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The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17
CAN OUR GREAT CITIES BE GOVERNED ,

Some Incidental evils connected with the
practical workings of our republican lnstitu-
tions have awakened, in the minds OF some Of
our most profound thinkers, an active tear
that. after all, our constitutional safeguards
will prove unayailing, and our national cx-
pertinent result in disastrous failure.
Certain superficial, or, perhaps more proper
w. sensational political philosophers, have
ventured to suggest, as grand panacea, the
abolition of the presidential Office and the
substitution of a kind of hydra-headed aris.
tocracy, or board of commissioners. These
wild dreamers can, of course, produce plausi-
HE arguments drawn from the public frauds
Of all kinds and from the apparent disregard
of all the restraints of law upon the part of
those in authority. But without regard TO
these men, or to their fine-spun UtOpian
schemes. we must grant that beautiful theo-
r,eS of freedom and government are, by no
means. a sufficient guide for the public The
noet pierpont has finely said in respect to the
ballOt-baX:
We have a weapon firmer set,
And better than the bayonet;
4 weapon that comes down as still
As snow flakes fall upon the sod,
But executes the freeman's will
As lightning does the will of GodW
Now. that is the poetry OF the matter. But
when we see elections managed as were the
recent elections in Cincinnati ana Chicago;
when we witness all sorts OF election frauds
running riot when we behold men led up 10
the polls in condition of maudlin uncon-
sciousness; we know that the ballot IN at
tempting to execute the freeman VIII y
often extremely liable to be unJustly "coun'eu
out" the poetry hastily Sithdraws i'sei' 10
the realms of delightful abstractions' having
rather declared what ought to be than what
really is.
The horrid misgovernment, from time to
time, of all our great cities, demonstrating The
facility with which the most interruptions
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

TEACHING vs.. PRACTICK.-One of the reso-
lutions of the last republican national con
yentiOn reads:
That the franklng privilege ought 10 be
abolished, and hs edy prepared for a speedy
reduction ia the rates Of postage
In practice we find the same party las
winter restoring the frsnkiRg privilege in
form to rivel 1t firmer than ever, and 20 in
creasing the postage on newspapers that /
now costs more to send 4 newspaper from o.
tAwa 10 Chicago than from London 10 Sal
Francisco.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17
Nh MONUMENT TO DOUGLAS.

The lower house af the Illinois legislature,
| last Friday, refused, by vote of 81 to %, to
pass the senate bill appropriating $50 0O) for
the completion of the Douglas Monument at
Chicago. OF those voting aye 81 were
Democrats, % Republicans and II 1ndepcn.
dents Of those voting mo ii were Demo.
Gratis, SO Republicans and - Independents.
Mr.. Hise of Cook county, who managed
this bill from the first made forcible speech
| in favor of it and presented IA letter from Mr.
ICullom of Sangamon who is sick at home,
earnestly recommending its passage This
letter was received with cheers from the Re
nublican side Mr. WassOn, Of Gallatin, and
several others also spoke in favor of the bill.
At first an unusual calm prevadcd the house
while the bill was being discussed but before
the roll call on the ayes and nays was finish
| el, Jones and other radical members, in try
ing to edge in speeches on the plea OF cX.
planning their votes, got up such disturb
ance that the house WAS IN little better than
mob state when the vote was announced.
We can only express our views of the re
suit by adopting the language of the ST
Louis Republican on the partial defeat Of this
same measure several weeks ago, when il
characterized the action of the house as as
contemplate a piece of business as any leg.
isative body was ever guilty Of 1t Is need
less to reiterate the claims which Douglas
has upon the people of Illinois for grateful
"A, q. ,t, IA, ,,l,L H.,
the idol and the pet only fifteen years ago has
been able to find among her prominent local
politicians seventy men who would, by thciE
legislative votes refuse him an honorable
burial, then surely the less said about the
dead man the better-sO far, at least, as Hi
nois is concerned. But there is a popular
sentiment outside of Illinois which is likely
to take proper cognizanCc of this matter for
the dead man with all his faults was Of suAi
ciently ample intellectual dimensions to Sc
cure for himself a national reputation. Com
ing upon the political stage at the time when
the giants were growing old and passing
away, he displayed abilities which proved
him their peer and made name which Meth
er the neglect nor the ingrattude of his i'm
mediate constituents can wipe from the ma
tons memory. Impartial history will rank
him in the same category with Clay and
Webster, Calhoun and Benton and the irdit
ference of the present generation will be atom
ed for by the admiration of the next AS
things stand to-day, Illinois has announced
to the world that the only real statesman She
has ever contributed TO the national councils
and the first man who gave her proud name
throughout America and in foreign lands, is
not in her estimation, worthy of appropriate
sepul,ure in her own soil. And by making
this announcement she has saved $4,000
Was there ever an instance of more costly
ccOnOmy?o
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

