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%' Published Every Wednesday by J.'YAN SLTCBdB ^ Kditor and Publisher. •v* • • •• \ Office in Riverside Block, Over Smith Bros. A Co.'a Store. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Oft® Year, (In Advance,) -- $1 50 If toot Paid within Three Months,..........2 00 Subscriptions received •for.three or dijc months ja the same proportion. BUSINESS CARDS. H T. BRO WN, M. I). Tt>ItYSICIAN and Surgeon. Office In Brick r Block over F. G. Mayes Clothing Store BUSINESS CARDS. E. BENNETT, M. D., * SURGEON and Accouclicr. Diseases of Women a Specialty. Office and Residence on Clay Street, Woodstock, ILL W. H. BUCK, M. IX, TTOMROPATITIC Phvttcian Rnd Snrjrwfm xJL Office East Side Public Squa stock. 111. to 4 P. M. Square, Wood- Office hours 11 to 12 A- M., and 2 F. Water Street, McHenry I T E. A. BEERS M. D. TjHYSlClAK and Surjteon. Office atftsidence, J two doors west of Post 111. Office, McHenry O. J. HOWARD, M D. PtTBiCiAN and Surgeon. Office at the store of Howard A Son, McHenry, 111. F. J. BARBIAN. CIGAR Manufacturer, McHcnry 111. tory No. 171. Orders solicited. Fae- RICHARD BISHOP, A TTORNEY ANT) COUNSELOR AT LAW. jf\- Office in rear of Murphv & Bishop's Bank North Side Public Square, Woodstock, I1L GEO. A. BUCKLIN, NOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer and In­surance Agent. Office "at Bucklin & Steven's Store, near the Depot, McHcnry, III. E. E. RICHARDS. HAS a complete Abstract of Titles to land in McHenrv County, Illinois. Office with County Clerk, Woodstock, 111. ROBT. WRIGHT. Manufacturer of Custom Made Boots and Shoe*. None but the best of material Used and all work warranted. Shop Northwest corner Public Square, McHenry, I1L FR. HECIlTi»E. HOUSE, Sitm and Carriage Painter, McHen­ry 111. Will do all work promptly and at reasonable lates. E. M. OWEN. GENERAL Dealer and Manufacturers Agent in Leading Farm Machinery. ^Prices low and Terms favorable. MCHENRY. - - - - - ILLINOIS. GEO. SCHREINER. SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly opposite the Parker House, McHcnry I1L SWFirst-Class Billiard and Pool Tables. J. BONSLETT, SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly onpoeite Owen's Mill, McHenry, 111. Fresh Oysters served up in any shape desired, or tor sale by ttie Can. 48-GOOD STABLING FOR HORSES..** v *03. 'iriALOON and Restaurant. Near the Depot © McHenrv 111. Boarders by the day or Week at reasonable rates. Warm and cold Bicals at all hours. 4WGood Stabling for Horses, Home, Sweet Home 1 A commodious one within three min­ utes walk of the Public Square. Do You Want One Cheap ? For which yon can pay in monthly or yearly installments, or in one payment as you choose. By adding a small per cent to the monthly rent you are now paying, in a few years you can have a home of your own, by applying to ASA W. SMITH, P. Ml., Woodstock, 111; O. W. OWEN, WATCH ipR & JTSWELEB. MCHENRY ILL., Dealer in all kinds of American and Swiss Watches, Clocks from the best factories in the country. Silver, plaledware, Silver Spoons, &c., ALSO AGENT FOR THE Weber and Bradbury Pianos AND THE Estey Organ ! Which we believe to be the best Organ in the market. We think we know that bv experi­ ence, and we believe it, for it is Lacked up bv the Bes1 Musicians in the World. ralso sell oih^r Organs at less prices tfriau the Estey, but can't reccorumeml them to be as good. O. W. OWEN. July 23. RlimPHY Sl BISHOP. BANKERS. Office North Side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, .... ... ILLINOIS. Ix-rRANSACTS a General Banking and change Business. Deposits Received.-- iterest allowed on Special Deposits. Buy and sell United States Bonds, Gold, Gold Exchange, etc. Exchange on all principal cities in Europe for sale. Woo-1 stock, TIT. MCHENRY LIVEIIY STABLE. JJ. E. WIGHTMAN, Proprietor. First class rigs, with or without" drivers, furnished at reasonable rales. Teaming of all kinds done on short notice. W. W. ELLSWORTH. BREEDER o the .Celebrated Magie Hog. Also Light and liark Brahma Fowls. *Pigs •hipped to all points by express. P. O. Ad­ dress, Woodstock, III., WHIM ROBERT MITRFITT, AWATCH-MAKERof 18 years experience, has located at Nunda, and will give his atten­ tion to the Repairing of Clocks, Watches, Ac. Shop in Watson Co.'s Drug Store. All. Work PETER LEICKEM. REPAIRS Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of all kinds. Also Repairs Violins inthe i»est possible manner, on short notice and at rea­ sonable rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop Arst door North of Riverside Block, McHenry 111. MCHENRY HOUSE. "SJ'cHenry, 111. John Karges Proprietor, ivl Centrally located ami the best of accom­ modations furnished. Charges reasonable. RICHMOND HOUSE. RICHMOND ILLINOIS*. Frank Foster Pro­prietor. Good accommodations for all parties. Sampleroomw for Salesmen. Livery Stable attached. Public Hall for Lectures; 3hows Ac., The McHenry Brewery. King & Herbes, Proprietors. THE best of Beer Shipped to any part of the country and warranted as represented.