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Saturday, December
12, 1857.
The Height of the Ridiculous.
BY O. W. HOLMES.
I wrote some
lines once,
In wondrous merry mood,
And thought as usual, men would
say
They were exceeding good -
They were so good, so very good -
I laughed as I would die,
Albeit in a
general way,
A sober man am I.
I called my servant, and he came,
How kind it was of him,
To mind a
slender man like me,
He of the mighty limb.
Then to the PRINTER, I exclaimed,
And in my humorous way,
I added as a
trifling jest -
There’ll be the – “devil to pay.”
He took the paper, and I looked,
And saw him peep within;
At the first
line he read,
His face was all upon the grin.
He read the next, and the grin grew broad,
And shot from ear to ear,
He
read the third, a chuckling noise,
I now began to hear.
The fourth – he broke into a roar,
The fifth – his waistband split,
The
sixth – he burst five buttons off,
And tumbled in a fit.
Ten days and nights with sleepless eye
I watched that wretched man,
And
since, I have not dared to write
As funny as I can.
President Buchanan a Mystery to Himself.
We copy the following from
a series of articles in the National Intelligencer from Judge Robertson,
of Kentucky, who was a member of Congress when the Missouri Compromise was
passed, and voted for that celebrated measure. He was vindicated for his course,
and that of the majority who voted with him on that occasion, with great
ability. In his third letter he pays his respects to Mr. Buchanan as follows:
“Owners of slaves in the States cannot, any more than the owners of slaves in
a foreign country, carry with them into a Territory of the United States the
various local laws by which persons are made property. The Government of the
Territory is not bound to know those foreign laws, nor is it under any legal
obligation to recognize and enforce them against its own local policy and will,
and against God’s charter of human liberty; and when it refuses to do so, it
deprives no man of his property, in the conservative sense of the Constitution.
All this appears to me self evident. Consequently, the Missouri Compromise act
is constitutional, unless there be in the Constitution some implied guarantee to
every citizen of every State whose law recognizes Slavery, to carry his slaves
into every Territory of the United States, and keep them there as his property,
as long as Congress has legislative jurisdiction over the Territory. It was on
the assumption of some such guarantee that Justices Daniel, Catron, and
Campbell, seemed to rest their opinions. And on the same ground the President,
(James Buchanan) has lately published the same opinion, and presumed to throw
into the scales the weight of his personal character and official influence
against us. In his late letter to Prof. Silliman and others, after alluding to
what he was pleased to characterize as a ‘decision’ that the Missouri Compromise
was unconstitutional and void, he said, gratuitously, ‘how it could ever have
been seriously doubted, is a mystery.’ This is a grave charge, from high
authority. If it be true, all who voted for the compromise line, and all who
approved it, including himself when less than a President, were either knaves or
fools, for there can be no other clue to the ‘mystery.’ Have I not a
right to answer this charge, by whomsoever fulminated? – I will try to do it,
and hope to prove that Mr. Buchanan is in the same category in which his late
pronunciamento would place me, and that his argument in defense of the
last edition of his opinion is a suicide.
The Oregon bill, which President Polk approved and signed, applied to that
Territory the ordinance of 1787, with its anti-slavery clause. In his message to
Congress, explaining his reasons, he said, among other things: ‘The fathers of
the Constitution – the wise and patriotic men who laid the foundation of our
institutions – foreseeing the danger from this quarter, (Slavery,) acted in a
spirit of compromise and mutual concession on this dangerous and delicate
subject; and their wisdom ought to be the guide of their successors.’ ‘The
discussion on the subject in Congress (admission of Missouri) involved the
question of Slavery, and was prosecuted with such violence as to produce
excitements alarming to every patriot in the Union. But the good genius of
conciliation, which presided at the birth of our institutions, finally
prevailed, and the Missouri compromise was adopted. This compromise had the
effect of calming the troubled waves, and restored peace and good will
throughout the States of the Union. I do not doubt that a similar adjustment of
the question which now agitates the public mind would produce the same happy
results.’ ‘And it is because the provisions of this bill are not inconsistent
with the terms of the Missouri compromise, if extended from the Rio Grande to
the Pacific, that I have not felt at liberty to withhold my sanction.’ Those
were right and lofty sentiments. And we have sufficient reasons for believing
that Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of State in President Polk’s Cabinet, fully
concurred in them. Had he then no doubt of the unconstitutionality of the
Missouri compromise? We may presume that he did not doubt its constitutionality.
Then, according to his latest notion, there was a double mystery in his case.
But afterwards, in 1845, in a debate in the Senate on the annexation of Texas,
with the application of the Missouri compromise line to at least half of it, Mr,
Buchanan, then Senator, said: ‘He was pleased with it, again, because it settled
the question of Slavery. These resolutions went to establish the Missouri
compromise by fixing a line within which it was to be in future confined. That
controversy had nearly shaken this Union to its center in an earlier and better
period in its history. But this compromise, should it now be re-established,
would prevent the recurrence of similar dangers hereafter. Was it desirable to
have the Missouri question brought home to the people, to goad them to fury?
That question between the two great interests in our company had been well
discussed, and well decided; and from that moment Mr. B had set down his foot on
the solid ground then established, and therefore he would let the question stand
forever. Who could complain of the terms of that compromise? Still later, in his
Stanford letter, never contradicted, so far as I ever heard, Mr. Buchanan said:
‘I never doubted the constitutionality of the Missouri compromise.’
“Now, that, in the face of these long and repeated recognitions of the
undoubted constitutionality of the compromise, Mr. Buchanan, as President,
should have proclaimed that the fact that any person ever doubted the
unconstitutionality of it is a ‘mystery,’ is itself a far more puzzling
mystery.
“Here, then, the question arises, what is the value of the late opinion
published by the President? Compared with his freer opinion as a citizen, as
Secretary of State, and as Senator, so long persisted in, and with so much
apparent confidence in his last reiteration of it is his Sanford letter, the
latest as announced in his (?) letter cannot with its utmost patronizing (?),
more than neutralize his first and more responsible. And therefore the most
favorable estimate of the President’s opinion on this subject is that it is a
blank.
But his argument in favor of his Presidential opinion, will, when (?), appear
as light as a feather, weighed against his more early and solid opinion.”
The Doctrine of Negro Equality
Announced by the
Administra-
tion
The great present and pressing question of
American politics is, whether negro slaves have the same rights in the
Territories of the Union as the white men of the country. By the decision of no
other question can the interests of the white races be so much affected as by
the decision of this question Shall they have the exclusive occupation of the
million and a half of square miles embraced in the Territories of the Union, or
shall they be excluded, in whole or in part, by the African?
It is with regret that we find the Administration, in this vital particular,
throwing its whole weight upon the side of negro equality. This movement is
masked, to be sure, by the more pleasing phrase, ”State equality,” but
the pill is none the less bitter because coated with sugar. It is none the less
”negro equality.” which Mr. Buchanan supports, because he sees fit to
call it ”State equality”
What the Administration maintains in words, is the equal right of the States
to the Territories But the political corporations have no rights in the
Territories The States, as such, cannot move to the Territories and occupy them
The States, as such, own no slaves What is meant by ”State equality” is
the right of the slaveholding citizens, who are only a small portion of the
people of the slaveholding States, to occupy the Territories with their slaves.
The equality contended for is not the equal right of States, but the equal right
of a peculiar class of persons holding a very peculiar species of property.
