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Quindaro Chindowan
Vol. 1 Quindaro, Kanzas, Saturday, August 22, 1857 No.15
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Hotels
Parry's Hotel
Leavenworth City, Kanzas
Corner of Shawnee and Fifths Streets
The House lately kept by Mr. Adam Fisher
Having been enlarged by the addition of a spacious
dinning room and kitchen, and twenty-one
sleeping apartments, and being furnished with
new beds etc. and is now open for accomoda
tion of the traveling public. The present proprictor
solicits the custom heretofore given to the
former proprietor, and the public generally.
May 1, 1857. 12-... H. Parry
Carvey House,
Corner Kanzas and Fifth Avenues.
Topeka, K.T.
C.C. Tuttle---Proprietor
Board
Per Day...$1.50
Per Week...$6.00
Single Meals...50 cts.
Quindaro House
Nos. 1, 3 and 5, Kanzas Avenue,
Quindaro House
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.
Wyandotte House,
No.2, Kanzas Avenue, Quindaro,
E.O. Zane,---Proprietor
The above House is now open for the accomModation
of the traveling public.
May 4. ltf.
Physicians,
Dr. Anderson,
Who for more than ten years has had an exTenaive
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 service 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 caring said affections, and to
All who are thus affected he warrants to give reLife
if curable.
Enquire at the office of the Quindaro
Chindowan
J.B.Welborn,
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his professional services to the citiZens
of Quindaroand vicinity. The doctor has spent several years in practice in the west, and flatters himself that he is thouroughly posted in
The modifications of disease an in this climate.
Also, special attention paid to diseases of the
eye. Office, No. 38 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
Dr. Geo E. Budington,
Offers his
Professional services to the citizens of Quindaro
And vicinity.
Boards at the Quindaro Hotel.
Office, No.1 Kanzas Avenue
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Dr. R. M. Ainsworth,
Office
No. 10 Kanzas Avenue
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Land Agents
Chas. Chadwick. H.J, Bliss
Chadwick & Bliss,
General Land Agents,
Quindaro, Kanzas.
City and Town lots, and all kinds of real
Estate bought and sold.
Office-on Kanzas Avenue, near the QuinDaro
House. 1tf
Kanzas 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 im-
Portant locality of the territory.
Refer to
Henn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield-Iowa.
Aj. Stevens & Co., Ft. Des Moines
Coolbaugh & Brooks., Burlington,
White, Cook & Co.,
Col. T.A. Walker, Ft. Des Moines,
Col. C, Basseu, Kewauco, Ill.
Hon. G.S. Boutwell, Croton, Mass,
C. Gerriah
L.F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio
May 4, 1857. 1tf
E. E. Gray. J. M. Waldan
B. P. Gray & Co,
Real Estate & land agents
No. 76. Levee, Quindaro, Kanzas,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
Their care. 1tf
M. B. Newman. B. M. Ainsworth,
Real Estate Agents
Quindaro, K. T.
Will attend promptly to all business in their line.
Office No. 10, Kanzas, Avenue,
References:
Gen. M.H. Nichols, N.C. Lima, Q.
Wm. Lawrence, C.P. Judge, ...
Wm. White Springfield
...Drake & Co. Bankers, Cincinnati
Manes kit, Sept. U.S. Express, Buffalo. N.Y.
........Mo. Express, St. Louis, Mo.
May 4, 1857. ltf.
Quindaro Chin-Do-Wan.
J.M. Walden,...Editor,
Saturday, August 22, 1857
The Process of Vallainy
We republish the apportionment of councilmen and representatives for the next territorial legislature.
This apportionment, as will be seen, is the work of Wm. G. Matthias, speaker of the last bogus house of representatives and those Johnson, president of the bogus council.
The excuse of the governer, as given by his Lecompton organ, for not making the appropriations as directed by law is his ignorance of the "statutes" which he had sworn to support. A petty excuse, truly for a Governer and that governer Robert J. Walker, to make! He marches upon the peaceful city of Lawrence with a regiment of dragoons because the people of Lawrence have done something which, by a stretch of Gubernation imagination, conflicts with these bogus statutes, and yet he himself in a matter most seriously affecting the ignorance of these same enactments! But to the apportionment itself.
We thought that Stanton's apportionment of members to the bogus constitutional convention about as miserable a piece of business as a democratic official ever took in hand, but this apportionment casts his completely into the shade.
We will take the council first and on this apportionment for the council observe:
I.That it is so arranged that every member of the council except one is to be voted for a portion of Kanzas bordering on Missouri! Leavenworth is a bordering county and has three councilmen. Atchison another bordering county form the second district, and has one. The third and fourth districts are combined and have three councilmen. This associates Doniphan, a border county, with Brown, Nemaha, Marshall, Rotawotimie, Riley, and all that part of the territory of Kanzas which lies west of Marshall, Riley, and Davis counties lying in the interior. Johnson a border county is joined with Douglass lying directly west of it and forms the sixth district having three councilmen. The seventh, eighth, and ninth districts are combined and have two councilmen. This joins Bourbon with McGee, both border counties, with some sixteen interior counties. The tenth and final district has one councilman, and is composed of Lykins and Linn counties, both border counties, associated with a large extent of interior territory. The object of this arrangement is apparent at first glance. It is to give Missouri the best facilities imaginable for controlling the election. All that she has to do is to repeat her game and pour over invading herdes into the border counties, and the work is done. For instance this county, Douglass, having a preponderance of free-state ten to one, is joined to Johnson county lying on the border. The two counties together for a district, and the district, not the separate counties, has three councilmen. Now to carry this district, it is only necessary that Missourians enough should come over to Johnson county to over-balance the vote cast by Douglass county, and the work is done.
So take Doniphan, Brown, Nemaha, Marshall, Potawatomie, Riley counties having together two councilmen; and here again it is only necessary that enough invaders cross the river and vote in Doniphan county to over-balance the rest, and thus carry the district and in a similar manner twelve out of thirteen members of the council maybe carried by the Missourians without invading any, but the border counties. It will be much more convenient for them than it was at the election of March, 1855. They need not visit the border at all. It can all be done on the border. That such was the intention of those who made this infamous districting is clearly apparent.
II. It should be especially noted that twenty-two countries, or the whole of Kanzas lying south of the Kaw River, excepting only douglass and Jackson Counties, have apportioned to them only three members of the council. These counties embrace such overwhelming Free-state strongholds as Topeka, the whole of the Neosho valley, Anderson county, etc; indeed the free-state sentiment, as everyone knows, is well might unanimous in this whole southern section of Kanzas. Of course it would not do to give them any fair representation. Accordingly, they are disfranchised, or what amounts to the same thing. Some of these countries have over a thousand votes; and in fact according to the census just completed nearly one-half of all the inhabit of Kanzas live in this portion, which is summarily cut off with but three members of the council.
We venture to say that a similar act of injustice and fraud if practiced in any one of the states, would cause a revolution within its borders in less than two months. But the people of Kanzas are expected to endure everything without a murmur. Tyranny, if only labeled "democratic," is to be submitted to without a word.
The rule of a wise monarch would be infinitely preferable to this harassing depotism forced upon us at the point of the bayonet, and exulting to call itself "democracy."
But we turn from the apportionment for the council to that for the house of representatives. And, here again, the most astonishing evidences of fraud meet us.
Of the thirty-nine members of the house, twenty-nice are assigned, as in the case of the council, to districts jutting up to the Missouri border.
Leavenworth county has eight; Atchison three; Deniphan 5; Douglass is again joined to Johnson-a border county; and the two, forming a single district have eight members. Some seventeen interior counties are associated with Bourbon and McGee-border counties-and have three members. Linn, a border county, has two; Lynkins, another border county, has also two. Thus, as we have before said, twenty-nine out of the thirty-nine members are apportioned so as to be conveniently accessible to fraudulent votes along the Missouri border. No man can doubt that such was the deliberate intention of those thus districting the territory.
But the tenth representative district, there is a most shameful piece of villainy. That district is composed of Douglass and Johnson counties, but fearful it seems, that the free-state districts might prove too much for Johnson county, even though over-run borders from Missouri-an unheard of piece of gerrymandering is resorted to, and Douglass and Johnson counties are tied to "all the part of the territory of Kanzas lying west of the counties of Wise, Butler, and Hunter"-a region of counties where there are no counties, no county officers, nothing but Indians and a few Missouri trading posts!
Now, why is it that Douglass and Johnson counties are thus invited to a wild buffalo range, one hundred miles away from them, to form a single representative district. If there are a few straggling settlers away off there toward the Rocky Mountains, why not join them to some of the western counties of Kanzas? Why jump clear across the territory and stick them on to a district on the eastern border? Ah, the cloven foot of fraud is here to plainly visible. The intention is to bring in just such returns from this Rocky Mountain region as may be necessary to overcome what ever free-state majority the rest of the district may cast. Thus, if Douglass and Johnson should give one hundred majority, a return will be made up at Lecompton from some imaginary precinct away off in that terra incognita, just overbalancing the one hundred free-state majority and giving the eight members to the pro-slavery faction.
These districts were framed by the late bogus census, so that in reality, those fifteen counties where no census was taken have no representation in the legislature. They are completely disfranchised. This accounts for more than twenty counties having only three members of the council. The census was undoubtedly purposely omitted, with direct reference to the disfranchising of these counties, is allowing them no representation to the legislature.
The people of Kanzas may as well understand first as last that this infamous asurption which has been fasted upon them, has not in the least degree become modified. Its clutch upon the people's threats is as fierce today as ever. How long shall these things be?-Lawrence Republicans
Southern Views of Population
And Politics in Kanzas
An important statement relative to Kanzas affairs has appeared over the signature of a South Carolinian journalist. The writer is supposed to be Col. Orr who well be the next speaker of the House, and who for many years edited a newspaper in the mountains district of South Carolina. He has lately spent much time in Kanzas, where in connection with other agitators, it is presumed that he has been organizing the slavery party for another and final effort. He says that the south has failed for want of men. The southern states have contributed large amounts of money in support of their cause, but their emigrant aid societies and their proselytizing agents have not succeeded in throwing into Kanzas more than 5000 voters, while the northern free-state vote is 17,000, or more than three to one. He says there are in the territory exactly 150 slaves. It should be kept in mind that these statements are from the highest southern authority. The admissions in regard to the voters are very important. If there are 17,000 legal free-state voters, what more conclusive proof could be given that the government, supported in the territory by federal bayonets, is a system of intolerable oppression. For it is certain that no considerable portion of that vote has ever been admitted to the poles. The pro-slavery vote, "pure and simple," is probably largely overstated. Where were the 5000 voters when the members of the constitutional convention were elected? On that occasion but 1000 appeared, and a large proportioned these were undoubtedly northern. "National democrats," opposed to slavery, but ready to co-operate with the party who goes by that name, or for that manner, with Satan himself, to secure their shares of the offices. The clear southern and slavery vote certainly does not exceed 2000, but, with all its allies and mercenaries may go up to 5000.
Gov. Robinson's census gives 70,000 inhabitants, of whom, no doubt, one-third are adult males, and of these adults, Col. Orr's classification, dividing them into 17,000 white men and 5000 negro democrats, is probably nearly correct. His estimate is interesting, as so closely agreeing with Gov. Robinson's census.
But, as every man knows, under the alleged "laws" of Kanzas, and more especially under the utterly abandoned and irresponsible administration of them, an army of 2000 southerners, with 3000 hireling auxiliaries, is just good on election day as 100,000. From this time forth the great duty of the free-state party is to guard the polls, to prevent sparions voting, and to secure the right of every real voter, but whatever means may be necessary.-Washington
Cor. N.Y. Courier and Enquirer, Aug. 5.
Where are the Yankees?
It is within the memory of the youngest of us that the majority of the operatives in the factories of New England were Yankees-daughters of farmers and mechanics. The same fact obtained inrelation to the employees in families. The "hired man" of the farm was, fifteen years ago, a Yankee, nineteen cases in twenty. Factory operatives, family service and farm work were all performed by natives. Now, however, the case is entirely different. No housekeeper thinks of the possibility of obtaining American help. The farmer operates with an Irish man, and only in rare instances can obtain the service of an American upon the farm. The heaviest classes of manufacturing establishments have gradually changed the constituents of their operative force until, now, from seventy to eighty-five percent is foreign-Irish, Scotch, and German. The published statistics of the industry of Massachusetts for 1855 give us no information upon this point, but we are informed that in the Glasgow mills at Hadley Falls, 70 percent of the operatives are foreign, and that in Holyoke presents a fair standard for the mass of cotton establishments throughout New England. The facts in relation to the farm and the kitchen are notorious. The supposition that the Yankees-men and women have ceased to work is not to be admitted, and the question as to what had become of them is one of curious interest. Our object is to suggest the principal channels of labor and enterprise into which they have been diverted.
