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The daily gazette., 1882-09-20
THIRD

NOTICE. - ATTENTION - THIRD
IN WARD DEBI0cRATS.- meeting Of the
Democrats of the Third ward will he held on
THURSDAY evening, sept IL. 1882, atsp. M,
at McaFath's, 003 West Second street. for the
purpose of organizing aud electing three mem
bers of the Executive Committee of the City
Association for said ward. full attendance Is
requested. by order Of the Association.
CHARLES II. ID. BEDFORD,
sep2O-2t Committee.
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NOTICE.--RIRsTwARD DEMOCRATS.
IN THE DEMOCRATIC citizens of the First
ward are requested TO meet In the Water Witch
Engine House on Wednesday evening, Septem-
ber 10Th, 1852. ut O'Clock, for the purpose of
ganizing the ward and electing three members to
the City Executive Committee.
BY order of the City Democratic Association.
aeptl0-4t GEORGE o. ELL, Committee,
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To-DAY's CABINET MEETING.

IContlnued .ln SECOND edition.
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PUBLIC SALES.
DUBLIC SALE
Il or
% BUILDING LOTS.

The undersigned, as authorized by the Board q
Trustees of the Poor of New Castle county, WI
sell at public sale, on the premises, on
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OTTAWA FREE TRADER; SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2s, 1882

mise ana by the "Munn Resolutions" in the
last Illinois Legislature the compromise was
put IN shape, their substance being that CHI.
cage should cree, pumping works at Bridge.
port of sufficient capability to hoist 10000 Gu.
bic feet per minute of the water OF Chicago
river into the canal, whereby the canal from
Bridgeport to Lockport would be kept open so
that the noxlous gases arising from the waters
OF Chicago river should pass of into the air
before they reached the river, and the Chicago
slough itself IN "A short time beng purified, r
coplous flow OF clear lake wat n should be sent
this way.
The project looked reasonable and all par.
ties consented 10 II, Chicago agreeing to have
the pumps erected by the first of last Septem.
her But neither up 10 las! September nor up
to this time has Chicago apparently made any
serious attempt to carry out her part OF the
contract The business seems 10 have been en-.
trusted to Mayor Harrison, into whose hands
the city council placed all the means to cover
the necessary outlay But Mayor Harrison,
who has crotchet IN his head about purifying
the waters of Chicago river by means of enlarg.
ing the deep cut to the dimensions OF ship Gu
nal, refuses to move IN the matter Of the pumps,
and sets the mandate Of the Illinois Legislature
as well as Of the city council of Chicago at de.
fance Though he had the good excuse last
summer, in which the canal board appear TO
have concurred, that the prosecution of the
work then would interfere so much with canal
navigation as to make it unnecessarily eXpen.
sive, he has had no such excuse since the close
OF navigation, the winter having been exCep,
tIonally favorable for the prosecution Of such
a work, 1t is PLAIN that Carter Harrison SIN.
ply determines the work shall not be done
at all.
Fortunately the winter has been IN open
one, the noxious gases arising from Chicago
sewage, instead Of being confined under the
ice, there 10 Intensity their sinking quality
and poison and purify the water, have passed
off harmlessly into the air and no i'll effects
have been realized along canal or river. So |
Mayor Harrison has fortuitously escaped the !
Remuneration which his neglect would other,
wise have evoked But If he is wise he will
winter. Let canal and river freeze up again
as they did last winter and ChiCasO stink |
again pollutc the water and atmosphere and
Carter Harrison will find 1t no holiday matter
to encounter the Indignation his neglect or
in this matter Will arouse.
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ALL CARTER HARRIsON's FAULT.

For half dozen OF years past, whenever
the winter was severe enough to cover tho
canal and Illinois river with a heavy coat of
ice, there has gone up vigorous cry along
the line from Bridgeport to Peoria against the
poisoning Of the waters and The ou,rarcou.
stink which the propulsion OF Chicago sewage
through the gates at Lockport and down the
river was the occasion of. So outrageous had
the nuisance become that last winter the poo.
pie along the river west of Lockport threatened
TO proceed ri et armis and put dam across
the canal east of Lockport, so as TO iorce the
Chicago stink back INTO her own filthy slough
by courtesy called the Chicago river. leaving
the Fullerton conduit and other means 10
drive it thence into the lake. Chicago realiz.
ing that the effect of this dire extremity would
be so TO poison the waters OF the lake within
reach Of the city water works as to leave her
without water 1T TO drink, proposed a compro.
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CONGRESS-.

