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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23
THE INDIANS.

The campaign against the Indians IN Mon
tana has ended, and apparently IN All inglori
Gus failure. With some 5000 cavalry, artll
ery and infantry, Crook and Terry secured
the whole country from the Big Horn TO Ida
hO, and north of the Yellowstone to the Mis-
souri,, the troops encOuntering untold prjya,
tons and suffering, but finding no Indians
The column has apparently been disbanded
returning piece-meal to the various forts
along the Missouri, Yellowstone, &c, for the
winter. Meantime, new that the pursuit OF
Sitting Bull and his cutthroats has apparent
ly ceased, the Sioux are beginning to return
in squads to sue for peace-and government
rations during the winter In this way XIII
Eagle, with about $50, came III at Standing
Rock on the 10Th and surrendered; and nego.
tlations are gong on at Red Cloud agency
for the surrender OF other bands. Another
band sent messenger to Cheyenne, offering
to surrender, but before an answer could have
reached them a report came that some OF
Crooks troops had found the camp and exter-
minated its entire population. If this proves
true, it is the only instance where hostile
Sioux band has been encountered by the
troops since the Custer massacre. The pres
ent policy of the government seems to be, that,
as rapidly as these bands come in and sur
render, instead of overlooking their treachery
and quietly feeding them during the winter,
as heretofore, their ringleaders are to be
pnnished-perhaps shetland the rest sent
off to distant reservations. OF course, after
the occurrences Of the summer, the govern.
ment will have no scruple in disregarding
the claim of the Sioux to the Black Hills.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

There is another nasty slory out IN refer
ence to the gushing hero of the night shirt
Theodore Tilton. On his way in the cars
from Albany to New York, in the night, a
week ago, he was caught in sleeping car in
bed with another mans wife. The injured
husband, it appears had gone up the road
from New York half way to Albany to meet
his wife, and on boarding the train, sought
her in the sleeping car, intending to take her
by surprise. "Phanzy his phellnx,' when,
on approaching her bed, he found stretched
out by her side the form OF the tall gusher
from Gotham" Naturally the husband be-
came excited and dealt Tilton fearful blow
in the face, and was otherwise proceeding to
chaw him up, when brakeman interfered
and got him out of the car. Tilton's excuse
afterwards given was that he had been drunk
and very sleepy, and having an upper berth
in the same apartment, had dropped into the
wrong bed; and the woman protested that
she had slept so soundly as to have been un
of the intrusion. The explanation,
though rather thin on both sides, seems to
have satisfied the husband, tor on reaching
New York he walked off with his wife, the
two apparently on the most amicable terms.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The next state election takes place in Col.
orado, occurring October Sd, one week before
the election in Ohio and Indiana. 1t is the
first election after the admission of Colorado
into the Union, and involves the choice of
governor, congressman, legislature, &c, and
as there is no law providing for the choice of
presidential electors, the three electors of that
state will have 10 be chosen by the Legislature,
so that the election on the Sd will really open
the presidential ball by deciding whether Til
den or Hayes Is to have the state. While a
territory, with slight exceptions, Colorado
has been republican,, though the Tilden men
are not without hope of carrying it.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23
A WARNING,

The Springfield State negister is losing lite
patience and getting mad, and gives warning
as follows:
Bob lngersoll's lying, abusive speech at
New York, the other day, appears to be great
y 10 The taste OF the republicans of this state
among other things, he said that an 1874 ev-
cry democrat who had a musket was rebel,
anu every rebel without musket was demo
Graf This sort of viluperation and abuse Is
very easy, and II 1t is TO be continued, the
democratic I editors and orators of this state
WILL we are sure, accept the issue gladly, and,
sPeakihg for the State Register only, more
man Im; gladly, The republican state ticket of
, illinois Is made up of men tainted with the
; mots. frauds of the whisky ring and the dirt.
h tess TICKS OF the penitentiary ring, men who
NOV nav signed fraudulent vouchers, and who
aie suspected OF completely In fraudulent
contracts. Some of its Candidates are sus.
pecled OF cotton robberes, others are known
10 I've cashiered officers of the army, while the
STATE central committee is almost wholly com.
posed OF rlngsters. We personally dislike
extremely the use Of personal abuse, but
LOT p'iltlcai purposes no weapon can be more
enechve than the truthful record of republi.
can public men IN Illinois, and we saw again.
we shall be more than glad of any excuse TO-
give these records to the public.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

