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PHYSICIANS.
DR. R. M. AINSWORTH,
No. 10,.......Kanzas Avenue.
DR. R. C. ANDERSON,
No. 21,.......Kanzas Avenue.
DR. GEO. E. BUDINGTON,
No. 1,........Kanzas Avenue.
DR. J. B. WELBORN,
No. 38,........Kanzas Avenue.
ATTORNEYS.
CHARLES CHADWICK,
No. 2,........West Main St.
ALFRED GRAY,
No. 179 East Main St.
LAND AGENTS.
BASSET & BRACKETT,
No. 1,.......Kanzas Avenue.
CHARLES CHADWICK,
No. 2,.......West Main St.
ALFRED GRAY,
No. 179,........East Main St.
R.P. GRAY & CO.,
NEWMAN & AINSWORTH,
No. 10,.......Kanzas Avenue.
SURVEYORS.
CHARLES B. ELLIS,
No. 2,.........West Main St.
O.A. BASSETT,
No. 1,.......Kanzas Avenue.
HOTELS.
QUINDARO HOUSE,
Nos. 1,3,& 5,.......Kanzas Avenue.
DRUGGISTS.
A.C. STROCK & CO.,
No. 38,.......Kanzas Avenue.
HARDWARE.
SHEPHERD & HENRY,
No. 179,.......East Main St.
CLOTHING.
N. RANZOHOFF & Co.,
No. 11,........Kanzas Avenue.
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES.
JOHNSON & VEALE,
No. 3,...........Kanzas Avenue.
W.J. McCOWN,
No. 7,...........Kanzas Avenue.
A.C. STROCK & Co.,
No. 38,...........Kanzas Avenue.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
WILLIAM LANSING,
Cor. Kanzas Avenue & Fifth St.
A. TUTTLE,
No. 76,..........Levee
W.I. McCOWN,
No. 7,.............Kanzas Avenue
MEAT STORES.
P. CASWELL & LEWIS,
No. 140,..........East Main St.
J.A. BARTLEE
Cor. Seventh & N St.
BOOT & SHOE SHOPS.
HENRY P. DOWNS,
No. 177,............East Main St.
P.C. MUHLBACH,
No. 17,...........O St.
STONE CUTTER & BUILDER.
F. KLAUS,
No. 13,............O St.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
JOHN S. McCORKLE,
No. 09,...........R St.
S.H. MARCHANT,
No. 65,.............R. St.
C.H. CARPENTER,
No. 16,............S St.
Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
J.M. WALDEN,...........EDITOR.
Saturday, Feb. 27, 1858.
To the people of Kanzas.
The public are already conscious that at the session of the Legislature Assembly of Kanzas Territory, a law was passed entitled "An Act to provide for the election of Delegates to a Convention to frame a State Constitution." That act contemplates our early admission into the union as a sovereign State. The brief period intervening between the passage of the act and the time fixed for the election of delegates requires vigilant action on the part of the people to secure a full representation in that Convention. As several committees claimed the right to speak for and represent the Free-State party in the coming canvass, a movement was made to harmonize these committees, by forming a temporary union of all of them. The following official proceedings of those committees will show the result of their action in this direction:
At a joint convention of the Territorial Executive Committee appointed at Grasshopper Falls, on the 26th of August last; of a portion of the State Central Committee appointed at Topeka in July of '56-7; of the Free-State Central Committee appointed at Lawrence on the 23d of December last, held at Odd Fellows' Hall, in Lawrence, on the evening of the 14th inst., P.G. Schuyler was chosen Chairman, and Wm. Hutchinson and D.H. Weir were elected Secretaries. It was, on motion, unanimously
Resolved, That each of the above mentioned committees be requested to select five persons from their respective committees, who shall constitute a special Free-State Union Committee who shall have full power to take all needed action for (???) a full vote of the Free-State party, in the elections which shall take place under the new Constitutional movement, both for Delegate to the Constitutional convention, and the officers under that Constitution.
The several committees retired to separate rooms, each of which had a quorum for (???) and after full consultation, reported through their respective Chairmen the following gentlemen as representatives of their several committees, to (???):
(???) Territorial Committee: - G.W. Smith, P.C. Schuyler, G.W. Hutchinson, J.H. Lane.
State Central Committee: - Jas. Blood, Wm. Hutchinson, Henry Harvey, E.S. Nash, W.F.M. Arny.
Free State Central Committee: - D.H. Weir, Robert Morrow, S.C. Pomeroy, E. Heath, S.N. Wood.
The report was received and the names submitted were unanimously adopted as the Union Committee of the Free-State Party, to act for the purposes expressed in the first resolution copied above.
The committee continued in session with the officer elected at the organization of the meeting still in the chair by general consent.
On the motion of Gen. Lane, the following was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That G.W. Smith be President of this committee; Wm. Hutchinson, Vice President; D.H. Weir, Secretary; and Jas. Blood, Treasurer; and that call calls be signed by the President, Vice President, and Secretary.
Resolved, That a committee of the five appointed to draw up a circular to the people of the Territory in regard to the forthcoming election; and G.W. Smith, S.N. Wood, G.W. Brown, Wm. Hutchinson, and W.F.M. Arny be such committee.
A committee of one from each of the original committees, as follows: S.N. Wood, W.F.M. Arny, and O.E. Learned, were appointed on finance.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this Convention be publishes at length in all the Free State papers of the Territory.
On motion, adjourned, subject to the call of the proper officers. P.C. SCHUYLER, Chair'n.
WM. HUTCHINSON, D. H. WEIR} Secretaries.
To every Free State man, this union will be a source of gratification, as it gives sure indication of united action and a harmonious result. It is urgently requested that the same liberal spirit which has characterized the several committees will prevail with the people, and that, laying aside all personal consideration, they unite as one man in securing a great moral and political triumph for the Free State cause.
It is expected that every man will do hi whole duty; that to make the work successful, as large a vote as possible will be rolled for delegates, and that care will be taken in the selection of those delegates, that they faithfully reflect the popular will. To the end, let county, township and precinct organization be made by the people with the least possible delay. Where those organization have been thus perfected, they are expected to lose no time in presenting the issues in their true character to their constituents.
The act calling for the Convention will be published in the papers of the Territory, and generally circulated in circular form, a copy of which you are expected to secure and study with care, and see that elections are held in strict conformity with law.
By the organic act, members of the late Territorial Legislature, are believed by legal gentlemen, to be prohibited from holding any offices under the Convention law. To prevent vacancies on this account, or the introduction of a question in regard to it, other reliable Free-State men should be selected as delegates.
Once copy of the returns from the various precincts should be directed to Messrs. Babcock & Deitzler, at Lawrence, who are authorized by law to receive them - the other to Hon. J.W. Denver, at Lecompton.
Again we urge our friends to a united effort, and trust that the result will be such as to reflect credit upon the individual actors in the movement as well as to advance the cause of Freedom in Kanzas, and the principles of civil liberty throughout the world.
G.W. SMITH,
W.F.M. ARNY,
WM. HUTCHINSON,
G.W. BROWN,
S.N. WOOD.
The present State of our Country.
