' 1 1 . 'ii.ti.i- i i I i si luriibcr 28: Prairie city, kamas, Thursday, june 24, issa Terms $2 Per Annum' HP v.; 1 i ,:-'( :(.' f 'I 4 it . is runuBHEi) mar TiiuasbAtf At PRAIRIE OITY, KANZAS, By 8, S. PROUTY. tTERMS OF SUBSCAlPTIoX: One copy otio year, , . $2 00 Three copies one year, . ; 5 00 Tea. " " " 15 00. Paymcnt required in all cases in nl fance. All papers discontinued at the time for which payment is received. . , v TERMS OF ADVERTISlM : First insertion, per line, - 10 cts. Each subsequent insertion, per lino, 5 'f ET Advance payment will be required for Advertisements from a distance. , ,Moneys, properly registered with .post masters, may bo forwarded by mail at our riski' .' " LIBERTY OR DEATH." PRAIRIE CITY, K, T., JUNE 24, 1858. Capt. Montgomery. Tho following ddscriptiori of Capt. Montgomery, who lias of late obtained nnunduo notorioty in Kanzas matters, 'is from the pen of a former resident of Lawrence a correspondent of the New York Evening Post : .; " In conversation he talks mildly, in a calm, even voice, using tue lan 'guage of a cultivated, educated gen tleman. His antecedents are unex ceptionable ; ho was always a Free 'State man, although coming from a Slave Stato, where he was noted as a good citizen, and for his mild,, even teniporamout.. In his daily conduct, lie maintains the satno character now; bat when in action and under lire, ho 'displays a daring fearlessness, unti- rtnjj porsoveianco, and an indomita ble energy, that has givon hint the "leadership in this border warfaro. His discretion, courago and acknbwl 'edgod''a'bimy,havo gained him what lie will continue lo recoive the con iidenco nnd support of the people in the southern tiors of counties. Mont 'gomory's enrolled company numbers from four to fivo hundrod men, all of whom are old rosidonts of the Terri tory, and are, consequently, familiar with the peculiar nlddo of fighting pursuod by Border Ruffians. Some are desperate men, arid could tlioir histories be told, you would not won 'der that they followed thejr Bdrder Ruffian persecutors td tho bitter end. Inhere are two boys id that company whose dying fathor charged them to ' revenge his cowardly murder. Five bullets entered his bddy as ho stopped frbra the door-sill td extend the hos pitalities of his cabin to his murder eri. Others havo been robbod at thoir "homeg and on tho highway, aiid not ono of thorn but has suffered some outrage or indignity from those Vil lains hoadod by Brock ott; Hamilton "and, Titus. Notwithstanding ovory incentive to retaliate actuates thostj men to demand blood for blood, yet "Montgomery is able to control and 'direct thorn. Ho truly tempers jus tice with meroy, and he Has always protected womon and children from haim, and has never shod blood ex cept in conflict or self-defence'. On tha-worning of last Thursday I saw a man who had just loft Montgome ry's party, and who had booti with him sinco, the alfair with thq U. S. ..dragoons. Ho gave mo a recital of 'their doings from that time up1 to tho 'day whon they took dossussion of West Point, which town was searched 'for the Monokft assassins. No inno cent men had boon robbod, no womon outraged, They had, however, olodr 'ed Lyon and Bourbon counties of ev ery pro-slavery man who had boon 'directly of indireoly concornod in any persecution of Froo State settlors. ' ) "It will be askod, Is not this, to p certain extont, following tho tao .tics.of the ensiiiy, and is it right? i To eithpr of thoso iriuirios I answer: '.or twb years past, Fort Bcott has . .boon the ueadquartorii of a desperate 'gang of wrotuhes, who, undor the , " lead of this Broekott, Clark and Ham , ilton, and acting in conoort with tho , pio-sjavery BetUers arid kindred spir its in the titate of Mibso ri. hove oar- rind out a persistent couise of out rage and crime npon Free , State ...... . ti.- MM.:. ui i.ut.- r uUst suramerr and it was the , history 'of last spring, irp to the tinie when ' Broekott killed an Innocent man in - Tiis own bod, before hii wil'o and 'children, . i. ' ,, .-. , ' , " Then the poodle, rose up and said, We will nit endure lull , any longer ono or the o'ther party must leave the country. (. " Few, if anVk of the people of tho Territory outside of these two coun ties have taken part in the quarrel;, it . n A.