SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Governor and Secretary of State to ascertain the whole number of the bona fide inhabitants in the State, and to divide the whole number by 60, the quotient of which shall be the ratio of representation in the House of Representative, and by 20, the quotient of which shall be the ration of representation in the Senate, and to apportion the Senators and Representatives among the several counties. Where a fraction exceeds one half of the ratio, in any county, a full representation shall be allowed; where it is less than one half, it shall be rejected; but the apportionment of such fractions shall be such that the number of Senators shall not exceed twenty, or of Representatives, sixty. – Where a sufficient number of representation is wanting in any county, such county shall be annexed to the adjoining county or counties, until a sufficient number is secured.
SEC. 6. In order to defray the expenses incurred by taking the census, as provided for in this Act, the sum of three thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
SEC. 7. This Act to have effect from and after its passage.
W. Y. ROBERTS,
President of Senate.
Approved, C. ROBINSON.
“He expressed his want of confidence in Walker and Stanton, both of whom he denounced as unprincipled trading politicians, who were ready to sell the slaveholders’ interest in Kanzas for a price. – He spoke of the national democratic party – of its want of principle, and its readiness at all times to seek the south at any price which would secure its leaders the glorious spoils of victory. He said he went with the democratic party, but was not of it. He spoke of Mr. Buchanan – said he had some confidence in his honesty and integrity, but feared his power to stem the torrent of black republicanism arrayed against him. He was graphic in his description of the corrupt scenes to be witnessed in Washington. How men, fallen from their high estate, paraded the street, filled the lobbies of the representative halls, and thronged around the executive department, with their price placarded in figures upon their head. Of these were Walker and Stanton, the one a Pennsylvania bankrupt, and the other an unprincipled political gambler. Both had sought and obtained position and power in Kanzas, and were willing to wield it at the bidding of the party which would pay best. Walker’s proposition to have the constitution of the Kanzas convention submitted to the people, before it was presented to Congress, with a demand for admission into the Union, he denounced in no measured terms. He said it was unprecedented, and intended only to restore the state to black republicansm.”
MORMONISM IN SWITZERLAND. – While the Mormons have found but a very few adherents in Germany, they are more successful in Switzerland. In Geneva they publish a monthly paper. In Zurich they have regular meetings since 1855, and are governed by an ecclesiastical council consisting of a President, a Priest, and an Elder, and clothed with the right of ex-communicating refractory members, which right they have been several times compelled to exercise. The police watches their proceedings very closely, but has, thus far, found no reason for interfering with their doings. From the canton of Thurgan they sent recently half a dozen young girls to Utah. Those who have best observed the progress of Mormonism in Europe, concur in the judgment of the church historian Gieseler, that “most of their converts join the sect because they hope to exchange their miserable existence at home with plenty and abundance in the promised land on Salt Lake.” It is the old story of human misery, of the inability of merely political and social schemes to remove this misery, and of the inclination of the human heart to give a hearing to every one who promises relief in the name of religion.
THE MORMOMS. – A correspondent of the Washington Star asserts that every day adds new accessions to the ranks of the Mormons of Utah, and, if “unmolested for three years longer, they will increase to more than a million, and be capable of arming a hundred thousand men.”
“There is a common pedestrian of London streets well known to all who are acquainted with their notabilities. He is a short, stout, sturdy, energetic man. He has a big, round face, a [sic] large, staring and very bright hazel eyes. His hair is cut short, and his hat flung back on the crown of his head. His gait is firm and decided, with a little touch of pomposity.
He is ever provided with an umbrella, which he swings and flourishes and batters on the pavement with mighty thumps. He seems generally absorbed in exciting and impulsive thoughts, the traces of which he takes no pains to conceal. His face works, his lips move and mutter, his eyes gleam and flash. Squat as is his figure, and not particularly fine the features, there is an unmistakable air of mental power and energy, approaching to grandeur, about the man. He is evidently under the influence of the strong excitement of fiery thought. People gave curiously at him, and stop to stare when he has passed. But he heeds no one; it seems, indeed, to have utterly forgotten that he is not alone in his privacy, and pushes on, unwitting of the many who stare and smile, and look with curiosity and regard upon Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Occasionally, however, the historian and poet gives still freer vent to the mental impulses which appear to be continually working within him. A friend of mine lately recognized him dining in the coffee-room of the Trafalgar hotel, at Greenwich – a fashionable white bait house, which it appears he frequently patronizes. He was alone, as he generally is, and the attention of more than one of the company was attracted by his peculiar muttering and fidgetiness, and by the mute gestures with which he ever and anon illustrated his mental dreaming. All at once – it must have been toward the climax of the verse or prose which he was working up in his mind – Mr. Macaulay seized a massive decanter, held it a moment suspended in the air, and then dashed it down upon the table with such a hearty good will that the solid crystal flew about in fragments, while the numerous party dining around instinctively started up and stared at the curious iconoclast. Not a whit put out, however, Mr. Macaulay, who was well known to the waiters, called loudly for his bill to be made out at the bar, and then pulling, with a couple of jerks, his hat and his umbrella from the stand, clapped the one carelessly on his head, and strode out flourishing the other.”
STOPPED WORKING ON SUNDAY. – The N. Y. Times, four months ago, stopped work in its office on Sunday, in order to give its workmen – among whom are 25 married men – a chance to rest on the Sabbath. It has quite an article on the subject. We know of several Daily papers, whose workmen are permitted to rest on the Sabbath, who do not publish the fact to the world.