A year or two ago il was discovered chat a
number of valuable books had disappeared
from the Supreme Court library at Ottawa.
One or tive parties were prosecuted for the
thefl, but without effect; and though some
of the books were recovered, others continued
missing. A few mornings ago the librarian
discovered five more Of the missing books on
court house steps. what on the stepsl"
Yes, they had evidently been left there in the
night by some conscIenceharrowed party,
ana the librarian identified them at sight.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23
Queer conduct that for Comprehend. :"

GREELEY ON TuDEN-Horace Greely's
opinion of Mr.. Tilden is expressed in the fol-
lowing extract from letter from the former
to the latter, Oct 90, 1869:
"Sir: You and / are growing old. We
came here young from the country, aud have
lived and struggled side by side for forty
years. We have participated ardently on diff,
ferent sides. You were the pupil and the
protege of Martin Van Buren, and Silas
Wright; disciple and follower of Henry
Clay. But this Will say for you, that am
confident you have never sought to enrich
yourself by politics at the expense of the
public-,hat whatever of wealth you may
have acquired or enjoyed was earned at your
profession as lawyer and that your instincts
and your influence, partisanship apart, have
generally been telt on the side of economy ID
public expenditures and uprightness in the
conduct of public affairs"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23
From MarseiIIes.
MARsELLEs, Sept. 2lst, 1876.

"AhStLl'ES, oept. SlSl, 1910.
Yesterday was the day selected by the re-
publicans of this place for their grand blow
oat pole raising etc. The pole, which Is
about 100 feet high, is surmounted with a
gilt ball, beneath which streamer bearing
the names of Hayes and what's his-name"
floats out on the breeze The momentous
question, Glow to get up the POLE" had been
agitating the minds o: the leading republl.
cans for some time, and when it was found
no man in the party possessed sufficient gen.
Jus to place the poleIn position, the "Whayes
and Wheeler" Club found themselves much
in the position of the man who had purchased
the elephant. Finally Eb. Barber staunch
Tilden and Hendricks man, was induced to
undertake the job and at rather late hour
yesterday afternoon arrived upon the grounds
(nearly opposite the depo) which had been
selected as the site for the pole raising"
About seventy.five persons, including demo-
Gratis, republicans, men, women and children
the latter being largly in the majority as
sembled to witness the operation, which was
satoiaStoiby anu cApeulliousiy peTlOImeu
under the able directions of Mr.. Barber
In the evening meeting was held in Occi.
dental Hall, where p. c. Hayes-the man
who has been selected as the next victim to
be beaten by the Hon. Alexander Campbell
in the Sth district; Sol" Schedham, and
Judge" Hopkins proceeded to rehash old
worn out speeches to a limited audience,
about half of whom were democrats, induced
by curiosity to attend. The speakers all took
the old worn out text, preached the old worn
out sermons and repeated the same old, stale
Jokes. The war, of course, was the burden
of their theme, and the bloody shirt was
"slung" around in a manner highly satisfac-
tory to the speakers at least. The republican
party, and republicans generally, were as
faultless as angels, aud the democrats we're
the cause, not only of the war, but of every evil
with which this country has been afflicted
for the last one hundred years. These dis
gushing misrepresentation were at last
brought to close, the meeting broke up, and
all sensible people retired to their homes, dis
gusted with the speakers, the speeches, the
republican party, and with themselves for at
tending the meeting. SHOOTING STICK.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23
Cutting Steel with Soft Iron.