Sifted to the bottom, the assertion of ”State equality.” as intended by
Mr. Buchanan, is the assertion that our Territories are as fully open to negro
slaves as they are to white men. In other words, it is the assertion, in respect
to a vital matter, and bearing upon the precise point at which the development
of one race comes in collision with the development of the other, of the
doctrine of ”negro equality.”
This doctrine of the Administration we feel bound to oppose. The Territories
of the Union were not acquired by the blood or treasure of negro slaves, and to
put them upon an equality of right, in respect to the ocupation of the
Territories, is to do the greatest possible wrong and injury to the white men of
the country, whether living at the North or at the South. It is ”negro
equality,” in the worst imaginable form, and no honeyed subterfuge of
”State equality” can make it anything else. – Washington Republic.
-While Wellington rode along the lines on the day of Waterloo, he reined up
on seeing his friend the Marquis of Angleses lifted bleeding from the ground. “I
have lost my leg general,” said Angleses to his commander. “The devil you have!”
said the “iron duke,” and put spurs to his horse. This laconic sympathy was too
much for poor Angleses and he never forgave it.
-A letter from England, published in the Philadelphia Evening Journal,
says that ten thousand Sepoys were killed at the taking of Delhi.
Struck Dumb
It is a fact worth calling attention to, that the
locofoco papers have not published any of the recent news from Kanzas. The
reason they have not done so is palpable. It would most effectually contradict
all they have recently written upon the subject. They have constantly asserted
that a pro-slavery constitution would not be framed, and that the constitution
framed would be submitted to a vote of the whole people. But look at the facts.
A pro-slavery constitution has been framed, and it will not be
submitted to the people. Has any Democratic paper, so called, published the
pro-slavery clause of that constitution? The bogus convention has now adjourned
and the troops which guarded it have gone into winter quarters at Fort
Leavenworth. It is understood that Walker and Stanton will soon leave the
Territory to be present at the opening of Congress, and then Calhoun’s regency,
provided for by the Convention, will commence, and he will be in fact Governor
of the Territory. The vote on the slavery clause alone, which even if voted
down, leaves the constitution pro-slavery, will be taken on the first day of
December, when it will be sent to Congress at once with the design to secure its
ratification, if possible, before the assembling of the Territorial Legislature,
and the only hope the Free State men have to defeat this, is, that Gov. Walker
may be induced to call an extra-session, which is a slim chance.
But if the rascality is consummated, if Congress shall choose to ratify the
Constitution under such circumstances, it will show the American people this
astounding fact; that a pro-slavery constitution, framed by a despicable
minority, on which the majority have had no opportunity to pronounce, and which
forces slavery upon people, who, by an overwhelming vote have declared
against it, was one of the first acts of the Democratic Congress. Let that party
dare do this and then come before the electors for endorsement. We shall be
content with the signal and wrathful retribution which will overtake them. –
Detroit Tribune.
A Government of Satraps
In his exultation at having carried
Leavenworth county by his frauds at Kickapoo, and presuming that he had thereby
secured the ascendency of his (?) party in Kanzas, Gov. Walker exclaimed (?)
Wyandott to a Republiccan
“WE have beat you”
In the same spirit, Gov Medary, of Minnesota, wrote, on the 17th of October,
to the Ohio Statesman:
“WE have won a great victory.”
The truth is, the Government of our Territories, instead of being a
Government of the people, is, to an important extent. A GOVERNMENT OF SATRAPS
Territorial Judges and Governors, instead of being elected by the people of
the Territories, as they ought to be, are the mere creatures of a central,
Executive despotism in this city, receiving enormous salaries, appointed with
express reference to their dexterity and unscrupulousness as political managers,
and devoting their whole time and energies to subserve the interests, not of the
people they are sent to govern, but of their own master at the White House.
If we could have a little infusion of genuine popular sovereignty into our
Territorial system, the days of the Walkers and Medrays would be ended.
Let us have the people of the Territories elect all their own officers, as
well as make all their own laws. Let us have no more Satraps. It is far better
to trust the people, in anything and in all things, than this Government at
Washington. Popular sovereignty is a good watchword Let us carry it out into (?)
practice. – (?) Republic
How Votes were Made in Min-
nesota.
The St. Anthony
News lets a gleam of light upon the (?) the Democracy manufactured some
two hundred votes in that county It says, in reply to the Pro-slavery paper at
St. Anthony:
“The Express denies that there were any plans for importing Irish
voters from Wisconsin into this precinct. Will its editor tell us why a certain
R. Dunbar advertised for ‘three hundred workmen to work on the railroad between
St. Paul and St. Anthony,’ when that company was unable to pay its surveyors for
want of funds, and when the road had not been put under contract? Will he
tell us why fifty wheelbarrows were set in tandem on the hill, and manned by
colonized ‘laborers,’ just ten days before the election? Will he tell us why
these men were kept and paid up to the night of the election, and no longer?
Will he tell us what compelled the company to commence that work just ten days
before election, and to close it on election night, and to send back to St. Paul
the wheelbarrows used or pretended to be used on the job, of which we met a load
as we were returning from that city last week.”
In St. Paul, the Democracy do not deny but they made over four hundred votes
by importations of laborers under the ten days’ law, whom they set to work on
the streets until they have voted, when they were cast adrift: In this way, a
majority of one thousand was obtained for the Pro-slavery ticket in St. Paul. -
Chicago Tribune.
Massachusetts Election.
BOSTON, NOV. 4, 1857.
At the election
yesterday, 320 towns gave Banks 23,231 plurality. The footings stand: Banks
62,207, Gardner 37,070, Beach 30,411, scattering 173. The Senate thus far stands
31 Republicans, 5 Americans, and 4 Democrats. In the House are 140 Republicans,
32 Americans, and 34 Democrats.
Good for the old Bay State.
Secretary Cass Exposes Himself.
Secretary Cass has recently seen
proper to deliver himself of the opinion that “there is no law in the United
States to prevent a citizen, in the exercise of the right of expatriation, from
going either armed or unarmed, to a foreign country.” This declaration has very
naturally created some sensation at Washington, and excited no little
ill-feeling among the foreign diplomats. The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times remarks most pertinently upon the opinion of the Secretary as
follows: “If one citizen can thus expatriate himself, a dozen, a hundred, a
thousand, or ten thousand can do the same thing. And if a man may take his arms
in his hands, there is no reason why he may not take a mountain howitzer
on his shoulders, The enunciation of such a doctrine; at this time, is
considered nothing less than a Proclamation of the United States Government that
Walker may make war on Central America whenever he shall see fit, or can get the
means to do so, with perfect impunity. It is looked upon as an official
reiteration of Gen. Cass’ letter to the New York meeting, while he was in the
Senate, of sympathy in the cause of Walker and fillibusterism. In view of this
opinion, the ‘instructions to the several United States Marshals to prevent any
infraction of the Neutrality Laws,’ as also the instructions to the commander of
the John Adams in Potomac Bay to do the same thing, are regarded as a gross
hypocrisy on the part of the Cabinet at Washington.” - Cin. Gazette.
-The U.S. House of Representatives consists of 234 Members – 118 constituting
a majority. They are divided in politics as follows: The Congo Democracy it will
be seen has a decided majority.
Dem. Rep. K.N.
Maine.............. 6
New Hampshire,.....
3
Vermont,........... 3
Massachusetts,..... 11
Rhode Island,......
2
Connecticut,....... 2 2
New York,.......... 12 21
New Jersey.........
3 2
Pennsylvania,...... 15 10
Delaware,.......... 1
Virginia...........
13
South Carolina,.... 6
Florida,........... 1
Arkansas,..........
