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"DuE | CENT.'-For the last few weeks
dozens of our people have been annoyed by
having transient newspapers which they had
dropped into the post office duly stamped
with 1 cent, returned to them with the cabal
istic words written on the wrapper, "Due
cent" "What does it mean" is the com
mon inquiry For years they had been mail
ing the same paper to friends al distance,
and cent had always paid the postage
The explanation is TO be found IN the work
of that most prolific source OF legislative in.
iquity, the conference committee on the last
night of session of congress. 1t Is little
steal struggled into the postal law by lob.
by of the express companies that were motto
cd hanging around congress during the SEES
sion and treating the members to champaign
suppcrs. The steal consists in Il change OF
the rate Of postage on "class 3D." of mail mat
ter, SO that hereafter the postage on such
matter is l cent per ounce, instead OF cent
for first ounce, and half cent for each add.
tional ounce, as formerly
The object, of course, 10 to force the peo-
pie to send all such matter at transient news.
papers, books, phamphlets, &c, by express
instead of by mail. The amendment places
a burden upon The people that will amount
TO millions, but which, instead of going into
the treasury, will go to enrich the already
over.gorged maws of the express companies.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

PosERs.-An intelligent farmer, who had
been s,eadfast republican, proDounds
through the Industrial Ige the following
puzzling conundrums:
rs il possible 10 make weaker race con
rol and govern stronger one, though the
weaker NAV be in the majority, This seems
what We are irving Ia do in Louisiana and
threaten to try II i'm Arkansas How many
Mares will it take to drive dog Perhaps
we shall solve the question under this admin
istration. 'parisans cannot govern 4 great
nation. said Bismarck, and we have furnish
I'd demonstration in Louisiana. 81 Re
ubliCan form of government, instead of the
fepuJticdR party had been the object and
murders and RIOTS would have been Hnhcard
t. We'll, we must do and hope for the best,
under tue worst President We ever bad as
FarnswOrIh calls hint y.
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Working pants $50, at Alschuler's.
Pnblic school Exhibitions.

The teachers of the schools of the city TAXI
pleasure in announcing to the friends and patrons
of the schools, that the examinations in the dii
ferent buildings will take place on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday next, to which they cordial
" invite all who are interested. For the purpose
of securing the presence aud cooperation OF at
least some of the parents in this work, the teach
ers have appointed the following committees 10
visit the schools during these examinations;
lsT WARD-Mrs. Markle, j. Vette, II. West j.
Hossack. Miss NJ. Perry and Miss Leavens.
ID WARD-Mrs Bushnell, Hnsdale, Stebbins'
Mattocks, Miller and Dr. Harris, and Messrs. j
Manley, Z. F. Bull, K. o. Black and j. G. Nattin-
ger.
An WARp-Mrs, Geo. Burgess, f. Tavencr, ii.
Hhiel, VIM. Burgess, e. j. Stormont, VIM. Col
well. ]. Stout, FisKe, Rev. Baume, L. Morse, and
VIM Shinn.
4ru WARp-Mrs. +. W. Chess, B. Glover. J.
Rathbun, g. Faust, A. Hamilton, g. L. Thomp-
son. p. X. Leland G. Rugg, f. Lewis, Neelsy,
Chids, Butterfeld and Phillips.
Eth WARp-Messrs. d. Walker, S. W Cheovcr
Mrs. Thos. Spencer, DIR. Macarthur, Geo loser,
:. Gilbert, Hook, McCalcb, II. Schuler, Haeberle
and Bradford.
w
E. Hathaway and Mr.. T. Ward.
TIN WARD-Mrs. Belk, Rhodes, Richardson,
Boyle, Moore, Martin, Card, Porter and Dewey
HIGH SCHooL-Mrs. j. Nash, w Osman, [.
Blanchard, Or. Dyer, DR. Hard, and Messrs Geo.
Williams, Z. Y. GligSs, Rev. Motif, Rev. Spers'
DR.. Hathaway and Rev. Miller
The committee will please visit any ROOM
where they may find it interesting TO attend the
examinations. T.. W. ScHREEB, oupI.
Mrs. OMcara has the latest agony IN sprih-
millinery.
viii be opened next Tuesday fresh STOCK 81
srring STYLES of Ladies', misses and children's
shoes The prices will be good deal less than
last season. Be sure and examine the stock and
priees before buving. J. MEGAFFIS
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FOREIGN NEWS.
England.


