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Quindaro Chindowan.
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Vol. I. Quindaro, Kanzas, Saturday, May 29, 1858. No. 50
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PHYSICIANS.
Dr. R. M. Ainsworth,
No. 10……………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.
Charles Chadwick,
No. 2…………….West Main St.
Alfred Gray,
No. 179………….East Main St.
R. P. Gray & Co.,
Chindowan Office,
No. 7…………….Kanzas Avenue.
Newman & Ainsworth,
No. 10…………...Kanzas Avenue.
SURVEYORS.
Charles B. Ellis,
No. 2……………West Main St.
HOTELS.
Quindaro House,
Nos. 1, 3, & 5…..Kanzas Avenue.
Wyandott House,
No. 2…………...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………..Kanszas 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.
Fisk & Richmond,
Cor. Kanzas Avenue & Fifth St.
A. C. Strock,
No. 38……….Kanzas Avenue.
W. J. McCown,
No. 7………...Kanzas Avenue.
MEAT STORES.
P. Caswell & Lewis,
No. 140……..East Main St.
J. A. Bartles,
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. 18………………O St.
CARPENTERS & JOINERS.
S. H. Marchant,
No. 65………………R St.
C. H. Carpener [sic],
No. 16………………S St.
John S. McCorkle,
No. 69………………R St.
Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
J. M. Walden………Editor.
Saturday, May 29, 1858.
For the Chindowan.
The Farmer.
Oh! look at the happy farmer,
As he swiftly glides along,
Through his fields all deck’d with verdure
And the early dew of morn.
See his face lit with the sunbeams,
As he views his harvest fair,
I think that the happy farmer –
Was born to be free from care.
He works, for toil is his pleasure,
Not heeding the hours that fly,
‘Till hark! an echo reminds him,
Sweet ev’ning is drawing nigh.
With pleasure he homeward hurries
For there is his fond delight,
To meet with his tender offspring,
To bless and guide them aright.
Lily Dale.
To Our Babe.
Sweet babe of love and innocence,
How pure are all thy ways,
The little angels seem to shed
On thee their brightest rays.
Oh! I could’st thou raise that little heart,
To Him who reigns above,
Far sweeter than the rich incense
‘Twould tell of thy pure love.
Thy soul is like the spotless snow,
In all its whiteness giv’en,
Of diamonds may its actions twine,
For thee a wreath in Heav’n.
And, oh! sweet babe may angels bright
Protect thy coming days,
And may they lead thy little feet,
To walk in God’s just ways.
Levinta.
The New York Tribune on Stephen A. Douglas.
While the Republicans of Illinois have the undoubted right to designate their own candidates and representatives, the Republicans of other States have an equal right – which does not seem to be everywhere conceded – to express their approbation of the conduct of a statesman, even though belonging to an adverse party and residing in the State of Illinois. And it is not to be disguised that they do regard the course of Senator Douglas throughout the Lecompton struggle with the emphatic approval which borders on admiration. They have seen him separate himself from a triumphant and almost invincible Administration, which had honors to dispense and millions to disburse, braving the denunciations of the party organization and party press which had for twenty years borne him onward from triumph to triumph, and from indigence and obscurity to opulence and distinction – they have seen him incur the deadly and unquenchable hatred of the Slave Power, blasting in a moment all his reasonable hopes of attaining the Presidency through the machinery and the spell of the Democratic party – and for what? Changes like John Calhoun’s from a prostrate minority to an invincible majority, are easily accounted for; but when a statesman so high in position, in power and in hopes, separates himself from a triumphant majority to fight a momentous battle on the side of a minority to whom he had always stood in deadly opposition, it is scarcely reasonable to attribute that change to any motive which does not honor his conscientiousness and his courage. And it seems to us particularly ungracious in those to whom he has thus lent the weight of his powerful arm to unite with his and their implacable adversaries in disparaging his motives, belittling his influence, and paralyzing his exertions.
We speak only of what has been. Judge Douglas, in the future as in the remoter past, may be found standing in deadly hostility to that National policy which seems to us dictated by the most vital interests of our country and of mankind. He may see fit to foster and inflame the spirit of Filibusterism, or a desire to annex or overrun foreign provinces, peopled by ignorant and degraded races, which seems to us at once at deadly war with the spirit of genuine democracy and with the peace and safety, the internal development and growth, the moral and material well-being, of our own favored land. On the Protection of Home Industry, the opening of new territories to Slavery, the systematic improvement of our Rivers and Harbors, we may again be found, as we were formerly found, battling earnestly against his speeches and his votes. But, however pointed may be our future differences – and we do not mince phrases with statesmen whom we believe counseling and doing wrong – we shall never forget that in the Lecompton struggle he proved faithful, in defiance of great temptation, not to our principled, but to his own – that, when the President, followed by four-fifths of the Democrats in Congress, did his utmost to fulfill the Republican predictions that the “stump speech” in the belly of the Nebraska bill was lure and a fraud, Judge Douglass, fully counting the cost, insisted that it should be regarded and obeyed as a living truth – and that, mainly through his efforts aiding the natural resistance of the Republicans, Kanzas was snatched from the jaws of the Slave Oligarchy, and a fearful civil war averted. If this course was taken, those consequences braved, by Mr. Douglas, solely upon the strength of his convictions of right and of the moral weight of the pledges given in the Nebraska bill and the Cincinnati Platform, no public man in our day has evinced a nobler fidelity and courage. And if, as is alleged, he took this course only because he foresaw that any other would bring ruin on himself and his party, then he has evinced a prescience and sagacity which is not so common among our statesmen that it may be dismissed from the public service without some attestation of esteem and gratitude.
No New Party.
