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kT Knights from Virginia. District Of
Colombia aud Maryland. desiring to ea.
ter the lists. vii: please sddress one Of
the Committee Of Arrangeuents.
Persons from the lower section Of the
county can 60 and return By the Balti.
more and Potomac Railroad.
Five Knights from S. Mary's ccuuty
are invited By the Comnittee Of Arrsns, :
neuts 70 participate in this touruay.-
Those elee'iag to ride viii notify one Of
The Arrapgemees Committee. l.-ea.
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arr, A WEEK guaranteed to Male and re-
nj male Agents. in their locality. Costs
~ NOTHING 10 try il. Particulars FREQ.
vlCKERY & CO., Augusta, Nc.
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TOURN AMENT 6 BALL F.!

1uVpERE v;ll bc , GRAND vOIp-
NAMENT Avn Rail =, ,h. r..
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At
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IN WEDNESDIY c., IN 1874
h,nasoma En.I;.h S.dsi. - d.:
Kn;sh. The '
MARINE BAND,
Of Washington. has been engaged, and .
gala day may be expected.
Marshal:
Col. B. F.GUY.
Aids:
JOHN W. BELT 1O.L Crave,
Herald.:
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Nesr a dcertiseaaessts.
ANOTHER CHANCE!
Fifth and Last Gift Concert
IN AID OF THE
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF ".
POSTPONED TO
NOVEMBER 80, 1874.
ORA WING CERTAIN AT THAT
DATE.
Lls7 OF GIFTS.

e. LIST OF GIFTS.
One Crssd Cash Cif. $3.50, 600
One Grosd sCask Cir. lOe. 600
Oae Graad CasA GIN, $4,000
One Grasd Cash Cir, $4,000
Oae Gra#d CASH GIN, 25.OOO
8 Cash Gifts, SO, 900 each, loo. 900
10 Cash GIGS, 1900 each, 40. 600
Is Cash Giffs, 10000 each, $50 600
20 Cash G.fis. 1900 coca. 100. 0,W
20 CASA GGts, 1900 each. LOO. 900
30 Cash Gitts. 5000 each. $4,000
SO Cash GIFTS. 1000 each, 100, 900
100 Cash GIFTS. 1000 each, Zoe, 600
$40 Cash Gitis. 500 each, l2o. 900
500 tesA Gias. 100 each, SO, O6d>I
10000 Cash Gias, so each, 9ao, GOO
cra.d Total. 20 600 CHS. all
CASA, - 90. ti. 2.5OO, con
PRICE OF TICKETS
Whole Tickets. . 50 %
Halves, rs %
Tenths. or each Coupon, s 90
III Whole Tickets for 500 OO
22a Tickets for 1000 90
For Tickets and information, address
THO. q. BRAMLETTE,
Agent and Manager.
Public Library Bsilding, Louisville, Ky.
Or TlloS II. HAySk CO.,
se9 broadway, New York.
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Judges:
Fielder Magruder, N. c. Stephen. Thorn.
as L. Hume, DR.. 4. H. Wyvill, John
Bowling, X. b. b. Chew.
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Committee of Recepfion.

Dr.. c. A. Wells. WIN. H. Harper. Hen.
~ Brooke. T. Owen Berry. John Billupp,
Pinkncy Berry, Fendall Marbury.
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Orator of the DIV:

Hon. RICHARD T. MERRICK.
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Heralds:
7. o. Roberts. Dr.. C. o. Lewis, William
Stanley. Charles C. West, /. 8. Wilson
George W Brooke.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

Grover, of the Earlville Transr.5le. lately
attended German Sunday picnic, and liked
it hugely. lie thinks the beer was a. palata.
BILE as tea or coffee and not half as injurious
as a late oyster supper, for instance. The
Germans" he says, "have their enjoyments
in the open air; they take all their family,
including the little ones, with them. They
eat no late suppers; they cultivate no stiff
aiTectation of dignity, but all talk, romp and
sing with Il perfect abandon OF manner. There
is no begging. They drink lager as Ameri
cans do milk as par; of their own way, and
pay very little attention to the forms of god
illness as understood by Americans. But
health is more godly and necessary than dis
pepuc prayers, and the Germans have health
without the prayers, while the American,
have the prayers without health. 1t is very
| PLAN that the argument is not all GA the
! American side of the question
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
independent Reform Congressional Con'en
WSffiOn.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.

