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The daily gazette., 1875-11-10
NAPOLEON'S TREATMENT OF
HIS GENERALS.

He was born king-if to command
tho obedience of men be the whole art
of k,pgship. which may perhaps be
doubted. He seems in general to have
acted on the plan OF frederlck !he
Great; that is, he demanded nothlng
but success from his lieutenants, ana
was careless of the means they TOOK 10
obtain it. Only failure he would never
forgive, 1t was favorite saying OF
his that he never Judged men but by
results. 1t was to no purpose that
Massena gave excellent reasons for his
defeat by Wellington. Napoleon wan
ted victories not explanations. There
is n foolish story, to which so eminent
q man as Southey could give credence
to the effect that Admiral Nilleneuve
was assassinated by order of the En-
peror after his disgrace at Trafalgar.
There can be no serious doubt thatthe
unfortunate commander committed
suicide in sheer terror at the idea of an
interview with the stern master whose
plaps he caused TO miscarry. It's falr
to add that those of his captains who
were successful had no need to COM
plain that their services were lnsufil.
ciently appreciated. Even Massena had
acquired an income of one hundred
thousand dollars while his star was in
the ascendant. Soult had sixty thou
sand dollars year; Ney nearly one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars d
wear; Davoust one hundred and olghty
thousand dollars year; while Berthler
Prince of Neufchatel, enjoyed q
princely revenue of some two hundred
and seventy thousand dollars year.
'They will no longer fight, " Napoleon
once exclaimed in moment of dejec-
ton, referring to his generals. II
have made them too rlch." ltmay be
suspected that it was rather from mo
tives of policy than Of gratitude that
Nopoleon thus created the fortunes OF
his Marshals in day. He was anxious
to establish as support to his throne
a powerful aristocracy, which in splen-
dor Ito do him justice) in the brilliancy
of its achievements should rival the
the old mobility of France. be forgot
however, that though monarchy ano
democracy can exist and have existed
without prescription, an ariscocracy
to be venerable must absolutely bear
the seal of antiquity. In none OF his
nroiects had Cromwell failed more
hopelessly than in his attempt to re
construct the House of Lords In Eng
land. Napoleon, it is true, Old MOI
propose to confer legislative functions
ON his mobiles as such. Nevertheless
! he intended them to be privileged
class. and this alone was more
courageous than wise idea on th'
morrow of 1889.
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AACL TAMlSE-- W nave received direc
d from the importer, a full line of these
elegant goods. to which we invite attention.
81. w. B. SHARP.
Fourth and Market street
The daily gazette., 1875-11-10
Bowers Hoof Liniment

After so years Of practical experience with
horses, in staging, teaming. &c. have learn
ed that more horses have been crippled by
inattentlon to the feet than all other diseases
combined After man experiments have
found the true remedy to PREVENT the dlss
ease OF the hoof, or restore il after negligence,
30 what nature intended 1t should be-the
oreat support Of the noble animal. II the hoof is
iriamed and diseased, the animal Is comparas
xiyely worthless. This Linlment will surely
prevent this worst OF all diseases, Contraction,
Corns, Quarter, Cracks, Contraction Of the
Back Sinew generally called Knee Sprung,
&C., and restore those that have been crippled
,sy the want OF such remedy.
A8-Try 1t, and 1t will never fail If properly
applied, viz:
EBathe the horse's foot once week, or often.
er II necessary, at the heel and frog, and
around the hoof close 70 the halr.
Nj. c. BOYER,
Norrisrown, Pa.
Mr. M. C. BoYER-Dear Sir: This is to Ger.
hfy that have used your Liniment in my
stable for three months past on more than
one hundred horses, and find it The best pre-
paration have ever used on horses. 1t iss al
better than You recommend it Send me five
cases at once, by express, G. .. ID.
HARRY HAMILTON,
No. l3a West Slst street New York CITY
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
DE KOVEN,