“Go to now, ye Republicans, ye Americans, ye old-line Whigs, ye anti-Lecompton Democrats, let us make unto ourselves a new party.” So say some of our contemporaries, North and South, who have heretofore opposed the Administration and yet made no terms with the Republicans. Well, so far as regards to ourselves, we listen with all respect, for our relations with these journals were once of the most congenial character. But we are obliged to reply, that we have no confidence whatever in any scheme for the reconstruction of parties. The idea is an essential fallacy. What Sir James Mackintosh said of Governments, is just as true of parties. They are not made, but grow. You may as well undertake to manufacture an oak tree, as endeavor to carve out a veritable living and self-sustaining political party. Such an organization, if it have any vitality at all, is a spontaneous, we may say an inevitable, outgrowth of the necessities of the times. The ideas of the times are its soil; the spirit of the times its atmosphere. These are its elements, and when it is no longer in harmony with these it dies of itself, just as the old Whig party died. We admit that a party may be bent by the art of man from its general direction, and that too great a way, without destroying its vitality; but even that is not salutary. We see its effect in the present misshapen, gnarled, knotted, cracked, and heart-rotten condition of the Democratic party. The attempt to bend any party, when once self-rooted, out of its natural growth is apt to prove a mischief; but the attempt to hew out a new party, and make it take root by any external appliance, is sure to prove an absurdity.
Now the sooner our friends learn to appreciate this one great fact, the better. The controlling necessity of the times is to settle what shall be the policy of the Federal Government towards Slavery, and that question must be definitively settle before the Republican party can possibly give place to any other organization. It is idle and foolish for any one to blind himself to this manifest truth, or to imagine that because a particular case has been settled, like that of Kanzas, the policy itself is no longer in question. It is perfectly certain that the bearings of this slavery question have greatly changed within the last few years. The leading minds of the South are thoroughly pervaded with the belief that growth and expansion are necessary to the well-being of the institution, and that the natural influences which operate against this can never be overcome, except by the positive active interference of the Federal Government in its favor. And we confess this idea is not altogether without reason. All history shows that there is nothing so favorable to the life and vigor of any organization, either in Church or State, as an outreaching aggressive habit of action, and that the natural effect of confinement or passivity is to bring on decay. And again there is the fact that slavery every year finds it more difficult to expand because of the growing preponderance of free labor. There is a nerve, a will, an energy, a power of adaptation in free labor that give it an immense advantage over the opposite system in the struggle for new fields – an advantage which must assuredly tell decisively against the latter unless the Federal government comes to aid with its immense resources. And here is the point. Shall the Federal Government pervert its powers for the behoof of Slavery, or not? The Southern leaders demand it; – shall it be allowed? The Democratic party says Yes. The Republican party says No. – And it is not possible that there should be an intermediate answer. – N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.
- We learn that more than a hundred of the students of Yale College have been hopefully converted within a few weeks past, including some who would have been deemed the most unlikely to become subjects of such a work.
Preparations for Another Fraud in Kanzas.
We have endeavored to make plain to our readers, that the English Kanzas Bill, placed the vote of the Territory on the “proposition” submitted to the people, entirely within the hands of appointees of the President. The Commissioners who are to name the places of voting, appoint special committees to act as overseers of the judges, to receive the returns and report the result, are the Governor, Secretary and District Attorney, and the presiding officers of the House of the Legislature. The Governor, Secretary and Attorney are appointees of the President, and the bill provides that any three of the Commissioners, that is the three creatures of the President, may, which means shall, transact any, the English of which is all, business pertaining to the board. The District Attorney, it appears, was a Douglas man. If he had been retained in office, the Board would have been fairly constituted, as it would have consisted of two Administration men, two Republicans, and an Anti-Lecompton Democrat. But Mr. Weir, the Douglas District Attorney has been removed and Mr. A. C. Davis, an unmitigated supporter of the Buchanan swindler, appointed in his place. This is the first open move in the direction of another programme of fraud, backed by false swearing and forgery according to “legal forms.” – Cincinnati Commercial.
Hon. John G. Davis, of Indiana.
Among the anti-Lecompton Democrats who first firmly resisted the great fraud, John G. Davis of this State stands prominent. He made no noisy display of his zeal, but he was known from the start to be its unrelenting enemy. He has worked quietly, rarely ubtruding himself on the attention of the House, but never has faltered in his faith an instant. While his associate Democrats have thrust themselves in the face of the country, as eager enemies of the fraud, and thundered their hostility into the public ear in a rolling fire of speeches and professions, he has contented himself generally with the sharp shot of a vote, which, like the backwoodsman’s rifle, carries true and makes no roar or smoke. – The noisy warriors, however, have failed in the great test. Their thundering artillery exploded and blew them to fragments and is now roaring away from the lines they once fired into. But Davis fired his “rifle” vote to the last of the battle from the same point, and always straight at the enemy. Among all of the Democrats of the North-West, out of Illinois, he is the only one who integrity has never been suspected. The letter writers heard rumors of treason, defection and bribery about Hall, Pendleton, Cockerill, Foley, Jones and others, but they never heard anything against Davis. Others might be weak or wavering, but Davis was never doubted. To stand the only man in the Democratic delegations of the North-West, out of Illinois, whose fidelity has never been questioned, and whose integrity has never been aspersed by a whisper, is an eulogy that he may well be proud of. – Indiana has suffered enough in the reputation of her doughface representatives, to make us, probably, unduly proud of one who has never yielded an inch, and stood in the front rank of the fight till the end. We wish we had more of such Democrats.
[Daily Journal.
Bancroft or Taney. – Judge Taney in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court on the Dred Scott case, observed that at the time of the revolution and the formation of the present federal government, black men were unanimously regarded as having no rights which white men were bound to respect.
On the other hand, Bancroft, whose historical investigations have been far more thorough, does not hesitate to remark in his account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, published since the announcement of the Dred Scott opinion, as follows:
“Nor, should history forget to record that, as in the army at Cambridge, so also in this gallant band, the free negroes of the colony had their representatives. For the right of free negroes to bear arms in the public defense was, at that day, [1775,] as little disputed in New England as their other rights. They took their place not in a separate corps, but in the ranks with the white men, their names may be read on the pension rolls of the country side by side with those of other soldiers of the Revolution. – [Vol. VII., Chapter XXXIX, page 421.
- “Mary, do you remember the text this morning?” “No, papa, I never can, I’ve such a bad memory.” “Mary” said her mother, “did you notice Susan Brown?” “Oh yes; what a fright! She had on her last year’s bonnet, done up, a pea-green silk, a black lace Mantilla, brown garters, an imitation Honitou collar, her old ear drops, and such a fan! Oh my!” “Well, my dear, your memory is improving.”
Railroad Meeting in Kanzas City.
