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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Fruit

The question was often asked us while
in the East, "Can good fruit be raised in
Kansas % We always answered the
querist by referring to letter of WV.
WALKER, Esq, of Wyandot, who said he
raised annually the most luscious peaches
he ever saw. Since our arrival here we
have found fruit of all kinds in very great
abundance, far greater than we had any
conception of before leaving our eastern
home All along the border in Missouri
the best of apples are raised, and usually
furnished at fair prices. In consequence
of the very great influx of eastern people,
and their constant use of the article,
green apples have run up to high price;
but back from the immediate vicinity OF
the border, we are assured that the best
grated fruit can be bought at the pres
ent time for fifty cents bushel. Dried
apples can be bought in any quantity for
two dollars bushel.
The soil appears well adapted to the
growth of apples, peaches, and grapes.
Whether pears are sure crop we are not
informed, but presume they will thrive
where it is not too warm for the apple.
1t is to be regretted that the survey OF
the Territory could not have been effected
in season so as to have enabled our farm
ers to have felt justified in making such
permanent improvements on their prem
ises as the setting out of fruit trees, hedg-
es, DC, seem to contemplate. AS it is,
most likely such matters will be deferred
until autumn. In the mean time, it is
hoped that every farmer will be making
preparations to plant large orchards as
soon as possible-the sooner the better.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
At His Post.

After four weeks confinement to his
room, and much of the time to his bed
from severe indisposition, the editor is
again enabled to resume his duties with
the pen and scissors. To those generous
friends who have watched by his bedside
during the long night vigils, ministering
to every want, and the many who have
sympathi1ed with him in his illness. he
returns. his heart-gushing thanks, with
an ardent wish that should sickness place
them on beds of pain, they may find
equally devoted friends to assuage their
sorrows, and smooth the couch of suffer
ing. To Doct. JAS. F. MERRIAM, in par
ticular, who stood by our bedside through
the day and most of each night for nearly
a week, applying successfully the sooth-
ing virtues of cold water to ailay the
most exeruciating pains, he takes this
public occasion to say his services has
endeared him to us, and while life lasts
his name will be enshrined in our memo
~. Neither shall we forget the services
of those who. forgetting their own num-
erous cares, kindly loaned their assistance
in contributing articles for the Herald ol
Freedom, by which its interest has been
preserved during our long confinement
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Governor Reeder.

We publish this week some rather
caustic structures from the Frontier News,
paper printed at Westport, Mo-, touch
ing the Governor of Kansas Territory
Last week we gave an article from the
Kickapoo Pioneer couched in very SINH
lar language, perhaps furnishing the text
for the article in the News. We love to
see such articles, as we have no doubt
Governor REEDER does. 1t shows that
he has not sold out his manliness, nor
bartered away his love of freedom, which
he inherited from the founders of his na-
tive State
We have no acquaintance with Gov.
REEDER, only know him by his official
acts; but we take pleasure inbearing our
evidence in his favor so far as we do know
him. Coming to Kansas with an enlarg-
ed mind he clothed himself with national
views, and went to work TO advance the
best interests of those he was appointed
to govern. He has labored assiduously
to accomplish that end, and the heightof
his offendingis: he has been, in the esti-
nation of Missourians, too faithful to his
duty. Had he succumbed to their de-
sires in November last, and issued proc
lamation authorizing the election of
Territorial Legislature; and had he con-
tinued from that time forth supple tool,
obeying all their behests, and constantly
laboring to advance their interests, all
would have passed on as pleasantly as a
marriage bell. No intimations would
have been made of bad faith on his part,
or Of violence on theirs.
A correspondent in another column
speaks properly on this subject. and we
refer his article to the consideration of
the candid reader.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
The Douglas Resolutions.

