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QUINDARO CHIDOWAN
A FREE-STATE PAPER
VOL. I. QUINDARO KANZAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST, 15, 1857. NO.14
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PHYSICIANS,
J.B. WELBORN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity. The Doctor who 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. ltf
DR. GEO. E. BUDINGTON
OFFERS HIS
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Boards at the Quindaro Hotel.
OFFICE, No. 1 Kanzas Avenue. ltf
DR. R. M. AINSWORTH,
OFFICE
No. 10 Kanzas Avenue ltf
LAND AGENTS
S. N. WOOD & CO.,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Lawrence, Kanzas,
Will invest money and locate Land Warrants in all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee 50 to 100 per cent on investment.
Letter of enquiry promptly answered.
S. N. WOOD,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS FOR OHIO,
Office, No. 27 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kanzas.
KANSAS LAND AGENCY.
BLOOD, BASSETT & BRACKETT,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
SURVEYORS AND CIVIL ENGINEERS
Quindaro, Kanzas:
Lawrence,
Prompt attention given to all business entrusted in our care.
Information given concerning every important locality in the Territory.
REFER TO
Henn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield, Iowa.
A. J. Stevens and Co., " Ft. DesMoines, "
Coolbaugh & Brooks, " Burlington, "
White, Cook & Co., " " "
Col. T.A. Walker, Ft. DesMoines"
Col. C. Basset Kewanee, Ill.
Hon G. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
C. Gerrish " "
L.F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 4, 1857 ltf
E. D. LADD, S. B. PRENTISS.
LADD & PRENTISS,
REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND GENERAL
LAND AGENTS.
E. D. LADD
Notary Public, Reg'r of Deeds, & Conveyancer,
Will take acknowledgements of deeds and other papers.
Office No.15 Massachusetts St.,
Lawrence, Kanzas
May 13, 1857 ly
R. P. GRAY. J. M. WALDEN.
R. P. GRAY & CO.,
REAL ESTATE LAND AGENTS
No. 70 Levee, Quindaro, Kanzas,
Will promptly attend to a business entrusted in their care. ltf
M. B. NEWMAN. R. M. AINSWORTH
NEWMAN & AINSWORTH,
REAL ESTATE LAND AGENTS,
QUINDARO, K. T.,
Will attend Promptly to all Business in their line.
Office, No. 10, Kanzas Avenue.
REFERENCES
Hon. M. H. Nichols M.C. Lima, O.
" Wm. Lawrence, C.P. Judge Belfontaine, "
" Wm. White " " Springfield, "
Dunlevy, Drake & Co., Bankers, Cincinnati, "
Henry Kip, Supt. U.S. Express, Buffalo, N.Y.
J.F. Ritcherdson, Mo. Express, St. Louis Mo.
May 14, 1857 ltf.
CHAS.CHADWICK. H.G. BLISS
CHADWICK & BLISS,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
City and Town Lots, all kinds of Real Estate bought and sold.
OFFICE-On Kanzas Avenue, near the Quindaro House. ltf
HOTELS
QUINDARO HOUSE,
Nos. 1, 3 and 5, on Kanzas Avenue,
QUINDARO, KANSAS
COLBY & PARKER, -- Proprietors
A line of Hacks starts every morning for Lawrence, connecting there with routes to every part of the Territory.
May 4, 1857. ltf
WYANDOTT HOUSE
NO. 2, KANZAS AVENUE, QUINDARO.,
P. O. ZANE ----Proprietor
The above House is now open for the accommodation of the traveling public.
May, 4. ltf
CARVEY HOUSE,
CORNER KANZAS AND FIFTH AVENUE,
TOPEKA, K. T.
C.C. TUTTLE -----Proprietor.
BOARD
Per Day $1.50
Per Week $6.00
Single Meals 50 cts.
QUINDARO CHINDOWAN
Saturday, August 15, 1857.
EPAPHRODITUS RANSOM.
We were in Ohio when the telegraph announced that the above gentleman had received the nomination of the "Pro Slavery," alias "Law and Order," alias "National (!?) Democratic" party of Kanzas for Congress, and shared in the general surprise and amusement which the nomination created among all who knew anything of the political antecedments of the fortunate nominee.
Mr. Ransom was formerly a resident of Michigan, in which State he has filled several lucrative and influential offices, among those of Judgeship and Governor of the state. Prior to 1847, his political affinities or instincts occasioned him to follow closely in the wake of the venerable General Cass; and when Gen. C. first defined his opinion upon and in favor of the Wilmot Proviso and of its application to all territory to be acquired from Mexico, Mr. Ransom was among the first to come to his support, and to insist that it was both the right and the duty of Congress to exclude slavery from all free territories of the Union. Subsequently, when Gen. Cass discovered, or thought he discovered, "a great charge in public opinion," in regard to that old Jeffersonian document, and concluded it was best for him to back out from the Wilmot Proviso. Mr. Ransom was among those who refused to jump Jim Crow with him, and for a time he stood up manfully for his convictions, constitutional rights and Congressional duty. In 1848 Mr. Ransom was known as one of the leaders of the Free Soil Democratic party, and a warm and bitter contest sprung up between the wing of the party and the Cass. Wing. The Cass division proved the stronger, and the Wilmot Proviso Democrats were defeated, very much to the surprise of Mr. Ransom and his friends. At the time, Mr. Ransom was an aspirant for a seat in the Senate of the United States, and with a fair show of election.
But the defeat of the Van Buren party in Michigan, and of the Cass party in the Union, so exasperated Gen. Cass and his friends that the resolved upon the slaughter of Ransom. Accordingly, with due pomp and parade he was regularly read out, and driven out of the Democratic party, as too much of a Free Soiler and Abolitionist for association with real modern loco-focoes. The want of spirit which he exhibited on the occasion, his tame and whimpering submission to political ostracism, excited him for the scorn of political friends, and the contempt of political enemies. Since then he has been lost sight of to the little world in which he was known. Politically, he has been dead, lo, these many years; and the epitaph written upon his tombstone by the Cass Democracy of Michigan- "Died of the Wilmot Proviso."-has become defaced and almost forgotten. So profoundly has he been overwhelmed and buried in the bitter waters of adversity, that not even a ripple on the surface has indicated his whereabouts. Long since he has been regarded as dead, both politically and physically, and even the memory of the man has almost entirely passed away among the men of the present pushing and progressive age.
We have said that the announcement by telegraph of the nomination of Mr. Ransom created both surprise and amusement. It did. For a moment it seemed almost if the telegraph had been converted into a galvanic battery, and the current tipped upon a corpse, as if the ghost of one long quietly inurned had burst the cerements of the tomb, to stalk abroad at noon-day.
Who could fail to be started at a ghost? Those "Black Republicans" who were looking to see the Lecompton Convention turned out a "lion," one of those long-maned ferocious beast that come up roaring from the waters of the Jordan or the burning sands of Africa, were convulsed with laughter on beholding such a lion as ladies manufacture out of their poodle dogs by shearing their hind quarters. We are entirely unable to conceive, and of course to say, what could have tempted the convention to pitch upon such an antiquated specimen of the old and fossilized Barnburner party, we give it as our own opinion that Siringfellow, Whitfield and Moore, failing to secure the nomination to themselves, and feeling, as they doubtless do, completely sick of the old and profitless controversy, concluded to burlesque to whole thing by putting up poor old Mr. Ransom, and retreating from pubic notice under the laugh which their harlequinade would excite.
But whatover may have been the intention of those who did the wire-working, it is quite evident that some of those not in the secret are resolved to make a serious matter of it, and now are engaged in representing him as a "reliable Pro Slavery man," whilst others avouch him to be a "true blue" Democrat, who will use his influence and his efforts to make Kanzas a Free State. Whether Free State or Pro-Slavery men will be sold, we do not undertake to say, but that one or the other, or both, will be the victims of "misplaced confidence," should both, or either, conclude to vote for him, and their votes should happen to elect him, is certain. What he is now, or what he was when the late Pro-Slavery party "fished him up," we will not pretend to say; but this one thing is certain, when he went down, he was first rate Free-Soil-Wilmot-Proviso-Martin-Van-Buren-don't-like-the-Fugitive-Slave-Law-Democrat.
Personally, we do not know that any very serious objections can be urged against Mr. Ransom. Intellectually, there are thousands of men superior to him. Physically, he is quite a good looking old gentlemen-at least, as good looking as men usually are who are on the constant look out for office, and ready to cringe or fawn where thrift may follow. Of his physical courage we say nothing, but of moral courage we know him to be entirely destitute.
In Congress, and among men of determined and energetic spirit, he would be a "nose of wax," easily turned and twisted to suit any emergency. Such a man will not do to tie to. He can be of no service to the Territory either in Congress or out, and it's all nonsense to send such a man to Washington. ---- Squatter Sovereign
CAN A NEGRO OR MULATTO BE A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES?
It is not our purpose the review the opinion of the Judges in the Dred Scott case, nor to state our own convictions of what is now and always has been the only true rule. We propose merely to recall and state very distinctly a historical fact. Our attention has been called to the subject by a note to the late criticism on the decision of the Supreme Court, which we find in the July number of the Law Journal. Having examined the record, this is the result:
Early in the summer of 1807, the British minister at Washington informed President Jefferson that three deserters from the English frigate Melampus had enlisted on board the American frigate Chesapeake, and requested they might be given up. The subject was referred to Com. Barron, then in command, who instructed Capt. Gordon, his flag officer, to inquire the matter. After a thorough investigation, it was ascertained the seamen were all Americans; they had been impressed into the British service, and left the ship on board which they were serving while in Hampton Roads. The names of these men were William Ware, John Stranham, and Daniel Martin. Our Government declined to surrender them. On the 22d of June, 1807, the Chesapeake sailed for the Mediterranean, with these men on board. She was followed by the British ship Leopard, of fifty guns, Capt. Humphreys; and within sight of land, the American frigate was fired into and disabled by the Leopard. Several of her crew were killed and her flag struck, when she was boarded by a British lieutenant, who took from her the three seamen we have named, claiming them to be deserters from the British service. The Chesapeake returned to Norfolk, and the nation was disgraced for the first time in her naval history.
In consequence of this outrage upon our national honor, President Jefferson issued of the 2d of July, 1807, his celebrated proclamation, interdicting all British armed vessels from the harbors and water of the Untied States-"forbidding all supplies to them, and all intercourse with them, on peril of the law." So great was the excitement throughout the Union, that Mr. Jefferson observed, the country had never been in such a state since the battle of Lexington-Tucker's Life of Jefferson, 2 vol., 237.
On the 25 of October, 1807, Congress met, and received the President's annual message. He reiterates the substance of what he had so forcibly stated in his proclamation of July 2d, in which he emphaticall declares, "That no circumstance might be wanting to mark its character, it had been previously ascertained that the seamen demanded were native citizens of the United States."
The President's message was referred to a committee, of whom Mr. Blount was chairman, who made their report on 17th November. Among other remarkable things, they say: "It has been incontestantly proved that these persons are citizens of the United States, the two former, Ware and Stranham, of the state of Maryland. They refer to the documents, appended to their report for particulars. On referring to them we find that "William Ware is a native American, born in Fredrick county, Maryland, at Bruce's Mills, and the affidavits of William and Upton Bruce, prove him to be the son of their fathers slave Phyllis, and that they have known him from his childhood. His complexion is that of a bright mulatto.
Daniel Martin is fully proved to have been for many years a resident of Westport, Mass., and is described as a colored man.
The documents to which we have referred, are to be found in the 3d vol. Am. State papers, title foreign Relation, from the 7th to the 23d page.
Cooper, in the 2d volume of his American Naval History, page 13, describes but one of the men taken from the Chesapeake, "as a colored man," but the official papers cannot be doubted. As a sequel to the action of the President, and the report from the Congressional Committee, it must not be forgotten that on the 22d of Dec., 1807, the act levying an embargo on all American shipping, was passed, in order to protect our sailors from impressment, and to save our marine from the order in Council of England, and the Berlin and Milan decrees of Napoleon.
It will be seen then, in 1807, Negroes, if free, were regarded as citizens of the United States, by proclamation of President Jefferson, the report of the committee of Congress, and the universal public sentiment, that their impressments was a sufficient cause to prohibit British armed ships from our ports, and virtually sequestrate for a long period our own ships. -Cincinnati Commercial.
SENATOR MASON ON SLAVERY IN KANZAS.
Winchester, Va., July 22, 1807.
To the Editor of the "South."
DEAR SIR: In your paper on Monday last in an article headed "Walkers Usurpation," I observe the following paragraph:
"But we are told that Hunter and Mason, and other distinguished Southern Senators, in the debates on Nebraska-Kanzas bill, expressed the same opinion, that Kanzas must be a Free State,"(???)
I cannot undertake to say what opinion may have been expressed by my honored colleague, or by other Senators from the South, in reference to the probable condition of Kanzas; though, from a general knowledge of their views in regard to that Territory, I should not doubt that any opinions so expressed would have reference to circumstances and contingencies necessarily qualifying them. To avoid any misconstruction, however, I think it proper to say I have never expressed the opinion thus ascribed to me: because I never entertained it. At the time the law passed organizing the territorial government, there were few with whom I conversed who did not believe the future State would take its place with those recognizing and cherishing the condition of African Slavery. There was at that time, certainly, every reason to believe why this should be so, and none why it should be not. The State of Missouri, bordering its eastern frontier, was a slave holding State, holding at that time nearly a hundred thousand slaves, and these are chiefly held in the border counties.