Harper, the Chicago grain inspector, about
whom unfavorable reports have been in cir
culation for a year or more, has finally been
removed. \ few weeks ago a committee Of
the legislature visited Chicago and made a
slight examination of his office and estimated
that he was ahead of the state about $50 900
Harper bristled up and played the innocent
indignant for day or two, but grew more
dOcilc when his head came off.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

Long John for SO many years the Me
phlstophiles of Chicago politics, but who, for
the last few years had subsded into modest
granger, appeared in a new role before Chi
cago audience on Sunday. They have Sunday
dime lecture society up there, and last Sun.
day John Wentworth was down in the bills
for a lecture on the history of Chicago. The
lecture was long enough to fill small vol
umc, and must have occupied two or three
hours in its delivery, but the audience seem
to have borne it patiently and to have heard
him to the end. AS printed in the papers the
lecture is certainly very pleasant reading
John begins his history of Chicago with the
early Jesuit explorers IN 1900, and at the end
of his three hours talk hadn't got down yet
to WentwOrths term as Mayor. 1t will take
half dozen more lectures to finish up the
theme on his present plan.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

If the small Com of the Ottawa FREE IRA.
DER will demonstrate how the purchasing
power of grcenbaCks follows the gold quota.
tion, he will show some common sense. 9th.
erwise he only writes himself down rs inca.
pabe of understanding the question he dis.
cusses-ChicdgO Industrial Age.
If the big blatherskite of the Mdustyidl Age
will demonstrate how adding bilge water TO
pure brandy Strengthens and improves the
quality of the brandy, he may show (what he
has failed to do hitherto in his financial dream.
ings) n cleaning of common sense The
FREE TRADER has never pretended that the
"purchasing power of greenbacks follows the
gold quotation" The great curse to consum.
ers and producers is that the purchasing pow.
er of greenbacks does no: follow the gold
quotation; but instead of that, the exigcnces
of trade have established margin of from
) to Is per cent, as the FREE TRADER has
demonstrated by unlmpeachable figures, to
cover the fluctuation in the value of green.
backs Instead of the New York importer
being satisfied, as he used to be before 1860,
with about Is per cent. profit on his imports
after paying dudes, freight, &c, he must have
30 to 35 per cent "muSt" have it-and why ?
There are paid into the sub,reasury at New
York, as duty on imports, from 81 100000 to
81, 00O0 900 a week in gold Six or light weeks
ago, about the time, say, the New York i'm
porters made their purchases abroad, the gold
premium was 10 per cent. Before the goods
arrived in New York Jay Gould had given
the gold market a toss upward and about the
time the importers goods arrived the gold
premium was IL per cent, and the importers,
instead of paying S2,20O,0O0 in grecnbacks as
duties on their goods, had TO pay $2,70O, 600
Still, the AgG will say, there was no notice
able rise in British broadcoihes, French cali,
Goes, &c. Probably not But is the ige dolt
enough to imagine thar the importers lost the
half million they had TO pay more for their
goods on account of Jay Gould's little ma
neuvre? The cOuntry-the consumers of
these imports-had paid that half million
twice over probably already yduring the year in
the shape of the increased margin or middle,
mans guarantee fund" which the importers
levy to cover the tluctuation of greenbacks
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17
Total for two years. $5,4l9979 50