We publish in another place the pro-
ceedings of meeting held in Douglas,
ten miles above this point on the river. on
the 99d ult. The movers in this meeting
were so unaccustomed to labor that they
supposed all who engaged in manual toll
were actual serfs or slaves, hence the tone
of their resolutions. Poor fellows, if
they derive any consolation from the pas
sage of such resolutions, we hope they
will be repeated weekly, as it is no an
noyance to our people whatever. twill
afford us as much pleasure to be designa-
ted as serfs and paupers as any other ap-
pellation which can be applied to US but
we would gently caution.our enemies
against making any movement which
looks towards reducing us to vassalage,
as seems to have been contemplated in
one of their rejected resolutions. They
viii find the expulsion of few Mormons
from jackson county an entire different
affair from that which they viii expert
ence in driving the settlers of Kansas from
their homes. The New England pio-
neers, as well as those from other States,
do not contemplate committing any out
RACES upon any class of people either in
Kansas Territory or in Missouri. 1t is
their purpose to observe to the letter the
rights Of others, and to submit to no in
vasion of their own rights. This fact
should be distinctly understood by all
parties. ,.-
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

the boundaries of the State Of Missouri,
and prescribing the manner in which q
State government should be formed, only
had reference % that portion Of the Ter
ritory which now forms the State of Mis-
souri-in short It only divided the Ter
ritory. These laws have been rendered
imperative by the intercourse laws, pro-
iibiting persons from settling in these
Territories. We think there is differ
ence between a law rendered inopera-
tive, and law repealed. When the OBJ
stacle is removed that renders 3 law In
isresises again not 20 when
repealed.
We do not state it as a fact that the
laws of the Missouri. Territory are yet the
laws of Kansas and Nebraska, though we
think il very reasonable that it should be
so. We leave it to our readers and the
public generally to judge for themselves.
We are, however, certain of one thing.
that if the common law is now in force
in those Territories, it exists there only
by virtue of the Territorial Legislature of
Missouri.-Froatier Ners.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

Isolated and alone upon the frontier he
stood in the midst of gentlemen of high
oficialcharacter and talent, the great non
comnittal was distant and repulsiye for
without the e,.coarage of friends he dared
not proclaim, publicly, that he was q
Freesoiler, and would doall, consistently
with his Official oath and dignity, to make
Kansas free State, as he had q right to
say, and a right to do; for he knew not
what evils the passions of an impulsive
people. reused to their highest pitch in
an exciting contest, might hurl around
his devoted head. No doubt in his mid
night dreams his Excellency saw his
honor, Judge Lynch, with his grave
judicial aspect, sitting at the foot of his
bed, remarking with all the politeness of
Richelieu to Baradas, that the Court had
taken his case under consideration, and
that they did not believe "that the air of
Kansas agreed with him." But far diff
ferent will be his position at the approach
ing crisis he has made for himselffriends
far away from the frontiers posoerfssl
friends at the head waters of the Kaw.
His town site is in the heart of the mill
tary reservation, beneath the gaping
mouths of the protecting cannon, and his
aid-de-camp is already in Washington
legalizing this unlawful proceeding. No
ugly provision of the bill can interfere
with his military friends: they have
voted once, and they will vote again /;
the offending clause viii be dead letter
when his Excelleney chooses to exert his
powers as the great expounder )" of the
organic bill.
1t is now time for the South to rally;
to wait no longer with folded arms for
"signs of the times" but 60 to work
boldly, fearlessly, and with sustained
buoyaney of spirit and 6xedness of pur-
pose to secure their great end.
Southerners, you will baptize in horse
pond, and tar and feather poor devil
who believes he is doing God service
when he persuades slave to escape, and
yet you will look on supinely, when the
whole institution is threatened with ex-
termination-and stand by and see with
composure ''paradisical garden, marked
and dedicated as an asylum for decoyed,
stolen. and runaway slaves. Big-heart-
ed but feeble-handed, you would look on,
shedding tears Of impotence and self-con-
tempt.
Freemen of the South, pioneers of the
West, these are the times that try
mems souls.'' This is the twelfth hour
of the night-birds of darkness are on
the wing-the day will soon dawn-the
battle will soon commence. Arouse and
fight good fight! Let the eagle Of
victory perch upon your banners. Steady,
men Forward !-Fr0ntier -Nems.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

