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Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
That there shall hereafter be appropriated,

That there shall hereafter be appropriated,
as has been customary for the territorial
governments, a sufficient amount to be ex-
pended under the direction OF the said gov
ernor of the Territory of Kansas, not ex-
ceeding the sums heretofore appropriated
for similar objects, for the erection Of suita-
bic public buildings at the seat of govern
msnt, and for the purchace OF a library, to
be kept at the seat Of government for the
use of the governor, legislative assembly,
Judges of the supreme court, secretary,
marshal, and attorney Of said territory, and
such other ersons, under such regulations,
as shall he prescribed BY law.
SEC. "a. find be 1t further enacted.
That when the lands in the said Territory
shall be surveyed under the direction of the
government of the United States, prepara-
tory to bringing the same into market, Sec
tions numbered sixteen and thirty-six in
each township in said Territory shall be,
and tie same are hereby. reserved for the
purpose of being applied to schools in said
Territory, and In the States and Terrific
rles Hereinafter TO be erected out of the
same
SEC. 3d. And be it ft,rter enacted,
That uni. otherwise provided by law, the
governor of said Territory may define the
judicial districts Of said territory and as
sign the judges who may be appointed for
said territory to the several districts; and
also appoint the time and places for hold
ing courts in the several counties or suhdi-
visions in each of said judicial districts by
proclamation, to be issued by him but the
Legislative assembly, at their first or any
subsequent session, may organize the judg-
es, and alter the times and places of hold
ing the courts, as to them shall seem prop
er and convenient.
| SEC. 80 And be it further enacted. That
all officers TO be appointed by the Presi-
dent, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, for the Territory of Kansas
who, by the virtue of the provisions of any
law now existing or which may be enacted
during the present Congress, are required
to give security for moneys that may be
intrusted with them for disbursement, shal
give such security, at such time and place
and in such manner, as the Secretary of the
Treasury may precribe.
SEC. 81. And be it further enacted
That all treaties, laws and other engage
ments made by the government of the Uni
ted States with the Indian tribes inhabitine
the territories embraced within this act
shall he faithfully and rigidly observed
Notwithstanding anything contained in thi
act; and that the existing agencies and su
perintendencies of said Indians be contin
ued with the same powers and duties which
are now prescribed by law, except that tn,
President of the United States may, at hi
discretion, change the location of the ofic
of superintendent.
APPROVED May 80, 1854.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
The Kanas Bills.

We publish or the out side of to-day's
paper, the Kansas Bill, and would advise
all our readers TO preserve it, as they will
be letter prepared to expose the gross as
sumption of power and neglect of duty on
the part Of Gov. Reeder, ever since he
has been in Kansas. 1t is important too,
tina, all should familiarise themselves with
its contents, particularly those on whose
shoulders the burthens of office may be
placed. We are commencing, to US, an
untried sort OF experiment, and it becomes
US, to mark we'll the foundation on which
we have to build, SO that the experiment
prove not failure.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
Gov. Rseasr,s Whisksy Proslamation.

Gev. Rsedsrss Whiskey Proclamation.
Among ether provisions Ia the Govern-
or's Proclamation, is one prohibiting the
sale Of Intoxicating drinks near the place Of
voting at the coming election. He not on
ly prohibits the ACT, bat empowers his
Judges and Conssahles to destroy the nox-
ious article if any Squatter dare violate his
.edics! We need not say thar as we are
known to favor Temperance we shall be
the last to advise any such sale on that OF
any other day. But our purpose IS simply
to enquire whence this Governor derives
the power to enact laws touching the sale
of liquor. whence his right to order the de-
struction of any mans property Perhaps
the Governor regards the sale OF liquor, as
he does slavery, as emoral, social and
political evil" and finds in the Higher
Law power to prohibit the sale of liquor,
and to destroy the property of the Grocer
or Merchant, as he does the righ to pro-
hihit slavery, and steal his neighbors ne
groes! We have had enough Of the Gov
ernor's Higher Law;" have had a would
be monarch for our Ruler as long as the
most forbearing people can well stand
And if he. or any of his tools attempt TO
enforce his edicts, we venture to predict a
"whiskey rebellion" that will not soon be
forgotten by the Pennsylvanian!
But in SOBER earnest, does this NAN
imagine himself Monarch, that he can
make laws at will or does he believe the
settlers of Kansas SO stupid as not to know
the extent of his authority2 We can say
to him that he will find whenever he at
tempts to enforce them, that this is not the
only claim to power asserted by him which
all his abolition soldiery cannot enforce
We give him this hint in time and hope
he will profit by it. Forbearance is ceas-
ing to be virtue.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
Judicial Districts.


