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The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
BIG INJUNS.

y week ago Chicago was visited by dele
CATION OF big lniuns OF the Sioux persuasion
consisting of the head chief Red Cloud, and
HIS more notable councillors Little Wound
American Horse, Shoulder, Conquering Bear
Sitting Bull, Face Iron Horse, Black Bear
Pawnee Killer, Bad Wound and squaw, Tall
Lance, and Fast Thunder, and so on-abou'
twenty-five in all. These gentlemen" were
on their way to Washington to have talk
with the Great Father, primarily about max
ing such a trade as will open the Black Hills
to the gold seekers, but secondarily and more
particularly, to lay before the President va
riety OF complaints about the treatment the
Indians have received during the past year
or two at the hands Of the government agents
Indeed it is believed that if the negotiation
for the transfer of the Black Hills makes any
progress at all, the Indians Will couple their
consent to the REIMBURSEMENT with condi
tions in which the government cannot ae
Quiescc, as they have been continually tam
pered with since their departure from the
plains by certain white men and half-breeds
mostly traders, who have told Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail that they must insist upon pro
vision being made for them. Such provisions
have heretofore been made in almost every
treaty, but the commissioner is determined &c
break up the practice.
The Indians arrived at Washington on sun
.day and were Ollarterel al a TEMPERANCE no
tel, greatly to their disgust. On Wednesday
they finally had an interview with the presi
dent, who, notwithstanding he knew that the
Indians attached the Utmost Importance t
this talk, treated them with characteristic in
difference appearing 10 be excessively bored
by their defamation. They, however were
not awel by his august presence, but talked
with the utmost freedom. Red Cloud ant
Lone Wolf plainly threatened that ii theil
grievances were not righted, they and theil
followers would drive the whites from theil
hunting grounds before the SHOWS fell. They
were all decidedly bclligerent, and not at al
inclined to agree 10 any further concession,
of territory without positive guarantee tha
the terms OF the treaty they might make
would be faithfully performed. The Presi
dent closed the interview by pretty plain
intimation that he had no time 10 waste with
them, and they must do their future talking
with the Secretary Of the Interior. It looks
as if the negotiations are predestined 10 end
in nothing.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
DEATH OF JOHN c. BRECKENRIDGE.

As foreshadowcd in our last, John c. Breck
enridge died at Lexington, ky, on the l'th
nst. Of abscess of the liver, combined with
consumption. lie was conscious apparently
up TO within a few moments OF death. There
was no scene--no last words-nothlng osten-
tatious in the manner with which the sufferer
met his fate He died as he lived, modest
and brave" Around his death bed were his
wife, two daughters, one son, and few i'm
mediate relatives While his funeral took
place on the 10Th at Lexington, amid an i'm
mense concourse of people, the business
houses in Louisville, Paducah, and all the
principal towns of the state were closed on
that day. as well as all the public buildings
and Offices.
We copy the following brief biographical
sketch of Mr. Breckenridge from the Chicago
Times:
John G. Breckenridge, born near Lexington,
Ky, Jan, 81, 1921, was educated at Danvllle,
and studied law at the Pennsylvania institute
IN the same state. On the breaking out OF
the Mexican war, in 1S47, he volunteered for
military service, and was chosen Major in a
regiment OF hentuCky volunteers. On MS
return he was elected 10 the Kentucky house
of representatives. In 1851 he was elected to
congress, and reelected in 1853. At the elcc
ton of 1856 Mr.. Breckenridge was chosen
vice president, with Mr.. Buchanan president,
and presided in the senate with dignity and
ability for the next four years. In 1860 he
was one OF the candidates of the democratic
party tor the presidency, but was defeated.
At the commencement Of the civil war ne
was a United States senator from Kentucky,
but openly avowed his sympathy with the
confederates and soon after joined them, and
was expelled from the United States senate
in December, 1861. The following summer
he was appointed major general in the con
/ federate army, ana took part in several bat
! ties but did not distinguish himself as a mil
itary commander. He was secretary of wal
in jefferson Davis cabinet from February
/ 1865, to the close of the war. In June of tina,
year he escared from the country to Cuba
and thence to England. He remained abroad
till 1869, when he returned, and avowed his
determination to take no part in politics hence
FORTH a resolution which he has strictly OBJ
served, deyoting his attention entirely TO his
profession
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

