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WHAT rs CONC ON IN EUROPE

The news from the Congress ls meagro
and unreliable. There arc vague runors OF
hot discussions between some OF the plenipo-
tentiaries; and the German Chancellor, who
tries to keep down the temper OF the diploma
fists as much as possible. has proposed private
interviews between the parties more immodi-
ately interested in this or that particular point.
In this wise many questions will be brought
before the Congress in a half-settled form. 1t
also renders the negotiations easier to Lord
Beaconsneld. who understands French but i'm
perfectly. and cannot speak 1t at all. In n pri-
vate exchange OF opinions he can use the Eng
lish language. with which most OF the other
plenpotontlarles are familiar while in tho
formal proceedings Of the Congress- which are
carried on In French. he would have been prac-
tcally deaf and dumb. had not Lord Odo Rus
sell been there to serve as dragoman.
Before leaving London Lord Beaconsleld re-
marked. while speaking Of the Congress. that
the whole condition Of affairs was an unprece-
dented one. And It really s so. He sits now at
Berlin as the absolute master OF the destines
OF Great Britain, rs though there were no Par
Lament. no Cabinet. no opposition, and no
newspapers. Lord Salisbury his most bitter
and most dangerous enemy is muzzled and
chained to his car. The Truth Justly says:
Instead ~ our penpoentiaries at the Congress writ
ing nome dispatches AMI receiving directions from
Cabinet the Premier will write 10 her Majesty letters
that will never Parliamentary light The personal
government of Sovereign acting through IRE
shle Grand Vlicr never AZ riumphanty successful.
The presence Of Lord Beaconsed at the Congress rs the
browning o the colui"" one positively cnvics him the
pleasure with which he vead at his Berlin breakfasts
Of the disputes vt the II Commons and the
vague replies Of sir stafford unfortunate questions,
while In the calm and serene atmosphere OF personal
government our desunies being shaped out by his
master mind With what n leer on his return, when
everything II much matter Of past history the
death Of Queen Anne will he explain that Parliamentary
control II vain word and the House Of Commons may,
II II plcases, pass vote Of want Ut confidence In him
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The Louisiana republicans made AZ attempt
to hold state onv...Cion the othe- day at
Baton Rouge, bat the>Ne~ Orleans custom
iournei for fear resolutions might be adopted
denouncing the administration. 1t is said the
custom house plan is for the state central com
mittee to nominate the tickG,, and that it is to
be headed by Gen. Bcaurega.d for state treas.
urer. After making peace with Mosby, Long
street Wade Hampton and Eeaurcgord, what
is to prevent the republicans from next nom
mating and clocting jeff Davis governor OF
Niasi~,ippi?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

Austria seems no nearer the end of its UNI
dertaking to subduc Bosnia than month ago
1t has now some 100000 men engaged in the
undertaking, and seems disposed to adopt
Grants cats-tail strategy Of wearing the Bos-
mans out The Ausrians advance by slow
steps, and in every encounter lose more men
than the insurgents, but small losses daily
while Austria's supply Of men is comparative.
ly unlimited, The latest accounts say, The
Austrans captured Samatz, on the Save, on the
18th. The town sent a flag Of truce after a
short commandment, but rs the AuStrians en-
tered they met with resistance in the streets
and were compelled to lombard the place
again before its capture was completely
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
BUFFERS COUP IN MASSACHUSETTS,
Tuesday was the day appointed for n>ot

