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Quindaro Chindowan.
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Vol. I. Quindaro, Kanzas, Saturday, July 18, 1857. No. 10
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and vicinity.
Boards at the Quindaro Hotel.
Office, No. 1 Kanzas Avenue. 1tf
DR. R. M. AINSWORTH,
Office
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J. B. WELLBORN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his professional services to the citi-
zens of Quindaro and vicinity. The Doctor has
spent several years in practice in the West, and
flatters himself that he is thoroughly posted in
the modifications of disease in this climate.
Also, special attention paid to diseases of the
Eye.
Office, No. 38 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
M. B. Newman.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Quindaro, K. T.,
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References:
Hon. M. H. Nichols, M. C.- - - - - - - Lima, O.
Hon. Wm. Lawrence, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Hon. Wm. White, C. P. Judge, Belfontaine, O.
Dunlevy, Drake & Co., Bankers, Cincinnati, O.
Henry Kip, Supt. U. S. Express, Buffalo, N. Y.
J. F. Ritcherdson, Mo. Express, St. Louis, Mo.
May 4, 1857. 1tf.
Chas. Chadwick.
H. J. Bliss.
Chadwick & Bliss,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
City and Town Lots, and all kinds of Real
Estate bought and sold.
Office – On Kanzas Avenue, near the Quin-
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J. M. Walden.
R. P. GRAY & CO.,
Real Estate & Land Agents,
No. 76, Levee, Quindaro, Kanzas,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
their care.
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Kanzas Land Agency.
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General Land Agents,
Surveyors and Civil Engineers,
Quindaro & Lawrence, Kanzas.
Prompt attention given to all business en-
trusted to our care.
Information given concerning every im-
portant locality in the Territory.
Refer to
Henn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield, Iowa.
A. J. Stevens & Co., Bankers, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Coolbaugh & Brooks, Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
White, Cook & Co., Bankers, Burlington, Iowa.
Col. T. A. Walker, Ft. DesMoines, Iowa.
Col. C. Bassett, Kewanee, Ill.
Hon. G. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
C. Gerrish, Groton, Mass.
L. F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 4th, 1857. 1tf
WYANDOTT HOUSE,
No. 2, Kanzas Avenue, Quidnaro,
E. O. Zane, - - Proprietor.
The above House is now open for the accom-
modation of the traveling public.
May 4. 1tf.
QUINDARO HOUSE,
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, Kanzas Avenue,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
Colby & Parker, - - Proprietors.
A line of Hacks starts every morning for Law-
rence, connecting there with routes to every part
of the Territory.
May 4, 1857.
SHPEHERD & HENRY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Hardware and Stoves,
Quindaro, - - - - - Kanzas.
Agents for
J. M. Crosby’s Patent Eccentric Latches, Locks
And Bolts.
R. H. Pearce’s Horse Power and Agricultural Im-
Plements.
P. Rollhaus’ Patent, First Premium, Knicker-
Bocker Cooking Ranges.
J. M. B. Davidson’s Fire King Sales.
O. R. Shepherd
D. D. Henry
--N. B. All kinds of Job Work neatly and
Promptly done.
Oh, yes, New Horses to the
Old Coach!
W. J. M’COWN & CO.,
(??? M’Cown & Buok)
Have a large Stock of well assorted
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
Hardware, Crockery,
Boots and Shoes,
Hats, Caps, Clothing, Yankee Notions
&c., &c.,
Which will be sold low for Cash, either at
Wholesale or Retail!
--Please give us a call at
No. 5, North Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, July 11, 1857. 9-tf
Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
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J. M. WALDEN,............EDITOR.
MRS. C. I. H. NICHOLS,...ASSOCIATE.
Mrs. Nichols’ articles marked N.
Saturday, July 18, 1857.
Kane.
Life’s war abates; the hero sleeps
Beneath the orange and the palm;
The warm wind of the tropics creeps
Round all the island’s purple steeps;
His eyes are closed; his breast is calm.
But when the ice-floe crashed and boomed,
And strong hearts sunk, and eyes grew wild;
When white on white the mountains loomed,
In the long Arctic night entombed,
His face was firm, his voice was mild.
His front was crossed with glory’s scars;
His watch word – Hope; his creed to dare;
And still, beneath the shivering stars,
Or beaten by the storm’s rude jars,
They knew his courage, heard his prayer.
They bring thy dead knight home; in vain again,
O country! do thy quick tears flow;
The large of faith, and work, and brain -
O write among thy heros – Kane!
His fame shall live like Arctic snow.
I may not Love Thee.
I may not love thee – but within my heart,
When night and darkness set my spirit free,
And I sit musing from the world apart,
There is a low, deep voice that tells of thee;
That voice is sweet and mournful as the tone
Of far Aeolian music heard in sleep,
Or the wild cadence of a spirit lone
O’er the hushed waters of the midnight deep.
I may not love thee – but thy blessed look
Forever haunts my soul when thou art far -
It glances upward from each moon-lit brook,
And downward from each bright and holy star;
‘Tis imaged in each flower that lifts its eye
At morn to greet the sunshine and the dew,
And in each fairy cloud that wanders by,
Floating in beauty o’er the mountain blue.
I may not love thee – but thy gentle words
Can stir within my soul its font of tears,
And wake the echo of my heart’s deep chords,
Like some sweet melody of early years;
I may not love thee – but thy image seems
A loving radiance to my spirit given,
For oh! I picture thee in all my dreams
Of bliss on earth and blessedness in heaven.
(Written for the Chindowan.)
To the Quindaro Housewives.
Though we are not professional cooks, and though the kitchen is not the scene of all our operations, yet we have observed if not experienced enough in this season of scarcity to sympathize with the daily cry which goes up from the cabins hereabouts, or at least from their presiding genii. “What shall we cook?” Flour, corn, and bacon have not formerly constituted the sum total of our edibles, and when after relinquishing other comforts and privileges in our former homes, we come here and must make choice between, or ring changes upon these three, varied only by rice and eggs, do not wonder if our indispositions assume the form of homesickness. Bread and bacon and eggs, or bacon and rice and bread, and if Indian corn meal is not a favorite with you, who can fail sending back longings for the leeks and onions, and melons and cucumbers which were left in Egypt? But it is a useful proverb, “What can’t be cured must be endured.” Let us see what comes of it. Wheat and!
corn in their various shapes contain the elements of quite a variety of dishes. Besides bread, warm and cold, we may have batter cakes, griddle cakes and crackers, and all the variety of pastry and cake in its more popular signification from the fine wheaten flour, and from unbolted or Graham flour, we may have brown bread, and griddle cakes and mush, which last may be catch either with milk if one has the good fortune to have it, or the molasses or a sauce made of flour and butter and molasses or sugar scalded together, with vinegar added after it is nearly cold. Fine flour, lard and salt, wet with water, will make excellent crackers if worked sufficiently. The secret in making good crackers is in the kneading. Work in all the flour you possibly can, and then add a little more.
Corn may be eaten in as great a diversity of forms as wheat; and were its cooking as well understood, we think it could hardly be less popular. Its cooking requires experience, but that experience is worth having, especially to those in moderate circumstances, as corn is seldom more than half the price of wheat and sometimes much less, and yet pound with pound, the meal will go farther then the flour. We have never seen a good “Johnny cake” fail of being appreciated. Yet all the requisites are meal, sour milk, saleratus and salt; eggs and molasses may be added if desired. Cream of tarter may be used in the absence of sour milk, or the meal may be moistened and stand 24 hours and it sours itself in warm weather, when saleratus or soda enough may be added to counteract the acidity. The only difficulty is to get the rigid quantity of alkali to correct the acidity without making it yellow or strong. – Then we may have griddle cakes and mush and hominy, and boiled and baked puddi!
ngs, and mixed with flour make other varieties of bread.