GRANTS IIEALTH-When a staunCh re.
publican paper like the Boston Uera5d pub
fishes, and another like the Chicago Post d;
Mail copies, paragraphs like the following,
there must be something in them:
presume every well Informed correspon-
dent here has grown used to withholding
statements concerning these matters because
they will not be believed, even in The news
paper offices, and malicious motives may be
ascrlbed to them. But the simple truth is,
that the President is looking very bad He
no longer has the sleek, wcll-ted look in the
face which has been his characteristic ever
since the war. His features now have a
swollen look and his face is terribly red in
blotChcs. | met him on the avenue, near the
Treasury Department, the other day and Oh
served that his figure was bent, and that he
seemed to walk with officially. He certainly
has the appearance of man ION the down
hill road of life" as they say in New Eng
land | do not wish to indulge IN any rash
or sensational predictions of his future, but |
am impressed with the belief that the Presi.
dents habits of eating and drinking render
the tenure of his life every day more and
more uncertain.
And here is another from a Washington
correspondent of New Orleans paper:
The President has greatly changed in two
years His face is red, approaching at times
to purple, with apoplectc threatening, and
if looks auger anything, there are chances
that the third term question may be settled
if he changes not his course Of living, by the
sudden clip of Cotho's scissors II see death
in his face if he keeps this thing up three
months longer SAID aphysician whose name
is eminent among the faculty in both hemis
pheres, and renowned even in the L. College
of surgeons, as we left the White House that
evening
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

The war between the big railroad monopo
lies from Chicago to the east continues tc
work splendidly. Ii is now cheaper to travel
than to stay at home. First class fares are
now from Chicago to New York $1025; to
Philadelphia 81; and to Washington or
Baltimore 81
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

The lecture of Carl Schurz at La Sale on
Friday evening of last week was very bril-
liant affair but unhappily it did not pay ex
penses, The Reporter says "there were 3@
persons in attendance, many having season
tickets. The receipts were $l'5, leaving Q
balance of STA after expenses were paid
There vas not enough in the treasury TO pay
the LECTURER
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

The veterans of all the armles that took
part in the war of the rebellion, either on the
side Of the North or the South, are TO meet il
a grand mass convention at Chicago on the
10th, 18th and 14th of May next, The city
IS making extensive arrangements to enter
tain the batle-scarrcd (spell with two RS
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

Gov. Bevcridge proposes in week or two
to take a vacation of several months, and seek
rest and recuperaion in travelling. Mean
time the Hon. A. A. Glenn, the present dem
ocratlc president of the senate and acting
lieutenant governor will be the governor
He will be the first democrat who has occu
pied that position since 1857
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

President Grant recently purchased $4,000
worth Of real estate ip Prince Georges Coun.
'y, Maryland, few miles from wsshipgtos,
! 10 use as q stock iarn.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17
APPROPRIATIONS

The following is "a full statement of all the
appropriations made at the late session OF the
Illinois legislature to cover the next two
wears. The footing is less by couple OF
millions than at the last three or four repub.
hcan legislatures, while the expenses of the
session have been half million less than
.,hosn nf the last republican session!
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17
f&e Fire Graaer.
Ottawa, Ill., Sat~r,iav. April II, 1878.
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the following publications, furnishing
both at the prices named, postage prepaid
The offer is open to old subscribers or new
at any post ciiice in the country:
TREg TBADgR and Chicago Weekly Times. 1915
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

speech to the senate, and then both houses
adjourned sine de.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17

Az subscriptions to be paid in advance.
Remittanccs may be made through none
order or registered letter.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-04-17
NEWS ITEMS.

MenGota vas called to mourn, last week
the sudden death by apoplexy of one of her
Oldest and most prominent citizens, Mr. Geo.
A. Kcllcnherger, Sr
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-05-15
The Denver Man.
From he Cnicago Times.

FROM me lineage IiDlCS.
There is nothing small about Den
yer except her size, and even that is
not altogether ~despicable. In every
other respect she is as great AS Lon
don, Paris, or Chicago, and, in some
respects, she dwarls all of them com-
bined. A Denver man is peculiar.
He is as perfect a typo of the cos.
mopolite as walks the earth. All
Denver men are alike. They are all
wealthy, full of brains and ambition.
There is not a man in Denver who
would acknowledge himself one de-
gree behind Sharon in wealth or
Schurz in brains. a Denver man is
equally at home tunneling a noun
Gain, running a silver mine, or max
ing a speech in the Senate. He has
no choice between the three avOca-
tions, and would rs soon dig a ship
canal as do anything else.
There is nothing that the mind Of
a Denver man cannot grasp. In the
heavens aboveaor in the earth be-
meath, there is nothing that he does
not fully comprehend. There is no
problem in politics, religion, or social
economy that he cannot master.
There is DO experience in the past
can teach him anything. He learns
from no one; he has no model, and
asks no guide. He is original and
Independent. capable and aspiring.
His resources outside of his own head
may be few, but they are ample for
hims He can win more on an face
high" than any other mortal can on
a foil hand.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-05-15
MAY 15.1s75.
The Kentucky Republican Conven-
ton.