and that they richly merit the seyerest
chastisement. They have turned their
hands against all honest men, and it is
time that an honest community should lay
their hands Upon them.
Rescued. That We recommend to the
citizens of Kansas the immediate adoption
OF measures <hat Eill break up this IN
holy gang, compel them to conform to
the usages of an honest community, or
that they be expelled from the Territory.
Mr.. Johnson offered the following
amendment TO the amendment:
RESOLVED, That the Lawrence Associ-
alton slaves are worse than the Mormons,
and like them they should be driven from
the view of civilized world.
This resolution created some discus
sion. Some gentlemen were opposed to
infiicting upon the Mormons, who were
at least honest and sincere polygamists,
and were doing us no harm, the curse OF
an aid Society Emigration"
The amendment to the amendment was
lost; when the vote was taken upon
Mr.. Edmonson's resolutions, which were
adopted unanimously.
The vote was taken upon the report as
amended, which was unanimously adopt
ed.
On motion, the Secretary was directed
to forward a copy of these proceedings to
the Westport Mo. Frontier News, :"
for Duhlicafinn with a rauunSt that the
papers of the Territory copy the same.
G. II. JOHNSON, Chairman.
LEVI OWISGS, Secretary.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

z We have been surprised to witness tho
large number Of California sdventurers
who have located in this vicinity, and at
first were at loss to account. for the
cause but at length our wonder has
ceased, as we have learned that with
this class Of persons, in nearly every in
stance, they formerly crossed the plains
on their way to the land of gold. The
beautiful country, the rich. fertile soil,
the dry and healthy climate, the undula-
ting, nIling prairie, the lovely river and
its crystal tributaries, its mines ofwealth
hid beneath the surface, all contributed
to in iuce the western tourist to return at
the earliest practical moment after the
Irdian titles were extinguished, and to
l,cate here for life. They have given up
their prospecting" for claims in the
golden Ophir. and found those thous-
and times more valuable in the heart of
the American continent.
Every traveller of any consideration
who has ever passed up the rich alluvial
bottoms of the Kansas river, or who has
crossed her boundless prairies, have TAX
en- occasion to speak in the highest terms
of what he has been pleased to call the
garden of America" Fremont, who
has repeatedly travelled the entire length
of the Territory, and who is fully ac-
quainted with its innumerabie resources,
says the eastern portion is susceptible of
being converted into continuous corn
field for two hundred miles. Emory,
Lewis and Clark all bear their testi-
mony in its favor, and give glowing de-
scriptions of the scenery, and natural re-
sources. The hundreds of pioneers who
have paid the country hasty visit, and
returned without locating among us, all
join in the favorable report, save an occa-
sional one of melancholic turn of mind,
who was in i'll health,- or who had left so
great attractions behind that his mind
was diverted from the glorious display of
Natures handy work in fitting such a
widespread country SO admirably for
the abode of man.
No wonder, we say then, that the re-
turned Californian is here; but greater
be the surprise if thousands of others do
not come back and settle down for life
alongside Of his friends from New Eng
land, and other northern States, who
meet here at the halfway station between
the Atlantic and Pacific, and quietly erect
anew the family circle, its cherished
hearth-stone and altar
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
The Roads in Kansas.

One of the features of this Territory,
which every traveller admires. is the ex-
cellent roads which nature has been SO
bountiful in supplying for the use of the
pioneer. Go in what direction We may
we find the highway prepared to oul
wants, unless it be across river bottoms
or ravines, where, of course, little la,
Dor is needed otherwise the Territory
could be travelled the whole length and
breadth at all seasons of the year in car
riages, without giving any attention what
ever to the roads. The great California
road, over which numberless thousands
have travelled annually to the Ell Dorado
of America, and to Oregon and Utah,
passes in the immediate vicinity of this
city, and presents all the characteristics
of national highway, as it is in fact;
yet it has hardly received from the hand
VI II1tl, % idE DO OuI OUScESdttOu GAUc1US,
moments consideration. 1t is to-day,
aside from the bridges over the rivers
and streams ON the route, a better road
in many respects than is usually found
through most of the country towns in
the East. The earth packs down and
forms hard smooth surface when damp,
and remains in that condition for long
time. What they may be in the wet sea.
son we don't know, as we have not had
enough of the watery element since oul
arrival in the Territory. in Novembel
last, to judge intelligibly on that subject
but from the thick web of turf which
lines the road side, we should suppose
there would be no difficulty with muddy
roads during the most inclement season
of the year.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Hotel TO Let.

