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BRUS-BA-TG-I i1SOl.ILir.GEa,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
jurysviUe,JSarsliaU County Kansas;
,'.1 practice in alltlio Courts of tho Second Judicial tial
-' tin Kansas, ami in the Courts ot the -ccund Juilicw
DtnctinXtbra.ka. they will give jurt.cular attention
jianuL'taj-cafor non-re.iJents in Northern Eiiii-as and
wthirn Xihraaka. Claiia collectedonrcu-ouablo teraib
Mil procteils promptly remitted. " -
BYRON SHBRRT. f) 'j'
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
PUBLIC.
Striata. Ktr.ia.ha Counlit, Kan.6
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Seneca, - Nemaha CeUuty, - Kansas.
JAMES S. MA GILL,
ATTORNE9LAW,
NOTARY 3UELIG,
Aud Geiieri-l Cotiectirt Asent,
Jtarysvitlc, Marshall County- Kansas,
"Will practice i-i the Courts of Marshall, Nc
naha, and Brown, iithe Second Judicial Dis
trict; and Pottawatomie, Riley, and Davis, in
il: Third Judicial District.
Particular attention paid to the adjustment
lad collecting of daims'against the Government.
Collections carclully attended to and proceeds
promptly remitted. vn20-ly
II C. IITVK1VS,
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Mar. 3 ille, l.ausa?.
HAWKINS & MAGILti
Itiorxeys and Counsellors
'Will devote themselves exclusively to the
practice of their profession in all the Courts of
ita Second Judicial District, and in th(kSupreme
Court of State: will make cUlctna IfStcralT
ml remit promptly,
l'ost Office address, , "4
Marjsville, Marshall C.., or
Troy, Doniphan Co., iCans.is. v2n20
IiV OFST-CK A5D H113L.ITAKY
COLLECTING AGENCY.
J. D. Brumbau:
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ILL give particular attention to
ad demands against the Government,
claim
in a!
5 departments, and particularly those grow
ls out of the present war will obtain pack
rv arrears aud bounty- money for those enti
xl under the late acta of Congress will also
5-tan pensions for widows or heirs of deceas
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MARrSVILLE, KANSAS,
OP on Walnnt strest, in East Marysville.
?0rJous wishing work done in his line will find
5 to their advantage to give him a call
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. of Marshall countv,ind the travelling nub-
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Jjsville, on Broad waypposite the PostOf
ji where i3 prepared to Jnake Plows, Harrows,
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j,v- ,. auu uorses, ana uo au kiuu oi ur
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notice ; and hopes"by strict atleutron ta bus-
' vv Qonnaencc ana patronage oi
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!- TerT0usSyatem Spennatorrhoea or Semina
fcaaw:i?ptia5!;-.and other affections of the Sexna
"tr-f. Muepu try and I'rematHTo Decay.-ow and
lrSfnt,,ln, ,RePrts of tb Howard Association
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GBorge ThompsoKj The English Aboli
tionbtjis now dn lilsi third visit to this
country. On hiB previous tour he was re
peatedly mobbed, -although his mi.sion was
noble and humane, lie wished to ee
Aineric;. free. Every aspiratiou of his
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heart was for the glory and honor of our
country. Yet he was not allowed freedom
of speech,
But he now finds a- different state of
kfeeling. The anti-slavery sentiment is at
last dominant and the aavooates oi equal
rights are everywhere listened to with re
spect and approbation.
"vve copy the following from a recent
speech of Mr. Thompson. 'a;.
0,what u spectacle in the sight of men
and angels was slavery, in the Uuited
States ! Slavery in a land purchased by
the blood of revluiiouury heroes and mar
tyrs ! Slavery iu a land, the founders of
whose independence revolt not against
personal bonds; not'to deliver their wives
and daughters from iufamy and pollution ;
not to save lhemlve3 and posterity from
unmitigated aiAend'ess thraldom ; but be
ing already freT, that they might also be
abio to govern themselves.