“We do not doubt that the Rev. Mr. Conway, no less than his friend, Dr. Bellows, is acting under the influence of a sincere wish to do good, in their disquisitions upon the theaters; and there are several things in their discourses which are distinguished by great candor and liberality. But the idea of reforming the theater by enacting their responsibility, to say the least is Utopean [sic]. It is doubtful if there ever was an institution made morally better by sumptuary laws. Certainly our day, so far as our investigations have extended, furnishes no example of the kind. To say that the theaters have their faults is no more than to say that they are like everything else of human construction. For all error, individual and institutional, there is one great, adequate and unfailing remedy – the Gospel. Preach that – preach it in its purity – and he who has done so has done all that is required of him, all that he can to reform the world. To the impatience of some it may appear slow in its operation, but it is surer than all human devices; and slow as it is, its speed is regulated and its movements directed by Infinite wisdom and goodness.
When the world is gospelized, the theater may stand or it may have fallen; but whatever is the result, we may by sure that it is right. In the meantime, it strikes us that elaborate attacks or eulogiums by gentlemen of the clerical profession upon the theater, are out of place and unnecessary. It is not so bad as to demand an unusual expenditure of strength for its destruction, nor so good as to need to call forth much enthusiasm in its defense. It stands upon an existing demand, and can lose as little by the enmity of the clergy as it can gain by their friendship. When the demand ceases the end will come, and it will fall and go out of itself. As the character of the demand improves the stage will improve – its authors will be more pure, its actors more circumspect, its managers more moral and its proprietors more respectable; and to our apprehension this is about the only ground of any permanent improvement.”
“The pastor made the opening prayer, and uttered a solemn and earnest petition to Heaven for the slave, and that slavery might be banished from the earth, the distinguished gentleman, forgetting that the hymn books in this part of the country had not been “revised and corrected” to suit the peculiarities of pro-slavery religion, opened the book lying upon the desk, and commenced reading a hymn at random. The first four verses went off swimmingly, but on the fifth, the reader’s face turned suddenly the color of a blood-beet, and his voice sank almost to a whisper. What was the matter? The congregation referred to their hymn books, when a broad smile ran like a wave of mirth all over the house – old deacons bit their lips and strove to look grave, and the younger class of the congregation almost “laughed right out”. The last verse pronounced a curse upon the oppressor, and breathed a prayer for the suffering bondman. Shades of the Supreme Court and the Fugitive Law, what a position was that for a minister who openly contends that slavery is of God, and sanctioned and sanctified by Heaven! The Rev. gentleman was for a moment non-plussed – the situation was uncommonly tight – but he rallied, and proved himself equal to the occasion, by shouting to the singers, with a face like an Indian summer sunset after a storm, ’You will omit the fifth verse!’”
EMIGRATION TO SLAVE STATES. – Hon. Eli Thayer has returned to Worcester, after a fortnight’s tour of business and observation in Western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. According to the Spy, he made known his purpose wherever he went, and even addressed several public meetings in explanation of the plans of the Emigrant Homestead Association. He was received with cordial hospitality, and listened to with deep interest, by slaveholders as well as others. Mr. Thayer’s first visit to the South has demonstrated that “the bark of the fanatics of the South is worse than their bite,” and that the people are ready and anxious for the influx of a horde of Northern emigrants, to till their fields, and show them how to appropriate the munificent natural advantages they possess, and which slavery alone has kept in torpid condition.
LOT MORRILL appears to be the prominent candidate for nomination as the Republican candidate for Governor of Maine.
DR. LOCKWOOD was elected Mayor of Buffalo recently, together with the entire “Democratic” ticket.
WE JUDGE from the tome of our Massachusetts exchanges that there will be a great deal of opposition in that party to the nomination of BANKS for Governor.
IT IS STATED, on good authority, that of the whole number of American artists now residing in Rome, - about forty, - not one is from a Southern State, except possibly Mr. Chapman.
GEN. CHEATHAM of Tenn., has been appointed Consul at Aspinwall. The Cheat’em family got most of the appointments under this administration.
ERASTUS BROOKS most appropriately closes his address to the Know Nothings with the words that MILTON put into the mouth of Satan when he was endeavoring to excite rebellion against heaven, “awake! arise! or be forever fallen.”
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE House of Representative comprises 320 members – being more than any other State since the change in the Massachusetts Constitution.
SAM. GREEN, a free negro of Dorchester Co. Md., has been convicted of having a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in his possession, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary!
THE DEMOCRATS of Oregon Territory have formally decided in Convention, that if that party desire to establish slavery in Oregon, it is perfectly Democratic to do so. Which means, we suppose that they intend to do it.
ADVICE TO THE AMERICANS. – The Richmond (Va.) Whig has fallen out with the American party, though for some time, heretofore, its ablest newspaper representative in the South. The Whig now advises the party to disband, saying it is powerless to do any good, as the last Presidential election proved. The Whig enthusiastically urges the resurrection of the old Whig party.
AN IMPORTANT political decision has been promulgated by the British Government in relation to the allegiance of subjects and the duty of the government to afford protection. The doctrine of “once a subject always a subject” is abandoned. The case in regard to which the decision is made is that of Mr. Lawless, a merchant of Granada, and a non-combatant in the late Nicaraguan troubles. He was dragged out of the house and shot by the Guatemalans when they took Granada. He was formerly a British subject, but became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His mother applied to the British Government for compensation for the loss of her son’s life and property. The reply was that he had renounced his allegiance by becoming a citizen of the United States, and was not entitled to British protection. The decision is stated in a letter from Lord Clarendon.
CONVENTION AT MILWAUKEE. – We ask our readers to bear in mind the great anti-Dred Scott decision convention, which takes place at Milwaukee on the 17th inst. It is one of the great occasions that but seldom happens. Judge Smith of Wisonsin, led off, in refusing to obey the mandate of the Fugitive Slave Law, and declared it to be unconstitutional. In so doing he has immortalized himself, and set a ball in motion which shall not cease to roll over the land, until the State Rights doctrine of the great Calhoun shall be fully acknowledged.
Conflict between the States and the Federal government is inevitable, unless one or the other back down. Whatever other States may do, Wisconsin has set her stakes; she will not bow the knee to the great central “Baal” which Slavery has built up at Washington; but which the fire of State rights shall consume down to the water edge of constitutional restriction.
