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SOL. KILLER, EDITOR ASD ITKiSS..B. J-
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION.
i TERMS $2.00 PER AXSVK, IS ADYAXCE.
VOLUME I.(
WHITE; CLOUD, 'KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1857.
NUMBER 19.
TAXXZZS' QIRLS.
. Cf ia die araiag early,
Antaiag A ailk to Miy.
Taraiag tk aawa away
weerag tk Sear to lk kilckaa,
Mskiag tke eaeeaa stain;
Weaktef tke Wwekfmet ansae,
3mmmj the aajtar ekein.
ruaiag dae mtot faai Ik aeatiT,
Hsatiatkegrettke kere; . '
Cleeaiag tk taraiat be eSeeer,
Saiaaiag tke neekiag jim--SSpeeeJiaf
wkiwaV
Dewaeatkekaakeseelew;
eaa Hag yg mnimw,
Ykere tk strawberries gtww.
AaaoUag aW "SstogV far Boaisy,
Biasiag tk aeib sad stteisers.
Saws is tk naaiif streaas;
rdlBf Ska gaess a tarMes,
VeUag tka aaaapkie eies;
Jagtiag aW Knh see's arUe,
iviriqf away tk fjes.
Stasia ia mrf seae;
Seastr to (an aat frasara,
Tkeasaaas aright eevet to awa;
a!kofcswjat viral Spria rases, '
Teetk a wkite at pearls;
Oh ef ike oeeatrr maids is worm
A eoere efyaar eit girls.
THE TTITIOI.
ST HEIOtY W. LOXrCLL0T7.
Tkaa, ta tail a, O, Blaa af Btatat
flail ea, O, Uaiaa, am aad fiaat!
Baauaity, witk all ju (aars,
Witk all tk kepee af fataf years,
li kaagiag kraatklees a Iky turn'.
We keew arkat Master bad tky kl,
tTkal wort aw wveagkt Ay tike af steel,
rVke ana aaek matt, aa. nil, saa rape,
Wkat aarib taag , wkat kaaiaMri beat,
fa arkat a tor, to arkat a keat.
Were akaaaa tke aaekon af thy kapa!
Tt aat aaek aaMaa ataai aaS akack;
Til af Ik wmw, aa aat tk rack;
Tu kat tka aappiag aftka aail.
Ami at a mt alaaa ky tka gale!
b pita af rack aal tcaaaal roar,
la fit af (aba Kgfcu aa tk aaara,
ail aa, aar laar la kraut tk an!
On brarti, aar bnM, ara tit witk :
Oar kaarta, aat kaaii, ai rkAVaas. aar
Oar faitk Uiaaiuliaal aar fn.
An ai witk tkaa, an all witk tkca!
Important Correspondence Between
Professor 8illimu and Other Citi
zens of Connecticut with President
Buchanan.
Ts Hi ExedUnf Jamet Bdn, Prttidtnt
0 Unittd SUtet :
The undersigned, titaent of the United State,
and elect Ike State Csaacehcaf, respect
fully offer to your Excellency, this, their Memo
rial:
The fundamental principle of die Constitution
of the United States, and of our political insti
tutions is, that the people skolt make nor em
latee end elect their emu ruler.
We see with grief if not with astonishment,
that Governor Walker of Kansas, openly repre
sents and proclaims that the President of the
United States is employing, through him, an ar
my, one purpose of which is to free tie people
- KanfM te airy lata o tkrir ara aer of tke Uni
ted SUtet, but laws which it is notorious, and es-
' tablished upon evidence, they never made, and
rulers they never elected.
We represent, therefore, that by the foregoing
your Excellency is openly held up and proclaim'
ed, to the great derogation of our national char
acter, aa violating in its most essential particu
lar, the solemn eat which the President has ta
ken te tuppert tk Centtitutien af tke Unie.
We call attention further to the met that your
Excellency Is, In like manner, held up to this
nation, to all mankind, and to all posterity, in
the attitude of levying war against a portion
- of tk United State," by employing arms in
Kansas to uphold body of men, and a code or
- enactments purporting to bo legislative, but
. which sever had the election, nor sanction, nor
swnsent of the people of the Territory.
4 We earnestly represent to your Excellency,
. that we have also taken the oath to obey the
Constitution, and your ExtZUney may be assu
red that ws shall not refrain from the unjer that
. Almighty God win 'make your Administration
an example of justice and beneficence, and His
terrible Majesty prated utr pple and ear Ca
Sfstvraaaj.