In the senate on Monday, the committee re,
ported favorably on the house apportiOnment
bill, but objection having been made to its inn
mediate consideration 1t had to go over. Next
day, however, being again called up the bill
passed without debate or amendment and Is
now q law.
On the Goth Mr.. Logan called up what has
been his pet bill for year or two-to retire
Gen Grant as an officer of the army on S12,,
800 year tor the rest Of his life. Mr.. Vest
objected to the bill as bad precedent, Gen.
Grant being rich and not needing the money
Mr. Butler objected on the ground that Grant
had not asked for the favor. Mr.. Logan re-
piled that though he had not asked for It, II
granted 1t would be appreciated" all the same.
Mr. Bayard moved an amendment to grant a
quarter salary (s12500l to all retiring presi.
dents for life but it was voted down. The
bill then passed-3J to II, David DAVIS and
four southern senators voting for the measure.
On the o1st the senate voted down the long
pending resolution declaring that the arrears
of pensions law ought to be repealed.
On the 23d bill was railroaded through
both houses authorizing the secretary of war
(, issue ratious to the amount OF 100000 for
the relic! OF toe tailoring classes IL the over
flowed regions between Memphis and Vicks-
burg on both sides of the river. Same day the
house passed bill TO refund duties paid on
certain copies of the revised Testament, as
also one to promote the efficiency of the life.
saving service, and another to refund to Japan
81, 77O,340 of the indemnity fund.
During the discussion Of the "inmediate de-
ficiency bill' IN the house, on the item for ad-
ditIonal vaults in the treasury tor slowing away
silver, Mr.. Hewitt took occasion to assail the
SILVER dollar, declaring 1t fraud, that the peo'
pie didn't want it. commerce rejected 1t, and
tina, il lay piled up in the treasury, &c. Mr..
Hewitt was very promptly and completely an
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ILLINOIS SHIP CANAL, &C

TONGA, H., Feb lS-Editors FREE IRA.
DER-Please excuse me, but | would like TO
ask question: What would 1t cost to enlarge
the Illinois Il Michigan canal to ship canal
and to build a new canal from Rock Island
to Hennepin-the Improvements mentioned in
the resolution adopted by the La Sale County
Grange last week and would 1t pay-would
it be good investment for person who had
the money; Please answer and obige,
Yours, &c, HENRY :. BAKER.
ANSWER. The received estimate, made by
competent engineers of the cost Of converting
the Illinois canal INTO IA snip canal-that is
by erecting dams and locks SO as to make
slack water navigation in the Illinois river to
Lockpor and thence enlarging the deep CUT
to Chicago-is $4,000 600 and the cost of the
proposed Hennepin canal is placed at $500.
900. Few men, We imagine, have any idea
that, to private individual or joint stock
company, the investment would be "A paying
one. The pay upon the investment must be
looked for in different direction Thus the
Illinois canal at present does not pay the state
one per cent. a year upon It's cost, yet every
man Of sense sees that 10 the producers and
shippers of an immense region, extending
from Alton TO Chicago, it pays millions a year
as n freight regulator, reducing freight on
corn, tor instance from La Sale to chicago
to { cts a bushel, while from Princeton to CHI.
CagO, but l2 or ID miles further, the freight on
corn is seldom below or 10 cts. u bushe In
the same way the proposed Ilennepln canal,
thnp,,h %, l,o q
be 50 uncomfortable as barely TO pay the eX-
penses of running and keeping it in repair,
would save--it Is not cXtrayagant 10 say-the
whole amount of its cost each year to the PEG.
pie of Minnesota, Iowa, and large portion of
ILLINOIS, as regulator Of freight charges be.
tween the Mississippi and the seaboard. As
TO the proposed ship canal, besides being such
regulator on much larger scale, It's ntlu.
slssippi and Missouri rivers as well rs down
the Mississippi to New Orleans, 1t would pos.
sess still greater Importance rs military
work, by enabling the government to send
ships of war, gunboats &C. from the lakes to
the Mississippi and rice cc,sQ. Even during
the rebellion the government could have saved
vast SUMS could 1t have built ships and gun
boats on the lakes and sent them down the
Mississippi river, Therefore, because the bcne-
fits are so widespread and far reaching and the
chances OF individual profits as a private in
vcstment 50 small, it is that the proposed i'm
provcments have such strong claim 20 be
palQ for out of the puhlic funl rather Than tn
be rclegated TO private enterprise
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swered by the statement that Of the $1O3,00O,
1000 Of silver dollars titus tar coined S34 600 A..
600 were in actual circulation and the other
$@', 100000 were represented by that amount
OF silver certificates also IN circulation and rs
readily accepted by the people and commerce"
AZ greenbackS and gold; so shat in point of
fact, there had thus far not been single silver
dollar coined that was not IN actual circula
ton
The house elections committee Is understood
to have decided alike against the claim of
Campbell to the seat for Utah, and She cligi-
bility of Cannon, and to bring abost new
election.
The house committee To audit the bills Of
President Garfed's physicians have agreed to
give Agncw and Hamilton $4,000 each, Ellss
$4,000, Rybum, Boynton and DR.. Susan
Edison $4,000 each, and Steward Crump 50,
600. Barnes and Hammond being among the
army surgeons, will be recommended for pro
motion one grade.
1t is pretty we'll understood that the presi-
dent and cabinet have decided 10 restore Fitz
john Porter to the army. He will be nomin.
ated rs colonel OF infantry, TO fill the first va
cancy, and will probably ask to be retired.
The attorney general is soon TO render an opin.
on on the question of back pay.
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A critical comparison of the General Law with
our city charter and elimination thercfrom OF
the good, bad and Indifferent qualities OF each
respectively and striking balance in favor OF
one or the other, is matter of no small labor
and can only be successfully performed by
half dozen OF our 'cutest lawyers taking hold
of it simultaneously. An expression after such
an examination on the part Of such men at a
public meeting no doubt would give the mass
of our voters an intelligent perception Of the
whole case, wherefore 1t is devoutly 70 be
hoped that the proposed meeting at Turner
Hall next Tuesday evening will both be at
tended by the body of the voters Of the city
and that there will be no lack OF well.posted
speakers on hand to enlighten them
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THE BIG STORM.