out concealment. Soldiers were shifted from
point to point with the avowed intention OF
intimldating voters. ] shot hole in my hat
and reported that had been attacked by ku
klux, and sent troops to arrest the mythical
assailants. | kept the troops rs long as
could use them " political machine
United States marshals accompanied the
troops, and fourished bogus warrants for the
arrest of prominent citizens Of conservative
politics, thereby frightening them into ac
ouiescence with the designs Of Spencer & Co
1t was AL easy matter to win victory under
such circumstances and with such appliances
and the chief conspirator accordingly has {
seat in the t. ;. senate until March 4, 1877.
unless dead or dismissed before that time
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

The Illinois State Board of Managers for
the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition OF
1876 have put out an address earnestly urging
the FARMERS, miners, mechanics, inventors
and manufacturers of Illinois" TO tacc steps
at once towards being creditably represented
in this peace Congress" of the nations OF
the world The address says:
Your particular attention is called 10 the
fact ,hatit is highly important that this Board
be notified at the earliest possible time by all
who desire srace in which to exhibit Works
of Art. inventions, Manufactured Articles,
Products of the Mine, Quarry or Soil, of the
character of the articles, space required, and
mower needed, that their applications may be
forwarded through this office TO the Director
General. Forward brief description of the
articles you wish to exhibit, and an applica
lion for space--blanks for which can be had
on application, by mail or otherwise, from
tbe Secretary of this Board, who will prompt
/ Iv and eheerlul;y forward all papers asked
Tor and ans wer all questions relating to the
International Exposition.
There will be no charge for space at the eX
hibiuon. All letters on the subject are TO b'
addressed TO Gen. J. c. Smith, s. Washing
ION street, Chicago.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
ILLINOIS PRESS ASSOCIATION.

The Illinois Press Association, as mention
ed by US several weeks ago, hold their annu'
al meeting at jacksonville next Tuesday, and
the indications aow are that il will be more
largely attended than any former meeting
A day or two will be spent in Jacksonville
when tlfe members will proceed in body to
St Louis and spend day or two more there
in sight seeing; then, being joined by nun
ber of the Missouri Press Association the
entire party will take one of the finest and
largest steamers on the Mississippi for trip
as far as st. Paul and return. On the journey
I'D the river, two or three hours time each
will be given to viewing several of the most
important towns along the route. A splendid
band of musicians is to accompany the e&'
cursionists, and it is promised that the cuiln'
ary department shall embrace all that IS in
c!uded in firs.-class and sumpuous fare.
From the start TO the completion OF the trip,
which Will occupy some seven or eight days,
the steamer will be the home and hotel OF the
party. The entire cost will not exceed $50
per passenger All bona fide editors and
publishers doing business in this State are
invited 20 attend the meeting Of the associa-
ton, 10 become members if they are not, and
70 Join in the excursion.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

The Governor Missouri shows piety as well
as good sense in appealing TO providence for
relief from the grasshopper pest, rather than
relving upon human Inventions and applian-
ces. We doubt whether the instance is on
record where human science or ingenuity h as
been found effective to stay plague like that
of the grasshoppers or potato bugs. Hori-
culturists have been engaged for years IN de-
vising means to rid their plumb and peach
orchards of the curculioland their apple or
chards Of the coLling moth, the apple tree
borer, &c, but no impression, even the most
distant, has ever been made on the grand ag-
gregate Of the pest The nuisance, by per
sistent, hard work, may be driven from sin.
gle tree OF even orchard for season, bat
next year the grand army is back again. vora-
cious and rampant as ever 1t is only when
providence interteres, and by the introduc-
ton of some vital atmospheric change or new
condition of soil, or letting loose on the pes
tiferous brood a new insect hostile TO and
mightier ;han the former, that effective re-
lief is wrought. 1t is thus at times that vast
districts have been relieved for many years
in succession from the ravages of the chin.z
bug, the Hissan fly and similar pests, and it
is thus Illinois at present appears TO be re-
lieved Of the potato bug nuisance, at least
none have been seen in this region since last
July; and it is thus the good providence may
stay the grasshopper plague. But it is as
true now as in the days when the locust raw.
aged the land of Israel, that in all such cases,
"vsip is the help of man"
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