The rejection of Dr. De Kovcn by the
Episcopal dioceses in the country being fix.
ed fact, ii is bat just to say that the rejection
is based on no other objection to the man ex-
cept that, on certain OCCASION he used the
following words in reference to the eucharist:
81 myself adore, aud would, if it were ne
cessary or my duty, teach my people to adore
Christ present in the elements under tho
forms of bread and wine
These words, 1t is alleged, are carefully Sc.
lccted and arranged by naster IN the USE
of language, and were laid before the various
standing committees as the precise view of
DR.. De Koven. OF course most of them un
derstood this TO be what is called the real
presence dogma-the essence of Romansm
1t is but Just to Dr. De Koven to say, ,howev.
er, that before the Wisconsin convention last
summer he gave such an explanation of his
language as to give it very different mean.
Ing from that put upon it by his opponents.
II is certain, at least, that the Episcopal Con.
venton of Illinois, when il voted for him In
February, held very positive knowledge that
he had no such doctrine as his opponents
would extract from the above language.
There is no orthodox Christian denomina-
ton, we presume, that does not believe in the
real presence of Christ at the communion
in some form, and that the bread and wine
are emblems, tokens, or witnesses of such
presence, though they may be ever so far
from believing in the dogma thai the bread
and wine are tremendously converted or
trasubs,an,iated into the real flesh and blood
OF our Savior.
The friends of DR.. De Kovcn in Illinois,
therefore, complain justly of his rejection for
his alleged maintenance Of hcterodOx views
which the diocese of Illinois itself has IN the
most positive terms condemned, for it i'm
plies that IN clecumg him bishop the dioccs
didn't know what il was about The church
men of Illinois, the neighbors of DR. De Kov
en-, believe they know as much about his view 3
as the three or four laymen down in Alabama
or out in Nebraska who accidentally com
pose the standing conan tees of those di"
ceses Tor the year. 81 long AS Illinois com
plies with the canons of the church In elr, 1.
ing her bishop, and presents man against
whose personal purity, chrislian pieiy, ril e
scholarship and tried churchmanship no
syllable can be uttered, she CLAIMS the right
to decide for herself as to the minor questions
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
STATE FAIR.

Our city was visited on Tuesday by Messrs
REYNOLDS. Gillian, Fisher, Ellsworth, Beat
,y and Palmer, committee Of the State Board
of Agriculture, whose mission here was to
examine our fair grounds, and make arrange
ments for such Improvements and additions
as might be needed to accommodate the State
Fair for the next two years. The committee
we're met by the officers of our County Board
who accompanied them to the fair ground
and explained to them the improvements that
cur Board intended to make. The committee
found everything satisfactory, but said, IN
addition to tie Improvements contemplated
half mile track would be necessary, but as
that was not one of the conditions on which
the fair was located at Ottawa, the com
mittee agreed the State Board should prepare
the half mile track, and appropriated $500
to that object.
Our County Board was exceedingly well
pleased with the visit The committee was
composed of gentlemen in every sense of the
word, and left 80 favorable an impression
that our local Board will take extra pains to
have the ground in prime order on their ac'
count, if for no other reason
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.

