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The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
Homesteads for the People.

From the material inequality in the con-
dition of humanity, proceeds most of the
social and political evils with which our
present system of society is cursed. Place
man in condition of material independence,
surround the worker with the true condi-
tions and rights of labor, and you remove
from his path the depressing influences
which now obstruet his progress.
Therefore, we are at war with Slavery.
because that institution crushes Labor and
degrades Industry. Therefore, we are in
favor, as the basis of all true progress. of
placing every man and woman IN position
of Industrial independence. Not only are
we at war with Slavery, but with every 9TH
er institution or custom that initiates against
the attainment of that position. ....
From this standpoint We look upon the
present policy of the General Government
that dictates the sale of the public lands, as
short-sighted and injurious to the best in
terests of the country. The land belongs
to the people and every adult person in full
possession of their powers, have right that
no government can justly withhold, to so
much of the peoples domain as win make a
home for themselves and posterity.
If the land of the q. S. were all Withdrawn
from market, kept from the hands Of rail-
road and other spectators, and each 5oaa
.fde settler had provided . homestead Of
enc hundred acres of land, the material, So
cial and moral prosperity of the whole ma
ton would be greatly enhanced thereby.
We are In favor of Land Reform and al
measures calculated 70 bring 1t about, be-
cause the people have right to home on
the soil, and because the bitter struggle oi
poverty which thousands have to endure,
tends more than aught else TO degrade and
denoralize the human being. Many fms
minds have crushed beneath their feet and
risen superior to the evils of poverty: yei
where one has so risen an hundred have been
trodden deEn. Give the toiler his God-giv-
en- iahcritmsa and ve vii see the deserI
bIasn slG blossom with beauty and honai
issdasfEy. sad manly independence and no.
manly generosity and lore viii grow apse.
and quicken into glorious life, bringing forti
blossoms Of beauty aud works of harmony
and truth-
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
SaIutatory.

1t Is customary to say few words, IN the
form Of salutation to the public. upon COM
mencing the publication of newspaper,
setting forth the object and aims of such
publication.
We do not intend to promulge any partic-
ular creed as the one which we design adyo-
eating; but leave ourselves free to act indie
peadeatfy, and according to our convictions
of right and duty. Standing on the broad
principles of Humanity and Freedom, we
shall not cease to strike at oppression in what
ever form or wherever 1t may be found
We admit of no middle ground between right
and wrong-no compromise soak teR; and
We shall act with no party that has not s.Uni-
yersaI Freedom inscribed on its banner
The struggle Row going on between Free
dom and Slavery is death one; one or the
other must succumb. The agitation of this
question viii not and should not stop until ev-
cry bondsmaa is made free, or until every
poor man (white or black is made slave.
This is the alternative presented. Be
lieying this we shall never cease our war
fare with slavery. ''The Truth loses moth
ing by agitation" therefore, we shall agitate
We believe that the public lands should
be made free to actual settlers; that it is the
duty of the Government to declare the great
truth that there is no value in land, but In
the labor and capital with which it is i'm
proved. On this subject we shall take ec-
casion 10 speak more at length hereafter.
Aside-from these objects we have local du-
ties to perform; to aid all in our power to-
wards developing the resources of Kanzas,
and assist in advancing her moral, intellec-
tual and material prosperity.
In doing. this we shall give no undue
preference to any portion of Kanzas, but
seek to advance the interests of the whole.
Having neither personal popularity OF
money, our paper must stand on its own
merits exclusively. All we ask of the pub
lie is a fair hearing. With these few re-
marks we submit our sheet to the public.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
Anti-Republican Manners and Titles.

