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VOLUME I.j : WHITE CLOUD, LNSxSv, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1857, NUMBER 15,
THE TUR5PIKE GATE-KEEPES.
ITBDWARD-C. GOODWIN. :'
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From the Baltimore Patriot,
What tho South Says Concerning Gov
ernor Walker.
The New Orleans Crescent, of August 3d,
contains liberal abstraets of the opinions expres
sed by Southern journalists and Southern politi
cians, with reference to the course pursued by
Governor Walker in Congress. As this is a" mat
ter of some importance at the ptesent time, ind
becomes of special interest now that the Admin-1
titration papers are claiming a Democratic ma
jority in the House of Representatives, we con
dense from the very long exposition of our Sou
thern contemporaries, the following evidences of
the anti-Administration spirit now prevailing at
the South. Wide spread as the disaffection shows
itself among the slave States, South of the Po
tomac, the statements 'we now proceed to give
are but a faint adumbration oCtbe danger which
threaten the Government from those who most
earnestly advocated the claims of Mr. Buchanan
during the last Presidential campaign.
On the 29th of July, the Democracy of La
fayette County, Mississippi, is convention as
sembled, among-ether resolutions unanimously
adopted the following: - '
Semltri, That we view with astonishment
and alarm, the doctrines contained in the inau
gural address of Got. Walker to the people of
Kansas i and we avail ourselves of this occasion
to enter oar solemn protest against the policy
therein foreshadowed."
They fUrther declare that his pledge to cause
the Kansas constitution to be submitted to the
people for ratification or rejection merit j
eeftisl fffraWwa," and is fraught with the rank
est injustice to the South generally.
- Th Jaekson Mississippian, " the central or
gan of the Democratic party in that State," thus
denounce Walker; '
i "He (Got. Walker) finds no warrant for his
course ia the law creating the territory; and if
he searches for precedents upon which to base
hi Tindrcation, he will find that his conduct has
do parallel, flit ftcft it attended wiik nt pal
U4$ fkct. It is unprecedented. It is unwar
ranted by law. ' It is becoming a tyrant possess
ed of uniimited powers, and not the mere exec
utor of plain, simple written law. He now Hani
autanietf before aa mnirmoed SoutL. m telf-eontut-
eat trniUr t arr ceasfitartaaa! rigkU, mud in Uj
JrtcetibU attitude f a Ma via kt dtgredei iim
nrlf frtm a kigk eminence ta iamcii tUUeman
nmip at tie ptUitm mf a Sumner ar Hale."
I In a subsequent article the same journal d
mandsarhy ltis "that the President 'does not
torar heldl- unit tie rcqtrimhentt f the ontt, nd
mt net iitekwgt hi emhUieut and refractory
prtirtee?" . ,
Gwreraor Brown, of Mississippi, In a speech
reeently delivered at Holly Springs, " disappro
ved f the Toluntary aad arbitrary conduct of
Walker was not disposed to eeasure .the Pres
ident, but showed from Walker's owm language
that he had transcended his authority and he
therefore most emphatically condemned his eoa-
dnet.,1
Roy's Tatoo Sun, thinks thtt if to sustain the
course of Got. Walker is the necessary requi
site to be a Satienal Democrat, we frankly ad
mit that we are not of them, but avow ourself
.openly, manfully and candidly a Southern Dem
ocrat.".' . -",-. ",
. The Vicksbarg Sentinel say:
. " We have condemned Walker' inaugural
jand his Topeka speech. His position should bay
been that of neutrality, or non-intervention at
.least; not of encouragement to Freesoilisnt and
It consequences, for which all Black Republi
canism throw up their hat and with' one roto
j&out for hia, crying " well done thou cood and
ftdtijul aernnt." We and Utey have no accor-
ice in jubilant laudation to Walker, of whom
we have said, in language used by the gifted
Prentice, whose genius thrilled this continent,
and In the language of another distinguished
gentleman at a later day, 'he it our dag, and tet
tUnldheltoJirttUlcieliim.'".
The JaAson Mississippian charges Governor
Walker " with having violated the whole. tenor,
spirit and intention of the Kansas Nebraska
bill." . v
, . . . .
.The Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Democratic can
didal for Governor of Georgia, made a speech
at Canton, Cherokee County, on the 7th of July.
