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From the Westport Border Times, May 9th.
WAR; WAR;!

Eight Pro Ndrery .Ne', Murdered ty the
.fbolaioaisfs an Franklin County. Ka'l-
sas Territory. =
We learn fromSa dispatch just received
by Col. A. G. Boone, dated at Paola, X.
T., May 26th, 1856, and signed by Gene
rails Hieskell and Barbee, that the report
ed murder of eight pro-slavery men in
Franklin County, K. T., is. but too true.
The dispatch says:
at is my painful duty to inform you
that kllen Wilkinson is no more. About
II o'clock on Saturday night, last. a party
of some twenty men entered his house, and
in spite of the entreaties of his wife, drag
ged him out of his bed and brutaly mur-
dered him. They then proceeded TO the
house of an old man named Doyle, and
murdered the old man and two sons. They
then went to Mr.. Sherman's, where they
murdered three more men. A man named
Whiteman, was also killed. The bodies
of the murdered men, were terribly mutt
lated" ~
The dispatch says the only reason that
could be assigned for this inbuman butche-
ry, was. that the abolitionists (the Court
being in session. were afraid that these
men would be called upon to give evil
dence against them, as many of them
were charged with treason.
An appeal is made to the South for men
and money. Civil war, with all its hor-
rors, now RACES in Kansas Territory
Where is Governor Shannon2 Where
are the United States troops are the off
repeated questions. How they are to be
answered, time alone will show.
Squatter sovereign., 1856-06-10

s The Plenipo.entiaries, in signing
the treaty of peace In Paris. made use a
silver gilt inkstand, specially ordered fOi
the occasion. The lnkstand is decorated
in the style of the first empire, and coss
not less than IL ,000f
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CennecficsIt senaYo-

e" oRk, Mar 2S
There were three more ro,es 10 the g.
neetlcut Legislature to-day for a seDs,o
IN Congress. They were unsueee,,Es,
Dixon, the Democratic candidate
within five votes Of an election. The
sion was then adjourned to .Wedpe,Ds,
next.
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ia A lawyer recently attempted to
palm himself off as Rufus Choaie in a
neighboring town. Atthe suggestion of
a printer, who was present, the $ writing
test was applied to him. He wrste a leg
ible sentence and was promptly kicked out
Of the company .r3 asa. s5si dor +
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New YoRK, May %.

NEW YORK, May 2S.
The steamship Africa, with three days
later news from Europe, is coming up the
Bay.
Mr.. Cramp,on, British Minister at
Washington, and Consuls Barclay, Math-
ews and Rowecraft, have just been dis
missed by the President.
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49, As an evidence of the wealth and
infastry Of Afiahesota, ne are informed
1000, 600 feet sf pine lumber in the
To-, we're put into the different streams in
one aisuis, last year.
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B@- Five theusand slaves in the city Of
Charleston. South Carolina, have CON
tribsfed the last year to 6enevolent OBJ
fe.s, S16.O00-it beng on an average,
S3 each.
Squatter sovereign., 1856-06-10

TRIuMPu OF DIR. KAaE.-The British
Board of Admiralty have notified our Gov
ernment that they have adopted DR.. Kane's
charts, thus throwing overheard the charts
of Captain Inglefeld and other Arctic
navigators belonging to the British Navy,
as we'll as the works OF all Of DR.. Kane's
predecessors on the coast Of Greenla nd.
If anything could add to the value of this
compliment, it is the fact that it was award
ed almost by acclamation without hesitan-
cy or dispute.
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der the Central America.,rs,,v -.
nies any arbitration as to the cops,,p,,;
of the treaty.
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THE TOLLS OF A NewS-
paper literature is link in the great chain
of miracles, which proves the greatness ol
America, and every support should be Civ
en- TO good newspapers. The editors OF
these papers must have most enormous
tasks. Itis not the writing Of the leading
article every day whether inclined or not,
in sickness or health. in afflction, disease
of the mind, winter and summer, year af-
ter year, tied down TO the task, remaining
on the spot. 1t is something like walking
thousa nd hours. / have llow-feeling,
for know periodical will drown one S
existence. In itself it appears nothing
the labor is not manifest, nor is it the con-
tinual attention which it requires You
become, as it were, the publication. One
week is no sooner corrected and printed,
than on comes another. 1t is the stone OF
Sisyphus, an endless repetition of toll, a
constant weight upon the mind and spirits,
demanding all the exertions of your facul-
ties, at the same time you are compelled
to do the seserest drudgery. Towrite for
a paper is very well, but to edit one is to
condemn yourself to slavery.
Squatter sovereign., 1856-06-10

s9 Jenny Lind has written private
letter TO a lady Of Philadelphia, in which
She deeply sympathises with MFR. Barnum
IN his financial troubles, aserIbes to him
,he riicst noble qualities, and expresses her
intention OF placing sum Of money at
his disposal. Z 90 s'.li - 8 ''i'-i =
Squatter sovereign., 1856-06-10