N P Willis saws, eve should be glad to see q
distinctly American school of good manners, in
which all useless etiquettes were thrown aside, but
every politeness adopted or invented which could
promote sensible and easy exchanges of good will
and sociabilty. Good sense and consideration for
others should be the basis of every usage of polite
life that is worth regarding Indeed, we have long
thought that our country was old enough to adopt
measures and etiquettes of its own, based, like oil
other politeness, upon benevolence and common
sense. To get rid of imported etiquette is the first
thing to do for American politeness."
We recommend the above sensible remarks to
the consideration of the candid reader, and would
apply it further and deeper than the writer has
gone. Is it not living disgrace perfect hiss
and scorn-to us people, that our fresh, young
and vigorous life should be trammeled and tainted
by the affected and worn out customs Of ages mould
ering in their tombs of corruption and tyranny
that even the courtesies of social life must be twist
ed and shaped upon models formed in the Gcen-
tious and deprayed courts and saloons of the old
world. What more is required than o manly and
womanly recognition of each others social priyi-
leges, by those claiming to be Republicans.
The American people are fettered too much by
the musty proverbs and mouldy traditions that
were framed by priestcraft and kingly cunning for
the binding of the true soul, and never were meant
to be guide or teacher for frank, out-spoken
publican sentiment. Away with all these remains
of age fleeing fast, and let us live out in man
ners, teach in morals and work into every day life,
q simple. pure, loving, living Humanity.
With the affected manners that have been fraud
ulently grated on our American stock, must also
be reckoned the vain and foolish custom of ttling
those who may be serving the people in various
capacities. Such titles as His Excellency, Honor
able, Esquire, foreign TO institutions, and
should forever be ostracised by all true republi-
cans. If man is acting as a Governor, call him
by the name. for to the people is honorable;
but let it go no further. Honorable and Esquire
are words that now signify nothing that is truly
desirable, and have become so common and un-
meaning that We for one viii eschew them, unless
obliged to use them in official forms, DC. It
ti-republiean and anti-American to bow TO such
mania. Above all, it becomes US, citizens of Kan
zas. to put faces against its progress in cur
midst. If we would be true to the great p-i1ci-
pies for which we are struggling, We must. above
all, recognize prouder title. ask no higher hon
or, than to be known and respected as Mss and
WoAKx.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
Bogus Apportionment for Delegates
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We publish Acting Governor SrANToN's S
proclamation of the apportionment for Dele
gates, In accordance with the provisions of
the Census Act, passed at the last session
of the Missouri-Lecompton Legislature We
always considered the whole thing to be In
tended as an instrument for our enslayement,
and the returns of the Census takers as
shown by this apportionment are even more
palpably fraudulent than we supposed the
pro-slavery party would make them.
According to the divisions as defined by
the Shawnee Mission usurpation, there are
thirty-eight counties in Kanzas, and as the
reader will perceive BY careful perusai of
this proclamation, only fourteen ofthem have
ever been visited by the census takers
But twenty only of these counties have any
representation assigned them, and out of the
sixty delegates, to which number the Con-
vention is limited, the three river counties,
Doniphan, Atchison and Leavenworth, easy
of access from Missouri, and supposed to be
stre ypro-slayery, have twenty-four. john
son county has three. This county-in which
the Shawnee Reservation is situated, and
which at the time the census was supposed
to be taken, had not fifty legal voters in it, is
returned as having eight hundred and nine
ty inhabitants, of whom four hundred and
ninety or nearly Use e;sktAs, are set down
as voters. Linn, Lykins, Bourbon and Nc
Gee counties have ten delegates. making In
all for the river and border counties, thirty
seven out of the sixty delegates composing
the Convention. Any person who travelled
in the last named counties in the early part
of March last, can very weH understand how
it is these thinly populated districts should
have so much larger adelegation than thick
Iy populated interior counties, In which the
Free State people are 50 largely in the ma
jority that voting emigrants from Missouri
dare not come.
In Brown, jefferson, Riley, Shawnee,
Richardson and Davies counties, though
nine delegates have been assigned them, yet
no census has ever been taken in them
The mode By which the basis for appor-
tionment was arrived at can only find par
allel in the past history of Kaazas, or that
of the late Democratic majority for Presi-
dent In Pennsylvania. In Shawnee Co.,
the old poll books of Tecumseh, once a
pro-slayery town, were taken and 263
names copied from them The same thing
was doubtless done in jefferson. Brown and
Riley, for In Davies and Richardson they
did not take that trouble. not ceneeirmg it OF
any use Tor them to be represented.
By observing the total of population, II
will be perceived they set down the whole
amountas twenty five Thousand six hundred
and twenty-five persons. of whom nine
thousand two hundred and fifty-one are vo-
ters, making orer one Asrd of the
whole of their population adults and legal yo-
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
To the Members OF the Legislature Of
the State OF Kanzas:

To the Members OF the Legislature OF
the State OF Kanzas:
GESTIEAEN: At your session IN Janaa-
ry last you adjourned to meet onthe sshl
of june following. That day Is near athand,
and as it approaches, the interest felt IN the
result of your meeting hourly increases
This interest arises mainly from the fact
that you were elected as the exponents of a
principle which, in seeking its own legiti-
mate extension in Kanzas, has been tram
pied IN the dust, and all who have dared to
uphold it have been subject to the yiiest
persecution. The times have changed
somewhat since most of you were elected,
but not for the better. A corrupt National
Administration now, rs then, endorses the
enactments of the Missouri usurpers, and
persists in It's attempts toenforce them, even
at the point of the Federal bayonets; afro
cious crimes are committed In the sacred
name of Justice; the liberties of the people
are trampled upon in Freedoms holy name:
fraud and force reign triumphant, and the
life of every man is in his own hands.
In view of this state of affairs the duties
deyolying upon you are of a serious and inn
portant nature. An outraged, scorned
and betrayed people, look to you for protee-
ton and relief Order loving and law abb
ding, the people of Kanzas ask but for laws
adequate for the protection of their proper
ty and the security of their lives and iber
ties. Such laws they viii uphold and main
tain at all hazards. They ask of you the
passage Of such laws, according to the au-
thority vested in you by the Constitution
under which you were elected. That Con-
stitution was framed by a delegate conyen-
ton of the people of this Territory, in Oc-
tober, 1855, and ratified by the popular
vote in the December following. The largest
delegate Convention ever held in the Terri
tory, met at Topeka on the 10th of March
last. and unanimously resolved that this Con-
stitution was still the choice of the people
of Kanzas, and as such they would support
it. There can be no doubt therefore, of
the wish of the people in regard to the
course you shall pursue.
Your most important duties are prescrib
ed by the Constitution, and do not need re-
capitulation here. We have faith that you
will well and truly perform all the duties
enjoined upon you by that instrument, The
welfare of Kanzas demands it. The success
of a great principle depends upon it. FREE
DOM calls and it is yours to obey.
The eyes of nation are upon you, watch:
ing your movements with intense interest.
If you are firm for the right, the people viii
protect and uphold you, although your de-
struction should be attempted by the forces
of the United States Government. Keep
fresh before your vision the glorious exam
pie set by the patriots of '76, who pledged
| their s'lives their fortunes and their sacred
honor" to tie cause of Freedom.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
and Allen,

The proper officers viii hold the election for del
egates to said Convention the 3rd Monday of June
next, as directed by the law aforesaid, and in
cordance with the apportionment herein made and
declared.
In testimony whereof, I have
hereuDto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of the Ter
5sEAL3 ritory, at Lecompton, this 10Th
~ day of May, 1857.
FRED. P STANTON.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06

u A young lady of sixteen, Of distinguished
bissk and fortune is about 70 n1arry the hero of
the Cfinea Marshal Felissier who Is iilusz<ieusiy
sixty years of agel Il Is said TO he affair 81 the
Hoss romantic sentiment On the part Of the yctlt-
flz faaaca.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06

u The Emperor Of Japan intends TO have the
mines OF mis- realm worked In scientific way, and
e thatend has requested the Dutch Governmentin
.na'a . send him HsssSoEshy EEoPsan eng, NJ,
Hngdenin. pupil of the academy of Deli, has set
out, with prineely pon1p, for Jeddo.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06

Total,

Now, therefore /, Frederick p. Stanton, Secretary
and Acting Governor, do hereby proclaim, that,
according to the provisions of said Act. and the
upon proper apportionment among the legal yc-
ters of the several districts aforesaid they ara re-
spectively entitled to elect TO the Convention pro-
yided for said law, the number of delegates
orally herein assigned to them; that is to say,
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06