He reviewed the history of the Missouri Com
promise and the course pursued by the Northern
States in refusing to extend the line to the Pa
cific Ocean. He contended that ths'principles
of non-intervention contained in the Kansas Ne
braska bill had elevated, Mr. Buchanan to th
Presidency. "Justice to the South required that
keBkauld carry tXem Mi.t
" Mr B. did not believe that the President, by
his instructions, had authoriied Gov. Walker to
adopt any such course, of that he approbated at
would aanetitu the doctrine of Goo. Waller' in
augural addrtti, a expounded in kit Topela
ipeec. Mr. Buchanan had been elected on the
platform of non intervention, and that herte
lieved the country had sufficient guarantees in
his past course that he had the wisdom to know
and the nerve to do his du(y."
The Columbus Times and Sentinel, the lead
ing Democratic journal in Georgia, declares that
the Georgia Democracy will not tolerate , any
interference with it from any quarter, and have
confidently expressed the opinion that the Pres
ident of their choice will see to it that they will
be protected in the full, free and undisturbed
enjoyment of this great right, and will rebuke
the impertinent intermeddling of Governor
Walker with questions over which he has noth-.
mg to do. '
Hon. D.vid J. Bailey, in accepting the Dom
ocratie nominating' for Congress, to represent
the 3d Conressienal District of Georgia, said:
"I cheerfully endornt the retolutioni of the
Contention in letter and tpirit, repudiating the po
litical orthodoxy of On. Walker. His silly ofli
cioueness in attempting, while a mere Govern
ment agent, to impress any peculiar views he
may entertain as to the future of Kansas upon
the constitution of that contemplated State, sub
jects him to the censure of all discreet and pru
dent men."
The Georgia Democracy of the 2d Congres
sional District resolved, after denouncing Walk
er's inaugural and Topeka speech, that." this
Convention has full confidence that Air. Buchan
an will manifett hi fidelity to the principle which
carried, kirn into office, by recalling Governor
Walker."
The Cttlumbus Times Democratic in an
nouncing the nomination of Judge Wright as
the Democratic candidate' for Congress in the
5th District, is gratified that he .adopts, in his
platform of principles, the famous 3d resolution
of the Milledgeville Convention, " denouncing
Walker unqualifiedly, and demanding bis re
call." " '
The Savannah Georgian Democratic de
clares that the Democracy of the South ask no
thing but even handed justice from the Admin
istration at Washington adding, very signifi
cantly: " Blatter and epithet will not deter them
tram purtuing the path of duty. They Hand on
the Cincinnati "Platform Walker it off of it, and
all wh tutttin Walker are off of it. And yet
the Georgia and Mississippi Democracy are held
np before the country as extremist as seces
sionists as enemies of the Administration by
the Washington Union. What is their offence T"
The opinions of Toombs, of Georgia, and
Keitt, of Seuth Carolina, are next noted, but
these are so well known w need not reproduce
them.
The Charleston News asserts that the position
assumed by Gov. Walker is in direct opposition
to the principle of non-intervention, as announ
ced in the Kansas bill.
' The Charleston Courier see in Gov. Walk
er's course, and in that of the administration, in
endorsing and sustaining him, and especially in
denouncing those who arraign the propriety of
his course, infidelity and treachery to the South,
of the most signal character, combining ingrat
itude with bad faith.
Mr. Sheppard, a leading politician in Alabama,
boldly declare that " the President is guilty
with Walker. He sent him to Kansas knowing
his sentiments. He keeps hint there and intends
to bold on to him until their scheme are accom
plished, thus proving two' departments of th
Government, Us executive and it legislative, in
their dealing with the South and slavery , to be
the most irresponsible and meanest autocracy
that ever disfigured a page in history."
Col; Stall worth, Democratic candidate for
Congress, in the Mobile district, denounces both
Buchanan and Walker. He delivered a speech
lately at Catawba, in. the course of .which, ac
cording to the report of the Selma Sentinel a
rigid Democratic journal be said: "He was
yet disposed to believe that Mr. Buchanan was
true to the Constitution, and the principles of
the Nebraska law; but should it prove unrerton
ately to be true that Mr. Buchanan should en
dorse the conduct 'of Walker, thereby violating
the great principles promulgated by the Democ
racy through the Kansas Nebraska law, he would
repudiate Mr. Buchanan, and urge the Southern
people to ratty at a unit in demanding the'r right
in tkt Union if they etuld, kmt ant of it if they
mutt."
' The Huntsville Democrat asks why it should
back down from its position that Walker viola
ted his neutralities between the contending par
ties in Kansas, and threw his influence against
theSouthT ' t '
The Little Rock, Arkansas, True Democrat
declares that: .