Pursuant to a call made by a meeting in New Market in April last, a meeting of the friends of the Platte Country Railroad convened at the Court House, in the city of Kansas, on Saturday, May 15, 1858. Gentlemen were in attendance from Parkville, Quindaro, Wyandott, and other points on either side of the Missouri river, contiguous to the line of the proposed Road.
The meeting was organized by calling M. J. Payne, Esq., Mayor of the city, to the Chair, and appointing F. M. McDonald, of Parkville, and C. C. Spalding, of Kansas City, Secretaries.
On motion of R. T. Van Horn, the delegation from Quindaro, and other points in the Territory, were requested to participate in the proceedings of the meeting.
The proceedings of a Railroad meeting held at Quindaro on Thursday last, were read by the Secretary, at the request of Mr. Park, of Parkville.
On motion of Mr. Van Horn, the Chairman was requested to appoint a committee of three to draft resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the citizens of Kansas City, towards the location and building of the Platte Country Rail Road,
Whereupon the Chair appointed R. T. Van Horn, H. M. Northrup, Kersey Coates.
The committee withdrew and prepared the following report, which was received and adopted:
Whereas, the Legislature of Missouri, in 1853, chartered a Company to construct a Railroad from Kansas City to St. Joseph, called the Platte Country Railroad; and whereas, the system of Railroads to which the State of Missouri gave her credits, left the Platte country without an outlet, the said Road was designed, in connection with the Pacific Railroad at Kanzas City, to afford such outlet; therefore
Resolved, That we deprecate any attempt to divert the charter from its original intent, and that we desire before we aid by our money in the construction of such Road, that it be located in accordance with the design of the Legislature, at the time the charter was granted.
Resolved, That we believe the shortest and best route, practically considered, is the route best adapted to our wants, and the interests of the Platte country, and as that by way of Parkville, Platte City and New Market, would develop the richest agricultural portion of Missouri, and be forty miles shorter than a line by the Missouri river, we prefer such route, if practicable in construction.
Resolved, That a committee of three from the citizens of Kanzas City, be appointed to confer with John Duff & Co., in regard to their intentions touching the construction of said Railroad; what they desire the people interested in its construction to do; whether they desire any further stock subscribed, and what amount, in addition to the means of the stockholders, is necessary to be furnished for its prosecution to early completion, and such other matters as may be of importance to be known by the citizens proposing to subscribe stock in the Road.
Resolved, That H. M. Northrup, J. Lykins, Joseph C. Ranson, K. Coates, S. W. Bouton, R. T. Van Horn, E. C. McCarty, N. C. Claiborne, H. H. King, R. G. Stephens, Patrick Shannon and M. J. Payne, be appointed delegates from this city to the meeting to be held at Platte City, June 7th, 1858.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Parkville, Platte City, St. Joseph, Quindaro, Wyandott and Kanzas City papers.
Messrs. K. Coates, Joseph C. Ranson, and H. M. Northrup, were appointed the committee to confer with John Duff & Co.
Messrs. Parks, Cloughs and others addressed the meeting. Adjourned.
M. J. Payne, Ch’m.
P. M. McDonald, C. C. Spalding: Secretaries.
Providence Conference and Slavery. – The Providence (M. E.) Conference at its recent session, passed among other resolutions on the subject of slavery, the following:
Resolved, That in our opinion slave-holding is not only unauthorized in the general rules on slavery, but is impliedly condemned therein; yet inasmuch as the ambiguity of its phraseology has lad to opposite constructions of its meaning, we are in favor of so changing it as to make it clearly prohibitory of all slave-holdin.
Resolved, That the General Conference, having full powers to make rules, and, provided such rules do not contravene the spirit or letter of the general rules and regulations for our Church, can, in virtue of those powers, so change the chapter on slavery as to make it prohibitory of slave-holding, in our opinion it is expedient that the General Conference should so change said chapter as to make slave-holding a disqualification for membership in the M. E. Church.
Revival Among the Cherokee Indians. – A few evenings since, one of the Baptist meeting houses in Cincinnati was crowded to hear a Cherokee Indian named Mondicier (?), who related his experience, and told of the saving power of the Gospel of Christ among the people of the nation, 350 of whom had been converted and baptized since January.
“Old Hundred.”
In a rustic old church opposite, while we write, a company of worshippers are singng the old, old hymn, “Be thou, O God, exalted high.” The air is old, also; the immortal “Old Hundred.”
If it be true that Luther composed that tune and if the worship of immortals is carried on the wings of angels to heaven, how often has he heard the declaration, “They are singing the ‘Old Hundred’ now.”
The solemn strain carries us back to the times of the reformers – Luther and his devoted band. He, doubtless, was the first to strike the grand old chords in the public sanctuary of his own Germany. From his own stentorian lungs they rolled, vibrating not through vaulted cathedral roof, but along a grander arch, the eternal heavens. He wrought into each note his own sublime faith, and stamped it with that faith’s immortality. Hence it cannot die! Neither men nor angels will let it pass into oblivion.
Can you find a tomb in the lands where scaled lips lay that have not sung that tune? If they were gray old men, they had heard or sung “Old Hundred.” If they were babes, they smiled as their mothers rocked them to sleep, singing “Old Hundred.” Sinner and saint have joined with the endless congregation where it has, with and without the pealing organs, sounded on sacred air. The dear little children, looking with wondering eyes on this strange world, have lisped it. The sweet young girl whose tomb-stone told of sixteen summers, she whose pure and innocent face haunted you with its mild beauty, loved “Old Hundred,” and as she sang it, closed her eyes and seemed communing with the angels who were so soon to claim her. He whose manhood was devoted to the service of his God, and who with faltering steps ascended the pulpit stairs with white hand placed over his laboring breast, loved “Old Hundred.” And though sometimes his lips only moved, away down in his heart, so soon to cease its throbs, the holy melody was sounding. The dear white-headed father, with his tremulous voice! how he loved “Old Hundred.” Do you see him now, sitting in the venerable arm-chair, his arms crossed over the top of his cane, his silvery locks floating off from his hollow temples, and a tear, perchance, stealing down his furrowed cheeks, as the noble strains rang out? Do you hear that thin, quivering, faltering sound, now bursting forth, now listened for, almost in vain? If you do not, we do; and from such lips, hallowed by four-score years’ service in the Master’s cause, “Old Hundred” sounds indeed a sacred melody.
