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JOHN s. PRINCE.

JOHN s. PRINCE.
AGENT
THE CONTINENTAL INSURANCE CO..
New YORK. Offcs, No. Is Val Street.
HAS Cash Capital Of 100000. and will insure
against Loss or Damage by Fire.
RECTORs:
WILLIAM V. BRADY President.
Dan. II. Arnold, A. studwell,
Geo. Griswold, Lr., Lycurgus EdgerIon,
Watts Sherman, ). B. Chittenden,
John Caswe Peleg Hall,
David Lane, sheppard Candy,
Samuel D. BabcOck, Lowell HOlbrOok,
VIM Nj. Vail, Charles NJ. Connolly,
Charles booth, Geo. 5. stephenson
Thomas Smull, &. F. Dambmann
James A. Edgar, Aurelus b. Hull,
Daniel Burgess, Joseph w. Patterson,
Joseph BattelI, Hiram Barney,
Thomas TiestOn, III. Ransom
James Freeland, Robert Be; In II. Mccurdy,
E. 7. II. Gibson, William w. Stone,
Wellington Clapp, Henry c. Bowen,
Geo. W. Lane, 4. A. Low,
Edward Lambert, Bradish Johnson,
Charles Lamson, Thomas Fraser
Charles E. Beebe Henry Eyre.
Vim. NJ. Richards,
GEORGE T. HOPE, Secretary.
Applications for Insurance upon Dwelling Houses
and Personal Property, can be made to
JOHN s. PRINCE,
Feb. 90, ls55-df At the Winslow House.
ST. PAUL MUTUAL INSURANCE. co.
AND CONSTANTLY INCREASING.
ALEX. WILKlN, President.
w. p. MURRAY, Vice President;
GEORGE w. HARRINGTON, Secretary;
e. ii. PARKER, Treasurer,
Are now prepared to issue Cash Mutual Policies,
favorable rates of premium any other
company.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Franklin Steele, Alexander Ramsey,
Chas w. BOruP, Alexander Wilkin,
Chas. ii. Parker, Henry M. Rice,
Chas. ID. Fillmore, William L. Ames,
Levi Sloan, William =. Murray,
John harrington George w. Harrington,
Abram Nj. Frdley.
Office on St. Anthony street, in the room formerly
occupied by the Territorial Secretary.
February. 1854. 45-ly.
THE AMERICAN MUTUAL LIFE IN.
SCRANCE AND TRUST COMPANY,
Ne,o HtreH Conn.
pR'trUAL CHARTER ..........CAPITAI. S.5l pO0
4 PUBLICATIONS. received and Policies given by
n WM. SPRIGG HALL. Agent
Office corner Third and Wabashaw Sts.
SAM. WILEY. NJ d.. Medical Examiner
March !, 1855. diff
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-22
ATTENTION THE who'll :

AIIENIION The WI1OLE:
WIN b. MCGROARTY is now receiving Immense
w stock and provisions at his store
of 4th and Roberts streets where he anxious to receive
calls from his old friends and many may
be pleased to drop in His goods having been purchaser
for CASH. he is enabled to sell at low rates rs aid
other firm In the Territory. His goods are of excel
quality and pronounced by all who have tried them
Give him call, and get the worth of your money.
St. Paul. Nov. q 1S54-ly
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Boots 81 Stationery.
DAHL IN THE FIELD .ONdE MORE

- 6oo1s, Staliomery, Pepper Hdmg.ngs,
EN"H WINGS, AND FANCY GO0DS
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LIFE INSURANCE.!