The PRINCIPAL event Of the week in the Hi
pois legislature has been the defeat in both
houses of the new liquor law. The law, as
our readers are aware, was proposed by a
Joint committee Of the tw0 houses, and pro-
posed materially to change the present so.
called Reddick law, among other things, by
repeating the landlord responsibility clause
and imprisonment as part of the punishment,
and providing for the compulsory licensing
OF saloons on the petition Of majority of the
voters Of the village or precinct in which the
proposed saloon is to be located. The senate
killed the bill by decisive vote on Tuesday,
and in the house on Thursday, after heated
debate, il was lad on the table by vote OF
10 to 60. That undoubtedly dIsposes of il
for the session.
The bill to repeal the registry law passed
the senate on the 18th and was seat to the
house, where it was received with snch liye-
! ly demonstrations of appreciation as to leave
no doubt that this useless and expensive EN-
actment will be wiped from our statute book
rs soon as the house reaches final action upon
it.
Another equally useless and expensive
law, that establishing the state board OF
equalization, will meet with the same fate
The house on the 18th passed the law to abol-
ish it by a vote OF so to 16, and its passage by
the senate is equally certain.
The house ON Tuesday killed the senate
rb,cb In o11nu fnra,up in n r
ancc companies to loan money in this state
at 10 per cent Interest. The present law ena.
bles them to collect but per cent.
Dir Cummings bill providing for the levy
and collection, by local authorities, OF tax
to pay the principal and interest of local
railroad bonds, passed the house on Wednes-
day, and will doubtless become law.
The house has passed new law Tor the
protection and propagation of fish in the
streams and rivers Of tine state.
The senate bill to appropriate $4,000 10
complete the Douglas monument has been
ordered to a third reading in the house.
The bill to appropriate $4,000 to complete
the Copperas creek dam still hangs fire in
in the house, but the chances are in its favor.
1t having leaked out that by some accident
or premedtated fraud the Secretary Of the
senate two years ago and the clerk of last
house had been drawing their per diam regu-
larly up to the day of the meeting OF the pres,
ent legislature the house has ordered a com.
mittee to investigate the matter,
Both houses are still devoting heavy part
of their time to the appropriation bills, de-
clining to fix a day for fir al adjournment IN
til they are disposed of. The tendency thus
far has been greatly to cut down the eXtrava.
CANT appropriations of former years,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
Working pants sl,5O, at Alschuler's.
The Black Fiend,

We saw him. He was at Turner Hall on Thurs
day evening, and with him were advertised to be
perfect forest of legs They were to be in
white, pea green, yellow, rca brown and flesh
colored tights; consequently men iocked to this
rare show and gathered around the shrine Of
feminine youth, beauty, lusciousness and legs,
to do reverence, There were old men and mid
dle-aged galcots, young chaps and boys-hobble-
de- oys, with fuzZ of a moustache and ideas OF
female sweetness just beginning to bud.
There was but one female In front of the stage.
1t was emphatlcally he-male audience gathered
to witness an undraped female show. This is
the naked truth Old dodgers were there who
had polished their one remaining front tooth to
the last degree of murky whitcness, that three
score years of constant tobacco baths wouldn't
permit, and had secured their bald pates to The
smoothness of billiard balls Young fellows in
suffocating cloud Of musk and hair deliberately
combed and pasted and with exQuisitely waxed
moustache, were gazing in breathless interest.
Parties soaked in whisky and streams Of tobae-
co around their chins were on hand shutting
one eye SO as to get clearer vision and throw
ing their dazed intelccts into the scene, as il
we're. There were wise DOCTORS astutc lawyers,
ditto editors incipent preachers and insipid
laymen, and, in short, goodly assemblage OF
that selfmportant and pretended moral animal
called man of the male sex. But it becomes our
painful duty to mention, that while the show
was good, it was neither vulgar nor immoral:
hence 1t disappointed the men In point OF dc
cency it was as correct in costumes and deport-
ment of its feminine members as the average
fashionable ball; yea, and more so, as no low
necked dress was there. The men went away
from the entertainment aisgustedr not because
it was indecent, but because it was proper. Oh
naughty men! You ought to be reconstructed,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
GRANT AND LOUISIANA.

Grant in his eagerness to help his br )ther.
in.law, Casey, to seat in the U. S. Senate,
has been beautifully trapped. The whole
country is in broad grin over it. 1t is
known that for several weeks past commit
tee has been in session IN New York city TO
"arbtrae" the difficulties between the con
tending factions in Louisiana The arbitra,
tors, after due Investigation, came to the con
clusion that the conservatives were entitled
to majority of fifteen in the Louisiana house,
which would give them majority of fouI or
five on joint ballot. OF course Kellogg,
Pinchback &c, would die rather THAI sub
mt to such "a decision. Grant it seems, how
ever, pledged himself to force the decision of
the arbitrators on condition that the conserva-
tive majority of the legislature should elect
Casey to the u. s. Senate in place of Pinch
back, whose rejection by the senate he re-
gardcd as a fixed certainty.
The conservatives now avow their readi.
ness o fulfill their part of the agreement, and
insist that Grant shall do his part The sen.
ate having postponed Pinchback's case to
next winter, of course the conservatives will
have easy times till then, but meantime the
fifteen negro members of the Louisiana legis-
la,ure, whom the award of the arbitrators
would Dust, have resolved, by advice of
Pinchback and Kellogg, to hold on TO their
seats like grim death, and the problem is,
how Is Grant TO get them out? As there is
no legal way 10 remove these members except
by impeachment, which, of course, is out of
The question, the only recourse left for Grant
is TO fight the devil with fire. Having seated
the members 10y an illegal resort to military
force, they can be unseated only in the same
way. But this is course involving an au-
dacity from which even Grant at present
>hrinks. Altogether he is IN lcplorable
fix"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
STATE HOUSE STEAL.