Henry C. Carey, the celebrated writer on Political Economy, is writing a series of letters addressed to the president, which are published in the Boston Advertiser. In a recent letter we find the following sad but too truthful picture of the present state of our country:
"Go where the traveler may, he finds, among thoughtful men - among those who had hoped to fine, in this western worlds, the realization of their brightest hopes, in regard to man's onward progress - a growing doubt in reference to our future. Anxiously do they look across the ocean - dreading to hear of new and more alarming riots - new civil wars - new violation of local rights - new marauding expeditions - new aggressive wars. Ten years since, all was different. They would, then, have regarded as a false prophet the man who had predicted:
That at the close of a single decade, the regular expenditures of the federal government in a time of peace, would exceed sixty millions of dollars-- being five times more than they had been, but thirty years before:
That the recipients of this large amount whether contractors, clerk, or postmasters, would be held liable for the payment of a formal and regular assessment, to be applied to the maintenance in office of the men by whom they had been appointed, or those by whom the contracts had been made:
That the payment of these assessments, would be made the condition upon which their own continuance in office should depend:
That, coincident with these demands upon the employees of the government, all salaries would be largely raised; and that, thus the treasury should be heavily taxed for purely party purposes and for the promotion of private interests:
That centralization would be so far perfected, as to enable the executive to dictate to a body of officials sixty or eighty thousand in number, all their modes of thought, in reference to questions of public interest:
That a constantly growing difficulty of obtaining - independent of the government - the means of support, and constant increase in the rewards of public service, would be attended with corresponding increase in the number of claimants for office, and in their subservience to the men at whose pleasure offices were held:
That the executive would dictate to members of Congress what should be their course, and publicly advertise the offices that were to be given, to those whose votes should be in accordance with his desires:
That the growing mental slavery thus indicated, would be attended by corresponding growth in the belief, that "one of the chief bulwarks of our institutions," was to be found in the physical enslavement of the laborer:
That the extension of the area of human slavery would have become the primary object of the government; and that with that view, the great Ordinance of 1787, as carried out in the Missouri Compromise, would be repealed:
That for the promotion of this object, the treaties with the poor remnants of the native tribes would all be violated:
That with the same end in view, wars would be made, piracy encouraged and territories purchased:
That the Executive power would so far have growth, as to enable it to adopt measures provocative of war with a view to the spoliation of the weaker neighbors of the Union:
That it would be officially declared that might makes right, and that, if a neighboring power refuse to sell the territory whose possession was desired, the Union would then be justified in seizing it:
That the re-opening of the slave-trade would be publicly advocated and that the first step towards its accomplishment would be taken by a citizen of the United States - in rescinding all the prohibitions of the Central American governments:
That the prohibition of slavery in a Central American State, would be considered sufficient reason for the rejection of a treaty:
That the substitution through all the minor employments of society, of slave labor for that oft he freeman would be publicly recommended by the executive of a leading State:
That while always seeking territory in the South, the rights and interest of the people would be bartered away, for the sold and exclusive purpose, of preventing annexation in the North:
That it would be declared, that the free navigation of Brazilian rivers was to be obtained, "amicably, if it could, forcibly, if it must":
That the effect would now be seen, in the entire alienation of the other communities of the Western world:
That the legislation of the country would have fallen almost entirely under the control of navigation, railroad, and other transportation companies; and that legislators would largely participate with their manager, in the profits of enormous grants of money, and of public lands:
That there would have arisen a "third house of Congress" - composed of lobby members and embracing men who had filled almost the highest legislative and executive offices - abundantly supplied. To use the words of Col. Benton, "with the means required for conciliating members and combining interests," and thus securing the passage of almost any bill, the applicant for which were willing, sufficiently liberally, to pay:
That centralization would so far have grown, as to have caused expenditures of a single city, to almost equal those of the Federal government but thirty years ago:
That the expenditure of city revenues, and the maintenance of public order, would be in the hands of magistrates, many of whom would be regarded as worthy only of the penitentiary:
That the contest for the distribution of those revenues, would become so fierce, as to cause the purchase of votes to an extent and at a price before unknown and that election would be carried on by means of bowie-knives, pistols, and even by aid of cannon:
That Lynch law would have found its way into the Senate chamber: that is the provisions of the Constitution, though out the Southern States; that is would have superseded the civil authority, in one of that States of the Union that the right of States to prohibit slavery within their limits would be so seriously questioned as to warrant the belief, that the day was near at hand, when it would be totally denied; that all the decisions of the Supreme Court, for sixty years favorable to freedom, would by this time have been reversed; that the doctrine of constructive treason would be adopted in Federal courts, and that the right of the citizen would be thus in equal peril, from the extension of legal authority on one hand and in the substitution of the law of force on the other:
That polygamy and slavery would go hand in hand with each other; and that the doctrine of a plurality of wives would be publicly proclaimed by men holding highly important offices under the Federal government:
That manner, morals, or intellect, would cease to be deemed essential to the representation of the Union, at foreign courts:
That religious discord would so far have grown that the question of the private opinions of a candidate for the presidency in regard to the matters of religious faith, would be discussed throughout the Union:
That the discord between the Northern and Southern portions of the Union would have reached the point of civil war, attended with a growing disposition, in its various portions, to look complacently upon the idea of dissolution and finally,
That Germany divided and distracted as it was before the formation of the Zollverein was likely to be reproduced in this Western world - the Union tending steadily towards a dissolution, the result of which would be that the several fragments would become mere tools in the hands of other powers.
This is a gloomy picture and yet it is a true one. Not one of these things would a few years since have been believed to be of possible occurrence; and yet, with the exception of this last, they are, one and all, now matters of history."
Speech of Mr. Lockhart, of Johnson Co., on the question of locating the Capital at Minneola delivered in the House of Representatives of Kanzas.
MR CHAIRMAN, - It is with extreme reluctance that I assume the position of a speaker on this occasion. Were it no for the imperative duty devolving upon me to my constituency, my principles, and the cause of the Free-state party in Kanzas, I would most assuredly refrain. But the circumstances surrounding me call for my voice to be heard. I will say to the particular friends of this measure that I do not anticipate that my remarks or my influence will prevent their seeing the consummation of their most ardent desires [sensation.] Let the friends of this Bill exercise patience and they will exult in triumph in due time. I will the gentlemen who are now urging this matter, that they have laid their plans well for success. The underground work is so interwoven with the interests of so many upon this floor that to anticipate its defeat exhibits ignorance of the complete structure which has been erected so carefully, so secretly and so surely, [increased sensation] I tell the gentlemen furthermore that if they will pass this Bill to its final passage and effect, that upon, them and them alone, shall rest the responsibility of such a wholesome attempt at the corruption of an entire Legislative body, [applause] However unpleasant these crimination may be to those against whom my remark are directed, I (???) plain to say that no speculating scheme of such a character as this shall ever pass through the body of men of which I am a member without first receiving from me my mark of condemnation. I put my foot upon all such infamous attempts to wrest from the people their rights - upon all such attempts to take the advantage of position and overreach the interest of an entire people - to gather wealth into the pockets of men whose highest aim seems to be their own aggrandizement. [applause] I tell the gentlemen once more that here I take issue with them and though unsuccessful here, apparently, I shall take my appeal and go before the tribunal of a free and intelligent people knowing that their just indignation will rise up and crush all such projects in all their departments.
But I hope that the particular friends of this measure will pause upon the eve of the consummation of this event. I hope that they will consider the broad and mighty interests resting on the destiny of the cause of freedom in Kanzas, and will not here to night strike this foul blow at its very existence. I hope they will not jeopardize the interests of their party, the cause of freedom and their own reputation in such fool-hardy trespasses upon the confidence of an abused people. If they will not heed the voice of admonition to night, I predict that the people of Kanzas will consign the friends of this measure to that political oblivion which their disregard of manly principle justly.