of our enterprising Governor, declaring
he Judicial Districts, and locating the
place for holding courts. Governor Reed
er deserves great credit for the promptness
and expedition he has exhibited in orga-
nizing the courts in the Territory. 1t has
been only FIVE MONTHS since he, and the
Judges came to Kansas, and he has per-
formed the Herculian task Of declaring in
proclamation of column long, the boun-
daries of the three districts, and fixed the
points at which the courts should be held.
He has been quite as happy in the selec-
tions of the points at which the courts
should he held, for the convenience of the
citizens interested, as he was expeditions
in declaring the Districts.
The section Of the bill giving him author
ity to fix the Districts, further provides
that she shall also appoint the time and
places for holding courts in the several
counties or subdivisions in each of said
Districts" In this Judicial District there
al lC SOiilC AibC VI SIA S0UuiF1SlOIlS, pOt ltlC
Governor in his wisdom has seen fit to give
us court in only one Of these subdivisions,
and that three miles from one extreme ,and
one hundred and twenty or thirty from the
other, and to put that one where the Gov
ernment at Washington says no avhite man
shal, settle, that is on Delaware lands, at
Leavenworth City.
The second District extends from the
mouth of the Kansas on the south sde to,
the Pottowotomie country and then South
to southern boundary of Territory, dis
tance of $50 miles, having seven subdivis-
ions, he fixed but one place for holding
courts in all that vast country, and that one
at Tecumsah, not very far from the North
west corner of the District. and at least two
hundred miles from the South east portion
which has probably the densest settlements
in the entire district. The third, we know
not much about, the place Of holding court
is Pawnee. Gov. Reeder is large stock
holder in Pawnee and Tecumseh, and
towns probably five shares in Leavenwortl
which we are informed he obtained by ba
ting 1T acith the capital false Pretenses.-
We feel assured that his interest alone, ane
not the interests or convenience Of tn cite
) zens In this district, induced him to make
) Leaven worth the SOLE place of holding ths
District Courts, when the bill expressly pro
: vides for court in EACH of the counties o
subdivisions. Such conduct on the part O
, Gov. Reeder we feel will not pass unnotic
ed in Washington, and we very much mis-
r take the character Of the President if h
does not recall man who thus openly de
fies the government, and outrages thos
whose wants he is sent here to provide for
Honorable ambition; to earn for himself
name among the great and good, is no pal
of his mission in Kansas, on the contrary
since his advent among us, his only air
o has been to "get money" by fair means Q
s foul, and to aid the miserable fanatics VIII
1 have come under the auspices of Thayel
!. s. Co., In their unholy and hopelessly ei
e forts to abolitionize our Territory.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
Nelu Aobertisfnlfnts.

ScSSSSSSSccSc ScccSOocSoocc
1866. 1861.
SEASON ARRANGEMENT.
st. Louis and st. Joseph Packet Line.
The New, Elegant and Fast Regular
Passenger Packet, JAMES a LUCAS,
S9e3A A. WNELAHD, Master, will leave
skk5saszzSf st. Louis during the season, on ev-
cry alternate Tuesday, at o.
clock, p. NJ. for Glasgow, Brunswick, Miami,
Hilps Landing, Waverly. Berlin. lexington,
Wellington, Camden, Sibley. Richfeld, Liberty
Independence, Kansas, Parkviile, Fort Leaven-
worth, Weston. Atchison; St Joseph and inter-
mediate points
Commencing her regular trips at the opening
of navigation, will leave st. Louis every alter
nate TUESDAY. as follows:
March 9th and 2Gth. August 7th and 21st.
April Sd and 18th September 4tl and 18th.
Nav 1st. 18th & 29th, October 2d. 18th and Goth
June 10Th and 26th. November 18th and 9th.
july 10th and oath.
RETURNING-will leave st. Joseph every
alternate MONDAY, at 10 O'Clock, A. H., as
follows:
March 18th and 26th. August 18th and 27th.
April 9th and 2sd. September 10th & oath
| May 7th and 21st. October 9Th and 22d.
June 4th and 18Th. November 5th and 18th.
| July ID. 10th and Goth. December 3rd.
Departing from St Joseph mondays at 10
| O'Clock, n. Atchison IL n.
Weston Tuesday at o'clock, II For:
Leavenworth at 8 II Parkville at 10. A
n, Kansas at -. NJ. Wayne City at [, NJ. Lib
ertv at 2 P NJ Richfieid at 81, Sibley at T
n Camden at 8 n Wellington at pm, licking
ton on Wednesdays at 8 O'Clock, A NJ. Dover al
9 n, Wayerly at 10 NJ Hilll's Landing at I
n, Miami at NJ. Brunswick at2 n Glas-
Cow at n. Boonville at 5 NJ, and arriving
| in st. Louis Thursday afternoon, in time for
Louisville Mail Boats, and the evening lines of
travel in every direction.
| The LUCAS is a first class boat, new, large
and elegantly fitted up, built expressly for the
Missouri river trade. and in all her equipment:
and appointments especial care has been taker
to make her superior Passenger Packet, and
particularly attractive.
90. A. WINELAND. Master,
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
PROCLAMATION.

