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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
A Letter from Kansas.

We have been kindly permitted to pub
lish tie following extract ftom letter re-
eeived by a gentleman of this city. who
has been in Kansas and returned for the
purpose of taking his family thither in
the spring.
The letter aforesaid is dated at Coun-
ell CITY, Eureka county, Jan. 9th, 1855,
and reads as follows:
"Weha your cabins ready for raising,
and would have had them raised some
time since, if we could have got hands to
help us. They shall be done as soon as
possible. The claim is safe for six
months. The weather has been, with
very few exceptions, as clear, calm, warm,
and beautiful as any l ever saw In June.
To-day-9th ofJanuary-iswsrm enough
for one to sit comfortably IN the shade
without coat or hat. Mr.. Smith, the Su-
perintendent of the American settlement,
is now here, and is about making prepa-
rations for the improvement of the city
Everything smiles upon US. would moi
return to old Pennsylvania for half the
State. Bring all Pittsburgh With you IN
the spring"
We are informed that a large company
are preparing to leave this city for the
Territory in the spring. Messrs. Thorn
as Block, w. Cable, and II. Mitchell, arc
the managers of said company. Thirty
four men have already joined it. many Of
them with families. They intend leay.
ing for their destination on the first oi
March. The site which they have cho'
sen for their new city is said to be very
pleasant and healthful, with fair supply
of building material procurable with bu
little difficulty. For fuel, they have sp
parently inexhaustible beds of coal. il
many places cropping out at the surfac'
of the earth.
The accounts that have been already
given of the new land by private letters
received here, similar to the above, anc
the reports of those who have been ther'
and returned for their families, will doubt
less induce large number of the sturdy
sons of Pennsylvania to ego in and pos
sess the land" We have heard the mum
Der for next spring set as high as fou
hundred. All that is needed to maxi
Kansas great and thriving State is ''fre'
men and free labor" We shall eve
look with interest upon the success o
those whom this city shall contribute t.
the new State to be, and shall trace in it
growing prosperity and its attachment +
free institutions, their influence as exert
ed with that of the lovers ofliberty from
every other State, whose citizens sha!
make Kansas their future home.-Pitss
6uygh Family journal.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
General 1ptelIiaepee.
Kansas and It's Settlers.


The kansas League" which was form
ed in New York, during the summer of
1854, has made little noise in the world,
and we doubt not that many have looked
upon it as a defunct institution, one of
those ephemeral results of excitement
which, gerrninsted in an unhealthy soil,
die as soon as the forcing treatment is
withdrawn. But this has not been the
case with the League" An Office was
opened in Broadway, and about one thou
sand individuals have there been furnish
ed with tickets, at less than the usual
prices, which took them, safely and COM
fortably, by first class means of convey
ance, and under the supervision of an
agent, to st. Louis. They were furnish
ed with all desirable information gratui-
tously, and have thus been landed near
the point of their destination, thoroughly
equipped with the means to become good
settlers and valuable citizens. Some have
returned to the States, to spend the win
ter, intending to re-emigrate with the
spring, and some have been found unfit
ted for the life of the pioneer. But, in the
main, the emigrants were intelligent, ac-
tive, sober, and determined native Amor
leans, with sufficient money to enable
them to live comfortably until they should
have returns from their crops and herds.
The coming spring will find two thou
sand persons moving toward Kansas, un-
der the auspices of this Society, and COM
posed of the very best material. They
generally are organized into bands or
companies, each consisting of townsmen
and old scquaintances, who have adopted
such measures as, through correspond
ence or conference with the officers of the
League, they have found most conducive
to success. In some instances, ten, TWEEN
ty, or thirty persons, and their families,
are joined by physician, schoolmaster,
DC. others consist Of mechanics, and
others still are more heterogeneous, and
amount to hundred or more. Three or
four Protestant congregations are to form
as many bands, accompanied by its pas
tor; and such is the character of this
movement, that, instead of being actua-
ted By a dislike for restraint, they make
every effort to secure to themselves and
their children all the institutions and hab-
its of the most orderly and refined socie
ty in the East No American could be
acquainted with the mass of settlers NOV
ing for Kansas, without the highest sat
isfaction at the credit and honor they re-
feet upon our country.
The American Settlement Company"
which acts in concert with the League,
sent an exploring party in October. and
chose location for county and "Coun-
ell City," on a noble swell of the vast
andluxurisnt rolling prairies, on the great
Santa Fe road; and preparations are
making for large number of settlers 60
ing in April, and afterwards. There is
supply of bituminous coal, and lime
stone, water, and timber, with an excel
lent agricultural and trading position !;
aud the plans are formed for the estab-
lishment of the best institutions.-BaE
faio Democracy.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
Select Poetfy.
Life's Poetry.