In the first place, new interests have been developed within a few years which have absorbed a large mass of American labor. The manufacture of boots and shoes in Massachusetts, which in 1845 amounted to only $14,799,140, had grown in 1855 to an aggregate of $37,489,923, occupying 74,326 hands, an excess over the number employed in 1845 of 28,440. It is understood that the great mass of the labor employed in this manufacture is America. Here, then, is a notable aggregate of labor transferred to another field. The ready-made clothing business sprung into existence in the decade under survey, and reached an aggregate product of $9,001,896, employing nearly 2000 hands-probably more than this number, counting those who did their work in the family and not in the shop. Sewing machines and daguerreotypes are branches of manufacture unknown in the statistics of 1845. They, together, have occupied from four to five hundred hands, all Americans. Thus, if we take the figures of 1845 and 1855 and place them side by side, we shall see that to these branches of manufacture which require superior intelligence and skill, a large amount of American labor has been drawn from the simpler labor of the obtton mill.
But this accounts for only a portion of the change. The university of education and the early planting in the Yankee mind of independence, the love of money and the spirit or enterprise, have raised the mass of the young men above the willingness to labor for others, especially upon the farm. If they must labor for others, they prefer to do it in villages and citiesin mechanical employments. Thus we find that in seven different branches of iron manufacture, embracing machinery and steam engines, which, in 1845, employed an aggregate of 6492 men, there were employed in 1855 an aggregate to 13,254 men, or more than two to one. We suppose there is no doubt that the great majority of this addition is from our more intelligent American population. But the majority of the floating young men go to the West. The facilities for getting hold of money and the comparative case of transportation have taken them out from among us, and planted them in the cities and upon the prairies of the West. New England suffers an immensed draft upon her population thus every year. The young man of twenty-three will not work upon a farm fro $150 per year, when that sum will buy him a better farm at the West than his employer owns. And he is right.
But the girls-where have they gone? They were formerly a great multitude. Some of these as we have already said, are employed in other branches of manufacture. Other some have gone West as the wives of the young men. Nut very many now remain at home. This fact is attributable to two causes; first that the factory is somewhat lowered in the tone of its society by the infusion of the foreign element; and the second, that the farming and mechanical interests of New England have, under the stimulus of railroads and the increased value of real estate and the prices of product, become more independent. The farmers and the mechanic now keep their daughters at home. They can now, very much more than formerly, afford to retain the society of their daughters and their services in the family, as well as bestow upon them the time and necessary means for a better style of education.
These changes are of great interest as they affect the civilization of the region. A great general good is rarely effected without individual disadvantage. Thus, while we find an American population advancing in intelligence and devoting themselves to the higher arts, or becoming landholders, or in comparative case, elevating the tone of general family life, it is evident that in many of the manufacturing localities, where foreign has been substituted for American "help," trade has declined, the tone of society has been lowered, and the general institutions of Protestantism are losing their strength and thrift. This is unavoidable, but we hope that the American inhabitants of those localities will realize that a heavy and most honorable responsibility rests upon them. In fifty years this large infusion of foreigners will be Americanized. Their children will occupy their places; and if these children are educated properly there will be no trouble. There should go in these places a steady improvement from year to year, until all shall call themselves Yankees, and be Yankees in all desirable or essential particulars.-Ex
Southern Speculators in North-
Ern Lands
The New Orleans Delta is knocking Toombs, Orr, Brekenridge & Co., over the knuckles, because of their speculative operations in Northern lands. It concludes an article on this subject with an argument in favor of the re-opening of the slave trade. We make the following extract:
"The cause of the development of the Free-States can be soon told. Europe has furnished that section with an abundance of cheap labor. The tide of immigration, which rolled from the shores of the Old World and overflowed the Northern cities and States on the Atlantic, naturally enough flowed westward. There was, "ample room and verge enough!" Lands were cheap-labor was cheap and abundant, and Federal favors showered upon the Free States without stint. On the other hand, labor in the South has not been diffused, but concentrated. The supply of our great staples and the development of the country depended solely upon the natural increase of the slave population. Suppose the African slave trade had years ago been re-opened. Labor would then have been as cheap and abundant as in the Free States, and, with a more genial climate and a soil of inexhaustible fertility, the whole south would have now been in a state of unexampled prosperity. It was long ago the duty of Southern statesmen to have advocated and insisted upon the adoption of some measure which would have supplied all deficiencies of this kind.
The facts disclosed in the statement of the "Herald" and the "Times" should wake up the South. It is time that the Breckenridges, the Orrs, the Slidels, the Woodwards, the Aikens, and the Toombes, who thus, but their pernicious example, render futile the efforts of better men to protect and build up the south-who refuse to lend the aid of their political and personal influence towards furnishing a supply of labor which is essential to our prosperity, but on the contrary, by acts like these, lead the North to believe that they have no confidence in slavery, and its power to develop and enrich the section in which they live-it is time, we say, that the people should discard such leaders and call to their assistance more reliable men. Let them look to it in time.
Pleasant Words
What sound is there so sweet, so grateful to the car, as the music of pleasant words? We list to it as we would to ripple of the waves, to the murmur of the wind, or the song of birds. It steals over our souls with soothing influence, and awakens responsive echoes in our breasts. Pleasant words-they are more precious than diamonds; they are sweeter than the minstrel's lyre, or the Eolian harp, swept by the breath of evening. What power=what magic they possess! What wonders they perform! They dry the tear upon the cheek of childhood; they revive the spirits of the drooping invalid; they bring a smile to the lip of the wayworn and weary, and a light to the eye of the ages. "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." Then, let us scatter them lavishly where'er we go. We can dispense them bountifully, and not be impoverished, for our supply is exhaustless. We need not fear that they will be despised, for every living thing, but which we are surrounded, can appreciate pleasant words. They confer happiness even upon animals, and oftentimes they are the most precious gift which we could bestow upon our friends and fellow creatures. Perhaps, they may sometimes be the only treasure which we possess; if so, let us remember that the poor mendicant at our gate is not insensible to their power. Pleasant words-there is healing in them. They are balm to the wounded heart; they are water upon anger's flame; they are the delight of children; they encourage youth; they strengthen manhood; they soothe old age; they scatter blessings innumerable around, and fill our breasts with unalloyed happiness. Then let us strive for pleasant words. Let them ever be upon our lips, and we shall find our reward upon earth, and in heaven.=N.Y. Evangelist.
What it Really Is.
If there be any who doubt that if China Colley servitude in the West Indies differs in the least from Negro slavery, so far as suffering or the rights of personal liberty are concerned, we commend to their notice the following advertisement, which the editor of the New York "Commisionaire" translates from a Cuban paper:
Chinamen.-Persons desiring to obtain the strongest and most intellident laborers which have arrived in this country, can leave their addresses at No. 97 Centreras street. The price of each is twenty ounces of gold." (346.)
That will do. "The price of each is twenty ounces." How often, after spinning fine duplicates, and setting forth dishonesty and inhumanity as sound morality, the plain language of business and of advertising, strips away the veil and gives facts. Voluntarily laborers and apprentices, and men hired by contract; call them what we will, what are they when advertised for sale? After all, truth will out, and facts in business will be apparent.
Railroads in the Free and Slave States.-The whole length or railroads in operation in the United States, is given in a recent publication at 24,200 miles, of which 6,605, or 27 per cent are in the slave States, and 17,685 miles in the free states. A German geographer was employed to draw a map of the States on a large scale, to exhibit the extent and the value of the railroad interest in the United States. A friend who was inspecting the map suggested that it would be a good theme for a lecture, illustrating the financial and economical value of free labor. "I think," said that savan, "that the map itself is the best lecture. No man can look at this close net-work of roads on one side of the line, and then carry his eys to the broad blank space on the other side, without seeing the difference beyond the power of words."
The Farm Labor Movement in Virginia-The New York Herald announces that "the Homestead Aid Society propose to establish what they call a manufacturing city in Wayne county, Virginia, near the borders of Kentucky, and a little south of the southern dip of Ohio. We understood they have selected and secured 5,000 acres on both sides of what is known as Twelve Pole Creek, two miles from the mouth of the Big Sandy river. Governor Wise gives the undertaking the weight of his support, seeing clearly the immense advantage which Virginia is destined to derive from it. The company has already sent out $40,000 worth or engines and machinery, and the first detachment of settlers is to leave in the middle of August. They are not to move in large bodies before September."
Money Hoarded-According to the Treasury estimates, there are in this country about $25,000,000 in gold, of which little more than a fifth is in the banks-leaving little short of $200,000,000 to be found elsewhere. The Treasury hoards very commonly from twenty to twenty-five millions-leaving, probably, $175,000,000 to be sought among the people. Allowing $50,000,000-a liberal estimate-to be in actual use, there remains $125,000,000 which is hoarded by the people in imitation of the Government, and to an extent of six times excelling the Treasury.
General Walker-In reference to the rumored intention of General Walker to return to Nicaragua, the Washington States says: "If General Walker leaves this country again for Nicaragua, he will do so without any violation of our "neutrality laws:" nor will he, in our humble opinion, pursue any course calculated to involve this Government in difficulties."
From the Washington letter of The Press, Col. Forney's new paper, we clip the following:
"Col. James L Orr of South Carolina, and the Hon. Jne. S. Phelps of Missouri, are both spoken of for Speaker of the next House, Col. Orr will, doubtless, be the man. John. S. Phelps or George W. Jones of Tennessee, will probably be at the head of the Committee of Ways and Means.
"The Clerkship of the House is evidently between Col. Allen of Illinios, the Hon. David Naar, editor of the Trenton (N.J.) True American. The South will not ask for both Speaker and Clerk of course.
"There can be little or no doubt that the erection of a new Presidential mansion will be one of the measures that will receive the favorable action of the next Congress. The President has acted wisely in refusing to reside in the present building during the unhealthy season."
His Majestic Blackness, the Emperor of Hayti, has issued the following decree.
Considering that, if it is glorious for a sovereign to fulfil conscientionsly the painful task of occupying himself constantly with the happiness of the nation, it is their duty to invest their benefactor with their gratitude, love and veneration, it is decreed that the indemnity which his Majesty the Emperor receives from the public treasury being regarded as insufficient, it be raised to two hundred thousand dollars a year.
The New York Tribune remarks:
The former salary was $150,000. It is now $200,000, not Spanish however, but Haytian, which makes a material difference, the Haytian dollar being worth about six cents. The Emperor's salary amounts then to twelve thousand of our dollars, which cannot be set down as exorbitant. But then, the Empress has an allowance of $6,000, and the imperial family half as much more, so that among them all they have $21,000.
Bunker Hill Monument may be seen on a clear day, with a good glass, from the top of Monadnock in Jeffrey and Fitzwilliam, N.H., about eighty miles distance.
Accomodating, Very-The city fathers of Worcester, Massachusetts, have widened the distance between the posts as the entrance of the Common, for the accommodation of the hoop wearers, who have been unable to get thereupon since the lately increased breadth of their skirts beyond the diameter of four feet, by reason of that modern invention, "ya hoop."
A little child who rode fifty miles in a railroad train, then took a coach to her uncle's house, some five miles further, was asked on her arrival if she came by the cars. "We came," she said, "a little ways in the cars, and then all the rest of the way in a carriage.
Some persons or first acquaintance are as unsocial as pins and needles. They will speak only when spoken to, and a civil sentence from them seems to be the prelude to suffocation. On farther acquaintance you find choice fruit beneath their rough rind, and esteem them far above the everlasting smilers, when in general, have no more heart than an infantile cabbage.
A wit in a street perambulation in New York found progress stepped by a close barricade of mood.
"What's the casino of all this?" said he to a person he met.
"O, why, don't you see that's to stop the yellow fever," he replied.
"Well," said the wit, "I have often heard of the board of health, but I pause saw it before."
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Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
J.M. Walden.......Editor
Saturday, August 22, 1857
The person, who borrowed our map of the
Delaware and the Shawnee Reservation will please
Return it soon, and not take it again without leave.
We are obliged to Geo. W. Harris of the LightNing
Line Steamer Trapis for St. Louis papers.
A.C. Carter, Messenger of Richardson's MisSouri
Express on the Lightning Steamer New
Lucy has our thanks for his papers from St.
Louis.
To the officers of the Lightning Line Steamer
Cateract we are under obligations for several late
Daily papers.
T.J. Newst has laid the last Wearminster ReView
upon our table, a favor for which he will receive our thanks.
We invite attention of our read-
Ers to an article of the first page headed
"The Progress of Villainy," from the
Lawrence Republican, in which the Bogus apportionment is completely directed.