HssN Hors7os has announced himself Is an
independent candidate for Goyernof Of Texas--
HuEssh fox Sanl - ...
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-30

oEeA&n AHt6tAAkGAoee
The three regiments that mutinied were
dispersed by the 10th regiment.
Calcutta and Hyderabad were quiet on the
l4th of August
Delhi was expected to fall i'll about fort
night; and Gen. Havelocks troops, who are
advancing upon Lucknow, were expected at
Delhi.
1t was reported that Nena Sahib. who had
taken to fight, had DESTROYED himself.
The 7th, Sth, and 40th Regiments of Ben
gal Native Infantry had revolted and fled to
the Roane river, pursued by Her Majesty's
10th Regiment, under Gen. Lloyd. Eight
hundred of the mutineers were killed.
The Punjaub is tranquil, as well as the
county around Delhi, Meerut, and Agra.
At Bundeleund there were signs of disturb
unce.
There is little news from 6 walior. The
mutineers at Sealeote were destroyed OH the
10th of July by Gen. Nicholson.
Detachments of European troops had been
sent to Bombay. The panic which had ex-
listed at Bombay fortnight ago had subsi-
ded.
Gen. Neil Joined Gen. Havelock on the
23d of July, and was on the full march to-
ward Lucknow.
a wing of the 23d Infantry had arrived at
Bombay from the Mauritius.
At Tinbalpore the 3lst Native Infantry,
4oth Foot, and Sd Irregular Cavalry. under
the native officers only, attacked on the 9TH of
August the mutineers, consisting of the 42d
Native Infantry and Sd Irregular Cavalry, and
completely routed them.
1t was reported that Agra had fallen into
the hands of the rebels.
A despatch, dated Sept. Sth, received at the
India House, says Gen. Havelocks forces, af-
ter re-occupying Cawnpore, finding Bittoor
evacuated, burned it to the ground On the
29th and 3Oth of July they found the rebels
at Buffey ell Gunge, about Is miles from
Cawnpore, numbering 10000. whom they de-
feated, with the loss of 10 guns. They ex-
pected to reach Lucknow the next day.
Sir Colin Campbell had assumed command
of the Indian army.
Tranquility is restored in Central India.
The 7th, 8th and 4Oth Regiments, which
mutinied at Cawnpore on the 22d of July,
threatened Benares.
The 18th Irregular Cavalry, which mutt
MED at the same time, murdered their COM
manding officer. Major Holmes, and his wife.
The disarmed 26th Bengal Native Infantry
mutined at Mean on the Both of July, and
murdered their commanding officer, Major
Spencer
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-30

Financial Matters
PHILADELPAIA, Sept. %, 2P. M-The City
and the Southwark banks are paying specie on
their small notes, Notwithstanding their agree
ment OF yesterday. They are receiving the notes
sylvania.
CHICAGO. Sept % -Messrs E. j. Tinkham &
Co, bankers, of this city, suspended this morn
ing.
There is no run on the other banks.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 29.-Messrs. Bogy, Mite
berger < Co, bankers closed their doors this morn
ing. Their assets are said to be ample. Cards
signed by large number Of our wealthiest citi-
zens, are published guaranteeing the solvency of
Lucas Co, and Remck & Peterson, and assur.
ing depositors of the safety of their deposits The
public mind is very unsettled, and there is gen.
eral run on our brokers. The banks stand firm,
and are dscounting literally.
3P M.-The bankers upon whom the runs
were made this morning, freely and promptly met
all checks, and thus restored confidence. The
excitement has almost subsidized. The immediate
cause OF the suspension of BOgy, Mittenberger, &
Co., was the non-arrival of coin in transitu The
probabilities are that they will reopen tomorrow
The assets of Anderson & Co., and of barley &
Barksdale, largely exceed their liabilities. The
presumption is that they will resume in a very
short time.
TRENTON, Sept. 29.-Everything is perfectly
quiet here, and the banks paying all their de-
Lhahus' AhS iePOitoO SuSp eHSlOu VI DOILOIn q
Tiffany is contradicted
ROCHESTER, Sept. 29.-The Sixpenny Savings
Bank of this city has suspended.
GEORGETOWN D. c. Sept 29.--The Bank of
Commerce of Georgetown, which continued to
redeem its issue in specie, has come into an ar
rangement with the district Bank, and suspends
specie payments altogether. The Farmers and
Mechanics Bank in Georgetown has also sus-
pended.
NoRFoLK, VA, Sept; 29-Ail the banks here
continue firm.
ELIZABETH CRY. N. c., Sept 29.-The Far
mers' Bank of this city has suspended. The
brokers are taking the notes at so per cent. dis
count.
HARTFORD, Sept 27-Tbe Hartford Banks
have no idea OF suspending specie payments.
They are vastly stronger than they were last
week. Their liabilities are much reduced.
Their specie has been increased by energetic
steps taken for that purpose, and all persons may
rest easy that no one of the Hartford banks is in
any danger of suspension. The condition Of each
is known, and all are satisfied that the crisis is
passed. .es
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-30