Constant agitation keeps the waters pure. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Let us, then, gather in crowds, and by very numbers, make the world feel that freedom is safe. - Chicago Ledger.
TEXAS – DIVISION OF THE STATE. – Some of our exchanges, says the Galveston Daily Herald, are seriously advocating the expediency of partitioning off our State, and making four or five or it instead of one large, wholesome and prosperous one as it now is. We do not particularly love the idea; yet, if we could be made to believe that the South would be benefited by the division of our State, continue the Herald, we would be pleased to aid the scheme; but at the present time, when parties North have already sufficient strength to crush us politically, it seems to us that the time is auspicious and the policy questionable, and might, in the course of events, lead to wrangling amongst ourselves. The South must spring up no new questions at the present time – she must work like a unit to counteract the influence of the few, but preserving Abolitionists of the North, aided by the Ultraists and the Disunionists of the South.
ACCORDING to the published list of tax payers in the city of Baltimore, there is not one millionaire in the whole city. The wealthiest inhabitant in it is rated only at $730,000, while the next to him in wealth is the possessor of but $430,000.
DURING the month of May, 71 emigrant vessels arrived at New York, bringing over 27,848 passengers – or nearly 900 for every day in the month. This is the largest number of arrivals during any one month for the last three years.
THE WARREN STATUE, for Bunker Hill, is seven feet high, of the best Italian marble, and weighed in the block about seventy tons. It is draped on the costume of the revolutionary period. The right raised as in the act of giving emphasis to his utterance. The head is uncovered.
PATTERSON, N. J., and vicinity, apparently is destined to be one of the most noted spots in the country. Already it has become celebrated for the discovery of pearls, and now, the Guardian says a vein of copper and silver has been found in Garrett mountain. A shaft, about 55 feet deep, has been sunk, and a bed of copper ore, 16 feet below the surface, and 24 feet thick, has been struck.
CORONER CONNERY, of the Burdell murder notoriety, is about to start a paper in New York, to be called the Vindicator. The Coroner is a practical printer.
THE N. H. Herald gives a table of comparative prices for 1840 and 1857, of many of the necessaries of life, by which it appears that the price of most of them has nearly doubled between the former and latter period. The consequence is that many people who retired years ago, on what they supposed a fortune, find themselves compelled to go to work again to meet the increased demand on their resources.
WAR ON CRINOLINE. – Notwithstanding the animadversion and ridicule the fashion of wearing hoops has excited, the ladies still cling to them, and their peripheries are literally gaining ground every day. It has become a serious matter to walk up Broadway with two ladies in the height, or rather in the breadth of the fashion; while in public conveyances, the fashion has become a nuisance of so serious a character, that a movement is on foot to increase the fare of ladies who indulge in the luxury of hoops. In one of the Eighth street stages was conspicuously displayed the following notice:
FOR LADIES WEARING HOOPS, 12 1/2 CENTS.
We understand that it has been seriously contemplated to raise the fare on ladies whose dress takes up too much room. Should it be done, it will no doubt create a turmoil in femaledom, and may do something towards keeping the hoops within reasonable bounds. - N. Y. Herald.
A REVOLUTIONARY RELICT. – The Hudson (N. Y.) Star records the death, in that city, April 8th, of Mrs. Susannah Keith Goodwin, at the age of 92 years. She was a native of Easton, Mass., where, it is stated, such was the patriotic fire “that for a considerable part of the Revolution, but three old men remained behind from the war.” “With the brave heart of a true American girl, she devoted herself to the cause of her country in that trying struggle, assisting her brothers to get ready for the conflict of arms, and during the whole night preceding the memorable battle of Bunker Hill was employed casting bullets for the company of which her father was commander, and in which two of her brothers marched to the fiend to do service for their country, and subsequently to sacrifice their lives.” – She married Joseph Goodwin, of Boston, at the age of 19, and became the mother of eleven children.
A REPORT. – The following letter was received by the President a few days ago. It presents the latest developments of “Democratic principles” in Missouri:
CRAWFORD Co., Mo., April 30, 1857.
MR. BUCHANAN:
DEAR SIR. – Mr. –-- is the Postmaster at this place, and he is gone out out West, and has been gone for three or four weeks, and he has no deputy here, but I have been opening the mails and attending to it since he has been gone, as he left the key with me, and the postmaster told me that I must make a report the end of every month and did not tell me who I was to write to, but I suppose it is to you we should make our reports, as we are all citizens of the government of which you are now President. If you are not the right one to receive the letter please drop me a few lines, letting me know who I am to report to, and I will write again.
REPORT TO THE END OF APRIL. – The weather is cold for the season. – Provisions scarce and very high, but notwithstanding all that, we have regular mails once a week, good health, and the people of this country are universally pleased with your administration; this is all that I know that would interest you; if there is anything omitted in my report please let me know. My best respects to you and Mrs. Buchanan.
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Quindaro Chin-do-wan
Printed and Published by
J.M. WALDEN & CO.
J. M.
Walden.............EDITOR,
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Mrs.
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Saturday, June 27, 1857.
-JOB PRINTING neatly and promptly executed.
-Subscriptions and Advertisements for the Chindowan received by Edmund Babb,
Gazette Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
-We are again under obligations to Mr.GREENLEAF,clerk of the Lightning Line
steamer Polar Star for the latest dates of St.Louis daily papers.
-A.C. CARTER, Messenger of Richerdson’s Missouri Express, has our thanks for
late papers from St. Louis and the East.
-We are pleased to state that it was to the attention of Mr. IVES, Messenger
of Richerdson’s Missouri Express, that Mrs. Nichols was indebted for returning
her trunk a few days since.
-The officers of the different steamers in the Lightning Line and the
Messengers of Richerdson’s Express are attentive to furnishing us with late
papers, favors we trust we duly appreciate.