John Mitchell was again elected to parlla'
ment on the nth from Tipperary, receiving
3114 votes to More, his opponent, TAG. Only
aboutla third OF the constituency voted.
St. Patrick's day was celebrated with the
usual festivities throughout Ireland without
disturbance anywhere.
Moody and Sanky, the American revival
lists, are preaching to immense audiences in
London, the attendance at their evening
meetings averaging 20 900 people, land thous
ands turned away" Several cases of insan
ity have resulted from these meetings.
Field Marshal Sir William Comm is deaf
He was colonel of the Coltlstream Guards
constable of the tower, and had been quarter.
master general at Waterloo He was 81 years
old.
The Mark Lane Express, in It's weekly re-
view of the grain market, notes a general rise
of wheat IN the European markets
The young prince Napoleon was banquet
ed at Woolwich on the l2th, which has given
rise to a good deal of criticism, both in Eng.
land and France.
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Italy.

Archbishop McClosky, of New York, was
on the 18th made cardinal by the consstory
of Rome. He is said to be the first American
prelate thus honored. BY the same body
Philadelphia, Boston and Milwaukee were
raised to metropolitan sees.
His holiness, the pope, on the 18th, deliver.
ed an important allocation TO The consistory
in the Vatican, announcing the appointment
of five new cardinals, of whom McClosky is
one The address was unusually Respondent
in tone, dcploring the slavery OF the church.
and reminding her oppressors that they are
subjecting themselves to "the divine wrath
a harder master and heavier tyranny"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

There was terrific explosion CT powder
five miles south of Cleveland on Tuesday.
The mills of the Austin Powder Company
blew up, entirely destroying the works and
killing three men. The shock was equal 70
that of small earthquake in Cleveland,
knocking down chlmneys, shaking houses,
and shattering large quantities of window
glass.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

The late Indiana legislature repealed the
stringent liquor law OF last year and adopted
a rigid license law instead. The fun of 1t is
however, that the new law don, go into ei
iect until the LIST Of August, and meantime
the state is without a liquor law of any sort
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Spain.

Caleb Cushing, American minister at Mad
rid, on the 18th formally recognized Alfonso
IN behalf of the U. s., by presenting his Gre
dentials and making the usual diplomatic
speech, to which the young king gracefully
responded.
The Carlists have met with serious blow
in the detection of Gen. Cabrera, who issues
an address to the soldiers under his command,
announcing his recognition of Alfonso, and
appeals to the Carlists to discontinue strug'
gle that is hopeless, from cause he refrains
from revealing. His soldiers, however, have
not followed his example, and the Carlsts
generally denounce Cabrera as traitor.
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of doctrinal refnements or peculiarities. We
are entirely willing that Ohio shall have Dr.
Jaeger or any other low churchman. But
Illinois is not yet quite as far gone as she
fears Ohio Guardianship is in the direction
! of the sccts.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

The treasurer and keeper of the Lewistown
liquor cldb we're arrested few days since
and fined s175 each The Democrat says the
institution has closed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20

Last year the grangers forced prices up in
December by refusing to sell at less than S.,
This year the consumers, to get even, didHt
force prices down TO So.
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Germany.


In the Prussian diet, ON the 10th, the de-
bate was opened en- the new ecclesiastical
bills. Dr. Falk, IN explaining the necessity
for fresh legislation on the relations of the
state with the church, dwelt especially on the
fact that the pope had authorized tho Austri-
an bishops to obey laws which he denounced
in Prussia.
Prince Bismarck made powerful speech
in support of the bill. He said the maxim,
that more obedience was due to God than to
man, certainly did not mean that more obedi-
ence was due to pope, misguided by Jesuits,
than to the king. The government was do
ing its duty in protecting German freedom
of mind against Rome.
The house resolved to discuss the bill in
full sitting, instead OF referring it to com
mittee.
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France.