" It is not the policy of the AdniinUtration as
indicated by Mr. Bochanan himself that bas ex
cited the resentment of the South, but the dic
tatorial maimer in which Gov. Walker proclaims
a stkbmission of the constitution to be indispen
sable to iU Validity, and hi threats to make an
implacable opposition to it if the convention
shall-fsil to obey Uia.'
The Nashville Union, the leading Democratic
journal of Tennessee, says: : -
" We again repeat, that while we heartily ap
prove the instructions of the Executive,' as we
understand (hem, and as stated by Govt Walk
ef, in the extract above quoted, and while we
also cordially approve and endorse the exposi
tion of Mr. Buchanan' views, a authoritatively
announced by the Washington Union, we deep! j
regret the course, and repudiate, without' qualifi
cation, the policy Gov. Walker has thought pro
per to inaugurate.'' ".
- We might go on and fill column after column
with article and speeches denunciatory of Gor.
Walker, and occasionally bearing hard upon
President Buchanan Wc have not .noticed at
all the .unwearied -attacks made upon the Ad
ministration by the Richmond South, the Char
leston Mercury, and the New Orleans Delta, as
their opposition is perfectly well known but the
almost unanimous voice of (he Southern press,
so far as respects Walker's course in Kamas,
leads us to believe that the Administration can
br no 'means count" safely upon a reliable Dem
ocratic majority th the noxt session of Congress,
and may very possibly find the greater: portion
of the Southern members standing aloof in a
body. We doubt exceedingly whether tha com
edy of The Happy Family." can be successful
ly played out eten for 4 few months longer.
The Taoosue I Mi.inesota. Two Constitu
tional Conventions were in session in Minnesota,
at our last dates. For a long time the political
complexion of the delegates was doubtful, and
contradictory reports were circulated from day
to day. At last, however, it was pretty general;
ly established that the Republicans bad the ma
jority. The number of that party claiming seats,
was fifty nine, Including four Democratic contea
tinfs. The Republican 'delegates received the
official certificate, but soon after, Gov. Medary
removed the. register, and the contestants in
some way then also secured a quasi official rec
ognition. The regular Democratic Strength is
forty-three, and if the four contestants are ad
ded, forty-seven. Six Democrats were also elec
ted from the Pambina District, whose right to
tit in Convention the Republicans denied bo
caue that district was not included by Congress
in the State limits. Admitting thatjthe. Demo
crats were entitled to all they claimed, the state
of parties would have been DemocraU, fifty-
three, Republicans, fifty-five. " When the day of
meeting arrived, as no hour had been fixed by
the act of Congress,- the two parties appeat to
have " fought shy," each respectively being anx
ious to secure the ore.-inization. The fifty-nine
Republicans took possession of the Legislative
Hall, and at twelve o'-clock organized, and pro
ceeded to business. The Democrats refused to
recognize them as the Convention, but designa
ting them as a meeting of citizens, proceeded
to the Council Chamber and opened their Con
vention there. The result will be the prepara
tion of two Constitutions for submission to the
people. And thus, it will be seen, we are likely
to have a serious difficulty with Minnesota.
Baltimore American.
The following is a complete list of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, with the
places of nativity and profession. The profes
sions of the signers of thgJ)eclaration of lade
pendence, were as'follows:
Printers,!; lawyers, 28; physicians, 5; farm
ers, 6; merchants, 6; shoemakers, 1; gentlemen,
7; sailors, ; ministers, 1; surveyors, 1; sold
iers,!. V i
The place of nativity of the signers, was as
follows:
Massachusetts, 11; Virginia, 9; Pennsylvania,
3; Maryland, 6; Rhode' Island, 2; Maine, 1 ;
Connecticut, 4; New York, 3; New Jersey, 4;
Scotland, 2; South Wales, 1; South Carolina,
4; Delaware, 2; Ireland, 3.
' Benjamin Franklin, aged 71, was the oldest.
and Elbridge Gerry, aged 32, the youngest of
the signers. Stephen Hopkins, aged 69, was the
next oldest, and Thomas Jefferson, aged 33, the
next youngest. , ,
The Richmond Enquirer, in commenting upon
the President' instructions to Gov. Walker, and
the tone of the Southern press in regard to Gov.