-We are under obligations to the Steamer Morning Star(Captain T. H.
Brierly, and Clerk H. M. Blossom,)for favors. The Morning Star is one of the
finest and fastest boats on the river, and her officers are courteous and genial
gentlemen.
RESULT OF THE BOGUS ELECTION!
A GRAND FARCE!!
We have
received returns (in most cases official) from nearly all the counties where any
attention was paid to the bogus election on the 15th inst. It is believed that
farther intelligence will not materially add to the number of votes given. The
following are the figures:
Counties. No.Votes Polled. No.
Registered.
Doniphan...............25...................1,086
Douglas,..............240...................1,318
Shawnee,...............66.....................283
Jefferson,............128.....................555
Leavenworth,..........500...................1,837
Lykins,................45.....................413
Johnson,..............114.....................496
Lynn,.................120.....................413
Atchison,.............108.....................804
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Grand Total!!.......1,572...................7,205
In Johnson county, as we are informed by a gentleman who was present, many
votes were polled by Missourians residing in Westport, Independence, Kansas
City, and other adjoining sections. Some of them profess to hold claims in the
Territory, but are beyond all cavil actual citizens of Missouri. One of the
delegates returned from Johnson county – George McCowan -is said to be a citizen
of Westport. Our informant states that he met Mr. Nolan (a prominent citizen of
Independence,) at the polls at Green Springs, and that Nolan said he was there
to vote, but could not do so until he had seen Tom Johnson to learn which was
the right ticket. It was impossible to find a poll list posted up in the county
before Election: but it is stated that the names of Clay Pate, and many other
Missourians were upon it.
The Lawrence Republican states that in Linn county, one hundred of the
votes were cast by Missouri invaders. From some other points there are reports
of frauds, but we have no specific information concerning them.
The Election.
The exact results of the political performance which
occurred in Kanzas on Monday, June 15th,we have not yet received, but the
returns which we publish are sufficiently accurate to enable every person to
form an opinion in regard to this act, which was intended to have been the grand
tableau in the drama of making Kanzas a Slave State, or what were almost as bad,
a Democratic Free State. We are inclined to exult over the achievements of our
opponents. For the first time, probably, in the history of our country have we
an instance presented, where one party can rejoice that its opponent has been
left to enjoy the luxury of voting all alone. To the Pro-Slavery men and their
alies, the "National Democrats," the exclusive privilege of voting at the Bogus
election was conceded, and we trust that they now regale themselves with the
satisfactory reflection of having performed their part manfully, and of having
done a good day’s service for their country by casting one vote for every six
names registered.
We can assure them that this day’s work will prove to be an important one for
Free Kanzas whatever motives may have impelled them to make at the polls a rally
so grand and imposing. It has settled definitely the political character and
destiny of our new State, exhibited the sterling integrity of her ten thousand
voters, and sent a rebuke to the capital of the Union that will make the
President wince, and the Cabinet tremble. Poor Walker! It is as surely the death
stroke to his political schemes in Kanzas, as was the untoward fate that by one
“fell swoop” demolished his grand railroad enterprise in days past and gone!
Everybody knows it was the intention of the Bogus Legislature that this
election should achieve by the ballot-box what they and their constituents had
ineffectually attempted to do by deadly warfare, that s the enslavement of
Kanzas; and it is time that everybody should have learned from palpable facts
that is was no less the intention of the Administration by this election and
through the redoubtable Governor Walker, to inveigle or force the Free-State men
into a virtual endorsement of all Border Ruffianism had done, and that it was
the hope of the whole Democratic party that this should be done, so that at the
expense of the rights and principles of the men they had wronged and
scandalized, their crumbling organization might be saved from the ruin to which
it is doomed and fast hastening. By this election not one of these intentions
have been consummated, not one of these hopes realized.
The Administration spread a snare for the Free-State men - they discovered
and avoided it; Mr. Buchanan, for the benefit of Democracy, recognized the Bogus
Legislature and enjoined the Free-State men to endorse it, which they have
refused to do; Gov Walker advised and implored the people of Kanzas to vote,
they have neither heeded his counsel nor his supplications; demagogues were
bribed and presses were subsidized to divide and distract the Free-State party,
it stands a unit! This election has not only rebuked the “powers that be” and
demonstrated the harmony that prevails in the Free-State ranks, has not only
placed in startling contrast the dwindling influence of the Propagandists with
the accumulating moral power of the Free-State party, but it also stands as
another evidence that despite of political wire-working, of scheming and
corruption of officials and aspirants, the people in their sovereign capacity do
in the end, correct abuses, frown down what is wrong and establish what is
right.
The Wea Land Sales—Increase in Apprizement—A Grand Scheme for
Speculation
We learn from our fellow citizen, Alfred Greay, Esq., who has
just returned from Paoli, that the Land Sales at that place were opened on
Wednesday by Commissioner Stevens, but adjourned for one day on account of the
non-completion of the building where they are held. They are now going on, and
are attended by at least five hundred people, the large majority of whom are
squatters.
By the original apprizement, the prices of these lands ranged from $1.25 to
$2.00 per acre; but just before the sales it was announced that the minimum
prices had been raised to $1.50, and the maximum to $2.25. By this singular
arrangement which was sprung upon them, many squatters who had come to the sales
with barely money enough to “pay for their claims at the original apprizement,
were compelled either to borrow the additional amount at most exorbitant rates
of interest, or throw themselves upon the mercy of speculators and have their
lands entered at a sacrifice of one half of them.
By virtue of the treaty of our General Government with the Confederate
Nations - Peoria and Kaskaskia, Pinckashaw and Wea, whose lands as commonly
known a the “Wea Country” - each man, woman, and child among them is entitled to
two hundred acres. The titles of the land are vested only in the heads of
families. They are to receive patents for the lands from Government subject to
such restrictions as to selling, as the President and Congress may see fit to
impose. As usual, in such cases, these branches of Government will be likely to
act upon the representations of the Indian Agent here.