-- Orders solicited and promptly attended to. FEED. RENICH, CIGAR MANUFACTURER, --AND-- WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST. WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. PATENTS. Persons desiring to take out Patents, or de- siring information from, the IT. S. Patent Office should consult F. A LEIIMANN, SOLICITOR OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS, Washington, £). C. Examinations free. NO PATENT NO PAY. Send for Circular. For Safe. for Sale, The undcrsisrnM otiers for Sale, me Brick Store on Water street, in the village of McHcnry, now i- n by Mrs. C. II. Morey, as a Millinery St.ire. It. is 14\35, the upper •tory being finished off as a residence. Ti;i!M8 J8E\'SONAIU.I;. Jsiquire of O. II. MuBLV McHenry, 111. Nov. 1-t Foz River Valley H. D. LUFF, Proprietor. McHenry - - - - Illinois. FLOUR I FID, CONSTANTLY ON HAND. cxjstom: grinding Done promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed Thankful for past favors a continuance of patronage is respectfully solicited. The Highest "arket' rriec in J Cash for good Milling Wheat. H. D. IiTJFF, Successor to Owen Bros. W. H. SANFORD, Merchant Tailor*. In the.store of C. II. Dickinson, East side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILL. " A good Stock of Fine Cloths for Snitinga al­ ways 011 hand. Suits made to order and a lit warranted- Uivo me a call. W. II. SANFORD. Woodstock 111., Sept. 27th, 1S75. MOUNTS ROOT BITTERS. THIS BITTERS, for its intrinsic properties, is known as one of the Best Tonics of the Age. As a laxative Liver Cleaning, Rlood Purify­ ing Medicine, it has notits superior. Itshould be taken in i|iiantities from a Tablespoon full to a small wine jrlass full three times a day, according to the strenJlh and age of the lnva- id or the degree of sickness. For Sale by the Case or Bottle, --BY-- L. KAPPLEK, Patentee, W o o i l s t 1 1 1 . Farm For Sale. THE undersigned offers for sale his farm in the Town of Greenwood, consisting of 240 acres of ltrst class land, under a good state of cultivation, well watered, prairie and good Timber adjoining, good buildings? Fruit in good variety, 111 fact everything constituting a good farm. Will be divided if desired. Terms very low, Inquire on the preniisesof GEO. 11. GAKKISOX. Greenwood III. April I8th, li>76. « James Rcbbins. fA \ ' F A C T 1 " K K U S A ( i K S T f o r t h e Chiunpion Rcjiper ai<'t Mower, the Gor- .ham Corn Cultivators ami Diamond Plow, warranted t<» .Scour «in any SI>:1, the Forest City Seed IMow and Stale :JV:uii Stubble I'low-s Porn Planters, Horse Rakes, Ac. Will take (.'ash or Good Notes in exchange for any and all of my Goods. Post Office* Solon Mills, III. THEWINSLOW CONFESSION. That pitiful fugitive from justice, the (Rev.) E. D. Wins low, of Boston, whose extradition has involved our government and England in a wordy war, has sent to the newspapers a long vindiction of himself. It occupies in­ terminable columns, and is the same old story by which all little rascals seek ta get sympathy when they have been caught in their crime. This fellow, under the guise of religion, having suc­ ceeded in reaching the ministry, under­ took to make money bv speculation: plausible in manner, trading upon his profession, getting credit oh the strength of his character, be went on till hefohnd it expedient to commit, forgery after forgery, by which inno­ cent unsuspecting parties were robbed of thousands and tens of thousands of dollars. Ho pretends that he was. driven to those crlmes by his desire to «erve his friends: he declare* that it was not greed,but friendship, that prompted him, and that he did not mean to do wroug. It is pleasant to see that one of the Boston daily papers publishes hjs letters