Kansas weekly herald., 1855-04-13
H. R1vEs POLLARD.
III EuStOa,ae OF N,eaNg.,ss,.. N.,s !.

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.9ss EpStOalse Of Wears.
The most noticeable item of news for the
past week is the recent suspension of the
large and well known banking house of
Page & Bacon of St. Louis, which is re-
ported to have been occasioned by the fail
ure of Page Baee n & Co. of San. Francis
co to resume payment as had been antici-
pated. The assets Of Page 6 Bacon are
said to far exceed their liabilities and will
be most faithfully appropriated, we are as
sured, to the discharge Of every existing
liability. aa Z. =
From St. Louis papers, we have full re-
turns OF the late municipal election. which
| show the election. Of the KNOWN Nothing
ticket by a decisive majority-Mr. King
the Know-Nothing candidate for the
Mayoralty having received plurality of
1893 votes. We also hear that. Samuel
the great political revolutionizer, has
achieved glorious triumphs in CleaFeland
Ohio, Columbus, S. C. Rome, New Alba
ny, Annapolis, and many other towns,
The municipal election of Cincinnati
was attended with great excitement and
sanguinary riots-twelFe persons having
been killed-and is reported to have been
the most disgraceful. election ever known
in Cincinnati. The result was undeter-
mined at our last advices in consequence of
the discovery of some fraud.
MUou excitement prevails in Washing
ton in consequence of a heavy forgery per-
petrated by a clerk in the First Auditors
Office Lewis L. Taylor, who is reported
to have forged.the name of jeff: Davis,
Secretary of War, to notes amounting to
twenty THOUSAND dollars. Mr.. Taylor is
represented as a friend of the Hon. jeff.
Davis, who expresses no desire for him to
go "unwhipt of Justice
Latest accounts from the capital report
Mr.. Taylor non est inuentats.- \ -, =.
THE arrival of the Star of the West at
New York on the Sd inst. furnishes us with
San Francisco dates to the 9th ultimo,
. To-
which report business exceedingly de-
pressed, and money affairs very stringent,
and Wells Fargo & Co. as the only one of
the suspended banking houses that had resu-
med payment up to the hour of leaving. We
also learn that John Taber. who murdered
Mansfield, at San Joaquin has been par
doned. .s f.e
ON the 3rd inst. the notorious Theodore
Parker and the infamous Wendell Philips
were placed ontrial in Boston, before Judge
Curtis and Sprague for alleged participa-
tion in the abolition enleute which, it will be
recollecfed, attended the reclamation of the
fugitive slave Anthony Burns. John P. Hale
the celebrated Freesoil lawyer appeared
for the defence and moved that the indict-
ments be quashed. We shall await the
finale of this trial with much interest and
solicitude and hope these offenders of the
Fugitive Slave Law will receive condign
punishment. - z!s..a
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! Mr.. ANTHONY Burns IS GOING TO Lo-
GATE IN BosToN.-It is understood that the
services of Mr.. Anthony Burns, late of
Virginia, have been secured by sMr.,Wln.
Bacon, who keeps an oyster saloon at No.
40 Washington street, and that Mr.. Burns
is to have charge of the ladies department
OF the establtshment.-B Boston Courier. !.
The heart sickens at the morbid fruits OF
fanaticisnI Look at it! In Boston. be
cause of a nigger's escape from his master
and subsequent capture at the costof $35 ,00l
to the government, and the murder of, an
estimable man by the abolitionists, he. is
bought up and brought back TO the theatel
of Higher Law exploits, and placed il 3
position to serve Boston Petticoats Wha
a lion Mn. ANrHoNx BgnNs Esa, scsU be
! in Bosting now; and how the clsutseltes vii
be frilled, to meet the aigger's enrapturet
vision, and OIL how the little Jade viii b
envied by all the other jades,lwho secure.
she first kiss from those ..lubly lips.
All we have to say TO the Boston people
q about it, is that they must keep their puYl
:, and hagh-minded population from emigrat
}, ! ing TO Kansas; for public opinion here doe.
not tolerate eamalgamation bliss. and VIZ
/ have a way of enforcing! the popular vii
in this country, that IS perfectly irresistible