RELIGIOUS RIrLns-We understana
that the R--d H"YslV --d B-cb.,
IN giving out the hymn last Sunday. in h,
church In Brooklyn, to the great horror If
his congregation, began thus:
Z.
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Nor Ra D.-Some one recommends send
ing Yankee girls, instead of Sharp's rifles,
to Kansas. This is an essential material
the North has ani The South has no,, aud
ii cann0 buy them.
Squatter sovereign., 1856-06-10

E1 The Frelleh Government seems
determined that the peace just concluded
shall be popular. The French press dare
not express its dissatisfaction, and the Brit
ish papers that oppose and ridicule the adj
iustment are seized and retained at the
French post Offices, The London Daily
News, Morning Advertiser and Sun have
been prescribed in this way. y The latter
paper had black border around Ifs pages
as token Of mourning on account of the
peace. .4s95- sal ~ se.r - % $50 81
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Horrible Tradgedy in Buchanan Co.,
Missouri!

.Seren Persons hlhumanly -Nardered /! !!
1t falls to our lot to chronicle one of the
most horrible tragedies ever enacted in this
upper country. Seven persons We're muir
-dered in cold blood, in The dead of night,
by FIVE cowardly miscalied men.
The facts, as near as we can learn, are
briefly these:
The family of Jacob Friends. consisting
Of himself. wife, and five children, rang
ing from one to sixteen years of age, liv-
ing in Buchanan County, Mo-, about ten
miles north of this city, on the opposite
side of the Missouri River, were murder
ed one night last week, and their bodies
burned up in their house, which was fired
after the deed was committed. Five per
sons, by the name of John Patterson. G.
w. Lincoln, Henry Myer, Warner Hoops
and Amos Davis, have been arrested,
charged with the murders. They are now
in confinement, n St. Joseph. Mo-, and
will undergo an examination atthe proper
time. No cause is assigned Tor tins un-
natural transaction, save, perhaps, per-
sonal difficulty having previously taken
place between one of the prisoners, who
is Mormon Preacher, and Mr.. Friends.
We learn since wiring the above, that
two of the prisoners have confessed as to
the guilt of themselves and all the other
prisoners arrested, and give as their rea-
sons for committing the deed, the hope
of plumber and revenge" Excitement in
St. Joseph, where the prisoners are con-
fined, is immense, and threats Of summa-
rily punishment, is made TO the prisoners.
We could not blame the incensed commu-
nifty, if they should hang the cowardly as
sassins.
Squatter sovereign., 1856-06-10

A Kansas wANT.-A Correspondent
OF the Hillsdale Gazette, after mentioning
rifles and some other things which he says
they do not want IN Kansas, states real
necessity as follows:
a young Missourian came to my Of
flee yesterday on business, having left his
claim, about one hundred miles west, a
few days since, where he had been living
about four months. He said, among otker
things, there are plenty Of men up there,
but have not seen woman for about
four months There is an Illinois man up
there who has got woman's dress, and
carries it around for a show, sharging one
dollar a sight, and is getting rich at it. ,"
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to The elegant steamer, Morning
Star, arrived yesterday. We are under
many obligations to our cid friend 10. C.
Johnson, of the :. Exchange" for his at
tention to this Office. Passengers travelling
on the Missouri river will find the Star to
be perfect " floating palace" with atten-
tire and agreeable oliicers-especially our
friend Johnson.
EJ Upwards Of two hundred infuen-
tiaI citizens of Bridgeport, Connecticut,
have issued an invitation to their fellow
qitizens to attend a meeting. for the pur-
tose of giving public expression to their
Eympathy with MIR. .Barnum in his recent
financial misfortunes
E Great exer:ions are used in Phil
adelphia. Baltimore and Norfolk to clean
up those cities In Norfolk they are
dredging the docks. All along the At
iantic coast preparations are making to
prevent, if possible, the appearance Of yell
low fever this summer.
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ia The Presidential elsctiol. always
comes on leap year. ''''sss - go p
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HEADQ QUARTERS, I
August l. 1776 {