2
Missouri,.......... 4 1 2
Illinois,.......... 5 4
Iowa,..............
2
Wisconsin,......... 3
Indiana............ 6 5
Ohio,.............. 8
13
Michigan,.......... 4
California,........ 2
Texas,.............
2
Kentucky,.......... 8 2
Tennessee,......... 7 3
North Carolina,.... 7
1
Alabama,........... 7
Georgia,........... 6 2
Mississippi,.......
5
Maryland,.......... 3 3
Louisiana,......... 3 1
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128 92 14
A NOBLE ACT. – The Milwaukee News thus records a noble act of an
Engineer:
“On Wednesday last, as the train on the La Crosse Railroad was coming east,
and when about a mile east of Cambria, the Engineer saw a little boy about five
years old on the track. He immediately whistled to brake up, and reversed the
engine, but as it was on a down grade, he soon found he could not stop the
train, which, when the child was first seen, was under full motion. The Engineer
stationed himself on the fore part of the locomotive and watching his chance,
jumped ahead of the engine, snatched the boy from the track, and thus saved his
life. The train passed on some distance before it stopped. The name of the
Engineer is T. L. Meade, who deserves unqualified praise for his noble act.
There are few men that possess the courage and nerve to perform such a feat. –
But he is rewarded; for the pleasure to such a man of having saved the life of
“some one’s little boy,” is infinite. Take it altogether, it is the best and
noblest act of engineering, that we ever heard of.”
NEW STATES. – Three new States will apply for admission into the Union during
the next session of Congress, to wit: Minnesota, Kanzas and Oregon. When these
are admitted, the number of the States will be thirty-four, and the number of
the Senators, sixty-eight. If Kanzas and Oregon come in free, the number of free
States will be nineteen, slave States, fifteen. The Territories then left, will
be Washington, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Dakotah and Arizona. It is in
contemplation also, to organize a Territory below Kanzas. The Cherokees will
send a delegation to Washington to urge the measure.
-The present population of the United States, (composed of 31 States and 9
Territories) is 27,000,000, of whom 4,000,000 are negroes. The extent of sea
coast is 12,500 miles. The annual value of its agricultural productions is
2,000,000,000. Its mines of gold, copper, lead, coal and iron are among the
richest in the world. Within its borders are 80,000 schools, 5,000 academies,
284 colleges, and 40,000 churches, having accommodations for 14,500,000 persons.
There are 80,000 regular clergymen of all denominations, and the total value of
church property is $88,000,000, of which the Episcopalians possess $11,000,000,
and the Roman Catholics $9,500,000. The former have one church for every 15,871,
the latter one in 18,000.
“BAPTIZE THE WHOLE ARMY” – We have already referred to the religious faith of
the General who has added so much (?) to the English arms, during the war in
India. The following anecdote was related by the Rev. Mr. Graham, of Bonn, at a
meeting of the Hibernian Bible Society in Belfast:
“He had to tell them that General Havelock, who is now so distinguished in
India, although a Baptist, was a member of his (Mr. Graham’s) missionary church
at Bonn, and his wife and daughter were members of it for seven years. He could
also narrate an anecdote regarding that great and good man, which he had heard
from the lips of Lady Havelock. When General Havelock, as colonel of his
regiment, was traveling through India, he always took with him a Bethel tent, in
which he preached the gospel; and when Sunday came in India he usually hoisted
the Bethel flag, and invited all men to come and hear the gospel – in fact, he
even baptised some. He was reported for this at head-quarters, for acting in a
non-military and disorderly manner; and the Commander-in-Chief, General Lord
Gough, entertained the charge, but with the true spirit of a generous military
man, he caused the state of Colonel Havelock’s regiment to be examined. He
caused the reports of the moral state of the various regiments to be read for
some time back, and he found that Colonel Havelock’s stood at the head of the
list; there was less drunkenness, less flogging, less imprisonment in it than in
any other. When that was done the Commander-in-Chief said, ‘Go and tell Col.
Havelock with my compliments, to baptize the whole army,’”
-A swimming match lately took place at Paris between two ladies, who
undertook to accomplish the distance between the Point Neuf and the Point Notre
Dame in a given time, being allowed the use of the left hand only, the other to
be occupied in holding a green parasol, to screen the visage of the fair swimmer
from the sun. The usually quiet, naked river, was crowded with little boats. The
husband of one of the ladies sat at the head of the boat in which the fair
rivals had been conveyed to the middle of the river, and gave the signal for
starting by hoisting a little blue flag. At the summons, the fair Naiads plunged
overboard from either side of the boat and were soon beheld gliding along
rapidly as the stream. The ladies were attired in loose, wide trousers, of tine
white cashmere, striped with blue, the waist bound with a scarlet belt, and a
shirt of the finest cambric, with short sleeves. The dark eyed Marquise DE B.
won the victory by an arm’s length.
GOV. WALKER AND SENATOR DOUGLASS. – It is said that Gov. Walker had an
interview with Senator Douglass while on his way from Kanzas to Washington.
Previous to that interview he had not fully made up his mind what course to take
in regard to the Lecompton Constitution. His decided course now, and his hostile
attitude toward the Administration, are supposed to be the fruits of the putting
of their two heads together.
Senator Douglass has gone on to Washington to assist in carrying out their
plans for the annoyance of Mr. Buchanan. The Chicago Journal says he left
there on Wednesday night, “full of wrath and fury at the course of the
Administration, and with an openly avowed purpose to oppose the doctrines
enunciated by the Washington Union to the bitter end.” – Cin. Gaz. Nov.
30th
YANKEE LABORERS AT FIFTY CENTS PER DAY. – The Hartford Times of Nov.
9, prints the following:
“It has been found necessary by the officers of the railroad depot in Asylum
street to reduce the pay of the workmen on the wood trains 20 per cent., and the
laborers were offered yesterday 50 cents per day. A large force of them –
Irishmen, all – were ready to go to work at the old rates, but they refused to
submit to the 20 per cent. off, and the result was manned chiefly by Yankees,
who were willing to earn half a dollar rather than lie idle and earn nothing.
To-day the wood train was made up entirely of Americans, most of them mechanics
of various trades, who have the good sense to take a job at half a dollar,
rather than do nothing.”
HOW A YOUNG MAN BECAME FAMOUS. – It was at a pic nic; Charley had just turned
of 19 years: he wandered away and got lost with Kate Harcourt, a self-possessed
beauty in high condition for flirting, for she had had three seasons of hard
training. When they had been away from their party about two hours, she felt, or
pretended to feel, the awkwardness of their situation, and asked her cavalier,
in a charmingly helpless and confiding way, what they were to do. “Well, I
hardly know,” said Charley, languidly: “but I don’t mind proposing to you, if
that will do you any good.” A fair performance for an untried colt, was it not?
– Guy Livingston.
-A clergyman, who was consoling a young widow on the death of her husband
spoke in a very serious tone, remarking that he was “one of the few. Such a
jewel of a christian – you cannot find his equal, you well know.” To which the
sobbing fair one replied, with an almost broken heart: “I’ll bet I will!”
A PEAN. – A country Republican paper, in chronicling the free soil victory in
Kanzas, and the election of Parrott over Ransom, quotes the following lines from
an old Methodist hymn:
“The year of jubilee has come,
Return your (?) sinner home.”