On our second page we publish what pur-
ports 10 be report of the committee of the
legislature appointed to investigate the man.
ncr in which the peoples money has been
expended in the erection Of The new State
house at Springfield. 1t is due to say, that
while this report correctly states the result Of
the Investigation, it is not the production of
the committee, but of the reporter of the
state Register. \ similar resume of the eyi,
denoc was furnished, probably by the same
reporter, TO the Chicago Times. Whatever
may be said generally of this sort of supposi-
,ious journalism, it is admitted by the mem.
bers OF the COMMITTEES themselves, that IN the
present case the writer hns kept rigidly with
i'm the bounds Of truth.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
PINCHBACK.

The L. S. Senate, which has remained in
extra session since the adjournment of con
gress on the 4th of March, has spent the best
part of two weeks in again discussing the
question of admitting Plnchback rs senator
from Louisiana. The course of the discus
Sion, however, developed the fact that in the
senate as now constituted there was square
majority of four or five opposed to the ad
mission OF the dusky claimant under any cir
cumstances, and accordingly, on Tuesday
evening, when the discussion had been
brought to close and the senate was ready
to vote on the question, Pinchback adroitly
got his friends to compromise by postpon
ing the whole case until next December
Several lame republicans, who were unable
to vote for Pinchback, and yet dislked to OF
fend Morton and the caucus by voting against
him, cheerfully availed themselves of this Op
portunity to- dodge, aud voted for the pc st
ponemcnt This of course continues Pinch
pay for another year, ana places it out of the
power of the Louisiana Legislature to elect
another man in his place.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

THAT Split TrCKET."-Our local" in
another column, pays his respects in due
form TO Brother Baume, and disposes of the
"splt ticket business in such way as to
leave little more to be said upon the subject.
If the editor of the Republican, however, had
had the instincts of gentleman about him,
he would have taken little more pains TO
inform himself before stating, in his sneak
ing way, that Eve are Informed that the tick.
cts were printed at the FREE TRADER office"
The editor was Uniformed of nothing of the
kind by ANY one capable of giving informa.
ton on the subject; and rs to his advice TO
US to "summarily dismiss" our employees,
We take occasion to inform him that our en-
ployees are gentlemen, and of a class whom
the Republican establishment is unable to hire,
We do not say that the Republican Office en-
ploys rats, but our employees don't work for
the wages II pays.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

The New Hampshire republicans, at the
late election in that state, adopted an entire
ly new but effective method of clectioneering
Near the principal poll in Concord they run
tree whisky shop, to which they also ur.
gently invited the democrats A few were
verdant enough to enter and take nip OF
republican free whisky. Itappears, however
the whisky thus given to democrats was
drugged; and, as consequence one victim
died before leaving the clIbroom, and two
others, at least, are known to have lost ali
interest, for the time, in the subsequent re
suit at the polls The town, under this vigor
Gus style of canvasslng, was carried by the
republicans, we believe.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
THOSE PEsKY CHANGERS.