With a vary large (???) coffee mill, which every Western emigrant ought to provide themselves with – one can grind corn enough coarsely in a few moments to make a dish of hominy and thus have it fresh whenever wanted. Our mill in the States cost us $1,50. All housewives who have access to a field of green corn should dry enough to be able to furnish themselves with a dish of “succotash” as often during the year as they wish. Succotash is made simply by boiling beans and corn together when green, or dry beans and dried green corn. The corn is boiled in the ear and then sliced off the cob and dried in the sun. In making succotash the corn needs much less boiling than the beans. It should be seasoned either by boiling meat with it or otherwise by the addition of butter and many prefer sugar also. Green corn is also used in a variety of ways.
I must here stop to administer a little censure on some of the Quindaro housewives for allowing strangers to see at their doors either in the slop pail or the feeding trough, pieces of cold bread, and other fragments of edibles. When Christ fed the multitudes, he charged the disciples to save the fragments that nothing be lost; and surely here in Kanzas with flour at $10 and meal $1,50 they are worth saving and I will tell you how. When bread gets too dry it may be steamed and have the apparent freshness without the unwholesomeness of warm bread.
In making griddle cakes we esteem it an improvement to have cold bread to crumble up and add to the butter. Boiled pudding may be made by partially soaking cold bread, cutting it up and adding meal and eggs and in the absence of milk, adding a little acid and saleratus. This to be eaten with sauce. Cold bread may also be used in making baked puddings either with meal, rice, or flour. Crusts are also quite eatable when soaked either with soups or pot-pies or chicken gravies.
Kanzas is not so barren but we may find a few “greens” here and there which will be wholesome. We may make our own vinegar from a pint of molasses, half a pint of yeast, and a gallon of water.
Where we can find neither fruit nor berries of any kind, we may still have pies, though not quite so epicurean. – Wood sorrel when tender will make an eatable pie, and we may also have custard and buttermilk pies. Quite a tolerable pie is also made by crackers and tartaric acid or lemon.
The ingenious housewife will find something to cook even in Kanzas. Don’t let us say we can find nothing to cook but bread and bacon.
W.
ARCTIC SCENES ON LAKE SUPERIOR. – On the 12th of the present month, at Grand Island, Lake Superior, the ice extended from shore to shore. Marquette was still closed with ice, and in some places it lay in masses of twenty or thirty feet in thickness, strongly reminding the beholders of the Arctic scenes so graphically described by Dr. Kane. Any one desirous of experiencing the rigors of the Arctic regions can do so with the little trouble if they take an early start to the north-west by way of Lake Superior. Huge field of ice almost in the middle of June, may not again obstruct the navigation of the lake at the same season for the next century.
THE MOLOCH OF FASHION. – The Paris correspondent of the Boston Traveler says:
“The doctors have declared that the present extraordinary invasion of colds, grippes and peritoneal inflammation (which proves unusually fatal) are entirely owing to the bell petticoats, which expose the whole female person, from the waist down to the feet, to the weather. Ladies, after a promenade, return home shivering; the crinoline has given them a chill; and the first thing that we hear is that the family undertaker has been sent for. Is it not strange that ladies should never adopt any fashion which is not prejudicial to health? Corsets, thin shoes, microscopic bonnets, and crinoline have murdered as many persons as Moloch himself.”
BENEVOLENCE of disposition and decision of character united, make a man a blessing to the circle in which he moves.
HE THAT means to do well, without doing what he means until the arrival of some favorable opportunity, will never do it at all.
THE HOOP QUESTION, like most others, has two sides to it. The ladies take the inside, of course.
Young Men coming West, - Wives Wanted for Them – Girls in Demand – Appeal for more Girls.
Of the estimated millions of inhabitants who have moved into the West during the current year, a quarter of whom are from New England, and the balance from Europe, a very large portion are young and marriageable men. – At present only fortune seekers, they will soon acquire property, and thereupon feel themselves able to maintain wives; it is their mistake to hold that young men can accumulate property faster while single than when joined with wives. This, their common error, ought to be corrected by men of experience; a young man will accumulate 100 per cent. more property married than single, with the same industry and economy. The trials of poverty imagined to be seen in wedlock by most young men are evidences of a want of manly spirit; we admit that such imaginary trials and dreary foreseen want in young men are bad signs – signs that they can see mountains where only hillocks rise – elephants where only mice do abound. They want those more manly traits of character, for!
titude, faith and resolution. We say nothing of other advantages a young man derives from early marriage, even though he marry ere fortune strews his path with fancied pleasures and props, roses and vinery supports. Property, as a foundation of true happiness, is nowhere as a competitor with matrimony; and any great effort to accumulate property before acquiring a wife, is like placing the cart before the horse – the wife, like the horse, must go before, and the property, like the cart, will surely follow; reverse the order and three will be a failure of both, except with the miser, from whom God deliver the woman forever.
The proportion of marriageable girls brought to the West during the year, is certainly small, perhaps only as one to five of young men. So far as our own observation goes, the disproportion is of long standing, and has increased in the last three years. But for so many of our young men going east and south for wives, the disproportion might result in serious conflicts – something like what occurred between the young Romans and lady Sabines. Of the girls emigrating West, nearly all are intelligent, worthy and companionable – having been brought up in no higher sphere than the farm and common school affords. Very few city and boarding-school maidens come West, so that the character of girls is generally excellent, and their habits of industry equal to the standard industry of our young men. It is the great deficiency in the number of girls that we are considering, and not the matter of character. – It will be observed by the reader, that marriages occur daily in every vicinity!
– not a tenth of them are published in the papers. We venture that twelve hundred matrimonial unions are consummated in Grant county for the year ending next December. Perhaps a majority of these marriages are between young men who have come West to earn fortunes, and have succeeded, and girls who came West within a few months.
Should our article meet the eyes of people in the old States, among whom the West has thousands of sympathizers in every other respect, we hope they will organize female emigrating associations, and aid in balancing the power of numbers between males and females in the West. The old States have helped us to railroads, and now if they will aid us to carry on the wheels of population, by helping our young men to girls, we promise them grand-children by the million.
Grant Co. (Wis.) Herald.
THE ELOQUENCE OF ONE VOTE. – Citizens should not only see that they vote early, but what they vote. As an illustration of the importance of observing this maxim, the following is told as having recently happened at Pittsburg. A voter ran up as the polls were near closing, and in his hurry, numbered and dropped his ticket, which defined his political proclivities as those congenial to a third party only – a regular outsider. Here it is:
“Dear Miss -- I cannot meet you at .... this evening. My wife suspects – keep shady. Yours affectionately.
TIME IS MOST PRECIOUS, and yet the most brittle jewel we have. It is what every man bids largely for, when he wants it, but squanders when he gets it.
STEELE PAID the most compliment to a woman that perhaps was ever offered. Of one woman whom Congreve had also admired and celebrated, he he says that “to have loved her was a liberal education.”
AS LAUGHTER enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness, and laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
HOW INDEPENDENT of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest home.