HOW PRESIDENT BUCHANAN RECEIVES THE LADIES. – A Washington correspondent of
the South says:
“Mr. Buchanan still continues to have hosts of lady visitors, and scarcely a
pretty woman comes to Washington, but she must see the bachelor President. His
manners towards his fair visitors show that he is no ‘lady’s man;’ his graceful
commonplace seems to fail him with them; and I have seen him sorely taxed to
find a few words to say to the fair dames who will find their way to his
reception room; He is said to have been compelled to have recourse to two
stereotyped phrases, which he invariably addresses by turn to the ladies, as he
runs the gauntlet of them at reception hours. They are these: ‘Madam, is this
your first visit to Washington?’ Answer. A pause, and then, ‘Madam, I would
advise you to visit the Smithsonian Institute.’ After which the lady is expected
to vamose.”
COAL – Almost every day records some new discovery of coal beds in this
vicinity. Recently, a few miles west of this on the Pottawattomie Reserve a vein
of coal, five feet in depth was discovered, cropping out on the surface of the
ground.
Another vein, four feet in depth, was also recently opened near the Wakarusa,
about 12 miles south of here and found to contain excellent coal, said to be
equal to the Ohio or Pennsylvania coal.
Topeka Tribune.
MARINE LOSSES FOR OCTOBER. – Our monthly table of marine losses for the month
shows an aggregate of forty-two vessels, of which six were ships, nine were
barks, five were brigs, and twenty-two were schooners. The total value of
property lost was six hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred dollars.
This is the value of the property totally lost exclusive of damages to vessels
not amounting to a total loss, and of partial losses of cargo. - N. Y. Cour.
& Enq.
It has been decided by the General Land Office that a married man, in order
to be entitled to the benefit of the pre-emption law, must prove actual
residence with his family on the land claimed.
Topeka Tribune
A small Locofoco editor says, that, if occasion arise, we shall find him good
at biting and scratching. He is more accommodating, says Prentice, than most
vermin. They generally bite and let you scratch for yourself.
-The official majority of Gov. Chase, in Ohio, is 1.503. Apropos: A lady in
Toledo made a bet of a kiss, with a gentleman of Cincinnati, that his ma would
be 5,000. The condition of the wager was that the one who lost should repair to
the residence of the other and pay the forfeit The lady, therefore, went to
Cincinnati on Saturday last and paid the bet!
NEBRASKA SLAVE STATE. – The Memphis Appeal of the 13th inst, on
noticing the arrival of Gov. Izard in that city, says:
“He gives it as his opinion that Nebraska will not soon be in a condition to
desire or apply for admission into the Union. If it were regarded as a
profitable investment, he thinks the institution of slavery could be established
there.” – Cin. Gaz.
SLAVES IN LEAVENWORTH. – An assessment of city property in Leavenworth,
Kanzas, has just been made. Total valuation, $3,145,062. The number of slaves is
33, valued at $16,000. Slavery exists in Kanzas, and the administration of James
Buchanan is doing all it can to perpetuate the curse in that great Territory
forever. - Cincinnati Gaz.
A WIFE MANUFACTORY. – From the weaving room of the Ward Mills, at Indian
Orchard, Mass., in which an average of 80 persons are employed, 137 girls have
been married within two years.
WILL NOT RESIGN. – The New York Post announces upon the best
authority, that the reports in circulation via. Boston to some of the papers in
that city that the Hon CHARLES SUMNER has or is about to resign his place in the
Senate of the United States is without the slightest foundation in truth. -
Detroit Tribune.
-A subscriber – a gentleman of intelligence – writing to us from Sonora
county, California, says that it is admitted on all sides that Oregon will be a
slave-holding state; and that an effort will be made in a short time to divide
California and make of it two states – the farming country to be slave-holding,
and the mining districts free. - Lexington, Mo., Expositor.
A FISH STORY. – A clergyman of a country village desired his clerk to give
notice that there would be no service in the afternoon, as he was going to
officiate with another clergyman. The clerk, as soon as the service was ended,
called out, “I am desired to give notice that there will be no service this
afternoon, as Mr. L--- is going a fishing with another clergyman.”
We saw an account lately of an elephant upon service in India that going to
drink fell into the broad, deep tank or well constructed as a reservoir. To get
him out they threw in large quantities of fascines or hurdles, which the
intelligent creature placed under his feet as fast as they were given to him,
thus raised himself not only to the level of the water, but to the brink of the
well, and moved out without difficulty. Now this is the way to conquer the world
and rise above it when you have fallen into temptation, or into a sea of
anxietion, or (???). Instead of being overwhelmed with them, tread them under
your feet, and you are (???).
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-posed upon them. It is not to be supposed that Congress will
disregard the voice of the people, legally expressed in the manner proposed,
whether its decision shall be for or against the Constitution.
In pursuance of these views, I recommend the passage of a law,
directing an election to be held, either under existing regulations, or in
pursuance of other suitable provisions to be expressed in the act, in which the
people shall be authorized to vote for the constitution, in either of the forms
presented by the Convention, and also against the Constitution in both
forms. As any law attempting to control the officers of the Convention and
those acting under them, would be of more than doubtful validity, and might be
wholly disregarded by them, it would be prudent to provide for a separate
proceeding under different officers; but it might be of great convenience to the
people, and of some efficiency for the objects in view to hold this election at
the same time, and at the same places provided for in the proclamation of the
President of the late Convention, in order that the result may be communicated
to Congress, at the earliest practicable moment, as the sovereign will of the
people of Kanzas.
It would seem to me, that this single act will be sufficient to meet
the whole emergency, and to dispel the excitement which now threatens the peace
of the Territory. If it be adopted, substantially in the form proposed,
without any embarrassing adjuncts, calculated to arouse prejudice and to produce
discord, the earnest directness and unity of the act, looking alone to the one
great and rightful end of ascertaining the true will of the people and securing
its ascendancy, cannot fail to commend it to the approbation of all patriotic
hearts in the Territory and throughout the Union.
The laws now prevailing in this Territory, provide for the proper
punishment of illegal and fraudulent voting; but there is no provision which
will teach the case of fraudulent returns. The case of the late Oxford
precinct in Johnson county, was an enormity so great, that it has nowhere been
defended or justified. Yet the evil consequences of it are seen in the
fact, that even the late Convention has been so far imposed upon, that in its
apportionment for the State Legislature under the Constitution, it has assigned
to Johnson county four Representatives, which must necessarily be based on the
notoriously false returns from that county. In order to meet the
apprehensions, naturally growing out of these circumstances, I recommend the
adoption of a prevision, making it felony with suitable punishment, for any
judge or clerk of election, knowingly to place on the poll books the names of
persons not actually present and (???) or otherwise corruptly to make false
returns either of the election held by under of the Convention, or of any other
election to be held in this Territory.
I cannot close this communication without expressing my deep regret
that the absence of the Governor, in this grave emergency, will deprive you of
the benefit of his wise and patriotic counsel. His great experiences in
public affairs, his profound knowledge of the causes and effects of political
action, would have been of (???) service to the Territory in this dangerous
crisis. Upon all occasions where he has addressed the people, officials or
otherwise, (???) in the affairs of the Territory he has uniformly proclaimed his
determination to exert all his official power and all his personal influence, to
secure to the people of Kanzas the right (???) fully and independently, upon the
adoption of their own institutions. Although my authority as acting
Governor was wholly independent of his, and in any way for my acts, I (???)
that in taking the responsible stop of calling you together and making the
recommendations now submitted, I am but following to its logical conclusion his
whole policy, in all of which I have heretofore cordially concurred.
That your labors may be directed to the attainment of only good ends,
that a benign Providence may preside over your deliberations, and give you
wisdom and moderation, and forbearance, such as shall be appropriate and
efficient to allay the excitements, and dispel the dangers which surround this
distracted community, is the earnest hope and prayer, with which I commit to you
the grave interests upon which you are called to act.