congress strained venomously the whole ses-
sion for its retention the sober Judgment OF
the party has finally concluded to abondenn it.
II is to be buried dolefully but peaceably,
and will sleep the sleep of the unjust, along
side of the Masonry terror and Know Moth
ing alarm. 1t was good enough Morgan"
for several years, and in justice TO some OF ITS
more powerful northern exponents, it should
be with hGng yi been nx as'ua segia
nothing moves faster than the work of unde-
ceivng, and there is hardly prominent re.
publican in the country to-day who does no,
understand that Whiteleague and KuKluX
horrors were the hugest and most melancholy
my,hs in the political annals of the nation.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

Governor Jacob, of West Virginia, is in the
same boat with the Common Council OF Chi
cago, in the matter of injunctions The last
legislature of West Virginia passed law re-
moving the capitol from Charleston to Wheel
ing, and made It the special duty of the Gov
ernor to see that the state archives were safe.
ly removed While the Governor was en-
gagged in carefully executing the law, local
Judge issued an Injunction restraining him
from doing so. The Governor, like the com
mon council Of Chicago, regarding The legis
laturc of the state as bigger pumpkins" than
a loca. Judge, pays no attention to the injunc
tion, but obeys the law, and the iratc Judge
like Williams at Chicago, threatens to i'm
prison the Governor for contempt
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

Hon Geo II. Harlow, secretary of state
places US under obligations for copy OF the
laws passed by the late Illinois Legislature
They make bulky volume of 1lS pages, ,-abou'
equal to the index attached TO the volumes OF
TWO or three thousand pages each that used to
contain the laws of single sessions of the Hi
nois Legislature in the good old days of private
laws and special charters.
While the volume before US may not, in the
way of pleasant reading, be equal to a volume
of Dickens, it is yetto be priced as having re.
ouired vastly more thought and labor in its
composition, and, as embodying in its home
ly pages many big chunks of solid wisdom,
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

One Of the sad consequences OF the change
in the attorney generals office at Washing
ton, they say, will be the total dismantling
and setting aside and kicking out Of vii.
liam's southern outrage machine. That
ingenious piece of mechanism, which at one
time was esteemed equal to a border out
rage" in the good old Kansas Nebraska days
for the manufacture of radical rotrs, Is to be
consigned by Mr.. PierIepont 10 the "demnl
tion bowows," and poor Morton and Logan
must RELY on other resources !or firing the
northern heart during the next campaign
Mythical masked riders are to be allowed
to stable their shadowy sieeds forever, an'
the bloody SHIRT washed clean IN the WI
ters of acknowledged error, will flap peace
fully in the breeze beside much other regene
rated dirty linen Of radicalisrn.
Plerrepont is represented by the away
wise and thoroughly informed Washington
correspondent (pdssim) as holding that
Last wear witnessed the end of the ouirsg,
nonsense. Ii was tried faithfully, and USED
alike at northern ard southern polls. North
ern and southern voters alike rejected IL, an'
though despairing caipetbagging rih ran u
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

NORTHERN Pacific X. R.-The Iates
Ocean is about the only really and truly 10y.
al" republican organ in the Northwest, and
as such its utterances, being supposedly, al
least, inspired from Washington, deserve oc
casional attention. After Houndering for a
year or two, like Grant himself, its master
and great exemplar, among the financial
dreamlngs of the day, now inclining to kel.
loggism, and then again to hard money, il
finally solves the problem Of hard times
and proposes for them an immediate and in
fallible remedy, as follows;
As far as we, IN this central portion OF the
West, which has Chicago for its trade center
are concerned, every emigrant that stops in
Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Utah or Montana
is pledge of a future increase OF trade IN
this city but those who go beyond Salt Lake
are to great extent lost to this part OF the
country. 1t is in this view of the case that
the opening of the Black Hills and the re
sumption of work on the Northern Paclhc
Railroad would be adirect benefit to Chicago
and all this part of the West and II is only to
some such new employment of capital as this
that we can look for the recuperation OF
trade anywhere in the United States. Long
before the meeting of the next Congress II
will be apparent TO Congressman that they
must talk about something else than specie
payments, and that notwithstanding the un
Popularity which partisan politicians have
contrived TO fix upon what they are pleased
to call the subsidy business" the most eftec
tual way out of the present general depression
of trade and industry is for Congress TO star
the revival by aid TO some such large and i'm
portant internal improvement.
As Jay Cooke & j. Edgar Thompson have
| Just got an order from the L. ). Distric
Court of New York for the sale of the North
ern Pacific Railroad at auction under il
mortgage to them, the object O. such procsed
ing obviously being To wipe out the stool
thus far subscribed and the floating indebted
ness of the road, this fact, taken.in connection
iwlth the above from the only organ of tn
Northern Pacific ring in the northwest
would indicate that at least an effort is to b
made at the next session of congress to Civ
tins notable remedy for hard times tia
This idea of taking money from the publi
treasury and scattering 1t among the peopl
as mode OF curing hard times Is by n
means new. II las been tired before, ant
never failed TO work until the tax collecto
started on his round 10 raise the money I
pay expenses Then, somehow or other, thcr
was always fearful collapse.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