The Big and Little Giant.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, in his paper of June 26th, in referring to the recent speech of STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS, in Springfield, Ill. thus speaks of his namesake:
“Stephen Arnold Douglass in one of his recent speeches, alluded to the Dred Scott decision in a very eulogistic manner. As reported, this whole speech teemed with those coarse and vulgar insinuations, and palpable falsehoods, to be expected from a man of his psychological constitution. The Senator remarked that he “approved that decision; it was a glorious decision. It was now the law of the land, and it much and should be obeyed. He was glad the Abolitionists had taken a stand against it, for thus the people were divided into two parties, the friends and the enemies of the Union. The men who did not love and obey it were enemies of the Union, Amalgamationists, etc. Niggers were niggers, and God made niggers to be slaves. The issue was narrowed down to a point – nigger, equality, or vigorous National Democracy. Which will you have?”
In all clarity, we must conclude, that if the newly-married Senator did indulge in such a rant and nonsense, he was under the influence of that exhilarating beverage, of which he takes too much “for his stomach’s sake.” The Senator is a man of much intellectual ability, and might be an honor, instead of a reproach, to his country but it seems that he must do the work whereunto he is called. His matrimonial alliance with “a fascinating, and highly refined southern lady,” does not seem to have had any controlling influences over the gross instincts of his animal nature, which give direction and impetus to his every movement.
The truth is, the misguided man is lashed to the wheels of the Slave Power. He must revolve as they revolve. He is a willing and hopeless reprobate; his heart has been completely ossified by his repeated attempts to “crush out” the spirit of Liberty. One might as well attempt to pierce the hide of a rhinoceros with a sword made of tissue paper, as to attempt to make any impression for good upon his repellant heart. National Democracy is welcome to all such specimens of degraded humanity.”
GRAPE CROP. – The grape crop on the hill sides near Cincinnati is suffering severely from rot and mildew. Vineyards and arbors on the river bottom, below the city, are prospering finely, disease not having attacked them. The bottoms are usually exempt from all the evils to which the grape is heir.
SALE OF VIRGINIA LANDS. – Within the last three or four weeks no less than $160,000 worth of land, in the immediate vicinity of Fredericksburg, Va., has been disposed of to persons from abroad, who intend to settle permanently in that section of the country, and the recorder states there are now numerous applications to owners to sell.
Pearls of Thought.
IGNORANCE and conceit are two of the worst qualities to combat. It is easier to dispute with a blockhead.
IT OFTEN REQUIRES more courage to live than to die. The man who struggles on through years of misfortune without once thinking of bedcords or arsenic, possesses much more heroism than all the suicides that ever lived. Never calla man a hero till he has been bombarded with adversity.
A SMILE is over the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it – what is the dawn without the dew. The smile is rendered by the tear precious above the smile itself.
FATE AND FORTUNE are merely the popular, and, in fact, heathenish names for results which are brought about by an unseen Hand, and by the mysterious agency which that Hand sets in motion to accomplish the designs of infinite Wisdom.
WHATEVER may be said for or against the idea of Revelation, and whatever may be said for or against the special doctrines of Christianity, it is beyond dispute, that to the direct or indirect influence of the Gospel, humanity owes a debt of gratitude which it can never pay.
THERE IS NOT one thing in the whole compass of creation fully understood by any human being. In a single drop of water, there is mystery enough to baffle the wisdom of the wisest philosopher now living on the earth.
TO BE CAST among strangers none of whom cares whether you live or die, reads an impressive lesson upon the charmed circle of home, where parental care anticipated every want, and parental counsel educated heart and mind.
THE YOUNG MAN must find his way in the world, and if that involves the duty of leaving home, which in a great majority of cases it does, then this training by contrast should have a beneficial effect on the mind.
ONE OF THE MOST melancholy sights in the world is the number of poor, suffering, diseased children, who inherit the physical corruption that has sprung from the immorality of their parents.
Incidents at the burning of the Montreal.
The Canadian papers contain many incidents connected with the late awful tragedy. From them we select the following:
One little boy had left the “land of brown health and shaggy wood,” in company with his father, mother, three sisters and brother, for what appeared to them the land of hope and promise. They all reached it – but, alas! reached it but to meet a watery grave! They all perished but this little fellow, who is severely burned. He is now a patient in the hospital; and while talking to some ladies, the tears began to flow, and for fear that they might think he was weeping because of his burns, he said: “I am not crying for my burns, but for my father and mother, sisters and brother.” This brave little fellow was going to his uncle in the West, to which place he will be forwarded as soon as able.
A most affecting (???) took place on board the Alliance, when an old Canadian, Robitaille, we think is the same, recovered the body of his lost son. He cried out “My poor boy, my poor boy!” He strove to wipe away the mud and filth from the darkened eyes of the corpse, but it was too much for him, and he fainted. On his recovery, however, he lay down beside the boy, lamenting with bitter tears the loss of his darling boy.
The lades of two young men from Vermont, named Farrell, the brothers of Mr. Farrell, glass manufacturer, St. Johns, have been recognized. The bodies were brought up by the train in charge of their brother, who stated that one of them had a gold watch and $500 or $600, and the other a silver watch, but that none of this property was upon them when delivered to him.
Four little children and a dog were found together on a part of the wreck just out of the water, all alive, by a party who went off from the shore in a boat.
NEVER ENETER a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do not approach contagious diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the vapor.
THE SOCIAL tendency of the age is unquestionably to concentration in cities. Within the area of London, three-ninths of the whole population is gathered. – Paris contains one-thirtieth, and Vienna one-nineteenth, of the many millions crowding the two great empires of France and Austria. Philadelphia has one-fifth of the population of Pennsylvania, and New York city one-sixth of the population of New York State. St. Louis is to the great State of Missouri as one to seven. In fifty years, Paris has added to its population three-quarter millions; London, a million and a half. Similar additions have been made to Vienna and Berlin, on the Continent, and to Glasgow, Manchester, and Liverpool, in Britain.
Bonnet Business.
The following statement shows the extent of the bonnet business in Massachusetts for the last six months:
Foxboro’, cases . . . 6,000
Franklin, do . . . 6,000
Wrentham, do . . . 2,500
Medway, do . . . 2,000
Fram’ham, cases . . . 3,000
Worcester, do . . . 1,500
Upton, do . . . 1,000
Monson, do . . . 3,000
All others . . . 1,000
This makes a total for the State of say 29,000 cases – or a little short of two millions of bonnets.
This is by no means a low estimate, and will not, probably, vary five hundred from the facts. The quantity usually made for the fall trade does not exceed one quarter that of the spring trade. The manufacturers probably have not had a better trade for several years than in the early part of the present season, but the unusually cold and wet weather in April had a depressing effect upon the trade – as also did the anticipations of some of a large auction sale in New York, corresponding with that of last year.
LATELY A gentleman of Chicago was accompanying two ladies to the panorama of the Arctic Expedition, when in crossing Market street, he stepped on a hogshead hoop, which flew up, (as hoops will do,) and struck him across his not very handsome nose. “Good heavens, ladies!” he exclaimed, “which of you dropped that?”
A MAN BEING sympathized with, on account of his wife’s running away, said, “Don’t pity me till she comes back again.”
CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY has administered the oath of office to Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan.
THE N. O. Delta advises Southerners this summer to “avoid the snobbery of Northern Springs,” and patronize Southern watering places, instead of going “into the camp of the Northern Philistines.”