huSuSt ~
Parole, Paris Countersagn, Reading
Col. Gays regiment of Gen. Wads-
worth's brigade, to go over to Long Island
tomorrow morning, there to take orders
from Gen. Greene.
1t is with great concern the General
understands that Jealousies have arisen
among the troops from the different pro-
vinces:~ and reflections thrown out which
can only tend 10 irritate each other and in
iure the noble cause in which we are en-
gagged, and which we ought to support with
one hand and one heart. The General
most earnestly entreats the officers and
soldiers to consider the consequences; that
they can assist cur enemies no way more
efectually than making divisions among
ourselves; that the provinces are all unit
ed to oppose the enemy, and ALL DIS
FUNCTIONS SUNK IN THE NAME OF AN
AMERIcAN. To make this honorable,
and preserve the liberty Of our country,
ought to be our only emulation, and he
WiIi pe the bcsl SoidleI anu Tue GeSt pattiot
who contributes most 10 this glorious work
whatever his station or from whatever part
Of the country lie may come. Let all dis
tinctions Of nation, country, and province,
therefore, be lost in the generous contest
who shall behave with the most courage
against the enemy, and the most kindness
and good humor to each other. If there
are any officers and soldiers so lost to vir
tue and love of their country as to con-
tinue in this practice after this order, the
General assures tnem, and is directed by
the Congress 10 declare TO the whole army,
that such persons shall be severely punish
ed, and dismissed the service with disgrace.
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GEN. WAsHINGToN REBUKING KNOW
NorH1NGIsm.-We quote an order of his
issued few days before the battle of
Long Island was fought:
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Agent for the Southern States.

Col. SILAS WOODSON, who is now visit
ing the Southern States, is duty authorized to
act as agent for the SaUATTER SOVEREIGN.
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Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-01-26

as to the mode of appointing the commission
ers. An effort was made at the last session
of the Legislature 10 render these officers cleo
tive. The policy or expediency of such a
change, is, to say the least, very doubtful
Those Parishes or parts of Parishes of the
State which stand in most need of the attention
Of the commissioners, are precisely the very
Parishes in which the voters are the least num-
erous. Can it be doubted a moment, that if
the Commissioners of the Board of Swamp
Lands depended upon the SURFACES of the PEG.
pie for their election, they would apply the
funds to those portions of their respective Dis
tricts which were the most populous and not
to those in which they were most necessary?
The temptation would be too strong to be res
sisted. The inevitable result would be, that
instead of increasing the capacity of the State
to receive and maintain a larger population, the
Swamp Land Funds would go to add to the
value of lands already under cultivation.
Concluded in our Nert.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-01-26
THE ~SPEAKERSHIP.

Our readers will perceive that the National
House of Representatives is not yet organized
in consequence of the inability of that body to
elect a Speaker. At the last accounts, up to
the inditing of this article, the election was as
far from being accomplished as ever; and the
only good result we noticed at the last ballot
as something Of an offset to the long, expen-
sive and tiresome work of incessant ballotlng
10 no purpose, was the fact as divulged when
the ballots were counted at this last trial allu-
ded to, that BANKS had fallen some eight OF
nine votes short of his previous number. This
induces us to believe that the House intends to
"let MI. BANKS slide" If he had no other sin
upon his shoulders to warrant the Representa-
tives Of the people of this Union in comforting
upon him a distinction of that character, his
| remark to 'let the Union slide - sOsflppantly
| made in that Hall which is consecrated to its
honor and TO its perpetuity, would have been
aIl>sufficient. Though we might betdisposed
to overlook many political sins in the history
of a public man for The sake of shining quail
ties, or for some great public service, yet there
is no circumstance-no talents, however exai~
ted; no service performed, however great
which could with us obliterate the dishonor,
the unworthiness, the treaChery and the trea"
son embraced in the above remark ascrIbed' TO
Mr.. BANKS; and we doubt not there are plenty
of patriotic Representatives to defeat him, wEo
are swayed by similar feelings. Indeed, we
have an abiting confidence in the belief that
Banks has already come as near being elected
Speaker as he will ever come-that Black Re-
pubiieanism has already had its triumph. On
Tuesday last, the vote for Speaker stood thus:
Banks 81, Richardson 81, Fuller 90, Campbell
5, Scattering 3-such being the vote on three
different hallotings, when the House adjourned.
But this protracted affair is costing the coun-
try a considerable sum of money and the
matter has now become 8 serious evil, which
calls for some conservative interposition, that
the Speakers chair may be filed and, the BUSH
ness of the country bsapsglscted no lOngerH--
The trainers of our constitution never dreampt
that such a state Of thingsSwould come to pass
as now exist with reference to the Speaker
ship, or else some easy remedy to settle the
matter would have been prescribed. The mem-
bers of the House, and particularly the candi-
dates themselves, (who should have protested
against any further use of their names when it
was found to be so difficult to eleot,) owe a
fearful responsibility to the people for the strife
which has clogged the wheels of Government,
and the end of which it is as difficult now to
determine as on the first day of ballo!idg.
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A talented printer.