Walker's policy here, contains the following sig
nificant paragraph:
" But the opponents of the National Democ
racy in the Southern States, those who refuse to
believe in the integrity of the Northern Democ
racy, in spite of their thousand sacrifice in our
behalf, charge that the proposition to submit the
Constitution to the people of Kansas, conceals
a design on the part of Walker to make Kansas
a free State.' The pro-slavery party of Kansas,
however, who have heretofore watched their
Governors with lynx eyed vigilance, repudiate
thi charge, and en done Walker and the Admin
ittration." 1 . ,
Wisconsin is Face a.f d Woolly. The late
Convention of the Republican party ef Wiscon
sin passed the following resolutions:
" That, whoever treaA the soil of Wisconsin
isra ee, and whoever undertakes to enslave any
of her inhabitants, shad be visited with the se
verest penalties."
'"That the proper office and duty of govern
ment is to protect men' rights, not to subvert
them; to expose and punish crime, and not to
uphold it; and that as slavery is a crime against
humanity of the deepest dye, it can no more be
consTirrrjo-iAiJZED or lmsxixed than theft, rob
bery or murder."
Thi Car is Sn ix " Thit Comi." Emigrants
come rolling in upon us at a rapid rate. Droves
are going to Kansas. ' Mr. C. N. Pratt, the gen
tlemanly agent of the Pacific Railroad, which
runs in connection with the St Louis, Alton and
Chicago Railroad, informs us that one party of
about 300 families are about making their exo
dus from Maine to Kansas, the present season.
They go out under the agency of Mosea Emory,
Esq., who has come oat to make arrangements
for the location of the company. A point on
the Big Blue, near the Nebraska line, ha been
elected for the establishment. Chicago paper.
The new Constitution of Iowa, ia adopted by
about 1,000 majority. .
The Apportionment
Thi is another schema- of the border ruffian
party to rob the people of their .freedom-. We
have read ef the villaiay -of partisan ia the
States who have made apportionment to cub
serve party end. ' In Pennsylvania but a few
yean ago, it will be remembered, by many, that
the Democratic party, then In 'their ascendancy
in the State, so. gerrymandered it, a to aecure
to themselves, as Uiey supposed, the election of
every Representative toCongress.' The result
vnovthat instead it ctrfBiftpb. the'Whtg elect
ed nearly all the fiiemberavaad that with major
ities usually of but a few hundred. t ; .
In this apportionment, it is evident those who
made it designed to control the election by im
porting votes from Missouri. Of the Council
District all but one ar bounded on Missouri,
and that one is but very little remote from the
border. These districts are not even made np
of contiguous territory, but in some Instance i
more than fifty miles separated from each other
The reader can only get a good idea of the poli
ey by a reference to a map with the Counties in
dicated on it. Rev. Thomas Johnson, th Pres
ident of the Council, ia the arch scoundrel in
this transaction, and if a man ever deserved
death for a political transaction, it is he, for this
tross outrage upon the right of the people,
Gov. Walker promised us a," fair and impar
tial election." In the name of jhstico we ask
him how he expects we can ' get it with inch
damnable apportionment staring as in th face?
If the Governor will examine the law under
which that apportionment I made, he will, ob
serve that several, provisions In It have been
grossly violated. He must feel that h owe it
to himself as a man of truth to treat that ap
portionment as a nullity, and proceed to make
another. W have consented to go into the elec
tion in October, as has the great mass' of the
Free State party, in view of Gov. Walker pro
mise to see that justice a done us. We are con
sciqus that a fair apportionment cannot be made,
because of the villainy which characterised the
taking of the census; but it js not necessary
that twenty Counties should be huddled togeth
er to make eight representatives; neither is it
necexsaty that pains should be taken to bound
all the district on Missouri, or make it easily
aceessable to voter from that State
Governor Walker, if be designs to retain his
position for fairness in this Territory, will not, as
he loves his own good fame, allow this outrage
upon'us who have been placing confidence in his
promises, to pass without redress. He should
review that apportionment, ind in a proclama
tion to the people show tp the fraud, and make
a new one which will have some show of justice
about it. Until we are satisfied he will not do
so, we shall make no further comment on the
case. Herald of Freedom.
SAI.L-P0X AHOXO THI KlCXATOO AD PoT-
taw atomies i.i Kaxsas. The Indian Bureau at
Washington, on Tuesday morning, received ad
vices of July 30, from the Superintendent ef In
dian affair at St. Louis. A letter from the In
dian agent at St. Joseph, Missouri, dated July
25, states on the 8th insL, the small-pox had
broken out among the Indian of that section,
and that eight deaths had already occurred.
The Indians were greatly alarmed, and had be
gun to leave that reservation for safer regions.
Many were sick at the "date of writing.