But more, and worse than this, it was
slovery in a land blessed with Christianity.
Who can think, without horror, of Slavery
and Uhistianity combined? Christianity,
which knows no distinction of race or
blood : which teaches the doctrine of uni
versal equality, and the duty of world
wide humanity; and Slavery, with its in
human cruelty and brutal lusts its worse
than inquisitorial tortures its unspeakable
debasement of the intellect its ruthless
sundermg of the holiest ties of nature
its forced and uncompensated labor its
chat el despotism, and impious soul-murder!
The dominion of" the Slave 'Power was
not confined within the limits of tile Slave
States where negro slavery prevailed.
That Power swayed va sctpire which was
universal, and exercised a rule which was
all but absolute. It elected ihe President;
it appointed the embassabors and consuls,
and chose, as interpreters of the-eonfltfru-tion,
a majority of slaveholders. It dic
tated and domineered in, every ecclesias
tical assembly. The Bible, Tract. Mis
sionary, and Sunday School Societies of
the country bowed bofore it. Prayer
meetings, camp meetings, and revival meet
ings stood iu awe of it. It bribed, coaxed
or bullied the representatives of the North.
It sent home Iloar from South Carolina.
It bludgeoned Sumner at his de-k in 'the
Scuaie. It turned "the godlike" Webster
into the great apostate. It converted New
England into a chase for the hunters of
men. I repealed the national comp ict
made when Missouri was brought into the
Union. It instigated and encouraged the
bloody atrocities in Kansas. It procured
the infamous Dred Scott decision. It do
med theiriL'liftff ttie Free States.;
i states to elect
the man of
their choice : and when .the
popular voice ndmihated .Mr. Lincoln, for
Presidential chair, it overthrew the Con
stitution shattered the Union i;ied,
"Havoc ! andlet slip the dogs of war:The
rest you know! "Let me turn to a brighter
part of the picture of. tbe'jrai v
Some centuries ago, a German monk, in
the solitude and seclusion of the cloister,
wiped from a neglected book the gathered
dust of anes, and, reading in its pages the
words which teach the way of life, went
forth to declare the truths he had discov
ered, and to claim for every man the right
io possess, to read, and to interpret for
himself, the volume of revelation. He
was opposed by the priests, the statesmen,
aud the potentates of the day. Nothing
dismayed, he with a lion heart -pursued his
way despised the Bulls of the Pope
soared above the thunders of the Vatican ;
and, ere he died, from the height he had
scaled, he looked down on revolutionized
Europe.
More than thirty yeaas ago,
"In a prnall chamber, friendlessand nn'een,
Toiltd o'er hia type.- one poor, unlearned youngman;
Th placo a a dark, unfurnitured and meau ;
Yet there tho freedom of a race began!
0, Truth! 0, Freedom ! ho v are ye still born"
In th rndeTstable, in theni-ncr nr?cl?
Whathuniblo hands unbar thoo p-.tes ofjnorn, '
Throu,;- which the splendor, of the New Day burst r"
The humble type-setter m that rude cham
ber gave to America a rfewpppo. advoca
ting the doctrine of immediate, uncondi
tional and universal emancipatioh. Qn
the first page --of that paper he said "I
iave taken my ground ; I em in earnest ;
I will not equivocate ; I will not Excuse ; I
will not retreat a single inch ; and I will
be heard " And heard heJ has been.
The sounds w hear to-day, coming from
millions of voices, jsaying1, uLet slavery
perish, and the land be redeemed from its
curse," what are they but the echos of
TilBSFill-Pir OJaiKBRT.
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thatnijigjjj more than thi
yepr'ago,-s7nMiTe eari of this
tiurty
yeprs'agos-Tnraff'rrF.rre ear. ot inis na
tion "Break every yoke ! Let tho oppres
sed go free?" Oh, w.hat a glorions spec
tacle is that which the poor priuter is npw
permitted to behold ! If to Martin Lu
ther it was given to look down on revolu
tionized Europe, to William Lloyd Garri.-
son is vouchsafed the vision of revolution-!
lzed America, io him is granted thelul
fillment of the promise ''He that goetb
forth 'weeping, bearing precious seed, shall
come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves
with him'
Ti.e Great Teierrapli enterprise.
