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No. 1891 mo- 439
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PICTURE FRAMES, &c.

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We do not limit those seeking for hne goods to
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ore CT the leading manufactures, and have sample
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Any OF the patterns made 70 order ia colors to
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J. MARRRII 9R,
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~Terms cash. M On free exhio ition and sale,
an ortsinai painting By Leonard, Of Rome: Sno-
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u UNsWORrH, JsesEer, 9Ot 7th and B streets
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Reading Matter on Every Page

Average Daily Circulation Orer
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THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber
y has obtained from the Supreme Court Of the
District Of Columbia, holding Special Term, let
teri testamentary on the personal estate of LEON
AID b. PBATHBR, late Of Was hington city DO.
deceased. all persons having claims against the said
deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same,
with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, on
or before the 9Th day Of May next; they may
otherwise by Law be excluded from all benefit of the
said estate. Given under my hand. this 9th day Of
May. 1916. VIM a. OHANOEY,
my low ,sp" Executor.
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2N0
PROPOSALS FOB FRESH BEEF.

(FFIcE ACTING CoMMIssARY OF SUBSISTENCE,
FORT WHIPPLE, VA, May 10. 1876.
SEALED PROPOSALS, In du plicate, will be
- csyed at this Office until IL O'clock, noou June
j. loI6, Ger furnishing the Flesh Beef required By
the Subsistence Department, q. 3. Army, at this
post, during the six months commencing July l,
Also for such choice ard other cuts OF fresh meats
Sc may be required by the ocers and their families.
1be bldde. will specify in their proposals the
price per Bound for which they will furnish anc de-
liver at Fort nipple, vs., the meats rsQnired and
also the price pound for furnishing il from their
stalls.
ILfJrmaton % to conditions, quality Of beef, &C.,
will be furnished on application to
GEORGE s. CRIMES,
MYlO-M n D NJ A q
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

There Is a good deal of comment by the
newspapers on the fact that prominent among
the toadies who attended the levee of Gen.
Babcock on his recent arrival at ST. Louis 10
be tried as a common thief, was Gen Sher.
man. II looks very much like lowering the
dignity Of his high Office thus 10 toady 10 a
man who, however innocent Sherman him.
self may consider HIM, rests a, leas, under Sc.
rious charges, and a, bes, can be waited upon
by one in Gen. shermans position only
as an object Of sympathy for IN no case
could etiquette have required Sherman to
dance attendance on Babcock.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12
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TIVE TADY WALKISTS.

The match between the female waikists at
Chicago, noticed III our last, terminated at
half pas, ten O'Clock last Saturday night, &C
cordng TO the programme. Mrs. Marshall,
the american girl" made 233 9-l0th miles
and Miss Won IIillerp, the Dutch girl, 93l -
miles, Both women were completely eX-
bausted, and Mrs. Marshall had to be assisted
To her room. Her condition was such that it
WAS found necessary to administer opiates be
fore she could be quoted. During the night
she was constantly attended by a physician
So great was her pain and fatigue that for
time 1t was thought she woad lose her rea-
son; but by daybreak she fell into a sleep
and remained quiet for several hours Her
mowers of speech are almost entirely gone, or
were on Sunday. She may recover her
health, bu, the probabilities are that 1t Will
take weeks, and may be months, before she
regains her normal condition. Miss Won
Hilern was thoroughly tired out, but the
good care she had taken Of herself told at the
termination. On Monday she was able to go
out, and within week or two Will doubtless
be out with another challenge
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12
A HOWL FROM JEFF. DAVIS.