We publish elsewhere the Bogus
Law under which the October election is
expected to take place. We also republish
the mal-apportionment made by the
Bogus powers for the basis of that elecTion
and for the disfranchisement of nearLy
half the people of Kanzas.
The Free State Conventions
Which take place at Grasshopper Falls on next Wednesday we trust our friends will bear in mind. The people are expected to meet there in Mass Convention to take control together and also to send representatives to a delegate convention at the same time and place so that in whatever action may be taken every part of Kanzas may have an equal voice. The line of policy relative to the October election to be decided there is one of imminent importance to our party as well as to our state a consideration which should inspire the people of every locality to choose delegates and instruct them as to their wishes.
The October Election.
At the last Topeka Convention the following was adopted as a portion of the free-state policy:
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 later territorial legislature, but under the laws of Congress, you, the whole people of Kanzas, have a right to elect a delegate to Congress, and to elect a territorial legislature," and Whereas Gov. Walker has, on various occasions, used similar language, and Whereas, under the above decision "the whole people of Kanzas," may participate in an election for Delegate for Congress, and for members of the territorial legislature, without recognizing the valicity of a Bogus Legislature imposed upon them by fraud and by force, therefore 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.
Since the promulgation of this, it has been generally understood that the free-state men intended to go into the territorial election in October. They adopted no such definite policy in the above. It remains for them to decide at the Grasshopper Falls Conventions where it is politic for them to hazard their fortune and the destiny of Kanzas on the cast of this single die or not. When the people shall there assemble and take counsel together we believe that a wise and proper policy marked out for the present guidance of the party. Those conventions assemble next Wednesday, and we propose to present some considerations in regard to the expected participation in the October election. We shall not interpose any objection to such a policy nor obtrude a recommendation in its favor, but merely endeavor to glance over the ground and briefly survey the work that may be assumed as it yet remains to be decided whether the party shall go into election or not.
Not withstanding the assurances of Gov. Walker, upon which the above policy is based, at present it seems most probable that those who vote this fall will be compelled to do so under the bogus Apportionment and under the bogus election judges. In venturing to do this it will readily be seen that the Free-state party assumes no common peril.
If they vote under the bogus laws they thereby recognize their validity, endorse the Missouri-elected legislature which enacted them and virtually relinquished the position they have maintained so long and so bravely. If they acknowledge this much they cannot on any tenable grounds after the first Monday in October refuse to pay the bogus taxes. By acknowledging the validity of the laws they subject themselves to the charge of having prolonged the troubles in Kanzas by the policy which they must abandon in order to vote.
We have already said something about the villainous apportionment under which the territorial legislature must be elected. An article on the first page fully exposes the fraud to be perpetrated through it. A large proportion of our party is disfranchised , actually disfranchised. The census upon which the apportionment is based did not include them. The apportionment is made expressly to throw the power into the hands of the pro-slavery party. The first sacrifice, that of a principle, is not enough to procure satisfaction. We must yield a part of our representation in order to get a vote!
Who are to receive the ballots, the tally sheets and pass upon the legality of the voters at this election? The appointees of the bogus authorities. They may find some very honest men to act as election clerks and judges but when free state men recur to the past we question whether they will feel a remarkable degree of security in casting their ballots under such suspices; whether they will feel any assurance that all who are voters will be allowed to vote and all who not will be refused, and that correct returns will be sent to the Governor.
If the free state men go into this election they make its result binding upon themselves. If a pro-slavery legislature is elected-and who...there will not be under the present arrangements-it will be regarded by the world as being the choice of the people and entitled to allegiance from the inhabitants of Kanzas.
Under these circumstances, we think that the free state men will do well to be cautions and deliberate about committing themselves to a participation in the coming election.
The Missouri Election
We have not yet learned the exact result of the recent gubernatorial contest in Missouri, whether Rollins or Stewart is elected, but whoever is elected it will be by a very small majority. One result of the struggle may be written down. The National Democracy has suffered a disastrous defeat. A small majority for their candidate would not retrieve them from this moral effect of the campaign. A small majority against Rollins would not lessen the weight of that great voice in which the people of Missouri have spoken out in favor of free over slave labor. In 1852 Missouri gave Pierce more than 8000 majority, in 1856 she gave Buchanan almost 10,000. The prestige of the party great as it was, is broken by a question upon which one year ago it would have been thought there could not be a division of sentiment in the state. That question was the free discussion of emancipation. This was the issue before the people, and it took a latitude which makes it practically a decision in favor of an ultimate and not very far distant extinction of slavery in Missouri.
In no state in the Union has there been a more rapid and radical change in the sentiment of the people going on than in Missouri within a few years. It is not long since the Democracy were sure of success if they could bring against the opposing party a change of being unsound upon the nigger question. It was the whole stock with which they entered upon a campaign and by industriously reiterating charges of Abolitionism against their antagonist generally succeeded in sweeping the field triumphantly. That cry carried the State for Buchanan. Under its prestige legislatures and state officers have frequently been elected that were far from being creditable elected by heavy majorities. Now, how changed Maj. Rollins accepted an issue which subjected him to the charge of abolitionism with far better grounds for its support that at any previous time when it had moulded results. The people of the state are no longer driven from his support because of his liberal views upon the slavery question, but instead flock to him because of those views. This is a grand stride towards a peaceful and legitimate change of Missouri from a slave to a free state!
This election not only gives latitude for the operation of those powerful laws of emigration which are to solve the vexed problem of slavery, but with a jubilant and welcome voice bids that emigration to poor its tide into the state. That emigration will come in its strength of industry, and settling down upon the rich fields that are spread out illimitable will not only develop the material wealth of the state but will give strength to the sound political sentiments of the people that have just been expressed and remove forever the possibility of a reaction in those sentiments. This is the manner in which we wish to see the slavery question disposed of in the states where it exists. Let it become a matter of free and untrammeled discussion, and when the majority of the citizens of any state desire that the curse be removed from them, that it no longer be allowed to blight and blast and wither and curse them, they can have it banished as justly and as effectually as any other evil can be banished from the society it is injuring. This election argues well for the future of Missouri. If she has progressed in the past the future will eclipse that progress-and her great resources, by the rapid development that must follow, will soon place her high in the rank of states.
We think that the people of Kanzas will have no cause to regret the moral power of this election. In the western counties, those that sent forth hordes to over-run the plains of Kanzas and override our citizens, Stewart openly took the ground that the expense of those forays ought to be borne by the state. The moral defeat the Democratic party has received (be the exact figures what they may) will surely be a damper upon the minds of those members of that party whose depredations within the past two years form the most disgraceful page recorded in American history. We trust that their spirit will be so completely broken that they will determine it is best for their party at home and the wing in Kanzas now known as the National Democracy, that they remain at home and leave the citizens of Kanzas to determine by their own ballots who shall and who shall not rule here.
Gov. Walker on the October
Election
The speech inside by Gov. Walker at
Topeka on June 6th, contained this pasSage.
"In October, next, not under the set of the late Territorial Legislature, but under the laws of Congress: the whole people of Kanzas, have a right to elect a delegate to Congress and to elect a Territorial Legislature."
With this and other similar assurances from the Governor before them, the Free-State men at the Topeka Convention thought it advisable to go into the election in October. They felt free to operate under the laws of Congress, for those laws they have always respected and always obeyed; but it has at length become apparent to the National Democratic party that such latitude would enable the Free State men to take, through the ballot-box, a peaceable possession of the Territorial Legislature and quietly settle the affairs of Kanzas by making it a Free State. Now the National Democracy having spent more than two years of hard and villainous labor to make this a slave state, are not willing to see it assume an opposite character, so long as it possibly can be prevented, no matter what confusion and discord, an obstruction of the natural course of events may cause. This promise of Gov. Walker, that the whole people of Kanzas should go into the Territorial election in October, under the Laws of Congress, if carried out would have lifted Kanzas high out of their reach, and hence such a promise must be virtually if not literally revoked.
The Lecompton National Democratic of the 13th, (said to be Gov. Walker's organ) contains an article in regard to this promise in which an attempt is made to explain it away. It in one paragraph, says:
Now in this there is a radical error by the omission of a single word, which was corrected in the proof sheet, but not transferred to the first impressions. Thus corrected the sentence should read, as it was really delivered, "In October next, not ONLY 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.
We presume that His Excellency authorized this quasi correction, and it may be more than probable that he wrote the labored article, from which we made the extract, to show that by voting under the Territorial law we would vote under the Laws of Congress. Now whoever will read the sentence after and before the mighty little word "only" is interpolated, can but see that it is a most lame and bungling dodge, a skulking and cowardly evasion. What difference does the "only" make in the ideas conveyed by the sentence? In the first case the Free State men as well as all others are to be permitted to vote without any reference to the bogus laws; supply the magic word and the people of Kanzas are to vote under both Congressional and bogus laws, which means simply nothing. He might with equal propriety have said that we would vote under the Constitution of the United States and under the Declaration of Independence!
There is evidence however that the Governor either meant to convey the impression first reported or that he intended to deceive his hearers by an adroit equivocation. That speech was made to induce the Free State men to participate in the delegate election. They objected to recognizing the Bogus laws, and he assured them in the next Territorial election they would not be compelled to vote under those laws but under the laws of Congress, a very handsome bait indeed. Further, the Governor said that the whole people of Kanzas should vote in October. The Territorial laws say that none of the people of Kanzas who arrived here after the first Monday of April shall vote. Under the Organic Act, the law of Congress to which the Governor alluded, the whole people could vote, under the Bogus laws, thousands would be excluded from participating in the election!
Convention at Centopolis
On Wednesday the 12th inst., we attended at convention of Free State men at Centropolis, some twenty miles south of Lawrence, from which we did no return in time to give a report of it in last week's paper. The day was a very pleasant one for a Convention and because of this it was respectable in size for being a local affair as it was. There were less than one hundred persons present during the forenoon session which was occupied in appointing officers for the meeting and a committee on resolutions, and in listening to two or three speeches. When they adjourned for dinner there were nearly two hundred persons present including men, women, and children.
A Free Dinner
Had been prepared and the residents of the immediate neighborhood and those who lived distant a few miles had a pleasant time around a table which was spread with very liberal hand. In the afternoon there were speeches and an expression of the political sentiments of the people in that vicinity there assembled through a set of resolutions which were adopted towards evening. It is a pleasant and profitable thing for the people of each locality to meet and discuss among themselves the policy of the Territory, that when they choose delegates to represent them in general conventions they may be fairly represented.
A friend has just returned from a
visit to Manhattan, who says that the
corn which was planted on ground tilled
last season looks very well. Where
planted on fresh soil this spring there is
not a prospect of much more than half a
crop.
Hon. Salmon P. Chase
The present Republican Governor of Ohio, was nominated as candidate for the same office by the Republican State Convention which assembled at Columbus on the 12th inst. Without doubt the people of Ohio will show their wisdom by endorsing this nomination at the polls this fall by a heavy majority. Mr. Chase's administration thus far has commended the admiration of his friends and the respect of his political opponents. The position of the Republican party in Ohio is the only true one for a political organization to occupy and it is the only one a party can maintain for any length of time where there is an enlightened public opinion.
Last fall the Democracy there shouldered the whole weight of the Kanzas iniquities, and they still labor under them, contending that the Free-State men ought to submit to the frauds imposed upon them through violence. To this burden they have now added an endorsement of the Dred Scott Decision in its most nefarious interpretation. Upon such issues they go into the contest with Henry B. Payne as their candidate, who but a few years ago made for himself a record on the Slavery question diametrically opposed to them.
To this cause of Freedom in Kanzas no portion of the people of the North have felt a deeper devotion than the Republicans of Ohio. They approved most heartily of the course of the Free-State men and labored faithfully to shield them from the slanders that were poured forth torrent-like upon them during the Presidential campaign. They have an eye towards our devoted Territory now, and will stand by us should circumstances demand and the justice of our cause warrant it. They are not only right on the Kanzas question, but also upon that disgraceful decision which has striped one branch of our national government of much of its respect. Their candidate, whose name stands at the head of this article, is too well known to need comment from us. All know that he has long been laboring manfully and efficiently in the cause of Freedom; that in the high offices which he has filled with such credit, whenever a fit opportunity presented, his whole influence was exerted to stay the aggressive march of slavery. And with such a candidate to support and such issues to decide upon, we have no doubt of the success of the Republican party.
Matters of State policy will be minor in the campaign, and they are of little interest to us here. The above question give to the election a national importance.