I once more causation the advocates of this measure against the disgrace that will necessarily follow the consummation of a scheme so derogatory to the dignity and honor of the Free-state party of Kanzas. [Tremendous cheerings]
SENATOR SUMNER. - The Washington correspondent of the N.Y. Evening Post, writing on the 10th inst., says: - "Mr. Sumner is here, very much improved in health and spirits, more so indeed than many of his friend thought he ever would be. Some of the worst symptoms of his case have entirely disappeared. His eye, gestures and whole expression are more like what they used to be. He does not remain here long, but will be a minute man, to return whenever the signal is given. He and his friends hope that he will be able to take and keep his seat before the close of the session.
[ITEM] Col. FORNEY, in reference to the violent personal attacks made upon him by the Washington Union, says:
"We have been assailed from early life by Mr. Buchanan's enemies, and we think we shall survive the attacks of his friends."
[ITEM] The New York Herald has and original view of SEWARD'S support of the Army Bill. It is in brief: "Seward expects to be the next President, and will wish a large army to put down the Southern (???)."
[ITEM] Eighty-five pardons were granted by the Executive of Maryland during the two years past. Thirteen of these were given to persons convicted of murder of manslaughter.
Extracts from the Kanzas Press.
BEWARE! - We warn our friends everywhere to beware of purchasing stock of any description in the "corruption" town of "Minneola." The curse of an outraged people rests upon it. The location of the Capital at that place will be of no benefit to it, as it was located ILLEGALLY, and as a consequence the government will not expend any money in the erection of public buildings. The location is a poor one - on a little dry creek, opposite to a village which died a natural death in consequence of its ineligible position. - Coal, stone and timber are all scarce - all the elements of wealth and prosperity are wanting. Be not deceived! It is a speculating swindle! A breath of the popular feeling will knock the crazy thing into atoms. "Touch not the unclean thing." - Kanzas News.
G.W. DEITZLER. - The Lawrence Republican says: No member of the Legislative Assembly can show a cleaner record than G.W. Deitzler, Esq., the efficient and accomplished Speaker of the House of Representatives. The ability with which he performed his official duties and the modesty and good sense which characterized his acts upon the floor, were remarked by all. At the close of this session, the House paid him the deserved compliment of a unanimous vote of thanks. In response he made the following speech:
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: - I feel truly grateful for this renewed expression of your consideration. A tribute to our vanity is at all times agreeable, and he who affects indifference to the applause of his fellow-men is either morn or less than human in his sympathies; but there are occasion when we are oppresses with a consciousness that we are honored far beyond our merits. This is one of them; indeed I can attribute this manifestation of your regard only to your too partial consideration of the very humble and imperfect manner in which I have acquitted myself.
I may say, without vanity, that I have endeavoured faithfully and honestly to perform my duty, and though, doubtless, I have often erred in judgment, they were the errors of the head, not of the heart. This assembly is about to be dissolved, and we return to our constituents, but only, I hope, to prepare for the final contest for the Freedom of Kanzas. We are threatened with having forced upon us a Constitution - an instrument which by nearly twelve thousand majority, our people have voted down. We have expressed our disapproval of that instrument by every peaceful means in our power. If under these circumstances, an attempt shall be made to force upon us the Lecompton Constitution, I know of but one method of redress left, and I know that the freemen of Kanzas will unhesitatingly adopt it. We owe it to ourselves and to the cause of Freedom throughout the world that this bold attempt to subjugate a free people shall finally fail. It will fail.
For the uniform kindness and consideration which I have received at your hands, I desire to express my sincere my sincere thanks. Permit me, gentlemen to wish you a safe and pleasant return to your respective homes.
GOV. ROBINSON'S SUITER. - This gentleman gave a supper at Lawrence, on Monday evening, Feb. 15th, of which the Republican gives the following notice:
"The supper given at the Morrow House on Monday evening last, by Gov. Robinson, to the prominent members of the Free-state party, was one of the most pleasant and significant gatherings which has of late occurred. Distinguished members of the party from all sections of the Territory were present, and a most happy feeling of mutual concession and consideration prevailed.
The general sentiment seems to be that so long as the party is agreed upon the great general principles at stake, it is essentially one, and must maintain its unity intact. There was a disposition to overlook past difference and estrangements and stand shoulder to shoulder in the great battle of Freedom. There was also in the deep undertone of the feeling prevalent a most significant forecasting of the future political status of Kanzas. It seemed to be the prevailing sentiment, that we are not to rest satisfied with the securing of Freedom for Kanzas merely; but that, in the great contest which is rocking the country as to whether Freedom or Slavery shall be national, Kanzas must be found leading the van in favor of universal Freedom.
A large number of toasts were offered, and speeches made by Gov. Chas. Robinson, Gen. Jas. U. Lane, his Honor, Henry J. Adams, Mayor of Leavenworth, Hon. G.W. Deitzler, Speaker of the House, J.M. Walden, Esq., Judge M.F. Conway, Wm. A. Phillips, Phillip C. Schuyler, Esq., C.B. Lines, Esq., S.N. Wood, Esq., E.B. Whitman, Esq., W.F.M. Arny, Esq., Gen S.C. Pomeroy, Mr. Henry Harvey, A.D. Richardson, Esq., T. Dwight Thacher, Esq., Col. C.F.W. Leonhardt, John P. Hatterscheidt, Esq., Judge Andrews and others.
A praiseworthy feature of the occasion and one which reflects great credit upon Gov. Robinson, was, that not a drop of spirituous liquors was used at the entertainment. The guests came sober and left sober. We venture the opinion that nowhere except in Kanzas and among the Free State men, could so many politician assemble and spend so long a time - from three to four hours of continuous speaking - without resorting to something stronger than coffee and cold water to excite the brain. We hop the example of Gov. Robinson in this respect, will be followed for the future.
At a late hour the company dispersed in excellent humor and well pleased with the events of the evening. - Lawrence Republican.
POINTED. - In the debate on the "Capital Question" in the "House of Reprobates" of the territorial Legislature, Dr. J.P. Wheeler, a member from Doniphan county, who had been approached by the managers of the corruption scheme, and who had indignantly spurned their offers, made a speech, in which, among other pointed things he said, that "he prayed Almighty God, that the people of Kanzas would never elect another such a damnably corrupt and infamous body of men as were then collected in that hall in the capacity of legislators." This "brought down" the lobby with a vengeance. Me. Lockhart of Johnson, also made a telling speech against the fraud, appealing to the members to pause and consider the step they were about to take - to recollect that the welfare of the people of Kansas had been committed to their keeping - and to beware how they proved faithless to the trust reposed in them. - Kanzas News.
DEATH OF JUDGE CURTIS.
An Awful Warning
The death, during the past week, of Mr. John Curtis, a member of the Territorial General Assembly, conveys a lesson of more than ordinary interest.