After two weeks of hard work, NJ. Buffet,
on the 10th, announced the following cabinet;
NJ Buffet, interior; NJ. Dufaure, JUSTICE NJ.
Leon Say, finance; NJ. WALTON, public in
struction; Duke Cazas, foreign affairs; Gen.
De Cissy, war. The rejection of D'Audittret
Pasquer was caused by the opposition of the
Bonspartlsts; and for the same cause he was,
on the 18th, elected president of the assembly.
NJ Buffet has announced the following pro-
gramme for the new ministry: The assembly,
on meeting after Easter will vote the budget;
the elections for members Of the senate just
provided for to take place in September; the
dissolution of the assembly Immediately to
follow, with a new electlsn; the state OF
siege to be Immediately raised in all the de,
partments except the Seine.
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OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADER
with the following publications, furnishing
both at the prices named, postage prep aid
The offer is open to old subscribers or new
at any post office in the country:
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. S3l5
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CHICAGO PORK OPERATIoSs.-A lengthy
statement in the Chicago Times of the amount
and number of live and dressed hogs han.
died in that city during the packing season
of 1915, gives the following among other
footings;
No no rs received 1915. 1889 GA
do 1871 2243 212
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Increase Observation-Disclosures. 49, 1852
The following shows the range OF prices
for three months of the two seasons respect
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Mrs. O'Meara has the latest agony in spring
millinery
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written for the Kew Orleans Republican. |
THE ROYAL CHARLES.
BIT JULIA pLRAsANrs cnnswnLl.

BY JULIA pLRAAANTs ChRswnIl.
The Wings ere upi Oh, glorious ds,t
woman pealed their deSthless cry.
A woman leads them in the fray,
To show the wonders of the sky.
Ehe sends their banners ont 10 them,
And gives their places In the ranks;
For eods brought down each diadem,
And left with her room for thauks,
a Ploasants roams beside the wave
Where Henry Clay il carved in stone.
A Pleassnts ruled the ocean wave,
When old Virginia felt her moan.
That man was shorn Of all his wealth.
When that great Pleasants gave his slsves
To God and freedom; lot by stealth,
But sent them grandly DER the waves
-Four hundred went, mighty gift,
And God sends back wreath to him,
Whose study shoulders now will lift
The snow white tag through shadows dim.
For Deborah sends to him her Gag.
He knows the name, and now will weep,
To think how Caddo's lonely crsg -
For him such precious memories keep.
He knows the name; how at her board
So many sons and daughters fed,
He can not turn from her last word
To whom he owed his earliest bread.
Up man Of God! there is no shift,
For those who shut their ears to me.
You are the man, that lag. to lift,
And set your suffering cousin free.
Go peal the Peasants battle cry,
Their blood has cried aloud to God
Go lift the flag of Clay on high
And splead his mighty deeds abroad.
-Caddo
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-31
Under the British Channel.

The work of sinking q shaft to the depth
of 100 metres will begin next week on the
French coast, near Calais This will be tho
preliminary operation upon the channel
tunnel.
1t really begins to look ss though tho
tunnel under the English Channel were
about to become an accomplished fact. The
measure has received the legislative in.
dorsement OF both England and France:
The bill looking TO it's Construction passed
the English HOuee of Lords on the tkirtieth
Of last July, having previously passed the
House OF Commons, and on the second Of
August a similar measure received the sane.
/ tion Of the French Assembly. The Englthh
bill provided for the appOinl ment of Q royal
commission to have charge of the scheme,
while the Chatham and Dover and South
eastern Railway Companies received per
mission to set apart $1,000 each toward as-
pertaining the feast b,lity of boriug the sub.
oceanic strata from the English side, and
negot atoms were opened on the part Of
Baron Rothschild, who desires to Join these
two companies in their part of the great
undertaking. The French measure gives
power to certain persona, the company Of
the Chemin de Fer du NOrd, Baron R0ths.
child and some capitalists to make tunnel
halfway scroes the Straits, and to enter into
negotiations with any other company pre-
pared to complete the tunnel to the English
side of the Channel. The submarine tut mel
proper will be little more than sixteen
miles long, and the late investie stions have
shown that 1t Can be 90 constructed as 70
be nearly $50 feet below the bottom of tho
CHANNEL, and that there would be below Is
considsreble snd uniform depth of chalk
~ Y expected thst the cost, ct the outsidss'
z \ FL 4 4 IA u
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-31
PRIVATE THEATRICALS
BY W. d. HOwELLs.