How THE DEVIL LOST IT.-The following
is too COED to be lost. We clip it from an ex-
change paper and respectfully call the atten-
ton to it of certain persons who feel disposed
to spread in the newspaper line,
A young man who ardently desired wealth,
was visited by Lis satanic maj esty, who tempt
ed him to promise his soul for eternity, if he
could be supplied on this earth with all the
money he could use. The bargain was conclud-
ed-the devil was to supply the money, and
was at last to have the soul, unless the young
man could spend more money than the devil
could furnish. Years passed away-the man
married, was extravigant in his living, built
palaces, speculated widely, lost and gave away
fortunes, and yet his Golfers were always full.
He turned politician and bribed his way to
power and fame, without reducing his pile
of gold He became 'tillibuster,' and fitted
out ships and armies, but his banker honored
all his drafts. He went to st. Paul to live,
and paid the usual interest for all the money
he could borrow, but though the devil made
wry faces when he came to pay the bills vet
they were all paid One expedent after an
other failed-the devil counted the time, only
two years, that he must wait forsthe soul and
Knocked the efforts of the Departing man.
One more trial was resolved upon-the man
started a newspaper The devil growled at
the bills at the end of the first quarter, was
savage in six months, melancholy in nine, and
broke, dead broke at the end of the year.
So the newspaper vent down, and the soul
was saved.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-30


The HARVEST IN ILLINoIs.-At present
there is but little grain coming in, farmers
preterring to hold on, rather than sell at the
present rates, The harvest will be abundant.
During a flying trip into the country last
week we took occasion to examine the crops,
and converse with the farmers in the north
ern and western sections of the State. The
corn is in splendid condition, and entirely
out Of the reach q the frost. The yield will
be immense. Nearly all of them have
stacked their wheat, and are holding on for
the good time coming, or, in other words,
the dollar bushel time. A worse time may
come than even eighty cents bushel. This
holding back the grain if continued in, will
inevitably produce low prices all the winter.
The eighty cents, or that proportion, it seems
to us in these tight times, must be infinitely
preferred to the bushel of wheat to hold on
by Chicago Journal, Sept "a,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-30

Love LAUGHS AT CATHOLIC PRIESTS
New Haven Palladium says that an Irish
Catholic named Connolly, living at the South,
lately came to New Haven to marry an Irish
Protestant girl named Mary Ann Gibson, the
arrangement being that she was to be left I'M
disturbed in her religion, and to be married
by Protestant clergyman. She was willing
however, to be married by Catholic. They
proceeded on their errand, and the Protes-
tant clergyman not being at home they went
to the Catholic priest. He asked the woman
if she belonged to his church, and she said
emo, that she was a Protestant" He then
asked her if she did not intend to adopt the
religion of her husband, and go to his
church. She answered that she did not. He
then asked her if she did not intend to bring
her children to his church for baptism, and
allow them to be brought up in that faith.
She said she had no children and might not
have, and if she did she could make no pled-
ges on the subject. Upon which the priest
brought his hand with great force upon his
book, and said roughly, " Connolly, why
don't YOU put away this woman, and get one
of your own church? l will not marry you,
and forbid you going to a Protestant to be
married. forbid it on the pain of excom-
munication. And you who have come in
this company, if one of you go to see these
persons married by Protestant, will ex-
communicate you" The bridegroom and
his bride departed, and, with one Of their
male friends, went to the Rev. Mr.. Little
john, Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
who married them without asking any imper-
tinent questions. The affair had created
good deal of smothered indignation among
the better class of Catholics, and it is quite
probable that he will be the means of max
ing g hereto" for life of Connolly.