You may fill your churches with choirs, with Sabbath prima donnas, whose daring notes emulate the steeple and cost almost as much, but give us the spirit-stirring tones of the Lutheran hymn, sung by young and old together. Martyrs have hallowed it; it has gone up from the dying beds of the saints. The old churches where generation after generation has worshipped, and where many scores of the dear dead have been carried, and laid before the altar where they gave themselves to God, seem to breathe of “Old Hundred” from vestibule to tower-top – the very air is haunted with its spirit.
Think, for a moment, of the assembled company who have, at different times and in different places, joined in the familiar tune! Throng upon throng – the stern, the timid, the gentle, the brave, the beautiful, their rapt faces all beaming with the inspiration of the heavenly sounds!
“Old Hundred!” king of the sacred band of ancient airs. Never shall our ears grow weary of hearing, or our tongues of singing thee! And when we get to heaven, who knows but what the first triumphal strain that welcomes us may be –
“Be thou, O God, exalted high.”
Diplomatic Definitions.
Passport. A contrivance to prevent ports from being passed.
Consul. An officer expressly forbid to offer consolation to British subjects in trouble.
Chancery (of a Legation.) That part of the office into which when once papers get, nothing ever comes of them.
Ambassador. Should be written Embassador, quasi, “en bas-odeur,” – from the French en bas, “below” – one who is below – either the demands of his office, or the dignity of the nation he represents. The essence of the embassadorial mission, etymologically as well as practically, is there for submission.
Diplomacy. From the Greek, meaning double; the science of duplicity.
Diplomatic Relations. The very poorest relations, to judge by recently published correspondences, that ever disgraced the family of nations.
Protocol. From the Greek, first, and glue. – The most superficial cement by which nations can be held together.
[Punch.
Woman’s Rights
Mrs. Swissholm, formerly of the Pittsburg Saturday Visitor, having received an invitation to deliver a public lecture, replies thus:
“The idea is altogether a mistaken one, that ‘equal rights’ for women implies that she has the right to do everything that men do, and vice versa. Every man has not a right to be or do what ever another man does or is; for this would destroy society, and bring the world to chaos and an end. Every man or woman has a right to do that which he or she is best fitted to perform, as his or her share of the world’s work; and to be protected in his or her person and in the enjoyment of the proceeds of his or her labor, whatever it may be. This labor should be accredited at its proper value, according to its importance in general economy; and when woman’s proper work is paid for according to its value, it will be esteemed as honorable as any other, and there will be no women to spare as rivals in men’s department of labor.
“We have undertaken quite as much of the world’s work as we feel able to perform, and have not the slightest notion of being bustled about in stage coaches, and jostled over the country delivering lectures that some lazy man sit with his feet on the mantle, reading Putnam.
“There are plenty of men to deliver all the lectures, and to deliver them much better than we could do; but there is not a beardy face in the country who could take our place in this twelve by fifteen room. This is our work shop, and we intend to stay in it, except when the preservation of health requires that we should go out. We should certainly feel nothing the better for traveling a hundred miles to deliver a lecture badly, and then coming home and finding things undone that we could have done better than anybody else.
“We fancy the rule of general application, and that there are no more women to be spared from the home than are demanded in the schools, and in lectures upon subjects it is not proper they should hear discussed by men. Lecturers on physiology are the only class of public speakers who, we think, are regularly ‘called’ to their work. This is a branch of teaching which falls properly to woman’s share, as the educators of the race. Most women on the world ought to be busy as mothers, housekeepers, typesetters and school mistresses, and leave the bulk of the world’s labors to men, who have got the bulk of the world’s bones.”
The Wealth of our Statesmen.
Jefferson died comparatively poor. Indeed, if Congress had not purchased his library, and given for it five times its value, he would with difficulty have kept the wolf from his door.
Madison saved his money, and was comparatively rich. To add to his fortunes, however, or rather those of his widow, Congress purchased his manuscript papers, and paid thirty thousand dollars for them.
James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, died so poor that his remains found a resting place through the charity of one of the citizens.
John Quincy Adams left some hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the result of industry, prudence and inheritance. He was a man of method and economy.
Martin Van Buren is very rich. – Throughout his political life he has studiously looked out for his own interest. It is not believed that he ever spent thirty shillings in politics. His party shook the bush, and he caught the bird.
Daniel Webster squandered some millions in his lifetime, the product of his profession and his political speculations. He died leaving his property to his children, and his debts to his friends. The former sold for less than twenty thousand dollars – the latter exceeded two hundred and fifty thousand.
Henry Clay left a very handsome estate. It probably exceeded one hundred thousand dollars. He was a prudent manager, and scrupulously honest man.
James K. Polk left about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars – fifty thousand of which he saved from his presidency of four years.
John Tyler is worth fifty thousand dollars. Before he reached the presidency, he was bankrupt. In office, he husbanded his means, and then married a rich wife.
Zachary Taylor left one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Millard Fillmore is a wealthy man, and keeps his money in a very strong and safe box.
Franklin Pierce saved some fifty thousand dollars from his term of service. But he had a way of his own.
- “Somehow or other,” said Frederick the Great, “Providence seems to do the most for the best disciplined troops.”
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Quindaro Chin-do-wan.
Official Paper for the City of Quindaro,
Saturday, May 29, 1857
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
CONDUCTED BY…..FRANK A. ROOT.
J.E. DUDRIDGE, General Newspaper Agent Corner of Olive and Main streets, St. Louis, Mo. Is authorized to receive Advertisements and Subscriptions for the CHINDOWAN.
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Ten lines constitute a Square.
Meteorological Record,
Kept by Dr. BEDINGTON, at his Office, No. 1 Kanzas Avenue, Quindaro.
6A.M. 12M. 6P.M.
Saturday May 22 531/2 70 78
Sunday “ 23 72 861/2 79
Monday 24 691/2 74 70
Tuesday 25 69 74 72
Wednesday 26 611/2 88 82
Thursday 27 70 89 78
Friday 28 68 78 66
The Kate Howard was at our Levee on Wednesday evening and on hand was an excellent brass band which discoursed some sweet music are it departed. She discharged considerable freight here.
We learn that our fellow-citizen, Mr. C.B. Ellis, has gone East to obtain money to complete the Robinson and New York Rail Road. Money is scarce, but with Mr. E’s business connections, we anticipate he will have but little difficulty in arranging the matter satisfactorily.
