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THE SUPREME COURT.

About every session of the legislature OF
Scion, or Chicago hummer, or Springfield
ringster, to levy blackmail on Ottawa and
Mount Vernon by soaring them into the no.
ton that the Supreme Court is to be taken
from those places and sent to Chicago or con
centrated at Springfield. 1t has got so that
Ottawa, at least, don't scare worth cent on
the subject. Though the old fraud has again
appeared in the legislature, Ottawa has no
lobby with pockets full OF greenbacks TO send
to Springfield, and really don't seem TO care
a continental whether that little rascality
works or not. Pecuniarily, certainly, so far
as Ottawa itself is concerned, the meetings of
the Supreme Court here are not of the slight.
est account 1t don't bring 800 additional
dollars year to our hotel keepers, and be-
yond them ii isn't worth - cents to anybody.
Indeed, if Ottawa had her choice she would
rather see the court pick up stakes and
leave, for then we should get the fine building
the state has erected here 10 accommodate
the court for high school building, and
that could be worth something 10 the city.
The argument in favor of having the Su.
premc Court meet at three different points in
the state rather than at one point, is very
simple and conclusive. Il saves liligan,S
thousands of dollars year in travelling ex-
penses, and brings the court within convent
en-, reach of the people. The Supreme Court
OF Pennsylvania meets at four or five differ.
ent points in the state for the same reason,
and We believe such is also the case in Ohio
Instead of our Legislators footing away
time over such puerilities had they not bet
ter bend their mighty in,ellec;s 10 the dIscov
cry of some means by when the present
Supreme Court can be relieved of its fearful
gogre Of business? The docket is already sew
eral years behind time, and instead of there
being prospect ahead of catching up with
the business, the wearisome laws delay Is
yearly on fearful increase, so that, in few
years more, big suit IN cur Supreme Court
will descend as heirloom from sire to son
like Jarndyce & Jarndyce in the famous
British Court of Chancery. Reform Is
needed fearfGlly in this matter, but if the
action of the Illinois legislature thus far Is ID
be taken as an index of its gumpsion, reform
in the matter of our Supreme Court would
seem TO be utterly hopeless from tha; quarter
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14

Gen. Sherman made speech at Washil
ton on St. Patrick's Day, in which he ma
the following significant and emphatic sta
ment:
81 challenge any man to point 10 any {
performed in the South, or in any other p
ton of the country, wherein the soldiers
the United States had prevented any man fro
fulfilling his whole office as citizen,
wherein they. had not sustained the we
against the strong
That's exactly what's the matter, Gener
using the army to sustain the weak agail
the strong" a strong majority want
Hampton for governor in South Carolii
bnt the army was used to enable "wea
minority to steal the governor and legis
ture. SO in Florida and Louisiana stro
majorities were overcome by the use of
army and weak minorities not only aided
steal the governors and legislatures, but a
TO steal enough electors to make Hayes pr
ident. This business OF using the army
enable weak minlorties TO overcome stro
maiorities, however, is about played out.
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From Utica.
so years ok

UTICA, April u, 1877.
People in these parts showed more inter-
in school elections than in the selection
persons for town Offices. In school dist. \
l, Samuel Rhodes was elected, and in No.
C. Halliday. During the time of election me
excitement prevailed than when the pre-
dent OF the United States was inaugurat'
Whoever sent you the report of the electio
here, either made G mistake, or else throui
party spite failed to send the true report.
Mr.. Louis Falrad and Mr.. Patrick Rog
are abou, to open a new meat Market. I
parties are gong to subscribe for the FRI
TRADER and on that account we know tn
will be successful.
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memb ered VERY we'll having rode on the cars

membered very well having rode on the cars
with Phalr from Providence to Boston about
the time the Frieze murder was committed,
and having just read Phair's final protest of
innocence, bethougnt himself to look up the
exact date when he had met Phair on the
train, and on turning 10 his diary found II
was the 9Th Of June, the very day of the muir
der This, of course, was perfect corrobor,
alton Of Phair's statement. Downing a. once
,elegraphed to the governor OF Vermont, who
tclegrnphed to Windsor and had the cXecu.
ton postponed, the telegram reaching Wind
sor but 20 minutes before il would have been
"Gorever too late"
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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question.