FRED P. STANTON
-A New York photographer has produced a copy of the Declaration of
Independence on a circle of the size of a pin’s head, which may be distinctly
read through a microscope.
THE PLEDGE.
The following letters contain the pledges given
to Act. Gov. Stanton, prior to his summoning the Territorial Legislature to
convene in extraordinary session.
Territory of Kanzas,
Nov. 28, 1857.
To the Hon. Frederick P. Stanton, Acting Gov. of the Territory of
Kanzas:
The undersigned, a majority of the members of the Legislative
Assembly of the Territory of Kanzas, elected by law, on the 5th day of October
last, would respectfully represent: That they believe the peace of the said
Territory is in imminent danger, and that violence and bloodshed can only be
averted by the immediate assembling of the Territorial Legislature, inasmuch as
it will have legal authority to provide for the unjust and extraordinary
emergency forced upon us by the action of the so-called Constitutional
Convention lately in session at Lecompton.
As the representatives of the people of Kanzas, duly elected and
commissioned, we take the liberty of frankly stating to your Excellency, that we
shall not deem it necessary or proper, if you call an extra session of the said
Legislative Assembly, agreeably to our urgent and earnest request, to meet the
present extraordinary crisis in our Territorial history, for the said
Legislature to enter upon, or engage in any business other than that which may
be necessary, in our judgment, to counteract, as far as we can legally, the
proceedings for the pretended submission of the so-called Lecompton
Constitution to a vote of the people, or to give the bona fide citizens
of the Territory a fair and impartial opportunity, through the ballot-box, to
express themselves in favor of our against that instrument. The regular
session being so close at hand, any other business, however important, may,
without great detriment to the public, be postponed until that time. All
of which is respectfully submitted. With kind regards, we are Very Truly
Yours.
G. W. DEITZLER,
JOHN SPEER
LYMAN ALLEN
And a large majority of the members of the Legislative Assembly.
To this was appended the following:
The undersigned, citizens of Kanzas, having read the foregoing
representations of the members elect to the Territorial Legislative Assembly,
heartily concur in the opinion therein expressed, and respectfully join with
their Representatives in requesting your Excellency to convene the said
Territorial Legislature with a view of meeting the extraordinary exigency thus
forced upon the people. With great respect, we are, Respectfully Yours,
G. W. BROWN,
G. W. SMITH,
C. ROBINSON,
J. H. LANE,
And upwards of one hundred other citizens of Kanzas.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Lansing’s Column.
NEW GOODS
Received this
Day
BY
STEAMER FLORILDA.
FLOUR--100 barrels received this day,
and
for sale by W. LANSING.
BEANS--75 bushels received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
ONIONS--50 bushels received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
CHEESE--25 received this day, and for sale
by W. LANSING.
MOLASSES--10 barrels received this day,
and for sale by W. LANSING.
GOLDEN SYRUP--received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
BURNING FLUID--received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
COVE OYSTERS--10 cases received this
day, and for sale by W. LANSING.
LOBSTERS--5 cases received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
SARDINES--5 cases received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
SCAFARLATTI SMOKING TOBACCO--
10 cases received this day, and for sale
by
W. LANSING.
FINE CUT CHEWING TOBACCO—receiv
ed this day, for sale by W. LANSING.
FINE OLD COGNAC BRANDY—received
this day, for sale by W. LANSING.
FLORA TONIC BITTERS--received this
day, and for sale by W. LANSING.
OLD BOURBON WHISKEY--received this
day, and for sale by W. LANSING.
FINE OLD CHERRY BRANDY—received
this day, and for sale by W. LANSING.
AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS--
received this day, and for sale by
W.
LANSING.
ASSORTED PICKELS IN JARS--10 cases
received this day, and for sale
by
W. LANSING.
BRAZIL NUTS--2 barrels received this day,
and for sale by W. LANSING.
PECANS--5 cases received this day, and for
sale by W. LANSING.
ALMONDS--3 bags received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
FILBERTS--2 barrels received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
MACCARONI--5 cases received this day,
and for sale by W. LANSING.
VERMICELLI--5 cases received this day,
and for sale by W. LANSING.
TAPIOCA--5 cases received this day, and
for sale by W. LANSING.
SUGARS-- a choice lot received this day. Al-
so, a fine assortment
of Groceries of all
kinds, for sale by W. LANSING.
Quindaro, Dec. 11, 1857.
WYANDOTT HOUSE,
No. 2, Kanzas Avenue,
Quindaro,........Kanzas.
THIS HOUSE, after being thoroughly refitted, is now open for the accomodation
of the public, and the subscriber is ready, willing and anxious to accommodate
all who may favor him with their patronage.
JOHN STEWART.
JOHN DODSWORTH,
Book Binder and Blank Book
Manufacturer,
LAWRENCE..........KANZAS.
BLANK BOOKS ruled and
made to any pattern, for Bankers, Merchants, County officers and Railroad
Companies, such as
LEDGERS, JOURNALS, CASH BOOKS, RECORD BOOKS, REGISTERS,
TAX BOOKS, &c., &c.
-Particular attention given to Job Work.
-Law books, Magazines, Music, Pamphlets, etc. bound in plain or fancy Morocco
bindings at St. Louis prices. 30
EASTERN HOUSE.
CORNER OF
New Hampshire and Winthrop
Streets,
LAWRENCE...........KANZAS.
G. P. KILLAM,
Proprietor.
Stages arrive and depart from this House daily for
every part of the Territory. 30
SEND FOR IT.
THE most superbly illustrated Magazine ever
published in America, is the December number of the
COSMOPOLITAN ART JOURNAL,
CONTAINING OVER
SIXTY SPLENDID
ENGRAVINGS,
And giving full particulars of the benefits of the Cosmopolitan Art
Association, two dollars a year; single copies fifty cents.
Specimen copies will be sent to all persons who wish to subscribe on receipt of
five postage stamps, (15 cents.)
See advertisement headed “Brilliant Prospectus” in this paper.
Address
C. L. DERBY, Actuary C. A. A.
548 Broadway, New York
Subscriptions are taken by CHAS. CHADWICK.
Hon. Secretary, for
Quindaro and vicinity.
LOST.
A NOTE OF HAND for the sum of $290, given by V. J.
LANE between the 10th and 20th of July, 1857, payable to R. P. Duval. The
public is hereby notified that this note has been paid in full.
R. P. Duval.
Quindaro, Kanzas, Dec. 4, 1857.
CORN MEAL.
50 BUSHELS OF CORN MEAL just re-
ceived by W.
LANSING.
PHILLIP T. COLBY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE for Wyandott Township,
Leavenworth County, K. T. Law day the Third Monday of each month.
-Office in Quindaro, K. T.
November 27, 1857. 28
NAILS! NAILS!!
400 KEGS OF NAILS, at $5 per Keg
for sale
by
SHEPHERD & HENRY.
BRILLIANT PROSPECTUS!!
FOURTH YEAR OF THE
Cosmopolitan
Art Association!!
THE FAMOUS
Dusseldorf
Gallery
OF
PAINTINGS!
Purchased at a cost of $180,000!
And Power’s World Renowned Statue
OF THE
GREEK SLAVE!