' Nathaniel W.Taylor, David Smith,
Theodore D. Wools ey, J. Hawes,
Henry Dutton,
Charles L. English,
J. H. Brockway,
Ell W.Blake,
EH Ives,
B.SnUmaa.jr.,
Noah Porter,
Thomas A. Thatcher,
' J. Davenport, '
, Worthington Hooker,
PhilosBlake,
E. K. Foster,
,"C- S. Lyman, -.John
A. Blake,
William H. Russell,
A. N. Skinner,
, Horace Bushnell,
.' .John Boyd, -iCharles
Robinson,
James F. Babcock,
G. A. Calhoun,
E.R. Gilbert, -Leonard
Bacon,
H. C Kingsley,
B-Sniiman,
Edward C. Herrick,
Charles Ives,
William P. Eustis, jr.,
Alexander C Twining,
Jeeiah W. Gibbs,
Alfred Walker,
James Brewster,
Stephen G. Hubbard,
Hawley 0!mstead,
Steagrove Wm. Magill,
Amos Townshend, .
Timothy Dwight,
David M. Smith,
Henry Peck.
WASKMToa Cm, August 15, 185T,
-' CxxTLxma: On my recent return to this city,
' after a fortnight's absence, your memorial, with'
out date,' was placed in my hands, through the
agency of Mr. Horatio King, of the Post Office
1 Department, to whom it had been intrusted-
from the distinguished source whenc. It pro-
caeds, u wefl u tU pecoIUr character, I have
deemed it proper to depart from my general rale
In audi cues, and to give It an answer.
Tot first assert that the fundamental Trinci-
ple of the Constitution of the United States and
f oar political institutions is, that the people
shall make their own laws and elect their own
rulers- Yoa then express your grief and as
tonishment that I should hare violate J this prin
ciple, and through Goremor Walksr, bare em
ployed an army, "one purpose of which Is to
ftrtt tke peaple ef Ksaau sky Un net their
aar f Ike VmUd State, but laws which it
is notorious, established upon evidence, they
never made, and rulers they never elected."
And, as corollary from the foregoing, you repre
sent that I am, " openly held up and proclaimed
to the great derogation of our national character,
as violating in its most essential particular the
solemn oat to easier tie Cauttitutiau (it
Tbese are heary charges proceedine from sren-
tlemen of your high character, and, if well foun
ded, ought to consign my name to infamy.' But
in proportion to their gravity, common justice,
to say nothing of Christian charity, required
that before making them you should have dear
ly asserted that they were well founded. If not,
they will rebound with withering condemnation
smb their authors. Have you performed this
preliminary duty toward the man who, however
unworthy, is the Chief Magistrate of your coun
try' If so, either yo or I are laboring under a
strange delusion. 8hoald this prove to be your
ease, it will present a memorable example of the
truth that political prejudice is blind even to the
existence of the plainest and most palpable his
torical facta. To these facts let us refer.
When I entered upon the duties of the Pres
idential office, oa the 4th of March last, what
was the condition of KaasasT This Territory
had been organised under the act of Congress,
of 30th Msy, 1854, and the Government in all
its branches was in full operation. A Governor,
Secretary of the Territory, Chief Justice, two
Associate Justices, a Marshal and District At
torney had been appointed by my predecessor,
by and with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate, and were all engaged in discharging their
respective duties. A Code of laws had been en
acted by the Territorial Legislature, and the ju
diciary were employed ia expounding and carry
ing these laws into effect. It is quite true that
a eontrarersy had previously arisen respecting
the validity of the election of members of the
Territorial Legislature and of the laws passed
by them; but, at the time I entered upon my of
ficial duties, Congress had recognized this Leg
islature in different forms and by different en
actments. The delegate elected to the House of Repre
sentatives, under a Territorial law, had just com
pleted his term of service oa the day previous
to my inauguration. In (act, I found the govern
ment of Kansas as well established as that of
any other Territory. Under these circumstances,
what was my dutyT Was it not to sustain this
government? to protect it from the violence of
lawless men, who were determined either to rule
or rulnt to prevent it from being overturned by
force 7 in the laneuatre of the Constitution, to!
take care that the lawsbe faithfully exeeutsdT"t
It was for this purpose, and this alone, that I or
dered a military force to Kansas to act as a poste
camatitu ia aiding the civil magistrate to carry
the laws into execution. .