Mr. Curtis, though a man of rude education and unpolished exterior, was naturally possessed of fine abilities and a warm heart. But he was a slave to the intoxicating bowl, and that slavery proved his ruin. During the whole session of the legislature, he was rarely if ever free from the influence of liquor; indeed, he was in an almost continual debauch. His appearance from day to day in the House, was that of a perfect wreck of manhood. His friends and fellow members could only deplore, not arrest, his downward career. He kept his seat during the session, but his constant excesses had completely shattered his constitution, and on Monday of this week he passed from the scenes of earth to the awful realities of the other world. For the last few days of his illness, the wretched man suffered the horrible agonies of delirium tremens. His maddened brain wreaked a terrible vengeance upon him for his persistent violation of nature's plainest laws. And so, form a prematurely closed life, and the dreadful tortures of an inebriate’s death, he has passed to the ignominy of a drunkard's grave, and to the solemn judgment of him who hath said "No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of heaven!"
We would that this mournful even might have its due effect upon the whole community and especially that those who are treading that downward road which has so suddenly launched Mr. Curtis into eternity, might be induced to pause and forsake a course of life which must, sooner or later, terminate in wretchedness so dark and gloomy. There are among us young men - men of bright promise, who might be an honor and an ornament to society, whose bloated countenance, bloodshot eyes, and trembling nerves, all tell the sad tale of dissipation and debauchery. Why will they not be warned? why will they not learn from the fate of one already fallen, that "wine is a mocker and strong drink raging" - that "at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder?"
There is another phase to this matter. Is there no responsibility for this man's death resting upon those who have furnished him the poison? Are they not morally guilty of murder, who, day after day mingled for this poor, wretched inebriate the drink of death?
Bound by the strong chain of habit, and impelled by the thirsting demon within him, we may pity and almost excuse the victim, but what shall we say of those who for selfish gain, have daily doled out to him the deadly drink, with the plainest of evidence before their eyes that he was rapidly sinking into the grave?
And finally, is there not resting on our whole community a (???) responsibility for allowing in our midst the lens of death? Are we not our brother's keeper, and will not his blood be found upon us? - Lawrence Republican.
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QUINDARO CHIN-DO-WAN.
J. M. WALDEN,…..EDITOR.
Saturday, Feb. 27,
1858.
-The day is drawing near on which Delegates to the Constitutional
Convention are to be elected. The people seem to be entering into the matter so
earnestly that it is probable a very full vote will be polled in every part of
the Territory. This is very desirable. Let it be demonstrated to the
country that this new Constitutional movement meets with the hearty approval of
the people of Kanzas, as a means of adjusting peaceably the protracted
difficulties with which we have been surrounded, and it will have a moral force
almost irresistible.
The new Constitution can be made to represent the sentiments of the people,
and the government which may be elected under it, can become the government of
the majority. When the people shall rally under such a Constitution, and
around such a government, the destiny of the Lecompton swindle will be sealed,
whatever may be the action of Congress in regard to it. Every man who does
not wish to live under the Pro-slavery Constitution, will testify to the same by
voting for delegates to the new Convention, by voting upon the Constitution when
it shall have been framed, by voting for officers under it, and by joining hands
with every other freeman in its support and defence.
Singular Cave.
A cave, decidedly novel in shape, has just
been discovered in the town of Spring Hill, Johnson county, Kanzas. It is
almost perfectly cylindrical in form, being some seven feet in diameter,
and eight or ten deep. Its walls are of lime stone, and the roof is
covered by a smooth, beautiful slab of the same material. There is a small
passage leading from it, not yet explored, but which is supposed to communicate
with other chambers.
This singular cave seems to have been worn out of the solid rock, by a
stream of water. The entrance to it is through a small angular aperture.
barely large enough to admit the body of a man. It is in the open prairie,
upon an eminence commanding a view of the country for miles around. It is
surrounded by the finest tract of land in Kanzas, and is situated upon one of
the most beautiful town sites in the Union.
THE CINCINNATUS. - This is the title of a Monthly published at College
Hill, Ohio, and devoted to “Scientific Agriculture, Horticulture, Education, and
Improvement of Rural Taste.” It has reached its Third Volume, of which we
have received the second (February) number. We have watched this
publication from its commencement, two years ago, with much interest. It
seemed to us to be an experiment made with a view to supply, at least, an
apparent deficiency in the Periodical Literature devoted to the Agricultural
Interests of our country, by combining so far as practicable in one work, a
Scientific and Literary journal, thereby making it, at the same time valuable to
the investigator and interesting to the general reader.
The Cincinnatus has passed through two volumes, and now enters upon the Third
with fairer prospects that it had at any previous time. It deserves a
liberal support, being, as it is, a journal ably conducted and earnestly devoted
to the elevation of Labor and the advancement of Education in our country.
F. G. CARY, the Editor, has long been identified with the Educational
Interests of Ohio. He was President of Farmers’ College for a number of
years whilst it was exclusively a literary institution and is no President of
the Agricultural Department which was added to this College some three years
ago. He is zealous and untiring in his efforts to build up a system by
which agriculture may be benefitted by the results of scientific
investigations. To aid in this by disseminating the results of interesting
experiments constantly being made in his department of Farmers’ College,
together with other valuable matter, the Cincinnatus is now published. Mr.
C. is assisted in filling its pages, by members of the Faculty of Farmers’
College and other well-known authors.
We most cheerfully recommend this Monthly to the reading public.
NEW STAGE LINE. - We understand that arrangements have been made with
the Eldrige Brothers to run a daily line of stages from Wyandott via
Quindaro to Lawrence. This line will leave Wyandott so as to arrive at
Quindaro at breakfast-time and then proceed to Lawrence. It will be
furnished with excellent coaches and good stock. We are confident that the
traveling public will be amply accommodated by this arrangement at the most
reasonable rates of fare.
-Capt. WEBB’s new building on Kanzas Avenue will soon be completed. It
is a substantial stone structure, 26 feet front, 60 feet deep, and three stories
high. It will be a very desirable location for a business house of any
description, and will, we expect, be occupied as soon as it is completed.
-Yesterday (Friday) was the hottest day of our present winter
season. The themometer stood at noon, at 66 ˝ deg. above zero.
Spring Arrangements for the Missouri River.
The following
information concerning the several lines and various boats which are to engage
in the Missouri River trade the ensuing season, may be of interest to our
readers:
LIGHTNING LINE,
Running in connection with the Pacific Rail-Road, between
Jefferson City and St. Joseph, is composed of the following boats:
White Cloud, Edinburg,
John H. Dickey, F. X. Aubry,
Saint Mary, Polar
Star,
Cataract.
UNION LINE,
Between St. Louis and St. Joseph, making alternate weekly
trips, is composed of the following boats:
Ben Lewis, Morning Star,
Hesperian,
D. A. January, Star of West, Peerless,
A. B. Chambers,
Twilight, Minnehaha,
Kate Howard, South Wester.
INDEPENDENT LINE,
Leaving St. Louis for all points as high as “Fort
Benton,” is composed of the following boats:
D. S. Carter, Omaha, Sioux
City,
Sky Lark, Spread Eagle, E. M. Ryland,
Iatan, Asa Wilgus,
Isabella,
C. W. Jombert, Delaware, E. A. Ogden,
Platt Valley, Sultan,
Emma,
War Eagle, Admiral, John Warner,
Rowens, Florilda, Carrier,
J. D.
Perry, D. G. Taylor, Watossa,
Ben Bolt, J. H. Oglesby, Meteor,
Hannibal,
David Tatum, Florence,
Alonzo Child, W. H. Russell, Silver Heels,
Wm.
Campbell, Emigrant, Oceana.
RECAPITULATION.