- i ' u is wen Known i,nac uiey can ana win take care of themselves, and that they havo done this Is pretty evident. " Last Thursday I spent in Kanzas City. At the public tablo at the ho tel, a mai) was giving what ho intend ed should be an aniusing account pf the ' last words ' of tho men shot in tboTavitie.' had the effect intend ed, fdr as each one's case was re peated; there was i rear of laughter, led off by Titus arid hii crew. This may be put down as another ' Kanzas exaggeration,' but it is tho simple truth.'J j Correspondence or the Evening Posti Platform of the Washington City . , Eepublicans. Washinoton, May 17, 1808. Tho Republicans of this city held a meeting on Saturday evening and formed themselves into an association, with a view td Action at tho approach ing municipal election, and for the distribution of political documents dutingtho comingyear. They adopt ed tlio lolls wing declaration of prin ciples ; t. Tho Federal Government has no power over tho system of slavery within the States J but within its own exclutive jurisdiction it has the pow er and ought to exert it, to secure life, liberty and tho pursuit of happi ness to all men. 2. There Blio'uld bo neither elavery nor irivoluntary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, in liny of the territories of the United States. 3. The people are the rightful source of all political prjwer; and all officers should; so fur as practicable, be clioscn by a direct vote of the people. 4. Candidates for political olfices should ba.raQri,of undoubted integri ty and sobriety, and pledged to sup port tho principles of this platform by all lawful and constitutidnal means. Mr. Seward was present; and made an elaborate Anti-Slavery speech, whicli was very well received by the association, many of whom are South ern men. Sketch of the Late Gen; Smith. Qcrl. Pcrsifor F. Smith wrs a na tive of Chester county, Pa., and was fifty-i.ine yoars of age. Whon. a young man he Emigrated to Louisiana, and studied law in New Orleans. Ho sorvod in tho Florida war from 1830 to 1842, having command of the Lou isiana volunteers. In '46owas ap poirited Colonel of tho rifto regiment thori raised. He had command of a brigade during the Mexican" war, and won noted distinction at tho battles of Alonteroy, Vera Cruz and Corro Gordo. At Oontroras ho command ed a brigado bf Gen. Twiggs' divis ioit, and finding himself the senior olficor on tho Hold, ho dssumod the chief command, and won that cele brated victdry, displaying throughout the cdntcst tho highest qualities of a military loador. Subsequently he was present at Chornbusco, Molina l)ol Roy, Chapultapeo and City of Mexico,' adding now wreaths in each engagement to his Contreras laurals. miring uio luoxican campaign uo contracted that diseaso (diarrhoea) which at length proved fatal to him. Gen'. Smith was an ablo and popular officer, and ho dlod as a soldier should die in harnossi It is to bo hoped that Congress .will not neglect to show its appreciation of his charac ter and services, by making suitable provision for his family. Mo. DM. Kanzas against tho World. T. D. TiiACiiicn, Esq., of the Law ronce Republican, writing Juno 1st, from Hornollsvillo, N. Y., where ke is it present sojourning, says : " There is no ooiktry between New York and Kariza 'that I have ever soon, which can for a moment com pare for beauty Vith our own rriost lovely Territory,. Noither did I iny where see the crops looking as well an thoy do in Kanzas this Boaso'h. Illinois stands number one for wftoat usually, but khe must yiold tho palm to Kanzas. Indiana is not tou be mentioned during the same day with Kanzas. , , tt ;,. ' .