As soon as the agent heard of the breaking
out ef the disease, he - sent to St Joseph and
procured competent physicians, who in a few
daysvaccinated all who had not yet been seis
ed. The Indians number about 600350 Kick
apocs and 250 Pottawatomies. The eest of at
tendance upon the sick, and vaccinating the well,
was upwards of $400:
The Chicago correspondent of the Boston
Journal, draws the following picture of the pres
ent Mayor of Chicago:
"Did yon ever see John Wentworth t No.
WeU, come with me to the street corner. Mark
that lumbering looking man with light oom
plexion and good humored face, taking short
strides this wsy. " He stands six, feet fire in his
stockings.' Old straw hat turned down all reond,
like a cotton nmbrella--no neck cloth short.
bad fitting linen coat loose unmentionables,
which look a if he had jumped too far into
them, and hadn't time to get backonbtacked,
untied shoes, three sizes too large and a alight
stoop to the tall figure, and the picture is com
plete. You see him. WelL air, that shabby,
elephantine individual. Who look a if he had
not a cent in the world, is Johaime Elongatua,
.Mayor of Chicago, and he is worth fir hundred
thousand dollar. . . ...
The Louisville Journal aya there is to be a
grand Sag Met barbacne at Ashland, in s few
days, to celebrate the triumph of Jhe Iife-losg
enemies and haters of Henry Clay, and one of
bis son will be the master-spirit of the satur
nalia upon that oceakm. The sounds ef rejoic
ing that will go up 'from the grove which once
echoed the tread of Kentucky's great patriot,
will be uttered from throat that have been
hoarse with curses aad blasphemies against him.
In 1844, (he DemocraU of Lexington went bat
to the gate of his house,' and with drums and
cannons, and shoot ef triumph, Insulted him
with the noise of their rejoicing over his defeat
They will go out there again, on the 12th of
August, to insult his memory with their rejoicing
ever the election of his apostate son. -.-
" A ISTMuurnso Masohio BiiLsvTbe Free
Masons of the 46th British regiment, now sta
tioned at Windsor, Tin siaod, have in their pos
session the original Bible belonging to Lodge
No. 227 of the .Irish constitution, once in exis
tence in that corps, upon which Geo. Washing
tonafterwards commander-in-chief of the army
of the United States was initiated into the
rites of Free Masonry. Thi book was taken
in battle in 1777, daring the -American war, by
vox troops, and honorably reetotVd to the Lodge
of the 46th, with a military escort a a guard of
honor.: ' ...-.'
'Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace
and good will towards men-" ; These words are
to be the first message transmitted over the At
lantic telegraph.
THE MEADOW GATE.
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Sfy Mary by tb latJea pal.
Souxn Docmixra. The following arguments
in favor of advance payment for newspapers
were advanced by a member of the Ohio Edito
rial Convention, at it recent session:
" What would you think of a farmer who had
raised a thousand bushels ef wheat, and who
should sell it to a thousand different persons
scattered all over the State, and agree to wait a
year for his pay from each of them, and if one
half of them did not pay at the end of the year,
be should give them another bushel of wheat,
and agree to wait another year for hi pay, and
thus go on year after year? How long would
such a fanner escape bankruptcy? probably not
very much longer than publishers of newspapers
who follow such practice.' It costs the editor of
a weekly paper as much to supply a thousand
subscriber with it for on year as it cost a far
mer to raise thousand bushels of wheat .-.The
farmer sells his grain in bulk. They are sold to
a thousand different persons, living in different
towns in the County, and different Counties ia
the State, and be must wait until the end of the
year before he can get his payment, and then he
depends wholly upon the honesty and responsi
bility of the snbscriber, for it is impossible that
be should know the character of all his subscri
bers. It will not pay him to go around or send
around the County or State to collect his dues.
It would cost more than the' collection would
come to." ' . ..-,-.-
AxtCBoTs; or thi Pazsi ditt. A letter from
Washington to the New Hampshire Patriot con
tains the following:.' -
The President has removed to his summer,
residence, near the Sailor's Home, about two
and a half biles from the White Hoase. He
comes in daily to the executive mansion, about
ten o'clock, and after staying long enough to
discharge such business a requires hi personal
presence, returns. The place where he is tem
porarily sojourning, is the prettiest rural district
about the city.. Speaking of the President, re
minds me of an endorsement I saw upon a co
mission which, though bunglingly made out, had
been presented for his signature. It may serve
aa warning to all having business with the ex
ecutive, and show them the necessity of prepa
ring their business Jn a proper manner before
presenting It At all events, it show a love of
neatness and precision, which I believe are
charactcristie of Mr. Buchanan. - It was as fol
low:
' Thi commission is so incorrectly prepared,
that I refuse to sign it The name of the ap
pointee i written differently at two different pla
ces, and in other respect it is not written in a
clerkly manner.