One Of the first abominable fruits OF cX'
Speaker Baine's Haunting the bloody SHIRT
in the face of congress is letter in reply
from that garruous old corpse known as Jeil'
DAVIS. He thinks it is haru to be held guilty
for the atrocities OF Andersonville, when it is
we'll known that he most earnestly sought,
during the rebellion to avert those horrors
by efecting an equitable exchange of prison
ers, To which Lincoln and Stanton so steadily
and persistently refused their assent. This
may necessitate statement of the real facts
of the case, of which Davis tells but half.
Davis is quite correct in the statement that
Lincoln and Stanton sturdily resisted an ex.
change OF prisoners, and their reason for it
was, that to the rebels every prisoner ex.
changed was a new recruit to their army,
when they had drawn so heavily on their POI
pulation that recruits could be drawn from
no other quarter; while, on the other hand
the north still had abundance OF fresh food
for powder to send to the field, though half 3
million of her soldiers might be languish
ing in southern prisons. This is what at the
time was called Lincoln and STATIONS eats
tail strategy" 1t was to exhaust the south
while the north was MISUNDERSTANDING big
cat OF the north 10 gnaw away At the south
ern cat until the tail was swallowed, which
must end the war peJdu. Undoubtedly Lin
coin and Stanton could have ended the An
Jacksonville horrors at any time By abandon
ing their strategy" and asserting to an eX
change OF prisoners.
But the side of the story which Davis don
tell is, that, understanding the strategy o
Lincoln AMI Stanton, the rebels, with Davis
| full assent il indeed he was not the instigato
and adviser of it, undertook to force Lincoln
and Stanton 10 abandon their "strategy' BY
such cruel treatment of the Union prisoner
as would raise universal cry and demand
over the north for their exchange. Their plo
failed, and the "cat's-tail strategy" succeeded
As in the case of the boy training his dog 81
was hard on cad but the making of the pup,
SO in this case it was hard on the boys bu
death TO the rebellion.
II jeff. Days imagines he has any friend
in the north, he ought to have sense enough
to know, also, that the worst way to seIv
them, or to retain their respect, is to obtrudt
his own dirty carcase or grievances upoI
their attention, By modesty keeping him
self out of sight and harms way, he ma
avoid getting kicked, but that is the on
|, way.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

1t is significant fact that while the bOur
bon democracy in the lower house OF con.
gress are moving .or all sorts of investiga.
lions and promising all sorts OF retrench.
ments, they are at the same time putting In
more southern war claims upon the war
! CLAIMS committee than have been presented
altogether for the preceding five years. There
are all at once very large number OF 10y.
al men" who lost all sorts of property in all
sorts of ways at the hands of the federal
| troops during the war, VINO, now that the
southern element" is the strongest in the
house, see some hope OF being fully reimburs-
ed out Of the federal treasury Aregular raid
is already organized upon Uncle Sans strong
box and these southern members are lending
! it every aid in their power,-Joltd Sun.
Judging by the success Of The Secor- Robin.
son thieves, and the Boss Shepherd district
robbers, and the Union, Central and North
ern Pacific r. II. plunderers, and of the Leets
and Stockings, and the whisky rings, and the
state and postotiice department plunderers
&C., &c, It would be nothing astonishing il
the southern people had got the idea that il
was only necessary TO have few friends in
congress TO enable any one TO get his hands
into the public treasury and help himself
Anything like honesty in the public service
has under radical rule become SO out OF
| fashion and obsolete, that people have come
to look upon congress and public Offices OF all
kinds as simple "insttutions' whose Office il
is themselves to steal and TO help their friend.
to steal. Therefore it would not be strange
| if the south, having got good many Of Their
own people into congress, should imagine
there was chance also TO get their hands in
TO the treasury. We notice, however, in this
connection, statement from Washington
which seems TO be authentic, that of about
800 bills before congress for war claims
from the south, full 100 were presented at tor
mer sessions, so that thus far not over 100 new
bills of that class have been presented at this
session, which, in view Of the facility will
which,steals were put through congress while
the radicals held sway there, shows rather
surprising want of faith in the readiness if &
democratic congress To be equally accommo
dating 10 the thieves. Besides an IHt6r
ocean dispatch OF Thursday states that "tL'
war claims committee, though having 300
cases before them, meet but ono, n week, ant
of the 1000 southern cases beforethem not on
has yet been touched. Thus far but one bill
has been reported All OF whch seems Il
indicate that instead OF borrowing trouble
about dagger To the public treasury from tia
quarter, the Sun might be more p'oftably cm
ploycd in shedding lis light on he state de
par,meni, war department, postcftice depart
+ ment, whisky ring aud other massive rot
berries of the radical officials.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12
BABCOCK.