The signing OF the Ignatief protocol by
England, which was at first hailed at st.
Petersburg as diplomatic triumph, is be-
ginning to be regarded with less selt-gratula-
ton by Prince Gartchakoft. In short, the
more closely 1t is scanned the more Ii looks
as if for the first time in many years the Brit
ish government in its diplomacy with the
Muscovite had scored point. 1t will be re-
membered Lord Derby attached an import
ant condition to his signature of the protocol,
to the effect that Russia should agree to dis
arm whenever Turkey agreed to do So This
does not bind Turkey, as Russia seemed to
imagine, to accept the protocol before she
can coll on Russia to disarm. All she need
do is to send an ambassador to ST. Petersburg
and offer to dlsarm, when Russia must follow
suit, or the protocol, SO far as England and
Austria are concerned-for Austria signed at
ter England-Is no better than waste paper.
That Russia will agree thus to disarm leav.
ing Turkey free to carry out her promised
reforms in her own sweet way, when Russia
imagined she had got the powers pledged by
the protocol to the terms of the conference,
is hardly to be expected, yet The Derby con-
dition seems TO bind her TO that. As Mon
tenegro and Bosnia are in open rebellion
against Turkey, and are secretly aided by
Russia, the inference is that Russia has about
decided to ignore the protocol complication
and get into fight with the Turk through
her rebellious provinces. And thus the sign
ing of the protocol by England, Instead of
assuring the peace of Europe, is likely to
turn out the straw on the camels back that
broke il.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

Though timId democrats occasionally ven
tured to express fear that Hampton was
over-confdent IN his assurances that there
would not be the slightest difficulty in the
way of his immediate possession OF the state
government of South Carolina, and that not
the faintest ripple of a disturbance need be
feared if the U. s. troops were Withdrawn
from the state house at Columbia, the event
has fully indicated all his promises. The
troops were Withdrawn at II o'clock on Tues
day. At 2 o'clock Hampton quietly walked
INTO the executive Office at Columbia and
took possession. So far from there being any
popular outbreak or disturbance over the
matter, there was not even an unusual crowd
upon the streets. The whole thing took place
as quietly and peaceably as if Hampton had
been in possession for months and had on
that day simply proceeded to the office in
pursuance of his daily wont.
Before Chamberlain left Washington he
gave Blaine, Butler, Chandler and others very
positive promises that he would show fight at
Columbia, and thus compel Hayes to reverse
his order, or at least give HIM serious annoy
ance. But at Columbia Chamberlain doubt
less saw the state of feeling and at once be-
came quiet as lamb He sent note to
Hampton saying that, like Captain SCOTS
squirrel, he was ready to come down imme.
diately; and before 70 O'Clock NJ. he made
good his word by shouldering his carpet.bag
and evacuating the executive quarters at once
and forever But as he did so he uttered, IN
the shape of a printed proclamation crcu-
lated about the city, an impotent howl of in,
dignant rage and despair against HFyes and
his recreant cabinet at Washington He told
the republicans of South Carolina that they
had been cruelty deceived and betrayed.
Today he says, "by order of the president,
whom your votes alone rescued from over
whelming defeat, the government of the Uni.
ted States abaudons you deliberately with
draws from you It's support, with the full
knowledge that the lawful government of
the state will thus be oyerthrown." And Sc
On.
II didn't seem to occur to Chamberlain that
that was the all sufficient and conclusive rea
son why the support Of the government OF the
U. S. ought to have been withdrawn from his
support,-,he fact that his government could
not exist an hour without such support. 1t
is no business of the national government
how a state government happens TO get INTO
power, provided all the people recognize it
and are satisfied, and it is republican in form.
The right of state government, only becomes
questionable and suspicious when it needs,
like Chamberlaln's, outside aid to boost ii.
And tina, is exactly the sort OF aid the cons,i-
tuition never meant the general government
should extend to usurpers and frauds like
Chamberlain and Packard IN any of the
states.
And thus disappears from the political
stage, 1t is hoped forever, the fraudulent gov
ernor Of south Carolina, Daniel H. Chamber.
lain.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14

John p. PhaIr, who was convicted in Sept
1874, at Windsor, Vermont, of the murder OF
Mrs Frieze, and who five months later was
sentenced TO be hung, but whose execution
for various causes was postponed from time
to time until Friday of last week, when it was
certainly to take place, again escaped oxecu
ton by a reprieve received within 90 minutes
Of lifetime fixed TO launch him off. 1t seems
Phsir had all the time protested his limo.
cence, insisting that be was In Rhode Island
at the time of the murder. but for some pecu-
liar reason he was unable to prove his Gli6i
Within two hours of the time fixed Tor his
execution las, Friday, however, NJ. ID. Down,
ing, reputable citizen of Boston, who re-
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LOUISIANA.