The legal voters of the Seventh Congressional
District who approve of the principles adopted
by the Independent Reform Convention held at
Springfield on the 10th day of June last, are re
quested to meet in convention at the county seat
of their respective counties for the purpose OF
appointing delegates TO attend Congressional
Convention, to be held at Morris on the 10th dag
of Sept, a. d, 1874, TO nominate candidate foi
Congress for the Seventh Congressional District
The basis OF representation for the couutic'
comprising the District will be as follows; tc
wit:
One delegate for each township in the rcspcc
tive counties, and three delegates at large.
IT. r. CoNKLIN,
II. l.. MEAD,
LOTT SCOFIELD,
j. T. Solicit, ir.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
"A DEMOCRATIC REBELLION. "

a telegraph despatch from Quincy states
that ex-senator w. a. Richardson is ont in q
manifesto against the recent action of the
Democratic State Central Committee at Chi
cago His objection is not to their calling Il
state convention, but 10 their issuing II plat
form in advance of the convention, Thcrc Is
no doubt if the committee had met SIMPLY 10
discharge their ministerial office of fixing the
date and place of meeting ofan old fashioned
democratic" state convention, their action
in issuing platform in advance would have
been irregular; but We do not understand that
the COMMITTEES have pretended to call Il dem
ocratic" state convention. They seem to
have come to the conclusion that such step
was incXpediept-in other words, that the
democratic organization in tins state as such
was played out" and that, as a committee,
they were tunctus ofciO. As individuals,
therefore, and not as the Democratic State
Committee, they issued the call for conven.
tion TO be made up of voters independently
of all former party name or tie, but who
agreed on certain essential points Of opposi-
ton to the republican party. The proposed
convention, when it meets, will doubtless be
at liberty To add TO ts platform, and, if well
attended, we hope will add at least one more
plank-that which the west have been de
manding for several years pasta plank in
favor of one uniform paper currency for the
nation, issued directly from the treasury, and
rcdcemablc on presentation At the public
treasury or Sub.treasury IN specie.
But it is further in,imatcd that Gen. Rich.
ardson's objection To the action of the com.
imlitcc is no; So much 10 their having issued
platform, but Ia having issued hard mon.
cv platform. 1t Gen. Richardson is in favor
of paper money repIdlation platform like
that adopted in Indiana, instead of going into
I a democratic convention with Il we hope hg
will be honest and manly about 1t at once
and call n convention OF the followers of O
u. Morton and John \. Logan, and put The
thing through under an honest name and
with a Legitimate parcntage.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL.

While the large daiies have again been
mainly occupied during the week with the
Beecncr-Tlton scandal, there have really been
no new developments of importance, The
prosecution against Triton for libel, which it
was hoped would throw the business into the
courts, has been dismissed, being evidently
farce from the beginning. 1t is now said
Mr.. Tilon will commence prosecution
against Bcecher iDr adultery.
Mrs. Beecher's testimony, which was taken
by the committee some ten days ago, was fin
ally given to the public last Monday and
Tuesday, after having been suitably brushed
up and pruned down. Nevertheless it is
even more humiliating and degrading than
the cross examination Of Tilon himself. The
woman, while denying any aCtof criminalty
between herself and Becchcr, yet in the most
"gushing" language cnlargcs on the great,
ovcrpowcrng, absorbing love she entertained
for Becchcr and he for her; how IN his pres.
ence she was exalted TO the seventh heaven
band, and SO on, IL love which she says Beech
er fully returned and which, if il did not over.
come what virtue he may have possessed,
would make him vastly more Of an anchorite
than the world cstcrmS him.
Tiltob, on being invited by the committee
again To appear before them, refused saying
| he had heretofore used all honorable means
to get his testimony before the committee
without effect, and that now, being satisfied
that the verdict of the committee was fore
gone conclusion, he should take such meas
urcs rs may be necessary 81 bring the scandal
before court of competent jurisdiction.
| Mou,on has finally returned to New York,
and on being shown the statement of Beech
ers friends, to the effect that he had released
Moulton from all pledge of secrcsy and ask
ell him to speak out, Moulton denied that
Bcccher had said anything to him OF the sort.
| Thcrcupon however, Bccchcr was compelled
/ To address Moulton note To that effect, upon
which MOulton promises upon Saturday TO
/ lay) To appear before the committee and pre-
sent all the documents in his possession and
/ tell all he knows.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
TIRE COUNTY FAIR.