The proudest poetry of youth
Is" Would were o man !"
The golden years that lie between,
Youth like o dream would span
'Tis in its thoughts, It's in its heart
'Tis ever on its tongue
But oh the poetry of age
Is this" When was youngm
Thus, in the morn of life, our feet
Would distant pathways find;
The sun still face to face We greet,
The shadows fall behind!
But when the morn of hfc is DER,
And nature grows less kind,
The lengthening shadows creep before
The sunlight falls behind.
With many q murmur slow and sad,
The stream of life flows on;
That which we prize not when We had,
Is doubly priced when gone!
And many sad and solemn truth
Lies written on Life's page,
Between the % Poetry of Youth"
And "Peotry of Age"
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
Settlement Of Kansa.

The Massachusetts, Emigration Aid
Company, for the settlement of Kansas
Territory with persons opposed to slave
~, according to the Boston Advertiser,
is like to prove q profitable investment
for its stockholders, though not SO in
tended. 1t says:
Ithas SO made Its investments, which
are very considerable in amount, that its
means are already enlarged by its profits,
and it could sell out this day to handsome
advantage"
As regards the character of the settlers
sent out by the company, the same arti-
Gle tells US that when the Rev. Mr.. Lum
organized church in Lawrence CITY,
Kansas, he found a larger proportion OF
men and women who had been church
members at home than he could have
found In any similar number In the old
States. 1t was also ascertained, when
the Kansas Athaneum was organized in
the same city, that more than one voter
in ten was man of collegiate education.
The Aid Company, as the Advertiser in
forms US, has not as yet paid any mans
passage to Kansas, all who have gone
thither having paid their own way.
Settlers go out without persuasion OF
aid, and those who went out first can now
sell out their lots for $500 in advance,
besides the cost of improvements. Since
the closing in Of winter, the Massachu-
setts company has been preparing itself
to operate with great promptness in the
spring, and has added very considerably
to its subscriptions. At the opening of
the next season, it will found towns like
Lawrence in other parts of Kansas, and
viii send forward party of emigrants
every Tuesday, beginning with the first
Of March, having at this time larger
number of persons enrolled, who wish to
go to Kansas, thsnit ever had. The emf
grafton fever is increasing all through the
North and West, on account of the hard
times.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
Total,
56,726 1885,