Ottawa seems to have been on about the di.
vlding line between the water floods and the
snow billiards. that ragged over so large por.
ton OF the country from the 18th to the 10Th
inst North Of our line, including northern
Iowa and Nebraska, Wyoming Dacotah, Min.
nesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and mos, OF
Canada, light rain fall was rapidly followed
by heavy fall OF SNOW, amounting Ia a "hliz.
zard' in the northwest drifting IN few places
80 as to interfere with railroad trans,
succeeded by a tall OF temperature, ranging
from 81 below zero on the north Minnesota
line, TO zero at Omaha and Chicago. At OF.
tawa the rainfall was light and the snowilakes
at the close so few as hardly to be worth men
tioning; but the further we 90 south of this
Inc the heavier the ram fall. until on the par.
allcl of 81. Louis, from the Rocky mountains
to the Alleghcnies, there seems to have been a
regular dcluge, accounts of which are given
on our second page.
In Minnesota, Wisconsin and Canada The
snow fall, which varied from a foo, 10 SIX IN.
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HOME MATTERS.


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! ohA"'-hrs I. NJ shaw mas been quite Ill this
! week.
Me- ! Nocrs,h s,hiooro - h.ro ,,s;,;,,.
c.,,, " "h
uEhkiSO.-Mr. u. Gearing has returned from
| his western "trip
Hawaii uor.o, Is p,or;o :. ,.,,.,, -,
W., ''''0'' q ''''''' 10 S"o'' vi
WITS H. Le'ahh, Jr'
BhLEl.-J. y. Bailey has opened a meat mar
het on Main street.
MAIToCks.-Miss Kitty Mattoeks OF Peru, was
In the city this week
CLINE-Mr. Geo. Cline, Of Chatswerth has
been IN the city this week.
CKosSoN.--Ou friend j. Z. Crosson is intro.
ducing to his friends daughter
FgERsoL.-Albert Ebersol has broken ground
for his new cottage, on East Main street.
SMrRR.-Dr. T. A. Smurr was called to Ohio
this week by the serious illness Of his mother.
HuNT-Mr. James E. Hunt, for some years in
the recorders office, Is going to Dakota, wheat
raising
ReGEIs.-Mr. and Mrs. l. Rogers, OF Mendoza,
spent saturday and sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
w. w. Taylor.
SMILES thase Fowler-boy; NJ. Whiie-girl,
Mel Stevens-Doy; '. b. Wecks-boy. The cen-
sus can now be taken!
JoHNS.-Mr. hos. johns, OF Deer Park, left
Ottawa on Saturday Tor hi" cattle ranch in Kan
sas. he took with HIM house built in sections
by the Sanders Bros.
LEWIS. The new residence OF Mr.. r, Z. Lewis
was dedicated on the 10Th inst, by surprise by
the young people OF Deer Park, anda most Jolly
evening was the result.
LAWRENCE and Mrs. Fred h. Lawrence,
OF Prairie Centre, have been visiting their friends
In THIS city this week, making Their headquarters
ut Or. Smurr,s residence.
GRAHAM.-N. j. Graham Is gong to build O.
home, to replace that burned III september last,
on the old lot, which VIII be an ornament tc
clinton street mos. ~ Hugh CoiweH have the
contract
LELAND. "A new building is beins, erected in
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ches IN depth, was hailed as god.send by the
lumbermen, whom it gave their first oppor.
tunity for the winter to get their logs to the
streams
Further south, as far as the latitude Of Chi
cage the rain turned into slee,. freezing on the
trees, telegraph wires, &c, doing considerable
damage IN that way, and compelling the West