IL
West Pekin il one Of those country places
which have yielded to changing conditions
and have ceased to BIZ the simple farming
towns Of past generation. The people are
still farm. RS, but most of then are NO
longer faimers only. In the summer they
give up tho habitable rooms Of their old
square wooden houses 10 boarders from the
cities, and Turk about in the pooks and
erannies- Of tAsir- LA and lsaa-ssIs ;,-snsi.
whatever their guests may have to COM
plain of, have hardly the, best of the bar
gains they drive with them. But in this
way they exc out the living gradged the m
by their neglected acres, and keep their
houses in . repair that contrasts with the
decay Of their farming. Each place has its
grove Of msples, dramatically gnslied and
misshapen from the wounds of mssy sugar
seasons; and an apple orchard, commenly
almost past bearing with sge, sire tches ID
knotted bOughs over . slope near the house,
Every year the men-folk plow up an acre of
garden ground. and plant it with those
ing In mid-July ON last years potatoes and
tough, new-busehered beef, seem 90 rsluc-
tant in ripening; but . fgrrow 10
hardly turned elsewhere on the farm.
1t yields crop Of hay about the
end Of june, in which the b0ar0ers' chill
dren tumble. and . favorable sesson may
coax from 1t > few tons of r0wen grsss.
The old stone walls straggle and fall down
even along the roadslds; IN the privacy Of
the wood lots and berry pastures they
abandon themselves TO reckless dilspids-
ti0n. 800 -
Many houses IN the region stand empty,
absently slsring ON the passer with their
cold windows, - II striving in vain to re-
call the households, long since gone West,
to whom they were once hons. By and
BY they win drop 10 ruin; or some shrewd
lrishmAn, who has made four or Eve hmm
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-31
Emerson ON His Contemporaries.
A Boston correspondent writes to

A Boston correspondent writes to the
Concord, New Hampshire, Monitor of
talk with Ralph Waldo Emerson, saying
Emerson was very fond of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and James Russell Lowell
said with some appearance of pleasure, if
not of pride, "We are all sons of ministers'
flames" as he called him, "has been Of
late writing such good poetry that his long
silence can be excused" From Mr.. Elmer.
con learned something in reference to the
mental habits of some Of the poets. Holmes
70 30 full that he can write ut any time
Lowell broods over his subject for a time
and then oomposes with great swiftness
He does not like to write TO order. though
desirOus of employ ing the stimulus of great
occasions. We asked him to read poem
at Concord on the one hundredth anniyer-
sary of the fight, but he said he could not
His wife day or two before wrote to me,
saying: II can not speak for James,
yet ! think you may expect .
poem from him on the nineteenth
He has been going about for some
promise of something"-and on the nine
teenth Lowell vas on the ground with his
pOem-and grand one it was. Longfe
low prepares his poems to be read on great
occasions, as minister who lives near Bos
ton prepares his sermons, nearly month
ahead. He wrote the poem read at Bow.
dom College last summer early in the fall
OF the preceding year, and well 1t was that
he did so. for the months intervening have
been fruitless as far as literary labor is con-
cerned, owing to physical prostration. He
Is, happily, better now. Mr.. Emerson in.
formed me that new book of his would
probably be issued by csgood & Co this
month This information will account for
Emtrsdn's frequent and long visits at the
libraries during the last year. He has many
essays and lectures and few poems in
manuscript, which may see the light some
day. But Emerson Is getting old and can
not work much more, and possibly the
'.labor Of pr pairing my manuscripts for the
press" % bs said. 'msy be delegated ~
some one younger than myself"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-31