The State of Arkansas, adjacent to the Territory on the South, was a likewise slaveholding State. The soil and climate of Kanzas, were well adapted to those valuable products, chiefly hemp and tobacco, which gave value to slave labor in Missouri. The proximity of its population, with the attractions of new, fertile and cheap land, I believed which lead the slaveholders in Missouri to diffuse themselves speedily over Kanzas, and the prohibitory line of 36 30 being obliterated, there was no reason why they should not. I had no fear in fair competition in such appropriation of the new Territory from any quarter. Unfair competition I did not look to.
What may yet be the result as to the condition of Kanzas, notwithstanding the extraordinary and unscrupulous efforts of Northern Abolitionists to force a population there, I cannot undertake to say. Nor will I allude in this place to the new and unexpected aspect now exhibited of affairs in that Territory, with so much propriety reprehended in the columns of the "South." Whatever may be the information of others, I certainly am not sufficiently informed of the existing state of things in Kanzas, to form a clear opinion one way or the other; yet I will venture to say this much, that if African Slavery be ultimately excluded from Kanzas, it will be effected by numerical force of organized majorities, operating against the usual laws which govern emigration; and will present a new and most instructive lesson to the Southern States.
Very Respectively,
I am yours, &c., &c.,
J. M. MASON
"I suppose," said a quack, while feeling the pulse of a patient, "that you think me a humbug."
"Sir," replied the sick man, "I perceive you can discover a man's thought by his pulse!"
THE RICHMOND SOUTH ON GOVERNOR WALKER---A HARD LICK.
Just as we predicted, the alarming insurrection against which Gov. Walker directed eight companies of U.S. troops, turns out a contemptible humbug. The whole affair was perfectly transparent. It was gotten up-fabricated from the scantiest materials-for the evident purpose of extricating the Governor of Kanzas from the unenviable predicament in which his usurpations have involved him. But the attempt, extremely difficult in any contingency, has proved in this instant a wretched failure. The game was played with an audacious effrontery, which showed a supreme contempt of public scrutiny. Even the juggler's sleight was wanting to insure a momentary reception. Look at it: the abolitionists of Lawrence, encouraged by the "pacific policy of Walker," refuse to except the municipal charter conferred by the Territorial Legislature and enacted on to suit themselves, essentially different in it's provisions. They thus placed themselves in direct collision with the constituted authorities, and of course it became the duty of the Governor to enforce the laws. Such an insignificant outbreak, the necessary consequence of Walker's pattering conduct, (???) the easiest matter in the world to subdue. But Walker did not choose the regard the affair as lightly. Here he thought was a rare chance to reinstate himself in the good graces of the Southern democracy, by a mock show of alacrity in repressing the insubordinations of the abolitionists. He telegraphed at once to Washington that civil war had again broken out in Kanzas with unprecedented intensity, put forth a proclamation to the citizens of Lawrence, in which their resistance to the law is described as the most "iniquitous rebellion which has ever disgraced any age or country," and stopped Col. Harney's expedition against the Mormons, in order to suppress the dreadful insurrections. His apologists were in ecstacies at this unexpected turn in the tide, and the "terrible rebellion in Kanzas," was wrought up in the blackest colors of imagination. How short-lived the joy! The news had scarcely reached Washington, before all again quiet in the Territory. The most "iniquitous rebellion which has ever disgraced any age or country," is quelled with magical rapidity, and the valiant Governor has the satisfaction to report to the war department that he has no further use for the United States troops destined for Utah! Thus began and ended the most pitiful farce ever witnessed upon the stage of public events in this country. That "proclamation" should be embalmed in the archives of the nation, and serve as a model for the future imitation. Since the days of William the Testy, Governor of the ancient colony of Manhattan, such another document has not issued from mortal pen.-Richmond, Va., South, July 27.
EXTRACTS FROM CONTEMPORARIES
"The Potter (Pa.) Journal has taken pains, on one or two occasions lately to give us backhanded compliments, indicative, doubtless of the feelings of the editors or towards us. * * * * When John S. Mann, Esq., edited the Journal, we should have felt hurt at such an insinuation. * * * * John S. Mann is a nobleman-one of natures own. -Herald of Freedom, July 4.
The Potter Journal of July 16, contains the following, being extracts from the Herald of Freedom with comments upon them by J. S. M. at whose "insinuations," the editor of the Herald would feel hurt:
Reader, honest thinking reader, you who have at heart the welfare of freedom, can you point to any course which the Herald of Freedom, has advised the people to pursue, or any course which it has itself taken, which has proved an injury to the cause you love? Have we ever opposed men without reason, or measures without good grounds therefor?"---- Kanzas Herald of Freedom.
As I have been a constant reader of the Herald, and a warm friend of the paper, I feel as if the enquiry was addressed to me in common with thousands of others; and I shall answer the enquiry through the press, the medium by which it is made public.
To my humble judgment, the number of the Herald from which the above was taken, contains very much that is well calculated to injure the cause which the friends of freedom love, and which they have supported at so great a sacrifice.
The first article under the editorial head has that tendency, because the whole tenor of that article is to discredit the action of the Free State men, from the commencement of the trouble up to this time. If that is not injuring the cause, I should like to know what would do it. I should also like to know how an honest reader of the Herald at this distance from the scene, was to reconcile different parts of this same article. Take these assertions for instance:
"Now peace and tranquility reigns on every hand. Others may prognosticate evil, and tells us it is the quiet which precedes the storm, yet the calm observer knows such not the case. Our civil rights are now within our reach, and nothing but impolitic action or 'masterly inactivity' can defeat us."
That is a hopeful view of things, but contains a back stroke at the course adopted by the Free state men. But see how this compares with above:
"Freemen of Kanzas! Do you not see the progress of the enchanter? The last hope is dying out. Another period lost, and we are lost-irrevocably lost."
There is more evil "prognostecated" in these four lines, then we have ever seen in any column of printed matter outside of the Herald, and ever "honest thinking reader" who loves the Free State cause, will be grieve at the purpose and effect of such language.
But the next article, that in relation to the Topeka Constitution, is to the same purport, and its whole influence is bad. Several Conventions have unanimously endorsed that Constitution, and no meeting of the Free State men, that has come to the knowledge of the public, has opposed, why then this opposition of the Herald? Is the object distraction and defeat? Such would be the effect, if the paper was received as a reliable advocate of Freedom in Kanzas.
I have no heart to pursue this investigation further; and will close by saying, that whenever an editor feels compelled to assert over and over again his devotion to a cause, was may be pretty sure there is something wrong in his actions, otherwise there would be no occasion for him to trumpet his own praise.
This article is free from innuendoes and ther is not mistake about its authorship.
J. S. M.
BUCHANAN REPUDIATES SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.
Hon. A. G. Brown, U.S. Senator from Mississippi, in a late speech of his made at Yazoo Court House in Mississippi, represents that the President has repudiated the darling doctrine of Douglas and the Democracy. The following extract is from the synopsis of his speech as given in Yazoo Sun of July 7th:
"From Minnesota, the speaker passed to Kanzas affairs, in the discussion of which, Walker's course met with the severest reprobation at his hands. He did not believe that Mr. Buchanan would suffer Walker to retain his place as Governor of that Territory, but if he did, the South would rise up and denounce him as false to the great principles of the Kanzas bill, and a traitor to her interests. He, for one, would do so, and so would every true Southerner. He had heard it from the President's own lips, that this thing of Squatter Sovereignty was one of the most damnable heresies that was ever broached in this or any other country, and that he (the President) would leave nothing undone to throttle it. Mr. B. had told the speaker this in all sincerity, and he believed it. He had no doubt but that Walker's appointment will be cancelled."
HON. CHARLES SUMNER.
Bayard Taylor has written a letter from London which appears in the N.Y. Tribune. From it we clip the following:
Mr. Sumner is here, at Maurigy's Hotel, in Regent street. I have not yet seen him, but some friends tell me he is looking very well. No American has ever been more popular in England than Mr. Sumner, and he is at present floating on the top wave of London society. I heard the other day a good story of his arrival here. He entered his name on the book as simply "Mr. Sumner, Boston," and was accordingly set down by the host and his flunkies as an ordinary traveler. The next morning one of the latter came to Mr. Sumner's room in some excitement, and said: "Lord Brougham is down stairs, Sir, asking for you." To the waiters amazement Mr. S. quietly said, without exhibiting the least surprise: "Very well; show him up." Not long after the former came, still more excited: "Sir, the Lord Chief Justice has called, and he asks for you!" "Show him up," was again the cool reply. After his Lordship had departed, the waiter came once more, bewildered and aggravated: "Sir, Sir, the Lord Chancellor of England has called to see you!" "Show him up," replied Mr. S. These astonishing facts were no doubt at once communicated to the landlord, for the next day's Morning Post announced the arrival of "His Excellency the Honorable Mr. Sumner," at Maurigy's Hotel.
LOCOMOTIVES IN THE COUNTRY.----The number of locomotives running in the United States, say the American Engineer, is probably over 9000. The preportion of engines to length of road will average on to every three miles-for while some of the Western roads have but one to every five or six miles, many others, like the Erie, New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio, etc., have nearly one fore every two miles. The Reading road has about three engines for every two miles.
THE STRENGTH OF FREE LABOR.
The London Times recently devoted a leader to Eli Thayer's project for colonizing Virginia and other Slave States. It goes into a review of the apparent triumphs of slavery during the last few years, notices the arguments that have been adduced by its upholders to show that it must be forever perpetuated, and then makes the the following very forcible remarks upon the invincibility of free labor:
"But great natural laws make themselves felt through all the turmoil of political strife, and in spite of all the resolutions of national prejudice. The Americans have said that all men are free and equal-meaning thereby that liberty of action and equality of all rights, though not of conditions, were a necessity of a properly constituted society. This great principle seems destined to assert itself against any legislative enactments, and any judicial decisions which may seem to controvert it. Americans decide that slavery shall in spite of temporary successes, recede before the advancing tide of freedom. Slavery treads out the compromise line, and declares that it will range anywhere from the Mexican Gulf to the British frontier. Nature, working quietly but irresistibly, proves that slavery is essentially weak, and is even incapable of holding its own."
The Times attaches very little importance to the measures of the slaveholder as offering an obstacle to the colonization enterprise:
"The settlers will, of course, be only exercising an undeniable right in buying a piece of ground and planting it, and and the advantage to all concerned will be too plain for any act of violence to be tolerated. We may, therefore, trust to see free labor advance by its own inherent energies into regions where slavery has had its day and failed. The principle has now been definitely adopted, that every part of the Republic shall be opened either to one or the other, according as the majority may determine. If the Free Soilers take their opponents at their word, we have little doubt of the result. As New York made itself free of slavery within the memory of men still living, and New Jersey within the last few years, so we trust the North will gradually push it principles in company with the progress of its hardy and adventurous sons."
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.
A pair of Mississippi lovers were recently married on horseback by a person sitting on a fence.
"Happiness," it has been finely observed, "is in the proportion of the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us."
"Didn't you guarantee, sir, that the horse wouldn't shy before the fire of an enemy?" "No more he won't. 'Tisn't till after the fires that he shies."
"Lengthened sweetness, long drawn out." Says a western editor, "is clearly defined in the lexicology of romance, to be a pretty girl six feet in her stockings."
Some medical man, whose name is unknown to us, says that those ladies who make it a business to trouble dry good clerks, and never buy anything, ought to be called counter-irritants.
A jolly doctor of this city, told us the other day that people who were prompt in there payments always recovered from their sickness, as they were good customer, and physicians could not afford to lose them.
Hoops-Ladies, a whisper in your private ear. Are you aware that here in New York, the broader the skirt the narrower the line between the saint and the cyprian; and that the women who wears the largest "habits" are generally the loosest in them? Fact-N.Y. Mirror.
An exchange wants to know what more precious offering can be laid upon the alter of a man's heart than-the first love of a pure, earnest, and affectionate girl, with an undivided interest in eight corner lots, and fourteen three story houses?
Puns.-A writer in the Richmond "Christian Advocate," alluding to the position of Dr. Chapin and Rev. E. B. Hale, on the theatre question, says that the Devil found a champion in the pulpit; but soon ascertaining that his wind instrument needed some support, called another clerical Chap-in and then shouted all-Hale.
A Virginia poet, James Fitz, while describing the scenery of the Old Dominion, goes into the following poetic fit, which may be set down as a hard grind:
"Extensive cotton mills are here,
With a fine water power;
And some are making cotton goods,
And some are making flour."
The number of steamers in the Untied Kingdom of Great Britain is (???) and the tonnage of them is 383,508 tons.
Mob Law-A man has been ordered out of the town of Yazoo by the citizens, under the penalty of tar and feathers, for his "general meanness of character." The law, it is said, protects the meanest individual. The mob which deprives him of that protection must be meaner still.
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S. W. Hutchinson, Esq., Clerk of the fine St. Louis and Council Bluffs Pucket Minnehaha, will accept our thanks for late papers.
A.C. Carter, Esq., the obliging Messenger of Richardson's Missouri Express, has again placed us under obligations by a file of Eastern papers.
Several gentlemen whose names have escaped ups, but who are connected with the "Lightening Line," have favored us with late papers, or rather early papers, during the last week. Thanks.
D.N. Greenleap, Esq., the ever attentive Clerk of the Polar Star, again brings us New York, St. Louis and Jefferson City papers.
LATEST FROM LAWRENCE,---MORE ARRESTS.
Several days since, O.C. Browne of Ossawattomie, and Charles Moffatt of Topeka, were arrested on the charges of participating in last year troubles. They were taken to Lecompton, where we are Informed they were held to bail for a final trial.