One'of the best scared men, about these
times, is Senator Spencer, oil Alabama, whose
rather questionable right TO a seat in the SEN
ate is at present undergoing an investigation
in Alabama. 1t viii be recolccted he sccur
ed his election by aiudlcious use, in the first
instance, of I. ). troops at the state election
and afterwards, by further iorcib,e culling
of the legislature through the intervention oI
Attorney General Williams, TO secure ma
lority in favor OF Spencer. How the election
which, under such auspices, returned re
publican majority 10 the legislature, is thus
explained by one Perrin, himselfon OF Spen
GERS military assistants al the time. He says
Our main reliance Gor success at the cleo
tion) was on the federal troops. The repub
licans were given 10 understand that the
troops were In the state for Spencer's beneft
Money was also used, but our main reliance
was on the troops. and they weie usd with
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
cures run about as follows

Can Gould carry such load and not break
down? On this subject a New York journal
speculates as follows:
Will Gould noI be like the lrlsnman who
put green spectacles on his horse 10 MAKE
HIM think that the straw set before him was
tresh.mown hay, and soon found the animal
dying, full of faith 10 be sure, but quite
scant of fodder? Is he NapOleonic enough
to keep up the faith of his followers through
some OF the campaings that must be planned
and fought before he accomplishes all his
work.
Gosd's new affilistion with 5. l.. NJ. Bar
low and others of the soldier men Of Wal
street shows that finance, like poverty and
politics, sometimes makes strange bed-fel
lows" Two years ago the magnates of the
street would not speak TO Jay Gould, and now
one by one, they come into conference apc
coalition with him.
Truly, the prospects Of the great transpor
tation lines of the country are gloomy wheI
they have become the prey of a man who ha
shown, to say the least, less conscience thai
any other prominent speculstor this country
has yet produced.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

The Beecher case, on Thursday of last week,
reached that stage when there is rest to
hard swearing, and the lawyers prepare tor
the final pull or closing chin music. An ad-
iournment was therefore taken TO Wednesday
of the present week On the latter day Judge
Porter commenced his argument for the de.
fence, speaking all that day and the next and
is expected TO consume the balance of the
week Most Of his speech thus far has been
devoted TO defence of the purity Of Mrs. Til
ton and furious lampoon of her ''lecherous
beastly husband" whom he branded as an
adulterer, seeking verdict TO make his wife
as vile as himself. There are four or five
speeches 10 follow Judge PorteI's, none OF
which will occupy less than three or iOul
days, so that it will probably be June before
the case goes 10 the jury.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

The Chicago elevators now hold S,6ie,2'9
bushels of grain ofall kinds against i,O61,Ot2
at this date last year. The present stock is
the largest ever held a, one time in that OF
any other city on the continent As prices al
the east fer several weeks past have had a
downward tendency, so that grain ia Ne"
York is worth little more Than was PAID ioi
# all winter at Chicago, the Chicago dealers
are naturally in favor Of encouraging the
rrasshoppers, and if the news from Kansas
Missouri and Nebraska should assume q
somewhat panicky hue, the Chicago grain
men. are hardly to be relied upon .ust now tc
assist in allaying the excitement
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
THE LOUISIANA PACIFICATION.