tuesday was the day appointed lor blc aS
Iscmbing OF the Massachusetts Democratic
State convention at Worcester. The Dcmocra
tic State committee had hired Mechanics Hal
to meet in, and the chairman had the key II
his pocket, 1t was pretty well understood
that Il large numher of the delegates elected Il
the convention were in favor of the nomination
OF Ben. Butler. The State committee Wcr'
known hotly to oppose HIM, and the rumo
got out on Monday night that next day The
committee would issue tickets Of admission t.
Mechanics Hall only to anti-ButIcr Aen. Act
ing on This report, which the committee have
since said was wholly untoundcd, the Butlcl
men, before daylight on Tuesday morning
forced AN entrance to the hall and took pos
session The anti.Buticr delegates inferred
that they were to he excluded from the con
vcntion by force, and only Il portion OF then
entered the hall The state committee isSucC
a document postpOning the meeting OF the con
vcntion to Sept % and changing the place Il
Fancuil Hall in Boston Meantime, however
the Butler wing proceeded to organize ant
make nominations Butler was unanimously
nominated for Governor, John F. Arnold fol
Lieutenant Governor, Caleb Gushing for At
torncy General, &c, \ platform was adopted
that is curious tumble OF Jcficrsonian de
mocracy and the worst phase of communisti(
greenDack ism; and Il new state committee
was appointed, thus cilccting working con
solidacd democratic grecnback organization
outside of the regular democratic organization
after which the convention adjourned. Butler
was not present, but has written letter IN
which he accepts the nomination, but makes
no comment on the platform and continc,
what he has to say mainly to state politics
The whole mancuyre, which is admitted tc
have been engineered 10y Butler, thus effects Il
split in the democratic party Of Massachusetts
the 2jth will nominate another state ticket
vet il is asserted that Butler acted ioolishly in
having his followers break up the regular con
vcnton, when if he had allowed it to assem-
bic peacefully he would have had strength
enough in il to control its proceedings. There
is no doubt that The mass Of the democratic
party of Massachusetts, were inclined to vote
tor Butler as against any republican candidate
but on account of this inconsidcratc and pre-
ciptate movement, Il large body of the Massa
chusetts democrats have become disguised anC
will vote for anybody to defeat Butler The
movement is thus believed to have greatly
lessenod rather than improved the chances o
Buffers election
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
GEN. SHIELDS.

anxiety that Gen. Shields was taken quite scri-
ously i'll at New York on Saturday last He
had just addressed an assemblagc Of Mexican
veterans at the Lexington Avenue Opera House
and returned to the Aston House, when he was
attacked with numbncss in the lower limbs
which the physician who was called expressed
decided apprehenslons would result in paraly.
Sis, and that his old gun.shot wounds would
greatly aggravatc the case. For quite awhile
the General lay in very critical condition,
but next day rallied so far rs to admit of his
removal to the house Of a friend in Brooklyn,
where he still is, slowly recovering from the
dangerous attack.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
MIR. BROOKS FORMALLY ACCEPTS.

The committee Of the Morris convention, OF
which C. Farley, of the Joliet Signal, was a
member, to inform Mr. Brooks of the action
of that body, having waited upon him an6
made their statement in due form in written
notification, the SighoL Of Tuesday reports:
Mr., Brooks, after perusing the notification
informed the committee that he accepted the
nomination and desired them, in his behalf, &c
return thanks To the convention for this cvi
dcncc of their confidence, and expressed his re.
grct that sickness in his family and business
claims would not permit him to devote his en-.
tire time to the contest and make rs thorough
and efficient a canvass is the Importance and
gravity of the issues involved demanded, how
ever he added that he would put his shoulder
to the wheel and help as much rs he could
Now let the people go 10 work and help elect
Il man to represent them IN congress capable
of doing them some good.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The lIoopstown ChtVHjcIe Is quite correct
in the statement that while the democrats find
a rood deal OF comfort in the result of the re
cent election in Maine, the republicans can't
find ID crumb." Three days before the
election IL correspondent Of the New Iorl.
Worh wrote to that journal from Portland
The democrats AS Il party are doing little
As Dr. Ga"celon, the candidate goodhumored
| " said a week ago 1--WE are Just looking on
and seeing the republicans and greenbackcrs
fight" The whole grccnback movement is a
movement against the republican party, origin
ally started by add confined to republicans,
| but mis- year gathering about equally from
both--thc republicans leaving their party be
cause they hate it, the democrats because they
care most to beat the republicans. This Is
about fair statement of the case.
There is abundant reason for the good I'M
dcrstanding between the democrats and green
hackers, not only at the east, but IN the west
for it is a movement that seems to hurt only the
republicans. 1t has lost to them not only
Maine, bat Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania,
and even took IA congressman from them in
Vermont. On the other hand the grcenback-
crs, or nationals, or thlrd party, nave nowhere
placed the democratic domination in danger
in democratic state, though fostered and aid
ed by the republicans. New York, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Maryland, &c, are quite as re-
lably dcmGcratic to-day as if grecnbacli or
third partyism had never been heard of. AS
the IVorId pithily remarks on this same sub
iect
The Democratic party has been through sew
eral crises and has had its "catcclysms," but
1t has always survived TO bury its antagonist.
We invite our esteemed Republican contem-
poraries to remark that this National move
mcnt is going to cost their party several states
and not few congressman, and IN view OF
this circumstance may we not invite them
in the words of Mr.. Dickcns's reduced gentle
woman to her be benetactor to "disscm-
mate their goose in their own sphere?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