The Ruic,, Regulations and Premium LIST
of the La Sailc County Fair for lS'i have
been printed in pamphlet form and the Sccre-
ntry, ASA IIoFFMAN, Esq, who may ut any
time be found n, the Office of $ W, Raymond,
ESQ. county treasurer, in Ottawa, is engaged
i'm circulating them and will be happy TO
SIMPLY ANYBODY asking for one with a copy
The fair is to be held September S,h, 9th,
1Oih and 18th. The premium list for the
present year has been considerably cnlargea
higher prizes than heretofore are offered for
many articles, and other articles heretofore
omitted are included. There is no omission
on the part Of the officers OF the society IN
any point of duty to take all the steps that de-
volye upon them to make the fair success.
The failure, II there is one, will be on the
part of those for whose benefit alone these eX-
hbitions are gotten up-'he farmers, garden
cis, fruit growers, stock raisers, mechanics
and artisans of the county. The object OF
the fair is 10 illustrate and promote our IN
dustrJal progress III every branch ana depart
menl. Fairs in this country, hitherto, have
accomplished amazing results in that direc-
ton. Is any one so ignorant ana blgoled rs
not TO admit that we are indeptcd almost cX-
clusivcly to the state and county fairs for the
vast advance the farmers of this state have
made IN the. matter of horse breeding ana
stock raising? Would short horns, Dcvons
and Grade cattle have been heard of except
among few leading stock men but for the
state and county fairs? How many farmers
that now rejoice in teams Of small elephants
that did not see their first Norman horse at a
county fair? And what progress We have
made in raising sheep, swine, poultry and
other domestic animals We owe to the same
agency.
We know it has become iashinabe among
certain classes Of farmers as well rs manulac-
mrcrs TO derde such shows as more cxpcn-
sive than useful, sc. In most cases these
men are prodigies Of ingratitudc. There IS
scarcely an improvement in the stock or i'm
plcmcnts around them that they are not IN
debted for, more or less, to that spirit Of en-
terprise and emulation that has been excited
by the annual fair.
The La Sale county fair will be q success
if those who have been benefited by it here
toforc deal by it justly and honorably, and if
those who are stIll 10 he benefited by it can
see their true Interests beyond the end Of their
noses. If il is allowed TO be failure, fjle
measure Of that failure will show the exact
degree in which agricultural and mechanical
goalcad and energy in this county have Ne
Perforated ard gone backward, If in the last
year, any Of our people have made real pro
gress or improvement in anyldircction, they
will be proud to show it and talk about it;
if they have been indolcnt and gone back.
ward, they will naturally stink away from
the company OF those who have done better
ana will, Of course, not be seen at the county
fair
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

The Vicksburg election on Tuesday passed
of without disturbance, the peoples or anti
republican ticket succeeding, for the first
time since the war, by "A large majority. \
full vote was polled on both sides. Governor
Amcs foresaw that the election must result
IN a radical defeat unless the usual method
OF compelling victory by military and wa,
resorted to, and to that end had been begging
the President for several weeks past 10 send
him company or two of [. $. soldiers, but
somehow or other the President has lately
sourcd on the carpet bnggcrs, and refused 10
do IT,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

Young Waiworth, who killed his father in
New York two years ago and has since his
trial been confined in the state prison at Au-
burn, was on the LIST inst. removed to the
state insane asylum for criminals at Buffalo,
The doctors say his case is one of chronic
epilepsy His physical condition Is so fee
bic that n walk of few rods eXhaustS him.
HIS grandmother, widow of Chancellor Wal
worth and earlier the widow of Col. John j.
Hardin, of tn is state, died at her home at
Saratoga few days ago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