Repurchased for six thousand dollars, with several hundred other works
of Art, in Paintings, Sculpture and Bronzes, comprise the Premiums to be awarded
to the Subscribers of the
COSMOPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION,
who subscribe
before the 28th of January, 1858, at which time the awards will take
place.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Every subscriber of three dollars is
entitled to
A copy of the large and splendid Steel Engraving, entitled “MANIFEST
DESTINY,” also to
A copy of the COSMOPOLITAN ART JOURNAL one year, also to
A certificate in the Award of Premiums, also
A free admission to the Dusseldorf and Cosmopolitan Galleries.
Thus it is seen that for every three dollars paid, the
subscriber not only receives a
SPLENDID THREE DOLLAR ENGRAVING
but, also,
the beautifully illustrated
Two Dollar Art Journal, one Year.
Each subscriber is also presented with a Certificate in the Awards of
Premiums, by which a valuable work of Art, in Painting or Sculpture, may be
received in addition, thus giving to every subscriber an equivalent to the value
of five dollars, and a Certificate gratis.
Any one of the leading $2 Magazines is furnished, instead of Engraving
and Art Journal, if desired.
No person is restricted to a single share. Those taking five
memberships, remitting $15, are entitled to an extra Engraving, and six tickets.
Full particulars of the Association are give in the Art Journal, which
contains over sixty splendid Engravings, price fifty cents per
number. Specimen copies will be sent to all persons who desire to
subscribe, on receipt of five postage stamps, (15 cents.)
Address C. L. DERBY, Actuary C. A. A.,
548 Broadway, New
York
Glass! Glass!!
200 BOXES WINDOW GLASS from 7 by
9 to 10
by 14, from $2,50 to $3,50 per
box. For sale by
SHEPHERD &
HENRY.
Wanted Immediately,
IN QUINDARO, 25 Drivers, to
whom
the highest wages will be paid. Apply to
J. & J. W. COOPER.
Quindaro, Nov. 10, 1857. 26
JOHNSON HOUSE,
No. 31 & 33, Vermont St.,
LAWRENCE,.......... KANZAS, TER.
B. JOHNSON, Proprietor,
-Office for Kanzas City, Westport & Lawrence, Lawrence and Leavenworth;
Lawrence and Ottomwa; Lawrence and Ohio City; Lawrence and Burlington, and
Lawrence and Topeka
Stage Lines. 26
THE CHICAGO CITY
INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Office--Room No. 1 Masonic Temple, Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Capital---$150,000.
DIRECTORS---Edmond Canfield, Isaac Cook, H. A. Wayncoop, Henry Chapman, H. S.
Monroe
OFFICERS---EDMOND CANFIELD, Presid’t; WILLIAM S. BATES, Sec’y; HENRY CHAPMAN,
Treasurer.
This company was organized on the 27th day of March, A.D. 1855, under a
Special Charter from the Legislature of Illinois, and business commenced under
the most favorable auspices.--Its establishment has been upon a firm and
reliable basis, and in view of its soundness and permanency, ranks as one of the
first Insurance Companies in the country. To those desirious of protecting
themselves against loss or damage by fire, or pearls of the sea, they beg leave
to of for the following
REFERENCES:
Messrs. Stone & Witt, Cleveland Ohio.
Williams & Avery, Chicago Ill. , Norton & Brother, Chicago, Ill; Stone
& Boomer, Chicago, Ill H. S. Durand, Pres Racine and Miss R. R. Geo. C.
Northup, Cash. Racine Co. Bank. Wm P. Laud, Esq., Milwaukee; J. G. Conroe; Esq.
Racine; Ashley Gilbert, Cash (???) Bank, Chicago; Henry Farnham. Pres. Chicago
and Rock Island R. R.; Daniel P. Rhodes, Esq., Cleveland Ohio; Thomas Campbell
Esq., Springfield, Ill. G. Jones, Jr., & Co, Editors (???) Monitor,
No. 6 Wall St., New York; Messrs. Wadsworth, Wells & Seymour, Chicago; J. H.
Burch & Co., Chicago, Bank; G. W. Sizer & Co, Chicago, Ill.; Wm.
Blanchard, Esq., Morris, Ill; Messrs. H. C. & O. C. Cook & Co.,
Rockford, Ill; H. Wheeler & Son, Aurora, Ill.; Judd, Smith and Pratt, Dixon,
Ill.; Nehamiah Case, Esq., Buffalo; N. Y.; Wm. B. Fundy, Esq., Springfield,
Ill.; Richard Ivers, Esq., St. Louis, Mo.
Alson C. Davis, Agent,
Quindaro.
Oct. 24, 1827. 26
FIRE! FIRE!! FIRE!!! FIRE!!!!
ARE YOU
INSURED!
THE undersigned Insures Dwellings, Household Goods, Stores, Merchandise, and
other classes of property at as reasonable rates as are consistent with
safety.
ALSON C. DAVIS.
October 24, 1857. 26
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!!
N. RANZOHOFF & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
READY MADE
CLOTHING,
HATS
AND CAPS,
-AND ALL KINDS OF-
Furnishing Goods.
Also, a large stock of
Boots & Shoes,
which we offer
as low as any house in St. Louis
or Cincinnati.
N. RANZOHOFF & CO.,
No. 11 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, Oct. 21, 1857. 24
DOWDALL, MARKHAM, & CO.,
WASHINGTON FOUNDRY,
ENGINE
AND
MACHINE SHOP,
Corner Second and Morgan
Sts.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Manufacturers of Steam Engines and
Boilers,
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, &c.
Agents for the sale of James Smith & Co.’s Superior Machine Cards.
(???)
JOHN S. M’CORKLE,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
QUINDARO.............KANZAS
IS 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.
PARKVILLE AND QUINDARO
FERRY.
The steamer OTIS
WEBB will ply daily between Quindaro and Parkville; Also, make trips at the
Ferry Crossing
-The Ferry will continue to run as long as navigation is possible.
Quindaro, Nov. 7. 25
DR. R. M. AINSWORTH,
OFFICE
No. 10 Kanzas Avenue.
(???)
DR. GEO. E. BUDINGTON,
MAY BE FOUND AT HIS
OFFICE, No. 1
Kanzas Avenue.
At all hours of the day and night when not professional engaged.
-Boards at the Quindaro House.
J. B. WELBORN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Tenders his
professional services to the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity. The Doctor
has spent several years in practice in the West, and flatters himself that his
is thoroughly posted in the modifications of disease in this climate.
Also, special attention paid to diseases of the Eye.
Office, No. 38 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20, 1857. 2tf
DR. ANDERSON,
Who, for more than ten years has had ax
extensive practice in Chicago, and during the past two years has been practicing
as a Traveling Physician in the principal cities of Mexico, and having
certificates of unrivalled success, feels pleased to offer his services to the
citizens of Quindaro, and all others who may be so unfortunate as to need a
Physician.
He would further say to those who are Deaf, or afflicted with
Sore Eyes, that he has given extra attention to curing said affections,
and to all who are thus afflicted he warrants to give relief if curable.
-Enquire at the Office of the QUINDARO CHINDOWAN.
ALFRED GRAY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND REAL
ESTATE
AGENT,
No. 179, East Main Street,
QUINDARO...........KANZAS.
WILL give prompt attention to all Legal
Business entrusted to him. 17
B. P. Gray J. M. Walden
R. P. GRAY &
CO.,
REAL ESTATE & LAND AGENTS
Chindowan Office, No.
7, South Kanzas Avenue,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted
to their care (???).
CHARLES CHADWICK,
REAL ESTATE
AGENT
AND
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
QUINDARO........KANZAS.
Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to
him.