A Half-Year Old City
We who have lived in the early settled parts of New England, are apt to fancy that because many of our advantages and luxuries have been long in growing up, the frontier towns, of the West must go through something of the same lengthened process. But the fact is, the Yankee takes all his privileges and blessings with him. This is illustrated in the case of Quindaro, a Kanzas town on the Missouri, founded about six months ago. Of course the citizens have churches, schools, newspapers, and hotels. They have also Express companies, which have carried them Boston papers in five days, and a post-office through which came twelve hundred letters between June 12 and July 1. They are blessed with a "fashionable restaurant" where ice cream and soda are dispensed "every Tuesday and Saturday evening, and oftener if desired," and are in the enjoyment of a Debating Society, where the question has been duly discussed, "Does the Diversity of Religious Sects tend to Promote the Interests of Christianity?" We have noticed the advertisement of a variety store "No. 38 Kanzas Avenue," which the proprietor announces nearly everything for sale, and the fact that he keeps a "practical physician" for his "drug department." On the whole, therefore, we should pronounce Quindaro a real city extemporized with wonderful quickness and success.-Boston Journal.
Gov. Robinson's Trial
On Monday the 17th inst., the trial of Gov. Charles Robinson for usurpation of office, commenced at Lecompton before Judge Cato. The trial continued three days and the jury after a session twelve hours long acquitted the defendant. The acquittal was made in the very face of Judge Cato's charge, he having instructed the jury that if it was proven that Gov. Robinson at any time assumed the functions of Governor of Kanzas, he should be found guilty. It was admitted during the whole course of the trial that he had assumed those functions, but notwithstanding this he was cleared.
Vote on the Constitution-the official vote on the Topeka Constitution so far as received when we last heard from the Capital, amounted to about 7000. Some returns were yet to come in. It is believed that at least there will be very nearly six votes for the Constitution for each one polled at the Bogus delegate election in June.
Capt. Walker's trials for charges preferred against him by that Grand Jury whose especial duty it was to in-diet Free-State men, were to commence at Lecompton yesterday. Some three or four indictments are now pending against him.
Trips to Kanzas-No. 2
Quindaro to Lawrence-Lawrence to
Centropolis
In our business we are frequently required to make trips to various points in Kanzas. We have already traveled some hundreds of miles since we commenced the publication of the Chindowan, and expect to visit many new points hereafter. Believing that our readers in the States would be glad to have faithful descriptions of Kanzas, and that our readers here would be glad to have their localities fairly presented to the public, we have determined to convey to our columns our impressions of any portions of the country we may hereafter visit, and recur to some that we have already seen.
From Quindaro to Lawrence is thirty-one miles we are informed by those who have measured the distance with a viameter. Our experience concur with that of others who pass this way, in leading us to think that the miles here as in every part of Kanzas are computed by long measure. It requires from six to eight hours to make the journey. The road from our point to the other is good-not surpassed by any running from the Missouri river to the interior. The gullies are filled up, the hills graded, and the streams bridged.
From Quindaro out, the surface of the country is rolling till within four or five miles of Lawrence where the Kaw river valley is reached. It is six miles to the limit of the Wyandott Reserve and twelve to the edge of the body of timber that lies between the Missouri and Kaw rivers, surrounding Quindaro. This is the largest tract of timber we have seen in Kanzas. It is composed of large oak, ash, hickory, and other valuable trees beneath which there is a dense undergrowth closely matted together with vines and briars. Only a soil of remarkable fertility could sustain a forest so lusty and a copse so dense. For twelve miles a wide and well wrought road has been made through this tract of timber. Much of the distance the view is hemmed in by the matted undergrowth but every now and then and Indian farm is passed-the original proprietor of the soil having cleared up a few acres, built a log or frame house where now with his family he lives in comparative comfort.
Six miles out we pass into the Delaware Reservation which stretches westward thirty miles along the north bank of the Kaw. In this eastern and best timbered portion of the reserve the more civilized portion of the Delaware have settled on their farms. Some of their houses, barns and fields reminds the traveler very much of scenes common in the States. Cornfields and wheatfields, and fields of other grains, growing where there once was a heavy forest is very much like the marks by which the Anglo-Saxon designates that onward march whereby he is fast bringing the hills and plain, forests and prairies of the New World into subjection to him.
When the prairie is reached the change in the surface of the land will not be found to be very great. Noles, slopes, undulations are about the same as where the forest stands, but in the scene there is the contrast that woodland and meadow presents. The prairie on this road is very rolling and very fertile. All along the Kaw river for twenty miles you can see a body of timber standing on the edge of the prairie dark and shady as the shore of a broad lake, here and there throwing out spur-like groves which break the monotony of the scene. Towards the north there is far less diversity, there being much less timber visible and much more prairie land.
But the eye does no weary in looking over these rolling prairies as in gazing over those level ones east of the Mississippi. Through this one over which we are now passing, run four or five streams of water along which are narrow belts of timber, dividing the prairie into as many different portions. The Delaware live in the timberland. It is pleasant to travel over this route. We have gone along it when the eye would be dazzled with the beauty if flowers that clustered thickly upon the sward. Five miles this side of Lawrence the Quindaro and Leavenworth roads join. The route is then through a level and ague-ish looking country part prairie and part woodland stretching to the Kaw river. The river is crossed by means of ferries-constructed after the manner of "rope ferries" in the States.
About daylight on Wednesday morning the 12th inst., a hack-load of lively Free-State boys started from Lawrence for Centropolis. We had a seat with them. The hour was cool, fresh and breezy. A few clouds floating over the sky and a haze along the horizon made the east red where the light of the rising sun was continually increasing. By the subdued light of this early hour the prairie looked beautiful. To behold these "natural meadows" in their glory they must be seen when the sun is rising or when it is setting. To watch the day opening over their far-off, green, waveless, sea-like verge is a spectacle worth witnessing. To us this never appeared finer than on this morning when the sun came forth in the brilliance of a king amid a few dissolving clouds and the fleeting haze.
Our course lay southward across a level portions of the prairie stretching from the Kaw to the Wakarusa. Every quarter of land on this prairie has its house, the tenements of live "squatters." It is four miles from Lawrence to the Wakarusa. We crossed this stream near Branton's Bridge on which a man was condemned as a nuisance at the same time the Free States hotel at Lawrence was. We do do not know why it was not abated at the time the hotel was demolished. Having escaped destruction it is now found to be a great convenience to travelers. Along the banks of the Wakarusa there is a narrow belt of timber. The channel of the stream is deep, the water seemed clear.
After passing beyond the Wakarusa valley our routs lay over a rolling country. Every few miles are passed through narrow strips of timberland growing along spring branches. Twelve miles south of Lawrence we reached the Santa Fee road, which here winds along a prairie ridge which is, we suppose, the divide between the Wakarusa and Maria de Cygues rivers. This is said to be the best natural road in the West, and at this point it traverses a most beautiful rolling prairie stretching off westward further than the eye can reach. After traveling a short distance along this famous traders' route we turned directly south and passed over a rolling prairie very much diversified by belts of timber. Along the banks of some of the streams we noticed excellence stone, said here and there on the prairie a quarry would crop out.
The distance from Lawrence to Centropolis is said to be twenty miles but we are inclined to think them of apiece with miles everywhere to be found in Kanzas. Centropolis is situated in the spur of a prairie, half surrounded by woods, and contains seven or eight houses, one of which is used for the office of the Kanzas Leader, a paper whose political position it would be hard to locate. A saw mill is in course of construction here, and has been so for these many days. The citizens of this vicinity are hospitable-on days of free dinners at any rate. Nearly all the claims in this vicinity are taken we believe though there may be some-not choice ones-still vacant. We doubt not that in a few years those prairies which are not wild, where the principal signs of improvements are skeleton cabins, will be teeming with rich harvests and adorned with prosperous homes. We passed one farm where a large field of corn is growing and looks very well.
Two of the Judges at the Free-
State election on Aug. 3rd, at Benecia,
Were recently arrested by the Bogus auThorities.
Upon what grounds we could
Not learn.
Mesers, Holliday and Thorton,
Two citizens of Topeka, during this week
Have been summoned before the Bogus
Grand Jury. They were demanded to
State whether they knew of any violations
Of the Bogus laws in that vicinity!
The corn crops in the northern
part of Kanzas are represented as being
promising. A gentleman who has recently
been in Atchison and Brown counties,
says that this visit in which he has seen
the thrift of the soft by the growing crop,
has pleased him better with the country
than any previous trip. The attention
of the public has not been directed to the
northern portion of the Territory as yet,
but we doubt not that soon, very soon a
full tide of emigration will set in that
direction.
Pittsburg-Dr. S. G, Menzies of
Pittsburg, Kanzas visited Quindaro a
day or two since. He informs us that
the above town is improving steadily.
He came down to receive a stock of goods
which is to be placed in a store at Pittsburg.
The stock, worth $10,000 will
consist of every variety of goods that is
needed in pioneer settlements. It is intended
to make Pittsburg a point where
the settlers of that section of Kanzas
may obtain such Dry Goods, Groceries,
Agricultural Implements & c., as they may
wish to supply themselves with.
Robinson-A gentleman who is well
posted is regard to Kanzas towns has
just returned to Quindaro from a visit to
this town. He is well pleased with its
situation and thinks it is destined to be
an important point. He brought with
him a fine speciman of Coal taken from
a bank on the town site.
Whitney House, Lawrence-This is
The best managed hotel in Lawrence and
The place we would advise our friends to
Stop at. Mr. Whitney is a gentlemanly
And accommodating landlord and pays
Attention to the wants of his patrons, a
Habit which all landlords in Kanzas do
Not allow themselves to fall into.
New Stock-T. J. Newby of the firm
Of Claypoole & Newby, wholesale and
Retail dealers in books and stationary in
Leavenworth City, has just started East
For a fresh supply of articles in their line.
They already have a large variety of
Books, periodicals and stationary and
When Mr. Newby returns the variety of
Their stock will be much increased.
The next Quarterly Meeting of the
M. E. Church for this charge will be held
At Mrs. Armstrong's, neat Wyandott, on
the 5th and 6th of September. An in-
vitation to attend is cordially extended
to the public.
Paddoor's Bank Mirror, published
At Cincinnati, Ohio, has been received.
It is a good work of reference on currency.
There is preaching in Quindaro
Every Sabbath morning at 101/2 o'clock,
Our friends will remember.
The citizens of Quindaro will meet
This evening in front of the Quindaro
House to choose delegates to represent
Them at Grasshopper Falls next Wednes-
Day. They are entitled to three dele-
Gates.
Perston's U. S. Bank Note ReporTer.
-Regularly we receive the excellence
Bank Note Reporter, published at Detroit,
Michigan.
The Republicans of California
Have nominated Edward Stanley as can-
Didate for Governor, in oppostition to Jno.
B. Weller, the Democratic nominee.
Weller will most probably be elected.
Indian Difficulties in MinnesotaThe
Special Agent sent to Minnesota rePorts
that no further outrage have been
Perpetrated by the Indians, and says that
Local alarm prevails among the settlers,
And they are daily deserting their im-
Provements and leaving the Territory, but
Thinks the arrival of troops will restore
Confidence, and effectually overawe the
Indians.
Mrs. Cunningham, whose trial for
The murder of Dr. Burdell gave her great
Notoriety, has recently been arrested and
Thrown into the Toombs for an attemot
To pass a suppositious heir to Burdell,
For the purpose of obtaining possession
Of his property. She was exposed by the
Physician whom she employed to aid her
In carrying out the villainy. The eviDence
of her guilt is thus of a direct and
Positive character. The eastern papers
are filled with disgusting details of the
whole transaction.
Free Speech in Virginia-The grand Jury of Prince Williams country, Va., have found a true bill against John Underwood, for maintaining by speaking that an "owner has no right of property in his slaves," & c., and he has been held to bail in the sum of $500 for his appearance at the November court. The Brenthville Journal Says:
This case has created the most intense interest and excitement, being the first case of the kind that has ever occurred in our county. The fact that Mr. Underwood is a justice of the peace for this county, has tended in no small degree to add to the excitement, and has called forth violent expressions of feeling in regard to the matter."
The following is an extract from one of numerous speeches to the same effect delivered by Governor Walker at public meetings held in Kanzas, for the express purpose of allowing the Governor to explain the policy of his administration to the people of Kanzas:
"In October next, not under the set of the late Territorial Legislature, but under the laws of Congress, yon, the whole people of Kanzas have a right to elect a Delegate to Congress, and to elect a Territorial Legislature. Gentlemen on this subject I wish that there should be no mistake, no misapprehensions, as regards my opinions and the policy which I shall deem if my duty to pursue in the administration of the Executive department of the Territory of Kanzas. It is involved in a few simple words: That the majority of the people of Kanzas must govern. I do not mean those who are now registered under the Territorial laws; I do not mean those who were residing here on the 15th of March last but I mean the whole people of Kanzas, not only those who are here now, but those who will be here next fall as actual residents-that they-the people over whom these institutions are to operate-that they, by a majority of their votes, shall decide for themselves what shall be their Constitution, and what shall be their social institutions."