On Wednesday evening, the bogus Sheriff of Douglas county went to Franklin with a full company of U.S. troops and arrested two citizens named Purdam and Stuart, and two others whose names we have not learned, on similar charges. With an evident intention to awe and insult the people of Lawrence, the prisoners were paraded through the town by the bogus officer and the troops, and then taken to the camp and thence to Lecompton. They have since been bailed out at $1000 each.
On Thursday Col. Joel Grover of Lawrence, while giving testimony in a land case at Lecompton, became involved in a controversy with Weir the Territorial Prosecuting Attorney. With the undoubted view of gratifying the ire of that official, warrants were immediately issued and Col. Grover was at once arrested on three charges connected with last year's troubles. He gave bail in the sum of $4,500.
Gov. Robinson's trial for usurpation of office is set to commence at Lecompton next Monday, Judge G.W. Smith is his counsel.
Capt. Sam Walker is to be tried on four charges, on the 21st, 22d, and 27th insts.
Wier declares that he will enter no nolle prosequies this time, and that if the trials do not go on it shall not be his fault.
It is reported that Gov. Walker professes to be very indignant at Judge Cato's decision, and says the people shall be allowed to vote in the October election, whether they have paid taxes or not. But Gov. Walker has made promises before; if he means to fufil them something more than words is necessary.
What has become of all his specious statements that by-gones should be by-gones? What does he mean by permitting bogus, border-ruffian officials to re-open old sores, and by furnishing them with the U. S. troops to carry out their unrighteous oppressions and assumptions of power?
It is an apparent attempt to exasperate the people into attacking the U.S. troops, or some other act of violence-that old scenes may be renewed-that another army of volunteers may be called in from Missouri-that more property may be destroyed, and the country once more involved in anarchy and civil war. If any arrests are to be made on charges connected with last year's difficulties, why are they confined to Free-State men, while the most prominent persons in the border-ruffian murders of previous years, are still unmolested, and in the enjoyment of important Federal offices?
Those who are endeavoring to provoke Free State men to violence, will do well to pause and consider. They may go too far, and arouse a storm which they cannot quell.
THE "PACIFICATOR'S" PACIFICATION.
It is about three months since the nation was informed that the family of Hon. Robert J. Walker had consented that be should assume the Governorship of Kanzas, which he had been earnestly solicited to accept by Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet. The settlement of affairs in Kanzas in a manner that anything like satisfaction to the country was considered one of the most difficult tasks ever presented as a first duty to an incoming Administration. It was generally conceded that it would require quite as much tact and energy as the facile President and his advisors were masters of. It was generally admitted that the post of Governor must needs be filled by a man of energy and discretion-one who was firm and brave, conciliatory and impartial. The announcement of the individual who was to be this impartant agent of the new President was anxiously anticipated and until it was made, conjectures were almost without number.
When it was definitely settled that Robert J. Walker was to be the man, the Democratic Press, generally, was very jubilant over the wisdom of Mr. Buchanan's choice of a "Pacificator;" and some Republican journals which had not entertained say faith in the Administration expressed confidence that the light of a new day was dawning upon Kanzas. It may not be uninteresting to review the few months that his Excellency has spent in Kanzas for the purpose of ascertaining the qualities he has exhibited as a tactician, a Pacificator, a minister of peace.
It is apparent that under existing circumstances there could be but one course that would be successful. There were two parties to deal with, widely separated upon one principle, and made hostile to each other by the occurrences of a bitter and bloody struggle. The man who would conciliate such antagonistic elements, were that possible, from all language and action that would tend to exasperate the one or the other party. This is the least by which a Governor in Kanzas could become a successful pacificator. Has Walker pursued such a course?
In that Inaugural more remarkable for rhetoric reason, for floridity of diction than statesman like logic, we find his preferences distinctly written down when such avowal was entirely uncalled for. We find further that he deliberately slandered the Topeka Constitution and through it the large and respectable party that stood by it saying that it contained a clause excluding Negroes from Kanzas and thereby denying their citizenship in the country. Had there been such a clause his allusion to it would only have tended to prejudice its supporters against him as it was not directly under his consideration; but as there was no such provision, Free-State men could only read that charge with feelings of just indignation.
The election for delegates to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention was approaching. He conceived it to be his duty to use his influence to get the whole people to participate in that election. He took the stump, he talked, he tried to argue, he expostulated-which was all very well had his efforts ceased her; but his zeal was too ardent to be thus easily satisfied, so he devoted a considerable proportion of his speeches to the discussion of the Topeka Constitution, laboring most earnestly to bring it into disrepute. The vote just cast for that instrument shows that his course here was calculated to prejudice against him. This course was surely questionable. It may have been legitimate, even politic for him to urge upon the people a participation in the election, but did that require a discussion of the Topeka Constitution? Did that require him to discuss what kind of a constitution, or even what one should be adopted? Did it require him to insult all the men who endorsed the Topeka movement?
That election was held, and was a fizzle, notwithstanding Walker's rhetoric, Stanton's argument, and Perrin's spread-eagle eloquence! In the meantime, Fugit who had deliberately scalped a Free-State man, was arrested in Leavenworth, tried there for a crime and discharged. The trial of a Border Ruffian for the butchery of a Free-State man was a matter of no interest to his Excellency. But on the day of the municipal election Haller, a Free-State man, in self defence killed Lyle, a Pro-Slavery ruffian in Leavenworth. Haller was brought up for trial and his Excellency felt such interest that justice should be done, that he presented himself a Leavenworth during the trial and manouvered to the best of his ability, winking at every infamous trick proposed by the Bogus judge and his coadjutors. It seemed queer to Free-State men that he was so anxious for justice to have its victim in the later case, whilst in the former he never inquired, "Was justice dealt out to a Pro-Slavery ruffian?"
A few weeks ago the people of Lawrence thought it best to effect some organization through which her streets might be watered, nuisances removed, gulleys culverted, etc. A town charter was the result of the movement, under which the Major and Alderman were elected. The Governor heard of it, he grew pale, then desperate, wrote a proclamation, called out the troops, marched seven companies of dragoons to Lawrence and quartered them on the town-site.
Whilst he was lying there in a tent watching the rebelious Lawrenceites, a murder was committed one Friday night in Leavenworth which greatly exasported the people; and the next afternoon at four o' clock a mob hung one of the murderors, at six hung another, and continued to occupy the streets of the city until midnight on Sunday. The mob had taken the law in its hands, had held the officers of the law and had executed two men in a summary matter. From the gathering of the mob until it finally dispersed was more than thirty-six hours, yet the Governor never made his appearance quell the mob, to do anything to arrest it's violent proceedings! Had that mob been in Lawrence, what he would have done is a query in Free-State minds.
There are a few other instances where the Governor has manifested a like partially in the discharge of his duties, which may yet be made public. We have recited facts enough to show that it is not without cause the Free-State men have withdrawn all confidence from Gov. Walker; and enough we think to show that he has been a vastly over-rated man, or at least in that in assuming his present post he took one which he has neither the justice nor the discretion, neither the talent nor will, neither the energy nor power to fill with credit to himself or to the administration, or with any apparent benefit to Kanzas or to the country.
THE RECENT ELECTION.
Our latest advices from Topeka, (where all the official reports are sent) show between six and seven thousand voted for the Topeka Constitution. This was several days since. There are many portions of the Southern part of the Territory where the vote for the constitution has been very heavy, from which the returns were not yet received. Those who have the best opportunities for judging, from the returns already in estimate the whole vote for the Constitution at Ten Thousand. The Election was held under very unfavorable circumstances; the canvass was so short that in many districts the issue was not brought before the people at all upon the stump; and throughout the Territory thousands of friends of the Constitution staid away from the polls, attending to their ordinary pursuits. Knowing that there would be at this election little or no opposition to the Constitution, they did not come out to an election simply for the moral weight of their votes; but in any future struggle where there is to be a contest, they will be on hand. Under these circumstances it is morally demonstrated that from Twelve to Fifteen Thousand of the voters of Kanzas are firm friends of the Topeka movement. Will Gov. Walker and other gentlemen of the same ilk who have denounced us as "miserable minority," please "make a note on't?"
STRINGFELLOW DISGUSTED.
We published elsewhere a spicy report, kindly furnished by one of our well known citizens, of a recent "Law and Order" Convention in Atchison. Our readers may judge from it something of the material of which that delectable party in Kanzas, is composed. The notorious Dr. Stringfellow withdrew from his old Border Ruffian friends, in order, as he protested, to save from ruin the "pure Democracy," with which he has so long sympathized and affiliated, and in the attempted subjugation of Kanzas. The movement is a significant one, and future developments will show what it means. There is a cat somewhere in that meal tub!
PROGESS OF QUINDARO.
Nearly thirty buildings are now in course of erection in Quindaro. About one half of them are large and substantial edifices of stone and brick. Every stranger who visits our town is surprised to find, in a place where so few buildings are visible from the river, a population of about six hundred, and improvements of so substantial and costly a character. Some of our attentive friends in rival villages, who have so bitterly denounced Quindaro as a "paper town," "a gigantic speculation soon to be abandoned," etc., will do well to pay us a visit, and see whether or not the buildings which are being erected, look as if our people intend to stay. There is no town in the Territory which shows so large a proportionate number of durable improvements. Before Winter, Kanzas Avenue will be graded beyond the brow of the hill, and the buildings now commenced will be completed. Quindaro will then present from the river a very beautiful and imposing appearance-one that will not be equaled probably by more than one of the towns in the Territory, though half a dozen of them are two years her senior in point of age. And it is a fact which will be attested by all who have had opportunities for judging, that in point of good society-of upright, intelligent, and agreeable men and women,--Quindaro has now no superior, and very few equals in Kanzas.
IRREGULARITY OF THE MAILS.
Our people are subjected to the great inconvenience by the irregularity and tardiness of the mails. Letters and papers from the East are often delayed a week beyond the proper and ordinary time of their reception. We usually receive Boston and Cincinnati papers of the same date, simultaneously, though the former city is nearly eleven hundred miles further East than the latter. Subscribers from Boston papers here further complain that about half the numbers never come to hand at all. Notwithstanding that we have a daily mail, we are sometimes left four or five days without our daily papers of the Eastern cities, and then they all come in the same bag. The time occupied by the mail line in coming from Kanzas City here is less than two hours; but papers from that place are sometimes eight or nine days reaching us. Lawrence is but eight hours travel from Quindaro; but papers are five or six days in reaching us. The same relative facts exist in regard to Topeka and other interior town. There is gross and unpardonable negligence somewhere---will the Department attend to it?
PROGRESS OF PITTSBURG.
This town, located on the junction of the Big Blue and Kanzas rivers, opposite Manhattan, is said to be growing with that rapidity known only to the young cities of Kanzas. It is surrounded by one of the most beautiful regions in the world, containing plenty of timber and a wonderfully fertile soil. The great military road leading West from Fort Leavenworth, passes directly through it; and the site has many advantages which render its prospects of the best character.
THE MISSOURI ELECTION.
Our latest reports from St. Louis (received on Friday,) shows returns from 83 of the 106 counties of Missouri, leaving 28 to be heard from. The majority for Maj. Rollins so far is 3578. The St. Louis Democrat feels confident that he is elected by at least 1500 majority. Even the Stewart men in this vicinity believe Rollins to be elected, though by a close vote. Future returns may prove this a mistake, but we think not, and hope not. The election of Rollins will be a withering rebuke to the factious and ignorant me, led on by the demagogues, who have participated in the invasions of Kanzas. It will also be a gigantic stride towards Gradual Emancipation in Missouri.
Later.-Since writing the above, we have received the St. Louis Democrat of the 12th. All the remaining counties, Major Rollins would be elected by 588 votes, the Democrat is still confident therefore of Rollins' election by 1500 majority, if the returns are fairly made out. But there were many rumors afloat that the return from the remaining counties had been tampered with and would be brought in in such a shape as to give Stewart a large majority. Further developments are anxiously looked for.
THE SHAWNEE LANDS.
A recent dispatch from Washington, states that the Indians having made their selections, (of two hundred acres for each juvenile and adult of the tribe,) the remainder of these lands will soon be open to pre-emption and sale. It further announces that "the claims of the present white settlers will not be recognized." The language of the dispatch is somewhat vague, and does not set forth clearly whether this applies to the whole tract, or simply to the Indian selections. If only to the latter, it is just that white settlers should not be recognized. But the portions of the tract not chosen by the Indians, are already taken, nearly or quite every section of them, by white settlers. And if Government refuses to recognize them, they will do as squatters usually do-"recognize" and protect themselves. Any one who attempts "jumping" claims made for actual purpose of improvement and settlement, will find it costly business. The lands are among the most fertile, beautiful and valuable in Kanzas.
GOING AHEAD.
All the latest reports from the town of Sumner, (situated on the Missouri, a few mile below Atchison) represent that it is going ahead with almost unprecedented rapidity. The first buildings were erected in May; but a large number have now been completed, and many substantial improvements are said to be inaugurated. Sumner has an excellent position and its landing is considered on of the very best. Col. J. P. Wheeler, the Financial Agent is an untiring and enterprising gentleman; and with the cooperation of the other members of the company has done wonders in the way of the extemporizing a young city. Sumner shares of ten lots, are commanding between three and four hundred dollars.
On a Sunday night, this region was visited by a heavy shower, accompanied by much thunder and lightning. It has done a great deal to revive vegetation and bring forward the crops. A few more of the same sort would be of inestimable value to the growing corn.
A fine rain has been falling for the last twelve hours, and continues up to the time of our going to press. Its value to the crops will be inestimable.
The enrollment of names, and organization of citizens to protect the ballot-boxes at the October election is progressing rapidly throughout the Territory this fall. A large amount of ground is already being broken for the purpose. This is well. Every landholder should sow as many acres as possible, to supply the immigration next year.