with caricature pictures, justly ridiouling the contemtible hypo­ crite who put 111 such a plea after hav­ ing been guilty of the meanest frauds and tied fronnliis country. Of all crimes, there is none that can find less justification in the weakness of human nature than that of forgery. It is not a crime of passion. It is a cool deliberate, cautious, stealthy, mean, dishouorable fraud; often practiced upon the personal friends and relatives of the forger, who is solely prompted fit a dinner party, and is said to have to it by the greed tor money, the low­ est of all the lusts in the human heart. And when such a crime is committed by a man who has secured confidence by the cloak of religion, and especially by that of the gospel ministry, his meanness is so much the more contemp­ tible, as his treason is greater. lie may escape the justice tliht would con­ sign him to the prison, he may fly to the euds of the e^rth with or without his ill gotten gold, hut there is no ex­ cuse that he can produce to mitigate the verdict of un'mingled scorn which all honest men pronounce on the hold bad man who forges his neighbor's name. Ministers, of all irien, should be held lo the sternest justice when WORD TO BUSXKK8S MEN. | ' ON ADVEKTIBUFO. 1 Ji?.r Gladstone, some time ago, in an awres*, alluding to the almost absolute necessity of advertising in these days of smart competition, observed that "tirer? a great eagerness to Compete f<jir at lent ion, and no one gets it unless i® is by giving, as it were, so many "^ke °f the hammer one after the Otl|£r, to compel people to uotice what Mr-going on." Of course, such mode of proceeding is more or less expensive; bjjit who can catch iish without the out­ lay o! some halt? As things stand at jjefent. publicity is the life of business, ;d a well-Iaid-out advertisement is er sleepy, lazy or unproductive; hut 4 1 the contrary, it frequently creates 1 ints, as well as tells people where such be supplied. It was remarked the other day, "sarcastic," as Artemus ft^'d used to say, the "advertising is Mjreat bother. It only brings a lot of fflks to your place of busiuess. If they s|ant you, let them hunt you up. Then, you get your name in the paper you life bored with travelers and people will «B1 on you and rou will have to show ds. Your stock will be exhausted so tjwch that you will be obliged to buy lftore goods which'is a great trouble If you advertise, too, it gives your glace a reputation arouud; folks will dppwd to your warehouse, and make it £00 lively If your don't want to do •Citything keep as still as you can." Jt&ny have seen the novel modes in Which business announcements have made of late. The following model is not bad. "During the visit of Mr. Dis- raeli to his constituents, he was regaled remarked upon the excellent manner in which^tlie salmon was brought to the table. And no wonder, it was cooked i# one of the stoves made by Mr. , of our town, called a 4 ." This will boar contrast with the celebrated ad­ vertisement of the barber, who wrote CUtside his door, "What do you think I'll shaVe you for nothing and give you A drink." Those requiring his services read it as if a point or a upine," per­ haps, had been at think, and came in; but on rising to depart, the barber «ried: "What! do you think Tll„ shave ypufor nothing and give' you some H- i ' •• Bl*W ehoula bury himself in obscurity^ and by repentance seek the pardon of heaven. Society will not trust him merely because he says he didn't mean to do wrong. * GOOD NEWS FROM THK ARMY. The trail which Gens. Crook and Terry are following with all possible speed indicates a force of between 7,- 000 aud S.000 warriors, besides many wounded and squaws. The Indians are believed to have been reduced to severe straits by starvation, observations in their deserted camps showing that they have been compelled to use their ponies and dogs for food. Sitting Bull is, however, accomplishing his retreat with the same consummate skill that has been ehewr^ip alk- his invariably selecting an impregnable position for his camp, aud manifesting no intention to ofier battle until he can do so under conditions favorable to his peculiar methods of warfare. The opinion is that the Indians will either be forced to fight, or disband and hide In the Ilad Lands. seaspi Iks rnonalipa. 