The condition of the Territory at the time,
which I need not portray, rendered this precau
tion absolutely necessary. In this state of affairs,
would I not have been justly condemned, had I
left the Marshal and other officers of a like char
acter impotent to execute the process and judg
ments of courts of justice established by Con
gress, or the Territorial Legislature nnderjts
express authority, and thus have suffered the
Government itself to become an object of eon
tempt in the eyes of the people? And yet this
is what you designate as forcing "the people of
Kansas to obey law. not their own, nor of the
United States," and for doing which yoa have
denounced me as having violated my solemn
oath. I ask, what else could I have done, or
ought I to have done T Would you have desired
that I should abandon the Territorial govern
ment, sanctioned as it has been by Congress, to
illegal violence, and thus renew the scene, of
civil war and bloodshed which every patriot In
the country had deplored? This would, indeed,
have been to violate my oath of office, and to fix
a damning blot oa the character of my Admin
istration. ' ' -
I most cheerfully admit that the necessity for
sending a military foroe to Kansas, to aid in the
. . . .. j, ay
execution oi toe am iaw, reueeis no crscii upon
the character of our country. But let the blame
fall on the heads of the guilty. Whence did this
necessity arise? A portion of the people of
Kansas, unwilling to trust the ballot-box, the cer
tain American remedy for the redress of all grie
vancesundertook to create an indepenndent
government for themselves. Had this attempt
proved successful, it would, of course, hare sub
verted the existing government, prescribed and
recognised by Congress, and substituted a revo
lntionarv nvernment ia its stead. This was a
usurpation of the same character as it would be
for a portion of the people of Connecticut to un
dertake to establish a separate government with
in its chartered limits for the purpose of redres
sing any grievance, real or imaginary, of which
they might have complained against the legiti
mate State nvernment. Such a principle, if
carried into execution, would destroy all lawful
authority, and produce universal anarchy.
I ought to specify more particularly a condi
tion of affairs, which I havo embraced only ia
general terms, requiring the presence of a . mili
tary force m Kansaa. Tbe Congress of the Uni
ted State, had most wisely declared it to be
"The true intent and meaning of this act (the
act organizing the Territory) not to legislato
slavery into any Territory or State, nor to ex
erode it therefrom, but to leave the people there
of perfectly free to form and regulate their do
mestic institution, ia their own way; tutjeot only
to the Constitution of ths United States. As
a natural consequence, Congress has aiae prescri
bed, by the same act, that when the Territory of 1
Kansas shall be admitted as a State, it "shall be
received into the Union, with or without slavery,
as their Constitution may prescribe at the time
of their admission." j
Slavery existed at that period, and still exists
in Kansas, under the Constitution of the United
8tatea. This point has at last been finally deci
ded by the highest tribunal known to our laws.
How it could ever have been seriously doubted
is a mystery. If a confederation of sovereign
State, acquire a new territory at the expense of
their common blood and treasure, surely oue set
of the partners can have no right to exclude the
Other from its enjoyment, by prohibiting them
from taking into it whatsoever is recognised to
be property by the common Constitution. But
when the people the hena-fiie residents of such
Territory proceed to frame a State Constitu
tion, then it is their right to decide the impor
tant question for themselves, whether they will
continue, modify or abolish slavery. To them,
and to them alone does this question belong, free
from all foreign interference.
In the opinion of the Territorial Legislature
of Kansas, the time had arrived for entering the
Union? and they accordingly passed a law to
elect delegates for the purpose of framing a
State Constitution. This law wss fair and just-
in its provisions. It conferred the right of suf
frage on " every bona fide inhabitant of the Ter
ritory," and for the purpose of preventing fraud
and intrusion of citizens of near or distant States,
most propsrly confined this right te those" who
had resided therein three months previous to the
election. Here, a fair opportunity was presented
for all the qualified resident citizens of the Ter
ritory, to whatever organization they might have
previocsly belonged, to participate in the elec
tion, and to express their opinions at the ballot
box on the question of slavery.
But numbers of lawless men still continued to
resist the regular Territorial Government They
refused either to be registered or to vote; and
the members of the Convention were elected le
gally and properly, without their intervention.
The Convention will soon assemble to perform
the solemn duty of framing a Constitution for
themselves and their posterity, and in the state
of incipient rebellion which still exists in Kan
sas, it is my imperative duty to employ the troops
of the United States, should this become neces
sary, in defending the Convention against vio
lence while framing a Constitution, and in pro-J
tecting tbe bona fide inhabitants qualified to vote
under the provisions of this instrument, in free
exercise af tbe right of suffrage, when it shall
be submitted to them for their approbation or re
jection. - I have entire confidence in Governor Walker
that the troops will not be employed except to
resist actual aggression, or in the execution of
the laws, and this not until the power of the civil
magistrate shall prove unavailing. Following
the wise example of Mr. Madison toward the
Hartford Convention, illegal and dangerous com
binations, such as that of the Topeka Conven
tion, will not be disturbed unless they shall at
tempt to perform some act which will bring them
into actual collision with the Constitution and
laws. In that event tbev shall be resisted and
lwn by the whole power of the Govern
Ib Prfng H duty I shall have the
approbation of my own conscience, and, as I
humbly trust, of my God.
I thank you for the assurance that " you will
not refrain from the prayer that the Almighty
God will make my administration," an example
of justice and benificence.
You can greatly assist me in arriving at this
blessed consummation by exerting your influence
in allaying the existing sectional excitement on
the subject of slavery, which has been product
ive of much evil and no good; and which, if it
succeed ia attaining its object, would ruin the
slave as well as the master. This would be gen
uine philanthropy. Every day of my life I feel
how inadequate I am to perform the duties of
my high station, without continuing it in the sup
port of Divine Providence; yet placing my trust
in Him, and Himalone, I entertain a good hope
that He will enable me to do equal justice to all
portions of the Union, thus rendering me an
humble instrument in restoring peace and har
mony among the people of the several States. -
Tour., very respectfully, .