! Nothing is more likely than that President
Uayes's extraordinary Louisiana commiss.
ion should have felt very much like fools on
arriving in the crescent city. Certainly no
body of equal pretension had ever been sent
ON a more unmitigated FOOLS errand. Was 1t
to ascertain any new facts in regard to the
Louisiana situation? There is not big
enough idiot IN the nation to desire more
facts on that subject. Was it to coax or bull
dose Packard. Maniiestly nothing could be
more unwise or absurd than such an attempt
Or was it to scare or propitiate Nichols?
Again the attempt would be utterly fatuous.
Clearly, the commission had no other object
than to temporise and gain time, so that the
Louisiana decision might be postponed until
congress meets, and yet the commission were
there and must make a pretense of doing
something. So they commenced by inter-
viewing Packard and his crowd; then Mich
oils and his crowd; then in turn the judges
of the rival supreme courts; then the mem
bers of the rival legislatures; then the board
of trade, cit ytraders, country traders, Tom
Jones and Eliza Pinkston. Finally on Tues
day the capacious brains of the ENJOYS con.
ceived big idea, and Hawley gave it birth
and form in the following shape: That the
two rival legislatures should meet in one
body, and proceed to purge themselves OF all
members not duly elected according to the
finding OF the infamous Wells returning
board, and that the Legislature thus purged
should proceed to canvass the vote for gov
ernor, secretary of state, &C., and that their
decision as to the rival claims of Packard
and Nichols should be final.
As the legislature thus washed up would
consist of majority OF Packard men IN the
house and Nichols men in the senate, and
would be no more likely to agree in their
count than ST. Michael and Satan on ques-
ton of morals, ii is seen at glance what
mighty intellectual throes it must have cost
the commission to evolve such plan. Yet
after four or five days painful incubation that
is all they have been able to bring forth. And
now we have the editying spectacle of the
NICHOLS lneu tuC FiECi
ously engaged-,he Nichols side in trying to
buy up Packard men enough TO give them q
majority in the lower house, and the Packard
men spending money to hold their own in
the house AMI to buy up few of the Mich
oils senators. Magnificent spectacle! Yet
it looks as If even this delectable plan may
succeed IN clearing the muddle. The prompt
and satisfactory settlement Of the South Caro-
lima hash on Tuesday by the simple process:
of marchlng squad of a dozen or two of blue
jackets away from the state house has fear
fully demoralized the Packard gang at New
Orleans, and now It is said the Packard legis
lators are dropping SO rapidly in price thai
1t is really believed before the week Is ou
enough can be bought up to give Nichols
the lower house Of the legislature, and thus
the brilliant conception OF the Hayes com
mission will be made to work. Even if so
was there ever more stupendous farce?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14

Sims, the colored brother whose arrest in
Boston twenty years ago under the fugitive
slave law caused some commotion and got
Attorney Gen, Devcns into inevitable notorie.
iy at the time, still lives and makes his home
in Nashville. lie says it is all a lie about
Devens having raised money to buy his free
dom, for he was sent back TO Mississippi and
renamed there In slavery until 1863
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

Streator had an exciting school electioI
last Saturday, resulting in the reelection, b]
large majority, of Messrs. Cherry AMI
Ames, of the old board. The fight seemed
to be over the job of furnishing supplies fd
the schools
A recent Kansas despatch, that the Bendd
family, who it will be recollected became "a
nous some years ago for starting gravl
yard on their own hook in Western Kansa|
had been found in Arkansas, going by th
name OF kiefer, is contradlcted by WiscoI
sin despatch, which says the Kiefer iamil|
ia question had lived at West Bend, Wis
until four years ago, and was both wealth.
and respectable.
The town of Wenona, Marshall count
which is relieved from the payment of abod
100000 by the recent decision of the 81
preme Court of the L. S. in the Fox River /
railroad bond case, has some $4,000 n
hand collected towards paying those Dor,
ana is now in a sad quandary to know VT
to do with the money. Aurora IS puzzlen
the same way over some $4,000 in the N
treasury -
The temperance crusade in Indiana I'D
broke out under new name, and calls itse|
the "Red Ribbon Movement" All CONVEX
TO total abstinence wear red ribbons, and al
thus marked and recognized wherever thd
go.
The Yorkville Ners pulled up stakes La
week and moved over to Plano, where 1t W !
hereafter appear under the name of the Re
dab County Meas. The paper has new
been quite itself since the Spiingers left it.
BY recent census of st. LOUIS the populI
ton of that city is shown to be SOFAS III
count was made by directory man, who,
Chicago paper spitetully asserts, counted
houses and estimated nine adults and
children to each.
During thunder storm near JacksonvilI
last week young man named MCGUIRE
who was at work in field, took refuge u
der tree, which was struck by lightnlrI
The young man was knocked senseless, al
the clothes upon his body, even to his und
shirt, torn to shreds, yet, strange to say, Il
Young man a few hours afterwards revivI
and is now we'll.
The Lacon Democrat of last week say
"Our market is now glutted with duel
which are selling at ten cents each or thu
for quarter, and dozen eggs thrown
One gentleman killed elghty.six last Sund'
and would have killed as many more If
ammunition had not gwen OUT By n
way, 1t is unlawful to kill ducks between
18th of April and the 10Th of August
This is what Moody thinks III gene
about the temperance movement "Ther
no salvation for drunkard out Of Chr
There isn't a pledge, or society, or a lod
that's good for anything. You know how
is You break the pledges as fast as y
make them But he that puts his trust
Christ is lifted out of the pit and put upI
the rock" We reckon that's about so.
A Washington correspondent of the
Louis Republican states, from positive
sonal knowledge of the fact" that the sec
service or detective force of the treasury
partment is now being used to dog Mrs.
yer and hunt up or manufacture evldeI
against her in her suit against ISlmon Ca
eron.
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Germany.