Lighting Line - 7 boats. Total value $136,000; total
tonnage, 2279.
Union Line – 11 boats. Total value, $ 435,000; total tonnage, 4653.
Independent Line--37 Boats. Total value, $1,049,000; total tonnage,
14,005
The Lightning Line, Capt. Louis A. Welton, proprietor, will make weekly
trips, the distance one way being 387 miles. This line has a contract with
government for transportation to Fort Leavenworth.
The Union Line, Capt. T. H. Brierly, President, will make alternate weekly
trips, the distance one way being 560 miles. This line is composed of good
men and good boats.
The Independent line depends upon the popularity of those in command, and
will constitute a strong competition. They are open for business as far up
as Fort Benton, about 3000 miles from St. Louis.
Primary Meeting.
A meeting of the citizens of Quindaro was
held at the Quindaro House, Wednesday evening, Feb. 24th, for the purpose of
electing Delegates to attend the County Convention, to be holden at Leavenworth
on Tuesday, March 2d, to nominate Delegates to attend the Constitution
Convention, which is to convene on the 24th of March next.
ALFRED GRAY, Esq., was chosen President, and ALBERT S. COREY,
Secretary.
On motion, it was voted to send three delegates to the County
Convention.
ALFRED GRAY, C. H. CHAPIN AND Dr. GEO. E. BUDDINGTON were elected to
represent Quindaro in the County Convention.
A motion was made and unanimously carried, declaring J. M. WALDEN, Esq., to
be the choice of the people of Quindaro for Delegate to the Constitutional
Convention, and instructing the delegates to the County Convention, to use all
honorable means to secure his nomination as a candidate for that office.
On motion, the delegates were farther instructed to secure, if
possible, the nomination of W. J. McCOWN, also, as a candidate for Delegate to
the Constitutional Convention.
The following resolution, offered by P. T. Colby, Esq., was almost
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the attempt of the late Legislature to locate the
capital of Minneola meets with our unqualified condemnation; and we hereby
instruct our Delegates to vote against and oppose the sitting of the
Constitutional Convention at said Minneola, under any circumstances whatever.
On motion, the meeting adjourned, sine die.
ALFRED GRAY, President.
ALBERT S. COREY, Sec’y.
-Hon. GALUSHA A. GROW, the gentleman who knocked KEITT down so
prettily, that K. didn’t know it, and was under the impression that he had
stubbed his toe, is remarkable for the large majorities by which he has been
elected to Congress. He is now serving his fourth term. He was first
elected by 1,250 majotity; on the second heat his majority was 7,500; the third
trial he had no opposition; on the fourth oscasion his majority was 8,000. The
personal appearance of Mr. Grow is thus described:
He is of slight figure, measuring about five feet and ten inches in
height. He is a man of marked appearance, with a countenance indicating
energy and force, whose expression is heightened by dark, piercing eyes, which
flash with electric brilliancy whenever he is excited in debate. He has a
most amiable disposition, and would be hard to provoke to a fight, unless
irritated beyond endurance.
-According to the Prentice, of the Louisville Journal
Buchanan’s Lecompton Message is a pair of Killkenny cats. Prentice
says:
The message is two-fold, one part answering, and destroying the other.
The message does not deny that the majority of the people of Kanzas are against
the Lecompton Constitution, but holds first--that the majority has not expressed
its opposition in conformity with established forms--second, that when the
Constitution has become the “organic law,” the majority of the people may
rescind or amend it as they please without any regard to established
forms. Thus the villainous message cuts its own throat.
-There is a speck of trouble between England and France. The
late hideous attempt to assassinate the French Emperor, is charged to the
revolutionists who have taken refuge in England; and in the addresses of the
French army to the Emperor congratulatory upon his escape, appear petitions to
be allowed to exterminate the refugees in their dens - and the English are
disgusted thereby. Stranger things have happened than for a war to arise
between England and France, indirectly in consequence of the attempt to
assassinate the head of the French nation.
ADDRESS
Of the General Assembly under the Topeka
Constitution, to the People of Kanzas.
The undersigned, Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives
under the People’s Constitution, submit the following Address to their
constituency:
Had the political dangers which now threaten Kanzas been less imminent, and
the expressions of the people in favor of the Topeka Constitution not so often
reiterated, this second Legislature would in all probability have assembled but
to dissolve. But the dangers to which we advert still wear the most
threatening aspect. The advantages which it was supposed would flow from
Territorial legislation do not seem to be so great as was expected or desired,
and even the little obtained is held by a feeble tenure. - Kanzas is
threatened by a usurpation which, if successful, will prove fatal to our civil
liberties, and dangerous to the best interests of our people. We do not
address you for the purpose of making any apology for the course of action we
deem it best to take. Neither do we appeal to you in behalf of this or any
other government: We address you that you may be informed of the precise
condition of that department of the government with which you have entrusted
us. For the future, with you must rest the responsibility of deciding and
acting in relation to it.
We do not propose an elaborate vindication of the past. Many new
settlers have flocked into Kanzas since the Topeka Constitution was first
inaugurated; many who have neither seen the necessity of its origin, nor
comprehended the objects for which it was designed. That these are less
devoted to the principles of republican liberty, we do not believe. If any
of them have opposed the Topeka Constitution, it was simply because they have
regarded it as merely one policy by which freedom could be secured for
Kanzas, and civil liberties for its people. They overlooked the fact that it
embodied all the early struggles of the Kanzas people against Missouri and
federal oppression. That it was to them what the Magna Charter was to the
Englishman and the Declaration of Independence to the American. But the
real opposition to the Topeka Constitution did not come from the recent
emigrants. Its bitter opposition came from the deadly enemies of Kanzas,
who have found it an obstacle to their purposes. But in spite of all this
open hostility or secret treachery, against it, this Constitution has still been
the choice of the masses of the people. No convention fully representing
them ever assembled in which devotion to it was not made the test, and all
political action was made to look towards building it up. Even President
Buchanan bears an adversary’s testimony to this fact for in his recent infamous
message he says:
“It is because they have even refused to sanction or recognize any other
Constitution than that framed at Topeka.”
The Topeka Constitution was inaugurated when there was not legitimate
government in Kanzas. True, Missouri had pretended to make a Legislature
for this Territory, but the people repudiated it, and when they found that the
federal authorities connived at the villainy that Missouri had begun, they
abandoned a Territorial form of government, under which such oppressions and
frauds could be justified. But this government of fraud was never a de
facto government. The people turned their backs upon its courts, its
taxes and its officers. Bogus authority withered in its inception.
The people openly spit upon the parchment record of its crimes, which a
pusillanimous President had proclaimed to be law.
At a Mass Convention of the voters from all parts of the Territory, convened
in Lawrence, on the 14th of August, 1855, the primary step towards the formation
of a State Government was taken, when the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That we consider the attempt to establish a Territorial form
of government in this Territory, as thus far an utter failure; and that the
people of the Territory should, at some convenient period, assemble at their
several places of holding elections in the various districts of the Territory,
and elect delegates to a Convention to form a State Constitution for the State
of Kanzas, with a view to an immediate state organization, and application, at
the next session of Congress, for admission into the American Union as one of
the States of the American Confederacy.