- " I find. everything in this Stifle at least four weeks bohind Kanzas as to forwardness of season. Fruit rees are now just in full bloom. Farmers have boen trying for the last two weeks to plant corn, but have nardiy been able to,, for thajuvcessant rains." XSrStriVo to cutivate harmony. From the Journal of Commerce,' May 32. Mounta and Prairie Trains and Commerce. is It is estimated by our warehouse and commission merchants, that in cluding the wagons loading' for tho Utaht Expedion, destined for Salt Lako, and the various Forts in the mountains, there will be ten thousrnd full loaded and fully equipped wag1; ons leave Jianzas City this season I cross the plains none of these L make a shorter trip than six" hundred miles, arid many of them to go full eleven hundred miles. A wagon that takes merchandise over tho plains and into the moun tains, is by no means, such iJ wagon as people unaccustomed to prairie countries are in tho habit of seeing. They are not " double wagons," or "lumber Wagons'," or "farm wag ons," or "Chicago wagons," or Concord wagons" they are "prai rie wagon's," or " schooners," as the boys cull them, and as novel a sight to an Eastern man, as any Yankee in stitution is to a frontiersman, or as tho railroad will bo to moBt of tho Jackson co'ifnty people whefi it gets here. A wagon weighs about lour thousand pouuds, the pole, or tongue, is thirteen leet long, and with all the "fixings" about it is as heavy as a light buggy. Ono of the hind wheels weighs three hundred pounds, and is bixty-four inches in diameter the tire is four inches wide, tlio hub twelve inches through and eighteen inches deep, and the spokes are as large as a middle sized bed post. tVny ono can conceive what an axle- tree for such a wheel must bo. Tlie body is three feet eight inches wide, thirteen feet long at tho botto'rii and eighteen feet long at the top, with' bows extending above tho bed three feet high, arid also extending fore arid aft of tho bed two leet and a half, so that the top of tho wagons, measur ing1 over the bows, is eighteen feet long height of wagon from bottom" of wheels to top of bows is ten feet. These bows aro covered with three wagon sheets, made of the best qual ity of duck, and cost about SiiO. These details will give ono an idea of a prairie wagon, which always car iioa from fifty-hve to sixty hundred pouuds of frieght, and transports it never less than six hundred mile's. Now for tho team; Tho team or the motive power of thoso cumbrous tthd ugly wagons, consltss of six yoke of oxon, or "steors," as they are called by ow lrojgntcrs; or hve span ol mules. A driver with a ratftred Ann- nol shirt, a pair of buckskin, "jeans" or " store" pants, with pockets made or breaking out almost any where, a pair of brijganp, , an old hat and whip, thestvck of whicli is generally a hickory sapling ten or fifteen teet long, tho lasll dbo'ut the same length rfiade out of undressed raw hide, an inch and a half thick in the " belly," tlio wholo weighirig five pounds and a half, and when brought upon tile aforesaid sicker, crack. crack, crack, it goes with reports loud as a navy pistol. Such are, in brief, tho details of ono of theso mountain wagons, ten thousand of which will loavo Kanzas City for tho forts and trading posts in the mountains this season. A wagon and toarrf hitched up and ready for travel is about one hundred feet long, and they travel on the average about ono hundred feet apart. Now it all those wagons were to leave in one train, they would stretch out over the prairie Ihret hundred and seventy' nine miles Some team, that. When " corralod," or encamped, they would make an encamptaent of over one hundred and fifty thousand head of Rtock, about twenty theusand and five hundred mehno women and if in tho mountains they would prob ably be surrounded by ten thousand " Ingins." The wagons would con tain sixty-fHo million pounds of mer chandise, wefrth in Kanzas City twerf ty million dollars, and in tho moun tains, twoiity-four trillions and a half. Here, then, are the figures of the groat comtmerce of the prairies, which is centered in Karizas City, as we compute it whon gathored together in ono grand encampment : Men, i ; . , . 20,500 ' Wagons, . . ; . 