The trial OF Gen. Babcock, President
Grants private secretary, on indictment for
connection with the whisky ring, commenc-
ed at 81. Louis on Tuesday. Thus far moth.
Ing Of especial interest has been developed
in the case. President Grant, though willing
10 appear at ST Louis as a witness for the de.
Tense, will not be required 10 attend, but his
deposition IS to be taken before Chief Justice
Waite IN Washington. The trial Is expected
to last two or three weeks. The prosecution
are confident of conviction, while the de.
Tense are equally confident of an acqui,tal.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

Gen. Washington now and then took notice
of singular facts IN natural history. Two
years before his death, old Col Perkins, of
Boston, then q young gentleman, visited him
at Mt Vernon. As he was sitting with young
Perkins on the verandah, which overlooked
the Potomac, toad hoped along on the
ground near them, (which led him TO ask
me-" says Col. Perkins, "If had ever OBJ
served The reptile swallow a FREELY" Uron
my answering in the negative, he told me
that he had, and that from the thinness OF the
skin of the toad he had seen the light of the
freely after it had been swallowed. This was
a new and TO me surprising fact IN natural
history,-Springheld Mass Repubhtcdn.
BY the heading the Springfield itepujlicdR
places over the above, we infer that itregards
the statement of G. w. as somewhat apocry-
phal, dubious, COURAGEOUS, hard to swallow, SO
to speak; but in point of fact il i nothing OF
the kind. There is no better fun than TO feed
toad at night about dozen Of frefies. The
light shines through the skin and makes the
toad as luminous as coal Of fire
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12
CALAMITY AT CINCINNATI.

On Saturday afternoon of last week Robin
sens theatre in Cincinnati was crowded with
people 10 witness "a play called "AlleGory and
Tableaux of the Great Republic" in the
presentation of which some 500 children ap-
pear on the stage. The tickets showed some
800 present, a large proportion OF whom
were children, as the play was given partly
for the benefit OF the Cincinnati Relief In
ion. The play had proceeded 10 the close OF
the first act, when calcium lights are shown
in the ,ableau, which some one IN the gallery
seems to have mistaken for FIRE, and gave a
shout, which was simultaneously repeated
from several parts of the house. The conse
quence was fearful rush fer the door. Men
women and children, amid deaiening screams
crowded upon each other uu,il as many lay
pros,ra,e under foe, as stood erect, and Will,
eleven women and children were killed out
right, dozens were more o. less severely in
rljured. The curtain was raised and the mana
, ger and others appeared on the stage an'
made every effort to calR the paLic sirickeI
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

HAINEs-The recent two days governor.
ship OF Speaker llaines, or the tsnger of H.
has been made the occasion for mother liber.
al discharge of venom by the hdical press.
The Decatur Times, which claims tina, II is
not partisan journal, finds iself in this
connection provoked 10 say:
Mr.. IIaines did many things which were
not endorsed, but when the opnriuniiy for
making political capital has Passed. you ne'
or hear any of the bills, passe1by the late
Legislature, criticised. II saved Csc people o.
the State AT least half million dollars by the
reduction of appropriations anc preventing
an adjourned session, anu passed nothing
vicious, and left nothing undone that vas ab
solutely need. This cannot be aid q many
previous bodies that did not have Haipes foi
speaker
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

The convention Of railroad ticket agents at
louisville on the 9th inst. resolved that the
Centennial fares from The west TO PhilaCel,
phia would not be reduced more than % per
cent. below present rates. Round tickets are
10 be issued good for one month. There is
one way in which The people can get along a
good deal cheaper with the business than the
railroads contemplate, and that way is, TO
stay at home and there is 10 doubt the mass
of people will adopt that plan, if this Louis
Vile programme is adhered to.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

The publishers OF the Springfield suite Reg.
sster place Us under Obligations by sending us
their daily in exchange instead of, as hereto
fore, their weekly. The Weakly State Regis
,er usually reached US on Friday evening, just
as the TRADER for the week was going TO
press, so that, for the next weeks TRADER
al its matter having grown stale 1t was
really of no use to US, much as we liked 70
read it. We regard the State Register as one
of the ablest and soundest democratic jour
nails in the country.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

Moody and Sankey have transferred their
evangelical labors from Philadelphia to New
York, opening a, the Hippodrome on Mon
day. The building seats comfortably loooC
people, with side apartments holding from
5000 to 5000, which can be addressed by oth
er speakers simultaneously with the preach
Ing in the main auditorium. While Moody
addressed the main audience on Monday
Stephen II. Tying, jr., preached in side hall
Sankey is assisted in singing by trained
choir Of 100 voices.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

New ANIMAL IN WALL SrREEr.-Every-
body has heard of the bulls and bears on the
stock exchange and board Of trade. The
bulls work to push prices up, and the bears
to pull them down. But a new animal has
made its appearance on the stock exchange.
Not long ago the P0pular .SctCace Noahly
stated that crustacean to which it gives the,
onc name OF Ltma0rta tere5raHS, had made
its appearance in the Vastly deep" which
fastcns en- the sunken telegraph cables, and
eating through the gutta percha Governing of
the wires, destroys their insulation and thus
stops communication. Now the interruption
of communication by cable is often the fruit.
full means Of making big strike on the grain
or stock exchange, and as every such inter.
ruptiOn, no matter how caused, is in stock
board lingo now attributed to the crustacean
aforesaid, it follows that to the bulls and
bears Of financial zoology must now be added
4,,tEg
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12
MASS MEETING!