Such were the promises of Governor Walker; and now for his performances. It devolved upon him to make an apportionment of the members to be chosen to the Territorial Legislature referred to in his speech; that Legislature to consist of a Council of thirteen members, and of a House of Representatives of thirty-nine members. Instead of performing this duty himself, Governor Walker has suffered it to devolve under an act of the late Bogus Legislature, upon the late presiding officers of the two branches of bogus body. Of course, those persons have done their part to perpetuate in the Legislature to be chosen the bogus rule. To nineteen counties-they have assigned three Representatives, while to the other fourteen counties bordering on Missouri, and which, besides containing a considerable Pro-Slavery population, are within easy striking distance of Missouri, they have apportioned thirty-six Representatives-The Council is apportioned on the same principal. This, it seems, is what Governor Walker means by the declaration that "the majority of the people of Kanzas must govern."-N. Y. Tribune.
The Cowardice of Traffic-The influence of the slave power is in proportion to the nearness with which it comes in contact with its subjects. Thus Vermont and Michigan, having scarcely any business relations with the slaveholding States, voted for Freemont 112,000, Buchanan 62,000; while the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and the States of New Jersey, whose merchants and manufacturers look to the South for custom, gave Fremont only 63,000 and Buchanan 140,000. How much nobler was the spirit of our forefathers. In 1774, when England determined to punish Boston by closing her port, and thus filling her warehouses with desolution and her streets with the growing grass, Gen. Warren said firmly, "Better destroy our seaports than our liberties." And in 1776, when Gen. Washington was authorized to destroy the town of Boston, John Hancock, its richest merchant with large possessions in real estate, and merchandise, said at once, "Do it, and may God crown your attempt with success."-Albany Evening Journal.
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Official Vote of Oregon-The official
vote of Oregon Territory is ascertained
to be as follows:
For Convention..............7,617
Against........................1,678
Total vote.....................9,266
Majority for convention....5,938
For delegate, Lane (Dem)..5,665
" " Lawsons(Rup)..3,471
Democrats Majority.........2,191
Total vote.....................9,233
The result shows a decrease in the entire
vote polled, as compared with that
of two years since, of 823 votes.
New Counterfeit and Altered
Notes
We on the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank,
Waynesburg, Pa, V. man on horseback, with
Dog and drove of sheep-milk maid on left end
Female with liberty cap, & c. on lower right
Corner-dated May 4, 1857, A dangerous affair.
5s on the Exchange Bank, Hartford, Conn. V
view in a wheatfield; portraits of a girl and $
on the right; head of a dog and 5 on the left.
10s on the Northwestern Bank of Virginia,
Wheeling, Va. Vig. X 10 and Ten withing a
Circle; female and sickid on right end; man,
Woman, two children, lamb and sheaf of grain
On lower left corner.
5s on the Bank of North America, Providence,
R. J. Vir., three females; Washington on the
lower right corner; female and liberty cap on
the left end.
5s on the Marine Bank, New Bedford, Mass.
Wig. Steamship under sail female on right end
poorly done.
5s on the Charter Oak Bank, Hartford, Conn
altered. Vig. Two females, rising sun, eagle, & c.
ship under sail on the right; Mercury flying on
the left.
10s on the Bank of Aurora, Illlinois, raised
from 1's. Vig. A drove of cattle; female seated
on each lower corner.
10s on the Franklin Bank. Chepache, R. I.,
altered. Vig. Marine view; girl and grain on
the right; Indian with bow on the left.
20s on the Exchange Bank, Lockport, N. Y.
Vig. Two females, and an eagle flying.
10's on the Bank of Kentucky. No discription
yet. Better refuse all 10's/
2s on the Union Bank, New London. Conn.,Vig.
Man seated on rocks with hammer, anvil.
& c.
10s on the Metacomet Bank, Fall River, Mass.,
raised from 1's. Vig. Indian in a canoe, spearing
a fish.
10s on the Exchange Bank of Lockport, N. Y.
Vig. Harvest scene; female on lower right corNer;
Comptroller's dye on upper left corner; not
Like genuine.
20's-bank has no 20s.
3s on Merchants Bank, Lowell, Mass. Vig.
...sheaf of grain, plough and cattle; woman
with scales on left end; woman, anchor,
ship, & c. on right.
10s on the North Western Bank of Virginia, v.
10 surrounded by medallion work: female eith
sickle on right end: agricultural scene on lower
left corner; fac simile of the genuine, and very
likely to deceive.
20s on the Citizens' Union Bank, Seituate, R.
U. altered; vig. Three females, eagle, shield,
Hook, etc; XX and female on the right; XX,
steamship and cars on the left.-Preston's Bank
New Reporter.
2s Farmers' Bank, Bridgeport, Conneticut
Vig. Cows, trees etc.; male portrait on the right
Of vignette; agricultural implements and sheaf of
Grain between signatures. Unlike genuine.
2s Marine Bank, Buffalo; proof sheet stolen.
5s on the Exchange Bank, Boston, Mass. Vig.
Three females and eagle flying; female on each
Lower corner.
5s Southern Bank of Illinois, have appeared
that resemble the genuine, but are exceedingly
coarse.
5s on the Burlington Bank, New Jersey. Vig.
Steamship, portrait on the right and left lower corNers.
5s on the Green Bay Bank, Wisconsin, altered
from 1's. Vig. Indian spearing a Buffalo.
10s, counterfeit, Bank of Burkley County, Virginia.
Vig. Train of cars; well calculated to deceive.
10s on the Metacomet Bank, Fall River, Mass.,
raised from 1's. Vig., Indian in a canoe, spearing
fish.
10s, on the Chatham Bank, New York City.
Vig. A steamboat.
10s, Bank of the State of South Carolina; proof
sheet stolen.
10s, Monticello Bank, Virginia; proof sheet
stolen.
10s, Bank of Paris, Tennessee, raised. Vig.
Teamsters drawing cotton; female on right lower
Corner; man sitting on left lower corner.
20s, Commercial Bank of Kentucky; genuine
notes with forged signatures, probably on all denominations.
20s, Bank of Kentucky; have not seen them.
20s, Green Bay Bank, Wisconsin. Bank has
no 20s.
50s, on the State Bank of Ohio, raised from 2s
Vig. Canal scene; two horses. Train of cars; porTrait
on upper right corner-Paddock's Bank
Mirror.
A Law Providing for the Election
Of Members of the Territorial
Legislature
An act to define and establish the council and representative districts for the second legislative assembly, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kanzas, as follows:
Section 1. The county of Leavenworth shall be and constitute the first council district; the county of Atebison shall be and constitute the second council district; the county of Doniphan shall be and constitute the third council district; the counties of Browne, Nemaha, Marshall, Potawattomie and Riley shall be and constitute the fourth council district; the counties of Jefferson and Calhoun shall be and constitute the fifth council district; the counties of Douglass and Johnson shall be and constitute the sixth council district; the counties of Shawnee, Richardson, Davis, Wise, and Breckenridge shall be and constitute the seventh council district; the counties Bourbon, Godfrey, Wilson, Dorn, and McGee shall be and constitute the eighth council district; the counties of Butler, Hunter, Greenwood, Madison, Weller, Coffey, Woodson, and Allen shall be and constitute the ninth council district; and the counties of Anderson, Lykins, Lisa, and Franklin shall be and constitute the tenth council district;-all that part of the Territory of Kanzas that lies west of the counties of Wise, butler, and Hunter shall be attached to the tenth council district.
Sec. 2. In the first session of the second legislative assembly of the Territory of Kanzas, the county of Leavenworth shall be and constitute the first representative district; the county of Atchison shall be and constitute the second representative district; the county of Doniphan shall be and constitute the third representative district; the county of Browne shall be and constitute the fourth representative district; the county of Nemaha shall be and constitute the fifth representative district; the county of Marshall shall be and constitute the sixth representative district; the county of Jefferson shall be and constitute the seventh representative district; the county of Calhoun shall be and constitute the eighth representative district; the counties of Potawattomie and Riley shall be and constitute the ninth representative district; the counties of Douglass and Johnson shall be a constitute tenth representative district; the county of Shawnee shall be and constitute eleventh representative district; the counties of Richardson, Davis, Wise, and Breckenridge shall be and constitute the twelfth representative district; the counties of Weller, Madison, Butler, Hunter, and Greenwood shall be a constitute the thirteenth representative district; the counties of Bourbon, Godfrey, Wilson, Dorn, and McGee shall be and constitute the fourteenth representative district; the counties of Woodson, Coffey, and Allen shall be a constitute the fifteenth representative district; the counties of Anderson, and Franklin shall be and constitute the sixteenth representative district; and the county of Linn shall be and constitute the seventeenth representative district; and the county of Lykins shall be and constitute the eighteenth representative district;-and all that part of the Territory lying west of the counties of Wise, Butler, and Hunter shall be attached to the tenth representative district.
Sec. 3. The whole number of members for the House of Representatives is the next legislative assembly of Kanzas Territory shall be thirty-nine. The following shall be the order in which the apportionment among the several representative districts shall be made; the Governor and Secretary or in case of a failure upon their part to perform the duty thereby enjoined upon them before the first day of June next, then the president of the council and speaker of the House of Representatives of the present session of the legislative assembly, or either one of them, shall take complete census returns made in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the census and election for delegates to convention," and divide the whole number of legal votes by thirty-nine, and the product of such division, rejecting and fraction of a unit, shall be the ratio or rule of apportionment of members among the several representative districts; and if any representative district shall not have a number of legal voters thus ascertained equal to the ratio, it shall be attached to some adjoining representative district, and thus form a representative district; the number of said votes in the district so joined shall then be divided by the ratio, and the product shall be the number of representatives apportioned to such district...that the loss in the number of representatives caused by the fractions remaining in the several districts, in the division of the legal votes thereof, shall be compensated by assigning to so many districts as have the largest fractions as additional number for its fractions, as may be necessary to make the whole number of representatives thirty-nine.
Sec. 4. The apportionment among the several council districts for members of the next legislative assembly of this Territory shall be made in a similar manner to that for members of the house of representatives; dividing, however, the whole number of legal votes, as shown by the census returns above referred to, by the number thirteen, and the product of such division, rejecting any fraction of a unit, shall be the ratio or rule of apportionment of members among the several council districts; and if any council districts shall not have a number of legal votes thus ascertained equal to the ratio, it shall be attached to some adjoining council district, and thus form a council district. The number of votes in the district thus formed shall then be divided by the ratio and the product shall be the number of members apportioned to such council district; provided that the lose in the number of members caused by the fractions remaining in the several council districts in the division of the legal voters thereof. Shall be compensated by assigning to so many council districts as have the largest fractions, an additional member for its fraction as may be necessary to make the whole number of members of the council thirteen.
Sec. 5. Every bona fide inhabitant of the Territory of Kanzas, being a citizen of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, 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; provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall be considered to apply to or affect in any manner the provisions of an act, entitled "an act to provide for taking the census and election for delegates to a convention."
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage,
Approved, Feb.20, 1857
Territorial Legislative Apportionment
For the Council.
No members
1st district-Leavenworth County............3
2nd-Atchison....................................1
3rd-Doniphan....................................1
4th-Brown, Nemaha, Marshall, Pottawattomie
and Riley, and all that part of the territory
of Kanzas which lies west of Marshall,
Riley and Davis Countries................2
5th-Jefferson and Calhoun.....................1
6th Douglass and Johnson......................3
7th-Shawnee, Richardson, Davis, Wise, and
Brackenridge and
8th-Bourbon, Godfrey, Wilson, Dorn, and
McGee and
9th-Butler, Hunter, Greenwood, Madison,
Weller, Coffey, Woodson, &
Allen Co's....................................2
10th-Anderson, Lykens, Linn, and Franklin,
and all the part of the Territory of Kansas
which lies West of Wise, Butler, and Hunter
Counties........................................1
Whole Number.....................................13
Wm. G. Mathias, Speaker
Of the house of Representatives at session 1857.
Thos. Johnson
President of the Council
House of Representatives
No. Members
1st District, Leavenworth County............8
2nd-Atchison....................................3
3rd-Doniphan....................................5
4th Brown and
5th-Nemaha......................................1
6th-Marshall.....................................1
7th-Jefferson.....................................2
8th-Calhoun......................................1
9th-Pottawattomie and Riley..................2
10th-Douglass and Johnson counties and
all that part of the Territory of Kanzas
lying West of the counties of West,
Butler and Hunter........................8
11th-Shawnee....................................1
12th-Richardson, Davis, Wise, and
Breckenridge and
13th-Weller, Madison, Butler, Hunter
and Greenwood and
14th-Bourbon, Godfrey, Wilson, Dorn
and McGee and
15th-Woodson, Coffey, and Allen &
16th-Anderson and Franklin....................3
17th-Linn..........................................2
18th-Lykins.......................................2
Whole Number...................................39
Wm. G. Mathias, Speaker
Of the House of Representatives at the Session of
1857.