10,000 Cattle afid mules; . ' , ' 150,000 ' Lbs of merchandise, 05,000,000 ' ' Value of merchandise ' in tho mountains, 924,500,000 JCyOpposition is sometimes more the result of envy than a Bottled con viction of propriety. , ' ' i j, , i t JdrWhen the young laugh at the old tney laugn at inomscives colore hand. . ' Tlie land Sales1; Washington, D. C.,) May 19, 1858. To the Editor ok the Herald of Fiieedom : The undersigned, who were appointed by the Top'eka" Set tlers' Mass Convention to' visit the East for the purpose of procuring a postponement of the Land Sales, or the means of enabling tho settlers to pay for their claims previous to said sales.1 beg leave to give, thrcligh your journal, a synopsis of what action they have thus fur taken. On' arriving at Washington, they ascertained from the President and Secretary of tho Interior, that prom ises of temporary postponement had already been made to Mr. Parrott, and that the arrival of the Committee was awaited with some interest. After a courteous hearing of theso officers, the Committee waa informed that tho policy of tho Administration' requirod theso sales to be made during the pres ent ye'ir, but that some months' de lay would be granted if desired. Tho Committee requested a postponement of ono year, but without success ; and finally received the promise' of the Secretary that the Bales should be delayed til! tho 1st and 15lh days of November next. Ihis promise may undoubtedly be relied upon. The Committee have now turned their attention entirely to tho work of procuring a sufficient loan fund at reasonable rates of interest, to enable tho settlers to sccuro their lauds with out tod great a sacrifice, and will re port as soon as any definite rvbtilt has been reached ; only saying, in the meantime, that the omens are full of hope. All ourn'encft-Republiedns and Domociats expect tho people of Kanzas to bury Lecompton Uoimtitu tiou so deep with their ballots, that no traces shall romdiri but its memory. Wo acknowledge many obligations to Mr Parrott for his ready and pa tient assistance, without which we should have labored undor serious disadvantages. ROBERT MORROW. C. H. BRANSCOMB. J. M. WINOHHLL. Kansas Adapted to Wheat. Issac M. Roberts, Esq., who resides two miles west of Big Springs, states that a year ago last autumn ho sowed a field Of some forty acres of wheat. In July last ho harvested a sniall crop, owing to tho dry season, and to its being sowed upon the sod. About the first of October last, ho plowed under tho stubble of near fif teen Acres, leaving the furrows as made by the plow. A heavy crop of wheat made its appearance, loth on the stubble and Jalloib ground, thongh no seed was sown upon either, Save such as fell in the hdrvest of last year. During the year the cattle had free access1 to' tho field; and grazed upon it until sometime' in the last of March, when the field gave such pos itive indications of, a good harvest, that tho catllo wqre turnod from it. No attention was paid to the soil, but now Mr. R. assures us, that tho stalk is from three to four feet high bn tho stubble ground, and somo five foot high on the fallow) is thick set, and covers tho entiro ground, and gives promise ef an early harvest with fit least thirty bushols to the acre'. vorable accounts of the wheat crop. The fact is established, that this Ter ritory is pre-eminently adapted to the growing of wheat, and to that our agriculturists should turn their im mediate attention. -Herald of f ree dom. ... SHT Ethan Allen has boon stolen. Perhaps his skeleton even now graces the dissecting room of some surgical vandal. At all events, it. is not in his grave. A thdrough search to the dopth of some six or eight font has boen mido in all parts of the family lot at Burlington, Vt., where his tombstone stood, and not tho least sign of Human retrains can bo found: In consfiquonce of this remarkable' discovery,or rather failure to dis oover th& laying of tho corner stono 6'f the oodieiuplated monument t6 his honor has been indefinitely postponed, and there is groat excitement id Bur lington. .' J ' ,'. .' . S3t The Harpers prbfess td 'steer cioar oi politics in meirt very excel lent weokly, but wo (tee that they have nul iri thoir last number th'o dIo- t'ure of Williitm II; English. We cannot doubt but thdt their object in to create prejudice against the bill. However, we havo no right te com plain. Zotti'fi7 Journal. ', Native Amei, A party of Potawat..ioB, consist ing of braves, squaira pappooses, eVc, appeared in' our Vispts yester day, docked in all thiv iinery tnd fihli, beating upon a drain' made out of a keg, with parchment 