Office, No. 2, West Main Street. 24
M. B. NEWMAN. R. M. AINSWORTH.
NEWMAN &
AINSWORTH,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
QUINDARO, K. T.,
will
attend Promptly to all Business in their line.
Office, No. 10. Kanzas Avenue.
REFERENCES:
HON. M. H. NICHOLS, M. C. Lima, O; WM. LAWRENCE, C. P. Judge,
Belfontaine; WM. WHITE, Springfield; DUNLEVY, DRAKE & CO., Bankers,
Cincinnati; HENRY KIP, SUPT. U. S. Express, Buffalo, N. Y.; I. F. RITCHERDSON,
Mo. Express, St. Louis, Mo.
May 4, 1857. (???)
KANZAS LAND AGENCY.
BASSETT & BRACKETT,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
SURVEYORS
AND CIVIL ENGINEERS.
Quindaro, Lawrence, Kanzas.
-Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to our care.
-Information given concerning every important locality in the Territory.
REFER TO
Benn, Williams & Co., Bankers, Fairfield, Iowa.
A. J. Stevens & Co., “ Ft. Des Moines, “
Coolbaugh &
Brooks, “ Burlington, “
White, Cook & Co., “ “ “
Col. T. A. Walker,
Ft. Des Moines, “
Col. C. Bassett, Kewanee, Ill.
Hon. G. S. Boutwell,
Groton, Mass.
O. Gerrish, “ “
L. F. Potter, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May
4th 1857. 1tf
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. 1tf
QUINDARO HOUSE,
Nos. 1, 3, and 5, Kanzas Avenue,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
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. 1tf
F. JOHNSON. GEO. W. VEALE
JOHNSON & VEALE,
WHOLESALE AND 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
ADDITIONAL.
WE have received, in addition to our former
stock,
30 Bbls, CEMENT, 10 doz. BROOMS, 10 doz.
BUCKETS, 2 doz. WASH
TUBS, 2000
Seamless BAGS, 20 bundles SASH,
100 kegs assort’d
NAILS,
100,000 asso’d CIGARS,
5 boxes TOBACCO.
All of which will be sold unusually low for cash.
June 1st,
1857. 4 JOHNSON & VEALE.
STONE CUTTING
AND
MASONARY.
FREDERICK
KLAUS,
HAS OPENED A
STONE YARD IN QUINDARO,
And is prepared to
furnish all kinds of
CUT STONE FOR BUILDING PURPOSES.
MADE OF
Material of a Superior Quality from a quarry which he has
opened near this place. A sample 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
MEAT MARKET.
J. A. BARTLES has opened a Daily Meat
Market of N. and Seventh Street,
QUINDARO, KANZAS.
And will keep on
hand a supply of Fresh Meats of the best quality. - Also,
FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES
Of the season, at reasonable prices. 1
PIONEER STORE!!
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS,
AND
DRY GOODS.
W. J. McCOWN,
No.
7 Kanzas Avenue,................ Quindaro, Kanzas.
HAS on hand a large
and well selected Stock of Groceries, consisting in part of
Molasses, Flour, Syrup, Vinegar,
Sugar, Wheat Meal, Candles,
Spices,
Coffee, Corn Meal, Soap, Nuts,
Tea, Crackers, Tobacco, Raisins.
And other articles in this line; Also, a
STOCK OF CLOTHING,
Such as COATS, PANTS, VESTS, and SHIRTS of every variety and quality
DRY GOODS,
Among which are Cotton Cloths, Plain and Fancy Prints,
Delaines, Merinos,
Debeges, Silks, Plain, Fancy, Black, Changeable and
Figured.
Ladies’ Dress Goods,
Flannels, Drillings, Cloths, Cassimeres,
Doeskins, Satinets, Jeans, Tweeds,
Coat Trimmings, &c., &c.
Boots and Shoes of all sorts, sizes, shapes and colors. Ladies
slips, buskins, boots, gaiters, gums &c.
Hats and Caps, which will be sold as cheap as the cheapest.
-Wishing to devote my whole attention to groceries and provisions, I will
dispose of my dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps and crockery
at one invoice for Cash, at cost and carriage. The goods were bought in
New York and Boston last Spring by an experienced buyer, and the prices will
compare favorably with goods bought there. Or I will sell them at a small
advance for cash, the buyer making selections to suit him.
W. J.
McCOWN.
Quindaro, Nov. 10, 1857. 26
NEW
GROCERY & PROVISION STORE!!
WILLIAM
LANSING,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
GROCERIES &
PROVISIONS,
Corner of Kanzas Avenue and 5th Street.
QUINDARO,...................... KANZAS.
THE Undersigned would respectfully inform the citizens of Quindaro and
surrounding country, that he has one of the largest and best selected stock of
Groceries ever offered in the Territory, and will sell them as low as they can
be had at St. Louis, with the addition of freight, and invites purchasers to
call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. His stock consists in part
as follows:
FLOUR, HAMS, BUTTER,
EGGS, CHEESE,
Mackerel, Codfish,
Salt,
SUGAR HOUSE MOLASSES, GOLDEN SYRUP, N. O. MOLASSES,
New Orleans
Sugar, Rio Coffee, Green Teas,
Coffee “ Java “ Black “
Crushed “ Mocha “
Chocolate.
BUTTER AND SODA CRACKERS,
Mustard, Alspice, Ginger, Pepper,
Cinnamon
Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Raisins, Currants,
Tapioca, Vermicelli,
Maccaroni, Corn Starch, Farina,
Honey, Cove Oysters, Fresh Lobsters, Pickels
in Jars,
Tomato Catsup, Pepper Sauce, Prunes, Candles, Star Candles,
Lard
Oil, Burning Fluid, Rope, Bed Cords, Mould “
Brooms, Fine Cut Chewing
Tobacco, do do Smoking Tobacco, Twist do
Segars, Almonds, Pea Nuts, Brazil
Nuts, Pecans, Filberts,
WINES & ALL OTHER KINDS OF LIQUORS,
AT
WHOLESALE.
And every thing usually kept in an establishment of the kind.
W. LANSING.
Quindaro, Nov. 7, 1857. 25
CLOTHING AT WHOLESALE & RETAIL.
Massachusetts
Street,
LAWRENCE,.........KANZAS.
B. F. DALTON,
WHO has just arrived in the Territory, has a large
stock of Winter Clothing of all kinds which he offers to job out to the
dealers in the Territory at the Lowest cash prices. This Stock
consist of
BL’K CASS. RAGLAN OVERCOATS,
Black Cloth Raglan Overcoats, Fancy
Cloth Raglan Overcoats,
Eagle Coating Raglan Overcoats, Fur Trim’d Beaver
Overcoats,
Fur Trim’d Cassimere Raglan Overcoats, Blue and Br’n Beaver Raglan
Overcoats,
Beaver and Cass. Reversable Raglan Overcoats, Blue and Brown
Beaver
Raglan Overcoats, Blue and Brown Petersham Raglan overcoats,
BLUE
& BROWN PETERSHAM,
OVERSACKS,
Eagle Coating Oversacks, Ribbed
Cassimere Oversacks, Wave Beaver Cassimere and Fancy Satinet Oversacks of all
colors, Black Satinet Oversacks, Mixed Satinet Oversacks.
BLACK CLOTH FCK CROOATS,
Black Cassimere Frock Coats, Fancy
Cassimere Frock Coats, Doeskin Business Froks, D’Orsay Cassimere and Doeskin
Business Frocks, Mix’d D’Orsay Cassimere and Doeskin Business Frock’s Black
Cassimere Under Sacks, Fancy Cassimere Under Sacks, Fancy Satinet Under Sacks,
Mixed Satinet Under Sacks.