Thos. Johnson
President of the Council.
Quindaro Market
Saturday, August 22, 1857
Reported Weekly for the Quindaro Chindowan
By Dr. Welborn of the firm of A. C. Strock &
Co.
Flour...$4.00
Corn Meal...1.40
Hams, country cured...15
Canvass...16
Shoulders...12.5
Lard...15
Butter...25
Sugar, brown...14
Crushed...20
Rice...8.5
Coffee, Rio...15
Tea, Young Hyson, Imperial...90
Saleratos...10
Tobacco...40@1.00
Raisins...40
Figs...30
Almonds...40
Candy, Rock...40
Candy, assorted...30
Powder...50
Shot...1-
Lead...10
Candles, Star...0
Mould...20
Soap...10
Starch...15
Tar Tar Acid...1.00
Cream Tarter...50
Soda...10
Ginger...20@75
Pepper...20
Allapice...20
Eggs Dozen...15
White Lead 2 Keg...3.00
Molasses 2 Gallon...1.00
Linseed Oil 2 Gallon...1.25
Sweet Oil...1.50
Olive Oil per dozen...9.00
Spirita Turpentine, 2 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 Burs...3.00
Rose Water...1.50
Lime Juice...1.50
Nails, assorted...5.75
Glass, 8-10...3.00
10-12...3.25
10-14...3.50
12-16...3.50
24-30...7.50
Candidates.
W. Galagher, of Leavenworth city, is a candidate for Sheriff of Leavenworth County at the October election, subject to the decision of the Free State County Convention.
H. C. Fields, of Leavenworth city, is a candidate for Treasurer of Leavenworth County, subject to the decision of the Free State County Convention.
For Judge of Probate Court
The undersigned, the present incumbent, announces himself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate Court for Leavenworth Co., at the ensuring general election.
George W. Perkins
August 15, 1857.
J. W. H. Golden, of Leavenworth, is a candidate for Sher iff 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 of Leavenworth County, subject to the decision of the Free State County Convention.
Editor Quindaro Chindowan-Sir: you will please announce the name of Roby. L. Bean as a candidate for the 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 at the October election, subject to the decision of the Free State voters. 13
New Advertisement
E. T. Strong......De. Witt Upson
Architecture! House Building
Strong & Upson
Quindaro, Kanzas
Practical architects and house builders
Will give prompt attention to all work enTrusted
to them. They will furnish plans
And estimates on short notice, and take constructs
At reasonable terms.
They refer the public to the work they have
Already done in Quindaro.
S. H. Merchant
Carpenter and Joiner
Quindaro, Kanzas
To Lease,
Several Rooms convenient to business
That will accommodate several small famlIes.
Those desiring to rent will do well to apPly
soon, or they may be compelled to take vastLy
inferior winter quarters to those now offered.
R. C. Anderson
House Leasing and Land Agent
3000 Shares sold in three
weeks!
A Map of Kanzas, and a
Share is Saratoga City!
Consisting of five lots, with a chance of
Drawing the principal prize, valued at
$10,000!
For One Dollar!
The subscribers, at the solicitations of many shareholders, are indneed to alter their original plan for disposing of Saratoga City, and have adopted the following, vix: Saratoga City has been divided into 500 shares, each share consisting of Five Lots. There are Three Springs, the largest Sixty by Seventy-five feet. These springs will have ten acres of land connected with them, and will constitute the principal prize, being valued at $10,000. These springs are worth a fortune to the person that draws them. The water that discharges from them would supply a large city, and is pure, cold and sparkling, and possesses mineral properties which must render this city the Saratoga of Kanzas. These springs constitute one of the five hundred shares.
There will be 10,000 Certificates issued, and each holder of a Certificate wil draw a Map of Kanzas worth One Dollar, or one of the five Hundred Shares in Saratoga City!
Location of Saratoga City
Saratoga City is located in Calhoun Co. in Sec. 22, Township 9, Range 15-about 14 miles North of Topeka, 16 from Tecumseh, 25 from Lecompton and 35 from Lawrence; is adjoining the Pottawatomie Reservation (30 miles square,) which will soon be open for pre-emtion.
10,000 Maps!
We are happy to state that one of our most respectable Land Agency firms are engaged in getting up the most authentic Map of Kanzas that has ever been produced, and that we have Engaged 10,000 copies for the first edition! We can now supply a Beautiful Colored Sectional Map of Kanzas to those who do not wish to wait until our map is published.
Plan Suggested for the Distribution
It has been suggested by a shareholder, that 10,000 Envelopes be procured, and into 9,500 of these a slip of paper or card with the words "This Card entitles the holder to a Map of Kanzas, which can be obtained by forwarding this card to the committee appointed to receive it," and into 500 of the Envelopes a slip or card be inserted, with the words "This Card entitles the holder to a share in Saratoga City, which can be obtained by forwarding this card to the committee appointed to receive it." The envelopes to be sealed up, and to be precisely alike-then to be indiscriminately mixed together and numbered from No.1 to No. 10,000, and those persons holding Certificates, by forwarding them to the Committee appointed to receive them, will receive the numbered Envelope which corresponds with the number of the Certificate which they forwarded to the Committee, and which will exhibit to them the result. This plan will probably be adopted, as it will guard against imposition.
The Distribution
Will take place as soon as the Maps are
ready, about the 15th of November.
Land and Land Warrants takes in
exchange for shares, and a liberal discount allowed
those who purchase by the quantity.
Agents wanted in every city
And town in the Territory. Inducements will be
Offered which will warrant attention to this enTerprise.
Address GEO. W. Gray and Co., Lawrence,
K. T., enclosing One Dollar, and a share will
be dispatched by mail, and any information given
that may be required. One Share $1, Six
Shares $5, Twelve Shares $10.
Newspapers throughout the Territory, and
In the States, are requested to publish the above
Three mouths, and send their bills to us for setTlement.
15 G. W. G. & Co.
Architects and Builders
S. F. Otis & C. H. Carpenter,
Practical Builders,
Are ready to contract for the Erection of
Stores, Residences, etc. All work
Promptly executed, and in the best manner.
References:
Gov. Chas. Robinson, Shepherd & Henry.
A.Gray. O. H. Maculay. M. B. Pride.
Quindaro, Aug. 14, 1857 14
2000 Bushels
Seed Wheat
To Arrive and for Sale by the sub-
Scribers at
Quindaro, Kanzas
Of the following varieties, via-Genesee or Blue
Stem, Smooth, White Wheat, both sure crops and
Very productive.
This above wheat has been grown on their
farms, in Eastern Indians, 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. 13
From
J. E. Dudderidge's Newspaper Advertising Agency,
Corner Office and Main Streets............St. Louis, Mo.
Wm. Lucas C. L. Thompson W. S. Gunn
Fall, 1857
Lucus, Thompson & Co.,
Successors to C. M. McClung & Co.
Will have in store this fall very superior
Stock of Dry Goods
Among which may be found a complete line of
Prints, Delanes, Cashmeres, Merinoes, Alpacas, Indians Clothes,
Bombazines, Clothes, Cassimeres, Satinets, Jeans,
Tweeds, Over Coatings, Blankets, etc.
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 Muslims, Ticking,
Kerseys, Bleached Muslim, Negro Goods, Shirting Stripes, Osunburgs, Drillinge, Shirting Tweeds, Linseys, Apron Cheeks, Bagging, etc.,
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 Casa on Prompt Time Buyer to them.
Lucus, Thompson & Co.
St. Louis, Mo., August 15, 1857 14
The Kanzas
Claim Agency
And
Quindaro
House-Leasing Agency
Is now opened in Quindaro by the Subscriber,
Who would desire to say to 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 your 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 to 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 Houses,
Stores, 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
owner's one of securing to him a good customer,
as I am continually being inquired of by those
desiring to Rent Dwelling Houses, Lots, etc.
My commission for acting as agent shall, in
All cases, be made satisfactory to the parties for
Whom I may act.
Enquire at the Quindaro House for
14 R. C. Anderson, Agent.
From
J. E. Duddridge
(Successor to W. S. Swymmer,)
Newpaper Advertising
Agency
Corner Olive and Main Sts.
Over John J. Anderson & Co.'s Banking House
St. Louis, MO
Dowball, Markham & Co.,
Washington Foundry
Engine
And
Machine Shop,
Corner Second and Morgan Sts.,
St. Louis, MO
Manufacturers of Steam Engines and Boilersm
Saw and Grist Mill Machinery, Single and
Double Circular Saw Mills, Tobacco
Screws and Presses, Lard Kettles,
Lard Screws and Cylinders,
Wool Carding Machines, Building
Castings, Young's Improved Patent
Smut Mills, etc.
Agents for the sale of Jamea Smith & Co.'s SupeRior
Machine Cards.
12-lyis
Ketchum's
Patent Mower
With or without
Reaper Attached
This machine took the first premium 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.
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 of Cradle.
Price of Mower $110; Mower and Reaper
Combined $13-/
For sale by
Alfred Gray. Quindaro, K. T.
May 20, 1857. 2tf.
James A. Frame. H. B. Conwell.
Frame & Conwell's
Large and Commodiol's
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 ears.
Office at the Furniture Store,
Where samples can be seen at any time.
Kanzas City, July 14, 1857.
Breadstuffs and Groceries
300 Sacks flour, superfine, extra and
double extra.
50 Bbls. Flour, Superfine, Extra and Double
Extra.
4 Bbls. Crackers
60 bushels Corn and Meal.
2000 Canvassed Hams.
10 Bbls. Sugar-Brown and Crushed.
10 Bbls.and Kegs Syrup and Molasses
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
To Rent.
A Store on Kanzas Avenue. Enquire of
Dr. Budington.
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, etc.
The subscriber will spare no pains in posting all who desire homes in Kanzas bout 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 Unites State government, and whose lands are sure to come into market in a short time.
I would further say, that for a small consideration I expect to 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 assured 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 School, etc.
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 know 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 enquire of me before spending time to
Look, and thus save time and labor.
R. C. Anderson.
References:
Higgins Brothers.}
E. H. Castle.} Chicago Ill.
C. N. Holden.}
A. Root,}
R.W. Padelford}Engin, Ill.
B. Hackney,}
D. Valentine.} Aurora, Ill.
Quindaro, Aug. 15, 1857
Chicago, Illinois.
Rice, Blake and Eddy,
Real Estate
And
Law Office
Room No. 5, Masonic Temple, Dearborn St.,
(Opposite of the post office)
P. O. Box, 2532 Chicago, Ill.
R.A Rice} Chicago. F. N. Blake, {Kanzas
J. W. Eddy,} Territory
Lots, lands and farms for sale; titles investiGated;
taxes paid; collections made and
Loans negotiated; money invested for
Non-residents.
Absents for Quindaro Company, Kanzas territory
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 Counselors at Law.
May 4th tf.
Wyandotte!
Caution!
All persons are hereby cautioned against purChasing
Certificates No. 122 and 130, issued
To me by the Quindaro Company for Shares, as
The said Certificates have been Lost of Stolen.
J. M. Winchell.
Wyandott, Aug 1....
Shepherd & Henry
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Hardware and stoves,
Quindaro, Kanzas
Agents for
J. M. Crosby's Patent Ecsentric Latches, Locks
And Dolls.
R. H. Pense's Horse Powers & Agricultural ImPlements.
P. Rollhaun 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 has
Promptly done.
Russell's
Fire & Water Proof
Patent
Mastic Roofing
On Canvass.
This roofing is applicable to steep or flat
Roofs, steam boat decks, rail road cars,
Foundries, etc. 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 roods without removing
the same.
This roofing is desirable on account of its low
Cost, 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 and 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 orders with
Promtness and dispatch.
Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribErs.
Shepherd, Henry & Co.
Quindaro, K. T., May 28, 1857
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, Caps, Clothing, Yankee Notion:
Etc., etc.,
Which will be sold low for cash, either
Wholesale or retail.
Please give us a call at
No. 4. North Kansas Avenue.
Quindaro, July, 11, 1857.
The People's
Variety Store
No. 38, Kanzas Avenue
Messers. 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 and Medicines.
Paints, olds and dye stuffs, glass ware, winDow
glass, fine tobacco and sugars, together
With the usual variety of articles usually found
In that line of business.
Dr. Welborn, who is a practical physiCian,
having special care of the Drug Depart0
Ment hopes to give general satisfaction.
