The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-09-13

IS 1HUkSD4Y MOURNING, YEP r. Is.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF raB CITY.
stSQcArrxa SovExEIoNrf. The practical
development of the doctrine of Sauattcr
Sovereignty in Ksnsss, must gil Gen Cass
and Stsphsa A. Douglas with emotions Of
! triumphant satiSfscsion. They spoke with
great energy and fervor IN behalf of the
rights o. the people Of the territories TO
| choose their own Legislators, elect their own
1csrs, and adopt their own policy. And
b force of tho humhug phrase s'squatter
sovelignty," and their hspccritical profess
sions o. devotion to the principles of popu-
lar sovereignty, Congress was Induced to
Isdcpt the Nebraska bill.
Under that ssSquatter Sovereignty" Act,
armed bands of Missourians entered Kansas.
drove the Sqaatters from the polls, and elect
Legislature, many of the members of
vhich are resident Missourians. That Lecis-
neure proceeded to enact laws whereby the
expression or publication of free opinions bv
the "Squattcr Sovereign are constituted
crimes, punishable BY 6ncfand imprisonment
IN the Pcnitcntiary; and the same Lcci slaturc,
elected by Missourians, also proceeded to tho
election, and actually did elect, all the Off
GERS Of the Territory, and provided by law
that these officers, thus elected, should hold
fhcir Offices for six wears.
What glorious privileges the people of
hansas enjoy under the practical operation
OF the "Sqnatter Sovereignty doctrines of
Douglass, Cass and COMPANY.
CO Poole, who concocted the story about
such extensive gold mines among the lndi ms
o. the Southwest, and persuaded 80 many
TO enlist for the purpose of driving the In
dams from the territory and possessing them
selves Of their enormous wealth, has been
hung BY his followers for the deception prac.
ticed upon theuf. The whole body Of hi.
rscrults met TO consider the subject, and
proposition TO hang him being put to vote
aad carried, he was accordingly swung up TO
70 limb OF atree in the vicinity of the sup
p1sed gold mines. This is the last instance
of "populsr sovereignty
THE HOLIDAY HoUsE.--This notorious and
infamous establishment which has for some
years persisted to violate the law Of the State
Ind the good order Of society, and receiy cd
the special aid and favor Of the late Chief
magistrate Of the State to sus .ain il in ;,s d..
Rance OF courts and .juries, has been asa;n
found guilty as a nuisance by Jury Of tho
country. The indictment was found under
the old law, and the verdict rendered by the
jury yesterday authoriscs the Court to order
the abatement Of the concern by the sheriff.
We trust thst our city may get rid of this
pesfilodtial nuisance, but Is long rs our CITY
Iounc'i exercise the privilege of licensing
gambling houses, VIC fear they will not sue
coed in suppressing dram selling.
ILLINOIS LICENSE Laws.-Judge Brccse has
d'ciddd that the late Prohibitorv Law sub
mittcd to the people, and rejected, in its Both
section repealed oil previous License Laws in
that State. Accordingly Illinois is today
without any law relative to the sale If H.
qnors, except in some chartered towns whore
tie regulation of it's sale is given to the cor.
poratlons. The case decided upon is to be
carried up to the Supreme Court.
BURGLARS ARREsTEo.-Two brothers by the
name OF White have been arrested for tho
robbery Of a jcwelry shop, in Louisiana, Mo-.
few nights since They were detected, and
all the missing articles found, by means of
information derived from negro, whom
they hired to watch for them while they com.
mitted the robbery.
CT The City Of Chicago, contains q non
/ uiation OF eighty thousand inhabitants. NC.
cordlng to the census just completed. This
is an increase OF ffty-one thousand since
1880, or one hundred and twenty per cent. in
hve years. Another five years and Chicae o
Will take the lead of St. Louis in populati On.
and tread close upon the heels of Cincinnati.
Tn Two boys who got on the form to be
raised up several stories into the composing
room Of the New York Observer, in attcmnt-
ing to loosen the form which caught unde,
the hatchway door, broke the chain. and fell
with the form some Fifty feet, One of them
= was killed and the other dangerously injured.
~ The London Quarterly Repiew for
August has an article on Advertising in which
numerous specimens Of London Advertise
men's Of the 'oldcn time appear. Amongst
athcrs are the following in the London Ga
>ette in 1894
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