RATHER COOL. Mr. C.W. WINGARD braough us a chunk of ice on Wednesday morning last, which proved a luxury during that warm day and night. He has an excellent stock which he put up the past winter and will be pleased to supply all the people in Quindaro at reasonable rates.
The person who attempted to drown the Chairman of the meeting held in front of the Quindaro House on Tuesday evening last, by throwing a basin of water from one of the upper stories of the hotel, is an ass. The chairman was rather a tough fellow and at last accounts was still surviving.
We understand that the steamer War Eagle has taken the place of the Twilight in the Union Line, and that he later is now being loaded in St. Louis with Government freight , to depart shortly for the mountains, a distance of nearly three thousand miles up the Missouri, to supply the Forts in that upper region.
COMPETITON D.D. Henry has commenced Barbering in opposition to Mr. Menser. He at tends chiefly to Hair Dressing. In engaging to this we think Mr. H has traveled front of the record,” and we therefore shall patronize Mr. Mensser and advise our friends to go and do likewise.
R.R. MEETING The Skill builders of the Quindaro, Parkville and Grand River National had a meeting on next Monday at Parkville for the purpose of choosing a Board of Dorectors.
The Board of Directors have a meeting of the same time and place. It is desirable that there be a full attendance.
QUARTERLY MEETING The first Quarterly Meeting of the M.F. Church for the present Conference year, will take place at Quindaro commencing on next Saturday, June 5th, at 11A.M. The Presiding Elder will preach on Saturday and Sunday at 11 A.M. the public is cordially invited to attend.
To R.R. TRAVELERS P.T. COLBY, Esq., has been appointed Agent for the great Western. R.R. ROUTE of Illinois and the Wabash Valley Route, for the sale of THROUGH TICKETS to any point east of St. Louis. By this arrangement persons wishing to go East can provide themselves with Tickets for the entry route, over good roads, at lower rates than by purchasing at points on the way, besides avoiding trouble and delay.
M.E. SERVICES The services at eh Methodist Church of Quindaro, each Sabbath are as follows
Sabbath School at 9 o’clock A.M.
Class Meeting at 10 o’clock A.M.
Preaching in the Wyandott tongue by Rev.
Mr. LITTLECHIEF at 1 o’clock P.M.
Wyandott Class meeting at 2 o’clock P.M.
Preaching by the Pastor, Rev. H.H. MOORE
At 3 o’clock P.M.
Preaching in the evening at 8 o’clock
Weekly Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening at 8 o’clock.
CONGREGATIONAL SERVICES Rev. S.D. Steers preaches in the congregational Church every Sunday at 101/2 o’clock A.M.
Prayer meeting on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.
The citizens of Quindaro held a meeting Monday evening to consider the reports of outrages perpetrated upon our fellow citizens in Linn county. D.D. HENRY was chosen Christian A.C. Morton Secretary.
A committee consisting of J.W. Wright, M.B. Newman, G.E. Bedington, W. Shepherd and J.M. Walden was raised to report on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday evening there was a large attendance. The committee above named, reported as follows:
WHEREAS, An extra from the Lawrence Republican has been received in this place, stating that fire of our fellow citizens, residents of Linn county, have been murdered by a band of murders from Missouri, and whereas, such outrages, if true, demand an expression of our sentiments; therefore resolved by the citizens of Quindaro.
That we do condemn all bands of murders in this territory, whether Free state or Pro-slavery; but the intervention of the people of Missouri in the affairs of Kanzas, we doubtly condemn and it must cease.
I. That we have no reason to doubt the honesty or ability of the present executive of the Territory and call upon him t suppress all disturbances of the peace, and we hardly pledge him our aid if called upon to affect that object.
II. That a copy of these resolutions by forwarded to Gov. Denver and published in the Quindaro Chindowan.
III. That a Vigilance Committee of fifteen by appointed to provide for the security of our town, and t see that the resolution are carried into of feet which committee shall consist of the following persons: Charles Chadwick, E.B. Magoon, Sem’t M. Davis, John S. McCorkle, G. E. Upon, George W. Veale, Frank M. Edmonds, Jacob Zalintner, Frederick Klaus, John Stewart, V.D. Linne, H.P. Downs, A. Robinson, Gerge Bodenburg, and that said committee be authorized to fill vacancies and increase their number.
IV.
M.B. NEWMAN, Esq., made an effective speech appropriate to the occasion. The report of the committee was adopted.
CITY COUNCIL.
SIXTH REGULAR MEETING, May 17, 1858. Present, Mayor Gray, Aldermen McCown, Veale, McCorkle, Klaus, Bodenburg and Lance. Reading of minutes of last meeting dispensed with. A bell for rent of $37.50 was presented by C.L. Gorton and allowed by the council.
Adjourned R.M. RICHMOND, Clerk
BOARD OF EXCISE.
Present, Mayor Gray, Aldermen McCown, Veale, McCorkle, Klaus, Bodenburg and Lane. On motion the reading of minutes of last meeting was dispensed with. On motion a license for wholesale and retail of spirituous and malt liquors was granted to James McDowell. Mr. Veale moved that the Mayor of City Clerk be appointed to receive and pass upon suretics. Adopted.
Adjourned. R.M. RICHMOND, Clerk
See advertisement of “One more chance to get Rich, in snother column.
The Eclectic College of Medicine
Cincinnati, (o) which we advertise in another column, has received more words of commendation during the past year, than any other educational enterprise. We make the following brief extracts from the numerous articles in the puplic prints of different states:
We can cheerfully recommend this College to all young men who desire to attend a course of Lectures. The Messenger, Bloomington, Mo.
It numbers among its Professors some of the ablest in this country. Yates Co. Chronicle, New York.
It is one of the most efficient in its preparation of students for Western Practice, of any in the United States. Courier, Indiamapolis, Ind.
The faculty of this Institution have a high reputation for ability. Intelligeneer, Lancaster, Pa.
This is a highly popular Institution. Courier, Praire On Chien, Wis.
This College has gained the reputation of being one of the best in the United States and affords unrivalled facilities for instruction. Journal, Maskegan, Mich.
It stands high at home, and wherever it is known abroad. Ashland Keutuckian.