Influenced by these facts, a band of speculators have purchased of these
Indians nearly, if not quite all their lands at merely nominal prices. They
consist of timbered and watered regions, and are decidedly the most valuable of
any in that sections of the country.
“How far the Indian” Agent may be implicated in this scheme, we know not’ but
business men do not often engage in operations requiring a large outlay of
capital upon uncertainties. The probabilities, therefore, seem to be that
the transaction is likely to be ratified by the Agents and consequently by
Congress.
Gov. Walker is present at the sales, accompanied by his Secretary, Mr.
Stanton, and his walking shadow of the spread eagle proclivities, Mr. Perrin. -
Rumors are freely circulated that these gentlemen, through a third party who is
acting for them, are all largely interested in the scheme we have described
above; but we trust, for the sake of common decency that they may proved
unfounded.
A Problem for Gov. Walker
In all his public speeches since reaching
Kanzas, his Excellency has been playing — not on
“A harp of a
thou-sand strings,”
but on the single string that the Topeka
Constitution can have no force, because but 1731 votes were given for it. That
1731 has haunted the Governor like a goblin. It has preyed upon his spirits and
his appetite. It has invaded the sanctity of his limited domestic circle, so
that he couldn’t sleep o’ nights. It has been the ghost of his waking dreams, in
the shape of a monstrous outrage upon the principles of Squatter Sovereignty.
Now is a Constitution is rendered utterly worthless, because it received but
1731 votes, at a time when the population of Kanzas was less than thirty
thousand, and when thousands of voters were kept away from the polls by imminent
danger of personal violence, will His Excellency cipher out and report the
precise amount of weight that should be attached to a similar instrument, framed
by delegates who have received less than sixteen hundred votes, after the
population has increased to sixty thousand!
Waiter! a slated and pencil for Governor Walker!
Advice!
The editor of the Parkville (Mo.) Courier, some two
or three weeks ago, tendered us some advice. We trust that we appreciate this
generous exercise of his hortatory faculty, for however distasteful monitions
may have been to us in our more juvenile days, experience has taught us that
mistakes which might be attended by serious consequences ‘may often be avoided
and opportunities which might lead to happy results may frequently be improved,
by giving ear to the counsel of persons who have live longer, observed more
closely and thereby acquired a profounder wisdom. The advice referred to is as
follows:
“We suggest that our neighbor of the Quindaro Chindowan is running most too
fast. We can see no necessity for a Free State paper on our border raising a
cloud of “dust” and a deal of noise while others seem disposed to be quiet.
Hadn’t you better go slow neighbor?”
We have what wiser and older persons might call a very bad habit, that of not
reading all of the many exchange papers we receive. As we have but a limited
time in which to glance over their columns we have adopted the practice of
throwing aside without much attention those newspapers in which, after examining
two or three numbers carefully, we have failed to find anything interesting. For
this reason we did not see the above very kind admonition until a day or two
since when it was pointed out to us by a friend. We regret this oversight, and
we perhaps ought to add, misfortune, exceedingly, because of the influence it
might already have exerted upon the character of the CHINDOWAN. The motives
which prompted it are, evidently, so disinterested, the spirit in which it was
conceived so generous, and the tone in which it is dictated so amiable that to
disregard it would surely expose us to the charge of being obdurate and unwise,
characteristics that we are as little desirous of having accredited to us, as we
would be of having it said that we wish to dictate to, domineer over and
altercate with our cotemporaries.
As we value the counsel of our seniors and superiors in the editorial
profession and wish to derive profit from the voluntary, disinterested, and
amiable advice of our near neighbor, we will esteem it a favor is he will
specify wherein we have been “running most too fast,” and indicate wherein we
had “better go slow.” Much as we desire more definite instructions from him and
largely as we expect to profit thereby, we would hardly ask him to be more
explicit did we think it were requiring too much, but judging from the history
of the poet we can scarcely believe that it is an onerous task for a citizen of
Missouri to dictate to a citizen of Kanzas and surely7 the etiquette of the
profession should prompt editors to emulate the consideration and self-sacrifice
so often manifested by private individuals!
A Green Bough.
Do our sister citizens know how beautiful are the
woods of Quindaro? If they have not penetrated the undisturbed portions of the
town plat and its environs, we beg them to do so at once, before the woodman
fells the grand old trees and works the ruin of beauty which it has taken ages
to perfect.
The contrast between Art and Nature, town and country is never more keenly
felt than in passing form the rude conditions and unsightly elements of the new
settlement, into the midst of primeval forests and June draped prairies. We took
a ramble the other day, in the direction indicated, and brought back to our
close, crowded room memories that have shaded us from the burning sun and
breathed fragrance and music around us ever since. As we sit in our one room,
thought wanders off from our busy hands to the wood-path, where refreshing
breezes play among the dense foliage, birds sing in happy concert, and the
fragrance of flowers fills the air. We are oblivions, for the time being, of the
petty annoyances of unaccustomed conditions and associations. Even yearnings for
the companionship of those who knowing all our faults “do love us still,” are
hushed. The consecrated memories of the past, its subdued joys, its
soul-chastening sorrows meet us in that forest temple, ‘neath the ivy-wreathed
oak, and we listen oh, how rapt! to the thousand voices chanting sweet and
well-remembered ‘strains.
But they come not alone — the lost joy, the soul-chastening sorrow. No they
bring with them Heaven’s peace; faith and love are at the trysting and Hope’s
glorious arch spans the unbridged future.
Go to the grand old woods, sisters, go, and gather cool shadows, and music of
bird and bee, the beauty of climbing vine, and clinging ivy, and forget the
weariness of the toil and the disorder of the path of progress.
If the curse of Cain be not on us, the earth will yield unto us her strength.
The fields may not be ours, the crops may not enrich us, but if from our hearts
wells up the deep, broad human love that lifts up our brother and cries
our Father, we will build and none shall destroy, we will have peace and
none shall disquiet us. N.