THE PEBBLES in our path weary us, and make us sore-footed, more than the rocks that only require a bold effort to surmount.
(From the Cincinnati Gazette.)
Democracy Reviving.
The indications begin every day to be more favorable and encouraging of the success of the Democratic party of Ohio, in the fall elections. All that is needed to secure that success are union, harmony, energy, and determination in the party. - Cin. Enquirer.
We are glad to see this sing of reviving life and we quite agree with the Organ, in the idea that there is nothing wanting but “union, harmony, energy, and determination,” and votes, necessary to secure the success of the Democracy. A leading Democrat of the interiors, who wears his hair long, and his brains short, said the same thing in the railroad cars the other day; he thought there was a good time coming if they could only unite all who ever had been Democrats.
The Enquirer thinks there is a glorious object in view, and considering that the half million Breslin got for the Democracy is all gone, we don’t know but that sagacious journal is right. At any rate, we are glad that there is a prospect of a stirring time, at the election. Unfurl your standard. Let us know whether you mean to fight under Breslin, Manypenny, or who. On every political principle, Breslin should be the Democratic candidate. He has fought, suffered, and almost died for the Democracy; and have they no gratitude? It is true, he had not bled, but he has caused others to bleed most tremendously. Let fly your standard! But notwithstanding your bold front, it does not look to us as if the Democracy had very brilliant prospects. All the old leaders are gone, broken, or dispersed. The Government has distributed no pay, worth having. The Enquirer has demonstrated that Ohio ought to have ten times as much as it has, and James Buchanan, !
Esq., is fairly indebted to the Democracy of Ohio in some five hundred thousand dollars hard cash. We see no chance of its payment, and all that is to be had now is a per diem for catching runaway negroes, and serving writs on abolitionists! Really, we think the fate of Democratic patriots in Ohio is a lamentable one. Beaten to a jelly by the Black Republicans, with no finger in the Treasury, no pap from the Government, no teats to suck, no promise of Fillibusterism; we do not see what is to excite the democratic ardor. The usual incentives to action are wanting, and always excepting the fluent, felicitous, fervid eloquence of the culminating Enquirer, the democratic press is most remarkable wanting in the least intellectual food to inspire the imagination, or nerve the energy of partisans.
But, - “Oh ye Democrats,
Who rush to glory, or the grave.”
A Tall Editor’s Adventures at a Railroad Depot.
“Jeemes,” as he is called – but James W. Clark – one of the tallest, funniest, awkwardest and most good natured specimens of the editorial fraternity in New York State, and editor of the Baldwinsville (Onondaga Ge.) Gazette, recently took a trip to Syracuse, and thus relates his troubles while there:
“While in the Central Railroad office waiting for the Oswego train, we reclined on one of the beaches, (our head aching very badly,) when we were roughly ordered out by a railroad official with the polite information that ‘they didn’t furnish lodgings for strangers!’
“Hardly had we passed through the ‘hole the carpenter had made,’ when a chap hailed us with ‘I say, feller, help me carry this trunk!’ We meekly passed to the extremest east part of the depot and took hold of the end of a large trunk, which we assisted to place at the desired location, when we were discharged without the customary sixpence.
“Sadly pondering on our hard fate, we passed slowly along, when we were caught by the coat collar, and a harsh, guttural voice exclaimed, ‘whar bin?’
“We turned, and lo! a fat, ill-favored squaw greeted our astonished eyes. The moment she saw our features she grunted out, ‘Ugh! tort you was my Injin!’ and immediately waddled away.
“Half-blind with rage and mortification, our next move was to stumble in among a pile of baggage, when we were greeted with ‘D-n you, get out of this!’ adding in an under tone, ‘wonder what the h-l you expect to steal here.’ Just at this moment Conductor Fiske called out to us, ‘Here, get into the cars and go home before the cows eat you up!’ We crawled into the hind car like a whipped hound, and threw ourself recklessly into the seat. Smash! we squatted on a lady’s hand-box. She, seeing the damage we’d done, squalled out: ‘There, you great gander legs, you’ve spilt my new bonnet!’
“Concealing our shame and confusion as well as we could, we subsided into another seat, where we shrunk into the smallest possible dimensions, until we were kicked out of the cars at our village depot.”
MORAL. - Never go to Syracuse without shaving and putting on a clean shirt and a decent coat.
A HUSBAND advertises thus: My wife, Annie Maria, has strayed or been stolen. Whoever returns her will get his head broke. As to trusting her, anybody can do so if they sea fit; as I never pay me own debts, it’s not likely I’ll pay her’n.
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Saturday, July 18, 1857.
FREE STATE TICKET.
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
MARCUS. J. PARROTT.
Of Leavenworth.
SECRETARY OF STATE,
P. C. SCHUYLER.
AUDITOR OF STATE,
G. A. CUTLER.
JUDGES SUPREME COURT,
M. F. CONWAY. S. N. LATTA.
REPORTER OF THE SUPREME COURT,
E. M. THURSTON.
CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT,
A. G. PATRICK.
-The latest numbers of the Chindowan may always be obtained in
Leavenworth, of Messrs. Claypole & Newby, periodical Agents, on Delaware
Street.
-The CHINDOWAN may be had regularly at O. Wilmarth’s Book Store in Lawrence.
FAVORS. – During our absence, copies of late St. Louis and Eastern daily
papers have been furnished our office by several gentlemen who have heretofore
placed us under obligations. – We ever take pleasure in acknowledging such
favors, but in the present instances are not in possession of the names of the
gentlemen to whom we feel indebted. We trust they will not feel that we do not
appreciate their courtesies.
-A. C. CARTER, Messenger of Richerdson’s Express on the Tropic, and
Mr. IVERS, Messenger on the New Lucy, have our thanks for St. Louis and
Eastern dailies of late dates.
-Mr. GREENLEAF, Clerk of the Lightning Line steamer Polar Star,
invariably furnishes us with late St. Louis and other Eastern daily papers, each
trip up, and through his kindness we now have the St. Louis papers of the 17th,
and New York Herald of the 14th.
-GEO. W. HARRIS, Clerk on the steamer Tropic, has favored us with a
complete file of late papers, for which we are obliged.
Our Candidates.
We present to-day the candidates of the Free State
party to be elected to office on the first Monday in August. All but Mr. PARROTT
have had a place in the Free-State Government heretofore and the people by
re-nominating them, have evinced the confidence they have in them. Marcus J.
Parrott is well known in Kanzas. He proved himself to be true to the cause of
Freedom here when there was imminent peril in advocating its claims. He stands
upon the platform adopted by the Convention. While this demonstrates his
fidelity to our party, all know that he has the ability to fill the office
honorably to himself, and profitably as well as creditably to his constituents
and his State.
THE
FREE STATE CONVENTION.
We feel jubilant over the results of the Free-State Convention, which was in
session at Topeka last Wednesday and Thursday. It was a large body for a
delegate convention, there being One Hundred and Eighty-Seven delegates present.
Almost every part of Kanzas, where settlements have been made, was represented,
which leads us to believe – enforces upon us the conviction, that the sentiments
expressed by the action of this body, are the sentiments expressed by the action
of this body, are the sentiments of the entire Free-State party of Kanzas.