SyrREME Court IsEFORM.--A writer in The
Jacksonville Sentinel assails The Supreme
Court of this state, and cries aloud for re-.
form. Instead of promoting justice, our Su,
prcmc Court, as now constituted and "opcrat-
Cd" lac maintains, is the source Of endless in
Justice. IN the Circuit Court all the parties
attorneys and witnesses are present before the
Jury and full investigation can be had with
an insight into The motives and feelings gov
erning the parties. Before the Supreme
Court, on the other hand, only Il partial hear.
ing can be had on technical points, often
scarcely touching the merits of the case The
result is that the decision of the court be.
low" is in eight out of ten cases reversed, al
though the Circuit Court had by far the hes,
opportunity to get at the justice of the case
The reform contended for is, that either all
the parties and witnesses shall go bcsorc the
Supreme Court, or that full record shall be
taken up and then read in open court, and the
attorneys shall make their points and argu
ments on it then and there, and not, as al
present, by printed abstracts, briefs and argu
ments that are both expensive and unsatisiac
tory And lastly, that having thus heard the
case, the Judges shall render their decision
forthwith, as is done in the Circuit Court, and
then that whole abuse of long opinions and
huge annual volumes OF Reports will be
done away with.
The main difficulty in The way Of the adop
ton of this plan Is, that the court would
never get through with lis business. The
Supreme Court Of Illinois has usually abOu
1900 causes year to hear and dispose of
There is hardly cause which, if the RECORD
had to be read in cXtcnso and the attorneys
on each had to make their arguments orally
that would take up less than Il day while
many single causes would occupy week
How is the court in 800 days to dispose o
1900 causes in that way? 1t is plain tn,
jacksonville rclormcr don't know what he i.
| talking about
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

The SUMPTUARY PLANK.-rhe Chicago
Post and .Nail radical organ, writes column
to convince the Southwestern christian -16c0-
cute that the resolution Of the Springfield
radical convention in opposition TO "lntcrlcr-
cncc by law with the habits, tastes and Gus
toms Of Individuals, except to suppress icen,
tiousness or to preserve the peaceand safety Of
citizens" has no reference whatever TO sump'
tuary laws, and in no wise pledges the repub-
lican party against the most rigid kind of
temperance Legislation in this state. On the
contrary, it maintains hat the pledge in favor
OF the suppression Of lioGnuouSness' direct,
ly pledges the party in favor Of such logisla-
ton This is all very fine, talking to a tenn
perancc organ like the y. ", C. Idcocate;
but is that the same Interpretation the reDuD,
leans give the resolution when talking 10 the
Germans? 1t is well know that the resolu-
ton was put IN the platform solely as a top
to the Germans. The truth Is, however, it
was intentionally So wordcd as TO deceive
both the prohlbitionists and the Germans,
and is in inception and purpose base fraud
IN blil
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

STEAMBOAT BuRNED.--Thc steamer Pat
Rogers, new boat, was burned at 5 o'clock
on Wednesday morning on the Ohio river
near Aurora, below Cincinnati. The fire is
supposed to have originated from careless.
ness IN smoking near cotton bales. The pas
sengers were all in bed at the time the alarm
was raised, and fourteen, mostly women and
children, persisted either by being burned or
drowned. The boat was burned to the waters
edge and the entire cargo lost
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
POSTPONED.

1t being found impossible TO get the coun
ty conventions properly together IN time to
appoint the necessary delegations to attend
the proposed "Independent' convention al
Morris on the 18th inst. that convention has
been postponed to the 10th day Of September
next BY our next issue a call will probably
be ready for convention ofthe Independent
voters Of shis county TO send delegates to that
convention aud doubtless also to nominate a
comfy ticket.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

:. The recent ten column address OF Iii thir.
ty.nne republican congressman to the peo.
pie Of the L. 5, begging them to re-clect a
radical congress, somewhere within its vast
domain of words, says: For thirty years
previously to 1871 the government had been
almost uninterruptedly under democratic con
troll; and of that control there Is hardly a
memory left at which the nation should not
blush" Is not this strange language for
John A. Logan, Simon Cameron and Others
to utter, men who were Democrats all the
time, and supported all those measures which
should cause said blush ~ When men will
thus ack aowrdgc their own guilt, political
incompetency and lack of rcctitude they are
surely dangerous folds to trust and Of such
the nation should beware.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