A.C. Strock & Co.
Quindaro, May 4, 1857 1tf.
F. Johnson Geo. W. Veale.
Johnson & Veale
Wholesale 7 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. 1tf
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 patrinage, and will
Be pleased at all times to show our goods.
Johnson & Veale.
May 4th, 1857 1tf
For Sale
By
Johnson & Veale
1 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 locks and latches
Screws assorted
2 dozen Hatche's counter scales
1 dozen tea
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers
12 assorted glassware
Log chains, trace chains, shovels, spades, forks,
Scythes, and coffee-mills; shot guns, rifles, reVolvers,
shot-belts and powder finsks; bread
Cloths, cassimere, tweeds and satinetts; black
Silks, dress silks, lawns and challes; berages, 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 3t
Additional
We have received, in addition to our former stock,
30bbls. Cement, 10 doz. Brooms, 10 doz.
Buckets, 2 doz. Wash tubs, 2000
Seamless bags, 20 bundles sash.
100 kegs assorted nails,
100,000 assorted cigars,
5 boxes tobacco.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
June 1st, 1857. 4 Johnson & Veale
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 attended to.
May 4, 1857. 1tf
Quindaro
Steam Saw Mill Co.
The citizens of Quindaro and vicinity are
Hereby informed 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. 1tf
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. 24, 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
Engineers, 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 Wyandotte 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, has a
fine spring of water, and well covered with oak
and walnut timber. It is rolling land.
Price, $25 an acre. Enquire of
Newman & Ainsworth
Kanzas Avenue
Quindaro. June 20, 1857 2m8
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 of Kanzas Avenue and Levee,
Quindaro K. T.
May 20, 1857 2tf
Blacksmith & Wagon Maker
Wanted
A large settlement in the vicinity of RobinSon,
are much in need of a Blacksmith and
Wagon Maker, Liberal inducements will be ofFered
by the Town Company, to say such who
Chose to go and supply the want.
Apply to C. B. Ellis, Quindaro House
Quindaro, July 11, 1857 9-tf
H. M. Simpson O. H. Macauly
Simpson and 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 1tf
Hall, English & Henderson
Commission Merchants
Storage and Forwarding
Quindaro, Kanzas
References-Cushing, King & Degraw, 10
Warren St. New York. Simmons & Leadbeater,
Forwarding, St. Louis.
Stone Cutting
And Masonry
Frederick Klaus
Has offered 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 operated near this place. A sample
Of 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. 1tf.
Lawrence Advertisements,
James G. Sands,
Saddle, Harness & Trunk
Manufactory
Always on hand, everything in my line.
Also Belting Leather, Whang Leather, Copper
Rivits, etc.
Opposite Morrow House
Lawrence, Kanzas, April 1, 1857 1tf
Hunt & Cleland
No. 17. Massachusetts St., Lawrence, Kanzas
Receiving, Forwarding
And
Commission Merchants
And wholesale dealers in
Flour, Grain, and Provisions
...respectfully solicited.
Geo. W. Hunt W. B. Cleland
July 25, 1857
S. N. Wood & Co.
General Land Agents
Lawrence, Kanzas
Will invest ...land locate Land Warrents
In all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee from 50 to
100 percent on investment.
Letters of enquiry promptly answered/
S. N. Wood
Commissioner of Deeds for Ohio,
Office No. 27, Mass St., Lawrence, Kanzas
E. D. Ladd, S. B. Prentiss
Ladd & Prentiss,
Real Estate Brokers and General
Land Agents
E. D. Ladd,
Notary Public, Eng'r of Deeds, & Conveyance
Will take acknowledgements of deeds and other
Papers.
Office No. 15 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, Kanzas
May 13, 1857.
Books, Stationary & C.
O. Wilmarth
Lawrence, K. T.
Would inform his friends and the public generally,
that he keeps on hand as good an assortment
of articles in the above line as can be found
in the Territory, consisting of
School, Childrens' and Miscellaneous
Books! Also Blank and Memoran-
dum books; Writing books;
slates; pencils; musical in-
struments, musical mer-
chandise, etc, etc.
His Citculating
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.
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Quindaro Chin-do-wan
Saturday, August 22, 1857
Waiting
By Phere Cary
All these hours I sit and count,
As they pass me slow sad sad,
Are the headsmen cutting off
Every flower of hope I had.
And the feet that come and go,
In the darkness past my door,
If they trod upon my heart
Could not pain it any more!
For there sooner is everywhere,
Coming early, coming late,
By all ways that men may go,
To the homes where woman wait.
Some are pressing through the wood,
Where the path is faint and new;
Some striking......way,
Across meadows wet with dew;
Some along the highways track,
Music to their footsteps keep,
Some are pushing into shore
From their exile on the deep.
O, the hope I had to-night,
O, the glory that is fled,
O, the lamp of love I lit,
That burned useless and is dead!
And the feet that come and go,
In the darkness past my door,
If they trod upon my heart
Could not pain it any more!
Guardian Angels.
No inward pang! No yearning love,
Is lost to human hearts,
No anguish that the spirit feels,
When bright winged hope departs;
Though in the mysteries of life
Disordant powers prevail;
That life itself be weariness,
And sympathy may fail,
For all becomes a discipline
To lure us to the sky,
And angels bear the good it brings
With fostering care on high;
Though others, weary of the watch,
May sink to toil-spent sleep,
And we are left in solitude
And agony to weep
Let they with him stering seal,
The cup of healing bring,
And bear our love and gratitude
Away on heavenward wing
And thus the inner life is wrought
The blending earth and heaven
The love more earnest in its glow
When much has been forgiven.
Letting down the Aristocracy
The elegant Miss Mason, whose father has made a splendid fortune as an enterprising draper and tailor, appeared at a magnificent entertainment in royal apparel. With that fastidions exclusiveness for which the latest comers into fashionable circles are the most remarkable she refused various offers of introduction, as she did not wish to extend the number of her acquaintances: "her friends were few and very select."
The beautiful Miss Taylor, radiant with good natured smiles and once well acquainted with Miss Mason when they went to public school in William street together, noticed the hauteur of her ancient friend, who was determined not to recognize one who would only remind her of her former low estate. But Miss Taylor, the rogue, as clever as she was pretty, determined to bring her up with a short turn, and not to submit to being snubbed by one whose ancestral associations were no better than her own. Watching her chance when the haughty young lady was in the midst of her set, Miss Taylor walked up and with smiles of winning sweetness remarked:
"I have been thinking my dear Miss Mason, that we ought to exchange names"
"Why indeed?"
"Because my name is Taylor, and my father was a mason, and your name is Mason, but your father was a tailor."
There was a scene then, but there was no help for it, the little Miss Taylor had the pleasure of saying a cute thing, which was soon repeated in the ears of a dozen circles, and the wits wished to see her, but the proud Miss Mason bit her lip in silence.
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 usurpation is still forced upon the people of Kanzas, and they are thereby deprived of all the rights of American citizens, therefore be it resolved by the free state men in convention assembled:
I. That the Topeka Constitution and the state government originated in a public necessity then...events have proved the wisdom and justice of that movement, and that present circumstances render it an imperative demand of justice, common sense and patriotism, that it be unswervingly maintained and supported.
II. That the Topeka Constitution is the first and only choice of the free state men of Kanzas-that we look to our admission as a state under it as the surest and only method of regaining our lost sights and all our efforts as a party in whatever direction shall be subservient to that end.
III. The 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 as heretofore utterly deny the validity of the Territorial Legislature-that they still recognize it as the creature of fraud and violence, and that they acknowledge neither the validity nor the binding force of its enactment.
V. This the recent vote for delegates to a constitutional convention, has demonstrated to the world that the pro-slavery faction is a miserable minority of the people of Kanzas; that an attempt to frame a constitution by delegates thus elected would be a gross outrage upon the people, and that the admission of Kanzas under a constitution as framed, unless first submitted to a fair vote of the bona fide residents, would be an act of injustice and despotiant as flagrant and alarming as to justify the 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 penee 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 constitution 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 at an early date.
Whereas, Gov. Walker in his speech at Topeka as reported in the Kanzas...of June 9th, holds the following language: "In October next, not under the act of the late Territorial Legislature, but under the laws of congress, you the whole people of Kanzas, have a right to elect a delegate to Congress, and to elect a Territorial Legislature," and
Whereas, Gov. Walker has on various occasions used similar language, and
Whereas, Under the above decision "the whole people of Kanzas," may participate in an election for delegate for congress, and for members of the Territorial Legislature imposed upon them by fraud and by force, therefore
X. Resolved, that we recommend to the people of Kanzas, that they assemble in Mass Convention at Grasshopper Falls on August, 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 featy to the great cause in which we are engaged, and pledge to each other our firm, united and persevering efforts for the final triumph of freedom in Kanzas
Resolved, that we also recommend that a Delegate Convention to 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 election in Kanzas. Therefore, be it
Resolved , that Gen. James H. Lane be appointed by this convention, and authorized to organize the people in the several districts to protect the ballot boxes at the approaching elections in Kanzas.
Free State Platform
Of March 10, 1857
We the citizens of Kanzas, in Delegate Convention assembled at Topeka, March 10th, 1857, Resolve and Declare:
Whereas, A body of men recently assembled at Lecompton, and claiming to be the Legislative Assembly of Kanzas Territory, have adopted a regulation, purporting to be a law, for taking the census and electing delegates to a Constitutional Convention, proposed to be held in that place in September next, and
Whereas, The said assembly was the creation of fraud, and its members the representatives of a people foreign to the Territory, and
Whereas, the organic act does not authorize the territorial legislative powers, even when legitimately convened, to pass any enabling act to change the government of the same, and
Whereas, the act of this assembly is partizan in its character, clearly contemplates fraud; for the recurrence of which it offers inadequate security, while it deprives the Executive of the Territory of the power to prevent or remedy such fraud, leaves the control of the census and election in the hands of pretended officers, not chosen by the people of Kanzas, who are of violent characters and hostile to the best interests of the Territory; and
Whereas, said act purports to disfranchise certain bona fide settlers of Kanzas, who have filed their declarations of intention to become citizens, and are recognized as voters by the Organic Act, and
Whereas, there is no provision in the said regulation for submitting the constitution so framed to the vote of the people of the Territory; therefore
Resolved, that the people of Kanzas Territory cannot participate in any election under such regulation, without compromising their rights as American citizens, sacrificing the best interests of Kanzas and jeopardizing the public peace.
Resolved, that having suffered under this misrule of person's pretending to be the local officials of this territory, we have lost all confidence in the integrity of the administration of the laws, however just these laws may appear to some on their face.
Resolved, that with the people of any territory "alone," rests the right to change the form of their government, subject to the approval of Congress, given before or after steps for the formation of a State government have been taken; and further, that a territorial government is extra constitutional, and, at best, under ordinances of Congress, purely temporary.
Resolved, that the constitution framed at Topeka, by the representatives of the people of Kanzas, and ratified by popular votes, is still the choice of a majority of our citizens, as the form of a state government, and that we maintain and urge on Congress our immediate admission as a state under it.
Resolved, that the policy of the free states party has always been averse to any movement of an aggressive character, and that violence has never been resorted to save in self defence.
Resolved, that we make no tests for membership in the free state party, save that of the exclusion of domestic slavery from Kanzas by subsequent legislation.
Resolved, that we regard the presence of peaceful relations between our citizens as conducive to their best personal welfare as well as indispensable to the perfect development and expansion of the various economical interests of the Territory, to the end thereof that such relations may be obtained and permanently established amongst us, we earnestly appeal to all men of whatever party, to submit all differences of opinion growing out of the question of our future internal domestic institutions, to the test of sound reason, and enlightened, through friendly discussion, and to the final arbitrament of the ballot box.
Provided, that any attempt to abridge or impair the freedom of speech, oral or written, or of the ballot box, or other constitutional rights, will be held as just cause of departure from this policy.
Resolved, that Congress having presented the principles of squatter sovereignty enunciated in the Kanzas bill as the basis of the political action of the people of Kanzas, we are inflexibly determined to abide by its faithful execution, as we ever have resolutely opposed its violation, and ever will while it remains on the statute book.