0&"Thc Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company is one of the great­ est corporations iu the world, and un­ der its present careful and economical management, is oue of the most suc­ cessfully conducicd business interests in the country. Notwithstanding the di strcssingly dull times and the heavy interest account on bonds, etc., the company's net earnings for the last fis­ cal year amounted to §1,797,550, and the year's gross receipts, including those from leasen lines, amounted to $227- 428 more than those of the preceeding year. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway is very fortunate in hav'ng so wise, careful and conservative a man as Albert Keep for its President during the present financial and commercial ordeal. We presume that its Board of Directors and stockholders appreciate this fact.--Journal. Business is dull, and the system Is more enervated than at any other period of the year. The man who would live long and enjoy life, must be something more than a mere machine. He must have amusements, diversion. If he leaves his workshop or his counting room, carrying with him all the cares of his business, his life becomes a bur­ den not only to himself, but to all con­ nected with him. If from year to year he plods along in the same old ruts, never turning to this side or that, he degeneraets into a mere machine. lie dishonors the immortal principle of his nature, and violates the most clearly defined of all nature's laws. When you go home leave your business behin you When you lock the doors or your safe . i.*Jo Hunt- kju ysli&ji 01 sure to lock up business with your ledg­ ers and day books. Never mind if trade hasti?t been as lively or profits as large. Brooding over such .facts will not make either yourselves or your families happier. Forget them for awhile. Meet vonr friends with a smile and take a stroll with your wife and children. Rest your body, and es­ pecially your brain; and do so by en­ joying an hour or two in the evening iu communion with nature. Then go to bed thinking only of the pure fresh air you have been breathing, of the beautiful trees aud grass and flowers and water, and with such pleasant ima­ ges on vour mind sleep till morning, and you will awake a happier and physically stronger man. ©a^Says the New York Tribune'- "Potatoe bugs, few or many, are to be found crawling about every ship aloug thejpiers. Americans probably would be glad if every bug should emigrate; but foreign port-wardens might feel jhstified in placing ships thus infested iu quarantiue: Such pests as the Nor­ way rat, the house mouse, the garden snail, and a large number of destruc­ tive insects have been spiead abroad by being carried in cargoes from their na­ tive coastb. S&-A man in Iowa has drank whisky freely for 90 years He should be* care­ ful; it's a terrible habit when it be* comes fastened on a fellow, t ft&~It is beginning to be the gener- ol impression that Sitting Bull has de­ termined not to give the whites battle again this fall. It looks as though he intended to scatter his forces as the troops approach, thus avoiding an en­ gagement until cold weather puts an end to this year's campaign. Heavy fires are seen from Fort Laramie to the eastward, and it is feared that the In­ dians have burned the hay ranches on the Mitchell bottoms. The Sioux are making a desperate struggle, and there will be much bloodshed before they are subdued. JK55"A correspondent of the Salt Lake Herald, speaking of the recent report that the Great Salt Lake is ris- ing, gives the result of his observation of the fluctuations of the water. A monument was put into the lake last September, and since that time it is found that the water of the Lake has risen fourteen inches. In one place Where the pioneers walked over dry shod on a reef of rocks twenty-six years ago the de pth of the water is from eight to eleven feet. OCR TTASHISOTON LKTTKR. WjkSHiKGTOH. I*. C., Ang. l«th, WTO. Congress has adjourned, and every­ body except the hotels and boarding house keepers are jubilant over the fact. The two last days, io the House, was even more noisy and tumultuous than usual, and several times it looked as if knock down and haul out fight was inevtitable. Politics, as usual, was the cause. On Monday, Mr. Kasson, un­ mindful that Congress is not the place to shoot off political pop-guns, pro­ ceeded to arraign Mr. Tilden as the ad­ vocate of secession and disunion, and thereby aroused Mr. Cox's wrath, M ho told