The Board of Directors of the Western
Union Telegraph Company have been in
session at their office in this city for some
days past, and it is understood have trans
acted some very important business. Be
sides the acceptance of the valuable grant
from the British and llussian Governments
by which a very speedy connection is to Le
effected between the Western Union and
the Bu-sian lines, a consolidation has also
been made of the W. U. aud the Pacific
Telegraph Company. The terms are said
to be advantageous to all couoernedin the
consolidated lines. The details of the
plan for putting up the w.ires along the Pa
cific up to Behring's Strait3 are under con
sideration, and it is said that vessels will
be prepared to sail in a few weeks with all
the requisite material for carrying this gi
gantic jtelegraph enterprise to immediate
completion. It will be an era in the histo
ry of telegraphs and of the world, when all
commercial countries can commuica'te by
the magnetic wires with one another.
The projectors of this vast enterprise
have had too much experience, and have
been too uniformly successful in similar
undertakings, to doubt their success
Rocllcster (V. Y.) Drniocrat.
aigige oi lis Au-ericuu Fllajj.
The following explanation of the colors
and symbolic meaning of the "Stars and
Stripes" was written by axmember of the
Conaliiut;oial Congress to whom, with oth
ers, was committed the duty of selecting a
flag for the infant Confederacy ; the stars
of the new flag represent the new constel
lation of States rising in the West. The
idea was taken from the constellation Lyra,
in which, in the hands of Orpheus, &gni
fies harmony.
The blue in the field was taken from
the edges of the Covenanter's bauner in
Scotland, significant or the league cove
nant of the United Colonies against op
pression, involving tho virtue of vigilance
perseverance and' justice.
The stars were in a circle, symbolizing
the perpetuity of the Union ; the ring,
like the circling serpent of the Egyptians,
signifying eternity.
The thirteen stripes showed, with tho
stars, the num.l)gipf Uuitsdj Colonie, and
dendted 'the. business ordination of the
States ofthe Union, aswell aa quality
among trreinselves. . 5
Thewholo was a blending of tho various"
flags previous to the Union flag, viz : The
red flag of the armies, and the wl.i e of
Dating batteres. The red color, which
iu ihe Roman day, as the signal or defi
ance, denotes d .ring, and the blue fidelity,
and the white purity.
Troops Farniftiietl I3' Kansas.
On thn 16th ult. Gen. Lane introduced
a resolution in the Senate, calling on the
Secretary of War for information concern
in"" tho number of troops furnished by
Kansas. A letter from the Provost Mar
shal General in reference'to this resolution
shows that Kansas has put in the field
11.165 white troops, 3,072 Indians, and
1,450 negroes, making a total of 16,157.
We have not yet been able to procure a
copy of the letter, but hope to lay it be
fore'our readers at an early day. General
Lane has evidently been at tvork Jto have
Kansas credited with all the troops raised
within her borders, and if he can accom
plish his object fpd relieve the State from
a draft, the people of Kansas will be un
der a debt of gratitude to him. The fig
ures we gave above do not look as if we
naa oeen aeprivea oi ere u us iu wnica we
art' justly-entitled. Qonscrvativc.
A singula,; discovery hasbeen made, in
the Isle of Man, where it has been ascer
tained that certain old guns long used on
the quay at Peel, were rifled. Goverment
has ordered them to be transfered to Wool
wich, were they are to preserved as the
earliest'specimens of rifled ordnance.
It if now understood that we have in our
Navy Department, ordnance unsurpassed
by that of any other navy in the world.