LIFE INSURANCE.!
% State Street, Boston, Mass.
ESTABLISHED IN IS43.
ARANTEE CAPITAL $50 CAPITAL 1896 900
WILLARD PHILIPS, President.
DIRECTORS:
Willard Philips, Charles P. Curtis,
George ii. Kuhn, Thomas A. Dexter,
Charles Browne William Perkins,
Sewel Tappan, N. F. Cunningham,
Marshall r. wider, 1,.x,. Charles Hubbard
BENJAMIN +. STEVENS Secretary.
Il years. Its directors men of high standing and
its business is conducted high and honorable princ-
Piles.
Forms applications and pamphlets of the Company
and its reports, to be had at the Office of Newell
rompknS on Third street, opposite TeM Mayo Co,
G. s. sPERRy, NJ. D., Medical Examiner.
Saint Paul, Nov. 22-dtf
LLlFEINsURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK,
OFFICE Ill, BROADWAY, TRINITY BUILDING.
NETT ACCUMULATED FUND, FEBRUARY /, 1853
$2,OlS,775 GAL!
'l>HIS Company has now established itself such
4 firm basis, that it can>offer those desiring ill.,
vestment their lives greatest of all desderatums
in life insurance. viz: full and perfect security Its his
tory is almost, if not quite, without parallel. Com.
mencine LIST February, ls43, GO years ago. without
dollar of capital except its receipts for premiums has
now actual cash capital which is 'nvested in Bonds
and Mortgages Real Estate, principally in the cities
of New YORK and Brooklyn, worth double the amount
loaned thereon, OF over S20oOOOo Its receipts Tor pre-
miums during the past five years have been nearly 3d.
200 000 and for interest investment OO0
and has paid policies terminated by death during the
same tme nearly $60000O. Its dividends (after
ing fund sufficient reinsure all outstanding pOlices
SO percent the first five years. and 80 Is per
the last five, the amount of premiums paid, being
average Of over AZ per per annum for years
These dividends added to the policy at their
slonary value, payable death with the amount insur
ed be applied to the reduction of future prem
ums the option of the insured The business of the
Company is conducted strictly the cash plan-no
creds-and ii is believed hold greater induce
ments than any other COMPANY, whatever.
Its of premium as low those of any good
Office, and believed be lower than who pro-
TESS to insure from 25 to so per cent less.
FREDERICK $. WINSTON, Pres't.
Isaac ABBOTT, Sec'y.
Charles Gill, Actuary.
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EpILoGUE.
on the Surrender Of Fugitive
Slaves.

A curious document has been recently
brought 10 light by C. L. Ward, ESQ, l
Towahda, Pa, by which is shown that
VIM. Penn, the Quaker, did not believe in
harboriug and keeping run away slaves,
when their masters demanded them. The
document referred 10 is said to have been
accidentally discovered in one of the pub
lie Offices OF Pennsylvania, containing the
early archives of tho State, 1t was mark.
ed On The outside, "Wm. Penn to the Sus-
quehama Indians" and is as follows
"My Good Eiends-The people of N. Y.
having again wrote earnestly 10 me about
those prisoners taken by you, especially ye
woman and ye boy, saying tina. they bought
them fairly of the Governor Of Carolina,
who sold them for slaves. And they being
very good friends and neishbors, and all
under the same King, | must therefore de-
sire you to deliver the woman aud boy to
bearer hereof, Sylvester, who will carefully
carry them TO New Castle, and there put
them on board of a vessel bound directly
for New York and by so doing, you will
greatly oblige your very good friend and
brother. 5' WM. PENN"
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A Glance ut Kansas.

Many young men and not few middle
aged, in various portions Of the Eastern States,
determined TO direct iheii footsteps to the
new territory of Kansas. II is important.
therefore, that correct information should be
| afforded in relation TO that section of the Re-
public. According TO Messrs. Boynton and
Mason, members OF committee appointed
in Cincinnati the climate Of Kansas resem-
bles that OF Northern Missouri Central Hi.
nois, and Southern Ohio, andSis capable Of
producing the grains, fruits and vegetables
of the Middle States. The ground is usual
ly free from frost by the 1st Of March, VIII ich
returns again about the 1st ofOclober. The
quantity OF rain that falls annually, is about
80 inches, which IS said 10 be considerably
less in The average than in the Atlantic
States. Streams and springs are numerous,
and mllsites are abundant. Timber is found
all among the various water courses, and
ccal is ascerained TO be embedded 10 many
parts OF the territory. The cost to settler
| Of farm n Kansa of 100 acres is oil course
al ,25 per acre--20O. The crop, before
the land is entered, though he is entitled TO
it under the pre.empiion law, will more
| than pay for it. The first ploughing will
| cost al present two dollars and quarter per
acre. The crop will be as follows, according
| 10 our travellers:
| Corn, l.4 so 10 100 bus. an ac.
Wheat average 20 TO 100 6.
Oals-say 40 10 100 6.
Potatoes 200 q
| 300 some times raised
Hemp, at Sl,20 per ton, 1000 lbs.
The praries yield from one to four tons Of
hay an acfe--sometimes even now cut by
moving machine, to which no obstacles are
in the way. Fruit and vegetables that grow
well in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ken'
lucky, may be produced in Kansas to per.
fection. In three years locating on the pfai.
rie, a man may have his farm surrounded
and divided by hedges; his dwelling adorn-
ed with shrubbery and shade trees; fruit
trees and grape vines in bearing, and young
forest, if he pleases, already capable Of sup
plying him with small timber. The adapta-
lion of The soil TO grain and stock is obvious
The prices Of horses, oxen, cows and mules
are abont the same as Missouri, Ohio and
Kentucky; that of grain is high this season,
on account of The extreme dfouth, being
81, so bushel for corn, IS hundred for
flour, and the like. The geological foifna-
tion indicates iron, and lead bas already been
founG The Indians have bronght in speci.
mems of tin and zinc |; gypsum has been dis.
covered, beds of copper are said TO exis.
and clay for bricks is abundant. In brief,
Kansas holds out many Inducements to tbs
young, the bold the euterprsing and the ps,-
severing,
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1.-TWO Dollars per Annum
NUMBER III.