Jabob Reese, of Pittsburg, Pa, had long
,ndeavored TO construct a machine to cut
hardened cold steel. He accomplished it at
length by means OF a saw of soft wrought
irOn-merely circular disc-rotating at
high velocity With low speed this would
not cut at all but when running about p, 900
feet per minute the disc cut through steel
rapidly, giving out an immense cascade of
sparks 10 the operation. 1t was found on
examining the debris beneath the disc that
the particles of steel were not simply rubbed
Off They were welded together In pyra-
mid like a stalagmite or the snow circles on
the top of Mount Washington. Professor
Hendrick ascertained that real fusion had
taken place among the particles of steel.
The disc is very little heated, but the steel is
actually melted and drops down. Yet the
bar on each side of the cut is not heated
enough to draw the temper or or:dize the
metal Solid bars of steal oftwo or three in s.
ches IN diameter are thus cut through in as
many minutes The soft metal disc is about
AZ inches in diameter The naked hands
may he passed through the jet or stream
flying sparks, during the operation, without
being burned, since the particles of melted
metal are in the condition known as the
sphcroidal state.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The MARSHALL COUNTY DEMOCRAT Is the
name of new democratic paper that comes
to US from Lacon, III. 1t Is published by
Col. j. G. Ford, and IS but the removal of the
Southern Shield, lately published by Mr. Ford
at Greensboro, Ky, to new locality with a
new name The paper Is very ably edited,
and Justities what the CourierJOurnal says of
MIR. Ford, who represented Daviess county IN
the last Kentucky Legislature, that "He is an
editor of more than ordinary ability, and we
sincerely regret his loss to the press aud
state of Kentucky"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

VIM j. Fort, now on a visit east writ.s us
that while in New York he was iniormes on
reliable authority that there was no dpubl
Mr. Tilden's income amounted, during one
year oi the war, to quarter of milliOo OF
dollars, and yet at no time did he return more
than $l2,o00.-LacOn Home Journal.
Then VIM. j. Fort lies foolishly and ienor.
antly. Tilden never made but one income
return, when he gave IN his taxable income
at S7,11s. After that, inaccordsnce withthe
income law, he let the L. S. assessor estimate
his income according to his own sweet will,
Tilden paying no further attention TO it dan
TO pay the tax when the collector came aroind
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23
c;n-- No. cars shipped from July /,
4SEE 1875 to July /, 1876.

WHEREAS, The Overcharges collected from
five towns by the SAID Railroad from July /,
1875, to July 1, 1876, taking Ottawa as basis,
and only on cars of corn ana oats, are as fol.
lows; Milllngton. $145G7l; Sheridan, $1417.-
73; Serena, s242S.S5; Wedron, S229SS7;
Grand Ridge, $55OS.54. Total, $13,l1O.70;
ResOIped, That we respectfully enquire if
the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
have been as faithful, urgent and persistent
in insttuting and prosecuting SUITS against
railroad companies for violating the laws, (as
shown in the above discriminating schedule
of rates. to final decision.
ResOlged, That it is the beliefof this Grange
that the Railroad named is discriminating
unjustly at the stations above cited, in the VI
entity of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, in
open violation of the law, not only to the de-
triment of the people along said line of rail
road, but to the injury of the citizens OF the
whole State, by destroying the business Of
said Canal and thereby robbing the State of
the revenue which should be derived from
tolls therefrom.
And, as we are informed, the Commission
ers claim that they are tied hand and foot, un.
til a decision in the cases now pending is
given by the higher Courts. We therefore
urge that said cases and others that may arise
under the railroad laws of the State should
be prosecuted with vigor to an early and final.
decision, that the law may be INDICATED, and
the people relieved from this defiance and
these extOrtionate, oppressive and unjust bur
dens. Ordered published by vote Of the
Grange JOHN s. ARMSTRONG,
Chairman of Committee
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