VESTS OF ALL KINDS.
Fancy Silk Vests, do. Grenidine Silk Vests,
do. Silk Velvet Vests, do. Cotton Velvet Vests, do. Cassimere Vests, do. Doeskin
Vests, do. Satinet Vests, do. Satinet Vests of all kinds.
BLACK DOESKIN PANTS.
Black Cassimere Pants, Fancy do. Do. Fancy
Doeskin do. Fancy Satinet do. Mixed Satinet do. Black Satinet do. Sheeps Gray
Cassimere do. Indigo Blue Flannel Wool Shirts, Blue Mix’d do. do. do.
Furnishing Goods of all kinds, Blankets, Woolen Socks, &c.
&c.
The subscriber wishes to dispose of his goods at once, and will offer
bargains that will compete with New York or Boston prices,
as purchasers will see upon examining the Goods. Every Article of
this stock of Goods, was manufactured this Fall and is warrented to give
entire satisfaction.
-Mr. DALTON has the LARGEST STOCK OF OVER COATS in the Territory, all
of the Latest Styles.
-Give him a call if you wish to buy your goods cheap.
Lawrence,
Nov. 20, 1857.
FROM
J. E. DUDDRIDGE’S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AGENCY,
Corner Olive and Main Streets,....... ST. LOUIS, MO.
WM.
LUCAS C. L. THOMPSON. WM. H. GUNN.
FALL 1857.
LUCAS, THOMPSON, & CO.,
(Successors
to C. M. McClung & Co.,)
WILL HAVE IN STORE THIS FALL A VERY
SUPERIOR
STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
Among which may be found a complete line of
PRINTS, DELANES, CASHMERES,
MERINOES, ALPACAS, INDIANA CLOTHS, BOMBAZINES, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, SATINETS,
JEANS, TWEEDS, OVER COATINGS, BLANKETS, &c.
OUR STOCK OF FOREIGN GOODS
WILL EMBRACES ALL THE
LATEST STYLES AND
NEWEST GOODS
Offered to the trade.
-Our White Goods Room will be filled with a very choice selection of
everything under that head. We will also keep a complete line of Notion
goods, which we will offer to the Trade upon good terms, as houses exclusively
in that business. Our
STOCK OF STRICTLY STAPLES,
BROWN MUSLINS,
TICKING,
Kerseys, Bleached Muslin, Negro Goods, Shirting Stripes, (???),
Drillings, Shirting Tweeds, Linseys, Apron Checks, Bagging, &c.,
Will be found as complete as any in this market. We are determined to
offer these goods at very close profits, and desire to call the attention of all
CASH OR PROMPT TIME BUYERS to them.
LUCAS, THOMPSON & CO.
St. Louis, Mo., August 15, 1857. 14
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
AT
Wholesale and
Retail.
THE Undersigned, having taken the Store House of Simpson &
Macaulay, with the intention of keeping constantly on hand, and for sale, a
general assortment of Groceries and Provisions, and such other articles as are
wasted.
He has now on sale,
50 Bbls. FLOUR.
Superfine and
Extra.
Thirty-five Boxes Soap,
No. 1, Premium and Erasive, (no
Soft.)
THIRTY BOXES CANDLES,
Star and Extra Tallow.
10
Boxes Tobacco. Also, Teas, Coffee, Sugar,
Molasses, &c.
&c. I have on the way
A general assortment
of
LEATHER,
Genuine Hamburg Cheese, Prime New York
State
Butter.
20 A. TUTTLE.
HARDWARE
AND
STOVES.
SHEPHERD & HENRY,
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE & STOVE
DEALERS
170 Main Street, QUINDARO,.......KANZAS.
HAVE replenished their Stock, and are prepared to furnish country merchants
and others with every variety of hardware and cutlery. They have on hand
CIRCULAR SAWS
>From 6 inches to 6 feet in diameter.
MULAY AND GANG SAWS,
Of all Sizes.
CROSSCUT SAWS.
A complete assortment of
CARPENTERS’ TOOLS,
HOUSE TRIMMINGS,
Cut and Wrought Nails;
Butcher’s & Goodlad’s
Files of all kinds. All kinds of
Chains,
and every other article necessary to fill
all orders in their
Line:
Also, Iron, Steel, Zine and Glass,
SHOT GUNS, RIFLES,
PISTOLS
AND
Bowie Knives, Powder and Shot.
Copper, Sheet
Iron, Japaned, and Tin Ware,
Force, Cistern and Chain Pumps.
PARLOR, COOKING
AND
OFFICE STOVES
Of the latest
styles and patterns.
All of which they will furnish on more favorable terms than they can be
bought at any other point West of St. Louis, and at a less cost than a Retail
Stock can be bought in St. Louis and shipped here.
QUINDARO, Kanzas,
Sept. 5, 1857. 17
THE PEOPLE’S
VARIETY STORE,
No. 38, Kanzas Avenue.
MESSRS. A. C. STROCK & CO.
Wish to call the attention of the
citizens of Quindaro and vicinity to their Stock of Goods, consisting of a
general assortment of
Dry Goods,
GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
CAPS
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
DRESS GOODS & BONNETS
together with all the variety of Domestic Goods usual to the Trade.
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Also, CARPENTERS’ TOOLS, a general assortment of
DRUGS & MEDICINES,
Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, Glass Ware, Window
Glass, Fine Tobacco and Segars, together with the usual variety of articles
usually found in that line of business.
Dr. WELBORN, who is a practical
Physician, having special care of the Drug Department, hopes to give general
satisfaction.
A. C. STROCK & CO.
Quindaro, May 4, 1857. 1tf
HENRY P. DOWNS,
BOOT AND SHOE
MANUFACTURER,
Next door to Shepherd & Henry’s Hardware Store,
MAIN
STREET.
Quindaro,.......Kanzas.
ALL work entrusted to
the subscriber will be neatly and promptly executed. The best of
French Calf and Kip used.
-Repairing done with neatness and dispatch. Give him a
call. 21---6ms
BOOT AND SHOE
MANUFACTORY.
No. 17,......O Street,
QUINDARO, K. T.
P. C. MUHLEBACH.
16 6ms.
RUSSELL’S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MASTIC
ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
THIS roofing is applicable to steep or
flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Care Foundries, &c., &c.
It is Fire Proof, will not crack or run, will wear under foot, and is adapted to
Roofs of every description. It can be put on over old shingles, tin and
metal roofs without removing the same.
This roofing is desirable on account of its 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 excell 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 promptness and dispatch.
-Town and County rights for sale.
For further particulars inquire of the subscribers.
SHEPHERD,
HENRY, & CO.
Quindaro, K. T. May 28, 1857.
S. H. MERCHANT,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
QUINDARO,
KANZAS.
WILL promptly attend to all work in his line, and respectfully
solicits a share of public patronage, believing that he can give general
satisfaction to all who entrust their work to him. 1y - 13
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.
C. H.
CARPENTER,<\b>
PRACTICAL BUILDER,
IS ready to contract for the
Erection of Stores, Residences, &c. All work promptly
executed, and in the best manner.
REFERENCES
GOV. CHAS. ROBINSON, SHEPHERD & HENRY.
A. GRAY, O. H.
MACAULAY, M. B. PRIDE.
Quindaro, Aug. 14, 1857. 14
TO RENT.
A STORE on Kanzas Avenue. Enquire of Dr.
Budington.
Transcribed by Charion Vaughn, Spring 2005.