Some of the advance waves of the tide of Fall immigration have already rolled up the Missouri from the East. Advices from New England, Ohio, and other Eastern and Middle States indicate the immigration this season will be unprecedentedly heavy.
PUBLIC LANDS IN MISSOURI.
A gentleman who will start in a short time to locate a few land warrants, in the best portion of Missouri, where public lands can now be obtained, will take more warrants for a moderate compensation. The public lands of Missouri are being taken very rapidly, and in a few months not an acre of any value will be left. The large emigration into the State, the prospective extinction of slavery, and its unbounded resources, will render Missouri land some of the most valuable in the Union, in a few years. Now is the time to scoure it. Enquire at this office.
We call attention to the new advertisement of (???) Thompson, Lucas and Co., of St. Louis. The house is a heavy one, and has an unusually large and various stock.
PROTECTION OF THE BALLOT-BOX.
A meeting of the citizens of Quindaro, favorable to organization for protecting the ballot-box at the October election, and E.D. Buck Secretary.
About seventy names were enrolled for joining the organization.
A Captain was elected by an almost unanimous vote of those present; but he desired to hold the matter under consideration until the next meeting, before positively accepting the position.
Messrs. G.E. Upson, O.H. Macauley and Dr. R.N. Aisworth were appointed a Committee to report names for the other officers of the organization, subject to the ratification of its members.
On motion of Dr. Budington, it was ordered that public notice be given of the next meeting, and that all citizens favorable to the protection of the ballot-box from fraud or invasion at the October election, be invited to attend.
After the transaction of some other preliminary business, the meeting adjourned to meet at half-past seven o' clock this (Saturday) evening, in Messrs. Upson's new building, on Kanzas Avenue.
A.D. Richardson, Chairman.
E.D. Buck, Secretary.
QUINDARO LITERARY ASSOCIATION.
A goodly number of ladies-more than at any previous meeting-were present on Thursday evening.
The question, whether a Free State man can support the present Administration, was discussed by Messrs., Merchant, Otis, Richardson, Corey, Upson and Kenyan, and finally decided in the negative by the Chair, on the merits of the argument.
A.D. Richardson, from the Committee appointed at the last meeting, reported a Constitution and By-Laws for the government of the Association. The Preamble enumerates as the objects of the Association. The Preamble enumerates as the objects of the Association, the promotion of "the intellectual culture, moral development, and social happiness" of its members,----The Constitution provides for the monthly election of a board of officers, consisting of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee of Three; defines their duties; states the qualifications for membership, and prescribes the manner in which it may be amended. The following is the Eight Section.
This Association recognizes fully the principle that investigation is the only road to sound opinion ; and adopts the sentiment of John Milton-"Let truth and falsehood grapple-truth never was worsted." In its debates, therefore, all political, religious, and social institutions-all questions affection the welfare of any portion of the human family, shall be deemed proper subjects for discussion, in a sincere and charitable spirit.
The Constitution and By-Laws, after some discussion, were adopted, and the Committee discharged.
On motion of S.L. Kenyan, a vote of thanks to the Committee, for the satisfactory manner in which they had performed their duty, was passed.
The discussion of the question (already debated for one evening,) concerning the relations of Woman to the present organization of Society, will be concluded next Tuesday night. Messrs. Carpenter and Abbott are the disputants. The first board of Officers under the Constitution will also be elected.
A Convention of the Clergymen of Kanzas, embracing all denominations, is to be held in Lawrence next week.-If our memory is faithful, Wednesday is the day set for the meeting.
We had the pleasure of a visit on Wednesday, form the Senator Root of Wyandott, and the Hon. H. Miles Moore of Leavenworth. We trust that their genial visages may often be seen in Quindaro.
THE MAGAZINES,
For the Eclectic, filled with its usual variety of choice reading, we are indebted to Messrs. Claypoole & Newby, the well-known Periodical Dealers of Leavenworth.
Blackwood for July is on our table. It is an unusually good number, and contains among other gems, an article on Currier Bell worth the price of a year's subscription. L. Scott & Co. N. York, Publishers.
Odd Fellows' Literary Casket for August contains eighteen articles-some of them quite interesting, in addition to a large amount of shorter and well digested miscellany. Its typographical appearance is very fine. T. M. Turner, Cincinnati, Publisher. $2 per year.
The Cincinnatus for August presents a fine collection of papers connected with natural science treated in an attractive manner, and a large variety of other subjects. It is an exceedingly creditable and interesting periodical. Published at Farmers' College, College Hill (near Cincinnati) O., at $2 per annum.
A POINTED ALLUSION.
The editor of that remarkable exponent of National Democracy, the Tecumsoh Note Book, in a recent leader lays down the programme of his future course. At the outset, he says, modestly:
"Though unaccustomed to, and unacquainted with the duties and responsibilities of the profession we have assumed, we shall rely upon the magnanimity of the corpse editorial," etc.
The italics are our own, In the concluding paragraph of the same article, he adds:
"In our intercourse with the editorial corpse, we shall deal frankly and freely."
The Note Book must allude to the editor of the herald of Freedom. Morally speaking, that person has been an editorial corpse for a long time. Peace to his ashes!
(Correspondence of the Quindaro Chindowan.)
BORDER RUFFIANISM IN CONVENTION.
"Law and Order" assemblage at Atchison-Stringfellow a True Blue Democrat-he saves "the Party" and deserts the Convention-A Candidate nominated for the Lecompton Convention-His character and Affiliations.
Atchison, K.T.,
August 8, 1857.
PRO-SLAVERY NOMINATING CONVENTION.
A Convention of the "Law and Order" party was held here this afternoon to nominate a member of the Bogus Constitutional Convention, which is to meet in Lecompton in September. The Nomination was instituted to fill a vacancy caused by a resignation of one of the delegates. The convention was organized by calling Judge Headly to the chair.
STRINGFELLOW ON HAND.
The following resolution was immediately offered by Dr. Stringfellow:
Resolved, That we endorse the Cincinnati Platform and the action of the Democratic party at Lecompton last winter, and will support no man for office who is not a "National Democrat," and will not support this resolution.
HE DEFINES HI POSITION.
In advocating the resolution, Dr. Stringfellow said:
Mr. President and fellow-citizens: I have presented this resolution because I believe that the time has come when all issues but that of National Democracy are side issues. It is no longer Pro-Slavery versus Abolitionism, but National Democracy against Black Republicanism.
Upon that issue we must stand. We must no longer ask "Is a man Pro-slavery?" but "Is he a National Democrat?" That is the question which arises in this convention today, and upon it we must elect our candidate.
We have nominated Gov. Ransom for Delegate to Congress, and he is in favor of making Kanzas a free State. We must form a coalition between Free State Democrats and Pro-Slavery Democrats (??), we are most certainly beaten. Let Democracy triumph and your most ardent desires will be gratified. Let us all with one accord wage a deadly war against Black Republicanism and march forward in triumph in the Democratic ranks.
I have no desire to be a candidate. I expect to attend the convention and I would as soon be an outsider as otherwise. It matters not which side of the bar I am, and the emoluments amount to nothing an I think the position will be attended with but little honor. But before I sit down I would urge upon you all to think seriously of this matter and act as it becomes good Democrats.
MR. RANDOLPH MAKES A SPEECH.
The next speaker was a Mr. Randolph, whose remarks were as follows:
Mr. President: I am a Pro-Slavery man, first, last, and all the time. I never voted anything but a Democratic ticket, and I never will, by G--.(Loud cheers.) I do not seek the position of delegate; but if my friends choose to use my name it is well. (Cheers.)
(???) with Abolition fanatics! I hope I may sink if I do! (Three cheers.) I have spent all my property and one year of time fighting against them; and now do you ask me to vote with them? Never! Never! Never! I'll be d-d first! (Prolonged applause.)
THE SHEEP ARE SEPARATED FROM THE GOATS.
The question was soon called for, and the resolution was lost.
Dr. Stringfellow again took the floor and said:
I apprehend, gentlemen, that you do not understand the meaning of resolution. I wish to know how many National Democrats are in the room. I would like to have all the National Democrats take a position on the left; and all other persons, whether Pro-Slavery men, Border Ruffians, or whatever other names you choose to call yourselves, on the right.
STRINGFELLOW WITHDRAWS IN DISGUST.
This request was acceded to. The result showed eleven National Democrats on one side, and thirty other persons upon each other. Thereupon Dr. Stringfellow said:
Gentlemen, I will not sit in anything but a purely Democratic Convention. I therefore leave you, to ruin your party, and make its name a reproach.
And suiting the action to word, the doctor and his friends withdrew from the Convention.
RANDOLPH IS NOMINATED AND MAKES A SPEECH.
Mr. Randolph was then placed in nomination to fill the vacancy.
After the result was announced, he made a speech, during which he worked himself into an awful passion, and pitched into "Abolitionism" and "Black Republicanism" at a great rate. There was so much confusion that it was impossible for me to hear all he said; but the cheers which his remark elicited were long and loud.
CHARACTER OF THE CONVENTION.
I never beheld a rougher, more ignorant and more drunken crowd in a Convention, than those I have met her today. During the whole afternoon they have made the streets ring alternately with songs, curses, and denunciation of Lane, the "Abolitionists," etc., etc.
CHARACTER OF THE CANDIDATE.
Randolph is a hard specimen of the genus homo; and makes one think of a Southern cotton field, I should think he had been a regular "nigger driver."
Seventy-five votes for the Topeka Constitution were polled here on Monday.
O.A.B.
H.B. Payne, of Cleveland, has been nominated for the Governor of Ohio, by the National Democracy. Gov. Chase will probably be re-nominated by the Republicans, and beat Payne by thirty thousand majority.
NEWSPAPERS IN IOWA-There are now published in Iowa 19 daily papers, 109 weekly papers, one semi-monthly paper and 6 monthly periodicals, in all 133, which, with an average circulation of 1,00 copies each, would make 133,000 newspapers published and circulated in the State each week. "There are," says the Mount Pleasant Journal, "probably an equal number printed in other States and received in the families of Iowa, making in all nearly three hundred thousand newspapers read weekly by our citizens."
THE BOGUS QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING.
Lecompton, K.T., July 31st., 1857.
S. G. Cato, Judge of the Supreme Court.
Sir,---The Territorial Legislature, at its late session, passed an act that has been a subject of discussion. The fifth section of "An act to define and establish the Council and Representative Districts for the Second Legislative Assembly, and for other purposes," is the provision, concerning which, doubts have been suggested and theories promuigated, It is in the following words:
"Every bona fide inhabitant of the Territory of Kanzas, being a citizen of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have resided six months in said Territory before the next general election for members of the Council and House of Representatives, and no other person, whatever, shall be entitled to vote at any general election hereafter, to be held in this territory." 2nd, Kanzas Statutes p. 68.
It is submitted that this act is in palpable violation of the organic Law of the Territory. The twenty-third section of that provides:
"That the right of suffrage and of holding offices, shall be exercised only by the citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act."
Under this act-the fundamental law of the Territory-allowing the six months residence qualification, prescribed by the Legislature to (???), a foreigner who may have landed in the United States, for the first time, in March last, and immediately settled in Kanzas, having declared (??) oath, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and having taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act, would be entitled to vote at the general election in October next: but under Territorial legislation he would be compelled to remain in the United States five years instead of six months, from the date of his arrival, before he would be entitled to vote.
We cannot too strongly condemn the introduction of the fell spirit of Native Americanism into Kanzas legislation. Who has forgotten the bloody riots of Philadelphia in 1844? The stoutest hearts were appalled when magnificent temples of the Most High crumbled into ruins. All Christendom blushed, and humanity dropped a tear when the parsonage of St. Augustine, where Protestants had been nursed by the Sisters of Charity, during the ravages of the cholera, was consumed amid the demonic yells of incendiaries. And shall the Legislature of Kanzas he permitted to nulify the action of Congress, trample on the Organic Law of the Territory and rob the foreigner of the elective franchise?
It is the opinion of some persons that the Territorial act cited above, repeals the former law, making the payment of a tax a requisite qualification of an elector. Though we are decidedly of the opposite opinion, we are exceedingly anxious to hear from the legally constituted expounders of the law. If consistent with your views of propriety, will you have the kindness to examine the subject and favor with the result of your investigation?
As we are unable to imagine any impropriety in making this request, we shall wait with some solicitude for your opinion; and as we have unbounded confidence in you legal acumen, we feel assured that the people of the Territory will read your exposition with the respect due to judicial authority.
In conclusion, Sir, accept assurances of regard and esteem.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servants,
O. H. BROWNE,
R.C. BISHOP,
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
- J. HOOLE,
JOHN KAYLOR,
- J. BUSH,
- H. ANTRIM,
WM. E. THOMPSON,
- H. PHILLIPS.
Lecompton, K.T., Aug. 4th, 1857.
Gents:--Your note of the 31st ult. is before me, asking an expression of my views as to whether the fifth section of the act of the last Legislature repealed the act of the former Legislature, prescribing the qualifications of voters.
I am unable to see any impropriety in giving an opinion on the question which your note presents; it is simply an opinion, however, entitled to no more weight than that of any other citizen.
You have copied, in your note, the section referred to, hence I need only give my views in relation to it. I am clearly of opinion that the Legislature intended to superadd to the other qualifications prescribed by the then existing law, that of being a bona fide inhabitant, who shall have resided in the Territory six months before the next general election. There is no clause in the act of the last Legislature expressly repealing the election law, as it stood before the passage of the act; and the rule which governs in cases of repeal by implication, is to examine the provisions of both old and new Statutes, and if there be no inconsistency in their provisions, if they are all reconcilable with each other, and can have their full operation, there is no repeal of the former by the latter.