In these six counties, therefore, the
slaves constitute nearly twenty-three and
one half per cent. of the population
whereas, they do not constitute quite thir-
teen per cent. of the population of the
whole State of Missouri. Slavery, then,
following the Missouri river, the natural
and, until lately, the only channel of travel
and transportation, has travelled westward,
partly under the attraction of the fertile
lands bordering upon Kansas, and partly
to avoid the tendency of the slaves to es-
cape into Illinois when left in the eastern
counties.
In no part of the Union is slavery
more profitable, and i'll no part of the
Union do slaves bring more in the mar
ket, either to sell or hire, than in the six
counties whose population is given above.
The schedule of rates at which slaves are
hired out theIe by the year, as given in
the letter recently published by General
Stringfellow, must make the mouths of
the Virginia shareholders absolutely wa
ter. Men from $3.50 to $3.50 per annum
women from $50 to $3.50 per annum ;
girls, from ten to thirteen years of age,
from $40 to $50 per annum-"t the hirer
paying all expenses, and losing all time
of sickness" Such are the ordinary
rates, as testified to by Gen. Stringfellow.
He himself is actually paying still higher.
viz: S96 per annum for a slave girl of
ten years of age.
Ten millions of dollars are low esti-
mate for the value of the slave property
in these six counties. That such an in
terest, SO powerful. separated from Kan
sas only by an imaginary line, and always
so acutely sensitive to the instincts of
self preservation, must act upon the new
Territory with prodigious force, was in
evitable. That the wave of slavery,
which had rolled westward from the Mis-
sissippi, and with still increasing force
and volume, quite to the borders of Kan
sss, would break over into it as soon as
the barrier of the Missouri compromise
was removed, must have been foreseen as
sure to happen in the ordinary course of
events, by everybody not willfully blind
or deplorably stupid. 1t has been hoped
that the ordinary course of events could
be changed by a stimulated free emigra-
ton. Such hopes may still be entertain
ed, and Heaven grant that they may be
realized IN !. Tribune.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
A Place for Every Tool.

Everybody who is anybody, likes to
see system and order displayed in the va
rious operations of the farm; and even
the most careless and negligent admire
and approve of the practice of him who
has an appropriate place for every tool,
and strenuously insists on keeping itthere
"a place for everything, and everything
in its place. /" is a maxim eoeval with the
art of printing. Many times. those who
often insist on,hasiag this precept carried
into, practice, come the furthest short o
keeping It themselves. Many farmer.
fail greatly in. keeping this nrecept;; ant
in time lost, patience tested, and the many
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10

entirely off the chest; now inhale or suck
all the air you can, SO as to fill the chest
to the very bottom of it, SO nomore can be
got in; now hold your breath and throw
your arms off behind, holding in your
breath as long as you please. Done in a
cold room is better because the air is
much denser, and will act more power
fully in expanding the chest: in this man
ner it viii enlarge the capacity and size
OF the mngs.-ConazRon School Adro-
cote.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
Slavery In Kansas.

It is known to everybody that slavery
exists in Missouri, but it may not be
known to everybody that it is most pros
porous, powerful, and active in precisely
that part of Missouri from which its in
f1uence over Kansas can be exerted most
directly and effectively. The population,
distinguishing free from slave, of the six
contiguous counties on the Missouri, three
north and three south of that river, COM
mencing on the link of Kansas where the
Missouri makes its great bend and enters
the State of Missouri, as returned in the
census of 1850. was as follows:
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
Call to Kausas.

EY LUCY LARsoz~AR-Jel1y By.
YeonraB strong, hitler tiIrong!
yattsEes honest men;
We viii make the wilderness
Bad aad bloom again.
Bring the sickle, spee.l the plow,
Tarn the ready soil.
Freedom is the noblest pay
For the true mans toll.
Ho. brothers! come, brothers.
Hasten all with ne.
Well sing npon the Kansas plains
A song of Liberty!
Father. haste DER the waste
Lies a pleasant land.
There your firesides, altar-stoncs,
Fixed in truth. shall stand.
There your sons, brave and good,
Shall to freemen grew.
Clad in triple mail of right,
Wrong to overthrow.
lilo. brothers. come. brothers
Hasten all with me.
Well sing upon the Kansas plains
y song Of Liberty!
Mother, come! here's home
In the waiting West;
Bring the seeds of love and peace.
You who SOW them best.
Faithful hearts, holy prayers,
Keep from taint the air;
Soil /. mothers tears have wet
Golden crops shall bear.
Come, mother! fond mother,
List. We call to tliee,
Well sing, dec.
Brother brave. stem the wave.
Firm the prsiries tread.
Up the dark Missouri food
Be your canvas spread.
Sister true. join Us too.
Where the Kansas flows.
Let the northern lily bloom
With the southern rose.
Brave brother. tru. sister.
List, We call 10 thee,
Wen sing: dc.
One and all, hear our call
Echo through the lanl.
Aid us with willing heart.
And the stroIg right hand.
Feed the spark the Pilgrims struck
On old Plylnouth Rock.
To the watch-fircs of the free
Millions glad shall flock.
Io, brothers. come, brothers.
Hasten all with me,
Well sing. dc.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10
Choice Poetry.