The Baton Rouge Advocate of Monday last
contains the following:
"0uF citizens and visitors should not forget
the Lecture tonight at DR.. Slosson's Church.
to the Young Mems Lyceum and Library As
socistion. The subject is the PHILOSOPHY Of
History. and the lecturer, ]. ]. Jones, Esq, OF
the Advocate Office"
Mr.. JONES is, or was q shert time since, the
foreman Of the Advocate Office, and the hand~
some typographical appearance of that paper,
rs well as The beautiful specimens of JOB woFk
which have emanated from that Office, may be
attributed 10 him. Being 81 accomplished
printer, nearly follows in all cases that be isan
accomplished writer also. Mr.. JoNEs has not
only proved himself 10 be this, but he has Civ
en- evidences Of the finest poetic and literary
genius. and thathe y . man Of deep and varied
reading. If asked where he graduated, or at
what College be was educated, he would reply,
doubtless. by pointing to the acdse,'' where the
English language, il all its Fannifeations, is
practically learnt. II was there that Benz.
FRAaKIIs received Il and where ID later DAYS
il was found BY some OF The bravess of our
warriors, BY some Of the ablest of our jurisls
aha statesmen, and the most beautiful and ac-
conplahsd Of our literary Of fCgi rs,
and a most sagaCious and sees iii or
sa1oEs rs aks RlTcHnR al I'm AZ ex.
snpsea IhM throwing aside pron OF la
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TThe Cincinnati Gazette, after reporting
the evidence Of the second days examination
Of the reported Irish flibusters, recently ares.
ted 10 that city, says: "Aftss the adjournment,
a large number Of Erishmsn rrnained about the
door Of the court rooms, waiting for the APP
p~earanee of the British Consul who delayed
his coming out for sometime. Mr.. Plat
came down and demonstrated with them. He
said it was u~ndigni6ed in them to hang about
the eoart room door waiting for him. A voice
"we're only waiting to ride him on a rail-
Shortly after Mr.. Roweeroft appeared, they
fell back aud opened q passage for him, but
greeted him With .discOrdant shouts. AZ he
was entering his carriage, some one cried, in
d~eri-ion, ''Three cheers for Russia" They
were given, and the carriage drove of and the
crowd dispersed"
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"LEoyds Steamboat Directory."-The St.
Louis public will not be surprised on reading
the subjoined paragraph, but it may interest
some of our readers in the country, as well as
PUBLISHERS of country papers, particularly in
illinois and Iowa. We copy from the Railroad
Record, of Cincinnati:
"Eyery few days, we receive visits from
strangers who on entering our office ask if
this is the office of 7. Wrightson & Co, and
upon receiving an affirmative answer produce
the circular of "Lloyd's forthcoming Directory"
and demand of us a copy of the work or a rev
fund of their money. AT first, we thought but
little of this, as we can soon explain that we
know nothing of the forthcoming" work, ex.
cept to tell some person, months ago, what our
charge for printing such a work would be.
The work itself we never saw, but would be
very glad If some of the editors who are pubs
fishing valuable items of information from the
orthcoming book would advise US when and
from whence it will be forthcoming. We
should be glad to be able to satisfy the inquiries
of those who paid their money for it long ago,
no doubt to the same parties who are furnish
ing valuable little items of steamboat statis-
tics and collecting valuable little sums of mon
ey all over the country.-&. Louis InteiIigea~
Ger.