We learn than the proprietors of the
large and oommodious hotel. now in the
process of construction in this city, are
desirous of securing tenant who has
had experience in hotel keeping. and who
has capital to furnish the house in good
style. The hotel viii be the best in
Kansas Territory, and necessariaily al
ways thronged with guests it is there
fore desirable that it should be conducted
By a person competent of giving salts
ton to the travelling public. Such aper-
son by applying to 8. c. PoNEao7, Esq,
in person. or by addressing him by let
ter at Lawrence, can obtain full informa-
ton as to particulars. It is designed to
open the house by the first of May next.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Census.

We are informed that the recent cen,
sus returns will show population o.
about one thousand in this election dis.
trict, four hundred of which are legal
voters. 1t is presumed that this will en-.
title US to six representatives in the Ter
ritorial Legislature, and to three repre-
sentatives in the Council. We hope Gov
REkDER win be pleased to furnish us al
an early day with an abstract of the en-.
tire census report of the Territory fol
publication.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

Among our las. List of subscribers from
the Eastwe observe several names marked
by Agents "free." We can only say
that We have entered no name on our
books on such conditions, and we eanaos
do 50. The terms Of the paper are quite
too low to admit of our furnishing any
class Of men with 8 years subscription
without an equivalent. Win Agents bear
this fact in mind Z .gsss.s s~se
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Census Returns.

We learn that N. F. CoswAr, ESQ.,,
has just completed . census of the 9th
and 10th election districts, in this Terri
tory. and made his report to the Gov
ernor on the 9th inst He states the
population of the two districts to be about
three hundred. :. .tss 4.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Prospectus.

Have you read the prospectus of the
HERALD OF FREkDox which we publish
on our third page? If not, please do so
immediately. and then go to work at once
and get your neighbor to subscribe for
the paper. AS soon as the river opens,
which we hope win be the case in few
weeks. We shall arrange to send our mail
matter direct to St. Louis before it is
mailed. thereby saving much delay, be.
sides the danger of being destroyed while
passing inland through the State of his.
sour. Up to the present we have no in.
formation of the arrival of a single mum
Der Of our paper 50 far east as St. Louis
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Justice of the Peace.

We eobserve among the list of appoint
ments for Justices of the Peace for Kan
sas Territory the name of our friend C.
K HoLLIDAr. Esq, of Topeka. 1t is .
good appointment, and one which reflects
much credit upon the appointing power.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

E Attention is invited to the bust
ness card Of E. CLARk, Esq. He has
opened law Office on Massachusetts,
street, and viii be found to be gentle
man of excellent legal education. and
vel qualified for the practice of his pro
fession.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
x.nsas Athxneum.

JoHr Hurca1ssoz. Esq. Of this place,
delivered the third lecture Of the course
before this body. Mr.. Hutehinson's
theme was Thought" He commenced
by saying he would not attempt to With
draw the veil of mystery that overhung
his subject-that be would not speculate
on those theories advanced by Plato,
Locke, or Reid, but would treat the sub
ject in reference to its practical bearings
upon every individual.
He noticed, first, the origin of thought
|-its relation to outward objects-the i'm
portance attached to forming early i'm
pressions, and the influence of early i'm
pressions in shaping the future character
of man. What thought is, such is man.
Man could have existence without it, but
not life; for life consisted in thinking,
and upon the nobleness of thought de-
pended the reality of life. He did not
agree with Plato and Decartes, that the
mind is furnished with certain innate
ideas. but adopted the theory of Locke,
that all our ideas arise from sensation and
reflection. He then viewed the mind in
its original state, free to receive its first
impressions, which are received from OBJ
iects and scenes around us. aud conduct
ed by the organs of sense to the soul
within-most of which are received from
the objects of sight and sound; and As
every object thus made its impression
upon the young mind, hence the impor-
lance of the careful training in youth, as
the elements of virtue and greatness are
created when the child is carelessly sport
ing away its innocent years.
He next noticed what we were to un-
derstand by character, as distinguished
from reputation, and drew beautiful
contrast between the two terms. Mans
success was as capable of demonstration
as proposition in Euclid; that it was
governed by fixed laws of human con-
duct; that there is no chance in mans
success; there was no such thing as
chance;
''There's Divinity that shapes our ends"
He then spoke at length of the charae-
ters of the mothers of Washington and
Webster, and attributed their greatness
and patriotism to the early influences oil
pious and sensible mothers. ALI truly
great and honest men were those who
were educated when young under right
influences; and to substantiate this he
presented some striking illustrations.
The faculty of reflection was discussed
1t was reviewing those ideas already de-
rived from sensation, and by looking in
upon them, forming new ideas. 1t twas
no single faculty, but an exercise of sew
eral faculties. Under this head he illus
trated the law of association, and happily
demonstrated its operation. Imagination
was then noticed as complex power "a
shaping influence; and he closed by elo-
quently urging upon the men of Kansas,
in founding State, to found it in justice
and truth; for as these faculties were
easily moulded and shaped for the right
when the mind was young and pliable,
SO could States be shaped in their begin
nings for high and noble destinies.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Lawrence, Saturday, Feb. "a, 1855,