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D., Rev. Theo
dore D. Woolsey, D. D., L. L. D., Hon. Hen
ry Dutton, Rev. David Smith, D. D-, Rev. J.
Hawes, D. D., and others. '
From Harper. Weekly.
The Hew Oorernor of Kansas.
More than usual importance attaches to the
appointment of Mr. Robert J. Walker, as Gov
ernor of Ksnss. In the troubled condition of
that Territory, the appointment of a new Gov
ernor would be aa event of moment, independ
ently of personal considerations affecting the
man chosen. But the chief significance of this
appointment arises out of the rank of Robert
J. Walker in American polities. He has filled.
and may again fill a Cabinet office. To accept
the Governorship of a Territory, appear, to be
aspiring to ascend. It maybe taken far granted
that Mr. Walker was induced to accept the post
by the conviction a conviction shared by the
President that, in the present conjuncture of
affairs, the Governorship of Kansas wag the post
of honor and the post of danger. Wehaverea
son to believe that he selected some time before
the Inauguration, and that the selection was a
fortunate one, as it meets the unanimous appro
val of the chiefs of the Presidential party, while
it gives pretty good satisfaction to their oppo
nents. Under the dreumstances, we have thought
that a brief sketch and portrait of Mr. Walker
would be of interest at the present moment
Abroad, and especially in England, Mr. Walk
er is, perhaps, the most advantageously known
of all cotemparary American statesmen. He
owe. this distinction chiefly to the elaborate
Treasury Report, which he gave to the world
during his term as Mr. Polk. Secretary of the
Treasury. These have been collected by the
British Golonment, and republished in a vol
ume, at the pabEo expense, far the ftieSractioa
and guidaoce of British economists. They are
constantly quoted ia Parliament, and referred to
by writer oa political economy. But they are
not the only effusions of Mr. Walker's which
have made their saark abroad- Whan Mr. Pierce
was inaugurated, he desired to avail himself of
the abilities of Mr. Walker, and offered him the
mission to China, with the title of Commissioner.
Mr. Walker accepted the offer, and drew up, for
the information of the Cabinet, a statement-of
his views legarding the policy which the United
State, ought to posne in that quarter of the j
globe. Private reapn. prevented Mr. Walker's
departure for China, and he staid at home. But,
by some accident, the note of his views found its
way into the hands of some members of the Brit
ish Government, who immediately pronounced
it to be the most statesman-like document ever
penned on the Chinese question. It struck them,
so forcibly, that Lord Napier was specially in
structed to endeavor to bring about the re-ap
pointment of Mr. Walker as minister to China.
It is not unlikely that the delay which interve
ned between Mr. Walker's appointment and his
departure for the Territory may be due to Lord
Napier's interference. '
The life of Robert J. Walker has been active.
and, like that of many of our distinguished men,
a striking instance of precocious development.
Bom in 1801, he wss a graduate with honors at
18, a lawyer at 30, a member of the State Dem
ocratic Committee at 91, Chairman of Commit
tee at 22,-the nominor of Gen. Jackson for Pres
ident at 93, and, at that juvenile age, the ac
knowledged leader of the Pennsylvania Democ
racy. Born and bred in the North, allied by
marriage to one of Pennsylvania's noblest fami
lies the Baches Mr. Walker has won his vir
ile honor, as the representative of a Southern
State. He was 25 when he removed to Missis
sippi, and settid down to the practice of his
profession. For ten years he steadily adhered
to a private vocation, giving to his party (he aid
of his talents when it required them, but refu
sing political office. In 1836 he was sent to the
Senate, and his national lifs began. His career
as a Senator is chiefly remembered by his man
ly efforts in favor of the recognition of Texas.
The debate on the resolution declaring Texas an
independent State, and the close division 93
for, and 19 against the resolution, (Mr. Buchan
an, by the way, voted with tbe noes are well
remembered by those who take an interest in
the politics' of the country. Nor has every one
forgotten the fine answer of Mr. Walker to the
Texan embassadors, when they solicited his
bust for the Capilolof the State of Texas. "In
my own name, and for my poor services," wrote
Mr. Walker, " I could never accept your propo
sition. It was as a representative of the wishes
of tbe people of Mississippi that I moved and
advocated, in consonance with my own feelings
and judgment, the recognition of your indepen
dence. My name must soon be forgotten in con
nection with this or any other transaction; but
be it long remembered that it was a representa
tive of the State of Mississippi who, in the hour
of your deepest gloom and danger, predicted
your success, when not a voice in Congress had
been raised in your behalf." At a later period,
when he had been nominated for the Vice-Presidency
by the Democracy of Mississippi, he
wrote, in reply to inquiries from Kentucky, his
famous Texas letter, which formed the basis of
the policy under which that State was admitted
into the Union. Mr. : Walker may, in fact, be
regarded as the foster-father of Texas; may he
be equally fortunate with Kansas'.