". Tearless Eyes
God shall wipe away all tears from .
their eyes." The expression is one of ex-
quisite tenderness
less and beauty. The Poet
Burns said he could never read this with
out being affected to weeping. Of all the
negative deuuriptions of Heaven, there i
no one perhaps that would be better adapt
ed to product -consolation ihun this. Tnis
is a world or weenm"-. a y.iIp or
tears.
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Who is there of the human family thaC
bus not -he'd a tear? And what a change
it would make in our world, if it could be
said that henceforth not another tear would
be shed, not a head would ever be bowed ,
again with grief ! Yut th.3 is to be thc
cendition of Heaven. In that world then'
is np- disappointment, no bereavement.'
No friend is to lie in dreadful agony on a
sick bed : no srave i to be opened to re
ceive a parent, a'wife, a child ; no gloomy
prospect of death is to draw tears of sor
row from the eyTes. fo that blessed world,
when the eyes run with tear3, we are per:
mitted to look forward : and prospect of
such 'a world should contribute to wipe
away our tears here, for all our sorrow's
will soon be over, Amidst the trials of
the present life, when friends leave us,
wheu sickness comes, when our hopes are
blasted, calumnies and reproaches come
upon us. when standing on the verse of
the grave and looking down in the cold
tomb'the eyes pour forth floods of tears, it,
is a blessed privilege to be permitted to
look forward to that bright scene in Heav
en, where not a pang shall ever be felt,
and not a tear shall ever be shed.
A few months since a hundred persons
sat down at & festive celebration in the Ilartz
mouutaius, where pork, in various forms,
.was tne principal food. Of these, eighty
persons aie in their grave., and of "the re
mainder, the majority linger with a fear
ful malady. This strange event has le'd
to to the discovery that this food was
charged with flesh-worms in all stages of
developement, dr triehinal, found in the-
muscular tissues of the survivors and
traced to the pork'. These flesh-worms are
not killed by ordinary cooking, and mul
tiply rapidly by thousands and millions in
the human body. Great alarm exists in
Germany, and the eating of pork in many
places is now entirely abandoned.
Preparations for war are going on all
over Europe. Italy has more than four
hundred thousand men under arms, and
this grand army demands and expects to
soon march into Veaice. On her side,
Austria is preparing for the crash : the
famous quadrilateral is being strengthened
in evry possible way ; the line of the
Mincio is btronirly barricaded with men
and guns from Mantua to Persceiera ; guns
of the largest calibre are being mounted
in all the fortified places. But this time
it is more likely that the grand drama will
open at Venice in a sea fight.
It is a somewhat singular factT.that the
papers throughout the State that have been
bought up by Carney to support the Sena
torial bwiudle, were all rejoiced over the
fraudulent election of McDowell as Mayor
of "Leavenworth. These papers are paid
to support fraud, and no matter in what
shape it comes, they advocate it, and thu.
secure the greenbacks. It may be made
to pay them for a while, but when the peo
ple of the State get an opportunity to act
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they will curse the day they ever touched
Tom Carney s money. Conservative.
Two erring damsels at Youngstown,
Ohio, whose charms allured two married
men from their families, were taken from
their bed one night last week by a party
of infuriated women, stripped of the gar
ment s whichwomeo usually wear, arrayed
in tar and feathers, and let loose in the
streets.
Secretary Chase expects to get a large
portion of his revenue from the tax on
whisky. Of course, then, the more whis
ky drank the better for the Government,
and the bigger the drinker the bigger the
patriot. T.emperaBce societies are un
questionably disloyal.
General Ord, specially brou'gbt up, from
Texas for the purpose, is to command the
forces in Western Virginia in the field,
ranking General Sigel in this respect.
Gen. Sigel is io be in command of the De
partment, but will not conduct active oper
ations. "How many years have you been d umb ?"
said a gentleman to an Irish . beggar.
"Five years, please your honor," answered
the mendicant, completely taken off h:3
guard by tk'e question.