~The following stirring lyFsc was the Sue
eessfrl one. cut of eightyeigkt sthers. Submitted
in competition for prize of fifty dollars, offered
br DIR. wEEB, Secretary of the Emigrant Aid
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10

~ All things are engaged in writing
their history. The rolling rock leaves its
scratches on the mountain, the river It's
channels, the animal its bones in the
stratum, the fern and leaf the modest ep-
itaphin the coal. The falling drop makes
its sepulehre in the sand; not footstep
upon the snow or the ground but prints
a map of its march. The air is full o!
sound. the sky of tokens; the ground is
all memoranda and signatures. and every
object is covered over with hints which
speak to the intelligent
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10

H Adversely overcome is the brightest
glory and willingly undergone, the great
est virtue. Sufferings are but the trials
of valiant spirits.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10

EE Scandal, IKE kite, to Fly well.
depends greatly on the length of the tale
il has e .~--
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-10

HSome people are excessively proud
of their humility, and vain of their de-
testation- of the spirit of the pharisee.
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y V4' lfq is1
LgADTbsre have been no sales Of this article In
market for several months past At
LIME-Tbs rates for Eastern Lime from second hsnds
has been ~ 1891 80 p Dbl. @g-1s a
PuTAT0Es--Prices for this article hare again fallen
on and about $50 bbls Meshannicks were sold Thurs
day at 81 soSs3 y bbl e.
NAVAL sToREs-ws quote Tar at 90 oOa$s rs.
Pitch at 50 5os 50 p bbl, and Rosn at 81 o5@s1 Is p
bbi of spirits Turpsntins $50 to 800 bbis have been
disposed Of, mostly at $40 y gallon, cash.
FREIGHTs-There has been rather more inquiry for
shipping during the past week. and among the foreign
engagements we have noticed three ships taken for Ly
erpool at the advanced Nd for Cotton and one
two others have been laid that port at va for Cot
ton, and A for Flour For Boston ship was taken
Saturday at 3<c for Cotton and 700 for Flour 5s
ExcHANGEs-The demand for both Foreign and De-
msstlc Bills has been very limited, but we hear Of
change Of much moment in tbs rates We quote: '@
sterling los n 1o10pX
arah9s .o .oohg1l.lo aosI
tolE SlSty-osy bls - a ~ e OF or
sight Checks ON Neg York. par to u o Ct prem
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RECEIPTS, OF PRODUCE.
GRAND seahen Bllesbses cotton Buckner,
a aa a % 90 a. John
kist-sl DO DO cpmniag co.'s George Connolly
hs eos Do Do aeonbiii aes q DO La
oa a. Yale ~ Carroll r. .eaa
Pes s ns Dc O. Fews. DC az feaata Se9s
do 80 ods.p sy.s e @ do q
sss baies cotton AIS Of he 4bovs &
4 e ass Farley
Kawn, Dsneaa &eo-T Il bales eooa ~
sass
Thompson hs@p 10 %
n4eaa bales a. u ss G Rss s 1is sr1 e
~ sts hs,t Wesd.uH AM
e. s,a, 4 % 4 ar. Esssr Do DO wdg Goods
aoar ne est sss eess5o yb
% ps s. T. srn aay
Ton e9ssO DO aYur s.l. . tsawiip,.u d "
1874 tks ind sundie. order.
ST LoUIss eamsrL k unsass bales cotton Wait 4co-
&sossS 4 Do
ae T. ias Do a. 90 Y seison eo
d. sIy 's
Wadyss % do eass hemp osssbs M.ssay,si 10 30
lal Of eo coils Pc oenr Das hisi y e
c. ~ sss s Tass. ga a s'
acs7ss do si bsi. a0ut saw &co4 ~ iaiow L
antet-l5a Ibis PautCok i3uddei
BIDS Delbondie--o Lechu Seland
lds, 81 OS hsa.J Horrsl yis
Is Eonr lis do pok va oaeF pur IN
cotton . anus tso.see
BAYOU DR. BsstyoD oo,u Wright p.yen
g as nss ecl1
hhds .g7 4
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Leonora1 bales cottonA Ad ams-t
do 10 0AAet q H.wkns-Totai 10 lea cotton.
PEARL Virginia Psaris bs.a cotton Oakley
Hawsins IS 40 do Anaeraou q Melcif-4l bn order
MoBlLE-s teamer oregoe-oundriss to order
ALEX aNDRIA-stsamr Vic o.s bales cotton tnsu) cuidy
Brow &cu42 do do ttarrt,ons do do Bekne
Newm n--5d GamLnAck Squares 40 Mex arr
bindf6rd-i do do ,Alsy Yadho gB Bsio Geo
Powell g. pkia4S Shaw acoll do do hlde
Wright, davenport ~eo-Total ss5 baiss cotton.
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Passengers Arrived by steamers