The only inconsistency observable, between the election act as it stood up, up to the passage of the fifth section, is this: the election law as it stood, required simply, a mere inhabitancy, and the existing law requires an actual residence of six months. I am satisfied that the last Legislature intended to make no further change, leaving the payment of a Territorial tax, still as an indispensible pre-requisite to the right to vote at our next general election.
I agree with you, in the opinion, that the fifth section of the act of the last Legislature is void, so far as it confines the right to vote to the citizens of the United States, only, who possess the other qualifications prescribed; because the Organic act contains an express prohibition in the passage of any law which would deprive persons of the right to vote, who have declared on oath their intention to become citizens and have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Organic Act.
Returning my thanks for the expression of your confidence in my opinion, I remain
Most respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
- G. CATO.
Messrs. O.H. Browne, and others.
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QUINDARO MARKET.
Saturday, August 15, 1857.
Reported weekly for the Quindaro Chindowan, by Dr. Welborn, of the firm of A.C. Strock & Co.
Flour (??) cwt $4.00
Corn Meal (??)(??) 1.40
Hams, country cured, (?)lb .15
" canvass " " " .16
Shoulders, " " .12
Lard, " " .15
Butter " " .25
Sugar, Brown " " .14
" Crushed " " . 20
Rice, " " .8 1/3
Coffee, Rio, " " .15
Tea, Young Hyson, " " .90
" Imperial, " " .91
Saleratus, " " .10
Tobacco, " " 40 @ 1.00
Raisins, " " .40
Figs, " " .30
Almonds, " " .40
Candy, Rock, " " .40
Candy, assorted, " " .30
Powder, " " .50
Shot, " " .10
Lead, " " .10
Candles, Star, " " .20
" Mould, " " .20
Soap, " " .10
Starch, " " .15
Tar Tar Acid " " 1.00
Cream Tartar, " " .50
Soda, " " .10
Ginger, " " 20 @ 75
Pepper, " " .20
Allspice, " " .20
Eggs (??) dozen, .15
White Lead (?) Keg , 3.00
Molasses (?) gallon, 1.00
Linseed Oil (?) gallon, 1.25
Sweet Oil " 1.50
Olive Oil per doz. 9.00
Spirits Turpentine, (???) gallon, 1.50
Vinegar Cider, " " .30
Alcohol, " " 1.00
Brandy Puresignet " " 8.00
Wine, Port, old, " " 4.00
Wine, Sweet Malaga " " 1.50
Wine, Sherry, " " 2.00
Bay Rum, " " 3.00
Rose Water, " " 1.50
Lime Juice, " " 1.50
Nails, assort'd, (???) Keg, 5.75
Glass, 8-10 (??) Box, 50 ft, 3.00
" 10-12 " " " " 3.25
" 10-14 " " " " 3.50
" 12-16 " " " " 3.50
" 24-30 " " " " 7.50
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
CANDIDATES.
J. W. H. GOLDEN, of Leavenworth, is a candidate for Sheriff of Leavenworth county at the October election, subject to the decision of the Free State County Convention.
SCOTT J. ANTHONY, of Leavenworth city is a candidate for Clerk of the Probate Court, and Recorder for Leavenworth county, subject to the decision of the Free State County Convention.
(??) Quindaro Chindowan----Sir: You will please announce the name of Robt. L. Ream as a candidate for office of CLERK OF THE PROBATE COURT AND RECORDER of Leavenworth county, subject to the decision of the Free State County Convention. 13tf
JOHN KENDALL is a candidate for SHERIFF of Leavenworth County, subject to the decision of the Free State voters. 13
ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.
S. F. OTIS & C. H. CARPENTER,
PRACTICAL BUILDERS,
Are ready to contract for the Erection of Stores, Residences, ie. All work promptly executed, and in the best manner.
REFERENCES:
Gov. Chas. Robinson, Shepherd & Henry.
A. Gray. O.H. Macauly. M.B. Pride.
Quindaro, Aug. 14, 1857.
DR. ANDERSON,
Who, for more than ten years has had an extensive practice in Chicago, and during the past two years has been practicing as a Traveling Physician in the principal cities of Mexico, and having certificates of unrivalled success, feels pleased to offer his services to the citizens of Quindaro, and all others who may be so unfortunate as to need a Physician.
He would further say to those who are Deaf, or afflicted with Sore Eyes, that he has given extra attention to curing said afflictions, and to all who are thus afflicted he warrants to give relief if curable.
Enquire at the Office of the Quindaro Chindowan.
THE KANZAS
CLAIM AGENCY
AND
QUINDARO
HOUSE-LEASING AGENCY
Is now opened in Quindaro by the Subscriber, who would desire to say all having Claims to sell, that they will do well to write me, or come and see me, and give me an accurate description of you Claims, and where they are located, and the price, keeping in mind this fact that I am advertising extensively, and stand a hundred chances to your one to find you a purchaser. And those emigrating to Kanzas will find it greatly in their interest to land at Quindaro, and call upon me and get posted about the chances for Claims in Kanzas, as I have traveled much over the most desirable lands in Kanzas, and know where there can be obtained many very desirable Claims.
And all desiring to Rent a Dwelling House, Store, or Lots in Quindaro, will do well to enquire of me before spending time and unnecessary labor in looking.
R.C. ANDERSON.
Claim and House-Leasing Agent.
N.B.---All owners of Dwelling Houses, Stores, or Buildings of any kind, or Lots in Quindaro or vicinity, who desire to lease said described property, will find it greatly to your advantage to call upon me, and leave your terms and the description of your property, as I shall advertise promptly and extensively any and all such Houses, Lots or Lands to Lease, and probably I shall have a hundred chances to the owners one of securing to him a good customer, as I am continually being inquired of by those desiring to Rent Dwelling Houses, Lots, (??).
My commission for acting as an agent shall, in all cases, be made satisfactory to the parties for whom I may act.
Enquire at the Quindaro House for
R.C. ANDERSON, Agent.
2000 BUSHELS
SEED WHEAT
TO ARRIVE AND FOR SALE by the subscribers, at
QUINDARO, KANZAS,
Of the following varieties, viz:--Genesee or Blue Stem, Smooth, White Wheat, and the Mediterranean, a bearded Wheat, both sure crops and very productive.
The above Wheat has been grown on their farms, in Eastern Indiana, for several years, with most satisfactory results, and is carefully selected. They therefore recommend it to the entire confidence of the farmers of Kanzas.
Persons desiring to procure good Seed Wheat, should send in their orders as early as possible during this month.
Address R.P. GRAY & BRO.
Quindaro, K.T.
Aug. 4th, 1857.
JOSEPH M'CARTY,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
OF EVERY KIND;
Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco.
KANZAS CITY, MO.
SALESMEN:
JAS. A. HUTCHISON, JOHN M. CASWELL.
(???) T. (???), CLERK.
FROM
J. E. DUDDRIDGE'S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AGENCY,
Corner Olive and Main Street ST. LOUIS, MO.
WM. LUCAS. C. L. THOMPSON. WM. S. GUNN.
FALL 1857.
LUCAS, THOMPSON & CO.,
(Successors to C. M. McCLUNG & CO.)
WILL HAVE IN STORE THIS FALL A VERY SUPERIOR
STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
Among which may be found a complete line of
PRINTS, DELANES, CASHMERES, MERINOES, ALPACAS, INDIANA CLOTHS,
BOMBAZINES, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, BATINETS, JEANS,
TWEEDS, OVER COATINGS, BLANKETS, (???).
OUR STOCK OF FOREIGN GOODS
WILL EMBRACE ALL THE
LATEST STYLES AND NEWEST GOODS
Offered to the Trade.
Our White Goods Room will be filled with a Very Choice Selection of Everything under that Head. We will also keep a complete line of Notion Goods, which we will offer to the Trade upon good terms, as houses exclusively in that business. Our
STOCK OF STRICTLY STAPLES,
BROWN MUSLINS, TICKING,
Kersoys, Bleached Muslin, Negro Goods, Shirting Stripes, Oannburgs, Drillings, Shirting Tweeds, Linseys, Apron Checks, Bagging, &e.,
Will be found as complete as any in this market. We are determined to offer these goods at very close profits, and desire to call the attention of all Cash or Prompt Time Buyers to them.
LUCAS, THOMPSON & CO.
St. Louis, Mo., August 15, 1857.
FOR AIDING
EMIGRANTS TO KANZAS.
THE KANZAS
CLAIM AGENCY
IS NOW OPEN AT QUINDARO.
By the subscriber, who, having traveled over much of the most desirable land in Kanzas Territory, and having observed the necessity of such an agency on the Missouri River, in Kanzas, where emigrants on landing can be informed where in Kanzas they may be able to find Claims to please them, has, after much deliberation, arrived at the conclusion that Quindaro is the most suitable point for such an agency, as it bids fair, with its most excellent rock landing, and its central position and excellent roads into the interior, to be the point where the major part of the emigration to Kanzas will, land and procure their information about chances for Claims, &e.
The subscriber will spare no pains in posting all who desire homes in Kanzas, about where they may find Claims on lands open for pre-emption, or where they may locate with great advantages on or near very desirable lands held at present by various small tribes of Indians, who are treating with the United States government, and whose lands are sure to come into market in a short time.
I would further day that for a small consideration I expect to be able, at a few hours' notice, to go with individuals or companies, and show them unclaimed lands, or send a man in my employment who will be true to the emigrant in assisting him to locate or purchase Claims, having all the advantages that Kanzas affords.
The emigrant may rest assures that he will find my Agency one of great interest to him, as I am continually in communication with various persons in the interior of Kanzas, who are desirous that I should send to their particular localities, emigrants who will erect Steam Mills, Stores, Mechanic Shops, and will Teach Schools, &e.
The subscriber will be able and willing to give many useful hints to new comers that will save them much trouble and anxiety, having himself been through the mill, and paid, like many others, dear for my experience, or want of it, in making a claim in Kanzas, because I knew of no Agency upon my arrival in Kanzas that could render me all the assistance that I needed in the way of posting.
Any desiring Land Warrants Located may do well to address me by mail, and my terms and the chances may thus be known. I am sure that I can locate or sell Land Warrants for non-residents better to their advantage than they could if they were to come to Kanzas, and spend less than several months.
All desiring to pre-empt land will do well to bring with them one hundred and sixty acre Land Warrants, which can be used to pay for Claims upon pre-empting.
The subscriber has also connected with the aforesaid Agency, the
QUINDARO
HOUSE AND LOT-LEASING
AGENCY.
And all who desire to Lease a House, Store, or Lots in Quindaro, will do well to inquire of me before spending time to look, and thus save time and labor.
R. C. ANDERSON.
REFERENCES:
HIGGINS BROTHERS, )Chicago, Ill.
E. H. CASTLE, )
C. N. HOLDEN, )
- ROOT )Elgin, Ill.
- W. PADELFORD, )
- HACKNEY, )Aurora, Ill.
- VALENTINE, )
Quindaro, Aug. 15, 1857.
TO THE PEOPLE OF KANZAS!
The Undersigned have taken the Store-Room under the Quindaro Hotel, and offer at wholesale or retail, the Largest and best assorted
STOCK OF MERCHANDIZE
ever offered for sale in Kanzas.
In our stock will be found almost everything suitable to the wants of the country, which we will sell as low, if not lower, than can be purchased elsewhere. We will duplicate St. Louis bills, adding expenses of transportation. We solicit a share of the public patronage, and will be pleased at all times to show our goods.
JOHNSON & VEALE.
May 4th, 1857. ltf
JAMES G. SANDS,
SADDLE, HARNESS & TRUNK
MANUFACTORY.
Always on hand, everything in my line.
Also Belting Leather, Whang Leather, Copper Rivets, &e.
Opposite Morrow House.
Lawrence, Kanzas, April 1, 1857. ltf
QUINDARO
STEAM SAW MILL CO.
The citizens of Quindaro and vicinity are hereby informer that the Saw Mill belonging to the above Company is now in operation, and that Lumber can be furnished on the most accommodating terms.
Quindaro, May 14th, 1857. ltf
F. Johnson. Geo. W. Veale.
JOHNSON & VEALE,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
Agents for the sale of Pittsburg Salamander Safes and German Anchor Bolting Cloths.
Particular attention paid to putting up orders.
May 4th, 1857. ltf
IRELAND & M'CORKLE,
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS,
QUINDARO, ----------------KANZAS
ARE PREPARED TO ATTEND TO
BUILDING in all its Branches
Contracts for Buildings taken, Stores fitted up and all work in their line promptly attend to
May 4th, 1857. ltf
OH, YES, NEW HORSES TO THE OLD COACH!
W. J. M'COWN & CO.,
(Successors to M'Cown & Buck,)
Have a large Stock of well assorted
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Hats, Cups, Clothing, Yankee Notions
&e., &e.,
Which will be sold low for Cash, either a Wholesale or Retail.
Please give us a call at
No.4, North Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, July 11, 1857. 9---tf
SHEPHERD & HENRY
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
HARDWARE AND STOVES,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
AGENTS FOR
J. M. Crosby's Patent Eccentric Latches, Lock and Bolts..
R. H. Peasc's Horse Powers & Agricultural Implements.
P. Rollhaus' Patent, First Premium, Knicker bocker Cooking Ranges.
J. M. B. Davidson's Fire King Safes,
WM. SHEPHERD D. D. HENRY
N.B. All kinds of Job Work neatly and promptly done.
THE PEOPLE'S
VARIETY STORE,
NO. 38 KANZAS AVENUE.
MESSRS. A. C. STROCK & CO.