(Signed.) James Buchana.i.
That is pretty pointed, and I concluded, on
looking over the commission, was well deserved
by whoever wrote it-"
Eclocv on SciAToa Pmnri a On the occa
sion of the laying of the comer stone of a new
University in Chicago, the land for which, was
given by Senator Douglas, Dr. Howard, a Bap
tist clergyman, passed an eulogy upon Mr. Plig
hts in the following style:' V
" There are, doubtless,' many (round me to
day, who are looking anxiously fur tho time
when he shall grasp the sceptre, and sway the
destinies of this great Republic
" But should he reach - the goal of hi noble
ambition should the glowing wishes of his
friend "and admirers be finally and fully re-
all zed this alone will not secure for him the
loftiest and most enviable position that man can
occupy. When all his civic glories are lost in
the gathering gloom of the past when hi elo
quence and his statesmanship have passed from
the memory ef mani and even from the musty
record of historythis noble deed, and other
kindred benefactions, will keep hi name fresh
and bright to the end of time. . Thi charming
grove will never cease to whisper it the gran
ite structure which will soon be reared, will per
petuate it and the youth who (hall come here
to drink at the fountains of knowledge will re
peat it with ever increasing delight and admira
tion." - l -
The New Orleans Times represent that city
a being even more desolate than the " Desert
ed Village " irmg of by Goldsmith. The editor
says:
We can look out of oar window- at noon-day,.
on the once bustling Camp street, aud see no ooe
Who open the stores we know not bat we ex
pect it is dons by ms cautery, a we never, find
any person in them- It is our intention to count
the person in town, and give their names and
addresses in a short paragraph. Money Is said
to be so'awfoEy scarce, that the maa of busi
ness remainiag here, thurks of disanimiirg his
collector and hiring a burglar ia hi place. : We
ar the only editor left ia charge ef the aty in
terest, and we hare serious thought of letting
oat the streets a fine pasture giwmd for sheep.
Anybody In want of grasa- will pleas apply.
The Last Wousiaav N. P.Willi describes
a sheet of blotting paper froa Washington Ir-
ring's desk as "th door-mat ea Wuca to
thought of Irving' last book had wiped taev
sandals is they went in ''
. 1. The settler must never before have had
the benefit of pre-emption and or (his act ..-
2. He must not, at the time of making the
pre-emption, be the owner of 320 acre of land
in any State or Territory of the United States.
3. He mast settle on and improve the land ia
good faith, for his own exclusive use or benefit,
aad not with the Intention of selling it on spee-
alatiOB, and must not make, directly or indirect
ly, any contract or agreement, in any way or
manner, with any person or persons, by which
the title which he may acquire from the United
State sbouldjuure, la whole or in part, to the
benefit of any person except himself.
- 4. lie must be twenty-one years of age, and
a citizen of the United States; or, if a foreign
er, he must have declared bis intention to be
come a citizen, before the proper authority, aad
receive a certificate to that effect ,
5. He must build a house on the land, live in
it, and make it hi exclusive heme; and must be
an inhabitant of the same at the time of making
application for pre-emption. (Until lately,
single man might board with hi nearest neigh
bor; but the same is now required of a single as
of a married man, except that if the settler is
married, his family must also lire in the boose.)
6. The law requires that more or less improve
ment be made on the land, such as breaking,
fencing, etc ; but pre-emptions are granted where
a half acre is broken and enclosed. . .
7. It Is necessary that no no other person en
titled to pre-emption reside upon the lands at the
same time.
8. No one is permitted to remove from his
own land and make a pre-emption in the same
State or Territory.
9. The settler is required to bring with him to
the Land Office, a written or printed application,
setting forth the facts of the case, of 1st, 2d and
3d requirements herein mentioned, with a cer
tificate appended, to be signed by the Register
and Receiver, and make affidavit to the same.
10, He is also required to bring with him a
respectable witness of his acquaintance, who is
knowing to the (act of his settlement, to make
affidavit to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th require
ments herein mentioned, with the same set forth
oa paper, with a corresponding blank certificate
attached, to be signed by the Land officers.
11. The pre-emptorf if a foreigner, must bring
with him to the Land, Office, duplicate of hi
naturalization papers, duly signed by the official
from whom they were received.
' A minor who ia the head ef a family, or a
widow, may also pre-empt, their families being
required to live on the land.