II. NJ Gallagher, of the Peru Herald, an.
nounces in that paper Of Saturday, that he
has transferred the Herald TO Mr.. 5. Ellis.
worth, of the Lscon Home Journal, by whom
the paper will hereafter be published. As
the publication of the Home Journal is to be
continued, Mr.. Ellsworth thus becomes the
publisher of two papers, both weekly" The
transfer, We infer, involves the change of the
politics Of the Herald from democratic to a
republican paper.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The attempt of the Chicago Journal Sian
derers of Lew Steward to backen him as a
copperhead and enemy of the soldiers during
the war, has signally failed. Capt. Hemmeng-
way, of Little Rock, Kendall county, who
joined II company raised tor the war in Stew.
ards neighborhood, publishes an affidavit in
which he says:
When we enlIsted-there were five of us
Lew invited US down to his house, gave us q
staving good dinner, gave as FIVE dollars
apiece in gold and told us to call on him any
time we needed help. / consider him the
best toward the poor man or soldier that ever
resided in this town.
And Lieut.. w. II. Hall adds the following
was one of five spoken OF by Capt. Hem
mengway, and endorse all that he says-and
more, too. Lew offered US as much money
as We needed, but we only took IS apiece
Lew paid for the whole cOmpany's dinner al
the Burke House, In Chicago, on the same
trip. was 1st Lieutenant in the Company
with Capt. Hemmengway. We were out four
years and seven Notwithstanding the whole
war-and were two of the three who returned
to this town. Lew was the only man who
turned cut to give us u reception. He took
rs to his house and gave up big fat pot.pie,
and then sent us home with his team.
". II. HALL.
Queer conduct that for Comprehend"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The New York World has the following TO
say about oranges: The sphere Of action Of
the grange is lust as ostentatIOus as it is i'm
portant 1t is reform, not revolution. If the
grange instead of aiming TO inculcate econo-
my, cooperation and practically, were 10
enter the field as political organization it
would at once command attention, become
notorious and inefficient. If Brother Jane
son insists on paving thirty-fiye dollars cash
for a sowing machine instead OF seventy-five
dollars credit there is no disturbance In the
trade, there have been forty dollars saved to
Brother Jameson, but there have not been
forty dollars lost TO the man who produced
the machine. Society and commerce feels
no shock, and the superhuous middlemsn,
who is only tolerated, through ignorace, goes
into some more useful business, or transfers
himself to another field Of operation.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

PERsoNAL-We have seen the hitherto un.
known but puissant General, which his name
is Hayes, of Morris, candidate TO astonish the
nation and illuminate congress when he gets
there. He was to enter the republican wig.
wan last evening, or the wigwam was TO 60
into him, depending upon which was the big
ger of the two Details next week.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

There is certainly something suspicious In
the fact that the persons indicted in South
Carolina for completely In the Hamburg mas.
sacre, over which we have heard such a
howl in the bloody SHIRT organs, can't get
trial. The trial was set for the 10th inst, and
the accused were on hand ready and ANXIOUS
for trial; but Gov. Chamberlain's attorney
general and the U. S. district attorney were not
ready, and the trials were put off until Janu
AIRY. The pos,penement gives additional sig.
nificance to the declaration of Butler, who Is
called the ring. leader of the massacre, hat if
allowed fair trial, "he would prove that
Gov. Chamberlain had instigated the pro.
ceedings that ended in the massacre, and was,
therefore, responsible for It," The govern
ment had stationed ten companies at Aiken
to see that no negro witnesses were overawed
by the whites; the negro witnesses werepres.
ent in shoals the judge of the court is car.
pet-bag republican; all the county officers
are republicans; the machinery for drawing
Jurors is IN their hands; and the juries il All
ken county, we are told, "are usually com
posed of more negroes than whites" And
yet Chamberlain is afraid to let the trill go
on. The only fair inference, as the st. louis
Republican suggests, is that the Hamburg
massacre, instead of being punished and dis
posed of, is to be nursed through the presi.
Dental campaign for the benefit Of Hayes
and Wheeler"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

In the article of cutlery, at least, the L. S
are more than able to compete with England
in spite of tariff impositions. American cut
lery, 1t is said, has gone far towards driving
Sheffield cutlery out of the European market
1t is this fact that lends credlblity to the
statement of a New York paper, that the
great Sheffield, England, cutlery works,
among the most famous in the world. are TO
be removed to Syracuse, New York.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