Wish to call the attention of the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity to their Stock of Goods, consisting of a general assortment of
DRY GOODS.
GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
DRESS GOODS & BONNETS
together with all the variety of Domestic Goods usual to the Trade.
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Also. Carpenters' Tools, a general assortment of
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
Paints, Oils, and Dye Stuffs, Glass Ware, Window Glass, Fine Tobacco and Segars, together with the usual variety of articles usually found in that line of business most.
Dr. WELBORN, who is a practical Physician, having special care of the Drug Department, hopes to give general satisfaction.
A. C. STROCK & CO.
Quindaro, May 4, 1857. ltf
RUSSELL'S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MASTIC ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
This Roofing is applicable to steep of flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Cars, Foundries, &e., &e. It is Fire-Proof, will not crack or run, will wear under foot, and is adapted to Roofs of every description. It can be put on over old shingles, tin and metal roofs without removing the same.
This roofing is desirable on account of its, easy application, great durability, and exact adaptation to any climate, by its expansion and contraction through the influence of heat and cold. It will unquestionably by far excel any Roofing now in use, Tin or Slate not excepted.
The undersigned have purchased the full and exclusive right of manufacturing and vending the above roofing for the Territory of Kanzas, and are now prepared to execute all order with promptness and dispatch.
Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribers.
SHEPHERD, HENRY & CO.
Quindaro, K.T., May 28, 1857.
FOR SALE
BY
JOHNSON & VEALE
10 BALES brown sheetings.
7 cases of bleached sheetings and shirtings.
12 cases of assorted prints.
150 kegs assorted nails.
50 boxes assorted window glass.
70 dozen door lock and latches.
SCREWS ASSORTED.
2 dozen Hatche's counter scales.
1 " Tea " "
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers.
12 assorted glassware.
Log chains, trace chains, shovels, spades, forks, soythes and coffee mills; shot guns, rifles, revolvers, shoe-belts and powder-flasks; broad cloths, cassimers. Tweeds and satinette; black silks, dress silks, lawns and challes; bernges, hats and bonnets, boots and shoes. A large stock of
VARIETY GOODS
AND
YANKEE NOTIONS,
All of which are offered at UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES to CASH CUSTOMERS.
May 4th. 3tf
FROM
J.E. DUDDRIDGE
(Successor to W. S. Swymmer.)
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
AGENCY.
CORNER OLIVE AND MAIN STS.
Over John J. Anderson & Co.'s Banking House,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
DOWDALL, MARKHAM & CO.,
WASHINGTON FOUNDRY,
ENGINE
AND
MACHINE SHOPS,
Corner Second and Morgan Sts.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Manufacturers of Steam Engines and Boilers, Saw and Grist Mill Machinery, Dingle and Double Circular Saw Mills, Tobacco Screw and Presses, Lard Kettles, Lard Screws and Cylinders, Wool Carding Machine, Building Custings, Young's Improved Patent Strut Mills, &e.
Agents for the sale of James Smith & Co.'s Superior Machine Cards.
12-lyis
LAWRENCE ADVERTISEMENTS
BOOKS, STATIONARY & C.
O. WILMARTH,
LAWRENCE, K. T.,
Would inform his friends and the public generally, that he keeps on hand as good as assortment of articles in above line as can be found in the Territory, consisting of
School, Childrens' and Miscellaneous Books (??) Also Blank and Memorandum Books; Writing Books; Sintes, Pencils, Musical Instruments, Musical Merchandise, &e. &e.
HIS CICULATION
LIBRARY!
Is supplied with some of the most popular works published, and is constantly receiving additions from the East.
WHITNEY HOUSE,
NO. 5 NEW HAMPSHIRE STREET,
LAWRENCE, KANZAS.
T. L. WHITNEY Proprietor.
May 13, 1857. ly.
ROBINSON, WALKER & CO.'S
DAILY
PASSENGER & EXPRESS LINE,
FROM
QUINDARO TO LAWRENCE.
FARE $2.50
The nearest and cheapest route from the Missouri to the Interior of Kanzas.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
CHAS. B. ELLIS,
CIVIL ENGINEER & SURVEYOR,
Attends properly to all descriptions of Engineering and Land Surveying, on reasonable terms. Also, attends to all kinds of land business.
May be found at the Office of the Quindaro Company. Also, at the Office of the Parkville, Grand River, and Burlington Railroad Company, Parkville Mo.
May 4, 1857. ltf
A GOOD TINNER WANTED.
A GOOD TINNER can get employment by applying immediately at
SHEPHERD & HENREY'S, in Quindaro.
August 8, 1857. 13-tf
ROB'T L. FRAZIER,
PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER
AND
JEWELLER!
Dealer in all kinds of
CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY!
Watches and Jewelry
Thoroughly and Promptly Repaired.
No. 14 MAIN STREET ------LAWRENCE , KANZAS.
HUNT AND CLELAND,
No. 17 MASSACHUSETTS ST., LAWRENCE KANZAS,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Consignments respectfully solicited.
GEO. W. HUNT. WM. CLELAND.
July 25, 1857. 11-3m.
BREADSTUFFS AND GROCERIES
300 SACKS FLOUR, Superfine, Extra and Double Extra.
50 (???). Flour, Superfine, Extra and Double Extra.
1 (???). Crackers.
60 Bushels Corn and Meal.
2000 Canvassed Hams.
10 (???). Sugar-Brown and Crushed.
10 " and Kegs Syrup and Molasses.
Old Hamburg Cheese, Figs, Dairy Salt,
TEA, COFFEE, RICE, VINEGAR,
HOUSES,
Window and Door Frames, Lath, Sash, Nails and Glass, for sale by
HALL, ENGLISH & HENDERSON.
Quindaro, July 25, 1857. 11-tf
KETCHUM'S
PATENT MOWER
WITH OR WITHOUT
REAPER ATTACHED.
THIS Machine took the First (???) at the World's Fair held in New York in 1853, in competition with McCormick, Manny, Burrill, Hussey and several others; also, at State Fair in Ohio 1853, '4 in New York 1853, '4, '5, at the American Institute in the city of New York in 1852, '3, '4, '5, at the fair held in Philadelphia in 1855, besides many other State and County Fairs; also, the $600 premium in Massachusetts in 1855.
This machine is warranted to cut from 10 to 15 acres of grass or grain per day, in as good a manner as if done with a Scythe or Cradle.
Price of Mower $110; Mower and Reaper combined $130.
FOR SALE BY
ALFRED GRAY. Quindaro, K.T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf
THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between the subscribers, in the Steam Saw Mill and Lumber business, under the firm of ROWELL & WEBB, is this day, by mutual consent, dissolved.
A. J. ROWELL.
OTIS WEBB,
Quindaro, June 16th, 1857.
The Mill and Lumber business will hereafter be carried on by A. J. ROWELL.
PARRY'S HOTEL
Leavenworth City, Kanzas.
Corner of Shawnee and Fifth Streets.
The House lately kept by Mr. Adam Fisher, having been enlarged by the addition of a spacious dining room and kitchen, and twenty-one sleeping apartments, and being furnished with new beds, &e., is now open for the accommodations of the traveling public. The present proprietor solicits the custom heretofore given to the former proprietor, and of the public generally.
May 1, 1857. 12-lf R. PARRY.
FOR SALE.
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres of Land, situated on Seven Mile Creek, one mile west of Delaware, and three miles from Leavenworth, on the Military road-12 acres under cultivation. A Good double-hewed log House, an excellent Spring, and well timbered. Terms liberal.
Enquire of BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres, situated on the N. E. qr. of Sec. 34, Town 9, R.21 on the Del. T. Lands, seven miles from Delaware, and eight from Leavenworth. Eighty acres are under cultivation. On the premises there is a good Double-Hewed Log House, and excellent Spring, 400 Fruit Trees, and good timber in the neighborhood. Terms liberal. Enquire of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
FOR SALE.
THE MACHINERY in the Steamer Hartford, consisting in part of two Boilers and two Engines, at St. Mary's Mission, on the Kanzas River. Terms liberal. Enquire of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.,
June 4. tf4 At Quindaro or Lawrence.
TIMBER LAND FOR SALE!
60 ACRES of fine Timber Land, situated on the Wyandot and Lawrence Stage road, three miles from Quindaro, six miles from Wyandot, and two and a half miles from Parkville. The above land borders on improvements, ahs a fine spring of water, and well covered with oak and walnut Timber. It is rolling land.
Price, $25 per acre. Enquire of
NEWMAN & AINSWORTH.
Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, June 30, 1857. 2m8
BLACKSMITH & WAGON-MAKER
WANTED.
A Large Settlement is the vicinity of Robinson, are much in need of a Blacksmith and Wagon-Maker. Liberal inducements will be offered by the Town Company, to any such who chose to go and supply the want.
Apply to C. B. Ellis, Quindaro House.
Quindaro, July 11, 1857. 9-tf
WATER CISTERNS.
THE Subscriber, an experienced hand at the business, offers his services to persons wanting first-rate reservoirs for catching rain-water and keeping it pure. Drop him a line at Parkville, Mo. HENRY POWELL.
June 1st, 1857. 5t4
FLOURING MILLS FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber has two Portable Flouring Mills (Burr Stone,) all ready and complete to be attached to power, for sale very low.
ISAAC W. ANDREW.
Corner Kanzas Avenue and Levee,
Quindaro, K. T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf
H. M. SIMPSON. O. H. MACAULY.
SIMPSON & MACAULY,
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
REFERENCES:
Amos A. Lawrence, Boston, Mass.
Prof. E. Daniels, Ripon, Wis.
Jno. W. Ellis, Cincinnati, O.
May 4, 1857. ltf
JOB PRINTING,
Neatly and Promptly executed at the Office of the Chindowan.
J. GROVER. S. C. SMITH.
GROVER & SMITH,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
PARKVILLE, MO.
Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their care.
PRODUCE and OUTFITS for Kanzas as low as any point on the Missouri. Please give us a call.
REFERENCES:
SIMMONS & LEADBEATER, St. Louis, Mo.
RAY & MADILL, Chicago, Ill.
S. P. ALLEN, Rochester, N. Y
May 4, 1857. ltf.
STONE CUTTING
AND
MASONRY.
FREDERICK KLAUS,
HAS OPENED A
STONE YARD IN QUINDARO,
And is prepared to furnish all kinds of
CUT STONE FOR BUILDING PURPOSES,
MADE OF
Material of a Superior Quality from a quarry which he has opened near this place. A sample if it may be seen in his residence, No. 13, O St.
He will also contract for buildings at reasonable rates, and is prepared to execute promptly, and in good style, all work entrusted to him.
Quindaro, May 1st, 1857. ltf
The Beautiful & Unrivaled Regular
PASSENGER STEAMER
MORNING STAR,
T. H. BRIERLY, Master.
H. M. BLOSSOM, CLERK,
LEAVES
St. Louis for St. Joseph,
Every alternate TUESDAY, at 4 o' clock, P. M.
LEAVES
St. Joseph for St. Louis,
Every alternate MONDAY, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
FOR SAINT LOUIS,
Leaves Leavenworth City, Parkville, Quindaro, Wyandotte, Kanzas, Independence, Liberty, Richfield, Sibley, Camden and Wellington, on TUESDAYS, June 9th and 23d, July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th, Set. 1st, 15th, and 29th, October 13th and 27th, November 10th.
Passing Parkville at 7 o' clock, A. M.; Quindaro at 7 1/2. A. M.; Wyandotte at 8 A. M.; Kanzas at 9 A.M.; Wayne City at 11, A. M.; Liberty at 12 M.; Richfield at 2, P.M.; Sibley at 3, P.M.; Camden at 5, P. M.; Wellington at 6, P.M.; remaining at Lexington over night.
The MORNING STAR was built, without regard to cost, for a first class Missouri River Packet, and in point of speed, elegance and luxurious accommodations, is pre-eminently without a rival in the trade. Every effort will be made on the part of her officers, and their subordinates, to secure the completest comfort, safety, and convenience of passengers.
May 30, 1857.
HALL, ENGLISH & HENDERSON,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
STORACE AND FORWARDING,
QINDARO, KANZAS.
REFERENCES: ---Cushing, King & Degraw, 10 Warren St., New York. Simmons & Leadbeater, Forwarders, St. Louis/
ADDITIONAL.
WE have received, in addition to our former stock,
30 bbls. CEMENT, 10 doz. BROOMS, 10 doz.
BUCKETS, 2 doz. WASH TUBS, 2000
Seamless BAGS, 20 Bundles SASH,
100 kegs assort'd NAILS,
100,000 assc'd CIGARS,
6 boxes TOBACCO.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
Jun 1st, 1857. 4 JOHNSON & VEALE.
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THE NORTHERN INDEPENDENT.
Price, $1.00 per Annum.
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Circulation of over Nine Thousand.
REV. WM. HOSMER, Editor. Rev. D. W. Bristol, Rev. H. Mattison, Rev. J. Watts, Rev. H. R. Clause, Rev. B.T. Roberts, Corresponding Editors.
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The Northern Independent is what its name imports-it is Northern and Independent in the full sense of these terms. It was started to redress a great wrong inflicted by the late General Conference, at Indianapolis, in denying the Annual Conferences of Western and Central New York, their customary and proper voice in the choice of an Editor for Northern Christian Advocate-a paper published in their midst, originated by them, and up to last June, provided with Editors selected by the official representatives of the Patronizing District.