This Medical College is one of the best in the United States. The Courier, Opelousas, La.
This School is spoken of in very flattering terms by many. To young men desiring a mechcal education it presents great inducements. The Democrat, Concaut,O.
HARDWARE
AND
STOVES.
SHEPHERK & HENRY,
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE & STOVE DEALERS
179 Main Street.
QUINDARO………………………KANZAS
HAVE replenished their Stock, and are prepared to furnish country Merchants and other 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.
CROSSE & 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 order in their Line
Also Iron, Steel, Zinc and Glass,
SHOT GUNS, RIGLES, PISTOLS
AND
Bowie Knives, Powder and Shot,
Copper, Sheet Iron, Japaned, and Tin Ware,
Foree, Ostern, 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 little Stock can be bought in St. Louis and shipping them.
QUINDARO, KANZAS, Sept.5 1857 17
RUSSELL’S
FIRE & WATER PROOF
PATENT
MSTIC ROOFING
ON CANVASS.
THIS Roofing is applicable to steep or flat Roofs, Steam Boat Decks, Rail Road Cars Foundries, &cc, &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 the same. This roofing is desirable on account of its low cost, any appheating, great duality, and exact adaptation to any climate, by its expansion and contraction through the influence of heat and cold. It will unquestionably by far excel any Roofing now in use. Tin and Slate our 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 subscriber. SHEPHERD, HENRY & CO
Quindaro, K.T. May 28, 1857.
Meat Market.
J.A. BARTLES has opened a Daily Meat Market corner of N. and Seventh Street, QUINDARO, KANZAS,
And will keepen hand a supply of fresh Meats of the best quality. Alos, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Of the season at reasonable prices.
Z. HIGHS,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER,
QUINDARO, KANZAS,
IS located in the Wyandott House, where he is prepared to do all kinds of REPAIRING at short notice, confident that he can give entire satisfaction. He solicits the patronage of all ALL WORK WARRANTED ONE YEAR.
Jan 23, 1858. 32
PROCLAMATION.
To all whom it may concern: IT HAVING been made to appear to me that he Atchison Branch of the Kanzas Valley Bank has complied with the requirements of all as entitled “an Act to incorporate the Kanzas Valley Bank,” approved February 19th, 1857 and which Branch Bank was by the Act of Fevruary 12th 1858, excepted from the provisious of an Act approsed February 3d 1858, repealing the said first mentioned Act; therefore I, James W. Denver, Secretary and Acting Governor of the Territory of Kanzas, do hereby proclaim in accordance with the provisions of the tenth section of said first mentioned Act, that I am satisfied that said Branch bank has complied with the provisions of said Act, and is therefore authorized to go into operation. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the grant seal of the Territory of Kanzas this fifteenth day of February, A.D. 1858.
J.W. DENVER
SAMUEL C. POMERAY, PRESIDENT
JAMES E. WALKES, CASHIER 2
DAVIS & POST,
COUNSELLORS AT LAW
Exchange Building,
KANZAS AVENUE, WYANDOT, K.T.
May 4 1857 1
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
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
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.
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 he is thoroughly posted in the modifications of disease in this climate. Also, special attention paid to diseases of the Eye. Office, No.38 Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, May 20,1857. 2
DR. R.M. AINSWORTH,
OFFICE
No. 10 KANZAS AVENUE. 1TF
R.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. 1tf
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. LINN O.
WM. LAWRENCE, C.P. JUDGE, BELFONTAINE,
W. WHITE, SPRINGFIELD
DUNLEVY, DRAKE & CO, BANKER, CINCINNATI
HENRY KID, SUPT U.S. EXPRESS, BUFFALO, N.Y.
J.F. RITCHERDSON, MO EXPRESS ST. LOUIS, MO
May 4, 1857 1tf
CHAS B. ELLIS,
CIVIL ENGINEER & SURVEYOR,
Attends promptly to all descriptions of Engineering and Land Surveying on reasonable teruis. Also, attends to all kinds of land business. May be found at the Office of the Quindaro Company. Also, at the Office of the Parksville Grand River and Burlington Railroad company Parksville, Mo.
May 43d, 1857.
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.
C.H. CARPENTER,
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.
GRAY, O.H. MACAULAY. M.B. PRIDE.
A.
Quindaro, Aug. 14, 1857 14
JOHN S. M’CORKLE,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
QUINDARO………………..KANZAS
IS PREPARED TO ATTEND TO
BUILDING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES,
Contracts for Buildings taken. Stops fitted up and all work in their line promptly attended to .
May 4, 1857
S.H. MARCHANT,
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-15
F. JOHNSON GEO. W. VEALE
JOHNSON & VEALE,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
QUINDARO, K.T.
AGENTS for the sale of Pittsburg, Salamander Safes and German Anchor Bolting Cloths. Particular attention paid to putting up orders.
May 4th 1857. 1tf
PARKVILLE AND QUINDARO
FERRY
The Steamer OTIS WEBB will ply daily between quindaro and Parkville. Also, make trips at he Ferry Crossing. The ferry will continue to run as long as navigation is possible.
Quindaro, Nov 7 23
WYANDOTT HOUSE
NO. 2, KANZAS, AVENUE,
QUINDARO……………………..KANZAS
THIS HOUSE, after being thoroughly refitted, is now open for the accommodation of the public, and the subscriber is ready, willing and anxious to accommodate all who may favor him with their patronage.
30-6m JOHN STEWART.
QUINDARO HOUSE,
NOS. 1, 3 AND 5, KANZAS AVENUE
COLBY & PARKER………..Proprietor’s
A line of Hacks starts every morning for Lawrence, connecting there with routes to every part of the Territory.
May 4, 1857 1tf
CARVEY HOUSE,
CORNER KANZAS AND FIFTH AVENUES
TOPEKA…………………….KANZAS
C.C. TUTTLE………….Proprietor,
BOARD
Per Day………………………..$1.50
Per Week………………………..8.00
Single Meals……………50cts
PARRY’S HOTEL
Leavenworth City, Kanzas.
Corner of Shawnee and Fifth Streets
The House lately kept by Mr. Adam Fisher, having been enlarged by the addition of a spacious diping room and kitchen , and twenty one sleeping apartments and being furnished with new beds, is now open for the accommodation of the traveling public. The present proprietor solicits the system heretofore given to the former proprietor, and of the public generally.