We went to Topeka as many others did, with apprehensions that a disaffected
faction would endeavor to distract the party, in regard to the settled policy to
be pursued. At first there was some difference of opinion expressed in regard to
the details of that policy, but an exchange of views soon produced an unanimity
of feeling in regard to every point about which there had been a contrariety of
opinion, and all went home determined to work shoulder to shoulder in the great
and good cause.
Before the assembling of the Convention, circumstances had lead many to fear
that the Topeka Constitution would meet with serious and determined opposition.
Delegations were present from the localities where most was to be feared, and
those who had been represented as being antagonistic to the Topeka movement,
were there and had ample apportunity to express their views. We were on the
ground during the entire session but did not hear a sentence or word uttered
against that Constitution which is so loved by Free-State and so despised by
Pro-Slavery men. Instead of there being any opposition to it every person and
every delegation seemed to vie with each other in their loyalty, thereby proving
that the people love the Topeka Constitution.
We cannot follow out in detail the whole action of the Convention. A report
of the proceedings is given elsewhere. In all that is recorded there was the
most complete harmony of feeling. Whenever the wish of the majority was
ascertained, it was adopted without a dissent by the whole body. We think that
every time Free-State men who may read the proceedings, will give his approved
most cordially to what the delegates have done, and will endorse it by
supporting the nominees, and voting for the Constitution.
The line of policy is true, simple and practicable. The Constitution can be
endorsed, and the officers elected by a vote that will astound our opponents,
who have been striving to force slavery upon us by foul means. In the fall,
without recognizing the Bogus government we can elect the Territorial
Legislature. This will give to the majority in Kanzas the control of her
affairs, and then, under the Topeka Constitution, our new State will, from a
very boisterous sea, ride into a quiet harbor, and become one of the most proud
and most free, most prosperous and most peaceful members of the confederacy.
Gov. Walker in the Field.
By reports in another column it will be
seen that the Governor has begun to marshall the troops. This movement has of
course occasioned much comment, and will hereafter, both in Kanzas and in the
States. The citizens of Lawrence were without any municipal regulations, and
hence quietly assembled and took steps to establish a city government, through
which they expected to have such regulations as the health and peace of the town
required. The proclamation was dated Leavenworth, July 15th, and the first copy
was accidentally received in Lawrence on the evening of the 16th. The next day
at noon the Governor made his appearance with the troops.
As the action of the Governor in this instance requires a more careful review
than we can at this time give it, we will only say that whatever may be thought
of the movement in Lawrence, the performance of His Excellency is quite as
irregular as anything they have done. He did not go there to ascertain what were
the facts of the case, and use his influence to check whatever he may have
regarded as revolutionary, before calling out the troops. He took it for granted
that what they were at must be treasonable, and hence without knowing how far
they had proceeded, he unblushingly asperses the character of the cittzens in
denouncing their movements thus:
A rebellion so iniquitous and necessarily involving such awful consequences,
has never before disgraced any age or country.
He takes the United States army and quarters it within the town limits when
everything is as peaceful as it could be when no one dreams of war. In their
circular, the people of Lawrence do not apprehend or allude to anything like a
revolution; in his manifesto he speaks of war and bloodshed as though the people
were already in arms. When we first heard of this, it occurred to us that the
Governor wanted to appease the wrath of the South, but we are now puzzled to
know whether he so performs because of a grudge towards Lawrence, or because he
is urged on by some of his advisers who wish to see him die a political death.
A Fortnight’s Change.
We were absent from Quindaro just a
fortnight. Upon our return we soon noticed that a considerable change had been
affected in our absence. In the East when a person goes away from any of the
quiet pulseless villages, though it be for months they expect upon their return
to find everything bearing about the same appearance as when they departed on
their journey. We have learned that this is not the case in Kanzas. The people
here are too active, too restless, to enterprising for that. There is no
requiescat in pace for them; neither do they comprehend such a condition
as remaining in statu quo, but they do understand a practical application
– a literal carrying out of the chorus
“Push along, keep moving.”
We only propose to instance a few of the changes we noticed upon our return.
The wharf was more extensive – the walls of Col. PARK’S large stone building on
the Levee had been carried up until the second tier of joists were layed –
cellars had been excavated and foundations for new wood and stone buildings made
– buildings which were under way when we left were nearer being completed or
entirely finished – Shepherd & Henry had opened out their large stock of
Hardware – a new firm of Dry Goods merchants (McCown & Co.) had been formed
– the Saw Mill had been put in operation, and divers other minor improvements
and changes – among the rest not the least in importance by any means, we found
that an election had taken place, by which Mr. Kenyan had been chosen Recorder,
and Mr. Vanhorn, Wharfmaster. We do think upon the whole that the people of
Quindaro have a goodly proportion of that go-ahead-ativeness that almost
invariably crowns enterprises with abundant success.
Corn Crops in Kanzas.
The fields of corn in the vicinity of
Quindaro look remarkably promising. The growth is more vigorous than in any
section we have seen east of this. In some of the fields it is already about
eight feet high. The contrast between the fields we have seen here and those in
part of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and even Missouri, through which we recently
passed is very great, and demonstrates the remarkable fertility of the soil of
Kanzas, for be it remembered that the season here has been less favorable than
east of this, although the crops are more promising.
In other portions of Kanzas where we have been, the corn looks very well,
even where the hot winds and blazing sun has withered and crisped the grass upon
the prairies. From present prospects we should think that every acre that has
been planted will yield a large return this fall.
A Descent upon Lawrence!
GOV. WALKER IN ARMS!!!
A few
weeks since the citizens of Lawrence made some arrangements to institute an
independent town government. To this Gov. Walker took exceptions. He issued a
proclamation against the movement, dated July 15th, and encamped near Lawrence
on the 17th, with a squad of near four hundred dragoons. In his manifesto he
asserts that the movement is insurrectionary, because it denies the validity of
the Territorial legislature, and is in defiance to it, and that its tendency is
to incite like movements in other portions of the Territory, whereby “for all
practical purposes, in many important particulars, the Territorial Government
will be overthrown.”
About a mile from town we found the Governor in his carriage, with G. W.
Brown and G. W. Collamer. Mr. Walker informed us that he intended to arrest
these insurrectionary proceedings, and that the United States army would be
called into requisition if needs be.
The citizens of Lawrence held a meeting during the afternoon, and despatched
a messenger to Brown and Collamer to inform them that they were not authorized
to act for the town. After this meeting the people dispersed. The appearance of
the troops, be their purpose what it might, did not seem to disturb the
equinimity of the citizens of the threatened town in the least.
In the evening a meeting was called to ratify the proceedings of the Free
State Convention, at Topeka. After giving the entire action of the Convention a
unanimous ratification, and the nominees a most hearty endorsement, some
attention was paid to the fact of an army being quartered so near to them. It
was maintained that the organization of the town had only been to secure ends
essential to the well being of the inhabitants that could not be so easily
reached in any other method; that the movement did not look beyond Lawrence or
contemplate any collision with other authorities; that Gov. Walker had made a
descent upon them without investigating the matter thoroughly or giving them
timely notice of his opinion of their action, - and that no law had been
violated by the action of the people.
A resolution was unanimously adopted, that the act of Gov. Walker in
quartering upon the town of Lawrence in time of peace an army, was illegal,
unconstitutional and infamous, and only deserving of cool contempt.
During the evening the meeting was addressed by Gov. Robinson, Gen. Lane, and
T. Dwight Thacher, in their usually able and entertaining manner.
The Best Route to Kanzas.