The Emperor IN gracious terms refused TO
accept Bismarck's resignation. but offered
him a leave of absence. Bismarck consents TO
this on condition of a reorganization Of the
cabinet, which the Emperor comedies. The
terra OF absence is to commence at once and
extend 10 September. Meantime Hoffman
takes Bismarck's department of home affairs,
Won Bulow in the foreign department, and
Camphausen in the cabinet.
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England.

O'Laary and Weston, the noted American
pedestrians, commenced walking RIatch in
Agricultural Hall at lslington on the % inst,
of 800 miles for $4,000. The match ended at
? 80 p. m. on the eth, OLeary beating Yves.
ton 90 miles
Friezel & Son, owning a sugar refinery at
Bristol, said to be the largest in the world,
closed on the 9Th. Their liabilities are esti'
mated at s2,5Oo,OoO.
Fresh outbreaks OF the rinderpest have
occurred at Shadwell suburb and Oxford
shire.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14

The supreme court Of the United States has
reversed the decision Of Pennsylvania court
under which the 81, 5O0,O 900 centennial appro-
priation made by congress was to be paid
over to the stockholders of that enterprise.
The court say the money must go back To
Uncle Sam.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14

Jas. Dedye, stone cutter at La Sale, di
last week of lockjaw caused by having
crushed by large stone falling upon it. ]
Dedye was well known IN Ottawa, where
was employed by Mr.. McIrhill on the
dicrs' monument.
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4 general strike of the coal miners at Strea-
tor, BrNdwood, Ia Sale, etc, seems to be
decided upon The coal companies have
made reduction of about Is cents per ton
for mining, and against this the operatives
have agreed to strike. They admit that in
the present state Of the coai trade the COM
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14

Rhode Island had a state election last week
and the republicans, on full vote, elected
their governor by 470 majority The major
ity for Hayes last November, on smaller
vote, was 50l5
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pauies must lose money by paying present
prices to miners, but they hold that II th(
miners strike and thus arrest production, th(
prices of coal must 60 up.
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The venerable DR.. VIM. A. Muhlenber
author of the hymn 81 would not live alway
died in New York on Sunday. He was abe
50 years old.
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The New York herald., 1877-09-08
DIRECTORY FOR ADVERTISERS.
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THE TURF.

FLEETWOOD PARK. NEW YORk.--dREAr EXHt.
bition of colts saturday, september T. threeyearold
colt stake S15U three-ipurths first, oncfoursh
ond; mile heats &. stanford, >chencct n "
b. Hambleyonan Mohawk Robert steel. rhiiadephis,
enters b. Elwo0d Medium j. W. Eeksten, Phlzdeip
enter, Frank Medium. bay gcding LELAND Standard San
francisco. Cal enters Elaine bay ally second race
-Four ycarold colt stake, $3.50; ourhs to hrs
fourth to second best three IN i've. 20 harness Isaiah
Ryndcrs PHssac. ~ J enters Sir Walter chestnut colt
Robert Steel Philade phia enters May Medium.
mare Ed Geer, Columbia. Tenn enters Alice West, black
Carl burr. Comac. L. l.. enters Hognrth black
COLT Third racs-Fiyeyear.ola colt stake $3.50 will be u
walk Robert steel Philadelphia. enters Blaze Me-
dinni. bay seding Horses will be called at } 80 r. NJ
Admission 81. GATES H. BARNARD, President.
The New York herald., 1877-09-08
POOL SELLING.

A UCTfON POOLS SOLD TO-DAY on MYSTIC PARK;
Asso Auction, French and Combination Pools on New
port "a ces. at 6S hudson ST.. Hoboken, n. j.
KELLY BLISS.
A CC1IoN AND FRI NCiI POOLS SOLD ON NEW
II full received BY teie graph HACK
D0OLs SOLD AT KELLY 4 BLISS. iiOBoKkS. TO-
day. on Hartford ST. Louis Chicago VS.. Boston. Louis
vile vs.. Cincinnati. ALLIE ghany vs.. Rochester.
1NATrERsALLs TURF AGENCY HOBOKtE.--cOM.
bination Book the Newport Races. Open At $ 80
A. ".
fNArTERsALLS TURF AGENCY HOBOkLN.-AUc-
tion. French and Combination Pools sold the Newport
races this day