One of the most able and unswerving; advo
cates of the Independent Treasury System, Mr.
Walker wasentit)ed to a seat in the Cabinet
hich was offered him by Mr. Folk. Of his re
ports we have spoken already; be was the first
able, outspoken advocate of free trade in that
position, and beyond doubt be contributed more
largely than any other man to disseminate the
economical doctrines which now command the
assent of a majority of the people of the United
States. '
This was his last publie service. Deeply im
bued with the progressive spirit which marks the
typical American citizen, he embraced the pro
ject of a trans-oontioeutal railroad with ardor.
He became the chief officer of the Company to
which Texas was to donate untold acres of land
in return for a railroad to California. When the
Pacifio Railroad is actually built whatever cor
poration perform the work it may be taken for
granted that the scheme will be carried out in
accordance with the plans laid down by Robert
J. Walker.
Excharjng our retrospective for a prospect
ive glance, what a future Mr. Walker has before
him! He is in the prime of life just fifty-six;
he can afford to disdain the promptings of mere
ephemeral ambition; his fortune, we presume, is
ample; his fame is eatholie. Let us suppose that
he succeeds ia pacifying Kansas, and piloting it
into the Union on terms which will coincide with
public anticipation, and which alone are consist
ent with the meridian of the Territory. Let as
assume that he will put an end to the sempiter
nal squabbles of the Free State men and Pro
Slavery men, armed invader, and border ruffians,
Shane, rifles from the East, and bowie-knives
from the West And let us contemplate him
this great work achieved, and the State of Kan
sas fairly carolled among the proud common
wealths of America turning his energies to the
next great difficulty which may beset the Re
public, and grappling with it in his own bold way.
- -
Use or SrmTcmcrvz ra -'Drrniixaits. The
physicis of the House of Correction, at Law
renoe, Mas-, reports it almost impossible to traat
delirium tremens successfully now, ia conse
quence of the utter prostration of the nervous
system of drunkards by the strychnine to gener
ally used ia tbe manor ictura of liquors.
An editor making a speech at a recent jubilee,
at Keokuk, Iowa, remarked " that when he lan
ded ia Keokuk, ia 1837, it was a newt of pi
rates!" and directly afterward added, " Keokuk
baa held her own remarkably well for twenty
year, past" Very compEmeatary. .
The Harrisburr Telegraph chronicle, the arri
val in that ritv of Granville J. Pehn, Esqr, of
England, a great traodseo of the founder of
Feansjlvaaia-
TEE POOS VOTEBS 8050.
Tby knew that I waa poor,
Aad tkj tkoagkt tkat I waa aaaa;
Ttov tkaagkt I waaM aadan
Ta ka oartud witk tograca
TWjr tkaagkt bm af tkir triba.
Wka aa kkv ton aoat; W
B UMT aOVwa aa a krika
For mj rota, hart, mtj vata!
O, ikiiaa apoa arj kettan,
Wka aaakl mj coaariaaca aajl
Bat rfl aot waar thatr (torn,
Nat I, iadord, aat V.
My vat! It it aot ai,aa,
T do witk ai I will;
Ta eaat kka pearls la rwiaa.
Ta tkaaa wallowars ia ill. -It
it mj eaaarry daa,
Ani III gira it wkila I eaa,
Ta lb oot aad tk m,
Lik a aiaa, like a naa!
O, ! apae aiy katwn.
Who woald aiv aaaacioar kay!
Bat IH aot wear Ikair fcttrrs
Not I, iadred, aot I!
No, ao, 111 koU mj rot
As a traassr mad a trust;
My oltkoaor aoa skall aaeta, '
Wbra I'm at iagM witk tfa aut;
Aad my ekildrea, wkaa Fai goae,
Skall ka streagtkaaa. kv tk tkaaght,
Tkat tkeir &tker was aat aa,
Ta ka koagkt, ta ka kaagbt!
O, sbasM apaa aij better,
Wka would mj aoaseieaca boy!
Bat ID aat wear tketr tsturs,
KM I. iwlord. aot I!
The " People of Lawrence."
The " people of Lawrence " are a most remar
kable " people." They are a " chosen " people.
Behold the " people of Lawrence," the inhabit
ant, of a small town far away upon the plains of
Kansas Territory, holding in their hands the
proud destiny of the great North American Re
public. How magnificently grand and majesti
cally sublime is the mighty fate quiescently re
pocing beneath the sceptre swayed by the "peo
ple of Lawrence." All eye. are riveted upon
the "people of Lawrence." Tbe glory of
Greece and Rome, and the more modern splen
dor of Great Britain, France and Russia appear
but sights in a raree show, when compared with
the overshadowing and overwhelming power ra
diating from the " people of Lawrence." Tbe
organised will of the " people of Kansaa " threa
tens with awful portent the very foundation of
this Republic America-, citizens North, South,
East and West are magnetized and spall-bound,
even amazed and horror-struck by the " people
of Lawrence."