United States of .america,
Territory of Kansas.
ITO the citizens and qualified voters of the
i Territory of Kansas; ANDREW II. REED
Err. Governor OF said Territory. do hereby pro-
claim and make known that l
SEAL \ have erected additional Efe2-
ton District, comprising portions
of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth Election
Districts to be called the EIGHTEENTH ELEc-
TIoN DIsTIcT, and to include the settlements on
the waters of the Nemaha. bounded and des-
cribed as follows, to wit: Commencing in the
VermiIlion Branch Of the Blue River at the
crossing of the Military Road from Ft. Leaven-
worth to Fl. kearney, thence due n. to the line
of the Territory, thence along the same east to
the line of the 18th Election District. thence
s. along the line of the fourteenth and fifteenth
Election Districts to the aforesaid Military
Road. and thence by the middle of said road to
the place of beginning. The place of Election
for said District will be at the House of w. W.
Moore, where the st. Joseph Road crosses the
Nemaha.
And further that have detached from the
eleventh and added to the tenth Election Dis
trict the following portion of territory to wit,
beginning in the Vermiilion River at the cross
ing of the Independence Emigrant Road, thence
ND said River beyond the house of Josiah g.
Adams. thence due East along the Northern
side of the said House to the said Road, and
down said Road to the place of beginning.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Ter
ritory, this the oath dav of February, A. d.
1855. A. I'll. REEDER, Governor.
Attest, DANIEL WooDsoS, Secretary
81 dy
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
1855.
1855. 1855.
SEASON ARRANGEMENT.
st. Louis and st. Joseph Packet Line.

fsn u THE New, Elegant and Fast Reg
Y 5s5fzfa' ular Passenger Packet POLAR
Ezzszs<EsE STAR. E.. F. DIX, Master, will
leave st: Lonis, during the season, on every al
tereate TUESDAY, at O'Clock. p. NJ. for
Glasgow, Brunswick, Miami HilI's Landing,
Waverly, Berlin, Lexington, Wellington, Cam
den, Sibley, Richfeld, Liberty, independence.
Kansas, Parkville, Fort Leavenworth, Weston,
Atchison. st. Joseph, and intermediate points;
Commencing her regular trips at the opening
of navigation, will leave st. Louis every alter
nate TUESDAY, as follows:
February eth; August Nth and 2sth;
March 18th and 27t, September 1Ith and 25th
April 10th and 24th; October 9th and 23d;
May Sth and 22d; November 9th and Goth;
June 9Th and 18th; December 4th.
July Sd, 18th and 31st;
RETURNING-will leave st. Soseph every
alternate MONDAY at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, as
follows:
March 9Th and 10Th; August 9th and goth;
April I'd, 10th and Both; September Sd and 18th;
May 14th and 2sth; October 1st 18th and pot
June 11th and 25th; November 10Th and Goth
July 9th and 23d; December 10th.
Departing from st. Joseph Mondays at 10
O'Clock, A. NJ, Atchison at O'Clock, P. RI.
Weston Tuesdays at O'Clock, A. NJ, Fort
Kansas at II, H.. Wayne City at 1, P. NJ, Lib
erty at 2, P. NJ, Richfeld at 8, p. M, Sibley at
4, P. NJ, Camden at 5. p. NJ, Wellington at 6,
P. M, Lexington, Wednesdays at s O'Clock, A.
HilPs Landing at II, A. b., Miami at 1, P. NJ,
Brunswick at 2, P. b., Glasgow at 4, P. NJ,
Boonville at 5, p. NJ, and arriving in St. Louis
Thursday afternoon, in time for Louisville Mail
Boats, and the evening lines Of travel in every
direction.
No effort shall be wanting on the part OF her
present officers, to retain for the Polar Star the
wide popularity which she has heretofore ac-
quired. Every requisite attention and accom-
mediation will be cheerfuiy extended to passen-
gers and shippers may rely upon the utmost
punctuality and dispatch in the delivery of
freight. E. F. DIX,
civ H NJ BLOSSOM
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
LAND TRANSPORTATION