the gentleman that he was the apologist of Belknap and Post Traders. Mr. Kasson said that this was an un­ truth, whereupon Mr. Cox rushed over to where Mr. If. stood, and shaking his hand iu his face told him that he had deliberately lied in regard to Mr. Tilden. As in a menagerie all the oth­ er animals get excited when the lion roars, so everybody gets as wild as a march hare when the lie is given on the floor, and a scene of indescribable confusion followed. Mr. Cox's lan­ guage was taken down, and then the Democrats wished Mr. Cox to speak, but the Republicans wanted him cen­ sured instead, and then began one of those fillibustering fights, which is in­ tended simply to consume time,!in or­ der to prevent the opposite party from carrying their point, and which lasted until 6 o'clock next morning. When­ ever one of these all night senseless sessions is to he held, it is amusing to see some of the old members, who have "been there" before, and who can't get out. begin to look around for somethiug out of which he can make a bed. Pages were at once sent to the galleries where they gathered up the cushions on the seats, and threw them down to the members below, who scramble for them like boys, until the Speaker put a stop to the proceedings. Those who got the cushions, and many who did not at once "turned in" on the floor, and slept the night through as peacefully as they could, leaving it to the more beligerent to fight it out as they »aw fit. The Presidentcreated.some unpleasl­ ant feelings in the House, when he re­ turned to them the Harbor and River Bill with his signature, by saying that AAinttfiuled of the money appropriated therein should be usetTiu any private or local scheme, and some of the members attacked him quite fiercely for it. If he only carries out his plan,strictly aud impartially, he should have the commendation of every honest man in the country, for without doubt there is many a private and local speculation covered up in the bill, and from which only the interest­ ed parties will derive the slighest ben­ efit, The President has given Congress more than oue surprise by some of his actious, but the oddest of the all was given yesterday, when he returned the Bill authorizing c the sale of Indian lauds in Kansas and Nebraska, with his veto. An hour or two later he sent in a me^uge a^Liiig thu hill might be returned to him^ and he would give it his approval, and withdraw his veto. Neither Republicans nor Democrats would listen to the proposition for a moment, and the bill was passed over his head. As was to be expected. Gen. Porter, the President's former private secre­ tary, has contradicted Bluford Wilson in some of his statements in regard to the whisky troubles, and denied that the President was mixed up with a lewd woman. All further investiga­ tion into the whisky troubles has been postponed until the uext session, when it is to be hoped that we will learn the bottom facts in regard to all this scau- dal and corruption. One thing is cer­ tain, there has been a great deal of ly­ ing done somewhere. Some months ago, a large forco of employees iu the Bureau of Engraving and Priuting, of the Treasury Depart­ ment, were furloughed bn account of the failure of the appropriation to pay the in. Just as in the closing of any mill, workshop or mine, of course a great deal of suffering was caused among the discharged, but. in no other place but a Government office would anyone think of giving them a whole months salary for doing nothing. No sooner were they discharged than they besieged Congress day aud night to give them relief, and at last Congress appropriated over $27„.00Q for them. One of the two or three unanimous reports made by the Investigating Committees this session, was to exon- orate Dr. Nichols, in charge of the Government Insane Asylum, from all cruelty and neglect to the patients, and misappropriation of the Govern­ ment funds entrusted to his charge. This"report was made in face of a great mass of testimony, which, if true, should cause Nichols to spend the bal­ ance of his misspent life behind the bars of a peuiteutiary. A petition has just been sent to Congress asking that this investigation nay be reopened, charging the Committee with having failed t^eubpoena the most important witnesses who were to testify against the Asylum. One list of witnesses vu given to the clerk five times, but each time