The true Democrat., 1856-01-15
From the St. LoniS News
T IOIII UIIt S.. LUWIN -NtWS All Aid Society ill Kansns.


 Southerners have got over their squeamish- ness about the proprety and constitutionalitv of sending emigrants to Kansas through the agency of organized associations, and are now iudustriously engaged in endorsing that great bugbear the New England aid society, by get ting up aid societies themselves. This is right, whether it be viewed as intrinsically proper, or a case of eXpediency, growing out of the ne- cessity of fighting the devil with tire' An aid society is suggested in Arkansas by.a writer in the Little Rock True Democrat, who thus states his proposition:
 l propose that shareholders will subscribe and pay over immediately 10 the Governor, Cor should there be d meeting of the citizens, and persons appointed toreceive and dispose of said i fund > then to pay over to said committee the sum of one dollar for each slave he possesses, over ten-and under sixteen years of age. You are authorized to subscribe for me one hundred dollars and the money shall De lorthcomiiL when applied for by the Governor or any one appointed by mass meeting ii any county in this State, and if net applied for before the 1 first of January next will send 1t to the Go- vernon of Kansas to be used as he may see pro- per- for the use and benefit of that State | There is no good reason why settlers should not be sent to Kansas by associations from the south as well as from the north, and no reason 1t all, why men either at the north or south should find fault with the system, because it originated or Is more successfully executed, r the section they don't happen to live in. Let cmlgrants who want to go be aided to Kansas by all honest and legal means, but when once there, let outside influence cease, and Kansas be made slave or free State, as the majority of her citizens decide
 LAUNCH OF THE VANDERBILT.-The steam ship Vanderbilt constructed for and named r honor of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was launched from Smonson's yard at Greenroint, L. |. on the 10th inst. The Courier and Enquire, says:
 The Vanderbilt is the first of a class hereto. fore deemed almost apocryphal, and at least quite impractical, by ship builders in general Her dimensions and power are much greater in proportion to the Atlantic's and Africa's, thar are the latter to the Great Western or the Sirius which were substantially the pioneers to ocear steam navigation.
 Her cost will be about S7O9,OOO Her ex treme length is 3335 feet, and the length at the water line is 32S feet; the breadth of beam i, 49 feet the depth of hold 39 feet She is O 5,lOO tons burthen carpenters computation, o about 4,OOO tons register. The water lines ar, nearly straight, and the centre of displacement amidshil hils-indeed the centre of the ship, the centre of weight and the centre of buovancy fall within a distance of eight feet fore ant aft. The main deck is of great capacity, ever in comparison to the size of the ship: this i owing to the fullness of her lines Her lowe decks, of which there are two, besides the boil CT deck, are of the same character The foo IS nearly flat, and is formed entirely of soliC white oak, each timber being fifteen by twenty one inches bolted together lengthwise of the ship, with one and quarter inch bolts sevel feet long. Sixty tons of these bolts are used The frame tmbers which art principally o white oak, are placed unusually close together and are strapped diagonally by ninety -fou tons of wrought iron straps, which are bolte wherever they cross each other. The plankin is of oak six inches thick The hull weigh 23OO tons