Required for the Indian Department.
Office of the Superintendent Indian Affairs,
St. Louis, March Sd, 1855.
GEALED Proposals will be received at this
LCOffice. until noon of the thirty-frst of March
instant, for transporting in good, well cover
edwagons. from 40 to 20 tons of Indian annuity
goods. provisions, &C., from Kansas Missouri:
part to a point on the Arkansas river, at or near
Fort Atkinson; a part to Bent's Fort, and part
to Fort Laramie: to be delivered to the United
States Agent, for the Indians ofthe Upper Platte
and Arkansas, in good order, at said points, or
at such other places suitable for the distribution
thereof to the Indians, az said Agent may
direct.
be required to be in readiness by the tenth day
of May next and in event later than the arri-
val of said goods, sc, at Kansas, if they arrive
after that day.
or for each separate lot, more or iess, stating
the rate per hundred pounds for which they will
agree to perform the service; and each bid should
| be accompanied by guaranty in writing, sign
| ed by the bidder and Irresponsible security
that be will enter into contract and file satifact-
| ory security for the safe transportation of the
! goods, if his bid should be accepted.
| Proper times will be fixed upon by the United
| States Agent to meet the wagons, and receive
the goods IN the Indian country, and should he be
| unaVoidably delayed in meeting them as fixed
upon or be unprpared to receive them. per
diem allowance will be made to contractors for
reasonable delay at the points after arrival
and after the appointed time of arrival, and they
will be required to retain the goods in their care
| accordingly.
The right is reserveo 10 he Agent torej c. any
! wagor or team that he shall consider unfit fol
| the performance of the service. and the righ
is also reserved TO take time to examine and de-
eide upon the bids, or to reject them, if they bt
deemed unreasonably high.
/ PAYMENT will be made to contractors on thu
certificate of the IndianAgent that the coDtrac
has been fully complied with, on their part.
Bids should be endorsed ssProposals for trans
porting by land Indian Annuity Goods, &C., IL
i 1855, - and will be addressed to the undersigned
(Signed.) ALFRED CUMMINGS,
Superintendent Indian Affairs,
/ 81 Touis MO s6 4t
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

HARD TIMES IN BosroN, MAss.-A
few DAYS ago. an ordinarv-looking New
foundland dog was offered for sale in State
Street. The price asked for him was on
ly one hundred dollars.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

MosEY ORpERs,-We see If stated
that the establishment of a system by which
money can be transmitted through the Pos
Office Department by means Of drafts, is
about to be brought before Congress. In
England, such system already is organ.
lied, and money to large amount is yearly
transmitted without the least risk Of loss
To publishers especially. il would be q
great benefit.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
A Horse and Wagon in the Missouri.

a Horse ana wagon In the mlsS0urI.
On Thursday morning last, one of our
citizens observed a Horse standing on a
bar in the river, about one mile above town.
On going up to him in boat, he was
found to be so much exhausted and chilled,
as to be unable to swim ashore. He was
towed to land however, but died in few
minutes after landing. A new chair frame
was seen close to the horse, on the bar
and Squatter some three miles above.
says that the Horse with wagon attached
foated down by his honse the evening be-
fore. We fear that some serious accident
may have happened at some ferry above
or that some person or persons may have
been in the wagon when it first got into
the river.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
s9-The Government # is said h;

E~9y@The Government, it is said, has
positive assurance that Gen. Quitman has
nothing to do with any filibustering expe-
dition, and the efferts to turn the Kinney
expedition against Cuba failed. The Span
ish minister at Washington, assures the
government that Spain will pay the indem-
mites in the Black Warrior case and for
injuries inflicted on American vessels.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

E@The city o. Vicksburg is soon to
he lighted by gass. The Sentinel says
that the works are nearly completed, and
the ereaterpart of the apparatus received.
BY the first of May it is expected that the
citizens of vicksbug viii have floods ol
new light shed upon them.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

EThe sword OF Gen. Jackson has
been accepted by both houses of Congress.
Several able and eloquent speeches were
made on the occasion, and Col. Benton
gave graphic description of some of Jack
sons battles, in which he acted as the old
hero's aid.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