The United States Government, with all its
power by constitutional authority and its force of
established precedent, is but a toy, a plaything
herewith the " people of Lawrence " enjoy
themselves in their healthy pastimes while play
intr truant. When the " neonle of Lawrence "
desire anyeculiar form of government that in
the course of events the " people of Lawrence "
think fit to hare, them the " people of Law
rence do enact, and anvtbing tbe people of
Lawrence " do act upon is highly good and use
ful, because such action is taken by tbe "people
of Lawrence." Trulr wonderful people are these
M people of Lawrenil."
There has been nothing discovered within the
last half century, half as exciting and interest
ing as the people of Lawrence " and the "mur
der of Dr. Burdell." The " people of Kansas "
are not only the people of Lawrence, but they
are still more, they are the " people of Law
rence.' Taken collectively they are the most
interesting people of which history, ancient or
modern, contains a record. Individually they
may not be far superior to the people of the Uni
ted States, but take them all in all, the " people
of Lawrence " have given to the world unmis
takable evidence that they are an original and
most extraordinary people. The "people of
Lawrence " have furnished for the newspapers
such an abundance of good reading matter that
the sudden loss of that people would be a very
sad and melancholy calamity. But they are im
mortal because Lycurgus Greeley and Homer
Whittier have made their deeds as imperishable
as time, or perhaps eternity.
The Governor of Kansas would do the people
of the United States a great favor if he could
induce the President of this Republic to visit
that interesting people, and let him study their
manner, and customs, and the form of govern
ment under which they live. Tbe President is
well acquainted with the Governments of En
rope, but the ' people of Lawrence " are ac
knowledged to be (and most deservedly so) the
most interesting people apoa the face of the
globe. The "people of Lawrence " may possi
bly have a prerogative higher and beyond the
ordinary province of any other people with which
the civilized world is acquainted, but let that hy
pothesis be as it may, they are tbe first people
that ever successfully set at naught the entire
constitutional authority of the United States
with such reckles. and unblushing impudence.
Arsj Fsr Neva.
Ccxsos or Lauaa Crriz According to the
latest census, taken oa the dates specified below.
the following is the population or tbe enter cities
in EuroDe: London. 1851. 2,362,236: Paris,
January, 187, 1,727,419; Vienna, 1854,431.880;
Munich. 1855. 132J12: Brussels, 1855, 166,307;
Hanover. 40J000: Lubeck. 26,098: Bremen, 1855,
60,087; Hamburg, 1855, 164,145; Copenhagen,
1855. 123.619: Tarin. 1855, 136,849; Naples,
417,824; Rome, 1855, 177,461; Madrid. 1849.
260,000; Frankfort, 1855, 6457; Liverpool,
1851, 375,955; Manchester. 1851, 303,35;
Athens. 1855. 33.000: Berlin, 1853, 451 .871; St
Petersburg, 53241; Mosco-7,373,500; Dresden.
1855, 108,712; Glasgow, 400,000.
Ftrsusanas a Ntwsranca rs raw Cots i sr.
Aa an illustration of the hardship of publishing
a paper ia th eo7 the editor of the States
man. (tk now paper established at wniienau,;
say. he has been publishing for a month past,
and ia that time he has received " the alarming
sum of 9Q " oa subscription, and nothing for
advertising.
ThUw presume is a (Mr fflxsaraUoa of the
difficulties wih, which many country newspapers
UaT to contend.
Important Facte to Kansas EmigrrairU.
A correspondent of the St Louis Democrat
make, the following summary of them:
1. Kansas has an area of 114,793 square
miles.
2. Tbe land at present opea to pre-emption,
is large enough to accommodate 75,000 families,
or half a million of persons, exclusive of the
population of cities, towns, and villages.
3. ' Kansas is the garden as well as the geo
graphical centre of the United States.
4. . Its climate is genial and healthy, and its
soil of unsurpassed fertility.-
5. It has wood eaough for all practical pur
poses. 6. Coal banks have been discovered in eve
ry diotriet of the Territory.
7. It is intTsected ia every direction by
running streams; pure water is found, at a mod
erate depth, in every part of the Territory.
8. There are numbers of salt springs a few
miles westward of Fort Riley.
9. The land will be sold for a dollar and a
quarter per acre.
10. Every man has the power, if not the le
gal right, to sell his claim before he pays for it;
snd if he selects it judiciously, he will hare no
trouble ia disposing of it A great deal of mo
ney can be made in this way, by young man who
have the courage to "rough it," and the indus
try to improve their claims.
11. Every male adult or widow is entitled,
under the laws of Congress, to pre-emjevl60
acres; and they are not required to pay for it
until the time of public sale.