The kentucky Republican Conven-
ton.
The Republicans of Kentucky, in
Convention at Louisville, on the l3th
Inst, adopted a good platform; after
re-afirming their faith in the Repub-
lican principles and approving the
financial policy of the administration,
and holding that the financial legis-
lation Of Congress should be steadily
directed to the resumption of specie
payments ut the earliest date con-
sistent with the business interests of
the country, they expressed I'M
abated confidence in Grants patriot
ism and devotion to Republican
principles. The 18th resolution Is as
follows:
Resohed, That the attempt Of the
democratic leaders to create the inn
preston that our patriotic President
desires or seeks reelection for a third
term is absurd, and IS only a device
to disrupt the Rel ublican party and
produce a division between it and
the President. The charge has no
foundation in fact, and cannot mis-
lead the people of the country into
restoring that party to power which
came SO rear destroying the Union
Of our fathers. ..-..r. no.
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ClsTE--AlL. G. Lee
Probate Judgs-w ". IT, Reningto6 en- -. TTeEN-
ProzscULEg 4g0rHsF II. GarbRnAii.
IsssssOr-N ~. G.. Hopkins.
Sure HOr-H. iChiuS son f
SvpsriHteaieHt Of > Eoais-S. X Templo.
Coroner III UnRs Slrt Ct. .. . ..
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swEETwATEH COUNTY.

Nv. y. Noble. CAUruAaS
Commissioner William Ryans.
lJamesC Calhoun.
sheriff p A. McPhec.
ClsFE-A. Mcintosh.
Probate Judgs-Jas. A. Brennan, sT- 81. Tr~~E
Assess0r-N m. \. Johnson.
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NEWS

The New York Sun says it is now
regarded as certain that there can be
no verdict In the Beecher-Tilton case.
4 disagreement will be bad for both
parties. 1t will deprive TiIton of
the money he claims as damages, and
Beecher of his much desired vindica-
tion. TrfTrH rEFHT .r-'-#" IE
Dr. Lindemann, the Director of
the United States Mint, estimates the
product of the Comstock mines at
$50, OOO, 900, and next years product
at $50, zoo, 900. In ---r--rar
DR.. Hammond has discovered that
a frog raj live without brains. When
this discovery was made, forty years
ago, it was also found that a frog was
s~tructurally like a savan.
senior CASTELAR, gave a party a
Madrid. Three poets read poetry att
him, and he went into exile next
day. His just appreciation of liter
airy merit qualities Senior CASTELAR, for
a responsible position at the editorial
stone.
Another Rev. DR.. William Pat
toni has been discovered. He is of
New Haven, Conn. Should he COME
to Chicago, what would the news
papers do?
Commissioner Douglass says the
President has not yet informed him
that he should have another place as
good as the on he has lost. And he
isanxiously awaiting some such an
ECuu@emRuf.
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1IRsonIc.