OF The Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions
o. the Peace OF the proper county, and TO be-
filed in said Court; and whenever a iudg.
ment for any forfeiture or fine shall have
been recovered against the principle therein,
ii shall be lawful for The District Attorney, of
the proper county, 10 enter judgment against
the oblisors in the said bond, and proceed
10 collect the same of the said principle or
snreties.
Seer. 10. That every person licensed 10 sell
spirltuons, vinons or malt liquors, as afore-
said, shall frame his license under glass, and
place the same so tha; it may at all times
De conspicuous in his chief place of making
sales, and no license shall authorize sales by
| any person who nhall neglect this reo uire-
ment, nor shall any license authorize the sale
OF any spniluous, vnous or malt liquors on
| Sunday.
SECT. II. That any sale made OF any spir.
ituous, vnous or malt liquors contrary 10
| this Act, shall be taken 10 be misdemean-
or, and upon conviction Of the offence, ia The
Court of Quarter Sessions Of the proper coun.
~, shall be punished in the manner prescri.
bed by the second section of this Act. :.
SECT. IL. That the provisions Of this Act,
as 10 appraismenl and license, shall not ex-
tend 10 importers, who shall vend or dispose
oil said liquors in the original cases or pack
ages, as imported, nor 10 duly commissions
ed auctioneers selling at public vendue or
out.cry, nor to domestic producers, brewers
or ditliilets selling in quantities moi less than
five gallons; nor shall anything herein con.
tanned, prohibit the sale, by druggists, of any
admistures OF intoxicating liquors as med.
icine.
SECT. 13. That il shall be the duty Of every.
Constable OF every town, boYough, township
OF ward, within this Commonwealth, a, ey-
| cry term OF The Court of Quarter Sessions of
each respective county, 10 make return orr
oath or affirmation, whether, within his
knowledge, there is any place within his bail.
iwick, kept and maintained in violation of
this Act; snc it silall be the especial duty OF
the Judges of the said Courts, to see that this
return is faithfully made and if any person
shall make known 10 such Constable the
name or names of any one who shall have
violated this Act, with the names of witness.
es who can prove the fact, it shall be his du.
" 10 make return thereof, on oath or affirm
a'ion, TO the Court, and upon his wilful fail.
ure 50 10 do he shall be deemed guilty. of d
misdemeanor, and upon Indictment and con.
viciion, shall be sentenced 10 Imprisonment
in The Jail Of the county, for period not less
Than one por more thaa three months, anu
pay fine Lot exceeding filty dollars.
Sect. 1t That this act shall not interfere
with any persons holding license, hereto.
fore granted, until the time for which the
same was granted shall have expired nor
shall any license which may be granted be-
fore the fret day of July next, aulhorise ths
sale of said liquors, or admixtures thereof,
after the frs, day Of October next, contrary
10 the provisions OF this Act.
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9 DANCING MEN FURNISHED TO ORprR--The
following is a paa of letter from the Paris
correspondent Of the Courier des ~Etats
Unis:
There is at Joubert street, No 23s, an in
slitute where they furnish 10 order young
men to dance al parties and private balls.
They are generally young dry goods clerks,
whose awkwardness have been removed by
intercourse with the ladies at the counter.
They simply know how 10 compliment them
on their toilets-which causes them 10 be
considered, by the ladies, very amiable and
quite witty. They are clothed, sloved, ruff
fled, booiee, and presented, stomach empty
They cost louis head, and with dozen
.you can have quite an animated dance.
Wednesday last, the institute oil Jouberl
stree, furnished one hundred and tweniy.siS
10 The divers hops of the Chausse d. Amin.
AS il appears, that comprised lis whole num-
Der. They aie now huuying up recruits,
Madame Ra---havirg engaged for her
self alone thirty for the 2elh OF this month
Twelve iiaxen haired, twelve with black air,
and six bad.headed genllemen."
nThe balj.headed ones cost twenty five
francs head. They are taught a. disnif-
ed ar, and are expected 10 represen, young
magistrates, lawyers, and young men OF
promise worn out by midnight toll. There
IL a fine looking old soldier, who has been
a ..,:,.l r., .. A. h<,, ,,f tho fIpuinn of
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COLUMBIA COUNTY. Pa, THURSDAY. APRIL &C. 1855.