DIR. S. Il. Taylor, of Fremont, longlIfe
Democrat, and better Democratic authGity
than the Times, publishes card TO say Is a
Democrat, that the man who is writing the
contemplate SANDERS about Governor Hayes
is a small and very dirty liar lie further
pronounces the Times story tissue of false.
hoods-heRddN Co. bee
The name of DIR. SardIs Birchard Taylor is
enough to tell who and what he is \ near
relative of Hayes and a creature OF his, en-
ployed in Hayes bank and dependent upon
HIM for his bread and butter, 1t is easy enough
to understand what such relatives word or
oath In defense oi.his.master amounts to.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

self Certainly Binkley, IN his Milwaukee
sneecb WAS moderate in his estimate that il
exceeded d thousand millions!
No wonder the republican campaign fund,
now that so many whisky thieves are in trou'
BILE, falls short, and that Grant, Taft and
Storrs are releasing the convicted thieves
from Imprisonment as rapidly as possible
that the distlleries may start up again and
rep,enisb the exhausted campaign funds
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Assuming, according TO the census returns
and The actual capacity of the dstlleries,
that the annual manufacture of whisky in the
L. ). has averaged about lG5 ,OOl, 900 gallons
per year, and that the quantity varies little
from year TO year, Mr.. Pratt deduces from
these figures that at no time since the whisky
tax was levied has there been tax maid on
more than one half, and during most of the
time on less than third or fourth. ur
Pratt further shows, by reference TO the law
that not n gallon of whisky can escape taxa
tlon without the connivance of at least two
government Officers--the gauger and the
storekeeper. Yet the above figures show that
from the first day the tax was levied the gov.
eminent has been Observation-Disclosures moi,
only In a small, desultory way, but systcma,
ically and on a gigantic scale. II is not ne.
cessary TO follow Mr.. Pratt through his long
and interesting unravelment of the devilishly
ingenious process by which the government
Is robbed. Ii is enough 10 know, by his
showing, tina. this robbery has been gong on
from the first, and that the government al.
ways knew it! Yet not until Bristow enter
ed the treasury, IN 1874, was there the slight.
est effort made to stop the robbery and catch
the thievesi
As TO the amount Of the steal, any one, by
taking l65.O0),OoO, the yearly manufacture,
as the basis, and the rate OF taxation as given
above and the amount actually collected, can
figure out the sum total Ct the steal for him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

Hepry a. Wise, who will live in infamous
history as the man who hung John Brown,
died last week. He belonged to class OF
men who can well be spared.-Ldcoa Home
Journal
Just So He died republican and Hayes
and Wheeler man. The country would be
none the loser if it had half 3 million less OF
the same kind.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

Bishop James, senior bishop Of the Metho'
dist Episcopal church Of the United States,
died at his residence IN New York city on
the 18th inst He was about seventy years Of
age and had been in the ministry 40 years,
and bishop about thirty years.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

A gentleman who visited William Cullen
Bryant at Cummington, last week, says that
the statement IN the republican papers that
he had gone back on Tilden is untrue. He
says he will supper, him at the polls, and be
lieves he will be elected
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

CAMPAIGN Demonstrations in the
county who desire campaign documents to
read will be supplied, free OF expense, by
calling upon VIM. Furlough, Secretary of the
Democratic Club, at Smith " Risings cigar
Ctara
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The announcement is made by the Allan
tic cable of the arrival of the Colorado potato
beetle at Bremen, in Germany. i, Is under
stood that he intends TO spend the winter in
Bremen and next summer to make the tour
of Europe.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The Aurora Beacon Is not ready TO charge
ness of Gov. Beveridge by giving him poison
while Stewards guest The forbearance Of
the Beacon IS noteworthy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

Yellow fever, in an epidemic form, has
broken out at Savanna, Georgia, and is caus.
ing serious alarm. The deaths, at first aver.
aging but three or four day, have increased
TO SO per day. II was brought there by a
Spanish vessel from Mexico. A few cases
within week at Baltimore have also been
the occasion of uneaslness there.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-23

The joliet Herold, German independent
or neutral paper OF large circulation in viii
ald adjourning counties, has thrown off its
neutrality aud come out for Tilden and Hen
bricks The Herald states that IN doing so
II but conforms to the wishes of nineteenth of
the German voters within the range of its cir
culation.