- II. A. BILLINas, Esq. is our authorized
Geaerat Agent for the Herald # Freedom. and
all his contracts pertaining 10 the paper will be
binding on the firm. Letters addressed to Us ai
Buffalo, \. Y, viii be promptly attended to by
him. Emigrating parties and individuals. ell
route for Kansas, passing through Buffalo, ar,
requested 70 gise him . cali as his ofaee, No. q
Niagars Temperance House.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-12-19

DY virtue of an execution, issued out of the Cir
ID cult Court, for the County of Ottawa, to me
directed and delivered, against the goods and chat
tells lands and tenements of Palmer Church. for
the sum of twenty-nine dollars and seventy-three
cents, cost i'm favor Of Edward Dalton, have lev
led upon all OF Palmer Church's right, title and
interest in and to the following described proper
~, which shall sell at public auction, at the place
of holding the Court, in the village of Grand Ha-
ven, in said county, on the 18th day Of February,
1856, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day to
wit: lease executed by James Dalton to Bethu-
ell Church, and by Aim assigned to Palmer Church.
running twenty-one years from the 18th day Of
August, A, ID. 1910, for the equal undivided half of
property now known as the Church & Dalton Mill,
on Sand Creek, in the town of Talmadge, in said
county of Ottawa, which said lease and the assign
ment thereof was duly recorded in the office of
Register Of Deeds for Ottawa county, in liber of
miscellaneous records, pages IS, SO and 81, ref
erence being had TO said lease and assignment.
STEPHEN l.. LOWING, Sheriff. p
1921 WI by JOHN b. PARKS, Under Sheriff.
Grand Haven, December II, 1855
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-12-19

WHAT THEY THINK OF TN relation 70
the threatened rupture between the United
States aud Great Britain, the Liverpool 1ef-
egraph says; .g.gsrve. ns
. 3.sAs to our being able to affect any MILL
tary operations in a war with the United
States, that is all farce. We have now
some fifty thousand men in the Crmea;---
which constitute the larger portion of the
rank and file of the British army. The
Americans, on the contrary, have the best
organized military in the world. Their
riAemen are faultess. 1t is not too, much
to saw, that within one month of decara-
ton of hostilities, the Americans could, and
would. muster five hundred thousand men on
abe British frontiers. And, although hastily
summoned to arms, they would not be raw
recruits. like ours, but well trained soldiers.
The Americans are peculiarly military ma
ton. They possess the qualifications for
generalship in which we are lamentably de-
fcient. There are hundreds amongst them
who could command an army of invasion
with the most brilliant success. They are
fully up to their work, as soldiers and as tao
ticians, they have not one whit degeneratod
from their fathers who drove us from the
Union in l776, and combatted with us in
1912. AS to martial enthusiasm, there Is
no bound to it. We are cold aud phlegmat-
ic; they. frery and ambitious. The future
of that people is to be great military ma
ton which will sweep the American CONT
nent from Hudson's Bay on the North, to
Cape Horn on the South, and no nation can
stay their destiny.