they were "mislaid," and when given to the Sergeant-at-Arms, that \ official denied ever having seen them.' The petitioners assetft that they can prove before any impartial Committee all and more than they have charged, and is likely that the whole case willb* reopened up uext session. Owing to the fact that the House re­ fused to act upon the Bill restoring tho Franking Privilege, this measure is a "dead duck," and all those patriots who wish to instruct their fellow citizens in regard to- their political duties, and load down the mails with all sorts of worthless matter, will have to pay pos­ tage as heretofore. This Is bad for the paper manufacturers and printers, hot no one else, and is good for the Gov­ ernment. In the. Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill Js a clauso that must have been inserted foreffect, for a'more useless, inoperative thing could hardly have been conceived of. It provides that all executives oflloera, or employees, not appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, shall be discharged for giving to, or re­ ceiving from, another officer or etn* ployee anything of value for political purposes. This looks very well nutil it is known that the assessments are nearly always made by the Secretaries of "National Campaign Political Clubs" and that if the clerks fail to respond1 they are pretty sure to he dismissed, or placed on the "black list" As the6e clubs are usually composed ef Congres*- men and politicians, who are net amenable to the law, and as no pro*- tection is afforded to the clerks for not paying, a greater sham than this Clause does not exist, and the poor "Govern­ ment Mules" will have to "shell out" or get out in the future as in the past. All of the clerks, 765 in number, will b» dismissed October 10th» instead of I# three installments as heretofore ita- ted. PATBNTS. HARVARD. --The mud drum of the engine in the Harvard Mills got too full for utterance one day last Week and exploded, A uew one has been put iu and everything is running smoothly again. The cause' of its giving out was the^rust. --Saturday afternoon about 7 o'clock a larmer drove into town and while coming over the Main street crossing his horso balked. That was all right, but .just then the train was coming to­ ward them and the driver was in a hurry, while the team calmly waited for the charge. The engineer seeing the danger stopped the train but not hntil the old man's wagon was the1 worse for wear. It is needless to say the horses were satisfied after that and • went on about their business. Noono* i nj ure d.--Independent. A tc.i;:!iing incident is r®ported from' Chat tanooga. An utter stranger called: on a respectable farmer last week, and' asked him if his house had not beear robbed during the war. The farmer replied that it bad. "I," said the stran­ ger, "was one of a marauding party that did it, I took a little silver locket.* "That locker," said the farmer, "had been worn by my dear child." "Here it is," replied the stranger visibly ef­ fected. "I am rich. Let me make re­ stitution. H-jre are $20 for your little- son." He gave the farmer a $50 bill and received 330 in "change. Ho then rung the farmer's hand warmly, and left. The farmer has since dried hie tears and loaded his shot-gun. The #60' bill was a bad one. tSSr Another Charley, Boss has beea> discovered. This time the report comes from Poughbeepsle. in a tele­ gram which reads: "A man and woman have been arrested at Sharon, Conn.,, who have with them a boy supposed lo­ be Charley Ross. The parties making the arrest claim that th«y have no doubt the child is the missing Ross boy. A man giving his name as R. IIibbomev of Philadelphia, states that he is well acquainted with the Ross family, and that the boy is a picture of his broth­ er. The man who was arrested gave his name as Parker. The woman looks like a squaw. Telegrams have beea sent to Philadelphia." This is the-' second discovery of the child within a** week, the other being at Pine Plains, > N. Y., which has turned out bogus. S&'A red nose rtiay be produof&i without drinking intoxicating liquors. It may proceed from defective circula-* tion, or from wearing a tight collar... People who happen to belong to tem-- perance societies, and are nevertheless.^ anxious to wear a cheerful, rubicund! appearance, may attain the desired! end simply by wearing a No. 15 ©olttr ou a No. 16 neck.