Miscellaneous,
Whereas, Hon. James Buchanan in a debate in the senate of the United States, on the admission of Michigan into the Union with a constitution framed in a similar manner to the state constitution of Kanzas, declared the people "stood upon their rights-rights secured to them by the constitution," that having formed the constitution, elected their officers, "and the whole machinery of a State Government being perfected-that having assumed this attitude they could demand their admission as a matter of right, and as "an act of justice, " and that to repel a State under such circumstances is sufficient to induce fear for the consequences and cause statesmen to "tremble at an act of such injustice," and
Whereas, the present democratic administration, by virtue of the pledges made by its leaders in the late Presidential campaign, is in all honor bound to use its influence, and lend its aid to make Kanzas a free state; and
Whereas, the Democratic party has in some of the states, made the admission of Kanzas as a free state, the issue in the election of James Buchanan, and large numbers of democrats were influenced to vote for him upon this issue; therefore
1. Resolved, that the people of Kanzas have a right to look with confidence to the present Chief Executive of the nation for an approval of their course, and for his assistance in procuring their admission into the Union under the Topeka Constitution,
2. Resolved, that this convention would urge upon the State Legislature, the importance of assembling in June according to adjournment, and take such action as may be necessary to secure the vitality of the State Government, and its recognition by Congress.
3. Resolved, that the territorial laws (so called,) of Kanzas had their origin in fraud, were imposed upon the territory by usurpation and violence, in hold defiance and subversion of the Constitution, the Organic Act, and every principle of justice, and are therefore, null and void; and we respectfully request the Territorial Executive to refuse to enforce any of said fraudulent enactments till Congress shall provide for an election of a Territorial Legislature by the people, without interference from foreign States.
4. Resolved, that it is a shameless hypocricy for a political party to adopt for their principles the doctrine of "popular sovereignty," while they justify the most patent and flagrant violation of it, and persist in subjecting citizens of the United States to a foreign tyranny unparalleled in history.
5. Resolved, that the banking system chartered...Legislature, (so called,) not only had its origin in fraud, but is a fraud in itself...all...its notes and currency.
6. Resolved, that as good citizens we are ever willing to contribute to the support or a legitimate government, but we have no tribute voluntarily to offer to the tyranny that robs us of our constitutional and inalienable rights.
7. Resolved, that the act called the "rebellion act," is a relic of barbarism and more worthy to be approved and enforced by a Nero than a Geary.
8. Resolved, that the census act of the late Missouri, Kanzas Legislature, is a cheat and a swindle, requiring in one section, as a condition for voting, registration without residence, and in another residence without registration-the design of which is apparent to all who are familiar with the usurpation in Kanzas.
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Notice is hereby given that the south half of the southwest quarter of section number twenty-three and the south half of the south east quarter of section number twenty-two, and the north half of the north-east quarter of section number twenty-seven, and the north half of the north-west quarter of section number twenty-six; all in township number fifteen south, and range number fourteen east, in Kanzas Territory, containing three hundred and twenty 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 plat of the town of Carbondale has been duly recorded in the office of the register of public lands at Lecompton, Kanzas Territory.
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With the July number commences the Tenth Volume of Putnam's Monthly.
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Prospectus
Of
"The Cincinnatus,"
for 1857
This monthly, which has completed its first year under most favorable circumstances, will be issued at Farmer's 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 the delivery of the
first number.
To clubs, 4 copies to one address, $6.00
6 copies to one address, 8.00
8 copies to one address, 10.00
Bound volumes of the first year, may be had on application.
F. B.-All communications to be addressed to
F. G. Cary, President or Farmers' College, College Hill Ohio
Odd Fellows' Literary Casket
The Casket is a monthly periodical of 64 pages, devoted to Odd-Fellowship and general literature. The establishment character of the magazine both as a literary work and as a journal of Odd-Fellowship will commend it to the patronage and encouragement of the fraternity. It is our aim to give, in addition to articles illustrative of the principles, objects, and progress of Odd-Fellowship-such articles of an elevated literary tone as the popular mind usually relishes with the most avidity, thus rendering it valuable as a literary magazine, aside from its merits as a publication of the Order.
The volumes commence with the numbers for January and July, of each year, with which numbers all subscriptions must begin.
Terms:
Single copy per year, invariably in advance, $2; three copies, $5; five copies, $8; ten copies, with one to agent, $15.
Letters and communications must be directed,
Post paid; to
T. M. Turner, Editor and Proprietor
Cincinnati, Ohio
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. Hutcheson, John H. Caswell.
Jno. T. Reese, Clerk.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Each number of the Magazine will contain 144 octavo pages, in double columes, each year thus comprising nearly 2000 pages of the choice miscellany of the day! Every number will contain numerous pictorial illustrations, accurate place of fashions, a copious chronicle of current events, and impartial notices of the important books of the month. The volumes 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.
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The Northern Independent
Price, $1.00 per annum.
In the first six months of its existence, the
Northern Independent has attained a
Circulation of over nine thousand.
Rev. Wm. Hosmer, Editor. Rev
D. W. Bristol, Rev. H. Mattison, Rev. J.
Watts, Rev. H. R. Clarke, Rev. B. T. Roberts,
Corresponding Editors.
The Independent is a weekly religious paper, published at Auburn, Cayuga county, N. Y., by the Central New York Publishing Association, devoted to the interests of the M. E. Church, and more staunchly Anti-Slavery than any official paper in the church. This paper is designed especially for the Laity and will enlist their energies more fully than any paper which they cannot own or control.
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.
All orders for the paper should be addressed to Rev. William Hosmer, Auburn, N. Y.
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 chairs will be as follows:-
T. E. St. John, M. D., professor of anatomy and physiology
C. D. Lewis, M. D., professor of chemistry and pharmacy
A. J. Howe, M. D. Professor of surgery
C. H. Cleaveland, M. D., professor of material medica and therapeutics
Wm. Sherwood, M. D., professor of medical practice and pathology
J. R. Buchanan, M. D., emeritus professor of cerebral physiology and institute of medicine.
John King, M. D., professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children.
The terms for the session will be the same as heretofore, viz:-Matriculation, $5.00, tuition, $20.00, demonstrator's ticket, $5.00. (every student is required to engage in dissection one session before Graduation,) Graduation, $25.00. Ticket to Commercial Hospital (optional), $5.00.
The lecture rooms are newly finished, neat and comfortable, and in a central locality (in college hall, Walnut Street,) where students will find it convenient to call on their arrival.
Tickets for the session may be obtained of the Dean of the Faculty, as his office, No. 113 Smith Street, or of Prof. C. H. Cleaveland, Secretary of the Faculty, No. 130 Seventh Street near Elm.
John King, M. D., Dean
The
College Journal of Medical Science
A monthly magazine of 48 pages, conducted by the faculty of The Eclectic College of Medicine, is published at One Dollar a year payable in advance. Communications for subscription or for specimen numbers, should be directed to
Dr. C. H. Cleaveland, Publisher.
139 Seventh Street, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lawrence Advertisements.
Hunt & Cleland
No. 17. Massachusetts St., Lawrence, Kanzas
Receiving, Forwarding
And
Commission Merchants
And wholesale dealers in
Flour, Grain, and Provisions
...respectfully solicited.
Geo. W. Hunt W. B. Cleland
July 25, 1857
S. N. Wood & Co.
General Land Agents
Lawrence, Kanzas
Will invest ...land locate Land Warrents
In all parts of Kanzas, and guarantee from 50 to
100 percent on investment.
Letters of enquiry promptly answered/
S. N. Wood
Commissioner of Deeds for Ohio,
Office No. 27, Mass St., Lawrence, Kanzas
E. D. Ladd, S. B. Prentiss
Ladd & Prentiss,
Real Estate Brokers and General
Land Agents
E. D. Ladd,
Notary Public, Eng'r of Deeds, & Conveyance
Will take acknowledgements of deeds and other
Papers.
Office No. 15 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, Kanzas
May 13, 1857.
Rob't L. Frazer.
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
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
Whitney House
No. 5 New Hampshire Street
Lawrence, Kanzas
T. L. Whitney,...Proprietor
May 13, 1857.
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. 24, 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
Engineers, 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 Wyandotte 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, has a
fine spring of water, and well covered with oak
and walnut timber. It is rolling land.
Price, $25 an acre. Enquire of
Newman & Ainsworth
Kanzas Avenue
Quindaro. June 20, 1857 2m8
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 of Kanzas Avenue and Levee,
Quindaro K. T.
May 20, 1857 2tf
A Tinner Wanted
A Good tinner can get employment by
Applying immediately at
Shepherd & Henry's, in Quindaro
August 8, 1857
Blacksmith & Wagon Maker
Wanted
A large settlement in the vicinity of RobinSon,
are much in need of a Blacksmith and
Wagon Maker, Liberal inducements will be ofFered
by the Town Company, to say such who
Chose to go and supply the want.
Apply to C. B. Ellis, Quindaro House
Quindaro, July 11, 1857 9-tf
Chas. B. Ellis
Civil Engineer & Surveyor,
Attends promptly 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.
H. M. Simpson O. H. Macauly
Simpson and 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 1tf
Hall, English & Henderson
Commission Merchants
Storage and Forwarding
Quindaro, Kanzas
References-Cushing, King & Degraw, 10
Warren St. New York. Simmons & Leadbeater,
Forwarding, St. Louis.
Stone Cutting
And Masonry
Frederick Klaus
Has offered 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 operated near this place. A sample
Of 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. 1tf.
Books, Stationary & C.
O. Wilmarth
Lawrence, K. T.
Would inform his friends and the public generally,
that he keeps on hand as good an assortment
of articles in the above line as can be found
in the Territory, consisting of
School, Childrens' and Miscellaneous
Books! Also Blank and Memoran-
dum books; Writing books;
slates; pencils; musical in-
struments, musical mer-
chandise, etc, etc.
His Citculating
Library
Is supplied with some of the most popular works
Published, and is constantly receiving additions,
From the East.
The Beautiful & Un-
Rivaled 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,
Wyandott, Kanzas, Independence, Liberty,
Richfield, Sibley, Camden and Wellington, on
Tuesdays, June 9th and 23rd, July 7th and
21st, August 4th and 18th, Sept. 1st, 15th, and
29th, October 13th and 27th, November 10th.
Passing Parkville at 7 o'clock, A.M., QuinDaro
at 7:30, A.M.; Wyandott at 8 A.M.l 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 with
out regard to cost, for a first class Missouri, River
Packet, and in point of speed, elegance and luxUrious
accommodations, is pro-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.
Job Printing,
Neatly and Promptly executed at the Office of
The Chindowan.
F. Johnson Geo. W. Veale.
Johnson & Veale
Wholesale 7 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. 1tf
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 patrinage, and will
Be pleased at all times to show our goods.
Johnson & Veale.
May 4th, 1857 1tf
For Sale
By
Johnson & Veale
1 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 locks and latches
Screws assorted
2 dozen Hatche's counter scales
1 dozen tea
6 boxes assorted glass tumblers
12 assorted glassware
Log chains, trace chains, shovels, spades, forks,
Scythes, and coffee-mills; shot guns, rifles, reVolvers,
shot-belts and powder finsks; bread
Cloths, cassimere, tweeds and satinetts; black
Silks, dress silks, lawns and challes; berages, 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 3t
Additional
We have received, in addition to our former stock,
30bbls. Cement, 10 doz. Brooms, 10 doz.
Buckets, 2 doz. Wash tubs, 2000
Seamless bags, 20 bundles sash.
100 kegs assorted nails,
100,000 assorted cigars,
5 boxes tobacco.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
June 1st, 1857. 4 Johnson & Veale
Shepherd & Henry
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Hardware and stoves,
Quindaro, Kanzas
Agents for
J. M. Crosby's Patent Ecsentric Latches, Locks
And Dolls.
R. H. Pense's Horse Powers & Agricultural ImPlements.
P. Rollhaun 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 has
Promptly done.
Fire & Water Proof
Patent
Mastic Roofing
On Canvass.
This roofing is applicable to steep or flat
Roofs, steam boat decks, rail road cars,
Foundries, etc. 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 roods without removing
the same.
This roofing is desirable on account of its low
Cost, 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 and 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 orders with
Promtness and dispatch.
Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribErs.
Shepherd, Henry & Co.
Quindaro, K. T., May 28, 1857
The People's
Variety Store
No. 38, Kanzas Avenue
Messers. 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 and Medicines.
Paints, olds and dye stuffs, glass ware, winDow
glass, fine tobacco and sugars, together
With the usual variety of articles usually found
In that line of business.
Dr. Welborn, who is a practical physi-
Cian, having special care of the Drug Depart0
Ment hopes to give general satisfaction.
A.C. Strock & Co.
Quindaro, May 4, 1857 1tf.
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, Caps, Clothing, Yankee Notion:
Etc., etc.,
Which will be sold low for cash, either
Wholesale or retail.
Please give us a call at
No. 4. North Kansas Avenue.
Quindaro, July, 11, 1857.
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.
Quindaro
Steam Saw Mill Co.
The citizens of Quindaro and vicinity are
Hereby informed 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. 1tf
To Rent
A store on Kanzas Avenue. Enquire of
Dr. Budington.