obligation Of morality, possessing no spot oil
Earth whereon 10 rest weary mead, or dig a
lowly grave worshipping no God, kneeling
at no shrine, connected with The past by no
.hoary tradition, linked 10 the future by no
cheering hope; they still have for more Than
Tour hundred years, preserved the same nu-
merical strength and the same iucom preheu-
sble nationality.
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a Always do as the sun does--look al
the bright side of everything. For while il
is just a. cheap,it is just as good for diges-
ton. z.
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CHOICE POETRY.

~ We extract The following lines from
The poems of Thomas Mackeller, author Of
"Droppings from the Heart" These poems
were published in is47, by Carey and Hart.
These lines below have much of the quaint
ness and pathos of Hood. They will no
doubt find favor with the Printer, whose tolls
and troubles are feelingly described:
THE DOOM OF THE PRINTER.
A printer weary and wan,
His face all MORALLY pals,
As he slowly plodded his honeward way,
Before The dawniRg Of early day,
Broke out in bitter wall.
His voice was husky and low,
As though his lungs were gone
And he coughed as he gasped, and coughed
ogains
And he pressed hls hand 10 his breast in pain,
While thus his plant ran on:
"A world of pain is this
1t hath no Joy for me-:
>ris labor by day and labor by night,
BY the light of The sun, and by csnde-light
Labor continually.
"Some men have day OF rest,
Dul SdpDdlu lbi 'utio 10 NV
fits Toll all the week, and toll on the day
That God has given 10 rest aud to pray
Lo this is the printers lol
"When was boy,n he said,
81 played OH The bills of green;
Iswam in the stream-l fished IN the brook,
And blest was 10 sill and 10 look
UnfeneIed on nalure's scene.
+" For twenty sad years and more,
My life has worn away
In murky rooms of POISONOUS air,
Wien Eve yearned Tor sight OF ihe valleys
fair,
And the light OF the open day.
"An innocent prisoner doomed,
My heart is heavy within:
Oh why should man, untainied by guilt,
Who the blood Of creature never hath spih,
Be peat like ielou for sin 7"
The pffister then couehed and sighed:
The stars were growing dim,
And he upward glanced al the morning sky,
And he inly ihougb,it were good 10 die,
And dealh " ould be rest 10 him.
His heart was tired Of beating;
He prayed 10 the Lord above;
To pity man whose heart had been riven,
By ioil, for other mems interest given,
Aud he sough, His mercy and love.
He hied 10 his humble bome
al His infant awoke to cry,
ooh, father Oh, molher I'm hungry for
bread ~
And the printer bowed, with an aching head,
.s On his Mary's bosom to die.
Oh ye who have never known,
The riches found in crust,
When nothing is seen on the desolsie shelf,
And The poor mans pocket is empty OF pelf.
! =. Receive my story onlrust.
&5# Say not in your careless scon,
- What boots The lale TO youl
The rhymer who traces these rough.wrilten
rhymes,
! Has known OF such sufferers in other day
times,
And much Of his rhyme is true.
Remember this holy truth
sa.-- The man who aloof hath Stood,
When hearl-broken brother for succour did
crave,
And he stretched not finger 10 bless and to
save,
Is verify guilty Of blood.
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n Young men should bear ic mind tha
coat tails, cigars, profanity, tall shirt collars
and bluster, do moi make MEN.
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n Profits the crown Of labor.
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Never did thunder clap more alarm timi1
children, or discharge OF grape among flock
o. pigeons cause greater .futtering, than did
the innocent publication of our Dream"
frghlen and confuse the animals and birds
of i'll omen, we then and there so truthfully
classified and described. An uproar among
'em equal to the satanic chorus uf
Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-25
PAWNEE ON GOVERNMENT RES.
ERVATION.