In the past experience of our common country, Territorial governments have
been organized and maintained until the people of the Territory were willing to
assume the responsibility and expense of government. In Kanzas, a new
system has been introduced, by which the people have been reduced to an object
colonial vassalage, fatal to their rights as American citizens. The
President frankly states in his recent message, that the bogus Territorial
Government could not have been maintained without the aid of the regular
army. He says:
“This government they would long since have subverted had it not been
protected from assault by the troops of the United States. Such has
been the condition of affairs since my inauguration.”
This we know to be a fact, and we also know that the systematic support of
corrupt federal officials has been given to the same political iniquity.
The effort to establish a state government has been styled “rebellion” and
treated as such. And yet all this has been in gross violation of
precedent, the Organic Act, and the Constitution of the
United States. The Organic Act explicitly states that the Territorial
government was merely “temporary,” that “the people” should frame a State
government and apply for admission into the Union under it; and it even says
that “it is the true intent and meaning of this act that the people shall
be left perfectly free to form their institutions in their own way.”
Believing that the acts of Congress were the solemn acts of responsible and
honorable men; that they were something more than a double meaning verbiage of
words to conceal political treachery, and, above all, knowing that the
Constitution of the United States and past precedent sanctioned such a step, the
people calmly and deliberately proceeded to frame a State Constitution. It
was no hurried scheme, no mere effervescence of popular sentiment. Several
primary conventions were held in different parts of the Territory, representing
much the greater portion of it, and embodying the public sentiment more fully
than such movements usually do. The election for delegates to a
Constitutional Convention was held according to the same districts, census and
regulations made by Gov. Reeder, and which had been so signally violated in the
Territorial elections. The Constitution framed was a moderate, and, in many
respects, a good document. It even made concessions to the slave
interests, and slave property, to an extent which would have weakened it in the
eyes of unprejudiced minds, had the necessity for its adoption been less
urgent. This Constitution was submitted to a vote of the people. At
the time when it was first submitted, the invasion of armed forces from Missouri
tended to reduce the vote, but still it obtained a majority of all the legal
votes then in the Territory. Since that time it has been re-submitted, and
has been ratified by a larger vote than has ever been given in the Territory for
any man or cause whatever. Besides, a memorial with over 7000 signatures
praying for admission under it has been presented to Congress at the present
session.
A regular State election was held under the provisions of the
Constitution, and State officers and Legislature elected. In March, 1856,
the Legislature met. And here the people of Kanzas gave another indication
of that spirit of moderation and conciliation which has always characterized
them. The legislature did not proceed at once to make the government a
de facto government, but adjourned to await the action of Congress.
When it assembled on the 4th of July, of the same year, although the popular
branch of Congress had decided in its favor, a portion of the federal army broke
up its sittings. In January, when it again assembled, a U. S. marshal
arrested enough of its members to interfere with its business.
The delay which this violent and unprecedented interference had
secured, gave the handful of pro-slavery men in the Territory, an opportunity of
initiating steps for a State government. This they made to grow out of the
Missouri usurped Territorial Legislature, and every step in this new process was
conceived in fraud and villany. Their pretended elections were guarded by
a class of usurpers who never would have been able to assume their functions but
for the blackest political crimes. A false registration was made the basis
of its representative power. A criminal apportionment left one-half of the
Territory without representation. Under these circumstances, the people
were called upon to abandon their own Constitution, which they had framed under
the express provisions of the Organic Act, and acknowledge a usurpation, under
all these drawbacks. They refused to do so, and determined to abide by
their own Constitution. This was done by a full Delegate Convention of the
Territory.
Under these circumstances it became evident to the oligarchy, and to
the pusillanimous administration it has selected to do its infamous work, that
defeat would attend every scheme for slavery so long as the people remained
united to the Topeka Constitution. In such emergency they sent out one of
their must cunning politicians, who came to Kanzas with large promises, and
endeavored to ingratiate himself with its people, by professing a desire for
fair play. He reiterated the doctrine that “the people” must rule, but
proved the hollowness of such assertions by open and secret hostility to the
Constitution that a large majority of the people had time and again declared
their determination to support. His efforts had the result of creating a
serious schism in the Free-state party. That party which had been a unit,
and which required to be a unit, when maintaining a purely popular government,
was thus divided. The bands that held together the bundle of rods were
cunningly unloosed by this dexterous politician. It would be useless to
recount all the steps taken to secure this result. Local and selfish
interests were stirred up and set at rivalry. Ambitions of men, who had
failed to secure from the people-posts they coveted, were admitted to the
conferences of the wily agitator, and were used as active agents against what
had always been the avowed policy of the Free-state party. To escape the
odium of desertion they assumed that the Free-state party only required its
members to be in favor of a “Free-state” by any means. The
Free-state party up to that time had two distinct objects in one policy, which
they had given to the world in platforms on all occasions. The first was a
repudiation of the Missouri usurpation; the other, adherence to the People’s
Constitution. Gov. Walker formed a party in the Free-state party hostile
to these two objects, and without any avowed policy.
In June last, the State Legislature again assembled. A Codifying
Committee had prepared laws for the complete organization of the
Government. The design was to have these quietly accepted by the people,
without seeking or causing any collision, and thus to have given broad and
healthy roots to the People’s Government. Gov. Walker exerted himself to
defeat this, which he foresaw would result in the triumph of the people.
In his dispatches to Secretary Cass at that time, he admits that the result of
deferring such action--which deferring was secured by the active exertions of
several prominent Free-state men, was the beginning of his triumph, and as he
sys, the commencement of the disintegration of the Free-state party, and the
organization of a “National Democracy.”
The Free-state people were next induced to participate in the October
election. If the design had been to abandon the Topeka Constitution, or
kill it effectually, this would have been very proper; but weakened although it
was, the people could not consent to such abandonment. Those, therefore,
who urged such participation most actively, took the ground that it was done
merely “to silence the little Lecompton battery,” and to take steps to
give validity to the People’s Constitution. There was, indeed, even then,
a party in the Free-state party, hostile to the Topeka Constitution; but it was
then too much in minority to avow its real objects. Many men, fearing that
this new policy was to be dominant, attached themselves to it to acquire any
prestige that might flow from it. Charged with being factious and
impracticable, and urged to participate, that the Territorial Government might
be removed, the people reluctantly did so. The tools of the oligarchy once
more pretended they had carried the election, by the preposterous Oxford and
other frauds. Enraged, the people were preparing to fall back with renewed
devotion to their old Constitution, when Gov. Walker rejected the Oxford and
McGee frauds, and thus the people were bound to the Territorial Government.
Meanwhile, the pro-slavery minority formed a State Constitution, which
they refused to submit to the popular vote. The people repudiated it in
the most solemn manner, in full Delegate Convention. The Territorial
Legislature was instructed to submit the two Constitutions to a full vote of the
people in Kanzas. No proposition could be more fair; nothing so likely to
produce a harmonious result, if it ever was the design of the Federal tyrants to
allow the people to choose their own instrument of government. But it was
not. The Territorial Legislature, at its called session, refused to do
this, alleging as a reason private pledges to a Federal officer, which, as the
representatives of the people, they had no right to give. A provision was
made to submit the Lecompton Constitution to a vote of the people, under the
forms of Territorial law. This was done, and the people rejected the
Lecompton Constitution by an overwhelming majority, and thus made it treason
against their civil rights for any man to assume to hold office under it.