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CARBONDALE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the south half (1/2) of the south-west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty-three (23), and south half (1/2) of the south-east quarter (1/4) of section number twenty-two (22) and the north half (1/2) of the north-west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty-seven (27) and the north half (1/2) of the north-west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty six (26); all in township number fifteen (15) south, and range number fourteen (14) east in Kanzas Territory, containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres, are taken by the CARBONDALE TOWN COMPANY for a town site, according to the act of Congress authorizing the pre-emption of public lands for town sites.-Notice is further given that the plot of the town of Carbondale has been duty recorded in the office of the register of public lands at Lecompton, Kanzas Territory.
ALSON C. DAVIS, Trustees Carbondale
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Dated Carbondale, K.T., Mar. 1, 1857.
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Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
Saturday, August 15, 1857.
My Mother's Grave.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTION.
The trembling dew drops fall
Upon the shutting flowers-like souls at rest-
The stars shine gloriously-and all
Save me is blest.
Mother! I love thy grave!
The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild,
Waves o'er thy head-when shall it wave
Above thy child!
'Tis a sweet flower-yet must
It's bright leaves to the coming tempest bow,
Dear mother 'tis thy thine emblem I dust,
Dust is on thy brow.
And I could love to die-
To leave untasted, life's dark, bitter streams,
By thee, as erst in childhood, lie,
And share thy dreams.
And must I linger here,
To stain the plumage of my sinless years,
And mourn the hope of childhood dear,
With bitter tears?
Ay, must I linger here,
A lonely branch upon a blasted tree.
Whose last frail leaf, untimely (???),
Went down with thee?
Oft from life's withered bower,
In still communion with the past, I turn,
And muse upon the only flower,
In memory's urn.
And when the evening pale
Bows like a mourner on the dim blue wave,
I stray to hear the night winds wail
Around thy grave.
Where is thy spirit flown?
I gaze above-thy look is imaged there;
I listen, and thy gentle tone
Is on the air.
Oh come-whilst here I press
My brow upon thy grave-and in those mild
And thrilling tones of tenderness,
Bless, bless thy child!
Yes, bless thy weeping child,
And o'er thy urn-religion's holiest shrine-
Oh, give this spirit undefiled
To blend with thine.
Artesian Wells in Prairie Counties.
The following article from the Peoria (Ill's) Transcript, contains suggestions that my prove valuable to the inhabitants of prairie country where water is difficult to be obtained:.
"One of the greatest objections to this country is found to be the scarcity of water on the prairies. Wood can be provided in most localities, or coal can be used, but there are few springs on the higher prairies that can be depended upon in dry times:
Wells can be sunk in almost any place at a tritling expense, but then a well is not a spring by any means. What is not wanted is an ever flowing fountain of water, that needs no machinery to draw it up from the depths where nature placed it. Pumps are an excellent thing in their place, but they are not exactly the article for watering cattle.
A remedy for this evil has been discovered. Springs can be manufactured equal to those that are made in the original manner.
It has been a matter of doubt with many, whether, on a large plain like our western world, artesian wells could be rendered available, or whether the water would rise to a point above the surface of the earth. This doubt has been entirely dispelled by actual demonstration.-Numerous wells, in various parts of the country have been made, and have as readily thrown the water above the surface as if in mountainous countries.
Several wells have been sunk near the eastern border of this State, and they have been a triumphant success. The expense of making these wells is not as great as generally supposed. We think the average depth is not above two hundred feet. The cost of such a well cannot be greatly above those of the ordinary kind.
We are not sufficiently acquainted with the expense or capability of those wells to venture an opinion, but we cannot see why our own city could not get a good supply of water in this manner. Let this be as it may, there is no doubt artesian wells are to become a prime cause of the settlement, and a great means of comfort on our wild western prairies. These artificial springs are to water and fructify the soil which before has been only moistened by rains direct from heaven.
The benefit which these will confer upon the boundless prairies of the West, is absolutely in calculable."
FREE-STATE PLATFORM,
ADOPTED July 16, 1857.
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 (???) 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 the Convention assembled:
I. That the Topeka Constitution an 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 (???) 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 (??)
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 Kanzas, by immediately admitting her as a State under the Topeka Constitution.
IV. That the Free State men of Kanzas now (???) (???) (???) deny the validity of the Territorial Legislature-that the still recognize it as the (???) (???) and violence, and that they acknowledge neither the validity nor the binding (???) of its (???).
V. That the recent vote for delegates to a Constitutional Convention, has demonstrated to the world that the Pro-Slavery faction is a "(???)(???)(???)(???) 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 (???) so (???) 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.
-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.
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 (???) 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 member of the Territorial Legislature, without recognizing the validity of a Bogus Legislature imposed upon them by fraud and by foree, 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 (???) to the great cause in which we are engaged, and pledge to each other firm, united and preserving efforts for the final triumph of Freedom in Kanzas.
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.
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: There fore 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.
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It will also give a due share of attention to the taste, the imagination, and the feelings. Its regular contents will embrace tales, incidents of travel and adventure, sketches of character and social life, and (???) upon art and morals.
The publishers have made arrangements with the best American writers who will contribute in the various parts of the paper. The large space at their disposal will enable the Conductors to avail themselves of ample selections from the best and most healthful selections of the old world. The first number will contain the commencement of Mr. Thackery's New Seriel Tale the publication of which, from early sheets purchased of the author, will be continued from week to week, until its conclusion. I addition to this they will keep a vigilant eye upon the issues of the English, French, and German Periodical press, the best productions of which will be transferred to the paper under their charge.
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With the July number commences the Tenth Volume of PUTNAM'S MONTHLY.
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CINCINNATI, OHIO.
The Eclectic
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
THE Winter Session of 1857-8 will commence on Monday the 12th of October, and continue sixteen weeks. A full and thorough course of Lectures will be given, occupying six or seven hours daily, with good opportunities for attention to practical Anatomy, and with ample Clinical facilities at the Commercial Hospital. The preliminary course of Lectures will commence on Monday, the 28th of September, and continue daily until the commencement of the regular Lectures.
The arrangement of the chair will be as follows:-
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O. D. LEWIS. M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
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THE
College Journal of Medical Science,
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139 Seventh Street, Cincinnati, Ohio
CARBONDALE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the south half (1/2) of the south-west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty-three (23), and south half (1/2) of the south-east quarter (1/4) of section number twenty-two (22) and the north half (1/2) of the north-west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty-seven (27) and the north half (1/2) of the north-west quarter (1/4) of section number twenty six (26); all in township number fifteen (15) south, and range number fourteen (14) east in Kanzas Territory, containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres, are taken by the CARBONDALE TOWN COMPANY for a town site, according to the act of Congress authorizing the pre-emption of public lands for town sites.-Notice is further given that the plot of the town of Carbondale has been duty recorded in the office of the register of public
lands at Lecompton, Kanzas Territory.
ALSON C. DAVIS, Trustees Carbondale
HORACE WHITE< Town Company.
Dated Carbondale, K.T., Mar. 1, 1857.
PURE ICE!
CAN now be obtained at all hours, in the rear of the Quindaro House.
July 18th, 1857. 10 HODGES, Agent.
WATER CISTERNS.
THE Subscriber, an experienced hand at the business, offers his services to persons wanting first-rate reservoirs for catching rain-water and keeping it pure. Drop him a line at Parkville, Mo. HENRY POWELL.
June 1st, 1857. 5t4
FLOURING MILLS FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber has two Portable Flouring Mills (Burr Stone,) all ready and complete to be attached to power, for sale very low.
ISAAC W. ANDREW.
Corner Kanzas Avenue and Levee,
Quindaro, K. T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf
H. M. SIMPSON. O. H. MACAULY.
SIMPSON & MACAULY,
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
REFERENCES:
Amos A. Lawrence, Boston, Mass.
Prof. E. Daniels, Ripon, Wis.
Jno. W. Ellis, Cincinnati, O.
May 4, 1857. ltf
J. GROVER. S. C. SMITH.
GROVER & SMITH,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
PARKVILLE, MO.
Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their care.
PRODUCE and OUTFITS for Kanzas as low as any point on the Missouri. Please give us a call.
REFERENCES:
SIMMONS & LEADBEATER, St. Louis, Mo.
RAY & MADILL, Chicago, Ill.
S. P. ALLEN, Rochester, N. Y
May 4, 1857. ltf.
STONE CUTTING
AND
MASONRY.
FREDERICK KLAUS,
HAS OPENED A
STONE YARD IN QUINDARO,
And is prepared to furnish all kinds of
CUT STONE FOR BUILDING PURPOSES,
MADE OF
Material of a Superior Quality from a quarry which he has opened near this place. A sample if it may be seen in his residence, No. 13, O St.
He will also contract for buildings at reasonable rates, and is prepared to execute promptly, and in good style, all work entrusted to him.
Quindaro, May 1st, 1857. ltf
The Beautiful & Unrivaled Regular
PASSENGER STEAMER
MORNING STAR,
T. H. BRIERLY, Master.
H. M. BLOSSOM, CLERK,
LEAVES
St. Louis for St. Joseph,
Every alternate TUESDAY, at 4 o' clock, P. M.
LEAVES
St. Joseph for St. Louis,
Every alternate MONDAY, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
FOR SAINT LOUIS,
Leaves Leavenworth City, Parkville, Quindaro, Wyandotte, Kanzas, Independence, Liberty, Richfield, Sibley, Camden and Wellington, on TUESDAYS, June 9th and 23d, July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th, Set. 1st, 15th, and 29th, October 13th and 27th, November 10th.
Passing Parkville at 7 o' clock, A. M.; Quindaro at 7 1/2. A. M.; Wyandotte at 8 A. M.; Kanzas at 9 A.M.; Wayne City at 11, A. M.; Liberty at 12 M.; Richfield at 2, P.M.; Sibley at 3, P.M.; Camden at 5, P. M.; Wellington at 6, P.M.; remaining at Lexington over night.
The MORNING STAR was built, without regard to cost, for a first class Missouri River Packet, and in point of speed, elegance and luxurious accommodations, is pre-eminently without a rival in the trade. Every effort will be made on the part of her officers, and their subordinates, to secure the completest comfort, safety, and convenience of passengers.
May 30, 1857.
Prospectus
OF
"THE CINCINNATUS,"
FOR 1857.
This Monthly, which has completed its first year under most favorable circumstances, will be issued at Farmers' College, College Hill, as hitherto.
Its subscription list has been continually growing, up to the last number, persons uniformly desiring the back numbers. The work has been stereotyped and can be furnished to subscribers from the commencement.
The aim of this Magazine, as hitherto, will be to give to the Agriculturist and
Horticulturist a journal of the highest order of scientific and literary merit. To the friends and patrons of Farmers' College, it will furnish the results of our systematic observations and experiments, on the Model, and Experimental Farm and Botanic Garden, now opened and in successful operation.
To them and to the public, it will give the recorded experience of the distinguished Agriculturists of both Europe and America. It will also maintain the importance, and endeavor to promote the progress of Industrial University Education, aiming thereby to dignify and make honorable the various pursuits of Industry.
The Magazine will also contain much of the choicest current Literature, suited to the improvement and entertainment of the Family Circle.
"The Cincinnatus" will be edited by the President of Farmers' College aided by the Faculty of the Institution, and the President of the "Ohio Female College."
Each number will contain forty-eight pages of reading matter, of medium octavo size, and be printed on fine white paper, in suitable form for binding, and in the best style of typographic art.
TERMS:
$2.00 per year, payable on delivery of the first number.
To clubs, 4 copies to one address, $6.00
6 " " " $8.00
8 " " " $10.00
Bound volumes of the first year, may be had on application.
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Harper's New Monthly Magazines.
Each number of the Magazine will contain 144 octavo pages, in double columns, each year thus comprising nearly 2,000 pages of the choicest Miscellany of the day! Every number will contain numerous Pictorial Illustrations, accurate Plates of Fashions, a copious Chronicle of Current Events, and impartial Notices of the important Books of the month. The Volume commence with the Numbers of June and December; but subscriptions may commence with any number.
TERMS:--The Magazine may be obtained of booksellers, periodical agents, or from the publishers, at Three Dollars a year, or twenty -five cents each. Thirteen volumes are now ready bound in cloth at $2.50 each, and also in half calf, at $2.50 each.
The publishers will supply specimen numbers gratuitously to Agents and Postmasters, and will make liberal arrangements with them for circulating the Magazine. They will also supply a club of two persons, at five dollars a year, or five persons for ten dollars. Clergymen and teachers supplied at two dollars a year. Numbers from the commencement can be supplied. Also the bound volumes.
The Magazine weighs over seven and not over eight ounces. The postage upon each number, which must be paid quarterly, in advance, at the office where the Magazine is received, is 3 cents.
HALL, ENGLISH & HENDERSON,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
STORACE AND FORWARDING,
QINDARO, KANZAS.
REFERENCES: ---Cushing, King & Degraw, 10 Warren St., New York. Simmons & Leadbeater, Forwarders, St. Louis.
ADDITIONAL.
WE have received, in addition to our former stock,
30 bbls. CEMENT, 10 doz. BROOMS, 10 doz.
BUCKETS, 2 doz. WASH TUBS, 2000
Seamless BAGS, 20 Bundles SASH,
100 kegs assort'd NAILS,
100,000 assc'd CIGARS,
6 boxes TOBACCO.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
Jun 1st, 1857. 4 JOHNSON & VEALE.
TO RENT.
A STORE on Kanzas Avenue. Enquire of Dr. Budington.
FOR SALE.
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres of Land, situated on Seven Mile Creek, one mile west of Delaware, and three miles from Leavenworth, on the Military road-12 acres under cultivation. A Good double-hewed log House, an excellent Spring, and well timbered. Terms liberal.
Enquire of BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
FARM FOR SALE.