From BAyou SARA--By The Dr. Baty:
hss,rs Chss Pauis Cook ,Dksn Morgan Blair subas
, RolA and son, Lewey - ,5z 7
FKoM ALExAspRIA-By the Exchange
Mai Heat, Bel, Hon Bae ., v Lindsay Akin
sIank, no. ers servant.
FROM GRAND LAKE-Bg the Southern Belle: -
Samuel MS Boadwel Dr. sn erlya Judge Lea Judge
nich MIR Perkins, Robertson Judge Buchanan Lvteyrs and
Airiend, Yefk, T.
From ST. LouIs--By the .adfiatic: ''=z7"5F=3
Ms Trope aud Male and LADY, Messrs Charesop
Noshe Smith, Smith. Ehusy, Barron Ramsay aRker
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COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
REVIEW or TIE MARKETS..

SATURDAY MoRsiNo August 10. 1855.
We have still but little animation to report in our gen.
ers market and especially in the bnsiness for Cotton
which has been depressed both by an improvement In
Frfghts and by unfayorzble sccounts from Europe In
Tobacco there has been movement and Sugar and
Mosses have gone OF freely at fuller prices Flour has
been rmer generally and Corn has uctuated in prices
Pork has beee in better request and the rates have i'm
proved. Lard has advanced shout Ia v b., Freisbts
have shown still frmness while Exchanges have
continued very dull ~ gFs@E $40 4gs
On Thursday morning we published commercial ac-
counts received by the steamer America at Halifax ON
Wednesday morning. They reported dropping Cotton
market at Liverpool, with cline In prices OF tl6
The sales Of the ending the 4h inst smbraced
sS coo bales including 1900 taken for export aid specua
ton leaving barely 500 bsles for the trade The
tatons at the close stated at I'd for Fair Orleans
sls for Mdding Orleans 8 for Fair Uplands, and Cd
tt for Fair Upands Accounts from the agricultural
dstrots were favorable for the crops and Breadstus
were dull at previous rates The Money market
ported Is stringent but consos quoted at IL
for money, which III correct) was advance.
CoTToNWs left this Cotton market at the close Of
last weekly report with steady appearance and fair
demand prices not having been Affected by the Balc's
accounts, which had published Friday morning.
On Saturday the inquiry continued and although factors
very firm in their pretensons, about 1000 bales
changed hands during the day. On Monday, however,
the marke. dull and continued during Tues ay
and Wednesday the sales Of the three days together being
confined to about 1890 bales mostly ut easier prices
though without any quotabe change. On Thursday
morning placed the Americas before readers
and buyers considered them unfavorsbe the Offering
rates reduced Factors generally however showed
but little disposition to make the concessions demanded
and only about 100 bales changed hands during the day
including "a Good Middng of the New crop less than
lie fb. Yesterday prices fully "a lower and
this reduction purchasers found for 400 bales
king the entire business Of the week 1000 bales.
The receipts Of the New crop during the week embrace