The independent Voters of La Sale coun'
", opposed to the present continuance IN
power of the Republican party and in favor
of reform, are requested to meet at the Court
House on Monday, February l4th, 1876 at
o'clock p. NJ. to appoint seven delegates to
,epresent La Sale county in the Independen'
state Convention 20 meet at Decatur on the
10Th inst.
The Independent County Central Commit
ice will meet at the same time.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

BLACK IlILLs.-The rush Of emigration has
already commenced, and the Northern Pacific
Railroad promises to have regular trains on
the road to Bismarck by the first of March.
A dispatch from Bismarck Of the 9th says:
"Sevcnty-fve men and fitty.twO teams left
Bismarck this morning for the Black Hills,
number of the men taking their families.
During the past three days nearly $50 teams
have left here The party headed by Cali.
fornia Joe" which started en- Tuesday, took
with them eighty head of cattle, one saw
mill, and provisions and miners tools from
nearly every business house in our city, for
sale in the hills. California joe also took
fnger.bOarls for the purpose Of stalking the
most direct route and showing the distances
from one stopping point to the other Seven.
teen teens left jamestown yesterday morning
to JOIN parties here for the hills There has
been no interference from either the military
or the Indians thus far, and none is feared
The weather continues mild here, with about
two inches Of snow"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

The case Of Senator Chrlstiancy, of Michi'
gan. affords another warning against sending
unprotected bachelors or widowers to Wash
inrton TO be caught, like daddy Spinner, in
the tolls of the female treasury clerks
Though on the shady side of sixty, the yer
dant Michisander has been hooked in by
little treasury fairy Of 10. Whatever charms
she may possess, they are not in her name
which was Lugenbecl.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

A well known bank president OF Worcester
Mass, according to the Gdsette OF that city
is disguised. He remarked on hearing of the
bank robbery at Northampton: Il am SICK
of this rascally world. Don't want to see oil
do business with anybody. I'd rather be al
old farmer living on cross road, four mile
from the sight OF everybody, with barrel o
cider and two hogs, than to have anything q
do with banks, money or men"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

Hon. Rcverdy Johnson, long prominent,
man In American politics and minister TO
England during the administration of An.
drew Johnson, died suddenly on wednesday
evening, from injuries received by fall in
the grounds Of the Governors House at An.
napolis, Nd, where he was visiting.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

John Durham, private banker a, kanka-
kee, suspended last week His liabilities,
principally % deposition, were ssj ,Oo0, against
which he shows $4,000 In bills receivable
aud LOT Of real estate Like all other real
estate spectators with other peoples money,
be asks cor time 20 bring things round. .
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-12

A good deal of credit is claimed Tor Con-.
gresham Springer, of this state, tor securing
the adoption OF the following amendment to
the centennial s1,5O000o appropriation bill
PROCEEDED, That in the distribution OF any
moneys that may remain IN the treasury OF
the Centennial Board of finance, after the pay
ment of the debts, as provided for by the 10th
section of the act Of congress, approved June
/. 1872, incorporating said Centennial Board
of finance, the appropriation herein before
made, shall be paid in full into the treasury
of the United States, before any dividend or
per centage of the profits shall be paid to the
holders Of said stock.
Mr.. Springer, in explaining the amend
ment, said its object was, at the close OF the
exhibition, if there is any money left, that the
United States, having made voluntary con,
Itrlbution, should be first entitled TO have the
peoples money back before any of it goes
into the pockets OF private individuals as a
dividend. Otherwise the effect Of the bill
would be simply TO place IN the treasury OF
the centennial finance board 81 100000, to be
divided among the stockholders after the ex
hibtion is completed.
All of which sounds very nicely; but is Mr.
> verdant enough to imagine that, even If the
exhibition did yield halt a dozen millions
above expenses, Uncle Sam would ever gel
back dollar of the money? Is that the
Philadelphia style? False vouchers would
be made and sworn to enough to absorb every
dollar of that surplus, though it amounted tC
forty millions. Why, the credit mobiliel
was born and had its home in Philadelphia.