Whilst in the East recently, we were so
frequently asked which we considered the best route for Kanzas-bound travelers,
that we think it a matter of sufficient interest to the public to give our
opinion here. It is mostly a matter of convenience in regard to what roads it
were best to reach St. Louis by, to be determined by the point from which
persons start. But when they have arrived at St. Louis the choice between the
river and the railroad is to be made in view of other considerations. To us the
route by the Pacific Railroad to Jefferson City, and by the Lighting
Line Steamers from there is certainly preferable. It saves time and hence is
less fatiguing. Passengers have landed at Quindaro forty-six hours after
leaving St. Louis, and forty-eight hours is the regular running time. Because
that this route is both pleasant and expeditious, we recommend it to persons
coming to Kanzas.
The Topic
On a recent trip east, both going and returning it was
our good fortune to travel on this steamer in the Lightning Line. We thus had
ample opportunity to test the accommodations furnished the traveling public by
this boat. We ascertained for ourselves that the recent testimonials which her
officers have received through the press were in every respect well merited,
Capt. MARSHALL, the Master, and Capt. REILY, the Clerk, are very courteous and
attentive to those who take passage with them, and thus they render a two days
ride on their boat most agreeable. Mr. HARRIS, second Clerk, is also very
attentive to patrons. The tables are spread with an abundant variety of
substantial food as well as luxuries, and the neatness and tidiness of
everything about the boat renders it most cheerful and agreeable. Such steamers
as the Tropic with sterling officers such as she in charge of, ought to,
and must become very popular. Mr. A. C. CARTER, the Messenger of Richerdson’s
Missouri Express, on this boat, has our thanks for frequent favors.
-Messrs. SHEPHERD & HENRY, received this day per Steamer Emma
about five hundred stoves and other articles in their their line of business.
The bill of freight amounted to $1294. We regard this a very good shipment to
make to a town standing where six months ago there was an unbroken forest.
-Our brethren of the Press will accept our thanks for the many complimentary
notices they are pleased to bestow upon the CHINDOWAN. Their favors are
appreciated and none the less highly that we have not paraded them before our
readers.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
FREE STATE
CONVENTION!!
UNANIMITY OF ACTION!!!
TOPEKA,
Kanzas,
Wednesday, July 15.
The Convention met at Union Hall, at 10
o’clock, A. M., and was called to order by Judge Conway.
Gen. J. H. Lane was elected President pro tem.
Messrs. Addis, Conway, Larzalier, Sparks and Ritchie were appointed a
Committee on Permanent Organization.
The President was authorized to nominate a committee on Credentials. The
following gentlemen were appointed: - W. A. Phillips, I. Frost, D. B. Jackman,
Dr. Hunting, - Bliss, Henry J. Adams, Asaph Allen, Judge John Curtiss, P.
Fuller, Dr. G. A. Cutler, H. P. Waters, Collier, Judge S. N. Latta, E. S. Nash,
T. K. Newton.
On motion, the Committee on Credentials were authorized to decide also on the
number of delegates, based on its present population, each district is entitled
to in this Convention.
PERMANENT OFFICERS.
The Committee on Permanent Organization reported for
officers the following gentlemen, who were elected by the Convention:
President - J. H. LANE.
Vice Presidents - Judge J. A.
Wakefield, of Bloomington; H. Miles Moore, of Leavenworth; T. J. Addis, of Sugar
Creek; A. A. Griffin, of Manhattan, and Harris Stratton, of Doniphan.
Secretaries – J. R. Hinton, of the Emporia News, and A. D. Richardson,
of the Quindaro Chindowan.
Capt. C. W. F. Leonhardt, Gen. J. H. Lane, Judge G. W. Smith, and Judge
Wakefield were called out and made brief speeches. The Convention then took a
noon recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
During the absence of the Committee on Credentials,
Gov. Charles Robinson, Lieut. Gov. W. Y. Roberts, Judge M. F. Conway, and
Messrs. H. Miles Moore, T. Dwight Thatcher, and O. B. Hollman, appeared in
response to the call of the Convention, and made remarks upon the present
position and proper policy of the Free State party.
On motion, the Convention was formally opened with prayer, by Rev. Daniel
Foster. The Committee on Credentials now reported the names of 187 delegates as
entitled to seats in the Convention. The report was accepted and adopted.
COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS.
Judge Conway offered a resolution that the
President appoint a Committee to prepare business for the Convention. The
following gentlemen were named:
M. F. Conway, A. Curtis, L. F. Currier, Allen Crocker, C. F. W. Leonhardt,
Ira Taylor, R. Riddle, J. H. Snyder, Dr. Davis, W. F. M. Arny, Harris Stratton,
G. C. Osgood.
On Motion of S. N. Wood, State Officers, members of the Legislature, and
other Free State men present, were invited to take seats in the Convention, and
participate in all its action except voting.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
On motion of J. M. Walden, the President was
requested to appoint a Committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of
the Convention. The following appointments were made:
J. M. Walden, of the Quindaro Chindowan, T. Dwight Thatcher, of the
Lawrence Republican, J. M. Dunn, W. Oakley, Wm. Graham, James McArthur,
J. Fletcher, A. Hunting, G. S. Hillyer, A. A. Jamison, F. G. Adams, O. B.
Hollman, W. G. Nichols, G. P. Buell, T. R. Newton.
On motion, Convention took a recess until 8, P.M.
EVENING SESSION.
The Convention was addressed by Dr. Davis and Marcus J.
Parrott, of Leavenworth; J. M. Walden, of Quindaro, and Rev. Daniel Foster, of
Sugar Mound, and S. N. Wood, of Lawrence.
SECOND DAY.
Thursday, July 16.
The Convention was called to
order by the President, and opened with prayer by Rev. J. B. McAfee. Messers.
Henry J. Adams, A. Larzalier, and A. L. Winans were called for, and made remarks
upon the position and policy of the Free State party.
General James H. Lane took the stand in response to the call of the
Convention, and among other things, said that he thanked his friends for the
honor they proposed to confer upon him, by tendering to him the nomination for
Congress, but utterly refused to receive the nomination: that he had determined
never again to leave Kanzas, until her Missouri chains were broken, and her
people free under their own government.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The Committee on Resolutions, through J. M. Walden,
Chairmam, submitted a report, which was accepted, and after a few amendments,
unanimously adopted. The following are the Preamble and Resolutions as passed;
WHEREAS, At the first election of a Territorial Legislature held in Kanzas,
the government was wrested from the hands of the people and an usurpation
substituted in its place; and
WHEREAS, Said usurpation is still forced upon the people of Kanzas, and they
are thereby deprived of all the rights of American citizens, therefore be it
Resolved by the Free State men in Convention assembled:
I. That the Topeka Constitution and the State Government originated in a
public necessity, that subsequent events have proved the wisdom and justice of
that movement, and that present circumstances render it an imperative demand of
justice, common sense and patriotism, that it be unswervingly maintained and
supported.
II. That the Topeka Constitution is the first and only choice of the Free
State men of Kanzas – that we look to our admission as a State under it as the
surest and only method of regaining our lost rights and that all our efforts as
a party in whatever direction shall be subservient to that end.
III. That Congress will consult the wishes of a very large majority of the
inhabitants of Kanzaas, by immediately admitting her as a State under the Topeka
Constitution.
IV. That the Free State men of Kanzas now as heretofore utterly deny the
validity of the Territorial Legialislature – that they still recognize it as the
creature of fraud and violence, and that they acknowledge neither the validity
nor the binding force of its enactments.