BY the Constitution Of MaNe, If there is no
choice of Governor by the people, the housc is
to send the names of two Of he candidates vot-
ed for 10 the senate from whoM that body must
choose the goymnm This is rather m cNtin-
gushef on the general expectation Of the re-
publicans that the republican senate of Maine
would erct their candidate Common governor.
In the house The democrats and grcenbackcrs
combined have IA majority OF : over the rcpub-
sicans and will naturally send the names OF
Garcelon and Smith, thc democratic and the
grccnback candidates, % the senate, from which
that body mut make F's choice, 80 that the
next governor ef Maize will be either 4 demo-
crat or grccnbaekcr.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE iRApEl
with the tollowingpublicati tons, FINISHING non
at the prices named, postage prepaid. The OF
fer-open to old subscribers or new at any
post Office IN the county-is the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times. 20.
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly 1H6n'e @'"'
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly inter-
Fprr IN ,nr,. and Prairie Farmer. 800
FREE TRADER and either Of Harpcrs publ
oatinns ..'........ II
Fprp Tn ,nrp and Scri5ucr. 4 II
FREE TRADER nd Godey's Lddies' book. 3'oe
FREE TRADER and Lire Stock Journal. ...... 3,la
FREE TRADER and PhrenOlogicdl J0uy1dt. 30
FREE TRADER and 81 Nicholas. ..:......'. 30
FREE TRADER and Dem0reSfs -Nonthty..... 81.
FREE TRADER and LttelPs Lining Agc...... S.2a
Fprr Tp,nru and Western Rural ....... 90
FREE TRADER and .Hoores Rural Neto Yorker 3.5l
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
THE COURT HOUSE QUESTION.

We are 10y no means as Respondent IN regard
TO u new court house in view of the recent ac
ton OF the board of supervisors, AS many good
people seem To be. The final vote of 10 to p;
is by no means discouraglng, especially us We
know that among the negatives are at least
half II dozen members that admit the necessity
of new court house aud Jail but are opposed
to acting nastily-waut the site first selected
closer figures made, &c. The fact that the
board proceeded, after voting down the propo
siion to take immediate steps towards com
mcncing the work, to carefully select a commit
tee By ballot to look up site and get estimates
to b, submitted to the Board at its winter scs
sion, meantime providing for none hut the most
in expensive repairs on the present rookery
certainly looks as if it by no means regarded
the subject as disposed Of We have entire
confidence in the good SENSE and sound iudg
ment OF the present board and have no lraI
whatever hut that they will ultimately act just
" and wisely in the matter and for the best in
terests of the county. To assail the board a,
"inhuman demagoCucs, toostingy 10 be decent
&c. is sheer ackguardism AS unjust as it /,
disgraceful The board is entirely juStiiablC
in moving in so important matter cautiously
and with dclibcratlon, and deserve applause tol
II instead of abuse
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
Tnr GnrNnY COUNTY FMN opens at Morr!

l HE 'Rl Nll Npl My L AK bi)thN III hbIIlH
next Tuesday, Aside from the usual attrac-
tions OF fine horses and fat cattle, prize pigs
and rams, monster squasheS and melons, there
is to he Il daily boss trot or two the Twelfth
Battalion of Ill., State Guards will he present
and give drill and ON Thursday sham bat
tie, and on Tuesday Will act as a guard of hon
or to the Hon. John \. Logan, who, at >
o'clock p. m. Of that day, will be escorted to
the stand and deliver It public address to the
assembled multtudes. An extra attractive
feature is also presented in the way of music.
In addition to the daily attendance of Adams
Cornct Band, the band will be assisted by II
grand chorus of 800 voices. The entries al.
ready made, and the general interest manifest
ed are full OF promise that the fair Is to be the
most successful ever held in the county.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
OUR CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE

OUR CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE
The Wenona IndGr, Il republican paper
printed at the home Of Lyman II. Tower, the
democratic candidate for senator, thus candid
" speaks of him:
This is very good nomination. Mr.. Tow
cr has represented Usage township on the Board
of Supervisors for five years, and, so far rs VT
know, has done his work we'll and in a salts
factory manner Living in the suburbs Of
Wcnona, We claim him rs one OF our citizens
and if the La Sale county democracy want &c
place him ON the altar of sacrifice, we can only
enter our protest Mr.. Tower Is an active cncr
gctiC business man, and would make good
Senator. The democracy could not have
found man who would get more vote, If
this end OF the county. The only objection
we can see 20 his election is that his political
association is bad.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The emperor William has perfectly rccov
cred his health and resumes the supreme
power
The conservative journals show great vcXa,
ton at the result Of the election Of officers Of
the Reichstag, which showed that the united
conservatives cannot carry the house against
the united liberals except with the help of the
ultramoutancs, and that if the liberals act to-
gcthcr they can defeat the anti-socialist bill
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The State Far has been in progress at frcc-
port during the *, rpJ both in the display
OF articles ana. the sttcblancc OF spectators
gave promise on TUESDAY, Wednesday and
Thursday OF beng Il decided success. Thurs
dav afternoon, hOweveI, a-2lccGSslon OF Sererc
thunder storms and high winds dispersed tte
crowd. which at the time amounted to l50oo,
and tore down many Of the tents sheds and
other structures on the ground. Friday was
also we, and stormy, so that upon the whole,
the far promises to run financially behind cX-
penses. We soe no mention anywhere III the
dispatches of Rarus that was promised in the
bill. to give an exhibition Of hm qualities dur
ing the ialr
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The hard times ofthc past few years, which
were by no means peculiar to this country, but
were felt with even greater severity in England,
are already giving way in that country to the
field opened to British capital and enterprise
bv the Turkish treaty, in Cyprus and Asia
Minor The migration TO Cyprus Is SAID 10 be
eou.I to the rush To Australia % years ayo,
and few DAYS agoa London paper announced
the starting Of an expedition to survey a route
for the construction of railway from some
point In Asia Minor tOthe Persian gulf. Such
a line would cut off the long detour 10y the way
Of the Suez canal and the Red Sea and greatly
shorten the journey TO India.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

Secretary Sherman who proposed last Non
day TO commence paying silver dollars for
grecnbacks on all applications Of $50 and over,
under the notion that some such measure was
necessary to get them into circulation, found
the rush so great that he had to modify his
$1,000 or over to the subtTcasuries. Even
then the call for them is egual to 100000 a
daY.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

Monsieur lie Due, head Of the agricultural
bureau at Washington, returned from the Min
nesota fair, it is said, brim full ofoDnildencc in
the practicability Of max cheap and excel
lent sugar from common cornstalks The Min.
nesota experiments, though satisfactory other
wise. were unable TO test the business on a
large enough scale to settle the economic ques-
ton, and Mr lie Due proposes 10 make the
further necessary experiments in that direction
a. the expense Of Uncle Sam AT Washington.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21
FOREIGN NEWS.
England,

Parliament has been further prorogucd to
Nov 3Oth
Condor AMI Mcloday, the Fcnlou prisoners
released at the intcrpostion Of the Us. Min.
Istcr were discharged from Portland prison
on Tuesday and Immediately left tor South
ampton where on Wednesday they embarked
on the steamer Mosclc for New York.
Fine weather last week enabled the harvest
to be finished under favorable circumstances
though much wheat and barley was injured
by the previous wet weather Prices weak,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