The settler ia required to file a written decla
ratory 'statement of the intention to pre-empt,
before he can proceed with his pre-emption.
Fees. 1st The tec required by the Register
for filing a declaratory statement, is one dollar-
2d. For granting a pre-emption, the Register
and Receiver can receive fifty eents.
- Hcxar A. Wrsa ad Edwaxd Staxlet.
In the red-hot belligerent Congressional party
debates of Van Buren's administration, the two
most prominent and terrible Southern Whigs in
th House were Henry A. Wise, of Vs., aad Ed
ward Stanley, of N. C Where are they now?
Wise is the Democratic Governor of Virginia
the Southern Achilles of the Democratic party,
and as such the especial party champion among
his numerous admirers for the next Presidency.'
On the other hand, Stanley, having joined the
general exodus some yean ago of decayed pol
iticians to California, has turned op in that coun
try of wonderful things, the Republican candi
date for Governor a Southern man with north
ern principles in opposition to John B. Weller,
a Northern man with Southern principles. Thus
from th time that Major Botts slept under the
same blanket with Capt Tyler, we have had the
mast curious transmogrifications among oar
nrominent nolitieian. in all direction. But
should Stanley, of N. C, be elected by the Re
publican party, Governor of California, it will be
an individual asd a popular revolution only sur
passed by the election of a soa of Henry Clay
to Congress, a a Democrat, from the Ashland
district Such are the np and down' of polities.
We may yet Ere to see W. II. Seward a roaring
Bigger driver, and Millard Fillmore a Methodist
preacher. Who knows? IT. Y. Herald. .
Tax Widow or Hnsr Clat. A correspond
ent of the St Louis Republican, who was pres
ent at the laying ef the sorrier atone of the Clay
Monument, at Lexingtorf, on the 4th of July,
thai refers in hi letter to that journal, to the
venerable widow of the great Kentucky states-
.-'-''' '
Morn leaving Ashland, I passed over to the
residence of Mr. John Clay, to pay nty respect
to the widow of Henry Clay. At th boor of the
visit she was oat taking aa evening rid. I met
her, however, amid the scenery endeared to her
by a thovsaad aasodatioa on beautiful drive
t&reiigh the shade of the woodland past ma of
Ashland.
Mr. Clay is seventy -six year of age. Until
within a year she has been in hearty good health.
Her feebleness ia now, however, growing mani
fest, and the time I not re mete whea, ia the
tomb to be erected to her husband, aad by hi
side, she too wiB be consigned to her final earthly
repose. May her closing days be tranquil, hope
ful aad happy.
Rathe Fxzx vm Gaxar Mr. In a dense,
throng at the President's garden recently, the
'State' Reporter of items, had occasion to apol
ogize to Hon. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the
Treasury, for having, hi ignorance, made a desk
of that gentleman's back, ia writing a minute
of some paasiog event .Mr. Cobb, perceiving
thai hi friend aroaad him were am used at the
hsdicrwos incident,' replied laughingly, that no
harm had been door; that a man who was back
ed ap by twenty millions could scarcely be ex-'
peeted to feel the pressure of a crisis like thi.
InatviUe Courier. - '
Tax RarmErrarrrt raoa Oaaoo. General
Joseph Lane has just beea eleeted for the fonrth
time a Delegate to Congrese from Oregoa Ter
ritory. " He was first elected in '51, second in
'53, third in '55, and fourth ia '57.
Frederick Douglas, who i pointed to by Abol
itionists a a par excellent specimen of a negro
refined by education, gives evidence by posses
sing a heart as savage, as any that pulsates
within tae breasts of bis untutored relative of
Africa, Last week we published a copy of reso
lutions, offered by Mm at an Abolition meeting
in Stratus last year, in which he said that poi
son should meet the slaveholder at hi fable.
There 1 reason' to believe that hi- atrocious
sentiments have been practically executed' with
fearful success, in the recent mysterious tragedy
at Washington City. Ho seems to think that
the victim there were .poisoned, for in a speech:
made by him at the meeting of the Americas
Abolition Society, on the I4th inst, in' New
York, which we find reported in tha Indepen
dent, Beecfacr's paper,- he used the following
language :
"I believe the judgment of God is in (he poi
soning at Washington. If men will easlavo'
and prostitute their cooks, they most expect to
find death in the pot It would not do to make
me their cook."