17a5 bales making altogether last evening 1915 bales
against only So to the same time last year. and 10 bales
in1853 =--.-7= =5.z.=,=...
Wsreduce our quotations as follow: ~
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.5.+: -af@ -l ARRIVED.
Sehr Ema, Ba four Pensseea to unstsr-Basn
Sehr Horne Mack das from Pensacola mistsr-Bsan.
steam boats @,a-.- y
Southern Bells, Boadssll, from Grssd Lake.
Fi.. Exchange, Clarke from Aiexsudrs.A
Adiiais, Stona from S. Louis 75 ~
L Kennel, Bsfnger m St Io,si
DT Beatty, ,4ndr, from baytu Sara - ... s..
Iecnors, Dupnics. Coyibetou.E4 i3-'-fa 20
= ---s Virginia Pearl, from Pearl River,
H., Oregon, Meyes, from Mobile. ......' .
Flc.oria, Hawss, fsom Alexandria. III T
-.. Below-goming Up. f-s
Ship American cou Ina 40 days Aneiro with bas
eonss schroeder &c., 4iso, baIk ,pame unknown.
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YHNOBACCo-Lone lack Rich ToB.coo. for
ths Mexican and Aqo Tor Pisnts
o hnds and hbis CIGAR TOBACCO constantly on hand
fstiy TURNER RENsHAw, IS Camp street, an ,s,
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EXPORTS ,-z.. z ~
HAYANABrig WIN Ck-sas ss7 bbkand ksga lard %
ties aow hhds hnms 70 bsEs baa pork
cnesse, s0o6heops. " Y =,
% n1s pork. g -
SABINE EASs-sehr oegou5s5 SKIS salt sdo coffee 10 hhds
bxs stafeh, Al do soap.
sacks scopes gas ppsa 200 ibis
c1a 60 aimonds 0bore tivs OIL ctle soap
gutter pipes brandy b1s brandy chsr hnpe ek
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sNso THE SUGAR PLANTERS OF LoIJI

sNSO THE SUGAR PLANTERS OF LOUI-
u Of tLs present in tbs
manufacture OF Sugar. economy obYiou IN fb
that the true theory Of large Plenty
nndenisee u quality although SAVING aso
ed wh he Of she ordinary boilers
neI oih IN the @ and the Of aPpaau bring h
Cheap steam therefore
now 5s completely attained b STEAM GIN
uoa ine PnePls of the eslebraed Steam Fire
Steam bsns H..
aca and asorba nnstenha Of the and isb
proper for burning the any
required to take OF the crop. - " ~ -
kapiaiiy gsneraonc utsan which Il rsissa N
q hundred poanda inch five
Tae advantage rchayed sts.t in .bs
ton s Known, and tenn ii atad
ny sr'sn al Risasns 70 red hsa without ii pr
Perfect safety from explosion. being any res
water 70 sxpo and not nigh nIs
-fzfnntny in fuei, water and price Of a.
oaa tese Steam sners.ors
mstfs fully tasted is worked negro ID And ts
saving ffuef opshsR The b
fhes steam TRAITS n N ssa
Gteenwoo Cincuna Ths appointed
eraHAgsn for Louiana indies and haynr MA
years paeuc olng
lhia plan "a the beat hsaerto brought chesp @
wish ans and Batteries 1p,n the best prinein
a hfsi rate prices auy oeri
IN idssns Also Vacuum Pan, Machine md Rs
BACK Apsraa4ss from the Globe Works Of Co.. New
The undersigned put Steam Trains o. faop
tbs required be IN
tns proper Inetha OF Wetpg the charge
email apparatus 70 msnniucture
NJ ths sang cost The nas II
WI o. aud nassacons given personally panttel
-. Agspu New }rsann. MssHrs. VOORHEES, GHtses q on
u TehoupiIohiaa street, t LII ar,~ IL