7elroleri as Fuel, , ,
the neighborhood of tho Caun
In
Sea where petroleum springs are.atmn- L
dant, the iuhal.ita.uts macmfubiurs 'fuel Uv -
impregnating clay with the combustiblo
fluid ; the clods are afterwards burned on
an ordinary hearth. The Kprwegians
have long economized the saw-dust of their
miil?7l)y incbrportmg with it a little cluv
fand tar, and moulding it in the form of
brfeks. Of late vears in Eno-la-fA 'mnli
attention has been-given to artificial fuel
in many districts, but not with much suc
cess, oaring to Ihe want of a) suitable coin-
bustible, which pe'trolium is, above all oth-
ers, btsc adapted to supply. In France,
charcoal is prepared from the refuselof the
charcoal furnaces, by niixin it "ith
red peat or spent tar, and then addi
char-
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ddiii2 tar
or pitch.
The materials are ground to-
geiuur ami suojecieu to ueat in close ves
sels, to expe'i the volatile gases. From
seven to nine gallons of tar are mixe0
with two hundred-weight of charcoal
powder.
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ington's ancestois settled first at Herbert,
and the individuals were known as Joblh
'do Herbert, that is, John of Herbert,
Thomas de Herbert, &c. Afterward ouo
branch of the family moved to Wessiug-
ton, when they were knowu as wot We-
sington," or "de Wessington," and this
became corrupted into the .family name of '
Washington. So late as tho beginning'cf
the lSth century some families of York
shire had no fixed surnames. Even at this
day h is said that few oi" the niinets' of "
Sea fiord shire 'beur their fathers' names,--but
are only kno'wn by some sobriquet.
Nioknames are in general use, and a man
whose real name is Peter Jones, may be
known to his neighbors, and eve"nrioMs''
wife and children, only as ''Soaker,"' '-No.
sey," "Lumper," or some similar designa-"
tion.
There were at the dinuer table of a
Cabinet officer in Washington, the other
evening, one Vice President, one Secretary
of the Treasury, three Senators, three ex
Sonator?, two ex-Major Generals, three ox
Representatives, and six ex-Governors,
aud yet there were only si.e persons in all.
The persons were Messrs. Hamlin, Chase,
Sprague, Morgan. King, and Ramsey.
"Acd ye have taken thejtcctotal pledge,
have ye ?" said somebody to an Irishman.
"Indade I have, aud am not, ashamed of it,
aither." "And did not Paul tell Timothy
to juke a Iiitlc wine for his stomach's
sake?" "So he did ; but my name is not
Timothy, and there is nothing the matter
with my stomach."
It is said that the rebel guerrillas have ;
killed and carried off more than 50,000
hogs ou the Kansas border. A fact which
proyes conclusively, says an exchange,
that the sword s mightier than the pen. ,
Harpers Weekly.
"Great God ?'"
A countryman being a witness in a
court of justice, was asked by the coun
sel if he was born in wedlock. ;So, sir,'
answered the man, "I was born in Lin
colnshire." Itappears from a officials communication
of the Secretary of War that the strength
of the forces in Kansas and the Indian
Territory, subject to the order of General
Curtis, is 16,000 mn.
The young woman whose modesty was
so shocked ihe other day at the mention
of a bare idea has been detected in con:
cealing the naked truth under a false hood.
There are 162 Colonels now command-
ing brigades, without including tho3a tem-
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jjuiuiuy uuuiiiiiiuuiuj; iu ui uuue,0I UlV
proper brigade commanders.
Laughter and tears are meant tor turn
the wheels of the same machinery of sens
ibility ; one is wind-power and 'tho other
Water-power.
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Foote expresses the belief that'a certain
miser would take the beam out of his own
eve if he knew where he could fell the-
timber.
The use of surnames wus not generalaji.y kt-UUB
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What is that which nobody wants, and6 - " i; dii
nobody likes to lose ? A lawsuit, d .aa. mri t JkJ
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a wise man to own it. .c .; il
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