IThe following editorial was intended for
last weeks issue, but unavoidably laid over !
/ The Ottawa RpUJlicdH, like woman that
"mu,t have the last word if it Kills her
reitera,es It's statement of the bad faith OF the
conservatives in the Louisiana Legislature, IN
admitting four democratic members to seats
in the lower house contrary TO the terms OF
the Wheeler Compromise. AS proof on this
point the Repablicam gives the following,
which 1t says is a quotation from the com
pact or compromise in the form of resolu-
! tion adopting the same and cmbodyng its
vital condition"
"And that the House of Representatives as
TO its members as constituted under the award
of Messrs Hoar, Wheeler, Frye, Marshall,
Potter and Phelps, shall remain without
change, except by resignation or death oi
members until new general election
While this on its face seems to tasten the
charge of bad faith on the Louisiana conser'
yatives, there is perfect explanation OF ii
which the Republican either purposely or ig-
norantly overiooks. If anybody knows what
the wheeler Compromise really did mean
ard was intended to cover, one would sup
pose that man should be Mr. Wheeler HIM
self. Now Mr.. Wheeler has written a letter
in reference to this charge of bad faith IN the
part of the Louisiana conservatives, in which
he furnishes what is of course n complete an.
swer He says;
All these members held certificates OF the
Returning Board, and their names were on the
Republican clerks list "at the attempted or
ganlzation in January" There is no dispute
as to the fact of their election, the regularity
of their return, or their title to seats. Alter
Speaker Wilt and number Of democrats
had withdrawn from the House of Represen.
tatives the tour members were unseated, with
an obviously partisan INTENT by vote taken
when no quorum was present. Their claim
| TO seats was not submitted 10 the CoDgres
sional cOmrlittee. The case was too plain to
admit the raising Of an issue against them
The committees award neither directly nor
indirectly recognises any title IN the persons
who without shadow of right, were seated
in the four members places. The claim OF
the latter was established by the Republicans
own showing, they haying been returned and
enrolled by their own officers. As no denial
of their title was interposed by the Republi.
cans pending the compromise and IT'S prellm
1
inaries, the conservatives can certainly not
be blamed tor making it good
Mr. Wheeler further along repels in behalf
of the conservatives the imputation of bad
faith, and says, "this mater of the four mem
bers was fully discussed in General Sherl'
dams room, and Colonel Leonard who had
been the leading man in the negotiations on
the democratic side distinctly informed US
that he wished No concealment, and that il
was due to rs that he should inform us that
if the award of the committee should be
adopted by the House the democrats would
promptly reseat the four members That
Mr. Wheeler's opinion is also the prevailing
opinion in the state is proved by the fact that
no popular protest has been entered against
the course of the conservatives.
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
JAY GOULD'S LITTLE GAME.

Jay Gould, the great Wall street operator,
having recently gobbled the Union Pacific
railroad, the Pacific mail steamship line, and
the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Line, and
being now on the eve Of swallowing the Chi,
cago and Northwestern, the Lake Shore ana
the Erie railroads and the Western Union
Telegraph line, it is a good time TO foot up
the extent and present money value OF the
"little business which Jay Gould is about to
manage. The figures run about as follows
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22

The Reformed Episcopal Church Cum
ngsCheney schlsm) has been holding a
General Convention in Chicago for the
last week or two, and has gone into the "re
forming" work quite extensively. The pray
er book has been reformed, the creed has beer
touched up, the baptismal and ordination of
fces have been overhauled, the Thlrty-Nint
Articles amended and improved and /
looks, at the rate the convention is progress
Ing, as if they might give US new Dcca
logue and new Gospel before iheyget through
".eforming"
The Ottawa free trader., 1875-05-22
Lunch at all hours, at PierCue's.

1t affords us pleasure TO announce the pei'c
success of the La Sale County Savings ban
It has so far in It's prosperity exceeded all
pectations. II has received deposits from H"'
Vile, Mendoza, and in fact from nearly eve
town in the county It received from the TOW
of Brookiield, in one day, about s2c'' al
from men who said they had never deposit
money in any bank before. This certainly spea
| in unmistakable terms OF the soundness oi u
basis upon which The bank 10 formed as wen
the universal confidence had by the people
the integrity % the very excellent gent!em
controlling the bank.