6tretched oven the end, a'nd trimmed off with inri'umera'blo littfS hot.) They were followed aroVirid by theinsul number intention to give a scries of war dan ces, and other interesting ceremonies. We obserVed two of those red men of the forest two chiefs, around on Second street; Ono was mountod in all of his savage and rtido spondor on a bare-baekod steed,' Knd the other was on foot. Th'ey wofe going around on a mission of shopping, begging, and probably stealing, tb'.ough ol course they wore making' great pro fessions ot honesty ; but of this latter quality we fear they possess but lit tle, us their race have degenerated to that extent that they will make any promise to suit tho occasion', or to get a drink of whisky. At all events; their presence forcibly brought to mind tho following anocdote, which is said to have occurred in our sister State, Illinois, and is fold of a rela tioil of theirs. It is said that soma j ears ago a noted warrior of the Pot- awdtoiiiie tribe presented himself to tho Indian uLrunt at Chicago, as ono of tho chief men of his village, observing, with tho customary sim plicity of the Indian, that he was h very good man, and a good American, and coiicliided with a request lor a dram of whisky, lho agent rophei that it was not his practice to give whiskey to good men that good then never drank whisky, not even if it were voluntarily dllered J that it was bad Indiaiis who demanded whisky. "Then,' replied the Indian, quickly, ill broken English, ' mo d d ras cal I" St, Joseph Journal. , Home Newspapeis. Stick, then, ye sturdy yeomanry and tillers of tho soil, to your news papers. No matter if you are poor ; remember that there are notio so poor as tho ignorant, except it be the de praved und they too often go to gether. Stick to ourowuforci j0tTw, though it may nut be so large or im posing as tlio New York wooklios. but remember that it is tho advertiser of your neighborhood and daily busi ness, and tells you what is going on around you, instead of a theusand miles away. If . it is not on nice paper, and as goo'd as you wish to have, pay up your subscriptions well and get your neighbors to do the samo, and redy on it) the natural pride of tho publisher will prompt hi id to improve it as fast as possible'. In hard tihics like trlcuo, that call Air rigid economy, looft carefully aro'und you before you utop you Jpapers,and see if you cannot find so.io othlObx penditiire or waste of lime, to the amourit of a few dollars, (hut you had better lop oil hrst; look closo and careful, and if it becomes inevitable to shut up the windows of intelli gence bctweon yourself, your family and the world, why then do it, and retire into voluntary exile, porhaps upon your hundrods ol aores, poor only in spirit and iirtligination. Rely upon it, by supporting your homo paper, both yourself and your'child ren will be ttiscr and happier. Wit- consin Farmer. Iowa Immigration to Missouri. At least fifty wagons from Iowa, all accompanied with their families, and not' only their household eH'octa, but also their farming implements, have crossed at our ferru this week, on their way to tho Neosiu und Osage Valleys, and also to the pwtlth-Western counties of the Statoy We loam from those immigrants that the roads from here to Iowa are crowded with a similar immigration ; that a lreavy tide of immigration from that fcnato is on tho move to1 the above localities, and that all wagonp are obliged to make As great speed as possible, in order to keep away front tho crowd, and to 6btain good grass and wator at tho Stopping places. i'drta City (Mo.,) Journal of Commerce'. jtlT Henry Ward Bencher, in hrs " Lile Thoughts," says : "The" Bible Society is sending its Bibles ill over tho world to Ureodland artd the Morea. ttf Arabia and Egypt ; but it dares not send them to our tfwri. peo ple. The colportor who should ltuve a Bible in a slave's cabin, would go to Heaven from the loivest limb iff the ot idlers,' and appeared; ;" very much prOud" to1 attract siichlmarNd atten tion; We iCreinforniaci tnat A is their Stficide ot love. Iri i'ne of trffl morn in' o innrnitlfi. r.' centl,' there was a painful descript ion ofti snfetcte committed by a young German' husband