1t seems that the town site of Pawnee is
within the boundaries of the military reser-
yation Of Fort Riley, Notwithstanding the
many assertions to the contrary. The
Washington Union-the organ of the pres
ent Administrations commenting upon
the ostensible causes assigned by the gov
eminent for the removal of Reeder from
Office says:
"The association for the so-called Paw
nee City, to which allusion is made in the
letter of the acting Secretary of State to
Governor Reeder, was an organization to
found a town upon tract of land which lies
some distance anside of the exterior boun-
dary of the military site of Fort Riley
And for alleged completely with the acts of
this association, the commanding officer of
Fort Riley is to be tried by court martial" !"
Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-25
Hon. V'5EsOas Shannon.

The appointment of Hon. Wilson Shan
non, of Ohio, as Governor of this Terrific
ry does not, it seems, meet with the ap-
probation of the Western press. Many
papers speak of him as an old and broken
down politician, and of his antecedents as
decidedly freesolish. We know but little
of the political sentiments of Mr.. Shan
non, but for the peace and harmony of So
ciety, and for the public interest of the
Territory, we trust he is not an Abolition
ist. The Lexington Express speaks Of the
appointment in the following manner:
"Our late papers advise US that Mr..
DAWSON has declined the appointment as
Governor of Kansas, and it is rumored
that he was appointed with that expecta-
ton. Whether that is true or not, we of
course do not know; but it is true that one
WILSON SHANNON, of Ohio, better known
in the Log Cabin and Hard Cider days
of 1910 as ' Petticoat Shannon" has been
appointed Governor of Kansas, and will
most probably accept the appointment
We say this because SHANNON is an old,
worn out, broken down politician, and will
doubtless be glad to receive an office so
eminently calculated to bring him out
again conspicuously before the world
Mr.. Shannon, we think, has never been
identified with the Abolition party of the
North, but his anteeedents are decidedly
freesoilish, and we therefore cannot ap-
prove of his appointment. We are about
as sick of freecoilers as abolitionists, and
we hold it a duty which the present ad-
ministration owes to the peace of the
country to appoint southern man. When,
we ask, will the administration be done
with this catering to the morbid abolition
sentiment of the North 2"
Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-25
Writing fOs. The Press.

We commend to all who write for the
press an attentive perusal of the following
paragraph, which, we clip from one of our
exchanges. Considerable of the manu-
script we receive is totally unfit to put into
the hands Of the printer often requiring
several hours in day to put it in shape
fit for their use. A little more attention
bestowed on composition intended for pnb-
lication by their authors, would very much
rebound to their own reputation, and save
us from considerable loss, or III other words,
waste of time:
MANUsCRIPT FOR THE PRINTERs.-
They ought to he as perfect as possible, as
the printer aims to follow copy in every
particular, unless he sees 2alpable errors
in grammar, photography, or punctuation.
These he eorrects as far as he detects
them, and then hands proof to the author,
as he desires or demands it. When this
is done. the responsibility of the printer is
at an end. Whatever error in language
or in sentiment there may be in the pro-
duction, it is the fault of the writer. 1t is
highly necessary that persons, who write
for the press, should write carefully, and
not expect more from the printer than
properly belongs to his duties. Errors
will escape. notice, notwithstanding the
greatest care, but the probability of their
occurrence is very much diminished, when
the author sends an accurate manuscript to
tho Office"
Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-25
Conversational.

HICKORY POINT, LAWRENCE DISTRICT, K. T. }
August 9th, 1856.
Coz. A. ]. IsAcks-DEAR SIR: AS the
time is fast approaching when it will be-
come necessary for the Pro-Slavery party
of this Territory to select candidate for
Delegate to Congress, we, your friends and
neighbors, citizens of Kansas Territory, in
view of the Importance of this election, and
for the purpose of securing peace and har-
mony in our ranks (presuming conven-
ton will be held) would respectfully ask of
you the privilege of using your name as a
candidate for Congress at the next election
subject, however, to the decision of a
convention should one be held. While we
may have our preferences of men. still we
are in favor of the triumph of the principles
we advocate, and will cheerfully support
the nominee of Pro-Slavery convention.
Your early answer to this is respectfully
Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-25

F. STEAMBOAT DIsAsTERs ON, THE WEs-
TERN WATERs.-By reference to an ad-
vertisement in another column of our pa
per, our readers will perceive that James
T. Lloyd & Co., of Cincinnati, are about
issuing work of this title, containing a
complete record of all the steamboat disas-
ters that have oceufrcd on the Western
waters during the last forty years, with a
LIST of killed and wounded, and other in
formation of great value. The work will
be the cheapest and most interesting pub
Gcation ever issued from the press, and
must meet with an unprecedented sale.-
Our readers should by all means secure a
copy of this valuable work. 1t is only
one dollar. For further particulars, we
refer to the advertisement in another col
umn.