The Dbuglas not only believes that
some of hi own race conspired to take the
lives of area in a wholesale slaughter; but ho
boasts of the horrible deed as justifiable, and a
being directed by Kreavea! If such iUustra-
tion of negro insolence and' ferociousness, ar
not sufficient to set the American' people to'
thinking, and check- that mock philairthropy,
that has deified the whole negro raee in tb es
timation of a large, class, if will have ftybe eonv
ceded, that a deluding fanaticism has eomplete
ly overwhelmed tmyguberreaauu of nen. Such
sent! meets a Frederick Douglas aVowi, are
sorely not calculated tb'sceure for his race, the
active sympathies of rightmlnded white men
bat only have the effect to sink the negro lower
in the popular estimation. 7aaiiX Democrat.
Death or JtmGK McLroo The Hon; TV D.
McLsod, for many years past Chief Justice of
Bexar County, Texas, died on the night of the
21st of July, at his residence in San Antonio, of
apoplexy. The Texan say : .
"Judge McLeod was one of the pioneers of
Texas, and if we mistake not, 'cam to thi
State In 1835, with the noble band ofNew Or
leans Creys." He was at the seige of San" An
tonio when it was taken from the Mexican army,
under Garl. Cos, during which the noble Milan)
fell. He participated also in the battle of San
Jacinto, and was in many of the early straggle
for that liberty oar State now enjoys."
BirrrT a ' Rattlessaee. The Connelltr.
vil!ePa.) Enterprise say that Mr. G'.W. Shaw,
of that place, was bitten in the hand by a large
rattlesnake, whereupon he immediately put' hi
hand to hi mouth, and succeeded, by sucking,
in extracting the greater portion of the poison
from the" wound. IHs arm was swollen consid
erably, but he i now out of danger: Thi ia a
simple remedy, and should be borne ia mind
when other are not at hand.
A Toltjuslt Faib Hit. The Frankfort
(Ky.) Yeoman of a recent date says:
"The Kxow Nothing platform of 1357, was
published at length in the Journal of yesterday
morning. We have not examined! it critically,
but observe that delectable party stilt recognise
the "existence of a Supremo Beingf Thi la
very magnaminoos, particularly so a th fectg
nititn is not-in the slightest degrse rcipocated.
GmrrSami's Nroxon. In a letter to tb
New York .JJerald, Gerret Smith writes aa
follows:
Of the three thousand colored men to whom
I gave land, probably less than fifty have taken
and continue to hold possession of their grant.
What is worse half the three thousand, asl
judge, have either sold their land, or bees 0)
careless as to allow it to be sold for taxes. .
WoaTirr or Note. Daniel Fenshaw, an old
and much esteemed New York printer, recent
ly presented the Typographical Society of that
city, with two volume of Pitt' EnglUb Atlas,
printed in London in 1 633174 year ago with
a statement to th effect that the original cost
price of the same, and interest adiled to the
present time, would amount to more than thirl y
million of daliart.
Tux Whio Pasty m MAiSAcmrrrs. It ia
stated that the members Of the Msjaachateta
Whig Central Committee have voted not to call
a separate State Convention of the party, thi
year. The feeling of the members of thi Com
mittee 1 said to be ta favor of Mr. Gardner,
should he be aga:a put ap for re-slection to too
office of Governor. -..r .
Sale or Delaware LaD- The tale ef tho
Delaware land in Kansas, ha been eooclndei.
It produced $587100, lad cm the lSthiast-.Mr.
Woodson, Receiver of peblie niessrys, deposited
la the sub-treasary at St Loom, Ij0,00O tho
remainder of the paywianU haw Veen mad la
U.S. Treasury warrant. The whole arnormt
goe to the Indians.
One of the most prominent citizens of Mis
souri the owner of twenty -one grown-apr'tve,
beside their progeny ha offered to emanci
pate all, provided1 geaeral emancipatioo eoakt
b sectored. He knows and say that th rise at
real estate, consequent upon the abolition of
slavery in Missoarl, would four-fold pay for th
slaves. - - ' ' -'-.
E'urht year ago, the only railroad track laid
dowa ia Dfinoia, ran from Naples, oa the Illinois
River, to Jacksonville, distance of twenty-two
aules.' New there is scarcely a County ia tha
State, which f not either traversed by, or within
a abort disUaae of, a railsoad-
Psjcmcc's Last- Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal, got off the following good on lately:
The Port Gibson Herald want to know
"what the poor ladlans will do when the baffa
Iocs are extinct" Indeed we eaa't teQ. . .We
are afraid they will have to hear rt
The poppy, which produces opium, is eolti rat
ted in India, where more than 100,000 acre are
occupied for thi purpose.
The 6th of Septeraber was the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth-day of Lafayette.