RS There are now in the United
States, thirty-two insane hospitals in active
operation, and nine others in construction.
Twenty-eight are State Institutions; and
the number Of the insane is nearly 90, 900.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

E1- The New Orleans Insurance Com
panies offer reward of $4,000 for the dis
covery of the incendiary who set fire to
the Rev. DIR. SCOTS Church there.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

AN IMMENSE TAx.-The tax of Nicho-
las Longworth, Esq, of Cincinnati, amounts
this year thirty thousand three hundred
and thirty-eight dollars. That is the a.
mount he has paid into the Treasury this
year, as the tax upon his property. 1t is
fortune within itself.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

ssS 1t is said that Mr.. Frederick
Douglass stepped into barber's shop in
Biddiford, Me. where he had lately deliv-
cred one of his peculiar lectures. and re-
quested the operator, who was an Ethio-
plan, with slight touch of European ALLOW
10 do his duty. But the darkee absolutely
refused to perform, giving as reason that
it was against the rules of the establish
ment to shave a colored gentleman. So
Frederick, after expressing proper amou,
of Indignation, was compelled to leave.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

WEsr PoINr Capri FROM KAssAs.
Lyctlrg,,s Talbot. of this City, and for
meriy of Liberty, No., has been appointed
a Cadet to West Point from Kansas Ter
ritery MFR. Talbot is a young man OF
fine talents, and viii, we have no doubt
graduate with the highest honors..
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

sT At Yale College the whole num-
Der Of students is six hundred and FIVE, of
whom four hundred and fifty are UNDER
graduates, and one hundred and ffty-fve
are professional students.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

Esg The government OF the city of
New York, By actual enumeration, requires
at least two hundred and fifty rooms for its
accommodation.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

Er 1t is proposed in Boston to erect a
telegraph line from that city to Albany,
to cost $25.0O of which $4,000 has been
received.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

Es@ The whipping post is still in use
in Covington, Ky. Lawrence Hunt was
publicly whipped in that place, recently
for stealing.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

sSB~The phrase lighting on his own
hook" is now most elegantly rendered
s'waging war upon the prudent individual
ity of his personal curve"
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

EF For the first time for four hundred
years cross has been publicly erected in
the Turkish Capital, Constantinople.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

eg Out of one dirty alley in Naples
cholera destroyed 148 out of l46 inhabit.
ants. The three survivors were removed
by the authorities.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

AuTHoRs.-There are, in Great Britain
1914 persons engaged as authors, or writers
1875 are located in the metropolis.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
ROARDING HOUSE.

JONATHAN CONGROVE. is prepared to
y accommodate all who may come. with as
good Table as can be found In all "Squatter-
DOM" The scarcity of provisions ana tne on
ficulty OF procuring them, forces him HELuC-
rAvrLv to charge so cts. meal
Afrh;soo T -Iu.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

sg When we record our angry feel
ings, let it be on the snow. that the first
beam Of sunshine may obEterate them
forever,
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
ROUTT & LAMB,
(LArE OF LIBERTY, MIssoRI.
ATTORNEYS AT Law.
Atchison. Kansas Territory.

WILL attend personally to all business en-
trusted TO them In the following Courts Of Mis-
souri,, to wit: Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Clin-
ton, Platte and Holt Also, in the courts Of
Kansas Territory, to wit: Atchison, Kiekspco,
and Ieayenworth cities- Sh
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

s@An old lady named Sarah Candy.
aged one hundred and seven years, recen-
tly died at New Liberia, La. She was
born in the city of New York.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

s9 According tot the Lafayette, Ind.
Journal, the prisoners in the Jail at that
place have dances every day.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
APPROVED May 80, 1854.
.This section has since been repealed.

EEs@ When, at the commencement of
the Revolutionary War, the eldest son of
the Earl Of Chatham was ordered to en-
bark for America, he resigned his COM
mission rather than engage in military
service which his heart, his conscience,
and his sympathies condemned. Lord
Efingham did the same thing. Rather
than be employed to enslave their brethren,
they abandoned the profession by which
they expected to live, and threw up COM
missions for which they had paid large
sums of money,
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20

rs The length of the Governors Proc
amation. compels US to leave out several
columns of advertisements this week.
Squatter sovereign., 1855-03-20
TIMOTHY sCANLAN.

DRIcK MASON AND PLASTERER, offers
ID his services to the citizens of Atchison,
and feels confident that he give entire satis-
faction to any who may employ him, in either
of the above occupations. Can always be
found at HOME OR AT WORK. s1d.