IN all directions to make repairs Son,h of
Central Illinois, as far down as Nicks6urg, rs
the reports on our second page show, vast re-.
gions are devastated by destructive inanda.
slOns
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The Blame project for a congress of the ma.
disputes and avoid the frequent wars between
them, finds an advocate in Senator Call OF
Florida, who has offered a joint resolution IN
the senate directing the president to call such
a congress II Is understood that Blane's
friends will support the resolution to man,
and rs it comes from democrat support from
that side Is looked for, at the same time caus.
ing some comment IN connection with the ab.
surd talk OF a combined ica,hcrhead and demo
cratic nomination of Blame in 1884
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REORGANIZATION.

When the Business Mems Association of
Sins city commenced its movement in favor OF
seorcaniAing our city government under the
general incorporation act OF the Legislature for
cities and villages, realizing that their action
wa prompted by hope Of Obtaining a new
set ofcity officials and thus necessarily an i'm
provemcnt IN our present wretched city gov
ernment, the FREE TRADER naturally sympa.
thlscd with the movement and we sat down
% compare the general law with our present
city charter with u view of finding arguments
showing the superiority Of the former over the
latter and demonstrating the expcdiency and
desIraDility OF the proposed change. We con
!ess to disappointment in finding no such
arguments. The general law is Il voluminous
and cumbrous code, intended to meet the wants
% cities ranging IN population from u million
down 10 few thousand, the mass of its pro.
visions being wholly lnapplicable to a city
like Ottawa, while so far as relates 10 any
enumeration OF general powers proper to be
exercised by the mayor and council of a city
like Ottawa, the grants IN our charter and in
lbe general law are almost ldentically the
ssme, the man difference being that the mayor
under the general law holds Office for two
years instead Of one, and while our city has
less than ten thousand inhabitants we could
have but five wards and ten aldermen instead
Of seven wards and fourteen aldermen as now.
These changes did not strike us as desira.
bic. We could see no advantage in changing
The term of the mayor from one TO two years
while the Encouragement of the wards of our
city m such way as to reduce their number
and equalize their population seemed TO in.
Volye host of inconvenience and difficulties
and therefore, IN a brief article on the subiec,
two weeks ago, we candidly stated our diff
culties on the subectI
To meet the main objection-that in regard
70 the wards-an order of the council has been
procured TO take census Of the city, the gen
eral belief being that our population now OK
ceeds ten thousand, in which case no rear
"aDgement of the wards might be necessary
and further, that no one need go into the mat
Ter blindly the Business Mems Association
has arranged for one or more public meetings
for full discussion OF the subject, inviting
our sblest speakers To post themselves in the
matter and candtdly give the people then
views and conclusions.
The movement lie one we heartily endorse
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THE THEATRE.