According to information received through various sources, the growing crops
throughout Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, are coming forward with great rapidity,
and the prospects for bountiful harvest were never better.
The country in this vicinity is beginning to suffer considerably from
drouth.
The Ladies Petition.
“Mrs. Nichols,” said a gentleman of our
acquaintance the other evening, “I wish to ask if you are in favor of having the
ladies break up the whiskey barrels. I have been asked the question and heard it
asserted that such was the action contemplated by the ladies’ movement last
week. No, Sir, and I am surprised that the ladies’ movement, or myself should be
so misrepresented. For I have repeatedly, and in asking names to that petition,
stated, - that I could neither advise nor join in any such “action.” Not that I
would, by implication even, censure, or charge with unwomanliness, women who
have, or may take such means to rid themselves and community of the vile traffic
in intoxicating drinks. They have my warmest sympathy in their determined
opposition to rum-selling and rum-drinking, and I will never turn coldly away
from any earnest worker for the right, who differs from me only as to the ways
and means of rooting out a great and wide=spread wrong. Personally I could not
take part in any violent measures for the suppression of the liquor traffic. But
looking into my own heart I must confess that for women, whose husbands, sons or
brothers are being destroyed, and destroying others, through the
influence of liquor dens,-for such women in the madness of despair, to go
hatchet in hand against them, seems eminently womanly. And were they to put the
lighted torch to the vile haunts that have lighted the souls of their loved ones
with the fires of hell, and I were one of a jury to decide on their guilt I
would feel compelled to bring in a verdict-acted in self-defense.
I could only declare them guilty of possessing, by gift of their Creator,
sensibilities commensurate with their peculiar responsibilities as guardians of
home and mothers of the race-and say, “what God has joined let not man put
asunder,” but take heed in his legislative capacity, that he has not woman’s
consent to be governed through groggeries,--to be ruled by drunkards out of the
homes, means and conditions necessary to the discharge of womanly and humane
duties. It is as unwomanly as it is unmanly to suffer wrongs to exist which we
have power to prevent. A common humanity dictates to cut the halter, snatch the
razor, and plunge into the stream to save the suicide from himself. The drunkard
is a suicide; put away from him the intoxicating cup. It would be criminal to
stand and see the murderer by means slow or swift destroy his victim; and the
laws require that poison shall not be sold under any probabilities of misuse.
Let the same public sentiment be applied to the traffic and use of
intoxicating drinks. Let men be men, and women will not be forced to the
desperate re-action of outraged womanly sympathies. N.
Quindaro and Parkville Ferry.
We have just read a letter received
by Capt. Webb, the President of the Parkville and Quindaro Ferry Company, which
says that the ferry boat intended for them will be completed by the first of
July. This boat will be the best of its kind on the Missouri River. It is one
hundred feet in length, twenty-six foot beam, and is capable of carrying from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred tons. It has side wheels, and two powerful
engines. Capt. Webb, who is experienced in such matters, deserves credit for his
zeal in pushing forward this enterprise. Wm. McNeil Clough, Esq., of Parkville,
the obliging Secretary and Treasurer of the Company, together with Col. Park of
the same place, are also entitled to our consideration for the interest and
public spirit they have manifested in its success.
No point in this region possesses so good advantages for a ferry as is found
between this and Parkville. The roads leading to Parkville are good and
substantial, and these from this point, the same. Travellers by coming this way
escape the poor roads running along the bottom land found opposite the various
other points along the river.
The boat will ply regularly between this place and Parkville. The
communication between these points is now large, and is constantly increasing.
No improvement, excepting the proposed railroad between Parkville and Hannibal
and St. Jo. R.R. can be of such benefit as this.
In aiming to secure the railroad, we should not lose sight of this important
enterprise, which is to be of such immediate benefit. The Charter secured from
the Missouri Legislature, is one of the best ever granted by that body.
It is the duty of our citizens to subscribe liberally towards this object and
not compel a few to bear the burdens of an enterprise which will result in the
benefit of all.
RECOVERING. - We learn from Dr. Budington, official Surgeon to the Vigilance
Committee, that the “modest member” who was dangerously wounded during one of
the recent forays of the Committee, (as detailed in the St.Louis
Democrat. of the 22d,) is slowly convalescing. His disconsolate friends
are beginning to hope for his ultimate recovery, and the healing of the wounds
on his face without leaving permanent disfiguration.
LIVELY. — A large amount of freight has been landed at Quindaro within the
last few days, and our levee presents a business-like and animated appearance.
Parkville and Grand River R.R.
The subscriptions for the Parkville
and Grand River R.R. are rapidly increasing. This road will surely be
constructed. When completed, in connection with the Hannibal and St. Joseph and
Quincy and Chicago R.R., it will bring the Kanzas Valley in speedy and direct
communication with the latter point.
An attempt is being made to secure attention towards a proposed route from
Atchison to Topeka - the same being a continuation of the road from St. Joseph.
This route would leave the most beautiful and populous portion of the Kaw valley
untouched.
The citizens of Lawrence and its vicinity have an interest in this matter. It
is time that they were enlisted in this enterprise. The Parkville and Grand
River R.R. once completed, will open and secure immediately the construction of
a Road up the Kaw valley to Lawrence and the West. Enough has already been
subscribed to grade the road for a distance of sixteen miles, and this distance
is the most costly on the proposed rout. Parkville has in her corporate
capacity, subscribed $50,000 towards it. In doing this, that city has nobly
contributed to an enterprise worthy of toil and sacrifice on the behalf of her
citizens. It is expected that Clinton County will subscribe $200,000 towards the
object which sum, added to private subscriptions in that county, will grade the
road to the junction of the Hannibal and St.Jo. road. Let this be secured and
the enterprise is successful.
