deeper than that
which for three quarters OF century has
buried out of sight the authors of the "alicn
and Seditior laws of the time of the elder
Adams
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

TX Postmaster General CresswelI retires
from politics and forms partnership will
an uncle to enter into the banking business
in Washington city with a national bank
charter and 100000 capital His expccta
ton is 10 run government pet bank like
that of ]. Cooke, by which the government
lost some $50 900
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Cattell, the gentleman FROM Buffalo, whom
Grant had appointed as one of the three
commissioners TO govern the District OF
Columbia, having declined the position, the
place has since been rendered to exCongress'
man John II Ketcham, of New York, and &C
cepted. So the board now consists OF ii. T.
Blow, of St Louis. ex.Gov. Dennison, OF
Ohio and John II. ketCham.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Hon b. Olin, county judge of VIII county,
declined q nomination for congress at the
hauds of the independent reformers of his
district-Stdte Register.
As no such nomination has yet been ten
dered any body-no convention having been
called or even determined upon definitely,
We suspect the above announcement is prem
sture.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

Theodore Tilton has resigned his position
as editor Cf the Golde, Age but maintains
that his charge against Beecher is true, and
that he can provo IL.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

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Bishop James O'Gorman, Roman Ca'hofic
Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska, died in Clncn.
matt on Saturday.
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Our Clubbing.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the following publications, furnishing
both at the prices named. The offer is open
to old subscribers or new at any post office
the country:
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-12-16

ofthe greenback might be fixed on the 4th
Of July, 1876, which would give ample
time for the country TO gradually adjust its
affairs TO the new standard.
We are now absolutely taxing ourselves
ten per cent. on all money transactions by
our perYerse system of declaring that our
irTedeemable due bills are as good as gold,
when we persist in refusing to make them
so in the only possible manner of accom-
plishing that end.
National banks should be compelled to
keep greenback or coin reserve for the
redemption of their circulation, either in
their own vaults or at the United States
Treasury, or with other redeeming agents
in some one of the money centres. The
operation of Judge Kelley's bill would in
cvitably tend to cheaper the value Of United
States bonds in the market and lessen the
security Of the noteholder. This is ex-
actly the reverse of what is desired In
stead of depreciating our national bank cur
renCy to the present greenback standard by
the substitution Of low grade, convertible
currency bonds for the present coin bonds,
the effort should be to elevate the green
back TO the present coin standard of ma
tional bank currency. If there is a fear
that our revenues will fall short Of the re-
quirements of the country, owing to the
decrease Of consumption, such result can
be provided against by the addition Of ten
cents gallon to the tax on spirits and the
restoration of the tax upon tea and coffee.
But it is not at all improbable that our rev.
enues will recuperate with the increase of
consumption that is pretty certain to follow
the opening Of business in the spring. Es-
pecialIy will this be the case in the event
OF the announcement by Congress Of a per-
manent financial policy, based upon cur
rency protected from the fluctuations in
cident TO and inseparable from our present
system of irredeemable due bills. 1t is
estimated that the taxes above suggested
would add some thirty to forty millions
annually TO the receipts of the National
Treasury.
tisnOw patent to all observers that the cir
culation Of the country is ample for all legiti-
mate business purposes. There is nothing
needed to iDfuse such activity into its move
ment toward commercial and industrial
channels as to fully revive business but
that course of legislation which we have
attempted to map out, and which would
serve as a guarantee TO capitalists and
brokers that another period of imitation,
speculation and fuctuation will not ensue.
We must have coin redemption as a COVER
nor and a regulator.