May 1, 1857 12-1t H. PARRY
A CHANGE!!
NEW
GROCERY & PROVISION STORE!!
FISK & RICHMOND
WHOLESALE RETAIL DEALERS 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 they have purchased Mr. Lansing’s Grocery Store, and now offers for sale 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 befor purchasing elsewhere. Their stock consists in part as follows:
FLOUR, HAMS, BUTTER,
EGGS, CHEESE,
Mackerel, Codfish, Salt,
SUGAR HOUSE MOLASSED, 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 Suace, Prunes, candles, Star Candles, Lard Oil, Burning Fluid, Rope, Bed Cords, Mould. Brooms, Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco, do do Smoking Tobacco, Twist do Sugars, Almonds, Pea Nuts, Brazil Nuts, Pecans, Filberts,
And every thing usually kept in an establishment of the kind.
Quindaro, April 24, 1858 FISK & RICHMOND
HARDWARE AND STOVES!!
SHEPHERD & HENRY
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
IN
HARDWARE AND STOVES.
179 Main st……………………….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 TRIMMER, CUT AND WROUGHT NAILS, BUTCHERS AND GOOD NAILS OF ALL KINDS.
ALL KINDS OF CHAINS AND EVERY OTHER ARTICLE NECESSARY TO FILL ALL ORDER IN THEIR LINE.
Also, Iron, Steel Zinc and Glass,
SHOT GUNS RIFLES, PISTOLS,
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.
SHEPHERD & HENRY are manufacturers of RUSSELL’S PATENT MASTIC ROOFING on Saturday Canvass, the cheapest and most durable Roofing in the Territory.
QUINDARO, KANZAS, Sept. 5,, 1857
FROM
J.E. DUDDRIDGE’S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AGENCY.
Corner Olive and Main Streets……….ST. LOUIS, MO
WM. LUCAS C.L. THOMPSON WM. S. GUNN
FALL 1857.
LUCAS, THOMPSON & CO.,
(Successore 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 EMBRACE ALL THE
LATEST STYLES AND NEWEST GOODS
Offered to the trade.
OUR WHITE GOODS ROOM will be filled with a Very choice Selection of Everything under that Head. We will also keep a complete line of Notion Goods, which we will offer to the Trade uon good terms exclusively in that business. Our
STOCK OF STRICTLY STAPLES,
BROWN MUSLIMS, TICKETING
Kerseys, Bleached Muslin, Negro Goods, Shirting Stripes, Osnaburgs, Drillings, Shirting, Tweeds, Linseys, Apron checks, Bagging 7c
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, 18757 14
ST. LOUIS, MO
TICKNOR, ROBBINS & CO.
DEALERS IN
FINE READY MADE
CLOTHING
AND GENTS
FURNISHING GOODS,
NO 176
North Main Street, a few floors south of the Virginia
ST. LOUIS
DOWDALL MARKHAM & CO.
WASHINGTON FOUNDRY
ENGINE AND MACHINE SHIP
Corner Second and Morgan Sts.
ST. LOUIS, MO
Manufacturers of Steam Engines and Rollers, Saw and Orist Mill Machinery, Single and double Circular Saw
Mills, Tobacco, Screws and Pressers Lard Kettles, Wool Carving Machines, building Castings Young’s
Aproved patent. Agents for the sale of James Smith & co’s Super Machine
12-1
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
RICE, BLAKE & EDDY,
REAL ESTATE
AND
LAW OFFICE,
Room No. 5 MASONIC TEMPLE, DEARDUNN SR.
(Opposite the Post Office)
P.O. Box 2532 CHICAGO, ILL
R.A. RICE KANZAS
J.W. EDDY Chicago F.N. BLAKE
Lots, lands and Farms for sale; Titles negotiated; Taxed paid; Collections made and Loans negotiated; Money invested for non-residents.
AGENTS FOR QUINDARO COMPANY, KANZAS TER’Y And prepared to invent money in all parts of the Territory upon shares or on commission. Refer to Hon. C. ROBINSON, in the Territory.
BLAKE & EDDY,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
May 4th
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
ARE YOU
INSURED!
THE undersigned Insure Dwellings, Household Goods, Stores, Merolianitian, and other classes of property at
as reasonable rates no are constitant with safety. ALSON C. DAVIS
October 24, 1857 26
WAGON MAKING
AND
BLACKSMITHING.
H.J. FAIRBACKS & WINCHLER,
NO. 46, N street
QUINDARO………………KANZAS
HAVE a good supply of excellent stock on hand, and are prepared to do all kinds of work in their line in a good and substantial manner. All orders promptly attended to . Repairing neatly done. Wagons constantly on hand for sale.
Quindaro, March 6, 1858 38-6ms
SEEDS FOR 1858
WE are new 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 Seed of choice varieties. Also, 150 bushels pure Chipa 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.
TO THE PEOPLE OF KANZAS!
The Undersigned have taken the Store Room under the Quindaro Hotel, and offer at wholesale or retail, the Largest and best assorted
STOCK OF MERCHANDIZE
Ever offered for sale in Kanzas.
In our stock will be found almost everything suitable to the wants of the country, which we will sell as low in not lower than can be purchased elsewhere. We will duplicate St. Louis bills adding expenses of transportation. We solicit a share of the public patronage, and will be pleased at all times to show our goods.
JOHNSON & VEALE
May 4th, 1857 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 assort’d CIGARS, 5 boxes TOBACCO.
All of which will be sold unusually low for each.
June 1st, 1857 4 JOHNSON & VEALE
HENRY P. DOWNS,
BOOT AND SHOE
MANUFACTURER,
Next door to Shepherd & Henry’s Hardware Store,
MAIN STREET
Quindaro…………………………………Kanzas
ASS 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
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. 11Kanzas Avenue.
Quindaro, Oct 31, 1857
THE PEOPLE’S
VARIETY STORE,
No.38, Kanzas Avenue.
A.C. STROCK
Would to call the attention of the citizens of Quindaro and vicinity to his 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 uaual to the Trade, HARDWARE AND CUTLERY. Also CARPENTERS’ TOOLS; a general ssortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES,
Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, Glass Ware, Window Glass, Fine Tobacco and Sugars, together with the usual variety of articles usually found in that line of business.