Westernisms
Yankeeisms, in the use and pronunciation of language,
have long furnished the world with amusement. We have laughed at the
presentations made of our peculiarities with intense satisfaction, and now our
Western friends must forgive us, if we present some of their peculiarities of
speech for the amusement of the “used up” Yankees.
We occasionally, in conversation, find ourself completely at fault, and as
the dictionaries are entirely behind Western times, we have no choice but to ask
explanations, and get laughed at for our ignorance, blunder awkwardly in a
random answer, or remain impolitely silent.
The butchers will sell us lard, but add that they do no “render it.” When I
first heard a Western neighbor propose to “pail her cow,” I was full of sympathy
for the poor brute, expecting to see the pail applied as milking stools
sometimes are, in the hands of angry milkers. But the oddest combination of
words, and a very common one among the people of south-western localities, we
first heard used by an Indiana neighbor, an old school teacher, and a good
scholar among books. He left a package at our cabin, say, “I done bin come this
way after a bit and will take it away.” N.
Quindaro Saw Mill
Two weeks since we stated that the saw mill in
Quindaro had been stopped for the purpose of erecting the building and putting
more machinery into operation. Since then the work has been going on vigorously,
A frame of a very substantial character has been erected and in a few days two
new saws will be put in operation.
When this mill is completed, which will be soon, it will be the largest and
most powerful one in Kanzas if not in the whole region west of St. Louis. - With
the five saws, and a lath machine, other manufacturing machinery will soon be
connected - what kind it is not decided, though we are inclined to think that
among others will be a coach and carriage manufactory.
The mill, until within a few days, has been under the management of Capt Otis
Webb, who by devoting his entire attention to it, made it under many attending
difficulties do valuable service. We have confidence that Mr. Rowell into whose
hands the supervision has now passed, will by a like devotion and energy make it
a most useful and efficient establishment.
Road to the Interior
The road from this point to Lawrence is now
one of the best in the Territory. The bridges are, with one exception, completed
across every stream between us and Lawrence. All who travel over the route are
highly pleased with it.
It runs through the most beautiful portion of the Delaware reservation, and
presents to the gaze of the traveler that richness of scenery for which the
prairies of Kanzas are celebrated.
The line of stages of which Messrs, Robinson and Walker are the proprietors,
runs regularly to Lawrence. Walker is the zealous soldier who fought so
earnestly and so bravely in our campaigns last summer. No one suffered more than
he in that contest, and no one was more steadfast in the cause. We are glad to
know he is meeting with success.
We would inform the proprietor of the “Morrow House” at Lawrence that it is
not necessary to take a stage for Wyandott and boat from thence to this point,
to reach us from Lawrence!
RAILROAD ELECTION.-On Monday next June 29th, there will be a meeting at
Parkville, Mo., of the stockholders in the Parkville and Grand River Railroad to
elect a Board of Directors (nine in number) and a President. When this
organization is effected the Company will be ready to push forward the
enterprise with vigor.
The Tasting Committee - Official Report
Committee hold its regular
on Wednesday, June 24th, in the sanctum of the Chindowan.
Members present: the Quindaro City Physician, the Reporter of the Missouri
Democrat, the Correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, the Editor of
Chindowan, and the devil.
The first business was the reception of diminutive youth, who entered,
bearing an oblong box, labeled “Operas,” and with the following inscription.
“Compliments of Shepherd & Henry to J.M (???), Tasting Committee on
Cigars.”
Youth deposited box on the imposing stone, made a profound obeisance to the
chairman, turned on his heel and was shown out by the usher.
On motion, the oblong box was entered by a mallet and cold chisel.
On motion, the Tasting Committee (including the Democrat Reporter, who
hadn’t tasted a cigar for ten years) became suddenly enveloped in a cloud of
light blue smoke, and sat in solemn and silent onclave for half an hour.
On motion, at the expiration of that period, the following Preamble and
Resolutions were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, When in the course of human events, it become habitual for certain
individuals to inhale the air through cylindrical and ventilated rolls of
ignited tobacco, it is eminently fit and proper that said rolls should be the
simon pure article instead of wretched counterfeits: and
WHEREAS, The members of this Committee, in the course of a somewhat extended
experience in that line, have been frequently sold, deceived and swindled into
the purchase of cigars, constructed of cabbage heads, white oak leaves, Cape Cod
tobacco, and other vile and villainous compounds: therefore
Resolved, That our distinguished fellow citizens, Messrs. Shepard
& Henry, are gentlemen, scholars and soldiers. May their cigars and their
shadows never be less!
Resolved,That we can safely recommend to persons of all degree, who
are in the vile and disgusting habit of using tobacco, an investment in these
Operas, as eminently safe, agreeable and remunerative.
Resolved, That whenever the box before us shall become empty and
deserted, this Committee will be ready to receive further communications of a
similar nature, that Messrs. Shepherd & Henry may see fit to make.
On motion, it was ordered that these resolutions be published in the
Chindowan and all the other city papers.
On motion, the Committee adjourned for one week.
J. M. W----N,Chairman
A. D. R------N,Official
Reporter,
*Printer’s devil.
The Whiskey Destruction.
The St. Louis Democrat, through one
of its correspondents writing from this town under date of the 17th inst., gives
the following account of the recent destruction of whiskey in Quindaro :
“At daylight this morning, this vigilance committee having previously
organized, started out. At the first doggery, the keeper, who is a sturdy
fellow, was armed with a pair of six-shooters and a shot gun, and showed fight:
but he was disarmed before he could shoot. His better half, also mad a vigorous
defense, and wounded one modest member of the committee-not with firearms but
with that weapon discovered by Don Alphonso and his friends, in the first canto
of Don Juan, when--
--“There they found No matter what—it was not what they sought.”