According to the terms of the Constitution, this body, the second
Legislative Assembly, convened on Jan. 4th, of this year. In this October
election, the ground was everywhere taken that Territorial forms should be swept
away, for the People’s Government. Conventions of the Free-state party had
so decided. We have acordingly assembled, but find that the
Territorial Legislature has utterly refused in any shape to recognize our
existence, or do anything to strengthen the People’s Government. They have
refused, even to repeal the laws of the Missouri usurpers.
Under these circumstances, we find that the people have made another
Government, the acts and labors of which are sustained by Federal money and
Federal power. We do not now shrink from any responsibility that might be
incurred by sustaining the People’s Government, but we inevitably suffer from
these facts, and our action is crippled and rendered inefficient. By
concurrent resolution we asked the Territorial Legislature to do what the people
by right expected them to do, and too a recess--the better to enable them to
comply, as best they could, and during which to prepare a code for the State, to
be submitted to legislative action. This was done. On re-assembling,
we find that the Territorial Legislature has thus failed to redeem its pledges
to a majority of those who elected it. We find that instead of using the
forms of Territorial Government to overthrow the Missouri usurpation, that such
usurpation has been legalized, while a few general laws and a hug amount of
special legislation have been engrafted on it.
Such are the circumstances under which we find ourselves. High
executive officers under the State Constitution have publicly declared that the
Constitution is dead. Discouraged, many members of each body have gone
home and left us without a quorum. We are still ready to perform our
duties, should the will of the majority desire it. Should a trying hour
for the people of Kanzas arrive, by the acceptance of the Lecompton Constitution
by Congress, we shall be at our posts, should the people in the Convention
decide to fall back on their old Government.
We are thus compelled, by a necessity that leaves us no choice, to
adjourn for the present, and to refer back to the people who elected us, the
question as to whether the Topeka Constitution is dead. Under a fearful
opposition from a despotic Federal power, and under a torrent of malignant abuse
and falsification from pretended friends, we have endeavored to vindicate the
rights of an unquestionable majority of the people of Kanzas. A few years
will serve to develope the justice and propriety of our course; to that future
we can leave it. We offer this evidence that we have never voluntarily
abandoned our duty, and will resume it the moment you enable us.
WM. A. PHILLIPS, Chairman,
J. M. HENDRY, AND W. F. M. ARNY,
Senate Com.
WM. HUTCHINSON, B. B. NEWTON, CHAS. MAYO, J. M. WALDEN,
AND L. MARTIN, House Com.
GARDNER, JOHNSON COUNTY. - A town has been located on the Santa Fe
Road, at the junction of five very important roads, and is known as
Gardner. The proprietors are Free-state men, of energetic business habits,
and are in the habit of accomplishing what they undertake. Full ten
thousand dollars have been expended on the town site since August last. A
hotel, 30 by 40, four stories high, is now open to receive travelers. A
large store has been put up, and is well filled with goods. Gardner being
situated in the center of one of the best farming regions in Kanzas, it can be
none else than a good location. Mechanics of all kinds will be donated as
many lots as they will improve by building upon them. Two good sawmills
are in successful operation near town. A blacksmith shop is now in course
of erection.
Mr. Gardner, who resides at Gardner, will interest persons visiting
the place in its advantages, and will show settlers the vacant claims in the
vicinity. Being on the natural route from Wyandott, Kanzas City and
Westport, to central and Southern Kanzas; also from Lawrence to Osawatomie.,
Paoli, Fort Scott, and Burlingame, it furnishes a good stopping place for
travelers. - Lawrence Rep.
-Senator DIXON, of Connecticut, gave Mr. Buchanan a sharp poke in the
ribs, in his speech in the Senate on the 9th. Touching the Army Bill, he
introduced without any violent effort, the memorial of the New Haven Clergymen,
which the President replied to in such hot haste and with such vigorous Southern
inspiration last summer. The Senator defended the memorial, as to its
manner and matter, and maintained the exalted character and motives of the
memorialists, paying a tribute to the ability, moral and worth, and fame of
Prof. SILLIMAN, venturing the unkind suggestion that his name would be held in
remembrance when the President’s would be forgotten. The allusion to the
Hartford Convention, in the President’s reply to the memorializes, the Senator
thought, was unfortunate, and should not have been made without tears of
penitence shed in remembrance that James Buchanan, himself, was one of the blue
light Federalists who supported that measure.
Important to Immigrants.
Spring Hill, in Johnson county,
twenty-eight miles south of Quindaro, twelve miles west of the Missouri line,
and twenty -eight miles east of Lawrence, is surrounded by the finest region of
land in Kanzas, and one that is destined to be very densely populated at an
early day.
“Spring Hill” receives its name from an unfailing Spring of excellent water,
upon the town site. This spring has long been known to the Indians, and
during the unprecedented drought of last summer supplied twelve families with
water, without any visible diminution.
The town-site is one of the most beautiful in the Territory. It
is situated on an eminence which commands a fine view of the surrounding country
for eight or ten miles in every direction. The great road from the mouth
of the Kanzas River to the Neosho country, and the whole rich region in southern
Kanzas, passes directly through it. A line of hacks over this route, and
another connecting Spring Hill with Lawrence, will be established upon the
opening of navigation.
There are few towns which combine so many natural advantages.
The best of timber is growing in a large body within half a mile of the town
site. One saw-mill within four miles, and three others within eight miles,
supply good lumber at from $20 to $25 per thousand. Limestone and
sand-stone (both excellent qualities for building purposes) and sand, for
mortar, are found in abundance, on the town site. A vein of coal, which is
believed to connect with a prolific mine, has been discovered in the vicinity.
Spring Hill is not a mere paper speculation, but is owned by a
live company, nearly all of whom reside on the town-site. They have
erected a two-story hotel, forty feet by thirty-two, which is being finished and
furnished at a total expense of five thousand dollars. A church and
school-house are also in course of erection; three new stores are contracted
for, to be built and stocked with goods immediately upon the opening of spring;
and arrangements are being made for the early erection of an Episcopal church,
and several other buildings at an early day. A Post Office is already
established and in operation, (J. B. Hovey, Esq., Postmaster,) and and a free
school will be commenced early in March. - A weekly newspaper will be
established during the season.
The adjoining county is being rapidly settled. Respectable men,
(especially those with families) who wish to go to farming - will be supplied
with good claims in the vicinity, free of expense, by applying to the
proprietors of the town. Mechanics of every description, and all other
persons who wish to settle in a thriving village, and establish permanent homes,
will find liberal inducements to do so, in Spring Hill.
The whole surrounding country is within thirty miles of the junction
of the Kanzas and Missouri rivers, in the vicinity of which all concede that a
great city is about to spring up. It will therefore always be convenient
to a cash market and steadily increasing in valu. Similar unimproved land
a few miles east of it, in Missouri, already commands from $10 to $20 per acre;
and when this has a settler upon every quarter section, (as it will in a short
time) it will be worth higher prices, though the pre-emptors will secure it at
the Government rate of a dollar and a quarter per acre.
Persons wishing any further information in regard to the town and
adjoining country, will do well to address the Postmaster, Spring Hill, Johnson
Co., T. K.
ROUTE to KANZAS & GREAT South-Western Route to
Texas.