We arc advised, authori stively. that .
steam line between st. Marks and New Or
leans 10 about to go into operation. Two
propeilers Of proper draft, freigh tsge ca
capacity esd passenger accommods tions,
will each mako semimonthly trips, thus
week from New Orleans, Pepseeole, Ana
lachicols and St. Marks. An extension Of
their rouse to Cedar Keys would probably
sttraet mlsh. uestssn prodaes ffslahs By
rail ftoU PsnsaeolA for emhAskstiDa r. PEN
insulae ports.-R essaeola Gasette. 80. :.
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ths tstssasslsAs, withoss pfoaneisg ~
Goed nolassso.
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great deal of good, and, it not, that the
complete rest WAS everything; none of them
had that wOrn-out feeling with which she
had come; if any did not pick up at once, she
was told that she would see the change
when she got home in the fall. Two or three,
In the mean time, were nearly always sick
IN bed. or kept from meals by headache.
From time to time the we'll ones had them
selves weighed 1t the village store, to know
whether they had gained or lost They all
talked together . good deal about their
complaints, of which, whether they were
sick or we'll, they each had several.
These were the interests and occ upations,
this the lie ct Woodward farm, to the en-
tire simplicity Of which l am afraid have
not done Justice, when . thing happened
that complicated the situation and for the
momeDt robbed 1t of its characteristic re-
pose. II appears that while Mrs. Stevenson
was quietly multiplying eattail PUSHES IN
nsr cool, airy, upstairs room, one of the
Woodward girls, who Taught school, and in
vacation waited ON the bOsrders at the
table, had also been epployed-some.
where in the mysterious L-part, where her
family bestowed itself-on Q work of art,
Q hs$d Of the Alderney COW, known 70
the whole hOtseh0ld - blossom. Whether
It was ever meant to Be seen or not 10
scarcely certain; that lady, who alone
had the intimacy Of the Wood verds.
came out with is frum the hitchen one
morning. - by violssee, and showed It
TO the bOaraers after bseaha6et. While thev
still Uttered 1t the table, none OF the artists
kindred appearing. They all recognized
Blosspm in monsnt, but shs exhibitor Let
them snffsr and gueas while Who did IL.
4! abe exploded the fast pom them, and
ia Il ~ rsAl Res Rseheas; sad Nm.
Stev9nson. vh0 vaa indaad IN snuthar nm
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y
over for the summer, Rachel9"
II don't know. Yes I'm glad; it's hard
work. shall have . change at least, help.
ing about home"
"Whst shall you dot"
II suppose I shall wait on table,"
"Well, then, you shall not. I'll arrange
that With your mother, any way. I'll wait
~ don't see what difference 1t makes
whether I work for the boarders in the
kitchen or wait on them ut the table"
cit makes great difference; you can't
be hidden by them if you re not in the way,
and I'm not going to have q woman Of
genius asking common clay ii 1t will take
some NOSE Of the hash or another help Of
Rachel; and Mrs Gilbert said so, too,H cried
Mrs Farrell, at some signs in the girl, who
seemed little impatient Of the subject, a
Of something already talked over; "and
I'm proud of having been in the secret of
it. never shall forget how they all looked,
when l came dancing out with 1t and
stood it up at the head of the table where
they could see it, They thought did it,
and they had quite O. revulsi0n of feelin {
when they found it was yours. Where are
you going, Rachels To Florence, or the
Cooper Institute, or Dot tor Rimmer -
II have NO idea Of going anywhere. i
have no money; father couldn't afford to
send me- don't expect to leave home.n
swell, then IN tell you; you must. Why
can't you come and stay with me in Boston
this winter I've got two rooms, and
money enough to keep . couple of mice
especially II one's . country mouse-end
veil study art together. might as we'll
Z; 90 that sI. y anEshins-or nothing Come, is
"If ! cohld get che money 10 pay for my
Boarding, ! mink should like it very
nneh. Bat o0aidn't" answered Rachel,
quietly agax ysas -, 81 s1e.sq y1l,
"Why, Rachel, cant you understand that
ycu ars 70 b my eusstr s77'77'f
Evsn the w66sa IT Wet PENN ere
elew = snsltciA SznaituAss anAu RActsl ~
''.iS -? :: 80 :sssi l.s,,.. s.ss !.
but 2 CD issvse SkiAka 4 !, sSks
addsd az1ly, II vsessaA pay yea baek
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a... : & sas: :. !. "a ~ s
uaited States. His ambition aad his plans