wyonlfzg Comnandery No. - Regular cor
claye first Friday IN cTc'r msnfh.
Wyoming ChAp;tr, no. l. r. A, N. meets
uall, on Sac first and third Tuesday evenings In
each month. at : o CLOCK p. m.
cheyenne Lodge, No. ID, meets first and third
saturday nights In cac!I month. at MAsOnfc Hail
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G A. Phipps,
Commissioners Newell BfsHH an
". X. sloan.
CbfyY8-Winfapl Hinton,
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Territorial Oncer
TocsrHOr-Jnu- n. TAayer.
S5sTstdy"H. ". FtsNEn.
ChLJ JssIus 81 sapsrDst Court. W. F,rh,r
AssocAIts JaSNcssVJe-. ~. Carsy. E A. IhoTaAn
UrE-s oNIBts JCEGCtOTLE z. Snow
Surveyor Gtnsrh- SiIaz Reed.
Gsosits' y Patas 4o"sy-s. W. Corey.
hsgLLsr L. 5. LIaa OHcs-s. "A Ninsus.
IcrrtOTtIl TrsusUNsF-S. ". Dvwury.
TsrrttOridI AHdfOy-J. II. Hayt8rd.
IF. L. Arnold.
IoHiHRasSt07teT gf PsHk Ha9ryG Charles Hutton.
N. h. Post.
LerrtoTta! Librarian -JoEa slaughter. q 10
SoLititSsto"eF 81 LntHigTuttOH-J X. jeffrey
SuptTtEtCHdsBI or THSfFuefss-Jolu sL.upbtrr
DEtr1eF AH0rHsy-E. r. J"uuzan
EHuet StHsE 0EEnyssstoHsF-S.-W Brunsr.
CSrt or ~ JstSdn pistrtci|. ". BTuner.
MGrEhGi-FraIrS WoleoI,
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Cheyenne LodR e. No. 81, /. o. @. T. nSsels
every Friday evening At Good TcnplarB Hail,
18th street.
limitations win ba conducted only on the fsSt
and .hird FRIDAYS of each month. The fntervou-
ing Fridays dnriU- the month will be Gevoted 8
literary exercises. DAN. FALLEN, W. CT.
w. II. wooD. W. Secretary.
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Hope Encau. Sment, No :, I. o. o. f., meet
every 2d snd an "Wednesday OF each mOatn &
Odd Fellows' Hall.
Cheyenne Lodge, No. !, I. O. -. r., meeFe ever.
Monday evening Al Odd Fellows Hall.
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California and fhe PaciSc coast, making tic
uneXampled line OF 1900 miles in
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Is now Completed andrunning daily passeuge
trains. 3rm NJ, in connection with the Contra
Pacific Rftlroad, an
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The Van Buren press., 1875-10-19

The Prcsbyterians are getting up u can
tata. That's right. We want some music
In fact. we yearn for It,
The Grand Council Temperance Reform
met at Hinklc Hall. last Thursday night. and
well. we don't know what they did. We are
an outsider.
Cotton pickers are now in demand. and
are doing = good business. We know of a
boy who picked two hundred and twelve
pounds in day.
Our coored friends had " fcstibul.r last
Thursday night to obtain money to purchase
stove for their church,
-Flour-grabbers were in town, last week,
from Little Rock. Scrapcd up the surplus
commodity, and shipped 1t on the Maui
mclle.
The Orme Mill. under the management OF
aur young friend George Wood is making as
good -four, and giving as large turn out as
many of the mills in the county. They have
miller that was born in a mill and knows
all about making -four. That I. what their
patrons say.
The Van Buren press., 1875-10-19
Valuable Farm for Sale.

We are authorized to offer for sale one Of
the best and most thoroughly cultivated farms
in Western Arkansas. situated In Crawford
county. about eight miles from the city Of
Van Buren,. and four miles from the town Of
Alma containing quarter section. one-hal!
in Frog Bayou bottom. and the other up
land.
Ono hundred acres are In cultivation. fifty
in cotton and fifty in corr-- Has fine six
acre orchard ofapples Of the finest varieties.
together with fine assortment OF peaches
A fine field OF sweet and Irish potatoes and
turnips. Also, If desired. tract Of l20 acres
near by, can be had to go with this place.
Asuperior large double log dwelling-house
and outl,ouses; the house one story and half
high fine barn. stable and corn crib. &C.
making everything complete and comforta-
BILE with excellent water. A steam grist and
cotton mill, on the joining pl ace, and in
most excellent neighborhood.
Any one wanting a No ! place can pur-
chased at a bargain Terms to be agreed up
on IL desired. the standing crop will be
disposed of to the party purchasing Also all
the farming utensils, whirh are Vt a superior
quality.
Partie. in earnest to purchase such place.
will find It greatly to their interest To exam
inc this farm. and see forthemselve hat tits
by the crops thxtit produces. and there l. no
better time to do so than before the gathering
of the cotton and corn.
For further particulars apply to the editor
of this paper. Aug lo-lm