But all this did not save two casks of whiskey and one of brandy, which had
been secreted in a bed-room for safe-keeping, but which were rolled out and
“spilt” in short order. Casks of “the crathur” were also found in two other
groggeries, and unceremoniously destroyed. In one instance, the parties had
taken the precaution to bury a cask of whiskey, but it was dug out and
served like the rest. No violence was offered to any person in the doggeries; no
ale, beer, or other malt liquors were disturbed, and the whiskey and brandy were
only destroyed in places where they were kept for sale. The keepers had all
received full warning beforehand, that they could not be allowed to carry on the
traffic in Quindaro.”
SIGNIFICANT.-The “Herald of Freedom” has not yet published the Message of
Gov. Robinson to the State Legislature. It has published Walker’s
Inaugural, likewise his speech at Topeka. - Since then it has published extra
copies of these documents for circulation. Why is it that Brown publishes Bogus
documents instead of Free State? Is it in his bargain with Walker to ridicule
the Fee state Convention and abstain from publishing the Messages from the Free
State Governor?
-The Parkville,(Mo.)Courier says: “It is becoming quite a common
occurrence for men to come forward and take stock in the Parkville and Grand
River Railroad. We noticed several on the morning of our election walk up and
put their names down for different amounts. The ball is rolling and gathering as
it goes. Town and Country are moving on the subject.”
SUMMER CLOTHING—We are confident that the hot weather now-a-days is leading
our fiends to inquire where they may procure good summer Clothing. We are happy
to state that the same by be purchased at fair prices in Quindaro. - Messrs.
Johnson & Veale have a large stock, the quality of which we know to be
superior from having tried it. We advise our fiends to give them a call, and
procure articles that may be worn with comfort, even at burning noon. And they
can there also have an opportunity of providing themselves with fine cloth suits
if they should wish such. Remember the store under the Quindaro House.
Almost a Duel!
Considerable excitement exists in Lawrence, on
account of an “affair of honor” between Judge G. W. Smith, and Attorney General
William Weir : but there has been as yet no hostile meeting. The affair
originated at the meeting at-Big Springs on the 10th inst. We chanced to be
present, when the parties met in a friendly manner, shook hands and commenced
conversation.
Weir finally pronounce the Free Stat men “a d---d set of cowards,” and
repeated the epithet several times. Judge S. at last retorted by giving him the
lie. Weir, declared that nothing but his opponent’s age prevented him
from taking personal satisfaction: but when the Judge begged him to waive the
difference altogether, and offered to go out alone with him into the prairie and
settle the matter, the Attorney General did not seem very blood-thirsty. A few
days after, however, he came down to Lawrence, and the following correspondence
ensued. Weir had not, at the latest reports returned any answer to Judge S.’s
second letter, or to the closing note of the correspondence:
WHITNEY HOUSE
LAWRENCE, K.T. June 19,’57
HON. GEO. W. SMITH - Sir: At an assemblage of citizens of Kanzas at the Big
Springs, on the 10th inst., certain insulting expressions were used by you
towards myself which imperatively require notice at my hands. Unavoidable
engagements have up to this date prevented earlier attention thereto; availing
myself of the first opportunity, I have now to request a retraction of the
language used by you upon that occasion. My friend Mr. Boling will receive any
communication you may deem proper to make. Respectfully,
Your obd’t
serv’t,
WM. WEIR.
MORROW HOUSE,
LAWRENCE, K.T., June 19.
W. WEIR, Esq - Sir: Your note of
to-day is received. In answer I have to say that on the occasion referred to in
your note the language used by me was a fitting reply to your conversation; and,
until your charges are withdrawn, I have no retraction to make, and stand ready
to prove the truth of my assertions.
Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
GEO.
W. SMITH.
WHITNEY HOUSE, June 19, ’57.
HON. GEO. W. SMITH - Sir: your note of to-day
is just received stating, in answer to my note of same date “on the occasion
referred to in your (my) note, the language used by me, (yourself) was a fitting
reply to your (my) conversation, and until your (my) conversation, and until
your (my) charges are withdrawn, I (you) have no retraction to make, &c.”
In reply I have to state, that I am conscious of having made no “charges;”
and that, consequently, if you “have no retractions to make,” I must demand that
you name a friend to settle, in conjunction with Mr. Boling, the matter in
controversy between us:
Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t
WM. WEIR
MORROW HOUSE, June 20th.
WM. WEIR, Esq - Sir: In answer to your second
note, I have only to say if it is intended as the preliminary to hostile
meeting, although I stand ready and willing at all times to protect and defend
by person against assault from any quarter which you well know; yet having been
a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of Kanzas, which as well
as the laws of the United States prohibits dueling. I cannot if there were no
other reasons, consent to a violation of the laws of my country, besides I have
always deemed dueling a relic of a barbarous age resorted to only by cowards,
and which in this enlightened land is repudiated and frowned down by every good
citizen, patriot and Christian.
Respectfully your Obt. Svt.,
G. W. SMITH.
LAWRENCE, K.T., June 20, 1857.
MR. WM. WEIR, - SIR. Although an entire
stranger to you, yet the controversy between my father and yourself, induces me
so make an inquiry of you, and to solicit immediate reply at your hands. I
desire to know what remark you made which, when made, caused my father to offer
the affront to you. I request an answer to this note at your earliest
convenience. It may be as well to say to you, Sir, that my father knows nothing
of my addressing you.
I am, Sir, very respectfully, &c.,
G. W. SMITH, JR.,
Capt. Ranger
Battalion, Free State Forces.
SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICIANS. — The Washington
letter writers tell us that the President is more hardly pressed in behalf of
individuals in South Carolina, for foreign missions, than by the patriots of any
other State who are anxious to “leave their country for their country’s good.”
The spanish mission is said to have offered Mr. Pickens and been declined by
him, when the Russian mission was tendered, and now Mr. Pickens is halting
between two opinions, thinking that he has some chance to succeed Butler in the
Senate. Gov. Hammond, it is thought, could be U.S. Senator if he would, but he
has devoted himself to the quiet enjoyments of private life. -
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