V. That the recent vote for delegates to a Constitutional Convention, has
demonstrated to the world that the Pro-Slavery faction is a “miserable minority”
of the people of Kanzas; that an attempt to frame a Constitution by delegates
thus elected would be a gross outrage upon the people, and that the admission of
Kanzas under a Constitution so framed, unless first submitted to a fair vote of
the bona fide residents, would be an act of injustice and despotism so flagrant
and alarming as to justify her people in a resort to the extremest measures for
the protection of their rights.
VI. That the Free State party of Kanzas is emphatically a peace party; that
we deprecate agitation; that now as ever we will seek to avoid all occasion of
collision with the authorities of the United States, and that all we ask is
simple justice and the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to us as American
citizens by the Constitution of our common country.
VII. That we urge upon the Free State men of Kanzas the necessity of a
thorough organization for the August election, and that as far as possible a
full vote be polled at that election.
VIII. That we recommend to the Governor the propriety of submitting the
Topeka Constitution to a full vote of all bona fide residents of Kanzas at the
August election.
IX. That the Free State Central Committee is hereby instructed to have 20,000
copies of the State Constitution of Kanzas printed in English, and 5,000 in
German, for circulation throughout the Territory, and that the Free State papers
be requested to publish it in their columns at an early day.
WHEREAS, Gov. Walker, in his speech at Topeka, as reported in the ”Kanzas
Statesman” of June 9th, holds the following language: “In October next, not
under the act of the late Territorial Legislature, but under the laws of
Congress, you, the whole people of Kanzas, have a right to elect a delegate to
Congress, and to elect a Territorial Legislature,” and
WHEREAS, Gov. Walker has, on various occasions, used similar language, and
WHEREAS, Under the above decision “the whole people of Kanzas,” may
participate in an election for Delegate for Congress, and for members of the
Territorial Legislature, without recognizing the validity of a Bogus Legislature
imposed upon them by fraud and by force, therefore
X. Resolved, That we recommend to the people of Kanzas, that they
assemble in Mass Convention at Grasshopper Falls, on the last Wednesday in
August, to take such action as may be necessary with regard to that election.
XI. Finally, that standing upon the eternal principles of justice and truth,
contending only for what is right, we, here, to-day, renew our fealty to the
great cause in which we are engaged, and pledge to each other our firm, united
and persevering efforts for the final triumph of Freedom in Kanzas.
Lieutenant Governor Roberts offered the following, to follow the tenth
resolution, and it was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we also recommend that a Delegate Convention be held at
the same time and place, to carry out the decisions of the Mass Convention, and
that each district be entitled to twice the number of delegates they are
entitled to of Senators and Representatives under the State apportionment.
Judge Conway, from the committee on business reported the following, which
was adopted:
WHEREAS, We have reliable information that preparations are being made in
some parts of the State of Missouri to control the result of the coming
elections in Kanzas: Therefore, be it
Resolved, That Gen. James H. Lane be appointed by this Convention, and
authorized to organize the people in the several districts, to protect the
ballot boxes at the approaching elections in Kanzas.
A discussion arising in regard to the manner of voting, it was decided that
each delegate in the Convention should be entitled to a vote.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
On motion, the Convention proceeded to ballot for
Secretary of State. On the first ballot P. C. Schuyler had 48 votes, Walter
Oakley, 42, Dr. J. P. Root 34, A. Wattles, 20.
There being no election, on motion a second ballot was taken, with the
following result:
Schuyler 61, Oakley 44, Root 42. On motion, Mr. Schuyler was declared
nominated, and the nomination made unanimous.
STATE AUDITOR.
On motion, Dr. G. A. Cutler was nominated for State Auditor
by acclamation.
JUDGES, REPORTER AND CLERK.
On motion, Messrs. M. F. Conway and S. N.
Latta were nominated by acclamation, Judges of the Supreme Court.
On motion, E. M. Thurston was nominated by acclamation, Reporter of the
Supreme Court.
On motion, A. G. Patrick was nominated by acclamation, Clerk of the Supreme
Court.
REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS.
On motion it was resolved, that the Convention
proceed to select a Candidate for Representative to Congress.
Messrs. Henry J. Adams, and Marcus J. Parrott were named for the post; and
come forward and pledged themselves to abide by the decision of the Convention.
On the first ballot Marcus J. Parrott had 83 votes, Henry J. Adams 80.
Mr. Parrott was declared the nominee, and the nomination confirmed by
acclamation.
Messrs. Parrott and Adams both appeared and made a few remarks, in response
to the call of the Convention.
On motion, the delegations from the several representative districts, were
instructed to appoint members of the State Central Committee. The following
gentlemen were selected:
1st District, J. Blood; 2d Dist. A. Curtis; 3d Dist. S. E. Martin; 4th, Ralph
Mayfield; 5th, W. F. M. Arny; 6th, W. R. Griffith; 7th, Henry Harvey; 8th, Dr.
J. P. Root; 9th, G. S. Hillyer; 10th, A. A. Griffin; 11th, F. G. Adams; 12th, H.
Miles Moore; 14th, A. Larzalier; 17th, E. S. Nash.
On motion, the Chair was authorized to appoint a committee of five to solicit
subscriptions to defray the expenses of printing and circulating the Topeka
Constitution. Dr. G. E. Budington, A. L. Winans, Dr. James Davis, J. S. Emory,
and O. S. Allison were appointed that committee.
On motion, the Chair was requested to appoint a committee of three to
investigate the affairs of the late Central Committee. Messrs. C. F. Currier, E.
B. Whitman and Harris Stratton were appointed on that committee.
On motion of S. N. Wood, the usual thanks were returned to the President and
other officers of the Convention.
On motion, the Convention adjourned sine die. J. H. LANE, Pres’t.
A. D. RICHARDON,
J. R. HINTON,
Sec’y’s.
Quindaro Town Organization.
The Committee appointed by a meeting of
the citizens of Quindaro, held at the Quindaro House on Thursday evening July
2d, 1857, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of
effecting a town organization for the town of Quindaro, would beg leave
respectfully to report that they have had the matter under consideration, and
after mature deliberation have unanimously decided to recommend that, in their
opinion, it is inexpedient at present to effect a complete municipal
government, believing that the “Vigilance Committee” properly organized, is a
sufficient protection, and as perfect an organization as can be effected in the
present inchoate condition of our society.
Your Committee however deem it important that immediate measures be taken for
the proper registration of Deeds and other conveyances of property, and
for the proper care and supervision of the Levee, that undue and unnecessary
obstruction may be remedied and avoided, and therefore would recommend the
adoption of the accompanying resolutions, all of which is respectfully
submitted.
OTIS WEBB,
F. JOHNSON,
GEO. E. BUDINGTON.
Quindaro, July 7th, 1857.
Resolved, That an election be held to choose by ballot a Registrar of
Conveyances to be called a “Registrar of Deeds,” and also to choose in the same
manner a “Wharfinger,” who shall have charge of the Levee, remove or cause to be
removed all obstructions thereon, and in case any freight or goods, shall not be
removed after a reasonable notification, it shall be removed under his
directions, the cost of such removal to be charged by him to the owner of such
property.
Resolved, That at such election, all actual bona fide residents of the
town of Quindaro, be and are hereby declared legal voters.