12. Land warrants those issued in 1856 ex
cepted will be taken in payment for the pre
emption claims.
13- Those men who cannot raise $200, when
their land falls due, will find do difficulty in
harrowing it, or mortgaging their farm.
14. All the Indian tribes are friendly.
15. Stone masons, carpenters, blacksmiths,
plastarers, wagon makers, gunsmiths, cabinet
makers, teanuters, brick makers, shoemakers,
tailors, painters, butchers, pedlars, men willing
to work at any manual labor, may emigrate to
the Territory, and will find no difficulty in pro
curing steady work and remunerative wages.
16. For the services of respectable young
women as teachers, domestic help and seam
stresses, there is a great demand in every new
country, and especially so in Kansas.
17. While Kansas is pre-eminently the coun
try for the poor man, it holds out advantages
equally encouraging for tbe man of limited for
tune. While a man without a dollar can find
remunerative work, the small capitalist or store
keeper will increase his fortune more ripidly
there, than in any other Territory in tho United
States.
18. He can do it by buying Trust Lands,
town lots, claims, or by loaning money on good
security, at a heavy rate of interest
19. He can do it more readily still, by estab
lishing workshops and stores; by building and
renting houses; by keeping a hotel, or erecting
a saw-mill. There are openings for all these
enterprises -endjSTery variety of them in ev
ery town and district in Kansas.
20. Claims can be purchased around all in
land towns in Kansas. The price depends very
much on the means of the settler, the shrewd
ness of the buyer, the character of the soil, and
the location of the claim.
21. A log hut can be built on a oiaim for
from $50 to $100.
22. The price of horses, cows and working
cattle in Kansas, and in the adjoining Counties
of Missouri, is about the same as in tbe Middle
and New England States.
23. Prairie land can be broken from the first
of May to the middle of September, for $3 per
acre.
24. One team will break from two to two
and a half acres per day.
Onwio or a Mxwixa. A member of the Con
stitutional Convention in Kansas, writes as fol
lows to the Richmond South:
" Let me tell you, sir, as a member of tbe
Constitutional Convention, a membeiof the last
Legislature, one of the Committee that reported
the present Democratic platform, upea which we
act, and as invariably a member of all tho polit
ical Conventions held in Kansas, that the mem
bers of tho Constitutional Convention are all
right If I had to select from the whole South,
I do not know that I could improve upon them.
I have conversed with most of them; they are
strenuously opposed to reference, snd you may
be assured that whatever we do will be done di
rectly to effect the all-important making of Kan
sas a Southern State Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Walk
er, or Mr. Any-body-else, to the contrary not
withstanding. We can neither be intimidated
by fear, nor seduced by favor. Gov. Walker is
in a miserable plight; be is backing down very
sensibly, and, were the opportunity presented,
would back down altogether. He is treated with
eonteisMbytbe Black Republicans, and to a
great extent, he has lest the confidence of our
py" ...
Rraaacasia Ron or Baa Locav-A aWsm town
nuvehant reeaivad a ressitUnce Ora OM of hisj
correspondents, ia the soape or frail oa no
- at M.e aVrXA . .
Ohio Life snd Trust tympany tor -,uuu on me
van dav that insti MtiOQ closed its doors. He
immediately telegraphed the fact to his debtor,
who seat him another draft on John Thompson,
which arrived the dav after the failure of that
broker; tbe eMrchant agaia telegraphed the fail
ure, and received ia s few days anotner oran on
Atwood Co, just as that firm suspended. -Jf.
r. Timet, U. -A
ostraspoadant writing of the various tor
inftietac oa ladies sad aeatlemea by the
mutinoers and ths low Mahomedsns of India,
says that they slit the skin around tb. throats
of their victims, and palled off mask, scalp and
all. . -' '
O Drrv The Rochester Democrat mentions
a report that ex-President Fillmore is about to
SEuwy s lady at Montreal. -
Tbe best remedy for eyes weakened by eight
asa, is a fine stream of cold water frequently
applied to them-
. Coax roa ScaoroLa asn Out Sous. Take a
table-spoonful of aquafortis, aad put la It two
copper cento; when the effervesce wee csa.se,
put in it two table-spoonsful of good, dear, strong
vinegsr; leave the cento in. Apply it twice per
day to the sore, with a soft rag or brush- The
sore should be occasionally washed to keep It
clean, but aot soon after spplying the remedy.