ONE Hundred and Sixty Acres, situated on the N. E. qr. of Sec. 34, Town 9, R.21 on the Del. T. Lands, seven miles from Delaware, and eight from Leavenworth. Eighty acres are under cultivation. On the premises there is a good Double-Hewed Log House, and excellent Spring, 400 Fruit Trees, and good timber in the neighborhood. Terms liberal. Enquire of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.
No. 3 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
FOR SALE.
THE MACHINERY in the Steamer Hartford, consisting in part of two Boilers and two Engines, at St. Mary's Mission, on the Kanzas River. Terms liberal. Enquire of
BLOOD, BASSETT & CO.,
June 4. tf4 At Quindaro or Lawrence.
PARRY'S HOTEL
Leavenworth City, Kanzas.
Corner of Shawnee and Fifth Streets.
The House lately kept by Mr. Adam Fisher, having been enlarged by the addition of a spacious dining room and kitchen, and twenty-one sleeping apartments, and being furnished with new beds, &e., is now open for the accommodations of the traveling public. The present proprietor solicits the custom heretofore given to the former proprietor, and of the public generally.
May 1, 1857. 12-4t R. PARRY.
DOWDALL, MARKHAM & CO.,
WASHINGTON FOUNDRY,
ENGINE
AND
MACHINE SHOPS,
Corner Second and Morgan Sts.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Manufacturers of Steam Engines and Boilers, Saw and Grist Mill Machinery, Dingle and Double Circular Saw Mills, Tobacco Screw and Presses, Lard Kettles, Lard Screws and Cylinders, Wool Carding Machine, Building Custings, Young's Improved Patent Strut Mills, &e.
Agents for the sale of James Smith & Co.'s Superior Machine Cards.
12-lyis
2000 BUSHELS
SEED WHEAT
TO ARRIVE AND FOR SALE by the subscribers, at
QUINDARO, KANZAS,
Of the following varieties, viz:--Genesee or Blue Stem, Smooth, White Wheat, and the Mediterranean, a bearded Wheat, both sure crops and very productive.
The above Wheat has been grown on their farms, in Eastern Indiana, for several years, with most satisfactory results, and is carefully selected. They therefore recommend it to the entire confidence of the farmers of Kanzas.
Persons desiring to procure good Seed Wheat, should send in their orders as early as possible during this month.
Address R.P. GRAY & BRO.
Quindaro, K.T.
Aug. 4th, 1857.
FROM
J. E. DUDDRIDGE
(Successor to W. S. Swymmer.)
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
AGENCY,
Corner Olive and Main Sts.
Over John J. Anderson & Co.'s Banking House,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
A TINNER WANTED.
A GOOD TINNER can get employment by applying immediately at
SHEPHERD & HENREY'S, in Quindaro.
August 8, 1857. 13-tf
F. JOHNSON GEO. W. VEALE.
JOHNSON & VEALE
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
Agents for sale of Pittsburg Salamander Safes and German Anchor Bolting Cloths.
Particular attention paid to putting up orders.
May 4, 1857. ltf
RUSSELL'S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MASTIC ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
This Roofing is applicable to steep of flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Cars, Foundries, &e., &e. It is Fire-Proof, will not crack or run, will wear under foot, and is adapted to Roofs of every description. It can be put on over old shingles, tin and metal roofs without removing the same.
This roofing is desirable on account of its, easy application, great durability, and exact adaptation to any climate, by its expansion and contraction through the influence of heat and cold. It will unquestionably by far excel any Roofing now in use, Tin or Slate not excepted.
The undersigned have purchased the full and exclusive right of manufacturing and vending the above roofing for the Territory of Kanzas, and are now prepared to execute all order with promptness and dispatch.
Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribers.
SHEPHERD, HENRY & CO.
Quindaro, K.T., May 28, 1857.
JOSEPH M'CARTY,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
OF EVERY KIND;
Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco.
KANZAS CITY, MO.
SALESMEN:
JAS. A. HUTCHISON, JOHN M. CASWELL.
(???) T. (???), CLERK.
LAWRENCE ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOOKS, STATIONARY & C.
O. WILMARTH,
LAWRENCE, K. T.,
Would inform his friends and the public generally, that he keeps on hand as good as assortment of articles in above line as can be found in the Territory, consisting of
School, Childrens' and Miscellaneous Books (??) Also Blank and Memorandum Books; Writing Books; Sintes, Pencils, Musical Instruments, Musical Merchandise, &e. &e.
HIS CIRCULATING
LIBRARY!
Is supplied with some of the most popular works published, and is constantly receiving additions from the East.
WHITNEY HOUSE,
NO. 5 NEW HAMPSHIRE STREET,
LAWRENCE, KANZAS.
T. L. WHITNEY Proprietor.
May 13, 1857. ly
ROBINSON, WALKER & CO.'S
DAILY
PASSENGER & EXPRESS LINE,
FROM
QUINDARO TO LAWRENCE.
FARE $2.50
The nearest and cheapest route from the Missouri to the Interior of Kanzas.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
CHAS. B. ELLIS,
CIVIL ENGINEER & SURVEYOR,
Attends properly to all descriptions of Engineering and Land Surveying, on reasonable terms. Also, attends to all kinds of land business.
May be found at the Office of the Quindaro Company. Also, at the Office of the Parkville, Grand River, and Burlington Railroad Company, Parkville Mo.
May 4, 1857. ltf
ROB'T L. FRAZIER,
PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER
AND
JEWELLER!
Dealer in all kinds of
CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY!
Watches and Jewelry
Thoroughly and Promptly Repaired.
HUNT AND CLELAND,
No. 17 MASSACHUSETTS ST., LAWRENCE KANZAS,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Consignments respectfully solicited.
GEO. W. HUNT. WM. CLELAND.
July 25, 1857. 11-3m.
BREADSTUFFS AND GROCERIES
300 SACKS FLOUR, Superfine, Extra and Double Extra.
50 (???). Flour, Superfine, Extra and Double Extra.
1 (???). Crackers.
60 Bushels Corn and Meal.
2000 Canvassed Hams.
10 (???). Sugar-Brown and Crushed.
10 " and Kegs Syrup and Molasses.
Old Hamburg Cheese, Figs, Dairy Salt,
TEA, COFFEE, RICE, VINEGAR,
HOUSES,
Window and Door Frames, Lath, Sash, Nails and Glass, for sale by
HALL, ENGLISH & HENDERSON.
Quindaro, July 25, 1857. 11-tf
KETCHUM'S
PATENT MOWER
WITH OR WITHOUT
REAPER ATTACHED.
THIS Machine took the First (???) at the World's Fair held in New York in 1853, in competition with McCormick, Manny, Burrill, Hussey and several others; also, at State Fair in Ohio 1853, '4 in New York 1853, '4, '5, at the American Institute in the city of New York in 1852, '3, '4, '5, at the fair held in Philadelphia in 1855, besides many other State and County Fairs; also, the $600 premium in Massachusetts in 1855.
This machine is warranted to cut from 10 to 15 acres of grass or grain per day, in as good a manner as if done with a Scythe or Cradle.
Price of Mower $110; Mower and Reaper combined $130.
FOR SALE BY
ALFRED GRAY. Quindaro, K.T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf
THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between the subscribers, in the Steam Saw Mill and Lumber business, under the firm of ROWELL & WEBB, is this day, by mutual consent, dissolved.
A. J. ROWELL.
OTIS WEBB,
Quindaro, June 16th, 1857.
The Mill and Lumber business will hereafter be carried on by
- J. ROWELL.
TIMBER LAND FOR SALE!
60 ACRES of fine Timber Land, situated on the Wyandot and Lawrence Stage road, three miles from Quindaro, six miles from Wyandot, and two and a half miles from Parkville. The above land borders on improvements, ahs a fine spring of water, and well covered with oak and walnut Timber. It is rolling land.
Price, $25 per acre. Enquire of
NEWMAN & AINSWORTH.
Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, June 30, 1857. 2m8
BLACKSMITH & WAGON-MAKER
WANTED.
A Large Settlement is the vicinity of Robinson, are much in need of a Blacksmith and Wagon-Maker. Liberal inducements will be offered by the Town Company, to any such who chose to go and supply the want.
Apply to C. B. Ellis, Quindaro House.
Quindaro, July 11, 1857. 9-tf
FOR SALE
BY
JOHNSON & VEALE
10 BALES brown sheetings.
7 cases of bleached sheetings and shirtings.
12 cases of assorted prints.
150 kegs assorted nails.
50 boxes assorted window glass.
70 dozen door lock and latches.
SCREWS ASSORTED.
2 dozen Hatche's counter scales.
1 " Tea " "
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers.
12 assorted glassware.
Log chains, trace chains, shovels, spades, forks, soythes and coffee mills; shot guns, rifles, revolvers, shoe-belts and powder-flasks; broad cloths, cassimers. Tweeds and satinette; black silks, dress silks, lawns and challes; bernges, hats and bonnets, boots and shoes. A large stock of
VARIETY GOODS
AND
YANKEE NOTIONS,
All of which are offered at UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES to CASH CUSTOMERS.
May 4th. 3tf
TO THE PEOPLE OF KANZAS!
The Undersigned have taken the Store-Room under the Quindaro Hotel, and offer at wholesale or retail, the Largest and best assorted
STOCK OF MERCHANDIZE
ever offered for sale in Kanzas.
In our stock will be found almost everything suitable to the wants of the country, which we will sell as low, if not lower, than can be purchased elsewhere. We will duplicate St. Louis bills, adding expenses of transportation. We solicit a share of the public patronage, and will be pleased at all times to show our goods.
JOHNSON & VEALE.
May 4th, 1857. ltf
JAMES G. SANDS,
SADDLE, HARNESS & TRUNK
MANUFACTORY.
Always on hand, everything in my line.
Also Belting Leather, Whang Leather, Copper Rivets, &e.
Opposite Morrow House.
Lawrence, Kanzas, April 1, 1857. ltf
IRELAND & M'CORKLE,
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS,
QUINDARO, ----------------KANZAS
ARE PREPARED TO ATTEND TO
BUILDING in all its Branches
Contracts for Buildings taken, Stores fitted up and all work in their line promptly attend to
May 4th, 1857. ltf
OH, YES, NEW HORSES TO THE OLD COACH!
W. J. M'COWN & CO.,
(Successors to M'Cown & Buck,)
Have a large Stock of well assorted
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Hats, Cups, Clothing, Yankee Notions
&e., &e.,
Which will be sold low for Cash, either a Wholesale or Retail.
Please give us a call at
No.4, North Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, July 11, 1857. 9---tf
SHEPHERD & HENRY
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
HARDWARE AND STOVES,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
AGENTS FOR
J. M. Crosby's Patent Eccentric Latches, Lock and Bolts..
R. H. Peasc's Horse Powers & Agricultural Implements.
P. Rollhaus' Patent, First Premium, Knicker bocker Cooking Ranges.
J. M. B. Davidson's Fire King Safes,
WM. SHEPHERD D. D. HENRY
N.B. All kinds of Job Work neatly and promptly done.
THE PEOPLE'S
VARIETY STORE,
NO. 38 KANZAS AVENUE.
MESSRS. A. C. STROCK & CO.
Wish to call the attention of the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity to their Stock of Goods, consisting of a general assortment of
DRY GOODS.
GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
DRESS GOODS & BONNETS
together with all the variety of Domestic Goods usual to the Trade.
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Also. Carpenters' Tools, a general assortment of
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
Paints, Oils, and Dye Stuffs, Glass Ware, Window Glass, Fine Tobacco and Segars, together with the usual variety of articles usually found in that line of business most.
Dr. WELBORN, who is a practical Physician, having special care of the Drug Department, hopes to give general satisfaction.
A. C. STROCK & CO.
Quindaro, May 4, 1857. ltf
JAMES A. FRAME. M. B. CONWELL.
FRAME & CONWELL'S
LARGE AND COMMODIOUS
POWDER MAGAZINE!
Being just completed, they are now ready to supply purchasers with the celebrated
MIAMI RIFLE & BLASTING POWDER,
Which is equal, if not superior to any manufactured in the United States.
OBTAINING OUR POWDER FROM THE
MIAMI POWDER WORKS,
We can sell as low. Adding transportation, as it can be purchased in St. Louis. And our facilities being such, we can supply all of Western and Southern Missouri, also, Kanzas Territory, with Powder enough to blow them to the other side of Jordan.
We will receive and store all the powder consigned to our cas.
Office at the Furniture Store,
where samples can be seen at any time.
Kanzas City, July 14, 1857.
QUINDARO
STEAM SAW MILL CO.
The citizens of Quindaro and vicinity are hereby informer that the Saw Mill belonging to the above Company is now in operation, and that Lumber can be furnished on the most accommodating terms.
Quindaro, May 14th, 1857. ltf
WYANDOT!
DAVIS & POST,
COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Exchange Building,
KANZAS AVENUE, WYANDOT, K. T.
May 4, 1857 ltf
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
RICE, BLAKE & EDDY,
REAL ESTATE
AND
LAW OFFICE,
Room No. 5, Masonic Temple, Dearborn St.,
(Opposite the Post Office.)
P.O. Box, 2532. CHICAGO, ILL.
R. A. RICE. Chicago F. N. Blake, Kanzas
J.W. EDDY. Ter'y.
Lots, Lands and Farms for sale; (???) investigated; Taxes paid; Collections made and Loans negotiated; Money invested for non-residents.
AGENTS FOR QUINDARO COMPANY, KANZAS TER'Y,
And prepared to invest money in all parts of the Territory upon shares or on commission.
Refer to Hon. C. Robinson, in the Territory.
BLAKE & EDDY
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
May 4th. tf