A few years ago Geo. II. Pendcton, of Ohio
proposed to issue treasury notes in sufficient
amounts to pay off all the $50 bonds, there
being then about S1,5OO00000O outstanding
I-OUdTa RepUJlic'W
In 1868 George H. Pcndleton proposed to
substitute about S300,000000 in greenbacks
for thc national banks notes then in circula
top, and to use said greenbacks in buying up
and stopping the interest on an equal amount
of so bonds then due and payable in green
backs by the law under which they were is.
sued The loyal" republican press Of the
country, duly creased and backed by the money
power buried Pendlcton under such noun
tain of talsehood and opprobrium for making
so cminentIy wise aud just proposal, that not
one republican voter in forty to this day knows,
any more than the editor of the R'pUbiicaH
does, what Pendleton's proposition really was,
The democratic national convention however,
which met in New York city and nominated
Seymour for the presidency, endorsed the Pen
dleton proposition. 1t was defeated before the
people that wear, and Pendlcton two years later
W uIlll''l "iI'I'I va 7''i'N N'V'O "
The state election in Ohio, not because the peo-
pie d,sapproycd his currency scheme for that
had been so bclied 10y the republican press that
few people ever knew what it was; but because
the cunning money kings had adroity edged
the currency question out of the contest and
by the successful manipulation of the southern
outrage mill, succeeded in carrying the election
by the bloody shirt craze. The victory Of the
money lords found lis elimination at the next
session OF congress in the midnight passage of
the Schcnck bill of 1869, by which the go
bonds were made payable IN gold-a measure
by which the honest taxpayers of this country
were robbed of clean $100,000000 in gold
THIS Is one of the little items of expense for
which the people of this country are indebted
to the bloody shirt insanity, which the repub-
lican leaders are again so anXiously laboring
To revive.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

There is said to be- pane IN administration
quarters ut Washington in consequence of the
political earthquake in Maine. Sherman says
the national banks are doomed, and seems
to agree that the sooner they are legislatcd
out of existence the better Indeed he seems
to be quite resigned not only to give up the
banks but To fall IN with the issue of green
backs to take the place of their bills and give
resumption the goby for year or two. As
the matter now stands, he says resumption
next January is out of the question, The
banks will rush every dollar of the greenbackS
into the treasury and demand gold for them,
under the belIefor pretencc that IN the present
state of popular opinion and the advance OF
the Ohio "idec," 50 many grcenbacks will soon
he put afloat that they will not be worth fifty
cents on the dollar. Said sturdy banker 10
Sherman on Monday Il shall convert every
one of my national bank notes into greenbacks
and demand the gold upon the latter Then
7 am safe II the policy fails, or changes are
made, with my gold in my hands | cannot
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The Fitz John Porter inquiry, which has
been in progress al West Point Tor a month or
two, is bringing eRt such revelations IN refer
ence 30 the second battle Of Bull Run and the
Stanten court martial that condemned Porter,
that not only amount to II perfect vpdication
of Porter but threaten to make ii decidedly
unpleasant for Gen. Pope, Grant, Baaeau, and
the rest Of his enemies.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

MURDER At MoRRyS.-E. T. Hopkins, city
marshal of Morris, a faithful officer and esti-
mabe young man, was cruelty murdered by "a
day night. in an attempt by the marshal to ar
rest him. Miller fired two shots the second
killing instantly. He then fled and has not
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

President Hayes, in his rambles around the
world. gotto the Ohio State Fair at Toledo on
Thursday, where he made quite long speech
on the financial aud business situation of the
country. The only remarkable thing about it
was that il was such close reproduction of
the views of ex-senator Dooittlc on the same
subject as to Justify the suspicion of plagi-
arism
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

The statue OF Humboldt, at the exhibition
has been purchased by Henry Shaw who has
presented it to st, Louis.
\ diploma has been awarded the state de
partmepts of public instruction of Illinois
Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and
Kansas, the Milwaukee public schools and st
Louis public schools.
The exposition is to be prolonged to the 20t
of November. The influx of foreigners con
tinucs as large as at any time since the open
ing.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-09-21

yet been arrested, though reward of $500 is
offered for his capture. He is described as
about - years old, about 5 feet high; blue
eyes, light mouslachc; brown hair; bow legged;
is left handed; popularity about left eye, and
/, "A hard case