A.C. STROCK
Quindaro, May 4th 1857 1tf
THE CHICAGO CITY
INSURANCE
COMPANY.
OFFICE—Room No. 1, Masonic Temple Dear
Born Street, Chicago
Capital---------$150,000
DIRECTORS—Edmond Canfield, Isaac Cook, H. A. Wayproop, Henry Chapman, H.S. Mourn.
OFFICERS—EDMOND CANFIELD, President WILLIAM S. BATES, See’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 permaneney, ranks as one of the first Insurance Companies in the country. To those desiring of profecting themselves against loss or damage by fire, or of the sun, they beg leave to offer the following:
REFERENCES:
Messrs. Stene & Wht, 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. Northop, Cash, Racine Co. Bank; Wm. P. Lind, Esq, Milwaukee; J.G. Coarne, Esq. Racine; Ashley Gilbert, Cash. Com. Bank, Chicago; Henry Farnham, Pres. Chicago and Rock Island R.R; Dambel P. Rhodes, Esq., Cleveland, Ohio; Thomas Campbell, Esq., Springfield, Ill. G. Jones, Jr., & Co., Editors Ins. Monitor, No.6 wall St., New York; Messrs. Wadeworth, 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, Aurorn, Ill; Judd, Smith and Pratt, Dixon,Ill; Nehamigh Case, Esq., Buffalo, N.Y., Wm. B. Fundy, Esq., Springfield, Ill; Richard Ivers. Esq., St. Louis, Mo.
Alson C. Davis, Agent, Quindaro.
Oct. 34, 1857 26
Watches, Clocks, Toys &c.
JOHN BELLER,
Watchmaker, Silversmith and Jeweller
MAIN STREET, PARKVILLE, MO.,
KEEPS constantly on hand for sale a superior assortment of Jewelry, Silversmith, Watches, Clocks and various kinds of Toys, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry carefully repaired. 10
LAWRENCE ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. BOLES,
Ambrotype & Photographic
Artist.
Gov. Robinson’s Building,
LAWRENCE……………………KANZAS
IS prepared to execute licences 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 patriots.
Feb 29, 1858 36
WHITNEY HOUSE,
NO. 5 NEW HAMPSHIRE STREET.
LAWRENCE, KANZAS
T.L. WHITNEY,………….Properietor,
May 13, 1857 1y
JOHNSON HOUSE,
No. 31 & 33, VERMONT Sr.,
LAWRENCE………………KANZAS, TER.
JOHNSON, Proprietor.
B.
Office for Kanzas City, Westport & Lawrence; Lawrence and Leavenworth; Lawrence and Ottumwa; Lawrence and Ohio City; Lawrence and Burlington, and Lawrence and Topeka.
STAGE LINES. 26
EASTERN HOUSE,
CORNER OF
New Hampshire and Winthrop Street,
LAWRENCE…………………..KANZAS
G.F. KILLAM, Proprietor,
Stages arrive and depart from this House daily for every part of the Territory. 30
E.D. Ladd, S.B Preatiss,
LAND & PRENTISS,
REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND GENERAL
LAND AGENTS.
E.D. LADD,
Notary Public, Reg’r of Deeds, & Conveyancer,
Will take acknowledgments of deeds and other papers.
Office, No. 15 Massachusetts St..
LAWRENCE, KANZAS
May 13, 1857
S.N. WOOD & CO.,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
Lawrence, Kanzas,
Will invest money, and locate land Warrants in all parts of Kanzas, an guarantee from 50 to 100 per cent on investment. Letters of enquiry promptly answered.
S.N. WOOD,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS FOR OHIO.
Office, No. 27 Mass St. Lawrence, Kanzas
ROB’T L FRAZER,
PRACTICAL WATCH- MAKER
AND
JEWELLER!
Dealer in all kinds of
CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY!
Watches and Jewelry
Thoroughly and Promptly Repaired.
No. 14 MAIN STREET----LAWRENCE, KANZAS
James G. Sands,
SADDLE, HARNESS & TRUNK
MANUFACTORY,
Always on hand, everything in my line. Also Belting Leather, Whang Leather, Copper rivets, &c.
Opposite Morrow House.
Lawrence, Kanzas, April 1, 1857 1tf
JOHN DODSWORTH,
Book Binder and Blank Book
Manufacturer,
LAWRENCE…………………KANZAS.
BLANK BOOKS rubed 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 dib work.
Law Books, Magazine, Music, Pamphlets, etc. bound in plain or fancy Morocco bindings at St. Louis prices. 30
BOOKS STATIONERY & C.
O. WILMARTH,
Lawrence, K.T.
Would inform his friends and the public generally, that he keeps on hand as good an assortment of articles I the above line as can be found in the Territory, consisting of School, Chilrens’ and Miscellancous Books! Also Blank and Memorandum Books; Writing Books; Slates, Pencils, Musical Instruments, Musical merchandise, &c &c.
HIS CIRCULATING
LIVRARY!
Is supplied with some of the most popular works published and is constantly receiving additions from the East.
KANZAS CITY.
JOSEPH McCARTY,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
OF EVERY KIND;
Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco.
KANZAS CITY, MO.
SALESMEN;
JAS. A HUTCHISON
JOHN H. CASWELL
GEO. D. BENNIN CLERK
JAMES A. FRAME H.B. CONWELL
FRAME & CONWELL’S
POWDR MAGAZINE!
Bring just completed, they are now ready to supply , purchasers with the celebrated
Miami rifle & Blasting Powder,
Which is equal, if not superior, to any manufactured in the United States.
OBTAINING OUR POWDER FROM THE MIAMI POWDER WORKS.
We can sell as low, adding transportation as it can be purchased in St. Louis. And one facilities being such we can supply all of Western and Southren Missouri, also, Kanzas Territory with Powder enough to blow them to the other side of Jordan. We will receive and store the powder one signed to our cars. Offices at ehe Furniture Stores where samples can be seen at any time.
Kanzas city, July 14, 1857
GLASS! GLASS!
200 BOXES WINDO GLASS from 7 by 9 to 10 by 14, from $2.00 to $3.00 per box. For sale by SHEPHERK & HENRY
JOB PRINTING
Neatly and Promptly executed at the Offices of the Chindowan.
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