arid fathor, upon lh. grave' of his newly-buried wife, who i i jJ-tt 1 1.. itJ U - nuu uieu in giving uiruio a son. He had inclosed the grave-lot with a tastoTul fence, and b'rnaifveHted it pro fusely with' flowers ; and h'o was iu the habt of visiting it every day. At length he visited, it for the last time and shot himself through the"""' ; htad, falling lengthwise upon his " wife's grave., Among lie inscript- " ions which lie lia'd written with a pen cil in Germdn upon tlie white marbbi of the graVe-stono, were these sen: tences : " How soon are the ties of Love sundered I " M heart is all too sad ; there fore, 0 Deatli 1 fulfill my fate, and soon utiito me to her, and to Love's eternal rest I " It is tit the grave alono that man lbarns the irub value of Love! "I depart from the sweet habit of ex istence!" As we read tli!s last touching and beautiful sentence, we bethought us of th'o following passage from tho diary o'f a lonely arid gifted lady, now nq logger of the world. How well she appreciated " the sweet hab it of existence," may be inferred from tho following J " lliofe is never a day upon which I do riot open my eyes at irforriing, with un instant thankfulness that 1 utii alive upon God's editli; that 1 sliall behold tlio blessed faces of my familiar direction that my full heart is beating f that these veins are wand arid glowing with tho cheerful tide of life 1 I looked out this morriiilft up on trees stripped of their foliage their surarrlfcr dew and song I updii sere places amidst the grass, and sul- Icnness over the waters, und the brood ing sdrrow of a wot November day pervading earth and air. Yet my spirit, nowise hindered, spread hei untouched pinions, and I blessed tliH hour that saw and scos me liviug " How to Stop tho Western Tornadoes'. Scarcely a vear nasses in which J A sorifo portions of tho Western States! a t w especially the prairio States, do not suffer from the disastrous effects of whirlwinds or tornadoes. Tho great torrtado of tho last week is tha most. Bevere one which has visited the Weut in many years, Its whole track is niarked with ruins. Half a dozen considerable towtis and villagos have suiiored severely, and the total loss will not full far nrlnrtof Half milling ' ' - ----- - . H-V.VVB M UltVII dollars. Saddest df all, it caused tho loss of more than dsooro of lives. Tho best mearis of stonninir thnaa tornadoes, and cdiifining their de structive course td the limits of a mile or two in width arid length, is to Dlant ndmordus irro'ves of for. at tmnn 4 v ..WW all ovor the level prairie lands, near tho thickly settled towns or soctions of Western States! HilU created, bdt forests may be, to an in definite extent, and with compara tively little trouble or expense. This id tUa lAAt lei. ll M U A k u ! u! . Ck in uo ichii in wiu piBlllO omios, and for many other considerations besides that of securing rjreteo.tion froni high winds, the Legislatures ana town authorities would do well to Drive this subicct more attontinn than tlrey have hitherto. JV. K Post. Two in Heaven. " You have two children," said t. "I have four. was the ronlv-1 two on earth1, tm in Heaven." Thore spoke the mother I Still hors, only gdne boftfro 1 Still ronioni bared, loved arid cherished, by tue I.I Ih.tl . . . . ' t hoartn ana at the board ; their places nutyot filled; oven though thoir suo censors draw life from the same breast wliore thoir dying heads were pil lowed; ' - "Two ittlieavetaP' Safely Housed from storm and terri- pest.1 No sickness there, nor droop ing hfftd, nor fading eye, nor weary foot. Bv croon Dasturus. tant!vl Kv tho good Sheplrord, lirtgor (he 1'ittW Iambi of tho heavenly Told. "Two iff Hoitvon r',; Earth less attraotive.- Eternity nearer. Invisiblo chord drawing the" material soirl tfpwardsv , u Still small voices" ever whisper "Como I" to the1 worid-weKry spirit ' , " x wo in lleffven 1" MotlW of anirole Walfc r.ftAr ! Holy oyes watch thy footstep CRor'-' uo loinrs ionu to listen. Keep thy spirit free from earth-taint so shall tllOll (TO to thWlh. ihn'iV.rh lfiW Wiv L ' -O " ""V , nl return to thee. .tf Don't slandef y tir i rl J Vt 1 1 "t ! if it A lr W '4 - WWi-l .kj.i..kkk i i f tyfTlMWfftp'','