The splendid Steam Ferry Boat “OTIS WEBB,” plies regularly across
the Missouri River, between Parkville, Mo. And Quindaro, Kanzas, at the lowest
rates of ferriage, with speed and safety, for the convenience of emigrants and
Travellers. The following reliable list of routes is appended:
>From Burlington, Iowa to Parkville,
Mo. Via Memphis, Milan, Trenton,
Gallatin, Plattsburg and Smithville, 250 miles
>From Canton and Keokuk to Parkville,
via. Kirksville, Linneus,
Gallatin,
Plattsburg and Smithville.....200
>From Hannibal or Quincy to Parkville,
via Shelbyville, Bloomington,
Chil-
icothe, Utica, Kingston and Haynes-
ville,........................
200
>From all crossings between Hannibal
and St. Charles to Parkville,
Mo.,
via Grantville, pass through Hunts-
ville or Brunswick and Liberty
to
Parkville.
Excellent roads are opened from Quindaro to the principal interior points of
Kanzas.
To Wyandott,........... 3 miles.
“ Kanzas City, Mo.........5 “
“
Lawrence,..............30 “
“ Lecompton,.............46 “
“
Topeka,................55 “
“ Manhattan,............110 “
“ Fort
Riley,...........125 “
“ Ossawattomie,..........55 “
“ Neosho
Valley,........100 “
“ Fort Gibson,..........270 “
“
Texas,................400 “
>From Quindaro there is an excellent road to Lawrence, on which the
streams are well bridged. From Lawrence roads run to all the towns in the
Kaw River Valley, and to the towns south and south-west.
>From Quindaro there is also a good road running southward, intersecting
the great Santa Fee route about twelves from the Missouri River, also running to
Olathe, and joining roads that extend to Stanton, Paoli, Ossawattomie, Neosho,
and points in that direction.
The Platte country adjacent for Parkville, is one of the most fertile and
best cultivated portions of Western Missouri, where emigrants may be certain of
procuring a stock of produce at reasonable prices.
This is the most convenient point of crossing the Missouri to reach
all the towns of Southern Kanzas and south-west Missouri. Emigrants from
Iowa and the North-West will bear down through Lancaster, Unionville, Princeton,
Bethany or Athens, Mayeville and Ridgely to Parkville.
This is the best crossing on the Missouri River. Wet bottoms are
entirely avoided. Every effort will be made to merit the confidence of the
public.
The Boat will make a daily trip from Quindaro to Parkville, and will cross
the River the balance of the time between Quindaro and a point about 1 ˝ miles
below Parkville.
Special Notice. - The Ladies of Quindaro, having formed a
Sewing Circle for the benefit of the M. E. Church in Quindaro, will hold their
first meeting at the house of Mr. Matoon, No. 153, No. St., on Friday afternoon
and evening. March 6th, and we respectfully invite Ladies and Gentlemen,
who may wish to join our benevolent work, to meet with us at that time, and give
us their aid and influence. We would also say to those wishing Sewing,
Embroidery or Needle work of any kind, done in good style and at reasonable
prices, that we are now ready to receive any work with which the community may
see fit to favor us with.
SALLIE B. DUVALL, President.
ELIZA I. WELBORNE, Sec’y.
TRIBUNE ALMANAC. - Persons wishing to purchase this very excellent
work for 1858, can obtain copies at the different stores in Quindaro, where they
have been left for sale.
QUINDARO MARKET.
Saturday, March 13, 1856.
Reported weekly for the Quindaro Chindowan, by WILLIAM LANSING, corner of
Kanzas Avenue & Fifth st.
Flour (???),....................$4.00
Corn Meal &
bushel,..............1.00
Hams, country cured, “ ”...........10
“
canvass, “ ”...........10
Shoulders, “ ”............8
Lard, “
”...........12
Butter “ ”...........25
Sugar, Brown “ ”...........14
“ Crushed “ ”...........16
Rice, “ ”............8 ˝
Coffee, Rio, “
”...........14
Tea, Young Hyson, “ ”...........80
“ Imperial, “
”...........80
Saleratus, “ ”...........10
Tobacco, “ ”......30 @ 75
Raisins, “ ”...........40
Figs, “ ”...........25
Almonds, “
”...........35
Candy, Rock, “ ”...........40
Candy, assorted, “
”...........30
Powder, “ ”...........50
Shot, “ ”...........10
Lead,
“ ”...........10
Candles, Star, “ ”...........30
“ Mould, “
”...........15
Soap, “ ”...........10
Starch, “ ”...........15
Tar
Tar Acid, “ ”...........75
Cream Tarter, “ ”...........50
Soda, “
”...........10
Ginger, “ ”...........20
Pepper, “ ”...........20
Allspice, “ ”...........20
Eggs (???) dozen,..................15
White Lead & Keg,................3.00
Molasses (???)
gallon,...........1.00
Linseed Oil (???) gallon,........1.25
Sweet Oil
“...........1.50
Olive Oil per doz…...............9.00
Spirits
Turpentine, (???) gallon,1.50
Vinegar Cider, “ ”.....30
Alcohol, “
”...1.00
Brandy Puresignet, “ ”...3.00
Wine, Port, old, “ ”...4.00
Wine, Sweet Malaga “ ”...1.50
Bay Rum, “ ”...2.50
Rose Water, “
”...1.50
Lime Juice, “ ”...1.50
Nails, assort’d. (???) Keg,......5.00
Glass, 8 - 10 (???) Box, 50 ft..3.00
“ 10 - 12 “ “ “ “...3.25
“ 10 –
14 “ “ “ “...3.50
“ 12 - 16 “ “ “ “...3.50
‘ 24 - 30 “ “ “ “...7.50
Apples, winter, (???) bushel.....1.00
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
J. BOLES,
Ambrotype &
Photographic
ARTIST,
Gov. Robinson’s Building,
LAWRENCE,...........KANZAS,
IS prepared to execute likenesses in
the best style of the Art, having fitted up his rooms in the most approved
manner; in order to insure success, and please his patrons.
Feb. 20,
1858 36
Good Chance.
FOR LEASE, a First Class HOTEL in
Kanzas, containing forty-five rooms, situated in the most thriving town on the
Missouri River. Possession given the first of April. Enquire at the
Chindowan Office.
Feb. 20, 1858. 36
OHIO STATE AND UNION
Law College.
THIS
Institution has been removed to Cleveland, Ohio. Degrees are legally
conferred, and Students upon Graduating may be admitted to practice.
-For Circulars-address, at Cleveland.
Ly--35 M. A. KING,
SEC’Y.
SEEDS FOR 1858.
WE are now prepared with a full and complete
stock of
FIELD, GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS.
Of the new crop, to supply any
demand wholesale and retail, on the very best of terms.
Our stock is NEW, (as we do not consign seeds and take none back to
mix up again), and much of it grown under our own directions in this
State. Our stock of European Seeds is imported directly by ourselves from
the most reliable growers in England and France.
We feel confident no better advantages to the public can be offered
than we can give, and we cordially invite an examination of our stock before
purchasing. Our stock consists in part of Spring Wheat, Barley, Corn,
Peas, Beans, &c., a very large variety of Garden Seeds, and a full
assortment of Flower Seeds of choice varieties. Also, 150 bushels pure
China Sugar Cane Seed.
Constantly on hand a large assortment of Agricultural and
Horticultural Machines and Implements.
Full priced seed and implement catalogues sent upon receipt of stamp
to pay postage.
HENRY D. EMERY & CO.
34--3ms. 204 Lake Street,
Chicago.
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, and for sale by W.
LANSING.
FINE OLD COGNAC BRANDY – received
this day, and 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.
Transcribed by Charion Vaughn, Spring 2005.