There having been no troops sent to Nofl
Carolina this yearto"compel rcpublicar
tory" and no 5000 ship carpenters, So II
L. s. Marshals, jurors, &c, and the ,efoI
there being allowed TO havea quiet END ss
and to vote in their own way, the rcpu>ho,M
party AZ inc clec'ioi' c"''io " gnu. hand
scrvatives" carried the superintendent II
Public instruction, the only state oiliccinnE
elected seven Of the eight congressm, III
have a large majority in both branches OF IN
legislature. In short the route CT the radi
calls seems TO be complete.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

The Roman Catholic bishops have forward
cd to the government protest, declaring
that they cannot submit to oncsided laws
and claiming that legislative power in mat
tiers concerning the church belongs to the
pope alone.
Prince Bismarcl's son recently fought O. du-
ell, with pistols, at Dusseldorf, with n. Sar>-
kawan, an officer of infantry. Three shots
were to have been fired by each, but the first
shot of the German took effect in his adyer-
sary's abdomen, and soon atterward proved
fatal
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

It is decided that La Sale county is to be
represented in the opposition convention call
ed 10 meet at Springfield on the Goth inst.
Parties are now engaged in getting mp call
for a county mass meeting OF all voters of the
county who endorse the platform forcshad
owed in the call issued by the democratic
state committee for that convention. This
county is entitled to Is delegates
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

THL GRANGERS AID PoLITICs.-We take
the following, which are said TO be the views
of the managing editor Of the st. Louis Repub.
ltcan on the subject, 10 be a very rational
statement of the probable part the grangers
will take in the politics of the country this
year:
THE Changers thus far" said lie, have
shown no inclination 10 be captured. If any
capturing is to he done, 1t will be by the
Changers Whereverthey are strong enough
To elect neutral to Congress, they are very
likely to do so; and where they are not, they
can readily obtain pledges from either, Oh
both of the party candidates. Their action
will therefore appear 10 outsiders, of course
to lean in favor of the dominant party in tn,
respective states. They will seem to be dem
ocra,ic in Missouri and Republican IN Hi
nuiS"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

Our friend at Bloomington, who writes Us
such an earnest protest against the proposed
meeting Of all the La Sale county soldiers Al
Ottawa on the day previously appointed fol
the reunion of Dickcy's cavalry and the lOitl
regiment, will see by cur columns elsewhere
that the publication Of his article is unncc
essary, as the proposed general reunion is
not to take place on the day he objects to.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
Spain.

In consequence Of the repeated complaints
tn. Carlists at Bayonne; boot and shoes at
Bordeaux; and that the project of the Lower
Pyrenees publicly promotes the entry OF Carl
ist volunteers into Spain Germany has sent
protest to France, and, to show its earnest
ness, has sent German squadron into the
Bay Of Biscay. Serious complications, II *
feared, will grow out of these steps,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

The opposition, or Reform party, as they
call themselves in Michigan, held Il State
Convention at Lansing on Monday. The
convention was largely attended, but no bus
mess was done beyond organizing, adopting
a platform, and issuing call for another
convention 80 meet at kalamazoo on the 9ill
of September 20 make nominations. The
platform was adopted, after sharp discus
sion, with entire unanimlty anu contains d
sound and manly declaration against paper
money imitation and in favor OF an early re
turn to specie payment.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08

A crazy divinity studcnd, named Minis IA,
Faribault, Mimi, last Sunday, made an at
tempt to aSsassinate Bishop Whipplc. Just
before the sermon, rs the bishop cnterc the
chancel, the student approached him with n
drawn pistol; but the Bishop, with great pre-
sence OF mind, forced him into n chair and
GiSarmed him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-08
T Foreign News.


Dispatches from "Hglanu during b. week
have bccA largely occupied with accounts
Of the various gam nf base bail and cricket
played by the two American base ball clubs
the Rcd Stockings and Athlclics--now in
England. After playing several games TO
rather thin audiences a. Liverpool, they went
to Manchester, where hey were witnessed by
crowds of ave and -. thousand, and excited
great cnIhusiusm. The playing was much adj
mircd, and cries O! well stopped" "beauti
fully folded, etc, we've frequent and general.
The clubs also beat u favorite English club
at game Of cricket,
During the public discussion Of the public
worship bill in the house on Wednesday eve
ming NJ DisraclI referring to the strife be.
tween church and state on the continent, ex
pressed the convict N that however tranquil
might be the general state Of Europe, there
were agencies at work preparing q period of
great disturbance.
Parliament was to be prorogncd today.