Resolved, That the Polls for the election of “Registrar” and
“Wharfinger” shall be opened at 5 o’clock, P. M., and remain open until 7 ½
o’clock of Saturday, July 11th, 1857.
Resolved, That M. B. Newman, William Shepherd and John McCorkle be and
are hereby appointed Judges of the Election above mentioned, who shall decide,
concerning all challenges and all questions arising in regard to the election,
and whose decisions shall be final; they shall also appoint two Clerks, who
shall keep a correct list of all voters.
Resolved, That the person receiving a plurality of the votes cast for
any office, shall be declared duly elected by the Judges, and shall hold their
respective officers for one year, or until their successors shall be appointed.
Resolved, That the Registrar’s fees shall be as follows, to wit:
For recording and indexing each deed,
or other conveyance of
property...................... $1.00
For receiving and filing every paper de-
posited with him for safe
keeping.................... .10
For searching and certifying to the title
of and incumbrances upon real
estate................. .15
For every conveyance and incumbrance
so certified to by him, provided that
such
fees shall in no case amount to less than
50 cents, nor more than
$5.00.
For a certified copy of any deed or con-
veyance, or any paper deposited
with him
for safe keeping..................................... .15
For each folio -----
Said fees to be paid by the party procuring such service to be done.
Resolved, That the Books (of Registry of Deeds) be opened at all times
for inspection free of charge.
Resolved, That we approve of and commend the acts of the Vigilance
Committee, and recommend a more perfect organization thereof.
Ecclesiastical.
Mission to Kanzas and Nebraska, by the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church.
At the late meeting of the General Synod,
held in New York city, the following resolutions were offered and adopted:
Resolved, That this Synod deem it expedient to send a mission to
Kanzas and Nebraska to obtain information with regard to the religious condition
of these Territories; and if the prospects an encouraging, to select the most
promising sites for the future missionary operations of the church.
Resolved, That the Rev. B. L. Baldridge be appointed to missionate in
the Territories of Kanzas and Nebraska, during the months of July and August;
Rev. Robert McAyeal, August and September, and Rev. Wm. M. Graham, September and
October.
It is expected that the above missionaries will appear in due time and
fulfill their missions.
Rev. B. L. Baldridge has arrived in Kanzas. He preached in Quindaro July
12th. He has announced the following appointments: Leavenworth City, July 26th,
and August 2nd, at the Union Church; Atchison, August 9th; Lecompton, August
16th; Topeka, August 23d; Quindaro, Aug. 30th.
HOT WEATHER.
During the past week we have experienced some “simon
pure” hot weather. In Quindaro the thermometer has stood in the shade, as high
as 100 degrees Farenheit. But notwithstanding the mercury ran up so high the
heat was not as oppressive and exhausting as we have experienced in the States,
when a lower temperature was indicated by the thermometer. The purity and
buoyancy of the air, as it blows from the Missouri, or comes over the wooded
hills fresh and fragrant, counteracts the intense power of the midsummer sun.
At Topeka, during the session of the Convention the heat was intense. The sun
beamed with an unprecedented vehemence, and the wind from the prairie was as hot
as the sun – a very sirocco. The thermometer stood as high as 108 degrees in the
shade. This physical warmth combined with the political enthusiasm made Topeka a
very warm place – a point where the calorie of Kanzas seemed to be concentrated.
-We have had the pleasure, during the present week, of welcoming to our place
Dr. Webb, of Boston, Secretary of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The Dr.
and his Lady have come to the Territory with the intention of visiting its
various settlements and sections, with a view to a better acquaintance with the
country and the people.
We wish them an abundant enjoyment of their trip. We learned to respect the
Dr. as a philanthropist long before his connection with Kanzas emigration. –
Since then we have proved his ready sympathy and efficiency as Secretary of the
Aid Company, at a time when the emigrants had no individual resources equal to
their needs. – N.
-The following is the question selected for discussion at the next meeting of
the Quindaro Literary Association, Thursday evening, July 23d:
Resolved, That Colored Children should be admitted as pupils in our
Day and Sunday Schools in Quindaro, subject to the same rules as govern White
Children.
Messrs. KENYAN and BECKWITH are the leading disputants.
Ladies and gentlemen are invited to be present.
A GERMAN KANZAS PAPER. We have received the first number of the Kanzas
Zeitung, a German Free State paper, published at Atchison by Dr. CHAS. F.
Kos. The paper presents a very neat appearance mechanically, and is, we doubt
not, edited with ability. It will do good service in the cause of Freedom, and
therefore should receive a liberal support.
-Information from the southern part of our Territory state that they have
been visited with copious showers of rain, and that the crops are looking
finely.
-Capt. KETCHUM, Chief of the Delaware Indians, died on Saturday evening, July
11th. It is said he had nearly reached the age of one hundred years.
-This week closes the first term of our Public School. There will be a recess
of two or three weeks, on account of the hot weather. The school numbers between
40 and 50.
The Thermometer stood, on 8 street, at 105 Wednesday, P.M., in the shade.
This was probably higher than the actual temperature, reflection from
surrounding objects adding somewhat to the effect.
CLOTHING FOR HOT WEATHER. – We doubt not our friends are anxious to know
where they can get at fair prices, good clothing adapted to such roasting
weather as we have now-a-days. We have tried some of the stock which JOHNSON
& VEALE have on hand and find that while these articles look well enough to
please the most fastidious, they are eminently pleasant to wear. We advise all
who are desirous to keep cool to give them a call.
HARDWARE AND STOVES. – SHEPHERD & HENRY have opened an extensive stock of
Hardware in Quindaro. They can, will and do furnish all articles in their line
cheaper than they can be bought at any other point in Kanzas. Besides all sorts
of Hardware and Cutlery, they have a large assortment of Stoves of various
styles and kinds, which they propose to sell lower than they can be bought at
any other stove store in the State.
ICE CREAM. – Those who wish to be refreshed by this luxury will find it
served up at Fitch’s Saloon.
TURNING THE WOMEN OUT – The crusty old bachelor who now occupies the White
House, is said to be removing all the Postmistresses in the Union, who did not
throw uy their nightcaps for him last fall. More women have already been removed
from office than has ever before occurred during a whole term of administration.
When Mr. Buchanan came into office, there were about three hundred
Postmistresses.
-The Vermont Republican State Convention met at Burlington on the 1st,
and nominated Ryland Fletcher for Governor, James Slade for Lieut. Governor, and
Henry M. Bates for Treasurer. A series of resolutions of the right stamp was
adopted.
-The Washington reporter for the N. Y. Herald, says that the Southern
portion of the Cabinet are down on Walker. The Chicago Tribune regards
the recall of Gov. Walker as quite probable.
-Miss Maria Mitchell, the female astronomer of Nantucket, sails for Europe on
the 22d of the present month, and will remain a year or two abroad, in the
prosecution of her scientific investigations.
-The “big saltpeter cave” in Harrison county, Mo., is beginning to attract
considerable attention, and recent explorations have demonstrated that it is
exceeded in magnificence and extent only by the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
-A daily paper is to be started at St. Anthony and Minneapolis, the citizens
of the two towns pledging it 1000 subscribers.
-The New York papers predict that during the next six months butter will
“touch the lowest point that it has seen in many years.”
-Like the lucky fellow who drew an elephant in the lottery, the pro-slavery
men do not know what to do with their late “victory” in Kanzas, now that they
have got it. – Kz.
Transcribed by Carrie Barker. Fall 2005.