It should give ptrin; if very severe, a little raia
water can be added. The remedy has been
found a certain cure for old seres, mint 1 havo
never known a fnihire to cure. Tbe two stran
gest was a case of scrofula, where from the knee
to tbe foes, one-third of tho flesh was gone, and
all the skin, exsept a strip one and a half inches
wide. The case of aa old sore w as a gentleman
from Kentucky, who, from a fall, had not been
able to walk without a crutch aad a cane for
twenty years. One of his legs was much savall
er than the other. The sore was cured, the leg
regained its'fuil tire, aad the crutch and cane
were thrown aside. A letter from the person,
stating the case and cure, was published a few
months since. , Nicholss Losowoarn-
Thc Best Tooth Wash Ths best tooth
wash-, because the safest, and most universally
applicable and efficient, where specific deatal
science is not sought, is a piece of common white
soap, with a brush of moderate stiffness. The
correspondent of a medical co temporary, inquires
as to the truth of the statement, to which the
editor replies simply, " It is nonsense!' What
are the ascertained facts of the ease T "Tartar
en the teeth," is a familiar erprtssfo Micro
scopical examination show, that million, of liv
ing things are there that there are mainly two
KndV, sad that the larger class are Instsatsne-
ously killed by soap suds, when strong acids
havs no effect whatever. Here is a simple fact
on which eminent dentists havo based ths prac
tical advice to use common-White soap as a eor
reetor and preventive of tartar on teeth to a ooa
siderable extent
- RtscscrraTio or D sown id Prasotta Dr.
Manuals' Hall, the eminent London physician,
give, the following instructions for the resusci
tation of persons apparently drowned, at variance
with the methods now in use. The doctor says:
" There is one great impediment to the resto
ration of !hs functions of respiration, which fat
tho falling back of the tongue across the top of
she glottis or entrance into the windpipe, Ia
order to remove this, the patient is to be placed
upon his face and breast, and tbe body ia thea
to be turned slowly on the side, and than retur
ned slowly to its former position. Thi. motion,
the effect of which ia to cause a considerable
amount of air in the longs to be expelled and
reins pired, is to be kept up, until breathing is
restored, er all hopes of remiscitatioafroia this
source abaadoosd."
Ths Towicx. A white fur on the tongas at- '
tends simple fever and inflammation. Yellow.
ness of the tongue attends a derangement of the
liver, and is common to bilious and typhus fe
vers. A tongue vividly red on the tip and edge,
or down the centre, or over tbe whole surface,
attends inflammation of ths mucus membrane of
the stomach and bowels. A white velvet tongue
attends mental diseases. A tongue red at the
lips, becoming down, dry, and glased, attends
typhi's state. Tho descriptioa of symptoms
might be extended, taking ia all the propensi
ties and obliquities of mental and moral eondl
tion. Scientific American.
Wasiufto Saves Waax. It seem, that house
keepers who wash their silver ware with soap
and water, as tho common practice is, do not
know what they are about The proprietors of
one of the oldest silver establishments ia the
city of Philadelphia, says that housekeepers
ruin their silver by washing it in soap-sods; it
makes it look lik pewter. Never pot a parti
cle of soap sbout your silver; thea it will regaia
its original lustre. When it wants polish, take
a piece of soft leather and whiting, sad rub it
well." -
. Tatoar o Arrrxoroev Professor Alexander,
of Princeton, has recently prepared a paper oa
the subject of the asteroids, which Is ingentous.
His eonclusioa Is, that between Man and Jupi
ter there oaee revolved a planet with ea equa
torial diameter of 70,000 miles, and a polar di
ameter of only eight miles, thus being shaped
like a wsJer. Having a great velocity oa its
ails, it bunt, as some grinding ttoae do, and
its fragments formed sstornlfhi
Laatoa Jmcx in Daorvr. Lemons are rocoen
mended for dropsy, in a Russian mdkW journal,
and are said to be beneficial la the most hope
less eases. The first y one lemon was given,
after taking th reel off. and cutting it ip into
small tie, ia sugar; the two following days
three were given, and afterwards tightesa every
day. For aowriahmsat, meat waa given. Ia
every ease, ths water earns off tho seventh day.
Eon Owxltv Take ono ouart of rood rich
milk, sis table-spoonfuls of good flour, sis eggs
well beaten, one tea-spoonful of salt, cos eslt
apoonful of pepper; odd parsley, or 8umaver sa
vory, if yoa like; mis too nour ana un smoou.
i.m oM Am nrrn. melt a lartre tabl.-eDOoafal of
butter ia a large bread pan, aad bake then swea
ty to forty minutes. T
E.vanaxx Cains. Aa exchange says: "A
little child of our acquaintance, waa rendered
seriously ill, last week, by chewing a handsome
enamelled ball ticket, which its stotherhad giv
es it to play with. For the bene St af tijso who
as not know, wo would state that the eaaavel oa
these cards contains arsenic! '
Among the Romans, the gift of a rin waa a
badge of liberation from slavery. M-uiied peo
ple may best explain, (observes a sarcastic e!
bachelor,) whether It is so saoo the atoderaa
Soar roa Moeax Hous 4 tump of taasL.
Map Is the best thing to stop a mpos,r& cock
roach, scant hole. Dirty bra tea of aO kinds,
have aa antipathy to soap: -