Hon. j. $. Armstrong was in Ottawa on
Wednesday, his business here beng to pro
cure drafts to enable him. as Treasurer of the
Illinois State Grange of the Patrons OF Hus-
bandry to pay ever $1,000 voted at the last
meeting of the State Grange to the Kansas ana
Nebraska Grasshopper Sufferers. He for
vardcd $500 of the amount to w. b. Porter,
Esq, Master of the Nebraska State Grange,
and $500 to f. S. Slower, Governor OF Kansas,
10 he placed by him in the hands of. &. Otis,
State Purchasing Agent of the Kansas stare
Grange; the money in both cases to be eX'
pended in relieving the sufferers from grass
hoppers and the drought.
III this connection it may be stated that the
National Grange, at its recent session al
Charleston, having directed the surplus FUNDS
in the treasury of the National Grange 10 DC
distributed among the state oranges IN pro-
portion of So SO for each suboldinat grange
in such states, the proportion OF the Illinois
grange from that distribution amounts 10
about $4,000. This sum the State Grange mas
decided to use as a capital for purchasing az
ricultural implements in large quan'ities
manufactured outside of the state, at first COST
prices, to be thence distributed among coun
ty or other local purchasing agents. By ire
quently turning" this fund IN the course OF
the year, many thousands Of dollars will be
saved to the members of the order in the pur
chase of agricultural implements and other
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
HOME MATTHIAS.



The sudden change from intense cold to mild
spring weather, some ten days ago, accompanied
with warm rain, brought us to quite sudden
realization, last Monday, of some of the serious
apprehcnsions that had been felt of unprecent
ed foods and destruction by ice. In view of the
well known enormous quantity of snow ON the
ground, with the unprecedented thickness of the
cet required no great sagacity to foresce, If sud
denly melted by warm rain, they must produce
fearful results. As early as Sunday the ice in
Fox river below the dam began to yield to the
rising waters, but it was not until Monday tina,
the Illinois began to rise rapidly and the ice 10
break up About O'Clock in the morning, how
ever, the Illinois began to so up with bound,
and before night it had got within four feet Of
high water mark. The ice from above came
down in enormous cakes, from a foot to twenty
inches in thickness, was and hurled upon the
piers of our bridges with force that was sub
lime, but without doing serious damage to the
upper bridge and damaging seriously but one
pier of the railroad bridge.
Meantime the ice of the Fox river, which had
broken up from the Dayton dam southwark, was
kept from joining teams with the ice in the III
nos by the strength Of the ice in the Fox dam
at Ottawa, and at "Lyman's mound" mile
above town, organized itself into one Of the
most massive gorges ever witnessed in this re-
gion. The mountain Of ice is said to be as high
as the tree tops. Had this forced its way to the
Illinois on Monday, the effect here must have
| been terrific.
! Happily on Tuesday, however, there came Il
sudden freeze up, and the aow of ice was stopped
The Illinois, though overlooking its banks, is
again frozen over, while the water is rapidly
falling. But while this has put OIL the disaster
that threatened us on Monday, it has by no
means removed the danger. In the course of
human events it is at least probable that between
now and the 4th OF July we shall have another
thaw, and there will come another food, and
then the enormous Fox river gorge must break
loose, and if the Fox dam at the aqueduct, an6
the aqueduct itself, and our wagon bridge and
railroad bridge across the Illinois survive it all,
we shall be justified in regarding ourselves as
lucky.
We hear of good deal of damage up Fox
river by the breaking up OF the ice on Monday
in the way OF carrying off dams and bridges
The wagon bridge at Dayton was destroyed, but
the report that the dam there had been swept
away was erroneous. The danger up Fox river
however, is still far from being over. The freeze
up of Tuesday has only stopped the flow Of ice
and soldifea the gcrges, which threaten, with
the next thaw to come down with rcdoubed
force,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

Here srichness! A Decatur correspondent
OF the Chicago Tribune furnishes that paper
with series Of affidavits made by citizens
in whose names the Railroad Commissioners
have brought suits against various railroad
companies on charges of extor,ion. The afll-
ants deny that they ever suffered extortion,
or ever authorized or requested the commits.
sioners TO commence these suits. Are these
suits mere shans, paraded by the commits
sioners TO fool people with the idea that they
are doing something when they are really
deing nothing? 1t don't look reasonable thai
these affidavits from Decatur can be forgeries
We notice a movement has been made in the
legislature to have the matter Investigated.