Our Presbyterian brethren in Chicago hav,
taken up the attack on attendance at theatres
begun by Or II. johnson, pastor of the All
Church, where Prof SWING once ministered
! To DR.. lohnson's article Hon. h. c. LarneC
replied, in atemperate and just disclosure Of
such facts as these, lst There is nothing es
sentially evil in dramatic representations. I'd
That the taste for theM has long existed and Is
so deeply rooted in human nature that it may
be said to be lneradlCable. Sd The possibility
OF an improved condition OF the theatre is ap
parent IN this; that the best plays and least OBJ
jectlonablc have the best patronage and the
longest run. 18th. That "a a matter OF of fact,
he (NIr. LarnedJ had attended the various thea
tres of Chicago with the ladies OF his family
and had never at any time seen any shameful
exhibition or heard any appeals to lust"
At the same time Mr. Larned broadly states
thai there is more tndeLJcacy in the statements
of Dr. Johnson's letter and IN the suggestions
of his language than any ever heard by his ia.
mily in the theatre; and implies that his me.
thod is one of indiscriminative abuse.
Prof Swing in the .illtdace takes up the
topic, and says that "Dr. johnson in his writ.
inss prints great quantity Of words which
are not admitted into modern literature, and
which not only ladies' but gentlemen, are not
accustomed to make use of either in writing
or conversation"
This must be somewhat bitter pill for Rev
Dr. Johnson to display familiarity with
words more Objectionable than shown in the
drama under his condemnation" His ser.
mons and letters are more of the earth earthly
than is the average drama"
Now at the ministers meeting the Presbyter.
ian brethren, come to the help OF the Doctor 5
bad logic bad language, and say that the
theatre Is n sort of gateway TO bad place, &c,
and affirm the old time accusations against it.
While we affect no special love for the thea,
ire, and especially for the young would prefer
the Sunday school as IA likelier gate TO heaven,
we are in favor of appeals to intelligence and
righteousness in speech. The gospel of denun-
citation the world has better use for at present
Brother johnson may grow. While there is
this tendancy of the clergy TO boss things" all
round, it would certainly be judicious to be
we'll informed when they act a. public censors,
and to tell the truth as they have learned it
from existing facts rather than from the tradi.
ton of the fathers.
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NO EXTRA SESSION

The Chicago JOurAa( leads off, and Is hearti.
Springfield JOurndl, in urging Gov. Cullum
not To call an extra session of the Illinois
Legislature to re-apportion the state into con-
gresslonal districts. 1t Is true, the new ap.
portionment act gives Illinois twenty mem
bers against our present nineteen, but the
law provides, should the state not be ap.
portioned before the next election that the
additional member can be elected by the state
Mt large. The Springfield loarAdi intimates
that Gov. Culiom is not anxious 20 call an cx-
ira session, and will be influenced by public
opinion IN the subject
On the score of pubic opinion, our convic.
ton rs that Gov. Cullom need be left but very
few days IN doubt. Were the present legisla.
ture even one of fair repute, in which the peo.
pie had confidence, there is, outside of the ap.
portionment business, no need or apology for
mourning the heavy expense an extra session
necessarily involves; but the character of the
last legislature was such that the people would
look with dread upon Its reassemblIng under
any ClTCulnStanCtS. mere was 4 general dgre-
ment on its adjournment last spring that it was
the mcanest legislature the state had ever had.
Such a boGy is not only not TO be trusted TO
make decent apportionment, but would be
tempted TO engage in other business. and in
that direction, while no possible good could
result there is no end to the harm that might
Justly be apprehended,
There is, however, one consideration that
fills she subject with danger and may override
the better sense of the Governor. Among the
present nineteen Illinois Congressman at least
dozen have come, during the last ten years,
so to speak, to ocn their districts and whom
therefore, white the districts retain their PIES
ent shape it is next to impossible to Dust. A
new apportionment would necessarily involve
such geographical change as to force a new
deal, and Illinois is crowded with ambitious
statesmen WHO are anxiously awaiting their
turn. The chief pressure upon the Governor
will come from these, and as their name is le-
gIon, and they embrace considerable talent and
any amount of demsgogIsm, it may take more
firmness than Gov. Cullom usually gets the
credit of possessing to resist their pressure.
| Anyhow, the L. s. Senate on Wednesday
having passed the house superintendent BILL
Gov Cullom seems, in response to that action
' to have gone at once so tar towards converting
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an extra session Of the legislature as to order
special elections to be held on March 2lst 70
al three vacancies that have occurred In the
present Legislature since the adjournment last
spring, to wit, one in Joe Dawes county, one
in Ogle, and one in Fayette. This is supple.
meHted by pretty positive inimation from
Springfield that the call for an extra session
has been definitely determined upon, and that
the date of meeting will be about March olst.